Welcome to the Ranking Tackle Podcast.

Welcome to the relaunch of the Thinking Tackle podcast.

I'm not on my own, although you know I probably could talk on my own for two hours.

We are, we're very honoured, and I'm not just saying it because he's in the room,

but we only have one guy really at the top of our list to take this on and expand it and create even more depth.

He used to work for us.

It's a bit of a weird situation. He used to work for us. It's a bit of a weird situation.

He used to work for us.

You know, we're, we've stayed friends through that whole time.

But I don't know anybody who is as engaging and who has the ability to draw information out of people like the man sitting opposite me.

So Rich Stewart, welcome to the Thinking Tackle podcast.

Thank you very much, Dan.

That was far too kind, mate.

And you didn't need to decorate either.

I noticed you've...

That was just for you that, Rich.

No, I didn't notice it until... We painted the wall. That's it, I think, Rich. So I wouldn't really take that too much, like, on your... No, but I kind of envisaged you in overalls, Dan. It could have happened, mate. It could have happened. But thank you for... Thanks for the intro. It's way, way too kind. But I will do my best. Well, that is, that is you. You're, you, you, you, you undersell yourself every opportunity, don't you, Rich? Yes is the answer to that. I'll take that. Listen, it's better to be modest and leave something in the locker down, isn't it? I think. It is better to be modest as long as you don't die with it, still in the locker, rich.

Well, we'll try and get some out on this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, and what I said is true, you know, when we, when we advertised for it, we had you in mind. it's very good of you because it's a difficult, one inch difficult shoes to fill, you know, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, he did a fantastic job. extremely easy to talk to. Um, uh, and, and, and really made it his own, you know, it was a new project, but, you know, he was, you know, he was central to everything, you know.

So there are big shoes to fill.

And when you, you know, we racked our brains for a long time about who's on our radar, you know, of people that have been doing it a long time, done it at the top level or doing it at the top level, are interested in

people.

See, now you're smiling that you're not doing at the top level, but I actually know that you

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