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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They came bounding over. What's a procedure.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is Roden Gabby versus the world. You have told
the tale of the birthday gift you brought for your
husband from Instagram and were understandably nervous about whether or
not it was a scam website.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, wish you know. It absolutely could have been.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And somehow the Batman wallet did arrive.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Terrible because the Batman. So it was a Batman wallet
with a little cutout so that when you slid your
license in the face would line up with the Batman
and you would look like you were wearing his mask.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
This didn't take into account what's his license and.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
New South Wales, so his photos on the wrong side
for the Batman to match up with it, so we
can't use the wallet.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So that was a fail. But it wasn't a scam.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So that's anyway you think I would learn to stop
buying things off Instagram.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Knowing you as I do, I wouldn't have thought that
for a second. I've learned nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
So I put another thing for Father's Day, Batman thing.
It's not but I saw I saw a Father's Day
potential gift on Instagram that looked really cute, and I'm like, yeah,
all right, I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I'm out of ideas.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Why not? So it's a T shirt and you give
them a photo of the dad and child and they
embroider a little outline of that photo onto the T shirt.
And I was like, that's a cute idea. So I
put up the like I put up the photo, gave
them all the details, paid for it. Whatnot what I
(01:44):
expect it because what normally happens if you buy something
like this through office works or whatever it maybe like
a legitimate company.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
A real place.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, they'll send you a proof of what it's going
to look like before they continue the process.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What a massive assumption, what a significant step in the
process to assume would just happen. And I know you've
done no research when you bought that wallet. It wasn't
until after you paid for it that you then went
searching for reviews of that website.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, you're right, But well, because you submit a photo
and they're only doing an outline, so I expected a
proof to then be like is that cool? Or should
I do a different photo? Because outlines look very different
to a color photo.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Gee, you're pretty cynical about whatever this thing is going
to be for someone who just paid for it.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well, I didn't get a proof, and so that I
was just waiting by the mailbox to get this T
shirt to find out if it looked good or not.
I didn't know if it was going to look any
good until it arrived.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
This story better end with you like seeing this thing.
I hope it's turned up.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So it turned up.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It turned up and I've opened it. And did you
ever watch lyft Off?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I didn't watch Lyftoff.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Anyone out there who's ever watched Liftoff, you would know
the doll in Liftoff, the faceless doll.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, that sounds terrifying.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It is a terrifying doll. And that is exactly what
it looks like my husband is holding in.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This embroidered photo.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, you've just shown it to me. That is exactly
what you described to me it was going to be.
So I'm confused as to why you're surprised by.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
That, because it Nah, it doesn't look right. If they
sent me the proof, I would have been.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Like, nah, that's why they didn't see you the proof,
And then they're not going to like it.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He's holding the faceless doll.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It is terrifying. But you should have known Rodin Gabby
versus the world.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The eyes of the sporting world, specifically basketball. In the
countdown to the next NBL season, turned to the nation's
capital for the first time since how many years?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And was the last time three two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, unbelievable since the Canra Cannons were taking the court.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Our next guest, I'm so to say you used to
tell up the camera Cannons.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
He is the Australian basketball goat, the great Andrew Gays
getto mate, how I am good morning?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, well, well you say we used to tell up.
But when I first came into the NBL, it took
I think I think Camera beat us fifteen can chickeny
times before we were able to beat them. So they
had our number early on, that's for sure. And I
of all the things I've forgotten a lot that I
haven't forgotten that the Camera Cannons used to give us
(04:28):
a pasting on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You go, well, I remember when you did play against
the Canbra Cannons. When I would go watch as a kid,
my sisters were so into basketball, like they knew everyone
and everything, and obviously you were the opposition, so they
didn't love you. But then you were the flag bearer
at the Sydney Olympics in two thousand and it was
such a beautiful moment that from then on here like
(04:53):
they are just your biggest fan and they like got cheery.
The fan was around it. That was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That was an incredible time and it just feels like yesterday.
Just an amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
The Olympic tradition, the Australian Olympic tradition with your family
goes back even before your five. Your old man went
a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Didn't he. Yeah, that's right. He was at the sixty,
sixty four and sixty eight Olympics, and then he coached
in the seventy two, seventy six, eighty and eighty four Olympics.
And in fact, even prior to that. In one fifty six,
the Olympic Games was held here in Melbourne and they
had an at each host city can put on an
(05:37):
exhibition sport and they picked that with the Australian rules football,
and my dad and his brother were selected to play
at the MC in the exhibition game of Australia rules football,
so in some way they or form. He went to
eight consecutive Olympic games.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah you're five good, but your old man's.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Age, I don't he was well and truly do it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
The family has represented in both home ground Olympics in
the last century. So then who's going to represent your
family in Brisbane then.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Jesz, I don't know. My kids have probably passed that
stage where that that's going to come into consideration. Maybe
their kids is going.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
To be a lot of pressure at Christmas dinner. Sits
there at the head of the table, right, someone's got
to go. This is a tradition at this stage.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We went to the Ais yesterday to have a look
at the court and some of the teams warming up
and a great can beer and basketball player you know
where Jesse Wagstaff for so many championships there in Perth
with the Wildcats, and he was He said, when he
was a kid, he used to come and watch the
Cannons and he always wanted and this thing. I didn't
grow up watching the Cannons. I grew up watching you
and the Tigers, he said.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He said.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I used to All I wanted to do was put
one of the basketballs in the cannon.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Do you remember to catch it from the cannon? It's
like a T shirt guard into the crowd, but it
was balls from the cannon.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You remember that, Andrew, he used to fire a cannon
into the crowd.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, I do h club. Each team back then had
a variety of different marketing opportunities in the way in
which they wanted to promote themselves, but that never came
across me or across my mind to shoot the ball into
the cannon, remember that. And I preferred to put it
through the little thing of a ring with a little
(07:21):
net hanging off it. That that was my focus.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But there's been so much talk this week about the
fact that the NBL Blitz is here and the Cannons
have to make a team after this. What are your
thoughts on that and what do you feel because you're
part of the NBL community.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, we're very hopeful. We certainly the basketball community thinks
that the NBL needs more teams. There's a lot of
players that may not be getting the opportunities because it's
just not enough teams. And Canberra with their history, it
looks like you've done a bit of work on the
venue as well to bring it up to speed. I
(08:00):
know I might judging off what I see on the telly,
but if it's we've seen what's happened in Tasmania. They've
got a pretty small venue as well, probably four four
and a half thousand, which these days is relatively small,
and they've shown that both from on war and as
an economic model, they've figured out a way to make
it really successful. So there's no reason why Cammebra can't
(08:23):
do it, and I'm hopeful I'd love to see a
team back in Canbra.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You and us both before we let you go, we
you mentioned Phil Smarter moment ago, legendary Canbra Cannon.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
We just saw him on the TV a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It looked like a final knocking off the North Melbourne
Giants and he rocked the comb over.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And as a man who went.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Gray younger, did you find that it was people? You know,
you were a smiling assassin. People didn't see you coming
and going what's this old bloke doing out here?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And you're right, you used to get it done.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I know, and anyone that had some here issues at
the early age. You know, the general he was, you know,
he's followed the challenge and when I started started to
grow go great very very early on, so it was
a little bit different. I remember a lot of times
the imports had come to Australia and even on our
(09:12):
team and they'd heard about me and they look at
me and go and you could just see and go, right,
what's going on here? It works, It work both ways,
I suppose. But now I like to think that I'm
growing into the age of my hair when of the
hair I had when I was thirteen. Hopefully I'm just
(09:34):
stay like this and some of the other age challenges
will be a benefit. On the other side.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, mate, you are the greatest, and the word greatest
is thrown around too often. You are fair and income
the greatest to do it in Australian basketball.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And we'll chat to you when we get that license.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Good on you guys, Thanks to life.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Producer Chelsea is with us. You and Gabby are right
into the block and it is the highest rating show
each year of the reality shows in Australia maths it
is the second highest.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Rating show the reality show.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
That I've watched the Block.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Are you enjoying it?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
I love it?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, I thought after we were speaking with one of
the couples the other day that because they were doing
ground up build it wasn't a reno. They couldn't do
stuff in the middle of the night, and there wasn't
all the wacky snannigans that we've seen in previous seasons,
that maybe it did feel a little more tame, well
just not not as just as stupid and so.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
No, no, no, they fit the stupidity in Well, what was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The stunt that you said the other day? They had
down tools to go and compete in something.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Roast each other, and then they played pickleball the other
day to win a pickleball court for the house.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
At least that has some kind of However, pigeon shooting too,
like clay pigeon clay shooting.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
There was some controversy because they were they were shooting
clay pigeons.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Anyway, this isn't about that. This is your who's upset
about this?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh, we both are. There was something that happened last
night that was.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, I just think that they should have gone about
it a different way. I think that they haven't gone
about it the right way. And if it was me,
I personally would not have liked it to.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Air like this good okay, So finally this show is
upset everyone else to let's so it was.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Just play no, no, you need a little bit of
prembo press play because this is not the bit we're
upset about. This bit is lovely.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
So there's a big announcement that happened on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Here's the big announced use One's and Ben just received
a call that's left them extremely emotional, gay.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Talking away in tears. He's very upset.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But what we thought he's walking away from his missus,
well just from.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
They got a phone call. They've got a phone call
and that he's just a bit upset.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
She got some pretty bigs.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
We're having a baby.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
We just found out the sex of the Yeah, we
just found out.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
We're gonna have a boy, so having it little boy
twelve weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Got the results back from a blood test.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's going to be a little baby boy.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
So we're both over the moon.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's Amazing's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
No, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, that was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
And by the way, found out they were pregnant the
same day they found out that was going on the show.
What a big day, Big day and good luck to
her with her exhaustion.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, the good on her for still going through with
it as well. Yeah, huge things to happen. At the
same time, I feel like.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You couldn't say no when you've been trying to get
seven years. But this is the bit that annoyed me
the most. Right, So, so, Scotty and shell you're going
around to see all the other couples like they do
every week, to talk about their design, give them some advice,
give them some direction if they're feeling a little lost.
Shelley loves to give them a hug if they're feeling
a bit emotional. And this is what they were also
(13:13):
doing while visiting the houses.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We need to tell these guys about House one's news
a baby. They're having a baby boy.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
So this is why's having mock tails.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And I completely didn't even clu on.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But why is Scotty sharing their news of the block.
I don't care. I'm not letting my dad tell my friends.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
I don't know if we missed, like Emma and Ben
saying it was okay for Scotty and Shelley to go
around and start telling all the other house okay.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
With that, No, it's my news.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
To share your Scotty.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It's funny because when this all happened, I was very
upset about it last night and my husband turned to
me and he goes, there'd be something in the contract
to say if you and now to pregnant, see on
the Block, it's a block baby, so you have no
rights anymore. The Block owns this charge.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I think if you look into the fine print, Scotty
will raise this baby and then that baby will become
the new host of the Block.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The season five.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Thousand, Rod and Gabby versus the We're counting down to
Gio Stadium where the drizzle will have left, and there
is a dry ball, and there's lunchtime forty, and there's
a double head of this is it, and we're very
privileged to be joined by one of the stars of
our team.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Hopefully with the answer to how.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
The girls have breathed life back into the NRLW season
for the Raiders, Sophie Hollyman get a welcome back.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Last time we chatted, you were on the farm and
I'm not sure what we in our minds began to
think about what sort of training, you know, could translate
from just farm life.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Did you find that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You when you came back, when you moved back here
from the farm, that you were strong as as a
result of farm life, you know what?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Yes, actually like a probably my best off season really
and that kind of just yeah, maybe from you know,
the farm work that you do throughout the day and
then yeah, just taking dogs for the runs and training
by myself.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It was really good.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Your sisters are crossfitters, like produced, Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Do they get more into doing CrossFit than you do
work in the farm easily?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I would say.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
I would say my younger sisters had more surgeries than me,
so they to cross.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Themselves too far.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I see some from time to time they are on
KO You're just to get some funny sports they do
the competition, the CrossFit competitions are they're getting hurt.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I know, it's insane. I don't know how they do it, really,
I genuinely don't.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They jump on a thing, but then all of a
sudden they're lifting weights and doing reps in the middle,
and then they're running and jumping again.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
That's how we Chelsea, just shaking their hair.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
There's more to it, guys, talk us through what the
and it's not a workout of such as work, but talk.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Us through a thing.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It might translate from farm life to being on the park.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Oh I like this one. I think mental resilience is
probably yeah, yeah, no, you kind of learned to. I
guess not know what your day is going to be like.
So we, for instance, carving, could have a cow that's
you know, not carving properly straight up into the yards
(16:24):
pulling a calf. And I found myself. I'll share something
with you, guys. I found myself. My partner Will said,
take your jury off. We've had a cow that's cars
We've pulled the calf, calf's all good. Cow prolapsed uterus,
so the uterus pops out. Meanwhile I'm looking going, oh, guy,
(16:44):
like the cow. The cow's having another calf. It's a twin.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And Will's like, nuh, get her up.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
And so I had my hands on this uterus and hey, guys,
guess what she's just got in calf again. So we
must have done Look at you farmer anyway, So I
feel like bet, I was going to say.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Is the local bit too far down the road? Should
the bet not have been there at some point?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Look it is quite remote, So you know, it's one
of those things that you've just got to you've got
to make a decision and you've got to run with it.
And Will is very good at that, so I just
kind of run with that. So yes, let's go mental resilience.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I'd like to say that incredible.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Sounds like he's the coach of the farm and you're
just jobs.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Job, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Have you tried any of the green snags yet?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
No, So let's work this out here.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Okay, Okay, we got we've got we've got three more games. Okay,
we'll look at your schedule, but will lead you to
come back here and literally lind Beck's lind Beck Butchery
are making the green snags in the countdown to the
end of the season.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And if you're up for a taste hair.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Will they make me sick?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
How many? How many they like?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Fourteen thousand they've already sold fourteen thousand and everyone's is
high five.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Unreal. They do do it. They've done this before. It's
not the first time, so they know what they're doing.
There's a lot of green food.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Color snagging bread.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
All right, thank you so much for the time. We
know how busy you are, and it is go time.
We can't wait to see you at it to GOEO
Stadium on Saturday lunchtime.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Thank you so much for having me
They came bounding over. What's a procedure.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is Roden Gabby versus the world. You have told
the tale of the birthday gift you brought for your
husband from Instagram and were understandably nervous about whether or
not it was a scam website.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, wish you know. It absolutely could have been.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And somehow the Batman wallet did arrive.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Terrible because the Batman. So it was a Batman wallet
with a little cutout so that when you slid your
license in the face would line up with the Batman
and you would look like you were wearing his mask.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
This didn't take into account what's his license and.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
New South Wales, so his photos on the wrong side
for the Batman to match up with it, so we
can't use the wallet.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So that was a fail. But it wasn't a scam.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
So that's anyway you think I would learn to stop
buying things off Instagram.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Knowing you as I do, I wouldn't have thought that
for a second. I've learned nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
So I put another thing for Father's Day, Batman thing.
It's not but I saw I saw a Father's Day
potential gift on Instagram that looked really cute, and I'm like, yeah,
all right, I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I'm out of ideas.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Why not? So it's a T shirt and you give
them a photo of the dad and child and they
embroider a little outline of that photo onto the T shirt.
And I was like, that's a cute idea. So I
put up the like I put up the photo, gave
them all the details, paid for it. Whatnot what I
(01:44):
expect it because what normally happens if you buy something
like this through office works or whatever it maybe like
a legitimate company.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
A real place.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, they'll send you a proof of what it's going
to look like before they continue the process.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
What a massive assumption, what a significant step in the
process to assume would just happen. And I know you've
done no research when you bought that wallet. It wasn't
until after you paid for it that you then went
searching for reviews of that website.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, you're right, But well, because you submit a photo
and they're only doing an outline, so I expected a
proof to then be like is that cool? Or should
I do a different photo? Because outlines look very different
to a color photo.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Gee, you're pretty cynical about whatever this thing is going
to be for someone who just paid for it.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Well, I didn't get a proof, and so that I
was just waiting by the mailbox to get this T
shirt to find out if it looked good or not.
I didn't know if it was going to look any
good until it arrived.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
This story better end with you like seeing this thing.
I hope it's turned up.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So it turned up.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It turned up and I've opened it. And did you
ever watch lyft Off?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I didn't watch Lyftoff.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Anyone out there who's ever watched Liftoff, you would know
the doll in Liftoff, the faceless doll.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, that sounds terrifying.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
It is a terrifying doll. And that is exactly what
it looks like my husband is holding in.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This embroidered photo.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Okay, you've just shown it to me. That is exactly
what you described to me it was going to be.
So I'm confused as to why you're surprised by.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
That, because it Nah, it doesn't look right. If they
sent me the proof, I would have been.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Like, nah, that's why they didn't see you the proof,
And then they're not going to like it.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He's holding the faceless doll.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It is terrifying. But you should have known Rodin Gabby
versus the world.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The eyes of the sporting world, specifically basketball. In the
countdown to the next NBL season, turned to the nation's
capital for the first time since how many years?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And was the last time three two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, unbelievable since the Canra Cannons were taking the court.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Our next guest, I'm so to say you used to
tell up the camera Cannons.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
He is the Australian basketball goat, the great Andrew Gays
getto mate, how I am good morning?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, well, well you say we used to tell up.
But when I first came into the NBL, it took
I think I think Camera beat us fifteen can chickeny
times before we were able to beat them. So they
had our number early on, that's for sure. And I
of all the things I've forgotten a lot that I
haven't forgotten that the Camera Cannons used to give us
(04:28):
a pasting on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You go, well, I remember when you did play against
the Canbra Cannons. When I would go watch as a kid,
my sisters were so into basketball, like they knew everyone
and everything, and obviously you were the opposition, so they
didn't love you. But then you were the flag bearer
at the Sydney Olympics in two thousand and it was
such a beautiful moment that from then on here like
(04:53):
they are just your biggest fan and they like got cheery.
The fan was around it. That was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That was an incredible time and it just feels like yesterday.
Just an amazing experience.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
The Olympic tradition, the Australian Olympic tradition with your family
goes back even before your five. Your old man went
a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Didn't he. Yeah, that's right. He was at the sixty,
sixty four and sixty eight Olympics, and then he coached
in the seventy two, seventy six, eighty and eighty four Olympics.
And in fact, even prior to that. In one fifty six,
the Olympic Games was held here in Melbourne and they
had an at each host city can put on an
(05:37):
exhibition sport and they picked that with the Australian rules football,
and my dad and his brother were selected to play
at the MC in the exhibition game of Australia rules football,
so in some way they or form. He went to
eight consecutive Olympic games.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah you're five good, but your old man's.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Age, I don't he was well and truly do it.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
The family has represented in both home ground Olympics in
the last century. So then who's going to represent your
family in Brisbane then.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Jesz, I don't know. My kids have probably passed that
stage where that that's going to come into consideration. Maybe
their kids is going.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
To be a lot of pressure at Christmas dinner. Sits
there at the head of the table, right, someone's got
to go. This is a tradition at this stage.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
We went to the Ais yesterday to have a look
at the court and some of the teams warming up
and a great can beer and basketball player you know
where Jesse Wagstaff for so many championships there in Perth
with the Wildcats, and he was He said, when he
was a kid, he used to come and watch the
Cannons and he always wanted and this thing. I didn't
grow up watching the Cannons. I grew up watching you
and the Tigers, he said.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He said.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I used to All I wanted to do was put
one of the basketballs in the cannon.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Do you remember to catch it from the cannon? It's
like a T shirt guard into the crowd, but it
was balls from the cannon.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You remember that, Andrew, he used to fire a cannon
into the crowd.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, I do h club. Each team back then had
a variety of different marketing opportunities in the way in
which they wanted to promote themselves, but that never came
across me or across my mind to shoot the ball into
the cannon, remember that. And I preferred to put it
through the little thing of a ring with a little
(07:21):
net hanging off it. That that was my focus.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
But there's been so much talk this week about the
fact that the NBL Blitz is here and the Cannons
have to make a team after this. What are your
thoughts on that and what do you feel because you're
part of the NBL community.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, we're very hopeful. We certainly the basketball community thinks
that the NBL needs more teams. There's a lot of
players that may not be getting the opportunities because it's
just not enough teams. And Canberra with their history, it
looks like you've done a bit of work on the
venue as well to bring it up to speed. I
(08:00):
know I might judging off what I see on the telly,
but if it's we've seen what's happened in Tasmania. They've
got a pretty small venue as well, probably four four
and a half thousand, which these days is relatively small,
and they've shown that both from on war and as
an economic model, they've figured out a way to make
it really successful. So there's no reason why Cammebra can't
(08:23):
do it, and I'm hopeful I'd love to see a
team back in Canbra.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You and us both before we let you go, we
you mentioned Phil Smarter moment ago, legendary Canbra Cannon.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
We just saw him on the TV a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
It looked like a final knocking off the North Melbourne
Giants and he rocked the comb over.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And as a man who went.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Gray younger, did you find that it was people? You know,
you were a smiling assassin. People didn't see you coming
and going what's this old bloke doing out here?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And you're right, you used to get it done.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I know, and anyone that had some here issues at
the early age. You know, the general he was, you know,
he's followed the challenge and when I started started to
grow go great very very early on, so it was
a little bit different. I remember a lot of times
the imports had come to Australia and even on our
(09:12):
team and they'd heard about me and they look at
me and go and you could just see and go, right,
what's going on here? It works, It work both ways,
I suppose. But now I like to think that I'm
growing into the age of my hair when of the
hair I had when I was thirteen. Hopefully I'm just
(09:34):
stay like this and some of the other age challenges
will be a benefit. On the other side.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, mate, you are the greatest, and the word greatest
is thrown around too often. You are fair and income
the greatest to do it in Australian basketball.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
And we'll chat to you when we get that license.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Good on you guys, Thanks to life.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Producer Chelsea is with us. You and Gabby are right
into the block and it is the highest rating show
each year of the reality shows in Australia maths it
is the second highest.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Rating show the reality show.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
That I've watched the Block.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Are you enjoying it?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
I love it?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, I thought after we were speaking with one of
the couples the other day that because they were doing
ground up build it wasn't a reno. They couldn't do
stuff in the middle of the night, and there wasn't
all the wacky snannigans that we've seen in previous seasons,
that maybe it did feel a little more tame, well
just not not as just as stupid and so.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
No, no, no, they fit the stupidity in Well, what was.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The stunt that you said the other day? They had
down tools to go and compete in something.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Roast each other, and then they played pickleball the other
day to win a pickleball court for the house.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
At least that has some kind of However, pigeon shooting too,
like clay pigeon clay shooting.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
There was some controversy because they were they were shooting
clay pigeons.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Anyway, this isn't about that. This is your who's upset
about this?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Oh, we both are. There was something that happened last
night that was.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Yeah, I just think that they should have gone about
it a different way. I think that they haven't gone
about it the right way. And if it was me,
I personally would not have liked it to.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Air like this good okay, So finally this show is
upset everyone else to let's so it was.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Just play no, no, you need a little bit of
prembo press play because this is not the bit we're
upset about. This bit is lovely.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
So there's a big announcement that happened on the show.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Here's the big announced use One's and Ben just received
a call that's left them extremely emotional, gay.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Talking away in tears. He's very upset.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But what we thought he's walking away from his missus,
well just from.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
They got a phone call. They've got a phone call
and that he's just a bit upset.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
She got some pretty bigs.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
We're having a baby.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
We just found out the sex of the Yeah, we
just found out.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
We're gonna have a boy, so having it little boy
twelve weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Got the results back from a blood test.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
It's going to be a little baby boy.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
So we're both over the moon.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That's Amazing's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
No, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, that was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
And by the way, found out they were pregnant the
same day they found out that was going on the show.
What a big day, Big day and good luck to
her with her exhaustion.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Yeah, the good on her for still going through with
it as well. Yeah, huge things to happen. At the
same time, I feel like.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You couldn't say no when you've been trying to get
seven years. But this is the bit that annoyed me
the most. Right, So, so, Scotty and shell you're going
around to see all the other couples like they do
every week, to talk about their design, give them some advice,
give them some direction if they're feeling a little lost.
Shelley loves to give them a hug if they're feeling
a bit emotional. And this is what they were also
(13:13):
doing while visiting the houses.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We need to tell these guys about House one's news
a baby. They're having a baby boy.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
So this is why's having mock tails.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And I completely didn't even clu on.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
But why is Scotty sharing their news of the block.
I don't care. I'm not letting my dad tell my friends.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
I don't know if we missed, like Emma and Ben
saying it was okay for Scotty and Shelley to go
around and start telling all the other house okay.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
With that, No, it's my news.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
To share your Scotty.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It's funny because when this all happened, I was very
upset about it last night and my husband turned to
me and he goes, there'd be something in the contract
to say if you and now to pregnant, see on
the Block, it's a block baby, so you have no
rights anymore. The Block owns this charge.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I think if you look into the fine print, Scotty
will raise this baby and then that baby will become
the new host of the Block.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The season five.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Thousand, Rod and Gabby versus the We're counting down to
Gio Stadium where the drizzle will have left, and there
is a dry ball, and there's lunchtime forty, and there's
a double head of this is it, and we're very
privileged to be joined by one of the stars of
our team.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Hopefully with the answer to how.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
The girls have breathed life back into the NRLW season
for the Raiders, Sophie Hollyman get a welcome back.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Hello, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Last time we chatted, you were on the farm and
I'm not sure what we in our minds began to
think about what sort of training, you know, could translate
from just farm life.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Did you find that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You when you came back, when you moved back here
from the farm, that you were strong as as a
result of farm life, you know what?
Speaker 6 (14:58):
Yes, actually like a probably my best off season really
and that kind of just yeah, maybe from you know,
the farm work that you do throughout the day and
then yeah, just taking dogs for the runs and training
by myself.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
It was really good.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Your sisters are crossfitters, like produced, Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Do they get more into doing CrossFit than you do
work in the farm easily?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I would say.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
I would say my younger sisters had more surgeries than me,
so they to cross.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Themselves too far.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I see some from time to time they are on
KO You're just to get some funny sports they do
the competition, the CrossFit competitions are they're getting hurt.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I know, it's insane. I don't know how they do it, really,
I genuinely don't.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
They jump on a thing, but then all of a
sudden they're lifting weights and doing reps in the middle,
and then they're running and jumping again.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
That's how we Chelsea, just shaking their hair.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
There's more to it, guys, talk us through what the
and it's not a workout of such as work, but talk.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Us through a thing.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
It might translate from farm life to being on the park.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Oh I like this one. I think mental resilience is
probably yeah, yeah, no, you kind of learned to. I
guess not know what your day is going to be like.
So we, for instance, carving, could have a cow that's
you know, not carving properly straight up into the yards
(16:24):
pulling a calf. And I found myself. I'll share something
with you, guys. I found myself. My partner Will said,
take your jury off. We've had a cow that's cars
We've pulled the calf, calf's all good. Cow prolapsed uterus,
so the uterus pops out. Meanwhile I'm looking going, oh, guy,
(16:44):
like the cow. The cow's having another calf. It's a twin.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And Will's like, nuh, get her up.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
And so I had my hands on this uterus and hey, guys,
guess what she's just got in calf again. So we
must have done Look at you farmer anyway, So I
feel like bet, I was going to say.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Is the local bit too far down the road? Should
the bet not have been there at some point?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Look it is quite remote, So you know, it's one
of those things that you've just got to you've got
to make a decision and you've got to run with it.
And Will is very good at that, so I just
kind of run with that. So yes, let's go mental resilience.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I'd like to say that incredible.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Sounds like he's the coach of the farm and you're
just jobs.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Job, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Have you tried any of the green snags yet?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
No, So let's work this out here.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Okay, Okay, we got we've got we've got three more games. Okay,
we'll look at your schedule, but will lead you to
come back here and literally lind Beck's lind Beck Butchery
are making the green snags in the countdown to the
end of the season.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And if you're up for a taste hair.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Will they make me sick?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
How many? How many they like?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Fourteen thousand they've already sold fourteen thousand and everyone's is
high five.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Unreal. They do do it. They've done this before. It's
not the first time, so they know what they're doing.
There's a lot of green food.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Color snagging bread.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
All right, thank you so much for the time. We
know how busy you are, and it is go time.
We can't wait to see you at it to GOEO
Stadium on Saturday lunchtime.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Thank you so much for having me
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