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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, we were moving our twenty one year
Speaker 1: old daughter Ruby and with the moving day was Saturday
Speaker 1: and it was our intimate and rain and you go
Speaker 1: into the big van that we had to use for
Speaker 1: it and carrying stuff. And while we're driving around North Melbourne,
Speaker 1: I suddenly thought there was a guy who was navigating,
Speaker 1: who was driving and also juggling a melways Oh wow,
Speaker 1: old school instant legend, instant legend. I was just like, wow,
Speaker 1: it just to be back to how it used to
Speaker 1: be before we outsourced everything to our phones. And how
Speaker 1: you know, when I used to drive around London, a
Speaker 1: big city like that, same as Melbourne here, you'd have
Speaker 1: this aid to z the street atlas and it'd be
Speaker 1: quite stressful. Sometimes you'd have to pull over because you
Speaker 1: were going off the edge of a page. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it felt like you're going off the edge of the
Speaker 1: world seventy four onto the top North And I know
Speaker 1: I haven't got that be covered and I haven't got
Speaker 1: great or greats at London. Sometimes I would write and
Speaker 1: post it notes the directions rather than having to like
Speaker 1: the old Mel ways mic This guy I saw on
Speaker 1: Saturday who was actually driving looking around and with one
Speaker 1: eye down on real time, in real time, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that's legal level there.
Speaker 3: Probably there's probably no more laws about that anymore. No
Speaker 3: one's using a mill.
Speaker 1: Want to do they still publish those sally good question,
Speaker 1: because obviously you know, years and years ago you'd have
Speaker 1: like the tom toms and an actual do you remember that?
Speaker 1: And then now it's now it's not just standard on phones,
Speaker 1: doesn't it with Google Maps? Or for the crazy people
Speaker 1: at my wife waigs which is the most aggressive driving.
Speaker 1: Oh we can shave off seven seconds if we drive
Speaker 1: through these people's gardens. It is. It's all like jerky,
Speaker 1: I've left right here, right here, left here, left here,
Speaker 1: just to sort of save ten seconds off with ways.
Speaker 1: My wife uses ways. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: My old man used to love the Scottish accent of
Speaker 4: the woman. He used to Yes, yeah, you always have
Speaker 4: it on the Scottish woman.
Speaker 5: She's talking. What how could you even understand the Scottish?
Speaker 3: You can still get in melways you can buy them
Speaker 3: actually at office works.
Speaker 1: How much does a Melways cost? Have a guess, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Fifty bucks, big big old thick street apples.
Speaker 5: Fifty seven bus wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: So today I want to know kids today will never
Speaker 1: know because the kids today, like my daughters, you know,
Speaker 1: they can both drive, but they don't know where anything is.
Speaker 1: If I say, hey, can you can you drop me
Speaker 1: at so and so, They're like, where's that one? What's
Speaker 1: just for that way? Two suburbs of I'd have to
Speaker 1: look on my semi address and have to look on
Speaker 1: Google Maps. They don't have the New York pathways that
Speaker 1: we used to have to form when you had to
Speaker 1: look around someone understand where you were. Like even now,
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd be very good giving direction to somebody.
Speaker 1: Haven't you got a phone? Oh? I get my phone
Speaker 1: up and go go theft right down here. I've looked
Speaker 1: on this computer game.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't understand having to pull over and ask someone
Speaker 3: in the town for direction.
Speaker 5: How do I get to hear they go?
Speaker 1: And they used to have to know the local sort
Speaker 1: of landmarks to say, and when you go to town,
Speaker 1: you've got that's it. Yeah, you've gone too far. If
Speaker 1: you go to the red line pub, turn around the server,
Speaker 1: you go to the servo. They were the unofficial gatekeepers
Speaker 1: of local knowledge. Yeah that mud now that. I think
Speaker 1: they look at you if you're mad, if you went
Speaker 1: I'm lost. I've got one hand on the panic one.
Speaker 1: There's no money left in the till overnight. All right.
Speaker 1: Kids today will never know, Patsy, what's it for you?
Speaker 6: I got a text from school on Friday and I
Speaker 6: looked at it and I thought, why do I need
Speaker 6: to be across this? This is ridiculous To let me
Speaker 6: know that the power had gone off for an hour
Speaker 6: and that classes were kind of disrupted, but all had
Speaker 6: been restored to normal sort of schedule and not to worry.
Speaker 5: And I thought, why.
Speaker 6: Do I need to be across this?
Speaker 5: That is fine?
Speaker 6: Whereas when we were at school, we'd have floods and
Speaker 6: bushfires and god knows what, and.
Speaker 5: Mum none the wiser at school.
Speaker 6: My mom would not have a clue if we were sick,
Speaker 6: and the teacher had to call for her to come
Speaker 6: and get us unless she was if only if she
Speaker 6: was home and on the landline. If she wasn't home,
Speaker 6: forget it.
Speaker 1: You were like woulds. No, No, there was no coming
Speaker 1: to get if you weren't ill, you just waited for
Speaker 1: the school bu or you sat in your seat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just sitting there.
Speaker 1: And also it was just so unpleasant in that medical
Speaker 1: bit anyway, some terrifying elderly nurse there. He probably got
Speaker 1: fired from nursing anywhere. Struck off. You were like, I've
Speaker 1: just stuck it out with here. I think I've got
Speaker 1: newmonic fever. But I just I just sit here and
Speaker 1: saw on myself.
Speaker 7: I had three stitches in my head once because I
Speaker 7: smashed my head on the roundabout at school, and I
Speaker 7: waited hours from my parents because they couldn't track them down.
Speaker 7: I just sit there and then looking at my head, going,
Speaker 7: oh my god, I'm yeah, it was a disaster.
Speaker 1: But yeah, kids would never know that now. I remember
Speaker 1: when I was thirteen, I was we were playing in
Speaker 1: a taken on a local really rough school as well,
Speaker 1: in a hockey game and someone raised the stick too
Speaker 1: high and I split my lip open. I had to
Speaker 1: go to the hospital right so the pee teacher drove
Speaker 1: me there, so I literally was bleeding. I had to
Speaker 1: have like eleven stitches when I got to the hospital.
Speaker 1: On the way he stopped a newsagent. I'm like leading,
Speaker 1: I'm in the front seat of his car. He goes
Speaker 1: to get a newspaper and some cigarettes and then carries going,
Speaker 1: you're right, we might be we might be there a while,
Speaker 1: so I just need to have something to do in smoke.
Speaker 1: And I didn't even think that was odd. I gave
Speaker 1: it moan to my parents. It's just like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: actually I've inconvenienced with these stitches. Shame on me. Really
Speaker 1: been such a lightweight, all right. Kids today will never
Speaker 1: know what Shaw's text me four seventy five three one
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Speaker 1: Tell me what you don't get anymore? Now with mobile phones,
Speaker 1: the joy of slamming the phone down on somebody, it's
Speaker 1: not the same now with that they don't know you
Speaker 1: just tapped that button. There's no big that really showing
Speaker 1: conaking on somebody, you know. Look in movies now now
Speaker 1: it's not the same when someone hangs up on that phone.
Speaker 1: It's there's nowhere near as traumatic. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All these are coming in right now. Christian kids today
Speaker 1: will never know the challenges of dial up internet. If
Speaker 1: Mum picked up the phone. You're right, just cut off
Speaker 1: from that big ass land line. You know, that's when
Speaker 1: the Internet wasn't coming from satellites, it was coming through
Speaker 1: an actual line in the ground, a land line land,
Speaker 1: an actual land line. Now it's invisible satellites above us,
Speaker 1: and you remember just having to reconnect every four hours
Speaker 1: and argue at the cost of the phone call, this
Speaker 1: is costing me a farm. I need to get on.
Speaker 1: Do you remember how exciting it was the wild days?
Speaker 1: They used to call it the information super high one
Speaker 1: D web. It's a world wide web and it was
Speaker 1: always w W W forward slash slash win.
Speaker 5: Not many forward slashes or backslashes in my life.
Speaker 1: This radio station store kids today, we'll never joy of
Speaker 1: Gold FM. Christian, you talk about kids not knowing what
Speaker 1: the mailways is. Well, fire rescue Victoria still relies on
Speaker 1: using old school heaper melways to root fire calls. WHOA
Speaker 1: your uber eats has more modern tech than the fire service? Ken?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Not not as like a deliberate choice, but just because
Speaker 3: they're not funder.
Speaker 1: That can't be r Ken? Is that right? Christian? Kids
Speaker 1: to there will never know the anguish of having to
Speaker 1: run in from a commercial break for food, drinks or
Speaker 1: to go to the toilet, and it's back.
Speaker 8: On jumping over the The only time I ever saw
Speaker 8: my mum lose it is I accent recorded over that
Speaker 8: episode of Dallas where you found it?
Speaker 1: Who shot JR? Oh my god? She threatened to drop
Speaker 1: me off at children's.
Speaker 5: Home and rightly so.
Speaker 1: It was the worst thing you could do. Or was
Speaker 1: accidentally record over something. You know, you'd be watching your
Speaker 1: favorite show and suddenly the football would come.
Speaker 4: On, or if you recorded the ads, yes you're smart
Speaker 4: enough to stop it the pause.
Speaker 1: Yes, you need have incredible eye hand coordination to do that.
Speaker 1: That was a high level Christian Kids today will never
Speaker 1: know the anxiety of having to give a photographic film
Speaker 1: to the local chemist and then waiting for a week
Speaker 1: for the photos to develop of that wedding you went
Speaker 1: to only discover half on the crap sim you'd have
Speaker 1: that red eye or they were blood just out of shots. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get a friend of mine it used to have
Speaker 1: a Saturday job developing that film and we used to
Speaker 1: always go out on a Sunday night. He would bring
Speaker 1: copies of some of the dodgy photos. It was amazing,
Speaker 1: good times they were in the park slicking at that
Speaker 1: someone had brought this in taking photos of that mighty
Speaker 1: probably im moral, but nineteen just so much fun. I
Speaker 1: missed those days, Rial what CV kids today will never know,
Speaker 1: the joy off.
Speaker 3: Kids will never know the joy of having to become
Speaker 3: a small time criminal to listen to music in the
Speaker 3: two thousands, you would have to go all through like
Speaker 3: the black market of the Internet, which was like LimeWire
Speaker 3: or Kazark Napster Napster, yes.
Speaker 5: And you would never know there.
Speaker 3: It was Russian roulette if the file you're downloading is
Speaker 3: a virus or the actual song you wanted, And it
Speaker 3: was all highly illegal, like no one. But it was
Speaker 3: the only way to get music as a teenager in
Speaker 3: the two thousands, and you'd have to sort of figure.
Speaker 1: Out, you know when Metallica, there are any embarrass writes
Speaker 1: now were actually trying to get fans of there who
Speaker 1: just wanted to stream music. Arrested, arrested, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm taking them to court. Yes, that's it for the
Speaker 1: record companies realize if only they got in there earlier
Speaker 1: about streaming before Spotify and smarter people realize, wait, just
Speaker 1: let the kids stream. They just want to stream it.
Speaker 1: There's so much more money there as well. Alex, what's
Speaker 1: it for you? Kids today will never know.
Speaker 4: When you're starting a new relationship and you've got to
Speaker 4: ring the landline and say to the parents, Oh I low,
Speaker 4: mister Johnson, you get so nervous. Yes, mate, I'll just
Speaker 4: go and get a horror. I used to kill me.
Speaker 4: I used to get her nervous to me too.
Speaker 1: And also when you were in the early days of
Speaker 1: like trying to go out with the girl, you would
Speaker 1: have to call them in the evening. Yes, I used to.
Speaker 1: This is really sad. I don't think I've ever said
Speaker 1: this for I don't think my wife knows. Just I
Speaker 1: used to write down some notes beforehand of talking points.
Speaker 1: See that new Wham video. She was so nervous because
Speaker 1: he used to go real silent, real quick, and nither
Speaker 1: of you really knew what to do. Yeah, you go
Speaker 1: uh spand ballet that it doesn't work. It's just like
Speaker 1: a bad breakfast show. Actually, all right, Keith's coming. These
Speaker 1: these are brilliant. Thank you very much for seven five
Speaker 1: three one oh four three. Kids today will never know.
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Speaker 1: What would kids today you never know about on Saturday
Speaker 1: made my day a sorry guy driving and driving and
Speaker 1: using always old school instant legend status. Christian kids today
Speaker 1: would never know street lights go on, time to go home,
Speaker 1: go into a library to use a card file to
Speaker 1: do research, find a book Andrew yesimal yep. Christian kids
Speaker 1: today would have another stress of waiting for your song
Speaker 1: to play on the radio so you could record it
Speaker 1: in a cassette name going Bersert when someone like you
Speaker 1: spoke over the intro Darren. Kids today will never understand
Speaker 1: how games loaded from cassette tapes to plan a computer
Speaker 1: that the Comedy of sixty four or set Expensium plus.
Speaker 1: Kids today will never know things of unfortunately rewinding a
Speaker 1: cassette video of music. Yeah remember you just have to
Speaker 1: get a pencil to rewind some sometimes or sometimes the cassettes.
Speaker 1: The tape player in the car would just eat your
Speaker 1: favorite out just they were just like it would just
Speaker 1: just decide it would just cheer it up.
Speaker 5: Not this one now, just eat it's a favorite one.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah yeah. Kids today whenever to go cooling
Speaker 1: around or riding a bike ove at your friend's house,
Speaker 1: not knowing if they were in so I know, mister
Speaker 1: Harris is great.
Speaker 3: There go and go to Gray.
Speaker 1: That's strange. Kids, here, I have all my friends and
Speaker 1: family now my live three sixty yes, same yeah. Yesterday
Speaker 1: I was driving, my wife was in the car and
Speaker 1: we were just coming into our street and setting my wife.
Speaker 1: My wife's phone gives off this like a lot and
Speaker 1: they go, what the hell is that? She goes, Oh,
Speaker 1: I set it up. So if you're in the local
Speaker 1: area and alarm goes, I went, how do you want
Speaker 1: to say? What was hanging there between? And why does
Speaker 1: she need it? And a lot? He's coming, just your
Speaker 1: husband's coming quickly. Just say you're here to sort the
Speaker 1: gutters out.
Speaker 5: That's why you want that robotic gotta clean.
Speaker 1: Around. Keeps quoting for the same job. Five quotes in
Speaker 1: a day. Kids today, when the Joy having music on MTV,
Speaker 1: guess yes, VJs some big stars jimber Carson daily, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: quest show he did where all the big stars came on,
Speaker 1: so that it's massive. I love this one from Keith
Speaker 1: Christian kids that they would never know about paper train
Speaker 1: tickets that you had to cure at the ticket office
Speaker 1: at the station platform. And then he used to be
Speaker 1: someone on the train that would pushed the ticket in
Speaker 1: a stamping machine to put a whole on your ticket. Christian,
Speaker 1: I still use a mail ways and drive a Manu
Speaker 1: cart World done kids, so they would never know dialing
Speaker 1: a number and I wouldn't score rotary phone getting through
Speaker 1: six numbers, then dialing just one wrong number. Hang up,
Speaker 1: you got to start again, Scottie. That's a great one,
Speaker 1: Christian kids. Kids, anyone ever appreciate how genuinely scary Scooby
Speaker 1: do you? Usually?
Speaker 5: Back it was.
Speaker 1: Now you've got sore and hostelies, crizzy things. But back
Speaker 1: in the day Scooby Doo would scare us kids. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would have gone away with it. It was always
Speaker 1: the care to, yes, every seconds. It was a angry caretaker.
Speaker 1: Them pesky meddling kids. This is an interesting one from
Speaker 1: Vanessa Christian. We had the best of the supermodels in
Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties. They worked really hard to get
Speaker 1: where they had to be without any social media. They
Speaker 1: bought the catwalks. It was very hard to do that.
Speaker 1: We had Claudia Schiffer, El mcphish and Linda of Vandalista,
Speaker 1: Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Vanessa This is incredible because I've
Speaker 1: looked all of these have been spelt correctly. This would
Speaker 1: have takes a long time to put that message out.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Christian. Kids today would never know
Speaker 1: about having to give three rings on the home phone
Speaker 1: then hanging up to let know that you've got home safely.
Speaker 1: Kids today wouldn't know what aero program was. I used
Speaker 1: to go to the post office to buy them every
Speaker 1: fortnight to send to my granny in Scotland right up
Speaker 1: until about nineteen ninety nine. Thank you very much for
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