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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. Can

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Speaker 1: I talk about one of the greater names in Australian

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Speaker 1: sport and I put them up there with lu the

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Speaker 1: Opera House, the Harbor Breed.

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Speaker 2: Oh iconic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a man by the name Vian Thorpe. Yeah, life change,

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Speaker 1: go Thorbe incredible Thorby. Do you know what I loved

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Speaker 1: about the last Olympics Ian's comments? The commentary? He was

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Speaker 1: so good because I think what you love to hear

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Speaker 1: in the pool is not just who's coming first and second,

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Speaker 1: is the actual detail about where people are missing things,

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Speaker 1: or where they nail a tumble turn or whatever it

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Speaker 1: might be. I love hearing about that detail from someone

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Speaker 1: who's lived that swim.

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Speaker 2: Well, he knows exactly what he's talking about, almost as

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Speaker 2: much as Bruce mcavaaney.

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Speaker 1: Bruce maccabaany. Bruce is one of fifteen hundred. Don't you

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Speaker 1: dare question it? Do you know what jumped on a

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Speaker 1: flight on Friday? Got on the plane? I mean, how

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Speaker 1: Australian is this flying quantas Ian Thorpe on the plane?

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Speaker 1: No way out of Sydney.

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Speaker 2: They must be paying him to do that. That's a promo.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, well, I just felt I felt like

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Speaker 1: I was at home.

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Speaker 2: Was he wearing a white shirt and singing? I still

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Speaker 2: called him.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't and he just was trying to get to

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Speaker 1: the with Sundays to recreate that. But no, I god,

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Speaker 1: he was one at so I thought he's in beers

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Speaker 1: and I'm floating down the back and he did you

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Speaker 1: do that? No? No, Quietly I said, mister Thorpe, how

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Speaker 1: are you? Mate? Is it? A had a brief chat

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Speaker 1: and I wandered on past the past the comfy seats.

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Speaker 2: What was he wearing?

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Speaker 1: T shirt?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so no blazer or anything?

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Speaker 1: Maybe at No, not like that. Not official duties, not

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Speaker 1: official Australian Olympic duties. No, no, I didn't mean any ficial.

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Speaker 1: Do you think he wears a greeny gold tracksuit like

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Speaker 1: Johnny Howard used to go for a rum?

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Speaker 2: Now I thought Magie relaxed like leisure leisure were or

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Speaker 2: was he dressed ready to you know, cut off that plane?

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Speaker 1: Casual? You know, casually and shoes, yeah, big shoes to fill.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, landed in Melbourne Town, got off the flight

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Speaker 1: and I was in a bit of a hurry and

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Speaker 1: I sort of walked past ian and said, see mate,

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Speaker 1: great to catch up, good to see your face, having

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Speaker 1: awesome weekend. Then I thought, how am I going to

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Speaker 1: get the quickest car out of here? And you know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know those people that come

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Speaker 1: up to you at the airport, they go, hey, you

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Speaker 1: want to ride, mate? They go yeah, is that I

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Speaker 1: don't even know? He goes, you want to ride mate?

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Speaker 1: How much to do over there? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: Why are you doing it with that?

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Speaker 1: Because the school is quiet, He goes, they don't advertise

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Speaker 1: it too loud, because I think it's a bit dodgy.

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Speaker 2: I don't think everyone.

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Speaker 1: Knows what they're there.

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Speaker 2: They're in a really bad suit, asking you do you

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Speaker 2: want to get in their car?

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Speaker 1: He had this guy to a good suit on from

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Speaker 1: Taro cash and he he goes, you want to want

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Speaker 1: to ride? So anyway, So I walked off with my

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Speaker 1: bag and as I walked out of the door and

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Speaker 1: around following this guy to his car, bumped into Thorpe

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Speaker 1: again and it was just upset. Goodbye. It was just

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Speaker 1: one of those ones you know when you say goodbye

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Speaker 1: to somebody and you walk up in the same direction

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Speaker 1: and then you both go oh, you're going that way, yeah,

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Speaker 1: park down there, okay.

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Speaker 2: So and then there's a pregnant Paul Yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: you go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, you kind of extend on the last

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Speaker 1: thing you've spoken about, or you rehash something else. What

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Speaker 1: else you're going on for the weekend? So anyway, so

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Speaker 1: how far did you have to walk? Well, it was

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Speaker 1: a good sort of one hundred meters, but I'm racing.

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Speaker 1: I'm running with them a wheeley, so one hundred meters.

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Speaker 1: You must have been thought, that's two lapses of the

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Speaker 1: pool though, comment commentate this, Thorpy, Come on, mate, count

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Speaker 1: me in here. So then I wandered off see it

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Speaker 1: to see if I'll be great to see you. Have

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Speaker 1: a good night mate. And then we got there and

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Speaker 1: we had to wait for the lift. So I stood

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Speaker 1: there with a left waiting. Who would have known Ian's

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Speaker 1: getting in the same lift. Hey, ay man, So we're

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Speaker 1: already done, we're going You're from New Zealand all of that.

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Speaker 1: Hey right, So we walk off in the same direction

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Speaker 1: as we're coming out of the airport, as we're off

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Speaker 1: the plane, and now we're waiting at the left. Hey mate, hey, game.

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Speaker 3: Who can I just I need to jump in quickly.

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Speaker 3: You keep saying, oh, and then Ian arrives. But is

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Speaker 3: is it Ian arriving or is it you arriving at

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Speaker 3: the destination slightly after him?

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Speaker 1: So it's I'm not saying Ian's following me. It just

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Speaker 1: happened to be that Ian was going in the same direction.

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Speaker 1: So then we get in, we get in the left,

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Speaker 1: and we go we couldn't be getting off at the

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Speaker 1: same stop, and then sort of people getting on and off,

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Speaker 1: and it's so cramped in the left, and thought be

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Speaker 1: so tall, you know, yeah, you two. But I'm looking

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Speaker 1: up at Ian and there's God, there would have been

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Speaker 1: maybe fifty people in this small left, So I'm sort

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Speaker 1: of I'm chested chessed with Irian. Hello, Ian, anyone? You're

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Speaker 1: doing much with the Olympics in Paris, So I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of stuck there anyway.

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Speaker 3: Eh.

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Speaker 1: So we get out of the lift. I'm in a

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Speaker 1: hurry again, so I take off.

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Speaker 3: You don't sound like you're in a hurry, because you

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Speaker 3: know what I do know about No, do you.

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Speaker 1: Know what I know about you?

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Speaker 3: Michael Whitley, You actors though you're so busy and I've

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Speaker 3: got to get somewhere.

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Speaker 1: But out of anyone. I know you always have time

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Speaker 1: to chat to a celebrity where you do no, yes,

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Speaker 1: you had even stopped to talk to Ylena Dockic. Who

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Speaker 1: did she was there a terminal three? Yes, so Thorpe

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Speaker 1: stopped at Elena. This was before that. So I thought,

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Speaker 1: now I've got my head start, so I won't be

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Speaker 1: doing multi goodbye. There's no multi goodbye for Ian. So

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Speaker 1: then once I've got out of the lift like this there, well,

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Speaker 1: she's not in the lift, okay, So you know I'm

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Speaker 1: seeing her and thinking about her old man who said

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Speaker 1: some terrible things. And then I'm back in the left now.

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Speaker 1: And then we get out and I'm in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: And you know I was in a hurry. Kye, what

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Speaker 1: did I have on lunch? I mean on Friday, a lunch?

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Speaker 1: So what did I lunch? On the brain?

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Speaker 2: So that's right, you went to lunch and you were

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Speaker 2: in Harris to go there in that because you went

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Speaker 2: to one of those.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay. So then we get out of the lift,

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Speaker 1: I race off again with my wheeling.

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Speaker 2: Let me have a guess what happens.

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Speaker 1: Sean's right behind, No, he's not. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a race and I was beating forby this is my

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Speaker 1: Olympic moment. We get to the car, my car that

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Speaker 1: this dodgy guy's is next to Ian's car. So we've come.

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Speaker 1: We've come a thousand kilometers to another city to find

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Speaker 1: that we were heading to the same spot side by side.

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Speaker 1: And I'm now picturing Bruce mcaveny commentating, and I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: as they make their way to the car, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a close finish. Ian's driver takes his

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Speaker 1: bag and puts it in the back. I put my

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Speaker 1: bag in the back. Ian gets in his car first.

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Speaker 1: Thorpy over the line for Australia again. He's got him.

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Speaker 1: Ian stands up congratulations as I waved good bye in

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Speaker 1: the car. How many goodbyes can I do? Thorpy, I

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Speaker 1: love you, buddy, thanks for being such a pray out Australia.

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