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Speaker 1: Well and Woody podcast Mini hanging up said everybody, it's

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Speaker 1: Will and what have you?

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Speaker 2: Having a wonderful drive home.

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Speaker 1: Ability Fest is Saturday March twenty five in Melbourne. It

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Speaker 1: is the festival, funded, organized realized through the one and only.

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Speaker 2: Dylan Orcott, who joins us right now.

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Speaker 3: Welcome deal, get a gentlemen, happy new year. Thanks to

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Speaker 3: having me on in your first week back. Baby.

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Speaker 4: Of course you are welcome anytime. Australian of the Year

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Speaker 4: is welcome any time. How is Australian of the Year going,

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Speaker 4: my friend, No, it's been awesome.

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Speaker 3: Just this year, amount of people that want to talk

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Speaker 3: about disability has been absolutely incredible. But I'm currently at

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Speaker 3: this shut open and I'm a washed up to dis

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Speaker 3: player these days, and I'm about to be about to

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Speaker 3: be a washed up Australia of the Year and I've

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Speaker 3: got about six more days ago. But mad, I'm really

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Speaker 3: grateful for a lot of people that have come up

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Speaker 3: and say, good a stuff. It's been incredible.

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Speaker 1: You're obviously grateful, mate, but it's I mean, like we've

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Speaker 1: seen various times throughout the year, it's been a big.

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Speaker 2: Year for you.

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Speaker 1: Are you looking forward to passing on the baton to

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Speaker 1: whoever else it is so that you can get off

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Speaker 1: the circuit.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe a little bit.

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Speaker 2: How many talks he reckon you've done?

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Speaker 3: Deal man, I've had about seven nights in my own

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Speaker 3: bed since August. Wow, which has been which has been incredible,

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Speaker 3: and like hundreds of request today and like it's so

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Speaker 3: awesome that I do want to talk about ability, but

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Speaker 3: also looking forward to reconnecting, you know, with my want

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Speaker 3: to hear my friends and family and and all that

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Speaker 3: kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Now, have you got a have you got a hot

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Speaker 1: fave for the next Ozzie of the Year? And what's

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Speaker 1: the Is there actually like a physical passing.

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Speaker 2: Of a baton?

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Speaker 1: Do you like give them a koala or something?

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Speaker 2: What's the shame?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I reckon it might be it took. I

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Speaker 3: reckon it might be split this year, is what I'm hearing.

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Speaker 3: One called real.

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Speaker 1: Obviously your vote means a lot in this Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: still time, there's.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's talk about why.

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Speaker 1: Well, one of the reasons that you were Australian of

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Speaker 1: the Year is obviously your wonderful work with people with

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Speaker 1: disabilities and that sort of culminated in really the something

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll be remembered for for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: Mate Ability Fest is back again at two stage festival.

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Speaker 1: Guests and artists all welcome, regardless of their abilities to

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Speaker 1: join in. This be wrong mar which is if you

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Speaker 1: haven't been to Melbourne at this time of year, is wonderful.

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Speaker 2: It's the best place in the city.

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Speaker 1: It's right on the river there and got some huge

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Speaker 1: acts DZ death Rays, Hilltop Hoods, Courtney Barnett playing after

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Speaker 1: a big year last year, Mate and obviously one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent of the prote proceeds going to people who are

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Speaker 1: currently living in the physical and non physical disability the

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Speaker 1: delan or Cot Foundation Make congratulations another year of this.

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Speaker 1: Are you as pumped this year as you were for

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Speaker 1: last year's Mate?

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Speaker 3: I think it's probably still on. I think I'm most

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Speaker 3: proud of It's just like a normal fessional Light Beyond

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Speaker 3: the Valley likes done that. We just have anamaccessibility features

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Speaker 3: people with disability to come party with everybody mates and

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Speaker 3: have a good time. You know. We have platforms, pathways,

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Speaker 3: or relief areas. We're just trying to think of everything

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Speaker 3: because you know a lot of everybody people might take

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Speaker 3: for granted being able to go to a festival, or

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Speaker 3: getting to choose what pub we go to, or getting

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Speaker 3: to go to a major event, or getting to go

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Speaker 3: on an airplane or whatever it is, and sometimes we

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Speaker 3: and you know, the support that we've had some in

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Speaker 3: the community has been incredible. We've raised over a million

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Speaker 3: bucks and the first few and you know, we're just

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Speaker 3: so grateful for the not in to support of all

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Speaker 3: yours and anybody that players, but all our partners, and

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Speaker 3: you know, I really encourage anybody in Melbourne to buy

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Speaker 3: a ticket to come. If you're interstate, please come. We'd

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Speaker 3: love you to check it out. But if you can't

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Speaker 3: make it, buy a ticket anyway, because obviously all the

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Speaker 3: proceeds are going to be very ordinary names doing Acts

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Speaker 3: Foundation Original where we help where we help the youngestranery

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Speaker 3: disability to achieve their dreams through education, through employment and

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Speaker 3: through sport and things like that as well made. And

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Speaker 3: it can't be possibly without the support of everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Good mate.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get a ticket, Ability Fest dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au twenty fifth to March in Melbourne. Dylan,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. Before you go, mate,

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Speaker 1: tip Ozzie and Women's Ossie Open.

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Speaker 3: Yep, Novak in Men's and I Reckon, just Pago in

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Speaker 3: the women whose an American is doing pretty well, but

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Speaker 3: also some good Eddiemurray last night.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, did you have an issue deal with the schedule?

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Speaker 4: I know that's a bit of drama and controversy today.

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Speaker 4: They shouldn't have been playing till four am this morning.

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?

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Speaker 3: Look? To finish at four or five is very very tough.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're doing most. You're doing most Friday nights.

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Speaker 3: Because you boys are dragging me out. Hear more of

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Speaker 3: the boys on the Full Show podcast, all on the

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