Matty & Joey’s Homeland Insecurity

The Johns clan takes flight with a prehistoric intro before diving into Snoop Dogg shout-outs, Gold Coast misadventures, and the legendary Cessnock Port. Matthew and Joey turn pranksters & Trish’s breath sparks “Homeland Insecurity,”

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0:00-Intro 

2:30-Flashback

7:30-Pick 3

15:00-Snoop Dogg

17:00-Jayden Brailey

21:00-Matthew & Andrew

24:00-Gold Coast

29:30-Homeland Insecurity

35:20-The Montoyas

37:00-Predicament of the Week

49:00-Listener Questions

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know he is scary. John's it apologies about my
Dickhead grandson and by Dickhead's son, Matthew. But I really
appreciate it for you to follow. But all the best
of all your old shaggers out there. Good luck boys,
teod actor.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
And we yeah, okay, and it's takeoff and it's time
welcome back to another week of John's Family podcast. You
bra Yeah, what is.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
The lowest form of humor?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Imitation?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Can you up your levels? Are you talking? I can't
said that for the first time.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
The lowest form of humor, that is sarcasm. I don't
there was any sarcasm. There is there any sarcasm there?
Do you think that was no sarcasm?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's the lowest form of witn't the lowest form of.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Human I just think you're freaking a low human.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
The highest compliment is imitation, imitation, imitation. The last form
of wit is sarcasm.

Speaker 6 (01:04):
Hey, guys, I just being a general smart ass and
thinking that you've humors very true.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, no, I'm not funny. Six you know this. We're
in season six of the John Semmi Podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
That is that is pretty remarkable, still going strong.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I listened to our first couple of our first episodes,
when I was up in the Gold Coast on the
like traveling. Yeah, jeez, we've come so far.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
All of us been the bigger improver.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I mean you've always been savvy, Yeah, witty looking at
when you're saying this, you No, I think you and
Jack are the biggest improvers from day one to now.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah, And I'll probably claim that.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, but I'll say I remember back then thinking, oh geez,
I'm pretty good at this. Uh uh No, not like
maybe I hold my helse to a highest standard now,
but I didn't. I was horrendous. I thought I was horrendous. Dad,
you were actually way better. You've roped a long way
long to kind mate you were. I suppose you had.

(02:05):
You probably had more responsibility, yeah, more hosting. Now. Dad's
very like he does. He never wants to sorry truth,
you're wanting.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
Him one being peggs left, right and center, not just
by my wife but children.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
You were very like you're probably just more on back then,
like you probably because you had have you had less
on your plate in that twenty twenty well we.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Were in COVID and you probably had to carry all
the dead space too. That you had to sort of
fill the gaps as you would always stay back there.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Now he just sits back and just.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Like relaxes and enjoys it or what it is. Mate,
I've just pulled back a little bit. I just pulled
back a little bit. There's a lot of them John's
out there. Look a couple of shows, all that sort
of stuff. Give the fans less.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
You don't want to saturate the market with Matthew John's content.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
People drive people mad. I get sick of myself. But
you know what, True though said the truth. She should
listen to the podcast, turn it off. He hates can't
listen to myself anymore, and yet he.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Doesn't mind watching himself.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
I've noticed.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, okay, particularly in the mirror.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now, you always rewatch your shows after you've filmed them.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
You love it, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
What by it?

Speaker 5 (03:12):
I never ever used to watch them. But I come
back on a Sunday night and I'll sit there and
I'll watch the Sunday Night show back. I just find
the Sunday night show, Thursday night show is enjoyable. Something
about the Sunday night shair because you know, I've got
new people on the couch and anythings like that. It's
just and we're going to talk about a little bit later.
But we had Jacob Kraz and the Montoya's on last

(03:33):
Sunday Night.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Very funny, very funny.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
They were awesome. We'll get it out later, yeah, but
less about me.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Sometimes when we're in this crazy media environment, it's just
nice to sit back and remember, this is the sixth
year of the John's Family podcast crazy and we used
to what else was cool to listen to, Like back
in twenty twenty the weeks that Jack and I debut
in the NRL, like we were on the potty leading
into debut weeks, we were reviewing it afterwards, like it
was I went and listened back.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
To it was so coincidental, Hey, yeah, just doing it,
Like honestly, we started in COVID and then probably within
the next two months we debuted. So that's pretty bizarrely, Like.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
There were some huge moments in the potty, like in
the potties that we were doing family podcasts, like obviously
that Melbourne won the Grand Final and we had Cameron
Smith came on for fifteen minutes the week of the
Grand Final in his last ever game in the NRL.
I forgot that.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, well I've got I've got I'll have to start
chucking these episodes back up. I might have to start
chucking these specialty ones up in the off season. We'll
go your deboo, my Dayboo camera Smith.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, big moments across the family because we because they
are they were on a different feed like our old
feed that they were on. I think we've got them.
So maybe Jackie could put them up.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, maybe special to shoot a little bit just mid show.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Do you remember this, Yeah, but it was just I
remember just I was just sitting there going, that's bizarre,
Like I thought, that would have.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
Been quite a memorable thing.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
And I just forgot.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
What are the guests that we had on? We've had
dyl on when he was living with Still, would have
been on when we were during the COVID twenty our
second year, twenty twenty one year. We would have had
a few PC come on, didn't he PC come on
for that.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Wouldn't have very memorable, extremely.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Not on the family once.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Harry Grant would have been on, Cheese would have been on,
of course, Buzz Rothfield.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, so we're getting all emotional, but I.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Tell you this last week about I told you call
I got from Buzz. I told you well, I got
two calls when I was in Paris and buzzfielded and
on the Friendly podcast. First call I got from Trish
going is there anything you need to tell me about
what I Do you know anything you need to tell me?

(05:34):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
We just had Buzz on and he eluded and Cooper
and Jack asked him, do you ever bury information about
someone who goes, oh, yeah, I buried miles and stuff.
I've got a dossier on your old man? And I went, Trish,
I'd say no, I'd say that buzz is sort of
sense of humor. Anyway. Straight after hanging up, Buzz rings

(05:56):
me and I said, may have been digging the dirt
on me? And he goes, oh no, mate, I don't
waking around. But I was just ringing to say. Can
I just say, mate, your missus is an outstanding sort.
That's what buzz so you are. You never told me
that the first time I told you, so you are
approved by Buzz Rothfield.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
I know where you told that. You told that on
the Alex twel podcast, which is coming out of Mind.
You told Alex twelve not that til he was interested
in it at all.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
But why would you say that.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
I'd just come up in context somewhere.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't think it did.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
She's showing you off. He's showing you off other people
like the motherfucking terodactyl.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
All right, I'm showing you off, babe. I'm proud of here.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
And if you think Jack had zing is these days,
wait till we'll dig up some of these old family
podcasts together.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
That could be an entire episode Jack.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Jack had some stinkers.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
And the best was like, because we're trying to get
gav on for the back end of the year. The
best part was like in the room we had gav
and you, he knew when they'd happened to and I'd
say them. No one else would laugh, but in the
corner laughing by myself.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Gave was our first producer on the game Really Good.
He runs it continue it was called He's the host
and with him in a couple of weeks and he
calls them to be have a listener with people. Is
a terrific fellaw he sounds, but let me tell you
something underneath all that ship a horrific human.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Being, a really good fella other than the homicides as
big dirt bag.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
While we're on good people, the introductional question today is
if you were going to invite three people to dinner,
dead or alive, and i'ld doozy this one, who would
it be?

Speaker 5 (07:27):
And why?

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Who was kick yourself?

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I went with My first pick was Bruce Lee. I'd
just be keen to see what it was like a
lot of actually pretty sure, I'm pretty sure. Well, I'd
like to know. I chose all dead because I'd really
be keen to see if the stories about him are true. Rather,
he is a bit of a Steven Segar, quite delusional

(07:49):
and then beat to his own drum a bit. Then
I went Robin Williams because obvious reasons.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's a mind too.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah, Robin Williams is a good Pick's just someone that
you know, if you bring to a party, is just
going to run the room.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I just want to hug him.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Quite dark though, I don't think he'd be as funny
in real life.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I think I think in a public setting you I
just love hope.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
He sings angels. That's all I care. At the end
of the.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
It's a great song by Robin Williams. And then my
last pick is frank Sinatra. Not because of the music.
I really like to suss out his gang affiliations, affiliations.
I has, like all these years on him massively.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
How he got the star Jack he was an actor
way way back. You the other movie from Heat to Eternity.
He was the star, and that was pretty patrician. It's
an incredibly famous movie. Now they're rolling around on the
beach Sonata. That was Sinatra. Then Sinatra became unemployable. He
was like like real cheesy and sort of falling out

(08:50):
of fashion. But then he leant on the mob, and
the mob got him jobs and got him singing career.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
And is there some reference to him? I'm thinking Frankie
Valley and The Poor Seasons. I think that there was
some influence there as well.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
There's some sat Italian Yeah, yeah, Italians. We've got some
dark meat on those pterodactyl all right.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
We don't know enough Italians. We don't have like we
don't have enough Italian ties. Like I feel like the
best part of being Italian is that like cousin needed
something done, like you needed a body buried. I feel like,
if I please, do you be the do you be
the body that needs to be buried.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
Don't worry. Believe me, we don't need the Italians. I
guess some people will bury bodies. I'll just give you
their name. Yeah, but we get caught, and how I'm
a catastrophos. I know I get caught. I just do
something stupid fingerprints somewhere anyone else.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
I am Robin Williams, as Jack just said. And then
my other two minor ole past is Matt's grandma Dune,
because I think she would love.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
To meet Robin Williams.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
She did, she loved Mark from work.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
And my third person is my mom because Dad would
be fine with that. Like I was, like, I felt
a bit bad, like, oh but your mom and my
mom and your grandma were so tight. Oh yeah, they
were so tight and they.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Just understood each other. And my mom had the why
are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Cooper, I was just laughing about something.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
No, because my mom had, till the day she died,
had a very strong Italian accent, like a lot of
people couldn't understand her, but ironically June could, yep.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
And then Matt's grandma had.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Mode of neurons so her speech became impaired, so your mom.
Matt used to be amazed. She said, Trish, your mom
and June sit there and have this conversation and understand everything.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Which just body language.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's amazing. So they were really tight. And Dad
would be fine with me picking mum because you know when.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
You ring your house, well you wouldn't because your boys.
But every girl and every father and we'll understand this.
When you ring your parents home and the father answers,
he automatically goes, I'll just get your mother.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
They do that automatically. That's universal.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Kind of a more bid take on a fun question,
but we got there in the end. Thanks for sharing that. Well,
I've got it supposed to be a bit more of
a fun, uplifting question. I didn't. I was going to
go towards, you know, to deceased family members.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well you said general alive. That was always going to happen.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
I thought, sorry, I thought it was gonna be a
bit fun of that.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Okay, I've gone June as well. I've gone June as
well because given the fact that she loved food. I
loved love food, absolutely loved we used to get there
and what she used to do for me and Andrew
was just incredible. You know. We would jump on the
bus at says Snok and we would travel down. We
go it to movie in the morning, then we go
to Big Al's, which was places the Tower Cinemas. Then

(11:55):
we go to move in the afternoon. Double up, we
double up, you know. And well, because there was no
movie theater in Sesso now to get down, so we
made the most of it. So June secondly Leam Gallagher
because I reckon her, and Liam Gallagher would get on famously.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Who's Leon? Who's Leon Gallager?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Liam Gallagher?

Speaker 6 (12:13):
Yeah, I think he'd be really cute with June. June
was a tiny lady.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
I think he's give.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Him way too much of her. I think he would
be despicable, fantastic. And there's your last one.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
And my last one. Well, I've got three blows going
to interchange here on the interchange bench. I'm going Brian Carney,
Phil Bailey and my brother Andrew.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Doesn't work.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
That doesn't work, Okay, I'll go Andrew, I'll go brother.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's a weird one.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Had an afternoon with Andrew Davis.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
Yeah, I talk about it later.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I'm gonna ask you about that after I'm done. Even
my one Okay, my three Harry, Harry Grant obvious reasons.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
That ship, that ship you could go see you tomorrow exactly,
that's a ship. Pick the fan, the listeners, the listeners
coup going to pick you up for that.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, they got a lot of our listeners hating how
much we talk about Harry Kraham do that? Maybe mainly me?

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Mainly?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Guess what, he's my best mate, So you can sit
on it. You know what I'm gonna talk about as
many times I want me.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
And Joey actually called him the other night from Joey's place.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, somebody tells me you would have called a lot
of people because you were a serial ringer and a dribble.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
As soon as that has become the person that we
used to talk about, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Dad's become the person the person who ring like teammates
of mine and they will let it ring out and
then text me, going, is your dad on the drink?
He's trying to ring me?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, it's it Friday or Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Number two Tuesday. Theo vonn comedian, fellow podcaster slash comedian
in the US. Give yourselves a favor watch some of
your stuff.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Thank you very much, cup Do you want to tell
the dad said, yeah, I prefer not retell all okay?

Speaker 2 (13:56):
And then number three snoop do you doable g? Snoop Dogg?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
How about him? The A f L got him for
the Grand Final?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
They get great entertainment games, they do it, they get it.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
I've got I've got mail on who's going to be
at the n ROLL Grand Final? No way your heart out,
af L, tim O, Maddic.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Pisce Off. Who do we want? Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
You know?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Who they should get? And the touring.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
Oasis are you c DC, trishak.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Mega You're a nasty band?

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Song?

Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's all we need?

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Do you know what to play? And like when you like,
let's say, for instance, like you know we do the
previews like Fox Sports will do that last week Indigenous
round they have a song to actually play an A
C D C for just one song in one of
those things costs amount of money.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
They're not even like if you want to put up
a this is a niche reference, but on if you're
putting up a post on Instagram, you want to put
music with it. They've got the rights. They don't even
have their songs on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
I spoke to someone recently who does a lot of
the prime for the game the RL, and they can
do for and even ads, TV and whatnot. There's all
these bands that they can use like pretty much anyone
just for one off promos, thirty second, fifteen second TV ads.
But they can't touch David Bowie and they can't touch
a CDs.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
I mean Trish great pick Akadaka would probably be the
only person at an upstage Snoop Dogg in Australia. But I
don't the AFL they get great like entertainment.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Would she reckon? He's going to get.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
He has to get at least a Millie Vanilly, wouldn't he?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Oh easy?

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Yeah, yeah, truck truck full of weed.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
I reckon too, it'd be way more than a million,
like he'd be. I wonder if he's going through like
a nasty divorce or something. He only did the Super
Bowl a few years ago.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
Yeah, But you know what, Oftentimes the and that's what's
been happening, and that's what the AFL is good at.
They'll target acts who are then coming to talk. Katie Perry,
she was coming to talk like she's just been so
Robbie Williams, he came in the October for the following
season of so I'd say Snoop's probably going.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
To why do we struggle?

Speaker 4 (16:05):
What does the NRL struggle?

Speaker 5 (16:06):
I just think it's money. I think it's the decision
that we do our pre game a little bit different
to theirs.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I don't think they prioritize it. I don't think it's
a priority, and it should.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Be different culture to different different culture. Like they're a
bit more accepting to younger acts, I would.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
Say in the AFL, I think it's totally the opposite.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Well not younger, but I mean like they're more funky. Well,
they're willing to go outside the barriers a little bit.
The NRL can be a bit like if they don't
do like a rock that's well known. Yeah, it's sort
of like it's in the NRL. There are so many,
like different demographics, it's hard to please everyone.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, I reckon they They probably probably thought a bit
a bit old school with the entertainer, where it's like,
let's get some Aussie rock legends rather than looking at
a bigger piece.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
I thought was good last year.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, I thought he was.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
He was one of the better takes it. But again
I don't do they even err it. I don't even
know if they err it on the telly.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
They did, but they put that much smoke in front
of him. I could see him.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
But it was televised badly and the stage was timed.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's the hardest part too. The rectangular stadium doesn't like
the MCG every year at the AFL during the day too.
I would love to have a day in our L
Grand Final.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
I would love it.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
Oh man, they were people.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Send us some messages of who you'd like to see.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Great, great solicitor.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
Unbelievable, that's a very good why I married.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
That's the motherfucking pterodactyl.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
And then we'll send it through to Peter and Andrew who.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Sure, Yeah, we'll bother them with that. I'm pretty sure
the stuff on their plate teams coming in the other day.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Who was it, Jacko? You said?

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Was it Jad and Brayley who played his one fifty
game and got a message?

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Yeah, we did a prank a few years back. What
I'll about I won't go into the depth of what
it was. There's there is a fantastic story in the
NRL Underworld about how Jade and Brayley did something to
a season of the NRAL. I'm not going to go
into details what it was about something that Jadan Brawley

(18:06):
accidentally did.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
You can give it say what sort of season it was, though.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
It was the twenty twenty one season. It was. It's
a very I don't want to go into any more detail.
It's a great Underworld story anyone that knows Jayden Brayley
ring him and asking what happened. And then later on
that year, me and Matthew decided to prank him as
a member of the NRL Andrew Abdo and then yesterday,
oh yeah, pretty much a couple days ago. Actually he

(18:31):
text me. I woke up to a text in the
morning and he's got a message. Congratulations on your one
fiftieth NRL game, Jayden, what an incredible achievement. YadA, YadA, YadA.
Andrew Abdo. He didn't reply to it and messages me
straight away going this sounds like a John's crank, but
it actually was. It actually was Andrew Abdo. So he
double checked.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, we double checked. I had his number.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, it's actually that's.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
A nice touch by the by the.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
We did Campbell Johnny Sutt.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Yeah, I've told those but if you know, Jayden Brayley,
it's not my story to tell. It's Jaden's for when
he wants to tell it when he retired. Give him
a ring, and you're trying and get the store.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're a better friend than me. I would have added that.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
We jed him up. He was so rattled he actually
had to pull the car over on the side of
the road and just sit there.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, you didn't crash it.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Parents and Lawa in the car. Apparently.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Okay, let's go to the jew something something juicy. I
haven't even asked you about it because I wanted you
to hear it first on the podcast. You and Uncle
Joey had a beer together on the weekend, first time
in a long time since the breaking of Bread.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
How was it? It was awesome. We had the best time.
So we went to his happy honeting ground, the Clovelly
Iconic publy in the Eastern Suburbs. There was myself, Joey,
Andrew webs of the journalist, I Mate Gibbo, journalists journalists
as well, and then and W. Fletch called through briefly.

(19:52):
So Mate, we had a really good crew, fantastic, had
a great time. Then all sudden, the cloth he made.
As it starts to push cloth towards this clock, man,
it gems up gets So I said to Joey, let's
just go back to your joint. So me and brother
Andrew just went back to Joey's place and we just
sat there and watched the football and made as we're leaving,
we embraced and we want to went on my way.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
More details, because you've been very vague. It was only
you and Andrew at his house. No one else came.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Just us.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Now the girls are on the snow.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, I mean like Webb and all that, So just
us on the Yeah, So tell us about what sort
of stuff are you guys, Because you haven't had spent
a lot of time together as of the last couple
of years. What are you talking about? What are the conversations?
Let us be a fly on the wall.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Well, look, I'm not going to go into all the conversations,
but one of the things was that, you know, I
we both acknowledged how we could have been better in situations.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Really.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Me in particular, I was like, you know, I just
said to him. He was saying, you know, like some
of the stuff that was in the papers. I said, like,
Joey from my angal. I thought a lot of it
was funny, and he was sort of on a different plane,
and we sort of explained ourselves like that, and then
there was sort of other things we were chatting about
with just sort of nobody. Nobody's business family and and

(21:07):
we just sought through a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
And we are family. So what is it?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, I think he's talking about everyone listens. I'm sure
YouTube didn't get a run.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yes, now it didn't. Actually, we'll watched and watching the football,
and then we will sit there and we just went.
Once we run out of things to say, we're like,
let's start calling some people. So we're rang Harry Grant,
he picked up. We were Wayne Wayne Bennett. He didn't
pick up because we went before. He's got where one
will players sometimes, like on our mad mondays, we get

(21:37):
blind drunk, just gave it to one of our places
and just call and have it. Like we go, right,
who's going to pick up for a lotto? Right, We're
going to call Brian Smith's coach, play Phil Gould or
Wayne Bennett? Right, I put your money on who's going
to Who's going to answer? First? Mate? Whenever you called
Gus and we could call Gus at four am in
the morning, two rings.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
And really happened.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Then it doesn't sleep, is you're not?

Speaker 2 (22:01):
He's one of those night hours, one of those they
sit there.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
And get on and we would mate. Honestly, we'd talk
sometimes to Gus on the phone at that time about
what for about an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, who else your face on that at night?

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Um to Sam Newman a different one, Sammy, Yeah, yeah?
And what can I ask?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
What are their reactions? Because knowing what you and Joey
can be like after four hours of drinking, I imagine
you wouldn't have been in a great state. What are
they were they like shocked?

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Were they like, oh, so Joey is like making you're
you're doing on you? He was doing someone here, So
I was doing some of mine. I said, come on,
we'll do you will do so Sam, and you get
someone and they go, Maddie, here you going mate, Cad
They and then Joey just come over the shoulder and
they go, oh, holy ship, here we go.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
It wouldn't be because there'd be that surprise. I remember,
like Harry would have just been like.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
What, yeah, look at you? Like the crazy young kids.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
First timing is the only I sometimes when I'm out
having a beer, and I actually did this. I was
up the Gold Coast on the weekend. I'll go to
the bathroom, not even pee or pooh. I'll just lock
myself in a toilet. I'll sit down and I'll just
FaceTime some of the boys a bounce.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, well, yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I've sat in a toilet once for like thirty five
minutes because it's just too chaotic out there. I get
a little bit flustered. I go in and I just
start talking to the boys, like where I'm just in
the the club toilet shitting. No, my jeans are on
since down.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Jimmy Barnes, I think we did. Jimmy, did you pick up? Yeah?
I should go and get my phone because I've got
them all there. I just forgot a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
It's all right. I'll tell you what you do it
most weekend, So next week we'll read out all of
your calls for Saturday night. Yeah, you've been notorious. Can
I only bring up some some of the Gold Coast stories.
I was up there watching Sammy Verrel's friend of the potty.
He's just had a little baby, girl, Yeah, visiting her
and he was also playing his one hundredth game and
Brandon Smith one hundred and fifty games. So shout out

(23:59):
to a few friends, potties. But I was up there
just to be a good friend. Also caught up with
a couple of the mob, the Melbourne Old Boys, as
we're a collective, the Melbourne Old Boys, we all get together.
And when I watched the Burly Bears Bears play Coldly Geyer,
son of Buffer Matt Geyer who kicked the goal in
the ninety nine Grand Final and tells everyone about it
most well you can. He was there watching Cole Cameron Smith,

(24:23):
was he Smithy Smith, He was there the Goat, Jeremy Smith,
Jame Bevnson, Jeremydes He's coaching Runaway Bay.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
A great name, run Away.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's like an A grade team down there. Jesus was
coaching now great name. Yeah yeah, and it was made
as good to catch up with everyone went around there.

Speaker 5 (24:40):
Club Runaway Oh really used to be a what sister
club of Cesnel?

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Well there Png the Hunter's team used to be playing
out of there Runaway Bay.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
But also if you could give Brandon a text of
us and see if you've got a message for from
Andrew Rabdo on his one fiftieth because Jane Bailey got one.
We know he's got one. Wonderful Brandon might have got
a couple of text Yeah, let's not go there, but okay, Jack,
I'll make sure.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Yeah, that message might have been received by a whole
different person anyway, Yes, unless we know the bad what
anyone else had anything?

Speaker 5 (25:23):
It is the Festival of Trish over. We have had
two weeks at the Festival.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Of Trish still continuing. There's people I still need to
catch up with.

Speaker 5 (25:30):
Let's talk through the festival, the truce so far. So
when did it begin? Your birthday? Actually before your birthday,
the surprise party you put on was part of the
festival Trish.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
No, No, it wasn't a surprise party. It was just
a few of the neighbors in. But to surprise you
for your birthday.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Well that's called a surprise party. If someone is surprised,
your surprised.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Technically it was it was a street surprise party. Yeah, yeah,
it was. It was a huge thing. There was like
two hundred people here and if people are listening who
weren't invited, clearly you wereent in the top two hundred fifteen,
but Trish was up in the Gold Coast as well
on the weekend, and may I just add, So Trish
is up there seeing her friend Rebecca and Brett Frasella
are the owners of the Titans, right, and Sam on

(26:12):
the Saturday is he's doing his jersey presentation where they
you know, it's very intimate setting. You get your it easy,
you get your family in there, and they present with that.
They present you and his partner Tea, and they present
you with your jersey. You get up quite an emotional thing.
Trish texts me that morning, You're going to come to
Sam's jersey presentation, and I thought, She goes, I'm going
to watch, and I was like, and I saw a

(26:33):
shop back and I sort of shot back at text,
not by Sam, that's the main thing. You were invited
by the owners of the Titans. So I set back
a little like, hoping she'd get the message, saying, oh,
you know, I saw Samy yesterday. It's quite an intimate thing,
just family. I probably won't head up. I'll see him
at the game tomorrow. Little hint, thinking that she'd pick
up what I was putting down. Trish goes oh all right, well,

(26:54):
I won't catch up with you later anyway, I'm watching
the jersey presentation, which they released on Instagram a couple
of hours later. Tricia's just kind of city in the corner.
Sammy goes up emotional embrace the family, and he's like,
thanks so much everyone for making this, especially I don't
like it about me, but I appreciate your family coming
up teas, you know, little Lucy's new daughter. And then
he's like and then he sort of pauses and looks,

(27:15):
and Tricia's like looking at him and goes and Trisha.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I guess, hey, don't worry. Mar Markey. Also, thank you
for being there.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Motherfucking terodactyl man.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well Mark and Kimberly, we're excited to see me. I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Yeah, sure, at least someone was.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
He was just back there, the terred actyal thing.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
We're back on the first of a podcast.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
You have retracted six years. In this point. You keep
saying this niche reference that no one has laughed at.
You've said it six times.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
It's got something to do with my last segment.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Oh okay, look to these.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Who can did anyone else have anything from their week before.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
The Gold Coast they had the Bleach Festival, the experience. Yeah,
it's called Bleach Festival, which ran over a period of
a week. But I went to the Hotter, which is
the did you say center up there?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
L Yeah, it's called the Bleach Festival.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
I don't know why, interesting but experienced Gold Coast puts
it on. And there was an exhibition at the Hotter
and it was called the Ladies Lounge, and essentially only
ladies were meant to be there.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
I did see a man get escorted out. I needn't
realize why.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Discrimination Then I walked in.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Think of this finger painting but with the VGG right,
I didn't do it obviously, and I didn't see anyone doing.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
It as a line there. I'm not going to use it.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
And there was life drawing, so you know the Mona
Gallery in art gallery in part yes, well missus Mona,
I'm not sure what her name is.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
The husband and wife who set it up.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
And this is the wife who has put on this
display that is touring.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Well.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
The Ladies Lounge, the Lady's Lounge, which is part of Hotter.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Did you say it was the exhibition on at Hotter
at the bleach festival speak, we'll get lost on it.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
When you wrote that down on a piece of paper,
At what point did you think this is going to
be interesting?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
The bit with finger painting, but with the should.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Have just said that, you should have just said when
I write things down sometimes looking at me, go is
that interesting to anyone?

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (29:27):
And then did they have dancing horses on the boot?

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I got to talk for us three here right here,
all right. Trisha is not talking right now, so I
think this one might make us start talking. To defend herself,
but I've got a question around why is it now?
I mean, can move back in the house that I've
started to notice and Jim can do it sometimes too.
Sometimes females get this urge to clean right now. I
don't know why this is, but like this morning, before

(29:52):
we get in the podcast room, Trish Cooper, did you
notice Trish started cleaning and we're like, She's like, come on, guys,
let's do this, And we're like, actually, we're just getting
to hop in.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
It's always at the worst time.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
It's always at the worst to n so she picks
the wrong time.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Females. This is a trait of females and not categorizing
all females together here. But this is a very great segue.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
Let's call it.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Let's it's our homeland Insecurity segment. Please generalize, Yeah, homeland
in security.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
So, Trisha, We're sitting there talking about the podcast, and
Trisha's just at the drop of a hat, was like,
she was cruisy, We're going to do it, ready to
do it. And then just something snapped in her brain.
She said, I need to start cleaning everything right now.
And she was going, whose shoes are these? And me
and Jack are like and she's black people, and we're like, Trisha,
it doesn't matter right now, we're about to do a podcast, Like,

(30:34):
let's discuss this stuff after. And She's like, I just
need to clean what I've.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Been time efficient? Mate? Now I didn't clean. All I
was doing was clearing your ship from everywhere, actually ship
that you have everywhere, like Jack John's. You've got a
basket of shoes, you know what, put them away? Put
them away?

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Where am I going to put them? Oh they're in
the basket.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Not in the main living area. We don't need to
see your shoes. Put your things in your in your room.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
If you're if you're in a cleaning mood.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
I'm not clean.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
I may not suggest if you're ever in a cleaning mood,
maybe stub with your teeth. True, I guess I'm not kidding.
Every now and then I get a bit of sense
and I turned her and she goes what I go?
You know what it is?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Your breath has been kicking on.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
No, actually it was yesterday and that was I knew.
I was just it's the last thing I think of.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
It should be the first thing you think of. Get
out of bed, get your toothbrush, stick it in your mouth.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Drinking all these protein drinks.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
I'm proud of Trish. You just completely skipped the first step,
which is denial, and you've gone straight to the head.
I'm proud of your Jack's breath ain't much better. Jack
can have some stinky breath.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh you reckon. He gets those that breathing on tik
taks all day diarrhea, tic tac.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I don't agree.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well, you know what, I can't burn at the moment.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
I think Matt gave it to me heartburn.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
He's not conta Well, you know what I don't know.
I mean, you're tending a verse to color.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
I'm pretty sure that that is.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
So that skin pigmentation that sometimes shows up on your skin,
I'll tell you right now that is contakes need to address.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
Because I have it for a bit now. When you
guys all fall asleep tonight, I'm going to go I
have two am in the morning, one by one and
just lay on top of you naked, and then you
will get this.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
I'm pretty sure there is a law against that, is there?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
I think naked?

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Speaking of while we're in homeland security as well, it's
my anniversary. I'm six months free of a ringworm finally,
O well six months nearly two years done playing rugby
league and the wrestling mats at Newcastle. They those ringworms
still hung on to me for about eighty months afterwards.
But it's weird. It's coincided at the same time as

(32:46):
Gem moving in, so I'm going to say moving in
with me, So I'm going to say there's probably a
correlation there. But six months I'm clear.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
The boys up in the night, the boys the boys
up in Newcastle saying that Jack's ringworm DNA still lives
on those of them when they would.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
You were the first one that had ringworm at no I.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Wasn't the first one that had it.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
And I did see you know you had it from Melbourne.
You had it before Jack even had it from your customer.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I got it first in this family. But patient zero,
Tino Fast Malay, and I've said it will. Tino had
a farm of ringworms living on the back of his
head like they were breeding.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
That's a warning.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
That's the way he grew that big mullet out to
hide it.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Oh my god, that's a warning.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Maybe that's where they were.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
Okay, I've got guys, I'm starting to join dots here.
Is there anyone at South Sydney who has ringworms? Because
I'm starting to think there's a correlation between bottom of
the ladder competing for a wooden spoon and ringworms.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
But it eats of the Melbourne boys all get them to.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Okay, they're pretty high.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
But shout out because with Tino's ground zero, let's shout out.
Look after yourselves, those people in w A, because it
could be coming in hot ring worms into the state
w A.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
I think it was making a Perth Bears reference.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
True. I think so, thank you too.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
I know that my heart burnt the last time I
had heart vane when I was pregnant with Jacksie.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Better watch out, you reckon.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
You just been up with the Gold Coast.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Imagine.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I don't think I don't think you'd be menopausa bon Now.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Now she is Cooper, I'm sorry. Like when they doused
me in chemotherapy.

Speaker 6 (34:29):
Yeah, they doused and then I had to go on
medication for a further ten years to keep that estrodge.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
In a way, Thanks Coops, good work, Thanks Coops big time.
I don't know if I can go on with the
rest of this.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
How are we going to how are we going to
wheel Harry Grin into that?

Speaker 5 (34:45):
Okay, here's the change the listener question from Harry. I
just want to give a shout out Sunday Night, the
mon Toys, Marcelo and Taylor who came on the show
with fantastic Oh my god. Taylor is Italian and she
is honestly could be Tricia's twin. The way she talks
everything could be the twin.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, she's a firecracker. I've seen.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
It almost look but just just demeanor has talk when
you just get winding up. I was sitting on the
couch and she started on Marcella and I'm going fuck,
they're going to do off. It actually was teetering on.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
She's she's very funny. She's very very funny. I've watched
some of their stuff before and I just pissed myself.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Love.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
She's a lot more animated than Trisha in the in
the like she's, I think she's. She's a lot more like, Oh,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
When I was animated, I got.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Bagged but it was but you know, she got to
push back against the bagging. Just don't go back into
the shell. So she's from She's she's Italian, but she's
from an area now which is in Croatia because the
shifting borders. Nonetheless Italiana. Marcella. I was looking at him,
just going, mate.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
You were loving it because you just you've been in
those shoes before, haven't your brother?

Speaker 5 (36:04):
I am in those shoes.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, still me of those shoes. Ten half predicament? Do
you have a predictament of the week today? I do
those people that don't remember predictably if you're old. Segment
Dad basically gives a scenario, a predicament, and we have
to choose.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
It's a new twist on an old favorite. As Hammy
likes to.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Say, this same segment.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
It is actually it's exactly the same. This one is
in relation. This is almost like a bit of a
tribute to Ozzy Osborne because it made me think the
other day, if you think about the life that Ozzie
has left. I jump in an RB on the way
back from Uncle Joey's place and we're having a chat
to the bloke and he was from Birmingham, was talking
about Ozzy Osbourne and he said to me, fucking hell mate,

(36:50):
he didn't he jams some stuff into his life. And
I said, he certainly did. I said, here's I asked
the uber d. I said, here's the question. If you
could live the most filled life, full of fun, love, craziness,
et cetera, et cetera, good times and diet sixty four,

(37:10):
would you take that or would you live a far
more subdued life, quite peaceful and lived till ninety four?
Which would you take?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
It just depends on the rate of happiness.

Speaker 4 (37:20):
I think that's I think that's a question. But a
lot of people people don't ask themselves enough because once
you start hitting those like Ossie got to seventy five, yes,
which is I think incredible and incredible genetics, great genetics
Birmingham and but yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Are you alone? Are you with your partner?

Speaker 2 (37:40):
You're so happy?

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Are you not? There's so many variables.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Basically, what you're saying is do we sacrifice thirty years
but live a hard, good.

Speaker 5 (37:47):
Life, live a life like you think about Ozzy Osborne, right,
the life he's led, the people he's met, the great times,
the festivals, you know, the drink, all that sort of stuff.
Do you and dying in the seventies, do you take
that or do you want to live another twenty thirty
years of just peaceful, quite subdued, maybe living in the country.

(38:08):
I know that, I know that truth, but Jesus it
can we get boring?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:12):
I think that like lonely, it's reflection on people.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
I think it's mainly loneliness.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Reflection on people's personalities.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
I'm someone that would say I've said sixty five, I
would say I'd take theose Yells Born route because I
would probably get bored.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
After a while.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
I like having a combination of both of those lifestyles
when i'd pick and choose. But I think if I
was only to live that peaceful lifestyle, I just I
would get too ants. I wouldn't be able to you know,
it's a bit too bored personally.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
I look at I look and go, I don't want
to go that hard now because I want to stay
youthful for longer. You know what I mean by that,
Like I don't want to get to like forty and
feel like I'm fifty or sixty because you've hit yourself
so hard. I hit myself so hard. That's my biggest fear.
I get the fact that you're going to eventually be
quite depleted and quite you know, fragile, but I would

(39:04):
like to try and hold that off as long as
they can.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
Talking about hitting yourself for six should we just explain
the sess not going as port?

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Why don't we talk about blo lived hard for a
very We had done Galen Gaz visit.

Speaker 5 (39:16):
We did talk about living hard.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yeah, so Galeen Gaz. Obviously we've spoken a lot of
stories about Galen Gaz over the last six years of
this podcast. But Gazz came down to, actually.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Is there any port in it?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
See Andrew, there is poured in it, but the corks
broken so you can't pull it out. But the cessnock
going as He's brought us a what do you call this?

Speaker 5 (39:37):
This is the Premier the Premier a thing.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah, it a big thing, pottery junk things, but that.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Premiere port is celebrating all the grand finals. Sess not
going as one in the Newcastle Rugby League over the years.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Up until nineteen seventy seven, because that's when they gave
it to game.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
That's right. So this is yet nineteen seventy seven the
court sess not one three great in seventy seven one
third grade, reserve grade and first grade. Big day for
the club, the Premier pour number one sports ground.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I probably saw all the Tuton cars driving by my house.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yep, that's.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
They took.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
They used to too after the Grand Pinta with their streamers.
I didn't know what it was all about, but as
I must say, it was entertaining.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
He sat there, went through all the names on the
back of the port saying, mate, Johnny Schofield did this.
It was actually entertaining some of the stories he was saying.
I found it that I thought you were taking the
piss now you're.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Oh no, no, I'm Jacob.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
I was entertained, No, there.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Was, you know.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
It was very entertaining and this is a good insight
into people like some of the players that were actually
playing in the nineteen like forty fifty premiership winning side
also whilst playing for CESNOK in a local a localized
comp were also representing like their state and country as Australia,
because back then you could be picked. You could just
be playing a grade and then also get picked for Australia.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
The difference between the Sydney competition which was so strong,
which now is the NR role of course with it Broncos,
Newcastle that, but the competition and country football it's some
particularly some of those big leagues, like the Newcastle competition
was minuscule and so you could play for Cesnock and
represent Australia. So Gaz had a story about I think
it was nineteen forty six Grand Final where an icon

(41:15):
of sesnot Fella called Don Schofield and Don represented Australia
and he was captain coach of Cesnock. He was out
for most of the year and they played Maitland in
the Grand Final and Gaz told a story that he
turned up Donnie with crutches and they went, well, he's
definitely not going to play, still injured, and then went
in the Shed's got rid of the crutches, came on
and led them onto the field and they belted. Mate

(41:37):
said that that.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Just gave me a mad like if you're a coach
of a team and had this really important player that
was in doubt, but you knew he was already going
to play, you'd ask him to come in in crutches
and then toss him to the floor. It wasn't even
it wasn't It wasn't injured at all.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
But my favorite part of that is Gaz brought this sesnock,
pulled down, drove it all the way down, said I've
got something for the potty studio. I think it'll look great,
which it does. We're going to sit it right here
all the time. And we love gazs we love who's
brought it. And he goes, Mate, I still think there's
support in there. Why don't you pull the cork out?
So and he's this is after an hour and a
half of Gaz are like building it up. It meant
so much to such a gesture, and I go to

(42:14):
pull the cork out and I must have pulled a
little too hard. The top of the cork rips off
and the bottom half of the cork is stuck in
the thing, and Gaz. I make eye contact with Gaz
and I go, oh no it. Gaz goes, oh fuck,
and he goes, give it here, let me have a look.
And then I guess I gave it to him and
Jack is like, oh no, like you can see, and

(42:35):
he just pushed the cork back in and then like
pretended like it didn't break. He's like, you go perfectly.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
Well, mate, Mom and Dad would have about forty of those.
The Peter Sterling port, the Wally Lewis port that honestly
ports for this porch for that.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
There's lots of it there.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
And I enjoy good port.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Do you enjoy?

Speaker 5 (42:51):
I love a port after dinner?

Speaker 2 (42:53):
You always what? So can you say? What do you
exactly a port? Is it like a dessert?

Speaker 5 (42:58):
It's fortified dessert.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Yeah, as such, you've always ordered a port after dinner.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
There's the one to get Grandfather Port. Get that one.
It's very, very good and made delicious.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Mad Monday rule. I won't go to on to point specifics,
but at one of the clubs I was at, Mad
Monday rules, if you rock up late to the time
Mad Monday started, okay, you had to skull two shots
of two glasses of port. Yeah, for every hour, for
every hour you were late. See, I'd seen a few
bokes spew up their guts in the first few minutes.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
We had the same rule.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Jesse Brummich used to run it fireball instead of port.
But every half an hour you were late, and then
every ten minutes after that half an hour at a double.
I was four hours late one day because I was
in the hospital with Harry Grant, who had had a
little bit of a trip the night before.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
I was there just a few days before that.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
He had a little bit of a We went out
and then he ended up in hospital anyway, who wasn't
to details?

Speaker 4 (43:54):
Hey who was in hospital?

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Harry Who? Harry Grant was ready.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
To break up a good story.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
And then I've had to delay and come back. And
I thought the boys will look after me because I've
been in hospital with one of our teammates looking after
him because someone had to drive him back home. Jay
Brom had like eight fireball shots ready for me, and
I got to like the sixth one, and I go,
I don't know if I can I don't know if
I can have this, And then he shout out. He

(44:21):
got the last two and he was like, don't bro
you did good.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
And then some of the Mad Monday stories that that
just happened when we were there as well. If you
turn it up late but they're waiting for your with
spirits to drink one Mad Monday. If you just reminded
me of a Mad Monday story, it is so good.
One of my first ever mad Mondays, you know, because
you play on a Sunday and you just go out
and you just go straight into Monday. And I was

(44:43):
like about eighteen nineteen and we turn up there at
Mad Monday. We're all standing in this bar at the
ground and everyone is that hungover and rattled. And one
of the boys I played was a fishmonger. He'd been
up first thing in the morning and he'd been scaling fish,
gutting fish and turned up with an apron just covered
in fish gut and walked in and everyone literally just
sparked like just a simultaneously bloke started to drive RICHI

(45:09):
can I ask you.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
As well, and like trus you chime in with this too,
because you would have seen some good costumes over the years.
But obviously now all mad Mondays is typically dress up. Well,
they always dress up back in your day.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
As well, Like, no, not so much, coops.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
The Monday's work, it's not the Sunday night like you.
But you'd come home to get changed.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
For it sort of happened at the back end. But
the first couple of times, just rock up in your one,
just rock up in your gear. I never knew what
dressed up for the first one I ever went to,
I had no idea what I was going to there,
so I may got it for Mad Monday. And I
was like, what it was nine in ninety I'm going
to what? And they said, I made everyone gets here,
no one's can be late, and I'll just turn up
And went, holy fuck, what about this? Like you know,

(45:50):
one of the blokes turned up late. They had drink
stream while he was in there. They went out, got
his car tips on his head. It just I was
the second they gave one bloke, dragged him out in
the middle of the ground, just staked him out for
six hours. Began to hospital, was just going, this is
just awesome.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
This is just that is good. Is there any Mad
Monday costumes that come to mind as the best that
you've ever seen?

Speaker 4 (46:13):
I did a I did the boys did love one
year I did, like I bought a full Salvation army
a suit that a person had died in.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
That was the corpse.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
They were way too it was way too small, and
someone said that I'm not going to go to the
details of that part, but I knew someone had died
in it. It was then donated, uh. And then I
proceeded to put a wig on and dressed up as
the cat from Kiss with a with the dead guys
sit on. So that was that was a good hit,

(46:47):
the best one. Actually, tell you what I've seen, I've
seen plenty of good warnings. Get around. Have you seen
a few warnings, A few warnings?

Speaker 5 (46:56):
What about you that I've just met a mad Mondays
after won the Cop of ninety seven. I remember we're
all standing there just again rattled. Certainly we went fancy
dreams a dress there, and then we heard Joey just going, yeah,
look at what I've got and walked in with Daniel John's.
Daniel was just so young at the time.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
He was just standing there like, yes, seventeen, wasn't he?

Speaker 5 (47:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
And who like you know what I mean? The statue
of limitations?

Speaker 4 (47:21):
Who cares that?

Speaker 2 (47:22):
It was underage Street. One of my favorite costumes that
I oversaw. Felice Cafusi used to be the very like,
very crative because he had big afro hairs. We all
remember before he lost his hairline, but I remember one
year he straightened it out like the lead singer of
Outcast Andre three thousand and he came dressed as him,
like in that green suit in Hayyard the film clip.

(47:43):
That was very good. And then the year after he
did Nick nat Nui, who was a legendary AFL player
over West Coast, and mate he looked exactly like Nick
nat Two nights later we went out to Saint Kilda.
We walk in, guess who was in there? Nick nat Nui.
Nick that New Week goes up to Felicia and he
goes brother love the Oh you just reminded me.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Actually he's the best name ever.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Jacob Efidi.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
One year, Jacob s Effeedi went as Moufoy from Harry
Potter and he had his blonde wig on and then
went in like a full Harry Potter costume and listener
to the podcast too, Jacob, Yeah, he does him and
his partner.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Shout out gooda.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
We're going on today. We need to stuff.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
I think going to get a run today, Cooper. We're
going to do it next week, next week.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah, potentially even look, we had a quiz, not going
to do the quiz today. We're going to push it.
Has anybody who got recommendations or anything like.

Speaker 5 (48:41):
That, recommendations, I will give you the rundown next week.
This week I'm going to go with to movie called Weapons,
which is a horror film that has started cinemas at
the moment. I'm hearing great things about it. Actually, as
from the makers of Barbarian, that movie which really divided
including Dylan Lucas and Matt Croigrab there at Newcastle that

(49:03):
actually despised them.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
It didn't divide society, It divided society against you. You
were the only one that raved about. Barbara is the
six as we've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
But I've seen the ratings and people are giving it
like nine out of ten and stuff, so it looks good.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
We actually have some listener questions for you, Trian.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
Oh, and I'd just like to say congratulations to bj
from Inverell who was first in the Three Ducks on
the Door with a new addition to the and will
he be receiving I sent to him his backstage pat
and I also would mention Brett who's from a band
called Airborne who I'm now. He's a band and a

(49:46):
listener and they've just come back from a European tour.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
I think sort of a heavy rock and roll.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Yeah, Airborne. I'm thinking Trish might have play the Footy
show when I was here. When they were young, they
hit it really big. They'll do Nay songs when they're
very very young.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (50:02):
Well, when I went to follow, I noticed that HEINDI
follows and I know he likes thees rock heavy.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Yeah. He loves a steel panther, doesn't he.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
That's an interesting band, an interesting lyricist.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Do we have any more caps to give away?

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Then?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Can we? You know how we did a solicit at
the Star, Trish where you said, who would be your
pick for the NRROL Grand Final the best recommendation? Can
we give them a cap as well?

Speaker 3 (50:28):
We can do that.

Speaker 6 (50:29):
Jack, you do a post and on the backstage or
John's Family podcast Instagram page and people can drop them there.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Sounds bloody good, mate, sounds awesome that. On Friday, a
couple of listener questions before we wrap up, Nika. Heines
listened to last week and he's texted through two questions
for you, Trish, what yes he's when we're talking about
you in match relationship? Last week he wanted to ask Trish,
what was it about Matthew that stuck out from any
other man who tried to put it on you when
you were younger?

Speaker 3 (51:01):
His beautiful cow eyes and his lovely smile.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
So cow yeahous.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
I just posted during the week a picture of matt
when he was younger with that smile.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
He just had the best smile.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
I saw that picture. That's what you was that your
first ever radio game because the picture was black and white.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
Yeah, it must have been a must have been a night.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
It was with you, an interview with you each film
ko f M.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
It was Tenure and David back in the day. It
must have been a bit of a promotion. Yeah, and
I sitting there, I must say it was gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
You were nose was really cute.

Speaker 6 (51:40):
I don't know if your nose has been broken, but
it's not the same nose for it's grown.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
I'm not sure you were very handsome back in the day.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
I'll give you that.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
Guys, I'm sorry. I didn't realize. I'm just basically dissolved.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
You know what the problem is, Like, you must be
the makeup girls must have a real hard job in
there when you're rocking in for the Sunday showing particul
y because Saturday is your day. You love to have
a beer and whatnot. Your skin is quite dehydrated on
Sunday every time I watch it, I know, like when
you had a big Saturday, because you're quite like wrinkly
and like all the water has been sucked out of
your body. Yeah, and that Sunday after you and Joey

(52:16):
had your night out on the weekend. I was watching
it and Gaz said the same thing. Gaz rang me,
he goes, did you see Joey on the Sunday Footy Show?
He said, he look bloody horrendous, look like he went
there straight from the pub. And I said, if you
think he looks horrendous, you wait until you see Dad
show after this. I reckon he'll be looking.

Speaker 5 (52:33):
Just as dry that on the Sunday show. I must
say line of the year, And that's not no pun
intending because I'm talking about Fletch. There was talking about
we're talking about the cord. Oh cord, I'm just saying
about you would have an yarn about to Jacob Kraz
and Fletch Goes. You know, I don't have a lot

(52:53):
of Lebononese friends, apart from the bloke I met in
the toilet last night.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
But.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
It was a very h it's very if you know,
you know kind of ones.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Who have you got on backstage on Monday?

Speaker 5 (53:05):
Alex and what a champion?

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Yeah, he's a champion. Talk about the Lebanese community.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Last question as well, another one from Nicholas. If you
could have a hall past Patricia with any player in
the n r L, who.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Would it be?

Speaker 6 (53:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Did it have to be a player? Can I have
Jason Momoa?

Speaker 2 (53:23):
No, but he's no, it has to be an Now,
I think this is loaded. I think he kind of
thought you were going to say him.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
No, no, is he not your TI?

Speaker 4 (53:33):
No?

Speaker 3 (53:33):
No, there is no one.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
There's not one.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
There is no one in the n r L. But
you think is a whole park?

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Do you think you're looking enough to be your whole past?

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (53:46):
Well it's just that I'm older, guys, like I'm not
some sort of pedo geez.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
You know, I mean, Dally chair Evans is pretty close
to your.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
Well again on the Mentor's the other night, to hear
the one where Fletcher said to her if there was
a hall pass for you to Taylor in the Dog's team,
who is it? And she went, let me think, and
she named the guy, the Fijian guy jeffros on the
wing that's replaced Marcella. He goes, oh, yeah, he's hot,

(54:16):
and your mom thinks he's really hot as well, and
you mall toy just went oh, yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
He's a good player that he played with him or something.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
No, no, I just remember his name, you said it
five times.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Know him?

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Well, it was a good name.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
It's a great name, Jethrow.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
There's also a local legend Arabin called Jeffro who just
creeps around Arabin Sharks.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Park death Row records as well.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
By the way, a bit of an update on bat.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Fence going over time today.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Guys words on back fence Bruiser.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
How's a game back fence Bruiser? Well, a lot of
people in the Gold Coast asking about Bruiser as well.
Bruiser is a monster who've created a horrendous monster out
of him. But the last two weeks. Given the amount
of rain that was in Australia, they got rained out
his team, so he's been just practicing back fence carries
during the week on his own weekend. And then I

(55:06):
think they're going into finals this weekend. But I think
they've got the buy because they finished first. So another
week of rest for bruises. Oh my god, three weeks
of resting the back fence. I'll tell you what the
back fence would be. It would be nice that there
hasn't been a bug leaning on it, but it's about
to get absolutely unloaded.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
On ovid and on Sunday night there was an earthquake
Richter scale seven point one. Avalon Oval. Yes, by the
name of back fence Bruiser. What about the crowds that
turned up to watch you mate?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
They so the last game they played, they played the
local derby on the Northern Beaches. It was like Mona
Vaile Raiders versus the Avalon Bulldogs Trish. They had thousands there.
People were messaging was it was actually on the same
weekend as Dad. We had the little surprise street party
for Dad, so we didn't I didn't end up going,
but there were that many people there. People were sending me.

(55:58):
Thousand people had travel from inner West of Sydney to
come to watch Bruiser.

Speaker 5 (56:04):
They all gather at the back fence.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
That's the best, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
There's no one, no one sitting on the sidelines. One
of the boys said they had to reverse their ute
into the back because the back fence where he was
winding up from there was a row like seven deep,
like the front row of the Guns and Roses concert.
Like you literally had to get on people's shoulders to see.
That's how it was that a mona or was in Monavat.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
So I wonder if they've got I wonder if there's
another one coming up for the final start or maybe
during the finals they might play each other. Well, what
do they call it? Avalon Bulldog was their home ground
called again Hitchcock Park. The dog you don't the dog
you don't? Yeah, the dog you don't.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Maybe we can if maybe by poplar demand, we could
get back fence Bruiser on the podcast.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
If I'll tell you what if if they make the
if they make the Grand Final, the local Grand Final,
we'll get Bruiser in for a cameo. It might not
be a whole episode standalone on its own because I
don't know how much we're going to talk to Bruiser about,
but we might get him in for a little.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
If they make the Grand Final. We might even get
old Brookvale Ground announcer Jake Travoy, which maybe to commentate
with you for the game.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Yeah, I think Jack a lot of the his play.
They'll be they'll be finished though, then you'll probably be away.
They won't make the top.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Who do we think you're going to be at the
Grand Fine?

Speaker 4 (57:19):
Oh boy, I think I'm thinking of panelth Raiders.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Now, I don't know. How is it going to? Oh well,
we don't know yet.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
We don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
Yeah, the how that's.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
People say alcoholics, but sometimes you make good decisions. You
didn't make a lot of fraction.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Going on in my mind.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
You haven't made sense a lot of this.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
Some people say you make poor decisions when you're drinking.
I totally disagree. Halfway through the year, well but sorry,
third way through the year, I just had an epiphany.
I had ten dollars on Ethan Strange to get the
Clive Churchill Medal at two hundred to one. How's he
looking bloody good? Warming to the task.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
I seriously think and I think it's going to be
Penrith Melbourne again.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Melbourne will be in there. I just don't know who
the other team I don't think.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
I don't think Warriors and Brisbane. I think given the injuries,
I think there's so many injuries. Yeah, and then I
think it's going to be I thought it was one
of those ones where anyone could come and win. I
really think it's only between Penrith, Raiders, Canterbury and Melbourne.
Now I don't think a dark horse is really I.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Just worry about how serious that shoulder injuries from Isaiah,
Like Penrith are very good at things not leaking out,
so we don't know exactly the extent of it. That's
that's a really big one. But the thing with the
Raiders they get a really good run in like, so
they're not going to figures cross it, They're not going
to suffer a lot of injuries. Dogs have got a

(58:41):
really tough running so that'll battle harden them. So Matte,
I still think it's wide open.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
I'd love to see a Raiders or a Dog's in
the Grand Final because you don't see those clubs in
it enough. But I just you look at Panthers and
Storm and they they have so many more gears to go,
like they haven't peaked yet. It's very dangerous.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Yeah, it feels so low, feels like it was so
long ago when you and Ricky Stewart had Beef's to
have an impact on a season like you've had Cooper,
it's pretty pretty incredible for you and Hammys.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
We've got to get Ricky on the potty to talk
about what we staged to elevate their season, because me, like,
and I didn't even tell you guys this, but me
and Stick we teed that up to sort.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Of you might need something else.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I'll do something else. I can do something way worse
than that.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
I bet you could.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
I'm getting hype Thermary in here, guys.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
I'll have the last word, because you've barely been able
to put a centerce together.

Speaker 5 (59:33):
Sagobe finished strong excellent