Sydney's Royal Easter Show starts tomorrow when the country comes to the city. It's five days full of animals, a new black-smiths exhibit and the return of some fan favourites.
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00:00Hi, welcome to the Sydney Royal Easter Show. We've had a bit of a sneak peek today. It's
00:07incredible as always. But we started the day at Jamison Station. This is a new thing, right,
00:12and where you can get your hands dirty. So you can do blacksmithing, you can milk a cow,
00:16you can pan for gold, you can hug and cuddle some beautiful baby goats. The goats were just so cute
00:23today. I almost died. And the Country Hour will be broadcasting from there tomorrow. So we'd love
00:29you to come and say hello. It's our 80th anniversary year of the Country Hour, the longest running
00:34radio program in the Southern Hemisphere. And we love agriculture, we love animals. Now
00:39the other thing that's really different this year is the Canadian logging team. Those guys
00:43are crazy. We have a really huge tradition of logging in Australia. And there's an incredible
00:50competition, a global competition around that. But these guys do log rolling as well as axe
00:56throwing. And it just strikes me as incredibly dangerous. We met one of the young female members
01:01of their team. That's Melissa Dimitri from Connecticut. Freshman year in high school, I joined
01:06the Womogo Timber Team. And ever since then, I loved it. I did it in college. And then after in college,
01:14that's actually how I found out about the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show. So as soon as I graduated,
01:19I went to University of New Hampshire. As soon as I graduated that, I started doing the shows and I absolutely loved it.
01:25Went down to the arena after that and spent some time watching the incredible teams in terms of the stunt
01:32machines, the street performers. It's really an outstanding exhibition. The fireworks can't be missed.
01:39But we also caught up with Dave Manchon from Rooftop Express. Now he's been here before a few times.
01:44He has an incredible radio show, really. And he's also got a herd of bison. And last year I saw this herd.
01:50They've got bigger. And so watching them parade, stampede, really, around the arena is one of the highlights
01:57of the show. If you've watched Yellowstone, you will want to see that herd of bison around the arena.
02:03And the other thing that we want to mark this year is the 125th anniversary of the district exhibits.
02:09Now, the district exhibits is that competition in the food dome. There are big displays featuring regions
02:15all around New South Wales. And this has been a really outstanding competition over the years.
02:20You want to have a close look at the vegetables that are on produce. There's tens of thousands of vegetables.
02:26250 people involved in setting up those exhibitions. And they're judged on the food.
02:32And there's stuff there that you won't ever see in a supermarket. So there's huge pumpkins,
02:38huge watermelons, huge cucumbers, the kind of stuff that they used to feed livestock and was critical
02:44in the early days of the colony. So it's time to reflect on the incredible history of the district
02:50exhibits. 125 years this year is what they're marking. And I think the other thing to remember
02:57about the Sydney Royal is to show, we love the Agside. This is a unique show for its agricultural
03:02participation. One of the biggest and the best in the world, I'm told. So we'll see you
03:07at the Sydney Royal Easter show this year, starting tomorrow.