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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: He's an Australian icon and he's down here at Live

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Speaker 2: Golf in Adelaide at the moment. You know him from surfing.

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Speaker 2: Three time world champion. It is the magnificent Mick Fanning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody please put your hands together for me.

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Speaker 1: Like morning morning, how.

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Speaker 3: We said you wanted to get on as early as possible.

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Speaker 3: You wanted to be here in Adelaide and set your

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Speaker 3: alarm really early and get up.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I've been in the car park waiting for

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Speaker 1: you guys.

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Speaker 2: Actually, Mitt, you've got one of your best mates here,

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Speaker 2: Ronnie Blake is well and Ronnie, you are a commentator

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Speaker 2: at the WSL so we hear your voice all the time.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell us when he was winning his World championships?

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Speaker 2: I mean you were that Like, what was it like

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Speaker 2: as one of his best mates to watch your mate

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Speaker 2: go out and win something huge like that? Ronnie? What

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Speaker 2: was it like?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Mate? It was incredible, you know, amazing. You know

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Speaker 4: I was biased in my commentary of time. I'm friends

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Speaker 4: with all of them, but it was amazing, you know,

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Speaker 4: you just to be there seeing those those big moments

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Speaker 4: people realizing their dreams and the flesh is amazing. And

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Speaker 4: then obviously in South Africa as well, it's thrilled that, oh,

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Speaker 4: mate came back to the beach.

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Speaker 2: Were you commentating at the time, Ronnie, when the shark

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Speaker 2: went No.

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Speaker 4: No, I wasn't, but were Ronnie? I was choking on

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Speaker 4: a musely bar the competitors area.

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Speaker 2: There would have been. Actually we're at liv golf Dom

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Speaker 2: Dollars performing tonight. Fish is performing Sunday night. You're very

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Speaker 2: good friends with Fisher. When you won your first World

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Speaker 2: Championship and you went back home to the Gold Coast

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Speaker 2: and you arrived at the airport Fisher was he even

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Speaker 2: DJing then? Me? Because he wasn't as big as he

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Speaker 2: was Fisher? But back then was he.

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Speaker 1: He's not that big? Fish was still trying to compete

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Speaker 1: on the Surfing World Tour.

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Speaker 2: And because he's a great surfer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he can surf. Yeah, it's really good surfer. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: he he was sort of doing he was sort of

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Speaker 1: like YouTube before YouTube sort of took off, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: he sort of want to shock everyone. And I'm sort

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Speaker 1: of to tell you the story. I've jumped in the

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Speaker 1: limit to leave the airport to head head home and.

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Speaker 2: A huge crowd there to see you in at the

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Speaker 2: Gold Coast at cooling gadda.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like hundreds of people. And he was just

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Speaker 1: on the way out as we're driving out of the

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Speaker 1: airport and he's got his big sign and he sort

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Speaker 1: of got it over his private area and it says

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Speaker 1: pick us up, Champ. And then as we got closer,

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Speaker 1: I've stuck my head out the window and he's fully

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Speaker 1: lifted the sign and he's totally naked. He's kidding me

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Speaker 1: on the side of the Gold Coast Highway.

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Speaker 2: You're kidding Your mom was in the car, wasn't she.

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Speaker 1: My mom was in the car, and the limo driver

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Speaker 1: pulled up next to him. He's like, give us a lift.

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Speaker 1: I was like, no way, Oh my god. I mean

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Speaker 1: they just left him on the side of the highway. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was going to.

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Speaker 3: Say, you can be the best mate in the world

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Speaker 3: and pick him up with your mom, or you can

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Speaker 3: have him arrested.

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Speaker 1: Well, that dude, guys. That's the other thing. When I

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Speaker 1: said no, my mom's like a fisher's She's put her

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Speaker 1: head out the window and he's turned around and gave

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Speaker 1: her a full fruit ball.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if he's going to be doing that at

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Speaker 3: live golf.

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Speaker 4: He was always going to be famous, right, He's just

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Speaker 4: really sure what it was going to be.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: So you guys had a hit yesterday you were lucky

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Speaker 3: enough to have a round Cam Smith was playing. What's

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Speaker 3: it like to watch Cam so close up in the

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Speaker 3: precision of his work.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, he's so pure that the noise that comes

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Speaker 1: off the club with the ball, it's just it's so perfect,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. And you know when he zones right in,

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Speaker 1: he's landing where people would dream of a shot, and

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Speaker 1: he's doing it consistently.

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Speaker 3: Control, isn't it?

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Speaker 4: And that the Ripper GC boys like you can tell

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Speaker 4: that they're all really good mates. There's a camaraderie there

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Speaker 4: amongst the Australian group that you know is tangible. You

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Speaker 4: really feel it. So they're having a really good time together.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, like Mix said pure Lucas Herbert, we played

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Speaker 4: nine holes with him. He crushes the ball. But Cam

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Speaker 4: everyone always talks about his putting. Ever seem rita green.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's incredible. And the fast of those grands

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Speaker 4: get the more comfortable to rip of teams.

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Speaker 2: You've taken up a bit of golf. You've got the

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Speaker 2: Mick Fanning Golf Day, which is a great charity helping

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Speaker 2: out families. Is that correct me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, we sort of. We've started doing too now.

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Speaker 1: We do one on the Gold Coast in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the year where we raise money for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two floods, and then we've started one in Melbourne

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Speaker 1: as well at the Aria golf Course and that's for

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Speaker 1: Reach mental health and also eb which is a horrible disease.

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Speaker 1: And over the four events that we've done raised just

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Speaker 1: under two million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Well done. So what are your duties this weekend?

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Speaker 1: Now? Mick?

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Speaker 2: Are you finished? So you had to hit yesterday with Cam?

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Speaker 2: But are you are you sticking around for the golfer

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Speaker 2: You're hanging out of the watering hole. What I'm doing?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just cruising around, kissing hands, shaking babies, kissing.

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Speaker 3: Hands and shaking don't shake babies.

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Speaker 1: Meeting.

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Speaker 3: We've spoken about that.

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Speaker 2: You're not going down the medi boys, going for a

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Speaker 2: surfer anything today? Or what are you doing now?

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Speaker 1: No? No, we didn't even bring boards. You know, running

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Speaker 1: is a mad, mad golfer, so he's he just signed

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Speaker 1: me up for all this. Well done and.

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Speaker 4: Exactly.

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Speaker 3: Oh we're glad to have you guys here.

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Speaker 4: Well loving it. It's been a lot of fun, good

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Speaker 4: vibe around this event. I haven't spent too much time

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Speaker 4: in Adelaide, so thanks for having it.

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Speaker 2: No worries, thank you, no warriors having it.

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