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

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Speaker 2: Yesterday we were saying it's miracle Monday. It wasn't a miracle.

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Speaker 2: It was marvelous Monday World. Uncle Matilda's what a huge

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Speaker 2: dominating win four nil.

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Speaker 3: We absolutely dominated. I was so proud to be here

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Speaker 3: in Australian last night.

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Speaker 2: It was a great game to watch and I can't

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Speaker 2: imagine how nerve racking it must have been since Thursday

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Speaker 2: night when they lost, right and you've got four days

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Speaker 2: of national scrutiny. Is Sam Kirk going to play? Are

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Speaker 2: they going to cope with the pressure? Canada are ranked

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Speaker 2: higher than you? How do you hold your nerve in that,

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Speaker 2: not just not just survive last night, but actually come

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Speaker 2: out playing your best You played in the whole tournament

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Speaker 2: so far right here in Melbourne at Amy Park, when

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Speaker 2: you know if you don't win, you're out.

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Speaker 3: And you see the day before you see New Zealand

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Speaker 3: who's the other host nation going out? So there's even

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Speaker 3: more pressure on Australia to at least go through to

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Speaker 3: the next round. But we played I thought it was

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Speaker 3: a completely different team to what we saw in the

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Speaker 3: first two games.

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Speaker 2: There was something just joyous. My ninete year old daughter

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Speaker 2: Ruby was down at fed Square and I kept getting

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Speaker 2: all the sort of crowdy action she was filming about

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Speaker 2: all the goals and the penalty. She said, there's also

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Speaker 2: a lot of booing with those cheene knooks trying to

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Speaker 2: get to free kicks out throughout the game. But she

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Speaker 2: said there were thousands of people down there. She said,

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Speaker 2: it's an amazing atmosphere. How amazing for the materials now

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Speaker 2: and now they can go through. So you've got a

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Speaker 2: whole week now until hopefully Denmartin it's Monday night in Sydney,

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Speaker 2: got a week to recover. Hopefully sam Ka will be

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Speaker 2: playing where they really really need her. But even without

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Speaker 2: sam Ka, Yes, so that whole team and old Tony

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Speaker 2: the coach getting his yellow card, were coming out with

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Speaker 2: a little tactical area.

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Speaker 3: Do you think as we get closer to the final

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Speaker 3: he'll dress up a bit more or yeah.

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Speaker 2: I've got to say, I know in Melbourne we like

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Speaker 2: to keep it cold. I mean, I'm wearing a hoodie here,

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Speaker 2: a black hoodie, which is the official aware of a

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Speaker 2: man our age Tony in Melbourne. But he looked like

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Speaker 2: he was an uber driver and had a quick pickup.

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Speaker 3: He looks like he just woke up. They're like games to.

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Speaker 2: Soccer. Managers are in suits, you know, look at Pep

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Speaker 2: Gualdola or stuff like that. In the EPR, they're in

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Speaker 2: the Armani suits.

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Speaker 3: He had a hoodie and the cat pulled down over

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Speaker 3: his face. Looks like he's tried not.

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Speaker 1: To be now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, still on the show. Our producer Caitlin was so

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Speaker 2: excited about last night. She had Matilda scarf on. It

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Speaker 2: must have been amazing watching that and seeing real history.

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Speaker 2: And it's the great thing is it's from page news today.

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Speaker 2: This is history front page news, and the news about

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Speaker 2: Buddy gets a slightly smaller thing on the front page.

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Speaker 2: It's history changing. This is amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge, Like I think growing up and

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Speaker 1: I grew up playing with Raso Haile.

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Speaker 2: No mention, here's the bad wagon. I could have gone

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Speaker 2: all the way for my knee.

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Speaker 1: But to watch them just absolutely dominate under the pressure

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Speaker 1: that they had, and to see all the little girls

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Speaker 1: in the crowd, and to be a girl that grew

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Speaker 1: up playing sport and never really had that to see

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Speaker 1: I think for Australians and the girls at watching Matila

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Speaker 1: last night, Like that just meant so much more than

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Speaker 1: just that win. And so that was just awesome and

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Speaker 1: I'm just so proud.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible. It was just so amazing to see. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I thought I loved the whole game. It was so

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Speaker 2: exciting and they were so brilliant as well. They can

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Speaker 2: now go into the next tournament. It's all knockout games now,

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Speaker 2: but as serious contenders, they deserve to be at the

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Speaker 2: World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that are incredible and I have high, high hopes

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Speaker 1: of my scuff, so I will be wearing that next Monday.

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Speaker 3: Also, And you were.

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Speaker 2: Saying to Jack and I, as much as we're sort

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Speaker 2: of I've been watching all games really behind it, it's

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Speaker 2: not quite the same for guys watching this, right, It

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Speaker 2: is a different experience, you know. You were saying, it's

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Speaker 2: a different thing the where you're seeing it from, like

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Speaker 2: people like Jack and Iron Men.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you growing up, it's like a lived experience, right,

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Speaker 1: So growing up you wouldn't have noticed that you didn't.

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Speaker 1: You had all these men that you would watch and

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Speaker 1: aspire to and could be one day.

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Speaker 2: Right, you could easily play soccer as a guy. And

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Speaker 2: as much as.

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Speaker 1: You understand that women should could you know, have equality

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Speaker 1: and do these things and see these girls and they

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Speaker 1: deserve what they get. No one experiences it unless you

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Speaker 1: are a female and you haven't had that and you

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Speaker 1: notice the difference. And so that's why just last night,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was really emotional because I just thought, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this is incredible. All these little girls can actually see

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Speaker 1: people like these women doing incredible things, doing great things,

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Speaker 1: and they can see themselves doing that one day, and

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Speaker 1: that's an option. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When I spoke to my daughter yesterday when she was

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Speaker 2: getting on the tram from fred Square, she was in tears.

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Speaker 2: She was saying, so she said, this is the most

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Speaker 2: amazing experience of my life, just being there with everyone

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Speaker 2: watching history, watching these girls do something on a world stage,

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Speaker 2: magnificent and it being front page news. She said, he

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Speaker 2: really felt like she was seeing a big shift in history.

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Speaker 3: And just think of the amount of pressure that was

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Speaker 3: on them last night, my god, and they didn't even

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Speaker 3: meet the pressure. They exceeded the expectations of Australians.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing.

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