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Interview: Nick Mohammed · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: A Smalls show, A Smiley show.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, so he'll constantly be on the wings.
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  Speaker 2: Second guests more than a design, it's welcome next, It's meant.
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  Speaker 1: We're on the countdown to the start of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six b for World Cup is going
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  Speaker 1: to be on SBS and SBS on demand here in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: The world game football. You are leading the World Cup
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  Speaker 1: Watches Rights Association. It's a national body dedicated to proudly
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  Speaker 1: advocating for fans rights to watch the world's largest sporting
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  Speaker 1: event on work time. And I feel like if there
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  Speaker 1: is a man who was born for that job, it
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  Speaker 1: was user.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I fit.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think you know, the World Cup doesn't come
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  Speaker 3: around all the time, and I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: nothing unites us as well as countries, but as you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a whole planet, right and something like the World Cup.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, obviously the SBS World Cup Watches Rights Association
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  Speaker 3: is sort of dedicated to encouraging bosses well around Australia
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  Speaker 3: to encouraging their employees to be able to watch football
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  Speaker 3: during work hours because of course with the time difference,
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  Speaker 3: you know that that is when it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: on and so yeah, Look, I have such a kind
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  Speaker 3: of a strange relationship with football because I was never
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  Speaker 3: really massively into it as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: My dad was hugely into it. But then three, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, as I kind of grew up, and certainly as
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  Speaker 3: a result of being involved in shows like ted Lasso
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  Speaker 3: and so on, I've kind of become increasingly fond of it,
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  Speaker 3: and particularly the World Cup. Actually, there's something incredibly hearty
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  Speaker 3: about sort of getting behind you your nation.
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  Speaker 1: Did you did you learn any when you were were
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  Speaker 1: doing ted Lasso? Did you learn anything? Was that all
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  Speaker 1: act like obviously, but did you learn anything about football
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  Speaker 1: that you didn't know?
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  Speaker 2: In terms of ted Lasso?
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  Speaker 3: Look, yeah, I couldn't help but be I guess inspired
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  Speaker 3: really by it because you know, so many of the
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  Speaker 3: you know, the people involved in that show, and particularly
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  Speaker 3: the creators, they're mad for it. And you know, all
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  Speaker 3: the guys playing footballers, I mean they were all I
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  Speaker 3: mean some of which were semi ro players. I mean Chrysto,
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  Speaker 3: who plays Danny ro has has become pro now and.
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  Speaker 2: Like so it's sort of it's mad. You can't help
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  Speaker 2: but be infected by that.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of passion for the sport and just sort of
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  Speaker 3: appreciating how much of a team sport it is. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, not saying for a second that pretending to
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  Speaker 3: be a coach, you know, you know makes you like
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  Speaker 3: a coach of a football team by any means.
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  Speaker 1: No, it does. No, I think it does. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's very good. Yeah, don't particularly particularly if you're method.
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  Speaker 1: If your method, I mean totally and you come across
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  Speaker 1: as a method to me, so you know you totally.
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  Speaker 2: I believe I was the coach of west Ham for
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  Speaker 2: a good year.
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  Speaker 3: But but you know, because we genuinely got to film
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  Speaker 3: at like London Stadium and Wen'by Stadium and things like that,
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  Speaker 3: it did feel like you know, you do suddenly you
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  Speaker 3: go into these places and you know, you walk down
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  Speaker 3: a tun and it's like an arena and you can't
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  Speaker 3: help but you know, be inspired by that.
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  Speaker 2: Of course the crowd's not there, but yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of magical that really, and it definitely
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  Speaker 3: did it did it sort of reignited something.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Nick Muhammad is on the air with us now. Man,
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  Speaker 1: it's so good to have you on. Obviously, Ted Lasso
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  Speaker 1: has such a cult following and a huge fan base
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  Speaker 1: here in Australia. I'm sure it's blown you away since
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  Speaker 1: season one came out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, certainly Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously it came out during the pandemic, so
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  Speaker 3: it was such an uncanny thing to kind of go
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  Speaker 3: from coming out of lockdown and then realizing I remember
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  Speaker 3: the first time I went to America and realizing that
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  Speaker 3: it was it was such a hit show and not
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  Speaker 3: really appreciating. I think I went to a really I
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  Speaker 3: was filming a film in Albuquerque and I went to
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  Speaker 3: just a really niche hot air balloon festival sort of
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  Speaker 3: this sort of around the corner from where I was saying,
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  Speaker 3: and like everyone's like, hey, it's Nate and I was
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  Speaker 3: like what.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I love I love I love that. Now let me
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  Speaker 1: hit you with the Apparently one third of Ossie workers
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  Speaker 1: have booked a meeting specifically to watch the World Cup,
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  Speaker 1: and one in ten OSSI's have admitted that they're going
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  Speaker 1: to hide under their desk to watch sports secretly. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, we are a sports loving country. Quite yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to our detriment, one would say sometimes like we spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot if we put as much effort into sport
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  Speaker 1: as we did to other things. We would be well
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  Speaker 1: betting above our average. But we just love, we love,
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  Speaker 1: we're mad for sport here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's what the Watchers Association is really
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  Speaker 3: all about, is you know. We don't want people necessarily
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  Speaker 3: having to hide under their desks, sort of having to
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  Speaker 3: watch it in secret or watch it on the slide.
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  Speaker 3: We want bosses to sort of say, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: come on, let's all watch it together, Let's take a
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  Speaker 3: bit of time out and watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you're going to be rooting for England, I am assuming.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, can't not, can't not?
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  Speaker 1: What's the shape of your team looking like at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's good.
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  Speaker 3: I think there were some there were some kind of controversies,
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  Speaker 3: but no, I do think I do think it's good actually,
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  Speaker 3: And you know, whether it's coming home or not, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, well, you know, from here in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: we just love to get out of the group stage.
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  Speaker 1: For us, we just would love to get out of
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  Speaker 1: the groups. That that's what weird. It doesn't we don't
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  Speaker 1: we know it's not coming home here. Trust me when
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  Speaker 1: I say we know, we know it's not coming home.
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  Speaker 2: We just well, that's the beauty of the sport, isn't
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  Speaker 2: it. It is unpredictable. You just never know. You just never know.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, mate, well, thank you for doing the God's work
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  Speaker 1: and getting behind the World Cup Watchers Rights Association. You're
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  Speaker 1: a busy man so that you even have time for
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  Speaker 1: for such a chairmanship. I'm just I'm impressed.
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  Speaker 2: I will get I will thank you very much.
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