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Speaker 1: As we know, today is the sixtieth anniversary of when

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Speaker 1: the Beatles came to town. We talked about this with

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Speaker 1: Bob Byrne last Friday, and Adelaide remembers when and so

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Speaker 1: many people, so many of you who were there, who

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Speaker 1: have memories of lining up for the tickets and then

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Speaker 1: seeing them perform and couldn't hear a thing above all

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Speaker 1: the screaming that was going on. Well, one such person

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Speaker 1: was Hubert Kimber. I last spoke with Hubert a few

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Speaker 1: months back. In fact, was it last year when Paul

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Speaker 1: McCartney was in Adelaide. He'd been to see Paul McCartney

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Speaker 1: and during that he said he'd also seen the Beatles

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Speaker 1: all those years before at Centennial Hall. Hubert, good morning.

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Speaker 2: And a very good morning to you, Hi, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: For your time. Now, what do you remember of the concert?

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Speaker 2: I remember it was so difficult to get tickets. I

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Speaker 2: remember the concert itself. There were two shows in Adelaide.

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Speaker 2: When I summoned up the energy to get to it,

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Speaker 2: it was just a fantastic show. They they sung a

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Speaker 2: couple of songs, including She Loves You and roll Over Beethoven.

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Speaker 2: I remember that, and it was just such a great concert.

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Speaker 1: Could you hear any of it?

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Speaker 2: Not too much? No, no, no, no, And I think

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Speaker 2: there was a station. I think it might have been

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Speaker 2: five d end recording it. No, it was just great.

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Speaker 2: Even though I was brought up on classical music, it

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Speaker 2: was great to hear the song roll Over Beethoven.

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Speaker 1: Who did you go with?

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Speaker 2: I went by myself. Yeah, yeah, for Adelaide shows at

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Speaker 2: the at Centennial Hall at Wayville. Yeah, down Goodwood Road.

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Speaker 1: Now what about getting the tickets? You say it was

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Speaker 1: difficult to get tickets? Did you wait in a qu

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Speaker 1: you must have, I suppose with everybody.

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Speaker 2: Else I had to, yes, yes, yes, there was no

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Speaker 2: ways other ways around it. It was so well sought

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Speaker 2: after the show. The interest, I mean, it was the sixties,

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Speaker 2: when you know there were huge changes going on in society.

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Speaker 1: Then how old were you then, Hubert?

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Speaker 2: How well was I? Yeah? Nineteen?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Where did the If you're brought up on classical music,

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Speaker 1: Now that doesn't mean you shouldn't have an interest anywhere else,

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Speaker 1: But where where did the inspiration to see the Beatles

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Speaker 1: come from?

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Speaker 2: That that would have come come from my introduction to

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Speaker 2: the the African rhythm in the part of music that

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Speaker 2: I read on music shoots when I was studying classical music,

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Speaker 2: because I also learned the way of playing by reading music. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and there were some shoots with with this rhythm type

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Speaker 2: of music.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and rock and roll followed that sort of rhythm.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you said?

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Speaker 2: That's exactly it? Yes, right, So that was a that

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Speaker 2: was The sixties were a year of change in virtually

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Speaker 2: everything music or politics or checks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 1: You went through this era as a as a teenager.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the time. That's the time to have

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Speaker 1: gone through the sixties, I dare say.

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Speaker 2: I think so, Yes, Yes, Fortunately I managed to stay

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Speaker 2: clear of flying in the clouds with LSD and things

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Speaker 2: like that. It was a time to Yeah, to go

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Speaker 2: through it as a teenager. Yeah, some some didn't survive.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right. So you spared yourself the LSD, which

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Speaker 1: is probably good. And the rock and roll. The rock

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Speaker 1: and roll was certainly there. Obviously, I won't ask about

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Speaker 1: the sex. But the rock and roll kept you, kept

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Speaker 1: you going. And did that inspire what from the classical genre?

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Speaker 1: Did that inspire you to explore more rock and roll?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: It did, yes, many many through American black artists, like

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Speaker 2: And no, it certainly didn't spun me in their rendition

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Speaker 2: of all those songs that they played. I mean till

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Speaker 2: there was you and I saw her standing there was

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Speaker 2: was It was close to me, my opinion perfect. It

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Speaker 2: was great And.

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Speaker 1: Even amongst the screaming, he could make some of it out, obviously.

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Speaker 2: A little I'd say about thirty thirty five percent of

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Speaker 2: the words. What the scene was.

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Speaker 1: No regrets obviously, I mean you saw them and that's

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Speaker 1: the story in itself, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it is. It is a unique experience. I mean

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Speaker 2: the yeah, the popularity that they got and all over

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Speaker 2: the world, especially in America too, it was great.

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Speaker 1: We spoke last week to a man who worked near

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Speaker 1: the Adelaide town Hall where thousands of course gathered, and

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Speaker 1: he said in the bank he was that girls who

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Speaker 1: fainted were brought into the bank for medical attention. Did

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Speaker 1: you see anyone fainting at the concert?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately I didn't, but you know I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 2: realize that. But that changing of blood flow was causing

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Speaker 2: a faint must have been a sight to see, hopefully shared.

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Speaker 2: The lady didn't pass away.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think. I think they were just

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Speaker 1: overcome by the emotion of seeing the Beatles, so I reckon, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they obviously had that effect and there you were motivated

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Speaker 1: to go along and become part of history. Did you

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Speaker 1: What did you think of Paul McCartney by comparison.

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Speaker 2: I thought Paul McCartney I hadn't been genius? Yes, Uh

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Speaker 2: when I saw him was it last year? That's right?

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Speaker 2: In Adelaide. He certainly his life took a different path

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Speaker 2: from the others to a certain extent.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I mean what what is so called genius? I mean

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Speaker 2: he that is combined with his character of of that

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Speaker 2: it must have been huge humility and and yet the

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Speaker 2: the genius that would have been built into his brain

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Speaker 2: when he first started playing at Liverpool.

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Speaker 1: I think it was yeah, Hu, But what about yourself? Now,

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Speaker 1: you obviously brought up on classical Did music become a

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Speaker 1: career for you? Did you? Did you study it in

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Speaker 1: any form of UNI or anything?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately not coming out from Bombay in London, I I

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Speaker 2: did mainly the sciences. And I should have been pianist.

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Speaker 2: And I say that seriously because I still pay piano

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Speaker 2: not too often but I didn't. I didn't take that up.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and I did more of the sciences. Okay,

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Speaker 2: well I didn't carry on, but I do carry on, yes,

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Speaker 2: by the plane casually.

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Speaker 1: So you could have had a life as a musician.

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Speaker 1: Well why didn't you? Why didn't you take it?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely the seduction of the darker side of capitalism in

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Speaker 2: a way. I didn't get pushing by my parents to

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Speaker 2: do that, but that would have been.

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Speaker 1: Some assistance, sup Would you do you credit now?

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Speaker 2: Uh to a certain extent, yes, because now I'm retired,

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Speaker 2: I spend all that time I can going to uh

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Speaker 2: good good uh well good quality of music and theater

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Speaker 2: and most theater acting has brilliant music accompany it. Surely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that could have been you, Hubert, It could.

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Speaker 2: Have been I'm one of those could have been marching

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Speaker 2: on the glory thanks to Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney

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Speaker 2: and the other boys. Harrison wasn't.

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Speaker 3: Literally yea, So that that was unbelievable event in Adelaide,

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Speaker 3: absolutely and so good that you were able to be there,

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Speaker 3: and you must, as I say, it's what a wonderful

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Speaker 3: memory for you to know you.

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Speaker 2: Were there and wonderful Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: One wonderful chatting with you, Hubert. Thank you for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning.

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Speaker 2: A pleasure. Thank you all the best.

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Speaker 1: You two, Hubert Kimber Adelaide man. He was there at

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Speaker 1: the Beatles at Centenna your hall on this day sixty

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Speaker 1: years ago, and then saw Paul McCartney when he came

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Speaker 1: to Adelaide last year. So a real music lover, a

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Speaker 1: real Beatles lover. And what a wonderful story Hubert tells

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Speaker 1: here on five double A eight double two to three

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Speaker 1: double O double. Oh is my number eighteen to twelve

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Speaker 1: now Michael at Waiela, gooday, Michael.

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Speaker 4: Oh, good morning Matthew. Just a quick story about the Beatles' concert.

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Speaker 4: My wife's dad was Instant John Ambulance and he was

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Speaker 4: backstage or working there and was on there. And in

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Speaker 4: those days when John amingers, people wore white gloves right,

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Speaker 4: And at the end of one of the conscience the

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Speaker 4: boys came up and said, I'll give you our signatures

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Speaker 4: on the gloves, and the gloves went home, never to

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Speaker 4: be seen again. We think his wife was a pyromaniac

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Speaker 4: and we believe they got burned.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Wow?

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Speaker 4: We've first everywhere before they knocked the house down and

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Speaker 4: could not find these gloves.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, imagine if she if she took him home. Well,

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Speaker 1: he took him home and the wife saw them, so

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Speaker 1: I had better wash these.

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Speaker 4: She's not mess.

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Speaker 2: Oh no.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's that's a good story.

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Speaker 1: That's story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So he was up there side as part of his duty.

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Speaker 1: How about that. There you go, Sid that's brilliant. Good

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Speaker 1: on you, Thank you, Michael. That's a great story. Imagine

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Speaker 1: having those gloves today. Imagine it'd be worth a fortune.

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Speaker 1: Unrel