July 20, 2025 • 43 mins
Tom Starling joins the boys for a wild episode full of laughs, inside stories, and 2025 Raiders chat.They prank-call Adam Elliott and take a hilarious trip down memory lane.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You man, you like to go out there. It's good
to see you there.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's good to see him doing Yeah, yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
So it's great. That was son you're proud of.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So I'll teach you a thing or two already. So
when you can you hear yeah yeah, see so you
hear yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, ok.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And then and then see how when I do that? Yeah, yeah,
So you can do that for dramatic effect if you
want to paint a picture of a room, like you know.
I was up here and then Cooper was down the
hall and he was yelling, hey, you can feel free
to do that.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Okay, I can. I'm sure I can work that into
what you're seeing here. This is He tries to do
the same to me. And I said, that would be
the equivalent of Xavier Savage telling rookie what the game
plan should be.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That is the furthest we need to be fair.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, he's very smart game Yeah yeah, it is going
A good athlete, great athlete.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
He's at it. He was a fast kid, like I
remember all those like before I even played first grade,
there was like the videos of him running like ten
seconds in one hundred. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It was in the little athletics and stuff like that.
I think it always tells us how quick he used
to run. So we're underway too, so we're life.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, he knows.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I just want to I just want to make sure
you don't want to get in there with a person.
Go may. You wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It was on for.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Five minutes and I was just rambling about all sorts
of stuff we should be talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Worry Jack's Jack and Jack everything. So you can say, like,
all those stories that you were saying before, you feel
free to tell because we get Jack now.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm really uncomfortable listening to those stories like that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Jack, I can't be well, can we just say, right
off the top start congratulations because you you've just been engaged,
You've just you've just popped the question to your lovely partner, Chelsea,
Can I ask you nerves nerves of steel?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah? Horrible bad. Yeah. I was stumbling and mumbling me
words and yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It was quite an afternoon really, because I was trying
to get there for the sunset and everything. But Chelsea
was dragging her asset train sorry at that work, and
I'm like, come on, we've got to get going. Yeah,
ended up and then she hadn't eaten all day, so
she was ripping in the cheese plant and I'm trying
to take the cheese player away from us, and she's like, what.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Are you doing?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I just just put this down for two seconds, and anyway,
we got there. But yeah, it was a horrible mess.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I was. I was struggling.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
A lot of people would know this, but you guys
actually met on the app House Party. I remember that.
Remember that me and Jack were addicted to in COVID. Well,
mainly I did treat it like a dating app. It
was a dating app back then in COVID. Wheneveryone was
isolated the house, you joined in and you could basically
join on anyone. I remember joining on Staralo a few
times and he was in there in a locked room
(02:29):
with Chelsea and they were talking. Is that like where
you actually met or was that not?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, we met, we met.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
We met on the coast out before that, but we
kept in contact few House Party.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So that's a funny.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I've been I've been trying to bring it back, bro.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I hope we should.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I still have a downloaded and I'll go. I don't know,
I'll see about buying the rights. But it was the
bigger I reckon it was literally the biggest app in
the world for three weeks and then just nothing after that.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Actually, yeah, it's Sizzles Morker's book. Sorry, you were.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Saying to me, what's my Love? Another record in the
last decade?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Have you rather get used to it? You got the
honeymoon period for as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
When's the wedding? Are you planning it?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
She's yeah, she's got the note book out, already gone
in two days in.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
My job's done. Have you got your ring off the
old suit?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, you'd be able to. You'd probably be able to
fit into Dad's set.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What colored you were in your wedding day?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Black?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Black? Yeah? Traditional?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
True?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
For what I could? I could? You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Back back in the mid nineties things were a lot
more consumed. Yeah, it was you turned up with the
white suit on. Yeah, particularly Newcastle. You're probably beaten up.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, similar like dad. You might you both his dad
needed a step ladder to kiss mum when he was
thinking you might be I'm closed.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She puts hells on.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Is chills taller?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, I think I've got her flat foot? She might
have me but if I spot my hair up just
a little bit, I've got her. But if she's got
any types of shoes on, I need to be putting with.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But she she wouldn't know what to do if there
was a single marker. She's got no idea, she's no
deception how to create a one on one with Josh
Papa Lee. Yeah, yeah, you were Queenslander. Do I hear
that there was a lot of rumors going around this year?
Did you see a lot of that stuff on social
media about.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Shell showed me a TikTok about me being the Queensland
But I was just like, I'm just some random fan,
but yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I saw that because the people saying, like people that
should be picked state of origin. It was Tommy Starling
and it was Queensland, and I was like, what, Starr's
not even queens because you played junior Origin and you said, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So no, I don't know where that's coming from.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You brought on the central Coast windsor oh yeah, okay,
and then moved to the coast. When I was about tan,
I think, yes, what's the junior club?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
King Cumber Cults played for windsor Waves when I was
in Windsor but the King Cumber Cults.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
A couple of strong clubs you played with Paps Brian Papenhaus.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, sorry at Hills Balls too.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
That was at Hills have played there for a season,
and then me and perhaps played there for and then
that's when I moved up with the Coast.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well perhaps always used to rave about your two combinations. Yeah,
you still still keep in contact.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Here and there, pen pals, Yeah, Instagram, Instagram party party.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You really don't know you're missing out on you guys.
Back in the day before computers put you send emails
in the text messages for phones, was that you would
you would actually pen someone a letter, a handwritten letter.
And I am still of the belief staralar that if
you really want to thank someone nicely, do a handwritten note.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I might need to get onto that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, working on your The only problem with that is
it takes like two to three days, you know what
I mean, It's very hard.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
To something's worth the wait?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Does that we've like stamps for your stuff? To buy
a stamp and buy stamps people's address? Yeah, the days
a lot of people don't there text the text them
about the address writing your letter thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Isn't it funny back in before phones and typed in?
Like I still remember all my mate's phone numbers.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah, we had a little book that you just look
it up and stuff like that behind phone.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, nine four oh one, Can I finish it?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, we don't have one anymore, right, nine four oh one,
four oh one night there.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Actually I think that was my mate Christian Muscro's home number.
I still remember weird stuf, but.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yours or not, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I can't remember, but it is weird. Like if if
I was if my phone in out of battery and
I had to ring someone in an emergency, I only
know two mobile numbers off by heart, and it's mine
and my Antricia's.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I know my mom's and dad's.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, like i'd be if I was away and I
needed to like ring Jack or something.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, let me give you something else. With technology before
those days, before phones and and as far as satellite
devices was, you used to have to pull a map out,
so you'd be driving and holding holding a map and
trying to look at okay, left turn here mate. It
was the source of so many words of Trish and
I she go to left hand turn and I'd go left. Oh,
(07:00):
I meant to say right. I had the map app
side down.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Fucking was it left or right?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I remember Dad like, you'd get the pen out, you'd
start mapping out where you drive. Yeah, were A to B,
you'd be we'll turn righty and then you got to
go that way. Yeah, little in the back.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Of the book. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I still when I visited Gas and Gale and says
not like two or three months ago, I was like,
and I just used maps everywhere right, like Google Maps.
It just takes it straight away easy, and Gas goes
right over Coops. So what you want to do is
and he like, and I didn't want to interructed to
be rude because obviously he's not like across Google Maps
and that. So he's like, you're gonna want to go
past the Australian and when as soon as past that
(07:37):
you want to go left, You'll follow that for about
five k and then go right. And I listened to
him for like ten minutes basically explain the whole two
hour drive back to Sydney. And I was like, Gaz,
I've got maps, I'll just punch it in there.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
He did the same when he was here. I was
staying at Narraboon caravan Park over the and I said, Dad, well,
we're staying against never being caravan park, not realizing, well realizing,
but ignorant to the fact that I've lived here for
over twenty years. He goes, yeah, mate, we just you
just go out and pitball a road right then you
were right here at the fish and chip shot down.
I'm just there.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You fucking are you good with Like, if you go somewhere,
were able to get back there?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Actually, if I get there once, I can kind of remember,
I can trace my steps.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I can if you go, if I go somewhere, I'm like,
I'm pretty sure I'm I could get myself back there
without without mats like a cat.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, you can drive a cat twenty kilometers away and
it'll turn up and you it'll turn back up again.
They got sure, Yeah, positive, Yeah, you know that'd be
good for We took it a day one last year.
She just to ride back.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, there was that day. She disappeared for like two
She disappeared for two days, styl and we all mourned
and we like had a little funeral to remember that
we were like, oh, well, and then she was just
like two days ago, she was just at the back
door and meowing, and everyone was like not that everyone
was disappointed, but everyone was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Like, we just wait five minutes on a funeral.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We've just kind of gotten over it. I can we
give you a big congratulations start of the year the
Camber Raiders. Well done, Starlo, because you've been a big
part of that.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Thank you, mate, Yeah, thank you. That's been a good
start for the boys. Obviously haven't done a whole lot,
but we've got a big, big back end of the season,
so mate's exciting. We're really excited of how we've attacked
this sort of first what is it, fourteen thirteen weeks?
So yeah, Look, we set out a goal in the
in the pre season when we got our schedule and
(09:28):
and all the flying and all the travel we had
to do. We made it a real goal of ours
to make sure we now now the start of the
season and get us off to a good start. It
will set us up for the rest of the season.
So it's all gone to plan pretty much so far.
A couple of bunchs along the road, but it's a
really good learning curse for us too, and we've.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
All that trouble. We've come real close as a team.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You know, we've got that Vegas trip and then been
up to Darwin Townsville and all over the joint. It's
been really enjoyable getting away with this new bunch of
boys and you know, we just enjoyed each other's company
and getting together as a team.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It just shows your starlow is that you know, just
there's no use complaining and there are no excuses. Look
at you blokes have done, and look what the Warriors
are doing. They're like they're travel and so you just
get on with it. Whatever the drawer is, to just
get get out and get on with it. Watching you
blokes in Vegas, I was commensating the game with breath
and asta and instead of breath in the coverage, I said,
(10:18):
there's something different. You can just tell there's something different
about this camera site very very fast. Everyone had footwork,
but just the style of football you played there was
more out and out attack. And how it's transpired. One
of the really impressive things about you blokes, how you
has developed as a side, is just you don't need
to be sky high emotionally to win, like in previous years.
(10:39):
I can imagine Ricky had to get your right up
to win and that takes a toll, that lodes to inconsistency.
But you blokes have won a lot of games this
year where you've been a fair way off your best.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, for sure, I'd have to give Justin Giddo only
attack coach a lot of a lot of praise for
our attack and it's quite it's quite different than what
we've been doing the last few years. And the start
of the preseason just started going, oh is this son
of works?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
This son of work?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's but yeah, like he's tailored our attack to what
what we're very good at and what we're strong at
and what you know, he's looked at our strength and
weaknesses and we're attacking what we're good at. So but yeah,
obviously said we've got we've got speed across the park
and then our middle forwards are just like laying such
a good platform for you know, the likes of me
and Jamal and Ethan Strange and Kyle Weeks to play
(11:24):
on the back of. And yeah, look, we're still a
long way off where we want to get to in
our attack, but you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Come along really nicely.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And on the defense side of things, we've probably got
a few things we need to fix up. But as
you sort of said before, I think the belief in
the squad is if we if we're not at our best,
we've just got to make sure we getting ourselves in
the frame.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
We've got the players that will get to get a win.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Justin Getter, is that Matt's Ronnie?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, son of Ronnie. That's my nick name for him,
young ron So Yeah. Yeah, but he's he's a clever,
clever dude.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Used to be able to convert. He used to if
he was on the left hand side of the post.
He does a conversion right foot, on the left hand
side of the post, convert left foot.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Did he did he play as well? Justin? Did he
play for the We always joke about he was the
Matthew Johns.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
He's a bit of the Cooper Johns Josh Starling, Yeah,
Jackson one of the two anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
So No, he's he's very, very clever, and he's as
I sort of mentioned, he's tailing that our attack to
what we're really good at, and he were coming. But
he's also firm and what he wants as well so
you know, we're all about coordinating fast in the good
ball area and that attacking stage, and he's been really
onto us about improving and get better.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So yeah, massive raps just went buying into just.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Enjoy having Did you like being the underdogs? Like everyone
probably rich you guys, particularly with the Warriors as well
that you guys and the Warriors didn't sign a whole
heap of people lost, you know, you lost Jackie Whiton did.
Did a lot of people like, did you guys get
together as a group and want to sort of thrive
on that underdog?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Under day but Stick Stick that just fed straight into
what stick you wanted it he win pre season, He's like,
no and say a word about how hard we're training
and all that sort of stuff. When we get out there,
we'll show them how hard we've been training and stuff
like that. So yeah, like we use that sort of
stuff like Stick's really good at you know, he'll tell
(13:22):
us what.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
They're saying about us.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
And if he goes, I don't know if he's read
the meter, and that he goes, I do, and this
is what they're saying about And if it doesn't annoys
and you get annoyed about it because they're saying you're
going to come get wood spoon in the pre season.
You use that all preseason, So yeah, I think it's
a good It was good. It's worked perfectly for us.
We've sort of flown under the raidar the first first
few weeks. Even when we beat Brisbane down down home,
(13:45):
it was like Brisbane was off.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It wasn't. It wasn't because the rat eat him prison
was off.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
What was on with Brisbane that day or whenever we
beat a big team, I was always there.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But which is which is what we want?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
We'll just keep flying under the radar, hopefully and keep
proving people wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Starla.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
A lot of times you know that you'll hear teams say, mate,
we're just week to week or we just won't a
bit the next month of football and blocks. But sometimes
I think that's to be short sighted. I think at
the end of the day, you you should have one
eye on the on the finish line and finishing first,
like you know, we're winning that Grand final. That creates
because that creates incentive and at the moment a lot
(14:22):
of teams, a lot of people are suddenly talking about
you blokes, possible premieres does Ricky talk about it at all?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
As you mention it, We've been speaking about since the preseason.
We said, let's let's put it out there, let's let's
go for let's go for like why not us? Why
can't we go win a premiership? And it hasn't been
something we've been shign away from about talking about it.
We speak about it, but you also kind of let
now that there's people talking about us, it's how.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We how we handle it?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
How do we you know, we've we've gone from cropping
the cop and the criticism to now we getting the
pats on the back. How do we handle that? So
I think that's that's our next sort of our growth.
We're talking about out the growth of the team and
our journey that we're on, and so I think that's
that's the next key part of when we're coming into
games that you know, we technically should win, where people
are saying, oh, you should beat these teams, you should
(15:07):
be because we're higher than them on the ladder, how
do we handle that instead of being that underdog and
changing our mentality? But it doesn't change much of how
we approach the game. Were don't approach eat game as
as as you guys know, we're going out there to win.
But yeah, so it's it's exciting, mate, We're excited for
what's what's ahead of us. We know the type of
team we've got there. We've known the preseason. We've seen
(15:28):
the talent. We've seen that Toma Ayes and Ethan Strange,
the strength that they've the game, the way that they've
taken the game in the preseason stuff. And now we're
showcasing it and headed up by Joey Taps and Hudson
Young and yeah Big Bad just Josh Papoli. So we've
got some really good scene your figures. They're helping these
younger kids come.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It is good. Like some of the young players, like
you said, Kyo, Ethan Strange, Tomlo, they've been outstanding. But
one player, go Hudson, one of our mate Hudson Young,
who's the last couple of years has just been a
triscoring machine. Has been in my opinion, this year, he
has probably been the best back roar on the camp.
Is he just how hard does haw?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
He train like he's an animal, honestly, like living I've
lived with him for a couple of years and he's
just so professional he'd wake up at two o'clock in
the morning to have a protein shape and vitamins and
stuff like that. He's the most professional person I've ever
come across with stretching. Like I think he's actually got
an addiction to stretching, Like you just you'd just be standing,
you're just start stretching out and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He's got a screw loose, but.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
He's got an addition stretching, fascurbating King of the World
one of my Olympics, pushing for Bridsbane Olympics to masturbation.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Put it in.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And of course Tyrone Wishart, friend of the podcast, also
has an addiction to stretching.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
One of the other ones.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
But he's got the going.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
For the now.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
He's gone all the way, he's going past pass all
past No man's lady's actually going for these.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Patting himself on the back.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Because you've got the you've got the young supplement to give.
We'll give young, We'll give had some shout out. That's
his supplement, Bran.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, if it's good enough for that. Like I remember
when Adam McDougal from the back end of his career,
he was talking about and you have protein powders and everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, because he gets troble with a salt and pepper on.
Now I know who thought. But he kept talking about
this stuff and he was just working with like nutrition
places getting the next thing, you know made. He sells
the company for like half a billion dollars and he's
still goinging like he's held twenty percent of the company.
It's gone to America. He will be the first ex
(17:27):
player to be a bionaire.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Well, next, Hudson to tell you how we'll get him
to send some stuff up there. Yeah, Jackson, Yeah, you
don't look jack now, appreciate it. How I'll get a
sort we're all that's what we're that's the secret. We've
all been on the young sultlements down there in.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Cameras, don't We'll send a started down then to.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Certified.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'll tell you what just quickly, Staralo, if you ever
had any doubts that you know you're going to make
it and be a star at NROL level, you had
to look no further than the fact that nice let
you go, honestly, So unless for you your side for
a second, so yourself, Zach Zach host King Hudson Joey
tarpany Am I missing anyway, Semi Society.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Army, he was there.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What the what the hell was going on?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I think that's all.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
What was the situation, the nights off for anything? Or
it was just so narrow So.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Bood there last round Old Boy's Day and didn't play
too bad.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
It wasn't. I wasn't like, didn't a lot of the
house on fire, which but yeah, like I just I
thought I was only get a contract out of that.
But I just honestly, I didn't hear back anything from
I don't know if my managers just sort of sheltering
me from it. But he couldn't get old of them,
and he said, so it was just run into I
run into. There was Darren Mooney down the beach. Actually
he was leaving the club and I running through down
(18:48):
the beach. I was with Klein and Connor just down
the beach and I'm just sort of no man's land,
was waiting to wait for a call.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And he goes, oh, have you found anything yet? What
do you mean? He goes, oh, I haven't told you.
I don't. I think they think you're too small and
they're bringing another nine. I was like, oh, no.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Running manager up and just said, oh mate, we've got
to go find something else. Look at the time, I
probably used it as motivation. I thought this is good.
But looking back on it now, they obviously needed to
win right away and they thought that they'd move in
a different direction. But I'll still only young, twenty years old.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
If you want to honest you Yeah. There's a great
scene in money Ball where Brad Pitt says to Jony
Hill's character, you to tell a guy that he's been
shifted elsewhere. I don't know how to do it, he said,
I'll show you how to do it. Sit down and
guess so and so. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm
just letting you know. This is a train ticket we're
going to pay for removal us. You're off to the
Detroit Tigers anywhere anything else, Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Honest players like knowing where they stand with I will.
I want to ask you when you said they said
you're too small? Did you cop that a lot of
your career? Like was that? Because I imagine like listening
to young blokes now, all they want to do is
like get big, get tall, get strong in the gym
because they see all these other blokes in juniors, but
you're someone who you know, it was quite small all
(20:02):
the way through Jens.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah, I don't think they ever like, no one really
ever told me to my face, like I think it
was just a general consensus that he's he's only like
playing our match, probably might be too small, faretet or
whatever it is, go player that play good. He's only
two small front of twenties and just kept like I
think it was just along the way, like he will
eventually get come to a roadblock where his size is
done get in his way. But no one like they
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had Newcastle actually that when I did start training first ground,
they they wanted me to put weight on and I
just struggled to put weight on. Like I'd go in
there and like on a Monday morning when we would
weigh in and just have like phone every way in
my pocket, like I'll just have hoodie. I'd be could
be thirty grees out there. I've just got hoodie, tracksuit, phone, wallet, keys,
everything in there, just right.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Hole and phone.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, I literally I did the same. I remember my
first year at Melbourne, Bill Ack and the coaching star
said if you get because I was like seventy million
peraps with the same weight. We were seventy seven keys,
except he was like electric, fast, skillful, good look at
it and that. Yeah we both were. And then they
said I remember Aaron Bellamy goes, mate, if you get
(21:08):
to eighty two kegs, They're like, you're ready to play
against men, but they want to see you work hard
to put light. I went, sweet, mate, I put it
on in in two weeks. And it was because they
don't know this I got. They had these little two
and a half kilo plates in the gym, which was
small enough. They were dance but you can put them
in your pockets. I was putting in my underes because
you had to like take your shirt and that off.
(21:28):
And I was in there just like in my budgies
with this little two and a half kilo away and
I was putting on quick. They going good, where are you?
They're like, where are you putting it on?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Look at the Hamburg.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And I would hold a piss water and just a
hold of it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, it wouldn't shit in the morning.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
But you know, starlight, with your smaller stature on the
way you're built, that suits the modern game. Yeah, as
the six again, rules come in. You're seeing the smaller
thirteen and I've seen knew you last year go to
thirteen and you just kill them the big blokes. And
that's I mean, that's the area of vulnerability in around
the rucks. Now. I actually think the next step for
the game. We see trends and I was talking to
someone about this the other day. I actually think the
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pack will become homogenized. Everyone will be almost the same side,
and you can play the edges. You can swap the
edges with the middles. Did you think about the middles
these days?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I was just about to say, like you look at
maybe you've got eight years ago, how big they were.
Like I even speak to like Pups and what he
was weighing back then. Remember Ricky had that massive big side.
He had Junior Paul, Yeah, Papa Papa was playing back Rod,
they had Chatton Boyd. They had that this massive, big
pack and then they like you look at it now,
like everything just as he's saying.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That Hudson's prototype almost really fast on his foot, strong,
not too big, and if you've got guys like if
you think about your middles, right, the middles, we've got
these big middles. They're leading yardage, but also mate, they're
having to contend that they're defending in that area of
vulnerability in the in the rucks. If you had some
packs that eventually would become almost the same, you can
(22:58):
swap your middles with the edges, share the workload Pain
has is the exception Pain could defend on an edge
now yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Mobility, Yeah, he's just got He's got everything that he's quick, mobile,
on your on your great mate, big Puppa, Josh. Probably
he just broke the record on the most gains for
the Raiders. And there are good scenes of you and
him after the game. You took really close. Yeah, I
think Pups is close to everyone. He's he's such a
great bike.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Like you obviously see everything on the field that he's done,
but he off the field, honestly, like brighton your day
up when you see him in the morning, like he's
locked the first one you see when you walking. He's
always just sitting there early in the morning waiting for
everyone to come in, going and giving him a massive,
big argus.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Honestly the best part of my day.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But yeah, no, he's a good he's such a club
person and a great person, Like he makes a genuine
effort to everyone that comes into the squad to get
a relationship with him and and take people out the dinners,
Brecky's or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You can see that right, Like you saw the scenes
after the game. I've never seen scenes like it, Like
the whole crowd he was kicking the goal. Ricky was
like his.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Greatest milestone game ever. Soon that last two tries as
he recovered. Because I know we had a tough time
a couple of years ago when Jack shortened him up
on Jack Staboo and all the people. Yeah, yeah, mate, honestly,
like you know, he put his shoulder out, putting his
shoulder through.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Right, your first running first grade Jack big Papa.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It was probably not my smartest man.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Clip there.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But he came up and spoke to the game, didn't.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Yeah it was good fella. Because we had a few
of our few of our mates. Because it was COVID year,
a few of the mates had to they had it.
They the only way they could get to the games
by becoming Camber members. So that because they only give
a limited amount of tickets per game because of COVID,
So then all the boys became members and they somehow
got in the box and that was they were just
(24:47):
so loud, giving it to it, giving to giving to
all you boys during the game. And then Papa grabbed
me after the game and said, I think your mates
in the box is like, how good is that?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Real? Congratulated me in that.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
But thanks for flogging me.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
But you can have to say running again, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You can see like what a good fellow was like
he didn't have to go out of his way to
do that. But yeah, absolute legend.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What is he's young Blake, I love you unbelieve we're
going to try to get him on the show, get
him up, yeah, get him's autographs and that they're going
to get him and trying to get him a pap
up on the couch.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
To get it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
He's a little champion. He's like you go over to
the crowd after the game and just see a big
know it and just scribbled into this person's thing. It's
so funny.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Someone should sign him now because you just know.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
He's as he should see the high lots he's got
pups comes in and shows the whole lots of him
down playing footage twice as big as every but they've
got the tags on his part and everyone off.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But he goes, he goes good. Nah, but he's a
he's a great family man, pups.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
He loves his kids and loves his He's just he's
better to have another one here actually some days next
week or something up before now he's.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Going to have to get a big He's going to
have to see his card.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
He's big patrol thing blacked out really like realms. It's huge.
He's got a monster truck. It's quite funny.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
What about your your hooker partner, Old Paddy because he's
a good player. They've got a lot of raps him
as a young bloat. I remember Harry Harry Gran actually
just assessed with him in Rocket because he's from Queensland. Yeah,
like she thought he was English this whole time, probably
because of his name. Yeah, yeah, it sounds like an
English name and there's English and there's.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
English English language.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
And he was saying like he did a session out
of Saint Brendan's with him at the school up there
when he was like seventeen, just before he went down
to Raiders, that he was one of one of the
most like smart young players. He said, he was so
like wanting to learn for such a young player. Is
he just like a freaker trainer? Yeah, No, he's exactly
what Harry made.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
He's asking questions all the time and at halftime he's
coming up like what are you saying out there?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And what do you reckon? But no, he's he's very good.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
He's very smart footballer and you know he's saying what
he's to do in his short career. Already he's already
snapped a couple of forty twenties. That's that's his main
sort of you know, he's got a yeah, he's got
that's a real string in his bow. He's got there
his kicking game and he's short grubbering game. But yeah,
very smart, very deceptive little number nine.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
So he's got a good combination.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, he's very yeah, very good.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
So it's it's it's going to be exciting to see
how how he progresses over the next few years. And
he's going to win some games at the back end
of the season with his creativity and stuff and around
the ruck for new blokes and making can be different,
you know, and Star love for you because you got
Ethan strange in the six, you've got Jamal who's in
the seven. So it's it's so imperative that you blokes
(27:39):
a new starting the game having an impact through that middle.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
And you've seen the difference with like if you look
at Luke, at Metcalf at the Warriors, you know, and
Looke when you Blokes played him in Vegas, I had
real fears about Luke. I thought he's a six. They
put him in the seven. But with Wade Egan coming
out and done me lf and sort of taking ownership
of the attack and a lot of what it's just
for him up and you're doing the same now with
Blakes like Ethan.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I think, yeah, Jamal's massive part of that too, like
he I don't know if we've been watching our state,
but Jamal plays through the middle on the ball, and
then we've got Kyo and Ethan out on their prospective edges,
and you know Jamal will steer this ship and all
sort of co pile at that. And you know when
when the boys outside want the ball, they're making sure
they're screaming at Jamal, and then Jamal's screaming at me
to get him the ball so he can get them
(28:24):
the ball. So it's working really well at the moment.
And as you know, Mad, he's playing off the back
of a good four pack. Makes a hell of a
different mashi. You know our forwards land the platform.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
When the Fords are going forward, mate, swimming with the
tides exactly when they're going backwards, you're pissing into the wind.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Correct. What about one of my old teammates, Chris Lewis
at the storm he's now doing Uh yeah is ins
has he been gone?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah? He's good. Look he's good.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
He's got a very creative mind, Louis. He comes in
with some pretty pretty rogue stuff. In the meet we're
with this guy he used to good it's he.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Used to come to Spine meetings. You know, sometimes you
get a Spine meeting because like he played six one time.
It was actually against the Raiders. Me and him were
he's put some.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Clips in and our in our preview against Melbourne. He
put it.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
He put it because he was selling it Munster's dummies
and sort of stuff like that, and Grant and he
put his own dummy in there against us from three
years ago, four years.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Watching the clip, he just put his holes.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Watching the drummer in the flute section.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
He used to his brain works in a different way.
Did he sit in there? And he goes, guys, what
do you reckon about this? And he starts jowing in
the spine meeting and months two we go, fuck me,
look like money like would come up with some stinker ideas.
He goes, fuck me, I've had some bad ideas, but
that fucking takes the cake. That thing that is the
worst I've heard.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Every team's got one. You know, someone opens their mouth
and he goes, fuck he were someone out not going
to say who it was. And he always used to
try to get the last word. And we're playing the
game one day and he and our coach gos mate, okay,
two minutes sign now run our boys. Anything anyone else
got anything to say? And our man went, yeah, I do.
(30:02):
I've got a really bad feeling of it. Today we
went shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Why would you say that? I don't know his family?
Louis wag you wag you meat sells wag you is
he yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah? Did you know that? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Then ask you and me? He sent he sent Brandon
some meat the other day.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He's been holding out on this.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Does he does he massage the meat.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I don't know if he massages it because oh, I'm
sure his family would person but him personally, he wouldn't
fly up to the farm to massage it himself because
he'd be busy with the cup coaching.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Right, It's a Japanese method. I always wonder how do
they massage it? Do they put it on a bench,
you know, head in.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
The bucket, heading the whole oil? Or I think it's
like baby Johnson baby oil, like Johnson, Johnson and Johnson.
Is that is that what they call it?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Powder oil?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That's what?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
What's that one used? Johnson and Johnson? Is that the
brand the powdered you know the one you use you
put on the cake like the CAGs?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah, Johnson Johnson. But yeah, for the kegs, I don't
get sweaty. But there's a better one in America. You know,
when I come back with the States all the time,
it's unbelievable. It's stuff. It's like a corn flower and
just put it underas balls and honestly it just cools them.
It's like an escibot just blowing on your knuts, as
in breathing onion.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, clarify on that one.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Let's take you back to Newcastle for a sec because
you used to live and play under twenties with a
very own a very own producer back there Jack John's.
Can you give us into a bit of an insight
as to.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
What he was like to live with?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
It was?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It was interesting that house that we lived in, the
sex lodge, that was called that's.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
What like ironically, yeah, sex logs because no one had said.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
It was there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It was.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It was far from that, but yeah, it was this
that had a big sign out the front of it.
It was our mate, Curtis's cousin who owned it.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Don't throw it on the bus there, right, Please explained
deeply why it was called the sex lodge because people.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Are going to think straight now.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I'm trying to let me tell the story. It was
it was his house and he just named it the
sex lodge, like when he moved into it. He lived
in it for so our mate Curtis, his cousin, he
lived in it for howe over long. He owned it
and he made you got to sign up everything sex
lodge out the front of it. Anyway, So we needed
a house to stay and he said, I jump in mind.
(32:23):
I've just bought this other one on renovated. No one
is a bit older. And then so we've moved into
the Sex Lodge and this is notoristly known as a
party house in Newcastle, Like it was the place that
everyoneoul gave to party after the night's done, and it
was everything.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
So we've we've moved in this and it was on the.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Fairly main road, like on Bunker Road there, Jack didn't
it and like would be going, would be going to
train the full full nights kid walking out of this
thing and like the traffics banked up looking at it.
He comes these Knights players out and full full kid
walking out of this thing called the Sex Lodge and
this house it was it was it was a pig style.
It was.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Anything but crying.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I can't believe my son's Jack reminded me today. Wasn't
there like a rat that used to live there?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
His name was zach Hosky.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, remember Glenn.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
We were trying to Yeah, he would just scurry across
the kitchen floor every once in a while there he goes.
We'll try and follow where he goes. But there's probably
there's probably there was probably ten of them probably living
in there.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Did you did you feed him in that?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
We tried, We tried to bring him in as one
of our.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
They did a pretty good job of used to live
up and goes knocked over under underneath the couch.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
That was muzzy.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Buzzy knocked over the whole thing of milk and didn't
tell us until we started pulling the launde what.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
The hell is this thing? O?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Milk goes so bad?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
It was a tough house to live in that character building.
Character building.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Winter was so tough too, Like the floorboards were supposed
to be done while we're in there, and they had
all these holes form so like the cold air from
under the house would just shoot up at your feet,
so we'd always be just rugged up in there. Remember
that of the house we lived in before that too,
it was called the church church, the Sex Lodge. Yeah church,
the sex churches were to go together. So we had
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a couple a couple of good experiences up there. And
in Newcastle, what a that church house? What about the
German cockroaches?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
You have?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
German?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
The lady told us.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
These cockroach like they all in there before we moved in.
And we're trying to get rid of them. And we've
rung this lady down. She's comet around full everything, and
we're standing out the front way and for to do
an evaluation.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
She comes out the German. Well, the German cockroaches are
the bad kind of like, oh yeah, we don't like them.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
One so they had little mustaches.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
How did you know how did they get here?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeh over on boats and you know they came across
do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
They weren't a nice kind apparently German.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Do what I learned?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I wonder what hard to kill? Or they want polar
bears soon? I learned this the other day. They're only
in the north They're not at the South Pole. They're
only North Pole.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Swear alife.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
One of my mates went on a cruise down to
South down to Antarctica, thinking that he was going to
see polar bears and the boke and the things said, no,
they're only North Pole in Canada.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
So what's down south?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Nothing penguins? And that I think there's none. They have
aucas workers are in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
The penguins. Well, I'll give you something else to us.
Santa Claus up North, Santa Claus down, south. That's and
missus Claus had a divorce and she moved down south.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, she did move down down, way down, so down
under something just quickly to on the on the church.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
We actually had a piece of memorability that sat in
the church as well.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I remember right behind the.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Lounge it was Brendan o'hagen's Guns and Roses t shirt
that on the way out.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Pull the curtain back on this Brendan o'hagen. Now those
people a real rugby leagues. Did Brendan play first grade?
Never first but he was a boom junior coming through
up at the Knights. Then he went to the Raiders
for a bit, played a lot, went overseas and played.
He was an outstanding player. Redhead, tough as nails, a
little half back.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Wind back on the toughest nail. Yeah, we're about to
give it back.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yes, But there was an influous Guns and Roses concert
that Jack Brendan, And did you go there, Curtis.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Let's go back one step. Why did they have tickets
to the concerto?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Youself?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I had, yep, I had tickets to the Saturday concert
Guns and Roses just for whatever reason, thought it was
a Friday rocked up Trish, Me Trish and Ali, who
was one of our neighbors for a while, turned up
there handed over and Blake goes, Maddie, want bad news.
He goes, good news, good suits, bad news, tomorrow's tickets.
(36:50):
I went, oh, you got to be kidding me, and
he goes, just come with me anyway, got us. He
just got me. He just come in, We'll put you
in these suits. And of course we had him for
the next so we.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Were having we were having dinner at the Goldbergs.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Well there are Goldbergs. I get a rind from him.
I'm like, let's go to Guns and Roses. Pump, yeah, pumped?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Can I quickly just jump in before you guys get
into the Guns and Roses story? Did you get kicked
out of Guns Roses?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
As I did? I did?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I was, I was having such a good time and
mister Brownstone come on. I was up dancing and the
security I come up to me and said, hey, mate,
just got to settled down with your dancing, and I went,
I'm got a fucking Guns from Roses concert. He goes, oh, yeah,
just sort of dancing a bit more aggress aggressive. Yeah,
a shirt, your shirt was off, yeah, and I said,
(37:34):
I said, I gotta be funy kidd me. Anyway, came
back up and said, mate, that's your final warning. I said, really,
you are threatening to throw me out of the Guns n'
Roses concept for fucking dancing. I said, brother, I'm going.
So I walk out and then as I leave the stadium,
I hear him go Ladies and Gentlemen. And he was young,
and he came out and started playing Let there be Rock.
I was like, oh fuck, can I get back.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
In Ladies and Gentlemen? This is mumbo number five? And
lou Bager come out, got his greatest hits. Yeah, it's
so good. Anyway, back to guns Roses, do you want
to time?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Yeah, I could tell the story. It was quite Yeah,
it's quite funny. But so we're rocked up here and
we're like, it was a hot Remember it was hot
as it was just scorch other day.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
It was so hot that comes back into the place and.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Sinking piss around the pool.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, we're you.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
You were there with us, man, you have a couple
were having a bit of fun, just jumping in the pool,
having a few coronas and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And then so Tris. He goes, come on time to
go to the concert. Guards, let's all go, and Brendan's
hops in the car.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Look, we'll probably had six beers anyway, so Brenda mine,
Brenda must be sneaking a few more because we So
we're in the car. We're driving along with Curtis was
I was in the middle, and then Brendan was there,
Jack here in the front. Trici is driving us in there,
and we're all sitting in the car like this, and
then Brendan's Brenda sitting there listening, and then he starts.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
What's your main source of income?
Speaker 5 (38:53):
And I.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Started asking these weird questions of Tris. What she prostes
shoe I don't bring anyway? Shut shut up, mate? What
are you doing anyway? So yeah, it's just sitting there
just like I'm looking at it. What's wrong with this bike?
Speaker 5 (39:10):
And anyway, because it was a scorch of a day.
We've got the air cond on nice and then Brendan
puts the wind window window down.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
What are you doing mate? The hot air? And and
he goes, I'm just hot.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
I'm just hot, And I'm like, wait, we've got the
air cond on anyway, So he's there, goes back like this.
I'm like, damn, what's going Anyway, as we're sort of
pulling in the Olympic Park, BRender goes and just vomits
all over himself all through Tricia's car, and I'm like,
this is the first time, like we met, we met
Trician Maddy before.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
But it was a nice person.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
It was a nice car like plimed out and I'm
just whenever you ride it back here like Brandons just
made absolutely pulling himself. Anyways, we're pulled over clean Brennan
up and like it's all over his shirt clothes and
they're like what are they doing. Truce had like this
little Nike Fleet jacket and but but it didn't sip up.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
It was it was one of those wet weather training Yeah,
so Brenda just like put that on as a shirt
and we're gonna have to.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Give you like a bit of a parrel bloom. We
get in there, I'm going to give you a knife
like a shirt. So Brendan's walking in this gun then
look out the face to be fair, jacket was tight.
It was like up the here didn't fit in probably
walking like still half pierced like this is absolutely fooled
himself in I get in there, get to his guns
and razor shirt.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I have a great night. But yeah, that was a
good good but we ended up hanging that shirt up
in the in the living room of the church. Yeah,
a bit of a cult figure.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Because I remember I was in the Gold Coast at
my mate's birthday party when Mum come and picked on
from the airport the next night. She'd been clean and
on it, like trying to kind of clean it out,
and I've jumped in the back seat and I grabbed
the seat belt where Brendan was sitting and I pulled
it out and all the spew was like in the
back Yeah, because it was a seat belt. When he'd
taken it off, it all hidden behind the seat and
(40:52):
I've pulled out half of like little pieces of bacon
and it's stunk there.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
You've had a couple of episodes.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Like that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's where we
tried to make Brandon feel better about himself.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I think you might have told him terrific well that
that few were so bad.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Dad ended up selling his lexus, like I help that.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
The car we because we're going through the tunnel, people
that hadn't heard the story. Hit a massive night and
Pierce rang, here you're going? I said, good, he said made.
Do you live in color it? Yeah? And he goes,
oh yeah. I said, listen, don't jump in a cab
and go there, don't fall sleep in the cabin and
you know all things that can entail off that. I said,
just come and stay with a spear bit. So you
(41:32):
go up. The next morning's bit scratchy. And we drove him.
It was Cooper and Iron. We drove him back out
of the Eastern suburbs and I said, mate, we'll get
something to get some We'll get your baking even muffin, yeah,
sweets how he's eating it as we're going through the
Harbor tunnel and of course there's no way to pull over.
He goes, I'm going to spew. We've got to pull over.
I said, I'm in the tunnel, brother, mate. He just
(41:53):
started spewing. He was splashing off the windscreen and just
all over the seats. It was took one of that
crystal car washes and they're like, oh, what's the story.
I just spilled a bit of cyrel in the car.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
We were we were in the car park, you were
a Channel nine that we were in the car park
of Channel nine trying to clean it, and Dad's seats
then had like little holes in it because it was
there was seat warmers, so like it had clogged all
of the holes in the front seat and there was
just pieces of few like you couldn't get it out,
like it was so bad. And then you ended up
selling it yeah for like nothing like it basically just
(42:29):
gave it away.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, good on your Mitchell. But he's doing good things
now in France. Yeah, that was your your your debut
for Nights was with PC right half back.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
PC was half back. Yeah, it was talent at fullback,
so pretty fair. Squeat Fierst minds did you win now
we lost?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Who'd you play? St? George?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Oh damn Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Old Boy's day, good day, great, great night?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Were you up there dad as an old boy now?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Because I'll work on a Sunday, see this.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
The last old Boys Day you would have been to
would have been the twenty seventeen one because it was
after twenty years for the Grand Final.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Mean Starlo played twenties that day. Mister sharkish idyved in
twenty eighteen out there.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
So that's right the reunion, Well, would I tell you terrific, Blake.
That's the end of part one, Right that, time to
jump over for part two, which I hope you enjoy
every bit as much I know you will
You man, you like to go out there. It's good
to see you there.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's good to see him doing Yeah, yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
So it's great. That was son you're proud of.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So I'll teach you a thing or two already. So
when you can you hear yeah yeah, see so you
hear yourself?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, ok.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And then and then see how when I do that? Yeah, yeah,
So you can do that for dramatic effect if you
want to paint a picture of a room, like you know.
I was up here and then Cooper was down the
hall and he was yelling, hey, you can feel free
to do that.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Okay, I can. I'm sure I can work that into
what you're seeing here. This is He tries to do
the same to me. And I said, that would be
the equivalent of Xavier Savage telling rookie what the game
plan should be.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That is the furthest we need to be fair.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, he's very smart game Yeah yeah, it is going
A good athlete, great athlete.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
He's at it. He was a fast kid, like I
remember all those like before I even played first grade,
there was like the videos of him running like ten
seconds in one hundred. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
It was in the little athletics and stuff like that.
I think it always tells us how quick he used
to run. So we're underway too, so we're life.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, he knows.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I just want to I just want to make sure
you don't want to get in there with a person.
Go may. You wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It was on for.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Five minutes and I was just rambling about all sorts
of stuff we should be talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Worry Jack's Jack and Jack everything. So you can say, like,
all those stories that you were saying before, you feel
free to tell because we get Jack now.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm really uncomfortable listening to those stories like that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Jack, I can't be well, can we just say, right
off the top start congratulations because you you've just been engaged,
You've just you've just popped the question to your lovely partner, Chelsea,
Can I ask you nerves nerves of steel?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah? Horrible bad. Yeah. I was stumbling and mumbling me
words and yeah, it was.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It was quite an afternoon really, because I was trying
to get there for the sunset and everything. But Chelsea
was dragging her asset train sorry at that work, and
I'm like, come on, we've got to get going. Yeah,
ended up and then she hadn't eaten all day, so
she was ripping in the cheese plant and I'm trying
to take the cheese player away from us, and she's like, what.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Are you doing?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I just just put this down for two seconds, and anyway,
we got there. But yeah, it was a horrible mess.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I was. I was struggling.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
A lot of people would know this, but you guys
actually met on the app House Party. I remember that.
Remember that me and Jack were addicted to in COVID. Well,
mainly I did treat it like a dating app. It
was a dating app back then in COVID. Wheneveryone was
isolated the house, you joined in and you could basically
join on anyone. I remember joining on Staralo a few
times and he was in there in a locked room
(02:29):
with Chelsea and they were talking. Is that like where
you actually met or was that not?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
No, we met, we met.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
We met on the coast out before that, but we
kept in contact few House Party.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So that's a funny.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I've been I've been trying to bring it back, bro.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, I hope we should.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I still have a downloaded and I'll go. I don't know,
I'll see about buying the rights. But it was the
bigger I reckon it was literally the biggest app in
the world for three weeks and then just nothing after that.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Actually, yeah, it's Sizzles Morker's book. Sorry, you were.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Saying to me, what's my Love? Another record in the
last decade?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Have you rather get used to it? You got the
honeymoon period for as long as possible.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
When's the wedding? Are you planning it?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
She's yeah, she's got the note book out, already gone
in two days in.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
My job's done. Have you got your ring off the
old suit?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, you'd be able to. You'd probably be able to
fit into Dad's set.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What colored you were in your wedding day?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Black?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Black? Yeah? Traditional?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
True?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
For what I could? I could? You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Back back in the mid nineties things were a lot
more consumed. Yeah, it was you turned up with the
white suit on. Yeah, particularly Newcastle. You're probably beaten up.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, similar like dad. You might you both his dad
needed a step ladder to kiss mum when he was
thinking you might be I'm closed.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She puts hells on.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Is chills taller?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, I think I've got her flat foot? She might
have me but if I spot my hair up just
a little bit, I've got her. But if she's got
any types of shoes on, I need to be putting with.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
But she she wouldn't know what to do if there
was a single marker. She's got no idea, she's no
deception how to create a one on one with Josh
Papa Lee. Yeah, yeah, you were Queenslander. Do I hear
that there was a lot of rumors going around this year?
Did you see a lot of that stuff on social
media about.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Shell showed me a TikTok about me being the Queensland
But I was just like, I'm just some random fan,
but yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I saw that because the people saying, like people that
should be picked state of origin. It was Tommy Starling
and it was Queensland, and I was like, what, Starr's
not even queens because you played junior Origin and you said, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So no, I don't know where that's coming from.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You brought on the central Coast windsor oh yeah, okay,
and then moved to the coast. When I was about tan,
I think, yes, what's the junior club?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
King Cumber Cults played for windsor Waves when I was
in Windsor but the King Cumber Cults.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
A couple of strong clubs you played with Paps Brian Papenhaus.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh yeah, sorry at Hills Balls too.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
That was at Hills have played there for a season,
and then me and perhaps played there for and then
that's when I moved up with the Coast.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well perhaps always used to rave about your two combinations. Yeah,
you still still keep in contact.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Here and there, pen pals, Yeah, Instagram, Instagram party party.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You really don't know you're missing out on you guys.
Back in the day before computers put you send emails
in the text messages for phones, was that you would
you would actually pen someone a letter, a handwritten letter.
And I am still of the belief staralar that if
you really want to thank someone nicely, do a handwritten note.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I might need to get onto that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah, working on your The only problem with that is
it takes like two to three days, you know what
I mean, It's very hard.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
To something's worth the wait?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Does that we've like stamps for your stuff? To buy
a stamp and buy stamps people's address? Yeah, the days
a lot of people don't there text the text them
about the address writing your letter thank you?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Isn't it funny back in before phones and typed in?
Like I still remember all my mate's phone numbers.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah, we had a little book that you just look
it up and stuff like that behind phone.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, nine four oh one, Can I finish it?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, we don't have one anymore, right, nine four oh one,
four oh one night there.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Actually I think that was my mate Christian Muscro's home number.
I still remember weird stuf, but.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yours or not, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I can't remember, but it is weird. Like if if
I was if my phone in out of battery and
I had to ring someone in an emergency, I only
know two mobile numbers off by heart, and it's mine
and my Antricia's.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I know my mom's and dad's.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, like i'd be if I was away and I
needed to like ring Jack or something.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, let me give you something else. With technology before
those days, before phones and and as far as satellite
devices was, you used to have to pull a map out,
so you'd be driving and holding holding a map and
trying to look at okay, left turn here mate. It
was the source of so many words of Trish and
I she go to left hand turn and I'd go left. Oh,
(07:00):
I meant to say right. I had the map app
side down.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Fucking was it left or right?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I remember Dad like, you'd get the pen out, you'd
start mapping out where you drive. Yeah, were A to B,
you'd be we'll turn righty and then you got to
go that way. Yeah, little in the back.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Of the book. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I still when I visited Gas and Gale and says
not like two or three months ago, I was like,
and I just used maps everywhere right, like Google Maps.
It just takes it straight away easy, and Gas goes
right over Coops. So what you want to do is
and he like, and I didn't want to interructed to
be rude because obviously he's not like across Google Maps
and that. So he's like, you're gonna want to go
past the Australian and when as soon as past that
(07:37):
you want to go left, You'll follow that for about
five k and then go right. And I listened to
him for like ten minutes basically explain the whole two
hour drive back to Sydney. And I was like, Gaz,
I've got maps, I'll just punch it in there.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
He did the same when he was here. I was
staying at Narraboon caravan Park over the and I said, Dad, well,
we're staying against never being caravan park, not realizing, well realizing,
but ignorant to the fact that I've lived here for
over twenty years. He goes, yeah, mate, we just you
just go out and pitball a road right then you
were right here at the fish and chip shot down.
I'm just there.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You fucking are you good with Like, if you go somewhere,
were able to get back there?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Actually, if I get there once, I can kind of remember,
I can trace my steps.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I can if you go, if I go somewhere, I'm like,
I'm pretty sure I'm I could get myself back there
without without mats like a cat.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah, you can drive a cat twenty kilometers away and
it'll turn up and you it'll turn back up again.
They got sure, Yeah, positive, Yeah, you know that'd be
good for We took it a day one last year.
She just to ride back.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, there was that day. She disappeared for like two
She disappeared for two days, styl and we all mourned
and we like had a little funeral to remember that
we were like, oh, well, and then she was just
like two days ago, she was just at the back
door and meowing, and everyone was like not that everyone
was disappointed, but everyone was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Like, we just wait five minutes on a funeral.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We've just kind of gotten over it. I can we
give you a big congratulations start of the year the
Camber Raiders. Well done, Starlo, because you've been a big
part of that.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Thank you, mate, Yeah, thank you. That's been a good
start for the boys. Obviously haven't done a whole lot,
but we've got a big, big back end of the season,
so mate's exciting. We're really excited of how we've attacked
this sort of first what is it, fourteen thirteen weeks?
So yeah, Look, we set out a goal in the
in the pre season when we got our schedule and
(09:28):
and all the flying and all the travel we had
to do. We made it a real goal of ours
to make sure we now now the start of the
season and get us off to a good start. It
will set us up for the rest of the season.
So it's all gone to plan pretty much so far.
A couple of bunchs along the road, but it's a
really good learning curse for us too, and we've.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
All that trouble. We've come real close as a team.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
You know, we've got that Vegas trip and then been
up to Darwin Townsville and all over the joint. It's
been really enjoyable getting away with this new bunch of
boys and you know, we just enjoyed each other's company
and getting together as a team.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It just shows your starlow is that you know, just
there's no use complaining and there are no excuses. Look
at you blokes have done, and look what the Warriors
are doing. They're like they're travel and so you just
get on with it. Whatever the drawer is, to just
get get out and get on with it. Watching you
blokes in Vegas, I was commensating the game with breath
and asta and instead of breath in the coverage, I said,
(10:18):
there's something different. You can just tell there's something different
about this camera site very very fast. Everyone had footwork,
but just the style of football you played there was
more out and out attack. And how it's transpired. One
of the really impressive things about you blokes, how you
has developed as a side, is just you don't need
to be sky high emotionally to win, like in previous years.
(10:39):
I can imagine Ricky had to get your right up
to win and that takes a toll, that lodes to inconsistency.
But you blokes have won a lot of games this
year where you've been a fair way off your best.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Yeah, for sure, I'd have to give Justin Giddo only
attack coach a lot of a lot of praise for
our attack and it's quite it's quite different than what
we've been doing the last few years. And the start
of the preseason just started going, oh is this son
of works?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
This son of work?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
It's but yeah, like he's tailored our attack to what
what we're very good at and what we're strong at
and what you know, he's looked at our strength and
weaknesses and we're attacking what we're good at. So but yeah,
obviously said we've got we've got speed across the park
and then our middle forwards are just like laying such
a good platform for you know, the likes of me
and Jamal and Ethan Strange and Kyle Weeks to play
(11:24):
on the back of. And yeah, look, we're still a
long way off where we want to get to in
our attack, but you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Come along really nicely.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And on the defense side of things, we've probably got
a few things we need to fix up. But as
you sort of said before, I think the belief in
the squad is if we if we're not at our best,
we've just got to make sure we getting ourselves in
the frame.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
We've got the players that will get to get a win.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Justin Getter, is that Matt's Ronnie?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, son of Ronnie. That's my nick name for him,
young ron So Yeah. Yeah, but he's he's a clever,
clever dude.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Used to be able to convert. He used to if
he was on the left hand side of the post.
He does a conversion right foot, on the left hand
side of the post, convert left foot.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Did he did he play as well? Justin? Did he
play for the We always joke about he was the
Matthew Johns.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
He's a bit of the Cooper Johns Josh Starling, Yeah,
Jackson one of the two anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
So No, he's he's very, very clever, and he's as
I sort of mentioned, he's tailing that our attack to
what we're really good at, and he were coming. But
he's also firm and what he wants as well so
you know, we're all about coordinating fast in the good
ball area and that attacking stage, and he's been really
onto us about improving and get better.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So yeah, massive raps just went buying into just.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Enjoy having Did you like being the underdogs? Like everyone
probably rich you guys, particularly with the Warriors as well
that you guys and the Warriors didn't sign a whole
heap of people lost, you know, you lost Jackie Whiton did.
Did a lot of people like, did you guys get
together as a group and want to sort of thrive
on that underdog?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Under day but Stick Stick that just fed straight into
what stick you wanted it he win pre season, He's like,
no and say a word about how hard we're training
and all that sort of stuff. When we get out there,
we'll show them how hard we've been training and stuff
like that. So yeah, like we use that sort of
stuff like Stick's really good at you know, he'll tell
(13:22):
us what.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
They're saying about us.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
And if he goes, I don't know if he's read
the meter, and that he goes, I do, and this
is what they're saying about And if it doesn't annoys
and you get annoyed about it because they're saying you're
going to come get wood spoon in the pre season.
You use that all preseason, So yeah, I think it's
a good It was good. It's worked perfectly for us.
We've sort of flown under the raidar the first first
few weeks. Even when we beat Brisbane down down home,
(13:45):
it was like Brisbane was off.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It wasn't. It wasn't because the rat eat him prison
was off.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
What was on with Brisbane that day or whenever we
beat a big team, I was always there.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But which is which is what we want?
Speaker 5 (13:55):
We'll just keep flying under the radar, hopefully and keep
proving people wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Starla.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
A lot of times you know that you'll hear teams say, mate,
we're just week to week or we just won't a
bit the next month of football and blocks. But sometimes
I think that's to be short sighted. I think at
the end of the day, you you should have one
eye on the on the finish line and finishing first,
like you know, we're winning that Grand final. That creates
because that creates incentive and at the moment a lot
(14:22):
of teams, a lot of people are suddenly talking about
you blokes, possible premieres does Ricky talk about it at all?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
As you mention it, We've been speaking about since the preseason.
We said, let's let's put it out there, let's let's
go for let's go for like why not us? Why
can't we go win a premiership? And it hasn't been
something we've been shign away from about talking about it.
We speak about it, but you also kind of let
now that there's people talking about us, it's how.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
We how we handle it?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
How do we you know, we've we've gone from cropping
the cop and the criticism to now we getting the
pats on the back. How do we handle that? So
I think that's that's our next sort of our growth.
We're talking about out the growth of the team and
our journey that we're on, and so I think that's
that's the next key part of when we're coming into
games that you know, we technically should win, where people
are saying, oh, you should beat these teams, you should
(15:07):
be because we're higher than them on the ladder, how
do we handle that instead of being that underdog and
changing our mentality? But it doesn't change much of how
we approach the game. Were don't approach eat game as
as as you guys know, we're going out there to win.
But yeah, so it's it's exciting, mate, We're excited for
what's what's ahead of us. We know the type of
team we've got there. We've known the preseason. We've seen
(15:28):
the talent. We've seen that Toma Ayes and Ethan Strange,
the strength that they've the game, the way that they've
taken the game in the preseason stuff. And now we're
showcasing it and headed up by Joey Taps and Hudson
Young and yeah Big Bad just Josh Papoli. So we've
got some really good scene your figures. They're helping these
younger kids come.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It is good. Like some of the young players, like
you said, Kyo, Ethan Strange, Tomlo, they've been outstanding. But
one player, go Hudson, one of our mate Hudson Young,
who's the last couple of years has just been a
triscoring machine. Has been in my opinion, this year, he
has probably been the best back roar on the camp.
Is he just how hard does haw?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
He train like he's an animal, honestly, like living I've
lived with him for a couple of years and he's
just so professional he'd wake up at two o'clock in
the morning to have a protein shape and vitamins and
stuff like that. He's the most professional person I've ever
come across with stretching. Like I think he's actually got
an addiction to stretching, Like you just you'd just be standing,
you're just start stretching out and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
He's got a screw loose, but.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
He's got an addition stretching, fascurbating King of the World
one of my Olympics, pushing for Bridsbane Olympics to masturbation.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Put it in.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And of course Tyrone Wishart, friend of the podcast, also
has an addiction to stretching.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
One of the other ones.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
But he's got the going.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
For the now.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
He's gone all the way, he's going past pass all
past No man's lady's actually going for these.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Patting himself on the back.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Because you've got the you've got the young supplement to give.
We'll give young, We'll give had some shout out. That's
his supplement, Bran.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, if it's good enough for that. Like I remember
when Adam McDougal from the back end of his career,
he was talking about and you have protein powders and everybody.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, because he gets troble with a salt and pepper on.
Now I know who thought. But he kept talking about
this stuff and he was just working with like nutrition
places getting the next thing, you know made. He sells
the company for like half a billion dollars and he's
still goinging like he's held twenty percent of the company.
It's gone to America. He will be the first ex
(17:27):
player to be a bionaire.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Well, next, Hudson to tell you how we'll get him
to send some stuff up there. Yeah, Jackson, Yeah, you
don't look jack now, appreciate it. How I'll get a
sort we're all that's what we're that's the secret. We've
all been on the young sultlements down there in.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Cameras, don't We'll send a started down then to.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Certified.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'll tell you what just quickly, Staralo, if you ever
had any doubts that you know you're going to make
it and be a star at NROL level, you had
to look no further than the fact that nice let
you go, honestly, So unless for you your side for
a second, so yourself, Zach Zach host King Hudson Joey
tarpany Am I missing anyway, Semi Society.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Army, he was there.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What the what the hell was going on?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I think that's all.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
What was the situation, the nights off for anything? Or
it was just so narrow So.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Bood there last round Old Boy's Day and didn't play
too bad.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
It wasn't. I wasn't like, didn't a lot of the
house on fire, which but yeah, like I just I
thought I was only get a contract out of that.
But I just honestly, I didn't hear back anything from
I don't know if my managers just sort of sheltering
me from it. But he couldn't get old of them,
and he said, so it was just run into I
run into. There was Darren Mooney down the beach. Actually
he was leaving the club and I running through down
(18:48):
the beach. I was with Klein and Connor just down
the beach and I'm just sort of no man's land,
was waiting to wait for a call.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And he goes, oh, have you found anything yet? What
do you mean? He goes, oh, I haven't told you.
I don't. I think they think you're too small and
they're bringing another nine. I was like, oh, no.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Running manager up and just said, oh mate, we've got
to go find something else. Look at the time, I
probably used it as motivation. I thought this is good.
But looking back on it now, they obviously needed to
win right away and they thought that they'd move in
a different direction. But I'll still only young, twenty years old.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
If you want to honest you Yeah. There's a great
scene in money Ball where Brad Pitt says to Jony
Hill's character, you to tell a guy that he's been
shifted elsewhere. I don't know how to do it, he said,
I'll show you how to do it. Sit down and
guess so and so. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm
just letting you know. This is a train ticket we're
going to pay for removal us. You're off to the
Detroit Tigers anywhere anything else, Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Honest players like knowing where they stand with I will.
I want to ask you when you said they said
you're too small? Did you cop that a lot of
your career? Like was that? Because I imagine like listening
to young blokes now, all they want to do is
like get big, get tall, get strong in the gym
because they see all these other blokes in juniors, but
you're someone who you know, it was quite small all
(20:02):
the way through Jens.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Yeah, I don't think they ever like, no one really
ever told me to my face, like I think it
was just a general consensus that he's he's only like
playing our match, probably might be too small, faretet or
whatever it is, go player that play good. He's only
two small front of twenties and just kept like I
think it was just along the way, like he will
eventually get come to a roadblock where his size is
done get in his way. But no one like they
(20:27):
had Newcastle actually that when I did start training first ground,
they they wanted me to put weight on and I
just struggled to put weight on. Like I'd go in
there and like on a Monday morning when we would
weigh in and just have like phone every way in
my pocket, like I'll just have hoodie. I'd be could
be thirty grees out there. I've just got hoodie, tracksuit, phone, wallet, keys,
everything in there, just right.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Hole and phone.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, I literally I did the same. I remember my
first year at Melbourne, Bill Ack and the coaching star
said if you get because I was like seventy million
peraps with the same weight. We were seventy seven keys,
except he was like electric, fast, skillful, good look at
it and that. Yeah we both were. And then they
said I remember Aaron Bellamy goes, mate, if you get
(21:08):
to eighty two kegs, They're like, you're ready to play
against men, but they want to see you work hard
to put light. I went, sweet, mate, I put it
on in in two weeks. And it was because they
don't know this I got. They had these little two
and a half kilo plates in the gym, which was
small enough. They were dance but you can put them
in your pockets. I was putting in my underes because
you had to like take your shirt and that off.
(21:28):
And I was in there just like in my budgies
with this little two and a half kilo away and
I was putting on quick. They going good, where are you?
They're like, where are you putting it on?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Look at the Hamburg.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And I would hold a piss water and just a
hold of it.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, it wouldn't shit in the morning.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
But you know, starlight, with your smaller stature on the
way you're built, that suits the modern game. Yeah, as
the six again, rules come in. You're seeing the smaller
thirteen and I've seen knew you last year go to
thirteen and you just kill them the big blokes. And
that's I mean, that's the area of vulnerability in around
the rucks. Now. I actually think the next step for
the game. We see trends and I was talking to
someone about this the other day. I actually think the
(22:05):
pack will become homogenized. Everyone will be almost the same side,
and you can play the edges. You can swap the
edges with the middles. Did you think about the middles
these days?
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I was just about to say, like you look at
maybe you've got eight years ago, how big they were.
Like I even speak to like Pups and what he
was weighing back then. Remember Ricky had that massive big side.
He had Junior Paul, Yeah, Papa Papa was playing back Rod,
they had Chatton Boyd. They had that this massive, big
pack and then they like you look at it now,
like everything just as he's saying.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
That Hudson's prototype almost really fast on his foot, strong,
not too big, and if you've got guys like if
you think about your middles, right, the middles, we've got
these big middles. They're leading yardage, but also mate, they're
having to contend that they're defending in that area of
vulnerability in the in the rucks. If you had some
packs that eventually would become almost the same, you can
(22:58):
swap your middles with the edges, share the workload Pain
has is the exception Pain could defend on an edge
now yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Mobility, Yeah, he's just got He's got everything that he's quick, mobile,
on your on your great mate, big Puppa, Josh. Probably
he just broke the record on the most gains for
the Raiders. And there are good scenes of you and
him after the game. You took really close. Yeah, I
think Pups is close to everyone. He's he's such a
great bike.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Like you obviously see everything on the field that he's done,
but he off the field, honestly, like brighton your day
up when you see him in the morning, like he's
locked the first one you see when you walking. He's
always just sitting there early in the morning waiting for
everyone to come in, going and giving him a massive,
big argus.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Honestly the best part of my day.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But yeah, no, he's a good he's such a club
person and a great person, Like he makes a genuine
effort to everyone that comes into the squad to get
a relationship with him and and take people out the dinners,
Brecky's or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You can see that right, Like you saw the scenes
after the game. I've never seen scenes like it, Like
the whole crowd he was kicking the goal. Ricky was
like his.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Greatest milestone game ever. Soon that last two tries as
he recovered. Because I know we had a tough time
a couple of years ago when Jack shortened him up
on Jack Staboo and all the people. Yeah, yeah, mate, honestly,
like you know, he put his shoulder out, putting his
shoulder through.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Right, your first running first grade Jack big Papa.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It was probably not my smartest man.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Clip there.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
But he came up and spoke to the game, didn't.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Yeah it was good fella. Because we had a few
of our few of our mates. Because it was COVID year,
a few of the mates had to they had it.
They the only way they could get to the games
by becoming Camber members. So that because they only give
a limited amount of tickets per game because of COVID,
So then all the boys became members and they somehow
got in the box and that was they were just
(24:47):
so loud, giving it to it, giving to giving to
all you boys during the game. And then Papa grabbed
me after the game and said, I think your mates
in the box is like, how good is that?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Real? Congratulated me in that.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
But thanks for flogging me.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
But you can have to say running again, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You can see like what a good fellow was like
he didn't have to go out of his way to
do that. But yeah, absolute legend.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
What is he's young Blake, I love you unbelieve we're
going to try to get him on the show, get
him up, yeah, get him's autographs and that they're going
to get him and trying to get him a pap
up on the couch.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
To get it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
He's a little champion. He's like you go over to
the crowd after the game and just see a big
know it and just scribbled into this person's thing. It's
so funny.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Someone should sign him now because you just know.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
He's as he should see the high lots he's got
pups comes in and shows the whole lots of him
down playing footage twice as big as every but they've
got the tags on his part and everyone off.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But he goes, he goes good. Nah, but he's a
he's a great family man, pups.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
He loves his kids and loves his He's just he's
better to have another one here actually some days next
week or something up before now he's.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Going to have to get a big He's going to
have to see his card.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
He's big patrol thing blacked out really like realms. It's huge.
He's got a monster truck. It's quite funny.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
What about your your hooker partner, Old Paddy because he's
a good player. They've got a lot of raps him
as a young bloat. I remember Harry Harry Gran actually
just assessed with him in Rocket because he's from Queensland. Yeah,
like she thought he was English this whole time, probably
because of his name. Yeah, yeah, it sounds like an
English name and there's English and there's.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
English English language.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
And he was saying like he did a session out
of Saint Brendan's with him at the school up there
when he was like seventeen, just before he went down
to Raiders, that he was one of one of the
most like smart young players. He said, he was so
like wanting to learn for such a young player. Is
he just like a freaker trainer? Yeah, No, he's exactly
what Harry made.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
He's asking questions all the time and at halftime he's
coming up like what are you saying out there?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
And what do you reckon? But no, he's he's very good.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
He's very smart footballer and you know he's saying what
he's to do in his short career. Already he's already
snapped a couple of forty twenties. That's that's his main
sort of you know, he's got a yeah, he's got
that's a real string in his bow. He's got there
his kicking game and he's short grubbering game. But yeah,
very smart, very deceptive little number nine.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
So he's got a good combination.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, he's very yeah, very good.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
So it's it's it's going to be exciting to see
how how he progresses over the next few years. And
he's going to win some games at the back end
of the season with his creativity and stuff and around
the ruck for new blokes and making can be different,
you know, and Star love for you because you got
Ethan strange in the six, you've got Jamal who's in
the seven. So it's it's so imperative that you blokes
(27:39):
a new starting the game having an impact through that middle.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
And you've seen the difference with like if you look
at Luke, at Metcalf at the Warriors, you know, and
Looke when you Blokes played him in Vegas, I had
real fears about Luke. I thought he's a six. They
put him in the seven. But with Wade Egan coming
out and done me lf and sort of taking ownership
of the attack and a lot of what it's just
for him up and you're doing the same now with
Blakes like Ethan.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
I think, yeah, Jamal's massive part of that too, like
he I don't know if we've been watching our state,
but Jamal plays through the middle on the ball, and
then we've got Kyo and Ethan out on their prospective edges,
and you know Jamal will steer this ship and all
sort of co pile at that. And you know when
when the boys outside want the ball, they're making sure
they're screaming at Jamal, and then Jamal's screaming at me
to get him the ball so he can get them
(28:24):
the ball. So it's working really well at the moment.
And as you know, Mad, he's playing off the back
of a good four pack. Makes a hell of a
different mashi. You know our forwards land the platform.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
When the Fords are going forward, mate, swimming with the
tides exactly when they're going backwards, you're pissing into the wind.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Correct. What about one of my old teammates, Chris Lewis
at the storm he's now doing Uh yeah is ins
has he been gone?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah? He's good. Look he's good.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
He's got a very creative mind, Louis. He comes in
with some pretty pretty rogue stuff. In the meet we're
with this guy he used to good it's he.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Used to come to Spine meetings. You know, sometimes you
get a Spine meeting because like he played six one time.
It was actually against the Raiders. Me and him were
he's put some.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Clips in and our in our preview against Melbourne. He
put it.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
He put it because he was selling it Munster's dummies
and sort of stuff like that, and Grant and he
put his own dummy in there against us from three
years ago, four years.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Watching the clip, he just put his holes.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Watching the drummer in the flute section.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
He used to his brain works in a different way.
Did he sit in there? And he goes, guys, what
do you reckon about this? And he starts jowing in
the spine meeting and months two we go, fuck me,
look like money like would come up with some stinker ideas.
He goes, fuck me, I've had some bad ideas, but
that fucking takes the cake. That thing that is the
worst I've heard.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Every team's got one. You know, someone opens their mouth
and he goes, fuck he were someone out not going
to say who it was. And he always used to
try to get the last word. And we're playing the
game one day and he and our coach gos mate, okay,
two minutes sign now run our boys. Anything anyone else
got anything to say? And our man went, yeah, I do.
(30:02):
I've got a really bad feeling of it. Today we
went shut the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Why would you say that? I don't know his family?
Louis wag you wag you meat sells wag you is
he yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah? Did you know that? Quiet?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Then ask you and me? He sent he sent Brandon
some meat the other day.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He's been holding out on this.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, he's good.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Does he does he massage the meat.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I don't know if he massages it because oh, I'm
sure his family would person but him personally, he wouldn't
fly up to the farm to massage it himself because
he'd be busy with the cup coaching.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Right, It's a Japanese method. I always wonder how do
they massage it? Do they put it on a bench,
you know, head in.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
The bucket, heading the whole oil? Or I think it's
like baby Johnson baby oil, like Johnson, Johnson and Johnson.
Is that is that what they call it?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Powder oil?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That's what?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
What's that one used? Johnson and Johnson? Is that the
brand the powdered you know the one you use you
put on the cake like the CAGs?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah, Johnson Johnson. But yeah, for the kegs, I don't
get sweaty. But there's a better one in America. You know,
when I come back with the States all the time,
it's unbelievable. It's stuff. It's like a corn flower and
just put it underas balls and honestly it just cools them.
It's like an escibot just blowing on your knuts, as
in breathing onion.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, clarify on that one.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Let's take you back to Newcastle for a sec because
you used to live and play under twenties with a
very own a very own producer back there Jack John's.
Can you give us into a bit of an insight
as to.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
What he was like to live with?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
It was?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
It was interesting that house that we lived in, the
sex lodge, that was called that's.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
What like ironically, yeah, sex logs because no one had said.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
It was there.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It was.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It was far from that, but yeah, it was this
that had a big sign out the front of it.
It was our mate, Curtis's cousin who owned it.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Don't throw it on the bus there, right, Please explained
deeply why it was called the sex lodge because people.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Are going to think straight now.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
I'm trying to let me tell the story. It was
it was his house and he just named it the
sex lodge, like when he moved into it. He lived
in it for so our mate Curtis, his cousin, he
lived in it for howe over long. He owned it
and he made you got to sign up everything sex
lodge out the front of it. Anyway, So we needed
a house to stay and he said, I jump in mind.
(32:23):
I've just bought this other one on renovated. No one
is a bit older. And then so we've moved into
the Sex Lodge and this is notoristly known as a
party house in Newcastle, Like it was the place that
everyoneoul gave to party after the night's done, and it
was everything.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
So we've we've moved in this and it was on the.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Fairly main road, like on Bunker Road there, Jack didn't
it and like would be going, would be going to
train the full full nights kid walking out of this
thing and like the traffics banked up looking at it.
He comes these Knights players out and full full kid
walking out of this thing called the Sex Lodge and
this house it was it was it was a pig style.
It was.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Anything but crying.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I can't believe my son's Jack reminded me today. Wasn't
there like a rat that used to live there?
Speaker 3 (33:08):
His name was zach Hosky.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, remember Glenn.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
We were trying to Yeah, he would just scurry across
the kitchen floor every once in a while there he goes.
We'll try and follow where he goes. But there's probably
there's probably there was probably ten of them probably living
in there.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Did you did you feed him in that?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
We tried, We tried to bring him in as one
of our.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
They did a pretty good job of used to live
up and goes knocked over under underneath the couch.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
That was muzzy.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Buzzy knocked over the whole thing of milk and didn't
tell us until we started pulling the launde what.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
The hell is this thing? O?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Milk goes so bad?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
It was a tough house to live in that character building.
Character building.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
Winter was so tough too, Like the floorboards were supposed
to be done while we're in there, and they had
all these holes form so like the cold air from
under the house would just shoot up at your feet,
so we'd always be just rugged up in there. Remember
that of the house we lived in before that too,
it was called the church church, the Sex Lodge. Yeah church,
the sex churches were to go together. So we had
(34:09):
a couple a couple of good experiences up there. And
in Newcastle, what a that church house? What about the
German cockroaches?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
You have?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
German?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
The lady told us.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
These cockroach like they all in there before we moved in.
And we're trying to get rid of them. And we've
rung this lady down. She's comet around full everything, and
we're standing out the front way and for to do
an evaluation.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
She comes out the German. Well, the German cockroaches are
the bad kind of like, oh yeah, we don't like them.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
One so they had little mustaches.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
How did you know how did they get here?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeh over on boats and you know they came across
do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
They weren't a nice kind apparently German.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Do what I learned?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I wonder what hard to kill? Or they want polar
bears soon? I learned this the other day. They're only
in the north They're not at the South Pole. They're
only North Pole.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Swear alife.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
One of my mates went on a cruise down to
South down to Antarctica, thinking that he was going to
see polar bears and the boke and the things said, no,
they're only North Pole in Canada.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
So what's down south?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Nothing penguins? And that I think there's none. They have
aucas workers are in the ocean.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
The penguins. Well, I'll give you something else to us.
Santa Claus up North, Santa Claus down, south. That's and
missus Claus had a divorce and she moved down south.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, she did move down down, way down, so down
under something just quickly to on the on the church.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
We actually had a piece of memorability that sat in
the church as well.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I remember right behind the.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Lounge it was Brendan o'hagen's Guns and Roses t shirt
that on the way out.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Pull the curtain back on this Brendan o'hagen. Now those
people a real rugby leagues. Did Brendan play first grade?
Never first but he was a boom junior coming through
up at the Knights. Then he went to the Raiders
for a bit, played a lot, went overseas and played.
He was an outstanding player. Redhead, tough as nails, a
little half back.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Wind back on the toughest nail. Yeah, we're about to
give it back.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yes, But there was an influous Guns and Roses concert
that Jack Brendan, And did you go there, Curtis.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Let's go back one step. Why did they have tickets
to the concerto?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Youself?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I had, yep, I had tickets to the Saturday concert
Guns and Roses just for whatever reason, thought it was
a Friday rocked up Trish, Me Trish and Ali, who
was one of our neighbors for a while, turned up
there handed over and Blake goes, Maddie, want bad news.
He goes, good news, good suits, bad news, tomorrow's tickets.
(36:50):
I went, oh, you got to be kidding me, and
he goes, just come with me anyway, got us. He
just got me. He just come in, We'll put you
in these suits. And of course we had him for
the next so we.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Were having we were having dinner at the Goldbergs.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Well there are Goldbergs. I get a rind from him.
I'm like, let's go to Guns and Roses. Pump, yeah, pumped?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Can I quickly just jump in before you guys get
into the Guns and Roses story? Did you get kicked
out of Guns Roses?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
As I did? I did?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I was, I was having such a good time and
mister Brownstone come on. I was up dancing and the
security I come up to me and said, hey, mate,
just got to settled down with your dancing, and I went,
I'm got a fucking Guns from Roses concert. He goes, oh, yeah,
just sort of dancing a bit more aggress aggressive. Yeah,
a shirt, your shirt was off, yeah, and I said,
(37:34):
I said, I gotta be funy kidd me. Anyway, came
back up and said, mate, that's your final warning. I said, really,
you are threatening to throw me out of the Guns n'
Roses concept for fucking dancing. I said, brother, I'm going.
So I walk out and then as I leave the stadium,
I hear him go Ladies and Gentlemen. And he was young,
and he came out and started playing Let there be Rock.
I was like, oh fuck, can I get back.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
In Ladies and Gentlemen? This is mumbo number five? And
lou Bager come out, got his greatest hits. Yeah, it's
so good. Anyway, back to guns Roses, do you want
to time?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Yeah, I could tell the story. It was quite Yeah,
it's quite funny. But so we're rocked up here and
we're like, it was a hot Remember it was hot
as it was just scorch other day.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
It was so hot that comes back into the place and.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Sinking piss around the pool.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, we're you.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
You were there with us, man, you have a couple
were having a bit of fun, just jumping in the pool,
having a few coronas and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And then so Tris. He goes, come on time to
go to the concert. Guards, let's all go, and Brendan's
hops in the car.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Look, we'll probably had six beers anyway, so Brenda mine,
Brenda must be sneaking a few more because we So
we're in the car. We're driving along with Curtis was
I was in the middle, and then Brendan was there,
Jack here in the front. Trici is driving us in there,
and we're all sitting in the car like this, and
then Brendan's Brenda sitting there listening, and then he starts.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
What's your main source of income?
Speaker 5 (38:53):
And I.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Started asking these weird questions of Tris. What she prostes
shoe I don't bring anyway? Shut shut up, mate? What
are you doing anyway? So yeah, it's just sitting there
just like I'm looking at it. What's wrong with this bike?
Speaker 5 (39:10):
And anyway, because it was a scorch of a day.
We've got the air cond on nice and then Brendan
puts the wind window window down.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
What are you doing mate? The hot air? And and
he goes, I'm just hot.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
I'm just hot, And I'm like, wait, we've got the
air cond on anyway, So he's there, goes back like this.
I'm like, damn, what's going Anyway, as we're sort of
pulling in the Olympic Park, BRender goes and just vomits
all over himself all through Tricia's car, and I'm like,
this is the first time, like we met, we met
Trician Maddy before.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
But it was a nice person.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
It was a nice car like plimed out and I'm
just whenever you ride it back here like Brandons just
made absolutely pulling himself. Anyways, we're pulled over clean Brennan
up and like it's all over his shirt clothes and
they're like what are they doing. Truce had like this
little Nike Fleet jacket and but but it didn't sip up.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
It was it was one of those wet weather training Yeah,
so Brenda just like put that on as a shirt
and we're gonna have to.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Give you like a bit of a parrel bloom. We
get in there, I'm going to give you a knife
like a shirt. So Brendan's walking in this gun then
look out the face to be fair, jacket was tight.
It was like up the here didn't fit in probably
walking like still half pierced like this is absolutely fooled
himself in I get in there, get to his guns
and razor shirt.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
I have a great night. But yeah, that was a
good good but we ended up hanging that shirt up
in the in the living room of the church. Yeah,
a bit of a cult figure.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Because I remember I was in the Gold Coast at
my mate's birthday party when Mum come and picked on
from the airport the next night. She'd been clean and
on it, like trying to kind of clean it out,
and I've jumped in the back seat and I grabbed
the seat belt where Brendan was sitting and I pulled
it out and all the spew was like in the
back Yeah, because it was a seat belt. When he'd
taken it off, it all hidden behind the seat and
(40:52):
I've pulled out half of like little pieces of bacon
and it's stunk there.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
You've had a couple of episodes.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Like that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's where we
tried to make Brandon feel better about himself.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I think you might have told him terrific well that
that few were so bad.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Dad ended up selling his lexus, like I help that.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
The car we because we're going through the tunnel, people
that hadn't heard the story. Hit a massive night and
Pierce rang, here you're going? I said, good, he said made.
Do you live in color it? Yeah? And he goes,
oh yeah. I said, listen, don't jump in a cab
and go there, don't fall sleep in the cabin and
you know all things that can entail off that. I said,
just come and stay with a spear bit. So you
(41:32):
go up. The next morning's bit scratchy. And we drove him.
It was Cooper and Iron. We drove him back out
of the Eastern suburbs and I said, mate, we'll get
something to get some We'll get your baking even muffin, yeah,
sweets how he's eating it as we're going through the
Harbor tunnel and of course there's no way to pull over.
He goes, I'm going to spew. We've got to pull over.
I said, I'm in the tunnel, brother, mate. He just
(41:53):
started spewing. He was splashing off the windscreen and just
all over the seats. It was took one of that
crystal car washes and they're like, oh, what's the story.
I just spilled a bit of cyrel in the car.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
We were we were in the car park, you were
a Channel nine that we were in the car park
of Channel nine trying to clean it, and Dad's seats
then had like little holes in it because it was
there was seat warmers, so like it had clogged all
of the holes in the front seat and there was
just pieces of few like you couldn't get it out,
like it was so bad. And then you ended up
selling it yeah for like nothing like it basically just
(42:29):
gave it away.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yeah, good on your Mitchell. But he's doing good things
now in France. Yeah, that was your your your debut
for Nights was with PC right half back.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
PC was half back. Yeah, it was talent at fullback,
so pretty fair. Squeat Fierst minds did you win now
we lost?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Who'd you play? St? George?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Oh damn Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Old Boy's day, good day, great, great night?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Were you up there dad as an old boy now?
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Because I'll work on a Sunday, see this.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
The last old Boys Day you would have been to
would have been the twenty seventeen one because it was
after twenty years for the Grand Final.
Speaker 1 (43:04):
Mean Starlo played twenties that day. Mister sharkish idyved in
twenty eighteen out there.
Speaker 3 (43:09):
So that's right the reunion, Well, would I tell you terrific, Blake.
That's the end of part one, Right that, time to
jump over for part two, which I hope you enjoy
every bit as much I know you will
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