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

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Speaker 2: We saw the plane pull undo the hangar and the

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Speaker 2: athletes made their way under home soil waves with.

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Speaker 3: A welcome home flag from Quantus.

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Speaker 2: She brings home four medals. Car Tipps, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Can I also say that Kate Richie Arnie's brought in

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Speaker 4: their medals. Kate got emotional. There was a couple of

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Speaker 4: tears in Kate's eyes. I just need to say this

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Speaker 4: as well. I think I'm more impressed with the pressure

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Speaker 4: that you had to deal with leading up to the race,

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Speaker 4: because the amount of waiting you have to do waiting

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Speaker 4: for the final is ridiculous and I don't know how

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Speaker 4: you do that.

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Speaker 5: Oh I've got no other option, really, I've got to

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Speaker 5: deal with it. But yeah, it's a lot, but I'm

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Speaker 5: just so glad it's over. I don't know what I

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Speaker 5: really feel at the moment. I feel a little bit numb.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of weird. It was a really weird mpty

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Speaker 5: feeling now coming home, which is but it's really hard

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Speaker 5: to describe.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was just trying to picture your right

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Speaker 2: because I mean, I don't know how much sort of

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Speaker 2: is it psychological training that you do as well, but

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Speaker 2: where your headspace is that moment and you're waiting for

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Speaker 2: the gun, like, what are you thinking? Are you thinking,

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Speaker 2: I've just we've done all this work and now we're here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think at the Olympics everyone trains hard. Really physically,

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Speaker 5: there's not much of a difference, but it's really mental

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Speaker 5: at that point. Olympics is different to anything else. World

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Speaker 5: Championships just doesn't stack up compared to an Olympics, And

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Speaker 5: it's really just having the most belief you can possibly can.

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Speaker 5: Like I was reading, I was writing myself positive affirmations,

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Speaker 5: just pages two weeks out of Wow, everything that I'm

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Speaker 5: great at. Basically just got to get your mind in

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Speaker 5: the most positive state. And yeah, I'm just glad it's

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Speaker 5: over though, because it is a lot.

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Speaker 2: And in the last sorry Kate, in the last lap,

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Speaker 2: when you're bringing it home, are you just thinking draining the.

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Speaker 5: T yep, absolutely drained the tank, nothing left, I think,

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Speaker 5: even though I knew I was going to win. It's

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Speaker 5: also about trying to swimm a fast time as well.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, you don't want to leave anything out there.

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Speaker 5: You don't know when those moments are going to happen again,

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Speaker 5: Like you say, you know, I know I'm going to

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Speaker 5: keep swimming, but you really can't take for granted Olympic finals.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, yeah, it's just all I want to go

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Speaker 4: into the mine of an athlete. Now, okay, so this

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Speaker 4: is after the race. These are the things that I

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Speaker 4: want to know when you become a global superstar. Now

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Speaker 4: people know who you are, and you know what Adelaide

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Speaker 4: Airport the other day there's this that was a magnificent

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Speaker 4: photo of you for Quantas in the pool that just

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Speaker 4: said we're proud of you before you even got to

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Speaker 4: the Olympic Charney. But now so when it's all over,

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Speaker 4: and I know I didn't know. I don't think you

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Speaker 4: were a big on social media leading up to the

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Speaker 4: race and stuff like that. But when it's done, when

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Speaker 4: you open up your social media accounts, like what are

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Speaker 4: the dms that you get? Like, what are you getting?

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Speaker 3: Now? What's happening?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I actually haven't gone through many of them,

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Speaker 5: but when I didn't go on my phone while I

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Speaker 5: was racing, I had when I was posting for me,

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Speaker 5: but when I looked back on it was just like

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Speaker 5: the notification bubble was for every notification hundred hundred hundred

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Speaker 5: just flashing. Wow. But I've gone through like a few

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Speaker 5: of the d ms, and I mean there's some real

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Speaker 3: Is there some weird ones? Yeah, a few proposals.

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Speaker 5: I just think to itself, what makes you think that

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Speaker 5: you could write that to someone?

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Speaker 3: Positive or inappropriate?

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Speaker 1: Inappropriate?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 1: I have some good giggles. I think, jeez, you're an

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Speaker 3: You've got to You've got to laugh at it, don't you.

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Speaker 3: But these are people all around the world, and they

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Speaker 3: honestly think that they know you, Arion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that's maybe the vibe I give off.

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Speaker 5: I try to be my absolute self and people probably

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Speaker 5: do feel like they know me. I feel like I'm

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Speaker 5: quite personable, which I think is a good thing.

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Speaker 1: So it's great.

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Speaker 5: Maybe it gives people confidence to think that they can

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Speaker 5: write whatever they want to be fascinating.

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Speaker 6: I don't even know what to say, because I feel

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Speaker 6: like you were just talking about like being emotional, and

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Speaker 6: I hope you know it, because you're saying that you

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Speaker 6: feel quite numb at the moment. You have done such

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Speaker 6: you have done such an incredible thing, and like not

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Speaker 6: only just for you and I don't need to say

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Speaker 6: this to you. Everyone's saying it, not just for you

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Speaker 6: and for all of that work, but for everybody watching.

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Speaker 6: I don't. I just hope you know that like the

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Speaker 6: way that it inspires people and it makes people feel

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Speaker 6: good in a day that maybe isn't feeling that great.

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Speaker 6: And do you know what you know? And I know

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Speaker 6: the kids listening in the car. I know my daughter's

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Speaker 6: going off to school and probably doesn't want to go,

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Speaker 6: and she just thinks you are incredible. And to even

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Speaker 6: hear you say something about I had to sit down

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Speaker 6: in those weeks leading up to the race and say

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Speaker 6: all of the things I was good at, even you know,

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Speaker 6: even for a gold medal winner. You need to do that,

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Speaker 6: don't you remind yourself that I am great and I

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Speaker 6: can do these things and it can work for the

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Speaker 6: average person as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh totally.

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Speaker 5: And I don't think I realize the impact that I

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Speaker 5: have until I actually now i'm home, seeing all you

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Speaker 5: guys are doing all these things, it makes me realize

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Speaker 5: how big it is. But when you're over there, you

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Speaker 5: don't know. But I just think that the legacy that

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Speaker 5: I want to leave behind is that I'm so normal

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Speaker 5: I'm a tazzy kid. I'm nothing special and I'm just

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Speaker 5: like everyone else. But I've just worked really hard and

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Speaker 5: believe in myself and I think that's really important. Like

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Speaker 5: that's the one thing when I leave it all behind

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Speaker 5: and I'm done with Sam, that's what I want to

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Speaker 5: be known for.

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Speaker 4: So you're also media, you trained, jeez, Steve, your old

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Speaker 4: man loves, he loves and you know what, the last

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Speaker 4: two Olympics, your old man has been so kind to

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Speaker 4: us because it's really hard to get anyone, Arnie, because

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Speaker 4: you're in there. Obviously we can't talk to you while

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Speaker 4: you're competing and stuff like that, but to get the parents' reactions.

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Speaker 4: But your old man's had he's had a career in media.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but what a right?

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Speaker 4: Like I cried when my son want to relay race,

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Speaker 4: I can own imagine what your parents are going through.

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Speaker 3: What right?

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Speaker 5: I FaceTime the other day they just had flown back

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Speaker 5: what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: They said, an Olympic depression. No, mom goes, You don't understand.

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Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, the.

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Speaker 5: Highs, the pressure, I was like, I think I understand.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just the one that was in the pool,

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Speaker 6: And you're right, because I think all of us as parents,

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Speaker 6: you just want your children to do well. And even

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Speaker 6: though you know there are not many people out there

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Speaker 6: who are going to bring home medals from the Olympics

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Speaker 6: to their country and have everybody waiting in the condus hangar,

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Speaker 6: But I think we all can connect with the parents

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Speaker 6: pull side because we do know that feeling, that the

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Speaker 6: joy that we get from knowing that our kids have

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and they sacrifice so much for me, leaving

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Speaker 5: Tazzy behind, moving up here, taking a punt on their

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Speaker 5: fourteen year old daughter who they don't know. They didn't

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Speaker 5: lot to them. So I'm glad they they enjoy and

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Speaker 5: they celebrate. They really helped out in Irish pab over

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Speaker 5: in Paris for the entire week.

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Speaker 4: So what are you looking forward to? You've got back

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Speaker 4: to Australia, now what are you doing this? I know

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Speaker 4: you're a massive Hawthorne fan in the in the AFL,

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Speaker 4: so what what are you looking forward to? What's the

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Speaker 4: go now for Annie?

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Speaker 5: So fly to Melbourne after this and go to the

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Speaker 5: footy on the weekend. So I'm going to go and

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Speaker 5: visit the boys on Saturday at training and give them

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Speaker 5: a bit of a pepp up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that keen that.

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Speaker 5: They're in the finals, Like they are going to be

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Speaker 5: in the finals.

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Speaker 3: Guys, two rounds to go, you'd think so.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday. I mean, I'm sure you've.

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Speaker 2: Got a bit to offer, and when you have such

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Speaker 2: great success, I'll be like to extend on what Kate

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Speaker 2: was saying. It feels like you're doing it for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not slipping vicariously through because.

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Speaker 2: We're We're in there and you're on the world stage

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Speaker 2: representing us. That's what it feels like. And I think

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Speaker 2: that's why everybody opens up and embraces you so much,

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Speaker 2: because we feel like, you know, you're ours in a sense.

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Speaker 2: What does that bring when you have such success as

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Speaker 2: an Aussie? So are we free? Quantas? Flights for life?

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Speaker 3: What are you getting here? What off are you getting

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Speaker 3: any other office?

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Speaker 1: I don't know yet, it's like too soon.

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Speaker 3: But got gold boots from ROSSI yes those?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Missus?

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Speaker 5: Ryan Hart hooked us up with those lots of Instagram

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Speaker 5: dms offering free stuff, and so it's about deciding whether

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Speaker 7: Can I just tell you something, Nothing is ever free, Charnie,

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Speaker 7: what do you want to do after I know you've

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Speaker 7: still got an amazing career ahead of you, but what

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Speaker 7: do you want to do after you you finished swimming?

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Speaker 1: I definitely am enjoying the pieces have done in the media.

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Speaker 5: I really enjoy it, and I feel quite comfortable in this,

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Speaker 5: so I'd love to get into there a bit more.

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Speaker 5: I love doing the speaking circuit and sharing my story.

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Speaker 5: I think people are fascinated with Dean and I and

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Speaker 5: us together doing that type of thing. I really love,

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Speaker 5: so I'll get back into that now. I'm taking a

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Speaker 5: pretty extended break, so I'm giving myself twelve months just

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Speaker 5: to mentally recharge the batteries, feel the hunger again. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm looking I'm looking forward to just having a bit

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Speaker 5: of me time.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, you deserve it. Thank you for doing it.

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Speaker 6: Than for me.

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Speaker 2: I was busy, so thank you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we'll get a fighter with the metals as well,

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Speaker 4: but come and give us a heart. That's awesome. Thank

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Speaker 4: you very much for.

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