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Welcome to "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter," a heartwarming and insightful podcast celebrating the unique bond between a stepfather Davey, and his stepdaughter Hannah.
Join them as they explore the joys, challenges, and everyday moments that make this relationship special.
Each episode they take a topic and discuss the differences, similarities and the effect each one had one them
Featuring candid conversations, personal stories, and many laughs
Whether you're a step-parent, stepchild, or simply interested in family dynamics, "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter" offers a fresh perspective on love, family, and the bonds that unite us.
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Hannah and Davey record their first-ever video podcast episode while exploring cultural phenomena that have mysteriously disappeared from our everyday lives. Side by side at a new recording table, with cartoon versions of themselves on a banner behind them, this father-daughter duo shares generational perspectives on the things we've collectively forgotten.
• Hannah explains why white dog poo disappeared (less bone meal in modern dog food)
• The death of ringtone culture as phones stay permanently on silent
• MSN Messenger's unique features including the screen-shaking "nudge" function
• Crazy Frog: the inexplicable CGI character that dominated 2003
• How bluetooth music sharing created an early form of digital piracy
• MySpace's rise and fall as Facebook's predecessor
• The Blockbuster Video experience and why streaming killed it
• BlackBerry's transition from status symbol phone to cybersecurity company
• The disappearance of electronics retailers like Radio Shack
• Woolworths memories, including Davy's story about a fish landing on his head
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Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades, or you could choose one by contacting us via email, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok Links in bio.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter. Exceptionally special day today for us.
Speaker 1:This is really special, isn't it? Look, this is very weird. Yeah, this is really weird.
Speaker 2:The reason it's really weird is because we are recording from my house.
Speaker 1:Not only are we recording from your house, what else are we doing?
Speaker 2:We're actually filming it. We're filming it. We, we have. So we, we're gonna have a youtube channel. Yes, we are. It's been an exciting uh journey for us to uh come this far without actually filming anything apart from the odd snippets here and there. So we, yeah, we've, we've got some gear. Yeah, with no idea exactly.
Speaker 1:So let's just literally just have a quick kind of go around what we've got. So I've got a brand new road pod a procaster, yep, yep. We've got some mics. We've got a table, we're in your room and we've got a banner. Yes, we've got a banner that we've bought with us on it.
Speaker 2:Yes, it is very weird to sit next to a cartoon version of myself.
Speaker 1:I have to admit so. So we both just went like this.
Speaker 2:It's like we uh practice this yeah.
Speaker 1:So we're going to have this on. Uh, so yeah, we're gonna have this on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, Um, and glad to be able to show you guys us uh making it.
Speaker 1:What we actually look like, yeah.
Speaker 2:I wonder if anyone knows.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they're not really us, are they I?
Speaker 2:mean no, I can't remember the last time you wore a black blazer. To be fair Was it my wedding.
Speaker 1:Did you even wear black? Probably a funeral.
Speaker 2:Funeral. I do own trousers very similar to these, though.
Speaker 1:I've got some like dog-tooth trousers and I've just realised I'm not wearing socks.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you're not Sorry about that. Neither am I. Actually don't actually own a pair of black shoes, do you know? Oh yes, I do. That was a must do. That's a lie. I do, you must wear. I don't wear hooped earrings anymore. No, I've gone to huggies now and I've never worn a black bandana. But here we are anyway. Um, so this episode is all about kind of uh, what happened to? Yeah? Yeah yeah, like things that, things that have just disappeared yeah, don't exist anymore stuff that's been.
Speaker 1:That was kind of quite prevalent before, but now just gone.
Speaker 2:Well. I think prevalent is a stretch too far considering the first one that we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1:What are we going to talk about? First Hannah, what was the very first thing that popped into your head about whatever happened to?
Speaker 2:So I have to give credit to another podcasting channel that I saw this on. Have you plagiarised this on? Have you plagiarized? I have plagiarized this one and I can't. Now I can't remember what podcast it was on either, so I can't even credit them. But just so, this. This is not quite an original idea, but someone just happened to mention it and then I was like, yeah, I love that we have a sound pad now. Um, this is not going to get annoying at all.
Speaker 1:It really isn't, is it? Is it? Do you know? The best one we've got, though? The best one is this. I love this one, so I recorded your mum the other day, yep.
Speaker 2:Fact checker. Fact checker.
Speaker 1:Because of course she. Oh, by the way, actually, before we start, remember in the last episode we talked about GCSEs and O-levels. Oh yeah, your mum did do gcse's oh, she did do gcse's. She did do gcse's yeah yeah, she, uh, she made a big point of that ah, yes, I imagine that was a bit of an insult to her age it was a little bit, so she gave me a fact checker.
Speaker 2:Bless her, bless her, indeed. Yeah, oh well. Um, so yeah, the next, the first thing we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 1:We've completely lost. This is really bizarre. I'm loving this. It is bizarre.
Speaker 2:It's bizarre being in a completely different room and I feel like it's not that I've lost my groove, but it just feels out of routine it does feel a little bit off, and I'm not gonna lie, it feels a little weird, doesn't it?
Speaker 1:we'll we'll, we'll.
Speaker 2:It's nice to be able to film it, and there's a part of me that's like should I look at the camera, should I not? Maybe this is something that will come with time. So sorry for this first recording.
Speaker 1:The other thing is well, normally we face each other quite a lot and we're kind of sat side by side.
Speaker 2:So I, we're normally like opposite each other, but with the setup we have here, we don't have the facility to do that. It's more like a news desk, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like we're on Dun, dun, dun dun. I feel like it's like ITV.
Speaker 2:News at 10.
Speaker 1:Next on BT, bt, bt.
Speaker 2:Next on BDBD Podcast yeah, the weather today is it's actually quite sunny.
Speaker 1:No, it's quite good actually we are in England, where there is always shit yeah that's true. Anyway, shall we crack on with the episode.
Speaker 2:So, speaking of shit, what happened? That's a really good segue, thank you, and you interrupted it, sorry, you know. Okay, so talking of shit. Whatever happened to white dog poo?
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 2:It was everywhere, like when you were a kid. It was either on. I'm not talking about just dog poo in general, because I think people are just better at picking it up, but when did dog shit not become white anymore?
Speaker 1:So I remember when I was really young and we lived in Norwich, we had so where I lived.
Speaker 2:What year was this? 1952?
Speaker 1:It would have been late 70s, early 80s, so we had we would walk from where I lived in Mousehold up to Magdalen Street those in Norwich will know where I'm talking about and there was an alley and we called it Dog Shit Alley and it was always filled with white dog poo.
Speaker 2:Yes, always, yeah, it was everywhere, yeah, and it was really hard, but you don't see white dog poo anymore.
Speaker 1:You do not see it anymore. Why is this, Hannah?
Speaker 2:Right so it you do not see it anymore. Why is this, hannah right so? Um, it turns out it's disappeared because the changes in actual dog food, so people, so dog food companies, have actually made better food for dogs and essentially they're saying that there's there's less bone meal in it, which is the bone meal that was making it white and their poop white and chalky, so they put bone meal into the food yeah um, and then they were obviously pooping that out, because bone meal meal, I thought, was used to fertilise stuff.
Speaker 2:I thought it was like a fertiliser, so it's in crops and stuff. I thought it was a type of make-grow-faster juice.
Speaker 1:Make-grow-faster juice yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, turns out, dog food does not contain bone meal or as much bone meal anymore. My mind went somewhere then, which is highly, highly inappropriate yeah, let's just move on so yeah, bone meal yes, so bone meal, uh, yeah, that's what it is that's what it is. That's why dog poo is. You no longer see white dog poo, you just see conventional brown dog poo. But do you think actually it's now harder to see dog poo and you step in it more?
Speaker 1:do you know what? I haven't actually stepped in dog poo for a long while I have stepped in cat poo for a long time.
Speaker 2:Fox poo is around yeah well, we have like outside of our house. We've got like that gravel between the driveway and the um, the path and cats like to use that as a litter tray. So what we've done recently is put like lemon slices and lime slices because apparently they don't like citrus all in there. And our neighbours next door were like why is there lemons on the floor when life gives you lemons? Get rid of cat shit. And yeah, because we kept trampling, obviously, getting out of the car onto the shingle, stepping in cat shit and then bringing it in the house and the cat my cat is like oh, what's this?
Speaker 1:Well, oh, what's this? Well, I would like to say yes, you might think that because people are getting better at picking dog poo up, but I don't know about that you can't.
Speaker 2:You can't tell cat owners to pick up cat shit, because you don't know when the cat you don't take cats for a walk.
Speaker 1:Well, some people take cats for a walk, don't they?
Speaker 2:I would love to I would love to take wavy for a walk why, just because one, I think she'd actually genuinely really enjoy it, because she's a very curious cat, so I think she would genuinely enjoy it. Second of all, I just, I, just I just want to see people looking at me like what, the, what, the hell? I just want to be that crazy cat lady.
Speaker 1:It's all I aspire to be in this world okay crazy cat lady but yeah, I would say that you could argue that it's because dog owners are getting better at picking up dog poo yep, but, but. But I would say some dog owners are better at picking up dog poo Yep, but, but. But I would say some dog owners are better at picking up dog poo because you still see a lot of it around you do, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I do think there are times where, like you've had dogs, you've got a dog right now and, like you know, sometimes I'm sure there is a time where Archie will wander off off the lead and you won't know. He's pooped somewhere. Yeah, probably, but in a field like normally.
Speaker 1:He's off lead on a field, not on a pathway, which you'd expect, or someone just went into their pocket and they didn't have a, you know, a dog poo bag perhaps although saying that he does make a big song and dance out of it oh yeah, he does a little twirly twirly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tail up yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:You can see what he's doing. He runs around in a circle and then it's almost like he's creating a little whirlpool. Whirlpool, and then squats, does his business and then maybe he thinks.
Speaker 2:Maybe he thinks there's a black hole.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's like oh, maybe my poo is non-existent, yeah, whereas the my cat likes to take a shit, as she does, and then she just like scraps at the floor for ages, or the litter tray or the mud outside just for ages, just going like she's just trying to cover her. Maybe she's just like maybe she's got ocd, maybe she's just like really you know hype on, like you know covering her shit. Yeah, weird cat, that one okay, but she would genuinely love a little walk. I might do it and film it get her a little harness, yeah I think she'd.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I genuinely do think she'd love it. I wouldn't do it like mitzi, for example, my last cat yeah, not a chance this cat she'd love it. I wouldn't do it Like Mitzi, for example my last cat. Yeah, not a chance. This cat, she'd love it. I'll take her in the forest. Okay, I'll do it one day.
Speaker 1:So it turns out, then, that white dog poo no longer exists because of there's less bone meal. Less bone meal, so the poo is less chalky. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't remember the texture if I'm honest.
Speaker 1:It would just look like you know when you get those little stones in fish ponds. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it looks a little bit like that, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Cool Moving on.
Speaker 1:So actually, let's just do you miss white dog poo?
Speaker 2:No of course I don't miss white dog poo. I don't like any dog poo. But here we are, so the second one. By the way, we forgot to mention that I've done five and you've done five. So these first five are going to be kind of millennial. Maybe generation and yours are going to be more boomer, right.
Speaker 1:Gen X.
Speaker 2:Are going to be more Gen.
Speaker 1:X.
Speaker 2:So the next one that I come up with was what happened to ringtone culture. I don't know about you, but my phone is on silent all the time.
Speaker 1:My phone's on silent all the time. There's nothing worse than the phone going off.
Speaker 2:And the reason I wrote this one in particular into this podcast is because, unfortunately, I was in A&E on Monday and I put my phone on loud because I was waiting for 111 to give me a call back and I'd heard my ringtone for the first time in a very long time, both my text tone and my actual ringer tone.
Speaker 2:My text tone is Kim Possible's beeper, really yeah, because it came and I was like I recognise that sound and then I realised it was my own phone, because I haven't had sound on for ages. What was my ringtone? It was just a generic iPhone one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't really get ringtones anymore, do you? No, not like you used to.
Speaker 2:No, it's not a thing. And what I wrote down was do you remember ever passing a song via Bluetooth to your friends? Yeah, yeah, have I written that one in? I think you might have. We'll talk about that later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how you used to like that's used to kind of how you get ringtones as well was you used to pass them to friends, but also you could buy them on channels? Do you remember?
Speaker 1:You could.
Speaker 2:On the TV it was like text 412, and then they'd have like loads of options of different, like ones that you could choose from.
Speaker 1:So you could choose from anything, a lot of hard house tracks.
Speaker 2:Did you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember. Go Back to the Old School by Ewok Used to be on there.
Speaker 2:The one I seem to remember the most, and I've written it down as well was 50 Cents.
Speaker 1:What in the club?
Speaker 2:No, not in the club. I take you to the candy shop. I mean, I never had it as my ringtone, it wasn't my thing, but yeah, that was the time. What?
Speaker 1:a time to be alive. You can remember. They used to be like quid didn't they? You used to pay like 99p a ringtone, yeah which sounds mad now, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:That seems so expensive for a song.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I think they've gone because nobody has their phone on ring anymore.
Speaker 2:No, because we've all got watches that either buzz when you tell it or the vibration's good enough Like people just prefer that and that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know anyone who's actually got a ringtone.
Speaker 2:No, that uses it. Probably I mean, there is probably like still people out there that have it on loud. I imagine, because I put it on loud for a reason. So there are people that would need that, but I'm not one of them.
Speaker 1:people the other thing is well, quite often you're in places where you don't want the phone to go off, like you might be in the cinema or at work at work, or you might be at a wedding yeah, or a funeral funeral all of those you know, life stone events, life life stone life, milestone milestone events.
Speaker 2:Yeah, uh, yeah, so I think that is what's changed.
Speaker 1:I think it is because everybody just have their phone on silent, because even even like the apple ringtone when it does it, everyone just goes for the bog standard Apple ringtone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's what mine is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no one ever really changes it, it's just like, whatever.
Speaker 2:I just yeah, ringtones are, I think, a thing of the past.
Speaker 1:You've written crazy frog here.
Speaker 2:Ring ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding ding ding. Yeah, so we're going to get onto that later what crazy frog I'm bringing up crazy frog a little bit later.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're stepping ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 2:Oh sorry, sorry so any millennial listening to this podcast will probably remember this glorious time where we had a certain special access to an instant messaging service. It was ahead of its time. At the time, it was not whatsapp, it was msn, and msn was just did you ever use?
Speaker 1:msn, do you know? I was just saying I don't think I did because I think I was a little bit too old for it yeah, sad times, yeah, it didn't really kind of yeah, uh.
Speaker 2:So for any, uh, for any, generation x and above, peeps, um who, who didn't use msn, um, basically, it was an instant messaging service. It was something that you had on your computer. It was like physically installed, I think, think, on the computer.
Speaker 2:It wasn't for a browser. You logged in and then you had like your name and then you could do some funky emojis if you wanted to, and then you had almost like a status underneath, I guess, or something, and you used to put all your best friends and tag them, and the order in which you tagged those friends were how much you like them as well.
Speaker 1:So that could cause a bit, yeah, yeah you put your friends in order of how much you like them yeah, that was a thing.
Speaker 2:You ranked your friends. How awful is that? That's horrible. So bad, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, so when anyone like changed like around in their thing, you'd like, no, oh, I've dropped down in their thing, they don't like me as much anymore or they like someone else better. Oh, god, god forbid. But yeah, mn had these very cool functions that I kind of wish WhatsApp had, like the nudge feature, so when someone hadn't replied for a while, you could nudge them, and what it did was it shook the whole screen, yeah. And then there was like these really weird, like I guess, reactions we would probably call them. So that's where emoji started and where you actually had to type in physical emojis. So you, you type in the colon and then you type in a smiley I still do that now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, you can still do that, it's not, it's not illegal, but like illegal.
Speaker 2:There used to be like loads of different things for different emojis and secret emojis that people didn't know, and I'll be like, how do you get that one? And it was like. It was like colon three was like the little cute face which I've now actually programmed. This is how, oh, this is how millennial that I'm going to sound now is that I've actually programmed my phone so that when I type in those old codes it comes up with the emojis that we have today. I've I've put it in the keyboard section well, mine does that.
Speaker 1:So if I do like a colon and a bracket, it then comes up with a winky face, so it does on messenger.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure if it does on WhatsApp, though, but it does on Messenger. But yeah, on WhatsApp it doesn't. You have to either find the emoji or whatever, but we have loads more emojis than we ever did back then as well.
Speaker 1:So was MSN Messenger as well, the kind of the birthplace of ROFL and LOL and all of that, the abbreviations for that.
Speaker 2:LMFAO yeah. Like all of those things ROFL Roll on the floor laughing yeah, yeah, all of those were birthed from that. All of that kind of tech. Speak BRB. Lol, yeah, I think from a generational point of view that's where it all started. But now, as a millennial, I don't really use those as much anymore. Lowell, I find, is like it feels very boomer gen X to me now.
Speaker 2:I never use lol, I use, haha. But yeah, there was these funny little reactions, which was what I was going to say was that you send to someone and there was, like this woman that used to laugh so hard that she pissed herself there was a. There was a lips, like if you kissed someone, it was like massive lips that come up on the screen. There was a knock.
Speaker 1:I remember that actually, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, actually yeah. Yeah, there was like a fist that was like knocking. There was loads of like a skateboarding dude, like there was loads of like these reactions coming through. But yeah, for me it was like end of primary school, start of high school. That's where msn came in because I remember having people like ellie, who I know listens to this podcast. We had msn together and she was in a different high school to me, so I know I remember it. Definitely tail end of me for primary school.
Speaker 2:So we're saying tail end of 2006, 2007 yeah and then, yeah, all the way through, uh, all the way through high school pretty much until, uh, I think, until sick form, because sick form then we all had iphones and we all I messaged each other, or whatsapp came out yeah yeah, so that replaced that service. But yeah, what a time to be alive. I don't remember if you could send pictures to each other.
Speaker 1:I think it was purely text okay, so it's not like I remember you being on the computer doing it, yeah, like every night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, after school, every night MSN, yeah like it was just, it was just the done thing. We didn't go out and you know, go out and climb trees anymore. We were. That was probably the start of the digital coming into home yeah. Msm was the killer of vitamin D. That's when we all got rickets.
Speaker 1:Is that right, when we all got rickets, rickets, is that?
Speaker 2:right, cool, so we mentioned it earlier. But my fourth one to bring to the table is what the heck happened to Crazy Frog. Ring ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ba is what the heck happened to Crazy Frog. Ring ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ba ba. Let's go Crazy Frog, because it's Axel F right.
Speaker 1:It was Axel F. Yeah. So you guys are like oh, this is Axel F, and we're like no, it's.
Speaker 2:Crazy Frog.
Speaker 1:It was Axel F, Beverly Hills Cop, Axel F.
Speaker 2:He was like he had. He was a frog and he had a helmet and he was like on a little bike, and he was going along the road and he, he had a, he had a winky that was kind of the whole funny thing about crazy well, I was thinking about this.
Speaker 1:So you know, like tiktok, now you get tiktok trends, don't you? Yes, they don't last very long. They're like everyone, everyone's doing like this particular dance.
Speaker 2:It's a trend for a little while I feel like and then it goes off to obscurity, crazy frog was about for like two years, I feel. That's what it felt like, that's what I think I think Crazy Frog was like a trend, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:Everybody knew what it was, everybody was into it, and then suddenly it disappears. Much like a TikTok trend. Yeah, like that.
Speaker 2:Oh, just I, just I remember my granddad having a Crazy Frog like car, you know, like those suckers that go on the window yeah he had one of those, but in the back of his car and it was Crazy Frog and it had a winky.
Speaker 2:I think the fact that the theme tune to Crazy Frog was Axl F as well, because it's such a classic tune, it's very iconic yeah, it is very iconic for your era, and then it came into my era as well with this stupid frog could just I mean beverly hills cop was what? 85, 86 when it came out I don't, I didn't write down when crazy frog come out, but I would guess 90s yeah, late 90s.
Speaker 1:No, no, it had to be noughties because I was only four into the uh, because I was.
Speaker 2:I was born in 96, so yeah I was only four coming into the noughties and I definitely remember it very vividly. So I don't, I don't think it. My guess would be 2003 if I was really gonna okay I Okay, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1:While you continue talking, I'm going to Google Crazy Frog.
Speaker 2:But yeah, Crazy Frog. I don't know what happened to him, but that was the sound of the noughties. I feel like that was everything about it.
Speaker 1:I love Crazy Frog.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, it was just, I think, all around the playground. I'm saying playground because I think I'm certain it was like primary school Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding, you were right, 2003.
Speaker 1:Yes, 2003. Swedish, swedish CGI animated character. See, he had a little helmet. Yeah, yeah, there he is, look at his little helmet.
Speaker 2:Look at his little crazy frog. Oh, I can flash that on the screen. Crazy frog. Oh, I can flash that.
Speaker 1:On the screen.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I'll do that in post production.
Speaker 1:Oh post production.
Speaker 2:Post production. Look at you your little video when to see you yeah. But yeah, what a, what a ledge so apparently Apparently.
Speaker 1:In 1997, 17 year old student Recorded himself Imitating the noise Produced by a two stroke engine. He posted this on a website Caught the attention.
Speaker 2:Oh, that makes sense, the motorbike makes sense.
Speaker 1:now, ding, ding ding ding Posted it on a website, caught the attention of a Swedish television researcher who convinced him to perform it on air, and then it just kind of went from there really.
Speaker 2:And then it just went viral.
Speaker 1:It just went viral yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you think it was all things?
Speaker 1:I think so. Yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 2:Because 2003,. That must have been before Gangnam Style. Oh God, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you know? That was the most watched YouTube video.
Speaker 2:Was Was. I don't think it is anymore. Gangnam Style.
Speaker 1:Because I think it was the first one to reach a billion, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah. And it did hold the record for a while. But I to Baby Shark, don't you? I love Psy. Yeah, so good. I thought you were about to say I love Baby Shark. I thought that's what you were about to say.
Speaker 1:No, I love Psy. Have you seen him when he comes on stage and he jumps out? No, have you seen that? No, oh it's awesome. So he's like literally underneath the stage and he's on a trap door. And it like pings him, but he's like like this in the air and then just lands and then just pops into gang. It's just awesome. I love K-pop Wop.
Speaker 2:Wop, wop-bum, gangnam Style. Wop-bum Gangnam Style okay, and my last ever one was bluetooth-ing music to each other, which we mentioned. You've kind of already mentioned this, yeah yeah, so yeah, we used to bluetooth songs to each other, which absolutely sounds crazy, because that's not now what bluetooth is used for. It's not. It's not used for transferring data, it's more airdropping now, isn't it?
Speaker 1:well, no, drop stuff.
Speaker 2:Yes, sorry, yeah, it's replaced bluetoothing, but now we use bluetooth in a completely different way. We're actually using bluetooth right now, aren't we? We are indeed yeah our mics that we've got attached. So we've got our podcasting mics here and we've got little mics attached to our clothes as well, because we're filming now, so we need a barclay card your poor barclay card, I'm. I'm so sorry I'm providing the electricity in the house, uh, the studio, I guess.
Speaker 2:But yeah, you have, you are the financial contributor of this podcast and we're hoping that by having this on youtube that we can maybe hopefully gain a little bit might be able to monetize it a little bit of money back for us because we do this completely for free and as much as we would love to continue doing the podcast, you know, we've decided that, well, we've got to.
Speaker 1:now. I was going to say we've got to All this money.
Speaker 2:So yeah, blue-tipping music to each other, like I don't know if you remember, but I had that song that you're my sugar plum, pumpy ump, pumpy umpy umpkin, you're my sweetie pie, and basically, if anyone's now listened to this millennia, they're going oh my god, that was crazy and they had that. And then it goes, and then it. Then the music stops from that cute little thing and it goes. Oh, I'm sorry, I had a turntable at the wrong speed, want to try it again. And then I think it's a DJ Sammy song.
Speaker 2:And it goes like into this, like hard house, like yeah, it's like just really fast thing, and I remember feeling really naughty having that on my phone because it swore in it. I remember feeling like, oh, I hope, I hope, I hope mum and Dave don't don't don't ever listen to the Bluetooth stuff on my phone because it was that and I. But I loved the bluetooth stuff on my phone because it was that and I but I loved the. I loved the first bit and I loved the last bit. Um, but it had the. Who, the f*** you on there like I've got my sensor button ah well, you weren't quick enough I wasn't quick enough that time.
Speaker 2:Now now are we allowed to swear on youtube? Do I've got? Have I got to bleep them?
Speaker 1:out. Be fine, that'll be right. Oops, yeah, well, the youtube we said we're going to do as uncut, uncut, uncut. So the audio podcast I will edit, but the video one, just for ease, we will do it uncut.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I guess if you want to see an uncut version of these podcasts, go to our YouTube channel. I guess that we haven't even created yet. We haven't created it yet, but we would have created this by the time this comes out, I'm hoping.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I, but we would have created this by the time this comes out.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping, yes, uh, I've got to get my uh got to get my brain into gear. I guess you have indeed get that out, yeah, so, yeah, going back to the going back to the bluetooth. Thing can you remember when you used to bluetooth things to people, just because you could just send it to anyone, couldn't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, you could like you could be on a train, yeah, of a million people and send it to whoever, and it would just pop on their phone. I mean, they had to accept it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think you still can do that with AirDrop, can't you? Oh, airdrop, yeah, airdrop, you can.
Speaker 2:I think AirDrop you can do with friends if they have a number. I'm not sure if you can AirDrop to someone that you don't have on your phone Did you ever get any rogue Bluetooth I? Can't say I did, but I would have loved to, because it might have been quite funny, was it free. I mean, I think the original MP3s were not free.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:But because we all transferred it to each other, the first person that paid for it. Technically, it's piracy giving it to someone.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah it is.
Speaker 2:I mean in a strange roundabout way it is piracy, I guess. But it was a bit of a grey area at the time because everyone kind of did it oops, oops yeah as kids. I don't think we would have even appreciated the legality of that different world now. So why don't you talk about the things that you so?
Speaker 2:my whatever happened to whatever happened to my space my space court sort of missed me right, I was the first ever social media platform. Let's call it social media because it was a social media platform. It was the first.
Speaker 1:It was media, because I think it was. It was a social media platform. I think it was the first. It was like what Facebook should be. It was like you'd have your own page, you could put your own music on there, your own space, it was your own space. It was just all about you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was all about you, I guess. Yeah, I started my social media on Facebook. So I started my social media on Facebook. So that was just before. I think I'm just slightly too young.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's still around.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it is. Myspace is still around, but what's it used?
Speaker 1:for it's very music focused.
Speaker 2:I thought so, yeah, it is very music focused. A lot of things went that way.
Speaker 1:But hardly anyone's on it. It's just like. I mean, I'm sure if you ask people about MySpace, they'd say, oh, it's not, it doesn't exist anymore. Should we open a bdbd? Uh, myspace, just for the, for fun, just for shits and giggles. Yeah, yeah, why not? Why not? Let's do it. But it was, uh, it was in the early 2000s, it was pre-facebook, so I think facebook was around about 2003, 2004, I want to say 2003 and four. Yeah, because I remember I think I went on facebook about 2004, 2005 when I first started posting stuff on there, but it was.
Speaker 2:It was facebook that kind of took over from myspace, and that's when it started to decline I wasn't on facebook until, uh, 0809, I would say, because that was like the first starts of high school I think yeah, I think from a from a parental type of view. You probably didn't want me on it until I was a little bit more mature, and that's right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah yeah, I mean the, because even the owner, the creator of MySpace, I don't think, I think it was too early, I don't think they knew what they were doing with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they needed Mark Zuckerberg yeah, I think.
Speaker 1:I think Mark Zuckerberg actually basically took the idea.
Speaker 2:Probably I mean, I might've got this wrong but he might think he took the of, went from there and my space just kind of died a death. Yeah, I think facebook was probably like the, the word that the name facebook has probably come from phone book yes, so you. You once had a phone book. I'm currently re-watching um friends at the moment okay I've never watched friends from start to finish.
Speaker 2:So I I'm thinking and phoebe, in an episode recently phoebe went oh don't worry. Um, yeah, he goes, can I have your number? And she goes yeah, I'm in the book. And I'm like how crazy is that? Like they didn't give their number to each other. She just said I'm in the book as an in the phone book right how mad is that?
Speaker 1:yeah, oh yeah, you used to get phone book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everyone's number in it like and now like gdpr. Yeah, you don't, you don't, give me a number out because you'll get cold callers.
Speaker 1:You used to answer the phone and you used to say your number Gosh.
Speaker 2:What like eight too far. Yeah, that isn't my number, by the way, just randomly said it. Oh, my God, I have a really funny story about randomly saying stuff.
Speaker 1:Go on then.
Speaker 2:So on Monday I had a blood test.
Speaker 1:That's not funny.
Speaker 2:It's not funny, no no, that's not funny.
Speaker 1:It's not funny. No, no, I can't stand needles. We're both not a fan of needles. Terrified of, absolutely terrified. That's my fault, I'm sorry. Yeah, you have passed that. I've passed my phobia of needles onto you, I am sorry it's very annoying.
Speaker 2:So I had my blood test and I think of all the thing, all of all the needles that I've had in me, blood test, I think, is the worst the cannula I can deal with now and injections like actual vaccinations I can deal with, but a blood test different story. So mitchell came with me, my husband came with me and I decided that I was going to say the alphabet backwards while she was taking the blood to distract me okay, I have distraction techniques, yeah and basically, instead of talking with mitchell, I was talking at him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but instead of saying the alphabet backwards, I I start reciting some of my passwords. So the poor lady that was taking my blood now knows my bank password. But it's all good.
Speaker 1:Oh, talk about password. I watched. You watch Taskmaster, don't you, I do.
Speaker 2:I love Taskmaster. I'm watching it now.
Speaker 1:I watched an episode of Taskmaster yesterday where they had an egg and inside the chocolate egg they had to put a surprise in for Alex Horne.
Speaker 2:Ah, yes, I Inside the chocolate egg there to put a surprise in for Alex Horne.
Speaker 1:Ah, yes, yeah, I've seen this episode and Liza Tarbuck rang. No, it was Alice Levine.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she rang up Alex's Horne's wife and got his pin number. Yes, and she wrote his pin number and put it in the egg. And then he opened it up and he was like how do you know my pin number? He said, which is also my password for this, which? Is also my password for that. And then Greg Davies just let it out live on air what his password was. That was so funny. That was hilarious. That was so funny, yeah.
Speaker 2:It was a good one. I watched just on Taskmaster, just tangent. Last night we watched the one where it was the last one of season 13 or 14 or something, with Greg Davies and they had to make a noise. Uh, that and the task force. I then had to guess who made that noise. Oh, okay, and greg davies, does the wow monster, have you heard that? Or he goes wow, like that to be like a monster, um, and he guessed it wrong and it's just like the funniest thing. I love greg davies he's great isn isn't he Alan Davis?
Speaker 2:sorry, alan Davis made the Wow Monster. Oh right, okay, sorry, alan Davis, I got the two Davies mixed up.
Speaker 1:Back to MySpace.
Speaker 2:Sorry, yeah, yeah back to MySpace.
Speaker 1:So, yes, it's died because basically Facebook kind of took over from it and yeah, that's where it's gone Bye MySpace, Bye MySpace, by Myspace, by Myspace. But it was great at the time really it was great.
Speaker 2:It was great do you prefer Myspace or Facebook?
Speaker 1:do you know what I think? Myspace should come back love it.
Speaker 2:What is it about Myspace that you like over Facebook you?
Speaker 1:could design it yourself and it would have your own theme tune.
Speaker 2:It was completely kind of customisable a little bit like bibo, then a little bit like bibo, yeah. Yeah, that's where I learned how to html code yeah, maybe only fans.
Speaker 1:Oh only fans. You you sure? I don't know, I've never been on it I don't know what's on it I did jokingly say to the band once I said should we start an only fans account?
Speaker 2:because it's uh what start showing just like bits of your body. No, but that's the thing it's for your fans, isn't it?
Speaker 1:it's got overtaken by, you know, the sexual industry, the sexual industry the sexual industry, the sexual industry. It's you know, but it was it was a site that you could have your you know, have your fans on there. Only fans, only fans, exactly, yeah, so we're not starring in Only Fans, no we're not starting an only fans, no, hell, no, uh, so moving on, yeah, um swiftly blockbuster I mean, obviously, I know blockbuster, but I think again, I was too young to appreciate.
Speaker 2:Oh, do you?
Speaker 1:know what go going to blockbuster on a friday night, especially when a film came out, and it was the gamble if the video was there, or later on it was dvds yeah uh, you know you, you go running down there the day it was released and if it was there it was like yes yeah, it was so so good did they get more presumably more than one copy of the yeah, they did.
Speaker 1:yeah, when, when something new came out, they'd have quite a few copies of it. And if it was, if it was like a, like a real big blockbuster film, they would have loads, would they then?
Speaker 2:Because obviously over time They'd sell them off. I was going to say, would they sell them?
Speaker 1:off. Yeah, yeah, they'd sell them off. I had loads of.
Speaker 2:VHSs. So why did the model not work? What killed blockbuster Streaming? But no, I don't. I think blockbuster was before streaming.
Speaker 1:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:Streaming is what killed Blockbuster, because I would say piracy, maybe Because a lot of people used to film in the cinema. Can you remember that Getting dodgy copies of films and you could see people walking up? Not that we ever had dodgy copies of films.
Speaker 1:No, Hannah. The funny thing is when you see someone's hand go over the screen to hide it and then come back up again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or like the silhouette of people getting up in the cinema and walking across the screen. That I definitely didn't see, because we didn't have any piracy.
Speaker 1:But isn't it funny that that doesn't really happen anymore. Yet everybody's got a camera on their phone, yeah, which is much better quality of what it used to be, do you?
Speaker 2:think it's because they've got better technology to see the recording.
Speaker 1:I think so, but also it's easier to pirate things now, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I guess you don't need to sit there. No, you don't, no, no, no, and the quality is is was always terrible. Yeah, but yeah, I miss block. There is actually a twitter account said the last blockbuster oh sorry, x. Oh yeah, yeah. If you go on to that, it is brilliant, it is honestly, it is hilarious. I mean it doesn't actually exist anymore, but it didn't what the twitter account does, but the the store, yeah, but they just keep adding stuff, it just like it's so.
Speaker 2:So good, it is sad. I do remember video stores. Well, they were called video stores, but they were DVDs. When we went there was a little one in Longstratten, I don't know if you remember. Yeah, we used to go to that didn't we.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they, it was in.
Speaker 2:Straton, that's how we used to get our movies. Yeah, and there was a little one in Wyndham as well, where TG Wines is. Yeah, that used to be a video store.
Speaker 1:Do you know what? Honestly, yeah, I've just gone on there. It is still there. It's still active Go find it.
Speaker 2:It's not ours, go find it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how cool, brilliant. I mean just stuff like this If you get burned by the popcorn machine, please notify the staff immediately so we can put your face up on the burn wall. It's just like random stuff.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:Just random stuff. But yeah, I miss Blockbuster. It used to be great Absolutely, because I remember as well you used to say can you ring me up when it comes back in? My God, that call list must have been huge, yeah. And they used to ring you say, oh so, um, the new.
Speaker 1:you know that film you wanted is as has just come back in, and used to run down to the shop and get it god, like first come, first serve places late fees were always a bugger, though yeah yeah, late fees because you had to, you know, pick it up and then you had to take it back yeah, but when I lived on deere and road, there was a blockbuster yeah, I was gonna say because there was.
Speaker 2:It was there. I remember it being there but. I remember it being there. Closed like forgotten but, I think it's now um the big c charity shop yeah, it used to be sad, didn't?
Speaker 1:because you would see like the remnants of the blockbuster logo on the side of the building.
Speaker 2:Because, it was bright, blue and yellow, wasn't't it? Yeah, I remember that being there for ages and ages, before they actually refitted that, but now it's a charity shop.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:Moving on.
Speaker 1:Yep BlackBerry phones.
Speaker 2:I never owned a BlackBerry.
Speaker 1:I never owned a BlackBerry phone either.
Speaker 2:But where have they gone? Because they had the QWERTY keyboard. Yeah, that was kind of their whole thing and, and if I recall, the middle button wasn't uh, it was like a mouse wheel yeah, it was, it was thing in the middle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, used to rather than a touch that's right thing. Yeah, yeah, um. Well, it was. It was like the big, the best thing to have. It was like early smartphones.
Speaker 2:It was like everybody wanted the BlackBerry and it probably another replacement for MSN was BBM, right, yeah. Blackberry Messengerberry Messenger yeah, which was like an instant messaging service.
Speaker 1:I think BlackBerrys were much. You know, they were seen as being the more professional.
Speaker 2:Yeah, prestigious yeah. You know, if you had a BlackBerry, you were professional, you had a BlackBerry and you had one of them Bluetooth like little in-ear things, oh my God I mean, but to be honest, those Things have now been replaced by AirPods.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that never left the you know, that's not left people's technology yeah.
Speaker 2:It had like a clip that went around your ear right, and then the whole thing just came out and then it was like a little mic, almost like a stage mic.
Speaker 1:But I think what killed, what essentially killed the BlackBerry, was iPhones. Yeah, you know the fact that smartphones because you didn't need the screen screen, because your screen would be your key pad and everything else that you need.
Speaker 2:so, yeah, smartphone, the apple um iphone apple, android apple kill blackberry but apple and black I've just realized they're fruits yeah, apple and black orange apple, blackberry apple and blackberry. What's the crumble? It's very nice rhubarb. Well, no.
Speaker 1:No, okay, the rhubarb. The rhubarb, but they apparently stopped making BlackBerry phones in 2016.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's quite late to the party.
Speaker 1:I thought they died a death soon.
Speaker 2:Although a lot of people I've got to be careful how I word this a lot of people think Nokia have died, but they actually now Nokia do like drones and stuff in the mining and the procurement and supply chain industry. Okay, so, yeah, nokia, maybe they don't make phones anymore as such, but they do make other equipment that is very, very prevalent within the the industry spaces that they need it for.
Speaker 1:Just fun fact for you there well, apparently blackberry actually shifted its focus to cyber security, yep and also enterprise software there you go.
Speaker 2:So there you go blackberry, orange and apple. Yeah, there you go interesting.
Speaker 1:Uh, next one, radio shack. Now, radio shack was a shop that was. It sold everything electronic. Wise love shack, no radio shack. So it was like the go-to shop you would would go electronics, gadgets, diy tech projects all in the 80s and 90s we don't really have a gadget shop anymore. No, not really.
Speaker 2:There's one like where's that place in Norwich that you've got like curry? Well, curry, I guess, is tech.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:But like they had, what is it? They had an Ikea there and Jolly's and there was like a tech shop there. I Ikea there and Jolly's and there was like a tech shop there, I can't remember what it's called. It used to be there. I don't think it's there now. I don't think the shop exists. It's kind of like oh man, it's really bugging me. But yeah, I guess Curry's is the equivalent of yeah. I mean, curry's, I guess is the closest you'd get to an electronic shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. They used to Maplins as well.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's exactly what.
Speaker 1:I was thinking of Maplins, maplins, yeah, yeah, yeah, maplins.
Speaker 2:And AO, io, ao. Sorry, it used to be in Chappefield. It was like a store that you went in down in the stairs and you went into the basement level of Chappefield. Oh God, what was it called?
Speaker 1:I think it's now just AOcom as well, haven't you? I mean, that's more secondhand c. Yeah, cx is more, I would say like trade yeah yeah, definitely but no, radio shack was where you went for it because, of course, back in the 80s and 90s, well, I mean like now your phone is your phone, your music player it's absolutely whereas radio shack would sell everything separately, so you would have all these different gadgets yeah I mean radio shack now would be somewhere you would go to to go and buy a drone.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's that type of thing, so it's. But.
Speaker 2:I can't say I ever remember one.
Speaker 1:No, I mean Radio Shack died because of.
Speaker 2:Amazon.
Speaker 1:Amazon online shopping, the bigger retailer stores where you could bet things a lot cheaper. Yeah, that's why. Yeah Right. Have you ever heard of the? Have you ever heard this is the last one, although I do have a bonus one Ooh, have you ever heard of the store Finefair?
Speaker 2:No. What did Finefair do?
Speaker 1:You know Iceland. Mum's gone to Iceland. Oh yeah, finefair was that.
Speaker 2:Oh, like farm foods yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, it you would go to. It was a big supermarket chain really popular in the 1980s Massive, bright, yellow and blue kind of branding. Everyone went to Fine Fed to get all their frozen goods.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:It was like the go-to place.
Speaker 2:We have Food Warehouse. Now we do. It's the equivalent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then Iceland kind of came about, but yeah, it disappeared. It was a sad day when Fine Fed disappeared.
Speaker 2:It really was what was like their speciality Frozen, well, frozen, yes, but did you go in there? Was there like a specific dessert that you liked from there, or a specific meal? Oh God, do you?
Speaker 1:remember I used to make like a super whip. You can't get that anymore. What's super whip?
Speaker 2:An ice magic.
Speaker 1:The squirty stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's called Kraken. Now Is it. You put it on ice cream, you still get it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's like a chocolate sauce and you put it on ice cream and then it solidifies and then you crack it Kraken. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, well, mash it I would. Yeah, it still exists.
Speaker 1:Mash it, mash it, it'll go hard. That was the whole point. Yeah, but apparently in the 90s Fine Fair was bought out by Safeway.
Speaker 2:Ah, good old Safeway, and then.
Speaker 1:Safeway was bought out by Morrison's, who we both worked for.
Speaker 2:Yes, we did At different times At different times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Way different times I worked at Morrison's 25 years ago 25.
Speaker 2:Oh God, how many years ago for me, I.
Speaker 1:How many years?
Speaker 2:ago for me, I don't know what am I 28 now, 10 years 10 years 10 years ago. I'm old.
Speaker 1:But I thought I'd have a bonus one.
Speaker 2:Because it's bonus dad, bonus daughter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'd have a bonus one, so the last one.
Speaker 2:Whatever happened to?
Speaker 1:Woolworths. Oh, I know Woolies, woolies, now I worked for Woolies. I went. I know Woolies, woolies, now I worked for Woolies. I know I went for Morrisons and I went to work for Woolies.
Speaker 2:I've got Now. That was a sad day.
Speaker 1:That was a sad day. I've got a lot of love for Woolies.
Speaker 2:I've got a lot of fond memories of Woolies.
Speaker 1:Woolies. It was a great shop. It was. Everybody would go to Woolies.
Speaker 2:Woolworths was great in Norwich particularly because uh it was called Big W yeah, and they had a certain pick and mix yeah, that everyone used to do and then sneak it into Odeon cinema and you take it into the cinema and eat it yeah that was the best part of Woolworths. But that's not my fondest memory of Woolworths. My fondest memory of Woolworths was the one in Wyndham. Yeah, and I had just had several teeth removed at the dentist oh, yeah, I remember that, yeah, yeah so I was very upset yeah about this.
Speaker 2:Obviously it was a bit traumatic and, uh, mum treated me to or treated us, I guess the family to Tomb Raider.
Speaker 1:I remember, yeah, it was on.
Speaker 2:I think it was PS2 yeah and I think it's the one where you do the motorbike in Tokyo now there's going to be a lot of listeners who are gaming related, who know exactly what game I'm on about, but I can't remember what it was called. Yeah, you bought me that when I had all my teeth out and.
Speaker 2:I once accidentally stole from Woolworths not to say that I'm the person, and it was an accident, it was, you know when I went in there and mum was like, oh, you need some tights for school, because Woolworths was the type of place that you could get anything.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you went to Woolworths for everything Clothes, shoes electronics toys.
Speaker 2:It done everything but like grocery food didn't it. It done snacky food, but not like groceries and I walked out. I got these pair of tights and then mum paid everything, but I was still holding these tights and I walked out of the store with the tights in my hand and I was so upset that I went back in and I did pay for them.
Speaker 1:Good, we did.
Speaker 2:Mum will remember that you don't need to fact check that, because we went back and paid for them and I felt so guilty that I'd walked out the store with them.
Speaker 1:that I shoplifted, bless you. Yeah collapsed in 2008. Now I left woolies in 2003, no 2004, so it all went downhill from when you left well, part of the reason I left because it because I got made redundant because woolies was failing yeah woolies was failing, then it was really. It was. You've already mentioned it.
Speaker 2:Big w was the downfall of woolies my favorite story of yours ever is a story of you at Woolies. Can you please tell everyone the story about the fish?
Speaker 1:When I was talking outside on the phone to your mum and a fish landed on my head. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:That is just the craziest story. I know that is like the story but the fact that a fish fell on your head. So Woolies in Norwich City Centre, I guess you could call it is on Riverside, so obviously there's a river nearby and we have we've come to the conclusion that was probably a bird had scooped a fish out of the river it was a tiny fish.
Speaker 1:It was like a little stickleback type fish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I just the thought of you, just like on the phone outside, just like plop, and then you just look at the floor and you're like there's a fish that just fell on my head. It's the craziest thing, bird shit. Yeah, fair enough, not funny. An entire fish. Was it like wiggling or anything, or was it dead? No, it was dead.
Speaker 1:It was dead, it just like, just like on the top, I just felt it and then when I looked down, there was like a fish laying on the floor. I was on the phone to your mum once before and a bird chat on my head. Yeah, maybe it's like phoning mum. In precarious situations, stuff falls on my head.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember you used to have a very good rapport with the hot dog man.
Speaker 1:Oh, dave the hot dog man, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:He's still here. Yeah, and I remember you bringing home goodies everynie, the pooh mat yeah remember I used to slide on that in the garden that's right, oh yeah that was the best when you work there some jobs have to have perks like that, yeah well, what it was is because it's stuff that was so, so badly damaged.
Speaker 1:You couldn't sell.
Speaker 2:Well, no, you couldn't sell, but we used to. Then they used to sell it a score or something.
Speaker 1:A beanbag where someone had sliced it with a box cutter knife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's in a great big gash across the side of it. We couldn't sell it, but I got it for like a quarter of the price.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you could just go home and sew it up. Yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly yeah, very cool. Yeah, so I think, what happened to all of us? Well, apparently it's still online. I did google it.
Speaker 1:You can still get yeah, it does still exist in some form.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's still there yeah and the unit that that was walrus in norwich in particular as well, is full of other things now, so it's not like it's a dead space in the middle of norwich either, like they managed to fill it really well and I think it's actually always full like of the units in there, right? Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen it not like have a unit in there because it's now split up into several there's four.
Speaker 2:I think it's four or five, yeah you got h&m, you got poundland, you've got b&m b&m, that's. That's two, isn't it two? Years uh, matalan is there I think. I think I'd like a hobby craft. There are five, yeah, and then there's now also like a little card factory on the that's that's right To think that was all one shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all of that was one shop.
Speaker 2:Well, I assume it's all one shop and your warehouse. Yeah, yeah, crazy to think of now. But yeah, and the biggest thing of Big W at all was that McFly played there, didn't they?
Speaker 1:They did. Do you know what? I remember? I was the one who opened the door up, so it was like hundreds of kids outside waiting to see McFly. Because they were huge at the time. Yeah, they were massive. I mean, they were still kids themselves back then. Yeah, you know, this is like early McFly, when they were really, really big, and I remember Can you imagine, like now, what band would rock up outside? Mammal, not Fish.
Speaker 2:Mammal, not Fish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Sorry, carry on with your story. So I opened up the front doors and as I opened them up, there was just this scream of like hundreds of people and there was like McFly directly behind me. Very, very cool. So I was standing there in the middle of McFly. That was great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very, very cool yeah.
Speaker 1:They were, honestly, they were really young, but they were so nice, they were great. And when I said because we had their post and I went in to see them, I said, look, would you mind signing this for my daughter? They're like, yeah, yeah, cool, what's her name? And they all did it and they were all really really nice of it.
Speaker 2:Whee there you go.
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