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Speaker 1: Get a I'm Lala Berry, nutritionist, author, actor, TV presenter

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Speaker 1: and professional overshaer. This podcast is all about celebrating failure

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Speaker 1: because I believe it's a chance for us to learn, grow.

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Speaker 2: And face our blind spots.

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Speaker 1: Each week I'll interview a different guest about their highs

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Speaker 1: as well as their lows, all in a bid to

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Speaker 1: inspire us to fearlessly fail. Mary Crimbo, that is my

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Speaker 1: word for Christmas, So of course we had to re

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Speaker 1: release Dennis walter'sp on the pod. He's incredible, one of

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Speaker 1: the most beautiful voices in the world. If you are

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Speaker 1: in Australia, please watch the Christmas Carols in the My

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Speaker 1: Music Bowl on Chrissy Eve. Dennis Walter is such a

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Speaker 1: joy to watch and to listen to, and in this

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Speaker 1: podcast he shares so much about his career and how

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Speaker 1: he was actually really really shy and kind of like

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Speaker 1: not scared of the entertainment industry, but he had to

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Speaker 1: really work hard to go after his dreams. So hope

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Speaker 1: you love this chart. Dennis, thank you for jumping on

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Speaker 1: the pod a couple of years ago now, but every

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Speaker 1: Christmas I have to bring it out again because he

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Speaker 1: is such a joy of a human being.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy this one.

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Speaker 1: And Mary Chrissy, I have got to admit I'm a

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Speaker 1: little nervous for the incredible Dennis Walter being on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: You've been on my dream list for so long A

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Speaker 1: dream list, Yeah, my dream guest list.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So for people listening, you are an iconic voice of Australia,

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Speaker 1: I would say definitely. You're probably gonna say Melbourne and Victoria.

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Speaker 3: No, that's probably. Well. I spent so much in my

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Speaker 1: And early on too. I cannot wait to I'm going

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Speaker 1: to you'll learn this. I'm so excited to have you

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Speaker 1: on that. I'm going to be jumping.

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Speaker 3: Around right, jump around as you wish.

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Speaker 1: So you're obviously synonymous with three W Afternoon since two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight.

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Speaker 3: Eleven years yep, now nights Nights.

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Speaker 1: Which I listened to all last week, thank you. And

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Speaker 1: before that win News.

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Speaker 3: Win News, and I was doing seven days a week

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Speaker 3: for six months of the year. Because I was doing

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Speaker 3: win News during the week, I was doing a spot

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Speaker 3: with Ernie on a Friday. Yes, when Ernie Sigley hosted

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Speaker 3: Afternoons Today W and I was doing weekends.

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Speaker 1: That's where you and I met. Yes, I came on

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Speaker 1: a few times. We talked about health and wellness, Yes

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Speaker 1: we did. And this is why, this is the reason

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Speaker 1: why I really wanted on the podcast, because every time

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Speaker 1: we had a segment together, I was blown away by

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Speaker 1: not just your professionalism, but you have and I would

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Speaker 1: like in Peter Hitchener to having this same quality as well.

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Speaker 1: It's like a respect for the industry that feels very rare.

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Speaker 3: Now, well, it probably is a bit rare. So much

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Speaker 3: of life and things within the media are fleeting, but

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Speaker 3: there's I ask anyone who's been on one of these

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Speaker 3: about six weeks after they've been on.

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Speaker 2: Totally. But I think this is what I love about

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Speaker 2: everything that I've researched about you is you're in it

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Speaker 2: for the long haul, but you've done your work.

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Speaker 1: Ethic is clearly incredible. So I'm going to go back

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Speaker 1: to the start. You grew up locally to hear Is

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Speaker 1: that right? We're recording in talkie right now.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I grew up about twenty five minutes from here

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Speaker 3: in a little place called Series, which is in the

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Speaker 3: you get to a spot where it's very hilly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where you go up them. Yeah, I know, what

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Speaker 3: Four minutes to the right of that you're absolutely out

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is in the sixties, right, So so

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Speaker 2: you and I've heard you in an interview say, I

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Speaker 2: think I might have been a mistake because there's eight years.

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Speaker 3: Between now I'm certain.

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Speaker 1: But also you went to a local school and there

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Speaker 1: was is it true there was eighteen kids?

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Speaker 3: I think it was eighteen, It might have been less.

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Speaker 3: But we had one teacher for all the grades.

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Speaker 3: That was good. It was good.

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Speaker 1: And is it true that you had a band practice

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Speaker 3: That was at Belmont High School where I went to

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Speaker 3: about nominating him for a Queen's Birthday honor because his

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I can't believe. He rocked that black.

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Speaker 3: Every Saturday, and if you didn't turn up, he'd give

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Speaker 3: really all that sort of stuff. I love that, though

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so when you were so, I know I'm

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Speaker 1: jumping around timeline wise, but were you sink because I

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Speaker 1: know you've been singing or you're in young talent time

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Speaker 2: Or did you have an instrument as well?

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Speaker 3: and I ended up in the brass band being on euphonium,

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Speaker 3: I wasn't very.

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Speaker 3: I'll go with multichalented amazing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and then so how does young talent time come about?

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Speaker 2: You're fifteen years old.

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Speaker 1: One thing I would do want to say, actually before

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Speaker 1: I ask, that both parents are super creative, right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know dad was a farmer, but not by choice necessarily.

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Speaker 3: You have researched this well very well. That's correct. Dad

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Speaker 3: Both his parents died before he was eleven. Yes, I

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Speaker 3: think his mom died not long after his birth. Yes,

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Speaker 3: so he got sort of forced to become a farmer.

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Speaker 2: He didn't want to be a farmer, but he had

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Speaker 3: all the miracle. I like the way you can turn.

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Speaker 3: You should be in some form of pr you are.

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Speaker 3: It's been a round Filola Berry.

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Speaker 2: So and your mom was quite creative as My mum.

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Speaker 3: but art wise she was really fantastic, but never did it.

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Speaker 3: that she'd done and one painting. But she was really talented.

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Speaker 1: So okay, so you've got the genes. We know you've

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Speaker 3: Oh? Just through my drive? Really, I just wanted to.

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Speaker 3: My parents didn't push me. They didn't at any point

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Speaker 3: So it was my desire to go on Young Talent Time,

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Speaker 3: where I lost, and they put me through on AHM,

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Speaker 3: the Honorable Mention and I lost again, and about a

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Speaker 3: year later, the only other option back then was New Faces.

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Speaker 3: I went on New Faces and won the heat and

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Speaker 3: then won the final, and then Young Talent Time said

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Speaker 2: Really, and so was Young Talent Time the launching pad

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Speaker 2: in many ways, because that's where Liberachi came along.

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Speaker 3: Is that where that I knew you'd mentioned this. I

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Speaker 3: haven't seen that movie, you know why? Because I was

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Speaker 3: I went up when I started back on young talent

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Speaker 1: Came home and so basically that meant did that mean

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Speaker 1: like a late night audition, Yes, after he'd performed or

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Speaker 3: Like, Yes, at the green Room Club on Queen's Road

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Speaker 3: him with the Johnny Hawk, a big band. It was true,

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Speaker 3: it was really, it was done properly.

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Speaker 2: And then you find yourself in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: That was the concept. I got there and was told

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Speaker 3: It's just clear because I thought, the the hell am

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Speaker 2: That's where you had a mate kind of thing.

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Speaker 3: No ah, nothing, nothing, And then I was told I

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Speaker 3: Then I think it's screen card for six to nine months.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a nightmare.

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Speaker 3: So here I am. I'm over there on other people's money,

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Speaker 3: I think from an Australian point of view, it wasn't

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Speaker 3: on the plane. Yeah, so I came back within ten days.

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Speaker 3: Well there was nothing else to do.

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Speaker 2: You're able to call it as well.

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Speaker 3: And so I was desperately homesick.

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Speaker 1: It Australia's pretty amazing. That's one thing I've learned about

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Speaker 1: all of this pandemic. I'm like, I'm falling really in

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Speaker 1: love with Victoria. Like yesterday we went to the Twelve Apostles,

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Speaker 1: beautiful and we were listening to Dennis walter Christmas album.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of them. Yes, great, there's so many goodies.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk Christmas with you. Do you

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Speaker 1: know we got so excited to have you here that

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend and I have made you gluten free fruit

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Speaker 1: mincepies to take home.

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Speaker 3: What I've never been treated with this much respect.

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Speaker 2: Oh they're gluten free though, so said Matt. My worefriend said,

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Speaker 2: make sure Dennis knows they're an experiment. They're a little

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Speaker 3: Okay, So am I I'm a lot denser than.

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Speaker 2: Many So okay. So you go to America, it's not

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Speaker 3: Not so much for regional news, no really, Because we

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Speaker 3: I'm an idiot, no, no, And I was doing week

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Speaker 2: It was all you.

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Speaker 1: As a guest, You're always so welcoming, You always knew

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Speaker 1: my name, you were so prepared, Thanks July. But also

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Speaker 3: If you're a bit of a rough they don't always

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Speaker 1: Okay, so one more question about news and then I'm

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Speaker 2: Because this is just so excited.

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Speaker 3: I have a drink, Go for it.

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Speaker 2: Have a drink. How as much as you want read.

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Speaker 2: We've got fruit vince pies for you to take home.

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Speaker 1: So with news, you've and this is where I like

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Speaker 2: It's really nice.

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Speaker 1: Like as I was researching you, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: Have you trained for that other than singing? No, really,

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Speaker 3: In fact, when I was young, I was doing a

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 3: My father had a big voice through his classical singing.

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Speaker 3: But I always wondered whether I actually had I'm not

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Speaker 2: Oh, you've definitely got one, just in case you're one.

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Speaker 1: But it's so, it's it's just so, it's so fascinating

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Speaker 2: Should I say, whereas you've got this? Yeah, it's this.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of like a trusted voice of Australian news,

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Speaker 1: And the same with Peter Hitcher. It's that kind of

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Speaker 1: it's the intonation of trust and I don't know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You've got the magic quality whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, And Pitch and I are very good friends.

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Speaker 2: I used to be his nutritionist.

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Speaker 3: You're in a commercial brod yes good memory.

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Speaker 1: So yeah and again, and that's why I get so

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Speaker 2: That's something that I want to be able to harness

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Speaker 2: because you can't fault that. That's like honest truth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like Pete and IY, what you see is what

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Speaker 2: That's the key, right, Well, I hope so okay radio.

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Speaker 2: That's when we first met, and.

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Speaker 1: I think with three A double you have you've been

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Speaker 1: I feel like you're part of the material, like you're

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one years nine, Yeah, twenty.

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Speaker 2: One probably more pretty amazing.

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Speaker 3: Actually it was before then because I was doing bits

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Speaker 2: Quickly about Ernie.

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Speaker 1: Did he kind of because did he kind of bring

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Speaker 2: Didn't he? Early? Really early on, Ernie.

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Speaker 3: I met at the Chrysler factory in Adelaide when I

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Speaker 1: So when I found out you've mentioned him as somebody

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Speaker 3: In Melbourne Today, which was their morning show I was doing.

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Speaker 3: It was part of what I was doing at nine

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Speaker 1: Yes, I seen your Keino. I actually watched the video

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Speaker 2: And it says twenty nine and feeling fine.

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Speaker 3: Actually there was one other number that got Yeah. We

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yes? We never got one complaint, not one.

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Speaker 1: It looked like so much fun? And did you have

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Speaker 3: No? I did it at the tiny little studio which

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Speaker 3: Might have been Graham Kennedy. Yeah, but I was in

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Speaker 2: Segment in ninety seconds.

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Speaker 2: It looked like so much fun though.

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Speaker 3: It was fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I even saw you're a lot of fun

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Speaker 2: And they did satire review. Yes, doing Keino and singing

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Speaker 2: a madge I've written it down a song on Young

443
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 2: Talent Time, singing it whilst calling Keno. The person that

444
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 2: was imitating.

445
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 3: Someone brooks his name, and he did a brilliant job.

446
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 3: And they did the Kenot drawer where I was just

447
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 3: pulling the balls out of the container the ones I

448
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: wanted to pick.

449
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 2: Out and singing impossible dream.

450
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Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah?

451
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Speaker 1: So if you ever get bored one afternoon, just a

452
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Speaker 1: YouTube yourself.

453
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Speaker 3: I didn't know anything about that till three weeks ago.

454
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Speaker 3: Someone rang in on the radio and said, have you

455
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Speaker 3: ever seen I said, no, I've seen it now, so good.

456
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Speaker 1: Okay, So radio, you've obviously, like I said, had this

457
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Speaker 1: wonderful career at three at w you've been Yes, it's talkback,

458
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 1: but also like your audience is informed, like you're on

459
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Speaker 1: top of the news, breaking news. Has there been any

460
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Speaker 1: like I don't want to say, standout moments of like

461
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Speaker 1: a highlight, but maybe like a big breaking news moment.

462
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Speaker 2: Yes.

463
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 3: I was on air when we learned that Peter Brock died.

464
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 3: I was on air when we learned of Steve Irwin.

465
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Speaker 2: I still remember that exact moment.

466
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Speaker 3: I was on air with the christ Church earthquakes. This

467
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 3: news was coming through and Kareninch was doing nutrition with me,

468
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 3: and she looked up at the monitor in the studio

469
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Speaker 3: and started to shake and almost burst into tears because

470
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Speaker 3: her daughter's best friend was seen running in fear of

471
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Speaker 3: the earthquake. So that was just bizarre. I was also

472
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Speaker 3: on air when Burke Street happened, and Dennis Akaine was

473
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Speaker 3: doing a presser with Robert Doyle because he was then

474
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Speaker 3: Lord Mayor, and his voice started changing and I said,

475
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Speaker 3: this was a quarter to one, and I said, you're right.

476
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Speaker 3: He said, something's going on here. He said. This helicopter's

477
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Speaker 3: blow overhead, he said, and then the car came up

478
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Speaker 3: Swanston Street and it's then we just watched her. Sorry,

479
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 3: you can watch. We realized that something serious was happening.

480
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 3: And then over the next between ten to one and

481
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Speaker 3: three o'clock, we had all these people bringing in saying

482
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Speaker 3: what they were seeing, and they were locked in their buildings.

483
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 3: They're looking down on what has happened. We spoke to

484
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Speaker 3: one fellow ranging. Some listeners got their kids who were

485
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 3: in lockdown to ring into the station to keep us informed.

486
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 3: And one bloke ranging, he said, he said, I'm looking

487
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Speaker 3: at the front of the commodore and there's a baby

488
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Speaker 3: stroller on it and that was horrendous. And I remember

489
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Speaker 3: just before three we spoke to Christine Nixon. She was

490
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Speaker 3: then not police chief, but she'd been standing at the

491
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Speaker 3: corner of I think William Street at the lights and

492
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Speaker 3: the car had come behind her on the footpath.

493
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Speaker 2: Oh, I've got goosebumps. This is your retaelling then, how

494
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Speaker 2: do you hold yourself together?

495
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 3: I'm not good at that.

496
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Speaker 2: I think you are.

497
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Speaker 3: I was on there the night of the Eastern Freeway

498
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Speaker 3: thing as well as that was.

499
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Speaker 2: That was what you're getting calls as.

500
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was I was really confronted by that. Found

501
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 3: that really difficult.

502
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: And does something overcome you where You're like, this job

503
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: right now is bigger than me, and I'm here to

504
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: almost like hold the space and facilitate whatever in order

505
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: to keep the audience informed.

506
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 3: You just you've got to keep them in formed. But

507
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,360
Speaker 3: I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I'm prone to.

508
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 2: I have seen this hook, I have seen her.

509
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a bad thing I've seen.

510
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: I love Christmas and so I've watched many videos of

511
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: you at the cat It's actually you're part of my Christmas.

512
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: Absolutely and unashamedly might I say, but you're part of

513
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: my Christmas tradition at a thousand percent. In fact, we're

514
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Speaker 1: in my dad's holiday home recording this right now. And

515
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: he called me and he said, what dave you got

516
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: Dennis Waalter coming in? I said Monday, And he said,

517
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: please promise me you clean that house.

518
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: He said, he everything's fine, Dad.

519
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: Yes, I actually said, I'm going to ask for a

520
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: shout out for NOL.

521
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 3: So hello, Nol.

522
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 2: He's gonna love very Christmas.

523
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,719
Speaker 3: So give me the keys to your holiday. And this

524
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 3: is nice.

525
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: So you've made you will have made his Christmas just

526
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: by saying that.

527
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: But I was watching on YouTube. You were it was.

528
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: Actually I think last year's Carol's by Candlelight, and you said,

529
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: this is nearly my fiftieth, and you.

530
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 2: Got choked up, and I got choked up watching it.

531
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Speaker 3: We can't actually work out how many it is because

532
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 3: I did them for Channel Oh.

533
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,360
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, oh yeah, when was Channel Oh, like when I.

534
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 3: Started on Young Talents. Yeah, so we can't. I don't

535
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 3: know how many I've done for Channel Oh, but I

536
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 3: know that when Channel nine took it over, I've done

537
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 3: every year bar one, so it's it's probably it's not fifty,

538
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 3: it's probably getting closer to forty. Pretty impressive, but it's

539
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 3: definitely about thirty five.

540
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this, but every time

541
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: that I'd come on and do a thing with you,

542
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 2: I was like, if you picked your song.

543
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: Yet it's and you go, what give me your request?

544
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Speaker 3: Lol?

545
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, first, Noel because my dad's name

546
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: is Noel spelt the same way, and so that's kind

547
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: of our Christmas tree every year is just Noel baubles

548
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 1: because it's like an ode to my dad.

549
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 2: And we And you said, you know what you should do?

550
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 2: You should come to the dress rehearsal.

551
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: Yes, because I was I always put Christmas on at

552
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: my house so often Christmas Eve is spent prepping food

553
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: with the carols on in the background.

554
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: And you said, come with the dress rehearsal. It's like donation.

555
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: It's the night. It's the twenty third. So I rocked

556
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: up to the dressers and my brother and my dad.

557
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: You jump on stage and you're like, this one's for

558
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: Lola Berry.

559
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 3: Do you really did do that?

560
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:56,719
Speaker 2: You did?

561
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 3: I did?

562
00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 2: And I updated my.

563
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: Facebook status to year made Dennis Walter just indicated this song.

564
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: So you brought me so much joy, and I've never

565
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: got to thank you for that, So this is my

566
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: moment say thank you so much pleasure. And my dad

567
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: was nudging me, going did you just see that? I said, yes, Dad,

568
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,959
Speaker 1: let's just soak it up. But there's something really magical.

569
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Speaker 1: On a more serious note about the carols and you

570
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: you bring so much heart.

571
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Speaker 2: And please keep doing them forever and ever and ever.

572
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be doing them as long as they as

573
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 3: long as the phone rings.

574
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 2: Has it wrung for this year, hasn't it?

575
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 3: Yes?

576
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 2: Are you allowed to reveal what you're going to sing?

577
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 3: Yes, I've got a new single out, Christmas single which

578
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 3: came out out of nowhere, as did the recording deal

579
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 3: with Sony, which is just a story in itself. But

580
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 3: one of the execs rang me about seven weeks ago

581
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 3: and said, look, we need a little Christmas and he said,

582
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 3: that's the song. He said, but we need to do it,

583
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 3: not impapa like it was in Maime the musical. We

584
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 3: need to do a modern version of that.

585
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 2: Beautiful. I listened to it. Yeah, and the lovely girl there,

586
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: oh her voice.

587
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 3: And it's just gorgeous. Michael Christiana did the arrangement.

588
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: He's done a lot of the also stalked him on

589
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 2: instag Yes, bit.

590
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 3: Of see, he's done a lot of seekers work and

591
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 3: he's brilliant and it's come up a treat and it's

592
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 3: just the right message.

593
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: You've got some favorites of I've got some favorites that

594
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: you always do though you.

595
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 2: Because of your so for people listening.

596
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Speaker 1: If you have been living under a rock and you

597
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: haven't heard Dennis Walter at Christmas, you see it's baritone,

598
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: right based, baritone, super deep, beautiful, which was why you

599
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: were so did so well with Young Town time. You're

600
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: this like skinny, little fifteen year old with this really

601
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: boomer of a voice, right yeah, and horrendously shy. And

602
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: did I hear an interview that you weren't so prone

603
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: to dancing? Oh yes, I am the crappiest dancer in

604
00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: the world.

605
00:30:58,840 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 2: Me too. Don't worry.

606
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 3: No, I'm worse than you.

607
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 2: I don't know. I would think though, because you're a singer,

608
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: you'd understand beat tune. You'd be way better than me.

609
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 3: Yep, I understand. It doesn't mean the body does.

610
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: If it makes you feel any better, I auditioned to

611
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: go to drama school and I didn't get a high

612
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: enough ter score ter score to get into the Monash

613
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: Performing Artscorse. I was like, I'll just audition with musical

614
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: theater and get in that way. I sung, Oh Lord,

615
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: won't you buy me a Mercedes benz Akipella?

616
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 2: And they said stopped me halfway through and said, hmmm,

617
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: we think you may have a pitching problem. Oh so

618
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: if that makes I can't sing or dads. But I

619
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 2: did every I still got into the course, thank goodness,

620
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: but not the musical theater, the acting one.

621
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: Thank you lucky. That is what I'm getting at because

622
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: the other bits, no, good.

623
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Speaker 3: Well it makes me feel better about myself.

624
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 2: Good good. Okay.

625
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: So you so does that mean that the carols you're

626
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: going to be singing your new song?

627
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 3: Yes, So we're trying to work out how because we

628
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 3: don't know if can journey to Melbourne because she's in Brisbane. Okay,

629
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 3: hopefully she can, and but they've got other ways.

630
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: Great of course, because there will be no audience this year,

631
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: that's right.

632
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 3: That will be bizarre.

633
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: It will be, but how amazing because I think people

634
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: are going to need carols more than ever.

635
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 3: Of course that's what I had to go ahead.

636
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and so many people.

637
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what the viewership is, but so many

638
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: people that will be part of their Christmas Like it's

639
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: my Christmas Eve ritual.

640
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 3: It's not just Australia. It goes internationally as well.

641
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: Yeah. So are you singing any other carols at this point?

642
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 3: I'm not sure they might need it having to do

643
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 3: it all different, usually do two songs.

644
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. I'm really looking forward to it.

645
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: I also love your rendition of Amazing Grace, which I.

646
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: Know is is that Christmas? It is kind of Christmas Eve,

647
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: but it's not really, is it.

648
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 3: No, it's just the right sort of message. Yeah, yeah, okay,

649
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 3: my father did that with me at Carols.

650
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 2: I've seen a photo of it, is it? Stan? Yeah,

651
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 2: I've seen a photo of you too.

652
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 3: He was almost eighty at that point, and Remy Martin

653
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: Brandy got him on stage because he was so nervous.

654
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 3: He'd never been in front of him. It's a huge audience,

655
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 3: orchestra and chorus and this massive candles out front was

656
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 3: a big thing. Oh he's great. And then we reprieved

657
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 3: it about six or seven years ago. When my niece

658
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 3: Julie came on, we did amazing grace as well.

659
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 2: I love this.

660
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: Okay, so I've got to ask this question. You're probably

661
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: gonna laugh when.

662
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Speaker 2: I ask it.

663
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Speaker 3: You want to be on carols and do it?

664
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Speaker 2: Like I said, I have a pitching problem. I'm happy to.

665
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: I'm happy to just be a humble consumer of the

666
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: carols every single year.

667
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: Do you get nervous? Is my question?

668
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 3: I get more excited. I just I love doing it,

669
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 3: and we're usually most of us are struggling to make

670
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 3: sure we've got the lyric right.

671
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 2: Really, there's no autok there is no Oh.

672
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 3: There is for the host, but not for us.

673
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, so you've just got to wing it. Well,

674
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: you've got to know it. How much notice do you

675
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: get to learn the song?

676
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 3: Oh? Quite a few weeks usually, so.

677
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: They will probably give you. If you end up doing

678
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 2: a second song, you'll get that at least it'll.

679
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 3: Be a Carol and I'll probably know it vaguely great.

680
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: And you do only do the jil I don't know

681
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: if I'm presuming the geelong Carols won't will they still happen?

682
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: But you usually do.

683
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 3: I was going to try and do them virtually. Yeah,

684
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 3: But the more I thought about it, the more I thought,

685
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,959
Speaker 3: hang on, do you really want to be sitting around

686
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 3: a laptop as a family. I'm just not sure that's

687
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 3: the I'm doing a couple of them in other areas,

688
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 3: but I just wasn't sure whether it was. The whole

689
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 3: idea of Carol's My Candlelight is that, yes, you watch

690
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 3: it as a television event when it's done to the

691
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 3: level of Channel nine. I don't know whether you want

692
00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 3: to zoom it.

693
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I understand that. I totally because it's about connection, right,

694
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 2: and the connection.

695
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 3: If the family is gathering on the lawn in front

696
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: of you.

697
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 2: Totally. No, I totally hear that.

698
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: I just guess I'm looking for any excuse to soak

699
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: up Carol's and Dennis.

700
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 3: It's the most beautiful setting I've got for geelong Carrols

701
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 3: because we put the stage backing onto carry Obey and

702
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 3: the people sit up at the natural Amphitheater at Eastern

703
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 3: Beach's gorgeous.

704
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been asked this a million times before.

705
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Carol?

706
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: Again?

707
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 2: I know?

708
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 3: First Noel, Oh, No, I'm serious?

709
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: Really, Oh, Daddy is going to be wrapped. I meant that, now, Okay,

710
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: you've got an Order of Australia about five years ago.

711
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 2: How did that happen and how does it happen?

712
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 3: I got it for services across all media and performing arts. Yeah,

713
00:35:55,239 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 3: performing arts. But you don't if if that was what

714
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 3: you I mean, it's great that I've been able to

715
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 3: have some success across different areas. But I really think

716
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 3: that when people nominate you, they have a really good

717
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 3: look at you. And I think it's a lot to

718
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 3: do with how much input you have into the community.

719
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: And you, my friend, have a lot almost I don't

720
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: know how you have the hours in the day that

721
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: to that level.

722
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 3: I possibly say yes to too many things.

723
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 2: I'm probably lucky about that because you're doing this podcast.

724
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 3: The Yeah, I'm involved with quite a lot and I'm.

725
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 2: Happy to see well I do.

726
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: I used to live in Sydney and so every Christmas

727
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: I do the Selbos. Either my mum or dad did

728
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: fly up and we do the Salvos together on Christmas Day.

729
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 2: It's the best environment.

730
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 3: Well, I'm hoping we're going to be able to do

731
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 3: my final show on AW this year from the Citadel

732
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 3: up the top of Burk Street.

733
00:36:58,920 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 2: You've got to do it.

734
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 3: We've done when I was doing afternoons, we've done it

735
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 3: from there the last two or three years.

736
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 2: Oh perfect.

737
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: And you get all people in, some of them who

738
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: don't have connection with family. We give them Christmas Lunch.

739
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.

740
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: One thing I learned about getting involved with the Salvos

741
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: and working at the Christmas Day lunch is although Christmas

742
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: is such a wonderful time for family and connection, it

743
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: can also be confronting for a lot of people as well.

744
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: And so it's so important, makes the carols so important,

745
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: it makes all these things that we can do for

746
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: the community so important, don't you.

747
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 3: Think because some of those some of the people find

748
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 3: Christmas extremely stressful. Because if you're in a situation in

749
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: life where you actually don't have family or friends and

750
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 3: they for from the middle of November, keep hearing Christmas.

751
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 3: It's great, it's fantastic. Well no, it's not not for some.

752
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 3: Not for some.

753
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: And that's I reckon as well, because I'm thirty five

754
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: now and I probably have my first Selvo's Christmas. Volunteering

755
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: at SELO is Christmas when I was thirty, and I

756
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: think until you're thirty, you kind of think you're invincible

757
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: and you think you're a bit immortal, and you're like

758
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: everything's peaches.

759
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: And I remember that moment.

760
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, wow, I've had a very blessed life,

761
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: Like how lucky that I've been able to enjoy all

762
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: my Christmases. And that's why I think, Yeah, I don't know,

763
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: we're very very lucky. And in Australia, we're very, very

764
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: very lucky.

765
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 3: Yes, right through this whole COVID thing. When you look

766
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 3: around the world, Oh yeah, it's to be here and

767
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 3: to be in the position we now are in, it's pretty.

768
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: Good, big time, big time Mega. We're very much the

769
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 2: lucky country. Right now. I have another radio question.

770
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, like I said oldest, I've made two

771
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: done too much research on you that I got so

772
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: nervous that I knew that i'd end up asking you

773
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,439
Speaker 1: questions that don't aren't like chronological.

774
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 3: So that's fine, that suits me.

775
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 2: Good God. Well, it's actually it's really.

776
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: Daunting interviewing you because you're it's usually the foots on

777
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: the other the shoes on the other.

778
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 2: Foot show, are you Oh good good?

779
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 1: Okay, So you've interviewed so many amazing people both, I presume,

780
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: both on the news but more more so with radio.

781
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: And I saw you do an interview with Beach Boys,

782
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: Joel Legerton, the ab Fab Girls when they brought their

783
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:37,720
Speaker 1: movie out.

784
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: Has there been anyone You're like, Oh, they're a legend,

785
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 2: and they're a legend off the mic as well.

786
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 3: Yes. Actually, when I think back, sometimes I go back

787
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 3: through photos that have been taking the studio buddy, Hell, yeah,

788
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 3: there's so many people. Yeah, You've reminded me of a

789
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: couple that I'd forgotten about.

790
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: Some of these are on YouTube, so they've been filmed. Yes,

791
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: Cat Stevens, Oh my goodness.

792
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 3: He came into the studio because of his religion. He

793
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 3: needed to have his wife sitting near him or within whatever.

794
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 3: She sat there, which I usually can't stand someone bring

795
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 3: someone else into the studio who's not actually a part

796
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 3: of it. He was just mesmerizing.

797
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 2: I mean also the voice, let's.

798
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 3: Voice, everything about him, and I know it's I know

799
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 3: it's there are parts of his life that have been

800
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 3: where people are annoyed at him. Excuse me, but he

801
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 3: is completely engaging.

802
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: My mum when she was she would have been it

803
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 1: was while he was still Cat Stevens because he's changed

804
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: his name, hasn't.

805
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 3: He with his religion use of Islam?

806
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: And so my mum went to one of his concerts

807
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: many many years ago, and she said, that's a concert

808
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: that changed my life.

809
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 2: He's one of those people, isn't he.

810
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 3: Yes, he's peaceful. Yeah, there's something calming about him. But

811
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 3: mind you, I did feel also under their control in

812
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 3: one other interview with someone who's quite different to that,

813
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:26,760
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Edelson, really and I felt like I wasn't getting

814
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 3: the answers that I wanted. But he I can understand

815
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 3: why he's been so successful in business because he takes

816
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 3: control of the situation there.

817
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 2: So in that moment, did you just kind of like bloody.

818
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 3: Yellow suits he wore at the Melbourne Cup Carnival feed inc.

819
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 3: What's that about?

820
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 2: I remember? I remember, But did you in that moment

821
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: when you were like, Okay, I don't have the reins here,

822
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: did you just kind of go, well, I'm just going

823
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 2: to have to go with it.

824
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 3: With Cat Stevens, it was just a pleasure he was giving,

825
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 3: he was calming, he was whatever amazing as against Killian Murphy. Sorry,

826
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 3: with Jeffrey Edison, he just wasn't going to answer any

827
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 3: question straight. And can I get sued for this? No?

828
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: He just he controlled the situation and I didn't have

829
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 3: time where it was short on time. I didn't have

830
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 3: time to try and go deeper.

831
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: You just mentioned Killian Murphy and I just got very excited.

832
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 3: Yes, many do what talent came into three I w

833
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 3: when we're in South Melbourne, which you remember, Yes, and

834
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 3: he obviously was sick of doing the pr because these

835
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 3: people you don't realize it, which you spot them on

836
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 3: you see them on a Today Show or a Sunrise

837
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 3: and they're doing hundreds. Rod Stewart I spoke to. I

838
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 3: was the last interview with Rod Stewart. He had been

839
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 3: sitting in his home