1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: It's a special Will and Woody podcast mini wards. The 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Games might be over, but the memories are still as 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: strong as ever. And right now we've got someone who 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: joins us, who has created Olympic history, Australian history, and 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 1: probably his own history. Inevitably his own history. If you 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: did those other things, you would have thought it's kicking Palma. 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 2: Our next guest rolled onto our screens when he won. 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: Gold for the skateboarding at the Games in Tokyo. We're 9 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 1: still not sure we can say the Olympics. 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 2: I just said it. A true child prodigy. 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 3: Some would call him the Beethoven of skateboarding. 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: He won the Australian Bowl at only nine years of age. 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 2: When I was nine years of age. 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm still mustering eating cereal from a bowl. 15 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 4: Welcome to the show. 16 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: The first ever winner of gold at the Olympics for skateboarding. 17 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: It's our very own gig and farmer, Yes kegspocoing to 18 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: the show mates. Hi guys, how are you very well? 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: Very very well? 20 00:00:58,800 --> 00:00:58,959 Speaker 3: Now? 21 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: Look, I've gotta be honest with you. Let us say 22 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: the O word. We don't have the license and we 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: also don't have the audio. We also can't play the 24 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: audio of you winning, which was awesome because you know, 25 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: you threw your board on the ground as one of 26 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: the best moments of the Olympics. So I was just hoping, Yeah, 27 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: just to kick us off, would you mind just doing 28 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: a quick re enactment of your of you winning the gold? 29 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: Whoa perfect huge and we're there. 30 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: It's like, that's better than the real audience. That is 31 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: better than the real audience if yoused it were, You're 32 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: back there, bloody Earth, pleasure, bloody oarth. Hey, congratulations Keg. 33 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: And it's actually an extraordinary thing that you've pulled off there. 34 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 2: Eighteen years old, you've got a gold medal. I know 35 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 2: that if I won a gold medal at eighteen, that 36 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: thing wouldn't have been removed from my neck. Have you 37 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: been wearing it NonStop? 38 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? 39 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 4: No, I definitely once I got it, I never. 40 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: Took it off for the first twenty four hours. 41 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 4: Fill an aeroplane with it on. 42 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 3: All of that. 43 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: Oh, Like, have you've gone down to like I mean, 44 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: I don't even know if you're drinking coffee you're on 45 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 2: the aighteen, but like, do you go down to your 46 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 2: local cafe and you're in San Diego? I believe of California. 47 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: Do you go down to your local cafe with your 48 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: gold mend all around your neck? 49 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 3: Definitely? 50 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 4: Haven't had have it on me to show some of 51 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 4: my friends and family. But I'm not really walking around 52 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 4: with a fair enough. You're a modest guy. 53 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: When you said to him, you're not really sure if 54 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: he's drinking coffee because he's eighteen. 55 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 2: I started drinking coffee at twenty five? Do you do you. 56 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: Do you do that drinking whiskey? Here? 57 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: Do you drink coffee? 58 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 3: Kegan? 59 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 4: No? Actually I did not go all right? You know there? 60 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 1: You know that you'll get there made. It's an a quantz. 61 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: Don't worry now, Kegs. Can we talk a little bit 62 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: about how you got here? 63 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 2: Mate? 64 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: So you win the Australian Ball? 65 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: Is that right? 66 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: At nine years old? And there's a beautiful story about 67 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: you and your dad at the Eleanoria skate Park in Queensland. 68 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: And now so we've got two Olympians out of that 69 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 2: skate park as well, because I believe you were skating 70 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: with Is there another Australian skater who was skating with 71 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 2: you there? Poppy? 72 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, Poppy and then this other say. 73 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 1: Skate park? 74 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 4: Oh no, none of the same skate park. We all 75 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 4: grew up skating different places. 76 00:02:57,760 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: Oh okay, what do you fabricated that? 77 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 2: My bad? The producers there give me some wrong facts. 78 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 2: Sorry about that, kicking? Can I ask you like kicking? 79 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 2: I watched a lot of the skateboarding. I thought it 80 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: was incredibly entertaining. I hadn't watched a lot of skateboarding previously, 81 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 2: but I mean, there is just so much ability there, 82 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 2: and I mean, you've got to be super brave. Us 83 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: some pretty wild stacks while I was watching it, But 84 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: the thing that really stuck out for me was the 85 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: way you guys all got around each other. What is that? 86 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 4: I think that's just like kind of like what skateboarding is. 87 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: And it's such a big family and we all have 88 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 4: so much fun skating with each other because we've been 89 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 4: skating using events with each other for the last, like 90 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 4: for ten or so years now, and we all don't 91 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 4: really care about how well we do or if we 92 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 4: do well if we do that, we all just are 93 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 4: supporting each other. And that's what I think it's so 94 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 4: cool about it. 95 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: So taking there isn't there's no sledging or anything in skateboarding, 96 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: Like you're not like Oh god, I've seen better trucks 97 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 2: in a petrol station, you know, to like your opposition. 98 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, I would definitely there's a definitely say 99 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 3: there's always a few that little bicker, but I would 100 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 3: say most of all of us get around pretty well 101 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 3: with each other. 102 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: That's an embarrassing question. 103 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: Wait, we asked terrible questions there. That's that's That's totally about. 104 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: Kagan. It's been a real pleasure talking to you, MTE. Honestly, 105 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: congratulations on how you went there. Man, it was it 106 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 1: was unbelievable. That final run of yours was really like 107 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: one of my favorite moments of the whole was just 108 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: seeing how ecstatic. 109 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 3: You were and thank you guys. 110 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 2: It was. 111 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: It was truly phenomenal. 112 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 4: Mate. 113 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: So congratulations, good luck for the future, and hopefully can 114 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: get you back on the show and sometime in the future. 115 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can't wait. Thank you have it. 116 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: Right afternoon. 117 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 4: Hear more of the boys on the full Show podcast. 118 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 4: You know you want to