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Speaker 1: Continuing the Farewell Festival. This morning, Gary Roberts is joining us. Gary.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning to Gary. We all know basically

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Speaker 1: owns Perth Radio and he owns us and.

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Speaker 2: Always well, I paid for you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that's right. You've been everywhere but with

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Speaker 1: us here at ninety six and also over at that

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Speaker 3: But Clarsey was.

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Speaker 1: Telling a story the other morning about his first encounter

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Speaker 1: with you, because he was, you know, a young a

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Speaker 1: young whipper snapper, wanting to get into radio, and he

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Speaker 1: dreamed of ninety six FM and he rang you. Tell

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Speaker 1: us again, Claresy, how that went down.

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Speaker 4: So I'm sitting on mum's bed using a phone with

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Speaker 4: a cord, and I go, well, I want to work

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Speaker 4: in radio. I'm a media student at Greenwood High School.

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Speaker 4: What don't I ring the guy who runs the radio

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Speaker 4: station I listened to? So I ring up mister Roberts.

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Speaker 4: Can I talk to mister Roberts please? I think the

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Speaker 4: girl on reception crack up. It's in Wellington Street and

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Speaker 4: I hear this voice of God answer the phone. It's

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Speaker 4: another and I started shaking. I had that impact on

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Speaker 4: a few yeah, especially employ Yeah, yeah, I think Garry

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Speaker 4: you said something along the lines of, well mostly you know,

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Speaker 4: you had Bill Alli and those kind of guys that

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Speaker 4: are working there. You said, oh, there's great Bill, and

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Speaker 4: you said, most of my guys have worked for at

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Speaker 4: least ten years, so you probably need to get some

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Speaker 4: experience and if you want to get closer to being

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Speaker 4: Bob Stewart or whoever it might be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was actually what was going on in

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Speaker 2: radio in those days. Things have changed somewhat, but in

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Speaker 2: those days you'd go out to the regional stations and

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Speaker 2: learn how to do the job. As opposed to listening

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Speaker 2: and thinking you knew, you actually had to go and

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Speaker 2: work it.

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Speaker 1: Out quite often midnight to dawn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, regularly in regional stations. Yeah, so you'd have three listeners.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I did, and I had five when the

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Speaker 4: seating was going on because I was in Meriton and

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Speaker 4: the weak bellot, so the farmers be out there listening. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they ring, both of them would ring up. But yes,

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Speaker 4: that's what I did. I took your advice. Yeah, that's great.

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Speaker 2: What happened. You are forty years later?

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Speaker 4: Years later, and it took thirty eight years and then

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Speaker 4: you hired me for ninety six, so my dream came true.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes dreams do come true.

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Speaker 2: I did try to come after you a couple of times,

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Speaker 2: but you know, you were actually signing contracts with other people.

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Speaker 2: You weren't exactly available. So actually, when Fred decided he

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Speaker 2: needed to move on, yeah, and it was like you

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Speaker 2: were the most obvious person in town that we had

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Speaker 2: to get to be with, Lisa. So look what happened.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and it was all very secretive. You and

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Speaker 4: I are meeting pubs and at the back of the

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Speaker 4: remember that day at the back of the Queen's trying

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Speaker 4: to hide Yep, in a couple of cafes, having clandestine

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Speaker 4: I just did have.

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Speaker 2: The kiss of death.

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Speaker 1: Have you got someone off your sleep for me to

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Speaker 1: start at six?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, always someone.

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Speaker 4: But that conversation started at an Alice Cooper concert because

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Speaker 4: you and I had a chat and you said we

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Speaker 4: need to catch up. And that was many months before,

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Speaker 4: so yeah.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't the bad concert that was usually doing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Do you miss radio you've been You've been away from

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Speaker 1: it all for a little while.

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Speaker 2: Now a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Had a list of things that need have done around

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I can say this. I'm officially now

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Speaker 2: Wendy's bitch. Yeah, because that's all I do for a living.

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Speaker 2: It used to be part time now it's.

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Speaker 5: Do.

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Speaker 2: I miss radio. I miss the people. I really missed

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Speaker 2: some of the great people that work in radio, and

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Speaker 2: that's what I miss. I don't actually miss radio networks.

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Speaker 2: I miss the people.

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Speaker 1: Well, you had a catch up on Friday with a

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Speaker 1: lot of those people because as we observed, it was

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Speaker 1: ninety six, is forty fifth birthday you started the place,

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Speaker 1: and you still to this day every August eight have

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Speaker 1: a catch up with that original group.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the original.

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Speaker 1: A lot of them are still there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. We have lost a couple, but it's unfortunate.

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Speaker 2: But no, it's great to get forty to PEP pull together,

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Speaker 2: which we did on Friday. We kicked off for a

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Speaker 2: long lunch. We decided we'd make it until four o'clock

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Speaker 2: so we could replay the launch of the station, which

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Speaker 2: we did, but we hadn't finished talking at four o'clock.

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Speaker 2: It was actually another guy who screened out Gary, it's

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Speaker 2: four o'clock. It's like, oh, okay, fine, let's play the

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Speaker 2: launch of the radio station back on four PM August eight,

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty and it was just great to hear it again. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know for those of us who were part of it,

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Speaker 2: it's an important part of history time.

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Speaker 1: You know, we all have our memory of where we

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Speaker 1: were that absolutely fifteen.

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Speaker 4: It was such a game changer to hear those you

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Speaker 4: know that not it was also the attitude you were playing,

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Speaker 4: you know, different kinds of music to what the ams

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Speaker 4: were playing. The sound of the bands like Steely Dan

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Speaker 4: the Cars and Pink Floyd sounded so incredible in FM's theorem.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it was so different to everything else

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Speaker 2: in American radio. It's called album orientated rock and that's

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Speaker 2: what we were doing. So we had a massive number

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Speaker 2: of albums. We had the longest playlist in radio history

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Speaker 2: that we started with. But it was very deliberate and

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Speaker 2: what we were trying to achieve in the market, and

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Speaker 2: guess what, it worked well.

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Speaker 1: Music for headphones is still my absolute all time favorite

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Speaker 1: radio thing, and I think it was just is what

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Speaker 1: my headphones on. Just I don't know why I was in.

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Speaker 5: The center of the room.

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Speaker 1: Why I had to be right in the middle. I

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Speaker 1: had headphones on, so I don't know wants around it.

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Speaker 1: But you know that was just that to me. That

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was in those days, and the amount of

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Speaker 2: time people listened to the station was extraordinary, and the

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Speaker 2: things that they heard and the contact they had with

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Speaker 2: us again extraordinary. It's not what happens today, but it

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Speaker 2: was certainly great in the eighties.

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Speaker 4: I'd imagine you long and you on that carpet. They're

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Speaker 4: going I have become comfortably.

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Speaker 1: We're going to role play it here. You're going to

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Speaker 1: bring out your air check.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a cosplay. I was getting ready.

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Speaker 1: You're going to bring out those air checks and you're

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Speaker 1: going to put him to Gary and see if he would.

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Speaker 4: Sure you've heard I'm sure you've heard all of these Gary.

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Speaker 4: When I used to come in, I suspect I have. Actually,

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Speaker 4: do you really want to hear this, MANE? I don't

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Speaker 4: really Yeah, absolutely, I'll play this one.

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Speaker 5: First if you're just join us. Welcome to Friday, November sixteen.

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Speaker 5: Here of the Week Vol. Six MD with Do You

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Speaker 5: and Keep You Comforting at the early hours of a

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Speaker 5: Friday morning, Dean Close with you and the Breaking Show

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Speaker 5: until nine next Monday. At four o'clock, I'll be at

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Speaker 5: the Oasis Hotel here in Meriden, and the first twenty

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Speaker 5: four to twenty five people who come up to me

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Speaker 5: what a broadcast grip?

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Speaker 4: Now, of course it wasn't you should be stumbling.

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Speaker 2: Actually said the pretty good at that radio station.

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Speaker 4: Maybe yeah, most Mereden. I do remember playing some of

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Speaker 4: these to you one day in your office there in

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Speaker 4: Wellington Street and you said, well, you sound very adult

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Speaker 4: bean for a nineteen year old. Maybe should try six

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Speaker 4: ky And I think I cried in the cards like Plava.

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Speaker 2: That's about the nicest thing I ever said.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was. I said, what I don't

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Speaker 4: sell like David Kidd? What's going on have it some

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Speaker 4: roster service stations.

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Speaker 3: Golden We Australia veteran erring English lyricist Bernie Taublam from

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Speaker 3: his Tribe solo album Citizen Jane, Would your sisters say,

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Speaker 3: I'll be sad? And the disco king of the late

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Speaker 3: seventies Horry Casey with his Sunshine Band full Start. Please

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Speaker 3: don't go well if you have to and you need

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Speaker 3: petro to get there. In other words, you're not taking

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Speaker 3: one of these places Petrol rosters for Benary and at

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Speaker 3: Subishi in kindly, the Shell service station in prince Hip

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Speaker 3: Street tonight, b I n C A Carmeny one o

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Speaker 3: nine Federal Austraet in Narrigen and just the one place

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Speaker 3: open in Bunbury tonight the Shell two one five Spencer straight,

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Speaker 3: the rosters for Bundring, that Tubushi are open and saw

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Speaker 3: ten o'clock tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was Bundary that was made trying to be

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Speaker 4: a Leah or rick Han's John to sound cool.

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Speaker 2: Did you follow that up with the death announcements.

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Speaker 4: Probably brought to you by Merit and removal Bunbury furnitures,

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Speaker 4: you know, like the Sabers are beautifully.

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Speaker 2: That was awful.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we've had enough of that.

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Speaker 1: I have so enjoyed them though.

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Speaker 4: Gary.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in this morning and sharing in this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm not sure what you're going to do next.

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Speaker 2: And I've seen all those photos of you standing outside

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Speaker 2: every radio station. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but suspicion you're

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Speaker 2: going to do better.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, why tell me I'm gonna I'm thinking I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to ring nap and sure and over over

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Speaker 1: in a minute and ask them myself.

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Speaker 4: Put it straight to them.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to ask them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they need somebody.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you don't answer that question. Thanks Gary, Gary, good

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Speaker 4: to see and thanks for the job eight years