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Speaker 1: Well, you know what they say about things that are

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Speaker 1: certain in life, death taxes and the Channel seven news.

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Speaker 1: But there is there is a gentle change in the wind.

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Speaker 1: Rick and Sue are just scaling back a little bit

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Speaker 1: and Tim and and are moving forward a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Is Tim McMillan, and who's otakara with us? Now? Good

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Speaker 1: morning Tim? Is Rick running out of ties?

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Speaker 2: Is this?

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Speaker 1: What is this behind this?

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Speaker 2: No? No, that's that's definitely not happening.

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Speaker 1: There are there be no room for Rick.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a it's quite a collection any to you.

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Speaker 2: Look look Rick's ties are Yeah, there's there's sacred property

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Speaker 2: and no, look i'd be I'd be very very brave. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's a collection that's been built with a lot of

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Speaker 2: love and attention over the years. And yeah, goodluck twenty

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Speaker 2: one who wants to adventurely to that part of his

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Speaker 2: more Jobe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Susannah, it just sort of splitting the responsibility

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Speaker 1: a little more down the middle with these two young UN's.

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Speaker 4: I think what happened was last.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been caught a young I don't know what

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Speaker 3: that makes me.

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Speaker 1: But I can guess last year, you know, we've celebrated

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Speaker 1: forty years of reading.

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Speaker 4: It's a long time of reading, incredible, and we've both

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Speaker 4: been working before that as well. Yeah, it was a

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Speaker 4: time for a lot of reflection, I think, and the

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Speaker 4: idea of actually having a little bit more of the

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Speaker 4: week to ourselves was fairly appealing, yes, And so when

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Speaker 4: we all talked about it, it just seemed like a

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Speaker 4: really good idea and a good time to start scaling

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Speaker 4: down because it's got to happen at some point. You

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Speaker 4: can't read until you're ninety five. Well, you could a

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Speaker 4: meaning on how you look at ninety five, on how

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Speaker 4: you sound, haven't you saw like?

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Speaker 3: And the thing is you'd already set yourself and Rick

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Speaker 3: had already set a world record. Let's face it probably

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Speaker 3: touch And do you know.

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Speaker 4: The funny thing it keeps going because to get the

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Speaker 4: world record you only have to read two days a

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Speaker 4: week as a pair, So we're still read three.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just putting a nice buffer and anybody about it,

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Speaker 3: I feel.

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Speaker 1: As though you reached a point where you went so

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Speaker 1: far with the record and everything, and you've read for

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Speaker 1: so long, there's no way you could just go cold

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Speaker 4: So I'd always wondered how I could do that I

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Speaker 4: was talking to Tim about this when it all happened,

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Speaker 4: and I said, I've been thinking about how to end

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Speaker 4: this at some stage, and it's going to obviously and

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Speaker 4: you scale down as the perfect arm.

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Speaker 1: That's your ex strategy, it is. And Tim, you have

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Speaker 1: been patiently waiting, just.

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Speaker 3: Looking around the corner every now again turned up again. Yes,

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Speaker 3: Rick's gone aboard another time.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, first day back for the new year, you've

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Speaker 2: got to start with the bang, right, got to start with,

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Speaker 2: you know, with hopefully some new splash of color a

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Speaker 2: little subdued today to reflect the moment. But yeah, look

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Speaker 2: when I first got to seven, I was doing you know,

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Speaker 2: the flashpoint program. So that's that was my sort of

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Speaker 3: But you know, you always sort.

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Speaker 2: Of imagine that you're one day in the future, were

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Speaker 2: and still we're going to have to have to scale back.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you know, you wouldn't sort of sit there

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Speaker 2: just saying is it today?

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Speaker 3: Is it today?

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Speaker 2: Because they've been so strong for so long and still

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Speaker 2: you know, doing an amazing job.

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Speaker 4: Hang on set.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like, you know,

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Speaker 3: are we there? Yeah? Are we there yet? You never

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Speaker 2: And look it's yeah, it's it's amazing to be I

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Speaker 2: suppose in waiting when the time has come that you've

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Speaker 2: now because like you said, there have been other weekend

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Speaker 3: Have probably.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, look, it's just very fortunate that the time

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Speaker 2: have have now taken the step to.

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Speaker 1: Scale in terms of the split. Who gets Barra?

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Speaker 3: Is it hot property.

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Speaker 4: We have.

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 3: He just comes in.

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Speaker 2: I think I saw him just sleeping in his out

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Speaker 2: the front. Actually he does does just out the front there.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no, we love Barra. So there's a tug

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Speaker 2: of war for Barrel all the time. Bara doesn't even

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Speaker 2: know this though, He just sort of floats in the breeze.

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Speaker 4: Does Yeah, one of the bills people absolutely we love

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Speaker 4: we do.

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Speaker 3: So with the extra time that you will now have

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Speaker 3: any plans, well, I'm not haven't got any goal.

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Speaker 1: Taking or bridge ever ever ever ever were cooking maybe.

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Speaker 4: The languages, I believe is your thing I'm saying that

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Speaker 4: because that's mine. It's my new year every year, and

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Speaker 4: so I'm I'm trying to try and push us or

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Speaker 4: just learn Spanish.

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Speaker 3: Learn Spanish.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to play golf with me.

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Speaker 3: I've taken some Spanish lessons and I'm my streak continues

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Speaker 3: on due lingo. So get that because it gets you

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Speaker 3: in it.

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Speaker 4: Every day, and that's what I keep meaning to just

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Speaker 4: I keep falling away.

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Speaker 1: We've got to do that.

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Speaker 3: No, No, You've got to get that streak. It gets

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Speaker 3: very pushy, she chases you.

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Speaker 4: You want to do some writing and and just see

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Speaker 4: how it unfolds. And obviously with a little bit more

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Speaker 4: time off, we can go away more often, which is great,

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Speaker 4: having a having a four day.

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Speaker 1: Your yes, yes, and early in the week too, when

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Speaker 1: you don't have to share places with everyone else going

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Speaker 1: away for the weekend. You've you've worked it out perfectly.

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Speaker 4: We're coming together there pretty happy. Y.

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Speaker 1: I think the outcome of this is you've just made

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Speaker 1: Channel seven News even stronger. Rely now we get all

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Speaker 1: the news with Tim and And from six pm Sunday

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Speaker 1: to Wednesday and Susannah and Rick six pm Thursday to

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Speaker 1: Saturday on Channel seven and tonight is the first official

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Speaker 1: night of the so we we look forward to that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks for coming.

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Speaker 3: In National Day. Yeah, I know, we wish you all

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Speaker 3: the best and good luck with whatever language it is. Oh,

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Speaker 3: very good, very good. I've got white Spanish, Russell, White Spanish. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a beautiful language. There any particular reason. I've spent

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Speaker 3: some time traveling around South America.

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Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, and you want to go back

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Speaker 2: and show.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to. Maybe if I can get a four

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Speaker 3: day week, maybe I can put it to you.

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Speaker 2: Well, once you've got forty years at the top under

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Speaker 2: your belt, Russell, I reckon you can make that Denard

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Speaker 2: way to go