Speaker 1: We should do the whole show on it.
Speaker 2: The corpse plant is an actual plant.
Speaker 3: Corpse flower has volumes in the botanic garters.
Speaker 1: Flat face. Well, and she wasn't joking, Jason. She was said,
Speaker 1: let's do the whole show on it.
Speaker 4: That's all right. We are about to connect two icons
Speaker 4: of Geelong. One is the corpse flower that people are
Speaker 4: lining up for for hours to see. The other is
Speaker 4: the legend himself. Tom Hawkins tell me, good morning, morning Hawk.
Speaker 2: Good morning guys. How are we we are?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 3: Good morning Hawk? Now how come you haven't been down
Speaker 3: to see the stinkiest flower yet? What's going on?
Speaker 2: Well, I've seen following it live stream and being updated
Speaker 2: by friends, but I will. I will get down there.
Speaker 2: I thought you you got me on to talk about
Speaker 2: my time until no, no.
Speaker 3: Tom, No one cares about you in Geelong anymore. Everyone's
Speaker 3: forgotten about you. They're all talking about a corpse flower
Speaker 3: and they are.
Speaker 2: And you know how I found out about it. I
Speaker 2: was going to one of my flarties classes that I've
Speaker 2: just taken up with my wife Emma, and one of
Speaker 2: the girls in there told me about the corpse sound
Speaker 2: and how it must get down and check it out.
Speaker 2: So I'm planning Tuesdays my day at home with Henry
Speaker 2: and I'm playing to get down this.
Speaker 1: Afternoon hawks as a farmer, somebody who should know and
Speaker 1: appreciate what goes on in this space, I mean, what
Speaker 1: sort of impact is it having in Geelong?
Speaker 2: Well, it's huge. I mean I'm seeing I haven't been
Speaker 2: and had to look at it in the flesh, but
Speaker 2: even through the live stream you can see the number
Speaker 2: of people that are getting through and it is causing
Speaker 2: some conversations. Now I did, I went to as I said,
Speaker 2: I've been doing plarties. I've went with one of my
Speaker 2: former now former teammates, Max Holmes. He had no idea
Speaker 2: about it, but I think he may be the only
Speaker 2: one in too long that doesn't know about the corpse flower.
Speaker 3: So immigrant house now and it actually smells a bit
Speaker 3: like a hot Pilarates class. To be perfectly honest, I
Speaker 3: reckon a few of you blokes in a hot Pilartes
Speaker 3: class would be reminiscent of the waft that is in here.
Speaker 4: Tom On at the races at Derby Day, your wife
Speaker 4: publicly after a few Chardonnays, ripped into you as a farmer.
Speaker 4: He tried to attempt the wagu beef and you failed miserably.
Speaker 4: How do you reckon you go growing a few of
Speaker 4: these on the on the land?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure. Ten years is a long time
Speaker 2: to wait, Jay, So I don't know if i'd be
Speaker 2: as patient as that toy. By seeing the number of
Speaker 2: people that have ventured from all over Geelong the state
Speaker 2: and well move storry as Australia come and have a
Speaker 2: look at the courts flower here in Geelong, it kind
Speaker 2: of makes sense to maybe think about it as a
Speaker 2: viable option.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, you can start a fa part at your house.
Speaker 2: Tom's imagine that. Well, I definitely get you.
Speaker 4: Guys, when you're watching the live stream and you're seeing
Speaker 4: people line up for hours and two o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 4: did it cross your mind? Are they okay?
Speaker 2: Good question? Yeah, great question. I think I'm not going
Speaker 2: to put it down to Geelong people as such, maybe
Speaker 2: more so as plant enthusiasts, but look, I get it.
Speaker 2: When phenomenon has happened like this, whether it's something true
Speaker 2: with don't know it's a solar system or learn, we
Speaker 2: all got to get a bit giddy. And I think
Speaker 2: this is caused quite a stirs in and around Geelong.
Speaker 4: So, guys, do we think what would have got a
Speaker 4: bigger line up? The corpse Flower or a book signing
Speaker 4: for Tom?
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to go. I was going to
Speaker 1: go with it. Maybe a statue. Maybe we could put
Speaker 1: a statue of Tom next to the corpse I like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm telling you, first of all the Ablets
Speaker 3: put Geelong on the map. Then it was the Hawkens,
Speaker 3: and now no one cares about any of those families.
Speaker 3: It is all about the corpse Flower. Not a single
Speaker 3: Geelong jersey down here. It's just all flower enthusiasts. You
Speaker 3: can see.
Speaker 4: She's always in your corner.
Speaker 2: Tom, Do you know what she is? Completely right? I got.
Speaker 2: I got called him the other day at a at
Speaker 2: a potential we'll call a tough job interview type thing
Speaker 2: that I went for and got called Tim. So yeah, rightly, rightly.
Speaker 3: You are old news, Tim Hawkins news.
Speaker 1: It's Tim Hawkins from Fox Footing. Let us know how
Speaker 1: that that job if.
Speaker 2: You turned down.
Speaker 3: Congrats on the new job, gig Hawk.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, yeah, really exciting about that. Next year
Speaker 2: it's going to set off toe into the football world
Speaker 2: from a different lane. So I'm really looking for to it.
Speaker 2: I'll probably stumble my way through a few games from
Speaker 2: here to there, but yeah, really.
Speaker 1: Do you want to read the news on a Sunday night?
Speaker 1: It's all yours brother, Tom.
Speaker 2: Sorry, well we're out of time, I will say quickly, Clinton,
Speaker 2: You've done an amazing job of love watching you over
Speaker 2: over the last couple of months. Sorry reading the news
Speaker 2: that the next day, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Say reading reading the news after a date at the races.
Speaker 3: You saw him on Darby Now and then you saw
Speaker 3: him on the Today Show on the Sunday morning after
Speaker 3: after a little karaoke turn up time.
Speaker 4: Fortunately, Tom, we've run out of time to talk about
Speaker 4: your new career. We've got to get back to the Flower.
Speaker 3: Tom. If it doesn't work out on Fox Footy, get
Speaker 3: a couple of these corpse plants in your garden and
Speaker 3: you'll draw a crowd again.
Speaker 4: The Legend. Tom Hawkins join us on the.
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