WEBVTT - MINI: Ronan Keating

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

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<v Speaker 1>in the studio right now. Ronan Keating. If you need

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<v Speaker 1>any reminding about the pedigree and the class of Ronan Keating.

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<v Speaker 1>In the nineties, it was in one of the biggest

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<v Speaker 1>boy bands in the world, boy Zone, huge all over

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<v Speaker 1>the world. They sold back when there were records twenty

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<v Speaker 1>six million songs around the world, and then goes on

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<v Speaker 1>to having an even a bigger solo career, selling some

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<v Speaker 1>of like twenty seven million records around the world. You

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<v Speaker 1>might remember some of them when you say Nothing at All,

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<v Speaker 1>which is in the movie notting Hill number one in

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<v Speaker 1>seven different countries. Ronan, lovely to see you. You and

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<v Speaker 1>I used to work in the same building. So Ronan

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<v Speaker 1>and I were rivals on breakfast radio. We were listen

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<v Speaker 1>to this us we were we were.

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<v Speaker 2>No, not really, I was learning from you. I mean, look,

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<v Speaker 2>I came in as the new boy, and I remember

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<v Speaker 2>you had the big show at the Breakfast Show.

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<v Speaker 1>Give me you're on the big salary. I prefer always

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<v Speaker 1>preferred those way round. You. You had its stature. There's

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<v Speaker 1>roaning money and then pay me.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you were the man and honest to God

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<v Speaker 2>like you you and who else was it?

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<v Speaker 1>Richie? I used to do show Richie.

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<v Speaker 2>I love it. Richie stayed around a long time afterwards.

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<v Speaker 2>He's still there, he still he's still there. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I think Chris Evans and yourself were the two DJs

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<v Speaker 2>that I would, you know, kind of listen to and

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, take lesson from because I mean, you

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<v Speaker 2>know what you're doing. I was the new boy on

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<v Speaker 2>the block. I loved it seven years on radio.

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<v Speaker 1>So you finished this year?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, finished it, finished it and I walked out. I

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<v Speaker 2>left and she ended June, I think, or end of July.

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<v Speaker 1>And did you enjoy it?

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<v Speaker 2>I did? I loved it.

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<v Speaker 1>I was great fun. Radio was great fun.

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<v Speaker 2>It was amazing. I learned so much about myself. What

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<v Speaker 2>did you learn about yourself? Just you know, because I

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<v Speaker 2>was sixteen when I joined the band, and I was

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<v Speaker 2>on the other side of the desk. So I was

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<v Speaker 2>being interviewed and I was, you know, I was fired

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<v Speaker 2>question People were firing questions at me, and I was,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I was answering, whereas I was taking time

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<v Speaker 2>to think about the artist that I was and the

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<v Speaker 2>performer that I was. And you know, when I was

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<v Speaker 2>sitting down with you know, Ed sheer In or whoever

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<v Speaker 2>an interview in these sort of artists. I was thinking

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<v Speaker 2>about myself and who I was, and and the answers

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<v Speaker 2>that I gave, you know, a knee jerk reaction answers

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<v Speaker 2>that I would have given. It's changed me. It's changed

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<v Speaker 2>the way that I, you know, that I get interviewed.

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<v Speaker 2>It's changed the way that I that I get on

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<v Speaker 2>stage and perform. The things that I say between songs

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<v Speaker 2>are different now when I'm on stage, it's it's really

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<v Speaker 2>it's bizarre but brilliant.

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<v Speaker 1>And also, do you have an even greater appreciation because look,

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<v Speaker 1>our stories are storytellers, right, don't you have an even

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<v Speaker 1>greater appreciation joy hearing stories as well? Yeah, because radio

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<v Speaker 1>is its best. It's a storytelling me.

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<v Speaker 2>You it absolutely is. It is. It's telling stories. It's

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<v Speaker 2>been in people's lives as well. You know, we were

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<v Speaker 2>talking about it before the show. You know that the

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<v Speaker 2>years that we went through COVID and being in people's So,

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<v Speaker 2>did you still go into London? Yeah? Yeah, Well I

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<v Speaker 2>did a lot of the shows from home because that's

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<v Speaker 2>what they wanted. They wanted us to be at home

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<v Speaker 2>out of the studios and obviously not in close proximity

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<v Speaker 2>with each other. So I did the show. But when

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<v Speaker 2>I did start to go back and you realize, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you're in people's bedrooms and bathrooms and.

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<v Speaker 1>You're be careful with that. That b be a tell. Yeah bedroom, bedrooms,

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<v Speaker 1>but that's why you've had to quit that kitchens Yeah yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>room but no, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>You were really you know, people didn't communicate with each other,

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<v Speaker 2>so we were communicating. We were telling the stories like

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<v Speaker 2>you say, and and and they were really listening and

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<v Speaker 2>it was very very special.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well we did. Obviously you're in Melbourne, so we

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<v Speaker 1>we had a pretty nifty cheek two years. But it

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<v Speaker 1>was it was a privilege to actually be on the radio. Yeah, time,

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<v Speaker 1>it really was. It really was. And so why have

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<v Speaker 1>you just had enough? The hours?

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<v Speaker 2>It's a lot. Yeah, I mean your granddad now, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a granddad now. It is as you know, it ages you,

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<v Speaker 2>you know.

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<v Speaker 1>Getting it out of it. You're like, there's no aging

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<v Speaker 1>on you twenty one.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm twenty one, forty seven year old. No like getting

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<v Speaker 2>up early every single morning, well five days a week.

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<v Speaker 2>But also it's trying to go to bed early the

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<v Speaker 2>night before, and what that does to me because I

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<v Speaker 2>was the night oul. I was going to bed super

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<v Speaker 2>late because I've becoming off stages or whatever, and then

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<v Speaker 2>you can't wind down. It takes ages, so you're not

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<v Speaker 2>in bed till two or three in the morning. Then

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<v Speaker 2>you sleep in in the morning. And that whole shift

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<v Speaker 2>in my life was quite dramatic, and I enjoyed it

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<v Speaker 2>for a while, but then I really started to grade

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<v Speaker 2>on me and all the things that I missed out on.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I'd have to say no, I couldn't go

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<v Speaker 2>to dinners, I couldn't go out see friends because I

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<v Speaker 2>was going home and getting to bed earlier.

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<v Speaker 1>I just thought, look, I can't do the early bed thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I still don't go to a nine till ten. I

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<v Speaker 1>just can't do that. Dallas Man on the radio, Look

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<v Speaker 1>the kids are putting you to bed. I know they're

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<v Speaker 1>going dance to light where they think in dance a

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<v Speaker 1>light way. You got to bed at seven o'clock, you see, alcoholic,

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<v Speaker 1>That's what.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of the people on the shows would do. They've

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<v Speaker 2>got to bed seven or eight o'clock at day. I said, what,

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<v Speaker 2>it's only when you start to get a bit of

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<v Speaker 2>time then before the kids to bed and you get

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<v Speaker 2>to sit down and watch a box set or whatever

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<v Speaker 2>the hell you set.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you've got DVD exactly, TV series what you call

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<v Speaker 1>the plenty you're gonna watch? Where's watch a DVD or

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<v Speaker 1>place academy?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, now you're talking.

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<v Speaker 1>So will you ever come back to radio?

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<v Speaker 2>No? No, no, I look seven brilliant years. I love

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<v Speaker 2>the team on Magic that Got One has actually just

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<v Speaker 2>replaced me. Harriet Scott and Got one now are doing

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<v Speaker 2>breakfast and it's just been announced. It's great. I have

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<v Speaker 2>a great relationship.

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<v Speaker 1>I left.

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<v Speaker 2>You know a lot of somebody said to me when

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<v Speaker 2>I was leaving, there's not a lot of people that

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<v Speaker 2>get clapped when they leave a radio shop, clapped out

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<v Speaker 2>the door, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>No, you're right. It's an amazing thing, isn't Everyone should

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<v Speaker 1>be clapped out when they leave a job they've been doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Quite us, it was the best thing in the world, right,

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<v Speaker 1>you've obviously had, you know, standing ovations and stuff. Being

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<v Speaker 1>clapped out of your own workplace, what's amazing.

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<v Speaker 2>It was amazing. And somebody said to me, there's a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of people that, you know, they literally they get

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<v Speaker 2>told to clear out their desk and they're not coming

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<v Speaker 2>back tomorrow. You know. It's that kind of thing when

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<v Speaker 2>you get thrown out of radio almost so I guess

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<v Speaker 2>it was. You know, I went out on a high,

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<v Speaker 2>seven brilliant years. I just want to get back to

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<v Speaker 2>making some music and spending time with my family and

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<v Speaker 2>my kids and my wife. And yeah, that's the real

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<v Speaker 2>decision why I decided.

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<v Speaker 1>So let me tell you this. Right yesterday I googled

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<v Speaker 1>you just to check you out and been canceled. You

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<v Speaker 1>know these days.

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<v Speaker 2>Good Look, I hope you haven't.

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<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, it's all good. It's all good. And

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<v Speaker 1>the first headline I saw from the good old Daily

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<v Speaker 1>Man is that you have quietly key wedding, quietly moved

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<v Speaker 1>to Australia. Is a little suitcase here.

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<v Speaker 2>Quite loud about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Look, we've had a I lost my brother last

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<v Speaker 2>year and it's been Yeah, it was tough. It's been

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<v Speaker 2>really really tough on all of us.

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<v Speaker 1>The family, and it must have been devastating.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah it's you know, a year later and I'm finding

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<v Speaker 2>that I haven't really started to deal with it, to

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<v Speaker 2>be honest. So we decided we were reevaluating life. We

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to be around Storm's fam My wife's Australian. We

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to be down here with the family and be

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<v Speaker 2>around them and the kids also, as you know, the

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<v Speaker 2>Ausie way of life is an amazing way of life

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<v Speaker 2>and we wanted to keep the kids that opportunity while

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<v Speaker 2>they're still young enough. So the kids are in school

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<v Speaker 2>in Sydney, we're here from that.

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<v Speaker 1>They loving It's a different lifestyle. It's my god, they

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<v Speaker 1>love it.

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<v Speaker 2>I asked them. I actually said to them the other

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<v Speaker 2>day I was walking them to school. How cool. I

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<v Speaker 2>walked the kids to school. I was walking them to

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<v Speaker 2>school and I said, where do you prefer to go

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<v Speaker 2>to school, guys, and the in England or here? And

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<v Speaker 2>they both said, hands down here here, Dad love it.

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<v Speaker 2>The teachers are so nice. That's actually what they said.

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<v Speaker 2>The teachers are so.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a much more positive, friendly country. And look,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we are both from countries where you can

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<v Speaker 1>get in the sea. You just need a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>jabs and medication afterwards. Cold either it's cold, that's putting

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<v Speaker 1>it mildly.

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<v Speaker 2>It's cold, it's damp. It's the damp. It's got me,

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<v Speaker 2>you know it. And only people that have been in

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm talking about.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the damn So is this home now? Have you

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<v Speaker 1>quietly moved to Australia? You just here for a while.

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<v Speaker 2>We're here for a while. We're going to probably be

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<v Speaker 2>here at the back end of every year for the

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<v Speaker 2>next four or five years, kind of chasing the sun

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit. We're going to go back to the

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<v Speaker 2>UK for summer next year, but we'll Yeah, we're here

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<v Speaker 2>for a while and I don't see that changing.

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<v Speaker 1>Awesome. Yeah, Lord, Now tell me this. We had a

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<v Speaker 1>look on chat gpt right time ten roading. You ever

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<v Speaker 1>put yourself into chat ChiPT.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I don't even know what that is, right, honest

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<v Speaker 2>to god, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't know what chat chept is? Of course you do?

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<v Speaker 2>Ai oh Ai, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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<v Speaker 1>Well called a chat gpt, right, is this right? You

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<v Speaker 1>were a trade you were a carpenter. No chat gpt.

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<v Speaker 1>They're raving about it. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean we built a house in the over the

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<v Speaker 2>last five years.

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<v Speaker 1>When you say weed, do you mean obviously got people

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<v Speaker 1>into do well? Yeah, but you know we got ripped

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<v Speaker 1>off by dodgy builders. Yeah, we got ripped off.

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<v Speaker 2>In this country.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a bad reputation about some Irish builders. Well, the

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<v Speaker 1>Irish builders didn't rip you off.

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<v Speaker 2>There was English and Irish are involved, and they ripped

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<v Speaker 2>us off.

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<v Speaker 1>And the hell rips off ron.

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<v Speaker 2>We call it pop star attacks. Honestly, I was talking

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<v Speaker 2>to Ed Sheer and he got shafted as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Right, there's got some dodgy guttering or drive.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a little bit more than that. But my

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<v Speaker 2>wife ended up taking on the job of construction company,

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<v Speaker 2>set up a construction company. She became the architect, she

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<v Speaker 2>became everything. She did the whole job. I was on site.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd come home from magic breakfast and.

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<v Speaker 1>You will barrow put on.

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<v Speaker 2>I was near I being, you know, drilling me hand

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<v Speaker 2>or whatever. I wasn't believable baptism afar. I remember there

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<v Speaker 2>was lads putting plaster borderup and and I came in

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<v Speaker 2>and says, what can I do? When he says, oh, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you wouldn't cut that plaster border, I didn't have to

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<v Speaker 2>cut plaster board. So I went outside YouTube how do

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<v Speaker 2>you put plaster? Figured that out, started cutting up the

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<v Speaker 2>plaster board and bringing it in. Idy great job.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't know you had a trade pass.

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<v Speaker 2>No I didn't. I was I worked in a shoe

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<v Speaker 2>shop before Boys On?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it crazy? So you go to that bad at sixteen?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, now you're a dad and you see what

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen is like you still a young kid.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, My eldest boy is twenty five, so it's mad.

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<v Speaker 2>By the time I was twenty five, I had left

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<v Speaker 2>Boys On and and I had had him my boy,

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<v Speaker 2>and it gets crazy. Yeah, yeah, I mean life's it's

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<v Speaker 2>thirty years Christian, thirty thirty one years now since I

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<v Speaker 2>joined them.

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<v Speaker 1>But how do you look back on that periody with

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<v Speaker 1>life now? Can you see it differently? Do you appreciate

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<v Speaker 1>it in a different way? Because I think you guys

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<v Speaker 1>were so famous, like megastars famous.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, to be honest with you, it feels like a

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<v Speaker 2>different per I don't you know. I look at it

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<v Speaker 2>and I think I'm looking at somebody else's life. We don't.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just talking to someone about it yesterday. Bless

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<v Speaker 2>them that the awful news are youngly in pain on

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<v Speaker 2>what happened. And you know, I think that the record

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<v Speaker 2>industry has a lot to answer for with the way

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<v Speaker 2>that artists are protected as such, especially at such.

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<v Speaker 1>A young age.

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<v Speaker 2>He was sixteen, I believe when he when he drew

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<v Speaker 2>in one direction. You know, we didn't get any training.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no media training. Nobody comes and tells you how

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<v Speaker 2>to do an interview or or what to say or

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<v Speaker 2>you know, how you should say something or whatever whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, there's nothing there. And I think they need

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<v Speaker 2>to be protected, like when you do the Voice or

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<v Speaker 2>you do X Factor, any of these shows, we have

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<v Speaker 2>basically psychologists who are there on hand to help need that.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah they do.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, they get the chair doesn't turn, or you know,

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<v Speaker 2>they get told that it wasn't a great performance or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, they devastated, so you need somebody to help

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<v Speaker 2>them down easy, you know. And none of that was

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<v Speaker 2>there for supply for boys home when we were sixteen

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<v Speaker 2>and sometimes as God knows how scared I am now,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>But I'm look.

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<v Speaker 2>I tried to keep me feet on the ground and

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<v Speaker 2>realize that I don't believe the hype too much. People

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<v Speaker 2>need to be protected more in this in this bloody

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<v Speaker 2>famous world or whatever that means.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know we do because the pressures there they

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<v Speaker 1>are under now way more than ever before. Yeah scary,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean social media have skilled Do you want to

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<v Speaker 1>be in a boy band? Now, I don't think I

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<v Speaker 1>would be honest with you, rather be a coppenter. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I think I run past board.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, I think what's a good better at us?

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<v Speaker 1>This is a guy you've sold about fifty million? What

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<v Speaker 1>any former middle aged boy band?

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<v Speaker 2>Perfect? Well, actually I was talking to Gary Barlow. He's

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<v Speaker 2>in Australia at the moment.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right.

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<v Speaker 2>You take that boys out here and I was seeing

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<v Speaker 2>them tomorrow. Gary and I I think we have we've

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<v Speaker 2>kind of well, we've lived a very similar life, but

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<v Speaker 2>both of yeah, i'm're at a very similar stage in

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<v Speaker 2>our lives now. Yeah, maybe we will start a band.

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<v Speaker 1>The to of us.

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<v Speaker 2>We've been talking about doing something together. So maybe that's

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<v Speaker 2>what you do.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, what is time for a middle age old

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<v Speaker 1>boy band? There you go, Yeah, our cell tours. You

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<v Speaker 1>just do afternoon shows. Come on, we can sell a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit modern r please.

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<v Speaker 2>Christen's mike.

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<v Speaker 1>Face that I said.

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<v Speaker 2>I know what they are.

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<v Speaker 1>They're a good time.

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<v Speaker 2>They're a good time. All right, you do a few

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<v Speaker 2>warm up okay, great, yeah, we do the warm up there,

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<v Speaker 2>that's a good Then you go to the MCG Now

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<v Speaker 2>I like way you've gone.

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, thanks, Now tell us about Oaks Stay. You're looking

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<v Speaker 1>forward to performing?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, performing today, and I've been at Melbourne all

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<v Speaker 2>week obviously. I performed on Tuesday at Melbourne Cup with

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<v Speaker 2>Ricky Lee one hundred thousand people. The reception was phenomenal.

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<v Speaker 2>It was really it was incredible. I kind of put

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<v Speaker 2>out the mic at the end of one of the

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<v Speaker 2>songs and they sang the line back to me and

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<v Speaker 2>it was just this wall of voices. It was so powerful.

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<v Speaker 2>It was really special. So you're very much looking forward

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<v Speaker 2>to performing today. You show me someone who's owned a horse.

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<v Speaker 1>I have.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, big mistake, huge, huge, huge. Did you lose money?

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<v Speaker 2>Give anyone advice done by a horse? I lost a fortune? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Didn't win anything, it did.

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<v Speaker 2>Actually we did have one wine down in Limerick somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>in Ireland, one of the big major tournaments. Yeah, it

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<v Speaker 2>was a major. I think we sold him after that.

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<v Speaker 2>I wasn't going to get any better.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a nightmare, all right. Lovely to see you

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<v Speaker 1>man too.

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<v Speaker 2>You really well. I don't know about that. Thank you,

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<v Speaker 2>you do too. It's like a smile on your face,

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<v Speaker 2>you know how to smile, And I no, no, I didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't smile, so I was forty six.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you very much for coming in.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks christ The Christian O'Connell Show podcast