October 10, 2024 • 53 mins
Why is Bestie applying coconut oil and lemon juice to various parts of her body?
Who is sneakily putting their slippers on mid-recording?
And what shocking statement does Bestie make about Lindy Chamberlain?
Listen in to find out.
And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!
Who is sneakily putting their slippers on mid-recording?
And what shocking statement does Bestie make about Lindy Chamberlain?
Listen in to find out.
And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I've known my bestI fifteen years now, But what was
she like before I met her? Welcome to Dire of
my Bestie, where she reads to me her childhood diaries
or Names and identifying places have been changed to protect
the innocent and the guilty. We're also staying anonymous. So
if you think you know us, catch your breath because
you didn't take a big breath in between the sentences, No,
(00:23):
you don't. Welcome back to Dire of my Bestie. Hello Bestie,
Hello Bestie. I was concentrating so hard on my flow
through the first and second sentences. I forgot to take
a breath after childhood diaries, and I got to innocent
and I was struggling, and I'm like, okay, we need
to call a time out to breathe or I'll collapse.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, you should probably remember to breathe.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It's kind of important.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I was like, now, don't because I always mess up
childhood diaries. I'm like, don't mess it up. Yeah, keep rolling,
you're on a roll. I'm like, breath oxygen.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I no, at least you, you know, got there before
you passed out.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
How are you going?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, I'm not bad.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's good. After last week's revelation of of the Wonder
Years slash Horny Dreams. It's wanted a bit of.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
A Kevin Arnold obsession.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
There slight one.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Not the brother. I always would have thought it would
have been the brother brain eh, but he was sort
of set up to be that type of character, for
you're not really supposed to have a crush on Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He was about to say ade just me.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He was cute, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, all right, well everyone strapped themselves in for this one.
Let's see how we go.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All right, It's Wednesday, November twenty eight, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Am.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I had a dream that I got all a's on
my report card except for in art, for which I
got to be. I don't even do art.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Pick up your game.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So you're right. If I did do art, I wouldn't
have got to be I'll probably be Sarah D.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You never know. It's all subjective. But jem, I've loved
do it to do art. But the problem is I
got swamped by the art theory. Okay, yeah, so it's like, yes,
I know a lot about all the artists and stuff
like that, but I want to get to making the art,
(02:47):
not just the talking about art.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, bloody theory. You always wreck everything.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I understand why, but still it's like, yeah, come on.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I know at my kids school they have some classes
that are called like in practice. Yes, and they do
most of the practical stuff and less of the theory.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I am going to see a different doctor. I feel
really bad. It's really hard to explain. I can't concentrate.
I feel really out of it all the time, Like
after an overnight skate, I feel like I haven't slept
when I have, I don't even feel like moving. And
(03:44):
the only thing I can think of without losing concentration
is the wonder is.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I get headaches?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I've lost my appetite. I hope the doctor can find
out that's wrong. It's been going on for weeks now.
I just hope that it's not psychiatric, that it's not
just my imagination. I'm starting to get a little bit worried.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Here do we find a resolution that's good.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Or eventually yeah, okay, cool, yeah, later, I had another
blood test. There are two things she thinks could be
causing all these hassles. One anemia, which I think I
was cleared of quite recently.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But it's one of those things too. It's like, if
you're not eating a lot, you're not getting enough iron.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yah, that's true, yep. And two a virus that she's
seen in a few patients in the last few weeks
that usually just runs its course.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have you been sick for a long time though, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah? On and off since Yes, about July, l like winter, Yeah, okay,
now it's November. Yeah. I wonder if Fred Savage is
anything like Kevin Arnold. Kevin Arnold has everything great looks, voice, personality, intelligence, charm.
(05:24):
All I know about Fred is that he has great looks, voice,
and acting ability. I really need to find someone who
is just like Kevin Arnold.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Your face, I was okay when we started this. I
wasn't expecting Kevin Kevin Arnold.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
All right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm not here to yuck your young but still.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, I've been remembering my dreams in detail ever since
Mum started giving me backrups.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Okay, interesting, Well maybe you're sleeping more soundly and I might.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Be, yeah, because she did tend to give them to
me just before I went to bed Thursday, November twenty nine,
nineteen ninety to Gracie Junior High is on today. It
should be the one where blt asks Michelle to the
graduation dance. I don't really remember my dream last night,
(06:34):
but I think there was something about Seventh Day Adventists
in it, probably because I just watched Evil Angels The
Chamberlains Without Religion. I'm beginning to have second thoughts about
Lindy Chamberlain being innocent.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I can't believe I wrote that.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So you think that she did it?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yes, I mean I don't think she would have done
something like that. But the tests show human results, no
dingos whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, but you're also going off the results that were
shown to be biased and not.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, done well, but knowing that at the.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Time forensic scientists who were out there verifying what they're.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Finding for those who have no idea what we're talking about.
There was a very very famous case in Australian history
where a woman was charged with murder after her.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Baby died.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yes, and she always maintained that it was a dingo.
Those are out camping in the middle of Australia and yeah, yeah, yeah,
and a dingo went in the tent, grabbed the baby
in and took off with her and.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's where the baby comes from.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, it did turn out that she was innocent, but
not before she was charged with murder and she was
put in jail, and she was exonerated at a later
date when more evidence came to light, better testing, and
it was.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Shown shown that the people investigating had an agenda And
what did solve the case more than actually find the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yep, it was just messed up in so many places
throughout the entire investigation. It was a mess. But yeah,
I guess back then I would have only seen what
was in the media and in Mum's Woman's Day.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Magazine, all that anyone saw. And that's and I think
she's even admitted herself is that she wasn't in control
of the narrative.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, but like knowing now that, like how adamant I
am that she was innocent, and like reading this back
is like I can't believe I believed that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Having second thoughts.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Healthy, healthy doubt is always a sign of maturity.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't think Lindy Chamberlain is reading this, but if
she is, I'm really sorry that I doubted you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, reading diaries right now, then we have bigger questions
and what you wrote this is true. She's in the
cupboard going, oh, best, you wrote a diary.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
If you were listening to this episode once it has
been released, not if you have a cupboard listening to
us recorded.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yes, yes, hello, Well, shouted out to Lindy table.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Hi, Lindy, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, okay, sorry about your baby. Actually that's probably a
bit more like sorry, sorry that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Happened, very sorry, very sorry. Well, it looks like this
diary is Nelly finished.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
What are we going to do next?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Later, well, I'm not an emic, but there is something there,
something where in my blood test.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Probably yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The doctor is just putting it down to this virus
thing that is going around. I haven't got all the
test results back, but if there's anything drastic, she'll call M.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So maybe a long COVID style disease that just doesn't
get shaken.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I can't find my blasted plate.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Could be chronic fatigue, sindrew m.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's what I remember.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I said that well while back in my diaries that I.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Thought it could be that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Why can't you find.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Out it's my be my orthodontic plate.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Okay, I was just thinking like, go to the carbet
and get another one, like.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Okay, it's taking.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It down out and now I can't find it. My
dearest darling ist diary so.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Far, So back to diary instead of journal.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah. I thank you for the good times. I thank
you for the sad, thank you for the happy. I
thank you for the mad. I thank you for the
secrets that you and I have shared. I thank you
for the times you let me know you cared. I
thank you for the records and the tables you have kept.
I thank you for not caring when I wet, you
(11:55):
when I wept. I thank you for being a very
special friend. I'm really very sorry these pages had to end.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Very nice, very nice. That wedding line that was like,
where's this going? And I'm like, woh, you landed it perfectly.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Of course your mind would go there.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We were just speaking about someone spilling rum and cocone something,
so that's where I was like, yeah, okay, when did
you spill water on you on your dough?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And so, once more, my dear folks, I go through
the ritual of ending a diary.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Here goes.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
This diary was opened on Sunday, August twenty sixth nineteen
ninety and was closed on Thursday, November twenty nine, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It didn't last very long.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, maybe it was a small dough pariments.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You are allowed to read this by permission of the author,
of course, on the condition that it shall not be lent, sold,
or hired out without the author's permission.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
If this has done so.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Punishment will almost definitely include death.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
This is something you normally put at the front of
the document so the reader knows before reading.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oops, be too late now.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No bits of this book shall be copied in any way,
either in whole or in part, by anyone without the
author's permission. Copyright past, present, and future to be published
when I am dead, though, make sure you change people's
names though, or use a secret.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Code in brackets. Or made into a podcast. What's a podcast?
It's something you play on an iPod? What's an iPod?
More about that later. It's fine. You're breaking your own
ula essentially. Yes, and you wrote me into it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It did say with permission, it was okay, with the
author's permission, and I'm the author.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, But it didn't mention anything about like you said
no copying, and it said no, didn't say anything about broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I have changed people's names.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, well you won't get sued.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, I'll just see you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, thank you for your kind cooperation. Happy New Year,
happy Birthday, Happy fourth of July, happy but still day,
Happy Thanksgiving, happy anniversary, happy Easter, happy congratulations, happy engagement,
happy marriage, happy divorce, happy baby, happy death, happy Christmas,
(14:42):
happy inter planet. Till day the end, see you, next diary.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Did you mention what did you mention? What pill you
just dropped before you wrote that?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That was interesting?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I want to know what was your mindset when you
wade that and you've got that's so witty.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, I don't know. That's really strange.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So now we're into the next diary. But it's still
the same day. Just a new book.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Ah, so you've literally run out of space. Yeah, you
ran out of space writing The Big Farewell.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So it's still Thursday, November twenty nine, nineteen ninety. But
it's now eight o'clock pm, Dear Diary. I went to
the orthodontist. Everything is going okay, except we still have
to wait for those teeth to come in. I'm having
an X ray soon and if the teeth haven't moved.
(15:47):
I might have to have an operation. Wires will be
attached to the teeth and the end's left protruding out
of my gums. These will be attached to a plate
of some kind which will gently pull on the teeth
and slowly them down.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, so total war in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah. Deborah rang Her and Kevin are on the rocks
again for the nine millionth seven hundred and fifty six
thousandth one hundred and twenty fifth time this week.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
She's probably found out this other chick likes him and
he's options. Yeah. I think she's probably told him and
he hasn't reacted the way that she wanted to, and
now he's in this ship.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Maybe Peter Feldman is in on it too. That's one
of Kevin's very good friends. So it's pretty bad for Deborah.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, yeah, so that's Kevin doing it, not Deborah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes, okay, it sounds like Peter's China get Kevin to
Dumper or something.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I don't Maybe Peter's got unrequented love for Kevin.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Oh, it has a lot to do with Christine Schofield. Okay,
that's Kevin's ex girlfriend from hockey. Hm HM, dad gave
me this diary. I said, do you have anything I
could use as a diary and he said, only an
old exercise book. So I said that's okay. So he
(17:19):
went to the cupboard, shuffled around and came up with this.
So it wasn't just an old exercise book. It was
like a really nice kind of hardcover exercise book. It
was quite quite nice. The Wonder Years was excellent as usual.
It was about Kevin Arnold having trouble in math I
(17:43):
could obviously relate to.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That wasn't every wasn't every episode Kevin Arnold has trouble with.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Dot dot something.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Home and Away was good too. It ended with Bobby
I think miscarrying. I won't find out until next year though.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, because like we talked about, this is the end
of season.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, end of year cliffhangers. I missed those where you
literally had to wait months, yes to find out what happened.
I saw Degrassi Junior High. It was the Michelle and
Blt episode. I taped it so I could read the credits.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Okay, that's getting hardcore.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
H Friday, November thirty, nineteen ninety ten, twenty two Am, Dear, diary.
I have to have my X ray for my teeth
at one point fifteen PM. I what fun. Actually, it
is rather fun. There's a thing that goes around your
head and just when you think your skull is going
(19:02):
to crack, you hear a big clink and it's all over.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's just can be a scary exercise, it can.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's it's interesting that I'm saying it's rather fun thinking
my skull is going to crack though.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, but you're a little bit hardcore like that.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, I'm a bit weird. Eleven forty four am. I
just caught mum peeking out this diary.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, she broke the U came up. What she broke
the terms and conditions of the dice.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
She did reading it without permission. I came up to
my room just in time to see her lean over
my bed and lift the cover to look at the
first page. I said, don't look at that, and she
turned around and said, I wasn't. I was just looking
at these photographs. They went photos. They were Dolly postcards
(20:04):
that were on my bed. What a nerve, she looked,
so guilty. I will hide this diary in future, probably
in my pillow case. Okay, nobody'll ever find it there.
(20:24):
I can't wait until Christmas. It is my favorite time
of year. I usually go through a new phase. I think, act, dress,
and speak differently. I have different ideas and feelings. I
think differently about things. I act differently towards people. I
dress a little more differently than I have been. I
(20:46):
don't like following fashion, and I change my type of speech,
including things like articulation, speed, and what words I use.
I have different interests and my tastes in music, clothes, etc.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Change.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm usually influenced by relatives I see over the holidays.
They might wear their clothes away I've never seen before,
or listen to music that I haven't heard before, and
then I start to like it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That was very introspective.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It was very much so.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I really like The Wonder Years. It is such a
great show.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Twelve forty five pm.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm waiting for something to happen with your Kevin Arnold thing.
It's I'm basically stealing myself.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Praise yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Twelve forty five pm, car Park Cole's New World. Heard
that for a while, No, no, oh, you're.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Just flooding my brain with flashback stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Carl's New World. So that would have been when it
was still a variety store, yeah, not just a supermarket.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
No, So that was yeah, yeah, because that's how it
originally started off.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, my goodness, it's really hot. Sitting here in the car.
There are quite a few kids my age walking around.
There was also a kid in school uniform riding a
skateboard through the car park. As I was saying, I
really liked the wonder Is. Even though it is set
(22:41):
in the past, it seems so today ish. Even some
of the clothes they wear are so brilliant, even though
the clothes mum wore back then was so daggy.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That's I'm sort of this whole introspect. Things sort of
thrown me, Like your mum was stylish. Your mom was stylish.
That's not like your mum wasn't daggy.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
She was. I've seen photos of her in like the sixties,
and her clothes were cool.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, they weren't daggy at all.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, But like most things, it's the context of the
time that's what you use. Sure, that's what everyone sort
of well at and in the sixties. Yet and now
at the time, that's what was considered fashionable. So yeah,
it wasn't that your mum was daggy. It was the
whole decade was daggy.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, but I wonder why. I think the Wonder Years
closes are brilliant, but mums weren't when they were from
the same era.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, I actually know this. They actually had a real
fashion designer on the show who specially tailored clothes. So
it wasn't at the age where you'd go back and
you'd get like vintage pieces. They actually had a professional
(24:08):
tailor recut clothes in a modern style like the sixties
seventies closed, but in a modern style, so it was
all looked fresh and updated, and it sort of it
was a blending of it was seventies, sixties and seventies
close with like a nineties tailoring fusion. Yeah, not intentional,
(24:31):
but just the people who made the clothes for the
show made it with modern techniques but old but old.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, so where the seams were a little bit more
technologically put together and things sat a lot better because
there was more. It was cut more with a modern
way as opposed to the seventies, sixties, seventies, which is like, yeah,
this is what the shirt shape.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I don't think your mum would have had access to
a person who would make shirts for them personally, No,
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I suppose you're wondering what we're doing here. We're on
the way to the X ray place. Mum just had
to duck into Maya to get something or pay off
lay byes or whatever mums do at.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The shops or whatever mums do it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Mystery later, I'm now in the backyard with refoil on
my legs.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, do you remember that, I have no idea what
refoil is.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It was suntan oil. It's like smellt like coconut, smelt
really good, but the SPF was like two or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Bestps on coconut oil was about minus thirty one hundred
and eighty degrees for about two hours. Put something pepper
on the top with a bit of oil and you'll
come out with a nice crackling.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So yeah, the idea was to get as brown as possible.
Smelt so good, though, I've got reef oil on my
legs and lemon juice hair.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hay on hay on hay on reef oil. Mm hmm, okay,
I know what reef oil is. Just the way you
said it was like realfoil.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh no, refoil.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, so just your your original pronunciation was real foil,
and I'm like refoil, reef oil. I know what refoil is. Yes,
I agree, smelt great everything like that, But sorry, I
didn't catch the break in the two words.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Quite all right, that was And I had lemon juice
in my hair and on my.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Freckles, as one did at the time.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It was a style of the time, didn't I just
diet dark brown though.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Look, I'm not going to tell you how to suck eggs,
but yes.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Hopefully I will look okay for Dad's club Christmas party
on Sunday. I just looked at my legs and they're
brown already. I've only been out here for five minutes. Yeah,
because they're cooked.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, quite literally, coconut curry.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, my.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Ten four pm.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Life begins, Life is born, life lives, life dies.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
What the hell are you on Where you've just turned
into this like Greek theologian just writing the tones of
the world. It gets better. Where where is the passages
about boning? Kevin Maarnalds mhm.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But life is worth death, death is worth life when
you are living it, you live in everything. When you die,
you still live in the hearts and minds of others.
(28:26):
Don't let other people down. Live life to the fullest.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Be happy.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Isn't that how you want to be remembered. Make people's
memories of you be fond, live forever in their hearts.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The cringe factory, What the hell up? Oh, it's just that.
That's that's the the My only, my only thing with
your eating your diaries to me is what I want
is behind the scenes interview with you five minutes before
you wrote a particular entry, just to go. Now you're
(29:12):
about to write something, why not afterwards? And I want
to know after why you write it. I want to
know what was your thought pattern just before you went.
I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to
bang down a few lines of prose and change the world.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Here. I am not liking Matthew because he wrote me
a poem.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Then I come out with this crap.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And your guys talking. Kevin, you're at your PM. You're
a person of contradiction, Yes.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Very much so.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
But now yeah eleven PM, so what thirty six minutes later? Yes,
so many girls have lost their virginity. Forty seven girls
lost it when they were thirteen to fifteen. Maybe it
is about time I did something about mine.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, so that peer pressure with no one pressuring you.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Probably a statistic I read in Dolly magazine.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's what I'm thinking right there, Yes, very much. So
that's like smack bang, you're reading it and you've gone, oh,
you know, everyone else is having a root. I should
probably get in all that.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
That does sound dumb, but it's true. I'll just hold
out until the next guy I really care about comes along.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Give me twenty minutes. We'll have that.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Sort And that is only if he is as gentle
as Paul, as caring as Nick, and as slow as Brendan.
Oh my god, did I really just write something nice
about Brendan. Let me rephrase that last bit. As long
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as he doesn't kiss as badly as Brendan or Nick
for that matter, good standards.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Okay, you're basically gone. A magazine told me I should
be a randy slot, but these dudes need to chill.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, I've got to find one who's a better kisser
than them.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, that's not a high bar you're setting for you
you're like basic comp and sy and you've got my
panties essentially is what you've got pretty much. Okay, maybe
it's time to go back to an all night skate.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I have to go now. I have a lot to
do tomorrow, clean the birds, clean my room, have a shower,
shave my legs, ring Kim, and heaps of other things.
See you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Saturday, December.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
First, I like the idea of your mom. Just previous,
the start of this whole entry was mom was trying
to read by Diary, and then the entry you wrote is, Oh,
here's the plan for me to get a root, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Hiding it in my pillow case. I'm sure it will
be fun.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, you're hiding it now.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
But all right, right, dear Diary, I'm babysitting. There is
this excellent thing about aids on MTV.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It is so cool.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Maybe yeah, yeah, not worded very well there. Sadie was
a real brat tonight. She just kept hitting Lucy for nothing,
and she won't stay in bed. She keeps getting out,
throwing toys on the floor and saying Lucy did it,
which wouldn't have been possible because Lucy was a baby
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in a in a court, so I don't know where.
Maybe she's like that baby in Bewitched. Yes, she's getting
the toys to levitate into her court and then throwing
them out.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, she's a masterline who's sitting up her sister.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, today was boring because The Wonder Years wasn't on.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh no, yeah, well it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I did see Dot and the Kangaroo though, classic assy movie.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh, I don't know if I've seen that one.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's it was my in the I know what.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I know what the movie is. You haven't seen it.
I haven't seen it. There's lots of stuff I haven't seen.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Just still like it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I was a weird ud who's watched things, not that
everyone else did.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
That's cut out. It's what makes you.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
We can't all be randy for Kevin d.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I want to go and watch this AIDS thing now
until tomorrow. Sunday, December two, nineteen ninety eight, forty three am.
Dear Diary, I didn't tell you Friday Night's Dream?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay? Do I need to stress in for this? How weird?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
It's kind of long, so I can't see all of
it all right, I'm just green.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Right now. I'm going to sit here and close my
eyes and let you tell me your dream.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It was a school dream, not my school, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Arnold's, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He was sitting in the library across the table from
a girl who was half Lisa Bellini half his dream girl.
They had a year nine maths textbook spread out between
them and they were holding hands over it and writing
messages to each other in purple pen on the pages.
Then it panned into Kevin's face, which kept turning between
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his and Zach Morris's. That would be saved by the
bell Zach, couldn't it?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yep, keep groove.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, that was it for that dream, okay, But then
it says last night's dream was funny. I went back
to school, my school, but it looked a little bit different.
Peppa Hastings, who was my friend from Interstate, met me
at the gate. I walked a form class with her
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and everyone admired my short hair. Then I went into
the room and mister Carver was there and I said hi, sir,
and he said, quick, have a seat. That was rather difficult,
as there were extra tables and they were all squashed together.
But I found somewhere to sit, and I was handed
this piece of paper which was an exam. It was
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flimsy typewriter paper, and the typing was really bad. It
was typed in all capitals, and there were eight numbered
questions with no space to write the answers, and the
questions were dumb. They were all about netball.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
That is weird.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
That is weird.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
If anybody out there is a dream interpreter, please feel
free to tell me what any of these dreams mean.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Alf do you figure it out?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yes? Yep.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Later.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
So now I am at that Christmas party of my
dad's and Shona is with me, yep, and we are
writing back and forth in my Okay, yep. So a
Christmas party was at a place where there was a
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barbecue and it was outdoors and there was like a
swimming pool and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
See typical eighties, early nineties worth yeah thing, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah me, Shona, tell my diary a little bit about
yourself and why you are called ruther Glen girl.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Shona.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Okay, hi Diary, I'm Shona. They call me Shona because
dickhead is not too polite. I have blonde hair, it's permed,
and about shoulder length, taller than Bestie and shorter than Mike.
At the moment, two fifteen pm on Sunday, December two,
nineteen ninety going out with Wesley. I am called ruther
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Glenn Girl because my mother is sending me to ruther
Glenn L eighties College next year for one year, my
final year. What a big suck.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Me.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
At least you're not boarding, Shona. Actually I'd rather be
bording because on information Day we had a look through
the boarding houses. They're so excellent. If I was boarding,
it would be easier to get expelled, which is my
school time goal. I'm going to get expelled and go
back to my friends at Hill High.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I can. That's a solid plan.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yes. How cool were the dorms?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Why, Shona?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Well, there were about one hundred and fifty double bunks
in each building. There were posters everywhere, loud music playing
and screaming girls.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Jumping from bunk to bunk.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Me.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I hope guy turns up to this party.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Okay, wasn't I just saying he was a creep, weirdo.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Big rapist energy.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, yeah, he's funny.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
If he brings Wesley, will you get with him? If
you do, I might be able to have a little
fun with Guy.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Okay, Now I'm uncomforting, Shana.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
If you don't mind me getting with Wesley, I probably will,
but I wouldn't get with him if you'd be left out.
So as long as you're going to get with Guy,
I'll get with Wesley. But I kind of hope he
won't bring Wesley me. Well, I don't think i'd go
any further than kissing Guy. If Wesley is there, go
for it. Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
You're only young ones enjoyous.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Why don't you my wise words of wisdom? You're only
young once? Why don't you want Wesley there? Though? Are
you scared of not feeling the same for him as
you did a few saturdays ago? If so, I know
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the feeling show not Yep, that's it. You always know
how I feel. What would I do without you?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Not that I'm gonna get with a guy or anything
like that as well.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Okay, Now it's ten ten pm, okay, and there's no
mention of Guy or Wesley. So I'm guessing they didn't
end up turning up at this party.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Okay, because I'm sure you would have written about it.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
So yes, I rang Samantha Hill. She sounds so different.
She's one of my friends from Cambridge. Okay, and it's
been how many years almost three years since I've seen her.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
It'd be better, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, she's still going with Ross. So she's had this
same boyfriend for a probably about two years or something
ever since she started high school something like that. It's
really hot, thirty degrees that is pretty hot.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
For ten ten at night.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, and it'd be humid too, because it's the November
December humid hots.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Yeah, and that's.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Where I've stopped it.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, So just that entry or that diary.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Trust this entry in this episode, Remember why I cut
it off here. Maybe there's something juicy coming next time.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Potentially that that's I'm thrown a little bit by the
whole guy thing where yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
It's like it's like ill, guy, he's so gross?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Oh guy?
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Yeah, Okay, might consider.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
That was was it you being facetious with your friend?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Probably not, I don't think so. Maybe it was just like, hey,
the opportunities there, Maybe I just take.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
It something to do. Plus, you're remember you're getting into
your whole phase where you're just to lose, like maybe
you're going, well, guy might be the one, So.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Thinking about that now, I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
No, well, you may have been the catalyst changed him
into someone who was great.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Did he become great? Though?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Can we can we find out? Do you know where
guy is? Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
For?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Says?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I mean, he's not terrible, but he's not all that.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay, not everyone can be all that.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
His name will keep cropping up.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
It's just it's an interesting.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Thing that like, it is very interesting.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Why would you say that? But also on the other hand,
I could see that you sort of stewing and frowing
and like give everyone a chance. That's the type of
person you are.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
So it might have been because he was a short thing.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yeah, and you were, and like I said, you're on
the hunt for You felt the pressure. Honestly, you felt
the pressure.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
To lose your gin based on statistics because none of
my good friends were doing it.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
So not to psychoanalyze anyone, but at fourteen, you're so
desperate to be normal. You don't want to be the
one standing out, and you being more normal than your
friends would have been a point of important distinction for you.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Probably I knew people who were having sex, but nobody
I was like really close.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
To yeah, so you would have been the first through
the door. You would have been a trailblazer out.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Of my friends.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah yeah, and you were given the permission to do
so by statistics.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
It was like almost half.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
So it's like, why aren't we doing this?
Speaker 5 (44:43):
Everyone else's yeah, that's interesting, but guy, no, don't go there. Ill,
well you didn't by ger Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, this is a little bit shorter, but this was
filled with insightfulness and a bit of cringey prose.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's very cringey, but.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Coming towards the end of the year and you just
finished a diary and all that type of thing, so
there is yeah, moments of reflection and introspection, all those
action words whatever they are.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
And I'll tell you now, I am very much looking
forward to nineteen ninety one, to sharing my nineteen ninety
one entries with you.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
So you don't have to spoil them for me. But
is it is there action or is it very emotional driven?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Both?
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Okay, all right? Do we have a main character, yes,
for a long period of time or just a whole
series of main characters?
Speaker 3 (46:07):
No, for a long period?
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Okay, that's good, Oh.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
More so a recurring character. But who recurs for long
periods of time.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Okay, So like our for lack of a better term,
our through our three thread through nineteen ninety one is
a single character who influences your world in a significant way.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Yes, a very significant way.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
An emotional roller coaster. I'm here for that ride, but.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Just it's going to be quite a ride.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, I just I don't like seeing you hurt, you
know that.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
So I'm excited that we're getting closer.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Okay, And just to refresh my memory, the dude who
tried to get you there for a pool party? What
was his name? Is that Kevin? That was that was Kent?
Does Kent ever come back or is he just off
of his pools?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
No? I think his name will be because I haven't
been skating for ages.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah, that might be why he's not come up.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
You return to skating that type of thing, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Yeah? Yeah, because like Kent goes to my school, but
we don't really see each other much at school because
we don't do any of not in any of the
same classes or anything like that. So usually if I
saw him, it was at skating Okay, cool? Yeah, So
so yeah, well I hope he does because that.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Would be fun.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yeah, I'll be like, I'm sort of I'm getting the like,
I know, it's it's taken a lot of episodes, but
I'm getting sort of the vibe how it all fits
together and building all these pieces and stuff. So there's
a lot of people to keep a track of, but
I'm sort of I don't necessarily have to know each
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individual person's full catalog because I can see how it's
sort of I can see how through your narrative everyone
is sort of slotting in and moving out and yeah, yeah,
because at the start there's a bit overwhelming trying to
go okay, so do I have to care about this person?
What does that person think? Yeah, I'm more settling into
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your reactions to the people as opposed to the people themselves.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
So for those of you who've been thinking that, you know,
this diary is kind of maybe getting a bit monotonous,
a bit same old, same old things are definitely going
to ramp up.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Well, Like, to be honest, yes it has been getting
a bit monotonous, but it's in a in like most
stories and most good fiction, you need to establish the
rhythm because you can't understand how much the world is
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shaken up until you understand how much the world was beforehand.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
And you sort of you there was a difference. I
can definitely tell a narrative difference between you as thirteen
and you're at fourteen, and you've sort of gone, okay, bang,
this is this is my current normal. And you've been
sick for five six months, so you're like, okay, getting
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back into it. You've missed out on a few social things,
your normal social interactions, so it is different from how
you were at thirteen, but in such a way where
you'd found a a type of monotony. It's like, I'm sick,
didn't go to school. I'm sick, I haven't gone here.
(49:54):
And that's important for everyone to understand because when you
get over your sickness and you get back into it,
how it's so different from what you used to do
is what's going to make it so interesting and important. Yes, yeah, definitely,
And how you and how you deal because I would say,
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and you can tell me if I'm right or not.
One of the struggles I think you'll probably face is
that you've had six months of not really being fourteen,
where the people who you're about to interact with had
that six months of being fourteen and working through those
mistakes and doing those things, and you're going to be
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a little bit fish out of water because you're going
headlong into the back half of fourteen and starting to
fifteen and you're half a step behind. Would would that
be sounder.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Right for a little while? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, But that's sort of that's the I'm guessing that's
what the start of season ninety one will be. Is
you like, oh, wow, everyone's now going up to the
next grade and they're all turning fifteen and people are
having sex and all that type of thing, and you're like, whoa,
hang on, slide down everyone and catch up.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Let's to say, it doesn't take me long to make
up for lost time.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I'm sure it doesn't, I know how efficient you are,
But that that catching up period will be I think
for me one of the most interesting parts of it,
because it's like that you go from it's always interesting
the person rushing to catch up, the necessarily the person
(51:48):
that the monotony turns from you having a monotonous end
of the fourteen end of nineties, everyone else at the
start of the year ninety one is having monotonous sort of. Yeah,
that's the next bit of it, and you're like, I'm
making up for lost time. Let's go, And that's I
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think that's where it's going to get interesting, not knowing
the story, but I'm what I think is that your
eagerness to catch up is what drives a lot of
the most interesting aspects of it.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
Yeah. I could very well.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Be right, or I could be very much wrong. But
the good part is I get to I get to
learn it, and you get to tell me yes, yes, okay, bestie.
Well it's the middle of winter here and I'm freezing,
and I know you're freezing, and yeah, I very smoothly,
and no one probably realized I've got to put my
slippers on halfway through the episode, and I know that
(52:50):
you looked at me, going, what the hell are you doing,
because I was doing a little bit of stretch armstrong
reaching for things. But yeah, viewers at home couldn't tell.
I was smoothly putting onto mug boots.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
So I've still got a cat at my feet, so
my feet are warm.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
All right, Bestie, I love you very much. Please tell
the people about the Instagram and the thing.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
At diary of my Bestie, come and join us have
some fun.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
But I'm gonna have ice cream.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
And okay, I'm gonna bush my teeth and go to bit.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Sounds good, all right, bestI? Alright, everyone, I love you
very much.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
I love you, and.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
We'll see everyone next week. Bye, goodbye
I've known my bestI fifteen years now, But what was
she like before I met her? Welcome to Dire of
my Bestie, where she reads to me her childhood diaries
or Names and identifying places have been changed to protect
the innocent and the guilty. We're also staying anonymous. So
if you think you know us, catch your breath because
you didn't take a big breath in between the sentences, No,
(00:23):
you don't. Welcome back to Dire of my Bestie. Hello Bestie,
Hello Bestie. I was concentrating so hard on my flow
through the first and second sentences. I forgot to take
a breath after childhood diaries, and I got to innocent
and I was struggling, and I'm like, okay, we need
to call a time out to breathe or I'll collapse.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, you should probably remember to breathe.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It's kind of important.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I was like, now, don't because I always mess up
childhood diaries. I'm like, don't mess it up. Yeah, keep rolling,
you're on a roll. I'm like, breath oxygen.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I no, at least you, you know, got there before
you passed out.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
How are you going?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, I'm not bad.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's good. After last week's revelation of of the Wonder
Years slash Horny Dreams. It's wanted a bit of.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
A Kevin Arnold obsession.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
There slight one.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Not the brother. I always would have thought it would
have been the brother brain eh, but he was sort
of set up to be that type of character, for
you're not really supposed to have a crush on Kevin.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
He was about to say ade just me.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He was cute, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Okay, all right, well everyone strapped themselves in for this one.
Let's see how we go.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
All right, It's Wednesday, November twenty eight, nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Am.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I had a dream that I got all a's on
my report card except for in art, for which I
got to be. I don't even do art.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Pick up your game.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So you're right. If I did do art, I wouldn't
have got to be I'll probably be Sarah D.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You never know. It's all subjective. But jem, I've loved
do it to do art. But the problem is I
got swamped by the art theory. Okay, yeah, so it's like, yes,
I know a lot about all the artists and stuff
like that, but I want to get to making the art,
(02:47):
not just the talking about art.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, bloody theory. You always wreck everything.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I understand why, but still it's like, yeah, come on.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I know at my kids school they have some classes
that are called like in practice. Yes, and they do
most of the practical stuff and less of the theory.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I am going to see a different doctor. I feel
really bad. It's really hard to explain. I can't concentrate.
I feel really out of it all the time, Like
after an overnight skate, I feel like I haven't slept
when I have, I don't even feel like moving. And
(03:44):
the only thing I can think of without losing concentration
is the wonder is.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I get headaches?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I've lost my appetite. I hope the doctor can find
out that's wrong. It's been going on for weeks now.
I just hope that it's not psychiatric, that it's not
just my imagination. I'm starting to get a little bit worried.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Here do we find a resolution that's good.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Or eventually yeah, okay, cool, yeah, later, I had another
blood test. There are two things she thinks could be
causing all these hassles. One anemia, which I think I
was cleared of quite recently.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But it's one of those things too. It's like, if
you're not eating a lot, you're not getting enough iron.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yah, that's true, yep. And two a virus that she's
seen in a few patients in the last few weeks
that usually just runs its course.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have you been sick for a long time though, haven't you?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah? On and off since Yes, about July, l like winter, Yeah, okay,
now it's November. Yeah. I wonder if Fred Savage is
anything like Kevin Arnold. Kevin Arnold has everything great looks, voice, personality, intelligence, charm.
(05:24):
All I know about Fred is that he has great looks, voice,
and acting ability. I really need to find someone who
is just like Kevin Arnold.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Your face, I was okay when we started this. I
wasn't expecting Kevin Kevin Arnold.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
All right, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm not here to yuck your young but still.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, I've been remembering my dreams in detail ever since
Mum started giving me backrups.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Okay, interesting, Well maybe you're sleeping more soundly and I might.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Be, yeah, because she did tend to give them to
me just before I went to bed Thursday, November twenty nine,
nineteen ninety to Gracie Junior High is on today. It
should be the one where blt asks Michelle to the
graduation dance. I don't really remember my dream last night,
(06:34):
but I think there was something about Seventh Day Adventists
in it, probably because I just watched Evil Angels The
Chamberlains Without Religion. I'm beginning to have second thoughts about
Lindy Chamberlain being innocent.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I can't believe I wrote that.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So you think that she did it?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yes, I mean I don't think she would have done
something like that. But the tests show human results, no
dingos whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, but you're also going off the results that were
shown to be biased and not.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, done well, but knowing that at the.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Time forensic scientists who were out there verifying what they're.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Finding for those who have no idea what we're talking about.
There was a very very famous case in Australian history
where a woman was charged with murder after her.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Baby died.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yes, and she always maintained that it was a dingo.
Those are out camping in the middle of Australia and yeah, yeah, yeah,
and a dingo went in the tent, grabbed the baby
in and took off with her and.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
That's where the baby comes from.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, it did turn out that she was innocent, but
not before she was charged with murder and she was
put in jail, and she was exonerated at a later
date when more evidence came to light, better testing, and
it was.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Shown shown that the people investigating had an agenda And
what did solve the case more than actually find the truth.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yep, it was just messed up in so many places
throughout the entire investigation. It was a mess. But yeah,
I guess back then I would have only seen what
was in the media and in Mum's Woman's Day.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Magazine, all that anyone saw. And that's and I think
she's even admitted herself is that she wasn't in control
of the narrative.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, but like knowing now that, like how adamant I
am that she was innocent, and like reading this back
is like I can't believe I believed that.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Having second thoughts.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Healthy, healthy doubt is always a sign of maturity.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't think Lindy Chamberlain is reading this, but if
she is, I'm really sorry that I doubted you.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, reading diaries right now, then we have bigger questions
and what you wrote this is true. She's in the
cupboard going, oh, best, you wrote a diary.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
If you were listening to this episode once it has
been released, not if you have a cupboard listening to
us recorded.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yes, yes, hello, Well, shouted out to Lindy table.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Hi, Lindy, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, okay, sorry about your baby. Actually that's probably a
bit more like sorry, sorry that.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Happened, very sorry, very sorry. Well, it looks like this
diary is Nelly finished.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
What are we going to do next?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Later, well, I'm not an emic, but there is something there,
something where in my blood test.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Probably yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The doctor is just putting it down to this virus
thing that is going around. I haven't got all the
test results back, but if there's anything drastic, she'll call M.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So maybe a long COVID style disease that just doesn't
get shaken.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I can't find my blasted plate.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Could be chronic fatigue, sindrew m.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's what I remember.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I said that well while back in my diaries that I.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Thought it could be that.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Why can't you find.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Out it's my be my orthodontic plate.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Okay, I was just thinking like, go to the carbet
and get another one, like.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Okay, it's taking.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It down out and now I can't find it. My
dearest darling ist diary so.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Far, So back to diary instead of journal.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah. I thank you for the good times. I thank
you for the sad, thank you for the happy. I
thank you for the mad. I thank you for the
secrets that you and I have shared. I thank you
for the times you let me know you cared. I
thank you for the records and the tables you have kept.
I thank you for not caring when I wet, you
(11:55):
when I wept. I thank you for being a very
special friend. I'm really very sorry these pages had to end.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Very nice, very nice. That wedding line that was like,
where's this going? And I'm like, woh, you landed it perfectly.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Of course your mind would go there.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We were just speaking about someone spilling rum and cocone something,
so that's where I was like, yeah, okay, when did
you spill water on you on your dough?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And so, once more, my dear folks, I go through
the ritual of ending a diary.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Here goes.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
This diary was opened on Sunday, August twenty sixth nineteen
ninety and was closed on Thursday, November twenty nine, nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It didn't last very long.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, maybe it was a small dough pariments.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You are allowed to read this by permission of the author,
of course, on the condition that it shall not be lent, sold,
or hired out without the author's permission.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
If this has done so.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Punishment will almost definitely include death.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
This is something you normally put at the front of
the document so the reader knows before reading.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oops, be too late now.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No bits of this book shall be copied in any way,
either in whole or in part, by anyone without the
author's permission. Copyright past, present, and future to be published
when I am dead, though, make sure you change people's
names though, or use a secret.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Code in brackets. Or made into a podcast. What's a podcast?
It's something you play on an iPod? What's an iPod?
More about that later. It's fine. You're breaking your own
ula essentially. Yes, and you wrote me into it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It did say with permission, it was okay, with the
author's permission, and I'm the author.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, But it didn't mention anything about like you said
no copying, and it said no, didn't say anything about broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I have changed people's names.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, well you won't get sued.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, I'll just see you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yes, thank you for your kind cooperation. Happy New Year,
happy Birthday, Happy fourth of July, happy but still day,
Happy Thanksgiving, happy anniversary, happy Easter, happy congratulations, happy engagement,
happy marriage, happy divorce, happy baby, happy death, happy Christmas,
(14:42):
happy inter planet. Till day the end, see you, next diary.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Did you mention what did you mention? What pill you
just dropped before you wrote that?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That was interesting?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I want to know what was your mindset when you
wade that and you've got that's so witty.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, I don't know. That's really strange.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So now we're into the next diary. But it's still
the same day. Just a new book.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Ah, so you've literally run out of space. Yeah, you
ran out of space writing The Big Farewell.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
So it's still Thursday, November twenty nine, nineteen ninety. But
it's now eight o'clock pm, Dear Diary. I went to
the orthodontist. Everything is going okay, except we still have
to wait for those teeth to come in. I'm having
an X ray soon and if the teeth haven't moved.
(15:47):
I might have to have an operation. Wires will be
attached to the teeth and the end's left protruding out
of my gums. These will be attached to a plate
of some kind which will gently pull on the teeth
and slowly them down.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, so total war in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah. Deborah rang Her and Kevin are on the rocks
again for the nine millionth seven hundred and fifty six
thousandth one hundred and twenty fifth time this week.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
She's probably found out this other chick likes him and
he's options. Yeah. I think she's probably told him and
he hasn't reacted the way that she wanted to, and
now he's in this ship.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Maybe Peter Feldman is in on it too. That's one
of Kevin's very good friends. So it's pretty bad for Deborah.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, yeah, so that's Kevin doing it, not Deborah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes, okay, it sounds like Peter's China get Kevin to
Dumper or something.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I don't Maybe Peter's got unrequented love for Kevin.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Oh, it has a lot to do with Christine Schofield. Okay,
that's Kevin's ex girlfriend from hockey. Hm HM, dad gave
me this diary. I said, do you have anything I
could use as a diary and he said, only an
old exercise book. So I said that's okay. So he
(17:19):
went to the cupboard, shuffled around and came up with this.
So it wasn't just an old exercise book. It was
like a really nice kind of hardcover exercise book. It
was quite quite nice. The Wonder Years was excellent as usual.
It was about Kevin Arnold having trouble in math I
(17:43):
could obviously relate to.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That wasn't every wasn't every episode Kevin Arnold has trouble with.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Dot dot something.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Home and Away was good too. It ended with Bobby
I think miscarrying. I won't find out until next year though.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, because like we talked about, this is the end
of season.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, end of year cliffhangers. I missed those where you
literally had to wait months, yes to find out what happened.
I saw Degrassi Junior High. It was the Michelle and
Blt episode. I taped it so I could read the credits.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Okay, that's getting hardcore.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
H Friday, November thirty, nineteen ninety ten, twenty two Am, Dear, diary.
I have to have my X ray for my teeth
at one point fifteen PM. I what fun. Actually, it
is rather fun. There's a thing that goes around your
head and just when you think your skull is going
(19:02):
to crack, you hear a big clink and it's all over.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
It's just can be a scary exercise, it can.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's it's interesting that I'm saying it's rather fun thinking
my skull is going to crack though.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, but you're a little bit hardcore like that.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, I'm a bit weird. Eleven forty four am. I
just caught mum peeking out this diary.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Okay, she broke the U came up. What she broke
the terms and conditions of the dice.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
She did reading it without permission. I came up to
my room just in time to see her lean over
my bed and lift the cover to look at the
first page. I said, don't look at that, and she
turned around and said, I wasn't. I was just looking
at these photographs. They went photos. They were Dolly postcards
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that were on my bed. What a nerve, she looked,
so guilty. I will hide this diary in future, probably
in my pillow case. Okay, nobody'll ever find it there.
(20:24):
I can't wait until Christmas. It is my favorite time
of year. I usually go through a new phase. I think, act, dress,
and speak differently. I have different ideas and feelings. I
think differently about things. I act differently towards people. I
dress a little more differently than I have been. I
(20:46):
don't like following fashion, and I change my type of speech,
including things like articulation, speed, and what words I use.
I have different interests and my tastes in music, clothes, etc.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Change.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm usually influenced by relatives I see over the holidays.
They might wear their clothes away I've never seen before,
or listen to music that I haven't heard before, and
then I start to like it.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That was very introspective.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It was very much so.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I really like The Wonder Years. It is such a
great show.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Twelve forty five pm.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I'm waiting for something to happen with your Kevin Arnold thing.
It's I'm basically stealing myself.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Praise yourself.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Twelve forty five pm, car Park Cole's New World. Heard
that for a while, No, no, oh, you're.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Just flooding my brain with flashback stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Carl's New World. So that would have been when it
was still a variety store, yeah, not just a supermarket.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
No, So that was yeah, yeah, because that's how it
originally started off.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, my goodness, it's really hot. Sitting here in the car.
There are quite a few kids my age walking around.
There was also a kid in school uniform riding a
skateboard through the car park. As I was saying, I
really liked the wonder Is. Even though it is set
(22:41):
in the past, it seems so today ish. Even some
of the clothes they wear are so brilliant, even though
the clothes mum wore back then was so daggy.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That's I'm sort of this whole introspect. Things sort of
thrown me, Like your mum was stylish. Your mom was stylish.
That's not like your mum wasn't daggy.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
She was. I've seen photos of her in like the sixties,
and her clothes were cool.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, they weren't daggy at all.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, But like most things, it's the context of the
time that's what you use. Sure, that's what everyone sort
of well at and in the sixties. Yet and now
at the time, that's what was considered fashionable. So yeah,
it wasn't that your mum was daggy. It was the
whole decade was daggy.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah, but I wonder why. I think the Wonder Years
closes are brilliant, but mums weren't when they were from
the same era.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, I actually know this. They actually had a real
fashion designer on the show who specially tailored clothes. So
it wasn't at the age where you'd go back and
you'd get like vintage pieces. They actually had a professional
(24:08):
tailor recut clothes in a modern style like the sixties
seventies closed, but in a modern style, so it was
all looked fresh and updated, and it sort of it
was a blending of it was seventies, sixties and seventies
close with like a nineties tailoring fusion. Yeah, not intentional,
(24:31):
but just the people who made the clothes for the
show made it with modern techniques but old but old.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, so where the seams were a little bit more
technologically put together and things sat a lot better because
there was more. It was cut more with a modern
way as opposed to the seventies, sixties, seventies, which is like, yeah,
this is what the shirt shape.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I don't think your mum would have had access to
a person who would make shirts for them personally, No,
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I suppose you're wondering what we're doing here. We're on
the way to the X ray place. Mum just had
to duck into Maya to get something or pay off
lay byes or whatever mums do at.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The shops or whatever mums do it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Mystery later, I'm now in the backyard with refoil on
my legs.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, do you remember that, I have no idea what
refoil is.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
It was suntan oil. It's like smellt like coconut, smelt
really good, but the SPF was like two or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Bestps on coconut oil was about minus thirty one hundred
and eighty degrees for about two hours. Put something pepper
on the top with a bit of oil and you'll
come out with a nice crackling.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So yeah, the idea was to get as brown as possible.
Smelt so good, though, I've got reef oil on my
legs and lemon juice hair.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Hay on hay on hay on reef oil. Mm hmm, okay,
I know what reef oil is. Just the way you
said it was like realfoil.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh no, refoil.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, so just your your original pronunciation was real foil,
and I'm like refoil, reef oil. I know what refoil is. Yes,
I agree, smelt great everything like that, But sorry, I
didn't catch the break in the two words.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Quite all right, that was And I had lemon juice
in my hair and on my.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Freckles, as one did at the time.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It was a style of the time, didn't I just
diet dark brown though.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Look, I'm not going to tell you how to suck eggs,
but yes.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Hopefully I will look okay for Dad's club Christmas party
on Sunday. I just looked at my legs and they're
brown already. I've only been out here for five minutes. Yeah,
because they're cooked.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, quite literally, coconut curry.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, my.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Ten four pm.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Life begins, Life is born, life lives, life dies.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
What the hell are you on Where you've just turned
into this like Greek theologian just writing the tones of
the world. It gets better. Where where is the passages
about boning? Kevin Maarnalds mhm.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
But life is worth death, death is worth life when
you are living it, you live in everything. When you die,
you still live in the hearts and minds of others.
(28:26):
Don't let other people down. Live life to the fullest.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Be happy.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Isn't that how you want to be remembered. Make people's
memories of you be fond, live forever in their hearts.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The cringe factory, What the hell up? Oh, it's just that.
That's that's the the My only, my only thing with
your eating your diaries to me is what I want
is behind the scenes interview with you five minutes before
you wrote a particular entry, just to go. Now you're
(29:12):
about to write something, why not afterwards? And I want
to know after why you write it. I want to
know what was your thought pattern just before you went.
I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to
bang down a few lines of prose and change the world.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Here. I am not liking Matthew because he wrote me
a poem.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Then I come out with this crap.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And your guys talking. Kevin, you're at your PM. You're
a person of contradiction, Yes.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Very much so.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
But now yeah eleven PM, so what thirty six minutes later? Yes,
so many girls have lost their virginity. Forty seven girls
lost it when they were thirteen to fifteen. Maybe it
is about time I did something about mine.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, so that peer pressure with no one pressuring you.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Probably a statistic I read in Dolly magazine.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
That's what I'm thinking right there, Yes, very much. So
that's like smack bang, you're reading it and you've gone, oh,
you know, everyone else is having a root. I should
probably get in all that.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
That does sound dumb, but it's true. I'll just hold
out until the next guy I really care about comes along.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Give me twenty minutes. We'll have that.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Sort And that is only if he is as gentle
as Paul, as caring as Nick, and as slow as Brendan.
Oh my god, did I really just write something nice
about Brendan. Let me rephrase that last bit. As long
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as he doesn't kiss as badly as Brendan or Nick
for that matter, good standards.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Okay, you're basically gone. A magazine told me I should
be a randy slot, but these dudes need to chill.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, I've got to find one who's a better kisser
than them.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, that's not a high bar you're setting for you
you're like basic comp and sy and you've got my
panties essentially is what you've got pretty much. Okay, maybe
it's time to go back to an all night skate.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I have to go now. I have a lot to
do tomorrow, clean the birds, clean my room, have a shower,
shave my legs, ring Kim, and heaps of other things.
See you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Saturday, December.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
First, I like the idea of your mom. Just previous,
the start of this whole entry was mom was trying
to read by Diary, and then the entry you wrote is, Oh,
here's the plan for me to get a root, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Hiding it in my pillow case. I'm sure it will
be fun.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, you're hiding it now.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
But all right, right, dear Diary, I'm babysitting. There is
this excellent thing about aids on MTV.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
It is so cool.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Maybe yeah, yeah, not worded very well there. Sadie was
a real brat tonight. She just kept hitting Lucy for nothing,
and she won't stay in bed. She keeps getting out,
throwing toys on the floor and saying Lucy did it,
which wouldn't have been possible because Lucy was a baby
(32:56):
in a in a court, so I don't know where.
Maybe she's like that baby in Bewitched. Yes, she's getting
the toys to levitate into her court and then throwing
them out.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, she's a masterline who's sitting up her sister.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Yeah, today was boring because The Wonder Years wasn't on.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh no, yeah, well it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I did see Dot and the Kangaroo though, classic assy movie.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh, I don't know if I've seen that one.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's it was my in the I know what.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I know what the movie is. You haven't seen it.
I haven't seen it. There's lots of stuff I haven't seen.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Just still like it.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I was a weird ud who's watched things, not that
everyone else did.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
That's cut out. It's what makes you.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
We can't all be randy for Kevin d.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I want to go and watch this AIDS thing now
until tomorrow. Sunday, December two, nineteen ninety eight, forty three am.
Dear Diary, I didn't tell you Friday Night's Dream?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay? Do I need to stress in for this? How weird?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
It's kind of long, so I can't see all of
it all right, I'm just green.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Right now. I'm going to sit here and close my
eyes and let you tell me your dream.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It was a school dream, not my school, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Arnold's, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
He was sitting in the library across the table from
a girl who was half Lisa Bellini half his dream girl.
They had a year nine maths textbook spread out between
them and they were holding hands over it and writing
messages to each other in purple pen on the pages.
Then it panned into Kevin's face, which kept turning between
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his and Zach Morris's. That would be saved by the
bell Zach, couldn't it?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yep, keep groove.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, that was it for that dream, okay, But then
it says last night's dream was funny. I went back
to school, my school, but it looked a little bit different.
Peppa Hastings, who was my friend from Interstate, met me
at the gate. I walked a form class with her
(35:49):
and everyone admired my short hair. Then I went into
the room and mister Carver was there and I said hi, sir,
and he said, quick, have a seat. That was rather difficult,
as there were extra tables and they were all squashed together.
But I found somewhere to sit, and I was handed
this piece of paper which was an exam. It was
(36:10):
flimsy typewriter paper, and the typing was really bad. It
was typed in all capitals, and there were eight numbered
questions with no space to write the answers, and the
questions were dumb. They were all about netball.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
That is weird.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
That is weird.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
If anybody out there is a dream interpreter, please feel
free to tell me what any of these dreams mean.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Alf do you figure it out?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yes? Yep.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Later.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
So now I am at that Christmas party of my
dad's and Shona is with me, yep, and we are
writing back and forth in my Okay, yep. So a
Christmas party was at a place where there was a
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barbecue and it was outdoors and there was like a
swimming pool and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
See typical eighties, early nineties worth yeah thing, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah me, Shona, tell my diary a little bit about
yourself and why you are called ruther Glen girl.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Shona.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Okay, hi Diary, I'm Shona. They call me Shona because
dickhead is not too polite. I have blonde hair, it's permed,
and about shoulder length, taller than Bestie and shorter than Mike.
At the moment, two fifteen pm on Sunday, December two,
nineteen ninety going out with Wesley. I am called ruther
(37:56):
Glenn Girl because my mother is sending me to ruther
Glenn L eighties College next year for one year, my
final year. What a big suck.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Me.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
At least you're not boarding, Shona. Actually I'd rather be
bording because on information Day we had a look through
the boarding houses. They're so excellent. If I was boarding,
it would be easier to get expelled, which is my
school time goal. I'm going to get expelled and go
back to my friends at Hill High.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I can. That's a solid plan.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yes. How cool were the dorms?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Why, Shona?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Well, there were about one hundred and fifty double bunks
in each building. There were posters everywhere, loud music playing
and screaming girls.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Jumping from bunk to bunk.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Me.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I hope guy turns up to this party.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Okay, wasn't I just saying he was a creep, weirdo.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Big rapist energy.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, yeah, he's funny.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
If he brings Wesley, will you get with him? If
you do, I might be able to have a little
fun with Guy.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Okay, Now I'm uncomforting, Shana.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
If you don't mind me getting with Wesley, I probably will,
but I wouldn't get with him if you'd be left out.
So as long as you're going to get with Guy,
I'll get with Wesley. But I kind of hope he
won't bring Wesley me. Well, I don't think i'd go
any further than kissing Guy. If Wesley is there, go
for it. Enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
You're only young ones enjoyous.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Why don't you my wise words of wisdom? You're only
young once? Why don't you want Wesley there? Though? Are
you scared of not feeling the same for him as
you did a few saturdays ago? If so, I know
(40:10):
the feeling show not Yep, that's it. You always know
how I feel. What would I do without you?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Not that I'm gonna get with a guy or anything
like that as well.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Okay, Now it's ten ten pm, okay, and there's no
mention of Guy or Wesley. So I'm guessing they didn't
end up turning up at this party.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Okay, because I'm sure you would have written about it.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
So yes, I rang Samantha Hill. She sounds so different.
She's one of my friends from Cambridge. Okay, and it's
been how many years almost three years since I've seen her.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
It'd be better, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Yeah, she's still going with Ross. So she's had this
same boyfriend for a probably about two years or something
ever since she started high school something like that. It's
really hot, thirty degrees that is pretty hot.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
For ten ten at night.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, and it'd be humid too, because it's the November
December humid hots.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Yeah, and that's.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Where I've stopped it.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, So just that entry or that diary.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Trust this entry in this episode, Remember why I cut
it off here. Maybe there's something juicy coming next time.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Potentially that that's I'm thrown a little bit by the
whole guy thing where yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
It's like it's like ill, guy, he's so gross?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Oh guy?
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Yeah, Okay, might consider.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
That was was it you being facetious with your friend?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Probably not, I don't think so. Maybe it was just like, hey,
the opportunities there, Maybe I just take.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
It something to do. Plus, you're remember you're getting into
your whole phase where you're just to lose, like maybe
you're going, well, guy might be the one, So.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Thinking about that now, I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
No, well, you may have been the catalyst changed him
into someone who was great.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Did he become great? Though?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Can we can we find out? Do you know where
guy is? Do you know what?
Speaker 2 (42:55):
For?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Says?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
I mean, he's not terrible, but he's not all that.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay, not everyone can be all that.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
His name will keep cropping up.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
It's just it's an interesting.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
Thing that like, it is very interesting.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Why would you say that? But also on the other hand,
I could see that you sort of stewing and frowing
and like give everyone a chance. That's the type of
person you are.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
So it might have been because he was a short thing.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yeah, and you were, and like I said, you're on
the hunt for You felt the pressure. Honestly, you felt
the pressure.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
To lose your gin based on statistics because none of
my good friends were doing it.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
So not to psychoanalyze anyone, but at fourteen, you're so
desperate to be normal. You don't want to be the
one standing out, and you being more normal than your
friends would have been a point of important distinction for you.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Probably I knew people who were having sex, but nobody
I was like really close.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
To yeah, so you would have been the first through
the door. You would have been a trailblazer out.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Of my friends.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah yeah, and you were given the permission to do
so by statistics.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
It was like almost half.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
So it's like, why aren't we doing this?
Speaker 5 (44:43):
Everyone else's yeah, that's interesting, but guy, no, don't go there. Ill,
well you didn't by ger Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, this is a little bit shorter, but this was
filled with insightfulness and a bit of cringey prose.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's very cringey, but.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Coming towards the end of the year and you just
finished a diary and all that type of thing, so
there is yeah, moments of reflection and introspection, all those
action words whatever they are.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
And I'll tell you now, I am very much looking
forward to nineteen ninety one, to sharing my nineteen ninety
one entries with you.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
So you don't have to spoil them for me. But
is it is there action or is it very emotional driven?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Both?
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Okay, all right? Do we have a main character, yes,
for a long period of time or just a whole
series of main characters?
Speaker 3 (46:07):
No, for a long period?
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Okay, that's good, Oh.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
More so a recurring character. But who recurs for long
periods of time.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Okay, So like our for lack of a better term,
our through our three thread through nineteen ninety one is
a single character who influences your world in a significant way.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Yes, a very significant way.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
An emotional roller coaster. I'm here for that ride, but.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Just it's going to be quite a ride.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Yeah, I just I don't like seeing you hurt, you
know that.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
So I'm excited that we're getting closer.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
Okay, And just to refresh my memory, the dude who
tried to get you there for a pool party? What
was his name? Is that Kevin? That was that was Kent?
Does Kent ever come back or is he just off
of his pools?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
No? I think his name will be because I haven't
been skating for ages.
Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yeah, that might be why he's not come up.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
You return to skating that type of thing, don't you know?
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Yeah? Yeah, because like Kent goes to my school, but
we don't really see each other much at school because
we don't do any of not in any of the
same classes or anything like that. So usually if I
saw him, it was at skating Okay, cool? Yeah, So
so yeah, well I hope he does because that.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Would be fun.
Speaker 1 (47:41):
Yeah, I'll be like, I'm sort of I'm getting the like,
I know, it's it's taken a lot of episodes, but
I'm getting sort of the vibe how it all fits
together and building all these pieces and stuff. So there's
a lot of people to keep a track of, but
I'm sort of I don't necessarily have to know each
(48:01):
individual person's full catalog because I can see how it's
sort of I can see how through your narrative everyone
is sort of slotting in and moving out and yeah, yeah,
because at the start there's a bit overwhelming trying to
go okay, so do I have to care about this person?
What does that person think? Yeah, I'm more settling into
(48:26):
your reactions to the people as opposed to the people themselves.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
So for those of you who've been thinking that, you know,
this diary is kind of maybe getting a bit monotonous,
a bit same old, same old things are definitely going
to ramp up.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
Well, Like, to be honest, yes it has been getting
a bit monotonous, but it's in a in like most
stories and most good fiction, you need to establish the
rhythm because you can't understand how much the world is
(49:04):
shaken up until you understand how much the world was beforehand.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
And you sort of you there was a difference. I
can definitely tell a narrative difference between you as thirteen
and you're at fourteen, and you've sort of gone, okay, bang,
this is this is my current normal. And you've been
sick for five six months, so you're like, okay, getting
(49:32):
back into it. You've missed out on a few social things,
your normal social interactions, so it is different from how
you were at thirteen, but in such a way where
you'd found a a type of monotony. It's like, I'm sick,
didn't go to school. I'm sick, I haven't gone here.
(49:54):
And that's important for everyone to understand because when you
get over your sickness and you get back into it,
how it's so different from what you used to do
is what's going to make it so interesting and important. Yes, yeah, definitely,
And how you and how you deal because I would say,
(50:18):
and you can tell me if I'm right or not.
One of the struggles I think you'll probably face is
that you've had six months of not really being fourteen,
where the people who you're about to interact with had
that six months of being fourteen and working through those
mistakes and doing those things, and you're going to be
(50:42):
a little bit fish out of water because you're going
headlong into the back half of fourteen and starting to
fifteen and you're half a step behind. Would would that
be sounder.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Right for a little while? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, But that's sort of that's the I'm guessing that's
what the start of season ninety one will be. Is
you like, oh, wow, everyone's now going up to the
next grade and they're all turning fifteen and people are
having sex and all that type of thing, and you're like, whoa,
hang on, slide down everyone and catch up.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Let's to say, it doesn't take me long to make
up for lost time.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I'm sure it doesn't, I know how efficient you are,
But that that catching up period will be I think
for me one of the most interesting parts of it,
because it's like that you go from it's always interesting
the person rushing to catch up, the necessarily the person
(51:48):
that the monotony turns from you having a monotonous end
of the fourteen end of nineties, everyone else at the
start of the year ninety one is having monotonous sort of. Yeah,
that's the next bit of it, and you're like, I'm
making up for lost time. Let's go, And that's I
(52:10):
think that's where it's going to get interesting, not knowing
the story, but I'm what I think is that your
eagerness to catch up is what drives a lot of
the most interesting aspects of it.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
Yeah. I could very well.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Be right, or I could be very much wrong. But
the good part is I get to I get to
learn it, and you get to tell me yes, yes, okay, bestie.
Well it's the middle of winter here and I'm freezing,
and I know you're freezing, and yeah, I very smoothly,
and no one probably realized I've got to put my
slippers on halfway through the episode, and I know that
(52:50):
you looked at me, going, what the hell are you doing,
because I was doing a little bit of stretch armstrong
reaching for things. But yeah, viewers at home couldn't tell.
I was smoothly putting onto mug boots.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
So I've still got a cat at my feet, so
my feet are warm.
Speaker 1 (53:06):
All right, Bestie, I love you very much. Please tell
the people about the Instagram and the thing.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
At diary of my Bestie, come and join us have
some fun.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
But I'm gonna have ice cream.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
And okay, I'm gonna bush my teeth and go to bit.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
Sounds good, all right, bestI? Alright, everyone, I love you
very much.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
I love you, and.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
We'll see everyone next week. Bye, goodbye
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