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Speaker 1: This is jem NISI with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: Not only is Dylan Orcott the twenty twenty two Australian

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Speaker 3: of the Year, he is, I think we all agree,

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Speaker 3: a fair dinker Ossie legend, tennis star, a disability advocate

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Speaker 3: and inspiration to all of us, and he's living out

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Speaker 3: my dream. He's partnering with one of Australia's biggest wine companies,

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Speaker 3: but all for a very special campaign to tell us

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Speaker 3: more Dylan Orcott, Hello.

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Speaker 4: Jens, thanks for having me on. It's great to be back.

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Speaker 1: What's great to have you here mate.

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Speaker 3: Now you and wine in the same sentence is quite

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Speaker 3: a dream. What's the connection?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm so pumped to be joining forces with Grant Burge.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're a premium wine brand in this country

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Speaker 2: who's better out as the other one hundreds. And they've

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Speaker 2: got any leave your Mark campaign where they're encouraging all

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Speaker 2: Ossie's to look to the future. Obviously, I'm in a

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Speaker 2: bit of a crossroads in my life, you know, retiring from.

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Speaker 4: Tennis and they want people to leave their market in

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Speaker 4: any way that they can.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously I'm trying to do that through disability

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't have to be as you know, a

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Speaker 2: big and all concrete is that all around the world.

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Speaker 2: And look, I'm really pumped because two reasons. One, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm go on a wheelchair and Grandburg is one of

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Speaker 2: the most premium brands in this country. That just didn't

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Speaker 2: happen when I was growing up, you know what I

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Speaker 2: mean for a big brand on that to partner with

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Speaker 2: someone with a disability. But also later in the two

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Speaker 2: dollars of every bottle bought, which will help both of you,

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Speaker 2: is going to my foundation, the Deal It All Co

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Speaker 2: Foundation to help young Australian to disability achieve their dreams.

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Speaker 2: So when this cred across my desk, I was super palmed.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a great fit. And yeah, I'm really

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Speaker 2: pumped be part of the family.

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Speaker 1: And how are you going in retirement Dylan from the Tennis.

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Speaker 4: Man, I'm loving it.

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Speaker 2: Don't feel bad for me if you if you do,

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Speaker 2: because I was ready to retire, I really was. And

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Speaker 2: I went to wimwledo and I watched some of my

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Speaker 2: friends play and I didn't get that each to play,

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Speaker 2: which is actually pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean. But in saying that, you know,

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Speaker 4: I think you can hear my voice. I'm doing a

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Speaker 4: lot of talk.

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Speaker 2: And especially as a Strain of the Year, just the

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Speaker 2: first to talk about disability.

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Speaker 4: Oh it's It's incredible, it really is.

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Speaker 2: And I know I'm the lucky one. It's the reason

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Speaker 2: I want Astraint of the Year is not because of me,

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Speaker 2: It's because of we. It's anybody that shared my story,

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Speaker 2: the people with disability that came before me, so I

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Speaker 2: could be who I am. I think I'm just here

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Speaker 2: at the right time and the lucky guy that was

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Speaker 2: able to get it. But yeah, the amount of people

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Speaker 2: that come up on the street and saying congrats to

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Speaker 2: me for six I still can't believe it, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: like I get I fumble my words because I can't

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Speaker 2: even believe I'm a Strand of the Year.

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Speaker 4: But I'm definitely very honored.

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Speaker 3: And as you say, it's a way to reframe how

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Speaker 3: we see people with disabilities. For example, like you've been

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Speaker 3: painted for and you're in the running, or the artist

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Speaker 3: is in the running for the Archibald and you requested

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Speaker 3: not to be painted in your wheelchair. It's an extraordinary portrait.

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Speaker 3: But is that just one way where you say can

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Speaker 3: you see me a different way?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm proud of my disability, so I love my wheelchair,

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Speaker 2: my disability getting seen. I think it's reframing it in a

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Speaker 2: way whereby back in the day it used to be like, oh,

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Speaker 2: we don't want to we don't care about you. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 2: I want you to care about my disability like I

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Speaker 2: want you to see it because I'm proud of that,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And look, we need greater

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Speaker 2: representation absolutely everywhere, you know, on our radios, on our screens,

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Speaker 2: in our board rooms, in our workplaces, you know, absolutely

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Speaker 2: in our mainstream schools.

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Speaker 4: Because you cannot be where you cannot see.

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Speaker 2: And that's why I've been really lucky to have some

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Speaker 2: opportunities in the media in the past. And you know,

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Speaker 2: when I was growing up, whenever I saw somebody like me,

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Speaker 2: it was only only time it was was a road

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Speaker 2: safety ad where someone drink drives, has a car accident

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Speaker 2: and the next scene is someone like me in tears

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Speaker 2: because their life's sober. I was like, that's not my life,

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Speaker 2: you know, but people still might believe that is my life,

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Speaker 2: and that's what we want to change. And there were

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Speaker 2: so many incredible you know, people disability that need their

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Speaker 2: voices EMPI fight as well. And I guess that's part

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Speaker 2: of my role to keep talking about that, so, you know,

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Speaker 2: people disability to get the same opportunities I've been lucky

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Speaker 2: enough to get.

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Speaker 5: And that's where tennis took over for you. Wasn't it

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Speaker 5: really that you said that so eloquently about how you

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Speaker 5: didn't see disabled people on TV or anything like that,

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Speaker 5: and then tennis became your savior for sure.

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Speaker 2: I think the best part of tennis was that social aspect,

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Speaker 2: you know, meeting people like me.

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Speaker 4: I went to a tennis tormum and.

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Speaker 2: Outside all we were done going Figuna, you know where

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Speaker 2: that is. That was my first one, and I saw

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Speaker 2: a guy in woolchair driving a car. I was like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know you could do that, you know.

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Speaker 4: I saw he was.

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Speaker 2: Having a beer and he had a wine and he

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Speaker 2: was like happy, And I didn't know he could do that,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: And I wasn't happy when I was growing up.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, the social aspect of parapic sports saved my life.

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Speaker 4: I know that's a big term, but it did. It

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Speaker 4: really did, and it just so happened that I was

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Speaker 4: okay at it and made a career out of it,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: But I still can't believe when I even though I'm

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Speaker 2: retired now, like even just watching the ads on TV,

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Speaker 2: he used to be like Federer, Barty and all cut.

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Speaker 4: Like that's just like it just didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: And I just want to leave the sport in a

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Speaker 2: better spot for the next generation of young athletes to come.

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Speaker 4: And I think we did.

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Speaker 2: That in a very, very whatever small way that we could,

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Speaker 2: and I'll continue to fight across all industry is for

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Speaker 2: for people with disability to get the same opportunities that

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Speaker 2: I've had, because I fully appreciate I'm a lucky one,

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Speaker 2: I really am, and there are four point five million

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Speaker 2: people in this country just like me with disability that

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Speaker 2: you know, deserve the same opportunities to get a job,

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Speaker 2: to go out and have a wine, to choose a restaurant,

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Speaker 2: so like little things that you might take the granted

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Speaker 2: that we often get excluded from. And yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited that I've had so many you know,

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Speaker 2: great people like grand burs and have backed me to

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Speaker 2: be able to get there and talk about things that

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Speaker 2: I'm passionate about well.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, mate. It's always great to catch up.

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Speaker 3: We will be contributing a big way to your.

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Speaker 5: Found can contribute to it.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get some more, leave your Mac.

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Speaker 5: Find out more at grant birds dot com dot au,

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Speaker 5: Dylan orcod thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 4: Can I come around and we can share a grunt

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Speaker 4: burst again? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I love it? Man, will bring the cheese. You're on it.

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Speaker 3: It's talking about my humor.

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Speaker 1: That's dreadful, all right, Thank you, Thanks, thanks stealing