MINI: The Wonder Year 1987

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The Wonder Years .... and Back to 1987 we GO!

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0:00.0	Hi.
0:01.0	Christian, Christian, Christian, Iconnell.
0:03.0	The Christian O'Connell Show, podcast.
0:05.5	Every week on the show, then, we go to the Wonder Year, and last week it was the 90s.
0:10.4	Tonight, it's 1987.
0:12.7	We're off.
0:13.5	Back to the 80s.
0:15.0	This is going straight to the pool room.
0:19.3	Are you telling me that you built a time machine?
0:21.6	Out of a Delaware?
0:22.6	I tell you what, any boss who sacks anyone but not turning up to die as a bump.
0:26.6	It looked as if Tyson bared his teeth.
0:29.6	The Wonder Year!
0:31.6	Every week on the show then we're to go time travelling and take you back to a year this week.
0:35.6	It's after the 80s and 1987. All right, the first mobile phone call happened in Australia in
0:42.8	1987. Mel Ward, the management director of Telecom, made the nation's first mobile call
0:48.4	on a Mitsubishi Electric Handset. It called from the Sydney Opera House, of course,
0:53.2	to their then-commun then Communications Minister Michael Duffy
0:56.0	the first mobile phones in Australia
0:58.3	were the size of a briefcase. They cost
1:00.4	$4,000. That's what it used to cost
1:02.9	and had a battery life of 20 minutes.
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