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Speaker 1: Christians Hell. Hello, good morning, Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Last week we kicked off our eight said of the eighties.

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Speaker 2: Each week we're gonna pick a letter and we ask

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Speaker 2: you what is the eighties to do with that letter

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Speaker 2: for you?

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Speaker 1: This week once again introduced Letter of day. Ha, this

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Speaker 1: is hockey B. Yeah, making the word beautiful. Sorry, very promotional.

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Speaker 1: It's the letter B. Letter B.

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Speaker 2: Well, don huggy, same time next week. All right, So

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Speaker 2: the letter B and the eighties?

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Speaker 1: What is it for you?

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Speaker 2: Nine four one four one oh four three, Patsy the

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Speaker 2: letter B in the eighties.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's Brisbane and World Xpo eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: I have listened to this. We dug this out.

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Speaker 3: It will be the biggest event of Australia's by centennial.

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Speaker 1: It will be the major attraction in the world next year.

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Speaker 1: It is a six hundred million dollars World Expo eight Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: This must have been a huge World Expo was a

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Speaker 1: big thing.

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Speaker 3: It was massive and for just a regional Victoria school.

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Speaker 3: That was our camp for year ten.

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Speaker 1: So to go from we camped in the expo. You're

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Speaker 1: one of the exhibitions.

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Speaker 2: They live in rural Victoria.

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Speaker 1: See how they fear the sun.

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Speaker 3: We all piled onto a bus. You know, this was massive.

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Speaker 3: Most of us, including me, hadn't even been past the

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Speaker 3: Queensland border.

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Speaker 1: You busted up. What a long trip from where you

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Speaker 1: were then?

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Speaker 3: About two days non stop on this coach.

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Speaker 1: Non stops, living on it.

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Speaker 3: We had toilet breaks, but we didn't stay overnight.

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Speaker 1: Did you did sleep everything on the bus?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that would never happen now, totally be a current

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Speaker 2: of the teachers would all be put in time.

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Speaker 1: Can we put over? No, it's like speed, it cannot go.

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Speaker 3: It really was.

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Speaker 1: We make it, really was.

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Speaker 3: We got there in two days and we stayed about

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Speaker 3: an hour out of Brisbane at a place called Mount Glorious.

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Speaker 3: And there was nothing glorious about this camp. Can I

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Speaker 3: just say every kid got bus sick because it was

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Speaker 3: this windy road. So it was an hour in the

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Speaker 3: morning down to Expo and an hour back and oh

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Speaker 3: this place was just think of Alcatraz.

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Speaker 1: This is incredible.

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Speaker 2: I love the fact it's called Mount Glorious. I'm now

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Speaker 2: seeing it as a horror movie. On those sore ones

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Speaker 2: saw nine Mount Glorious.

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Speaker 3: There were two showers, I remember, and they were outdoors

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Speaker 3: and it was like open air, you know, like at

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Speaker 3: a country footy club old change room.

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Speaker 1: They were foul.

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Speaker 3: They had leeches inlets, the leaches. But the first night,

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Speaker 3: this massive, big tropical storm hit and there weren't enough

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Speaker 3: bunks for all of the year tens, for all our year.

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Speaker 1: Level and we're ever going to the how did you

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Speaker 1: they had?

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Speaker 3: They had these caravans in the campground, and my girlfriends

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Speaker 3: and I got stuck in one of these caravans because

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Speaker 3: we couldn't get into the dorms there wasn't enough space. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: this storm hit at about midnight, tip this caravan over to.

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Speaker 1: Its side, possibly lightning you in a metallic bomb.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, adults in the dorm, so that.

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Speaker 1: Roper eighties teacher.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, the teachers had to come out because our van

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Speaker 3: had tipped on its side, were absolutely petrified. Story and

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Speaker 3: then so we had to bunk in with the teachers.

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Speaker 3: We had to sleep on the floor in our sleeping

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Speaker 3: bags in the teacher's dorm, which was just like horrendous

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Speaker 3: for a year ten what was fifteen? Six days and

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Speaker 3: it was like oh kill me now. And then all

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Speaker 3: they served in the cafeteria for the entire week. I

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Speaker 3: kid you not were fat, sad savolois breakfasting dinner.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's barely meat.

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Speaker 2: It's like pigs eyebrows, eyelashes their feet.

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Speaker 3: There is salvenoise, the smell of that at six am, and.

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Speaker 1: The war on that because nothing else.

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Speaker 3: But every meal Christian, not just like a one for

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Speaker 3: breakfast dinner. We'd get off the bus all bus sick

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Speaker 3: after a date. Anyway, we found this milk bar halfway

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Speaker 3: up the mountain, so we used to crawl out it.

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Speaker 3: My parents don't know this, they're going to be horrified

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Speaker 3: listening to this.

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Speaker 2: Your dad's want to stiffly word a lets a complain

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Speaker 2: for our school right now, someone will pay for this.

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Speaker 3: We used to creep out after about midnight and go

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Speaker 3: down to this milk bar like this seven to eleven

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Speaker 3: place and get my eyes.

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Speaker 2: But when you look back, now, are you actually grateful

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Speaker 2: that such a horrend? You know something doesn't it's so bad.

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Speaker 2: There's something really special about it, and I can't believe

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Speaker 2: we actually survived.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, I couldn't imagine sending Audrey on a camp

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Speaker 3: like that like I'd be up to the.

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Speaker 1: School wouldn't exist. Now, Yes, Australia was. It was just

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