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Speaker 2: Forty years ago, Bob Geldoff hit the stage for one

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Speaker 2: of the largest live shows the world ever seen, and

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Speaker 2: his empathetic heart changed the world. He's coming down under

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Speaker 2: to share stories from his extraordinary life through an evening

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Speaker 2: with Bob Geldoff. We've managed to catch him in the morning.

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Speaker 3: So Bob, hello, here he is. That's pretty extraordinary to

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Speaker 3: custom in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Doing well.

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Speaker 4: Quincy Jones passed away yesterday and the story I was

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Speaker 4: just watching the greatest night in pop history and you

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Speaker 4: when Quincy introduced you to explain to all those artists

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Speaker 4: that must have been so surreal. Michael Jackson, Huey Lewis,

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Speaker 4: you had to get their attention.

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Speaker 3: Well to do the song.

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Speaker 1: I mean they were the least intimidating. Let's go through

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Speaker 1: the list, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, got some, Paul Simon,

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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: So I'm this dufus from Ireland who's pitched up because

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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, Lionel Ritchie and Harry Belafonte asked me to

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Speaker 1: come because we'd done band aid, and this was going

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Speaker 1: to be the American version. And it's one thing being

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Speaker 1: It's another walking into a room which is your entire culture,

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Speaker 1: our entire culture, in front of you. And Quincy was

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Speaker 1: sort of like the headmaster. Everyone did what Quincy said,

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Speaker 1: because he was clearly a genius anyway. But he stood

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Speaker 1: like like a schoolmaster, and he banged his bathtongue like

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Speaker 1: he's conductor, everyone, please pay attention. Come on, And they're

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Speaker 1: standing there on these steps like school choir. You have

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Speaker 1: this masked talent. And he says, right, everybody, pay attention,

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Speaker 1: Dylan please. So he's doing this and he says, right,

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Speaker 3: Know Bob Geldoff.

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Speaker 1: No nobody you Bob Geldoff. So like Bob's here to

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Speaker 1: tell you what it's all about.

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Speaker 3: Why we're here, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: So I had to kind of go into my thing,

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Speaker 1: and it was daunting. I haven't seen that film because

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Speaker 1: I don't like watching sort of anything, but.

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Speaker 4: Well, you convinced them. You've got two minutes, and you

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Speaker 4: convinced them they were.

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Speaker 1: On a high because they'd come out of very very cleverly.

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Speaker 1: You know, they'd arranged it around the American Music Awards,

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Speaker 1: so they were all going to be there. And after

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Speaker 1: these shows, there's not much to do. You have, maybe

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Speaker 1: there's a pre useless party or something. So Quincy and

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Speaker 1: if Quincy summons them, you know, he produced all everything

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Speaker 1: you know that had just come off of Thriller and

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Speaker 1: all those records they'd come and and so that was it.

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Speaker 1: That's how he got them all there, and my job

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Speaker 1: high almost. And I'd just come from Africa. I'd just

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Speaker 1: been trolling through the horror and it was to somehow

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Speaker 1: and to informed, And that's what they were there for,

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Speaker 1: to give meaning to that evening.

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Speaker 2: I love the idea of sliding doors in people's lives.

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Speaker 2: You walk past your television in nineteen eighty four and

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Speaker 2: you see a news story about civil war in Ethiopia

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Speaker 2: and the millions that are dying from starvation. You watching

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Speaker 2: that story being galvanized by it. Changed Africa changed you.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever think of the sliding doors and the

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Speaker 2: what ifs you hadn't What if you hadn't seen that story,

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Speaker 2: so many things would be so different.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't change Africa, but thank you for the suggestion.

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Speaker 1: Certainly what happened was There are and this is weird

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Speaker 1: and it sounds immodest to say it because it's not

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Speaker 1: It's opening in Canada in January. And band Aid get

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you know, he says, I'd just like

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Speaker 1: He had been two in those fields of horror, as

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Speaker 1: were together and they because of that record and that concert,

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Speaker 4: Wow, and with your with your show that you're doing.

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Speaker 4: So this is pretty much it. Do you have a plan,

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Speaker 4: do you get up on stage or look there's so

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Speaker 3: There's so many stories. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, next year, as I said, is full on.

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Speaker 1: It's the Rats fifty and so tours, the big festivals,

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Speaker 1: it's live aid. So the BBC are doing three one

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Speaker 1: but I need to park off. I need to distance

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Speaker 1: myself somewhat, even though it's every single day of the week.

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Speaker 1: So someone suggested, you know, stop telling us the stories

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Speaker 1: I can do that is by playing tunes around the story.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'll play some of the songs you

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Speaker 1: but plus other songs that you know, relate to the

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Speaker 3: I haven't a clue what's going on.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell happened to me, you know,

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Speaker 1: I really don't. So I've called it life WTF.

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Speaker 3: You know, That's what I'm changing it to.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit like your calls on WSF.

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Speaker 4: But it's true your life is and it's almost like

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Speaker 4: look and you should watch that one night in that popcast,

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Speaker 4: I know, but you just watch it and how that

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Speaker 5: How does stuff happen?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's like, sorry, I got to think you're all

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Speaker 5: Would you like to sit from our jib my water bottles?

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Speaker 3: They've got their hydropower tin cans.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's weird. I mean, the weirdest thing I

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Speaker 1: think was things were never great. I was growing up,

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Speaker 3: And arsa.

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Speaker 1: We came in the punk period, the rats we want

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Speaker 1: Millions are raised. I thought we'd get one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: one night Harry Belafonte and Michael Jackson Corby.

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Speaker 3: That's not normal.

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Speaker 1: And Harry Belafonte, for those who don't remember him, was

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Speaker 1: They didn't notice he was black because he was so pretty,

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Speaker 1: like Tally really. And he also took slave songs from

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Speaker 1: the Islands. Come mister Talley Man. You put them number

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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King. When Martin Luther King was a kid,

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Speaker 1: he took Frank Sinatra to the Southern States to say,

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Speaker 3: And Frank wouldn't play anymore if there weren't black people.

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Speaker 1: This guy was a dude. And so when Harry Belafonte

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Speaker 3: I got Mike clear, Hi, Bob, you know. So so Michael.

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Speaker 5: Was there, Harry Bellafante and both on the same fight.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to follow him. I Missy, I'm going.

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Speaker 1: She's sort of jumping up and down, and she says,

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Speaker 1: And then it was logical, you know, put these two

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Speaker 3: And so one thing follows the other.

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Speaker 1: But the biggest what did you call a passing window

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Speaker 3: I talked to my mate, who's here with me? Come back.

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Speaker 1: I was thrown out of Canto. I was an illegal

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Speaker 3: So I went back to Arn.

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Speaker 1: I was going to apply for full citizenship, you know,

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Speaker 1: of that. Then you don't get the band. You don't

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Speaker 1: I woke up this morning again to eleven ten emails

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Speaker 1: we're all stuck with Ukraine and Palestine, but what's going

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Speaker 1: on there is unbelievable. So it's you described it already

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Speaker 1: So bandaid goes on and we do it every day,

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Speaker 1: download it and see it in context. So that's why

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Speaker 4: Well, you're going to take a breather, that's what it is, Bob.

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Speaker 4: We could talk to you all day. I will give

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Speaker 5: Can we do that? Are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm going?

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Speaker 5: You're going? So we're giving I've got our horse for Sabob.

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Speaker 1: What are we going to do?

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Speaker 4: Well it's fifty one dollars and likes Flemington. But I

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Speaker 4: just don't think he's going well enough. This preparation, this.

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Speaker 3: Preparation, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: That's what That's what the saying. That's what the pandas

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Speaker 1: Don't give that horse talking to Okay. So we used

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Speaker 1: to have this Spanish teacher priest, and he'd come in

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Speaker 1: every day to Spanish class and I'd say, Geldof, get

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Speaker 1: He'd say, what me, Carrathon, father? What's wrong with your voice?

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Speaker 1: He goes, why are you saying, Carson? But they say

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Speaker 1: Corrathon and Spain, father, We're not in Spain, Gelda, We're

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Speaker 1: sit down, open your open your copy books. We open

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Speaker 1: our stays, now take it down. The three o'clock at

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Speaker 1: Doncaster looking good, you know, five to one, so on so,

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Speaker 1: and he'd give us tips and on Friday we'd have

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Speaker 1: other thing. So that was the education I received.

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Speaker 3: Card.

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Speaker 5: It's been an education for us.

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Speaker 4: The tickets to see Sir Bob Geldoff go and sale

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Speaker 4: today our Thursday at TEG Dainty dot com.

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Speaker 5: Sir Bob, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys, pleasure