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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with jonesy Land.

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Speaker 2: Can you believe that the block has been going for

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Speaker 2: eighteen years?

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Speaker 3: Whoa?

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Speaker 4: It kicks off again on Sunday night, and this year

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Speaker 4: sounds very interesting. They're calling it tree Change moving to

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Speaker 4: the Country. It's the first time they've done that. We

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Speaker 4: might see some drama on the show. I think something's

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Speaker 4: already happened. But also Scott cam is going to be

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Speaker 4: building his own house. Scott Hello, oh.

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Speaker 1: Good morning guys. Thanks for having me look at you.

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Speaker 3: He's back on the tools.

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Speaker 1: Well to tour point, yes, I had a team behind me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and why are you building your own when are

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Speaker 2: you going to auction it? At the end?

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Speaker 5: Well, what we what we did was we had we

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Speaker 5: put we've got five ten acre blocks on the seventy acres,

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Speaker 5: and then there was the original homestead from eighteen sixties

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Speaker 5: on the block already because we brought the other houses in.

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Speaker 5: And then so we decided that I would fix up

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Speaker 5: because I love the historic homes and I love working

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Speaker 5: on those.

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Speaker 1: So I brought that back.

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Speaker 5: To its former glory with the extension on the back

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Speaker 5: into a five better and a little bit of inspiration

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Speaker 5: for the contest, and so I didn't get judged, and

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Speaker 5: it's not going to auction.

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Speaker 1: But I would have won every week anyway because it

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Speaker 1: was the best because cool, Yeah, it was incredible.

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Speaker 3: You're like running the whole plantation.

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Speaker 5: Well, I had so much to do as well on

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Speaker 5: the other side, so I did have a team of

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Speaker 5: people helping me, because you know, hosting the block is

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Speaker 5: a big job in itself alone.

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Speaker 6: Doing that at the same you've got to do all

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Speaker 6: that stuff, and you've got the controversy as well, the

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Speaker 6: controversy with the high Viz lady.

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Speaker 4: Is this true, Well, the background of this is that

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Speaker 4: we're all we've heard is that a couple left the

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Speaker 4: show after filming had started.

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Speaker 5: Yes, we do a two day challenge to see who

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Speaker 5: gets which house and whoever wins that figet's first choice, second,

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Speaker 5: second choice and so on. So after that forty eight

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Speaker 5: hour challenge, house decide a challenge to what we call it,

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Speaker 5: they up and left because it wasn't for them. And

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Speaker 5: you know, the Block's not for everybody.

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Speaker 3: It's it's you.

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Speaker 1: Know, if it's not for you, just let us know

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Speaker 1: and we will help you out.

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Speaker 5: And that you know, family always does come first on

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Speaker 5: the block, and they're suggesting maybe that it was to

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Speaker 5: do with family, but they didn't.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about that.

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Speaker 5: They left with that. That didn't that was not the

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Speaker 5: reason that they told us about why they left.

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Speaker 4: And also there'd be a pretty rigorous audition process. You'd

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Speaker 4: think that you'd weed out people, you'd think who weren't

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Speaker 4: up for it.

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Speaker 2: So they changed their minds.

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Speaker 5: Yes, and I think that, you know, if they had

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Speaker 5: have said to us that there was a problem with family,

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Speaker 5: we would have been over backwards to sort that out

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Speaker 5: for them and help them and fly them anywhere they

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Speaker 5: wanted to fly. In fact, you know, the week before

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Speaker 5: the block started we got shut down for a week

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Speaker 5: because of COVID and so we flew them to Adelaide

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Speaker 5: to see the mother who was sick for a week

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Speaker 5: and put them up and then flew them back again.

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Speaker 5: And if they had said we need to go and

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Speaker 5: see mum again, was well, okay, we'll flow you there

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Speaker 5: again and we'll sort out the house and we don't

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Speaker 5: worry about it.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense, and.

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Speaker 5: You know, family does come first on the block. A

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Speaker 5: couple of years ago, we shut the whole show down

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Speaker 5: because one of our contestants lost her mum, and we

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Speaker 5: shut the show down for a week and sent everybody

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Speaker 5: home out one hundred crew everybody, and that you know,

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Speaker 5: you know what that sort of situation is, and we

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Speaker 5: don't blink at that. So if anybody needs any help

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Speaker 5: with that sort of thing, we're always Therefore you're there.

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Speaker 5: So you know, they say family comes first, and absolutely

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Speaker 5: it does, but they didn't mention that to us. They

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Speaker 5: should have mentioned that so in this well, I don't

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Speaker 5: know if they had that on their mind.

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Speaker 3: Right, So this will be featuring in the show.

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Speaker 1: They will be.

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Speaker 3: There's and no spoiler of that.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's it's in a promo as well.

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Speaker 1: And you know, they gave.

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Speaker 5: Us some reasons why they left, but and then later

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Speaker 5: a couple of days later, they changed those reasons.

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Speaker 1: I suppose, not sure.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what the thing is. I don't know

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Speaker 5: because they never asked, they never spoke to me about it.

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Speaker 6: Because you're like the Godfather when I see it. The logis,

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Speaker 6: when I saw a Scottie walking at the Logies, the

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Speaker 6: whole crew is following you in and you're like one

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Speaker 6: of those dads that goes into a restaurant, were eating

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Speaker 6: at six I'm paying and we're out of here by seven.

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Speaker 3: That's what it was like. Everyone's just following him in.

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Speaker 5: They didn't come and tell us, they didn't speak to me,

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Speaker 5: they didn't say goodbye, they didn't say they just left.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen them.

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Speaker 2: Since, and you just replaced them with somebody else.

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Speaker 1: We did.

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Speaker 5: We replaced We replaced them with another couple, which was great,

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Speaker 5: and we got a new couple that were fantastic and

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Speaker 5: worked really hard. And in the actual fact, they came

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Speaker 5: on such short notice that they left their kids like quickly,

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Speaker 5: and so then when they got there, she was a

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Speaker 5: bit Rachel was a bit upset because her kids weren't

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Speaker 5: settling in with mum and dad back at home in Sydney.

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Speaker 5: So we flew a home for two days and said,

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Speaker 5: you let us know when you want to come back,

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Speaker 5: and when you're ready, we'll look after the house here.

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Speaker 5: And she too, so she said, I'm ready to come back.

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Speaker 5: They're good, So we flew back.

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Speaker 6: You could have called me and Amanda, well, imagine us

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Speaker 6: picking up with the tools.

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Speaker 4: You're too big a tool.

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Speaker 2: On your own.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I don't know whether that would work.

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Speaker 6: I'd be up in the in the main house with

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Speaker 6: you having a beer.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to seeing this one because it's the

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Speaker 4: it's going to be sort of more.

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Speaker 2: Of a country theme, and I think that's a nice change.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's a tree change.

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Speaker 5: And we got the idea during COVID everybody was, well

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Speaker 5: not everybody, A lot of people were looking at buying

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Speaker 5: a little ten acre blocking from home and things like that.

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Speaker 5: So I said, let's do the block on a tree

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Speaker 5: change and five ten acre blocks. And these guys are

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Speaker 5: putting in pools, tennis courts, vineyards. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Vineyards, a vineym with a tennis court, Yes.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Kitchens are so amazing. And of course the block.

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Speaker 5: Most people can't afford to buy or build a blockhouse

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Speaker 5: because they're huge and.

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Speaker 3: In the millions of dollars, I said for Dave Hughes, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: of course.

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Speaker 5: But the concept is that you might get a great

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Speaker 5: idea out of the kitchen or a bedroom or.

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Speaker 1: A lamp or you know something like that. That's what

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Speaker 1: the block's about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well we got there.

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Speaker 6: You know, one of those rainfall showers, you know the

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Speaker 6: rainfall showers, you know, it's like standing on an arrangement.

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Speaker 2: Have you got one?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Because of the block?

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Speaker 2: Where did you put it?

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Speaker 3: It was a few houses game, but it was like

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Speaker 3: the houses.

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Speaker 4: What a flipper?

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Speaker 5: Well, we've seen like we're the new products too. I

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Speaker 5: love like, we've got a kitchen that that goes really well.

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Speaker 5: And it's got a copper fridge, a copper Yes, it's

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Speaker 5: unbelievable copper.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it looks unreal. Man.

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Speaker 6: It's got one of those get out of town sub

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Speaker 6: zero things that you can freeze.

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Speaker 3: What Disney's heeded.

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Speaker 2: That's what I've got in there. And Jeffrey Darmer comes

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Speaker 2: around all the time to graze.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to get well, Scotty, it's always great

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Speaker 6: to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: The Block Tree change it starts Sunday. That's this Sunday

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Speaker 3: on channel nine. Yes, it does seven o' block seven blocks.

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Speaker 1: Came originally guys too.

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Speaker 2: You take care that a treat