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Steph Fretwell to London Pulse, Dribblers Go Global & School Reunions · No Dribble

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  Speaker 1: Ooh, London. We know it's a little bit hot over
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  Speaker 1: there at the moment. We know, in fact you're frying
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  Speaker 1: and wondering that there's ever going to be any rain.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, it's going to get hotter for
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  Speaker 1: you guys, because Poulse has stolen a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: sunshine and a little bit of lightning and this has
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  Speaker 1: got the netball world agog. This week you are on
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  Speaker 1: No Dribble strapping. Hello and welcome to No Dribble, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast where we talk about netball, we talk about so
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  Speaker 1: much more. My name is Carolyn Swindell.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kath Cox, I'm lose us.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do it very well.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you did, a spectacle killer job.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's different.
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  Speaker 4: Well, probably nothing. I moved it and I moved it
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  Speaker 4: too far, so I moved it back and just the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing. It's the most exercise I have done in
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  Speaker 4: three days though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just excited to have you back. And it's been
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  Speaker 1: ages since the three of us have been together. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think the last time was in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: Drinking Yeah and having fun with the Dream Dreamgo, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, A lot has happened, Catherine. You're just back from holidays.
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  Speaker 2: I know I haven't turned it on a bit.
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  Speaker 4: These holidays, well off season and school holidays. It all
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  Speaker 4: was nicely in sync for me. So we got home
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  Speaker 4: from Queensland, I ditched the child for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 4: worked at the Swans one night, which was great and
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  Speaker 4: they lost. And then I've been up the Central Coast
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  Speaker 4: with two other mums and four kids, all girls, so
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  Speaker 4: I had a little girl's weekend away and it was
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  Speaker 4: so fun. But my kid has come back so busted.
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  Speaker 4: It is not funny. They get up there and they're
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  Speaker 4: all over excited because we've been talking about it for ages,
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  Speaker 4: and they're let loose together. So within five seconds she
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  Speaker 4: had banged a head on a side table in the
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  Speaker 4: bedroom because they were jumping up and down on beds.
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  Speaker 1: Had she broken anyone's nose? No, touch Wood had not
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  Speaker 1: at that point at that point no.
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  Speaker 4: And then the next night actually came downstairs holding her
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  Speaker 4: own nose that was bleeding. Ah, wasn't broken, but had
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  Speaker 4: hit her nose again.
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  Speaker 2: On the same freaking side table.
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  Speaker 4: But she had also learned to ride a bike. So
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  Speaker 4: city kid, there's too much traffic near our house, there's
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  Speaker 4: too many hills. She's got a bike, she's never ridden it.
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  Speaker 4: So we got up there and I was like, that's it,
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  Speaker 4: this is happening. It's all flat, there's no cars. Got
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  Speaker 4: her on a bike and she did really well. She
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  Speaker 4: can ride it. But it just gave me flashbacks to
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  Speaker 4: when I was a kid. Has taken all the skin
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  Speaker 4: off of calves and a shins from the pedals.
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  Speaker 1: Oh is she going fast? And she takes her feet
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  Speaker 1: off the pedals and the.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, when you're teaching someone to ride, you
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  Speaker 4: hold the bike to start with so they don't have
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  Speaker 4: to worry about trying to get their feet on the
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  Speaker 4: pedals because they're already on the pedals. But then when
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  Speaker 4: she said, I want to do it myself constantly, so
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  Speaker 4: her legs are so bruised, batter than Bruce. But I
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  Speaker 4: said to her, God, back in our day, those things
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  Speaker 4: were made from steel, Like we did serious damage.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember those She.
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  Speaker 1: Got some sort of carbon fiber lightweight to a de
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  Speaker 1: France thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's nothing like that back in the day. And then
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  Speaker 4: the other stupid thing she did. So we went for
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  Speaker 4: a beach walk, finding cuttlefish everywhere. You know your average
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  Speaker 4: size of cuttlefish you find at the beach. We found
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  Speaker 4: one that was on steroids. It was probably five sizes bigger.
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  Speaker 4: One of the other kids said, kick it, bare feet.
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  Speaker 4: She kicked it and then cut her foot and was like,
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  Speaker 4: toe was all bruised.
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  Speaker 2: What is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: So are these girls older than her?
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  Speaker 2: No, these are like, well, one's a little bit older.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just they just go crazy when they're together,
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  Speaker 2: don't they.
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  Speaker 1: Because I remember anyone who was two years older than
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  Speaker 1: me was a god and I would do whatever they
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  Speaker 1: asked me to do to my peril at times.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you learn the hard way anyway. So she's covered
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  Speaker 4: in bruises, but the happy kids and we're home and
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  Speaker 4: I am now happy. Some vegetables and a big deep
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  Speaker 4: breath for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Catherine has arrived at my house with a bag full
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  Speaker 1: of vegetables that she's going to take home to address
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  Speaker 1: her scurvy. I am friends with a comedian, a female
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  Speaker 1: in her forties who has had scurvy twice.
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  Speaker 3: I did not know it was to get not on
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  Speaker 3: a ship.
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  Speaker 1: By having an appalling diet.
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  Speaker 2: So what does she eat?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not very good balanced diet apparently, so, but
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  Speaker 1: I love old beef.
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  Speaker 2: Can you go?
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  Speaker 1: Twice?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering how she poops? Let alone the.
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  Speaker 1: Skivvy again episode, Second episode in a row, Second week
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  Speaker 1: in a row, where we're starting with poop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tune in, everybody, Wow, straight to thee.
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  Speaker 1: Something I discovered this week. Do you know what a
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  Speaker 1: canker saw is? It's an American expression?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know what a cankel is?
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  Speaker 1: No, a canker saw.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's different.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mouth ulcer. I didn't know that. I always
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  Speaker 1: thought it was. I don't know what I thought it was,
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  Speaker 1: but I've heard that expression from TV for years. And
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  Speaker 1: then went, well, well let's have a look at what
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  Speaker 1: this is. And it's a mouth ulcer. Oh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: smarter than I thought. Who knew?
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't sound good?
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  Speaker 4: Elizabeth put me to shame because I know you will
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  Speaker 4: country kids. When are they learning to ride bikes? Your
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  Speaker 4: kids have been riding since probably one or two?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I reckon as you were telling that story.
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  Speaker 3: I reckon. Austin was riding his pushy when he was
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  Speaker 3: three or four. He's onto his motorbike. Man, that's the
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  Speaker 3: next thing. That's the next thing for half of when
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  Speaker 3: she comes up sing her on the back of.
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  Speaker 2: The motorbike with him.
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  Speaker 1: Been riding their bike since about.
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  Speaker 2: Three or four.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of a park?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: No, Well, now that she's onto it, the netball courts
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  Speaker 4: are actually I tell.
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  Speaker 1: You where he's great now that she's riding. Go out
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  Speaker 1: to Sydney Olympic Park. It's this massive flat area. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many interesting things to look at. There's not lots
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  Speaker 1: of cars around and things. Take the bikes out there
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  Speaker 1: on a weekend. It's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right, okay, t yeah anyway, yeah, bikes and scooteress.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, my kids learned to ride early. So
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  Speaker 3: Evylyn learned to ride I reckon when she was about
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  Speaker 3: just before she started school. She got really proficient and
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  Speaker 3: we bought a new bike and we said to her,
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  Speaker 3: you can ride your bike down the hill to the
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  Speaker 3: bus stop and I'll go with you. And so Catherine
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  Speaker 3: is making that sound because she's seen our hill and
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  Speaker 3: I am a really, I'm a shit mother. Because I
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  Speaker 3: just don't think ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Matthew would have said, no, we'll carry your bike to
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of the hill and then you can ride along.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, for you, I just use your brakes.
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  Speaker 3: So I started to jog along, and I'd said to her,
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  Speaker 3: just wait for me at the bottom of the hill.
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  Speaker 3: I help meet you there. And my little beautiful blonde
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  Speaker 3: five year old took off down the hill and she
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  Speaker 3: started to gather speed, and I started to speed up.
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  Speaker 3: She got to the last year, the last part of
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  Speaker 3: the hill. It's a really steep pinch, and I just
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  Speaker 3: had sang in this screen and she came. This little
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  Speaker 3: person came running up with her hands out, so much
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  Speaker 3: skin off her everywhere in her uniform and a helmet.
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  Speaker 3: Say god, she was wearing a helmet or she would
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  Speaker 3: have actually done a solf some awful damage. So she
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  Speaker 3: was running up the driveway towards me, screaming she'd lost
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  Speaker 3: so much skin, and it was like she was like
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  Speaker 3: was like week four or week five of KINDI, and
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  Speaker 3: she had to say hope for the full week and
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  Speaker 3: I had to scrub all of the ash felt out
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  Speaker 3: of her. And she's still got a piece of ash
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  Speaker 3: felt in her hand, which she always points to it
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  Speaker 3: and just like that's because you're a bad mum. So
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  Speaker 3: it's still there, and then a few it's still there.
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  Speaker 3: So that a few years later we bought her an
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  Speaker 3: Austin scooters and he's always been so careful. Right at
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  Speaker 3: this place. If you've ever been to Letex Head in
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  Speaker 3: this northern New South Wales, it's called pat Morton look at.
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  Speaker 3: And she just took off from the top and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Evelynne, come back, put your brains on. Next minute,
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  Speaker 3: she gets all wobbly and she comes off and all
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  Speaker 3: these people came running, so we came running down and
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  Speaker 3: she's taken the skin off again. She would have been nine.
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  Speaker 3: We had to pick her up and carry a bash
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  Speaker 3: because she was so broken. She's broken her arm on
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  Speaker 3: a trampoline like and then so we buy her a
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  Speaker 3: ute to drive down to the front gate and.
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  Speaker 4: Well, at least she's protected by that, like if if
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  Speaker 4: that comes across padding around her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she ran into into a guide guardrail and a
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  Speaker 3: fence or not the guardrail, she ran austrating post at
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  Speaker 3: the front gate and I'm like anything and then so
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  Speaker 3: now she's winging that we haven't taught her to the motorbike.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you are never writing the motibikeike. You would
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  Speaker 3: never ride a motorbike, never, never, never, So Catherine, that's
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  Speaker 3: what I.
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  Speaker 4: Was thinking when you started talking. It's not so much
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  Speaker 4: the steepness of your heel, it's the it's the loose
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  Speaker 4: gravel and stuff like that's dangerous yourself and then if
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  Speaker 4: you do come off, My god.
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  Speaker 1: So your two kids have quite different risk appetites, is
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  Speaker 1: that right?
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  Speaker 3: Very different? Austin's like his father and Evidence like a mother.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting, Like it's just that hole that that
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  Speaker 1: risk appetite comes from within them. It's not. It's not
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  Speaker 1: really a.
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  Speaker 2: Your kids are they different?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? They take different sorts of risks. And let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I have an eighteen year old son. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'm not enjoying the risk taking that he thinks is
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  Speaker 1: a great idea. But anyway, we're like, we'll get through it.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone gets through it. Oh well, you know, use your imagination.
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  Speaker 1: We can go to the pub whenever we want to.
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  Speaker 1: Now we can pop up to the bottle shop whenever
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  Speaker 1: we want so, and he's just about today he starts
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  Speaker 1: his pre trial exam, so today. He's not even an
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  Speaker 1: official school day yet. They don't go back until tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even go until the day after that. But he
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  Speaker 1: has pre trial exams today from one to three and
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  Speaker 1: then six to nine. And it's like, oh, that really
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  Speaker 1: sucks as a return to school after the school holidays,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it big time? Yeah, we dropped him back to
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  Speaker 1: school today with all of his gear because he's a
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  Speaker 1: border Now, I said, where's your doner? I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a doner with him, and it's like, okay, where's your blazer? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't have a blazer. So he'll come home soon
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  Speaker 1: and between his exams and pick up some stuff and
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  Speaker 1: I'll drive him back down again.
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  Speaker 3: But lucky it's not a long way away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. But I've actually been watching some
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  Speaker 1: soccer World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was so going for a penalty shootout.
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  Speaker 2: We were so close to getting one. Wouldn't that have
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  Speaker 2: been awesome? But how's the shots at goal? Did he see?
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  Speaker 2: Towards the end of the game they put up attempts
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  Speaker 2: at goal.
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  Speaker 1: It's like teen to zip, yeah, twenty to zip in
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  Speaker 1: the end. But you know, I have had and for
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  Speaker 1: our English dribblers and I know that we do have
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  Speaker 1: quite a lot of English dribblers and we love you.
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  Speaker 1: I tried being an English sports fan for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in my life. I think it lasted maybe about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty minutes. It was at the back
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  Speaker 1: end of the game that they won. Who was that with?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they smashed them for third and fourth?
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  Speaker 1: No. No. And then I was an English sports fan
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  Speaker 1: when they were playing against Argentina and then they lost,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, well, I've now had the full experience
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  Speaker 1: of watching this, having hope, seeing something amazing, and then
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  Speaker 1: having those hopes dashed and being disappointed that the team
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  Speaker 1: I was supporting were bundled out. So I am now
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  Speaker 1: a card carrying former English sports fan.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you could have just been an Aussie sports
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  Speaker 4: fan something like a World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that finishes a bit earlier, doesn't it. Forty
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  Speaker 1: So I don't really care about the soccer, but the
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  Speaker 1: Commonwealth Games are coming up. That's very exciting. We should
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  Speaker 1: maybe take a little break and then come back and
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  Speaker 1: talk about some netball. Okay, so I flagged this before
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  Speaker 1: the show. I don't think we'll talk about the common Games.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on Friday. I who saw this
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  Speaker 1: one coming. Steph Fretwell coming out of retirement playing netball
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  Speaker 1: in the UK for London Pulse.
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  Speaker 5: What I love this.
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  Speaker 2: Good honor.
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  Speaker 4: Like she's clearly I'm not saying it's not a great league.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great league. It's not as good as our league,
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  Speaker 4: but I love the fact that she might be at
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  Speaker 4: the stage of her life where she's retired from like
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  Speaker 4: full on really you know, the toughest camp in the league.
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  Speaker 4: She still wants to play a bit of netball, but
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  Speaker 4: maybe wants to do a bit of travel.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's now got a baby.
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  Speaker 4: She's going over there and spending a year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: still having some fun, enjoying the sport that she loves,
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  Speaker 4: but able to go and do bits and bobs around it.
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  Speaker 2: Good honor. I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this was on her Bengo card when
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  Speaker 1: she retired? So we don't think there's any question that
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  Speaker 1: she retired on her own terms? Do we like she
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  Speaker 1: she chose the time of her retirement. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 1: very soon thereafter announced her pregnancy and has had a baby,
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  Speaker 1: So like, do you think this is just an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: that's come her way or has she just been starting
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  Speaker 1: to get life back under control and think I really
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  Speaker 1: miss Nepple.
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  Speaker 4: I reckon England would have been smart, London would have
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  Speaker 4: been smart to.
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  Speaker 2: Ask the question.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like if they had a shooting spot available and
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  Speaker 4: she's only freshly retired obviously, because you know, a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of training could be just as good as she
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  Speaker 4: was when she finished, and they thought i'll give it
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  Speaker 4: a cry, and she's considered it like you got to
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  Speaker 4: ask the question, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And she's a slightly shorter season than super Netble,
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's appealing too. If you've you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you've finish your international career and you finished up
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  Speaker 3: with super Netball, as Katsman said, the ability to go
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  Speaker 3: and live you know, London or somewhere like that is amazing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but that might not have to be at the same
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  Speaker 3: level you're at, but you can still you still need
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  Speaker 3: to be fit enough to compete, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: where she'll find herself. And it's yea a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a shorter season mightible so played a partner too, It's exciting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean we don't know who asked the question first,
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  Speaker 4: if it was the club or if it was Steph
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  Speaker 4: but it would it have been the same answer had
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  Speaker 4: it been Team Bath.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that asked the questions, then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I think that the appeal of living
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  Speaker 1: in London and I get like a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: gap here, so I go over and old work for
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  Speaker 1: a bit and play some netball and then at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the season I'll go traveling around Europe or
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  Speaker 1: doing whatever I do. Fantastic, Yeah, I hope we can
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  Speaker 1: watch it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I know there's a lot of Steph Fretwell
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  Speaker 2: fans that are very excited one.
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  Speaker 1: That news and is this a blueprint for stuff we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be seeing with other Australian players perhaps moving
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  Speaker 1: offshore more. I mean, I know we saw Sophie Fawns
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  Speaker 1: go and do that, but she's at a very different
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  Speaker 1: stage in her career. I think where she was like
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  Speaker 1: I need the I need somewhere I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: getting more court time. So this for Sophie Fawns is
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  Speaker 1: not not by any stretch of the imagination and end
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  Speaker 1: of Korea move over to the UK. I would think
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  Speaker 1: it is all about getting back into super netball on
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  Speaker 1: her own terms at some stage. But I'm wondering that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be seeing, particularly because we're looking probably
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  Speaker 1: next year after the World Cup at a number of retirements.
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  Speaker 3: Right, there be a few people.
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  Speaker 4: Jealous that it wasn't that sort of thing wasn't around
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  Speaker 4: when we finished playing. Would have loved to have done
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  Speaker 4: something like that for a minute. I mean, Gretel Boyd
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  Speaker 4: has done similar not in the UK, but has gone
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  Speaker 4: over to Malaysia.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Malaysia to play over there. And you know, again someone's
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: asked the question of her just come out of retirement.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Now Gretlter is not coming back to Australia. But this
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: seems to just be this endless talk about Gretel Boyder
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: coming back into.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: We're trying to manifest it is that, okay?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Is that what we're trying to do?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I am I reckon everybody is why would you not?
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: But good on them? Like such a fantastic opportunity. You're
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: seeing cricket all the time because there's so many different
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: places in the world you can play in basketball, it
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: happens all the time across the world as well. I
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: love it that we've now got those opportunities.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: She looks fit enough, she looks like she could, she
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: looks like she could step onto you the Super Netball
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: or the international court. I don't think that. It's more
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: like she's got three kids, where do you find time.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe life's just a little bit easier for her
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: in Malaysia at the moment. But yes, Steph Frett, well
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: what twenty twenty seven. We are looking forward to seeing
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: you back on court. I know that lots of people
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: are very excited. I am certainly one of them. Last
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: week we talked a lot about Briany and we did
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: flag something that obviously, by the time the episode went
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to air, was a well known fact. So Sodyla Nexsip
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: has been appointed as the head coach of the Swift,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: so that we just need to flag that that has
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: happened in reality and we do know that. And congratulations Dylan,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: And as a Swifts fan, I am wishing you every success.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I mean we're all wishing all the coaches' success, right.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: The better they all go, the more entertaining the comp is.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: So it's so exciting. But yeap, obviously that was a
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: bit of a glaring omission last week, but not at
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: That we recorded.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Before we go off our netball segment, I have a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: win beneath our wings. And it's a quite kind of
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: a strange time to do this in the episode, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: it's important I think that we do it now, so
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Key we Karen, Karen Blackall, she is just taking it
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: upon herself to organize get togethers of dribblers in Glasgow
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: at the Commonwealth Games. And she's doing it for there's
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: a Diamonds Roses match followed immediately by a Fern South
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Africa match. And so if you're interested in this, you're
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: going to Dockyard Social on Sunday the twenty.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Six and wait, let me just write this because.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: You'll be going there for love from the studios, will you? Yeah? So?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: But Karen, thank you. That's wonderful. I'm so so jealous. Gord.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: He's going to try to drop in, but I reckon
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that she might be a little bit busy, but we
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: want to see plenty of photos and Karen Blackhall, this
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: is the spirit of the dribbler. This is what Bonnie
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Tyler was talking about when we're holding out for a hero.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: You are the wind beneath our wings in establishing this,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Karen Blackhall, do.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: You know what we need Karen to do?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Though?
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: So when I got here Liz Carolyn showed me a
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: map of the world and on it all the countries
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: that no Dribble's been listened to it and.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: There's a few that haven't been touched yet.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: So I think, well, Karen is over there and she
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: can get her mitst on some international talent. There's a
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: few little white spaces she needs to go and recruit.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't you reckon?
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Who are there are traveling?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: So we don't find someone in Greenlands?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Greenland?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Can we tick off Greenland? But also Estonia, Lithuania and
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Latvia surely are going to be going over there. Well,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: we do have Iceland, we don't have Mongolia, we do
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: have Russia, we do have China. I think that if
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: anyone can listen to the podcast in North Korea, we
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: will find a good prize for you if you if
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: you can color in North Korea on the map for us.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So how we get this showing up on the platform
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: that we published the podcast on is you listen to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: an episode of the podcast in that country and it
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: shows up there. So don't VPN it or do any
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of that fancy stuff that shows you somewhere. Obviously, the darker,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the more listens we have so most of it, most
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of it is from Australia, New Zealand, UK. But you
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: know we've.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Got we can get.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: What is this landlocked country in the middle of South America?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: There that's weird, A little gap in the middle.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Wise landlocked Paraguay.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Why did you ask me that Olivia? Is it Bolivia?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know Bolivia named Oliver just an outlast. So look,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: there's still a few that we need to fill in.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: There quite a number of countries that we need to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: be getting heard in. But please, if you've got friends
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: in any of these countries, I'll put this map up
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: on the Facebook group let them know that they need
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to listen to this because we want to be a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: worldwide movement obviously, so.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: And come on, Karen, get some recruiting there.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: But Karen win, beneath our wings, there's a dodgy scrunchy
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and a fifty dollar of Ala voucher here with your
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: name on it, because you are building communities where we
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: can't be and I love that, So thank you, Karen.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And again she's one of our fabulous ki We listeners
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: who we absolutely love. And I don't know, we may
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: have to fight in the final.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I mean they won't fight, but as supporters maybe will
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: need to.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Well, we need to do another catch up then so
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: we can all go fifty corps.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am looking into that. We're trying to find
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: our venue for our Constellation Cup Eve event on the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: what do we say, twenty fourth of October here in Sydney.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: So I want to see a lot of key.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Well, we can do one a little earlier, maybe in
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: the gold medal match too this common Wealth Games if.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, like no, Alexi Prino is doing what well?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Because in Western Australia it's the first center passes at
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a reasonable hour. It's like eight point thirty in the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: evening or something. She is running an event, so jump
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: online if you want to go to that. It's like
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: ten o'clock ten third. No way, I'm leaving my house
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at that hour.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: So I'll think of you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I really admire people who do want to go out
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and watch the game, and you have my moral support.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: But no, I'll be in pajamas and they probably won't
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: even be green and gold pajamas. But that is not
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a reference to who I think is going to be playing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: It's just that I don't know inn green and gold pajamas.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: But they will be playing.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, good, that's very exciting. Okay, well, why don't
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: we have a little break and we will come back.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: For some more chat.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: So something that is happening next week, and this is
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: not netball related, but I think it's important that we
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: talk about it. On Monday, the twenty seventh of July,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: all mobile devices, phones, iPads, watches, whatever, are going to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: have an alert at two o'clock that's Eastern Seaboard time.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So do your conversions for NT South Australia WA to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: test the Australia's emergency warning system. Now most of us
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: will hear that and that won't be a problem. But
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: it's really important that we get this message out to anyone.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And this is particularly women who might have a device
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that if they are in an unsafe relationship or an
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: abusive relationship, if you have a secret device there, you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: need to put that phone onto airplane mode for a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: couple of hours, either turn it off or put it
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: on airplane mode, because every phone is going to go off.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And the domestic violence experts in this country say that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: it is not uncommon and it is predominantly women in
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: these positions, for women in these positions to have some
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: sort of device that they use for communicating with their
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: safe people or whatever. So you just have to be
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: mindful of that Monday, the twenty seventh of July. So
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: spread the word on that, put it on your social media,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: anyone you know who might know. You know. Let's just
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: make sure that this great initiative to test our emergency
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: warning system doesn't actually put people in danger.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Can I just ask if you turn your phone off,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: does it still be big?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I don't believe that if it is off or on
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: aeroplane mode that it won't make the sound. So but
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: people need to obviously go and go and look this
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: up yourselves and make sure you know what is required.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: But aeroplane mode or off, I believe, are the two
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: modes that the phone can be in and you won't
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: get this emergency alert. And for everybody else, if your
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: alert goes off at two o'clock on Monday the twenty
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: seventh of July, don't worry. It's not armageddon. It's actually
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: just testing so that we're ready for armageddon when that happens.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I look, no, I'm thinking that when that happens and
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: my alarm goes off. That alert goes off. I think
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: it's depends down for the day, is it not? Are
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you done? I'm done on Monday after two next week.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think that's that's very recent though. We all
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: need to take it, take a deep breath. We've survived
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the alert, we got through it together.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can speak to some people and make it
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: one o'clock.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Then well, we're usually finished by two. I am this
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Thursday night, though, which is not the twenty seventh July.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's about the twenty third of July. I'm
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: doing a fundraiser at the Comedy Store for Women's and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Girls Emergency Center, so Dribbler's in Sydney if you want
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to come along and see that. It is a sensational
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: lineup and all money goes to a very good cause.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And yeah, we should talk about something more cheerful now,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: because domestic violence is a very sad reality of life.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: But let's get a little bit peppier here, Catherine. I'm
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: looking to you.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I know, and I'm feeling an enormous amount of pressure.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Are you umm not.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Okay? Well, then over to me, obviously, to talk about
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: something hereful. As I said, I watched a little bit
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of the Soccer World Cup, more interested in it than
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I ever expected to be. But will now park that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: for four years again until I become interested one more time.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: But Lionel Messi leon Arl Messi, I'm not quite sure
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: how to pronounce, obviously legend of the game from Argentina.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, God, how old is this guy? Looks
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: so much older than all of the other and the Argentinians,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: My god, they're a handsome team. Lionel Messi was born
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the year after I finished high school. So and I
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: know this because this Saturday night I have my forty
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: year high school reunion.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: What who?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Who's organizing that?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Melinda?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Has Melinda kept everyone's phone numbers in contact demers?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: It's got had to be Melinda.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: No, well, I organized the last one. And well, so
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: have you been to Facebook's one? I've been to all
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of them?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Have you?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I love them?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Tell me can you recognize people when you walk into
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: these rooms straight away because you've been to them regularly?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Do you reckon? You're all over the whole year group?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Most people there are one or two people though that
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I still I just I can't I can't remember them,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like I, you know, and I meet them and I
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: know the name and this is me. It's yep, sorry,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: don't know Elie.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Have you been to yours?
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I went to one, but then when I moved
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: out of Sydney, I just ye, and then like anyway,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I haven't been to them. But so I think, Catherine,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: you and I've added ourselves as old because one I
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: was like, who still kept everyone's phone numbers? Like that's
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: what Facebook's for. You don't need to know how Facebook,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure just for the records, do you still
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: recognize you? You're still like do you still recognize people? Well?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Their photos are on Facebook?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Like if I walked into my school reunion, I reckon
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I would know my immediate friends that I hung out with, and.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I would have zero clue about anybody else.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: That's interesting. So you haven't been to a lot of the.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Region, no, because they're always bloody when there's netball on
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: it's on a weekend and working the last one I
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: was a chance of going to and last minute I
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: couldn't get there.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I would love to go.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I think this we got saved the date on this.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So there's a woman named Lisa, who I organized last
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: one with. I think she put a save the date
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: out eighteen months ago on this, which is terrific because
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it's like, great, I know when it is, I will go.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I will be there for it. So it's in Brisbane,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I've got to travel up there. But yeah, I'm quite excited.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But it's also, what do you mean forty? And I
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: think that's what I'm going to be saying all nights.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: What do you mean forty?
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Oh my god? Yes, So did you go to a
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: girls school or a boys school or co eds boys school?
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: You go girls? Or so you went to a girls school? Yeah,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: this is this is an observation that won't apply to you.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I did go to my maybe ten year one for
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: me twelve, and I ended up flirting with the same
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: boys that I flirted with in high school. And I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: was like, I didn't know in high school for something
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: to do to pass the time. I'm out done.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Well, but that I'll be born in the house.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: There's no points, yeah exactly, Like that's just yeah. Anyway,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: the girls who I was friends with I'm still friends
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: with from school, so I'm like I still see the
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: people I want to see, and I don't know. It's funny,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: isn't it.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Well, See, that's the thing. I still see the people
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: who I really want to see. I had my best
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: friend from high school who lives in Adelaide now. She
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and her husband came over for dinner recently, so I
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: still see those people. But what I love about is
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: seeing the people who you just don't have time to
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: keep up with and go, God, that's you know, I
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: don't really know what's going on with you. A lot
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of us are connected on Facebook, so we know a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: little bit about one another's lives. But that's my favorite
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: part of it, is not talking to the people who
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: i'm I'm still friends with and look, here's something that's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: going to surprise everyone. I usually get a teensy bit
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: excited and drink a lot and then make an ass
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: of myself.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I was going to actually ask you if you drink
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: at these things because I recognize.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Let's all sing the school song together, girls.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: You did not do that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Last time we did. We were at a pub singing
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: our school hymn, which is though God, our helping agent.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I can't even remember the school him, But.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Is it not ingrained? Didn't you know?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: When did you have a school song.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Later, Catherine, you had to turn up regularly. Didn't remember
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: the school him.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Listen, there was only a few days I wagged school.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Not many.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: One of them actually went to the it's a funny story, unrelated.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: One of them actually went to the beach. So our
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: school uniform was blazer kilt stocking as the works.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: One of them.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: I went to the beach and my mum later on
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: that week goes, how many your legs burnt? And I said, oh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: my stocking ripped at school, and so then I had
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: to kind of just take them off, and I was lying,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: and then just like, oh my god, never got caught touchwood.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I have now though, haven't I.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: So the lesson is, if you're going to wag school
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: wear sunscreen, yes, yep.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: That's true. But I was going to say, Catherine, now
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: that you're a mother and you know you told that
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: bullshit line of Fronci, she clearly didn't believe you, but
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: just thought, I can't even bother with the argument. At
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: the time you think you've gotten away with it, you
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: haven't gotten away with it. Your Mum's just like, oh,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I'll just save that for when I need it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: All you've done is given your mother plausible deniability, she
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: can go, you know what, that's close enough to a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: believable story that I don't have to ask any more questions,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and I can say that I've discharged my responsibility.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: And we also nailed the signatures to forge her signature
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: all the time on the absentee notes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Did you Yeah, that's very naughty but funny. But now
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: you can't do it right because now everything comes into
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the app right, can you can? Your daughter is not
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: at school, like I'd hate to be a kid these days,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: trying to get away with stuff.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know, how do you be naughty? I mean,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: let's not give anyone any ideas, particularly our children.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: But I will tell you I am not the person
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to ask how to break rules. I am so even
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: through high school, I wagged one day of high school.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It was the second last day of year nine. So
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: my friend and I went, well, they won't be chasing
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: notes at that time of year. We don't want to
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: miss the last day because stays really fun. So we
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: were super strategic about it. It's like, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: what did we do? We went to Indrapilli shopping town,
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  Speaker 1: like you know.
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  Speaker 2: Freaking the whole time, so this is it's just.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in my nature. It's like, well, if you'd
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  Speaker 1: meant to be at school, then you go to school
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  Speaker 1: and you wear the uniform the way it's meant.
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  Speaker 4: To be worn, well you've made up for it. You'll
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: get blind, drunk and sing hymns.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it was so exciting to do that lap
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  Speaker 1: around the court after the grand final, because it's such
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: an unmean thing to do, to just think, just just
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: do it and don't look back. But yet we our school.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: The school captain who was elected by us that year,
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  Speaker 1: a lovely lady named Jane. Jane is a much quieter
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  Speaker 1: personality than I am, but we still make Jane make
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  Speaker 1: a speech every year because it's like, well, school captain
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: is a job for life, obviously, and she hates it.
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  Speaker 1: But like last time at our thirty year reunion, she
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: talked about how she didn't want to be making a speech,
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  Speaker 1: but that she had been forced into it, bullied into it. Yes,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that's right, and she said, but it's interesting to reflect
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  Speaker 1: on us. We actually don't know each other, but we
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: all have more in common now than we did when
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: we were at school together. And it's so true, like
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: there's so many that all of those kind of weird
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: sorts of that group, this group, whatever, it all just
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: becomes completely irrelevant. And it's there's one person who I
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: don't know why, but she doesn't like me. Now I'm
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: not everyone's cup of tea.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: But it's like start like her spoke, I never liked her.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: I never liked her either, really.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: But it's like we left school in nineteen eighty six.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: No, but you need to ask it on the weekend.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Well, she usually doesn't come to the reunion, so I
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: want to know. Yeah, yeah, I don't. Yeah, it's weird
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: though it's like forty years like what I was annoying,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: but I wasn't mean or anything, so you know, I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: wasn't a fundamentally different person to what I am now.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: It was just sort of like a bit loud. But yeah,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: so why what can annoy you for four years? So
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'll report back after that, Yes, coming, and will she
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: speak to me? Who knows exciting? Yes, So that's that's me.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: If you tube punched on in the car park afterwards,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: can you please make sure there's video because we want to.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: See it absolutely absolutely. I've been working, Yes, you know that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't take you.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's going to be my there's still a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: few days away though, we've still got another episode to go.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: It's only Wednesday, excellent. So for all of our dribblers
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: at home. We've got a little bit of an Internet
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: lag today with Paul Liz, whose internet seems to have
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: have just given up the ghost, and so she's toggled
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: to her phone, which means that she keeps wanting to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: make a con tribution to the conversation. So as soon
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: as Catherine and I see that, we stop and pause,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and then there's a delay in the pause, and then
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: there's a delay. It lives responding, And by that stage
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: went on to.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Say, yeah, I was about to say, it's exactly how
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: my brain works.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Delay Alex Right, Alex, our producer who has to make
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: sense of all of this nonsense for us.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: But if it all feels the problem with my internet
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: is I live in the country and it's windy. That's
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: all it needs when it's windy that it all just goes.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Oh god, it's crazization is tenuous, it is anyway it is.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: That's why we have to read books, Catherine. One day
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: there might only be books.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get on board then till that day.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's all we've got time for. Today
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: is an extraordinary amount of dead air and editing for
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Alex to do No eighty songs references. I know we
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: did have a Bonnie Tyler holding out for the hero
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in My Wind Beneath the Wings, and obviously Win Beneath
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Our Wings is an eighties song reference eighties nineties. Oh
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: that's a funny story. I'll just tell you briefly. You
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: know whin Beneath Our Wings?
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: What movie?
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: That song is from? The bet middle of song you
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: win Beneath Our Wings, it's from Beaches, right, remember Beaches.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: So this was about nineteen eighty eight or eighty nine
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and one of my very dear friends from high school,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: her mother died after a long illness, and I went
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: over one day, a few days after the funeral and said,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: come on, I'll get you out of the house, and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: we gathered another school friend and we went to the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: movies and we just went and watched any old shit.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Oh beaches. Now you know what happens in beaches?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was cruel.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we didn't know. There was no internet back then,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: so you just go Bet Midler. She's funny. But of course,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: if you haven't seen Beaches, spoiler alert. But the movie
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: is thirty eight years old, so don't blame me.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: You should say it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: One of the main characters dies of cancer. So that
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: was so. Look, if you want cheering up, ask Catherine.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: She'll take you somehow.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I'm all over happy.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Gilmore is probably more you think beautiful. All right, well
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: that's all we've got time for today, but we will
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  Speaker 1: be back on Friday. I'm Caroline Swindle, I'm Cathcox.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I'm lose Ellis, I'm delayed.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Bye bye. It might be Friday by the time we
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: get there.