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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jones.

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Speaker 2: Heavy hearts. We wake up this morning to discover that

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Speaker 2: Livia and Newton John has passed away over there in

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Speaker 2: at La ranch age of seventy three. Died peacefully surrounded

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Speaker 2: by her husband, husband and family. I'm not too sure

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Speaker 2: whether the details aren't really filtering through.

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Speaker 1: It's a quote from her husband this morning. A husband,

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Speaker 1: John Easterling. He actually confirmed the news of a passing

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Speaker 1: this morning in a social media post. So Olivia has

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Speaker 1: been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over thirty years,

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Speaker 1: sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and

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Speaker 1: pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton

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Speaker 1: John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer

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Speaker 1: in Llewa Flowers. The family asked that any donation has

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Speaker 1: been made in her memory to the Living Newton John

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Speaker 1: Foundation Fund. You know, just hearing that song, all of

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Speaker 1: us are going to have memories today, and we encourage

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Speaker 1: you to call us with yours as well. My friend

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Speaker 1: Liz was at a school dance and a boy came

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Speaker 1: up to her and he put his hands on her

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Speaker 1: hips and he was just stood in front of her,

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Speaker 1: looked her in the eyes and recited that song from

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Speaker 1: beginning to end. And she didn't know him very old,

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Speaker 1: didn't particularly like him, and she just had to stand

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Speaker 1: there for the entirety of him talking that song. And

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Speaker 1: she said, even as a sixteen year old, she thought,

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Speaker 1: this is one of the most awkward moments.

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Speaker 2: That my life was stream minutes and twenty seconds of

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Speaker 2: her life.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Beautiful song? But it's

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Speaker 1: not something you particularly want quoted to you by someone

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Speaker 1: who you're not that fond of. I'm just mad on

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Speaker 1: the hips, stood with his hands on her hips and

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Speaker 1: told her how he felt at the age of sixteen. Dreadful, dreadful,

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Speaker 1: but I'm thinking today. Also remember how Olivia's career began

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Speaker 1: with her friend Pat Carroll. It was one of those

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Speaker 1: great stories. Two young girls. They met in the sixties

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Speaker 1: on the Go Show and they won a competition, a

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Speaker 1: talent contest on a TV show called Sing Sing Sing.

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Speaker 1: The prize was a trip to England, so they go

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Speaker 1: over there. They start to get some momentum twoing together

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Speaker 1: as a duo, Pat and Olivia, and then just when

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Speaker 1: they're starting to kind of make it big. Pat's visa

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Speaker 1: expired and because Olivia had been born in England, she

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Speaker 1: could stay there. There the sliding doors of your life,

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Speaker 1: and Pat, who's remained a lifelong friend of Olivia's, said

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Speaker 1: I'm going home. I have to you continue and do

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Speaker 1: it for us both, and boy did she do that.

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Speaker 1: But I think that Pat and Olivia were the ones

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Speaker 1: that opened Koala Blue together. That was a store in

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Speaker 1: LA that was this was before shrimp on the Barbie,

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Speaker 1: that embraced everything Australian Ken don T shirts. They had

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Speaker 1: Koala Blue Wine, all of that. I think it was

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Speaker 1: on Rodeo Avenue, it might have been or Milrose, a

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Speaker 1: big street in LA that really brought the focus to

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Speaker 1: these sunny Australians.

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Speaker 2: That's what could have caused the financial troubles though Koala

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Speaker 2: Blue was it. I don't know, over capitalized. I don't

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Speaker 2: know there was trouble back in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Don't remember those details. But you know, there's so many

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Speaker 1: fruits to Olivia Newton john singer, entrepreneur, mum and with

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Speaker 1: her cancer foundation, a woman doing extraordinary works all over

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Speaker 1: the world. And we're all going to feel that today

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Speaker 1: we

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Speaker 2: Have some of those fruits coming up on the show