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Episode 7: Lukhan Salakaia-Loto
Season 1, Ep. 7
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In this episode, Lukhan Salakaia-Loto and T-Mitch discuss the parallels between the Queensland Reds and Chicago Bulls after watching the current Netflix documentary series - 'The Last Dance' during isolation. Salakaia-Loto reflects on the passing of his father and the importance of speaking about your feelings. He reveals his passion for youth work and why he cares so much about Queensland and his Reds team-mates, but isn't afraid to expose their true personalities too. Lukhan also speaks about his love of music and provides two songs he's written and recorded in his his bedroom studio for us to listen to.
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