1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast. 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 2: We absolutely adore this man. I'm holding up his brand 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 2: new book too, which I reckon is a perfect coffee 4 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: table book for anybody. It's got a beautiful photo of 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: Kathy Freeman after she won the four hundred of the 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: two thousand Sydney Olympics. 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Greatest Moments in Australian sport. 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 2: Put your hands together, the beautiful Mark barretta. 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: Morning, guys, good to see you. Is that your actual 10 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: signature on the book there, Barrett's. Can we take that 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: down to the bank or you can whack that on 12 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: a check anyway, and good luck with that, Whipper. 13 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,279 Speaker 3: Your whole life has revolved around sport, Barrett's. 14 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 4: It's been unbelievable. 15 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 3: And you know what, a majority of the time you 16 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 3: have been there when you're with your work, which I 17 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 3: mean unbelievably blessed to be in you to have that 18 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 3: opportunity to go to some of them, the biggest sporting 19 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 3: events around the world. 20 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 5: I think kissed on the ass they call it. 21 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: I have been incredibly lucky. 22 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 5: And I thought when I joined seventy ninety five, and 23 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 5: just after I joined, they signed the Olympic Games from 24 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 5: Atlanta in ninety six through to Beijing in two thousand 25 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 5: and eight, and I sort of went, yeah, I've come to. 26 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: The right place. 27 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 5: Without I've been to now what thirteen summer Winter Olympic Games. 28 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 5: I could get to one, you know, I mean one 29 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 5: is a blessing, one you need to go for. It's 30 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 5: great and the Olympics needs you. 31 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: I would have thought, you don't need an answer, except 32 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: how many times have you had to choose between family 33 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: and sport? 34 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: I reckon this would always been tricky. Yeah, I have 35 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: a very understanding wife to you. Yeah, but as she said, 36 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: but we've got we're going away and we've got this play. 37 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 5: Yes, sorry, honey, I got a V eight kids concert 38 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 5: anything like that. No, sorry, we've got the Cats in 39 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 5: the Grand Final. 40 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: Got to go. So you've had those moments absolutely, you know. 41 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 5: It's you know, and the true specially the trips when 42 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 5: you're away for a while, you know, like Birmingham Comm 43 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 5: Games was sort of three or four. 44 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: Weeks this year. 45 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 5: Then Tokyo we had lockdown for two weeks once we 46 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 5: got home, so that became a fine week trip. 47 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: As a sporting fan, I think the number one thing 48 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: is that you you want to be at an event 49 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 3: that no one else has been at before or been 50 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 3: to before, and watched an Australian team do really really well. Well, 51 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 3: what's the biggest underdog story that you've been at Barets 52 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 3: that you've watched and you've just got. 53 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 4: Chules and gone and can't believe I'm here. 54 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 5: It still has to be Stephen Bradbury, Salt Lake City, 55 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 5: two thousand and two. 56 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: The Yeah, we were there that night, but the moment 57 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: being in the stands when you went hang in a minute, 58 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: one down. 59 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: What no way, this can't happen? That would have been 60 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: so good to see. It was unbelievable. It was. It 61 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: was really special. 62 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 5: You know, I wasn't in the stand the night that 63 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 5: Kathy won in two thousands. I was actually that change 64 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 5: of roster at work and I was actually anchoring the 65 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 5: telecast at the studio out at the IBC. Yeah, so 66 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 5: I sat there that night and threw the bruce out 67 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 5: at the stadium and you know, that night was a 68 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 5: piece of history. And but yeah, to be there for 69 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 5: some of those special moments, actually be there and share 70 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 5: it with. 71 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: People is pretty spec. 72 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: We've had that young and up and coming commentator on 73 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: before Bruce macavony and he says, when you talk about 74 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: that one moment, it's the Kathy Freeman moment. And if 75 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: you look at the front of the book there, do 76 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: you know when that moment was? Was that her standing 77 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 2: on the blocks before just looking up at the sky? 78 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 5: There it's the after it's almost and you can see 79 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 5: the relief. Yeah, remember that she dropped to the ground 80 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 5: for about ten minutes after that run. And I don't 81 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 5: think we've never seen an Australian athlete compete under that 82 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 5: much pressure on home soil. 83 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: And you know that's why for me that stood out 84 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: the moment. 85 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: I've got about five pages to go in the book 86 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: because I've been going through it trying to find the 87 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: big part and still I can't see anywhere where it 88 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: mentions Ryan Fitzgerald kicking five on. 89 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: The end, is it went down to the big ones. 90 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 3: I sat down with Brett's for about three weeks for 91 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 3: an interview. 92 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 4: There's only one page in there. 93 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: We kind of looked stuck in that. 94 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 4: I said, I can't see them in there where they are. 95 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: Number two exactly. 96 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: To the Stranger's pot some huge highlights in your career. 97 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 3: And then it comes crashing down when you have to 98 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 3: do headline off. 99 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: Against This is a peak, mat, I appreciate that. 100 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 3: Mark. 101 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 4: All right, it's the headline off. 102 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 3: I'll give you a topical story, and you've got to 103 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 3: give you your best headline. 104 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: We'll do that next, Mark perettas in it's the headline job. 105 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: Serena headline. 106 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 6: Sometimes wells headlines. 107 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 4: All right, here we go. 108 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: Topical story, gives your best headline, Maddie de great, you 109 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 3: can go first, just. 110 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 4: To show barettes how to do it. 111 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 3: Here we gave virus makes woman think that she's living 112 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 3: in the nineteen seventies. A new virus that makes a 113 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 3: woman think that she's living in the seventies. 114 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 4: Best headline. 115 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 7: If you're back in the seventies, Can you jump on 116 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 7: your bike and stop John and Christine the night they 117 00:04:59,040 --> 00:04:59,679 Speaker 7: made Mike. 118 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: Around New Year's Eve seventy eight? 119 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 4: Wow is riding a bike? No, she was the bike, not. 120 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: The town bicycle. That's my mother you're referring to. So 121 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,239 Speaker 2: that's not funny at all, MD and not very safe. 122 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 4: All right, Brett's best headline. 123 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 2: Here we go. 124 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 5: Sexist jokes, an awkward faux part. It's not the seventies, 125 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 5: it's Fitzy and Whippers podcast. 126 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 4: Brett Flaw Your Way Back Mate. Second story. 127 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 3: Two South Korean miners rescued after being trapped underground for 128 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,799 Speaker 3: nine days, say that they lived on instant coffee. 129 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 4: There's a lot in that best headline. 130 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 5: Brett's sipping coffee underground while you just shout. 131 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: Surely the miners could have used a big to get 132 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: out interesting exactly what you've done. 133 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 4: I definitely you better be good here. Headline. 134 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 7: When Macona blend is life, you know you're in strife. 135 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 7: If it's not an extra hot, strong oat milk flat 136 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 7: white in a cup, not a mug, then I'd rather 137 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 7: never see daylight too much. 138 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: The fuy idiot that ordered something annoying. 139 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 4: Thank you, smart funny. 140 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 7: Thanks always said that you operate on a high level. 141 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 4: MDG. You're going first here. 142 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 3: Twitter is asked dozens of fired staff to come back, 143 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 3: and the eight dollars Blue Tick verification program has been postponed. 144 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:53,559 Speaker 4: Your best Twitter headline go. The answer is simple. 145 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 7: If HR is a mess, and just do what we 146 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 7: did here and rebranded p X. 147 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 2: I mean it's internally having jug the people Experience team 148 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 2: compared to HR. 149 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 4: Very different, very different organization. 150 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 5: Eccentric billionaire buying something he doesn't need. Sounds like Whipper 151 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 5: lining up for an other two piece fee. 152 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: Wish? What is this pretty easy? 153 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 3: Victory Brote, It's a great Christmas present if you're out 154 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 3: there and mark Bore at its greatest. 155 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 4: Moments in Australian sport. Any good book sor it is 156 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 4: brilliant world umbretta. 157 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: Than it's good to see you. Thank you, buddy. You're 158 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: listening to the Fitz and Whipper Podcast.