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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Like well to the unnamed podcast. It's wind Stay the
sixteenth of October twenty twenty fourth, former Southuner Meetworker and
I Stewart joins us mas. She's here too.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A privilege to be on the formerly unified then split,
then reunified podcast that's now unnamed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What was called the Bespoke Daily podcast. Before that it
was called the podcast Intro? Was it podcast Intro?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And then before that I know the podcast Enjoy again,
but it was just attached, wasn't it to the body
of the show?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right for the unnamed podcast and then reunified.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
No, it's not the unnamed podcast New Jeri. It's just
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
But there's so many you can't call it that podcast
because there's too many podcasts.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You can because every day we talk about something different.
So yesterday as it was, for example, Brie Thomas El
and Jeremy Wells gets expelled the podcast October fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But I mean so from a marketing point of view,
if you want people to talk about your podcasts, how
are they supposed to Did.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You listen to the podcast the other day? Exactly what
they say? This is a good point from former self.
I'll meet workham Ane Stewart.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, and then do they say, well, I mean we've
got issues with naming things right around the building.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
The agenda. What's that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, it's an agenda, Yeah, what's the agenda?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, so you guys have done the same thing that
we've done here.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, well, we've vaguely got a conceit for a podcast.
It's a it's a list of items that we're going
to cover off like a a business meeting. You set
an agenda, yeah, and you go through them.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Can I make a suggestion for the agenda podcast? And
this is this is this can be taken with a
grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We've been it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
No, No, I think it's a bloody good podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Thank you that you should put the word sports on it,
the sports agenda, the agenda sports, or just the sports agenda. Okay,
because if you don't know that it's a sports podcast,
sports podcast, how do you know it's a sports podcast
without the word sports on it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Conversely, if you tuned in thinking it was a sports podcast,
you might actually be quite disappointed with what you actually want.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, starts from a position of sports.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'd like to rename it the agenda podcast. Ostensibly a
sports show because by name only, we are a sports show.
We are sports adjacent at best.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, at worst, the sports adjacent Sports adjacent podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah. Well, we talked to Brie about boarding school. I
feel like you and I Jeric because we both went
to boarding school. I don't think we scratched the surface
of boarding school yards. There was a couple that sprung
to my mind yesterday that we never got onto the podcast,
which I'd like to share with you and see if
you had a similar experience.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Please. I'm always I'm always intrigued to hear other people's
boarding school stories because it was such a formative time.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I talked yesterday about the direction inspection that was an
hour after lights out, where the seventh formers would come
through and wake you up again.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Just an excuse to see people's penises. Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
There was also a phenomena where there weren't enough showers,
well not not enough showers, but there were a limited
amount of showers, and you weren't allowed out of bed
until the lights were flicked on in the morning. You
had to stay in your bed, and then once the
lights were flicked on, it was a race to the
showers and sometimes a kid would be asleep, the light
would flick on. They wake up. They have to get
to the shower before everyone else, I know. So they
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get up and they run down the hallway and pass
out down the hallway. There was a phenomenon and our yeah,
and our thing of multiple kids passing out in the
hallway trying to beat each other to the to the
showers because they had gone from a sleep lying down
to awake and in a full sprint within about two
or three sigonds.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I thought you were going to say, there's a phenomenon
of boys entering those showers worth erections still from the morning,
which there was, and which there was in my boarding
school situations didn't one hundred percent we're communal showers. Did
you have sides on yours?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Sweet sides?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We had full we had full communal showers, present showers, yep.
Oh yeah, okay, pass so ground sort of situation. Well,
let's just say, the first time you do that, especially
if you've come from Auckland, a non situation of communal showers,
you're very self conscious. Oh my god, as a teenage boy, well,
your body's changing yea. And also there's just all sorts
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of different shapes and sizes. It's very confronting, but once
you overcome that, and it is a big hurdle to overcome,
it's free, very liberating.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The other bathroom related phenomenon that we had was something
that we're referred to as a dorm shit or a
dorm turt and that was basically, if you had laid
one that you thought was so big it was in
the running to be the biggest ever laid in that toilet.
It was common practice to leave it and then call
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people back in to see a dorm shit wow or
a dorm turt wow. But the thing is, the misleading
part is some people would take to laying you know,
it was quite big, they wouldn't tell you about it
until about lunchtime or even that night, and it would
have expanded by the ah, so you could sort of
rag the dorm to it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
A few wow. We're talking Saint Kevin's and Namado.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, allegedly freezing cold.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I imagine when you're talking before about running from your
bed down to the showers. Must have been there must
have been some cold mornings in Oamado. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh, the dorm was always relatively warm. Okay, but I
mean the carpet, it was like carpet on concrete was
the floor. We'd play bull rush up and down the
hallway as well. That was brutal, getting tackled onto the
old concrete floor all wake up, six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We were running lino. Oh really, he's no carpet, No
carpet in our dorm spoonged. And you didn't know spoonge
when you're at Saint Kevivin's City.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He's a bit older than me. We didn't go to
the same school.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, he was there. He was called I think his
nickname at the time was but a Balllet spongy pid
Bruff because he wore batter bullets and he loved spongy
pod Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, Well the hot the host did an okay
feed from time to time. Oh really, largest allegedly largest
single room dining hall in the Southern Hemisphere at sant
Given's College. Now that may have been usurped since I
was there, but that was the line they were running with,
largest single room dining hall.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You were a bit younger than me. You're what fifteen
years younger than me and I thirty three, Yeah, fifteen
years younger than me, So I think by the time
you'd got to boarding school, the food had improved a lot.
When I was at boarding school, particularly at Wangano. It
was better at some pools than it was at Wanganu,
but at wangan it was slow. I mean, breakfasts were good,
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gruel big breakfast were good. I mean that you had
what I would describe as grilled grilled bacon, that that
for some reason, I had lots of white foam on
the top of it. It always came in big steel
kind of tubs and it had white this white crust,
do you know what I mean. It was never very
well cooked. But I really liked the breakfast because you'd
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often have baked beans or spaghetti on hash browns and bacon,
and you could have you could have quite big helpings
of breakfast. And lunch was always quite good because it
was a cooked lunch and you never had that at
normal school.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, the day students at our school would pay the borders,
particularly on pie Day, to bring it, which was Friday,
bring a pie down for them, you know, and you'd
buy the pie of.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Them for two bucks. Really, yeah, you had Friday Friday pate.
I don't think it was every Friday, because you wouldn't
have I thought you would have had fresh because as
a Catholic school, well not through lint, but uh no fish.
I don't recall fish. Fish on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Don't recall fish. Okay, we're very loosely Catholic.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh what was it? Not straight carefully we had?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh no it was I suppose it was. Yeah, maybe
I was just in doctrinate. What another thing we had
was on Saturday nights we had what was called devotions,
and so that was basically a church service that was
run by the Seventh And I think I think the
idea was if they have to be here, then they're
not out on the piss. I think that's basically what
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they're trying to do. And then they also try to
jazz it up by saying, right, well, the Seventh formers
are in charge, they can play some of their music
and it's going to make it cool, Like we're all
going to sit there, someone's going to pick a song
and we sit there and we reflect on the song
and on Jesus and blah blah blah. And one night
one of the one of the Seventh Forms put on Nirvana,
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Rake me oh and beat that if you need to
go in. But the thing is that there was a
role that it was like whatever the song is, we're
all going to sit there and reflect on it. And
I just remember looking at the priest like this gonna
be mate, ah, and he's seeing he had matrons over there,
she's see things.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
How are the matrons and boarding schools?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
That was a brutal job because.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You're looking after so many boys.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's but they they like prison wardens, and that they
they figured out how to manipulate people. And I think
for our group of boys, at least getting them out
of bed was quite tough. But the carrot at the
end of the stick was purple. Wetzel was on breakfast
at that time.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh yeah, okay, very formative for this the third and
fourth formers at Saint he was college, I bet yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Something for the dads, also something for the teenage boys.
And Paul Henry who made dittle jokes, which we also enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Our matron was one of Her name was Matron.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
She was one of the.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Nicer Oh my god, she was nice. Yeah, she was
so nice. She would do anything for you. She was
just the most lovely woman in the world. Both the
matron at Saint Paul's actually at our house and saga
to and at EPSOM empsen and 'st Paul's, and she'd
been there since like nineteen sixty three or something. She'd
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seen it all.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, they knew all the tricks then they they knew it.
You were out, she she would she she.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Had a thing about ingrand toenails. For some reason. The
matron at EPSOM she was very inground tonal focused. She
suffered from them, or so she would just if people
had some something wrong with their feet. She was very
focused on feet. She didn't want anybody to be in
any pain with their feet. It was like some kind
of weird army thing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay, and yeah, if you had.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Something wrong, she would should be cutting your toenails and
cutting your inground tonails and cleaning your thing out from
the very strange looking back on it, very very foot focused.
Possibly had a foot fetish now that I don't think
about it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, no, definitely, no, definitely that was probably why she
was a matron.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
She I don't think she had a family or anything.
She loved to share her family with her kids and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She just had unfitted access to feet. God bless matron
to boys feet. The other thing name was nobody ever
really knew. I never really knew her name.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
She was just called matron.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
She was on witness protection from a lot of love
for her and just the dumb shit that you would do.
Like I remember the sex forms by the stage I
was a day shupent driving and they had filled their freezer.
It was a solid block of ice. And how they'd
done it was they were taking all the bibles. They
all had bibles in their room, and they would make
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a little wall in the bottom of the freezer with bibles,
fill it up with water and put like fish and
all sorts of like shampoo bottles, just whatever random shit
they could find, and then the next day that it
would have frozen. Then they do it again, until the
whole thing was just a frozen block with fish heads
and shampoo bottles and shit sticking out of it. Just
that's the kind of stuff you do a boarding scin. Yeah,
(11:38):
totally makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, you just you were always looking for some kind
of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We had fish, We had goldfish.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
In our sex form common room and that fish o
one one fish poor that went through some that thing amazing,
what that thing's like it got put in the freezer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It got put in the fridge, people weeding. It's thing like.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It was just used to do high dives. We used
to hold it from the We used to hold it
up from the roof and then drop it down. And
it used to dive into its pond. A couple of times.
It missed, it survived. It just would not die. This thing.
It was a battler. The thing that got it in
the end, it was someone pot sunlight soap and it
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bubbled up and that was the end of it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I look at you after hearing that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was only there for a year. I arrived at
this this Oh, oh my god, the o twist. The
twist used to swallow it and regurgitate it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I used to make this noise and he used to regurgitate,
swallow and then regurgitate it back again.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Did he either do a high dove, regurgs, regurgitation.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
At least take a break and come back with some
more of this sh in just a moment, right, New Zealander.
I'm not proud of what we did today.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, it wasn't just what was happening. It wasn't the
dumb shit that happens a boarding. We used to do
a thing where you would try and make each other
pass out. So if you lost a bit of anything,
whatever it was, it's all right. Now you got to
pass out. So you would be up against the wall
of the common room and then someone else would be
pressing on your chest and you have to hyper ventilate.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Until you pass out. Oh yes, that was a big thing.
That was your punishment, And that was a big thing.
Interesting you had it as a punishment. That was that
was total recreation at my school. So we would hyper ventilate.
That was a that was a real thing, hyperventilating until
you passed out. Yeah, the best were dorms. I don't
know about how your dorms worked, but when I was
in sixth form year twelve at Wangan we were still
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in dorms. So you'd have two people to kind of
a cubicle, but the cubicle only had half walls, so
and you had a little study nook by the window,
your little desk there, and then you had your your
you know, coveredy coveedy thing wardrobe thing, and then you
had your bed and then that and then the hallway
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was went down the middle and it was yeah, and
your room with it with a different person and every term,
but that was better. There was way more fun in dorms,
way more fun. And we used to spend a lot
of like interval and lunchtime always spent back in back
in the doors, back in your houses. Yeah, we did
because it was a full boarding school. So you you
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hung out with your house and the people inside your
your house the whole time. They became really really close friends.
And then later on when you were a seventh the
seventh formers as well in that particular door and other
some other houses they had, you had your own kind
of studies. But actually it was way more fun when
you're in a communal dorm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Ones were all like basically picture like a dumbbell. So
at one end you got the common room, then a
long hallway with bedrooms coming off the bedrooms the third,
fourth and I think fifth form didn't have doors, and
then sixth and seventh form. I think there was an
element of privacy from from that way on, the and
the common rooms got bigger and better, better amenities as well.
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The common rooms where I learned that if you put
a light bulb in a microwave. The whole room glows purple.
I didn't know that wow before then.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh my god, that's things you learn at boarding school.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I had another friend who learned because every now and
then someone to bring a block of cheese back so
we could ebb snacks. And someone found his block of
cheese and put it in the microwave and just left
it on for like the whole night.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So the next morning the whole things just carve it
and chick oh wow, fuck the microwave. And I've seen
that done to student flats and Dneian sense as well.
Oh man, they'll take the cheese out of their fridge,
chuckling in the microwave, leave it on for five hours.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah we hear.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We got two loaves of bread every day, yeah, in
our common room and just constant toast making. Yeah, like
there was so much time. I've never eaten so much
toast and on my life. Either we were dropping the
dropping the goldfish from a height in a common room
or we were eating toast.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And then you'd go down and buy your own spreads,
and then that became a bartering thing, like oh, he's
got a bit of peanut butter, this guy it this
guy's gotten a teller. What are you gonna do to
get as in the teller of them?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well that it was.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was both horrific and like prison and amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah we're hanging out with you mates all the time. Yeah,
and just doing dumb shit.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But there's prep. It was my day. Were pretty intense
rules and I think the best thing for me anyway,
was the fact that we had to do two hours
of prep.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It was called prep, that's study.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, now maybe an hour and a half, two
forty five minute lots a night. And so you had
to sit down and it was silent. You weren't allowed
to talk, you weren't allowed to be on to I
mean there were no devices in those days anyway, but
you know, you weren't allowed to You weren't allowed your
music on or anything like that, and you had to
just And so as a result, you always did your
homework because what else were you going to do in
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an hour and a half. So you finished your homework
and then maybe read a book or something like that,
but you couldn't do anything else. You couldn't talk. That
just bore you into doing your actual schoolwork. As a result,
not doing my bloody homework. I finally went to school
where was dow my homework and my marks was so
much better.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's an incredible, so much better. When I was a
boarding school, the place, yeah, we had a study room
that was in a converted stable was our situation. So
we'd go down the stables. That was also where our
tuch shop was. And I remember just one was there
just one hostel at Saint Kibbins. Yeah yeah, okay, right, yeah,
there weren't different houses or anything. And then there was
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a long, long, long, long, long, long long driveway, and
then across the road and up another driveway was where
the girls hostel was.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Ah, do they have girls that Saint Kittens?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah? Coed really And so they would have to walk
all the way out the driveway to come and have dinner.
And then if you had a girlfriend, you'd go meet
her down the driveway.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh yeah yeah. In our school, the whole there was
a thing called p DA which was illegal public in
spase of eviction. You were allowed to do that with
anybody that you'd be seeing. And Sam in Dubai all good,
all good, like guy on guy inside of dorms, not
a problem there it's just more the girl on guys situations.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So we had a.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like an auditorium and a Hamish colleague friend of mine
and I both had girlfriends in Godwin House, which is
the girl's house, and we found a way of getting
up into the top area of above the stage and
the auditorium, and we took bedding up there and we
had like a situation, like a like a loft. Okay,
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love making situation.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, and you two were and then you invite your partners.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, we need at a certain time because we were
in their class. It was mixed classes. And then we
just we just meet at a certain time after prep
and we'd all just go to the raditoriom because nobody
would know why you might be going to the auditorium
or anything like that. And then we're just upstairs, so.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
It could be eleven am and you could just be
chilling on a beard and the loft of an raitorium.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, I remember we did. I remember they had the
production of Joseph and this amazing technical a dream Coat,
and that'd be rehearsing down below. We were upstairs. It
mainly happened on Saturday nights. Actually, if I remember rightly,
and probably in hindsight, only happened like for three or
four times.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Maybe there was going to be my question for you
guys as that didn't go anywhere near a boarding school.
What do you do on the weekends? Can you do
whatever you want?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
This is when you start freezing fashion.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, because that's what I but sports, sports, sport on Saturday,
and you had to you had to play a sports
still usually play yeah, yeah for the school.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So in summer it's cracked and winter his rugby. But
you had because in that tied you up for the day.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, because I'm thinking Sundays must have been dangerously boring
if you were Sundays.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, because at my school you had to stay in
for Sundays unless you had day leave.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And new newer day boy who might might let you
go to a house, his house or something. Mate, we
got so bored. We said that the van would go
into town into Amoro once or twice a day and
you could jump on it as a as a border
and just go to town. And but we would just
get so bored. We'd call it randomizing. We were because
we get led off in the middle of town and
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we'd just just walk in a direction and just see
what the fuck you find. One of the guys I
went to boarding school with I watched him get hurt
by a car, Marty Nolan got cleaned up by an
old lady in her hatchback whoa were crossing the roads
like hyperactive, dirty his full noise And as we're crossing
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the picture Donny from the Wild Thorn Bruice does that
reference about anyone? Yeah, wild man anyway from the West
Coast hast He acrossing the road walking over to the
warehouse and I looked behind. He was sort of dawdling behind.
He turned around. This old lady just cleaned him up.
He went up, the thing bounced off the wind screen.
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I'll never forget it clear as they bounced off the
wind screen and landed on his feet. Oh and kept walking.
And it was just like like she's just sucking at me.
This old lady's in her car having a meltdown. She's
just count m and she's like, ah, she's crying, and
he's still thinking about what he's going to buy from
the head. Yeah that's impressive. Yeah, that's impressive to answer
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a question in a round about way. Man. She that's
how bored.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, she didn't ever much to do on a Sunday
A that was That's true Sundays unless and I had
two friends who were in my house whose father owned
Tom's Teven and Martin. So the Tom Steven courtesy bus
would come and pick us up after chapel.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
About ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Were they day students, They were bored, but the forty
five minutes away, which is Martin, which is forty five
minutes out of Wongan, And so Tom's Taven courtesy bus
with Tom's Teven written on the side of it, would
pick us up, take us back and we'd walker. And
I remember walking into Tom's tavern. Tom Tasker was was
was their dad, and you just hear the snoring coming
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from like above because they lived inside. They lived in
the tavern. It was right on the train tracks, like
this old building, classic old tavern, and we'd go in there.
Everyone would be asleep Stacey and and Carrey's grandma would
be asleep on the couch, snoring away like it was.
They had a massive night the night before probably and
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then generally we'd cock up a massive feed for ourselves
and then in the afternoon we'd have lunch in the
tavern and Tom tasker'ld be like going a beer boys,
and we were like yes, please, Tom, and so we'd
get on the beers. He was a great man, Tom Tusker.
And then I remember because the train used to used
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to depart from Martin and Tom seven was on the
train tracks. It was like it was just this weird
building that just sat on the by the train station there.
And one day when I was on the Northern, I
went and popped on just before because the Northern used
to leave it like twenty past eleven at night. It
came through Martin on the way to Auckland from Wellington,
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and I went in to see the hide to Tom,
and Tom goes, jeremmy come in, manute, and I went
out the back. Tom was old. He would have been
in his like fifties or sixties were quite old for no,
maybe seventies old for a dad at that stage. And
and he gave me a dozen d B draft for
the trap for the for the train on the way up.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I was going to ask you, is this the same
guy that gave you because the story of you losing
your virginity, Yeah, included a crate of dB draft.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
So so as a Tom Tasker, the man that gave
me that before the.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It doesn't is a dozen dB draft to take away
with you on the on the train in triple the
way up.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Sixteen.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
He was a good man.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
How long would the train take to get back from
Europe back up to school?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Think it arrived at seven in the morning, nice and
it all night?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah? Absolutely, I mean and it was. Yeah, so you
just get tuck into these dB drafts. He's such a
good man.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
What's up to know? Is he not no longer with us?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
No longer with us, no longer with us, Tom Tasker tragically,
but yeah he on his on Stacey and Gary's sixtieth
sixteenth birthday must have been sixteenth, maybe seventeenth birthday. We
had dinner there. We got leave for the night on
a midweeker and I've told the story before Tom's tavern.
Curtsey Shuttle came and picked us up after our school
(24:44):
took us back Thursday night. We had dinner at Tom's
tavern and then Tom goes, seeing as you boys are seventeen,
you're allowed to hit the top sholf because before that
they were never only allowed to drink beer. Tom was
you know, he was a sensible man, you're not going
to allow them to get stuck into the spirits. Seventeen,
we're allowed to get stuck into the top shelf.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
That's the age.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And so Stacy and Carie, these twins had been waiting
all their lives for this moment because they knew when
you're seventeen, you're allowed to get into the top shelf.
That was the rule. And boy did they tuck into
the top shelf. And then we had to go back
to school that night, and for some reason, we were
so passed and we're wandering around skull. It's like, just
go to bed, and we got bustard and we got
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called into the housemaster's office and me Hamish, Collie, Nanda
Everton and Stacy Tasko. We're all sitting in the mister
Tate's office or just trying to act normal. And then
Carrie just stumbled and late into the things. He'd heard
that he had been summoned to his thing, just about
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spewing like oh my god. He was like, oh my god.
And he went round the room. How much did you
always have to drink tonight? And we were like two
beers and a gloss of wine with dinner, and we
we and we're all stuck to the same chain. And
then it got to Kerry and Kerry goes using me
to kill as sunrises. I was like, okay, this is
(26:10):
this is not going well. We went He didn't get suspended.
Nothing happened to him.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Really, I suppose. I think sometimes in the situations, to
punish someone for that is to admit that it happened
under your watch. Yeah, I think you probably wanted to
keep it quiet. A lot of people have gotten away
with that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Mister Tate's going anyway, nice one?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Is that us?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That's us?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
There was another good podcast today? Was that before or
after the podcast from yesterday? You know, in terms of
chronologically this podcast came the podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Comes after yesterday's podcast, but before tomorrow? Well yeah, but
before today's radio show, which was I mean the story
that you were telling here. Sorry, it was the story.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
About you going to mister Tasker's, you know, Tevin for
the evening? Was that before or after that? Before for
the expulsion? Okay, before the expulsion.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So there was a track record.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, it was a lot happening, a lot happening. She
was a formative year of that one. See you tomorrow.
Guys Jared
Like well to the unnamed podcast. It's wind Stay the
sixteenth of October twenty twenty fourth, former Southuner Meetworker and
I Stewart joins us mas. She's here too.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A privilege to be on the formerly unified then split,
then reunified podcast that's now unnamed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What was called the Bespoke Daily podcast. Before that it
was called the podcast Intro? Was it podcast Intro?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And then before that I know the podcast Enjoy again,
but it was just attached, wasn't it to the body
of the show?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right for the unnamed podcast and then reunified.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
No, it's not the unnamed podcast New Jeri. It's just
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
But there's so many you can't call it that podcast
because there's too many podcasts.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You can because every day we talk about something different.
So yesterday as it was, for example, Brie Thomas El
and Jeremy Wells gets expelled the podcast October fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But I mean so from a marketing point of view,
if you want people to talk about your podcasts, how
are they supposed to Did.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You listen to the podcast the other day? Exactly what
they say? This is a good point from former self.
I'll meet workham Ane Stewart.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, and then do they say, well, I mean we've
got issues with naming things right around the building.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
The agenda. What's that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, it's an agenda, Yeah, what's the agenda?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah, so you guys have done the same thing that
we've done here.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, well, we've vaguely got a conceit for a podcast.
It's a it's a list of items that we're going
to cover off like a a business meeting. You set
an agenda, yeah, and you go through them.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Can I make a suggestion for the agenda podcast? And
this is this is this can be taken with a
grain of salt.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We've been it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
No, No, I think it's a bloody good podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Thank you that you should put the word sports on it,
the sports agenda, the agenda sports, or just the sports agenda. Okay,
because if you don't know that it's a sports podcast,
sports podcast, how do you know it's a sports podcast
without the word sports on it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Conversely, if you tuned in thinking it was a sports podcast,
you might actually be quite disappointed with what you actually want.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, starts from a position of sports.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'd like to rename it the agenda podcast. Ostensibly a
sports show because by name only, we are a sports show.
We are sports adjacent at best.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, at worst, the sports adjacent Sports adjacent podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah. Well, we talked to Brie about boarding school. I
feel like you and I Jeric because we both went
to boarding school. I don't think we scratched the surface
of boarding school yards. There was a couple that sprung
to my mind yesterday that we never got onto the podcast,
which I'd like to share with you and see if
you had a similar experience.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Please. I'm always I'm always intrigued to hear other people's
boarding school stories because it was such a formative time.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I talked yesterday about the direction inspection that was an
hour after lights out, where the seventh formers would come
through and wake you up again.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Just an excuse to see people's penises. Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
There was also a phenomena where there weren't enough showers,
well not not enough showers, but there were a limited
amount of showers, and you weren't allowed out of bed
until the lights were flicked on in the morning. You
had to stay in your bed, and then once the
lights were flicked on, it was a race to the
showers and sometimes a kid would be asleep, the light
would flick on. They wake up. They have to get
to the shower before everyone else, I know. So they
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get up and they run down the hallway and pass
out down the hallway. There was a phenomenon and our yeah,
and our thing of multiple kids passing out in the
hallway trying to beat each other to the to the
showers because they had gone from a sleep lying down
to awake and in a full sprint within about two
or three sigonds.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I thought you were going to say, there's a phenomenon
of boys entering those showers worth erections still from the morning,
which there was, and which there was in my boarding
school situations didn't one hundred percent we're communal showers. Did
you have sides on yours?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Sweet sides?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We had full we had full communal showers, present showers, yep.
Oh yeah, okay, pass so ground sort of situation. Well,
let's just say, the first time you do that, especially
if you've come from Auckland, a non situation of communal showers,
you're very self conscious. Oh my god, as a teenage boy, well,
your body's changing yea. And also there's just all sorts
(04:14):
of different shapes and sizes. It's very confronting, but once
you overcome that, and it is a big hurdle to overcome,
it's free, very liberating.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It is.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
The other bathroom related phenomenon that we had was something
that we're referred to as a dorm shit or a
dorm turt and that was basically, if you had laid
one that you thought was so big it was in
the running to be the biggest ever laid in that toilet.
It was common practice to leave it and then call
(04:48):
people back in to see a dorm shit wow or
a dorm turt wow. But the thing is, the misleading
part is some people would take to laying you know,
it was quite big, they wouldn't tell you about it
until about lunchtime or even that night, and it would
have expanded by the ah, so you could sort of
rag the dorm to it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
A few wow. We're talking Saint Kevin's and Namado.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, allegedly freezing cold.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I imagine when you're talking before about running from your
bed down to the showers. Must have been there must
have been some cold mornings in Oamado. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh, the dorm was always relatively warm. Okay, but I
mean the carpet, it was like carpet on concrete was
the floor. We'd play bull rush up and down the
hallway as well. That was brutal, getting tackled onto the
old concrete floor all wake up, six thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
We were running lino. Oh really, he's no carpet, No
carpet in our dorm spoonged. And you didn't know spoonge
when you're at Saint Kevivin's City.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He's a bit older than me. We didn't go to
the same school.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, he was there. He was called I think his
nickname at the time was but a Balllet spongy pid
Bruff because he wore batter bullets and he loved spongy
pod Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, Well the hot the host did an okay
feed from time to time. Oh really, largest allegedly largest
single room dining hall in the Southern Hemisphere at sant
Given's College. Now that may have been usurped since I
was there, but that was the line they were running with,
largest single room dining hall.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You were a bit younger than me. You're what fifteen
years younger than me and I thirty three, Yeah, fifteen
years younger than me, So I think by the time
you'd got to boarding school, the food had improved a lot.
When I was at boarding school, particularly at Wangano. It
was better at some pools than it was at Wanganu,
but at wangan it was slow. I mean, breakfasts were good,
(06:41):
gruel big breakfast were good. I mean that you had
what I would describe as grilled grilled bacon, that that
for some reason, I had lots of white foam on
the top of it. It always came in big steel
kind of tubs and it had white this white crust,
do you know what I mean. It was never very
well cooked. But I really liked the breakfast because you'd
(07:02):
often have baked beans or spaghetti on hash browns and bacon,
and you could have you could have quite big helpings
of breakfast. And lunch was always quite good because it
was a cooked lunch and you never had that at
normal school.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, the day students at our school would pay the borders,
particularly on pie Day, to bring it, which was Friday,
bring a pie down for them, you know, and you'd
buy the pie of.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Them for two bucks. Really, yeah, you had Friday Friday pate.
I don't think it was every Friday, because you wouldn't
have I thought you would have had fresh because as
a Catholic school, well not through lint, but uh no fish.
I don't recall fish. Fish on Fridays.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Don't recall fish. Okay, we're very loosely Catholic.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh what was it? Not straight carefully we had?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh no it was I suppose it was. Yeah, maybe
I was just in doctrinate. What another thing we had
was on Saturday nights we had what was called devotions,
and so that was basically a church service that was
run by the Seventh And I think I think the
idea was if they have to be here, then they're
not out on the piss. I think that's basically what
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they're trying to do. And then they also try to
jazz it up by saying, right, well, the Seventh formers
are in charge, they can play some of their music
and it's going to make it cool, Like we're all
going to sit there, someone's going to pick a song
and we sit there and we reflect on the song
and on Jesus and blah blah blah. And one night
one of the one of the Seventh Forms put on Nirvana,
(08:27):
Rake me oh and beat that if you need to
go in. But the thing is that there was a
role that it was like whatever the song is, we're
all going to sit there and reflect on it. And
I just remember looking at the priest like this gonna
be mate, ah, and he's seeing he had matrons over there,
she's see things.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
How are the matrons and boarding schools?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
That was a brutal job because.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You're looking after so many boys.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's but they they like prison wardens, and that they
they figured out how to manipulate people. And I think
for our group of boys, at least getting them out
of bed was quite tough. But the carrot at the
end of the stick was purple. Wetzel was on breakfast
at that time.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Oh yeah, okay, very formative for this the third and
fourth formers at Saint he was college, I bet yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Something for the dads, also something for the teenage boys.
And Paul Henry who made dittle jokes, which we also enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Our matron was one of Her name was Matron.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
She was one of the.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Nicer Oh my god, she was nice. Yeah, she was
so nice. She would do anything for you. She was
just the most lovely woman in the world. Both the
matron at Saint Paul's actually at our house and saga
to and at EPSOM empsen and 'st Paul's, and she'd
been there since like nineteen sixty three or something. She'd
(09:55):
seen it all.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, they knew all the tricks then they they knew it.
You were out, she she would she she.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Had a thing about ingrand toenails. For some reason. The
matron at EPSOM she was very inground tonal focused. She
suffered from them, or so she would just if people
had some something wrong with their feet. She was very
focused on feet. She didn't want anybody to be in
any pain with their feet. It was like some kind
of weird army thing.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay, and yeah, if you had.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Something wrong, she would should be cutting your toenails and
cutting your inground tonails and cleaning your thing out from
the very strange looking back on it, very very foot focused.
Possibly had a foot fetish now that I don't think
about it.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, no, definitely, no, definitely that was probably why she
was a matron.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
She I don't think she had a family or anything.
She loved to share her family with her kids and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She just had unfitted access to feet. God bless matron
to boys feet. The other thing name was nobody ever
really knew. I never really knew her name.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
She was just called matron.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
She was on witness protection from a lot of love
for her and just the dumb shit that you would do.
Like I remember the sex forms by the stage I
was a day shupent driving and they had filled their freezer.
It was a solid block of ice. And how they'd
done it was they were taking all the bibles. They
all had bibles in their room, and they would make
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a little wall in the bottom of the freezer with bibles,
fill it up with water and put like fish and
all sorts of like shampoo bottles, just whatever random shit
they could find, and then the next day that it
would have frozen. Then they do it again, until the
whole thing was just a frozen block with fish heads
and shampoo bottles and shit sticking out of it. Just
that's the kind of stuff you do a boarding scin. Yeah,
(11:38):
totally makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, you just you were always looking for some kind
of entertainment.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We had fish, We had goldfish.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
In our sex form common room and that fish o
one one fish poor that went through some that thing amazing,
what that thing's like it got put in the freezer.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It got put in the fridge, people weeding. It's thing like.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It was just used to do high dives. We used
to hold it from the We used to hold it
up from the roof and then drop it down. And
it used to dive into its pond. A couple of times.
It missed, it survived. It just would not die. This thing.
It was a battler. The thing that got it in
the end, it was someone pot sunlight soap and it
(12:31):
bubbled up and that was the end of it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I look at you after hearing that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I was only there for a year. I arrived at
this this Oh, oh my god, the o twist. The
twist used to swallow it and regurgitate it.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I used to make this noise and he used to regurgitate,
swallow and then regurgitate it back again.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Did he either do a high dove, regurgs, regurgitation.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
At least take a break and come back with some
more of this sh in just a moment, right, New Zealander.
I'm not proud of what we did today.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No, it wasn't just what was happening. It wasn't the
dumb shit that happens a boarding. We used to do
a thing where you would try and make each other
pass out. So if you lost a bit of anything,
whatever it was, it's all right. Now you got to
pass out. So you would be up against the wall
of the common room and then someone else would be
pressing on your chest and you have to hyper ventilate.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Until you pass out. Oh yes, that was a big thing.
That was your punishment, And that was a big thing.
Interesting you had it as a punishment. That was that
was total recreation at my school. So we would hyper ventilate.
That was a that was a real thing, hyperventilating until
you passed out. Yeah, the best were dorms. I don't
know about how your dorms worked, but when I was
in sixth form year twelve at Wangan we were still
(13:57):
in dorms. So you'd have two people to kind of
a cubicle, but the cubicle only had half walls, so
and you had a little study nook by the window,
your little desk there, and then you had your your
you know, coveredy coveedy thing wardrobe thing, and then you
had your bed and then that and then the hallway
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was went down the middle and it was yeah, and
your room with it with a different person and every term,
but that was better. There was way more fun in dorms,
way more fun. And we used to spend a lot
of like interval and lunchtime always spent back in back
in the doors, back in your houses. Yeah, we did
because it was a full boarding school. So you you
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hung out with your house and the people inside your
your house the whole time. They became really really close friends.
And then later on when you were a seventh the
seventh formers as well in that particular door and other
some other houses they had, you had your own kind
of studies. But actually it was way more fun when
you're in a communal dorm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Ones were all like basically picture like a dumbbell. So
at one end you got the common room, then a
long hallway with bedrooms coming off the bedrooms the third,
fourth and I think fifth form didn't have doors, and
then sixth and seventh form. I think there was an
element of privacy from from that way on, the and
the common rooms got bigger and better, better amenities as well.
(15:23):
The common rooms where I learned that if you put
a light bulb in a microwave. The whole room glows purple.
I didn't know that wow before then.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh my god, that's things you learn at boarding school.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I had another friend who learned because every now and
then someone to bring a block of cheese back so
we could ebb snacks. And someone found his block of
cheese and put it in the microwave and just left
it on for like the whole night.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
So the next morning the whole things just carve it
and chick oh wow, fuck the microwave. And I've seen
that done to student flats and Dneian sense as well.
Oh man, they'll take the cheese out of their fridge,
chuckling in the microwave, leave it on for five hours.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah we hear.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
We got two loaves of bread every day, yeah, in
our common room and just constant toast making. Yeah, like
there was so much time. I've never eaten so much
toast and on my life. Either we were dropping the
dropping the goldfish from a height in a common room
or we were eating toast.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And then you'd go down and buy your own spreads,
and then that became a bartering thing, like oh, he's
got a bit of peanut butter, this guy it this
guy's gotten a teller. What are you gonna do to
get as in the teller of them?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Well that it was.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was both horrific and like prison and amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah we're hanging out with you mates all the time. Yeah,
and just doing dumb shit.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But there's prep. It was my day. Were pretty intense
rules and I think the best thing for me anyway,
was the fact that we had to do two hours
of prep.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It was called prep, that's study.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, now maybe an hour and a half, two
forty five minute lots a night. And so you had
to sit down and it was silent. You weren't allowed
to talk, you weren't allowed to be on to I
mean there were no devices in those days anyway, but
you know, you weren't allowed to You weren't allowed your
music on or anything like that, and you had to
just And so as a result, you always did your
homework because what else were you going to do in
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an hour and a half. So you finished your homework
and then maybe read a book or something like that,
but you couldn't do anything else. You couldn't talk. That
just bore you into doing your actual schoolwork. As a result,
not doing my bloody homework. I finally went to school
where was dow my homework and my marks was so
much better.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's an incredible, so much better. When I was a
boarding school, the place, yeah, we had a study room
that was in a converted stable was our situation. So
we'd go down the stables. That was also where our
tuch shop was. And I remember just one was there
just one hostel at Saint Kibbins. Yeah yeah, okay, right, yeah,
there weren't different houses or anything. And then there was
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a long, long, long, long, long, long long driveway, and
then across the road and up another driveway was where
the girls hostel was.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Ah, do they have girls that Saint Kittens?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah? Coed really And so they would have to walk
all the way out the driveway to come and have dinner.
And then if you had a girlfriend, you'd go meet
her down the driveway.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh yeah yeah. In our school, the whole there was
a thing called p DA which was illegal public in
spase of eviction. You were allowed to do that with
anybody that you'd be seeing. And Sam in Dubai all good,
all good, like guy on guy inside of dorms, not
a problem there it's just more the girl on guys situations.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So we had a.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like an auditorium and a Hamish colleague friend of mine
and I both had girlfriends in Godwin House, which is
the girl's house, and we found a way of getting
up into the top area of above the stage and
the auditorium, and we took bedding up there and we
had like a situation, like a like a loft. Okay,
(18:54):
love making situation.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, and you two were and then you invite your partners.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, we need at a certain time because we were
in their class. It was mixed classes. And then we
just we just meet at a certain time after prep
and we'd all just go to the raditoriom because nobody
would know why you might be going to the auditorium
or anything like that. And then we're just upstairs, so.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
It could be eleven am and you could just be
chilling on a beard and the loft of an raitorium.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Well, I remember we did. I remember they had the
production of Joseph and this amazing technical a dream Coat,
and that'd be rehearsing down below. We were upstairs. It
mainly happened on Saturday nights. Actually, if I remember rightly,
and probably in hindsight, only happened like for three or
four times.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Maybe there was going to be my question for you
guys as that didn't go anywhere near a boarding school.
What do you do on the weekends? Can you do
whatever you want?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
This is when you start freezing fashion.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Yeah, because that's what I but sports, sports, sport on Saturday,
and you had to you had to play a sports
still usually play yeah, yeah for the school.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So in summer it's cracked and winter his rugby. But
you had because in that tied you up for the day.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, because I'm thinking Sundays must have been dangerously boring
if you were Sundays.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, because at my school you had to stay in
for Sundays unless you had day leave.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And new newer day boy who might might let you
go to a house, his house or something. Mate, we
got so bored. We said that the van would go
into town into Amoro once or twice a day and
you could jump on it as a as a border
and just go to town. And but we would just
get so bored. We'd call it randomizing. We were because
we get led off in the middle of town and
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we'd just just walk in a direction and just see
what the fuck you find. One of the guys I
went to boarding school with I watched him get hurt
by a car, Marty Nolan got cleaned up by an
old lady in her hatchback whoa were crossing the roads
like hyperactive, dirty his full noise And as we're crossing
(20:59):
the picture Donny from the Wild Thorn Bruice does that
reference about anyone? Yeah, wild man anyway from the West
Coast hast He acrossing the road walking over to the
warehouse and I looked behind. He was sort of dawdling behind.
He turned around. This old lady just cleaned him up.
He went up, the thing bounced off the wind screen.
(21:20):
I'll never forget it clear as they bounced off the
wind screen and landed on his feet. Oh and kept walking.
And it was just like like she's just sucking at me.
This old lady's in her car having a meltdown. She's
just count m and she's like, ah, she's crying, and
he's still thinking about what he's going to buy from
the head. Yeah that's impressive. Yeah, that's impressive to answer
(21:41):
a question in a round about way. Man. She that's
how bored.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, she didn't ever much to do on a Sunday
A that was That's true Sundays unless and I had
two friends who were in my house whose father owned
Tom's Teven and Martin. So the Tom Steven courtesy bus
would come and pick us up after chapel.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
About ten thirty.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Were they day students, They were bored, but the forty
five minutes away, which is Martin, which is forty five
minutes out of Wongan, And so Tom's Taven courtesy bus
with Tom's Teven written on the side of it, would
pick us up, take us back and we'd walker. And
I remember walking into Tom's tavern. Tom Tasker was was
was their dad, and you just hear the snoring coming
(22:19):
from like above because they lived inside. They lived in
the tavern. It was right on the train tracks, like
this old building, classic old tavern, and we'd go in there.
Everyone would be asleep Stacey and and Carrey's grandma would
be asleep on the couch, snoring away like it was.
They had a massive night the night before probably and
(22:40):
then generally we'd cock up a massive feed for ourselves
and then in the afternoon we'd have lunch in the
tavern and Tom tasker'ld be like going a beer boys,
and we were like yes, please, Tom, and so we'd
get on the beers. He was a great man, Tom Tusker.
And then I remember because the train used to used
(23:01):
to depart from Martin and Tom seven was on the
train tracks. It was like it was just this weird
building that just sat on the by the train station there.
And one day when I was on the Northern, I
went and popped on just before because the Northern used
to leave it like twenty past eleven at night. It
came through Martin on the way to Auckland from Wellington,
(23:23):
and I went in to see the hide to Tom,
and Tom goes, jeremmy come in, manute, and I went
out the back. Tom was old. He would have been
in his like fifties or sixties were quite old for no,
maybe seventies old for a dad at that stage. And
and he gave me a dozen d B draft for
the trap for the for the train on the way up.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I was going to ask you, is this the same
guy that gave you because the story of you losing
your virginity, Yeah, included a crate of dB draft.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
So so as a Tom Tasker, the man that gave
me that before the.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It doesn't is a dozen dB draft to take away
with you on the on the train in triple the
way up.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Sixteen.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
He was a good man.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
How long would the train take to get back from
Europe back up to school?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Think it arrived at seven in the morning, nice and
it all night?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah? Absolutely, I mean and it was. Yeah, so you
just get tuck into these dB drafts. He's such a
good man.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
What's up to know? Is he not no longer with us?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
No longer with us, no longer with us, Tom Tasker tragically,
but yeah he on his on Stacey and Gary's sixtieth
sixteenth birthday must have been sixteenth, maybe seventeenth birthday. We
had dinner there. We got leave for the night on
a midweeker and I've told the story before Tom's tavern.
Curtsey Shuttle came and picked us up after our school
(24:44):
took us back Thursday night. We had dinner at Tom's
tavern and then Tom goes, seeing as you boys are seventeen,
you're allowed to hit the top sholf because before that
they were never only allowed to drink beer. Tom was
you know, he was a sensible man, you're not going
to allow them to get stuck into the spirits. Seventeen,
we're allowed to get stuck into the top shelf.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
That's the age.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And so Stacy and Carie, these twins had been waiting
all their lives for this moment because they knew when
you're seventeen, you're allowed to get into the top shelf.
That was the rule. And boy did they tuck into
the top shelf. And then we had to go back
to school that night, and for some reason, we were
so passed and we're wandering around skull. It's like, just
go to bed, and we got bustard and we got
(25:26):
called into the housemaster's office and me Hamish, Collie, Nanda
Everton and Stacy Tasko. We're all sitting in the mister
Tate's office or just trying to act normal. And then
Carrie just stumbled and late into the things. He'd heard
that he had been summoned to his thing, just about
(25:49):
spewing like oh my god. He was like, oh my god.
And he went round the room. How much did you
always have to drink tonight? And we were like two
beers and a gloss of wine with dinner, and we
we and we're all stuck to the same chain. And
then it got to Kerry and Kerry goes using me
to kill as sunrises. I was like, okay, this is
(26:10):
this is not going well. We went He didn't get suspended.
Nothing happened to him.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Really, I suppose. I think sometimes in the situations, to
punish someone for that is to admit that it happened
under your watch. Yeah, I think you probably wanted to
keep it quiet. A lot of people have gotten away
with that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Mister Tate's going anyway, nice one?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Is that us?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
That's us?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
There was another good podcast today? Was that before or
after the podcast from yesterday? You know, in terms of
chronologically this podcast came the podcast.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Comes after yesterday's podcast, but before tomorrow? Well yeah, but
before today's radio show, which was I mean the story
that you were telling here. Sorry, it was the story.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
About you going to mister Tasker's, you know, Tevin for
the evening? Was that before or after that? Before for
the expulsion? Okay, before the expulsion.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So there was a track record.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, it was a lot happening, a lot happening. She
was a formative year of that one. See you tomorrow.
Guys Jared
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