MINI: Your Life In Pop Music

We're starting something new. Christian wants to collect his favourite pop song from every year of his life.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
On the show, we'd like to talk about the things
that we've been googling in any given day. The amount
of stuff you chuck into Google. It's incredible. In fact,
if it's safe, get your phone out right now and
have a look at some of your open tabs this
morning before the showers. Who could of mind just to
see what I have actually been googling over the last
sort of two or three days. I have five hundred
and two open tabs. Why what happens? Why it's fine?

(00:33):
No one's calling me. Go. We can't hear you.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Christian, shut down the tabs. It's a cluttered mind, cluttered work.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
That it's a very cluttered mind. My mind was so cluttered,
you have to Yesterday I went to be a guest
on some of these podcasts, and outside this rival radio
station where you go to record you Hamish and any podcast,
I was dealing with some work stuff God in my
uber and accidentally went back to work instead of going
to a far closer place home. And it was like

(01:01):
I've been kidnapped. You know, someone's just lost in your phone.
You're doing emails, you're thinking about your applies, checking the
spinning and all this, and suddenly I looked up and
I saw the radio station. I actually want this. Oh
god no, the guy went literally sound makes went everything okay,
sir trying Oh God, no, God, God no, go go
go duck. Oh how are they doing this?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
They're sucking me into the bosses.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Lazy be.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Come back to.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Tell the mother load. Anyway, I'm about to tell you
what I've been doing over the last couple of days
and using Googling a lot for and it is something
that I encourage everyone who's listening right now please do
this over the weekend and then I think we can
create something next week. I'm doing this thing. It's all project.
I'm making a playlist at the moment called my Life
in Pop Music. So for the last fifty two years,

(01:49):
starting in nineteen seventy three and all the years going
on from that, I'm finding out what were the top
forty biggest hits of that year, and then picking one
song I really love and that's the song from nineteen
seventy three. Go to nineteen seventy four. You hit Google,
it's all up there. Obviously it's got everything online. Now,
what were the top forty biggest pop hits, so it
must have charted in that year. You pick a song
you really like. You start so midway through at the moment,

(02:10):
started to build a playlist. It'd be for me fifty
two songs. I thought, if we do this over the
next couple of days, use your weekend, build you up
my life in pop music, and we start to pick
three random years right from some of our playlists and
the listeners next week and play some of these songs.
There'd be so many great songs that we haven't played
in ages that we discovered through doing this.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
How how far through your life?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm up to nineteen eighty three at the moment. It's
so much fun because you feel like this overlord looking
at all these songs that charted that year, like the
forty songs. You're going yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear
that one too much. All that's a good one. And
you don't even realize what year most of these big
pop hits came out as well. So make your playlist
your life in pop music, and then start do it
over the weekend. It'll take you quite a bit of time,

(02:52):
but it's so much fun. It's a really unique playlist
and a So when you go around people's friends' houses,
I don't make you. People always ask me to make
a playlist.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I think is you're a radio DJ.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Think it is that they think that I just love
to do it. This guy was if you had to
make it was a carpenter. You don't find the man
and build a table. I bet you just.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Laugh, But you would if you made with a carpeton
and came around. It's like I'm fixing the table.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
And then the other thing. If anyone's got any tips,
I'm trying to find the best wired ear buds. Worried
about the gamma rays. I'm wired about the gamma rays.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I didn't know they were gamma rays.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
And I saw some clip, you knowice like a clip
finds you on Instagram and it was someone talking about
the gamma rays. And this is why the algorithm is
this for people like me.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
You're too impressionable to go on, Jack, I've ready ordered.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I've already ordered a very cheap Bogan set up for
a red light therapy because apparently it's going to make
me look younger. So I'm going to come in next
week and go whoa, whoa, whoa, there's a twelve year
old boy doing the show.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Who is it she's seeing the ads. I hope you
got the same one for that red light therapy.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
The lady's doing yoga.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh why was the woman lying face down as if she's.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Not Those keyboard strokes again, it can make that appear
with one keyboard stroke.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
As if she's sunbathing outside, but she's just inside.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
With the red one is a lady doing some yoga
position under the red light. I don't do yoga, but
hopefully the red light therapy make it so.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
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