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Speaker 1: This is a podcast about failure with me. Lola Berry, author, nutritionist,

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Speaker 1: and yoga teacher, join me as we get to know

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Speaker 1: these guests and learn about how their failures have ultimately

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Speaker 1: shaped their dreams. Welcome to Fearlessly Failing with Lolaberry. Hello

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Speaker 1: from Byron Bay. Boss and I have just moved to

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay. We're recording this intro on the floor of

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Speaker 1: what will soon be our loundroom. But at the moment

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Speaker 1: all I can see is a sea of boxes and

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Speaker 1: packing staff. But we are so rapped to be here

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Speaker 1: and it is so nice to be coming to you

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Speaker 1: from Byron Bay. Today's guest is our last guest of

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Speaker 1: the year. We will have one EP next Monday, just

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Speaker 1: our Chrissy Roundup, which will just be the Boss and

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Speaker 1: I talking all things Chrissy and Byron life. So today's

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Speaker 1: e f is our last EP of the year and

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Speaker 1: we're going out with a bang.

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Speaker 2: The iconic Dennis Walter.

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Speaker 1: So if you watch Carol's by Candlelight, he has that

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Speaker 1: beautiful baritone voice.

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Speaker 2: If you listen to three at W.

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Speaker 1: He has been on three a W for twenty one

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Speaker 1: years now. Prior to that, he was reading the news

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Speaker 1: for winn for sixteen years. This guy made his break

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Speaker 1: when he was only fifteen years old on Young Talent Time,

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Speaker 1: and he talks about being a shy boy and being

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Speaker 1: really nervous and ignoring that kind of self doubt so

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Speaker 1: that he could chase his dreams. He knew at fifteen

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Speaker 1: that he wanted to talk to radio, TV and C. Also,

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Speaker 1: on top of all this, you will hear how humble

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Speaker 1: and grounded he is. Dennis Walter is an absolute legend.

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Speaker 2: I got starstruck when he jumped on the pod.

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Speaker 1: I was so nervous. Man in Fruit mince Pies is

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Speaker 1: a little thank you Praisy, and I was so inspired

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Speaker 1: and empowered after our chat. He's also got a Christmas

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Speaker 1: single out that is available now called We Need a

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Speaker 1: Little Christmas. And next year he's got a full album

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Speaker 1: coming out called Yesterday Once. I'm pretty sure that drops

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Speaker 1: in April, and it's all sixties and seventies dreams and

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Speaker 1: he does some call collabs as well. My last thing

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Speaker 1: I want to say about Dennis Walter has pop the

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Speaker 1: Carrels on on Christmas Eve and listen to his wonderful

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Speaker 1: spirit and voice. Dennis Walter, it was an honor to

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Speaker 1: have you on the podcast. I cannot wait.

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Speaker 2: Till our paths cross again.

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Speaker 1: I have got to admit I'm a little nervous for

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Speaker 1: the incredible Dennis Walter being on the podcast day. You've

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Speaker 1: been on my dream list for so long since Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So for people listening you are an iconic voice

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Speaker 1: of Australia, I would say definitely.

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Speaker 2: You're probably going to say Melbourne and Victoria.

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Speaker 4: No, that's probably well. I spent so much in my

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Speaker 1: And early on too. I cannot wait to I'm going

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Speaker 1: to you'll learn this. I'm so excited to have you

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Speaker 1: on that. I'm going to be jumping around as you wish.

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Speaker 1: So you're obviously synonymous with three W Afternoon since two

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Speaker 3: Now eleven years yep, now nights Nights.

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Speaker 2: Which I listened to all last week, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And before that Win News.

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Speaker 4: Win News, and I was doing seven days a week

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Speaker 4: for six months of the year because I was doing

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Speaker 4: the win News are during the week, I was doing

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Speaker 4: a spot with Ernie on a Friday Yes, when Ernie

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Speaker 4: Sigley hosted afternoons today w and I was doing weekends.

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Speaker 1: That's where you and I met, Yes, I came one

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Speaker 3: Yes, we did.

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Speaker 1: You And this is why, this is the reason why

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Speaker 1: I really wanted you on the podcast, because every time

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Speaker 1: not just your professionalism, but you have and I would

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Speaker 1: like in Peter Hitchener to having this same.

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Speaker 2: Quality as well.

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Speaker 1: It's like a respect for the industry. Yes, that feels

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Speaker 3: Now, well, it probably is a bit rare.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so much of life and things within the media

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Speaker 4: I ask anyone who's been on one of these reality

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Speaker 1: Totally. But I think this is what I love about

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Speaker 1: everything that I've researched about you, as you're in it

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Speaker 4: Yes, I grew up about twenty five minutes from here

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Speaker 4: you get to a spot where it's very hilly.

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Speaker 3: Four minutes to the right of that.

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Speaker 4: You're absolutely out in the country and it's it was

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Speaker 1: you and I've heard you in an interview say, I

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Speaker 1: think I might have been a mistake because there's eight years.

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Speaker 1: But also you went to a local school and there

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Speaker 1: was is it true there was eighteen kids?

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Speaker 4: I think it was eighteen, it might have been less.

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Speaker 4: But we had one teacher for all the grades.

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Speaker 1: How cool? I like that.

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Speaker 1: And is it true that you had band practice and

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Speaker 4: his dedication to music and to the kids was phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: He rocked that like every Saturday, and if you didn't

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Speaker 3: And really that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Really. Yes, okay, so when you were so, I know

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Speaker 1: Good or multi talented. I'll go with multi challenges amazing. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So and then, so how does young talent time come about?

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Speaker 1: You're fifteen years old. One thing I would do want

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Speaker 1: to say, actually before I ask, that both parents are

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Speaker 1: super creative. Right, Yes, I know dad was a farmer,

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Speaker 3: You have researched this well very well. That's correct.

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Speaker 4: Wanted to be in banking and stuff. And his both

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Speaker 4: his parents died before he was eleven. Yes, I think

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Speaker 1: But he had a bit of a passion for singing

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Speaker 4: so he did. He really wanted to have a singing career.

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Speaker 4: But I mean he had four four children, and I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was the mistake, not at all the miracle.

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Speaker 4: I like the way you can turn. You should be

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Speaker 4: it round for Lola Berry.

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Speaker 1: So, and your mom was quite creative.

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Speaker 4: Mum was a what they used to call a ticket writer,

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Speaker 4: but art wise she was really fantastic, but never did it.

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Speaker 3: We only had one. I had one.

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Speaker 1: got the creative genes within you. How does Young Talent

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Speaker 3: Oh? Just through my drive? Really, I just wanted to.

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Speaker 3: My parents didn't push me.

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Speaker 4: put me through it on AHM, the Honorable Mention, and

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Speaker 4: other option back then was New Faces.

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Speaker 4: New Faces and won the heat and then won the final,

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Speaker 1: Really, and so was Young Talent Time the launching pad

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Speaker 1: in many ways? Yes, because that's where LIBERACEI came along.

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Speaker 4: Is that where that I knew you'd mentioned this? I

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Speaker 4: haven't seen that movie, you know why? Because I was

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Speaker 4: scared I was going to be in it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: went out. Yes, when I started back on Young Talent

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Speaker 4: time after the New Faces with Yes, Yes, that meant

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Speaker 4: I was recording. I was traveling with them, doing tours far,

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Speaker 4: LIBERACEI thing happened when Jamie Redfern.

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Speaker 1: Came home and so basically that meant did that mean

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Speaker 1: like a late night audition, Yes, after he'd performed or

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah at the Green Room Club on Queens Road, Okay,

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Speaker 4: And it was about midnight and I did three songs

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: It was really it was done properly.

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Speaker 1: And then you find yourself in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: That was the concept. I got there and was told

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Speaker 4: within about four days. First of all, he was away

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Speaker 4: I went to her house and her and her boyfriend

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, and you're fifteen sixteen probably.

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Speaker 4: About sixteen by this yeah wow. And their son I

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Speaker 4: remember this clearly. He just sat and watched television all day,

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Speaker 3: It is clear, because I thought, the hell am I

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Speaker 4: Then I got invited across to his manager's sons place, sorry,

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Speaker 4: But they didn't trust Channel nine News. Brian Naylor at

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Speaker 3: Really can you imagine not having electronic?

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Speaker 4: Not so much for regional news, No, really, because we

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Speaker 3: Yes, so I was doing five lots of intros for.

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Speaker 1: Guess, You're always so welcoming, You always knew my name.

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Speaker 1: You were so prepared, thanks, Julie. But also you were

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Speaker 4: If you're a bit of a rough they don't always

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Speaker 3: Got it, So you can sort of work out your

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Speaker 1: Okay, so one more question about news and then I'm

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Speaker 1: So with news, you've and this is where I like

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Speaker 1: and you to Pete Hitchener. The two of you have

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Speaker 1: It's really nice. Like as I was researching you, I

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Speaker 4: In fact, when I was young, I was doing a

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Speaker 3: He was brilliant. Yeah, anyway, sorry, what was the question?

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Speaker 3: My father had a big voice through his classical singing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you've definitely got one, just in case you're one.

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Speaker 2: But it's so, it's just so, it's.

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Speaker 1: You've got the magic quality whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, And Peach and I are very good friends.

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Speaker 1: I used to be his nutritionist for a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: That's like honest truth.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like Pete and I A what you see is

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Speaker 3: Mean, I love that.

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Speaker 1: That's the key, right, Well, I hope.

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Speaker 1: That's that we first met. And I think with three

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one years nine, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Twenty one probably more pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: Quickly about Ernie. Did he because did he kind of

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Speaker 1: Time, really all the time, so serendipitous.

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Speaker 4: Then I started doing Friday lunch with him, Yes, Fred

447
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 4: w and we became closer and closer friends.

448
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: So when I found out you've mentioned him as somebody

449
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: that's kind of been an inspiring figure throughout the years,

450
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 1: I then researched Ernie and then I was going down

451
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole of Ding Dong and Ernie. They looked

452
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: hilarious together, like what a.

453
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 4: Duo well in Melbourne Today, which was their morning show

454
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Speaker 4: I was doing. It was part of what I was

455
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Speaker 4: doing at nine, when I was at that point when

456
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 4: I was doing Keino.

457
00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: Yes, I've seen your Keino. I actually watched the video

458
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Speaker 1: of you do again it says twenty nine and feeling fine.

459
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,159
Speaker 3: Actually there was one other number that got Yeah. We

460
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 3: won't go into the details, but I was a bit naughty.

461
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 1: Were you cheeky?

462
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes? We never got one complaint, not one.

463
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: Really because you didn keep over for ages, didn't you

464
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: fair while?

465
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 3: But three two or three years it.

466
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,439
Speaker 1: Looked like so much fun? And did you have a

467
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: home studio setup for that?

468
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 3: No? I did it in the tiny little studio which

469
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Speaker 3: I think.

470
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 4: Was Graham. It was somebody's converted dressing room. Might have

471
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 4: been graamed really, yeah, but I was in there Channel

472
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 4: nine each afternoon. Somehow it got out how much I

473
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 4: was getting paid to do this very.

474
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 3: Short segment ninety seconds.

475
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 4: Yes, And there was a cartoon in the Herald son

476
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 4: or the Herald which said it was my wife welcoming

477
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 4: me home, saying did you have a hard minute at

478
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 4: the office today?

479
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: It was very clear it looked like so much fun though.

480
00:23:59,000 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 3: It was fun.

481
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I even saw you're a lot of fun

482
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: to research on YouTube because what was that comedy skit

483
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 1: show was at full front fast forward and they did

484
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: a satire review doing Keino and singing a madge. I've

485
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: written it down a song on Young Talent Time, singing

486
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: it whilst calling Keno.

487
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 2: The person that was imitating.

488
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 3: Someone brooks his name, and he did a brilliant job.

489
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 4: And they did the Keno draw where I was just

490
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 4: pulling the balls out of the container the ones I.

491
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: Wanted to pick out and singing impossible dream is that? Yeah?

492
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: So if you ever get bored one afternoon, just a

493
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Speaker 1: YouTube yourself.

494
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Speaker 3: I didn't know.

495
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 4: Anything about that till three weeks ago. Someone rang in

496
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 4: on the radio and said, have you ever seen I said, no,

497
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 4: I've seen it now, so good.

498
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 1: Okay, So radio, you've obviously, like I said, had this

499
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: wonderful career at three at w you've been Yes, it's

500
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 1: talk back, but also like your audience is informed, like

501
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: you're on top of the news, breaking news. Has there

502
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: been any like I don't want to say standout moments

503
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: of like a highlight, but maybe like a big breaking

504
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: news moment. Yes.

505
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,160
Speaker 4: I was on air when we learned that Peter Brock died.

506
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 4: I was on air when we learned of Steve Irwin.

507
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 2: I still remember that exact moment.

508
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 4: I was on air with the christ Church earthquakes. News

509
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 4: was coming through and Kareninch was doing nutrition with me,

510
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 4: and she looked up at the monitor in the studio

511
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 4: and started to shake and almost burst into tears because

512
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 4: her daughter's best friend was seen running in fear of

513
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 4: the earthquake.

514
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 3: So that was just bizarre.

515
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 4: I was also on air when Burke Street happened, and

516
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 4: Dennis Okaine was doing a presser with Robert Doyle because

517
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 4: he was then Lord Mayor, and his voice started changing

518
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 4: and I said, this was a quarter to one, and

519
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 4: I said, you're right, it's something's going on here.

520
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 3: He said.

521
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 4: This helicopter's blow overhead, he said, and then the car

522
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 4: came up Swanston Street and it's that. Then we just

523
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 4: watched her, sorry can watch We realized that something serious

524
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 4: was happening. And then over the next between ten to

525
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 4: one and three o'clock, we had all these people bringing

526
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 4: in saying what they were seeing, and they were locked

527
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 4: in their buildings. They're looking down on what has happened.

528
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 4: We spoke to one fellow rang in. Some listeners got

529
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 4: their kids who were in lockdown to ring into the

530
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 4: station that keep us informed. And one bloke rang and

531
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 4: he said, he said, I'm looking at the front of

532
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 4: the Commodore and there's a baby stroller on it, and

533
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 4: that was horrendous. And I remember just before three we

534
00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 4: spoke to Christine Nixon. She was then not police chief,

535
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: but she'd been standing at the corner of I think

536
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 4: William Street at the lights. Yeah, the Carrot comes behind

537
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 4: her on the footpath.

538
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 2: Oh, I've got goosebumps. This as your retaelling there.

539
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: How do you hold yourself together?

540
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 3: I'm not good at that. I think you are.

541
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 4: I was on there the night of the Eastern Freeway

542
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 4: thing as well as that.

543
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: That was what you're getting calls as.

544
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was I was really confronted by that. So

545
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 4: that really difficult.

546
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: And did something overcome you where You're like, this job

547
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: right now is bigger than me, and I'm here to

548
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 1: almost like hold the space and facilitate whatever in order

549
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: to keep the audience informed.

550
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 4: You just you've got to keep them informed. But I

551
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 4: wear my heart on my sleeve, so I'm prone.

552
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 2: To I have seen this.

553
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: I have seen her. I don't think this is a

554
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: bad thing. I've seen her. I love Christmas and so

555
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: I've watched many videos of you at the Carrot. It's

556
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: actually you're part of my Christmas absolutely, and unashamedly, might

557
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: I say, but you're part of my Christmas tradition at

558
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 1: one thousand percent my In fact, we're in my dad's

559
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: holiday home recording this right now. And he called me

560
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: and he said, what dave you got Dennis Walter coming in?

561
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: I said Monday, And he said, please promise me you

562
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: clean that house.

563
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 3: He said he everything's fine.

564
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 1: Yes, actually said I'm going to ask for a shout

565
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: out for NOL.

566
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 3: So, hello, Nol.

567
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 2: He's going to love very Christmas.

568
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 3: So give me the keys to your holiday. It's nice.

569
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: So's you've made You will have made his Christmas just

570
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: by saying that. But I was watching on YouTube. You

571
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: were it was actually I think last year's Carol's by Candlelight,

572
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: and you said, this is nearly my fiftieth, and you

573
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: got choked up, and I got choked up watching it.

574
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 4: We can't actually work out how many it is because

575
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 4: I did them for Channel Oh.

576
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,959
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, oh yeah, when was Channel oh?

577
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: Like yes, so we can't.

578
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 4: I don't know how many I've done for Channel Oh,

579
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 4: but I know that when Channel nine took it over,

580
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 4: I've done.

581
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 3: Every year bar one, so.

582
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 4: It's it's probably it's not fifty it's probably getting closer

583
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 4: to forty pretty impressive, but it's definitely about thirty five.

584
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, but every time

585
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: that I'd come on and do a sing with you,

586
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: I was like, if you picked your song yet, that's right,

587
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: and you go, what give me your request?

588
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 3: Lol?

589
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, first, Noel, because my dad's name

590
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: is Noel's felt the same way, and so that's kind

591
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: of our Christmas tree every year is just Noel baubles

592
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: because it's like an ode to my dad and we

593
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: And you said, you know what you should do? You

594
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: should come to the dress rehearsal.

595
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 3: Yes, because I was.

596
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: I always put Christmas on at my house so often

597
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve is spent prepping food with the carols on

598
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: in the background.

599
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 2: And you said, come to the dress rehearsal. It's like donation.

600
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,920
Speaker 1: It's the night. It's the twenty third. So I rocked

601
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: up to the dress rehersal my brother and my dad.

602
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: You jump on stage and you're like, this one's for

603
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: La La Berry.

604
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: Do you I did?

605
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 3: Do that?

606
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: You did?

607
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 3: I did?

608
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: And I updated my Facebook status to year made Dennis

609
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: Walter just dedicated this song, So you b got me

610
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,239
Speaker 1: so much joy, and I've never got to thank you

611
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: for that, So this is my moment say thank you

612
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: so much.

613
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 2: And my dad was nudging me, going.

614
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: Did you just see that? I said, yes, Dad, let's

615
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: just soak it up.

616
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 2: But there's something really magical.

617
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: On a more serious note about the carols and you

618
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: you bring so much heart, and please keep doing them

619
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: forever and ever and ever.

620
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be doing them as long as they as

621
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Speaker 3: long as the phone rings.

622
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: Has it rung for this year as hasn't it? Are

623
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: you allowed to reveal what you're going to see?

624
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 4: Yes, I've got a new single out, Christmas single which

625
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 4: came out out of nowhere, as did the recording deal

626
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 4: with Sony, which is just a story in itself. But

627
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 4: one of the execs rang me about seven weeks ago

628
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 4: and said, look, we need a little Christmas and he

629
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 4: said that's the song. He said, but we need to

630
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 4: do it not on Papa like it was in main

631
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 4: the musical. H we need to do a modern version

632
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 4: of it.

633
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. I listened to it yesterday. Yeah, and the

634
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: lovely girl there, oh her voice.

635
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: And it's just gorgeous. Michael Christiana did the arrangement.

636
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: He's done a lot of the I also stalked him

637
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: on instag Yes.

638
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 4: A bit of se He's done a lot of seekers work.

639
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 4: He's brilliant and it's come up a treat and it's

640
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 4: just the right message.

641
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,719
Speaker 1: You've got some favorites of I've got some favorites that

642
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: you always do though, because of your so for people listening.

643
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: If you have been living under a rock and you

644
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: haven't heard Dennis Walter at Christmas, you see it's baritone,

645
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: right based, baritone, super deep, beautiful, which was why you

646
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: were so did so well with young pound time. You're

647
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: this like skinny, little fifteen year old with this really

648
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: boomer of a voice.

649
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: Right yeah, yeah, and brendous.

650
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 1: And did I hear an interview that you weren't so

651
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: prone to dancing?

652
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I am the crappiest dancer in the world.

653
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 3: Me too.

654
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: Don't worry.

655
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 3: No, I'm worse than you.

656
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: I don't know.

657
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: I would think though, because you're a singer, you'd understand

658
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: beat tune. You'd be way better than me.

659
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: I understand. It doesn't mean the body does if it makes.

660
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: You feel any better.

661
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: I auditioned to go to drama school and I didn't

662
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: get a high enough ter score ter score to get

663
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: into the Monash Performing Art score. I was like, I'll

664
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: just audition with musical theater and get in that way.

665
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: I sung, Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes

666
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: Benz a cappella? And they said stopped me halfway through

667
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: and said, hmm, we think you may have a pitching problem.

668
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:50,959
Speaker 1: Oh so if I can't sing or dance.

669
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 2: But I did.

670
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: I still got into the course, thank goodness, but not

671
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: the musical theater. The acting one. Thank you lucky is

672
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at because the the bits no good.

673
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 3: Well it makes me feel better about myself. Good good.

674
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: Okay, So you so does that mean that the carols

675
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: you're going to be singing your new song?

676
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 4: Yes, So we're trying to work out how because we

677
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 4: don't know if Christmas can journey to Melbourne because she's

678
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: in Brisbane. Okay, hopefully she can, and but they've got

679
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 4: other ways.

680
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: Great of course, because there will be no audience this year.

681
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 2: That's right.

682
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 3: That will be bizarre.

683
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: It will be, but how amazing because I think people

684
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: are going to need carols more than ever. That's what

685
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,959
Speaker 1: I had to go ahead, absolutely.

686
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 2: And so many people.

687
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what the viewership is, but so many

688
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: people that will be part of their Christmas, Like it's

689
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: my Christmas Eve ritual.

690
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 3: It's not just Australia, it goes internationally.

691
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

692
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: So are you singing any other carols at this point?

693
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 4: I'm not sure they might need it having to do

694
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 4: it all different. Yeah, we usually do two songs.

695
00:33:58,880 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.

696
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to it. I also love your

697
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: rendition of Amazing Grace, which I know is is that Christmas?

698
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,399
Speaker 2: It is kind of Christmasy, but it's not really, is it.

699
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 3: No, it's just it's the right sort of message.

700
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah.

701
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, my father did that with me carols.

702
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: I've seen a photo of it. Is it stand? Yeah,

703
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: I've seen a photo of you too.

704
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 4: He was almost eighty at that point, and Remy Martin

705
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 4: Brandy got him on stage because he was so nervous.

706
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 3: He'd never been in front of him.

707
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 2: It's a huge audience, orchestra.

708
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 3: And chorus and this massive candles out front. Was he

709
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 3: was a big thing.

710
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 4: Oh, he's great. And then we reprieved it about six

711
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 4: or seven years ago when my niece Julie came on.

712
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 4: We did amazing grace.

713
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: Ah, I love this. Okay, So I've got to ask

714
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: this question. You're probably gonna laugh when I ask it.

715
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 3: You want to be on carols and do it?

716
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 2: Like I said, I have a pitching problem.

717
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm happy to I'm happy to just be a humble

718
00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: consumer of the carols.

719
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 2: Every do you get nervous? Is my question?

720
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 4: I get more excited. I just I love doing it,

721
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 4: and we're usually most of us are struggling to make

722
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 4: sure we've got the lyrics right.

723
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 2: Really, there's no autok there is.

724
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 3: There is for the host, but not for us.

725
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, so you've just got to wing it. Well,

726
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: you've got to know it. How much notice? Do you

727
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: get to learn the songs?

728
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 3: Quite a few weeks usually.

729
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: So they will probably give you If you end up

730
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: doing a second song, you'll get that at least it'll be.

731
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 3: A Carol and I'll probably know it.

732
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: Vaguely great, and you do only do the Jill. I

733
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm presuming the geelong Carols won't. Will

734
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: they still happen this year?

735
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: But you usually do.

736
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 4: I was going to try and do them virtually, yeah,

737
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 4: But the more I thought about it, the more I thought,

738
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 4: hang on, do you really want to be sitting around

739
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 4: a laptop as a family. I'm just not sure that's

740
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 4: the I'm doing a couple of them in other areas,

741
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 4: but I just wasn't sure whether it was. The whole

742
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 4: idea of Carol's My Candlelight is that, yes, you watch

743
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 4: it as a television event when it's done to the

744
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 4: level and channel nine.

745
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 3: I don't know whether you want to zoom it.

746
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I understand that.

747
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: I totally because it's about connection, right and connection.

748
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: The family is gathering on the lawn in front of you.

749
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 2: Totally. No, I totally hear that.

750
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: I just guess I'm looking for any excuse to soak

751
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: up Carol's and Dennis.

752
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 4: It's the most beautiful setting I've got for Geelong Carroll

753
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 4: because we put the stage backing onto corri Obey and

754
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 4: the people sit up in the natural amphitheater at Eastent Beach.

755
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 3: It's gorgeous.

756
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been asked this a million times before.

757
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Carol?

758
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 3: Again? I know? First Noel, Oh No, I'm serious.

759
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: Really, Oh, daddy is going to be wrapped? I meant

760
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,959
Speaker 1: that now, Okay, you've got an order of Australia about

761
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: five years ago. How did that happen and how does

762
00:36:59,480 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: it happen?

763
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 4: I got it for services across all media and performing arts. Yeah,

764
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 4: performing arts, but you don't if that was what you mean.

765
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,280
Speaker 4: It's great that I've been able to have some success

766
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 4: across different areas. But I really think that when people

767
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 4: nominate you, they have a really good look at you.

768
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: And I think it's a lot to do with how

769
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 4: much input you have into the community.

770
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: And you, my friend, have a lot almost I don't

771
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: know how you have the hours in the day that

772
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: to that level.

773
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 3: I possibly say yes to too many things.

774
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: I'm probably lucky about that because you're doing this podcast.

775
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 3: The Yeah, I'm involved with quite a lot.

776
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: And I've seen Salvos as well.

777
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 3: You do, I do.

778
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: I used to live in Sydney and so every Christmas

779
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: I do the Selbos and either my mum or dad

780
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: did fly up and we do the Salvos together on

781
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. It's the best in environment.

782
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 4: Well, I'm hoping we're going to be able to do

783
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 4: my final show on aw this year from the Citadel

784
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 4: up the top of Burk Street.

785
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: You've got to do it.

786
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 3: And we've done we're not doing afternoons.

787
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 4: We've done it from there the last two or three years.

788
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 3: Oh perfect, And you get all people.

789
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 4: In, some of them who don't have connection with family.

790
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 4: We give them Christmas Lunch.

791
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.

792
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: And one thing I learned about getting involved with the

793
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: Salvos and working at the Christmas Day lunch is although

794
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: Christmas is such a wonderful time for family and connection,

795
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: it can also be confronting for a lot of people

796
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: as well. And so it's so important, makes the carols

797
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: so important, it makes all these things that we can

798
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: do for the community so important, don't you.

799
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 4: Think because some of those some of the people find

800
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 4: Christmas extremely stressful. Yeah, because if you're in a situation

801
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 4: in life you actually don't have family or friends and

802
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 4: they for from the middle of November, keep hearing Christmas.

803
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 3: It's great, it's fantastic. Well now it's not not for some.

804
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 3: Not for some.

805
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: And that's I reckon as well, because I'm thirty five

806
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: now and I probably have my first Selvo's Christmas, like

807
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: voluntary at selo Is Christmas when I was thirty, And

808
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: I think until you're thirty, you kind of think you're invincible,

809
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: and you think you're a bit immortal and you're like

810
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 1: everything's peaches. And I remember that moment. I was like, oh, wow,

811
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: I've had a very blessed life, Like how lucky that

812
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: I've been able to enjoy all my Christmases. And that's

813
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: why I think, Yeah, I don't know, we're very very lucky.

814
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 2: And in Australia we're very, very very lucky.

815
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, right through this whole COVID thing.

816
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 4: When you look around the world, Oh yeah, it's to

817
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 4: be here and to be in the position we now are.

818
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 1: In good, big time, big time mega. We're very much

819
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: the lucky country right now. I have another radio question.

820
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, like I said oldest, I've made too

821
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: done too much research on you that I got so

822
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: nervous that I knew that i'd end up asking you

823
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 1: questions that don't aren't like chronological.

824
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 3: So that's fine, that suits me, good good.

825
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: Well, it's actually it's really daunting interviewing you because you're

826
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: it's usually the foots on.

827
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 2: The other the shoes on the other foot show.

828
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,479
Speaker 1: Are you Oh good?

829
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 3: Good?

830
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 1: Okay, So you've interviewed so many amazing people, both I presume,

831
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: both on the news, but more more so with radio.

832
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: And I saw you do an interview with Beach Boys,

833
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: Joel Legerton, the ab Fab Girls when they bought their

834
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: movie out. Has there been anyone You're like, Oh, they're

835
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: a legend, and they're a legend off the mic as well.

836
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 3: Yes.

837
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 4: Actually, when I think back, sometimes I go back through

838
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 4: photos that have been take.

839
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 3: In the studio. Bloody hell. Yeah, there are so many people.

840
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've reminded me of a couple that I'd forgotten about.

841
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: Some of these are on YouTube, so they've been filmed.

842
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 3: Yes.

843
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 4: Cat Stevens, Oh my goodness. He came into the studio

844
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 4: because of his religion. He needed to have his wife

845
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 4: sitting near him or within.

846
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 3: Whatever.

847
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 4: She sat there, which I usually can't stand someone bring

848
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 4: someone else into the studio who's not actually a part

849
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 4: of it.

850
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 3: He was just mesmerizing.

851
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 2: I mean also the voice, let's.

852
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 4: Voice, everything about him, and I know it's I know

853
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 4: it's there are parts of his life that have been

854
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 4: where people are annoyed at him. Excuse me, but he

855
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 4: is completely engaging.

856
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: My mum when she was she would have been it

857
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,479
Speaker 1: was while he was still Cat Stevens. Because his name

858
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: hasn't he with his religion is. And so my mum

859
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: went to one of his concerts many many years ago,

860
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: and she said, that's a concert that changed my life.

861
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: He's one of those people, isn't he.

862
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 4: Yes, it's peaceful. Yeah, there's something calming about him. But

863
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 4: mind you, I did feel also under their control. In

864
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 4: one other interview with someone who's quite different to that,

865
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 4: Jeffrey Edelson, really and I felt like I wasn't getting

866
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 4: the answers that I wanted. But he I can understand

867
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 4: why he's been so successful in business because he takes

868
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 4: control of the situation there.

869
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: So in that moment, did you just kind of like.

870
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 4: Bloody yellow suits he wore at the Melbourne cap Carnival

871
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 4: feeding what's that about?

872
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: I remember? I remember, But did you in that moment

873
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: when you were like, okay, I don't have the rains here,

874
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: did you just kind of go, well, I'm just going

875
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: to have to.

876
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 3: Go with it.

877
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 4: With Cat Stevens, it was just a pleasure he was giving,

878
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 4: he was calming, he was whatever, amazing As against Killian Murphy,

879
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 4: really sorry. With Jeffrey Edilson, he just wasn't going to

880
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 4: answer any question straight. And can I get sued for this?

881
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 4: He just he controlled the situation. I didn't have time.

882
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 4: Weere was short on time. I didn't have time to

883
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 4: try and go deeper.

884
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: You just mentioned Killian Murphy and I just got very excited.

885
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 5: Yes, many do what talent came into three I w

886
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 5: when we're in South Melbourne, Yes, which you remember. Yes,

887
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 5: And he obviously was sick of doing the pr because

888
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 5: these people you don't realize it. We just spot them

889
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 5: on you see them on a Today Show or a

890
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 5: Sunrise and they're doing oh hundreds. Yeah, Rod Stewart I

891
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 5: spoke to. I was the last interview with Rod Stewart.

892
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 5: He had been sitting in his home studio for about

893
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 5: eleven hours.

894
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: No, do you remember the Heath Ledger Koshi debacle where

895
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: He's Ledge appealed to Mandarin in the middle of the

896
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 1: interview in Australia there was an uproar about He's Ledger

897
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: being disrespectful and he came out later and said, I

898
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: was back to back interviews.

899
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 2: I just wanted to eat something.

900
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: I needed to quickly eat something, and it was a

901
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: kind of taken the wrong way.

902
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 3: Yes, but they it's all that and it's only the

903
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 3: real I'm sure Killy Murphy's following gladuated.

904
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 4: He sat in the studio and watched Sky News on

905
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 4: the monitor. He didn't look at me once and kept

906
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 4: giving me, yeah, it's a it's a good scene. Not really, yeah,

907
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 4: well you know yeah, And then he had the audacity

908
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 4: to say, have you seen this movie? Oh, I've seen it.

909
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 4: I'd suffered through. It was one of his early ones,

910
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 4: and it wasn't very good.

911
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: Because I think with him and quite a few other actors,

912
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 1: they see themselves as artists and therefore the whole media

913
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: gambit that comes with it, and the press and the

914
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: pr A lot of people aren't.

915
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: They don't enjoy that bit.

916
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 3: Oh I can understand that, and that might be, and

917
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 3: the the.

918
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 4: How strenuous it is, just being asked the same questions

919
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 4: all the day.

920
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I asked you what your favorite Karl was,

921
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: so I'm sure that.

922
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine. I'm not doing forty three of these today.

923
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

924
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: Mentally, yeah, I think we don't realize.

925
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 4: Once you've been interviewed by Lola Perry, you don't need

926
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 4: to be interview anywhere else.

927
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: There's there's my sound grab, there's do you want.

928
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 3: Me to repeat it?

929
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: Oh, you're amazing honestly, you are so so amazing. Okay,

930
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: I've got a couple more questions that I know. I

931
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: am so aware of the time and it's just flying

932
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: with you. Okay, two more things. First of all, I've

933
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: heard you say something that got me so inspired, and

934
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 1: you said, I don't have regret.

935
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 3: No, I don't.

936
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: Can you ex explain that a little bit because that

937
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 1: I love that. I've got that feeling. I love it,

938
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: but I do have fear of regret, like I live going. Oh,

939
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to have fear. I'm going to jump

940
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: towards that scary thing.

941
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 4: I think there are a lot of people who could

942
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 4: do a lot of things who don't do it because

943
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 4: they're scared of failing. Yeah, I've got a family member

944
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 4: who I would love to have had go on some

945
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 4: of the television shows that the idol or whatever it's

946
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 4: never hasn't happened, it won't ever happen. Could be a superstar,

947
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 4: and I never discussed it with them. I'm not even

948
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 4: saying they're mate or female, but I've never discussed it

949
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 4: because I realized that there are lots of people who

950
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 4: won't put themselves out there for things. If I hadn't

951
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 4: put myself out there for you tell the time, even

952
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 4: though I was desperately shy and new faces, none of

953
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 4: this would have happened. So but you do have to

954
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 4: be prepared when some opportunities come along. Because when I

955
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 4: started doing Keino, suddenly people saw me talking.

956
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: And by chance the people who were.

957
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 4: Running three GL too long running the radio station, they went, oh,

958
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 4: you can actually talk in my ninety second sequence.

959
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 3: Numbers. Good night.

960
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 4: But they said, oh, he might be all right to

961
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 4: do some radio. So I started hosting mornings at three GL.

962
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 4: Had to learn how to.

963
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 2: Panel, and mornings is a very early start, isn't.

964
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 3: No. Mornings was like eight point thirty. Well that's okay,

965
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 3: But then.

966
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 4: Keino was happening. Then suddenly I was on the radio.

967
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 4: This is all music at this point, and then three

968
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 4: MP rang me came to Melbourne. That went really well there.

969
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 4: But I always wanted to do talk. But you've got

970
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 4: to be ready when you get the opportunity. There's been

971
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 4: a lot of singers who had a bit of a

972
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 4: cracket radio and failed miserably. Really yeah, because they think

973
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 4: it's all about them and it's not. It's about the listener.

974
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 2: I love that.

975
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: So basically your goal every time you go on is

976
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: to give back to listener, hear the listener, and inform

977
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: the listener.

978
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 3: Is that kind of you when you're disagreeing with them?

979
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, you've got You must have the patience of

980
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 2: a saint.

981
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 3: Then.

982
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 4: I am a very impatient person in many areas of life,

983
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 4: but there are some things I'm very patient with.

984
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: And is this where you mentioned earlier when you were

985
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: younger with the young talent times off, it was your

986
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: drive that carried you there? Has it been your drive

987
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 1: that's been able to get you to that point of

988
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: going Yeah, I was shy. I can feel the fear,

989
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: but I'm going to do it anyway. Is that the drive?

990
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, yes it is. I just wish I could

991
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 3: have got over some of that earlier in life.

992
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: It sounds like at fifteen though, that's you're an a

993
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,959
Speaker 1: type personality. You've got You're doing good.

994
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 4: I had the skinniest, most horrible and I still have

995
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 4: them legs. I wasn't confident about.

996
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: Myself, but that's a lot of people.

997
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, even for me, Like I know, I sound really confident,

998
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: but I batter with my confidence all the time. And

999
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: I think as well, in media, you're kind of forced

1000
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: to do that on a very concentrated you're very hyper

1001
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: aware of yourself. Yes, and so that confidence you need

1002
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: to somehow have you back. It's a tricky balance. Thank

1003
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: you for that one. That was my notebook of because

1004
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: I yeah, my goal is to live without regret.

1005
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 2: That's one of my mottoes. Good, So thank you.

1006
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 3: It's I just feel like we I've met in life.

1007
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 4: I've met a lot of people who give the impression

1008
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 4: that they're far better than what they actually are, and

1009
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 4: you get a lot of other people who have that

1010
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 4: lingering doubt it stops them.

1011
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, how you go with something?

1012
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's okay to feel it out, but yeah,

1013
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: you've got to have the drive that, like you said,

1014
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: propels you forward. So the next one, I want to

1015
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: talk to you when this is my last question.

1016
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 3: I promised my friend I watch to sell me. It's

1017
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 3: time to get moving.

1018
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:16,959
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet.

1019
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 3: Thanks for that.

1020
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, work ethic because you've kind of you've touched

1021
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: on it already, like you've there was obviously a period

1022
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: of your life and I think it probably is a

1023
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: constant where you've worked that seven days a week and

1024
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: kind of knowing what you wanted from quite a young

1025
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: age and being like, well, I'm just going to go

1026
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: for it. Also knowing I really want to work in radio,

1027
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: I really want to And how much of it Obviously

1028
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: a lot of it is skill set and a lot

1029
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: of it is talent, like your voice is phenomenal. And

1030
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: then there has to be another bit that's work ethic, right, Yes,

1031
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: how much would you say it? Like, how how much

1032
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: would you say is work ethic?

1033
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:06,359
Speaker 3: A lot? Yeah, a lot.

1034
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 4: There are a lot of people in my our industry

1035
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 4: who want to sit back and have everyone adore them.

1036
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 3: You've just got to work, You've got to work.

1037
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 4: I'm reading a book at the moment called Catch of

1038
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 4: that the people who started Catch, Yeah, Catch of the

1039
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 4: Day and Catch.

1040
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 2: I'll put it in the show notes.

1041
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 4: I'll find goop on the Libitch Liberwitz brothers. Well, they've

1042
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 4: written a book and it's just saying exactly how it's been.

1043
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 4: Not how clever am I, It's been bloody hard work.

1044
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 4: These are people who started off going to markets. They

1045
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 4: were getting there at four am, so they got the

1046
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 4: best spot. Now they turn over hundreds of millions of

1047
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 4: dollars a year, so it's.

1048
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 3: Working hard.

1049
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 4: It's not always going to pay off, but it has

1050
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 4: to pay off in some way.

1051
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Do you know.

1052
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: Nova host him Blackwell, Yes, So I had him on

1053
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: and he talked a lot about John Laws, him being

1054
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: an inspiration, and I said, how much is talent? How

1055
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 1: much is heartwork? And he goes, talent might get you

1056
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: in the door. Granted, He's like, so I might hear

1057
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: you somewhere and go, I'm going to give this guy

1058
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 1: a shot. And he's like, but if you want to

1059
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: keep it, if you want to stay there, that's all

1060
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: hard work, which I loved.

1061
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 4: John Laws is still on air. Yeah, Bob Rogers and

1062
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 4: Sydney just retired. I think it pushing up ninety.

1063
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:35,240
Speaker 1: Is there one thing as well, just with radio and TV,

1064
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: is there a difference in because the pace feels different.

1065
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. Radio, you have no idea what's coming next? Talk radio?

1066
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 4: Talk radio talking about you have no idea. You don't

1067
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 4: know if the next caller. The last couple of weeks

1068
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 4: on air, we've just had a couple of callers that

1069
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 4: have said things that are just.

1070
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 3: So wrong, so bad, so amusing selling me to gain

1071
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 3: and multiply talking about sexual things. You don't know what's

1072
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 3: going to.

1073
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 2: Come and how do you handle it?

1074
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 3: Television is usually very structured and can be edited and whatever.

1075
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: Right, and they've got even Live to Air has got

1076
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: usually a little delay so they can bleep if they

1077
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: need to bleep.

1078
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got seven seconds. Wow.

1079
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 2: I love that. I love knowing that.

1080
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, and doing nights you get a whole different it's

1081
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 4: a whole different vibe.

1082
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, because people are up late as well, because is

1083
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: it eight to midnight?

1084
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 4: You're to midnight and not when footy's on the Footies

1085
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 4: on first, but a till midnight for six months of

1086
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 4: the year, which is great, and then a till midnight

1087
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 4: for most of each week when the foot's on.

1088
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: And I know you're a footy man. I know you're

1089
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: a Cats man.

1090
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 3: I know we had too long, the greatest team.

1091
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: I've seen you do one of the carols at half

1092
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: the crowd booze and I'm like, this guy is game? Okay, quickly,

1093
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: what's next? I know you've got an album coming out

1094
00:53:58,960 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: in April.

1095
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 4: The album's coming out in April through Sony Music, A

1096
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 4: chance meeting in a lyft Really we're on the Sunshine Coast.

1097
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 4: A whole lot of things that happened, I said to

1098
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 4: my wife and ed on the way into Maruci door.

1099
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 4: I said, look, been a whole lot of bizarre things happening.

1100
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 4: That makes me feel like it's time to do another

1101
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 4: record now. We weren't supposed to be there in January.

1102
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 4: We were supposed to be there last September and we

1103
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 4: had an illness in the family couldn't go. So here

1104
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,479
Speaker 4: we are at the time. We weren't supposed to be there.

1105
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 4: I booked at the hotel, walking to the lift, and

1106
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 4: the fellow in the lift says, Dennis, how are you?

1107
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Speaker 4: I thought, right, he said, Dennis Handlin. Ah, he's the

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Speaker 4: boss of Sony Music.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 4: So within ground floor to third he said, why aren't

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Speaker 4: we recording you?

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Speaker 3: I said, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: He said it will happen, And I didn't have long

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Speaker 4: enough to think, well, is that just lift talk or

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Speaker 4: if he's a lovely man of un him forever hadn't

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Speaker 4: seen him for twenty five years, And within forty minutes

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Speaker 4: he had two of their executives.

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Speaker 3: Ring me, I love this, and.

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Speaker 4: Then I've started recording the album. It's become five tracks

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Speaker 4: of collaborations. Brian Kad, John Paul Young Vicker and Linda

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Speaker 4: Marusha and we're doing a John English track, and because

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Speaker 4: John's obviously no longer with us, his son's going to

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Speaker 4: play the guitar guitar solos on it. So that's all

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Speaker 4: happened this year that's coming out. It's like sixties and

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Speaker 4: seventies songs, feel good. It's exactly what I used to

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Speaker 4: do before I got known as this became known as

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Speaker 4: this big belladeer thing.

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Speaker 3: It's the music I.

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Speaker 2: Used to do awesome.

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Speaker 4: And then this idea for the Christmas single comes out

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Speaker 4: about seven weeks ago when it was released on the

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Speaker 4: sixth of November. That same day of the release, Carol's

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Speaker 4: rang me Kate Carol Halliday rang me and said, we

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Speaker 4: want you to do your new duet.

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Speaker 3: That was a day of the release.

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Speaker 4: These things are bizarre and I don't believe in fate,

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Speaker 4: at least I didn't.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think you got to do now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to, especially with creative things like this

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Speaker 1: is the there's a business side to what you do,

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Speaker 1: but there's also a creative and kind of like heart

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Speaker 1: driven side, and that that you got to trust.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, this is like it's meant to be.

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Speaker 1: Well, I cannot wait, and I can tell everybody listening

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Speaker 1: the Christmas single is officially out. Now I'm going to

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Speaker 1: put in the show notes so people can just click

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Speaker 1: and listen.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: It's a real win music Forever dot com dot are you,

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Speaker 4: And there's a few bonus Christmas tracks. Oh and money

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Speaker 4: going to Salvation Army Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Really.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'll make sure that that's the right link

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Speaker 1: that goes in. Dennis Walter, you are an incredible human

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Speaker 1: being and you have totally filled up my cup today.

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Speaker 1: You've really inspired me to live without regret, to work hard,

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Speaker 1: and to make my dreams of reality. So thank you

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Speaker 1: from the bottom of my heart.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, honored my friend me too.

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Speaker 1: That's a wrap on another episode of Fearlessly Failing. As always,

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Speaker 1: thank you to our guests, and let's continue the conversation

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. I'm at Yamo Lollaberry. This potty my word

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Speaker 1: for podcast is available on all streaming platforms. I'd love

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