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Speaker 1: Getting lots of texts from people about what their most

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Speaker 1: memorable birthday was. Malan Woodridge was most memorable was her

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Speaker 1: fortieth Australia Day twenty thirteen. Group of friends and family

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Speaker 1: went to Rotto for the long weekend. There was about

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Speaker 2: In a month to worry about thousands of other boats

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Speaker 1: On that second Alan and Kelmscott says, my most memorable

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Speaker 1: birthday isn't a happy one. It was August sixteen, nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy seven, and I got home from school expecting a

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Speaker 1: in bawling her eyes out because some bloke named Elvis

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Speaker 3: That was I clearly remember that day too, you know.

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Speaker 2: Funnily enough, I actually don't have any recollection of that day.

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Speaker 2: I was old enough to remember it, but I actually

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Speaker 2: don't remember the day.

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Speaker 3: I remember the kids at school talking about it. I

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Speaker 2: Many other things from that time, but I don't remember that.

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Speaker 2: I just remember all the Elvis movies I watched at

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Speaker 1: Some weekends all right, what's what Maybe it will be today,

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Speaker 1: But what is your most memory birthday to date?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I guess I've had a couple. I've had

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Speaker 1: Me about and wake up, you know, handcuffs.

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Speaker 2: In a way, my twenty first was memorable in a

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Speaker 2: and it was back when it was still being held

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Speaker 2: because it was a weekend. You were doing better hours

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Speaker 2: and I was, but probably I was. You were Saturday

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Speaker 2: or Sunday. No, I was doing the late Saturday night

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Speaker 2: but we were right right down to day. Only party

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Speaker 2: But you know, twenty one, it was a real milestone

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Speaker 2: birthdays when they say you became an adult. Of course

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Speaker 2: now it's eighteen. It was then too, but twenty one

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Speaker 2: still had some sort of magic about it. But he

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Speaker 2: the night that my childhood ended in a certain way. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if it hadn't happened before then, it certainly

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Speaker 2: down the back of the building and telethone was on

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Speaker 2: and I bumped into it just in passing in the corridor.

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Speaker 2: I know, I bumped into fat cat. He was, but

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Speaker 2: he was missing something and we were away from the

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Speaker 3: He was michild.

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Speaker 2: Now block your children's ears. Now he was missing his head.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was carrying his head under his eye. It

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Speaker 2: Well, no, I know, I'm not saying that he'd did

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Speaker 2: and so there you go. Childhood chattered right there that night,

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Speaker 2: the night of your twenty first birth Yes, so that

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Speaker 3: A lot of memories walking the corridors of Channel seven

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Speaker 2: Yes, the people you'd see, the people you'd see. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So that was my memorable birthday.

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Speaker 1: Jane in yo kind this is awesome. She turned sixty

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Speaker 4: She was.

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Speaker 1: She managed sixteen countries in sixteen months, including Antarctica.

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Speaker 3: Amazing year. Now I have no money on no leave.

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna says, he has got the money. Wow.

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Speaker 3: So that's a pretty memorable one.

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Speaker 2: What was your most memorable birthday? Yeah, tell me about it.

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Speaker 1: Probably my fiftieth, because that's what I gave myself permission

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Ryky, Yeah, on your birthday.

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Speaker 3: On my birthday, birthday, and this is the present.

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Speaker 2: My can we pry?

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Speaker 3: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Well? You know why? No, just you just know it

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Speaker 2: was just came like a bolt out of the blue

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Speaker 3: Wasn't a bolt out of the blue.

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Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people stay in marriages

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Speaker 1: you know, And eventually, for some people you have to

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Speaker 1: give yourself permission to go. No, it's it doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: It never will, it never has. And yeah, happy birthday

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Speaker 3: So you went, well, I might live another fifty years

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Speaker 2: How does the song go? It's my birthday? And if

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Speaker 2: I want to accept that, you didn't cry. You let

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Speaker 2: out a little hooray. There you go, all right. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: fiftieth was a bit so. Both memorable birthdays were kind

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, am Mark and tapping Hello.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.

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Speaker 5: How are you?

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Speaker 2: We're going well this morning, aren't we?

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Speaker 4: Hello?

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Speaker 2: Mark?

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Speaker 4: Hello? How happy birthday, Russell?

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Speaker 2: Thank you Mark.

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Speaker 3: I'm famorable.

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Speaker 4: Last year, my wife and I celebrated our sixtieth birthday

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Speaker 4: in June. We're eleven days apart, and went on a

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Speaker 3: Yes and.

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Speaker 4: Ye for Friday. Yeah, And unbeknown to us, our daughter

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Speaker 4: had told them and said, please embarrass our parents. So

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Speaker 4: we got called up and four hundred plus people saying

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Speaker 3: Oh that's fantastic. I love that you share your birthday.

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Speaker 4: Or eleven days apart. I'm one the oldest, so for

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Speaker 4: eleven days, I was sixty, My wife was fifty nine,

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Speaker 3: Never leave, let even get it. On a single day

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Speaker 4: Eleven days, every morning we woke up and it was

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Speaker 2: And four hundred people singing happy birthday to You're probably

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Speaker 2: lot of people sing happy birthday to them. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: O'clock at night? It was dark, so we sort of

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Speaker 4: My wife harded the fact it was our sixtieth, so

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Speaker 4: she was very embarrassed. I wasn't that.

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Speaker 3: She was great experience though. That place beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Randa and Amada. What's your most memorable birthday?

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Speaker 4: Morning?

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Speaker 2: Ronda, good morning, Happy.

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Speaker 6: Birthday to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I'm my fortieth. Unbeknown to me, my husband

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Speaker 6: her for the very first time.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh my god, sister.

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Speaker 6: That's so yeah, Oh wow, quite amazing. And as soon

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Speaker 3: Wow. That is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Catching up to do that night.

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Speaker 3: So the hobbies got together and they organized it.

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Speaker 6: Yes they did. Yes, bless them.

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Speaker 2: That's nice. It took them forty years.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't forty years.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: A great memorable birthday, and.

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Speaker 2: That is absolutely memorable.

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Palmyra on the text says, mine was December twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, New York City, White Christmas with my daughter

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Speaker 1: who lives in Brooklyn. She'd organized a magnificent spa day

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Speaker 1: see Billy Joel at Madison Square Gardens.

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Speaker 3: That that's a hard one to chalk.

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Speaker 2: That is a memorable birthday.

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Speaker 1: When you have a birthday that's that good, you leave

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Speaker 2: You can always hang on to that one.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Every year, Gary and janderbu what about you, what was

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Speaker 4: Got married on the day only twenty fairs.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, big day out. You had a more exciting

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Speaker 4: The twenty one year want lies I what did he lie?

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Speaker 2: Did you get what you wanted?

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Speaker 4: You teach you my later?

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Speaker 1: Great happy birthday, gird birthday.

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Speaker 2: He made the right call, nice and early. Well done Gary,

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Speaker 2: Oh that's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: When in South Perth on the text can't decide between

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Speaker 1: his twenty first and his twenty second because he landed

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Speaker 1: in London on his twenty first birthday and then one

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Speaker 1: year later, still in London, met his now wife at

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Speaker 1: his twenty second birthday party.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I think she probably thinks she should go with the.

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Speaker 2: second one. Let's be honest, it's true.

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Speaker 1: This is true, and that was forty eight years ago.

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Speaker 1: Oh jeepers Alicia in Waikiki. Hello, what's your most famorable birthday?

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Speaker 5: Good morning? Well I've had a couple, but this one

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Speaker 5: definitely stood out there. Yeah. You know the jetboat tour

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Speaker 5: maybe we need a can. So he's like, oh no,

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Speaker 5: and it was rough and we were sitting at the front.

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Speaker 5: It was my mom, my dad, and my sister and

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Speaker 5: I and I don't even know what happened in that moment.

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Speaker 5: It was just the freak moment. But we went down

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Speaker 5: And then we found out later my mom had actually

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Speaker 2: Memorable, wow, jeepers. Oh God, well that's that's memorable, But

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Speaker 2: not so much the reasons. Oh wow, jeepers,