"Matt Thought He Was Going to Die"

Salmonella and sumos, dream holidays and nightmares. Drunk messaging, adult diapers, kangaroo courts, an avalanche, and intimidating monkeys—it’s been one chaotic off-season!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to John's Family Podcast for the second week this
year in twenty twenty five. We've got Jack Johns, Cooper John's,
Patricia Johns, and Matthew Johns. How are you guys, family?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We're all going good, great mate, couldn't couldn't be much better?
I reckon clips.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Where can you find us? Just tell us people want
to find us talking.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
About the podcast or from a physical Do you want
our home address so we live it? No, you don't
want to the backstage with Cooper and Matti John's feed
obviously on the Mondays is our backstage episode and on
the Fridays, as it has been the last five years,
the John's Family Podcast comes out there. So backstage with
Cooper and Maddy Johns.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Now, my people have been doing a little bit of
research which has been to me in my lap and
what really yes I do. What really surprises me is,
you know, the majority of people who watch and listen
to this podcast, John's Family Podcast and also backstage with
Cooper and Matty John's haven't yet hit the follow all
the subscribe button, whether it be iTunes or Spotify, So

(01:02):
people like, do me solid do this old retired five
eighth who's going into the twilight of his glorious media career.
Do me a solid Okay, if you can hit subscribe
or follow, it would mean a lot, and to do that,
I guarantee I'll re enter top form. In fact, I'll
do an Angus Crichton and come back bigger and stronger

(01:22):
than ever. Yes. Wow, Now the listener question I put
to you this week, we had some terrific feedback, best
and worst holiday locations and wide. Because today it is
the dream versus the nightmare. The boys dream trip to
Japan and I can only describe as a hellish trip.
Trish and I went to Bali. It wasn't good. But boys,

(01:44):
let's start with the positive Japan before before we get
into the story. It's the highlights and low lights. You
blokes have been there before. I read something recently they
say that Japan is starting to bend a little Westwood
as far as customs are one, did you was there
any difference in particularly in Tokyo?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Not too different, very similar, probably pretty covid. I went
last time. They were very friendly, and they were friendly again.
I guess just packed. It's just like it's same again.
It's just all population.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
But it's Aussie's day, Like when me and Dad were there.
I mean when me and Jack were there, it was
like I was seeing we were seeing Aussie's like that
we knew on the street, just like, oh what are
you doing? We're in Japan Like it was OSSI's everywhere
where we stayed, Shinjuku, Shinjuku.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah. Well, I'll pose this question to you, to the
three of it. Do you think that Tokyo is becoming
the new LA? Given the fact that, I mean America
has got its problems, has been problematic, and you know,
we send our our very best wishes. We saw last
week the terrible thing with the La fires and you
know the devastation there. Do you think that Tokyo is

(02:51):
becoming out LA? Do you think that it is starting
to become the primary place for Australians?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think yeah, I wouldn't say primary place, but it's
a great place. And the thing is how many hours
flying is it?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's only ten hours?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
For only ten.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Hours and it's a developed, cultured location.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Would you used to be quite exotic when you'd say
to people into Japan, they go, wow, now.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
It's how is a dollar to the yen? How it's pricing.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now, our dollar in terms of yen was good, but
in terms of shopping, we did a lot of shopping
over there, and everything's pretty well the same price though
it works out like you go, oh, look at that,
it's only twenty thousand yen, and then you pay, and
then you look and it's like two hundred bucks anyway,
so you like.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
That twenty two Australian maybe just a bit over to
the dollar the or the ten dollars to a dollar.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
What about eating out? Because the States has gotten really
where it was once quite inexpensive to eat out, it's
become just like here, it's quite expensive. What about eating
out over there?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Eating out? I didn't know we were going to go
into that on the podcast. I didn't think that's appropriate.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Fine dining, fine dollars, oh right, eating out?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
No food and drink relatively cheaper, cheaper like we would
drink if we went to the bar and we would
drink or we would eat out. It probably what would
you say about half the cost.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Drink if you wanted to drink like drinking, No, not
always sometimes at certain bars would be just as expensive.
But if you found like little bars and Golden Guy,
you get things like five dollars drinks. But if you
just drunk on the like if you were drinking back
of your hotel room and you went to a seven
eleven to buy like Bourban, like a bottle of bourbon,
very cheap, seven and fifty mils, it's like fifteen bar

(04:35):
give me seven eleven as well.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's yeah, you can.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Matt loved that about Japan. Look at this whiskey.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
One positive air barie is the fact that in the
hotels and the resorts, you're paying twelve dollars for a
beer and just went to the local market. I was
getting for like fifty cents, so I was smuggling back
into the hotel.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Just go, you're a disgrace what we're drinking. I'm thrifty,
or you're drinking from the local marks over there.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Bintek of course, yeah, you had had the drink.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is a nice Tang is actually a nice d And
I always tell people if you go to Bali, always
drink bintang because you don't know what other ship they
put in your spirits. I don't drink anything not like
from Bali that's not from a cap that I can't
open myself.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
I did get very unwell one drink sorry good, like
really unwell, one of the most unwell the next day
and the people I was with was like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Do you know what one thing? So while while we
let's unpack your pan for a second. One thing. I
loved my initial reactions about Japan rolling under the streets and.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Being yeah, like walking, that's a metaphor actually rolling?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Did you take everything so literally? God damn you being
able to go on the streets with Jack and speak
freely like swearing and stuff with no consequence like I found.
I remember when I said that to you, Jack, I
was like, this is so mad like and this is
the best thing in the world. I can just sit
here and f and say this and that and nobody
knows like what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
They got who are you, ice cube? They're doing your
hands signals there?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
They probably did, but they're far too Jack must look like.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
A giant in Japan.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, he stood out. He was quite easy to spot
whenever we were anywhere.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Godzilla.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, lots of ozzies though, if you went for a
drinking Golden guy me and Coop, like, it's predominantly ozzies
in more than any other Maybe a few Americans as well,
but other than Americans, it was just like Ossie's in there.
And then Hukkaba when we went to the ski skiing,
we ended up just calling it last minute. There was
only a four hour, four hour jr. Train to Hukkaba

(06:37):
and you get there. It's probably one of the most
beautiful places I've ever been to.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
According what about tell us about Tokyo this time. How
long were you in Tako four before you went up
to the snuff?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
About a week?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
About a week?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah? How long did it take place to really start
to get on each other's nerves because you had Fiji beforehand,
and it's hard traveling with family, like three days because
is it rooming together as well?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:02):
And look Jack, you know Jack, you tell the people
what you thought of the room accommodation.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, because I'm a bit bigger and they don't like small,
confined spaces. Honestly, it was we walked in with our
bags and of course we bought three bases. Cooper wanted
to bring a.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Bag for.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
We had backpack each and three travel bags and the
room honestly, they were like these mini single beds. They
were almost saken.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Barbie walk checked out when you weren't going go in there,
and the hotel air conditioning isn't working in the entire place,
so they put these little like portable things in the
rooms that were doing How was it.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Nothing If we had a shower and like it was
a hot shower because obviously it was cold outside and
the steam would get if we opened the bathroom door
for like three seconds and the steam got out, the
whole room would turn into like a sauna and the
glass would go foggy and like there'd be raineds inside.
It was like a cloud.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Because Cooper woke up to like a pool of like
water next to him, like right on him.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, but it didn't bother me. But like Jack literally
was like it was like this giant in this tiny place,
and he was like I can't move in this place.
I can't move, and like his legs would dangle over
the end of.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
It was horrific. I feel I felt for the the
people that came in and changed the rooms, which like
they like they had that service there, but they would
have had to come in and honestly, because our bags
didn't fit under the bed either, so they're just sitting
there in a mess. Yeah, we had to like every
time we got changed, we have to grab our bags,
put it on the bed, undo it, put what you
need in, put you need out, put it on, and
then you zip the bag up and place it somewhere

(08:43):
you could find space in the room.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
But it was responsible for booking that hotel Sea Dog.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, it looked, it looked fine.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
It looked like they always I think everybody we spoke
to over there said the same thing. Room is tiny,
like there's no room.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
When we went, and it was where I booked you
when you went as well. The point of that, I
can't remember the name of it, the plaza, was that
the rooms are a more generous size in Tokyo.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, like that was. It was good timing because it
was the anniversary of when Muhammad Ali fought the Japanese wrestler.
Really had that had the whole Yeah, like an expo
on it showing all the photo Where did I miss that?
Did you miss it? Yeah? Had the thing where Ali
being put in the back of the emulance because Ali
nearly lost his leg because the Japanese guy just kept
kicking him on the leg. And that's a different story.

(09:28):
We had highlights coops.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well before we get the highlights another low light while
we're on, Jack sort of being a bit off me
and the room. Three days in, like you said, he
sat me down and said, we are having a whole
day apart tomorrow. I'm going to get up early. I
ended up going out the night before anyway, and then
I sort of slept through so I didn't see him
in the morning. But he just took off and I
didn't see him till like eight o'clock at night when

(09:53):
we met up for dinner, and Jack just did his
own thing, didn't don't. I still don't know where he went,
massage parlor. I don't know where Jack went.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, what did you do Jack? When you're just trolling
the streets by itself?

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I went all around. I went back to Harajuku and
Shibuya for a little bit, and then I went up
to I went like north towards Yanaka, I think it is.
I actually messaged I mate the night before and said,
who's lived there? And he sort of he gave me
like a little guide of what to do and just
in a day nice and like coffee places, lunch maybe

(10:28):
you know which, we end up doing our own thing.
But yeah, I went up to Yanaka, went past the
big museum up there, which I've been to previously but
sort of blined it for the food district up there. Yeah,
very cool if I actually found this really cool, like
what do you call it? The knives Cooper, like the
knives shop.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like Chamarai, chef knives, chef knives Samurai.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
They were like chef knives. And I've always wanted like
a Japanese knife. I didn't know if you could bring
you back to Australia, which I did in your luggage
just like yeah, and yeah I got it engraved as well.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I was engraved.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yet it engraved. What does it say to do it
on the day? Mate? Charge me on what's up? But
it says there's the old quote from Bordain that says
your body's not a temple, it's an amusement park something
like that.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, yeah in Japanese.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
So in Japanese, I just got your body is not
a temple like that?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah? What did you do that day? By the way, Koobi?
And you said before you went when you go clubbing,
because we went over when you were a boy, and
we walked past a place called Castle Blanca, and you
wanted to go there, and I said, don't go there,
like you've got to be very very very careful when
you passed again with yakuza down when you walked, So

(11:45):
where did you go for clubbing?

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Did you you went there? I didn't go very dodgy
that joint. I could tell you go down there, you're
going to get beat up or something like it didn't
or worse. Yeah, what's worse than that? Oh yeah, killed?
I suppose. But I ended up at this night this night,
I don't think that he end this nightclub and it
was seven stories underground. So I walked, like I remember,

(12:09):
and I was on my own at this stage, like
it was four in the morning. I was one out
with this one Japanese slash Irish guy that I'd met
at the Golden Guy district. So me and him are
walking through and we ended up at the bottom floor
where this Swedish guy was doing a DJ set. Can't
remember his name for the life of me, but I
I was getting I got to the front of the
mosh pit and I was trying to sing because everybody

(12:31):
in their Japanese. I was the only but you look
in there.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
You get mistaken of Japanese.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Brother.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, thank you, and I'm up there and I was
signaling to the DJ, and I was like like pointing
at myself.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
I don't know what I was seeing at what what
was the point of I.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Think I thought he was going to see I think
I thought he was going to see me in Japan
and go oh sick like another Westerner and like get
me up on stage or.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Something, thinking like Marco Polo arriving in China gun and
people go.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Wow, yes, and then nah, he didn't. He ended up
just completely brushing me. And then I got back to
the hotel and I messaged him on Instagram. I was like,
awesome to see you and brother and I woke up
the next day and he just like this random DJ
just liked the message and I was like, what am
I doing?

Speaker 1 (13:19):
What an embarrassing do you give? You mentioned so people
can get in touch with it.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I can't remember his name, That's what I was trying
to It was DJ something. I'll try to find it.
But yeah, I ended up deleting the message because I
didn't even want to look at it. I was so
bad when I say that.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Though.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
While we're talking about drunk messages, remember Jack, remember the
time we went on dad's phone and you had dadded message.
I think it was Liam or Noel Gallagher do you
remember that? And he'd done this massive spill when he
was drunk and he was like hey Liam, massive massive
fan from Australia and he was like, just want to
let you know I love you music and that I

(13:54):
know you and your brother don't get along and stuff,
but I love your music. Would love love Northern English
mate used to play out for Wigan and stuff, this
massive speel like he was talking to a mate. It
was so funny. Me and Jack's fine. The next day
we're looking at it like do you reckon? He knows
what he's done?

Speaker 1 (14:13):
No together together summer because.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah we did that. Yeah we did go there. It
was good function that real. They were like X sort
of like ex pro sumos.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
They were like big enough.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
They were like what me and Jack word of the
NR like they debuted and they were either medically retired
or like pushed to the side. They actually literally what
they were like.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
One of them had a crooked.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Knee and shout out to Brad Parker.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
One of them was literally like had his knees strapped
and they were like people were asking me how much
do Sumo's make, And he was like, the good ones
make like you know, like sixty thousand a month and
stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
What do you make?

Speaker 2 (14:53):
And then we were like the good ones like are
they here in the room with us right now?

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Like, no, is that old doozy? Why are you? Were
top sooner? I was going to be, but I did
my knee.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, one of them, one of them literally said that.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Remember. One of them was like what I said, knee
gone as good?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
It changes changes culture that.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, that you know. I used to play rabby League
with Jeff Robson in school and I would have been it.
I used to beat him in all the rep teines,
but I ended up doing my knee and I can't
play it like Beard too much.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
When they got out, We're actually going, oh, this could
be interesting because I was pretty big boys, but you, like,
you've seen enough wrestler wrestle rooms coop to know when
someone's really not trying, that they're putting it on for show.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, I've done that trick a thousand times. They were
just got their facials, were acting like they were trying,
but their legs weren't moving. I was like, these guys
are just not giving a ship.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Did you do like the swiedtish DJ like pointing yourself
like a wrestler.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Well, a lot of the people in the room wrestled
them after. You could go up and wrestle them after.
And Jack was like, go and do it. I was
like no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Had about eight drinks. I thought, oh, yeah, do it,
and then I sort of thought, oh, he might injure himself.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
John donahoe, John.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Don't bring j D into this, can I also a
fun fact that I learned actually last week about Japan. Look,
you're probably going to guess it now that I've said it,
but in twenty sixteen, did you know they sold more
adult diapers than baby diapers in Japan?

Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's a bigger why fetish because it's fetish capital of
the world adult.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, But I don't know whether it because they've got
an aging population either.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
They got the one of the oldest.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Aging settish stuff where people go to clubs actually soil
themselves and get women to change that appy. That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, exactly why where read where have you read that?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
I mean, look, who hasn't done it.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
I'm wondering if you're right with the aging population because there.
They look after their older generations, Like you've got three
generations living in the one house.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
And another one too. Do you know how they put
people who are drunk. They'll put they'll shame them, They'll
put them on like electronic.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Billboards on the street. They do that speak yeh, trigger
me speaking of drunk. Right on the flight over right,
Cooper has sitting there and he's going, oh, you got
anything to go to sleep? Got nine? He pulled out
this to Mazapan. You know Thomas for the best as
he's taking he's going next up to Mazapan.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Because I had an ext ra and it was supposed
to be for a flight home, and I said, oh,
do you want anything to sleep? Jackson Na be right?
And I said I had to hit Jack. You have this?

Speaker 3 (17:23):
And Jack's like, what is it?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
And I said, like, knock your socks off? And then
as we like, we had like a whiskey that we'd
had at the at the airport bar, and we cheersed
out to Mazapan and I ran next top next up
to Mazapan and I smashed it. Ten hour flight. When
do you reckon? I woke up, I.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Had like at least two hours of sleep. I no sleep,
and I just watched movies the whole time. Honestly, the
girl was worried, like she actually made me check him
just to make sure he's okay. He missed all the meals,
missed them all, and like, honestly, as sort of the
sun was like being out because we arrived at six
in the morning, as we could sort of see the
sun rise. Just Cooper just wakes up and goes, oh,

(18:03):
that was a good sleep. Hell on left, I said, mate,
like thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
I went, it's like nine and a half hours.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
That these fantastic Jack records.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
She was putting the meal on the she goes, you
might wake up soon, and then coming back like half
an hour later taking my tray. Apparently she did it
like two or three times with meals just comeing and go.
It was a night flight, Yeah it was. Yeah, it
was a night flight.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
But she did say because one of them was I
got Cooper chicken. And then she goes, oh, we don't
want to get because you might get sick. But if
it's already cooked chicken, it's not.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Going to even Yeah, your chicken goes to room temperature.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Not good.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Let's not mention the name, but there's a There was
famous Australian television personality who once jumped on a plane
in La drunk and took numerous sleeping tablets, fell asleep
and soiled themselves in business class, and the people in
business class walked up to the to the steward and said,

(18:56):
are you kidding? Are you kidding? You can't smell that?
And he's like, why took him down? And she saw this,
so I was okay, okay, that's a woman. Okay, didn't
And they had to literally carry her up like talking
about that, you know, nappies, carry her up, put her
in the toilets, change her like she was a baby,
and then put her back in a suit. Oh my god,

(19:18):
and shout out to it. What's it like? Hackerba compared?

Speaker 4 (19:24):
What was the highlight was?

Speaker 3 (19:26):
So we we didn't plan to go. We briefly thought
let's just take ski jackets just in case, you know,
because we know Gordon was going over and we'd obviously
be with Gordon. Sweet Gordon said, look, we're in Huckaba
for a few days. Look, if you want to come
last minute, just message me, get a train there about
four hours and you can stay with us. So we
ended up doing it. We ended up getting the train

(19:47):
over and yeah it was yeah, it was unreal beautiful.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
It did look beautiful.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
We got there in an afternoon and Cooper really wanted
to get some skiing in before, like snowboard, snow boarded,
ice ski, yeah, yeah, border, yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Any better? Hectic when I saw you, sorry, brother, have
you got any better?

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I have got any bedder. I was out I was
out there, I'll tell you what. But first day when
we went up, and I love this because Jack was
shooting himself right.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
He was like literally another person himself.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I haven't done it for fourteen years.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
And Jack was like getting real agitated with me, as
like Jack gets agitated.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
When they had two hours. We should have gone on
like the beginner, like a little just just put him on.
I hadn't even put my skis on yet.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
And I accidentally, like we accidentally went to the top
of the mountain and yeah, well like there was one,
there was other ski lifts, but we went on the
wrong ski lift. We've gone up the top and look,
I hadn't snowboarded in an age or too, and I
was sitting there and Jack's gone like putting his skis
on angrily, and as soon as he puts his skis on,
he goes to push down instantly stacks in front of everyone.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
But then.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
But then from there Buss takes off and like it
must have just started to come to him. Yeah, and
I'm trying to follow him and completely lose him. I
don't see him for like maybe an hour and a half,
and I'm going I'm going down this mountain and I'm
getting flogged like snowboarding, I don't know, like because it
was very flat at some times, so I was getting
stuck and then having to push and then people would

(21:15):
come past me and I'd fall.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
So the tracks went like green, beginner, Red, intermediate, then
there was then went straight at the Olympic and then
the diamond tracks, and the diamond tracks were like untouched
basically like power like cliff sides were.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
So where do you block? Send up?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
We went on there. We stayed in the beginner for
a while, but then as we got so we did
that for the first day, sort of get our bearings
a bit. Then we're really looking forward to the full
day of that. Got there in the morning and did
the beginner again later that day, took Cooper to the
intermediate because we thought, you know what with the young
fella too, We yeah, it took him down the rest.

(21:55):
Gordon's yeah. And basically what we did was so the
intermediates they go in between the diamond runs, so like
almost as if like a road on the side of
a mountain. That's how they crosses through it. So we
get to the top of the gondola and we go yep,
sweet Me and Harley take off. Cooper just follow us,

(22:17):
and as we're getting there, we just hear this. As
we're going past straight through a diamond run, we just
hear this, oh help, and look back. Honestly, Cooper's sitting
there crawling up the side of this diamond run and
he's gone down the Diamond run thinking it was the it.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Was like it's like the most hectic one. But the
thing was it was basically a cliff.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, So like you're going like I felt.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Like if I dropped, I would have died, like because
it was nearly vertical and I'm holding onto this like
side of this snow cliff and I'm kind of like
the snow's kind of going past me and I'm just
trying to dig my way up.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
How dramatic.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh, it was people just going past me looking at me,
like who's this blow? And the snowboard still attached to
my legs and I'm like trying to do a chin
up to get myself back up. I finally got back
up there.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Back up to where the top of it, to the
top of the rum. The vision I did see some
vision of you, Cooper and number one rookie era clearly forgotten.
Wherever you look when you're snowboarding, that's where you go.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
So if you look down book, he kept looking over
the cliff sides.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
I was on purpose, but you were very lucky at
one point, Like not exaggerating here the video you sent
through Jack where you're sort of battling along. Next minute
bullshit like this massive snowfall off the side.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Of a mountain, A little bit of a mini avalanche,
was it?

Speaker 2 (23:36):
It was like because there was a blizzard day one
and the blizzard the high winds started like this.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
It was.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
It was an avalanche. It was classed as an avalanche,
but it wasn't like as hectic as like where you got.
But I'm trying to go down this hill and Jack's
filming me and he's going hell look at this bloke
shit is and then next minute this blizzard picks up
and it all I just get smacked by all this snow.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
It was even later on laid it down the track
because it takes you. It takes you half the hour
to get down acou when the top gondola takes you
right up. And even on the way down there was
one that came through again right on the cliff side.
And because it's like powder, all the snow just snap
stacks on top of the trees like and and just

(24:19):
keeps am accumulating. My woods, they've been terrible accumulating. And
then once it's like this bit of blizzard that comes through,
it literally you can't see you put your hand in
front of it. You can't see in front of you here.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's so thick. Sometimes they like the snow that it's
like Quicksand.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, well the Eskimos and ship were saying when I
got down the bottom of all the and that he
gloes down the bottom. They were like, you're that lucky,
they said, like if you weren't such a strong.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Talking about sasquatch. Gordon tell Us does he drink as
much in Japan as he does in Brisbane.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Probably more, probably more, Yeah, there was one day. He's
a skier.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Good he is he good?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Well, we never saw I saw him came down once
when I first got there, on the on the full down,
I saw him come down. And he's for a big guy,
he moves pretty good.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
If you were at the bottom of the mountain, you
hit you at full speed, as.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
You know, because talking about big Foot.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
He kept talking saying like, oh you talking about these
massive ski experiences. But then we never got to like
I never got to see him actually go down the hill.
It was almost like he just bought all the gear
but never went down because every time I'd see him,
he'd just be like at the lodge bar down the bottom,
just drinking.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, but he's done his work, he's made his way
down there.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
He look. Japan was a massive trip. But can we
get into actually before we get out Fiji, before we
get into Mount Fuji, very underwhelming.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
We went to a place called was it Mashima, Mashima
and it was like sort of a town a while
away and we get there it was a bit overcast.
He couldn't we got the.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Mountain where we got to the skywalk where it's supposed
to be his mad view, and there was. It was
clear skies, a single cloud covering the top of Mount
Food so we didn't get to see it.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Thinking it was going to go away.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
It just I kind of feel that that happens a
bit though with because.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Clouds attract to the heat.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah. Active, it's not active, is it.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
It's not a volcano, it's a volcano.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
It's a mountain.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Volcano.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
It's a volcano. Mountains generally a mountain. In essence, it
was a volcano.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
But I think it's because Mount Everest isn't a freaking volcano. No,
but I think Mount Brother there's volcanoes and then there's mountains.
Mountains aren't volcano lay out of me a volcano was Well,
the top of Mount Fuji had snow on it, and
they don't snow at the top of volcanoes.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Well, well, no, it's your opinion. Maybe they do. Please, listeners,
you're best gods. Let us know are mountains dormant volcanoes?
Just quickly before we go. If you go, if for
our listeners, if they want to go to Japan, they've
got to make a choice. The city Tokyo or Hakkabar
or you know, going to the snow. Where what would
you recommend?

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I think, honestly, because the city it's so big, but
it's so similar, like it's in mass so similar. So
I think a few days in the city, then get
straight to the straight to them.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Many Aussies up there on the snow everywhere, mate, more
ossies in the words.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Wait, the lady that worked down at our local, the
COOLEROI she was working at the bar in Hakkabar as well.
I said, Giz, you work hard.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
And I believe this is a Tyrann wish out over there.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
The wish met Tyrone Wishart. Of course, I got about
five hours with him. So the day, the morning we
were going to go to Hakkaba, I stayed up all
night to have one beer with Wishy because he got
in at one am. So we had a train at
like seven am and I was sitting there having a
beer with all of Wishy's friends and his partner who
was over there early. And I met him at the
train station, walked him back to his accom, had a

(27:50):
beer and then he was like, right, I piss off.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
I don't want to know what he was doing over there.
Less it's fair to say it's got something to do
with rhymes with flexibility.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Let's just say that he might be you might see
him at the Tokyo Olympics in the gymnastics category.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
People an active volcano. It's active active, but the most
recent eruption was seventeen o seven.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh so recent.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Really, anyone dies monitored twenty four hours of the day, still.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Seven only one of us was here, then that's crazy.
But just quickly, but a listening feedback. We've got Linda
from Mount Druit out the end of the Druid. She
said she loved the Cook Islands, the New Fiji people,
Heaven on Earth, hated Honolulu, Save your money people. The
Gold Coast is exactly the same. I think that's a
great point. Yeah, I think it's a great point. Last

(28:42):
wee wek at Honolulu, I thought it was just basically
the Gold Coast with Americans.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
I don't I haven't been to Hawaii for a long time. Honolulu,
but I used to hang out the Yeah, like with
the hose Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Michael and Derek Hale.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
And this one from Eddie in Townsville. Best trip ever
been on. Maddie, me and mates went to dar Or.
We did was drink. Worst trip me and the family
mate he went to Darwin or we did was fight.
That's a very very good point. And the last one
before we move on is from Abdullen, Brisbane. He says,
I went to Iceland. It was crazy people and nuts.
It was summer, so twenty four hour sun and he said,

(29:17):
the worst all my life. I wanted to visit Venice.
Hated it heat, the mosquitos, thirty euro pizzas and having
to wear gum boots every afternoon, which is true. True.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
The water every afternoon, well not every afternoon.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
We only had it once every afternoon.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
I'm sorry, sorry for correcting your master.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Do you want to tell us now we've unpacked Tokyo.
At the same time that me and Jack read to Toyo,
you and mum went to Bali.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
We made a rash decision.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
You did no.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Actually I didn't want to go final.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Twenty seven years I went. Twenty seven years ago. I
went there and Jack was a baby. It was conceived.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
There was apparently.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hey baby, you were there. I said I'd never go back.
Trish forced me to go back. I would say, I
would say your suggest I would say, it's worse. It
was worse.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I've heard it's worse since COVID.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
What I took him up to Uluatu and I haven't
been their post COVID. In fact, I haven't been there
since I went on your school school, your school is
which you didn't go to, really really good time with
a girlfriend. I would never go back to Bali with Matt. However,
I must say the traffic there is insane now. Really,

(30:29):
it took us two hours to get from Uluau down
into seveny habbit.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's that's a that's a long little trick there.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
It used to be forty forty minutes.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
What decade are we talking there? You feel.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
Two thousand? Well, the trip that was about twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Honestly it was I was a prisoner of al And
you know the thing about I reckon New York City
is more serene because at the moment you walk out,
I'll walk out onto the street, it's like fourteen year
old drunk Aussies on mopeds just flying around.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
It was it was just in just developed. Now it's
so busy.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
The other thing to really disappointed me, there's a there's
a yellow thing that you see you see most days
called the sun did not see it the whole time
were there, he just poured with rain.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Wet season, you expect.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
To see the sun.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
No, it is the wet season. But this is particularly
well of just pouring.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Trisa doesn't she immerse herself and in Asian culture when
she goes there.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Having me grang for breakfast every morning, and because we
had so many wet days, I was watching I Am
told It in Korean TV series all day long Korean.
But the trunk when the phone.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Rings, Wow's like this is awesome. We sit down guard
We could have watched the same shows, honestly, and back home.
And the worst thing I'm sitting there as just pissing
down and I'm just sitting there around like the pool
just because I'm here, I'm going to go to the polio.
I was the only one sitting in the pouring rain
and just looking at the phones going colorily thirty two degrees,

(32:08):
just going why we could have watched these Korean movies
back home.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
I just needed to get out there.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
And on top of that, I got crooked.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
What did you?

Speaker 1 (32:17):
What did you?

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Like? I ate out and and and I had chicken
and the moment it hit the small and test, I
I went here we go, I went laid down. I
was reading this book It's really hard to get into,
which added to maggravation. I felt the next starting to

(32:38):
tie up. Next minute, I'm just and boys.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
To these boys, like, he's not a pretty vomitter, is he?
What happened? Came home?

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Who is the only person of.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Recurrence of it? And you boys witnessed it? How loud
is He's dramatic.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's almost like he's crying. Is his vomiting. He's like
like he's telling you, but you know what. Yeah, that
day that he came back to the house and was
vomiting after Bali, it was like he wanted to know.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
He wanted everyone in.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
The house to know in the street, Maddie John's is vomiting.
And then he'd come out holding his tummy like a
six year old and he'd be like, Coop, I'm not well, Cooper.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I think I toufed it out pretty good. I lay
in their bed and I walked out and I said, oh, Coops,
oh mate, like you're going you're right, and I'm going right,
I'll be okay. And everyone went to bed. People, So,
Trish's you in Bali? When I was nearly dying. Trish
was just asleep and then I come out, just going, oh,
I might have to go to hospital trying to get someone.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
So when you were at home, me and Jack were
actually like trying to find medicine and that for you.
Trish was sitting there with just the face mask, like
covering her eyes, sleepy, and I woke up and I said,
do you know where this dad's barley medication is? He's
been spewing And then she goes, yeah, I can fucking
hear him. And I was like, well, do you know
where his medication is? She goes nah, and then just
rolled back over and go to sleep.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
The day we went from Ulua Too to Seminak, I
class that if not the worst day of my life
in the top three, and I swear to God because
we're sitting in the pouring rain. Trish goes, how about
we go down to sevenac. I went, great idea, and
I said to the lady around the pool, how far semonac?
And I reckon, what the bar And these people are
so beautiful they can't break bad news to you. So

(34:26):
she went thirty minutes. I went, oh, yeah, sweet, they'd
be great. So I sort of chirped up a little bit,
then went down. I said to the blake. He goes, well,
we're going to and said I'm going to Semenyac. He goes, oh,
you're forty five minutes. I went, ah, right, that's okay.
Then when we're waiting for the for the cart to arrive,
I said to the lady, oh, semin Nach. She goes, oh,
one hour, and I'm going okay, isn't thirty minutes? So

(34:48):
we're sitting in the car at an hour and a half.
I got a trish honestly, how far are we away?
She goes, oh, I'm just having looked at my thing.
It's saying another hour. And I'm like, mate, I lost
it on the inside.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
You lost it on the outside too, Yeah, because it's
actually it's quite far from Semnyac and chain it thanks
to quite far places I remember not normally.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
It was literally we were just again.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
When was the last time you went sixteen? Yeah, but
did you go to.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
That's where we stayed.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
When you must have gone on a very quiet time
of the year.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's just a short memory.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
In twenty nineteen when we had our like mad Monday
there for the storm we we day three. We had
a big day day party booked inau so there was
buses that came and picked us up at eleven. The
chanda at organized Literally everyone polled in the bus. It
was we were so hungover. No one had eaten. I
remember Jerome Hughes was sitting next to me and Hughsey

(35:46):
Husey's renowned as being the worst hungover person of all time,
like offers nothing, just sits there and can't talk and
usually got next to me, brought his pillow from his
hotel room, just set it up and just slapped because
it was like an hour and a half bus ride,
and just slept the whole time. And then we were
playing kangaroo court in so kangaroo court for those people

(36:07):
that don't know the boys that had done stuff that
the boys wanted to dub him in on but they've
been doing the last few nights. Then you would say
it out loud and then everyone would vote with they
have to scollop year they give him a punishment for it.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, one of the one of the players at the
time who was renowned to being quite loose, he he'd
been doing a stat and I'll say this, he was
a single man at the time, so I don't want
to say it. So this player had apparently been caught.
The boys all had mopeds. They'd called him the day before,
early in the morning, so he'd gotten up like on

(36:41):
purpose to go to this massage parlor and the boys
had called him on them as they were going along
the moped coming out of the massage parlor, and he
made him swear. He said, please, don't tell anyone. Don't
tell anyone. They went No, all good, sweet, well, a
secret safe with meo court. The next day everyone's hunging.
They got him coming out, accorded him coming out of

(37:02):
this message last night.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
It was bloody hilarious massage pulse. There was a one
year we went to Magic Millions and there was a
jockey that literally about two hours before the first race,
was seen coming out of a massage parlor near the
Golkost Race course.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
A jockey.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yes, it was a little gossip over there, just sparked
a memory.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Can we just go back to my name?

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Stop?

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Can we just go back to Matt Vomiting?

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Has he won the Melbourne Cup?

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah? Now he has had a lot of rods.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Never won one.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
That Oh you funny, No, no, it's not funny, it's informative.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
So okay. So when that starts vomiting, you know, with
you know, great effort, it comes out from the bathroom like,
oh quick, call a doctor, Call a doctor. After one vomit,
I'm like, so I didn't.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
You're a slippers twenty vomits.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
No, And then he's laying the bit, Oh no, I
think you've got to call it. Have you never ever
had a virus before? We have vomiting and body ate?
Oh man. Anyway, So then I waited probably another two
times until he begged me stick call the doctor and went,
then I'll call the doctor. Then we weigh and this

(38:15):
man walks in who looked almost he looked like Chow
from The Hangover, who.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Is a doctor in real life? Leslie Chow was a
doctor literally.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Looked like him, and he was and he was carting
in this massive suitcase. It was almost this bigger than him,
and I'm like, oh my god, is this guy legit.
He ended up being an awesome doctors and very thorough,
very thorough, and but I did have a little bit
of panic. I thought, well, this is resting with me here,
because Matt's obviously incapacitated. So but it all ended well

(38:47):
until he was still sick when we got home and
needed medicate.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Okay, just waiting for the punchline. You put the boot
into like inverted covers ow and he basically fit into
his suitcase. I don't apologize to Indonesian.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
I almost gasped when he walked. He just didn't build you.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
We just unpacked all of Dad's spewing, and then you
just brought back a story just to bash the doctor.
And then it had it had no ending.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
I was about to put the boot into a jockey.
He's been coming out of a rub joint, and then we.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
Un I tell you something else.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
It's right, we got one life, remember me.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
To be honest. The highlight of the trip was the
airport going there and airport coming home. Met some great people.
But at the as we were going through security, Matt's
bag got pulled over with the hand luggage. And I
said to the woman like, because I'm pretty sure I

(39:48):
probably packed his bag, I was like, oh, what what
showed up in there? She went, because Matt's been strapping
his knee with strapping tape for added attention, and and
and she said, oh, we could see tape in there,
and we have to check what sort of tape it is,
because you're not allowed to take tape onto a plane
because it can be used as a restraint. I didn't

(40:10):
know that.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well, now we do, mate. But there was a beautiful
easy an example like God giveth and he taketh away.
There was a beautiful outside bath. I said that'd be great,
and then I was about to walk out. Suddenly these
three angry monkeys just appear and I'm going, oh no,
and like they were almost daring me to go out,

(40:34):
and I'd truscate, I'll go and have a bus. I'm not.
I got it one one and looked out. I had
underpants out there drying, and the monkey was like playing
with my underpants. I felt like going, oh brah, let
those go a little bit at least cool chow and
get a shot. But we did run into a couple
of couple of positives. One is, there's my recommendation. Later

(40:56):
is going to be a book called McMafia. And I
had that book twenty years go lend it to somebody
forgot and tried to buy it reorder it have been
able to this road in sang.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
I stayed there with friends before. I always booked it
for us, except it has and outdoor bathroom attached to
your bedroom.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Here we go again.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
And even when I was there, like I was panicking
and I'd wake my girlfriend say can you come to
the bathroom with me in the middle of the night,
because I imagine, like a monkey, they're putting my lipstick
on and doing it here with my product. So anyway,
and I thought, Matt, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 2 (41:31):
And that'd be an awesome thing to see if I
walked out and saw them.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
What about a snake?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Any which way, But loose Clyde used to put dress
up as a woman.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
So I didn't book that, took it there for dinner that.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I'm at this resort at swang Swangawaga whatever. Anyway, I
look over and I'm looking this a book bookcase. I
thought I'll have look the book McMafia. And I'm proud
to say I actually took it and stole it, and
I'm halfway through reading now it's an excellent read. And
now we caught it with cave Kobe.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
How is he going?

Speaker 1 (42:02):
He lives over there? Going good? Yeah, going good? He
took us. It was a little weird and he took
us down to have a beer where him in some
of his locals. Then we had a meal. They're very good,
and then he took us back to the resort. We
were saying it was a little odd. There was Kobe,
Trish and me sitting on the end. I was like,
on the moment, like you're sitting in the sidecar, I

(42:23):
felt quite feminine, singing.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Kobe saying John d stopped shifting your ass to one
side because you're going to make his tip.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Did Kobe provide an insight into what it's like because
it isn't like surfing over there, quite territorial, like a
lot of the Indonesians won't don't like western sort of surfing.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
In Box didn't get that at all.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
But he's got that main break of Bingham, which is
like almost like their pipeline.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
I mean he's a well respected and he takes people
out surfing.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, well that's what I mean. I thought maybe he
might have some cool stories of like people getting like.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
His hospitality was outstanding.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Yeah, well I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
I'm happy that you're happy about the band.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
We met at the airport.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yes, there's a two door cinema club two Cinema Club,
big band in the UK. We're at the at the
airport about believing and there they were and we're like,
I didn't know at the time. I went to, oh,
fellas that we've been out and tour. I said, great, fantastic,
So you boys are they went two Door Cinema Club
and I went, yeah, who they do?

Speaker 2 (43:31):
You know?

Speaker 3 (43:32):
I know some of the songs?

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Now what do Just one second here a little bit
of feedback. We have a part two of the feedback.
Let's have a look a here. This one from Mary
and Josh, their listeners from Tasmania. They said the best
born as Aias Argentina, South America. It's Europe, cheapish, great food,
great people, they said the worst. On the same trip
we went to Rio. They said, incredible scenery, but god

(43:56):
we got robbed twice. And he said that spoiled it
for us.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
A wood.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Actually only robbed in La never told that story.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
You've told that multiple times.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Has held it on the podcast.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
Yeah he has.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
When the guy tried to the night you guys said, oh,
give me all your money, and you said no, I
don't want to.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Give you no, I said, mate, who carries cash these days?
And I said, if you've got tap and go, because
I was very drunk at the time. It's been drunk
probably saved me pretty heavy moment. And the last one
here Max from Wellington, New Zealand to Kuwi's there he said,
the best first two nights in Vegas, the worst next
two nights in Vegas. I ain't that the truth? Well,

(44:38):
before we shift, we're about shift on the Robbie Williams.
But before we do, I went out and about in
the Legal neighborhood asking people their best and worst holidays.
Best place you've been in the holiday Cook Islands beautiful, huh.
Best place you've ever been for a holiday okay, but
worried about your lifestyle son.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Best is the Isle of Sky in Scotland. It felt
very prehistoric, very cool.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
I got a public yes, great.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Worst place. Why I've heard that? I know. We just
had a person send a email through saying better off
going to the Gold Coast. Would you agree?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (45:14):
Worst place, Pod Grika in Montenegro just very deserted. No
one was around for a capital of a country. It
felt very eerie. Something like that, similar to that, Yeah, right,
that's the worst.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Like Italians don't blame some serious right wingers in our
street nonetheless.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
Yeah from our street.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
No, No, that was about I went out and about manly.
That's what I do for the podcast. Guys. It is
time for film fame and Vinyl and we are doing
all things Robbie Williams this week. And the reason we're
doing that Robbie Williams movie just had out, called Better Man.
We all went and saw it. Sure, I loved it
so much. I went the next night.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
I dragged Matt one night, and then you took the
boys the following.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Nightstand it was Yeah, it was okay you overall I
thought it was okay.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Yeah, I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Now I've watched the Robbie Williams doco as well. I
think especially around the who's the group is with?

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Is it? Take that?

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Yes, yeah, you take that? And I think specifically around
that guy Gary Barler, Garrett Guy, is it, Guy Williams,
the guy who the songwriter.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
Wal he went he aligned himself with after he left
take that.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
I think there's a lot of I think a lot
of credit needs to be given to Guy. I think
he didn't get the credit like obviously he says in
the movie. Well spoiler but that you know, they for
specific reasons. Legally, they weren't really allowed to dip into
guys his impact on Robbie's career too much, But I

(46:55):
think that would allude to a little bit that Obviously,
I think Robbie is a little bit.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Is a guy yet in the documentary though he gives him.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
A lot of credit h trish, he does initially, but
then it really sours and then you see how the
relationship gets really nasty because Robbie starts to say, oh,
this is the best stuff I've done since I will
say this, Robbie has not had it had a hit
since is a guy Young Jack anyway, since since he's left,

(47:24):
they had to fall out, and I'm with Jack. He
did not get enough credit in both in the documentary
Guy Chambers, but I tea where Jack, I teah, they're
very clever. The thing that's really stood out when I
heard about this movie coming out that confused me was
the chimpanzee playing Robbie Williams his spirit and I thought,
how's this going to work? In my opinion, I think it.

(47:47):
I think it worked better than if it had been
an actor playing Robbie Williams. Yeah, it melts away.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I say that. I said, the start is really weird
when you first see it. It's like, this is probably
the first five to ten minutes and him in the
he's a boy, and like you've got a sort of
boy chimpanzee playing It looks really weird. But then once
he starts to get into the movie it's quite It's
you don't even really notice it until like the more
provocative scenes, probably like when he's doing drugs and like.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
I never knew chimpions scenes love cocaine so much.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Nothing is more sympathetic than a chimpanzee strapped to a
toilet literally lighting up a spoon with heroin.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
But is the thing what it allows you to do
by having the monkey there is not focused on the
individual as much as the emotion and the personality of
the character.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
In the documentary, when he was sort of talking about
his challenges and everything, I was actually going, oh, Jesus, mate.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
You've got a lot more empathetic.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
You've had a pretty decent go stop being a winger.
When it's the chimpanzee you do. For whatever reason, you
feel more empathy, you get it more.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Yeah, I agree, Yeah, you're probably and we sort of
spoke about a lot of the biopics, like Elton John
Bohemian Rhapsody on Freddie Mercury, because because you have like
a different actor playing that person, you almost forget kind
of it's about you sort of more follow the storyline
as opposed to the individual. If you have somebody who
plays themselves like you do a lot of the documentaries,

(49:14):
you find yourself kind of being like, oh mate, your
life's not that bad.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Okay, give you a question, right, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Rocketman,
Elton John's Bohemian Rhapsody on Queen or better Man on
Robbie Williams, I go Gold better Man, I go Robbie Williams.
Number two, I gave Bohemen raption number three, Elton John.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
I'm Bohemian Rapsy.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yeah, I'm Bohemian Rhapsody. I think that's that one's phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
And then and the fact they had to put this
is the other thing too. It's an advantage that Robbie
gets to play himself in a way. I know it's
a ape, but with motion capture these days, it's his
emotional like, whereas Ramy Melick had to honestly emulate Freddy's.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yeah, especially when he's at Wembley Stadium doing that whole scene.
I think, I think that's gold. I still have Elton
John Silver. I do like the Elton John on Rocketman,
and then I have Better Better Man.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Still awesome.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
I love the old Man, Robert Williams old Man. I
mean he's comeback and a lot of bad stuff, but
you know.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, you sort of like him at the end,
just because he's such a desperate And by the.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Way, talking at biopicks Bob Dylan, Timothy Chalomagine, he's going
to play Bob Dylan a biopic coming out, which is
say that Timothy Chalomagne.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I think cho did you say Maine?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Maine?

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, Chala May.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
Anyway, thanks guys, you might get into commentary.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
You might get if you if you ever have to
commentate games, you got to get names, right brother.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Sorry, but Bob, it's coming out. If they were to go,
here's a question for you, just top the heady. If
they decided I worked well for Robbie Williams, his spirit
animal is a champ. What would Bob Dylan his spiritual
spirit animal be if it was to play him in
a bio pick Bob Dylan.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I think something makes me trigger with you know that
movie Wrango, that lizard, I think the actually, yeah, the chameleon.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
That could be Bob Dylan.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, I see, I'm a rat. I think like but
like a rat like in teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, like
Master Splinter, like an adult sized ratame I come.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
With a picture. I believe that he's the crested guinea fowl.
Look at that hair, right, I guess it is.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
An audio audio medium, so can you? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yeah, it's like a chicken with not much around his
neck but a very fancy elvis.

Speaker 6 (51:34):
Almost almost like a I've gone a kidnaper because he's prickly,
or a donkey because he's stubborn.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
There's so what you want one half of the movie.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
I don't care, by the way, just finish. Robbie Williams,
what's his best song? Williams Angels?

Speaker 4 (51:56):
I like Strong and I like better Man.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I like come undone you do like come On? I
like the one with the downward infliction where it goes
let me come on, and then the one that one
does let me come on.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
But you know what I will, I will say Angels
is the best, but the one I like to put
on the car is feel I like, feel.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Feels good, feels good. But to take us out and
it's lost a shipload of money, has it? Really, it's
like barely accumulated something like five millions.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
I don't understand why. I don't think it's been publicized. Well,
I didn't even know about it.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
This is the thing. He's big over here. We don't
have a big population. He's not bigger in America, and
that's where you've got to make your money. Like they
have their own domestic market. In terms of.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Movies, I've seen really like Americans this week and in
different forms come out and really bag him, like you can.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
You can sort of understand from their perspective if they've
never heard of him, and there's the movie, a biopic
being made about him, you'd almost get people.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Going at the UK pretty beginning enormous. It's an icon,
you know.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
But in saying that everyone's seeing it, like if everyone
who liked him was seeing the documentary, there's not a
whole heap more to tell. And I will say, like
when you when you watch it, when you watch it
and then go back and see he hasn't had a
hit like we were saying, he's a hit like two
thousand and freaking fight.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Chambers come out and he went, he did Rude Box.
People haven't said he Robbie went. When he got really nasty,
commout said. When Guy Chambers left, he goes, I'm writing
my own music. Now I'm doing stuff that's going to
blow people apart. This is the best so done. He
released a song called Rude Box, which, honestly because it's
it's just a massive turd, one of those one of

(53:43):
the like Trisha's big ones. You have to flush three times,
you get it.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Down, get the plunger out, pol Bobo the plumber. It
surprisingly looks a lot like me people have noticed above
the plumber like the mailman as well. Anyway, and the
Butcher and yeah, Bobby, Bobby Butcher.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Yes, well, just just before we finish up, can we
also allude to our new member of the team coming
on next week? He begins, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Producer Steve.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Steve, producer Steve. I've known him a long time. He's
a bit of a desperate he went through. He was
involved with the radio industry for quite a bit. There's
a couple of sort of drunken incidents that sort of
went off the radio a little bit, but I always
kept in touch. We're going to try to resurrect his
career Old Steve, and we're looking forward to him coming back.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Of course, we've had we've had many producers on the
John Semmi podcast. Gab Sweet, who was awesome. He joined
Ray Hadley and then Ray Hadley said, I can't deal
with I'm going to retire.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Not true.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, we've had Gabby, We've had whose Tabby Frank. Really,
they must have had some impression on us.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Tabby was over in Paris with me the whole time.
I kept calling her Gabby and she was like, then
she goes Tabby ship. He should have pulled me up
first date.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
And then we had Frank as well.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Sweet Frank I won. He's going with the dating soon, Frank.
He's just too picky. He's too picky. Apparently Frank's five
needs to go out with five.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Unrealistically high standards. Frankie. It's like he apparently do you yeah,
apparently has to go out with the two or five
apparently in his house no mirrors, Frankie. But like, especially
with that's okay. I will say two can go out
with somebody who's a ten if they've got a good personality,
which Frankie didn't that.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Let's look at some of the way Billy Bob Thornton
was married to Angel. He's probably out of town Billy
Boby A four five.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
There's something quite sexy about Billy Bob.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
His personality. It's quick widow. I mean, he's quick witted,
like on the TV because he's got good writers.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Wearing a piece very similar to Cooper looks.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
For great personnel.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Are we making recordem recommendable recommendations at the moment?

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (56:07):
Sound like Porky Pink then, speaking Billy Bob land Man,
I've just binged it. It's great. Season finale was last week.
It's great.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I think it's the best TV series I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Do you prefer it to Yellowstone because it's the same.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Writer I do. I do prefer it to Yellowstone. Taylor Sheridan,
who writes Yellowstone and land Man and Lioness. I've just yeah,
I was just about to just I've just started season
two of Tulsi as well. He writes that he writes
Jesus an astounding amount of those kind of gangster country
like TV shows. Very good.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
They're all different, they're all different in their own way
and the same like that little bit, but toul King
it's probably the best thing I've ever seen stallone in
other than Rocky.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
People have told me that. People said it is probably
Sylve's best.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
What you didn't like the Expendables, It's dreadful. They put
every action here, however, in that one movie, and it
just didn't work.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Might look the book McMafia You Got It came out
about twenty years ago. The writer who is a guy
called Mischa Glennie who was an award winning journalist. He
does it. It's amazing about the billing walk coming down
and the effect that they had had on organized crime
all around the world.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
And mine is to Mazipen. No, you went after dinner.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
The other night. Of course that restaurant. You want to
give a mentioned?

Speaker 3 (57:30):
No, you know what, they don't need it. You know
what they're doing right, more business they're doing.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Just give me a shout out.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Nonetheless, I have I need some advice. Yeah, so I'm
putting it out to listeners. Even whenever I go to
a funeral, never quite know what to say. Someone said
to me that I should say sorry for your loss
and move on. Apparently, when I use that I wasn't
supposed to use the words move on.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
That'll do us for this week. I think that probably
sums up the show for that episode. Guys, have a
good week and you'll hear from us sorry about next week.
Remember subscribe, follow, hit the button.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Do you do?

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Steve soon do