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Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Were you on TV as a kid? My school was

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Speaker 2: on this very dry BBC show from the eighties called

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Speaker 2: Findess Keepers, actually hosted by a professor of maths Drial

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Speaker 2: nerd Fest. Obviously I wasn't on the show itself. I

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Speaker 2: was simply in the audience giving it double thumbs up

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Speaker 2: before I bey a bit of the theme tune, which

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Speaker 2: is terrifying and it's into it. Back now, years ago

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Speaker 2: on the BBC we had things called a continuity announcer

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Speaker 2: where a man just a voice would come on to

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Speaker 2: reassure you about what you just watched and what was

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Speaker 2: coming up next.

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Speaker 1: You can see the second part of the adventure of

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Speaker 1: the Disappearing Dispatch Case in twenty five minutes when the

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Speaker 1: Baker Street Boys go into action.

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Speaker 2: The fat not amazing. Imagine if we had a guy

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Speaker 2: going and mister Christian o'connelly back tomorrow morning and I'll

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Speaker 2: hug you in board shorts and thongs.

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Speaker 1: You can see the second part of the Adventure of

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Speaker 1: the Disappearing Dispatch Case in twenty five minutes when the

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Speaker 1: Baker Street Boys go into action. What's coming for that

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Speaker 1: Finders Keepers introduced by Richard Stilgoe.

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Speaker 2: It's like some sort of sci fi horror years and

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Speaker 2: years ago. Steven Merchant, who co wrote and directed The

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Speaker 2: Office with Ricky Gervais, was on one when he was

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Speaker 2: a teenager, a TV show that you've seen massive kids

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Speaker 2: called Blockbuster, hosted by a man who was about nine

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Speaker 2: hundred years old. Bob Honus.

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Speaker 3: What means income from property or investment?

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Speaker 1: And when preceded by inland is the departmental that looks

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Speaker 1: after income tax revenue?

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Speaker 3: Revenue?

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Speaker 1: Is right?

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Speaker 2: Thirteen year old boy should know about taxation? What drive?

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Speaker 2: How did much ever get laid? Is a wonder? Is

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Speaker 2: a wonder? Hell? It's not a flex at thirteen to

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Speaker 2: know correct turns out taxation policy in the country. All right,

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Speaker 2: why are you on TV as a kid? Nine four

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Speaker 2: one four three?

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Speaker 3: Coome onr in mickod Morning Jack and Christian?

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Speaker 2: How you go on Mick? What were you on as

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Speaker 2: a kid?

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, called doubledare on Channel ten?

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Speaker 3: Name scenario's most game shows you had to answer series

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Speaker 3: the question. If you couldn't answer it, you dared the

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Speaker 3: other team to answer it. If they couldn't answer it.

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Speaker 3: They doubled it back to you and you got to

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Speaker 3: then call for a physical challenge and yeah, which usually

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Speaker 3: involved some kind of stupid thing running around the studio

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Speaker 3: doing whatever and getting covered in chocolate sliine which tasted

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Speaker 3: like crap. Yes, and mind you, we got the pants

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Speaker 3: beaten office and I told all the kids at school.

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Speaker 4: Or my family what night I was going to be on.

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Speaker 3: They all watched it, and man did I get toasted

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Speaker 3: at school?

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Speaker 2: So you got slimed.

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Speaker 3: I got slim with chocolate sauce and it was crap.

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Speaker 3: It was great trap and yeah, not good. And the

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Speaker 3: idea was to get as covered in it as much

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Speaker 2: So yeah, not enough on TV?

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that too much insurance. While she is going on.

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Speaker 2: Generation slim anymore snowfla slime flakes? Meck, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: You have a good day.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, you two guys.

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Speaker 2: Take Hey, good morning, Brad, Hey young Grett. Yeah the voice.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, just early morning, Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Brad. You on TV as a kid, Yeah, mate, I.

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Speaker 4: Was on a show called Romper Room Room.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about romper Room when was this eighties?

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Speaker 4: It was a preschool sort of a thing where you

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Speaker 4: got a bunch of kids and there was a puppet

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Speaker 4: named mister Dooby and uh mis Helena, and uh you've

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Speaker 4: done things like balance balls and punch balls and balancings

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Speaker 4: on your head and sang songs and all that sort

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Speaker 2: Somehow torment.

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Speaker 4: Wrong, doob wrong, Doobie.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it was hearing this.

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Speaker 4: They used to say, doob you do, but don't be,

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Speaker 4: you don't be, and all that sort of stuff. But

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Speaker 4: the title I was the only kid in history of

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Speaker 4: the show to actually be removed.

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Speaker 2: Why what did you do?

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Speaker 4: Well? Mister Doobey was up there reading us all the

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Speaker 4: story and I've got up, walked up and we were

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Speaker 4: mister Doobey with a hand puppet and I've walked up

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Speaker 4: and grabbed a hand puppet.

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Speaker 2: No, you do not do that. You don't touch mister Derby.

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Speaker 2: Never behind the desk. It's not a Wizard of Oz.

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Speaker 2: You don't go and see him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like agro mate, no one told who was.

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Speaker 2: So were you on live TV? When people have seen you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, with live TV.

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Speaker 4: They took us out in the back and I wasn't

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Speaker 4: allowed back on. And I do believe about that. Miss

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Speaker 4: Helena never ever saw a Brad through the magic mirror.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so much going on here now we know

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Speaker 2: what the throws a scratch, mister b days I sit around.

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid with you, Brad. We will yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Christian late seventies. I was selected being a contestant on

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Speaker 2: Saturday Morning Kids TV here in Melbourne. They were filmed

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Speaker 2: at the Exhibition Buildings in Fitzroy to spin a wheel.

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Speaker 2: This was uncermer back in the day. I want a

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Speaker 2: dole from Charlie's Angels. Best day of my life as

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Speaker 2: a kid, huge being anywhere near like showbiz at that

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Speaker 2: or TV now. I'll last call her Brad Talker's taken

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Speaker 2: us through the Romper Room, which we'd never heard of.

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Speaker 2: A show Apparently in Australia in the nineteen seventies, quite

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Speaker 2: a few of yon text did watch it as a kid,

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Speaker 2: remember it fondly, and one of you, Aaron Barry, says

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Speaker 2: that they saw the episode where he did that he

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Speaker 2: took them head off the puppet. When you play back

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Speaker 2: a lot of it and think about a lot of

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Speaker 2: the TV shows that we grew up where they were

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Speaker 2: nuts like really odd. This is enough to send anyone

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Speaker 2: into some kind of psychic frenzy.

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Speaker 1: Oh, mister d, did you want to hear your song

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Speaker 1: straight away? Oh? I thought so, well, Let's sing mister

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Speaker 1: doebe Special Shot song.

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Speaker 2: Shall we all say, really please? Mister music, irritating be noise.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a fly in This is a gantanel

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Speaker 2: bay to make them talk.

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Speaker 1: Oh, mister d did you want to hear your song

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Speaker 1: straight away? Oh? I thought so, well, Let's sing mister

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Speaker 1: Doebe's Special shot song. Shall we all say?

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Speaker 2: Really please? Mister Music, Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I try to do.

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Speaker 2: And not do anything wrong. Would you turn on to

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Speaker 2: Netflix now to a meeting? But playing this? This is

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Speaker 2: the pitch.

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Speaker 5: Really all day?

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is mister Deb's favorite song. Then there

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Speaker 2: was some nonsense with the mirror song stomper that's not

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Speaker 2: right for kids.

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Speaker 1: Jump rump a bumper, stump a boo, Tell me, tell me,

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Speaker 1: tell me do magic meal, Tell me today has been

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Speaker 1: My friends had fun to play and I can also

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Speaker 1: see you.

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Speaker 5: Now look here another day, same time in the room.

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Speaker 2: Driving mad if your job posting that I'd need to

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Speaker 2: do be to get through that every day. Shane's on

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Speaker 2: the line. He was on TV as a kid. Good

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Speaker 2: morning Shane, Good morning sir.

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Speaker 5: How are you really enjoy your show coming to work?

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Speaker 5: I put it on every morning and I get a laugh.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 2: Oh lovely, that's lovely to know. Thanks for sharing that

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Speaker 2: with as Shane. So you're on TV as a kid.

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Speaker 5: Oh many many years ago. My sister and brother were

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Speaker 5: a sort of a musical family. Dad as a country singer,

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Speaker 5: and Mum got us on Brian and the Juniors and

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Speaker 5: that was back in the black at white TV days.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, So what would this have been the sixties

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Speaker 2: or early seventies.

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Speaker 5: Oh god, don't ask me. I'm sixty eight now. It

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Speaker 5: was a long time ago, So yeah, Brian and and

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Speaker 5: also a little show in Shepperdon at a local TV

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Speaker 5: show up there, and we were on a talent quest

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Speaker 5: there and won a little tape recorder and that was awesome.

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Speaker 2: We want a tape recorder. And what do you remember

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Speaker 2: the song you were doing with the family, the musical family, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 5: It was called Lemon Tree and the seekers used to

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Speaker 5: sing that and we learned that song. I played the

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Speaker 5: ukulele and a.

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Speaker 2: Very talented Swiss family Robinson, weren't you all?

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Speaker 5: Oh we were, Yeah, there was no we didn't even

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Speaker 5: have electricity up there, and so we used to sing

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Speaker 5: around the around the fireplace and yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: This is amazing. Can you remember the Lemon Tree song?

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Speaker 2: Can you do any of it now for us?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: God, I couldn't do it now, but give me a ukulelea.

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Speaker 5: I might give it a crack that run with me

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Speaker 5: at the moment.

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Speaker 2: No, we do believe we have one in the studio.

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Speaker 2: Let's make a note, get one for always.

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Speaker 5: Five string banjo and I've got a perfect place for

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Speaker 5: you to take your care of it. And if you want,

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Speaker 5: I've got to find out Ruby Kinray and you know.

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Speaker 2: We could do Jordan banjos together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what deliverance once? Are we okay? And if you

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Speaker 5: are up there just locked the caravan of a night

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Speaker 5: of the European.

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Speaker 2: We've come a long way from mister Dobell.

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