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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Every week on the show, we do something called the

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Speaker 2: Wonder Year, when we go back to a year from

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Speaker 2: the nineties or the eighties and we talk about what

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Speaker 2: we were doing in that year, and also we talk

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Speaker 2: about the movies and TV shows of that year. This week,

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Speaker 2: we're taking you too, nineteen eighty eight, Patsy nineteen eighty eight.

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Speaker 2: What was that for you?

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Speaker 3: I was sixteen and in year ten and I was

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Speaker 3: about to make my debut on Ball. Oh cool?

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Speaker 2: What do you remember of it?

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Speaker 3: I remember a lot. Actually, I remember the build up

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Speaker 3: in getting the dress. I remember I wanted. It was

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Speaker 3: the same year that Scott and Charlayne got married on Neighbors.

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Speaker 2: Oh huge. I would have been watching that. In UK.

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Speaker 2: Twenty million of us watched the wedding Jason Donovan and

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Speaker 2: kindly went over. It's huge in the UK still is Neighbors.

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Speaker 3: I loved her dress and would you believe Mum let

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Speaker 3: me try it on? But it was like mega expensive

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Speaker 3: and we couldn't afford that.

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Speaker 4: Did she let you try on the same dress?

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Speaker 3: Now, No, not the actual but the same actual design.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, I wasn't game enough to ask any of the

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Speaker 3: boys at school to partner me for my dear because

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Speaker 3: all the spunky ones were already snapped up earlier in

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Speaker 3: the year.

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Speaker 2: Using the words of thees.

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Speaker 3: So I thought I asked a cousin, a first cousin

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Speaker 3: of mine, which is a bit in bread, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: It's a part for me because I knew he wouldn't

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Speaker 3: let me down or be a twit on the night. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but cousin, what's wrong with that?

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Speaker 2: Did he bring his banjo? What do you get him

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Speaker 2: out of a rock and chair? Out of the old

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Speaker 2: front stoop? Some buck eyed? Didn't bread? You can't be

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Speaker 2: asking you.

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Speaker 3: To share the same surname.

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Speaker 4: No one wants that is not the role.

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Speaker 2: But we share the same bed. No, it's not like that.

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Speaker 1: Oh my word, I don't want to know any more

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Speaker 1: about I do. We're not going anywhere, so take us

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Speaker 1: through there. So old cousin Billy was all Paul, poor

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Speaker 1: old cousin Paul. Oh yeah, the first name. Everything's so

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Speaker 1: different yet familiar.

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Speaker 4: We had a practice, we had like twelve weeks twelve

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Speaker 4: weeks of rehearsals to learn how to ballroom dance and

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Speaker 4: is that?

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Speaker 2: What is that what people did for the balls?

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Speaker 3: Ye, they still do them. They're very big in Victoria, right, Yes,

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Speaker 3: skatillions they call them in the US. Do not have

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Speaker 3: it in the UK.

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Speaker 2: No, nice at all.

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Speaker 1: No, very miserable people, to be honest.

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Speaker 3: The original you know, coming out of society back in

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Speaker 3: the day society. This is my first cousin.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing more coming out of society.

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Speaker 2: No, we don't have him. Breeding were quite sort of

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Speaker 2: hot on that really, don't tell any of that. So

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Speaker 2: you and your cousin, he went with you in like

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Speaker 2: a limousine. What happened door? He picking up in a ute?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, I met him, mayor I meet him.

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Speaker 3: Theyre but we had rehearsals for twelve weeks on a

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Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon, thank you. And I used to meet him

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Speaker 3: there and we made the dip ball was organized by

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Speaker 3: my dad's Masonic lodge in the town we grew up in.

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Speaker 3: And there was about fifteen kids, some of the girls

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Speaker 3: from schools, others just from sporting groups that we knew.

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Speaker 3: And it was fun.

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Speaker 1: It was just absolutely dressed up and have anybody else

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Speaker 1: turned up?

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Speaker 3: No they did not.

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Speaker 2: Oh well I didn't know what we were going to

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Speaker 2: be getting into that I did have something to say

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Speaker 2: about what nineteen eighty was. I just need to take

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Speaker 2: a moment.

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Speaker 3: Well. Christian O'Connell Show podcast