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Speaker 1: Perhaps how's your week off? What do you get up too?
Speaker 3: Now? We flew up to Sydney, had the most sensational
Speaker 3: long weekend up there.
Speaker 4: The minute you land the weather was incredible, so you.
Speaker 1: Were their grand final weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah you hate footy Victoria on that Thursday show when
Speaker 2: we were going you don't really big footy fan?
Speaker 1: I fight you on.
Speaker 2: No one likes it harder than me, No one likes
Speaker 2: it more than me. And we've put those flights to
Speaker 2: get out of the city as soon as everyone starts
Speaker 2: a roving. The hair has been so quite going out
Speaker 2: of Melbourne as the country is coming into.
Speaker 4: It against the time.
Speaker 3: No, it was funny because we had to be back
Speaker 3: at them at the hotel by like one or twelve thirty,
Speaker 3: so Chris could sit in front of the telly and
Speaker 3: watch the TV and Audrey and I thought, oh no,
Speaker 3: we're going to go out.
Speaker 4: But the weather was great.
Speaker 3: It was like thirty thirty one sunshine.
Speaker 2: Now tell me there's Pats and be honest, right, and
Speaker 2: some of lists might not realize there's some show news.
Speaker 2: But from January next year we're going live into Sydney
Speaker 2: and all of Australia in the morning, right, So very
Speaker 2: very exciting times. Were you also scoping out ahead of
Speaker 2: our you know, us being on air.
Speaker 4: In Sydney, Yeah, of course it was.
Speaker 2: That sent me a very bad photo right of Sydney
Speaker 2: Harbour Bridge, and well a third of it was Sydney
Speaker 2: Harbor Bridge. Two thirds of was a church. And at
Speaker 2: first I didn't know whether she'd had a conversion. Was like,
Speaker 2: what are we seeing here? She's found the Lord, I said,
Speaker 2: and she was like, it's just hit me, what's happening.
Speaker 2: It was like it's like she heard me two months
Speaker 2: ago say we're going national. And then she got to
Speaker 2: Sydney saw the Harbor Bridge went oh, he means Sydney.
Speaker 2: So that's the place with the bridge. Go into that
Speaker 2: church and say prayer for us. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: upset Jones and Amanda fans like a candle, like candle
Speaker 2: for the show.
Speaker 4: This is the enormity.
Speaker 3: When we landed, I thought, hang on, we're actually doing this.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, we are doing this, and it's not
Speaker 3: until you've sort of engulfed in the city and how
Speaker 3: massive it is and it's such a beautiful place. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I went to the theater there and saw Back to
Speaker 3: the Future the musical, which was brilliant, out of this
Speaker 3: world and the highlight at the end, which I didn't
Speaker 3: know was going to happen.
Speaker 4: Co creator Bob gail.
Speaker 1: Oh, co writer, Yeah, with Robert Samachis.
Speaker 4: Yes, came out on stage.
Speaker 3: He was there for like the first few performances and
Speaker 3: spoke for like ten minutes.
Speaker 4: Just insane. If you get a chance, get up there
Speaker 4: and see it. It is brilliant.
Speaker 3: At the Lyric Theater, it was just honestly, hands down,
Speaker 3: the best thing I have really ever seen in musical theater.
Speaker 1: You've seen them all.
Speaker 3: Outsta outstanding, and the Dolorean is there. It comes out
Speaker 3: over the I don't want to give too much away,
Speaker 3: but it comes out over.
Speaker 2: If our listeners are going to go and see that,
Speaker 2: it came out over the ground spoiler alert, Oh no, surely.
Speaker 2: When you get there you probably see like a hydraulic
Speaker 2: sort of film.
Speaker 3: The way they do it is just fantastic. Shocked with
Speaker 3: getting there was was a bit of a drama. I
Speaker 3: say so apparently since we last flew with a certain airline,
Speaker 3: they're check in has now like blown out double. You've
Speaker 3: got to be there like doubly early. And we didn't
Speaker 3: know that, and so we flew out of Avalon. When
Speaker 3: we got there, we had a problem getting into park
Speaker 3: because all the boomgates were stuck down. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if you've been to Avalon, but it's a little
Speaker 3: bit into the terminal.
Speaker 2: It's that thing you accidentally go when you go, my god,
Speaker 2: this flights is so cheap, and you go, you say, Melbourne,
Speaker 2: all airports the same thing.
Speaker 3: Get out of the car, flee into the terminal. This
Speaker 3: was at five am. We had a six am flight,
Speaker 3: and we're think, no, it's okay, we're still.
Speaker 1: What you got there at five?
Speaker 4: Oh it's stacks of toe.
Speaker 1: No, I would have been there.
Speaker 2: It's four no domestic, No wait, no, no, no, those boom.
Speaker 3: Gates open at four anyway, they weren't working. So I
Speaker 3: had to track down the security guy and he said, oh, no,
Speaker 3: you're going through the wrong entrance.
Speaker 4: Anyway, we sorted that out.
Speaker 3: So going through, yeah, we went long the long term
Speaker 3: and we needed to go to like just the short
Speaker 3: term or something.
Speaker 4: And it was dark. You couldn't see.
Speaker 1: The chance of those boom gates being stuck.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the other version of the story is,
Speaker 2: but it's some of the Griswolves turning up late.
Speaker 4: Well, we're never late for flights. This is a thing.
Speaker 1: We came there at five for six floor.
Speaker 4: It's fine.
Speaker 3: So we get there, but like five twenty two and
Speaker 3: the flight closed at five twenty and she said, look,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but you've missed the flight. And we're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but everyone's lining up to go through security and she said, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it closes at like, you know, four minutes before now.
Speaker 3: And I said, isn't it thirty? She goes, no, it's forty.
Speaker 3: And I said, oh gosh, I didn't realize. And so
Speaker 3: we're standing there. What are we going to do?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I didn't realize. You do everyone knows.
Speaker 4: No, didn't realize. We don't for.
Speaker 1: Two minutes before the flight.
Speaker 3: We don't check in like you know when you get
Speaker 3: the email check in for your flight now.
Speaker 4: We don't do that. We like what I like to
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 3: That's inside that literally they have the technology to do.
Speaker 2: We've got to get plug the computer in to the landlight.
Speaker 2: Why do you want am when you get that five am?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I just figure.
Speaker 3: I had one case to check in, which was mine, right,
Speaker 3: a big case, and I thought, well, we've got to
Speaker 3: check the case in anyway, so I'll just check.
Speaker 1: So no one else, your husband or do it to
Speaker 1: no clothes. You just had your case.
Speaker 3: Well they had they had carry on, so they had
Speaker 3: We had two carry on cases, which one was already
Speaker 3: is one was a love Gods and I had my
Speaker 3: big case to check through.
Speaker 4: And so she said, hang on, let me get the manager.
Speaker 4: I'll see if we can get you on.
Speaker 3: And Chris is like, I don't understand why we've got
Speaker 3: tickets And I said, oh no, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You could just rock up when you want. It's how
Speaker 2: it works around the world, that system. They closed the gate.
Speaker 2: It's very clear. Everyone knows.
Speaker 4: Four times I realized it had changed anyway.
Speaker 3: So the manager came and she said, look, I've got
Speaker 3: you on the flight. I said, oh, thank you, that's
Speaker 3: so awesome. But she said, baggage has obviously closed, so
Speaker 3: you can't check and your big case.
Speaker 4: You can only do carry on.
Speaker 3: I thought, oh, she said, you've got like literally two
Speaker 3: minutes to get get your cases through security.
Speaker 4: And onto the plane.
Speaker 3: So it was we were Audrey and I were on
Speaker 3: all fours, chucking stuff across the floor.
Speaker 1: Chris is just.
Speaker 4: Standing there, not.
Speaker 1: Horror fi.
Speaker 3: There were bras, there were niggers, there were shoes, there
Speaker 3: was a hair dryer.
Speaker 4: It was just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Oh my, what a look morning.
Speaker 4: And Chris is like, oh, we'll just get a later flight.
Speaker 4: And I said, we can't get a later flight. They're
Speaker 4: all book that stop.
Speaker 3: You help anyway, having a meltdown, that just is not
Speaker 3: my finest moment. So everyone else in security was like
Speaker 3: laughing looking at us, and I thought, I can't care.
Speaker 4: I can't care. How ridiculous.
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 2: So I said to Christy, didn't have to detonate border patrol.
Speaker 4: I said, leave the suitcase back again. We need to
Speaker 4: just forget.
Speaker 1: Just got a suitcase.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of suspicious anyway.
Speaker 3: The manager said, you're going to have to take the
Speaker 3: suitcase back to the car in the car park.
Speaker 4: I said to Chris, you need to run. Of course
Speaker 4: he did so he laing you back to the car,
Speaker 4: put the case in the.
Speaker 3: Car while Audrey and I went through security, and then
Speaker 3: as he came to go through security, there was something
Speaker 3: wrong with the belt and it stopped and we're like
Speaker 3: waving at the gate, like come on, come on.
Speaker 4: It was just too close.
Speaker 1: This whole thing, this whole thing ridiculous. The rest of the.
Speaker 2: Flight passes must been up in there and going Melbourne
Speaker 2: Bogan newsreader from.
Speaker 3: It was just oh man, so yeah, you got this
Speaker 3: we got on the plane. I say, I don't understand
Speaker 3: what just happened. I don't know what clothes I've got.
Speaker 3: I've got one shoe, I've got one dress. I don't
Speaker 3: know what else I've got.
Speaker 4: Don't know even if.
Speaker 2: I've got scraping out Sydney, Watch out Jones, Amanda. There's
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