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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whip Her with Kate Richie podcast. Guys,

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Speaker 1: we need to look through the activities last night from

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Speaker 1: Old Mates Pub in New York. Look, we threw a

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Speaker 1: bit of a party fits. It was to be a

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Speaker 1: drinks after the un event at Old Mates Pub. Now,

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Speaker 1: those that aren't across Old Mates Pub. It's downtown in

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Speaker 1: New York and it's obviously full of bossies, but the

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Speaker 1: owners of the pub are really Hamish and Andy, Hugh Jackman,

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Speaker 1: Mick Fanning, Ash Barty's involved in the pub. She's also

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Speaker 1: an owner, which is amazing. So it's owned by a

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Speaker 1: whole heap of great Australian. So if there's another Great

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Speaker 1: Australian in town, that's the place you got to go.

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Speaker 1: So we held an event and we were hopeful that

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister would turn up. We knew, we knew

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Speaker 1: his day was busy, but when we saw each other

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Speaker 1: at the un he said, by the way, I'll do

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Speaker 1: everything I can to drop in for a beer. He

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Speaker 1: loves Skeeyey, he loves the sky. I said it would

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Speaker 1: be un Australian if you weren't there, so please make

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Speaker 1: the effort. It's amazing to see just before we get

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Speaker 1: to the action from last night. Security. So how it

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Speaker 1: works is the US supply their secret service. So there's

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Speaker 1: what are you recking, Tommy ten? You just don't go

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Speaker 1: to chups down the road and you've done. Is it

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Speaker 1: secret fitzy or do they just keep calling its secret

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Speaker 1: service because it makes it sound So do you know

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Speaker 1: that whip they're around? Yeah? Yeah, gotcha? Okay, so they're

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Speaker 1: not so service, not so secret service. They're wearing red

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Speaker 1: suits and sequence no, and they are they're earpieces their

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Speaker 1: tailored suits. You don't know what's underneath. They're always sort

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Speaker 1: of talking into their hand. And there would have been ten,

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Speaker 1: if not twelve, that were in the room, so it

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Speaker 1: really filled the room with the amount of secret Service

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Speaker 1: that was there. They shut off the entire street for

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister's arrival. So if you can imagine old mates,

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Speaker 1: a pub city on a corner, there was a police

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Speaker 1: car on the corner stopping traffic coming in. Then there

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Speaker 1: was a row of black vehicles where the Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: had arrived, and then there was another police car blocking

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Speaker 1: the other end of the streets. I said to him, mate,

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Speaker 1: they've shut down this whole place for you and he said,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe they think I'm important, and I went,

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Speaker 1: you are, mate, you're the Prime Minister of Australia. I

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Speaker 1: hate he didn't sound like that. Is that so that's

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Speaker 1: a lock in. That's not just a locking in, old mates,

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Speaker 1: that's the locking of the whole street. Nobody could get in,

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Speaker 1: nobody could come out. It was awesome, Willie Wonka. It

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Speaker 1: was amazing to see. And the other thing was a

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Speaker 1: Secret Service. He used to working with the Americans or

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Speaker 1: Trump at least, where you're not allowed to touch the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister or the president. So they were on panic

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Speaker 1: the entire time. Because he walks into the pub, everyone's

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Speaker 1: high fiving and hunging him alm so they didn't know

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Speaker 1: what to do. So there was this level of panic

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Speaker 1: that was a round. And then he had his own

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Speaker 1: personal security that was supplied by Australia, who had to

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Speaker 1: say to the US Special Service or Secret Security, Hey

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Speaker 1: it's okay, they're Australian, this is how we do things.

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Speaker 1: Chill out. I think his attempt to scull the yard

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Speaker 1: glass was quite feeble. He got nowhere near Bob Hawk's record.

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Speaker 1: Bob was quite the signeture moved but we spoke to

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Speaker 1: Andy Lee because Old Mates has a tradition that if

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Speaker 1: somebody had noticed there, what happens is they're invited to

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Speaker 1: ring the bell. So Andy gave us a bit of

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Speaker 1: a rundown about how things work at Old Mates. Is big,

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Speaker 1: I would say, he would he would be entitled to

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Speaker 1: ring the bell. We have a bell in the pub.

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Speaker 1: If there's an iconic Australian that's deemed of a high

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Speaker 1: enough level, they can ring the bell and it shouts

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Speaker 1: the entire pub away from that Kate, he's nowhere near

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Speaker 1: big enough. Oka. No, look, I understand I'm not big

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Speaker 1: enough to ring the bell. But of course if the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister was there, so I went up to him

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Speaker 1: and I said, hey, I just spoke to Eddie, the

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Speaker 1: guy who runs the pub. Do you think you want

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Speaker 1: to ring the bell? And I said? He said, what

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Speaker 1: is the ring the bell mean? And I said, well,

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Speaker 1: it's just something they do when a high profile Ossie

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Speaker 1: is in the house. And what happens after that is

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Speaker 1: you shout the bar. And he said, could you imagine

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Speaker 1: what it would look like if I turned it to

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Speaker 1: a pub and bought everybody body of bear and taxpayers money? No, no, sorry,

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Speaker 1: sorry I worded that badly. The pub will shout everybody

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Speaker 1: a beer. But then what I worked out was once

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Speaker 1: he's rung the bell for the next two songs that

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Speaker 1: are played, you've got to stand there and poor beers

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Speaker 1: and hand them out to everybody. So that was the role.

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Speaker 1: But here was the moment that he took over for

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Speaker 1: the ringing of the bell at Old Mates Pub in

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Speaker 1: New York. I really crowd occasionally as Australia to the

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