Speaker 1: Good morning Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Wakey, wakey men.
Speaker 3: Jason Lawrence, start your morning the right away, gonna be great.
Speaker 4: God, this is Jason Lauren on Noel one.
Speaker 5: Well, good morning Melbourne and what a morning it is.
Speaker 5: Let's do a roll call in the studio, JAS present
Speaker 5: Clint the Resident. Let's cross to the hottest and busiest
Speaker 5: location in Victoria one. Lauren Phillips, where are you living from?
Speaker 6: Guys? Forget the mcg on Grand Final Day, forget Albert
Speaker 6: Park on Australian Grand Prix Day. I am at the
Speaker 6: Geelong Botanic Gardens with the corpse flower, a thousand other
Speaker 6: people that are here. I'm talking thousands of people lining
Speaker 6: up for four hours to get in to smell the
Speaker 6: famous stinky flower.
Speaker 5: Are those people cooked or are they Okay?
Speaker 6: No, there has been so they opened the Botanic Gardens
Speaker 6: all night for twenty four hours. Speaking to some security
Speaker 6: guards this morning. Ridiculous, mate, there's crowd control, there's security guards.
Speaker 6: Every person in Geelong is here.
Speaker 2: Driven down.
Speaker 6: Stin Can you believe it?
Speaker 5: It was leading the news.
Speaker 4: They came for a selfie and left gagging from the
Speaker 4: stamps as the world's worst smelling plants bloomed in Geelong
Speaker 4: for the first time.
Speaker 7: This is the fourth time this morning, from this morning
Speaker 7: till now, and just to see the different stages of
Speaker 7: the flower opening up.
Speaker 1: Smells like dead possum.
Speaker 2: Have you seen anybody gag?
Speaker 6: Well, look, Clint, I haven't gone in yet. I'm still
Speaker 6: out the front waiting with much anticipation because Jace didn't
Speaker 6: want me to like miss a gag. I didn't want
Speaker 6: to do that. There's also a situation that this stinky
Speaker 6: flower has bought with it mosquitoes the size of elephants,
Speaker 6: like you've never seen anything like it, So we're covered
Speaker 6: in in.
Speaker 5: Tropical I just realized who you are. You're like Carl
Speaker 5: Steffanova at a Trump rally, you know he runs for
Speaker 5: the source or like, oh, floods in Queensland. We're live
Speaker 5: from there now.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you guys know much about the flower,
Speaker 6: but it is it will die after this. It's only
Speaker 6: a live like this for like twenty four to forty
Speaker 6: eight hours. And they are comparing it this line of
Speaker 6: people to like scenes in London when the Queen was
Speaker 6: in waiting. You know, it's like that for Geelong, where
Speaker 6: everyone's like, we might find David Beckham in the line,
Speaker 6: if we're lucky.
Speaker 5: Someone might die.
Speaker 3: Remember Bex walked past the queen and sobbed avernyone's sobbing
Speaker 3: as they will.
Speaker 6: That could be me. Clease. There is also a live
Speaker 6: stream of the flower, and I'm very concerned I might
Speaker 6: go in.
Speaker 5: And hell, mate, if you spin on the live stream,
Speaker 5: I'll give you one hundred dollars. That's the sort of
Speaker 5: stuff Kimmel would run. You'd go viral.
Speaker 6: And now I've also heard that the stink comes in waves,
Speaker 6: and last night you could smell a stink all the
Speaker 6: way down to the teahouse at the Botanic.
Speaker 5: Really, so, Lauren, I'm just looking at the people lined
Speaker 5: up behind you at the moment. It is a steady
Speaker 5: stream and we're not taking the piss here. This thing's
Speaker 5: been open all night.
Speaker 6: Yes, so look, the flower came into bloom yesterday just
Speaker 6: after our show. I took four to five hours to open.
Speaker 6: I was glued to the live stream. I haven't been
Speaker 6: this excited about something since I can't actually remember how.
Speaker 3: I had the live stream on in the Channel nine
Speaker 3: news room. Oh yeah, and the people huddled around my
Speaker 3: computer question question. Forget about the real news.
Speaker 5: Because the flower was dilating yesterday when I left.
Speaker 2: The walker was opening up.
Speaker 5: Yes, when she opened did it go.
Speaker 6: Apparently?
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 6: Apparently?
Speaker 2: Yeah so.
Speaker 6: And also there's lots of people that are trying to
Speaker 6: like stick their head right in the flower, but you can't.
Speaker 6: You can't smell. If you're whiff too close, you'll miss
Speaker 6: the waft. It's like the it's all We've gotta be
Speaker 6: away from the flower slightly to get there.
Speaker 2: In the world today cares Clint that.
Speaker 6: All cares what else has happened in the world. This
Speaker 6: is the biggest story that's happened in Victoria.
Speaker 5: Long term, we're going to try and track down some
Speaker 5: big names of Geelong to talk to the smell.
Speaker 6: I text Tom Hawkins because and I said, have you
Speaker 6: heard about the stinky flower? And this is before the
Speaker 6: hoho of the last twenty four hours And he said, well,
Speaker 6: someone told me about it in the middle of a
Speaker 6: polarates class. And I said, gosh, you wouldn't want that
Speaker 6: smelling a hot polarates.
Speaker 2: Tom Hawks doings, he's.
Speaker 6: Doing a twenty five day challenge of some such things.
Speaker 5: Quickly.
Speaker 2: Isn't Jay Hawkins a real convert? Because we were.
Speaker 6: No I don't want to know about this.
Speaker 2: Look at the flower.
Speaker 5: Hang on, not a convert yet, No, I want to
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: Want to know about it. I don't want to know
Speaker 6: about it. And I said, it's got to get to
Speaker 6: forty degrees. And then he was texting me saying, guys, flowers,
Speaker 6: thirty one to go. We've got a temperature check on
Speaker 6: the flowers.
Speaker 5: I was having a lot of flashbacks too when we
Speaker 5: had our sons. When the flower started dihilating, I was like,
Speaker 5: I know what's next.
Speaker 6: Many people have also compared it to the flowering Dennis
Speaker 6: the Menace. They're flowering Dennis the Menace that he ruins.
Speaker 6: It only the corpse lily that only opens for like
Speaker 6: four seconds. It's a very similar scene to that.
Speaker 3: Mister Willson, I believe you just compared the corpse flower
Speaker 3: to your wife giving birth.
Speaker 2: Are you okay?
Speaker 6: Many people come out to see her.
Speaker 5: No, No, we didn't have lines and she wasn't open
Speaker 5: for twenty four hours. I'll tell you that. I am
Speaker 5: coming up. We've got to go. I thanks. That makes
Speaker 5: the bed shed. We're going to be playing celebrity sleepover
Speaker 5: in the next twenty minutes. But coming up next as
Speaker 5: much as I'd love to talk to you about the flower,
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to a professional. Who have you
Speaker 5: got down there? Joining us?
Speaker 6: Next love, Oh, Kelly from the Geelong Botanic Gardens is
Speaker 6: going to join us. She actually knows what's going on
Speaker 6: with this flower. It's got a more formal name than
Speaker 6: this stinky flower. To find out what it is short,
Speaker 6: he will try and get some people who are also
Speaker 6: coming out of the greenhouse jury not available, see how
Speaker 6: they're coping with the WAFT.
Speaker 5: I think we should be doing a welfare check on
Speaker 5: anyone's lined up four hours to come and see the flower. Guys,
Speaker 5: can I set the scene to kick things off? I
Speaker 5: give you choice of arn and Bloom perfect. This is
Speaker 5: Omber one hundred Cleat. You have been a journalist Channel
Speaker 5: nine inch journalists how many years? Twenty years? So I
Speaker 5: was just telling you the ad break. I've done some
Speaker 5: stories in my time. Once upon a time to store
Speaker 5: in a town with no TV, no TV because the
Speaker 5: areill blew over twenty people in the town.
Speaker 2: I TV. There's another one. A bunch of bridesmaids.
Speaker 3: Their bridesmaids dresses didn't arrive, so they walked down the
Speaker 3: aisle in pajamas and Betty Boop thongs.
Speaker 2: But this I think takes the cake.
Speaker 5: We are crossing now to one Lauren Phillips at the
Speaker 5: Geelong Botanic Gardens this morning for the opening of the
Speaker 5: Corpse Flower aka the Smelly Weed.
Speaker 6: Good morning Laws, good morning guys. Look nothing says cost
Speaker 6: of living crisis quite like an overnight visit to the
Speaker 6: Geelong Botanic Gardens to smell the Smelly Flower with the
Speaker 6: whole family, does it. There are thousands of people here
Speaker 6: and this is I'm saying, the biggest story of the year.
Speaker 6: I am joined by Kelly from the Gelong Botanic Gardens. Kelly,
Speaker 6: is this your Christmas?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, Kelly.
Speaker 5: Have you seen anything like this before?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: Coming the floor a world.
Speaker 5: No, until twenty four hours ago where you worked, was
Speaker 5: it looked as a cool job.
Speaker 10: It was an amazingly cool job. We've had a beautiful
Speaker 10: garden and now it's taken the next level.
Speaker 5: Your rockstar mate, You guys work at the potentic Gardens,
Speaker 5: your rockstart.
Speaker 6: Seriously, it's like Justin Bieber's down here when Kelly walks around.
Speaker 6: So Kellie, talk us through it. We are here because
Speaker 6: the Corpse Flower, which flowers once every seven to ten
Speaker 6: years is finally in bloom. Did you know it was
Speaker 6: going to be this week?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 6: So how much warning did you get?
Speaker 10: We have had thirteen days of warning this time last
Speaker 10: two weeks ago. We had no idea that we were
Speaker 10: going to have a corpse flower. That's how fast and
Speaker 10: incredible this plant is.
Speaker 6: And so it'll only bloom for how long?
Speaker 10: Twenty four to forty eight hours. But it's been out
Speaker 10: now eleven thirty. This morning will be twenty four and
Speaker 10: then you'll see a slight decline.
Speaker 2: I've got many questions as well, so far away. How
Speaker 2: many of these flowers are there in Australia.
Speaker 10: In Australia, in the hood, in in our hood, there's
Speaker 10: two right right in Adelaide is where we got them from.
Speaker 9: They're the meccha in Australia for growing them.
Speaker 6: The stinky city. I feel like there's would stink more
Speaker 6: than ours too, don't you think?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 10: Yes, Melbourne cans has one, Sydney has a couple, not
Speaker 10: many in Australia.
Speaker 6: And there's only about a thousand in the world.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, they're right right up there, Tiger can.
Speaker 6: We let's.
Speaker 5: If I see a Netflix show called Corpse What was it?
Speaker 5: Corpse will be the next series Corpse.
Speaker 6: Flower, hosted by Kelly Kels.
Speaker 5: You were saying, it's going to start to look like
Speaker 5: we'll start to close up at eleven o'clock today.
Speaker 10: No, not closed, but you'll see it won't be as magnificent.
Speaker 9: It will still smell.
Speaker 2: It'll still what's the smell? Please?
Speaker 10: Like, I'm one hundred percent plant nerd, and I was
Speaker 10: dubious that a plant could put out a smell that
Speaker 10: represented a dead animal.
Speaker 9: And that's exactly what it smells like.
Speaker 5: Is it constantly smelling like that? Every now and then
Speaker 5: it just goes.
Speaker 10: At the start, it was sending off like wofts every
Speaker 10: now and again, but it's quite constant. And then I
Speaker 10: came in this morning and I reckon it's changed to
Speaker 10: about dead fish.
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 5: Has anyone gad?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, one of our awesome haughties here, Lucy, who's been
Speaker 10: working in the nursery and looking after it. We got
Speaker 10: her right up close and personal yesterday and her face
Speaker 10: was hilarious.
Speaker 6: So we've gone because I heard it was stinkiest last night,
Speaker 6: people saying the waft was going all the way through
Speaker 6: the gardens down to the tea house on a level
Speaker 6: of stink.
Speaker 10: How stinky is it this morning? I think it's still there.
Speaker 10: I reckon it's a good eight. Yeah, it's not constant.
Speaker 6: I haven't been inside yet, guys, so I'll be heading
Speaker 6: in shortly. I'm sure. Like state riveting radio, stay tuned once.
Speaker 3: So once once this once it starts to wilt. Say
Speaker 3: what actually happens to it? Is it dead and you've
Speaker 3: got to turf it in the skip? Or is it
Speaker 3: in ten years time?
Speaker 2: Does it? No?
Speaker 9: Not dead? No, no, not dead.
Speaker 10: It's got a huge underground storage that we call a corn.
Speaker 6: Under a carriage, and it just like a big potato.
Speaker 10: It looks like a big potato pumpkin. And so all
Speaker 10: the storage is in there, and when the flower starts
Speaker 10: to wilt, some of the energy will go back and
Speaker 10: then and then it'll take another ten.
Speaker 6: So well, if we still have our jobs, then guys,
Speaker 6: we might come back in ten years time to see
Speaker 6: it again.
Speaker 2: Do you have merch?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: Oh no we did.
Speaker 10: We heard you sold out of the well. We won't
Speaker 10: even selling them. I were just we're giving them away
Speaker 10: thinking a few people.
Speaker 5: We need merch, Yeah, we need merch caw. Can I
Speaker 5: ask just quickly, how's the line situation working? So people
Speaker 5: line up, they walk in. Are they allowed a certain
Speaker 5: amount of time with the flower? Is it you've got
Speaker 5: to keep walking past? Are you allowed a selfie with
Speaker 5: the flowers? There? No touching?
Speaker 9: No touching, yep, no touching.
Speaker 2: What happens if you touch it?
Speaker 9: Is it you goet to smack on the wrist by.
Speaker 2: The Hallus fly trap?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, But Jason, in all seriousness, there are hundreds
Speaker 6: and hundreds and hundreds of people in this line photo earlier, Yeah, photos.
Speaker 6: But some people got in at eight in the line
Speaker 6: at eight pm and got through at midnight. Like the
Speaker 6: gardens were open for twenty four hours. When I woke
Speaker 6: up at four, I checked it the live stream and
Speaker 6: there were people streaming through. How much sleep did you
Speaker 6: get last night?
Speaker 9: About four hours?
Speaker 2: Max?
Speaker 6: Too excited?
Speaker 9: Yeah, way too excited, Kelly.
Speaker 2: So much to do in Geelong.
Speaker 10: There's heaves to do in Peats. The gardens is number one. Yeah,
Speaker 10: beautiful beaches.
Speaker 5: It was the Greenhouse because it was opened through the
Speaker 5: night at midnight was a like Big Brother, you know,
Speaker 5: it goes a bit up late the things.
Speaker 10: Yeahhouse with the stink flower old hands.
Speaker 5: Hey all right, hell hey, thanks so much for joining us,
Speaker 5: and thank you for having us this morning. Like I know,
Speaker 5: we're having a bit.
Speaker 6: Of fun with that's the biggest story of the guys.
Speaker 5: It's the biggest story in in Victoria today.
Speaker 6: I don't know about that. I'm going biggest story in
Speaker 6: the country for the year right overs as well.
Speaker 5: Live from the Geelong Botannic Gardens this.
Speaker 2: Morning named the show Gardening Australia.
Speaker 5: It's Gardening Australia. The corpse Smelling Flower has bloomed. It's
Speaker 5: dilated in the tear coming up next thanks to our
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Speaker 5: Thirteen twenty four to ten. She is clear and a
Speaker 5: little bit chilly and Geelong where Lauren is. She's live
Speaker 5: at the Geelong Botannic Gardens for the opening of the
Speaker 5: Corpse Flower.
Speaker 6: I am I've made the trick down highway. It is
Speaker 6: actually an absolute sparkler down here this morning, boys, and
Speaker 6: there are hundreds, potentially thousands of people lined up to
Speaker 6: get old whiff of the corpse Flower waft, which has
Speaker 6: just been described to me I haven't been in yet
Speaker 6: as a smell of rotting dead fish.
Speaker 5: Clint, you were up at Channel nine yesterday. I saw
Speaker 5: you guys cover it on the news.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we covered that in so many other big stories,
Speaker 3: including what's happening in Russia and the US election. But
Speaker 3: at two o'clock news meeting, the news director turned to
Speaker 3: me and said, what's coming up in Sport? And I said, well,
Speaker 3: before I get there, I just want to tell you
Speaker 3: that the corpse flower is clearly a big story because
Speaker 3: tomorrow our show on number one hundred will be broadcasting
Speaker 3: live from the Corps Flower in Geelong.
Speaker 2: Big a story of the year collectively. The laughter that
Speaker 2: broke out around it was like it was like a
Speaker 2: chorus of laughs.
Speaker 5: You believe it.
Speaker 6: It was the highlight on the news. I was driving
Speaker 6: last night down to Geelong and I heard they did
Speaker 6: a little Channel line update on the radio and Tom
Speaker 6: Steinfitt said, the stink taking over Jeelong, the corps Flower
Speaker 6: is here. It was a top three news story. And
Speaker 6: then also the Today Show are coming down a little
Speaker 6: later as a champion for Geelong. I love this town.
Speaker 6: They asked me to do a cross and I got
Speaker 6: a text from a friend of mine who's a producer
Speaker 6: and said in the meeting today, one of the producers said, oh,
Speaker 6: Lawrence got a really bad gag reflex, so it should
Speaker 6: be great.
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Speaker 5: Emma is in Geelong morning, Emma. Have you been down
Speaker 5: to see the Smelly Flower?
Speaker 6: No, I've been trying to.
Speaker 5: But the lines is that long, Emma.
Speaker 6: It is heaving down here. You're missing out.
Speaker 5: See you know someone at the front of the line.
Speaker 5: You just got to know someone. Hey, am, how this
Speaker 5: is going to work? Clen's going to throw you a
Speaker 5: couple of clues. If you can work out which celebrity
Speaker 5: is in bed with us, you are going to walk
Speaker 5: out of here with five hundred dollars plus putting yourself
Speaker 5: in the drawer for the Ultimate bed shed Room Makeover,
Speaker 5: valued at well over seven and a half thousand bucks
Speaker 5: Clue number one standards.
Speaker 3: Good luck, Emma. I woke up yesterday a year older.
Speaker 3: I'm now fifty.
Speaker 6: Oh someone's birthday yesterday.
Speaker 2: Any idea.
Speaker 5: No, not of the pop of.
Speaker 6: In bed with a fifty year old this morning?
Speaker 2: Are we there is one Oscar in bed with.
Speaker 6: Me, Oscar the Grouch.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have to leave it there.
Speaker 3: Ashley in Lara, just down the road from Geelong, Good morning.
Speaker 2: It's your chance to win.
Speaker 12: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Have you heard the first two clues I have?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: Any idea is.
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: Here's another one.
Speaker 3: I woke up in bed and realized I've been in
Speaker 3: the acting industry for more than forty years.
Speaker 2: Also nail.
Speaker 5: Big celebrity birthday yesterday. Everyone was giving this guy shout it.
Speaker 2: Do we give her another one?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Go on?
Speaker 3: I once was Jordan Belfort waking up in bed.
Speaker 5: You spoke about on the show we did over one hundred?
Speaker 5: Is our frequency?
Speaker 6: Did I talk about?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Congratulation?
Speaker 13: Yes, thank you?
Speaker 14: Sorry I missed that.
Speaker 6: I am a loyal listener.
Speaker 5: That's a right mole. More concerned about a co host
Speaker 5: that actually spoke about it. Hey, Ashley, five bucks and
Speaker 5: you're in the running for the bedroom makeover thanks to
Speaker 5: Bed Shared. Nice work, great guys, no worries. Flauren Phillips
Speaker 5: live from the Geelong Botannic gardens this morning. A lot
Speaker 5: of kids lining up the smelling plant, A.
Speaker 6: Lot of kids lining up to smell the stinky plant.
Speaker 6: In fact, a lot of people there's I just went
Speaker 6: for a walk. There's hundreds and hundreds of people here.
Speaker 6: It's quite a scene.
Speaker 2: A lot of people gathered around you as well.
Speaker 5: You're the daughter's home.
Speaker 2: You're attracting quite a lot of attention to how do
Speaker 2: you smell?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I'm a big fan of Geelong. I've
Speaker 6: spent a lot of time down here.
Speaker 2: The matriarch.
Speaker 6: Sort of like Fergie who got kicked out of the
Speaker 6: Royal Family when a bit like that. But I do
Speaker 6: love Geelong, so I'm thrilled to be back here.
Speaker 5: Six. We'll come back to the plant soon. First they
Speaker 5: change your place.
Speaker 6: Well, you know what everyone's been talking about recently, and
Speaker 6: it is the new Wicked movie. Because they did the
Speaker 6: world premiere in Sydney. It was on the Monday before
Speaker 6: Melbourne Cup, so none of us went because we didn't
Speaker 6: want to go to sydneyled by something.
Speaker 5: Is this the Wizard of Oz story?
Speaker 6: So it's prequel to the Wizard of Ots right, Wicked
Speaker 6: and it is an amazing musical as many of us know.
Speaker 6: If you're a musical geek like me, haven't you seen
Speaker 6: the music or Define Gravity? Oh what a banger. Anyway,
Speaker 6: it is now being turned into a movie. Sorry, Ariana Grande.
Speaker 6: And with big blockbuster movies like this comes something we
Speaker 6: all love, merch. So Metel's got involved. They've made an
Speaker 6: Ariana Grande doll in Wickhit. Have you seen it? I
Speaker 6: think she looks quite cheek as a doll. There's yeah,
Speaker 6: I think so. Yeah, I haven't seen it. Didn't go
Speaker 6: because it was on Melbourne Cape Eve. I think so. Anyway,
Speaker 6: they've got this great doll. They've printed it, they've made
Speaker 6: it all up, they've put it in stores. All the
Speaker 6: details are on the back of the matel box, except
Speaker 6: there has been a typo on the website. It happens
Speaker 6: to the best of us. They've put on the back
Speaker 6: of the box Wicked. Don't look it up, certainly, don't
Speaker 6: look it up on a work computer. Wicked dot com.
Speaker 6: I believe it should have been Wicked themovie dot com.
Speaker 6: Oh no, and Wicked dot com.
Speaker 5: He's pretty weak.
Speaker 6: A movie for families. Put it that way.
Speaker 3: It is a movie searching Wicked dot com stand by
Speaker 3: I've had to be verified to get in.
Speaker 6: Oh, what can you see? Clinton?
Speaker 2: What can't I see?
Speaker 3: That's really Oh, it is a destination for for some
Speaker 3: Eurotic movies.
Speaker 5: When Lauren, when Lauren's on to start working together, management
Speaker 5: said you're going to work with Lauren Phillips. So I
Speaker 5: googled Lauren Phillips.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, the fiery redhead.
Speaker 5: Yeah I didn't, I didn't. Well, yeah, there's a there's
Speaker 5: an adult film star called Lauren Phillips. There is, so
Speaker 5: I've looked her up. You can imagine how disappointment it
Speaker 5: was when you walked in and I'm like, well, hey,
Speaker 5: and you're not the person they said I was going
Speaker 5: to be working.
Speaker 6: Well, you can imagine how disappointed all the dads were
Speaker 6: when I got the job on kids w B and
Speaker 6: they accidentally linked the wrong website.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who.
Speaker 3: The star of Wicked dot com is just doing bit
Speaker 3: of exploring here, Stormy Daniels.
Speaker 2: She stars in Fantasia.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, question for the room and Melbourne this morning
Speaker 5: and by all means to get involved. Thirteen twenty four ten.
Speaker 5: You haven't been caught looking at a naughty website?
Speaker 3: Look I haven't, but I had a friend, of course
Speaker 3: I did, who handed me his phone because I was
Speaker 3: inspecting a photo, a beautiful photo on his phone, and
Speaker 3: a notification popped up because he had a secondary Twitter account,
Speaker 3: and the Twitter notification popped up.
Speaker 2: You know when there's a new tweeter and follow or
Speaker 2: something like that. And let's just say it wasn't family friendly.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I said something. I said, let's open her up.
Speaker 6: Guys, Oh, do you remember that guy took a selfie
Speaker 6: with me and then went to review it and accidentally
Speaker 6: swipes too hard left and it swiped all through his
Speaker 6: photo album And wasn't all photos of me?
Speaker 5: Remember? I got caught at the chemist down there a
Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: What happened there?
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 6: No, don't tell the story again. I don't want to
Speaker 6: relive that.
Speaker 5: Worse for you, My mother in law was staying with
Speaker 5: a date.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I thought we were banned from telling this story.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: No, it's a difference, a different one about how many times.
Speaker 6: No, No, it's really got to start behaving yourself when
Speaker 6: your mother in law's in the house.
Speaker 5: Jason, I'm all nervous again. She borrowed my laptop to
Speaker 5: book some flights.
Speaker 2: You didn't clear the history. You didn't empty the.
Speaker 6: People learned to do that in about two thousand and four.
Speaker 5: No, it wasn't that. When she had him a laptop back,
Speaker 5: I opened Safari and I could see that she was
Speaker 5: wait the jets like the tab was open. It was
Speaker 5: the jet Start page and I've closed the tab and
Speaker 5: my last website was there, So she's obviously had to
Speaker 5: go new search window.
Speaker 6: What do you check that stuff before your hand over
Speaker 6: the lap you, Tony? I know, maybe she got into
Speaker 6: it though she didn't shut down. Maybe she liked it
Speaker 6: a difference. Wendy get it, Wendy what said? No, I
Speaker 6: don't want to know.
Speaker 2: I do. What was it?
Speaker 6: I'm not listening thirteen twenty. Lauren Phillips has left the
Speaker 6: conversation thirteen twenty.
Speaker 5: It wasn't Wicked dot com.
Speaker 6: He was just trying to get to find Gravit attendant.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, not not the jet star page like
Speaker 5: a different Yeah, okay, I'm getting No, I'm getting hot
Speaker 5: plastic thirteen twenty four.
Speaker 6: Ten is ound number attend You don't know that page?
Speaker 5: Have you been caught looking at an adult website? Or
Speaker 5: maybe you've caught someone else thirty. We'll take your calls next.
Speaker 5: Lauren is live from the Geelong Ptendant Gardens this morning.
Speaker 5: She's there for the smelly Corpse Flower. A quick fashions
Speaker 5: on the field there, Lows.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I found a corpse flower enthusiast and from Geelong
Speaker 6: the boys fashion sense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well I think this is this is exactly how
Speaker 9: we roll down here guys.
Speaker 6: Talk me through your look.
Speaker 9: And we've gone the collared shirt with the tracksuit plan
Speaker 9: set up drug dealer ic.
Speaker 6: Talk to me Nick. You've just been in to see
Speaker 6: the smelling plant.
Speaker 9: How was it absolutely amazing, Lauren?
Speaker 6: Was it a proper stink, real stink?
Speaker 2: First to wait, Nick, I waited for an hour.
Speaker 6: And twenty months and did you did you roll in
Speaker 6: the scent?
Speaker 10: I wafted someone to myself to really walk out of
Speaker 10: his bottle it you were going to.
Speaker 6: Bottle let seef Chemist Warehouse would like to sell it
Speaker 6: with a.
Speaker 2: Brand on it to j Lo Galow.
Speaker 6: All right, perfect Christmas.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys. Thirteen twenty four ten is our number.
Speaker 5: We'll get back to the flower in a sec. First,
Speaker 5: so we're talking. Yeah, you need naughty website.
Speaker 3: Yea's been caught on a naughty website Ebony and Heidelberg.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Have you been caught or did you catch somebody?
Speaker 15: I caught someone I've never been more.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 4: So this bet and he's a very lovable guy, He's
Speaker 4: very personable.
Speaker 15: He's about seventy plus.
Speaker 6: Anyway, whenever we go.
Speaker 15: Into the vet visits, he's always amazing my dog and
Speaker 15: then he'll want to talk.
Speaker 16: About his personal life show.
Speaker 13: So one when we go went in and it was
Speaker 13: just been.
Speaker 16: His birthday and he's showing the photos of.
Speaker 15: The family and his wife and his swipe to this photo.
Speaker 13: Of this lady in a very very racey costume.
Speaker 2: And I've never been back.
Speaker 15: My husband does all the VET visits down.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can't undersay that.
Speaker 5: I just remembered one another one hang on involved the
Speaker 5: mother in law.
Speaker 6: Going to involved his mother.
Speaker 5: Hang on, we didn't mind the seconds from point talk tyson.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 17: So?
Speaker 16: I was given a laptop of the age as twelve
Speaker 16: by my sister who I live with. My sister and
Speaker 16: her partner, and I had forgotten to close the browser
Speaker 16: and he used my laptop from time to time and
Speaker 16: I opened it up to something that you probably shouldn't
Speaker 16: have seen confronted me about it as she as you would.
Speaker 16: I said, no, denied it, whatnot. And so then she
Speaker 16: thought that it was her partner.
Speaker 6: Did you let him take the blame?
Speaker 16: Roasted him?
Speaker 5: That's strong, is strong?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're not owning up for that. If there's someone
Speaker 6: you can handle the blame too.
Speaker 5: This wasn't me, I'm telling you, it wasn't me. In fact,
Speaker 5: he'll kill me for saying. But good mate of mine,
Speaker 5: little cam who you guys can.
Speaker 18: He He walked into his parents' kitchen and his mum
Speaker 18: was sitting on the couch watching TV, and his dad
Speaker 18: was sitting on the laptop of the kitchen table watching
Speaker 18: something else.
Speaker 6: Did mum know what dad was watching?
Speaker 5: Dad?
Speaker 6: She think he was watching the Block as well.
Speaker 2: Dad wasn't watching the Block.
Speaker 6: She was very enthusiastic about the styling on the block.
Speaker 6: He really was got very excited about Shana Blaze's choice.
Speaker 5: Just just before we move on though, just listening to
Speaker 5: your news this morning, and oh mate, hearing it come
Speaker 5: through late your staff to learn about the water tanker
Speaker 5: going into a childcare center, just only what two weeks
Speaker 5: after that tragic accident at that school, in Melbourne, and.
Speaker 3: Our thoughts to the Bryant family this morning. Eleanor Bryant
Speaker 3: was forty three. She died as she actually tried to
Speaker 3: rescue or pushed the children out of the way inside
Speaker 3: that kindergarten.
Speaker 5: She's a hero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Riddles Creag. It's just extraordinary. The kids and the
Speaker 2: parents and the teachers there at mob Sorry Preschool. We
Speaker 2: are thinking of you this morning.
Speaker 6: Such a tragedy absolutely.
Speaker 3: And the little boy, the three year old who's currently
Speaker 3: in hospital with some pretty bad arm injuries.
Speaker 6: Our teachers and educators Clinton and Jace, they do such
Speaker 6: an amazing job. So a shout out to all of
Speaker 6: the teachers and educators out there this morning. You do
Speaker 6: so much for the kids in this great state and
Speaker 6: that is just a tragic, tragic story. Thoughts very much
Speaker 6: with the community this morning.
Speaker 5: I was just saying, like, only what two weeks ago
Speaker 5: when that tragic accident happened with the car going through
Speaker 5: the fence at the school. I mean, even that morning
Speaker 5: there was so much anxiety amongst parents sending their kids
Speaker 5: to school the next day, and then you know, with
Speaker 5: what happened at the daycare yesterday here in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: It's just you know, inside those four walls, there's such
Speaker 3: such an innocence.
Speaker 5: That's then I was saying to Lure my wife last night.
Speaker 5: Up until two weeks ago, when you would drop the
Speaker 5: kids off at school or daycare, it was almost like
Speaker 5: you didn't even think about it.
Speaker 2: You were just like a safe place.
Speaker 5: They were the safest place possible. See at three o'clock,
Speaker 5: it was just it was the last thing that would
Speaker 5: go through your mind.
Speaker 6: And how do you feel Jason keeps to school.
Speaker 5: Anxiety about it at the moment. I mean I felt
Speaker 5: that two weeks ago, after the tragic events that happened
Speaker 5: at that school, and then just seeing what happened yesterday,
Speaker 5: it's just like, why the hell, it's just a reminder.
Speaker 3: Onelike the incident at Auburn South, it sounds like that
Speaker 3: the driver involved did suffer a medical episode. So it's
Speaker 3: just it's it sounds like a freak accident and it
Speaker 3: is utterly heartbreaking.
Speaker 5: But our thoughts are with that community. This morning, it
Speaker 5: has just gone seventeen past seven.
Speaker 2: This is no.
Speaker 5: Over one hundred. It's the weed. Everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 6: We should do the whole show on it.
Speaker 1: The corpse plant is an actual plant, corpse flower has
Speaker 1: voyaged in the Botanic Gardens a flatter space.
Speaker 5: That's right. We are alive from the Geelong Botanic Gardens
Speaker 5: this morning. One Lauren Phillips is on location with the
Speaker 5: Smelly Korean Plant assignment.
Speaker 6: Lauren, it is a very important assignment. You are right.
Speaker 6: This is an iconic moment in Geelong's history, in Victoria
Speaker 6: is history. The corpse plant has bloomed. Can I set
Speaker 6: the scene for you? I woke up at four o'clock
Speaker 6: this morning and just quickly checked the live stream with
Speaker 6: thinking there won't be a person in there. Well, the
Speaker 6: line was three four hundred meters long at four am.
Speaker 6: It has been going all night because this plant only
Speaker 6: blooms for twenty four to forty eight hours and it
Speaker 6: stinks like dead fish.
Speaker 5: You thick? Do you think people outside? Apparently that's how
Speaker 5: Victoria get it. Like I know, We're in a meeting
Speaker 5: yesterday with our bosses and we said to Sarah, our
Speaker 5: bosses in Sydney, how were we going to go lie from
Speaker 5: the Geelong Potentic Gardens tomorrow for the smelly plant? Right?
Speaker 6: She loved it. She loved it. And this is the
Speaker 6: thing about Victorian's right. We love hype. We get so
Speaker 6: excited about things like the freeway is full of people
Speaker 6: racing to get down here to get a glimpse because
Speaker 6: it's got such a small window the line at the moment.
Speaker 6: And look, it is an absolutely sparkling morning down here,
Speaker 6: but the line would be six seven hundred meters long.
Speaker 6: People are waiting to.
Speaker 2: Victorians love it.
Speaker 6: We love it, And all of a sudden we're all
Speaker 6: plant enthusiastic.
Speaker 2: You take that Sydney Harbor. We got the corpse plant
Speaker 2: well today.
Speaker 6: And you know what, and then it dies and it
Speaker 6: rebirths itself or some such thing, and then it'll be
Speaker 6: back in seven to two years. But well, that is
Speaker 6: a good question. What will last long with the corpse
Speaker 6: plant or us Jose? But I have been catching up
Speaker 6: with a few of the very excited lolders down here
Speaker 6: who are just as excited as I am. Mike and Beth,
Speaker 6: you've just been in to see the corpse plant. How
Speaker 6: was it?
Speaker 7: It's like a distant dead mouse. It's like, ah, there's
Speaker 7: a small dead animal just over there. So it's not
Speaker 7: really that pungent, but it's definitely like decaying small things.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, one.
Speaker 19: Of those you know, oh, I really should probably check
Speaker 19: under the fridge sort of, you know, move, move it
Speaker 19: out and see.
Speaker 6: It's not a smell you don want floating around your house.
Speaker 7: No, no, but it could be much more pungent than
Speaker 7: it is.
Speaker 6: Well, I heard last night it was like peak stink.
Speaker 6: It's sort of mellowed out a bit, and it's going
Speaker 6: to get peak stinky again.
Speaker 5: Oh is it?
Speaker 1: I want to smell that we may have to come
Speaker 1: back for a re smell.
Speaker 6: They're coming back for around two or was a vibe
Speaker 6: like in the line or people excited?
Speaker 7: People are excited and people are really patient. And there
Speaker 7: was one lady from the community who was going around
Speaker 7: and giving everyone a mosquito repellent.
Speaker 19: Yes, like her own supply of just coming along ago.
Speaker 19: Do you need something to use some say yes, if
Speaker 19: you are learning up, please bring, bring snacks, bring coffee,
Speaker 19: and mosquito repellent.
Speaker 5: And there you go.
Speaker 6: That's the community spirit. Guys, we like to see thanks
Speaker 6: for joining us.
Speaker 5: Okay on pack they were devo.
Speaker 6: They didn't get a peak stink.
Speaker 5: So I'm noticing a lot of people are there for
Speaker 5: the smell.
Speaker 6: But it is actually a beautiful flower as well.
Speaker 5: Apparently it's quite per Apparently it's like the site you
Speaker 5: you haven't seen it yet because we've said don't go
Speaker 5: inside the greenhouse just yet.
Speaker 6: No, you won't let me in for a smell, for
Speaker 6: a sniff. But I was watching the live stream and
Speaker 6: there's people in there like really not coping with the smell.
Speaker 6: But last night, apparently the smell was coming out of
Speaker 6: the greenhouse and like wafting all through the botanic gardens.
Speaker 6: With this morning, I don't know, maybe it's a little
Speaker 6: still here this morning, the waft isn't wafting as much.
Speaker 2: I've just done a Google job. Yeah, the armor pothhallus titanium,
Speaker 2: as it's more commonly.
Speaker 6: Known, that rolls off the tonguehovers titanium.
Speaker 2: If you're in America, you can actually buy one online.
Speaker 5: Oh we go, we must buy one.
Speaker 6: We must go, and then wait ten years for it
Speaker 6: to blue.
Speaker 2: We can put in a pot in the studio, watch
Speaker 2: it flourish.
Speaker 6: You two have been locked in that studio for three hours.
Speaker 6: I reckon it smells just as bad.
Speaker 5: The vibe in the line is very polite. Do you
Speaker 5: think anyone's meeting friends or God.
Speaker 6: Forbidman plant enthusiast took ups. I can see one girl
Speaker 6: over there who's like about to kill her little brother.
Speaker 6: I think they've been waiting in the line too long.
Speaker 6: I haven't seen any romance blooming as yet, but I will.
Speaker 6: I will look around and see if I can find
Speaker 6: a true love story under the waft of the call.
Speaker 5: When you were kids, did your parents have a drag
Speaker 5: into anything like they.
Speaker 2: We saw Hale's Haley's commet.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. As a kid, we lined up outside kindy
Speaker 5: for hours to wave with the queen when you went past.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well they are saying that this is reminiscent of
Speaker 6: the Queen in Waiting whenever one lined up through London
Speaker 6: to say their farewells. Because I guess the plant is dying.
Speaker 6: It dies in twenty four hours, so it's a very
Speaker 6: similar scene.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the royal family would love that comparison. The
Speaker 2: Queen and the corpse flower.
Speaker 5: We lined up for like two hours to get inside
Speaker 5: Expo eighty eight.
Speaker 2: I did, Princess.
Speaker 3: She was there, Yeah, she was, and her and Charlie
Speaker 3: and we were there, yeah eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Together, we'll share the world with the platypuss.
Speaker 5: You walk around with the hat half.
Speaker 6: Up there you go. It's all the big things that
Speaker 6: make you line up for hours, isn't.
Speaker 5: It really was? You go the diving show I think
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 2: And on the ferris Wheel was just still there?
Speaker 5: The Ski show on the Brisbane.
Speaker 2: Did said Ski show?
Speaker 5: You didn't live. It's just got twenty six past seven
Speaker 5: Bruno and Rose. Morning. Everyone.
Speaker 2: You like that song?
Speaker 5: I hated it last week. It's stuck on me.
Speaker 6: It's growing on me too, Just.
Speaker 5: Gone twenty six to eight morning everyone. This is number
Speaker 5: one hundred. We're doing it thanks to What If. It's
Speaker 5: Ozzie for Travel. Jason Lauren at Well, Jason Clint at
Speaker 5: the Nova Studios, Lauren in Geelong at the Corpse Flower.
Speaker 5: More on that in a tick. First though, Oh how's this?
Speaker 5: This will put you in a good mood because you'll go,
Speaker 5: thank God, I'm not George. Big shout out to George who.
Speaker 6: Owns George the Coffee Man.
Speaker 5: George the Coffee Man. Miss loved George, Miss Alex and co.
Speaker 5: Is the name of his coffee shop just along since
Speaker 5: Kilda Road there, just up from Melwood.
Speaker 6: Now what time do they open? Because we love a
Speaker 6: coffee shop that opens three five point thirty.
Speaker 5: Georgie's there at like four thirty wood On.
Speaker 3: So you're in a relationship with George now, but you've
Speaker 3: broken up with our former flame, coffee flame Adam Adam Atoma.
Speaker 6: He must be in the broken.
Speaker 5: Hearts demonstating I need to go down and every day.
Speaker 5: But I walked in, walked in this morning. George was
Speaker 5: looking a little bit down. I said, what's wrong about it?
Speaker 5: And he goes, I get a story for you. So
Speaker 5: George used to work at a car dealership. Used to
Speaker 5: work in the car dealership World Car City.
Speaker 6: Keep your eyes open for a market.
Speaker 5: So he had a number of number plates, like personalized
Speaker 5: number plates he was trying to flog off.
Speaker 6: Oh gosh, people make a fortune off these things.
Speaker 5: That's right, they do. So he just put a couple
Speaker 5: up on his Facebook page. And only twelve months ago,
Speaker 5: so only a year ago. A guy reached out and said, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm interested in money your number plate. It's going to
Speaker 5: come down the coffee shop and buy it off you.
Speaker 5: George's like, okay, this guy rolls in.
Speaker 6: You know what it said, sexy boy with an eye
Speaker 6: or something.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I'll tell you what the license plate
Speaker 5: was in the sec. This guy walked in and went,
Speaker 5: I really want that one. In fact, I'll give you
Speaker 5: eleven thousand dollars for it right now.
Speaker 6: Eleven thousand. I told you people are cleaning up on
Speaker 6: these thes.
Speaker 5: Eleven grand. So you think, oh, well, I'll take that,
Speaker 5: right Yeah. So he took it, and then he went home,
Speaker 5: worked on the TV and saw the guy bought the
Speaker 5: license plate. Do you know what the license plate was?
Speaker 5: George used to work in car dealing, and he used
Speaker 5: to work for a license licensed motor car trader. That's right.
Speaker 5: The number plate was l MCT.
Speaker 3: Oh Adrian Portelli it is indeed, Ah, that's the name
Speaker 3: of his company, LMCT.
Speaker 5: It was. Adrian walked in gave them eleven grand. George
Speaker 5: went home and put the TV on, and there he
Speaker 5: is on the block house half milk. He would have it.
Speaker 6: He would have paid it, he ah.
Speaker 5: Just like you and Adrian Paul telling on. Yet he
Speaker 5: goes a million.
Speaker 6: Well not really, George, George, that's on you. She is
Speaker 6: on research, George. But eleven thousand dollars is nothing to
Speaker 6: sneeze that. I'd be very if anyone wants to buy
Speaker 6: my number plates, you can pay all my fines and
Speaker 6: I'll throw in the number of flats one. I actually
Speaker 6: don't even know what my number plate.
Speaker 5: Is. Have you Have you told what happened yesterday, Laura?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, Jace. It was a scene reminiscent of
Speaker 6: Dumb and Dumb. Right, So you know that scene in
Speaker 6: Dumb and Dumber where the window is half down there
Speaker 6: Jim Carey sticks his head up. Except I was in
Speaker 6: the car and Jay's banged on the window and frightened me,
Speaker 6: which is his favorite thing to do. And I put
Speaker 6: the window half down and til it told him to
Speaker 6: go away, and he tried to shove his fat head
Speaker 6: in the half down window, smacked his teeth on the window.
Speaker 6: I thought he had fully knocked his two front teeth out.
Speaker 6: I was expecting blood. Got his head wedged in the
Speaker 6: half found windows stuck, got his head stuck, and I
Speaker 6: was like, what need to do? He deserved that, He
Speaker 6: deserved it.
Speaker 5: I was leaning in to tell her a little bit
Speaker 5: of gossip, and I'm like, hey, guess what.
Speaker 6: I had smashed my face in front of six and
Speaker 6: nov employees who were just walking out of the office together.
Speaker 2: I thought you were having a pash, you.
Speaker 6: Know, he fell. He fell down into the gutter and
Speaker 6: was lying in the gutter in between my car and
Speaker 6: the gutter.
Speaker 5: On Clarenmon Street in South Melbourne. You know how many
Speaker 5: people wore past. It was like, oh God, radio is
Speaker 5: not paying him. I was.
Speaker 6: I was trying to get the camera footage from the tesla,
Speaker 6: but I'm not smart enough to work out how to
Speaker 6: do it.
Speaker 5: It is just gone twenty away. Cameras captured the moment.
Speaker 5: I got to meet Taylor yesterday. What a special moment
Speaker 5: that was. You got your two hats.
Speaker 6: It never looked better.
Speaker 2: I know you can be glad I didn't pull out
Speaker 2: a ring and say marry me.
Speaker 5: I'm very glad. You can check it out Jason Lauren
Speaker 5: on Insta go to the stories there and Taylor Swift fans,
Speaker 5: have you got a week for you next week on
Speaker 5: nov Oh say no more, but you are going to
Speaker 5: want to be listening to Nova next week.
Speaker 6: We should do the whole show on it.
Speaker 1: The corpse plant is an actual plant.
Speaker 17: Corpse flower has volumed in the Botanic Gardens.
Speaker 2: Flatter's face it on.
Speaker 5: It's all happened in Gelong this morning. Lauren is life
Speaker 5: from the Geelong Botanic gardens.
Speaker 6: I am here with thousands of Geelong locals and people
Speaker 6: who have ventured down the highway from Melbourne to see
Speaker 6: this rare occurrence happens once every ten years. It is
Speaker 6: the corpse plant in full bloom. Now there are you know,
Speaker 6: there's some icons in Geelong. I think the corpse plan
Speaker 6: is top of the tree though it's.
Speaker 3: Funny should say that because Gelong won the flag in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty too, and I dare say this is the
Speaker 3: biggest thing to happen in that fine town since that premiership.
Speaker 6: Good one hundred percent and just as many people have
Speaker 6: come out to said the corpse plant as they did
Speaker 6: the premiership cup.
Speaker 5: Clint One lady who has been glued to the life
Speaker 5: expression she is reporting of it.
Speaker 6: She's a big celebrity in Gelong.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, comes a close second to the smelly plant
Speaker 5: from Jeneral seven Beck Madden good more.
Speaker 13: Oh clean Laws Jay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well what we call ourselves a celebrity?
Speaker 14: Is that right?
Speaker 2: Looss?
Speaker 6: Yes, that's your long celebrity.
Speaker 15: I am so envious of you this morning.
Speaker 7: Laws.
Speaker 6: Now you've been active on the socials about the corpse
Speaker 6: plant because you are the official first Lady of Geelong.
Speaker 6: You Geelong's number one fan. Is this the biggest thing
Speaker 6: to happen to Geelong since the premiership.
Speaker 15: I don't know why I'm addicted to this thing, but
Speaker 15: I've had the live camera up every opportunity I check
Speaker 15: it out and on the news on Sunday night, I
Speaker 15: said to my producer, now, listen, we are crossing live
Speaker 15: to this thing. We're getting a live shot up like
Speaker 15: Bomberg and this style.
Speaker 2: We're going across to.
Speaker 15: This planet like nothing's happening with it. I don't care.
Speaker 15: I'm happy to cross to it and say nothing happening
Speaker 15: in Staytube. And we did that on Sunday.
Speaker 14: I'm so glad laughing.
Speaker 3: At me, I'm so glad you mentioned that, Beck, because
Speaker 3: you and I are fearless award winning journalists. And the
Speaker 3: scene was similar in the nine news room yesterday. I
Speaker 3: don't know where the cruise on the ground are the
Speaker 3: cruise on the ground now?
Speaker 2: Was he there?
Speaker 15: Are?
Speaker 6: The Today Show have just turned up? I send it
Speaker 6: everyone else channel Line and trying to claim this is.
Speaker 5: I tell Beck, what happened in your newsroom yesterday when
Speaker 5: you told them where we're going to be.
Speaker 3: We were doing an outside broadcast with Lauren Phillips. So
Speaker 3: there was a chorus of laughter.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with them?
Speaker 15: They're not as quirky and as interesting as us quirky
Speaker 15: little off beat, you know. But hang on a minute.
Speaker 15: I think the crowds.
Speaker 6: Prove the absolutely, there's thousands of people here, Beck, But
Speaker 6: I need to know you're coming down for a snifter.
Speaker 15: I can't. I can you fully describe it to stay
Speaker 15: with that in Bristyle.
Speaker 6: So I haven't been in yet, Beck, because the boys
Speaker 6: are holding me off and the anticipation is just growing
Speaker 6: and growing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're waiting till prime time eight o'clock.
Speaker 6: I've been told because it's not it's not a peak.
Speaker 2: Need you're part of the.
Speaker 5: We're like, we need to fill it and get to wait.
Speaker 6: But what I do that I've got a little sample
Speaker 6: bottle and we are endeavoring to go in with the
Speaker 6: sample cup and we're going to fill it with corpse
Speaker 6: plant air and bring it back into the studio. So
Speaker 6: if you're lucky, I'll give you a booon when I
Speaker 6: get back to Melbourne. Done.
Speaker 5: No, I don't believe. So hey, Bet, can I ask
Speaker 5: you a bit of a green thumb around the house?
Speaker 5: Is horticulture for a culture, your sort of thing.
Speaker 15: When I was putting the bins out yesterday, I saw
Speaker 15: a weed and I went down to pull it out,
Speaker 15: and it was a very big weed and I did
Speaker 15: that successfully.
Speaker 2: Just a weed or weed.
Speaker 15: No, just one way right, one weed that was growing
Speaker 15: like it was like a jack and the bean stalk moment,
Speaker 15: and I had to get rid of it otherwise the
Speaker 15: neighbors state, that's so I pulled it out.
Speaker 6: Beck. We do love jumping on a bandwagon, don't we?
Speaker 6: And I think this is the biggest example of Victorians
Speaker 6: and Melbournians jumping on a bandwagon. When you see how
Speaker 6: many people are here to see the stinky flower.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 15: You know what? Such a thing I've thought about this
Speaker 15: and why I'm actually so obsessed with flower. We have
Speaker 15: to reportedly hear about grim, terrible things every day and
Speaker 15: that's life.
Speaker 14: And you know what, to have a little bit of.
Speaker 15: Fun about a flower that flowers once every ten years,
Speaker 15: that actually is not that pretty and smells disgusting. Is
Speaker 15: it good break in the cycle that.
Speaker 11: We live in?
Speaker 5: You know what, I think you've hit the nail on
Speaker 5: the head there, That's what it is. Because you're right,
Speaker 5: the world's got such grim news and then obviously Trump,
Speaker 5: you know, in this last week, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: we're just looking for something fun. Hey, can I just
Speaker 5: point out before we let you go back? I know
Speaker 5: you and Clint rival yes, but it's nice to see
Speaker 5: you're still grounded and take your own bins out. Do
Speaker 5: you want to tell Beck who who used to take
Speaker 5: your bins out? Clint?
Speaker 6: Time on, Clint, you need to do this again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I lived next door to some beautiful elderly folks.
Speaker 2: They were in their nineties in the nineties. You know
Speaker 2: why they did.
Speaker 5: It, Jason, in the nineteen and what did they used
Speaker 5: to do for you?
Speaker 2: They took my bins out every week. They had a passion.
Speaker 3: They had a passion for rubbish.
Speaker 2: They brought it in as well.
Speaker 6: Madam. Thank you for joining us this morning. And you're right.
Speaker 6: It is just a feel good story down here in
Speaker 6: Gelong and it is free if you want to come
Speaker 6: along and check it out with your family as well.
Speaker 15: All right, I'll try and get down there. I don't
Speaker 15: know if I can today, and then I'll miss it
Speaker 15: because the god dampting.
Speaker 6: Die, I know it dies, come down for a snifter.
Speaker 5: Come on, you beg about eleven thirty today they start,
Speaker 5: they said, the smell will start going in.
Speaker 2: The flower from down there.
Speaker 5: I don't know if she will make it.
Speaker 6: That's the thee. It's only it's only alive and stinking
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Speaker 6: nearly rolling on twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, look it's coming up to eight o'klock,
Speaker 5: which means.
Speaker 6: Lauren, you should see you're right them lining up?
Speaker 5: Will she gag? We're gonna find out after the eight
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Speaker 5: we're crossing back to Lauren. She is relocating at the moment. Yep.
Speaker 3: We're got a live shot right now and she's edging
Speaker 3: closer to the Greenhouse.
Speaker 5: So she is at the Gelong Botannic Gardens as well
Speaker 5: as thousands. Now I'm not taking the mickey. If you
Speaker 5: don't believe us, go to Adjason Lauren insta story. We've
Speaker 5: been posting videos the amount of people. This place has
Speaker 5: been open for twenty four hours through the night, and
Speaker 5: it is a constant flow of people coming down the
Speaker 5: seat the corps to hour.
Speaker 3: It's akin to those people who line up for Grand
Speaker 3: Final tickets.
Speaker 5: Yes it is, yes, or when the queen died exactly
Speaker 5: and she was laying in waiting, We've still got a
Speaker 5: few hours.
Speaker 2: In this corpse plant. Like the Queen the.
Speaker 5: Corp sorry, the corpse places, she rested the plant or both, gotcha.
Speaker 5: It will be a live till about midday today and
Speaker 5: coming up next. They say it's the smelliest thing in
Speaker 5: the world, will it mate? Lauren gags she's having a
Speaker 5: sniff next.
Speaker 6: We should do the whole show on it.
Speaker 1: The corpse plant is an actual plant.
Speaker 17: Corpse flower has voyaged del Botanic Gardens flatter.
Speaker 5: Space and I cannot believe we're doing this. Good Morning, Melbourne,
Speaker 5: it is sixteen past states.
Speaker 3: Don't you ever say that we don't tackle the big
Speaker 3: issues on this show.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right. Lauren is alive from Geelong Botanic Gardens
Speaker 5: this morning. Please tell us why I.
Speaker 6: Am Because Geelong has just hit its millions visitor through
Speaker 6: the Greenhouse smiling check that I might have exaggerated that
Speaker 6: slightly hundreds of thousands. I'm going to say. There are
Speaker 6: people everywhere in Geelong, people hooning down the highway trying
Speaker 6: to get here to have a whiff of the world's
Speaker 6: stinkiest flower. It is the corpse plant. It blooms once
Speaker 6: every seven to ten years, and it is only in
Speaker 6: bloom and stinking for twenty four forty eight hours.
Speaker 5: Has really escaled late in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: It was this time yesterday Lauren was watching a live
Speaker 5: stream and I was like, who is watching that? And
Speaker 5: then all got no one. All day I just saw
Speaker 5: people doing posts saying I'm watching the plant. I'm watching
Speaker 5: the plant.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, it's a beautiful morning down here in Geelong, boys,
Speaker 6: and there is a line of thousands of people last
Speaker 6: night at eight pm. Because I kept the greenhouse open
Speaker 6: for twenty four hours last night, people waited four hours
Speaker 6: to come in and get a whiff. And I heard
Speaker 6: it was at peaks thank last night. And it's pretty
Speaker 6: stinky this morning, but it is coming in waves of
Speaker 6: ear in my news.
Speaker 3: Just then I badged you as our chief sniffer. How
Speaker 3: do you feel about that title? Are you ready for
Speaker 3: the responsibility that comes with it?
Speaker 6: I'm not sure I like that title.
Speaker 5: Okay, honest, we're going to play so all right you are.
Speaker 6: They've brought me around to a side door.
Speaker 5: Okay, you are outside the green room at the moment,
Speaker 5: the greenhouse on the other side of this song. We
Speaker 5: will get you to open the door.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to walk in. I want to see
Speaker 6: walk to the plant. I'm going to stick my head
Speaker 6: right in it now.
Speaker 5: The big question will be will she gag? We'll find
Speaker 5: out next. Ah. We are watching the live stream from
Speaker 5: the Geelong Botanic Gardens this morning. People down there checking
Speaker 5: out the most famous plant in the world, the corpse flower,
Speaker 5: which has bloomed after ten years.
Speaker 3: We've got prams, we've got phone cameras, we've got people
Speaker 3: getting up close and personal and giving it a.
Speaker 5: We've got kids wondering why am I not at school?
Speaker 5: And we've got our own Lauren Phillips just outside the greenhouse.
Speaker 6: You send me to all the big stories. Guys. This
Speaker 6: is the stinkiest plant in the country, one of only
Speaker 6: about one thousand in the world. Actually, the corpse plant
Speaker 6: blooms once every seven to ten years. I'm outside the
Speaker 6: greenhouse in Geelong where there are thousands and thousands of
Speaker 6: people waiting to get in. Is it time to go inside?
Speaker 2: You have a sensitive nose.
Speaker 6: I have a sensitive nose, and I have a very
Speaker 6: bad gag reflex clip as you have hurt before you
Speaker 6: go in. Also, as you know, but you don't.
Speaker 5: She's walking tell us.
Speaker 6: I haven't even gone in and it smells.
Speaker 5: Really so you can so the whole thing.
Speaker 6: As I walk closer. You know, it smells like a
Speaker 6: garbage bin. The whole joint stinks like a garbage bin.
Speaker 5: We're going to see you on the Geelong Botanical Garden's
Speaker 5: life stream.
Speaker 6: I think I'm coming against the traffic a little bit though.
Speaker 5: Push the kids out of the way. That lady in
Speaker 5: the prem.
Speaker 6: Oh all right, we are live from the greenhouse. It's
Speaker 6: pretty stinky in here, guys, big she's a beauty and
Speaker 6: let me tell you she looks much better than she smells.
Speaker 6: How close can I get? Okay, you're ready for a
Speaker 6: Get that.
Speaker 5: Head right, don't have then over hat fall off in
Speaker 5: the flower. Look at the live strip. I want to
Speaker 5: I want to see take it in.
Speaker 6: It's it's pretty repulsive. Arounds like it smells like a
Speaker 6: bin full of dead possums, is what I would say.
Speaker 2: Can you give it a little just touch it a
Speaker 2: little bit?
Speaker 6: No, I can't touch it. You can't touch it. There's
Speaker 6: security every weekly. It's not it look it's it's not
Speaker 6: gag worthy at this time. But Kelly from the Botanic
Speaker 6: Gardens is here and i've is it. Does it pulsate
Speaker 6: and it gets worse.
Speaker 10: Yes, absolutely, it just let off one about five minutes ago.
Speaker 6: When you say let off, is it like it?
Speaker 10: It's like a really thick smell, really strong smell, and
Speaker 10: then it dissipates. So and she's on her way out,
Speaker 10: so she's coming down a little bit.
Speaker 6: Why is it is?
Speaker 14: She?
Speaker 6: I feel like if it smells like that, it should
Speaker 6: be a bloke. Yes, I'm happy for it to be
Speaker 6: the bigger.
Speaker 2: Did you smell that.
Speaker 6: Just let off studio with the toy? It's let one?
Speaker 2: Oh the flowers crop dusting.
Speaker 9: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 6: Would you describe it as letting it rip?
Speaker 5: Kelly?
Speaker 10: Well, sure, let's humanize it just a little bit and
Speaker 10: we can then give it.
Speaker 2: Can you hate description? Can you?
Speaker 3: You know when you taste when you smell something that smells,
Speaker 3: so you taste it? Can you taste it?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You can taste it?
Speaker 9: Can't you tell? I don't want to answer that, Thank.
Speaker 5: You, Kelly. So we were chatting to you earlier. You
Speaker 5: were saying, because she she dilated and opened yesterday at
Speaker 5: about eleven thirty, we saw it in all her glory.
Speaker 5: What happens today? Does she start to close up, dry up?
Speaker 9: Yeah, she's starting to close up.
Speaker 10: She's already put her frilly little ballerina dress starting to curl.
Speaker 2: Up on the left, So does the dress full of.
Speaker 9: No, it'll just collapse. The whole thing will collapse on.
Speaker 5: The whole, even the big rod coming out the middle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, does she hit one final rip? Happen? And then
Speaker 6: it's flowers? Will?
Speaker 9: I hope?
Speaker 5: So? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I hope so too.
Speaker 6: Have you ever seen it before?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 10: No, this is the first time for me to see it,
Speaker 10: Not today, but when it opened, and then I haven't
Speaker 10: even had a chance to really stand here and admire it.
Speaker 6: How can something so beautiful be equally so repulsive.
Speaker 9: It needs to do its thing.
Speaker 10: It needs to get its babies out like plants grow
Speaker 10: and put a flower up just to get babies.
Speaker 2: Yes, can you give it? Just give it one more?
Speaker 5: Can you go around for the life? I want to
Speaker 5: see you who on the live on you want to
Speaker 5: see me the moment around the other see the back
Speaker 5: of my head around the other side.
Speaker 6: Get that, letting me grow?
Speaker 2: Please get the kids out of the.
Speaker 6: Push wait for a long time longer. Well, I'm just
Speaker 6: going to try not to ruin these people's photos, and I.
Speaker 2: Want you to get in there and give speak wave
Speaker 2: on the Can you see me?
Speaker 5: No, I think we might be in a bit.
Speaker 6: This way. It's pretty impressive, isn't it amazing.
Speaker 9: We've been coming for the last six days in a row.
Speaker 9: We couldn't get in yesterday the I was too long.
Speaker 6: But six days you've been coming to get a whiff
Speaker 6: of the sniff. Here it is. It's it's beautiful, but
Speaker 6: it really smells. They're directing me how I'm just trying
Speaker 6: to star on the live stream here. I don't know
Speaker 6: if you can do absolutely and I do not want
Speaker 6: to be closer to Okay, here we go. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: it's no good.
Speaker 9: It's absolutely rotten.
Speaker 6: My mom and dad, I've made it.
Speaker 5: I'm on the live stream.
Speaker 6: Hey good, I'm the people of Geelong. They've turned up
Speaker 6: in droves. Glass get the camera, awave? Do you guys think?
Speaker 6: Do you think it smells bad?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 6: How bad does it smell?
Speaker 2: Do you bring your sample cup? You need to get
Speaker 2: a bit?
Speaker 6: Yes, they're saying, we've got the sample cup. We'll get
Speaker 6: the sample cup, we'll get some air and I'll bring
Speaker 6: it back to the studio for you. He looks I've
Speaker 6: got min over hat on, so I stand out. Can
Speaker 6: you see me?
Speaker 5: It looks so desperate enough on the list.
Speaker 2: And there are some awards in media called the Walkley's.
Speaker 6: If I don't win one for sniffing this big Bertha,
Speaker 6: I don't know what I will win one for.
Speaker 5: You are on the air with Jason Lauren Clincher as well.
Speaker 5: We're doing to Thanks so mate to what if It's
Speaker 5: Ossie for travel. Lozzy is live in Geelong at the
Speaker 5: Btennan Garden. She is right next to the smelliest plant
Speaker 5: which is making news headlines, the corpse flower.
Speaker 6: The corpse flower. There are thousands of people that have
Speaker 6: come through this greenhouse in Gelong. It's nice and toasty
Speaker 6: in here, but my god, it danks Chase. And they've
Speaker 6: actually given it a nickname. Apparently every corpse flower gets
Speaker 6: a name, and here in Geelong they've named it Betsy.
Speaker 6: To any of the Betsy's out there, apparently you're pongy
Speaker 6: if your name's Betsy.
Speaker 2: About to.
Speaker 5: Go to cart about mid Today.
Speaker 2: And you are about to steal my thunder.
Speaker 6: I am Clinton Money and I've got the Today Show
Speaker 6: in the other ear because I told you I'm at
Speaker 6: all the biggest stories of the year. So the Today's
Speaker 6: Show turned up and they want to talk about the
Speaker 6: corpse plant. Also, it's ridiculous I should be an ambassador
Speaker 6: for the corpse plant.
Speaker 5: This is absolutely ridiculous that.
Speaker 6: I've been this excited about anything since my niece was born.
Speaker 5: When you rocked up your stama like, guys, we have
Speaker 5: to be across this flower, I was like, you're on
Speaker 5: the glue, mate.
Speaker 6: People are lining up for four hours to get a
Speaker 6: stinky wish.
Speaker 2: You got used to the pomp.
Speaker 6: I have got used to the pom, and I'm worried
Speaker 6: I'm going to smell like this for like the next
Speaker 6: three weeks.
Speaker 5: I hope, all right, we'll let you go so you
Speaker 5: can go on the Today Show. Yeah, passed it on
Speaker 5: Talk Up, Talk Up Geelong.
Speaker 2: You've got to get pick up on the chat.
Speaker 5: We will.
Speaker 2: We will.
Speaker 5: Just sticking on lining up for things. A lot of
Speaker 5: a lot of like community fairs on the weekend. I
Speaker 5: was saying, yesterday Lou and I took the boys to
Speaker 5: one in Chadston on the weekend. Local council there put
Speaker 5: on one. It was great.
Speaker 2: So what are we talking? What sort of fate?
Speaker 5: Imagine giant forty ovale food trucks, activities for the kids.
Speaker 5: Great crew from monash Uni were there, so, you know,
Speaker 5: arts and craft. But it was all free, which was
Speaker 5: amazing because, like, let's be honest, cost of living.
Speaker 2: At the moment, So what's that a local council thing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but families trying to like take the kids out
Speaker 5: and actually do But all the rides were free. Everything
Speaker 5: was great, right, what do you what tent do you
Speaker 5: think was heaving with the biggest lineup.
Speaker 2: Gelato?
Speaker 5: Yet to pay for gelado? Did you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 2: The animal rides.
Speaker 5: Face paint, Oh, face paint, face mecha, mecha?
Speaker 2: What are we talking like? Butterflies?
Speaker 5: Yep, lions, tigers of course, snakes, snakes, the dogs frozen, frozen,
Speaker 5: very bad.
Speaker 2: And you were there with who with what?
Speaker 5: I was there with my wife and three children. Okay,
Speaker 5: the lineup for face paint was forty minutes. Oh that's
Speaker 5: a big, chunkier day a man that's trying to keep
Speaker 5: a two year old. Yeah, chill for forty minutes.
Speaker 2: You can do that stuff at home, surely.
Speaker 5: That's what I said to Lou. I'm like, let's leave,
Speaker 5: we'll go pass spot, I'll grab some paint on the us.
Speaker 2: Your mascara pencil and away we go.
Speaker 5: I'll draw a bloody tiger on him in the car.
Speaker 5: Let's do this, and she's like, no, we're waiting. The
Speaker 5: kids are excited.
Speaker 2: Stick fat.
Speaker 5: Forty minutes we get close to the tent. We're now
Speaker 5: probably three people from the front of the line. Now
Speaker 5: in the tent, there's five makeup artist working, right, we're
Speaker 5: three people back, so I know we're in the next round.
Speaker 5: It was at that point I saw the three people
Speaker 5: in front get on their phones. Hey, dar, we're next.
Speaker 5: Bring the kids. So the partners would then rock up
Speaker 5: with their children. So for the last forty minutes, the
Speaker 5: partners have been off entertaining the kids in other tents
Speaker 5: and stuff. So all of a sudden, we were three people.
Speaker 5: We've gone back to like nine deep.
Speaker 2: No, you can't do that. Thank you, Clint, you cannot
Speaker 2: do thank you. You have to be in the line.
Speaker 2: You get your face painting.
Speaker 5: Thank you. That's my argument. If you're not doing the
Speaker 5: forty minutes, no no face paint.
Speaker 2: For no face paint for you. So how did you persist?
Speaker 5: What do you reckon? I did you did? Now?
Speaker 2: You pulled the kids out.
Speaker 5: I was sitting there and I looked at you and
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, my goodness, say something you don't like confrontation.
Speaker 2: No you didn't.
Speaker 5: I blew up inappropriate. You can't do that. And obviously
Speaker 5: I said it all in my mind because I was
Speaker 5: too gutless to say it to them. I just sat
Speaker 5: there grinning and looking at them.
Speaker 3: Oh, jas that you've got you. That's what lines are for.
Speaker 3: Everyone's got to be in the line.
Speaker 5: You've got to You've got like do you think that'd
Speaker 5: be happening down in Geelong this morning at the Potanic Gardens.
Speaker 2: No, you can't sneak somebody in.
Speaker 5: Its mad Dennis been lining up for four hours and
Speaker 5: he Bianca and Tom and can we just do a
Speaker 5: big shout out to the people that have been line
Speaker 5: up through the night. It's extraordinary thing. It's a long
Speaker 5: Botannic Gardens. If you don't believe us, because I'll be honest,
Speaker 5: when I was told people lining up to see the plant,
Speaker 5: I was like, not happening. You can go to our
Speaker 5: Insta stories Jason Lauren on socials. The crowd have been
Speaker 5: lining up through the night to go and see this plant.
Speaker 5: Our very own Lauren Phillips is down there live this morning.
Speaker 5: We're going to cross back to her again soon. She's
Speaker 5: about to pop up on Channel Lines Today show as well.
Speaker 2: It's big news, Jay, it's gripping Australia. And you know what,
Speaker 2: there will be a follow on weekend today this weekend.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna cross for the dead plant? We will,
Speaker 5: They will scatter the ashes.
Speaker 6: So she did the whole show on it.
Speaker 1: The corpse plant is an actual plant.
Speaker 17: Corpse flower has blowed in the botanic gardens.
Speaker 2: Flatter space and.
Speaker 3: Well she wasn't joking, Jason, she was. Let's do the
Speaker 3: whole show on It's right.
Speaker 5: We are about to connect two icons of Geelong. One
Speaker 5: is the corpse flower that people are lining up for
Speaker 5: for hours to see. The other is the legend himself.
Speaker 5: Tom Hawkins. Tell me, good morning.
Speaker 14: Morning Hawk, Good morning guys. How are we we are?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 6: Good morning Hawk?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 6: How come you haven't been down to see the stinkiestower yet?
Speaker 6: What's going on?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 14: I've been following it live stream and obviously being updated
Speaker 14: by friends, but I will, I will get down there.
Speaker 14: I thought you got me on to talk about my
Speaker 14: retirementun tilt.
Speaker 6: No, Tom, no one cares about you in Geelong. Anymore,
Speaker 6: everyone's forgotten about you. They're all talking about the Corpse.
Speaker 14: Flower and they are. And you know how I found
Speaker 14: out about it. I was going to one of my
Speaker 14: party's classes that I've just taken up with my wife Emma,
Speaker 14: and one of the girls in there told me about
Speaker 14: the corpse sound. How must get down and check it out.
Speaker 14: So I'm planning Tuesdays my day at home with Henry
Speaker 14: and I'm playing to get down this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Hawks as a farmer, somebody who should know and appreciate
Speaker 3: what goes on in this space. I mean, what sort
Speaker 3: of impact is it having in Geelong?
Speaker 16: Well, it's huge.
Speaker 14: I mean I'm seeing I haven't been and had to
Speaker 14: look at it in the flesh, but even through the
Speaker 14: live strame you can see the number of people that
Speaker 14: are getting through and it is causing some conversations. Now
Speaker 14: I did, I went to as I said, I've been
Speaker 14: doing plarties. I've went with one former now former teammates,
Speaker 14: Max Holmes. Yep, he had no idea about it, but
Speaker 14: I think he may be the only one thing too
Speaker 14: long that doesn't know about the Courts Flower.
Speaker 6: So I'm in the greenhouse now and it actually smells
Speaker 6: a bit like a hot pilates class. To be perfectly honest,
Speaker 6: I reckon a few of you blokes in a hot
Speaker 6: pilarts class would be reminiscent of the waft that is
Speaker 6: in here.
Speaker 5: Tom. On at the races at Derby Day, your wife
Speaker 5: publicly after a few sharps ripped into you as a farmer.
Speaker 5: He tried to attempt the wago beef and you failed miserably.
Speaker 5: How do you reckon? You go grow on a few
Speaker 5: of these on the on the land.
Speaker 14: Well, I'm not sure. Ten years is a long time
Speaker 14: to wait, Jay, So I don't know if i'd be
Speaker 14: as patient as that to by By seeing the number
Speaker 14: of people that have ventured from all over Geelong the
Speaker 14: state and well we'll move sorry as Australia, come and
Speaker 14: have a look at the courts flower here in Geelong.
Speaker 14: It kind of makes sense to maybe think about it
Speaker 14: as a viable option.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can start at at your house.
Speaker 14: Tom's imagine that. Well, I definitely get you, guys.
Speaker 5: Tom was already. When you're watching the live stream and
Speaker 5: you're seeing people line up for hours and two o'clock
Speaker 5: in the morning, did it cross your mind? Are they okay?
Speaker 5: Good question?
Speaker 14: Yeah, great question. I think I'm not going to put
Speaker 14: it down to Geelong people as such, maybe more so
Speaker 14: as plant enthusiasts. But look, I get it when phenomenon
Speaker 14: has happened like this, whether it's something to do with
Speaker 14: a solar system or.
Speaker 2: To be giddy.
Speaker 14: And I think this is caused quite a stirs in
Speaker 14: and around Geelong.
Speaker 5: So guys, do we think what would have got a
Speaker 5: bigger lineup? The corpse flower or a book signing for Tom?
Speaker 2: Well, I was going to go.
Speaker 6: I was going to go with it.
Speaker 3: Maybe a statue. Maybe we could put a statue of
Speaker 3: Tom next to the corpse.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm telling you, first of all the Ablets
Speaker 6: put Geelong on the map, then it was the Hawkens,
Speaker 6: and now no one cares about any of those families.
Speaker 6: It is all about the corpse Flower. Not a single
Speaker 6: Geelong jersey down here. It's just all flower enthusiasts can see.
Speaker 5: She's always in your corner, Tom.
Speaker 14: Do you know what she is? Completely right? I got.
Speaker 14: I got called to him the other day at a
Speaker 14: at a potential we'll call a tough job interview type thing.
Speaker 14: The team that I went for and got called Tim.
Speaker 6: So yeah, rightly, rightly, you are old News Tim Hawkins.
Speaker 2: It's Tim Hawkins from Fox Footing.
Speaker 5: Let us know how that that job you turn.
Speaker 6: Congrats on the new job, gig Hawk.
Speaker 14: Thank you. Yeah, yeah, really exciting about that. Next year
Speaker 14: it's going to sort off my toe into the football
Speaker 14: world from a different lane. So I'm really looking for
Speaker 14: to it. I'll probably stumble my way through a few
Speaker 14: games from here to there, but yeah, really do you.
Speaker 2: Want to read the news on a Sunday night? It's
Speaker 2: all yours brother, Tom.
Speaker 8: Sorry, well, we're run out of time, I will say quickly, Clinton,
Speaker 8: You've done an amazing job of love watching you over
Speaker 8: over the last couple of months.
Speaker 14: Sorry reading the news.
Speaker 12: That the next I wouldn't say reading reading the news
Speaker 12: after a date the Races you saw him on and
Speaker 12: then you saw him on the Today Show on the
Speaker 12: Sunday morning after after a little karaoke turn up time.
Speaker 5: Fortunately, Tom, we've run out of time to talk about
Speaker 5: your new career. We've got to get back to the Flower.
Speaker 11: Tom.
Speaker 6: If it doesn't work out on Fox Footy, get a
Speaker 6: couple of these corpse plants in your garden and you'll
Speaker 6: draw a crowd again.
Speaker 5: The legend, Tom Hawkins join us on.
Speaker 11: All the Geelong Aricahon, thank you, Jason, Lawrence shut Sho's coming,
Speaker 11: christ to come around the corner.
Speaker 6: Just around the corner. Hasn't that snuck up on us?
Speaker 3: It has Luren and joining us this morning to win
Speaker 3: hopefully a truckload of cash.
Speaker 19: Shannon, good morning, Good morning, guys.
Speaker 5: We are good. You got three kids to make your
Speaker 5: way to smell the plant in Geelong at all?
Speaker 13: No, we did end, but I'm feeling that this isn't
Speaker 13: five minutes dearly, because I have to say, we're so
Speaker 13: happy you guys are back on the My youngest daughter
Speaker 13: wanted to talk to you guys so bad. She cried
Speaker 13: when you guys left the unnamed radio station. She loves
Speaker 13: you guys so much.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. At the end of this, we'll
Speaker 5: get your number, and then tomorrow, when you got her
Speaker 5: in the car, give it, give us a ring, and
Speaker 5: we'll have a chat with her. After year.
Speaker 13: God, I think she will just what's her name, her
Speaker 13: names Heidi Hid.
Speaker 5: We'll get her on tomorrow and we'll say hello, Hey,
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Speaker 2: Ready, ready, brother, don't you worry? I do.
Speaker 5: I bet you you should say the biceps on his
Speaker 5: right arm.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go, first one. Okay, I've got it, ye.
Speaker 5: Bob, straight off.
Speaker 13: Amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm pleased to say you've won eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 13: Oh that's amazing. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you well done. We will top it up
Speaker 5: as well. I'll chuck in a five hundred dollars sports
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Speaker 13: That's good, so much. No, I'm so grateful.
Speaker 5: You are walking out of here with thirteen hundred dollars
Speaker 5: in your back pocket. Congrass.
Speaker 13: That's amazing. Thank you guys so very much. What's so
Speaker 13: having nights back?
Speaker 5: Hey? Hang there, we're going to grab your details so
Speaker 5: we can say Heidi daughter tomorrow. But we will be
Speaker 5: shaking the tree tomorrow as well, so keep listening out.
Speaker 5: Hey guys, we're about to get out of here.
Speaker 6: Thank you for being.
Speaker 5: A lost Your partner's worried sick about you because you
Speaker 5: spent the night at your long La on the text. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I just got a text.
Speaker 6: Is he texting? He's not texting me?
Speaker 5: Well, text me me? He texted me obviously worried sick.
Speaker 5: I hate you? Do you want to read out the
Speaker 5: text clip?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen this in it.
Speaker 6: This sounds like a conversation between you and Paul Jason.
Speaker 6: What's happened?
Speaker 2: It's pretty funny. Happy about the corpse plant. I've got
Speaker 2: a night to myself.
Speaker 3: I wish it would open once a week, to be honest,
Speaker 3: not every ten years.
Speaker 6: Oh will you tell him? He smells like the corpse
Speaker 6: plant when he wakes up in the morning. So I
Speaker 6: was happy to have a night of ways I see.
Speaker 5: I replied. Instead, I wish my wife was in the garden.
Speaker 6: I've had the best morning I've ever had since I've
Speaker 6: worked in media down here, So thanks for indulging me. Thanks.
Speaker 6: Oh that the people in Geelong are going crazy. They're
Speaker 6: all waving and cheering and they're going mad for the
Speaker 6: corpse plant.
Speaker 5: You've got about more just over two hours to get
Speaker 5: down to the Geelong Potenna Gardens to see it before
Speaker 5: this thing dies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it'll be beautiful as it wilt's away too,
Speaker 6: So anytime you can get here. Come and get a
Speaker 6: little piece of history from Geelong guys. Come and have
Speaker 6: the hone.
Speaker 5: I think they should put that on the billboard. We're
Speaker 5: out of here. Have a great day. Melchial centers in
Speaker 5: x or Cin tomorrow. Bye, thank you.
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