The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Wham, Snoods & Glen Medeiros: Olga Thompson

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

The Phonebox Podcast is back for season 6! This episode we chat snoods, Glen Medeiros, Face from the A-Team and the gorgeous George Micheal with the amazing comedian Olga Thompson. Also known online as the hilarious 'Big Fat Greek Mother'.*WARNING* Do not listen with little children as we do chat about Father Christmas.Be sure to go and follow Olga on Instagram here and TikTok here.Listen to Swing The Mood by Jive Bunny here!For more of me follow @brummymummyof2 on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok and follow the @phoneboxpodcast account on Instagram for polls and nostalgic fun.If you have any guest suggestions, topics you would like me to cover email [e-mail] and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!#90s #1990 #90smusic #80s #1989 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Call 1-866-531-2600 or visit connectsontario.ca. Please play responsibly. With the Fizz loyalty program, you get rewarded just for having a mobile plan. You know, for texting and stuff. And if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan, you're not with Fizz. Switch today. Conditions apply. Details at fizz.ca. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Phone Box Podcast with me, Emma Conway,

and welcome back to season six, everybody. Hope you're well. I had a couple of weeks off. You have missed that my son went and did his secondary school primary transition day. So I've just been mainly crying all morning. What else have you missed? I saw Taylor Swift. I'm taking mother to see Starlight Express. Oh, it's just all been going on. The sun is shining. It's been raining this morning,

but I've got a very sunny disposition person. That's supposed to be a compliment, Olga. That was a weird. Sunny disposition. Sounds like something you need to take tablets for. I've got a sun disposition. Yeah, that was a weird funny disposition sounds like something you need to take tablets for yeah that was a weird introduction but Olga was on the podcast this morning right first of all before we start could you tell everybody where they can find you you can find me in the kitchen next to the cooker most of the time because I've got three boys but otherwise you can find me at big fat greek mother on all socials everywhere you're

on tiktok you're on instagram at greek mother uh i'm even on linkedin but i haven't been on there for about eight years linked linkedin back in the yeah i don't really know what to put on linkedin i don't really i'm just like isn't it so she's she's on today and we're gonna be and i was just thrilled i asked when she was 14 could you give me your year when you were 14? 90, better work it out, didn't we? We need a calculator. Okay, 1989. And for me, this is a thrill because it's rare to have an 89.

You're like a Pokemon. You're like a rare Pokemon. Oh my gosh, I'm like an aging gremlin. No, you're not. You're like the little fluffy ones before they get water put on them. The Mowglies or whatever they're called. So yeah, 1989. But I like to ask people questions. And it's like a little bit of a guessing game. So the first question I'm going to ask you is,

can you name at least one of the top selling singles in 1989? Gosh, let me think. Top of the Pops, Thursday Night, My Mum's Doing a Barbecue in the Garden. It would have been Erasure. No, but I do like that. You've got one more guess. Would you like a clue? Yeah.

Okay, I'm going to give you a clue to one of the top four. We've got a girl band. Oh, a girl band. Banana Rama? No, but that would have been a good guess. No, another one. Another girl band. Shakespeare's Sister?

No. Oh, my God, you're coming out with all the good ones. These should all be in it. Be with me. No, Eternal Flame, The Bangles. No! That's a good song, isn't it? So the top four songs in 1989 is Jason Donovan with Too Many Broken Hearts at number four.

Classic. The Bangles, Eternal Flame at number three. Swing The Mood by Jive, Bunny and The Master Mixers. Oh. How does that go? I by Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers. Oh. How does that go? I remember Jive Bunny. They did the whole twist again. Yeah.

Come on, everybody. Come on, everybody. I'll leave a link in the description so you can go and hear that. And number one was Wide on Time by Black Box. Oh, that was a tune. Oh, my goodness me. that's really taken me back hang on we got we got yeah i was 14 then 14 yeah we got it wrong okay so that's the singles now we're going to move on to the films yeah i wanted to guess one of the top five films in 1989

and there's some great ones back to the future back to the future part two well done that's number four a visual because i'm visually astute you remember that back to the future was one of the top films in 1989 okay back to the future part two number five was rain man loved rain man yeah number five was rain number three Loved Rain Man. Yeah, number five was Rain Man. Number three, Shirley Valentine. Oh, I love a bit of Shirley Valentine. I think I'd like to watch that again now, being older.

The original is so good when she's frying the eggs in the kitchen and he's horrible to her and she goes out and meets Costa the waiter. Oh, it's great. I love the old 80s movies. I bet she was only like in her 30s, wasn't she? And at the time, I think I bet she was only like in her 30s wasn't she and at the time i think i thought she was like 90 or something do you know i'm googling how old was shirley valentine that's what i'm doing yeah we the people need to know what you guess how old you think shirley valentine was how old was 40 in the film shirley how old was shirley valentine

42 there you go 42 for liver puddle that was my liver puddle and there we go 42 so she was a little bit older than i thought she was okay so we've got that and then also number two the original batman oh yeah i wasn't into the batmans not massively into the batmans i loved it it was the first this is such a boring fact but I love boring facts about the 80s and it was the first 12 film do you remember when 12 films

were introduced you had like you PGE then it was 15 80s this was the first 12 one oh yeah I do

yeah my dad took me and I don't think I slept for about three weeks because I was so terrified and number one Indiana Jones

and the Last Crusade oh now we're talking now we're talking bit of india did you fancy harrison ford it oh so much so that when my husband and i got together we were we were working out in the middle east and we were in the back of a taxi before we got married and we said if we ever kept have kids what we're going to call them and one of the names because we both love harrison ford was harrison har Harrison so there you go oh that's nice oh I know it's a bit sad but yeah it's not that Harrison Ford's an icon I love that name as well I just think Harrison's such a distinguished name yeah I would love it okay so we've covered the films and we've covered the um music i want to know where you grew up and what was your

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Please play responsibly. With the Fizz loyalty program, you get rewarded just for having a mobile plan. You know, for texting and stuff. And if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars for having a mobile plan you know for texting and stuff and if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan you're not with fizz switch today conditions apply details at fizz.ca i grew up in north london uh palmer's green or palmer's greek as it's known because there are so many greeks there massive concentration of cypriots and i grew up in a very greek house very great greek house my parents were immigrants to the uk in the 70s and my bedroom was kind of like doilies and white wood

paneled wardrobes with like gold, fake gold, which my dad got off Mick the Irish at the back of his van. It was 80s. And then I had this flowery bedspread, awful, horrible flowery bedspread and matching curtains. And then the walls were covered from smash hits. Covered, I had, but mainly it was wham. Okay, so you're a wham girl. Wham girl. You cut me open, it's Wham. Okay, so you're a Wham girl. I'm a girl.

You cut me open, it's Wham. There's nothing else for you here. So were you Andrew or were you a George? How dare you? George, George. It was George Michael and my maiden name was Michael. So in my head, we were like related. I made it up, imagined it that we were related

and that he I used to dream about him that he would spot me at one of the concerts and get one of his um security guards to go hey go get that girl and he'd ask me out and we he'd say can I go and ask your mum and dad if I can take you out to McDonald's that was the dream but the trouble is if you were related that would were related, that would have been... Yeah, that would have been incest. But in my head, it was like, distant relation, like second, third, fourth cousins, allow it.

Oh, I just, honestly, all I wanted to do was just love him and marry him. I still don't know why we went to McDonald's in my dream when he's obviously made of money. He could have taken me somewhere nicer, but never mind. But I think when we were little, McDonald's was kind of nice to go to. It was the Nando's of its day. Yeah.

Let me think of somewhere else. Yeah, it was the Nando's of its day. It was like... Yeah. So George could have took you to McDonald's, then sadly he would have found out you were relatives and then it would all have been over. And plus he was gay, so it wouldn't have worked out.

Yeah, but we didn't know that. How did we not know that then? I don't know that. With the white ankle socks pulled up high over the fake tan legs and the blow-dried hair and the little, you know, his waist, little tiny waist showing. I can't believe I didn't know. I was shocked when I found out.

I was like, how? But we were meant to get married. Honestly. There was quite a few, though, wasn't there? There was like, how did we, like Elton John, nobody knew that. It was when you look back. Yeah. Wild times. Wild times.

Were you very sad when he passed away? I was devastated. I cried. I played, I had the original, some of his original LPs, and I played them on my record player and I just cried because obviously he was an icon but it was part of my childhood that died as well you know um he saw me through a lot of things he saw me through you know first love and he and all of those pubescent feelings that you kind of rattle around inside of you you

know he helped me process that and so yeah I was kind of aching for that too when he left what was your favorite wham song oh okay um I love okay I love I'm your man I'm your man only because Emma I danced for the whole of my school in a talent contest, wearing black leggings, a red snood as a skirt. And I danced to I'm Your Man with like fingerless gloves for the whole school. And I had a tambourine and everything. And I was a nerd up to that point. And then once I did that dance, I began. I was seen. I was one of the cool kids. It took me a long time to get there. But that song has stayed with me forever.

Every time I hear it. So let me get this straight. You wore a snood as a skirt and that's what made you cool? That's what made me cool. And everyone was like, wow, if you're going to do it, do it right. Yeah, is that Olga? And everyone was like, oh my gosh, is that Olga? Is Olga? What, no. Olga Michael? No was like, oh, my gosh, is that Olga? Is that Olga?

What? No. Olga Michael? No. We didn't know you could dance like that. And, yeah. Yeah, I could, guys. I'm a bit of a.

Wow. So why did you go for a snood as a miniskirt? Because I was creative with what I had. My mum wouldn't buy me anything else. And, yeah, it was bright red. And I matched the red gloves. And I was, yeah, that was my real taste of fame I like I like that that was you peaked then it's been downhill ever since downhill ever since

it has actually been downhill ever since I'm not gonna lie yeah I I like to give out um phone box points to people who bring up things on the podcast that haven't been mentioned you're the first person to mention a snood a snood is it a snood or a snud i in my head it's s n double o d but i could be wrong or is it a snoud snoud i think in birmingham would be a snud you could just snud you could just snud on um yeah the snood was an absolute classic if you don't know what one it was like a scarf with no an infinity scarf no but it was attached sorry ours was attached it was like a it was like a yeah it went around your head but if you pulled it all the way down you made a mini skirt oh god i missed out on that okay so we had lots of grease posters a lot of people have had flowery, like, Laura Ashley duvets.

So apart... Not Grease posters, sorry. Wan posters. Apart from Wan, what other music do you like? I loved a bit of... I ventured towards the Eurasia, Depeche Mode, a little new romantic phase as well. That's as I was getting older. But I also loved... Oh, I loved... um that's as i was getting older but i also loved oh i loved um

i remember the break dancing videos that came out do you remember those um i did but i i also my dad loves and still loves shaka khan shaka khan everybody everybody shaka khan loves shaka khan and in his lp album of of Shaka Khan is a picture I've drew to daddy this is Shaka Khan it's a picture of Shaka Khan oh that's so cute I've got one of her original late LPs as well actually yeah you love a bit of Shaka Khan do you want me to draw you a picture and send it to you so you can put it in two Olga this is Shaka Khan and send you a picture now. I feel like you have to now. I've got to do it. Otherwise,

you know, I'm not treating you fairly. Okay. So what kind of school did you go to and where were you in the hierarchy? Okay. So I went to comprehensive school in North London in the hierarchy up until it was, you know, like you have BC, AD,

it was before snud and after snud. So I was not a cool kid. I quite chubby i had glasses i started school not speaking english because my yeah yeah my grandma brought me up so my mom and dad could work and i was always like the outsider so i was bullied at school quite badly and i had a lot of you know gosh it's going a bit deep now but I really struggled at school actually to find myself and so I became that studious kid but then as puberty hit you know around 13 14 things started to change for me and discovered wham started to get a bit cool my mum was a hairdresser she gave me a mullet nice nice permed the back a few highlights in the front nice bleached my sideburns i was going places you know so and then around about the time the dance happened so yeah i i wasn't the cool kid at all if you see pictures of me i look like kind of a young chubby glenn

medeiros remember glenn medeiros um you get another point because you're the first person to mention the icon that is glenn medeiros that that hair the curly hair that was me i was glenn medeiros that i had that i looked like him so it took me a long time to get cool but it was like very towards the end of my my teenage years before I went to uni that the cool stuff happened um I mean I thought I was cool I probably wasn't but yeah before while to fit in before Snud and after Snud before Snud and after Snud I like this I want you to write because you were a writer I want you to write a Netflix film called that before Snud after Snud after Snud. After Snud, yeah.

It would play you in the film and you can't say Glamadero's. Oh, let me think. Maybe one of them young, maybe one of them young ones or maybe Ariana Grande or somebody like that. Somebody, yeah,

need a young character, need a young actress. And who would play George Michael in this movie? Because he could be your love interest. Michael, who could play George Michael? Who could play George Michael? Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. Oh, my gosh, I can't think. Who'd play George Michael?

What do you think? Just pick a fit man. Well, I love Ryan Gosling. There you go. We'd have to, like, chubby his cheeks up a bit and make him give him a bit of a tan yeah I mean

yeah Barbie tan status yeah maybe you just play yourself then in the movie and then you can have him as George well I tell you what would be better

is if I played George because the tash is kind of there yeah you play George okay apart from apart from george michael did you have any other real big crushes real big crushes george michael obviously john johnson miami vice um do i get points or has that been mentioned that's not been mentioned i was just thinking you obviously liked a man with a tan i like some people stand in the darkness wait a minute was baywatch when was baywatch because i love that or was that that might be early kind of 90s that was i think

i loved kips uh i love the 18 oh lovely oh lovely Who else did I fancy? Musical men. Anyone I don't care to talk about. Anybody you fancy? Oh, who else did I fancy in the 80s? Oh, oh. George Michael, a little bit Duran Duran. Like, because I would say that Don Johnson, bass, and George, they're kind of older men.

Like the men that people fancy now, like Timothee Chalamet, they all are young. They are young. No, I can't think of anyone young that I fancied. I really didn't. It was a bit disturbing, actually. You liked a man with a hairy chest and a tan. Yeah, I did. I liked the older guys.

Oh, yeah. Just doing something dangerous, riding a bike with fake tan and hairy chest that's so dangerous okay so what what apart from the snood which which wasn't a fashion faux which was a fashion success did you have any fashion faux pas uh fashion faux pas probably probably the rara puffball skirt didn't work just looked wrong on me because I was quite chubby and I had this big puffball skirt and it just looked wrong it just looked wrong so the puffball skirt no uh no and also fashion faux pas my mum would crochet matching identical dresses for me and my sister another fashion faux pas who wants to look like their sister in an identical dress

not me um anyway once I got to like 12, 13, I refused to wear it. You just went, right. I went, all right. Do you know what? I went a bit Frank. You just went a bit. No, you went Phil Mitchell. Oh, all right.

I was like, what the heck is that? I just looked over just to make sure. Could you imagine if I'd gone and I'd been replaced with Phil Mitchell? No, but I made this ungodly sound. You went, all right. All right. did you imagine if i'd gone and i've been replaced with phil mitchell this ungodly sound you went all right um was your mom really upset when you stopped wearing much your dresses she was but then she moved on to my brother so my brother is 13 years younger and she had great pleasure from dressing him in little miniature snooker player outfits because font hill road if anyone's a north london person font hill road in the 80s was where you got like cheap fashion fake copy

fashion like stuff in the high street you can get it there and you could buy these like hideous gold miniature suits for babies so she kind of was happy that she could do that but um yeah i had some terrible terrible fashion mistakes and I thought I looked so good so good I had this other oh my goodness I had this other swimsuit with hot stuff on it and blazing across the chest just like hot stuff but I matched it with my school plimsolls that was another mistake a lot there was a we've had a lot of people with very sexual things on them at the age of like 12. Wrong. Like, can you imagine now?

Hot stuff. And me standing there like really innocent, had no idea. But it was very dodgy, Emma. Yeah. If my 13-year-old walked in with a hot stuff top on, I'd be like. No, babe. Take it off. We've had a lot of dodgy tops with dodgy we've had like arrows pointing down we've had like a lot of a lot

of dodgy tops so yeah that was that was a real trend is there anything you wore then that you'd wear now oh I'll tell you what was lovely there was a shop called probably you won't remember this or anyone out there but it's called what she wants you don't remember what was that just a london shop do you think or was it like a nation shop uh because there was i know there was tammy girl but there was another one called what she what what did she want she wanted a green it was like a kind of Spanish flamenco thing but in a jumpsuit emerald green with a gold um tassel belt kind of like cuffed joggery bits to it and then like massive sleeves and you could pull it down so it was over your shoulders as well nice yeah I wore that to my best friend's birthday at Burger King and I was...

If George Michael had been in that Burger King, he would have... With another date, because he likes fast food chains. He would have just... He'd have been like, is that my fourth cousin? Because if so, I'm asking her out. Honestly, George. All roads lead back to home. That outfit sounds good.

So you'd wear that now if it existed in a bit of an adult size. I don't have anywhere to go to, but I'd wear it. Probably around Morrison's or something like that. You go thrifting, wear it thrifting. Maybe you'll find it when you're thrifting. Amazing. Oh, that was a lovely outfit. Wish I'd kept it.

Probably wouldn't fit me now I might just fit one of my arms but yeah I had a nice pink jumpsuit that I often think of me and my sister have matching ones and I often think about that wouldn't fit my ankle it wouldn't it would fit my daughter maybe it wouldn't even get on my ankle okay so what do you think your greatest teenage success was the snud uh uh but also i think also becoming college chairperson six form chairperson what does that mean so in the sixth form at the school we had someone to be nominated chairperson for the sixth form and that was me okay what what does it mean what did you do i'm in charge of the tuck shop nice you're in charge of the tuck shop so did you take the money and give out the change did you buy the stock um i would um i would sell sell the wares and also i mean i actually don't really do many much

much actually that doesn't sound like a chairperson's job does it selling in a tuck shop well so i think it was more of a kind of status thing. What else? What else? What else? Come on, let me think. Did you get a badge? No, but I started wearing blazer suits at age 16.

Okay, age 16, I would have been, that would have been 90. 91. So at 91, you would turn up to school in a blazer suit to sell things in the Tuck shop? Sell things in the Tuck shop. I was a college chairperson lady. I was, yeah, I was serious stuff. What could you get for 20p then?

I want to know. If I come to your shop 20p, what would I get? Probably some refreshers. Yep. And some Chew-Its. Would I get any Space Raiders? Space Raiders, yeah. But, you know, do you get get individual ones in a little bag.

I'm sure I'll probably get off this and go, oh, my gosh, why didn't I mention Bibb? Something that I'd done that was amazing. Do you know what? I think that's fair. I think if that's what first came to your brain, that's what you want to class as your achievement. My baba, my dad, wouldn't let me go anywhere.

I was quite sheltered um he he was really protective he was like you go out somebody's put something in your drink you get pregnant it was almost like anything you do you get pregnant but i wasn't even allowed to share my legs i gave myself a home wax with salatite just to be able to be like the cool girls i was yeah we weren't really allowed to go anywhere do anything have boyfriend so college chairperson was like that was massive and the snood dance snood dance okay so well I want to know about your first snog then if you were kind of kept in the house and you sell a tape in your legs and you're snored when did you snog have you ever snogged have you snogged yet have i snogged well obviously i've got three children so something must have happened right do you know what i think my first snog and

this is really shocking that i'm actually going to say this but just reveal this to you my first snog oh my goodness me was age i think i was 18. I was 18. You win another point. No one else has been the same age as me. Everyone else has been like 12. I was 18 too. It was like, I went for a date with this guy. And I was actually out with my cousins. But we met him while we were there.

And it was like for him to meet me because he liked me. But I was terrified that my mom and dad were going to find out. But I said I was just going out for a coffee with my cousins. We had to lie. And then the next thing I go, no, this guy rocks up. I go to the loo. He comes up behind me. He grabs me and tries to kiss me.

That was my snog. And I was absolutely, I screamed. So it was an unrequited snog. Very dodgy. I mean, in this day and age, I would have probably reported that. Some might say harassment. That was sexual harassment was my first snog at age 18. I had no interest.

I had no interest. And also, we were taught if someone kisses you or if you sit on a toilet seat, you get pregnant. Like, that's what we thought as kids. Greek old wives' tales. So I just didn't want to be near anybody i was such a late developer m such a late developer i did nothing literally i didn't really even have boyfriends i was honestly i was so sheltered and i was quite happy in my world do you have to do you have to snog do you have to have boyfriends do you so after the snog did you think oh no I'm having a baby

no no I think because I was old enough to know that I've been to the library and I got out a book at age 18 so I'd read some things so I knew there was no internet there was no internet so sat on toilet seat am I pregnant right oh there's none I found all these books which had diagrams and I was like okay that hasn't happened to me but I was really terrified of anything sexual for a really long time oh my gosh yeah blimey dramatic but I even though your kiss was unrequited and some might say sexual harassment at least you're 18 like me and I feel like we're kindred spirits now. Yeah, yeah. Because everybody else has been young. Yeah, and I was very young.

I was still believing in Father Christmas till about 12 and a half, 13. I still believe in Father Christmas and I'm 46. I mean, he is real. No, no, no, no. He is real. He is real. He's so real.

He's coming soon, then. Only a few months. You're right. Coming soon. Only a few months. Just around the corner. I can see him looking through the chimney. It's July. He's not coming for months. Okay, what was your biggest teenage flop? And you look back and you're like, ugh. My biggest teenage flop and you look back and you're like oh my biggest teenage flop oh

I think trying to impress a boy at my school called Kiriakos Panay who I fancied who had this school cardigan on but it was like a sports cardigan for boys and I made my mother get me one and I wore it and everyone made fun of me because it was only the boys that were meant to wear that kind of cardigan but I wore it in the hope that he would spot me and everyone laughed at me another major flop which has just come to me is sneezing on another boy I fancied and all the snot coming out in my hands actually which one's worse the snot I think this is not worse because i actually think teenage girls dressing like the boys they're fancy is has been a bit of a theme i used to dress as

i would dress as bros or i would dress as take that because then i'd think well if my goss saw me in the same clothes as him he'd be like hey guy me and you we could go out. Same with Joe Barlow. Totally. It makes sense. We admire you so much. We want to dress as men in their 20s. It makes sense. But no, that didn't work for me.

No, it's funny enough. They went for the girls in like mini skirts and like big boobs. No one ever fancied me at school i was just not i just looked like a little kind of little chewy little chewbacca i wasn't fanciable i wasn't one of the cool girls you know with their long live smooth non-hairy limbs i was i was not one of the cool girls it took me a long time in fact i'm still i still want to be one of the cool girls same i wasn't cool then not cool now and you know what we're all right we're all right we're all right okay if you could go back to olga then and tell her something what would you tell her hello babe you're all right i'd be like

come here i'd give her a massive hug and say it's all going to be okay all the things that you're worrying about just relax just chill it's going to be it's gonna be okay um such a ball of stress and worry and anxiety and um angst and self-hatred I think I really just didn't like myself uh back then I would just tell her chill out you're gonna be okay um and one day you're gonna find someone that loves you for you very very much that's what I tell myself oh are you glad you grew up then or do you wish you were growing up now no I think it's harder for kids so as I mentioned to you I was bullied at school I can't imagine what it's like being bullied now where you come home you can't get away from it you've got your phone back then that was the

end I could come home crying to my pillow eat some masaka go to bed done now it's constant and even if they're not saying anything unkind you can see that on snapchat that they've all gone to the cinema without you or it's it's just horrible so back then even though I wore the dodgy hot stuff top, which was very inappropriate, there were lots of inappropriate things back then. I'm glad that's when I grew up. Oh, I think that's good. I feel the same.

The only thing is now you might have found more people like you. I think people find their tribe. And I think everybody hopefully is moving towards being a bit more tolerant. Like you would have known if a boy had snogged you unrequited you'd have just like reported him I've just like stunned gone oh like literally a bit of a grope as well actually in that I look back it was not always yeah I remember a man a man coming up to me just grabbing my boobs when I was a teenager and just like honking them I was like I just was like oh I know but in the 80s we were just like oh I might have even thought it was a bit of a compliment but now I'll be like hello police very naive and we um we didn't really

know we didn't know and we weren't you know like that's that is the good thing about now that it's everything is a lot more people are a lot lot more switched on and a bit more aware. People are more self-aware. So that is a good thing, I think. Yeah. Funny old time, the 80s and the 90s, but you know what? I've already loved it. Oh, me too.

Honestly, me too. I loved it. I loved the music. I loved all of it. I loved the feeling. You can smell it i loved i love the music i love all of it i love the feeling i could even you can smell it can't you can smell it and the toys the toys were so good i had one of those um cabbage patch dolls do you know what i do a poll on my instagram account um my phone so we're gonna do the best toys of the 80s that'll be the poll this week we'll put all the toys up and then um everybody's listening go and vote for your best go and vote for your best toy of the 80s and then on us if you listen on spotify i'm gonna put up lots of wham and george michael songs and pick the best one

yeah i'm your man yeah did you ever see them in concert no no i didn't but i did see my first gig concert was salt and pepper here what's the good one is here very first ever i always remember my mom driving me to a school disco with the windows down and the sun was shining and she was singing ah push it push it and I wanted to die. Yes! Do you know, do you remember the other one? What was it? Like a virgin.

When I sang that in front of my mum, she slapped me round the face. God said this word in this house. And I didn't know what virgin was. I didn't know what the word virgin meant. How old was I then? 22. 22?

Shut up. Shut up. When was Like A Virgin out? Like A Virgin would have been like the late 80s, wouldn't it? So you'd have been teenager. Yeah, so I just sang Like A Virgin. I didn't really know. You know, I was just really innocent with it.

And my mum went, don't be allowed to say this word in the house don't say the word like oh gosh honestly it's like don't say word so yeah the happy the happy time of the 80s right guys thanks so much for listening to a another episode of the phone box podcast i'll be back next week be sure to go and do so we're gonna do best toys of the 80s on instagram on spotify we'll do best of wham so do wham and george michael just wham do wham just okay i'll do both i'll do both i'll do both um thanks so much for coming on the podcast olga um everybody go and follow it again where can people find you big fat greek mother go and find it over there and i will see you next week for another episode. Bye.

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