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Speaker 1: And Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not every day we're joined by Country Royalty.

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Speaker 2: And if you can't get Dolly Parton, you get the

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Speaker 2: very very very next best thing, and that is Kelly O'Brien,

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Speaker 2: the world's number one Dolly Parton impersonator tribute act. She

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Speaker 2: joins us this morning, looking incredibly like Dolly Parton. Hello Kelly,

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Speaker 2: good morning, Amanda and Jonesy.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well?

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Speaker 2: So are you Australian?

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Speaker 3: I am Australian. If I have a bit of an

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Speaker 3: English twang, that's because I left in two thousand and two.

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Speaker 2: And how did the Dolly things start?

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Speaker 4: Do you know what?

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Speaker 3: I started competing at all? Remember the Merrickville Like the

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Speaker 3: rosel clubs around Sydney, the biggest one was Marrickville, and

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Speaker 3: I remember the prize money was one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: I'm not joking. And so that's when I decided to

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Speaker 3: start impersonating different people. So I would do Kylie, Dolly,

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Speaker 3: I did a bit of Judy Garland, I could do

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Speaker 3: Liza Minelli and I would kind of, you know, morph

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Speaker 3: in between each of those characters. But everybody loved Dolly

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Speaker 3: the most, and I think it's because I'm five foot tall.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: I grew up near in Adelaide, in McLaren Vale, and

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Speaker 3: we sang a lot of country, so the voice was

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Speaker 3: always quite countrified. And yeah, Dolly just seemed to fit

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Speaker 3: the mix. And so by the time I left Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Did you win the hundred thousand?

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Speaker 4: No, I came forth, but I still won ten thousand.

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Speaker 2: Which was good. Who won some magician who who?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactlyturageous.

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Speaker 5: But I look at you and you look exactly like Dolly.

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Speaker 5: It's quite it's quite.

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Speaker 1: Uncanny, that's right.

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Speaker 4: And if you like, I can just do the voice

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Speaker 4: mornon as well.

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Speaker 2: And you have been sanctioned by Dolly Parton and her family,

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Speaker 2: so you've got the full stamp of approval.

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Speaker 4: Yes, which has been amazing.

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Speaker 3: And just recently I was shortlisted for one of fifteen

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Speaker 3: out of I think eighteen thousand people to audition for

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Speaker 3: her new musical on Broadway as well, which is super exciting.

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Speaker 2: So you're still in the mix for that. Yes.

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Speaker 5: And when you met we've interviewed Dolly on our show,

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Speaker 5: Very nice lady.

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Speaker 1: What did she say when you met her? What did

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Speaker 1: you Well?

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Speaker 3: It was out the back of the O two in London.

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Speaker 3: It was twenty and eleven, so it was a while

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Speaker 3: ago now, And I was dressed as her, of course,

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Speaker 3: and I walked up to her and we were exactly

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Speaker 3: the same height, and she said, oh my goodness, it's

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Speaker 3: like looking into a mirror.

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Speaker 4: Was great.

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Speaker 3: She's an amazing woman.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's time that we will Killy.

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Speaker 5: You are at the number one Dolly Partner I personator,

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Speaker 5: so it would be odd if we didn't get you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we just said okay, goodbye, thanks for coming on

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Speaker 2: to radio.

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Speaker 1: As sure as it would be odd if I asked

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Speaker 1: you the question are they real?

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Speaker 4: Which one my fingernails?

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Speaker 5: Of course, because they are quite convincing.

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Speaker 2: I bounced off them a bit earlier.

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Speaker 1: Well this could you do? Would you do that for us?

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Speaker 4: I'd love to.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Tom will set up a little medley for Kelly's

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Speaker 5: and I know you're.

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Speaker 2: Going to be performing all over the place. We'll give

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Speaker 2: those details afterwards. But I can't wait to hear you.

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Speaker 2: And that's going to happen.

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Speaker 5: The world's best Dolly parton impersonator is joining us. She's

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Speaker 5: here right now and she's going to perform.

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Speaker 1: For us next.

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Speaker 5: And if you want the best impersonator in the world

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Speaker 5: of Dolly Parton, you get Kelly.

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Speaker 1: O'Brien in she is with us right now? Are you

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Speaker 1: in full character now as Dolly?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I should be right because it's such

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Speaker 4: a beautiful day and I wanted to well, I wanted

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Speaker 4: to treat you both, you know, because you work so

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Speaker 4: hard on the radio. I've been listening to you since

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Speaker 4: I arrived here in Sydney. You know, you look a

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Speaker 4: lot different Jones. I mean you look younger than I thought.

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Speaker 2: You would, because he sounded like an old coat.

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Speaker 4: A little bit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and is Amanda not as pleasant as you would amage?

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Speaker 4: It's more beautiful in real life.

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Speaker 2: She could be my sister, aren't you sweet? Well, a

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Speaker 2: couple of things are missing, but still.

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Speaker 1: I do my best. The fingernails, yeah, that must be

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Speaker 1: you have no fingernails.

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Speaker 2: Kelly is going to be performing as Dolly and all

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Speaker 2: over the place and put all the details on us.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're ruining the magic. Now, you're breaking down the

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Speaker 1: fourth wall. Time. Kelly doesn't exist. It's all Dolly.

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Speaker 2: It's all Dolly, and let's hear those pipes.

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Speaker 4: Who Well, of course I think I should start out

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Speaker 4: with a little bit of Jolie. You know that old

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Speaker 4: hussey that took my husband. Well, Jolie, Jolie, Doolie, jolly well,

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Speaker 4: I'm begging of you, please don't take I'm mad. Your

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Speaker 4: beauty is beyond compel, with fleaming locks of albin hair.

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Speaker 4: Please don't take him just because you can. Your beauty

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Speaker 4: is beyond compel, fleaming locks of robin hair, with ivy

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Speaker 4: skin and eyes of them. We're green. I've got it now.

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Speaker 4: Your smiling is like a breath of spread. If it's

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Speaker 4: just sharflech my reign. Well, I cannot compete with you.

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Speaker 4: Julie Well, Jolie, Jolie, Jolie, Jolie. When I'm begging of you,

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Speaker 4: please don't take my man. Jolie, Jolie, Jolie.

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Speaker 2: And Jolie, well.

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Speaker 4: Please don't take him even though you can. All right, Jonesy,

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Speaker 4: let's sing this one together in the stream. That is

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Speaker 4: what we are, no one in between.

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Speaker 3: How can we be wrong?

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Speaker 4: Share away with me to another world, and we rely

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Speaker 4: on each other. Oh, thank you roll a love and

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Speaker 4: to another a huh. I love that. But of course

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Speaker 4: it wouldn't be a real morning show if we didn't do.

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Speaker 1: This one guys, Well, good.

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Speaker 4: Morning, go to them, jumble out of bed, at the

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Speaker 4: stumbat to the kitchen for my shelf, a cup of

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Speaker 4: ambition and yawn and stretch, trying to come to live well.

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Speaker 4: I jump in the shower and the blood start pumping out.

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Speaker 4: On the street. The traffic's nuts, jumping with folks like

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Speaker 4: me on the job from nine to five. Yeah, working

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Speaker 4: nine two five one a way to make the lead

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Speaker 4: and barely gets here. Bye, it shall taken, and don't

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Speaker 4: get it. They'll just use your mind. They'll never give

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Speaker 4: you credit. It's enough to drive you crazy. If you

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Speaker 4: live nine two five for service and devotion, you run,

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Speaker 4: Thank god, I but didn't serve a fair promotion. Want

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Speaker 4: to move ahead, but the box won't seem to let me.

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Speaker 4: I swear sometimes that that is how to get me.

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Speaker 1: But you wanted the best, You got the best, the best.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to record by singing along.

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Speaker 5: I didn't want to record you feel like I ruined

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Speaker 5: the sanctity, even got the mouth quiver.

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Speaker 4: I do have the mouth quiver because you got to

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Speaker 4: have everything, really to do it properly.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you are extraordinary. You are extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: You've got everything to do it proper.

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Speaker 2: You do, and we're going to put all the details

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Speaker 2: on our socials. Is where people can come and find you.

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Speaker 1: That was brilliant, Dolly Parton Kelly for us.

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Speaker 4: Will you know she's a lovely guy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what she's gone. She was here before

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Speaker 1: and then she just nicked off.

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Speaker 4: I know, maybe she's hiding under the table or something.

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Speaker 5: For tickets to check out Dolly Parton tickets dot com

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Speaker 5: dot au.

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Speaker 4: Dolly, thank you, thank you so much, and thank you

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Speaker 4: for singing.

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Speaker 2: You called that singing. I'm not so sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you do.

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Speaker 4: Lee