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Speaker 2: listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast this.

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Speaker 1: Week and last week. I know I fraught for many

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Speaker 1: families kids going back to school. I took my dog

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Speaker 1: for a walk this morning and I saw I had

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Speaker 1: a nostalgia burst for when my children were younger. They're

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Speaker 1: now this year, they're twenty three and twenty five. How

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Speaker 1: grown up is that? But I had such a flashback.

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Speaker 1: I saw all these little kids in their new school uniforms,

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Speaker 1: their new school bags, nervously heading off to school, and

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Speaker 1: the parents with all these mixed emotions, some hugely relieved

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Speaker 1: that the school, all the days are over. It's a

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Speaker 1: big deal, isn't it? And I bet the mornings are fraught.

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Speaker 1: But at this time of day, maybe you've picked up

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Speaker 1: the kids from school first day, maybe their first day,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's not their first day at school, but the

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Speaker 1: first day of the year, first week back. You can

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Speaker 1: look back on the trauma and laugh, now, can't you.

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Speaker 1: If you've had a dodgy, bad day, at least join

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Speaker 1: with us and maybe laugh.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember your first day at school.

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Speaker 1: Kind of I think I remember my children's first days

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Speaker 1: of school. The very first day. Remember, we were doing

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Speaker 1: breakfast radio show. I was working with you, and we

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Speaker 1: did the show from home so I could take my

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Speaker 1: elder son Liam to school. And I thought I took

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Speaker 1: him to the wrong room, and I thought I was late.

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Speaker 1: I thought it his first day and I've stuffed up,

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Speaker 1: like his first day at daycare. I was embarrassed because

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Speaker 1: he didn't know how to sit on a chair. He

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Speaker 1: was like Charlie Brown. His legs went, didn't know how

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Speaker 1: to sit always just I'd put him up on a couch.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know how to use a chair, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: how embarrassing. He can't even sit down. He's behind the

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Speaker 1: eight ball already.

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Speaker 2: He failed your induction here at the radio station because

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Speaker 2: they had a whole thing on chair sitting and you

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Speaker 2: couldn't sit on a chair.

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Speaker 1: Look, it happens, doesn't He didn't get your keep. But

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Speaker 1: when I was doing breakfast radio, it was my husband, Harley,

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Speaker 1: who would get the kids ready for school. And I

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Speaker 1: always wondered how their hair would look, whether they're clothes

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Speaker 1: that have stains, whether they'd be vegimite all over their foreheads.

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Speaker 2: A few old patches in the bread.

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Speaker 1: How about do you remember your first days?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I do. Dad got sent to work over in England,

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Speaker 2: so I had to go to school. My first day

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Speaker 2: at school was in a school in London, and I

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Speaker 2: remember walking into the class and back then Australians in England,

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Speaker 2: you know, it was pretty much the Barry Mackenzie era.

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Speaker 2: So I've walked in, I've gone get from Australia, mate,

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Speaker 2: And the teacher said, well, Brendan can stand up in

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Speaker 2: front of his class and tell everyone. You know, what

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Speaker 2: does everyone know about Australia and other kids? Ye, Rolf

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Speaker 2: Harris convicts.

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of the convict.

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Speaker 2: So I had that and I got called a convict

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Speaker 2: when I was at school at London. Then a couple

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Speaker 2: of years later I came back to Australia. Then I

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Speaker 2: had to go to school here, so I had that

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Speaker 2: first day again.

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Speaker 1: To have a Pommy accent.

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Speaker 2: By then I came back with an English accent and

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Speaker 2: measles spots because I just recovered from measles. And I

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Speaker 2: stood on the class and said, Brenda's just come back

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Speaker 2: from England from school. There What do we know about England?

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Speaker 2: And I went convicts and Rolf Harris, and I called

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Speaker 2: a pom