October 19, 2025 • 28 mins
Ahh finally, a Happy Pants episode all about my favourite sport: Australian Rules Football!
Wait... not that kind of goal?
More like, dreams, aspirations and achieving-your-goals kinda goals. Well, it isn't footy but it is a very inspiring topic. Join Kate and Geraldine this week as they search their green Happy Pants for clues. They find all sorts of funny things in their pockets!
We also hear some fun songs, true inspirational tales and read a story about a possum called Blossom who dreams of playing football... FOOTBALL! Maybe this episode was about AFL all along... finally!
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S1 (00:13):
One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:30):
G'day, and welcome to Happy Pants, a show especially for
kids and especially for you. My name is Geraldine and.
S3 (00:38):
My name is Kate. And together, we're your happy pants
team for today.
S2 (00:44):
My word. Kate, your happy pants look very smart today.
S3 (00:49):
Oh, yes. I really like this colour. It's the sort
of green that reminds me of the taste of mint
chips in cold, creamy ice cream and chocolate mint lollies.
Sort of cool and smooth at the same time.
S2 (01:02):
Oh you're right. This kind of green is just like
that taste and it feels like thick, soft moss. When
I stroke it.
S3 (01:11):
My pocket seemed to be bulging. Happy pants head office
must have put a lot of clues in there today.
S2 (01:18):
Oh. Mine too. And pocket number one has, uh, a
drawing of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and a handful
of artists. Brushes or a painting of some sunflowers.
S3 (01:33):
Hmm. My number one pocket has a compass and a
goose feather with a sharp point on the heart.
S2 (01:40):
End pocket number two. If I can get it out. Oh,
it's a light bulb.
S3 (01:47):
My second pocket has. Oh! Watch out, it's jumping around.
Don't let it escape.
S2 (01:53):
Oh! Too late. There it goes. I've never seen a
ball like that before. It's flaming gold about the size
of a walnut. With wings too. It's darting all over
the place. Oh, Kate, we'll never catch it.
S3 (02:07):
I know what it is, though. It's a golden snitch.
It's the thing the seeker has to catch in a
game of Quidditch, only played at Hogwarts by the students there,
of course. I'm pretty sure we won't be able to
catch it without a broomstick to ride.
S2 (02:21):
Or perhaps if we don't try to catch it, it'll
just settle down and float around quietly.
S3 (02:28):
I think this is the last thing in my pockets.
A bucket of fried chicken.
S2 (02:34):
Oh, lunch. Lovely. Oh. Thank you. Head office.
S3 (02:39):
I don't think we should eat it until we have
worked out what all the clues mean. Geraldine.
S2 (02:44):
Oh. Oh, well, let's fit these clues together. I'll put
the chicken in the kitchen while you make a list.
Then we can have some thinking music while we work
it out.
S3 (02:56):
Hmm. Ah! Drawing of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are brushes.
A sunflower painting, a compass, a sharpened goose feather, a
light bulb, a golden snitch, and fried chicken. How on
earth can all those clues fit together?
S2 (03:17):
Oh! Music time! We need help. I think I've fitted
(06:01):
a few things together. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are
cartoon characters, and brushes are used to draw cartoons. Brushes
are also used to make paintings like those sunflowers.
S3 (06:15):
That goose feather before. Pens and pencils were invented. People
used a sharpened goose feather with which to write or draw.
But that still leaves the compass. The light bulb. The
golden snitch and our fried chicken lunch.
S2 (06:31):
The compass helps people find their way, and a light
globe helps people see their way.
S3 (06:39):
Perhaps it's not the objects which are linked. What if
it is the people who use them? Mickey and Donald
were famous creations by Walt Disney.
S2 (06:50):
Oh, and the painting of sunflowers is by Van Gogh.
S3 (06:54):
And the Golden Snitch is from the Harry Potter stories
written by J.K. Rowling.
S2 (06:59):
400 years ago. A famous writer called William Shakespeare used
a goose feather quill to write plays.
S3 (07:06):
The most famous person who had to find his way
somewhere was Christopher Columbus and his compass was a big,
clumsy thing in a box. It did the same job
as that neat little thing that was in my pocket, though.
S2 (07:19):
And, um, the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison.
Before that, people used candles or oil lamps.
S3 (07:29):
Our lunch. Fried chicken. Colonel Sanders. Now all we have
to do is think what it is that links all
those people.
S2 (07:40):
Well, I know that Walt Disney was fired from his
job on a newspaper because his boss said he had
no imagination or creativity. He went on to make animated
films like Bambi, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins and dozens more,
which showed just how much imagination and creativity he did have.
S4 (10:54):
So I'm trying to listen to Happy Pants.
S3 (10:59):
Walt Disney was told he had no imagination, so he
just went ahead anyway and proved how wrong his critics were.
S2 (11:07):
And those sunflowers painted by Van Gogh. He painted and painted,
but nobody wanted to buy his paintings in his whole life.
He sold only one painting, and that was for about
enough to buy him a couple of weeks. Lodging and food.
Now those paintings fetch about $100 million each.
S3 (11:33):
I think we're up to the Compass and Christopher Columbus.
He lived in Italy at a time when most people
believed the earth was flat. And if you sailed out
of sight of land, you would eventually come to the
edge of the world and fall off. At this time,
expensive things like silks and spices came from the east. Overland,
(11:55):
carried by strings of camels. Columbus had the idea that
the earth was round, and he could get to India,
where much of this trade came from, by going the
other way round. Sailing to the west.
S2 (12:08):
The problem was he couldn't get anyone to give him
a ship because everyone he asked thought he was crackers.
As far as they were concerned, the sea to the
west went on till it reached the edge, and that
was that. The ship had fall off.
S3 (12:24):
That was when he had the bright idea of asking
the Spanish king and queen for help. They thought it
was an interesting idea. Gave him three ships, and off
he sailed to the west.
S2 (12:35):
All went well for a while, but after they'd been
out of sight of land for a while, the sailors
began to panic. After all, everyone knew that if they
went too far west, the ship would sail right off
the edge. Well, eventually land was sighted.
S3 (12:57):
Columbus believed he had reached India, which is why the
people of the newly discovered land were named Indians.
S2 (13:05):
Where wasn't India? Because America was in the way and
he landed there instead. He did find all sorts of
useful things there, though, like gold, silver, and precious stones.
So the King and Queen of Spain were quite happy
and Spain grew very rich.
S3 (13:27):
Things we use all the time, like potatoes, tomatoes and pumpkins,
all came from the Americas, and they would not have
been discovered till much later if Columbus hadn't had an
idea and stuck to it, even when people laughed at him.
Best of all, he proved that the Western sea didn't
end at the edge of the world. There was land
(13:49):
on the other side, so ships that sailed there wouldn't
fall off and be lost forever.
S5 (14:52):
Who?
S2 (16:08):
Right now that Quill. William Shakespeare lived in England about
400 years ago. His father ran a tannery and made gloves.
He also had a wool spinning business.
S3 (16:25):
Big word alert. A tannery is where animal skins are
made into leather.
S2 (16:30):
Shakespeare's father was wealthy enough to have his son taught
Greek and Latin, which was regarded as suitable only for gentlemen.
That's people who didn't need to earn a wage, and
those with sir or Lord before their name. Like most
boys from a Tradesman's family, William left school at about
(16:53):
13 and went to work for his father. After a
few years, he left his country home and moved to London,
where he began to write plays.
S3 (17:04):
His first play was liked by some of the common people,
but the gentlemen and Lords were outraged. Writing plays were
something only gentlemen and or aristocrats did. How dare this
common tradesman write plays! They called him an upstart crow.
We all know that William Shakespeare kept on writing, and
(17:26):
his plays were so popular that he eventually had his
own theatre. Shakespeare's plays are still being performed today, 400
years later. Oops. There's something tangled in my hair.
S2 (17:40):
Oh, it's that golden snitch. I'll get it out. No,
it heard me. And zoomed off.
S3 (17:47):
I don't think it wants to be caught.
S2 (17:51):
Someone else who had a bright idea and didn't give
up until he found a way to make it work,
was Thomas Edison. 150 years ago. People had to use
candles or lamps for light at night. But Edison was
sure he could find a way to make a light
globe which could use electricity. It took him an awful
(18:13):
lot of time and effort, but he eventually succeeded, Edison said.
I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
He went on to make hundreds of inventions, including a
way to record sound and a way to play it
back again. Ideas that we still use today.
S3 (18:38):
When Edison had an idea, he just kept working at
it until he found a way to make it work.
And that's the way he liked it.
S2 (19:53):
Had any chance of catching that golden snitch. It keeps
zooming around. I think it wants us to talk about it.
S3 (20:02):
The Golden Snitch is one of the many magical things
to be found in the Harry Potter stories, and it's
very hard to catch. J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry
Potter story and sent it off to a publisher who
sent it back, saying that he thought no one would
be interested in it. She tried about 30 different publishers,
and each of them just mailed it back. It seemed
(20:24):
no one wanted to publish a story about a young
wizard and his adventures. At last, one did think people
would like the story. That publisher was about to return
the book to J.K. Rowling, like everyone else had when
her eight year old daughter found it. When the little
girl read it, she loved it and told her mother
how good it was. So it was published after all.
S2 (20:47):
I think that Golden Snitch wants to get out. I'll
just open the window. Oh, there it goes. Back to
Hogwarts School and a good game of Quidditch.
S3 (20:58):
If J.K. Rowling had given up when the first publisher
said no, we wouldn't have those stories.
S2 (21:04):
Kate, I'm getting hungry. Do you think we could have
a snack?
S3 (21:08):
Oh. Our last pocket clue. I think that is Kentucky
Fried Chicken. Very nice for a once in a while treat. Actually,
the man who invented the recipe started out selling fried
chicken at a roadside petrol station in America. When the
road was moved further away, the petrol station went broke
(21:29):
and so did the fried chicken maker. He tried a
number of times to set up business in various places,
but nothing seemed to work.
S2 (21:38):
At last he had a bright idea. He advertised his
fried chicken as being cooked with 11 secret herbs and spices.
That word secret did it. Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken
became a sensation. Everybody wanted to try it. And now
(22:01):
there are KFC shops all over the world. But if
Colonel Sanders had given up, we wouldn't have KFC as
a once in a while treat.
S3 (22:12):
There are lots of stories about people who refuse to
give up and just kept trying until they succeeded.
S2 (22:20):
Our story today is about someone like that, a tiny
possum who had dreams of playing in the football team
that won the grand final.
S6 (22:34):
Mighty Blossom by Nicki Greenberg. Little blossom loves her footy.
Little blossom has a dream. Blossom wants to play full
forward for her favourite football team. Now recruiting, says the sign.
So blossom bravely joins the line. But when it's Blossom's
(23:00):
turn to show what she can do. The coach says, no, sorry, squirt,
you're just too small. You're barely bigger than the ball.
Blossom set her face, stands her ground and makes her case. Coach,
I'm fearless, fast and fierce. I know the rules. Back
(23:24):
to front. I tackle like a tiger snake and snap
a wicked checkside punt. I practice every single day. Oh.
All right. Coach says we'll let you bring the half
time oranges. Oh, okay. Khan, the mighty fighting possums blossoms
(23:51):
there at every game. Doesn't get to touch the Sharon,
but she barracks all the same as Eloise outruns the
pack and Ruby's deadly in the back. Amy owns the
forward pocket. Hannah hands balls like a rocket. Carers kicking
is uncanny. And yes, our girls are in the granny.
(24:17):
See the teams burst through their banners. Go the possums,
go the goannas. What a battle! What a blinder! Goal
for goal! They're neck and neck. Final quarter five points difference.
Blossom is a nervous wreck. Come on, possums, pick it up!
Kick a goal and seize the cup! Oh, no! Player down!
(24:43):
It's big. Brianna tumbled by a rogue goanna. Coach laments
we're short one possum. Now's her moment. Me cries blossom
on goes blossom. Short and strong. But sadly, that's when
things go wrong. Jounced and jostled, tossed and trampled. Dodging
(25:08):
fists and giant feet. Tiny blossom crushed and crumpled sobs.
It's true, I can't compete. Coach was right. I am
too small. Stop sulking, squirt. Go get that ball, blossom!
(25:30):
Aren't you fast and fearless, blossom? Don't you have a dream? Yes,
I am, I do. I can. And in she runs
to help her team. Possums fans send up a roar.
Blossom storms the corridor, hurls herself into the pack, scampers
(25:51):
up the lizard's back, hovers higher above the park. And
what a screamer takes the mark on. Go, you little ripper! She's.
Put it in. The crowd goes wild. The possums win.
(26:13):
And all agree. To their surprise, that legend comes in
every size. Blossom number 13.
S2 (26:25):
That was a reading of Mighty Blossom, written by Nikki Greenberg.
The reader was Rebecca.
S3 (26:33):
I get a mind picture of blossom running up that
Goannas back, snatching the ball out of the air and
booting it straight through for the winning goal. We've heard
about a few famous people who had an idea and
kept on trying until they reached their goal. Van Gogh
said I'm always doing what I cannot do in order
to learn how to do it.
S2 (26:55):
And Walt Disney said, all our dreams come true if
we have the courage to pursue them.
S3 (27:04):
If there was anything in today's program about which you
would like to know more, you can find us at
Radio Vision. Keep wearing those happy pants and we'll catch
you next time.
S7 (27:29):
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(27:53):
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One, two, three. It's happy pants.
S2 (00:30):
G'day, and welcome to Happy Pants, a show especially for
kids and especially for you. My name is Geraldine and.
S3 (00:38):
My name is Kate. And together, we're your happy pants
team for today.
S2 (00:44):
My word. Kate, your happy pants look very smart today.
S3 (00:49):
Oh, yes. I really like this colour. It's the sort
of green that reminds me of the taste of mint
chips in cold, creamy ice cream and chocolate mint lollies.
Sort of cool and smooth at the same time.
S2 (01:02):
Oh you're right. This kind of green is just like
that taste and it feels like thick, soft moss. When
I stroke it.
S3 (01:11):
My pocket seemed to be bulging. Happy pants head office
must have put a lot of clues in there today.
S2 (01:18):
Oh. Mine too. And pocket number one has, uh, a
drawing of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and a handful
of artists. Brushes or a painting of some sunflowers.
S3 (01:33):
Hmm. My number one pocket has a compass and a
goose feather with a sharp point on the heart.
S2 (01:40):
End pocket number two. If I can get it out. Oh,
it's a light bulb.
S3 (01:47):
My second pocket has. Oh! Watch out, it's jumping around.
Don't let it escape.
S2 (01:53):
Oh! Too late. There it goes. I've never seen a
ball like that before. It's flaming gold about the size
of a walnut. With wings too. It's darting all over
the place. Oh, Kate, we'll never catch it.
S3 (02:07):
I know what it is, though. It's a golden snitch.
It's the thing the seeker has to catch in a
game of Quidditch, only played at Hogwarts by the students there,
of course. I'm pretty sure we won't be able to
catch it without a broomstick to ride.
S2 (02:21):
Or perhaps if we don't try to catch it, it'll
just settle down and float around quietly.
S3 (02:28):
I think this is the last thing in my pockets.
A bucket of fried chicken.
S2 (02:34):
Oh, lunch. Lovely. Oh. Thank you. Head office.
S3 (02:39):
I don't think we should eat it until we have
worked out what all the clues mean. Geraldine.
S2 (02:44):
Oh. Oh, well, let's fit these clues together. I'll put
the chicken in the kitchen while you make a list.
Then we can have some thinking music while we work
it out.
S3 (02:56):
Hmm. Ah! Drawing of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are brushes.
A sunflower painting, a compass, a sharpened goose feather, a
light bulb, a golden snitch, and fried chicken. How on
earth can all those clues fit together?
S2 (03:17):
Oh! Music time! We need help. I think I've fitted
(06:01):
a few things together. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are
cartoon characters, and brushes are used to draw cartoons. Brushes
are also used to make paintings like those sunflowers.
S3 (06:15):
That goose feather before. Pens and pencils were invented. People
used a sharpened goose feather with which to write or draw.
But that still leaves the compass. The light bulb. The
golden snitch and our fried chicken lunch.
S2 (06:31):
The compass helps people find their way, and a light
globe helps people see their way.
S3 (06:39):
Perhaps it's not the objects which are linked. What if
it is the people who use them? Mickey and Donald
were famous creations by Walt Disney.
S2 (06:50):
Oh, and the painting of sunflowers is by Van Gogh.
S3 (06:54):
And the Golden Snitch is from the Harry Potter stories
written by J.K. Rowling.
S2 (06:59):
400 years ago. A famous writer called William Shakespeare used
a goose feather quill to write plays.
S3 (07:06):
The most famous person who had to find his way
somewhere was Christopher Columbus and his compass was a big,
clumsy thing in a box. It did the same job
as that neat little thing that was in my pocket, though.
S2 (07:19):
And, um, the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison.
Before that, people used candles or oil lamps.
S3 (07:29):
Our lunch. Fried chicken. Colonel Sanders. Now all we have
to do is think what it is that links all
those people.
S2 (07:40):
Well, I know that Walt Disney was fired from his
job on a newspaper because his boss said he had
no imagination or creativity. He went on to make animated
films like Bambi, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins and dozens more,
which showed just how much imagination and creativity he did have.
S4 (10:54):
So I'm trying to listen to Happy Pants.
S3 (10:59):
Walt Disney was told he had no imagination, so he
just went ahead anyway and proved how wrong his critics were.
S2 (11:07):
And those sunflowers painted by Van Gogh. He painted and painted,
but nobody wanted to buy his paintings in his whole life.
He sold only one painting, and that was for about
enough to buy him a couple of weeks. Lodging and food.
Now those paintings fetch about $100 million each.
S3 (11:33):
I think we're up to the Compass and Christopher Columbus.
He lived in Italy at a time when most people
believed the earth was flat. And if you sailed out
of sight of land, you would eventually come to the
edge of the world and fall off. At this time,
expensive things like silks and spices came from the east. Overland,
(11:55):
carried by strings of camels. Columbus had the idea that
the earth was round, and he could get to India,
where much of this trade came from, by going the
other way round. Sailing to the west.
S2 (12:08):
The problem was he couldn't get anyone to give him
a ship because everyone he asked thought he was crackers.
As far as they were concerned, the sea to the
west went on till it reached the edge, and that
was that. The ship had fall off.
S3 (12:24):
That was when he had the bright idea of asking
the Spanish king and queen for help. They thought it
was an interesting idea. Gave him three ships, and off
he sailed to the west.
S2 (12:35):
All went well for a while, but after they'd been
out of sight of land for a while, the sailors
began to panic. After all, everyone knew that if they
went too far west, the ship would sail right off
the edge. Well, eventually land was sighted.
S3 (12:57):
Columbus believed he had reached India, which is why the
people of the newly discovered land were named Indians.
S2 (13:05):
Where wasn't India? Because America was in the way and
he landed there instead. He did find all sorts of
useful things there, though, like gold, silver, and precious stones.
So the King and Queen of Spain were quite happy
and Spain grew very rich.
S3 (13:27):
Things we use all the time, like potatoes, tomatoes and pumpkins,
all came from the Americas, and they would not have
been discovered till much later if Columbus hadn't had an
idea and stuck to it, even when people laughed at him.
Best of all, he proved that the Western sea didn't
end at the edge of the world. There was land
(13:49):
on the other side, so ships that sailed there wouldn't
fall off and be lost forever.
S5 (14:52):
Who?
S2 (16:08):
Right now that Quill. William Shakespeare lived in England about
400 years ago. His father ran a tannery and made gloves.
He also had a wool spinning business.
S3 (16:25):
Big word alert. A tannery is where animal skins are
made into leather.
S2 (16:30):
Shakespeare's father was wealthy enough to have his son taught
Greek and Latin, which was regarded as suitable only for gentlemen.
That's people who didn't need to earn a wage, and
those with sir or Lord before their name. Like most
boys from a Tradesman's family, William left school at about
(16:53):
13 and went to work for his father. After a
few years, he left his country home and moved to London,
where he began to write plays.
S3 (17:04):
His first play was liked by some of the common people,
but the gentlemen and Lords were outraged. Writing plays were
something only gentlemen and or aristocrats did. How dare this
common tradesman write plays! They called him an upstart crow.
We all know that William Shakespeare kept on writing, and
(17:26):
his plays were so popular that he eventually had his
own theatre. Shakespeare's plays are still being performed today, 400
years later. Oops. There's something tangled in my hair.
S2 (17:40):
Oh, it's that golden snitch. I'll get it out. No,
it heard me. And zoomed off.
S3 (17:47):
I don't think it wants to be caught.
S2 (17:51):
Someone else who had a bright idea and didn't give
up until he found a way to make it work,
was Thomas Edison. 150 years ago. People had to use
candles or lamps for light at night. But Edison was
sure he could find a way to make a light
globe which could use electricity. It took him an awful
(18:13):
lot of time and effort, but he eventually succeeded, Edison said.
I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
He went on to make hundreds of inventions, including a
way to record sound and a way to play it
back again. Ideas that we still use today.
S3 (18:38):
When Edison had an idea, he just kept working at
it until he found a way to make it work.
And that's the way he liked it.
S2 (19:53):
Had any chance of catching that golden snitch. It keeps
zooming around. I think it wants us to talk about it.
S3 (20:02):
The Golden Snitch is one of the many magical things
to be found in the Harry Potter stories, and it's
very hard to catch. J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry
Potter story and sent it off to a publisher who
sent it back, saying that he thought no one would
be interested in it. She tried about 30 different publishers,
and each of them just mailed it back. It seemed
(20:24):
no one wanted to publish a story about a young
wizard and his adventures. At last, one did think people
would like the story. That publisher was about to return
the book to J.K. Rowling, like everyone else had when
her eight year old daughter found it. When the little
girl read it, she loved it and told her mother
how good it was. So it was published after all.
S2 (20:47):
I think that Golden Snitch wants to get out. I'll
just open the window. Oh, there it goes. Back to
Hogwarts School and a good game of Quidditch.
S3 (20:58):
If J.K. Rowling had given up when the first publisher
said no, we wouldn't have those stories.
S2 (21:04):
Kate, I'm getting hungry. Do you think we could have
a snack?
S3 (21:08):
Oh. Our last pocket clue. I think that is Kentucky
Fried Chicken. Very nice for a once in a while treat. Actually,
the man who invented the recipe started out selling fried
chicken at a roadside petrol station in America. When the
road was moved further away, the petrol station went broke
(21:29):
and so did the fried chicken maker. He tried a
number of times to set up business in various places,
but nothing seemed to work.
S2 (21:38):
At last he had a bright idea. He advertised his
fried chicken as being cooked with 11 secret herbs and spices.
That word secret did it. Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken
became a sensation. Everybody wanted to try it. And now
(22:01):
there are KFC shops all over the world. But if
Colonel Sanders had given up, we wouldn't have KFC as
a once in a while treat.
S3 (22:12):
There are lots of stories about people who refuse to
give up and just kept trying until they succeeded.
S2 (22:20):
Our story today is about someone like that, a tiny
possum who had dreams of playing in the football team
that won the grand final.
S6 (22:34):
Mighty Blossom by Nicki Greenberg. Little blossom loves her footy.
Little blossom has a dream. Blossom wants to play full
forward for her favourite football team. Now recruiting, says the sign.
So blossom bravely joins the line. But when it's Blossom's
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turn to show what she can do. The coach says, no, sorry, squirt,
you're just too small. You're barely bigger than the ball.
Blossom set her face, stands her ground and makes her case. Coach,
I'm fearless, fast and fierce. I know the rules. Back
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to front. I tackle like a tiger snake and snap
a wicked checkside punt. I practice every single day. Oh.
All right. Coach says we'll let you bring the half
time oranges. Oh, okay. Khan, the mighty fighting possums blossoms
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there at every game. Doesn't get to touch the Sharon,
but she barracks all the same as Eloise outruns the
pack and Ruby's deadly in the back. Amy owns the
forward pocket. Hannah hands balls like a rocket. Carers kicking
is uncanny. And yes, our girls are in the granny.
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See the teams burst through their banners. Go the possums,
go the goannas. What a battle! What a blinder! Goal
for goal! They're neck and neck. Final quarter five points difference.
Blossom is a nervous wreck. Come on, possums, pick it up!
Kick a goal and seize the cup! Oh, no! Player down!
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It's big. Brianna tumbled by a rogue goanna. Coach laments
we're short one possum. Now's her moment. Me cries blossom
on goes blossom. Short and strong. But sadly, that's when
things go wrong. Jounced and jostled, tossed and trampled. Dodging
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fists and giant feet. Tiny blossom crushed and crumpled sobs.
It's true, I can't compete. Coach was right. I am
too small. Stop sulking, squirt. Go get that ball, blossom!
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Aren't you fast and fearless, blossom? Don't you have a dream? Yes,
I am, I do. I can. And in she runs
to help her team. Possums fans send up a roar.
Blossom storms the corridor, hurls herself into the pack, scampers
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up the lizard's back, hovers higher above the park. And
what a screamer takes the mark on. Go, you little ripper! She's.
Put it in. The crowd goes wild. The possums win.
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And all agree. To their surprise, that legend comes in
every size. Blossom number 13.
S2 (26:25):
That was a reading of Mighty Blossom, written by Nikki Greenberg.
The reader was Rebecca.
S3 (26:33):
I get a mind picture of blossom running up that
Goannas back, snatching the ball out of the air and
booting it straight through for the winning goal. We've heard
about a few famous people who had an idea and
kept on trying until they reached their goal. Van Gogh
said I'm always doing what I cannot do in order
to learn how to do it.
S2 (26:55):
And Walt Disney said, all our dreams come true if
we have the courage to pursue them.
S3 (27:04):
If there was anything in today's program about which you
would like to know more, you can find us at
Radio Vision. Keep wearing those happy pants and we'll catch
you next time.
S7 (27:29):
Happy pants is produced on the lands of the Whadjuk
Noongar people. Vision Australia Radio acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples as the first Australians, and the traditional owners
of the land. Across our working area, we pay our
respects to elders past, present and future in maintaining their cultures,
countries and their spiritual connection to the lands and waters.
Vision Australia Radio acknowledges and respects the genuine diversity and
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richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.
Happy pants has been made possible with the support of
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