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Speaker 1: The Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: There is an amazing exhibition at the Moment at the

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Speaker 2: Powerhouse Museum. If you love your music, this man was

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Speaker 2: a part of a musical revolution and it was one

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Speaker 2: of the biggest of all time. When we think of

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Speaker 2: grunge in the early nineties and what it did and

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Speaker 2: change the musical landsfare, it is crazy. This guy was

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Speaker 2: mixed up with that very young and got mixed up

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Speaker 2: with some of the biggest bands in the world.

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Speaker 3: His name is Steve Pavlovitch. We know him as pav.

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Speaker 1: This is really exciting. As we were just saying off air,

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the memorability that you actually

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Speaker 1: managed to hold on to when a lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't takes you straight back to those moments.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think part of it was SOCD. I

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Speaker 3: couldn't stand it's scene look at everything around my apartment.

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Speaker 3: So I just had this storage and so I just

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Speaker 3: throw it all back in there so I didn't have

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Speaker 3: to look at it. Yeah, and thirty years later people

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Speaker 3: are putting me in a museum. It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: So, Pad, you were like nineteen years of age and

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Speaker 2: you saw a sonic youth gig and it changed your

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Speaker 2: life and you said, this is I want to bring

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Speaker 2: some of the biggest bands from America over to Australia,

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Speaker 2: not knowing at the time because I mean that that

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Speaker 2: grungy it was. I mean those bands were popular, but

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Speaker 2: it hadn't kicked in yet, like Nirvana hadn't kicked in yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. At the time, there's just this underground community

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Speaker 3: to people around the world doing these shows and it

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Speaker 3: was exciting to us and have friends, and you know,

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Speaker 3: I just had this moment where I saw that show.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is it. This is what I'm

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Speaker 3: going to do.

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Speaker 1: But you became a promoter.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with Nirvana. You were ringing from a payphone

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Speaker 2: in BONDI mat Kurt Cobain's number.

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Speaker 3: You're kidding me, mate, I did. The first roe we

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Speaker 3: did was a band called mud Honey and they were

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Speaker 3: good mates with Nirvana and they're like, you should bring

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Speaker 3: our mates Nirvana to Australia. I'm mate, I love that.

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Speaker 3: That Bleach album was out at the time, and they're like,

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Speaker 3: here's Kurt's number, here's Chris's number, call them up. So hey, mate,

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Speaker 3: this is Pad from Australia, which like to come down

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Speaker 3: here on friends with Dan and gave me a number,

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Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, yeah, well that sounds great. Sometimes

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Speaker 3: we're just making this album. I'm like, really, I just

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Speaker 3: checked back in a few months and I'd met this

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Speaker 3: girl in America in a bar and she'd started working

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Speaker 3: for AT and C operators and gave me one of

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Speaker 3: those calling card numbers. Now I go down the beach,

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Speaker 3: have a swim, come back in a kit, dripping wet

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Speaker 3: sand on me, grab a juice, get to pay phone

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Speaker 3: Bondo Beach post office in Cornervada.

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Speaker 1: Wow, is extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: And that just went on and on for a year

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Speaker 3: until the next they said, we've got a manager of

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Speaker 3: that new album's finishes called never Mind. We want you

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Speaker 3: to do our tour. That's it. It's crazy. And then

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Speaker 3: what happened, Well, then they came. They become the biggest

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Speaker 3: band in the world's era. Where have you been? I

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Speaker 3: called for you?

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Speaker 2: Then what happened?

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Speaker 1: Tell me about when they did finally arrive, the time

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Speaker 1: with Kurt and the band and what you did. Did

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Speaker 1: you do much socially or.

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Speaker 3: Well, we did a lot. I took him camping down

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Speaker 3: the South coast, which is one of my go to

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Speaker 3: and my kid of hosting tools and along the way though,

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Speaker 3: Courtney got involved and she's like, mate, do you really

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Speaker 3: think we're going camping? You get me and Kurt at

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Speaker 3: the hotel. So we were down the south coast and

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Speaker 3: the only hotel of vone was Bateman's bab Hotel. So

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Speaker 3: Gord he went to the motel and I've got the

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Speaker 3: rest of the band down these little cabins down at

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Speaker 3: North Tharrist or South Tharrests, and we take them out

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Speaker 3: Drink some beers or sake, some jaffles or some sandwiches.

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Speaker 1: So with the exhibition and all the memorability are in there,

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Speaker 1: is there anything that you've kept just quietly at home

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Speaker 1: or What'm I suppose I'm asking what is the most

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Speaker 1: prized position you have?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's some sensitive photos that just wouldn't be right

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Speaker 3: when you have a relationship with these artists and you're

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Speaker 3: there because they trust you. So you're given a position

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Speaker 3: of trust and you know you're allowed to document a

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Speaker 3: lot of stuff. And I think some of those people

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Speaker 3: found the way to the world wide webs Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Did you keep in touch after they left like that? Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: You know, I became friends with all of these people

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Speaker 3: with same age, same interests, and I would go to

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Speaker 3: America and they felt obligated to host me. So then

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Speaker 3: they showed me around and was great.

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Speaker 2: Pav was asked and when Kurt was at you know,

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Speaker 2: there was a tough time for kurtin and they were

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Speaker 2: recording more music. Pap was actually asked, can you look

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Speaker 2: after Kurt for a week and make sure that he

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Speaker 2: does an OD?

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Speaker 3: That was your job for a week. It was Courtney

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Speaker 3: and the people around them, and he was making the

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Speaker 3: They did the hard shape Box video and they played

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Speaker 3: MTV Awards or they went to them, and so they said,

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Speaker 3: Kurt's going to be on his own here for a

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Speaker 3: few days or a week, could you just make sure

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Speaker 3: he does an OD. And I'm like, well, I will

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Speaker 3: pay you, Like this is weird. So I call up Kurt, Mate,

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Speaker 3: they want to pay me to hang out with you,

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Speaker 3: and he's like, mate, just take the freaking money. Let's

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Speaker 3: hang out. So we had then adjoining room and I

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Speaker 3: would drive him around and my job was made sure

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Speaker 3: anyone what do I do if he does? Yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: no idea.

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Speaker 2: If you go to this exhibition, there's Kurt Cobains. What's

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Speaker 2: the guitar from Unplugged? Isn't that pass correct? Which is

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Speaker 2: the world's most expensive guitar? Now, well, that's true and

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Speaker 2: I found that out. And I recently did an interview

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Speaker 2: with Dave Grohl when he was out playing in Geelong

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Speaker 2: last time, and I'm like, Dave, have you ever picked

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Speaker 2: up that guitar and does it sound or feel like

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Speaker 2: nine million dollars? And he was like, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Someone paid nine million dollars? It does not sound like

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Speaker 2: nine million dollar guitar.

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Speaker 1: When Navana came out here and he brought them here,

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Speaker 1: were they commercial air time where they're being played across

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Speaker 1: you know, the FM stations.

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Speaker 3: When they got here, they were the number one band

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Speaker 3: in the world. And this is outside my sort of wheelhouse.

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Speaker 3: And so I just get the run sheet of promo

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Speaker 3: that the label wanted us to do and we're in

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Speaker 3: Canberra and I look at it. There's like Kicks one

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Speaker 3: oh six radio interview. I'm like, I grew up here.

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Speaker 3: That must be that building. On the main drag, so

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Speaker 3: I didn't even look again at it, and on the

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Speaker 3: way to sound check, I wheel them in there. I'm saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: I've got Nirvana here for the interview, and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 3: they look a bit surprised, and weired it out and

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Speaker 3: the reception, they says, sit here. Next minute they're whisked

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Speaker 3: into the studio and I'm outside this year I can

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Speaker 3: hear it and they're like, these guys are go like, hey,

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Speaker 3: many horgy chicks. You're going to get some babes down here,

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Speaker 3: and they were getting agitated, and next minute I like,

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Speaker 3: f bomb this and they kind of peel out of

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Speaker 3: the studio and they're like, mate, what a badge of

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Speaker 3: mancho wankers. We go the gig. Flash forward a few

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Speaker 3: hours later, I'm standing next to the head of the

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Speaker 3: record company and some guy introduced to me the head

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Speaker 3: of the band finished playing Come as You Are. Dave

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Speaker 3: Grohl gets on there on the mic and says, mate,

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Speaker 3: we did an interview at the worst radio station I've

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Speaker 3: ever been in my wife. It's called Kicks one oh six.

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Speaker 3: What a bunch of idiots And they say a lot

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Speaker 3: of others, you know, like this bomb that and they

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Speaker 3: can suck bah bah bah. And the guy looks at

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Speaker 3: me and goes, what have you done, mate? What are

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Speaker 3: you talking about? I took him there, and he goes, mate,

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Speaker 3: they didn't show up. I unwittingly took them to the

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Speaker 3: wrong radio station, which will be a kin of these

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Speaker 3: faiths to take you. I'm taking them to the Fitzian

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Speaker 3: Whipper show. And I've taken to Kyle and Jackie and

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Speaker 3: I come out after my mate, those FITSI and Whipper guys.

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Speaker 3: Wow is god? How good is that?

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Speaker 2: It's just amazing, Path Like, it really just transported me

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Speaker 2: back to the nineties.

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Speaker 3: And I think a lot of people will love this exhibition.

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Speaker 3: Go check it out.

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Speaker 2: It will blow your mind. It's at the Powerhouse Museum.

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Speaker 2: How long is it there for a Path? How long

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Speaker 2: you sticking around for?

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Speaker 3: Mate? I can't believe the government want my crap in

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Speaker 3: a museum for eight months? What great? Right?

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Speaker 2: And you know the best thing about the Powerhouse Museum

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Speaker 2: You take the kids there as well, and then you

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Speaker 2: can duck off and go see this.

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Speaker 3: It's called unpopular. Go check it out and out, Path,

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Speaker 3: Thanks for coming in, Thanks for having me. You're listening

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Speaker 3: to The Fitz and Whipper Podcast,