The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

We were just talking in the studio about when you were kid,

there was always that one TV show that was unmissable.

Speaking about that, six o'clock news,

I had a friend who got paid 50 cents a night

if he watched the news with his family.

Oh.

You're kidding.

It's pocket money.

What?

Really?

I guess the idea was to make him more worldly.

Oh, wow.

How amazing.

For me growing up, right, often the TV show that was unmissable that we watched with

your parents was mainly about actually trying to go to bed as late as possible.

So I was watching whatever TV show your dad was into.

For some reason, it was always about running down that clock, wasn't it?

The lady you could get the better. Go, oh, Dad, tell us that story again that I've heard about 900 times.

Oh, I've never told this one before, some.

And I could have played for Manchester United.

And you're looking at a clock going, that's going to just cricket and the half hour

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