July 9, 2024 • 68 mins
What has Bestie done to her hair?
Will she finally get a medical diagnosis?
And who is the new hot thing around town?
Listen in to find out.
And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!
Will she finally get a medical diagnosis?
And who is the new hot thing around town?
Listen in to find out.
And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!
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(00:01):
I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Direof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries or Names andidentifying places have been changed to protect the
innocent and the guilty. We're alsostaying anonymous, so if you think you
know us, no you don't.Welcome back to Dire of my Bestie.
Hello Bestie, Hello bestI I thinkI've worked out what trips me up on
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my little teleprompter script here, namesand memes sound extremely the same, so
my brain just goes, that's notmemes. Don't say memes, and I'm
like names, and then I fallover afterwards, the memes, the memes
and anemones. I know, Isay all the time, I'm going to
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have to rewrite it, but I'mgonna have to rewrite it. Then you
won't stumble over it and it won'tbe as funny. I know, good
call, it's it's your trademark.How are you going, I'm pretty good.
That's good, very good to hear. I've missed you all week,
so looking forward to talking to youagain. As always, very very silly,
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Yes, sitting in my messy roomas I am. So it's full
of things. So I have acat on my feet, I have nothing.
I've got socks on my feet.You'll be proud of me. That's
important. Winter colder. Oh,people at home can't see this, But
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I've got a new beanie to onesecond, this is my sleeping beany.
It's very fairy on top. Itis. I need to get rid of
it, but I don't know howto get rid of it without destroying the
beanie. Yes, the pomp.So it's just we've to an arrangement where
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I just have a pomp on onmy head and I look like just wears
Wally, but not as stylish.It kind of looks like what were those
things tribles? Yeah, do youremember those very things? It is a
little bit much though it's a triplebeanie, Yeah, a little tiny,
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Like if it was a tiny bitsmaller, I'd put up with it.
But it's just it's you can't avoidthis is it's almost half the size of
my head. It's just it's all. Had to take a picture of the
beanie, yes, and put iton the Instagram so everybody can see.
It's a little bit extra. Butthen so are you yeah, but not
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this way, not this way,quite that way. Let's get into it
because I'm excited to hear the nextentry in the diaries. So from last
episode, I'm still sick, yes, being sick with some kind of unknown
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affliction, missing lots of school,having lots of tests. It's not like
it's not like Jenny from Forrest Gumpsick. You don't know what it is?
Oh no, definitely not. Okay, I dumped Wade. Yes,
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my boyfriend and I had a boywrote me, write Me a pretty bad
poem in context of a fourteen yearold dude, though in context it was
probably pretty good effort, solid effort. How's the grammar, that's the that's
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the question. It was pretty good. Yeah, that the spelling for that
one word, though, you know, how do you get shining wrong?
Very easy, very easy. Assomeone I was so big on spelling that
somebody writing shinning, I was like, no, in fairness, is a
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fourteen year old dude taking a shot. He's he's Wayne Gretzkying take the shot,
and he's like, of all thethings he's got to worry about,
it's shinning and shining, and okay, yeah, maybe he does want to
shin you How tall is this person? Not that much taller than me?
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He probably gets shinned all the time. Maybe could you could you write a
new version of the Stephen King Horrorwith Jack Nicholas, and it's just people
who are extremely short, and it'scalled the Shinning the Shinning, and everyone's
it's just shot from the knees down, or people running into furniture in the
dark, exactly right. Rather thanrather than Johnny coming through the door,
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he basically kicks through the door andhe's got a little face written on his
shin. Go yere's Johnny's shin theShinning. We couldn't afford a Tripod productions.
Well, shall we find out ifthe poem worked? Yes? You
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know, you know I don't sothat. Yeah, do I want to
find it? Yeah? Yeah?Okay, Well, the first entry here
is undated, but I'm guessing it'sNovember, of course, everything else is
November. After it. I'm gettingmy hair all cut off on Saturday morning,
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if possible, something short, trendyand easy to care for. And
when my hair gets back to itsnatural color with all the red cut out,
I'm going to see if I likethe color and if I don't.
I'm dying it black, I think, okay, maybe blonde, but that
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won't be for a while. Ishould give my hair a break. I
have seen a photo of you blonde. Maybe I'll just get some more sun
in. It will be easier touse because my hair will be shorter.
Well, that's that lemon juice stuffwe talked about, isn't it. Yes,
that's really bad beer hair, verymuch so, and pretty much most
elsivir skin being a citric acid composition. So yes, exactly. Thursday,
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November eighth, nineteen ninety, wasthat it? You just basically I'm going
to chop my hair off. Thatwas an entry, ye okay, Yeah,
saw de Grassy. It was theone where wheels hitchhikes. Yesterday I
saw the Young and the Wrestler.Yes, and there was this guy Danny
who was a singer and guess whoplayed him. Uh, I've forgotten more
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about that than I remember Michael Damien, the guy who sang rock on in
Dream A Little Dream. Ah.Okay, I can see why you're interested
now, Yes, a little bitmore fuel for my dream A Little Dream
obsession. Saturday, November ten,nineteen ninety I had a hair appointment this
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morning, but I felt sick,so I canceled it. I can't eat
much without feeling sick. Today I'mgoing skating and Kim is staying over.
We have heaps of movies to watch. I'll get Kim to write. My
hair appointment is now for Wednesday afternoon. I changed my room around.
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It's excellent. There's heaps of floorspace, excellent for dancing. That's that's
extremely fourteen year old girl energy.Yep, so much more room for activities.
Yes, Cleo slept in her bedlast night. She's so cute,
so she had her own cat bed, but she usually slept on mine.
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Well, that's every pet ever.Yeah, so it's still your pets now,
Yes, yes, although my dognow she starts the night off in
her crate and then in the middleof the night, I hear this little
tip tap tip tap tip tap onthe floor, and then she jumps up
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on the bed and she squeezes underthe covers. M Is she starting her
night in her bed or her dayin her bed and starts her night when
she gets into your bed? Yeah, it could be. She usually puts
herself to bed when I brush myteeth because she's smart enough to have figured
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out that me brushing my teeth meansI'm going to bed. Yes, and
she goes and puts herself in acrate. Smart dog. She yes,
yes, she's good. So yeah, Cleo slept in her bed, which
was obviously very noteworthy because I wroteabout it in my Diary and your Hair.
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The guys did six hours of radiothis morning because the guy who was
supposed to be doing sorry, yourbrother did it. Yeah, my brother
and his friends. The guy whowas supposed to be doing the three am
to six am shift didn't turn up. Okay, all right, this is
UNI Radio. It's all volunteer andthey were doing a midnight to three am,
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so they did. They kept goingbecause they did. Okay, awesome,
rather than there be no radio.I guess. Now there's always a
question, who's well, I guessit is UNI UNI students. Who's listening
at three? Yeah? Yeah,probably it was like a community radio station,
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but it happened to be at theuniversity selling lots of Munchie themed merch.
Probably, I can't remember. Uhyeah. So that did six hours
of radio, and then Matthew camehere after This is poetry Matthew. Okay,
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by the inflection in your voice.I was like, okay, it's
either a new one or continuation.Oh it's yeah, it's poetry. Matthew
he is here now. So heis your brother's friend. Yeah, and
he's in migrade at school. Okay, So that raises more questions about your
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brother. They knew each other fromchurch church guys. Just checking because like
if your brother's friends with people inyour yeah you know what I mean.
Yeah, my brother was what's seventeenhere? Okay? Yeah, we were
fourteen close enough. So yeah,Matthew's at my house. I really hate
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him. Now. I'm sorry tosay, what's he done? Wrote me
a poem? I guess, okay, day okay, but yes, yes
it was a bit cringe. Buthe shot his shot. That's all I'm
going to say. Clint is gettinghis hair cut right this very minute.
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I hope the hairdressers sister's slip andcut a big chunk out, so we'll
have to get it all cut off. Ah, you're just mean. He
had kind of long issue, veryvery curly hair. So did you want
him actually to be punished and havea bad experience or was it just like
here, I hope they slip.I don't know, because there's been times
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when I've said that I absolutely hatehim, but then other times it seems
we're getting on fine. So Idon't know. It could be either,
Okay, all right, who knows? And now we have a conversation,
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like a written conversation with Kim whenshe's at my house. Yeah, came
stay over and you said you gethurt, right, Okay? Cool?
Me. First, here's a wordfrom the girl herself. Kim, Howdie,
I'm glad you invited me over tostay. We'll have so much fun.
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Naomi really really really likes Mike.Heaps and heaps. Okay. So
your brother's Kim's older sister. Okay, all right, yep, you're a
really good friend. I'm I'm justdrawing the mental map in my brain just
to work this all out. Soher older sister likes my older brother,
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Okay, all right, me,I thought she didn't like him anymore.
It's been so long since I lastheard about that. You're a really good
friend too, Thanks for coming over, Kim. I think Naomi wants to
give Mike a letter telling him howmuch she likes him. Me. I
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forget this, I don't think it. I forget this is the age of
letters. Yeah, me, Idon't think it will make a difference.
He's still going with Kimberly. Kim, I know, but anyway, that's
what That's why I'm confused, becauseit's Kim and Kimberly. That's what my
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brain isn't sinking up. Okay,Kim, I know, But anyway,
I am never going in couples withguy the Creep ever. Again, he's
a flirt, you know, theguy doesn't Can I just say, oh,
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I'm never going with the creep,the guy the Creep, because he's
a flirt that would be implied bythe dude's name you have for him.
It's like, I don't really wantto go with Jerry the serial killer.
He kind of gives me the hebe gbs when we talk about dinner.
I mean, you think, Okay, So yeah, guys, guys,
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the guy who I was considering goingout with not that long ago. Okay,
but yeah, he was the onewho was going out with Kim's friend
and trying to kiss Kim and hersisters at the same time. You know,
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my brain's just whistling out my eargoo. Yeah, okay, trying
to keep yeah, okay, tryto jog your memory, but also anybody
else's memory who's listening. I appreciatethat, and I'm like, I'm really
trying. But it's like you've hadall friends. You've had more friends in
the last year and a half thanI've had in my entire life. All
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right, so you knowing the namesof this many people, like, it's
like, Okay, I'm exhausted justlistening to it from like thirty years ago.
I'm sorry, that's right. So, yeah, guy the creep is
a flirt shock me. I kindof feel sorry for him. He must
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have some sort of mental problem.Going to get help for him? Are
you going to date him? No? Lost, You're going to be like
his name will keep popping up everynow and then, but not in any
romantic way. Okay? Is hegoing to keep called the creep? Or
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no? Okay, Okay, hemust have some sort of mental problem.
Should we get help for him,Kim, maybe send him to the mental
hospital? What do you reckon?Well, he is a Yes, all
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guys suck severely. Now is thatlower case G or larger case G?
Because there's like there's other guys inthis world like guy appears, Does he
say yes, it's lower ge.Okay, that's all right, So all
boys, I guess yes, theyall suck. Now. It's Monday,
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November the twelfth, nineteen ninety mm. Hmm. You will not believe this,
but I am still at home sick. I believe it. Mom is
taking me to the doctor this afternoon. It's a different doctor this time.
Maybe she'll find something that is afrustrating part of medical for not straightforward medical
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stuff. Yes, I'm not allowedto go to Kim's next weekend now because
I'm sick. Nightmare on Elm Streetone, two and three are on next
Saturday night. Anyway, it wouldbe so cool. I'll have to have
a big sleep on Saturday afternoon soI can stay up and watch them all.
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Okay, yeah, never seen them? Oh really yeah? By oh
yeah yeah Scarly. I have beenpracticing typing a lot. It is really
fun. Okay. This was amanual typewriter. It was my mum's from
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when she was in high school,I think. Okay, but she'd had
it for quite some time and theribbons were starting to dry up, so
the actual typing was very faint,but it was the noise and the weight
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of the keys was very satisfying.There was a big smash on the corner
yesterday afternoon. Russell was directing thetraffic and Mike, Clint and Dad were
sweeping glass off the road. Wellthat's great, hm. That into section
was notorious for accidents. There wereno traffic lights there at that time,
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Okay, and yeah, people justdidn't know how to navigate the intersection.
So later I went to the doctor. She asked me if I was pregnant,
so embarrassing. Well, she's beingthorough. Yeah, so I had
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to have a year in test becausethat is the one test the other doctor
didn't do. That's a pretty simpletest. You'd think that, yeah,
one of the first things they do, but specifically testing for pregnancy and that
type of thing. Do you thinkno, No, okay, because she
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says, anyway, she found someprotein and pus cells. Oh lovely,
and I could have a low gradekidney infection. Okay, all right,
I have to take antibiotics and ifI don't feel better within the next few
days, I have to go toa specialist. Well that's a positive.
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That's an option. So yep,so there you go. And she said,
I don't care if you don't eat. I just want you to drink,
drink, drink, so maybe I'lllose some weight. That would be
good. Well, that's probably whatit is, because you're not It couldn't
be basically what made you feel sick, but your lack of eating and drinking
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have turned it into a kidney thing. Possibly. Yeah. Anyway, I'll
go now and write later from yoursick friend. Okay. Tuesday, November
thirteen, nineteen ninety I don't haveto go back to school until Thursday.
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I'm really confused. There are somany guys around that I like, like
that guy, Amos Adams. Thenthere are the old favorites like Paul Lancefield
and Tom Watts. Though I've goneoff him a lot, especially Paul.
I was thinking about him a lotlast night. Heaps. Let's not dig
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into that fourteen year old bestie.I found out heaps about Amos Adams.
So he didn't go to our school, but he was somebody that he I
guess girls were talking about him.Okay, so he was a bit of
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the hot thing around town. Yeah, yeah, so his name had started
to pop up in a lot ofconversations. All right, he asked him
out once. He is fifteen andhas left school. Is pretty tall,
has sandy blonde hair, and browneyes. Sounds dreamy. Hey, so
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you've never met this person? No, I never seen a flame. No,
I just think he's hot from thatdescription. All right, Okay,
yeah, fifteen left school, prettytall, sandy, blonde hair, and
brown eyes. Fair enough. Sothat's the next three months of podcast.
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Is you having a torrid mental affairwith his boy? I don't want to
give too much away. You're notgoing to hear much about Amos Adams.
This is my shocked face, butnot this year. But his name will
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pop up again in the future.Okay. So you know how I told
you that I would tell you whenthere was something or someone you needed to
invest in. Yeah, without goinginto too much detail, remember the name
Amos Adams. Does he invest inyou? If you know what I mean.
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I'm not going to give anything elseaway. But we're there, listeners,
patients, We've had so much patience. We're there. Okay. This
is the name that will pop upagain in future. I'm sure it will
pop up in several places future.That's a word for it. Don't get
too excited just yet. Okay,just remember it. She's not saying no
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Saturday November seventeen, nineteen ninety.My hair is now short and at present
it has raisin then in brackets richdark brown hair dye in it for the
second time this week. It didn'treally catch the first time, okay,
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So he didn't go blonde or black. You were brown dark brown. I
remember this particular brand of hair color. It was called Glints, okay,
and it was like a semi permanentwell and that was quite inexpensive, and
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it came in some really cool colors. And I wish they still made it
now because I would probably use ita lot, but they don't. Anybody
else out there remembers Glints, makesure you tell us because it was pretty
popular in the late eighties early nineties. And if anyone wants to search up
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the TGA and find out why Glintswas taken off the market and how many
heads the first victim grew, Yes, No, I think it just got
It was a clear old thing.I think nice and easy kind of became
more popular, okay, all right, Yeah, So I'm listening to Mike
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and Jeremy on the radio. Amessage came over to me and Naomi from
Shona. Isn't that nice? Sothat's the very late night. They're still
doing twelve to three. I don'tknow. They tend to do random spots.
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They filled in essentially. Yeah,I don't know. It was because
sometimes they just did a one hourshow on like a weekday afternoon. Sometimes
they did Saturday morning. I thinkit was a bit of a rotating roster
typing. Old people just volunteered whereverthere was this best spot. So yeah,
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they got into room. And sowho wants to do what this week?
Okay, cool? You do yeah? Probably, okay cool. I
am taping the Dirty Dancing and Footloosesoundtracks off Jeremy, who is staying here
tonight. He expects pancakes for breakfast. He has another thing coming. This
person is letting me do something nice, but they can get stuffed about breakfast.
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I wasn't gonna yeah making pancakes.Get real. I'm not going skating
today, but I'm sending a messageto Paul Lancefield through Kim to ring me.
Sounds like I'm getting back on thePaul Lancefield train. Toot all stations.
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I have to babysit on December first. December second is Dad's club Christmas
party. That was the community serviceclub he was a part of Okay Cool.
I'm taking Kim Kendall with me soI'm not left alone with Guy Dutton.
The guy Dutton's dad was in thisclub too, so I knew that
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guy would be there. I'm gettinga little bit of a soft spot for
guy, just based on how muchyou're dunking on it. Yeah, and
I don't think I should, butyeah, he tries to kiss other girls
when he has a girlfriend. Hewrote lists of girls and rated them out
of ten. It's not a verynice not a very nice boy. You're
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falling in love with a dude you'venever met before based on what some other
person said. Gosh, it makessense in my fourteen year old head.
It made sense in his fourteen yearold head and fourteen year old pants.
So oh yeah, Debra and Iwere trying to plan a primary school union,
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but not enough people were coming.So it's just a regular party now
and we're just inviting anyone. Yeah, primary school reunion, Like we were
just trying to get all our oldfriends because we all went to different high
schools. You just moved up fromanother place. So yeah, but I'd
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been to this primary school before Ihad moved to that other spot. Yeah.
Right, So most of these peopleI'd known since like grade one.
Okay, all right, my bad, No, it's okay. So we
were trying to get as many ofour old friends together as we could for
like a party, as a kindof a let's catch up with our old
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primary school friends reunion. But soyou were having a party, and this
was the loose premise of the party. Well, now it's just a loose
premise because not enough people were comingwhen we were calling it a reunion,
So we were just going to invitenew friends as well as old friends.
Okay, cool. Yeah, Kimis going on a holiday to see her
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auntie at the beach and she wantsme to go. It will be for
a week. It will be cool, I believe so, yes, because
yeah, it's mid November, sothere's probably only a few weeks of the
term lift. Yes, it'll belike didn't you do the similar thing one
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school holidays like the year before orsomething she did with her sisters, But
didn't you go on something? OhI went to a wedding? Yeah okay,
yeah, Interstate on the last weekof school. Mister Underwood is holding
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all these fun things like tenpin bowlingand going to the aquarium that means see
dolphins. The only bad thing isthat the Year eight kids are joining us.
I suppose they aren't that bad.Yes, this aquarium is not where
you currently are. Is that you'dhave to travel somewhere else? Yes,
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because knowing where you live, ifthere's dolphins in the area, that's weird.
No, it was about two hoursby bus. Yeah, I just
particular aquarium. I think I knowthe aquarium you're talking about. It's just
like, if you had dolphins inyour city where you live now, I'd
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be like, let's have a chat. That's not that doesn't make sense,
Yeah, for sure. So yeah, the bad thing is the Year eight's
are joining us. Boohoo, they'reso immature. I suppose they aren't that
bad. I can handle hanging aroundin groups of people like guy Aiden feel
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Wesley and that, I guess guys. Okay, as long as I'm not
alone with him. Okay, now, that can't be a creep Well,
okay, maybe for legal purposes,Okay, moving on, Okay, yeah
they'll be. There'll be an incidentthat happens in the future that confirms that
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the creep vibes were very real.Okay, No, spoilers, but okay,
yeah, okay, on the radioright now, Mike is pretending to
be Elvis, and it is sofunny. Funny as in, hah,
that is a humorous sketch, brother, well done, hah. Or funny
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as in I don't want to beassociated with you ever again in my life.
Funny as in I thought he washilarious. Okay, Well, big
big prop there for Mike. Imean that's a big compliment, okay,
because you do have fickle taste sometimes. So yeah, one week in the
holidays from January eleventh, I thinkwe are visiting Dad's new work in Sandton.
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Okay, okay, so this wasa big thing. Dad had to
go into state for work for ayear. Okay, but only for one
year, and the way you withe inflection in what you just said,
sounds ominous for years. Okay,right, Well, the usually if he
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had to move the work, itwould be for two or more years,
so we would go as well,we would all move, But this time,
because it's only for a year,we are all staying put in Thornleigh,
and Dad is the one who's goingto a type of distance where he
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could travel back and forward quite easily. It was probably about twelve hours by
car. But basically he would sometimesbecause he wasn't always able to because of
his work schedule, to have aweekend free to come up. But sometimes
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he would come back and visit,and then sometimes Mum would catch a bus
down there. We're visiting dad's newwork in Sandton and stopping to visit lots
of rallies along the way. Sothis is where you drive past your your
rallies to get there. Yeah,so we're going on a bit of a
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road trip. Okay, it willgo. Now. I'm listing our itinerary
Summer Bay, her actual Summer Bay. No, this is a pseudonym somewhere
else. Okay, all right,I'll tell you the real and Summer Bay
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is a pseudonym for an actual realplace as well. Yes, that's why
I'm confused. I just I justcalled this place Summer Bay. Okay,
alright, Summer Bay. How whatwas the town next to Summer Bay Hurston?
Okay? That were they all usedto go into the into town from
Summer Bay. What was that?Oh? No, you mean Yabby Creek?
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Yeah, call it Yabby Creek.Okay, the Summer Bay, Hurston,
Morgan Castle, Rock, Sandytown yep. And then the reverse Castle Rock
Morgan, Hurston Summer Bay. Okay, all right, yep, understand.
So it's a one two three,it's about a ten day trip. Okay,
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that's so it is twelve hours away. You're breaking it up into chunks.
Yeah, And the main reason wewere going down was to take a
lot of Dad's stuff because he wasgoing to be riding his motorbike. Yeah,
and obviously could only take minimal thingson the bike, so other stuff
we were taking down for him.Okay, cool, it should be good.
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I've still got the hair dye inmy hair because now I say my
hair is going really dark. Ihope it's stays that way. Okay.
The Wonder Years starts Monday in placeof Neighbors. So this is the first
time you've ever watched Wonder Years.I don't think so, but I'm obviously
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excited about it. Oh, sogone. Just to be clear, this
is summer summer programming. Yes,so the soapies are finishing up for the
year, the local programming, andyeah, other shows coming in to take
their place, makes sense. Yep. The Nightmare on Elm Street Marathon is
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on tonight, so cool. Iremember when they advertised, sorry, you're
going to go have a nap.I may have done earlier in the day.
I'm not sure what time it is. I remember when they advertised the
first one. I thought it wasabout a monster roaming Elm Street Boy.
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Was I wrong? Thought? Ithought it was an actual monster, like,
not about dreams or anything like that. Well, it's still he is
kind of still a monster, butmore a psychological one. Yeah, I
was thinking like an actual I don'tknow rayah yeah rah, even for those
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playing at home. I even didthe hand thing. Rah, But I
knew exactly what you meant as soonas you said that. Communications. Anyway,
I'm going to check the time theneither knit or rinse this die out.
Knowing how as a person who hasfrequently dyed there when they had hair,
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real hair, you don't leave itin enough to go. I could
knit all rinse it out. There'sa time limit, Yeah, I think
I was going to check the time. If it wasn't time to rinse it
out, I was going to knit. If it was time, I was
going to wash it out. Butonly thirty minutes at most, isn't it.
Yeah, you can do a coupleof rows and knitting in a couple
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of minutes. Okay, all right, what you're making? I know about
hair dyeing, I don't know aboutthe matter. I don't know what I
was knitting, but I rarely madeanything that was very intricate, usually just
squares or rectangles. So knitting's knitting, isn't that A isn't a blanket?
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Just a whole lot of squares andrectangles? Yeah, you just stitch them
together, though that's a pain inthe bar and play. And you can
buy them from the shop for likeseven bucks. Yeah. Monday, November
nineteen, nineteen ninety three point thirtyseven pm, I'm on the phone to
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Deborah. I just found out thatNatasha has got the hots for Kevin,
and she's got them bad. Okay, sorry, Kevin is Deborah's boyfriend.
Oh m okay. She's liked himsince about Thursday. That's when Deborrah found
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out. Anyway, liked him fromabout Thursday. It's such a fourteen year
old like delivered and said with somuch gravitas, like, oh this person
who infects my brain and I wouldgive up my life for. Yeah,
I liked him since Thursday. Yeah, since Thursday. Natasha wrote a letter
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to Deborah, and it said Idon't want to break you guys up.
I don't think I should sit nextto him in class anymore. I think
your relationship is perfect. So,just to get this straight and excuse my
language, this bitch is sending aletter to someone else going I I don't
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want to steal your man, butyour man is fine. Yeah yeah,
okay, bold choice, bold choice. I'm not growing to break you as
if she could? What a dog? What a trollop? I think someone's
missing the point here. What it'slike, Oh, as if is this
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she could break us up? No, someone sent you a letter saying I
want your man. That's not glossover that, it's sort of likes.
She's not only shooting her shot,she's shooting her shot across the bow of
his girlfriend. Okay, that's whyshe's a dog in a trollop. But
in her defense, she's saying,I like your dude, but I'm not.
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I'm going to withhold the fruit andnot sit near him because I don't
want to cross that. I don'tknow what the female equivalent of the bro
code is, but I don't wantto I don't want to do that.
Faux pa of being the one whotakes your man. So this is the
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thing where she really just should havekept her mouth shut and not said anything.
But did she say it? Like, is this the unprompted thing of
her? Did someone else out thefact that she liked this dude? And
this is her addressing it before Igot too far? I don't know.
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I think it was. I thinkshe told her in the letter, I
like my boyfriend, but don't worry, I'm not going to break you up,
which we just found hilarious because therewas just no way that Kevin would
have gone there. How do youknow we all hate her? I just
know. Yeah, no, everybodydoes. She doesn't have any friends.
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But what about Kevin? No,he didn't like her. Okay, but
a counterpoint, fourteen year old dudebrand counterpoint? What happens if his current
girlfriend doesn't put out and this newone will. Well, she wouldn't have,
but it would have been social suicidefor him to date her. I
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love you, but I think you'redoubting the mindset and power of a fourteen
year old dude. Oh, hehad plenty of others to choose from.
Okay, all right, yeah,okay, just a just a fleshing out
the situation. Yeah, she shotit. Yeah. Do you know what
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else she said to Deborah just beforewe get onto that, did Kevin know
that she liked him? Oh,Deborah would have told him? Yeah,
yeah, I look, yes,definitely Deborah. Okay, but this,
like, I'm trying to picture themental process of this person going. If
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she hasn't told the dude that shelikes him, but he's telling the dude's
girlfriend that she likes him, that'sthat's ballsy. There's something there's something more
to this that we don't know thatmaybe they've had a falling out and something
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like that. Maybe Deborah has hadbeef with this person in the past somehow,
and oh yeah, we've had lotsof beef with her, and maybe
Kevin wants a little bit of shewants a little bit of Kevin beef.
Well, yeah, because she's previouslytried to ruin my friendship with Deborah.
Okay, okay, yeah, nowshe's China. Maybe not no man,
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or does she really like Kevin?Or does is this just because to tell
the girlfriend before you tell the dudedoesn't have a logical sense to it.
She probably would have not had theguts to tell him to space. Anyway,
maybe this is just a big ployto create drama and she didn't actually
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like Kevin. That's definitely a possibility. She was all about the drama.
Well then there you go. Soyeah, yeah, so she told Debra
something else about me, Okay,yep, and it was I'm not looking
forward to her coming back to school. So this big scandalous message that she
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wrote is this person that is knownthat I generally don't like, I'm not
looking forward to them coming back toschool. Yeah, but you don't tell
that to the person's best friend.But if you're shit starring, you do.
Yeah, that's a good point.I'm not giving her any grace,
but I'm saying, like, interms of classic and competent trolling, this
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is basically top tier trolling, Likethis is this is the type of person
she was. I know, thisis why we didn't like her. I
am acknowledging, yeah that even thoughshe probably wasn't a nice person, her
technique was solid. She also,I think probably had an inflated sense of
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self. Yes troll, Yeah,yeah, I'm basically saying, is golf
collapse for technique techno. I'm nothating the player I'm hating the game.
She knew what she was doing andshe executed it. Well, Oh,
you can hate the player too,I did. Okay, Yeah, I
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don't know you play. I justfound out that I'm going to Deborah's dance
concert the same time as Natasha.Yuck. Okay, did you know you
were going? Have you been askedto go or you've been told to go?
I always went to Debra's dance concerts. Okay, all right, I'm
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supportive, supportive best friend. Ididn't go to school today. I will
have to go tomorrow, though.Guess who my tutor for maths is?
Uh? Am? I likely toguess? No? Probably not? Okay.
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Jeremy Bruce so cool and we likeJeremy. Yeah, Mike's radio friend
person I know through church. Yep. Okay cool? And yeah, getting
a tutor from maths because I've misseda lot of school and I'm getting behind
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in maths because I wasn't very goodat it. Is this a school provided
one or a private? No?Just he's just doing it as a favor
to me. Oh cool? Yeah, because it's getting close to exams and
that's cool to catch up. Yeah, I absolutely have to find someone to
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go with before the reunion slash party. Deborah thinks I should go with Anthony.
I'll start flirting with him tomorrow.So Anthony is Kevin's best friend.
Okay, all right, yeah,so this is all a setup. Yep.
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Actually I don't want to go outwith Anthony, so I'll scrap that
idea, okay, Okay. Wednesday, November twenty first, nineteen ninety I
just ordered some Degrassy Junior high Ball. These are novels based on the show.
(48:06):
Yeah, yeah, well novelizations ofthe episodes or yeah, extent pretty
much. Yeah. They are StephanieKay, Shane Spike, and Joey Jeremiah.
Okay, okay. Kim is allowedto come with us the week we
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go to Sandyton. Too cool,so actually coming with you, Yeah,
that's cool. I was allowed totake a friend on the trip because Mike
wasn't going, okay, yeah,because he had like work and stuff.
And I'm going back to school tomorrow, so excellent. And I'm babysitting this
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Saturday from eleven thirty am to fivethirty pm and I get to take the
girls swimming. Excellent. And I'mbabysitting the weekend after and I will get
lots of dough. Nice, nice, very nice. I can't wait for
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the Degrassy books to arrive. Ilove that show. This way, the
characters will always be with me.Maybe I can order some more because there
were more in the series. Sowas this from the individual character across the
different episodes or was that? Yeah, so they each book was about it.
(49:37):
Yeah, a different character and itjust followed some of the main storylines
from the episodes. Okay, allright, that character. Yeah, I
just found out that Richard O'Brien playsPrince Baron's friend in Flush Gordon. So
(49:58):
Richard O'Brien was the actor who playedRefraff in Rocky Horror. Yes, yep,
you're speaking my language with Flash Gordon. So yeah, I loved it.
You know what, That is thevery first movie I can remember seeing
it at the cinema. Okay,and as well as the movie itself,
(50:19):
the main thing I remember was leavingthe cinema and being absolutely shocked that it
was still daylight outside because it wasso dark in the movies. I just
thought it was night time. Ithink it was only about four or five
movie. Pretty good age for FlashGordon. Yeah, I still love that.
(50:42):
The soundtrack rocks. Yeah much.Anyway, I'm going to bed now
to dream about me being into Grassy. Okay, okay. Thursday, November
twenty second, nineteen ninety. DearJournal, that's a new one. I
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haven't said Dear Diary for ages,and now suddenly I'm saying, Dear Journal,
I am home again. I hopeI feel better soon. De Grassi
Junior High is on soon. Itshould be the one where Snake asks Melanie
to the graduation dance. You've saidthat so much. You know what they
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are? Oh? Yeah, sure. Sunday November twenty fifth, nineteen ninety.
Exam start tomorrow. Great Kim can'tcome to the Christmas party next Sunday
because she tore her achilles tendem ouchouch. Yeah, I'm asking Shona instead.
(52:01):
Babysitting was good. I saw Shonawhen I took the girls to the
park. She said Wade has abig head swell he thinks everybody likes him.
That would be bull hush cutting.When Shona stayed at Naomi's, they
(52:21):
made this tape of their own radiostation called nsr UB forty Jamaican Stereo Cool
Music for Cool People. They broadcastlive from Jamaica Upper palm tree. Oh,
the cringe is so hard my skullhas popped out my left ear.
But that kind of stuff was fun. Did you ever make a tape pretending
(52:46):
to be a radio announcer? Yes, I didn't let anyone else know,
though. It's nothing to be ashamedof. Yes, yes it was.
Yes, it was. When you'refourteen year old and you're making your own
(53:06):
cultural appropriation version of a radio station, that's a good point. Yeah,
it's like, Okay, Matthew camearound this afternoon and he and Clint came
in my room and Clint goes,will you help Matthew study tangent ratio?
(53:27):
And I said, no, Ihave to study history. Is that because
you don't know what he's asking for? I mean, very likely. Here's
the thing, he was really reallysmart. Yep, there is no way
he needed help with tangent ratio.Maybe this is a guy who went on
(53:52):
to study human movement at university.Yeah, he was looking for a different
type of tangent study. Yeah,and yeah, I probably had no idea
I had in maths, Tuodor,he was looking for his own human movement
studies. Yeah. Yes, Apparently, according to Debor, he doesn't know
(54:15):
that I don't like him. Ohokay, he's going to know now.
Yeah, no, I'm not goingto help you study. And just so
we're clear, friend of your brothersand he's in migrade at school. Okay,
ye, friend of your brothers.Him and your brother have come into
(54:38):
the room and he has asked youto help him study for something that's quite
clearly you don't know anything about.Nor does he need help with studying it
in front of your brother. Ohnot my brother. It's Clint a border
(55:00):
okay, but obviously trying to help. I was just about to say the
situation bold move, well played.I mean, that's oh okay, all
right, I said no anyway,I know. But still it's like to
(55:23):
have the guts to walk in andgo a you want to study in front
of someone else. It's like,oh, well, Clint was the one
he asked on his behalf. Yeahthat's what I'm Clint is basically his hookup
man. Yeah yeah, okay,as given the age differences, that's a
(55:45):
little uncomfortable. Yeah, do youwant to have it off with my friend?
Do you want to study? Okay? Study? Some of the dudes
in your life are shady, hey, yeah, okay, Yep, there's
that's I think it was the time. N I think it was just shady
dudes. Anyway, I must go. I have history of maths exams tomorrow.
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See you later, okay, Okay, Monday in November twenty sixth,
nineteen ninety eight, twenty five am, Dear Diary. Looks like I will
be home again today. I havereally bad pain in my lower back,
which might be my kidneys. Itsucks. I was looking forward to going
(56:36):
to school. I've been studying allweekend, and now this has to happen.
Mom's taking me back to the doctor. I have to get a doctor's
certificate because I might miss these exams. Deborah might be in the paper and
on the news for her ballet,okay, because you went to her dancing.
(56:59):
I don't think it's been on yet, but I'm planning on it.
Yeah. Well, I don't havemuch more to say. I need a
boyfriend, do you though, Ithink I do. I think you're enough
without a boyfriend. Yeah, Ithink so too, but fourteen year old
me didn't. Clio is being areal silk, following me around everywhere and
(57:29):
cuddling up to me in bed andeverything. The birds are fine. Tully
is so cute. I haven't mentionedmy birds for a while, No you
haven't. Hm Ps. Missus Neilhates Veggie mighte. She is the mother
(57:50):
of the little girls I babysit,and she's from America. Okay, so
I would have asked her what shethought of veggiemite. Okay, that's a
pretty harsh call. PPS. Thewonder is he's on twice tonight. Twice?
Well, they would have gotten well, that's the thing, knowing how
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that type of thing works, theywould have got through it as fast as
possible. Yeah, yep, becausethey paid for it. PPPs. Doogie
Howser was great last night. DoggieHowser? Yes, remember Doogie Yes with
baby Neil Patrick Harris. He stillkind of looks baby Neil Patrick do That
(58:40):
was a good show. I wanderif you can rewatch that somewhere. It's
going to be on some type ofstreaming service. I wonder how problematic it
is though, Oh yeah, that'swhy I want to watch it. It
would be interesting to see. It'slike teenage Boy. Examining particular the types
(59:00):
of patients scenarios would be interesting.There's there's the whole thing of like not
even that, but just like theinteractions with Winnie and all that type of
stuff. Mmmm yep, so yeah, I wouldn't mind watching that again.
M hm now it's four o fivepm. Went to the doctor again.
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I have injured the ligaments in mylower back. Oh ow. It was
possibly caused by carrying Lindsey around inthe pool yesterday. Ah. Okay,
yeah, that's one of the girlsI was babysitting. I have to use
liniment and a hate lamp and havebackrubs. Yes, there's worse things than
(59:51):
having to have backrobs. Depending whogives you the backrops would have been my
mum. Okay, that's yep.I got a letter from Martin and one
from Pipper. Martin is my friendwho was at boarding school, and Pipper
was one of my friends from Cambridge. See you later Tuesday, November twenty
(01:00:20):
seven, nineteen ninety No school again. I can probably do my exams when
I return. It depends on whetherthe teachers think I need to do them
or not. I see, youmight get an exemption from it. Yeah,
and I would just average out allmy other marks from the semester.
Okay. I had the most amazingdream last night. There were other bits
(01:00:45):
apart from what I'm going to writeabout, but they don't matter me.
Mum and Dad were at someone's houseand it was late at night and we
were chatting to these people. Itwas mister and Missus Arnold from the Wonder
Is Yes. I had an Americanaccent, and I said, can I
go in and see Kevin please?Missus Arnold said, okay, but don't
(01:01:09):
be long. It's a school night. So I went in and there was
Kevin Arnold sitting up in a cozybed with a cream quilt, reading a
book. He had his bedside tablelampon and it was spreading a soft yellow
glow around the room. He waswearing the white T shirt with the blue
(01:01:30):
sleeves and collar. He gave methe Kevin Arnold smile. I went and
sat on the bed next to him, and I whispered in his ear,
still with an American accent, Ihave two things to tell you. I
started talking with an Australian accent againand said one I'm Australian, and two
(01:01:54):
I like you a lot, andthen I kind of kissed his ear.
Then all of a sudden, thedream changed and I was in the Arnold's
laund room. I was arranging somemagazines on the coffee table. I heard
Kevin talking to his mum about thisunknown person who had come into his room.
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He said, she said she wasan American, she was Canadian,
and I yelled out, I didn'tsay that. I said I was Australian.
Then everyone stared at me, andI turned my head around and said
oops. Then the scene changed againto the hallway at Kevin's school, and
(01:02:35):
he was yelling, I don't evenlike her, he meant me. Then
it changed again and we were sittingon the steps of what looked like Winnie
Cooper's house from the outside, butit was a boarding school or a shopping
mall inside. I said to Kevin, do you want to go for a
walk to Harper's Woods? And hegoes ere. So we walked there hand
(01:03:00):
in hand, and the dream fadedout with us standing in front of the
tree that Paul, Winnie and Kevinhad carved their initials in, just holding
hands and looking at each other.You were kind of Kevin Haddold's guy.
Yeah, oh yeah, I thinkwe have a new obsession brewing. At
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the start, you were a littlevery guy energy. I'm just going to
come into your house and lie aboutwhat I am and just then rearrange around
stuff. I asked his mom,I said, can I go in and
say I have? She said yes, under false pretenses of the fact that
you were pretending to be American.But then you hung around and rearrange the
(01:03:43):
magazines in the in the living room, and you kissed his ear. I
kissed his ear. Okay, well, all right, okay, just stalking
Kevin Arnold in my dream? Himps. But is it Kevin Arnold character or
do you think it develops into notthe actual real life actor? No,
(01:04:08):
it was Kevin Arnold. Where's thecharacter? Excuse me? Yeah? Okay,
that's that's quite a dream. That'sa very interesting dream too. Yeah.
I honestly I don't know where togo with that. It's okay,
you don't need to go anywhere,because that's it for this episode. Excellent.
(01:04:33):
It sets up next week very interestingly. Yes it does. Okay,
So, just as a little smallspoiler, are there any other Kevin Arnold
dreams coming? Yes? Okay,all right, okay, we will see
(01:04:58):
how that goes. Yep, it'sfine. It's a It just really threw
me for like, we're just We'retraveling along at a nice easy pace,
and it's like, oh, yeah, I was a bit randy from Kevin
Arnold. Yeah, here's a hottie. H Well, I honestly don't know
(01:05:26):
how to recover from that. IfI'm honest, it's just like, okay,
you all right, that's where we'reat. Everyone, Welcome to the
dream life of a teenage girl.Yeah, it's honestly a little spooky.
Yeah all right, Well, Ithink I'm going to go have a bex
(01:05:46):
and to lie down and just recoverfrom that revelation. And yeah, well
next week we will try and makesense of what I've just heard. I'm
sorry, I'm just I'm just reallywhat you've said has really thrown me.
That's really just control it, Iknow. But it's you say that like
(01:06:14):
it's an innocent thing, not likeyou were stalking a TV character in your
dream. But in the end heliked me and we were holding hands and
gazing into each other's eyes. Yeah, that's not gay. That sorry,
that's not guy energy at all.Is it that you wore down each other?
That you would I wore down dreamKevin and Arnold? Yeah, because
(01:06:40):
you confronted the poor dude sitting inhis dream bed and he's like, who
the hell is this? So muchso that he went outside and told his
parents, who the hell is that? And you've got I'm Australian mate.
I don't know. It must haveworked, and where's winning in all this?
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I'd probably, I don't know,killed her before she's buried under the
tree where you're standing gazing buried herHarber's woods. Get her. That's why
you wanted to go there with him, just so you could have a romantic
moment standing over her freshly duk grave. You don't know we're standing above the
(01:07:26):
woman you love. I'm your winny, now all right, bestI will yes,
I'm going to have a small drinkand recover from that. And okay,
tell everyone where to go to followus on the socials for more information
on Diary of my Bestie. I'lltry and remember to get a photo of
(01:07:48):
the beanie with the big ferry pumppom on the top. I'll take a
photo and I'll send it to youso we can post it there. And
and yeah, and if you couldalso so maybe rate or review our podcast
on whichever platform you are listening toit, that would be amazing. That
(01:08:08):
does help us a lot. Ithelps more than with the algorithms that a
lot of people realize that even somethingas simple as a like helps, but
ratings really do jack up that algorithm. So absolutely all right, bestI Well,
I love you very much. Ilove you, and we will see
(01:08:29):
you and everyone else next week.Okay, bye, bye bye
I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Direof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries or Names andidentifying places have been changed to protect the
innocent and the guilty. We're alsostaying anonymous, so if you think you
know us, no you don't.Welcome back to Dire of my Bestie.
Hello Bestie, Hello bestI I thinkI've worked out what trips me up on
(00:27):
my little teleprompter script here, namesand memes sound extremely the same, so
my brain just goes, that's notmemes. Don't say memes, and I'm
like names, and then I fallover afterwards, the memes, the memes
and anemones. I know, Isay all the time, I'm going to
(00:49):
have to rewrite it, but I'mgonna have to rewrite it. Then you
won't stumble over it and it won'tbe as funny. I know, good
call, it's it's your trademark.How are you going, I'm pretty good.
That's good, very good to hear. I've missed you all week,
so looking forward to talking to youagain. As always, very very silly,
(01:14):
Yes, sitting in my messy roomas I am. So it's full
of things. So I have acat on my feet, I have nothing.
I've got socks on my feet.You'll be proud of me. That's
important. Winter colder. Oh,people at home can't see this, But
(01:34):
I've got a new beanie to onesecond, this is my sleeping beany.
It's very fairy on top. Itis. I need to get rid of
it, but I don't know howto get rid of it without destroying the
beanie. Yes, the pomp.So it's just we've to an arrangement where
(02:00):
I just have a pomp on onmy head and I look like just wears
Wally, but not as stylish.It kind of looks like what were those
things tribles? Yeah, do youremember those very things? It is a
little bit much though it's a triplebeanie, Yeah, a little tiny,
(02:23):
Like if it was a tiny bitsmaller, I'd put up with it.
But it's just it's you can't avoidthis is it's almost half the size of
my head. It's just it's all. Had to take a picture of the
beanie, yes, and put iton the Instagram so everybody can see.
It's a little bit extra. Butthen so are you yeah, but not
(02:46):
this way, not this way,quite that way. Let's get into it
because I'm excited to hear the nextentry in the diaries. So from last
episode, I'm still sick, yes, being sick with some kind of unknown
(03:07):
affliction, missing lots of school,having lots of tests. It's not like
it's not like Jenny from Forrest Gumpsick. You don't know what it is?
Oh no, definitely not. Okay, I dumped Wade. Yes,
(03:29):
my boyfriend and I had a boywrote me, write Me a pretty bad
poem in context of a fourteen yearold dude, though in context it was
probably pretty good effort, solid effort. How's the grammar, that's the that's
(03:52):
the question. It was pretty good. Yeah, that the spelling for that
one word, though, you know, how do you get shining wrong?
Very easy, very easy. Assomeone I was so big on spelling that
somebody writing shinning, I was like, no, in fairness, is a
(04:17):
fourteen year old dude taking a shot. He's he's Wayne Gretzkying take the shot,
and he's like, of all thethings he's got to worry about,
it's shinning and shining, and okay, yeah, maybe he does want to
shin you How tall is this person? Not that much taller than me?
(04:43):
He probably gets shinned all the time. Maybe could you could you write a
new version of the Stephen King Horrorwith Jack Nicholas, and it's just people
who are extremely short, and it'scalled the Shinning the Shinning, and everyone's
it's just shot from the knees down, or people running into furniture in the
dark, exactly right. Rather thanrather than Johnny coming through the door,
(05:11):
he basically kicks through the door andhe's got a little face written on his
shin. Go yere's Johnny's shin theShinning. We couldn't afford a Tripod productions.
Well, shall we find out ifthe poem worked? Yes? You
(05:31):
know, you know I don't sothat. Yeah, do I want to
find it? Yeah? Yeah?Okay, Well, the first entry here
is undated, but I'm guessing it'sNovember, of course, everything else is
November. After it. I'm gettingmy hair all cut off on Saturday morning,
(05:54):
if possible, something short, trendyand easy to care for. And
when my hair gets back to itsnatural color with all the red cut out,
I'm going to see if I likethe color and if I don't.
I'm dying it black, I think, okay, maybe blonde, but that
(06:14):
won't be for a while. Ishould give my hair a break. I
have seen a photo of you blonde. Maybe I'll just get some more sun
in. It will be easier touse because my hair will be shorter.
Well, that's that lemon juice stuffwe talked about, isn't it. Yes,
that's really bad beer hair, verymuch so, and pretty much most
elsivir skin being a citric acid composition. So yes, exactly. Thursday,
(06:43):
November eighth, nineteen ninety, wasthat it? You just basically I'm going
to chop my hair off. Thatwas an entry, ye okay, Yeah,
saw de Grassy. It was theone where wheels hitchhikes. Yesterday I
saw the Young and the Wrestler.Yes, and there was this guy Danny
who was a singer and guess whoplayed him. Uh, I've forgotten more
(07:13):
about that than I remember Michael Damien, the guy who sang rock on in
Dream A Little Dream. Ah.Okay, I can see why you're interested
now, Yes, a little bitmore fuel for my dream A Little Dream
obsession. Saturday, November ten,nineteen ninety I had a hair appointment this
(07:38):
morning, but I felt sick,so I canceled it. I can't eat
much without feeling sick. Today I'mgoing skating and Kim is staying over.
We have heaps of movies to watch. I'll get Kim to write. My
hair appointment is now for Wednesday afternoon. I changed my room around.
(08:05):
It's excellent. There's heaps of floorspace, excellent for dancing. That's that's
extremely fourteen year old girl energy.Yep, so much more room for activities.
Yes, Cleo slept in her bedlast night. She's so cute,
so she had her own cat bed, but she usually slept on mine.
(08:30):
Well, that's every pet ever.Yeah, so it's still your pets now,
Yes, yes, although my dognow she starts the night off in
her crate and then in the middleof the night, I hear this little
tip tap tip tap tip tap onthe floor, and then she jumps up
(08:50):
on the bed and she squeezes underthe covers. M Is she starting her
night in her bed or her dayin her bed and starts her night when
she gets into your bed? Yeah, it could be. She usually puts
herself to bed when I brush myteeth because she's smart enough to have figured
(09:11):
out that me brushing my teeth meansI'm going to bed. Yes, and
she goes and puts herself in acrate. Smart dog. She yes,
yes, she's good. So yeah, Cleo slept in her bed, which
was obviously very noteworthy because I wroteabout it in my Diary and your Hair.
(09:33):
The guys did six hours of radiothis morning because the guy who was
supposed to be doing sorry, yourbrother did it. Yeah, my brother
and his friends. The guy whowas supposed to be doing the three am
to six am shift didn't turn up. Okay, all right, this is
UNI Radio. It's all volunteer andthey were doing a midnight to three am,
(09:56):
so they did. They kept goingbecause they did. Okay, awesome,
rather than there be no radio.I guess. Now there's always a
question, who's well, I guessit is UNI UNI students. Who's listening
at three? Yeah? Yeah,probably it was like a community radio station,
(10:22):
but it happened to be at theuniversity selling lots of Munchie themed merch.
Probably, I can't remember. Uhyeah. So that did six hours
of radio, and then Matthew camehere after This is poetry Matthew. Okay,
(10:46):
by the inflection in your voice.I was like, okay, it's
either a new one or continuation.Oh it's yeah, it's poetry. Matthew
he is here now. So heis your brother's friend. Yeah, and
he's in migrade at school. Okay, So that raises more questions about your
(11:07):
brother. They knew each other fromchurch church guys. Just checking because like
if your brother's friends with people inyour yeah you know what I mean.
Yeah, my brother was what's seventeenhere? Okay? Yeah, we were
fourteen close enough. So yeah,Matthew's at my house. I really hate
(11:33):
him. Now. I'm sorry tosay, what's he done? Wrote me
a poem? I guess, okay, day okay, but yes, yes
it was a bit cringe. Buthe shot his shot. That's all I'm
going to say. Clint is gettinghis hair cut right this very minute.
(11:58):
I hope the hairdressers sister's slip andcut a big chunk out, so we'll
have to get it all cut off. Ah, you're just mean. He
had kind of long issue, veryvery curly hair. So did you want
him actually to be punished and havea bad experience or was it just like
here, I hope they slip.I don't know, because there's been times
(12:22):
when I've said that I absolutely hatehim, but then other times it seems
we're getting on fine. So Idon't know. It could be either,
Okay, all right, who knows? And now we have a conversation,
(12:43):
like a written conversation with Kim whenshe's at my house. Yeah, came
stay over and you said you gethurt, right, Okay? Cool?
Me. First, here's a wordfrom the girl herself. Kim, Howdie,
I'm glad you invited me over tostay. We'll have so much fun.
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Naomi really really really likes Mike.Heaps and heaps. Okay. So
your brother's Kim's older sister. Okay, all right, yep, you're a
really good friend. I'm I'm justdrawing the mental map in my brain just
to work this all out. Soher older sister likes my older brother,
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Okay, all right, me,I thought she didn't like him anymore.
It's been so long since I lastheard about that. You're a really good
friend too, Thanks for coming over, Kim. I think Naomi wants to
give Mike a letter telling him howmuch she likes him. Me. I
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forget this, I don't think it. I forget this is the age of
letters. Yeah, me, Idon't think it will make a difference.
He's still going with Kimberly. Kim, I know, but anyway, that's
what That's why I'm confused, becauseit's Kim and Kimberly. That's what my
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brain isn't sinking up. Okay,Kim, I know, But anyway,
I am never going in couples withguy the Creep ever. Again, he's
a flirt, you know, theguy doesn't Can I just say, oh,
(14:31):
I'm never going with the creep,the guy the Creep, because he's
a flirt that would be implied bythe dude's name you have for him.
It's like, I don't really wantto go with Jerry the serial killer.
He kind of gives me the hebe gbs when we talk about dinner.
I mean, you think, Okay, So yeah, guys, guys,
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the guy who I was considering goingout with not that long ago. Okay,
but yeah, he was the onewho was going out with Kim's friend
and trying to kiss Kim and hersisters at the same time. You know,
(15:18):
my brain's just whistling out my eargoo. Yeah, okay, trying
to keep yeah, okay, tryto jog your memory, but also anybody
else's memory who's listening. I appreciatethat, and I'm like, I'm really
trying. But it's like you've hadall friends. You've had more friends in
the last year and a half thanI've had in my entire life. All
(15:39):
right, so you knowing the namesof this many people, like, it's
like, Okay, I'm exhausted justlistening to it from like thirty years ago.
I'm sorry, that's right. So, yeah, guy the creep is
a flirt shock me. I kindof feel sorry for him. He must
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have some sort of mental problem.Going to get help for him? Are
you going to date him? No? Lost, You're going to be like
his name will keep popping up everynow and then, but not in any
romantic way. Okay? Is hegoing to keep called the creep? Or
(16:23):
no? Okay, Okay, hemust have some sort of mental problem.
Should we get help for him,Kim, maybe send him to the mental
hospital? What do you reckon?Well, he is a Yes, all
(16:45):
guys suck severely. Now is thatlower case G or larger case G?
Because there's like there's other guys inthis world like guy appears, Does he
say yes, it's lower ge.Okay, that's all right, So all
boys, I guess yes, theyall suck. Now. It's Monday,
(17:07):
November the twelfth, nineteen ninety mm. Hmm. You will not believe this,
but I am still at home sick. I believe it. Mom is
taking me to the doctor this afternoon. It's a different doctor this time.
Maybe she'll find something that is afrustrating part of medical for not straightforward medical
(17:30):
stuff. Yes, I'm not allowedto go to Kim's next weekend now because
I'm sick. Nightmare on Elm Streetone, two and three are on next
Saturday night. Anyway, it wouldbe so cool. I'll have to have
a big sleep on Saturday afternoon soI can stay up and watch them all.
(17:52):
Okay, yeah, never seen them? Oh really yeah? By oh
yeah yeah Scarly. I have beenpracticing typing a lot. It is really
fun. Okay. This was amanual typewriter. It was my mum's from
(18:17):
when she was in high school,I think. Okay, but she'd had
it for quite some time and theribbons were starting to dry up, so
the actual typing was very faint,but it was the noise and the weight
(18:41):
of the keys was very satisfying.There was a big smash on the corner
yesterday afternoon. Russell was directing thetraffic and Mike, Clint and Dad were
sweeping glass off the road. Wellthat's great, hm. That into section
was notorious for accidents. There wereno traffic lights there at that time,
(19:04):
Okay, and yeah, people justdidn't know how to navigate the intersection.
So later I went to the doctor. She asked me if I was pregnant,
so embarrassing. Well, she's beingthorough. Yeah, so I had
(19:27):
to have a year in test becausethat is the one test the other doctor
didn't do. That's a pretty simpletest. You'd think that, yeah,
one of the first things they do, but specifically testing for pregnancy and that
type of thing. Do you thinkno, No, okay, because she
(19:51):
says, anyway, she found someprotein and pus cells. Oh lovely,
and I could have a low gradekidney infection. Okay, all right,
I have to take antibiotics and ifI don't feel better within the next few
days, I have to go toa specialist. Well that's a positive.
(20:15):
That's an option. So yep,so there you go. And she said,
I don't care if you don't eat. I just want you to drink,
drink, drink, so maybe I'lllose some weight. That would be
good. Well, that's probably whatit is, because you're not It couldn't
be basically what made you feel sick, but your lack of eating and drinking
(20:40):
have turned it into a kidney thing. Possibly. Yeah. Anyway, I'll
go now and write later from yoursick friend. Okay. Tuesday, November
thirteen, nineteen ninety I don't haveto go back to school until Thursday.
(21:03):
I'm really confused. There are somany guys around that I like, like
that guy, Amos Adams. Thenthere are the old favorites like Paul Lancefield
and Tom Watts. Though I've goneoff him a lot, especially Paul.
I was thinking about him a lotlast night. Heaps. Let's not dig
(21:30):
into that fourteen year old bestie.I found out heaps about Amos Adams.
So he didn't go to our school, but he was somebody that he I
guess girls were talking about him.Okay, so he was a bit of
(21:52):
the hot thing around town. Yeah, yeah, so his name had started
to pop up in a lot ofconversations. All right, he asked him
out once. He is fifteen andhas left school. Is pretty tall,
has sandy blonde hair, and browneyes. Sounds dreamy. Hey, so
(22:14):
you've never met this person? No, I never seen a flame. No,
I just think he's hot from thatdescription. All right, Okay,
yeah, fifteen left school, prettytall, sandy, blonde hair, and
brown eyes. Fair enough. Sothat's the next three months of podcast.
(22:36):
Is you having a torrid mental affairwith his boy? I don't want to
give too much away. You're notgoing to hear much about Amos Adams.
This is my shocked face, butnot this year. But his name will
(22:56):
pop up again in the future.Okay. So you know how I told
you that I would tell you whenthere was something or someone you needed to
invest in. Yeah, without goinginto too much detail, remember the name
Amos Adams. Does he invest inyou? If you know what I mean.
(23:18):
I'm not going to give anything elseaway. But we're there, listeners,
patients, We've had so much patience. We're there. Okay. This
is the name that will pop upagain in future. I'm sure it will
pop up in several places future.That's a word for it. Don't get
too excited just yet. Okay,just remember it. She's not saying no
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Saturday November seventeen, nineteen ninety.My hair is now short and at present
it has raisin then in brackets richdark brown hair dye in it for the
second time this week. It didn'treally catch the first time, okay,
(24:10):
So he didn't go blonde or black. You were brown dark brown. I
remember this particular brand of hair color. It was called Glints, okay,
and it was like a semi permanentwell and that was quite inexpensive, and
(24:32):
it came in some really cool colors. And I wish they still made it
now because I would probably use ita lot, but they don't. Anybody
else out there remembers Glints, makesure you tell us because it was pretty
popular in the late eighties early nineties. And if anyone wants to search up
(24:52):
the TGA and find out why Glintswas taken off the market and how many
heads the first victim grew, Yes, No, I think it just got
It was a clear old thing.I think nice and easy kind of became
more popular, okay, all right, Yeah, So I'm listening to Mike
(25:15):
and Jeremy on the radio. Amessage came over to me and Naomi from
Shona. Isn't that nice? Sothat's the very late night. They're still
doing twelve to three. I don'tknow. They tend to do random spots.
(25:37):
They filled in essentially. Yeah,I don't know. It was because
sometimes they just did a one hourshow on like a weekday afternoon. Sometimes
they did Saturday morning. I thinkit was a bit of a rotating roster
typing. Old people just volunteered whereverthere was this best spot. So yeah,
(25:59):
they got into room. And sowho wants to do what this week?
Okay, cool? You do yeah? Probably, okay cool. I
am taping the Dirty Dancing and Footloosesoundtracks off Jeremy, who is staying here
tonight. He expects pancakes for breakfast. He has another thing coming. This
person is letting me do something nice, but they can get stuffed about breakfast.
(26:26):
I wasn't gonna yeah making pancakes.Get real. I'm not going skating
today, but I'm sending a messageto Paul Lancefield through Kim to ring me.
Sounds like I'm getting back on thePaul Lancefield train. Toot all stations.
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I have to babysit on December first. December second is Dad's club Christmas
party. That was the community serviceclub he was a part of Okay Cool.
I'm taking Kim Kendall with me soI'm not left alone with Guy Dutton.
The guy Dutton's dad was in thisclub too, so I knew that
(27:12):
guy would be there. I'm gettinga little bit of a soft spot for
guy, just based on how muchyou're dunking on it. Yeah, and
I don't think I should, butyeah, he tries to kiss other girls
when he has a girlfriend. Hewrote lists of girls and rated them out
of ten. It's not a verynice not a very nice boy. You're
(27:36):
falling in love with a dude you'venever met before based on what some other
person said. Gosh, it makessense in my fourteen year old head.
It made sense in his fourteen yearold head and fourteen year old pants.
So oh yeah, Debra and Iwere trying to plan a primary school union,
(28:00):
but not enough people were coming.So it's just a regular party now
and we're just inviting anyone. Yeah, primary school reunion, Like we were
just trying to get all our oldfriends because we all went to different high
schools. You just moved up fromanother place. So yeah, but I'd
(28:23):
been to this primary school before Ihad moved to that other spot. Yeah.
Right, So most of these peopleI'd known since like grade one.
Okay, all right, my bad, No, it's okay. So we
were trying to get as many ofour old friends together as we could for
like a party, as a kindof a let's catch up with our old
(28:45):
primary school friends reunion. But soyou were having a party, and this
was the loose premise of the party. Well, now it's just a loose
premise because not enough people were comingwhen we were calling it a reunion,
So we were just going to invitenew friends as well as old friends.
Okay, cool. Yeah, Kimis going on a holiday to see her
(29:07):
auntie at the beach and she wantsme to go. It will be for
a week. It will be cool, I believe so, yes, because
yeah, it's mid November, sothere's probably only a few weeks of the
term lift. Yes, it'll belike didn't you do the similar thing one
(29:29):
school holidays like the year before orsomething she did with her sisters, But
didn't you go on something? OhI went to a wedding? Yeah okay,
yeah, Interstate on the last weekof school. Mister Underwood is holding
(29:52):
all these fun things like tenpin bowlingand going to the aquarium that means see
dolphins. The only bad thing isthat the Year eight kids are joining us.
I suppose they aren't that bad.Yes, this aquarium is not where
you currently are. Is that you'dhave to travel somewhere else? Yes,
(30:15):
because knowing where you live, ifthere's dolphins in the area, that's weird.
No, it was about two hoursby bus. Yeah, I just
particular aquarium. I think I knowthe aquarium you're talking about. It's just
like, if you had dolphins inyour city where you live now, I'd
(30:36):
be like, let's have a chat. That's not that doesn't make sense,
Yeah, for sure. So yeah, the bad thing is the Year eight's
are joining us. Boohoo, they'reso immature. I suppose they aren't that
bad. I can handle hanging aroundin groups of people like guy Aiden feel
(31:00):
Wesley and that, I guess guys. Okay, as long as I'm not
alone with him. Okay, now, that can't be a creep Well,
okay, maybe for legal purposes,Okay, moving on, Okay, yeah
they'll be. There'll be an incidentthat happens in the future that confirms that
(31:26):
the creep vibes were very real.Okay, No, spoilers, but okay,
yeah, okay, on the radioright now, Mike is pretending to
be Elvis, and it is sofunny. Funny as in, hah,
that is a humorous sketch, brother, well done, hah. Or funny
(31:47):
as in I don't want to beassociated with you ever again in my life.
Funny as in I thought he washilarious. Okay, Well, big
big prop there for Mike. Imean that's a big compliment, okay,
because you do have fickle taste sometimes. So yeah, one week in the
holidays from January eleventh, I thinkwe are visiting Dad's new work in Sandton.
(32:14):
Okay, okay, so this wasa big thing. Dad had to
go into state for work for ayear. Okay, but only for one
year, and the way you withe inflection in what you just said,
sounds ominous for years. Okay,right, Well, the usually if he
(32:39):
had to move the work, itwould be for two or more years,
so we would go as well,we would all move, But this time,
because it's only for a year,we are all staying put in Thornleigh,
and Dad is the one who's goingto a type of distance where he
(33:01):
could travel back and forward quite easily. It was probably about twelve hours by
car. But basically he would sometimesbecause he wasn't always able to because of
his work schedule, to have aweekend free to come up. But sometimes
(33:24):
he would come back and visit,and then sometimes Mum would catch a bus
down there. We're visiting dad's newwork in Sandton and stopping to visit lots
of rallies along the way. Sothis is where you drive past your your
rallies to get there. Yeah,so we're going on a bit of a
(33:44):
road trip. Okay, it willgo. Now. I'm listing our itinerary
Summer Bay, her actual Summer Bay. No, this is a pseudonym somewhere
else. Okay, all right,I'll tell you the real and Summer Bay
(34:08):
is a pseudonym for an actual realplace as well. Yes, that's why
I'm confused. I just I justcalled this place Summer Bay. Okay,
alright, Summer Bay. How whatwas the town next to Summer Bay Hurston?
Okay? That were they all usedto go into the into town from
Summer Bay. What was that?Oh? No, you mean Yabby Creek?
(34:29):
Yeah, call it Yabby Creek.Okay, the Summer Bay, Hurston,
Morgan Castle, Rock, Sandytown yep. And then the reverse Castle Rock
Morgan, Hurston Summer Bay. Okay, all right, yep, understand.
So it's a one two three,it's about a ten day trip. Okay,
(34:57):
that's so it is twelve hours away. You're breaking it up into chunks.
Yeah, And the main reason wewere going down was to take a
lot of Dad's stuff because he wasgoing to be riding his motorbike. Yeah,
and obviously could only take minimal thingson the bike, so other stuff
we were taking down for him.Okay, cool, it should be good.
(35:24):
I've still got the hair dye inmy hair because now I say my
hair is going really dark. Ihope it's stays that way. Okay.
The Wonder Years starts Monday in placeof Neighbors. So this is the first
time you've ever watched Wonder Years.I don't think so, but I'm obviously
(35:50):
excited about it. Oh, sogone. Just to be clear, this
is summer summer programming. Yes,so the soapies are finishing up for the
year, the local programming, andyeah, other shows coming in to take
their place, makes sense. Yep. The Nightmare on Elm Street Marathon is
(36:16):
on tonight, so cool. Iremember when they advertised, sorry, you're
going to go have a nap.I may have done earlier in the day.
I'm not sure what time it is. I remember when they advertised the
first one. I thought it wasabout a monster roaming Elm Street Boy.
(36:38):
Was I wrong? Thought? Ithought it was an actual monster, like,
not about dreams or anything like that. Well, it's still he is
kind of still a monster, butmore a psychological one. Yeah, I
was thinking like an actual I don'tknow rayah yeah rah, even for those
(37:04):
playing at home. I even didthe hand thing. Rah, But I
knew exactly what you meant as soonas you said that. Communications. Anyway,
I'm going to check the time theneither knit or rinse this die out.
Knowing how as a person who hasfrequently dyed there when they had hair,
(37:27):
real hair, you don't leave itin enough to go. I could
knit all rinse it out. There'sa time limit, Yeah, I think
I was going to check the time. If it wasn't time to rinse it
out, I was going to knit. If it was time, I was
going to wash it out. Butonly thirty minutes at most, isn't it.
Yeah, you can do a coupleof rows and knitting in a couple
(37:50):
of minutes. Okay, all right, what you're making? I know about
hair dyeing, I don't know aboutthe matter. I don't know what I
was knitting, but I rarely madeanything that was very intricate, usually just
squares or rectangles. So knitting's knitting, isn't that A isn't a blanket?
(38:13):
Just a whole lot of squares andrectangles? Yeah, you just stitch them
together, though that's a pain inthe bar and play. And you can
buy them from the shop for likeseven bucks. Yeah. Monday, November
nineteen, nineteen ninety three point thirtyseven pm, I'm on the phone to
(38:40):
Deborah. I just found out thatNatasha has got the hots for Kevin,
and she's got them bad. Okay, sorry, Kevin is Deborah's boyfriend.
Oh m okay. She's liked himsince about Thursday. That's when Deborrah found
(39:05):
out. Anyway, liked him fromabout Thursday. It's such a fourteen year
old like delivered and said with somuch gravitas, like, oh this person
who infects my brain and I wouldgive up my life for. Yeah,
I liked him since Thursday. Yeah, since Thursday. Natasha wrote a letter
(39:27):
to Deborah, and it said Idon't want to break you guys up.
I don't think I should sit nextto him in class anymore. I think
your relationship is perfect. So,just to get this straight and excuse my
language, this bitch is sending aletter to someone else going I I don't
(39:49):
want to steal your man, butyour man is fine. Yeah yeah,
okay, bold choice, bold choice. I'm not growing to break you as
if she could? What a dog? What a trollop? I think someone's
missing the point here. What it'slike, Oh, as if is this
(40:14):
she could break us up? No, someone sent you a letter saying I
want your man. That's not glossover that, it's sort of likes.
She's not only shooting her shot,she's shooting her shot across the bow of
his girlfriend. Okay, that's whyshe's a dog in a trollop. But
in her defense, she's saying,I like your dude, but I'm not.
(40:38):
I'm going to withhold the fruit andnot sit near him because I don't
want to cross that. I don'tknow what the female equivalent of the bro
code is, but I don't wantto I don't want to do that.
Faux pa of being the one whotakes your man. So this is the
(40:58):
thing where she really just should havekept her mouth shut and not said anything.
But did she say it? Like, is this the unprompted thing of
her? Did someone else out thefact that she liked this dude? And
this is her addressing it before Igot too far? I don't know.
(41:21):
I think it was. I thinkshe told her in the letter, I
like my boyfriend, but don't worry, I'm not going to break you up,
which we just found hilarious because therewas just no way that Kevin would
have gone there. How do youknow we all hate her? I just
know. Yeah, no, everybodydoes. She doesn't have any friends.
(41:45):
But what about Kevin? No,he didn't like her. Okay, but
a counterpoint, fourteen year old dudebrand counterpoint? What happens if his current
girlfriend doesn't put out and this newone will. Well, she wouldn't have,
but it would have been social suicidefor him to date her. I
(42:08):
love you, but I think you'redoubting the mindset and power of a fourteen
year old dude. Oh, hehad plenty of others to choose from.
Okay, all right, yeah,okay, just a just a fleshing out
the situation. Yeah, she shotit. Yeah. Do you know what
(42:30):
else she said to Deborah just beforewe get onto that, did Kevin know
that she liked him? Oh,Deborah would have told him? Yeah,
yeah, I look, yes,definitely Deborah. Okay, but this,
like, I'm trying to picture themental process of this person going. If
(42:53):
she hasn't told the dude that shelikes him, but he's telling the dude's
girlfriend that she likes him, that'sthat's ballsy. There's something there's something more
to this that we don't know thatmaybe they've had a falling out and something
(43:14):
like that. Maybe Deborah has hadbeef with this person in the past somehow,
and oh yeah, we've had lotsof beef with her, and maybe
Kevin wants a little bit of shewants a little bit of Kevin beef.
Well, yeah, because she's previouslytried to ruin my friendship with Deborah.
Okay, okay, yeah, nowshe's China. Maybe not no man,
(43:37):
or does she really like Kevin?Or does is this just because to tell
the girlfriend before you tell the dudedoesn't have a logical sense to it.
She probably would have not had theguts to tell him to space. Anyway,
maybe this is just a big ployto create drama and she didn't actually
(43:58):
like Kevin. That's definitely a possibility. She was all about the drama.
Well then there you go. Soyeah, yeah, so she told Debra
something else about me, Okay,yep, and it was I'm not looking
forward to her coming back to school. So this big scandalous message that she
(44:27):
wrote is this person that is knownthat I generally don't like, I'm not
looking forward to them coming back toschool. Yeah, but you don't tell
that to the person's best friend.But if you're shit starring, you do.
Yeah, that's a good point.I'm not giving her any grace,
but I'm saying, like, interms of classic and competent trolling, this
(44:54):
is basically top tier trolling, Likethis is this is the type of person
she was. I know, thisis why we didn't like her. I
am acknowledging, yeah that even thoughshe probably wasn't a nice person, her
technique was solid. She also,I think probably had an inflated sense of
(45:22):
self. Yes troll, Yeah,yeah, I'm basically saying, is golf
collapse for technique techno. I'm nothating the player I'm hating the game.
She knew what she was doing andshe executed it. Well, Oh,
you can hate the player too,I did. Okay, Yeah, I
(45:45):
don't know you play. I justfound out that I'm going to Deborah's dance
concert the same time as Natasha.Yuck. Okay, did you know you
were going? Have you been askedto go or you've been told to go?
I always went to Debra's dance concerts. Okay, all right, I'm
(46:07):
supportive, supportive best friend. Ididn't go to school today. I will
have to go tomorrow, though.Guess who my tutor for maths is?
Uh? Am? I likely toguess? No? Probably not? Okay.
(46:31):
Jeremy Bruce so cool and we likeJeremy. Yeah, Mike's radio friend
person I know through church. Yep. Okay cool? And yeah, getting
a tutor from maths because I've misseda lot of school and I'm getting behind
(46:53):
in maths because I wasn't very goodat it. Is this a school provided
one or a private? No?Just he's just doing it as a favor
to me. Oh cool? Yeah, because it's getting close to exams and
that's cool to catch up. Yeah, I absolutely have to find someone to
(47:15):
go with before the reunion slash party. Deborah thinks I should go with Anthony.
I'll start flirting with him tomorrow.So Anthony is Kevin's best friend.
Okay, all right, yeah,so this is all a setup. Yep.
(47:38):
Actually I don't want to go outwith Anthony, so I'll scrap that
idea, okay, Okay. Wednesday, November twenty first, nineteen ninety I
just ordered some Degrassy Junior high Ball. These are novels based on the show.
(48:06):
Yeah, yeah, well novelizations ofthe episodes or yeah, extent pretty
much. Yeah. They are StephanieKay, Shane Spike, and Joey Jeremiah.
Okay, okay. Kim is allowedto come with us the week we
(48:27):
go to Sandyton. Too cool,so actually coming with you, Yeah,
that's cool. I was allowed totake a friend on the trip because Mike
wasn't going, okay, yeah,because he had like work and stuff.
And I'm going back to school tomorrow, so excellent. And I'm babysitting this
(48:52):
Saturday from eleven thirty am to fivethirty pm and I get to take the
girls swimming. Excellent. And I'mbabysitting the weekend after and I will get
lots of dough. Nice, nice, very nice. I can't wait for
(49:13):
the Degrassy books to arrive. Ilove that show. This way, the
characters will always be with me.Maybe I can order some more because there
were more in the series. Sowas this from the individual character across the
different episodes or was that? Yeah, so they each book was about it.
(49:37):
Yeah, a different character and itjust followed some of the main storylines
from the episodes. Okay, allright, that character. Yeah, I
just found out that Richard O'Brien playsPrince Baron's friend in Flush Gordon. So
(49:58):
Richard O'Brien was the actor who playedRefraff in Rocky Horror. Yes, yep,
you're speaking my language with Flash Gordon. So yeah, I loved it.
You know what, That is thevery first movie I can remember seeing
it at the cinema. Okay,and as well as the movie itself,
(50:19):
the main thing I remember was leavingthe cinema and being absolutely shocked that it
was still daylight outside because it wasso dark in the movies. I just
thought it was night time. Ithink it was only about four or five
movie. Pretty good age for FlashGordon. Yeah, I still love that.
(50:42):
The soundtrack rocks. Yeah much.Anyway, I'm going to bed now
to dream about me being into Grassy. Okay, okay. Thursday, November
twenty second, nineteen ninety. DearJournal, that's a new one. I
(51:09):
haven't said Dear Diary for ages,and now suddenly I'm saying, Dear Journal,
I am home again. I hopeI feel better soon. De Grassi
Junior High is on soon. Itshould be the one where Snake asks Melanie
to the graduation dance. You've saidthat so much. You know what they
(51:32):
are? Oh? Yeah, sure. Sunday November twenty fifth, nineteen ninety.
Exam start tomorrow. Great Kim can'tcome to the Christmas party next Sunday
because she tore her achilles tendem ouchouch. Yeah, I'm asking Shona instead.
(52:01):
Babysitting was good. I saw Shonawhen I took the girls to the
park. She said Wade has abig head swell he thinks everybody likes him.
That would be bull hush cutting.When Shona stayed at Naomi's, they
(52:21):
made this tape of their own radiostation called nsr UB forty Jamaican Stereo Cool
Music for Cool People. They broadcastlive from Jamaica Upper palm tree. Oh,
the cringe is so hard my skullhas popped out my left ear.
But that kind of stuff was fun. Did you ever make a tape pretending
(52:46):
to be a radio announcer? Yes, I didn't let anyone else know,
though. It's nothing to be ashamedof. Yes, yes it was.
Yes, it was. When you'refourteen year old and you're making your own
(53:06):
cultural appropriation version of a radio station, that's a good point. Yeah,
it's like, Okay, Matthew camearound this afternoon and he and Clint came
in my room and Clint goes,will you help Matthew study tangent ratio?
(53:27):
And I said, no, Ihave to study history. Is that because
you don't know what he's asking for? I mean, very likely. Here's
the thing, he was really reallysmart. Yep, there is no way
he needed help with tangent ratio.Maybe this is a guy who went on
(53:52):
to study human movement at university.Yeah, he was looking for a different
type of tangent study. Yeah,and yeah, I probably had no idea
I had in maths, Tuodor,he was looking for his own human movement
studies. Yeah. Yes, Apparently, according to Debor, he doesn't know
(54:15):
that I don't like him. Ohokay, he's going to know now.
Yeah, no, I'm not goingto help you study. And just so
we're clear, friend of your brothersand he's in migrade at school. Okay,
ye, friend of your brothers.Him and your brother have come into
(54:38):
the room and he has asked youto help him study for something that's quite
clearly you don't know anything about.Nor does he need help with studying it
in front of your brother. Ohnot my brother. It's Clint a border
(55:00):
okay, but obviously trying to help. I was just about to say the
situation bold move, well played.I mean, that's oh okay, all
right, I said no anyway,I know. But still it's like to
(55:23):
have the guts to walk in andgo a you want to study in front
of someone else. It's like,oh, well, Clint was the one
he asked on his behalf. Yeahthat's what I'm Clint is basically his hookup
man. Yeah yeah, okay,as given the age differences, that's a
(55:45):
little uncomfortable. Yeah, do youwant to have it off with my friend?
Do you want to study? Okay? Study? Some of the dudes
in your life are shady, hey, yeah, okay, Yep, there's
that's I think it was the time. N I think it was just shady
dudes. Anyway, I must go. I have history of maths exams tomorrow.
(56:13):
See you later, okay, Okay, Monday in November twenty sixth,
nineteen ninety eight, twenty five am, Dear Diary. Looks like I will
be home again today. I havereally bad pain in my lower back,
which might be my kidneys. Itsucks. I was looking forward to going
(56:36):
to school. I've been studying allweekend, and now this has to happen.
Mom's taking me back to the doctor. I have to get a doctor's
certificate because I might miss these exams. Deborah might be in the paper and
on the news for her ballet,okay, because you went to her dancing.
(56:59):
I don't think it's been on yet, but I'm planning on it.
Yeah. Well, I don't havemuch more to say. I need a
boyfriend, do you though, Ithink I do. I think you're enough
without a boyfriend. Yeah, Ithink so too, but fourteen year old
me didn't. Clio is being areal silk, following me around everywhere and
(57:29):
cuddling up to me in bed andeverything. The birds are fine. Tully
is so cute. I haven't mentionedmy birds for a while, No you
haven't. Hm Ps. Missus Neilhates Veggie mighte. She is the mother
(57:50):
of the little girls I babysit,and she's from America. Okay, so
I would have asked her what shethought of veggiemite. Okay, that's a
pretty harsh call. PPS. Thewonder is he's on twice tonight. Twice?
Well, they would have gotten well, that's the thing, knowing how
(58:14):
that type of thing works, theywould have got through it as fast as
possible. Yeah, yep, becausethey paid for it. PPPs. Doogie
Howser was great last night. DoggieHowser? Yes, remember Doogie Yes with
baby Neil Patrick Harris. He stillkind of looks baby Neil Patrick do That
(58:40):
was a good show. I wanderif you can rewatch that somewhere. It's
going to be on some type ofstreaming service. I wonder how problematic it
is though, Oh yeah, that'swhy I want to watch it. It
would be interesting to see. It'slike teenage Boy. Examining particular the types
(59:00):
of patients scenarios would be interesting.There's there's the whole thing of like not
even that, but just like theinteractions with Winnie and all that type of
stuff. Mmmm yep, so yeah, I wouldn't mind watching that again.
M hm now it's four o fivepm. Went to the doctor again.
(59:29):
I have injured the ligaments in mylower back. Oh ow. It was
possibly caused by carrying Lindsey around inthe pool yesterday. Ah. Okay,
yeah, that's one of the girlsI was babysitting. I have to use
liniment and a hate lamp and havebackrubs. Yes, there's worse things than
(59:51):
having to have backrobs. Depending whogives you the backrops would have been my
mum. Okay, that's yep.I got a letter from Martin and one
from Pipper. Martin is my friendwho was at boarding school, and Pipper
was one of my friends from Cambridge. See you later Tuesday, November twenty
(01:00:20):
seven, nineteen ninety No school again. I can probably do my exams when
I return. It depends on whetherthe teachers think I need to do them
or not. I see, youmight get an exemption from it. Yeah,
and I would just average out allmy other marks from the semester.
Okay. I had the most amazingdream last night. There were other bits
(01:00:45):
apart from what I'm going to writeabout, but they don't matter me.
Mum and Dad were at someone's houseand it was late at night and we
were chatting to these people. Itwas mister and Missus Arnold from the Wonder
Is Yes. I had an Americanaccent, and I said, can I
go in and see Kevin please?Missus Arnold said, okay, but don't
(01:01:09):
be long. It's a school night. So I went in and there was
Kevin Arnold sitting up in a cozybed with a cream quilt, reading a
book. He had his bedside tablelampon and it was spreading a soft yellow
glow around the room. He waswearing the white T shirt with the blue
(01:01:30):
sleeves and collar. He gave methe Kevin Arnold smile. I went and
sat on the bed next to him, and I whispered in his ear,
still with an American accent, Ihave two things to tell you. I
started talking with an Australian accent againand said one I'm Australian, and two
(01:01:54):
I like you a lot, andthen I kind of kissed his ear.
Then all of a sudden, thedream changed and I was in the Arnold's
laund room. I was arranging somemagazines on the coffee table. I heard
Kevin talking to his mum about thisunknown person who had come into his room.
(01:02:15):
He said, she said she wasan American, she was Canadian,
and I yelled out, I didn'tsay that. I said I was Australian.
Then everyone stared at me, andI turned my head around and said
oops. Then the scene changed againto the hallway at Kevin's school, and
(01:02:35):
he was yelling, I don't evenlike her, he meant me. Then
it changed again and we were sittingon the steps of what looked like Winnie
Cooper's house from the outside, butit was a boarding school or a shopping
mall inside. I said to Kevin, do you want to go for a
walk to Harper's Woods? And hegoes ere. So we walked there hand
(01:03:00):
in hand, and the dream fadedout with us standing in front of the
tree that Paul, Winnie and Kevinhad carved their initials in, just holding
hands and looking at each other.You were kind of Kevin Haddold's guy.
Yeah, oh yeah, I thinkwe have a new obsession brewing. At
(01:03:22):
the start, you were a littlevery guy energy. I'm just going to
come into your house and lie aboutwhat I am and just then rearrange around
stuff. I asked his mom,I said, can I go in and
say I have? She said yes, under false pretenses of the fact that
you were pretending to be American.But then you hung around and rearrange the
(01:03:43):
magazines in the in the living room, and you kissed his ear. I
kissed his ear. Okay, well, all right, okay, just stalking
Kevin Arnold in my dream? Himps. But is it Kevin Arnold character or
do you think it develops into notthe actual real life actor? No,
(01:04:08):
it was Kevin Arnold. Where's thecharacter? Excuse me? Yeah? Okay,
that's that's quite a dream. That'sa very interesting dream too. Yeah.
I honestly I don't know where togo with that. It's okay,
you don't need to go anywhere,because that's it for this episode. Excellent.
(01:04:33):
It sets up next week very interestingly. Yes it does. Okay,
So, just as a little smallspoiler, are there any other Kevin Arnold
dreams coming? Yes? Okay,all right, okay, we will see
(01:04:58):
how that goes. Yep, it'sfine. It's a It just really threw
me for like, we're just We'retraveling along at a nice easy pace,
and it's like, oh, yeah, I was a bit randy from Kevin
Arnold. Yeah, here's a hottie. H Well, I honestly don't know
(01:05:26):
how to recover from that. IfI'm honest, it's just like, okay,
you all right, that's where we'reat. Everyone, Welcome to the
dream life of a teenage girl.Yeah, it's honestly a little spooky.
Yeah all right, Well, Ithink I'm going to go have a bex
(01:05:46):
and to lie down and just recoverfrom that revelation. And yeah, well
next week we will try and makesense of what I've just heard. I'm
sorry, I'm just I'm just reallywhat you've said has really thrown me.
That's really just control it, Iknow. But it's you say that like
(01:06:14):
it's an innocent thing, not likeyou were stalking a TV character in your
dream. But in the end heliked me and we were holding hands and
gazing into each other's eyes. Yeah, that's not gay. That sorry,
that's not guy energy at all.Is it that you wore down each other?
That you would I wore down dreamKevin and Arnold? Yeah, because
(01:06:40):
you confronted the poor dude sitting inhis dream bed and he's like, who
the hell is this? So muchso that he went outside and told his
parents, who the hell is that? And you've got I'm Australian mate.
I don't know. It must haveworked, and where's winning in all this?
(01:07:02):
I'd probably, I don't know,killed her before she's buried under the
tree where you're standing gazing buried herHarber's woods. Get her. That's why
you wanted to go there with him, just so you could have a romantic
moment standing over her freshly duk grave. You don't know we're standing above the
(01:07:26):
woman you love. I'm your winny, now all right, bestI will yes,
I'm going to have a small drinkand recover from that. And okay,
tell everyone where to go to followus on the socials for more information
on Diary of my Bestie. I'lltry and remember to get a photo of
(01:07:48):
the beanie with the big ferry pumppom on the top. I'll take a
photo and I'll send it to youso we can post it there. And
and yeah, and if you couldalso so maybe rate or review our podcast
on whichever platform you are listening toit, that would be amazing. That
(01:08:08):
does help us a lot. Ithelps more than with the algorithms that a
lot of people realize that even somethingas simple as a like helps, but
ratings really do jack up that algorithm. So absolutely all right, bestI Well,
I love you very much. Ilove you, and we will see
(01:08:29):
you and everyone else next week.Okay, bye, bye bye
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