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Speaker 1: Welcome to them, Christian Non Show podcast. One word phone

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Speaker 1: in this morning, payphones, because all numbers now any phones

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Speaker 1: just live in there. You don't actively have to dial

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Speaker 1: out a number like we used to all the time

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Speaker 1: to speak to mom and dad or friends. I still

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Speaker 1: remember my mom and dad's old home phone number from

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Speaker 1: the eighties eight seven eighty six.

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Speaker 2: Nine nine nine three, seven five one. And I still

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Speaker 2: remember my childhood friend's landline numbers.

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Speaker 1: I reckon I could tell you Kevin Mark and Toby's

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Speaker 1: number because of dining out so many times, I as

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Speaker 1: a muscle memory was that I still don't know my

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Speaker 1: wife's mobile number. I couldn't tell you that or any

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Speaker 1: of the kids.

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Speaker 2: Do you know Yankers is the only one I know?

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Speaker 1: Do you know Chris is Pats? Yes? I do both

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Speaker 1: and me feel really bad.

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Speaker 2: Only because you have to write it on forms when

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Speaker 2: you're putting down next of kin, or.

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Speaker 1: Find it in the information A bit of the store

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Speaker 1: all information. All right, One more phone in payphones. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to mail. Good morning mail morning, Christian, Hey going,

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Speaker 1: I'm good male So mail payphones. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So when I was a little girl, were going aback

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Speaker 3: a while, but we had a house up in Warburton,

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Speaker 3: and there was a payphone directly across the road. So

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Speaker 3: my younger sister and I would go across with ten

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Speaker 3: cents in hang up and it would spit out like

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Speaker 3: fifty cents and you could do it as many times

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Speaker 3: as you wanted, and then we'd go up to the

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Speaker 3: shop and buy some lollies. And of course back then though,

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Speaker 3: when we're like half centure, so it was like pardy

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Speaker 3: in a bag.

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Speaker 1: What a glitching a system? I want to go in

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Speaker 1: a time traveling device, because if you're a kid, a

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Speaker 1: machine's like Tom Hansen Big that's zol Town machine spinning

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Speaker 1: out money and then you can trade those in for sweets.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Maw. So you're very lucky. I'm actually jealous

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Speaker 1: you had that in your childhood. Male. Thanks you story.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Christian, have a great day, Andy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you calling Kerry.

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Speaker 4: Good morning morning, Christian, Patrojeck, good morn call you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, here we go, Welcome to the show. Carry payphones.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, about twenty years ago, or just go over twenty

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Speaker 4: years ago. My parents lived in a place in rural Queensland,

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Speaker 4: just farms and the corner store and the primary school.

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Speaker 4: That's all they were was and at a payphone. So

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Speaker 4: Telstra decides they're going to get rid of the payphone.

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Speaker 4: The community objected, but no, they're getting rid of it.

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Speaker 4: They send out the Telstra technicians. He disables the phone.

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Speaker 4: He goes to get back in his Telstra truck to

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Speaker 4: go back into the town, finds it doesn't won't start.

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Speaker 4: So we asked the locals at the shop and the

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Speaker 4: mechanic can I use your phone or your mobile? He said,

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Speaker 4: nod go pre state.

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Speaker 1: This story is one percent Australia. I love this. No, mate,

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Speaker 1: make the phone work. What happened?

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Speaker 4: So we had to We had to go and recon Poelstra,

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Speaker 4: the payphone, the papers. I'm still there now, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was one of the little guys.

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Speaker 1: I love this. People about sticking it to the man.

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Speaker 1: That is great. Imagine him having to make that called

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Speaker 1: talent on. The locals were a little bit tasty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably were under the hood of his car

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Speaker 2: as well. Mate, whatever the reason that his car wasn't starting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kerry, that's a great one. We'll send you a price.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for you cool.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Payphones.

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Speaker 5: Good morning Christian, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm good Mike, So, payphones, what's your story? For us?

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Speaker 5: As kids, we just go down to the local payphone

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Speaker 5: and there was a number week a dollar was one

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Speaker 5: double night your dollar number. You'd hang the phone back up,

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Speaker 5: the extual phone would start ringing, So you'd be watching

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Speaker 5: people walking past, stopping looking at the phone on the

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Speaker 5: got answer it there? Does no one be there? We

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Speaker 5: did it so many times as kids. Hilarious.

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Speaker 2: I wish I knew.

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Speaker 1: About that me too. It's interesting, right, Mike, you're talking

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Speaker 1: about because you all knew where the local payphones were,

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Speaker 1: didn't you. And it was it was like a key

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Speaker 1: part of the weekend for kids, wasn't it going to

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Speaker 1: the phone. Imagine telling kids now we sha to go

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Speaker 1: and you know what, I think you just carry around there.

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Speaker 1: That used to be a high light of the day,

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Speaker 1: a meeting hanging around the phone. That's great, Mike, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much and cool bost go. This is the

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Speaker 1: Christian o'connells show podcast. Nick. Hi, Nick, payphones.

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Speaker 6: Sorry, I'm not sure if knows, but payphones have their

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Speaker 6: own phone number and so you can call them for

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Speaker 6: the phone will ring itself. So we used to go

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Speaker 6: to Greensborough Plaza where we used to hang out, and

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Speaker 6: we would prank mom and dad and they would know

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Speaker 6: only that phone number, so they would call back that

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Speaker 6: phone number and we could actually have a conversation with them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon it was fifty to fifty well in

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Speaker 1: terms of time that those phone calls useful between pranking

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Speaker 1: people and making actual course, it meant it was. I

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Speaker 1: think pranks were born in payphones, weren't they. Did you

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Speaker 1: usually do that to your mates, to mum and dad.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even the fifty cents that it cost to

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Speaker 2: pray somebody, I wouldn't pay, So no, I never used

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Speaker 2: to pray from the.

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Speaker 1: Phone the type pranksterf the budget version of jackass. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, Nick, thank you very much.

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Speaker 7: You call thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's going to Grant. Good morning, Grant, hey on grant payphones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: My parents being English, they used to get their realities

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Speaker 7: to ring them from the UK. The phone box is broken,

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Speaker 7: so they'd get these international phone calls in the eighthes

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Speaker 7: but all free.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And it used to be back in the eighties

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Speaker 1: very very expensive to call internationally. I remember there as

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Speaker 1: a I think even in the seventies you had to

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Speaker 1: call a switchboard and tell them the number you want

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Speaker 1: to speak to wherever it was in the world. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't just call someone directly. They would actually have a

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Speaker 1: switchboard that you'd have to use. Grant, what are you

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Speaker 1: up to? In the background.

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Speaker 7: By the way, I got some horses on a truck.

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Speaker 1: So big horses, wild animals, quick chat on the radio.

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Speaker 1: I love it, and the same men can't multitask. Have

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Speaker 1: a good day, mate, take care you watch them ponies?

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Speaker 1: We got Soandra, good morning, good morning, Sandra. Payphones.

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Speaker 8: Yes we're not a teenager. Group of us used to

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Speaker 8: hang out at the local shop, so we decided to

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Speaker 8: see how many people we could fit into a phone box.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Classic. This was again things to do before.

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Speaker 8: Yes, so there was a few big people and little

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Speaker 8: people and we had them on top of each other.

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Speaker 1: What was your world record? What was your personal best?

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Speaker 8: I think it was like six or seven. That The

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Speaker 8: hardest part was is to get the door open after

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Speaker 8: we were all in there.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because it holded inwards.

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Speaker 2: Something.

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Speaker 1: They were just flying up into the atmosphere.

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Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, we just one day. We thought it was

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Speaker 8: hard enough getting two people in there. We thought we'll

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Speaker 8: just see how many people we could get in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lovely SONEA. Thank you very much your story.

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Speaker 8: Okay, thank you, Jay bye, thank you.

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