MINI: Blockbuster
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Going through the A-Z of the nineties and remembering this absolute haven!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I remember when Blockbuster first came, it felt like a big slice of America, you know, it wasn't |
| 0:09.7 | just about the movies and how hard it was to actually find the one you wanted to watch. |
| 0:14.8 | It was also the ice cream, something called Hargandas. Oh, this is how they do in America. It's all |
| 0:20.4 | part of the fancy American dream, you know. |
| 0:23.4 | They'll watch a video. |
| 0:24.7 | They'll watch Hudson Hawk. |
| 0:26.1 | And they're dub into their cookies and cream. |
| 0:28.2 | And they're Hargand-Dars. |
| 0:30.3 | Honestly, kids today will never know how hard it was to find your favorite movie going |
| 0:34.6 | in those blockbuster scores. |
| 0:35.6 | You spend half an hour to an hour on there every Friday. |
| 0:38.1 | Up and down the aisles, up and down there. |
| 0:39.3 | You know now on the couch when you're like even trying to find a movie to stream, |
| 0:42.8 | instant access on demand. |
| 0:44.5 | I think Netflix, I checked yesterday, 3.5,000 movies are on there, right? |
| 0:47.9 | But it takes ages just to settle about, you know, in a family, |
| 0:50.6 | but I don't want that I want that that used to go on up and down the ars do you want comedy drama animation up and down and then you had that fake find you |
| 0:59.9 | go oh we've got it they've got it Terminator 2 must be the last one you leg it to the |
| 1:03.8 | counter then some they were always like half asleep in there won't they go that's out sorry |
| 1:07.8 | I forgot to put the rented card in the sleeve oh Oh no, it's the fake find. It's a fake find. |
| 1:14.6 | Back in there. |
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