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Speaker 1: Bob has a lot of stuff ended up on the

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Speaker 1: cutting room floor today and this one certainly piqued my interest.

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Speaker 1: A male job application returned to a woman after nearly

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Speaker 1: fifty years.

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Speaker 2: This story is quite extraordinary. She spoke to the BBC

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Speaker 2: about it. She's a British woman and she applied for

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Speaker 2: a job as a motorcycle stunt rider fifty years ago.

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Speaker 2: You know what shocks me is when you hear fifty

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Speaker 2: years ago. I think nineteen forty. She sent off this

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Speaker 2: application in nineteen seventy six. I know anyway. It was

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Speaker 2: her dream job as a motorcycle stunt rider. She said,

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Speaker 2: I wondered why I never heard back. Now I know why,

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Speaker 2: And she said it's really weird. She's moved house about

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Speaker 2: fifty times, she's moved countries four or five times, and

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Speaker 2: it found her. But she said, I remember sitting in

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Speaker 2: my flat in London typing the letter every day. I

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Speaker 2: looked for my for the post, but there was nothing

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Speaker 2: there and I was disappointed. She said, I really want

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Speaker 2: to be a stunt rider on a motorcycle.

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Speaker 3: What did the letter actually say? Do we know?

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Speaker 2: There was a job application and she recently received it

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Speaker 2: with a note saying late delivery by the Staines Post

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Speaker 2: Office found behind a draw fifty years late.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wonder what they said, whether she got

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Speaker 3: the job or not.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that they even found it because they found.

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Speaker 3: Her life, so it never made it.

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Speaker 2: It never made it, she said. This didn't stop her

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Speaker 2: from pursuing her dare devil instinct. She went on to

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Speaker 2: perform jobs that included being a snake handler, an aerobatic pilot,

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Speaker 2: and a flying instructor.

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Speaker 3: Right, because that is curious, that's whole sliding doors life.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if indeed that letter had got through Angie indeed

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Speaker 1: had got the job, she could have been lining up

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Speaker 1: to jump sixteen buses or something.

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Speaker 2: She could have been Edna Knievel.

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Speaker 3: Edna Knievel and have a swave of broken bones.

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Speaker 2: You never know. But this is classical, classic kind of

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Speaker 2: job applications where you send it off and people don't

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Speaker 2: even bother getting back to you anymore.

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Speaker 3: About a TV are the worst offenders of this?

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Speaker 1: You name a TV show I have auditioned or I

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Speaker 1: don't audition. They screen test, they go, hey, come and

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Speaker 1: do this, and in the end they want Grant Daniel

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Speaker 1: or Oshiginsburg.

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Speaker 2: I'm still waiting for a callback from Simon Townsen's Wonderworld,

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Speaker 2: where I'd been there as a researcher, and then a

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Speaker 2: reporter left and he said, oh, do you want to

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Speaker 2: do it? And I said yes, and I haven't heard

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Speaker 2: back since that was in nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I remember a show called Mondo Thingo many years ago, hosted.

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Speaker 3: By that Loveli a man to kill the ABC. Whatever

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Speaker 3: happened to her, I.

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Speaker 1: Wonder anyway, they approached me and said, would you like

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Speaker 1: to be Amanda's co host on this show?

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Speaker 2: I put your name for it.

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Speaker 3: You did, indeed, and you ended up going with Steve

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Speaker 3: Kane Steve Cannet. He looks like you, but worked at

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Speaker 3: the ABC.

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Speaker 1: I remember seeing being at the audition the screen test,

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Speaker 1: and we'd great chemistry.

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Speaker 2: We knew each other, so we chatted, just friendly ish.

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Speaker 1: And then I was looking up at the monitor and

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Speaker 1: they ran Steve's tape and I.

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Speaker 3: Went and I thought it was me.

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Speaker 1: For a second, I thought I was looking at myself

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Speaker 1: and the monitor, and then I realized it wasn't me.

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Speaker 3: I said, who's that and they said, I'm Steve Kanay.

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Speaker 3: I said he he looks like me, looks like.

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Speaker 2: You, but had a lot of ABC things to say.

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Speaker 2: He's now a US an overseas correspondent, an incredible journalist

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Speaker 2: and me and you were there too, and.

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Speaker 1: I said to them, I said to them, I said,

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Speaker 1: well he works at the ABC already and yes, and

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Speaker 1: I said, well, why don't you just give him the job?

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Speaker 2: Well, no, I wanted you to come in and you know,

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Speaker 2: have a go. And how did you go?

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Speaker 1: Well, I didn't hear back. So what would happen is

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Speaker 1: I would ring the lady Cath I think her name was.

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Speaker 1: I'd ring her and I say, how are we going

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Speaker 1: with the mondo thing?

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Speaker 3: I think?

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Speaker 1: And she said, oh, look, I can't tell you. And

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Speaker 1: I said, so it's a no, oh no, no, it's

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Speaker 1: it's still a maybe. And I'm okay, so I'll come in.

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Speaker 1: Then I said yes, oh no. And this went on

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Speaker 1: for some time and the show acts, and then I

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Speaker 1: ring her from time to time to take caf still

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Speaker 1: it's jonesy, Yeah, how are we going with mondo thinger? Well,

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Speaker 1: so I'll come in, you know, I'll come and work.

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Speaker 2: Look, the show was asked maybe twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years ago do you think you still might be

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Speaker 2: in with a chance.

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Speaker 3: I could be into a chance. Maybe you never know.

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Speaker 3: With that nice lady from the television, she liked you.

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Speaker 3: Of the kids that sit for today, come back tomorrow

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Speaker 3: for more.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's cutting room flo