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Speaker 1: It was really exciting at the Emmys yesterday. There was a little moment that I was very hopeful about. And I, it is a conspiracy because I even showed you the photo and I was like, oh my God, are we getting a Buffy reboot? Because Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy back in the day, and David Borenes, who played Angel, which was Buffy's vampire love interest.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: They were both together on the red carpet of the Emmys. Like, literally together, like as if they were each other's date.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: They then held hands, they cosied up to each other on the red carpet, they got photos together. They then presented together on stage. Unfortunately, I think they put the rumours to bed pretty quickly because they said... They were saying something about couples that end up together and she was like, well, we'll never know. Because Buffy and Angel, we'll never know if they lasted as a couple, got together in the end, you know?
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Speaker 3: Unless they're trying to, it's a red herring.
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Speaker 1: It could be. It could be.
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Speaker 3: Throw us off the scent.
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Speaker 1: Because why else would they be together anyway? I still have hope.
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Speaker 3: Because they're friends from like many years ago.
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Speaker 2: Maybe.
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Speaker 3: Work colleagues.
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Speaker 1: The thing that really was weird about it, though, was when they were on the red carpet, we all know who they are and we all know that they are married to different people. So Sarah Michelle Gellar, still married to Freddie Prinze Jr., Who is still acting, but they met on set of, was it I Know What You Did Last Summer? They met on the set of?
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Speaker 3: Sounds like it.
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Speaker 1: And then they were both in Scooby-Doo as well.
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Speaker 3: Good memory. You're right. You forget Freddie Prinze. Of course.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then she ducked away from the limelight and was mum for a while.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: And then they both were in the new rebooted I Know What You Did Last Summer that came out recently, which was really cool. I loved that.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: So they're still married and still happily as a family. David Borenes is also married. And so they're there on the red carpet as friends, as co-stars from back in the day, a bit of nostalgia for us all. Already quite the treat. And photographers start calling out for them to kiss.
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Speaker 3: What's that all about?
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Speaker 1: What is that all about? Either it's a Gen Z photographer who doesn't know who they are and just assumes that they're a couple.
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Speaker 3: I think you've nailed it.
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Speaker 1: Or it's a millennial who is just wishful thinking and they're only seeing Buffy and Angel.
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Speaker 3: It's a triple conspiracy decker sandwich. There's a lot of conspiracy theories. There's a lot of conspiracies.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy who doesn't know.
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Speaker 2: Who they are.
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Speaker 1: Conspiries?
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Speaker 3: You were warned, we've been honest. Gabby's really pregnant. My whole body goes out whenever she has a thing.
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Speaker 1: You go out in sympathy every time. Yeah. And that's great. It makes me feel supported.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's not great for the show.
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Speaker 3: It makes this whole thing a little less manageable, but sure. Let's go. Straight from the Malmeningen Medal Awards night into the show. Sheridan Gallagher, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Morning.
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Speaker 3: Have you slept? Of course you have. A little bit. What time is an awards night? This is the best and fairest. This is the end of the season that lands plumb before our first ever final for the NRLW team. What time does it end? Is everyone aware that you need to get some sleep?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was a pretty late finish last night, being Papa's, you know, sort of last awards night and him having his moment to, you know, share that with everybody. And it was pretty special to sit there and be a part of it. So it was a late one for us. I think it was 11.30 before we got home and then, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You're a fair dinkum champion for coming in here for starters. Very reasonable to say, well, listen, we got the Prezzo night the night before. But you're up early. You're in here early because you're about to train. You've got the shorts. I mean, I went out there for a walk. I've come inside and gone, oh, it's beautiful. It's refreshing zero degrees out there at the moment. But I am wearing tracksuit pants. You've got the shorts on. What will training look like for you this morning?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll probably just go for a light jog this morning and then head off to work and training this afternoon before we get ready for the finals on Friday.
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Speaker 1: What's a light jog?
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Speaker 3: A light jog.
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Speaker 1: Just three Ks.
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Speaker 3: It's a light jog. Depends who you are, I suppose. It was like a solid jog. Do you remember, Gabby, when Conrad Sewell was last on the show? We know Conrad from this.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: He should have said I'm not available because it was his birthday party the night before. And the poor fellow was.
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Speaker 1: He was dusty.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't going for a light jog. He was hungover. He's a rock star, though, you know. It's a funny time to have the presentation days before our women's team's first ever appearance in the finals. So there must have been a really interesting vibe last night. Celebration for the end of the season for the boys, but I imagine everyone was around the women as a team making history this week.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it wasn't quite the typical presentation event. We're having a few beers and get to share a few stories. We were sort of in and out and, you know, celebrate the award winners and I guess, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Why do they do it before the season's done? It makes no sense to me. Is it because you're well behaved? Like, do they do it for that reason?
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Speaker 5: They can bank on us being well behaved.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: What do you run?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's a heavy jog?
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Speaker 3: Well, let's get a title on this. When you do a 3K, are you just getting the steps in or do you hit the stopwatch?
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Speaker 5: No, just getting the steps in, but I also don't like to go for more than 15 minutes, so it's got to.
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Speaker 1: Be done before that.
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Speaker 3: That's still pretty impressive.
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Speaker 1: I can't even do 3Ks walking.
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Speaker 3: Sheridan won the Raiders NRLW Coaches Award for the Malmeninga Medal Prezzo night last night. Congratulations. Thank you. That's a real... How does that feel from a recognition point of view for the coach to say, hey, listen, we're not playing finals without you? That hasn't been said, but that's the sentiment, I think.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, it's pretty special to be recognised by your coaches. Yeah, for me, it's pretty cool, but probably... More looking forward to lifting that bigger trophy at the end of the year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 1: It's insights.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and from a mindset point of view, that's what we've been speaking about from round one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And you've joined us on the show. So going into what everyone's getting excited about, and we are, understandably, the first Raiders NRLW final. But the attitude isn't, all right, well, we've done the job, is it?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: No, not.
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Speaker 5: Definitely not, I think. You know, we've still got to keep working hard, and if we turn up and think we've already done the job, we'll get knocked out round one of finals. So we've just got to turn up and give it to them.
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Speaker 1: Talk us through how finals work again, because you win this weekend. Do you skip one and then go through? Like, how does it work?
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Speaker 5: So if we win this weekend, we go up to Sydney again and play the Roosters, and if we beat them, we'll make the grand final.
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Speaker 1: So there's no skipping a week?
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Speaker 3: Well, if you finish on the top of the table.
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Speaker 4: Oh!
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: That's where I'm getting confused.
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Speaker 3: Well, you get double chances if you're top two, blah, blah, blah. But it's sudden death.
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Speaker 1: So three weekends in a row, let's go. That's what we're doing.
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Speaker 3: You just keep winning.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: And then you're in this funny spot where the expectation from observers is World Cup. I can only imagine you go, well, listen, I'm not even thinking about that right now. But that's only four weeks away. That team's not announced until, obviously, the GF is just over. So for you, lifestyle-wise... Canberra life is great, but this could be one of the busiest next couple of months of your life. How does your other half feel about it? Because she might be at home. Does she come with you if you are to go and represent Australia and do some travelling?
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Speaker 5: No, she'll just stay at home and keep working and I guess hold the fort down at home. Yeah, if I was lucky enough to make it, she'd travel to the Games, but during the week she'd just be at home.
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Speaker 1: And where's training for the World Cup? Would that be Sydney?
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Speaker 2: Sydney?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the games are all over Australia. I think there's games in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, New Zealand.
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Speaker 3: Would you have to.
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Speaker 1: Base in Sydney to train with everyone or is that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're sort of like brought in for like a camp.
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Speaker 1: Right, right, right. So it's like origin almost where you go for camp and then go for games.
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Speaker 3: Every second Canberran isn't from here. So we know what it is to drag our poor other halves, you know, around the country to wherever and then they begin the search for it. a job, and I know your other half, she's got the new teaching gig. It makes a huge difference, particularly from a footy point of view, I imagine, when you get to an off-season, that there is structure and routine and those sorts of things going in that gap between now and next season for you too.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's such a long time off. I think it's six months before we start again. Yeah, definitely to have that structure and routine for not only me, for her as well, is something that we think is pretty important.
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Speaker 1: Have you looked into doing some professional soccer in the off-season?
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Speaker 3: Well, that was the question. You're a rare, you know, top-level dual-code athlete. You've played in the A-League, the W-League, whatever. The A-League women's, what it ended up being called, or currently is. Was there any talk with Canberra United?
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Speaker 5: Oh, if he's listening to the show, give me a call.
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Speaker 3: Looking for something to do.
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Speaker 1: I've got off-season coming up, guys.
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Speaker 2: I've got time.
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Speaker 3: Ready to cook a.
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Speaker 1: Kick a ball is what I was trying to say.
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Speaker 5: Whatever.
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Speaker 3: Just let her cook.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: We're so excited. So Friday night, if we're not traveling up, we're going to see you on the TV. This is the big one against the Tigers. And I love that you've just knocked them off as well. So psychologically, it really couldn't be a better lead-in.
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Speaker 5: Could it? Yeah, I think I've been pretty lucky to be in this position once before. And I think you sort of just got to turn up with the same mindset that you haven't beaten them before. And You know, every game's different, especially finals footy. It brings out a new version of every team and it's pretty exciting.
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Speaker 3: Well, we know you're fair dinkum because you've turned up here, you're about to train and you were at the Prezzo night only a few hours ago. Is that tan fair dinkum or did you put that on for the awards last night?
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Speaker 1: Don't pretend like you're asking. Yeah, it's the most summer glow. Yeah, Rock goes, oh, pretty tan, been training outside.
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Speaker 3: Always training outside.
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Speaker 1: And us girls like it was an awards night last night, mate. We know what it is.
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Speaker 3: You don't know that's fake tan. I'm backing you in, Sheridan. I reckon that's a real turn.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I reckon too.
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Speaker 3: Knowlesy, g'day.
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Speaker 1: Hello. Big Splash is meant to be back for summer. How are we going with that?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: Well, we know that that deadline for it to reopen was the 1st of November, which is terrifyingly close.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
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Speaker 6: And it's too close and it's not going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Are we shocked?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. Yeah, it's not that I'm not shocked.
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Speaker 3: We really should. It's cause for celebration.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 3: Well, we forecast it. Not that it was difficult to work out, but when the new mob took it over, they were like, yeah, listen, some promises have been made. Not by us. And we read into that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 3: And we said, let's form a human circle. And we formed a what?
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Speaker 4: Human circle.
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Speaker 3: It didn't seem to help, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately not.
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Speaker 6: No, it didn't seem to help.
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Speaker 1: But we did it.
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Speaker 3: It was an excuse just to play the jingle. People liked the jingle. It got us nowhere. But we're trying to sell this thing still.
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Speaker 6: Yes, well, yes, still for sale. So that was unsuccessful so far. So now the government has agreed to commission an options analysis for the future of the facility. So that's just to provide further information to any potential interested buyers about what's needed to reopen the site as an aquatic facility and the costs of delivering those various facilities on site, including the slides. So they're trying to flush out a buyer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: A cynic might suggest that it's the government's way of saying, listen, we tried everything. If this doesn't happen, if it doesn't go anywhere, if it doesn't, you know, stay this way. So they go, we dropped, I don't know, what's this going to cost us to get this thing done? A hundred grand. Let's put a hundred grand on it.
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Speaker 6: I don't know, but we're paying for it, yeah.
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Speaker 3: For the report.
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Speaker 1: It was 10 million for that Bruce Stadium report.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Albo's report. That was 10 million. So a hundred grand feels like... It seems expensive, but it feels like where we might land.
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Speaker 1: I really want to see one of those open home videos.
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Speaker 3: Right, here we go.
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Speaker 1: You know how they do those videos and they're like, welcome to your new home. And they take you through and they show you everything and they really sell it.
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Speaker 3: I want to see that.
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Speaker 6: In its current state?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Go down those slides.
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Speaker 3: Correct. Now, the Chief Minister, it's a sitting week, so he wasn't available this week and that's completely understandable. We are on leave for a couple of weeks at the end of this week and then the Chief's coming straight in. And so I'll say it now because it'll get back to him if we're not on in the car. And I'll say it to him when he gets here. I will do this for 50. I'll do it for 50 grand.
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Speaker 4: 50,000.
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Speaker 3: But I need him in a pair of board shorts to walk us through and we'll film a promotional real estate walkthrough. They call it a walkthrough.
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Speaker 1: They do. And we can use a little bit of creative license to be like, this is what it looks like, but imagine what it could be.
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Speaker 3: And then we use AI.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And we just go and drop all sorts of slides in from the gold coat. Absolutely. Which technically we actually have in real life where we are. We are a solutions-based program.
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Speaker 1: The human circle didn't work, but we're not stopping there.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no. This isn't over, damn it. All right. Work in progress. We'll keep going. I mean, it's over for this summer. It's not happening.
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Speaker 1: But next summer.
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Speaker 3: Solid maybe.
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Speaker 1: Solid maybe.
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Speaker 7: As we cross to the Canberra Museum and Gallery.
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Speaker 3: Where Jackson Harvey and Alex Tower, the co-creators of Relics, we've been talking about it, we've been seeing it on the socials, they won Season 2 of Channel 9's Lego Masters, are with you, baby Wes, and what sort of creations have the boys come up with? They're actually building before your eyes, are they?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the exhibition opens up this weekend, so they're kind of, well, considering it's Wednesday, they're very calm, collected, getting it all together, but it's almost, it's pretty much almost there.
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Speaker 1: Well, they're used to having to do these creations in like five hours on Lego Masters.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this isn't a competition. Let's be honest. Can you ask them whether or not they've glued them together to bring them here? It's okay if they have.
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Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
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Speaker 4: They're wanting to know, have you guys glued any of these together?
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Speaker 5: There is.
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Speaker 7: I hate to spoil the magic, but there is a little bit of glue in the exhibition, but it's more to stop pieces from going wandering rather than to hold it together.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 7: There's no illegal connections. We haven't cheated.
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Speaker 3: Good, because Hamish Blake could kick that door down in a minute now. Have a chat with the boys there for us, Babewiz. I know they can't hear us. Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 4: So I think there's a bit of a stereotype that Lego might be like a bit of a thing for kids. What kind of appeal would you say there is for adults? Could I ask you first, Jackson?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we found that there's a huge appeal in our exhibition across age groups. There's something here for not just the kids, but adults will get a lot out of it. There's a few more mature themes in the storytelling and a lot of nostalgia in the old objects we've collected that adults love.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely found that when I was having a walkthrough. What do you think, Alex?
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Speaker 7: I think everybody has, or almost everybody has a connection to Lego from when they were kids. So you grow up, just because you're an adult doesn't mean you've lost that. That love for it. Plus, it's a creative medium that's, like, incredibly accessible. So if you've got an idea and a basic understanding of how Lego pieces go together, you can build whatever you want.
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Speaker 5: Awesome.
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Speaker 4: Now, I have a question from when I've kind of walked through the display myself. Obviously, these civilizations kind of take inspiration from whatever the relic that they live in is, you know, that they draw inspiration from that. Some are, like, a bit more futuristic, while others are sort of a bit more reflective of our modern life. Do these civilizations all coexist in the same timeline, or are they on different timelines?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of these little societies are existing in a speculative, not too distant future, where humans aren't around for reasons that are left a little bit vague. But they've each formed these new communities inside the old objects that we've left behind, like this fridge that we're standing in front of. There's a company that's developed a cryogenic freezing facility so that the minifigures can freeze themselves and hide away from the harsh realities of the outside world.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they do coexist.
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Speaker 7: It's 2130, the year's 2130, and some of them are doing a good job of instilling a positive future for themselves, but some of them are sort of doomed to repeat some of the mistakes of the humans that came before them.
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Speaker 3: 21.30, we don't have a lot of time left. The clock's ticking. It's the exciting thing for me when you're looking at any of these large Lego... It doesn't matter when they're set or what they are. I know when you visit the Lego version of Parliament House, at Parliament House, if you look in the right section, the Star Wars figurine, the Emperor, the evil Emperor, is in there.
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Speaker 1: That's not a good thing.
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Speaker 3: Not to Parliament, but it's exciting. And it keeps it exciting. And that's really what we're looking for. So we will be looking out for all sorts of different figures in there.
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Speaker 1: The exhibition starts this weekend, which is really exciting, at CMAG. Is that right, Baby Wes?
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Speaker 4: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Yes. Excellent.
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Speaker 1: And perfect timing for the school holidays, because not only would this be exciting for the kids, but you as parents and adults are going to be able to find some fun little Easter eggs in each of the exhibits as well.
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Speaker 3: Definitely.
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Speaker 4: It's definitely an exhibition where you're not just taking the kids and you're bored out of your mind. There's so much detail in everything and so much nostalgia, like the boys said, that any adult would love. Really appreciate what they're looking at here.
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Speaker 3: A new world rises. The record-breaking Miniature Worlds exhibition, it is about to, it's arrived. It's not officially open. Baby Wears taking us inside the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Thank Jackson and Alex, the Season 2 winners of Channel 9's Lego Masters, mate. They've come here to do the final touches. It's going to be an incredible exhibition. We're very grateful to have it here and we will look forward to hearing. If you go on the weekend, 13, 10, 60, let us know next week.
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Speaker 1: We're not here next week.
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Speaker 3: Let us know in a few weeks when we come back. Gabby is so out of here. We're definitely not out of here. We're not out of here. If you see it, we'd love to hear what you think. Thank you, baby. Great job out there. Thanks, guys. He's getting very good at the interviews.
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Speaker 1: Isn't he?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, those boys are doing a fantastic job as well.
Speaker 1: It was really exciting at the Emmys yesterday. There was a little moment that I was very hopeful about. And I, it is a conspiracy because I even showed you the photo and I was like, oh my God, are we getting a Buffy reboot? Because Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy back in the day, and David Borenes, who played Angel, which was Buffy's vampire love interest.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: They were both together on the red carpet of the Emmys. Like, literally together, like as if they were each other's date.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: They then held hands, they cosied up to each other on the red carpet, they got photos together. They then presented together on stage. Unfortunately, I think they put the rumours to bed pretty quickly because they said... They were saying something about couples that end up together and she was like, well, we'll never know. Because Buffy and Angel, we'll never know if they lasted as a couple, got together in the end, you know?
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Speaker 3: Unless they're trying to, it's a red herring.
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Speaker 1: It could be. It could be.
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Speaker 3: Throw us off the scent.
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Speaker 1: Because why else would they be together anyway? I still have hope.
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Speaker 3: Because they're friends from like many years ago.
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Speaker 2: Maybe.
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Speaker 3: Work colleagues.
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Speaker 1: The thing that really was weird about it, though, was when they were on the red carpet, we all know who they are and we all know that they are married to different people. So Sarah Michelle Gellar, still married to Freddie Prinze Jr., Who is still acting, but they met on set of, was it I Know What You Did Last Summer? They met on the set of?
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Speaker 3: Sounds like it.
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Speaker 1: And then they were both in Scooby-Doo as well.
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Speaker 3: Good memory. You're right. You forget Freddie Prinze. Of course.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then she ducked away from the limelight and was mum for a while.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: And then they both were in the new rebooted I Know What You Did Last Summer that came out recently, which was really cool. I loved that.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: So they're still married and still happily as a family. David Borenes is also married. And so they're there on the red carpet as friends, as co-stars from back in the day, a bit of nostalgia for us all. Already quite the treat. And photographers start calling out for them to kiss.
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Speaker 3: What's that all about?
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Speaker 1: What is that all about? Either it's a Gen Z photographer who doesn't know who they are and just assumes that they're a couple.
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Speaker 3: I think you've nailed it.
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Speaker 1: Or it's a millennial who is just wishful thinking and they're only seeing Buffy and Angel.
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Speaker 3: It's a triple conspiracy decker sandwich. There's a lot of conspiracy theories. There's a lot of conspiracies.
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Speaker 1: This is a guy who doesn't know.
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Speaker 2: Who they are.
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Speaker 1: Conspiries?
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Speaker 3: You were warned, we've been honest. Gabby's really pregnant. My whole body goes out whenever she has a thing.
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Speaker 1: You go out in sympathy every time. Yeah. And that's great. It makes me feel supported.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's not great for the show.
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Speaker 3: It makes this whole thing a little less manageable, but sure. Let's go. Straight from the Malmeningen Medal Awards night into the show. Sheridan Gallagher, good morning.
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Speaker 5: Morning.
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Speaker 3: Have you slept? Of course you have. A little bit. What time is an awards night? This is the best and fairest. This is the end of the season that lands plumb before our first ever final for the NRLW team. What time does it end? Is everyone aware that you need to get some sleep?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was a pretty late finish last night, being Papa's, you know, sort of last awards night and him having his moment to, you know, share that with everybody. And it was pretty special to sit there and be a part of it. So it was a late one for us. I think it was 11.30 before we got home and then, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You're a fair dinkum champion for coming in here for starters. Very reasonable to say, well, listen, we got the Prezzo night the night before. But you're up early. You're in here early because you're about to train. You've got the shorts. I mean, I went out there for a walk. I've come inside and gone, oh, it's beautiful. It's refreshing zero degrees out there at the moment. But I am wearing tracksuit pants. You've got the shorts on. What will training look like for you this morning?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll probably just go for a light jog this morning and then head off to work and training this afternoon before we get ready for the finals on Friday.
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Speaker 1: What's a light jog?
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Speaker 3: A light jog.
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Speaker 1: Just three Ks.
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Speaker 3: It's a light jog. Depends who you are, I suppose. It was like a solid jog. Do you remember, Gabby, when Conrad Sewell was last on the show? We know Conrad from this.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 3: He should have said I'm not available because it was his birthday party the night before. And the poor fellow was.
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Speaker 1: He was dusty.
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Speaker 3: He wasn't going for a light jog. He was hungover. He's a rock star, though, you know. It's a funny time to have the presentation days before our women's team's first ever appearance in the finals. So there must have been a really interesting vibe last night. Celebration for the end of the season for the boys, but I imagine everyone was around the women as a team making history this week.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it wasn't quite the typical presentation event. We're having a few beers and get to share a few stories. We were sort of in and out and, you know, celebrate the award winners and I guess, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Why do they do it before the season's done? It makes no sense to me. Is it because you're well behaved? Like, do they do it for that reason?
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Speaker 5: They can bank on us being well behaved.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: What do you run?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's a heavy jog?
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Speaker 3: Well, let's get a title on this. When you do a 3K, are you just getting the steps in or do you hit the stopwatch?
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Speaker 5: No, just getting the steps in, but I also don't like to go for more than 15 minutes, so it's got to.
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Speaker 1: Be done before that.
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Speaker 3: That's still pretty impressive.
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Speaker 1: I can't even do 3Ks walking.
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Speaker 3: Sheridan won the Raiders NRLW Coaches Award for the Malmeninga Medal Prezzo night last night. Congratulations. Thank you. That's a real... How does that feel from a recognition point of view for the coach to say, hey, listen, we're not playing finals without you? That hasn't been said, but that's the sentiment, I think.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, it's pretty special to be recognised by your coaches. Yeah, for me, it's pretty cool, but probably... More looking forward to lifting that bigger trophy at the end of the year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 1: It's insights.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and from a mindset point of view, that's what we've been speaking about from round one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And you've joined us on the show. So going into what everyone's getting excited about, and we are, understandably, the first Raiders NRLW final. But the attitude isn't, all right, well, we've done the job, is it?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 1: No, not.
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Speaker 5: Definitely not, I think. You know, we've still got to keep working hard, and if we turn up and think we've already done the job, we'll get knocked out round one of finals. So we've just got to turn up and give it to them.
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Speaker 1: Talk us through how finals work again, because you win this weekend. Do you skip one and then go through? Like, how does it work?
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Speaker 5: So if we win this weekend, we go up to Sydney again and play the Roosters, and if we beat them, we'll make the grand final.
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Speaker 1: So there's no skipping a week?
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Speaker 3: Well, if you finish on the top of the table.
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Speaker 4: Oh!
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: That's where I'm getting confused.
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Speaker 3: Well, you get double chances if you're top two, blah, blah, blah. But it's sudden death.
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Speaker 1: So three weekends in a row, let's go. That's what we're doing.
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Speaker 3: You just keep winning.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: And then you're in this funny spot where the expectation from observers is World Cup. I can only imagine you go, well, listen, I'm not even thinking about that right now. But that's only four weeks away. That team's not announced until, obviously, the GF is just over. So for you, lifestyle-wise... Canberra life is great, but this could be one of the busiest next couple of months of your life. How does your other half feel about it? Because she might be at home. Does she come with you if you are to go and represent Australia and do some travelling?
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Speaker 5: No, she'll just stay at home and keep working and I guess hold the fort down at home. Yeah, if I was lucky enough to make it, she'd travel to the Games, but during the week she'd just be at home.
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Speaker 1: And where's training for the World Cup? Would that be Sydney?
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Speaker 2: Sydney?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the games are all over Australia. I think there's games in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, New Zealand.
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Speaker 3: Would you have to.
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Speaker 1: Base in Sydney to train with everyone or is that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're sort of like brought in for like a camp.
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Speaker 1: Right, right, right. So it's like origin almost where you go for camp and then go for games.
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Speaker 3: Every second Canberran isn't from here. So we know what it is to drag our poor other halves, you know, around the country to wherever and then they begin the search for it. a job, and I know your other half, she's got the new teaching gig. It makes a huge difference, particularly from a footy point of view, I imagine, when you get to an off-season, that there is structure and routine and those sorts of things going in that gap between now and next season for you too.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's such a long time off. I think it's six months before we start again. Yeah, definitely to have that structure and routine for not only me, for her as well, is something that we think is pretty important.
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Speaker 1: Have you looked into doing some professional soccer in the off-season?
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Speaker 3: Well, that was the question. You're a rare, you know, top-level dual-code athlete. You've played in the A-League, the W-League, whatever. The A-League women's, what it ended up being called, or currently is. Was there any talk with Canberra United?
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Speaker 5: Oh, if he's listening to the show, give me a call.
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Speaker 3: Looking for something to do.
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Speaker 1: I've got off-season coming up, guys.
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Speaker 2: I've got time.
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Speaker 3: Ready to cook a.
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Speaker 1: Kick a ball is what I was trying to say.
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Speaker 5: Whatever.
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Speaker 3: Just let her cook.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: We're so excited. So Friday night, if we're not traveling up, we're going to see you on the TV. This is the big one against the Tigers. And I love that you've just knocked them off as well. So psychologically, it really couldn't be a better lead-in.
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Speaker 5: Could it? Yeah, I think I've been pretty lucky to be in this position once before. And I think you sort of just got to turn up with the same mindset that you haven't beaten them before. And You know, every game's different, especially finals footy. It brings out a new version of every team and it's pretty exciting.
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Speaker 3: Well, we know you're fair dinkum because you've turned up here, you're about to train and you were at the Prezzo night only a few hours ago. Is that tan fair dinkum or did you put that on for the awards last night?
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Speaker 1: Don't pretend like you're asking. Yeah, it's the most summer glow. Yeah, Rock goes, oh, pretty tan, been training outside.
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Speaker 3: Always training outside.
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Speaker 1: And us girls like it was an awards night last night, mate. We know what it is.
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Speaker 3: You don't know that's fake tan. I'm backing you in, Sheridan. I reckon that's a real turn.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I reckon too.
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Speaker 3: Knowlesy, g'day.
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Speaker 1: Hello. Big Splash is meant to be back for summer. How are we going with that?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: Well, we know that that deadline for it to reopen was the 1st of November, which is terrifyingly close.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
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Speaker 6: And it's too close and it's not going to happen.
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Speaker 1: Are we shocked?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. Yeah, it's not that I'm not shocked.
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Speaker 3: We really should. It's cause for celebration.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 3: Well, we forecast it. Not that it was difficult to work out, but when the new mob took it over, they were like, yeah, listen, some promises have been made. Not by us. And we read into that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 3: And we said, let's form a human circle. And we formed a what?
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Speaker 4: Human circle.
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Speaker 3: It didn't seem to help, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately not.
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Speaker 6: No, it didn't seem to help.
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Speaker 1: But we did it.
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Speaker 3: It was an excuse just to play the jingle. People liked the jingle. It got us nowhere. But we're trying to sell this thing still.
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Speaker 6: Yes, well, yes, still for sale. So that was unsuccessful so far. So now the government has agreed to commission an options analysis for the future of the facility. So that's just to provide further information to any potential interested buyers about what's needed to reopen the site as an aquatic facility and the costs of delivering those various facilities on site, including the slides. So they're trying to flush out a buyer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: A cynic might suggest that it's the government's way of saying, listen, we tried everything. If this doesn't happen, if it doesn't go anywhere, if it doesn't, you know, stay this way. So they go, we dropped, I don't know, what's this going to cost us to get this thing done? A hundred grand. Let's put a hundred grand on it.
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Speaker 6: I don't know, but we're paying for it, yeah.
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Speaker 3: For the report.
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Speaker 1: It was 10 million for that Bruce Stadium report.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Albo's report. That was 10 million. So a hundred grand feels like... It seems expensive, but it feels like where we might land.
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Speaker 1: I really want to see one of those open home videos.
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Speaker 3: Right, here we go.
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Speaker 1: You know how they do those videos and they're like, welcome to your new home. And they take you through and they show you everything and they really sell it.
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Speaker 3: I want to see that.
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Speaker 6: In its current state?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Go down those slides.
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Speaker 3: Correct. Now, the Chief Minister, it's a sitting week, so he wasn't available this week and that's completely understandable. We are on leave for a couple of weeks at the end of this week and then the Chief's coming straight in. And so I'll say it now because it'll get back to him if we're not on in the car. And I'll say it to him when he gets here. I will do this for 50. I'll do it for 50 grand.
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Speaker 4: 50,000.
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Speaker 3: But I need him in a pair of board shorts to walk us through and we'll film a promotional real estate walkthrough. They call it a walkthrough.
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Speaker 1: They do. And we can use a little bit of creative license to be like, this is what it looks like, but imagine what it could be.
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Speaker 3: And then we use AI.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And we just go and drop all sorts of slides in from the gold coat. Absolutely. Which technically we actually have in real life where we are. We are a solutions-based program.
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Speaker 1: The human circle didn't work, but we're not stopping there.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no. This isn't over, damn it. All right. Work in progress. We'll keep going. I mean, it's over for this summer. It's not happening.
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Speaker 1: But next summer.
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Speaker 3: Solid maybe.
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Speaker 1: Solid maybe.
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Speaker 7: As we cross to the Canberra Museum and Gallery.
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Speaker 3: Where Jackson Harvey and Alex Tower, the co-creators of Relics, we've been talking about it, we've been seeing it on the socials, they won Season 2 of Channel 9's Lego Masters, are with you, baby Wes, and what sort of creations have the boys come up with? They're actually building before your eyes, are they?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the exhibition opens up this weekend, so they're kind of, well, considering it's Wednesday, they're very calm, collected, getting it all together, but it's almost, it's pretty much almost there.
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Speaker 1: Well, they're used to having to do these creations in like five hours on Lego Masters.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this isn't a competition. Let's be honest. Can you ask them whether or not they've glued them together to bring them here? It's okay if they have.
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Speaker 5: Okay, okay.
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Speaker 4: They're wanting to know, have you guys glued any of these together?
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Speaker 5: There is.
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Speaker 7: I hate to spoil the magic, but there is a little bit of glue in the exhibition, but it's more to stop pieces from going wandering rather than to hold it together.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 7: There's no illegal connections. We haven't cheated.
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Speaker 3: Good, because Hamish Blake could kick that door down in a minute now. Have a chat with the boys there for us, Babewiz. I know they can't hear us. Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 4: So I think there's a bit of a stereotype that Lego might be like a bit of a thing for kids. What kind of appeal would you say there is for adults? Could I ask you first, Jackson?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we found that there's a huge appeal in our exhibition across age groups. There's something here for not just the kids, but adults will get a lot out of it. There's a few more mature themes in the storytelling and a lot of nostalgia in the old objects we've collected that adults love.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely found that when I was having a walkthrough. What do you think, Alex?
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Speaker 7: I think everybody has, or almost everybody has a connection to Lego from when they were kids. So you grow up, just because you're an adult doesn't mean you've lost that. That love for it. Plus, it's a creative medium that's, like, incredibly accessible. So if you've got an idea and a basic understanding of how Lego pieces go together, you can build whatever you want.
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Speaker 5: Awesome.
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Speaker 4: Now, I have a question from when I've kind of walked through the display myself. Obviously, these civilizations kind of take inspiration from whatever the relic that they live in is, you know, that they draw inspiration from that. Some are, like, a bit more futuristic, while others are sort of a bit more reflective of our modern life. Do these civilizations all coexist in the same timeline, or are they on different timelines?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of these little societies are existing in a speculative, not too distant future, where humans aren't around for reasons that are left a little bit vague. But they've each formed these new communities inside the old objects that we've left behind, like this fridge that we're standing in front of. There's a company that's developed a cryogenic freezing facility so that the minifigures can freeze themselves and hide away from the harsh realities of the outside world.
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Speaker 3: Beautiful work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they do coexist.
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Speaker 7: It's 2130, the year's 2130, and some of them are doing a good job of instilling a positive future for themselves, but some of them are sort of doomed to repeat some of the mistakes of the humans that came before them.
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Speaker 3: 21.30, we don't have a lot of time left. The clock's ticking. It's the exciting thing for me when you're looking at any of these large Lego... It doesn't matter when they're set or what they are. I know when you visit the Lego version of Parliament House, at Parliament House, if you look in the right section, the Star Wars figurine, the Emperor, the evil Emperor, is in there.
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Speaker 1: That's not a good thing.
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Speaker 3: Not to Parliament, but it's exciting. And it keeps it exciting. And that's really what we're looking for. So we will be looking out for all sorts of different figures in there.
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Speaker 1: The exhibition starts this weekend, which is really exciting, at CMAG. Is that right, Baby Wes?
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Speaker 4: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Yes. Excellent.
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Speaker 1: And perfect timing for the school holidays, because not only would this be exciting for the kids, but you as parents and adults are going to be able to find some fun little Easter eggs in each of the exhibits as well.
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Speaker 3: Definitely.
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Speaker 4: It's definitely an exhibition where you're not just taking the kids and you're bored out of your mind. There's so much detail in everything and so much nostalgia, like the boys said, that any adult would love. Really appreciate what they're looking at here.
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Speaker 3: A new world rises. The record-breaking Miniature Worlds exhibition, it is about to, it's arrived. It's not officially open. Baby Wears taking us inside the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Thank Jackson and Alex, the Season 2 winners of Channel 9's Lego Masters, mate. They've come here to do the final touches. It's going to be an incredible exhibition. We're very grateful to have it here and we will look forward to hearing. If you go on the weekend, 13, 10, 60, let us know next week.
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Speaker 1: We're not here next week.
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Speaker 3: Let us know in a few weeks when we come back. Gabby is so out of here. We're definitely not out of here. We're not out of here. If you see it, we'd love to hear what you think. Thank you, baby. Great job out there. Thanks, guys. He's getting very good at the interviews.
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Speaker 1: Isn't he?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, those boys are doing a fantastic job as well.
