Shaun Micallef on Going For Broke, social media and visiting Bradman’s house
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're joined by a legend of Australian entertainment, a comedian, writer, actor, |
| 0:06.2 | producer, author and per one bio I saw on the internet a bon vivant, which I just wanted to say. |
| 0:13.8 | This is a man who avowedly doesn't gamble, doesn't drink and doesn't watch sports, |
| 0:18.8 | so naturally he's agreed or his agent has to appear on the grade cricketer to explain |
| 0:23.7 | himself lest we all feel insecure. |
| 0:25.9 | In all seriousness, it's an honor to be joined by Sean McAuliffe, specifically to talk |
| 0:30.9 | about his new documentary going for Broke on ABC Eye View and on Tuesday's 8 o'clock. |
| 0:36.6 | Ostensibly about the punt punt what it says about us, |
| 0:39.6 | our prospects of existing without being hammered by its messages. |
| 0:43.0 | Sean, welcome to the great cricketer. |
| 0:44.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:44.9 | Nice to be here. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm so surprised to be talking to you both. |
| 0:49.4 | Because I'm not, as you pointed out in the introduction, |
| 0:52.3 | I'm not, I have no skin in the game with sport |
| 0:56.8 | because I don't get it. And I'm hoping to spend the next couple of hours talking to you |
| 1:01.8 | about why sport is so embraced so strongly and wildly here in Australia. |
| 1:08.3 | Do you feel like, because I've noticed this in other interviews and stuff, |
| 1:12.0 | like do you, why do Ozzie's need you to explain not watching sport or, or gamble or drink? |
| 1:20.9 | Well, that's a, yeah, look, I think the sport one is probably, I don't think I'd get funding for that. |
| 1:25.7 | If I did a documentary or, yeah, what's the deal with sport? I don't think there's going to be that. If I did it, if I did a documentary on, |
| 1:28.0 | yeah, |
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