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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast. In my house, it's all about

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Speaker 1: the graphic equalizer to my mom and dad's music system.

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Speaker 1: And this is what we used to call the music

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Speaker 1: centers music systems. It was something really big, futuristic, literally

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Speaker 1: really big cumbersome. They were either all the units like

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Speaker 1: the turntable, the radio with the big old tuna and

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Speaker 1: the speakers and the graphic equalizers stacked on top of

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Speaker 1: each other or sort of lengthways. But it was a

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Speaker 1: big old beast, often on wheels. And in my house,

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Speaker 1: you did not touch that, like, you did not touch

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Speaker 1: anything on to do with it, right.

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Speaker 2: Did you als have the glass cabinet, glass.

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Speaker 1: Door, the glass door, and my dad would have got

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you touched him. He's got that

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Speaker 1: on CSI where they look chal compounder dusting it. I

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Speaker 1: know if you touched his son. Was there anything in

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Speaker 1: the house that is like, don't ever muck around with

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Speaker 1: the graphic equalizer levels my dad, you know, as if

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Speaker 1: I if my dad was like Brian Eno or Phil Spector, right,

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Speaker 1: he was so obsessive about like the graphic equalizers made

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Speaker 1: it either sound like this or really tinny. That's all

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Speaker 1: they did very little. Basically, it was a colm to

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Speaker 1: get an extra one hundred bucks out of He said,

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Speaker 1: this one's got a graphic equalized, and people just saw

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Speaker 1: those like mini faders. But they were in the mixing console.

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Speaker 1: George Martin with the Beatles, So m dadd in a

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Speaker 1: notepad in the in the unit that went next to it,

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Speaker 1: right where he actually had on their marks. What the

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Speaker 1: levels are, all the graphics that he'd equalize just so.

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Speaker 1: He only ever played one album by a great Irish

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Speaker 1: band called the Dubliners. He only ever played one album

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Speaker 1: Half Irish grandparents Dad's Irish. So he used to always

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Speaker 1: play this and those levels were all set perfectly for

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Speaker 1: the Doubliners.

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Speaker 2: You can tell if the base is too high.

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Speaker 1: I know that finger brings get in here. So don't

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Speaker 1: tell me you touched the treble. The exactly live with

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Speaker 1: There's what tell me about you? Describe the music system

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Speaker 1: you had at home, pantsy, What was it to you?

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Speaker 3: My brother had the high fire in the glass cabinet

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Speaker 3: and it was in his bedroom in a corner just

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Speaker 3: about took up the whole corner, didn't It was massive.

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Speaker 1: This big throne was the size of half a door.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but he, like your father, could tell if you'd

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Speaker 3: even approached it within a meter because we had like

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Speaker 3: this shagpile carpet so mum and vacuum virtually every day,

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Speaker 3: and he'd know if I'd gone in there.

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Speaker 1: You'd have to break it back. Yet, yes, again, Genius

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Speaker 1: had wise on lasers.

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Speaker 3: He knew he had this sixth sense. But he had

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Speaker 3: all his albums lined up in that shelf on the

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Speaker 3: bottom of it, and everything else that was, you know, superfluous.

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Speaker 3: He'd have in these milk crates around sort of lined

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Speaker 3: up against the wall. He'd have wings and dire straight.

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Speaker 3: So I think he just played that to death.

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Speaker 2: Money.

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Speaker 1: There's always song, one song that whoever had controlled the

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Speaker 1: new system always in mind of them. Jack, did you

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Speaker 1: your mom and dad must have had that music system.

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Speaker 2: We did. It was its own piece of fern live

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Speaker 2: behind the glass case.

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Speaker 1: So fake would at the side. I don't even if

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Speaker 1: it was real wood, but it was in wood, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And two big speakers either side of it as well.

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Speaker 2: My parents were a little more friendly. I was allowed

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Speaker 2: to use them, but there was a different reason why

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Speaker 2: I didn't want them to know I was listening to it,

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Speaker 2: because my favorite thing to put on was a CD

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Speaker 2: called Songs in the Key of Springfield Brilliant, which was

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Speaker 2: the Simpsons songs from the Simpsons TV show. I would

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Speaker 2: get my cricket bat, put it on the floor and

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Speaker 2: pretend I was skateboarding on it, like.

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Speaker 1: Simpson warners that you were going to hit us with this.

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Speaker 1: Don't point me to point when we just freeze frame

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Speaker 1: this skateboard.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so, I guess some people would use a cricket

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Speaker 2: about to play air guitar.

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Speaker 1: Along Australia to play cricket with.

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Speaker 2: Not me. I'd put it on the pointy end so

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Speaker 2: it had a bit of rock back and forth, and

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Speaker 2: would stand on it and try and balance and pretend

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Speaker 2: I was in the opening titles of The Simpsons writing

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Speaker 2: through the streets like.

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Speaker 1: B on that cricket bat.

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Speaker 2: I did this a lot.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your confession on that cricket bat.

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Speaker 2: Skateboard.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you get a skateboard? I mean there are

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Speaker 1: plenty in common in the era. Why do we tonight

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Speaker 1: the actual skateboard.

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Speaker 2: I didn't get on too much. He was like many

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Speaker 2: years later, tis a teenager.

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Speaker 1: Where they must just thought he's so happy on that

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Speaker 1: cricket bat. Does he not think we know what he

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Speaker 1: does to it? And everything else he gets up to

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