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Speaker 1: Hello, Christian O'Connell show podcast warning us to Christian O'Connell

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Speaker 1: show on Gold.

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Speaker 2: We're very excited. Last week on the show, we started

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Speaker 2: talking about this and about Kirk Cobain's guitar that he

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Speaker 2: played on the legendary live performance of MTV Unplugged back

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three sold for auction last week. Might

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Speaker 2: I've read about this made news all over the world

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Speaker 2: for cool eight point eight Australian million dollars. It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I was looking back at some of the other rock

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Speaker 2: and roll memorabilia that's been sold over the years. John

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Speaker 2: lennon Steinway piano was sold for four million to George

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Speaker 2: Michael Really yeah, wrote songs on it. Yeah, Bob Dylan's

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Speaker 2: handwritten lyrics, Oh, this would be amazing, one of the

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Speaker 2: best breakup songs ever. Like a Rolling Stone that went

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Speaker 2: for four and a half million as well. Jimmy Hendrix

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Speaker 2: Woodstock stratocaster guitar, one of most famous guitars and rock

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Speaker 2: and roll history, Like Kurk Cobain's MTV one that also

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Speaker 2: went for four million. John Lennon's handwritten lyrics. This is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Just look at the photo of this you see all

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Speaker 2: the little crossings out where he obviously came up with

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Speaker 2: a better world or phrasing for a day in the life.

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Speaker 2: One of the most amazing songs that went for just

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Speaker 2: under three million Jimmy Hend's guitars again, John Lennon lyrics,

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Speaker 2: Eric Clapton guitars. But then I think this is the

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Speaker 2: new world record, it's a new high and it's owned

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Speaker 2: by an Australian guy. It's on the line now live

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Speaker 2: in La Peter Friedman, welcome to the show. Finally, Yes, sir, Hey, Christian, Hey, listen.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad we got to talk because it's just amazing.

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Speaker 2: What's the great thing about it is isn't just the

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Speaker 2: huge amount it's gone for. It's the fact that people

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Speaker 2: still care about that amazing performance because it is one

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Speaker 2: of the most amazing musical performances ever. And I'm great

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Speaker 2: that it's gone to. I feel really glad that it's

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Speaker 2: gone to someone who really appreciates live music and rock

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Speaker 2: and roll, what it means to us, and the fact

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Speaker 2: that you want to your guitar ratherin sometimes when collectors

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Speaker 2: buy things, it just gets locked away. We don't get

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Speaker 2: to have see it or enjoy it again. But you've

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Speaker 2: got big plans for it. So what are you going

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Speaker 2: to do with it? Now you own it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Man, I mean my family has been in the music

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Speaker 1: game in theater since before I was born. My dad

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Speaker 1: London in the fifties, Moms a sweep when over there,

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Speaker 1: and I was born in sweat and then came here

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Speaker 1: in sixty or came Australian sixty seven. I sorry, sixty six,

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Speaker 1: and so all I know is the music game and

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Speaker 1: it has fed me and clothed me and house everything.

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Speaker 1: So if I don't give back now that lucky me

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Speaker 1: I made a candid, I'd be what a kind of

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Speaker 1: human being would I do? I got more than I'd

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Speaker 1: ever need, and I'm going to give it all away.

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Speaker 2: Well good on you. So tell me why this guitar?

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Speaker 2: Because every year there's always a.

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Speaker 1: Basic quite a few things. Yeah, I do quite a

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Speaker 1: few things in the charity, et cetera. But I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to work out our way. The current thing with the

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Speaker 1: crisis in the music and arts industry, it's insane. It's

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Speaker 1: hit people like nothing else. There's no money for anything, food,

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Speaker 1: people sleeping on mh floors, there's no medical insurance, mental

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Speaker 1: health support, nothing and it is super crisis. You know,

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Speaker 1: people only hanging in by friends, who stacking shelves in supermarkets.

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Speaker 1: This can't happen. We all want to listen to the gigs,

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Speaker 1: we all want to go to concerts, allies, theater. Now

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Speaker 1: is the time to pony up and treat people with

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Speaker 1: the same respect as you would for anybody working in

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Speaker 1: a factory or whatever. And right now they're not going

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Speaker 1: to where's your slip? And you who are you? No insurance?

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Speaker 1: No not, I'm going to change it. And man, the

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Speaker 1: output worldwide going, yeah, we're on from top musicians you know, well,

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Speaker 1: touring promos everybody. I wasn't hoping I wasn't bring it

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Speaker 1: be this biggest thing, but it has so good.

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Speaker 2: Using all the music and power you've got. The attentions

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Speaker 2: going to highlight this because you're right. You think about

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Speaker 2: music and how it actually makes our lives better, and

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Speaker 2: when you see it, all the news is written off

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Speaker 2: under arts as if it's some kind of less important

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Speaker 2: thing to the quality of our lives. But it's such

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Speaker 2: an important thing. But big part of the enjoyment of

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Speaker 2: our life is live music and listening to music and

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Speaker 2: new music being encouraged and developed it. You're right, it's

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Speaker 2: a crisis point. I don't think we know that.

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Speaker 1: Well. And you know, like you said, without art, there's

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Speaker 1: no life. You know, it represents all the culture, all

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Speaker 1: the things in your memory the past hundreds of years.

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Speaker 1: I think back, like with Bravana, I was doing as

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Speaker 1: tough as I said. So they're bittersweet songs, but when

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Speaker 1: I hear them, okay, I'm transported back to that sad time.

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Speaker 1: But they're Maine. It's the poetry and any other stuff

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Speaker 1: I remember from the seventies being an Ali Blake. It

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Speaker 1: brings me back there as well. But I wasn't so

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Speaker 1: that ugly and had a bit of hair. But there's

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Speaker 1: some awesome stuff. It's what separates from It's true, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't want it, You couldn't live without it, and

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Speaker 1: you couldn't live without yes, but we're not making it

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Speaker 1: seriously to.

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Speaker 2: Tell me this, Peter, Why this bit of rock and

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Speaker 2: roll history? Why that Kirk Kaben guitar from the MTV Unplug.

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Speaker 1: Christian, I don't know maybe the billion people since yesterday

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Speaker 1: who's found out that, and in every media outlet in

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Speaker 1: the world. I think that's pretty good value. I think

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Speaker 1: I got about a billion dollars worth of marketing value

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Speaker 1: for this foundation out of it twenty four hours. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. And I'm a pretty good marketer.

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Speaker 2: But did you go for more than I thought you were?

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Speaker 2: Did you go for more than your Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Man, I was dying. I was freaking out. I was

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Speaker 1: shaking and feeling ill. And they probably couldn't see it,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, because it went beyond what I thought I

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Speaker 1: gotta have it. And so when it's like I've got

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Speaker 1: just some monster cut blows, you know where the guy goes,

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Speaker 1: oh this much, I went right like a million dores

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Speaker 1: and that kind of fighting people a little a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but you know.

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Speaker 2: And this is all online? Is this all online that

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Speaker 1: I went there. I went there, I mean in Beverly Hill,

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Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills, but a lot of people world wide,

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Speaker 1: it's like the big screens they were we all have Japan,

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Speaker 2: Hand in the air with like a bit of paper going.

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Speaker 2: I got a little.

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Speaker 1: Paddle, mate, I got a little paddle number three seventy

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Speaker 2: Kept its p But now you get a guitar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my ye, I'm shaken. And and then so we

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Speaker 1: went up. I bought a mill and I went in

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Speaker 1: think in the maniac they think this is not gonna stop, right.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, one of those guys who is insane, billionaire,

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Speaker 1: multi multi, multi, all that came drove down. They got

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Speaker 1: to meet this guy made me the bridesmaikers. I'm never

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Speaker 1: the bridesmaid. I got it. But I would have gone

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Speaker 1: to twenty thirty. I would have done anything. I don't

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Speaker 2: Gone to twenty or thirty million. That's phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, in the scheme of things even more,

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Speaker 1: what it's not the money, it's not the course of guitars.

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Speaker 1: Especially I met the guy yesterday who sold it to

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Speaker 1: five and nineties. So it's a nice guitar, But it's

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Speaker 1: symbolic nature of it. That's what's resonating with everybody. What's

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Speaker 1: that worth? And if I can change even a little

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Speaker 1: bit for the arts, what's that worth? If I handed

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Speaker 1: out twenty million for food support. How many seconds do

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Speaker 1: you think it works all wide? Not very long, not

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Speaker 1: very long at all? Go on forever?

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Speaker 2: Where is it now? Where are you keeping it? Not

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Speaker 2: under the bed where.

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Speaker 1: I'm going you it's an hill. I've got mate bringing me.

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Speaker 1: Can I can I look at it? Gain? No? I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be shot any man. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: in a bolt air condition community control.

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Speaker 2: Have you played?

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Speaker 1: I can't, I can't play. Didn't you didn't you see there?

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Speaker 1: Me holding it upside down? What an idiot?

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Speaker 2: And so so you plan to tour it when you

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Speaker 2: when you tak it, You've got a Brittingley studio. I loved.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to see it, yeah man, yeah, and we'll

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Speaker 1: have people play it. I'm just talking, you know, of course,

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Speaker 1: the Cobaining family and Isaiah's o Torport. You know, I

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Speaker 1: want to get down to a new degree about you know.

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Speaker 1: Rob's going to set it up again. The strings original obviously,

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Speaker 1: I'll keep all that, but instruments to be played, and

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Speaker 1: the strata areas violin will has to be played. It

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Speaker 1: turned a rubbish and serve as this guitar and I

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Speaker 1: don't it haven't been done for a long time. So

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Speaker 1: it's going to be used, man, used, It's no any

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Speaker 1: more than any other precious instrument, and the value shouldn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything. It's irrelevant.

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Speaker 2: Well, good on you for our highlight.

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Speaker 1: I'm to sell them at the end too. You know

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Speaker 1: that all the money is going to go to this foundation,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm going to sell the guitar plus a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of other stuff that I have to keep

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Speaker 1: this an ongoing thing. So we are lobbying all the

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Speaker 1: time because you know the old thing, you know, wine

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Speaker 1: of it. So we've get a thousand people joining together,

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Speaker 1: everybody will know over the world either governments are going

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Speaker 1: to listen and they want to they want to help.

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Speaker 1: They don't know how to do it.

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Speaker 2: Great, I get the thing when you say you've got

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Speaker 2: some other stuff as well. It's like the pull room

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Speaker 2: and the Kragan family in the castle and that.

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Speaker 1: Well, sometimes I feel, yeah, well you know what, Aman,

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Speaker 1: the dreaming is so much better than the owning. And

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Speaker 1: when I look at I came downstairs my apartment and

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Speaker 1: see that a little at all this stuff. Again, Nah,

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Speaker 1: you're you're the temporary custadian of it. But what are

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Speaker 1: you doing. Get it out and shot to other people

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Speaker 1: so kids can see it. I feel stupid.

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Speaker 2: Well listen lovely to chat to you. Good look what

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Speaker 2: you're doing with it as well. Thanks Peter, hopefully well

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Speaker 2: see you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: You will catch up. Christian, Hello, good money. Christian O'Connell

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Speaker 1: Show podcast