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Speaker 1: Right now it's Will and Woody.

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Speaker 2: Hey it is well, what are your thanks? I was

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Speaker 2: you a broad band You can catch Deal on a

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Speaker 2: Deal weeknight six o'clock Channel ten ten play and if

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Speaker 2: And we've got the man who is all about making

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Speaker 2: the studios. Now we've obviously got There's always a lot

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Speaker 2: to talk to you about. It's always great to see you, mate,

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Speaker 2: But I just found out that it's twenty five years

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Speaker 2: since you've been in show business. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: turn this into this is your life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it make it sound like an obituary. Thank you, brother.

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Speaker 1: I know I didn't know what it is, yeah, until

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Speaker 1: someone told me this week, which is yeah. I started

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Speaker 1: very young, obviously, but I started out as a cadet

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Speaker 1: journalist at Channel ten in Melbourne, and I was a

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Speaker 1: terrible journalist. They realized very quickly that I wasn't very smart,

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Speaker 1: nor worldly, nor polity cool, all very good at ambulance chasing.

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Speaker 1: So they were like, you know what you can do,

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Speaker 1: Daniel color stories. You know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: You know color story.

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Speaker 1: I did a story on a lady who owned a

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Speaker 1: g D, I don't know. Journalist is a title we

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Speaker 1: You get like hour of kind of you know, death

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Speaker 1: to put a smile back on your face before sport. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: a horse that sleeps in your bed, that'll do the truth.

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Speaker 1: Where did you ever get one?

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Speaker 3: Did you ever get when you were like that's too weird,

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Speaker 3: I don't reckon. I can go and investigate that story.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, we've spoken about panthers before, like the

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Speaker 1: mythical panther was one of my early stories. Was meaning

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Speaker 1: a kid who was attacked by the panther in the dark.

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Speaker 1: So that's when I first got attached to the story

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Speaker 1: been attacked. Wow, too wide for a domestic cat, right,

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Speaker 1: they're as white as anyone's hand and then saw the

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Speaker 1: kind of that was my early journalism career, and now

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Speaker 4: Grant.

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Speaker 2: I've got one more question, because twenty five years, obviously

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Speaker 2: you've seen a lot of you know, interviewed a lot

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Speaker 2: What I mean like twenty five years, what's the most

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Speaker 1: Yeah, standing on the steps of the Opera House nude?

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Speaker 4: I was that was that was nude in front of

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Speaker 1: Just for my own personal reasons.

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Speaker 4: Really, there's a famous famous photographer called Spencer Tunic who

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Speaker 1: It was like and then one became ten, ten became

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Speaker 3: I heard you sound a podcast of all the things

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Speaker 1: You always you were a wild guy.

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Speaker 3: You brought so much energy. You always bring so much

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there was a couple of those. Once. I

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Speaker 1: and which was dangerous, and the CEO rang me the

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Speaker 1: And because I can hear the game in the background,

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Speaker 2: Oh wait wait, Grant, Grant, hold the story because I

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Speaker 1: Okay, straight stuff.

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Speaker 2: Hey, get yourself a deal and no deal board game,

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Speaker 1: Well and Money. You hope you having a great drive home.

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Speaker 2: It's Cass Well and Money. Hope you're having a wond

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Speaker 2: of drive home. Brought you wells he broadband this afternoon. Hey,

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Speaker 2: Grant Daniels in the studio and you can catch deal

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Speaker 2: and o'deal weeknights six o'clock on Channel ten and ten

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Speaker 2: play that music just follows him around everywhere. Again how

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Speaker 2: to Big w you can buy one. But grant we

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Speaker 2: more about the fact that it's twenty five years that

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Speaker 2: you've been in the bizz today in an tainment and

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Speaker 2: we're in the middle of just dining out on some stories.

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Speaker 2: So I think we're picking it up at a tandem

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Speaker 2: bungee jump if you could just give us me to content.

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Speaker 1: The night before the tandem world record attempt at the

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Speaker 3: Jump was what was the world record you were going for?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, the record was like one hundred and fifty meters

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Speaker 1: So it was out of a helicopter over BONDI beach right,

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Speaker 1: He can make or break your career in a phone call. Right, yeah, Wow.

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Speaker 1: had a thousand wines, and he goes, yes.

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Speaker 5: He goes, tell me you're going You're going bungee jumping tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: I think it'd be pretty fun and it'll make good Telly.

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Speaker 1: But if you think it'd be great, you're a mad

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Speaker 3: So it was that him literally crossing the t's and

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Speaker 1: Because there was a genuine concern I was going to die.

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Speaker 1: I did. God, Yes, I refresh my memory.

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Speaker 3: So you got you going for the world record tandem

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Speaker 1: I did it with Aj Hackett, the guy who invented

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Speaker 1: And I had to get on the helicopter in between

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Speaker 2: Mad.

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Speaker 1: If we'd have fallen out over the CBD, we would

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Speaker 2: On doing a TV show. Yeah, I forgot about that part,

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Speaker 2: by the way, still going to do yours.

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Speaker 1: Back in the city. I'm on the mic chatting to Cosh.

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Speaker 1: His arms are bloodshot, he's all red. He throws the

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Speaker 1: This is live television. He's gone. I may as well

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Speaker 1: And you can't talk to there as well, can you?

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Speaker 3: So you can't like whispery here and say the.

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Speaker 1: Last thing I'm ever gonna do on the face of

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Speaker 1: What flashed?

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Speaker 3: What flashed into your mind?

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Speaker 5: Then?

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Speaker 4: In that fifteen second.

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Speaker 1: Full life review, you know, why did I push over

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Speaker 1: Aaron Hooper in year four on the playground? Why didn't

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Speaker 1: Like everything fifteen seconds, everything happens. Yeah, and then slowly, slowly,

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Speaker 1: That's good. I'm tired on, I'm tired on. I'm alive,

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Speaker 1: I'm tied on. But it turns around and it comes up.

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Speaker 1: It's such a ferocious speed. It's now rocketing towards, up, towards.

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Speaker 1: I look up. There's a giant human blender. Hell, giant

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Speaker 1: human blender about to mash us like bananas. So I

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Speaker 1: grabbed aj Hackett and I'm going, has anyone done the mass?

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Speaker 1: Anyone done the mass? Any I have?

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Speaker 2: Maybe twenty five years later, Oh my god, Drant, that

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Speaker 2: is honestly one of the best stories I've ever heard.

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Speaker 2: It's so good. If you want to see more of Grant,

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Speaker 2: get around Deal and No Deal weeknight at six o'clock

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Speaker 2: on Channel ten and ten plays. He's still alive. He's

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Speaker 2: still doing it twenty five years on.

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Speaker 1: Guys, that's a lesson. We take out of this.

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Speaker 2: Head in store to bey to buy the Deal or

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Speaker 2: No Deal board game. You can all have a slice

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Speaker 2: would absolutely love. Grant. It's great to see you, mate.

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Speaker 1: I always have to have them becoming you. I love you, guys.

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Speaker 3: Great to say mate, love you love me, to say well, buddy, kiss.

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Speaker 2: Hear more.

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Speaker 1: Of the boys on the full podcast. Just scroll up