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Speaker 1: This is busy and with KRITTI, well you over, Hello

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the Fitsie and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm filling in this week as the former newsreader Matt Dedgruez,

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Speaker 1: who is well, I'm still Matt degree, don't I. It's

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Speaker 1: just my job is gone. My name remains the same.

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Speaker 1: And this is part of the bonus episodes that we're

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Speaker 1: running over summer and over Christmas where we celebrate some

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Speaker 1: of the best moments of the year. Now these moments

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Speaker 1: carry a little bit more significance in my life because

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Speaker 1: if you followed the show, I'm no longer part of it,

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Speaker 1: So I get to invoice for this podcast separately, which

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Speaker 1: I'm actually quite pleased about. And so instead of the

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Speaker 1: top moments of the year, I'll be counting down the

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Speaker 1: top five moments of my time on the show. And

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Speaker 1: what was very clear when scrolling through the archives of

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Speaker 1: ten years on the fifteen Whipper Show is that there

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Speaker 1: there aren't actually a lot of highlights in the sense

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Speaker 1: of things that I'm proud about as either a journalist

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Speaker 1: or a dad, or a person or any member of society,

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Speaker 1: because oftentimes it's just pranks and jokes and things done

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Speaker 1: on me or to me by two men mostly that

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Speaker 1: considered themselves friends. And I can only but assume that

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Speaker 1: the friend that I am to them is the kind

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Speaker 1: of friend that you like to have around because you

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Speaker 1: have to punch in the rids, which is the perfect

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Speaker 1: segue into the first or moment five, which is going

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Speaker 1: toe to toe with Paul Gallant. Now, the backstory to

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Speaker 1: this one is Paul Gallan was going to have a

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Speaker 1: boxing fight against Barry Hall, and hilariously, people think I

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Speaker 1: look exactly like Barry Hall, which I do. I'll give

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Speaker 1: I'll give them that, And so they thought how funny

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Speaker 1: would it be to dress up as Barry Hall in

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Speaker 1: Sydney Swan's gear and then go into a sparring fight

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Speaker 1: with Barry. Now, having had a professional fight in my

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Speaker 1: career when it's amateur but still New Southwest Combat Authority approved,

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Speaker 1: I was confident that I'd be able to survive a

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Speaker 1: minute in the ring with Gal didn't work out. His

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Speaker 1: hout went Mincy and Whipper with Kate Richie on Nova.

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Speaker 2: Maybe having a great day. You're probably having a better

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Speaker 2: one than Matthew de Group.

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Speaker 3: They called him old ice packtor Group. This morning it's

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Speaker 3: his new nickname. He's a little bit red around the ribs,

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Speaker 3: that's fine. He was shaken yesterday, completely shake out.

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Speaker 2: There is a big fight that's going down very soon,

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Speaker 2: November fifteenth on the Friday night, and it's between AFL

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Speaker 2: and NRL. It's Barry Hall from the Sydney Swans versus

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Speaker 2: Paul Gallon from the Kronella Sharks.

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Speaker 3: Huge.

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Speaker 2: Both boys can fight, we know that. And leading up

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Speaker 2: to this big fight, but we know Paul Gallon has

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Speaker 2: been trying to get people in the ring with a

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Speaker 2: similar body size who look like Barry Hall, just to

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Speaker 2: get him immune to what it's going to be like

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Speaker 2: boxing against a taller opponent with a longer reach.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we searched everywhere. We looked all over Sydney, New

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Speaker 3: South Wales extended. We couldn't find anybody. And then hang

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Speaker 3: on a minute, we looked at our own stable and realized.

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Speaker 2: Matt de Gruze is Barry Hall. And you mean exactly

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Speaker 2: like Barry your ground announce of the Sydney Swans game

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Speaker 2: and you get this quite a bit. You've actually signed

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Speaker 2: autographs as Barry Hall, haven't.

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Speaker 1: Have People have come up to me and asked for

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Speaker 1: autographs which I have signed out of politeness. I'm sorry, Barry,

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Speaker 1: but I figured the reason why you wanted me to

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Speaker 1: step into the ring as well is because I'm an

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Speaker 1: undefeated New South Wales combat authority previt stepped into the

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Speaker 1: ring and have stepped out one and oh that's all.

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Speaker 3: You were part of a charity event. Yeah, so it

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Speaker 3: made sense that MDG became a boxing bag for Paul

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Speaker 3: Gollum did not make it.

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Speaker 2: So we said, gou, we found a Barry Hall look

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Speaker 2: alike for you. You get thirty seconds with him. This

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Speaker 2: is what happened.

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Speaker 3: We searched all over Sydney in New South Wales to

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Speaker 3: try and find a Barry Hall look alike and it

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Speaker 3: turns out he's sitting in an own office, been looking

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Speaker 3: for someone a SPA fights on the fifteenth. This is

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Speaker 3: the number one Barry Hall impersonator. And what only makes

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Speaker 3: sense that you use this thing is a punching bag.

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Speaker 2: Really perfect preparation.

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Speaker 3: Let's get run in on the mole in the red corner,

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Speaker 3: not the groot and in the blue corner Paul Gallop

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Speaker 3: thirty seconds now hold or Galvani almost one of the

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Speaker 3: gaps the group, the group making it over the corner.

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Speaker 3: He's going to get your jeez gallums, lord straight in

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Speaker 3: the ring, the left, the right, turn un we're on

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Speaker 3: the atten seconds he's gone to the corner, coming the

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Speaker 3: bed is dancing around the grout panicking.

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Speaker 1: He's another one.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, he shall he's down.

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Speaker 2: He's got to me.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to.

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Speaker 3: Find so long gall You've.

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Speaker 1: Got five seconds.

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Speaker 3: Three grout is down.

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Speaker 1: Oh the groots or.

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Speaker 3: Has dropped to the knees, hit the canvas. Where did

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Speaker 3: he get you?

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Speaker 2: That was a shot?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Do you a bit?

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Speaker 2: Did it tells it?

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Speaker 3: How I survive?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Well we we.

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Speaker 3: Went down at about twenty eight seconds, so you fill

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Speaker 3: didn't actually make thirty seconds with whole gallon. The ladyes

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Speaker 3: and gentleman the winner in the Oh wow, oh man,

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Speaker 3: you're a week's Are you breathing again?

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Speaker 1: I said to him in advance, I said, throw your

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Speaker 1: absolute best, because you reckon. I could take it, could.

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Speaker 3: Not take it. Unfortunately, I would not take it.

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Speaker 2: Was it wasn't nerve wrecking, no like.

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Speaker 1: Because he's so fit, isn't he the width of the

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Speaker 1: doorway laster than you? And he's and he's just it's

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Speaker 1: like being hit with a sledgehammer or wrecking ball. And

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Speaker 1: I mean I thought thirty seconds was going to go quickly,

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Speaker 1: but at about the eight second mark.

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Speaker 3: And Toby, you've confirmed Connor McGregor's arriving next week.

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Speaker 1: With Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast. For more great

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