MINI: Hawthorn Players Media Frenzy

Christian O'Connell dives into the latest controversy surrounding two AFL stars who've been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. He shares his thoughts on the media frenzy surrounding their antics, comparing it to the infamous Ned Kelly stories of the past. Christian reflects on how things have changed, and how this kind of behavior wouldn't have even made the news back in his day. He also discusses the consequences the players are facing and how the public's reaction has been over the top. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. I was
watching the news yesterday evening right and there's been this
big ongoing story this week as if two AFL stars
are the new Ned Kelly's.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I've been horrified, horrified with the way these two young
lads have done what a lot of young lads do.
Have a couple of small beers, and Shenanigans happens.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shenanigans has happened. They're having to do this awful kind
of basically like hostage videos where ashen faced where you know,
and the reporter was talking about one of them going
and friends say that he is a shell of a
human being. Oh like so wait, they were in America.
It was a pre season thing. They had a night out,

(01:11):
a few drinks. They got on a scissor lift, got
up to two meters in the air. The police said, hey, lad,
you shouldn't be up there. They're agreed, came down, got arrested,
spread the night in the cell. They've got to do
sixteen hours of alcohol education possible community service. They've got
to go back to Arizona for the sentencing, and it's

(01:31):
just like this is you know, these days we moan
that they're too boring, that the sports stars are done.
This is how they used to carry on. It wouldn't
even make the news. One there's been stripped to the
vice co captaincy. You would have been promoted to the captain.
The actual character would been stripped because there was another
legend who's gone to America and got airborne or scissor

(01:52):
lift after a night out. The way they're being hauled
out on the news is that these terrible ned Kelly
likes serial killers videos where they have videos, so I
just next thing I know, I woke up in a cell.
I was laughing. I'm not encouraged criminal destruction, but it's like,
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