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Speaker 1: Scott KHNT is joining us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, they're good morning.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we all grew up with Countdown. Obviously, we

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Speaker 1: all watched What was it Like to be you? The

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Speaker 1: first time you actually go on Countdown well.

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Speaker 2: You know, weeks prior, sitting sitting around the TV with

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Speaker 2: the family of whatnot watching it. You know, I'm still

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Speaker 2: but it was, yeah, definitely exceeding my expectations of getting

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Speaker 2: on there and doing the show, and and it really

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Speaker 2: springboarded our careers and everyone else's careers too. And if

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Speaker 2: you've got on Countdown, you're you're pretty much had a

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Speaker 2: really good go of it. Yeah, you know, we like suddenly,

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Speaker 2: you know, you're a household name literally, you know, which

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Speaker 2: was great, and you know, and we were kids the

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Speaker 2: kitchen were quite fortunate to have been on a numerous

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Speaker 2: signs and then compared.

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Speaker 3: It twice and.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it was just it was just a really

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Speaker 2: great platform for for artists to well you know pop

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Speaker 2: pop culture too. You know, it was you know a

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Speaker 2: lot of people found their voice, you know, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, acts like you know, Culture Club and those

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Speaker 2: you know, crossover acts were kind of helped kids come

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Speaker 2: out and and and allowed them to you know, express

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Speaker 2: themselves without being ostracized, you know, so it was definitely

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Speaker 2: a turning point in you know, and the eighties too,

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Speaker 2: the up he was born, it was just for us

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Speaker 2: capped down. I watched it through to seventies, but the eighties,

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Speaker 2: eighties was just eighties was where where it really kicked off.

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Speaker 4: I would say, Scott, you can't underestimate that Milly Meldron,

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Speaker 4: the impact he had on all of you guys, and

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Speaker 4: and international acts as well. But he was a music

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Speaker 4: fan at the base of it all, wasn't he?

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Speaker 2: And that's right. And then there was people across the world,

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Speaker 2: you know, Madonna and the likes would would not take

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Speaker 2: interviews by any any any press press figureheads except Mollie

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Speaker 2: Maldin because they felt comfortable and he was, you know,

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Speaker 2: he was he's a fan thing, so you know, he's

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Speaker 2: a fan of music, you know. Yeah, he didn't kind

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Speaker 2: of give out confrontational questions about their private life and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: He's there for the music one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: You know, it was a big album, Shine, It had

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Speaker 1: five top ten singles. Did you have any inkling before

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Speaker 1: you released it that it was going to be that big?

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Speaker 2: No idea, No, idea. I mean, look, you know, we

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Speaker 2: were kids, get to rehearse once a week for a year,

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Speaker 2: and we got to the point where we go, oh,

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Speaker 2: we've got you know, ten twenty songs. Let's do a gig,

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Speaker 2: and we put on a gig for friends. They came down,

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Speaker 2: they all danced and thought this was good. And then

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Speaker 2: we did it again the second time, and then I

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Speaker 2: got a gig, another gig, and then it was right

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Speaker 2: time the right place too, because you know, Real Life

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Speaker 2: just kicked off with their song Semi an Angel, and

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Speaker 2: suddenly and it was you know that went on Countdown

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Speaker 2: and you know, and the video is great and all

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Speaker 2: the rest, and suddenly they were looking for the you know,

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Speaker 2: the Real Life, so you know it was it was

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Speaker 2: the new romantic phases of the eighties. I guess we

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Speaker 2: fit the bill. But you know, once again, Countdown Champion

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Speaker 2: all that stuff and broke those guys, which you know,

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Speaker 2: which in turn broke us all. So which is.

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Speaker 4: Great, changing mood. How about changing life? I mean that

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Speaker 4: was the first of the four top twenty singles out

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Speaker 4: of those five off the album. Did it really change

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Speaker 4: your life all of a sudden? Household name or you

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Speaker 4: walking down the street. You can get called out too

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Speaker 4: and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's like that. Yeah I did. I had,

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Speaker 2: you know, it was that thing. I could walk down

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Speaker 2: the street it so much. And you know there was

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Speaker 2: skills camped outside the front of my apartment. Yeah, sorry

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Speaker 2: about and that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Charged sure.

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Speaker 2: Now you're talking to one of them.

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Speaker 4: She's over there.

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Speaker 2: A little great someone could put on a bus occasion.

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Speaker 3: For yeah, instead of just sitting there.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we love to know. Do you do you remember

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Speaker 1: the first time you heard yourself on the radio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was Yeah, I was with three

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Speaker 2: x Y and Melbourne, which this is before before you know,

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Speaker 2: the FM started up. You know. Yeah there's a m

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Speaker 2: you know, mono and uh yeah, and it was on

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Speaker 2: the radio and yeah, it was a great moment, you know.

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Speaker 2: And I was in my little bank. I was in

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Speaker 2: my my my Vanguard Space Master Deluxe, which was a

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Speaker 2: five dollar car car that dad bought me. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: really showing it out now. Yeah, and and and then

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Speaker 2: again once again, you know, weeks later literally countdown bang,

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Speaker 2: next level bomb. You know, so this show we're doing

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Speaker 2: this show, we did an absolute laugh. It's got if

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Speaker 2: I'm going to plug it then this week. This week

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Speaker 2: it starts a countdown and to hold a special place

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Speaker 2: in her heart's got it's got Brian Manx, Canny and Wilbill.

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Speaker 3: Wild and from the Bob Starkey from Skyhooks, and it's

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Speaker 3: got a lot of wow fact that we do.

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Speaker 2: We do our songs of course, and then a couple

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Speaker 2: of our songs each. We did lots of med Leaf Brian,

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Speaker 2: that's a ripper impersonation of Molly, all with love and

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Speaker 2: you know when we did big finales and stuff. You know,

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Speaker 2: we all sing together, lots of video. It's a MutS show.

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Speaker 2: We're really proud of the work behind it, all of us.

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Speaker 2: And and as I said once again, it counteroun holds

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Speaker 2: a special place in my heart. So a lot of

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Speaker 2: lot of love, tongue in cheek, you know, and the music,

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Speaker 2: costume changes and whatnot, so you know, it definitely takes

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Speaker 2: the there's a lot a lot of puffing and panting backstage,

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Speaker 2: getting back on and off stage.

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Speaker 1: So you know, likero, It's Saturday at the Asta. Tickets

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Speaker 1: are available through Ticke Tech. Look forward to seeing you there, Scott.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, and thanks to support guys and I

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Speaker 2: love your radio stations, so yeah, I had to see

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Speaker 2: you at the

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Speaker 4: Gig pleasure all the best, thank you Bye,