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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda jam Nation. Now normally our next guest

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Speaker 1: and I pull each other's hair, We have rap battles,

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Speaker 1: we rip it out each other's earrings. But now that

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Speaker 1: the living Room is not on this year, I'm very

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Speaker 1: happy to urge people to spend their Friday nights with

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Speaker 1: Joanna grigs and better homes and gardens. Hello, Hello, I

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Speaker 1: love it.

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Speaker 2: I like the idea of you and I and crochet

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Speaker 2: and bikinis having a wrestler in a jelly bath.

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Speaker 1: Jones's talked about else all morning.

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Speaker 3: We just processed that when you found out the living

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Speaker 3: Room was not coming back, did you go yes?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: Because when the.

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Speaker 3: Red Baron got shot down by the English.

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Speaker 2: Guy, as Amanda would know that, there's such a crossover

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Speaker 2: like a lot of people who'd worked on our show

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Speaker 2: or on the Living Room and vice versa. And what

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Speaker 2: it kills you in television is another show is not

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Speaker 2: on air, and that means a whole production team is

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Speaker 2: out of work. And it was a very successful show

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Speaker 2: and it did really well and it found its audience.

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Speaker 4: So it's never great when a show goes.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that, And not just about the

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Speaker 1: Living Room, but you know, people it's so quick to

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Speaker 1: size television shows in general and goes suck. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that one got acxed, But that's people's and talk

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Speaker 1: about the crews and things that's been school fees and

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Speaker 1: their mortgages, and they're you know, this is a television industry.

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Speaker 1: It's holding on by a threads sometimes. And these are

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Speaker 1: people's jobs too.

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Speaker 4: It's people's jobs, it's their lirborhood, it's their passion.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you don't have people that work on any

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Speaker 2: of these types of shows unless they're really passionate about

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Speaker 2: what they're doing. And the way it works in television

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Speaker 2: is is you generally find out with very short notice,

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Speaker 2: so they're not even given months and months to plan ahead. Like,

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Speaker 2: it's such a brutal industry that you know, when the

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Speaker 2: door comes down, it comes down hard and fast, and

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Speaker 2: there's not a lot of communications. So look, it's for

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Speaker 2: people like us, we're lucky, we've got a thousand strings

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Speaker 2: to our bows, but there's a lot of people who

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Speaker 2: it has a big impact for a very long time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no one tells you anything.

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Speaker 1: But also, as you said that, you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: really hard industry. Twenty nine years.

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Speaker 4: Of seas and twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, is extraordinary.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: So we know it's a record in the Southern Hemisphere

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Speaker 2: for a lifestyle show. We think it is a record

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Speaker 2: probably worldwide.

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Speaker 4: And I always say it's because it's positive. You're not ever.

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Speaker 2: Trying to to, I don't know, find a deep, dark

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Speaker 2: secret out of somebody. You're basically finding great ideas or

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Speaker 2: great products, or great people and people who are passionate

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Speaker 2: about what they're talking about and you celebrate them. So

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Speaker 2: there's never anything negative.

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Speaker 1: And for a Friday night, it's a very nice energy, isn't.

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Speaker 4: It It is.

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Speaker 2: It's nice, and it's a nice energy to be honest,

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Speaker 2: any night of the week because there is so much

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Speaker 2: negative TV that you can flick on and watch confrontation

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Speaker 2: and watch people undermining each other and all that.

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Speaker 4: It's that's just me. That's just not great entertainment.

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Speaker 2: So I'm certain that the success and the longevity of

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Speaker 2: the show is that we've got to keep it fresh,

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Speaker 2: and we do work really hard at keeping it fresh

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Speaker 2: and keeping the ideas relevant and keeping it so that

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Speaker 2: it appeals to a very broad demographic. But they also

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Speaker 2: know what they're going to get and every now and

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Speaker 2: then you surprise them because that's also important.

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Speaker 1: So that's where the crochet bikini comes out. This grad

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Speaker 1: is never.

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Speaker 4: Coming on the show.

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Speaker 2: Ad.

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Speaker 3: What about your husband Todd? He got attacked by some bees?

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Speaker 3: He was defending you, he was you got attacked by

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was actually, do you have the Royal

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Speaker 2: mites in Australia now? Which is a terrible.

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Speaker 3: Mite that is which is killing the bee.

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Speaker 2: It's going to decimate the bee industry and we were

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Speaker 2: whole lot of this new testing they're doing with sticky

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Speaker 4: Is sticky mat do?

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Speaker 2: It's just a more accurate way of finding out if

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Speaker 2: you've got the mites. Because the mites you see it

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Speaker 2: on the TV news and they look quite large, they're tiny.

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Speaker 2: They're like the tops of a needle in actual fact,

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Speaker 2: so you have to be very vigilant about doing it.

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Speaker 2: So to do the testing that we did, we had

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Speaker 2: to open up the hives for seven days straight, which

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Speaker 2: is not your own proper hives. Yes, I've got eight hives.

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Speaker 2: I love beekeeping, and you become completely obsessed. I grow

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Speaker 2: eighty five percent of our veggies, so they helped pollinate

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Speaker 2: the veggie garden along with everything else. But because we'd

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Speaker 2: open them up so much, they were so agitated, and

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Speaker 2: then we had Yeah, they came out and they got

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Speaker 2: their mats, and so that was the seventh day that

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Speaker 2: to put my high back together.

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Speaker 4: Well, the bees were just furious.

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Speaker 2: They're normally incredibly calm, and I'm really I have quite

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Speaker 2: an anaphylectic reaction to bee stings, so I'm very cautious.

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Speaker 2: I always wear all the right equipment. But a bee

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Speaker 2: I'd left a tiny little a space in my velcrow

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Speaker 2: the bees were absolutely attacking, one actually crawled in and

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Speaker 2: stung me on my neck.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't know if I was going to have

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Speaker 2: Yes, So I sort of was going back to the

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Speaker 2: And Todd he just looked at me. He's like, what's

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Speaker 2: there's bees everywhere, and he went what And by the

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Speaker 4: He absolutely freaked out.

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Speaker 2: Which, of course, as soon as you freak out around bees,

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Speaker 2: So they literally one flew straight, got him in his head,

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Speaker 3: So when you say Todd freaked out, did he go?

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Speaker 4: He did?

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Speaker 2: He actually did with the one thing you first taught

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Speaker 2: to like all the things that you're sort of taught

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Speaker 4: And whereas I don't.

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Speaker 2: I see bees now, and I know that they're so

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Speaker 2: single mind and what they're doing. They will, they might

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Speaker 1: See, I've got a couple of hives at home of

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Speaker 1: the native Australian ones that don't sting you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the tiny time they don't actually look like flies.

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Speaker 1: I had the hive almost close to the kitchen door

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Speaker 1: they look like maggots. They look like tiny flies. In school,

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Speaker 1: I thought it just I feel like swatting them, like

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Speaker 2: And then the honey that you get out of the

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Speaker 2: native bees is almost like a two D fruity cure.

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Speaker 1: I put it on cheese and don't get much. Don't

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Speaker 3: Years ago, my sister she got stung by a bee

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Speaker 3: and she is allergic to bees's deadly allergic, as she

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Speaker 4: And I was watching.

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Speaker 3: Harry Butler in the wild, remember Harry Butler, and he

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Speaker 3: told he taught you how to get a beasting out.

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Speaker 3: And what people do when you're the beasting is they

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Speaker 3: grabbed the end and they swingeze the sack. Yes, so

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Speaker 3: Harry said, you get your fingernail and you dig it underneath.

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Speaker 2: And you dig it out the way it goes, and

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Speaker 2: you do it as quickly as And I learned that

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Speaker 1: And did you do that for your sister.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saved a life.

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Speaker 4: Oh you're a good man.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty like I've been studying so often now that

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Speaker 2: and there's lots of little stings that I'm actually there's

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Speaker 2: one or two ways you go.

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Speaker 4: You can either get worse or you can get better.

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Speaker 2: And I like, when I got sung on that neck,

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Speaker 2: it's still swelled up down to the nape of my neck,

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Speaker 2: but it didn't close my throat, So I actually saw

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Speaker 3: Lucky for you and Todd. All we've got from this

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Speaker 4: His head puffed off. He looked like I was like,

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Speaker 4: Bruce out of Sharks.

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Speaker 1: You did a very caring wife thing and put that

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Speaker 2: But I didn't put the photo the next day where

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Speaker 2: he had two big sacks of fluid that basically covered

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Speaker 2: his eyes.

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Speaker 4: So that was a nice photo, is what I said

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Speaker 4: to him when he's like, are you serious? Did you

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Speaker 4: put that on Instagram? But imagine what I could have

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Speaker 4: put on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: It would have been a crocheted bikini, could have been

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Speaker 3: Todd's ginormous face.

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Speaker 4: You're never going to get past that. Joanna.

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Speaker 3: It's great to have you on the show. It's on

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Speaker 3: tonight seven o'clock. Better Homes and Gardens. Joanna Griggs is there.

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Speaker 1: Great to see you, you two.

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Speaker 4: Thank you,