MINI: 80s Schools

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Do you remember the glory days of scratch and sniff stickers and pencil sharpeners that could shred a pen? Join us on a nostalgic trip back to the school days of the 80's and 90's.

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts.
0:02.3	You can hear more Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.2	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:19.2	All right, so we're going to try and build an 80s or 90s school.
0:23.9	80s and 90s school, we can try and build one.
0:27.4	So far now, we've got the incinerator manned by children.
0:32.4	Also, if we're going to build an 80s and 90s school, you need lo Roll that is so thin you could use it as tracing paper.
0:39.8	And how cheap and thin it was. And rough like sandpaper. Yes, you're right. Sandy exterior, yeah.
0:46.3	And then the other thing as well, we had in the classroom, you had one of those pencil sharpeners.
0:52.4	Oh, yeah. Yes, where you could feed.
0:55.6	Yes.
0:56.2	You know, feed your pencil.
0:57.0	We had to ask the teacher if you could get up because it was a real time killer.
1:01.3	Because you would take your time dawdling up to it.
1:03.7	You could easily waste out, trust me, about five minutes.
1:08.5	Then it was, oh, Conno, it doesn't take that long to walk up here.
1:10.8	So it's like meandering't take that long to walk up here.
1:12.7	So it's like meandering around.
1:15.8	You're walking this to Harry.
1:20.5	A favourite during maths class, don't you think?
1:21.9	When you didn't want to do any work? And I was forever just blunting the pencil.
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