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Speaker 1: There's definitely it's definitely quite a somber mood this morning

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Speaker 1: and over the weekend across Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Not just in the AFL community, but I think in

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Speaker 2: Melbourne in parts of regional Victoria as well. It follows

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Speaker 2: the passing of Adam Selwood. A family who have been

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Speaker 2: through so much already this year. Their grief has been

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Speaker 2: compounded again given his very untimely death at the age

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Speaker 2: of just forty one. A young father, it must be said,

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Speaker 2: a brother, a son. It is deeply harrowing. It follows

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Speaker 2: the death of his identical twin brother Troy, just three

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Speaker 2: months ago. Now, just by way of background, he was

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Speaker 2: Adam was a footballer. He played for the West Coast

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Speaker 2: Eagles some one hundred and eighty seven games. He also

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Speaker 2: played a Premiership But this this morning is a story

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Speaker 2: and an issue which is far bigger than football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's more importantly a dad, a brother, a

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Speaker 3: son and a friend to so many. And I think

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Speaker 3: that this story is it's it's sort of beyond comprehension.

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Speaker 3: Is like Clinton, you and I spoke on Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: You did a beautiful tribute on the Today Show yesterday

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Speaker 3: mon perfectly and even finding the right words to express

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Speaker 3: the devastation that this that that the passing of Adam.

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Speaker 3: I mean, God, I can't even spit any words out

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Speaker 3: right now. I mean that the so Old family are

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Speaker 3: a divine family. They're beautiful, beautiful people, and I just

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Speaker 3: I've got friends who are very, very close with the

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Speaker 3: so Old family, and Joel is a friend of mine

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Speaker 3: and his beautiful wife Brett, and I just couldn't even

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Speaker 3: find the words to be honest, to express how sorry

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Speaker 3: I was for their loss and how deeply it's being

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Speaker 3: felt right around the country's.

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Speaker 2: It is so complex. There are so many layers here

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Speaker 2: because it involves mental health, and mental health is a

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Speaker 2: complex issue. It can often, and as I said yesterday

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Speaker 2: on the Today Show, it can often and it's invisible.

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Speaker 2: It can be invisible. You know, a lot of us

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Speaker 2: don't know what is going on behind the scenes in

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Speaker 2: so many people's lives.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier. I just find it frightening because

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Speaker 1: you don't know what's really going like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: do not want to meet this about me, but I

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Speaker 1: recently lost them on holidays quite suddenly, and from outside

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Speaker 1: looking in, I thought she was great and in a

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Speaker 1: really happy place, and that's why I just when the

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Speaker 1: news came through. It's just mate reach out to people.

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Speaker 3: And these conversations are so hard to have, and I

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Speaker 3: think it's important that we do. We do talk about

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Speaker 3: this stuff more.

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Speaker 2: We need to.

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Speaker 3: But God, this is just a tragedy beyond belief and

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Speaker 3: beyond comprehension for the cell Wards, and I know that

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Speaker 3: that it'll deeply, deeply affect a lot of people, regardless

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Speaker 3: of if you're a footy fan. I mean, news like this.

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Speaker 2: Is just.

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Speaker 3: Shocking heart breaks for that Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean picking picking up the pieces when

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Speaker 2: they can, if they can, I'm sure they will eventually.

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Speaker 2: It will be just so tough. But I think, Lauren,

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Speaker 2: maybe when after Troy's passing, you said something to me

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Speaker 2: which was which I remember, and that is you know

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Speaker 2: where you can when you can pick up the phone

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Speaker 2: to your mates as often as you can and just

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Speaker 2: tell them how much you love them. Yeah, your friends.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, being an identical twin. My grandmother is an identical twin,

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Speaker 3: and when she lost her twin sister, I like, honestly

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Speaker 3: we thought we were going to lose Nan as well,

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Speaker 3: because her heart was broken beyond belief and I think

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Speaker 3: there's so many complexities to what's happened this week, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry that we're all sort of a bit of

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Speaker 3: a hot mess trying to talk about it, but I

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Speaker 3: think it's affected all of us really deeply. Whether you've

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Speaker 3: got a connection to the Sowed family, not to footy

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Speaker 3: or not, but our hearts are very much with Joel

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Speaker 3: and Scott and Adam's beautiful parents, bryceon Marie. They're just

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Speaker 3: the most divine family. The Bendigo community, the Perth community,

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Speaker 3: and anyone who's been affected by the events of the weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's I want to give the number for Lifeline thirteen

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Speaker 1: eleven fourteen because it's a great service. But as well

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Speaker 1: as Lifeline, like you said, pick up the phone, checking

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Speaker 1: on your mates today, let them know that you love them,

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Speaker 1: because you might not realize the impact of them hearing

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Speaker 1: that for them today.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just talking about it is impactful for so

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Speaker 2: many people. And if there is a way, if there

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Speaker 2: is a means to normalize a conversation around something, so

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Speaker 2: you know, because this can't happen, This shouldn't happen, especially

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Speaker 2: to a bloke or anyone really in their prime. You

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Speaker 2: a young family, will be impacted forever, and our hearts

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Speaker 2: really go out to the cell wards.

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Speaker 1: It has just gone five to way Over