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Speaker 1: Sitsy and with her with Kate Ritchie podcast.

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Speaker 2: A couple of whispers around the corridor a few days

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Speaker 2: ago that one of the team members was making a

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Speaker 2: big decision about their career here at Nova. And it's

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Speaker 2: always a bit of a scary time because in the

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Speaker 2: radio game, you put together a team and you try

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Speaker 2: and hold on for as long as you can, because

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Speaker 2: every member of this team is crucial, and that's Breakfast Radio.

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Speaker 2: But one member of the team has decided to make

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Speaker 2: a change to their life and do something different move

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Speaker 2: on for the next adventure, and we welcome that team

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Speaker 2: member to share that news.

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Speaker 1: Now, Hey, guys, Matt de gra DG, what's happening.

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Speaker 3: To I'm a little bit more nervous than I thought

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Speaker 3: I would be, right, imagine.

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Speaker 4: Because how long have you worked on the show, Maddie

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Speaker 4: ten years?

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Speaker 3: Been at over for eleven, on the show for ten

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Speaker 3: and it has been the best ten years with the

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Speaker 3: best team. Mostly to be fair off and traumatic and.

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Speaker 2: At the traffic pig stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, there's a couple of things we

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Speaker 3: could touch on, which we won't now there's plenty of

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Speaker 3: time to touch on. But my beautiful wife, Bronti has

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Speaker 3: been given an amazing opportunity to head up news dot

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Speaker 3: for the last couple of months there. And it's too

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Speaker 3: about and follow her career and see what opportunities that

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Speaker 3: Radio news next year. Don't go oh okay, great, well

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Speaker 3: that's it for me.

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Speaker 2: Well, hang on a minute. You obviously had to choose.

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Speaker 2: You had to think about the choice. Still, I choose

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Speaker 2: my wife or the.

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Speaker 3: Team, and I will pick her so regularly, damn.

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Speaker 1: First, So regularly. You were meant to say.

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Speaker 4: All the well, no, no, no, I I do love

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Speaker 4: this and while you're young, what a great opportunity. And

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Speaker 4: I know we know that the love that you have

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Speaker 4: for your family, this is a great opportunity. We've been

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Speaker 4: trying to talk you around this and is there any

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Speaker 4: know it's not over for us, because Mattie, you know,

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Speaker 4: we do get stuck into you, but you're insight that

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Speaker 4: you bring into this show and your personality.

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Speaker 1: Mate, you have been a vital.

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Speaker 4: Part of the show for ten years and we want

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Speaker 4: to say thank you very much for all of that.

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Speaker 1: Buddy.

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Speaker 3: I did not expect to be the crying saying this

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Speaker 3: it's been an amazing ten years and now this chapter

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Speaker 3: and thank you all for it. I'm here until the

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Speaker 1: Like are you still here? But thank you and.

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Speaker 2: Making me upset.

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Speaker 3: I have loved this and love it and I'm not

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Speaker 3: there is lots of water that goes under the bridge.

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Speaker 1: We live very.

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Speaker 3: Intimately close to each other at hours of the day

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Speaker 1: Care. And it is not a decision that.

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Speaker 4: Wonderful And I mean, we still got We've got three weeks.

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Speaker 4: a traffic update, right.

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Speaker 1: I did the math.

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Speaker 3: I've done nine thousand traffic reports. Wow, thirty nine thousand

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Speaker 1: Look outside to nothing amazing.

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Speaker 2: Rich Richard from Wilton, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Richard. A word on MDG.

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Speaker 5: Look, MDG, bloody awesome like work you've done over the

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Speaker 5: past eleven years of the show. Back when you were

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Speaker 5: doing this morning show with Sarah, you know, tuning in.

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Speaker 5: I had a few phone calls with you and Sarah

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Speaker 5: and listening to all your news and because I'm a

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Speaker 5: tucky so listening to all your road up states and stuff.

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Speaker 5: It's been a pleasure. You've done an awesome job. Thank

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm rich. Thanks Richard, legends, our legends, our God,

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Speaker 1: bless it.

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Speaker 2: You've done so much, MDJ.

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Speaker 1: Do we want to get some more calls on Tommy? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because we're getting a lot of calls here, MDJ.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of people like that are upset.

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Speaker 2: But you speak to Sam and we're all going, No,

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Speaker 2: We've got Donna in Chester Hill, do we Yeah, let's

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Speaker 2: go to Donna.

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Speaker 6: Hi, Don morning, How are you all?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You got man here with you.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, man, I'm a little bit emotional. I was

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Speaker 6: telling your teammates I had a stroke earlier this year

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Speaker 6: and that was a very rough home obviously for all

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Speaker 6: of us. I'm doing a lot at it now, but

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Speaker 6: it was listening to you and even going back to

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Speaker 6: the podcast where they would pay these horrible but very

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Speaker 6: funny joke that got me through that rough time. So

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Speaker 6: I just hold that whenever is your replacement is there

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Speaker 6: for everything that these guys do show so great?

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Speaker 3: like anyone that has a mate who enjoys ripping on them,

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Speaker 3: you love it when you know it comes from a

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Speaker 3: place of love, and Donna, I love that you enjoyed

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Speaker 2: I mean we had a quick look over the line

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Speaker 1: They will tell the story.

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Speaker 1: There will be no advocates. Sam is in more wronger?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead?

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Speaker 5: Sam, Yeah, Look, I moved to move back to Sydney

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Speaker 6: Always listening to you guys on the radio, MDG, I

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Speaker 6: think you're you or without Pea as the best radio

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Speaker 5: It's been awesome.

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Speaker 4: No, it is it is Mattie's He is so good

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Speaker 4: the side. And you know, we've ten years is a

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Speaker 4: long time, and you know from Maddie, you know, first

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Speaker 4: the show. But God did how it's evolved this show

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Speaker 4: with you know, we were single when we first started

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Speaker 1: I remember listening to.

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Speaker 3: Marto when he was on with American Rosso and one

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Speaker 3: I was remember listening to that going God, wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: amazing to be part of a show where you get

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Speaker 3: to share your entire life like that, Never thinking that

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Speaker 3: your first child and chat to you guys about it

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Speaker 3: and meet your wife through Bronte who I'm met here,

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Speaker 3: and have people literally come up and say I've listened

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Speaker 3: to you my entire life. They were in school and

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Speaker 3: they weren't born when we started.

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Speaker 5: We did.

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Speaker 2: One person that will be devastated at this news. Go on,

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Speaker 2: Christine Whipfley.

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Speaker 1: Don't doubt it, huge MDG fans.

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Speaker 3: I mean, she's only human.

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Speaker 4: Talking of your magnificent mother, Gail. Will the lip kisses

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Speaker 4: an over event?

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Speaker 1: That well is run so dry? You best not.

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Speaker 4: Like we said, Maddie, you're sticking around. Well, you're going

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Speaker 4: well for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I don't fly until March and till March. Yeah, well

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Speaker 3: this is a bit prematerial.

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Speaker 1: Hold off, We've.

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Speaker 4: Got another announcement in January.

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Speaker 3: This is one of those ones that you go By

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Speaker 3: the time I get on a plane, people go.

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Speaker 1: What has been going on for five months ago?

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Speaker 3: However, because I'm finishing up at the end of the

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Speaker 3: year and they need to advertise the job I.

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Speaker 1: Needed until we run out of things to talk about.

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Speaker 3: No, thank you, You're welcome for giving me the opportunity

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Speaker 3: to do that and share that.

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Speaker 1: We love you. Love you now getting there, you're way over.

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Speaker 3: It's the news and with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast.

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Speaker 3: For more great comedy shows like this, head to Nova

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Speaker 3: podcast dot com jod Are you