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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure when that man's face comes across

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Speaker 2: our screens. It is one of the greatest cricketing captains

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Speaker 2: that we've had here in this great nation. Ricky Ponting,

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Speaker 2: welcome buddy.

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Speaker 1: Great to be man.

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Speaker 3: A you just shutting your dog out of the picture.

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Speaker 3: It was behind you there, Ricky. What sort of dog

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Speaker 3: have you got, mate?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, little yap our little kervood we've got. Anyone comes

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Speaker 1: in the front door thinks it's a guard dog as

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Speaker 1: soon as you open the door and jumps alive and

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Speaker 1: licks you to death.

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Speaker 3: What about this punterer? Can I ask? Because we've been

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Speaker 3: celebrating Ryan James Fitzgerald and he still currently holds the

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Speaker 3: Undernines long jump record at four point seventy three meters.

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Speaker 3: Huge jump for a long.

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Speaker 2: Kids national still got it. No kids got near a punder.

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Speaker 2: I'm really proud of that. What were you was at

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Speaker 2: eighty six six? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What happened? Then you stop stop growing some? Did you?

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Speaker 1: And keep going up there?

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Speaker 2: Well? I did. I started growing punter, Unfortunately I did,

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Speaker 2: and then had growing pains and then that was it.

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Speaker 2: My career was done at the under twelves. It was

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Speaker 2: all over done and dust it. You you had a

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Speaker 2: couple of records in the backyard with your brother. What's

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Speaker 2: what's the biggest score that you made with your brother

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Speaker 2: in the backyard, Ricky?

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Speaker 1: I had to be a little bit nice to him

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Speaker 1: to get him to keep coming back to keep. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't unusual for me to bat for

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Speaker 1: two or three weeks time in the backyard and then

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Speaker 1: I'd eventually let one go that it clipped the stumps,

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Speaker 1: and then I'll give him a bat and I knock

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Speaker 1: him over the first or second so going back and

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Speaker 1: so then I always you know, Dad always used to

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Speaker 1: say that generally, when you've got two boys in the family,

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Speaker 1: you generally have one good butter and one good bowler. Well,

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Speaker 1: my brother got used to bowling and became pretty good

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Speaker 1: for the whole holiday.

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Speaker 3: How good is that? Did you start in little atsto Ricky?

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Speaker 1: No, No, it wasn't that. Athletics wasn't my real goal.

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Speaker 1: It was a bit heavy in the legs to be

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Speaker 1: a great brother. We actually grew up on bikes. My

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Speaker 1: brother and I raced BMX bikes. That was that was

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Speaker 1: activity during the during the mate.

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Speaker 2: Father's Day is a very very special day. It's coming up.

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Speaker 2: You know, forget about this every year, but this is

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Speaker 2: a great, great idea for any families out there, because Panda,

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Speaker 2: we've tried your wine. Thank you for the last time

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Speaker 2: we did speak to you. You send us a couple of bodies.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful and its beautiful and it is magnificent and

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Speaker 2: you've got well this is a great gift for any

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Speaker 2: doubt on Father's Day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, we've been doing this for two and a

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Speaker 1: half years now. Boys, we ran our and I sort

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Speaker 1: of started our own journey into the Australian wine industry

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Speaker 1: two and a half years ago. Just happened to coincide

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Speaker 1: with when lockdown and COVID hit.

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Speaker 3: Toys and a good thing are a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't like ideal time to launch, but as

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Speaker 1: far as being wanting to sit home and have a drink,

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Speaker 1: it was probably a pretty good time. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of people actually rush it, rushing out and buying one

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Speaker 1: at that stage. So yeah, look, it's been a great

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Speaker 1: journey for us to work on, you know, our passion

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Speaker 1: project together, which is something we've never really done before

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Speaker 1: in business life. We've had our own charity foundation that

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Speaker 1: we've had a lot of success with and worked on together.

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Speaker 1: But now with our own wine label, that's been yeah,

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Speaker 1: great fun, you know. And what we tried to do

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Speaker 1: with the brand is tell a bit of a story

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Speaker 1: of me and my upbringing and where I'm from and

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Speaker 1: also tie beat a cricket into it. And Ben Riggs,

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Speaker 1: you'll probably know, it's out Australi up based up in

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Speaker 1: McLaren Vale. He's our winemaker. So part of the story

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Speaker 1: is tying sort of South Australia in with Tasmania as well.

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Speaker 1: Got two Tasmanian wines in the range of pino noir

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Speaker 1: and a chardonnay. And the particular one that you're talking

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Speaker 1: about there that the three six six, which is our

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Speaker 1: icon wine.

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Speaker 3: Is it just the big one?

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Speaker 1: Just one platinum at the World Decanters one Awards, So

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Speaker 1: good work, Hats off, Hats off to mister Riggs there

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Speaker 1: for what he's been able to produce.

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Speaker 2: There's Ben Riggs the wine maker. Is that better than

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Speaker 2: making three hundred and sixty six in an international game?

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Speaker 2: Is that better than that winning an award like that punter?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean three six six fits. That's actually it's

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Speaker 1: the icon as I said, the icon whine of the range.

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Speaker 1: It was actually my Test playing number, so I was

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Speaker 1: a threader and sixty six player to represent Australian Test cricket.

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Speaker 3: Loved buddy. It's great for Father's Day. It's perfect for

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Speaker 3: Father's Day.

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Speaker 2: We know, we know how busy you are, but mate,

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Speaker 2: we've actually been able to convince Anthony albneazy. Mate, we

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Speaker 2: have got We've done this a couple of times before.

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Speaker 2: But we are having a backyard cricket match at Kirabilly House,

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Speaker 2: which mate, I don't know if you've bet you would

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Speaker 2: have been there with the cricket team before.

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Speaker 1: We used to go to every Newe's Day. It used

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Speaker 1: to be on that's.

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Speaker 3: Right, that was the annual event. Well, our game takes

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Speaker 3: place on that flat down the bottom there, so if

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Speaker 3: you can get down the hill then you're ready to go.

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Speaker 3: But we would love you to be part of it

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Speaker 3: this year, Tommy. We locked in for November. Is that

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Speaker 3: when we're looking, I think it's going to be October,

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Speaker 3: around the middle of October, whip.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not going to be away, Ricky. We'll ask

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Speaker 2: to see where you are around the time, but we're

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Speaker 2: going to get a few weeks. Cricketers and a few

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Speaker 2: people involved this year to raise some great money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll stay in tuxboys. If I can make it

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Speaker 1: over there, would love to be part of it.

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Speaker 3: Bring some wine, we'll rip into it.

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Speaker 2: You're alleged, all right. For anyone out there, go to

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Speaker 2: Pontingwines dot com dot au and you can purchase some

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Speaker 2: great wine for Father's Day there. It's always a pleasure

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Speaker 2: to have you on the show. Patna, thanks for coming on,

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Speaker 2: Thanks man, thanks for having me.

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