Two In The Think Tank - 41 - Olympics Special!

Episode Date: August 3, 2016

Unless you've been living under a rock (or just don't care about the Olympics) you would know that the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are just TWO DAYS AWAY! So this week the Do Go On team have joined forces to present one OLYMPIC sized episode, presenting the stories of some of our favourite Olympians!Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Now is the time. Mycomputercareer.edu. Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Do Go On. I am a special boy, Dave Hornicky and I'm here with my special friends, Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart, hello special team. Hello special boy. Hey, I feel special. I hope you do. Why is this special? Well, we are doing a very special episode. I may as well say it right at the top. We are doing an Olympic special this week, guys. Wow. We're doing an Olympic special because the day this episode comes out, we are just two days away from the amazing opening ceremony,

the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Will it match the 2000 Sydney Olympic opening ceremony that just spoke at length about? In my heart, no, nothing ever will. But every time they say, surely this is the best opening ceremony. You know, they all say that? No, they've still say that. They still say that. They still say that. Anyway, they all say, what about the, when they come out with a thousand horses? What about when John phantom and a living in John sang dare to dream? I mean that was a heartbreaking moment.

When they came out with six they came out with 6000 hills hoists. Anyway, I don't cry again. What famous Rio duo will be? I've been missing Mr. Barricus. Also the birth of... Nothing as sweet, the taste still drives me crazy for international listeners. As soon as I do yourself a favour. Listen, Lea, look at the key webster. We're at two Mickey Webster.

And my nipples. That's right, you called your nipples strawberry kisses, gross. Oh, rickus, oh, anyway. We've just a couple of days from the biggest event on the sporting calendar. Only happens once every four years. And then- Like Matt getting laid.

Oh, the biggest event. Every four years. Only two days, Matt. That was a private matter, yes. I know you told me that in confidence, but it's a weird arrangement that you have. Yes. And I felt the listeners needed to know. Sure, man, if you think that'd be interesting.

I think they're interesting. Matt is counting down the hours. Oh, good right. Anyway, let's get into it. But you guys, are you excited about the Olympics? I like the Olympics. No, no, not at all. Not in any way.

Are you serious? You don't like it at all? You don't watch it? The events? I used it. You're a black sport. I would have thought you don't like it at all? You don't watch it, the events? I used it when I was a kid, I did. You were like sport, I would have thought you'd be in it. Yeah, you're in it. Like real sport. What's not real about the Olympics?

It's the biggest lot of silly sports. I think you're just being purposefully the one who's disagreeing. I think that's what, I think you're just trying to put in a bit of. Do you think I'm playing devil's advocate? I think you're playing bad, pop. I think you're playing bad, pop. I'll say some sports and you tell me if you think they're real sport. Yeah, good, he's advocate. I think you're playing bad. I think you're playing bad. I'll say some sports and you tell me if you think they're real sport. Yeah good. He's great. Field hockey. No. High jump. No. volleyball. No. Shooting. No. With the pistol. Come on.

No. Okay. Basketball. Basketball. Basketball is a sport but I mean great but where's the butt in that? Well I mean the NBA is the high that's the pinnacle of basketball no one gives a shit about Olympics okay I sell it to an Olympic basketball water polo it's real that's that's a good sport okay Okay, I've got one. Jimastic. I love seeing the horses under the water. Oh Running horses bad mint and yeah surely your own book with a bit of bad mint. Shuttle cock Shuttle you mean for that? Look that's a silly sport. It's just like weird tennis. Yeah, table tennis talking about it's table tennis tennis But minutes table tennis is kind of cool like small things synchronous swimming

I mean taking a piss now like you are proving my point. That's dancing in the water. It's water dancing, but at the same time the things that I mean Things that There are a few things that the Olympics that are cool and I said field hockey. No field hockey is one of the cool ones I said no just because I couldn't open with a yes Well, but try to make you but like you know the 100 meter sprints pretty cool. Yeah, what about swimming? I don't know the swimming stuffs can be all right 200 meter breaststroke. Yeah, no. Yeah, it's all fine. It just feels a little bit. It's all pretty silly

I love it and I hate it. I love it. I whatever you're're right. I was just trying to be bad. But I don't have an opinion Well, I hope you're just annoying that they're doing in the middle of 40 season Jesus have some respect For the real for real sport Well, we are doing an Olympic special this week to celebrate the the game Just because it only happens once every four years. We thought we'd jump on the bandwagon because I got an email the game just because it only happens once every four years we thought we'd jump on the bandwagon because I got an email a few weeks ago from one of our listeners Andrew. We got an email. Okay, just because you were the one who read the email.

I mean, I have a check the email. You check the email. Yes, I'm the email master. That sounds way cooler than it is. That is pretty cool. It does sound very cool. So, Andrew, you're not saying, with the Olympics coming up, I wanted to recommend looking at one of my favorite Olympic athletes

Wow He said And then I thought oh that'd be that's really really cool and I looked into his favorite one of his favorite Olympic athletes I'm gonna talk about and I thought oh that's great But I feel that we could probably talk about a few Olympic athletes and then I I thought that maybe we could all do one each go around the table Yeah, do three mini three mini episodes in one will we talk about a I thought that maybe we could all do one each go around the table. Yeah. Do three mini, three mini episodes in one.

We'll be talking about a famous Olympic athlete. No, thank you. No, thanks for the offer though. Yeah, that's a nice idea, but no, I prefer it when you talk. I'm sorry, Andrew. Sit back quietly. Yeah, is that cool? That all right?

Thank you. That is cool, the bedminton. Pretty cool then. Pretty cool, badminton. Pretty cool then. Pretty cool exactly. So you're just joshing me because everyone, we have all written a report. Yeah, we bloody josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh josh Bloody Josh and with your mates God would be the bloody world champ say real a team over here Josh and with your mates Yeah, and I'm having a bit of a Josh and a throat over the mat. Hey you guys are no good now. Just Josh and you're all right Dave I'm better at breaststroke than Joshing

No, I'll just trick it Yeah, the best Josh. Yeah, because my middle name was nearly Josh, but they said James. David Josh is a silly name. David Josh. It's a funny bit of my name was David Josh and we talked about James. He'd be like, that's the worst name ever. But David, it would be Joshua, surely not David Josh.

I just felt so silly. David Josh. David Josh Hornicky. Sounds like a- Just kinda like Jess can't be a middle name, you know? I just felt so silly. David Josh. David Josh Hornicky. Sounds like a- Just kinda like Jess can't be a middle name, you know? Rachel Jess Smith. Yeah, you don't shorten middle names, that's why.

It's weird. It's a weird thing to do. Matthew- But Jess is a name. Matthew Dave Stewart. That's weird. David Matt Warnicky. David Dave Warnicky.

No, we thought David wasn't enough. We wanted to honor, I'm not even named out for anyone. But you guys generally like the Olympics. No, genuinely fun. Yeah, I love watching the Olympics. Probably the time that I watched the most sport in that four year period. Right.

Any events in particular? I like the swimming. What do we talk about? It's what I like watching the gymnastics. Yeah, gymnastics events in particular. I like the swimming swimming. What do we talk about this? I like watching the gymnastics. Yeah, gymnastics is really, really cool. Just because, but I tend to watch it like, ugh, oh no, because I'm so convinced they're going to hurt themselves.

Oh, I kind of enjoy it when they fuck up a little bit. No, but see, when I... It makes it seem a lot harder. Do you know, do you think? Oh, yeah. One of them falls off, you think, oh, actually, it's probably probably probably... It's probably quite hard.

No, but when I played basketball as a teenager, I sprang my ankle many, many times. Just my left one, I sprang nine times. So now when I watch other people play sports, I get like, what are I called post-traumatic stress? We're watching the movie. I can feel it. You were only eight sprang ankles away from making the Olympic squad.

What could it be? What could it be? on the eight spring decals away from making the Olympic squad. Come on, look at a bean. Look at a bean. What's playing your ankle once? They'll take you on second time. Show them on you. Show them on you. You are out of this squad. They're a time, maybe pick a different sport.

Yeah, come on. Nine times. Nine times. Fucking times. Nine times. That's just the left one. The right one was about four or five as well. At that point, like find an indoor activity, you know?

Your foot would just be flipping and flopping and it'd just be dangling. Chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, chikka, flip it and flop it. And the hip and then the hoppin. All right, so who's gonna kick it off then with it? Well, I think I'm going to kick it off

by talking about the one that Andrew has suggested. Cool. And I'm just gonna ask you, straight off the bat here. My question is simply, have you heard of the long distance runner, Emil Zatopeck? No. J.P. J.P. you have? I have. Very cool, very cool. I have heard of. You have heard of Emil Zatopeck, who was a a long distance runner and I'm going to give a bit of background and then talk about his Olympic feats or son and

his records feats F. W. T. S cuz he's a runner get it Just out the report man. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922, Amelia. Yeah was 1922 Czechoslovakia In 1922, Amelia was 1922, Czechoslovakia. She? Amelia was not a fact, she was the sixth count of one, two, three, four, five, six child in a modest family. Do that in Czechoslovakia, though.

Want the... Oh. For a second, I believed I could speak. Czech. I really honestly thought that it was like, have I told this story in the podcast where I went to mass? I've never been to really church. You're not over yet?

I went to mass on Christmas. I've never done that before in Paris when I happened to be there on Christmas Day. Which was a cool experience, but after two hours of then speaking French, I mean I understand you a word. We stand up every few minutes and they'd sing the songs in French and that was fine because it's the same tune for him, the famous ones, the Christmas Carols. On the way out, the priest is shaking everyone's hand and saying thanks for coming. He says something to me, I don't know, I guess that's what he's saying.

He says something to me in French. I don't want to make him realize that I've sat there for two hours Not understanding anything. He said so I just remember I made this noise. I just went And just can't walk and just can't walk Does that sound a little friends or maybe you'd be like oh he said something to me. I just I'm asking this hurt it. So silly That's a real that you know that people talk about the curb you're in seiz-yazam sort of like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Did you know any words? Did you thank you or something? We can just say, we... Bonjour.

He's like, thank you for coming. Hello. Hello. Merry Christmas. Take like... I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. You would have known. You would have known, merci. Merci.

Merci beaucoup. Merci beaucoup. I honestly have this panic, a panic Oh Jesus, I hope you enjoyed the service Hello Oh Jesus! Yeah, I hope you enjoyed the service. Hello! Do you already made it? My French knowledge would be very handy as well.

Thank you for coming Merry Christmas. My name is Jess! Gemma Bill Jess! All right, so... Hello! Sorry! Well, we're there. Our main man, Emil Zatopeck in Czechoslovakia, the sixth child in a modest family.

Sixth. That's right. So kind of, so kind of. Oh. At age 16, Emil began working in a shoe factory. Runners use shoes. So this is good stuff. Okay, all right, I see where you're going.

Later on when he asked how we got into running, he said, one day, the factory sports coach, I don't know why the shoe factory has a sports coach, but they do. My job has a sports coach. They come in and that's their full time job. It's to be able to show. Calls into sports coach. Yes, quick, we're hitting the volleyball court in two minutes. I'll be there a sports coach. They come in and that's their full time job. It's to whip you into shape. Calls into sports coach.

Yes, quick. We're hitting the volleyball court in two minutes. I'll be there, sports coach. Hold the calls. One day, the factory sports coach, he was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run,

but the coach sent me for a physical examination. It's lovely. It's so good. The factory has a big budget for this. The doctor said I was perfectly well. So I had to run. I when I got started, I felt I wanted to win, but I only came in second. That was the way it started. So that race had 100 people in it.

What? So coming in second is actually quite amazing considering you didn't even want to do it. And he didn't think he could run. He thought he was too weak and sick. He came second. So he wanted to run now. So he joined the local athletic club where he would develop his own training program. I don't know why he joined the club and then develop your own program. Modelled on what he had read about the great finish runner, Pao Numi. And when I say great, I mean unbelievably great. This is guy. Have you heard of Paavo Numi? No, no. He set 22 official world records, distances between 1500 meters and 20 kilometers.

He won 9 gold, three silver medals, in his 12 events at the Olympic Games. He once won the 5,000 meter and the 1500 meters on the same day. That's what? That sounds really good. He said Olympic Records in both. So that's his hero. Nick named the flying fin, this guy, Paavo. He always run with his own stopwatch in his hands. We could check what time he was setting.

Oh man, that's great. I reckon I've heard of the flying fin. The flying fin. Yeah. That rings a bell. Or maybe it just sounds cool. It does sound pretty sick. So influenced by his hero, the flying fin,

Zatopec, developed his own style, which experts to write it at first. But within a few years, most of the world's top distance runners were using versions of the Zatopec method. Wow. Oh, you run the Zatopec? Oh, is that cool? I also run the Zatopec. I am a Zatopec.

Oh, we are Zatopec, run. That's very cool. I don't know what accent they so it's not offensive. Exactly. That was from Out of Space. Zato Pick found to that regular training offered a form of escape from the oppression of Nazi occupation. Oh, your mates. No. But at this time in the 1940s when he's training the Nazis are occupying Czechoslovakia, this was not a great time for the locals, so he to escape from it began to train with levels of obsession and invention that no one had contemplated before. That's kind of cool. He was like, oh, it's work harder.

So just four years after starting his training in 1944, Amil Zatapek broke the Czechoslovak records for the 2000, 3000 and 5000 meters. Wow. At the end of the war he joined the checkers the park army and he continued to train. So he was in the army but then they let him go and do his training. I think mainly because I'm impressed with how I can how dedicated he was. It's funny that someone had to come up with that work harder. Well yeah no no one's ever thought about this before but I think it was just absolute crazy obsession. By this time he developed an other,

rather odd running style, which was very distinctive. Well, Jess is flailing your arms about, but it is actually a lot like that. So it was at odds with what's considered effective style at the time, and probably since, because he's head would often roll around. His face can tortered with effort while he's torso swung from side to side. The videos of this exist.

You can see videos of it. He often weased and panted audibly while running. Like, he was like, you know, like people do the, make fun of the tennis players now. He was like that, but running for 10,000 moves. He earned the nickname, Amille the Terrible of the chick locomotive. That's so great. He was described at the time by the presser. Everybody's doing a brand new dance now. Amille baby. The chick locomotive. At the time the press described him variously. He runs like a man who has just been stabbed

in the heart. Oh boy. He runs as a man who has just been stabbed in the heart. Oh boy. He runs as if there was a scorpion in each of his shoes. That one makes more sense because you would sort of be like, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, but if you just have been stabbed in the heart, I don't think you'd be running. But no one had contemplated putting scorpion in the shoe

before. Hello. So that was the secret. Very smart. When asked about why he did this, he said, I am not talented enough to run and smile at the same time. Sure. Okay. So he was a bit.

Yes. He was asked about his tortured facial expressions. He said, it isn't gymnastics or figure skating, you know. Oh, cop that. Cop that. I guess. Hitler. This is towards the end. What do you mean? Like you have to look good doing gymnastics. Yes. So in gymnastics and figure skating you get to do your own your face. Well it's all part of the, yeah. They grade you on your face. You do get grade on it.

You're supposed to make it look easy. The easier you make it look. That's why they look so funny. You don't have to make funny. You know what? When they do that. Gymnas, lands, and then they're panting but they're also smiling. Oh, it's a growing time. That is so weird. What're also smiling. He's like, Oh, I think I'm going to go in time.

That is so weird. What a weird thing. This is the Olympics. That's the Olympics. We're still talking about the Olympics. That's just weird. Olympics is a weird thing. I love weird.

I love weird. So his training was really weird. He would train in any weather, including snow, and would often do so whilst wearing heavy work boots, as opposed to special running shoes. Have you made a movie about this guy? Not that I've come across. So he would wear these running boots because it would make the normal shoes seem easier to run it. Yeah, sure. So and when he was in the snow he would put on three track suits. Very nice. Sometimes one track suit not enough. That's my rule.

Three tracksuits. See, I just get too hot. Yeah, surely the running will warm you up. Yeah, just put on your shorts. Don't want me ill. Check locomotive. Southropack was selected for the Checkers of the Vark national team for the 1946 Champion ships or European championships in Oslo and Norway, but only managed to finish fifth in the 5,000 meters

He did however break his own check record So he's doing well best in the country, but on the in Europe Fifth best which is still pretty good So he trained even harder Couple his latest first Olympics were in London 1948 when he was 26 years old The government didn't so the government's quite oppressive at the time. They didn't want him to participate in the opening ceremony in case it made him tired. Aww.

So he temporarily walked his way into the Danish team in order so he could join the parade. Aww, yeah, that'd be so much fun. It's a real catering. I mean, it's the worst part of the ceremony to watch because it goes for 17 fucking years. Do you watch it? No. I love their outfits. It's like, it for 17 fucking years. Do you watch it? No. I love the outfits look like a cross over the outfit. What about the outfits?

Well, let's say for example, because it's usually overseas, so it's a weird time here, so we might tape it. Right. And then I'd watch it and I'd fast forward that bit and I'd get to Australia. And I'd go, yeah. I watch the Australian thing with it. I watch the Australian thing with it. And then I'd fast forward.

I love the outfits, especially some of the stuff that's out there. I'll start off with the outfit especially you know some of this stuff up. It's from the island nations or from Africa. They're always really cool stuff and as are always terrible. It's kind of embarrassing. It's so bad. It is funny like it's on purpose almost. But I reckon you it's it's the worst job to get a record. Whatever you do. Yeah. This time media is just gonna give you shit. It is. It's not good. It's not that hard. I reckon they're fine. I could care. I think you have them have been pretty terrible. It's a green and gold track suit. Oh yeah, I reckon that's about right. So but like, oh but honestly, that's not what I would have done. All right. Just Perkins got an opinion. Everyone shut up for a second.

Let's hear about fashionista over here. What does she got an opinion. Everyone shut up for a second. Let's hear about Fashon Easter over here. What does she got to say? I would have done it to Golden Green. For shame. Cop that, Jess. Where that came from. Now you look good. I like that scarf you're wearing.

Thanks mate. Sorry everybody. Hahaha. So is that the Olympics starting 48? He won the 10,000 meter gold medal. 10,000 meters is so far. So far What's that 10k's? I'm running that soon. Oh, yeah, what do you mean soon? What for fun run? 10k. 10k. Nothing fun about it right. No, I did a 5 did a five K that was enough well I have not trained for it. It's not gonna be good. It's not gonna be fun at all No, I've got some I've paid attention to this story, Matt

Zato Peck he finished second in the 5,000 meters Which was run during a rainstorm which you think he'd be pretty used to because he runs in the snow so he gets a goal-battle and silver medal The following you he really stepped it up and broke the 10,000 meter world record twice. And then he broke the record and then he broke his own record. He's own record, yeah. Oh, that's cool. I mean, wait until you get back. You'd like to be like, suck it past me.

And over the next four running seasons, he did it three more times. So he just kept improving his own record. Are you kidding? He set records into 5,000 meters, 20,000 meters. How far someone can run in one hour, 25,000 meters, 30,000 meters. He won the 5,000, 10,000 at the 950 European Championship and the 10,000 meter at the next European Championship.

So he's winning a lot, but he's most successful Olympic Games. It's the next one, 1952, in Helsinki. Zato Peck won gold in the 5,000 meters. So he didn't win that one last time. His victory this time came after a ferocious last lap in under a minute, during which he went from fourth place to first in the final turn. No, he just got there.

On the last 200 meters. His wife, Dana Zato Kovar, Dana Zato Kovar, who was born on the same day and the same year as her husband, exactly the same age. That's kind of cute. She won a gold medal in the javelin throw. Oh, she was an elite. Only a few moments after he won the five-for-operate. I don't know if you know this, the Olympics, obviously, they run the 10,000 meters on the track

and they did the javelin in the middle. So he's running laps around who while she's getting her own gold medal Oh my god, I'm dying that's that is so cool He also won gold in the 10,000 meters so bang. He's done the double right which is incredible He's got two gold medals now, but he's greatest feat came as a last minute decision He decided to try synchronize the swimming. He decided to come in. Because that happens like it's a school carnival. So someone's just dropped out of an event.

Can anyone feel in for this? I'd be so good if the Olympics were like that. Well, back in 1952 it was because he decided at the last minute to run in the marathon. What? He had never run a marathon in his life. He was like, I've got two gold medals. That's like, I'll give it a go. 42. Yeah. So his event, his biggest event at the Olympics is 10,000 meters. Right? A marathon is 42,195 meters. So it's like doing four of those things again, much, much longer. He's already tired and he hasn't trained at all. Oh my god, I know what he's gonna do.

But he's strategy for the marathon was simple. He just raced alongside Jim Peters, who's a British guy. Jimmie Peters. He was the world record holder at the time, so he's like, I'll just keep up with this guy. Oh, that's smart. See, that's smart. People don't think like that. No.

If you want to be the best at something, just run next to the person who's already the best at it. And then at the end, just go a little bit quicker. Yeah, like, say... Kick him in the dick. See you later, PD. Woo! If you want to start a really popular social media website, just run next to...

Oh, mate. Zuckerberg. Um... Yeah, I'm not sure. And then at the last possible second. Last but not least, kick him in the dick. Kick him in the dick. Run across the 50's line.

Yeah. Collect your billion dollar check. Just steal, probably just steal. Why aren't more people successful with this basic and nice, you know? Well Matt, you could do this. We'll never get on it before, probably. Are you planning now to run alongside the winner of this 10 kilometer race you're doing, Matt?

Yeah, I'm just gonna run alongside the winner. So I'll take the rest of the strategy is After a punish so he's running alongside the world record holder Never run around for ever after a punishing first 15 kilometers So already further than he's ever run probably in which Peters knew he had overtaxed himself Amel asked the Englishman what he thought of the race thus far. Hey. How do you think we're doing? The astonished Peters told the check that the pace was quote too slow in attempt to a Psych out and slip up Zodiac. So he's like, I've been running faster than I've ever run before or tell him and running slow

And I'll psych him out. He's pushed himself. He's pushed himself too. Yeah, he's like I've gone too hard. I'm gonna try I'll psych him out Oh, it's just yeah, we're running too slow to be honest. can run to my best time at which point Zartepic responded by simply Accelerating and so keep killing As Zartepic entered the stadium in first place 70,000 people chanted his name with such spine tingling you nan You know you know You know, you know, you never see that's a hard one. So, Janet is saying in such a spying tingling way that one British journalist described it as quote, the greatest happening in athletics history. At that moment, recalled one Antonio, the future

present, one Antonio Samaranch, a future president of the IOC International Olympic Committee, he said, at that moment, I understood what the Olympic spirit means Peters someone winning a race Peters the world record holder No, it's fucking sparring. Yeah, they go a right a ran really fasted arm inspired Jim Peters did not even finish the race Zeta peck won the race and set an Olympic record fuck off. He's never run a marathon Zeta peck won the race and set an Olympic record fuck off. He's never run a marathon. He's incredible I love that he's like so how we doing peaty boy. Yeah, how are you? Oh, now we're going to his slow. Oh, oh, we oh shit. Okay, so yeah Are you gonna run for are you gonna run hey keep up Jimmy gonna run faster to know the 25th ago Jimmy Jim Jim Jim Jim's dead you guys

Don't have a hard attack Not long after that. Well Jim did nearly die a couple years later. In 1954, the Vancouver Commonwealth Games, he reached the stadium in first place, 17 minutes ahead of the next runner, 10 minutes ahead of the record, but he collapsed repeatedly and failed to finish. Oh, in 11 minutes, he staggered only 200 meters.

Oh my God. Oh, in 11 minutes he staggered only 200 meters. Oh my God. He collapsed, he was stretched it off and never raced again. He said later on, I was lucky not to have died that day. That is incredible, he was so, that 10 minutes under the word record. Oh my God. That is the last lap and he can't do it, I imagine. So Jimmy Pater's pushed himself a lot.

I was out to pick, so now he's won three gold medals. He attempted to defend his marathon gold medal the next Olympics however, Melbourne on the big side, 56 however, he suffered a groin injury while training. So bad he was hostile. Somebody kicked him in the dick. Well, yes. He was hospitalized for six weeks. He's a big kick. Made two mistakes there. First, he was kicked in the dick. And secondly, he trained for the marathon. Yeah, don't train. Surely you'd keep up a good thing. Don't train. Just win it. Sadly, he resumed training after leaving the hospital the day after leaving, but never quite regained his form. He only finished six of the marathon.

And he retired from competition in 1957, age 35. Wow. In 1966, he gave one of his gold medals to the legendary Australian runner Ron Clark, who was, despite setting like over, I think, two dozen world records himself, he never won an Olympic gold medal. So Zartepek gave it to him because he was a hero for him. Very sadly, for Zartepepek in the 1960s, he stood up to the Communist Party in charge

in an event known as the Prague Spring. He was stripped of his rank and expelled from the army and the party which he'd been serving. And he was very dedicated to the Communist Party, but he stood up to them. They removed all important positions from him, and he was forced to work in a string of inferior and dangerous positions like mining and digging, digging holes and like pretty awful stuff.

And for a time all of his records and existence were stripped completely from the books. So he acted like he never existed. His image was rehabilitated by the Czech President, Vaklov Havol in the early 1990s. So he regained his faith. Wow, like quite a while later. A long regained. Wow, like a lot of while later. A long time later, nearly 30 years, no, 25 years later. And he died in the year 2008, 78. Wow. In 2013, the editors at Runners World magazine,

they like running, selected him as the greatest. And the world. Well, they could seceded him as the greatest runner of all time. Wow. He remains the only person ever to win the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon at the same Olympics. That's incredible. He ran all three events in just eight days. We ran a long way. In 2012 he was named among the first 12 athletes to be inducted into the IWAF International Association of Athletics, Federations, Hall of Fame.

Other people inducted include Carl Lewis, Australian Betty Cuthbert, Jesse Owens, and Zartepex Hero, the Flying Finn, Paavo Nermi. Awesome. So there you go, what a cool dude. What a cool dude. What a cool dude. That is really fascinating.

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No, I'm not asking a question. Have you heard of John Landy? Yes. Dave. Yes, but I don't know. Why, to be honest. Okay, well that's... Was it a thing, a big thing with Ron Clark?

Yes. I heard a little bit about this. John Landy is an Australian, so he was born in Melbourne in 1930. And he went to Melbourne Memorial Grammar School, which is now part of Corefield Grammar and and Jolong Grammar School. And he graduated from Melbourne University in 1954 receiving a Bachelor of Agricultural Science. Oh, he knows a thing or two about plants, does he? No, there's a thing or two. Now, he became a serious runner during his uni years and he joined the Jolong Guild Athletic Club in 1949. And he was a member of the Australian Olympic team

at both the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the 56 Summer Olympics here in Melbourne. Oh, so he would have seen Zartep. A similar time, yeah, exactly. He actually took the Olympic oath of the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne. You know how there's always like one. Oh yes, I once got a...

On behalf of all athletes. Oh, love athletes. So it was John Landy at 56 in Melbourne. Here in Melbourne. That's a real honor. Isn't it? And it was John Landy, which is pretty cool. Now the point, I've always really liked the story of John Landy, and it's not even necessarily about...

Like he was obviously a very talented runner, and that will become apparent, but... His story is more of like incredible sportsmanship and just human spirit and that's why I really like this story. Is that when you truly understood the Olympic spirit? Yeah, it is and that's why I enjoy the Olympics and maybe after this, maybe you do. I'm out your cold cold heart. Maybe you can enjoy the Olympics.

And you can salute Queen Elizabeth the second as we all should. So on on the 21st of June in 1954 at an international meet in Finland, John Landy became the second man after only after a guy called Roger Bannister to achieve a sub four minute mile. Ah yes. Ah the four minute mile. Oh my god. Recording a world record time of 3 minutes 57.9 seconds, which was rounded up to 3 minutes 58 seconds because of the rounding rules that were in effect at the time. So 3 minutes 58, he ran a mile. I thought, why are they running it up? I know. I know the answer.

Yeah, hey, we all know that you ran 3 minutes 57.5, etc. But. But. Just to be safe. It's just easy to put it on the board. We've only got so much chalk. Yeah, Yeah, I just write an eight eights are hard in chalk. Can I just say I'll just run out to four minutes? Can I just say you let's just say you did it in zero? I just I was right. Draw tick. I'll just draw a tick. I'm just yep. Did it take your certificate and move on. I'll just do it. Yep, tick. Did it. Take your certificate and move on. Park off. How about everyone gets an Olympic medal?

That's much easier. Yeah, I'm into this. Yeah, that would be okay, wouldn't it? If we all got one, then it wouldn't matter. Yeah, no, okay, there it is. There's the point. Yeah, it would matter. All right, okay.

So yeah, he broke the record and that record was held for more than three years. Internationally, he's probably best known for his part in a mile race in the 1954 Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, which you were mentioning before as well, because you're most... That's right, they're all the same... They're all the same year. He ran his second sub-four-minute mile in the race, but lost to Roger Bannister, who had his best time ever and and this

meeting of the world's two fastest Miles was called it had a few different names they called it. Duh! I bet rhymes. Me too. The rumble in the mile. The trundle in the. We've got it.

It's pretty dramatic names. We've got the miracle mile. Oh that's good. Or the race of the century. I like that. But there's a lot of the centuries isn't it? And the dream race. Dream race kind of sounds century? I like that. There's a lot of of the centuries. And the dream race. Dream race kind of sounds a bit racist, doesn't it? The dream? Yeah, the masterpiece. Yeah, that sounds wrong. Of those, I think I like a miracle mile. Anyway, do you like, I think you liked

race of the century the most, Matt? Yeah, I mean mean they're all a little bit kind of, they just sound a bit like they were made by a machine, you know. There's no personality to any of them. They also sound a bit cold. What would you call it? So you got two of the best mile runners. I really like rumble in the jungle type of thing. Uh-huh. So what about, and where were they?

Vancouver. Is that like a jungle? No. What is it? That's like a Canada. It's like a Canada? No. What is it? That's like a Canada. It's like a Canada yeah. Okay let's say and what's another way of saying running race? Sprint? Sprint it. Oh that's not really Sprint it's not. What about this? The long distance race in Canada. This, the long distance race in Canada. I like it.

Yeah. What about a trial of the mile? Oh yeah, see there's like a Ram there. It's good. A trial of the mile. That's pretty good. Hashtag. Hashtag trial of the mile.

Get a telephone and dial. Um, dial a mile. While everyone is, else is running somewhere around a mile. What about the mile that takes less than a while. Oh, that's yeah, that's better I've been too thought about careers in advertising. I think so. I think I've got a way. I can't already do working it Yeah, do you yeah, all right? I'll write some ads Wow, I hate to be the sad loser acting in those ads It's me. Okay, so yeah, so everybody, there's a lot of build up around this race, the miracle mile race, the century, the dream race.

It was heard over the radio by a hundred million people. They're still running. They're still running. Yep, they're still running. Okay, well that's why you can't be a good commentator, okay? Now be more like this, and here they go. They're running, and here they keep on going. Here they go, they're running, and they're running.

And one of them is ahead of the other. Can't quite see. Good. They're running. They're running, and they're running. They're bit out of sight now, but we'd like to assume that they are still running. They are running a race of their lives. Here they go running and running, running with their legs and all of their legs are running.

Here they are and they're running now. Run, run, run, run any run and running up there. Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, and then here we run. Here we go, and then it's a four minute race. And oh my goodness, they do they run. Yes, yes they do, they run, and they run. And off they run, and they're still running, and et cetera. What's up, they stop running. Just getting there, still running. Four minutes of that.

That's exhausting, but 100 million people listen. So, wow, that must be pretty good. And you're listening. And you're listening as they're running. It was seen on TV as well, because, yeah, we're seeing on television. I almost need to tell you, you can see it for yourself. There they are, running away, running away

from the person behind and towards the person in front, unless you're the leader then just running into the buddy distance there into the space that has been Yeah, I'm doing a stop here. I was just trying to know if you wanted a buddy. No, that was just someone turning the radio off. I'll just tune in about three minutes. Yeah, maybe if you could just let me know. Anyway, the famous moment I should say of this race was on the final turn of the last lap. Landy looked over his left shoulder just to see what's going on behind him. Because he's sort of in the lead.

He looks over his left shoulder right as Roger Bannister passed him on the right. So he sort of did a leg over. So he looked to his left. I'm all good. That was good. Shee! a banister passed him on the right. So he sort of did a like a look to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So he looked to his left. So this exact moment as Landy sort of looks over his left shoulder and Vanessa passes him on the right. It was created by Vancouver sculptor called Jack Harman in 1967 and and it stood for many years at the entrance to the Empire Stadium in Vancouver, which is now no longer there so the statue's been moved. But the statue still exists. That's what I'll live the stadium.

Yeah, I think that's kind of nice. It of like a really famous moment in both of their careers. So Roger Bannister did you win? Yes. Oh. That's okay. That's alright. What are you telling the story of a loser? Oh fuck, both of you.

David just told this story about this guy. He just won everything. And you've brought a story of a loser. Can I go on, please? I'm sure if you want to. Oh, I have a story of a loser. Can I go on please? Sure if you want to Okay, so Dave's mate won every single race city because I remember he can fit for Oslo Okay, so coming and then he came back. He trained. Yeah, so give Landy a chance to come back Okay, yeah, thank you. So that's so that's how

Can I just say Jess not a lot of people tell it to me straight. And what you did there showed a lot of moxie. You've got the job. Yay! You can be in one of my crappy commercials. I can't wait. So that was that race at the Commonwealth Games in Vancouver is kind of how he's known internationally.

But in Australia, he's remembered for his performance in the 1500 metre final at the 56 Australian National Champions, just pride, just pride of the Melbourne Olympic Games. Just before? Just before the Olympic Games. So to tell this story, I found a piece written by Harry Gordon, it was written in 2004, and he knows, or has known John Landy for a very long time, so I really like this whole article is really, really nice, so I'm just going to read part of it now, like most of it, anyway, and it says a lot about John Landy's

character as well, which is sort of the whole point of why he's so famous in Australia. So it starts with this, it says, to John Landy, it was an unfortunate accident, a diversion really, and certainly not an important event in his running career. He was never allowed to forget it though, and reckons that it came to haunt the rest of his life. A lot of people seem to think it was the most significant thing I ever did in running. He said, he has said, it wasn't, but the press grabbed it and made it look that way. The incident in question occurred at Olympic Park Melbourne on March 11, 1956, during the

Australian Mile Championship. Diversion on Naughty was named at the end of 1999 by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame as the nation's finest sporting moment of the 20th century. Wow. Yeah. And it has been commemorated by a larger than life sculpture called Sportsmanship, erected directly across the road from Olympic Park. God, this guy's sculpted everywhere. That's kind of cool. So what actually happened? It all began when Ron Clark, who you mentioned?

Ronny. World record holder. I never got the gold medal, but my man's at a pick, everyone's gold. The youngster who would one day hold every word record from every world record from two miles to 20 kilometers. Wow. Came a cropper. God, I love Australians.

Came a cropper. So he's... Do you want to start? I'm just going to say Matt needs to translate that. He fell over. He fell. You know what? The next sentence explains it.

So as Clark crashed down after clipping another competitor's heels, Landy, who was very close behind, leaped desperately to clear his body. So he's jumped over him. Just because, like, he is standing just jump. Yeah, you go, oh, I've got something in my way. So he jumps, but he doesn't quite manage to clear him and he spikes Land on the inside of Clark's arm. Oh, that sounds painful. Right, so Landy pulled up, and while with other runners

streaming past him, Landy took the time to drop back to Clark, who was still on the ground and check how badly hurt he was and yes he also apologized. Sorry about that. We went back and went, are you okay? Oh no. Are you sure? Yes Matt.

I know it's just fun. I never knew that he spiked him. I just thought he went, yeah. I didn't know that I was there. Yeah, I just thought he went, oh this guy was falling over and I'm going to get help him out. I didn't realize it was because he'd hurt him. Is that worse than, like, it's less cool now?

Yeah, I don't know. I remember as a kid because I've run at that term stadium and I reckon our teachers told us about that one when I was at school. And I was just like as a kid I was like what are you doing? Just go and win the race. Talked worry about him later. Man, he's still be there. He's still be there. It's probably fair enough. It's probably fair enough.

So he's gone back and checked and assured that the injury wasn't too serious, Landy looked up, then did something that astonished most of the 22,000 spectators. Oh, wow, there's a lot of people watching, I forgot that bit. To sum in my head, I was just thinking, that it was running. 22,000 people watching. With Clark now on his feet and urging him on, he began to chase a field of runners that had gone a long way past him. He had about a lap and a half to go, at the Bell's lap.

Which is the final lap where the bell goes off. He was fairly hurtling. He's running. And amazingly, he won the race. His active shivery had cost him perhaps up to seven seconds, and there was no doubt he sacrificed the chance of a world record. His time was four minutes, 4.2 seconds. I don't think I knew he won the race either.

He won. I don't know. He he won the race either. He won. I don't know. He stopped to help his friend. So he's not a loser, man. He's a goddamn winner. And that was a big, that was like, that was an Olympic race. No, that was the, um, the championship before the, before the Olympics. World championships.

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He took a foot race into folklore. I was privileged, I was a privileged witness. And I have to say that after more than half a century of watching and writing about sport all over the world, I've never seen a finer example of undiluted sportsmanship. What a dude! How cool is that? Next day I reacted the only way I knew how. He got on Twitter.

Basically, he got on his newspaper. In my newspaper, the Sun News pictorial, I wrote an open letter to John Landy about his actions. The entire letter, fashioned in bronze, now sits at the base of the sculpture created by Mitch Mitchell, also cruel parenting, their Mitch Mitchell. So, he's full names probably Mitchell Mitchell. That's awful.

That is an absolute shocker. And this is what I like that he says a couple paragraphs of worth quoting. He's quoting himself, which is adorable, but this is what he wrote in the newspaper at the time and this is what it says underneath the sculpture of him now. So it says yours was a classic sporting gesture. It was a senseless piece of shivalry, but it will be remembered as one of the finest actions in the history of sport. In a nutshell, you sacrificed your chance of a world record to go to the aid of a fallen rival. And in pulling up, trotting back to Ron Clark, muttering sorry, and deciding to chase the field, you achieved much more than any world record.

But he also said, he said since that he regrets it. He wishes that he didn't focus on it so much. Sort of. He's all right. He doesn't regret it. He doesn't regret it. He just makes such a fuss out of it. Yeah, right. He's humble. But I thought you were sort of saying,

I achieved more stuff than that. That's what it sounded like when you said it before. It's like, don't change my accent on that. I did a lot of better stuff. No, he's just saying like, stop making a fuss. I just did what anybody would do. I founded Apple Computers. It's not what anybody would do.

Honestly, I just did what anyone else would do when they'd stabbed another eraser. With their boots. You know, it just take, like, he's like, what are my sporting heroes? And you're just shooting all over him because he accidentally hit him. Step on a man.

Like, he still went back and helped him. Yeah, no, no, you're right. I mean, hero always says, what was this doing when anyone would do? Well, that's exactly it. Yeah, no, no, you're right. I mean, hero always says, I'm just doing what anyone would do. Well, that's exactly it. But one time I would love to see on the news report when they say like, yeah, you saved the kid from that burning house. What everyone's calling you hero, what do you have to say to that? Yeah, I am a fucking hero. I've loved to hear that one day. I mean, so guys. Yeah. Yeah, what are you reckon? What are you reckon? I just risked my life. I just saved the kid. So great.

Fuck, I'm a hero. Yeah, no, so about that, Jess. Yeah, no, it's fine. So about Peter Landy. John Landy. John Landy, who's name right? OK, that's sort of the point. So like Harry goes on to say, and again,

a lot of people are wondering why you pulled up. The truth is, of course, that you didn't think about it. It was an instinctive action of a man who's made is in trouble. In the record books, it will look a very ordinary run for these days. Wait. But then he says, but for my money, the fantastic gesture and the valiant recovery, make it overshadow your magnificent miles in Finland and Vancouver. It was your greatest triumph and it is fitting that it took place in your hometown. So it's like, you already had

you already had a win, which is great, but you also did it in a really sportsman leeway. Yeah. What was it fun? That is, yeah, the fact that he won the race as well was pretty ridiculous. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. But yeah, it's exactly. And pretty embarrassing for everyone to beat.

Yeah. Exactly as he said, like it was just instinct. He stopped, he got out his like his little first aid kit. Yeah, so Seven stitches Learn to sow yeah, yeah, drove him down to the hospital YouTube status I was in a Get a part came back

Change back into his outfit did some stretches stretches, did six warm-up laps. Mine as well finish the race. Took off for very well and still beat them by a good 17 seconds. I really like this part of what Harry is saying because it takes it to a new level which I really enjoy. So he says, so long afterwards I wouldn't change a word. It's my belief that some of the proudest history of our nation had had a lot to do with people reacting generously, selflessly, courageously. And yes, instinctively where their mates have been in trouble, which is nice, but then he says in so many places, in bushfires, in floods, in battlefields, in the surf. And on the track. I love that kind of patriotism.

Yeah. It's like, you know, what's something different about our country, Australia. We help our mates, you know, and then other countries where they just, if they see a mate in trouble, they'll kick them. What's that? You need my help. And I'm gone. Yeah, that's what I do because I'm not Australian. Yeah. Who invented helping out people. Mate ship. It's so funny. It's pretty funny. We're pretty dumb.

Well, one of the- Good on us. One of the people that influenced his progress. Who's this, sorry? John Lundy. John Lundy was Emil Zatterpag. The man himself, honey. The man himself. The man himself.

He influenced him. He was an influence. Oh, man, I hope your one is influenced by just thinking about that. You're actually better be influenced by John Lander, somehow. I don't think there's any. No, there's got to be. We'll find a way.

We'll make it up. That is your job. I like this. His name, John Lander, came under the spell of Zatterpeg at the 1952 Helsinki. He was a witch doctor. He was a witch doctor. We're the check one, the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters. Oh, that's right.

And the marathon. And the marathon. So Landy was like, this guy is a fucking king. So Landy accepted invitations to run with Zaddepeck and took careful note of his methods, including his punishing repetition training. And he changed his style. And doing this. Ugggh! Uggghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghghgh including his punishing repetition training. And he changed his style. And doing this. Ugh.

Ugh. He changed his running style, even his running shoes, and he would run in the work pits. He would run it's night around central park in Melbourne, which now is named after John Landy. So the park that he used to train around is our named after him, which is pretty cool. Where's that?

I think it's in like East Mulvyn. John Landy park. Oh man, I don't know, a park named after you. Well he's got sculptures all over this world. All over the world. All over the world. Now, John Landy didn't win a whole lot of medals. He only won a bronze at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics for the 1500 meters.

But he was obviously, you know, his sportsmanship and his humble nature and everything made him a bit of a bit of a legend and what he went on to do Do you guys know what he went on to do after he's did he be he's? Did he go on a politics kind of yeah? Governor general a governor governor governor Victoria. Yeah, so he was sworn in on the 1st of January in 2001 Sworn in as a 26th governor governor of Victoria I said well, was that a van Ja, was that Jeff Canett days? Was that, no one cares about it? No one cares about it.

Brexit. Brexit was a premier. Yeah, so he was the governor of Victoria. He's written a few books about natural history because he had that to us. Oh, I suppose the agricultural. Yeah. He's got it a lot of us. Yeah, and just like, just the lovely

German books. Running books. Just a cool guy. Politics, painting. Over the years, he's been awarded with numerous honorary degrees. The first being a Doctor of Law from the University of Victoria.

Then a Doctor of Rule Science from the University of New England followed by a Doctor of Laws from Melbourne, Uni. And a Doctor of Laws from Deakin. I went to Deakin. So you may be put that one to the back of the park. Don't frame that one. So he's got a quadruple doctor.

Yeah. He was inducted into the Sports Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. In 1955, he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Sport. He was awarded the Australian Sport Medal in 2000 and in 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal Made a companion of the Order of Australia and a night of grace of most vulnerable order of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem That's a long title. What a title and in 2006 he was appointed a commander of the Royal Victorian Order during the Queen's visit

to Australia. So he's had all these amazing titles and awards and everything like that. This is kind of cool. On the 15th of March 2006 in the final month of his term as Governor, John Landy was the final runner in the Queen's Button Relay during the 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at the MCG Stadium in Melbourne, presenting the baton to the Queen by placing it in its specially constructed holder. So he was like the last person to do that. And he handed it to the Queen?

Yeah, well I don't think they'd let him just hand it to the Queen. He just put it in a thing in front of him. I was like, you know, I just do. Here you are. And the last little bit that I wanted to say was it's another thing that Harry Gordon said in his his write-up about John Lundy. He said, when the Victorian government made the sensible decision to appoint Lundy governor of the state, the Premier Steve Brax prayed tribute to his humility.

It is a trait that is often asserted itself but maybe never more so than in his attitude to the memorable day at Olympic Park in March 1956. He still believes that what he did in that race didn't warrant a fuss. That's what makes him special. He's like, no, I don't know, I don't know, big deal, whatever. Still wish that he got, I'm a fucking hero. Yeah, you're right. Ron should be bloody grateful. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome welcome what a guy so that's too John Landy all right John Landy inspired by a meal have you got another runner who who did

John Landy inspire come on Matt so I mean if you if you wanted to do that you should have told me did you guys talk about this and you said oh we want to embarrass you you're gonna buddy we want to do like a full of old Matt Stewart you load it doesn't take much to make a full of old maps to it you load It doesn't take much to make a full of all maps to it. No, all right. Well, I mean Yeah, fair enough. Thank you. No mind When you said Olympics, it was like you know the Olympics is obviously a big big family a lot of different things happen there Yeah, I chose another Australian athlete, but

from the Winter Olympics, I called Stephen Bradbury's from modern time. And so Stephen Bradbury, So he's a fella born in Sydney in 1973. And he was an Olympic speed skater. So that one's a go round, round, round, real quick. Round, round, real quick, get round the circle. Yeah, they do that thing at high speed. They're like, spinning a circle. You know, they're wearing those things on their fingers so they can sort of touch the thing

to go around the corner. What is that, what is on their fingers? I think I don't know, I'm just I just like yeah mittens or something like that Like special mittens those ones that wouldn't get just soak up a water like it ones that your mum might have needed Anyhow his dad was also a skater Is that actually was the his dad was a skater boy? Oh my god. I was seeing that in my head Yeah, he's that was a skater boy. Oh my god, I was seeing that in my head. Yeah, his dad was a skater boy. He wasn't good enough for help. What, I disagree with that final part.

He was actually about Steven's mom, but... He was actually the Australian National Speed Skating Champion in 1963 and 64. Runs in the fam. Wow. No, the fam got the runs. Oh, right, right. Dodgy Mexican. He wasn't good enough for them.

He first got Steven onto some skates at the age of three, so he got him started very young. I was pushing him, pushing him. I'm going to start him young. But he won't. I'm getting my kid, I'm getting them a soccer ball because they're the ones that make the most money. Anyway Matt. I just want my children to be loved and feel happy.

But yeah, okay, cool. I want to retire at 40. You know, you know, listen to my note, I do a trivia night that Dave writes the questions for once week. And there was a question you wrote not that long ago. What was the, who was, which sport has the highest paid players as in terms of the top 100 in Forbes magazine?

Oh, it was a lot of percentage. Yeah, it was. But the highest paid athlete in the world. The baseball. Well, highest paid athlete in the world is Christiana Renaldo. Right. But yeah, I was really fascinated by the fact that

baseball had the most, in the top 100. So the record is of the 100 list of Forbes 100 highest paid athletes the last 12 months The most the biggest percentage is made up by baseball players Not well, you go, but you know one and two are both soccer players Right, yeah, that's right anyhow, so I'm going baseball. I, it's baseball. I just want to name a baseball player. I'm not going to have 100 kids. I'm going to have one kid. They're going to be at the top of that list. And they're going to play soccer.

I'm going to have 100 kids. Anyway, young, safe, your 100 kids can fight my one kid. I'm going to get two bus loads. I'm just going to pick up kids on the street. Come on in, Jess. Jess is fun bus. Call my good. Sounds weird. Call your boobs is fun bus sounds weird We're gonna be with the fun bus fun bus What we say fun bus my fun bus. It's late. No, that's good

So he put him on the scale so the edges three bit it kind of ended in tears Stephen was not keen but it kind of ended in tears. Stephen was not keen. Oh, no. Apparently, I was listening to an interview with him and he was saying that whenever someone goes around with his mom's house, the first photo she pulls out of him as a three-year-old, all soaked wet and boiling his eyes out because he just hated it. He's showing the photo in the eye.

Yeah, love. It's $22 for that large pizza and a Coke. Stop showing me your family photos, please. And that's very nice. Thank you very much. It's a pizza delivery. That's a pizza delivery, she's still. Anyway, before I pay it, just check out this photo of our young Stephen Bradbury.

Couple of years later his dad tried again. So he was five years old, and by that say, he started getting into it. And then at the age of eight, he started going speed skating. He started doing it competitively. And that was when he said that he started really getting the bug for loving going fast. That's what he's into. At the age of 15, he made it onto the national speed skating team.

Wow. I know. Yeah, so quite young, but at this stage, the skaters on the team were selected by a committee on their discretion. Was dad on the committee? Not necessarily going off data, like stats results. And his dad was on the committee. I mean, not going off results or data. What is it going off?

I don't know. I don't know, I got gut feel. See that kid there? I reckon he'd go real good on skates. But that's. Andy's my son. What are you doing this Steven? Why are you wandering fast the office? Get him in. Get him in. Number one. Suit up Steven. So the world's fastest skater is going what the fuck? No I mean obviously

that came into consideration but other things were factored in as well and at this apparently still I've said that there were definitely better skaters around at the time, but the committee were looking to the future and trying to get fresh blood in. So that's why they went with the young 15 year old. They wanted someone who was the Scorpio and everyone else wasn't so. Yeah, Scorpio and also, yeah, son of a Scorpio. So I don't want to go into his famous race yet. I'll talk about that later, but by the time of his 2002 Olympics,

which is what he's most famous for in Australia. Anyway, I imagine our overseas listeners probably have never heard of this guy. But by the time he got there in 2002, he was competing in his fourth Olympics. See, I had no idea. Yeah, so he had a long career. He'd already been the World Champion in the 5,000 meter relay in 1991, 11 years earlier. Wow. How old was he then?

Really young. Yeah, so he would have been, he was 18, I guess. So you get a gold medal of the World Championships? Yeah, gold medal, World Champion in a real 18. In that same relay event a couple of years later, they won bronze in 93 in Beijing and then following on from that year after that one silver. So he's won multiple World Championship medals before that famous Olympics. one multiple world championship medals before that famous Olympics. In the 1994 Olympics, Bradbury actually went into his 1000 meter event as the favorite. Which is like, I didn't

realize. So he was good. In the 1994 Olympics, he won through to the semi-final. He won his heat, got through his quarterfinal. So his favorite for the whole event in the semi-final, but he was knocked over by another competitor. Oh, no. Finish fourth and eliminated from the event. No. That's because that's a this event. It's like, that's people going really fast on these little skates. Obviously, ice is pretty slippery. they're all wearing lacra you know everyone's hot and bothered you get a little nudge it's all over but apart from this is career also had some massive injury setbacks like some full-on stuff happen I mean in a 1994 World Cup event in Montreal he was involved in a collision and another skater's blade.

Oh, what a guy. He's through his thigh. And it cut through so deep. And his blood was pumping so fast that the time that he lost four liters of blood. Oh my god. How did he survive that? He apparently he thought he's in his head, he's gone. If you go under, if you lose consciousness,

you will not wake up again. So he's just like, go to a mountain. That's amazing. That's amazing. All four of his quad muscles had been sliced through and he needed over 100 stitches. Guys. Jesus.

Took a year and a half before his leg was back to full swing. I mean, still wanted to skate after that. Yeah, but he's just like listening to him talk. He's just one of those fully motivated, I mean, anyone who competes at the highest level must be a bit like that or just have so much natural talent. Yeah. You either like just got heaps and heaps and natural talent

or you've just, and even then you're probably after work pretty hard Yeah, of course Oh my so wow he nearly died. So yeah, that was that was one like there were multiple incidents But that was one of the most full on ones he had another one that was pretty full on less than two years out from his Famous 2002 Olympic Games He broke his neck in a training accident 2002 Olympic Games. He broke his neck in a training accident. Another Skater fell in front of him and Bradbury tried to jump over him. Landy Stau.

So he wasn't inspired by landy. We did it everyone. We did it. But instead he clipped him. Much like Landy. But he didn't chop him or anything. But I meant that Bradbury fell headfirst into the barriers. Oh my God. And broke his neck fracturing and C4 and C5 vertebra. Oh my God. Wow.

He spent six weeks in a halo brace. I've never heard of them. That full line. It looks like you've got scaffolding around your head. Wow. So you can't move in neck at all. Yeah, exactly. Six weeks.

Six weeks. He needed four pins in his skull and screws and plates in his back and chest. No, what? And he's... And this is after the he nearly bled to death. Yeah, he's... And he's still... Skated?

Yeah, he's been through three Olympics by this stage. He's getting pretty old for a skater like he's probably missed his chances all right and this is probably his last shot but last shot at being at the Olympics he went and I just I listen to an interview just before and he he was talking about that time and he was like it was it was a tough time he went and saw his doctor doctor. And when he went and saw his doctor... The doctor just shakies. The doctor said, no, no. Yeah, basically you should never skate again.

Just give it away. You've had a great run sort of thing. But this is too dangerous now. And what Brad Priest said in this interview goes, So I went and saw another doctor. And yeah, eventually found the right doctor and he sort of gave it right after. Right doctor, the right person said, yeah, you'll be right, thank you. That's all I needed. So this is, if you're that confident, you can just do it.

The lesson a couple of years before the Olympics, he couldn't move basically. So he couldn't train. Took him ages to get back to I just couldn't believe like I didn't know any of this stuff. I mean no people never talk about this that but he did it you obviously he he got back and he he qualified for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics um obviously he'd already been this was his fourth Olympic Games, and he was the oldest Entrant in the competition, and given pretty much no chance of winning. About how old is he at this stage?

So in 2002, so he'd be 29. And he's already the oldest? Yeah. In that competition. Yeah, but I don't know, that just surprises me. Yeah, it does seem interesting, but I mean, some sports, you know, like gymnastics if you're 18 years the oldest in the competition. Yeah, it just depends.

This must be one. It was interesting, it was also talking a lot about how your weight's distributed. Like speed skaters, basically just huge, musly legs and just trying to be pretty slim up top. It's kind of a funny... Oh, wow. Yeah, so there's all the powers in the legs. You're basically up top is just keeping your balance, but the legs is getting all the power.

That makes sense. I'd hardly ever watched any. I watched a few races earlier on YouTube. It's pretty cool looking sport, the way they move. Oh yes. And they just like, overtaking each other and just sliding into position. It's just, it's very elegant.

I mean, how far are they going? Like, is it lots? Uh, to depend, there's lots of different distances, 5,000, 1,000. It's reminding me of another. Multiple 1,000. Another event I like watching at the Olympics, which is the cycling.

Yeah, it's got a little bit of an advantage. Yeah, yeah. And the tactics of like the team cycling when there's one in, one out, someone just up high. I love when they go up high and just And they just want to watch each other and then they go Oh, yeah, they go down and Look around. Yeah, it's something it's like they're like a line and it's prey like

Go, okay, we're going for it. Yeah, that actually a cycling can be really fun And that one in particular and they've got funny names Those are things I think of in here. there's that one, the bell event. And then, yeah, there's that tactical one where, yeah, you, someone has to start out in front. Yeah. And then they're normally just watching over their shoulder. Yeah. And it's just like one of them will go.

They barely move. And as soon as one of them goes, yeah, basically, yeah, almost stop. Really interesting. It's just all tactics. All tactics and then speed. Really, it's quite a bizarre sport that one I reckon Anyhow, yeah, so he's given very little chance of winning Bradbury obviously

You know, he was basically past it And miss his chances. He was he was at the top of his game and had a bit of bad luck Also had some horrible injuries fell over when he was Fall over was knocked over by someone else. Oh, they're the kind of annoying. I was like, oh, I mean, that wasn't even my fault, really, but, oh, well, and apparently his attitude was always positive, it wasn't like. I said, you know, the Olympics, as you miss out, it's like, well, four years. So he's made it to Salt Lake City. He won his heat convincingly in the 1000 meters, which

obviously is a good thing. So gets him in through to the quarter finals, but unfortunately he was, he drew very poorly. He was basically, it's a bit of luck as to which quarter final you get into. And some people have described the group he was in as the group of death. Group of death on No! The top two go through in the quarterfinal and in his group he also had a Polo Anton Ono. Oh no no no! The favorite for the whole event and and also Mark Gainon, who was the defending world champion.

So a couple of guns. Oh no, and Gannon. So yeah, so he have to be at least one of them to go through. Do you gain on? You would think you had that. The name came out, I'm like I could see the Cogs. So funny how am I going to bring that in.

I'm just going to say it to you again. I'm just going to sledgehammer it in. Yeah, I think this is my only opportunity. I've got to go for it. I've got to put the speed to it. This is your Olympic garros. And I've got there, guys. I've got the gold medal for the Celia Stroke.

To get on. He, so obviously obviously very tough group, but he had to finish in the top two, and he didn't, he finished the... Oh! ...and was eliminated from the Olympics again. What? What? Meaning that, yeah, he...

he didn't advance to the semi-final. He did not collect go. I mean, past guy, he did not collect 200 dollars. Gant, Gant, Gant, well, how do I pronounce this before? Gennon. Gennon. No, you said Gennon, but I want to say do get on. He did not collect go I mean Pascal he did not collect two hundred dollars gain gain gain Well, how do I pronounce this before? Gannon. Gannon. No, you said Gannon, but I want to say do gannon. Gannon. Yeah, Gannon, but it's g-a-g-n-o-n G-g-g-n-on. Gannon. Gannon. Let's go. I'm gannon. All right, so Gannon was disqualified

Cheating for obstructing another race. Attracting. I got it. Oh. Got it in one. Which meant that Bradbury got called up and made it into the semifinal. What's this obstructing thing like getting in the way? Yeah, illegally. He stopped halfway through and put his hand down and went, A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. No. I win.

Stop it. It's the Struction Goal Attack. Yeah. That's an awful thing. Someone comes out with a red card. Nah. So Brad breathes through. He made it through to the semi-final. So he, and I heard him talking about this as well

in another interview, he was like, they asked him what the best moment of his life was. And he said obviously, birth for my child was pretty great, but the best moment of my life was and he said obviously burst my Charles pretty great But the best moment of my life he was saying he's own birth. I remember that fuck it was good I was just out like a rocket So he um, then you was gonna be fast. He's he's loved it flopping around the good He um, do do do do do That's what I said to the doctor as he slapped my ass He um do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do But also on on this day there was about half an hour between Heats finals and you know, they just go out one after the other sort of thing and he was saying how In the room you get about half an hour

Big chunk of that time you re sharpening your skates. You got to get on the bike get your elective acid out And that's sort of stuff. You only really have about five minutes to sit and think and he was like In this break, he did all those things and he sat there and he's like, hang on, I've done it, I've made the Olympics, I broke my neck, that's the two years ago, I've done it, I've reached my, and he reconvents that was the best moment of life. This is enough.

Sitting, just sitting in the rooms or whatever, having that realization, it was the best feelings ever felt. He felt like he did achieve it. The doctors saying never scared again to being in the semifinals of the Olympics is amazing. You bring up the doctor and disguise Sucks Who is this? Who is this? It's fucking Steven Bradbury He has to call back. He's a cool. Sorry about that. I'll save Bradbury by the way now Sucks it Bradbury He's a wall cry. I keep talking over your riffs. Yeah, you do

Yeah, I'm very good at reading reading what you guys are up to and sorry Hat. Yep, they've done it again. Oh Now that's pretty funny. He's a baby in this act out. I'm enjoying it Good one. Good one. Very nice Commentary is the best effort, team effort. So leading up to the semi-final, he talks to his coach and he decides to change his strategy.

Oh boy. At this stage, he sort of has realized that his speed is not quite up to the other competitors. The event's called speed skipping. I'm not going to even skate. I'm not going to skate. I'm not going to go fast. I'm going to do the worm. I'm going to work with. I'm not gonna skate and I'm not gonna go fast. I'm gonna do the worm.

I'm gonna worm a thousand meter worm. I'm gonna put my foot flops on and I'm gonna, I'm just gonna change this up a little bit. I'm gonna try and come last and then I'll tell everyone that that's the new event. I'm gonna put salt on the ice. I'm gonna melt it. I'm melt this fuckers.

And I'm gonna swim. I'll swim my way. I'm gonna melt the ice. I'm gonna swim I'll swim away I mean I was gonna say not far off but you were making you quite a while but it was a pretty it was a pretty dramatic change so he spoke to his coach and decided as his speed wasn't quite up there with him he was gonna sit in behind the rest of the field and just like follow him around You know getting their sip stream sort of thing and pretty much just play for a crash Crash his collisions happen

So he decided that he was gonna Yeah, he was gonna sit at the back. Yeah, no, it's kind of a bit defeatist But it worked in the semi-inal. He was coming last. If he was following around three of the other competitors out of five, crashed, fell over, he finished and made it through to the final. Oh my God. That was the semifinal. In the semifinal, yeah.

What? So he, but what a great, just an, I just, so he took, is it top two? Top two. Top two. top two go through again? Top two go through and he made it through. So we get through to the final. And I'm like, it almost feels too good to be true. Like, you've said that afterwards. Like, you know, this is my strategy.

It wasn't just that you were the slowest on the field. But I mean, you watch it. He's still going fast. Like they're all going fast. He was keeping up of course. It was, it's on the field. But I mean, you watch it, he's still going fast. Like they're all going fast. He was keeping up of course. It was pretty much keeping up and it just sort of, just falling behind him. So it's like, I guess, yeah, I guess I believe that, right?

Wow. So then, so he's made the final, he's made the Olympic final when he was just, he was just stoked to have made it. He was stoked to be in the semi. That doctor was getting a lot of calls. Guess what, doc? Suckshed, final. It was stoked to be in the semi that doctor was getting a lot of calls Guess what dark

final And then in the final Bradbury again found himself out the back as was his strategy because it worked from in the semi So why not give it another go is everyone doing that strategy? So everyone's trying to be the back They're turning around going the wrong way But when we're sliding, they're turning around, going the wrong way. One of the ones just standing at the finish line at the start line, everyone falls over. Now it's my time, then they do a thousand metres.

Yeah, exactly. While the others have been taken up in ambulances, they're just cutting each other with this. Yeah, but then they fall over anyway. It's just a thousand metre victory lap, But then at the final turn they slip. That's a lot of laps. And then a kid runs on. Like a four year old child. He's one thousand meter dog metal. Who was this kid? Who's this kid? Metal's too big for him. So yes, it's the final, right? Very exciting. Salt Lake City.'s beautiful place I guess in I've been there I think I drove through there what it's in Utah Utah Give me to

Utah me Paul What's that from again Point break point break that's Utah It's a canna rings and break but It doesn't know what it's like. It's a Kiana Reaves and... I know I break, but I don't know the line. Utah! Kiana Reaves is known as Utah because he's from Utah. That's how people get nicknames.

And the other guy, not Nick Nalti, but the other guy. It's the guy, you used to have a game called Nick Nalti or... Gary Busey. Gary Busey. And guess they don't look at all this time. He's the have show where we played, broke, uh, made up world records and one of them was the world's best people at telling the difference between thick and guilty and Gary Busy. I'm going to show you a 10-photo and you yell out if you think it's book club, and they thought you're Gary Busy. And they don't even look that similar. Like if you're, if you're describing him, that's similar. Yeah, you know, they're like kind of a big,

mussely sort of old guy with like sandy, wavy hair. But if you see photos, you're like clearly different people. And then one of them was neither Nalti nor Busy. You know, it was the photo. This woman who had like a mug, a mug shot taken for like drunk driving or something. And she looked a lot like you. I think I know that mug shot.

Poor woman, she looks like Carapace. Oh, so. Hey, what are we talking about? We're talking about. Oh, yes, so the final. Bradbury. Salt Lake City, Utah. So, yes, good.

So, it was the final and he's using this, he's decided to go with the same strategy again. I just watched for the race, so I can sort of describe the five of them. Five finalists. Five finalists. Bradbury pretty much immediately drops out of the rear. Tactical, we're sure. We're short. The other four competitors, flying, right?

And they're all, and they're getting a bit physical, and they're rotating, who's in the lead. It looks like it's anyone's race pretty much of the top four They're sort of everyone's got a spot out in front and they go round and round and round and round and round the whole Lap after lap. It's the four up the front Bradbury with a little bit of a gap in between Then on the final turn One of them goes from an uva Nox out the legs of one of the other guys. He hits the deck,

then all four in front fall and slide out to the side. Bradbury with a like a good beat or two swoops through. Put the hands in the air, first ever Australian winter Olympic gold medalist. First ever Australian winter Olympic gold medalist It's I still find it unbelievable. It's amazing. We have it you right. It's that sweet beat where he didn't even have to Avoid If he was trying to if he was trying to stay cl- if he was trying to compete with him He probably would have been swept out too second place. I Wonder how yeah probably would have been swept out too. Second place, I wonder how, yeah. Because don't they get up and like, they just scramble like pretty much dive across the line too. Yeah, that's a good idea.

One guy comes through feet first for second and then the other guy sort of slides over. Feet first for second. Yeah. Isn't that great? Yeah. See, that's because I obviously, I remember that race and it's one of the most iconic Australian sporting stories. I did not know that that had happened in the semi as well. So the tune around? I didn't know that either.

Yeah, I knew, the final was all on you. I didn't know that he was the favorite years early on. I didn't know that he'd been knocked out and then got in because somebody got disqualified. Yeah, it's so much of it is drama, amazing. It's luck. I don't know if that's not discounting all of his work there. That's my guess.

But it is a lot more in perspective for me now, considering knowing that he'd been to three other early. Yes. That he'd been the favorite, that he'd overcome these two life-threatening injuries. Lawful injuries. In my head, I think a lot of Australians who know the story just think of him as that lucky guy that was okay at

I skating and that happened yeah make his way to the final somehow and then just just scooted through and Stolving is basically. Yeah, he's seen has been a bit of a joy or luck and just like he was unheard of the day before even though we'd won medals It's just a Winter sports and some even though we'd won medals, previously. It is a, winter sports is fantastic. Yeah. We don't have the snow today. But that day, he won at that day and he became, you know,

a household name. Yeah, you're right. He's a household name. And in an interview, after winning his gold, it's sort of reflecting on some of his injuries and that sort of stuff. He said, the quote of his, he said, obviously I wasn't the fastest skater.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race, so actually one, I'll take it as the last decade of hard slog I put in. Which is a great look-wait look-wait look-wait, that is a great. Because I also remember seeing an interview and I don't really remember exactly what he was saying, but it was sort of that thing of like he struggled a bit with it for a while in terms of, you know, it's like you won by default you only want because everybody else fell over like it doesn't feel like a win but yeah taking it for the 10 years or the you know the lifetime that he spent. And like all the bad luck he had when he was the fastest but he got knocked over like

you know those guys. Yeah, there's the other guys have to think about that too don't they? Yeah, one of them was the favorite that fell over. Yeah, totally. That's amazing. So yeah, I love his attitude about it. And I think and possibly because of that, his great attitude and the fact that it's sort of,

and it actually in Australia became a, well, I mean, we're talking to a lot of Australians on the podcast. But it obviously- Well, there are people who have sweated from all over the world. But it became a saying obviously, there are people who have sweetened from all over the world. Yeah, but it, yeah, becaue, it became a, um, a saying, doing a Bradbury was when you sort of just sort of fell through the competitors fell over or, you know, something just went your way and a lot of luck happened

at the last minute and you just come through. Yeah. And he's, he said, um, talking in an interview, he was saying how he loves it. He loves how he's become a sat, a saying he feels really proud of it. Um, and he thinks, you know, he was saying how he loves it. He loves how he's become a saying. He feels really proud of it. And he thinks he hopes people are still saying and after he dies and he thinks it's really nice to be remembered that way. What was he on dancing with the stars?

Probably. Probably. Because that's the real victory. Yeah. If I default everyone else fell over. I feel like he was dancing with the stars. He just did his classic worm. Yeah, I'm gonna worm.

I'm gonna worm the way all of this. And his partner's like, what are you doing? He's just worming on top of it. Ew. Yeah, that sounded way worse than I thought. Don't worm on top of anybody. So he's done over 800 speaking events. What's he gonna say?

He must make a packet doing that not long after he was asked by Retrovision to speak at their retrovisions like it was like a TV chain stores like electronics and stuff here and he was asked by them to speak at their some sort of a conference that we're having And he got the call and they said yeah, we want to offer you five grand to do a 45 minute speech. And he's like, that's what I earned in the last year sort of thing. Like he speeds get him in pay a lot of money.

So doing this one talk. And because of that, he he got the speech ready. He got the speech ready. He did about three weeks of work on it. He said he read it all word for word. It was all printed out. Big letters. Hello, I am Steven Brewery. Say this bit slower. Wow. He hired a speech writer, which he's worked with a lot over the years. And a comedian as well to throw on some humor. Great. And really, you know, just, it's pretty like he's

goes, I'm going to do this seriously, but I guess that's probably how athletes work as they go. Well, I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna bloody put it all in. Which is great. But he goes, this is like, sounds like he's got a few elements of a little bit wankiness in it, because I mean, he works as a motivational speaker, but he says that he doesn't like to term motivational speaker. He feels that's

a little bit on Australian, a little bit too American-wise, so he likes to call himself. Oh no, here we go. Oh no. A real life speaker. Get farts. Steven, I was really impressed in the last half of it, but no. It just felt like real life. And then... I'm not motivated. I just feel like I've got to go back to my normal. On his website, he's got some testimonials. No, it doesn't.

Yeah, and I mean, a lot of, you know, it's all fine, but this one I quite. I mean, like, let's remember he had those frosted tips. So we already knew he was a bit of a wanker. He was too, he said he did other thing. Like, he just, to be motivated, he growing up when he decided he wanted to do it He put like sticky tape to his ceiling and things saying

Something like the it's the Olympics get up and he said and he said every morning you open his eyes He saw that and was like everyone else who wants to go the Olympics is upright now If you don't get up there up and there, you know, they're out training your own. So just like, always on. No, that's the thing with you. From when you open your eyes up. With elite athletes, they are like that.

They're like, my mum works with a woman who played in the Olympics. She was softball for Canada. And she, one time, just recited this big passage of Bryce Courtney's The Power of One that like was her it was her it was her it's the Olympics get up You know it was her thing that like pushed her and I was just like ah cool man. Yeah, we should have that. I don't have that That's like we're comedians

Yeah, okay, if you don't get up there's plenty of other comedians Yeah, so but plenty of others at one but it will probably naturally funny than you are anyway. Oh yeah. Oh no. But I like some of the testimonials he's got on his side. I think it looks like he just sort of cuts and pastes the whole thing, because one of them it's got at the end. It's like, says all this nice stuff.

And then there's the email, AJ7, and Hotmail. It'll say stuff like, so you know know he's really great speaker all that sort of stuff and then I update your virus software I said from my iPhone got that and read it and we read and we he calls the doctor up yeah just got an email from the antivirus people huh tell? Toby, you'd never skate again, didn't you? Who is this? Stop calling me! Reveal yourself! Sorry, Matt, testimonials.

So this is what, like, there's, you know, a couple of lines, there's some nice stuff, and then it's just the end of the testimonials, it says, so make sure you add his comments to your testimonials. That's part of the testimonials. I reckon you could probably have... I could have got rid of that, but... his comments to your testimonials. That's part of the testimonials. That's part of the testimonials. I reckon you could probably have... I could have got rid of that, but... But my favorite one probably, of the ones I read,

I don't even, it's not that good, it's just like... It feels like, I just, what Jess would describe as cute, this whole website, but anyway, goes, I work with Stephen Bradbury last week, full stop. He really impressed me, full stop. Funny, come on, clean, entertaining and motivating. I checked behind his ears. It's fine.

Phil Cass, comedy magician. No. Why would I describe his website as cute? It's just everything about it, like leaving in, add this to your testimonials. That's so good. Don't you reckon that's great? Is that am I misusing your use of cute?

Yeah, but it's great. Damn it. Stephen Bradbury. Yeah, you should come on Bradbury. All right. That's awesome. Anyway, yes, Stephen Bradbury. Good guy.

There we go. There we go. Three very different athletes. All who worked very hard. My guy who is at the Peck who decided at the last minute to run the race and then won it. Did his at the Peck. Then we had John Landy, when he helped out his mate and still won the race. And then we had Bradbury who tried so hard for so many years and then had a bit of luck Cruise across the line and will be remembered in Australia and sport history forever. Yeah, but they first ever actually was the first ever

Any first ever winter Olympic gold medalist from any southern hemisphere country Country That's pretty cool. Yeah, but I guess it's like the whole southern hemisphere It isn't really into winter Olympics. I guess we don't have the climate for it right? We're too gnarly. Unless you're from Antarctica that's not really a country is it? We don't really have yeah we don't have enough snow and yeah that here. Yeah. That's why a lot of our like gymnasts go into skiing and the aerial skiing and um Right and yeah we we do tend Australia does tend to go well at aerial skiing, which is all

so. But it's, because apparently we don't even have an mountain in Australia that's high enough to be able to host the Winter Olympic. No, yeah, we'll never have to win. Like, by nowhere near it. Yeah, we've got nothing to do. We only get snow because I think of where we're positioned compared to Antarctica or something. There's some weird thing we shouldn't even get snow at all, but our snow is pretty shitty.

And it's not, yeah, it's pretty, it's ice, and it's not even like, there's only a few parts of Australia that get snow. Oh, yeah, so we won't host the Winter Olympics, but we're pretty sick for the summer, so come on down. I think it's nearly time for Melbourne to have another go. Like 56 was eight years ago. So while ago. Let us have another go. I want to do it.

You would be a volunteer wouldn't you? Yes! Do you reckon they'd need a stand-up comedian for the opening ceremony? There's often a space for Type 5 for set. Oh for sure. Yeah you could be the new niki website she did top five and she and then um I was at the shop the other day I want five dollars with a mix for us because I'm a little girl and that's what girls do it's two thousand yeah all right thank you and good I'm good, Mom. Woo! Yeah, she was good, wasn't she? She's really good.

Great value. Great value. No, I would volunteer the fuck out of that Olympic. Oh, you would. Oh my God, I would do anything. I would be like usharing people to their seats, tearing tickets, no problem. Handing sweaty athletes' towels, there you go,

Mr. Athlete, have a towel. What? Handing them sweaty towels. I got it, mate. I said, have a tell, you look all sweaty. What, handing them sweaty tails? I got a mate, I said handing sweaty athletes tails. If you listen back, I think you said handing sweaty tails, Ethel. Hey, you look very sweaty. Can I help you get even sweaty, please? That's a very good impression of me.

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That was great. That was great. I'm really sorry, a meal. And I hope that it's very disrespectful. Well, we we got everyone else excited for the Olympic starting in a couple of days we went to our Olympics starting in two years to two days I guess Olympics I'm up for it in the time baby I want the Olympics to be every year

no I wouldn't be a special wouldn't be a special let's make it every 10 no no no more century once a century you may never see one Every fifth generation gets to actually compete Now that's special now that's special Anyway, let's get the fuck out of here. Let's get out of here a bit before we get out of here We got to tell you email us in some topic ideas. We Andrew got on how about you? What are you waiting for? Get on the email.

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So when we go on ours, we can mainly just see the Australian reviews. But I found a way that we can check. Oh, I didn't know that. We can check it. Yeah, so we've got reviews from around the found a way that we can check. Oh, I didn't know that. We can check it. Yeah, so we've got reviews from around the world. New Zealand, Canada, the UK, America, there's a bunch of reviews. And the way what happens is I found a way,

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