Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast showtime.
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Speaker 4: I've got right now is the chris'connell Show Gold one,
Speaker 4: O four three. Good morning Jackie boy, Christian. Before we
Speaker 4: get into today's show, can we thought that there's a
Speaker 4: TV we have in the studio and if you're up early,
Speaker 4: everything is routine that brings you reassurance. It's on the
Speaker 4: wrong channel. It's on something ungodly called seven Flips, and
Speaker 4: there's a there's a TV show on. This has strikes
Speaker 4: to me. Some dry schools quiz called It's Academic.
Speaker 3: That's been on since I was a kid. I believe
Speaker 3: it survived so long.
Speaker 4: Who is watching It's Academic this time of the morning
Speaker 4: on flicks?
Speaker 3: Wait for a kids game show?
Speaker 4: It should.
Speaker 3: We had an amazing one when I was a kid
Speaker 3: called Amazing where kids could run through a maze. There
Speaker 3: was a giant typewriter and they use their feet to
Speaker 3: step like grown up and then at the end of
Speaker 3: it they played Mario cut.
Speaker 4: You're kidding real?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the That was the final round. They
Speaker 3: played Mario cut. It's academic. It's basically it's so dry.
Speaker 4: It's like the Nerd Channel. It's like you all know
Speaker 4: those kids in the year that are smashing the year
Speaker 4: and have got very very aggressive, pushy parents and could
Speaker 4: be the next generation of lawyers, doctors and surgeons, and
Speaker 4: we need those people, but we need high achievers. The
Speaker 4: rest of us end up washed up on the shore
Speaker 4: of life in jobs like this. Okay, low skill jobs basically,
Speaker 4: but those kids there, it's just like who watches.
Speaker 3: That crawd It's just dry quizzes. Even Sale of the Century, right,
Speaker 3: which is just a quiz, but they have like the
Speaker 3: big money rounds. They got their prize pool at the end.
Speaker 3: It's academic, is just a quiz.
Speaker 4: Did you ever have a show here called Blockbusters? No?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we had this very very nerdy TV
Speaker 4: show in the UK kids went on called Blockbusters, right
Speaker 4: if you if you google this on YouTube, you could
Speaker 4: see a very young Stephen Merchant as in the office
Speaker 4: with Ricky Gervais as a teenager is on this show.
Speaker 4: It was so boring and you like, the prizes were
Speaker 4: even if you did well, and it was very very
Speaker 4: hard as well, were just like a set of encyclopedias
Speaker 4: and a day trip to a London news.
Speaker 3: To be a routine thing for game shows all over
Speaker 3: the world competing you wet you won prizes on behalf
Speaker 3: of your schooling, which that's it.
Speaker 4: The Big Prize or Star Prize was a school computer
Speaker 4: for all the other nerds.
Speaker 3: Else was the the Encyclopedia Britannica on cd ROW.
Speaker 4: That's it volumes, yes, now I think about it.
Speaker 1: Keep it on TV actually, the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: If you're on TV as a kid, we want to
Speaker 4: hear about it. I remember my junior school, so primary school,
Speaker 4: we're on some TV show and my whole year got
Speaker 4: to go to a TV studio. It's already big deal.
Speaker 4: This was a mittle bit like the ing and that
Speaker 4: it was a very dry old TV show, right called
Speaker 4: Finders Keepers, and the host of it like he was
Speaker 4: actually a professor of mathematics I think at Cambridge University
Speaker 4: sang the opening theme tune on a keyboard again, think
Speaker 4: about this, right, we're all there, Judy Unis and then
Speaker 4: the big crane camera came in and then there was
Speaker 4: a really old man Jim. In the eighties and nineties,
Speaker 4: only old guys were allowed to host TV shows. No
Speaker 4: one under the age of like fifty five got anywhere
Speaker 4: in front of a camera. And they were like, now
Speaker 4: this is a proper grown ups. You're being in front
Speaker 4: in front of a camera. Okay, young's can go on
Speaker 4: the radio and have Shenanigan's, but TV is a dying
Speaker 4: man's game. This ancient old man as professor would come
Speaker 4: on and play this terrible theme tune finders keepers, losers
Speaker 4: weepers that he sung himself.
Speaker 3: So you do it again every time live.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was just the start of the show. And
Speaker 4: here's your host. That's also when TV shows used to
Speaker 4: begin on this, and here's your studios. Richard still go
Speaker 4: cut to him. We would go the host singing the
Speaker 4: theme to find his keepers, losers weepers. Anyway, my school,
Speaker 4: one of the two competing schools, Me and my friends
Speaker 4: were all in the front row and then we thought
Speaker 4: we finally to flick the v's When the camera pan
Speaker 4: passed us, we got thrown to the back of it
Speaker 4: and a letter sent home to my parents. And remember
Speaker 4: I was grounded for two weeks for that. Even though
Speaker 4: they cut it out. It wasn't even on TV. But
Speaker 4: the outrage. I'm not flipping the birth Richard, still go wow,
Speaker 4: it was shocking. It was a Catholic primary school as well,
Speaker 4: so there was like outrage scandal at this.
Speaker 3: There was a kids TV show when I was in
Speaker 3: primary school that was like a kid's version of the news.
Speaker 3: I think it was called Behind the News and each
Speaker 3: week they would invite students from around the Australia to
Speaker 3: be on the show. And my friend got invited to
Speaker 3: be on it and it was a big deal with
Speaker 3: the whole school. We went into the same room to
Speaker 3: watch him on his episode of Behind the News Gabriel
Speaker 3: and they asked him a question and he just didn't reply, Oh,
Speaker 3: complete silence.
Speaker 4: You don't ever in your life, do you story, You
Speaker 4: don't ever get away from that studio that stays with
Speaker 4: you throughout childhood at school. Alright, let's do extra time
Speaker 4: or a time waster. We're looking for animal movies this
Speaker 4: week it's hug a Pet Day. But you, sire, I
Speaker 4: was furnishing with apparently three killer animal facts. Seals will
Speaker 4: get seasick if you put them on a.
Speaker 3: Boat, but they like those pontoons Francisco.
Speaker 4: For years, scientists thought the platypus was a joke. Even
Speaker 4: when one was sent back to be studied. They thought
Speaker 4: it had to be a prank of different animals sewing together.
Speaker 4: These are what I called killer animal facts, and no
Speaker 4: one's mine's been blowing. And on ostridge farms, some farmers
Speaker 4: have a hard time with breeding because the ostrich is
Speaker 4: more sexually attracted to humans than that. That sounds like
Speaker 4: an excuse to Rio. These are weak sauce animal facts.
Speaker 4: They're not killer whatsoever. And that's made.
Speaker 3: Up my brothers. That ostriche instigated. I had nothing to
Speaker 3: do with it.
Speaker 4: How do you even know when an ostrich is sexually
Speaker 4: attracted to you? Actually, don't even answer that. I don't
Speaker 4: want to know. I did find out last week. I
Speaker 4: was listening to some very dry podcast about sleep, Angie Schuberman.
Speaker 4: It's like a five hour episode. What is it now
Speaker 4: about a lot of podcasts where it's like Martin school
Speaker 4: Stacey to her.
Speaker 3: No longer than better?
Speaker 4: Yeah, three three hours, been market school, three hours all
Speaker 4: on sleep. I can go. This is going to send
Speaker 4: me to sleep anyway. The most interesting thing I found
Speaker 4: out is that Spider's dream how do they know?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 4: Idea? No idea. Please get back to me, Angie Shuberman.
Speaker 4: All right, So animal movies, Chinchilla's in the midst Dude
Speaker 4: wears my cat?
Speaker 3: Oh you would if they tried to send the.
Speaker 4: Coy story. That's more like it. Coy story, beautiful goldfish, Willie,
Speaker 4: this is uh, this is a killer one here. Willy
Speaker 4: Wonka and the Chicken Factory. Come on you Chukes harder
Speaker 4: Wonka Chucks. Okay, Jack, what do you got for animal movies?
Speaker 3: There's something about veterinary that's that's smart.
Speaker 4: It's academic.
Speaker 3: Silver plus Aquarium for a Dream.
Speaker 4: Aquary's a red queen for a dream. That's a smart one. Actually.
Speaker 3: Bronze and dry food. Miss Daisy the wet food. Use
Speaker 3: her a tummy ache? File that under. Dude, where's my cat?
Speaker 3: They both belong together.
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Speaker 4: David Een his emails from he's listening to us on
Speaker 4: the Iaheat app and cam Loops, British Columbia, Canada. Wow, wee,
Speaker 4: I took my head cam Loops. I think that where
Speaker 4: the North and South Thompson Rivers met. I.
Speaker 3: I've always been marveled at geography.
Speaker 4: Tourish you know what I've shown my photos when I
Speaker 4: went to the sun Peaks Resorts hiking trails with numerous
Speaker 4: ski runs lying top of the head northeast I think
Speaker 4: it was, and I saw a lot of cougars and
Speaker 4: bears that inhabit the British Company a wildlife part east
Speaker 4: of town. Of course, David Dean, you'll back me up
Speaker 4: on that west right above the Kamloops there. And also
Speaker 4: I think at the last census in two thou sixteen,
Speaker 4: top of my head, population of ninety thousand, two hundred
Speaker 4: and eight. But I've got some of that just off
Speaker 4: the top of the head the information there. But David,
Speaker 4: thank you very much. He's got a time waste to
Speaker 4: bother you.
Speaker 3: And Christians just opened his eyes again. He did that
Speaker 3: all with his.
Speaker 4: I should go on that it's academic. So we're established
Speaker 4: that he existing in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, Willie Wonka
Speaker 4: and the chocolate Lamb factory gold Well and David Dean,
Speaker 4: thank you very much. All right. Animal Movies d sxt
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Speaker 3: Bronze? We brought a root Gold.
Speaker 4: That's very good, Chris, very good. Horn. Here's a moo
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Speaker 4: stare up men gold, how they like it? That's very good.
Speaker 4: There's something about fairy penguins. Silver. Mere catch me if
Speaker 4: you can, Mere, catch me if you can.
Speaker 3: Silver plus the Good, The Man and the Pugly Silver.
Speaker 4: Raiders of the Lost, Hard Park gold and Richard Lindhurst
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Speaker 4: I skunked the kidnap trying to bronze dead poodle rather
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Speaker 4: On my way into it this morning, there was a trade.
Speaker 4: This guy's the dream employing. This guy was in a
Speaker 4: real rush to get to work. He was like swerving
Speaker 4: in and out of the cars. He couldn't wait. And
Speaker 4: this was like a sort of ten past five this morning.
Speaker 4: He could not wait to get to site. And I thought,
Speaker 4: my god, the gusto of that man is putting a
Speaker 4: shift to day. Admirable on a Wednesday as well. Anyone
Speaker 4: can have that attack and verve on a Monday. But
Speaker 4: on a hum day and Wednesday, that guy is to
Speaker 4: get And it looked like you work for a big
Speaker 4: construction company who are working on the West Gate. He
Speaker 4: wants to get that tunnel done by Friday.
Speaker 3: We all want it done. We all want to done.
Speaker 4: This guy is leading the charge right now. He's probably
Speaker 4: manning that boring machine that you see on the news,
Speaker 4: carving it out, drilling into the earth for us. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 4: We want to salute you. So on a Friday, everyone
Speaker 4: gets excited about what time you knock off. On a Friday. Right,
Speaker 4: it's a big thing, isn't it. Knock off Friday. We
Speaker 4: have feature we play this knock off Friday. You called in,
Speaker 4: you tell us what time me knocking off? Everyone gets
Speaker 4: excited and they need to tell us what you're up
Speaker 4: to the weekend. We need this on a Wednesday. We
Speaker 4: need knocking on, We need knock on Wednesday. We need
Speaker 4: to celebrate those of us who are trying to turn
Speaker 4: up on a Wednesday with the same energy we had
Speaker 4: on a Monday. So if you're on your way to
Speaker 4: work right now, or you're already at work, you're knocking on,
Speaker 4: you've knocked on. We need to saloop you. We need
Speaker 4: to celebrate you. Jack. We have prizes for people that
Speaker 4: we're going to everyone who calls in, so let us
Speaker 4: know where they're heading to work or where they are
Speaker 4: already at work knocking on.
Speaker 3: We've done a stock take of the show merchandise. There
Speaker 3: are five mugs, sixteen magnets, sixty two pen.
Speaker 4: You might want to clarify the magnets like fridge magnet.
Speaker 3: Aren't they magnet?
Speaker 4: They're nice, It's not just a general magnet. I don't
Speaker 4: frown like that when I said nice he went, we
Speaker 4: meant to look. We can't stand by that shoddy ye
Speaker 4: revolting thin and they are way.
Speaker 3: It's a fridge magnet. It's not a luxury big mag
Speaker 3: fridge magnet. It's you know, a small.
Speaker 4: Rector ever dissed the march.
Speaker 3: Why would you want a magnet coming so far off
Speaker 3: the free prob better?
Speaker 4: Exactly? Yeah, thin is easier to magnetize as well. I'm
Speaker 4: guessing cheaper, heavier. They've got to use more magnetic powers.
Speaker 4: You've got to pay.
Speaker 3: Do you think they make magnets.
Speaker 4: I think it's wattish. They have like a watches to them,
Speaker 4: a magnetized British cam Loops North and South Thompson rivers.
Speaker 3: I actually thought, I've actually never thought about how they
Speaker 3: make magnets, but I thought there was some kind of
Speaker 3: magnetic material that they dig out of the ground and
Speaker 3: then they slice it into magnets.
Speaker 4: Magnetium more may have made that up. Maybe watch a
Speaker 4: cartoon as a kid where someone was made of magnetum more. Alright, anyway,
Speaker 4: the good news is from Pens magnets. The mugs, though,
Speaker 4: are one hundred percent muggy. They're not the quality. We
Speaker 4: stand by the mugs the rest of attack. Good luck
Speaker 4: with it. And the pens all right, the pin's pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just don't lean too hard on it. It will snap
Speaker 4: my snap the other day. Other than that, we're all
Speaker 4: good to go for prices for you.
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Speaker 4: Everyone knows about knockoff Friday. Knock Off Friday's easy. We
Speaker 4: celebrate it. We have a feature called knockoff Friday. It's
Speaker 4: all about kickstart the weekend, asking you, ty guys, what
Speaker 4: time are you knocking off for a Friday. We need
Speaker 4: that same spirit though on a Wednesday, on hump Day
Speaker 4: and Wednesday. We need to reclaim Wednesdays with passionate and energy.
Speaker 4: Put in a shift. It don't work. Workers of the world.
Speaker 4: You nice. So if you're already at work, you're already
Speaker 4: knocked on, or maybe you're pulling up. That's the other
Speaker 4: thing we always say, isn't we have just pulled up?
Speaker 4: We only ever use those words We're just pulled up?
Speaker 4: Maybe just pulled up. You've knocked on, you're knocking on.
Speaker 4: There're three ways to get involved this morning. You pick
Speaker 4: your show, merch you winners well as we reward the
Speaker 4: great workers out there already knocking on, Jackie boy, What
Speaker 4: have we got to give away today? You pick?
Speaker 3: We have five show mugs, sixteen show magnets and sixty
Speaker 3: two show pens.
Speaker 4: Christian knocked on six am working with the phone lights
Speaker 4: right now, it's so dark, too busy calling, but I'm
Speaker 4: desperate need of a dodgy French magnet. Chris, WI can
Speaker 4: help you out there. We'll set you on, Chris, well done.
Speaker 4: Who else that we got here? We've got David Or
Speaker 4: is already at work. He's just pulling up. Actually, it's
Speaker 4: just pulled up. Chat David would love a mug? How
Speaker 4: many mugs left we got?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Are we going to give him? He hasn't told us
Speaker 3: what he does?
Speaker 7: Is working?
Speaker 4: Text me about We need to know all the detail
Speaker 4: about what.
Speaker 3: There's only five mugs?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's go to Veronica Coome morning. Veronica,
Speaker 4: Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 8: How are you?
Speaker 4: I'm good Veronica, great name as well, Veronica. So are
Speaker 4: you pulling up or have you already knocked? Tom?
Speaker 9: I've just knocked on at six o'clock this morning at
Speaker 9: Dery Long South, get your right takeaway?
Speaker 4: Good? What would you want like a mug? A magnet?
Speaker 4: A pen.
Speaker 7: Oh mugg, wo'd be fun?
Speaker 4: All right, you can have one of our show mugs, Veronica,
Speaker 4: thank you very much for your work in service.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Christian, have a good day.
Speaker 4: And you uh.
Speaker 3: Manis Marinus.
Speaker 10: We got that right, Marinus, you're doing Thanks good morning, Christian,
Speaker 10: love your show.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you very much. That is a great old
Speaker 4: you sound like a sailor. It's an old Dutch name, Marinus.
Speaker 4: Like that is that one of those Dutch sort detective
Speaker 4: Nours TV show? A very grim one Marinus? All right? Anyway, Marinus,
Speaker 4: enough about the name. Marinis. You' knocking on.
Speaker 10: You're putting up just about to just about to pull
Speaker 10: up at the job. This is a job which I've
Speaker 10: been working on for too long. I'm an electrician, so
Speaker 10: we just today is the last day we should be
Speaker 10: here hanging.
Speaker 4: On a thread. There watched this guy working on threat.
Speaker 4: It has to be the last day, Marinis. It's not
Speaker 4: the last day we've got to No, it's my last day.
Speaker 4: Set this place down. Okay, that's the spirit. We don't
Speaker 4: actually want we don't know. Yeah, what are you up to? Marinas?
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm just tidying up the last few bits on
Speaker 10: the electrical work we've been doing at this house for renovation.
Speaker 10: It's a really old lot from eighteen nineties. Health presented
Speaker 10: sign challenges six.
Speaker 3: Months of electrical work on a residential.
Speaker 4: Health I guess those old places, right, You've got to
Speaker 4: sort out the ring main, haven't you. I guess there's
Speaker 4: a few of those yep, yep, yeah, sparky and sparky.
Speaker 4: You know only your level would like to dabble on
Speaker 4: that ring Maine.
Speaker 3: Which ones we cannot encourage dabbling in electrics?
Speaker 4: I know it's a pros.
Speaker 3: Somebody who has a license got a dabbling.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, stay off those ringmans. Leave
Speaker 4: it to us pros marriness. All right, Marinis, what do
Speaker 4: you want a pen there for sight?
Speaker 10: A mug mag A mug would be fantastic.
Speaker 8: Christian, good choice.
Speaker 4: All right, Well down for the last six months, putting
Speaker 4: your shift in there, doing up that place.
Speaker 10: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you very much, Ellie. Good morning, Good morning, Christian.
Speaker 4: Now are you I'm good Ellie? I hope you having
Speaker 4: a good week so far. Now you're just pulled up?
Speaker 4: Are you knocking on?
Speaker 8: Just pulled up?
Speaker 9: I'm bout to walking tour. We finished late last night,
Speaker 9: back on seven this morning.
Speaker 4: You work hard.
Speaker 9: What do you do, Ellie, I'm a police officer.
Speaker 4: Oh well, genuinely, thank you very much for your service.
Speaker 9: You have a VIC police Yes, yeah, and extra excited
Speaker 9: because it's my birthday today and my coworkers. So there's
Speaker 9: cake at work.
Speaker 4: Hap, Happy birthday. What's your coworker's name as well, kaz
Speaker 4: So shout out to Caves, Shout out to Cash, Shout
Speaker 4: out to Ellie.
Speaker 9: Yeah. So yeah, we're back to work, finishing at three
Speaker 9: and then home to enjoy birthday celebrations of the family.
Speaker 4: You know what I like? I like the idea of
Speaker 4: the police getting excited today, not about taking down perks,
Speaker 4: but a little bit of cake. If you're dealing with
Speaker 4: baddoer is, you need to break that up? Ying and Yang,
Speaker 4: I say, celebrate the wonder in the world with a
Speaker 4: nice bit of cake leaving to day. Yeah, it's good
Speaker 4: for you. Why not enjoy your cake?
Speaker 8: Ellie? Thank you?
Speaker 4: By the way, would you like a mug of pen a.
Speaker 9: Magnet, a mug Christian?
Speaker 7: That would be awesome.
Speaker 4: Do you want for kas as well on a birthday?
Speaker 4: Why not? Why not? Why not enjoy the cake.
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 4: Two things we'd like to get involved with you guys
Speaker 4: right now. First of all, someone without consulting Google, who
Speaker 4: is smart enough to simply explain to Jack and I
Speaker 4: and everybody else listening, how is a magnet made? You know,
Speaker 4: there's so much stuff we just take for granted because
Speaker 4: you don't appear ignorant by ever saying out loud, how
Speaker 4: is that magnet made? The close thing I could get
Speaker 4: was just guessing. They get a big block off that
Speaker 4: basic material and they put it next to another machine
Speaker 4: which has got magnet on it. Sort of it magnetized,
Speaker 4: you know, not your hotel key card when you go
Speaker 4: down and go apart. It next to my phone. I
Speaker 4: can't get in. I'm on the floor, and they just
Speaker 4: they swipe it on that machine then put the little
Speaker 4: keys in.
Speaker 3: I think it's like that, So you think it's made
Speaker 3: in the lab, whereas I just assumed they dig some magnet.
Speaker 4: A crane, a crane hand grabs the magnetium, all right,
Speaker 4: check it out on the periodic table bomb left, I
Speaker 4: think it was, grabs it and then takes over flat
Speaker 4: thing they have at the hotel foyer and rubs it
Speaker 4: a couple of.
Speaker 3: Times on it, right, it sounds like a giant, giantic
Speaker 3: robot hand scanning your barcode at the market.
Speaker 4: The magnetium, Yeah, it grabs it out of the earth
Speaker 4: or something in Perth under Perth and then swipe someone
Speaker 4: those machines like your hotel fobcard.
Speaker 3: Which I thought they just dug the magnetium out of
Speaker 3: the ground and then slice.
Speaker 4: It up in tidy it up a bit, you know,
Speaker 4: like a butcher might in that sliding They've got a
Speaker 4: giant on those sliding machines that they get to get
Speaker 4: you some slices of Yes, that's what we think in
Speaker 4: terms of how a magnet's made. If anyone knows anything
Speaker 4: different about how a magnet is actually made without going
Speaker 4: to Google, please give us a call a nine four
Speaker 4: one four one four three. The other thing we're desperate
Speaker 4: to hear about is if you were a kid and
Speaker 4: you were on TV. If you're on TV as a kid,
Speaker 4: it was a big deal. I reckon it still is
Speaker 4: now at schools if you're on TV. Yeah, or do
Speaker 4: you think now it's been blaced by TikTok If you
Speaker 4: have a TikTok any viral.
Speaker 3: Anyone can go on TikTok, but TV still got some
Speaker 3: allure about it, and if you're on TV as a kid,
Speaker 3: extra points. If you're on a game show especially. My
Speaker 3: favorite game show was Amazing as a kid, and my
Speaker 3: dream was to be one of the contestants on it.
Speaker 3: I never was, So how did it work?
Speaker 4: Describe it to me?
Speaker 11: Then?
Speaker 4: What was amazing? Two schools up against each other.
Speaker 3: Two schools up against each other, and the kids would
Speaker 3: run through a maze collecting keys. They would also do
Speaker 3: a round of Mario Kart. Was simply just firing up
Speaker 3: at Nintendo and playing Mario Kart and whoever won won
Speaker 3: that prize.
Speaker 4: We had a TV show. It sounds like this, right,
Speaker 4: It was mainly not. I think that must have just
Speaker 4: given them two is of coke.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 4: They were mainly now hyperactive, hyperactive, sugar adult kids that
Speaker 4: would just want to It was actually called run around,
Speaker 4: and there was the host would discover yelling at kids
Speaker 4: to run around, very spits the studio doing things.
Speaker 3: Yes, there was a lot of running in kids TV
Speaker 3: in the nineties. And the other thing they loved was.
Speaker 4: Goo of some sort. Oh my god, there was always
Speaker 4: some sort of goo.
Speaker 3: Thing there was a show called Download where contestants would
Speaker 3: hover under a giant nose and snot would fall on them.
Speaker 3: I forget, maybe I got a question wrong or something
Speaker 3: like that. Then they get covered in giants.
Speaker 4: Not the Christian O'Connell show podcast Pats He's got the
Speaker 4: Day of today should be back with us tomorrow. Christian magnets.
Speaker 4: The mineral that they come from, it is not called magnetium. Well,
Speaker 4: how do you know that a gas like me like this, Sue?
Speaker 4: It's called hematite, okay, wake up, sheep. Well it's called hematite,
Speaker 4: is it? Okay? Well, then the rest of us know
Speaker 4: it as magnetium. Okay, So we do want to know
Speaker 4: how does the magnet work? And the other thing we
Speaker 4: want to know is were you on TV? As a kid?
Speaker 4: My school was on this very dry old BBC show
Speaker 4: from the eighties called fines Keepers, actually hosted by a
Speaker 4: professor of maths Drial nerd Fest. Obviously I wasn't on
Speaker 4: the show. It's so I was simply in the audience
Speaker 4: giving it double thumbs up. Before I bet you a
Speaker 4: bit of the theme tune, which is terrifying, and listen
Speaker 4: to it back now years ago on the BBC. We
Speaker 4: had things called a continuity announcer where man just a
Speaker 4: voice would come on to reassure you about what you
Speaker 4: just watched and what was coming up next. That was now,
Speaker 4: I don't know what this brave new world is of
Speaker 4: TV in different shows, have a listened to this guy.
Speaker 12: You can see the second pass of the adventure of
Speaker 12: the Disappearing Dispatch Case in twenty five minutes when the
Speaker 12: Baker Street Boys go into action.
Speaker 4: Before that, amazing imagine if we're a guy going and
Speaker 4: mister Christian O'Connor way back tomorrow morning and now huggy
Speaker 4: in board shorts and thongs.
Speaker 12: You can see the second pass of the Adventure of
Speaker 12: the Disappearing Dispatch Case in twenty five minutes when the
Speaker 12: Baker Street Boys go into action.
Speaker 4: What's coming for that?
Speaker 12: Finders Keepers introduced by Richard Stilgoe.
Speaker 4: It's like some sort of sci fi horror. Years and
Speaker 4: years ago. Steven Merchant, who co wrote and directed The
Speaker 4: Office with Ricky Gervais, was on One when he was
Speaker 4: a teenager. A TV show that you've seen, Massive kids Blockbuster,
Speaker 4: hosted by man who was about nine hundred years old,
Speaker 4: Bob Honus.
Speaker 13: What means income from property or investment and when preceded
Speaker 13: by inland is the departmental that looks after income tax revenue.
Speaker 4: Revenue is raped. Thirteen year old boy should know about taxation?
Speaker 4: What drive? How did much ever get late? It's a wonder,
Speaker 4: it's a wonder. Hell, it's not a flex at thirteen
Speaker 4: to no correct turns out taxation policy in the country.
Speaker 4: All right, why are you on TV as a kid?
Speaker 4: Nine four one O four three?
Speaker 2: Good morning mickod morning Jack and Christian?
Speaker 4: Here you Mick? What were you on as a kid?
Speaker 2: I'm going to so called doubledare.
Speaker 14: On Channel ten names scenario's most game shows. You had
Speaker 14: to answer a series of question. If you couldn't answer it,
Speaker 14: you did the other team to answer it. If they
Speaker 14: couldn't answer it, they doubled it back to you. And
Speaker 14: you got to then call for a physical challenge.
Speaker 15: Yeah, which usually involved some kind of stupid thing running
Speaker 15: around the studio doing whatever and getting covered in chocolate
Speaker 15: slime which tasted like crap. Yes, and mind you, we
Speaker 15: got the pants beaten office And I told all the
Speaker 15: kids at school or my family what night I was
Speaker 15: going to be on.
Speaker 2: They all watched it, and man, did I get toasted
Speaker 2: at school?
Speaker 3: So you got slimed.
Speaker 2: I got slim with chocolate sauce and it was crap.
Speaker 2: It was drinky trap and yeah, not good.
Speaker 15: And the idea was to get as covered in and
Speaker 15: as much as you could for the cameras.
Speaker 4: So yeah, not enough on TV?
Speaker 7: Yeah, too much insurance policy is going on?
Speaker 4: Slim anymore snowflaing slime flakes? Meck, thank you very much
Speaker 4: and have a good day.
Speaker 8: Thank you, you two guys.
Speaker 2: Take easy.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Brady, young Bret. That voice okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: just early morning. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, that's it, Brad.
Speaker 4: You on TV as a kid, Yeah, mate, I was
Speaker 4: on a show called Romper Room Room. Tell us about
Speaker 4: Romper Room when was this eighties?
Speaker 6: It was a preschool sort of a thing where you
Speaker 6: got a bunch of kids and there was a puppet
Speaker 6: named mister Dooby and uh miss Helena and uh he
Speaker 6: done things like balance balls and punch balls and balancings
Speaker 6: on your head and sung.
Speaker 8: Songs and all that sort of stuff. Some wrong Dooby,
Speaker 8: wrong doobey.
Speaker 4: I don't think it was hearing this.
Speaker 8: Yeah. They used to say, doo be your doob don't
Speaker 8: be don't be.
Speaker 4: And all that sort of stuff, but the title.
Speaker 6: I was the only kid in history of the show
Speaker 6: to actually be removed.
Speaker 4: Why what did you do?
Speaker 8: Well, mister Doobey was up there reading us all the
Speaker 8: story and I've got up, walked up and.
Speaker 6: We were mister Dooby with a hand puppet and I've
Speaker 6: walked up and grabbed a hand puppet.
Speaker 4: No, you do not do that. You know, you don't
Speaker 4: touch mister behind the desk. It's like the Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 4: You don't go and see him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like agro mate no one.
Speaker 3: So were you on live TV? Would people have seen?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: With live TV they took us out in the back
Speaker 6: and I wasn't allowed back on.
Speaker 8: And I do believe about that.
Speaker 6: Miss Helena never ever saw a bread through the magic mirror.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, so much going on here. Now we
Speaker 4: know why the throes are scratch. Mister d said around him.
Speaker 4: Afraid with you?
Speaker 8: Brad?
Speaker 2: Thank well?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Christien late seventies. I was selected being a contestant on
Speaker 4: Saturday Morning Kids TV here in Melbourne. They were filming
Speaker 4: at the Exhibition buildings in Fitzroy to spin a wheel Uh,
Speaker 4: this was unmer back day. I want a dole from
Speaker 4: Charlie's Angels, best day of my life as a kid,
Speaker 4: huge being anywhere near like show bez at That or
Speaker 4: TV Now I'll Last Caller Brad Talker's taken us through
Speaker 4: the Romper Room.
Speaker 3: Which we'd never heard of. A nuts show. Apparently in
Speaker 3: Australia in the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 4: Quite a few of yon text did watch it as
Speaker 4: a kid, remember it fondly, and one of you, Aaron Barry,
Speaker 4: says that they saw the episode where he did.
Speaker 3: That he took them head off the puppet.
Speaker 4: When you play back a lot of it and think
Speaker 4: about a lot of the TV shows that we grew
Speaker 4: up with, they were nuts, like really odd. This is
Speaker 4: enough to send anyone into some kind of psychic frenzy.
Speaker 17: Oh mister DVDJO want you you're some straight away?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 4: I thought so.
Speaker 13: Well, let's sing mister Dobe special shots song.
Speaker 17: Shall we all say? Really please?
Speaker 4: Mister music irritating be noise.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a fly in the story.
Speaker 4: This is at Gwan Tanama Bay to make them talk.
Speaker 17: Oh, mister d did you want to hear your son
Speaker 17: straight away?
Speaker 18: Oh?
Speaker 13: I thought so well, let's sing mister Dobe's special shot song.
Speaker 13: Shall we also really please mister music, thank you?
Speaker 4: I try to do what.
Speaker 17: And not do anything wrong?
Speaker 4: Would you turn on to Netflix now to a meeting?
Speaker 4: We're playing this. This is the pitch really all day.
Speaker 3: This is mister DB's favorite song.
Speaker 4: Then there was some nonsense with the mirror song bumper
Speaker 4: stump a boo, roper stumper, that's not right for kids.
Speaker 4: Rump a stumper, rump a bumper stump a boo.
Speaker 17: Till me tell me, tell me do magic mirror? Tell
Speaker 17: me today? Have all my friends had fun to play?
Speaker 17: And I can also see you now? Look here another day.
Speaker 4: Same time in the drive me mad? If you is
Speaker 4: your job posting that, I'd need a doob to get
Speaker 4: through that. Every day. Shane's on the mine. He was
Speaker 4: on TV as a kid. Good morning, Shane, Good morning sir.
Speaker 19: How are you really enjoy your show? Coming to work?
Speaker 19: I put it on every morning and.
Speaker 2: I get a laugh.
Speaker 4: That's great, Oh lovely, that's lovely to know. Thanks for
Speaker 4: sharing that with a Shane. So you're on TV as
Speaker 4: a kid.
Speaker 19: Oh many many years ago, my sister and brother were
Speaker 19: a sort of a musical family. Dad as a country singer,
Speaker 19: and Mum got us on Brian and the juniors and
Speaker 19: that was back in the black at white TV days.
Speaker 4: Oh well, so would have been the sixties or early seventies.
Speaker 19: Oh god, don't ask me, I'm sixty eight now. It
Speaker 19: was a long time ago. So yeah, Brian and the
Speaker 19: and also a little show in Shepperdon at a local
Speaker 19: TV show up there, and we were on a teent
Speaker 19: churst there and run a little tape recorder and that
Speaker 19: was awesome.
Speaker 4: You want to tape record? And what do you remember
Speaker 4: the song you were doing with the family, the musical.
Speaker 19: Family, Yes, I do. It was called Lemon Tree and
Speaker 19: the seekers is to sing that and we we learned
Speaker 19: that song. I played the ukulele and.
Speaker 4: Very talented Swiss family, Robinson, weren't you all?
Speaker 2: Oh we were.
Speaker 19: Yeah, there's no we didn't even have electricity up there,
Speaker 19: and so we used to sing around the round the
Speaker 19: fire place and yeah, this is amazing.
Speaker 4: Can you remember the lemon Tary song? Can you do
Speaker 4: any of it now for us?
Speaker 19: Oh god, I couldn't do it now, but give me
Speaker 19: a UKULELEA might give it a crack, but not run
Speaker 19: with me at the mondment.
Speaker 4: No, we don't believe we have one in the studio.
Speaker 19: Forget one five string banjo, and I've got a perfect
Speaker 19: place for you to take your care of it. And
Speaker 19: if you weren't, I've got a fine ruby kN ray.
Speaker 4: And you know we could do Jordan banjos together.
Speaker 19: Yeah, what deliverance once?
Speaker 4: Have we? Okay?
Speaker 19: Yeah, if you are up there, just locked the caravan of.
Speaker 4: A night of the Europe, We've got a long way
Speaker 4: for mister Doobi.
Speaker 1: Christian Connells Show podcast.
Speaker 4: Christian just the crazy Bando Banjo Jude on talking about
Speaker 4: Romper Room you or the biggest smile on my face?
Speaker 4: Remember that show I loved as a kid. I remember
Speaker 4: every word to the song you played earlier and tucked
Speaker 4: away somewhere in my wardrobe. Still have my green romper
Speaker 4: Room basket that kids used to wear on their heads
Speaker 4: to learn how to walk straight and tall. And yes
Speaker 4: there was a song that went along with that too.
Speaker 4: They they wasted no opportunity to make a song out
Speaker 4: of nothing. The producers on that show, thanks for bringing
Speaker 4: up today. We've enjoyed the trip down memory lane. Thank
Speaker 4: you very much. Karen. All Right, yesterday we were talking
Speaker 4: about how we needed a venue. Last three cards were
Speaker 4: wondering how quickly you reckon someone could run in a
Speaker 4: pound of thongs one hundred meters because it is very,
Speaker 4: very hard to run even a short distance in thongs.
Speaker 4: So we needed a venue and ideally what we wanted
Speaker 4: was a proper one hundred meters straight and athletics track. Now,
Speaker 4: obviously there's none of those around Melbourne. It's a very
Speaker 4: unsporting city here, you're well known for it. There's no ovals,
Speaker 4: there's no tracks. We have a home for our race.
Speaker 18: Hey Christian, it's Scott here from m columbiad Athletics Club.
Speaker 18: I'm just one up the spring coaches. I believe that
Speaker 18: you're in the need of trek and we've got an
Speaker 18: athletics trek in Clifted Hill. It's a good track, it's
Speaker 18: just been recently race serviced a couple of years ago.
Speaker 18: So if you needed any equipment, we're happy to supply
Speaker 18: the equipment. Starting blocks, step gun and here. We can
Speaker 18: get you underway with these, so no problems.
Speaker 4: We have a venue all right. We have starting blocks
Speaker 4: as well, and we've got the camp gun from the
Speaker 4: Bubbla starting gun staff, so there's going to be eight lanes. Now,
Speaker 4: eight athletes, all wearing the golden thongs, who will go
Speaker 4: across the finish line the quickest?
Speaker 12: You?
Speaker 4: We need Perry with You know they have that photo
Speaker 4: finish don't they. It's always in black and white with
Speaker 4: like the chest pushing forward. We need to finished for
Speaker 4: the end of the race. It lined up. So we've
Speaker 4: only got eight lane, So eight of you are going
Speaker 4: to be racing next week. This is going to be
Speaker 4: the end of next week. So if you wan in,
Speaker 4: why should we pick you as one of the eight?
Speaker 4: Why do you think you'd be really fast? Have you
Speaker 4: got some sort of form that you can tell us
Speaker 4: about traveling very quickly wearing thongs? Or are you And
Speaker 4: then when we did one last game, are you someone
Speaker 4: that could have gone all the way and represented Australia
Speaker 4: in athletics. We're going to hear from a lot of
Speaker 4: those I could have been the next cath Freeman.
Speaker 3: Are you going to be responsible for people pulling ham
Speaker 3: strings or no, that's their own business. I just wanted
Speaker 3: to make sure, Yeah, it's their own business, that's what
Speaker 3: they compete in our race.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's right. Yeah, I mean we've got them for
Speaker 4: how long do you think it will actually take?
Speaker 3: Well, are you saying you can run it in sub
Speaker 3: ten seconds? But in thongs with guys who are watching
Speaker 3: their hamstrings?
Speaker 4: Maybe twenty I don't think it's going to be. I
Speaker 4: don't think it's going to be. It won't be twenty
Speaker 4: seconds three? And what do you reckon? Ah?
Speaker 3: I think it'd be much faster.
Speaker 4: I think it won't be faster than twenty. Think it'd
Speaker 4: be fa I think it'd be I think it'd be
Speaker 4: slower than twenty. So what happens if they blow a plugger? Right?
Speaker 4: Then you've got to reattach that reattach it to your
Speaker 4: foot and carry on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which you're pretty much out of that stage. If
Speaker 3: you've blown a plugger and you're getting down trying to.
Speaker 4: I'd be surprised. You just want to go back in there?
Speaker 4: All right? So who wants in? We've got eight lanes.
Speaker 4: If you want one, come and get it.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Jacks said to me he's happy to be one of
Speaker 4: the eight, but just feel a bit awkward if you
Speaker 4: want to beat you all, well, I'm retiring. Jack Posts
Speaker 4: chucked his name in the ring. Could he be the
Speaker 4: fastest man on earth in thongs, then me tube. All right,
Speaker 4: So next week we're going to line up eight of you.
Speaker 4: You're going to race against each other. Here will be
Speaker 4: the quickest in a pair of thongs. We have a track.
Speaker 4: We need the athletes, Shane.
Speaker 8: You want in, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4: Good morning boy, Good morning Shane. Welcome to the thong
Speaker 4: race and uh thank you. Why do you think you
Speaker 4: could be quick?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 20: Reckon?
Speaker 7: I could show up some of these youngest fellows who
Speaker 7: if they are pretty stem but from my age ability
Speaker 7: fit or can I can show them one or two tricks?
Speaker 8: Used to be sure?
Speaker 4: Did you used to be a sprinter? What's your form?
Speaker 2: I used to play a lot of basketball and during
Speaker 2: the football, so in my time I still do a
Speaker 2: lot of running, just very active.
Speaker 4: How quickly do you think you could do? One hundred
Speaker 4: meters and a pair of songs? Shane?
Speaker 20: A pair of songs?
Speaker 7: Probably I'll go for fourteen seconds.
Speaker 3: Wow, I mean you just said it. You can say
Speaker 3: anything he wants.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it sounds that I believe in more than
Speaker 4: I believe you could do it. I think Shane would
Speaker 4: beat you. Shane.
Speaker 3: How old are you?
Speaker 7: Fifty four?
Speaker 4: Prime I'll be prime. This is when we're you know,
Speaker 4: they say these days, when you get into that fifty plus,
Speaker 4: you're really into that white hot that window there your
Speaker 4: it's not that cheesus maturing for a while. So I'm
Speaker 4: back in you Shane. All right, Shane, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: No, I thank you.
Speaker 4: Djon. Good morning to Jon, very good morning too. Good
Speaker 4: morning d Jon.
Speaker 5: So you want into thong race, I'd absolutely love to
Speaker 5: be part of this. I think it's I've got a
Speaker 5: great pedigree doing races. I started off with the cheese
Speaker 5: rolling in the UK and the ended running of the
Speaker 5: Bills in Spain.
Speaker 11: My last long dream is to do the wist carrying
Speaker 11: champs in Scandinavia.
Speaker 7: I think this would be the next step in that
Speaker 7: training regiment.
Speaker 8: I like that.
Speaker 4: No, I'm happy to be a closer runner up to
Speaker 4: the wife carrying championships.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you travel the world doing funny races.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, well these are all very serious races.
Speaker 11: I think it's very important to get that could win
Speaker 11: your wife's wait and beer, so very very important, guys.
Speaker 4: And how do you train that? Do you take your
Speaker 4: wife down the oval and chuck it on your shoulder?
Speaker 4: And you do some laps.
Speaker 7: No, you just make sure she weighs really, really little.
Speaker 4: That's what has you in trouble, traveling around neighbors looking
Speaker 4: for small fatigue. Women train in the I don't know
Speaker 4: how much fear we can win. And that's a kicker
Speaker 4: for any woman that's to get an approached like that. FIFA,
Speaker 4: it's fifty to fifty. Oh what was the old cheese
Speaker 4: rolling race? Like that looks fun?
Speaker 7: Oh that was so good, except there was no it
Speaker 7: was apparently it was no longer official because too many
Speaker 7: people got injured.
Speaker 11: And unfortunately I just dislocated my finger and there was
Speaker 11: no medical staff to put it back.
Speaker 4: In so that yourself. Can't you even dessiccate your finger?
Speaker 4: You just twisted back in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's a There was a doctor there in the crowd.
Speaker 10: She helped me.
Speaker 11: It just wouldn't go back in. So I went to
Speaker 11: the hospital afterwards to get a checked out. And some
Speaker 11: dude that as he had rocked up drunk, didn't know
Speaker 11: he had missed the race, so did it anyway and
Speaker 11: broke his legs.
Speaker 4: So that was trying the flag wherever you want the work.
Speaker 4: He didn't know he missed the mess your prown. That's
Speaker 4: what I became a citizen. You know, I like you?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: Stay there The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much for all the memories of the
Speaker 4: amazing TV show. There was a Romper Room. Mark said,
Speaker 4: remember that they had a song just called punch a Ball.
Speaker 4: We've dug it out. Why'd you get a load of this?
Speaker 4: Because it's fun to punch.
Speaker 16: Punch, punch, punch, because punching so much fun. What use
Speaker 16: your ristor and dark?
Speaker 4: Thank run? Wow, this explains VFL the really old thuggy days.
Speaker 4: Those players grew up with this.
Speaker 16: Punch punch, punch, punching so much fun. Use your ristor
Speaker 16: and dark.
Speaker 4: Thank run. Christian Romperm also had a song simply for stretching. Uh.
Speaker 4: It was called Bender's Stretch, Bend and stretch. Reach for
Speaker 4: the stars. There goes Stupid, It comes Mars luckily. And
Speaker 4: I mentioned of youranu. So I'm fifty six and I
Speaker 4: still remember this is why I was never allowed on
Speaker 4: kids TV and just fifty six and I still remembers
Speaker 4: the songs from Julie Janine does as well. Christian's listen
Speaker 4: to you two about Romper Room. I'm fifty two years old,
Speaker 4: grew up with that the romper room. Still remember quite
Speaker 4: the few of the songs. If you want give me
Speaker 4: a call, I can sing some over the radio. Was
Speaker 4: also very disappointed that Miss Helena never saw me in
Speaker 4: the Magic Mirror. Hug He came in, remembered it and
Speaker 4: said that he had the hots for it's Helena Jackie
Speaker 4: look and a little bit confused. But that's young Huggey
Speaker 4: for you. Uh, that's Yuckey for you. He also queried
Speaker 4: something about the thong race. Huggy lives in thongs. Seriously,
Speaker 4: I read the idea was born from It was when
Speaker 4: he came running in here and he couldn't quite run
Speaker 4: in at speeds, and it was just like his feet
Speaker 4: were like t Rex Clause trying to grip into the
Speaker 4: to the carpet here, which is what I wonder. How
Speaker 4: quick someone good wrong hockey came in suis He said,
Speaker 4: one thing you need to consider about that pole raised
Speaker 4: next week is moisture.
Speaker 3: Humidity in the air. We'll make it slippery.
Speaker 4: So make sure we've got humidity measurers on the day
Speaker 4: down there as well at the athletics. Trade in thongs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: all right, So we want to know today? Then what
Speaker 4: would kids today have no idea about? On nine four
Speaker 4: three Roma starters And they're the better for it. It's
Speaker 4: fun to punch things, Jackie. Well, what will kids today
Speaker 4: have no idea about the Internet?
Speaker 3: May it makes it easy to see so many things
Speaker 3: what I had to do in as a child, when
Speaker 3: you wanted to walk through for a game, hints and tips,
Speaker 3: you had to call a Nintendo hotline.
Speaker 4: I want to get like cheat coos stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes, the particular game I was playing was Game Boys
Speaker 3: Pokemon YEP, and I couldn't get through the dark cave
Speaker 3: with the diglets and I had to call this line
Speaker 3: and for was it one of those sort of yes,
Speaker 3: because I didn't even get to the point where they
Speaker 3: gave me the walkthrough because I got told off my
Speaker 3: parents for calling their hot But Nintendo would have a
Speaker 3: hotline that you can call and ask a specialist about games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these days you'll just watch what is it on Twitch?
Speaker 4: They're on with all their cheat codes and YouTube. They've
Speaker 4: got all these hacks. The other thing that I was
Speaker 4: bore on my kids the other day with this is
Speaker 4: like years ago before texting and mobile phones and everything
Speaker 4: like that. You would simply go around to your friend's
Speaker 4: house just to see if they were in. You'd have
Speaker 4: to knock on the door. It was nobody else to
Speaker 4: buy their mum or dad, and they might not be in.
Speaker 4: If they weren't in, there was that walk of shame
Speaker 4: when you had to then get the bus home or that.
Speaker 4: So kids the the asa that would have any idea,
Speaker 4: there's no whatsapping or anything like that. You had to
Speaker 4: go around somebody's house and walk out whether or they
Speaker 4: were coming out to play.
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Christian Romberham, he just nice me. I'm sure they had
Speaker 4: horseheads on sticks and kids would run around just in circles.
Speaker 4: They also had a dedicated time on the show where
Speaker 4: they would simply drink milk. I can't believe I just
Speaker 4: remember this for the first time ever. See these are amazing,
Speaker 4: some of these stories. Christian, thank you very much for
Speaker 4: taking a nudge me down trip down memory lane this morning.
Speaker 4: I was also a Romper Room fanatic at sixty. I
Speaker 4: can still remember the Mister Doobie song, the marching song
Speaker 4: that had a song about marching apparently, and the exercise
Speaker 4: song you just wrote up the lyrics too. I think
Speaker 4: it actually influenced me because I am now a mess
Speaker 4: Helena miss Elena for a living, working at Duntel Huggy
Speaker 4: miss Helena for a living, working as a kindergarten teacher
Speaker 4: for the last forty years. That's great, Debbie, all right,
Speaker 4: let's take some calls then about what will kids today
Speaker 4: have no idea about? On Facebook page? The terrifying excitement
Speaker 4: of a girl giving you her house number to ask
Speaker 4: you out. Radio Mike, who I believe is a friend
Speaker 4: of yours, paying one dollar sixty nine for a track
Speaker 4: on iTunes. Yeah, I found an old eepod the other day.
Speaker 4: I said, there's so much money trapped in that thing.
Speaker 4: I mean so much money. Now I'm going to stream
Speaker 4: it for like ten bucks a month whatever it is
Speaker 4: on Spotify. Multiplayer meant sitting beside your brother playing Super
Speaker 4: Mario Brothers on the Enny Snays and then starting a
Speaker 4: full on brawl. That's from Joe waiting for computer games
Speaker 4: to load off the cassette tape, then realizing it fell
Speaker 4: because the volume was wrong. Servo attendance Christian. I remember
Speaker 4: in Australia when there were attendanc they used to fill
Speaker 4: up your car for you.
Speaker 3: I only say that as an American thing in American movies.
Speaker 4: Yep, that's from Nick Peter. Good morning, Peter, Good morning,
Speaker 4: good morning. Show love the energy, Peter. Now, Peter, what
Speaker 4: would kids today have no idea about, no.
Speaker 20: Idea about the classic wall phone, the landline with the
Speaker 20: extended cord. I'd be talking to my girlfriend and I
Speaker 20: wanted to tell I love her, and I'd go into
Speaker 20: the cupboard and shut the door so now and Els
Speaker 20: could hear it, and I'd say.
Speaker 4: I love you, I love you. This is how we
Speaker 4: used to be. This is love in the eighties. I
Speaker 4: was the same as you. My dad wouldn't step to
Speaker 4: the long cord to act, drag the phone into the
Speaker 4: understands cupboard, shut myself in the dock and go.
Speaker 3: Terrifying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was illicit love in the eighties. You
Speaker 4: all like hiding on that phone, and then you were
Speaker 4: your sister would yell at you You've been on too long. Peter.
Speaker 4: Were also only allowed to make calls to friends in
Speaker 4: the evening when it was half priced.
Speaker 2: Oh look, that was a bit of the case.
Speaker 20: And I'll tell you, whenever the landline would ring, it'd
Speaker 20: be like now the phones ringing.
Speaker 8: Who is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the world's calling. Who's come through the land with
Speaker 4: a message for us to that special line through earth? Peter,
Speaker 4: thank you very much, you call mate. That's cool the show,
Speaker 4: thanks guys. Ryan, Yes, Hello, good morning, Good morning, Ryan,
Speaker 4: welcome to show. And what would kids today have no
Speaker 4: idea about?
Speaker 2: The way to tell is your friends were home, there
Speaker 2: would be a pile of bikes out in the front
Speaker 2: of their house.
Speaker 4: You are all just dumped on top of each other.
Speaker 4: There's like an orgy of bikes there. Definitely, Ryan, thank
Speaker 4: you very much. Chicola has got a peek morning. Pete
Speaker 4: is he pepe Hey? Hey?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Pete, Hey, Hey, guys, there we go.
Speaker 4: Pete okay, Pete, well kiss today.
Speaker 2: Have no idea about ah, the magic and wonder of
Speaker 2: a cassette tape?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, there were enough very flimsy tends, you weren't
Speaker 4: they spoiling it with that pencil and then we get
Speaker 4: chewed up in the tape deck.
Speaker 2: Putt putting a bit of sticky tape over the tab
Speaker 2: so you could record over a recorded tape. And the
Speaker 2: elation of actually fast forwarding is stopping right at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the track.
Speaker 4: It was a fine art. It was a final art.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you did that, people would steer in wonder
Speaker 2: you were a legend.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 2: It was great, But yeah, you could have also the
Speaker 2: drama of having to try and pull the tape out
Speaker 2: or listening to a soul that slowed right down in
Speaker 2: the middle because you heard it too much. But that
Speaker 2: was fair test stuff.
Speaker 4: There's the other thing. If you left it on the
Speaker 4: dashboard in the heat and it got all melted, that
Speaker 4: was the end of that album. Not in the ocean
Speaker 4: in the car. All right, Pete, thank you very much. Kid.
Speaker 4: The Colls coming on? What will kids today have no
Speaker 4: idea about?
Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcasts.
Speaker 4: Christian overhead projectors and transparencies in school classrooms? Do you
Speaker 4: remember the o HP that loud noise that used to
Speaker 4: make as well? And they used to have that piece
Speaker 4: of paper where they wouldn't want you reading ahead or
Speaker 4: too much. The lesson they were to get really protected
Speaker 4: about that, come that over.
Speaker 3: They would block out the Christians coming on.
Speaker 4: Gases. All the good stuff is yet to come.
Speaker 3: I feel like they always put that transparent piece of
Speaker 3: paper down the wrong way first and then had to flip.
Speaker 4: It over every lesson we're talking about. What will kids
Speaker 4: these days have no idea about nine four one four
Speaker 4: one O four three. It's the Christian O'Connell show on
Speaker 4: gold cars without air conditioning or power steering. Yep, pain
Speaker 4: by check feels like a real old school thing now,
Speaker 4: doesn't it. Anthony's one person's thrillers and other person's how
Speaker 4: the thrill of hiding dirty magazines from your parents? It
Speaker 4: just a thrill. But anyway, Christian, I'm not saying I
Speaker 4: did this, but connecting your friend's VCR to yours to
Speaker 4: illegally copy movies the mailways, sitting on your lap trying
Speaker 4: to do a hook turn in the city brings back memories.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the real drama as well? When where
Speaker 4: he wanted to go was in the crease or the
Speaker 4: edge of a page you had to pull over. It
Speaker 4: was quite hard to navigate with those things. Paying twenty
Speaker 4: five cents per text, creating ring tones, pushing corresponding numbers.
Speaker 3: Remember in text when we was paying for every text
Speaker 3: and you had one hundred and sixty characters and you
Speaker 3: start backspace backspace, what can I lose? So this is
Speaker 3: on the cost of one text.
Speaker 4: Now tapping out phone number on a rotary dial phone.
Speaker 4: You in the button and the cradle if your parents
Speaker 4: had put a lock in it. My dad did put
Speaker 4: a lock on it. Kids would have no idea about
Speaker 4: handing an assignment on floppy disk, hearing the pips on
Speaker 4: a payphone. Christian when the Christmas countdown to number one,
Speaker 4: was a really really big thing about who it's going
Speaker 4: to be this year, and then erum, it's coming back around.
Speaker 4: I remember, mum. They used to say grace before the
Speaker 4: kids had their snacks. They were to say this, God
Speaker 4: is great, God is good, and let us thank him
Speaker 4: for our food. As a kid, it bothered me installed
Speaker 4: us that good and food do not rhyme.
Speaker 3: On paper. Looks right, yeah, sound right?
Speaker 4: Thank you Carol. All right, let's go back to what
Speaker 4: kids today would have no idea about. Tim.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm the guy that people rang up if they
Speaker 7: got stuck on a video game. I'm the guy.
Speaker 4: So who did you work for?
Speaker 7: Kids say? They say, but yeah, it was up in
Speaker 7: the Sydney. It was my first job, my very very
Speaker 7: first job I had, and I always say I picked
Speaker 7: way too early.
Speaker 3: I found that incredible. So I used to call the
Speaker 3: Nintendo hot Line in time before Internet, when you couldn't
Speaker 3: get tips or walkthroughs. I called the Nintendo hot Line
Speaker 3: to a guy who knew essentially every part of every game.
Speaker 3: How did you know so much about the games?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Well, we basically played them. We played them, so we
Speaker 7: in our hotline. We had two huge cupboards full of game.
Speaker 4: What sorry, I bet that was a great job.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh, as I said, teaked away too early. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so basically, you came into work, you played, you cracked
Speaker 7: them as best as you can. But unlike the other
Speaker 7: hot lines around the world, there were only a few.
Speaker 7: There's two in the US, one in the UK and
Speaker 7: two here in Australia, and I think there was or
Speaker 7: two in Japan, but everybody else's paper base. What we
Speaker 7: did was that we played the game and then we'd
Speaker 7: update this really old data base, you know, monochrome screen
Speaker 7: and yeah, and so we're sort of helping each other out.
Speaker 7: So there was four main guys, and I was one
Speaker 7: of them, and we were all called Sega Masters at
Speaker 7: the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember Sega Masters. I remember we had a
Speaker 4: game some of my friends. Do you remember wonder Boy?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, wonderful game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wonderful game. Yeah, I can never get very far
Speaker 4: on that, which I'd called you if any about you
Speaker 4: about then?
Speaker 8: Tim, Yeah we could have.
Speaker 7: But ironically, the most common game we ever got called
Speaker 7: up about was a game called that Alex Kidd in
Speaker 7: Americal World. And it was like every second call was
Speaker 7: about this game. And the first thing they'd say is
Speaker 7: I'm stuck in a room and say, all right, get
Speaker 7: your pen out?
Speaker 4: What what?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 7: Just get your pen out? And we just given the
Speaker 7: sequence and we'd say some ways moon starts on moving,
Speaker 7: wives fish starfish and they were the symbols, but they
Speaker 7: had the war carve up to finish the game.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a song off romper Room, not the starfish.
Speaker 4: That's a different kind of song.
Speaker 7: We all we we all have nightmares about that roote
Speaker 7: because we can still remember the scen.
Speaker 4: Keep coming well, lovely to chat him. We're going to go.
Speaker 4: This is great. Thank you very much for giving us
Speaker 4: a call.
Speaker 8: Nowha is guys the.
Speaker 1: Round by the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 4: Trician would what kids would have no idea about cars
Speaker 4: that hand wind up windows. Also, I just want to say, guys,
Speaker 4: the punchaball song isn't about what we think. It is
Speaker 4: uh about the wrong room and the punch ball song
Speaker 4: which we can just still have punch.
Speaker 3: So much fun.
Speaker 4: It is what it is, use your wrist and it
Speaker 4: is about the fun of simply punching. Christian Ne. What
Speaker 4: she was singing about was the is how high tech
Speaker 4: TV used to be. The balls she referred to had
Speaker 4: a string attached to it and she would punch it
Speaker 4: back and forward. Oh, Nick, now explain all that. It's
Speaker 4: so much more exciting, all right, today's time waste. You
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Speaker 3: I don't know, so I never used him. But I
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Speaker 4: Yeah, as is this one last one this morning? Adam's
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Speaker 1: Today, Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow's Show Today Today. We stumbled into something right with
Speaker 4: you guys, which we were asking you, were you on
Speaker 4: TV as a kid one if you called up and
Speaker 4: said you on some show we'd never heard of called
Speaker 4: Romper Room, and you were actually were on that and
Speaker 4: actually went behind the counter and actually tried to have
Speaker 4: a look at one of the puppets. Mister Doobe.
Speaker 17: Oh, mister d did you want to hear you're some
Speaker 17: straight away?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 17: I thought so.
Speaker 13: Well, let's sing mister Doebe's special shots song. Shall we
Speaker 13: also really please mister music?
Speaker 4: I try to do what.
Speaker 17: And not do anything wrong.
Speaker 13: I'm a romp room.
Speaker 17: All day long.
Speaker 4: It's a bit of a leap in it from Mary
Speaker 4: Poppins to that sounds like a dress rehearsal that went on,
Speaker 4: t even the theme tune.
Speaker 8: Stuff.
Speaker 4: This is what I hangover, sounds like in my head.
Speaker 4: And then this is one of their bangers. This is
Speaker 4: one of the big hits.
Speaker 3: Punch Punch Punch song, much fun, use your.
Speaker 4: Rest hand thanking. This is appeal to all the all
Speaker 4: the vision producers to Channel seven for this weekend's games
Speaker 4: and Fox Footy put some footage of handballs to this punch. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: let's do that.
Speaker 3: Let's make that to ourselves today at the ad breaking
Speaker 3: they always use a big song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's mister bridside of the play. It should be
Speaker 4: this all right? So have you got any more memories
Speaker 4: about the romper Room. We want to have them on
Speaker 4: tomorrow show. Email me Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com
Speaker 4: dot A. You thanks your calls today. We had so
Speaker 4: much fun taking the calls.
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