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Guest Friend - Jason Richardson

Season 5, Ep. 74

We have rescheduled him a few times over the Covid period but finally, we got him on.

The 93 Stawell gift winner and Happiest bloke in media (how dare he) Jason Richardson risked his media career & joined us for story time.

We heard what it was like to run against the likes of Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson in the 90s and what it is like to work along side the great, Bruce McAvaney, today.

A lot of laughing & a bit of racing.


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