1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy and Amanda. We've been 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: reading a story this morning about a letter that she 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: wrote to the Australian people when the Queen Victoria Building 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: in Sydney was open to the public in nineteen eighty 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: six after major renovations. So the Queen gave strict instructions 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: for it to remain sealed and unread until twenty eighty five. 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: So what the instructions are? It says, greetings on a 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: suitable day to be selected by you in the year 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: twenty eighty five, ad would you please open this envelope 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: and convey to the citizens of Sydney my message to them, Like, 11 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: Amanda's not here, today's's got COVID. But I'm just I'm 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: reading this story twenty eighty five. That's like fifty three 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: years from now, so none of us will be here. 14 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: Jim Y right here, of course you'll be yeah, of course, 15 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: Because she's like, it could be like Doc Brown from 16 00:00:58,360 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: Back to the. 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 2: Future, Back to the Future a long time ago. 18 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: Anyway, he leaves a letter saying that a guy's going 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: to sharpen a Dolorean. What do you think would be 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: in the Queen's letter? 21 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: I think yeah, I think it'd just be like a 22 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 2: D and B is a picture of a DNB sank 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 2: sucker or something. 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: Of course, thank you for your contribution. You know, Amanda's 25 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: not here today and you have just filled in perfectly. Ryan. 26 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for having go and have yourself a grain wave. 27 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: I just noticed new girl Kate MGK as we like 28 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: to call her, as walked into the studio. Kate, we're 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: just talking about time capsules here. Firstly, what do you 30 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: think the queen would have written in that? 31 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 2: Could it be a confession of something? Do you think 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: she's had some scandal in the past, maybe an affair 33 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: with a groundskeeper or something like that she didn't want 34 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 2: anyone to. 35 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: Know about on the royal family having a scandal. 36 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: I know, I know it's unlikely. And was really the 37 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 2: queen of the scandals, wasn't she? 38 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: Yeah? 39 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: Maybe type of Why would you wait so long? 40 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: Twenty eighty five, that's like, really three years from now, 41 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: there's not going to be I'm just fat. 42 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 2: I've got to be good. It's got to be good, right, it. 43 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: Has to be juicy. You would hope that it'll be 44 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: more than D and B. 45 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: It's going to be. 46 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: Okay, So you're saying d and B you're saying scandal. 47 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: I do like the idea of a time capsule. I 48 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: remember when I was in Scouts as a kid, we 49 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 1: bury this time capsule under the Scout hall and I've 50 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: forgotten when they're going to open it. It's either we're 51 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: supposed to be opened in the year two thousand, so 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: we did it in nineteen seventy seven for the ironically 53 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: the Queen's jubilee year. So I don't know when that 54 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: because it's a nice slab of cement as well, so 55 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: they're not going to break up the cement for some 56 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 1: strange thoughts from a bunch of twelve year olds from 57 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: nineteen to seventy seven, So. 58 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: You don't know if it's been dug up here. No, 59 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: I don't remember what you put. 60 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: In a picture of h myself. Oh that's all he's 61 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: met with a fish. I was holding a fish. Do 62 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: you like people do time capsules anymore? 63 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: Well? I did one back at primary school. I was 64 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 2: about twelve. I think they still do them definitely, but 65 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 2: did one when I was about twelve, and it was 66 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 2: a school something, you know, like yeah again to be 67 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: dug up later and some genius in our year level 68 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 2: thought it would be we would have DNA testing that 69 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 2: could bring people back to life once you died. So 70 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 2: we all cut our hair right and put it in it. 71 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: And then some boy genius you know what hair he 72 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: was cutting right? 73 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: I had much, Okay, so he's put that in there. 74 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: He's put that in there because you know, we're going 75 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 2: to have the technology to bring us back to life. 76 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: But I can't remember either when that's going to be 77 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 2: dug up. But yeah, that's the stuff we were putting, 78 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 2: and we were weird. 79 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: How long ago was this? 80 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 2: Ninety four twenty four? 81 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: You can't just dig it up now? 82 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: No, No, be all good? 83 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Jurassic sort of stuff. 84 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's supposed to be one hundred years, isn't it? 85 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 2: Sure about one hundred. 86 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: Years to get good value out of time capsule. At 87 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: the very minimum, it should be fifty years. 88 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 2: Should have really had a scandal a through up at 89 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 2: least 90 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,839 Speaker 1: Put the no one put D and B in there.