Stumpy and Grumpy SHORT AND FAT

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It's time for the adventures of Stumpy and Grumpy.
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Turn your hearing aid up till it feeds back and
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then back it off a little, will you? Join us
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as we celebrate their odd friendship and their
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love of all things Australian. Oh, mate, woe
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is me. Life with an idiot. This podcast is intended
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for adults, so wowsers can go fuck themselves.
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Bix, what do you think of our national anthem?
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Oh, not much. It always got me that Gert by Sea
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thing. She must be a fishmonger at Clovelly or
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something, you know? It's a fish shop, Gert.
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Gert by Sea. I thought Gert was some sort of
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a disease, you know, associated with a cold or
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an upper respiratory tract infection. Ooh! Oh,
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because everybody reckons it should be Walsing
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Matilda. And if it is Walsing Matilda, then there's
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only one version of that I think should be the
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case. Oh, no. You're not going to play that one,
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are you? Yes. I love it. Yeah, I do. Yeah. She's
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up... Lara Keelway. It's Stumpy and Grumpy. Bluegrass.
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What do you think of bluegrass? I love it. I
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really do. I love the greengrass myself. The
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greengrass? Yeah. Well, the leafy stuff. I like
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the greengrass. You know, up here in Brizzy they
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had the annual bluegrass festival. Yes. Out of
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Redlands. And I used to love the Davidson Brothers.
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Oh, all that stuff. I love bluegrass. Banjo,
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I can take or, you know, I used to make jokes
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about banjo. Yeah, I can take and burn it too.
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Yeah, well, I used to make jokes about a banjo.
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What's the difference between a banjo and an
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onion? You don't cry when you cut up a banjo.
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No, you don't. You know, the standout for me,
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though, was one Karen Lynn. She's lovely. A voice
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of an angel. Yeah, she's lovely. And she's on
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that cruise all the time, the bluegrass cruise.
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She's doing well. Yeah, she's doing well. She's
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written some great stuff. Yeah, she has. Very
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Australian. Tell you what, have you got any,
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what have you got? Have you got a Karen Lynn
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song for us? I do. That's a segue, mate. Yes,
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we're doing this. I do. It's a fucking professional
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podcast. Yes, we are. It's a Cape Tribulation
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pastel sunrise With Sunday's turquoise bay Mustard
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yellow water, all the bottle brushes red It's
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the rain that falls from skies of broga grey
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It's the creamy coloured steam of Isis chimneys
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Eucalypt, dusty green and grey No brush could
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ever paint its colours in a lifetime The colours
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of Australia today I feel the burning. The green
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that turns to gold. of Australia today It's the
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rusty powdered ochre of the dream time The snow
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white Franklin River running wild A lorikeet
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with colours of the rainbow That looks like it's
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been painted by a child It's a jaundiced yellow
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Oh, she's got a lovely voice. She's absolutely
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gorgeous. Yeah, absolutely love her. That's Karen
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Lynn, Colours of Australia. You know what the
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colours are like up in the Territory, up on the
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top end. Oh, I love the Territory, I do. For
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the build -up, all those angry colours that come
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out of the sky. In the storms? Yeah. I love a
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good storm. I get all my nipples stand up and
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everything. I love it. Too exciting for you?
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Oh, gorgeous. All right, go to the song. Well,
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the river broke the banks, it'll hardly get much
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thanks while the rain is falling from the sky.
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Clouds rolling in, but as soon you have to swim,
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muddy water's just a rolling by. All the roads
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are underwater, and all the planes, they refuse
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to fly, just like a long... What a beauty. He's
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written some great stuff. He's got a bit of a
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voice like an Aussie... What's that guy that
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used to have that with Tom Cruise stood across
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the floor in his underpants? What's that guy
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that sang that song in Top Gun? Tom Cruise? No,
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not Tom Cruise. The guy that sang the song. Rock
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and roll. Tom Cruise sang it in what's -her -name,
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didn't he? No, you dick. He didn't. He was just
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mouthing it off. Anyway, yeah, he's got almost
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a... Bit of a rock and roll he is to his voice.
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He's very much a rock and roller as well, but
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matey will he. Rock and roll on this show, Benford?
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No, no, no, no. Some great songs about country,
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really. The Stumpster and the Grumpster. Oh,
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mate. You know when you laugh, mate, you're all
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wobbly all over the show. No, don't start that
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shit. I like jelly. And besides, some people
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like a bit of curry. And I've lost 30 kilos,
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as you know. Yeah, it's big enough. I'd like
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to get some work done, though. It's big enough
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you'll find it again somewhere. You need work
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too. I mean, but where do you start? How about
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you just pluck your eyebrows or something? Listen,
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I'll get a facelift. I can get a facelift. You
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probably need a crane. I'll get a facelift and
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I could get extensions on things if I need to.
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You know, make my penis bigger if I felt inclined
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to do so. But I'm always just scared that they'll
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get something wrong. Will they? We'll never get
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it right. Not with you, mate. Sorry. I was handed
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to me mother, such a precious little thing, an
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unexpected living gift from a sneaky one -night
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fling. The perfect little baby. I'd like to say
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that I was one, but I'd come out premature and
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I was slightly underdone. I was born without
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an eyelid. I couldn't close me bloody eye. I
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cutely winked up at me mum, but I only made her
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cry. The doctor told her he could fix it. An
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operation he'll perform. He'll take the skin
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from circumcision and leave me blinking up a
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storm. So he did the operation. He turned me
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foreskin to a lid, and I got handed back to Mum,
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the perfect cockeyed little kid. Well, Mum was
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bloody shocked about what our local doctor did.
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Turns out I was the very first to get his breakthrough,
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penile lid. She said, my God, he's got no eyelash.
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The doctor answered, it'll grow. Based on the
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average Aussie male, just give him 13 years or
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so. Well, the early years went quickly. Primary
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school was quite a breeze. Even though me eye
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was crazy, the kids there didn't seem to tease.
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Not so lucky though at high school. It was time
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for body change. I didn't need me extra foresight
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to tell me things were getting strange. See,
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I grew hairs upon me eyelid. They were wiry,
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black with curls. And my left eye would close
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up tight. Every time I thought of girls. It was
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the cause of constant teasing. And I will tell
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you folks right here. You grow pubes upon your
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eyelid. Teenage kids will call you queer. Well,
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it just had to be removed. I looked part werewolf.
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It was thick. So I booked a waxing session. Brazilian
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ought to do the trick. With a request to leave
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a lash. Although curly it'll do. I'll just trim
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it back with scissors when the waxing lady's
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through. Well, jeez, I screamed like bloody hell
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when she ripped away the hairs. It made me think
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them girls are crazy. The ones that get it done
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down there. I walked out all red and squinting
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with me strip of curly lash. me poor old eye
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was sore and weeping and it had come up with
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a rash well i couldn't help but rub it and strangely
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it felt rather nice it was a feeling laced with
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tingles and a little dash of spice it felt great
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beyond belief if it was sport i'd won the cup
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and made me think arousing thoughts and me eyelids
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stiffened up well i found meself obsessed i couldn't
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leave me eye alone and i would get so darned
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involved that i would sometimes loudly moan i
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got in trouble by the teachers and was stirred
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up by me mates. They were calling me a winker,
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and it was causing mass debates. There was rumours
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going round by why I rubbed in such a fashion,
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why I got me monthly wax, and why I trimmed me
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own eyelash, and why I'd sneak off to the toilets
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at nearly every chance I'd get, and come out
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with one eye puffy, and me body drenched in sweat.
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But no one ever really knew about my peen eyelid
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graft and op, and the school was losing patience,
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but I just couldn't seem to stop. They were going
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to expel me. It was my behaviour, I was told.
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It was just another pupil that just couldn't
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be controlled. But after quick negotiation, it
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downgraded to suspension. A week at home where
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I relaxed, sat back and rubbed out extra tension.
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But I knew it was a problem and I knew it must
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be stopped. It wasn't worth all the attention
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or the insults that I copped. It didn't happen
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overnight, but when it did, I felt relieved.
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And I was proud of what I'd done and what I'd
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managed to achieve. Now I don't wink or rub my
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eye at every woman that I meet. Me urge is safely
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zipped away, somewhere a little more discreet.
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And I'm no longer called a winker. And folks
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don't tease me like they did. And they've since
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banned the operation. There's no more kids with
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penile lead. And now I do public speaking. Motivation.
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Stayin' strong. How to jump life's little hurdles.
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Overcome things when they're wrong. How do I
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know? Because I've done it. And it's quite easy
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if you try. Jeez, look at her. She's hot. Oh
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no. I've just got something in me eye. It's your
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bloody finger, you dick. Or is it his dick? I
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can't... That's weird. Imagine that happening,
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getting something... Getting your foreskin sewed
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on your eye. There you go, Brad. That puts a
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different complexion on the... You're really
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enjoying that, aren't you? It gives a different
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complexion of the human centipede. Brad McLean
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with peanut lid. Are you fucking kidding me?
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At only two bucks an episode, what have you got
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to lose? Two bucks, I guess. The first time we
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sort of caught up, a few years ago now, and one
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of the things was the fact that we started abusing
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each other straight away. And it worked. Yeah,
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and I called you something and you said something
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straight back to me in front of everybody else
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and you didn't give a stuff and I thought, oh,
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I've got to know this bloke, this is good. But
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you wrote a poem about exactly what we do in
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Australia that confuses the rest of the fucking
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world. You wrote a poem that explains this strange
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Australian social phenomenon. It's called Affectionate
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Derision. For quite a few years I've been camping
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with peers and we've put down our rears on this
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great riverside. It's just after Yule, the last
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week before school and our last chance to cool.
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It's Vacations Highlight. Our cooling vacations
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highlight. Our sons too, you see, paddling its
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tributary, just where they should be, our six
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boys in the bush. While Dave, Mick and me are
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just happy to be sitting under a tree with big
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grins on our mush. Yeah, dirty big grins on our
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mush. Our camp is set up and we've each filled
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our cup and we're ready to sup here near Campfire
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Curled. A sweet gentle pace is imbued in this
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space, a tranquil showcase where peace is unfurled.
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a showcase for peace is unfurled. This one secret
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place now so many embrace from all over the place
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and from over the sea. So our campsite this night
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is shared and not quite the secret it might once
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have wanted to be. And that secret was once for
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we three. When we disagree, well, our language
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is free and our repartee is sometimes uncouth.
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Now, this peaceful night looked like Dave and
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Mick might have got into a fight by the language.
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Oh, struth! What? Language and fighting? Oh,
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struth! It was Mick's turn to cook up a plump
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roasted chook and it started to look like it
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wouldn't get done. So impatient Dave, well, he
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started to rave and seemed a bit grave. Now this
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looks like fun. Yeah, this looks like a grave
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bit of fun. Now hang on a tick, retorted our
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Mick, and don't be so thick. You get on your
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bike, you dopey old cow, and don't tell me how
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to cook up our chow or I'll go on strike. and
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I'll go on strike if I like. Now Dave had a go
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and got into the flow because he wasn't slow,
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he's as sharp as a dirk. What, you go on strike?
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You just fell off your trike, you bloody big
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piker, you can't even work. The bloody big piker
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won't work? And you'll never work because mostly
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you've shirked your stupid old burk. Oh, how
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Dave huffed and he puffed. Then Mick slipped
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one in, he just stuck out his chin and said with
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a grin, ah, go and get stuffed. Mick told him
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to go and get stuffed? Well, in spite of that
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fun, the roast it was done and then everyone
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sat round the campfire. The jokes they all flowed
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and the campfire glowed, yet Dave and Mick showed
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not one hint of ire. No, couldn't see one hint
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of ire. Then a yank who had been at the earlier
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scene, she just couldn't glean what had gone
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on before and was quite astounded at what she
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had found. Their friendship still sound. So then
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what was the score? Yes, tell me, please. What
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was the score? Well, when we Aussies clash, we
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might act a bit brash or posture real flash so
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we get our points solved. But with mates, it's
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all fun. And that's just what's done, and there's
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no bloody gun or a lawyer involved. Yep, no guns
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or lawyers involved. So, after clean -up we've
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once more filled our cup, and we're ready to
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yup here near Campfire Curled. A sweet gentle
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pace is imbued in this space, a tranquil showcase
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here where peace is unfurled. Yes, peace is here
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once more unfurled. That's one of the things
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in one of the albums I produced for you and a
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lovely little poem, Affectionate Derision, explaining
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exactly what that is, you stupid old cunt. Yes,
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and that's the one that got us a Golden Gumleaf
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Award. Yes, a Golden Gumleaf, eh? Yeah, Bush
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Laureate of the Year for the album. Oh, I've
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run my fingers all over that. It was quite sharp.
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I keep it hidden. from you. More from the adventures
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of Manfred and his trusty sidekick Pixie. Do
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you know what Ned Kelly called his horse? No,
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no, what did he? Music. Music? That was the name
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of his horse. I think it redefines the man in
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someone's mind if you really think about it.
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Whatever you think of Ned Kelly, it must redefine
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him some way when you think about the fact that
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whatever you think about Ned, he's a man that
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was patting his horse every morning. saying,
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good on you, music. Well, he did save a kid when
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he was younger. He wasn't the vagabond that people
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think, though. No, he was pretty much maligned.
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I mean, some of the coppers back in that time
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were pretty bad. That's what the whole thing
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was about. He would have been in Parliament within
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two years had he not been shot. Yeah, but talk
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to coppers nowadays, and they still reckon Ned's
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a prick. Yeah, I know. Poor Ned. Poor Ned, indeed.
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He is. Poor Ned. You're better off dead. At least
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you'll get some peace of mind. You're right on
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the track. They're right on your back. Boy, they're
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gonna hang you high. Deathbed, he said, when
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he was hung, he said... Such is life. Such is
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life. Not in French, but in English. Contrary
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to popular belief. There you go. But stick them
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up, hold them up and hold them up and all that
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sort of stuff. You know, there was a story...
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I came across a story a little while ago about
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this bloody bushranger who used to frequent just
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outside of Geelong in Victoria. Anyway, one merchant
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had closed up shop and he was heading home and...
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this fella come up behind him and says, Bail
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it up, give us your money or your life. Anyway,
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the shopkeeper, unperturbed, reached into his
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pocket, pulled out a flask of whiskey or brandy
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or something, turned around, held that up against
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the bush ranger's head. He said, nah, you, bail
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up and drop your gun. Anyway, what the bush ranger
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did, he ran off. He said, so the shopkeeper said,
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stop or I'll shoot. And he did. He did. And he
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walked up to him, put the flask in his pocket,
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gave him a whack across the head, punched him
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in the head and said, now fuck off, you bastard.
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What a wimpy bush ranger. What a wimpy fucking
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bush ranger. I mean, I would have thought the
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gay ones would have been tougher. There were
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gay bush rangers. There was. Captain Moonlight.
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That's the one. He was one of these boasts. He'd
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bar you up in the middle of the night going,
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hold him up, hold him up, money or your ass.
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Ha ha ha . . . . . got into trouble at the end
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of the 2020 Tamworth Country Music Festival and
00:31:49.730 --> 00:31:51.710
a couple of the legends of Australian country
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music got upset with me because I told them to
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stop fighting in front of the industry. And they
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got on Facebook because they didn't agree with
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the judge's decision about the Bush Ballad. It
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was the year that you and Manfred, it was the
00:32:06.829 --> 00:32:09.730
year that you and Alan won your first one. There
00:32:09.730 --> 00:32:12.670
was a kerfuffle on Facebook about how people
00:32:12.670 --> 00:32:16.279
who don't write songs blah, blah, blah. And I
00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:19.440
said, they'd already made themselves public by
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.099
saying that. I didn't make them public or do
00:32:22.099 --> 00:32:25.980
anything untoward. I tagged them in a post that
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I said, you need to sort of basically say you
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need to grow up a bit and stop arguing in front
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of the world because it doesn't paint a good
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:33.960
picture for the entire Australian country music.
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The judge's decision is final. Write better songs.
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And, yeah, and... Wow. I remember that, yeah.
00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:47.059
I was personally lambasted. But I love them.
00:32:47.980 --> 00:32:52.259
I know you do. I hate what's happening to Australian
00:32:52.259 --> 00:32:54.059
country music, always have, and I've always been
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on their side. I wandered into Tamworth and I
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heard a sonic boom As I ambled down old Peel
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Street on a Tuesday afternoon My memory started
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:13.019
wandering back to the good old days When country
00:33:13.019 --> 00:33:16.690
was real country Played a real fair dinkum way
00:33:16.690 --> 00:33:22.170
The music they were playing Would win any rock
00:33:22.170 --> 00:33:27.789
award As they drowned a little busker out Picking
00:33:27.789 --> 00:33:32.849
out three chords He tried to sing out louder
00:33:32.849 --> 00:33:36.710
In a true blue country style But the rockers
00:33:36.710 --> 00:33:57.180
won out would tremble up in heaven's hall of
00:33:57.180 --> 00:34:01.920
fame. Hear what's happening here on earth with
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their country music name. They have sold out
00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:16.900
country music and the evidence is plain. We must
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honour our traditions and never play their game.
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the trenches and show courage all the way let's
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believe in our convictions as we stand up and
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say Keith Jamison with Don't Let Them Murder
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Tamworth. And you were noticeably absent from
00:36:15.929 --> 00:36:18.150
that conversation I did at the start there. But
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that's fine because you've got your two golden
00:36:20.889 --> 00:36:24.710
guitars now. You don't care. No, I don't. I'll
00:36:24.710 --> 00:36:27.989
let the others do the fighting. I just write
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the stuff. And we haven't written our best one
00:36:29.909 --> 00:36:33.150
yet. The Adventures of Manny and Pix. You did
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spend a lot of time on the road with various
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artists, didn't you? Yeah, yeah. Some were special.
00:36:38.030 --> 00:36:41.630
Some are very special. Some are pricks. Well,
00:36:41.710 --> 00:36:44.809
that's fine. That's understandable. What really
00:36:44.809 --> 00:36:50.190
endeared you to them? The ones that stood out
00:36:50.190 --> 00:36:53.889
for you? Well, of all of them, Barty Williams.
00:36:54.369 --> 00:36:59.829
Why? His voice and his nature. He had some lovely
00:36:59.829 --> 00:37:01.409
insights, didn't he? The way he thought about
00:37:01.409 --> 00:37:04.110
life. He had some wonderful insights, and particularly
00:37:04.110 --> 00:37:07.840
about interrelationships in a way. If nobody
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:12.199
smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:15.900
along. If each every minute looked after himself
00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:20.719
and the good things all went to the strong. If
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:24.519
nobody cared just a little for you and nobody
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:28.719
thought about me. And we stood all alone in this
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.840
battle of strife. What a dreary old world it
00:37:32.840 --> 00:38:04.000
would be. Thank you. Thank you. as the richest
00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:07.840
on earth, or strong as the strongest that lives.
00:38:08.699 --> 00:38:12.699
Yet never we knew the delight or the charm of
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the smile that the other half gives. If kindness
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were never a part of ourselves, though we owned
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:24.179
all the land we could see, and friendship meant
00:38:24.179 --> 00:38:28.260
nothing at all to us here, what a dreary old
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world it would be. Life can be sweet because
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:36.079
of friends we've made and the things in common
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:40.380
we share. We want to live on not because of ourselves
00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:45.360
but because of the people who care. It's giving
00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.440
and doing for somebody else. On that all life's
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:53.500
splendor depends. And the joy of this world when
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you sum it all up is found in the making of friends.
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What do you think of that, Manfred? Oh, friends.
00:39:01.670 --> 00:39:05.090
You really can't celebrate them enough. Yeah,
00:39:05.110 --> 00:39:10.150
but 1979. That's amazing. 1978. Extraordinary
00:39:10.150 --> 00:39:12.170
song. And he was gone about, what, six years
00:39:12.170 --> 00:39:15.329
after that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 86 or so. He passed
00:39:15.329 --> 00:39:18.050
away. Yeah. The show that I did, Under Western
00:39:18.050 --> 00:39:20.949
Skies, is available on YouTube, on my channel,
00:39:21.050 --> 00:39:22.949
if you want to have a look at it. Yeah. Otherwise,
00:39:23.090 --> 00:39:25.030
we'll probably see you next week. It's goodbye
00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:37.269
from Grumpy. And it's goodbye from Stumpy. if
00:39:37.269 --> 00:39:40.150
you don't like it who cares if you do we'll be
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back next week with another episode of Stumpy
00:39:43.789 --> 00:39:44.389
and Grumpy