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Speaker 1: This is the Fits and with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing better than kind of ranking things, yes and

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Speaker 2: seafood lingouin this story, it's actually really nice. It's it's

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Speaker 2: a story about the alumni of Australia's top one hundred

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Speaker 2: public schools, so celebrating the public school system. And there

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Speaker 2: was a bit of a list of all of the

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Speaker 2: high achievers that went to those schools. You don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: have to be famous. You may not know the names,

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Speaker 2: but there are people who did well. But then, of

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Speaker 2: course to get people to read the story, you need

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Speaker 2: to know where the Hollywood A listers went to school.

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Speaker 3: Well, and it's exciting if you go to my school

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Speaker 3: on Wikipedia Worrianda High School alumni. The alumni there's two

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Speaker 3: and I'm very proud to be one of those. And

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Speaker 3: the other one is Captain Feathersword from the Wiggles.

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Speaker 2: Ye, well, another another Wiggle former Wiggle, Sam Moran. He

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Speaker 2: went to the number one ranked Conservatorium High School. So

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Speaker 2: that was that's.

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Speaker 3: Your story.

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Speaker 1: He's the idea that you would read this and think, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to send my kid there, because if they

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Speaker 1: know how to make a wiggle, then I don't think.

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Speaker 2: You send your kid to school hoping that they're going

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Speaker 2: to come out of wiggle. Nothing I mean, nothing wrong

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Speaker 2: with being a wiggle, but it is kind of cool

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Speaker 2: to say, Oh, I guess who went to that school?

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Speaker 2: I think Hurlstone, the school that I went to. It

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Speaker 2: is actually on the list the school. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 2: mean not that I've really achieved anything. I mean, look

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Speaker 2: look at me, look at me now joining the show.

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Speaker 2: But the other famous person that went to my school

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Speaker 2: was Mark Latham.

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Speaker 3: Oh so proud? I mean you're getting Lathan back for

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Speaker 3: the kids regularly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was me and Mark Latham, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts.

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Speaker 2: Their public school girls they went to North Sydney Girls

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Speaker 2: High School, Right, Jackie Weaver, she was a Hornsby Girls

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Speaker 2: High School. And Russell Crowe went to Sydney Boys High School.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: Scott Morrison went there as well?

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Speaker 3: Did he really? Yes?

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Speaker 2: He did?

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Speaker 3: Would they be around the same age? And Rusty find

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Speaker 3: out Tom they could have the same year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If you had to pick someone who was older, which

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Speaker 2: would you pick of the two?

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Speaker 3: Probably asked, See, no, Schemer, wouldn't it schn have to

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Speaker 3: be older?

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Speaker 2: I've got interesting.

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Speaker 1: Jesse is fifty seven, Russell Crowton.

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Speaker 2: He's closest without going over Russell crow sixty one.

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Speaker 1: But also both good musicians, great music.

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Speaker 3: She Rusty did for his sixtieth.

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Speaker 1: I think he play the ukulele?

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Speaker 2: What does what does play?

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Speaker 3: You remember he did April Son and Cuba on the

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Speaker 3: sixty Minutes. Ok, and he couldn't get it right.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, you're under pressure. I mean, when you're the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, you can front up and face a crowd,

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Speaker 2: but when you pull out your ukulele, yeah.

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Speaker 1: That's hard. Panists remembered another celebrity from Helston.

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Speaker 2: Agg Well, not only one, but four, I mean Mark Latham.

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Speaker 2: More famous than all of us were the members of

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Speaker 2: Human Nature. Oh wy, I've spoken about that before. They

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Speaker 2: were called the four Tracks and they would jump up

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Speaker 2: at the assemblies and.

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Speaker 3: Perform Are you serious?

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Speaker 1: All four of them went to you do out there

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Speaker 1: picking some some eggs out of the chicken coop and

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Speaker 1: you've been a paddic somewhere we didn't have. And then

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Speaker 1: you just hear people get red for the Train to Jordan.

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Speaker 3: That was a great record and not many people know this,

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Speaker 3: but Mark Lathan was an original member of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why you didn't last Connor and Coloroi.

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Speaker 1: You're off to athletics this morning, are you? Connor?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Good on your legend breaking up there? Connor? What school buddy?

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Speaker 3: Okay? And and and who were the famous alumni?

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Speaker 4: We had Mabel the actor, the World Chances.

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Speaker 3: And did Bazz ever come back to the school to

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Speaker 3: speak to the kids when you were there or No?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Wonder if it was the lack of invities. Didn't want to.

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Speaker 1: It's very busy, I know, but you would have thought

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Speaker 1: if a school had somebody of interest.

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Speaker 3: No, well, I have you been asked to go back?

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Speaker 3: Have you guys been asked to go back to your school?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they've sent emails.

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Speaker 2: I went back and opened the country fair one year

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Speaker 2: and had a photo with a pig. I didn't know

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Speaker 2: where it was coming.

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Speaker 1: Next to Mark Lay.

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Speaker 3: The only correspondence I've had with Wrianda High was from

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Speaker 3: the principal at the time, saying, can you stop speaking

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Speaker 3: badly about the school because we're trying to get used.

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Speaker 1: To We've had no enrollments in three years thanks to ride.

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Speaker 2: Probably some schools that say can you keep it a

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Speaker 2: bit quiet? But you went here because it's.

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Speaker 1: Not good that head doesn't help. Neilon in Lane Cove, Hello, Neilon,

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Speaker 1: which celebrity went to your school?

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Speaker 3: I'm in high school now, but I used to go

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Speaker 3: to Pimble Public School and Hugh jafinitely went to school

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Speaker 3: until year three and then he.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Is there anything named after him at the school? Nilon

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Speaker 3: or No, there's no. I would have had a statue

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Speaker 3: or something.

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Speaker 4: No, no, there's nothing.

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Speaker 2: There and he can really claim it if they You

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Speaker 2: can't have a statue if someone only went there until

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Speaker 2: year three? Where you go after them?

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Speaker 3: I mean the performing arts. If there's a little room

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Speaker 3: where you go to drama or something, you'd name it

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Speaker 3: after Hugh, wouldn't you.

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Speaker 1: I guess so the Jackman room or a cardboard cut

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Speaker 1: out at least in one of the classrooms.

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Speaker 2: Just yeah, they probably do. The boy from oz as

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Speaker 2: the end of you.

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Speaker 3: Because Indy's eleven years of age, he's from Durall. What

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Speaker 3: school are we talking about here, Indy?

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Speaker 1: My dad taught sport and psychology.

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Speaker 4: He taught Mick Jaggon's daughter and Tom Holland.

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Speaker 3: In the UK.

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Speaker 1: What was the name of the college.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Tom Hollands.

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Speaker 3: I love Tom Holland. So he's Spider Man now, isn't

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Speaker 3: he Indy? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What did you dad say to any stories about Tom Holloan?

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Speaker 1: Was he a good kid?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: He said he was a good kid and funny, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool back then when he was turning up for

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Speaker 1: book week dressed to Spider Man.

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Speaker 2: That's not bad. I don't think it was.

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Speaker 1: His first audition.

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Speaker 3: Sniff, We've got another sniffll Stiff, you went to school

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Speaker 3: in the US. Did you have any famous alumni there?

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Speaker 4: I did so. Jennifer cool Age actually graduated from my

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Speaker 4: high school.

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Speaker 2: She came back and she took in our graduation as well.

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Speaker 2: She's very cool, of.

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Speaker 1: Course from where is she From's.

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Speaker 2: Awesome that she's She's so great.

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Speaker 1: That would have been amazing stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was good. We knew her steps mom back.

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Speaker 4: This was in two thousand series.

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Speaker 1: Could you imagine mom?

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Speaker 3: Can you come back to the school speak to the

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Speaker 3: kids as Stiffler's mom.

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Speaker 1: Please just do a couple of scenes, that pool table scene.

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Speaker 1: If you wouldn't, I don't know what youre talk neither.

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