August 31, 2025 • 16 mins
A Melways was spotted in the wild over the weekend, something kids today have NO idea about..
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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iHeart app. Got anything good?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Over the weekend, we were moving our twenty one year
old daughter Ruby and with the moving day was Saturday
and it was our intimate and rain and you go
into the big van that we had to use for
it and carrying stuff. And while we're driving around North Melbourne,
I suddenly thought there was a guy who was navigating,
(00:47):
who was driving and also juggling a melways Oh wow,
old school instant legend, instant legend. I was just like, wow,
it just to be back to how it used to
be before we outsourced everything to our phones. And how
you know, when I used to drive around London, a
big city like that, same as Melbourne here, you'd have
(01:09):
this aid to z the street atlas and it'd be
quite stressful. Sometimes you'd have to pull over because you
were going off the edge of a page. Yes, and
it felt like you're going off the edge of the
world seventy four onto the top North And I know
I haven't got that be covered and I haven't got
great or greats at London. Sometimes I would write and
post it notes the directions rather than having to like
(01:32):
the old Mel ways mic This guy I saw on
Saturday who was actually driving looking around and with one
eye down on real time, in real time, I'm not
sure that's legal level there.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Probably there's probably no more laws about that anymore. No
one's using a mill.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Want to do they still publish those sally good question,
because obviously you know, years and years ago you'd have
like the tom toms and an actual do you remember that?
And then now it's now it's not just standard on phones,
doesn't it with Google Maps? Or for the crazy people
at my wife waigs which is the most aggressive driving.
Oh we can shave off seven seconds if we drive
(02:09):
through these people's gardens. It is. It's all like jerky,
I've left right here, right here, left here, left here,
just to sort of save ten seconds off with ways.
My wife uses ways. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
My old man used to love the Scottish accent of
the woman. He used to Yes, yeah, you always have
it on the Scottish woman.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
She's talking. What how could you even understand the Scottish?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You can still get in melways you can buy them
actually at office works.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How much does a Melways cost? Have a guess, I
don't know. Fifty bucks, big big old thick street apples.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Fifty seven bus wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So today I want to know kids today will never
know because the kids today, like my daughters, you know,
they can both drive, but they don't know where anything is.
If I say, hey, can you can you drop me
at so and so, They're like, where's that one? What's
just for that way? Two suburbs of I'd have to
look on my semi address and have to look on
Google Maps. They don't have the New York pathways that
(03:09):
we used to have to form when you had to
look around someone understand where you were. Like even now,
I don't think i'd be very good giving direction to somebody.
Haven't you got a phone? Oh? I get my phone
up and go go theft right down here. I've looked
on this computer game.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They wouldn't understand having to pull over and ask someone
in the town for direction.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
How do I get to hear they go?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And they used to have to know the local sort
of landmarks to say, and when you go to town,
you've got that's it. Yeah, you've gone too far. If
you go to the red line pub, turn around the server,
you go to the servo. They were the unofficial gatekeepers
of local knowledge. Yeah that mud now that. I think
(03:55):
they look at you if you're mad, if you went
I'm lost. I've got one hand on the panic one.
There's no money left in the till overnight. All right.
Kids today will never know, Patsy, what's it for you?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
I got a text from school on Friday and I
looked at it and I thought, why do I need
to be across this? This is ridiculous To let me
know that the power had gone off for an hour
and that classes were kind of disrupted, but all had
been restored to normal sort of schedule and not to worry.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And I thought, why.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Do I need to be across this?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
That is fine?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Whereas when we were at school, we'd have floods and
bushfires and god knows what, and.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Mum none the wiser at school.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
My mom would not have a clue if we were sick,
and the teacher had to call for her to come
and get us unless she was if only if she
was home and on the landline. If she wasn't home,
forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You were like woulds. No, No, there was no coming
to get if you weren't ill, you just waited for
the school bu or you sat in your seat.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And also it was just so unpleasant in that medical
bit anyway, some terrifying elderly nurse there. He probably got
fired from nursing anywhere. Struck off. You were like, I've
just stuck it out with here. I think I've got
newmonic fever. But I just I just sit here and
saw on myself.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I had three stitches in my head once because I
smashed my head on the roundabout at school, and I
waited hours from my parents because they couldn't track them down.
I just sit there and then looking at my head, going,
oh my god, I'm yeah, it was a disaster.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But yeah, kids would never know that now. I remember
when I was thirteen, I was we were playing in
a taken on a local really rough school as well,
in a hockey game and someone raised the stick too
high and I split my lip open. I had to
go to the hospital right so the pee teacher drove
me there, so I literally was bleeding. I had to
have like eleven stitches when I got to the hospital.
On the way he stopped a newsagent. I'm like leading,
(06:02):
I'm in the front seat of his car. He goes
to get a newspaper and some cigarettes and then carries going,
you're right, we might be we might be there a while,
so I just need to have something to do in smoke.
And I didn't even think that was odd. I gave
it moan to my parents. It's just like, yeah, it's
actually I've inconvenienced with these stitches. Shame on me. Really
(06:23):
been such a lightweight, all right. Kids today will never
know what Shaw's text me four seventy five three one
oh four three.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Christian O'Connell shown podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Tell me what you don't get anymore? Now with mobile phones,
the joy of slamming the phone down on somebody, it's
not the same now with that they don't know you
just tapped that button. There's no big that really showing
conaking on somebody, you know. Look in movies now now
it's not the same when someone hangs up on that phone.
(06:57):
It's there's nowhere near as traumatic. Thank you very much.
All these are coming in right now. Christian kids today
will never know the challenges of dial up internet. If
Mum picked up the phone. You're right, just cut off
from that big ass land line. You know, that's when
the Internet wasn't coming from satellites, it was coming through
an actual line in the ground, a land line land,
(07:19):
an actual land line. Now it's invisible satellites above us,
and you remember just having to reconnect every four hours
and argue at the cost of the phone call, this
is costing me a farm. I need to get on.
Do you remember how exciting it was the wild days?
They used to call it the information super high one
(07:42):
D web. It's a world wide web and it was
always w W W forward slash slash win.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Not many forward slashes or backslashes in my life.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
This radio station store kids today, we'll never joy of
Gold FM. Christian, you talk about kids not knowing what
the mailways is. Well, fire rescue Victoria still relies on
using old school heaper melways to root fire calls. WHOA
(08:13):
your uber eats has more modern tech than the fire service? Ken?
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Not not as like a deliberate choice, but just because
they're not funder.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That can't be r Ken? Is that right? Christian? Kids
to there will never know the anguish of having to
run in from a commercial break for food, drinks or
to go to the toilet, and it's back.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
On jumping over the The only time I ever saw
my mum lose it is I accent recorded over that
episode of Dallas where you found it?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Who shot JR? Oh my god? She threatened to drop
me off at children's.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Home and rightly so.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It was the worst thing you could do. Or was
accidentally record over something. You know, you'd be watching your
favorite show and suddenly the football would come.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
On, or if you recorded the ads, yes you're smart
enough to stop it the pause.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yes, you need have incredible eye hand coordination to do that.
That was a high level Christian Kids today will never
know the anxiety of having to give a photographic film
to the local chemist and then waiting for a week
for the photos to develop of that wedding you went
to only discover half on the crap sim you'd have
that red eye or they were blood just out of shots. Yeah, yeah,
(09:37):
I get a friend of mine it used to have
a Saturday job developing that film and we used to
always go out on a Sunday night. He would bring
copies of some of the dodgy photos. It was amazing,
good times they were in the park slicking at that
someone had brought this in taking photos of that mighty
(09:57):
probably im moral, but nineteen just so much fun. I
missed those days, Rial what CV kids today will never know,
the joy off.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Kids will never know the joy of having to become
a small time criminal to listen to music in the
two thousands, you would have to go all through like
the black market of the Internet, which was like LimeWire
or Kazark Napster Napster, yes.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And you would never know there.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It was Russian roulette if the file you're downloading is
a virus or the actual song you wanted, And it
was all highly illegal, like no one. But it was
the only way to get music as a teenager in
the two thousands, and you'd have to sort of figure.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Out, you know when Metallica, there are any embarrass writes
now were actually trying to get fans of there who
just wanted to stream music. Arrested, arrested, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm taking them to court. Yes, that's it for the
record companies realize if only they got in there earlier
about streaming before Spotify and smarter people realize, wait, just
let the kids stream. They just want to stream it.
(10:53):
There's so much more money there as well. Alex, what's
it for you? Kids today will never know.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
When you're starting a new relationship and you've got to
ring the landline and say to the parents, Oh I low,
mister Johnson, you get so nervous. Yes, mate, I'll just
go and get a horror. I used to kill me.
I used to get her nervous to me too.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And also when you were in the early days of
like trying to go out with the girl, you would
have to call them in the evening. Yes, I used to.
This is really sad. I don't think I've ever said
this for I don't think my wife knows. Just I
used to write down some notes beforehand of talking points.
See that new Wham video. She was so nervous because
(11:36):
he used to go real silent, real quick, and nither
of you really knew what to do. Yeah, you go
uh spand ballet that it doesn't work. It's just like
a bad breakfast show. Actually, all right, Keith's coming. These
these are brilliant. Thank you very much for seven five
three one oh four three. Kids today will never know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What would kids today you never know about on Saturday
made my day a sorry guy driving and driving and
using always old school instant legend status. Christian kids today
would never know street lights go on, time to go home,
go into a library to use a card file to
do research, find a book Andrew yesimal yep. Christian kids
(12:25):
today would have another stress of waiting for your song
to play on the radio so you could record it
in a cassette name going Bersert when someone like you
spoke over the intro Darren. Kids today will never understand
how games loaded from cassette tapes to plan a computer
that the Comedy of sixty four or set Expensium plus.
Kids today will never know things of unfortunately rewinding a
(12:47):
cassette video of music. Yeah remember you just have to
get a pencil to rewind some sometimes or sometimes the cassettes.
The tape player in the car would just eat your
favorite out just they were just like it would just
just decide it would just cheer it up.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Not this one now, just eat it's a favorite one.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's like yeah yeah. Kids today whenever to go cooling
around or riding a bike ove at your friend's house,
not knowing if they were in so I know, mister
Harris is great.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There go and go to Gray.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's strange. Kids, here, I have all my friends and
family now my live three sixty yes, same yeah. Yesterday
I was driving, my wife was in the car and
we were just coming into our street and setting my wife.
My wife's phone gives off this like a lot and
they go, what the hell is that? She goes, Oh,
I set it up. So if you're in the local
area and alarm goes, I went, how do you want
(13:44):
to say? What was hanging there between? And why does
she need it? And a lot? He's coming, just your
husband's coming quickly. Just say you're here to sort the
gutters out.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That's why you want that robotic gotta clean.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Around. Keeps quoting for the same job. Five quotes in
a day. Kids today, when the Joy having music on MTV,
guess yes, VJs some big stars jimber Carson daily, Oh yeah,
quest show he did where all the big stars came on,
so that it's massive. I love this one from Keith
(14:23):
Christian kids that they would never know about paper train
tickets that you had to cure at the ticket office
at the station platform. And then he used to be
someone on the train that would pushed the ticket in
a stamping machine to put a whole on your ticket. Christian,
I still use a mail ways and drive a Manu
cart World done kids, so they would never know dialing
a number and I wouldn't score rotary phone getting through
(14:44):
six numbers, then dialing just one wrong number. Hang up,
you got to start again, Scottie. That's a great one,
Christian kids. Kids, anyone ever appreciate how genuinely scary Scooby
do you? Usually?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Back it was.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now you've got sore and hostelies, crizzy things. But back
in the day Scooby Doo would scare us kids. Yes,
I would have gone away with it. It was always
the care to, yes, every seconds. It was a angry caretaker.
Them pesky meddling kids. This is an interesting one from
Vanessa Christian. We had the best of the supermodels in
(15:19):
the eighties and nineties. They worked really hard to get
where they had to be without any social media. They
bought the catwalks. It was very hard to do that.
We had Claudia Schiffer, El mcphish and Linda of Vandalista,
Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Vanessa This is incredible because I've
looked all of these have been spelt correctly. This would
have takes a long time to put that message out.
(15:41):
Thank you very much, Christian. Kids today would never know
about having to give three rings on the home phone
then hanging up to let know that you've got home safely.
Kids today wouldn't know what aero program was. I used
to go to the post office to buy them every
fortnight to send to my granny in Scotland right up
until about nineteen ninety nine. Thank you very much for
all of these we got. The news is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast
iHeart podcasts. You can hear more Gold one I four
point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the free
iHeart app. Got anything good?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Over the weekend, we were moving our twenty one year
old daughter Ruby and with the moving day was Saturday
and it was our intimate and rain and you go
into the big van that we had to use for
it and carrying stuff. And while we're driving around North Melbourne,
I suddenly thought there was a guy who was navigating,
(00:47):
who was driving and also juggling a melways Oh wow,
old school instant legend, instant legend. I was just like, wow,
it just to be back to how it used to
be before we outsourced everything to our phones. And how
you know, when I used to drive around London, a
big city like that, same as Melbourne here, you'd have
(01:09):
this aid to z the street atlas and it'd be
quite stressful. Sometimes you'd have to pull over because you
were going off the edge of a page. Yes, and
it felt like you're going off the edge of the
world seventy four onto the top North And I know
I haven't got that be covered and I haven't got
great or greats at London. Sometimes I would write and
post it notes the directions rather than having to like
(01:32):
the old Mel ways mic This guy I saw on
Saturday who was actually driving looking around and with one
eye down on real time, in real time, I'm not
sure that's legal level there.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Probably there's probably no more laws about that anymore. No
one's using a mill.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Want to do they still publish those sally good question,
because obviously you know, years and years ago you'd have
like the tom toms and an actual do you remember that?
And then now it's now it's not just standard on phones,
doesn't it with Google Maps? Or for the crazy people
at my wife waigs which is the most aggressive driving.
Oh we can shave off seven seconds if we drive
(02:09):
through these people's gardens. It is. It's all like jerky,
I've left right here, right here, left here, left here,
just to sort of save ten seconds off with ways.
My wife uses ways. It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
My old man used to love the Scottish accent of
the woman. He used to Yes, yeah, you always have
it on the Scottish woman.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
She's talking. What how could you even understand the Scottish?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You can still get in melways you can buy them
actually at office works.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How much does a Melways cost? Have a guess, I
don't know. Fifty bucks, big big old thick street apples.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Fifty seven bus wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So today I want to know kids today will never
know because the kids today, like my daughters, you know,
they can both drive, but they don't know where anything is.
If I say, hey, can you can you drop me
at so and so, They're like, where's that one? What's
just for that way? Two suburbs of I'd have to
look on my semi address and have to look on
Google Maps. They don't have the New York pathways that
(03:09):
we used to have to form when you had to
look around someone understand where you were. Like even now,
I don't think i'd be very good giving direction to somebody.
Haven't you got a phone? Oh? I get my phone
up and go go theft right down here. I've looked
on this computer game.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
They wouldn't understand having to pull over and ask someone
in the town for direction.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
How do I get to hear they go?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And they used to have to know the local sort
of landmarks to say, and when you go to town,
you've got that's it. Yeah, you've gone too far. If
you go to the red line pub, turn around the server,
you go to the servo. They were the unofficial gatekeepers
of local knowledge. Yeah that mud now that. I think
(03:55):
they look at you if you're mad, if you went
I'm lost. I've got one hand on the panic one.
There's no money left in the till overnight. All right.
Kids today will never know, Patsy, what's it for you?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
I got a text from school on Friday and I
looked at it and I thought, why do I need
to be across this? This is ridiculous To let me
know that the power had gone off for an hour
and that classes were kind of disrupted, but all had
been restored to normal sort of schedule and not to worry.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And I thought, why.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Do I need to be across this?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
That is fine?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Whereas when we were at school, we'd have floods and
bushfires and god knows what, and.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Mum none the wiser at school.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
My mom would not have a clue if we were sick,
and the teacher had to call for her to come
and get us unless she was if only if she
was home and on the landline. If she wasn't home,
forget it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You were like woulds. No, No, there was no coming
to get if you weren't ill, you just waited for
the school bu or you sat in your seat.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Yeah, just sitting there.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And also it was just so unpleasant in that medical
bit anyway, some terrifying elderly nurse there. He probably got
fired from nursing anywhere. Struck off. You were like, I've
just stuck it out with here. I think I've got
newmonic fever. But I just I just sit here and
saw on myself.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
I had three stitches in my head once because I
smashed my head on the roundabout at school, and I
waited hours from my parents because they couldn't track them down.
I just sit there and then looking at my head, going,
oh my god, I'm yeah, it was a disaster.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But yeah, kids would never know that now. I remember
when I was thirteen, I was we were playing in
a taken on a local really rough school as well,
in a hockey game and someone raised the stick too
high and I split my lip open. I had to
go to the hospital right so the pee teacher drove
me there, so I literally was bleeding. I had to
have like eleven stitches when I got to the hospital.
On the way he stopped a newsagent. I'm like leading,
(06:02):
I'm in the front seat of his car. He goes
to get a newspaper and some cigarettes and then carries going,
you're right, we might be we might be there a while,
so I just need to have something to do in smoke.
And I didn't even think that was odd. I gave
it moan to my parents. It's just like, yeah, it's
actually I've inconvenienced with these stitches. Shame on me. Really
(06:23):
been such a lightweight, all right. Kids today will never
know what Shaw's text me four seventy five three one
oh four three.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Christian O'Connell shown podcast.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Tell me what you don't get anymore? Now with mobile phones,
the joy of slamming the phone down on somebody, it's
not the same now with that they don't know you
just tapped that button. There's no big that really showing
conaking on somebody, you know. Look in movies now now
it's not the same when someone hangs up on that phone.
(06:57):
It's there's nowhere near as traumatic. Thank you very much.
All these are coming in right now. Christian kids today
will never know the challenges of dial up internet. If
Mum picked up the phone. You're right, just cut off
from that big ass land line. You know, that's when
the Internet wasn't coming from satellites, it was coming through
an actual line in the ground, a land line land,
(07:19):
an actual land line. Now it's invisible satellites above us,
and you remember just having to reconnect every four hours
and argue at the cost of the phone call, this
is costing me a farm. I need to get on.
Do you remember how exciting it was the wild days?
They used to call it the information super high one
(07:42):
D web. It's a world wide web and it was
always w W W forward slash slash win.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Not many forward slashes or backslashes in my life.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
This radio station store kids today, we'll never joy of
Gold FM. Christian, you talk about kids not knowing what
the mailways is. Well, fire rescue Victoria still relies on
using old school heaper melways to root fire calls. WHOA
(08:13):
your uber eats has more modern tech than the fire service? Ken?
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Not not as like a deliberate choice, but just because
they're not funder.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
That can't be r Ken? Is that right? Christian? Kids
to there will never know the anguish of having to
run in from a commercial break for food, drinks or
to go to the toilet, and it's back.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
On jumping over the The only time I ever saw
my mum lose it is I accent recorded over that
episode of Dallas where you found it?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Who shot JR? Oh my god? She threatened to drop
me off at children's.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Home and rightly so.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It was the worst thing you could do. Or was
accidentally record over something. You know, you'd be watching your
favorite show and suddenly the football would come.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
On, or if you recorded the ads, yes you're smart
enough to stop it the pause.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yes, you need have incredible eye hand coordination to do that.
That was a high level Christian Kids today will never
know the anxiety of having to give a photographic film
to the local chemist and then waiting for a week
for the photos to develop of that wedding you went
to only discover half on the crap sim you'd have
that red eye or they were blood just out of shots. Yeah, yeah,
(09:37):
I get a friend of mine it used to have
a Saturday job developing that film and we used to
always go out on a Sunday night. He would bring
copies of some of the dodgy photos. It was amazing,
good times they were in the park slicking at that
someone had brought this in taking photos of that mighty
(09:57):
probably im moral, but nineteen just so much fun. I
missed those days, Rial what CV kids today will never know,
the joy off.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Kids will never know the joy of having to become
a small time criminal to listen to music in the
two thousands, you would have to go all through like
the black market of the Internet, which was like LimeWire
or Kazark Napster Napster, yes.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And you would never know there.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It was Russian roulette if the file you're downloading is
a virus or the actual song you wanted, And it
was all highly illegal, like no one. But it was
the only way to get music as a teenager in
the two thousands, and you'd have to sort of figure.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Out, you know when Metallica, there are any embarrass writes
now were actually trying to get fans of there who
just wanted to stream music. Arrested, arrested, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm taking them to court. Yes, that's it for the
record companies realize if only they got in there earlier
about streaming before Spotify and smarter people realize, wait, just
let the kids stream. They just want to stream it.
(10:53):
There's so much more money there as well. Alex, what's
it for you? Kids today will never know.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
When you're starting a new relationship and you've got to
ring the landline and say to the parents, Oh I low,
mister Johnson, you get so nervous. Yes, mate, I'll just
go and get a horror. I used to kill me.
I used to get her nervous to me too.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And also when you were in the early days of
like trying to go out with the girl, you would
have to call them in the evening. Yes, I used to.
This is really sad. I don't think I've ever said
this for I don't think my wife knows. Just I
used to write down some notes beforehand of talking points.
See that new Wham video. She was so nervous because
(11:36):
he used to go real silent, real quick, and nither
of you really knew what to do. Yeah, you go
uh spand ballet that it doesn't work. It's just like
a bad breakfast show. Actually, all right, Keith's coming. These
these are brilliant. Thank you very much for seven five
three one oh four three. Kids today will never know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
What would kids today you never know about on Saturday
made my day a sorry guy driving and driving and
using always old school instant legend status. Christian kids today
would never know street lights go on, time to go home,
go into a library to use a card file to
do research, find a book Andrew yesimal yep. Christian kids
(12:25):
today would have another stress of waiting for your song
to play on the radio so you could record it
in a cassette name going Bersert when someone like you
spoke over the intro Darren. Kids today will never understand
how games loaded from cassette tapes to plan a computer
that the Comedy of sixty four or set Expensium plus.
Kids today will never know things of unfortunately rewinding a
(12:47):
cassette video of music. Yeah remember you just have to
get a pencil to rewind some sometimes or sometimes the cassettes.
The tape player in the car would just eat your
favorite out just they were just like it would just
just decide it would just cheer it up.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Not this one now, just eat it's a favorite one.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's like yeah yeah. Kids today whenever to go cooling
around or riding a bike ove at your friend's house,
not knowing if they were in so I know, mister
Harris is great.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
There go and go to Gray.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's strange. Kids, here, I have all my friends and
family now my live three sixty yes, same yeah. Yesterday
I was driving, my wife was in the car and
we were just coming into our street and setting my wife.
My wife's phone gives off this like a lot and
they go, what the hell is that? She goes, Oh,
I set it up. So if you're in the local
area and alarm goes, I went, how do you want
(13:44):
to say? What was hanging there between? And why does
she need it? And a lot? He's coming, just your
husband's coming quickly. Just say you're here to sort the
gutters out.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That's why you want that robotic gotta clean.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Around. Keeps quoting for the same job. Five quotes in
a day. Kids today, when the Joy having music on MTV,
guess yes, VJs some big stars jimber Carson daily, Oh yeah,
quest show he did where all the big stars came on,
so that it's massive. I love this one from Keith
(14:23):
Christian kids that they would never know about paper train
tickets that you had to cure at the ticket office
at the station platform. And then he used to be
someone on the train that would pushed the ticket in
a stamping machine to put a whole on your ticket. Christian,
I still use a mail ways and drive a Manu
cart World done kids, so they would never know dialing
a number and I wouldn't score rotary phone getting through
(14:44):
six numbers, then dialing just one wrong number. Hang up,
you got to start again, Scottie. That's a great one,
Christian kids. Kids, anyone ever appreciate how genuinely scary Scooby
do you? Usually?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Back it was.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now you've got sore and hostelies, crizzy things. But back
in the day Scooby Doo would scare us kids. Yes,
I would have gone away with it. It was always
the care to, yes, every seconds. It was a angry caretaker.
Them pesky meddling kids. This is an interesting one from
Vanessa Christian. We had the best of the supermodels in
(15:19):
the eighties and nineties. They worked really hard to get
where they had to be without any social media. They
bought the catwalks. It was very hard to do that.
We had Claudia Schiffer, El mcphish and Linda of Vandalista,
Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Vanessa This is incredible because I've
looked all of these have been spelt correctly. This would
have takes a long time to put that message out.
(15:41):
Thank you very much, Christian. Kids today would never know
about having to give three rings on the home phone
then hanging up to let know that you've got home safely.
Kids today wouldn't know what aero program was. I used
to go to the post office to buy them every
fortnight to send to my granny in Scotland right up
until about nineteen ninety nine. Thank you very much for
all of these we got. The news is coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Christian O'Connell Show podcast
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