Join Craig Hutchison and Damian Barrett for S7 Ep 36.

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0.0 – Happy Holidays Damo. Trade Radio has wrapped up – what were some of the standouts.

2.00 – Hutchy’s City of Melbourne Top 5 achievements. Where are we at?

4.00 – Trade Talk – discussion of the new Trade characters, the Tom Browne v Mitch Cleary two headers, Cal Twomey’s great story breaking, Jason Horne-Francis as the biggest needle mover of trade period and Mitch Cleary’s great moving doorstop of a scooter riding Brodie Grundy.

11.00 – Damo’s views on the Bulldogs

12.45 – Sam Mitchell and the cleansing of Alistair Clarkson from Hawthorn.

13.00 – Hutchy’s Top 5 City of Melbourne Achievements has merged into a list of events for Damo sent in by a ‘council insider’. Could a thai chi class help with Damo’s cynicism.

18.00 – Damo did the Sporting Max with Max Becker. How many ‘I’s were in the interview. Listen to the full ep HERE

20.30 – Discussion of The Everest this week and the hypocrisy of the wall to wall advertising in the Melbourne papers.

25.00 – Discussion of new book maker with News Corp investment. Are there conflicts of interest? Will jornos who have previously been staunch on the links between media and gambling companies stand down?

33.00 – Damo got another drive-by by Bruce Gutherie (his old boss)

34.00 – Follow up on Andrew Thorburn / Essendon issue from last week.

37.00 – Hutchy spotted Damo’s brother with Peter Dutton at the official AFL function. Dutton’s Guy Mini Damo. Can we get him on the show?

41.30 – Question of the Week for Drinkwise from Danny May.

44.30 – The Warming of David Zita.

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