MINI: Mullets
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Where did the mullet come from?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Pat, answer me this. |
| 0:06.2 | Did you use the word mullet in the 80s? |
| 0:09.2 | Yes. |
| 0:09.9 | Because... |
| 0:10.5 | I see. |
| 0:10.9 | I remember where it was like also known in the 80s as ice hockey hair. |
| 0:14.1 | I don't remember hearing the mullet to like the 90s. |
| 0:16.5 | All right. |
| 0:17.1 | Further research into it. |
| 0:18.8 | The Oxford English dictionary has credited the Beastie Boys with the term mullet as a haircut. |
| 0:25.6 | The OED rights recognised all over the world. |
| 0:28.5 | How's this for a scandal? |
| 0:29.5 | The OED first credited Australian Street Machine Automotive magazine with the first publication describing the mullet in 1992 predating the |
| 0:38.7 | BC boys then later is discovered that the magazine image had been faked in and a 2018 |
| 0:45.0 | apology posted had the what do you mean fake so the magazine the first ever deep fake was |
| 0:51.2 | about a mullet the magazine fudged their dates to say we were the first one to come up with the mullet. |
| 0:57.4 | Wow. |
| 0:58.1 | But apparently in the 80s we didn't call it a mullet. |
| 1:01.6 | Can someone call in, can anyone call in and tell us to me this honestly, did you really call |
| 1:05.6 | it the mullet in the 80s? I don't believe we did. I don't remember. I'm anyone calling it money. It wasn't known as being odd or unusual, |
| 1:11.3 | just how you had your hair. |
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