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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Sorry.

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Speaker 1: Headline in the paper during the week was that said

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Speaker 1: the Australian National anthem has a big problem, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: I wonder what the problem is because we've changed it

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Speaker 1: from young and free to one and free barby So

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Speaker 1: this is the oldest civilization on Earth, our first nations.

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Speaker 1: But the author, Wendy Hargraves, wasn't saying that the lyrics

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Speaker 1: were wrong. She was saying the average Australian can't sing

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Speaker 1: it in tune. And there's a reason why the range

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Speaker 1: of Advanced Australia fair is seventeen steps called semi tones,

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Speaker 1: and that's a massive difficult climb for unprofessional singers. Here,

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Speaker 1: as you know, is our national anthem.

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Speaker 2: Lasts that religionized, Yes, so the seventeen steps.

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Speaker 1: For example, Britain's national anthem has ten semi tones, God

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Speaker 1: Save the Queen, France's national anthem fourteen, New Zealand's fourteen

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Speaker 1: as well, So seventeen is a bit of a stretch

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Speaker 1: for an unprofessional voice. Experienced vocalists spend considerable time developing

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Speaker 1: strength in each register. Non singers aren't used to holding

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Speaker 1: those notes like that in second gear and that's what

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Speaker 1: this dictates, and you end up wabbling, yodling and going

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Speaker 1: out of tune. The American national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner,

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Speaker 1: rises in nineteen semitones, so this is even more than ours,

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Speaker 1: which is why you sometimes get those celebrities attempting to

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Speaker 1: sing it so badly. Like remember Roseanne Barr singing like that,

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Speaker 1: she meets too hot. I don't know if there's only

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Speaker 1: the semitones that were her problem, but she said after

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Speaker 1: what she said, she was doing her best. She said,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a seer. No, she wasn't mocking. That was her.

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Speaker 2: That's just singing.

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Speaker 1: And everyone was saying, well, you're insulting as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a singer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's for all of us singing Advance Australia fair.

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Speaker 1: That's why so many of us sound terrible when we

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Speaker 1: do it.

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Speaker 2: What other ones are out there that.

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Speaker 1: You know what a terrible Well, it's not a terrible

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Speaker 1: national anthem, but when Argentina is playing football and they

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Speaker 1: play their anthem, their anthem goes for about fifty eight

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Speaker 1: thousand years, isn't it? Small snippet? You'll grow a beard

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Speaker 1: singing this one. Yeah, it's good though, isn't it. There's

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Speaker 1: a nice rhythm to it. We know what people say

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Speaker 1: is one of the worst ones. It's a little dirt.

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Speaker 1: Is the Japanese national anthem? No thanks to our Japanese friends.

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Speaker 1: I listen to this. I thought it was mister Robato

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Speaker 1: thing in that at school. I don't watch your badfoot that.

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Speaker 2: There's no chie.

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Speaker 1: We're trying to make inroads to our Japanese audience. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not their fault. Their anthem sounds like that.

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Speaker 2: Don't start a war with Japan.

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Speaker 1: In North Korea? Yes, what's North Korea? It's very stirring,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's almost Russian.

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Speaker 1: Julie Andrews or Julie Anthony will do a good version

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Speaker 1: of that. What does sound a bit Russian? Well, this

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Speaker 1: is Russia's one. Oh, it's good. Let's say what you

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Speaker 1: want about Say what you want about the Commis. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: they do a good anthem. They do a good anthem. Brendan.

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Speaker 1: You can't get cop colera or blue jeans, but you

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Speaker 1: get a good anthem.

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Speaker 2: Think of that when you're lining up for your group.

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Speaker 1: Be pushed out of the building sometime soon, but on

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Speaker 1: your house.

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Speaker 2: But what a good anthem comedy,