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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome, friends that are Christian O'Connell show podcast Footy

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Speaker 2: is Back and yesterday up on lig On Street. Painting

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Speaker 2: Wall of Fame. We've been asking to about people that

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Speaker 2: we don't necessarily know about, but they are footy legends.

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Speaker 2: We've got some great ones. Let me tell you about

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Speaker 2: some of the people that are up on the wallly

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Speaker 1: Onle On streets.

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Speaker 2: Your food heroes, the Nuffies, the earliest up on the walley.

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Speaker 1: From grounds and to goods. Everyone is welcome, just not calling.

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Speaker 2: Now. You may be a big footy fan, but did

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Speaker 2: you know about the legend that is doug Ensare any

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Speaker 2: book of records for kicking sixty goals in one game

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Speaker 2: when into teenage sensation playing for Noble Park against Standing

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Speaker 2: On South in nineteen sixty seven, still remains intact. Sixty goals.

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Speaker 2: He's going up on our Wall of Fame, as is

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Speaker 2: Royce Dixon nominated for his son Russell. Last week He's

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Speaker 2: Dan lost an armed then went on to win as

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Speaker 2: a ruckman the Horseman District League Best and Fairest. Also

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Speaker 2: want on to take on golf smash that getting down

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Speaker 2: to fifteen wow wow, and became an a grade tennis

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Speaker 2: player as well. So legends that we've not heard about,

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Speaker 2: but they're going up on our Wall of Fame, our

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Speaker 2: footy Wall of Fame up on Lygon Street. So today

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Speaker 2: we want to get closer to the legend that we

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Speaker 2: found out about it yesterday of peanut Man. A lot

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Speaker 2: of calls yesterday when when of You came. I'll start

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Speaker 2: talking about in the sixties and seventies there was a

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Speaker 2: guy who just wander around selling very cheap bags of peanuts.

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Speaker 2: Huggy told us the fact they were brothers, which is

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Speaker 2: why they could be at two ground. So what they

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Speaker 2: might be twins or they've coloned Christian. I remember Victoria

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Speaker 2: Park late sixties. Peanut Man would yell shilling a bag

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Speaker 2: brackets here that meant shilling a bag? Are you? We

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Speaker 2: would we go?

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Speaker 1: Even though I didn't live through the ship we got that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for breaking it down. You obviously heard the show.

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Speaker 2: A couple of shows like they need to prap this

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Speaker 2: broken down. Please show workings listeners, Christian, this is from Vicky.

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Speaker 2: I can still hear the voice of Peanut Man at

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Speaker 2: Princess Park. It always sounded like a miss heard. He

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Speaker 2: was saying me nuts, me nuts. He made a few

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Speaker 2: dollars out of me. Christian, he was at Preston Oval

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Speaker 2: when Dad used to take me to watch games. That

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Speaker 2: was from Sheryl. We haven't even had emails me, Christian.

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Speaker 2: We'd like to elaborate on the peanut guy you were

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Speaker 2: talking about yesterday on the show. Dad used to take

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Speaker 2: me to Windy Hill. Memory is there? Yeah? Never tell

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Speaker 2: about boy, things have changed us Italians are a crafty bunch,

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Speaker 2: and about these two brothers made a small fortune unlicensed.

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Speaker 2: I think the only English they spoke was get your

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Speaker 2: hot nuts and twenty cents. I remember like it was yesterday.

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Speaker 2: That was Steve Christian. I heard you talk about Peanut

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Speaker 2: Man on the show yesterday morning. A much loved and

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Speaker 2: iconic individual. You attended many games. I finally member the

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Speaker 2: Essendon original game Windy Here. What do you feel like?

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Speaker 2: That was his stomping ground. I can still remember hearing

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Speaker 2: we can call out peanuts peanuts twenty cents while running

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Speaker 2: through the crowd and watching the footy at the same time.

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Speaker 2: One of you posted on Facebook, by the way, that

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Speaker 2: once there was a bit of an altercation when someone

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Speaker 2: shouted out, they're obviously had a cup of frothies before

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Speaker 2: the game. Shove your peanuts up your arm.

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Speaker 1: You can't disrespect the peanuts like that.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. The peanuts were wrapped up

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Speaker 2: tightly in little white bags. Are the same tight you

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Speaker 2: received when purchasing lollies at the local milk bar. All right,

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Speaker 2: now we've done some detective work on the line. Now

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Speaker 2: we have Darren. So are you cousin two peanut Man?

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Speaker 1: I am the peanut Man's nephew. Morning Christian, Morning, our heart. Lead.

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Speaker 2: We're getting very close to the legend. So is it

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Speaker 2: was it John Boyd?

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Speaker 1: John Boyd? Yep, absolutely, that was his name in the.

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Speaker 2: So were they were they twins? Were they brothers? How

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Speaker 2: did it all start out? Down?

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Speaker 1: Myth? An absolute myth. That was just Johnny. He started

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Speaker 1: were they selling peanuts from? Are very young? Probably in

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Speaker 1: his older brother Bill would have been a teenager and

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Speaker 2: And you as a teenage you suddenly become self conscious

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Speaker 2: and various things about your family embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was sort of the general gist of it.

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Speaker 1: But I think Johnny just really loved it and wanted

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Speaker 2: But yeah, probably one of the magazines he sold under

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Speaker 1: But certainly they were bagged in those typewhite bags and

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Speaker 1: I used to help him do it on Thursday nights

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Speaker 1: health out of time. Basically, anyone that came to see

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Speaker 1: him at any stage, you'd be roped into bagging teanuts.

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Speaker 2: And how many would he how many would you have

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Speaker 1: He had these hesh and sacks which he haught haul

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Speaker 1: sandwiched in between two Chinese restaurants, and it's hit that

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Speaker 1: there was a little quid pro quo between between Johnny

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is incredible stuff. We've got to put

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Speaker 2: get a picture of your of John boyd up.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've got a couple which I can certainly

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Speaker 2: So he must have had to lug the big old

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Speaker 1: He added comby then to the newspaper deliveries and things

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Speaker 2: Get your magazine's the Milkman.

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Speaker 1: The speculation about the grounds that he preferred, because early

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Speaker 1: But he was in fact a die hard Carleton fan

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Speaker 1: going to Princess Park to watch Carlton, but he got

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Speaker 1: and a couple of bags of cigarettes and any girt.

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Speaker 2: And interestingly, before there was a web there was John Boyd.

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Speaker 1: Did he ever sell those adult maca where they just

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Speaker 2: Grumbles to the Chinese at that.

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Speaker 1: Restaurant, But look at there's something that he laughed and

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Speaker 2: News they're all customers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, but.

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Speaker 2: It feels like one army's got a load of adult magazines.

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Speaker 2: Another army has got some nuts that he said nuts here.

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Speaker 1: But look at it's great that he's so fondly remembered

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Speaker 1: by so many of these days. And I was really

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Speaker 1: chucked to be followed up to speak about him, because

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Speaker 1: you know there's Facebook pages about these saw Johnny makes

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Speaker 1: a regular regular appearance there and people remember him really,

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Speaker 2: It was a big fixture of a lot of people

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Speaker 2: that I've heard from the last twenty four hours of

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Speaker 1: And let me just say he had an incredibly accurate

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Speaker 1: throwing arm because people had hand the shilling or the

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Speaker 1: think they're up to a dollar a bag. And I

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Speaker 1: like people had hand their money through other people in

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Speaker 1: the crowd too, Johnny, and then he'd spot them in

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Speaker 1: the crowd and bang he would rifle that packet of

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Speaker 2: He could have gone all the way with American football.

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Speaker 2: He could have been the new Patrick Mahomes before there

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Speaker 2: was Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: I think build wise, he would have been Alignedman, they're definitely.

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Speaker 2: What isn't down if you're okay with He's exactly the

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Speaker 2: kind of legend that we've been hearing about of the

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Speaker 2: last week while we're doing this footy Wall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: So are we okay to put John up there?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Look, well I think on behalf of the family.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be greatly appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've got a few photos lying around, but

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Speaker 1: I can certainly send in for you guys to choose from.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I think that would be great.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much about the legend that is

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Speaker 2: will always be. He's immortal, Johnny Boyd.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, Thank you and thanks for remembering and thanks

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Speaker 1: for honoring me this this quirky little way. I think

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Speaker 1: it's great, lovely.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for chating to us down. Have

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Speaker 2: a good day. This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast,