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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam.

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Speaker 2: Nation Jonesy demand of arms for the pub test Today

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Speaker 2: Ben Cousins on Dancing with the Stars does this past

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Speaker 2: the pub Test?

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Speaker 1: Just been announced that Ben Cousins is going to be

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Speaker 1: performing on Dancing with the Stars. Big football hero who

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Speaker 1: has had a well documented fall from grace. When you

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Speaker 1: look at his his checkered past in terms of jail time, arrests,

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Speaker 1: violent restraining orders against his partner and the mother of

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Speaker 1: his children. There's a lot of history going on here,

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Speaker 1: but obviously a man who was really suffering from addiction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's almost every year that he had some

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Speaker 2: sort of indiscretion. Having said that, though, I just I

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Speaker 2: want to see Ben Cousins do well. It's like Wayne Carey.

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Speaker 1: Member, do you want to see Wayne Carry?

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Speaker 2: Wayne Kerry? I want anyone that's you know, you want

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Speaker 2: to see them do well. You want to see because

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Speaker 2: addiction is a sickness and you want to see them.

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Speaker 1: It's Wayne carry an edict, an addict.

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Speaker 2: Yes he's methanthhetamine is his poison.

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of women on the receiving end

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Speaker 1: of this bad behavior, of course, and say here we

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Speaker 1: go again.

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Speaker 2: I don't and that in no way. Am I excusing

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Speaker 2: that behavior?

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Speaker 1: But you want to see sporting heroes do well.

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Speaker 2: You just want, you know, if someone's if Johnny Ice

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Speaker 2: pipe and does you have no sympathy for unless he

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Speaker 2: comes and robs me and gets into my life. But

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Speaker 2: up until that point, if any addict turns their life around,

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Speaker 2: surely that's a good thing for the greater society.

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Speaker 1: And I'm playing Devil's advocate by just saying he's been

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Speaker 1: given a lot of chances because I want to see

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Speaker 1: him do well too, given a lot of chances other

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Speaker 1: people haven't. I hope that TV looks after him because

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Speaker 1: he's a vulnerable person and this is a very stressful situation,

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Speaker 1: as you and I know, going on exploiting him.

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Speaker 2: And maybe fame doesn't do well for ben Cousins being

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Speaker 2: amplified as well. But also, if you're a TV executive,

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Speaker 2: I you're definitely watching Dancing with the Stars because everyone

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Speaker 2: wants to see Ben Cousins come good. You want to

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Speaker 2: see him get redemption once again.

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Speaker 1: Though a TV show is putting someone in the spotlight.

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Speaker 1: Sure who has has stuffed done? How do you feel

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Speaker 1: Ben Cousins on Dancing with the Stars as it passed

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Speaker 1: the pub test.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, the media have long following his downfall and publicizing that.

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Speaker 2: I think he's totally entitled to use the media to.

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Speaker 3: Try and recover a little bit.

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Speaker 2: They should be involved in trying to help him rebuild

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Speaker 2: the life.

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Speaker 3: Three words, one name, Robert Downey Jr. Everybody gave him

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Speaker 3: a second and a third chance. I don't see why

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Speaker 3: Ben Cousins can't be afforded the same opportunity. No, it doesn't.

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Speaker 3: We've glorified Ned Kelly and he was a cough killer.

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Speaker 3: And how many chances does this boy get just because

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Speaker 3: he's had his name in notoriety. There's a lot of

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Speaker 3: other people have made a lot of discretions and they

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Speaker 3: don't get the same opportunities of redemption. I think it does.

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Speaker 3: Parts of the pub test addictions and illness, and any

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Speaker 3: time we can give someone with an illness and opportunity

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Speaker 3: to get over it.

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Speaker 2: I think even if he's a sportsman.

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Speaker 3: Or anybody else is Joe blow on the streets, I think,

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Speaker 3: and they deserve a few chances.

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Speaker 2: He's had twenty, but he deserves it well.

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Speaker 1: I hope it goes Ben's way. I hope he gets

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Speaker 1: what he needs from this.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your calls,