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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from news Talks at b AH.

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Speaker 2: Here you go, Jack, I worked as a children's publisher

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Speaker 2: here for many years, had the pleasure of working with

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Speaker 2: Dame Linley, and you are one hundred percent correct. Everyone

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Speaker 2: thinks they can write a children's books and they simply can't.

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Speaker 2: It's an art form that's seriously underrated. You not only

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Speaker 2: have to appeal to the kids, but you also have

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Speaker 2: to make it clever enough to keep parents entertained after

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Speaker 2: multiple readings. As I'm sure you are discovering long live authors,

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Speaker 2: says Vicky Jack. I couldn't agree more, says Robin Slinky

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Speaker 2: Milinkey Catflaps has to be the absolute best. Love you

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Speaker 2: work and Jack. We have two grandchildren in France. They

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Speaker 2: have the Herey McClary books and we read them together

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Speaker 2: over FaceTime. They have their copy, I have mine. It's

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Speaker 2: absolute magic and the first thing we will do together

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Speaker 2: when they arrive in November, says Pam. Oh, that's so nice.

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Speaker 2: Pam ninety two ninety two is our text number. If

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Speaker 2: you want to send us a message this morning, you

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Speaker 2: can email me as well. JACKTEWSTALKSB dot co dot n

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Speaker 2: z our Sporto is going to be here very shortly

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Speaker 2: with his thoughts on the second Leader's low tonight in Perth.

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Speaker 2: But first up, Kevin Milt here to kick us off

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Speaker 2: for our Saturday to get their killed to Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Jack, you're an ambitsis start. Do you deep down

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Speaker 3: think that if you had the time, you could write

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Speaker 3: a pretty good children's book? I?

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Speaker 2: Okay, here's the thing. I know that people overestimate their

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Speaker 2: own abilities. Right, So I have a few things that

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Speaker 2: are absurd that I know seem absurd to others, but

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Speaker 2: I still believe.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: For example, if I'm in the ocean, I believe that

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Speaker 2: I have the strength to swim to any land mass

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Speaker 2: I can see. So if I'm twenty kilometers from a

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Speaker 2: land mass in the ocean, I think, you know what,

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Speaker 2: if push came to shove, I could make it. That's

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Speaker 2: my first one.

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Speaker 3: My second one.

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Speaker 2: You know how they think that men overestimate their abilities

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Speaker 2: to land a commercial jetliner. I think that in an emergency,

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Speaker 2: with the instruction from air traffic control, I could land

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Speaker 2: a commercial jet Now I know that seems absurd, but

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Speaker 2: I still think I can do it.

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Speaker 3: My third, second one, doesn't seem Yeah, that second one

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Speaker 3: doesn't seem served to me in your case, but to me.

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Speaker 2: No, it's definitely absurd. There's no way we could do it.

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Speaker 2: The third one is that every time I go to

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Speaker 2: the zoo, I look at a cheetah and I think,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I couldn't outrun that thing, but I

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Speaker 2: could beat it in a fight. It's much smaller. It's

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Speaker 2: much smaller than I always like, you know what, a lion, yep,

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Speaker 2: that's going to be hard. A tiger that looks pretty powerful,

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Speaker 2: but a cheatah is just a slightly bigger cat, very skinny.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, one blow and that thing's done, you know.

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Speaker 2: So those are my three really absurd things. But I

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Speaker 2: think I'll add a fourth, and that is that I think,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, ha ha, could it beat a writer like

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Speaker 2: a children's book that sells ten million copies worldwide? I

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Speaker 2: think it's way, way, way harder than most of us appreciate.

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Speaker 2: That's my take.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you're right, as although I've always

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Speaker 3: thought that if I could, it wouldn't be easy, of course,

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Speaker 3: but I think that if I really set myself the task,

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Speaker 3: i'd love to do it. I think half of it

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Speaker 3: would be to find somebody who could do great illustrations.

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Speaker 3: And I did find a superb art, this one who

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Speaker 3: agreed with me. I don't think it would have happened,

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Speaker 3: but he agreed he would do the artwork if I

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Speaker 3: write the script. And I wish I'd done it, of

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Speaker 3: course now.

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Speaker 2: But it's not too late, not too late, never too late.

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: My other thing is I reckon I could record a

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Speaker 3: pop song and.

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Speaker 2: Never too late. Well, look, Paul Holmes released an album,

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Speaker 2: so why not?

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, you were casting your mind forward as the last week,

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Speaker 2: of course of the local elections campaign, and you've been

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Speaker 2: thumbing through your local candidates book and getting to know

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Speaker 2: the candidates.

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Speaker 3: I wonder at local election times how critical the photo

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Speaker 3: is of candidates becoming the final result. Let's face that

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Speaker 3: not many voters do much research into candidates. Is certainly

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Speaker 3: the local elections which least I probably put myself in

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Speaker 3: this sometimes based just on their photos. Is this candidate attractive?

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Speaker 3: Does that one look intelligent? It'd be interesting after the

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Speaker 3: elections to match up successful candidates with how appealing their

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Speaker 3: photographs were and see if there's a link. On the

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Speaker 3: other hand, It does astonish me how some candidates put

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Speaker 3: no effort whatsoever into getting a decent photo taken of themselves.

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Speaker 3: A selfie in the shadows will do, goofy grin. What

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Speaker 3: are they thinking? I've got a local electioneering story, Jack,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to tell you. It goes back about twenty

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Speaker 3: years when I was on the Telly every week fronting

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Speaker 3: a huge rating consumer show. Our local mayor, whose surname

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Speaker 3: also happened to be Milne, Sam's mine, was running for

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Speaker 3: a reelection. His team had erected hundreds of election signs

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Speaker 3: all over town. They had no photo, but simply said

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Speaker 3: Milne for Mayor. And wisely, these signs were erected before

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Speaker 3: nomination for mayor had closed. It was an awful trick

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Speaker 3: to play, Jack, but I couldn't resist it. I wrung

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Speaker 3: up the mayor and I said, Kevin Milne here, Alan

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Speaker 3: just thought I should let you know I've decided to

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Speaker 3: run for mayor. There was silence. The sight of hundreds

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Speaker 3: of Milne for Mayor signs working just as well for

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Speaker 3: me as for him, must have passed in front of

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Speaker 3: his eyes. I didn't let him suffer for long, just

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Speaker 3: getting allan, you're you're the man for the job. Good luck,

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Speaker 3: and he took it well. In fact, promised to keep

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Speaker 3: a spare Milne for mayor signed for me and his garage.

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Speaker 3: Regrettably I forgot to pick it up. But there's just

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Speaker 3: a little story. It always makes me smile.

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Speaker 2: That you tell you what, you get some real characters

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Speaker 2: for the local body elections as well, Like you say

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Speaker 2: that the budgets for theeering don't extend to what they

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Speaker 2: might and say a national election or something like that.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm always amazed too. And the thing is,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's actually a great sign for democracy

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Speaker 2: that all of these you know, all of all the

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Speaker 2: characters who come and come would work and put themselves

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Speaker 2: forward for various things. I always think, oh, okay, there

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Speaker 2: you go, very good. It's great that we've got a

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Speaker 2: system that allows these people to put themselves forward a

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Speaker 2: public office. And yeah, and even if they're not prepared

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Speaker 2: to take a photo that's in focus or anything like that,

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Speaker 2: and then hopefully.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't insist they have to do your hair

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Speaker 3: before you get taken.

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Speaker 2: Yeah totally. Hey, thanks so much, Kevin. You have a

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Speaker 2: great weekend and we will catch you again very soon.

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