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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not often we have these two in

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Speaker 3: Let's play a bit of guests who well they're both

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Speaker 3: in front of you. So if you.

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Speaker 2: Guests an Australian actor we've known, loved and watching our

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Speaker 3: And a musician who's had it John Wood no clubs,

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Speaker 2: Musician who's had top albums and singles on both sides

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Speaker 3: Braithwait, John John Waters and Leo Sayer.

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Speaker 4: You're giving it all the way. Well, the fact is.

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Speaker 3: That you two are kind of neighbors.

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Speaker 5: And so yeah, we both live in the southern Highlands

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Speaker 5: of New Southwes right in different villages. And you know,

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Speaker 3: Which one is the village? Idiot? I just have to

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Speaker 1: Both I certainly it's a closely run race.

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Speaker 2: And so you're doing a fabulous thing this Friday called

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Speaker 2: Fire Aid twenty twenty or so.

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Speaker 3: Tell us how this came about?

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Speaker 5: Well, I was it was about, you know, then eve

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Speaker 5: I had the fire captain from the burrowing station, Colin

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Speaker 5: Munro had been out fighting fires. You know, they go

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Speaker 5: I thought, what can we do? This is shocking, you know,

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Speaker 5: like an ill equipped sort of team. I said, well,

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Speaker 5: you know, we in the industry I work in, particularly

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Speaker 1: So I thought, let's put on a concert.

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Speaker 5: So I got hold of Leo, I got hold of Darryl,

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Speaker 5: got hold of Daryl. Yeah, breathway, who's Jack Jones. There's

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Speaker 5: a whole list of people that just said yes.

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Speaker 1: When do you want me? I'll be there, you know.

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Speaker 5: And so we you know, we we are channeling all

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Speaker 5: the funds from this concert into the local mayoral Relief Fund,

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Speaker 5: which has been specially set up for the fieries, their

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Speaker 5: families and people who've lost their homes. You know, we've

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Speaker 5: who are great, great professional acts that just happened to

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Speaker 4: Bloody good.

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Speaker 5: Well yeah, and we've got, you know, some stories to tell.

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Speaker 5: We've got the wonderful Julias A.

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Speaker 1: Miro as our again. You know, one phone called, oh yeah,

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Speaker 5: And she's a semi local because her boyfriend is in

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Speaker 5: Bowl close enough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And so I mean a lot of creative

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Speaker 2: people do live in this area, don't they? But what

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Speaker 2: what did you see in terms of the fires around Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Where you are, well closet pretty close?

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Speaker 5: It was pretty close New Year Actually, the big fire

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Speaker 1: To where close to where we are, you know, it

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Speaker 4: It's a movement of two fires moving together. One came

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Speaker 1: But we were out that night.

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Speaker 5: I had my thirteen year old twins on ember watch.

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Speaker 5: You know, they were sitting up all night looking for

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Speaker 5: So you know, you just have to throw what water

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Speaker 3: Wasn't this an Australian Christmas? Though, instead of looking for Santa.

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Speaker 4: New Year's Day, I had to evacuate and we were

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Speaker 5: But do you have to think what's important? You asked

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Speaker 5: my thirteen year old Rusty. I said, what have you packed?

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Speaker 1: Rusty? You said, my Xbox?

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Speaker 4: I packed my best microphone.

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Speaker 2: We expected Johnny's going to take pictures of you with

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Speaker 2: the family xboxcyclopedia. Yeah. Yeah, Well it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a super super show and there's some great acts performing.

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Speaker 4: We had a magic response. I mean, you know, just

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Speaker 4: the acts being on with us. We've got our mutual

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Speaker 1: The p A and the stage and everything, and.

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Speaker 4: So you know, the donation of people has been. Even

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Speaker 4: all these big events have just waived it. Don't so

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Speaker 4: they're giving us thirty or forty police and the bomb

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Speaker 2: Of course, yes, they still love the doing word. And

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Speaker 2: I think this is what people are feeling.

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Speaker 3: How can I help? What can I.

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Speaker 1: Amazing response and I.

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Speaker 4: Don't think we've had a single turndown I have any

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Speaker 5: And you know, people are going to come and have

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Speaker 5: a great day with an amazing lineup.

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Speaker 1: Artists performing, you know, fantastic.

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Speaker 4: It's so good, great band.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm in heaven. I'm hearing some of

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Speaker 5: the best pop music ever written. It's being performed by

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Speaker 5: the original people who did it, and they're all my friends, man,

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Speaker 1: A good time. And I also when Leo overcomes to

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Speaker 4: Classes, how high does the wine go?

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Speaker 3: Leo up to, Hey, it's not yah, it's yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think I was trying to find a rhyme at

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Speaker 4: the time. Glass was all written in the studio. There

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Speaker 4: were no lyrics written down, made it up as we

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Speaker 4: went along. After about three takes we had it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, I've just been watching an old movie that I

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Speaker 4: love called The gold Rush, you know, Charlie Chaplin, and

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Speaker 4: it's all about the bar scene. You know, he goes

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Speaker 4: Yeah Yeah, there's the dancing, Yeah, absolutely, It takes a

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Speaker 3: But this is all good information, but it is.

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Speaker 4: It is here.

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Speaker 3: It is ya like a man.

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Speaker 4: That would say long toll glasses with wine up to hea.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. I'll give you a

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Speaker 3: I'm donating one hundred bucks. If you've seen wine up

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Speaker 1: Another one.

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Speaker 3: I want you to say, Jonesy, you're right, Jones, what

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Speaker 3: have you got? I'm going to change the lyrics with

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Speaker 3: my donation. I match whatever you're chucking me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Let's sort of like, yeah, you know, up to it

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Speaker 3: is here, But it's sort of turns out very Australian.

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Speaker 2: It probably is, and now that you live in the

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Speaker 2: Southern Highlands, it's time to join in.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be.

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Speaker 4: Yr on the night. I'll record it and prove.

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Speaker 1: It all right, come back.

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Speaker 5: With the record.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Jones is matching me. So we're two

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Speaker 2: It's this Friday at Bongbong Racecourse in his barrel. Tickets

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Speaker 2: are available from fire Aid twenty twenty dot com.

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Speaker 1: And they'll put you through the ticket tech or you

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Speaker 4: Me say this goes on. We've got a very good

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Speaker 4: donation system that we've we've set up with a bank account,

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Speaker 4: a website and everything and people will carry on donating.

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Speaker 4: This will help all the local people. The money is

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Speaker 4: all staying in the Southern Highlands. We're determined that it

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Speaker 5: Going straight where it's had a few losses, you know,

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Speaker 5: and it's a wonderful community spirit.

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Speaker 4: Worldlife rescuers, et cetera. They all benefit from this, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, generosity. Up to ya, Yeah, up to ya.

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Speaker 5: I've been existing on four hours sleep at night for

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Speaker 1: And I've got people phoning me saying, can you produce

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, newfound.

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Speaker 5: Respect for promoters all that. Whispered that quietly because musician

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Speaker 4: But you know, no, it's nice that we've done this

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Speaker 4: I mean, John has done most of it, John's family

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Speaker 4: very lovely to donate it for free. But it's an

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Speaker 4: interesting thing to do. We've seen the other side, right, actually,

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Speaker 4: on the other side of the industry more sympathetic. Are well, no, no, no, never, never,

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Speaker 4: Next you'll be carrying your own gear. No no, no,

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Speaker 3: No still money, signing your own body parts.

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Speaker 4: But for this, we'll do anything. We really believe in

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Speaker 4: the dug in for Justine Clark, the Fabulous Children's Who's

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Speaker 3: It's a show for everybody.

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Speaker 4: This is great stay away from the red cordial that

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Speaker 4: might have been changing.

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Speaker 3: John Waters Lea, thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Thank you guys, thank you very much. Join and

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Speaker 1: Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 3: I went for seven tell years.

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Speaker 4: Assum