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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: This week on the show, we're trying to build the

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Speaker 2: ultimate family tree, taking a family member and then looking

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Speaker 2: for your calls, your stories of your weakest claim to

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Speaker 2: fame involved with them. Yesterday it was all about the uncles.

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Speaker 3: In the eighties, he was on five footage for Helter.

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Speaker 4: My uncle fell out of the car and they named

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Speaker 4: the road after him.

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Speaker 3: He was a member of the Grenadier Guard, so the

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Speaker 3: Queen's Gard my fiance's uncle.

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Speaker 4: He is an audio engineer by trade and he was

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Speaker 4: set up with a task of designing Shane WARN's chant

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Speaker 4: that was played at the memorial service at the mcg.

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Speaker 4: His fans door was used in the movie The Full

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Speaker 4: Monty while he was upstairs.

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Speaker 2: All right this morning? Then on nine four one four

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Speaker 2: one o four three, it's all about your aunties. What

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Speaker 2: is your weakest claim to fame? Involving your aunties? Christ

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Speaker 2: and my Auntie used to live next door to Elton John.

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Speaker 2: He once brought her bins in for her. Oh that's

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Speaker 2: from Edie, who's ten? I love that. What a lovely

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Speaker 2: thing to do, Lizzie, I did say week is claim

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Speaker 2: to fame? My aunt knew Glenn Robbins mum and he

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Speaker 2: gave her a lift in his car once loved that.

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Speaker 2: This is on Lizzie. My week is claim an auntie

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Speaker 2: is that my great auntie was a cleaner at university

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Speaker 2: sometimes in the sometime in the eighties nineties, and she

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Speaker 2: happened to work with Bond Scott's mum. At the moment,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of mums, so we're looking for your

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Speaker 2: weekes claim to fame involving your auntie or an auntie.

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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is a great one. My auntie used to live

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Speaker 2: next door to the family who came up with the

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Speaker 2: Power for Active Life dog food slogan. That's a lot

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Speaker 2: going on there, Christian. My uncle was nominated for Australia

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Speaker 2: of the Year, didn't get it, but was nominated. We

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Speaker 2: are super proud. That's from Christa Bell. You should be

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Speaker 2: as well. Nine four one four one oh four three.

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Speaker 2: So your auntie weakest claim to fame. Let's go to seven.

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Speaker 1: Sarah, Hi, Christia, my auntie.

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Speaker 4: I'll go kiss Dave Dublin's brother.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: This is she tells everyone of every family. Then it

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Speaker 4: always comes out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sarah, thank you very much. She coiled me. Have

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Speaker 2: a good day you too, by Marina. Good morning, Good

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Speaker 2: morning Marina. Tell us about your auntie.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so my great aunt was the first Australian radio

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Speaker 3: presented to interview the Beatles.

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Speaker 2: This is amazing. Well, that's nothing weak about that. What happened?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so she was quite pushy apparently, and decided she

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Speaker 3: wanted to interview them a couple of months before they

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Speaker 3: came and did their Australian tool for the first time,

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Speaker 3: and they flew her to London and she got to

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Speaker 3: interview them there and then they caught up again when

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Speaker 3: they came to Australia.

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Speaker 2: This is incredible with a big deal to be flowing

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Speaker 2: over to the UK then as well. So what is

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Speaker 2: your great auntie's name?

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Speaker 3: Her name is Benny Lum And who was.

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Speaker 2: She interviewing them for?

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Speaker 3: I think it was too u W yeah, back in.

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Speaker 2: Then. That is unbelievable. Has she got any photos of

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Speaker 2: that interviewing the Beatles?

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Speaker 3: Neil, Yeah, yeah, lots of photos. She's interviewed Fred Astare

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Speaker 2: Is there any people Are there any tapes of the

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Speaker 2: Beatles interview?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all online.

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought, we're going to have to get this out.

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Speaker 2: This is amazing. How old was she when she first

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Speaker 2: interviewed the Beatles year as well?

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Speaker 3: It was nineteen sixty four. I'm not sure how old

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Speaker 2: I mean that is she she's a part in history.

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Speaker 2: The first Australian to interview the Beatles is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and female and Radio two back then.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, yeah, Trailblazer. We're going to have to try

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Speaker 2: we can. Actually, i'd love to hear that. Marina, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much. She's showing us this one. I love that.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Jeanette here. Good morning, Jeanette, Good morning.

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Speaker 4: How is everybody?

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Speaker 2: Jeanette? And I hope you're well as well, Chinette, And that's.

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Speaker 3: Just thank you.

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Speaker 4: So my Auntie May had afternoon Bill and a Spencer

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Speaker 4: as she was.

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Speaker 2: Then afternoon tea with Dinah Spencer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, how come my great aunt used to work for

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Speaker 4: a company called Gees and Hawks, which is a famous

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Speaker 4: Savao Taylor. Yes, yes, and she used to make all

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Speaker 4: these knots and the rings on the naval uniforms by

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Speaker 4: hand with like a milliminiter around a half piece of

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Speaker 4: gold and she used to throw them around old coins

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Speaker 4: and stuff, so they were all the same same shape.

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Speaker 4: And so she did that and the sword knots for

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Speaker 4: the royal wedding. So Diana went to Gibes and Hawks

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Speaker 4: to approve everything and had afternoon tea with my great

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Speaker 4: auntie may.

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Speaker 2: A royal knot.

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Speaker 4: Well it's it's a name. We all sawed not.

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Speaker 2: Oh gotcha now right, Yeah, that is quite incredible. Not so.

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Speaker 4: The page boys went slid down the banisters when they

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Speaker 4: finished and after the afternoon tea and did boys things

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Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff. And yeah, I've still

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Speaker 4: got the drawings.

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Speaker 2: That is amazing. That's incredible. Two amazing stories, Janette, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 1: She called the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Chat about your weakest claim to fame with your auntie.

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Speaker 2: We had an amazing story from Marina not a week

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Speaker 2: claim to fame at all about her great auntie Benny Lum,

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Speaker 2: who interviewed the Beatles. Wait for this, not just interview

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Speaker 2: the Beatles, first ever person to interview the Beatles in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four, I mean first Australian. Yeah, she was

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Speaker 2: flowing from Australia to London haven't listened to this. We

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Speaker 2: found some of the audio. That's amazing is that coming

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Speaker 2: back in history. Didn't know John wrote a book. I didn't.

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Speaker 2: It's funny that she went over for an interview with

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Speaker 2: the Beatles and they she would have come back and go.

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Speaker 2: Did you talk to him about the music? Asked John

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Speaker 2: Lennon about the book. He wrote, I didn't know enough

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Speaker 2: to dig that out.

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