Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Robin called the show yesterday and she gives us this
Speaker 1: phone in today. Why were you school famous? Get a
Speaker 1: load of this?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a twin and the first day of high school,
Speaker 2: my mom decided to catch the bus with us in
Speaker 2: her ninety dressing gan and slippers. Their bus used to
Speaker 2: pick us up from right outside the house and it
Speaker 2: would do a loop, so she just stayed on the
Speaker 2: bus until it dropped her back off at the house.
Speaker 3: So, Robin, school famous even despite being in the ninety
Speaker 3: and stuff, you weren't allowed to acknowledge your parents existed
Speaker 3: at school. I remember my mom had to drop my
Speaker 3: lunch off one day and I organized to meet her
Speaker 3: at the back.
Speaker 1: Of the school.
Speaker 3: It was like a drug deal, really, because I didn't
Speaker 3: You don't want anybody to see that your mom's come.
Speaker 1: In to the school. Where does that come from? It
Speaker 1: gets chronic. It goes some like they're happy to like
Speaker 1: hold hands with you walking down the street when they're
Speaker 1: really tiny siddy. They don't even want you in the
Speaker 1: just throw over the fence. I was told one day,
Speaker 1: check over the fence, all right? So why were you
Speaker 1: school famous? On nine four one four one four three
Speaker 1: for Mark McGovern the fart that I dropped in middle
Speaker 1: school during afternoon storyline. It was legendary, okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well he asked. My dad made me wear girl's shoes
Speaker 1: to school as they were cheaper than the boys version. Okay.
Speaker 1: My dad was the school bus driver that made the
Speaker 1: school bus, made me school bus famous, and he was
Speaker 1: a very very strict drive. He didn't like it if
Speaker 1: people sat backwards in their seats. Gimb of those I
Speaker 1: had people gone to me asking me if he was
Speaker 1: an a home Rachel four, why were you school famous?
Speaker 1: Good morning Chris, yea christ and here good mate? And
Speaker 1: why were you school famous? Oh?
Speaker 4: Basically? First day year seven, I thought it was brilliant.
Speaker 4: We had a canteen, so I ordered a couple of piles.
Speaker 4: Second day a couple of piles, or two weeks in
Speaker 4: the year seven, the touch shop lady put two piles
Speaker 4: away for me every day until I finished up in
Speaker 4: year ten.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I mean, that's preferential treatment, isn't it. That'sun
Speaker 1: vp level of the game.
Speaker 4: I didn't even need to place the order in them,
Speaker 4: and she seen me face two pires.
Speaker 1: Rises. Ah, that's a great one. Chris, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Have a good day and not a problem mate. Thank
Speaker 4: you well. Christian Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 1: Some amazing stories coming through. Maybe we'll make this a feature.
Speaker 1: Why were you school famous? I keep reading the text
Speaker 1: I just met read out there's more to it. Actually,
Speaker 1: in year ten there was a boy who rode in
Speaker 1: the back of a stationary Pepsi truck in his outdoor
Speaker 1: ed bicycle class. From then until we graduated in year twelve,
Speaker 1: two whole years, he was known as Pepsi Truck. How
Speaker 1: do you ride into the back of a stationary truck
Speaker 1: that's got that giant, big old Pepsi look on the
Speaker 1: back of it?
Speaker 2: Beck?
Speaker 1: So we're asking people today why were you school famous? Beck?
Speaker 1: My parents managed the garbage contract for the local council
Speaker 1: and Dad would occasionally drive my two brothers and I
Speaker 1: to primary school in the garbage truck. That would have
Speaker 1: been amazing. We were always embarrassed when he would put
Speaker 1: up at the front gates in the huge truck parts
Speaker 1: all the cars, you will get out quickly and that
Speaker 1: would outfail. Every time. Dad would beat the horn A
Speaker 1: few times we were always known as the Garbo kids.
Speaker 1: I hated the time, but it's quite funny thinking about
Speaker 1: to it now. Beck. One day you already missed that. Owen,
Speaker 1: my brother was the youngest person in Australia at the
Speaker 1: time to have a bionic ear. Oh wow, Jenny. We
Speaker 1: had to make egg sandwiches in home economics in year seven,
Speaker 1: I coinstantly had a bad tummy bug that saying day
Speaker 1: my mum wouldn't have the day of a projectile, vomited
Speaker 1: in the quadrangle. Quadrangle and forever carried the nickname egg sandwich.
Speaker 1: They're all basic the nicknames, aren't they. PEPSI truck eggs.
Speaker 3: Says what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Meagan, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? Okay? So why were you school famous?
Speaker 5: And so when I was in year seven, I was
Speaker 5: sewing a garment for my friend, not even mine, and
Speaker 5: sewed over my finger with the sewing machine. The problem
Speaker 5: was I stopped. The nader was still there. The guy
Speaker 5: beside me grabbed my hand and he yanked it and
Speaker 5: snapped it off. And I had said hospital and have
Speaker 5: it removed.
Speaker 3: You had the finger removed, the.
Speaker 5: Fingers still there. But because of that for the next
Speaker 5: fifteen fifteen plus years. I was the cautionary tail on
Speaker 5: the first day of sewing class for every year seven
Speaker 5: kid at that school. But if you do be noisy
Speaker 5: in class, this is what's going to happen to you.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Are you on the train?
Speaker 5: I am sorry? Did you hear it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just in the background. I thought it was.
Speaker 1: It was the train. We're doing secret sound. Are you
Speaker 1: on the train there, Megan? Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: You call no where he goes?
Speaker 3: Brave to call from the train, a call.
Speaker 1: Whispering bent overdouble on the train. Some people that though
Speaker 1: lean back, don't they get the bigger Derek? Are you
Speaker 1: getting this?
Speaker 2: I need to.
Speaker 1: Report my malcolms on your Malcolm is coming to We're
Speaker 1: teeing off a one. Malcolm conducting the whole business. Not
Speaker 1: the rest of us are like extras in the movie
Speaker 1: of their life.
Speaker 3: I'll injure myself and whisper, I'm on the train.
Speaker 1: My dog is it urgent?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Please get off the night.
Speaker 7: Monique, Hi, Hi, Christian, Hi guys, how are you.
Speaker 1: Welcome to a show? Monique School? Famous school?
Speaker 7: Famous. So my dad was a commercial photographer and he
Speaker 7: used to photograph Alan Fwallis for their catalogs. And I
Speaker 7: used to have the large boxes that you normally see
Speaker 7: at the milk bar, and I'd take them in school
Speaker 7: to share with everyone. So I was a legend in
Speaker 7: my own lunch box and everyone else.
Speaker 1: You're like a pied piper with those adims.
Speaker 3: Willie Wonks Factory.
Speaker 7: What snakes, bananas, milk bottles, sticks has grown up?
Speaker 1: Now have you got any today?
Speaker 3: There was actually a rumor at our school that a
Speaker 3: kid from another school's dad worked at the Nestleigh Factory
Speaker 3: and that they got chocolates like that. Like your legend
Speaker 3: would have gone out here in your school all over Victoria.
Speaker 1: Amazing money. That's a great one. Have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling the show.
Speaker 6: Take care of Leo.
Speaker 1: Leo Christian. They were Christian.
Speaker 6: I'm here. It was in grade two and I came
Speaker 6: home from school all excited that we had a fancy
Speaker 6: dress there coming up. So my sister would have been
Speaker 6: about fourteen at the time that I've got this for
Speaker 6: got it nails, but it's got a white cheek, wrote
Speaker 6: Coldgates of the side. I got a red bucket from
Speaker 6: the laundry, stuck it on my head, and I was
Speaker 6: going dressed as a tube of toothpaste. The only problem
Speaker 6: was the next day when I got to school, Mum
Speaker 6: dropped me off, started cupping away, and I turned around
Speaker 6: and realized it was actually free dress day, not fancy
Speaker 6: dress day.
Speaker 1: No oh no, Suddenly the world is a lonely place
Speaker 1: on the head, all this stuff. Started to laugh at you, Leo.
Speaker 1: Now years tragedy the first time equals shoes comedy.
Speaker 3: Leo, your friends would have been licky.
Speaker 1: There. You're right, It's like lines and a wounded Hyaena.
Speaker 6: Handed the tim on a silver platter of Coldgate kid.
Speaker 2: From then.
Speaker 1: Truck Goldgate Kid. Oh, Leo, that is amazing, Leo. I
Speaker 1: got a pause. Hey listen, Leo, is it going to
Speaker 1: even this? No? No, Leo, that was a great call.
Speaker 1: Great call. I'm going to send you a pair of
Speaker 1: tickets Cinema's Gold Class double Pass for such a funny call.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you so much. Christian. You have a
Speaker 6: great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, lines are open. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: clear the lines. Okay, So you've got any more stories
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