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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Flashback to 1983

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week our One Second Songs have us flashing back to 1983. Sharing highlights from Christian and YOU!

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0:00.0

The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:03.0

A couple of weeks ago, it was my wedding anniversary, and it was our 22nd year, so I made

0:07.3

its little playlist, because that's what I like doing.

0:09.7

And for my wife, I've songs, hits from 1998, and then I brought the playlist in, and I played

0:15.9

a couple of them to check a bat, so we turned it into a game, which has grown over the last

0:19.5

couple of weeks, and now each week we're going back to a year and playing a game with you guys at the end of it. But first

0:24.7

of all today, we're going back to 1983. Patsy, 1983. What were you up to in 1983? You're at school?

0:33.5

1983. I was in grade five at Wang South primary in 1983 and about to take up basketball,

0:41.5

which lasted about two weeks. I was hopeless at it. It was too rough. I was too prissy.

0:47.9

I was 10 in 1983 and I was obsessed about one thing. My whole life was all about when,

0:56.3

when am I going to next get back on my BMX bike it's what me and my mates did all like when I mean all weekend I mean for like 14 hours on a

1:02.5

Saturday 14 hours on a Sunday BMX in building ramps do you know like jumps and ramps I mean

1:09.1

we used to spend hours doing these kind of elaborate jumps and ramps.

1:13.2

It was all about BMX biking for me in 1983.

1:16.2

Let's go back to 1983 then.

1:19.0

VFL Grand Final.

1:20.5

Any guesses?

1:21.1

Who was in it?

1:21.6

Who won?

1:23.0

I think...

1:23.6

I believe Carlson was favourites, but Richmond took the flag, I think, didn't they?

1:29.2

I reckon it's Essend lost to Hawks.

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