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The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Christian O'Connell Show returns soon for 2024.
In The meantime here are some more of our favourite bits from 2023.
Your stores about Door To Door Salesmen, "Always On Call" and; Things Today Kids Have No Idea About.
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Right now then, we're looking for your stories. |
| 0:07.0 | What would kids today have no idea about? |
| 0:10.0 | There's so much of the stuff that you and I grew up with that they have got no idea what it was like to try and get on the internet or even meet your friends. |
| 0:19.0 | So today on the show, what would kids today have no idea about? Jackie the show, what would kids today have no idea about? |
| 0:22.4 | Jackie Boyd, what would kids today have no idea about? When you wanted to walk through for a game, |
| 0:27.1 | hints and tips, you had to call a Nintendo hotline. I want to get like cheat code stuff like that. |
| 0:32.1 | The particular game I was playing was Game Boy's Pokemon. And I couldn't get through the Dark Cave with the Diglets. |
| 0:39.4 | And I had to call this line. |
| 0:41.5 | Was it one of those sort of premium lines as well? |
| 0:43.6 | Yes, because I didn't even get to the point where they gave me the walkthrough because |
| 0:46.6 | I got told off by my parents for calling their hotline. |
| 0:49.2 | But Nintendo would have a hotline that you can call and ask a specialist about games. Yeah, these days you'll just watch, what is it on Twitch they're on with all the cheat codes and YouTube? |
| 0:57.9 | They've got all these hacks. |
| 0:59.3 | The other thing that I was born on my kids the other day with this is like years ago, before texting and mobile phones and everything like that, you would simply go around to your friend's house just to see if they were in. |
| 1:10.3 | You'd have to knock on the door. It was normally asked by their mum or dad, and they might |
| 1:13.5 | not be in. If they weren't in, there was that walk of shame where you had to then get the bus |
| 1:16.9 | home or if that. So, Keith's easier that would have any idea. There's no WhatsApp in or anything |
| 1:20.8 | like that. You had to go around somebody's house and work out whether or not they were coming out to play. All right, let's take some calls then about what kids today have no idea about. |
| 1:29.9 | On our Facebook page, the terrifying excitement of a girl giving you her house number to ask you out. |
| 1:36.7 | Radio Mike, who I believe is a friend of yours, paying $1.69 for a track on iTunes. |
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