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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. The Assembly is back for a

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Speaker 1: groundbreaking second season. I had the honor of being part

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Speaker 1: of the first season which puts Australian puts autistic young

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Speaker 1: people in the interviewer's chair. Being on the receiving end

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Speaker 1: of that is quite confronting but very very emotional for me.

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Speaker 1: They asked They're allowed to ask anything they want. That

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Speaker 1: is the rule. They have some very hard hitting questions.

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Speaker 1: Nothing is off limits. Lee Sales is back to mentor

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Speaker 1: the group and she joins us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hello Lee, Hey, Amanda, Lee, Hello Lee.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I couldn't just come and be interviewed every week again.

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Speaker 2: You had to get new people in. Oh that would

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Speaker 2: be so good aboutage, that would be awesome, That would

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Speaker 2: be my favorite. But okay, let's lock it in next

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Speaker 2: season and the cohort of students. Is Amanda getting too much?

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Speaker 2: I know that your buddies, but is she getting too much? Never? Look,

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Speaker 2: I'll give I'll give you a call if that happens.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's always on the cast, but he's just

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Speaker 2: the right at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Well said, So who have you got this year? I mean,

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Speaker 1: tell us who the so called celebs are?

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Speaker 2: Look, obviously all be great is after you, aman, But

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Speaker 2: you know Ray Martin, Richard Rocksborough his first cabos the

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Speaker 2: Rank this Sunday Night, Maggie Beer, dy Sebastian, Julie Morris

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Speaker 2: and Steve Warre, the Formerustralian cricket captain. One of my

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Speaker 2: favorite bits actually is one of the young women says

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Speaker 2: to Steve war Well, to be honest, I find cricket

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Speaker 2: quite boring enough.

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Speaker 1: This is the thing. These journalism students can say anything

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Speaker 1: they like and you have to copy it. Did he

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Speaker 1: because you don't normally hear that in an interview? Did

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Speaker 1: he take it graciously?

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Speaker 2: It was so good because he said, well, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: if I can find cricket pretty boring as well. I

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Speaker 2: just thought, well, I never would have got to that

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Speaker 2: from Steve Waugh because I never would have raised the

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Speaker 2: topic of cricket being boring. But what an interesting revelation

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Speaker 2: from him that, of course he would sometimes find it boring.

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Speaker 2: It goes to day you can be stuck in the

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Speaker 2: field for day this time of course it's boring.

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Speaker 1: And I know you've got different students this time around

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Speaker 1: journalism students once again all with autism. What did some

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Speaker 1: of the last batch go on to do well.

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Speaker 2: So some of them actually came back and worked with

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Speaker 2: us this time in the crew for season two. So

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Speaker 2: one was a camera assistant, one was an audio assistant.

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Speaker 2: A couple of them worked is what we call runners,

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Speaker 2: which people that just do a lot of general sort

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Speaker 2: of jobs. One young guy, Angus, works full time at

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Speaker 2: Triple J. Everyone did an internship at the ABC at

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Speaker 2: the end of last season, and then Angus was such

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Speaker 2: a great fit there he got off at a job there,

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Speaker 2: and then others of them do various bits and pieces. Abby,

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Speaker 2: who you might remember was the young woman in the wheelchair,

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Speaker 2: She has done a bit of work here in the

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Speaker 2: sports not exactly. She's about to do the red carpet

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Speaker 2: for the ABC on the dally M Awards. She did

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Speaker 2: last year as well. So yeah, variety of different things. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just been wonderful to see them thrive and you

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Speaker 1: Do you envy their candor? I guess if there's a word,

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Speaker 1: because I find with the a journalist with autism, they

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Speaker 1: can ask whatever they want.

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Speaker 2: Do you find you envy that a little bit because

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Speaker 2: they can blame autism? I do and sometimes they'll have

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Speaker 2: a question on the list and I'll think, oh, I

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Speaker 2: can't wait to see how that person reacts to that.

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Speaker 2: But I'm so glad I don't have the social awkwardness

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Speaker 2: of being the asker of that question, but I'm desperate

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Speaker 2: to see there is once so this time around, I mean,

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Speaker 2: guys Sebastian gets asked about losing his virginity and there's

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Speaker 2: some Yeah, there's some wild moments. Actually, what about Julia Morris,

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Speaker 2: because that would be she's wild to start, that would

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Speaker 2: be quite an interesting whirlwind. Oh my god. There's a

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Speaker 2: classic bit at the start of hers where before you

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Speaker 2: and the second Julia Morris walked in, the very first

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Speaker 2: thing said to her was Willow. One of the young

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Speaker 2: women said I don't find you funny, and Julia, to

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Speaker 2: her great credit, said, oh, well that's okay. You don't

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Speaker 2: have to everyone finds me funny. That he's completely fine.

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Speaker 2: She hadled it really, really well, but my heart sort

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Speaker 2: of went into my mouth a bit like, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: couple of that came straight out, but Willow was then

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Speaker 2: sort of like, but I like you very much anyway,

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Speaker 2: I really like you. She's a big Robert Herwin fan,

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Speaker 2: so she was a little disappointed that it was not

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Speaker 2: I wish you were Robert her Well.

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Speaker 1: Lee, it's always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you. If you Jamanda gets too much,

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Speaker 2: you just come to me. Okay, I'll be straight to you.

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Speaker 2: Don't you worry about that. I'll say back off. Boogaloo.

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Speaker 1: Season two of The Assembly our premiere Sunday this Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty first of September. It's sevent thirty on ABC TV,

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Speaker 1: and of course I view Lee.

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Speaker 2: It's always great to catch up with you. Oh. I

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Speaker 2: love talking to both of you. Lots of love not

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Speaker 2: talking to you soon, see you soon, okay,