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Patsy, how was your week off? What did you get up to, mate? We flew up to Sydney, had the most sensational long weekend up there. The minute you land, the weather was incredible. So you were there grand final weekend? Yeah, yeah. Obviously you hate footy. We fled Victoria. You remember on that Thursday show when we were going, you don't want any a footy fan? I fight you. No one likes it harder than me. I did not. No one likes it more than me. We put those flights to get out of the city as soon as everyone starts arriving. The airport must have been so quiet going out of Melbourne. No one's actually going that way. As the country's coming into it. It's going against the time. No, it was funny because we had to be back at the hotel by like 1 or 1230 so Chris could sit in front of the telly and watch the TV. And Audrey and I thought, oh no, we're going to go out. But the weather was great. It was like 30, 31, sunshine. Now, tell me this, Pat, and be honest, right? And some of this might not realise this. I'm shown news, but from January next year, we're going live into Sydney and all of Australia in the morning, right? So very, very exciting times. Were you also scoping out ahead of our, you know, us being on air in Sydney.

Yeah.

Of course I was. That sent me a very bad photo, right, of Sydney Harbour Bridge. And, well, a third of it was Sydney Harbour Bridge. Two thirds of it was a church. And at first, I didn't know whether she'd had a conversion. I was like, what have we seen here? She's found the Lord. And she was like, it's just hit me, what's happening?

Yes.

It was like, what have we seen here? She's found the Lord. And she was like, it's just hit me. What's happening? It was like, it's like she heard me two months ago say we're going national. And then she got to Sydney, saw the harbour bridge, went, oh, he means here. Sydney in South Wales. Oh, that's the place with the bridge. I said to Pat go into that church and say a prayer for us.

It's a lot of upset Jonesy Amanda fans.

Light a candle.

Light a candle for the show.

This is the enormity.

When we landed, I thought, hang on, we're actually doing this.

That's right.

Yeah, we are doing this.

And it's not until you sort of engulfed in the city and how massive it is.

And it's such a beautiful place. But yeah, went to the theatre there and saw Back to the Future, the musical, which was out of this world. And the highlight at the end, which I didn't know was going to happen, co-creator Bob Gale. Oh, wow. He's a co-writer. Yeah, with Robert Zemeckis. Yes, came out on stage.

He was there for, like, the first few performances and spoke for like 10 minutes.

Oh, wow.

Just insane.

If you get a chance, get up there and see it.

It is brilliant at the lyric theatre.

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