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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: Just talking to Rosso before about XPO eighty eight Brisbane

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Speaker 2: Xpo eighty eight. I think the theme was leisure in

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Speaker 2: the Age of Technology. I had just started at Beyond

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Speaker 2: two thousand. I think it was my first year. I

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Speaker 2: would have been twenty six, and all of us went

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Speaker 2: up to Brisbane. I remember we was part of it.

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Speaker 2: We went in and we had to fly down the

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Speaker 2: river to film something, you know, the Brisbane River, and

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Speaker 2: we were in a private jet.

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Speaker 3: You fly the jet.

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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't fly the jet, but we all had

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Speaker 2: to because we all had to do something, all the

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Speaker 2: hosts of Beyond two thousand and I was so intimidated

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Speaker 2: to be there with Ian, who's lovely and his wife

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Speaker 2: Trisha was one of the producers, and there's Carmel and

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Speaker 2: you know, all the growth grownups and Simon and I

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Speaker 2: had only just started. We were the junior Burgers.

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Speaker 3: And it was wearing matching jumpers out of magic. Probably

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Speaker 3: probably regretting those jumpers because it would have been warm.

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Speaker 2: It was the most thrilling, thrilling for me, also terrifying

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Speaker 2: time during joining this new show. But Expo eighty eight

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Speaker 2: was everything and if there was a show that had

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Speaker 2: the word technology in it, beyond two thousand was going

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Speaker 2: to be there.

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Speaker 3: It was the future. And there was a lot of

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Speaker 3: RGI bargie because at the time Joebiocchi Pedison was the

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Speaker 3: premiere of the Great State of Coinside and every other

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Speaker 3: state didn't want a part of XBO eighty eight.

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Speaker 2: Until it got closer. It was like the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: But in the early days they had to they had

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Speaker 3: to sell it to the world, to the XBO eighty

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Speaker 3: eight ideas so people would invest in it. And we

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Speaker 3: were just on YouTube. That's the beauty of YouTube. We

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Speaker 3: came across this great promotional video of XPO eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: World XBO eighty eight may start in Brisbane, but it

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Speaker 1: certainly doesn't end here, and we'll be doing our utmost

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Speaker 1: to ensure that you don't miss out on this international event.

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Speaker 1: The success of World XPO eighty eight depends on you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, no pressure.

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Speaker 3: And then there's got pictures of people win.

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Speaker 2: Serving I guess bikini girls, bikitti girls.

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Speaker 3: There's always a clown in there, a literal clown, a

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Speaker 3: lot of jobi occupedas and an actual clown and you know,

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Speaker 3: the obligatory shots of bikini girls, drinks with fruit in them

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Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: And you're in, You're in.

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Speaker 3: And then the Open.

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Speaker 2: Australia, the opening of the you know this is the

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Speaker 2: thing we all embraced it did they say that this

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Speaker 2: put Brisbane on the map.

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Speaker 3: Bums on seats and at the opening there was none

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Speaker 3: other than Kerry Anne Kenneth course and Tim Webster was

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Speaker 3: hosting the opening on TV for the rest of the nation. Curiously,

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Speaker 3: they had daytime fireworks that.

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Speaker 4: Is open d s.

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Speaker 2: Lou Edwards the day like must been up the ways,

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Speaker 2: awakes amazed at I'm thinking about of smoke at the moment,

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Speaker 2: I can't beget to read. There's an awful lot.

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Speaker 3: That's when they let a bunch of balloons into the.

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Speaker 2: Sky like fire daylight fireworks.

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Speaker 3: The place is getting straight.

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Speaker 2: The footage looks like it's been bombed. Looks like who

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Speaker 2: would have daytime fireworks. There was also a bit where

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Speaker 2: Tim Webster said it's been an amazing build. I've I

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Speaker 2: was here that afternoon and people were still around a

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Speaker 2: still guy. Brisbane was awake in the afternoon.

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Speaker 3: The afternoon back in those days. But it didn't put

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Speaker 3: it put it on the match you go. Yes, went

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Speaker 3: there and it was the first time I'd ever been

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Speaker 3: to Brisbane in eighty eight, and I thought, what a

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Speaker 3: great city this is. And I actually got to live

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Speaker 3: in Brisbane a few years later, and I really, I

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Speaker 3: really liked it. It's a great city. And that whole

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Speaker 3: area where they developed it at south Bank was pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: And now south Bank is just extra restaurants.

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Speaker 3: It's great stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's brilliant. But you know, everyone kept talking about the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand Pavilion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, everyone talked about the New Zealand Pavilion. Johnny Young,

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Speaker 3: Johnny Young, you know Johnny Young and Young talent time fame.

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Speaker 3: He was bagging on about it.

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Speaker 1: Everybody.

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Speaker 4: Up to twelve million people will pass through this pavilion

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Speaker 4: in the next six months because we're at the Cowie

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Speaker 4: Caves where children of all sizes are looking over the

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Speaker 4: New Zealand Pavilion and no wonder because inside visitors will

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Speaker 4: be shown the mystical Mary Legends and they'll be taken

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Speaker 4: along a moving pathway past some absolutely amazing ice sculptures.

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Speaker 1: Come on, kids, three you come.

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Speaker 4: The New Zealand Pavilion is only one of seventy two

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Speaker 4: pavilions here, it's.

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Speaker 2: Called an escalator mate travel.

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Speaker 3: You find it's a traveler.

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Speaker 2: Children of all sizes.

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Speaker 3: I never went in there because the queue was too long.

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Speaker 2: Everyone was kept banging on about it. I asked Harley

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Speaker 2: about it, and he said.

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Speaker 3: What was in there?

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Speaker 2: He went in and a friend of his had designed it,

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Speaker 2: and he said he can't remember what was in He

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Speaker 2: said maybe some sheep. I said they went for a perth.

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Speaker 2: I think he said it was just a big celebration

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Speaker 2: of New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: I said, what was the answer the questicle? People talk

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Speaker 3: about red Dog, but I was over in Western AUSTRAI

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Speaker 3: was he in there?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: They just said, I said what did red Dog do?

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Speaker 3: And they go red Dog? And yeah, But okay, think film.

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Speaker 3: Even in the film, the red Dog doesn't do anything.

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Speaker 3: It walks around and gets free lifts off.

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Speaker 2: That's enough.

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Speaker 3: Ibe.

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Speaker 2: They should make a film about the New Zealand pavilion

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Speaker 2: at expert what did it do? Would you like to

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Speaker 2: join us in a nostalgia here tales of Expo eighty.

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Speaker 3: Eight, specifically, I just want to know what was in

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Speaker 3: the New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: If you can tell us what was in the pavilion

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Speaker 2: would be grateful. But you've got any other tales of

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Speaker 2: well you and Helen.

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Speaker 3: Went we were in a harv acraft.

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Speaker 2: But also you were is that you're sort of your

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Speaker 2: first outing as boyfriend girlfriend.

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Speaker 3: It was a big deal because we traveled up in.

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Speaker 2: The car together and stayed together and wanted to tell

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Speaker 2: your parents.

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Speaker 3: Well, they weren't happy with it. My mum was, so,

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Speaker 3: what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: And what was going on there?

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Speaker 3: Well, not much much, but we stayed at caravan parks

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Speaker 3: and went to Expo eight. If you could make it

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Speaker 3: than that across a craft that cost us twenty bucks,

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Speaker 3: like for the two of us to go this holocraft.

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Speaker 2: Was Did you think that was a lot? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, twenty bucks. You buy a three bedroom house

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Speaker 3: in Queens. I have twenty bucks back then