He Can Just Get Stuffed!

Who is writing Bestie love poems?

What mysterious ailment has Bestie still sick?

Who can just get stuffed?

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, every time that line, I've
got to rewrite that line. Let'shave a look again. Okay, this
all stays in. We're doing itlive. Okay, me, I've known
my bestie fifteen years now, that'sbetter. I need a comma. I've
known my bestie now for we knowneach other fifteen years. You know the

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story, But what was she likebefore I met her? Welcome to Dire
of my Bestie, where she readsto me her childhood diaries or names and
identifying places have been changed to protectthe innocent, and they're guilty. We're
also staying anonymous. So if youthink you know us, no you don't.
Welcome back to Dire of my Bestie. Hello Bestie, Hello bestie.

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I'm a little snuff I'm a littlestuffy and I'm struggling with Essa's and it's
all so you snuffle up. Iguess three times really fast, snuffle off
of us three times really fast.I cheated. I know. I didn't
realize how many essays I put intothat introduction until I had to say all
the ess I'm going to rewrite itor I'm going to record it once and

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then we can have it as asting at the front, or so it
wouldn't be as fun. How areyou better than you? We're a little
bit tired because we actually decided toget on and record this show and hour
and forty nine minutes ago, andwe've just been talking about a crap for
the past two hours. Am waitingfor dogs to be quiet. But honestly,

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it's just I've had someone to talkto. I'm like, here's everything
that's happened in the past three weeks. Bah, spill, spill, vomit.
I showed you, I showed youlego cats, I spilled the tea.
It was all that thing, soall the stuffs. Yes, So
I apologize for my should be soundingsexy than it is soft voice. Yeah,

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and I apologize in advance if youhear any weird noises because I am
watching my husband's puppy and she sometimeswines and snores, as opposed to other
fathers who drink too much wine andsnores. So funny, thank you.

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So I'm very much looking forward tocontinuing our adventure here because I am going
to talk, but I'm not goingto I'm not going to Norman guns in
it up. Okay, Okay,where are we up to. Well,
actually, before we start, I'vejust got a little bit of information to

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add to something that we talked aboutlast time, when we were talking about
Grundy's at Paradise Center and the waterslides and someone having an accident. Yes,
yeah, I was really curious aboutthat, so I looked it up.
Well, there's some truth to it. I found an article from the
Gold Coast Bulletin by someone called Andrewpots As, was back in twenty thirteen,

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and it said the water slides becamea popular attraction for locals and tourists
on the Glitter Strip, and werefeatured in the music video of band Australian
Crawls nineteen eighty one hit Errol Yes. The attraction was also the center of
an infamous incident in the mid nineteeneighties, when razor blades were allegedly placed

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between a slide's joints, leading tothe injury of a child. The incident
is often considered an urban legend,but former Grundy staff confirmed that it did
indeed occur. Controversy also occurred inDecember nineteen eighty five, when a rider
fell over the side of a slidewhile trying to stand up on a fast
mat. Okay, se I stillprobably, but I still maintain it was

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my grandparents and parents having a reasonto not pay to get me onto the
slides. Probably, like I thinka lot of a lot of those missile
like, oh yeah, no,there was razor blades. There was razor
blades on the thing. You don'twant to go on there? No?
Yeah, yeah, you don't wantto go there, surminding me a little
bit of Action Park. Yes,although that was actually true. Yes,

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that was true. And if youdon't know about Action Park, you need
to listen to the episode of TheDollop. Yes about Action Park because it
was good, all right, Butother than that, we are in grade
nine in nineteen ninety. Yes,I've been sick a lot again. I

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have a boyfriend called Wade, Yes, and We've been going out for like
three weeks, and I think I'veseen him, like no more than three
weeks now over a month. I'veturned fourteen. Yeah, well I've only
seen Wade I think about twice inthis month. So yeah, shall we

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can tell me I'm looking forward tothe adventures because Wade seems pretty serious.
Yes, it is now Friday,October the night, not even the night
Friday, October the nineteenth, nineteenninety. Well, at youth group tonight,
we are going to the squash andFitness center. It should be good

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because Wade, Shona, and Deborahare coming us. Deborah knows the girl
who asked Wade out at the gymnasticscomp I'd forgotten to mention that earlier,
but yes, that his gymnastics competition, some girl had just randomly asked him
out. Deborah knows her. Deborah'sgoing to ask her about it and tell

(05:56):
her that she knows Wade's girlfriend.Stirring the post, did say he's got
a girlfriend. I don't know.I'm saving my money so I can buy
lots of diaries for next year.Pre planning the show. Good job,
I am, and then I stopand I pick up. At eleven thirty

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two pm, having a bit ofa late night, Mike, Clint,
Jeremy and Matthew just went down tothe UNI radio station to do their Christian
metal show. Let's move on quicklybefore I just purselessly yes, they're putting

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a cheerio over for me. Okay, that's nice. Cheerio as in Hello,
not breakfast cereal, and not amini Frankfurt. It's more sausage.
Yes, little boys as my grandparentsused to call them. Yes, Yes,
Debrays didn't tonight. It was reallygood though. I played squash,

(07:03):
volleyball and water polo and swam heaps. I wish we could go there.
All the time, I've been listeningto Belinda Carlyle and Queen cool music,
yeah, fairly decent. Yeah.So these were vinyl records of Clints yep,

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and it was Belinda Carlyle's debut album, the one with Mad About You
on it, Yes, and Queen'sgreatest hits, the first one, which
is the best one because it's gotlike Flash and Bohemian Rhapsody and all the
cool old ones on it. Ialways get confused the volume one and two.

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Ah yeah, I still got theBlue single should be in on Thursday.
Yes, I love that song somuch and I still do. So
that's Still Got the Blues by GaryMoore, amazing guitarist. The bad bit
of the night was Wade and Shonadidn't show up. Oh, no phone

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calls or anything. Now I'm positivethat Wade doesn't want to see me anymore.
If he doesn't call this weekend,I'm never speaking to him again.
That'll be the end. I'll befree. That sounds very definitive, unlike
you, h. I love guys. Guys. Okay, I'll be free.

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Maybe I'm feeling a little fettered bythis relationship that's gone on for so
long now. I mean it's lastedmore than twelve hours and he knows who
you are. It's like almost fiveweeks or something. It's a life record.
Yeah. Monday, October twenty second, nineteen ninety six, thirty seven

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am. Questions. Is Wade worthit? Sometimes I think not. He's
a bit immature, and sometimes Iknow I can do better, but he's
all I can get. You're alsofourteen? Are you still really in love

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with Nick Major? And or PaulLancefield? Basically some thoughts that I've been
having that I haven't actually written inmy diary until now. These are big
thoughts to be throwing at a personon a Friday night. Well, now
it's early Monday morning. Remember,Okay, where you go? Sometimes I

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think so, But they're both goingout with other people, and we're talking
about exclusive relationships here. I thinkI mean serious, serious exclusive relationship as
opposed to the large brash of polyamorousrelationships happening at fourteen in the place that
you live. Yes, yes,yes. Should you be flirting at school?

(10:22):
Yes, it's fun. I likeguys, especially Stephen Vaughan. He's
so nice. He's actually a friendof my brothers and he's in grade twelve,
So I don't think he's going tobe interested in me. Hasn't stopped
you before, That's true. Wednesday, October twenty four, nineteen ninety,

(10:48):
Dear Diary, I went to thedoctor yesterday afternoon and I had to have
a blood test today. I mighthave iron efficiency and NEMA. Okay,
I'm going to school tomorrow though.Sick. This tracking down why you're sick
and not feeling well? Yeah,yeah, because I had I think I

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had like a cold or a fluor something. Last I haven't been quite
right since. Well. I madeup my mind. I'm dropping Wade,
okay, not to go with Paul. He's going out with Holly Black anyway,

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Debreak, Kim and Naomi No,and they all think it's the right
thing to do. All I haveto do is drop Wade. Everyone reckons
that Paul will drop Holly and goout with me when he finds out that
I like him. Anyway, I'dbetter go and watch full House now,

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see you later. I don't understand. Okay, it's not my world.
I'm not going to judge just alittle, but I'm not going to judge.
But yeah, judging a fourteen yearold. Yeah, but still,
but still, this is what Isigned up for. I promise it does

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get better. But it no matterwhat, it always gets better because it
ends with me being friends with you. So it kind of depends on your
definition of better. So I thinkit gets better in that I'm not necessarily
changing my mind as much, butit's not necessarily going to be any less
prostrating. But all decisions, alldecisions end up with us having coffee in

(12:50):
that coffee house and becoming fast friends. So anything before that is that you
are a product of your past.It's all this, Yes made me who
I am today. Yes, Yes, the most non promiscuous slot I know.
I mean I've been married for twentyand a half years, so you

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know I got there in the end. Yeah. But like a drug addict
who turns away from the drugs andturns to Jesus hardcore, you've turned away
from the lifestyle with anything with twofeet a heartbeat who looks half your way,
and now you've committed to the samedude for so long. You're a
story of extremes. Complete turnaround.Thursday, October twenty fifth, nineteen ninety

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Dear Diary. I spoke to Deborahon the phone yesterday afternoon. She said
that Matthew was planning on asking herout at the school disco, and Kevin
asked her to get with him ifshe goes. She didn't know what to
do. I think, okay,Matthew, Kevin, Matthew, Kevin Matthew.

(14:07):
Oh okay, So does she wantto snog on or does she want
a boyfriend? Yeah? She didn'tknow what to do, so I told
her not to go. Avoidance alwayssolves everything. She couldn't have done a
hilarious like Happy Days version where shedoes both. I mean, she could,

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but she's not me. I wasn'timplying that you would do that.
I just like the rect know thatI've done that for all listeners at home.
I would like it well known thatI did not imply that Bestie would
go out and try and tag twofellas on one night. Seven hundred and

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fifty two. Yeah, but seethat that was in your prime. Yeah,
I mean I was a lot lessmature. Anyway, it was a
whole year ago. Yeah, trustme, it feels like we've been on
a ride for six it's been afew months. Yeah, I'm depressed today

(15:11):
waiting for my test results. Mikeis home today spewing that he came into
my room. I hope I don'tcatch his disease. Although you've been frightfully
sick for the longest time, you'rehoping you don't catch his disease. I

(15:31):
always had a fear of vomiting,So okay, it's like I did not
want to get a stomach bug.I don't like vomiting. I hate mid
vomit. I hate feeling like I'mgoing to vomit. The post vomit rush
oh so good. Like I don'twant to spew. But if I spew,

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If I spew and it's a decentone. Afterwards, I'm like,
oh that really sucked, but ohthat's good. It's the feeling of like
it's it's the whole dump thing whenyou when you take rubbish to the dump
and you throw it in the dumpand I leave the dump and I sing
my little dump song as I leavethe dump. It's always like it's always

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like a lightness. Yes, Ihave a dump song, a family dump
song, not just it's not justme being a weirdo. We're a family
of weirdos where we've had the samedump song for three generations. It's a
genetic Yes, I've put on halfa kilo since yesterday. I had lost
one and a half kilo since Saturdayfrom sickness. Yeah, probably not eating

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or whatever. Anyway, I mustgo. Debora is bound to ring the
Savo and tell me about what happenedat the disco. So she ended up
going. Maybe she did well?Did she get a two for one session?
Friday, October twenty six, nineteenninety Dear Diary, that John Feller

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is still after Naomi. I don'tthink I've mentioned him before. Just some
guy that's after Naomi doesn't go tomy school. So Rachel likes this guy
in year ten, I'm guessing Iwas probably talking to Rachel on the phone.
She's told me all this because Naomi'sher sister, Kim also, Rachel's

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sister was at a Saint Dominic's dancewith Roseanne, so she probably got with
someone. Ooh, scaredy Dominics isa boys' school. So yeah, I
got a letter from Nicole Kirk.That's one of my cousins. Okay,

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that's the cousin I mentioned that Idrank wine and orange juice with it that
wedding and we had to keep goingfor we walks. Yes, yeah,
that's that cousin. I got therecord player in my room. It's so
cool. So is that something you'venever had before? Well, it was

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my mum and dad's player, andI just asked a movie in my room
because I'd been playing a lot ofvinyl. Okay, yeah, and this
was pretty old fashioned whine. Itwas like record player in a cabinet and
I had like a lift up top. It was like a smoky plastic smoky

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plastic. His master's voice. Yes, he has a little logo with the
dog in the Yes, we hadin our house. We had a I'm
sure it wasn't as big as whatmy five or six year old brain remember,
but it was at least two metersby meter of smoky dog. Oh

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really, it was like huge,so yeah, so yeah, yeah,
so yeah, this was pretty big. It was about probably meet along because
it had like the turntable and thenhad a little space next to it where
you could stacky records, story records. Yeah, I'm listening to Queen now.

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I have more records than I thought. I'm going to buy some more.
I want to get bus to move. Yes, Blaze of Glory,
Yes, the bon Jovie one,the right combination. That was Donny from
New Kids on the Block with Ithink she was a Japanese singer. It

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was a duet. Okay, electricYouth, that's Steady Gibson and the dirty
dancing sound. There you go.Okay. I might be going skating tomorrow,
I hope. So have you Youhaven't been skating in a while?
Have you in terms of regular activity? No, not much because I haven't

(20:15):
been well. No, but eveneven we because you used to go three
times a week. Oh yeah,hepes, cut down, heaps. Yeah
that's right, because you were doingdancing on the Saturday and yeah, and
then I just got sick of ittaking up all my time. So here's
all the politics. Yeah, Iremember mum. And I think I might

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be allergic to milk. I haven'thad any all day and I feel fine.
I probably mean intolerant, not allergiclike I'm developed it. Intolerant which
is interesting because I am actually lactoseintolerant now, but I wasn't always time.
Time you see a cow, you'reyelling racial slurs at many for you.

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Sorry, it's one of my favoritetexs, but everyone says your lactose
and tolerance said. Yeah, no, you're hurting racial slurs at cows.
It's really bad. Ah you heifer. Yeah, anyway, gotta go your
most faithfulest friend until I put youin the carbine and buy a new one.

(21:27):
Yeah, and start seeing that one. See. Maybe that's that's where
it all links back to. Isyou treat boys like diaries where we're getting
into the deep psychological thing. You'relike, I'm your bestest friend diary until
this other diary sort of shows meits open pages, and then I'm all

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over it. Yeah, forget aboutit for a while. Saturday, October
twenty seven, nineteen ninety eight,three eight m. So you're not diarizing
every day? Moved to sort ofevery few days, haven't I? Why

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do I get up so early onthe weekend? I don't know. If
you're able to solve that question,humanity would be saved. My jewelry was
delivered this morning. It looks reallycool, except they're out of stock of
the anklet I ordered and they're notgetting any more in because they're getting a

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new range. Hang on, Mumjust came in to tell me that was
the wrong in. Though it'll behere in six weeks. Ah okay,
So but if they're not here byChristmas, we've decided to get our money
back. Well clearly because it's threemonths away. Oh no, it's October,

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yeah, twenty seven. So ohyeah, yeah, hang on,
because they're already late. Remember that'sright. I've got to go to the
dunny. Okay, Okay. SometimesI can't tell whether you're telling me as
of today you or diary you do. I often use the word dunny though.

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Are we often sitting here at nightat like nine o'clock at night recording
a podcast? So there's nothing more. Yesterday vo from five to six,
Seth Scott and Jeremy Bruce were onthe UNI Radio. It was so cool.
Clint rang up and requested Susie quatcho. Then I rang up and requested

(23:48):
faith no more. Then Matthew rangup and requested much ohman by the village
people and said ps Susie quatro sticks. Then Kimberly rang up and requested the
Pet Shop Boys. Then Mike,the lead guitarist, requested Phil Collins,
but they didn't have it, sothey played Richard Marx. Then Sean a

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Sheep rang up, requested some funkymusic and said hello to the year eleven
theater class of Riverdale High. Thenat the end they played Can't Stop Falling
into Love by Cheap Trick for Kimberlyand Mike So Sweet. Yeah, sounds

(24:32):
like I've just done a blow byblow of the entire radio show because it's
only an hour long. And alsoto shout out to the radio tech who
had to go and find all thosesongs and them up at the time,
we say, all your friends havejust rung up and gone here, go
do some work. Record boy,get to work, see you later.

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Bye later. I forgot to tellyou we're getting a new kettle. There
was a short circuit in the plugof ours, and Dad was going to
fix it, and then he wasgetting this rust off and he made a
hole. He thought it wouldn't matterbecause it was on the outside of the

(25:25):
kettle, but he jiggled the kettlearound a bit and all this water splashed
out. Clint said to put aband aid on it. Then Dad banged
the rust spot on the other sideand made a bigger hole, so he
just chucked it. It was sofunny. I remember this. Actually he
was just kind of like tap taptap tap tap, like gently trying to

(25:47):
scrape the rust off, and thenit just went. It was like an
old up plugging a literary kettle thatmy parents had had they got on their
wedding for their wedding, so itwas pretty old. It was one of
those silver ones that was kind oflike a dome shaped with black handle.

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Yeah, sunbeam, Yes, that'sright. Yeah. So yeah, Like
I'm fourteen years old and it wasthe only kettle I'd ever known. So
much show you diarized about it.I did. Still got the blues should
be on my turntable by one pm. That would be when my mum gets

(26:37):
home from work, so she wasprobably picking it up when she finished her
shift because oh yeah, that's Saturday, so the shops would have closed at
lunchtime. Yeah. See, Ilived in the world where the shops weren't
open on a Saturday, and theywere opened for a bit of Saturday and
then all Saturday, not Sunday.Yeah, and then all week. Yeah,

(27:03):
look at us all talking about inthe Cleo needs her teeth cleaned.
She's got fish breadth eats a lotof fish, does they? Oh she's
a cat. Okay, I'm gettingwith dogs and stuff. So The Dark
Half is excellent. That was abook by Stephen King. Yes, I

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didn't know that, and it wasjust like, have we suddenly pivoted into
black magic? Okay? Bye?Later? Looks like I had gone skating,
because it says Guy Dutton tried tocrack onto me today. Yeah.

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Aiden wanted me to go out incouples with him as friends, but Guy
asked me too, So I wentin couples with him, and he kept
asking me when I was going todrop Wade and why I wanted to be
single, and how if he waswith me he wouldn't be a straight like
Stuart or Wade. I got sofed up with him. I guess I

(28:15):
kind of asked for it because Iled him on a bit. So why
are you dropping Wade again? Uh? Because I don't see him and he's
not ringing me or anything. Okay, getting sick of doing Oh, do
all the work in this relationship?Oh? And because he didn't turn up

(28:37):
to youth group that night and didn'tcall me or anything. So if he
did turn up, what would haveyou what would have been the outcome?
What would you have done? Iwould have tried to patch him, probably
Okay, find out, you know, corner somewhere where nobody was, because
that's why you go to youth groupto patch boys. Well, it's not

(28:57):
why I went. I went toyouth group on a Friday because I didn't
have any friends. That's all ofthis time. Then Wesley reckoned, Aiden
wanted to go with me, butit was bull but Aiden was hanging around
me a bit. Then guy keptgoing come back to skating tonight and I

(29:18):
was going to tell him to goget fucked, but I didn't. It's
funny. It's like you're like flashforward, flash beat back about six weeks
ago. Why won't boys pay attentionand flash forwards now? It's like,
God, these boys just leave methe heck? Who see you later?

(29:45):
I bet guy spreads rumors on Monday. Belinda will hate me. She's that
girl at school who's liked him onand off too. Yeah later again,
Wade rang mm hmm. Debora hadtalked to that girl who liked him at

(30:07):
gymnastics and she told Wade about it. I told him I like someone else.
I don't really, But he saidhe's called you because you you he's
never calls me homeboy calls you andyou're like, nah, sorry, you're
dropped. Well, it's like afull week since he didn't turn up at

(30:33):
the thing, so I've probably givenup by now. Is it a case
of the relationship in your head isa whole lot more involved than in his
head, where he's like, here'shere's a pretty cool chick I like hang
out with. And you're like,why hasn't my future husband checked in?
Oh? Absolutely, okay, yeah, I said, I like someone else.

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I don't really. He said who, and I said I couldn't say.
I can't say because it doesn't exist. He cut through your bullshit right
there. Bang. He kept rattlingoff all these names like Matthew and Chad
and all that. I kept saying, no, yeah, because you were

(31:18):
making up desperately. Figure out now, what's the name that no one exists
on? So he said, areyou going to drop me? And I
go, I don't know, andhe goes, not yet, And I
just didn't say anything. I'm goingto have to side to back him a

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little bit here, just like settinghigh standards. Then he goes, well,
I better let you go so youcan rack your brains trying to decide.
He was so funny and I don'tfeel bad or anything. So now
I'm just a bloody bits. Yeah, you get exactly what you want.

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And he's like, can you considernot dropping me? Like? Nah,
get stuffed. He's like, well, I suppose I better give you the
space to go and think about it. Shut up. Yeah. Now I'm
like, oh, this is sofunny and I don't have a conscience.
Yeah, my bitch. Okay,where we go from here? The dark

(32:32):
half is still so excellent? Seeyou love your pal. Sunday, October
twenty eight, nineteen ninety On thisday last year, I kissed Nick Major
for the first time. Wow.Had a pretty Yeah, had a pretty

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normal day. I sold a budge. Clint is getting a budget for his
birthday. I'm watching The Rockest Dedford. It's excellent. Is that still a
thing? Uh? Hasn't it changedinto the the all schools performing arts thing

(33:20):
or something? Oh? I don'tknow. I always wanted to be in
the Rockess Detford, but our schooldidn't do it. Well, what's the
modern down here? Modern day rockstep? Because there's the thing. It's
always on like a weird Saturday afternoon, yes, and there's no sport on

(33:45):
and all on all the schools together, and it's a series of hair flickers.
Just do you know what a hairflicker is? Okay, so here
so you won't be able to seeit or unsee it. Now, you
won't be able to see it.But my a family member used to do
performing arts, so it's like asinging, acting dancing, and because I

(34:09):
was associated with them, I wasroped into it as well. So there's
videotapes somewhere of me dressed in ahoola skirt singing Happy Talk from South Pacific
Dance. You've mentioned Happy Talk.I didn't know you were wearing a holl
skirt, Happy happy, Happy talkingA whole dance to it. But the

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funny thing is is that you cansee the performers who were really getting into
it because as they were dancing fordramatic reflec then flick their hair and they
were like oh yeah, and they'ddo it like over the top, like
fabulous hair flicking, and we callthem hair flickers. So the one who

(34:50):
just takes that little bit too muchenergy just goes like, yeah, they're
the head flickers. You're right,I'm not going to be able to not
see that now. Yeah. Soit looks like the last rocket Deedford was
twenty twelve. All school spectacular?Is that spectacular? Yeah, that's a

(35:19):
there's a little flashback there. Lookif I was in the rockstead but I
probably would have been a hair flicker. I would get it. Oh yeah,
baby, I can see you howyou're you have hair flicking tendencies.
Yeah. I've obviously been inspired bywatching the rockest Deedford because now I've written

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I'm going to do a dance toflash my queen. Okay, yeah,
Cleo has been sleeping all day.She is so lazy. Daylight Savings is
okay, I love it so much. It's ace. Here's that word again.

(36:08):
It's five twenty one pm and it'sso sunny. Wade hasn't wrung back
yet. Well, he was givingyou time to decide, wasn't he.
Yeah. I think he was goingto ring back the next day to get
my answer. Okay, Okay,he probably never will. He has to

(36:31):
be the biggest wimp on the faceof this. Oh, poor Wade.
He's probably sitting at home going,Gee, this chick, I'm going out.
That's really cool. She's like niceand chill. She does worry about
anything, and she's just like,yeah, I mean he's probably delaying the

(36:52):
inevitable. Yeah, yeah, hereI am. Yeah, I'm calling him
a wimp. Remember he's only thirteentwo. Yeah, I'm being very unfaired
awayed justice for Well, I bettergo. The temperature is twenty seven point

(37:15):
five degrees Celsius must go now righttomorrow ps drumming to desire is ace?
Okay, Okay? Tuesday October thethirtieth, nineteen ninety went to the doctor.

(37:38):
Have to have an ultrasound. Imight have gallstones. Yeah, have
to pick up schoolwork. Might seeNatasha and Deborah. You haven't seen anyone
during this time? Oh yeah,not really. I've been skating like once,

(38:05):
and I think I've been to schoolonce or twice in the last couple
of weeks. Yeah. Probably abit lonely risky considering if you're going skating
in school, goes Hey, ifyou're going skating, can come to school.
But I think it just depended howI felt on any particular day.
Wade hasn't run back yet. Hecan just get stuffed because I'm not ringing

(38:30):
him. So did you ring himor did you just wait for him to
ring you? This time around,I was waiting for him to ring,
but I usually rang him. Okay, yeah, I have to babysit Friday
night. I'm getting fifteen dollars.I'm selling a budget to Clint's sister for

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five dollars. I'm saving money fora motorbike. I hope to have saved
enough by Christmas. It's October thethirty. I've got what twenty domes?
Were you a Budgie kick or somethingyou had a lot of budget to sell.

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I don't know how I'm gonna writeit anyway, must go and do
nothing. Lots of love. Wednesday, October thirty first, nineteen ninety the

(39:37):
ultrasound went pretty good. I gotsome schoolwork. I'm having the rest of
the week off school. We're gettingThe Scarlet Pimpernel out on video tomorrow because
I have to watch it for history. Gosh, I hated that movie.
It was black and white and boring. Actually it was more Sepia Cpa and

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boring. I watched Mystic pizza.It was really good. Do you remember
that movie had Julia Roberts in it. She worked in a pizza restaurant.
Even more night, we won't knowthe results of the ultrasound until tomorrow.

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Hopefully I don't have gallstones. Mumalso reckons it could be an ulcer.
Uncle Ted has one. Okay,I better go now because it's getting late
and I have quite a bit todo tomorrow. But all write tomorrow your
bestest mate ever. Thursday, Novemberfirst, nineteen ninety No gallstones. If

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I get any worse, I haveto go and see a gastrologist. Okay,
Hopefully I'll be back at school Monday. I have a babysitting job tomorrow
night, possibly Monday night too.Hopefully I'll be going skating on Saturday.

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Remember that John guy Naomi was goingout with. He rang her up drunk
the other night. What an lasshole. And remember that guy Scott who asked
Naomi out. Well, I'll checkhim out on the weekend and if he's

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nice enough, and if I'm lucky, and if I even go, I'll
ask him out. I'm desperate togo out with someone, Okay, just
not the someone I was just goingout with Saturday, November third, nineteen

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ninety four, Am. I onlygot back from babysitting an hour ago.
You to ful Money. It wascool like always. Lucy is so cute.
I forgot to take the dark half. And I got so bored after
the kids went to bed that Iread my math's textbook. That was so

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great. I'm going to read itall the time. Now that's a little
bit sad. I'm being sarcastic.I'm sure I got another letter from Nicole
Kirk. I'm listening to the ChristianMetal Show. It's really great. I

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suppose i'd better go to bed.Hey, all right, later I might
go skating, I hope so.But then we skip till Tuesday, November
the sixth, nineteen ninety Cup day. Okay, I had a big fight

(43:04):
with mum this morning. I wascrying. She was crying. I have
to make it up with her,but I don't know how. I don't
say what the big fight was about. But I didn't have big fights with
my mum very often, so itwould have been all been a big thing.

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Okay, I don't know who wonthe Melbourne Cup. I was going
for savage toss, the one withthe most brutal name. Yes, I
don't remember that. Apparently Matthew stilllikes me. He's the guy I go
to school with who also goes tochurch and plays music with my brother.

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Okay, it's in my grade.But not long ago. He was gonna
ask Debra out. Yeah, yeah, at the school dance. Maybe he
was just doing it to try andforget me. I was trying to now
that he knows you're on the market. Ah, could be. It may

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not be what he wants, butclose enough is good enough. Yeah.
I got letters from Virginia Sing andPepper Hastings. They friends from Cambridge.
I think I have m okay,which is really interesting because it was this

(44:35):
nineteen ninety so you know, tenishyears later I did get diagnosed with it.
Hmm, that's interesting. Yeah,I have to go clean my room.
Later. Mum and I made up. Matthew came around. I think

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Clint and Mike had a lot todo with it. Whenever they get me
alone, I'm guessing with no parentsor anybody else around, they say,
so, how are things going withMatthew. Maybe they're trying to set us
up. Ah. The Macavelian backand forth in this hole it's hard to

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keep a check off. Yep,I got a letter from him. Okay,
anyway, Simon and Chad came aroundtoo. They are so cool.
Simon has grown up so much sincethe start of the year. He's going
back out with Beatrice. Hass He'sjust another school friend. Okay, all

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right, yep, hangs out withChad and Matthew and deb brah is going
back out with Kevin. What anidiot? Wait? Why is she new
for that? I'm lost in thenames. If I'm honest, I'm just
Kevin's the one who had that exgirlfriend. And the joke on Deborah by

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Kevin going out with her, andthat's right. Yeah, okay. When
they do go out, he's alwaystrying to suggest, I don't know,
having sex in park toilets, andyeah, better than a moving toilet.
It's true. Kingston Rule won thecup. I have to go to bed

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now. I'll write more tomorrow.He just blew straight past my parked toilet
and hang on, I get itnow. I was thinking, you know
those demountable type buildings with the wheelsthat do move around. Yeah, I

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was talking about part It's late.I'm old, it is. It's the
end of the week. Yes,and I've actually added on the end of
here that particular letter that I gotfrom Matthew had a palm in it.

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Oh what is the cringe level?And should I prepare my spine? It's
actually not too bad for you know, a fourteen year old. But that's
exactly right, like, not toobad for a fourteen year old, could
be deadly for people with bad backs. Well are you ready? Uh no,

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but hit me with it another night? But still no sleep? Okay,
that's enough? No, no,no, keep going, keep going,
keep going? Is it really worthit? The pulsing heart, the
rushing blood, and no words todescribe it. I can just imagine his

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testicles crawling back into his body,going nap, We're gone. Okay.
I sit and think and ponder stillupon the past few weeks. I count
the fours, compare against and won'taccept defeat. Champion, just say you
want to read up and go home? I just imagining that version of the

(48:36):
poem. I want to root youthe end. But that's essentially what he's
saying. He's like, what's thewhat's the prettiest way I can say?
Can we root? And then Isee her just a glimpse, but still
I can't believe it. Very bigstalker through your window vibes the beauty of

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her shining face and warmth and lovewithin it. And he's spelt shining.
He's spelt shining with two ends,So the beauty of her shinning face.
He may be peeking under the toiletin this moving public ples or whatever,
but then she's gone upon the wind, vanished from my sight. With her

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takes my crying heart and dims theglimmer of light. What you need to
do is copy this text, pasteit into Google and see if Homie didn't
just rip off some poetry as tryingto pass it off as like, yeah,
this will get me some action.Will she ever understand the heart she

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all but crushes? Will she everhold my hand and love the one she
touches? Okay, you're perfect foreach other because you're writing poets and poems.
He's writing a poem about you,and you got no clue about him,
and you're loving other people and they'vegot no idea about you. So

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I think this was his way ofsaying I've got the hotsview you think it's
his way of saying, I've gotthree condoms. In my pack, in
my wallet, let's go. OhNo, he definitely. I mean he
was a very very fourteen year oldboy, church boy. You say that

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like that somehow not I've known fourteenyear old church boys. Oh I know
he was very definitely not like hewould have been thinking about it. But
I know for a fact, becauseI still know him now, he did
not have sex till he got married. Okay, yeah, Well he's writing

(50:46):
poems like that, so I'm notsurprised it's romantic. Yeah, okay,
Yeah, he's basically saying, Ilook at you from far away and you
don't acknowledge me like that. It'svery much I'm hiding in the bushes,
and I might. I might.He might have spelt shining correctly, because

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all he can see through your blindsare your feet. Yeah yeah, okay,
I like, had did you knowthat he had romantic intentions? Had
he said that he had romantic intentionsfor you? Or is this He had

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never said anything, but I hadbeen told that he liked me, and
of course Mike and Clint were alwayshinting at it. So I guess the
question is not for this, likeas a person who's written poetry themselves,
I know how cringing and awkward itis because I was one of the ones

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who wrote it. Yeah. Yeah, so this is not a slam on
him. The question is we needto get Mike and ask him. Yah,
you knew this dude was writing cringeworthy poetry. What was your vested
interest in me hooking up with him? What did you want to see?
Did you do it for the lollsor did he put you up to it.

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I think it was because he wasfriends with Matthew and probably wanted to
see him happy and thought we'd makea good match. Yeah, but there's
a difference between I'd like to seemy friend happy and yo plug into my
sister. Yeah. But you know, he also was okay with me dating
his eighteen year old friend when Iwas twelve. To be fair, he

(52:36):
was nineteen. He said he wasnineteen. We oh, no, that
was a different That was a differentguy, and he was okay with that.
I don't think he really knew hewould have known, but eighteen year
old guy who went to his school, Yeah, he was okay with me.
There's questions that need to be askedto young Mike. Because I was

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friends with someone and they wrote thatpoetry to my sister. I'd be like,
okay, dude, we have tostop. I'm sorry, we can't
be friends anymore. Maybe my brotheralso wrote cringe poetry, so he thought
it was really good. Okay,I'm going to suggest something and I don't
believe it's true. What if youMike wrote the poem for him. That

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opens up a whole lot of cringeyAnd let's not go down that discussion.
Serrano do? What's that? SerranoBerg? Correct? But you know that
story, Well, that guy's inlove with that chick and then the ugly
guy writes the things, tells himwhat to play. Yeah, basically,

(53:53):
yeah, let's carefully walk down thatpath because it may open a crypte I
want to go into. I mean, Mike write song lyrics and they're pretty
good. Yeah, but that wassome time ago, fourteen, Like that's
thirty years ago. Yeah, sofourteen, he's thirty year ago. Song

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lyrics might not have been as goodas his today song lyrics. And look,
he'sying. He's trying to help hisfriend crack onto his sister. He
might not give out the a materialtrue. Maybe he put the shinning in
there, the shinning face, justimagining a face smacking into someone's shin.

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I'm just like, when you goup and see him, don't mention anything
and just work walk up to himand go shinning and see what he says.
Maybe that's his like trigger word orsomething that's like he has a Pavlovian
response like, ah, what's that? So if he even hears me,

(54:57):
because he's hearing he's terrible, you'llprobably be like what you get right up
into his face, go shinning,shitting what? So how do you feel
when I say the word shitting?Can see how he says, see what
he says, or wear a skirtor something. So what do you think

(55:21):
of my shins? So? Yes, will I ever hold his hand and
love the one I touch? Idon't know. But have you broken up
with Wade yet? I think it'simplied because we haven't spoken. But he

(55:45):
could have thought there was nothing wrong. That's what I'm saying. I'm not
saying I'm on team Wade. Buthe could have been merely going along with
Oh, my girlfriend who's pretty cooland not needy. We don't have to
chat every day. She was abit annoyed with me, but she's cool.
And now he could still think thathe's got a really cool chick girlfriend,

(56:08):
because if you never break it off, then maybe well maybe we'll find
out next episode, hopefully, becausethis is getting into some rather than the
fleeting sort of oh yeah for twoweeks and then I dropped him. This
is getting into fourteen, into loveaffairs and cringy poetry and all that stuff,

(56:32):
getting a bit more serious. Iwouldn't I didn't use the word serious.
I mean at fourteen, I wouldhave thought that was serious. Yeh,
six week relationship, I know,and see. I don't know how
to feel now because we were gettinginto rhythm of fleeting love affairs and now
it's sort of hit us like atrain. Ah. Oh my god.

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I just I had high hopes forWade. I hope that he would be
reoccurring character for at least like halfa dozen episodes. We're not there yet,
are we? No? Not yet? Does he make a return appearance?
Is he, I guess, yourturning character or is he just is

(57:22):
he a ship who's passed you inthe night now has gone on? Well,
there will definitely be mentions of him, but I don't think we go
out again positive mentions or just namechecks. Oh just mentions because like,
I'm friends with Shoona still his sister, so I'm sure he will pop up

(57:45):
when I'm hanging out with Shona.Well that was That's going to be awkward,
isn't it. Don't know, soonfind out. I guess, Well
that's thing he said. She's stillcoming around. Oh he may be.
He may be sitting there feeling whatthe other dude put in the pole.

(58:09):
Maybe his heart shin's for you shiningall right, Bestie, I love you
very much. I love you.Tell the people about our instagram so we
can take cough medicine and go tobed at Diary of my bestie. It's

(58:30):
very good. I have been enjoyingthe Instagram and the reactions to it.
So again, I love you verymuch. Thank you everyone for listening.
May your heart shin on through thisweek. I had to pronounce that extremely

(58:51):
carefully with my snuffly nose. Yes, But I just want to say hello
to everyone and hope everyone has agood week and we will see you next
time. Love you all, Loveyou, bestie, Love you, goodbye bye,