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Speaker 1: On Canberra's Hit 104.7, it's Rod and Gabby Wrapped.
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Speaker 2: Block party.
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Speaker 3: Huh? It occurred to me when we finished yesterday's show with the snack alert for a new chocolate that had arrived that we saw the new Allen's sherbet fizz, the strawberries and cream, and we found another block of chocolate that had the Allen's party mix. They're famous for their party mix.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Just chucked into the chocolate vat and turned into a block of chocolate. What I didn't notice was they called that block of chocolate Block Party because the party mix in the chocolate block.
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Speaker 5: Definitely said that at the time.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't listening to that.
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Speaker 5: You were too busy crunching. All you could hear was the crunching in your ears.
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Speaker 2: That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
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Speaker 5: Three squares of chocolate at once.
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Speaker 2: I was just staring vacantly at you. Good morning, Gabby.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Hello to you wherever you're joining us across the capital or.
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Speaker 3: Around Australia on the No Nonsense News Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Get them away. This is too early. Said to move the chocolate. Move the chocolate out of the way.
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Speaker 5: I can't believe it's still here. I can't believe it wasn't eaten.
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Speaker 2: I am surprised. After a snack test, good morning, Ashley and Olin, producing the show.
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: We'll often leave something in the studio and come in the next day and it's like a wild bear has broken into the station and eaten whatever food we've left around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a call from Baby Wes after I left work last Friday asking where the chocolate was that we'd tasted that day that we'd left in here. He's like, where's it gone?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He's right to ask.
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Speaker 5: It's often not us that know where it's gone, though.
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Speaker 2: We don't know.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: We have our fill during the show. If you listen to the show, you know, and then we just walk out of here. He was right, you know, before a weekend where any wild bears could break in here. There's a good chance that it's humans, but it appears as far as just the remnants strewn everywhere.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: And we do, we work in a paddock. Never seen a bear, but we certainly have lots of wildlife around us. All right, let's get straight to it here.
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Speaker 2: This is.
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Speaker 5: Someone built like a bear.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know what?
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Speaker 3: In any other line of work, it might be an insult. But in this instance, absolutely a compliment. Yes, a man built like a bear news.
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Speaker 6: We're talking Hutto because PNG were courting him, I would say.
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Speaker 5: Are they still?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Well, according to the Nine Papers, they have paused their pursuit of Hudson Young. And it's based on concerns that matching the Raiders' $ 1. 1 million a year offer, which they have offered him, and the NRL's market valuation would warp their salary cap.
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Speaker 5: Now, there's a lot of stuff going on here that I don't understand.
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Speaker 4: But basically, I think Yeah, that huge offer from the Raiders might be big enough for the Inter to stop pursuing.
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Speaker 5: Is it because they're offering Nathan Cleary so much money that they can't afford anyone else? Possibly. They can't match.
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Speaker 2: You can't buy the best player from every team.
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Speaker 5: God, you wish.
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Speaker 3: Well, if you could, then someone with more money than sense would turn up and do that.
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Speaker 5: That's the whole point of the salary cap, though, right? To make it even across all clubs.
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Speaker 3: And so to try and take the best player from the pennies and the best player from the Raiders, even that in itself might be too much.
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Speaker 2: But I'll be.
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Speaker 3: Honest, I didn't like that they were chasing him, but I felt complimented.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you want your partner to be wanted.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Because it makes you feel like you've got a good one.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and as our partner.
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Speaker 5: But don't leave me.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah. We didn't mind someone checking Hutto out.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we know he's great. Check him out. But keep off. Keep your hands off.
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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing.
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Speaker 3: P & G is an attractive prospect. And we go, is P & G better than us?
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Speaker 5: Is P & G Jolene?
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Speaker 2: I haven't listened enough to the song Jolene.
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Speaker 5: It literally says, Jolene, don't take my man because she's better and hotter.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so P & G.
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Speaker 3: Is the Jolene of the NRL. And I didn't mind it, but now that P & G stopped checking our boy out, I don't like that either.
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Speaker 7: I do.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't like that. Hands off. I feel rejected. Yeah, somehow it's about me. All right, so that's good news.
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Speaker 3: Hudson Young, he's recuperating on the couch.
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Speaker 5: Saw him doing some calf raises yesterday, getting that Achilles moving.
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Speaker 7: That's an Achilles.
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Speaker 3: What a thing to recover from. But the recovery for any injury in 2026, it's possible.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Ironically, with the exception of the concussions. Back in the day, they didn't count them. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: Like players would finish games and go, got no recollection of what happened in the second half.
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Speaker 2: And they were insane badges of honour. And now we know the damage. Yes, absolutely. That can do.
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Speaker 4: But.
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Speaker 3: Otherwise, yes, career-ending things like Achilles that go ding. They're doing calf raises and they'll have all the technology and the hyperbaric chambers and so on and so forth. And he'll be back and he'll be our best player and we'll blow the Chiefs off the park.
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Speaker 2: We better.
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Speaker 3: It's a plan. It's a similar story with, you're right, with Penrith. Sure, they're offering more money than anyone ever ever.
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Speaker 2: For Nathan.
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Speaker 3: But he's still, what the offer's one and a half or something and he's on 1.3 or numbers like that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, to us, a couple of hundred grand difference per year on a five-year deal is significant.
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Speaker 5: But is it worth having that conversation with your dad?
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Speaker 2: When your dad's your coach.
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Speaker 5: It needs to be a big number for it to be worth having that chat.
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Speaker 3: And you know what your dad, who happens to be the coach, but it's also your dad what he's going to say.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's at home at the dinner table or it's down at the club in the boardroom, he's going to say, I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed. I'm just disappointed. And you don't need that. That's not worth $ 200, 000 a year. Netball was created in 1892.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 5: It's a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: Right, I wasn't ready for a ye olde history lesson.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, here we go. And some rules have been revealed of what young ladies were expected to do and how they were expected to behave when playing netball back in ye olde times. What year did you say?
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Speaker 3: 1892.
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Speaker 5: I don't feel like these rules are from 1892 because it's like a magazine printout, so it must be a bit later than that. But the rules, nonetheless, are pretty hilarious.
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Speaker 2: All right. All right. All right.
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Speaker 7: 1890s.
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Speaker 2: I've got some 1890s music.
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Speaker 7: Perfect.
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Speaker 2: This is a banjo player, Ruby Brooks. Take it away, Ruby.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: So these are netball rules for young ladies. Considering I was a netballer growing up, This is hilarious. Rule number one.
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Speaker 2: Anyone who's played netball will relate.
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Speaker 5: Ah, no.
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Speaker 1: 1890s.
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Speaker 5: Rule number one. The game will commence when the referee waves a white handkerchief. No whistles. That's not good.
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Speaker 2: No one wants a whistle.
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Speaker 3: No. They're like you.
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Speaker 5: Rule number two.
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Speaker 2: I don't like a whistle inside a room. You know what? I will request that maybe we start using a white handkerchief.
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Speaker 4: Perfect.
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Speaker 5: Rule number two, the opposing team will walk toward each other in a ladylike manner and inquire after each other's health.
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Speaker 3: I've got to stop this banjo music. It's too crazy. It's too much.
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Speaker 6: Rule number three, the young ladies will then put on gloves so as not to dirty their hands on the ball.
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Speaker 2: They're played with gloves.
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Speaker 6: With white gloves. Rule number four, they will gently throw the ball to their friends.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. This is more like it. Gentle throwing.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: Five, ladies pushing, running or scrambling will be sent off the field in disgrace.
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Speaker 2: Gabrielle! Gabrielle!
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Speaker 3: You can't hear me, but I'm waving a white handkerchief at you, which is my signal to get off.
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Speaker 6: Six, should the opponent's net be too high, a request may be made for it to be lowered.
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Speaker 2: When did they change that? Has anyone checked? If that rule still exists.
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Speaker 5: We should definitely utilise that.
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Speaker 2: I'm making a comeback. I'm going to be dunking the net ball.
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Speaker 5: Without even jumping.
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Speaker 4: Lower.
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Speaker 1: A bit lower.
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Speaker 2: A bit lower. A little bit lower. That's perfect. Perfect.
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Speaker 5: Seven. When a goal is scored, there will be no hysterical shouting, but the opposing captain will curtsy to the scorer.
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Speaker 2: That's a move. Let me tell you. Now, I think that we're.
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Speaker 5: It's an intimidation tactic almost.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're classier than that. I think in 2026, none of us.
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Speaker 2: Are in netball.
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Speaker 3: No one's trash talking the opposition because they can come back and score. But I think turning around and doing a, oh, curtsy in your face.
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Speaker 2: I think. No, no, no.
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Speaker 5: So if you score, I have to curtsy to you to be like, well done.
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Speaker 1: That's so patronising.
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Speaker 7: Isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I know how it's intended, but it's not how it's going to be received.
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Speaker 4: Eight.
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Speaker 5: An interval of 30 minutes will take place while tea is served in the pavilion. This may be prolonged if any girl is fatigued.
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Speaker 3: Hmm.
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Speaker 5: Nine, at the end of the game, a taxi should be ordered for any girl who is tired.
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Speaker 2: These are all great ideas. I don't know why we haven't kept those.
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Speaker 5: Finally, number 10. The next day, the young lady should be given a day's holiday to recover from the exertion.
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Speaker 2: This is genius. I'm definitely back.
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Speaker 5: Let's bring this back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So all I heard was you get a day off after you play netball.
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Speaker 5: And you get tea at interval.
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Speaker 2: It may go longer if I'm tired, which I definitely am.
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Speaker 5: Gabrielle L.
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Speaker 3: Elgood's Fortune Favors.
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Speaker 4: The Forbidden Fairy.
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Speaker 3: You're a novelist?
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Speaker 7: You're an author?
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Speaker 3: I am.
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Speaker 5: Well, it hasn't been published, only broadcast, but that counts.
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Speaker 3: I think a publication and a reading is sometime in your future. However, you do need to finish writing it and we're up to chapter 21.
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Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 6: And last chapter, Lance, who's the fairy who was helping Saphira... hunt down the Dark Prince and turned out to be the Dark Prince, explained.
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Speaker 5: To Sephira, who's a human.
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Speaker 4: Mm.
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Speaker 5: Why he got the bad reputation that he has.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: And it's all his old man's... It's not his fault. His dad's a bad guy. He's been bad-mouthing him around town.
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Speaker 3: Pretty much.
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Speaker 2: And everyone believes it. Are we still in the location? I'm only asking from a sound effect point of view.
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Speaker 5: We still are in the same location. So they're in the inn. They're in Safira's private bedroom. She's gone over and sat on his lap to comfort him.
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Speaker 2: Whoa!
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Speaker 5: The whole inn's on fire.
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Speaker 2: Open fireplace.
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Speaker 6: She's gone and sat on his lap to comfort him after he told her his deepest, darkest history in cigarettes.
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Speaker 3: All right, Ashley Nolan, the narrator, you've just received this. You haven't pre-read it. You'll have the same reaction as the rest of us as you read it whenever you're ready.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Wrapping her arms around his neck, Sophia sighed. I believe you, but I also need time to understand. Lance looked at her with tears in his eyes. I will prove it to you a million times over. Just say you'll give me the chance because I can't bear to lose you. Sephira kissed Lance again while wiping the tear from his eyelashes with her thumb. She repositioned her body to sit astride his lap. She might not fully trust him, but she couldn't deny that her body still fiercely wanted him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because, like, it is about ten seconds ago she said, I'm going to need a moment.
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Speaker 2: Well, she still needs a moment.
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Speaker 5: But, you know, you can have a moment. While having a moment.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the moment has passed, and now it's time for a new moment.
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Speaker 4: Lance gripped her thighs, pulling her flush with his body. She gasped when she felt how much he wanted her too. With a growl, Lance stood, still holding Sephira. She gripped her muscular thighs around his waist as he turned to place her on the bed. Taking his time to remove her pants, she whimpered, Please hurry up.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm just thinking anatomically. I'm thinking, he's a tall guy.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: The pants removal, Gabby, talk us through.
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Speaker 5: Well, he's put her on the bed and then he stood back up.
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Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, I missed that part.
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Speaker 5: And now he's taken the pants off.
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Speaker 2: Gabby just mimed that.
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Speaker 5: Whole movie to me. And now you understand.
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Speaker 2: It was graphic. Sorry, go on.
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Speaker 4: With a chuckle, he ripped the buttons off her shirt to expose her bare chest before quickly disposing of his own clothes, as you wish. Lowering himself onto the bed, he was taken by surprise, with Sephira moving quickly to tackle him and position herself on top.
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Speaker 3: It really turned the vibe around from, you know, oh, I've been bad-mouthed by my dad my entire life.
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Speaker 5: Chemistry takes over sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, go on.
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Speaker 4: I need to be in control, she stated, and he understood after everything that had happened over the last hours. Scratching her nails down his chest, She started licking down his body, stopping just shy of his hip, teasing and taunting because she had to admit she was still a little angry with Lance for lying to her.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, furious.
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Speaker 2: She's really teaching him, okay, go on, go on.
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Speaker 4: After what felt like an eternity, she finally took him in her mouth. Lance yelled out in surprise, no, stop, I won't last. Sephira smiled, crawling her way back up his body and taking him the way she liked, riding and grinding her way to ecstasy. Body still shaking with after tremors, Sephira collapsed on Lance's chest while he continued to to his completion. They both lay panting, cuddling, sated. But Sephira wasn't done. She knew this would be the last night with Lance for a while, so she was going to make the most of it.
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Speaker 2: Gabrielle L. Elgood.
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Speaker 3: I might mention off-air, Gabby said, listen, this isn't as, you know, hardcore as, like, the other episode that we all remember.
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Speaker 2: And clearly you were laying a trap for all this.
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Speaker 5: Well, if you're unaware of how hardcore it was, the uncensored version will be on the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Great point, great point. There was.
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Speaker 3: There was a few beeps necessary. Some moments that needed to be covered for commercial broadcast on the wireless. But no, the No Nonsense News podcast will have the uncensored version.
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Speaker 5: The full display.
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Speaker 4: What a.
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Speaker 2: You know what? I'm not going to keep talking. Let's move on.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to keep talking at all.
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Speaker 2: What a morning it's been with just getting a little bit of culture into the place.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's unexpected for us to class the join up a bit.
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Speaker 2: And it's even more unexpected from, no it's not, it's absolutely expected from Baby Wes. He's an actor.
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Speaker 5: More expected from him than us.
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Speaker 3: He's a thespian, he's a student of the arts and he spent the morning at our National Gallery of Australia.
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Speaker 2: Come in Baby Wes. Hey guys, how's it going? Come in Wesley today.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's classy today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Rod and Gabby. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: The David Hockney Portraits in Print exhibition is overwhelming as far as the largest collection outside the mother country. And you have Magda Keeney, the head curator for international art at our National.
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Speaker 2: Gallery with you. I mean, that's a gift.
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Speaker 3: Going along as any of us do, and you can have tours, but to actually have the privilege of being there with the head curator, do you feel you've learned more?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel super fortunate to have been joined by Magda and Fiona this morning. The amount of knowledge that these guys have is unreal. I feel like I've taken away so much from this.
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Speaker 2: Gabby's been very distracted, fascinated by.
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Speaker 6: Well, I found out there was a link between this artist and Harry Styles.
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Speaker 3: Well, Harry Styles paid tribute to David Hockney on his passing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just wanted to know what that link was. Do you have the answer for us, Wes?
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Speaker 2: I do have Magda with me, so I can ask.
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Speaker 1: So, obviously, he's painted so many people throughout his career.
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Speaker 2: What shared quality do.
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Speaker 1: You think Harry Styles had that kind of gave interest to David Hockney to paint him?
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Speaker 5: Look, absolutely, it's a great question.
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Speaker 7: Now, it's not a painting that's in our show, of course. But it's such a wonderful work that he painted in 2022 for a big exhibition about portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in London. But I really think it's Hockney's interest in the face that's so wonderful in the Harry Styles portrait and that you really pick up in our show. But also a sense of intimacy. You know, sure, Harry Styles is super famous and a fabulous musician and artist and we all love him. But I don't think David's so interested in fame and depicting that. He's interested in the person. He's interested in their face. He's interested in getting to know them and the intimacy. And I think that's the real link to the portraits that you'll see here in Canberra.
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Speaker 1: 100%. For someone who's never heard of David Hockney, why would you say he's become one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st century?
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Speaker 7: Look, he's just, yeah, he is one of the most important was one of the most important artists of our times. He passed away in June this year. He had a really long career, you know, over six decades. He was incredibly talented as an artist. He's a fantastic painter, a fantastic draftsman. But I think it's sort of how he saw the world and his sort of relentless, unfathomable, almost creative energy and drive that underpins his practice, that really just keeps him pushing forward his work and what he's doing. that relates to how he saw the world. And I think that's something that when you look at his work, we all understand in how we see the world and we get something from. Definitely.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful work, Baby Wes.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for taking us inside a little bit as much of a virtual tour that can be given of an incredible exhibition.
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Speaker 2: On the radio. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: As we said, you know, historically, yes, the king of pop culture art has always been Andy Warhol. But when it comes to London and coming out of that part of the world, this is where it is at from a pop culture point of view. David Hockney, incredible. What a gift for us to have the largest collection on display at the moment. at the National Gallery of Australia. Thank Magna Keeney, our Head Curator of International Art there, and thank you, mate, for classing the show up this morning.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I hope I did a good job of giving the virtual tour, but seriously, nothing can beat coming here and seeing it for yourself and hearing from the professionals who have such a wealth of knowledge.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to think you might be rostered on to guide some of the tours now.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, maybe. Have I got a job?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a solid absolutely.
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Speaker 1: See you guys.
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Speaker 7: Woo!
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Speaker 1: Woo!
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Speaker 4: Woo!
Speaker 1: On Canberra's Hit 104.7, it's Rod and Gabby Wrapped.
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Speaker 2: Block party.
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Speaker 3: Huh? It occurred to me when we finished yesterday's show with the snack alert for a new chocolate that had arrived that we saw the new Allen's sherbet fizz, the strawberries and cream, and we found another block of chocolate that had the Allen's party mix. They're famous for their party mix.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Just chucked into the chocolate vat and turned into a block of chocolate. What I didn't notice was they called that block of chocolate Block Party because the party mix in the chocolate block.
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Speaker 5: Definitely said that at the time.
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Speaker 2: I wasn't listening to that.
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Speaker 5: You were too busy crunching. All you could hear was the crunching in your ears.
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Speaker 2: That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
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Speaker 5: Three squares of chocolate at once.
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Speaker 2: I was just staring vacantly at you. Good morning, Gabby.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Hello to you wherever you're joining us across the capital or.
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Speaker 3: Around Australia on the No Nonsense News Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Get them away. This is too early. Said to move the chocolate. Move the chocolate out of the way.
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Speaker 5: I can't believe it's still here. I can't believe it wasn't eaten.
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Speaker 2: I am surprised. After a snack test, good morning, Ashley and Olin, producing the show.
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: We'll often leave something in the studio and come in the next day and it's like a wild bear has broken into the station and eaten whatever food we've left around.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a call from Baby Wes after I left work last Friday asking where the chocolate was that we'd tasted that day that we'd left in here. He's like, where's it gone?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He's right to ask.
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Speaker 5: It's often not us that know where it's gone, though.
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Speaker 2: We don't know.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: We have our fill during the show. If you listen to the show, you know, and then we just walk out of here. He was right, you know, before a weekend where any wild bears could break in here. There's a good chance that it's humans, but it appears as far as just the remnants strewn everywhere.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: And we do, we work in a paddock. Never seen a bear, but we certainly have lots of wildlife around us. All right, let's get straight to it here.
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Speaker 2: This is.
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Speaker 5: Someone built like a bear.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know what?
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Speaker 3: In any other line of work, it might be an insult. But in this instance, absolutely a compliment. Yes, a man built like a bear news.
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Speaker 6: We're talking Hutto because PNG were courting him, I would say.
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Speaker 5: Are they still?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: Well, according to the Nine Papers, they have paused their pursuit of Hudson Young. And it's based on concerns that matching the Raiders' $ 1. 1 million a year offer, which they have offered him, and the NRL's market valuation would warp their salary cap.
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Speaker 5: Now, there's a lot of stuff going on here that I don't understand.
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Speaker 4: But basically, I think Yeah, that huge offer from the Raiders might be big enough for the Inter to stop pursuing.
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Speaker 5: Is it because they're offering Nathan Cleary so much money that they can't afford anyone else? Possibly. They can't match.
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Speaker 2: You can't buy the best player from every team.
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Speaker 5: God, you wish.
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Speaker 3: Well, if you could, then someone with more money than sense would turn up and do that.
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Speaker 5: That's the whole point of the salary cap, though, right? To make it even across all clubs.
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Speaker 3: And so to try and take the best player from the pennies and the best player from the Raiders, even that in itself might be too much.
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Speaker 2: But I'll be.
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Speaker 3: Honest, I didn't like that they were chasing him, but I felt complimented.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you want your partner to be wanted.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Because it makes you feel like you've got a good one.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and as our partner.
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Speaker 5: But don't leave me.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah. We didn't mind someone checking Hutto out.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we know he's great. Check him out. But keep off. Keep your hands off.
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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing.
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Speaker 3: P & G is an attractive prospect. And we go, is P & G better than us?
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Speaker 5: Is P & G Jolene?
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Speaker 2: I haven't listened enough to the song Jolene.
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Speaker 5: It literally says, Jolene, don't take my man because she's better and hotter.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so P & G.
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Speaker 3: Is the Jolene of the NRL. And I didn't mind it, but now that P & G stopped checking our boy out, I don't like that either.
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Speaker 7: I do.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't like that. Hands off. I feel rejected. Yeah, somehow it's about me. All right, so that's good news.
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Speaker 3: Hudson Young, he's recuperating on the couch.
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Speaker 5: Saw him doing some calf raises yesterday, getting that Achilles moving.
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Speaker 7: That's an Achilles.
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Speaker 3: What a thing to recover from. But the recovery for any injury in 2026, it's possible.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Ironically, with the exception of the concussions. Back in the day, they didn't count them. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: Like players would finish games and go, got no recollection of what happened in the second half.
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Speaker 2: And they were insane badges of honour. And now we know the damage. Yes, absolutely. That can do.
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Speaker 4: But.
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Speaker 3: Otherwise, yes, career-ending things like Achilles that go ding. They're doing calf raises and they'll have all the technology and the hyperbaric chambers and so on and so forth. And he'll be back and he'll be our best player and we'll blow the Chiefs off the park.
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Speaker 2: We better.
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Speaker 3: It's a plan. It's a similar story with, you're right, with Penrith. Sure, they're offering more money than anyone ever ever.
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Speaker 2: For Nathan.
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Speaker 3: But he's still, what the offer's one and a half or something and he's on 1.3 or numbers like that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, to us, a couple of hundred grand difference per year on a five-year deal is significant.
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Speaker 5: But is it worth having that conversation with your dad?
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Speaker 2: When your dad's your coach.
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Speaker 5: It needs to be a big number for it to be worth having that chat.
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Speaker 3: And you know what your dad, who happens to be the coach, but it's also your dad what he's going to say.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's at home at the dinner table or it's down at the club in the boardroom, he's going to say, I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed. I'm just disappointed. And you don't need that. That's not worth $ 200, 000 a year. Netball was created in 1892.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 5: It's a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: Right, I wasn't ready for a ye olde history lesson.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, here we go. And some rules have been revealed of what young ladies were expected to do and how they were expected to behave when playing netball back in ye olde times. What year did you say?
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Speaker 3: 1892.
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Speaker 5: I don't feel like these rules are from 1892 because it's like a magazine printout, so it must be a bit later than that. But the rules, nonetheless, are pretty hilarious.
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Speaker 2: All right. All right. All right.
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Speaker 7: 1890s.
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Speaker 2: I've got some 1890s music.
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Speaker 7: Perfect.
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Speaker 2: This is a banjo player, Ruby Brooks. Take it away, Ruby.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 5: So these are netball rules for young ladies. Considering I was a netballer growing up, This is hilarious. Rule number one.
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Speaker 2: Anyone who's played netball will relate.
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Speaker 5: Ah, no.
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Speaker 1: 1890s.
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Speaker 5: Rule number one. The game will commence when the referee waves a white handkerchief. No whistles. That's not good.
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Speaker 2: No one wants a whistle.
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Speaker 3: No. They're like you.
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Speaker 5: Rule number two.
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Speaker 2: I don't like a whistle inside a room. You know what? I will request that maybe we start using a white handkerchief.
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Speaker 4: Perfect.
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Speaker 5: Rule number two, the opposing team will walk toward each other in a ladylike manner and inquire after each other's health.
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Speaker 3: I've got to stop this banjo music. It's too crazy. It's too much.
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Speaker 6: Rule number three, the young ladies will then put on gloves so as not to dirty their hands on the ball.
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Speaker 2: They're played with gloves.
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Speaker 6: With white gloves. Rule number four, they will gently throw the ball to their friends.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. This is more like it. Gentle throwing.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: Five, ladies pushing, running or scrambling will be sent off the field in disgrace.
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Speaker 2: Gabrielle! Gabrielle!
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Speaker 3: You can't hear me, but I'm waving a white handkerchief at you, which is my signal to get off.
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Speaker 6: Six, should the opponent's net be too high, a request may be made for it to be lowered.
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Speaker 2: When did they change that? Has anyone checked? If that rule still exists.
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Speaker 5: We should definitely utilise that.
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Speaker 2: I'm making a comeback. I'm going to be dunking the net ball.
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Speaker 5: Without even jumping.
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Speaker 4: Lower.
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Speaker 1: A bit lower.
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Speaker 2: A bit lower. A little bit lower. That's perfect. Perfect.
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Speaker 5: Seven. When a goal is scored, there will be no hysterical shouting, but the opposing captain will curtsy to the scorer.
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Speaker 2: That's a move. Let me tell you. Now, I think that we're.
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Speaker 5: It's an intimidation tactic almost.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're classier than that. I think in 2026, none of us.
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Speaker 2: Are in netball.
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Speaker 3: No one's trash talking the opposition because they can come back and score. But I think turning around and doing a, oh, curtsy in your face.
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Speaker 2: I think. No, no, no.
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Speaker 5: So if you score, I have to curtsy to you to be like, well done.
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Speaker 1: That's so patronising.
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Speaker 7: Isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I know how it's intended, but it's not how it's going to be received.
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Speaker 4: Eight.
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Speaker 5: An interval of 30 minutes will take place while tea is served in the pavilion. This may be prolonged if any girl is fatigued.
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Speaker 3: Hmm.
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Speaker 5: Nine, at the end of the game, a taxi should be ordered for any girl who is tired.
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Speaker 2: These are all great ideas. I don't know why we haven't kept those.
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Speaker 5: Finally, number 10. The next day, the young lady should be given a day's holiday to recover from the exertion.
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Speaker 2: This is genius. I'm definitely back.
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Speaker 5: Let's bring this back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So all I heard was you get a day off after you play netball.
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Speaker 5: And you get tea at interval.
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Speaker 2: It may go longer if I'm tired, which I definitely am.
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Speaker 5: Gabrielle L.
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Speaker 3: Elgood's Fortune Favors.
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Speaker 4: The Forbidden Fairy.
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Speaker 3: You're a novelist?
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Speaker 7: You're an author?
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Speaker 3: I am.
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Speaker 5: Well, it hasn't been published, only broadcast, but that counts.
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Speaker 3: I think a publication and a reading is sometime in your future. However, you do need to finish writing it and we're up to chapter 21.
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Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 6: And last chapter, Lance, who's the fairy who was helping Saphira... hunt down the Dark Prince and turned out to be the Dark Prince, explained.
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Speaker 5: To Sephira, who's a human.
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Speaker 4: Mm.
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Speaker 5: Why he got the bad reputation that he has.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: And it's all his old man's... It's not his fault. His dad's a bad guy. He's been bad-mouthing him around town.
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Speaker 3: Pretty much.
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Speaker 2: And everyone believes it. Are we still in the location? I'm only asking from a sound effect point of view.
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Speaker 5: We still are in the same location. So they're in the inn. They're in Safira's private bedroom. She's gone over and sat on his lap to comfort him.
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Speaker 2: Whoa!
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Speaker 5: The whole inn's on fire.
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Speaker 2: Open fireplace.
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Speaker 6: She's gone and sat on his lap to comfort him after he told her his deepest, darkest history in cigarettes.
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Speaker 3: All right, Ashley Nolan, the narrator, you've just received this. You haven't pre-read it. You'll have the same reaction as the rest of us as you read it whenever you're ready.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Wrapping her arms around his neck, Sophia sighed. I believe you, but I also need time to understand. Lance looked at her with tears in his eyes. I will prove it to you a million times over. Just say you'll give me the chance because I can't bear to lose you. Sephira kissed Lance again while wiping the tear from his eyelashes with her thumb. She repositioned her body to sit astride his lap. She might not fully trust him, but she couldn't deny that her body still fiercely wanted him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because, like, it is about ten seconds ago she said, I'm going to need a moment.
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Speaker 2: Well, she still needs a moment.
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Speaker 5: But, you know, you can have a moment. While having a moment.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the moment has passed, and now it's time for a new moment.
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Speaker 4: Lance gripped her thighs, pulling her flush with his body. She gasped when she felt how much he wanted her too. With a growl, Lance stood, still holding Sephira. She gripped her muscular thighs around his waist as he turned to place her on the bed. Taking his time to remove her pants, she whimpered, Please hurry up.
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Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm just thinking anatomically. I'm thinking, he's a tall guy.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: The pants removal, Gabby, talk us through.
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Speaker 5: Well, he's put her on the bed and then he stood back up.
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Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, I missed that part.
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Speaker 5: And now he's taken the pants off.
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Speaker 2: Gabby just mimed that.
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Speaker 5: Whole movie to me. And now you understand.
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Speaker 2: It was graphic. Sorry, go on.
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Speaker 4: With a chuckle, he ripped the buttons off her shirt to expose her bare chest before quickly disposing of his own clothes, as you wish. Lowering himself onto the bed, he was taken by surprise, with Sephira moving quickly to tackle him and position herself on top.
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Speaker 3: It really turned the vibe around from, you know, oh, I've been bad-mouthed by my dad my entire life.
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Speaker 5: Chemistry takes over sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, go on.
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Speaker 4: I need to be in control, she stated, and he understood after everything that had happened over the last hours. Scratching her nails down his chest, She started licking down his body, stopping just shy of his hip, teasing and taunting because she had to admit she was still a little angry with Lance for lying to her.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, furious.
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Speaker 2: She's really teaching him, okay, go on, go on.
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Speaker 4: After what felt like an eternity, she finally took him in her mouth. Lance yelled out in surprise, no, stop, I won't last. Sephira smiled, crawling her way back up his body and taking him the way she liked, riding and grinding her way to ecstasy. Body still shaking with after tremors, Sephira collapsed on Lance's chest while he continued to to his completion. They both lay panting, cuddling, sated. But Sephira wasn't done. She knew this would be the last night with Lance for a while, so she was going to make the most of it.
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Speaker 2: Gabrielle L. Elgood.
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Speaker 3: I might mention off-air, Gabby said, listen, this isn't as, you know, hardcore as, like, the other episode that we all remember.
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Speaker 2: And clearly you were laying a trap for all this.
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Speaker 5: Well, if you're unaware of how hardcore it was, the uncensored version will be on the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Great point, great point. There was.
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Speaker 3: There was a few beeps necessary. Some moments that needed to be covered for commercial broadcast on the wireless. But no, the No Nonsense News podcast will have the uncensored version.
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Speaker 5: The full display.
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Speaker 4: What a.
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Speaker 2: You know what? I'm not going to keep talking. Let's move on.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to keep talking at all.
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Speaker 2: What a morning it's been with just getting a little bit of culture into the place.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's unexpected for us to class the join up a bit.
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Speaker 2: And it's even more unexpected from, no it's not, it's absolutely expected from Baby Wes. He's an actor.
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Speaker 5: More expected from him than us.
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Speaker 3: He's a thespian, he's a student of the arts and he spent the morning at our National Gallery of Australia.
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Speaker 2: Come in Baby Wes. Hey guys, how's it going? Come in Wesley today.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's classy today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Rod and Gabby. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: The David Hockney Portraits in Print exhibition is overwhelming as far as the largest collection outside the mother country. And you have Magda Keeney, the head curator for international art at our National.
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Speaker 2: Gallery with you. I mean, that's a gift.
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Speaker 3: Going along as any of us do, and you can have tours, but to actually have the privilege of being there with the head curator, do you feel you've learned more?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel super fortunate to have been joined by Magda and Fiona this morning. The amount of knowledge that these guys have is unreal. I feel like I've taken away so much from this.
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Speaker 2: Gabby's been very distracted, fascinated by.
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Speaker 6: Well, I found out there was a link between this artist and Harry Styles.
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Speaker 3: Well, Harry Styles paid tribute to David Hockney on his passing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just wanted to know what that link was. Do you have the answer for us, Wes?
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Speaker 2: I do have Magda with me, so I can ask.
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Speaker 1: So, obviously, he's painted so many people throughout his career.
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Speaker 2: What shared quality do.
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Speaker 1: You think Harry Styles had that kind of gave interest to David Hockney to paint him?
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Speaker 5: Look, absolutely, it's a great question.
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Speaker 7: Now, it's not a painting that's in our show, of course. But it's such a wonderful work that he painted in 2022 for a big exhibition about portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in London. But I really think it's Hockney's interest in the face that's so wonderful in the Harry Styles portrait and that you really pick up in our show. But also a sense of intimacy. You know, sure, Harry Styles is super famous and a fabulous musician and artist and we all love him. But I don't think David's so interested in fame and depicting that. He's interested in the person. He's interested in their face. He's interested in getting to know them and the intimacy. And I think that's the real link to the portraits that you'll see here in Canberra.
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Speaker 1: 100%. For someone who's never heard of David Hockney, why would you say he's become one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st century?
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Speaker 7: Look, he's just, yeah, he is one of the most important was one of the most important artists of our times. He passed away in June this year. He had a really long career, you know, over six decades. He was incredibly talented as an artist. He's a fantastic painter, a fantastic draftsman. But I think it's sort of how he saw the world and his sort of relentless, unfathomable, almost creative energy and drive that underpins his practice, that really just keeps him pushing forward his work and what he's doing. that relates to how he saw the world. And I think that's something that when you look at his work, we all understand in how we see the world and we get something from. Definitely.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful work, Baby Wes.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for taking us inside a little bit as much of a virtual tour that can be given of an incredible exhibition.
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Speaker 2: On the radio. Thank you.
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Speaker 3: As we said, you know, historically, yes, the king of pop culture art has always been Andy Warhol. But when it comes to London and coming out of that part of the world, this is where it is at from a pop culture point of view. David Hockney, incredible. What a gift for us to have the largest collection on display at the moment. at the National Gallery of Australia. Thank Magna Keeney, our Head Curator of International Art there, and thank you, mate, for classing the show up this morning.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I hope I did a good job of giving the virtual tour, but seriously, nothing can beat coming here and seeing it for yourself and hearing from the professionals who have such a wealth of knowledge.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to think you might be rostered on to guide some of the tours now.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, maybe. Have I got a job?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a solid absolutely.
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Speaker 1: See you guys.
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Speaker 7: Woo!
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Speaker 1: Woo!
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Speaker 4: Woo!
