Charlie Vercoe

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799 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Charlie Vercoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Straight Talk with Mark Bouris · Shark Attack Hero Shares the Story of the Terrifying Coogee Rescue · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

What is that?

Yeah, so that's been a passion project, a little business venture that myself, a mate of mine, Archie, and my dad have been working on for about a year now.

It's probably about a year now that we started work on it.

And that came from me finishing my uni degree and wanting to take a year to focus on sport and wanting to have a project on the side at the same time.

So the initial goals of it were to grow the audience of the sport that I do, Surf Life Saving Ironman, basically creating a surf sports fantasy platform.

So you can pick athletes, real athletes, that compete in the Shoreline Partners World Ocean Series events and get points based on how those athletes perform and compete against your mates to try and outperform them.

And it's been a really valuable experience for me, I think, because it's, one, gotten me educated on...

understanding the capabilities of AI.

So AI contributed a lot to the development of the website.

It's funny upon reflection now how quickly it's developed.

I think we could have done it in a week if we started now, whereas a year ago it took us about six months to negotiate it, to listen to us about what database structure we wanted.

And yeah, it's been a really fun project.

We got it up to 2,000 users within our first year.

And we've got lots of feedback on what people loved and what people want us to fix.

And yeah, go check it out, surffantasy.com if you want to have a look.

It's currently a website.

Why was Charlie there?

I guess I'd watched it on television and seen it on the newspaper enough times where it was my turn.

Your turn.

People have asked me a lot about that actually, about do I feel like I was lucky or unlucky in that scenario?

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