Billy Fitzsimons

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650 appearances 14 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Aug

Billy Fitzsimons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 14 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.

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The Daily Aus · The email that exposed cult survivors · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

But every time that there is a big sporting event like, well, it's really just the Comm Games and the Olympics and sometimes there's the national swimming. matched

I'm talking about swimming. matched

Anyway, my favourite fun fact about swimming is matched

is did you know that freestyle is not actually the name of the stroke that we associate with freestyle? matched

Am I going to pretend that I didn't know that for the sake of the flow of this podcast? matched

You did know. matched

Orla, did you know you also work with me five days a week? matched

Wasn't this in the newsletter? matched

It was in the newsletter. matched

Yes. matched

Correct answer, Orla. matched

And then someone told me last week that when I put it in the newsletter, they absolutely loved it and they told all of their friends. matched

And I was like, oh, that's so cool. matched

I'm going to tell all of my friends too, which is all of the listeners. matched

Okay. matched

So the stroke that we associate with freestyle is actually called front crawl. matched

Oh. matched

But the category is called freestyle as in free, as in you can do whatever you want, style. matched

But the reason that they do front crawl, which is actually what we think is freestyle, is because it is the fastest way to get from the start of the pool to the end of the pool. matched

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