June 26, 2025 • 9 mins
Corey Oates faced the “Wall of Truth” on air this morning, revealing his frustration with certain Brisbane media figures who talk trash in print but smile at press conferences. Callers joined the honesty fest, confessing their secret dislikes — from 12 awful cousins to controlling partners and even a not-so-loved grandma.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I heard podcasts year more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Free Heart.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Please asks fall. So this is something we're brought in
to make Corey open up a little find out a
little bit more about choreots.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
A different layer.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, yeah, because you like an onion.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, we want to pearl you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, it literally is a wall with envelopes and Corey
has pulled off a pink envelope. I can open it up.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, that's the opening, and you must answer this question truthfull.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Here we go. This would be interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, read it out loud, please, Corey.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Who's one person in Brisbane media you pretend to like
but can't stand. Oh I definitely cannot name names. But
there's a couple of them. There's a couple of people
in the city who Yeah, look, they write really brutal pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay writers, Yes, interesting.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
They do it all the time. They do it to
plenty of people in sport and not in sport, and
and they write it and then the next day they
expect you to be their best friend.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And it's like if you had someone write something really
negative about you always.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
During your career, and I see it under other people
and then the next day they go, I don't want
to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't, right, So they'll turn up to a press
conference and hey, Corey, yes, nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So have you ever been instructed to talk to those
people by the Broncos even though you know that they
have treated you pullingly?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
They always say you have to anamos, We'll I'm not
And then they go, well you have to. I'm like, okay,
well I'm not going to answer their questions and you
just ignore their questions. So you've still been in the group.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But like so like can a press cops and go
hey Corey, what do you think is going to happen
tonight against Canterbury Bankstown? Yeah, and you just ignore it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, And then like they from that person, what do
you ignore me? I'm like, well, what'd you write about me?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You know, that's just what everyone's saying. I said, well,
you wrote it, And like being here now it's very
opening because you know, I feel I'm really privileged to
be in this position and I get to speak my
truth and my beliefs and and just give you the
insight I guess of the way it works for us.
And yeah, I just I don't like it how people
(02:55):
do that, and then and then like they don't expect
the person they write that about to have any hard
feelings or whatever. And in all, honestly, when you do
something like that to me, you're as, you're done, Like,
I don't, I don't hold a grudge. You could call
(03:16):
it grudge.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It sounds a little bit like.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
You going on my bad list, as in, you're gonna
have to do as whatever you can to get back
on my good list because I'm not going to give
you the stuff. And I just that's one thing I
really don't like. They don't think there's someone behind that
article that that it's not going to hurt anyone. I'm
going to write this about that person.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But they would argue that that's your job, and part
of your job is to be having media scrutiny. But
all of us who've.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Been on the other end of their job is to
report the media and the news. Sweet, were you gonna
understand that when you write something bad about someone, they
may not want to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
How many people are on that list?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Oh, it's growing.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Is there anyone in anyone in this building on that
list that yeah? Okay, good little water?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And did they know they're not they would they if
we were to ring that person you had a list,
would they know?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I don't know, Well they know next time I did
it all in.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah. Do you have someone this and this can relate
to people that are not necessarily in the media have
had nasty stories. Do you have someone in your life
that you are forced to pretend to like? You see them?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Hey, I stave you at the party, but you do
not like that person?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay? Step family.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Thirteen one oh six fives our number eight eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Who in your life are you pretending to like thirteen
one oh six fives our number?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh? Come on, there's always a at least one family member.
Oh yeah, yeah, Leanell of Redland Bay.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Come on, be honest, Hi, guys, I have about twelve cousins.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
How many cousins in total?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Lonel?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
There's fifty us on both sides of the family.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, okay, okay, well the odds are not that bad.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Twelve You still got forty good ones? Why don't you
like them?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
That's just idiots?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And how often do you have to see them?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Unfortunately?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my goodness, why so much?
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Because my family likes to do things together.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We've got Now, have you got any young kids? What
have you got going? Linel, I've got three young kids.
How about some tickets to go and see a family
passing and see the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks which is on.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh my gosh, that'd be amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Guy, All yours, all yours, then you glow and fire show,
presented it by Big w Catch them across Australia this August.
Visit Ticket Tech to secure your tickets today.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Come on, be honest, you can be totally anonymous. Thirteen
one oh six five Beck of Ridges Park.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Who is it?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Okay, technically this is going to sound really bad, but
it's my grandma. Oh wow, okay, but long story short.
When I was younger, she used to She never used
to like my mom. And this is on my dad's side.
She actually told my dad that I wasn't his kid,
(06:39):
forced him into courts for DNA testing. And she's never
looked at me like I was her grandchild. But now
she looks at my children like her great grandchildren. And
I have to I have to pretend to like her
for my kid's sake.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's tough. That is really now on our text for
her nine nine seven three nine seven three anonymous. It
says my mother in law, she told me I was
a lazy parent for not toilet training my six month
old son. How do you come back?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And she says six months?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I legal farm.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Who do you have to pretend to like?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
My sister's boyfriend?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What was that?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
He's just a bit controlling. They've been on and off
for quite some time, and when they're off, he says,
you're not allowed to see anyone. You can't date anyone,
even though they're not together. So if I say something
to my sister, then she gets all angry at me.
So I just pretend to like him. That's tough to
(07:44):
keep everyone happy.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know what you do? You need to get more
people on board with you.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That's and a none, this would be good. Okay, Who
is it that you have to pretend to like?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
It's like your boss?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, how much information you want to give?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Like?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
What type of work are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You don't want to say?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, no, not really yeah, yeah, it's just she says
things that are highly inappropriate that bosses shouldn't pretty much
say to people, but then kind of laughs it off
like a joke, but you know that she's serious. Of
what she's saying to you is how she thinks about you.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Were so passive aggressive?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, are you?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Are you? Why are you whispering?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Are you at work right now?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Are you from our office?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yes, you are from our office. Okay, but you are
at work right now?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes? Oh my goodness. How long has she been your boss?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
For six years?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And she has no idea?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
No, she must be a good paying job.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Wow, yeah, must be something about it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Would you like us to intervene it all? I mean
we could call her on your behalf.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Oh no, no, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well no, we're going to send you two hundred dollars
to spend it game over uh which is perfect for
school holiday boardmand all that game over Brisbane dot com
dot a. You should we send it to your work
and then you have to explain why you want it or.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Maybe not
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay,
I heard podcasts year more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on the Free Heart.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Please asks fall. So this is something we're brought in
to make Corey open up a little find out a
little bit more about choreots.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
A different layer.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, yeah, because you like an onion.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, we want to pearl you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, it literally is a wall with envelopes and Corey
has pulled off a pink envelope. I can open it up.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, that's the opening, and you must answer this question truthfull.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Here we go. This would be interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, read it out loud, please, Corey.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Who's one person in Brisbane media you pretend to like
but can't stand. Oh I definitely cannot name names. But
there's a couple of them. There's a couple of people
in the city who Yeah, look, they write really brutal pieces.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay writers, Yes, interesting.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
They do it all the time. They do it to
plenty of people in sport and not in sport, and
and they write it and then the next day they
expect you to be their best friend.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And it's like if you had someone write something really
negative about you always.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
During your career, and I see it under other people
and then the next day they go, I don't want
to talk to him.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I don't, right, So they'll turn up to a press
conference and hey, Corey, yes, nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So have you ever been instructed to talk to those
people by the Broncos even though you know that they
have treated you pullingly?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
They always say you have to anamos, We'll I'm not
And then they go, well you have to. I'm like, okay,
well I'm not going to answer their questions and you
just ignore their questions. So you've still been in the group.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
But like so like can a press cops and go
hey Corey, what do you think is going to happen
tonight against Canterbury Bankstown? Yeah, and you just ignore it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, And then like they from that person, what do
you ignore me? I'm like, well, what'd you write about me?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You know, that's just what everyone's saying. I said, well,
you wrote it, And like being here now it's very
opening because you know, I feel I'm really privileged to
be in this position and I get to speak my
truth and my beliefs and and just give you the
insight I guess of the way it works for us.
And yeah, I just I don't like it how people
(02:55):
do that, and then and then like they don't expect
the person they write that about to have any hard
feelings or whatever. And in all, honestly, when you do
something like that to me, you're as, you're done, Like,
I don't, I don't hold a grudge. You could call
(03:16):
it grudge.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It sounds a little bit like.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
You going on my bad list, as in, you're gonna
have to do as whatever you can to get back
on my good list because I'm not going to give
you the stuff. And I just that's one thing I
really don't like. They don't think there's someone behind that
article that that it's not going to hurt anyone. I'm
going to write this about that person.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
But they would argue that that's your job, and part
of your job is to be having media scrutiny. But
all of us who've.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Been on the other end of their job is to
report the media and the news. Sweet, were you gonna
understand that when you write something bad about someone, they
may not want to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
How many people are on that list?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Oh, it's growing.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Is there anyone in anyone in this building on that
list that yeah? Okay, good little water?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And did they know they're not they would they if
we were to ring that person you had a list,
would they know?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
I don't know, Well they know next time I did
it all in.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah. Do you have someone this and this can relate
to people that are not necessarily in the media have
had nasty stories. Do you have someone in your life
that you are forced to pretend to like? You see them?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Hey, I stave you at the party, but you do
not like that person?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Okay? Step family.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Thirteen one oh six fives our number eight eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Who in your life are you pretending to like thirteen
one oh six fives our number?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Oh? Come on, there's always a at least one family member.
Oh yeah, yeah, Leanell of Redland Bay.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Come on, be honest, Hi, guys, I have about twelve cousins.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
How many cousins in total?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
Lonel?
Speaker 6 (05:14):
There's fifty us on both sides of the family.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, okay, okay, well the odds are not that bad.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Twelve You still got forty good ones? Why don't you
like them?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
That's just idiots?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And how often do you have to see them?
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Unfortunately?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh my goodness, why so much?
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Because my family likes to do things together.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
We've got Now, have you got any young kids? What
have you got going? Linel, I've got three young kids.
How about some tickets to go and see a family
passing and see the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks which is on.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh my gosh, that'd be amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Guy, All yours, all yours, then you glow and fire show,
presented it by Big w Catch them across Australia this August.
Visit Ticket Tech to secure your tickets today.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Come on, be honest, you can be totally anonymous. Thirteen
one oh six five Beck of Ridges Park.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Who is it?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Okay, technically this is going to sound really bad, but
it's my grandma. Oh wow, okay, but long story short.
When I was younger, she used to She never used
to like my mom. And this is on my dad's side.
She actually told my dad that I wasn't his kid,
(06:39):
forced him into courts for DNA testing. And she's never
looked at me like I was her grandchild. But now
she looks at my children like her great grandchildren. And
I have to I have to pretend to like her
for my kid's sake.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's tough. That is really now on our text for
her nine nine seven three nine seven three anonymous. It
says my mother in law, she told me I was
a lazy parent for not toilet training my six month
old son. How do you come back?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And she says six months?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I legal farm.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Who do you have to pretend to like?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
My sister's boyfriend?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What was that?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
He's just a bit controlling. They've been on and off
for quite some time, and when they're off, he says,
you're not allowed to see anyone. You can't date anyone,
even though they're not together. So if I say something
to my sister, then she gets all angry at me.
So I just pretend to like him. That's tough to
(07:44):
keep everyone happy.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know what you do? You need to get more
people on board with you.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
That's and a none, this would be good. Okay, Who
is it that you have to pretend to like?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
It's like your boss?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
All right, how much information you want to give?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Like?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
What type of work are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
You don't want to say?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, no, not really yeah, yeah, it's just she says
things that are highly inappropriate that bosses shouldn't pretty much
say to people, but then kind of laughs it off
like a joke, but you know that she's serious. Of
what she's saying to you is how she thinks about you.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Were so passive aggressive?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah, are you?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Are you? Why are you whispering?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Are you at work right now?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Are you from our office?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yes, you are from our office. Okay, but you are
at work right now?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes? Oh my goodness. How long has she been your boss?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
For six years?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And she has no idea?
Speaker 4 (08:50):
No, she must be a good paying job.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Wow, yeah, must be something about it.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Would you like us to intervene it all? I mean
we could call her on your behalf.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Oh no, no, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well no, we're going to send you two hundred dollars
to spend it game over uh which is perfect for
school holiday boardmand all that game over Brisbane dot com
dot a. You should we send it to your work
and then you have to explain why you want it or.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Maybe not
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Okay,
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