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Speaker 2: Hey, this is.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast this month obviously it's the

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Speaker 1: Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and joining us now someone's

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Speaker 1: gonna be coming to Australia on a speaking tour. He

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Speaker 1: is a Formula one legend, Christian Horner. He transformed Team

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Speaker 1: the planet and was in charge of Ossie legends like

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Speaker 1: Daniel Ricardo and Mark Webber. Plus he also happens to

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Speaker 1: be married to a spice girl, not just any spice girl,

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Speaker 1: Ginger Spices. Jerry Halliwell. Christian Horner is joining the show

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Speaker 1: live now. Christian, thank you very much for joining us now.

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest documentaries in the world. You're a

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Speaker 1: big part of it. Drive to Survive about F one?

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Speaker 1: Is that a pain in the backside camera cruise following

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Speaker 1: you and Jerry Halliwell everywhere?

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Speaker 3: To be honest, you sort of there's so many cameras

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Speaker 3: around it for more and you forget who which one

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Speaker 3: or for a weekend and they just record hours and

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Speaker 3: hours and hours of content and they're looking for all

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Speaker 3: the juicy bits and the dramatic bits.

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Speaker 1: And do you ever watch it back with Jerry when

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Speaker 1: you're like, my god, they've already cast you. Because sometimes

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Speaker 1: your cast is this kind of British kind of almost

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Speaker 1: like a James Bond baddie in it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that sometimes you're the hero, sometimes you're

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Speaker 3: the villain. You know. Jerry often tells me, well, look,

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Speaker 3: it's like the Kardashians on wheels, so you know, they're

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Speaker 3: making a TV show and as I say, they love

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Speaker 3: any drama they can capture.

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Speaker 1: And what do you like on race day? Because having

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Speaker 1: interviewed lots of athletes over the years, a lot of

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Speaker 1: them are very very superstitious. You have certain things, you

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Speaker 1: always eat, the same thing, where the same thing. What

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Speaker 1: is it for you?

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Speaker 2: I suppose there weren't as much rituals as they were

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Speaker 2: superstitions that you know, I'd always you know, shake the

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Speaker 3: Of the car. You know, I had, you know, lucky clothing,

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Speaker 3: I had you know, lucky socks. I had, you know,

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Speaker 3: a lucky toilet at each Gorn Prix. I'd nominate one

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Speaker 3: loop that would be the loo for the weekend, you know,

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Speaker 3: particular toilet. So, yeah, you get these I think rituals

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. I'm now worried about you know what happened

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Speaker 1: if suddenly the lucky socks had been washed, you know

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Speaker 1: they weren't there. That's the stuff that can ruin your

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Speaker 3: That was absolutely a no go. So, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you can't buy just brand new ones, they

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Speaker 1: won't have the same power. Absolutely with all the f

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Speaker 1: one merchandise. You should bring out your own range of underwear.

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Speaker 1: You know, qualifiers race day, you could make even more

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Speaker 3: There you go, you're giving me ideas.

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Speaker 1: Hey, when you come back to the sport, have you

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Speaker 1: I know you've obviously been a keynote speaking before, but

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Speaker 3: I could have everything. To be honest with you, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I think it's a great moment for me to reflect on,

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Speaker 1: And then tell us about in this country. Obviously there's

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Speaker 3: Daniel's just a great guy. He you know, he lights

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Speaker 3: I just clicked with him, and you know, he was

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Speaker 3: You know, he was such a you know that smile.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's a great singer as well. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'd always have a party after the Silverstone Race and

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Speaker 3: fact I made him sing it that a Christmas party wants,

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Speaker 1: Now tell me this. Watching the Netflix documentary, I said

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Speaker 1: in wifeh my god, what a job Christian's got. You know,

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Speaker 1: You've got all that power, all that control, all those decisions.

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Speaker 1: And then Jerry comes on screen and my wife goes yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then when he gets home, she's the boss. And

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Speaker 1: Is it at home? Everything that you have, all that

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Speaker 1: you're you're just Christian.

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Speaker 3: No, that's exactly it.

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Speaker 2: You know, at home, I'm just Christian.

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Speaker 3: She's just Jerry, and you know her husband and wife

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Speaker 3: and of course you know she's always right. We have

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Speaker 3: a great relationship. She's been my biggest supporter. But she'll

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Speaker 3: phenomenal and at home, yeah, you know, she's definitely the boss.

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Speaker 1: And tell me that she must talk about work at home.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, she must be that's no, no, you

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Speaker 3: Look, she's fantastic in respect because the person that you

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Speaker 3: share the most with is your partner. What you take home,

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Speaker 3: you know, you share. And I remember during some of

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Speaker 3: the COVID period, I was interviewing people for the new

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Speaker 3: see that he was kind of, you know, surprised that

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Speaker 3: he said, oh, I'm a musician. She said, oh, what

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Speaker 3: are you doing? He said, I play the guitar. So

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Speaker 3: she turned up five minutes later with a guitar and said,

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Speaker 3: play to me. So this guy has come for a

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Speaker 3: job interview ended up singing Iranian love songs. You know,

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Speaker 3: Jerry is listening to him sing, and sure enough, he

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Speaker 1: Now, obviously you're going to come back someone like you.

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Speaker 1: There's no way you just walk away from the sport.

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Speaker 1: I get the fin in this unfinished business. And when

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Speaker 1: you come on you're speaking tour, I think the biggest

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Speaker 1: question you're going to get asked everywhere is that are

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Speaker 1: you coming back? What can you say at the moment, Christian, Well, look,

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Speaker 1: I can't.

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Speaker 3: Do anything before you know later in the spring. If

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Speaker 3: I were to comeback, it would have to be for

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Speaker 3: something that was with a like minded group of people.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't come back just to take part. I'd want

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Speaker 3: to win. I wouldn't want to do it just as

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Speaker 3: an employee anymore. So I'm not in any rush. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to take this time to reflect on my career

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Speaker 3: and spend time with my family and think about what

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Speaker 1: Brilliant, Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you when you

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Speaker 1: come to Melbourne on the speaking tour. I think you'll

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Speaker 1: enjoy it a lot. I think you're a fantastic time

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Speaker 1: in the country as well, and Christian, well done and

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Speaker 1: all your very well deserved success as well. I think

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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't get quite the credit you deserve, but

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Speaker 1: it's an extraordinary achievement that will be around for a

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Speaker 3: Well done, that's very kind and yeah, I'm looking forward

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Speaker 3: to coming down to Melbourne. Sydney in Perth. It's a

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Speaker 1: Forward to it all right, thanks for talking to us, Christian.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you soon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you very much. Indeed, The Christian O'Connell

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