meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Kids Today Will Never Know

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A Melways was spotted in the wild over the weekend, something kids today have NO idea about..

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

IHart Podcasts. 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.

0:18.9

Over the weekend, we were moving our 21-year-old daughter, Ruby,

0:23.4

and the moving day was Saturday, and it was like intimate and rain,

0:27.4

and he'd go into the big van that we had to use for it, and he's carrying stuff.

0:32.4

And while we were driving around North Melbourne,

0:35.9

I suddenly saw there was a guy who was navigating, who was

0:39.7

driving and also juggling a mailways.

0:42.8

Oh, wow.

0:43.7

Old school.

0:44.6

Instant legend.

0:46.7

Instant legend.

0:48.2

I was just like, wow.

0:49.7

It just took me back to how it used to be before we outsourced everything to our phones and how, you know, when I used to drive around London, a big city like that, same as Melbourne here, you'd have this A to Z, the street atlas and it'd be quite stressful sometimes. You'd have to pull over because you were going off the edge of a page. Yes. And it felt like you're going off the edge of the world. you've got 74 onto, the top north and I've got, oh God, I haven't got that big covered. And it's never just the next page. I haven't got greater Melbourne or greater London. Sometimes I would write and post-it notes, the directions, rather than happen to like the old Melway, he's Mike, this guy and saw saturday who was actually driving looking

1:27.9

around and were one eye down on real time in real time wow i'm not sure that's legal

1:33.4

high level yeah they're probably well there's probably no more laws about that anymore

1:37.3

because no one's using a melways and here's the thing i want to know do they still publish those

1:41.4

that's a really good question actually because obviously you know years and a ago, you'd have like the tom-toms and an actual, do you remember that? Yes. And now it's on, just standard on phones, isn't it, with Google Maps or for the crazy people like my wife, weighs? Which is the most aggressive driving. Oh, we can shave off seven seconds if we drive through these people's gardens.

2:03.2

It is. It's all like jerky. Like, left right here, right here, left here, left here,

2:07.7

just to sort of save ten seconds off with ways. My wife uses ways. It's crazy.

2:13.6

My old man used to love the Scottish accent of the woman. He used to...

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from GOLD and iHeart Australia, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of GOLD and iHeart Australia and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.