Join Craig Hutchison and Damian Barrett for Ep 44.

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TIME CODES

00.00 – Hutchy poses his ‘Bring them Back Into the Tent’ theory on Damo’s recent interview with North Melbourne CEO Ben Amarfio. Did Damo go hard enough? Any instances of Damo softening his stance on the Roos needs to be reported to Hutchy with the #BackInTheTent hashtag.

7.30 – Andrew Bogut’s Retirement

10.30 – Hutchy ran into Winx (aka Nick McKenzie) in Sydney.

12.00 – The Broadcast Deals Landscape

17.00 – Trade Radio Radio has legs! Damo and Hutchy’s message made the cut on the finale of the Triple M Hot Breakfast. Is there another industry that you could do ‘Trade Radio’ in?

20.30 – Geoff Walsh Steps down from Collingwood.

22.00 –The ‘exhaustive process’ was back in footy circles this week.

23.30 - When you send an email to 50 people assume it’s going to end up in the press.

25.00 – Discussion of repurposing or ‘stealing’ of stories by other media agencies without attribution.

29.30 – Hutchy is in Sydney for the first time since lockdown. Hard to comprehend how tough things were in Melbourne when you leave the bubble.

32.00 – Will Basil Zempalis be going to Triple M in Perth.?

33.00 – Announcement of Federal Funding for Hawthorn (no state government funding).

33.30 – Josh Frydeberg has had a good year in terms of media performance.

34.00 – Discussion of Scott Morrison’s private snapper who even quarantined with him. What’s the role of the modern photo-journalist.

42.40 – Hutchy loved David Pemberthy’s article in The Australian

‘Kevin Rudd and me: the PM, the editor and beers with the Tele boys’.

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