Justin Heazlewood

I was like, how did my family not pressure me to stay and keep an eye on my mum?

That alone is sort of miraculous, really.

I think you've just got to say God bless my family for, like, letting me go.

And one way of looking at it is they, especially my nan, had really pumped me up my whole life to, like, you've got to have a dream, Justin.

You've got to follow it.

The strong survive, the weak they fall.

And they'd been pumping me up my whole life to be this outstanding person.

leadership material a grade student which I'd essentially met all of those requirements they couldn't very well turn around and go hey you know what just hang about here for a while just settle because I was just all guns blazing going oh I'm gonna do I'm gonna be really ambitious and take risks and go over to Canberra and chase my dream to be a writer so I don't know they just had to let me go

I met up with a friend from primary school and he reminded me of something I had no memory of.

It was me and Paul and Nick.

We got Nick's boombox and we brought it to school and at Nick's house I'd recorded a tape of me going, help, let me out, I'm stuck in the cupboard.

But what I'd done is built in 30 minutes of silence on the tape and then the voice started kicking in.

And on April Fool's Day, we would have come to class really early, put the boom box in a cupboard in the classroom and pressed play.

They'd all sat down at our seats.

And class would have just gone on as phenomenal.

And then, like, I had to beg the teacher this day.

This voice was like, help, help, I'm stuck in the cupboard.

Would have started up out of one of the cupboards half an hour into class.

And I was just pissing myself hearing this story again, going, that's just classic us.

I think there's probably a great case of...