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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is an unbelievable I don't even want to call

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Speaker 2: it a sport. I'm going to call it a barbaric

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Speaker 2: action because you would have seen it on social media.

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Speaker 1: It is everywhere and fits you and I have spoken

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Speaker 1: about this. It's called run it Run.

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Speaker 2: It straight, and the idea is the participants they're sort

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Speaker 2: of twenty meters apart.

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Speaker 1: One has a footy under the arm.

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Speaker 2: A lot of these guys are big Islander guys, and

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Speaker 2: they run directly straight at each other. They run as

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Speaker 2: fast as they can twenty minutes out and the amount

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Speaker 2: of head clashes concussions, people being knocked out is really

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Speaker 2: jarring to watch.

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Speaker 1: At the start.

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Speaker 2: When I saw this on social media, I thought this

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Speaker 2: is maybe something that people were doing, like after footy training,

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Speaker 2: just as a ah.

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Speaker 1: It's uffronting to watch.

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Speaker 3: It is confronting because concussion in professional sports is such

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Speaker 3: a huge debate now at the moment, and we're seeing

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Speaker 3: some of these guys, you know, rugby league players later

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Speaker 3: in life having brain problems wi the thing deteriorating very

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Speaker 3: very quickly. So I don't know how they get away

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Speaker 3: with me.

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Speaker 2: Why don't they have helmets on to start with, Like,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to do it, I mean a doctor

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Speaker 2: has come out and spoken about the dangers obviously to

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Speaker 2: the body, but the brain.

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Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a tough brain.

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Speaker 2: You can have a tough exterior and muscles and bulk,

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Speaker 2: but you can't have a tough brain.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem here. Someone died, Yes, an eighteen year.

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Speaker 2: Old boy has died after taking a place or taking

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Speaker 2: part in run It Straight. So there's a group out

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Speaker 2: at Melbourne doing it, but obviously it's adam nz. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if anyone's doing it here in Sydney thirteen,

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Speaker 2: twenty four ten.

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Speaker 1: If you know anything about run it.

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Speaker 4: I mean see this is I writ an article once

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Speaker 4: years ago and it explains a lot about young men.

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Speaker 4: Did you know that the brain and the ability to

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Speaker 4: make rational good decisions doesn't kind of properly kicking in

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Speaker 4: the male brain in the male body until late twenty year.

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Speaker 1: Like twenty six onwardsn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's not even yeah yeah yeah, So that

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Speaker 4: part of the brain just isn't there. So these guys

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Speaker 4: may not even be going. I am putting my life

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Speaker 4: on the line here it might not even occur to

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Speaker 4: them because they're not that they haven't developed that yet.

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Speaker 4: The decision is extraordinarily dangeus.

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Speaker 3: You when you when you play professional sport, you will

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Speaker 3: do anything in your power to get back out in

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Speaker 3: the field and you it does not like, I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's no there's a level of bravado, bravado that you

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Speaker 3: have that you like, yeah, yeah, we're totally fine, literally,

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, there's so if you interviewed a

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Speaker 3: lot of ex footballers and asked them, what have you

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Speaker 3: put your body through that pain again, I dare say

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Speaker 3: a majority of them would say no.

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Speaker 2: So that's the maturity that's missing when they step out

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Speaker 2: as young men weighing one hundred and thirty kilos running

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Speaker 2: as fast as they can into one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: kilos running the other way. Jesus and doctors come out

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Speaker 2: and they said, are you surprised by this? He speaks

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Speaker 2: on behalf of headsafe, and he said, this activity is

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Speaker 2: designed to create brain injury. He said, I'm not surprised though,

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Speaker 2: in the same way people thought two thousand years ago

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Speaker 2: that going down to the coliseum on a Saturday afternoon

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Speaker 2: to watch some Christians being fed to the lions.

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Speaker 1: Sounded like a good day out.

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Speaker 2: I think people are now just coming back to the

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Speaker 2: basics of having two beasts running at each other to

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Speaker 2: see what the result is.

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Speaker 1: Oh, UFC's the same.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people will say, well, UFC has become

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Speaker 3: such a huge sport, now.

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Speaker 1: One of them.

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Speaker 3: It's the fastest growing sport in the world.

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Speaker 2: But you would say that there is a different level

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Speaker 2: of skill athleticism.

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Speaker 3: You still rocking the brain, mate, Oh yessolutely call it

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Speaker 3: boxing whatever it might be. You're right, it's a hot

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Speaker 3: topic when you're talking about brain injury in sport and

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Speaker 3: the AFAIR in particular. I mean they've cleaned it up

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Speaker 3: in terms of head knocks and time on the bench required,

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Speaker 3: and how to protect the players on the field even

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Speaker 3: though it's going.

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Speaker 1: To the ball.

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Speaker 3: They've had to these legal issues with it.

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Speaker 1: So that's a big one.

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Speaker 3: But get straight, the NFL is the other big one.

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Speaker 3: The grid iron over there as well. There's there's there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of lawsuits that are happening at the moment

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Speaker 3: with ex players who've just were damaged permanently now from

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Speaker 3: playing the game.

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Speaker 2: And they also think with the NFL that it's even

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Speaker 2: more dangerous when they do have helmets on because they

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Speaker 2: feel like they're completely bulletproof.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's not just either.

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Speaker 3: It's I mean, Tom celebrated sixteen years over yesterday and

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Speaker 3: you just what you've done to your brain in that

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Speaker 3: sixteen years.

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Speaker 1: Tom and God absolute brain rot for me, and it.

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Speaker 4: Is as a as a mother. I'm just glad that

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Speaker 4: my who sons are both running in the same direction

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Speaker 4: when I say dinner's ready, yes, otherwise there is going

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Speaker 4: to be a problems.

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Speaker 1: We're going to do a run on air next.

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Speaker 2: We're looking for someone that weighs one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: kilos to have a crack and Tom Ivy you'll see resulting.

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Speaker 1: My fingers crossed fits.

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