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Speaker 1: Gardening Australia returns at seven thirty tomorrow night on the

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Speaker 1: ABC and abc I View, and Costa Georgi artist is

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Speaker 1: joining us. Now, Costa, I do hope I've said your

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Speaker 1: name correctly.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's it's a standard. You know, lots of people

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Speaker 2: mess it up. They Georgie costiades and George Cosmos and

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Speaker 2: that's all good there, that's all that matters.

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Speaker 3: So how are you, Cosmo?

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Speaker 2: That was done with intent. I like that intent, quality,

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Speaker 2: intent and purpose that I was convincing. I believe you. Hey, wow,

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Speaker 2: excited that you know the year is I was. I

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Speaker 2: was just saying before you know, I'm literally got the

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Speaker 2: dubbin out on the saddle and ready to ride out

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Speaker 2: on the on the horse. Three. Yeah, it's it's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: I mean the show you'll you'll see. I'll give you

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Speaker 2: little bit of a preview where we've got a whole

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Speaker 2: new our graphic artist Julia is unbelievable and she got

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Speaker 2: all the presenters. We all did a shoot where we

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Speaker 2: had to go into the green screen and do all

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Speaker 2: these different moves and then she's cut that into an animation.

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Speaker 2: So a whole new graphics title for the show and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's really fun. It's really fun, and it's kind of

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Speaker 2: like a nice almost just a cracking way to start

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Speaker 2: a new year of the show. So yeah, look forward

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Speaker 2: to that. The opening titles they're great.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was celebrating thirty four years of the show.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that is amazing.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, when you think, particularly in the last

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Speaker 2: ten or fifteen years, the cutthroat nature of exactly just

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Speaker 2: media and there's so many traditional aspects of the show

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Speaker 2: and we've tried to remain true to that and not

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Speaker 2: jumped out on fads and trends and and you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes people could look at that and say, oh, the

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Speaker 2: show's a bit nerdy or you know, it's just always

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Speaker 2: the same practical advice. But that's that's how we think

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Speaker 2: it's the key bring the audience in, particularly young people

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Speaker 2: now who are really got into it over COVID, and

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Speaker 2: they want more than they want more than just a

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Speaker 2: just just sort of old what's the latest. They want

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Speaker 2: to know what they can do to improve and go

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Speaker 2: from indoor growing to outdoor growing. And when you look

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Speaker 2: at all the presenters, I think that's our biggest asset

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Speaker 2: that You've got such a range from for everyone, you know,

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Speaker 2: Jane who's our elder, right right through to and speaking

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Speaker 2: of presenters, Tammy who you may have seen doing some

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Speaker 2: stories with this last year. She's now she's now coming

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Speaker 2: on board as a as a full you know, a

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Speaker 2: as one of the teams. So we announced that in

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Speaker 2: the first episode as well. And she's doing so much

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Speaker 2: with with plants and lots of people have been jumping

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Speaker 2: on her stories, and we've got Millie and Sophie and

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Speaker 2: of course Josh. Josh just has so much to share

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Speaker 2: from your side of the world. I love his stories

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Speaker 2: because he brings the landscapes that you all live in

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Speaker 2: and you know, can almost take for granted when those

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Speaker 2: of us on this side of the country see the

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Speaker 2: plants you have and the incredible biodiversity hotspot that you

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Speaker 2: are like anything that Josh does and you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: just like, you know, what's where's he going, what's he doing?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so and then you've got Jerry up in

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Speaker 2: Brisbane in the tropics and Clarence and everything that he's doing.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's one to think that for shows going

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Speaker 2: into year thirty four and we're actually feeling and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think about it from my point of view, as

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Speaker 2: you know, pretty much a decade in the show, and

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's getting even closer to the sort

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Speaker 2: of space that I've visioned it for so long. I'm

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Speaker 2: more pumped this year about any other year.

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Speaker 3: We can tell mate, we can indeed tell you talk

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Speaker 3: about you talk about their plants here in Wa. They

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Speaker 3: are pretty hardy, considering we're sort of here and per

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Speaker 3: living on a great, big slave of limestone, let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And the thing that's amazing about them is how

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Speaker 2: they've eked out a living on such a limited amount

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Speaker 2: of resources, and then how they flower and the mechanisms

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Speaker 2: they have to attract the pollinators, and how they flower

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Speaker 2: in ways that it doesn't get hammered by the sun,

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Speaker 2: and they flower at certain times the year, and all

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Speaker 2: those little nuances. For me, they're the stories that I

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Speaker 2: think are what we can draw people in on and

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Speaker 2: make them excited about the landscape and make them excited

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Speaker 2: and not only excited, but fall in love with the

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Speaker 2: environment and then step up and protect it. And you know,

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Speaker 2: when I think about the wetlands of Mandarin, the story

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Speaker 2: it and they saw what importance the wetlands are. And

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Speaker 2: then you know, we did the story at the North Foo,

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Speaker 2: the bowls, the social and you know that's the community side,

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Speaker 2: and that fills my cup, like when you see a

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Speaker 2: local community stepping in. And we did a story of

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Speaker 2: filmed the story last week about a local bowling club

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Speaker 2: that of course had reached hard times at the turn

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Speaker 2: of this century. And you know, they were like, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: let's develop one of the greens and stay afloat. But

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Speaker 2: the local community went mongrel and said no way. They

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Speaker 2: got on the board through the board and said no,

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Speaker 2: we're keeping it. No pokeys, we want a community guarden,

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Speaker 2: we want community assets. They've got a tool library. And

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Speaker 2: you know that reminds me of the Frio story that

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Speaker 2: we did, that community stories are out there. People are

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Speaker 2: doing good things, and I suppose that's that's really the

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Speaker 2: core of what we do each week, tell put the

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Speaker 2: spotlight on people that are doing great stuff that you

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Speaker 2: don't always hear about.

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Speaker 1: Thirty four years cost, I know you're a judge for

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Speaker 1: the Grow Local Awards on the Sunshine Coast, in which

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Speaker 1: you're looking for the best chickens name. What is the

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Speaker 1: best chickens name you've ever heard? How about Jeremy Cluckson Norris.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to see I'd love to see that chook

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Speaker 2: Norris shredding some hard cok moves out of the coop

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Speaker 2: and taking on its taking on its buddies and tounch

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Speaker 2: on to that that corn cob that still got a

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Speaker 2: few kernels on it. Chuck Norris, stop it. You know

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Speaker 2: you're inspiring. You're inspiring me.

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Speaker 3: Now especially it's going to color be it by Chuck.

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Speaker 2: Look those as going back to what we're talking about

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Speaker 2: that you know, we've constantly got people coming onto the

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Speaker 2: conveyor of gardening, and so there's this wonderful balance between

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Speaker 2: telling stories that you know, might it's another composting story,

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Speaker 2: but no, there's always nothing you can derive, right, And

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Speaker 2: then it's the same like the girl at Local Stuff

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Speaker 2: with that storytelling you know, your biggest or your wonkiest veggie,

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Speaker 2: or your biggest failure or your craziest chuck name or

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Speaker 2: a name for your chuck coop, like those sorts of things.

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Speaker 2: Even for gardeners that have been doing it for years,

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Speaker 2: it can nudge them. Yeah, you know and treat them

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Speaker 2: laugh and get them engaged. And I think that's that's

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Speaker 2: then the pathway to open up those new avenues. Like

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Speaker 2: one of the stories on the show this this first

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Speaker 2: week is a pharmacist, Kevin Butler, who's, like imagine, is

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Speaker 2: a science science person into a pharmacy, but he's now

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Speaker 2: become a recognized, internationally recognized cultivator of cymbidium orchards and

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Speaker 2: he's focusing on like their color, their patterns and you know,

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Speaker 2: messing messing with you know, crossing them and coming up

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Speaker 2: with all these things and you go, wow, we gardening

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Speaker 2: is that citizen science that everyone can be a part of.

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Speaker 1: It unites us and this is why it has been

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Speaker 1: has been beloved for thirty four years. Now it's bad

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Speaker 1: Jim Murrow Night on the ABC and ABC if you

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you've got in store for

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Speaker 1: us this season, Costa.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Harpes. I'm pumped or have had a chat

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Speaker 2: and sort of unleash, unleash the new season could be.

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Speaker 3: Back in the saddle nice anology, Bud all the best.

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Speaker 3: Hey is Costa and as he says, we never stopped learning.

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Speaker 3: So the show being educational but fun At the same

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Speaker 3: time it was very cool