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Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian O'Connell show podcast. It's the Christian

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Speaker 1: O'Connell's show.

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Speaker 2: Over the last two weeks you've been telling us about

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Speaker 2: these amazing legends, because amazing thing about footy is it

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Speaker 2: isn't just about what's going on on the oval. There's

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Speaker 2: so much more, so much more, And we've heard about

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Speaker 2: all these legends that we've never heard of two or

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Speaker 2: three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Ago, but we do know about them now.

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Speaker 2: The names deserve to be held up high and immortalized

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Speaker 2: in paints up on Lygon Street on our Footy Wall

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Speaker 2: of Fame. It's been painted, it looks incredible.

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Speaker 1: In a couple of.

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Speaker 2: Minutes, it's going to be unveiled live on Lygon Street

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Speaker 2: by the Lord Mayor, Sally cap.

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Speaker 1: And eight very tall people. It's now cross to the scene. Rio.

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Speaker 1: Are you in position, Christian?

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Speaker 3: We are ready. We are in position.

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Speaker 4: I am looking at eight of Melbourne's tallest people holding

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Speaker 4: up eight pieces of beautiful.

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Speaker 3: High quality, premium red fabric.

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Speaker 4: They are all facing the wall, and they are all

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Speaker 4: They must be tired because we have had them in

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Speaker 4: this position for the entire ad. Break so shoulders are

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Speaker 4: starting to wobble, but they are still holding strong. Sally

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Speaker 4: was giving them a bit of a pep talk. We

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Speaker 4: came under the ads just to keep the spirits high.

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Speaker 4: So morale is high everyone.

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Speaker 3: There's actually quite a big crowd.

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Speaker 4: I think we've probably got about one hundred people lining

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Speaker 4: the streets now with their phones ready to see what

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Speaker 4: is behind these red curtains.

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Speaker 2: And what has the scene is anticipation, excitement, nerves from

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Speaker 2: some of the people who are going to see their

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Speaker 2: faces up on a wall.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Bruce was quite nervous Richmond fan with the

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Speaker 4: twenty two jumpers. I was just talking to Doug, who

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Speaker 4: kicked sixty goals in one game. He's also you know,

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Speaker 4: it was a very calm character on the radio, but

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Speaker 4: now he's starting to be a little bit more more

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Speaker 4: nervy and anxious than I've ever seen him.

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Speaker 3: And so it's very quiet. It's deadly quiet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's now handover to the Master of Semonies. Now

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Speaker 2: it is you're Mayor, the Mayor of Melbourne, Lord Mayor

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Speaker 2: Sally cap Sally over.

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Speaker 5: To you, well to all the people who are gathered

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Speaker 5: here this morning. It is which with much flourish and fanfare,

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Speaker 5: and my honor as the Lord Mayor of Melbourne to

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Speaker 5: declare the Wall Hall of Fame officially open.

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Speaker 3: Yay oh look sensation.

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Speaker 2: On the spot reaction, Sally, Lord Mayor, what can you see?

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Speaker 1: Zip it rio.

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Speaker 5: I can see a lot of very unknown, awesome people

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Speaker 5: immortalized on this footy Wall Hall of Fame, Christian. I

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Speaker 5: see a lot of faces that admiring and in wonder

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Speaker 5: and I see a lot of banked up traffic as well.

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Speaker 3: So we're going to get off to.

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Speaker 1: See they're going to I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 5: Really, let people come and admire these fantastic immortalizations of

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Speaker 5: the unsung heroes. And it's so lovely because it's got

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Speaker 5: their names, but it's also got some fantastic stories underneath

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Speaker 5: each each picture. I particularly love this Nana Olive May

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Speaker 5: who chopped her son's footy with an axe when it landed.

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Speaker 3: Yet it really does.

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Speaker 1: Game Nana with an axe.

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Speaker 2: In a big statue outside the g But one of

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Speaker 2: the gates got the warning one let's scarier.

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Speaker 1: It is, all right, Let's get.

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Speaker 2: Some reaction now from some of the people are up there.

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Speaker 2: Who who's who can we talk to? We've got Doug

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Speaker 2: or Anti Pam.

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Speaker 4: Real I'm with Sorry, Christian, I'm with Anti Pam.

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Speaker 3: Hello Christian, Pam.

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Speaker 1: Are you by? Are you by Malcolm Malcolm Lynch?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it looks fantastic.

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Speaker 2: They're kicking that foot Antarctica. Are you going to send

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Speaker 2: him a photo?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely yes, yep, he wants to see it for sure.

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Speaker 1: You must be very proud. Absolutely yeah, excellent.

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Speaker 2: Well listen, thank you very much for calling the show

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Speaker 2: and telling us all about Malcolm Lynch.

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Speaker 1: Who else have you got there?

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Speaker 3: We've also got Russell here, the son of Royce Dixon.

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Speaker 1: The Okay, how are you? I'm very very good. How

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Speaker 1: do you feel seeing him up there? Very proud?

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Speaker 6: Actually yeah, we're the whole family, very the toughed brother,

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Speaker 6: the trouble you've gone to and we think it's fantastic. Really,

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Speaker 6: it looks great. They all look great, No, all got

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Speaker 6: the own stories. Are were very pleased.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's such an inspirational story your dad as well.

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Speaker 2: I hope we've we've done him proud and thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for sharing the story and trusting us with

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Speaker 2: as well. I think he looks great though. He deserves

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Speaker 2: to be up on a footy Wall of Fame as well.

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Speaker 2: You're man very very special man.

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Speaker 6: It does ye, No, thanks again, my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: All right, re have we got the legend, the teenage

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Speaker 2: sensation Dougie and saw is he topping a ball across like.

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Speaker 3: We've got Douggie right here ready to.

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Speaker 2: Go, legends listen, I'm great. How does it feel see

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Speaker 2: you up on the wall where you belong?

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, definitely a no, no, no, unexpected of course,

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Speaker 7: but oh very pleasing. Sweet dude looking at the photo,

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Speaker 7: I haven't changed the bait.

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Speaker 2: No, we've smoothed out, no.

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Speaker 1: Doubt about it.

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Speaker 7: You know, I've still got my boy's good looks.

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Speaker 1: You have you on? Ever lose them, Dougie, incredible scenes.

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Speaker 7: No, that's right, No, no, I'd like to say no,

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Speaker 7: congratulations all the other people on the wall as well.

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Speaker 7: It's a nunner for everyone, not just the persons themselves,

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Speaker 7: but also the friends and relations and family and what

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Speaker 7: have you, because it certainly goes forever. This will never

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Speaker 7: never stop really, so yeah, you can grows largest to

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Speaker 7: one and all.

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Speaker 2: Well, well said Dougie, Thank you very much, thanks for

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Speaker 2: being pile of our footy Wall of fame.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like you've got some groups there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of friends I brought on my.

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Speaker 1: Family all right, on your Dougie.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Rio, thank you Hello.

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Speaker 1: Where the old rented crowd come from? What's going on there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? There were the people who have created a lot

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Speaker 3: of interest.

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Speaker 4: I think that's it's a mix of family and friends,

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Speaker 4: but it's also just random strangers with coffee and people

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Speaker 4: jogging by, and everyone's very intrigued by the footy wall

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Speaker 4: and why there's a giant meat pie.

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Speaker 2: Anyone who can save a few emotional works about the

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Speaker 2: meat pie.

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Speaker 3: Meat pie, we actually could have.

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Speaker 4: We tried to get David who nominated the meat pile,

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Speaker 4: but sadly couldn't make it today.

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Speaker 3: In the middle of do.

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Speaker 2: Nothing wrong, But it stands out and out of all

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Speaker 2: the jarring, all the lovely stories to talk about, it's

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Speaker 2: the one with the acts that the.

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Speaker 1: Lord mail.

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Speaker 2: All right, well listen, thank you very much. Rio, we'll

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Speaker 2: see you in a bit. It's the it's the Lord

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Speaker 2: Mercelli cap there just to say thank you and goodbye.

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Speaker 4: She's just she's chatting to Bruce. There are they're getting

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Speaker 4: on like a house.

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Speaker 5: Much as tigers and pie supporters can. We are No, definitely,

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Speaker 5: people are so excited. Christian, You've done a great thing here.

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Speaker 5: I haven't had so much excitement since I opened our

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Speaker 5: last public toilet. Seriously, it's an awesome initiative and that

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Speaker 5: sense of unsung heroes, it's really we're celebrating.

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Speaker 2: Lovely Lord Mercellly cap enjoy the game tonight. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for being part of this as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Go Pies a brighter.

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