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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hi can even welcome to a Christian O'Connell show right now.

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Speaker 2: Then we're going to be taking your calls and stories.

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Speaker 2: Who do you remember from school? Their full name and

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Speaker 2: why If you've got a story about someone you remember

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Speaker 2: from school, their full name and why, That's what I'm

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Speaker 2: looking for. Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: Christian.

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Speaker 2: I remember Megan O'Neill from the eighties because of her

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Speaker 2: boiled egg sandwiches she used to bring in a lot.

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Speaker 2: You can handle the smell. That's from Jimmy. Two names

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Speaker 2: from me that I'll always remember. One is Martin Taylor.

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Speaker 2: This guy was legend in our school year, Martin Taylor,

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Speaker 2: because we were covering the Second World War a history

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Speaker 2: lesson once and we're talking about the death of Hitler,

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Speaker 2: and our history teachers said, did any of us know

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Speaker 2: how Hitler actually died? And Martin put his hand up

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Speaker 2: straight away, which is all because he wasn't the sharpest

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Speaker 2: kid in the year, was certainly not in our history lesson,

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Speaker 2: and the teacher was really surprised. You know when those

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Speaker 2: referred to you by your son name to be sarcastic. Ah, yes,

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Speaker 2: mister O'Connell, someone to share with the classes it anyway, Ah,

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Speaker 2: mister Taylor's got the answer, has he?

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Speaker 3: Mister Taylor, how did Hitler die?

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Speaker 2: And this kid Martin, I don't know what had been fed,

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Speaker 2: what family like, said that he thought he actually said

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Speaker 2: that his granddad Neil killed Hitler.

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Speaker 3: And I remember the whole class, the whole class.

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Speaker 2: The teacher was laughing so hard, right, he ketch on,

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Speaker 2: he ketch on to get control of it. And then

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Speaker 2: in the end he said, you can have to excuse me.

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Speaker 2: He went off. He went off, walked outside in the corridor,

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Speaker 2: just to try and recompose himself. That one of the

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Speaker 2: lads in his lesson is his granddad killed Hitler, Neil

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Speaker 2: granddad Neil killed Hitler. And the other one is another

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Speaker 2: kid called Phil Norman, Phil Norman.

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Speaker 3: And I remember that kid because so we used to

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Speaker 3: have these.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you would have had them, Jack, because

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Speaker 2: you're a bit younger than Patsy, and Patsy you would

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Speaker 2: have had it, Jim of the old sort of school

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Speaker 2: boards that teach us to pull down, Yes, and they

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Speaker 2: were just on a circular kind a thing like that,

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Speaker 2: and then they'd get the the chalk rubber, rub it

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Speaker 2: off if it still had like another teacher's lesson on there,

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Speaker 2: and they'd write something new on there. Anyway, this kid,

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Speaker 2: he was a hero status at our school, Phil Norman.

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Speaker 2: He wrote on there, mister Saul, that was our French teacher,

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Speaker 2: smells off, and then a really bad word for pooh

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Speaker 2: rolled it back up right, So we were like, he's coming,

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Speaker 2: mister Salt's coming.

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Speaker 3: It's quite a stay of my school life. This mister

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Speaker 3: is coming.

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Speaker 2: Nothing happened, So it takes ages about it must be

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Speaker 2: about ten long minutes before he goes, okay class right,

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Speaker 2: goes to put it down, turns around, doesn't see what

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Speaker 2: we see, which is mister Saul smells off.

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Speaker 3: We're laughing. He looks around, goes he just loses it,

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Speaker 3: just loses it. No one wants to.

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Speaker 2: He demands that we give over the name we almost

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Speaker 2: did a I'm smart because I'm SPoD, because I wants

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Speaker 2: to give up the identity of the legend that will

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Speaker 2: always be Phil Norman.

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Speaker 3: Jack, do you remember from school.

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Speaker 4: Yours the legendary ones mine are sad? I remember the

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Speaker 4: ones that broke my heart Essentially, Zoey Harper was a

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Speaker 4: girl I had a crush on. She gave everybody in

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Speaker 4: the class a Christmas card. At the end of the year,

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Speaker 4: all my friends Christmas cards were signed Love from Zoe,

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Speaker 4: and I opened mind it just said from Zoe.

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Speaker 2: Right, listen, you're a music man, Please put that to

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Speaker 2: a song that's like the greatest Springsteen song that's never

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Speaker 2: been written.

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Speaker 3: From Zoe.

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Speaker 2: Please, I'm going to commission you to make that song

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Speaker 2: from Zoe that is so sad for me.

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Speaker 3: Time of today's show is simply from Zoey.

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Speaker 2: Oh Man, Jacob poor fIF how old are you when

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Speaker 2: you got the from Zoe?

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Speaker 3: I would have been ten stays, though it stays.

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Speaker 4: The other one that I remember is Daniel Rogers. I

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Speaker 4: went over to his house to play and he told

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Speaker 4: me I was jealous of all his toys. And I

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Speaker 4: didn't know what jealous meant, but I knew that I

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Speaker 4: knew it thing bad.

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Speaker 3: And then for the for the.

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Speaker 4: Rest of the play date, there was just this weird

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Speaker 4: energy you.

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Speaker 2: I see sometimes the way you look at all the

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Speaker 2: buttons I have on my sign, I think you are jealous. Actually,

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Speaker 2: still to this day, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Good Christian O'Connell Show.

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Speaker 2: Podcast, Take Good Evening. This is to Christian O'Connell's show.

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Speaker 2: We're talking at the moment about the kids. Do you

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Speaker 2: remember from school? Their full name? And why there's sex

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Speaker 2: and calls right now?

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Speaker 5: Gerard, good evening, mate, how are you Christian house things.

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Speaker 2: I'm good mate. I hope you've had a good week.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for calling the show. So who do you remember

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Speaker 2: from your school days?

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Speaker 5: And why made had a good maiden primary school? Which

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Speaker 5: really good mate with net with now he turned from

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Speaker 5: Benny to Bennie Cleaber to because he was the man

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Speaker 5: that decided that there was in grade six to climb

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Speaker 5: the flag pole, got in a bit of trouble, come

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Speaker 5: down pretty quickly and got caught at the bottom. Lots

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Speaker 5: of screaming, lots of bits and pieces were a small

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Speaker 5: primary school, lots of people come.

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Speaker 1: Running around, and the legend was born. We basically saw

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Speaker 1: too much of Benny basically, and then therefore that was

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Speaker 1: the Benny Cleaver for Ben Clever.

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Speaker 3: I get it now. The legend of Benny Cleaver was

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Speaker 3: born in that moment.

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Speaker 5: That is exactly right. And he hasn't improved much, but

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Speaker 5: he's still Benny Cleaver.

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Speaker 2: He's still wanver right, And did he injure himself? Did

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Speaker 2: he have to go to hospital or anything? From the

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Speaker 2: flagpole rapid ascent, he.

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Speaker 5: Had several stitches. But you know, in grade six you

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Speaker 5: thought I didn't really care about that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I think that would have done.

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Speaker 2: I think I would have done a Greade six actually,

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Speaker 2: or any great year, to be honest.

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