📔 Amanda Keller's Diary Entry On Barry Manilow's 32nd Birthday

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hello, it's Jonesy Demander driving you home. A special day today,
the seventeenth June.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Barry Manilow's birthday.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I was just talking about the fact that we were
given meat ball flavored chopper chaps from Well.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Maybe Barry's using that to celebrate. I don't know. He's
turning eighty three today.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Actually, I saw my I woke up this morning saw
a news story that he was performing I want to
see him about ten years ago, because he said he
was retiring. Come on, Barry, yeah, and some a man
stormed the stage to get his autograph.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I saw that that was Barry. That was Barry. Wow.
What's that meaning? Didn't you recognize his face?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
No? I just I just I saw it. I just
presumed it was going to be some sort of young artist,
because no one goes and storms as stage for an
eighty three.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Year old artist like Well. I mean, he can't make
a quick getaway.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Unless it's Molly Meltram well Elton's play.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I have my teenager diary here in front of me,
and when I woke up this morning and realized it
was his birth yep, I think I've got a diary
entry from his birthday in nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Would you like some diary accompaniment?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yes? Please?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well it starts with good, ay, don't laugh. Right, it's
Barry's birthday in America last night while I was sleeping.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Sounds sinister, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
God?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I want Barry.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
He does so much for me. His voice is so moving.
It's sad that he's so popular now. In a way,
he isn't ours anymore. Everyone likes him not as much
as we do, obviously.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
But when you say it was me and Melanie, okay,
I thought you had some sort of personality disorder.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
No, I'm listening to an old album and I feel
so charged up.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I just want it. When you say charged up are
you talking about? I don't know what I meant? What
sort of romance? Romance? Very erosive? Sensitive?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Ten eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I'm too embarrassed to say how ten twelve. I've done
the maths. It's ninety seventy eight. I was sixteen. I'm
far too old to be as juvenile. There's more. I
was talking to Melanie on the phone.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
She said she's depressed on Barry's birthday because it's another
year and he's slipping further away from us.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I agree, he's now thirty two. God, you'll probably marry
soon and splat splait what well meaning our dream?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Oh do you?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
We didn't know he was homosexual, That's what we were asking.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's the overall.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
That's the crudging stories that he met his now husband
Gary at this time.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Just away from his homosexuality. Melanie and yourself, what would happen?
I dare say if Barry came into your life.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
We would have to share with what happened.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
We would be sister wives, Mormon style, carry on, all right.
It's so stupid to think we'll even meet him. It
hit me the other day, I'm never going to man,
How could I ever expect you? Though I want him
so much. I just heard the weddings on the radio.
Whatever that is.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I imagined, this is awful. Looking over at.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Barry and knowing it applied to us. I've often imagined
us getting married. So it was Barry just not to me.
To Gary, I would be so incredibly delirious with happiness.
I feel closer to him because of a silly dream
I had last night. I was somewhere, Barry was there.
He looked much older, he had gray hair, but I
didn't even notice he was so nuts. He asked me

(03:27):
to slow dance. We fit it together so well and
had a beautiful, smooth slow dance scrumps. Okay, okay, I
want him so much, please, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
No, it's just too mortifying. What about this bit?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
A lot of kids at school are thinking of getting
their ls. This is when I was sixteen. I didn't
get my license.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Still I was twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I've said here, I'm going to be so scared driving.
I'll think if I go out there and my life ends,
I wouldn't get to know Barry.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
What could be worse driving a car?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Barry mellow eating a man?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
A lot of parallel universe is taking place all at once.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Who would have thought right?

Speaker 3 (04:10):
And it's still time, Barrys, time for you to storm
the stage.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
My arthwriders wouldn't get me up on stage. And he's
too old to leave