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Speaker 2: Well. Hi there, I'm Georgia Tani.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to two Good sports and sports news told

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Speaker 1: differently and jelm me on a level of one to unhinged.

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Speaker 2: Where are we this week? I mean we're really off

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Speaker 3: You don't want to know how the chat's been going

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Speaker 3: before we've gone to wear We've cried, we've laughed, Georgie.

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Speaker 2: On my spell off her chair.

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Speaker 3: But I'm so excited to bring to you my good

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Speaker 3: sport of the week. Because excited, My good sport of

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Speaker 3: the week is Tom Cruise. Because, dear listener, if you

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Speaker 3: happen to miss this, I don't know where you've been.

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Speaker 2: You've been under a rock.

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Speaker 3: But Georgie flew to Japan to interview Tom Cruise, Yes,

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Speaker 3: and somehow made it about sport because she showed the

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Speaker 3: greatest action actor of the modern era, nay of all time,

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Speaker 2: Where did your brain? Where does your brain go?

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Speaker 1: I actually thought that he would be impressed, but there

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Speaker 1: And then I started filming myself running and I thought,

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Speaker 2: You know? Maybe I'm okay at running.

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Speaker 3: So to set up the scene, Georgie's taken down the

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Speaker 3: footpath in Elwood and has got her fiance Rob to

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Speaker 3: jog along to get the action at the arms. It's

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Speaker 3: very iconic, Tom Cruise, That's all I had to do.

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Speaker 3: So this is what Tom had to say to said

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Speaker 1: Actually don't I saw recently Glenn Power, one of your

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Speaker 1: custmates and friends from Top Gun. That's right, so that

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Speaker 1: you gave him advice that you've got to film yourself

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Speaker 2: My training has begun, mister. The last of the audience

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Speaker 2: seeing about ut.

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Speaker 1: Very nice and stuff.

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Speaker 2: How do we run? Like Tom Cruise? What do I

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Speaker 3: Really, he's got the expression I'm just I'm just gonna

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Speaker 3: but for somebody who can tell has done a lot

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Speaker 3: He was like, this, isn't you a girl in a

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Speaker 1: I remember when I was a full disclosure team, when

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Speaker 1: I was heading over to Japan, I had told Jelmy

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Speaker 2: Matching at leisure. What were you doing?

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Speaker 3: I think Lemon would support your quests, that's all, or

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Speaker 2: In terms of oh, how good was how good was

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Speaker 3: But also you now have what I would call a

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Speaker 3: Sports love sport, he's a good sport. Next time we

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Friend of the Pod, this one's weekly. If you

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Speaker 1: It's not enough just to want to be a full

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the report card.

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Speaker 1: Well, dear listeners, you may remember in very recent podcasts

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Speaker 1: we were talking about the Perth Bears and their introduction

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Speaker 2: The jury is still out.

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Speaker 1: But luckily Gellmy and I we are judge jury executioner

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Speaker 1: today because we are going to go through who was

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Speaker 2: Where should we begin?

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Speaker 3: They've said, twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, We don't know. Yes,

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Speaker 3: it's like I love they announced these big expansions that

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Speaker 3: we saw with the Tazzy Devils that we'll get to

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Speaker 3: that they've got one hundred thousand members, but they don't

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Speaker 3: have a stadium. So there's so many caveats when there

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Speaker 3: are expansion clubs that come into different leagues in But

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Speaker 3: we wanted to talk about the ones we've loved, give

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Speaker 2: So, Oh, I'll hang on before we begin.

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Speaker 1: I think it is important for us to let the

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Speaker 1: listeners know exactly what criteria we will be judging them on.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Now, I have two thoughts on this overall mark. I

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Speaker 1: I think we have to have an even more important

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Speaker 3: My childhood club, the Frio Dockers, the worst song, the

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Speaker 3: worst song in you try to say heave ho with

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Speaker 2: It is the Can you please give us a two lines? Please?

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Speaker 2: For people who maybe I don't know, heave ho.

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Speaker 3: Hit them real hard, send them down below. Oh free,

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Speaker 3: Oh give them the old heave ho. We are the

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Speaker 3: Frio Dockers. Where the rollers, where the rockers? We're the

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Speaker 3: mighty Frio Dockers. I'm sorry someone has penned that and

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Speaker 2: Better give that to the new club.

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Speaker 1: And I tell you what, there was a theme that

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Speaker 1: was already there. Heave Ho, heave Ho, It's off to

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Speaker 2: Why isn't that the theme song? Come on free? Oh

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Speaker 2: I'm given this away free. I have many reasons.

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Speaker 3: It's not the color purple sensational that is great performances.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is.

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Speaker 3: Why I'm no longer a Freemantle supporter. It is to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is. They show promise and then they

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Speaker 2: never really deliver.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I would say, Daniel Gorange, we love you, but you

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Speaker 2: don't know heartache.

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Speaker 1: Doers no like you never want a flag never want

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Speaker 3: You can't swim between the flags in Fremantle because there

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Speaker 3: isn't an do what ship has never docked in Fremantle?

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Speaker 2: The premiership I have heard them all. Honestly, my childhood

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Speaker 2: was semi abuse. This is how you're raised.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there, and I tried to stick it out and

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Speaker 3: then you move into state and you're like, hang on,

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Speaker 3: I don't need to support a West Australian team anymore.

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Speaker 2: Is this what this feels like? Success? I know what is?

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Speaker 2: I must admit I've missed the success of the Richmond

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Speaker 2: I'm ready joined late. I'm really bad with the bad

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Speaker 2: wagon jump, I'm really bad. But no.

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Speaker 3: The Prio's best ever finished was twenty thirteen Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: Let's not talk about it.

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Speaker 1: But I was going for them, just randomly that I

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Speaker 1: was going for them in that Grand Final.

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Speaker 2: You and I didn't even know twenty thirteen, twenty three,

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Speaker 2: We didn't know each other. Then, what is how old

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Speaker 2: are we? Twenty three twenty two ish? Yeah, you'd round

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Speaker 2: up with you, babe, join me, round up? You will

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Speaker 2: not aige me premiature.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, it was a time any who overall, but overall, Mark,

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Speaker 3: let's do an actual letter grading Freeo doccers.

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Speaker 2: Very successful club.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not successful in terms of they haven't achieved the

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Speaker 3: ultimate prize, but they're always up there thereabouts. I feel

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Speaker 3: like they're not necessarily ever that part of the football conversation.

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Speaker 3: Don't you think they're one of those clubs that sort

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Speaker 3: of fades into the background a little bit, especially when

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Speaker 3: you're here in Victoria.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and my prediction is that they will lose a

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Wow, Yeah, I think so so.

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Speaker 3: Because he was a role in contract, which was very

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Speaker 3: controversial because they don't usually do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think their performance is just not there, especially

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Speaker 1: this season. There was high hopes for them, high hopes,

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Speaker 2: Okay, so good Jersey, good Jersey, terrible song, horrendous song.

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Speaker 1: Okay, ish is where we're at. So I think that

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Speaker 2: If we're talking like unigrades, is that a credit, that's

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Speaker 2: a credit? Okay, I'll give them a credit. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: plus congratulations. Yeah, welcome Gold Coast Sons.

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Speaker 1: Whenever we're talking expansion clubs, we've got to mention the

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Speaker 1: Gold Coast. We'll get to the Titans in the NRL.

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Speaker 1: But with the Suns, I have to say I'm going

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Speaker 1: to put them.

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Speaker 2: In at I think they're failing. I reckon they're a

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Speaker 2: d I know they're good this year. I know they're

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Speaker 2: good this year, but what have they done? Their best

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Speaker 2: finish was twelfth? Okay twelfth.

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Speaker 1: They've been active since twenty eleven, they've been in this competition.

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Speaker 3: Cane Corns has said if they don't make the finals

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Speaker 3: this year, he's going to shave his head like Rory Lobb.

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Speaker 2: Oh and put a pattern on the back. Oh, that's

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Speaker 2: how confident he is that they're going to make it.

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Speaker 3: They've been leading the ladder at some stage during this season.

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Speaker 3: And if you've got the master chef that is Damien Harwick,

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Speaker 3: you've got to let the man cook. You've got to

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Speaker 3: let it cook. That and they've gone from in their

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Speaker 3: out of. So the players will be cooking in these shelters. Yes,

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Speaker 3: because the club is his do a doma is Oh,

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Speaker 3: it's the West Australian coming out of Antable. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: a temporary demountable that you live out of if you

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Speaker 3: do playing play outwork.

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Speaker 2: Oh so sorry, I thought it a stroke. No, it

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Speaker 2: looks like.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I could let it go, and then

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Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I have no idea what you're talking.

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Speaker 3: No, it's like a temporary shelter, right, yeah, okay and Mack,

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Speaker 3: So they would throw all of these money at and

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Speaker 3: they got a lot of like top end draft picks.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and then the draft picks would be like, this

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Speaker 2: isn't Melbourne. Why am I like? And so they'd play

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Speaker 2: a few seasons and then go home. Yes.

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Speaker 1: And that talks to a wider issue of the Gold

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Speaker 1: Coast itself as being a hub of sports. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get to that more on the NRL times when

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Speaker 1: we talked about them.

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Speaker 3: But I think if you want to play out of

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Speaker 3: the limelight and in the walls, oh what a time.

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Speaker 1: It's a wonderful place. It really is a wonderful place.

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Speaker 1: I think the structures and the systems that they're building

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Speaker 1: now could see them do very very well, and they

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Speaker 1: actually might grow to a B. But right now they

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Speaker 1: are a D. Even though wait, it's the Giants Jersey.

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Speaker 2: That you like, isn't it no, they've got the salmon.

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Speaker 1: Salmon, the salmon, even though their jersey has improved, because

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Speaker 1: we do like that.

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Speaker 3: That is two good sports I'm going to give. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to give them see a c Okay, they're very young.

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Speaker 1: Also, your social media is really good, so please don't

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Speaker 1: come for me. Gold Coast Sun, I do, I do

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Speaker 1: applaud you. It's very good, very good. We can't talk

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Speaker 1: West Giants. And I say this because I didn't look

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Speaker 1: at this. So the Gold Coast Suns introduced them to

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Speaker 1: the competition twenty eleven. The Giants twenty twelve. In my

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Speaker 1: mind they were so far apart, so far apart, I

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Speaker 1: know what.

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Speaker 2: And also to try to make it in Western Sydney,

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Speaker 2: that is so just rugby Lee Central a huge, huge task.

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Speaker 2: They are a fantastic club.

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Speaker 3: They're great to deal with, made it to the twenty

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Speaker 3: nineteen Grand Final, didn't rock up in the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 3: Grand fi procession.

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Speaker 2: Allegedly we're there, but I don't remember. And they have

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Speaker 2: strikingly orange jerseys. So cratous song in Australian sport. Agreed, agreed,

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Speaker 2: come out of me plus.

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Speaker 3: But I will randomly be walking down the street and go,

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Speaker 3: it's a big, big sound from the West side.

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Speaker 2: It's the sound of it. It is exception.

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Speaker 1: I have absolutely no notes when it comes to their songs.

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Speaker 1: So their song a triple plus as a club, so

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Speaker 1: I think that they are.

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Speaker 2: A bt okay. It's a solid expansion. I don't think

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Speaker 2: you can be higher than a bee without having a flag.

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Speaker 1: There's still work to do because every time if you

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Speaker 1: And they go the Giants and it's like this organic

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Like, it still seems like an odd choice.

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Speaker 3: It is difficult for them to get fans to go

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Speaker 3: they've introduced, like I've been lucky enough to be there,

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Speaker 3: not this year, but the year prior, and watching the

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Speaker 3: lack of fans yes that come out, like they get

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Speaker 3: about fourteen or fifteen thousand, which, to be fair, no

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Speaker 3: one wants to drive out to the showgrounds. No, no,

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Speaker 3: unless you live around the showgrounds, no one wants to try.

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Speaker 1: To get to the stadium. It's really cool. I was

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Speaker 1: there for that prelium final with the Bulldogs, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it was one of the greatest.

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Speaker 3: But even like the Sydney Kings when they had Bogat

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Speaker 3: hard it is to get there. In Sydney, they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: bring your wallet, conrry one hundred bucks for the uber

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think.

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Speaker 1: I think for the Giants, they again are building, building building,

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Speaker 1: but they have been building building building for the best

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Speaker 1: part of the last five years.

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Speaker 2: The best social media in the country one hundred percent percent.

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Speaker 2: So they are a bee from me, a very very

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Speaker 2: solid bee. Tazzy Devil's coming in hot, coming in. Really,

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Speaker 2: they've got stickers on people's cars already. Without a stadium,

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Speaker 2: they do.

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Speaker 3: There's still a caveat that you don't get a team

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Speaker 3: AFL's gone, by the way, we need a roof, yes, yes,

442
00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,760
Speaker 3: and the local government's like we have other problems, yeah,

443
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,040
Speaker 3: And people are rioting about where it's going to be

444
00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,439
Speaker 3: and whether there's infrastructure to allow people to get in

445
00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:42,919
Speaker 3: and out because that's the thing. You need roads, you

446
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,720
Speaker 3: need whole systems and networks and buses that.

447
00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,840
Speaker 2: They simply don't have. George.

448
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't know about like building a house

449
00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:52,720
Speaker 3: at the moment takes two years.

450
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,640
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, How the hell are you sing six month

451
00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,040
Speaker 1: build is going to take six years?

452
00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,879
Speaker 2: How are you supposing that you're going to have a stadium.

453
00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,119
Speaker 1: Oh and how are you supposing that that stadium is

454
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 1: going to come within budget?

455
00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,960
Speaker 2: Like it's just surely it cannot. They do have some

456
00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,200
Speaker 2: exceptional leaders at the club.

457
00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 3: They've got Brendan Gale leading the charge, who's obviously such

458
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 3: a good operator.

459
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,439
Speaker 2: They do. They have now got a.

460
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,720
Speaker 3: List manager, so they're starting to get those people in

461
00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,959
Speaker 3: place that you feel like there's going to be momentum growing.

462
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,280
Speaker 3: And if you get good people around a club, good

463
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,640
Speaker 3: things tend to happen. And there is that unbelievable groundswell

464
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 3: of support with one hundred thousand people signing up to

465
00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,600
Speaker 3: be members already.

466
00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,000
Speaker 1: Yes, well that's the thing, and I'm so excited for

467
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,520
Speaker 1: there to be, you know, finally a football team in Tazzi.

468
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

469
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,679
Speaker 1: No, my thoughts on the jersey. I'm not a massive fan, No,

470
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 1: it's not a massive.

471
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 2: If they can build a whole stadium, they can change

472
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,439
Speaker 2: the Jersey. Yes, yes, but this is my argument.

473
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to give them a C minus because

474
00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,720
Speaker 1: if the potential there is gigantic, and that's how big

475
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,880
Speaker 1: it is. Considering how many detractors there are.

476
00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,479
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm going, na, Na, you're not even grading

477
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 3: George doesn't exist.

478
00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh great, you need to agree you're

479
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 2: on a stadium plan. It's true they don't. They don't

480
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 2: have like a beginning of the plan. So we're discrediting them.

481
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 2: They're not there yet. They're not there yet. They're not

482
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,400
Speaker 2: there there, Okay, not they I.

483
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,439
Speaker 3: Love them in concept, yes, but show me something like

484
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,360
Speaker 3: a brick getting put in the ground going.

485
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 2: That's where that's going to be.

486
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 3: Let's move on, NRL talk to me Melbourne Storm. To

487
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 3: quote our dear dear friend of the Pod Harry Grant,

488
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 3: we had to be good, Yeah, we had to be

489
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,119
Speaker 3: good because in order to cut through in such a

490
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 3: especially where Amy Park is, it's like the epicenter of sport. Yes,

491
00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,880
Speaker 3: as in you can like throw a stone to the demons.

492
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,360
Speaker 3: There's also Collingwood, there's Richmond, just there. Oh what, there's

493
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 3: oz opens.

494
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,159
Speaker 2: On high everything.

495
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,119
Speaker 3: There's a bit of union going on when the Rebels

496
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,679
Speaker 3: were there, bless them them. And then also like Melbourne

497
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 3: victory as well, yeah.

498
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 2: Oh yes, literally oh and the basketball but literally everything happened.

499
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,479
Speaker 1: They're fighting for any space and by airspace I mean

500
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,199
Speaker 1: a croak. They're fighting for a croak of whatever is happening.

501
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 1: The attention here in Melbourne, the sporting capital of the world.

502
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: But obviously I can't see them anywhere. I can't grade

503
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: them anywhere under an A yes, and it's a borderline.

504
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 1: Plus they are what happen to be plus solid. This

505
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:18,640
Speaker 1: team outperforms every other team almost in every single code,

506
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 1: not only in this country but the world. Their professionalism,

507
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,919
Speaker 1: their coach, their structures, the players, and I know that

508
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 1: they have had issues with salary cap.

509
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:28,680
Speaker 2: We're not going to get into that.

510
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 1: But as a football team, you cannot do much better

511
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: than the Melbourne Storm.

512
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 3: So far, we're like nah, Premiership, no, no, runner up,

513
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 3: run up Premiers nineteen ninety nine, twenty twelve, twenty seventeen,

514
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.

515
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 2: And then that's not mentioning whether we're thereabouts. That's right. Oh,

516
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,080
Speaker 2: they have been so long single finals campaign.

517
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 1: I can't even remember the last time that they weren't

518
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: and also fun fact, fun fact, so they came into

519
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: the competition in ninety ninety seven. My very first game

520
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 1: of rugby league that I watched was the nine to

521
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: nine Grand Final of Storm versus the cent George La

522
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 1: Wawa Dragons, and that was my introduction to rugby league

523
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: and I was like, what is this game? So they

524
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,360
Speaker 1: did enough on that day. Marcus Bye was a superstar

525
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: on the ring. You still remember it?

526
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 2: You didn't do what I did?

527
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: And go, oh the purple one, No, no, but great jersey,

528
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,199
Speaker 1: great jersey, you're right, purple fantastic jersey.

529
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:20,120
Speaker 2: With NRL, there's a song. There's not really songs. There's

530
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: not really songs. It's not the same thing as AFL.

531
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 2: They have one.

532
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't harm you a word, And I have been

533
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: in the sheds when they sing.

534
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 2: It very violent with their songs.

535
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, there's a weally being someonela in the

536
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: there's like beer flying everywhere, like that's your typical NRL

537
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: post game celebration.

538
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 3: It's very if you're in the rooms, you're like, I

539
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,719
Speaker 3: shouldn't be here, Like I don't feel safe.

540
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,119
Speaker 2: What is why? Why is that been getting assaulted?

541
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 3: I just don't know what's happening, but it is. It's

542
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 3: very like tribal Oh yes, it.

543
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 2: Really really is.

544
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: It seems like a really nice seguey for me because

545
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: great teams. We're going to talk to my greatest team

546
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: and the greatest love of my life of Brisbane Broncos.

547
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: Sorry Rob, sorry Bab, but.

548
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: They at the moment, I mean, technically they are an

549
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: expansion team.

550
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 2: I know. I'm just doing a quick little mention here

551
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 2: because when I'm.

552
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 3: Getting through all of that, they were born before the

553
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 3: two of us. They're not an expansion Hey, hey.

554
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 2: They technically are? They technically are.

555
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: I'm giving them a B minus right now because it

556
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: has been nearly twenty years since I've won a premiership.

557
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 2: Come on, was I in the Grand Final a few

558
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 2: years ago? Yeah, but let's not talk about that. No,

559
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 2: you weren't there. I was. I was. I do have

560
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 2: a bone to pick with them, though the Grand Funnel

561
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 2: wasn't a thing.

562
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: Our jerseys a horrific anyway, be minus be miness to

563
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: the Broncos BBBBB Gold Coast Titans, introduced into the competition

564
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, the best that they have

565
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: done prelim finalists in twenty ten, that was fifteen years ago.

566
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 2: That's got to be a C.

567
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: It's at least a C minus. I maybe what did

568
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: I give the Suns a D? It's it's a D plus. Wow,

569
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: it's a D plus for me.

570
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,280
Speaker 2: Just plus is offensive, just because I just believe it

571
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: as a D and call it a day. There's no

572
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 2: such thing as you can't put a positive on a deep.

573
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: But just because I want them to do so well,

574
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: and every time that there is a team added to

575
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: the Gold Cos I want them to do so well

576
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 1: because I love the Gold Coast. It's one of my

577
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: favorite places on this planet. Legitimately, it's just such a

578
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: tricky one because it is a transient population. It's people

579
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 1: that are coming in from interstate. You don't have the

580
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: rusted on Gold Coast mentality, at least not in gigantic numbers,

581
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: and that is tricky when you are trying to build

582
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 1: all of these teams here and sustain them.

583
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 3: It's kind of like the same feeling as the Gold

584
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 3: Coast Suns in that other teams are getting added and

585
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 3: you're like, wait, this one's still growing up. Yeah, yeah,

586
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 3: we still need to help this one.

587
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: What do you mean when getting this one in?

588
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have fantastic facilities. It's an incredible way of

589
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: life if you're a player. I feel that it is

590
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 1: wonderful to be there.

591
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 2: But no one moves to the Gold Coast and goes

592
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 2: are terrible the worst.

593
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it's just it is such a different

594
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: vibe to the rest of the competition.

595
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I want them to I want them to

596
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 2: do so well.

597
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: I've got friends that work there, and I just I

598
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: want them to do really, really well. But lass at

599
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: the moment, results speak for themselves, not doing great.

600
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 2: Dolphins sensational name was still available the Dolphins and also

601
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 2: their jerseys.

602
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: I'm giving them a B plus great jerseys, B plus introduction.

603
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to give them a bee because they're best

604
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: finish they came in twenty twenty three. The best finish

605
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: is only thirteenth. But in terms of what they have

606
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: offered people in Queensland who do not go for the Titans,

607
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: the Cowboys of the Broncos and mainly the Broncos, giving

608
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: them that second option of a team to follow, Yeah,

609
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: has been really really, actually quite magical.

610
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 2: To watch. So I love them. I love the coast.

611
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,080
Speaker 2: I don't love the broncos I know, so it gives

612
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 2: them another option.

613
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: It's rude, but yeah, no, lots of people and to

614
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: be and I will support them in their love for

615
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. It's greater Brisbane technically Redcliffe, but you know,

616
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: the whole culture that they've built, and I love seeing

617
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: the stands packed and they're doing the fins up with

618
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: their hands and they've got the hats and it's just.

619
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. So yeah, yeah, the Dolphins,

620
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: I'm a fan of you.

621
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 3: You're a beat the Perth Bears speaking, is then one

622
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 3: ticket hold off?

623
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 2: Yes?

624
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 3: Yes, I feel like we'll wait and see because again

625
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 3: they're like in twenty twenty seven or twenty twenty eight, whatems,

626
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 3: We'll just see.

627
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 2: How this club goes.

628
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 3: I query how it's going to go. Having a Sydney

629
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 3: team in Perth. Yes, like it's different than having you know,

630
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 3: the Brisbane Bears.

631
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 2: Yes, so to speak, but is there enough?

632
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,199
Speaker 1: What I think know is that there is enough support

633
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: though in the North Sydney element.

634
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 3: So whenever the abdormance fan base where they're like, bang,

635
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 3: let's let's go and watch, but I wonder how connected

636
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 3: you as someone who's family on the other type of country,

637
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 3: it is very hard to feel connected with the time

638
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 3: difference with also just it is really really difficult and

639
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 3: unaffordable to be able to travel over there.

640
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give them what did I give

641
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: as main devils that didn't exists?

642
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 2: Why did they skip Adelaide? Oh well, why wouldn't they

643
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 2: put a team in Adelaide?

644
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: Do you know what? Though? I actually think because the

645
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:55,160
Speaker 1: literacy when it comes to rugby as just a concept,

646
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: this is rugby league obviously, I think.

647
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: It's even less in Adelaide because it Perth.

648
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: You've had the Western Force, so they've had It's a

649
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: different code, don't get me wrong, but at least they

650
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: are kind of aware that rugby union exists and rugby

651
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: league is a variation of So in Adelaide they'd be like,

652
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: what is an oval?

653
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: But what? Oh what is this? I'm trying desperately not

654
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 2: to swear, so they give zero. Oh yeah, they don't care.

655
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: They don't care.

656
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it, but they've started doing exhibition matches.

657
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: They're like the odd state of origin.

658
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 2: Adelaide.

659
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: It does well, but I can't see it. That's there's

660
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: still some there's still some years off.

661
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 2: Skip, let's not hide. But now we are National National, National,

662
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Speaker 2: is Perth, National is Perth.

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Speaker 3: The greatest expansion team to ever be in Australia.

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Speaker 2: What we're calling it, well.

665
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Speaker 3: The Tazzy jack Jumping Yeah, yeah, I'm with the jack Jumpers.

666
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 3: I hope that whoever suggested that name sat back and

667
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 3: put their hands behind their head and was like, you

668
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 3: don't pay me enough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't pay me enough. The Tazzy jack Jumpers.

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Speaker 3: And if you want to deal listeners, you may remember

671
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Speaker 3: we did a whole episode yes on their success and

672
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 3: so back and have a listen, because my goodness did

673
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 3: they capture the hearts and minds of the Apple Issle

674
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 3: And it was just the magic of what it can

675
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 3: create when you get a team that starts and everyone

676
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 3: jumps on the buy in.

677
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 2: Buying the buy in is important, but also it was

678
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 2: a proof of concept, to be honest for the Tazzy Devils.

679
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 2: I it helped them completely. And I also think you

680
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: need to have strong leadership.

681
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 3: Yes, strong coaches and someone that will attract good talent,

682
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 3: but you also need seeing your players that buy in,

683
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 3: and I think that's the thing that we've seen, particularly

684
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 3: with clubs like the Gold Coast in both parts. You

685
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 3: can't have star players that have one foot in the door.

686
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 3: You've got to be all in and saying this is

687
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 3: what's important to us. Allah Like obviously it's not expansion team,

688
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: but something like the Boomers.

689
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Speaker 2: We see what Paddi Mills has done.

690
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Speaker 3: Seeing like this means something because so many players were

691
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: opting out because they just didn't see it as important.

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Speaker 2: And you're changing hearts and minds.

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00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: Yes, that's the thing, and that is what the Tasmanian

694
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: jack Jumpers themselves stars.

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00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they've built themselves on that.

696
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Speaker 1: They came in twenty twenty one into the competition, the

697
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Speaker 1: NBL the best result, runners up twenty twenty two, winners

698
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't have a better report card than.

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Speaker 1: That, really, really, you cannot be they are They are

701
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Speaker 1: a plus.

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00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: They are the blueprint. Yeah, and we're gonna talk about

703
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: blueprint also. Jerseys immaculate, yep, everything about them. Immaculate. Auckland

704
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 2: FC in the A League, now, let's be honest, the

705
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 2: A leagu's a little bit off.

706
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 3: Greed in terms of making general sporting news. So this

707
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 3: should be something that everyone in Australia knows. They have

708
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 3: entered the competition and won the Premier's Plate in their

709
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Speaker 3: very first season.

710
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 2: Which is unheard of.

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00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: What code you follow, whatever sport you follow, there is

712
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: some level of understanding there for you just how astronomical

713
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Speaker 1: that is.

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Speaker 3: So essentially they get tens of thousands of people to

715
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Speaker 3: the stadium. It isn't one of the highest attendant oh

716
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 3: A league. For sure, it's packed, it's buying. They're playing

717
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 3: out of their skins and they look like they can

718
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 3: go on and actually win the Grand Final, because we

719
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Speaker 3: know that obviously with the A League they do have

720
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: a final series as opposed to the Premier League where

721
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 3: they don't.

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00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 2: But they have just set alight the competition. Yes, yes,

723
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 2: and they had it and I hope they win it.

724
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 2: I hope they win the whole thing.

725
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: They have been that dominant this season and also used

726
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: to think about blueprints what they have done with that

727
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: team again, just rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat with

728
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: any other expansion club that is looking to enter whatever code.

729
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 3: So it's high population, it's a great location, it's a

730
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 3: stadium that has great facilities.

731
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Speaker 2: Money, Yes, helps helps help billion a.

732
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 3: Billionaire owner of helps and that, and then good leadership

733
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 3: of what to do with that money and players that

734
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 3: are board in.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's the.

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Speaker 1: Science, and also local talent. So they have actually brought

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00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: in so many players who have represented the All Whites.

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00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: They called the All White I.

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00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: Think they're called the All Whites. Give me uno momento

740
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: while I google quickly picked behind the veil, he dear listeners. Yes,

741
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: they are called the All Whites the New Zealand men's

742
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: national football team.

743
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 3: So they have brought in the all White, the all Whites,

744
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 3: and everyone's just cool with that because of the.

745
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 2: I know, I understand that's them.

746
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: That's it.

747
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: That's it. I was like, I'll wait for you to

748
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 2: google it, find out that's wrong, and then we're doing it.

749
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: That's the name, because of course you've got the all

750
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: for all blacks, and then these are the all Whites.

751
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: So the All Whites.

752
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: They are now actually ranked one of their highest ranks

753
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: in the FIFA official standings because so many of their

754
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: players are part of this team.

755
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: They have that bond and they have chemistry. They have

756
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: that chemistry.

757
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: But because you're basing it around that there's all. Then

758
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: again it's the buy in from all of the locals

759
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: who then go and attend the.

760
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 2: Game basically onto a soccer game at the alley.

761
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, And so that I think has been

762
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: very very clever of them.

763
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 2: Genius, genius.

764
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Speaker 1: And they've brought back people who have been playing in

765
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: like you know, EU Malta's and your Sweden's and that

766
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and they've brought them back to play

767
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: in this competition. If you can attract international players to

768
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: play in the A League men's well done. Hats off

769
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: to you, Hats off to you. So I think them

770
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: at the moment they're in A. They're in A and they.

771
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 2: Could be an A plus now. Yet they have it

772
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: won the whole champion. The standards are high.

773
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: Jelmy.

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00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 2: They've won the Premier's plate. Yeah in the first Yeah

775
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: there a day there day is the A League trophy.

776
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: Still that weird toilet, Yes, it is still a toilet. Okay,

777
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: So they need to lift the toilet seat, yeh yeh,

778
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: which they could do. They could do. They could do.

779
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: Also shout out just before we wrap up our report card,

780
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: shout out to the A League Women's Grand Final that

781
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: is happening this weekend.

782
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: Yes, victory up against the Central Coast Maritis. My money

783
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 2: is on the victory.

784
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 3: It's amazing that city bungled out because they were undefeated.

785
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: Through the season. Yeah, incredible and also with the premiers.

786
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll have more.

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Speaker 1: We'll have more on that next episode. Yes, more on

788
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: that next episode. But report cards, how did we go?

789
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: We should grade ourselves?

790
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 3: You've never got anything less than a plus in your life?

791
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 3: When you would get a tick? Have you ever got

792
00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 3: anything less than they?

793
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: Yes? When I got a bee once in maths?

794
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: And then I was that was absolutely unacceptable myself in

795
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: the teacher and I went to chewtoring because I was like,

796
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: I cannot have that. That cannot stand.

797
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: Do I use derivatives ever in daily life? No? So

798
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: I'm glad I tried so hard. Fun fact. Fun fact,

799
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 2: it's a quick one. You've got one. Race car is

800
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 2: race card backwards. That's one of my favorite things. You

801
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 2: know how I know that that wasn't mean that I

802
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,959
Speaker 2: chicken shop date. Oh Lando Norris talking to your mate Amelia.

803
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 3: Oh my god, one of my favorite And he says

804
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 3: to Lando, do you know that race car is race

805
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 3: card backwards?

806
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 2: And he dead panza and gives it absolutely nothing, and

807
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: I went, well, that's a fun fact, isn't it.

808
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: This is literally all my areas And just further proof, Amelia,

809
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: if you ever go on holiday, hit me up, bab

810
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: It's one of my Palindromes are honestly one of my

811
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: favorite things.

812
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 2: Hannah, the name Hannah. I've got so many rhoda R

813
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 2: O T O R like.

814
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm here anytime you need.

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00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: Race Car is a real good one. Did you know

816
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 2: race Car was one? Yeah, of course, we just talked

817
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 2: about it.

818
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 3: You didn't get a bale keeps me up at night?

819
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's our episode this week. Give us give

820
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 2: us a report.

821
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 3: Cards, the love of God, don't give Georgie anything less

822
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 3: than a or she'll die.

823
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: I mean it, so please only only positive report cards.

824
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You have been listening to two

825
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: good sports. We'll be back next week until they get

826
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: no