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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Shawan is on the Line. I saw your new documentary

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Speaker 1: out on Amazon Prime today so over the weekend, and

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Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought it was brilliant.

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Speaker 2: No, thanks very much, mate, I appreciate that. It's some

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Speaker 2: of the stuff we visited and talked about and was

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Speaker 2: thirty years ago. Some of it was twenty years ago.

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Speaker 2: It was a long time. Some of it was pretty brutal.

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Speaker 2: But I think it's my journey. I've been in the

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Speaker 2: public eye for the last thirty two years, so my

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Speaker 2: journey's been a long one and it's still going. Made

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Speaker 2: plenty of mistakes, I've had some great times along that way,

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Speaker 2: played a near of Australian cricket that was the best

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Speaker 2: in the world. So yeah, look, I think the right

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Speaker 2: time to do something like this now that my children

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Speaker 2: are older, you know, turning twenty five, twenty three, and

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Speaker 2: twenty one, so it means I'm old too. But look,

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Speaker 2: it was an interesting process to do and I'm you know,

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Speaker 2: the feedback I'm getting has been pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: I was really surprised by it, Shane. I've got to

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Speaker 1: be honest, and I think a lot of people if

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Speaker 1: they're really honest. I was expecting a kind of brash,

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Speaker 1: sort of greatest hits, because you've had an amazing career.

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Speaker 1: You are one of the greats. You'd always go down

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Speaker 1: as that, And there was that, but there was way more.

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Speaker 1: I found it quite surprising. You're a lot more open

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Speaker 1: and honest than I thought you would be about all

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Speaker 1: of it, not just the successes, but the bits where

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Speaker 1: and you're right, it happens when you get to sort

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Speaker 1: of look back at your life and you can join

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Speaker 1: the dots, and I think you can take You can

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Speaker 1: be not just honest and sort of having a go

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Speaker 1: at yourself, but also talk about regret in a better way,

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Speaker 1: and the chance for heeding. Your relationship with your kids

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Speaker 1: went from obviously really bad it could be any worse,

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Speaker 1: to now you can clearly see the love that you

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Speaker 1: still have for them and the love they have for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look some of the you know, going through divorce

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Speaker 2: is the hardest, even in private. It's a tough time

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Speaker 2: for anyone that has to go through that, and it's

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Speaker 2: a tough time for your children. For me, you know,

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Speaker 2: when I was on all over the news and everyone

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Speaker 2: comment about it and talk about it. It was on all

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Speaker 2: the front page newspapers. Makes it a lot harder, you know.

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Speaker 2: And that was seventeen years ago. People forget howpened. It's

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Speaker 2: nearly twenty years ago, so to talk about that. And

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Speaker 2: my relationship with the children has always been great. There's

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Speaker 2: been a few times over the journey that have been

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Speaker 2: disappointed in me. They've only ever seen me as dad

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Speaker 2: and they want mum happy, they want dad happy, and

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Speaker 2: we both are now. And there's been lots of tough

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Speaker 2: chats that we've had in private with the children, and

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Speaker 2: you know, it hasn't been easy at times, but at

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Speaker 2: the moment and along that journey, it's always been about respect.

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Speaker 2: And we've got an unbelievable relationship. You know, all my

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Speaker 1: And what kind of dad? Are you right? Because I

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Speaker 1: terrible at saying no. I am an absolute pushover. I

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Speaker 2: I am?

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's hard, isn't it. I think parenting, what our parents

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Speaker 2: But I look, being a parent is very rewarding. It's

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Speaker 1: The bit where they're on the couch together, right and

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Speaker 1: they're all talking about you being the dorky dad. It's

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Speaker 1: lovely to see that, right because obviously when the door shuts,

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Speaker 1: that's what all dads are. You're a dorky dad. And

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Speaker 1: I noticed behind them, Shane, right, there's all these amazing games.

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Speaker 2: No, there I've got a.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I've got a man cave, and I saw I couldn't.

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Speaker 1: It distracted me. I paused it, and I was so

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got the old Space Invaders machine, which I

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Speaker 2: think has got one hundred and something different games like

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Speaker 2: I've got one of them. And then I've got Lethal Weapon, Pinball,

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Speaker 1: We've got your own basement RSL there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just need a few poking machines. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: look it's a it's a great place just to hang private.

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Speaker 2: My friends. We come and play. We have home games

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Speaker 2: There's some music up here. We've got some good speakers

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Speaker 1: There are so many great moments in your career and

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Speaker 1: the documentary captures done really well. There's a line that

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Speaker 1: you say in this the ball that changed my life

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Speaker 1: talking about the First Test and the Gatting Ball. When

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Speaker 1: it physically does to you, you know when we recalled

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean that was I think I was

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Speaker 2: And suddenly I was sitting on the bus, you know,

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Speaker 2: That didn't happen. So suddenly it was like, I don't

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Speaker 1: And I said, so what, you're twenty two years of age.

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Speaker 1: You're never going to be ready for that.

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Speaker 2: No, well that's the thing. So to try and understand

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Speaker 1: Wrong though, mate, because that's like growing up in public

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Speaker 2: It was I'm not going to say it wasn't it was.

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Speaker 2: It was very difficult at times. I made plenty of

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Speaker 2: and I make plenty more mistakes. But that's part. But

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Speaker 2: If you don't have the lows, You've got to have both.

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Speaker 2: And I've been you know, I've had plenty of loads.

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Speaker 2: It was you know, it was an amazing time and

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Speaker 1: sport these days has changed massively, isn't it. Because they're

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Speaker 1: Do you think you had a great time to become

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I look at the modern day athlete, I don't

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Speaker 2: this social media stuff, the judgments that are out there.

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Speaker 2: Every single little thing gets analyzed, and that's why we're

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Speaker 2: Because it's funny because people want to see characters. But

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Speaker 2: So you can't have it both ways. You know, we

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Speaker 2: all want characters. We don't want people at the end

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Speaker 1: a show. I really enjoy talking to you, and I

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Speaker 1: genuinely loved your documentary. I thought it was it's going

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Speaker 1: it's a great romp through an amazing life that's still

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Speaker 1: got a long way to go. So thanks speaking to Shane,

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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. You're welcome on the show. Anytime.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having me mate and I

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Speaker 2: people enjoy the documentary, and you're welcome any time, because

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Speaker 2: I'll smash you.

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Speaker 1: It's a competitor, all right, Mornie. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: I let you go. The documentary is out now. It's

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Speaker 1: called Shane obviously, it's on Amazon Prime. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: You will really enjoy it. Watch it.

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