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Speaker 1: It's the fifty most ridiculous ashes moments. Now I had a great I went through. I went through and had a look. I was laughing, was absolutely loving it.
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Speaker 2: We got one of the authors on the line, Dan.
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Speaker 3: Lipkick, get a Dan, Dan, how's it going?
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Speaker 2: Oh mate?
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Speaker 1: I was having a good old chuckle, as Rowie just said, and laughing. And it was mainly at the start of each of these fifty moments there were puns that were just making me laugh and I was just like, so, if you think about the Shane Warton Bowl the Century, It's it's hitting was Gat's ball, folks, and.
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Speaker 2: Then all you need is.
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Speaker 1: Glove, And I just loved it, every one of them. Now, who wrote these little wisps of brilliance?
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Speaker 3: Dan, Well, we both had the brainstorm there. So we had the very kind of normal run of the meal title and then we somehow we got it into our heads that we needed a pun title for each one, and for a lot of them. They came in. For a few others that was much more challenging, and then we were going, what were we doing trying to do this? But we got one for every chapter in the end.
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Speaker 2: In the I loved every one of them, just kept reading them and laughing.
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Speaker 1: But what you did do for me was you brought back some Ashes memories that perhaps had faded away. And one of them that I just remember, Fondley was the Ashtonaga ninety eight and in number eleven, you know, totally shattering when he got out. But the innings, the way it built. I have got two daughters, a sort of into cricket, you know. They we all stayed up and to the we ours wanting to see this kid get his hundred.
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Speaker 2: It was just an amazing moment in Ash's history.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a cret. It was absolutely crazy innings because he came into the into the test for Nathan Lyon. Darren Lehman had just become the coach, and that decided he was going to pluck this kid from nowhere. And I don't think anybody, you know, maybe other than his friends and family, who even knew who he was. And suddenly he's playing a test and he's coming in at all and Australia, you know, and that era collapsed again and we were kind of used to that at that point, and then suddenly from nowhere he just peels off, you know, just mashing all these bottles all around the ground and giving Australia a first ending lead and yeah, absolutely amazing. I still remember at the moment it was just crazy.
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Speaker 4: Well, we loved it. It counts down the top fifty most ridiculous moments from fifty to one, and it was top and tailed by Warding of all people. Number fifty was his hat trick and the getting ball had to be number one. I'm more interested in the knee and this is what made the cutting room floor. What could you squeeze in there?
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Speaker 1: Den?
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Speaker 3: Oh, we did our best to squeeze everything in. So we created a great big
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spreadsheet of all the all the moments we could think of, and obviously there were far more than fifty of those, but anything that was kind of borderline, we did our best to say, well, what what what tests? What other things happened in that test that we could maybe can buy in them and at least get a mention in passing. So I don't think there's much that we missed out on that we really loved. So we tried to squeeze everything in there. It's probably more than fifty moments. You probably get closer to one hundred.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the activity corners a bit hard for me. Bit it was a bit deep.
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Speaker 3: Then, Yeah, that's just a bit of a bit of a fun thing. I fifty and if you want a little challenge at the end of each maybe not every chapter. I think it's probably ten or fifteen of them throughout the book. And yeah, just just a bit of fun to keep you busy.
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Speaker 1: Dan again, you just put some memories into my head that I loved. Number sixteen Harmerson Bowls of Wide.
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Speaker 2: That's now going to be twenty years on this summer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know there was a more significant opening delivery of an ASHES series that set the time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially since the previous series, of course, which Astralia lost to two thousand and five Ashes. Harmerson was kind of the impulse of the Harmerson was the one who bowled the short ball that cut Ricky Ponting's tea open and basically said look we're here, we're serious, England. And then this time they came around. They gave him the first fall this time and he couldn't even land it on the streep straight to Andrew flint Off at second slipt, so kind of a signify as to what was about to happen to poor England on that two thousand and six seven ashes.
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Speaker 2: It was amazing now what I did laugh at and I laughed a lot.
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Speaker 1: But it was number thirty one, a guy I cannot even remember, but I read the title that it said James Vince nicking powers decline him and I saw the picture and it's got his off stump three lads away from it starts he's been clean bold, which I just laughed my head at the humor of that. He wasn't good enough to nick it anymore, He's just getting clean bold that. That is a moment that I actually don't remember, but I did actually have a good laugh at it when.
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Speaker 3: I saw it. Yeah, Yeah, that was James Vince was famous, as in certainly in English circles, as being someone who just prodded a ball outside of stump and edge of the slip. And this one, this was the ball for Mitchell Stark, which jagged. I can't remember the stats now, but it is that the whacker hit basically one of those cracks of the whacker and it just moved a mile and just knocked his stump out of the ground and nobody, nobody could get back the ball, not even James Vince who as a master at edging everything that they're near him.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, Johnny Darsto leaves his ground. You've got to hack the carry carey, quiet and true. He got it to day. I would have had that higher up. It was God Joe Ruth did. Does he make the top fifty? Getting snotted by Dave Warner?
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Speaker 3: Well, in passing, that's one of the ones I think that we kind of mentioned in passing that well, where where was David Warner during this ash the series? Well, David Warner wasn't about because he'd punched Chambers in the head a pup.
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Speaker 4: We'll make well done the fifty most ridiculous sass moments you've nailed at. Great work, a great public some really good pictures too, mate.
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Speaker 1: You would love a man you love pictures, and every moment has captured all pictures in it. So I got to say, if that's not a Christmas present, I'll go away.
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Speaker 4: World done, Dan, great road, thank you very much. Yeah, perfect bound, Matt plastic coded. It's paperback. It's high quality, one thirty gram satina with satin varnishes with the photos makes the photos pops in the Firm Press publication. It is in all good bookstores and Timmy takes a bit to make him giggle. My goodness, flick through this and I loved it.
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Speaker 2: So if you love it, it's under the Chris Good Road.