The SHOCK Thing The Prime Minister Did Last Night At Old Mates!

Old Mates Pub in downtown NYC is the VERY Australian themed pub that has become Wippa's home away from home while he's in town. Last night Wippa and Albo quite literally had a lock-in.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitsy and Whip Her with Kate Richie podcast. Guys,
we need to look through the activities last night from
Old Mates Pub in New York. Look, we threw a
bit of a party fits. It was to be a
drinks after the un event at Old Mates Pub. Now,
those that aren't across Old Mates Pub. It's downtown in
New York and it's obviously full of bossies, but the

(00:23):
owners of the pub are really Hamish and Andy, Hugh Jackman,
Mick Fanning, Ash Barty's involved in the pub. She's also
an owner, which is amazing. So it's owned by a
whole heap of great Australian. So if there's another Great
Australian in town, that's the place you got to go.
So we held an event and we were hopeful that
the Prime Minister would turn up. We knew, we knew

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his day was busy, but when we saw each other
at the un he said, by the way, I'll do
everything I can to drop in for a beer. He
loves Skeeyey, he loves the sky. I said it would
be un Australian if you weren't there, so please make
the effort. It's amazing to see just before we get
to the action from last night. Security. So how it

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works is the US supply their secret service. So there's
what are you recking, Tommy ten? You just don't go
to chups down the road and you've done. Is it
secret fitzy or do they just keep calling its secret
service because it makes it sound So do you know

(01:29):
that whip they're around? Yeah? Yeah, gotcha? Okay, so they're
not so service, not so secret service. They're wearing red
suits and sequence no, and they are they're earpieces their
tailored suits. You don't know what's underneath. They're always sort
of talking into their hand. And there would have been ten,
if not twelve, that were in the room, so it

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really filled the room with the amount of secret Service
that was there. They shut off the entire street for
the Prime Minister's arrival. So if you can imagine old mates,
a pub city on a corner, there was a police
car on the corner stopping traffic coming in. Then there
was a row of black vehicles where the Prime Minister
had arrived, and then there was another police car blocking

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the other end of the streets. I said to him, mate,
they've shut down this whole place for you and he said,
I can't believe they think I'm important, and I went,
you are, mate, you're the Prime Minister of Australia. I
hate he didn't sound like that. Is that so that's
a lock in. That's not just a locking in, old mates,
that's the locking of the whole street. Nobody could get in,

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nobody could come out. It was awesome, Willie Wonka. It
was amazing to see. And the other thing was a
Secret Service. He used to working with the Americans or
Trump at least, where you're not allowed to touch the
Prime Minister or the president. So they were on panic
the entire time. Because he walks into the pub, everyone's
high fiving and hunging him alm so they didn't know

(02:56):
what to do. So there was this level of panic
that was a round. And then he had his own
personal security that was supplied by Australia, who had to
say to the US Special Service or Secret Security, Hey
it's okay, they're Australian, this is how we do things.
Chill out. I think his attempt to scull the yard
glass was quite feeble. He got nowhere near Bob Hawk's record.

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Bob was quite the signeture moved but we spoke to
Andy Lee because Old Mates has a tradition that if
somebody had noticed there, what happens is they're invited to
ring the bell. So Andy gave us a bit of
a rundown about how things work at Old Mates. Is big,
I would say, he would he would be entitled to

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ring the bell. We have a bell in the pub.
If there's an iconic Australian that's deemed of a high
enough level, they can ring the bell and it shouts
the entire pub away from that Kate, he's nowhere near
big enough. Oka. No, look, I understand I'm not big

(04:03):
enough to ring the bell. But of course if the
Prime Minister was there, so I went up to him
and I said, hey, I just spoke to Eddie, the
guy who runs the pub. Do you think you want
to ring the bell? And I said? He said, what
is the ring the bell mean? And I said, well,
it's just something they do when a high profile Ossie
is in the house. And what happens after that is
you shout the bar. And he said, could you imagine

(04:23):
what it would look like if I turned it to
a pub and bought everybody body of bear and taxpayers money? No, no, sorry,
sorry I worded that badly. The pub will shout everybody
a beer. But then what I worked out was once
he's rung the bell for the next two songs that
are played, you've got to stand there and poor beers
and hand them out to everybody. So that was the role.

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But here was the moment that he took over for
the ringing of the bell at Old Mates Pub in
New York. I really crowd occasionally as Australia to the
United Nations. Tonight, I don't how to have fun. It's

(05:08):
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