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Speaker 1: Seeing with Kate Richie podcast Fitz.

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Speaker 2: I want to share with you a very very special

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Speaker 2: day yesterday. I was very kindly invited to come to

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Speaker 2: a ceremony that took place at Government House. Never been

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Speaker 2: to Government House, hosted by the Honorable Margaret Beasley, the

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Speaker 2: Governor of New South Wales, of course for the ceremony

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Speaker 2: to receive the oam not myself, but I was a

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Speaker 2: guest of the wonderful Hamish Blake, honored for his contribution

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Speaker 2: to the community, charity and also entertainment. The Honorable Hamish

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Speaker 2: Blake joins us, Now, how are you, buddy?

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Speaker 1: Thank you good morning and please be seated.

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Speaker 2: Do you have your medal on now?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Have you woken up with your medal on?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I'm actually I'm in the car just driving around

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Speaker 1: a servo one free chocky milk with every time. Luck mate.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to get on this morning to celebrate yesterday.

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Speaker 2: But what surprised me was sort of the mix of

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Speaker 2: proceedings and when you arrive at Government House, you'd agree,

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Speaker 2: Ham it's extremely formal in pomp and ceremony.

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Speaker 1: Ah, I had no idea. I mean, obviously you get

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Speaker 1: an invite and everything and it's all in hindsight those

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Speaker 1: it's all very clearly laid out. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: more of a morning tea. Is that a fair thing

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Speaker 1: to say. I didn't realize it would be the level

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Speaker 1: at whish it was at.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Were you the only one?

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Speaker 2: No ham or was there any.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good question. It's so what happens is the I

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Speaker 1: think what happens is like the King's birthday list comes out,

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Speaker 1: and then there's also I think there's maybe they do

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Speaker 1: one Australia they as well, and then some months after

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Speaker 1: that you go to this ceremony which is called the investiture,

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Speaker 1: and you get it, you actually get the metal. So

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Speaker 1: there was probably I would say about twenty or thirty people,

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Speaker 1: and there are higher level medals and there are like

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Speaker 1: actual you know, I felt like a massive you know,

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Speaker 1: my my CV in comparison with everyone else's. They absolutely

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Speaker 1: felt like a massive outsider. But there are you know,

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Speaker 1: Bravery medals and there are members of the police force

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Speaker 1: getting those, and there are like, you know, different levels

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Speaker 1: of Order of Australia like Companion of the Order of

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Speaker 1: Australia and things like that. So there are like very

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Speaker 1: accomplished people getting there their.

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Speaker 2: Metal What I loved about it too, Fits is they

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Speaker 2: will read out a small bio before they introduced the

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Speaker 2: person and speak of their accomplishments, which was fantastic. But

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Speaker 2: when I when I say it's formal Fits, it's like

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Speaker 2: it's like you're at Buckingham Palace, Like it's military. It's

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Speaker 2: brass and it's ribbons and its flags. Is there a sword,

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Speaker 2: It's not like you're getting knighted.

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Speaker 1: There would have been one in the there would have

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Speaker 1: been one in the room though, there would have been

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Speaker 1: a sword somewhere, like it's it's because the governor is

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Speaker 1: the king's representative, so it has like it has king vibe.

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Speaker 1: It does have. And even even the guy that puts

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Speaker 1: the microphone down in front of the governor, he will

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Speaker 1: bow and then walk away backwards like it's obviously a

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Speaker 1: photocol thing that he doesn't turn his back on the governor.

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Speaker 1: So it's lovely. Like he loved to see the tradition.

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Speaker 1: I just didn't. Yeah, I've never seen I've never been

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Speaker 1: part of this side of like you know, the upper echelon,

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Speaker 1: So it was fascinating.

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Speaker 2: Could you tell everybody, because I mean, I think the

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Speaker 2: first man to receive the award. He was a very

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Speaker 2: very well accomplished doctor and medical scientist. He extremely high achiever.

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Speaker 2: Then they got to you, can you tell us about

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Speaker 2: the way you were introduced to every.

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Speaker 1: Well had There was like a there was like an

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Speaker 1: NMC like official aide. He did an outstanding jobby. There

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Speaker 1: was Christian with you and I were both guys. He's

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Speaker 1: yelling it, he and it was so official to I

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Speaker 1: was seeing there. Mostly I just had massive lashbacks for

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Speaker 1: school and being like on stage and assembly and not

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Speaker 1: feeling like you should be there because I also Whipper

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Speaker 1: and I were probably two of I would say there

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Speaker 1: we would be the only guys who didn't wear times.

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Speaker 1: I just went with a suit. I just went with

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Speaker 1: a suit and an open shirt because again I thought

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Speaker 1: it was more of a morning tea and there was

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Speaker 1: a tare clock in the morning, and then you get

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Speaker 1: there and people are in full military regalia and like

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Speaker 1: you know, suits said, I was doing a bit self conscious.

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Speaker 1: So the Christian though, what a great way to break

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Speaker 1: the eyes. He just goes, okay, is your excellency, Like

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Speaker 1: he presents every that's not to me, that was to

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Speaker 1: the governor. He presents every person. He says your excellency,

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Speaker 1: Thank god he's here. The next person, we have good

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Speaker 1: good dag. I didn't know we're allowed to do dag.

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Speaker 2: But then home is if he could explain when he

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Speaker 2: mentioned lego masters, he pointed to the poolpit. Explain what

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Speaker 2: he had there?

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Speaker 1: He under little lectern he's stuck two minifigures hang on

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Speaker 1: in the middle of in the middle of all this

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Speaker 1: like very high level royal like ceremony. He he's added

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Speaker 1: a little bit of flair. Really, I mean, there was

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Speaker 1: panicking that I didn't have a tie on, and I

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Speaker 1: should have just I should have just come in with

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Speaker 1: fIF sets of lego for everyone. I think he's pitching

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Speaker 1: to you home, he's auditioning to get a role on

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Speaker 1: your podcast or something like that. If you got to

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Speaker 1: get fits, I'll go tell you something. So afterwards it's

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Speaker 1: like there is genuinely a morning tea, very well caated

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Speaker 1: crowns of Government House, great fun and you get to

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Speaker 1: meet it was really it was actually dear for you

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Speaker 1: get to meet all the people that very deserving, you know,

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Speaker 1: winners from all parts of the community, and that was

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Speaker 1: really fun. When chatting Whip and I chatting and the

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Speaker 1: Governor comes up and you know, we follow the protocol

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Speaker 1: and we're saying thank you for having us. And then

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Speaker 1: Whip makes some comment about how, you know, he didn't

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Speaker 1: get a medal, but he was still happy to be

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Speaker 1: there on the day. And then the Governor I saw

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Speaker 1: her give a quick look to one of her aides,

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Speaker 1: like one of the military guys with her. He fishes

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Speaker 1: in his pocket and hands over subtly hands her a

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Speaker 1: little velvet pouch and she says to Whipper, well, Whipper,

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Speaker 1: I actually do have something for you. We give this

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Speaker 1: to our favorite audience member of every ceremony and then

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Speaker 1: he opens up a little pouch and it's like a

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Speaker 1: Government House commemorative coin the Government House. And I was

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Speaker 1: so touched. He was thank you, thank you, your excellency,

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Speaker 1: thank you. That means so much. And she was, I

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Speaker 1: mean she does this all the time. She's an absolute

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Speaker 1: professional add it. But it really reminded me of when

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Speaker 1: we have kids visits Lego masters, the same thing we

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Speaker 1: always we let them have like a mini figure from

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Speaker 1: the brick pit and the exactly sort of level.

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Speaker 2: The disappointing part was when when the aid as I

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Speaker 2: was leaving, I said, oh, thanks so much for handing that.

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Speaker 2: I really said, oh that's okay. We give them to

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Speaker 2: emotional friends and little girls.

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Speaker 1: I think he might have padded whipper on there and

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Speaker 1: said that's something you can take to show and tell.

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Speaker 2: It s.

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Speaker 1: Hands the government.

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Speaker 2: How congratulations Blake, Oh I am thank god. You appreciate it, man.

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Speaker 1: Mate, thank you, thank you for being there. Definitely times

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Speaker 1: next time for us. So good, well done. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: whipper was?

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