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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fear and Green Summer Series. I'm Michael

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Speaker 1: Thompson and good morning Sean.

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Speaker 2: Aylmer. Good morning, Michael, and good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Adam Lang, Good morning, Michael, Good morning Sean.

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Speaker 1: Today we are looking back at the stories of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five and we are picking out the good news stories.

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Speaker 1: These are the ones that they're pretty positive, right, or

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Speaker 1: they're exciting, or they just made us feel good, or

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Speaker 1: are the stories that mattered to us through It's a

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Speaker 1: very broad category, this one. I'm going to if I

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Speaker 1: can go first, because I've chosen something very specific, very literal,

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Speaker 1: and I know that you two have not You've got

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Speaker 1: in a different direction altogether. But okay, but look, I mean,

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Speaker 1: as someone who they look I like to deal in fiction.

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Speaker 1: I've written a couple of books, How to Be Remembered,

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Speaker 1: All the Perfect Days.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is you can buy them through bookshops

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Speaker 1: or online or whatever and send them to me and

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Speaker 1: I'll sign them all that kind of anyway.

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Speaker 2: Look, you know what, that's important to get them back.

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Speaker 1: I'll keep them and resell them.

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Speaker 2: There we go. It's harder.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine a better news story than one

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Speaker 1: that's got sunken treasure and mystery and untold riches in it, right,

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Speaker 1: And so that's why I think the story of the

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Speaker 1: San Jose, the fabled holy Grail of shipwrecks, that we

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Speaker 1: talked about this year, is just such a good news.

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Speaker 1: The coast of Columbia, that's right, where more than three

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Speaker 1: centuries after the Spanish galleon was sunk by the British,

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Speaker 1: Columbian scientists have finally lifted the first treasures from the shipwreck.

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Speaker 1: It's six hundred meters down. That is, that's pretty deep

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Speaker 1: by no depths. That's that's pretty deep. They removed a cannon,

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Speaker 1: they removed three gold coins, and they removed a delicate

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Speaker 1: porcelain cup.

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Speaker 2: Is there any other type? No, no, there is not.

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Speaker 1: Actually you get like from the reject shop. You can

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Speaker 1: get quite hardy porcelain cups. This is quite delicate because

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Speaker 1: it's been under the sea now for three hundred years.

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Speaker 1: It's just a taste of what is on board this ship.

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Speaker 1: Because it is believed to hold up to eleven million

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Speaker 1: gold and silver coins and emeralds galore worth thirty billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The location of the San Jose as a state secret,

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Speaker 1: and it is a heck of a story, nearly as

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Speaker 1: good a story as all the perfect days of how

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Speaker 1: to be remembered.

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Speaker 2: Oh my word, Adam.

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Speaker 3: Okay, slight change of tach from me for me the

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Speaker 3: good news story of the year. Is this as good

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Speaker 3: as it gets? So by that, I mean are we

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Speaker 3: in an economic sweet spot? Unemployment, economic growth, inflation? So

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Speaker 3: I haven't have a listening to these numbers. Oh god,

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Speaker 3: here we go, go on numbers, numbers, numbers.

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Speaker 1: And a novel's worth of data for us.

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Speaker 3: Here Reserve bank cash rate three point six percent, pretty

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Speaker 3: good interest rate. We'd love it to be low if

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Speaker 3: you hold debt, but if you're not holding debt, it's

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Speaker 3: pretty good. Inflation three point eight. Bureau Statistics tells us

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Speaker 3: we've got twenty seven point five million in this country

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Speaker 3: and it continues to grow. A gross domestic product is

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Speaker 3: at a measly point four but it's still growth. Sorry. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: for the quarter, average weekly earnings at twenty ten dollars

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Speaker 3: a week. An unemployment rate, how's this four point three?

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Speaker 3: That is incredible? So these numbers, if you looked at

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Speaker 3: that as just a school board, you go, maybe that's

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Speaker 3: as good as we've had it. I'd love to think

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Speaker 3: it's not as good as we'll ever get. But is

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Speaker 3: it as good as we've had.

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Speaker 4: Since? Since?

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Speaker 2: When do these stories like dull? How about talk about yourselves?

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Speaker 4: The good news story, good news story, as far as

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Speaker 4: I'm concerned, I tried too shore.

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Speaker 2: I tried to talk about.

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Speaker 4: Myself and I'm talking about consumer pricing deeds. The good

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Speaker 4: news story for twenty twenty five is that work from

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Speaker 4: home works. And Jackie and I went overseas and worked

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Speaker 4: from the south of France for.

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Speaker 2: Six for six weeks. That's the good news story. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: I mean I've missed that.

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Speaker 4: We have shown we both have jobs obviously, Yeah, vers

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Speaker 4: is important mine just you two. I'm not sure we

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Speaker 4: managed to work from the south of France. We'd spend

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Speaker 4: Monday to Friday doing work. We'd go away for weekends

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Speaker 4: and trink a lot of raisa. I mean that, my friends,

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Speaker 4: is the good news work from home looking after yourselves

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Speaker 4: forgetting about everyone else, being totally selfish.

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Speaker 2: That is my good news story of the year. But

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Speaker 2: is it.

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Speaker 3: Selfish or is it you know? Is it also inspirational?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 4: Depending, I mean, for those of you who don't know

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Speaker 4: JACKI and I have eight children between us. They're now

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Speaker 4: twenty seven to seventeen. They've been living with us for

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Speaker 4: many years. We needed to get away every one of

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Speaker 4: our generation that we've done it to have just gone wow,

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Speaker 4: did it work?

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Speaker 2: Can we do it?

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Speaker 4: Adam, you were the same, You were like, yeah, oh

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Speaker 4: my god, could we do that?

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to know, as an experiment, how did

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Speaker 3: you do it? Because to me, I'd love to think

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Speaker 3: I could do it one day.

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Speaker 4: And Michael, you could do it in like twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, something to work towards twenty short years, twenty short years.

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Speaker 1: But my favorite like, it does require a lot of

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Speaker 1: kind of adaptability and you need to kind of roll

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Speaker 1: with it.

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Speaker 2: Don't you, Sean. And the highlight for me being the.

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Speaker 1: Show the podcast that you recorded in a toilet in Morocco,

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Speaker 1: which was just must which was that is one of

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Speaker 1: my all time favorite professional stories that I will tell

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Speaker 1: every year from now on.

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Speaker 3: So can I give you one more?

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Speaker 2: Just so.

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Speaker 3: No, no, I'm going to go totally personal on this one.

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Speaker 3: It was at the moment when I was explaining to

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Speaker 3: someone I was about to go to Perth for my

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Speaker 3: forty year school reunion, and the lady I was talking

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Speaker 3: to Amy, she's probably about thirty, and I said, going

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Speaker 3: to Perth tomorrow to my forty year school reunion. And

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Speaker 3: she said, oh, are there.

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Speaker 2: Many of you still left? You where you can go?

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Speaker 3: I just well, actually, I'm glad to say that, yes,

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Speaker 3: many of us still left a few good news stories

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Speaker 3: for the year.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Sean, Thanks Michael, Thanks Adam, Thank

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Speaker 1: you Adam.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Sean, and thank you Michael.

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Speaker 1: are back from January twelve. I'm Michael Thompson and this

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