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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the mornings.

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Speaker 2: Safam.

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Speaker 1: You'll probably remember our next guest best as the AFLW

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Speaker 1: player who became the most talked about sportswoman on the

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Speaker 1: planet after a beautiful photo of her kicking a goal

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Speaker 1: on the footy field became a viral sensation. The strength

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Speaker 1: the power in that photo, but what happened next was

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Speaker 1: a turning point in her life, which led to an

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Speaker 1: extraordinary year that followed and a new book called More

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Speaker 1: Than a Kick.

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Speaker 2: Taylor Harris, Hello, Hello, how are you? Thanks to me?

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Speaker 3: It was good to have you on, Taylor. So that

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Speaker 3: picture posting it when you did, was it a good

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Speaker 3: thing or a bad thing?

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Speaker 4: And these days do you think a good thing?

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Speaker 2: It's worked out to be a moment in history that

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Speaker 2: I can say that I was a part of something

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Speaker 2: much much bigger than footy, and much bigger than kicking

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Speaker 2: the kicking the footy, so something I can be really

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Speaker 2: proud of. It was challenging, of course, but I can

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Speaker 2: look back and be proud of it and say that

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Speaker 2: I was part of something bigger.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's reach hap for people who don't remember the

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Speaker 1: details of the story. This photo was taken of you

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Speaker 1: kicking for a goal during a twenty nineteen match. The

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Speaker 1: photo was put up and then some sexual comments were

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Speaker 1: made about the photo, and Channel seven, rather than taking

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Speaker 1: the comments down, took the whole photo down, which kind

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Speaker 1: of changed the conversation a bit, didn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it did.

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Speaker 2: Well. I mean if Channel seven hadn't have done that,

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it was anything malicious or anything

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Speaker 2: like that. I think someone just made a quick decision,

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Speaker 2: and with social media, you can't just bring it right

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Speaker 2: back once you've made a decision like that to delete it.

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Speaker 2: So I think had Channel seven not have done that,

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Speaker 2: the narrative would have been much different and things wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have gone the way they did. So in a way

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Speaker 2: you can kind of thank that for happening, I guess.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, just really it added to the conversation and

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Speaker 2: the perfect storm. Really.

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Speaker 3: Wow, when did you realize that it was becoming a thing,

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Speaker 3: because you know, you love the picture of the picture

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Speaker 3: was a great picture. When did you realize that it

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Speaker 3: was like it's become a thing. Now it's become you know,

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Speaker 3: these people are saying these terrible things.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the morning after, because it was I

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Speaker 2: remember late into the night before that this was all

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Speaker 2: going on, and then it get the leader, and then

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Speaker 2: I was tired, so I pretty much just put my

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Speaker 2: phone down didn't think anything of it. And then I

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Speaker 2: woke up to my phone continuously ringing, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure how they got my number, but I was getting

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Speaker 2: called by various different TV and radio stations and things,

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Speaker 2: and I was kind of half asleep and I was

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Speaker 2: just not sure what was going on. And I don't

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Speaker 2: really wake up too early that often, So this is

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Speaker 2: a this is a big thing, especially in isolation. This

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Speaker 2: is quite early for me just saying.

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Speaker 4: Actually, do appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, So that at the moment I guess I

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Speaker 2: realized that this was much bigger than just a photo

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Speaker 2: that got a little bit of criticism was when Yeah,

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Speaker 2: radio stations, TV stations wanted to talk about it, and

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Speaker 2: I couldn't really understand why until I kind of got

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Speaker 2: the bigger picture when I opened my phone and realized

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Speaker 2: what had happened overnight.

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Speaker 1: So do you think, as you say, change the narrative

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Speaker 1: of the conversation and where we are now with the

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Speaker 1: Women's League, We've come so much further, don't you think?

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Speaker 1: Since then?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so I think the women's League does

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Speaker 2: its own talking. I don't need to speak on behalf

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Speaker 2: of the league and what we're capable of and things

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Speaker 2: like that. But I think in society, one thing I've

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Speaker 2: noticed make a big difference is a little army of

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Speaker 2: people who stand up against those who feel like they

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Speaker 2: need to put other people down. And often it's sportswomen

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Speaker 2: or AFOW players in this case. So it's actually really

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Speaker 2: nice to see people standing up for us and kind

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Speaker 2: of going back at those people who are really negative

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Speaker 2: and putting their opinions out there that aren't necessary. One

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Speaker 2: being one of my good friends Paul, who is very

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Speaker 2: much just a guy like doesn't go to the pub

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Speaker 2: and plays in the reserve, you know, like is a

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Speaker 2: very respected amongst these peers, but has that really strong

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Speaker 2: presence online because he doesn't he doesn't care what people think.

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Speaker 2: He just goes back at people and says, hey, I

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Speaker 2: love women's footy and I'm the same as you. I'm

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Speaker 2: a middle aged man and I love it. So you

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Speaker 2: can't speak on behalf of us because often the comments

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Speaker 2: are oh, no one wants to see it and all

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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 4: Sure it's changed, it's like racism.

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Speaker 3: You know, when someone says a racist comment somewhere, you

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Speaker 3: actually call them out on it, You say, well, no,

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Speaker 3: actually I don't agree with you on that, instead of

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Speaker 3: standing there with your beer in your hand just sort

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Speaker 2: So I think it's one of the most powerful and

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Speaker 2: respected things someone can do, is standing up for someone else.

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Speaker 2: And I've always thought that. I think it's something that's

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Speaker 2: really difficult to do in the moment, but if you

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Speaker 2: goes a long long way.

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Speaker 4: Well good on your talent, though.

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Speaker 3: You know you've been immortalized in Bronze and Federation Square.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. I still can't believe that's Did you.

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Speaker 4: Walk past it and look at it and say, hey,

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Speaker 4: that's me? Check that out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually had something in the city I had

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Speaker 2: to catch the train for, and obviously it was across

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Speaker 2: from Flinder Street. So yeah, that was a pretty It

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Speaker 2: was funny because I'm obviously very human and I'm very

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Speaker 2: very open and honest, and I did kind of walk away,

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Speaker 2: but I tried not to get caught staring.

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Speaker 3: I suppose I think if anyone's entitled to go and

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Speaker 3: stare at yourself as a pron statue this style.

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Speaker 1: Have any pigeons disgraced themselves on you?

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Speaker 2: Well, I haven't gone that close.

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Speaker 4: Can you do that today? Sometimes? Taylor, just you know,

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Speaker 4: have a look and see what the pigeon p report

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Speaker 4: on the statue.

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Speaker 3: You can buy Taylor Harris's new book More than a

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Speaker 3: Kick from good bookstores today. Taylor, it's a treat to

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Speaker 3: finally talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much having me have a great day.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Tyler. Now get out of bed.

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Speaker 2: Join the and Amanda in Good Morning One at one

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Speaker 2: point seven. Tell you