1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: This episode of Outspoken is brought to you by Modibody, 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: the period underwear that gives you better support, better protection 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: and a better life. This is Outspoken, the podcast It's 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: not afraid to say exactly what you're thinking. Our names 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber. We're identical triplets, but 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: we often don't have identical opinions, so sometimes things can 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: get heated. Outspoken covers all things reality TV, influencers, entertainment, 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: and issues facing women. That is so fetch Thank you, 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Outspoken. We thought we'd take the chance 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 1: today to do a little bit of a story time 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: all about high school. I think we're going to need 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: maybe a psychiatrist to talk to after. It's going to 13 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: be quite traumatic because we were nerds at school, some 14 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: would say losers. We didn't really have that many friends. Well, 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: we really were each other's friends. So I think we 16 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: probably need to set the scene. So we all had 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: a great time at primary school, had a great group 18 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: of friends. So when it came to going to high schoo, 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: a lot of our friends went to different schools. And 20 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: I suppose when you're going through those awkward, that awkward 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: adolescent stage, people are always going to pick on people 22 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: that there's something different about them, And to be honest, 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: on the first day of year eight, we stood out 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,639 Speaker 1: like a saw sum because obviously, being triplets, we looked 25 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: the same. We were in oversized uniforms, and we were 26 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: just not loving life. That's something I felt like a 27 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: lot of people can relate to is their parents buying 28 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: them uniforms that are about ten sizes too big in 29 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: the hope that they'll somewhat fit into them. Yeah, so 30 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: no offense to mom. I know she'll be listening, but 31 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: she bought us size sixteen jumpers and said we would 32 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: grow into them. But we're only size eight now, so 33 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what she thought was going to be. Hay, 34 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: maybe she predicted this very oversized jumper trend that's happening 35 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: at the moment. Maybe they look quite good on now. Yeah. Maybe. 36 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: Well they were the horrible jumpers that I think everyone 37 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: has where they actually smell like wet dog when they 38 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: get wet. So yeah, that wasn't fun. I also, unfortunately, 39 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: was one of two girls at school in your eight 40 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: that had brown leather shoes so you could get black 41 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: or brown, and I made the stupid decision to get brown, 42 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: which I regretted. Pretty sure they were spend less shoes, 43 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: yes they were, and unfortunately, you know, you just don't 44 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: want anything that stands out. And the fact that I 45 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: had brown shoes and everyone had black, I was like, 46 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: bloody hell. That would have been my one tip for 47 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: anyone who might be listening that's going to high school 48 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: as you really, as you say, you don't want to 49 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: stand out from the crowd. You really want to be 50 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: almost like a little sheep, which is terrible to say. 51 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: I mean even at our school, we didn't have a 52 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: set uniform with pants and just all it's something about 53 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: popular people. They all seem to know the right thing 54 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: to wear. Well, I think it's because they have older 55 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters who are wearing the pants. So the 56 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: pants that were popular back in the day were face 57 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: Off pants and we did not have those pants. We 58 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: had pants from Katies. Does anyone we didn't make pants 59 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: in your tent? Eventually we got the pants that we're in. 60 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: Can we put this in our Facebook group? Though? In 61 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: our community? Sorry? Does anyone to remember the brand face Off? Now? 62 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: It was from a very very cheap LCM or one 63 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: of those that's a that's a bar. It was something like, 64 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: I don't know it. It's very some very cheap store 65 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: that is still running at the moment in our local 66 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: shopping center. It was like a soup Prey kind of shop. Basically, 67 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: Oh my god. That that just reminded me. The other 68 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: thing about high school, which again let's put it in 69 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: the group. Does everyone remember carrying their gym gear around 70 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: in like some sort of surf branded bag or it 71 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: was well, I think a lot of people had sports 72 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: Girl bags or soup Prey like it sort of said 73 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: a lot about what bag you were holding. We felt 74 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: so sorry for myself. I had like one tattered JJ 75 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: bag that I kept like bringing around with JJ is 76 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: not even a good brand. Or we should move on 77 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: to Pe because Pe at high school you either love 78 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: it or hate it, and we all grew up really sporty. 79 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: But there was something different about Pe at high school. Well, 80 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: I think is when they get the kids to pick 81 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: who's in whose team, Like I thought that was quite 82 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: an outdated polls that so brutal, and as we said, 83 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: not being popular, we were often last picked, even though 84 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: we were good at sports. I remember being picked last, 85 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: and I remember beating everyone. So I was picked this 86 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: guy and we were picked last, and we had to 87 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: join up and play tennis together, and we smashed everybody 88 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: because we played club tennis on the weekends. I think 89 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: the other thing I remember about PE is that awkward 90 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: moment in the change rooms when you're expected to like 91 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: strip off in front of everyone. Yeah, so you're either 92 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: the popular girl that's stripping off showing off her new bra, 93 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: or you're the person in the cubicle that's too nervous 94 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: to get change in front of everyone. I mean, it's 95 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: safe to say we were all that person in the cubicle, 96 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: or you could be the person in the boys room 97 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 1: where there's the rogue pe teacher who's pretending to come 98 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: into the room just to catch a glimpse of the guys. 99 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: There's always one pegge teacher that gets accused of being 100 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: a pedophile, isn't there. I think it's just a thing 101 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: that comes with it, unfortunately. Well, talking about the change rooms, 102 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: there was a time when one of the popular girls, 103 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: she was dancing around in a new bra that she 104 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: had outside of the cubicle, and I think I was 105 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 1: inside the cubicle and it happened. But her bra actually 106 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: popped off. No I was. I was like, yeah, but no, 107 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: like it came boo popped out. Her boo popped out. Well, 108 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: something came out. I was there, and then she ran 109 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: into the cubicle. Was all very It was one of 110 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: those stories that goes around the school. Another story that 111 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: went around our school was there was a girl. I 112 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: won't obviously name her, but she was a bit of 113 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: a character at the school. And this I suppose dates 114 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 1: dates us a little bit because she photo copied her 115 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: chest and then emailed it to everybody because phones at 116 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: the time weren't I don't think you had email. I 117 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: think it got printed off and then it printed and 118 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 1: put on everyone's lockers. Yeah. I never saw the photo, 119 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: to be honest, but this said girl. She also in 120 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: year twelve flashed in the year twelve formal photo, so 121 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: she was kind of in the middle and they had 122 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: to actually edit her out of the photo. I thought 123 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: they put her in the crease. No, well yeah, she 124 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: was no, No, they edited her out somehow. She did 125 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: go on to appear on Farmer Once a Wife as 126 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 1: well as well. She didn't make it fast. She did, 127 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: funnily enough, get nominated for C grade celebrity almost likely 128 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: to be a C grade celebrity really at a school formal? Yeah, well, 129 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: talking about the school formal. For some strange reason, Sophie, 130 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: Amy and I nominated ourselves to be on the formal committee, 131 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: and you were involved in, you know, creating the formal. Well, 132 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: it was very political because the reason we were in 133 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: the formal committee was a friend of mine. She wanted 134 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: to be the head of the formal Committee and she 135 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: needed to have us vote her as the president. So 136 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: being a good friend, we decided we'd help love our losers. 137 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,799 Speaker 1: That's well, what's funny about being involved in the formal 138 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: committee is one of our roles was to pick, well 139 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: not to pick, but to do a vote of who 140 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,679 Speaker 1: would be nominated for an award. We had to count 141 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: the votes, so yeah, we were tallying the votes and 142 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: there were awards like the biggest Cadbury, who would be 143 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: most likely to be a Z grade celebrity, And of 144 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: course the girl who flashed in the school photo was 145 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: voted C grade celebrity. So at the formal, she got 146 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: up on stage and wasn't she swearing into the microphone 147 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: and she was strong you've missed the kicker of that story. 148 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: We might have had a bit to do with who won. Well, 149 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: that's what I was getting into. So we actually decided 150 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: on people that we didn't like to win awards that 151 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: were probably not particularly nice. I mean, now I'll preface 152 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: these people were awful to us. So a girl that 153 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: we didn't like, we made her win the biggest Cadbury. 154 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: But the strange thing is you could actually reject the 155 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: award if you didn't want to win it, which I 156 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: don't think that's right. Oh, I think it leads to 157 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: you know, that's public humiliation, that's not right. But cheating 158 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: in terms of who wins. Oh, look, it sounds bad, 159 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: but these people did deserve. Now let's cast our minds 160 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: further back to year eight. Now, that was a very 161 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: difficult time for all of us. We were ridiculously bullied 162 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: quite to a bad extent. I mean, on the daily 163 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: we got called ABC. Yeah. I mean, it's always it's 164 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: terrible because you do hear of people being badly bullied 165 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: at school. And I don't want to go into it 166 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: too much because we want this podcast to be quite funny. 167 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: But as we said, we were kind of I suppose 168 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: targeted in a way because we were identical, and for 169 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: some reason, the kids at our school didn't like the 170 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: fact that we used to hang out with each other, 171 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: and I think they got confused by the fact we 172 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: looked so similar. And I remember one Actually, it's funny 173 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: because sometimes you felt like you wanted to be invisible 174 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: when people were staring at you, and then other times 175 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: you felt completely visible. Because there was one instance where 176 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: I was getting my bag out from my locker and 177 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: these two boys started fighting and one of them had 178 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: ice coffee in his hands. It was literally like I 179 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: didn't exist. They were like fighting right near me, and 180 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the ice coffee got poured all 181 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: over me, all over my white top, and they didn't 182 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: even apologize. It was like I just didn't exist. I 183 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: think that's the worst thing because a lot of people 184 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: talk about exclusion, which is a really hard form of 185 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: bullying to deal with, which is something that we unfortunately 186 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 1: had to encounter at school. So it is that feeling 187 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: of being invisible. It's being excluded from parties, from formal 188 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: before and after party. So in year twelve, we didn't 189 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 1: even get invited to the before and after party at 190 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: our formal yet teachers were getting invited. So it's a 191 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: really hard feeling, and I know it's probably one that 192 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: a lot of other people have experienced, and it's something 193 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: that takes a while to get over. I mean, we 194 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: went to UNI and we had a great time at UNI, 195 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: but it used to always play on my mind, why 196 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: are people being nice to me? Because no one at 197 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: high school was ever nice to us. And that's what 198 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: breaks my heart though, because you know, it was difficult 199 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: enough to put up with, Like we graduated two thousand 200 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 1: and six and obviously there wasn't any social media around, 201 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: and it breaks my heart to think that kids are 202 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: probably going through this now and the form of exclusion 203 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: is emphasized by social media, with people sharing instance, stories 204 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: of the parties they're going to like and not being 205 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: able to disconnect from that once your home would be 206 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: really difficult. Well, the thing is, as well, you can 207 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: make one wrong move at high school and that's your 208 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 1: whole high school sort of disrupted. Because I remember there 209 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: was a guy at our school and the first day, 210 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: I think it was the induction day, he made the 211 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: mistake of telling everybody that he loved cats. Well, this 212 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: is what annoys me because during those inductions. You go 213 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: around and you ask stupid questions like tell us something 214 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: that you like, yeah, And I mean it's pretty hard 215 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 1: to be put on the spot and come up with 216 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: something yeah. And as Amy said, he said he liked cats, 217 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: and from there on end he was bullied relentlessly. It 218 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 1: was called cat boy. I mean, the funniest thing out 219 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: of this scenario is that he's actually gone on to 220 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: become a model and one of a quite successful person 221 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: to come out of the school. So I suppose that's 222 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: something for people to think about that might be going 223 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: through a difficult time at the moment. Is just because 224 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: you're experiencing something at high school, it doesn't mean that 225 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: that's going to last forever. Oh definitely not. And looking back, 226 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: I mean I remember standing Our school used to look 227 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: on to another school. It was an agricultural school, and 228 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: I remember I used to stand there waiting for the 229 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: home group classroom to open. I have no idea we 230 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: actually were early because our dad worked at the school 231 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: and dropped us off. We never usually are on time. 232 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: And I remember looking out and just thinking, oh gosh, 233 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: there's another four years of this to go. But now 234 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: looking back at just was so long ago. And it's 235 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: quite funny because a lot of the people that are popular, sorry, 236 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: that were popular at the school and now doing really 237 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: dead end jobs, and it's quite funny to look back 238 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: and think, Wow, well they were gods for like five 239 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: years and then it's just been a decline for them. 240 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: Well that's the rule of thumb, isn't it. You've always 241 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: got to be nice to the nerdy people, Like everyone says, Oh, 242 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: be nice to the nerdy guys. They're the ones that 243 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: are going to go on and own the software companies 244 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: and be mega rich. So it's not about being that 245 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,079 Speaker 1: mega rich, but nerdy girls as well. I mean, I'm 246 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: not trying to refer to ourselves here, but you know, 247 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: some people blossom after high school. So I've got to say, 248 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: And our best friends probably listening to this, but I 249 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: do remember, I don't know why this is to remind me, 250 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: but so we weren't as good a friends with our 251 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: best friend at school our friendships that are blossomed out 252 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: of school, But we were always friendly because we've bonded 253 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: over Harry Potter, which we touched on another and our 254 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: hatred of most of the people at the school. Yeah, 255 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: and maybe we mentioned this episode, but I loved it 256 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: because she and her group of friends at the time 257 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: they kind of didn't care what anyone thought. They'd go 258 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: and have stick fights out the front of the school 259 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: and all of that kind of thing. And I'm not 260 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 1: going to be happy that you said that. I'm pretty 261 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: sure we mentioned the other episode, but you know what, 262 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: I would have preferred to be doing that than being 263 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: too scared to say anything or do anything for fear 264 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: of judgment. I mean, I don't I think we probably 265 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: did somewhat didn't really care what people thought. Well. I 266 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 1: did remind the others when we were reflecting on what 267 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: we were going to talk about on today's episode that 268 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: we in year nine started a petition to get Rob 269 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: Mills back on Australian Idol and went around and got 270 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: people to sign it. And we were reflecting on why 271 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: we were not popular, and I was like, wow, that 272 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: might have been one of the reasons why. Another not 273 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: so fond memory of mine was school casual days. I 274 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: feel like everyone can relate to this. I remember there 275 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: used to be a Jean's Day. I'm not sure what 276 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: charity it was for Jean's vajeens. Oh Jean's for Jean's, 277 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: and you always found out that you had the wrong 278 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: shade of jeans. I wasn't say what the spare thought 279 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: for the poor kids who always forgot that it was 280 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: casual dating up in the uniform. There were some kids 281 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: that would prefer to wear the uniform and not pay 282 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: the dollar or something. I remember that I was probably 283 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: because don't want to put yourself out there. Well, moving 284 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: on to a sort of a different topic crushes at school. Now, 285 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: I think we've sort of described the population of the 286 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: school we went to as being not very nice, you know, 287 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: the boys. I don't really remember having too many crushes 288 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: on any of those foul boys. It was more celebrities that. 289 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there were celebrity crushes like jod Michael Murray, 290 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: Jesse McCartney, Milsy as we touched on before. But it 291 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: was quite funny because after high school we found out 292 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: that Sovie had a crush on one of the guys 293 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 1: at school, which was the German exchange student. It blew 294 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: out of mine. Yeah, you throwing me onto the bus 295 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: with this. This is awkward to talk about it. It 296 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: was like fifteen years ago. Yeah, I feel embarrassed by myself. 297 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: It's funny talking about crushes because you always hear of 298 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: kids having crushes on their teachers at school, and I 299 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: don't ever remember having a crush and a teacher, but 300 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: I did. I do remember there was a a teacher 301 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: at our school. He was probably in his forties, and 302 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: he had kids, and everyone seemed to love him because 303 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: he was quite nice. And that's the thing. It's like, 304 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: didn't you have a crush on him? So no, I 305 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: did not have a crush on him. He was one 306 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: of my favorite teachers. It doesn't mean i'd have a 307 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: crush on him. Then was that volleyball teacher? Oh? Yeah, 308 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: I mean he was better looking than I hated him. 309 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: He was me He was a dick. But don't you 310 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: think it's funny when you see these people that have 311 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: been touted as like the hot teacher, and then when 312 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: you're out of school, you realize, oh, they were just 313 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: the only one that was sort of under thirty. Or 314 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 1: it's the same with when people at school date uni 315 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: students or older kids and you're like, oh, wow, that's 316 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: so cool. They're being picked up in their car, and 317 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: then you realize, wow, like that person's a bit of 318 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: a loser for dating an underage student. We're talking about 319 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: people dating at high school. And remember there were always 320 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: those pregnancy scares or rumors that went around with some 321 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: of the girls. Like there was one girl who I 322 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: swear everyone said was pregnant for two years. She has 323 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: she she has not had children. I think that's because 324 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: her weight like fluctuated. I mean, and that's what's awkward. 325 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: It is you know, during puberty, your weight goes back 326 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: and forward. But she was. It wasn't that she was 327 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: a big girl. It was literally that she I think 328 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: went really really thin and then she kind of it 329 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: was just a normal way the poor girls probably just bloated. 330 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: One day she was what about moving on to other students, 331 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: and we we pinpointed this particular student we wanted to 332 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: talk about. Now, should we just call her a fake 333 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: name for this because it's kind of hard to okay, 334 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: Chalie Sally. Okay, So Sally came to the school in 335 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: year eleven, and she was put into my home group, 336 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: and not having that many friends at the school, I 337 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: was always super nice to the exchange students because you know, 338 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: you want to manage oh sorry, not exchange to the 339 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: new kids. So Anyway, I sort of took this girl 340 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: under my wing and a few alarm bells started going, 341 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: you know, in regards to some of the conversations she 342 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: said talking about, Well, one was her hit list, wasn't it. Yeah, 343 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: so she basically had a hit list of all the 344 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: people that she wanted dead that had wronged her. Yeah, 345 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: that's completely normal. I mean, she was one of those 346 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: people that you'd expect to come to school with gun 347 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: one day, so it was better to sort of stay 348 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: on her good side. I remember we had an art 349 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: class with her, and she hated the art teacher, who 350 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: was lovely. She even threw a paintbrush at him at 351 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: one point. My favorite memory of her was her hairstyle. 352 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: So you know, it was back in the day when 353 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: you had I'm sorry, I don't know the other word, 354 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: but slut strands what's the actually think correct word. I'm sorry, 355 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: that strands of hair. And then she had this bottle 356 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: that this squeezy bottle that she'd spray her hair. Wouldn't 357 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: it not stay straight, so she'd wet it between lessons. 358 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: I still remember her telling me, because it was in 359 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: the day when they had hair straighteners, but they weren't 360 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: as good, like I don't think people had GHD back then, 361 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: and she had one of these were all She had 362 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: one of those where I don't think you were actually 363 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: meant to go from wet to dry, but she did anyway. 364 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's like the girl who used to 365 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: iron her hair. Remember a girl at school? Yes, I do. 366 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: The other fashion mistakes. I feel like everyone just lived 367 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: in like the surf branded big jumpers, and you'd always 368 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: have the same one. I remember I had this beautiful 369 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: pink Billabong hoodie and my friend also had it, and 370 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: she wore it to my birthday party. I know we 371 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: said we didn't have friends, but we did have a 372 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: few handful. By year twelve we had none. But oh 373 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: my goodness, because that reminds me. So we used to 374 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 1: be really good friends with a girl at school and 375 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,719 Speaker 1: what shall we call her, Harriet? So we uspeak really 376 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: good friends with random with Harriet, and so like the 377 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: best of friends. She was. Probably the only good thing 378 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: about being in that school, I suppose, was that initial 379 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: friendship we had with her. And it turned out that 380 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: we had a little bit of a falling out with her, 381 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,479 Speaker 1: and I feel bad, you know, throwing around the wet psycho. 382 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: That the word psycho before, but it turned out that 383 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: she in year twelve, when she stopped being friends with us, 384 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: she created a fictitious boyfriend and a fictitious group of 385 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: other friends to her new group of friends. That's completely normal, 386 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: isn't it? Yeah? Sor not normal? How we found out 387 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: about it, which we won't be going into, but it 388 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: turned out that she had actually created email addresses for 389 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: the fake friends. She had even had a burner phone 390 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: where she would text herself on with a different SIM card. 391 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: It was actually insane. Let's just throw it out there. 392 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: This guy wasn't just you know, a normal guy. It 393 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: was like the fake boyfriend was this like super hot blonde, 394 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: a professional surfer? So he was. He couldn't come to 395 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: the formal because he was in a surfing accident in Hawaii. 396 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: Now can you believe that people actually believed it? And 397 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: we were trying to tell people this is not true. 398 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: This is a delusion that she has, and no one 399 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 1: believed us. No, I mean, it all came out that 400 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: it was a lie and then but yeah, it was. 401 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 1: It was actually insane. Fun times. Well, that same girl, 402 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,239 Speaker 1: we used to play girls football with her and so 403 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: we all decided to sign on for girls football because 404 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: we found out one of the teachers at our school 405 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: who we loved, her son used to play for the Crows. 406 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: And I think we can name him because he was 407 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: a celebrity, James Begley. I would google him if I 408 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: were you guys, because he used to be a Cleo 409 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: Bachelor of the Year and that was a thing. He 410 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: was hot. Yeah, so the year he came to coach. 411 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: Oh fuck, I actually saw him the other day. Oh 412 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,639 Speaker 1: did you hopefully us? Yeah, he's working here as like 413 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: a sports manager of some sort. I'm sure this isn't 414 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: the podcast that he would listen to. Well, he's still 415 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: pretty hot. So the thing is when he was coaching 416 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 1: the girls football team, he was actually in Cleo Bachelor 417 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: of the Year the awards. And remember there was this 418 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: topless photo of him in the paper. Anyway, I digress. 419 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: So of course we were massive Crows fans at the time, 420 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: so we signed up to play in this football team. 421 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 1: And I do love football. You may have heard all 422 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: of our views on the women's football in a previous podcast, 423 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: but my goodness, we thought it was non contact. I 424 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: remember coming out to the football field and literally being 425 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: hip and shouldered to the far and wed. Yeah, we 426 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: are six foot five, sorry, not six five five, So 427 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: we were up again some like six foot girls that 428 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: were just like pushing us around. It really ended up 429 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: backfiring on us because James Begley only coached like a 430 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: handful of games and his friend was Blake coach the rest. 431 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 1: So I mean, it was a bit of fun, but 432 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: it wasn't worth being tackled by massive girls that were 433 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: crushing us into the ground. I want to move on 434 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: to muck Up Day because that was a momentous day 435 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: at school because one it signaled the end of school 436 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: really and two I feel like it was a lot 437 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: of fun for us because I remember it was around 438 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: the time that Big Brother was on and I think 439 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: her name was Anna. She had that classic line of 440 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: saying game on moles. And I remember we got to 441 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,919 Speaker 1: make our T shirts and we wrote game on moles 442 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: our shirts. Do you guys remember that. Yes, it was 443 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: lots of fun creating those shirts. And I remember we 444 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: had some targets on muck Up Day for people that 445 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: had wronged us during our five years at school, and 446 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: it was quite funny because unfortunately the school had banned 447 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: any sort of elaborate muck up plans, except you could 448 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: do a water fight. So everyone was getting water pistols 449 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: and water balloons. But that was because remember there was 450 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: that that I don't know, I'm pretty sure it was 451 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: actually true, because there's always those old wives stories about 452 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: muck ups. I was at that rumor about at the 453 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 1: agricultural school when someone took a cow upstairs and they 454 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: couldn't get it down. That happened to our school. So 455 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,479 Speaker 1: they stole a cow from the next door school and 456 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: then they yeah, they let it up the stairs. And 457 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: the thing with cows is they can't actually walk down, 458 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,600 Speaker 1: they can only walk upstairs. I had to like, that 459 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: didn't actually happen. Well, I don't know. Well, that's the 460 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: other thing that all the wild rumors that you'd hear 461 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: at school, like, for instance, at our school, unfortunately the 462 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: wild rumors turned out to be true. There was a 463 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: stabbing and oucnteine and there was also some pool person 464 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: who was killed by a javelin. So we always heard 465 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: those stories at school. We should go at the school 466 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: when those incidents they were Well, I feel like everyone 467 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,639 Speaker 1: should go to our Facebook community and will start the 468 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: sort of convo there about the odd rumors that you 469 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: heard at school. Well, back to Markup Day, there was 470 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: an epic moment where a girl we mentioned earlier, the 471 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: one that was on Farmer Wants a Wife Will who 472 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: made the first edition. She was so we were trying 473 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 1: to I think you could only throw water, said before. Yeah, 474 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: so I think we were squirting someone else with pistols 475 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: and she's like game on maules and then started spraying 476 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: a water pistol at us. And as she was doing so, 477 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: so she had got her school uniform and cut it 478 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 1: all up and made it into a hole to neck. 479 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: And as she was squirting with us with the water pistol, 480 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 1: her shirt fell off. So there seemed to be an 481 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: on running theme with her and her boobs always coming out. Anyway, 482 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: this said girl. Also she did a speech at school 483 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 1: and we had to talk about our role model or 484 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: our hero, and she did a it was a ten 485 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 1: minute speech on Paris Hilton and why Paris Hilton was 486 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: her role model that kind of summarized her. I think 487 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: it would be fair. I mean we were all obsessed 488 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: with celebrities as well. It's funny how it's now all 489 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: YouTubers and influencers kids are obsessed with, but back in 490 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: the day, for me, it was Hilary Duff. And moving 491 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 1: on to I suppose some of the boys that it 492 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: pains me to say this, but they were probably considered popular. 493 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: There was one guy at school and I remember he 494 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: used to sit across from us in art class, and 495 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: he had these loud conversations about how many wanks he 496 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: would have a day. And I remember sitting with our 497 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: best friend Olwen, and we just couldn't believe the conversation 498 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: coming from them. Yeah, And didn't he say he was 499 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: gonna not wank until the formal Yeah? And it was 500 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: just like he would update everyone how he was going 501 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: at art. Art was such a great class like that 502 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: was one of the only classes I enjoyed in terms 503 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: of having people there. So we had our best friend 504 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: Owen in the art class with us, and it would 505 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: be so interesting, as you said, listening into other people's conversations. 506 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: You'd find out so much about them. But then obviously 507 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: you'd have your own great chats as well. But the 508 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 1: crazy thing about art was I actually think art was 509 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: one of the hardest subjects I did. In year twelve, 510 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: the amount of work he had to do, but I 511 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: know we still laugh about it to this day. It's 512 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: like in art class you were awarded for not actually 513 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: your artistic ability, but the load of crap story you 514 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: can associate with your art piece. Because we had a 515 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 1: kid that I think he got top marks in art 516 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: because he did an installation. And his installation was an 517 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: old TV that he smashed the window of and put 518 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: a KFC box with chicken bones. I can't even remember 519 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 1: what bullshit story he made up for it. There was 520 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,239 Speaker 1: another girl who made it a clothing line or a 521 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,360 Speaker 1: washing washing line full of clothes. It was so fud 522 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: was that it was so annoying because Amy, Sophie and 523 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: I have always loved art, and we are quite good, 524 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: i'd say at port and we were doing that sort 525 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: of stuff and our art teacher would always be like, yeah, 526 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: but what's the story behind it? And you'd be like, what, 527 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: I didn't know? And so you had to make up 528 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 1: some bullshit in order to get wank. Yeah, it was 529 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: an absolute wank fest in that class. Do you guys 530 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: remember the time in year nine there was that sort 531 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: of you know, there's always a sort of kid at 532 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: school who I know this sounds terrible, but everyone thinks 533 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: they're going to be a pedophile when they grow up 534 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: or something, or a rapist. Yeah, and it sounds terrible, 535 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: but I don't like. I don't know this one hundred 536 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: percent as if this is true, but I've seen him recently. 537 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,959 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. He's a very scary, scary individual. Well, 538 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: he was following a year seven student, So don't know 539 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: if this happened to anyone else's school, but there was 540 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: a whole school assembly about this guy because in year 541 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: nine he started following some of the primary school girls 542 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: who were across the road a different school. Obviously, he 543 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 1: started following them home from school, and he started offering 544 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: people massages. I remember they said, if he has offered 545 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: anybody a massage and need to come forward and tell 546 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: us what happened. He was erotic massage. Well no, he 547 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: also used to ask people about their star signs and 548 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: also stand So we had some stairs going up into 549 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: one of the main buildings and it was those open stairs, 550 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: so if you walked up with a skirt, you could 551 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: see up your dress. So he used to stand under 552 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: the stairs, and I mean we used to just tell 553 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: him to fuck off. Basically. Yeah. I remember he used 554 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: to stand over my locker, so you know when you 555 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: have to stand up and then you sort of move 556 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: into the person, and he used to do that and 557 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: I would just be like, could you just get out 558 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: of my way? And he'd be like, yes, such a snop. Hell, 559 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: can we go back to uniforms for a second, because 560 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 1: I feel like there's one thing we haven't covered now. 561 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: Our school was a public school, but despite that, it 562 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: acted like a private school. So it doesn't sound like 563 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: a price with some of the stories we're telling. Well, 564 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: we had to wear ties and black and black or 565 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: brown shoes, as Kate touched on, and it was always 566 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: the popular people that seemed to get away with wearing 567 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: their school uniform in the cool way, like if any 568 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: nerds stepped out of line and didn't have their bloody 569 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: tides done up to the fullest, you would get in trouble. Well, 570 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: that's exactly right. And I remember it was almost like 571 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: some of the teachers wanted to be in the popular group. 572 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 1: So I said, you know, as I mentioned earlier, some 573 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: of the teachers got invited to the before and after 574 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 1: formal parties when we didn't get invited, and it was 575 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 1: so weird. And there was one teacher who was always 576 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: a bit strange and he I remember one day he 577 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: said something weird to us about how if he was 578 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: our age, he would want to be friends with us, 579 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: and then that says perfectly yeah, And then fast forward, 580 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: you know, ten fifteen years, we found out that he 581 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: I think he dated a student that was in a 582 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: year year below us and they were actually I think 583 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 1: they were pretty serious and living together and it's just 584 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: funny recently broken up apparently. Yeah, And it's just so 585 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 1: weird because sometimes your gut feeling about people are correct, 586 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: and it's so funny that weird student teacher relationship and 587 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: that environment. We're just going back to the formal. It 588 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: was hilarious because each formal they would they would film 589 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 1: it and then they would show it at the assembly. 590 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: And I remember always having that sort of nervous feeling 591 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: because we all didn't go with anyone to the formal. 592 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: A lot of people, a lot of people did have partners, 593 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: but a lot of people also didn't because you had 594 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: to pay for the person to come, and and I 595 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: mean that wasn't our issue. We just don't have anyone 596 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: to take. But I remember, I remember walking in. I 597 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: was like, oh god, I don't want to be filmed 598 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: walking in alone. And we were on our best friend's 599 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: table with some of her friends, and I remember that 600 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: because we didn't have enough people on the table, they 601 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: had to fill it out with like the leftover pup table. 602 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: Yeah okay, oh yes, yes, yes. Anyway, they ended up 603 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: filling it out with like two of the hotties from school. 604 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: One was Sophie's German exchange and crush, and the other 605 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: was this no, no, he wasn't on the table. It 606 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: was another German exchange to the other one, the one 607 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: that was actually good looking. All these good looking German 608 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: exchange Yeah. So there was this guy that we'd never 609 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: really met him, but he was a German exchange student. 610 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: And then this other guy that was new to the 611 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: school that all the girls had a crush on, and 612 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: he got sat on our table and then he you know, 613 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: they all wanted photos with us for the like the 614 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: year twelve formal photos, and everyone was so jealous. So 615 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: that was the only time something went right at the 616 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,719 Speaker 1: at the school formal well, to be honest, the formal 617 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: was a nightmare for the teachers. So one of the 618 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: teachers who was on the formal committee actually ended up 619 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: going home and crying because the So it's really unfair 620 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: how the prefects at our school were picked. It wasn't 621 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: on merit. It was just a popularity contest, So it 622 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: wasn't that all. How that's how prefects up here. Yeah, well, 623 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: sadly we did apply for it and didn't make it. 624 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: So the prey were just salty about that. Yeah. Well, 625 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: the prefects wrapped up all drunk. One of them vomited 626 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: under a table. I mean these were at the pre 627 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: formal parties that the teachers were at, so work that 628 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: one out, but yeah, yea, it was a bit of 629 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: a nightmare from there. And the worst thing was though, 630 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: So there was this the girl that we're talking about before, 631 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: the one who was the president of the formal committee. 632 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: She is the nicest person and she's gone on to 633 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: become a doctor, and she was one of the lovely 634 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: people at school. And I remember when everyone was leaving, 635 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: she ended up falling down the stairs and everyone was 636 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: laughing because it looked like she was drunk, but she 637 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: hadn't had a drop of alcohol at all. Oh, I 638 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: felt so bad for her because everyone's like she's wrong 639 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: and you're like she's not. She just fell Well. I 640 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: think that's all we've got time for. Thank you so 641 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: much for listening or indulging us and listening to our 642 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: high school stories. We'd love to hear some of your 643 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: experiences at high school. 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