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Speaker 1: A sad day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was, and yesterday very very sad, very sad day.

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Speaker 3: A shock.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I was in shock initially when I heard, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't shed a tear until I spoke to my

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Speaker 2: friend Mark Duffield, who sort of broke down, and then

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Speaker 2: I decided to put the phone down and yeah, Dennis Comedy,

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Speaker 2: the passing of the great Dennis Committee. A huge part

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Speaker 2: of sporting life is a soundtrack of our youth, maybe

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Speaker 2: of our our growing through footy and also swimming, you know,

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Speaker 2: some of those great amazing events at the Olympic Game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, he began his career as a radio announcer

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Speaker 4: in Perth in nineteen sixty eight, while juggling a playing

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Speaker 4: career with West Perth in the Waffle. We knew he

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Speaker 4: hadn't been well, but when we heard, when I heard

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Speaker 4: the news yesterday, I certainly my thoughts certainly did go

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Speaker 4: to all of you in the news rooman Channel seven.

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Speaker 2: Such a special man, really unique, really only one of

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Speaker 2: a kind. Really the only comparison I could make, I

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Speaker 2: reckon it was like when cricket lost Richie Benno. It's

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Speaker 2: that sort of statue. The sport keeps moving, but the

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Speaker 2: soundtrack changes forever and.

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Speaker 4: I've never heard a bad word about him.

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Speaker 2: No, he never universally loved and what I love At

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Speaker 2: the moment on social media, every club is putting up

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Speaker 2: vision or audio of Dennis and their special moment, like

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Speaker 2: my Waffle Club Perth.

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Speaker 3: There was a Christmas sooplesskull.

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Speaker 2: In the seventies in the Grand Final the Eagles Peter Wilson,

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Speaker 2: Cork and the Ocean the Dockers. You know Madra's derby

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Speaker 2: goal on Macintosh, Sidney Swan's Malchesky's winner in the Grand

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Speaker 2: Final in twenty twelve, Buddy Buddy's running goal where he

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Speaker 2: runs away from Cal Hooker at Hawthorne, Juddy special goal,

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Speaker 2: Jason McCartney's comeback from Barley Yeah remember that. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then probably the two biggest ones that have been put

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Speaker 2: up Heath Shaw's smother in the goal square on Nick

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Speaker 2: Revolt in the twenty twelve twenty ten de Side.

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Speaker 3: I remember that.

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Speaker 1: One that was that was a librarian.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he came up behind him like a librarian and

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Speaker 2: it was.

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Speaker 3: So never heard him ponder.

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Speaker 2: The genius like to produce a librarian reference which we

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Speaker 2: can all relate to being has been in the library,

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Speaker 2: but apply to that moment.

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Speaker 1: But apparently he used to write down little thoughts that

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Speaker 1: would come into his mind and he'd write him down

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Speaker 1: on post it notes and keep them, Yeah, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: would sit on them for years, and then when the

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Speaker 1: moment arose, went bang god like a librarian.

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Speaker 2: Probably his best for me, his moment because he actually

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Speaker 2: was a brilliant caller as well, and you know his

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Speaker 2: pausation and his timing and everything. And in the Grand

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Speaker 2: Final when the Bulldogs broke that massive drought in twenty

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Speaker 2: sixteen and Tom Boyd kicks this iconic goal that has

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Speaker 2: set the western suburbs of Melbourne a light.

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Speaker 3: And this is how Dennis said.

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Speaker 5: It takes it back.

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Speaker 6: Towards the wing from Franklin, not the way by Marris

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Speaker 6: Nay Smith sold the team making the trouble preck thinking

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Speaker 6: by Kenneday and Franklin was run downe tom.

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Speaker 5: Boyd's got a Tom Boyd goes then oh will look bounce.

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Speaker 5: The studium holds its breath. That's the gold in the

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Speaker 1: And he would have been pretty happy because of course

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Speaker 1: he was on the Footscraye list all those years ago.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know he never Yeah, he never got

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Speaker 1: Game because of injuries, and he wanted to be a

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Speaker 3: But of course he was he was.

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Speaker 2: He played footy and coaching, and then there was the humor.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we mentioned the librarian, but you know, even

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Speaker 2: our listeners may want to chip in here because there's that.

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Speaker 2: My favorite one was when Tony libertoire the Bulldog's great

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Speaker 2: and he copped a poke in the eye and then

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Speaker 2: it goes libertoo went into that last pack optimistically, came

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Speaker 3: I was trying to work out what's he saying? No

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Speaker 2: Adam muse remember the name yzed terrific young player, bad

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Speaker 2: scrabble hands, good to feed. He's more vowels than possessions

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Speaker 2: today And.

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Speaker 3: It was the bestit about this one.

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Speaker 2: There was a guy called Darren Gasper played for Richmond

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Speaker 2: and Gasper right, uh, and he hit the post, kicked

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Speaker 3: And he do want too.

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Speaker 1: When the car brothers were playing on separates and they

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Speaker 2: Red joke, and then he got Couzy of Beauty with

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Speaker 3: He was a genius and that probably didn't go down

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Speaker 2: And this station had a huge role to play because

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Speaker 2: later in his career was very relaxed and one of your.

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Speaker 3: Hosts, Gavin Miller, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: He gave him a challenge to work song lyrics into

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Speaker 2: his care right. So the first one was Thunderbolts and Lightning,

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Speaker 2: very very frightening from the rhapsody. So people will be

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Speaker 2: listening at home waiting for that like a virgin gets

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Speaker 2: a touch for the very first time. Run and this

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Speaker 2: one it's a fine line between pleasure and pain. You

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Speaker 2: can see that getting worked in, no worries. But then,

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Speaker 2: as Ray Parker Jr. Would say, bustin makes me feel good.

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Speaker 2: Remember that line from.

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Speaker 3: You had an experience challenged.

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Speaker 4: We had the great fortunate you know, the other joint

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Speaker 4: that we've all worked at working with him there And

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Speaker 4: when Chris Judd left, he was coming back to play

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Speaker 4: for the first time in front of a Perth crowd

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Speaker 4: and Dennis was saying, there's a lot of speculation the

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Speaker 4: crowd's going to boo and he said, what shall I say?

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Speaker 4: And I said, when Judd gets all, I said, say

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Speaker 4: to Boo or not to boo?

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Speaker 3: That is the question. As I watched that night he

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Speaker 4: Dennis said my line, and I was so excited.

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Speaker 3: He did hamlet for you.

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Speaker 4: John in Comoke, good morning.

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Speaker 7: What's it's not something he actually said. Now. I used

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Speaker 7: to go and watch Dennis when he was captain coach

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Speaker 7: of Mannington in the mid seventies, which, by the way,

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Speaker 7: if you're not where, he actually led them to four

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Speaker 7: consecutive Grand finals, winning three of them. But this was

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Speaker 7: a three quarter of time of dress one day where

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Speaker 7: they played an important game and they weren't getting thresher

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Speaker 7: in its quite a little bit, and I saw a

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Speaker 7: different sided Dennis because he just lost it. His three

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Speaker 7: quarter address was Dennis waving.

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Speaker 8: His arms around everywhere, squaring, carrying on and just it

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Speaker 8: was just incredible because I knew him from the A,

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Speaker 8: this is not Dennis. That's the same man that right

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Speaker 8: here on the radio. Incredible, so different to what I

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Speaker 8: knew Denis has been.

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Speaker 3: He had passion. He was he wearing a Safari suit

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Speaker 3: or something as well. Is a great.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: I was passionate.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John out there in the southern Maddington Kelmscott he

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Speaker 2: coached husband Parker.

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Speaker 1: I wish he could have taken West Berth to four

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Speaker 1: consecutive Grand finals, but you don't have a mind.

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Speaker 3: He gave it a go, he played from it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so big tribute tonight on the footy at the

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Speaker 2: opening round on seven year. It starts tonight and there'll

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Speaker 2: be a montage which will play in a moment as well.

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Speaker 2: I reckon, we've got some great work. But on his

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Speaker 2: tombstone it should be chiseled. Here lies Dennis Committee universally

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Speaker 2: loved across Australia and he took the game to the

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Speaker 2: nation because really he burst to prominence nationally when he

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Speaker 2: was at the Olympics when remember Susie O'Neill swimming and

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Speaker 2: the heart of the Lion in the Heart of Dixie

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Speaker 2: was just because he was in Atlanta. It was like

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Speaker 2: one of the great lines. And Kieren Perkins from lownd

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Speaker 2: at laye eight one goal, rare gold, the best kind

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Speaker 2: of goal, the best, Yes, I think we're all still

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Speaker 2: in shock, and there'll be a great opportunity tonight on

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Speaker 2: the footage to pay tribute, and then they'll be I

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Speaker 2: think they'll have to be.

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Speaker 3: A state funeral. I'd say, as well, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if the family would be.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's right, you'd have to ask family.

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Speaker 4: But you know, I feel like it was a you know,

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Speaker 4: they were quite iconic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's true.

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Speaker 7: That's true.

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Speaker 3: So maybe they'll.

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Speaker 4: But my thoughts with Mark and.

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Speaker 2: Ricky his daughter, and yeah, there's the expanded family. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can just picture it too because it was so

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Speaker 2: weird because he loves Shane Warn and Shane Warn died

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Speaker 2: them upstairs somewhere just having a big laugh about what

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Speaker 2: are the chances.

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Speaker 3: Hugging it down?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, perhaps shall we go out with our special

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Speaker 2: montage we've got, Yeah, that magnificent voice of his and

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Speaker 2: the soundtrack of our of our youth to a certain extent, yes,

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Speaker 2: not that we're that old now, but Dennis would have

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Speaker 2: a great He always had a great line to sort

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Speaker 2: of bring it down to any good humor.

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Speaker 1: We all grew up watching and listening. Yeah, and us

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Speaker 1: three were lucky enough to have known him and work

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Speaker 1: with him for a while, especially you, Baron.

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Speaker 3: We were very fortunate, all three of us. All Right,

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Speaker 3: that's rip, great man.

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Speaker 1: Let's remember the great Dennis Committity, the revolt in the.

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Speaker 5: Middle calling for the football schnyder. Will we give it

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Speaker 5: to revolting? Will revol runs head, Oh my goodness, wonderful

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Speaker 5: Chase Way.

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Speaker 3: He's sure they.

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Speaker 5: Came up behind him like the librarian. We never heard him.

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Speaker 5: They don't surprise everybody else in the library and shouting.

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Speaker 6: With finds it on the ground as he carried for it.

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Speaker 3: No Wilson, like a cork in the ocean over his head.

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Speaker 3: It's oh my work.

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Speaker 6: Speaking of skills, I see that Barack Obama went ten

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Speaker 6: pin bowling last week and scored thirty seven to seven frames.

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Speaker 6: This type the future of the free world is never

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Speaker 6: decided by a bowl off knock fought by savage Hannah Gray.

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Speaker 5: Tamal Chirsky is that the grand Pello Sydney of Premiers

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Speaker 5: inside the fifty kicker is on the way. He's judged

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Speaker 5: it to a nicety cinnamon a per