Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Christian O'Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: Every week on the show, we do something called the
Speaker 2: Wonder Year, when we go back to a year from
Speaker 2: the nineties or the eighties and we talk about what
Speaker 2: we were doing in that year, and also we talk
Speaker 2: about the movies and TV shows of that year. This week,
Speaker 2: we're taking you too, nineteen eighty eight, Patsy nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: What was that for you?
Speaker 3: I was sixteen and in year ten and I was
Speaker 3: about to make my debut on Ball. Oh cool?
Speaker 2: What do you remember of it?
Speaker 3: I remember a lot. Actually, I remember the build up
Speaker 3: in getting the dress. I remember I wanted. It was
Speaker 3: the same year that Scott and Charlayne got married on Neighbors.
Speaker 2: Oh huge. I would have been watching that. In UK.
Speaker 2: Twenty million of us watched the wedding Jason Donovan and
Speaker 2: kindly went over. It's huge in the UK still is Neighbors.
Speaker 3: I loved her dress and would you believe Mum let
Speaker 3: me try it on? But it was like mega expensive
Speaker 3: and we couldn't afford that.
Speaker 4: Did she let you try on the same dress?
Speaker 3: Now, No, not the actual but the same actual design.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I wasn't game enough to ask any of the
Speaker 3: boys at school to partner me for my dear because
Speaker 3: all the spunky ones were already snapped up earlier in
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 2: Using the words of thees.
Speaker 3: So I thought I asked a cousin, a first cousin
Speaker 3: of mine, which is a bit in bread, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It's a part for me because I knew he wouldn't
Speaker 3: let me down or be a twit on the night. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but cousin, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 2: Did he bring his banjo? What do you get him
Speaker 2: out of a rock and chair? Out of the old
Speaker 2: front stoop? Some buck eyed? Didn't bread? You can't be
Speaker 2: asking you.
Speaker 3: To share the same surname.
Speaker 4: No one wants that is not the role.
Speaker 2: But we share the same bed. No, it's not like that.
Speaker 1: Oh my word, I don't want to know any more
Speaker 1: about I do. We're not going anywhere, so take us
Speaker 1: through there. So old cousin Billy was all Paul, poor
Speaker 1: old cousin Paul. Oh yeah, the first name. Everything's so
Speaker 1: different yet familiar.
Speaker 4: We had a practice, we had like twelve weeks twelve
Speaker 4: weeks of rehearsals to learn how to ballroom dance and
Speaker 4: is that?
Speaker 2: What is that what people did for the balls?
Speaker 3: Ye, they still do them. They're very big in Victoria, right, Yes,
Speaker 3: skatillions they call them in the US. Do not have
Speaker 3: it in the UK.
Speaker 2: No, nice at all.
Speaker 1: No, very miserable people, to be honest.
Speaker 3: The original you know, coming out of society back in
Speaker 3: the day society. This is my first cousin.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more coming out of society.
Speaker 2: No, we don't have him. Breeding were quite sort of
Speaker 2: hot on that really, don't tell any of that. So
Speaker 2: you and your cousin, he went with you in like
Speaker 2: a limousine. What happened door? He picking up in a ute?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I met him, mayor I meet him.
Speaker 3: Theyre but we had rehearsals for twelve weeks on a
Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon, thank you. And I used to meet him
Speaker 3: there and we made the dip ball was organized by
Speaker 3: my dad's Masonic lodge in the town we grew up in.
Speaker 3: And there was about fifteen kids, some of the girls
Speaker 3: from schools, others just from sporting groups that we knew.
Speaker 3: And it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was just absolutely dressed up and have anybody else
Speaker 1: turned up?
Speaker 3: No they did not.
Speaker 2: Oh well I didn't know what we were going to
Speaker 2: be getting into that I did have something to say
Speaker 2: about what nineteen eighty was. I just need to take
Speaker 2: a moment.
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