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Barra's Bits - I Don't Remember Wearing Goggles In The Bath · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: When you hit off with your mates and you'll just
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  Speaker 1: crack gags. I added a lot of color here time
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  Speaker 1: he went to boss level for Barra's fits.
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  Speaker 2: Have some of this Bara.
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  Speaker 1: Is here and Barrow ally was not bad in the
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  Speaker 1: world after all.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean this is this might sound a bit silly,
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  Speaker 2: but I have had my faith restored in humanity a
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  Speaker 2: little bit when it happened. It is sometimes you can
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  Speaker 2: watch the news and go, oh my godre were going,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: For here stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But people are actually pretty good, and particularly in Western Australia.
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  Speaker 2: And I actually have a column called.
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  Speaker 1: Being Barra. It's in STM you know, Sunday Times, and
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  Speaker 1: I wrote about my dog. So the first.
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  Speaker 2: Incident of this was incidents of this was I wrote
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  Speaker 2: about my dog Frank, who I absolutely love, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, dogs don't care what car you drive,
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  Speaker 2: or what suburbs you live in.
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  Speaker 1: Where they've had a shocker at work or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: When you when you might just go out to put
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  Speaker 2: the bins out and you come back, it's like your
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  Speaker 2: conquered everest, you know, take your back already. Have you
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  Speaker 2: only living creature in the house that is guaranteed to
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  Speaker 2: be happy to see you when you come in the door.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if you were greeted by your partners like that,
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  Speaker 2: lay off with you, not you as well missed. So
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  Speaker 2: so after that I got lots of feedback from dog
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  Speaker 2: lovers because there's so many great people out there and
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  Speaker 2: noodles and doodles and cavoodles and labradoodles and you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's got a noodle on the end of it nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: But and then kelpies and everything else. So that was great.
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  Speaker 1: And then I went for a swim and I saw
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  Speaker 1: this bloke.
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  Speaker 2: And you had a swimming hat on, you know those
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  Speaker 2: rubber hats to.
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  Speaker 1: The swimming cap cap that's swimming.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cold, and it had on it. You'll never
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  Speaker 2: regret a swim. And you know what, he's bloody right.
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  Speaker 2: You think about it. When you get in the water
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  Speaker 2: and you've finished, you just feel so refreshed, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: The exercise afterwards, it's great. You never regret it, do you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean in the middle of summer, it's it's the
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  Speaker 1: anticipation when you start this time of year. This is terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's when you get out there.
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  Speaker 2: You never regret it, and you can remember when being
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  Speaker 2: a kid in the bath, you know where the gold was,
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  Speaker 2: thinking a Jacques Gausta, whatever his name is, remember that
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  Speaker 2: those days.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, Jacques Chris. I don't remember wearing goggles in
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  Speaker 1: the butt, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Bombing your cousins, getting dumped by waves, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just talking about water. You never regret a swim.
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  Speaker 2: So that was good.
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  Speaker 1: I love I love the beach.
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  Speaker 2: And then I went and saw the diary of Anne
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  Speaker 2: frank Okay at the heap pretty heavy, and that was confronting.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, have you been to her house in Amsterdam?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. Yeah, I didn't and I didn't get to it.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite remarkable when you go there and you think
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  Speaker 2: about the tiny rooms and you think eight people live there, hiding.
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  Speaker 1: For two years. They hid for two years.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And then she says this line in the play,
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  Speaker 2: and that was written in her book. She says in
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  Speaker 2: spite of everything, So in her diary she wrote, in
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  Speaker 2: spite of everything.
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  Speaker 1: I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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  Speaker 2: And I was thinking, whoa the chance of me saying
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  Speaker 2: that after two years hiding from the Nazis there would
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  Speaker 2: be no chance?
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  Speaker 1: Well, most people were good. It was just only took
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  Speaker 1: a couple not to be.
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  Speaker 2: But she wouldn't have seen I can't anyway. That really
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  Speaker 2: cut through for me.
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  Speaker 1: I was going well. Her perspective was extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: And then the cap it off my week, Barrow's week,
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  Speaker 2: was I got hold of Andy Brashaw and there was
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  Speaker 2: a lady, her name was Pat Jensen.
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  Speaker 1: She was turning one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: She was the mum of a legend at the Perth
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  Speaker 2: Footy Club and she'd got letters from the King Charles
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  Speaker 2: and you know when you turn one hundred, you get
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  Speaker 2: a heap of stuff that comes to you like it's
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  Speaker 2: really cool. But her absolute highlight was she wanted to
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  Speaker 2: see if for doc would pop in. So I've got
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  Speaker 2: a hold of Andy Brascher, her favorite player anyway. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got full blown training and all that sort of stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and he goes, oh, I've got a window of for
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  Speaker 2: half an hour between one thirty and two, and I said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's when she's having a big celebration. Let's drive the
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  Speaker 2: Bull Creek. If you've been to Bull Creek, you know
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  Speaker 2: the big retirement village area there, the rap, the caller Ra,
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  Speaker 2: there's a spitfire aut the front of anyway. We go
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  Speaker 2: in there and he walks in and she's like she's
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  Speaker 2: almost in tears and just made her day.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's he was looking at his watch.
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  Speaker 2: He could tell that he had to get back, but
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  Speaker 2: he spent twenty to thirty minutes and then jump back
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Car and we went back to training. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: just restored my father.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought, you know what, no wonder everyone loves
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  Speaker 2: Andy Brashaw and you know him to take time out
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  Speaker 2: of his day to do that. I thought it was
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  Speaker 2: no cameras, no Instagram, no publiching exactly. It's just a
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  Speaker 2: quality guy on his stat family, the Brayshaw family from
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  Speaker 2: sticks from me and brace saw his granddad absolute legend
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  Speaker 2: ten for forty four for WA and one premiership for
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  Speaker 2: Clermont in sixty four and all the way through. They're
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  Speaker 2: just a quality family. So yeah, so I'm feeling a
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  Speaker 2: bit better about life, mate.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I sort of was feeling a
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  Speaker 1: bit flat.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of good stuff happening out there,
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  Speaker 2: and people are actually pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: All in all. I think you're right, you reckon, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you will encounter it. Well, no, no know, well no,
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  Speaker 1: I encountered a couple on the freeway in this morning.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't restore my faith in humanity.
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's most that's what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You're back to that place. Yeah, yeah, God gave you
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  Speaker 1: an indicator. God gave you an indicator. Use it. But
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Up a few people anyway. There
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  Speaker 1: you go, keep punching.