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Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Howdy. My name's Georgie Tunney and welcome.
Speaker 3: To do this, Spots Shelby. I'm back. Oh my god, listeners,
Speaker 3: I may have shed a tear when Georgie came out
Speaker 3: of the lift this morning.
Speaker 1: You're back. I'm back.
Speaker 3: I'm back in one piece.
Speaker 1: That's hello.
Speaker 2: I'm not a mirage, I'm not arimage.
Speaker 1: Her brain's not here, but she's back. I'm back. I
Speaker 1: am here in your ear drums.
Speaker 2: Hello, dear listeners, I'm so happy to be back. I've
Speaker 2: missed you and I've missed you Abby Gelby so much.
Speaker 1: What an adventure.
Speaker 3: We were just reflecting on exactly how long you've been away.
Speaker 3: You have not been in the state of your home
Speaker 3: since round one of the AFL season.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, yeahye yah yah.
Speaker 3: That's obviously how normal people measure time.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, of course I can't say too
Speaker 2: much about where I've been, what I've been doing, how
Speaker 2: long I've been doing it.
Speaker 1: But it's been years It's been.
Speaker 2: Four years to be exacted, since I have been here
Speaker 2: in Australia, in Victoria, across from you, Jelmy, sitting at
Speaker 2: this desk. I am a bit confused and just a
Speaker 2: bit overwhelmed by everything that I've missed. Because when you
Speaker 2: do something like the amazing project that I just got
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: You get to say the amazing race. Where do you
Speaker 3: get to do the amazing tim Did God tell me
Speaker 3: that we are allowed to say it? Because I've been
Speaker 3: saying it every week, So please tell me that you're
Speaker 3: allowed to declare that you're on the amazing Yes.
Speaker 1: No, there was only a moment where I was and
Speaker 1: then it came out and I'm for.
Speaker 3: A legal battle.
Speaker 2: So thank God, Yes, did the amazing race, which essentially
Speaker 2: means that you're plucked from your life and just taken
Speaker 2: away for a you know, unknown amount of time, visit
Speaker 2: numerous countries, don't know exactly what you're doing. But because
Speaker 2: of that, you don't have access to your phone a
Speaker 2: whole lot of the time. So I have missed so much,
Speaker 2: not only in my personal life but the sporting world.
Speaker 1: The list is long. The list is long.
Speaker 3: I know, you know, like talk about it. All, but
Speaker 3: I'm not letting you get away with that being just
Speaker 3: the skim over the top of what you givers. Listeners
Speaker 3: of shows that I would back Georgie into absolutely dominate
Speaker 3: spelling Bee obviously one of them. A genior champion the chase,
Speaker 3: you would be elite. I feel like with any multiple
Speaker 3: choice sort of knowledge answers, you would kill it. Amazing
Speaker 3: Race for me, presented some problems to you, mostly because
Speaker 3: of our cycling skills are not up to par with
Speaker 3: what your swimming skills are. That's right, And I just
Speaker 3: feel like in a lot of countries that is a
Speaker 3: primary mode of transport and for this to be a
Speaker 3: race type scenario, I was concerned for you, I was
Speaker 3: concerned for Robert. There were many layers.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, how did you go? Well, it's so right, jellmy.
Speaker 2: And for those who don't know, dear listeners, I'm sure
Speaker 2: you are aware, but like I can't ride a bike,
Speaker 2: so in a situation like the Amazing Race, you know
Speaker 2: you're right, Jermy, popular mode of transportation, I hear, I hear,
Speaker 2: So does that come up this series?
Speaker 1: Potentially? Potentially it does.
Speaker 2: All I can reflect upon is that going into it,
Speaker 2: I described my strengths and weaknesses.
Speaker 1: As going in, I had a kind of a liability.
Speaker 2: List where I can't ride a bike, not super fit,
Speaker 2: not great with heights, overheat, overheat, definitely not great with heights.
Speaker 2: I'm sure about physical capabilities, so and wasn't sure how
Speaker 2: i'd go under extreme pressure, whereas Robert I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're hell for this shit. He'll be fine, Yeah, he'll
Speaker 2: be fine, He'll be fine. And look, it's a bit
Speaker 2: of a spoiler. But I think now what I've actually
Speaker 2: learned from my x amount of time away is that
Speaker 2: I think Robert is a spy and in his spare
Speaker 2: time he's pulling off all of these things, and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Sorry, how did you?
Speaker 2: Where did you learn how to do that? I've missed
Speaker 2: that book Where is the Dummy? Like Spy for Dummies.
Speaker 2: He's read it and he's just completed all of these
Speaker 2: things and he's.
Speaker 3: Not actually in musicals. I don't think of spy camp.
Speaker 2: Yes, as far as I know, like you know Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise with the Mission Impossible.
Speaker 3: Masks, you've met him, so sure I know, but I
Speaker 3: think actually behind his face is just rob it it is.
Speaker 1: I I do my own stunts.
Speaker 3: That's exactly how he would unveil himself as well. They're
Speaker 3: be theatrics. I'm sure I cannot wait to fill in
Speaker 3: all the gaps. There will be viewing parties and of
Speaker 3: course as it goes to air, we will have week
Speaker 3: by week little check ins. Okay, so what happened there?
Speaker 3: And LADDI, yeah, but you did mention you missed a
Speaker 3: lot of sport, my friends.
Speaker 2: Oh, I miss so much sport. I missed so much sport.
Speaker 2: I was able to catch up with a couple of
Speaker 2: Broncos games while we were over there, so whenever we
Speaker 2: had access to Wi Fi, who kind of check in
Speaker 2: on the results and look mixed is my review? So
Speaker 2: we need to improve, need to improve, don't worry about
Speaker 2: my own skills.
Speaker 1: The Broncos. What you doing?
Speaker 3: Babes are also in penrith Oh yeah, back to back
Speaker 3: to back to pardon.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just hoping that it's real, do you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Maybe they're the mirage, Maybe their
Speaker 2: poor former is a mirage, and then they'll trick me
Speaker 2: at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: Before we skip into our main chat, which is basically
Speaker 3: going to be Georgie and I are catching up on
Speaker 3: everything that we would have liked to have discussed in
Speaker 3: the past. Give a real headlines of major topics that
Speaker 3: have been discussed and debated in sports and where we
Speaker 3: stand on it, because basically this is our coffee catch
Speaker 3: up after Seriously, this is the first time that we've
Speaker 3: had a problem catch up for back, I've got a
Speaker 3: good sport, yes, and by that, by that I mean
Speaker 3: I'm just scrolling the gram as you do, followed by
Speaker 3: Elbow PM and I've gone.
Speaker 1: Oh, sorry, just to pick up that name.
Speaker 3: No, but all that I've gone, well, that's clearly your
Speaker 3: parody account. I know I work for the ABC, but offside,
Speaker 3: it's not inside This doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: A second, is my name Davidson.
Speaker 3: The Prime Minister of the Country's decided to drop me
Speaker 3: a follow and I just you know what my content's
Speaker 3: like on there as largely children and some sporty shits.
Speaker 3: I have many questions, but I thought Elbow must must
Speaker 3: be angling to come on too. Good sports.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, you know one one equals too and that's.
Speaker 3: Why else he's on the campaign trail. He loves women's sports,
Speaker 3: love supporting sports, in Australia. He never said anything remotely
Speaker 3: political on this podcast. But we could, but we could.
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we?
Speaker 1: We totally could. And Albow just so you know, Rabbit O's.
Speaker 2: Everyone's second favorite team. Come on, we love the rabbit O's.
Speaker 2: Please come on and still we love the rabbit Os.
Speaker 1: We love the Rabbits when they when they moved to
Speaker 1: the Broncos, we love them. We love them.
Speaker 3: So here's the pledge.
Speaker 1: Here's a pledge.
Speaker 3: Good a Elbow. Long time listener, first time DM, would
Speaker 3: you like to come on our podcast? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Have you Georgie, sincerely, warm regards. Cannot wait.
Speaker 1: Let's see it's a seat here, there's a seat here
Speaker 1: for you PM.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: We know that the election is coming up.
Speaker 2: We have we can ask all the questions that you
Speaker 2: want or don't want asked.
Speaker 1: We'll do it. We'll do it. Please.
Speaker 2: The invitation is standing. You are more than welcome at
Speaker 2: any time.
Speaker 1: Let's see how we go.
Speaker 3: Do you want to catch up?
Speaker 1: Yes? But first iight have a bad sport. Oh yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 2: So I've been, you know, back on deck trying to
Speaker 2: get my head around what's going on in sport for
Speaker 2: all of three seconds and what's at the top of
Speaker 2: my feet Mary Fowler?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, this was part of the catch.
Speaker 1: Up my girl. I know, my girl.
Speaker 3: We can't I know, yeah, my.
Speaker 1: Girl out with an ACL. Of all the injuries, cruel
Speaker 1: world and.
Speaker 3: The eld Evans, we can't come an a cl for
Speaker 3: whatever reason. Mathilda's acls seem to go for four and
Speaker 3: a half years.
Speaker 2: We haven't even recovered from samkerz ACL.
Speaker 3: From the World Cup. Well we haven't seen her in action.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you know what letters we never want
Speaker 2: to see anywhere near the Matilda's and A and an L.
Speaker 1: What the hell? So Mary Fowler has done her ACL.
Speaker 2: It's confirmed in a clash over the weekend playing for
Speaker 2: Manchester City against Manchester United, and I just what on
Speaker 2: earth what have we done as a sports loving nation
Speaker 2: in a past life.
Speaker 3: We need to put out the ethos that this is
Speaker 3: going to be an AFL a cl yes where for
Speaker 3: some reason some players seem to be able to come
Speaker 3: back within a season. Yes, I think Tom gold Scene
Speaker 3: did once. Sam Dockerty also has Yes, so there can
Speaker 3: be there can be like us els instead of as
Speaker 3: it's like a lower case yes us all. So Let's
Speaker 3: hope this isn't us all.
Speaker 2: Let's hope it's in a saul and on assault on
Speaker 2: our very soul, because I'm over it.
Speaker 3: Well. Also, we've got the Asian Cup coming up which
Speaker 3: we keep previewing as well, and we also have we
Speaker 3: know that Sam Kerr is hoping to be back, hoping
Speaker 3: and that she made a statement as well as Football
Speaker 3: Australia saying look, I'm going to maintain the captaincy. I
Speaker 3: did the wrong thing, YadA YadA, yadda.
Speaker 1: We need stability, we needs to build.
Speaker 3: We also would like a coach and we with like
Speaker 3: one of our two major stars at the very least
Speaker 3: world But it's sad, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's so unfortunate, And because the Asian Cup we are
Speaker 2: so looking forward to it. We're hosting it like this
Speaker 2: is the first time we're going to have a women's
Speaker 2: football event on a scale of the World Cup since
Speaker 2: the World Cup, and it's going to be sold out
Speaker 2: stadiums back to back to back, like the Matildas are
Speaker 2: going to be back on their pedestal. And just to
Speaker 2: think that you're not going to see those gorgeous little
Speaker 2: gloves at all, or that fantastic hair and the eyebrows,
Speaker 2: Mary Fowler and the skill of course, but as an
Speaker 2: aside aside, it's just is really heartbreaking, and so we
Speaker 2: wish her well. We wish Mary well again. Here's another
Speaker 2: pledge on the pod. Come on the pod, Mary, let's
Speaker 2: talk about it.
Speaker 1: Yep. We'll try and get Mary on the pod so
Speaker 1: we can see exactly what's going on.
Speaker 3: Maybe she can explain if you choose between Mary and Albow. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's not even a question. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, call us Mary, call us Mary, call us Mary. Okay,
Speaker 2: good sport, bassport done, let's catch up.
Speaker 1: Yes, so Joe, we'll probably not miss much. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't.
Speaker 3: Missed her, you haven't. Uh. Okay, So what was the
Speaker 3: date that you left just for listeners for context.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was around early March ish pre pre round one,
Speaker 2: pre round one.
Speaker 3: I was off strap yourselves in Hi. So you know
Speaker 3: how we did our ins and outslist. Yes, and one
Speaker 3: of my fantastic episode, one of my inns that I
Speaker 3: saved for a fun fact that turned out to be
Speaker 3: false was gout Gout. I said it was Gladquat. Yes,
Speaker 3: I was wrong. Don't listen to his dad Goutcout gaus Scout.
Speaker 3: Now we had a meet called the Murray Plant Meat
Speaker 3: Ever heard of it? No, it stopped the nation Georgie
Speaker 3: as in everyone was so excited to see this seventeen
Speaker 3: year old kid have a crack at what he was
Speaker 3: going to do over the two hundred meters. We know
Speaker 3: that he's broken Peter Norman's record, which stood for fifty
Speaker 3: six years, and he was up against this guy that
Speaker 3: no one and I repeat no one had ever heard about,
Speaker 3: in Lachlan Kennedy, who'd won a silver at the World
Speaker 3: Indoors over sixty meters. Yes, so did we watch Bambi
Speaker 3: get shot a little bit in the fact that he
Speaker 3: didn't win win, No, he didn't win. But what it
Speaker 3: has meant is a golden era of Australian athletics is
Speaker 3: upon us because Lockie Kennedy's only in his early twenties
Speaker 3: and managed.
Speaker 1: To kip him.
Speaker 3: So it's just this amazing, amazing time in Australian sprinting.
Speaker 3: Goutcout has run a wind assisted sub twenty yes for
Speaker 3: the two hundred for the two hundred, and also a
Speaker 3: sub ten window sister. So let's say they both don't count,
Speaker 3: but I'm telling you there's a chance. And Lucky Kennedy
Speaker 3: also ran a flat ten. So like, here's the.
Speaker 2: Thing in my mind right because you see gout Gout
Speaker 2: run and it is something to behold. Like it's like
Speaker 2: you're watching Usain Bowl. It's a watching magic. You're watching
Speaker 2: just someone glide and you think, how on earth can
Speaker 2: anyone move that quickly?
Speaker 3: You're telling me we've got two of them, got to
Speaker 3: sock styles, very different styles. And to be fair, Lockie
Speaker 3: Kennedy's probably like cheers gout because otherwise he's running this
Speaker 3: and still no one would know. Yes, And bizarrely he
Speaker 3: was also beaten by Rowan Browning the national champ. So
Speaker 3: there is this again golden era of sprinting that dare
Speaker 3: I say it glistening on the horizon his Brisbane who
Speaker 3: By the way, they are going to build a stadium.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you miss Oh.
Speaker 1: I did miss that as well. So the gun's happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, the Brisbane government they were like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: we're not spending money on a stadium. Get elected. Oh
Speaker 3: yeah no, we definitely need a stadium. That's what you missed. Okay, essentially, okay,
Speaker 3: billion's going to be poured into that. Whatever they've said
Speaker 3: it is adab.
Speaker 2: What about the gabba no gabba?
Speaker 3: But there is a bit of conflict around the fact
Speaker 3: that there isn't going to be a legacy piece for
Speaker 3: athletics in Brisbane. Okay, so both Lockie Kennedy and Gout
Speaker 3: Gout are Brisbane based, as is Matthew Denny. Denny of
Speaker 3: course everyone's favorite discus thrower, the lovable lark, and well
Speaker 3: we love him. He is eleven centimeters off the world record,
Speaker 3: so he has thrown the second furthest discus in history.
Speaker 1: My god, so he's got the Australian record.
Speaker 3: He's flying so Brisbane. That's my athletics, catch up, We're
Speaker 3: killing it. Tory Lewis also won the one hundred in Perths,
Speaker 3: so she's back.
Speaker 2: Can I have a little interjection here, just to gauge,
Speaker 2: just e gauge, just to gauge your excitement level as
Speaker 2: our athletics goal athletics goowl on the pod from one
Speaker 2: to fifteen?
Speaker 1: Where are we at?
Speaker 3: It sounds like I just killed the small animal in studio.
Speaker 3: That's that's how I pitched that is I'm incapable of
Speaker 3: getting that high pitch. I am beyond excited. We have
Speaker 3: glass go to look forward to as well. You know
Speaker 3: the COMM games that aren't the COMM Games. We don't
Speaker 3: agree with the commwealth, but we do love winning gold,
Speaker 3: so we'll take that.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: I am beyond excited. I'm beyond excited. And you know
Speaker 3: how I feel about track and fields. This is what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, wonderful, wonderful time.
Speaker 1: And I think for the first time in.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say, you know, literally probably decades, probably decades,
Speaker 2: this is the most that we've ever talked about track
Speaker 2: and field. I know that the swimmers aren't really in
Speaker 2: competition right now or anything, but right now it's track
Speaker 2: and field that's leading the way, which is really exciting.
Speaker 3: It just doesn't happen. It doesn't does it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: It doesn't, don't don't make.
Speaker 2: Just okay, okay, okay, So gout gout still doing gug
Speaker 2: out things.
Speaker 3: You and I debate about the credentials of AFL and
Speaker 3: NRL all the time.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: What your code does infinitely better than mine, yes, is drama. Yes,
Speaker 3: because you don't have a train period, so you decide
Speaker 3: to do it all year right, And it's one of
Speaker 3: the more bizarre things when you're not used to NRL
Speaker 3: that like mid year a player can be like, Sup,
Speaker 3: I'm actually leaving. I'm going to play for you all year,
Speaker 3: but I'm actually going yes.
Speaker 1: So yes.
Speaker 3: For context around this, Oscar Allen, who is the captain
Speaker 3: of West Coast equals yes, had a conversation with Sam Mitchell,
Speaker 3: who flew to Western Australia, the coach of Hawthorne in
Speaker 3: order to have coffee with him.
Speaker 2: He used to coach Western West Coast as well, didn't
Speaker 2: he He was like one of the coaches.
Speaker 3: And he went over there and played there, played there
Speaker 3: in like a coach a player round towards the end
Speaker 3: of his career. So when over they had a coffee
Speaker 3: outreach because captains of football teams aren't allowed to be
Speaker 3: thinking about going elsewhere. Absolutely, and he had the most
Speaker 3: contrite press conference. Been like had a press conference. I
Speaker 3: had to have a press conference. I had to face
Speaker 3: my teammates. I'm so sorry. This is someone who's coming
Speaker 3: out of contract at the end of the year. West
Speaker 3: Coast in a rebuild phase. So he basically just said, look,
Speaker 3: I'm this is humiliating. I'm so embarrassed. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 3: shouldn't be doing it.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you know what I'm embarrassed about that he had
Speaker 1: to do that?
Speaker 3: What do you mean that's normal? And also you've got
Speaker 3: such a short period of time to earn what you
Speaker 3: can earn as a professional athlete. Yeah, shop your options exactly?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I'm so embarrassed with my teammates or this dada da
Speaker 1: get a grit.
Speaker 3: Well. I also get why he would have done it
Speaker 3: because in Perth he would have been wanted number one.
Speaker 3: Like it's a different bubble over there. But that's how
Speaker 3: the AFL reacts to captains potentially shopping around the skill
Speaker 3: set the NRL and to your mate daily Cherry Evans
Speaker 3: the captain of the Manly Seagulls, but also like an
Speaker 3: absolute star. He's a morone star. He's one of the
Speaker 3: icons of the game.
Speaker 2: He really is, and he's someone who has been in
Speaker 2: this game for years, so more than a decade. He
Speaker 2: has led the Sea Eagles to any kind of success
Speaker 2: that they have had in most recent history. He has
Speaker 2: been front and center of that, and the same with
Speaker 2: the Queensland Maroons. He's the captain at the.
Speaker 3: Did you see what happened?
Speaker 1: No, I've missed it all. I've been in a bubble.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is like the Big Brother House. They come out
Speaker 2: and it's like, what's been going on? And they're like,
Speaker 2: all the world's ended.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, the world ended for Manly fans like I
Speaker 3: cannot stress you. So Channel nine in their news have
Speaker 3: a preview of their show that's later in the evening
Speaker 3: where they say, daily Cherry Evans is going to announce
Speaker 3: that he's leaving the Sea Eagles at the end of
Speaker 3: the year. Oh, shock, horror. Yeah. Then it goes to
Speaker 3: NRL three CC where apparently Braith and Asta literally mid
Speaker 3: broadcast goes, oh, we've got a call coming in.
Speaker 1: Who is this?
Speaker 3: Hello? Call it Manly have offered DC two more years.
Speaker 3: And then you cut back to Channel nine like an
Speaker 3: hour later, where DCE is essentially going, well, that's news
Speaker 3: to me. I'm leaving. So it was like a reality
Speaker 3: TV program happening across two channels where how deep can
Speaker 3: the disconnect be between a captain and a club that
Speaker 3: this all happens in a non press conference scenario, that's right,
Speaker 3: but on national television.
Speaker 2: Oh is this and here we just write Jomy, you
Speaker 2: called it from the start. The NRL does drama and
Speaker 2: chaos better than any code on Earth, so this to
Speaker 2: be I'm like, oh, what a welcome home present.
Speaker 1: Let's just sort through all this. Let's sort through all this.
Speaker 1: What happened there? Craziness? Drop the ball over there?
Speaker 2: Fantastic, anyone pick it up now they've kicked it over there, beautiful.
Speaker 1: Like it's a wonderful, wonderful world.
Speaker 3: Everyone so West Coast are in disarrayed because their captain
Speaker 3: might potentially be considering going somewhere else, while Manly's captains like,
Speaker 3: at the end of the year, I'm out. I'm out,
Speaker 3: but you have to believe that I'm just going to
Speaker 3: give it my best for the rest of the year. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, this is like when players always ask you know,
Speaker 2: I mean it happens in AFL as well, right, Like
Speaker 2: they say that they ask trade, but they ask for trades,
Speaker 2: but that's all in the trade period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, where is the NRL.
Speaker 3: That's my free boundary.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, no, I'm looking to go and they
Speaker 2: could literally there's been situations where in the NRAL you're
Speaker 2: playing for one club one week and if everything goes
Speaker 2: roun your release and everything. You're playing for a completely
Speaker 2: different club the next weekend, you cowboys. You literally literally
Speaker 2: I have been able to catch up on some NRL
Speaker 2: goss and I don't know while I've been away, and
Speaker 2: this is the one story that really stuck out to me.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it's been resolved yet. I actually
Speaker 2: think it's still in the process of being worked out.
Speaker 2: But there was a Broncos clash with the Roosters. The
Speaker 2: Rooster's defeated the Broncos. They played very well. One of
Speaker 2: their firebrand forward, Spencer Lenu, is now in this very public,
Speaker 2: very nasty spat with incredibly respected future remortal of the
Speaker 2: game Jonathan Thurston, who also happens to be a commentator
Speaker 2: for Channel nine, And it all stems back to con.
Speaker 3: Search his laugh here here and if you don't know
Speaker 3: who that is, we can't do anything else to help you,
Speaker 3: but iconic, iconic.
Speaker 1: Iconic, iconic.
Speaker 2: If you cannot laugh at Jonathan Thurston's laugh and join in,
Speaker 2: you're actually not human, Like, get yourself checked.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's very very likable.
Speaker 1: Very likable, incredibly likable.
Speaker 2: One of like the Spearhead figures, of the game, and
Speaker 2: part of JT's role as a sideline commentator is it
Speaker 2: does all the postmatch interviews with the players. So there
Speaker 2: was a moment in this game where Spencer Lenu is
Speaker 2: coming from the bench. It's alleged that he called JT
Speaker 2: an offensive name, and then JT has been like, what's
Speaker 2: going on, Spencer? We are good, we are good, and
Speaker 2: then Spencer Lenu has essentially just not bother to talk
Speaker 2: to him and is like, like, we're not all good.
Speaker 2: Goes on social media calls JT ladd, which I don't
Speaker 2: really like.
Speaker 3: In a comment elite at stores. Is that the equivalent
Speaker 3: of champ?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so it's like, lad, don't be two faced,
Speaker 2: calls JT two face fake.
Speaker 1: No, all of drama, rama, drama.
Speaker 2: Because Spencer is unhappy about the treatment that JT gave
Speaker 2: him way back at the start of last year, when
Speaker 2: you remember that Spencer Lenu was suspended for a racial
Speaker 2: slur that he made against Zramam, a Brisbane Broncos player.
Speaker 3: Gets around Ezra that you wanted me to name my child.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2: So he was unhappy that JT had gone so hard
Speaker 2: at him because JT came out at the time and
Speaker 2: said that's not He was suspended I think for eight
Speaker 2: six or eight weeks, and JT was like, that's not
Speaker 2: long enough. Maybe it could be a twelve month ban
Speaker 2: if you're found guilty. No, no, if you're found guilty
Speaker 2: of racial slurs, oh, racial, If you're found guilty of
Speaker 2: racial slurs, then it needs to be a longer penalty.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's all that he had said at that time.
Speaker 2: Spencer has held on to that and has essentially taken
Speaker 2: an issue with JT in his own words, calling him
Speaker 2: like a racist, and JT's like, I never said that.
Speaker 2: I just said the penalty wasn't the fitting of the crime.
Speaker 2: It wasn't enough. And Spencer's upset because Ezra Mam has
Speaker 2: had his own offield issues at this season drink driving incident,
Speaker 2: and Spencer was like, well, you've been really quiet about that.
Speaker 2: JT and has somehow missed the nuance of there being
Speaker 2: completely different issues.
Speaker 1: Neither of them are good, but.
Speaker 2: All that has this is all culminated in a very
Speaker 2: public spat on the field and then going into the tunnels.
Speaker 1: Then it becomes a thing with the coach. It's nasty.
Speaker 2: We'll see if there's any more potential fallout from it.
Speaker 2: But Jonathan Thurston really shaken and he's going to take
Speaker 2: to the field this weekend in his role again, and
Speaker 2: it's just got to stick with you, right Like you
Speaker 2: and I've both been in those moments as a commentator,
Speaker 2: and your job is to talk to the players, and
Speaker 2: if you've got those players coming at you and being like,
Speaker 2: now I'm not going to talk to you, then that
Speaker 2: significantly affects your role.
Speaker 3: There are some media personalities that like being the agitated George.
Speaker 3: So you've got Steven A. Smith who's at war with
Speaker 3: Lebron James, and again you pick Lebron James to be
Speaker 3: going out. And you've got someone like Cane Corn, who
Speaker 3: they always joke on their breakfast show like King he says,
Speaker 3: we can't get anyone on because they won't want to
Speaker 3: talk to you. There's some people that lean into that character.
Speaker 3: JT isn't one of them.
Speaker 1: No nice like.
Speaker 3: So that's the bit for me that is so sticking
Speaker 3: about this, because there's some characters that are like, I
Speaker 3: don't care if you don't like me. I'm just going
Speaker 3: to be who I am, whereas jo T is like, wait, what. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of those ones that I found completely perplexing,
Speaker 2: which is probably why it had the cut through that
Speaker 2: it did, even in the bubble that I have been in.
Speaker 1: So that's me bringing you some catch up on me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because let's be honest, I need it. I'm on
Speaker 3: the Magic Round. I've got to lean on you to
Speaker 3: be my crutch for these things. Can you tell me more?
Speaker 2: Can I just say once again, magic Round versus gather Round?
Speaker 1: Okay, you've got work to do. Gather around, mic drop.
Speaker 3: So for those that don't know, gather Around is the
Speaker 3: AFL's copycat of Magic Rounds, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it is. It is.
Speaker 2: Magic Round is essentially an NRL round where every single
Speaker 2: game takes place in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: It has been.
Speaker 2: A massive success ever since its inception. The AFL saw
Speaker 2: it and what wow, that's a genius idea.
Speaker 1: Let's do that.
Speaker 2: But basically in adelaide I think, great idea. It's a
Speaker 2: wonderful weekend if you can be a part of it
Speaker 2: and be there. I have questions around the fixtures of
Speaker 2: what happened last week?
Speaker 3: What was your problem with that? I was there. It
Speaker 3: was great.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of the games were that strong.
Speaker 3: Oh George, come on now, now, now, okay, You're Lions
Speaker 3: may have forgotten how to play for half a game
Speaker 3: of football for the entire year, and yet they're actually unbeaten,
Speaker 3: which when they decide to play the first half of football,
Speaker 3: everyone's stuff. But that game was amazing and that was
Speaker 3: in Norwood, in the inner suburban town. They were down
Speaker 3: by thirty nine thirty nine points I think in the
Speaker 3: third term to Western Bulldogs and they managed in Melbourne, Melbourne, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know, bus Melbourne Thursday night. The Geelong game sensational.
Speaker 3: There were some good games. No, you can't help, but
Speaker 3: both Carlton and West Coast around Melbourne.
Speaker 1: This is your Pinnacle Round and Hawks and you're delivering.
Speaker 3: The port should have been close.
Speaker 1: I mean it should have been.
Speaker 3: The Hawks just decided not to rock up. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you can't criticize. And Sunday night, they know these pictures
Speaker 3: so far out because fans need to decide whether or
Speaker 3: not they're going to travel and for what days, So
Speaker 3: you don't you would have thought the Blues wouldn't be
Speaker 3: heading into the fifth round like without a win.
Speaker 2: It was I think at the Pinnacle Round it was
Speaker 2: a disappointing spectacle.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you haven't lost your edge, have you?
Speaker 3: She's back? What accent was back? Where did she go?
Speaker 3: Where did she go?
Speaker 1: The international accent?
Speaker 3: There? It is no gatheround. But no for what might
Speaker 3: be an update, is you know how we were like
Speaker 3: in pink guernseys. Yes, not only did the Sons have
Speaker 3: a win in the first time they wore the lovely salmon.
Speaker 3: For a very short period they were top of the
Speaker 3: AFL table. The Suns are undefeated. What yeah, really, Queensland
Speaker 3: h I know?
Speaker 1: Look out.
Speaker 3: So there's some sort of stat that since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 3: any team that's won like their first four matches has
Speaker 3: never missed the top eight.
Speaker 1: So can they call the Queensland NRL teams?
Speaker 3: No seriously, but it looks like the Sons will make
Speaker 3: their first finals.
Speaker 1: Okay, what else have I missed?
Speaker 3: God? What else haven't you missed?
Speaker 1: I know there was a golf tournament.
Speaker 3: I did see some tell me you saw that.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I saw some beautiful vision of Rory McElroy and I
Speaker 2: think that at the Masters, and I do think that
Speaker 2: he's a name that you know, like, even if you
Speaker 2: don't follow golf.
Speaker 1: You're on the peripheral of it. You don't look at anything,
Speaker 1: not particularly interested.
Speaker 3: You know. Rory mackalroy, he's been a champion for a
Speaker 3: very long time, but most notably recently was the one
Speaker 3: that was like, live golf, Yeah, that seems tumultuous, let's
Speaker 3: not do that. He was the most outspoken of the
Speaker 3: PJA two are basically going this sucks, yes, And now
Speaker 3: he's softened to like, let's all get along because he's
Speaker 3: realized that live golf isn't going anywhere. But he did.
Speaker 3: He won the Masters at Augusta, the coveted coveted green
Speaker 3: jacket and the scenes George afterwards, and it was just
Speaker 3: the most tortuous round where he had so many occasions
Speaker 3: where he could have won it, and then it went
Speaker 3: to a shootoff of Justin Rose and he eventually you
Speaker 3: eventually won it. It was just the most incredible scenes.
Speaker 3: There is a cameraman that you could tell was walking
Speaker 3: backwards with a lockdoff shot and you and I work
Speaker 3: in media. I'm like, if someone spotting for him makes
Speaker 3: that he doesn't fall over, because this shot is amazing.
Speaker 3: It is It's like cinema. It's so beautiful. But I
Speaker 3: do have some fun facts about Augusta. One thing I
Speaker 3: will say that isn't a fun fact, but it should
Speaker 3: be ban more phones at sporting events.
Speaker 1: Yes, one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 3: Granted, there are so many boomers at the Masters that
Speaker 3: they probably don't have cameras on their phones anyway.
Speaker 1: No, they've got iPads. I got the iPads out.
Speaker 3: They've got the iPads with the leather cover.
Speaker 1: Yes, with the light on, that's what they've got.
Speaker 3: But it was amazing to see the shots. Oh so
Speaker 3: you're allowed to have cameras on practice days, but not
Speaker 3: camera phones cameras, and if you are seen with your
Speaker 3: camera phone on course, you are like expelled alahamione, like
Speaker 3: you're gone algon. So I just think it's amazing to
Speaker 3: watch people watch sports and be.
Speaker 2: In it, like they're fully in it. All they're doing
Speaker 2: is literally just looking at the bull. And do you
Speaker 2: know what was the most remarkable thing about seeing those
Speaker 2: shots was just how odd it looked now because we've
Speaker 2: become so accustomed to having a phone in the air,
Speaker 2: whether it be at a concert or a sporting event.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm with you, ban more.
Speaker 3: I must admit, though, I tried to find a crowd
Speaker 3: shot where I'm like, this is amazing, I want to
Speaker 3: share that. And I looked and I was like, oh
Speaker 3: so old and so white. Oh yes, it's such. There's
Speaker 3: not a cross. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Before we get into some more fun facts, I have
Speaker 2: one last thing to say, which is the news about
Speaker 2: Noah Boltay in the AFL, the.
Speaker 1: Tigers player who is.
Speaker 2: Pleading guilty to assault in some really awful CCTV footage.
Speaker 2: If you haven't seen it, I don't know quite where
Speaker 2: you've been, because I've managed to see it.
Speaker 1: I've managed to see it.
Speaker 3: It made it to Peru, it made it to undisclosed
Speaker 3: the location.
Speaker 2: But when I saw that, I was horrified, disgusted. It's
Speaker 2: just behavior that you do not has no place in
Speaker 2: any any game, any code, any public life, any person's life.
Speaker 2: That behavior is absolutely unacceptable, and I think the AFL
Speaker 2: really does need to now look at the NRL and
Speaker 2: maybe take on some of their policies, number one being
Speaker 2: the no fault stand down policy that the NRL has
Speaker 2: introduced in response to a lot of their own players
Speaker 2: negative behavior. Yes, so the NRL's no fault standdown policy
Speaker 2: essentially mandates that players charged with serious criminal offenses are
Speaker 2: automatically suspended from playing until their charges.
Speaker 1: Are resolved by a court.
Speaker 2: At the recording of this podcast, the court case with
Speaker 2: Noah bolt is ongoing.
Speaker 1: He's going to be back playing this weekend.
Speaker 3: Also, he's available for this weekend.
Speaker 2: He's available for selection this weekend. Personally, I don't think
Speaker 2: he should be. That shouldn't even be a conversation until
Speaker 2: it is resolved in the court, and or on top
Speaker 2: of all of that, when the NRL has their no
Speaker 2: fault stand doown policy. Eventually, there's been players who've been
Speaker 2: found not guilty and they've been out of the game
Speaker 2: for more than a year. Sometimes Jack de Bellen one
Speaker 2: that springs to Jack DeBell and that springs to mind
Speaker 2: the Dragon's Captain. Now Noah Bolter is pleading guilty to
Speaker 2: these offenses, the AFL has to have a serious look
Speaker 2: at itself and how it has handled this issue. Regardless
Speaker 2: of your take on what team you follow or anything,
Speaker 2: this is a big, big, big fumbling of the ball.
Speaker 1: For me, this is not a good look.
Speaker 3: I think how you described that is exactly how the
Speaker 3: public are feeling about this. Yeah, and that the AFL
Speaker 3: will sit back and go, how have we handled this
Speaker 3: and how can we handle it better?
Speaker 2: Yes, they need to, they need to, and so I
Speaker 2: think that the public needs to hold them to account.
Speaker 2: This is an ultimatum. Now get shit together.
Speaker 1: Fun facts.
Speaker 3: I've missed you. I missed you so much. She went
Speaker 3: bang and now she wants to have a laugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's back with some crazy opinions.
Speaker 3: And readily it's not a crazy opinion, it's it's the
Speaker 3: opinion that I think passes the pub test. Yes, I
Speaker 3: think that if you're still up for jail chargers, chances
Speaker 3: are you shouldn't be paying football.
Speaker 1: Make it make sense to me, AFL, make it make sense.
Speaker 3: The tradition of wearing a green jacket at the Master's
Speaker 3: started in nineteen thirty seven. It was designed for guests
Speaker 3: to be able to identify members so they could find
Speaker 3: out the most accurate information about the course. But you
Speaker 3: weren't allowed to wear the jacket off the course. What
Speaker 3: so if and fun fact, So Rory McElroy finally wins
Speaker 3: the green.
Speaker 1: Jacket, yes, trying for a real long time.
Speaker 3: He's allowed to wear it for one calendar year. But
Speaker 3: when the Masters comes back on again, it needs to
Speaker 3: go into his locker where he is only allowed to
Speaker 3: wear the jacket when at Augusta. No, so you win
Speaker 3: the green jacket allah a year and then when you
Speaker 3: return back it must stay.
Speaker 1: Can you then take it with you if you retire?
Speaker 3: No, it just stays. It lives there, It lives at
Speaker 3: for layers of things. There's I love Augusta so much
Speaker 3: because there are so many nuances to this. And if
Speaker 3: you are the former champion, and this is where I
Speaker 3: have a question for you. If you are the raining champion, sorry,
Speaker 3: you get to decide what the menu is at the
Speaker 3: champion's dinner the year after, but you foot the bill.
Speaker 1: Oh so really?
Speaker 3: Which, let's be honest, if you've won the Masters, I
Speaker 3: don't think you're worried about a dinner.
Speaker 1: You do it, okay?
Speaker 3: What are you serving Masters Champion Georgie as a meal
Speaker 3: that best reflects you and what you would like your
Speaker 3: colleagues to eat.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm getting. It's an original tender's box from.
Speaker 2: Get the popcorn, chicken, get the potato and gravy.
Speaker 1: Come on now, delicious. That's what your Gusta crowd needs.
Speaker 1: That's what they need.
Speaker 3: Your gusta crowd. You are some of the wealthiest people
Speaker 3: in sport.
Speaker 2: Give them, give give him some dirty bird delicious honestly, honestly,
Speaker 2: I do at.
Speaker 3: Least have the kernel himself deliver or are they going
Speaker 3: to be told the eleven secret herbs spice.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing as well, I don't want fancy KFC.
Speaker 2: I want the KFC like I want.
Speaker 3: The You know, this menu goes public, Yeah, that as
Speaker 3: in the PGA actually share what the menu is. And
Speaker 3: you're just going dirty bird. Yeah, I'm just going to georgy,
Speaker 3: dirty bird. Yeah, don't get me dirty birdie.
Speaker 1: There you go. See honestly, see God, get KFC. If
Speaker 1: you don't get you left.
Speaker 3: There's something about this where we really lift.
Speaker 2: And I don't want any deconstructed popcorn chicken, by the way,
Speaker 2: I want the actual.
Speaker 3: Health I'm sorry, deconstructed enough. What do you mean to
Speaker 3: show like the feet that go into what do you
Speaker 3: mean how do you deconstruct prop con chicken?
Speaker 2: We were so close to a KFC sponsorship and we've
Speaker 2: lost it now we've lost it with your feet, with
Speaker 2: your feet commet.
Speaker 1: But that's honestly, that's what that's what.
Speaker 2: I'm having because you know what, also fun all of
Speaker 2: those Oh my god, we.
Speaker 1: Just get some AFC A fun.
Speaker 3: And Georgie and at least like golfers don't necessarily treat
Speaker 3: their bodies like a temple exactly.
Speaker 1: Hello John Daily, Yeah, you know who wants that, John Daily?
Speaker 1: What's on yours?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You can keep your feet.
Speaker 3: Not my feet. Let's just make that really clear. I
Speaker 3: don't think my awhere near your meal your we do.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but now I love posing questions. I
Speaker 3: haven't thought the answer. That's fine, all right. So there's
Speaker 3: been highs, loads and big blows. We've covered the big
Speaker 3: blows that are Mary, We've covered all of the things. Mate,
Speaker 3: welcome back.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Shelby. It's great to be back.
Speaker 2: It's great to be back.
Speaker 3: Mary.
Speaker 1: Call us yep, elbow call us d MS. We're open.
Speaker 3: Until next week.
Speaker 1: Fagus more
Speaker 3: Yeah,