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Short & Curly

Is it ever okay to fight back against a bully?

Short & Curly

abcpodcasts@abc.net.au

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2011, an Australian teenager was filmed being punched again and again in the school playground by a bully. What made the video go viral was what happened next. The bullying victim lifted up the bully and threw him to the ground, hard. Was that a kind of justice?

Our guests are Onor, Izzy and Alex from Theatre Bugs in Adelaide.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and today you're Disney.

0:04.0

Short, you're listening to Short and Curly.

0:08.0

Yay!

0:09.0

Short and Curly!

0:10.0

Curly!

0:11.0

Curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly.

0:15.0

Short and curly.

0:18.0

All right, Molly, most embarrassing thing that happened to you at school hit me.

0:23.9

Everything that happened to me at school was embarrassing, Carl.

0:26.5

I don't know how, but every moment was embarrassing.

0:29.4

My skirt was too long.

0:30.5

All the girls had short skirts except for me, and apparently I looked like a giant idiot.

0:35.6

I had to get out of the pool because I couldn't swim the whole lap at the swimming carnival. What else happened? Everything. Molly, I feel for you. But, like, did you ever get picked on for any of those things? Or were they just, like, little things? They were just little things. I was never bullied for anything like that. Maybe some other stuff, but not that. Well, that's good because I think, like, a lot of kids can actually get bullied over odd little things like that. And lots of kids get bullied in much nasty ways, too. Yeah, and I find it pretty crazy that all kinds of people are bullied when they're at school. Even people who are now rich and famous. And kind of cute?

1:12.6

Uh, sorry, what?

1:13.6

Nothing.

1:14.6

Nothing.

1:15.6

I'm just saying loads of famous people have been bullied.

1:17.6

Like this guy, see if you recognize his voice.

1:19.6

You make me feel like I'm living a teenage dream.

1:25.6

I was bullied and I think that Most people in their lifetime have been bullied

1:29.8

At some point

1:30.8

Oh god, that's Justin Beaver

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