Rod and Gabi VS The Greatest Escape! EPISODE 428

A SUPER SPECIAL episode LIVE from the Jamala Widlife Lodge at Canberra's national Zoo and Aquarium.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A new way to wake up again. Across Canfra on
four point seven moment everybody said, good morning everyone, this
is running gabby A. Welcome to the end of the week. Up.
I don't have my Athenborough voice on them for no
reason today and I won't Gabby, I can't do it.

(00:24):
We are very quiet and we're very privileged to be
coming to you this morning from the Jamal Wildlife Lodge
at the National Zoo and Aquarium and we are on steakhout.
We're waiting for the giraffes to wake up and wherever
you are across the great city in the world, you know,
it's very dark at the moment. However, giraffes, gab you
only sleep for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Half an hour a half hour a day, but like
in micro sleeps across the twenty four hours, so they're
probably awake.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
They're just out of the rain, yeah, a little bit
of drizzle.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
If we just start waving some carrots around, I reckon,
they might just pop their head over the balcony.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
We we can't wait to take you on the virtual
tour of the National Zoo and Aquarium this morning, which
will culminate in at last after years of planning on
an animal deciding the winner of a thing. I mean,
it's happened over the years around the world for a
million different reasons, but today it happens in Canberra with Solo,
the beautiful cheetah, one of the most famous residents of
the National Zoo and Aquarium here in the capitol. However, Darcy,

(01:19):
you're in the studio, so you can probably speak at
a less Attenborough level.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yes, exactly you are. I'm trying to match the tone
of what's going on this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Very well. That's a very good point. That's a great point.
I don't know if you've been lucky enough to visit here, Darcy,
We'll have to bring you down one time because if
you've ever done the drive along Lady Denman Drive when
you go over the Scrivener Dam Bridge, obviously you're concentrating
on the road, but if you were to look to
your left, if you were heading towards the parkway, yeah, correct,

(01:56):
you wouldn't even know it's here unless you are really
looking really closely. However, tucked in between the trees, and
we really do feel like we're in a forested area here,
and with this it is lots almost a rank forest.
You may catch a glimpse of the giraffes. And the
room that I've had the privilege of staying in last
night actually has a balcony and so we will be

(02:18):
able to feed the giraffes from the room. And you
could see it as you're going over the bridge, just
amongst the trees.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Do so?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Did you know that?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
No? He didn't, But I'll next time I'm driving around there,
I'll have a look.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
I suggest you get someone else to drive you can look,
because that bridge is scary to drive.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
You do need to concentrate with that bridge. And of
course below that bridge is what do you call it
where the water overflows from the from the scrivener. It's
got a thing the edge, the edge bit. It's an overflow,
you don't you know? All right, now, let's get to
news here Darcy again, How does at and Burrough do it? Lase,

(03:05):
we learned a week or two ago that after years
of no rain checks, and this this was canned for
a variety of obscure reasons during COVID, but we've seen
them begin to come back. As a young bloke, were
you even across the concept of the rain check not
until this morning. No, it's incredible and so produced. Chelsea's

(03:26):
the same. She hadn't heard about it.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm so young, I never heard of it.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Be so young, it never heard about it, and I'd
forgotten about it. And so what would happen back in
the day is that mum and Dad would do the
Christmas shop in the middle of the year. They then
bang it on rain check and you could go into
your Kmart or your Big w or whatever periodically pay
it off.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Not raincheck, rain check. That's not rain check. That's is
that what you called it back then? That's called oh what.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Do you call it, Chelsea? When you pay something off? Ah,
that's not rain check.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Differently by that's like, okay, tell us about rain check.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
So rain check is when you go into Woolies and
there's all goals and there's a product and it's on
sale and they've sold out, there's none on the shelf,
so you can ask staff for a rain check so
that you can come back when they've restocked the shelf
and you get it at the sale price.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I think you're too young to remember that. I read
it this morning. Gabby's just systematically removing the first ten
years of her memory so that she seems younger to people.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's a great strategy, mate, remember my mum ever doing
a rain check when I was a kid.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
It's back and it's just a lay by though it's
a you knew all that that. Now we reveal your
real age the thing darsie. When it's sold out in
it whether it's a supermarket or one of these biggest stores,
if it's sold out on the shelf, you usually walk
away sad that you've missed out. You can actually go
get a ticket and then as soon it's restocked, even

(05:03):
if it's restocked at full price, you get it at
half price or whatever the discount was.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's actually a really good system, Like I would love
to get in on that.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah. Well, now that people are wising up to the
fact that a it's a thing and b that it's
back post COVID, yes, it is making us today. We
have moved in from the balcony here at the Jamala
Wildlife Lodge at the National Zoo and Aquarium. And whether
or not you've had the privilege of visiting here or
it's on the bucket list, you'd love to come along.

(05:36):
It is something that we are tremendously proud of, as
can bearns. It's ten years since it opened and we
see it on the TV. We see it not just
on Australian travel shows but international ones as well. People
travel from around the world to come here and it
makes headlines for a variety of reasons. And you said
to me the other day they're doing an open day

(05:57):
for the first time.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I was really intrigued by this because for an open day, like,
I'm assuming you get to go around and see all
the rooms. But I don't know because I haven't looked
into it that heavily as much as I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
But who needs to when we've got Willie, marketing boss
for the Jamala Wildlife and Lodge. Well, thank you for
joining us so early. Ron, Good morning. It is very early,
but very exciting. You know, most people, if they were
given the opportunity to to a hotel and I put
quote to any quotation marks up other than that would
go well, well, I'm going to un see your room.
But this is the closest thing to a and I'm

(06:31):
not talking it up because you're here and I'm here.
Anyone who's listened to the show, who's heard me say this,
This is a Disney esque experience that's unique to well
nowhere else in Australia. Rod You've hit on the head.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
I've never heard someone use that analogy that I often use,
in the sense that it's an all inclusive experience from
the moment you arrive, high tea, tours, food and of
course the luxury eighteen African spied suites. From the moment
you arrive to the moment you leave, you're in our
hands and we take very good care of you.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Honestly, you can sit down and you're having a cup
of tea or a bee or whatever and a shark
I get very loud and a shark swims past you.
There's nothing like it. And so it's not going and
having a look. The rooms in themselves are another world,
but it's not just going having a look at a
hotel room. This, once upon a time was one of

(07:20):
the most exotic residences on planet Earth. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (07:24):
You know, our wonderful family run business was purchased in
nineteen ninety eight and with Jamala ten years ago, kicking
off one of the like landmark tourism spaces in Canberra.
You know, for Jamala Open Day, it's a peak behind
the curtain, you'll get an opportunity to see what the
rooms are like. Most importantly, and it's a little fun
thing for me, the staff that we have running it,

(07:45):
or all the directors and so of our lovely education teams.
So you get to meet the people that not only
represent the business really really well, but on the grassroots,
you know, helping you out talking and discussing, answering your questions,
but most importantly allowing you to know that what we
do here as a conservation facility all goes back to
the animals. So whether you're into a guests or an
admission for the General Zoo or Jamila guests, it all

(08:06):
goes back to preservation, conservation and protecting animals all around
the world.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, conservation is the thing, and honestly, in twenty twenty
five and any facility like this, you know needs that
to be the priority. But it goes back to grassroots.
I think before there was even the facility to house
some of these beautiful residents. I know, Richard the owner
would literally travel to other countries to rescue. In the

(08:33):
case of the beautiful lines we saw last.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
Night gaming, you know, we have this beautiful like memory
walk at the back of our zoo, and it really
discusses what the zoo has done not only for animals
that are at recently i UCN list and dangered to
create indang extinction, but you know, back in the day,
especially for circuses and whatnot, those depreciate and disappeared due
to our you know, wonderful legislations building up and policies,

(08:57):
and those animals needed at home. So a lot of
those ex circus animals actually found beautiful, loving, forever homes
right here.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
So if you come and join us at the zoo,
you actually get to see this memory walk.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Will you read the stories about these animals that I
would better reflect them as family members of our history here.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's quite beautiful to read. It's cool, it's amazing.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
It's very cool.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
So Jamala is ten. It's just turned ten years old.
That's why we're here celebrating today, is it. I've noticed
when I walked around the zoo with my daughter a
couple of weeks ago, it looked like there was more
lodges being built.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Is that right? You're veryja.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
There's one that I hadn't seen before, overlooking a bit
of an enclosure, and I was like, what is going
on here.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
We have some new developments being created. We got long
term the best part of this place, Jamala and zoo.
It's ever growing. Let me tell you I can't talk
about now because they'll get rid of me. But at
about twelve months time, the zoo is going to be
completely different. We are the center of adventure. There's going
to be for the kids.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
You won't need to go anywhere. So it's number one place.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
But for Jamala, it's all about accessibility and providing different
groups of people that want to come. More conferences one
or so you are dead right. There is new stuff
coming in. You might even get a peek behind it.
Where we opened the open days fifteenth and the twenty
second of June. You might even be able to outs
of those questions as well.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Trust put Will's job in Jebuary. You haven't heard. I
haven't heard anything about it. Well, it's because we haven't
announced it, Gabby, thanks for bringing it up on live radio.
I really appreciate. I love to test my employment. That's
fine in in some moments it's staybreak versus Sunrise are
two very different things, and so maybe it's wish for thinking,

(10:32):
but I feel daybreak coming and so I know, I
know that my daughter's favorite giraffe is Sky, beautiful Sky,
and we have two giraffs that are that are just
camping out in there. In there, I would call it
a shed. I'm sure it's going to do a name
than that. I mean, it's a tall building. It's like
a hangar, right, like an airline hanger. The giraffs will
come out soon and with some luck we will feed them.

(10:55):
They'll have brecky, and then you'll have brecky. Absolutely, you
didn't do it in the right order, prioritize visual residency.
You're a gentleman for joining us so early. We really
appreciate it. And then we can't wait until eight o'clock
where Solo the Cheetah will be crowning the winner of
a lucky Canbra couple who will be spending the night
in one of these incredible spots here in the Jamala
Wildlife Lodge. We will see you throughout the morning. We'll

(11:18):
try not to make too much of a nuisance of ourselves.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
I won't get you fired. I promise.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's too early to say.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
It's a big promise.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
And we do have neighbors, giraffes and people. And I
don't mind waking the giraffes up, but the people on
vice versa, I'm all about the animals. So daybreak only
a few minutes away, and the animals all of a
sudden will spring to life, and we'll take you throughout
the morning on a virtual tour of the National Zoo

(11:50):
and Aquarium before we go to Darcy's News in just
a sec As food, what are we snackfluences? Here? We
are snackfluencers, deep an eye on the new foods. And
then you know, we have in Memoria moments for the
canceled food.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
And that's what's happened today because there's been an Ardet's
biscuit that has quietly disappeared and people have only just realized.
But that tells you everything you need to know, is
the fact that no one noticed straight away. Also, it
can't be a big favorite.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Is the one I learned of for the first time
the other day? Was the one Chelsea You had sort
of a yogat top on it. Oh no, not the vanata.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
That's a cake.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
But it's something like that Venetian or something, right, if
that's if that's the biscuit. Yes, it's not a problem.
I mean, apparently it's been around for a thousand years.
I learned it for the first time the other day
and didn't care for it.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, I don't know if you'd be caring for this
one either, because it turns out the Arnet's Full of
Fruit has disappeared.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh you did care about this one? That one? Hey,
let me have it and put the glasses on it. Hand.
What I'm just zooming in, Na, No, that sucks for you.
It's not that it's not a problem. What did you
think it was? There's a good one. Oh wasn't it
was not that one?

Speaker 2 (13:03):
No, So the full of Fruit, it's almost like the
full of fruit. It's almost like a pastry with bits
of mushed fruit throughout it.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And anyway, it's gone, Yeah, it's it's It.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Was actually discontinued in twenty twenty one, so it's been
like four years and people are.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Only just realized you said it before. That tells you
all you need to know. And it does happen from
time to time where someone goes, where's that and they go,
we stopped that four years ago, And to be honest
with you, that's thirty years longer than it deserves whoach
He went to a friend's house and they pulled out
a full They pulled out a full of fruit.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
You're like, but just give me an apple?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, I should have stayed home. I was just giving
me be a cool hangout with the mates, doing a
visit to their house, cool play date. Pull out a
full of fruit. Your mum's ruined this for everyone. I'm
sorry if you're hearing this for the first time and going,
you know what, I really struggled to have friends as
a kid, and now to think about it, I was
a full of fruit family kid. I'm so that in
twenty twenty five I've had to deliver this devastating explanation.

(14:05):
But now you know, now you know, all right, and
they're helping by stopping. It's not going to happen. Another
generation is saved.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
They're all going to have friends moving forward.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
All right. While we have daybreak, I still need to
keep a little bit David Attenborough this morning, as we
are at the Jamala Wildlife Lodge and the animals are
waking up. However, the other humans that may have had
the privilege of staying the night are not just here.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, I don't know if I was staying here, which
I was. I would want to be up at the
first sign of the sun because you want to experience
everything you can.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Hear well once. And this is the thing for most
zoos around the world. They will open after the morning
wake up and feeds are most active. And I guess
the benefit of staying the night is that you're right,
you do get to see all that activity. And so
we do have autiful giraffe named Sky poking her head

(15:02):
out of her shed, having a look around the corner,
and we'll come over for a feed soon enough. Around
where's my carrots? We have your carrots if you'd like
to come over here, beautiful giraffe. However, Darcy back in
the studio, what is making news this morning? In on
the schedule.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
So we've got a stress study that's come out and
I almost would say this is as a surprise to
almost nobody on this entire planet. But anyway, said these
Australian researchers have said stress has a bigger impact on
our lives than we previously thought. It can have an
effect on those living with mental health conditions like depression
and anxiety, and these researchers always also say it can

(15:45):
affect the way it controls, like our brain processes dilemmas
and everything like that, and I would almost say that
was pure logic.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
I feel like I could have said that it is
good news, Darcy. If you do get some type of
research grant, you can pretty much just bank it all
and come out with a statement of the obvious and
you'll have change left over. I suppose if the research
tells us that worse than originally thought, and we thought
it was pretty bad, it's pretty bad that perhaps it
highlights how diabolical the impact stress is on us. But

(16:18):
you're right, when stressed, very few of this perform.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Our best work or behave in the best way.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Full circle, does he You're right comments I'm also waving
a carous as I can see beautiful scar the giraffe
poking her head out, looking around and going a little
bit a little bit wet, So maybe she'll come over
to have a carrot at some point in the next
little bit. You, Gabby, have been keeping an eye on

(16:49):
real estate, even though you say that you know you're
not looking to move. When someone offers you a deal
too good to refuse, and you've worked at how to
add four hundred I'll say this with a straight face.
You've worked out how to add four hundred thousand dollars
value to your home before you're listing.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Yeah, because we are doing small renovations to our house,
and so I'm always looking at those DIY how to
add value videos and articlesing the tiles and.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Fixing the kitchens. Four hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yeah, And that's that's why I clicked it.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
And maybe it was a bit of clickbait because I
saw I saw the article you already it said the
simple feature that adds nearly four hundred thousand dollars to
your sale, and I was like, oh my god, it's
like doubling the price.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let's go put some new taps on in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
So I opened it up and it says when selling
an Australian apartment. So I'm already gone because I don't
have an apartment.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh even still, if I can bang four hundred cab apartment.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
That's definitely double the price.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Right, So when trying to sell an Australian apartment, you
can gain an extra three hundred and ninety thousand dollars
if you have a balcony, not something you can add on. No, no,
that is just it's not helpful at all.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
No. No, he's now waking the neighbors up and she
doesn't Ah, don't care. No, well there, everyone's fine. We're
standing on a balcony at the moment.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
So this place is great.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Nos, four hundred k added, No, not at it. It's here,
it's just where it go. And so when you're looking
for tips on how you can increase value, you better
have bought a place with a balcony before the moment
that you're looking into it. And that said, you're not
increasing that place four hundred. It's just worth four hundred
more than the place next door that doesn't have a balcony.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I'm seeing everyone now looking at their place going come
out a balcony.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't think you. I don't think you should, and
I don't think you can.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, no, no, no, Look is that why people claim
a Juliet balcony when it's just a window that opens.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Listen, if you get one of those, you if hang on,
hang on. People are claiming a balcony if they've got
a window.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
That Yeah, when we were looking for places, so if
you've got a floor to ceiling window, that opens and
there's like a little waist high barricade so that you
can't actually walk out the window.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
They call it a Juliette balcony, but you can't go
on to it. But it's a balcony. Yeah, it's some
bad news for people who think that's going to give
an extra four. We are in the giraffe area, Gabby.
We see the giraffes where we're locking eyes, we're looking
at each other. But the carrots, we're trying to lull
them out here. It's a drizzly star.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
You can tell that they want the carrots, but they're
looking at the rain and they're like, you can come
to me, guys.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Well yeah, and we would gladly do that, but I
don't think they're going to. We're going to be greenlit
to do that. And we have learned that their enclosure
is fitted out with floor to ceiling heating. I wouldn't
be leaving so as good as the carrot we have
might look carrot versus Florida heating, floor to ceiling heating
in Canberra. As we are a week out from winter,

(20:04):
carrot losers, welly later, stick around with this this morning.
We'll take you on a virtual tour of one of
the most amazing spots in the world, and we're privileged
to have it here in the greatest city in the world. Darcy. However,
keeping an eye on the news and this morning, mate,
Kmart is changing up store layouts because you and your

(20:24):
mates can't work out how to shop at kmarts.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Well, I actually don't even really know what that means, Rod,
but z, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but Camart is changing
the entire layout of their store and bringing beauty and
clothes to the front, which I already thought they kind
of did, but I don't know. I guess I don't
know because I'm a gen z shopper, everything to suit

(20:48):
you exactly, and they're pushing car seats and bikes to
the back.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, well, how often do you need to buy a
car seat and a bike compared to clothes and makeup?

Speaker 1 (20:59):
You know, the coverage of this news alone is good
for them, because it's not that I need a car
seat anymore. But for appearance of Lily's didn't realize they
sold car seats. The cart seats in there. I mean,
once upon a time came out had everything. You know,
there was white goods, and there was TeV really yeah,
and there was like an automotive department and all that.

(21:20):
Whoa And so as you know, time's going on and
they've obviously, you know, trimmed things back to be a
little bit more targeted.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Baby section is great though.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yes, that's affordable, and so for gen Z's to good
point out to close close for gen zs. As soon
as you walk in, what's do you and your mates?
You can't walk to the back of the store. Is
that what's going on?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, personally, I wouldn't actually really go to Kmart to
find that many clothes.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
I'm sorry, but I great point.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I feel like if I was getting a basic like
a white T shirt or something, that's a great place
to get it. But I'm not going to go and
get a print or something.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know. Sorry, You've got all this disposable income as
gen Z I'm going to Vinny's.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
I'm not going to anywhere special.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
That's how you maintain disposable and that's a smart strategy
from Darcy. Kmart has made the news all week for
a bunch of different reasons. I mean, honestly, a week
doesn't go by. They've always got something.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
And I saw something this morning that was they've got
this particular accessory that's going bananas and it's a carbin.
I never knew I needed one, but now that they've
mentioned that they sell carbins, I know.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
That I need this for my car.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Is this like when you said, hey, everyone, get into
the reject shop. They've got this corn new thing to
hold the bin liner around your bin so it doesn't
fall into the bin, And it was just a rubber band.
So when you say you've just got you've just got
a plastic bag, don't you in the car?

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Is a carbin?

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I'm asking is this carbin just a plastic bag? You know?

Speaker 2 (22:58):
It's actually this like cylindrical black. It looks a lot
nicer than just a plastic bag. And it just hangs
off the back of the seat so the kids can
put stuff in the bin from the back seat.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's like such a slippery slope of just getting absolutely
Fairal well.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, it's funny you say that, because for the last
couple of days I've gotten in my car after it's
been parked in the sun, and I'm like, why does
that car smell like banana? Turns out there was a
banana in the pram bag in the boot. So you
know that's gonna happen if there is a bin.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Gabby turn around the giraffe going straight for me. Okay, now, Darcy,
your timing is perfect here, giraffe. No sky is that sky? Ah?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
No? Actually sky in the Camisi Hi Cami? See aren't
you beautiful?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
And so where about one and a half stories up
from the ground, And beautiful Camisie is walking over to
and her head is the same heart as our head.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Oh my god, what a big head. She's now eating
a carrot from Rod's hands.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
And she's done it. Oh you're so beautiful. Would you
like another word? Yes, she is amazing, stunning. I have
a tiny piece of carrot or and you haven't taken
off my hand. So that's greatly appreciated. What an extraordinary
experience sin scene that we're having play out here before
our very eyes. Darcy will catch back up with you

(24:23):
in half an hour in the news. I will continue
to feed Camisie here at the Jamala Wildlife Lodge. War
an incredible experience. And what a beautiful long blue tongue
you have. Alright, she is getting very well there. This
is a message for all of us, as can Bearrens
despite the drizzle on the rain, get out amongst it.

(24:44):
Camisie's done that. Yeah, well, having an incredible breakfast enticed
by carrots. The price was right, all right, incredible will
I'm still in the heated shew. She's going to miss
outcause we're gonna fed all the carrots to Camsie. We
are standing here, beautiful Camsie, who is an extraordinary giraffe.
We are, of course a meter and a half off

(25:07):
a meter and a half a story and a half
off the ground, so that we are face to face
with Camisie, who's now going back to the warmth of
her shed, realized there was no more carrots once. Yeah,
I think she was here for the carrots. Come for Roden, Gabby,
stay for the carrots, and then the really fast onto
the carrots right now. That's our slogan here and he
won O four point seven And we are at the

(25:27):
Jamala Wildlife Lodge at the National Zoo and Aquarium, and
stick around today. We'll take you for a cool virtual
tour on your way to work or school.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Now the sun's up, we're able to actually move around
the zoo, so we'll be able to do that from
here on out.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Which is really cool and a lucky Candra couple. After
all the kids have played in one different competitions over
the last couple of weeks. One mum and dad pair
will be starting at the Jamala Wildlife Lodge. So that'll
happen when Solo the Cheatah announces the winner. Find out
how that's happening. Just after eight o'clock in the meantime,
How did you pull up after acupunture yesterday?

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I'm okay this morning, but I had an interesting experience
because I went to acupunture and I always fall asleep
in accupunture. It's like my little nap time. When I
go and get needles stuck into me, it's very relaxing.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I just sit down and its nap time movie. It's
nap time.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, But a lot of people don't think that when
you've got needles sticking out of all parts, it's relaxing,
but it actually really is. But I have this weird
thing where she put a needle into my tummy and
my digestive system made this weird noise like a sink emptying.
I was like, oh, like the weirdest noise, and I
was like, maybe that was a coincidence, And then she
was putting all the other needles in, and then she

(26:38):
came back to the belly one and wiggled it.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
And it did it again. And I was like, well,
beer in mind, if you're not familiar with accupuncture, I mean,
these are just wisp thin needles.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
They just going to pressure points to do different things
around the body and try to make different things happen.
And when she wiggled it and it did it again,
I'm like, are you doing that? She goes, yeah, I'm
just bossing your body around. I was like, it was
so odd, but it was also a really stupid thing

(27:10):
that I did. I went in there and I was
chewing chewing gum on the way to the appointment, and
on the way I was like, Okay, don't forget to
spit that out before you go in, because if you're
gonna lie there and nap, you don't want gum sitting
in your mouth.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
No dangerous, but also uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
So I get there and I get in there and
I'm lying there and I'm like, oh, forgot to spit
my gum out. Luckily they lay the bed with that
paper stuff for hygiene reasons, so I'm lying on this
roll of butcher paper really and I was like, well
that'll work. And so I just take this little like sliver,
rip a slipper of paper off from under my bum,

(27:49):
wrap my gum up and put it in my pocket
so that I'm not a doctor's I was still completely
on the paper.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
It was just a little bit off the side.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I thought you were going to say after they took
out what was clearly a pretty high impact needle into
your tummy, that you took out the gum, plugged a
hole and got back on your way, and that you
were glad that you kept you chucked it out so
that ten lucky Canberra kids, not lucky, smart, talented and
skilled Cambra kids have won Roden Gabbies Jamal a Rama

(28:22):
over the last week and with their brothers and sisters
have arrived at the zoo and we crossed to Chelsea
now to find out where you are.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Chelsea, Hello, Roden Gabby.

Speaker 7 (28:31):
We are currently in between I would say, the lions
and the sunbear.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh who is out and about?

Speaker 7 (28:40):
The sunbaar is loving the rain.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
It's funny learn some animals enjoy the rain, some are unaffected,
and others go bug it that not for me, and
so this is like a night at the museum, except
just with the lights on, and so coming into the
zoo before it's actually opened, the kids, I think.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
That some people want to say hi to you. Do
you guys want to say hidher Rod and Gavy here
you go.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh, Hi, you're doing such a good job. Yeah, they're
doing such a great job in doing a polite, loud
but quiet ish high as the animals wake up.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, you don't want to startle a lion. Oh look
as he's waking up.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
My Appenborough voice, you know, has progressively got a little
louder over the last couple of hours. But I'm just
I just feel very privileged to be here. And of
course our national zoo and aquarium opening at a more
sensible time in the morning, where most of us get
to get to come and visit. But the lucky camera
kids who have won their way through to this opportunity
this morning having a ball, and then at eight o'clock
we will meet them and you, Chelsea at Solo the

(29:47):
Cheetahs enclosure, where Solo will announce which kids mum and
dad get to stay at the Jamala Wildlife Lodge, hence
making them the most popular kid in their household.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
How excited are the parents, Chelsea?

Speaker 7 (29:58):
Yeah, I think the parents are more excited because they
are the ones that are going to be winning the
stay here, which is really exciting. I do have one
little girl here as well, who's dressed as a cheetah.
She's like in a form she looks adorable, like cheetah pants,
cheatah bow in her hair.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Super cute.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, if that's one way to try to rig the results,
like Solo to see that and go, will you fall
to the effort?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
That's so true. Yeah, that's a great tactic. Yeah, that's
really smart. They say, if you if you dress like
one of the characters at Disneyland and they see you,
you get all the attention. And so that's really what
what's that little girl's name, Chelsea? Do you know you
watch you ask her? My name is Salia? Zalia? Salia

(30:42):
has cracked the co very smart. We don't know she's
also here? Do you want to stay? Hi? What's your name?
Hiv Nevada and Zalia? Yes, they played. They did great
teamwork earlier this week. Well well done, because if Solo
sees that, I feel like that could help. That could
really sway your chance. Yes to you yesterday, Gabie. I

(31:09):
will not tip the Dolphins again. They've just done a
number on me all year. Did they win like by
a thousand points? Starts forty four to eight? I think
I mean the thousand forty four eight. It's a similar
resons just laughable? Does he? When was the last time
you came to the fantastic National Zoo and Aquarium where

(31:30):
you'll find us this morning. I've never been too long.
You're going back to when you're a kid.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
I've been to the Melbourne Zoo growing up there, but
and that's that's last week day. But I would also
love to go there before I leave.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yes, you're right here, moving to South America in a
few months, okay, so you need to get here pronto.
Keeper Mikayla is here with us, and Mikayla we are standing.
This is really very rare in Australia these days. After
growing up at a time that you could look up
if you are on a bushwalk and see koalas, it
doesn't work like that. Now we're surrounded by koalas. What
are the beautiful koalas that we have with us here

(32:10):
this morning?

Speaker 8 (32:11):
So we've got Brinda, Bella and Kira here and then
the Magie just on the other side there.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
So Imagie's sitting out in the rain looking very sad.
But you said that this is what they would do
in the wild, so this is normal behavior.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 8 (32:23):
So they would pretty much curl off injo a ball
like she's doing and just let the rain hit her fur.
They've got really good insulations so she can't really feel
the cold too much at the moment.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Now, anyone obviously who can't see this is wondering why
is one in the rain and what are the other
two doing? Because wherever you are in Canbra, you're in
the rain. If you're outside, however, it's camera and so
it does get icy. And so I don't think there's
really too many of the residents here at the zoo
that don't have a heated area that they can retreat to. Yeah,
that's it.

Speaker 8 (32:51):
So the koalas, despite having really incredible insulation, they also
get heating as well, so they're very spoilt.

Speaker 5 (32:57):
I love that we should be spoiling the animal.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
They're so cute.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
How old are these koalas? Because that one looks like
it could be potentially a little baby.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
She is, So she's our most recent koala from our
mum and dad, Bailey and Matilda. So she's getting closer
to two this year, so she's about a year and
a half at the moment. Namagie is the oldest and
she's about five.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Now and Kira is four. How endangered are koalas in Australia?
How important are the programs that you have here and
really around the country when it comes to rescuing one
of our favorite low colls.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
So they are classified as endangered that got changed in
twenty twenty two, so we definitely have like a decreasing
population unfortunately, so they don't really have an exact number
of how many are left.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's pretty broad. But yeah, they're not doing too well.

Speaker 8 (33:48):
With all the fires and the global warming and that
kind of thing, so they faced a lot of natural disasters.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
So do you have a breeding program here, big wals
at Zoom, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 (33:57):
So Mum and Dad is Bailey, Matilda and they've had
the three sisters that we've got here, so we've had
Brenda Bella was the very last one.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Can you only have one k a while.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Or at a time, Like I don't mate, Mikayla over
to you.

Speaker 8 (34:14):
No, so they do have the ability to have two
at a time, so she can have twins, but it's
pretty rare so they don't have a high success rate.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
When they do have twins.

Speaker 8 (34:25):
They usually just have one and then once that one's
waned and on their way, they can have another.

Speaker 7 (34:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Incredible, keep Mikayla, you and your team do the most
amazing job here. We feel very privileged to be standing
right next to them. And of course this is an
experience that all of us as Canberrans, can can come
and participate in, and it is interesting. On a cool,
drizzly morning, it's beautiful, it's magical here on days like this,
are they more active than perhaps on what we would

(34:53):
think of as a stereotypical, bloody hot Australian day.

Speaker 8 (34:56):
I would say a lot more animals do like it
when it's a little bit cooler and ay sometimes some
of them get out and about because it's not so
it's not so miserable and hot to move around.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
I don't like moving when it's hot.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
So good point, very good boy.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
The same as us. Thank you so much for the
time this morning. Thank you again for the work that
you're doing here, and these koala is very active. Then again,
some eucalyps to wake up too. Probably you'll get you
moving around, but put you to sleep. Gabbie is right,
there is one sad k in the rains. Maybe that's
that's a happy therapeutic. I do like the sound of
the rain on a tin roof exactly. We are literally
under a tin re beautiful. We are taking a little

(35:33):
bit of cover from the rain. It is coming down
this morning. But it's a magical place to be here
at the National Zoo and Aquarium.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
It's not something that I have ever thought of doing,
going to the zoo in the rain, Like it's not
top of mind when it's miserable weather, but it is stunny.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I've said this in the past selfishly, I'm reticent to
reveal cool things. Yeah, because because everyone's selfish and I
just and I just wanted myself. But here is here
is the canbra hack of the day perhaps the year.
When it is raining. Obviously it will be a little
quieter wherever you go. And we have the privilege of

(36:11):
being here before the zoo is officially open. But it
really is something very very special.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
It's beautiful and all the kids were in ponchos, you
got umbrellas like everyone's protected and ready to go.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Night at the museum come to life here with the
countdown to the celebration ten years of Jamala Wildlife Zoo Resort.
One of the lucky Camebra kids who've won their way
through here today. They've won cool prizes across the week
and of course this morning's experience. But their parents, if
things go their way, they are because Solo the Cheatable
Crown a winner and their parents get to spend the

(36:42):
night the Jamala Wildlife lotch which is really really cool.
We're standing here when you have a look around the
world at the great zoos, the time and effort that
goes into the viewing platforms and the decks and these
sorts of things. And so we are up amongst the
tree We're in the tree tops, yes, but we are
I line level with the koalas who have Oh I

(37:06):
was going to say, we have no interest in this
because they're focusing on the eucalypse. But this little fellow
is having a look at us now.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
The little baby koala is just taking a chomp and
then staring us down while eating the leaves to be like,
what are you guys doing here?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Incredible? Stay safe on the roads. Obviously it's a little
bit wet. Yesterday as it began to drizzle, I was
coming back into town on the Barton and it's funny,
I'd never thought about it until the moment that I
went dial. And there's only one number that you hit
three times and then hit dial. Well, you can do

(37:39):
that and it will through triple triple zero. For the
first time in my life, I had to call triple zero. Well,
it was an emergency, and so I was driving along
and I don't know how I didn't see it happen
while old mate was driving in front of me, but
I just all of a sudden saw him on the
side of the road, flames billowing out, wow, from underneath

(37:59):
his camp van, one of these RVs, these big old RVs,
And so it was first on the scene. So I
pulled over and jumped out, and then a number of
a couple of other cars pulled out. Can't catch a light,
Well I don't, I don't know. I don't know, I
don't know. This is the thing. If you ever see
someone on the side of the road with the bondard up,
what do you do. Well, I don't stop because there
because there's nothing you can do. I can't help, and

(38:21):
so I jump out. And it's not until I jump
out I go, what do you plan on doing here? Mate?
If you've got a fire blanket, I don't have a
fire blanket, I don't have a fire extinguisher. I have
no knowledge of how cars work. And in the movies,
this is about to explode.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
You've got to make sure everyone's safe.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Well, I was the first there, so I felt like
I should do something moral support, keep it up, mate,
you know, I don't know anyway. So this poor fellow,
he's he's got the world's smallest fire extinguisher. That said,
those tiny fire extinguishes, they do a job, not enough
of a job. And the flames kept coming. And then
I swim climb back in the car, and so I'm saying,
don't get him back in the car? Mate, what are
you doing? And I wouldn't want to get too close obvious,

(38:58):
No other other blokes were just you know, standing standing
much closer. He jumps out of the car with a
water bottle and starts trying to splash the water from
the from the drink. It's a high if the if
the fire extinguishes, it was really not going to end.
But desperate, desperate times. So I shout to everyone right
as anyone called triple O. And everyone's looking at me

(39:19):
like someone should do that. So all of a sudden
it was my time. So I called triple O. They go, right,
fire or police? I go both? But I said both right,
like an idiot, Well let's start with police. They'll take
it from there and then we'll let the firees know
while you're talking to the police, right, they must have

(39:41):
a central system. They put it in there everyone can
say sure. So I'm talking to them and I just
you know, they're asking is there anyone inside the van?
And I'm like, well, I don't know, but I don't
think so, No, there's not shouting at these guys get
back from the van, because of course, all I know
is what happens the movies. Now they've exposed. Yeah, but

(40:01):
they don't build cars like that. I've researched subsequently. I
don't trust one hundred percent that a car on fire
isn't going to explode. My understanding, you see, that's what
I think, But it doesn't work like that apparently, So
it's unlikely, and everyone else seemed comfortable. I have to
be standing around that. So anyway, was on the line
with the coppers for a little while, and then the

(40:23):
fire trucks arrived and did their thing, and yeah, yeah,
so for a situation, I knew nothing about how to
manage and contributed very little. She gets your heart rate up.
I bet I've called triple zero before. There you got
an experience. Yeah. Well it's never a good reason, isn't it.
And so if you leave a situation where you've called

(40:43):
triple zero, and the end of the story is everyone
was all right, And I feel for this poor fellow.
I don't know who he was. I mean, he was
just he was just buy himself in an RV. And
so you begin to think, driving away, going what's his story?
You know, it's not the time to start asking him
questions for crying no, but I just began to think
he probably I imagined he was a single who was
an older guy, single bloke who knows he's a great

(41:05):
nomads doing the tour by himself around his probably all
his stuff's in there. And so the part where you're
desperately trying to put out the fire, because that's all
that you possess. Yeah, right, with a water bottle or
whatever the hell, And I'm going to get away from there.
You can't stop it, mate, And he's looking at me like, well,
I'm going to at least try. It was, yeah, it was.
It was sad for that bloke. But he's all right
from certainly what I saw. And he was out and

(41:26):
he was fighting it, so he wasn't suffering from smoke
in elation. But it was a dangerous situation because it
ended up being like about ten of us on the
side of the road. This is one hundred k zone
and well done to all the cars that absolutely slowed down.
It's a lot of smoke everywhere, so that's pretty obvious
and gave us a wide berth. But it's obvious but true.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Some drivers stood.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Don't see that the smoke FLOORA no, we didn't do that,
so it was okay, But that was a scene yesterday.
Well done to everyone who jumped out and had to help. Well,
this is the thing. There wasn't a whole lot we
could do until the fire has got there. Well down
to the fires. They responded really quickly too. Right now
we are alive from the National Zoo and acquarrum. We've
made it to the cheetah enclosure on what is beautiful, magical,

(42:09):
wet morning, like we're in a rainforest. Honestly, it feels
like guests like what cheaterahs might normally do. The difference
today is that our cheetah will be crowning a winner
of Roden Gabies Jamala rama after two weeks of playing.
A bunch of camera kids are just making their way
over here, and we'll do that after eight o'clock. If
like us, you love seeing animals decide things. When that
crocodile decided the election by eating Peter Dutton, people said, oh,

(42:34):
the crocodiles chosen Peter Dutton. I said, I don't think
so anything. It works like that. So that was one
of the more confusing ones. Give you more straightforward, Yeah,
that's true. The famous octopus that chose all those World
Cup winners. It's happened over the years, and at last
Canberra joins the ranks of great cities that have had
amazing animals choose important things, and that's happening just after

(42:54):
eight o'clock. However, we've spoken from time to time that
there is a semi recur segment called Gabby's unpopular opinion.
Most broadcasters won't bring this to the radio. If someone
has an unpopular opinion, they're directed to keep that to themselves.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Well, I'm bringing it, and maybe unpopular, but it's not
going to be life changing. You don't have to follow
this advice if you don't want to, but give it
a crack, because don't knock it till you try it. Right,
in my thirty seven years of life, I have just
discovered that I prefer cold toast.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Oh no, oh, yes, that is unpopular.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
So I cook the toast and then I let it
cool before I put the toppings on, and then the
butter doesn't melt and you can actually enjoy the flavors
of everything rather than it dripping off.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
And it is so much better.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
It must be a very light toast, very lightly toasted.
No no, no, it's toasted toasted. Then when you buy it,
does it not explode into dust? Essentially bad toasted?

Speaker 5 (43:57):
What are we going like?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Dark brown? No?

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Yes, yes, no, it's just like it's a nice caramel brown.
It sounds like I'm still got a little bit of
fluff in the middle.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
All right, Well, no one's getting around that. You're absolutely right,
that is and this is the end of another Gaby's
unpopular opinion. All the lucky camera kids who have won
their way through to Roden gave hees Jamala Ramafinal. The
winner will be crowned by Solo, the beautiful cheat, the

(44:28):
world's famous cheating because so many people will visit here
and have an experience with Solo, and every second can
bearan if you talk about Solo goes o this and
they pull their phone out and photo of themselves with Solo.
Keeper Serena is responsible for taking care of Solo. Thank
you so much for the time and today Serena and
making history in that Solo is going to crown a
winn in just a moment. Has slowly done anything like

(44:50):
this before. Look, he's at his times.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
You know, he's a little bit famous.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
So he's been on the news and on the radio
plenty of times before. But I don't think he's had
to pick a plate.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
So we'll see today.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Don't seem confident. Do you think he's going to pick
a play?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Look? I do.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
He might just take a minute to come out, but
I think we should be right. He's definitely going to
pick a plate.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
What does Solo go in the rain. Yes, we've met
a lot of animals this morning, and some love it. Well.
We had an experience with one of the most handsome
giraffes we've ever seen while his mate Sky looked at
the door and when I'm not coming out of there.
So not all the animals are into the rain, No,
they're not.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Look Solo being cat, he sort of melts in water,
so he often likes to spend a little bit more
time in his den and in the warmth. But he
is a camera boy, so he's born and raised here,
so he's pretty used to this.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
You're a camera girl. You grew up here and ended
up or started out by being a volunteer here. And
we've got a bunch of kids over here. They their
imagination will be captured by this experience this morning. If
you're in the car, kids and you're listening to this,
and you're going, how do I get to work at
the zoo? Can it be as easy as starting as
a volunteer. Absolutely? So.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
I started as a volunteer probably back in twenty sixteen
when I was doing my Bachelor of Zoology, and then
a couple of years later they saw my potential and
pretty much put me straight onto cheetahs, which is absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
What do you learn doing a Bachelor of zoology Is
it kind of like vet veterinarian a little bit.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
It's more broad, so you learn all the history and
everything about animals that you need to know as a
base level, and then you can sort of apply that
in like science fields and things like that as well.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
So you're in charge of the bears as well. Gabby
Is spent the night last night in one of the
incredible Jamala Wildlife Lodge spots, sleeping next to the sun bear.
Beautiful sun bear. Oh the way he was making his bed,
it was so cool. So Gabby wants to cuddle the
sun bear, and I imagine you get up close and
you're no cuddling any of these beautiful lives.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
No, definitely no cuddling the sun bears. Unfortunately, Taki is
a little bit more hands off. He doesn't really like
being touched. But Okay loves her backscratches. She's got a
personal little backscratch, so we get a little backscratch of
the mesh and Jill loves it, so she's a little
bit more friendly. But Taky very much.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I got up to the glass, and he was right
there on his bed, right on the other side of
the glass, and.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
I was looking at the claws and I was like, yeah,
you look cudly, but they could do some dab the
clause they're there to help climb trees.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Yes, yes, but they are also the smallest but the
strongest best species, so pound to pounds, they'd be stronger than.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Yeah, tuddles, that's incredible that little bear. If you were
to size them up to a polar bear, they'd be stronger. Wow,
that's what you learned by studying zoology. All right, incredible,
Thank you for your help today. I know we need
to prepare the plates. They will have randomized numbers. Those
numbers will correspond with a lucky drawer that the kids

(47:43):
are pulling out of a barrel right now. And then
whichever number plate solo, the cheaty goes to that kid
with that number's parents get to stay at the Jamala
Wildlife Lodge. Good news coming up.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
There gets your excited. Parents are nervous and I love it.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Hey, kids, did everyone wear gum boots? We were told
to and we didn't, So have we all learned a lesson? Yes?
Kids learning lessons at the national. Very good. Right now,
we have made it through to the final moment of
Rod and Gabby's Jamala Rama.

Speaker 5 (48:19):
I'm really nervous.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
They're putting out the plates with the food in the
cheater enclosure as we speak, and then Solo is going
to come out and pick one.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
All right, Solo the Cheater is going to be ready.
All the camera kids that have won their way through
to the final have brought their parents and their brothers
and sisters. Kids. Are you already? Are your feet all wet?
Are you still having fun this morning? Kids in camera?
But whoever wins you will be even better, certainly with

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your parents, because this is going to be incredible. Chelsea
producers in the most incredible job. Her jeans are wet
to the knee. What absorbent jeans you're wearing today, Kally? Okay,
great commitment from everybody. Now keep a serena. Are you
ready out there? All right? Thank you so much that
we're going to release Cheater In jest that we're going
to release Solo the Cheater in just a second. If

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you are just joining us, Solo will have the choice
of eight different plates. There are meals under each one.
The plates are numbered. Does everyone have their number alrighty,
all right, keep a serena, release the cheeta. Okay, Now,
this might not be as fast as process as you

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would normally think about with the cheater. Cheater is the
fastest land animal.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
But when it's raining and there's a heater in the enclosure,
that's all true.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Why would you come run it out?

Speaker 1 (49:42):
That's exactly no. You'd run real fast and eat as
much as you could and run back right. Oh, here
comes solo, all right, one. Oh, he's so beautiful. He's running,
he's running coming. Maybe the part where I'm shouting isn't helping, okay,
so I'll just quieten down. Oh, look, all right, he's coming.
All right, he's so majestic. Look at that beaut beautiful solo.
The shooter is keeping an eye on things, obviously at

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this time of the morning, Solo not used to this
type or size of audience, and wisely, as they would
in the savannah, taking a look left right over his shoulder,
getting closer to the numbers, and just getting a little
bit of extra shelter before having a sniff and a
look and a number three?

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Number three?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
What's your name? Hod? Well done, Cody, When did you win?
During the week.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Was it last week?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Tuesday? Tuesday? Well done, Cody. You I remember you called
through and you asked if your brother could help out,
and you guys worked as a team. Is that right?
All right? Hey? Is your brother here?

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (50:48):
What's your brother's name again? Ethan? Come over here, Ethan,
Come closer now, you Ethan. I can tell you're super
smart before you start. What are you wearing on your feet?

Speaker 5 (50:59):
Very smart?

Speaker 1 (51:00):
We were all told, we were told to do that
and we didn't. Well done. And I know that you're
obviously a fan of the zoo because they are camo
gum boots, so you know no one can see you
if you want to hide out here. Boys, Well done.
Your mum and dad get to stay at the Jamala
Wildlife Lodge for a night and the means that you
guys get free pizza on us for the night. Congratulations.

(51:21):
You're happy about that?

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, And you get to come to the zoo all year,
as to all of the kids here, because you've all
got that year long membership, so you can come back
and check it out if it's raining, if it's not raining,
whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Well done, boys, excellent work, so very good. Hey, kids,
have you had fun anyway, even though your cheetah didn't
choose your number. Yeah, the kids so mind. It's the
parents it's disappointed. Is everyone going to get to school
on time and then I'm going to be late taking
the day off? Yeah? I can't. I can't authorize that
at all. I'm going to hear principles. The number of

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kids here, we'll write some notes. I think you would
come nearly every court, every school in the capitol. All right.
Oh and look at that beautiful cheatah just behind you there, kids,
he is something special and standing in the rain. And
you said the word before, Gabby Majestic. It's a real
privilege to get to visit some of the residents that
we have here at our National Zoo and Aquarium, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Yeah, They're all so stunning in their own little ways.
My favorites a Hyaena still, but I do love Solo's
a beautiful Solo is incredible.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
All right, Thank you keeping serena incredible job out there
standing in the rain while the rest of us are
ducking back undercover. Melody, you are one of our first winners.
I remember your mates. Would they be in the car
now going to school? Have you got any shout outs.

Speaker 7 (52:37):
Yeah, I've got my best for My bestie is having
her birthday today.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Oh what's your bestie's name? Addie? Happy birthday Addie? How
old the kids in your year? How old is Addie
going to be?

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Eight?

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Eight? Happy eighth birthday, Addie. On the way to school?
You going to school today? You're hanging out here? Nope?

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Did you have a lunch chorder? That had to be
care because you're not going to school anymore. What did
you have on your lunch order?

Speaker 7 (53:04):
An at boiled egg, three party pies, chocolate milk and
ice cream.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
I want for lunch now? It sounds so good. You'd
like to get mum to get you that anyway. I
didn't know that I wanted to boil the egg and
three party pies, but I do know. Addie. Thanks for
coming and hanging out today. Happy birthday to your mate
eight years old today. You have a great day. All right.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
So we've got a news story here from Roden Gabby
that's talking about low cost traveling in Europe and the
whole thing, the whole idea is that it's standing only
planes and they really wanted to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Okay, yeah, you're here we're here live from the National
Zoo and Aquarium, and look, you're right, it is something
that broke overnight and people are saying, hey, this is
being received. It's a divisive issue, and I'm surprised to
hear that it's not just outrage entirely. The news is

(54:07):
that this isn't something that's you know, maybe airlines will
be adopting, and that we don't know which airlines specifically
just yet. I think the yellow one in America that
their planes or their planes are yellow, will be adopting
seats and they're not even seats essentially, they're dividers that
you will stand next to for the duration of the flight.
Is that correct? Yes, so exactly.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
I think it's Ryanair, I believe is the budget carry,
the budget carrier. They're proposing this type of seat that
actually looks like a roller coaster ride, Like it looks
like you'd be sitting on a roller coaster. It looks
absolutely awful.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Surfing while you're up there no bus, sf're sitting and
holding on to anything.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
There's like, this is so specific and it's going to
be really random to explain. But you know, when you're
like waiting and you like there's those public spaces where
you can like sli lightly lean over. It's not like
you're sitting, but you're also not standing. It's like that
weird midway leaning.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
And so you know when you're on a train and
you're exhausted and at the end of the day and
all the seats lean that you'll do the poling. And
essentially it's a padded pole in and I think they're obliged,
you know, if there is turbulence to have something you
could strap into. But I've had a look at it
and it is essentially it's a it's a wide, flat
pole slash seat that is with a strap. Yeah, you

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can't sit down on it though, so you know the
use of the word seat is very inaccurate.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
So we now have to think about comfortable footwear to
wear on a plane, well just appearing to go in
your havees.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
You won't be doing like an international jaunt, but certainly
a Canberra Sydney and by the way, none of the
none of the airlines, so you know Virgin or Quantus
in Australia. Well specifically when you look at what is
the one of the busier shortest routes, it's ours, So
we would be a prime candidate. So no one said it,

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but I can guarran Dante's looking. Of course it's looking.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
I don't think I would want to do that.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Well, personally, that's the beauty of Sydney. His drive mate,
And to be honest with you, train imagine the irony.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Do you get the train and get to see it
rather than fly and have to stand the train and
stuck having this? You buy a seat the xbot. You
gotta you're right, you sit down. Gabbie's not going to stand.
It's over, mate, You're not going to stand for this,
and she's not going to stand on any planes. That's
that's I thought it was a poorly timed April fool's joke.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
No, it's a real thing and it's going to happen.
Was standing next to where the Cheetah solo did the
big run and decide of you know who the winner
was in our Roden Gabies Jamala Rama competition, and I
was speaking of one of the keepers whose name is Connor,
and he said Jackie's umbrella could have been a problem,

(56:55):
And I said, what do you mean? And he goes,
Jackie's umbrella is zebra print. Apparently if Solos saw it,
Solo would have abandoned the whole game and given Jackie's
umbrella the I'm looking at you eyes. Oh no, well,
it's just instinct. Absolutely when you're out in the wild,
that's what you'd be looking for. Yeah. Anyway, luckily the

(57:22):
eyes were on the prize, Solo the Cheatah, thank you
to the incredible team here, not just at the National
Zoo and Aquarium, but the Jamala Wildlife Lodge. Ten years
in camera and it's just been another reason that people
have traveled from around the world to come here and
visit Canberra. Our tourism has never been able to who
it is at the moment.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
Yeah, we found that just earlier this morning.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
They're doing open days so you can actually come and
check out the rooms at Jamal or if you've never
been able to experience that before, which is so cool.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
I and all of this, you know, stayed in place,
but I've never stayed somewhere where you walk into the
room and as it's so unique that you go who well,
and so if you are lucky enough to get onto
the list for the open day and at the end
of the day, numbers are capted on everything, aren't they Yeah,
but if you can have a squeeze, it'll be worth

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it'll be a real treat. Okay, weekend, we're just about there.
Hopefully this weekend you don't have to help them make
move house, because that was last weekend for you, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Yeah, last weekend I helped my sister move house, and
I brought the work van so that we could put
all the big stuff in and take it out. That's
why I had to help, because it has to be,
you know, an employee that drives the van.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Of course, you can't just chuck the keys for the
workman to your sister. Well, I wanted to chuck it
to my husband so that he could do the heavy lifting.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Anyway, manage to get the baby baby sat for a
couple of hours so that he could come and help
with the heavy lifting.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
You're driving the van.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
I was driving the van and we get to my
sister's new house and we're halfway in the door, which
was the back door into the laundry with the washing machine,
and my sister just goes, oh, no, like what what's wrong?

Speaker 5 (59:00):
She goes, no, the washing machine's not gonna fit. It's like, okay,
so what are we doing. She's like, I don't know.
I'm making Hey, I'm halfway up the stairs, Like, what.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Do you want to do with this thing? We need people,
let's go. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know what to do with it? Could do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (59:13):
You could lift it up on top of this. I'm like, no,
that's not where we're going. What are we doing anyway?
So we ended up having to take it back down
the stairs and out to the shed. And it wasn't
until the next day she sends me a photo of
the washing machine in the slot. I'm like, how did
we mismanage that so much? Like it actually fit? What
were you talking about?

Speaker 1 (59:30):
No?

Speaker 2 (59:30):
No, no, no, had to buy a new one off marketplace.
Thank god did not give me the call up. The
guy actually delivered it when she bought it off marketplace,
which is unheard of.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Wow, but never help your sister move house. That doesn't
help anyone move. But you know you can. You can
take him out to dinner, you can buy him the cart,
and you can do a million things to prove that
you're a good brother. Sister. Mate weaving house, don't move house,
no one of them.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
No, no, no, no, make sure they've done the measurements.
If you are helping.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Oh, you can do all the measurements you'll like if
you can successfully move house and between your fridge and
any other giant you know, white good thing, it all
fits into the new place. And even then even then
you go, you know what, we didn't have to go
and get a new anything to fit in there. You
know that fridge has got an extra spare foot either
side of it because the gap in the kitchen for whatever,

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the last fridge in there was just some giant three
door monolith. Nothing ever fits perfectly, and it's always.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
The worse when it's too small for the spot, though,
because then you feel like you have to buy something
that's bigger to fit, like you feel like it's wasted
space and missed opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Yeah, you can overcome that. And I know that because
I had had two smaller fridges in giant spaces. I
think I've ever had a fridge that fit to an hour.
Very lucky to we have fridge because you built the house.
We built, so you built otherwise you're right, Okay, so
Gabe's falling over the garden here at the Zuoso. We'll
we'll wrap this thing up here. The rock is not stable,

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but I went to stand up. Meant to be in
the garden. Mate, I'm playing the rock. Okay, more music
for your work today, it's coming up. And thanks for
hanging out this morning. This week's been a really fun week.
And next week, perhaps it's hard to believe, because this
has been the biggest week, certainly this year, perhaps even bigger.
We are going to give you a brand new card

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that's next week. Have a great weekend. We'll catch it then.
Oh bye,