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A World Exclusive From Georgie Parker · Matt and Alex

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  S1: A listener. Production.
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  S2: Box set. Matt Okine and Alex Dyson.
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  S3: Going for bronze.
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  S4: Yes. And your boys, Matt and Alex are taking a
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  S4: different look at Paris all week. It's up to a Friday.
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  S4: What a week of action that's been. Matt Okine sitting
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  S4: fourth on the medal tally and importantly, a few bronze
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  S4: starting to get into the mix which, if you represent Australia,
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  S4: will net you $10,000 in a little bit of a bonus, uh, bonus.
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  S4: Cash bonus. Uh, but yeah, if you're from New Zealand,
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  S4: it's donuts. That's a shame, isn't it? Uh, they don't
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  S4: get anything.
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  S5: We. I mean, should we set up a sort of
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  S5: fund to help our our fellow athletes across the ditch to, uh,
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  S5: you know, bring home a bit of bacon?
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  S4: Yeah, I could look into it. We'll see. But a
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  S4: lot of athletes are struggling, you know, not the few
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  S4: of the big ones the golfers started. You know, they
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  S4: get paid pretty well. The tennis players outside of things
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  S4: get paid pretty well. But people like, um, Veronica Fraley here, um,
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  S4: like American discus thrower, put up a tweet saying I
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  S4: compete in the Olympic Games tomorrow and can't even pay
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  S4: my rent. My school only sends about 75% of my rent. Um,
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  S4: but they pay football players who haven't won anything to
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  S4: buy new cars and houses. puts that, puts that up
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  S4: on mine. Guess who? Guess who? Matt responds to it.
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  S5: Who? Flavor Flav saved the water polo team.
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  S4: It's our boy.
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  S5: Flavor. Are you kidding? Flavor.
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  S4: Right back on it saying I got you. DM me.
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  S4: I'll send payment today so you don't have to worry
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  S4: about it tomorrow. I'ma be rooting for you. Let's go.
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  S5: Well, look, she could have taken things into her own hands.
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  S5: Like the New Zealand rower did Robbie Manson. He has
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  S5: set himself up with an OnlyFans account. Yeah, so. And
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  S5: he said he's making it probably double what he makes
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  S5: as an athlete on the on the off. So there
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  S5: you go.
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  S4: In both he's working with a cox. So that's that's good.
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  S4: Good for him. Hey we got Georgie Parker joining us.
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  S4: She's an Olympian. She knows what she's doing.
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  S5: But now it's just us. Matt and Alex going for bronze.
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  S6: Let's get this show on the road.
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  S7: Let's go. Here we go, here we go, here we go.
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  S4: And an integral part of the team is joining us
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  S4: in the studio right now with a nine wide World
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  S4: of Sports baseball cap atop her head. It's our commentator
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  S4: and former Hockeyroo Olympian Georgie Parker today. G'day, Georgie. Hello.
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  S8: I'm a company lady. That's what I am.
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  S5: Yeah, the old salary, man. Love it, love it. Uh,
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  S5: repping the colours at all time. Now, Georgie, were you
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  S5: ever a little athletics person?
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  S8: No, I wasn't I couldn't handle that pressure. I remember
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  S8: doing my first 400 and then throwing up after, and
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  S8: I was like, I'm sick. Worked out that it was just, uh, exertion, like,
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  S8: you see, with the triathletes after. So. No, I worked
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  S8: out that was the worst part of sport, and I
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  S8: don't know why anyone wants to do that for their sport.
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  S8: They're just nuts.
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  S4: I remember wonderful little athletics, tried javelin for the first time,
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  S4: go through, throw, hit myself in the back of the
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  S4: head with the pole. I'm like, don't think this event
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  S4: is for me.
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  S8: Well, I wonder how some of them get involved in it.
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  S8: Like pole jump. Who's who's doing that?
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  S5: Yeah. Who. Pole vault. Yeah. It's it's difficult to get
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  S5: into but Nina Kennedy looking very very good for hopefully
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  S5: a medal. We've got everything crossed for the Aussies that
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  S5: hit the track and field, uh, across the next seven days.
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  S5: But Georgie, uh, we were watching The Walking last night.
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  S5: What's going on?
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  S8: Well, we won a bronze medal, but did you get
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  S8: did you get PTSD? Do you get PTSD when you
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  S8: watch walking? Yes.
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  S5: Oh, bro I because when I found out that the Aussie, uh,
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  S5: Jemima montag got the gold in the 20 K walk, I.
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  S5: Where did you go? Yes, got the bronze and I
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  S5: immediately I immediately went back. Georgie, I know what you're
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  S5: talking about.
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  S8: Two year 2000. When we think of 2000, in athletics,
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  S8: we think of Cathy Wu. Cathy in the bodysuit winning.
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  S8: We forget about Jane Saville. Oh my goodness.
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  S4: Walking into Homebush Stadium, her hometown home Olympics miles ahead
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  S4: walking for gold. She had about what, 450m to go.
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  S4: About to go into the tunnel.
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  S5: In the stadium.
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  S4: And the the judge on the side holds up her
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  S4: third red paddle. She's out. And then she's inconsolable, crying,
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  S4: and there's no one around. Okay. Can we imagine.
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  S8: Being that massive party pooper home Olympics?
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  S5: No. Do you know what? I reckon whoever it was,
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  S5: I reckon they were sick with power. Yeah, I reckon
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  S5: they were absolutely frothing. They would have, they would have said,
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  S5: I cannot wait to show this paddle because I.
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  S4: Know how she felt, because same back at the Warrnambool
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  S4: Athletics Club. Um, doing my walk, me and Billy Hernan
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  S4: got disqualified red card and I was in tears afterwards
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  S4: like I was walking.
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  S8: Were you winning?
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  S4: Uh. Probably not.
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  S5: Well, look, it probably.
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  S4: Wasn't the Olympic Games. It was a grass track. It was, um,
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  S4: I mean, a little bit low key.
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  S5: We've got to remember that for the for the walking judge,
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  S5: that's their Olympics. To like this would have been. This
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  S5: would have been their moment. Like, oh my God, I'm
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  S5: about to disqualify someone on the biggest stage of my career.
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  S5: This is the biggest disqualification ever.
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  S8: They're on the phone to their mum. Quick, mum, put
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  S8: the TV on. I'm about to go live.
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  S5: I'm about to ruin someone's dream. Please watch it hit
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  S5: record on the VCR. Please. Mum.
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  S4: That's actually probably a pretty good, uh, good, um, profession
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  S4: to get into because I judge how fast people walk
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  S4: all the time, like they're in front of me. I'm like,
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  S4: can you guys hurry up, please?
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  S8: My walkers. I go for races when you're in the
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  S8: airport and they take the travelators and I'm like, oh, guys, please.
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  S8: Do you think that's walking? Yeah.
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  S5: Well, look, there's been a few other disqualifications in the
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  S5: in this year's games which we're going to get to
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  S5: up next. Men, today we are in the studio with
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  S5: Georgie Parker, our good friend. Hello, Georgie.
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  S8: Good friend. Is that where we're moving to pretty quick.
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  S5: Oh, mate. Oh, we're bros now. I'm loving this. I
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  S5: want us to, you know, do this every day. We
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  S5: don't need to do it for the Olympics. Exactly.
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  S4: Let's Olympics ends. Why wait four years? We can talk rubbish.
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  S4: We can judge all to one.
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  S5: In the world. Um, now, look, Georgie, we forgot to
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  S5: mention we were talking during the song that, uh, that
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  S5: we didn't give Jane Savile the credit that she deserves for, um,
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  S5: after the after getting disqualified at the Sydney Olympics.
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  S8: Yeah, she did win a bronze four years later. So
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  S8: we should mention that particularly on this show where we're
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  S8: all striving for that greatness of the bronze medal. Exactly.
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  S4: Bravo. Good work. But that's the thing. In the Olympics,
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  S4: sometimes the judging, the false starts. I was watching the.
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  S4: I mean, the Aussie girls in the four by 200
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  S4: meter swimming last night. Got the gold. Brilliant stuff. But
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  S4: I was watching the heats and I saw a changeover.
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  S4: I thought, she's gone early.
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  S8: 0.3 seconds.
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  S4: 0.03 seconds, three hundredths of a second. The contact between
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  S4: the wall when the feet left the podium to jump in.
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  S4: It was so close to not getting that gold in
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  S4: the heats.
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  S8: Yeah, absolutely. And a British swimmer actually got, uh, disqualified
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  S8: after his event. So he was swimming and he ended
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  S8: up actually going underneath the water from the push off
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  S8: of the wall on his turn for too long. So
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  S8: he was just too strong. You know what?
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  S5: I hate that you can get disqualified for swimming too
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  S5: far underwater like that should be a gold medal in itself.
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  S5: Like you're showing off. Well done.
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  S4: Well, we were talking about sports that used to be
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  S4: in the Olympics. Swimming as far as you can. Underwater.
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  S4: Used to be one. Like a guy got 60m back
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  S4: in the early 1900s, 60m underwater. It took him about
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  S4: a minute, 68.4 seconds.
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  S5: Yeah. Congratulations to gold medal winner of the 1900 Olympics,
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  S5: Charles Devin de Ville from France.
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  S8: That's a 1900s name, isn't it? Guys, I have a
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  S8: bit of an admission, though, from nearly. Well, we made
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  S8: a final, but we shouldn't have. Yeah. This is a
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  S8: world exclusive. This is a world exclusive. I've actually never
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  S8: admitted this anywhere before.
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  S5: Are you. Is this. Oh my God. Okay, this is
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  S5: on the edge of my seat. Go on.
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  S4: This scene.
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  S8: Forensics. But it was a World Cup and it was
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  S8: a semi-final. And we went to penalty shootout. So in hockey,
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  S8: it's eight seconds. You have one player against the goalkeeper.
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  S8: And I was one of these players, obviously as a
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  S8: star with this hockey side and uh, we're playing the
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  S8: Yanks and they scored a goal very late. That shouldn't
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  S8: have been a goal. And you get referrals in hockey.
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  S8: But we'd already used ours and they got this goal
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  S8: and equalised. And then we went to penalties. Anyway, it
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  S8: was my turn to take it and I hit it
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  S8: in and I walked back very quickly to my teammates,
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  S8: and a teammate came up to me and goes, did
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  S8: that hit the back of your stick? And I looked
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  S8: at it and I go, I think so. And in hockey,
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  S8: it's not meant to hit the back of your stick
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  S8: or no one picked up on it. We made it
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  S8: to the final. But my the way I can live
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  S8: with myself if they shouldn't have got there in the
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  S8: first place.
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  S4: Oh, okay.
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  S5: It was the way they always talk.
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  S4: About the footy gods. The hockey gods smiled upon you
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  S4: that day and even things up. Even the ledger.
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  S8: I felt like Stuart Broad just standing there in 2013. Ashes.
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  S8: That's how I felt. And so I try to keep
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  S8: quiet about that.
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  S5: Right. That's it. Yeah. You just zip the lips. Don't
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  S5: say a word. And if the ref didn't pick up
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  S5: on it, there's the chips, man. That's the game.
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  S8: Exactly, exactly. But my one friend, Ash Nelson, she saw it.
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  S8: She goes, did that hit the back? I think so.
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  S5: How can you sleep at night, Georgie? Very well.
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  S4: Uh uh, except for during these games, because you are
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  S4: commentating late at night on the hockey. If you want
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  S4: to watch it, George, you'll be picking up every tap
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  S4: of the back of the stick. Uh, courtesy of channel nine.
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  S4: Thank you very much, Georgie. It's always a pleasure to
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  S4: hang out.
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  S5: Matt and Alex, we are going for bronze. Hope you
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  S5: having a good Friday and Alex Dyson. My Friday just
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  S5: got better when I realized that the women's high jump
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  S5: is on tonight. Two Aussies in the group stages, Nicola
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  S5: Olieslagers and Eleanor Patterson. Thankfully they're not in the same groups,
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  S5: so hopefully they'll face off against each other in the final.
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  S4: Maybe do what the, um, men did three years ago.
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  S4: Share a gold medal was the first time in high
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  S4: jump history. Remember the Qatari and the Italian share in
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  S4: that gold?
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  S5: Absolutely I do. Yep. Snapped it right in half. Eight.
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  S5: The chocolate in between. Loved it. Loved seeing them share
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  S5: that one that was in.
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  S4: There's so much great stuff coming out of the games
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  S4: and lots of photos, great photos coming out of the
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  S4: games like that. Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina, who was
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  S4: pictured after, you know, shooting off an excellent wave. This
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  S4: French photographer took a photo of him finger to the sky,
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  S4: levitating next to his board, which was also levitating at Chapu.
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  S4: That was incredible. The photo of the, uh, the five four, uh,
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  S4: Japanese basketballer Yuki Togashi, next to the seven four Victor
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  S4: Wembanyama from.
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  S5: Have you seen this? It's like the Japanese guard, I swear,
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  S5: is up to Victor's waist. Like how you were supposed
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  S5: to defend events against someone like that is unbelievable.
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  S4: You need two Yuki's in a trench coat to equal
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  S4: equal one victor in that one. Uh, but there is
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  S4: one photo mat which has gotten an Australian in hot water. Yeah,
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  S4: it was a photo that was posted, uh, by Australian
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  S4: surfing judge Ben Lo.
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  S5: Yeah. I feel so bad for Ben Lo. Um, Australian
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  S5: surfing judge. It's. He's been removed of his duties at
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  S5: the Paris Olympics after being photographed posing with, uh, Australian
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  S5: surf star Ethan Ewing. Um. And he also took a
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  S5: photo next to the coach, Bede Durbidge. Uh, they're all
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  S5: in Tahiti, obviously. Yeah. And and he's. And, um, the judge,
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  S5: Ben Low, is just, you know, the photo says three
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  S5: straddie boys doing their stuff at the Olympics.
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  S4: Yeah. shout out, it's shouting out Stradbroke Island, I guess
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  S4: where they're all from. But when you're in the Olympics
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  S4: and you're an Olympic judge, you need to remain impartial.
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  S4: I mean, we all know the jokes about the Russian
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  S4: judge in the diving seems to be giving a lot
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  S4: of leniency, uh, to the country, men and women. So
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  S4: the the boss has seen this and said, oh, you
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  S4: can't be posting photos like that. We shall remove you
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  S4: of your duty.
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  S5: What do you reckon? I reckon that's so harsh. I mean,
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  S5: it's not. He's not giving them a perfect ten. He's
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  S5: just taking a snap with them.
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  S4: Well, people have these policies, Matt, that you need to
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  S4: stick with. I mean, even yesterday here on, uh, going
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  S4: for bronze, which we did give, we're talking about the, um,
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  S4: the water in Camperdown. We gave the load of water
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  S4: authority a call to ask him about it, though. Oh, sorry.
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  S4: We need these kind of requests. Take 3 to 4
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  S4: days to go through, which is fair enough. You know,
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  S4: when the government's involved, you've got to make sure that you're, uh,
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  S4: you're doing and saying the right thing. So they checked
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  S4: with their bosses. Um, so maybe, uh, poor old Ben
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  S4: Low should have checked with the higher ups as well.
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  S5: Yeah, absolutely. Uh, but, you know, we asked you, when
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  S5: have you checked with when should you have checked with
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  S5: your boss?
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  S4: Yeah. We want you to get in touch right now.
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  S4: When should you have checked with the boss but didn't?
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  S4: We'd love to hear your stories when you're building a
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  S4: house and build it with the wrong roof. Well, you're
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  S4: digging a hole and you dug it in the wrong trench.
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  S4: Whatever it is, let us know. Here on triple M,
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  S4: you're with Matt and Alex. Drippy and we're going for
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  S4: bronze as part of the big Paris Games. A little
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  S4: unofficial look at what's going on, and I'll tell you what.
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  S4: Out of the medal tally, Matt Okine Australian surfing judge
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  S4: Ben Low has been removed of his duties for posting
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  S4: a photo with the Aussie competitors. You don't want to
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  S4: have a conflict of interest, and you don't want to
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  S4: appear to have a conflict of interest. So instead of
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  S4: asking the boss, go and always alright, if I chuck
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  S4: up a selfie with the other strategy boys, he's just
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  S4: gone and done it and it's cost him his job
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  S4: at the games. So, uh, we've asked you when should
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  S4: you have checked with the higher ups at work? Nick
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  S4: has given us a ring. G'day, Nick. How are you going, mate?
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  S9: Good. Matt and Alex. How are you?
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  S5: Oh, good. Thanks, Nick. Uh, very excited to hear. Why?
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  S5: Why did you, uh, you know, get in trouble? What?
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  S5: Should you have checked with the boss first?
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  S9: Well, I used to. I was a storeman for a, uh,
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  S9: for a mining company, and we had, like, lots of
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  S9: sites out west, and and, uh, my boss asked me
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  S9: to send something out urgently. You know, we sent things
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  S9: on freight, on trucks and and planes all the time.
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  S9: So I've, um. I booked this thing onto a plane,
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  S9: not knowing what it was. And, uh, anyway, it got
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  S9: out there, everything was fine. And about, uh, four weeks later,
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  S9: the boss comes to me and she's like, what's this
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  S9: invoice for? Um, it turns out that the pallet weighed
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  S9: about three tons and they dropped it on a plane,
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  S9: and they charged us $15,000 to send this thing out
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  S9: to say.
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  S5: Oh, no, that's just for the freight. That's just for
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  S5: the freight. Yeah.
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  S4: Oh, a $15,000 courier there, Nick. So, uh, you should
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  S4: have checked which kind of transport we should be freighting
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  S4: this with.
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  S9: Yeah, I probably should have checked with the boss. Yeah.
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  S5: Mate, at $15,000, I would have bundled myself into that
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  S5: package and had a free holiday. Yeah.
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  S4: Travel in first class on your nick. Good stuff, mate.
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  S4: Thanks for the call. We've also got Chris from Hawthorn. Chris,
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  S4: what happened at the tree company?
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  S10: Nat and Alex, love your work. Um, yeah. I used
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  S10: to work for a tree company in late 90s, and
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  S10: we had to go to unit two number three, and
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  S10: we actually went to number 23. Now, I was just
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  S10: a bag, a branch dragger. I wasn't I wasn't the boss, but, uh,
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  S10: we cut down this, um, a tree. This guy had
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  S10: grown for 40 years.
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  S11: This beautiful flowered.
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  S10: Tree.
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  S11: That.
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  S10: His.
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  S11: Father had.
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  S10: Planted who'd passed. And. Yeah. And we cut that down
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  S10: and then. Yeah, but I guess somebody just should have
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  S10: checked with the bus guys. You know what I mean? Chris.
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  S4: You you cut you cut down the the deceased dad
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  S4: memorial tree by mistake.
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  S10: Year old tree was beautiful, had these beautiful flowers. And
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  S10: I was thinking, why are we cutting that look so healthy?
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  S4: And you're just trying to carrying the limbs off. Oh goodness.
• 16:33
  S12: Me.
• 16:34
  S5: Well, kicking it in the old churner up. Just hope
• 16:36
  S5: you gave him a big pile of wood chips in
• 16:39
  S5: an urn. Said. There you go. Sorry, mate. Hope they did.
• 16:44
  S5: So thanks.
• 16:45
  S4: Chris. And if you're out working today, maybe just give
• 16:48
  S4: that extra check to the boss right now. You listen.
• 16:50
  S12: To Matt. Now this is going for bronze.
• 16:57
  S5: Mitt is your boys, Matt and Alex, and we've been
• 16:59
  S5: going for gold this week and next as part of
• 17:03
  S5: the big Paris Games on Triple M.
• 17:05
  S4: But mainly bronze. Yeah, we'll let we'll let the professionals
• 17:08
  S4: go for gold. Matt. We're the kings of low expectations.
• 17:11
  S4: So we're going for bronze.
• 17:12
  S5: Gold. I mean you can find it in VCR cables.
• 17:15
  S5: You know, it's it's it's nothing fancy about that. I
• 17:19
  S5: want the good stuff.
• 17:20
  S4: Whereas bronze had its own age, the Bronze Age. So
• 17:23
  S4: there you go. That's what we're doing this week. It
• 17:25
  S4: is a Friday, so we've got to take you into
• 17:27
  S4: the weekend with a little bit more sports commentary. And
• 17:30
  S4: if you've been listening in you might have heard that. Yeah.
• 17:32
  S4: All the good all the good ones were taken. You know,
• 17:34
  S4: Bruce Mcavaney, he's already got the gig. Georgie Parker's already
• 17:36
  S4: commentating The Hockey on Channel nine, so we had to
• 17:38
  S4: look far and wide for the third best, the bronze
• 17:42
  S4: medal commentators, and we found them commentating. Bingo. Uh, over
• 17:47
  S4: at the old, uh, Caroline Springs RSL. Uh, there from
• 17:51
  S4: Granny Bingo. So let's see what sport they're checking in
• 17:55
  S4: with right now. Over to you, grannies.
• 17:57
  S13: And thank you, Matt and Alex. It is, uh, Edith
• 17:59
  S13: and Maureen here with Nange Wide World of Sport coming
• 18:02
  S13: to you from the Melbourne end of parish. And, uh,
• 18:04
  S13: today we are taking a look at the road cycling.
• 18:09
  S14: Road cycling of course a hot favourite for Australia in
• 18:12
  S14: the gold medal. I mean, Edith, you are a champion
• 18:15
  S14: through and through of this sport.
• 18:17
  S13: Yes, I have played quite a few. I'm very excited.
• 18:19
  S13: We've got a few hot contenders here, of course, from
• 18:21
  S13: Uzbekistan we've got Hussein Zubatov and uh, Jackie Hansen, uh,
• 18:26
  S13: from Australia. That little Pauline's nephew? Yes. Plucky little player from, uh,
• 18:31
  S13: up north up in Cairns. Should be doing very well.
• 18:34
  S13: Road cycling. Some countries, it's traffic. Other countries it's a sport.
• 18:39
  S14: The Netherlands, they they turn this off.
• 18:41
  S13: They would. They would say why I'm watching. That's right.
• 18:44
  S13: I'm watching a video of me riding to work. That's
• 18:46
  S13: boring for me. But for us it's exciting. Of course,
• 18:49
  S13: they do like to train in Melbourne, uh, because you
• 18:51
  S13: have to dodge the cars and the trams and there
• 18:55
  S13: is no bike path. No bike anywhere. so the Aussies
• 18:58
  S13: are a bit of an advantage with that training.
• 19:01
  S14: Often you see at the world on the world stage,
• 19:04
  S14: Australians turning up for road cycling and not really knowing
• 19:06
  S14: what to do. That's right. Yeah. They just sort of
• 19:09
  S14: get to go on and then and then all of
• 19:11
  S14: a sudden someone honks them and then they freak out
• 19:13
  S14: and get the train instead. And I don't think getting
• 19:15
  S14: the train I'm not an expert in this sport either,
• 19:18
  S14: but I don't.
• 19:19
  S13: Oh, he's just taken a little tumble there. Yeah. No, that's, uh,
• 19:23
  S13: that's going to take several layers of skin off that.
• 19:26
  S14: I just wish they'd bloody slow down a little. And
• 19:29
  S14: I've got another question.
• 19:30
  S13: See the one now? See that motorbike in the background?
• 19:32
  S13: He will lose points for riding a motorbike. Uh, that's
• 19:36
  S13: not that's not permitted.
• 19:37
  S14: I get my dinner delivered sometimes from the app on
• 19:40
  S14: my phone, and sometimes it says they're going to be
• 19:43
  S14: on a bike, but they come in a car.
• 19:44
  S13: Yes, similar thing can happen.
• 19:46
  S14: One star. Yes. I don't like the lying. Yeah.
• 19:49
  S13: Interesting move. They're coming around that corner. Uh, I it's
• 19:53
  S13: been a long time since I've played. I am a
• 19:55
  S13: world champion. Of course, I did win the 1956, uh,
• 19:59
  S13: road cycling champions here in Melbourne. I commentated that, Maureen.
• 20:02
  S13: I know, I've got to be honest with you. I
• 20:04
  S13: know nothing about this sport whatsoever. The win that I
• 20:08
  S13: had in 56 was purely by accident. Of course, Melbourne
• 20:11
  S13: was hosting the Olympics. It was very exciting. Some of
• 20:13
  S13: you might be old enough to remember, and I was
• 20:17
  S13: just down at Coles New World in Fitzroy, picking up
• 20:19
  S13: some groceries before I picked the kids up from school.
• 20:22
  S13: And I was on my bicycle and I came up
• 20:25
  S13: Elgin Street. I turned left on Nicholson Street. I didn't
• 20:28
  S13: realise I was in the bloody race. I had the
• 20:30
  S13: milk in my in my little basket. I had the
• 20:32
  S13: bread hanging off the handlebars and made little tassels flapping
• 20:35
  S13: in the wind. I was like to pick the kids
• 20:37
  S13: up from school. That's why I was riding so fast.
• 20:40
  S14: There's a podium ceremony. They go.
• 20:42
  S13: On forever. They go on forever. So, you know, that's.
• 20:44
  S13: That's actually how I won. It was a complete accident,
• 20:47
  S13: and I.
• 20:47
  S14: Noticed there was no shopping on their handlebars here.
• 20:50
  S13: So they have it a lot easier these days. These
• 20:52
  S13: young competitors. Yeah.
• 20:54
  S14: These sports, they've gone a bit soft.
• 20:55
  S13: I think they have. I think they have anyway.
• 20:58
  S14: We'll have more of the games, more road cycling tomorrow
• 21:03
  S14: and mountain biking, which, uh, for those of you that
• 21:05
  S14: will have a screen access to the games for mountain biking,
• 21:09
  S14: just looks like a bunch of people having a midlife crisis.
• 21:12
  S14: And they bought a new bike and ridden through the
• 21:14
  S14: dandenongs for it. We'll bring all of that to you.
• 21:17
  S14: Back to you, Matt and Alex.
• 21:22
  S4: And together, we've put together a big old week of games.
• 21:26
  S4: Adjacent contents. When it comes to what's happening in Paris.
• 21:31
  S4: And it's been a marathon. Matt Okine are we going
• 21:33
  S4: to be finishing with a gold medal, or are we
• 21:36
  S4: going to be finishing, like, the guy who died, who
• 21:38
  S4: invented the marathon by running from marathon to say, what
• 21:41
  S4: did he say to the Greeks again, said, oh, there's
• 21:44
  S4: a battle or something, I.
• 21:46
  S5: Don't know, but he should have used a rideshare anyways. Look,
• 21:49
  S5: are we at the end of every single show? We
• 21:51
  S5: like to give out our own medals to people we
• 21:54
  S5: think are deserving of our very important awards. And today's
• 21:59
  S5: got bronze medal. Um, you know, you might have seen
• 22:02
  S5: that the United States have gotten a little bit of
• 22:04
  S5: a boost in the medal tally. They currently coming second
• 22:06
  S5: with nine gold just underneath China. Uh, they have overtaken us.
• 22:10
  S5: Finally took him some time though, but I couldn't help
• 22:13
  S5: but have a little chuckle at, uh, this Instagram clip
• 22:17
  S5: from the Ugandan actor Abby Tumusiime.
• 22:20
  S15: If the USA is so great, then why did someone
• 22:24
  S15: make a USB?
• 22:27
  S4: Perfect.
• 22:28
  S5: Very good question, Abby. Good question.
• 22:31
  S4: Silver today goes to tennis legend Andy Murray, who officially
• 22:36
  S4: called his retirement after a loss in the doubles of
• 22:38
  S4: the quarterfinals of Paris. And it did not take him
• 22:41
  S4: long to throw his entire career in the trash bin.
• 22:46
  S4: He's 37. He's the only tennis player to win two
• 22:48
  S4: Olympic singles golds London 2012 and 2016. Um, plus his
• 22:53
  S4: three Grand Slam singles titles. And, um. As soon as
• 22:57
  S4: the game was over, he got online and he put
• 23:00
  S4: on his Twitter account. Never even liked tennis. Anyway, uh,
• 23:04
  S4: changing his bio from I play tennis to I played tennis. So, uh,
• 23:09
  S4: Eddie dropping it like it's hot when it comes to
• 23:12
  S4: a glittering tennis career.
• 23:16
  S5: Which leaves us with only the gold to give out.
• 23:19
  S5: And who could we look past? But, uh, the Italian
• 23:22
  S5: athlete Giorgia Villa, who recently got a silver medal in
• 23:25
  S5: the artistic gymnastics at this year's games but has gone
• 23:28
  S5: on to get a little bit of viral fame because
• 23:32
  S5: she's actually sponsored by a parmesan cheese company. So I'm pretty.
• 23:38
  S4: Sure just by parmesan cheese, like, is there a cup?
• 23:42
  S4: I think by like the type of cheese she's sponsored by. Parmesan, cheese.
• 23:46
  S4: Unless it's a brand name, you can only say it
• 23:48
  S4: in France.
• 23:48
  S5: That's true. Well, there's just all of these pictures with
• 23:50
  S5: her and cheese. Like big wheels of cheese. They're all
• 23:54
  S5: over the internet. Uh, I've never seen cheese look so good.
• 23:58
  S5: So this today's gold medal goes to a wheel of
• 24:03
  S5: parmesan cheese. Congratulations to the wheel of cheese.
• 24:06
  S4: I mean, I've always been powered by cheese, but I've
• 24:08
  S4: never been sponsored by cheese. That's the next step to
• 24:11
  S4: to glory, isn't it?
• 24:12
  S5: Here's here's the question, though. When you take a photo
• 24:14
  S5: with a wheel of cheese, what do you say to
• 24:17
  S5: the cheese to make it smile?
• 24:21
  S4: Are you saying because you just can't just say cheese? And.
• 24:23
  S12: Yeah, the cheese say cheese.
• 24:25
  S5: The cheese. Like I'm here.
• 24:27
  S4: Beautiful.
• 24:27
  S5: What do you want me to do?
• 24:28
  S4: Well, just like the marathon runner. We died at the end. Um, absolutely.
• 24:34
  S4: Carked it there. But thank you for listening this week.
• 24:36
  S4: If you missed any of the show, if you missed
• 24:37
  S4: the grannies, you missed Georgie Parker. The Matinales podcast is
• 24:40
  S4: continuing as normal. Uh, so jump on the listener app,
• 24:43
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• 24:46
  S4: Until then, we'll see you midday on Monday to wrap
• 24:50
  S4: up the weekend of games action. Until then, have a
• 24:53
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• 24:55
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