CHRISTIE HAYES DAILY | Monday August 10, 2026

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Today we're recording from Lutra Witter. I pay my respects to elders, past and present, and I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. I am of the Beerupai people, and I'm proud to use my voice to honor the strength, stories, and resilience of my ancestors, whose culture has continued for more than 65,000 years, because it always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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It's Christy Bitch.

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She's the former home and away star who shone in Summer Babe for more than 500 episodes. But after her time by the beach came to an end, Christy Hayes found another passion behind the mic.

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Prime Minister, what does your government feel about that? Will we see this Royal Commission?

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There's calls for Royal Commission about everything. Well, I think deaths of women are pretty paramount in this day, but you gotta work out what does a Royal Commission do besides fund lawyers?

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Bless happy Justin. But he brought home something yesterday, and it's those beautiful iced bulbs, you know, the beautiful whiskey.

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Ice over. It is the world that I see the way he is so different. And I think that the world needs to be more patient with people that live with autism. Any parent out there knows what it's like to have an autistic child. There are wonderful days, but there's also really hard days. It's Christy Bitch.

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Hey beautiful, welcome to Christy Hayes Daily. Loving hanging out with you. Thank you so much for all the kind words that we've got. By we, I mean myself and my wonderful hubby Justin, who is here, who is also co-host of the show, uh, and will continue to be on air. Everyone loves you, Justin, as you know. Like, I mean, there's a few people who hate you, but I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I'm kidding.

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You're very loved.

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Um, and you deserve your spot behind the microphone. And we've had a great uh time interacting with you as well for listening. We're so grateful. We're seeing all the messages that you send. And um, if you get two seconds as well, no, no pressure, of course, but we were gonna ask, would you mind to please like leave a review wherever you listen to your podcasts? Because we need to kind of focus a bit more on things like the admin side of the show. And yeah, that takes up time. So if you get a second, that would be lovely.

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Um leave a review.

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No pressure, of course, but if you can, that would be so lovely. It just you know helps get the word out there about the show. But we're so happy to be here. We've even created a whole new uh studio just to record for you. Um and by studio I mean caravan.

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Yeah, well we've been renovating the caravan now for a little while, but uh put a lot more work in it over the weekend to get it all set up, and it's uh it's coming along very nicely.

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By we, I mean he. Yeah. Justin has been wonderful.

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The collective we. Yeah.

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So the caravan is in our backyard, and I guess you have two choices in life when you want to start a business. You can hold off and and wait till everything's perfect, or you can just launch and you can just go, you know what, there's no better time than right now. I think anyone who's started any type of business would probably relate to that. Uh, I relate to that terminology because I used to read it before we started this little business, and and hopefully we can continue to grow this business. So we're not really doing big fancy studios. We don't need to do it.

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We're sitting in uh like i in in a war zone at the moment because it's mid mid-renovation.

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Oh, but it's so much fun.

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It is.

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And this is part of the story, isn't it? You know, like one day when we have our grandkids, we can look back and say, Oh, well, remember when mum and dad used to, you know, do a hang out in the caravan and leave us in the house. For some mummy and daddy time. Uh but no, like it's really cool when you can find places around the house just to, I don't know, get creative and spend time together. So we're having a great time. Look, it's very visual, but um the caravan.

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You will start seeing more and more of the caravan over time on socials. And definitely. Yeah. And love love for your your thoughts and your feedback and and and it little additions we can put in here and do all those sorts of things as well, you know. So if you want to get involved, um, by all means send some suggestions.

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Yeah, but we got a lovely message. I mean, we've got really nice messages, and we're so grateful, but uh got a really beautiful message just saying uh from this gorgeous woman who said she can't wait as well to see the guests that we get on the show. And we won't name drop names right this second, but we've got some really big times coming on this show.

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There's gonna be some good chats.

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Oh, really good chats and and chats that I've got to say, we're really privileged. Um again, I won't say the names just yet because I'll keep uh privacy for people, but some very high-profile women as well, uh, and men, but women who have stories to tell through what they've experienced, um, working in the media, um, working with crime, working with uh being victims themselves, and and we're so honored that all matt automatically we feel as though this show is that space for for these conversations to continue. I mean, for years, um I've been all about advocating for for for women. Yes, of course, for men, but uh but I am a woman, so obviously it comes more naturally to me. And so I know what we decide where we can go.

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Yeah, advocating for the human race. Whether it's male or female, I mean, at the moment, you know, it it's it's it it is you're still advocating, but at the moment I I believe we need to, we all need to be advocating for women, like in this at this present moment in time, because women is what needs the push up and the leg up and the help and the uh and the support from everyone, men and women alike, need to support women at this present moment in time.

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Thank you for saying that. Um I no, we we really do appreciate that because that's the thing too. I mean, I love men and I love my husband, I love my two sons. I've got wonderful men in my in my life, but um the problem that we have right now in Australia is is predominantly safety for women. And so we'll keep talking about that, and like you just said, the great guys out there get it. Um I don't think the what about men's are really even listening to us now to be fair. Um they they have no qualms messaging me on Instagram, though. Like I feel like saying, dude, if you're gonna message me on Instagram, like at least make it a good message, you know what I mean? So I try not to to buy into all that crap.

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At least learn the English language.

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Oh, that would be a good start. And put down the fish. They all have fish in the profile photos. Have you seen that?

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Yeah.

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What about that guy called Troy the other day? I showed you the message from him. Um, he was telling me off about Pauline Hansen, actually. And look, I know putting politics to the side. Look, I'm not gonna sit here on this show and and obviously tell you which way to vote. You you do what you want. That's not what we're here to do. I I I'm not gonna force that down your throat. You know where Justin and I stand, and I but I still think you can enjoy this show um for the most part because we're aligned together. So we're not gonna win over everyone, but we're not trying to win over everyone. We found our click, and that's with you.

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So we're also not pushing politics on people or pushing or those sorts of things either. It's it's basically we're just saying it how we see it.

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Well, that's right. I'm not pushing politics, I'm pushing issues. And they do fall under the umbrella the umbrella for various politicians who will deal with it differently. So that's the thing, you know, like that's just where we are with this the sound of this show is that we advocate for things that personally we want to advocate for. And that will be so many things throughout the course of this show. So here we are in the van, basically, I guess, like the summer bay caravan park. That's what I've had I've had people message me that.

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Well, you know, we belong together.

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So a lot of us like to play sports. I myself when I was a little girl, I played hockey and I bloody loved it. I did gymnastics too when I loved it. It was predominantly the gymnastics, right? Love the gymnastics. Uh anyway.

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So did I. I just wanted them to crash.

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Jesus, that's a bit morbid and dark. I wanted them to win and you know, do you like the the summer?

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Yeah, that too.

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That was like an insight into your brain. Uh, but look, sport is great. Sport is um something that everyone has a great time doing. Myself, throughout my life, I've gone sort of more to drama class and done more art stuff in my spare time than than sport, but um, I have nothing but respect for sport. I wish I played it more, it's always fun, irrespective of the age. I'm very big on the kids getting into sport. Yeah. Our daughter Marigold, she's only eight and a half months on uh eight months old, but Gold is already into swim lessons. And you, Justin, yeah, even at your ripe young age, yes, you love the baseball, you love the LA Dodgers.

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Yeah, I'm a big baseball fan. Anyone that knows me knows that I I'm a big, well, baseball, but m predominantly LA Dodgers fan. I am a Dodgers fan. Uh, we've gone back to back in 24 and 25, hopefully making it back to back to back uh with another World Series this year. So yeah, I'm very big and you know, it it it is my outlet.

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Why does baseball mean so much to you? What do you love about because you are well you always were. I'll I'll use the the prefix of were you were a big Richmond Tigers fan of the biggest. Yeah, and I still am. But what's going on? Because you never watch it.

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I know because it it hurts me to watch it at the moment. Like I I went through so many years of pain as a Richmond fan, like because we just were shit for so long. Uh, you know, always the joke of us finishing ninth, you know, never making the finals, always just missing out.

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You always finish first with us, or with you online.

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And then um there then we had our heyday, and we did. We won we won three premierships in um in four years. It was absolutely fantastic. I went to two of them. Um the other one was in uh in Queensland during COVID, so couldn't go to that, but we did buy a projector, remember, and we watched it, uh watched it at home uh on on the big screen, just purely and simply for for that. Um the way the Tigers are going at the moment, it it hurts my heart to to watch them. Uh it really does. I I I don't I'm not a hundred percent convinced in the direction they're taking. I'm not a hundred percent convinced in the direction they've taken with their coach. I don't know whether he is the the man for the job, and uh and we're just getting flogged every week, so it's just a bit bit hard to watch at the moment. I still keep an eye on it and keep an eye on the scores, and you know, um if we come back, then you know I'll jump back on the bandwagon.

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Well, my best friend Dan, yeah apart from you next to you, said that Richmond Tiger fans are very fair weather.

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No, that's not true. I I don't believe that is true. Richmond Tiger fans, me at this present moment in time, I'll put my hand up and say I I am fair the weather, but Richmond Tiger fans aren't because I am somebody who would go you when we were getting flogged week in, week out, we were still getting uh the the biggest crowds to home and away games. We were still no, Richmond fans are not fair weather. They still go, they still do the one's a bit defensive. Yeah. And he's a Culton supporter, so what's he talking about? They haven't had any success for God only knows how long. So, Dan, you can just yeah, go back in your little Clint box at the moment.

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Oh, he's always miserable when he watches his games. But the the point of the AFL was to reiterate, I guess, that you've had a break from watching that. And there's nothing wrong with that. Uh, it's good for people to discover new hobbies later, if you will, in life. But you have gravitated toward the LA Dodgers, so baseball is always on in our home. Yeah, we went to LA a couple of years back, uh, and we'd gone to Canada as well, and we were gonna go and see the Calgary Flames. This is an ice hockey thing.

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Ice hockey thing because it was in winter, so there was no wind.

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Um but LA Dodgers means a lot to you. So baseball, you have now actually actively about life.

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Yeah, so I started playing uh last year. Um I don't know whether it was a good idea because because look, I'm a really good I'm really good at baseball watching. I don't know how good I am at baseball playing, although I'm not I'm not terrible. I'm not terrible.

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I think you're good.

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I I played today, got a nice big hit into the outfield, and um after getting struck out my first at bat and then getting caught out in my second, but um but the problem is is I've got a bit of a hamstring issue at the moment, so running is not my strong point. So today I sort of camped out on first base and had to have people run the bases for me, but I did get runs. I did get a run today. I didn't actually do the running, I had someone run for me today because I couldn't do it.

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But was that our little man?

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So our no, he played yeah, he played well. Yeah, so it was it was the last game of Winter League this year, uh um this weekend, uh, and he played and because he's getting ready to play juniors this year, which would be great because he played with the adults last last season. Um, but he's been playing juniors this year, which is fantastic. But he played really well. He got two hits, he got on base and got home, and yeah, he's uh he's a good little baseball player, and he's a better throw than me. He he's 10 years old and he can throw the ball further and better than I can.

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Oh, I do anticipate retiring off this kid with his baseball skill. He's got skill. But I think as well, like when you're a parent and you're watching your child play sport, no matter how they go, it doesn't matter whether they win, it doesn't matter whether they lose. Look, you always have that really a strong moment of pride where you just watch them and you I think even sometimes go back to your own childhood because you remember what it was like to be a kid and to play sport or read books, chase dreams, whatever it was that you were doing as a childhood thing. There's kind of this lovely full circle moment where you get to re-experience it yourself, but also celebrating them as an individual. And so now looking at what you know, say for instance, our 10-year-old is doing, there's always hope and possibility of where that could go.

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And Australians, okay. So let me put uh let me paint this all right. People think, oh, it's all American, it's all American. It's not the wisdom. No, no, baseball's big in Australia. Now, Travis Bazanar is a perfect example of that. Travis Bazana, a kid out of Sydney, who went number one in the MLB draft in 2024. Number one. No, no, no. Well, MLB makes it. Yeah, in the in the major league baseball.

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I'm thinking of NBA.

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So he went number one in the draft, so automatically he gets 15 mil in his pocket just for going number one in the draft, and then obviously sign with the uh with the Cleveland Guardians, um, made his debut this year in the in the majors, because he played the first season in the minors, but he and and um was an all-star this year, played in the all-star game this year. This is and this is a kid out of Sydney who who went over and and did it. So uh Australians you you know don't you know if you're a baseball if you're good enough, you will make it over in the United States. You don't actually, you know, it's not off limits.

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Well, I like that. I like as well us talking about and celebrating sports club that have great culture. That's something that we need to work on in Australia, yeah. And I mean you mentioned America, yes, of course, you don't need to leave Australia to play, and we want to celebrate playing here here at home, but the money's great there and opportunity is there if people want to go to America, like it's here too. But um, you know, even over in the States when we went to those iced hockey games, there was such a cool respect uh in the crowd. And from my experience here in Australia of when I've gone to games, yes, there was hair clean over in America, but they're really But it's fun hair clean fun there, and it's fun hair clean. It didn't have that bullshit where everyone's getting pissed and threatening to beat you up, like all the shit that you see in Australia. I've seen that after going to cricket games, I've seen that after the very few limited um AFL games, not all of them, not all clubs, hashtag not all clubs. Um so it's nice when you can go and see some sports.

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They do sport well over there. Like we obviously we went and saw the LA Kings play at um what's crypto.com now, it used to be the Staples Centre, uh, which was an an amazing experience to go and do. I fell in love with baseball going to Dodgers Stadium for the first for the first time and seeing the Dodgers play, and that's what that's when I I fell in love um with baseball because they just do it so well. The other thing is too, when you talk about the AFL and you talk about um uh you know uh the MLB and why do I watch more baseball than I do AFL? Number one, Footy was twenty-two games in the season or whatever it is, uh, you know, because Richmond's not playing finals, we're not going beyond that, you know, once a week for twenty-two weeks, whatever. Um there's a hundred and sixty-two games in the regular season of baseball. So there is all there's a game almost every single day. So you know, especially when you're up at three o'clock in the morning. Yeah, well, you know, it's uh it it so you're always, you know, we we're we're watching it because it's constantly on. And and you know, if you lose, uh like the Dodgers actually broke their skid today, they actually lost seven in a row, which is not good because they were uh had the best record in baseball up until uh up until a week ago and then went on a bit of a slide. But the good thing is is they can you turn it round and you don't have to wait a week for it to and hope for the best. You know that they're gonna play again tomorrow and they're gonna play the next day, and it's uh you know, and you can you know they can get back on the back on the horse very quickly.

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It always reminds me of one of my favourite films of all time when I see the baseball, which is The League of Their Own. Yeah, yeah, which is all about the women. Sorry.

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There's no crying in baseball.

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It's like I mean, I'm sure you've seen A League of Their Own. It's a masterpiece. It's Tom Hanks, it's Gina Davis.

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Some great baseball movies. Moneyball, fantastic baseball movie. Um uh what was the other one? There was one that Charlie Sheen did as well.

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Um did it involve cocaine.

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No, it didn't involve it.

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I can't remember Charlie Sheen's, but I do remember uh Jackie. Now you might be able to fill in the blanks here. We're talking about Jackie Robinson.

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Jackie Robinson, a beautiful 42 is a is an amazing movie uh because uh uh what Jackie Robinson did not only for baseball but for um uh uh for for the United States in breaking the the the racial barrier um because he was being the first uh African American to actually play in the major leagues, and that was all all thanks to uh well it was the Brooklyn Dodgers then and their and their owner, branch Ricky, um who uh really just turned around and said, This is just not on, this is what I th we need to do. This and and Jackie Robinson, one of the greatest, you know, not only you know, did all that breaking the racial barrier and was the first African American, but he was a an absolute gun of a baseball player, just an absolute gun. Um and just yeah, he's still now now his number 42 is the only number uh in the entire league of the MLB that has been retired for every team. No team has uh has a player that will ever play in number 42 again because of him. And um there's one game every single year uh where every player on every team for that one day on Jackie Robinson Day's the where's the number 42, and it's it's amazing. His wife, Rachel Robinson, um just celebrated her 104th birthday, so she's still going and still goes and still celebrates that. He uh he died in the 70s, uh, Jackie Robinson in his fifties, but but yeah, his um his wife Rachel Robinson still going at 104 years old and uh was as equally, equally as important uh in breaking this racial barrier and standing side by side with Jackie when when he did this um and is and to this day equally as important, as influential in the game as what Jackie Robinson was, as it was his wife Rachel Robinson. And I implore anyone out there, if you have not seen the movie 42, Chadwick Bosman, the late Chadwick Bosman played um uh played Jackie Robinson in that film, um, and it is just one of the most beautiful, beautiful films you will ever see. Um, that will still it will make you it will it will hurt your heart at times um in that film, but I think that's what made it so beautiful.

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And we can never forget, and that's what that film does, the story of Jackie, that sacred number 42, and that's why it's retired now, because it will only ever belong to him as it should, because it was more than just sport, it's more than just a game. He changed the course of history. Like Justin said, watch that film. It's it it's a story that will stay with you forever. It will rip your heart out. Once you see it, you won't ever be able to forget, and nor should we forget the racism, the prejudice, the horrific story that we've had along the way, and how lucky we are in this day and age to live, and how how this sport and this game and this story made such a difference to millions and millions and millions of people, and played so beautifully by a late great, wonderful Chadwick Bozeman. So check it out, um, 42. I think it's on Netflix or every single service.

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You'll you'll get it somewhere, but yeah, you you'll you'll definitely worth seeing. Um, and as far as my baseball career, I don't think I'm ever going to be going to the majors now at my age. No, my number's never getting retired. 04 will be taken by anyone. Uh, it'll probably be wrapped around my hamstring by tomorrow.

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Christy Angel.