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Chapter 1: What is Hutchy doing in the US?
This is The Sounding Board Podcast with Hutchie and Damo. Thanks to DrinkWise. You won't miss a moment if you DrinkWise. Nice to have your company on The Sounding Board for DrinkWise. That's a good start, isn't it, Hutchie? You won't miss a moment if you drink wise.
Chapter 2: What are hydration breaks at the FIFA World Cup?
How am I going? I've been doing this series for 11 seasons, and this is episode 20 of this 11th season, and I have butchered the opener.
Chapter 3: Who did Damo sit next to at the Australian Football Hall of Fame dinner?
But we're going to keep it in because that's what we do on The Sounding Board. I'm confused because you're in the States, I'm here in Melbourne, and I'm jealous, Hutchie. I'm jealous.
Chapter 4: What is the 'Supply Crisis' at the AFL?
I'm extremely jealous of what you're up to at the moment.
Have you got a bit of FOMO, Damo? I do. I get FOMO. I get the worst sport and event FOMO of all time. It's like it's a first world problem I know. But I get, as I've got older, I've got worse.
Chapter 5: Why was Mike Sheahan snubbed from the Hall of Fame dinner?
Absolutely worse at it.
I've got a particular FOMO too because you sent me a personal text yesterday saying you're back in a place we were in together as part of a wider trip only last November in Dallas at the moment, Hutchie.
Back in Dallas, yes. So had a bunch of clients arrive today and a lot of our touring group, our event group, and we're off to England and Croatia on Wednesday and then through to Seattle for hosting a big dinner on Thursday night in Seattle ahead of the Friday game here, which is a midday time, local time between Australia and the USA. And we didn't need the reaffirmation, Damo.
Chapter 6: What is Mitch Cleary's latest 'PR Payoff'?
What about the way the public rallied on the weekend? An extraordinary love and affection for the Socceroos on the back of an unthinkable 2-0 win over Turkey in a game that no one gave us any chance of winning. Some overnight heroes born in the game. The nation galvanised and just shows you, Damo, there's not many things that bring us together as a country anymore.
Chapter 7: What happened between Alister Nicholson and Sam McClure?
We're pretty fractured. But the Socceroos and the Matildas are about the last remaining things.
I agree with that, Hutchie. The Women's World Cup a couple of years ago was that in its entirety. And then you've had this moment on Sunday, which I think for some people came out of nowhere, didn't it? And maybe the lack of expectation, the lack of profile in the Australian team.
And I'll be honest, Hutchie, I don't know too many of these Australian players right now, but I'm going to quickly play catch up on it.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of private ownership in the BBL?
So you weren't in attendance for this game, the first one?
And I missed that, something I had to give, so I was on the plane over, would you believe it, and missed it in its entirety. How's this for good, well-organised conduct? And now I had some heavy work commitments back in Melbourne and some kids' sport commitments, so that was the only way it fitted. But I somehow managed to miss the Knicks win their first championship over five decades by team.
One. The Socceroos win 2-0. Two. Three. And the Melbourne Mavericks get jammed late on a goal to miss that spot in the last goal of the game. Three all while in the air. You talk about playing logistics. That is as bad as 17 hours as you can put together in life. And did you have any form of Wi-Fi?
No. Oh, no. I've seen you in those moments. You aren't right in those moments, are you?
In my head, the script went like this. The Mavericks hang on, you know, maybe the people win by three or four and we get third spot. Socceroos are nil or, you know, something like that. We've got game two to look forward to. And San Antonio do the right thing at home.
They win game five and I get to go and watch game six and celebrate the win of my beloved team, the New York Knicks, after five decades to compensate for the fact that I can't be in the city that I love to watch it like the rest of... the city pouring out on the streets and watching games on the side of buildings.
And somehow I've got the set of those three sequences going entirely wrong while I'm in the air with no Wi-Fi.
And let me also guess, because you were frustrated at no Wi-Fi and no access to those results, you would have banged out, and I'm conservatively going to say, 74 emails to various staff members.
No, the over and under was 90. Yeah. And I covered the over pretty comfortably.
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