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Episode 171: How Are The Logies Still a Thing? · Death by Multimedia

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  This is thoughts from the metal cabin, where only one opinion
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  matters, and it's not yours. Good ID has your day been
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  mine's. Probably been the same.
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  But seeing as you have bothered to go to your podcast provider
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  and choose this podcast to listen to, I guess I better
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  expand on the day and hand. So this is what I found
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  interesting in the last day or so, this is the almanac report
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  on thoughts, from the middle cabin.
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  G'day there and thanks for tuning in.
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  Now there must be someone out there who watches the ladies.
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  I don't know any of them but it's come back and I don't
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  understand how it's still a thing.
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  Now, covid tried to kill it. It it was off for two years, I
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  think it was because of covid, that no one could turn up the
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  Gold Coast to go to the logi. So they just can the awards and
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  no one really complained about Effect.
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  There was no Logie Awards. I didn't hear anything from the
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  industry. Let alone people that I talk to
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  about anything and yet, its back, and it was just done this
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  week. Now, I don't watch it, indeed.
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  I think we all used to sort of tune in and out of, it's like,
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  it's like watching the Academy Awards really isn't.
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  Yeah. If it's on during the days, he
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  don't really know that it's on, but if you're at home, you might
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  tune in for it. I remember the last time I
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  watched the leg use was when Andrew Denton hosted now you
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  Posted it to you straight. And the first year was just
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  absolutely brilliant. The second year was almost as
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  good, but that was the last time I watch it and that had to be
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  back in the late 1990s. And theoretically no one could
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  ever top that and I don't even know who hosted it after that it
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  I think maybe Rove Mcmanus did at some stage but in the long
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  run as a TV show it's dead boring.
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  Now apparently this year's Edition went for four hours.
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  Can you believe that for hours who's going to sit there for
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  four hours to watch a Ward's? Going to people that we don't
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  know? Because I don't even know most
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  of the shows that were up for awards.
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  Let alone the people who are nominated for the damn things.
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  It's all free-to-air TV. Does anyone watch free-to-air TV
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  anymore? Now, the only free-to-air to be,
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  I watch is ABC and SBS, and have you been paying attention?
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  And I think that's just about it.
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  So, the fact that all these Awards and they're all they get
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  again, it's all the popular ones.
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  So it's voted by the public. It's not voted.
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  Necessary by the peers. There are some P rewards but
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  they're all popular. So, in the long run, anyone
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  could then we'll win it if they get enough votes and that's
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  where the problem for me. Continues to be.
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  So, let's look at this gold Logie for the most popular
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  personality on Australian TV. Now, there are seven people
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  nominated for this. The winner end up being Hamish
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  Blake for Lego Masters, Australia, apparently.
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  So, he hosted this show and that's what he's won these gold
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  Logie for, which is absolute crap.
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  But anyway, Look at the other people who were nominated Julia
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  Morris Kyle. Stephen Novick, Melissa Liang,
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  Rhema, Sonia, Kruger, and Tom Gleason.
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  Now we could go through all of these and tear them to shreds,
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  but let's talk about Julia Morris.
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  Who opened up the leg? He's apparently in gave a 10
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  minute monologue. That was one of the unfunniest
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  things that most people have heard.
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  But she is unfunny, she is always been unfunny and she
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  carries on and it's overblown obviously, you know, to be a
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  part of her performance, but it just doesn't work and she is
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  awful and she's been awful for years even when she was on full
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  frontal. A thousand years ago, she was
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  one of the unfunniest people there and yet she gets gig like
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  this, like this. I'm a celebrity get me out of
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  here and somehow gets nominated for a gold laggy.
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  The fact that she was in the running for that is just
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  absolutely ludicrous. The fact, that Carl stiffer
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  Novick is considered a gold Logie, most popular personality
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  on Strain TV. His show is running third in
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  daytime, television behind sunrise, and ABC, Morning Show.
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  So how can he be the most popular if you can't even be the
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  most popular damn show in his time?
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  Lat far out, Melissa Liang from MasterChef.
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  I mean, I don't even watch Master shift, Raymar from home
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  and away and they just willing out these old guys to try and
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  get the mold old lady before. They drop dead Sonia Krueger's
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  on about 40,000 shares. So I guess, yeah, case in point,
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  she probably have been on there because she's done more shows
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  than anybody else. And then, we come to Tom Gleason
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  who destroyed the ladies, the two years in a row, He destroyed
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  the concept of the leg he's because first he somehow got
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  grant denyer our gold Logie. He just took him on and just
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  said we're going to get Grant denyer a gold Logie and he got
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  people to vote for him just without granting you're saying
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  anything. He just decided to do it and
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  then seeing how easy that was. It is hard to get himself one
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  and he just pushed himself and said, put me up there, I'm going
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  to win this this year, and he did so.
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  And that's the thing. He could have done the same
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  thing again this year. If he had been Inclined, but he
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  decided against it but given he's already got the highest
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  rating show on a Wednesday night.
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  He's beating shows left, right and center with hard quiz.
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  Why would he bother? And he's done exactly the right
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  thing, but it just showed how useless the lug is used with the
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  most popular vote for these Awards, because if you set your
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  mind to it and you've got a big enough audience that you can
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  push for a stupid reason, you can get anybody a gold Logie.
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  Anyway, can you bit over-the-top are my I don't want to go on
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  about the rest of it. Except there's a couple of
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  things that were interesting to me is that, for a start, the
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  front bar, which is a football comedy panel, Show on Channel 7.
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  With Andy, Mar and Mick, Malloy and sampang it was up against
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  all these current affairs shows in that category of it was our
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  most popular panel or current affairs programme.
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  So if the front bar was up against the project Four
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  Corners, our current affair Australian story and 7:30, so
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  all current affairs shows and the front bar and it didn't win
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  the project want it. I mean, Like the project won it
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  in front of firstly the front bar but secondly for actual
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  current affair shows is just ridiculous.
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  Again, another black mark on the leg, he's let's go then to have
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  you been paying attention which is still the best show on TV.
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  It really is and it deservedly won the leg you again.
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  So that's a good thing, but the fact is we've got all these
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  other shows such as let's mad as hell.
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  Hard quiz and the weekly are all.
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  They are the best quality comedy.
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  Satire shows every week but the problem is that they're all on
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  the ABC. So people who watch the ABC,
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  don't vote in things like the low.
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  He's because the ABC doesn't really push people to do it and
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  they don't go out and vote for their people like the commercial
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  networks. Absolutely positively do so they
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  call it. The commercial networks are
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  pushing their shows are pushing their personalities to make sure
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  Sure that they get voted in so they can Proclaim how brilliant
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  their shows and their stars are, and the ABC don't do that.
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  And that's where shows like this really miss out.
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  And it's, it's absolute shame, that that happens.
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  Anyway, the ladies are over for another year.
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  Let's hope it's. The last one.
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  We have to put up with least something.
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  For those of you who may not watch enough sport, you only
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  watch like 70 or 80 different other sports Australia, other
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  world cup of darts Champions having won the World Cup of
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  dates this week. End, which is brilliant, booting
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  the English at their own game. If only, we could do this more
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  often but this has been going on for about 12 years now.
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  I think this every year this is held Australia were actually the
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  runners-up 12 years ago when they lost to England who were
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  represented by Adrian Lewis and Phil Taylor at the time and that
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  was in a single League playoff, if I remember correctly.
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  So walk up with us is played by two.
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  People who are from the same country or nominally from the
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  saying country, and they play singles against the other team
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  and also a sort of doubles, kind of competition, and it makes up
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  for a fun weekend. I suppose it tries to give data
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  bit of a team event rather than just being for the, for the
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  individual as it is. But, Australia were seeded.
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  Fifth for the tournament, they were represented by Simon
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  Whitlock, the wizard, and Diamond header.
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  The heater so Damon header, of course, has just been on the
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  scene for about four or five years now, he won a big
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  tournament out here on the Pudu seat or some years ago, and then
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  went to England, and he's being over there since.
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  And so, he teamed up with the Wizard who's been there for a
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  long time now, and they performed really well and got
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  through to the quarterfinals, which is where they're expected
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  to fall over. They play, they rub against
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  Belgium in the quarterfinals, Dmitry, Vandenberg and Kim.
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  Hi Brooks. Who's Pretty fair team, but the
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  Australians managed to win that 21 and went through to the
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  semi-finals in the semi-finals. I met England who were
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  represented by Michael Smith and James Wade who are right up
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  there in the top three or four in the world.
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  And I am well, they obliterated them, but it was really
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  interesting because Marcus Smith plaid Diamond Head Up in the
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  singles and was leading 31 and pretty much had six darts to win
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  the league to go for one up, and he missed them all, and had a
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  got out of that and won the next leg and then ended up winning
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  4-3, which was massive. And like, Damon had his average
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  was only about 90, and I think Michael Smith was close to 100
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  and yet had a still One, that four legs, two, three, and then
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  Whitlock came out and destroyed James Wade and beating for zip.
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  And I think whitlock's averages well over 100 and James Wade was
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  well under 90. So that was a massive upset.
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  And so we went to the final Australia played while so
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  they're playing girl and price and Johnny Clayton again, two of
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  the best players in the world and they managed to win, both
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  their singles header, beat price and Whitlock.
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  Clayton. And then they played the doubles
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  where price and Clayton got up 43, which is really close, and
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  then Damon had to beat Johnny Clayton to win that 31.
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  So that's really massive, not only for those 2 to a 1, a PDC
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  event together and they get 70,000 pounds or whatever it is,
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  but its massive for Australia to keep Australia in the Limelight
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  over there where we see all these great players every week.
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  And the Australians really do, Not get seen too much.
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  They seem to get bundled out a little bit earlier than they
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  would expect and Simon Whitlock Hades Time moments during the
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  years as a terrific player, but we see less and less of him.
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  And a man header has also had a couple of moments this year,
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  especially, but we don't see them like in the finals or
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  anything like that. So, as adults watching fan, that
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  was terrific to watch this week and we can only hope that these
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  two now, go on for the rest of the year and especially when we
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  get to To the world championships in the year, will
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  be great to see one of them, or both of them, get through to
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  those really late stages of that tournament.
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  That's all for today's edition of the almanac report.
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  Thanks for tuning in and I hope you'll come back and check out
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  further episodes down the track right here on the podcast.
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