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Mamma Mia and the Meerkats! Who won the 2026 Super Netball signings season? · No Dribble

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to No Dribble, the podcast where we
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  Speaker 1: talk about netball, but we talk about so much more.
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  Speaker 1: And we have done it. We have made it through winter.
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  Speaker 1: It is not spring. Yes, it is good. It's also bad, though,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, because netball happens in winter. So we have
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  Speaker 1: to wait. We have to suffer through summer, although not
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  Speaker 1: very far into summer next year to get back to
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  Speaker 1: sun crops, supernetbwl. But fortunately we do have the diamonds
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  Speaker 1: in spring. My name's Carolyn Swindle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kath Cox. Rabbits everyone, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We just always say rabbits. If you say rabbit's the
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  Speaker 2: very first thing that comes out of your mouth at
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  Speaker 2: the start of the month, it's good luck for the month.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: We just like to slam each other with pinch and
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  Speaker 1: a punch at our house.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's good. Yeah. I don't know about the
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  Speaker 2: rabbits thing anyway, I got it out this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, sometimes I forget you. Have you tracked it
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  Speaker 1: to see whether it works?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? But I will from now. Well I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting here with you too, so that's a great start.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say and excellent, good luck. We
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  Speaker 1: have someone with a voice back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh look, I've thought I've got a voice back. Rabbits, rabbits.
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  Speaker 3: Pinch and a punch to both of you, no returns.
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  Speaker 3: It's Liz on the North coast Gold. It's cold where
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  Speaker 3: I am, and look, I thought my voice would be
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  Speaker 3: back by now, and it's not. And that's as much
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  Speaker 3: a function of the fact that I've been to six
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  Speaker 3: sporting or training events in the last four days, none
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  Speaker 3: of which I was participating in, than it was about it,
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  Speaker 3: like as much about that is about being six. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling much better, but I still sound like I've
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  Speaker 3: been on the Whiskeys and Cities all weekend, which I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: That makes me think that Liz is quite vocal on
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  Speaker 2: the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, would you expect any less.
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  Speaker 3: Though, well, I thought she might.
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  Speaker 2: Be a little bit more reframed, although she was telling
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  Speaker 2: us a story about GONEF and seas.
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  Speaker 3: Well I did. I didn't go to any F and
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  Speaker 3: c's on the weekend, but no. Everyone had her Rugby
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  Speaker 3: Grand Final Friday night, which didn't go as planned for
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  Speaker 3: her ones planned for the other team. But I like,
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  Speaker 3: all I cared about was that she got through it,
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  Speaker 3: because really, who cares about rugby? I just care about netball.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, I don't care what the score is, sweetheart,
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  Speaker 3: as long as you're not injured. Anyway, she didn't get injured,
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  Speaker 3: so that's a win in my book. And then Saturday
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  Speaker 3: was Nettie. It was our last round game. So now
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  Speaker 3: semi finals this week, I know, which is exciting. And
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  Speaker 3: so now I've turned into you know, sending lots of
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  Speaker 3: messages on the WhatsApp group one need everyone at training
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  Speaker 3: this time got to be ready to go. And one
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  Speaker 3: of the dads set me back a gift that had
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  Speaker 3: just someone saluting saying yes sir.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly as it should be.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly right. What else did you expect? And then
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  Speaker 3: yesterday was like a gala day and cricket training and
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  Speaker 3: then today I've just got back from taking Austin to
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  Speaker 3: Zone Athletics where he was in the discus.
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  Speaker 2: Oh how did he go in the discus?
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  Speaker 3: Well he came third, and that means we've got to
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  Speaker 3: go to Coffs Harbor next week I think for regional
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is. Then you know, you have that
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  Speaker 3: moment of on the one hand, you're like, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: hope they go well. On the other hand, and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: hope not that well that we have to drug cross, haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh do you know what I did to my dad?
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  Speaker 2: So I still hold the shot put record at Cherrybrook
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  Speaker 2: Public School. That's a long record. Anyway. I made it
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  Speaker 2: through to whatever regional or whatever comes after that. For
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  Speaker 2: the shop port. Dad drove me all the way to Campbelltown,
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  Speaker 2: took the day off. We had to go to Campbelltown
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  Speaker 2: for the thing. I did three fouls. We got back
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  Speaker 2: in the car and drove back.
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  Speaker 3: But do you know what he was wrapped because you
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  Speaker 3: didn't qualify for the next part of it. So he
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  Speaker 3: did have to take you anywhere after that exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But that's your point, isn't it. I'm so sorry dad.
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  Speaker 2: Three fouls and go home. Well, it was all over
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  Speaker 2: in a matter of minutes. Failed anyway, That's why I
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  Speaker 2: played netball, not athletics.
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  Speaker 1: So I've done some homework.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh gosh.
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  Speaker 1: We asked Daryl to watch Greece too, and he refused.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll sack him from his unpaid job for insubordination. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fair enough that he refused, but I've
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  Speaker 1: done a bit of research. I didn't watch it either,
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  Speaker 1: but I've gone to Wikipedia. So Greece too, it is
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  Speaker 1: said at the same school, Rye Ell High, three years later,
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  Speaker 1: so it's Michelle Pfeiffer, so that was correct. And Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: Porfield who plays clean cut British student Michael Carrington, who
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  Speaker 1: was a cousin of Sandy Olsen, the character played by
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  Speaker 1: Livia Newton John Right. Returning actors. There were some returning actors,
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  Speaker 1: so Eve Arden who was principal McGee, Secretary Blanche Dodie
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  Speaker 1: Goodman came back Frenchie. Deede conn came back as still
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  Speaker 1: as Frenchie, and she was trying to promote her Beauty
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  Speaker 1: school to students.
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  Speaker 2: But like she wasn't a student.
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  Speaker 1: No, she didn't come back as a student. If you
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  Speaker 1: remember in Greece, she dropped out. She was Beauty school.
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  Speaker 3: Drops so bad? Is it? Frankie Avalon? Is that who?
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  Speaker 3: Or Frankie who sang that song? Frankie Frankie Avalon. I
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  Speaker 3: just kept looking at his hair the other night when
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: Watching the movie forward that part.
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  Speaker 3: Would that haircut survive the test of time? If you
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  Speaker 3: read did Greece now you wouldn't You wouldn't allow that
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  Speaker 3: here do There's just something I didn't like about it anyway,
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  Speaker 3: So are you saying that friendship eventually went back to
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  Speaker 3: beauty school and graduated.
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  Speaker 1: I guess so been how old at school? You are
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  Speaker 1: drilling so far down into my quick perusal of.
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  Speaker 3: A Wikipedia entry about Greece, And that's a problem with
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  Speaker 3: using Wikipedia to research.
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  Speaker 1: There's more. This is interesting. Remember creative face, he was
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  Speaker 1: the guy. Yeah, came as the same character. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So I couldn't work out like I think he might
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  Speaker 1: have been in high school. So yeah, remember he went
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  Speaker 1: out with Church. She was thirty five, God's sake, come on,
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  Speaker 1: So there we go. Job. Also, interestingly, Eugene Felsnick came back.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was a student, so maybe he was
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  Speaker 1: in year nine or something in Greece.
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  Speaker 2: So in Greece, Eugene that got the pie in the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Jeene fells Oh can you please watch it?
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  Speaker 1: Well? Can you watch?
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  Speaker 2: It's rabbit's touching my nose. It's great research. Appreciate that
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  Speaker 2: word on you.
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  Speaker 1: And Liz, I'll see your daughter not knowing that Greece
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  Speaker 1: isn't about the country Greece and I will raise you.
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  Speaker 1: This morning, Pete's been up at his parents place and
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  Speaker 1: brought back a whole bunch of records, including the best
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  Speaker 1: of Abba, which they bought me. This is the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven one they had, and my daughter picked it
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  Speaker 1: up this morning and looked at it and she went,
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  Speaker 1: they've got a lot of the same songs as in
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  Speaker 1: Mamma Mia.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God, love her.
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  Speaker 1: I know what am I doing. I've failed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you ask me, you haven't failed. I don't
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  Speaker 2: like Abba. I think that's a win.
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  Speaker 1: But if she should know that Mama Mia, she's seen
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  Speaker 1: all three Mumma Mea movies, she should know that that
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  Speaker 1: is based on the music of Abba. I would have
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  Speaker 1: thought that is a fairly basic kind of piece of
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  Speaker 1: cultural knowledge to hold.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Maybe so she's had the education this morning, though, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I had this similar experience
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  Speaker 1: maybe fifteen years ago, when remember they re released They
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  Speaker 1: brought out a new Footloose movie which was terrible, No
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  Speaker 1: one should watch it, And my stepdaughter said, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that there was an original Footloose movie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she thought the second one was yeah, the yeah good,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you should watch the second Grease and I'll watch
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  Speaker 2: the second Footloose. Oh god, okay, should we just both know? Watch?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Life for sure, isn't it? You know? Do you really
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  Speaker 1: want to squander several hours of it on that? But yes,
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was gobsmacked this morning at the Muma
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  Speaker 1: mea thing so fail mother, Well.
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  Speaker 2: My child hasn't done anything silly like that recently.
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  Speaker 1: Well, mother's shaming.
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  Speaker 2: But but girlfriend is the most uncoordinated person I think
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  Speaker 2: I've ever come across. If anyone is injured, it's always
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  Speaker 2: her or because of her. So we had our netball
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  Speaker 2: pre lim on Friday night and it was an unreal game.
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  Speaker 2: They were down by like four or five at halftime
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  Speaker 2: to this team we'd never been before, and I was
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  Speaker 2: a bit like, it's all over, red Rover. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a great season. They got it back to level with
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  Speaker 2: minutes remaining in the game and the other team got
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  Speaker 2: up by one. So it was a very exciting real game.
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  Speaker 2: Or so proud of them. Anyway, we turtled off to
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  Speaker 2: the after.
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  Speaker 1: Partans are probably having a little PTSD at the moment, though.
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  Speaker 2: The Dixon got a bit active. Anyway, we went to
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  Speaker 2: one of the player's houses for a little after party,
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  Speaker 2: and the kids were so full of beans. It was
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  Speaker 2: great to see. They had the tunes up, they were dancing,
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  Speaker 2: they were eating pizzas whatever. Parents were all inside having
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  Speaker 2: some champagne, chatting away. Great night. You know when you're like,
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  Speaker 2: should I have one more drink or should I go home? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: next time I get to that point, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go home, because it seems to be if you hang around,
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  Speaker 2: you give the kid's, the tired kids, more opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: something to go around. Anyways, we're all sitting there having
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  Speaker 2: a great time. Next minute, one of the girls comes
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  Speaker 2: in holding her nose, balling her eyes out, couldn't speak,
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  Speaker 2: takes this is to the parents, so she's left the
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  Speaker 2: kids in the other room, takes her hands away. It
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  Speaker 2: was claret for days. And then in comes a very
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  Speaker 2: sheepish harper right behind her. So they were doing handstands
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  Speaker 2: and old mate, who's nearly cleaned me up a thousand
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  Speaker 2: times because she doesn't look where she's going before she
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  Speaker 2: flicks he legs in the air, clocked her best friend
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  Speaker 2: in the nose and it's safe to say it's broken.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, the amount of blood and it got a
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  Speaker 2: lump and a big bruise on it straight away. I
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  Speaker 2: saw this kid yesterday. She's got black eyes. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: not good anyway. Harper's like, oh, mama, just it was
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  Speaker 2: an accident. I'm like, it's an accident, yes, buddy, but
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  Speaker 2: you've got to appreciate the length of your limbs. You've
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: got no idea. So she cleaned up another kid yesterday
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  Speaker 2: at the zoo too, because she was running in their legs.
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  Speaker 2: She fell down, took the skin off her.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, Catherine, there is no surprise, and that
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  Speaker 3: she's wearing the goalkeeper big.
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  Speaker 2: But she's coordinated when she plays keeper. What's that about?
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  Speaker 2: Can't play attack because we'll trip over our own feet,
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  Speaker 2: but can play keeper? Well, I feel like I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that's the story of your life.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll make a comment to people I'm so clumsy,
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  Speaker 3: and like you blame nball for astro. I'm like, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: you don't understand the moment I got caught on the klutz. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: slash things and I hurt people, and I mean I've
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  Speaker 3: done the same to you, Catherine, post grade final, I
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  Speaker 3: break your nose once, So I feel like it's just
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  Speaker 3: half an eight like, maybe my spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Out of his house.
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  Speaker 3: My god, you're telling this story and I'm like, I've
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  Speaker 3: heard this story before. Was after the two thousand ten
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  Speaker 3: Grand Vinyl or something hasn't old retired by then two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and four Grand Final.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know when you're as much blood that day,
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  Speaker 2: this kid, I'm still standing at the end and these
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  Speaker 2: are to No, this is someone else's house. So that's
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  Speaker 2: when the party kind of wrapped up at that point,
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  Speaker 2: when there was blood all over their floor and time
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  Speaker 2: to go home now everyone, it was not good anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe she'll go to his own and foul out
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  Speaker 1: three times and you can turn around and drive her
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  Speaker 1: home one day.
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  Speaker 2: I think she's probably more likely to throw the shot
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  Speaker 2: put at somebody and hurt them.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give her a javelin. No, Okay, so you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: spirit animals. I did ask last week for the Dribblers
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  Speaker 1: to nominate some spirit animals. Thank you. Darryl had come up.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see Darryl asked chat gpt to do his job. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: now come on, get chat Cheep to watch Grace too
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  Speaker 1: for you, Daryl. But he asked chat gpt to anthropomorphize
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  Speaker 1: that photo of the three of us, and you were
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  Speaker 1: a draft Liz, you were a kangaroo and I was
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  Speaker 1: a Tasmanian devil.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like my kangaroo looked a little bit like
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  Speaker 3: a donkey?
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  Speaker 1: What's that telling us?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what. I love that you two wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: touch it.
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  Speaker 1: So have you guys had to think about what your
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  Speaker 1: spirit animal might be? Or have any of your family
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  Speaker 1: or friends given you any helpful feedback?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I asked the kid. She looked at me for
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  Speaker 2: a while. I think she thought it meant what you
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  Speaker 2: look like? Yeah, she goes, I can see seal.
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  Speaker 1: I I don't know what as in kiss from a rose,
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  Speaker 1: seal or as Either.
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  Speaker 2: Way, it's not good, is it? Lighty? Kloan? I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not at Rex's husband. I reckon. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: bit I reckon. I'm either I'm a labrador because you know,
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  Speaker 2: excited to see people and whatever, but I'm also a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a mere cat. I'm thinking, boys, what's coming on?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing now?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that one.
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  Speaker 2: That was a hard one for me to answer. What
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  Speaker 2: did you come up with?
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  Speaker 1: Well? I asked my family again, Well, it's quite fun
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  Speaker 1: to give them an opportunity to get some stuff off
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  Speaker 1: their chest. My daughter immediately said ferret, which I which
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  Speaker 1: I sort of. I said, if you got something nice,
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  Speaker 1: so she said that is nice. So remember, not so
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  Speaker 1: long ago, we met the ferret named cath. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is her cousin's pet. And she quite she quite
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  Speaker 1: liked Kat the ferret. You know, you're small and you're busy,
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  Speaker 1: my son said a snapping turtle. So he said, you know, small,
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  Speaker 1: you look kind of cute, but don't get too close.
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  Speaker 1: And my husband was much more complimentary, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're like a hummingbird. And it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably like just small and like I just busy, busy. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought Jack. So mom was going to
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  Speaker 1: say Jack Russell, because that's just yes, what.
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  Speaker 3: Are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what are we doing? Let's go, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that. I can see that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I like that one. What about you, miss Elizabeth?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've been shit at my homework. I forgot to
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  Speaker 3: ask my family, maybe mainly because my third and year
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  Speaker 3: old didn't like me on the weekend, so I was
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  Speaker 3: a bit scared of what response I might get. And
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  Speaker 3: I've just literally been in the car for an hour
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  Speaker 3: with my son and my husband, and I forgot to
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  Speaker 3: ask them because I was talking about other things, and
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say a mere cat, So that
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  Speaker 3: just ruined Eavoro. I sort of put herself up as
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  Speaker 3: a mere cat, but I don't actually, that's not really
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  Speaker 3: my spirit animal. I just like them, think they're funny.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why we're mates. See.
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  Speaker 1: We went to the three years ago and we stayed
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  Speaker 1: in the glamping tent things, and we got a tour
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  Speaker 1: by one of the zookeepers there and took us down
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  Speaker 1: to the meer cats and they've got you know, they
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  Speaker 1: have a glass fence at the front, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: at about three o'clock every day, the sun hits that
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  Speaker 1: and turns it into a mirror. So all of the
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  Speaker 1: mere cats every day stand up to fight, and what
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  Speaker 1: they do they just sort of bounce their ready to fight,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course the warring meer cats who've come
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  Speaker 1: to oppose them, well they're bouncing at exactly the same time,
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  Speaker 1: and then so the meer cats are like, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: we've just got to stay firm bouncing, and then the
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  Speaker 1: sun moves and the others run away. So the opposing
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  Speaker 1: meer cats run and this happens every day, and the
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  Speaker 1: meer cats have never worked out. Hey, that's just us.
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  Speaker 2: In the mirror, a mere cat. It is all making perfect.
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  Speaker 2: I go to fight.
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  Speaker 1: Myself to it.
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  Speaker 3: They run away. We'll go a little blue ren at
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  Speaker 3: the moment that every morning does that on our door.
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  Speaker 3: And he fights himself and he hits it. But it's
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  Speaker 3: funny that he hits. He flies into the glass, flies
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  Speaker 3: into the glass. He sits on the chair and he
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  Speaker 3: flies up and pecks at the glass. And I just
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  Speaker 3: don't understand why nothing of his brain goes that. Feel
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  Speaker 3: like another bird.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: We are perfectly in sync, this enemy bird and I.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: One day that's not going to work out for him.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: You might have to go.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: He doesn't hit it with any great force, just sort
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: of picks at it. So yeah, so look, I don't
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: know that we've got coming in closer to figuring out
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: my spirit animal. I should go away and do a
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: bit more sort of homework.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I ca until you come up with a better suggestion.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: You're a donkey, yeah, a half donkey, half kangaroo donkey roo.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I gave you because I could jump and I sometimes
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: sound like I'm braining particular in the moment. Maybe if
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Donkey Roo is it?
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. Can I tell you a story?
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: So last week I had two days in Melbourne doing
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: net set Go stuff with Netball Australia. It was so
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: much fun, Pst Australia stuff. Liz such awesome people and
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: so lovely, so switched on. So the whole thing just
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: ran so smoothly and I just had to rock up
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: and basically on some drills with these fabulous kids that
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: they called in, so there was about thirty kids. Anyway,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the very first session, I was demonstrating some warm up stuff,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: so I was doing high knee kicks and all this,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what I was getting off the ground.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I have not lost this, I've still got core.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: This this is looking good. I actually felt really good,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I kid you not. Within an hour my hips had
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: shut up shop and I was in so much pain.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: And this was like a It was seven point thirty
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to probably four pm that were at the courts. I
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: was on the ground stretching within a couple of hours.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Like that's how bad it was, Like how can he
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: go from hero to zero so quickly? But it put
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: me back in my place. So the next day, when
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I had to do the warm up again, I was like, oh,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: just I'll just do the jogging part.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Myself. Oh God, did you go into wool worst and
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: get some neuropan do you know what?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I actually contemplated it, but there wasn't one close by
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: that I could get the ante in flame. So I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: did go home though, and just lie still and not move.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: But funny because I saw yesterday all this fast five
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: not fast five? Is it? What's the competition that Maria
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Tutare and to broader and doing five five? Yeah, it's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: like it, but it's a version of fast five I think. Anyway,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Kat tou of Art's agreed to play in one of
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the teams, and she posted something on socials yesterday she
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: was going for a run and she's filming herself smiling
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and then she pulls this face. What am I doing?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And I just text her and I was like, what
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: are you doing? For real? When she goes, yeah, I know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I'm so regretting saying yes to this decision. So I'm like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: she's exactly like me. I think at the idea that
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: the idea of it at the start seemed like a
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: good idea, but.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Then particularly fast five. It's like it's fits first the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: normal netbook exactly.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: But I guess she's hanging a hat on the fact
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: that she's just going to get the ball and drain
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: long shots and hopefully not have to do anything.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yep, she can get I don't, I say, yep, like
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I know what that's like FIRSTA I don't know.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So I've agreed to play other daughter team for Twilight
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Netball for a fast five. No, not a fast five,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: but ballot a Twilight netball.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Oh no, but is it like a super shots and stuff.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: No, no, there's the fast five component, but I'm not
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: playing in that competition. It was funny normal netball.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Oh I can't love it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just normally Twilight. And I'm just doing it because
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: on Ashfelt. No, well it's not Ashfelt. It's the you know,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the old weather surface.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Which can I just say on behalf of all of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the opposition teams piss off Lizzellis you know, come on, Carolyn.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I'm fifty two. I think I think, I think I'm
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: not a threat. Well I know I'm not a threat,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: but there's well, one of my options right, there's a
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Everyone was like, oh, there's a couple of girls in
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: her REP team and their mums are playing. And I
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, did she ask me? I'm not yea,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I'd like to play. We've been talking about putting in
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: a team, and I thought I'd like to play with
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: my daughter.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Did you have to ask your daughter to ask you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to play?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Maybe?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I just heard no.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: So her and I have been talking about playing together,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and then and then there was a discussion about a
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: mother daughter's team and there we are.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So what position are you going to play?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but would you whatever.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Do something other than defense or are they gonna stick
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you there?
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I just you know what, I don't know. I haven't
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: even thought that far. I just scared thinking more about
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: getting the physio and speeder. Yes, I wonder.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Actually, I'm really keen to see how you pull up
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: after the first game. When is that spring?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Spring?
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I play tennis every week, so you know similar. I
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: don't have the change ofer coord.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: No, I know, but I feel like it as I
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: discovered doing this warm up, which was literally ten minutes.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: It's all the it's the hit movement and the like
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: your pelvis movement but if you're playing tennis, it's probably similar,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: isn't it Like it's not going for a run in
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: a straight Line's yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: It's a bit similar. And I do pilates and stuff,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: so I feel like that's okay. I'm just more worried.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: A just had general sauness. I'm going to have or
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: channeling my inner half heart? How many times I'm going
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: to fall over and hurt myself? That's what's really No,
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I hurt other people.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Just take someone else down with you when you go.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Why would I change?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Now, you've got a great base, you'll be fine.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll see. I don't know, but I'm a shooter.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so when is that? And when we when? Can
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: we look forward to updates?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I'll get the let's get up there and watch it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: That'd be great. I think I'll them that. Yeah, look,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I think you should come up and watch. I think
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: it's October sometime.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Get your gin, sit on the sideline. Are we allowed
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to heckle? Can't tell us.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: This, cath. You have been looking for this opportunity to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: sit to watch some high quality sport drinking a can
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of gin.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like we need to do this a high
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: quality sport entertainment. I reckon, But there is other netball
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: news of the week, isn't there. So the draw has
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: been released which is very exciting, and.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: A head coach being announced for the Vixens that hadn't
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: happened for Yeah, that's true.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I still think that's the worst job on the planets.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: But I think if it's going to go to anyone
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: going to die is good. Yeah, because she knows them
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: in that environment for a long time. She was assistant
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: coach when I.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Was assistant coach when you were there, so Cya.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: She's been at the club thirteen years as well.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I love die honey. She's funny and she's naughty, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: she's also very naughty. Yes, So what she like as
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a coach? Do you think she'd be different to Simone?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: The same as Simone? Is it continuous? Like what do
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you assess?
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's always difficult to determine
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: what they're going to be like because they haven't done
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you don't see them in that capacity. So certainly she
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: would put her two bobs worth in and take certain
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: parts of training. Obviously no dramas there, but it's a
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: big step up isn't it to go from supporting someone
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: to them running the show. But as I said, like,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I think she knows the players so well, she knows
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the environment so well, Netball Victoria, all the people that
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: she's going to be dealing with. So I think she's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: the best person for the job. And yeah, a lot
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: of pressure on it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: She can certainly take a lot of it for as
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that they've had in twenty twenty five, correct, and.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I like them by the Giants and Vixen's have promoted
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: their assistant coach, right that you would think of the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: good succession planning, right, you do your time as the
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: assistant coach and then you step up. But for Mavericks,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Nick Richardson didn't step into that head coach role, so
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: she said, the will I don't know, But so they
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: are the one team that's left without a head coach.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: So I guess all lies on them now to see
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: what they do. They've been really Masie.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Slaw will say that as soon as we stop recording
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: this podcast today the first of September, that they will
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: announce the Mavericks head coach, you know, absolutely as soon
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: as we go off here. So, which is part of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the reason that we were not speculating too much about
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: what was going on during the signings period because it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like it was just so quickly out of date. But
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I think it would be very interesting now that we've
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: got the teams finalized to sort of talk about, you know,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: who won the signing season.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I reckon there was some. I think
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: there's two things, right. There's been some teams that have
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: had great signings, no question, But for me, which signings
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: combine best with the rest of the team would be
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the ones that have won the signing period. To me, like,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: if you talk about who wins the signing period, you
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: go Queensland because they've picked up three silver Ferns.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: You could also say the MAVs. But then if you
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: look at the MAVs, they've combined some big names like
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: your bacheldor your Henschliff with some great you know, Jamie
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Lee Price, but also Pallavi and Grenvold. They were in
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: the system, they weren't in the ten, so they've brought
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: those girls in. And I reckon there's some real great
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: combinations of experience and youth, but also positional wise, what
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: they've done there they've only got four from last year's ten.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So I was astonished to realize that because it's when
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I looked at the Firebirds, I thought, oh man, this
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: is a whole new team, and how will the membership
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: base connect with them? But actually that got seven out
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of ten and the MAVs have only got four. But
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: then it sort of begs the question do people follow
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the team or do people follow the players? So I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: think it's just it's an interesting one. I will be
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: really interested to see how fans connect with the Firebirds,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: you know, whether this is and I don't know how
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: we're going to bloody measure it or whatever. I don't
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: know what, but you know, it strikes me that a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: lot of the players who are coming into the MAVs,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that Super Netball fans will already be very familiar with,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: so Jamie Lee Price, Tara Hingecliffe, Riley batchldor it's like
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: they're new to my team, but I know them, Whereas
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I think there'll probably be a lot of Firebirds fans
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: who don't know the Silver Ferns as well, and I'm
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: not sure, you know, will they feel that connection. You know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: we've still got the rump of you know, Ruby, Bakweldor
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and Sheer Gardner, Dunkley, you know, Emily Moore. It's like,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: so there is there is a lot that they will
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: already have emotional attachments too, But I just yeah, it's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it's interesting and I don't know how you measure it,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: but certainly for me as a Swift's member and also
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a Giant's member now knowing I feel more comfortable going
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: into next year. But there's also part of me with
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Swifts going, oh, I wish we had some more big, new, sexy,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: exciting changes, but then I don't want that. I like
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the familiarity of it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, I mean you've got to be happy though, having
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Muddy Proud back your leadership, particularly a light of Page
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Haddeley's announcement recently that she's pregnant. I know she wants
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to be back for the start of the season, so
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: they've kept her in there. But I mean, haven't we
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: all made those grand statements, you know, before you have we.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Have a shower for like six months after that, you.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Mall these grand statements like I'll be back playing and
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I'll be fine, and.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: It's mathematically possible that Page could you know, toutch out
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a baby and then get back on court too. But
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to hold my breath for it, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: nor do I think that there should be any pressure
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: on that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah, but I reckon if you talk about signings,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Lightning for me have got a good.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Route?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Can I say that? Probably well rounded side? And I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: think they've recruited the gaps they needed really well. Like
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: if you think of Danelle Wallam with Gabby Sinclair in
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the circle whe with Kara Conan, Wow, such a good
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: mix up and then Karen Berger another silver Fern to
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: mix in there defensively with your Courtney Bruce and yash
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Ev and like how good. So there's I reckon the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: season is going to be spectacular because the teams have,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, even out a lot more. Do you
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: think in terms of skill?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I reckon.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: The interesting thing is so I think Vixent's won the
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: signing period because keeping it, keeping the team right that
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: won the Grand Final, And like when you look at
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: teams when they have changes, I think it always takes
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: a season or two bed everybody in and you need
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: to play like super netball is like no other netball
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: competition and the thing that is really different from state
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: league or anything else you play to super netbrot is
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the speed and you don't have a lot of time
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: in the season. It's only fourteen weeks long, so you
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: don't have time to make mistakes and work things out.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: You've almost got to do it season to season, and so.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: No team girls cut either.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: No team girls cut right there because of the earliest start,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: that sort of has been squeezed out. So there's no
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: time to bed unless you're going to do it like
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: you can do it through your practice matches, but your
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: practice matches aren't super netball, right. So for Vixen's they've
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: managed to keep that whole team together, which is unbelievable
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: because and we see it more in other sports, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: you see it occasionally in our sport that a team
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: wins a grand final and suddenly everyone's like, oh, I
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: want a piece of that player. I want that player,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I want that player. So I think them keeping it
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: together is amazing. And having animatics come back in, yes, totally.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: But can I add to that too Aussie players, so
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: you're not worrying about players that are internationally in their
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: own countries finishing international series and they delayed coming over,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: which I think we saw with the Firebirds too, Chollock
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I got in town like three weeks before the TGC
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, which always makes it hard, doesn't it.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: So it's spot on Liz.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So and then I think Lightning are really interesting
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: because they had that big recruitment drive a couple of
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: years ago and they still haven't fined. But this year
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: might be the year they fire just adding a couple
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: of players, but the players who they've added already know
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the Australian style of play. They're really familiar. You know,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Danelle Wallam has familiarity with Liz Watson and with Cara
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Cone and yes, they sort of all know each other.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: So and the Swifts were a bit the same and
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: it was interesting just watching the socials at the end
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: the signing period. People were a little bit disappointed that
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Swift didn't add a big name to the team, but
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: they did that last year, right, and they're like Graceweckey
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: has had the year in and we saw that she
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: started off like a house on fire. And then other
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: teams did their work and they they worked out what
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: they had to do. I think keeping that rump of
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: the team together is really important for them and then
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: like as you go through them all you can see
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: what people have picked up. I think you're right, Catherine
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: about MAVs. I think they'll be really exciting next year.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I think having you know the players that they've picked up,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: they've been really smart about them. And you know, Tara
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Hinchliff comes down, she's already got that combination with Kim
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Brown from the years at fire Birds together, So you're
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: sort of got to look at combinations rather than who's
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: got the big names. I think the interesting one will
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: be the Firebirds because they've picked up these overseas players,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: these three key wing imports who they got Selby, rick
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: At Gordon and Jackson, and they're really big signings. And
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: the key for them will be how quickly they settle
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: into the speed and the intensity of super netball. Now
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: they're all internationals, right, so they've all got plenty of
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: experience of that, so they might do it really quickly.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: But that will be to me the really interesting thing.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: You know, do you, and this is what administrators all
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: over the country are weighing up. Do you sit with
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: the team that you've got and you try and get
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: more out of what you have, or do you sign
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: some players from overseas who are available in the hope
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: that that takes it to the next level too. And
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: there's no right or wrong. You know, we might get
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: at the end of the year. We might go, my god,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: didn't five Birds win the signing season because they've picked
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: up those athletes and they're you know, they've gone gang
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: buses or you know, or we might go well Thunderbirds
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: actually one. You don't know to the end of the year.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: But based on just the knowledge that I have from
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the outside looking in, I think the more you stay
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: with the players that you have over the years and
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: bill gradually, the more you're likely to do well in
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: a current season.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting for Fever though.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: It's well for Fever to get session right. Glasgow back, yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Big time. And that was the one blatantly obvious part
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: of the Grand Final for me that they struggled was
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: not having a goal attack that could stand up in
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: those moments and deliver the long shots and all of
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the above, and Glasgow Paul will do that amazing.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: So I mentioned last week, I am a little bit
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: worried about the departure of Sophie Fawn's because I do
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: think that so Helen's the only one who can really
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: reliably shoot super shots and they shut her down like
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the Vixen shut her down very effectively. So yeah, I mean,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I would like to have seen Sophie used more in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the super shot period during the season. But maybe Grace
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: is just working on her supershots too, I would imagine
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: she is. Now that's my good coaching advice there.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure Brian is taking notes. And the other
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: team we haven't mentioned at Giants and I think they're
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: pickups again. They've gone their three big pickups have been
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: from Silver Ferns players and given how well just bringing
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: in case In Corporal was this year, that was a
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: really good moment for them to bring the young players
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: through to be really interesting to see what a player
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: like Jane Watson does to their back line. And I
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: mean I'm really actually looking for just seeing Matisse, leather
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Barrow and Sophie Dwyer sort of run out of season together.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: That Joe Harten's retired, I think that's really exciting for
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Australian Netbull.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: But they've also got Lucy Austin, so who do they
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: start with there? Like they have an embarrassment of riches
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: in the shooting circle.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I think and feel like for Matisa it's going to
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: be another season of maybe sitting on the pine. But
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: the good thing with the three of them is they
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: are very interchangeable. Lucy Austin probably not going to play
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: goal attack, but you can see the other two doing
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: that and going back into shooter if they need to,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: So they can go a number of ways. But how
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Whitney Sooners too, silver firm got a great pick up
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: in the mid court for them. If you think about Hope,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: White Sliger Sooner, they're all very similar, very punchy through
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: that middle. That'll be really exciting.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Yep, sorry I said. I think I've said three Silver fans.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: We've got the two Silver Fans and jod Am Woard,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: don't they Yep? Yeah?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: What's do And is she looking likely to be able
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to come back from this injury?
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I would think so because it was midway through the season. Oh,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know, they're talking.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Donald Yeah, so either way, Like, I think you're right, Cats,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, looking across the teams, I think
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the whole competition is evened up, which is great.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. Who's in your Grand who's in
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: your top four guys based on signings? Put it out
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: there now. I'm going definitely Lightning Fever Swifts will be
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: better for it, isn't it?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: It is very tough yep.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Anyway, there you go. Have to think about that, Dribblers.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Let us know. The draw though, is so exciting that
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: that's out, because it gives us a chance now to
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: just get pumped about the season already. But the Grand
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Final remages until round seven.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I love that the drawer is out this early as
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I can plan things. But looks like the Grand Final
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: is going to be during school holidays, which is good
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and bad. But so I just want to know where
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to plan my family holiday. Don't know where we're going
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: for the Grand Final next year.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I'm to seve Aspen if the government in California akain,
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: because you know, surely we could just head off.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Well, it's winter. I did say to you that I
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: thought it could be nice if we could go to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Hamilton Island please of course, yes, Hamilton Greek Islands. Greece
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: is the word.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's on topic.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: That's quite the carbon footprint for that event though, if
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: we go it is that's ridiculous. Catherine, let's go with
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: my idea of Hamilton Island. So so, Liz, what happens
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: now with with that? You know, I'm rapidly changing the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: subject because I don't want to nominate who's going to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: be in my top four at this stage because I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: could bloody say anyone couldn't I it's going to be wrong.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So yes, So can you give us any type of
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: update as to what's happening with the grand final location
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: or when we might.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Know or I do note that you two both asked
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: me in the WhatsApp WhatsApp group, could I give you
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: a bit of a scoop so you can plan your holidays?
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: And it was Carolyn, and I came back and I
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: think I mentioned every capital city in Australia. You did.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It was so good, It was so good to think
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I am tapped into the source of netball in Australia
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned five cities that it could possibly occur
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: in and you know they're the only five cities that
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: you would think that they might be. And so thank
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you for that, I felt, really.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: And the reason is, I don't know. So the reason
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: is there are ongoing discussions with just about every state
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: and territory government to see yeah, he's a.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, everybody bring their bag of cash.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly right. So and it's not just like the cash.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Obviously the money is important, but it's also the commitment
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: of the government to the event. You know, you want
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: to you want the town, you want to feel like
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: the city is behind the event, that there's street dressing,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: that you know, the Premier is going to be there,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: that you know it's it's a big event. And so
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: you want the government of whoever it is that your
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: partner with to be really committed to make it more
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: than just a netball game. So you know, we saw
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: that in Melbourne. It was fantastic that the whole precinct
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: was all decked out and on fire, so that was great.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's exciting. I love the fact that I mean,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I know there was some sort of conjecture around this,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: particularly from Fever fans, and I do understand that that
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: they had to travel, but I think the fact of
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the matter is that you just get a much better
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: event when you can plan for it for a few
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: months or several months in the month. So I think
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: we're just going to keep on having great events, and
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: you know, the last four Grand finals have all been
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: sold out, So that says something, doesn't it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Sure, it does.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And I will say, as someone who went along to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the game and paid for my ticket and was a
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: member of two clubs night, of which were represented in
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the final, I had the best time Like this. You
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: don't have to It doesn't have to just be about
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: your team winning the Grand Final. It was just it
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: was so great to be there. It was such a
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: fun event and in many ways it's much nicer of
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: your team's not there. Frankly, going to that preliminary final
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: at Kudos Arena, that was just stressful and unpleasant.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear speaking of stressful and unpleasant. I know
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: this isn't a visual medium, but there is something sitting
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: in front of us. Yeah, that I'm a little disturbed by,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: but very intrigued.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm very worried about something that's going on in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: the Smith's Chips organization. I think Twisties are having some
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: type of identity crisis. Now. My lovely neighbor, who was
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: a dribbler, shoved a packet of these in. We have
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: some beautiful plum blossoms out the front of the house,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and it's a riot of pink, and then he has
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: shoved here a packet of Twisti's the zuper duper fairy
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: floss flavor Twisty. Now you look at Ellis's, I know
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: you will remember that six months ago Twisties had a
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: sour blueberry flavor.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Did we try that?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: No? I put my dissatisfaction on social media about it.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: But twists are seventy five years old this year. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: think they should know better than this. But cath Wegg
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm into it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I'm until I'm very key.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: You know, in Europe twisties are called bonsis, which I love.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Like out a Happy Days. Are you jealous?
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: No? Oh fuck, that's revolt. Wait on, all I can
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: think about is what your poo's going to be like?
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: If you.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I don't mind it.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: The first bet gets you in places that you're not expecting.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: It's quite sour. I know, I quite like those.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I will need this whole one large twisty.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Though, because you're expecting savory right?
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: No?
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: This?
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Are they sweet?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: No? It's not bad. I wouldn't buy them. Well that's discussed, Okay,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I'm done.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Oh God, caught diabetes.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: You know how it gets you at the back.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, I just want to cheat. What is the.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, is there anything in all that used to be
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: food that's in that? Or is it all chemical?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: It's only twelve percent sugar. I would have thought it
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was forty five percent sugar. So ingredients cereals, corn and rice,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: canola oil, sugar, salt, food acid, citric acid, natural color, beet,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: red maltodextrin, natural flavors, antioxidant, rosemary, extra shit.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: My god.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Anyway, So no, cannot recommend that, but do appreciate my neighbor.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: So Pete got this, and there's a best before date
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: up the top, and Pete wrote best before never, because
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I would tend to agree that this is not something
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: that and I like to I like to try everything
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: that I regret not eating the Cheetos KFC combo burger
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: when I was in Hawaii, so you know, have the
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: experiences when you're traveling. This has a three star health rating,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: which is also something that I'm a little bit skeptical of.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: SKA. Right, I'm going to bring you some fancy other two.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: So if any dribblers work in the Smith's organization, tell
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: us what's going on with twisties, because I'm very worried
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: we've loved you cheese twisties and chicken twisties and.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Or do you give the chicken a decent run? Though?
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Cheese is the winner, right Jesus, We're the winner.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: But I think chicken is a very valid occasional substitute.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I can't find it anymore.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I can't.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Do you like chicken chips?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, again, as an occasional. Don't look, it's not Liz.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: That's how I look that to my face, that's my face.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe maybe use that face when you're asking your
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: family to nominate spirit animals for you. Okay, my four, Liz,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: what are your four teams for the finals? Cas? We
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: got you Lightning Fever Swifts.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I think I said Mads, but then I was reminded
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: about the visits. I don't know. Oh god, I don't
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: want to. It's too hard.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: As you know. I can't at the moment either that.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: It's what tea birds.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go, Oh look, it might be the
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: same four for me. I don't know.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: But this is going to be great, though, isn't it?
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Because I don't think we're going to see a season
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: like we have with the Sweets undefeated in the first round.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: That's not going to happen with anyone.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Surely I wouldn't have thought, So bring it on, Bring
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: it on. Yeah, I think it's going to be an
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: absolutely great season. So we're just going to abandon this
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: whole notion of us trying to pick the top four.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because there's the top four.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Well, the beauty of it is no one can be
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: cursed by winning the Team Girls Cup. Next year, the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Team Girls Cup isn't occurring because the season has to
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: start earlier because of the Commonwealth Game. So it's all.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it all. I love the
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: draw being out early, I love the season starting earlier.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I love being able to plan my life better. So
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: it's good. It's a shame to not have a Team
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Girls Cup, but I think that we get the Commonwealth
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Games instead, so that's exciting.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take that. We'll take a gold medal instead.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Easy done.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Well, well, I need to have you, yes, words of wisdom,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the words of wisdom from the foolish words.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Hang on before you do that, can I just ask
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: a question? I saw that we've had a question on
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: our socials about off season activities for kids.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: You haven't struggled to find those.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: No. I well, the first answer there is no off season.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: But I thought it was interesting and we're running out
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: of times. Might I think we should talk about that
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: next week? There you go, that's a it's called a teaser.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: That's what in the bees you call a teaser. I'm
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: teasing to next week's show.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: Well done. You have to remember to talk about it
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: next week because we will forget. Yes, write that down someone.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: So, just with reference to the Zooper Duper fairy Floss
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: favor twistis, I've gone to foolish words, the most stupid
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: words ever spoken. A book I found in my office
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Samuel Goldwyn, who was of course from Metro Goldwyn Mayor
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the movie Jim Yep. He said, go see that turkey
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: for yourself and see for yourself why you shouldn't see it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: So I would like to paraphray that and say, try
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: these terrible twisties yourself, and see for yourself why you
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: should not be trying the terrible twisties. Beautiful.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, I think that's all we've got time for now.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: So Liz has got a lot of jobs this week.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's put them on the list.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: So Spirit Animal.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: God, okay, I'm writing it down. I'm writing this down.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Because you are the donkey until you get an alternative
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: spirit animal. I think I'm the caangarrass, the cass.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, the caan garrass. Love it? The meat train that caangaras.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, grand final, finalize that this week for us and
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: then let us know that'll be handy again. Hamilton Island
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: would be my nomination. We have any other jobs for
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Liz that'll do.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I've always imagine there's a few on there already.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Oh look, I have to coach my team in the semifinals.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very nice.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: So when when is that? Is it a Saturday?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Saturday? Yep? So you know. I did have a quick
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: look through the stats. At the end of the regular season.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: We are the best defense team by a long shot.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Oh is anyone surprised by that?
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: No? Can we shoot? Not really?
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: No, of course you can't.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: We can shoot for a special Well, I know you
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: do need to come up and do some work with I.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Know, twist my arm just before and then I can
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: drink some gin and watch them perform and nail it.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Have you beaten this team before that you're playing in
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the semi Yes?
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Like both Yes, we have, yes, but finals no, nothing's
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: ever in the bad castroom. Finals are a different kettle
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: of fish. So so and it's sudden deck. We've got
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: to win. It's not like you don't get the second
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: bite of the cherry. Yeah, so it's one v.
• 45:41
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• 45:44
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• 45:46
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• 45:56
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• 45:59
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• 46:04
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• 46:08
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• 46:13
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• 46:16
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• 46:18
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• 46:22
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• 46:26
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• 47:09
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• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's Diamonds coming up, I believe. Have people bought
• 47:14
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• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: And Liz Ellis's semifinal.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Lizzellis is semifinal and the mother Daughter comp in Ballina
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: that is obviously going to be hot up in October.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: But everyone, take your zytech or your claratine. Good luck
• 47:30
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• 47:35
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• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I sign off?
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: You would? You know what? Though, as you're waffling on
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: just now, I'm like, it's almost like she knows I
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: have to go to the loop. Like your closings are
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: getting longer and longer and longer.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of messages to do. All right,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: let's sign off before she disgraces herself. I'm Carolyne Swindell.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I actually don't have together the tool. Let's just messing
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: with you. I'm Cat Cox. Have a fabulous spring. Everybody
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Zethers say you next way.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Bye bye mm hmmm
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm