UP FRONT WRAPPED 2023
Up Front
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4.6 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of Up Front, we take a look back on the first year of the podcast. Since the first episode was released in April, we have welcomed some of the most compelling and talented people from across the world of sport onto the show. In this end of year special Simon will give you an insight into his favourite moments, anecdotes and arguments of the series so far whilst also giving you insight into what the show is like behind the scenes…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special episode of Upfront with me, Simon Jordan. |
| 0:04.3 | 2023 has been the first year of this podcast series with William Hill. |
| 0:08.4 | Now we're in the perfect position to review all the episodes we've done this year so far. |
| 0:12.8 | Over the next few minutes, I shall be asked for my highlights and low lights of the series so far. |
| 0:17.4 | As you all know by now, I've tried to ensure that my opinions are neither vacuous or |
| 0:21.8 | uninformed. So I'll be telling you all what it's like behind the scenes with the guests I've |
| 0:26.1 | interviewed this year. And you might even learn something along the way. |
| 0:31.8 | What was your favourite up-front anecdote of 2023? |
| 0:37.0 | I had an embarrassment of riches about favourite anecdotes, but probably the one that had the most |
| 0:44.0 | length and breadth to it was Billy Joe Saunders, with its ridiculousness, from mooning people |
| 0:48.6 | on a jet ski to driving Andy Murray insane by knocking on his door all hours and wanting to play video games with |
| 0:56.5 | him to a variety of other things that Billy Joe Saunders get up to whilst on an Olympic camp. |
| 1:02.8 | Which guest has overcome the greatest adversity? |
| 1:07.1 | One of the things that you find in these podcasts is you get a lot of information about people's backgrounds and the challenges that they've overcome and the adversity that they had to face. |
| 1:17.2 | And two of the guests that came up to me in the conversations of having real challenges that were admirable to overcome was Lawrence Delalio, which was the loss of a family member and the |
| 1:29.1 | absolute despair that it took him and his family to and how he recovered from that and in some |
| 1:34.6 | essence used it as a catalyst. And then there was Troidini, a different end of the scale, |
| 1:39.6 | circumstances of his own making, where he found himself on the wrong end of the law in prison, but what |
| 1:47.0 | it brought about in him, the change in him as a man, because it came away from the conversation |
| 1:50.7 | with Troy, with a great deal of regard for him, and being impressed by the change that it had made |
| 1:58.3 | in his life. And with Lawrence, I came with a deep-seated admiration |
| 2:03.9 | to have had the challenges, to have lost a sister, |
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