Colm & Lucy In The Morning.. The Best Bits Ep 63

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I'm sure people have left stuff in longer than the two years they'll have. I don't know. Stuff in the in the uh in the in the um The laundromat, right. The laundromat. The laundrette. Tell them why this- Why the story's worse than what we thought. So he left two cheap throws. Too beautiful, expensive, it's exquisite. Foreign. Into a laundrette two years ago. Yes. And then he admitted to me why it was worse than I thought. Mm-hmm. Hit it, sister.

It's next door to my favorite off license, O'Brien's. Who actually I'm so I I'm such a good customer, they send me text. When the specials are not. So our friends in the laundry then. They see me walking in all the time, yeah. Get your troes, freak. Expensive foreign throws. Yeah. Um because I actually laughed and went to the case. Oh God, you just have to change laundress. You've got to stop doing

I'm not changing off license. No way. Uh I'll beat you on this one, Colum. I left my wedding dress to be dry cleaned after we got back off honeymoon, right? Oh no. No. Well, I was told to be ready in four to five days. I was really busy and ignore the reminder and I forgot. Three years after. They finally rang me and told me that they'd give it to a charity shop if I didn't pick it up. I was separated at that stage. I told him you can keep it. You are joking. Julie. Stain us. Like diet.

A launch of us. I love them out there. So but no but she could've she could have died it and Oh too many memories. Bad, good, indifferent. You know, I get it. I get it. I get it. And it was the same with me with the throws. A lot of bad memories. Oh dear God.

Just send us a story about a positive connection you made. Possibly with a stranger. Morning Column. Good morning, Lucy. Michelle here of Learney in Cork. So back in the early 80s, uh mum and dad had a CB radio. Oh yeah. And they when static was high they made contact with a a guy out in uh in America. Right. Yeah. Um Keith is his name. And uh yeah, so he came over on holidays when I was younger and they're still in contact now.

So yeah, that is the way connections were made way back then. And yeah, a lovely little reminder, thank you guys. Remember there was a time people used to have to C B radios and they'd have them in their house or you'd have them in the car with a big huge aerial. Uh can't remember CB's Citizens Bands. Like walkie talkies. Sort of like walkie talkies, but they they worked in some sort of frequency, but you if uh if the weather was good you could talk to a guy in Norway. Mm.

I know, yeah, yeah. Just randomly. Yeah. Anyone out there, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker. Uh and the these people ended up being friends. That was very cute. Hello, Jillian, said Morning Column Lucy. I w went to college in ninety three and I worked in Temple Bar Hotel and in two thousand twenty three I was at a meetup

And I recognised a girl in the crowd and it was the same girl that I worked with in the Temple Bar Hotel in nineteen ninety three. So we hadn't seen each other for thirty years and I recognized her. And now we've become uh very good friends. So that's my story from Jillian in Clansilla. That's so good. Thanks very much. Love the show. Uh you guys were destined to be friends. Yeah, yeah. Thirty years later and you go, Wow, yeah. Apparently this is a pretty amazing story from Mora.

Hi Colin and Lucy. Hi. I have a story. Myself, my husband and my two kids and my father in law are on holidays in France. It's now twenty five years ago. We got off at the wrong train station. My husband with his limited amount of French rang the police, explained to them what happened and that he was also in the police.

So this guy came out, uh Rodolfo, and he had limited English, so between them they got out of out of each other what they needed. Right. So when they parted company they swapped the emails Yeah. And we've been in touch ever since. Um we've been to e you know, weddings in our families, birthday parties in our families. And even though my husband died eighteen years ago we're still in touch and we've

you know, had grandchildren and all that and it's just a wonderful friendship that's maintained over the years. Um yeah, so that's my story of connections. And if she hadn't a gone out of the wrong station, that would have never slid into us. Yes, sliding doors. That was the moment.

We're talking about fads. So it's all star because they some people reckon that Jubai chocolate w will be gone within a year. I don't know. I I don't think so. I actually don't think so. I think it's been added to the chocolate list. Okay, so it's gonna be there all the time. I think so. I hope so,'cause I I love it. Uh Alison has got stuck in the old Dubai chocolate, yeah. And the Dubai chocolate in Dubai. 25 year old. It was nice. Red one.

It was kind of Ice I certainly wouldn't be racing back to pay twenty five euro for a bar. There you go. There you go. Okay. Everybody's talking about high rocks. What's hierarchy? Just on the fads they're like Do you know what I'm not into? All these lads and their Hyrocks Like that how do you know someone's doing Hyrux? d'Italia. 'Cause it's their whole personality. Forty, thirty, fifty year old men going around with badges. I didn't wear a badge since I was four. Ha ha.

All right, Mark. You went to Warsaw, ran around the warehouse, fair place ya. Doesn't have to be our whole personality. High ROX is a new form of physical activity, physical training. So it's not so you know you used to do the circuit training. Yeah. This is now where literally a guy will slam you against a wall and you'll be pushed out a window. And you'll have to run around twenty times uh carrying a cow on your bat. It's like it's just nonsense. In gyms.

Yeah, yeah, in gyms and now they have Hyrux festivals and Hyru So it's it's ultimate I think I'm right in saying this, it's ultimate training. Like it's right up there. It's ridiculous stuff. But some people love it. Yeah. And there you go. We'll have those t-shirts done soon. Hi Column and Lucy. Two fad from the eighties. One was bottletops on your shoes to be like bross, and the other one was leather bracelets up your arms to be like aha. The show. Aha. Up there. Nie pamiętam. So Martin Hart.

Yeah. Yeah, so Martin Horton Fortle Gürtel it was his name, wasn't it? Martin Harton Hoodle with it? Uh from the lead singer from Ah. Martle, fartle, martle, whatever it is. And it used to have these leather things there, yeah. And it used to be Did you ever go for the whole thing? I didn't. I don't think I ever went for a fad. There you go. Uh What about your Hawaiian shirts? That's not a fad, they'd be around.

Right. But they're still around. Uh that was D. Now we got one more. Okay, you ready for this? Good morning guys. Rainy day. Um Suzanne here from Galway. When I was in school there was this fad and they were called clackers and they were two hard balls. Uh, each had a piece of string and then they were tied together. And you had to bang them off each other without breaking your wrist or your fingers. Very painful, but everyone in the school had them. Clackers. Flunk, they still have them.

Do they? Yeah. Clackers like it's a stick with two balls on them well and they're like elastic bands. Yeah. And you just clack them together. Yeah. I have to mind holidays, you know? Tuesday! Yeah, when you leave, when you go to America. No America, what do you do? No, but they have them in like touristy kind of shops. Okay, the clackers are still around.

Tiffany is on the line from Tennessee. Good morning Tiffany. Hello, good morning. Good morning to you. How are you? Uh three twenty in the morning. Wow. Tiffany, you are so good to join us this morning at that ridiculously early hour. Wow. I imagine you must be getting on a plane to come over to us soon. When are you coming over? I fly tomorrow, so yes, so this is I actually fly very early. Early.

uh and I have to be at the airport at the same time as what's happening this morning. So this is a great, you know, trial and Aw, you poor thing. My my c my cat was looking at me like, Why are you up so early? What's happening? So I'm like, Well, we gotta do it again tomorrow, buddy. Sorry. So this isn't this isn't a usual time for a tifty yeah, it's like you pop awake at three AM every morning and just do interviews around the world. No.

Y you know, I kinda roll with it. It's totally b we I had a little you know, I went to bed a little early Yeah, yeah. So I could just, you know, try to speak a little intelligently. Uh Tiffany, there was a time we'd be coming home at three AM back in the day. Ha ha, yeah. You know, this eighties girl has to admit to that. Yes, there used to be a time. I mean, I'm on the road quite often, so

You know, my lifestyle really is a little bit of this and a little bit of that. When we're on the road it could be all crazy hours. Yeah. When I'm home in Nashville. I'm pretty I live out on a little farm and it's pretty you know, we try to roll it up early hours'cause I live in a really small town and it's kinda funny'cause, you know, everything closes very early here.

So uh, you know, I go out into the big world when I'm touring and and travel and get all the fun adventures out and then I'm pretty boring when I come home. You have this beautiful haven to come home to. We have this uh here in Ireland's Classic It's Ready we every year we do a listeners party and all our listeners go we go to various cities around Ireland, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Galway.

And we always play, I think we're alone now, because it's guaranteed to be a floor filler and the crowds will just get onto the floor immediately. I mean, isn't it amazing that it's still iconic as a song? Why why do you think it's lasted so long? There really is something about the song I think we're alone out that makes people happy. I I can't really even put my finger on it, really. It's something that I uh notice.

from early on. I mean, when I recorded the song at fourteen I brought it home from the studio. You know, I was I would go to school all day and then after school be picked up, be driven to the studio and start recording the first album. So You know, I was only fourteen when that happened and I thought I think we're low now and I had never heard that song. It's a a a remake from Tommy James and the Chandelle. Yeah. And the original cover was

you know, like a tambourine and really like mid paced and it was like children behave, you know. And I was I just didn't want to record the song. I was like, I don't know what this is and my producer went Go home. I'll have a different track for you. Just trust me on this one. So I did. I pick up the track the next day and it was what you're hearing on the on the record now with the you know, more dance and more more pop and more happy little step in in, you know. Yeah.

popping in the step and I I came home and I thought, Well, okay, we were, you know, doing like homework or something. I usually had a lot of my friends coming over after school. And I I said, Oh wow, I've got to learn this before I go into the studio tomorrow And I put the track on and immediately everybody started dancing. Rice. And they started singing and jumping on my bed and I was like, Okay. Wow, you're so fresh and...

You know, it just really makes people happy. So I really do look forward to those first couple of lines where I just hit the stage and everybody goes, Children behave and everybody But I'm just thinking I I'm very fortunate to have this song in my life.

You're saying to us there it's amazing when you're saying like you recorded it, you were fourteen years of age, then you had to go home and do your homework. Now that went into the Billboard Hot One Hundreds and it went to number one, I think for two or three weeks. And in those days when you got a number one, like in the eighties, eighty seven, that was huge. So you must have been catapulted into superstardom. Did that take you by surprise? N uh you know, it did, but it uh really

You know, I think as a kid you're so resilient. So it was everything I wanted. Um and I didn't know what that meant. I just I loved Fleet with Mac and and Heart and Pat Minotaur and a lot of other, you know, eighties artists and seventies artists. I'm a big Janice Joplin fan as well. So I I just knew I wanted to be that and if that happened on any level I was grateful. Um and I got to sing live and I got to tour the world. I definitely the first time I started

leaving America and landing in other countries. I mean I remember the first time I landed in the UK and I and I was really taken back that aga again people love the song but that they knew things about me, that I loved olive pizza and that I liked to wear Jean jackets. So That was really a big impression on me as well, just not the music, but that I had a connection with people and that they they kinda knew what I was about a little bit. Yeah.

And it's amazing that you still have that connection and you will have that connection because let me tell you, once you start uh singing that song in Saint Anne's Park, people will go absolutely crazy. Thank you guys so much. I will see you very soon. Bye bye. Find us where everyone is. Like and subscribe.