Divergence

Is it true love for Bestie and Wade?

What's on tv in 1990?

Will we ever manage to stay on topic?

Listen in to find out.

And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!

Episode Transcript

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I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to direof my bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries. Or namesand identifying places have been changed to protect
the innocent and the guilty. We'realso staying anonymous, so if you know
us, no, you don't.Welcome back to dire of my Bestie.
Hi, bestie, I figured itout. What the sentence is too long?

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It's like, welcome back to direof my bestie, where she reads
to me her childhood diaries. Allnames and identifying places have been changed to
protect the innocent and guilty. Idon't honor the full stop I wrote in
between diaries and all, so I'mrunning out of breath by the time I
hit protect the innocent. Should youdo full stop, double space or something

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so you remember to breathe? Ithink I just need to read. And
also it's ironic consider dring. Lessthan forty seconds ago, we both reminded
each other to take our tablets becausewe're both on tablets old like. We
literally had a discussion and a,oh, I've got my tablet case here,

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I've got my pill box here,and We took our tablets before we
went because it's getting late and wedon't want to be too tired that we
forget, yes, exactly, andif we take it now, by the
time we're done, we can goto bed. And that's the that's a
plan anyway, plug into breathing devicesand all that stuff. It's actually,

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if someone was to look at bothof us are like, how like what
what? Hey? Getting older isreally sexy. Although we have never compared
sea pat machine techniques, we haven't. We should do that sometime. The
thing is that I can see you'vegot the fancy one with the purple.
I've got the fancy one of theblue. Yeah, because well I've forgot

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a choice. Of course I wasgonna pick purple. Well, I've now
got a fancy, fancy mouthguard aswell, so I'm literally I completely strap
in where I've got a I wentand bought dnher a denture tablets the other
week. Yep, I went,and I'm like, okay, denture tablets,

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Yeah cool. And I have todo my mouthguard with the dentire tablets,
then rinse it out and then fillup my seapet machine, put my
stenchers in, put my put mymouthguard in and then put the seapet machine
on. And I have to weara beanie because my head's all messed up.
And if I don't wear a beanie, the thing cuts into the back
of my head. And I'm gonnaput my earpiece in so i can listen

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to music. And it's like it'sa it's a whole process. And once
I once I hop into bed,that's the that's the best thing about it.
I hop into bed. I'm inbed because I can't move because I'm
completely connected. Well, I havemy retainers, so I have a similar
thing. It's got to put theretainers in, make sure we're mad to

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take in. I have a docfrom my phone across the room so I'm
not tempted to look at it soI don't contribute to my sleep issues.
And then I have one of thoseunder pillow speakers. Yeah, so how
I've got to turn that on.I've got to link it to my phone.
Put my ASMR on, put mycepap on. I have my pillow

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that I have to put and thatI have to hug. Helps me to
stop rolling onto my back, andthen I go to sleep. To how
long to how long since you plugin, do you actually put your phone
up on that cradle, because I'veseen you late at night still on your
phone. Oh, it depends.I usually do it straight away, but

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then if I sometimes if I wakeup during the night and I can't get
back to sleep, I get onit, which is not what I'm supposed
to do. I'm supposed to getout of bed and go out to the
lounge room and read a book underdim light. But it's like that's boring,
and that's the point it's supposed tobe boring. But you know,
still it's a work in progress.Sometimes I'm very very good at ticking all

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the boxes. Sometimes, especially onweekends, I'm like, I can't be
asked, and I'm just gonna leavemy phone on the bedside table and if
I wake up, I'm going toget on Instagram. Well, part of
my routine is I have to turnmy phone completely to silent because I've got
Bluetooth headphones. But because I can'tfall asleep without music, my bluetooth headphones

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run out of power halfway through.And if I don't turn it down,
when the Bluetooth headphone dies, myphone's just going bah full noise. So
I wake up in the middle ofthe night, and I'm like, I
can, just I can have enoughto grab the new headphone and I swap
the left for the right, andthen but I can't. I've now been

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so used to having it in myleft ear that I put the right one
in my left ear because it fits. And then with my mouthguard, I've
been getting the urge to flip overand lie the other way. We're going
to wake up in the morning witha sorry because the headphone's just been jammed
into my idiot gull and the andthe mouthguard so rigid that it's holding my

(05:18):
jaw into place, so it's likejam this interior and then sleep uncomfortable in
your next All done, and we'reold people. Yes, speaking of which,
nineteen ninety nineteen ninety was how manyyears ago? Do I not?
I don't think I want to knowit's a time back. Yes, that's
all we need to know. Yes, I don't want to think about it

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too much. And it is Sunday, September thirtieth, nineteen ninety. Actually,
do you want to know that insix years the eighties would have been
fifty years ago? Stop it?I know, which means I'm going to
be fifty about sixteen. I'm justgoing to pretend that I'm not for as

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long as possible. That in acouple of years time World War two and
when I was born is shorter thanwhen I was born and now, no,
yes, that really puts things intothat. Actually, no, I
think I think right now, becauseit was nineteen forty, we'll say nineteen

(06:25):
forty, that's forty years. Actuallyit's old. No, that's it's it's
forty four years since my birthday,and my difference between my birthday and World
War Two starting was forty years.That's so close. That's like, so
the distance between me now my birthdayis more than the World War One and

(06:46):
my birthday World War two on mybirthday. Yikes. Yeah, I no,
So we're talking about pillboxes and seapatmachines and stuff. So yeah,
dordy doldy dol Yes. Yes,Okay, let's let's go back to your
youth and grab whatever we can fora short tos. I'm fourteen and I

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can don't stop breathing in my sleep, and these work and it's nine am
am. I starting off on abit of a sad note. Oh no,
everyone always picks on me. Ohno, why are they picking on
you? I'm crying right now becauseI can't take it. What can't you

(07:35):
take? You up there with theSmurf boys? Stop? Yeah? What
am I talking about? You couldtake it, couldn't you. Mike and
Clint wouldn't leave me alone this morningbecause I'm not going to say that.
Say that name again very slowly andput a breath in between. Mike and

(08:00):
Clean, thank you very much.Would leave me this morning. The speed
and cadence at which you said thatmade it sound completely different. I'll have
listened to that later. Yeah,and probably love anyway. They wouldn't leave
me alone this morning because I'm notgoing to church, so they'll bully you

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into being fa go to church.Then Dad had a go at me about
being a half Christian because I didn'tgo, And then Mum came in and
goes, you have to go outto the birds, and I said I
know, and they both reckon.I snapped at her, so I left
the kitchen. I just can't takeit anymore. Why do they have to

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do this to me? What haveI done to deserve this? Why can't
they just leave me alone? Cleois the only one who loves me.
Why. Okay, it's hard forme to ask this question without sounding like
I'm jumping on the dog pole,But it's out of interest. Why didn't

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you want to go to church?Just not the day for it? Oh?
It kind of it gets explained,okay, all right, next,
Yeah, and I'll add a littlebit more to it. Okay. So

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then I write again at three o'clockm hm and say things have improved.
I didn't do the dancing gig atthe water park this afternoon because I feel
sick. Okay, See you're notwell. Yeah, and my guess is
it was probably my period. Okay, yep, Deborah rang she was only

(09:56):
kidding when she said she still likesKevin. If you remember they broke up
before the holidays. Yeah, shemust have told me that she still liked
him. But it was just ajoke. Okay, okay, so why
is that important to you? Iwas probably mad that she still liked him

(10:18):
after the way that he treated her. He's going out with her as a
joke because with his ex girlfriend,that's right. Yes, yeah, I
think she caught Glendula fever from him. Okay, she has all the symptoms.
I have to get back into routinefor school. My after school routine

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will be this, change my clothes, see to my birds, get the
washing in. That was my afterschool job, Have afternoon tea, do
my homework and assignments, practice tennisskills, and practice dance. Okay,

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only after that will I watch TV. Dinner will be somewhere in there,
as well as practicing music most nights. Okay, must go Big is on
TV tonight. It should be excellent. Ace Ace. Yes, I'm going
to get you a badge, itsays Ace Ace. Maybe we can get

(11:28):
Grinspoon onto the show. Do youmind re recording it just for just for
h boy, just play it andthey copyright strikers and that's the controversy that
gets as famous. Yeah. Monday, October first, nineteen ninety so this

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would be the first day of termfour. I'm writing at twelve fifty six
pm. Okay, I am sittingin bed feeling like vomiting in to a
bucket. Mum said if I ate, i'd feel better, So I did.
Now I feel worse. Sounds alittle bit more like you more than

(12:11):
your period though. Yeah. Possibly, remember I said I couldn't find my
pink diary from nineteen eighty seven.Well did you or is this a conversation
you had with another diary that No, I did mention it a few It
was in a few episodes ago couldfind it. Yeah, well I found

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it the other day and it isso hilarious. One day I'm going to
this back with some random person inanother city and yeah, oh goodness.
So now we're going through a bitof a history of my diaries here.
Yes, it's welcome to Welcome todiary of my diary. Yeah. I

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had a diary in grade four whichI chucked in grade five. I should
have kept it. I remember somethings that were so funny. I do
remember that in that one I wroteabout watching a TV show called Circus of
the Stars or Circus with the Stars, of those kind of things. Yes,

(13:16):
very much, so great. Istill know it's a knockout. Yeah
that's true. Did you ever hearwhat happened to the It's a knockout thing
while they had to stop it?No, because it's it's a knockout was
actually built on a guy's farm innorthern New South Wales. Oh, and

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there was a dispute about the paymentof money and stuff for the land,
and I think Channel seven, Channelten, who owned it, weren't paying
the money and stuff, so hetook his bulldozer and knocked it over.
Because because they built it all onhis land and there was there was some
payment arrangement, they wouldn't pay him. So he knocked it over and that's

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why they had to cancel it becauseentire it's a knockout stadium was knocked over,
crushed. Yeah, oh, servehimself right, his money, that's
his story. But yeah, Joe, Yeah, but I don't know if
they could do it's a knockout now. Billy J. Smith, he knocked
out. It's a knockout pretty much. Yeah, he knocked over. Yeah,

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So Billy J. Died, didn'the recently? I think recently?
Billy J. Smith? I thinkhe maybe. I'm thinking maybe five years.
I'm going to say five years.But let's Billy J. Smith.
And it was Billy J. Smith. That was Fiona McDonald, wasn't it.
Billy J. Smith died February twentyseven, two thousand and nineteen,

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so exactly five years. Yeah.One of my high school teachers was on
It's a knockout once. I rememberyou telling me that. Yeah, no
more, no more information than that. But yeah, well that's all I
knew. But basically one of thekids in this particular class happened to catch

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a repeat because it was on everymorning before school repeats, and he saw
it on a repeat before school thatvery day, and then when he went
to school he was like, missa Soil on TV. You were on
It's a knockout. She was reallyembarrassed. It's hilarious. Okay, here

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we are, It's a knockout.It was an Australian game show that was
adapted from the British version of thesame name, and which in turn was
adopted The Australian was adopted into aFrench show called Into Valets. It ran
from nineteen nineteen eighty five to nineteeneighty seven, so I lasted like two

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and a half years. I feltlike it went for like ten years.
Yeah, so three three seasons tothe one hundred and seven episodes. That's
why it would have been syndicated.Yep. It was in Urbe one hundred
episodes. Doesn't it to be syndicated, Well, that's America, but in

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Australia. I think it was producedby Grundies. That's why I remember it.
YEP. Yeah, yeah, itdoesn't say anything here about the maybe
seeing our little rabbit hole. Justeveryone, give me a half a second.
It's a knockout destruction? Was itjust an old wives tale? I

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remember? I remember the story beingthat they had to stop it. Australian
version of It's a Knockout round Networkten teams that have into the different states
Billy J. Smith with Frender MacDonaldFederation that it aired, you would arrive
in a golf buggy. The showwas filmed in Darrel Nuthwell, Ah.

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The show was filmed in a fieldin Durell, New South Wales, but
due to numerous complaints from local residents, the show was dropped in nineteen eighty
seven. H Gen Nelson did thetwenty eleven version. I don't even remember
that. Okay, all right,well do you imagine it? Yeah?

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Sorry, sorry everyone, Sorry,no, I reckon. We'll be able
to find something about it. Yeah, but I heard a story that one
of the farmers bulldozed something and that'swhy they couldn't do it, because they
bulldozed a part of the stadium.That was probably the complaint. Yeah,
home sick of this shit, prettymuch like the I wasnt the when they

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were jumping. One of the daredDevils was trying to jump a river and
one of the farmers on the landthat was built got a note with it,
so he actually just pushed over theramp that they spent time building.
Ooops, maybe I'm conflating the twoanyway, old research and comeback. Something
came to me though when you mentionedGrundies, Yes, and I just remembered

(18:23):
reg Grundies. Yes. Yeah,And upstairs at the down cavell Avenue was
that Grundies as well. Grundies atParadise Center for a day or not too
remember my grandparents used to take medown Paradise. I never went, but

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I remember that chinkle. It's verymuch the same as it is now where
it's a time zone. And whenI was down there with my daughter and
missus bestie a few months ago,I said, oh, we'll go,
we'll go. I've got to tellher, so we're gonna get Telly and
then we'll go up to Grundies.And the looks on their faces are like
what what word? What word didyou say? Like Grundies. I'm like,

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yeah, it's like upstairs, that'swhat it was called Grundies. And
I had a water slide, butthey shut the water again this is this
is whole. Yeah, they hadthey had to shut the water slide down
because someone got injured or died onthe water slide. Yeah, that's another

(19:29):
rabbit hole to go down. Oh, it definitely is. So died on
the water slide or something happened onthe water slide. But yeah, yeah,
I don't know. I don't haveenough friends to to to have a
big enough social Yeah, all right, sorry, back to back to you.
That's right. I was talking aboutmy grade four diary, yes,

(19:52):
which I chucked in grade five afterthat pink one, I used a Garfield
one. Nice, but I chuckedto the pages I'd written on and used
the rest for writing paper. Sothere's confirmation of that. Then last year,
before the diary I got for mybirthday, I used an exercise book
I'd forgotten all about this, andthat had heaps about Darren and Damien and

(20:18):
Heath in it. Okay, thosepages out after me and Heath broke up
and had that massive fight. Rememberhe almost killed me after the drive in
by almost running the car into atree. But he was nineteen at the
time and he was looking to getall smurf curtains. He was. Later,

(20:42):
I thought I heard someone walking downthe hall, so I yelled,
whoever's there. I have a rotwheeler and a pitbull terrier out the back
and all set them both onto youif you don't get out of here.
But of course no one was there. We're still in the remembering the old
diary, aren't we was this newdiary? This is new, don't I

(21:07):
dore? Yeah? Yeah, Cleois molting really bad. I'm a bit
worried about her. Actually, allshe wants to do is sleep. Sounds
like a normal cat to me.Now, Yeah, she won't get up
to eat, drink, use herlitter or anything. She's been sleeping ever
since eleven thirty pm last night.Sometimes she'll look out the window for a

(21:30):
few minutes, but she'll always comeback and sleep. Okay, I mean
she probably got up during the nightand I was asleep and didn't didn't know.
It's National Pet Week this week.Okay. On Saturday, I want
to go into town with Wade andShona. I have to get Mum a

(21:51):
birthday present. I just heard thatthe blood alcohol limit is now point zero
two. I don't remember that,do you. I was six at the
time. I was ten at thetime, so no alcohol limits weren't a

(22:12):
big thing. I can't wait untilit's point zero zero. Of course,
that's only drinking and driving. INelly got drunk at the wedding, remember
no, because you didn't mention it. It was quite fun, actually,

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but I don't think I could everget drunk enough to get totally off my
face. I wee it all out. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
I do remember this actually, some and one of my cousins.
They put a picture of orange juiceon our table was the kid's table,

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and then they also put a littlething of white wine, and our parents
were like, you can have somewhite wine, but you have to mix
it with the juice. So weput in lots of wine and just a
tiny bit of juice, and thenyeah, our table was right over the
other side at the venue from thetoilets, and so we would say to

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each other, I have to goon a we walk whenever we wanted to
go on the toilet. Yes,walk all the other way, the fantastic,
ultra hilarious way drunk fourteen year oldkids. Pretty much. We still
talk about that now. Yes,next time I see you we'll have to
go on a we walk. Wellyou need to do for all your cousins

(23:48):
and stuff that you saw. Youhave to do little gift baskets of orange
juice, little champagne stuff as well, so we can do a wei walk.
I wish I was sick. Ilove school. I know I told
everyone not long back that I hateschool. The truth is, I love
it. It's where all the boysare. Yes, true. I wrote

(24:12):
a letter to Wade and gave itto Mike to give to Shona to give
to Wade last Sunday. And Shonaisn't Mike's girlfriend, is it. No,
but he must have been going somewherewhere he would see Shona. Yeah,
I was just about to say,hey, that's a that's a weird

(24:33):
crossing of the streams. Mike's datingyour boyfriend's sister double dates. At the
end of the letter, I putand I really mean it, I love
you. Then I did about threerows of kisses okay the original emojis.

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Yeah, yes, you know,I'm kind of glad I didn't go to
school because now it's raining. Theyhadn't invented indoor school yet. Well,
just me, Hey, it's gettinglate, it's just me being sniffy me.
It's okay. Well, you hadto walk home most schools here in

(25:18):
Australia, I would gather. Ilike lots of individual buildings joined by walkways,
yes, rather than one massive,big square building where everything's inside it.
We didn't even have walkways in someof our schools. Well, sometimes
you get wet walking from class toclass if it was raining, because they
didn't all have covered walkways. Yeah, so that's probably why Punky Brewster is

(25:45):
supposed to be on TV this irvo. Okay, Punky Brewster, I remember
yep loft Punky. Last Thursday Isaw De Grassy Junior High and it was
the one where Snake's brother comes homefrom medical school to tell everyone he's gay.

(26:06):
Quite a good episode, that one. You couldn't have made a phone
call, yes, not okay,he just wanted to do it in person.
He was coming out to tell them, and then he wasn't very well
received by his parents. Remember that. I look eagerly at the TV guide

(26:29):
whenever a new one comes out,so I can see if De Grassy comes
back on, and if Dream aLittle Dream comes on, I have a
blank video all ready for it.I'm also going to save up and buy
heaps of blank videos for when deGrassy comes back on, and by this
I mean comes on again every afternoonafter school, so I can build a

(26:49):
collection. Yeah, we have thatCitizenship Education excursion tomorrow. I doubt I'll
be going. I feel so off. Moonlight Shadow just came on the radio.
You remember that song, No CarriedAway by your moonlight Shadow. Who's

(27:15):
saying that, Mike, Mike oldField? You probably don't know what you're
talking about. So carried away bya moonlight shadow? Yeah? Not I'm
being followed by a moonshadow. No, not shut Stevens No in light Shadow.
That used to be one of myfavorite songs. And when I was
little, I always used to watchthe film clip for Never Been to Me.

(27:41):
Okay, that song had a bitof a resurgence. Remember when the
Puberty Blues TV series was on aboutten years ago. That got a bit
of a resurgence then because the girlswere doing I think it was like fizzy
or Calisthenics or something. That something'salso about her being a whore for a

(28:06):
certain amount of time, isn't itgoing around? And she drinks champagne and
didn't she like didn't she I don'tknow, wasn't she took the hand of
a preacher man and we made inthe sun. I'm dressed by kings and
some things that a woman aren't supposedto see. Okay, well, has

(28:30):
she ever been on a roof?For three? You have to read?
Listen to the lyrics, but don'trecall us. Maybe that's the things that
she shouldn't have seen, since they'rerocking back and forward going Smurf curtains.
It's all about the smurf curtains.Remember that film clip that used to always

(28:52):
be on TV on Sunday mornings,right before Luky Luke Lucky Luke. No,
do you remember that cartoon? Possibly, but that's such the most vaguest
description. Do you remember that thingthat it was always on? That thing
and that thing? Oh, there'smore details come, so I reckon.

(29:15):
This probably would have been Rage likethe last song on Rage before the cartoon
started on Sunday mornings. But ithad an octopus in it, and while
the song was playing, a ladyfed it and it grew gigantic, and
the lady was getting pushed around bythis group of thugs and she yelled help,
and the octopus comes and beats upthe thugs. It was really cool.

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You sure you weren't watching Ken Itwas like claymation. That doesn't make
it any better. I'm going totry and find it. Hang on,
be careful what you search for.It would have been what color was the
octopus? Oh, I can't remember, but it would have been somewhere between

(30:11):
I don't know, maybe eighty fiveand eighty seven. Oh, I found
it. I know why. Itwas supposed to be in the goonies.
Ah, oh yeah, here itis Green Squad. Eight Arms to Hold
You? Yes, yeah, thatvideo clip, Yeah, that's about that.

(30:41):
That's pretty much the eighties. Yeah. And interesting that Baruk Assault had
an album in the early two thousand, no, late nineties scored Eight Arms
to Hold You. No, wonderif that was inspiration. That would be

(31:03):
interesting? Is that another? Isthis a new style of episodes that we're
doing where we get like ten minutesinto it we spend the rest of the
time googling. I'm looking up ifI can find anything about eight Arms to
Hold You barbarukasl which came out innineteen ninety seven. Oh No. The

(31:29):
title is a reference to the workingtitle for the Beatles film eventually titled Help.
I didn't know that. There yougo. Now I want to know
why that was the working title forHelp. Now you also need to look
up lucky Luke or luky Luke becauseit was in a different and it's the

(31:57):
four yes. So it was inFrench with it dubbed into English, but
they didn't dub the theme song.That's why I always called him luky Luke,
because that's how they pronounced it inthe theme song. It's lucky Luke,
not luky Luke. It's like itis not in French. So yeah,

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that was that bang bang luky Luke. Okay, all right, So
yeah, there's a little bit ofreminiscing there for me nineteen ninety. When
I go back to school, I'mgoing to try really hard in science so
I can go to the math sciencesummer school again. That was so excellent.

(32:49):
Nude, the sun is trying tocome out, the rain has stopped.
You wouldn't have been a nerd forwanting to go on camp. It
was girls only there were any boys. I saw a video this morning advertising
Christian cruisers and I'm like, oh, that's going to be in about nine

(33:15):
month's time, there's going to belots of blessings. Oh look at all
these premature babies because he got marriedsix months ago. I I from friends
who have gone away on camps.Yes, there is repression and then there's
release. Oh yeah, we're allgoing to put these people, these young

(33:37):
people on a cruise ship for likesix days. Yeah, okay, it
doesn't count when it's on a cruiseship. I'd stop there and move on
because you know what I'm going tosay. And that Clio is Asleep with
a Little Love by Sam Brown ison the radio. I'm running out of
things to write about. I mean, I could just stop writing. Yeah,

(34:04):
you're so mad at that you're writingabout not being able to write.
Oh yeah, Kimberly came over yesterday. I cut her budgies toenails. He's
such a cute budgy. Is thatsomething you have to do? Often?
It depends, Like if you've gotdifferent sized perchase and different textures on the

(34:29):
purchase, they can often keep themtrimm themselves, but if not, you
can just trimmed the edges. Andin this episode of Divergence, hoof trimming
videos of something that that've come up, and I watched them and they're like,
I've watched them. Yeah, they'recool. My favorite are when they

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come across like a pust thing andit just goes because it's like he's like,
yeah, this is the job Ido. But the cows look so
happy afterwards. Which is your favorite? I like the hoof GP. Honestly,
I don't know the name. Ijust it's probably about two or three
of them on YouTube. But thenthere's the thing like you can always tell

(35:15):
when they're walking away, this cowis going to be really good, and
it's kind of like, yeah,we need to keep him healthy for the
next six months so we can slaughterhim for me. Yeah, yes,
you're looking after the cow. Welldone. But yeah, okay, but

(35:35):
yeah TikTok when they come on TikTok, I always find them when they go
and watch the videos, and Isometimes watch them to They make me nice
and relaxed and sleepy before a bit, Yes, because he's helping me animals.
Yes, And it's the shoe thatthey put on, the little the
block shoe block, like yeah,then they wrap up, wrap it up
and it's all good. Yeah.I had a really weird dream this morning.

(36:01):
How are you back into the diary, just checking, just checking.
It was a girls boarding school andsome boys came in for chapel. That's
what she said. Debbie and JennyLandrigan both asked Trent Hooker to the prom.
It was so hilarious. Mmm,that's it. Six two pm.

(36:29):
Still feel really sick. I watchedFour Keeps. It was pretty good,
except the ending was a bit dumb. Okay, So that was a movie
with Molly Ringwald. Yes, Iwant to say Andrew McCarthy, but I
can't remember if it was him ornot. I need to come up and

(36:51):
see you soon. On the lastnight and I'm like, ah, bestie,
Andrew McCarthy has made a documentary.Yes, I saw her. I'm
like, we need to go andwatch the movie. So yeah, come

(37:14):
up and we'll watch it. Yes, I did just look up the movie.
It wasn't Andrew McCarthy. It wasRandall batin cough. Maybe if he'd
Batten coughed then she wouldn't have gotpregnant. But anyway, Yeah, so
that's that movie. I can't evenremember what happened at the end, but

(37:35):
apparently it was done. Yeah.I think I'm getting a cold. My
nose is running and my eyes areall watery. I looked in the mirror
before I almost died. I lookedreally pale. Unfortunately, I haven't lost
any weight. I may. I'vebeen sick for a whole not even twenty

(37:59):
four hour. You know how Ifeel about that. You mention those things.
It's not a very healthy mindset.Yay, diet culture of the late
eighties early nineties. I didn't getany phone calls this afternoon because Wade was
going to call you, wasn't hemI can't remember. That was probably hoping

(38:24):
he would. It's Mum's birthday Friday, so hopefully me, Wade and Shona
will go into town Saturday to getsomething by Okay, Tuesday, October second,
nineteen ninety eight, forty two am. I am still sick. I

(38:45):
think Mum thinks I'm faking. Ijust feel so awful. I'm in the
lound room watching our gross cartoon Connectionvery nice, Yay, he was filthy.

(39:08):
My brother and I still talk aboutsome segments from that show that's stuck
in now. I just remembered Iwouldn't be doing any work at school today
anyway, because we have the CitizenshipEducation excursion until lunch. Then that music
thing in the afternoon. But youwere looking forward to that, weren't you.

(39:29):
I was. I was probably moreworried about missing schoolwork. So now
I don't feel so bad. Itwould be good if I didn't feel so
pukey. I'm watching the Smurfs.They really need to get down off their

(39:53):
roof. They are so cy poorsmurf Eth though goodness, especially especially Risty
Smurf. I don't remember him.Trust you did if you met him,

(40:20):
you did. Deborah Cole likes twoguys in year nine. She said they're
friends with each other, and I'vegone out with both of them. I
can't think who. She must havebeen sick yesterday because she didn't call me.
Then. How am I finding outthis? So didn't nobody call me

(40:45):
after school? Remember it's eight fortytwo in the morning, Mike. Maybe
I don't know later. I feeleven worse now. Dad just left for
Bridgeton. He'll be back tomorrow night, so that'll be a work trip or
actually going to Bridgington. I missWait a lot. I miss all my

(41:10):
friends from school. I can't waituntil I feel better so I can go
back Wednesday still finds me sick.Then I don't know what I'll do.
I'm pretty tired. I just cutmy gum on my biro ow. Yeah,
Home and Away should be good tonight. It's about the acting principle,

(41:34):
introducing corporal punishment back into the school. That's a big one. Blake is
the first one to get it forcheating and lying GC. That is fairly
juicy. Yeah, see ya byelater. I'm watching Raising Arizon Owner while

(42:00):
I'm writing this. It's really good. Remember that movie. I referenced it
two days ago. So, yeah, what's it about, isn't it?
It's it's the one with Nicholas Cageand oh, I forget the other one

(42:22):
they steal a baby. Oh yeah, I do now, as soon as
you said steal a baby. Okay, I don't remember Nick Cage in it,
though it was Nicholas Cage. Ohhis hair, Oh my goodness,
Holly Hunter, Princess mcdormond. Okay, Oh, it's by the Cohen brothers.

(42:47):
Yeah, that was one of theirfirst ones. Okay, and I
wonder I thought it was good then. It must have been the midday movie
reckon even I remember It's school.Yeah, well, Naomi rang she said
I'd be getting a letter or somethingfrom Wade soon. I can't wait.

(43:14):
Mike has quit his band for sure, okay, just because God told him
to? Geez what God wasn't afan? I guess he wasn't. It
must have been really crappy music topplaying. Look. I forgive everyone,

(43:34):
but I can't forgive that. Forgivethat. I'm babysitting Friday night probably then
going out Saturday with Wade maybe.Then Tuesday is the night of the jewelry
party? Ah? So is thisthe the m way multi level marketing jewelry?
Yeah? I think it was calledit was it Emma Page or something

(44:01):
like that would have been one ofthem. Yeah, I do remember,
might not have been this exact party, but I do remember getting a couple
of rings at a different party.And I love those rings, and they
actually lasted for years and years andyears. I think I still have one

(44:22):
of them. We'll have to havea look. If I find it,
I'll put it up on Instagram.Nice. Guess what what During the Christmas
holidays? Me, Kim, Rachel, Naoi, Rowan, Shona, and
Wade are all gathering together. Okay, so Kim, Rachel and Naomi being

(44:46):
sisters, the three sisters, Rowanbeing their brother, and then of course,
Shona and Made. We're staying atthe Kendall's place the first night,
the leads the second night, andmine the last night. It's going to
be so good, it'll be soexcellent, and we'll be walking from house
to house. So we go tothe first place, stay up really late,

(45:10):
sleep in, get up, packand move on. Would you even
go so far as to say it'spotentially ace? I wish i'd written that
now, but I didn't. Butthis was kind of like a progressive slumber
party. Yeah, yeah, overmultiple days. Yeah, just hanging out.

(45:37):
Okay, see ya. And nowthe next entry is undated, but
it says the rockademics Me lead vocals, Kim rhythm guitar, Wade saxophone,

(45:58):
Rachel keyboard, Rowan drums, Naomibass, and Shona lead guitar. Okay,
so planning a band really really coolname Rockademics. Saturday, October sixth,

(46:20):
nineteen ninety So what skipped a week? Ye? Most eight fifty A
m dear diary. Sorry I haven'twritten for so long. I've been pretty
busy catching up on schoolwork and thatI've been going with Wade for three weeks
now, so good. So whateffort my babysitting job is Monday. Mister

(46:47):
Neil said, I could definitely havea ride on his Harley too. Cool.
So this is the guy that Imentioned yet he was American. He
came over for work for a coupleof years with his wife and his two
kids needed a babysitter. My dadwas like, my daughter babysits and yeah,

(47:14):
so I started babysitting for his kidswhile he was in Australia. And
he actually shipped his two Harley's overto Australia, even though it costs a
lot of money, and then beforehe went back he well, his intention
was he would sell them before hewent back over and then buy a new

(47:35):
bike when he got home. Okay, so yeah he had two, not
just one. He had two.Today, Wade and Showna should be coming
around to go shopping with me.Clint and maybe Matthew. I have to
go to church tomorrow. Clint ispreaching for the first time. It's going

(48:00):
to be a whopper service. Imight see if I can get Wade and
shown it to come along. Well, I'd better go now and see if
they are coming today. Be backin a sec. They're not coming over,
Wades at a gym competition and Showna'sat Naomi's. Shona's ringing me tonight

(48:22):
though she said Wade's got something forme. Okay, yes, I don't
know if I mentioned probably quite awhile ago. Now Wade was a gymnast,
No you didn't. Yeah, andhe did really well, like he
got medals in competitions. Okay,stuff. Yeah. Sunday, October seventh,

(48:49):
nineteen ninety ten, three pm,I have two babysitting jobs lined up
forget Monday night. I've got Thursdayfive pm to nine pm and Saturday twelve
pm to six pm. I'll getabout twenty dollars all together. It'll be

(49:09):
so cool. So that's what twodollars an hour? Yeah inflation. Yeah,
and here's the best bit of theweek. You know how Friday night
is video and pizza night at Matthew's. Well, Wade and shown Up might

(49:31):
be coming for that, and ifthey do, both of them can stay
the night. Excellent, Hay,because you're staying there as well, aren't
you. Well I think that meansthat they'd be staying the night at my
house. Okay, right, yeah, after the video and pizza thing.

(49:52):
Excellent. Hey, I hope they'reallowed it'd be unreal and they'd go home
when I go babysitting Saturday after dknow, I'm ringing Shonah and Wade tomorrow
night. Cleo killed a mouse today? See ya? Okay, I ca
it fucked house. Saturday, Octoberthirteenth, nineteen ninety I just got off

(50:19):
the phone to Wade after talking tohim for two hours. Is it good?
He did well in gymnastics, twogold, one silver, Junior boys
champion. Damn, that's pretty cool. Anyway, we were talking about what
we expected from each other for thelast half hour. I told him that

(50:39):
I wouldn't want to sleep with himand he said the same back. No
offense in him dead, he he'slie. The last question I asked was
what would you say if a reallybeautiful girl with a great personality and who
was everything you ever did dreamed ofcame up to you and said, will

(51:02):
you go with me? You knowwhat he would say? Well, I
don't know because he's a fourteen yearold boy, But I don't know what
what I would have said, Butyou go first, he said. He
would say hello, bestI. Hey, he's right, he's a pretty good

(51:22):
answer. Yeah, Yeah, Iwould have gone someone already has. But
anyway, Oh yeah, and sothat's where we're stopping. Okay, So
I've been going out with Way forthree weeks. Things are still we don't

(51:44):
know if he's coming to sleep over. No, we don't not yet.
Okay, I don't give me anyspoilers, but I won't if you're if
you're establishing the ground rules, wecan assume that nothing happened. But yeah,
I think it's very good of meto be, you know, straight

(52:05):
out there with this ain't going tohappen, so and don't go there.
And and also to just to pointout that you brought up the no sex
part first, not him. Sohe's so he's agreed to that because that
is the only option he has toOh the other option is he could drop
me, but it's a slow burn. It's a he's also younger than me

(52:31):
too. How much younger are you? Okay? All right? But he
was very for all his talk abouttwo Moon Junction and lusire suit Larry,
he was a very respectful young youngman. I'm sure he would have liked

(52:54):
for other things to happen, butshe was like, she doesn't want to
do that. That's okay. I'mstill happy to be with her. Did
she did? Did he have anyother girlfriends and stuff? Or was he
had had a couple before? Okay, all right before me. Right,

(53:14):
I'm just I don't know what's goingto happen, and I know fourteen year
old boys, so it's like,you know, wait and see. Okay,
all right, well we'll have toit's going to be a I'm going
to be on tender hooks waiting forthe next one. So because honestly I'm

(53:37):
kind of rooting for him a littlebit, but also like I know you,
and I'm like, okay, we'llsee how we go. All right,
Well, Bestie will tell them aboutour Instagram where they can go and
see all these weird things we're goingto post. It is at Diary of
my Bestie. Yes, and tablets. Our tablets are starting to kick in

(54:04):
now, so you might have togo to bed, I think so.
Yes, I mean it's almost teno'clock. Goodness, oh my goodness,
Oh my goodness. Let's revert backto our fourteen year old selves, and
we've got to go back before ten. I'm going to get in trouble turn
into a pumpkin. Yes, allright, Besty, I love you.

(54:24):
Very much. We'll have to makea date to we come up and watch
that movie and oh heck, yeah, that'd be cool. We've already got
a date set somewhere in September already, so we'll have to do a few
before then. We might even doan in person recording, so I have
been looking have been looking at inperson microphones for recordings. Oh okay,

(54:46):
that's awesome. It would be kindof weird if we're both sitting on riverside,
probably ten meters away from each other, so looking for a different solution.
Okay, yes, we'll work onthat. I love very much,
love you, see you later,Bye bye,