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Speaker 1: Our next guest.

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Speaker 2: There is the genre defining DJ.

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Speaker 3: Who's responsible for all these baggers?

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Speaker 4: Yet sleep Gray repeats's.

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Speaker 2: Welcome the show.

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Speaker 4: Now, look before we say hello, we were having the

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Speaker 4: discussion off the air how we should address this man?

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Speaker 1: Is it the fat boy? Is it mister Slim? Do

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Speaker 1: we go by Norman?

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Speaker 3: I think it's a full name, full time we call you,

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Speaker 3: My friends call me Norman, So we'll.

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Speaker 1: Go with fat point.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you're racist, Josh, Nobby, whatever you're like Nobby.

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Speaker 4: Let's roll with Let's go with Norby first up, Congratulations

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Speaker 4: on your years of success.

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Speaker 1: You are absolutely bloody killing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Did you know it's now officially and now it's down

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Speaker 3: in the New Year's forty years since quit my day

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Speaker 3: job and run off?

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Speaker 5: And yeah, what was it.

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Speaker 3: Working in a record shop? It was always music, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was always music. But I've been a professional musician

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Speaker 3: for forty years. I'm very, very proud of that.

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Speaker 5: Well, when you quit your day job, did you think

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Speaker 5: that you'd still be doing this barefoot forty years later,

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Speaker 5: touring the world.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think I would be doing it with shoes on. No,

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Speaker 2: it was no.

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Speaker 3: It had always been my dream since I was very young,

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Speaker 3: always been my dream to do this, but I was

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Speaker 3: undernowing illusions that you know, I'd be able to do

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Speaker 3: it once.

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Speaker 2: Let alone, repeatedly, and let alone for forty years.

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Speaker 3: So everything, everything beyond the first, you know, appearance on

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Speaker 3: Top of the Pops has just been a bonus.

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Speaker 1: And is it true? You really do DJ barefeet?

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Speaker 2: Always?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, always, apart from snowboarding festivals.

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Speaker 2: If I'm outdoors, do anything else feet shopping?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, yeah, no, no, because it's kind of it's

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Speaker 3: one of the ways I.

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Speaker 2: Metamorphose size. That's the right word, from from Norman into

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Speaker 2: fat boy. The thing is is Norman is a sixty.

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Speaker 3: Year old, sixty one year old father of two and

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Speaker 3: fairly sort of you know, reserved, shy, responsible adult. Fat

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Speaker 3: Boy Slim is irresponsible, hedonistic, lunary. So it's important to

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Speaker 3: separate the two. So if I've got my shoes on,

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Speaker 3: I know to be sensible.

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Speaker 2: So are we talking to right now?

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Speaker 5: Are we talking to fat boy Norman? Shoes off?

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Speaker 2: It took it to Nobby, you know that Nobby shoes off?

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Speaker 2: So yes, so fat boy Slim.

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Speaker 3: When when I put on the wine shirt and take

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Speaker 3: off the shoes, that that's when I know I'm in character.

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Speaker 3: And then and then I don't have to Then I

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Speaker 3: can forget all my responsibilities. My only responsibility is to

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Speaker 3: have as much fun with the crowd in front of

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Speaker 3: me as possible.

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Speaker 4: You know what, You've got the same thing we have,

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Speaker 4: Peter Pan syndrome where we don't want to grow up.

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Speaker 2: Yes, ever, have you got radio voices?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 3: Because I was eighteen years I was married to a

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Speaker 3: radio DJ and I could never get over the fact

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Speaker 3: that when she went on the radio, she just talked

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Speaker 3: completely different. She's like she became a different person when

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Speaker 5: No voice is just as irritating on and off. Eric,

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Speaker 5: you ask my family.

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Speaker 4: Probably what makes her so a bit different from Hey, Australia.

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Speaker 1: What is it about Australia. Well, you know you hear a.

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Speaker 2: Lot, right, Yeah. I just love Australians really.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the country's quite beautiful, you got some nice

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Speaker 3: beaches and that, but it's the Ausies.

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Speaker 2: That that really turned me on. It's that we're very

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Speaker 2: very similar.

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously we're from the same lineage and speak

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Speaker 3: the same language pretty much the same, but we do.

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Speaker 3: But beyond that, we seem to collect in terms of

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Speaker 3: abandon in terms of sense of humor. You know, I

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Speaker 3: just feel a great affinity with Ozzy's and they they

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Speaker 3: you know, they get me more than some countries.

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Speaker 4: We were having a similar chat with Robbie Williams at

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Speaker 4: the end of last year. It's like, I think we

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Speaker 4: a US guest on that sort of be a little

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Speaker 4: bit shocked. You guys can say they're on the radio

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Speaker 4: or they don't know if we're taking the piss.

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Speaker 3: Or yeah, yeah, so yeah, so it works the other

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Speaker 3: get my But it's it's it's not just about you know,

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Speaker 3: whether somebody laughs at your jokes. It's like, do we

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Speaker 3: fundamental Are we fundamentally communicating here?

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Speaker 2: And this is when I'm.

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Speaker 3: On stage, so it's not it's not a verbal thing,

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Speaker 3: but there's a connection and and what my whole job

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Speaker 3: is to connect people through music, and I find Ozzy

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Speaker 3: is very easy to connect with.

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Speaker 1: We're on the air with fat Boy, we are on

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Speaker 1: the U with fat Boy.

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Speaker 4: Slimmy's doing a national tour, going to be playing me

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Speaker 4: out to need a stake.

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Speaker 5: So that's a winery gig. Have you done one of

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Speaker 5: these day on the Green Winery gigs before?

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Speaker 3: I did a couple on the last run and quite

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Speaker 3: enjoyed it. I mean, the thing is because it comes

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Speaker 3: so regularly. I've been coming, you know, for thirty years,

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Speaker 3: and there is the danger of repeating yourself because I

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Speaker 3: can't really change the show that much. It's me playing

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Speaker 3: records and trying to make you dance, you know. So

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Speaker 3: I'm not reinventing the show. But when you do it

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Speaker 3: in different venues, it has it brings brings a different

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Speaker 3: life to it and we kind of I mean, you're

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Speaker 3: you're in Melbourne, right, yes, yes, So I played the

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Speaker 3: Sydney Meyer twice.

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Speaker 2: First time I played this should be the second side.

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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I've done this, but you know,

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Speaker 3: so it's nice to play different places. The whinery is

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Speaker 3: that they take on a different atmosphere. Yeah, people have

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Speaker 3: traveled further that, people have invested more. People have definitely

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Speaker 3: drunk more.

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Speaker 5: They get really loose.

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Speaker 3: That's what I was going to want to have been going,

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Speaker 3: rather than like I've just nipped down here after work.

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Speaker 2: It's like we've been at this day.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, there's it's a way of keeping it fresh

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Speaker 3: to do it in different venues, and if it's a

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 4: They set it up very well out there. Hey, no,

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Speaker 4: but you mentioned you've got a couple of kids.

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Speaker 1: How old.

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Speaker 2: I've got a fifteen year old daughter and a twenty

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Speaker 2: four year old son.

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Speaker 4: The reason I asked was because dad's dad would be

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Speaker 4: pretty have they asked you to play any gigs like

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Speaker 4: mate's eighteenth birthdays or yeah, school.

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Speaker 3: I have been lucky enough to do most of my sons.

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Speaker 3: But my son's actually a professional DJ.

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Speaker 2: Now, so he's more what he says his dad, can

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Speaker 2: I open for you when you play your big gigs?

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Speaker 5: And is allowed to.

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Speaker 2: A bit.

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Speaker 3: We do it occasionally, but we try not doing too

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Speaker 3: much because it would get you know, it would be

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Speaker 3: smack of nepotism.

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Speaker 2: But also he's finally difficult to obviously he lives a

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Speaker 3: In my shadow and he's trying to his own identity,

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Speaker 3: So we try not to do too much.

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Speaker 2: So it's a nice rare treat when we do do

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Speaker 3: But my daughter, she is just planning her sweet sixteen

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Speaker 3: birthday and she has said, Dad, you will play work

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Speaker 3: for us, won't you?

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Speaker 2: And I was like, no, give us that, saying I

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Speaker 2: get your brother to play.

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Speaker 3: Well, he would probably he'd probably more suited musically because

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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure if I mean. I connect well

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Speaker 3: with the sort of eighteen year olds, but the last

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Speaker 3: time I played a party for sixteen year olds there

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Speaker 3: I felt a little old.

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Speaker 1: Well, just remind works work, so it's still in voicer.

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Speaker 2: Nothing. He actually y's herself. We're a very incestuous family.

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Speaker 1: I do this.

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Speaker 3: I do this festival at a holiday camp called Buttling's

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Speaker 3: where I curate the whole weekend of the acts, so

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Speaker 3: it's like an indoor festival. And this year we got

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Speaker 3: my uncle Dennis, who's seventy eight, but it was him

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Speaker 3: who called me to DJ so he went back to

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Speaker 3: back to back with me and my son, so we

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Speaker 3: had three generations.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty cool, you know what I mean. But not

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Speaker 4: many people would get to experience it. Who knows who

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Speaker 4: pulls up stumps first? Him or your son? Who pulls

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Speaker 4: up stumps first? Who lasts longer partying through the night?

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Speaker 4: Him or your son?

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Speaker 3: Oh, my son goes on for days.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 2: Yes, therefore done fall far from the tree.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what's your son's DJ name?

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Speaker 2: Would he Cook?

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Speaker 1: Will Cook?

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Speaker 2: There's Actually he's.

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Speaker 3: Very entertaining because he because I'm a bit of a

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Speaker 3: show off right when a DJ, and I'm a little

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Speaker 3: bit eflectic. Now, he grew up with that, so he

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Speaker 3: thinks that's normal. So when he started, hes like, I'm

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Speaker 3: going to do what dad does, but I'm going to

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Speaker 3: put a bit of the showbies and into it and

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Speaker 3: I'm going to play a bit more eclectic. So he's

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Speaker 3: absolutely nuts. He's a very DJ to watch.

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Speaker 4: Just quickly before I let you go, Clint here has

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Speaker 4: a mad habit just appearing in DJ booths on a

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Speaker 4: Saturday night around Melbourne. From a from the DJ point

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Speaker 4: of view, do you love it when drunk people just

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Speaker 4: joined the booth and just want to and want to

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Speaker 4: jump next to you and have a go mixing?

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Speaker 2: That's what I live for, yess A DJ that that

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Speaker 2: is the pinnacle. That's I mean, if you could spill

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Speaker 2: your drink.

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Speaker 3: Over the decks while I'm playing and working and that

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Speaker 3: would just be the.

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Speaker 2: Perfect night for me.

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Speaker 1: Nobby, I will see you.

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Speaker 2: Excellent. I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: Well, Fat Boy Slim and Clean Mount Anita State twenty

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Speaker 4: second of March tickets are on sale now from Ticketmaster

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Speaker 4: or Frontier Touring dot com and at MG dot live.

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Speaker 1: I might wait for this.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be an awesome It'll be right. So you're in

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Speaker 2: the booth.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I careful what you wish for, Nobby.

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Speaker 1: Seriously, we'll see you when you get to Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Bye, all right, Sea Soon