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May 22, 2024 10 mins

Today we revisit our A to Z of school memories with everything to do with the Letter C!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Christian O'Connell's Show or.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Course.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, we're doing our age Z of school.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Each week we pick a letter of the alphabet and
we ask you your connections with the letter this week
see and your school.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Days nine four one four one o four three? What
is the letter? See to you in school? Pats?

Speaker 4 (00:25):
You know what I was thinking yesterday? Clydesdale when my
mum went to school, So she was one of eight girls,
and they had this old retired Clydesdale horse off their farm.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Clydesdale horses, right, people, we're not familiarment.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
They're huge, massive, huge, big fluffy.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Feet, big strong old yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, with the light the work courses anyway, that's.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
The Paul plows basically that.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Pat used to use them on the farm. So when
they were too old to work, they were kept as pets.
And so the girls's a.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Bloody big pet. What are you going to Clydesdale?

Speaker 6 (00:58):
Take it down?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
The dog part running off the lead and they used
to ride him to school. Four of the girls would
jump on the back and he'd just sort of hang
around school through the school day and he'd munch on
the grass and the oval, keep the grass.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
We hear about Patsy's Lucy Goosey school days.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's the creek, yes, third at the bottom of the
school and now just a random massive horse just wandering around.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Who was there like suv to get.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Them to That was the bus, Yes, that was.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
A Mercedes Gla to get them to school. So what
with no saddle, They would get on back.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
They just jump on him bare back and he was
really calm and passive and they just he'd know where
to go. That just three or four of them, yeah,
four of the girls, and they just tap him on
the bottom and off he'd go down the road to
the school and the dirt track.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
The letter s and the eighties going to school is
about the school computer. It was when they were very massive,
and it was just each school just had one, right,
and there was only one teacher. You didn't have like
an ID department in the eighties that hadn't yet been invented.
We didn't know what big part of our lives it
was income. She had one loan school computer, right, and
it was one teacher who knew a little bit about it,

(02:06):
but it was mainly a geography teacher and they just
knew the basic things. You remember, like the basic commands
you'd have to like ten go to and then twenty
go to all to get it to sort of print
something off on that dot.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do you remember the.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Old we had one of those, and remember there was
not one person knew the password and to be like
written down on a piece of paper and make sure
that guys, make sure you don't lose the password and
give it back to me at the end of the
lesson as well. What kind of computers, because backs when
I went to school in the eighties, so we just
had one loan. In the UK, it was called a
BBC micro computer.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
We had two computers at primary school and then by
the time I got to high school there was enough
for a student. All I really remember doing on it
is a typing exercise. They had this piece of plastic
that went over the top of your hand so that
you couldn't see the keyboard and you had to do
it by type by memory, which is pointless because by
the time we all got phones and wanted to use

(02:58):
the keyboard, no one needed not to have that skill
because we all developed it naturally.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
The other sea was just how bad careers advice was
at school, all right, I mean just hopeless. I actually
think there are a whole generation of eighties kids who
had dreams to go and, you know, maybe do something
that was in their heart. And we're told you are
a sloking thick. You need to pick up a plow

(03:23):
that Clyde Stale's retired. How about you pick up that
plout now. But I'd like to be an author, I'm
afraid not. You don't know about maths. Our careers teacher
who we cared about it was also the maths teacher,
so already cared was about. I remember saying I'd like
to be on the radio. He went, not with these
maths grades. I remember thinking, I don't think I heard it.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
I well, you are always late for the.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Mister Topping was right.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
I'm going to tell you a story about my career's
advice that you're going to think is a lie. It's
that bad for work experience. We had to go to
her and say what we wanted to do, and I
said I was interested in doing something in the media,
maybe radio, television, And she said, okay, maybe you could
look it up in the Yellow Pages.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh, your co.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
This is the expert. This meant to guide you through
the maze of what you might go in and do
in the adult world.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Go and look it up in the yellow pape. What
just eights? And you find your own job in for media?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
I choose your own life adventure plummy, Okay, that's just me.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm going to be a plumber. What did you have?
Did you even have careers advice in your farm?

Speaker 7 (04:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
We did. We had mister Beer and I wanted to
get mister Beer.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Was he just was he just a local tramp. It
was an alcoholic. He lived on a bench under.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
The moon and he taught legal studies. I had him
for legal studies as well in year eleven and I
went to him and I said, mister Beer, I want
to be a radio journalist. And he just looked at
me and he said, well, you have to do an
arts degree because you won't you won't get into radio,
but you might, you know, work at a newspaper or something.
I said, no, I want to be on the radio.
He said, you have to do an arts degree. And
I said, mister Beer, I don't want to go and
do a three year arts degree for like, you know,

(04:58):
a week component of radio. I'm not going to that
I don't want to do a radio course, and he
basically said, sit beyond my way, and he said, we'll
best of luck with that. Missy.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
Like on on radio during high school at the age
of three.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
I did community radio.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Past could walk. She was doing the news.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
I was reading news from about you ten years. It's
just getting paid for it.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
I remember when perhaps you you would have felt this too,
because these days kids are just when whatever their dreams
are us as parents as well, and scores of course
you can absolutely yes, yeah, the eighties, the pendulums swung
too far.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
The eighties. When I said I want to be in radio,
he looked at me like I said I want to
be in astaurant. Lad on the moon.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
He was liked, of this one life is going to
crush this space.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Cadet blood heard it must have been on the radio.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Okay, how about you pick up a hammer and learn
a trade first of all? Okay, even Joseph did that,
and you had to make that with stables. All right,
let us see and your school days, what is it
for you? Nine four one four one o four three.
I loved to speak to other people who got really
bad shonky careers. Advice at school as well.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Christian Connell's show podcast.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Christian O'Connell's show, What is the Letter C mean to
you and your school days?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Christian Sea common room? We didn't have a common room.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Do big business hang out in the common room?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
What do you do in your common room? Chat?

Speaker 6 (06:21):
It didn't have much in there and Michael Wave was
the only thing that I remember.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is that just for like, yeah seniors, Yeah, only for
the level.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Do you remember when you were looking forward to that
kind of thing?

Speaker 5 (06:31):
It was?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I remember when the girls were getting up to the
hallowed a lot of getting into year twelve and having
that hallo inner chamber of their own common room. It's
a big it's a big moment in life and it
writes a passage. Christian and my school see for common room? Uh,
this is quite a few years ago, Christian. We would
have to smoke in there.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Sure it's really bad? All right? Let us see good morning.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Mick here, Christian. Ol've boys been committed to Mick here
fighting a good fight for one O four.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Thank you very much, Mick and the let us see Mick.
What's it for you?

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Chair bags?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Care bags?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yes to some of you still remember chair bags.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I want to be draked up the back of your chair,
that's correct, anymore like.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
A makeshift locker went they didn't have a locker. You
put a gear in there.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, yeah, probably from a great trip to break two
or three.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
It was like your peek k it would be in there,
and like a drink bottle and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Oh, we didn't have drink bottles back then, Christiane.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
We did with that old lead water that they used
to make us drinking in that school tap, that force.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
That people used to stuff straws.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
And yes, yes, we came to school one day and
someone had made a dog mess over all the school taps.
It was, you know when they were then one of
those instant assemblies with an hour and we're not leaving
until the Confrits stand up and own their shame. Of
course no one stood up there, but there were half.
Now we just went back to school, all right, Mick,

(08:01):
thank you very much. The carebags have a good day. Melinda,
Good morning, Blinda, good morning.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
Hi Christian, how are you.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm good. Welcome to the show. So the let us
ski see in his school days, yes, puffing.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
As in skipping class, nipping class.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
So did you do this a lot, well.

Speaker 7 (08:19):
Pretty much on a regular basis. You've got to catch
up with your friends somehow.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I never ever did that too, such a good tissue.
Was scared of getting told off.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
Really, no, do it now, just skip work.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's tough when it's called the Christian O'Connell show. It's
differitely because Patty, I bet you didn't know that, but you.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Were scared to him. Would have killed me.

Speaker 7 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, it works all.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Right, Blinda, thank you very much. It's good to Andrew.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Now can I do something Christian? A little while ago,
you had a thing on about spoilt pets, and I
rang up about because one of your girls there was
talking about her, and I rang up about my puppy, Coco,
who is very spoilt with dressing herself and whatnot. Coco's

(09:08):
a mummy.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh wow, she.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
Had little puppies. So the spoiled little mummy is now
a bigger princess.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh wow, that is great news. And everybody will Yes.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
Everybody's fine. So but another question.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
No, that was enough. Let's go to Andrew. Good morning
to Andrew.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
The letters see and school morning team.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yeah, let us see the school was at Secondary College
out in western Victoria, and see was for changing tires.
We had a a science teacher and it was legitimately
a science class, not a driver's education class, who would
send students out to his vehicle and then we'd had
to take the tires off. We'd swapped the left tires

(09:55):
to the right tire and back again, and once we
were done, he'd come out and inspect, and if we passed,
that was great, we'd all go back into class and
he'd send three or four more students out. It was
and remains probably the most practical.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm actually jealous.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's a proper life lesson how to change a tire.
It's a great skill for everyone to.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
Have, exactly and I've used it many times since. And
I'm nearly fifty.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'll tell you what, Andrew, don't you now go bo?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
I think what a brave teacher though, as he's driving
home every day, Because if you didn't like that guy,
suddenly you don't tighten up few of those nuts.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
He goes, He goes one way and the tiger goes
the other way.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
I think he gave it a good look over before.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
That's great, Andrew, thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
You call me thank you jeeves

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well, Christian Connell's Show podcast,
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