March 22, 2025 • 57 mins
What is this episode all about?
Why do we now know so much about bingo?
And will there ever be #JusticeForKent?
Listen in to the Season 1 Finale find out!
Why do we now know so much about bingo?
And will there ever be #JusticeForKent?
Listen in to the Season 1 Finale find out!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I've known my bestie for fifteen years now, but what
was she like before I met her? Welcome to Diary
of my Bestie, where she reads to meet her childhood.
Diaries or names and identifying places have been changed to
protect the innocent and the guilty. We're also staying anonymous,
so if you think you know us, no you don't.
Welcome back to Dire of My Bestie.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello, bestI, Hello Bestie.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
How are you going?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I am great.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Welcome to the season finale of season one.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, it's a special episode.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yes, so I'm very excited to hear what's happening. I
have no idea what's happening, so, oh you don't, and
you know how much I love that. Yep, he says sarcastically.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So these are not diary entries, but they are an
assortment of writings either at me, by me, or addressed
to me. Okay, all right, yeap, from the period of
time of the first diary that we started with yep,
(01:14):
up to the end of where we just finished.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, I understand, yeap.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And some of them have been referenced in past episodes
and entries, so I'll let you know about that when
it happens.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
All right, So first of all, we have some comments
from my end of year report card in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So this was at the time of my very very
first diary because it was near the end of the
school year when I started that, so this would have
been around that time. For language, arts and reading, Bestie
has continued to work hard all year and achieve excellent results.
(02:04):
She has a fine attitude and she should be proud
of what she has achieved. All Right, well done social studies,
very thoughtful, well presented bookwork and project work.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I remember the projects that I had to do for
Social studies. One was on bullch rangers and the other
one had to do with what your future career, what
you were thinking your future career might be. Okay, I
was very good at this because that. Yeah. Bestie also
(02:42):
contributes well to group discussions, yause I've got a big
mouth and always have an opinion, maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
To say, yeah, you're very good at it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Science and health education all ways, an interested student participates
well in all activities. Okay, mathematics, Bestie is progressing well
in all aspects of mathematics. Her problem solving techniques are
(03:17):
especially pleasing.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Doesn't say she gets the right answer, but she has interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, recreational and cultural activities. Showing more confidence in art
and craft activities. Bestie has enjoyed media activities, especially those
involving the use of the video camera. She is now
much more willing to participate in physical activities.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
In other words, I hated sport.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, well a lot of us did.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, but yeah, my attitude towards it definitely improved. General comments,
Bestie has achieved excellent results. She is to be congratulated.
Well done.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Go me. Now we have a year eight English poetry assignment.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
This is from nineteen eighty nine. The poem is called.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Heartbreak Okay on brand.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah. So the instructions for this poem were that we
had to make sure that we involved all the senses.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Okay in the palm okay.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Heartbreak is black, the color of loneliness. It tastes like
salty tears, and smells like dank, musty air. Looks like
your poor dog dying.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
My cave.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It sounds like nothing quiet. It is an agony inside
that slowly tears your soul to pieces deep, very deep. Okay, Now,
(05:32):
we're skipping to nineteen ninety mm and this was my
English journal. So we had to keep a journal, I
think for an entire semester. It could be personal, or
you could just write opinion pieces, or you could be creative,
whatever you wanted, as long as you regularly wrote in
(05:53):
this journal. Okay. So this was my journal from the
tenth of February nineteen ninety and the title of this
is love question mark. Okay, Okay, put this scene into
your mind. A teenage girl and guy lying on the
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beach under Starlit skies the waves, gently rolling in and
crashing on the shore. The guy turns to the girl
and tells her he loves her. She says the same back.
The next day at school, she rushes around telling everybody
how much in love with the guy she is. They
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are really happy for her, and she can't wait for
their next date. She rings him on Friday and his
mother tells her that he's out with a girl. So
what does she do? The next Monday at school, she
goes around telling everybody what a creepy is and she
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didn't know how she could have loved him. But the
truth is she never loved him in the first place,
nor did he love her. It was just an infatuation. Okay, most,
not all, but most teenage romances are just in fact infatuations,
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except mine, I guess, because you know mine would definitely love.
What happens is that the guy or the girl gets
so hooked up in the other person that they follow
him or her around and always watch over while that
other person gets smothered and calls it quits. Instead of
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getting that infatuated with the other person, you should keep
a clear mind and think about what love is really about.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's very deep. It's not just.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Following the other person around. It's doing things to show
the other person you really care. Love isn't just a word.
It's also a feeling and an action. So next time
you're about to tell your boyfriend or girlfriend you love them,
think it over.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Very deep. Oh good.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't actually apply this to my own life though.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No, but that's part of the course. With most people.
It's like do what I say, not that what I do?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, exactly. So. Also in my English journal from the
twenty seventh of March nineteen ninety and this is titled
guys Okay, okay, Well, I know I've written plenty of
(09:00):
entries already, but I just had to write about this.
Guys play a pretty important part in a girl's life.
Wouldn't it be boring if there were no such thing
as guys?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What would happen if some disease went through the guys
and killed them all off? Could you survive in a
world without guys? I know I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
All these hot takes.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Guys a good company. I'd prefer to be around guys
than girls, depending if the guys are total jerks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Or not girls are slags, yeah, moles.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Just think if it wasn't for guys, you wouldn't be
here today, would you?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Very deep?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, So guys give you something to watch, somewhere to go,
and something to do, and certain guys well dot dot dot.
I think I'll just leave it there.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Oh saucy, but okay, very saucy.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Very saucy.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Something to my English.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Don't know what my teacher thought of.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That, probably gone, okay, now is best to you again?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, we need to get this, We need to get
this girl laid.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
My English teacher was single too, mm hmm. Interesting. All right,
now we're going to skip back to nineteen eighty nine.
So my first year of high school and just a
few bits and pieces from my report cards, you'll probably
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notice a little bit of a a patent starting to emerge.
So the first one English B Bestie is a pleasure
to teach, German B Geography ninety four percent an excellent
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student who has produced the same standard of work. Mathematics
B Science seventy two percent. B plus bestie is a
pleasant student who tries at all times music A, health
and pe B Home Economics B Graphics.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
C M.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Solid B student.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I think.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I had written about how much I had a graphics
because I always wanted to use the wrong type of pencil,
because I didn't like the lines on the pencil we
were supposed to draw. I didn't like it. Probably wasn't
good at it either.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know, that's a whole that's a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah. So then we have sort of the media report card,
and I've got a bit of a mixed bag here.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
English B writes maturely for her year level with a
marked absence of errors. German C can improve with effort.
History C. We've dropped a little bit here. It's probably
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all the boys. Geography A plus an enthusiastic and involved student.
Mathematics B minus best he is a tidy, organized student.
Science A willing worker who displays an active interest in
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this subject. Art B that surprises me B for art,
it's probably the theory got me over the line there, yep.
Music A minus. Practical skills are of a high standard,
continually improving. Health and PEC progress is satisfactory. Not good,
(13:46):
just satisfactory. Home Economics A minus displays a high degree
of motivation and self discipline in her approach to work.
That's because it was cooking. That's a stuff, and not sewing.
You remember my story of the our our project for sewing. Yeah,
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and manual arts. Practical skills are generally of a satisfactory standard.
So that's pretty average. And then we go on to
the end of year report card. English B A good
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student who works hard. French A exhibits a positive attitude
to work and others. History A A mature approach to
classwork and homework. Geography B plus. Assignments are of a
high standard. Mathematics B plus a diligent and cooperative student
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who is a pleasure to teach. Science A plus an
excellent and ability to apply scientific concepts has shown art
B she needs to further explore and extend design ideas.
Music A Bestie is a keen, pleasant, cooperative student, always
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working well in class, health and pe C plus. Her
theory work is good, However, practical units need greater application.
Home Economics B minus. So we've gone from an A
(15:38):
to a B minus. She shows proficiency in practical skills
and manual arts B minus. Bestie has produced adequate results
but could make a greater effort.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's a C. That's a C mark. That's not a B.
That's not a common for a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, So you can kind of see here that when
it's it's a subject that I'm really interested in, I
do really well. But if it's something that I really
don't like, it's like I can't be bothered trying. Yeah,
what's the point? All right? And then we have a
(16:24):
report from the middle of the year in nineteen ninety.
An interesting thing here is mathematics is a C plus.
It says she works steadily in class but finds parts
of the course difficult. Yeah, and that if it was
really me with most maths for the rest of my life,
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it's like I will always worked at it. But didn't
always get the results because I found it hard.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's what she said.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Ha ha ha. All right, now I'm going to refer
back to episode twenty two. You don't have to remember that,
but for people who are listening, they might want to,
you know, go back a few episodes and re listen
to this bit. But it was that time when Debra
(17:25):
and I kind of had a bit of a beef,
bit of beef with Natasha. And what I had written
in my diary was Deborah reckons I like Kevin Sampson.
I was flirting with him during a performance today. Natasha
got so jealous because she likes him. And speaking of Natasha,
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she wrote me this stupid letter and signed it Nike.
Can you believe it? Here is that letter that she
wrote me, the stupid letter which was signed like you
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I am?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
All right? This is what Natasha was like and why
we sometimes found it fine and why we sometimes found
it difficult to like her. Okay, Nike just happens to
be a nickname. And if you think that's really dumb,
well then that's your problem and not mine. So I
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don't want to hear about it. At least I have
a nickname. Yes, I do like Deborah, and what's that
to you? Anyway? I don't think that I can ever
trust you again after what you did. Then I'm not
going to be best friends with you or hang around
you ever again, because you only go from me to
her when you get sick of one of us.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Okay, she's a bitch, isn't she. It's it's it's it's
the context of years. It's a reasonable letter.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But at the time, yeah, yeah, what gave you the
idea that I liked Kevin? Anyway, there's nothing wrong with
being friends with the guy. You always seem to think
that I have a crush on a guy when I don't.
That's why I don't ever tell you who I like,
and don't think that just because you have a crush
on a different guy every week and I don't, doesn't
mean that I don't have crushes. She called you out, Yeah,
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but she's like, I don't have crushes, I do have crushes.
I don't have crushes, but I do have crushes.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Is she saying it's not a part of her personality?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah? Probably. No. I haven't done my drama diary yet,
but I do plan to do it because I don't
plan to fail, obviously asked her about homework. I'm going
to Sandyton on the holidays. But if you listened when
I talked, you'd probably know that by now, Hush, I'm
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going to be flat out because I have to babysit
for the first week, then in the second I'm going
to Sanderton, so I won't have any spare time.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Better go, now, Nike, really leaning into that, Nike.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
PS, I don't think it's very nice of you to
call Kevin dick Flasher. I thought you weren't like that.
That was the nickname that we had for him because
he flashed his doodle at.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Somebody, okay, and he did, yes, yes, so.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
We started calling him dick flasher. Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's some solid nickname work there.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He didn't mind it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Maybe she had a problem with it because she really
did like him and didn't want to be known for
liking the dick flasher.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
If he's dick Flasher, what does that make her.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Dick watch her Dick Luker. I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I have no idea what that sort of thing. It's like, yeah,
it's a weird one. This is like, yeah, I dick flasher.
No there was something that it's gone, it's gone, you
got nothing?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No no, oh, well, so yeah, that's that kind of
sums up Natasha's personality at that time in one letter.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay, yeah, that's not great on her part, but that's
what she chose to me.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yep, that's why we often found her difficult to be around. Yeah.
Now we have a letter from Matthew Brady, as mentioned
in episode twenty five. He is the guy who wrote
me the.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, yep, the love.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Palm, and this is the letter that accompanied that poem. Okay, okay,
so yeah, he wrote me a letter and then the
poem was in the letter.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mm hmm, this is it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I hope you're feeling much better. I really missed having
you around at school lately and at church too. It's
hard to see you feeling down and not enjoying life
to the max. So I hope you pick up really soon.
I'm still getting over what you said about Paul. You
had me really worried and praying like crazy. I think
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I had said that I wanted to sleep with Paul
or I had slept with Paul, but I was only
joking for Landsfield. Yeah, I hope it never does happen,
not before you're married anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, so very much a wait till marriage type of
dude sounds like.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, yep. Anyway, Exam time is raising its ugly head
once more. Time for heads down, tails up. I should
do pretty well. We should study together.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So he wants to bang it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I hope you can make it to youth group Friday night.
It's hypothetical night followed by a Bible study. Is Deborah coming?
I asked Chad what he thought of youth group. He
reckons we pray too much. I didn't think it was
possible to pray too much. Anyway, I'll see if he
wants to come along. I hope you liked the poem.
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It was the best I could do at this time
of night. I'm afraid I'm not William Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm sorry. Considering the contents of this letter, I think
he's actually piqued with the Really, if I.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Was, i'd write you a play or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
He's really he's putting in the hard yards to get
a crack at you.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Love from Matthew.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, ah, it's just like, yeah, it's I appreciate the
unique sort of don't talk shit about youth group. Smacks
in there like, yeah, we're cool, We're part of youth.
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Don't talk bad about youth group. We know what we're doing.
So yeah, trying to get you on each side. You're like, yeah,
if I slag off those people saying off youth group,
she'll really love me.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Work, Well, he shoty shot, We'll see how we go.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
He did shooty shot, poor Matthew.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So then I have my school report from December nineteen ninety,
which said that I had because I had been sick
so much. Remember yep, days days absent that semester fifty nine. Okay, yeah,
so I missed a fair bit of school, but despite that,
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I ended up with a's for English and speech and drama. Okay,
I had b's for Citizenship education Science, a B plus
for music, and a B minus for history, and my
worst mark was a C in maths. Even with all
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that missed school, A few of them said frequent absences
have affected her progress and performance in this subject, So
I think probably would have been close to getting all
a's if I hadn't missed so much school. Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So not saying that you didn't earn it but I
wonder if any of that has sort of they've given you,
they've graded you a little bit easier because you have
been away so far, so long.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I still was doing like working during school, work at
home and doing my assignments. I just couldn't do my
actual exams. Okay, So they graded all my assignments and
then averaged out those for my final result. Okay, so
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I think I did pretty good considering.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, I'll pay that so yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So yeah. The final thing we have is a letter
from Naomi Kendall, who is my friend. If you remember,
she has two sisters, Rachel and Kim, Yes, and they're
all friends with Shooner. Okay, yeah, so this is a
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letter that she wrote me in January nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So this is really we're just about to start get
into this part of the diaries.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, So this doesn't give away anything from
the diaries, but it does give you a good idea
of the kind of people, not people, but.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Situation.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
There's a lot of yeah, there's a lot of oh,
you get a bit of an idea of what those
people will like that I hung out with, and there's
a little bit of Aussie culture okay in the early nineties,
which kind of puts a little bit of a not perspective.
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What's the word I'm thinking context? Yeah, context, and gives
you an idea of where things were at I guess
early in nineteen ninety one. Okay, okay, So she says, Hi,
how are you? I'm fine. Thanks a lot for the
Christmas present and card. It was lovely. We had a
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great holiday at South Beach. It was the best holiday
we've ever had. We swam in the pool most of
the time at the units, and one night we had
a pool party with the friends we made there. We
went to the beach a couple of times and surfed
on the waves, but there were lots of jellyfish yuck.
I stood on one when we were walking along the beach.
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It was gross. We did a lot of shopping too,
because there are a lot of different things than in Thornleigh.
We also went to Surf City a few days and
recorded a song in the recording studio they have there. Okay,
it costs twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, so shown on.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
My sisters and I all put some money in for it.
It was fun and you could also make a video
which turned out really good. I would have loved to
have done that.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Can I can I give you a bit of insight rockstar? Yeah,
no one ever wanted to see it or listen to you.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
No, but you felt like a rock star. I'm sure
just for those few minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, because you're paying someone else a whole lot of
money to make you feel like you're doing that. That's
exactly rockstar you paid your Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, so I was a bit jelly of this. I
wish I could have gone on this holiday. Actually, that
would have been so cool. We went to the skating
rink one night, and we also skated on the roads
and footpaths until Shona and I almost got run over
by a truck while we were doing tandems, but instead
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of running into the truck, we ran straight into the gutter.
It was funny, though.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
The vehicular homicide terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I mean yeay.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
We made lots of friends at the place we stayed at.
We met a Lebanese family and they were the friendliest
people and they were so kind. There were two little
boy twins and they were gorgeous. We took some photos,
you'll have to see them. We met two other girls
and a surfey named Simon from Sandyton, who was also
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really nice, but he was a bit shy around all
of us girls. He invited me.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The surf from Sandington, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
He invited us to go out to play bingo with
him and his sister a few nights, but we weren't allowed. Ah,
we could go to bingo. Bingo's cool. Yeah, I think
I need to start going. Always was jealous of if
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I did go to bingo if or you know, the
the regulars who had their you know, their big dot
pens ye, and they'd sit there with their setup and
all their cards and all their big big dot paint
pens and get ready to bingo.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I wonder if like, is that a? Is that a thing?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Where do you get the pens from?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Is that a? Is that something you get from the
club or is that something?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Let me google that Bingo pens. Bingo markers mm hmmm,
can get them? Oh, you can get them at Woolworth's.
A six pack of Bingo markers at al Worst for
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nineteen ninety five. Okay, and like big w and stuff
as well.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Interesting bingo doorbers, doorbers Okay, yes.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Door.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I didn't know that you can you can adaub your
Bingo card legs eleven.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Doorbers. I hadn't heard that phrase.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I mean I've heard the word daub, so.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
What's yeah, make that into a verber and the own
or something.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Doorbar it's like dobbar, but it's such a doorba.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
But it's like what what noise do you make when
you feel out of adaub the there's got to be
a weird name for the Bingo card or something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Nope, adorb your card, a daub your mouse just sounding dirty?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Doors designed to starts with from.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
The all the reports of the nursing home. So it's
a fair amount of doorby happening.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Goodness.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
May actually, let's let's have what is h I thought
that's a that's a doorper. I want to know what
a doorberry is? What is a doorb Bingo? It's a
(33:44):
dabba apparently bingo doorbies. I know Bingo's doorbers. Yeah, okay,
I know it's bingo dodters dabbers or dobbers dab dabba doo.
Let's have a look what do you use? Well, here
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we go article Bingo doorbers. That's that's not a fun
facts about Bingo doorbs.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It must be an extensive article.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Beans were the original markers were meant to be the
original markets for bingo. It's possible to make your own.
Think before choosing your ink. There is indeed a standard
standard bingo ink.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Available, Standard Bingo Inc.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
However, it's not it's not the only option on the market.
When you're making your own. It's a safer option, but
there's nothing stopping you from getting creative and selecting your
own brighter color markers. It just says, just remember to
always choose ink product that is both non toxic and
non staining. For his reasons, I don't know if I
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want to read this bit bingo doorbers can be used
for more than just bingo. While their primary use in
casinos and bingo halls, doorbers have also experienced a rise
in popularity among the other than bingo players. Example, they
are sought after tools amongst teachers, crafters, and dya's kids
(35:22):
and teachers even love to use them when doing their
creative art projects. Oh okay, or using his head or
dyeing their hair different colors, dyeing your hair with the doors.
I want to know what's a bingo sheet called? What
is a bingo sheet?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Here you go. Bingo terminology. That's what we need to
get to. Let's see. Thank you from Lancaster. Bingo okay
so okay. Ade admission packet. An admission packet is the
minimum number of cards that must be purchased to take
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part in the game. Six to twelve cards usually compromise
the admission packet for every regular and sometimes special game.
The continent.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
No idea, there was a minimum yep.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
So there's Bingo ball. Bingo board is bingo border is
the display board, the event bingo event game means no,
that's different, Bingo machine. Bingo blackout, Oh, this is hardcore blackout.
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Blackout is a Bingo pattern where you must cover the
whole card to win. Usually fifty to sixty fifty or
fifty to sixty of the seventy five Bingo numbers have
to be called to cover the number.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
On the card that had to take a while.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
It would uh.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Blower, I kind of want to play.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
It's just called a card. That's disappointing.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's boring, okay.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Card minding device a card mining device is any mechanical, electronic,
or electro mechanical, or computerized device that interfaces with or
is connected to equipment used to conduct the game of bingo.
It allows the player to store, display, and mark the
bingo face card. Okay, it's it's very this this is
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all looking very.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Must be like when you sort of start getting heavily
into poker and start like collecting all your own gear.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, there's there's a thing called ups ups. It referred
to the minim number of sheets that are used to
make up il bingo book. For example, a six up
indicates that the book has six sheets of bingo paper.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'm going to daor your up.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And this is very weird. Wrap up. Wrap Up is
the name of the last game of the season, our session, sorry,
the session. So we're gonna have a wrap up, not
the last game. It's a wrap up.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I want to adoor be your blackout during the wrap up.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
This is just yep, no, no, this is I don't
want to go down to this. This is a rabbit hole.
That is.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Okay, next time you come to visit. Yeah, if it's
at all pull, let's cut a bingo. Yes, bingo, but
we're going to get some doorbers.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
And competitive bingo we rebels and bring our own doors.
They're non regulation doorbs. New steps, new steps, new steps.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I want to dance my own steps at the panpasy Fix.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I want to do my own cards, ma'am, don't spoil
my ups. I got to do it before the last
call or whatever. I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Feel like I like it. I've just learned so much
about the bingo world.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, more than we really needed to know, more than.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
We'll ever use, except if we start going.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
To If we start going to bingo, yes, I wonder
if mama.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, well yeah, well we'll bring you mam along, yeah,
to ask you if she's see she's got the hook
up on a bingo game. Got big gas happening around.
We have those black market packed black bingo markets, but
it's a thousand dollar no cops.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Blackout only, alright. So then Naomi goes on to say
we are going to write to all the people we
met because they were also nice. Most of them were
from Sanderton. We got invited out to a nightclub for
teenagers on the Friday night, so we all went in
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a big group.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
The way everyone danced was unreal. They all danced like
Bobby Brown and mc hammer, and a lot of them
are black and they wear really cool clothes Shonah and
I couldn't believe it. They play all house music non
stop with the video clip as well, and they have
a DJ as well. The music is so loud that
when you step outside you feel like you're deaf. So excellent.
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I wish they had something like that in Thornleigh.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, it's weird. That was the basic. The standard for
most of the nightclubs is just you go there and
they've got the DJ and the video kids playing up
on the wall and yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I guess yeah, for underages, it would be another world.
Oh this is so cool. I would have absolutely loved that.
I would have been trying to learn some of the
cool dance.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Moves and crack would have gone through the eighty four
guys for sure.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
For sure. We had so many late nights while we
were there because we just sat out on the balcony
talking and having fun. There was so much to do there.
Shona and I want to live there. It would be great.
Kim and Rachel got a pair of Kim's underpants and
drew fairies all over them and wrote Wonderpants on the
(42:01):
back and gave them to Shona for Christmas joke, because
she always says that I wear wonderpants. You should have
seen her face when she opened them. She screamed and
threw them. I think she was a little bit embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Okay, cool white undies.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I guess, so they took her undies or someone else's undies.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
No, it was a pair of Kim's undies. I'm guessing
that they were clean.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, yeah, Still they.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Made her a pair of wonderpants. Wonder pants.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
That's crazy. I'm going to give a pair of my
underwear to someone that.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, they were all pretty close and tight knit though,
so I don't think the idea was that Shoonah would
actually wear them.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
No, but still, like you're giving someone else someone else's sundies.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Well, don't forget that I gave away a pair of
my undies to show his brother.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, but like like I look, only you are a
pioneer of the only.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Fans, only.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Fans, wonder fans.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Let's let's not dig down that holl because you don't
know what he did with them.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
I don't want to know. Maybe he still has them.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
It's weird. He's got like a little shrine somewhere and
a little trophy cabinet and sitting in there high medically sealed,
and yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
He never washed the Vision Streetwear shirt again. Sometimes if
he snips really really deeply, he can still smell the
faint scent of sweet peas.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
And he's got a mannequin that he puts them on.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
And doesn't do anything to take it. That one step
foot doesn't.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Do any thing to the mannequin. I didn't say the
other type of doll. I said, he basically has a
he has a parasocial relationship with your undoing. I'm not
going to judge, No, not to yuck. Anyone's young, but yeah,
and you gave it to him, so.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
So yeah, how are your holidays going. I haven't seen
you for a long time. I haven't even seen you
with short hair. I'm guessing because I was sick, because
I wasn't going skating. I thought I would write you
a letter because I was bored. I was.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I found that statement not the compliment that a lot
of people think. It is the only thing to cure
my bottom is writing to you.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Yeah, I suppose I write this person a letter because
I don't have anything else better to do.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, not like I sat down and felt like he
nicating with you. It's like oh yeah, it'll stave off
the creeping boredom.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And yeah, yeah, just until hey, hey it's Saturday comes
on or something.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
I was just sitting in my room and listening to
some music and I wrote in my diary and then
I thought I would type you a letter, because you're
always writing me letters and I never write you any Yeah,
she owed me.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Getting payback.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Yeah. Are you looking forward to going back to school?
I'm not. Time's going too fast. The Naomi was going
into grade twelve that.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Year, so it's easy to ignore the creeping thing of
time until it sort of sits right on your chest
and goes Yeah, deal with.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
It, father time, creeping death, grim reaper just around the corner.
This is really happy, happy podcast.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
It's reflective.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Yes, oh yeah, Happy New Year. I can't think of
anything else to type. Say hello to Mike, Clint, your
mum and dad and all of your pets for me. Okay,
Rachel and Kim said hi to you. Bye. Lots of
love your friend Naomi.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
It's a nice letter. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
And I remember too that this letter was typed on
paper that I had made for her.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Using that computer program I mentioned in the last you
could make letterhead, so I made personalized I think I
might have made you know what. I think that might
have been the present she was talking about. She said,
thank you for the Christmas present. May I sure you
have been that The paper she was writing on was
(47:05):
the present. It said said letter from Naomi or something
on the top anyway, with a little picture.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
That's cool. That's a very thoughtful gift.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
That is the end of season what.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
So are you happy with how it's gone so far?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
I am, what I think, pretty big leap in age
and probably maturity between first episode and last episode, because
we've spanned what nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety mm,
(47:47):
so good three years. But you know, I started as
an eleven year old girl and now I'm fourteen year
old teenager.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Many diaries, many many lost stories.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, there will be I think I think
there will be pure diaries mm hmm. But they will
be more involved, as in, like.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
More detailed entries in Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah, more detailed entries, more interesting things to write about
rather than just writing stuff for the sake of filling
in pages, okay in a diary.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, so becomes more journal than a diary.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yeah, I think so. Okay, I'm pretty sure I still
write Dear Diary a lot of the time. But if
you remember, I used to try and like beat my
record of pages yep, just for the sake of writing
lots of pages. So yeah, a lot less of that.
So it makes it a little bit more interesting because
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of writing about actual things that are happening.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Well, I thank I wanted to say thank you for
trusting me for reading them to me. I have enjoyed
this and I know so much more about you. But
it's this whole thing was a very brave exercise by you,
and thank you for trusting me to help you through it.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
You're welcome, and thank you to everybody who has listened
so far. Yes, please keep listening.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Hello to everyone who found it in our future episodes
and have now come back to start listening from the front.
Hello again, we see you.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
To Hello, a little shout out to I'm going to
shout out to Dawn and to Teresa, and to Jeanette
and and Canvas. Okay, a few of our our regular listeners.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Nice, very nice. Well Hello, Hi, Hello, Hi. Well, we'll
have to do some more things on the We've got
to do a video episode once, but somehow be able
to you know what, I've been looking at the tubers.
So the tubers a I don't know if you've ever
(50:29):
seen it, like a twitch on the twitch streams.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah, yeah, but the.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Streamer will be a animated cartoon. What they do is
it takes it sort of it sees your body and
it takes us scanning of your body and when you
are talking, it's sort of like a motion capture thing.
So you can actually select your character and it will
(50:53):
project that character onto the screen.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah, So if you had photos of all these previous
guys you're talking about, I could be that role and
you'd be like, oh, here's this guy. Or we'll have
the same model and I just put on different hats
for everyone, although sounding a couple of these guys sound
(51:18):
like it'd be just a series of for.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Doras, Yeah, with wanker on the top.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
But yeah, no, we if we want to ever do
a live thing or a video thing, we could do fetubing.
There's a there's a word for the avatar that they
specific avatars they use, but that.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Could be heaves are fun. I was just trying to
think of what hat Kent would wear he'd have to
wear a swimming cap. Yeah, mate, can.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Just he Yeah, I feel bad and he works a
bunning so oh.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Mate camp with a bunning swimming cap.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah, just get the avatar is just kent sitting in
a kid's pool from Bunnings, just sitting there, going and
little breaking hearts over his head.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Can you buy pool chemicals at Bunnings?
Speaker 1 (52:11):
I believe so. Yes.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
He probably spends his weekends getting the perfect balance of
chemicals in his pool that he's bought with his staff discount.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Now because he hasn't got over you. He puts it
so lots of chlory in it, so he's got it
just enough that he hops in its stings but doesn't
hurt him, Just to give himself a break from the
pain of you never coming over and swimming pool.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
It's that's anything else we need to do. No, go
to Bunnings, see if we can find can't. Yeah, And
then maybe I'll have a chat with him and ask
him if he has Yeah, if I come.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
And have swim if he doesn't recognize you, just come
up to him and go do you know who the
pool chemicals are? And see his little heartbreak.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Like maybe maybe one day old, grant him his dying
wish and go for a swim with him.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Oh mate, I'm having a pool party. Just want to
know you know where any of the stuff is for
the pools. All go in wearing a pool shop T
shirt like blue Haven Pools or something like that.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
Hey, blue Haven Pools. If you're still listening, you want
to sponsor.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Us and basically go like what happened to you? I
was going to come over to your place for a
pool but I missed out, and you can do that
thing where hang on, I thought you weren't coming. Hang On,
I thought you didn't invite me, and you have this
sort of back and forward about the about the tragedy
that is the pool.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Maybe we can remake sliding doors, yes, but it's like
I don't know, sliding poolgates or something.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
Oh Kent's pool party nineteen ninety eight in the back,
I didn't attend a do it up like a concert
T shirt, Oh poor Kent. I didn't go to Kent's.
I didn't go to Kent's pool party. At all I
(54:18):
got was the shirts, this lousy T shirt, or say,
I did go to Kent's pool party, and all I
got was this like this T shirt, even though you did.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
I did go to Kent's pool party, and thankfully all
I got was this lousy T shirt.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yes, poor Kent, but he will remain. He remain the
hero of this season.
Speaker 3 (54:39):
All right. So yeah, next time you come up, watch
Brats go to Bunnings, see if we can find Kent.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
Do we go to Bunnings before? Well, we go to
Buddings before Beingo, so we can have a.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Sausage Bunnings Bingo and Brats.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
Yes, we need to somehow rename nugget with.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
A beeg Buggets.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
No, let's not go there because it sounds very something
very close to you know.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
What would be fun is if we go to Bunnings
and we record ourselves like audio only looking for Canton Bunnings.
Speaker 1 (55:22):
Yeah, but then you get into the situation where we
see him and do we talk to him? And do
we have to? Why are you recording? We're doing it
for a podcast. What's the podcast about? We can't tell you, so, madam,
would you please leave?
Speaker 3 (55:40):
It's buck chlorine, Yes.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
The chlorine and how it stings. Life is like a
bottle of chlorine. Too much of it and it stings.
Speaker 3 (55:50):
Would you mind if we record your instructions for keeping
our pool chemicals at the right level, so we don't forget.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
My teenage Sean is planning to have a pool party.
What would you recommend in how to treat the pool?
Speaker 3 (56:03):
He's going to invite a girl? Yes, do you have
any experience with that?
Speaker 1 (56:10):
We just got up this morning and my son had
a girl over in the pool last night. What do
we do to treat it? Can you tell us? Do
you know anything about that? And to see the single
tear roll down his face onto his bunning shirt.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
The solemn piano music starting in the background.
Speaker 1 (56:27):
And I'll have that on my phone too, so like
the sad isn't the sad one? Walking away Hulk music? Yes,
pork we love?
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Yes we do.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
All right, Well, that is the end of season one.
We will start season two next time.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
Is there anything I need to prepare myself for in
terms of research or anything? We go straight into it. Yep,
all right, sounds good. Okay, And we're getting back onto
a regular records situation, so these will be coming out
more regularly.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
So because no more spanners are going to be thrown
in our works. It's not allowed.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
No more misguided Chlorine Beckets, Yes, all right, bestI, Well,
thank you for today, and thank you for this season,
and thank you everyone for listening. Instagram is than.
Speaker 3 (57:33):
You at Diary of my Bestie.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
Come and see all the extra things we put up there.
And with that, at the end of season one, we
will see you all next season. Love you, Bestie, Love you,
Bye bye
I've known my bestie for fifteen years now, but what
was she like before I met her? Welcome to Diary
of my Bestie, where she reads to meet her childhood.
Diaries or names and identifying places have been changed to
protect the innocent and the guilty. We're also staying anonymous,
so if you think you know us, no you don't.
Welcome back to Dire of My Bestie.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello, bestI, Hello Bestie.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
How are you going?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I am great.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Welcome to the season finale of season one.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, it's a special episode.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yes, so I'm very excited to hear what's happening. I
have no idea what's happening, so, oh you don't, and
you know how much I love that. Yep, he says sarcastically.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
So these are not diary entries, but they are an
assortment of writings either at me, by me, or addressed
to me. Okay, all right, yeap, from the period of
time of the first diary that we started with yep,
(01:14):
up to the end of where we just finished.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, I understand, yeap.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And some of them have been referenced in past episodes
and entries, so I'll let you know about that when
it happens.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
All right, So first of all, we have some comments
from my end of year report card in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So this was at the time of my very very
first diary because it was near the end of the
school year when I started that, so this would have
been around that time. For language, arts and reading, Bestie
has continued to work hard all year and achieve excellent results.
(02:04):
She has a fine attitude and she should be proud
of what she has achieved. All Right, well done social studies,
very thoughtful, well presented bookwork and project work.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I remember the projects that I had to do for
Social studies. One was on bullch rangers and the other
one had to do with what your future career, what
you were thinking your future career might be. Okay, I
was very good at this because that. Yeah. Bestie also
(02:42):
contributes well to group discussions, yause I've got a big
mouth and always have an opinion, maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
To say, yeah, you're very good at it.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Science and health education all ways, an interested student participates
well in all activities. Okay, mathematics, Bestie is progressing well
in all aspects of mathematics. Her problem solving techniques are
(03:17):
especially pleasing.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Doesn't say she gets the right answer, but she has interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, recreational and cultural activities. Showing more confidence in art
and craft activities. Bestie has enjoyed media activities, especially those
involving the use of the video camera. She is now
much more willing to participate in physical activities.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
In other words, I hated sport.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, well a lot of us did.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, but yeah, my attitude towards it definitely improved. General comments,
Bestie has achieved excellent results. She is to be congratulated.
Well done.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Go me. Now we have a year eight English poetry assignment.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
This is from nineteen eighty nine. The poem is called.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Heartbreak Okay on brand.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah. So the instructions for this poem were that we
had to make sure that we involved all the senses.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Okay in the palm okay.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Heartbreak is black, the color of loneliness. It tastes like
salty tears, and smells like dank, musty air. Looks like
your poor dog dying.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
My cave.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
It sounds like nothing quiet. It is an agony inside
that slowly tears your soul to pieces deep, very deep. Okay, Now,
(05:32):
we're skipping to nineteen ninety mm and this was my
English journal. So we had to keep a journal, I
think for an entire semester. It could be personal, or
you could just write opinion pieces, or you could be creative,
whatever you wanted, as long as you regularly wrote in
(05:53):
this journal. Okay. So this was my journal from the
tenth of February nineteen ninety and the title of this
is love question mark. Okay, Okay, put this scene into
your mind. A teenage girl and guy lying on the
(06:18):
beach under Starlit skies the waves, gently rolling in and
crashing on the shore. The guy turns to the girl
and tells her he loves her. She says the same back.
The next day at school, she rushes around telling everybody
how much in love with the guy she is. They
(06:40):
are really happy for her, and she can't wait for
their next date. She rings him on Friday and his
mother tells her that he's out with a girl. So
what does she do? The next Monday at school, she
goes around telling everybody what a creepy is and she
(07:01):
didn't know how she could have loved him. But the
truth is she never loved him in the first place,
nor did he love her. It was just an infatuation. Okay, most,
not all, but most teenage romances are just in fact infatuations,
(07:29):
except mine, I guess, because you know mine would definitely love.
What happens is that the guy or the girl gets
so hooked up in the other person that they follow
him or her around and always watch over while that
other person gets smothered and calls it quits. Instead of
(07:51):
getting that infatuated with the other person, you should keep
a clear mind and think about what love is really about.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's very deep. It's not just.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Following the other person around. It's doing things to show
the other person you really care. Love isn't just a word.
It's also a feeling and an action. So next time
you're about to tell your boyfriend or girlfriend you love them,
think it over.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Very deep. Oh good.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't actually apply this to my own life though.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No, but that's part of the course. With most people.
It's like do what I say, not that what I do?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, exactly. So. Also in my English journal from the
twenty seventh of March nineteen ninety and this is titled
guys Okay, okay, Well, I know I've written plenty of
(09:00):
entries already, but I just had to write about this.
Guys play a pretty important part in a girl's life.
Wouldn't it be boring if there were no such thing
as guys?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What would happen if some disease went through the guys
and killed them all off? Could you survive in a
world without guys? I know I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
All these hot takes.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Guys a good company. I'd prefer to be around guys
than girls, depending if the guys are total jerks.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Or not girls are slags, yeah, moles.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Just think if it wasn't for guys, you wouldn't be
here today, would you?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Very deep?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, So guys give you something to watch, somewhere to go,
and something to do, and certain guys well dot dot dot.
I think I'll just leave it there.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Oh saucy, but okay, very saucy.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Very saucy.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Something to my English.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Don't know what my teacher thought of.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That, probably gone, okay, now is best to you again?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, we need to get this, We need to get
this girl laid.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
My English teacher was single too, mm hmm. Interesting. All right,
now we're going to skip back to nineteen eighty nine.
So my first year of high school and just a
few bits and pieces from my report cards, you'll probably
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notice a little bit of a a patent starting to emerge.
So the first one English B Bestie is a pleasure
to teach, German B Geography ninety four percent an excellent
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student who has produced the same standard of work. Mathematics
B Science seventy two percent. B plus bestie is a
pleasant student who tries at all times music A, health
and pe B Home Economics B Graphics.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
C M.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Solid B student.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I think.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I had written about how much I had a graphics
because I always wanted to use the wrong type of pencil,
because I didn't like the lines on the pencil we
were supposed to draw. I didn't like it. Probably wasn't
good at it either.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know, that's a whole that's a whole different story.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah. So then we have sort of the media report card,
and I've got a bit of a mixed bag here.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
English B writes maturely for her year level with a
marked absence of errors. German C can improve with effort.
History C. We've dropped a little bit here. It's probably
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all the boys. Geography A plus an enthusiastic and involved student.
Mathematics B minus best he is a tidy, organized student.
Science A willing worker who displays an active interest in
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this subject. Art B that surprises me B for art,
it's probably the theory got me over the line there, yep.
Music A minus. Practical skills are of a high standard,
continually improving. Health and PEC progress is satisfactory. Not good,
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just satisfactory. Home Economics A minus displays a high degree
of motivation and self discipline in her approach to work.
That's because it was cooking. That's a stuff, and not sewing.
You remember my story of the our our project for sewing. Yeah,
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and manual arts. Practical skills are generally of a satisfactory standard.
So that's pretty average. And then we go on to
the end of year report card. English B A good
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student who works hard. French A exhibits a positive attitude
to work and others. History A A mature approach to
classwork and homework. Geography B plus. Assignments are of a
high standard. Mathematics B plus a diligent and cooperative student
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who is a pleasure to teach. Science A plus an
excellent and ability to apply scientific concepts has shown art
B she needs to further explore and extend design ideas.
Music A Bestie is a keen, pleasant, cooperative student, always
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working well in class, health and pe C plus. Her
theory work is good, However, practical units need greater application.
Home Economics B minus. So we've gone from an A
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to a B minus. She shows proficiency in practical skills
and manual arts B minus. Bestie has produced adequate results
but could make a greater effort.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's a C. That's a C mark. That's not a B.
That's not a common for a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, So you can kind of see here that when
it's it's a subject that I'm really interested in, I
do really well. But if it's something that I really
don't like, it's like I can't be bothered trying. Yeah,
what's the point? All right? And then we have a
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report from the middle of the year in nineteen ninety.
An interesting thing here is mathematics is a C plus.
It says she works steadily in class but finds parts
of the course difficult. Yeah, and that if it was
really me with most maths for the rest of my life,
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it's like I will always worked at it. But didn't
always get the results because I found it hard.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
That's what she said.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Ha ha ha. All right, now I'm going to refer
back to episode twenty two. You don't have to remember that,
but for people who are listening, they might want to,
you know, go back a few episodes and re listen
to this bit. But it was that time when Debra
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and I kind of had a bit of a beef,
bit of beef with Natasha. And what I had written
in my diary was Deborah reckons I like Kevin Sampson.
I was flirting with him during a performance today. Natasha
got so jealous because she likes him. And speaking of Natasha,
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she wrote me this stupid letter and signed it Nike.
Can you believe it? Here is that letter that she
wrote me, the stupid letter which was signed like you
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I am?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
All right? This is what Natasha was like and why
we sometimes found it fine and why we sometimes found
it difficult to like her. Okay, Nike just happens to
be a nickname. And if you think that's really dumb,
well then that's your problem and not mine. So I
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don't want to hear about it. At least I have
a nickname. Yes, I do like Deborah, and what's that
to you? Anyway? I don't think that I can ever
trust you again after what you did. Then I'm not
going to be best friends with you or hang around
you ever again, because you only go from me to
her when you get sick of one of us.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Okay, she's a bitch, isn't she. It's it's it's it's
the context of years. It's a reasonable letter.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
But at the time, yeah, yeah, what gave you the
idea that I liked Kevin? Anyway, there's nothing wrong with
being friends with the guy. You always seem to think
that I have a crush on a guy when I don't.
That's why I don't ever tell you who I like,
and don't think that just because you have a crush
on a different guy every week and I don't, doesn't
mean that I don't have crushes. She called you out, Yeah,
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but she's like, I don't have crushes, I do have crushes.
I don't have crushes, but I do have crushes.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Is she saying it's not a part of her personality?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah? Probably. No. I haven't done my drama diary yet,
but I do plan to do it because I don't
plan to fail, obviously asked her about homework. I'm going
to Sandyton on the holidays. But if you listened when
I talked, you'd probably know that by now, Hush, I'm
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going to be flat out because I have to babysit
for the first week, then in the second I'm going
to Sanderton, so I won't have any spare time.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Better go, now, Nike, really leaning into that, Nike.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
PS, I don't think it's very nice of you to
call Kevin dick Flasher. I thought you weren't like that.
That was the nickname that we had for him because
he flashed his doodle at.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Somebody, okay, and he did, yes, yes, so.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
We started calling him dick flasher. Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's some solid nickname work there.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He didn't mind it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Maybe she had a problem with it because she really
did like him and didn't want to be known for
liking the dick flasher.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
If he's dick Flasher, what does that make her.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Dick watch her Dick Luker. I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I have no idea what that sort of thing. It's like, yeah,
it's a weird one. This is like, yeah, I dick flasher.
No there was something that it's gone, it's gone, you
got nothing?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No no, oh, well, so yeah, that's that kind of
sums up Natasha's personality at that time in one letter.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Okay, yeah, that's not great on her part, but that's
what she chose to me.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yep, that's why we often found her difficult to be around. Yeah.
Now we have a letter from Matthew Brady, as mentioned
in episode twenty five. He is the guy who wrote
me the.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, yep, the love.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Palm, and this is the letter that accompanied that poem. Okay, okay,
so yeah, he wrote me a letter and then the
poem was in the letter.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mm hmm, this is it.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I hope you're feeling much better. I really missed having
you around at school lately and at church too. It's
hard to see you feeling down and not enjoying life
to the max. So I hope you pick up really soon.
I'm still getting over what you said about Paul. You
had me really worried and praying like crazy. I think
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I had said that I wanted to sleep with Paul
or I had slept with Paul, but I was only
joking for Landsfield. Yeah, I hope it never does happen,
not before you're married anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, so very much a wait till marriage type of
dude sounds like.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, yep. Anyway, Exam time is raising its ugly head
once more. Time for heads down, tails up. I should
do pretty well. We should study together.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So he wants to bang it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I hope you can make it to youth group Friday night.
It's hypothetical night followed by a Bible study. Is Deborah coming?
I asked Chad what he thought of youth group. He
reckons we pray too much. I didn't think it was
possible to pray too much. Anyway, I'll see if he
wants to come along. I hope you liked the poem.
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It was the best I could do at this time
of night. I'm afraid I'm not William Shakespeare.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm sorry. Considering the contents of this letter, I think
he's actually piqued with the Really, if I.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Was, i'd write you a play or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
He's really he's putting in the hard yards to get
a crack at you.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Love from Matthew.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, ah, it's just like, yeah, it's I appreciate the
unique sort of don't talk shit about youth group. Smacks
in there like, yeah, we're cool, We're part of youth.
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Don't talk bad about youth group. We know what we're doing.
So yeah, trying to get you on each side. You're like, yeah,
if I slag off those people saying off youth group,
she'll really love me.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Work, Well, he shoty shot, We'll see how we go.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
He did shooty shot, poor Matthew.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So then I have my school report from December nineteen ninety,
which said that I had because I had been sick
so much. Remember yep, days days absent that semester fifty nine. Okay, yeah,
so I missed a fair bit of school, but despite that,
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I ended up with a's for English and speech and drama. Okay,
I had b's for Citizenship education Science, a B plus
for music, and a B minus for history, and my
worst mark was a C in maths. Even with all
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that missed school, A few of them said frequent absences
have affected her progress and performance in this subject, So
I think probably would have been close to getting all
a's if I hadn't missed so much school. Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
So not saying that you didn't earn it but I
wonder if any of that has sort of they've given you,
they've graded you a little bit easier because you have
been away so far, so long.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
I still was doing like working during school, work at
home and doing my assignments. I just couldn't do my
actual exams. Okay, So they graded all my assignments and
then averaged out those for my final result. Okay, so
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I think I did pretty good considering.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, I'll pay that so yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
So yeah. The final thing we have is a letter
from Naomi Kendall, who is my friend. If you remember,
she has two sisters, Rachel and Kim, Yes, and they're
all friends with Shooner. Okay, yeah, so this is a
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letter that she wrote me in January nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
So this is really we're just about to start get
into this part of the diaries.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, So this doesn't give away anything from
the diaries, but it does give you a good idea
of the kind of people, not people, but.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Situation.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
There's a lot of yeah, there's a lot of oh,
you get a bit of an idea of what those
people will like that I hung out with, and there's
a little bit of Aussie culture okay in the early nineties,
which kind of puts a little bit of a not perspective.
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What's the word I'm thinking context? Yeah, context, and gives
you an idea of where things were at I guess
early in nineteen ninety one. Okay, okay, So she says, Hi,
how are you? I'm fine. Thanks a lot for the
Christmas present and card. It was lovely. We had a
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great holiday at South Beach. It was the best holiday
we've ever had. We swam in the pool most of
the time at the units, and one night we had
a pool party with the friends we made there. We
went to the beach a couple of times and surfed
on the waves, but there were lots of jellyfish yuck.
I stood on one when we were walking along the beach.
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It was gross. We did a lot of shopping too,
because there are a lot of different things than in Thornleigh.
We also went to Surf City a few days and
recorded a song in the recording studio they have there. Okay,
it costs twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, so shown on.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
My sisters and I all put some money in for it.
It was fun and you could also make a video
which turned out really good. I would have loved to
have done that.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Can I can I give you a bit of insight rockstar? Yeah,
no one ever wanted to see it or listen to you.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
No, but you felt like a rock star. I'm sure
just for those few minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, because you're paying someone else a whole lot of
money to make you feel like you're doing that. That's
exactly rockstar you paid your Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, so I was a bit jelly of this. I
wish I could have gone on this holiday. Actually, that
would have been so cool. We went to the skating
rink one night, and we also skated on the roads
and footpaths until Shona and I almost got run over
by a truck while we were doing tandems, but instead
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of running into the truck, we ran straight into the gutter.
It was funny, though.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
The vehicular homicide terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I mean yeay.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
We made lots of friends at the place we stayed at.
We met a Lebanese family and they were the friendliest
people and they were so kind. There were two little
boy twins and they were gorgeous. We took some photos,
you'll have to see them. We met two other girls
and a surfey named Simon from Sandyton, who was also
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really nice, but he was a bit shy around all
of us girls. He invited me.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
The surf from Sandington, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
He invited us to go out to play bingo with
him and his sister a few nights, but we weren't allowed. Ah,
we could go to bingo. Bingo's cool. Yeah, I think
I need to start going. Always was jealous of if
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I did go to bingo if or you know, the
the regulars who had their you know, their big dot
pens ye, and they'd sit there with their setup and
all their cards and all their big big dot paint
pens and get ready to bingo.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I wonder if like, is that a? Is that a thing?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Where do you get the pens from?
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Like?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Is that a? Is that something you get from the
club or is that something?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Let me google that Bingo pens. Bingo markers mm hmmm,
can get them? Oh, you can get them at Woolworth's.
A six pack of Bingo markers at al Worst for
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nineteen ninety five. Okay, and like big w and stuff
as well.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Interesting bingo doorbers, doorbers Okay, yes.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Door.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
I didn't know that you can you can adaub your
Bingo card legs eleven.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Doorbers. I hadn't heard that phrase.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I mean I've heard the word daub, so.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
What's yeah, make that into a verber and the own
or something.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Doorbar it's like dobbar, but it's such a doorba.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
But it's like what what noise do you make when
you feel out of adaub the there's got to be
a weird name for the Bingo card or something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Nope, adorb your card, a daub your mouse just sounding dirty?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Doors designed to starts with from.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
The all the reports of the nursing home. So it's
a fair amount of doorby happening.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Goodness.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
May actually, let's let's have what is h I thought
that's a that's a doorper. I want to know what
a doorberry is? What is a doorb Bingo? It's a
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dabba apparently bingo doorbies. I know Bingo's doorbers. Yeah, okay,
I know it's bingo dodters dabbers or dobbers dab dabba doo.
Let's have a look what do you use? Well, here
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we go article Bingo doorbers. That's that's not a fun
facts about Bingo doorbs.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It must be an extensive article.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Beans were the original markers were meant to be the
original markets for bingo. It's possible to make your own.
Think before choosing your ink. There is indeed a standard
standard bingo ink.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Available, Standard Bingo Inc.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
However, it's not it's not the only option on the market.
When you're making your own. It's a safer option, but
there's nothing stopping you from getting creative and selecting your
own brighter color markers. It just says, just remember to
always choose ink product that is both non toxic and
non staining. For his reasons, I don't know if I
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want to read this bit bingo doorbers can be used
for more than just bingo. While their primary use in
casinos and bingo halls, doorbers have also experienced a rise
in popularity among the other than bingo players. Example, they
are sought after tools amongst teachers, crafters, and dya's kids
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and teachers even love to use them when doing their
creative art projects. Oh okay, or using his head or
dyeing their hair different colors, dyeing your hair with the doors.
I want to know what's a bingo sheet called? What
is a bingo sheet?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Here you go. Bingo terminology. That's what we need to
get to. Let's see. Thank you from Lancaster. Bingo okay
so okay. Ade admission packet. An admission packet is the
minimum number of cards that must be purchased to take
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part in the game. Six to twelve cards usually compromise
the admission packet for every regular and sometimes special game.
The continent.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
No idea, there was a minimum yep.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
So there's Bingo ball. Bingo board is bingo border is
the display board, the event bingo event game means no,
that's different, Bingo machine. Bingo blackout, Oh, this is hardcore blackout.
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Blackout is a Bingo pattern where you must cover the
whole card to win. Usually fifty to sixty fifty or
fifty to sixty of the seventy five Bingo numbers have
to be called to cover the number.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
On the card that had to take a while.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
It would uh.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Blower, I kind of want to play.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
It's just called a card. That's disappointing.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That's boring, okay.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Card minding device a card mining device is any mechanical, electronic,
or electro mechanical, or computerized device that interfaces with or
is connected to equipment used to conduct the game of bingo.
It allows the player to store, display, and mark the
bingo face card. Okay, it's it's very this this is
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all looking very.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Must be like when you sort of start getting heavily
into poker and start like collecting all your own gear.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, there's there's a thing called ups ups. It referred
to the minim number of sheets that are used to
make up il bingo book. For example, a six up
indicates that the book has six sheets of bingo paper.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I'm going to daor your up.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
And this is very weird. Wrap up. Wrap Up is
the name of the last game of the season, our session, sorry,
the session. So we're gonna have a wrap up, not
the last game. It's a wrap up.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
I want to adoor be your blackout during the wrap up.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
This is just yep, no, no, this is I don't
want to go down to this. This is a rabbit hole.
That is.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Okay, next time you come to visit. Yeah, if it's
at all pull, let's cut a bingo. Yes, bingo, but
we're going to get some doorbers.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
And competitive bingo we rebels and bring our own doors.
They're non regulation doorbs. New steps, new steps, new steps.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I want to dance my own steps at the panpasy Fix.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
I want to do my own cards, ma'am, don't spoil
my ups. I got to do it before the last
call or whatever. I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Feel like I like it. I've just learned so much
about the bingo world.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, more than we really needed to know, more than.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
We'll ever use, except if we start going.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
To If we start going to bingo, yes, I wonder
if mama.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Okay, well yeah, well we'll bring you mam along, yeah,
to ask you if she's see she's got the hook
up on a bingo game. Got big gas happening around.
We have those black market packed black bingo markets, but
it's a thousand dollar no cops.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Blackout only, alright. So then Naomi goes on to say
we are going to write to all the people we
met because they were also nice. Most of them were
from Sanderton. We got invited out to a nightclub for
teenagers on the Friday night, so we all went in
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a big group.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
The way everyone danced was unreal. They all danced like
Bobby Brown and mc hammer, and a lot of them
are black and they wear really cool clothes Shonah and
I couldn't believe it. They play all house music non
stop with the video clip as well, and they have
a DJ as well. The music is so loud that
when you step outside you feel like you're deaf. So excellent.
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I wish they had something like that in Thornleigh.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, it's weird. That was the basic. The standard for
most of the nightclubs is just you go there and
they've got the DJ and the video kids playing up
on the wall and yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
I guess yeah, for underages, it would be another world.
Oh this is so cool. I would have absolutely loved that.
I would have been trying to learn some of the
cool dance.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
Moves and crack would have gone through the eighty four
guys for sure.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
For sure. We had so many late nights while we
were there because we just sat out on the balcony
talking and having fun. There was so much to do there.
Shona and I want to live there. It would be great.
Kim and Rachel got a pair of Kim's underpants and
drew fairies all over them and wrote Wonderpants on the
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back and gave them to Shona for Christmas joke, because
she always says that I wear wonderpants. You should have
seen her face when she opened them. She screamed and
threw them. I think she was a little bit embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Okay, cool white undies.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
I guess, so they took her undies or someone else's undies.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
No, it was a pair of Kim's undies. I'm guessing
that they were clean.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, yeah, Still they.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Made her a pair of wonderpants. Wonder pants.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
That's crazy. I'm going to give a pair of my
underwear to someone that.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, they were all pretty close and tight knit though,
so I don't think the idea was that Shoonah would
actually wear them.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
No, but still, like you're giving someone else someone else's sundies.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Well, don't forget that I gave away a pair of
my undies to show his brother.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, but like like I look, only you are a
pioneer of the only.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Fans, only.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Fans, wonder fans.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Let's let's not dig down that holl because you don't
know what he did with them.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
I don't want to know. Maybe he still has them.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
It's weird. He's got like a little shrine somewhere and
a little trophy cabinet and sitting in there high medically sealed,
and yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
He never washed the Vision Streetwear shirt again. Sometimes if
he snips really really deeply, he can still smell the
faint scent of sweet peas.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
And he's got a mannequin that he puts them on.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
And doesn't do anything to take it. That one step
foot doesn't.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Do any thing to the mannequin. I didn't say the
other type of doll. I said, he basically has a
he has a parasocial relationship with your undoing. I'm not
going to judge, No, not to yuck. Anyone's young, but yeah,
and you gave it to him, so.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
So yeah, how are your holidays going. I haven't seen
you for a long time. I haven't even seen you
with short hair. I'm guessing because I was sick, because
I wasn't going skating. I thought I would write you
a letter because I was bored. I was.
Speaker 1 (44:44):
I found that statement not the compliment that a lot
of people think. It is the only thing to cure
my bottom is writing to you.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Yeah, I suppose I write this person a letter because
I don't have anything else better to do.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, not like I sat down and felt like he
nicating with you. It's like oh yeah, it'll stave off
the creeping boredom.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
And yeah, yeah, just until hey, hey it's Saturday comes
on or something.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
I was just sitting in my room and listening to
some music and I wrote in my diary and then
I thought I would type you a letter, because you're
always writing me letters and I never write you any Yeah,
she owed me.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Getting payback.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
Yeah. Are you looking forward to going back to school?
I'm not. Time's going too fast. The Naomi was going
into grade twelve that.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Year, so it's easy to ignore the creeping thing of
time until it sort of sits right on your chest
and goes Yeah, deal with.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
It, father time, creeping death, grim reaper just around the corner.
This is really happy, happy podcast.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
It's reflective.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Yes, oh yeah, Happy New Year. I can't think of
anything else to type. Say hello to Mike, Clint, your
mum and dad and all of your pets for me. Okay,
Rachel and Kim said hi to you. Bye. Lots of
love your friend Naomi.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
It's a nice letter. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:33):
And I remember too that this letter was typed on
paper that I had made for her.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Using that computer program I mentioned in the last you
could make letterhead, so I made personalized I think I
might have made you know what. I think that might
have been the present she was talking about. She said,
thank you for the Christmas present. May I sure you
have been that The paper she was writing on was
(47:05):
the present. It said said letter from Naomi or something
on the top anyway, with a little picture.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
That's cool. That's a very thoughtful gift.
Speaker 3 (47:17):
That is the end of season what.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
So are you happy with how it's gone so far?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
I am, what I think, pretty big leap in age
and probably maturity between first episode and last episode, because
we've spanned what nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety mm,
(47:47):
so good three years. But you know, I started as
an eleven year old girl and now I'm fourteen year
old teenager.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Many diaries, many many lost stories.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yeah, yeah, unfortunately, there will be I think I think
there will be pure diaries mm hmm. But they will
be more involved, as in, like.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
More detailed entries in Yeah.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah, more detailed entries, more interesting things to write about
rather than just writing stuff for the sake of filling
in pages, okay in a diary.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, so becomes more journal than a diary.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yeah, I think so. Okay, I'm pretty sure I still
write Dear Diary a lot of the time. But if
you remember, I used to try and like beat my
record of pages yep, just for the sake of writing
lots of pages. So yeah, a lot less of that.
So it makes it a little bit more interesting because
(49:03):
of writing about actual things that are happening.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Well, I thank I wanted to say thank you for
trusting me for reading them to me. I have enjoyed
this and I know so much more about you. But
it's this whole thing was a very brave exercise by you,
and thank you for trusting me to help you through it.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
You're welcome, and thank you to everybody who has listened
so far. Yes, please keep listening.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Hello to everyone who found it in our future episodes
and have now come back to start listening from the front.
Hello again, we see you.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
To Hello, a little shout out to I'm going to
shout out to Dawn and to Teresa, and to Jeanette
and and Canvas. Okay, a few of our our regular listeners.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Nice, very nice. Well Hello, Hi, Hello, Hi. Well, we'll
have to do some more things on the We've got
to do a video episode once, but somehow be able
to you know what, I've been looking at the tubers.
So the tubers a I don't know if you've ever
(50:29):
seen it, like a twitch on the twitch streams.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah, yeah, but the.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Streamer will be a animated cartoon. What they do is
it takes it sort of it sees your body and
it takes us scanning of your body and when you
are talking, it's sort of like a motion capture thing.
So you can actually select your character and it will
(50:53):
project that character onto the screen.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah, So if you had photos of all these previous
guys you're talking about, I could be that role and
you'd be like, oh, here's this guy. Or we'll have
the same model and I just put on different hats
for everyone, although sounding a couple of these guys sound
(51:18):
like it'd be just a series of for.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Doras, Yeah, with wanker on the top.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
But yeah, no, we if we want to ever do
a live thing or a video thing, we could do fetubing.
There's a there's a word for the avatar that they
specific avatars they use, but that.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Could be heaves are fun. I was just trying to
think of what hat Kent would wear he'd have to
wear a swimming cap. Yeah, mate, can.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Just he Yeah, I feel bad and he works a
bunning so oh.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Mate camp with a bunning swimming cap.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah, just get the avatar is just kent sitting in
a kid's pool from Bunnings, just sitting there, going and
little breaking hearts over his head.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Can you buy pool chemicals at Bunnings?
Speaker 1 (52:11):
I believe so. Yes.
Speaker 3 (52:13):
He probably spends his weekends getting the perfect balance of
chemicals in his pool that he's bought with his staff discount.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Now because he hasn't got over you. He puts it
so lots of chlory in it, so he's got it
just enough that he hops in its stings but doesn't
hurt him, Just to give himself a break from the
pain of you never coming over and swimming pool.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
It's that's anything else we need to do. No, go
to Bunnings, see if we can find can't. Yeah, And
then maybe I'll have a chat with him and ask
him if he has Yeah, if I come.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
And have swim if he doesn't recognize you, just come
up to him and go do you know who the
pool chemicals are? And see his little heartbreak.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Like maybe maybe one day old, grant him his dying
wish and go for a swim with him.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Oh mate, I'm having a pool party. Just want to
know you know where any of the stuff is for
the pools. All go in wearing a pool shop T
shirt like blue Haven Pools or something like that.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
Hey, blue Haven Pools. If you're still listening, you want
to sponsor.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
Us and basically go like what happened to you? I
was going to come over to your place for a
pool but I missed out, and you can do that
thing where hang on, I thought you weren't coming. Hang On,
I thought you didn't invite me, and you have this
sort of back and forward about the about the tragedy
that is the pool.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Maybe we can remake sliding doors, yes, but it's like
I don't know, sliding poolgates or something.
Speaker 1 (53:57):
Oh Kent's pool party nineteen ninety eight in the back,
I didn't attend a do it up like a concert
T shirt, Oh poor Kent. I didn't go to Kent's.
I didn't go to Kent's pool party. At all I
(54:18):
got was the shirts, this lousy T shirt, or say,
I did go to Kent's pool party, and all I
got was this like this T shirt, even though you did.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
I did go to Kent's pool party, and thankfully all
I got was this lousy T shirt.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
Yes, poor Kent, but he will remain. He remain the
hero of this season.
Speaker 3 (54:39):
All right. So yeah, next time you come up, watch
Brats go to Bunnings, see if we can find Kent.
Speaker 1 (54:49):
Do we go to Bunnings before? Well, we go to
Buddings before Beingo, so we can have a.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Sausage Bunnings Bingo and Brats.
Speaker 1 (54:56):
Yes, we need to somehow rename nugget with.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
A beeg Buggets.
Speaker 1 (55:04):
No, let's not go there because it sounds very something
very close to you know.
Speaker 3 (55:11):
What would be fun is if we go to Bunnings
and we record ourselves like audio only looking for Canton Bunnings.
Speaker 1 (55:22):
Yeah, but then you get into the situation where we
see him and do we talk to him? And do
we have to? Why are you recording? We're doing it
for a podcast. What's the podcast about? We can't tell you, so, madam,
would you please leave?
Speaker 3 (55:40):
It's buck chlorine, Yes.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
The chlorine and how it stings. Life is like a
bottle of chlorine. Too much of it and it stings.
Speaker 3 (55:50):
Would you mind if we record your instructions for keeping
our pool chemicals at the right level, so we don't forget.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
My teenage Sean is planning to have a pool party.
What would you recommend in how to treat the pool?
Speaker 3 (56:03):
He's going to invite a girl? Yes, do you have
any experience with that?
Speaker 1 (56:10):
We just got up this morning and my son had
a girl over in the pool last night. What do
we do to treat it? Can you tell us? Do
you know anything about that? And to see the single
tear roll down his face onto his bunning shirt.
Speaker 3 (56:24):
The solemn piano music starting in the background.
Speaker 1 (56:27):
And I'll have that on my phone too, so like
the sad isn't the sad one? Walking away Hulk music? Yes,
pork we love?
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Yes we do.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
All right, Well, that is the end of season one.
We will start season two next time.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
Is there anything I need to prepare myself for in
terms of research or anything? We go straight into it. Yep,
all right, sounds good. Okay, And we're getting back onto
a regular records situation, so these will be coming out
more regularly.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
So because no more spanners are going to be thrown
in our works. It's not allowed.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
No more misguided Chlorine Beckets, Yes, all right, bestI, Well,
thank you for today, and thank you for this season,
and thank you everyone for listening. Instagram is than.
Speaker 3 (57:33):
You at Diary of my Bestie.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
Come and see all the extra things we put up there.
And with that, at the end of season one, we
will see you all next season. Love you, Bestie, Love you,
Bye bye
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