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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest as the host of the Chase. But

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Speaker 2: do you know that is also a brilliant singer and

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Speaker 2: a stage performer.

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Speaker 1: There's during the country at.

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Speaker 2: The moment doing a show in homage to his uncle

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Speaker 2: Johnny O'keefere's Johnny o'keef.

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Speaker 1: J there and you o'keef. Hello, Amanda, Hello, and hello Jameesy.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you were just complimenting on my pronunciations on the chase,

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Speaker 3: but homage, it's really something homage, homage in homage.

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Speaker 2: I was commenting on the skill you have on the

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Speaker 2: chase that you have to ask a lot of questions.

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Speaker 2: If you hear our early morning quiz magnificent seven, we're hopeless.

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Speaker 2: But what you're doing is your You ask questions that

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Speaker 2: have money attached to them and there's a time limit.

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Speaker 1: There's a skill to that.

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Speaker 3: The real skill is not is not stopping to laugh

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Speaker 3: when people give us absurd answer.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the real try to hold it in.

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Speaker 3: We had one the other day it was like although

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Speaker 3: the very first episode we have a film. The thing

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Speaker 3: was the academ fomo stands for fear of missing what

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Speaker 3: and the guy goes octovoys.

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Speaker 1: Excuse you must love that Octipus, dude. Maybe he's Greek,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's green the Optimus. One of my favorite ones

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Speaker 1: was the Statue of the Veaders Tomlow.

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Speaker 3: He's famously missing what appendage and he goes penis.

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Speaker 1: It is a woman, so strictly specually doesn't have one,

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Speaker 1: but I was missing.

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Speaker 4: These are enlightened times. Johnny o'keeth, your uncle, how well

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Speaker 4: did you know him?

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Speaker 1: Were you?

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Speaker 4: Because he died in nineteen seventy eight, eight years old.

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Speaker 3: I knew very well because that dad and Dad was

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Speaker 3: Johnny's older brother, and so Dad and Johnny and their

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Speaker 3: sister Anne were really close.

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Speaker 1: They were one of those really close sort of you know,

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Speaker 1: pre World War two Catholic families.

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Speaker 3: And there were there were two types of Conservatives in

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Speaker 3: Sydney at that time, and one was the Catholic Conservative.

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Speaker 3: And they had a lot to prove because you know

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Speaker 3: that in those days, people you know, who would believe.

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Speaker 3: In those days, people would use religion as a means

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Speaker 3: of dividing each other and creating prejudice.

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Speaker 2: And luckily we never see that today.

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Speaker 1: It's thank God's never see that.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the case felt very put upon and say,

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Speaker 3: you know, they really bound together. And so you know

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Speaker 3: all the Christmas birthdays, you know, Easter, Michaelmas, you know,

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Speaker 3: Sir Patrick's day, all of them were together. And I

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Speaker 3: knew Uncle John very well and loved him immensely because

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Speaker 3: he was a great fella. Always had what a great

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Speaker 3: unchiek He smile on his face and always had something

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Speaker 3: up his sleeve.

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Speaker 2: Was he a wild guy?

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Speaker 1: He was a wild guy.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean when I knew him, he was yeah,

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Speaker 3: what I say, towards the end of his life.

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Speaker 1: He died at forty three, you know, but but he

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Speaker 1: was he.

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Speaker 3: Was less, He was less crazed, I guess, less mannic

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Speaker 3: than he was when he first started having hits at

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Speaker 3: the age of twenty one. But still, I mean, you

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Speaker 3: go to his house and you know when Dad would

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Speaker 3: come home twice a year in our place. He put

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Speaker 3: you in the car and drive to Grammar, you know,

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Speaker 3: to Ghara and Pop's places. That's my grandmother. And and

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Speaker 3: you know we turn up to Gilbert and Sullivan to

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Speaker 3: eleven and he passed the cigar around.

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Speaker 1: The back to all the kids. Have a little puff,

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Speaker 1: a little bit naughty. But you go to Michael John's place.

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Speaker 3: He throw you in the back of a Pontiac firebird

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Speaker 3: and is wound the back streets of Double Bay trying

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Speaker 3: to get air off the dips like stars. You know, look,

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Speaker 3: I didn't think of he was the wi one as

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Speaker 3: a big star. I just thought he was Likeae John's bean.

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Speaker 1: But you were getting fetter cigar as a kid by you,

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 3: I got an indelible memory of my little sister Sophie

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Speaker 3: at the age of three, puffing on a Cuban.

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Speaker 1: Cigar.

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Speaker 4: I should we had a neighbor. It's funny saying that

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Speaker 4: who used to hand out? But remember the old hand.

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Speaker 1: Drag to the kid.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so you'd be a kid about eight or

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Speaker 4: nine ago here, may have a go on this. I

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Speaker 4: think they call them my pedophile Yeah, but what do

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Speaker 4: they work up with the tobacco loggie?

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Speaker 1: There was Philip Rothman. You can get onto this. I

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Speaker 1: have a drag of that.

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Speaker 2: Well, in case you're not familiar with all the songs.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we can't go through all of them, but

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Speaker 2: there's but I sort of go, wow, you had a

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Speaker 2: little of an amazing amazing.

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Speaker 4: We had this one?

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Speaker 1: What about this one?

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Speaker 5: And what I mean say come on, and that's the

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Speaker 5: first tea he pops.

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Speaker 1: That was Australia's first.

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Speaker 3: Charting rock and roll song. So, but this is the

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Speaker 3: thing that I kind of never knew about uncle when

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Speaker 3: I was growing up. I knew he was a star

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Speaker 3: because he'd always told you when he walked through the door,

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Speaker 3: but I didn't know what he was to Australian music.

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Speaker 3: There was no Australian music it pop sense. Before Uncle John,

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Speaker 3: no one had ever recorded, No Australian had ever recorded

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Speaker 3: by Dame Nelly Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: Australian popular music really not even a seekers. No, no

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Speaker 1: this way before the seekers.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the first rock and roll song in the world,

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Speaker 3: the first acknowledged rock and roll song in the world

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Speaker 3: was Bill Haley's Rock around the cock YEP.

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Speaker 1: That's nineteen fifty six.

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Speaker 3: Elvist releases Hartback Hotel fifty seven and Johnny releases the While.

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Speaker 1: One in fifty eight.

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Speaker 3: And so the thing I'd understand he was incredible song

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Speaker 3: smith and it's a taina and everyone knows that about him.

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Speaker 3: He had twenty four top forty hits, he had fourteen

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Speaker 3: top tens, he had six number ones, you know, just huge,

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Speaker 3: hem packed out stagies all over the country. But what

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that that movement of rock and roll

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Speaker 3: had just changed Australia as a culture. You know, the

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Speaker 3: week beforehand, you were dancing with your darlings to the

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Speaker 3: Tennessee walls with a policeman overlooking you and making sure

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Speaker 3: you didn't touch each other too much. And you know,

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Speaker 3: when the wh ones released, suddenly people are sweating and

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Speaker 3: grinding and.

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Speaker 2: Humping microphones and the advent of the teenager began.

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Speaker 3: There was no such because a teenager, you're absolutely right

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Speaker 3: before that.

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Speaker 1: You're either a kid or an adult. You know, that's it.

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Speaker 1: And so it was. I'm not saying he alone. It

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Speaker 1: was a cold face. He was right there.

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Speaker 4: He was like the Pohart. He was the poe Hart

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Speaker 4: that went on. And you're doing it and you can

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Speaker 4: do it. You can see you're doing the whole thing

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Speaker 4: because you're great.

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Speaker 1: Well, oh thanks mate, you are.

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Speaker 4: Jesus Christ the musical.

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Speaker 1: You had got on my side? Then, yeah, but you

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Speaker 1: played what did you play? HEROD? And you were fine?

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Speaker 1: I didn't have got on. I try to kill the

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Speaker 1: other guard.

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Speaker 4: Did you ever see Andrew o'keith as HEROLD the game

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Speaker 4: show host in the modern idea.

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Speaker 1: It was amazing, absolutely the gay and game show host that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, look look it's a beautiful it's a beautiful

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Speaker 1: shade we've got. People have been.

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Speaker 3: Loving it and it's at the State Theater, so good

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Speaker 3: and Newcastle Friday night as well.

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Speaker 1: That should be a good show.

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Speaker 3: It's really it tells the tale of my uncle and

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Speaker 3: from my perspective, using his songs to really say a

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Speaker 3: lot about who he was, what he thought, what he did.

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Speaker 4: Get your tickets from ticketmaster dot com. Will you be

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Speaker 4: handing out hand drags to the kids in the crawd.

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Speaker 3: You bet you well, snow he's the first five children.

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Speaker 1: Still parenting. That's not what we want. It's bonding the

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Speaker 1: snowflakes these days.

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Speaker 5: Jones and Amanda in the Morning