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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Jonesy and Demander podcast.

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Speaker 2: Job interviews. Have you had many job interviews?

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Speaker 1: Many? Many, but none of them are very weird? You

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Speaker 1: would have had some. I've had a lot of job

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Speaker 1: interviews where I've never.

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Speaker 2: Got the job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I except for radio, radio has always worked for me.

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Speaker 3: When I was a researcher at Simon Toown'sen's Wonder World,

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Speaker 3: which is that kids show that was on many years ago,

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Speaker 3: hugely popular show. It was the first magazine style show

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Speaker 3: of its kind and particularly for kids. Four o'clock in

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Speaker 3: the afternoon, everyone watched Simon town EN's Wonderworld. It was

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Speaker 3: my first ever job and it was thrilling, and I

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Speaker 3: was a researcher. I had to find two stories a

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Speaker 3: day for the reporters to go out and.

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Speaker 1: Cover brilliant largely the paddle Pop factory.

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Speaker 2: Every day it was the Paddle Pop Factory.

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Speaker 3: And then they were auditioning for a reporter, and it

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Speaker 3: was everyone's dream to be a reporter this There'd be

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Speaker 3: stories on the night news, nightly news of how far

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Speaker 3: the ques snaked around the book.

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Speaker 2: People would line up all kinds of famous people. Andrew

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Speaker 2: Denton applied to be a reporter on Simon Town's Wonder.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, people of all kinds would applies to be a

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Speaker 3: reporter on a kid show, and so I turned up

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Speaker 3: because I'd already worked there for a year, and I thought, oh,

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Speaker 3: this would be my dream to get in front of

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Speaker 3: the camera.

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Speaker 2: What a dream.

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Speaker 3: And we had to wear pants. We weren't allowed to

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Speaker 3: wear a skirt or anything. I had to wear pair

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Speaker 3: of pants, and we had to jump and squeal like

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Speaker 3: a rank and sister, remember the Ranconsistence, who were aerobic heroes.

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Speaker 3: And then we had to do star jumps. So I

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Speaker 3: had to tell a joke I think, and I had

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Speaker 3: to do some star jumps. And even though I'd worked

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Speaker 3: there for a year, I didn't get the job because

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: A squeally star jump kind of person.

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Speaker 3: Simon said years later that he regretted not giving me

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Speaker 3: the job, but at the time I was horrified.

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Speaker 2: And mortified and really disappointed.

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Speaker 3: And the word came down, I don't know whether it

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Speaker 3: was from Simon or an executive producer whatever, that I

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Speaker 3: was a bit too broad across the beam.

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Speaker 2: To host a kids to be a reporter on a

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Speaker 2: kids show, And that's stayed with me. For so that

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Speaker 2: stayed with me for years.

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Speaker 3: Rage. Yeah, but that was the job interview, and you know,

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Speaker 3: other people got the job and went on to do

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Speaker 3: this and that and whatever.

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Speaker 1: The job over you.

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Speaker 2: I think it was Melinda Rutter.

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Speaker 3: Blonde, gorgeous, and she's a very funny, feisty, nice person.

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Speaker 3: So I've got a lot of time for her. So

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Speaker 3: it wasn't that she wasn't a great person. But I

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Speaker 3: after that, I thought, I don't think I can keep

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Speaker 3: working on this.

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Speaker 1: So you showed him Manny's little dog too, and

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Speaker 2: That big slathering dog too,