#72 | Nicho Hynes - Backstage with Cooper & Matty Johns

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One too in the ages.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Oh here he is. We're rolling. Yeah, well we getting
rolling and rolling. N how are your brother?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Roll?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Right? Brother?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good to see your man, Good to see you.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
But it's not he's not usually this so.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Tardy.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I would say unorganized. It's not usually this unorganized.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Just yeah, I've just sort of you know, I'm just
getting my bearings.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, he's been the Gold Coast.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah I have, mate, I've been up there, mate, cultivating
the local juniors up there. Mate. Oh ye, just building
that base, mate, look after that.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Just go to keep a parking.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Made all those schools up there. It's amazing, all the talent.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Up to the booth you went to PBC.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Saw both yesterday, saw both yesterday. Yeah, he sends his
best to Jack.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Actually, I was on the phone to booth the other
way and he said, you brushed him.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Sounds like something you do, because you know Dad does
this from time to time, where like someone who like
he's met like a maid of mine, but he was
just in a lapse like, yeah, I meet a lot
of people. So sometimes he'll introduce himself like he's never
met him before. We won't recognize and straight away I
can imagine you would have done something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I just so boothy, i'd recognize him. You look like made.
He's about probably five foot six. He's built like a.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Table, so he's high level with you. Then is he?
Oh low blow load blow Nicholas off season? How have
you been going? What have you been doing? You were
in the Cook Islands?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, how was that you?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Because I heard through the grave line you reckon it
was a trip of a lifetime.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah, I did have a triple lifetime. I'm not
much of a traveler. I'm bit of a homebody. Yeah,
it takes a little bit to get me out of
my comfort zone when it comes to traveling. I love
getting my comple zone and certain things, but when it's
like leaving Australia, it's very hard to get me out.
But an awesome trip, you know, Pipe Piper and I

(02:03):
we had such a such a good trip. It was
such an untapped place right now for Australians. There's a
lot of Kiwi's New Zealander's over there, and there's a
few like American or Europeans that we've seen. But locals
awesome recognize that yeah fair bit yeah, but they like
really respectfully of be alone, come up sale photo and

(02:23):
that well, that's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Because you're quite like when people come up for pictures
and signatures with you, you're quite aggressive.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Twenty dollars at the deli went up to forty dollars.
Hey better your teammate, Kayli, he's he's fathers from yeah keV.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, Kale group there and they moved to New
Zealand to finish off his schooling and then come to Australia.
But yeah, Kev's like the legend over there. Yeah. It
a great footy player.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh, incredible player, ask asked Kale, is this true? Because
it was I was told this story. I just need
a confirmation or blown apart. Was in the Cook Islands
you cannot build a house or building higher than the
tallest palm tree, apparently back in the day, and keV
built this big house and to counter that rule actually

(03:17):
built a big port a palm tree that was higher,
and there was told him to tear it down. To ask.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It could be true because you don't see many massive
houses over there. I went and did a cord back
tour and like, because there's a big road around the
outside and the cord takes you through the middle you
go see like there's a jail there, and there's like
all these sort of nicer houses, modern houses getting built,
but they went overly big, Like the taller palm trees
are probably in the middle, so it could be there's
a jail there.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yeah, which fas it tends to be jails everywhere. Cooper
And are you going to put the bay guys?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Just just from an audio perspective, Sorry, Nick, I don't
like to scold my dad live on. Can you see
the microphone you pointed out yourself and not you're doing
like kind of how a cool guy shoot a gun completely.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Exactly what I was doing.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's perfect, that's better. Thanks Jack. There you go, Thank
you Jack. I would have thought you've been doing this
enough for a while that you would sort of get
that right.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I was training out there. I was just checking to
see a few blokes for a lott.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Was it congratulates because you're you're a man who's into
his culture. You're a culture man, you're a indigenous man yourself.
You love to shake a leg, but you're obsessed. I
don't think I've ever met a bloke who's more obsessed
with the Hakka or Fiji and hymns.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Did you get to do any of the culture. Yeah,
so on Ada Tucky. Our second night might have been
there on a Monday night. They do cultural nights. So
the local dance crew came in and the drums and
the singing and we're having a really nice in there.
And then the women, the young girls would come on
and do their dance go off, and then the boys

(04:50):
would come on and do it, and they do it
together and in and out, in and out, and I
was just sitting there, you know, I would eat a smile,
and then after that they finished the last before and
they'd come over and grab people from the crowd and
one of the young lads knew me and his get
up here and then they're like, so we're in a circle.
Then this pick, this crew would come on, this crew,
this crew, this career, and I was doing the local dance.

(05:10):
I got to be a best shot.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
And then the young lad.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Finishing it was gone, let's do a shake legs. We
did shaked together because.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I remember, like when we're at Melbourne together, every single
drink up we'd it always ended up Fiji and him,
which everyone had link arm to arm. But every now
and then on a big occasion, like it could be
someone's birthday, or there was a song that at the
back end of a song it was by six sixty
Don't Forget your Roots. But it was like the Moldi edition,
like when they sing earlier in Malti and then finished

(05:38):
with a hacker and nick I would always put it
on so that he could do the hacker with all
the Kiwi boys. And then there was remember I forgot
whose jersey presentation it was, or someone's milestone game. You
actually asked if you could get on participating that. I
think you ended up bailing out because you're like no,
but you used to love you'd be to practice it.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I still yeah, because like we've got heaps of Maldi
and we've got a different like divers of Culture now
Sharks team, so like there's still heapsucker is going on
around me.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I'd love to see Cooper because he's the widest person.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Every time I go to pay at a restaurant.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Is that is that what this is going to be?
This is going to be.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
What I put it. Once we're in a place near
a charger for New year Ze once with our Brian Karney. Anyway,
all the Hungarians were it's right avenue in the Ukrainian border. Anyway,
were all there, and anyway, they told Brian Karney got
up and addressed him, said, I listen, we've got We've
got Matthew here, you know from down around Austraight he
would like to perform a Hakker for you guys. Right,

(06:43):
I'm going, what the fuck? So anyway, they're all gathered around,
all Hungarians, and I thought, well, you know what, let's
just do it. And I just I did this like
three minute Harker, just pulling moves out id no idea
was mate. The place just exploded, you know it.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
You would know, like you know enough about the Huker. Yeah,
being opposite quite a bit, and you would had a
lot of keywis played with you, so you probably would
have been able to get through it.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, Now the terminology, the terminology would have been quite
hard for it.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
It's really amazing when you look at the All Blacks,
the history of the All Blacks and how they performed
the Harker, go back to the seventies and early eighties,
how they did the Harker. Mate, it was more gruesome, No,
completely the opposite. It was like they were just it
was so frivolous and like they didn't even really want
to do it. And what happened some of the Mari

(07:33):
boys when they started to come in and have don
and it's become like it was. Buck Shelford was the
first guy coming and said, no, no, we're going to
do the Harker four games. We've got to do it right.
And that's he changed everything, because I remember it was
used to be the least threatening dance because.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Remember then for a bit of got like too threatening,
they said, because remember they had finished with like the
cut of the throat, and then didn't they get banned
for sporting events?

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I think, so I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
So I used to like, not like we would encourage
that sort of thing away from the field, but I
used to like seeing it because it was so like
such an aggressive build up. It's still the fucker now
it's still good, but I feel like they really missed
that next life.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I didn't know where you were going. There a nice
way to conclude that.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
You know, I don't encourage next licening, but I think
it's a great like getting in as you're about to
go to battle Australia versus New Zealand. Like it's a
it's a good way to really fire it up. Yeah,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I love that still doing it because at the end
of the day, go But I don't know if it's
too like that.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, it's a bit lower because I think my understanding
was at the time because in the All Blacks you
had a lot of the summer and Tongham boys. I
think it was a sort of an addition by you know,
that culture with their their dancer. Yeah, I'm not sure
that's that's what i'd heard at the time.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
While we're on dancing, have you watched any of those
clips of Robert Irwin dancing with the Stars this year?
Have you seen because he's doing the American Dead him
with the Stars?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh? Is he?

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Holy shit, he's getting like ten out of tens.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, I haven't seen someone move like that in a
long time. He's unbelievable because I can't imagine Steve Irwin
would have been much of a smooth dancer like him.
But he's like he's doing the tango, He's doing all
sorts of like actual dance move which is actually really good.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I like, what a nice guy. Don't just say something?
Jack and done like this week, you know, but there's
so many fucking assholes out there. People hate going towards it,
going mate, the kids like just doing his best.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
This is what this is the this is the tall
pop where we got in Australia. Everyone tries to bring
down just because you're a son of a gun. And
I'm going to say this for a second, let me
turn everyone's mic downs for a seat. But if you're
a son of a gun, don't you know they shouldn't
cut yet the lakes just because you were born in
a successful family, all right, and some of us, Robert
and I included, we've managed to exceed family expectations. Jack's

(09:59):
go one of the Robert Earl and clips out there.
Have a look at him.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh wow, he's like a Spanish Spanish dance.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, it's like a bull.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Is he still in? Is he still he's still going
on for the win?

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't actually know, like if it's finished or ended.
I just got sent a clip of him doing it.
But have a look at that. Oh wow, still on
the tango.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
And there was a bit of talk around that he
and his dance partner Roman I heard.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I heard that rumor as well.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, her husband doesn't she.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Oh okay, well let's not spread.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
That doesn't stop some people.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I know that's why that's ninety percent of divorces
probably come from cheating, right, you know that starts very well.
That is one hundred percent divorces come from marriage. Oh wow,
I know.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's just something amazing jump. Although I don't say that's
very Spanish, but nonetheless, yeah, look, look.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
It probably doesn't translate over to an audio platform, but
I just wanted you see it.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah, he's very good, very very good.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Think with the stars. Is that something you'd look into, Matthew.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I've got to ask a couple of times to do it.
I've had trishaways that this must be the same organization
that get there and they try to recruit.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I think it's it's all the same networks, the same
pr people from the networks.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Reach out a couple of times, and the other one
was celebrity.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, get me out of it.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
If ever, Nico that you you hear, you hear the
fact that, by the way, in this this series, we're
going to have Matthew John's honestly jumping an uber come
over here, sneak out behind me and just bludgeon with
a sharp objective right that structure on the shoulder blades.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
No, no, look like ex footy players. They and the
people you know, they do that sort of stuff media personalities,
but owners of rugby league clubs they don't do dancing, don't.
It's below you.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
I just got to I've got to say to you
because I've just come back for we said before, back
from the Gold Coast. But I met up with your
old coach, Josh Hannay had a couple of mate Jesz's impressive,
very increasive.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's going to be very missed from our club. And
he's not just a good coach. He's a great guy
and someone who lifts the mood with some cheeky banner
when he asked to. He knows when the boys need
a lyft and he knows when he needs to be serious.
And yeah, I couldn't be happier for him. He's going
to be someone who turns that club around and hopefully

(12:17):
like Latino and the boys really buying into what it's about,
because he's someone who can really get the best out
of it.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Can you see like his assistance Sometimes it's hard to
make that jump from assistant to a head coach, because
it's a very different relationship you have with the players.
Assistants are very liked by the players because they're kind
of the middleman. Can you see him being like a.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Head coach if you like ask me this when I
first got the club, and this is all due respect
to Josh, I probably would have said no, maybe not,
Like I just see him as like one of the
lads and the boys didn't talk keeps and he's sort
of stuck to himself, and he was the interim coach
before fits he got there and he went back to assistance,

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so I didn't know whether he was just trying to
find his feet with and how he wanted to coach
and where he fit into the sort of structure. But
now I'm like, yeah, improved.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
It's funny you don't see that, Like, well, people talk
about players starting starting here and then in a year's time
you see so much improvement because they work on it.
But like you probably don't see how much behind the
scenes goes on with coaches self improving, like doing leadership courses,
like learning off other coaches. I imagine Josh would to
learn a heap off Fitzi and then just and even and.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
He really made he wrap fits. He said about you know,
Fitzi's relationship with the players, and that's what he was
interesting what he spoke, he said. He said, Maddie, like
what we're seeing, he said. The game changes all the time,
but he said, I can see like there's been a
difference in coaching, like this has gone a different direction
where there's a real onus. It's always used to be
mainly on tactics, he said, but now you know, you

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need to be as good as in relationships as you know,
with the players, as far as far as tactics as well,
You've got to be as good. And he got up.
You know that they had the Future Titans and you
know players and parents' night. And when I heard that,
I see I said, look, I'll fly up there and
turn up and and when you hear Feudon's tiny parents

(14:11):
and players, and I said, oh, okaying, this little book
walked in fucking hell, mate, sixteen year olds and seventeen
year olds of these days, it was like the land
of the Giants.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I swear everyone, because I remember, like when I was
sixteen seventeen, it was just all a bunch of like
skinny surfy kids playing SG ball on Harold Matz. Now
I go and watch, Holy shit, man, they're like they're
just men, Like they're the same size as NRL players.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
And back on Josh, like, I won't say exactly what happened,
but midyear, like Josh caught us out on something and
all played sort of looked around and was like, oh shit,
he just caught us out hard on it in front
of everyone, and that was like a little turning point
in our year. We're struggling a bit in that moment,
and it wasn't solely on what he said, but for
me to what he said to us about how we're going,

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I was like, oh crap, Like you've caught us out
on that. We need to do something about that. And
to the credit of the boys, like we turned around
and like I reckon. That was a little bit of
a sliding all moment for our back end run Like
obviously FITZI and we chipped up on our defense massively.
But what he said in one of our team meetings,
we all were like, Okay, yeah, you know, it's either

(15:21):
we're frauds or we're not, and he's calling us out
on it, so we need to do something about it.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
How did you your year in your review, because I
think he's actually had a particularly that back end of
the year. I had a great end and obviously get
beaten a pre Lium, but I think you proved a
lot of people wrong in that final series. You probably
weren't giving you as much of a chance to even
get past week one. How do you as a leader
on that side? Reviewer?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, I think that we had really high hopes of
our season, and from a prelim last year against Penrith
and no one's beat penritht in a prelim for five
six years or whatever it was until this year. So
we're like, you know what, we get Adam coming in now,
and he's the missing link maybe we haven't had for

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a little while now, and he's going to improve us
out of sight. And then I think we took a
little bit to get going him fitting into our system,
how we play with him, and then maybe we thought
like just because we have Adams is going to solve
all our problems, We're going to win every game, you know.
And we were a bit up and down for the
start of then we hit a really good piece of
form towards like the three quarter mark where we beat

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Melbourne and we had like a four or five game
run where we're really good and we got to the
Origin period, although we didn't have Origin players. I think
alfter we beat Melbourne, we went to Central Coast versus
the Roosters and they had everyone out and they played
a reserve grade team pretty much that week, and I
think we just expected we're going to go dust them
up and go into the buy and like sweet boys
have just gone six from six or whatever it was,

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hitting our straps will be good, and they dusted to
start with a bunch of audue respect no names. I
didn't know many of the players. They still had Teddy
and they still had some good players there, but like
they really taught us a lesson that day, and respect
to them because they were coming up against a Shark's

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team who doesn't not missing the player, all the big names,
and they've just really taught us a lesson. And we're
sort of glad it happened because we need a reality
check of where we were in our season. And then
we sort of went through a bit of a patchy
form there after that game. We'll sort of going, oh shit,
what's going on here, and then we had a bit
of a heart to heart. Josh hit us with what

(17:31):
he said to us, and then we're just like who
are we and what are we about? And we sort
of refined things, went over some things how we attack
and now we defend and really knuckled down on our defense,
and the attack sort of flowed from that and that
back then we went from like eight from nine and
then going to the finals, then we went like, you know,
eleven from twelve or something to the back end and we just, yeah,

(17:54):
just re juggled a few things, went back to the basics,
and then yeah, I felt like that back end was
unreal and hoping that you know, we can pick up
where were that fell from that going into next year,
and this year was like, I reckon, we can do
something special here. And I was like, you know, past seasons,
I've been like, yeah, we can give it a crack,
but this year was like, we can take anyone on

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and they should be nervous of what we're about at
the moment.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
It was really good for you. Nico was sometimes I like,
I really like a moving dummy half that gets out
and goes because a lot of times when you're a playmaker,
you want to be forced to run. Sometimes you want
to take the decision making away from yourself and just
go right. I've got no choice. I've got to play
in the front foot. And I thought the big difference
for you and Tricky was when suddenly Blake started just

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scooping and going you know, which forced you likes to
go right up. I'm not going to sit back and organize.
I've just got to get on the front foot and
play really aggressive. And I thought brought out just about
the best off soon you played for a long long time. Nio.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, I feel that too, Like I think that Blake
running has brought out or unlocked a lot of our games,
and and Adam coming and then our Ford pack playing,
they were the way they did unlocked brows running games.
We haven't seen that for a while, Like, you know,
you really come into his own this year. And then
the way he runs and it unlocks us spine members

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running the ball and getting on the ball more and
being closer to the ruck and attacking their ruck, and
then that unlocks it outside back. So I feel like
we've unlocked the way we play a little bit more
this year for the first time in a while, like
I think we'll you know, we're still really good team
over the last couple of years, but maybe a bit predictable,
a bit shifty. Like we had really nice shape and
would score on the corners, and Ronnie and Sea would

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score those nice tries and everyone would be like, oh,
how good is Carnala's shape, you know? And then this
year people were sort of second guests in our shape.
But we're sort of unlocking each other's game and finding
new ways to play. And yeah, I felt like Adam
and the Big Boys unlocked brows and brows unlocks.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I remember we were saying, especially during the final series,
your because your structure and stuff's always been so good.
Shape has been really detailed. But it was like you
guys learned how to play sort of off the cuff,
unstructured foot you a bit better. And Brails was so
good for that because he gets out and then whatever
shape you got, you and Tricky just react and punch
holes off him, or same with Will Kennedy to start

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pushing through the middle, and so many of you tries
came out. There was one in the final series where
Brail's got a quick play the ball and then it
was fifth tackle, Tricky got it, went sideways looking for
a kick, and then you dropped under him and scored.
Like those unorthodox shape that you can't really train or
predict what's going to happen, but it's just your footing

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instincts reacted.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Was and coop before that what's set it up? It
was a nice little left hand shape where you and
Tricky combined put someone through, might have been k Kay
went through on that side, and then when he jumped,
so you were working the three is as a spine
should do, working as a combination all the time. But
and it's similar when we're talking about Blake there, you know,
and you know him jumping out, unlocking yourself and Tricky.

(20:53):
You know, you think about like when when when Cody
and Latrell and Saus were really flying. One of the
common that is there was when Cookie was in top four,
when Cookie would scoop and go that would just trigger Cody,
and when triggered Cody, all of a sudden, that triggered
Latrell and that's it. Like the nine these days is
just such an important focal point. You've got to have

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a nine that gets out in attacks.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
You've played with some good Nines, Cameron Smith, Harry Grant,
Blake Brayley. Can we do shoot? We won't, right, We'll
do shoot marry and kill.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
That was shot.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
That means you got to kill two. Shoot shag, Shoot Shag.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
And marry, Shoot Shag and marry.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh gosh, we shoot Smithy.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Shoot, I'll marry and Smith. Smithy's does some cash.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah, he's like lived a good life, you know, getting
a little bit older. He's getting little bit older.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Now older, you know what that means young people married old,
take care of careers.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Because he's finished his career now, so you can sort
of go, you know what, You've had your career Smithy
and like Blake and Harry are still going. Harry is
going to be probably just as rich as Smithy.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Probably more mate those Rashet clauses, you know. So it
was shoot smith Sorry, Smoothie, I'm really all I marry Harry.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, you know what, Blakes, that's a kind hearted person,
like you wouldn't mind him with his sister. But then
also Harry's already with his mate sister. Yeah, both similar.
They're both really good people and they wouldn't hurt a fire.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
From my gauge on Jayden Brayley. Blake's half the man
that Jaden is. He's a very well manicured man. Jade's
probably one of the most we say his partner the
Littles a lucky woman because he's probably the most well
manicured man I've ever seen. Really, yeah, yeah, he always
he's always on top of his hygiene.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Chasea balls and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Everything. Really, So you're did you clarify shagging and marry.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I didn't, but he so I'll just get over what
Matthew said, You're going.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
To marry Harry and then shag brow No, no, no, I
didn't say nothing.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
You said I would kill anyone. Well, they're on tour
together at the moment. Who knows they might.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
I'm Marion Smithy for what I said. Obviously's getting older age.
I'll inherit what he's got eventually, sugar Daddy. And and
he's living in the Goldie like he's dreaming, and he's
out of the house a lot because he's doing radio,
he's doing commentary like it's just me at home. I'll shag,
I'll shag im, I'll shag Brails. I'll kill Harry because

(23:36):
seen enough of him. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Do you know what you asked us? The question we
didn't ask you, So you really wanted to answer that? Well,
I just wanted to get you're trying to get some money.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I think he's throwing off because he's been getting a
lot of hate lightly for all his Harry Grant stories.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yeah, people say, people say, that's the same with you.
So if I bring up you, Brandon, Harry, basically anyone
who are mates with, they'll say, like, stop bringing Mark.
And then I said, with the fucking mates.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Your friends, what do you do?

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I mean, that's what I said. Thank you. Yeah, anyway,
let's get let's get back on track. Twenty twenty six.
Where do you see looking at Cronulla twenty twenty six
going into pre season, coming in the start of the season,
Where do you see Crenula fitting for next year? Because
you don't really have turnover players, right, No, I.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Think we're pretty much at the same team. We lose Echo,
which was almost for us in twenty twenty four when
Tricky got hurt then I got.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Hurt, but he's gone a dragon.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, right, we lose young k Dikes and I think
that's it from our top thirty.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
And a good bloke, dan Akins.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah great, yeah right, he's looking good at the moment, fantastic.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
His need is getting good. He's looking really strong, and
I reckon, you know, a change could be good for him.
You get all his comfort zone and go to a
fresh set of eyes in years and yeah, he might
get the best out of him there. But anyway, we
don't care about that.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
To break your half way through the year when you
had such a bad run again and they can be
a real son of a bit.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Sometimes it is back to the question.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, look right now, I feel like we don't want
to expect anything other than a Grand final. You know,
like two years in a row we've we've felt just
short and in a prelium got beaten by two better
teams deservedly so they they're both great teams, and we
just went up to it. And you know, sometimes you
sit back and just respect the opponent and what they

(25:37):
can do. And I feel like we can get to
that position and be as good as these guys. It's
just about locking in for a full season because we
can show what we can do when that back end.
Like we locked in and everyone board in and we're
all invested and the run we had, like I reckon
we were hard to beat and Melbourne had to beat us.

(25:58):
You know, usually I reckon those games sometimes we beat
ourselves and maybe we did. I haven't watched it back,
but I just think that we put it all together
from round one to twenty seven and have a good
finals run, then I think we.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Can be You know what I liked in the particularly
in the final series, like you and Ronaldo quite vocal
and getting a bit like yah, because people don't see
that side of you, right because you're terrific. Love it
because you're a leader, like not to see a club
in society. But you're also like as competitive as they come.
Like I think i've spun before how back at like
Malburn training. You used to get in like blues with

(26:30):
the boys months I had. But because you're so competitive
and like that's what your best side is, and when
you come out vocally and like, you know, show that
competitive side, I think it was like particularly you and Ronaldo,
who were just like you know, two stars in that side,
I think it did a really big leadership lift for

(26:51):
that side going into finals.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah. Yeah, look, I just think I just wanted to
stick up for myself for once up for our club
and you know, like I've sort of been betrayed as
you know, the nice guy all the time, and like,
don't get me wrong, I'm and I feel like I'm
a nice person. I love, you know, being respectful and

(27:14):
treating people how I want to be treated and being
known as a nice guy. But when it comes to
rugby league, I feel like right now in my career,
all I want to do is just win a Grand
Final for the Sharks and and play my best footy.
And sometimes you've got to just have a bit of
a healthy arrogance about ya, and like I reckon. For
the first part of my career, I've just wanted to

(27:37):
be in the rep scene and do as best as
I can and be known and be this guy that
you know won that dally Am and I just want
to play with this rep footy and I can probably
went away from the team's success like I still wanted
to win per but also I was driven by playing
for Australia and maybe that got me caught up in

(27:57):
too much of that stuff. And but this year it
was just like no, I couldn't care less about that team,
team and the team success warrants other individual success, you know,
and then we got to the final series and all
those same questions again. I was just like, I'm sick
of it. I just want to stick up for my team.
That's my family, you know, and if people question or

(28:18):
come at you about your family, you're going to stick
up for him, whether it's a rugby league time, it
was your family at home or whatever you're doing. And
I was like, I've had enough of this, Like good,
you know, yeah, I love it, and I want to
stick up for myself. You know. People come at me
left right center all the time, and it's just like, no,
it's time to stand up no more. It's a nice guyney.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
I mean sports littered with people, you know, with champions
who are really nice guys away. But how many times
you hear that the moment they cross a white high
it's just being.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Nicest guy in the world. As soon as he crosses
even the white line of training, what a horrible human being. Yeah,
like that not verbally, but like we'll just he's just
the last blogue that you want to be opposite because
he's just island.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Like and like I said before, like you're as competitive
as they come. And even when we still play together
at the Falcons. And when you like what you said
before with you start thinking about representative jerseys and accolades,
when you probably start to move to Sydney and that
stuff becomes more of a reality. But like when you
first come into the Melbourne side and debooed, you'd had

(29:23):
a long journey to get there, but your sole focus
was probably just playing good for that team. You won't
thinking about the big picture. That stuff probably wasn't even
like you never even thought that probably was going to happen.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
But now, well that's you know, you just said something
that nick out which is so true. You know that
you discovered how liberating it is to take the onus
off yourself. And when you think of others and take
the onnus off yourself, it just takes so much pressure
off yourself and you actually enjoy it. I use the
experiment sometimes when you get there and you know like
you're going to do it. Right at the back end

(29:53):
of my career, you know, someone would say, right up,
we're going to do you know, let's say, for instance,
you know six four hundreds, everyone goes, oh nah, And
the best way to take the pressure off of bloke
is to go up and say, hey, Nika, listen some
of these blokes.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Mate.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Again, I really struggled. They've got to help me out mate.
Straight away, you take the onus off yourself and you're
thinking about I'm going to help others, and it just
makes it actually makes the session enjoyable rather than just
thinking about yourself. You know, it's just there. You know
there's doctor Phil. Do you believe it?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
I did not have sexual relations to that one. You
talk about competition before, because you bring this up quite
often with people in it. I remember when we're in
Byron last.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Year for New Years.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
You brought this up at the table and it's stuck
with me ever since because I still feel guilty about it.
But we talk about healthy competition, particularly at training. But Dad,
you would know this the first time when Nico first
came down to Melbourne. I wouldn't say we didn't get on,
but there was a little bit of healthy Competition's going.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
To bring this up. We're going to bring it up
and thinking about it the last two days.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Oh yeah, go, then you can.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Bring it up.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Okay, let's let's hear the truth before the phantas.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
So yeah, when I I went did the preseason at
Melbourne and would sit in the train and trails and
development list locker rooms and kid was awesome to me then,
like we were all great. We used to go every
weekend meet him and Harry and Doley and like some
of the boys and have a mad time and like
keeps sick at the moment. But then when I went
back to the Falcons so like I did the preseason,

(31:29):
got invited back down for the other half of the
preseason at Geelong camp in that and then they sort
of said, on your way, we're going to watch it
closely and if you're playing good footy at the Falcons,
come back anyway. And then I went back to the
Falcons and.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Ringing anyway.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
All the boys were flying up and the first game
I think I played center. Yeah, I played center, and
I've never played center in my life. And I'm just going,
what the heck? I just had a storm preseason, I
film desert, felt about myself and here I am run
out of the centers. All right. Next week, I go, Yeah.
Next week we went to PG playing the Hars. Me

(32:07):
keep playing the Harss. Played pretty good Togo that day.
I got me on the match over there and they
gave me a check and whatever. And then the week
after I went back to centers, and then I was going,
what is going on here? And then I think our
full I think Pap started playing in a roll, and
then I played fullback and then I was playing really well.
And then Frank Ponisi one day just really caused me
and goes, go, mate, you, I know you've been a

(32:30):
bit disgruntled by playing different positions. It's actually working your
favor because we want to sign you right now. And
I was like, what.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Did I think this was? When Scotty Drinkwater left he
went to the Cowboys fullback position opened yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
And then anyway, and we're at training captain run or something,
and then I was like Harry, like, oh man, the
signment coming down soon, and he must have heard or something,
and he was filthy and he didn't.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Talk to me like he heard about it. I could
see him like listening.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
And then he full on like barely spoke to me
for the next like week or two and was just
so off it. And I'm like, because he was a
half and I sort of grew up as a half,
but I wasn't even playing half then I could play
five eight and like I never really played half back,
and like I was playing a bit of five eight,
but more I was turning more into a fullback because
Melbourne wanted me to play fullback and he was filthy.

(33:21):
I moved down there and like he slowly started getting
a little bit better. Towards the back end of the year,
we were right, but no hold on a second towards
the back. Towards the back end when I actually made
my debut, he was filthy again because he was because
I I think Jerome and perhaps around and then I
got called in and he was thinking he was a

(33:43):
chance because he put months to the fullback, him going
half anyway, We're walking down the corridor Amy Park and
then he looks at me and goes Stephen Bradbury. They
all fall down and you get a crack, and that's
all I remember Cooper being like saying to me anything
about a congrats.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
It was back then.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
I was such a such a little aive.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
And just an asshole. Like not all the time, but
when it come to footy I took a lot more
serious back then and far out I was. I was
so anybody in my position. I just hated what was that?

Speaker 3 (34:17):
What was it that made you start to sort of
laugh at you?

Speaker 2 (34:20):
You know, you know what it was COVID when there
was no reserve grade. I just stopped taking footy, seriously,
completely stopped caring because that we just stopped playing. And
COVID is so much fun, you mean.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
Like.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
I honestly because that year two thousand and nine, and
I don't reckon I'd ever trained harder in the preseason
because we had so much healthy competition that you were
down and you were carving up, and there was a
lot like obviously Monster Husey, there was a lot of
competition for spots. So like I was, it was so competitive.
Everyone was so competitive, trained so hard, and then COVID
really just bursted a bubble in my competitive juices and

(34:57):
I just this can't really be bothered anyone.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
What we just talking about there, that sort of dark
mist that descends Jack. This was when he was talking
about it certainly not foreign to us. Like we can
sit there and have dinner and trishill go come on curbs,
Dinner's ready, and all of a sudden, it's like Darth
Vader just coming up the stairs and it's like you
could feel the chill.

Speaker 4 (35:16):
It's gotten so much worse since he's gotten older. We're
in the house again together. I don't know what happened
down there in Melbourne or a manly but yeah, it's
just like gotten worse over.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Don't worry. Harry and Wishy they saw a lot of that,
particularly Harry, Harry, you had. Harry wore some extremely dark
sides with Cooper John's living in the house. He saw
a side that not many people should have seen.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Well, even we get there, Trish will go, h curbs,
would you like, would you want to have some gravy?
I don't care. I just I just want to eat.
I'm radio the morning, yes mate, yes, mate, we know
you got radio in the morning. But to tell you
what the competitive juices to come back because you've got
to fight coming up soon with intern Pete. He's fighting

(35:59):
intern per. He's been out in the garage with the
boxing gloves on practice.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah yeah, I mean I just bought I just paid
for a gym membership.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
We can't lose that fight.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
You're joking day people, Hang on, have you seen fight people?

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Usually we usually don't have Jack's mike up, so like
you can't like just talk like that off. I'm really
sorry for that, but no, I've been getting right back
into training. The good thing now is Nico now that
now that daddy's an owner, Jerry John, you know, that
really opens up a whole new avenue for me. Back

(36:40):
to back to pre season at Melbourne, because do you
remember that preseason when it was you and Tom Hughes
used to play the Knights with Jack, Him and Tom Hughes.
Jack just just settled out down was sexually staying at
Monster's Joint, remember for the first part, and there was
on the second part. Was that when he's come back

(37:01):
to it, That's why I came.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Back and Hughes he did the second part of pre season.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
And do you remember we all went it for a
night out. I was just thinking of this story today.
We all went for a night out and branded and
Tom Hughes sort of smoke bumped back to Monsters early.
But they must have got locked out of the house
and then me, you were a monster come home. I
don't know why we were all just sleeping there. I
think it was just having a slumber party because his
partner was away. And we walk in and we go stop,

(37:26):
you somewhere's branded and we walked out they'd broken into
monsters ute and they'd fallen asleep, remember in the passenger
and driver's seat, and then we go, oh, this will
be funny. So we pull our cameras out and we
had the flash on everything and we start honking the
horn to think that they're going to scare. We would
have done it ten times, and remember no one woke up.
We ended up just closing the door there the whole night.

(37:50):
They ended up sleeping in there. Good times.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
I wasn't going to say I was talking to go
back to back to US two being competing with which
I was still going to pipe the last night. She yet,
so when did you want to actually become my best friends?
I was like, you know what, it's probably when was
It would have been after that little era have you
been a silkie bum? And then you in COVID, remember
like the COVID we all just like, yeah, got really

(38:15):
close and then and I got very close in COVID. Yeah,
and then after well obviously you lived to Sydney in
that and then I think that was it.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yeah, it would have mean it was twenty twenty because
remember remember you know, actually when it was I reckon
Turning Point in twenty twenty. We're all in that in
the hub. Yeah, twin was move around the camp and
me and you did a daly M. Remember me and
you did a fake daly M.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
I heard about that up in that hub.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
It was like I reckon, there was ten percent focused
on footy and then ninety percent focused on everyone just
having a good time and to join each other's company,
which I reckon went so far into.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Won the camp yeah once again held liberating Yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
But we did this fake towards the back end of
the year, we did this dally M's Award. So me
and Nico got brainstorm stormed all these different awards, like
inside jokes within the group, some really distasteful jokes that
we probably can't repeat, some really disgusting awards which we
gave to Chris Lewis. Shout out to Chris Lewis just
to coach down the raiders.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Ober one. We gave to Felice Cafusi to his wife
beck because father father of the Year, and we did
like I know, Jesse Bromige, Smoothie or whoever was that,
the father's in there, and then we go nominees are this,
and the winner is Becafuzi because Beck.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Like police, would never be looking after the kids. He'd
always be up playing cards or ping pong.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
And she was doing the mother and the father of
all the kids.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
I was like four or five kids. Yeah, that was
a running joke in the team that Felice's kids didn't
know his name, he was their dad. I've never seen,
you know, like married people have responsibilities. They got kids,
Like you know, if everyone's gone out for a beer,
they go, you know, they have to pick and choose
their times, as you know dad, like when to have
a beer, when to be a family man. Folice never

(40:03):
picked the family so like the family time is just
second to having a good time with the boys. I've
never seen his partner's so cool with it too.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Tournament, Yeah, still the Bluetooth has he.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Just connect that phone.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
The blue tooths brought many of men undone, just like
the iCloud.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
A couple of teammates got over that iCloud as well,
double text messages cloud. But yeah, we also did a
ping pong tournament. Nico was actually class ping pong champion
that year as well. Yeah, it was you and Monster
in the final.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
I beat Felice in the semi we did like the walkings,
like the UFC walkings. I was kinda McGregor had like
only had like you and at O car behind me
and like the rest were going for months there.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Monster was a dollar one because he was pumping everyone
like I hadn't seen similar to his footy, like so
fluky at ping pong, like could just do the most
unbelievable shots, and he had like because he was left handed,
he was really unorthodox to return so mate, his ping
pong skills were out of this world. Nico was an
underdog and just drove just on pure will and determination,

(41:18):
just drove himself straight to the Grand Final.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
I grind it in the ping pong table in that
room for hours, just.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
For hours on and getting that ball back. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
I was just like that the competitive edge come out
and I would just be like, no, I'm not losing.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
The second test of the ashes, when they bloke around
on the field and put his arm around Monster, I
was just looking go mate, just like the perfect couple.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Lily just too and I love Monster was going, oh mate,
I thought he must have paid for some sort of experience,
like that's what he was on the field, When has
anyone been able to be to sing the national anthem
in a team.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
I just looked at him, was give me a little smirk.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
These websites so these days you have to clickbait, and
one of the things that come up was Monster's cruel
gibe at Kangaroo's coach. And I said what he said
about Kevy And all he said was when the blow
came out, he gaes, I thought it was Kevy's cousin. Yeah,
fuck has got me again.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
But you know, I also, you know another turning point
as to why we become friends because Nico was the
only one who actually set up my first ever nurl try.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
I think it was only a meter and a half forward.
And Tom Brady was like, when just passed me?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I remember after the game, I was like, did you
he goes, because Husey is right, We'll get the footage
and play with this.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Hughes is right.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
There, like Hughsey is right there. If it is any
other scenario you just passed any scores and Niko's just
passed it straight across Husey and you've actually had to
throw it forward. Wouldn't have got easy? And guy that
because it wouldn't have got if you've thrown it like
on would have been. And then I was it was

(43:02):
just I cop that much shit for how forwardable it was.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Do you know what That's the equivalent of going to
watch the under elevens game and the best player in
the team gets.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
The worst player of the team stand in the gull
and I'll bring them ball to you. Now in the moment,
like in the moment, it didn't feel like that.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Have another look back, and sort does. But then I
was back to twenty twenty because then after that we
talked about this our Byron Bay trip a lot, you know,
when we have boys who were on it. But my favorite,
my favorite ever memory from the Byron Bay trip is
now we'd had a good time, we'd had a good
time in the hub, and then by the time we
even got to Byron, we were pretty we're pretty bugged.

(43:46):
But the greatest epitome. I think it was Melbourne Cup
day and we went up to your room, I think
the night before. One of the boys said, they walked
into the room and they looked over you're on your phone,
and they snuck around to check what you were looking at,
and you were secretly booking flights home.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Well, I saw Nico pop it up.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
I think we're at the beach.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
We're at the beach and we're at the table and
someone had ordered He's of oysters, which is a weird
thing Killpatrick's.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And then we're sitting there with to the right. I
think you had that you had flights and.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Well I saw I saw you Nick. I remember on
the plane. You're on the plane. You walked down. I went, Nico,
and you went, oh, get made head and I was
with trash and I went, fuck, Nicks is like the
shell of the man. And anyway, when we got off
the plane, I said, the trush just hanging here. We'll
just see Nico is Nico? I said, mate, how was it?

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I had to get out of here. I just had
to escape.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
It was a large few days, mate, And then like
it was a kind of rocked up or a couple
of Watson people rocked up late fresh fresh as Daisies.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
In there riffing.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
I'm just going, I don't need this right now.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
I'm going. It was annoying because we've been like we
couldn't leave the hub for three days. Remember it was
the isolation, so we had to just drink like in
our facility for three days, couldn't leave the hotel. Finally
when we did, that's what we went to Buyron. We
had a week there and then all these Freddy Fresh
leaves came up and it was just there was almost
too much and no. And then they remember that you got.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Two nights after we got out. That was big, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
And then I was like I remember that when because
they were still kind of feeling fresh then like if
you were like, nah, I can't do it today, the
chirping and stuff, I remember you got so angry and.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Brandon and kind of just got together and just thought
that of the freaking gods, and I was just like,
I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
When I Brandon comes straight off the back of that
champ Cheese video where it had become like this this
icon and rape, nothing could stop brand He just thought
he was the hectic cheese.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
He was just like I thought he was.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Devotating through Byron Bay and it was just like he
was just hanging ship on everyone as well.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Was he Yeah, Mamas was there because we're up there
with friends and remember once we're walking down with a
group friends and we walked past where you bloke were
and I said, the trash me and someone else. I'm
trying to call in see the boys, and we're going
down for dinner, and you were all your bloke's from
in there. I remember walking in. Mama's handing me one
of those U d l's and said skull and I
went yes, sweet, And when I scowled it, there was

(46:28):
a bottle top in the ud L got loads of
a throat.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
Yeah, he kept saying. He started having a smoke. He's
like a chain smoker. He's like, yeah, glad just to
smoke at breakfast.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
I can say it now because he's retired, But that
Macedonian culture, they smoke. Remember John's John Stamofski who he's
Belly Aches Craig Bellamy's right hand man. He's been with
him since day dot. He's the oldest standing staff member
at the Storm. But smoked every hour of every day.
And he's the charge of all the video for Bellot.
Because Belly's bad with technology. Every time you go in

(47:03):
and ask him an I question, it's like you have
to put an oxygen mask on because he just wreeks
of smoke. I saw him the other day. He said
he quit for a month, did he Yeah, and then
he reckons his health was declining. That's what he said.
It was actually worse for they recond if you get
like if you if you do something long enough, you
kind of I suppose you suppose you come to pain.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yeah, that's with him. Yeah, where do I A, B,
C or D all of the above. It's like those
Bulkan countries like Macedonia and Croatia and Serbia. What they
do when they get up. Oftentimes those old workers, first
thing they do in the morning they just drink Wreckers
straight in the morning, They'll smoke and then just from
the morning just start drinking spirits and Mark Boss great

(47:48):
Mark Bo. He said, Yeah, my dad first thing for breakfast.
He just drink racker all day, even when he's working
down the throat and inspiring again liberating.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Hey can you spin the yard to dad? He wouldn't
have heard it about the U and Dale Finuc and
Prank Wars. Remember the text message Prank was doing this again? Yes,
I love it.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
Didn't bring it up.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
It's funny. Do the one that you did? He hit
you first with the kid Lroy spin.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Come on, what do you get to bring it on
the didn't you do it?

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Brought up on the A yeah, but he wouldn't. That
was like a year or two ago. Come on, it's
a great store's been out there for a while. But anyway,
it's just funny though.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
So this lady was doing like Larroy he had box
at his concert and that, and I was like, they
asked me to go to message me saying he was
tim Tan sponsor, invite you along. And I was like, yeah, sweet,
I'll try to get a crew to go. And then
which was legit, that was actually legit anyway, and then

(48:49):
she messaged me that afternoon. I'm saying I'll look with
over books. I'm sorry I can't come. And I was
likest week so I wasn't sure if I had a
crew to go anyway, and I was like, I'll just
go for walk this when I first got a can,
I just went for a walk around the shires. I
would on the arbot have some my own time, and
I rented a dale and I was like, I to
get what you're doing. He's like, I was like, oh, nothing,
I just got canceled from kid Larroy box there blah

(49:11):
blah blah. He goes that sucks anyway text message, but
a couple of hours later off a round number saying,
and you go, it's Charlton. Howard went back at Kidd's
his name. He's really sorry about the stuff up tonight. Yeah,

(49:32):
I just want you to know, like, well, really sorry
late notice, I would love to have you to a show.
Blah blah blah. Keep when he said something about your
killing her, but I bleed bleed red and green or
something big forty bleeds because he goes for the house
or whatever, so that must have done something. And I
was sitting there going, there's no way he's messaged me
a few hours before. He's going on like all the

(49:53):
arbah blah, like as if he cares. And then I'll
say to my roomate, we men. I was like, there's
no way he text me and you you could have
And then miss blade Graham, I was like sending a
screenshow I was like, I was going to come with me.
I was like, it's all this is a gr like
someone's gam up who knows like you better apply in
case you could go to a concert another time. And

(50:14):
then I was like fuck it, like I'm a.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Big deal in here now.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
I thought my ego was like, fuck, you know, lad
like being all right, and I was like, I'm gonna reply,
and I was like, full serious, man, it's all good.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I appreciate your message me.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
You know you got plenty on right now. I don't
worry about maybe I can. And then I was like
because he's an indigenous fellow too, and I was like,
you're doing the mob proud, keep representing blah blah full on.
And then like an hour later, Dale sent back a
video of him singing one of his songs.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
I just leave you on it for an hour.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Proper.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
And I was like, look at unique, look at the mirror.
You're not that big for a coming over messaging you
a few hours. He's gone on concept thinking about you
like very humbling. Oh, I was very humble.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
But I love that you got Nick. You mean you
got Dale back because he he loves Dermit Kennedy, this
Irish singer, and he just loves him. He talks about
Dermot Candy even before he was famous, das going one
of the gross voices you ever heard Irish like anyway
he was playing at the Opera House.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Yes, I got him back. Yeah, And so he puts
on his store anyone selling two Dermitt tickets and and
I was thinking he's gonna be switched on. He's been
around the game for a long time. He probably knows
all these jokes. And I was like, yeah, I do.
Like I just got some off Lisa from Sony. He's

(51:50):
the guy cooks me up sometimes and shout out. Shout
out to Lisa and Ate. Yeah, yeah company, two great people,
shy girls anyway, And then I was like message Lisa
because I knew she had two tickets, and I was like,
list you said those two tickets and then she's like, yeah,
I do. And I was like, all right, well keep
them for me because I'm going to tell Dale that

(52:11):
he's got them, and then I'm going to say that, nah,
he doesn't have anymore, but I just need to keep
on the side in case, like I still need him.
And then she goes, oh, right, whatever, I do what
you need to do. So I messaged Dale and I
was like, yeah, fucking Dermot's manager reached out to me
and he's giving me these tickets, but I can't go anymore.
And he goes, oh really mate, And I was like, yeah, sweet,

(52:36):
well what do I do? What do I do? You're
to send to me now, I said, oh, it's all good.
I think he's going to message me close to the
day and email it to me. Anyway, I forgot about
it was coming up. He messaged me going like the
Dermot chemedy is coming up, and I was like, oh, yes, sweet,
I want messages the manager anyway, and then I so
I fake messages the manager and then I got him,

(52:57):
got I think Dale's number and gave it to my
mate and I got him to message Dale saying, a mate,
really sorry is his Dermit's manager. But I just made
up a fake name. I looked up his name, his
manager's name, and said, I'm really sorry to do this
to you, but yeah, like you can't go anymore or anyway,
I made up this big thing. Anyway he was, he
was off and he was like that he starts ringing

(53:17):
around trying to find two tickets at anyway, I did
it back to him like I think he's like. I said,
thank it's all good, thank you whatever, and then I
sent back a video of me singing Dermot Kennedy this
time and anyway, and then I I rang him up

(53:38):
and I was laughing at him, and he was going,
that's not funny. And what do you mean anyways, mate,
I freaking ordered baby, babysitter kids. Me and Maddie have
fucking organized all these things. My mom's coming up. I've
just had to call my mom and tell her don't
worry about anymore. And now I have to tell her
you have to come do it again.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
And he was just getting so angry. I'm like, what,
You've just fucking done it to me a couple of
years ago, and he's.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Just like so engaged.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
No, man, I've gotta go. I've got to go organize
all this ship. And I was like, I'm gonna let
you sit on it for a little bit anyway.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
And then a little bit later, I like probably fifteen minutes,
I was like stressing, he's going to have to do
all these things for his kids. And then I'm like whatever,
So I ranging back again, and I had Lisa there
on third like a can joined the merch court, and
she was just sitting there listening.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
To I was like, mate, how you feel, like, what's
going He goes, no, mate, that's not on, Like I've
had to do all this stuff.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Honestly, I've got two tickets for you. Lisa's here, blah blah, blah,
and Lisa said, I'm so sorry, Dale, and he goes,
what's going on here? It's just legit? Do I have tickets?

Speaker 2 (54:46):
You wouldn't have technology.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
And then I was like, Dawn, you've still got to
get so good mate. Yeah, oh fucking hell. And I
was wish I just rocked up there and just ruined.
He's not even more.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
One of the most lovely blokes. There's a Gowndale going good.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
He's going good. He's working for the r p A now.
Actually he's back in Biager.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
I got him again the other day. Actually, yeah, just
a rub salt in the word. So he's working for
r p A. And he messaged me for Jordy Grant
number actually because he's like Nico, like, what's Jordie doing
at the moment. He played with us at the storm
and at Penfin. I just wondering if I need to
get him onto the after retirement Fund or whatever it is.
And I was like, I'll just check the other down.

(55:31):
I think he's going to play a game Q Cup,
but I'll give you his number if you want it,
and he goes, yes, sweets sending missus number. I just
send this long message.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Hey, Jordie, mate, Hey, you going tell you? I just
want to work if rps want to catch up, see
what you're up to this year? Blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
And then like father, I forgot about it, and then
like a few hours later we remember and then like
we facetimed him.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Want to you know what, I've got no idea for you? Okay,
good idea? Go on, I'll go get my phone. Stay
what I'm going to do. I've got the phone here this,
Oh yeah, give me his number. I'm going to Dale.
I'm going to text him and say that I represent
basically my name, some and something from the Broncos. Just

(56:14):
let you know that Madges turned up a training again
with those spew buckets. Boys aren't happy.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Oh yeah, Jack's gotta go. You go, I'll swatch faces
with you.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Yeah great, do I say? Okay? Do I say him
from Bunning's and Michael Maguires is coming and bought twelve
spew buckets, Because then why.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Would someone from bunning during day that is one of the.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
What?

Speaker 3 (56:38):
What the hell would that do? That's true? Just yea,
and I'll ring him.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
I have my dad's would Dale have it saved for
some reason.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
No, I don't think so. If we do, we're just
hanging straight up. Okay, let me just think. What's a
good name that d Banbury. I'll go. My name is
Del Banbury. My son Sean Beanbury. He signed for the Broncos. Anyways,
turned up and trying the first day of train and
and they doesn't have bloody spew bucketing again. He's not
well made. He's come out. He's pretty cool. Yeah, good,

(57:09):
this is you ring Dale.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
And as a dad you've got his number and you
want Dale to ring Belly and try to get his
son a start.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
At the club.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
I love it, he said the Broncos. He's not happy.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Yeah, he sounds like you're ringing him because you thought
he might like him ring Craig Bellamy and that.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
This is good.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
This is good people.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
He's not gonna be up.

Speaker 7 (57:40):
Number.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
You called back, Hello Dale, my Branbury. I'm just calling
my sons storm breany Uh he is training his Bridge
and Broncos and uh, well they pull the buddy spew
buckets out again. It's not happy. There were just wondering, mate,
are you if you were Craig bill his number? Because man,

(58:04):
he's got so much respect for Craig and you know
in the whole club and culture and uh and it
gives a call. You have my number, just give us
a call. Duble Brainbury. Uh think I will under your
creed to what he's gonna go fucking Dell Membury. I'll

(58:34):
tell you what I'll leave before we let's do what.
I'll tell you what that will do? Another one. I'm
gonna give it one more go just see if he
picks up, you know some place it's just do yes.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
I don't know this is going to make great listening,
but I don't and you know what, I.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Don't care to get me fun. We're gonna do it again.
People just go with us here.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Sometimes we're even doing a podcast. It's just a good time.
Sure all he doesn't pick up, just leave another.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Number called back.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
I did Branbury again, but I was just talking to
the young bloke. It's not the Melbourne Storm. He wants
to go. You want to go to the Cowboys? Big
fan of Todd Peyton? Do you have Todd's number or
put it in a good word for Sean? Alright? All
the very best and crashed ice on the career. Well done.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Oh called my girlfriend. You're an agency, ban market agent
marketing agency should have worked with someone because she's just
about signing your job.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Yeah, so what can we do one more?

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Yeah, there we go. People just go with this year
can you text even just read it out? This is
just as fun.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
People, what company you work for?

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
And what?

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
What what's the line? What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
She's a marketing advertising specialist, so she does like social
content for a company.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
So maybe say you you're a manager of Can you
say he's a manager of someone? Like, say you're the
manager of. Don't maybe say you're the manager of who's just.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
A royal Curtis skill?

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Do an organization? Because you believe that more?

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Pet Yeah do Pete.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
We're after a bit. So we're after a.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Bit of a social media and advertising specialists or something
and we need someone to come in and w.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
H hello.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
He was speaking, ah, hello, hello, Hello. Branbury from uh
double Branby from pitt Pine.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Think of the wrong number you got?

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
You have got Craig Bellbery's number? Change? No, whatdea talking
about you?

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
The wrong number? I think?

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Okay, No worries haven't not done Banbury? The number wrong Banbury?
Pep Pine h speaking Piper how are you at Stoll Banbury?

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Hi, thanks, I've got your number off my son, my
my son Sean, you met him? I think you met him. Oh,
I'm from I'm representing from Pep Barn. We're just after
a bit of a campaign.

Speaker 7 (01:02:12):
If you will.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
So where are you aware of our company? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I've heard of him around the corner. Yeah. We we
deal in all things pets, dogs, cats, lorikeets, Roselle's livestock,
sometimes feed so we sort of that something. What a

(01:02:40):
diversity diversify a little bit? And and and Sean, my
son Sean, who's met you once before. He gave me
your number and said you're someone else would speak to?
Yes for pet Barn? Yes, yeah, yes, right, Well if

(01:03:02):
you want.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
To reach out to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Is it for all of Sydney, Australia one storm in particular?

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Like what are we talking?

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Sorry, I was just going to offer you a job. Oh,
a job at Pep Barn. Yeah. I've actually just got
a job that I'm starting on Monday, so I'm actually.

Speaker 5 (01:03:21):
Covered on the job.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Fun but thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Okay, there's a bit of trouble some of the food.

Speaker 7 (01:03:30):
One second, Doris, you picked that up yeah, yeah, sorry, yeah, Look,
it's a job one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a
year just dealing the low coot section.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
I mean that sounds that sounds like a dream.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
To be honest.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Okay, would you just send me your email maybe send
like you my son Saun's number, and he'll pass on
to me and send me an email and we o
for an interview. Yeah, yeah, sounds good, sounds good, I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Chat to Sean.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Good okay, Doris, thanks very much, thank you. What the
hell is that? Oh, dear, well, I think that's all
the times for the podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
I don't even know what how that's going to sound,
but I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
That was so fun, Nico, thanks for your time, mate.
Thanks n I tell you it's going to be angry
at me. Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
That's tough.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
That kid, that's a tough. Okay, they're off.

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