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"Let's Unpack that" podcast is back in 2022! In this first episode of 2022 our students talk about how they feel being back in the big social environment.    Let us know how we did in this episode so we can improve the podcast: https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_erjGYPLLxG9kN3U

Welcome to episode 6 of Let's Unpack that! - a podcast in partnership with @h.squad_swinburne and Student Engagement.  Drinking has become a part of many uni students' social life. Do you ever want to stop drinking but are worried it will affect your social life? In this episode, Anna, Zoe and Jessi share how to deal with that feeling, say "no" when needed and put your health first.  Let us know how helpful this episode was by completing this 1-min survey so we can improve our content for the next one :)  https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8DkEnkFIqNLT89M   Useful resources:  Hello Sunday Morning | Change Your Relationship with Alcohol  Untoxicated (Booze-Free Fun and Friendship)  Home | Sober Mates  Illicit drug use - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (aihw.gov.au)  Party drugs | healthdirect  Alcohol & Drugs Info - for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders | headspace  headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation

Welcome to the fifth episode of a NEW podcast in partnership with @h.squad_swinburne and Student Engagement - Let's Unpack that! We know it has been tough for everyone during the last 18 months. In this episode, let's unpack self-care with Anna, Jemma and Zoe and figure out how we could look after ourselves in lockdown.  Let us know how helpful this episode was by completing this 1-min survey so we can improve our content for the next one :) https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Gc9F99QBfhikRg

Where are all the Lego fans at?  Did you know that our fellow Swinburne student @miller.keys was a contestant on Australian all-time favourite show Lego Master 2019 and his team came third?!! Listen to this episode to hear all about his passion for Lego, behind-the-scenes stories from the show and his life now as an Industrial Design student.   Transcript below:  Caroline Ma Hello everyone, it's Caroline here and I'm excited to be back with another In Conversation podcast episode hobbies are such important part of our life and being able to turn a hobby into career would be a dream and our amazing guests today is on the way to achieving their dream. Caroline Ma And they're hoping that will cover. Today is 1 very special and dear to our childhoods, which is Lego and today I'm joined by Miller Keys or Swinburne Student, who was also a contestant on Australia's all time favorite show Lego Masters from season one. It's so great to have you here today and I'm super excited to get to know you more and chat about Lego. MILLER KEYS Thank you so much. It's really nice to be here. I can't wait to. Yeah, let's talk about it.   Caroline Ma Great, so let's start off with some introductions. Miller, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you study? It's been burned. MILLER KEYS Yes, so I am Miller. MILLER KEYS My name is Miller, I'm yeah. I'm studying industrial design at Swinburne. I'm in my third year at the moment. I started off doing engineering, but I decided that I didn't like it and move to design and I'm absolutely loving it and I was on Lego Masters. Caroline Ma Yep. Caroline Ma Yeah, awesome, So what led you to choose industrial design at Swinburne to study? MILLER KEYS I think. MILLER KEYS Really, the biggest thing for me was that it was coming out of doing engineering and I realized that engineering just wasn't where I wanted to be. I started I. I did engineer like I started engineering at Swinburne and I knew that I wanted to be at Swinburne because I'd be into like the open days and and all that sort of stuff and I I thought it was a really cool atmosphere. Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS But then when I got here and I started doing engineering, I realized that engineering wasn't really for me. But I really still enjoyed being on campus and all that sort of stuff. MILLER KEYS And and I guess what I was missing from engineering was like the hands on sort of stuff which I realized I would be getting in industrial design so. MILLER KEYS Yeah, it was never really a question of whether or not I'd do it at Swinburne because I really enjoyed being at Swinburne. It was more just about what I'd be doing, and I started off. Caroline Ma uh-huh MILLER KEYS I started off with a certificate in design certificate for in design and I I really liked that. I've really liked our hands on. It was and I guess it gave me a taste of what I could expect. Caroline Ma uh-huh MILLER KEYS Uhm? MILLER KEYS Rather than especially with engineering I I guess I didn't really know what to expect. Caroline Ma yeah for sure, so I guess you mentioned like you like the hands on part of it and the part of being on campus at Swinburne. How's that sort of panned out this year? Have you still been able to get the experiences that you wanted out of the course? Now to Swinburne or?   MILLER KEYS Yeah, it's been. It's been a bit rough, obviously for everybody not being on campus has definitely. Caroline Ma Uh-huh   MILLER KEYS Uhm impacted like my studies for sure. I really, really do enjoy being on campus. I love being around people as well. It's not just about the hands on stuff, it's about, you know, being in the environment when I'm at home, I'm always distracted by things and I'm just not in the head space that I need to be in. When I'm, you know, doing Union work.   Caroline Ma Yep.   MILLER KEYS So when I go into uni you know you get that headspace and you get to be social. You gets talked to people, you get to make things and do cool things.   MILLER KEYS Uhm, and so yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely being impacted by being in lockdown and all that sort of stuff. Last semester was really cool though. 'cause I did get to go on campus for the majority of last semester.   Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS Come specially for furniture design, which was one of the units that I took in that was really hands on and I just absolutely loved that and I loved being in the workshop and just yeah, making things. And I guess. Ah, last year not being on campus I was kind of making up for it. That like the last semester.   MILLER KEYS Up by just being being on campus. Kind of like everyday even the days that I didn't have class it was yeah. Caroline Ma yeah yeah yeah awesome. Well I'm glad you got to have some sort of time last last semester 'cause that would have been a shame with such a yeah kinesthetic sort of course I guess. So what's your goal? Or like your dream job after graduation based on that? MILLER KEYS I, I mean, I definitely chose a industrial design for the sake of being, uh, like working at Lego. One day, I wanted to be a Lego designer when I was a kid and I switched. Caroline Ma Yeah. MILLER KEYS Pause for a little while and late high school, and I realized after leaving engineering that I was like, well, why don't I just do what I what I really wanna do like even if it's just a you know it's a toy and it's childish and stuff somebody got to do it. Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS I mean, why can't it be me? So yeah, that's what that's that's my goal for sure, as I'd love to go and move to Denmark and and build Lego 4 Lego one day.   Caroline Ma yeah.   Caroline Ma Yeah, awesome, that sounds incredible. So yeah, I guess that's a good foray into Lego. And you did mention being on Lego Masters, so can you tell us a little bit about sort of your achievements and sort of how you started out with Lego and what really drew you to wanting to do it throughout your adolescence and into adulthood. 00:05:09.340 --> 00:05:09.790 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:05:26.400 --> 00:05:34.060 MILLER KEYS That's a really good question. Where did I start was essentially just as a kid. I, you know, I enjoyed it just like anybody else. 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:50.020 MILLER KEYS Uh, I was one of the kids that always liked to pull apart my Lego sets and then build my own thing with them. And it's funny because it's it's a bit of a A give and take because you know, I think. 00:05:50.650 --> 00:06:04.050 MILLER KEYS If I didn't do that, I wouldn't have learned a lot of things that I could have used to get on to. Something like Lego Masters, but at the same time, there's so many sets that I wish I didn't pull apart now. 00:06:04.670 --> 00:06:07.420 MILLER KEYS Uhm, and I I like, I had friends who. 00:06:07.470 --> 00:06:18.780 MILLER KEYS Uh, who you know had Lego when they were kids and they weren't the sort of people to pull apart their sets and they still have them all like on display. It's not like, oh God, I wish I wish I still had mine. 00:06:15.010 --> 00:06:15.740 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:06:19.210 --> 00:06:24.620 Caroline Ma When you say pull apart like can you? What do you? What do you specifically mean by that, like? 00:06:24.370 --> 00:06:30.110 MILLER KEYS I mean like dismantle the sets you know so you you buy a Lego set and some people like to display it on the shelf. 00:06:30.150 --> 00:06:31.200 Caroline Ma Yeah, yeah. 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.670 MILLER KEYS I liked to dismantle it. 00:06:33.310 --> 00:06:33.880 Caroline Ma And making it. 00:06:33.330 --> 00:06:37.470 MILLER KEYS Put it into a big tub full of other Lego sets that I've dismantled. 00:06:35.710 --> 00:06:36.200 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:06:38.080 --> 00:06:40.570 MILLER KEYS Ah, never to be built again, but. 00:06:41.170 --> 00:06:43.350 MILLER KEYS Sign in to somebody something else instead. 00:06:41.330 --> 00:06:41.770 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:06:43.990 --> 00:06:45.140 Caroline Ma Fair enough, yeah? 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:45.070 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:06:45.770 --> 00:06:54.010 MILLER KEYS Yeah, so I guess yeah, that was what I really enjoyed doing when I was a kid and when I moved into probably. 00:06:55.160 --> 00:07:13.010 MILLER KEYS High school, maybe a couple of years into high school. I stopped building Lego for awhile and it was obviously one of those things where people you know you're sort of. Just go. Oh, that's not cool anymore. You know I don't wanna. I'm not a kid anymore. You know Legos for kids and I'm not a kid so. 00:07:09.390 --> 00:07:09.740 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:07:13.460 --> 00:07:13.940 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:15.300 MILLER KEYS I don't want to be doing that. 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:17.230 MILLER KEYS But UM. 00:07:17.950 --> 00:07:30.370 MILLER KEYS Then the Lego movie came out and that was like that was such a cool movie and I I didn't watch it when it first came out. I watched it probably a year after it came out and I was. It was just on TV and I was like, yeah, I'll watch it. 00:07:31.190 --> 00:07:39.370 MILLER KEYS And I finish watching it. I was like, Oh my God, I gotta get out of my leg. I just happen to have a play with it and and I I haven't put it down since. 00:07:39.630 --> 00:07:47.380 Caroline Ma right? OK, that's fairly racing though. Isn't it? That came out maybe in the last six or so years. Is that right or is that? 00:07:41.100 --> 00:07:41.800 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:07:46.950 --> 00:07:53.600 MILLER KEYS Uhm, I it. It did come out when I was in high school, so probably yeah, probably. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:57.210 MILLER KEYS 2015 or something like that. 00:07:56.810 --> 00:07:57.180 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:07:57.880 --> 00:07:59.380 Caroline Ma yeah OK excellent. 00:07:58.060 --> 00:07:58.520 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:07:59.710 --> 00:08:05.140 Caroline Ma Uh oh, that's like a pretty short turn around from Lego Movie 2 Lego Masters, though, isn't it? 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:15.130 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I suppose, but like I still had a lot of that practice from you know, when I was a kid and it wasn't that long really that I'd been away figure. 00:08:09.950 --> 00:08:10.420 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:08:11.460 --> 00:08:11.840 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:16.630 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:08:18.090 --> 00:08:21.390 MILLER KEYS But yeah, I guess the the main thing is like. 00:08:22.130 --> 00:08:28.020 MILLER KEYS The time since the Lego movie came out I was kind of just obsessed with like go from there now. 00:08:28.320 --> 00:08:28.790 Caroline Ma Sure. 00:08:28.650 --> 00:08:29.240 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:30.850 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:08:31.980 --> 00:08:32.750 Caroline Ma Yeah, that's awesome. 00:08:32.020 --> 00:08:32.370 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:08:34.230 --> 00:08:42.650 Caroline Ma So do you consider yourself like a professional Lego like is a is a call like a master builder or like a logo black? What do you? What's your? 00:08:42.420 --> 00:08:46.230 MILLER KEYS Uhm, no, I wouldn't say I'm any of them. 00:08:46.850 --> 00:08:55.420 MILLER KEYS As I said, you know I I'm. I love building Lego and I do it very often and I did build it professionally for a little while. 00:08:55.470 --> 00:09:02.640 MILLER KEYS I'll, uh, I was working for the Judge Brickman after Lego Masters. 00:08:55.970 --> 00:08:56.440 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:09:02.750 --> 00:09:03.240 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:03.940 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:09:04.750 --> 00:09:18.400 MILLER KEYS And so that was really cool. We built a life sized Honda Civic which was crazy. Yeah, so at that point I guess I was a professional Lego builder, but these days it's just as a hobby. But it's still. 00:09:10.660 --> 00:09:11.030 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:09:14.670 --> 00:09:15.030 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:09:17.930 --> 00:09:18.400 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:09:19.990 --> 00:09:24.850 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I wouldn't consider myself a a master boat or or anything like that. It's just something that I am doing. 00:09:22.810 --> 00:09:23.510 Caroline Ma sure. 00:09:25.140 --> 00:09:56.000 Caroline Ma Yeah OK, fair enough, so can you tell us I have to confess that I haven't actually watched Lego Masters, but I know that a lot of my colleagues are big fans of the show and I watched the eight minute condensed version of you and Jordan on the show prior to this. So I guess my exposure to it is quite minimal, but can you just sort of explain the process to be able to audition or whatever the process is to get on the show and then sort of a little bit about what it was like while you were on the show? 00:09:56.460 --> 00:10:00.140 MILLER KEYS Yeah, so uhm, it was crazy really I was. 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:04.800 MILLER KEYS Uhm, I never had really any intention of, you know. 00:10:06.930 --> 00:10:25.780 MILLER KEYS Well, I guess I never really knew that there was a possibility to build Lego on TV, but one day I was just scrolling on Instagram and there was an add on there that said, do you want to build Lego on TV? And I was like wow, that would be really cool, but this is obviously just a scam or something. 'cause it was a really like. 00:10:26.370 --> 00:10:35.120 MILLER KEYS Really dodgy looking? Add like it wasn't it wasn't anything you know done. It was done in Microsoft publisher or something like that. 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:29.570 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:10:34.300 --> 00:10:37.570 Caroline Ma Yeah, the algorithm just trying to get you going. 00:10:36.830 --> 00:10:43.720 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah, I know it's crazy, but so I originally I actually scrolled past it and I was like no. But what if it's? What if it's real? 00:10:44.330 --> 00:10:52.440 MILLER KEYS Uhm, you know I don't wanna miss out on something like that. So I applied and I called up my friend Geordie, and. 00:10:53.610 --> 00:10:55.150 MILLER KEYS He was like hell yeah dude. 00:10:56.770 --> 00:11:10.150 MILLER KEYS And so yeah, that was kind of it. But then it took like a long while to actually get onto the show. It was there was quite a lengthy application process. We started off with. 00:11:10.850 --> 00:11:16.200 MILLER KEYS Uhm, you know doing a written application, we had to submit like a build. 00:11:16.850 --> 00:11:20.160 MILLER KEYS And then there was a video interview. 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:27.210 MILLER KEYS Ah, with like a producer. And then there was a man. 00:11:28.230 --> 00:11:33.340 MILLER KEYS An audition after that, which was like a a 3 hour build. 00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:30.790 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:11:34.670 --> 00:11:38.350 MILLER KEYS They gave us and they gave us like a prompt and we had to build something with it. 00:11:38.920 --> 00:11:55.330 MILLER KEYS Uh, and then after that was another audition with like the executive producers and that was really interesting that audition day, because I remember there were some amazing like builders in the room and I remember like. 00:11:52.870 --> 00:11:53.420 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:11:56.070 --> 00:12:17.020 MILLER KEYS Uh, Jordy was like I was just talking the whole time. Come to Jordan. He was like dude. Shut up and build Knowles like no way there's no way I'm going to be silent while I'm building. Because you know, if people if we're going to get on TV, you know they want to see like people who talk and all that sort of stuff. And there were some really, really amazing builders. 00:12:07.510 --> 00:12:08.080 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:12:12.970 --> 00:12:13.790 Caroline Ma Yes. 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:23.130 MILLER KEYS In that audition, but they were. They just weren't talking to each other. They just kind of knew what they were doing and like it was. 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:22.000 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:54.630 MILLER KEYS That was amazing what they did, but they weren't talking and I was like, OK, if we're gonna set ourselves apart from these people, we need to be like really extroverted and sort of crazy and all that sort of stuff. And so and so we we were and that got us an interview with the producers. And, you know, we were just as crazy then and then it was kind of we. We talked to people. We had like psych evaluations. It was it was quite awhile. 00:12:32.420 --> 00:12:32.830 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:12:52.980 --> 00:12:53.670 Caroline Ma Oh 00:12:54.680 --> 00:12:59.930 MILLER KEYS Up until we got onto the show, but then yeah, we eventually got on there and it was. It was. 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:02.080 MILLER KEYS Awesome from then on. 00:13:02.690 --> 00:13:06.260 Caroline Ma yeah, cycle valuations. That's quite interesting. 00:13:05.140 --> 00:13:11.180 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I don't know if I were trying to figure out whether that we were normal or crazy. You know? Which would be better for TV? 00:13:11.950 --> 00:13:32.940 Caroline Ma Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, it does play. I'd like based on the video I watch it seems till I play a lot on like the relationships between the teams and so yeah, that's really awesome and a great strategy to show your friendship was Jordan. Slack was his relationship with logo similar to yours and that like you just really enjoyed it as kids and he sort of just picked it up again recently or. 00:13:32.890 --> 00:13:35.600 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah he was more of a UM. 00:13:36.670 --> 00:13:40.490 MILLER KEYS He was more of like a. He didn't build necessarily like. 00:13:41.080 --> 00:14:09.670 MILLER KEYS Uhm, his own creations and all that sort of stuff and he wasn't as sort of into it as I was, but he still used it a lot in his daily life like he would. He would use Lego to build things that would be useful to him rather than like as I guess like a medium of like creative expression or something like that he would like. For example, if he needed a phone stand or something like that. It built it out of Lego and all that, so he always had Lego around him, but he wasn't. 00:13:50.650 --> 00:13:51.100 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:14:00.520 --> 00:14:01.720 Caroline Ma Right, yeah? 00:14:06.740 --> 00:14:07.960 Caroline Ma Ah, OK. 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:09.890 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:14:10.770 --> 00:14:13.470 MILLER KEYS Building it as often as I was, I suppose. 00:14:13.730 --> 00:14:14.200 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:14:13.980 --> 00:14:14.670 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:14:15.430 --> 00:14:16.210 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah. 00:14:16.630 --> 00:14:28.860 Caroline Ma yeah OK, yeah that sounds awesome so you ended up coming. Third Ryan, there was the inaugural season. Yeah, pretty cool. Yeah, I know if anyone hasn't caught up in the last few years I'm like oh masters, that's their result. 00:14:21.220 --> 00:14:23.350 MILLER KEYS Yes yes spoiler alert. 00:14:26.610 --> 00:14:27.870 MILLER KEYS Yeah, it's been awhile. 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:42.920 Caroline Ma Well, just as from a personal perspective, I'm a big fan of black at Hamish Blake. Did you find like interacting with him? Was it what you expected or is he like different off screen? I don't know how much you can disclose it at that, but I'm like interested in that aspect of it. 00:14:41.270 --> 00:14:56.830 MILLER KEYS Yeah, no, he was. He was really cool. He was awesome. Uhm there was there was kind of an like an inside joke around all the contestants that I had a big crush on him and there's these photos of me just wear these like heart eyes looking at Hamish. 00:14:44.420 --> 00:14:44.870 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:14:57.040 --> 00:14:57.460 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:14:57.460 --> 00:14:58.100 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:14:58.790 --> 00:15:00.650 MILLER KEYS Behind the scenes and stuff. 00:15:01.230 --> 00:15:01.940 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:15:01.980 --> 00:15:03.270 Caroline Ma we can blame you honestly. 00:15:02.990 --> 00:15:33.810 MILLER KEYS Yeah yeah, I remember the day that we the day that we found out he was the host was the day before we started filming and it was just like what it was just it was so crazy and it's kind of hard to imagine because like everybody knows that he is the host of the show. You know it's all like hindsight but like us going in there. We had no idea what the show was gonna be because we all season one. We had no idea about anything about the show. We were just like going in completely. 00:15:32.420 --> 00:15:32.870 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:34.310 MILLER KEYS And. 00:15:34.910 --> 00:15:43.590 MILLER KEYS And so we found out that you know they were like, oh, we've got a really cool host and it really called judge and we're like, oh, who's it gonna be? You know? And Hamish was like. 00:15:45.170 --> 00:15:52.970 MILLER KEYS I just never expected him to be him to be on there, but and he was and it was just yeah we. We lost our minds that day. 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:46.270 Caroline Ma top tier. 00:15:47.330 --> 00:15:47.850 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:15:53.940 --> 00:16:08.280 MILLER KEYS But he was. He was really, really nice and he was so incredibly funny like he's what you see on TV is what you get with Hamish like he's the real. He's the real deal and he's he's so tall. 00:16:04.730 --> 00:16:05.200 Caroline Ma Right? 00:16:08.590 --> 00:16:11.270 MILLER KEYS Like these crazy talk? 00:16:10.410 --> 00:16:11.260 Caroline Ma Yeah, I mean like yeah. 00:16:11.320 --> 00:16:13.170 Caroline Ma It's time to gush a little bit here again. 00:16:13.220 --> 00:16:14.640 Caroline Ma Don't have love that. 00:16:13.610 --> 00:16:27.300 MILLER KEYS I know, I know, I actually this is a funny. This is a. This is a a funny story and it's pretty embarrassing, but the very first day that we were filming we were going through like the the big roller door when we're walking into the studio. 00:16:28.630 --> 00:16:34.780 MILLER KEYS And you know, hey, mission Brick man was standing there and we're all like wow, this is crazy. 00:16:35.450 --> 00:16:44.000 MILLER KEYS Uh, and I remember he made a joke and like I laughed, but it was like a snort laugh. 00:16:44.690 --> 00:16:47.540 MILLER KEYS And I blew my nose by accident. 00:16:47.590 --> 00:16:48.440 MILLER KEYS That's what. 00:16:49.400 --> 00:16:54.240 MILLER KEYS Snow and hanging out of my nose like flecked the first hike. I was like cut. 00:16:55.060 --> 00:17:02.710 MILLER KEYS But I would say I've read 'cause I was like Oh my God. I just laughed at Hamish is joke and just completely blew that take. 00:17:02.290 --> 00:17:09.480 Caroline Ma Not in itself. That's incredible love that let's you know, those are the stories you can tell forever. That's it's a great great memory. 00:17:08.030 --> 00:17:08.550 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:17:09.730 --> 00:17:10.200 MILLER KEYS Yep. 00:17:10.470 --> 00:17:21.560 Caroline Ma So I guess like from the show did you feel like you experienced any semblance of fame, or do you have people recognizing your? Did you get many like opportunities as a result of being on the show? 00:17:22.070 --> 00:17:30.280 MILLER KEYS Yeah, well look I I wouldn't say that like we were famous or anything like that, but we would definitely more recognized. 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:31.820 MILLER KEYS You know? 00:17:33.150 --> 00:17:43.910 MILLER KEYS By Australia I suppose like we all of us were recognized on the street and all that sort of stuff and I was working at a board game shop which is. 00:17:35.030 --> 00:17:35.320 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:17:44.510 --> 00:17:46.170 MILLER KEYS Mind games which has come. 00:17:45.850 --> 00:17:46.190 Caroline Ma OK. 00:17:46.790 --> 00:17:58.980 MILLER KEYS Just up the road from Swinburne and you know we sell Lego there and so people would come in buying Lego because of Lego Masters and they'd be like, Oh my God, you are the one on the show and I'd be like, yeah. 00:17:48.810 --> 00:17:49.200 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:17:59.040 --> 00:18:00.820 MILLER KEYS As a man. 00:18:01.650 --> 00:18:04.400 MILLER KEYS And it was, yeah, it was cool for a while. It was very, very cool. 00:18:05.770 --> 00:18:22.480 MILLER KEYS You know, obviously it faded and all that sort of stuff. But yeah, I apparently some other people got recognized like in their cars. Like Jordy said that he was driving and he was at a red light once in the car next to him. The guys are like hey, that's you. 00:18:09.890 --> 00:18:10.260 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:15.110 Caroline Ma right? 00:18:22.550 --> 00:18:25.080 MILLER KEYS He was like he was going along with it. 00:18:26.810 --> 00:18:33.320 MILLER KEYS Yeah, so it was pretty cool, but I guess the the opportunities that I got from the show where sort of. 00:18:26.980 --> 00:18:27.640 Caroline Ma That's awesome. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:34.690 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:18:36.550 --> 00:18:43.400 MILLER KEYS Like more career orientated like for example I worked for Brick Man for a while that was really cool. 00:18:38.820 --> 00:18:39.200 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:44.190 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:18:44.150 --> 00:18:44.910 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:18:45.530 --> 00:18:52.300 MILLER KEYS And yeah, there's like I've just started a new job, which has a lot to do with Lego as well and come. 00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:57.190 MILLER KEYS Yeah, I met people who work at Lego from the show so. 00:18:56.050 --> 00:18:56.560 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:18:58.090 --> 00:18:58.470 Caroline Ma yeah. 00:18:58.620 --> 00:19:02.270 MILLER KEYS Yeah, it was really really good in terms of opportunities. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.130 Caroline Ma That's incredible. Yeah, I'm sure it doesn't hurt on your resume going to Denmark eventually. 00:19:07.650 --> 00:19:09.420 MILLER KEYS Yeah, yeah, hopefully. 00:19:09.790 --> 00:19:22.020 Caroline Ma Yeah, awesome. So I guess what was your? What was your all time favorite masterpiece that you made on the show or in general in life? If there's something you've made better outside of that? MILLER KEYS Uhm, that's a that's a really tricky one. Actually, come. MILLER KEYS I think on the show. MILLER KEYS So my favorite. MILLER KEYS Build that we did was. 00:19:39.550 --> 00:19:53.110 MILLER KEYS Probably the finale build, which was the spaceships saying. That's just because like Jordy and I both love spaceships and science fiction and Star Wars and all that sort of stuff. So it really just wanted to lean into that in our final build. 00:19:50.410 --> 00:19:50.920 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:19:53.810 --> 00:19:59.210 MILLER KEYS And so that was probably my favorite. The one I was most proud of, UM. 00:20:01.410 --> 00:20:06.380 MILLER KEYS Outside of the show, there's been a couple of things that I've really enjoyed building up. 00:20:09.100 --> 00:20:11.390 MILLER KEYS But I can't think of anything that was like. MILLER KEYS Really outstandingly better than the show. Caroline Ma Yeah. Caroline Ma That's fair enough. 00:20:17.220 --> 00:20:21.700 MILLER KEYS Yeah, 'cause I mean like you've got all of these bricks on the show. You know you got. 00:20:21.060 --> 00:20:21.460 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:20:22.130 --> 00:20:46.160 MILLER KEYS Uhm, 2,000,000 Lego bricks and the brick pit. You don't have that in the real world, so that like it's I wish I wish I had that and if I did maybe I would have built something as cool, but maybe I'd I don't know. It's it's also it's crazy because when you're with all these people you get inspired by those people like we were we were up against like. Caroline Ma Yeah. Caroline Ma Yeah. Caroline Ma Uh-huh MILLER KEYS Like some of the other competitors. For example Henry incad. They like they won another spoiler MILLER KEYS But they they will, just they were incredible. And so being around them, I felt like it was. It was rubbing off on arson like their their skill set and you know we lifted our game because of that and being in that environment made us better builders. And so I think like leaving that that environment again is probably another reason why I haven't built anything quite as amazing sense. 00:21:10.010 --> 00:21:10.400 Caroline Ma Yep. 00:21:20.510 --> 00:21:22.450 Caroline Ma Yeah, totally. That definitely makes sense. 00:21:21.380 --> 00:21:24.750 MILLER KEYS Does Bing. Yeah, there's been some really cool stuff though. 00:21:26.530 --> 00:21:41.370 MILLER KEYS Like my girlfriend and I came and we built a Lego display for brick invention, which is like Melbourne's Lego Convention every year and that was probably. 00:21:36.860 --> 00:21:37.270 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:21:42.560 --> 00:21:44.470 MILLER KEYS What came the closest to being? 00:21:45.800 --> 00:21:47.070 MILLER KEYS Like as good as the show. 00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:52.570 Caroline Ma yeah awesome. So you have your girlfriend enjoys Legos? Well, that's that's handy. 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:56.830 MILLER KEYS Yeah, well, we actually met on the show. She was another contestant, yeah? 00:21:55.060 --> 00:21:56.190 Caroline Ma Ah. 00:21:57.210 --> 00:21:59.600 Caroline Ma It's not so good story as well. Love that. 00:21:58.850 --> 00:21:59.200 MILLER KEYS I know. 00:22:01.990 --> 00:22:16.870 Caroline Ma I was yeah, I was thinking like when you were mentioning like having all the Lego it, I can't imagine that it would be the the cheapest hobby either right? Like you trying to acquire sets and bricks and stuff would be considerable investment I guess. 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:13.830 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:20.310 MILLER KEYS It's very expensive and it it's like an addiction. It's like. 00:22:21.610 --> 00:22:29.610 MILLER KEYS Because like you, it's a funny balance as well, because when you come when you build Lego as a hobby, you kind of. 00:22:30.260 --> 00:22:49.930 MILLER KEYS Uhm, you either build sets like you. Just collect the sets that Lego producers and you build a menu, display them or you build mocks which stands for my own creation and and those are like obviously your own creations. And in that case your bill you're buying like actual bricks. 00:22:38.230 --> 00:22:38.550 Caroline Ma OK. 00:22:50.620 --> 00:22:58.930 MILLER KEYS Uhm, and then there's also doing both. I'm one of the people that does both and so I have to sort of balance like ah. 00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:00.660 MILLER KEYS Buying 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:12.240 MILLER KEYS sets and buying the Lego pieces for what I want to build, and so it's it's crazy because it's like every time I want to build something new I need to buy more pieces for it. 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:13.740 Caroline Ma Yeah yeah, yeah. 00:23:13.470 --> 00:23:26.100 MILLER KEYS Because I always find all I. Yeah no, I I should probably need more of that piece and I need more of that piece and then. But at the same time, Lego is releasing new sets every like month, you know, and so it's like. 00:23:25.080 --> 00:23:25.550 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:27.870 --> 00:23:53.000 MILLER KEYS I don't have the money and I don't have the space. No, I don't know how anybody has the space for all of this stuff. And yeah, that's actually the space is the biggest. The biggest issue, I think like my apartment is tiny and it's literally just Lego everywhere. I've got it under the bed sometimes I've got it on the bed 'cause I need to move it from the floor to the bed to the chair depending on where I'm going around my apartment. It's crazy. 00:23:28.060 --> 00:23:28.950 Caroline Ma You gotta have it. 00:23:30.190 --> 00:23:30.650 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:33.540 --> 00:23:33.990 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:38.140 --> 00:23:38.540 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:57.930 Caroline Ma Yeah, fair enough, have you considered starting a Lego club at Swinburne? 00:23:58.910 --> 00:24:01.130 MILLER KEYS No way. I hadn't really come. 00:24:01.040 --> 00:24:01.470 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:05.620 MILLER KEYS I never really thought that. 00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:16.930 MILLER KEYS I guess I never thought that people would be that interested in it, and I I guess I don't really know how many Lego fans there are. It's when burnt. I have met a few. 00:24:17.750 --> 00:24:18.310 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:24:17.790 --> 00:24:18.530 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:24:19.670 --> 00:24:25.190 MILLER KEYS But yeah, it's a. It's probably a really cool idea because. 00:24:25.990 --> 00:24:28.070 MILLER KEYS There's a lot of things, obviously clubs. 00:24:28.950 --> 00:24:32.190 MILLER KEYS I also had so many cool opportunities to do. 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:40.710 MILLER KEYS Uhm, really cool things in clubs and I can imagine all of the different things that you could do in a Lego club at Swinburne like. 00:24:42.040 --> 00:24:44.790 MILLER KEYS You know, like group builds and all that sort of stuff, but. 00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:45.040 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:24:46.350 --> 00:24:50.570 MILLER KEYS Yeah, it never really crossed my mind, but it it's probably a really, really cool idea. 00:24:50.790 --> 00:24:56.920 Caroline Ma yeah not a bad cold and maybe you could get that sort of like creativity by proximity that you were talking about that you got on the show. 00:24:56.900 --> 00:24:58.090 MILLER KEYS Very good point. 00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:08.580 Caroline Ma Yeah, well, it's failing to consider for the future 'cause we would probably love to have a Lego club specially led by someone as famous as yourself at the moment. 00:25:01.020 --> 00:25:01.540 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:25:10.450 --> 00:25:22.580 Caroline Ma Alright, so we are going to move on and we're going to get into a lightning round now so I'm going to ask you some questions and it's a bit of a game so I want you to answer as quickly as you can. Whatever comes to mind. 00:25:15.870 --> 00:25:16.360 MILLER KEYS OK. 00:25:22.310 --> 00:25:28.060 MILLER KEYS God, I don't have that in my. I'm not a fast thinker so I'm gonna I'm gonna struggle here. But yeah, let's do it. 00:25:26.780 --> 00:25:27.350 Caroline Ma It's OK. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:33.570 Caroline Ma There are there Lego themed questions, so OK ready. 00:25:31.290 --> 00:25:31.820 MILLER KEYS OK. 00:25:34.560 --> 00:25:38.720 Caroline Ma Question one, would you rather step on a Lego minifigure or a Lego brick? 00:25:39.490 --> 00:25:41.020 MILLER KEYS Like how many figure could fill? 00:25:41.310 --> 00:25:44.800 Caroline Ma Would you rather live in a Lego Castle or a normal mansion? 00:25:47.330 --> 00:25:49.160 MILLER KEYS Or can I ask a question back? 00:25:49.370 --> 00:25:51.120 Caroline Ma Yeah OK, I'll allow one question, yeah? 00:25:50.920 --> 00:26:01.380 MILLER KEYS Alright alright is the Lego castle? Is it a life sized castle built out of Lego or is it like like I've been shrunk down into a Lego sized Lego cars? 00:26:00.940 --> 00:26:07.450 Caroline Ma No, I think I think it's a. I think it's a real life sized castle made of Lego. Is is my interpretation of the question. 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:09.820 MILLER KEYS I think I'd still go mansion. 00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:15.220 Caroline Ma Yeah, would you rather own all the Lego Marvel sets or or the Lego DC sets? 00:26:15.410 --> 00:26:15.960 MILLER KEYS Marvel. 00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:21.420 Caroline Ma Would you rather or your completed sets fall apart or not be able to get any new ones again? 00:26:22.510 --> 00:26:23.520 MILLER KEYS Fall apart. 00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:29.160 Caroline Ma Would you rather look like a Duplo figure or a mini doll for the rest of your life? 00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:32.870 MILLER KEYS Uhm? 00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:34.690 MILLER KEYS I'm gonna give you the mini doll. 00:26:35.230 --> 00:26:36.640 Caroline Ma I don't know what a mini doll is. 00:26:36.870 --> 00:26:43.670 MILLER KEYS They're like they're like the Lego friends versions of mini figures, they're like, oh, I don't know that they're different to mini figures. 00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:49.970 Caroline Ma OK sure sure sure, would you rather buy your favorite theme or by everything except your favorite? 00:26:54.080 --> 00:26:55.890 MILLER KEYS I'm going to do everything except. 00:26:56.600 --> 00:27:01.250 Caroline Ma Would your fame be space in this situation, or like spaceships or F Star Wars? 00:27:00.580 --> 00:27:07.380 MILLER KEYS Why no injuries were minor. Change your mind. I want to be able to buy my favorite thing 'cause my favorite thing Star Wars and I couldn't. I couldn't go without like a Star Wars. 00:27:02.610 --> 00:27:03.080 Caroline Ma So. 00:27:06.230 --> 00:27:06.770 Caroline Ma Right? 00:27:07.770 --> 00:27:14.410 Caroline Ma Yeah yeah, sure, would you rather be a millionaire but never get to play Lego again or just have a normal life and still play with Lego? 00:27:15.190 --> 00:27:17.130 MILLER KEYS I think I've already answered that for myself. 00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:23.330 MILLER KEYS I think I'll be a millionaire because I have all this damn like, oh sorry. 00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:22.480 Caroline Ma Yes. 00:27:24.040 --> 00:27:26.360 Caroline Ma How many Lego pieces do you own now, roughly? 00:27:26.840 --> 00:27:29.100 MILLER KEYS Ohh, I'd say. 00:27:31.260 --> 00:27:32.380 MILLER KEYS 50,000. 00:27:33.090 --> 00:27:33.930 MILLER KEYS Something like that. 00:27:33.170 --> 00:27:38.040 Caroline Ma Oh my God. OK, cool UM, what's something you're really excited about right now? 00:27:39.850 --> 00:27:41.010 MILLER KEYS Apart from Lego. 00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:42.890 Caroline Ma Yeah, just anything, yeah? 00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:49.550 MILLER KEYS A Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. I just started planning that and I'm so obsessed with it. 00:27:49.900 --> 00:27:54.190 Caroline Ma Yeah, my housemate played. I watched him play. It's a beautiful game. It looks great. 00:27:53.540 --> 00:27:54.120 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:27:54.900 --> 00:27:58.140 Caroline Ma Uhm, OK, what's something you're deeply grateful for? 00:28:01.450 --> 00:28:08.820 MILLER KEYS I'm really grateful for my friends and family that are really supportive and. 00:28:10.030 --> 00:28:13.860 MILLER KEYS Especially in a time like this, you know, being locked down. 00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:12.230 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:24.920 MILLER KEYS Ah, you know. Like I have family that calls me and you know, I talked to my friends on like discord every night and they get to go and see Caitlin. So yeah, I'm very grateful for that. 00:28:23.910 --> 00:28:24.340 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:32.510 Caroline Ma yeah, perfect answer and what will swinburn be like in the year 3021? 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:35.390 MILLER KEYS 3021 00:28:36.050 --> 00:28:39.470 MILLER KEYS what's that? That's 1000 years from now that's not even 100 years. 00:28:38.190 --> 00:28:38.820 Caroline Ma Yeah. 00:28:39.670 --> 00:28:40.230 Caroline Ma Correct? 00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:45.570 MILLER KEYS I I think. 00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:51.160 MILLER KEYS I think Swinburne will not be on Earth. 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:52.240 Caroline Ma Uh-huh 00:28:52.610 --> 00:29:07.340 MILLER KEYS I think if if humanity lives to to for another 1000 years, we won't be on that. I think will move to space stations and all that sort of stuff. So maybe Swinburne's moved to a space station or even even to another planet. 00:28:57.700 --> 00:28:58.150 Caroline Ma uh-huh 00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:10.840 Caroline Ma great love that UM, didn't do that. 00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:14.520 MILLER KEYS Sorry, hold on campus I love you but yeah he doesn't have time. I don't know. 00:29:12.110 --> 00:29:14.330 Caroline Ma See ya later Glenferrie Rd no more. 00:29:15.590 --> 00:29:22.350 Caroline Ma Yeah, thanks so much for that. So that wasn't as lightning as I think other hosts would do it, but I wanted to hear answers so. 00:29:22.580 --> 00:29:29.650 MILLER KEYS Yeah, sorry I I was probably an answering with such long answers just because I needed time for my brain to think. 00:29:26.210 --> 00:29:26.700 Caroline Ma No. 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:35.200 Caroline Ma No, I was also curious about what some of the terminology was, so that's awesome. 00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:36.200 MILLER KEYS There was some really cool questions in there. 00:29:36.350 --> 00:30:06.910 Caroline Ma Yeah, well you know shout out to our producers for that so well, that's all for today's in conversation episode. Thanks so much for listening and a huge thanks to our special guest Miller Keys. Thank you for joining me today and chatting about your amazing experiences. And I think I might go and check out all the legamaster seasons. Or at least y'all one. Maybe I'll go back and see how it goes. Yeah, and maybe you've inspired me to pick up some Lego as well, but I hope I listeners out there. Enjoy today's conversation and feel inspired about how you started turning your hobby into a future career. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:37.380 MILLER KEYS Yeah. 00:29:55.230 --> 00:29:58.360 MILLER KEYS Yeah, mine's a best, obviously no, I'm thinking black. 00:30:07.230 --> 00:30:13.680 Caroline Ma Stay tuned for next month episode and make sure you subscribe to the late razalan podcasts on iTunes and Spotify so you never miss an episode. 00:30:14.530 --> 00:30:15.120 Caroline Ma Bye. 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:16.160 MILLER KEYS Thank you. 00:30:17.170 --> 00:30:24.720 Caroline Ma Awesome so I will cut and then will re record the intro but there was also your your great yes thank you so much for that. 00:30:24.840 --> 00:30:26.410 MILLER KEYS Awesome, thank you for having me. 00:30:26.890 --> 00:30:37.340  

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Welcome to Day 4 of O-Week! In today’s episode your host, Luke encourages you to get your #TusksUp as we chat to some of our greatest sporting clubs! We were joined by: Swinburne Cheerleading & Dance, Swinburne HMB Hogs and the Swinburne University Snow Squad. These legends decided whether it’s better to be considered a jet or a gun as an athlete and the Snow Squad gave us the full picture of what it’s like to ski down Victoria’s slopes. You’ll get a great idea on what these clubs are about and what online events they have coming up.

Welcome to Day 3 of O-Week! In today’s episode your host, Amelia was in her element chatting with some awesome Science, Engineering and Technology clubs!We were joined by: Women in STEM, Swinburne Engineering Student's Society, and Swinburne Physics Club.These future STEM superstars dissect the intricacies of eating pineapple on pizza and the difficult choice between hard or soft shell tacos. You’ll also hear about the industry partnerships and collaborations these clubs have as well as the online events they have coming up.

It’s Day 2 of O-Week! In this episode your host Amelia will be introducing you to one of the coolest clubs in Business and Law - the Swinburne Law Society! These guys could be considered Swinburne’s ultimate debaters, since they are future lawyers after all. So we posed them some serious questions like “Do you reheat leftover pizza or eat it cold?” and “Is it better to leave chocolate in the fridge or the pantry?” You’ll also hear about the club’s interesting history and the awesome online social events they have coming up.

It’s O-Week! In this episode your host Luke, introduces you to some of our coolest clubs in Health, Arts & Design! You’ll hear from: Swinburne University Psychology Association (SUPA), Swinburne Design Collective, Behind the Game, Swinburne Architecture Students Association (SASA), and Swinburne Labor Left. They debate over life’s toughest questions like – “Is it ever ok to store onions in the fridge?” and “What’s a greater quantity of milk – a splash or a dash” ? You’ll also hear about the awesome online social events they have coming up and plenty more!

Fresh off O-Week, your hosts Regan and Anth chat to 2019 Club of the Year, Swinburne Design Collective and the Explorers Club about what makes their clubs special. Tyler from Swinburne Explorers Club explains the most ridiculous things students have ever brought on a hike, and there is another round of everyone's favourite game: It's Debatable!

In the first episode of CLUBLAND we take a deep dive into the private lives of your hosts, and look forward to O WEEK and Welcome Back Week. Your hosts tackle the difficult topic about the correct way to eat a burger, the best way to steal food from people and play Debatable! - IMDB edition. Don't miss it. 

Welcome to CLUBLAND, the official podcast with your favourite clubs from Swinburne Student Life. Stay tuned for more!