WEBVTT - *Story Time* - The High School Years... 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.960 This episode of Outspoken is brought to you by Modibody, 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.360 the period underwear that gives you better support, better protection 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.840 and a better life. This is Outspoken, the podcast It's 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.520 not afraid to say exactly what you're thinking. Our names 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.040 are Amy Kate and Sophie Torber. We're identical triplets, but 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.000 we often don't have identical opinions, so sometimes things can 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:27.760 get heated. Outspoken covers all things reality TV, influencers, entertainment, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:32.320 and issues facing women. That is so fetch Thank you, 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.920 Welcome back to Outspoken. We thought we'd take the chance 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.920 today to do a little bit of a story time 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.680 all about high school. I think we're going to need 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.559 maybe a psychiatrist to talk to after. It's going to 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.280 be quite traumatic because we were nerds at school, some 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.360 would say losers. We didn't really have that many friends. Well, 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.200 we really were each other's friends. So I think we 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:55.960 probably need to set the scene. So we all had 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.040 a great time at primary school, had a great group 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.000 of friends. So when it came to going to high schoo, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.920 a lot of our friends went to different schools. And 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.600 I suppose when you're going through those awkward, that awkward 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.000 adolescent stage, people are always going to pick on people 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.120 that there's something different about them, And to be honest, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.039 on the first day of year eight, we stood out 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.639 like a saw sum because obviously, being triplets, we looked 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.000 the same. We were in oversized uniforms, and we were 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.920 just not loving life. That's something I felt like a 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.440 lot of people can relate to is their parents buying 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.679 them uniforms that are about ten sizes too big in 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.080 the hope that they'll somewhat fit into them. Yeah, so 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.319 no offense to mom. I know she'll be listening, but 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.720 she bought us size sixteen jumpers and said we would 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.760 grow into them. But we're only size eight now, so 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.880 I don't know what she thought was going to be. Hay, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 maybe she predicted this very oversized jumper trend that's happening 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.080 at the moment. Maybe they look quite good on now. Yeah. Maybe. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.320 Well they were the horrible jumpers that I think everyone 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.520 has where they actually smell like wet dog when they 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:59.160 get wet. So yeah, that wasn't fun. I also, unfortunately, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.240 was one of two girls at school in your eight 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.240 that had brown leather shoes so you could get black 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.760 or brown, and I made the stupid decision to get brown, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.360 which I regretted. Pretty sure they were spend less shoes, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.639 yes they were, and unfortunately, you know, you just don't 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.600 want anything that stands out. And the fact that I 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.840 had brown shoes and everyone had black, I was like, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.080 bloody hell. That would have been my one tip for 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.240 anyone who might be listening that's going to high school 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:24.799 as you really, as you say, you don't want to 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.359 stand out from the crowd. You really want to be 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.800 almost like a little sheep, which is terrible to say. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.320 I mean even at our school, we didn't have a 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.000 set uniform with pants and just all it's something about 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.079 popular people. They all seem to know the right thing 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.960 to wear. Well, I think it's because they have older 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.840 brothers and sisters who are wearing the pants. So the 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.560 pants that were popular back in the day were face 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.880 Off pants and we did not have those pants. We 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.520 had pants from Katies. Does anyone we didn't make pants 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.400 in your tent? Eventually we got the pants that we're in. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.800 Can we put this in our Facebook group? Though? In 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.840 our community? Sorry? Does anyone to remember the brand face Off? Now? 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.720 It was from a very very cheap LCM or one 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.360 of those that's a that's a bar. It was something like, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:13.280 I don't know it. It's very some very cheap store 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.600 that is still running at the moment in our local 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.040 shopping center. It was like a soup Prey kind of shop. Basically, 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:20.880 Oh my god. That that just reminded me. The other 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.440 thing about high school, which again let's put it in 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.760 the group. Does everyone remember carrying their gym gear around 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:31.040 in like some sort of surf branded bag or it 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.040 was well, I think a lot of people had sports 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.920 Girl bags or soup Prey like it sort of said 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.480 a lot about what bag you were holding. We felt 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.920 so sorry for myself. I had like one tattered JJ 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.120 bag that I kept like bringing around with JJ is 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.680 not even a good brand. Or we should move on 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.480 to Pe because Pe at high school you either love 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.880 it or hate it, and we all grew up really sporty. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.560 But there was something different about Pe at high school. Well, 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.520 I think is when they get the kids to pick 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.760 who's in whose team, Like I thought that was quite 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.160 an outdated polls that so brutal, and as we said, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.120 not being popular, we were often last picked, even though 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.680 we were good at sports. I remember being picked last, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.160 and I remember beating everyone. So I was picked this 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.320 guy and we were picked last, and we had to 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.240 join up and play tennis together, and we smashed everybody 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.800 because we played club tennis on the weekends. I think 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.640 the other thing I remember about PE is that awkward 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.480 moment in the change rooms when you're expected to like 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.360 strip off in front of everyone. Yeah, so you're either 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.240 the popular girl that's stripping off showing off her new bra, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.279 or you're the person in the cubicle that's too nervous 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.120 to get change in front of everyone. I mean, it's 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.480 safe to say we were all that person in the cubicle, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.520 or you could be the person in the boys room 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.040 where there's the rogue pe teacher who's pretending to come 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.880 into the room just to catch a glimpse of the guys. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.200 There's always one pegge teacher that gets accused of being 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.200 a pedophile, isn't there. I think it's just a thing 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.560 that comes with it, unfortunately. Well, talking about the change rooms, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.920 there was a time when one of the popular girls, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.800 she was dancing around in a new bra that she 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.839 had outside of the cubicle, and I think I was 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.720 inside the cubicle and it happened. But her bra actually 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:06.000 popped off. No I was. I was like, yeah, but no, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.800 like it came boo popped out. Her boo popped out. Well, 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.159 something came out. I was there, and then she ran 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.600 into the cubicle. Was all very It was one of 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.440 those stories that goes around the school. Another story that 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.839 went around our school was there was a girl. I 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.359 won't obviously name her, but she was a bit of 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.200 a character at the school. And this I suppose dates 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.600 dates us a little bit because she photo copied her 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.960 chest and then emailed it to everybody because phones at 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.080 the time weren't I don't think you had email. I 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.680 think it got printed off and then it printed and 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.440 put on everyone's lockers. Yeah. I never saw the photo, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.880 to be honest, but this said girl. She also in 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.600 year twelve flashed in the year twelve formal photo, so 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.960 she was kind of in the middle and they had 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.080 to actually edit her out of the photo. I thought 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.480 they put her in the crease. No, well yeah, she 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.120 was no, No, they edited her out somehow. She did 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.080 go on to appear on Farmer Once a Wife as 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.120 well as well. She didn't make it fast. She did, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.640 funnily enough, get nominated for C grade celebrity almost likely 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.280 to be a C grade celebrity really at a school formal? Yeah, well, 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.960 talking about the school formal. For some strange reason, Sophie, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.520 Amy and I nominated ourselves to be on the formal committee, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:19.479 and you were involved in, you know, creating the formal. Well, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.800 it was very political because the reason we were in 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.599 the formal committee was a friend of mine. She wanted 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.880 to be the head of the formal Committee and she 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.440 needed to have us vote her as the president. So 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.360 being a good friend, we decided we'd help love our losers. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.799 That's well, what's funny about being involved in the formal 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.760 committee is one of our roles was to pick, well 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.040 not to pick, but to do a vote of who 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.679 would be nominated for an award. We had to count 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.960 the votes, so yeah, we were tallying the votes and 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.599 there were awards like the biggest Cadbury, who would be 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.600 most likely to be a Z grade celebrity, And of 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.159 course the girl who flashed in the school photo was 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.000 voted C grade celebrity. So at the formal, she got 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.240 up on stage and wasn't she swearing into the microphone 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.680 and she was strong you've missed the kicker of that story. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.080 We might have had a bit to do with who won. Well, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.840 that's what I was getting into. So we actually decided 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.400 on people that we didn't like to win awards that 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.160 were probably not particularly nice. I mean, now I'll preface 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.360 these people were awful to us. So a girl that 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.920 we didn't like, we made her win the biggest Cadbury. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.120 But the strange thing is you could actually reject the 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.360 award if you didn't want to win it, which I 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.840 don't think that's right. Oh, I think it leads to 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.960 you know, that's public humiliation, that's not right. But cheating 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.120 in terms of who wins. Oh, look, it sounds bad, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.640 but these people did deserve. Now let's cast our minds 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.720 further back to year eight. Now, that was a very 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.120 difficult time for all of us. We were ridiculously bullied 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.440 quite to a bad extent. I mean, on the daily 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:54.000 we got called ABC. Yeah. I mean, it's always it's 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.080 terrible because you do hear of people being badly bullied 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.200 at school. And I don't want to go into it 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.480 too much because we want this podcast to be quite funny. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.600 But as we said, we were kind of I suppose 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.360 targeted in a way because we were identical, and for 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.560 some reason, the kids at our school didn't like the 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.520 fact that we used to hang out with each other, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.960 and I think they got confused by the fact we 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.280 looked so similar. And I remember one Actually, it's funny 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.680 because sometimes you felt like you wanted to be invisible 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.200 when people were staring at you, and then other times 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.840 you felt completely visible. Because there was one instance where 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.080 I was getting my bag out from my locker and 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.600 these two boys started fighting and one of them had 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.120 ice coffee in his hands. It was literally like I 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.600 didn't exist. They were like fighting right near me, and 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.120 all of a sudden, the ice coffee got poured all 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.960 over me, all over my white top, and they didn't 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.600 even apologize. It was like I just didn't exist. I 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.040 think that's the worst thing because a lot of people 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.720 talk about exclusion, which is a really hard form of 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.960 bullying to deal with, which is something that we unfortunately 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.439 had to encounter at school. So it is that feeling 0:08:55.520 --> 0:09:00.480 of being invisible. It's being excluded from parties, from formal 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.120 before and after party. So in year twelve, we didn't 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.320 even get invited to the before and after party at 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.400 our formal yet teachers were getting invited. So it's a 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.440 really hard feeling, and I know it's probably one that 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.520 a lot of other people have experienced, and it's something 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.560 that takes a while to get over. I mean, we 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.880 went to UNI and we had a great time at UNI, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.800 but it used to always play on my mind, why 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.280 are people being nice to me? Because no one at 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.920 high school was ever nice to us. And that's what 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.280 breaks my heart though, because you know, it was difficult 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.520 enough to put up with, Like we graduated two thousand 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.199 and six and obviously there wasn't any social media around, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.120 and it breaks my heart to think that kids are 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.280 probably going through this now and the form of exclusion 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.040 is emphasized by social media, with people sharing instance, stories 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.480 of the parties they're going to like and not being 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.800 able to disconnect from that once your home would be 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.000 really difficult. Well, the thing is, as well, you can 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.040 make one wrong move at high school and that's your 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.719 whole high school sort of disrupted. Because I remember there 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.920 was a guy at our school and the first day, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.400 I think it was the induction day, he made the 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.400 mistake of telling everybody that he loved cats. Well, this 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.560 is what annoys me because during those inductions. You go 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.120 around and you ask stupid questions like tell us something 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.840 that you like, yeah, And I mean it's pretty hard 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.400 to be put on the spot and come up with 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.760 something yeah. And as Amy said, he said he liked cats, 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.040 and from there on end he was bullied relentlessly. It 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.839 was called cat boy. I mean, the funniest thing out 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.320 of this scenario is that he's actually gone on to 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.439 become a model and one of a quite successful person 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.800 to come out of the school. So I suppose that's 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.400 something for people to think about that might be going 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.400 through a difficult time at the moment. Is just because 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.880 you're experiencing something at high school, it doesn't mean that 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.760 that's going to last forever. Oh definitely not. And looking back, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.880 I mean I remember standing Our school used to look 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.000 on to another school. It was an agricultural school, and 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.200 I remember I used to stand there waiting for the 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.560 home group classroom to open. I have no idea we 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.040 actually were early because our dad worked at the school 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.080 and dropped us off. We never usually are on time. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.199 And I remember looking out and just thinking, oh gosh, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.000 there's another four years of this to go. But now 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.240 looking back at just was so long ago. And it's 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.280 quite funny because a lot of the people that are popular, sorry, 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.240 that were popular at the school and now doing really 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.360 dead end jobs, and it's quite funny to look back 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.720 and think, Wow, well they were gods for like five 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.120 years and then it's just been a decline for them. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:23.920 Well that's the rule of thumb, isn't it. You've always 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.720 got to be nice to the nerdy people, Like everyone says, Oh, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.840 be nice to the nerdy guys. They're the ones that 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.880 are going to go on and own the software companies 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.600 and be mega rich. So it's not about being that 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.079 mega rich, but nerdy girls as well. I mean, I'm 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.840 not trying to refer to ourselves here, but you know, 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.440 some people blossom after high school. So I've got to say, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.320 And our best friends probably listening to this, but I 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.520 do remember, I don't know why this is to remind me, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.320 but so we weren't as good a friends with our 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.120 best friend at school our friendships that are blossomed out 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.360 of school, But we were always friendly because we've bonded 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.440 over Harry Potter, which we touched on another and our 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.600 hatred of most of the people at the school. Yeah, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.760 and maybe we mentioned this episode, but I loved it 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.440 because she and her group of friends at the time 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.679 they kind of didn't care what anyone thought. They'd go 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.760 and have stick fights out the front of the school 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.200 and all of that kind of thing. And I'm not 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:11.839 going to be happy that you said that. I'm pretty 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.040 sure we mentioned the other episode, but you know what, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.959 I would have preferred to be doing that than being 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.000 too scared to say anything or do anything for fear 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.160 of judgment. I mean, I don't I think we probably 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.160 did somewhat didn't really care what people thought. Well. I 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.440 did remind the others when we were reflecting on what 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.760 we were going to talk about on today's episode that 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.760 we in year nine started a petition to get Rob 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.880 Mills back on Australian Idol and went around and got 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.240 people to sign it. And we were reflecting on why 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.520 we were not popular, and I was like, wow, that 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.800 might have been one of the reasons why. Another not 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.079 so fond memory of mine was school casual days. I 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.000 feel like everyone can relate to this. I remember there 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.240 used to be a Jean's Day. I'm not sure what 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.120 charity it was for Jean's vajeens. Oh Jean's for Jean's, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.160 and you always found out that you had the wrong 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.280 shade of jeans. I wasn't say what the spare thought 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.440 for the poor kids who always forgot that it was 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.160 casual dating up in the uniform. There were some kids 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.240 that would prefer to wear the uniform and not pay 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.480 the dollar or something. I remember that I was probably 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.199 because don't want to put yourself out there. Well, moving 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:14.800 on to a sort of a different topic crushes at school. Now, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.000 I think we've sort of described the population of the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.360 school we went to as being not very nice, you know, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.200 the boys. I don't really remember having too many crushes 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.680 on any of those foul boys. It was more celebrities that. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.880 Oh yeah, there were celebrity crushes like jod Michael Murray, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.280 Jesse McCartney, Milsy as we touched on before. But it 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.120 was quite funny because after high school we found out 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.200 that Sovie had a crush on one of the guys 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.360 at school, which was the German exchange student. It blew 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.680 out of mine. Yeah, you throwing me onto the bus 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.640 with this. This is awkward to talk about it. It 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.200 was like fifteen years ago. Yeah, I feel embarrassed by myself. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.680 It's funny talking about crushes because you always hear of 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.880 kids having crushes on their teachers at school, and I 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.200 don't ever remember having a crush and a teacher, but 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.640 I did. I do remember there was a a teacher 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.360 at our school. He was probably in his forties, and 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.520 he had kids, and everyone seemed to love him because 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.920 he was quite nice. And that's the thing. It's like, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.280 didn't you have a crush on him? So no, I 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.840 did not have a crush on him. He was one 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.600 of my favorite teachers. It doesn't mean i'd have a 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:20.520 crush on him. Then was that volleyball teacher? Oh? Yeah, 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.440 I mean he was better looking than I hated him. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.120 He was me He was a dick. But don't you 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.320 think it's funny when you see these people that have 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.920 been touted as like the hot teacher, and then when 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.280 you're out of school, you realize, oh, they were just 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.240 the only one that was sort of under thirty. Or 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.200 it's the same with when people at school date uni 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.840 students or older kids and you're like, oh, wow, that's 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.960 so cool. They're being picked up in their car, and 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.640 then you realize, wow, like that person's a bit of 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.040 a loser for dating an underage student. We're talking about 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.360 people dating at high school. And remember there were always 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.120 those pregnancy scares or rumors that went around with some 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.360 of the girls. Like there was one girl who I 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.120 swear everyone said was pregnant for two years. She has 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.320 she she has not had children. I think that's because 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.000 her weight like fluctuated. I mean, and that's what's awkward. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.080 It is you know, during puberty, your weight goes back 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.160 and forward. But she was. It wasn't that she was 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.400 a big girl. It was literally that she I think 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.440 went really really thin and then she kind of it 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.840 was just a normal way the poor girls probably just bloated. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.600 One day she was what about moving on to other students, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.040 and we we pinpointed this particular student we wanted to 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.200 talk about. Now, should we just call her a fake 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 name for this because it's kind of hard to okay, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.440 Chalie Sally. Okay, So Sally came to the school in 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.760 year eleven, and she was put into my home group, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.320 and not having that many friends at the school, I 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.320 was always super nice to the exchange students because you know, 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:50.120 you want to manage oh sorry, not exchange to the 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.320 new kids. So Anyway, I sort of took this girl 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.880 under my wing and a few alarm bells started going, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.720 you know, in regards to some of the conversations she 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.920 said talking about, Well, one was her hit list, wasn't it. Yeah, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.600 so she basically had a hit list of all the 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.520 people that she wanted dead that had wronged her. Yeah, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.800 that's completely normal. I mean, she was one of those 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.880 people that you'd expect to come to school with gun 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.600 one day, so it was better to sort of stay 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.160 on her good side. I remember we had an art 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.800 class with her, and she hated the art teacher, who 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.280 was lovely. She even threw a paintbrush at him at 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.920 one point. My favorite memory of her was her hairstyle. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.880 So you know, it was back in the day when 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.800 you had I'm sorry, I don't know the other word, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.200 but slut strands what's the actually think correct word. I'm sorry, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.920 that strands of hair. And then she had this bottle 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.680 that this squeezy bottle that she'd spray her hair. Wouldn't 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:50.080 it not stay straight, so she'd wet it between lessons. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.440 I still remember her telling me, because it was in 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.160 the day when they had hair straighteners, but they weren't 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.840 as good, like I don't think people had GHD back then, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.600 and she had one of these were all She had 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.640 one of those where I don't think you were actually 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:04.880 meant to go from wet to dry, but she did anyway. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.920 Oh my god, that's like the girl who used to 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.159 iron her hair. Remember a girl at school? Yes, I do. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.320 The other fashion mistakes. I feel like everyone just lived 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.080 in like the surf branded big jumpers, and you'd always 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.119 have the same one. I remember I had this beautiful 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:24.159 pink Billabong hoodie and my friend also had it, and 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.760 she wore it to my birthday party. I know we 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.919 said we didn't have friends, but we did have a 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.960 few handful. By year twelve we had none. But oh 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.960 my goodness, because that reminds me. So we used to 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.080 be really good friends with a girl at school and 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.719 what shall we call her, Harriet? So we uspeak really 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:46.159 good friends with random with Harriet, and so like the 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.760 best of friends. She was. Probably the only good thing 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.800 about being in that school, I suppose, was that initial 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.600 friendship we had with her. And it turned out that 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.560 we had a little bit of a falling out with her, 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.479 and I feel bad, you know, throwing around the wet psycho. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.040 That the word psycho before, but it turned out that 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.880 she in year twelve, when she stopped being friends with us, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:11.320 she created a fictitious boyfriend and a fictitious group of 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.840 other friends to her new group of friends. That's completely normal, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.520 isn't it? Yeah? Sor not normal? How we found out 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.040 about it, which we won't be going into, but it 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.840 turned out that she had actually created email addresses for 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.240 the fake friends. She had even had a burner phone 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.560 where she would text herself on with a different SIM card. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.800 It was actually insane. Let's just throw it out there. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.159 This guy wasn't just you know, a normal guy. It 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.000 was like the fake boyfriend was this like super hot blonde, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.280 a professional surfer? So he was. He couldn't come to 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.600 the formal because he was in a surfing accident in Hawaii. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.240 Now can you believe that people actually believed it? And 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.560 we were trying to tell people this is not true. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.760 This is a delusion that she has, and no one 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.199 believed us. No, I mean, it all came out that 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.440 it was a lie and then but yeah, it was. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.080