MINI: Unforgettable Commercials
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Going down the rabbit hole of nostalgia with the commercials from your childhood
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | All right, the other thing to do with the A.T.s and the letter you for me is, you know, sometimes there's certain things that you remember from your childhood, right? |
| 0:12.6 | It might be something you had to learn by rote while you were at school, a monomic or something of that for the colours of the rainbow. |
| 0:19.4 | Richard of York gave battle in vain oh really we |
| 0:22.4 | had rogybiv ah right okay yeah we were always told because it would be to do with the king of the |
| 0:27.2 | uk yeah richard of york gave battle in vain to remember the are they called monomics yeah it's how |
| 0:32.4 | it's how many it's words yeah the other thing i remember is you know know, that used to just, because we used to watch so much TV, but back then, my parents didn't care about me to sort of sit in front of the TV. |
| 0:40.7 | There wasn't a lot of kids TV on, but there were certain adverts where you would just, |
| 0:46.1 | there's an advert, right, to do you with the letter you for a, do you remember, like, 80s and 90s, |
| 0:49.8 | you had little cartons of drink? |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah. You remember that, and you get like the tiniest straw in the world. |
| 0:55.5 | Barely like a half, not point one millimeter wide that you were sucking your eyeballs |
| 1:00.4 | trying to get any liquid out of. |
| 1:02.9 | And your mum would buy them in like a six-pack, dirt cheap. |
| 1:06.1 | Mustard didn't just be sugary kind of drinks, basically. |
| 1:08.3 | Anyway, this one was called Ambungo. |
| 1:12.0 | And it had this all cartoon advert. I still remember now, many, many years later, I still remember the first couple of lines |
| 1:18.1 | way down deep in the middle of the Congo, a hippie, a hippo took a apricot, guava, and a mango. |
| 1:27.7 | I think this is it. |
| 1:28.6 | Now the river was low in the boat. |
| 1:30.5 | So that's not it. |
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