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A lot of stuff going around on social media about that with, uh, you know, his first missed cut in how many ever days it was.

Yeah.

Yeah, and you know, he, I believe he shot even par, so it's not like he was horrible out there.

He was probably, uh, pretty near to the, to the cut line.

But, you know, you look going back a few weeks, he had a second, then he had a T4, he had a T12, and a third.

Like, he's still, he's still, I would say, the best in the world.

Um, so you know, bet against him at, at your peril.

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Yeah.

Um, and then the other route that we take on our tours historically was plugged up by a pack rat nest.

Uh, we have these little critters that live in the entrance called bushy-tailed wood rats.

There's typically one of them, and they make their nest in the entrance.

Um, but they make a great big mess of all these, uh, bushes and branches and, and leaves and things.

And so until 1972, no one had gone past that point.

Um, and then some cavers decided to kind of poke around, and they saw this pack rat disappearing behind the nest, didn't come out again.

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So what sort of programs, what sort of research are you actually doing? How do you try to get a handle on MND?

Yeah, I mean, it's a really active area of research in Australia.

Australia is really leading the way in MND research.

In my lab at the University of Sydney, we're trying to understand the proteins that change in the disease and trying to find drugs that we can use that will be able to decrease that pathology.

So We are testing drugs from other diseases at the moment.

We have a project where it's a drug repurposing project.

So testing drugs that have been used in other diseases and seeing if they're active in the lab.

Yeah, and I guess when you look at the face of it, the layman's going to say maybe something like Parkinson's would look similar, yeah?

So what sort of programs, what sort of research are you actually doing? How do you try to get a handle on MND?

Yeah, I mean it's a really active area of research in Australia.

Australia is really leading the way in MND research.

In my lab at the University of Sydney, we're trying to understand the proteins that change in the disease and trying to find drugs that we can use that will be able to decrease that technology.

So We are testing drugs from other diseases at the moment.

We have a project where it's a drug repurposing project.

So testing drugs that have been used in other diseases and seeing if they're active in the lab.

Yeah, and I guess when you look at the face of it, the layman's going to say maybe something like Parkinson's would look similar, yeah?

So,

yeah, I'm going to trust that most of your viewers and yourself have a deep understanding that a lot of the patterns in our nervous system are really wired in the first seven years of our life.

Zero to seven is where a lot of the real templates get laid down.

So absolutely my upbringing and the earlier stages of my life influenced me in a huge way in everything that I am.

And so to start sharing the story, I grew up in Adelaide in South Australia.

I was born in a place called Blackwood, Australia.

So being born in a black wood in South Australia was an interesting start.

And

Nice.

Um, the goal is to help someone in the military find a home, right, after their time.

And so, uh, the company SH Zumm, Shazzum, worked with NAFA to develop a SkillBridge program that's vetted and is in the SkillBridge roster right now, uh, with the entire goal of placing qualified military members, not just vehicle management members, into fleets.

And so today we're gonna talk a little bit, uh, later about how that Fleet Gap program, it's called Fleet Gap if you wanna look at it on the DoD SkillBridge, uh, repository.

Ultimate goal, we get military members into fleets to support the fleets.

Uh, you're gonna get someone that is well-versed in l- following guidance, but also being adaptable and thinking on their feet.

You're gonna get someone who knows how to operate under pressure.

I know you might not be able to share everything.

That was, [laughs] that was pretty loud, wasn't it?

Yeah, yeah, I was one of them.

England's number 10 and, uh, they were saying some, uh, [laughs] some cross words about Tuchel all the way through the game as well.

Bless him.

But, you know, it's, is it two personalities clashing? You know, two mavericks? Um, you know, is he just too much for him? Does he wanna play the game round like we played the game round? Gibbs-White, you know, he wants him to fit into line.

Who knows? Who knows what the logic is, you know? Is it to do with the team? I'm not so sure it's to do with Forest.

I, I don't know.

Um, what, what did you make of Elliott going off? Is it, was that a goodbye? Was it just we'll look after you until the World Cup? Or, uh, would you read anything into him going off that early or not?

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But you have to give primarily credit to the player, I think, don't you?

Oh, absolutely.

I said to the guy next to me, I said, look, hopefully he proves everybody wrong because people have been getting on his back and all saying he's the weak link.

And I thought, you know, show us, show us as fans that you're not the weak link.

And I think it is harsh, like you guys said, it is harsh because he isn't a bad player.

Tonight, I felt that he grew in confidence.

Initially, when he gets the ball, everybody's sort of holding their breath as if he's a bad player, which is really harsh.

We