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Speaker 1: Jason Luron on Nomber one hundred.

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Speaker 2: It's a sad day.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it as a celebration. There is someone hanging

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Speaker 3: up the boots. Ordre, I say the whistle in the

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Speaker 3: world of AFL and they join us this morning.

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Speaker 1: Introducing our next guest, the AFL's most well known and

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Speaker 1: beloved umpire.

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Speaker 4: He has officiated.

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Speaker 1: Three hundred and eighty five games, including three Grand Finals.

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Speaker 4: Razerway boys are stars me. They're all don't know.

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Speaker 5: What the cook I've just read it right now.

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Speaker 1: Sadly, he has announced his retirement from footy umpiring.

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Speaker 4: And is hanging up the whistle.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to the studio Raizoray.

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Speaker 5: Chamberlaw Razer Ray, Good.

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Speaker 4: Morning, high team, how are we well?

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Speaker 2: You've broken our little hearts.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 6: I know this is a celebration of your career, but

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Speaker 6: you walked in and Jay said, mate, what are you doing?

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Speaker 6: You're the only umpire we know. And it's true you

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Speaker 6: are the only umpire anyone knows.

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Speaker 4: But I am in the right place this morning because

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Speaker 4: I heard that you're paying people's bills timely for me,

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Speaker 4: because I need to investigate that A little further.

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Speaker 5: Registered by the nov Player and joined the cuy.

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Speaker 6: Hey, congrats, you're hanging up the whistle. How many years

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Speaker 6: has it been?

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Speaker 4: Just twenty? Yeah, it's well, I was. I grabbed a

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Speaker 4: pizza and I came home and I filled my face

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Speaker 4: with that. And my daughter looks at me in disgust,

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Speaker 4: and she's nearly fifteen, and she said to me, Dad,

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Speaker 4: I've only known you with football. So that was that

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Speaker 4: was a really interesting lens. Yeah, for it to be

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Speaker 4: sort of rammed home because.

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Speaker 6: The umpire is you guys cop it right. Like I

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Speaker 6: saw the other day, I was at the Fleet and

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Speaker 6: as themires walked off at halftime, there were people screaming

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Speaker 6: and bullying and yelling.

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Speaker 5: The all time favorite sledge at Chamberlain. What was it?

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Speaker 4: The dingo took the wrong Chamberlain. There's no doubt, this

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Speaker 4: guy said, There is no doubt took the wrong jo.

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Speaker 4: So you guys cop it.

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Speaker 2: But twenty years of that, have you just had enough?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: I love the game. I love the passion right so

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Speaker 4: that this will make people up chuck their breakfast. We

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Speaker 4: actually share something in common everyone, Like all the masses

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Speaker 4: out there, along with the umpires, we passionately loved the

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Speaker 4: game and invested in the game. I've got no drama

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Speaker 4: with that, save your death threat. Death threats. I don't

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Speaker 4: need any more of those. That's not in the of

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Speaker 4: the game, but the genuine love of the game and

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Speaker 4: that it actually makes it in COVID and we couldn't

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Speaker 4: go to the game. It was the worst. I'm not complaining.

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Speaker 4: We're lucky, we're able to do our thing, but just

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Speaker 4: not having humans there and that energy within the stadium.

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Speaker 5: You didn't like the cardboard cutouts, people.

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Speaker 6: Buying funny enough that people had to tweet abuse to

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Speaker 6: you and see it actually screaming amongst the players.

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Speaker 3: You've got a good name, mate, like I know, we've

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Speaker 3: spoken to Petraca before about you, and you know here

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Speaker 3: away say you guys have a good shout out there together.

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Speaker 3: Coxy talks sorry, Coxy talks you up as well.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 3: On a serious note, it is extremely hard sometimes for

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Speaker 3: football players because that has been their world and when

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Speaker 3: they hang up the boots, there's that lack of like Jesus,

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Speaker 3: what am I doing with my life now? Is it

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Speaker 3: a similar feeling with umpires when you've done it for

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Speaker 3: as long as you have.

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Speaker 4: That's a really fair question. My brother in law played

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Speaker 4: in the NRL for twenty years and we work together now.

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Speaker 4: And so for me, I've seen that happen even in umpiring.

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Speaker 4: It's somebody's identity and.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a sad part of what they've done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for me, I've always looked at I love umpiring

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Speaker 4: and I love footy, but it's something I do. It's

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Speaker 4: not actually who I am. And you know, We've got

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Speaker 4: a business just down the road here, finance business. My

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Speaker 4: brothers and I. We have a foundation where we raise

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Speaker 4: money and distribute that for charities. And I have my family,

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Speaker 4: and I've got other things I want to do. Like

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Speaker 4: you know, you sort of go through life. I lived

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Speaker 4: in Hotham Street in Saint Kilda, East, Yeah, and every

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Speaker 4: day for nearly ten years is twice a day I'd

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Speaker 4: drive past Rip and Lee and I didn't even know

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Speaker 4: it existed until I got married. We got married there,

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Speaker 4: and so you just things go by you in life

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Speaker 4: you don't even know.

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Speaker 3: It's just the one area. I think it still needs

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Speaker 3: a lot of work in football. It's these young guys

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Speaker 3: that just lose their whole identity.

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Speaker 6: Quite good now with like getting making sure players educated

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Speaker 6: and they've got a plan look.

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Speaker 5: Some of them are thirty five and they're like, bloody hell,

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Speaker 5: I don't know how to do my washing.

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Speaker 4: But you know the thing about it is just because

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Speaker 4: you come through from a kid. Yeah, you love it.

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Speaker 4: You don't actually do a lot else. I met David Parkin.

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Speaker 4: He's just a wonderful human being. And when he was

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Speaker 4: coaching in the AFL, he would demand of his players

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Speaker 4: that they had to study your work past.

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Speaker 6: His daughter was my school teacher, so they were very

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Speaker 4: And so there We've always had. I've always had other

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Speaker 4: stuff in my life and I think it's important.

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Speaker 6: So you've been out there for twenty years, you've seen

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Speaker 6: it all. Who's the worst player you've ever unpied?

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Speaker 4: Okay? Good as in like cranky.

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Speaker 2: Pants, who gave it to you the most?

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Speaker 4: I'm peerless. There's it's daylight second, and I do want

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Speaker 4: to preface it by saying I've never had a conversation

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Speaker 4: with this human outside of the context of footy. It

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Speaker 4: could be the nicest person.

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Speaker 6: This is all white line fas good. Peter Bell, that

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Speaker 6: doesn't surprise me.

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Speaker 2: He was free.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he played in North Melbourne. He was a Premiership player.

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Speaker 4: He was the president of the Players Association before Paddy Dangerfield.

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Speaker 2: He went to Fred think Kevin.

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Speaker 4: Freemantle and now he owns half of Western Australia. He

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Speaker 4: was a complete loser obviously, but I tell you what,

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Speaker 4: chased around for two hours and just give it to you.

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Speaker 6: And who's the like, the biggest goodie two shoes, there's

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Speaker 6: always a teacher's pet. Who's the one that's sucked up

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Speaker 6: to you the most? And you thought, I know, you're

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Speaker 6: trying to get Brownlow votes? Yeah, you know, is that

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Speaker 6: Christian Petrarca.

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Speaker 4: I think he even.

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Speaker 5: Said to us that he asked you for a brown

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Speaker 5: Low when he's evolved.

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Speaker 4: So when he come in, he was this young guy,

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Speaker 4: it looked like it had a bit of a chip

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Speaker 4: to be like everyone had said, oh wait for this bloke.

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Speaker 4: You we knew of him before he got there, and

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Speaker 4: you could tell he was a winner. But to his credit,

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Speaker 4: because you get a bit barky, doesn't it. But now

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Speaker 4: he's he's but he grabs himself now before he's real.

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Speaker 5: That's what he said. He goes, I always off a razor,

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Speaker 5: a bit of a water but the water bottle.

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Speaker 4: I think you feel sorry for me. He thinks I'm

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Speaker 4: going to drop dead.

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Speaker 5: I think you just brown my phone.

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Speaker 6: Finally, what about the fans? What team gives it to

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Speaker 6: you the most? In terms of the cheer squad and

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Speaker 6: the fans.

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Speaker 4: It's avowal. When I started, the hardest place to go

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Speaker 4: was over in Perth. They actually made it like where

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Speaker 6: Lost Jesus and but Adelaide though they're shocking to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they eve and flow, but I do find here

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Speaker 4: in Melbourne over the last few years the Bombers fans

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Speaker 4: mean it. Oh giggles, just quickly.

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Speaker 3: We've got Shank Crawford coming in after thirty this morning.

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Speaker 3: Crawl what's your what's your runnings?

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Speaker 4: With him? Been like so crass, hilarious, so for starters.

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Speaker 4: When I was, when he was killing it and I

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Speaker 4: was coming up, everyone wanted to be Shane Crawford. The

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Speaker 4: saddest thing about you. I'm not sure whether you know this,

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Speaker 4: but for the ten years there where Shane didn't own

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Speaker 4: a shirt with sleeves, So I don't know rated himself.

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Speaker 2: He was a man for all seasons.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, that's changed.

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Speaker 2: His old name puts his dad arms away.

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Speaker 4: Very kind man and very supportive. So now I'm a Shane.

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Speaker 2: Crawford because he won a brown Low and the umpires.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, do you think that'll stay that way, that the

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Speaker 6: umpires will continue to vote for the Brownlow?

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Speaker 4: Because yes, forever more. Otherwise it's not the Brown Lower,

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Speaker 4: just another reward.

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Speaker 6: And do you think foot is going to become one

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Speaker 6: of those sports like tennis where there's no more repson

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Speaker 6: it's all AI and videos and.

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Speaker 4: It's the one sport that it won't happen to on

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Speaker 4: the field. Maybe around the edges. Yeah whatever, But because

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Speaker 4: of our laws, they need you. It's all interpretive dance,

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Speaker 4: which sends everyone bonkers.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we're on the air with Raser Ray this morning.

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Speaker 3: He is hanging up the whistle before we let you go. Look,

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Speaker 3: a lot of kids out.

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Speaker 5: There have their favorite player and it's their hero. There

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Speaker 3: Who absolutely looks up to you on the footy field,

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Speaker 3: and we've got him in the building this morning. He

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Speaker 3: doesn't know you're here, and we want to get your

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Speaker 3: help next to pull off a bit of a surprise done.

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Speaker 3: Ray joining us on the air this morning. He is

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Speaker 3: hanging up the whistle. Dare I say, one of the

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Speaker 3: most well known umpires game.

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Speaker 6: You've got more personality than most of them. I would say,

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Speaker 6: I don't mean that in a mean way to the others.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure they're all great.

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Speaker 4: It's hard minimization.

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Speaker 6: You're our favorite. Who are we going to talk about

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Speaker 6: when you're not their raiser? Although David Roden's quite like,

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Speaker 6: he's quite animated.

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Speaker 4: We do like the g Roddy and he's a serious dancer,

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Speaker 4: which is a I think it's a great.

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Speaker 6: Quality for David Roden used to play for Richmond. He

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Speaker 6: used to always do the AFL player review dancing thing

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Speaker 6: and now gol.

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Speaker 2: Umpire and he's so animated.

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Speaker 4: One day stars like a challenge yourself. Go On says

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Speaker 4: yeah too scared, Too scared.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't go on says I don't need that. Aunt

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Speaker 6: Middleton yelling in my face, thank you very much?

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Speaker 4: Do you okay?

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Speaker 5: Gold Watch? When you retired, do you get down lifetime

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Speaker 5: tickets to the gym.

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Speaker 4: Three hundred games? A feel off membership gets you that,

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Speaker 4: So that's probably They asked me, do you want to

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Speaker 4: get to four hundred games. How many of you are at

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Speaker 4: three eighty something? And I said, no, no, four hundred matter.

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Speaker 4: I go three hundreds, the one that gets you the

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Speaker 4: tickets for life.

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Speaker 6: They give you a rolex at four hundred, you'll play

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Speaker 6: till four hundred.

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Speaker 4: Now, my brother's got a role X, so I can't

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Speaker 2: Are you not a boke for a team?

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Speaker 4: No, we have to hate them all the same. I'm

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Speaker 2: Do you think when you hang up the whistle you'll

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Speaker 4: I'd love to go full Nuffy.

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Speaker 2: I could see you in the cheese.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to be able to get.

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Speaker 6: Just maybe at the Bombers, the team he said hated

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Speaker 3: To respect a razor. I take you as a face painter,

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Speaker 3: the crowd. Hey, we got a phone call from a

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Speaker 5: She called us about her son, Mason. Take a listen.

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Speaker 1: So, my youngest son is obsessed with being an AFL umpire,

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Speaker 1: So we bought him the whole get up. He's got

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Speaker 1: it was so adorable because he knows all the hand

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Speaker 2: How old, here's ten the umpire footy umpire?

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Speaker 1: My god, he would lose it.

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Speaker 5: Well, Johnny is in the studio this morning.

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Speaker 4: Bring him in.

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Speaker 5: He's a such a nice kid.

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Speaker 3: He will be extremely shy, but he is decked out

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Speaker 2: Ten year old Mason.

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Speaker 4: It's Razor Ray and he's brought in treats.

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Speaker 2: Talking to the Michael. What did you say, Mason.

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Speaker 6: They're the tired, Yeah, tired because he's old.

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Speaker 4: I have made I've got to rest. I've got to

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Speaker 2: And Mason, when you grow up, what do you want

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Speaker 6: Umpire?

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Speaker 2: An umpire?

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Speaker 4: We need lots of umpires Mason, so I think we'll

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Speaker 6: Mason, how old are you tent You're about the same

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Speaker 6: probably this week.

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Speaker 4: You give it my kids.

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Speaker 2: I reckon his uniformed.

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Speaker 5: What what team do you support?

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Speaker 2: Mate, Sydney, Sydney, I can't.

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Speaker 6: Hey Beck, Hey Beck, Your little boy desperately wants to

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Speaker 6: be an umpire when he grows up. How excited is

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Speaker 1: So excited he sleeps in it.

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Speaker 4: He wears it all the.

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Speaker 1: Time when it's any occasion at school like bookweek all that.

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Speaker 1: He Yeah, he wears it all the time. I am

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Speaker 3: But look, I want to get Mason this morning to

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Speaker 4: Mate.

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Speaker 3: You know, little people like Mason have looked up to

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Speaker 3: and you make an impact on people.

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Jay, so I really appreciate Lauren. That's

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Speaker 4: very kind, and Mason, thanks so much for coming in

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Speaker 2: Welcome he Mason, do you know all the like, what

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Speaker 2: do the umpires do?

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Speaker 4: Do they?

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Speaker 2: What do you do when you get a goal?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, show us all.

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Speaker 6: Oh that's touched, yep, tapping his hands you yeah, four

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Speaker 5: You know. It's sad, guys. He knows so much more

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Speaker 3: Well look, i'll tell you what. Well, let's get some

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Speaker 3: photos off the air. But Mace, thanks for coming in. Razor,

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Speaker 3: thanks for your service. Lauren and I are going to

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Speaker 4: Looking forward to it.

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Speaker 6: Mason, do you want to come and help us make

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Speaker 6: he can run through?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, okay, you can be part of the Razor

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Speaker 5: It would have been bloody awkward if he said he's busy.

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Speaker 5: It is just gone nine past eight. This is nova.

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Speaker 6: Jason, Lauren, Lauren wake up feeling good on over one

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Speaker 6: hundred Lauren on socials