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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Time for this week's weakest claim to fame.

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Speaker 3: Business like show business.

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Speaker 4: My grandpa has pages of toilet papers from Buckingham Power

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Speaker 4: to lock in a sash. Uncle in usl was assigned

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Speaker 4: to a job. The person he picked up was Elvis Presley.

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Speaker 3: My uncle is the trumpet player on the Mines theaterck.

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Speaker 4: My mom she met Mussolini at the train station. Christian

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Speaker 4: O'Connell's weakest claim to fame.

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Speaker 5: We got brother Mussolini one last week she got a

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Speaker 5: hug from Mussolini.

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Speaker 2: All right. Weakest claim to fine call of emails to

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Speaker 2: kick us off. This comes to Monaca.

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Speaker 5: While traveling to the US in nineteen ninety, my mama

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Speaker 5: accidentally swapped her vanity case fancy with the stunt double

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Speaker 5: of magnum Pi Tom Selik. Because the varity case is identical,

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Speaker 5: we had to organize a meet up for her to

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Speaker 5: swap the case back. And yes, tom Selick's stunt double

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Speaker 5: was a woman dressed as Tom with a come on,

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Speaker 5: that's a lie.

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Speaker 2: I cannot tell you.

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Speaker 6: No one in Hollywood could double for Tom Tham.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to go woman with a big old hair.

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Speaker 3: And the dash.

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Speaker 2: We need more on this, pending, pending. Okay, this is

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Speaker 2: huge if Drew. This comes from Rick Christian.

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Speaker 5: I have a real fresh claim to fame, a bad one.

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Speaker 5: I listed an old vinyl over the weekend on gum Tree.

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Speaker 5: Got a message saying how quickly could I get them

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Speaker 5: to South Melbourne. They offered me extra money that I

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Speaker 5: was asking for, So went to a city, dropped them off.

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Speaker 5: Turns out they brought us props for the new Robbie

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Speaker 5: Williams movie that was being made.

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Speaker 2: It's a good one. Yeah, that's a great one. Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 5: Rick, still pending about the Lady Magnique stunt double. All right,

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Speaker 5: let's get some calls on nine four one four one

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Speaker 5: O four three. Your weakest claim to fame, Kirsty comeurning, Hi?

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Speaker 4: Hell are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good, Kirsty? So what is your weak claim to fame?

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Speaker 4: So I've actually stayed at the same motel and slept

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Speaker 4: in the same bed as either Jake stillen Hall or

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Speaker 4: Hate Ledger while they were filming break Back Mountain.

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Speaker 5: That is the perfect kind of claim to fame. It's

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Speaker 5: a it's a bed and a hotel. Yes, had they

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Speaker 5: left anything.

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Speaker 4: Behind, Not that I found to know, and I did

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Speaker 4: a thorough search.

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Speaker 2: An old phone charger.

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Speaker 5: We always leave a little phone charger, don't you That

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Speaker 5: one on the bedside table that's tucked out of you.

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Speaker 5: They don't like us using electricity to their hotels.

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Speaker 2: All right, Kirsty, that's a great wing to kick us

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Speaker 2: off with. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Have a good day, Annie, Michael, Good morning, Good morning, Michael.

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Speaker 2: What's your weakest claim to fame.

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Speaker 3: I worked at a nightclub in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

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Speaker 3: with Justin Trudeau.

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty good one. So he was a bouncer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a dorman. He stayed at the back

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Speaker 3: of the club. We I worked at the front of

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Speaker 3: the club. And yeah, just.

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Speaker 6: Check much of an enforcer physically.

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Speaker 3: No, he didn't get involved with much, but yeah he was.

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Speaker 3: He just he just stood at the back of the

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Speaker 3: club making sure people were doing the right thing.

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Speaker 2: Gotcha.

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Speaker 4: Look, Christian Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 5: Christian, I got a tattoo in New York in nineteen

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Speaker 5: ninety four by the guy that did the tattoos for

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Speaker 5: the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Jack what have you found out about the huge allegation

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Speaker 5: we had from listener Monica that Tom Selick's stunt double

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Speaker 5: for Magnum p I was a lady just as Tom.

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Speaker 6: With a mustache on. I can't the internet cannot find

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Speaker 6: anything to suggest that Tom Selleck had a stunt double

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Speaker 6: who was a woman in a mustache. John Nordlam was

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Speaker 6: the name of Tom Sellick's stunt double. And as you'd expect,

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Speaker 6: he's the same height and stature and looks very much like.

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Speaker 5: Big dude with a big head of hair and a

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Speaker 5: great big tash like Tom's. All right, let's get some

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Speaker 5: more of your weakest claims to fame now, Susan, Susan.

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Speaker 4: Oh, hello, yes, sorry, sorry.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Susan, everything right, I.

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Speaker 4: Can't hear you?

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Speaker 2: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 7: Now? Yes?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Your weakest coin to fame.

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Speaker 4: Yes, my dad's cousin was the director of The Cisco

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Speaker 4: Kid a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: I say, is it that from the fifties?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, well we watched it in the sixties as kids.

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Speaker 2: The Cisco Kid? Was it Cisco and the Little Psychic Pancho?

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes that's him.

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Speaker 8: Yes here, doesn't this sound for a long time heroes adventure.

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Speaker 2: It was so, what's the connection again with the Cisco kid?

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Speaker 4: My dad's cousin was the director.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, all right, Susan, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: You cool, no worry, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Bye.

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Speaker 2: Jessica.

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Speaker 4: Hi, my best friend's mum is dating Buddy Franklin's uncle.

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Speaker 2: This is a big one.

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Speaker 5: We've landed a big one.

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Speaker 2: When did you find this out? Jessica?

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Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago when her mom came to

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Speaker 4: visit her in Sydney. She bought him with her and.

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Speaker 1: She had no idea and he was telling stories and

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Speaker 1: she found out and she called me because she knew

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Speaker 1: I was a big swanset.

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Speaker 2: Oh that is amazing.

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Speaker 5: So you are you hoping now that this kind of

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Speaker 5: union will lead to you being in the same room

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Speaker 5: or family get together as the great Buddy?

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Speaker 4: Well, look, you know, I'm going to try my best.

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Speaker 2: It's a big play. They just got to stay together.

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Speaker 2: Good luck.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, I'm hoping for it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jessica, Thank you very much. She called me.

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Speaker 2: Have a good day.

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Speaker 3: Thanks you too. Bye.

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Speaker 2: Brad. There you going I good, Brad, you're going well.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm going very well. My wig is client for

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Speaker 7: fine is my next door nobor who is the brother

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Speaker 7: of the Grand Illusion?

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Speaker 3: It's called Plan.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay because of Tino.

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Speaker 5: It was on Australia's GOT. I seem to remember it

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Speaker 5: Melbourne Aquarium? I think he went, yeah, Melbourne car that's

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Speaker 5: a great one, Brad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And I've met him a couple of times when he's

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Speaker 7: come over to Minavy's house and now he doesn't do

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Speaker 2: That's a shame. Shame.

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Speaker 6: And what does his brother do? Is he a magician?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he's his manager and his dad engineers all

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Speaker 7: Closantino's props and everything like that.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a proper family business.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, he dad's an engineer, but he engineers

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Speaker 7: you know that knife one that he does, right, I

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Speaker 2: Be honest, I don't know what knife. I know they

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Speaker 2: all have a knife one copper Fields.

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Speaker 7: No, he's no, he's in a straight he's in a

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Speaker 7: straight jacket. He's trying to find gets himself out of

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Speaker 7: the strike.

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Speaker 2: I've seen that one before as well, with the guy

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Speaker 2: even Whodini.

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Speaker 7: Had bumbles around with the case and he's got this

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Speaker 7: big ax that comes nearly right at the end of

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Speaker 7: the show, nearly hits him in the head. But he

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Speaker 7: Tom has all these case and everything and find it

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Speaker 7: and gets there just in time.

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Speaker 2: All yeah, that's right. I'll tell you what. It really

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Speaker 2: works magic on the radio. I felt like I was

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Speaker 2: there your Weekly Featured Tricks described Christian Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 5: Scenes this morning on the weekes claim to fame emails

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Speaker 5: text you also claiming bs on the whole Tom Senex

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Speaker 5: stunt double Magnum P.

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Speaker 2: I was a woman, Christian. I've just googled it.

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Speaker 5: Tom Selix, six ft five, I call bs on the

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Speaker 5: body double.

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Speaker 2: Story being a woman. But imagine this though.

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Speaker 5: It means that at some point in the eighties there

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Speaker 5: was a lady going around America claiming claiming to be

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Speaker 5: Tom Selix stunt double in Magnum.

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Speaker 2: It was a six foot five guy with a I

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Speaker 2: just want to know why would someone make that up?

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Speaker 2: All right? Son? Four one four one four three the

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Speaker 2: they did it? And it felt good? Like someone with

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Speaker 2: that feels good.

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Speaker 5: I want to keep this going, all right, So the

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Speaker 5: last couple of calls them before Patsy's news.

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Speaker 2: Your weakest claim to fame, Kim Hi high question.

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Speaker 1: My week of claim to fame is that my husband

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Speaker 1: supposedly chatted up Mariah Kerrey in an airport bar.

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Speaker 2: So what happened? What was she doing? I mean she

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Speaker 2: just hang around looking for take.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe she does just looking for men to chat up.

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Speaker 1: Know she they were both on a flight that was delayed,

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Speaker 1: and she sat down and they were having a conversation,

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Speaker 1: and midway through the conversation, the penny dropped that it

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Speaker 1: was Mariah Kerrey for he and so.

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Speaker 4: Yes humming songs.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that was the giveaway.

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Speaker 2: But yessport photo. I made it big, but.

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Speaker 1: He never mentioned it until a few years after we

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Speaker 1: started dating. And then we're watching some music clips on

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Speaker 1: Fox Tell one day and he lent over and he goes,

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Speaker 1: did I ever tell you about when I had a

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Speaker 1: drink with her?

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Speaker 5: And I was like, I reckon, this is the second

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Speaker 5: ess recording it the tom seek Now.

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Speaker 2: Did I tell you about the time? If that was true,

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Speaker 2: you tell everyone about the time. Kim, Thank you very much,

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Speaker 2: you call no worries. Have a good day, Bernice. Hi, Bernice,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. Okay, last good of today? So

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Speaker 2: what have you got?

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Speaker 4: Week is clean to fame, weeks client to fine?

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 4: About sixteen years ago? My husband won some tickets to

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Speaker 4: see Saw and it was the original Saw and we

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Speaker 4: sat behind Pauline Hanson. Sorry about that, and then she

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Speaker 4: left halfway.

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Speaker 2: It's not strong enough.

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Speaker 5: Nowhere near must bloodshed. I want a full refund. Yes,

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Speaker 5: So I wasn't Downtown Abbey lightweight rubbish.

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Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast