Staged?

I can't work out if this was staged or not.



Transcript for those without sound:

Reporter: Brian is 1990 graduate of Northern and he is going to tell us a little bit about this amazing structure.

Brian: As you can see it's the leaning tower of Pisa. It's about 12000 blocks, it took over 2 weekends to build, and I'm really excited because next week the Guinness book of world records team are going to come to evaluate it. I'm really looking forward to that.

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Brian: Oh! oh!
Reporter: Geez Brian, I don't know what to say.