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Speaker 1: Welcome to the No Dribble Summer Series. We're not actually
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Speaker 1: here because we're having a well earned not that well earned.
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Speaker 2: But a break. Anyway. Where are you cat Well, I've
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Speaker 2: got butt sweat at the moment. It's hot. I think
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Speaker 2: I need a cocktail it is. Where's my poor boy?
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Speaker 1: Lizzie, You're off somewhere.
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Speaker 2: Where are you? I'm sorry, justin Tazzy drinking so much
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Speaker 2: local whiskey that we'll probably see a Tasmanian tiger and
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Speaker 2: forget what I'm about to say. This is the No
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Speaker 2: Dribble Summer Series. Enjoy, guys, Houston. We don't have a problem, Houston.
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Speaker 1: We did check out for summer, but then so much
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Speaker 1: is happening that No Dribble has decided that we needed
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Speaker 1: to come back to Wedge in another quick episode, I'm
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Speaker 1: Carolyn Swindell.
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Speaker 2: I'm in Brisbane. I'm Lizzellas, I'm at home.
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Speaker 1: Lizzellis is still at home. Katherine is on holidays. But
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Speaker 1: we're very excited to have our super sub join us today.
1:03
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Sue Gordion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Gordy's back in the house. It's been a long time.
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Speaker 1: It has been a long time, but we're so we're
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Speaker 1: missing you. We're probably menstruating at the same time because
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Speaker 1: we've got the same top on suit.
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Speaker 2: I'm majorly concerned that this was uncoordinated. And even Liz,
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Speaker 2: you've gone close. I've gone close and I haven't been
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Speaker 2: strated for quite some time. So yes, I was thinking that,
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Speaker 2: Oh happy day. So I think there's something also play
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Speaker 2: like maybe it's summer. But I don't know. A couple
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Speaker 2: of you two didn't send me the memo to say
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Speaker 2: we're your best blue sinki with you with the white trimmings.
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Speaker 2: So Gordy, where are you. I'm in Perth. I'm in
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Speaker 2: mandra at our holiday place at the moment. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm back in Perth and I've been around the world
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Speaker 2: in eighty days. It's been a ball back at Fever training,
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Speaker 2: so general manager all over. I feel great. And if
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Speaker 2: you want to ask me the question that a million
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Speaker 2: people have asked me, which is do you miss it,
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Speaker 2: it's a simple answer. No, I haven't given it a
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Speaker 2: second thought, but yeah, good. I've been over in South Africa.
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Speaker 2: I did a little coaching job over there for ten
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Speaker 2: days and loved eight days, sorry and loved it. That
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Speaker 2: was really cool and they're back. Just back now to
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Speaker 2: my normal programming, which will be bits and pieces but
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Speaker 2: in the fever environment coaching and then back to commentary
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Speaker 2: next year.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot to talk about with that. That's
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Speaker 1: one of the reasons that we wanted to come back in.
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Speaker 1: One of them is the very sad news coming out
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Speaker 1: of Bondi last week. And we know there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of Jewish netballers and netball clubs and we just
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Speaker 1: want to send our love and send our love to
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Speaker 1: everyone who was impacted. And you know, as Dribblers, we
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Speaker 1: hope that we are leaning into the positive stories that
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Speaker 1: came out of this enormous tragedy. But Gordy, you've worked
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Speaker 1: with some of the Jewish netball clubs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually would they. I have a terrific connection right
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Speaker 2: back to my very first ever coaching job, which was
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Speaker 2: coaching the Victoria Jewish netball team at their national champs
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Speaker 2: and then I went on to coach the Australian Jewish
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Speaker 2: team at the MCCABI Games in Israel in ninety three.
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Speaker 2: Then in ninety seven was the very sad Bridge collapse.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you remember. On the on the
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Speaker 2: way to the opening ceremony where four participants lost their life.
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Speaker 2: And then in two thousand and one they didn't send
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Speaker 2: a big Australian contingent. And then I got a phone
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Speaker 2: call and asked if I go back in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and five. So I went back and coached the team
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Speaker 2: in two thousand and five, So twice over to Israel.
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Speaker 2: What a community loved it. My heart just sank last
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Speaker 2: week when this happened. Terrible. Yeah, on every level, terrible.
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Speaker 2: So and it's been it's hard not to go down
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Speaker 2: the rabbit hole of social media and continue to watch it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's really difficult, isn't it. And my heart also goes
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Speaker 2: out to the local netball association. So Radwick Netball Association
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Speaker 2: takes in Bondi and they've got over eight hundred Jewish
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Speaker 2: members there playing netball at Radwick, So they've been credit
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Speaker 2: hard hit. And I know that their executive and through
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Speaker 2: their president Jenny Morrissey, are doing everything they can to support.
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Speaker 2: But like Sue, my heart absolutely goes out to the
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Speaker 2: entire Jewish community and to anyone who has been affected.
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Speaker 2: And I actually felt, I don't know about you, guys,
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Speaker 2: I felt really sad and unsettled and really down in
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Speaker 2: the days afterwards, and I heard that there was a
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Speaker 2: need for blood, so I went to I jumped online
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Speaker 2: to go and donate blood through Lifeblood and I got
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Speaker 2: my appointment and I said to my husband, you need
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Speaker 2: to jump on and get on board. And the first
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Speaker 2: one that he could get was for mid January. So
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Speaker 2: I think everyone's a bit the same. Everyone's trying to
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Speaker 2: lean in and help it in a practical way, which
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Speaker 2: is great. So and you know, I just it was
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Speaker 2: really nice to just sit and use the time to
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Speaker 2: reflect whilst I was giving blood and just think about
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Speaker 2: those communities that were impacted and also you know, the
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Speaker 2: people who who ran to help and responded, and it's
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Speaker 2: one of those things that I think will reverberate. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm from Sydney and I love Sydney and
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Speaker 2: this will I think reverberate through the city for you.
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Speaker 2: And it's just so tragic. So yeah, I just wanted
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Speaker 2: to send a shout out to all the Netball family,
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Speaker 2: particularly who are part of the Jewish community who have
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Speaker 2: been affected, but really to anyone who was affected and
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Speaker 2: anyone who was there on anything like that, We are
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Speaker 2: thinking of you. So it's really sad.
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Speaker 1: And we are hoping that this little episode might just
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Speaker 1: bring and I have a little twinkle of joy. By
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Speaker 1: the time this goes to air, Hunika will be over.
5:25
Speaker 1: I hope that Hanaka has been able to be a
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Speaker 1: time of healing and reflection. We're just about to hit Christmas,
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Speaker 1: which is a time of disaster, a nightmare in my house.
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Speaker 1: I'm campaigning to change the date. I feel like it
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Speaker 1: sneaks up on me every single year, twenty fifth of December.
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Speaker 1: This is way too close to Boxing Day for my liking,
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Speaker 1: way too close to the new year. I would like
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Speaker 1: to have Christmas on another entire day, and I'd like
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Speaker 1: to wedge another week in between now and Christmas because
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Speaker 1: I have way too much to do.
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Speaker 2: But you know, a bit concerning giving, you've had a
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Speaker 2: year's notice.
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Speaker 1: It's fairly well publicized what date Christmas they're going to
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Speaker 1: fall every single year.
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Speaker 2: I'm not quite sure how it sneaks up on you,
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Speaker 2: but anyhow, No, that's true. Do you know what my kids,
6:12
Speaker 2: we've got Our fridge is like a whiteboard. You can
6:15
Speaker 2: write on it with whiteboard marker, and so our kids
6:18
Speaker 2: have had this big red and green cloud up on
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Speaker 2: the fridge and they've been counting down for about one
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Speaker 2: hundred days. So the stress for me every morning I
6:27
Speaker 2: wake half and they rub the number off and it
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Speaker 2: gets closer, and I'm like, oh my god, it's getting closer. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, like you sometimes think for some people like you,
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Speaker 2: Carolyn sneaks up on you. It's been looming over me
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Speaker 2: for months because the kids have been doing a countdown,
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Speaker 2: and I keep thinking, I've got so much to do.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to be ready anyway. Here we are,
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Speaker 2: We're just about there, and I'm still not ready. But
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Speaker 2: that's what the last one is for.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, if there's enough protein in the house,
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Speaker 1: then we'll all be fine.
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Speaker 2: Just is their meat. There we go.
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Speaker 1: I have been growing tomatoes for months now, and I
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Speaker 1: may have enough a Christmas miracle to make one salad
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Speaker 1: for Christmas Day out of mind.
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Speaker 2: But it will be a very special salad mate, Thank you. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I will send you a photo.
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Speaker 1: But actually once some very joyful news came out last week,
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Speaker 1: which was the day that we released our last episode,
7:19
Speaker 1: and then it was of course all the news drops
7:21
Speaker 1: just after we go off there and a lot of
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Speaker 1: joyful news out of the West suit. This is why
7:26
Speaker 1: we're very excited to have you here, and what a
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Speaker 1: coup for West Coast Fever to be able to And
7:33
Speaker 1: now it's the beautiful news that Janielle Fallon, Emma and
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Speaker 1: her husband are expecting a baby, and that Ramelda Ake
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Speaker 1: and George stepped in and said, yep, I'm your shooter,
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Speaker 1: like masterful communications.
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Speaker 2: It's a great it is a great story. It's a
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Speaker 2: it's a great story. I think that will go down
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Speaker 2: in time, and it's got so many different angles. So look,
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Speaker 2: I had very little to do with it. I was
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Speaker 2: part of recontracting Janiale and at the time, you know,
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Speaker 2: it was difficult conversations for her as much as it
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Speaker 2: was for us as a club. But you know, we
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Speaker 2: wanted to pursue the possibility that she would be playing
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Speaker 2: next year, as did she. There was certainly a lot
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Speaker 2: that she had to manage and go through herself, with
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Speaker 2: her family, etc. Around those circumstances, so that was fine.
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Speaker 2: We supported that, but we also had to be really
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Speaker 2: mindful of our list, knowing that there was always the
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Speaker 2: potential that, you know, she might feel pregnant, and in
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Speaker 2: all honesty, I don't think there'd be a single soul
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Speaker 2: around the world that follows Janille that wouldn't have wanted
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Speaker 2: this to happen. So, and can I say, just before
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Speaker 2: I explained the next bit, the beaming smile on Jjay's
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Speaker 2: face at the moment, it's just it is priceless. It's
8:38
Speaker 2: actually and I think we've spoken about this. I think
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Speaker 2: I spoke about how hard it was going through that
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Speaker 2: for me personally as a general manager, a little alone,
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Speaker 2: what Janilla and her family were going through. So it's
8:48
Speaker 2: nice to kind of see the back end of it.
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Speaker 2: So very very happy for her, and she wants to
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Speaker 2: come back and play. She's got it in earth still,
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Speaker 2: so that's exciting. But then I handed the baton over
8:59
Speaker 2: to Sarah Francis Bayman as general manager, and her and Dan,
9:02
Speaker 2: while I was gallivanting around Europe and doing all other
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Speaker 2: bits and pieces, were able to lock in the Ramelda deal.
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Speaker 2: And it's cool, Like I caught up with real last week,
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Speaker 2: she flew into Perth and she's nervous, like she is nervous. Guys,
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Speaker 2: Can you believe it how nervous she is? Do you
9:18
Speaker 2: claim that? Modio? Well no, because even though I reckon
9:23
Speaker 2: the older you get, the harder it is to do
9:25
Speaker 2: something for the first time. And even though we know
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Speaker 2: she's great and she's delivered at every club she's been at,
9:32
Speaker 2: she's in a new environment. You know, she's had people
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Speaker 2: questioning her and I think her response to that was
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Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant. Chef's kiss. But I love that she's nervous, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a pretty ominous sort of signal
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Speaker 2: to the rest of the competition, because you know you're
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Speaker 2: playing better and you do better when you're nervous. So
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Speaker 2: I feel sorry for all the goalkeepers out there. You know,
9:53
Speaker 2: you just just wave goodbye to Janille and then next
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Speaker 2: minute Ramelda's back. It's like, oh my god. But I
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Speaker 2: love that she's nervous. Good. I think that's fantastic. You'd
10:02
Speaker 2: be worried if she wasn't. Yeah, no, so so pretty cool.
10:05
Speaker 2: So she she gets to slot in and Katie Ane
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Speaker 2: gets another Jamaican teammate in the absence obviously we delisted
10:11
Speaker 2: Denise Beckford, and then on top of that, obviously j
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Speaker 2: will be around in the background, and Ramelda comes over
10:16
Speaker 2: with little Gg. So Gg has to don the green
10:18
Speaker 2: as opposed to the pink or the red or the
10:21
Speaker 2: Marome which she has historically probably donned or whatever. So yeah,
10:25
Speaker 2: it's cool. It's a great swap. So we're excited. Do
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Speaker 2: you think gg will be saying to Ramelder it right?
10:31
Speaker 2: So mum, you've got lightning vixens and giants before I
10:34
Speaker 2: get the full setting uniforms. Please probably. Probably. She's a
10:39
Speaker 2: little ripper, gg, I'll tell you, she's got some energy.
10:41
Speaker 2: That kid who signed her? Yet, I wonder if anyone's
10:45
Speaker 2: who's going to sign her first? I know, I know
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Speaker 2: she's got potential. So anyhow, so really exciting for the league,
10:51
Speaker 2: great for Ramelda fans that she gets to live another season.
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Speaker 2: So that was the big news in netball for Prere Smith,
11:00
Speaker 2: which was very exciting. And I did love Gaudy the
11:03
Speaker 2: fact that there were the two of them sort of
11:04
Speaker 2: standing next to each other when you announced it. But
11:06
Speaker 2: I have a question, how on earth did you manage
11:09
Speaker 2: to keep the Janelle news secret? Like she's she's hard
11:12
Speaker 2: to hide. Well, do you know what I reckon? There's
11:14
Speaker 2: two forms of news, right, So like there was there
11:17
Speaker 2: was a lot of netballers that knew about it, Like
11:19
Speaker 2: I guess, you know, the rumor mill in the netball
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Speaker 2: player's land. I think people knew, but publicly I think
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Speaker 2: people didn't. But I can tell you Janille was well
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Speaker 2: and truly showing, and so of course walking around Perth,
11:31
Speaker 2: she is a reasonable public figure, so she need to
11:34
Speaker 2: walk into her local you know, wool worse and all
11:36
Speaker 2: of a sudden someone would see her. So if you notice,
11:39
Speaker 2: any photos that we took of her were above bally up,
11:43
Speaker 2: you know, like sort of above the belly up. But yeah, look,
11:46
Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing that Fever had going it
11:48
Speaker 2: was off seasonal is everyone list had been named. Everyone
11:51
Speaker 2: was kind of moving on, and I think people were
11:52
Speaker 2: sort of I don't know. Yeah, it was just a
11:55
Speaker 2: lucky one. And I really do love how the club
11:57
Speaker 2: chose to manage the announce and having Remeldering place as well.
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Speaker 2: And I guess ease fans concerns that when a big
12:05
Speaker 2: name goes out, the replacements there and ready to go.
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Speaker 2: So I thought it was a really seamless handling of
12:11
Speaker 2: the news for everybody involved, which is great. Yeah, it
12:14
Speaker 2: was good. I was impressed. I thought, oh my goodness,
12:16
Speaker 2: how do you hide what six foot six woman? It's
12:20
Speaker 2: not hard there, you go very hard.
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Speaker 1: So other news Netble New Zealand CEO has stepped down
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Speaker 1: after sixteen years in Netbil probably didn't surprise anyone, but
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Speaker 1: the timing of it having worked for a long time
12:49
Speaker 1: in PR we call that taken out the trash dropping
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Speaker 1: news like that just before Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, someone had to go,
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Speaker 2: didn't they. But I think more need ago. It seems Liz,
13:01
Speaker 2: you sit on the board, You're probably going to protect
13:03
Speaker 2: the board's view. But it's a fascinating situation, isn't it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it is. I mean I really can't comment. I just
13:10
Speaker 2: think that it's been a really tough couple of months.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, yeah, you got easy if okay, So
13:16
Speaker 2: if you can't comment, can you or are you allowed
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Speaker 2: to say yes or no? Probably not, especially you two
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Speaker 2: talk amongst yourselves for this one.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, there's probably not a lot to say other
13:27
Speaker 1: than they need a new broom, don't they. They've got to,
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Speaker 1: they have to make change and go into the new
13:32
Speaker 1: year with something that puts last year behind them.
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Speaker 2: Well, I agree, I just wonder whether Liz your view
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Speaker 2: is is that public? The public debate won this? Yeah,
13:44
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I don't know. And I
13:46
Speaker 2: really don't want to speculate, because it's somebody's job, right
13:50
Speaker 2: and everybody goes into these roles, whether you're in management
13:54
Speaker 2: or on the board or the general manager of a club,
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Speaker 2: doing your best. So there was, you know, there was
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Speaker 2: some pretty robust public debate that sort of I saw
14:03
Speaker 2: sort of skip across my socials. But I actually try
14:05
Speaker 2: to try to avoid it as much as possible. I
14:08
Speaker 2: think there are things to learn out of this for
14:12
Speaker 2: really anyone who is involved in the sport or in
14:14
Speaker 2: any sport actually, but yeah, it's been a tough time
14:19
Speaker 2: over there. Look look at you go all like this.
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Speaker 2: This is a different Liz Allas, isn't it. This is
14:24
Speaker 2: like the I feel like she's batting at the crease
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Speaker 2: and defending. Yeah, exactly right. So he's a flatbat. He's
14:30
Speaker 2: another flat bat. He's another flat bat. I'll let you two.
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Speaker 1: It is very important to be clear that Jenny Wiley
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Speaker 1: informed the board that she was stepping down, So this
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Speaker 1: is that certainly the public statements are not that the
14:43
Speaker 1: organization has asked her to move on or terminated her tenure,
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Speaker 1: that she has said that this is the end of
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Speaker 1: my time and someone else needs to make a contribution.
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Speaker 1: So it's very important that we make that distinction.
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Speaker 2: Hey Gordie, Yes, Elizabeth, now you're on the coaching staff
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Speaker 2: of West Coast Fever. So I assume your Christmas wishes
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Speaker 2: come true, which is you know, having Janille Fowler Nembard back,
15:06
Speaker 2: any other Christmas wishes that you've got. Well, I can
15:09
Speaker 2: tell you one thing around Christmas that I mean. I
15:12
Speaker 2: shouldn't use a wish for this, but if I could
15:14
Speaker 2: stop Mariah Carey's song, I would be thrilled. It drives
15:19
Speaker 2: me batty that song. I don't know, it's just that.
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Speaker 2: So my wish is if I don't have to ever
15:25
Speaker 2: hear that song again, I'd be happy. Everything else is
15:28
Speaker 2: crystal for me at the moment. You love it? Yeah? Nice? Actually,
15:31
Speaker 2: it's funny, isn't it. I love having Christmas carols on
15:34
Speaker 2: at home. It makes my skin crawl when I walk
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Speaker 2: into the supermarket or the shopping center and they hear
15:39
Speaker 2: Christmas carrols because they sound a bit titty and it
15:41
Speaker 2: sounds like all the bad Christmas movies where something bad's
15:44
Speaker 2: about to happen. You can hear that tinny sort of
15:47
Speaker 2: carol music. And every time I walk into the shoppings
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, I don't want to hear that.
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Speaker 2: But when I get home and I'm decorating the tree
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Speaker 2: or sitting with a glass of champagne. Love the carols,
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Speaker 2: including the Mariah Carey one, Oh over that I like
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Speaker 2: the carols. It's just Mariah. What's your favorite carol? Oh?
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Speaker 2: I love tim mentions wine in the Sun.
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Speaker 1: It's not a Christmas carol though, is It's a Christmas
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Speaker 1: song Na, but.
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Speaker 2: It's more a Christmas Carol than Christmas Carol. Do you
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Speaker 2: guys watch Carols by candlelight on Christmas Eve in Melbourne?
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Speaker 2: The Melbourne One? Oh oh well, I mean I feel
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Speaker 2: like I'm to say yes, yes, I do love it.
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Speaker 2: Guys on the background here, I want to explain to
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Speaker 2: you I'm an absolute expert of Carols by candlelight. It
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Speaker 2: is a tradition of our family. We used to go
16:32
Speaker 2: as kids and sit and watch, but now it's turned
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Speaker 2: into it's a bit. I don't like to critique because
16:38
Speaker 2: I hate you know, like we're on TV and do
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Speaker 2: things and bits and pieces and you don't want people
16:42
Speaker 2: critiquing you. But I must admit there is one show
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Speaker 2: I critique every year and it is Carols by Candlelight
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Speaker 2: good and the song choices we do a gold, silver
16:52
Speaker 2: and bronze. There's a good friend of mine, Michael Hutchinson
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Speaker 2: that sits in Melbourne and we jump on social media
16:57
Speaker 2: and go back and forth on Carols by Candlelight. Who wins?
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Speaker 2: Marine Anthony Clear wins every year with his sequined microphone.
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Speaker 2: It's very impressive, very good, so big fan. So I
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Speaker 2: love that. That's one of my big traditions. Where should
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Speaker 2: get those? Oh yeah, sequent microphones? Just a microphone that works,
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Speaker 2: ad be great. Let's stop simple and build. Yeah exactly. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's a good tradition. What about Christmas? Stay? Do you
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Speaker 2: have any traditions on Christmas Day? Eat way too much,
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Speaker 2: drink way too much, have an afternoon nap, get up,
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Speaker 2: eat again. I mean, like, isn't that everybody's Christmas Day?
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Speaker 2: There's nothing. We play some games. My dad used to
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Speaker 2: dissect a cherry. We used to turn into a surge
17:42
Speaker 2: and get the knife out and dissect a cherry and
17:44
Speaker 2: remove the pit. That was a great tradition, So God
17:47
Speaker 2: rest his soul, Burt. It was always after a couple
17:51
Speaker 2: of red wines.
17:53
Speaker 1: You're stalling because you don't want to go into a
17:57
Speaker 1: Coxy's hot box.
17:59
Speaker 2: But it's well, we know Cox has got a hot box,
18:02
Speaker 2: but well I'm fanning myself in preparation for Cox's hot.
18:07
Speaker 1: So, Gordy, this is what we do in the summer series.
18:09
Speaker 1: We ask our guests to go into Coxy's hot box.
18:12
Speaker 1: Bre we're all actually going to do it together here.
18:14
Speaker 1: This was Catherine's directive in her absence, that I am
18:17
Speaker 1: to ask the questions and we're all going to answer them. Okay,
18:20
Speaker 1: so strap in all right, we'll start with you in
18:25
Speaker 1: each answer, and then we'll go to Liz, and then
18:27
Speaker 1: we'll go to me.
18:28
Speaker 2: Okay, coffee order, Oh I don't drink coffee? Simple? What
18:34
Speaker 2: do you? What do you do? What? What? What's the
18:36
Speaker 2: best response ever? I drink water corona, I don't drink coffee.
18:43
Speaker 2: I don't drink anything hot.
18:45
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I feel like did you just really I
18:50
Speaker 1: don't know what to hot? Enough Liz, Let's move on.
18:54
Speaker 1: Let's pretend it never happened. What do you drink a
18:57
Speaker 1: cold caffeinated beverage? Well?
19:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, like occasionally, but not like Yeah, I don't have
19:03
Speaker 2: like a regular like a drink. I just I love water.
19:07
Speaker 2: All right, Liz, what's your coffee order? Well, I'm just
19:10
Speaker 2: wondering how Susan even starts to day. If I couldn't
19:12
Speaker 2: have at drink, I wouldn't get out of bed. I
19:14
Speaker 2: have two cups of tea before I get out of
19:15
Speaker 2: bed that my husband brings me. And then I like
19:17
Speaker 2: a flat white, all the milk, all the fat. I'm
19:20
Speaker 2: a skin flat white or an iced long black. All right,
19:24
Speaker 2: I feel like you're talking a different language. Sorry, just anyhow,
19:27
Speaker 2: move on breakfast, go to ah. This has changed. I
19:32
Speaker 2: used to be always like avocado, you know, like fetter
19:36
Speaker 2: on toast or something or other. When I'm in Bali,
19:39
Speaker 2: it's pancakes because they just like it's so good. But
19:44
Speaker 2: you're gonna hate me on this one. I'm gonna say.
19:45
Speaker 2: I'm a really I don't often eat breakfast. I'm a
19:48
Speaker 2: non breakfast eat You really suck at Coxy's hot boxes.
19:52
Speaker 2: But you know, well, Cox and I've had this discussion before.
19:55
Speaker 2: She's asked these questions before over and over, and every
19:58
Speaker 2: time she just looks at me like, oh God, who
20:00
Speaker 2: are you so? But if I had to side for
20:02
Speaker 2: avocado on toast, okay, nice Elizabeth. Well, my kids have
20:07
Speaker 2: hens and so we have fresh eggs. So I am
20:10
Speaker 2: anything with eggs, and I'm obsessed at the moment with
20:12
Speaker 2: chili oil. So coach scrambled fried with chili oil. I
20:18
Speaker 2: love a chili scrambled egg.
20:19
Speaker 1: But for me, it's just a well toasted piece of sourdough,
20:22
Speaker 1: like almost burnt and jamight, thank you very much.
20:27
Speaker 2: Simple, all right. Favorite sport that is not netball? Oh
20:36
Speaker 2: that is a good question. Oh don't you don't watch
20:38
Speaker 2: sport that's not netball? Or do you know what. I'm
20:41
Speaker 2: not a big sports watcher. I don't know why, but
20:44
Speaker 2: if I do, I get sucked into the AFL. I
20:47
Speaker 2: am an AFLF not AFL. W bark for Richmond, Okay,
20:52
Speaker 2: I'm a Richmond fan. Yeah, alright, so we've had a
20:54
Speaker 2: few good years.
20:55
Speaker 1: Richmond's one of my five AFL teams because I'm not
20:58
Speaker 1: an AFL fan.
20:59
Speaker 2: But it's sort of you can have five.
21:01
Speaker 1: Yes, if I have people who are important to me
21:04
Speaker 1: and it's important to them, it's like, great, I'm on board.
21:06
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I just want you to be happy.
21:09
Speaker 2: Lee's favorite sport that's not netple, Well, I play tennis,
21:13
Speaker 2: not as often as i'd like, So that's my other favorites.
21:16
Speaker 2: One I do like watching it, and then my favorite
21:18
Speaker 2: sport is really whatever I'm watching my kids play. So
21:20
Speaker 2: in summer I watch a lot of cricket, a little
21:23
Speaker 2: bit of basketball, and in winter I watch a lot
21:25
Speaker 2: of rugby, soccer, netball. So I just like watching my
21:29
Speaker 2: kids play sport. It's one of the great joys. Although
21:31
Speaker 2: like at the moment we just right. Anyone who's had
21:34
Speaker 2: kids would know that when they hit in that age
21:36
Speaker 2: between nine and fifteen, they're so full on and there's
21:38
Speaker 2: so much driving them to training that there is no
21:41
Speaker 2: time to watch any other sport that's not their sport.
21:43
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's good fun.
21:45
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of sport, and I think cricket
21:48
Speaker 1: is my favorite. And I really like us to have
21:50
Speaker 1: a Lisa Healy on this podcast in twenty twenty six. Please,
21:53
Speaker 1: So that's a job for you. And didn't she help
21:56
Speaker 1: out when Catherine fainted?
21:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know define help. She took the piece
22:03
Speaker 2: of out of Catherine when Catherine. That was funny. That's
22:06
Speaker 2: certainly in the spirit of the no dribble help. That
22:08
Speaker 2: would be off. Yes, that's right. Caroln. Where did you
22:11
Speaker 2: love of cricket come from?
22:13
Speaker 1: It was just something Dad always had on the radio
22:16
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, and so for me it's
22:18
Speaker 1: a real sound of summer.
22:19
Speaker 2: But I also.
22:20
Speaker 1: Love I don't particularly like BBL all one day.
22:25
Speaker 2: I really love Test cricket.
22:27
Speaker 1: I think there's something, there's something just quite extraordinary about
22:31
Speaker 1: the strategy of it. And I get really sad when
22:35
Speaker 1: we don't get a five day Test.
22:37
Speaker 2: I'd rather have a five.
22:38
Speaker 1: Day drawn Test than a two day decisive victory. That
22:41
Speaker 1: means I don't get to watch more cricket. But yeah,
22:44
Speaker 1: it's just something just nostalgia I think growing up that
22:46
Speaker 1: Dad always had had it on in the radio sound
22:49
Speaker 1: a summer.
22:50
Speaker 2: I've done one Boxing Day Test and it was the
22:53
Speaker 2: day that Shane Warn bowled the record for the wickets nice,
22:58
Speaker 2: oh wow. I've was sitting with them. I was sitting
23:00
Speaker 2: with the best mate and we had this group of
23:03
Speaker 2: six guys around us and they were having a few,
23:06
Speaker 2: definitely having a few. One by one it would be
23:08
Speaker 2: their turn to go and get a drink, but none
23:11
Speaker 2: of them wanted to go because Warning might have bowled
23:13
Speaker 2: and he had one wicket to get this anyhow, So
23:15
Speaker 2: one by one they'd rush up to get their drink.
23:18
Speaker 2: No wicket, no wicket anyhow. Of course, this poor guy
23:21
Speaker 2: gets up, goes off to get his drinks, and all
23:24
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Shane bowls this wicket and it erupts
23:26
Speaker 2: around the stadium and he comes back and he just
23:29
Speaker 2: got his beer and threw it on every six glasses
23:31
Speaker 2: of beer. We were covered in beer. He was so
23:34
Speaker 2: disappointed that he missed the wicket. H oh, poor, it
23:38
Speaker 2: was a great day. That's my cricket story one and only.
23:41
Speaker 1: Okay, I reckon, I know the answer to this for you.
23:44
Speaker 1: So summer or winter, Oh, summer, summer.
23:46
Speaker 2: There is no thing in this winter. Yeah, summer. Love summer,
23:51
Speaker 2: Me too. Summer.
23:52
Speaker 1: That's the one thing I'd change about this Christmas though.
23:54
Speaker 1: I'm pretty done with the forty degree days. I mean,
23:57
Speaker 1: we've had you or something, but that's enough.
24:00
Speaker 2: Okay. Tomato sauce in the fridge or the cupboard? Oh no, fridge,
24:04
Speaker 2: fridge fridge. Yeah it is same. It goes molding in
24:08
Speaker 2: the cupboard, aren't you Yeah, fridge fridge fridge. Okay. Favorite
24:11
Speaker 2: holiday destination, Um, look, Bari Barlie. That's simple and Liz,
24:18
Speaker 2: anywhere that I'm in my caravan is a good place
24:21
Speaker 2: to be, So I like just traveling around looking at
24:23
Speaker 2: new places.
24:24
Speaker 1: Already, best holiday I think I've ever had, having traveled
24:27
Speaker 1: to all seven continents and done load of Lord how
24:30
Speaker 1: Island most amazing place too?
24:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's on the list.
24:35
Speaker 1: All right, here's the biggie, here's the biggie.
24:37
Speaker 2: How do you have your steak? Oh? Oh goodness, this
24:41
Speaker 2: is a great question. Okay, I'm going to say medium,
24:44
Speaker 2: but I get really frustrated when medium comes medium, rare,
24:47
Speaker 2: and I get nervous, so I often order medium. Well, no,
24:52
Speaker 2: I don't trust the chef. Yeah, wow, that never happens
24:55
Speaker 2: to me because if I go medium, it always comes
24:57
Speaker 2: out medium. Well, so I always ask for rare, knowing
25:00
Speaker 2: that I'll get medium, rare medium were.
25:02
Speaker 1: That is exactly what I was going to say, that
25:04
Speaker 1: I will order rare because I really wanted medium rare. Okay, So, Liz,
25:08
Speaker 1: do you wish to pass judgment? Do you wish to
25:10
Speaker 1: give Gordy any feedback on that steak order? Or are
25:14
Speaker 1: we just going to sit in silent judgment?
25:16
Speaker 2: Oh? No, Look, I just want to know where gord
25:20
Speaker 2: is going. Where they undercook the steaks rather than overcook
25:22
Speaker 2: the steaks. This is outstanding. I mean, let's be honest.
25:25
Speaker 2: Gordy doesn't drink coffee, doesn't have breakfast, and orders a
25:29
Speaker 2: medium to well done steak. I'm a different Newman. I
25:35
Speaker 2: wonder how our friends lucky. You're funny. They had to
25:39
Speaker 2: move me to the West var away ly this is true,
25:42
Speaker 2: but you know we do bond over beer. Yes, yes, true.
25:46
Speaker 2: And a New Year's resolution. I've never been sound miserable, don't.
25:52
Speaker 2: I have never been a New Year's resolution person, and
25:55
Speaker 2: simply because I don't hold true to it, like I
25:59
Speaker 2: just don't hold true, I tell you what. And in
26:02
Speaker 2: all honesty, not that I can necessarily control this, but
26:05
Speaker 2: I can contribute to it. I just I want human kindness.
26:08
Speaker 2: I'm a big human kindness person. It's the one thing
26:11
Speaker 2: that rocks my world. And so obviously last week wasn't
26:15
Speaker 2: a great rocking of the world. But what I have
26:17
Speaker 2: loved is watching all the human kindness flood after that,
26:20
Speaker 2: And I hope that twenty twenty six is full of
26:22
Speaker 2: human kindness.
26:24
Speaker 1: And the beauty of actually that is that while you
26:26
Speaker 1: can't change the world, you can just every little act
26:30
Speaker 1: that you do in the human kindness space actually does
26:33
Speaker 1: help sach a difference. You know that all does sound
26:36
Speaker 1: a little bit we are the world, but I really
26:38
Speaker 1: mean that that. It's like, well, you can't change everything,
26:40
Speaker 1: but absolutely what you do makes a different and I
26:42
Speaker 1: reckon it makes a difference in ways that you don't know. Like,
26:45
Speaker 1: you know, we were in Europe earlier this year and
26:49
Speaker 1: we went and we sat on the steps of Manmatra
26:51
Speaker 1: and there was a busker there singing this song and
26:54
Speaker 1: we're still singing it as a family, and this guy
26:57
Speaker 1: has no idea that on the other side of the
26:58
Speaker 1: world he created some beauty. He just was there singing,
27:02
Speaker 1: doing what he did. And what eight months later, we're
27:06
Speaker 1: still remembering that joy that he created then. And it's like,
27:09
Speaker 1: you don't know, so let's just keep putting it out there.
27:12
Speaker 1: Lee's New Year's resolution starts smoking.
27:15
Speaker 2: Oh, keep drinking, get it, get a top like us. Yeah, yeah,
27:23
Speaker 2: that's true, part of the part of the Yeah, be
27:26
Speaker 2: part of the gang. I my news resolution. I hadn't
27:29
Speaker 2: really thought about it untill now, but it is to
27:31
Speaker 2: maybe keep giving blood. When I went the other day,
27:34
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this is not too bad, and
27:36
Speaker 2: part of it is because it makes me feel good.
27:38
Speaker 2: The other parties is because the chocolate milkshake after I
27:41
Speaker 2: have it, Oh my god. I have a theory that
27:44
Speaker 2: there is nothing as good as a cup of tea
27:46
Speaker 2: you have after you give birth and the milkshake you
27:49
Speaker 2: have after you give blood. So I'm not giving birth again,
27:53
Speaker 2: so I'll give ciche.
27:56
Speaker 1: Yes, it is great, and I've been on a vow
27:59
Speaker 1: to get Coxy in to give blood with me. But
28:01
Speaker 1: that's that has been a great outcome from this, and
28:04
Speaker 1: I hope that everybody who has donated for the first
28:07
Speaker 1: time becomes a regular Joiner because you get nice gifts.
28:09
Speaker 1: I've got a really good coffee cup too that after
28:12
Speaker 1: a while and everything. Here's a present. You know, I
28:14
Speaker 1: see her anyway, but thank you, love it goodness. Yeah, Okay, Gordy,
28:18
Speaker 1: who's going to win sun Corps Super and Neple in
28:21
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six?
28:22
Speaker 2: And this is what I'll tell you. I dropped out.
28:24
Speaker 1: Before and this is I think Dan Ryan's in charge
28:26
Speaker 1: of my internet, because I was going to say, going
28:28
Speaker 1: to be tough for West Coast without Sunday and without Janelle, So.
28:32
Speaker 2: Tough, toughyir friend has had a very good international series
28:36
Speaker 2: and she'll step up and have an opportunity for a
28:37
Speaker 2: lot more court times. So I feel like our list
28:39
Speaker 2: has been covered well, but everyone's up against the eight ball.
28:43
Speaker 2: I reckon next year just quickly. Next year will be
28:45
Speaker 2: the toughest season to guess who's who, with so many
28:50
Speaker 2: changes in teams within reason, new coaches in, and also
28:54
Speaker 2: a really limited preparation time. So if you've got a
28:56
Speaker 2: high international number in your list, you get very limited
29:01
Speaker 2: time to prepare as a collective group, so theirse are
29:05
Speaker 2: all the dynamics. So I think some sides that might
29:07
Speaker 2: not necessarily fire early may fire late. You might see
29:11
Speaker 2: other sides that are kind of clicked quite early but
29:13
Speaker 2: may not be able to sustain. So I'm not sure.
29:16
Speaker 2: I do think though, Vixens will be right up there again,
29:20
Speaker 2: and I think Die Honey will bring something a little
29:23
Speaker 2: different than Simone and I think that'll put them in
29:26
Speaker 2: reasonably good stead. And I'd like to think Fever will
29:28
Speaker 2: still be up there with a red hot crack. It
29:30
Speaker 2: was interesting, wasn't it.
29:31
Speaker 1: Both Vixens and Fever had a slow start last year,
29:34
Speaker 1: and they were the two Grand vinalists Senate going down
29:36
Speaker 1: to the wire. Yeah, I'm not going to ask you, Liz,
29:39
Speaker 1: because we've got a we can do that in the
29:41
Speaker 1: new year. But I do think that I will get
29:43
Speaker 1: the three of us and Coxy to write and seal
29:46
Speaker 1: it in an envelope what we think the positions one
29:50
Speaker 1: through eight will be, and we'll see at the end
29:52
Speaker 1: of the season who, apart from me, was the least
29:55
Speaker 1: successful in picking that order.
29:59
Speaker 2: Oh all right, I mean it's just another pressure, like
30:03
Speaker 2: tipping my goodness, well that's coming back too. Well.
30:08
Speaker 1: That is the end of our extraordinary Summer series episode. Gordy,
30:12
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. It's always a delight to have
30:16
Speaker 1: you here. And this has been a it's been a
30:18
Speaker 1: lovely chat.
30:19
Speaker 2: I have sworn a lot. I apologize.
30:21
Speaker 1: I hope that my internet connection Queensland.
30:23
Speaker 2: Come on, Internet, what's going on. I'm at my dad's house.
30:26
Speaker 2: Come on.
30:27
Speaker 1: But yeah, signing off now. I hope everyone has a
30:29
Speaker 1: great break. We will have Summer series episodes starting again.
30:32
Speaker 1: We don't drop one on New Year's Eve, but we
30:33
Speaker 1: do drop another one on January the eighth or the
30:37
Speaker 1: tenth or something like that, and we've got some amazing
30:39
Speaker 1: guests throughout January, and then we're back again in early feb.
30:43
Speaker 2: But I'm Carolyn'swindell. I'm lose Ellis, and all I want
30:47
Speaker 2: for Christmas is Mariah Carey to piss off. I'm so
30:50
Speaker 2: God see you Cordy. All right, I have a great
30:54
Speaker 2: break everyone, Bye, bye all that God. Christmas paris just
31:03
Speaker 2: one day, I mean, and I don't care about lost persons.