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Speaker 1: This episode is brought to you by the Athletes Foot.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the RAP, a weekly podcast covering women's sports news. Bears,

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Speaker 1: What have we got around the grounds this week?

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Speaker 2: Ninety two thousand and three. Don't forget the three.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget the three big.

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Speaker 2: Big Cornhusker fans showed up to watch the Nebraskan women's

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Speaker 2: volleyball team in a football stadium.

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Speaker 1: It's mind blowing, amazing, what a vision it was.

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Speaker 2: Lynda Sharp and Ksey Badger became the first female referees

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Speaker 2: to officiate an NRLW an NRL match under the single

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Speaker 2: referee system and no W in that no W. And

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Speaker 2: the England and Wild's Cricket Board has announced that the

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Speaker 2: England Crickets women's players will receive the same match fees

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Speaker 2: as the men's team.

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Speaker 1: We love equal pay.

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 1: For the key story, we'll discuss tennis icon Billy gene

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Speaker 1: King coming under fire recently after stating that she would

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Speaker 1: be open to the W that's a women's tennis association

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Speaker 1: doing business with Saudi Arabia. My name is Chloe Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing an intro bez I haven't done it for

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Speaker 1: a while. I am an Olympic gold medalist.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you've had too many things to

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Speaker 2: talk about, but now you're back onto let's not forget

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Speaker 2: the gold medal. We were talking about books and all

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Speaker 2: sorts of things, and now it's just like, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I just want a limp bit gold and that's all

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Speaker 2: I'm going to save for the rest of my life.

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all I got to say. Do you

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Speaker 1: know what? No, do you know what's bared? This on?

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Speaker 1: There was a lovely lady messaging the tfab instagram page.

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Speaker 1: She was like, Chloe, what's the name of your co host?

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Speaker 1: She's excellent and I don't know what her name is?

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Speaker 1: Who is she? What does she do? So I had

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Speaker 1: to send you full bio.

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Speaker 2: That must have been a whole sentence long.

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Speaker 1: So bez, who are you tell us?

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Speaker 2: I'm the silent partner and that's the way I like it,

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Speaker 2: although I have been recognizing public a couple of times recently,

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Speaker 2: which is both strange and kind of cool, but mostly strange.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I'll do your introduction.

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Speaker 3: You're the Olympic gold medalist. I don't do introice.

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Speaker 1: I thought. Tessa, my publisher, actually did a very apt

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Speaker 1: introduction to you that you were the life blood of

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Speaker 1: rugby in the country. I thought that was a pretty

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Speaker 1: cool way to describe it. You've been involved in as

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Speaker 1: a player and coach and manager in women's rugby for

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Speaker 1: what a couple of decades now we're going to say,

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Speaker 1: all right.

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Speaker 2: Since since before you're born with any play on.

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Speaker 1: And currently works in community rugby at New South Wales

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Speaker 1: Wrotars Well New South Wales Rugby and manages the New

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Speaker 1: South Wales war Tars women's team.

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Speaker 2: And has not now that and has not won a

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Speaker 2: gold betll not yet. Not yet, there's still a hope.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look around the ground in AFLW. Round

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Speaker 2: one is in the books and there is plenty to

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Speaker 2: talk about, some that my co host probably doesn't want

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Speaker 1: Be fair, so I don't. I'm not ready to give.

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Speaker 2: In this one to me. So firstly, and as we said,

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Speaker 2: first ever win on Sunday, getting over the Giants seven

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Speaker 1: It was a very cool atmosphere. I have not come

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Speaker 2: I agree. So Swan's big name recruit, Chloe molloy was

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Speaker 1: Also on Sunday, moving on, the Richmond Tigers had a

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Speaker 1: She was awesome and Georgie Prespargas was unsurprisingly everywhere, racking

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Speaker 1: I forgot to say the score sixty five to seventeen.

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Speaker 2: women's game. Like so many other sports advocates, Underwood writes

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Speaker 2: isn't just about the immediate bottom line. It is also

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Speaker 2: about taking a short term hit for long term growth,

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Speaker 2: the very definition of an investment. If the AFL does

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Speaker 2: this right, it doubles its product, not now, not next year,

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Speaker 2: So I think Underwood really nails it when she says

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Speaker 2: It seems like a backward steps, especially when you look

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Speaker 2: No, but there was over fifty thousand people there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: That just doesn't make sense, does it. And even looking

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Speaker 1: To me, it just doesn't make sense to cap it.

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Speaker 2: And I know that obviously Icon Park, which is Carlton's

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Speaker 2: still I don't I can't see the logic in having

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Speaker 2: me is a perfect recipe. You've got four Melbourne teams,

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Speaker 2: the people there. I just I really think the AFL

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Speaker 2: which will allow the players to perform and also increase

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Speaker 2: the player's exposure. And I just think it's time. It's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And Hawthorne and Essendon last year for their first clash,

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Speaker 1: touched on that Melbourne Collingwood game was exceptional football and

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Speaker 2: Totally agree. I think they've really missed an opportunity here

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Speaker 2: and hopefully they can fix it.

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Speaker 1: In volleyball, Speaking of putting women in stadiums, Nebraska women's

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Speaker 1: volleyball the corn Huskers set a new record for women's

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Speaker 1: sports attendance last week, Like all time women's sport all

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Speaker 1: watching the Nebraska Cornhuskers win over Omaha at Memorial Stadium.

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Speaker 1: The previous record was ninety one, six hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: FC Barcelona's home ground in April twenty twenty two. The

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Speaker 1: classes for volleyball Day. The demand has been huge for

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Speaker 1: has sold out three hundred and six consecutive games spanning

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Speaker 2: Crazy two decades.

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Speaker 1: Why did they take so long to put him in

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of consecutive games. I didn't realize

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Speaker 2: It's undlukely to drill down into some detail.

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Speaker 1: That's so bizarre. Wow.

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Speaker 2: I think their normal volleyball stadium holds about thirteen thousand

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Speaker 1: That's incredible.

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Speaker 2: Why have they taken so long?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Weird. So the Huskers swept Omaha in three straight sets.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Omaha had a lot of hope with

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Speaker 1: It was a doubleheader, with a Division two exhibition match

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Speaker 1: main event. The event was a paid ticket for all attendees,

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Speaker 1: Nebraska athletic director and former Husker's football star trev Albert

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Speaker 1: said there's a great business case and strategy around women's

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Speaker 1: athletics long term that maybe college athletics hasn't embraced. And

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Speaker 1: we think here in Nebraska, long before I became the

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Speaker 1: athletic director, we've significantly invested in women's athletics and you're

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Speaker 1: seeing the result of that. By seeing the success of

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Speaker 1: the volleyball program and the fan base surrounding it, Common

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Speaker 1: Sense the.

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Speaker 2: Podcast Investment People investment in some rugby league. Over the weekend,

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Speaker 2: Blender Sharp and Casey Badger made history when they became

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Speaker 2: the first females to officiate and in our match under

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Speaker 2: the single referee system. Sharp had previously been on field

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Speaker 2: In some hockey news, the ice kind thanks for specifying.

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Speaker 2: The Professional Women's Hockey League has been confirmed, with six

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Speaker 2: The long awaited PWHL will have the team names and

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Speaker 2: The PWHL will play its games in a variety of facilities,

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Speaker 2: Instead of like all these female sports just being like,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. In football, Sam Kerr was named runner up

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Speaker 1: We are continually digressing today. So even though Samka didn't

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Speaker 2: In tennis US Open and enters week two of competition,

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Speaker 2: old sixth seed Coco Goff stopped the comeback run of

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Speaker 1: I love that. That's also six years old and twenty

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Speaker 2: She's awesome. She's awesome, Goff set in her on court

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Speaker 2: She's been in inspiration growing up. She definitely gets to

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Speaker 1: could put her head down, keep winning tournament after tournament

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Speaker 1: and just accept whatever check she was given. Or she

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Speaker 1: could dig deep and break the serve. She could make

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Speaker 1: a stand. Let us remember that all of this is

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Speaker 1: far bigger than a champion's paycheck. This is about how

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Speaker 1: women are seen and valued in this world. If you

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Speaker 1: haven't watched it, it's a oh wow, like I found

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Speaker 1: a bit tingled. Yeah, like I was trying not to

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Speaker 1: cry while I just read out that short paragraph of it.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, go check out it out

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Speaker 1: on our socials.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have a massive crush on Michelle Obama,

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Speaker 2: so that's I mean, she's just a queen.

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Speaker 1: As if she's king. And Michelle Obama are not two

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Speaker 1: people on your list if you could have anyone for dinner. Oh,

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Speaker 1: absolute Adele, and we're sorted.

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Speaker 2: Adele. And there's someone else that we've spoken about, but

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Speaker 2: definitely Adele because she would bring the pilts.

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Speaker 1: Change intact a little bit. Billy Jean King has come

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Speaker 1: under fire recently after stating that she would be open

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Speaker 1: to the WTA doing business with Saudi Arabia in the future.

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Speaker 1: She pointed out that the partnership could be beneficial for

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Speaker 1: both sides, with the investment allowing the WTA to increase

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Speaker 1: revenue and the visibility of women's of the women's Tour

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Speaker 1: could help advance women's rights in the Middle East, as

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear kind of a bit more about

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Speaker 1: this because you and I had a discussion about this

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Speaker 1: during the week. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's no doubt in its sports watching is a

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Speaker 2: real issue, and the Saudis have been accused of attempting

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Speaker 2: to gain favor across the world by making huge sporting

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Speaker 2: investments in products such as the lucrative Lived Golf Tour.

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Speaker 2: They're in F one at the moment. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: going on. They're paying outrageous sums of money for male

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Speaker 2: football stars. So yeah, there's so much debate right now

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Speaker 2: about if this is sport washing and if it is,

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Speaker 2: is it Okay and King? I think, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: I think Big and King really sums it up well.

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Speaker 2: She said that she believes that working with the Saudi

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Speaker 2: organizations could bring about change, and said that how are

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Speaker 2: we going to change things if we don't engage. It's hard,

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Speaker 2: It's very hard. So when we go to a country

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Speaker 2: and we play tournament, just think if you're a little

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Speaker 2: girl or a parent, that they get to see these

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Speaker 2: women being very successful and great athletes and it helps

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Speaker 2: change the hearts and minds of people and how they think.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a really important kind of context to

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Speaker 2: this is we speak so much about it. If you

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Speaker 2: can't see, you can't be it. Obviously, I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of the sports investment happening at the moment from

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia has been directed towards male game, and obviously

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Speaker 2: a lot of the human rights issues that we know

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Speaker 2: of in Saudi Arabia are perpetrated against females. So if

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Speaker 2: female sport can get it's put itself up on a platform,

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Speaker 2: then hopefully it can change some thoughts in Saudi in

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia and it can help bring about that change.

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a really interesting one. And for

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Speaker 1: the first time, it was Billy Jean King's statement that

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Speaker 1: kind of made me think about it differently. And I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think there's an important distinction between taking

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Speaker 1: money for a sponsorship. I think it'd be very different

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Speaker 1: if the WTA said, yes, we'll accept ten million dollars

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Speaker 1: from Saudi Arabia to go towards other majors. But I

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Speaker 1: think it's a very different discussion if they're actually talking

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Speaker 1: about women playing tennis in Saudi Arabia. I think it

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Speaker 1: is still absolutely a gray area, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly where I sit, but I think what you touched

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Speaker 1: on there is the opportunity to create very accessible and

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Speaker 1: visible female role models in that area. I believe would

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Speaker 1: have a powerful impact and, as Billy said, have the

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Speaker 1: ability to hopefully create some change.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that engagement piece is super important. If

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Speaker 2: you are hoping to bring about any kind of change,

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Speaker 2: you have to engage with the problem. So yes. Steve Simon,

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Speaker 2: who's the chief executive of the WTAH, has said Women's

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Speaker 2: Tenants was seriously evaluating partnerships with Saudi Arabia and he

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Speaker 2: suggested that potentially holding events there would be a way

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Speaker 2: to support progress for women while the country is trying

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Speaker 2: to become a destination for major sports. It's an interesting one.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, it is a very divisive subject. But

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Speaker 2: I really think that Billy Jean King, if you want

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Speaker 2: to sum it up, she's probably being a realist. I

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Speaker 2: think that if the money is there, and look, men's

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Speaker 2: sports taking it hand over fist, So it's a tough

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Speaker 2: one to step out away from. And like you said,

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Speaker 2: if they can actually engage and create some change through

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Speaker 2: that investment, that's got to be a win.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look.

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Speaker 2: I want to watch in AFLW. The Friday night game

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Speaker 2: between Round one winners Richmond and Adelaide will be a cracker.

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Speaker 2: I think Richmond were surprising on the weekend, weren't they.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they looked pretty good and I think the Lions

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Speaker 1: were a little bit shocked by that one. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the game between the Tigers and the Crows starts

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Speaker 2: at five o five pm on Friday, and we played

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Speaker 2: at Icon Park. You can watch live on the Seven Network,

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Speaker 2: the AFLW app and Fox Foody.

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Speaker 1: The World Surf League Champion will be decided at Lower

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Speaker 1: Trestles in California in the coming weeks. The top five

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Speaker 1: will face off for the title, with Aussie's Molly picklm

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Speaker 1: and Tyler Wright looking to bring home the trophy. The

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Speaker 1: waiting period starts on September eighth, Saturday morning, Australian time,

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Speaker 1: and all the action will be live on nine Now

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Speaker 1: in Foxtell.

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Speaker 2: There will be a huge top of table clash in

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Speaker 2: the NROLW when the Newcastle Knights host the Roosters at

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Speaker 2: McDonald Jones Stadium. The second player Nights will be looking

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Speaker 2: to knock the Chucks off their perch when they go

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Speaker 2: to battle at one thirty pm on Saturday. The match

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Speaker 2: will be live on the Nine Network and Foxtel.

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Speaker 1: And that's the Rat.

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Speaker 2: That is the Rat.

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Speaker 1: Alrady down and dusted by