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#89 Defying the Narrative: FriendlyJordies - Comedy, Politics, and Self-Help for the Internet Age

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris

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The Importance of Studying at Uni

I went to Newtown High. I'm from working class sort of folks, you weren't sort of sent to... You didn't go to Newington. Well, it's not even working class. Lumpen proletariat, I reckon. My mum was on a disability pension. And then eventually, yeah, I suppose then I had a working class background because then I moved him with my dad and he was a builder, you know? Yeah, doing his best. University is bad. How do you learn things? What do you think you got out of university education? Absolutely nothing until I went to Korea because you had to go overseas somewhere for a year. It doesn't actually teach you to

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