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542. Clarence It’s 104.9, the heart and soul of Cape Town. From The Whispers, “It’s a love thing”. You
also heard, from Tina Charles, “I love to love”. Twelve minutes past two ‘o clock and, of
course, our farewell little show for Suster who leaves, uh, the studio, um, hopefully not for
the last time. I hope you will pop by again some time, Suster. Um = =
543. Suster = = I pop by to say HALLO.
544. Clarence = = but this, this voice is going to be conspicuously silent.
545. Suster That’s it. P4 = =
546. Clarence = = that loud voice of yours.
547. Suster P4, good day.
548. Caller 9 Hi, Suster?
549. Suster Yes, girl.
550. Caller 9 Suster, this is NAME. How are you doing?
551. Suster I’m well NAME. How you keeping?
552. Caller 9 OH, fine, fine. How can you leave ()? You’re the only real thing that’s on the airwaves.
553. Suster No, no, no, no. I am = =
554. Caller 9 = = hello
555. Suster Uh, no, no NAME. I disagree. I disagree. No = =
556. Caller 9 = = Can you hear me Suster?
557. Suster I disagree. There is a TREMENDOUS amount of talent = =
558. Caller 9 = = () How did you and Suster, I mean how did Clarence get hold of you? Did you audition
for the role or what?
559. Suster Did I audition for this?
560. Clarence [laughter]
561. Caller 9 Huh?
562. Suster () Okay, I’m gonna tell this story AGAIN and = =
563. Caller 9 = = Oh, sorry. [laughter]
564. Suster Cla, Clarence must I tell the story again? Okay, you gonna listen on air NAME. It was one,
uh, Friday morning, uh, LONG, LONG ago. No, it wasn’t. [laughter] It was about, I think =
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565. Clarence = = Once upon a time.
566. Suster Once upon a time. The year was 1995 and it was, I think it was October, the 25 th . It was on a
Friday. If I remember it was Friday. I was on my way to, uh, an appointment in Sea Point en
toe phone die client om vir my te sê {and so this client phoned to tell me}, “Don’t come
now, come, b, b, be at my office at half past twelve.” But toe’s ek al nou {so I was already},
um, half way daar al {there}, () op Eastern Boulevard. Toe phone ek nou so vir {So I
phoned Clarence} Clarence. Toe sê ek, wel, “Kan ek nou my tyd ko waste daar?” {So I
said, well, “Can I come and waste my time there?} because I’m not gonna go back to where
I’m from, to the Southern suburbs. Ek wil nou my tyd ko’ (kom) waste {I now wanted to
come waste my time}, cos, oh, () So I went there, went to read the newspaper as per usual,
and then he had a very annoying, uh, listener on the phone, but off air. Like music was
playing your side, and, and, and, on, in the studio … he had a, um, a listener on the phone. It
was one of those people that was SO excited, verstaan jy {you understand}, om, vir met die
DJ te praat van {to speak to the DJ}, OOH, hulle’t (hulle het) deur gekom na Clarence toe
{they got through to Clarence}. En Clarence was bietjie besag (besig) {And Clarence was a
bit busy} because daai tyd was alles mos {then everything was} analogue. Jy moet jou CD
in gesit het en jy moet die, die LP op gesit het en {You had to put your CD in and you had
to put the LP on}, you know, nothing was automated. Jy moet alles self gedoen het {You
had to do everything yourself}. And Clarence was besag (besig) om almal daai goed to
doen {And Clarence was busy doing all of this}. En jy moet jou, jou goeters af tick en jou
advertising opsit {and you had to tick your things off and put your advertising on} and
whatever. And (laughter) and, die, hy kan ’ie (nie) rid ko’ (kom) van die phone nie {And he
couldn’t get rid of this phone}. So {So} it’s like die {this} sort of die {this} handsfree
environment waar jy met die speaker moet praat {where you have to talk with (using) a