1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 2: Stop focusing on haircuts and start focusing on education. 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Wow, ladies and gentlemen. 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 3: Officially, he she is. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 4: That's what they've been saying. 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 2: Now, I am going to sound like a boomer because 7 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: I agree with this. 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 4: I am not a boomer. 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: And I only know which category or generation I fit 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 2: into because all of the times I've been asked to 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: do talking about your generation, they don't ask me to 12 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: be on Amanda Keller's team. 13 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: Okay, so that's your sign of that's. 14 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 4: No disrespect to Amanda. I love Amanda. 15 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 3: You'd be Charlie Pickering when you. 16 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 2: Yes Charlie's team. I'm Charlie's team. Anyway, as we know, 17 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks back at school and over the 18 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: summer break, I mean, have there been some red hot 19 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: hairdoos getting around the city that you live in in particular, 20 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 2: and a lot of schools and this one in particular. 21 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 2: This is coming out of Queensland, Saint Edmund's College, and 22 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 2: parents are up in arms because on Monday, and I 23 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: think this is very helpful. On the Facebook page of 24 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: the school, they've sent out an email and they have 25 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: said this is a bit of a warning with also 26 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 2: a guide of haircuts that are acceptable and haircuts that 27 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: are not. 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 4: We can see that on the screen there. 29 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 2: Give us a call if you're trying to drag your 30 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: child to get their haircut at the moment, or whether 31 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: you were booted booted from school because of yours. Now, no, 32 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: come on, FITZI, you have to agree with me. The 33 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: boys on the top with the short dos boring, no, 34 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 2: no sharp sharp, The boys on the bottom row with 35 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: the what are they calling it a something fade, a burst, 36 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 2: famey tails, facial hair. They don't want facial hair either. 37 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, well what about length at the back? 38 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: You can't can't go past the column. 39 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 3: Made Let the kids have length, you know what I mean? 40 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 4: No, I think that. 41 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: Look, some parents are saying because this is a private school, 42 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: and I think maybe the rules are stricter at private 43 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 2: schools generally, And they're saying, well, if we're paying over 44 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 2: ten grand a year, and I mean way more at 45 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 2: some schools, then we should be able to have our 46 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 2: haircut however we like. Look, my argument here we go 47 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: is that and maybe I just I'm a bit conservative 48 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: and I don't want everyone to conform. 49 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 4: But it shouldn't be gonna sound like Keather. It's not 50 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 4: a fashion parade. It's not a competition about who's got 51 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 4: the tools to haircut for You're there to learn. 52 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird that you made May shave their head. 53 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 5: That was much the buzz cut eleven year old girls. 54 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: Pretty. 55 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 6: He's an example for you now, Hugh. He said to 56 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 6: me the other day, Dad, I really want to very 57 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 6: hard to take your kids shopping. Any parent knows that 58 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 6: you don't know what they want to buy. 59 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 3: He said. 60 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 6: You know who I really like is Jacob and Lordie. 61 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 6: Jacob and Lordie is a private school boy. He went 62 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 6: to the same school as vance Joy. What school was 63 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 6: that in Melbourne? 64 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: I think that's he went to Saint Kevin's mate. 65 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 6: He is the hottest bloke on earth at the moment, 66 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 6: Jacob a Lordie right, have. 67 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 3: Them looking at his hair. 68 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 6: He's got length at the back and he's got a 69 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 6: fade on the side. 70 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 4: He's a movie He's a movie star. 71 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: He's not going to school. Isn't the right to that 72 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 2: hair cut? He has an Oscar nomination. 73 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 6: Do you know what he had to conform to that 74 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 6: private school for his whole tertiary career, and now as 75 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 6: soon as he's left, he's grown his hair and he's 76 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 6: become a global superstar. 77 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 4: Let them. 78 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: Grie makes a good point. 79 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 5: I got lectured by my dad when I wanted to 80 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 5: go to a Mother's day lunch and I wouldn't have 81 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 5: a shave. And I said to him, yeah, but your 82 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 5: mate Phil he never shaves, and he goes, yeah, but 83 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 5: Phil's aren't the right not to shave? 84 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 3: You have why what invited? Feel earned the right. 85 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 5: Because Phil's established himself so he knows when to shave 86 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 5: and not to shave. 87 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 4: It's not a lack of care. 88 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,839 Speaker 2: I agree, because I think some people don't shave out 89 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 2: of I couldn't be bothered, whereas some people don't shave, 90 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: but they will trim it up and it's still neat 91 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 2: and tired. 92 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: I would feel he had a beautiful beer. It was 93 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: absolutely what kind of length? Quite lengthy? 94 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 4: I'll quite length. 95 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 6: Is there are policies Tatoes is probably too young for 96 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 6: school students. 97 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 3: I understand that. 98 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: But Lenny got a neckat did he. 99 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 3: Where he did? Just under his eye? I don't know 100 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 3: who he's knocked off. 101 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: Rebecca and Peaker is welcome to the show. Your son 102 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: went to school with a stricter politics. 103 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, so they both went to Saint Mary's Cathedral in 104 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 7: the city and that was very conservative. 105 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: With the haircuts, Okay, what weren't they allowed to have 106 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: for what were they trying to have? 107 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 7: I think there was like a they couldn't have it 108 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 7: less than like a three or something. They couldn't have 109 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 7: it like really short, and they couldn't have it longlyther 110 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 7: that kind of But they would get sent home if 111 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 7: the school wasn't happy with their haircut, they get sent home. 112 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 2: And like this school did they send a set of 113 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 2: images out what is acceptable and what is not? 114 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they send me emails and I wouldn't. 115 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: Read them, but of course. Yeah. 116 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 7: But when they left school, definitely they did kind of 117 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 7: their own kind of personality came out. They want to 118 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 7: grow a bit longer and stuff. So yeah, it was good. 119 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 7: But it's teaching the boys, you know, I guess, to 120 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 7: be men, gentlemen, to be what. 121 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 4: No expression. 122 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 2: You can do any other ways fits the GW. I 123 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 2: actually I'm a bit. 124 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 4: This is the thing. 125 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: Okay, do you know what working on a home and 126 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 2: away was like going to a private boys school? 127 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 3: No, here we go Why because I. 128 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 2: Wasn't Sally like Sally was not. She wasn't cool, She 129 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 2: didn't get the cute boyfriends. She hit puberty overnight. 130 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 3: It was she had a fake friend and an imaginary friend. 131 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: Well she had to because. 132 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: She shouldn't have. 133 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 4: She had to thank God for Milko. 134 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 2: And so I wasn't allowed to pierce my ears, cut 135 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 2: my hair, get a perm diet anything. And then do 136 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: you know what happened to me? I finally was allowed 137 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: to cut a fringe. I went to Lemass Hairdress. Isn't 138 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 2: Lemia station there? Yeah, And I had the worst fringe 139 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 2: cut in the history of that. It was like a 140 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 2: m It wasn't I had a mullet. 141 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: Did you because you rebelled because they. 142 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 4: Cut a fringe from the back of my. 143 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: Ears, reverse mullet. 144 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: And here you are now at forty six and you've 145 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: grown a mustache. 146 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 4: Oh my God. 147 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 5: With Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast great shows like this. 148 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: Download the Nova player, fire, the app 149 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: Store, or Google Player.