1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whip with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 2: Have you accidentally stabbed yourself? This is really really dangerous. 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 2: So Fitzgerald put his hand up for the goal umpiring 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: duties in the under thirteens Portland Crocodile was going over 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 2: the weekend and Chrissy, I take this job seriously, especially 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: when my son's having a shot for goal for goes 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 2: over the post. I'm still calling it a goal sheet 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 2: as much as I can. 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 3: That's been passed down from father to son. 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: Mick Fitzgerald used to do it regular in cricket. Once 11 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 2: I nicked the ball through the second slip and Dad said, 12 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything, awesome, and the other the other 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 2: team was looking at him going, oh my god, that 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: guy over there quarter it no how far away is 15 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 2: from the bat, and day goes I didn't hear anything 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: because he didn't have his hearing aids in total cheat. 17 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: So anyway, sni, so I was given Actually, do you 18 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 2: know I was really tough with this. 19 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 3: They gave me a great pen. 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: I got this. 21 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 3: Who gave you a pen? 22 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: Yeah? 23 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: The footy club, Go FITZI. Here's your scour, here's the 24 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:05,319 Speaker 2: score sheet and here's your fine point big pin. 25 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 3: And I was like, that's awesome. 26 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: So you've got you've got to put on a white 27 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: pair of overalls. Now, in the white overalls, there's a 28 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: pocket that's sort of up around your hip area, and 29 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 2: that's where I put my score Sheetswani and the fine 30 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 2: point pin. Now there was one old the old bic. 31 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 2: So when someone has a shot at goal, you've got 32 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: to actually navigate where it is, is it over the line, 33 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 2: and then you've got to give your decisions straight away. 34 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 2: You put your two fingers out for a goal, one 35 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: finger out for a point. Someone's had a shot at goal, 36 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 2: and I've gone down to signal one point. 37 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 3: I've gone the point. 38 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: Then you've got to get your flag up and signal 39 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 2: down the other end to the other goal umpire that 40 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 2: they've seen that there's. 41 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 3: Been a point scored. Just a line's. 42 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: Ability, so many things to do. 43 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: So as I've gone down to pick up the flag, 44 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: I've stabbed myself in a gart with the fine point pen. 45 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: I'm not joking. 46 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 3: It's gone in, has it? Really? 47 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: I've got a bit of it. 48 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 3: Do you know what you see it there? 49 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, it's gone. 50 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: It's gone. 51 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 4: Right in God, that happened to me the other day 52 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 4: with a monjarro pen right in the gap. 53 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 3: But I that would have held fits. 54 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: But do you know what? 55 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 2: I had a couple of people from the football club 56 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 2: going mate, this has happened to me before where I've 57 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: had something in my. 58 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: Pocket and sat down. 59 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 2: Keys are a big one. I had a guy who 60 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 2: said it actually, I key pieced my skin after I 61 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: sat in my back pocket once fit. And I think 62 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 2: this happens more often than we think. Have you been 63 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 2: accidentally stabbed? Can I take you back to grade two? 64 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 5: No? 65 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 3: I would have been grade four. 66 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 4: I'm sitting cross legged on the floor and We've been 67 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 4: asked to shuffle round, and I'm holding a pencil in 68 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 4: my hand in my fist in my right hand, and 69 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 4: we go to shuffle around. I lift my bum up 70 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 4: and sit down straight on the pencil. The pencil goes 71 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 4: through my shorts, through my undies, and the lead. 72 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 3: Breaks off to my right cheek. 73 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 4: I go through the whole day in pain till I 74 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 4: find myself standing next to the kitchen table while Mum 75 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 4: has a needle and a pair of tweezers picking the 76 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 4: lead out of my bum Like I've been shot in 77 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 4: the wall. 78 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: Wow, a bit of shrapnel is rares. 79 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 3: One would call it wrapnel in the right cheek. 80 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: Or Tommy, you stabbed yourself with a broom that went 81 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 2: missing in the kitchen once. 82 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: Don't think that was an accident? 83 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: Yes, I no, yeah, I must apologize to the cleaners. 84 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 3: I will replace those, but yes, safely removed after a 85 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 3: number of hours. 86 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: Oh my god, Ash, she's given us a girl from 87 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 2: Castle Hill. Ash, have you accidentally stabbed yourself before? 88 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 6: I have? Guys, do you know the sun tacks? A 89 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 6: lot of teachers use them at school and I was 90 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 6: helping the teacher one day putting up all the posters 91 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 6: on the wall, and I thought i'd get myself organized 92 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 6: and I laid out ten of them with the needle 93 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 6: facing up, and I lost my balance and my knee 94 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 6: went through ten. Oh my knee. I just landed right 95 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 6: on them straight in. I couldn't bend my knee. I 96 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 6: just kind of rolled over. You know what to do? Awful. 97 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 2: The kids would have thought you were so tough, though, 98 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 2: to have a thumbtack hanging out of your knee. 99 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 6: Ash, I did look like a bit of a woopy cushion. 100 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 6: Pin cushion at the time, and I was trying to 101 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 6: stay really brave, and oh look it was awful, like 102 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 6: a gold plate on my knee. 103 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes a thick Sheryl and Snandrews. 104 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,799 Speaker 5: Hello, Hi, good morning, Happy Mondayyl. Well, I was sewing 105 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 5: danced costumes for the school and as I treated, you know, 106 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,679 Speaker 5: I was doing the applicuet and the needle went straight 107 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 5: through my finger and when I went to take it 108 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 5: or at the peach, the end of the half of 109 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 5: the needle stuck in my finger, right through the nail 110 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 5: and the finger. And and the worst thing is the 111 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 5: tweets wouldn't pull it back out because it had gone 112 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 5: writing and where it snapped off under the skin. So 113 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 5: I had to go to the doctors and they had 114 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 5: to cut my finger to get the needle out. Believe 115 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 5: I didn't get any blood on the costume. 116 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: Are a privy time. 117 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 7: I've been sitting here thinking, oh gosh, I don't think 118 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 7: I've ever done anything like that, And Cheryl, I've done 119 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 7: exactly the same thing on a sewing machine. I've put 120 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 7: my and I recognize that you're talking about the sewing 121 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 7: machine because I've done the same thing. 122 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 1: It just went bang. 123 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Cheryl Cheryl just quickly. How tough are your thumbs? 124 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: Is the skin around your thumbs? Like, is that really 125 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 2: tough skin that the needles don't go through it? 126 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 8: Yeah? 127 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 6: It is. 128 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,119 Speaker 5: It is tough by hands, the soft at the skin. 129 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 5: But it's just a way, you know, like my skin. 130 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 5: It's just it's weird. It's just how it happens. And 131 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 5: it can happen so easy because when you're treading something 132 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 5: like when you're trying to glide it neatly. And because 133 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 5: I was doing applicat for I wrote these costumes and 134 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 5: as she was doing it, and it actually just went 135 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 5: my finger went under. And yeah, all the time, I. 136 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,280 Speaker 3: Can't believe how many calls are coming through. 137 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 2: Actually, my sons just text me saying, Dad, why don't 138 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: you talk about the time when Lenny, my little brother, 139 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 2: stabbed me in the leg over a game in the yachts? 140 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 3: Remember that with a pencil? Yep, Elma and Camden, welcome 141 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 3: to the show. Did you still what do you step. 142 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 8: Yourself with my reading glasses? 143 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: How did you do that? Elma? 144 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 5: About hanging up? Washing had them in my pocket and 145 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 5: bent down to pick up some pegs and heard this 146 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 5: almighty snap and the actual glasses snapped in half and. 147 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 3: The lens did it draw blood? 148 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 5: Elma A little bit? 149 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, spectacle, I don't think we'll be able to beat that, 150 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 2: Elma reading glasses in the leg, bridget In paramatic? 151 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 1: Can you beat that. 152 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 6: Or not? 153 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 9: Sure? 154 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 5: I was having a lean cuisine and preparing it. I 155 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 5: was holding down the frozen food and stabbing it with 156 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 5: a fork the top and I accidentally stabbed and went 157 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 5: with the four quick right through the tip of my finger. 158 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 3: Oh, it's really shock. 159 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 7: You were really violent with that leaps. 160 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 3: He must have been very hungry. 161 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 2: I can only assume Bridge hungry angry cuisine still around 162 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 2: at cuisine. 163 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: The pastor and Salmon line cuisine is one. 164 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: Of the great You know it's it is a great 165 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 2: it's a quirky name. 166 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: That's it's very catchy. 167 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 2: Isn't it a lean cuisine? 168 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: Quiz a pop quiz? 169 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 7: Can you remember the company that made it? 170 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: Was it a was it craft? 171 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:02,559 Speaker 3: No? 172 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 7: Findus finder clean cuisine? And I don't know why I 173 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 7: know that. 174 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: Oh God, you've stabbed us with an important fact this morning. 175 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 2: Isabelle's only eleven years of age. Isabelle, please don't tell 176 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 2: us that you've stabbed yourself. 177 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 9: Hi there, Yeah, I pay per clipped myself. Why I sorry? 178 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 9: I I stabled myself. Why stabling paper? 179 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 3: Oh no, go through. 180 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: Your thumb, Isabelle? 181 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 2: Or where did it go through? 182 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 9: It went through my finger and I had to refit 183 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 9: out and I was like, wow, you. 184 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 7: Just don't when I put a sewing machine needle through 185 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 7: my finger, the shock of it, I was just looking 186 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 7: at it, going, oh my god. And then it didn't 187 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 7: bleed until I took the thread out. Did that happen 188 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 7: to you, Isabelle? Like as soon as you took the 189 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 7: staple out, then yes, I mean. 190 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 9: I took the staple outside of bleeding. 191 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 3: You we got the strength to tell this story. Good 192 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 3: on you, Isabelle. Thank you Rosa. 193 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 8: Hello, Hey, how are you home? 194 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 3: Renos went wrong? 195 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 7: Did they? 196 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 8: Yes? A friend bought an old house and pulled down 197 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 8: the fence. Yep, had all the big nails and whatever else. 198 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 8: And I was walking over with a pair of songs 199 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 8: and straight through foot nail that would not come out, 200 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 8: so I had to take They had to cut the 201 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 8: timber around me and I had to go to the 202 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 8: doctors with the. 203 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 5: Timber in tow and get it removed and get a 204 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 5: pet shot and everything. 205 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: Else through that. Was it in the was it in 206 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: the arch of your foot? Rosa right in the. 207 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 3: Middle, right, and you permanently now have a thong just 208 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 3: stuck to you for the rest of your life. 209 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 4: It's with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast walk great 210 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 4: shows like this. 211 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 3: Download the Nova Player, find the app store or Google Playing.