1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda Jamny no fun fact about Home and Away. 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: It was inspired by residents of Kangaroo Point here in 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Sydney objecting to them, the people that wanted to build 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: a refuge for troubled youth, and the people the fair 5 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: residence of Kangaroo Point said, oh, we don't want these 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: little near do world. 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: Kids hanging around. So the writer was inspired by that. 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 3: Is that kind of the theme of Home and Away. 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: That was home and Away, and they originally wanted to 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: call it refuge, and then when oh no, that's probably 11 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: not very good. 12 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: Let's call it home and Away. 13 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: I lived in Kangaroo Point for a number of years 14 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: and I used to go for a run up the 15 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: hill where that that. 16 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 3: Particular the refuge was built. 17 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's fine. There was no trouble whatsoever. You 18 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: wouldn't even know it was there. 19 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 3: It was Home and Away, the one that was canceled 20 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,639 Speaker 3: early and then moved to another ten. 21 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. Ten. 22 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: It's not like ten to pass on a good show, 23 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: is it room not like them to do that's a 24 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: ten passed on it. Seven picked it up and I've 25 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,639 Speaker 1: watched it over the years, dipped in and out of it. 26 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: But then Irene left home and away last night. Lynn 27 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: McGranger is a good friend of the show. Aida Nicodemo, 28 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: who's good friends of the show. I must haven't been 29 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: watching the show as much as I would like recently. 30 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 3: But the storyline, and Lynn took great pride in saying 31 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 3: that she was able, she was able to develop it 32 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: with the writers, and. 33 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: She wouldn't tell us about it. 34 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: I said, come on, Lenny, come on, is there an 35 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: elevator shaft to say something? 36 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, her character has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and 37 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 3: so she made the decision to leave and go traveling 38 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 3: while she still could, which is what makes me anxious. 39 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 3: I used chat GPT to look at this this morning 40 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 3: to say, should someone with Alzheimer's travel alone? And I 41 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 3: don't know much about Alzheimer's and I'm sorry if I'm 42 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 3: stepping into territory that's not my business, but that it said, 43 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 3: look this, it takes all shapes and sizes, and you 44 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: know there's not a one fit for anybody, but it 45 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: would seem that sometimes it can make you unpredictable. It's 46 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 3: the it takes away some stability in your life to 47 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 3: be traveling on your own and all the arrangements that 48 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: need to be sorted. Who's to say when you start 49 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 3: to get a little bit worse and you don't know 50 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 3: how to teach care of those travel arrangements. 51 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: For one thing, Having said that that she was worried 52 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: about forgetting all the people that she knew. So if 53 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: you go to another place, you're meeting new people all 54 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: the time, so you don't have that thing where you've 55 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: forgotten someone. 56 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, but what if you've made a booking somewhere and 57 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: you know where am I staying? And it's sleeping in 58 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: the Venice canals? 59 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: So why would you go straight to the canals? You 60 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: always go straight to the canals? 61 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 3: What's with that? 62 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: I think that's just you? So Lynn last on the 63 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: show last night, No, you know, I just found it 64 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: was a little underwhelming. 65 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: Do you think there'd be a big like a alien crash. 66 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 1: There's been plane crash, there's been bomb explosions. There was 67 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: a stalker, remember a woman stalked all of Summer Bay, 68 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: which is quite the job to stalk a whole town. 69 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 3: She was exhausted. She you can find her now swimming 70 00:02:58,639 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 3: in the canal. 71 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: That's very hard. So they put out a bit of 72 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: a party for her. This is what Irene said. 73 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 4: Excuse me, everyone, name's her up for a minute. I 74 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 4: just want to say thank you all so very much 75 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 4: for coming here today and celebrating with me, and it 76 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 4: means a world to me. I have to leave now, 77 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 4: but I want you all to stay here. More music, 78 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 4: more talking, more doing what w joy I was making 79 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 4: these memories as honestly the most important thing. 80 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 2: That you'll ever do. 81 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 3: That's emotional. Why would you feel that was underway? 82 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: The four mentioned stalker bombs, plane crashes, shnami's all that 83 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: sort of stuff. John who Shane Withington plays the character 84 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: of John. They're not romantically linked, close friends, but at 85 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: the end Irene presents this to him. 86 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 4: Probably it presumptuous of mean, But you can tear yourself 87 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: away from the surf club from a few weeks. It's 88 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 4: a ticket to Paris. I want you to meet me 89 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 4: at the Eiffel Tower. 90 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 3: I read so you see it. It's not goodbye, it's 91 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 3: all one. 92 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: I will be there. You mark my words, Come hell 93 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 2: or high water, I will be there. 94 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 4: I'll see you around. 95 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 3: Where though it made no plans, that's a problem. 96 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 2: There's no plans. 97 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 3: There's no plans. 98 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 1: John getting away from the surf club like he does 99 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: sweet fa around that joint anyway, how fully. 100 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 3: Find the time I serve. I think people probably found 101 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 3: that very emotional, because I really say goodbye to Lyne. 102 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 3: As much as I. 103 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 2: Read, the internet hasn't been kind. 104 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: They seriously couldn't even get all the current main cast 105 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: in let alone previous characters low key a bit of s. 106 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 3: This is what you said? You said there were many people? 107 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: There wasn't many people. There was about ten p people there. 108 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:02,799 Speaker 3: Did she put the drinks on for free? 109 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: Where the well, that's a good no because Irene is 110 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: a boozehound and they can't they to have a mocktail. 111 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 3: That's why no one was there. 112 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: You can't have a going around classic everyone on the 113 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: last time. 114 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,119 Speaker 3: See that's the drama you're after. Irene goes a little 115 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 3: bit berserk. 116 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: Where the beep is the rest of the bay? Someone's written, 117 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 2: surely not working? 118 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: Why is only two percent of the cast at Irene's farewell? 119 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 4: Like? 120 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 2: Where's Cash? 121 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 3: Tane and Mackenzie rosted day off? 122 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: And Cash is that one's incredibly hunky? 123 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 3: I saw him at the logis. I was having a 124 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 3: photo with some people along the way and he said, 125 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: let me take it. He's in real life because I 126 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: used to seeing hunks on TV. In real life. His 127 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 3: shoulders are massive. He's like a g I Joe doll. 128 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 3: His head's relatively normal sized, shoulders massive. He was wearing 129 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 3: a suit that he could not have got off the rack. 130 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 2: He spent a lot of time checking him out. But 131 00:05:58,720 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: he's too hunky for TV? 132 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 3: Is he too hunky? 133 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 2: You can have that problem. I've had that problem, too 134 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 2: hunky for TV. 135 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 3: Do you think this leaves the way open for Irene 136 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 3: to come back if you're not? But characters had their 137 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 3: heads lopped off and still come back. Her saying I'm 138 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 3: just going overseas for a little while. She's going to 139 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 3: come back. 140 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: I thought there would have been pulled the last minute 141 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: death on the beach or something. 142 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 2: I was waiting for that I wandered off. I was 143 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: waiting for, like a piano. 144 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 3: To drop it for an anvil, just to pull from 145 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:27,239 Speaker 3: the sky. 146 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 2: They got me as a gift director. I would have 147 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 2: been there with my boorn. 148 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: I go piano now, post credits, post credits, that's it. 149 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, And then they play out the theme on piano. 150 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 3: You are a genius too, hunky for TV. Yeah, if 151 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 3: only you could buy a shirt off the rack.