Adelaide Friend Of Break Dancer Raygun Defends Her Performance

Adelaide local and friend of break dancing B Girl Raygun gives insights into her performance on the world stage over the weekend.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mix one or two point three maximally in the morning,
the world is talking about one person. We are, of
course talking about Ray Gun. Over there at the Celebrity
Sports Day, thirty six year old Australian Rachel Gunn, the
breakdancer who has never I've never seen anyone, any event, political,
celebrity sport just take over the internet.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
She stunned the world quite like our.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Ray Gun has. And everyone's got varied opinions on the performance,
whether or not she should have been there. Did you
love it? Did you hate it? Please call us thirty
one h two three. But to give us a little
bit more of insight, Hailey, we go to someone that
knows Rey Gun.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, personally, that's who are we to have an opinion? Yeah,
we've got her friend.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Ray Gun's friend, a colleague in the academic world. She's
not just a breakdown, she's smart. We've got doctor naz
old Of on the phone. Morning doctor naz Morning Gray.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
All right, I know she's your friend and the world
has been, you know, somewhat laughing at her.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
How does that make you feel?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, that's kind of what I woke up to on
Saturday morning. And you know, I'm a mate. What the
mates do they get? Hey, hey, leave her alone? So
but like more more were I think to explore it
a little bit more. My first reaction was I when

(01:32):
like when I saw what.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
She did, I was like a bit stunned. Yeah, because
look that's bold, mate, that is bold. She made a
shot and she went with it, and and then I
just was like, I know her character. And then Noah
as a person, she's like, she's a hell of her person.

(01:53):
She's like a really really decent person. And it was
tough as nails, and I Will says like, dude, dude,
I'm behind you one hundred.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Percent right now, doctor Nas, you're towing a line between
getting the entertainment out of it that a lot of
people have got and trying to defend her, like when
you sit there and because how do you guys know,
let's set that up, dr Nas, how do you guys know?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Cool? So, like we've known each other since I think
twenty eleven, and we we're a part of I asked them,
which is the International Association of the Study of Popular Music,
the A and Z division, And basically we have conferences
every year and go for about three days. But The

(02:45):
difference is I ask them conference in our parties, because
we all really hang out a lot and we go
out dancing and all of that kind of thing, so
you get really tight.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So doctor Naz, you get really tight with these people
at conferences and you're in the academic world. And we
know that Reyga, our girl has written like a thesis
on breakdancing and the politics of sports and everything in between.
Some people are saying, looking at her dance, that she's
gone over there almost as like an experiment, so she
can write some has some content for an next thesis.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
I think that's okay. I do. I have her whispers though,
that there is like that she was, that that she
may have been doing some kind of political critique which
will probably come out in the days to come, to
do with both selection process and how things are I

(03:48):
think I think that I could be wrong about this,
but I think that she's she's actually having a having
a dig on some level.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
How things are marked excellent, that's what we want to know.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And but like, is this the appropriate forum for that
she was she was picked? But we want to see
our best of the best, like winning golds, and we've
had such a great games and I get.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Your next So I have something to say about that
right on. I think we've got bigger things that we
can go into. I'm not going to say that you're
that you're wrong. And when you say I'm timing the line,
I think you were supposed to allow. Did you see
the look up? Did you see the look on her face? Ye,
this is a really joyful person who knew she was

(04:37):
being vilified by these the judges just slaughtered. Who would
have gotten there as a thirty six year old knowing,
like just knowing what that means in terms of your body.
I mean you could see by the way she's been
training for a long time, right so like she she's
look at her neck, look at her gloats, look at

(04:58):
her shoulders like she was like, you know, she's but
she isn't eighteen, And I think she would have gotten
there and gone, I've got no chance. I am going
to go out there. I'm going to test the orders
and then I'm going to the hand I'm del I'm
going to do what. Yeah, I'm going to do whatever

(05:19):
I can with what I've got. I've got creativity, I've
got shumer. She is auzzy. So like we don't like
to have a bit of a laugh. But but you know,
part of a move, part of those sorts of moves
a reflection a character as well in the culture. So anyway,

(05:42):
that's what I think that she did, and I think
what she would have done is if I'm going to
come last, I'm going to do it on my own turn.
I'm going to go down right, but that's right, and
I'm just gonna like, I'm just going to make a
statement on my own. Look, I think we can an
argument that she made her she made her call, and

(06:03):
that that that call didn't work.