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Speaker 1: Today. What can we say about this man? He was

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Speaker 1: really in the thick of things in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 1: Who can forget this?

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Speaker 2: Good Bye?

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Speaker 3: Everybody, consume too, let's got the arms going, creator, producer

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Speaker 3: and host of Young Talent Time from nineteen seventy one

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Speaker 3: to nineteen eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: Also a singer, songwriter and record producer. Mister Johnny Young.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how nice Babyan and Lisa. It's a real honor

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Speaker 2: to speak to you, guys. I'd listen to ninety six

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Speaker 4: Well, it is a real honor to have you with us.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four, right, sort of smack bang in the

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Speaker 1: heyday of Young Talent Time. No one missed it. We

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Speaker 1: all watched it.

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Speaker 4: Listen. Let me just run off a couple of the names.

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Speaker 1: Deborah Byrne, Jamie Redfern, Karen Noles, Tina Arena, and Danny

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Speaker 1: Minoague just a few of the people who went on

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Speaker 1: to do big things. Were you, Johnny, Were you involved

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Speaker 1: in all of the castings?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I was. Well. I had producers who found

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Speaker 2: people for me to look at. Yeah, if they were well,

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Speaker 2: because I was looking for a variety of kids. You know.

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Speaker 2: We had Tina arena. But we also had Karen Knowles

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Speaker 2: who were totally different people. You know, they were different

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Speaker 2: Talent shime was that it was it wasn't a kid show,

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Speaker 2: It was a family show. Yes, yes, and you know

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Speaker 2: eighty four television was wonderful in Australia.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We used to you know, sit down with the family

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Speaker 2: and all fantastic programs which we don't have today, you

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Speaker 2: know changed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we were so invested in these people, you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean we used to talk about Tiny teen Arena

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Speaker 4: She was, I know, my grandmother.

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Speaker 1: Did I think she wanted to swap me for We

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Speaker 1: loved her love times.

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Speaker 2: That was the thing. It was the kids who loved

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Speaker 2: which was wonderful. And Tina, you know, was with me

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Speaker 2: when she was a nine year old through to when

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Speaker 4: Young that's right.

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Speaker 2: It was, you know, a wonderful time and our ratings

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Speaker 2: were huge, and the eighties were it was a Young

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Speaker 2: course for me too. You know it was for me

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Speaker 2: because you know, my kids used to come out to

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Speaker 2: Young Talent Time to spend the day with the with

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Speaker 2: the team, and you know, it was it was complimentary

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Speaker 2: to my own personal life.

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Speaker 5: John.

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Speaker 2: This was years.

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Speaker 6: This was decades before Australian Idol and the Voice and

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Speaker 6: the talent shows and all that. So you were a

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Speaker 6: groundbreaking you must make you really proudly.

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Speaker 2: Oh it does. Look I'm the luckiest kidd in the block. Guys.

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Speaker 2: You know, I had a wonderful career because you know,

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Speaker 2: and Smiley for Ronnie Burns, and you know, it was

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Speaker 4: John.

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Speaker 1: The thing about Young Talent Time, this is why your

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Speaker 1: on it. They was presented themselves as delightful, polite young people.

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Speaker 1: But did you ever have any moments where you had

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. How did the balance the school thing and they're

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Speaker 2: know we had the fiftieth anniversary of Young Talent time

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Speaker 4: Well look at them, you know, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: They And I mean, you know, I keep having back

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Speaker 2: She is and she's a dear friend. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she was lot serving.

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Speaker 5: Didn't want to do Yeah, John, Yeah, and you know

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's the realities of life, you know. You

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Speaker 6: The jealousy and tool poppy man. I want to talk

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Speaker 6: about some of the accolades that were started on you

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 6: We spoke to Russell Morris about his Area Hall of

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Speaker 6: I'm not old and he can't in anyways now one

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Speaker 6: How did you feel when you were inducted into the

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Speaker 6: Area Hall of Fame in twenty ten.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, you know, I've had a lot of complimentary

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Speaker 2: stuff happened to me, beco'me very proud of It wasn't

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Speaker 2: just the ARIA Award, but I was also a Gold

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Speaker 2: LOGI winner. You know, I was in the Logi Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame and the Songwriting Hall of Fame, you know,

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Speaker 2: which it sounds as if I'm bragging, but it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's wonderful thrill to receive that sort of stuff. But

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Speaker 2: you know, the main thing for me, you know, believe

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Speaker 2: Johnny Young, I just love young talent on you know,

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Speaker 2: the affection that the program has and the because it

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Speaker 2: you know when people remember it, remember the show, Remember

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Speaker 2: Johnny and the Kids. Do you ever see the kids? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: well I do, you know, But most of them are professionals,

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Speaker 2: all of them, all of them have really grown as people.

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Speaker 2: You know, we had a we had a few problems,

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Speaker 2: you know, we were do you know. Deborah Byrne wasn't easy,

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Speaker 4: Still is still is challenges.

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Speaker 1: I saw Devin Sunset Boulevard. She was incredible, perform incredible, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And and you know she's sixty six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, there's a little kids.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of people to have had an amazing

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Speaker 1: And the fact that I don't think anyone of our

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Speaker 1: cast back. Saturday night, Sunday night, whichever an idea you

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Speaker 1: were watching on and seeing you all swaying there in

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Speaker 2: Know, speak it was a huge hit for the Beatles. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I've always been jealous of the fact

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Speaker 2: that Paul McCartney got all the.

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Speaker 4: Row and you're probably saying it more time, probably, yeah.

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Speaker 2: All the time. But you know, it was a wonderful

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Speaker 2: was far more user friendly. Yeah, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: proud to have been a part of the entertainment business,

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Speaker 2: not not just through young talent time, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm proud of Russell Morris and I wrote three songs

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Speaker 2: for him and he's doing the Real Thing tour now

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Speaker 2: with a well piece band and it's a fantastic show.

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Speaker 4: And we're just very last year.

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Speaker 6: He came on tell Us one last year, John Cheezy

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Speaker 6: was amazing, Yeah, great telling.

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Speaker 2: Oh incredible. And he's a wonderful guitarist, wonderful musician and

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Speaker 2: you know, very dedicated to his prist and you know

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Speaker 2: so you seven, you know.

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Speaker 4: You can't keep the eighties down.

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Speaker 1: That has been a pleasure having you join us in

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Speaker 1: celebrating nineteen eighty four's fortieth birthday with us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, job, Thanks Claisy Aks Lisa, Thanks

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Speaker 2: Going ninety six, y, thank you.

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Speaker 6: Wonderful to reminisce