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Speaker 1: We are going back to the year nineteen eighty four

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Speaker 1: Lace once again today and we've just heard Mondo Rock.

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Speaker 1: We were trying not to give it away, but I

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Speaker 1: think we have. Oh well we have now we have there.

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Speaker 1: That's like ever We're so made it that far. Such

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Speaker 1: an intriguing and incredible week we had last week, and

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Speaker 1: we thought we'd get another star from nineteen eighty four

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Speaker 1: on the line, who's still a start of this day,

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Speaker 1: from his time with Daddy Cool to producing those early

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Speaker 1: Skyhawks albums, to Mondo Rock, who were on a high

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Speaker 1: with their modern bop album in eighty four, and the

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Speaker 1: song Come Said the Boy was a huge Australian hit,

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Speaker 1: Ross the Boss, Ross Wilson, good morning, I remember it.

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Speaker 2: Oh we forget we're remembering eighty four because it turns

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Speaker 2: forty this year. Ross, And of course it is just

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest years in Australian music. We thinks

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Speaker 2: it comes to The Boy was huge in eighty four

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Speaker 2: when Eric McCusker wrote the song.

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Speaker 3: Was it written with.

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Speaker 2: Something of a biographical lean, shall we say?

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Speaker 3: He told me, and he says this on record, that

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Speaker 3: it was a sort of a mixture of several things

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Speaker 3: experiences that he'd had or witnessed. I'm not sure, but

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Speaker 3: he grew up on a little house on top of

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Speaker 3: the cliff overlooking Bronze Beach, so very much immersed in

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Speaker 3: kind of Sydney surf right and you know, not far

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Speaker 3: from Tamma Ramma where all the ladies would go topless

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Speaker 3: and all of that. So there was a bit of

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Speaker 3: background there. You know.

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Speaker 1: It was quite a time Ross and being a real

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Speaker 1: fan or a real fan of the previous couple of albums,

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Speaker 1: including Chemistry. I've went out and got my copy and

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Speaker 1: saw your smell, your grinning faces on the front cover.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing forty years how things have changed. But we

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Speaker 1: also now have you know, some my kids sometimes go

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Speaker 1: to the record shop and buy an album, which is

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Speaker 1: good to see.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great. Violence made a bit of a comeback.

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Speaker 3: So people have realized that when they've got their streaming services,

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Speaker 3: they don't actually own the roostance and they're just renting

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Speaker 3: it by the month, and they like to have something

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Speaker 3: solid in their hands, and so it's really good that

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Speaker 3: in fact, on one of my kids works in a

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Speaker 4: That's good. People like something tangible and some lyrics on there, and.

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Speaker 2: So come said the boy, I'm not finished talking about that.

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Speaker 2: It came out the year I finished school. And as

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Speaker 2: you can, and you know, I mean you talk about

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Speaker 2: that whole Sydney Beach thing. It certainly made the transition

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Speaker 2: to the West Coast beach thing as well. Ross it

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Speaker 2: was banned by some radio stations, not least Sydney's then

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Speaker 2: with the Roman Catholic Church.

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Speaker 3: Did let them Saint Mary. Yeah, people know that, but

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Speaker 3: they were the only ones that photo know that did

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Speaker 3: ban any significance. And we were quite annoyed by that

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Speaker 3: because we were trying to get to number one, and

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Speaker 3: we said at number two too nationally for a few weeks,

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Speaker 3: love is a battlefield. We actually went number one in

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Speaker 3: most states, but not all at the same time, so

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Speaker 3: you know, it would have been great to have a

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Speaker 2: One absolutely well too, Sam was so huge that it

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Speaker 2: would have been definitely would have had an.

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Speaker 3: Effect absolutely now that time was big everywhere, and I

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Speaker 3: think one of the prisons is because you know, most

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Speaker 3: pendents do live near the coast, and so this is

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Speaker 3: a story that resonates with them. And we had many

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Speaker 3: many girls come up to me and say, you know,

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Speaker 3: could I do a lot of like signing things up

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Speaker 3: to shows and all of those things. You know that

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Speaker 3: when that song came out, you know, that was I

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Speaker 3: was having my first holiday romance with and oh yeah

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Speaker 3: I played that when we had a cat seat and

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Speaker 3: we business for real and I played that time because

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that might have been put off there. You've got

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Speaker 4: too much information? Can I just sign it back?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, people are told me so much pressure.

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Speaker 1: That's funny. Hey, Ross has always been a great love. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, the Mondo's and all of your stuff here

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Speaker 1: in Perth. You must have loved coming and playing those

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Speaker 1: gigs at the Entertainment cetera amongst other venues. But they

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Speaker 1: were the big ones, weren't they.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I always been many times there recently. You know,

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Speaker 3: it all up. It's from my life there at the stage.

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Speaker 2: Now, well, I mean You're forever being the unofficial anthem

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Speaker 2: of the West Coast sequence.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when they win to go the rock comes out.

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Speaker 3: I've had to remind them on occasion that I wrote

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Speaker 3: that not about there. But they came around to a

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Speaker 3: few years ago with twenty fifth aniversary of the formation

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Speaker 3: of the club, and it was basic to be part

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Speaker 3: of that match in seed OUSI the eaglet. I wanted

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Speaker 3: addressing revenue people on a lot, you know, yeah, what

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Speaker 3: what the hell? You know? It was beautiful, you know,

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Speaker 3: I did these rounds. It came back, we played, we've

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Speaker 3: played twice, went and went to they.

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Speaker 2: Can't get enough of it. So March nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 2: Modern Bop was the album Rolling Stone said at the

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Speaker 2: time the album achieves the Mondo's oft quota aim adult

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Speaker 2: music that isn't soft or easy listening now, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: Then Rolling Stone had a fair bit of sway, probably

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Speaker 2: more than it does now. How much attention did bands pay,

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Speaker 2: you know to something like Rolling Stone when it came

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there was a big, good refusion I want

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Speaker 3: to get and the album was was a pretty big said,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've got to some of the tracks on

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Speaker 3: it we didn't spend much time on because we spent

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Speaker 3: so much time recording and effect income. Said the boy.

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Speaker 3: I read a third of the album just working on

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Speaker 3: that song. Yeah, the solo of that Eric mccusky in

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Speaker 3: the middle, the guitar solo. I get guitarists coming out

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Speaker 3: of awesome. You know, I don't know, because when we

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Speaker 3: you can just play whatever you like. I know I'm

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Speaker 3: going to play exactly like that. And Eric got a

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Speaker 3: got a call from from Keith Urban like about six. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was I want to tell you I just love

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Speaker 3: that and that's pretty good. Good time.

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Speaker 4: He's an X men.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well that's really good. He had to let

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Speaker 2: Know that's but with remindment, I was goncern do you

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Speaker 2: were going to say he was going to do a

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Speaker 1: Wasn't you wanted to play one of the ones that

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Speaker 1: write is getting sold in America. But there is a

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Speaker 1: song on the album. I do know this album very

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Speaker 1: well called Cost of Living. Let's be honest, you were

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Speaker 1: forty years ahead of the time, you guys, I was.

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Speaker 3: That came from me? If you look at this songwriting creditor,

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Speaker 3: I create a plassic guy, and he was I'd mentioned

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Speaker 3: to him, look, if anyway comes up with song title.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I use it.

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Speaker 3: I'll give to the song, you know. And I got

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Speaker 3: one cost of living, yeah, you know, and turn it

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Speaker 3: into it not about money but about you know, wear

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Speaker 3: and tear on your psyche and your soul through it.

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Speaker 3: But I really love that song. Quickly, yeah, said here's

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Speaker 3: the idea. Made it really quick. We didn't have to

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Speaker 3: do it at all. So that's that's And I just

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Speaker 2: Say that I got to ask you one more question.

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Speaker 4: Ross.

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Speaker 2: We said that eighty four is one of the greatest

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Speaker 4: What were you What were you listening to?

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Speaker 2: What were you putting on the cassette into the you know,

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Speaker 2: the cassette player in the car.

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Speaker 3: That's a good question. Actually, I can't remember what I

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Speaker 3: was playing of contemporary music, but I'm always the blues

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Speaker 3: and R and B. I was probably some like American

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Speaker 3: like dance, you know, like Whip It by Dad. You

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Speaker 3: ever heard that? Yeah, and then yeah, a lot of that,

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Speaker 3: a lot of probably.

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Speaker 4: Prince yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, big Prince. Yeah. And the time and the time that.

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Speaker 2: The time Prince ben Yeah, that's a fairly generic answer,

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Speaker 2: isn't it what we listened to whenever Prince Prince?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah he had he was combining funk with that.

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Speaker 3: He had little red cord met out around that. Yeah. Yeah. Four.

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Speaker 3: Yet when that's a pretty explicit song, and when the

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Speaker 3: Boy got banned, I'm going, why didn't they band explicit

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Speaker 3: as kind of coded? And I think the bishop who

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Speaker 3: heard come said the boy when he was driving to work,

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Speaker 3: and probably ye find about it better on the radio station.

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Speaker 3: Prince was talking about it.

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Speaker 1: That's right, all right, Well we'll blame Pat Benoita and

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Speaker 1: maybe we're blame maybe will throw Molly into the mix

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Speaker 1: as well for not getting the number one on can then.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well anyway, there's always another chance. You know, I'm

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Speaker 3: still around, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Still still a great writer. Good to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: It's been wonderful and thanks for the incredible memories. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we know that you're going to be tearing.

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Speaker 4: Against yes absolutely.

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Speaker 3: In the second half.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic. Keep us posting exactly what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Ross Sensation