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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. I happen to know, Brendan, that

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Speaker 1: you've applied for a number of jobs where you have

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Speaker 1: got rejection.

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Speaker 2: Letters my radiocre. Yeah, yeah, many, many, many many.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of this one? This is someone

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Speaker 1: has uploaded this to TikTok, slamming the patronizing notes she received.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's been written by David Brent from

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Speaker 1: the office. I'll read out the rejection letter she got. Hello, Tamsen,

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Speaker 1: we'll cut to the chase. Your application wasn't successful, and

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Speaker 1: who knows, maybe we've made a big mistake. Albert Einstein

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Speaker 1: couldn't land a job as a mattitude for kids, and

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Speaker 1: Spielberg got rejected from film school. Crazy right the guests,

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Speaker 1: it says he the guess. The point is so grammatically incorrect.

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Speaker 1: Every great success story begins with little failure. We've had

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Speaker 1: our fair share of failure too. Even though you won't

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Speaker 1: be joining us just yet, who knows what the future holds.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps you'll prove us wrong, we certainly hope, So stay hungry,

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Speaker 1: stay foolish. Off What a pain in the balm those

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Speaker 1: people are?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: At least she got a rejection letter.

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Speaker 2: Y' true?

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Speaker 1: All those jobs you go for, you hear nothing, You

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Speaker 1: hear nothing, still waiting for a call up for some things.

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Speaker 2: Well, I remember years ago a good friend of mine,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you heard of her, Amanda Keller.

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Speaker 2: I did a show on the ABC called Mondo Thingo,

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Speaker 2: and she called me in and said, we're you know,

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Speaker 2: to be a co host on this show in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and four. And I remember, and the guy that

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Speaker 2: went on to do the show.

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Speaker 1: With you looks like me, Yes, Steve Kanan.

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Speaker 2: Steve Knan's a lovely fella.

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Speaker 1: Lovely fella, he looks like you.

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Speaker 2: He looks like, well, why don't you do this show

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Speaker 2: with him? There?

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Speaker 1: I did. It wasn't my call, it wasn't I was

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Speaker 1: the one who suggested, do you want to come in

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Speaker 1: and try for this?

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Speaker 2: And this is where TV is different to radio. I've

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Speaker 2: got like a I've got a whole swave of rejection

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Speaker 2: letters from radio when I was first starting out, and

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Speaker 2: there'd be things like, you don't sound like a DJ,

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Speaker 2: you sound you workmen like you squeeze your vowels.

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Speaker 1: These they followed you into the toilet.

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Speaker 2: Just know your vowels, your vowels. So I had all

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Speaker 2: these letters. But TV is a different kettle of fish.

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Speaker 2: I've pretty much auditioned for every TV show there is,

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Speaker 2: and they're all like HoTT and heavything go yeah, ye,

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Speaker 2: you are the guy, we want you for the show.

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Speaker 2: And I said, oh, look, I don't think so, and

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Speaker 2: they go no, no, no no. And then just when

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Speaker 2: you just when you've said no, believe, and then you

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Speaker 2: start to believe, then you never hear from them. And

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Speaker 2: you'll see the people and you don't hear from them.

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Speaker 2: And I remember Mondo Thingo, the lady I rang her.

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Speaker 2: I said, so I presume this isn't happening. No, no,

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Speaker 2: you're in the mix. And I oh, so what is happening?

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Speaker 2: So I'll sho up at the ABC. What next week? Well, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: but it's not so it's not happening. They can't give

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Speaker 2: a straight answer.

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Speaker 1: You've never heard it's two.

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Speaker 2: Thousand and four. Where's my phone? She might be ringing.

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Speaker 2: Now you'll be doing this show with Amanda Kella.

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Speaker 1: She might be ringing on that old phone you don't

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Speaker 1: have anymore. Holy