Speaker 0:00

If you're old enough to remember when phones had cords and the only thing that went viral was a cold, then you're in the right place. Welcome to the Big Six O with Kayley Harris and Guy Rowlison. Because who better to discuss life's second act than two people who still think mature is a type of cheese.

Speaker 3 0:27

Well, welcome to the Big Six O podcast, where we're talking this time about fads. I'm Kayleigh Harris and my co-host, who is a fad himself, is Guy Rowlson. G'day, welcome.

Speaker 2 0:38

You did you did say fad, didn't you?

Speaker 3 0:40

I did say fad. Fad with a D. I did say fad.

Speaker 2 0:44

Fad with a D. I'm always in fashion.

Speaker 3 0:47

Yes.

Speaker 2 0:47

Well, as much as a 62-year-old man . . . .

Speaker 3 0:49

Everyone wants to be you.

Speaker 2 0:52

They've set the bar so low.

unknown 0:54

So low.

Speaker 3 0:55

How are you? I'm good, thank you. I'm really good. I love this. I love the idea of this episode. You know, because every generation has fads. You go back to the 50s and 60s, they had fads. Um, it was about, you know, beehive hairdo's dancing and doing the twist and stuff like that. But let's start with the 1970s, which is more in keeping with us. The fads that came through in the 70s, which our kids today would think are so uncool. I'm thinking things like uh hot pants.

Speaker 2 1:27

Um it was a fad. It's out of fashion now.

Speaker 3 1:31

Damn. Bell bottom jeans. Oh I had a pair of bell bottom jeans that had big red stripes down the side, and I thought they were the coolest thing ever. Platform shoes. I had to be.

Speaker 2 1:43

Do you remember what brand those jeans were? Were they? Like Amcos or Peaches. Peaches?

Speaker 3 1:47

I'm sure they were. But I had I had not only did I have platforms, but I had cork platforms made from cork, which is now like endangered, an endangered species tree. But I had I had cork platforms with white leather and how did anyone walk in platforms? I've never known they're about like four inches high.

Speaker 2 2:07

Stylish.

Speaker 3 2:08

Yeah, very I I certainly was a bit of a fashion plate in the 70s, but uh jumpsuits.

Speaker 2 2:15

Oh safari suits for a bloke.

Speaker 3 2:18

Oh thank god that went out of fashion. Did you have you uh your dad would have had a safari suit?

Speaker 2 2:24

He he had a powder blue one.

Speaker 3 2:26

Yeah, okay, of course he did. Everyone did.

Speaker 2 2:29

Handed it down to me.

Speaker 3 2:30

Yep. Now and and where is it now?

Speaker 2 2:33

Uh wear it to the Doyle Sonaris on every opportunity that I can.

Speaker 3 2:38

Oh, fantastic. I'll have to come next time and see that.

Speaker 2 2:40

If you could, yeah.

Speaker 3 2:41

Please, if you can get a photo.

Speaker 2 2:42

Platform spell bottoms and me in the uh in the powder blue safari suit.

Speaker 3 2:46

The powder blue safari suit. And and like speaking of guys fashion and fads back then, remember big lapels? There was they had big lapels, and and they had those, what were those shirts called? Miller's shirts with the Miller Western shirts with the pearly press studs. With their pearly press studs, that was the thing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 3:05

Oh, I went to a party when I was in year five, and Robin Campton, who's part of the Big Six O family, it was her party, and I got a new Miller's Western shirt to wear to that party. Oh, you were able to buy one. Oh, I was just didn't I feel good about myself.

Speaker 3 3:21

Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. And you could roll up, you could put your whinny blues into the sleeve of your shirt or your t-shirt, and you could roll it up so that the whinnie blues would sit there in that rolled up part of your shirt on your arm.

Speaker 2 3:34

Not not not as an 11-year-old, no. I didn't do that. Oh I wore I wore the shirt. I'm sure Robin's mum Dot and Dot's no longer with us, but she was a beautiful, beautiful woman. I think she would have drawn the line at an 11-year-old with the whinny blues. With the whinny blues, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'd say so.

Speaker 3 3:50

What about um what about things like tie-dye? Remember when that was a thing? And and remember when uh this reminded me of it in in the movie Forest Gump with the smiley, the yellow t-shirt and the smiley face. We all had that smiley face.

Speaker 2 4:05

We did. I did you ever do the tie-dye at school? I remember doing it at school.

Speaker 3 4:08

Yes, yeah, we did. We did tie-dye at school.

Speaker 2 4:11

Yeah, it had the little rubber bands or something on the channel.

Speaker 3 4:14

Yeah, it was like an Asian thing, and we thought we were so cool and exotic because we were making tie-dye.

Speaker 2 4:20

That that made a bit of a comeback not so long ago, but um it it sort of it took the place of crocs for five minutes, I think, and everyone was wearing tie-dyed pants and t-shirts, but not done at school, I'm sure. Uh did you ever do, and I I'm I'm interrupting a little jumping ahead. Did you do you remember doing the parabola things where you hit the nails into the wood and you'd do the string art on on Oh yes?

Speaker 3 4:44

What was that called? I I guess. What did you just call it?

Speaker 2 4:47

Parabola. But I'm sure that wasn't the same.

Speaker 3 4:49

Did you just make sure, or is that actually a thing?

Speaker 2 4:52

No, I made it up. I think that's what we got told, yeah.

Speaker 3 4:56

Yeah, and you'd make a like a diamond shape or a star shape or something on your parabola.

Speaker 2 5:03

Yeah, it'd be like a block of chipboard, and then you'd hammer all the nails in and it'd spray it black, and then you'd get the cotton and and wrap it around the little nails and make these little and then what would you do with it? You'd hang it on the wall alongside the Macrame owl you probably made at school as well, which was a big thing back then.

Speaker 3 5:21

Macrame, oh my god.

Speaker 2 5:23

Oh, I remember owls.

Speaker 3 5:26

Let's talk about toys, fad toys and stuff like that. I had remember when pet rocks came out, and it was every parent's best thing ever because it didn't need to be fed, it wasn't living, it was just like the kid, and you buy your pet rock, it would come in a box, and I and you would name it. And my pet rock was Rock Hudson, and I would put him and he would you know, I'd put him beside my bed, and Rock Hudson and I would sleep next to me at night, and we'd take our rocks to work, and we'd introduce our rocks to our friends' rocks.

Speaker 2 5:59

I'm sorry, I'm still getting over Rock Hudson.

Speaker 3 6:04

Oh my goodness. Yeah, it was any rock I knew back then, didn't yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 6:08

I never had a pet rock.

Speaker 3 6:10

My like uh no, I mean what what you would have had a cabbage kid or something or a care bear.

Speaker 2 6:17

No, I mean I I did get given when I was probably six or seven uh an action figure, sort of uh it was called captain action. Captain how imaginative was that, and it was like a it was like a boys doll sort of thing. Is that it's not politically correct to say that these days, but it was like captain action, and you could take his stuff off and he had an alternate thing and then you could turn him into Superman. But I didn't have a pet rock or a cabbage patch doll. Um sorry, uh but you would have had did you have a G.I.

Speaker 3 6:49

Joe? I had a G.I. Joe and a um and a Ken and a Barbie. They were fads.

Speaker 2 6:54

I mean, although Barbie is still a fad, Barbies come back, and kids don't just I mean, kids used to have a Barbie or maybe two Barbies. Kids these days, it's like Lego, like you have like 10 and 20 Barbies, it's like you'd have to be a big thing.

Speaker 3 7:08

Yeah, but Barbie is like stretched through the generations, hasn't she? She's like she is still a fad now. And you know, one of my favorite toys uh when I was growing up was a Viewmaster.

Speaker 2 7:21

Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 7:22

Did you have a Viewmaster in the world? I loved my Viewmaster, and it was a for people who don't know what it is, it's a little machine and it had a little thing down the side that you could so you're essentially putting slides inside this, and you could hold it up to your eyes, and you could look at the picture and then read a narrative below it, and then you click your little button, it would go to the next slide.

Speaker 2 7:45

So it was a the little disc was like the size of like a CD, wasn't it? You'd put it in and and just it would rotate as you press the button around, and there's the Eiffel Tower, and there you who needed a holiday when you had a Viewmaster?

Speaker 3 7:57

I loved the Viewmaster. It just when I had the Viewmaster up against my face, it just took me away. It was such an escape.

Speaker 2 8:04

Did you ever have an Etch a sketch?

Speaker 3 8:06

I did have an Etch a sketch.

Speaker 2 8:08

The hardest thing in the world didn't get those things. Yeah, and you'd had the little knobs at the bottom and you'd you'd see the pictures. Yeah, I mean I could draw a vertical and horizontal line, and that was about it. Like I was a sh shocker. But that that would that was a that was one of those five I think you can still buy them. I'm sure I saw them not that long ago, and I thought, yeah, what kid is gonna want that?

Speaker 3 8:31

Well, kid, maybe they do because for the you know, fun of it, I don't know. Fads in the 70s. What about disco?

Speaker 2 8:39

Oh, that's not a fad. That's that's that's still happening. That's why we were in the bell bottoms and the safari soon.

Speaker 3 8:47

I was in the RSL. I was doing some research, you know, for the podcast, as you do, about disco, and it's I was shocked to learn that disco really only was a thing from 1977-78 to 80 before it got killed off. It was only a thing for a couple of years. And that really shocked me because it was such a huge part of my life. That disco fad. And it was it was just I mean, the clothes, the polyester suits that went with it, there was so much that went with it.

Speaker 2 9:18

It was very underground in the in the early 70s. I mean, there was a variation of disco because it disco is a whole fusion of like you know, blues and rock and everything sort of mm meshed in together, and and so that commercially, I guess, it started to raise its head. You're right, in the in the middle.

Speaker 3 9:39

It was around when Sunday Night Fever came out, so it's like 76. Yeah, that's 7, 78.

Speaker 2 9:46

Yeah, 77, 78, when it started to come really big. Um, and it it started to have its roots in about 75, 76, and then of course, with Saturday Night Fever coming out, and you know, then it just exploded and became a big thing.

Speaker 3 9:59

But then when it got to the 80s, the whole music scene changed and everyone turned against disco.

Speaker 2 10:04

Yeah, they had that big, and you'll remember this being in the industry, they had that death to disco thing in late 79 at one of the baseball games.

Speaker 3 10:11

Yeah, they were burning copies of Donna Summer albums and all that kind of stuff. I remember that.

Speaker 2 10:16

Yeah, and I and that had much bigger connotations because of you know the the political movement over there. It wasn't necessarily it was it was perceived as having uh you know uh different sort of ethnic and cultural backgrounds related to disco and and of course, you know, that's why it wasn't necessarily the music, but it was the connotations and the the louder voices won that argument. But yeah, whether it was the silky satiny shirts, I remember going to the you know the uh I think it used to be called the Maxi's under 18 disco at the local YMCA there at you know, and it was great every Saturday night. It used to cost us like two bucks to get in. Yeah. And that was, yeah, for a couple of years that was what you did.

Speaker 3 10:59

Well, there was a whole wardrobe that went with disco, like you said, the polyester shirts and and the all that white satiny stuff. That was a uniform that went with disco. Yeah, and like boob tubes and pencil skirts with big splits up the side that we used to wear and the court platforms, and it was a it was a whole thing, wasn't it, that would probably horrify kids these days what we used to wear.

Speaker 2 11:23

Yeah, and and that that's that's one of those things. If you get, I mean, my kids are a little bit old now, if they had like a 70s or an 80s theme, if they're going to a 21st, they'd say, Oh, you know, oh, we've got a what what did you used to wear? And I'm thinking, well, hang on, I'm still wearing it, can't you tell? But but yeah, just to see some, even if you do a search online for you know 70s dress-ups and you look and think, ooh, seems like everyone's got an afro. And I'm thinking, I don't know, don't know that I had an afro back in the 70s, but I I get it.

Speaker 3 11:50

Did you ever have an afro?

Speaker 2 11:53

No, you're kidding me. Probably plattered my back a bit, but um to do information there. Did you have the big hair flick thing going like the centre part and the hair flick at all?

Speaker 3 12:04

I no, I I had really daggy hair. And remember the whole feathered, Ferraforcet, feathered look that that was like everyone wanted to be like Ferriforcet and have that look, and it was layered and it was fluffy and and all that. I never was able to pull it off. I always looked like an idiot, but it was um yeah, it would the whole trying to get your hair to be as fast, and that that hasn't changed even for kids today. It's you want your hair to look like every all all the people you aspire to be like and all the Hollywood people and stuff like that. And we were no different back in the 70s, wanting to look like all the you know, Brooke Shields or whoever.

Speaker 2 12:43

Oh, yeah. So long as you didn't do the Bo Derek dreadlocky thing and do the stuff.

Speaker 3 12:48

I didn't do that, but I'm sure I know a lot of people did.

Speaker 2 12:50

Yeah.

Speaker 3 12:50

The dreadlocks, that was a step too far for me.

Speaker 2 12:53

That was, and so long as you didn't have to run Slow Mo up the beach about Bo Derrick, which sort of transposed into Baywatch, who would jump out what's going on there. That was bad. Yeah. Going back to those those sort of teenagers, do you remember things like every boy that was worth his sort of salt had to have the Bane Superflex skateboard with certain trucks on the, you know. Did you ever have a skateboard?

Speaker 3 13:19

No, I never had no, that was a boy thing. Girls didn't even it was like in the movie Puberty Blues, girls didn't surf. Boys and only boys surfed, and we sat and watched them, and it was the same with skateboarding. The girls would just sit and watch the boys skateboard because that was yeah, not something that girls did.

Speaker 2 13:35

Yeah. I we used to we had a girl that used to live next door to us, it was a granddaughter, and she was probably about a year younger than than us. But she had a surfer Sam uh skateboard. She was she was that girl that you know she could she could ride bikes with the best of the the kids, and she had the surfer Sam skateboard that she would ride down, get the death wobbles going down our street, and but um not sure what you have a surprise.

Speaker 3 13:59

Did you have a skateboard?

Speaker 2 14:00

Yeah, yeah, of course I did.

Speaker 3 14:01

Yeah, and were you good at it? Um don't don't be shy. Like, were you pretty good at it? Could you like I could handle myself? Yeah, good.

Speaker 2 14:10

But but you know, uh we used to go to school with a kid who would be able to ride the skateboard like standing on his hands.

Speaker 3 14:16

Okay, wow.

Speaker 2 14:17

You'd be able to do the handstands on the skateboard. That's next level.

Speaker 3 14:20

That's next level.

Speaker 2 14:21

That was that was not me.

Speaker 3 14:22

But skateboards, again, have not gone out of fashion, have they?

Speaker 2 14:26

Not that I know.

Speaker 3 14:27

I've been overtaken a little bit lately with e-bikes and scooters and stuff, but they're still I think skateboards are still a thing.

Speaker 2 14:34

Yeah, probably. So long as you're not a 50 or a 60-year-old man trying to relive your youth and getting on one and then finding out I've just done a collarbone or I've whatever, you know. Hey, do you remember yo-yos?

Speaker 3 14:45

Yeah, I love yo-yos. Yeah, I bought my kids yo-yos and they love them too, yeah.

Speaker 2 14:51

I remember at school that you had your Coca-Cola yo-yo or your fanta yo-yo, and and you'd do round the world and walk the dog and rock cradle, all those things, and you had to have the Coke Championship yo-yo that you'd buy, you know, from the corner store. And I saw the other day, and I've got one or two, I've still got a Fanta and a Coke yo-yo at home. Really? And I noticed online the other day that they're selling for like 120, 130 bucks each. Oh my god. And I thought, wow, like, yeah, what am I doing hanging on to these? Because I can't remember how much they cost, but yeah, yeah, every kid seemed to have one, and you'd go to do the whole round-the-world thing with your yo-yo and the string it'd break, and then your yo-yo'd be going, you know, 100 metres down the road without a string on the end. You'd thought, uh, there you go.

Speaker 3 15:42

We should have a yo-yo off. We should get out, we should get some yo-yos and get together and see if we can remember any tricks. That's that'd be so much fun. We should do that with all of our Big Six O people. I think that's a great idea.

Speaker 2 15:55

Maybe they should send us a video if they've got a video. Yeah, if they're wearing a safari suit or bell bottom with a crop top and feathered hair and a yo-yo, and they can send us a video of them doing it. Yeah. Yeah, I I'd be into that. But footy cards, remember footy cards and cleaning.

Speaker 3 16:10

Because I do remember them. I was never into them.

Speaker 2 16:12

That was a boy thing for the cards, because I was never into footy, but yeah, they had the kung fu, they had kung fu cards which were massive. There was a TV show with David Carradine in the 70s where Grasshopper when you can pick the petpo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the kung fu cards, I don't know whether it was more the bubblegum, but you'd collect them and uh uh and maybe it was a boy thing.

Speaker 3 16:34

Um, but I remember what's the equivalent of of sports cards today? Like I said, like through the through the uh 90s, we got you know Tamagotchis and all that kind of stuff. So is there anything equivalent to football cards these days? Not really, is there? I don't think collectible that kids are into.

Speaker 2 16:54

Are kids allowed to even have bubble gum because it may have preservative 347 in it and you know what not? And the I mean the bubblegum was secondary. I mean, you just got your six cards in the thing, and you'd walk down to, you know, and then swap them with your mates. I'd love, I love, I've still got cards as well. It sounds like I keep everything, don't yo-yos, foodie cards.

Speaker 3 17:15

It seems like I keep a lot of things, but you should all get together and just go through your garage.

Speaker 2 17:20

Yeah. Other little things that we used to, do you remember those? And I know I used to know them as chatter boxes, but they used to be those little paper things you'd made and you'd say, Oh, what colour? Red, blue, and then you'd like little pick a number.

Speaker 3 17:33

Pyramids kind of thing, and you'd go doong doong dung, and this is vis this is audio, so you can't see what I'm doing, but put your fingers into a little pyramid and then open it, close it, open it, close it. What did you call it? A chatter box.

Speaker 2 17:46

I I'd heard of them called chatter boxes, otherwise I've that's the only name I've got for them, and I don't you've described them as best as anyone could. And yeah, you pick a colour, red, uh, and you R E D, and then you'd pick a number, oh six, one, two, three, four, five, six, and then you'd pick another and you'd open it up and it'd have some message in there, like uh Yeah, that's all right. Uh you you you love such and such, or you smell like this, or something.

Speaker 3 18:09

I've forgotten all about that. I had forgotten all about that. And and also the fat of I don't know what it's called, but you know, when you do the hand clapping thing with your friend where you'd do the what was it called?

Speaker 2 18:22

I know exactly.

Speaker 3 18:23

I know where you do the you know, one hand upside down, one hand on the bottom, and then you do the and the you do really fast. I don't even know what that what that what was that called?

Speaker 2 18:32

And you'd have you have the you'd have the rhymes and the chants that went with it, you know. And yeah, yeah. If this girl went to such and such or whatever it was, yeah.

Speaker 3 18:40

If anyone listening knows what that's called, please, please tell us.

Speaker 2 18:47

Do you see anyone playing elastics anymore in a playground?

Speaker 3 18:50

No. No, or knuckles.

Speaker 2 18:53

Knuckles, um or marbles?

Speaker 3 18:56

Jax, marbles, yeah, yeah, like Jackson Knuckles, is that the same thing?

Speaker 2 19:01

Yeah, yeah, same thing. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 19:03

And you don't see people playing marbles anymore. What what day?

Speaker 2 19:07

There must have been a day. It's like there there must have been a day where all of a sudden no one played jacks, or no one played marbles. It's like that day you see them on social media where you say, Well, I think there was a day when you all went out with your friends and you didn't realise it was the last day you went out together.

Speaker 3 19:24

Well, I think jacks and marbles and stuff like that, and and even elastics, that was all primary school. So I feel like that was the 70s, early 70s, early to mid-70s, and then when you got to high school, we were too cool for that.

Speaker 2 19:38

Oh, yeah. But surely kids in primary school still played it because they saw their idols like Kaylee playing it. So they'd they'd be playing elastics or jacks or skipping where you'd have the two skipping ropes going or whatever. Yeah, all those sort of things. They wouldn't, they're not allowed to run in a playground. So the concept of jumping up and down on an elastic or or skipping, or I guess that's that's gone by the wayside. Yeah, but did you ever did you ever have I know you had your crop top and your bell bottom, do you ever have a hyper colour t-shirt?

Speaker 3 20:26

I don't think I I I know of them, but I don't think I ever got into the hyper colour t-shirt. Did you have one?

Speaker 2 20:32

Oh yeah. Oh my god. The sole purpose of that is so as people would fill you up. I'm just gonna say it, they would fill you up, like because who was filling you up? Look, you would it didn't matter really when you were 15. You know, it it you put the hand on the t-shirt, you take it off, and the heat mark is still on there, and like it was just an excuse that you say to someone here, oh, does that really work? And you knew that was code for I just want to be able to put my hand on your chest or wherever it is. Never objected. I mean, so long as it was someone at school that you thought, yeah, yeah, I'm okay with that. Um, I don't think too many teachers were probably going out of their way to even sort of go that.

Speaker 3 21:15

Well, that was right up there with um acid wash jeans. Remember that was a thing.

Speaker 2 21:20

Oh, did you have some?

Speaker 3 21:21

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:22

Yeah, of course you would.

Speaker 3 21:23

Yes.

Speaker 2 21:24

Of course you would. I only ever remember not though. I only remember having Amcos and I remember girls all had staggers and peaches, although or Corfu.

Speaker 3 21:35

We had Corfu jeans, yeah. We couldn't afford Levi because they were like so cool. Only the cool Hollywood people had Levi's. We didn't have any of those, but you know, leg warmers. God help us.

Speaker 2 21:47

Didn't wear those often, got a tenth.

Speaker 3 21:49

Oh, we did, yeah, and that my god. And that's it, which brings me to another fad from the 80s, uh, which was um aerobics. TV aerobics, where they would wear leg warmers. What's the point of leg warmers? I mean, obviously they're supposed to warm your legs, but why? Because you're doing exercise, you don't need your legs warmed.

Speaker 2 22:10

Well, ask the Rankin sisters, wasn't that the TV that had the Rankin sisters on TV?

Speaker 3 22:15

Exercise on TV.

Speaker 2 22:16

Oz style.

Speaker 3 22:18

Yeah, but there's no can you can you think of another exercise show on TV at the moment?

Speaker 2 22:25

No, but um I do look fondly back on Swami Sarasvati, who used to have a yoga show in the 70s.

Speaker 3 22:33

I love Swami Sarasvati with her Afghan dog that used to walk across the screen in front of her and she's like breeding out.

Speaker 2 22:41

Do you do you think that Afghan may have been the precursor to Simon Townsend's Woodrow being on TV?

Speaker 3 22:47

Possibly. I love Swami Sarasvati.

Speaker 2 22:50

Oh, she would have been a shoulder pads girl, surely.

Speaker 3 22:53

Absolutely, I was a shoulder pads girl. I had shoulder pads to die for. I had like my shoulders were as big as an NFL player. And you stopped wearing them because it got too, you know, like 2024, and I thought maybe I should stop.

Speaker 2 23:11

Yeah, pretty much like me with the safari suit. Although I'm hanging on to that. I wasn't I I think I got onto the Walkman thing a little bit late in the picture too. If you had a Walkman with the, you know, you'd walk around looking pretty cool.

Speaker 3 23:23

Mobile music. Think about mobile music. We didn't have that growing up until Walkmans became a thing. Then all of a sudden we had mobile music that you could put into your ears and you could carry music with you. But before that, it was only ever confined to the house and your record player or the car.

Speaker 2 23:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if you carried the ghetto blaster. Very, very 80s with your headband and you know, trying to break dance on a piece of cardboard. Yeah, I'm sure that was a there were a few. I I was a bit old for that.

Speaker 3 23:57

I actually saw a guy in the city uh a couple of months ago walking down the street with a ghetto blaster on his shoulder, blasting out something. And I was just I remember I would just watch him walk past and I was like, wow, I've not seen that in so long.

Speaker 2 24:14

I've still got a you know ours is a Sanyo. We've got, and once again, this is audio, so no one's watching me show the size of this very small suitcase that's you know, has the cassette player and all those sort of things, but yeah, just that vision of if you're talking about a ghetto blaster, I'm sure everyone's thinking either flash dance the movie or something like that, and having the you know, or or whatever, and or carrying it on your shoulder and looking really cool. And you can only look so cool carrying the size of a suitcase on your shoulder these days. These days it's either that or a case of beer.

Speaker 3 24:48

What could possibly go wrong? But roller skating, there's a whole there's a fad. That's not I mean, I know there are some pockets of you know roller skating still around, but at the time that was a fad. That was a huge thing.

Speaker 2 25:01

Yeah, did you have your own skates?

Speaker 3 25:03

Yeah, yeah. I loved it. I I saved up and saved up for months to buy myself a pair of white boots, skates with pink wheels. So I was very cool. And um, and it used to go every Saturday night we'd go to the skate rink, and we, you know, you'd do skating, then you do couple skating, then you do backwards skating, and then you do speed skating. And I loved it. I absolutely I never I never it never translated to ice skating. I was so scared I was gonna fall over and slice my fingers off. Yeah. I never got into ice skating. But roller skating, I was crazy about that in the 70s.

Speaker 2 25:40

But ice skating wasn't a fad, was it? Roller skating genuinely was. You'd have I I remember having the like the the I think they were called uh they were black speeds, they looked like soccer boots with wheels on them. They were cut off black speed skates, and you're right, you did the chariot races and and the speed skating and backwards speed skating, and you'd be piling into the side of the wall or whatever it was. Then you'd do a train with other people, and you'd that wasn't until the couple skating at the end and you thought, well, getting up the courage to ask some girl skate with me. And the wonderful aroma, if you didn't have you'd walk in and you could smell the higher boots. I can still smell the racks and racks and racks with higher boots as you'd go near me. Well, and that that's a very heady aroma. Very heady aroma.

Speaker 3 26:33

Yeah, oh my gosh. Do you ever have a C B radio? No, but Jeffrey next door, who I was talking about with the um the cars, with the Matchbox cars, he was a huge trucking fan. Let me just clarify that. And he he was so into trucks, and he introduced me to CB radios and and the lingo. I remember him, and CW McCall's convoy came out around about the same time, and and we used to sit there and listen to it and listen to the trucky language and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 27:03

But how big was that for 15 minutes in our life where everyone was 10-4 big buddy, and you just have all the lingo? Absolutely. They genuinely had one, and and whether it was C C what is it, CJ McCall? Was it CW McCall? CW McCall. And there were movies too, like whether it was Convoy movie, but there was a whole lot of truck movies that also came out around that time too. Or on the back of CB radios, and they're still out there, they're still out there.

Speaker 3 27:31

Yeah, yeah, well before emergency services became encoded and you can't listen to them anymore. But back then, I mean you can still listen to CBs, I guess, if you were really interested at what the truckey was were talking about, but yeah.

Speaker 2 27:43

Jeff will probably know if he's if he's listening, he'll just just send us a note, will you, so as we know what's going on. So this would be a this would be once again, I'm of an age where I can say almost politically incorrect. Did you ever collect like I'll say it, erasers? No, and they're all different shapes. They're all different shapes. I remember there were there were girls at school that used to collect like they'd be like my little pony, or there'd be all different sort of they were all different colours and they were all different shapes.

Speaker 3 28:17

You could have not just a normal sort of grey and white eraser that was a rectangular. There were races that started coming out in yeah, they were branded and they were different colours, and yeah, you had to have the latest cool colours, and yeah, forgotten about that.

Speaker 2 28:34

Yeah, hamburgers, and there were cars and you know all all that sort of thing. But scratch and sniff. Can you still get scratch and sniff stuff?

Speaker 3 28:43

I don't know, but god, I want to. I was never really into scratch and sniff. Scratch and sniff people who weren't into it like me.

Speaker 2 28:54

Oh, look, it didn't matter what it'd either be books, it'd be whatever, and you'd it'd be a picture or something, and you just or or it could have been like there was a heap of things where you just scratch the surface and oh, it smells like banana, or oh, strawberry, and like it only had a certain life to it, but it was one of the.

Speaker 3 29:14

I just scratched it once, it was never coming back, was it?

Speaker 2 29:16

It was it was never never and yeah, just be careful where you scratch, that's all I scratch and snuff snuff.

Speaker 3 29:22

Scratch and sniff.

Speaker 2 29:24

You you were you obviously were brought up somewhere completely different to where I was.

Speaker 3 29:28

Sounds so wrong, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 29:31

Do you ever used to ever used to finger? Do you mean finger knitting was really, really big too? You could do you remember having a cotton reel and had to had put once again little nails in the top of the cotton reel, and you'd yeah, you'd ru you'd do a finger knitting thing and it'd come through the other end. But you could buy uh there was a there was a uh like a branded toy which was a oh I don't even remember the name of it, but it was a it was a knitting knitting Nancy. It was a knitting Nancy.

Speaker 3 29:56

Knitting Nancy? I've never heard of that.

Speaker 2 29:58

Yeah, it was it was really Wow, were you a knitting Nancy? No, no, no. Sorry, sorry. I was a handball guy though, like KP. We used to call it K.

Speaker 3 30:09

Oh, yeah, KP what did KP stand for?

Speaker 2 30:11

No idea.

Speaker 3 30:12

Because we used to say we're gonna go and play KP, and if you said that to kids today, they've got no idea what you're talking about. Absolutely but handball, yes, but KP, what did KP stand for?

unknown 30:23

I have no idea.

Speaker 3 30:23

What was it called that? Somebody had no. If anyone who's listening, please let us know what KP stood for.

Speaker 2 30:28

I I I it was I think kids used King Ping sometimes, Kingpin or Kingpin. And I'm thinking, well, where'd that name come from? Like of all the names, I don't I don't know where that came from. So you know, but there's so many things that just you know.

Speaker 3 30:42

I know we don't even start mixing, we almost could do a second podcast, couldn't we? But we're out of time.

Speaker 2 30:46

Oh gosh, that means uh I'm gonna get the Safari suit on then.

Speaker 3 30:50

If I'm gonna meet you down the Arasel, you make sure you're that'd be great.

Speaker 2 30:54

I'll I'll send you more than a photo. I'll send you a video of my dance moves.

Speaker 3 30:57

Beautiful.

Speaker 2 30:58

Can't wait. Yeah, we'll be. I'll see you down the club, down the disco with my roller skates on as well.

Speaker 3 31:04

Can't wait. See ya.

Speaker 2 31:06

Okay, so here.

Speaker 1 31:09

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Speaker 2 31:33

Ah, and before we go, let's give credit where credit is due. Kayleigh Harris and I came up with all the genius content for this week's episode. Our producer, Nick Abood. Well, he keeps the lights on and makes sure we don't accidentally upload a cat video instead of a podcast. So thanks for keeping us on track, Nick. Nick. Nick!