Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Katie Woolf spoke with Sideline View's Nic O'Riley
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- 0:00Speaker 1: No, let's head across and catch up with him right now.
- 0:02Speaker 1: It is the sideline views, Nick o'reiley, Good morning.
- 0:05Speaker 2: To you, Nick Katie, here going good mate.
- 0:08Speaker 1: I understand you're actually in Queensland at the moment, but
- 0:11Speaker 1: it's for the Indigenous commentary of the game at the Gabba.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in Brisbane. I'll tell you what. I'm staying
- 0:17Speaker 2: at the Johnson as part of the Acre Aple Acre
- 0:23Speaker 2: and it's quite flash. I'm currently in a robe and
- 0:28Speaker 2: I'm wearing goggles to go with it. The goggles are complementary,
- 0:31Speaker 2: but they complimentary. I'm going to get all the wear
- 0:34Speaker 2: and tear out of them.
- 0:35Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if that's a visual that
- 0:37Speaker 1: we need, Nick O'Reilly to do our cross, but you've
- 0:40Speaker 1: given it to us, so so good times. I suppose
- 0:44Speaker 1: nice and relaxing for you.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Hope. I hope you and your listeners really enjoy that,
- 0:48Speaker 2: because I definitely have enjoyed it.
- 0:51Speaker 1: But it's it's going to be a massive weekend with
- 0:56Speaker 1: the Indigenous commentary. I've actually seen some photos up on
- 1:00Speaker 1: the socials of you with the two young blokes who
- 1:03Speaker 1: are calling that game talk us through what the situation
- 1:05Speaker 1: is yeah.
- 1:06Speaker 2: So earlier and so you know, for those of you
- 1:09Speaker 2: that don't know, I work at your More Radio through
- 1:12Speaker 2: the week, which is an Aboriginal broadcaster base at and
- 1:16Speaker 2: arnam Land and here in Darwin. But earlier in the
- 1:18Speaker 2: year we broadcast from our norm Boys studio the Essendon
- 1:22Speaker 2: of Richmond game as a part of Sir Nichols Round
- 1:25Speaker 2: and AFL loved it. All our conference sponsors loved it.
- 1:29Speaker 2: And this time we're lucky enough to do it again.
- 1:31Speaker 2: So we're down in Brisbane. We're calling the game tomorrow night.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Sorry to keep thinking it's Friday Saturday night, ye between
- 1:39Speaker 2: the Western Bulldogs and the Brisbane Lines. And yeah, it's
- 1:42Speaker 2: exciting and it's so exciting for these two young fellas
- 1:45Speaker 2: that are going to be at the grand calling it,
- 1:48Speaker 2: not in the studio, so yeah, it's really exciting.
- 1:51Speaker 1: Yeah, how exciting. So so you know, tell us a
- 1:54Speaker 1: bit about these young fellas that are actually calling that game.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's William Goneba. He did the first call.
- 2:01Speaker 2: I met him seven and we're working it out last night.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Actually seven years ago. I met him when I lived
- 2:06Speaker 2: down on Alcohola at Gallawenkou. He used to work with
- 2:09Speaker 2: me at asl so I've done him for very long time.
- 2:11Speaker 2: He's an excellent young man. We only got him into
- 2:14Speaker 2: working at the radio station just prior to the first
- 2:17Speaker 2: call back in May, and he's surprised. He's a quiet
- 2:22Speaker 2: young fellow that he's really starting to come out of
- 2:24Speaker 2: his shell and he yeah, it's just super exciting to
- 2:28Speaker 2: see him where he's sort of where he's been and
- 2:31Speaker 2: where he's getting to now. And you know he's standing
- 2:33Speaker 2: up in front of media and Channel nine yesterday the
- 2:36Speaker 2: cameraman which was outstanding. And then there's we had bj Monimore,
- 2:41Speaker 2: who's one of my all time favorite kids. He was
- 2:44Speaker 2: he did the first game as well, but unfortunately he
- 2:46Speaker 2: couldn't coming in for this for this game just due
- 2:50Speaker 2: to sorry business out in arnam Land at the moment.
- 2:53Speaker 2: But we've got Bakerly Gunn and Bar and Bakery Gunnbar is.
- 2:57Speaker 2: I don't know if you know, Okadie he's a chook dancing, yeah,
- 3:02Speaker 2: Varnham Land, so he's in there. He's he was in
- 3:05Speaker 2: The Nightingale, a film that was put out three years
- 3:07Speaker 2: ago now based in TASMANI in quite a big film.
- 3:11Speaker 2: So he's a bit of an entertainer. But at the
- 3:12Speaker 2: end of the day, he loves his booty and he's
- 3:15Speaker 2: so raped to come down and step into BJ and
- 3:17Speaker 2: do the call with Willie. So yeah, as I said,
- 3:21Speaker 2: super exciting for these young fellows and super exciting for
- 3:24Speaker 2: you know, the young orn people of Northeast arnham Land
- 3:26Speaker 2: to hear their favorite game in their in their language. Yeah,
- 3:29Speaker 2: it really is.
- 3:29Speaker 1: I think it's a fantastic thing. How many people do
- 3:32Speaker 1: you reckon they're going to be tuning in?
- 3:35Speaker 2: Well, we've got it like a listener base of about
- 3:37Speaker 2: fourteen thousand we estimate, and that's through Northeast arnham Land,
- 3:41Speaker 2: but there's also we broadcast into Darwin and Palmerston as
- 3:45Speaker 2: well on eighty eight point nine for those of you
- 3:47Speaker 2: playing at home. But we we Yeah, you know, the
- 3:52Speaker 2: feedback that we got from the community last time around
- 3:55Speaker 2: was like so great and they loved it so much,
- 3:57Speaker 2: to the to the point where, you know, senior more
- 4:00Speaker 2: people were coming into our studio in Nolan Boy and
- 4:02Speaker 2: saying that was so great, what game are you doing
- 4:04Speaker 2: next week? Yeah that was a bit of a bit
- 4:07Speaker 2: of a one so off, but yeah, it's super super
- 4:10Speaker 2: like the support from the AFL and you know, Nick
- 4:13Speaker 2: Banks and the crew at Telstra and yeah, you know
- 4:16Speaker 2: Verge of Australia and Accor Group and Kyle's everyone's on
- 4:19Speaker 2: board and to the point where all those supporters are going,
- 4:23Speaker 2: why are they doing this game? Can they do the
- 4:24Speaker 2: Grand Final as well?
- 4:26Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 4:26Speaker 2: Which is so great. So yeah, I mean all the crew,
- 4:31Speaker 2: all the crew that we work with, all that, like
- 4:33Speaker 2: our young staff, are all excited and you know, and
- 4:36Speaker 2: then and you talk to them about their family, back
- 4:38Speaker 2: out and community and you know, everyone's just stoked and
- 4:40Speaker 2: everyone's just waiting for that dance to happen on Saturday night.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. Well Nick, does that mean no sideline
- 4:46Speaker 1: view on Saturday?
- 4:48Speaker 2: Well, the show must go on, Katie, and it will.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I won't be in there, but my main man, Nick Danks,
- 4:54Speaker 2: will be on Saturday and steering the ship. And we
- 4:59Speaker 2: love Banksy boy.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Yep, good to be.
- 5:01Speaker 2: He'll be tearing it apart.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Oh wonderful. And we know that the a f l
- 5:05Speaker 1: n T fixture has been released, so I'm sure there's
- 5:08Speaker 1: going to be plenty on the agenda for Dancy.
- 5:11Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think I was talking to the
- 5:14Speaker 2: AFLI T the other day and they're trying to have
- 5:16Speaker 2: more games at local suburbia, which is great, you know
- 5:22Speaker 2: when you talk like Nightcliff and Army and Gardens over even,
- 5:25Speaker 2: I think it's great and really important for those clubs
- 5:27Speaker 2: to have home games and get a bit of money
- 5:30Speaker 2: in the back kick and t io. Yeah, looking, we're
- 5:36Speaker 2: all looking forward to a big NTFL season coming. I
- 5:40Speaker 2: think it's only about five weeks away.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Not far away. Well, nic O Riley, Yeah, good stuff,
- 5:46Speaker 1: but we are going to have to leave it there.
- 5:48Speaker 1: We've got so much happening this morning. Always good to
- 5:50Speaker 1: catch up with you. Thanks so much for your time today.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Thanks Wolfe Talks.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Thanks Nick. That's Nick. O'Reilly there, who is from the
- 5:57Speaker 1: Sideline View but obviously away at the moment for what
- 6:01Speaker 1: he is a fantastic opportunity. But Nick Danks is going
- 6:05Speaker 1: to be in the chair for this weekend for the
- 6:07Speaker 1: Sideline View