00:00And he said, where are you?
00:03And he says, in Dublin, outside Penrith.
00:06Thousands of people there.
00:08Thousands. It was all over the place.
00:11Another truckie jam.
00:14It charged about two or three times.
00:16You know, it's not the Spanish bull.
00:19You can do all this hard work with them and that.
00:21The crowd were with me.
00:22That's why I got out in the ring.
00:24It was easier when I wasn't married, you know.
00:27My name is Pedro William Sedoti.
00:30And back in 1962, that's when we decided.
00:35I decided I wanted to travel.
00:38When I was young.
00:40I was 19 years old.
00:41We were 19 years old, my twin brother and I,
00:43when we left Australia to go overseas.
00:46But I was interested in bullfighting before that.
00:49We used to jump in the ring and fight these bulls
00:53that they let out one at a time.
00:55They were teaching me how to use the cape.
00:58The muleta, the capote.
01:01And then I got the courage to have a go myself.
01:06I couldn't afford to buy a bull or anything like that.
01:11I came back to live where I,
01:13the place that we originally lived in.
01:17And over the fence was my good friend from school,
01:21Sammy Dominello.
01:23Sammy Dominello.
01:24And he had a car.
01:26And during the week I'd saw our advertisement for a rodeo.
01:30And I said to Sammy,
01:32can you take me up to Bowen Mountain?
01:36And then the clowns went and got the bull off him.
01:39And then I said, talked to myself, I'll have a go next.
01:42I'll have a go next.
01:44I'll jump in the ring without permission, you know.
01:48And I got the next one,
01:51and the bull rider and the bull came out and charred it.
01:54And it threw him, threw the next rider.
01:56I got out in the ring, I got the muleta and went out
01:59and put the cape in front of him and he charred me.
02:02During the week I got a phone call from the empresario,
02:05or whatever you call it, the manager of that.
02:07He said, do you mind if we put on another show next week?
02:10And we'll advertise it.
02:12And I says, all right.
02:15Went through Richmond and going up the mountain
02:17there's a traffic jam.
02:19A big traffic jam.
02:20And I said, what's going on here?
02:22Not realising.
02:23And guess who, guess the truck in front of me,
02:26guess what was on the truck?
02:27The bull that was to fight.
02:28I went to the Easter show.
02:30I got to the side of the ring.
02:32I had my cape with me.
02:34And I was going to jump in the ring.
02:38I saw the bull rider.
02:40It was in the evening.
02:42And some of the fellas recognised me.
02:44And they got the police straight away.
02:46They found out I'd been bullfighting.
02:48Someone from London rang me up.
02:51They wanted me to do a show.
02:52And they got to think that.
02:54And then I said, I'd have a go.
02:57And because it was advertised in newspapers and everything,
03:00I wound up going up there.
03:03Thousands of people there.
03:05And this time, a couple of Spanish boys turned up
03:08that I didn't know.
03:10So I gave one of them, my son of mine, Maletha,
03:13I gave him one of my capes.
03:15I thought just to do, to help me if anything happened.
03:19Because I had no one to help me with this.
03:21And it was this big bull, you know.
03:23That big black one knocked me down once.
03:25I got up.
03:26I didn't have any injuries on me.
03:28A lot of people were, you know, they were happy about it.
03:32They came and talked to me afterwards.
03:34And had little children and put up photographs with me.
03:37And all that.
03:38Even though they got knocked down and that.
03:39It's a form of art for me.
03:40It's art.
03:41It's art.
03:42It's a form of art.
03:43It's tradition.
03:44There's a lot behind it, you know.
03:45When the crowd's with you, you get the adrenaline.
03:48And you feel invincible, you know.
03:51You feel invincible.
03:52It's such a fantastic feeling.
03:54Fantastic feeling.
03:55I've felt it so many times.
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