1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 2: Sam, I did have a birthday yesterday, Thank you, and 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: I feel very grateful to be happy and healthy and 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: have a job that I love, and to have a job. 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 2: When I grew up, we didn't have women. I didn't 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: grow up with women who were still working at fifty eight. 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: I mean maybe we knew some teachers and that was 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 2: about it. So to still be working, to be more 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 2: professionally fulfilled now than I've ever been, is. 10 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: A huge thing for me. It's great. 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 2: But it made me think about my teenage years and 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: I would never have it predicted in a million years 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 2: that I would have this life and have a job 14 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 2: I love with you, Brendan Jones, and. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: Two great kids and all of this. 16 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: So I found my teenage diary from when I was 17 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 2: about to turn sixteen. Oh yeah, and god, I was 18 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: I mean, gosh, I don't like to blesspheme on the 19 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 2: radio good. I was filled with love of Barry Manilow 20 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: when I was sixteen. That was the birthday I got 21 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 2: his live album Life Change Forever, because I thought I 22 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: was going to marry Barry. I for the rhyme, but 23 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: I was a roiling mess of emotion. So I'll just 24 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 2: read to you from the day before and the day 25 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: of my sixteenth birthday, if I may so. 26 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: Where you went through the attic again last week went 27 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: through the attic. 28 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: So we need a sound effect for us to go 29 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 2: back in time. 30 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: You're asking me for a sound effect. 31 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 2: It's unusual, I know, and don't make it a harm 32 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,199 Speaker 2: harm If I could have a gentle go back? 33 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: What do you I've got a few. Do you want 34 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: to go back? 35 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 2: This is? What else have you done? 36 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 1: What do you want? Harp? Yes, that's it? Go back? 37 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: No? 38 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: No, we're going with a harp. 39 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 2: Can I please? This segment's beginning now with the harp. 40 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: Here we are on the twenty first of the second 41 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight. Oh boy, I'll be glad when this 42 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 2: week's over. So much work to do. It's my birthday 43 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 2: in four days. Sixteen. 44 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Wow. 45 00:01:55,240 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 2: I remember thinking fifteenth sounded old. Then I say this 46 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 2: is on the twenty third. Well here I am nearly sixteen. 47 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like Dave. You like it. 48 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 1: Just think one year and I'll be seventeen. 49 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 2: What a great age I'll be spending it at school. 50 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 2: When I think of seventeen, I conjure up so many 51 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 2: things in my mind, acting Barry jet set life. 52 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: Excitement at no. But it won't be like that at all. 53 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: I'll be in school. What a waste. 54 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: I feel like saving seventeen up until I'm ready to 55 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 2: live it up. I don't want to waste the best 56 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: of my life. What a pain in the neck. 57 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: Looks like I'm going to have to how to pressing. 58 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: So then I get the next day, I get Barry's album. 59 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: You Got This for Your Birthday? For my birthday. 60 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 2: I nearly freaked when I got it, so good, especially 61 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: a song called that. 62 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: The feeling again it really affects me is that the song. 63 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: Now I can look at Barry Manilow, and now I 64 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 2: can look at a Barry record and say it's mine, 65 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: because until now I borrowed Melanie. I keep looking at 66 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 2: his smiling face, and I smile back and I say, 67 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: you're mine. 68 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: It's a great feeling. Then how old was Barry at 69 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: the time? 70 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: I was thirty two, And I've written also in here 71 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: about he's slipping further away from us because he's thirty two. 72 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's obtainable now. 73 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 2: And then I wonder what thoughts I had this time 74 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: sixteen years ago, one day old. Wonder if I thought anything. 75 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: It's a shame will never know so many parts of ourselves. 76 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 2: When I'm thirty two, in another sixteen years, I wonder 77 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 2: what I'll think. Hopefully this story will help me rediscover myself. 78 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 2: How will I feel when I listened to Barry's album 79 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 2: twenty years time, or even two years time. I'm not 80 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 2: so much scared of old age. I'm scared of middle age. 81 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 2: It'll be so sad to look back at all my 82 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 2: broken dreams. But even though I say that, I believe 83 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 2: I'll have a beautiful life full of love, and hopefully Barry, 84 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 2: I'll meet someone and I'll feel blissful to spend my 85 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: life with them. When I think of middle age with Barry, 86 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 2: I don't mind it. Oh just look you and fightful 87 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: me and Barry. And then go on later to say 88 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 2: I found. 89 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: Out, Barry, you're doing your normal voice, and. 90 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: Then you and our teenager this is this is the diary, 91 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: this is one bit. 92 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm just skipped to here. 93 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: Wow, we just found out Barry's not married. On every record, 94 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 2: he says, thanks to Linda and Bagel, I realized now 95 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 2: it's Bagel but we've never heard of that. That's right, 96 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: Bagel Is. We thought is its wife and child. Begel 97 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 2: is his dog. But then the next day, well, the 98 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 2: next day I found out it goes. Another part of 99 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: my fantasy is crumbled. Linda's girlfriend. We didn't have a 100 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 2: word for Beard. Then she's been with him three years. 101 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: When we saw it at the. 102 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 2: Music Awards, we thought she was his mother. She looks 103 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: much older than him. She's not beautiful, which really makes 104 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: me realize how deep and loving he is. She's the 105 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: luckiest woman alive. Oh, it's page after page of this horror. 106 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 2: I'm blushing as I'm reading it. But we'll leave it there, 107 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 2: Leave it. 108 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: At that so I can get back into He's come 109 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: back into life is so cruel. I've written the voice, 110 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: We're now, we're back. I went to the toilet. When 111 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: I came back, he was gone. I just snippets of sentences. 112 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: That's when Melanie and I met a guy at the 113 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 2: caravan park. Melanie got some stroke, we had to go 114 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: to the toilet. We came back and he'd gone. I'll 115 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 2: never forgive her for that voice. Sorry, just actually that 116 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: segment is titled The Story of Todd We never knew 117 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: his name. 118 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: Made it up so Todd wasn't his name. No, no, 119 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: I didn't know his name. We just to see him 120 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: in the surf. What a mental, What a mental? Jones 121 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,160 Speaker 1: and Amanda in the morning.