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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: So we're doing one last game. We call it one

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Speaker 2: last game. Thirteen year old Matilda emailed me yesterday, simply

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Speaker 2: calling it as a teenager would old man football competition.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get Matilda on. First of all, hey, Matilda,

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Speaker 2: got your email yesterday and it really really made us laugh.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for writing such a funny, honest

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Speaker 2: but also it was a really heartfelt email about your dad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well he works very hard, so he deserves this

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Speaker 3: one last game.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a lovely thing to say about your dad.

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Speaker 2: So tell us about your family. You got brothers or sisters, Matilda?

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Speaker 3: I have two brothers and one sister, all older than me.

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Speaker 4: Yep. And that's a noisy house, isn't it? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Very noisy. I'm probably the loudest though, right.

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Speaker 4: And so your email yesterday, did you steal your dad's phone?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? We were listening to the radio and I didn't

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Speaker 3: have my phone on me right then, so I just

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Speaker 3: grabbed his and he mowed before he could stop me

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Speaker 3: from doing it.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome, This is great skills to do that.

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Speaker 2: And does he talk about sort of footy quite a lot,

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Speaker 2: like you know, how he could have been one of

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Speaker 2: the great players.

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Speaker 3: And well she talks about how he could have been

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Speaker 3: one of the greatest, but none of us have actually

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Speaker 3: ever seen him play, so you know, until we see

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Speaker 3: it with our own eyes, we don't really believe it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get that, you're right.

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Speaker 2: And what do you think do you think that if

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Speaker 2: we put him in the team, he's going to be

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Speaker 2: a really great player and everyone's.

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Speaker 3: Going to go wow, I reckon, they'll definitely say wow.

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Speaker 4: Is that a human? Is he?

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Speaker 3: Is? He?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Matilda, if you put your dad on the team,

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Speaker 2: you're going to come down. You're going to be like

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Speaker 2: a chair squad with your sister and two brothers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course we'll be probably the lowest slums on

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Speaker 3: the sideline.

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Speaker 4: Awesome. And who do you barrack for? What's your team? Oh?

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Speaker 3: We go to North Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Oh someone needs to well listen, it's not too it's

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Speaker 2: not too young at your age. Admitted it was a mistake,

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Speaker 2: and pick a better team.

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Speaker 3: That's what I've been saying.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, seriously, come over to the d's this year. This year,

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Speaker 2: this year is our you all right, Matilda?

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Speaker 4: What's your dad's name? Then? Great, Grant.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so Matilda, I'll chat to you at the end.

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Speaker 2: Let's get Dad Grant on now. But thanks for now,

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Speaker 2: awesome chatting to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you pleasure. Let's got to the dad now. Grant Grant, Hey, hey,

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Speaker 4: going down here. He is here, he is.

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Speaker 2: So when did you find out that you was stolen?

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Speaker 2: Your phone and emailed me calling it an old man

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Speaker 2: football competition?

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Speaker 1: Well I wasn't surprised she called it an old man

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty used to hearing that, but yeah, well I was.

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Speaker 1: I dropped it off at school and I was riding

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Speaker 1: out and then I heard you a little grab the round,

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Speaker 1: oh man, Matilda thirteen, and I thought, hang on a

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Speaker 1: minute's got on it. So yeah, I sent her a

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Speaker 1: text message and checked with her and so yeah, here

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Speaker 1: we are. She's dropped me in it.

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Speaker 2: Take us back to when you were playing as a kid.

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Speaker 2: Then you're obviously pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Look. I've always loved footy. I played, you know, from

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Speaker 1: about year probably about seven, I guess I started until

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Speaker 1: my early twenties and most of my junior years. I

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Speaker 1: was pretty handy. I my claim to fame, I always

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Speaker 1: tell everyone. As I got invited down to Carlton to

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Speaker 1: train for their for their team and made the last cut,

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Speaker 1: didn't make the team. But I always like to remind

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Speaker 1: everyone of that one. So yeah, I've always loved that.

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Speaker 1: That life sort of got away, I guess in my

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Speaker 1: early early twenties, we my focus changed a bit and

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Speaker 1: we I went overseas with my my wife for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years and we traveled around, and then when

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Speaker 1: we came back, we were expecting our first So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that sort of changed perspective. And then I got a

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Speaker 1: job in Canberra. We've moved, and then we just keep

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Speaker 1: seeing to keep popping kids out.

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Speaker 2: So it just doesn't work like that pop something in

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Speaker 2: then they come out nine months later. But I'll give

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Speaker 2: you a call later, sort of take you through it.

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Speaker 2: You got four of them, trust me, that is pop

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Speaker 2: out one last child. Let's put that idea down for

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Speaker 2: later on this year. So what does what does one

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Speaker 2: last game mean to you?

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Speaker 4: What does it stir up? Do you want in the team?

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Speaker 4: Do you want one last game? Grant?

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Speaker 1: Of course, Yeah, I mean I'd love to do it.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's I guess I do hear a lot

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Speaker 1: about you know, I do tell the kids that you know,

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Speaker 1: I was pretty handy, and they're like, well, we've never

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Speaker 1: seen your play. So and my wife doesn't tend to

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Speaker 1: back me up too much when we talk about football,

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Speaker 1: but so to me, i'd like to I would always

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Speaker 1: wanted to get back into it, but I just it

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Speaker 1: just never seemed like the right time, and that this

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Speaker 1: would be an opportunity. And also, you know, for the

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Speaker 1: kids to the kids to see me actually play. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure the boys would be happy to see me get

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Speaker 1: knocked over on me a few times.

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Speaker 2: I could tell even though your your daughter material was

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Speaker 2: having a laugh, I could tell that she generally wants

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Speaker 2: to see you play and to feel what it means

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Speaker 2: to you as well. Grant, you're pretty handy back in

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Speaker 2: the day. I reckon you're still pretty handy.

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Speaker 4: Now you're in one last game, you're in the team.

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Speaker 1: Excellent, Thanks guy.

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Speaker 4: Now do you have a jumper number in mind?

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Speaker 1: Well, I used to wear number five, but that's taken.

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Speaker 1: I think so number seven. That is one of my

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Speaker 1: the favorite players, so I think number seven would be good.

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Speaker 2: Number seven. Now the unimportant business, the nickname. Okay, so

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Speaker 2: do you have a nickname?

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Speaker 1: I mean, people are generally just called me spoons, but

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Speaker 1: I did make up a bit of a nickname for

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Speaker 1: myself to sort of.

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Speaker 2: You try and get a nickname going comfort, you're really

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Speaker 2: walking away from this.

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Speaker 4: Self selecting nickname.

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Speaker 2: But as soon as asked, what is this nickname that

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Speaker 2: you've tried to turn into a movement and what is it?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm a big supporter of sledging, so I think

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Speaker 1: it's a big part of the big part of it.

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Speaker 1: So I made up this name, Firefox. I called myself

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Speaker 1: Firefox whenever I'm going up against the boys in anything,

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Speaker 1: because they I don't even know where it came from,

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Speaker 1: but they just seem to hate it. So I just

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Speaker 1: kept using it because it seemed to work and get

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Speaker 1: into the Firefox.

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Speaker 4: Anyone else feeling a little bit all good? Right now? Well, wait,

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Speaker 4: what you do?

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Speaker 2: We stick with Firefox? So you like sledging as well?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, all right, and a couple of ones here, right,

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Speaker 2: what about sledgend? He's taken on the legends. We've got

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Speaker 2: a sledgend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it, love it.

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Speaker 4: So do we go Firefox or sledging? I'm going to

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Speaker 4: give you the choice. His spoons n No, I think

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Speaker 4: we go with s legends. I think that's it, Legend.

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Speaker 2: You're in the team, the sentence, the legend of Sledgends,

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Speaker 2: Legends has been born right now, live on Gold. No

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Speaker 2: more Grant, no more spoons, certainly, no more Firefox.

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Speaker 4: It's all over the Sleedgend.

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Speaker 2: It's an even bigger now and forget Firefox artists falling

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Speaker 2: known as Firefox Grant. Welcome to one last game. You're

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Speaker 2: going to be coached by Shane Crawford. You're playing a

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Speaker 2: team of legends as well. You're going to have a

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Speaker 2: great time. You're you're welcoming the team. We're really really

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Speaker 2: stoked that Matilda put you forward.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: All rights, Peter soon, Buddy, Sledgend Everyone. The Christian O'Connell

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