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Speaker 1: I sift through Albo's Bruce master plan. This isn't the Chief Minister's, this is Albo's.
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Speaker 2: The strategic master plan. This is interesting, hey?
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Speaker 1: Albo's chucked $ 10 million, and that's why the plan has 142 pages.
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Speaker 3: And that's, by the way, not including appendices. I refuse to open those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the $ 10 million was supporting to develop The long-term plan.
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Speaker 3: $ 10 million plan.
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Speaker 2: They said $ 10 million to make a plan.
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Speaker 1: It's a bloody good document, though, and it'd want to be for 10 mil. But thank you to the feds for dropping 150 on the AIS.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic. Great news for the future Brizzy32.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 3: We might not have anywhere to stay in Rockhampton for the rowers.
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Speaker 2: But we've got rowers going because they're training at the AIS.
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Speaker 3: We'll be fit as.
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Speaker 1: Mally bulls and exhausted because we'll be sleeping in our boats, I suppose.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Now, back to Bruce. Okay, so I've had a look at the maps. Scenario one versus scenario two. I said, oh, we're going to squabble over this. There's no question. Scenario two, you know, I was talking about the engineers. They design a thing with a couple of things. They know they're not going to get past finance, so they can take a couple of things out.
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Speaker 3: That's scenario two. No one wants scenario two.
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Speaker 2: Why? What's in scenario two that we don't want?
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Speaker 3: Stadium zhuzha.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we don't want a zhuzha.
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Speaker 3: Guess what I've just discovered in scenario one?
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 3: New stadium.
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Speaker 6: Where?
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Speaker 3: Here we go. Well, I'll get the map up here in front of us.
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Speaker 1: So, scenario one in Albo's Bruce plan that I suspect he'll say to the chief, you pay for it.
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Speaker 3: Albo's like the guy who takes you for a beer. He invites you out.
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Speaker 2: Then makes you pay?
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Speaker 3: You go, I'll get the first round, and then he splits before the second round.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Scenario one, this scenario promotes a significant redevelopment of the site's central east-west core as a branch. East-west core? Don't let.
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Speaker 2: There's no such thing as east-west.
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Speaker 3: That's the core. And so the point is it's a clean slate.
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Speaker 2: East-west core, maybe?
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Speaker 3: It just says east-west. For $ 10 million, he's not leaving two out. Albo's worked all night on this. The plan assumes the relocation of the CIT campus. We just moved the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's already, they're already, oh no, no, no, no. I'm thinking of University of New South Wales is going into CIT in the city.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 5: Different.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And consideration of land swap arrangements. That's great.
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Speaker 1: This clean slate allows the desired stadium renewal, which is misleading because you go, stadium renewal, what? To be delivered more centrally within the precinct, blah, blah, blah. So they're going to bang in the light rail. But if I show you the two maps, the two stadiums are in a different spot. So scenario B or two has the stadium in its current spot. If we tempt fate and leave it where it is, it'll just be Jewished.
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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: They don't have the.
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Speaker 2: Ability to knock it down and start again because there's nowhere else to play.
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Speaker 1: Scenario one, clean slate, knock it down, build a new one, sports entertainment precinct.
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Speaker 3: I'm very aware of the education, of the work, of the accommodation, of all those things. It's very important.
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Speaker 2: But this stadium.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's, I mean, yeah, we've spoken about it for a while. So, you know, no one's said they're going to pay for it yet, but this $ 10 million map.
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Speaker 3: I've worked out which one we should go for, and that's page 24 of 142, and I'm really done.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to read the rest.
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Speaker 4: Because we want that, we're not going to get it. That's how I, like.
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Speaker 2: That's how pessimistic I am about this entire situation.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's a negative attitude. Negativity breeds negative outcomes.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to be positive and I'm going to.
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Speaker 2: I'm negative after the 20 years we've been fighting for this.
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Speaker 3: Albo worked all night. And now we need the chief to pay for it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, let's go to Ashley Nolan in the producer's booth. We're on leave in a couple of weeks. Is the chief joining us before we go on leave or when we get back?
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Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm waiting for the dates they've got in their diary, but I've told them when you're not here. So he's not going to turn up.
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Speaker 3: I bet you he's.
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Speaker 2: Scheduled it for when we're not here.
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Speaker 3: He's absolutely for sure.
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Speaker 2: So then he'll be like, bye Will.
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Speaker 1: Sorry guys, I've dropped by. We'll see if he can pop in next week. I mean, it's a huge ask. He is flat out and we certainly appreciate it when.
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Speaker 2: He gives us a visit. Well, he's looking over this 140 page document as we speak as well.
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Speaker 6: He's like, oh God.
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Speaker 3: He's like me.
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Speaker 1: He got to page 24 and went, plan A. Now he's looking, you know when you've got to go, you'd have an unscheduled thing that you've got to pay for. Like when you set a tires on your car, you should have that in your budget by the way.
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Speaker 5: Anyway.
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Speaker 1: That's a him problem, and we'll catch up with the Chief sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 3: Gabby, you loved this show.
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Speaker 4: I still am obsessed with The Traitors on 10. So Gretel Colleen was hosting it, which I absolutely adored. And it's like a murder mystery party where there's murderers amongst them. There was three traitors picked at the start and they had to pretend like they weren't traitors and play the game and everyone else had to try to figure out who the traitors were.
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Speaker 3: It never occurred to me until we had the winner of the show, who is joining us right now, Kirby Bentley. on the line.
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Speaker 1: It didn't occur to me until literally today that by winning this, and that's great, a couple of hundred grand, terrific, you're now known as Australia's greatest liar.
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Speaker 3: Kirby, is this good news or bad news? Congratulations. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if I want that reputation.
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Speaker 3: No, thank you.
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Speaker 7: Same around.
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Speaker 4: But the role of traitor was thrust upon you. It's not like you had a choice. So if you wanted to win this game, you had absolutely no choice but to lie your way through it.
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Speaker 2: And you did it so well.
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Speaker 4: Right at the end, though, so Kira from The Bachelor, she was there with you at the end. She trusted you so immensely she thought you were going to share in the money. And then you said you were a traitor and she was quite devastated.
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Speaker 2: You were close to her on the show.
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Speaker 4: Are you still friends now or was that a bit too much of a betrayal for her to trust you in the outside world?
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 7: Funny enough, the whole cast are pretty close and it's probably the closest group of people that we've ever– we're trauma bonded. So, you know, it's a hectic experience. Yeah. And my lying, like I didn't lie very often, but when I did, it was to say obviously that I'm a faithful, but it was more just shifting or planting a seed for somebody. And it's a social game. So the fact that Kira and I hadn't spoken really much early on in the game and I slowly worked my relationship out with her, we obviously got really close and then Yeah, that betrayal wasn't easy and I was obviously exhausted and then there's me and Rhys and the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Kirby, when you were cast for this, you didn't know that, you know, once you got onto set and you would draw the short or long straw of being a traitor. Had it occurred to you what type of challenge this was or did you really learn about yourself as you went along and stepped up to the challenge?
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Speaker 7: I always wanted to go in... As a trader, I think that's where the game's played and I like knowing all the information then to be able to understand how to move through the game. I think the challenge for me is my choice of clothing when Queen hears my jacket and then I've got that to deal with.
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Speaker 4: So just for anyone who wasn't watching, Gretel goes around and taps the trader on the shoulder while everyone's blindfolded. And when she tapped Kirby on the shoulder, the person next to her Queen heard her jacket rustle. So right early on, on day number one, there were suspicions around you being a traitor because it sounded like your shoulder was tapped.
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Speaker 3: What was your jacket made out of?
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Speaker 7: Well, it felt like a garbage bag at that stage. It was so loud. So I'm not only walking in as a survivor person, I have this garbage bag jacket on and the Queen's told me and one of them's a survivor person, so that's wild in itself. But I'm just so lucky that Alvin was standing there and Alvin was the traitor and Alvin was so quiet that nobody remembered he was even in the conversation.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the other traitors, they did break under pressure when it came down to it. There was Alvin and Alex. Alex was from The Bachelor as well. Alvin was from Mastership, is that right?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And they both cracked.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And by the end of it, Alex was like, I'm out because it was too stressful. It was too hard.
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Speaker 4: Lying to people got too much. But you managed to keep sailing your way through. Is that a difference in personality, difference in game, or just a difference in how much you wanted that money?
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Speaker 7: No, it is so incredibly hard. And as traders, as soon as somebody is saying your name, I had heat on me the entire game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: For the first two or three eps, they were really coming at me. But I was exhausted in that moment, like in those moments anyway. So when their name started to get mentioned, you could see the pressure. And it is pressure. But when it just mounted on them so quickly, we couldn't really put the fires out. Yeah. Because it was all of a sudden. And that's what it felt like. At least with me, there was speculation. Yeah. But nothing concrete because... we'd eliminated Queen straight away and just dealt with it.
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Speaker 3: Well, well done. You had the eye of the tiger and you locked right in.
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Speaker 2: You played an amazing game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I.
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Speaker 1: Suspect the types of things that you needed on Survivor translated really well in the end to success on the traders. You've gone and won the entire thing. You've got a publicist or a manager that's lined up another thing. When do we see you on the telly again?
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Speaker 7: Well, I don't think I'll make it very far unless it's like an honesty game. The only thing I can do is tell the truth, though.
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Speaker 3: Everyone will be suspicious of you straight away. Yeah, that's true. Select the next show very carefully.
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Speaker 1: We look forward to chatting with you again whenever that happens or next time you're in Canberra.
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: It's time for another chapter of my romanticy.
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Speaker 5: Gabrielle L. L.
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Speaker 4: Goods, Fortune Favors, The Forbidden Fairy.
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Speaker 1: You are writing a romantic erotica novel. It's the most popular genre of book in the world. You read a lot of them. It made sense that you were going to become an author. And it's captured the attention of the nation's capital. Everyone's talking about it. And when the reading is after 7 o'clock, we assume that it is fit for broadcast outside the naughty 6.40 spot.
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Speaker 4: It is today because we're still filling in some plot points.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: And it's about Sephira.
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Speaker 3: She's a human.
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Speaker 4: She went on a hunt to find the Dark Prince. Her mother, in her dying wish, told her she needed to kill him.
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Speaker 3: Get him.
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Speaker 4: Lance helped her out in her journey. Then she found out Lance was actually the Dark Prince and she got very confused. Very much confused because her body is like a magnet to his.
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Speaker 7: But.
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Speaker 4: She is confused because she's like, well, I've been told my whole life you're a bad guy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: You're telling me you're not.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: So she's now on a mission to go find her father, who's still living, to find out the truth. And Lance is a fairy, by the way. Big fairy, big wings.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a little fairy.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 4: Is that all we need.
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Speaker 3: To know at this point? That's all the backstory.
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Speaker 2: I found a few spelling.
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Speaker 4: Errors, so apologies to Ash if you've got to sift through them while you read.
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Speaker 1: Esteemed journalist Ashley Nolan, you've received this chapter.
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Speaker 3: You haven't pre-read it. You'll hear it with the rest of us. Oh, sound effects?
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Speaker 2: Well, she's going across the lake at first, then she's back in the forest.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so she's.
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Speaker 2: On the lake. Yeah, so lake and then forest, please.
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, lake and then forest. Okay, give me a second here.
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Speaker 5: Lake... Lake, water.
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Speaker 3: Let's see what happens. All right. And let's head to the Lake of... Desire.
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Speaker 5: Desire.
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Speaker 3: Take it away, Niles.
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Speaker 5: Sephira travelled across the Lake of Desire, fighting the urge to glance into the water in fear she wouldn't see Lance this time after finding out he is the Dark Prince.
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Speaker 3: It happens when you're someone, you know, who you've had a bust up with.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And you're like, the last person I need to see is this guy.
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Speaker 4: Well, no, she saw him last time. She looked into the lake and it was a hot scene. And she's worried she won't see that because she's so confused about who he is now.
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Speaker 3: You're right.
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Speaker 5: So she wants to see the hot scene.
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Speaker 2: She wants to see him, but she's scared she won't.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, go.
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Speaker 5: After finding out he is the Dark Prince and the confusion that had created... She moved back through to the forest, moving faster this time now that she knew the way and didn't have the distraction of Lance's hard body tempting her at every turn.
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Speaker 3: That is distraction. It is big distraction.
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Speaker 5: Finally, she reached the old stone bridge just as the sun began to rise on the second day of travel and someone was waiting on the other side, her father.
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Speaker 3: Are we out of the water?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: She said we're moving through the forest.
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Speaker 5: There we go.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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Speaker 3: Bird life is.
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Speaker 2: But we're the bridge, so the water still could have worked.
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Speaker 7: Terrific.
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Speaker 5: Sephira stopped for several seconds. Neither of them spoke. Then he looked at her with sadness in his eyes. You shouldn't have come here. Sephira's fingers curled into fists. I came for the truth. The truth about the Dark Prince. The truth about Lance. Her father's face changed, and in that instant, Sephira knew her father had known him long before she ever set foot into the forest in her hunt for him. Dad, what did you do? Lance, having flown and arrived long before Sephira, was hidden in the trees, listening to every word, ready to spring into action at any sign of danger.
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Speaker 1: It's just occurred to me he can fly.
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Speaker 3: I know, right?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It's the first time he's flown in all these episodes.
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Speaker 2: Well, he hasn't needed to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been doing everything but.
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Speaker 4: Well, because they could have gotten to where they needed to go quickly, but he didn't want that, right?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: It was a hot journey.
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Speaker 5: Sephira's father took a shaky breath. I sent you to find him, not to kill him. Pausing, he forced the next words out with a pained expression. Lance isn't the one you needed to fear, Sephira.
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Speaker 3: It was your mother. Whoa!
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Speaker 5: Sephira gasped. What do you mean? Lance stepped out from in between the trees. Sephira, he called, reaching for her, to comfort her. Sephira lifted her hand to stop him coming any closer.
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Speaker 6: Good.
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Speaker 5: My mother, but she loved me. Her father nodded. She did, but she had also discovered the prophecy before you were born. She knew that the balance between the light and dark realms depended on you.
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Speaker 3: As a dad, the last thing we need is some jerk boyfriend turning up.
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Speaker 2: While you're having a serious chat with your daughter.
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Speaker 3: And doing, come over here. Get out of here, jerk. So that's what I took away from that episode.
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Speaker 4: But the jerk boyfriend thinks that her dad is the dangerous one, so he's also protective.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you're too late, mate. Who are you? Coming here acting like you're, you know, involved.
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Speaker 6: Well, maybe he is.
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Speaker 2: We'll find out.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: It was a confusing episode.
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Speaker 1: It was a confusing episode where they're in the lake and then they're in the forest and mum's, you know.
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Speaker 6: Mum's.
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Speaker 1: She's causing trouble apparently. She's not here to defend herself anymore, so that's a problem. So who's telling the truth, Dad or the Dark Prince? Gee, I reckon the answer's in the name, but let's just see. What a beautiful spring morning, and we know spring springs in the nation's capital when it's Floriade season.
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Speaker 3: Can you believe we'll be one day away?
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 3: One way to find out.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Baby Wes for our super ultimate Floriade preview this morning.
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Speaker 3: You're in.
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Speaker 5: I am. I am.
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Speaker 3: And I didn't have to sneak in, too. You got all the right permission. I'm here legit. Yeah, it's like... I'm glad you specified it.
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Speaker 1: As if the suggestion that we get you to sneak in was ever tabled, baby Wes, but I'm.
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Speaker 3: Glad that you just brought that up unsolicited. Anyway, you're right.
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Speaker 2: How's it looking? Guys, it's looking beautiful.
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Speaker 6: I haven't had a... So I've just done my first sort of walkthrough across the whole grounds. I haven't quite yet, because this year's theme is the Feast of Flowers, I haven't had a chance to look at the garden beds that are recreating the displays of... australian food and canberra food yet um but i've heard it's unreal so is that.
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Speaker 1: The theme the inspo behind the the the arrangements their arrangements the planting the strategic planting uh is is canberra culinary things.
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Speaker 6: Yeah so last year it was like all about paintings so they like recreated starry night this year it's all like iconic aussie foods and canberra foods I've heard there's like a giant fairy bread. I haven't seen that yet.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's cool. That would be the greatest part.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I assume there's a big sort of a white expanse.
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Speaker 3: Give me a white flower, baby. Where's it going?
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Speaker 5: Tulip?
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Speaker 3: Beautiful. Some white tulips. Can you have those, Gabby?
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Speaker 5: Tulips? Yep.
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Speaker 3: White tulips. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you meant can I eat them? I'm like, that's a weird question.
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Speaker 3: Can you... Gavi and I are a million miles apart today.
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Speaker 2: We really are.
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Speaker 3: Can you wear those? White tulips.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get white tulips.
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Speaker 1: You would use those for the PAV, for the iconic Australian slash New Zealand PAV lover, wouldn't you?
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Speaker 2: You would.
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Speaker 3: Can you wear those?
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Speaker 2: I can eat a PAV.
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 1: And then there's a part where you go, oh, what happened here?
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Speaker 3: Everything died. It's a big muddy brown bit. It's a pie. It's an Aussie meat pie. Just a big brown puddle. They're not doing that. I promise you that will not be part of the display.
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Speaker 6: I haven't looked at it yet, but I guarantee it's a lot better than what you just described.
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Speaker 3: I would want to be.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm not the head groundskeeper for Floriade 2026.
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Speaker 2: Are all the flowers in bloom? Are they, like, good to go? Or is there still a fair few that are just sitting there waiting to get a bit more sunshine?
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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on. Let me run over to them. Can I see the cows? Why would you hear that?
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Speaker 6: I don't know. They're like finishing off the final building stuff. That's like a giant leaf blower or chainsaw or something.
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Speaker 3: People do get muddled up, don't they?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, always.
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Speaker 3: The leaf blower and the car. All the time. Famously. Our city slickers. We don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Uh, You move away from Murrumbateman for three weeks.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You miss the cows.
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Speaker 1: It's true.
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Speaker 3: It's true, I do miss the cows a little bit. But what we lack in cows in Taylor, we make up for in kangaroos. You ran somewhere. What's happening?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm now looking at some flower beds. Most have bloomed or ready to go. Some are still sprouting up. But I reckon by the time everyone's here, it should be good to go, probably.
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Speaker 4: They do have to time them so that... the entire month they've got blooms coming out.
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Speaker 3: It's incredible how they do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very well done.
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Speaker 3: In the words of Baby Wes, most of them are sprouting up and should be all right, mate. Probably. I've got a green thumbs up for it. Oh.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You see what I did there? It's like a flower thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, gardeners are right into your thing that you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Baby Wes's ultimate floriard preview.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be taking us for the virtual tour over the next hour and a half.
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Speaker 3: Go to the next flower bed, mate. We look forward to hearing more about it.
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Speaker 5: Easy.
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Speaker 3: Chat to you guys soon. It should be sprouting up. And that's the sort of insight that we're going to get. I like it.
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Speaker 1: But what it looks like and the layout is something that we get excited about every year.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of food experiences this year, which is very exciting.
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Speaker 1: And Babywear says all the correct passes and authority to be there.
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Speaker 3: In case anyone thought we would do it a different way.
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Speaker 2: He just grabbed a Harvey's vest.
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Speaker 3: Correct enough.
Speaker 1: I sift through Albo's Bruce master plan. This isn't the Chief Minister's, this is Albo's.
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Speaker 2: The strategic master plan. This is interesting, hey?
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Speaker 1: Albo's chucked $ 10 million, and that's why the plan has 142 pages.
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Speaker 3: And that's, by the way, not including appendices. I refuse to open those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the $ 10 million was supporting to develop The long-term plan.
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Speaker 3: $ 10 million plan.
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Speaker 2: They said $ 10 million to make a plan.
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Speaker 1: It's a bloody good document, though, and it'd want to be for 10 mil. But thank you to the feds for dropping 150 on the AIS.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic. Great news for the future Brizzy32.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 3: We might not have anywhere to stay in Rockhampton for the rowers.
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Speaker 2: But we've got rowers going because they're training at the AIS.
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Speaker 3: We'll be fit as.
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Speaker 1: Mally bulls and exhausted because we'll be sleeping in our boats, I suppose.
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Now, back to Bruce. Okay, so I've had a look at the maps. Scenario one versus scenario two. I said, oh, we're going to squabble over this. There's no question. Scenario two, you know, I was talking about the engineers. They design a thing with a couple of things. They know they're not going to get past finance, so they can take a couple of things out.
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Speaker 3: That's scenario two. No one wants scenario two.
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Speaker 2: Why? What's in scenario two that we don't want?
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Speaker 3: Stadium zhuzha.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we don't want a zhuzha.
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Speaker 3: Guess what I've just discovered in scenario one?
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 3: New stadium.
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Speaker 6: Where?
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Speaker 3: Here we go. Well, I'll get the map up here in front of us.
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Speaker 1: So, scenario one in Albo's Bruce plan that I suspect he'll say to the chief, you pay for it.
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Speaker 3: Albo's like the guy who takes you for a beer. He invites you out.
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Speaker 2: Then makes you pay?
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Speaker 3: You go, I'll get the first round, and then he splits before the second round.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Scenario one, this scenario promotes a significant redevelopment of the site's central east-west core as a branch. East-west core? Don't let.
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Speaker 2: There's no such thing as east-west.
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Speaker 3: That's the core. And so the point is it's a clean slate.
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Speaker 2: East-west core, maybe?
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Speaker 3: It just says east-west. For $ 10 million, he's not leaving two out. Albo's worked all night on this. The plan assumes the relocation of the CIT campus. We just moved the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's already, they're already, oh no, no, no, no. I'm thinking of University of New South Wales is going into CIT in the city.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 5: Different.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. And consideration of land swap arrangements. That's great.
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Speaker 1: This clean slate allows the desired stadium renewal, which is misleading because you go, stadium renewal, what? To be delivered more centrally within the precinct, blah, blah, blah. So they're going to bang in the light rail. But if I show you the two maps, the two stadiums are in a different spot. So scenario B or two has the stadium in its current spot. If we tempt fate and leave it where it is, it'll just be Jewished.
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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: They don't have the.
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Speaker 2: Ability to knock it down and start again because there's nowhere else to play.
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Speaker 1: Scenario one, clean slate, knock it down, build a new one, sports entertainment precinct.
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Speaker 3: I'm very aware of the education, of the work, of the accommodation, of all those things. It's very important.
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Speaker 2: But this stadium.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's, I mean, yeah, we've spoken about it for a while. So, you know, no one's said they're going to pay for it yet, but this $ 10 million map.
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Speaker 3: I've worked out which one we should go for, and that's page 24 of 142, and I'm really done.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to read the rest.
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Speaker 4: Because we want that, we're not going to get it. That's how I, like.
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Speaker 2: That's how pessimistic I am about this entire situation.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's a negative attitude. Negativity breeds negative outcomes.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to be positive and I'm going to.
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Speaker 2: I'm negative after the 20 years we've been fighting for this.
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Speaker 3: Albo worked all night. And now we need the chief to pay for it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, let's go to Ashley Nolan in the producer's booth. We're on leave in a couple of weeks. Is the chief joining us before we go on leave or when we get back?
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Speaker 5: I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm waiting for the dates they've got in their diary, but I've told them when you're not here. So he's not going to turn up.
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Speaker 3: I bet you he's.
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Speaker 2: Scheduled it for when we're not here.
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Speaker 3: He's absolutely for sure.
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Speaker 2: So then he'll be like, bye Will.
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Speaker 1: Sorry guys, I've dropped by. We'll see if he can pop in next week. I mean, it's a huge ask. He is flat out and we certainly appreciate it when.
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Speaker 2: He gives us a visit. Well, he's looking over this 140 page document as we speak as well.
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Speaker 6: He's like, oh God.
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Speaker 3: He's like me.
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Speaker 1: He got to page 24 and went, plan A. Now he's looking, you know when you've got to go, you'd have an unscheduled thing that you've got to pay for. Like when you set a tires on your car, you should have that in your budget by the way.
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Speaker 5: Anyway.
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Speaker 1: That's a him problem, and we'll catch up with the Chief sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 3: Gabby, you loved this show.
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Speaker 4: I still am obsessed with The Traitors on 10. So Gretel Colleen was hosting it, which I absolutely adored. And it's like a murder mystery party where there's murderers amongst them. There was three traitors picked at the start and they had to pretend like they weren't traitors and play the game and everyone else had to try to figure out who the traitors were.
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Speaker 3: It never occurred to me until we had the winner of the show, who is joining us right now, Kirby Bentley. on the line.
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Speaker 1: It didn't occur to me until literally today that by winning this, and that's great, a couple of hundred grand, terrific, you're now known as Australia's greatest liar.
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Speaker 3: Kirby, is this good news or bad news? Congratulations. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if I want that reputation.
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Speaker 3: No, thank you.
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Speaker 7: Same around.
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Speaker 4: But the role of traitor was thrust upon you. It's not like you had a choice. So if you wanted to win this game, you had absolutely no choice but to lie your way through it.
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Speaker 2: And you did it so well.
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Speaker 4: Right at the end, though, so Kira from The Bachelor, she was there with you at the end. She trusted you so immensely she thought you were going to share in the money. And then you said you were a traitor and she was quite devastated.
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Speaker 2: You were close to her on the show.
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Speaker 4: Are you still friends now or was that a bit too much of a betrayal for her to trust you in the outside world?
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 7: Funny enough, the whole cast are pretty close and it's probably the closest group of people that we've ever– we're trauma bonded. So, you know, it's a hectic experience. Yeah. And my lying, like I didn't lie very often, but when I did, it was to say obviously that I'm a faithful, but it was more just shifting or planting a seed for somebody. And it's a social game. So the fact that Kira and I hadn't spoken really much early on in the game and I slowly worked my relationship out with her, we obviously got really close and then Yeah, that betrayal wasn't easy and I was obviously exhausted and then there's me and Rhys and the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Kirby, when you were cast for this, you didn't know that, you know, once you got onto set and you would draw the short or long straw of being a traitor. Had it occurred to you what type of challenge this was or did you really learn about yourself as you went along and stepped up to the challenge?
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Speaker 7: I always wanted to go in... As a trader, I think that's where the game's played and I like knowing all the information then to be able to understand how to move through the game. I think the challenge for me is my choice of clothing when Queen hears my jacket and then I've got that to deal with.
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Speaker 4: So just for anyone who wasn't watching, Gretel goes around and taps the trader on the shoulder while everyone's blindfolded. And when she tapped Kirby on the shoulder, the person next to her Queen heard her jacket rustle. So right early on, on day number one, there were suspicions around you being a traitor because it sounded like your shoulder was tapped.
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Speaker 3: What was your jacket made out of?
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Speaker 7: Well, it felt like a garbage bag at that stage. It was so loud. So I'm not only walking in as a survivor person, I have this garbage bag jacket on and the Queen's told me and one of them's a survivor person, so that's wild in itself. But I'm just so lucky that Alvin was standing there and Alvin was the traitor and Alvin was so quiet that nobody remembered he was even in the conversation.
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the other traitors, they did break under pressure when it came down to it. There was Alvin and Alex. Alex was from The Bachelor as well. Alvin was from Mastership, is that right?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And they both cracked.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: And by the end of it, Alex was like, I'm out because it was too stressful. It was too hard.
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Speaker 4: Lying to people got too much. But you managed to keep sailing your way through. Is that a difference in personality, difference in game, or just a difference in how much you wanted that money?
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Speaker 7: No, it is so incredibly hard. And as traders, as soon as somebody is saying your name, I had heat on me the entire game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: For the first two or three eps, they were really coming at me. But I was exhausted in that moment, like in those moments anyway. So when their name started to get mentioned, you could see the pressure. And it is pressure. But when it just mounted on them so quickly, we couldn't really put the fires out. Yeah. Because it was all of a sudden. And that's what it felt like. At least with me, there was speculation. Yeah. But nothing concrete because... we'd eliminated Queen straight away and just dealt with it.
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Speaker 3: Well, well done. You had the eye of the tiger and you locked right in.
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Speaker 2: You played an amazing game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I.
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Speaker 1: Suspect the types of things that you needed on Survivor translated really well in the end to success on the traders. You've gone and won the entire thing. You've got a publicist or a manager that's lined up another thing. When do we see you on the telly again?
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Speaker 7: Well, I don't think I'll make it very far unless it's like an honesty game. The only thing I can do is tell the truth, though.
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Speaker 3: Everyone will be suspicious of you straight away. Yeah, that's true. Select the next show very carefully.
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Speaker 1: We look forward to chatting with you again whenever that happens or next time you're in Canberra.
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: It's time for another chapter of my romanticy.
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Speaker 5: Gabrielle L. L.
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Speaker 4: Goods, Fortune Favors, The Forbidden Fairy.
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Speaker 1: You are writing a romantic erotica novel. It's the most popular genre of book in the world. You read a lot of them. It made sense that you were going to become an author. And it's captured the attention of the nation's capital. Everyone's talking about it. And when the reading is after 7 o'clock, we assume that it is fit for broadcast outside the naughty 6.40 spot.
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Speaker 4: It is today because we're still filling in some plot points.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 2: And it's about Sephira.
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Speaker 3: She's a human.
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Speaker 4: She went on a hunt to find the Dark Prince. Her mother, in her dying wish, told her she needed to kill him.
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Speaker 3: Get him.
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Speaker 4: Lance helped her out in her journey. Then she found out Lance was actually the Dark Prince and she got very confused. Very much confused because her body is like a magnet to his.
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Speaker 7: But.
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Speaker 4: She is confused because she's like, well, I've been told my whole life you're a bad guy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: You're telling me you're not.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: So she's now on a mission to go find her father, who's still living, to find out the truth. And Lance is a fairy, by the way. Big fairy, big wings.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a little fairy.
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Speaker 5: And.
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Speaker 4: Is that all we need.
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Speaker 3: To know at this point? That's all the backstory.
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Speaker 2: I found a few spelling.
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Speaker 4: Errors, so apologies to Ash if you've got to sift through them while you read.
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Speaker 1: Esteemed journalist Ashley Nolan, you've received this chapter.
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Speaker 3: You haven't pre-read it. You'll hear it with the rest of us. Oh, sound effects?
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Speaker 2: Well, she's going across the lake at first, then she's back in the forest.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so she's.
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Speaker 2: On the lake. Yeah, so lake and then forest, please.
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, lake and then forest. Okay, give me a second here.
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Speaker 5: Lake... Lake, water.
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Speaker 3: Let's see what happens. All right. And let's head to the Lake of... Desire.
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Speaker 5: Desire.
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Speaker 3: Take it away, Niles.
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Speaker 5: Sephira travelled across the Lake of Desire, fighting the urge to glance into the water in fear she wouldn't see Lance this time after finding out he is the Dark Prince.
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Speaker 3: It happens when you're someone, you know, who you've had a bust up with.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And you're like, the last person I need to see is this guy.
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Speaker 4: Well, no, she saw him last time. She looked into the lake and it was a hot scene. And she's worried she won't see that because she's so confused about who he is now.
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Speaker 3: You're right.
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Speaker 5: So she wants to see the hot scene.
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Speaker 2: She wants to see him, but she's scared she won't.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, go.
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Speaker 5: After finding out he is the Dark Prince and the confusion that had created... She moved back through to the forest, moving faster this time now that she knew the way and didn't have the distraction of Lance's hard body tempting her at every turn.
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Speaker 3: That is distraction. It is big distraction.
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Speaker 5: Finally, she reached the old stone bridge just as the sun began to rise on the second day of travel and someone was waiting on the other side, her father.
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Speaker 3: Are we out of the water?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: She said we're moving through the forest.
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Speaker 5: There we go.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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Speaker 3: Bird life is.
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Speaker 2: But we're the bridge, so the water still could have worked.
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Speaker 7: Terrific.
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Speaker 5: Sephira stopped for several seconds. Neither of them spoke. Then he looked at her with sadness in his eyes. You shouldn't have come here. Sephira's fingers curled into fists. I came for the truth. The truth about the Dark Prince. The truth about Lance. Her father's face changed, and in that instant, Sephira knew her father had known him long before she ever set foot into the forest in her hunt for him. Dad, what did you do? Lance, having flown and arrived long before Sephira, was hidden in the trees, listening to every word, ready to spring into action at any sign of danger.
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Speaker 1: It's just occurred to me he can fly.
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Speaker 3: I know, right?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It's the first time he's flown in all these episodes.
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Speaker 2: Well, he hasn't needed to.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been doing everything but.
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Speaker 4: Well, because they could have gotten to where they needed to go quickly, but he didn't want that, right?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: It was a hot journey.
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Speaker 5: Sephira's father took a shaky breath. I sent you to find him, not to kill him. Pausing, he forced the next words out with a pained expression. Lance isn't the one you needed to fear, Sephira.
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Speaker 3: It was your mother. Whoa!
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Speaker 5: Sephira gasped. What do you mean? Lance stepped out from in between the trees. Sephira, he called, reaching for her, to comfort her. Sephira lifted her hand to stop him coming any closer.
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Speaker 6: Good.
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Speaker 5: My mother, but she loved me. Her father nodded. She did, but she had also discovered the prophecy before you were born. She knew that the balance between the light and dark realms depended on you.
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Speaker 3: As a dad, the last thing we need is some jerk boyfriend turning up.
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Speaker 2: While you're having a serious chat with your daughter.
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Speaker 3: And doing, come over here. Get out of here, jerk. So that's what I took away from that episode.
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Speaker 4: But the jerk boyfriend thinks that her dad is the dangerous one, so he's also protective.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you're too late, mate. Who are you? Coming here acting like you're, you know, involved.
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Speaker 6: Well, maybe he is.
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Speaker 2: We'll find out.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: It was a confusing episode.
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Speaker 1: It was a confusing episode where they're in the lake and then they're in the forest and mum's, you know.
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Speaker 6: Mum's.
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Speaker 1: She's causing trouble apparently. She's not here to defend herself anymore, so that's a problem. So who's telling the truth, Dad or the Dark Prince? Gee, I reckon the answer's in the name, but let's just see. What a beautiful spring morning, and we know spring springs in the nation's capital when it's Floriade season.
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Speaker 3: Can you believe we'll be one day away?
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 3: One way to find out.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Baby Wes for our super ultimate Floriade preview this morning.
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Speaker 3: You're in.
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Speaker 5: I am. I am.
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Speaker 3: And I didn't have to sneak in, too. You got all the right permission. I'm here legit. Yeah, it's like... I'm glad you specified it.
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Speaker 1: As if the suggestion that we get you to sneak in was ever tabled, baby Wes, but I'm.
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Speaker 3: Glad that you just brought that up unsolicited. Anyway, you're right.
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Speaker 2: How's it looking? Guys, it's looking beautiful.
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Speaker 6: I haven't had a... So I've just done my first sort of walkthrough across the whole grounds. I haven't quite yet, because this year's theme is the Feast of Flowers, I haven't had a chance to look at the garden beds that are recreating the displays of... australian food and canberra food yet um but i've heard it's unreal so is that.
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Speaker 1: The theme the inspo behind the the the arrangements their arrangements the planting the strategic planting uh is is canberra culinary things.
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Speaker 6: Yeah so last year it was like all about paintings so they like recreated starry night this year it's all like iconic aussie foods and canberra foods I've heard there's like a giant fairy bread. I haven't seen that yet.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's cool. That would be the greatest part.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I assume there's a big sort of a white expanse.
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Speaker 3: Give me a white flower, baby. Where's it going?
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Speaker 5: Tulip?
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Speaker 3: Beautiful. Some white tulips. Can you have those, Gabby?
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Speaker 5: Tulips? Yep.
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Speaker 3: White tulips. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I thought you meant can I eat them? I'm like, that's a weird question.
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Speaker 3: Can you... Gavi and I are a million miles apart today.
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Speaker 2: We really are.
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Speaker 3: Can you wear those? White tulips.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get white tulips.
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Speaker 1: You would use those for the PAV, for the iconic Australian slash New Zealand PAV lover, wouldn't you?
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Speaker 2: You would.
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Speaker 3: Can you wear those?
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Speaker 2: I can eat a PAV.
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 1: And then there's a part where you go, oh, what happened here?
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Speaker 3: Everything died. It's a big muddy brown bit. It's a pie. It's an Aussie meat pie. Just a big brown puddle. They're not doing that. I promise you that will not be part of the display.
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Speaker 6: I haven't looked at it yet, but I guarantee it's a lot better than what you just described.
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Speaker 3: I would want to be.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm not the head groundskeeper for Floriade 2026.
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Speaker 2: Are all the flowers in bloom? Are they, like, good to go? Or is there still a fair few that are just sitting there waiting to get a bit more sunshine?
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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on. Let me run over to them. Can I see the cows? Why would you hear that?
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Speaker 6: I don't know. They're like finishing off the final building stuff. That's like a giant leaf blower or chainsaw or something.
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Speaker 3: People do get muddled up, don't they?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, always.
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Speaker 3: The leaf blower and the car. All the time. Famously. Our city slickers. We don't know what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Uh, You move away from Murrumbateman for three weeks.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You miss the cows.
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Speaker 1: It's true.
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Speaker 3: It's true, I do miss the cows a little bit. But what we lack in cows in Taylor, we make up for in kangaroos. You ran somewhere. What's happening?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm now looking at some flower beds. Most have bloomed or ready to go. Some are still sprouting up. But I reckon by the time everyone's here, it should be good to go, probably.
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Speaker 4: They do have to time them so that... the entire month they've got blooms coming out.
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Speaker 3: It's incredible how they do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very well done.
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Speaker 3: In the words of Baby Wes, most of them are sprouting up and should be all right, mate. Probably. I've got a green thumbs up for it. Oh.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You see what I did there? It's like a flower thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, gardeners are right into your thing that you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Baby Wes's ultimate floriard preview.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be taking us for the virtual tour over the next hour and a half.
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Speaker 3: Go to the next flower bed, mate. We look forward to hearing more about it.
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Speaker 5: Easy.
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Speaker 3: Chat to you guys soon. It should be sprouting up. And that's the sort of insight that we're going to get. I like it.
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Speaker 1: But what it looks like and the layout is something that we get excited about every year.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
00:20:42
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of food experiences this year, which is very exciting.
00:20:45
Speaker 1: And Babywear says all the correct passes and authority to be there.
00:20:49
Speaker 3: In case anyone thought we would do it a different way.
00:20:51
Speaker 2: He just grabbed a Harvey's vest.
00:20:54
Speaker 3: Correct enough.
