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Speaker 1: It fits in Whip Designing a Legacy. Yeah, Tuesday Night,

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Speaker 1: eight thirty on the ABC. You can also catch it

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Speaker 1: on ABC I View. It's our good friend Russell.

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Speaker 2: Right to be here, guys.

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Speaker 3: A beautiful day in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, welcome to the Sunshine State. That's the wrong.

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Speaker 3: It normally gets hot when the kids go back to school.

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Speaker 2: It does, doesn't it in your summer starts.

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Speaker 3: My youngest is at his first day back today.

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Speaker 1: It was emotional.

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Speaker 3: Well he hasn't gone yet, of course you are today.

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Speaker 3: So you go back for one day on a Friday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, mine did yesterday and finished at midday. Dropped them

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Speaker 4: off at nine ish, finished at midday.

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Speaker 3: What do you mean you mean the nanny?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: No, I finished. Well I was there to drop them

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Speaker 2: off and one got just got a license, one got

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Speaker 2: two stickers. So there's a week, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: So I got on your ted, Well don't so.

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Speaker 3: Bobby's having his birthday. He's just turned seventy seven and

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Speaker 3: he's an Australia Day baby and so you know, so

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Speaker 3: he's having his party on this afternoon with a bit

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Speaker 3: of rain around for it, and because he's the second kid,

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Speaker 3: doesn't get any of the like for his brother. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so what no decorations piny ride. Yeah, sure, he's in

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Speaker 3: the local park playing down ball handball with his mates.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be the children's entertainment. We had this

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Speaker 3: guy one time.

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Speaker 2: He was quite good.

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Speaker 3: He did he was like like he wanted a Batman

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Speaker 3: party fun and then so he was really good. I

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Speaker 3: was very impressed with him, you know, performed a performer.

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Speaker 3: He's very good, and he was like, hey, I'm a

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Speaker 3: bad man, and this is why we've got to do children.

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Speaker 3: And then so he does a whole bunch of them.

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Speaker 3: And then the next year, know, the kids get into

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Speaker 3: something new. He's into this thing called Wild Crats.

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Speaker 2: So we get him.

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Speaker 3: He's going to play Harry from Wildcrats. He comes the

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Speaker 3: next day and he dresses up with goes, hey, I'm

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Speaker 3: Harry from one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well one year I had to dress up.

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Speaker 4: Ted's dream was to have Spider Man er over the

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Speaker 4: front door, and I'd heard about a Spider Man that

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Speaker 4: was doing the rounds for kids parties, and all the moms.

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Speaker 2: Were really keen on the Spider Man.

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Speaker 4: Because Spider Man's web throw was quite a piece and

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Speaker 4: it was quite obvious Spider Man out He was really fit,

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Speaker 4: quite a large lad, as you could see in his tight,

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Speaker 4: gripping lycra So I decided to very greg So I

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Speaker 4: decided to buy my own Spider Man outfit. The cane

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Speaker 4: through the door with a pair of ourn.

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Speaker 2: Williams that didn't he'd been hit, didn't at all.

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Speaker 5: Should really like I should have got the big guy

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Speaker 5: round my mate and wogga Madam Drummond. He thressed up

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Speaker 5: as a stripper and his wife's hens night. No way

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Speaker 5: he turned so she didn't know with the mask on

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Speaker 5: and stuff, and he had the he waxed himself, had

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Speaker 5: the full tan and oh god cha. Then she took

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Speaker 5: off the thigs because she was really getting into it.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to see your mother.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at least you know then that, yeah, you're getting

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Speaker 1: the right striper. It's the were the girls excited.

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Speaker 3: I think some of them are in on the act.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them. They set it up.

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Speaker 3: But it would have been weird if the mother in

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Speaker 3: law got a little bit too carried away.

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Speaker 1: You've seen those videos designing a legacy. Now I've seen

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Speaker 1: the first episode. Can we talk about that. There's a

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Speaker 1: house and I mean you perform man about the house.

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Speaker 1: You perform at some of these houses, so you're very

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Speaker 1: close to them. But there's a family down in Tasmania,

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Speaker 1: the glasshouse down there, the round the glasshouse. Can you

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Speaker 1: talk about the guy the architect who actually designed this house.

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Speaker 1: And they've been decimated by fire numerous times throughout the family.

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Speaker 3: But how they had three houses burned down over time

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Speaker 3: and an office as well. That that was three of

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Speaker 3: them were like bushfires. One of them was some kids

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Speaker 3: burnt down his office on the one on this hill

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Speaker 3: in Hobart, jealous or just And then but when the

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Speaker 3: the last when the last one burnt down, he was

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Speaker 3: he had a fire bunker underneath it and he was

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Speaker 3: designing the new house while it burned.

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Speaker 2: Your wow, yeah, just knowing it was gone.

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Speaker 3: And then and then this is the really lovely thing

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Speaker 3: about it, which is an important part of the story

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Speaker 3: for the TV show, is that this house is on

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Speaker 3: this all this land and they had essentially the the

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Speaker 3: developers offered them ten million dollars because of the land and.

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Speaker 1: The half h is unbelievable, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: So it's a lot of money obviously. And then the

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Speaker 3: Hobot City council offered them five hundred thousand dollars for it.

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Speaker 3: They really wanted it to becoming, you know, in public hands,

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Speaker 3: and they ended up taking a lot less than the

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Speaker 3: ten million dollars because they wanted the house to survive

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Speaker 3: and not to be subdivided. Wow Parkland to go to

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Speaker 3: the sun living it the Hobout City Council. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think they probably took two million dollars rather than

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Speaker 3: ten million dollars.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Would you do that, Whipper? Would? I? Absolutely? I would

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Speaker 2: be so well.

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Speaker 6: I'll be so focused on stopping that subdivision, making sure

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Speaker 6: there was no commercial interest for me in it, and

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Speaker 6: that the trees had the chance to grow into the

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Speaker 6: natural beauty, put a car park.

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Speaker 2: In and a couple of other things.

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Speaker 4: When you talk about a legacy, though, rosso do you

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Speaker 4: agree that some people mightn't realize at the time that

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Speaker 4: it is a legacy they're creating, and it's only over

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Speaker 4: time that you understand what they've actually built.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the passage of time and so and

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Speaker 3: sometimes if you think about it, you'll look at a

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Speaker 3: building from the nineteen twenties and thirties and think, oh,

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Speaker 3: that's amazing. That's really beautiful building from two hundred years ago. Oh,

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Speaker 3: that's amazing, that's gorgeous. But there's a period of time

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Speaker 3: fifteen twenty years after it was built it becomes completely

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that ugly thing on the hill?

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Speaker 3: That's when things get knocked over and we end up

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Speaker 3: without any of our.

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Speaker 1: But it's like an album that wasn't very well received,

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Speaker 1: you know, like the Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street.

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Speaker 1: No one really liked it at the time, but now

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Speaker 1: that they're saying, it's unbelievable and it's it's genius. That

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Speaker 1: album mid Century. You're into the mid century modernism and

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Speaker 1: the architecture from those years. There's not many houses around

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Speaker 3: We got a few, There are a few, but everyone's

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Speaker 3: bigger houses. Yes, So in the nine I think people,

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Speaker 3: I think people want they want more things. Everyone's always

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Speaker 2: We never used glass.

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Speaker 1: It was all brief.

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Speaker 3: Was there where a glass was expensive or hard to

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Speaker 3: get in the sizes that we could get simple? Where

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Speaker 3: did you.

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Speaker 2: Love architecture come from? And design? Where did that start?

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Speaker 3: So when I was a kid growing up in the suburbs,

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Speaker 3: there was always houses around me that were really interesting

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Speaker 3: and I really loved and I've always collected furniture. They've

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Speaker 3: always been interested in it. And then you know, I

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Speaker 3: suppose the thing about I think about life is that

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Speaker 3: you it gets to a point where you've got to

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Speaker 3: do what you love and chase your passions. And I

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Speaker 3: really I used to love being here and that was

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Speaker 3: do that. But you know, as a second act, I

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Speaker 3: was like, I really, I really want to do more

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Speaker 3: of this. It's really important to me. And I think also,

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Speaker 3: so my dad's got My dad's got dementia. And so

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Speaker 3: he saw the last show that I did for the ABC,

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Speaker 3: and he'd seen it a couple of times for us

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Speaker 3: forgets that he's seen it. So he said, he came

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Speaker 3: up to see me, and we're watching it for in

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Speaker 3: his mind for the very first time. There's this bit

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Speaker 3: home and it'd been sort of changed dramatically, and I'm

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Speaker 3: holding Dad's hand and he just said to me, he said, oh, look,

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Speaker 3: you know something that's beautiful. Just keep making films like that.

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Speaker 3: And that's so, you know, Dad's still still with us,

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Speaker 3: but he's you know, seeing sometimes remembering. Sometimes he won't.

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Speaker 1: He will watch it emotional for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so mom, and so for me to do

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Speaker 3: these these projects are really important. And I spoke is

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Speaker 3: it's it's it's a wish of dad. And you know,

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Speaker 3: you do lots of silly things and fun things, but

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Speaker 3: to do things for me that.

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Speaker 1: Are really important, mate, buddy, you do pull you pull

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Speaker 1: your heart and soul into this show, Designing a Legacy.

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Speaker 1: It's on Tuesday night, eight thirty on ABC. And before

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Speaker 1: you do go, I mean that is the time capsule

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Speaker 1: that American rosso put in there. I mean, can you

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Speaker 1: come back for the unveiling or is it pretty boring?

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Speaker 1: I know it's it's what's cly a prediction is really yeah?

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Speaker 2: Can you give us a clue on what it might suggest?

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Speaker 3: Is in it is a photo? No way, it's a photo.

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Speaker 3: Merck Watts in camouflage gear.

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Speaker 1: You.

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Speaker 3: Wow. I didn't. We had a psychic come in.

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Speaker 2: Wow, you guys.

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Speaker 3: It fits in Whipper