MINI: Senior Of The Year Mix Up

South Australia’s Senior Australian of the Year ceremony was hit with several mix ups.. sending the eventual winner on a chaotic ride before he finally received his award.

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
This is an incredible story from the Senior South Australia
of the Year Awards and sadly the irony is it's
a senior mix up at the Senior of the Year Awards.
I feel sorry for the people hosting it and organizing

(00:49):
it that they've had a senior moment at the Senior
of the Year Awards. There should be a category called
Senior of the Year and winners. It's a short acceptance
of awards. Walks are go and get it Rio. You've
got the details. We have audio as well. This is

(01:10):
uncomfortable listening. Brackets amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
It was their their night of Nights on the weekend
on Saturday. Obviously we all had it in our calendar.
The southest I was streaming on KO Sports. I'm happy
to pay twenty five bucks for that. You know now,
is it none a.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Roberts Actually, you know what if he was, he could
bet that broke Senior Year Award.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
A multi on Bonny had the kids while I watched it.
Absolutely yeah, yeah, no spider alert, guys. I'm going to
black it back later. So they got to their big award.
It's an RSL. It did look like it in my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
This is an RSL when everyone went to meet.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
To meet trade great, Yes, I'd love that.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
But then they got to the big award, which is
obviously Senior of the Year, and first.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
They didn't have this like heavyweight category to leave it
in weight.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Lightweight Senior of the Year four hundred and sixty kilos award.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Well, the Heavyweight Senior of the Year award winner was
first announced as Malcolm Benoy.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
And that right there is a senior name.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, and he looks like any anyone know of any
babies born this year called Malcolm.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
We welcome into the world. Young by it don't exist.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I bet they're dying out. You know, there was a
couple of years ago the name Gary was dying out.
Nigel where does that Nigel's where does.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
That leave the great name Malcolm? You know the swerve
bring that back.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, this is the moment that Malcolm Benoy was announced
as the winner.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
And short moment that Malcolm's life going from zero to
hero and then what back down to zero. The twenty
twenty six Senior South Australian of the Year for South
Australia is Malcolm Benny.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Congratulations was like bloody.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Hell, family's gonna be so faud. Malcolm's final winner, like
the oscars.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like the oscars, A Senior Australian of the Year is
in fact.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Welcome James.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It is James.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
James Curry now reading up on this.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Malcolm was Midwark when this old bok stay there, Senior Malcolm.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
He was just about to hit the stairs to go
up onto.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
The simmer frame.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh my god, poor guy.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
So then James comes up, and then James gets celebrated,
and then like five minutes later this happens.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Guess what. Guess who's back, old slim shady Guess who's back.
Malcolm's back. Malcolms back.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
All right, we're moving along as we hear this. Now
apparently it's our notes that are incorrect, and we will
let's scrub the last five minutes. Let's start all of again.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
James open the.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Card again and announced that the twenty twenty six Seeing
Australia in the right Year for South Australia is mac ben.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Or again twenty six is it? Is it future Senior?
They currently the Junior Awards when mat.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
So Malcolm had it, jameson had it, had it, lost it,
got it back? Oavid to James, James, give that back?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Note can you hand it over to Malcolm? Meet in
the middle. Oh my god, wouldn't you love to have
been there though? Oh yeah, just to soak in the awkwardness.
I never thought we would have said that they're going
to share it. No, it's Malcolm's.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Reward, James, Malcolms, James, get your grubby hands off.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Who do we feel sorry for now? James? I feel
sorry for James.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
But then Malcolms had his moment ruined because tarnished.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, he's always going to wonder it was it really mine? Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, Also they must have had a ConFlat but one
moment right where they would have gone.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's actually it is Malcolm's.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
And we've all been in situation on a live or
anything where you go, don't worry about it. As a
boss once said to me once, when I've been in
a situation like that, it's any mistake.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
If you tell the listeners and I'm turning it out.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
If commercial radio australimers r on those awards, it's James's award.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
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