“Umm... This is the Mad Cow Sir” 😡🐄 🍻

The boys take a chaotic trip from Oasis reunions to marriage counselling, with pit stops in Canberra, Townsville, Melbourne and which NRL Player had a night to forget at the Mad Cow.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another week of the podcast, John's Family Podcast.
I and we got lots to get through. We teased
it at.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The end of last week. Jack was going to Canberra,
I was going to towns with mum and Dad went
on another trip away. Uh, and we're going to get
through all of it because it's and we might even
had a little bit of an exciting thing at the
end that I've been requested to do from a listener,
So stay tuned for that. If you were an Oasis song,
given Oasis are coming at the end of the year,
first concert, have already done it.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I've got the review, the review Saturday morning here, I
think Friday, not there Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
In the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Good reviews too. I've seen nothing Cardiff, Cardiffin, Wales.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yes, yeah, shout out.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
A couple of my mates play rugby union over there.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Actually, I'll do that to bring it back to you.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
While she and dugo shout out to them. Hopefully they
went the made up names.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Shadow for Liam and Knole.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, if you were an Oasis song, which would you be?
And why Dad, given you are the biggest Oasis fan
in the room, I will let you go first.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Don't look back anger because I'm an angry man.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
You are an angry man, Yeah you.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Are, and we might get to that today.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh oh yeah, No, no, we're not going to bring
that up.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Oh yes we are.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
No, no, no, we are because that's been a baby again.
I'm not being a baby. I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Bringing on I've gone with Champagne super Nova. Cooper, Oh,
listen to you. I want to get to this more
and more interested in that drama. It is funny, how
like you start as a baby and then you.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Live through life and as you get older, you slowly
dilute yourself back to being a baby.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
It's true, you start pissing yourself and shooting yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Sorry, I guess you can only speak for yourself. I
guess that's just your old people.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
What was yours?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
So I'm a rock and roll star for obvious reasons?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
What's the obvious reasons?

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Obviously I'm a rock and roll star, and or I
should be not with you people, with my good people,
people that bring out the best rolla woman like.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
The top of the karaoke and your head behind a billboard.
So you don't want people to look at you.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
In my early days of carry out, early.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Days, early days. It was two years ago. It was
two years ago. To Chinese restaurant a Brookvale.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's the worst place to hide, the Chinese restaurant.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I didn't even get up, Yes you did.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
You got up and you sung and you went behind.
There was like a ye a screen there and you
went behind and you were sitting there.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Even Jack and I sung. Remember yeah, I sung endless Love.
I sung tequila it's one word. Yeah, I sung I
had slide away, slide Away by the Oasis. Yeah. But
why anyway, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I just just love good song.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's a good song. I love the intro. Is that
the one the.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Intros they did? You want to hear the reviews of
the concert. So I was just listening to the guy
who was one of their official Well he's not the
official because he'll give you this guy to give you
the truth. But he does an Oasis podcast all the
time which I oftentimes listened to, and he's a super fan,
but always fair like he'll say that if something's not

(02:59):
quite right. He said that he believes it was Liam
Liam Gallagher's finest ever performance.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
He sounded way yeah, very good, pretty.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Good, he said. He sounded unreally, he said. Noel struggled
a bit during the solos. He said he looked. He said,
Noel looked really nervous. He said, he's never seen him
so nervous. And he said he looked a little out
of nick. He has got his traveling legs under him
at the moment of the constant legs. But did you
see the thing I sent to you where he was standing.
He was sending outside the stage. He was standing outside.

(03:29):
It was like in this sort of corridor area watching
Richard Ashcroft.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
He was the support artist.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, of course.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
He's from.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, Bitter Sweet, that's it. So he did he did Drugs,
Don't Work, Sonnet, Money to Burn, and finish with Bittersweet Symphony.
But Noel's standing there watching, and yeah, Noel's can be
sort of bit of he can be a bit of
a cranky pants. Someone's going hey, no, hey, no, and
he sort of looks up and then looks and goes, oh,
gives a bit of a wave, which to me, he
showed he was a little nervous. He was a little nervous.

(04:00):
So they said, Noel, they said. The concerts started with
Liam songs with him. Then Liam went off stage had
a rest. Noel did Little by Little half the World
Away in a couple of his songs. So they don't
do it together, No, they do, but often in all
the concerts, Liam will go off and just have a
rest for about three or four songs. Then he'll come

(04:20):
back on and that's where Noel will sort of do
his almost acoustic songs.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And then when they when they came back on again,
almost like the third play was all the bangers, all
the big ones. But they said the biggest sing along
surprisingly was Little by Little what's that one? You ever dream?
It didn't help it all? And Jack, I'm doing that yeah,
So that that was that was the biggest one. They

(04:46):
said that that was one the crowd went nuts for.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Surprises me that in twenty twenty, I was playing we
often play like little jams around the canfire and Cam
Smith asked me to play from Little Things Big Things
Grow Paul Kelly, which is like the same like the
same words the whole time. And it went for like
seven minutes and everybody was really into it for the

(05:10):
first minute and Smith kept going, just keep going, keep going.
It went for like fourteen minutes of him like Smithy
was like quite intoxicated, just wanting to sing, and everyone
left and it was just me and Smithy around the
campfire and then I and then I.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Just stopped to get weird, sort of liked just you
and he just sitting there.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
N it didn't get weird, but like I was, my
fingers were starting to hurt and I was like trying
to like wrap it, and he just keep going.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
He was having the time of his life.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Jack Camberra, you were just seeing Canberra with your great
friend Tommy Starling, Zach Hosking and Curtis dark I get
to start a lot on this podcast.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes, tell us about the trip. What was it for?

Speaker 6 (05:46):
First of all, I went down the boys had a
game before by against the Dragons, and about a month
ago me and Darky messaged each other and thought, you know,
what'd be a perfect round to go down and say
good Ada, Stalo and host because we don't get down
there much because week to week rugby league they're away,
they're here, they're.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
There, so tough drive. It's an awful drive.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, it's all right for Sydney. Darky came from Geelong
duck he in an eight and a half hour drive
and he did it in one owl sweep. He's sweet
them sweet. He didn't urinate, urinate or anything.

Speaker 6 (06:15):
No, he reckons he did it because he woke up
in the morning, didn't have anything to drink and just
just just drove.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Just what do we call that doing? Is that technically
raw dogging?

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Well music playing, I'm sure you did.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
That's a dog he doesn't know real dogging.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
We well, I started driving about halfway through his trip
because it's about half half the time from Sydney, and
we spoke for about hour and a half on the way.
So yeah, it was good fun. Went down there, watched
the boys on the Friday. We got very excited seeing
each other. The next morning we went to the Captain's run, Yeah,
the boy because they had they had a bit of
a crowd because they're on top of the table and
there's a bit of moment so well and.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
They're locked into the top. So they allowed the fans
to go to captain drun. Yea, yeah, they do a
good They do a really good.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Actually they had a cafe set up for fans to
come and wash the Captain run on. Yeah, it was
a what was it a Friday morning?

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Captains run and yeah, we walked out there. I saw
sure your man was Ricky. Ricky was good.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
It was because I think when you said you're going
down to Cambra, I did think that. I was like,
I wonder if she's gonna go in the shad and
see the boys, and I wonder how he's going to
be received by Ricky Stewart given that me and him.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Uh, you know, how weird is this? So we stroll
in and this is very for people listening, this is
very unusual. We were rocked up. We've pretty much rung
into their captains run. He's taken us on the field
starle with HOSC straight away and he's pretty much told
us to come in the sheds and say all the
boys and jury captains on, which is a bit serious.
We were like, no, no, we'll go stand out on
the field and you know, watches all come out and whatnot.

(07:41):
And then as the boys are coming out to do
warm up, Ricky come and said good. And I met him,
like I reckon, I've met.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Him four or five times now in my life, and
every time it's like as if he's met me for
the first time.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I forget. Yeah, and I'm a very forgettable face. It
was very nice.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Came said gooday to me and Darky were hanging out
because we the g stuardus dick O was a madman.
We'll get to him later. He's caught a lighting. I
caught like quite a shining to me Darky. And then
obviously someone then teed up to Ricky as I going
it for warm up. We come up to me and
he just stood next to me and he just goes, how's.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Your momum and dad? I went good, good, and then
he said, yeah, how's her dickhead brother? And he's not wrong,
he said, did he Yeah? I thought I thought it
was water under the bridge, and now he's put it
was made well, I said, I said, Ricky, know it
was fair enough. You know he was he was.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
He was carrying on like a bit of cock and
a walk. He's getting too confident. I said, you probably
brought him down a peg, which was needed before the
radio season really took off throughout the year.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I don't think you did. I think he put me on.
I think it peaked me up. You reckon. I think
I was peaked by Ricky's.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Again now, but then, yeah, it was it was a
great And then we spent the day. So that morning
we actually quite a good story actually because I get
I get along really well with Hostco's old man, the
Mule staying, Dave.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Hosking, Dave Hosking, Manly and souse Fame.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
Yeah, so we got we actually quite we have a
really good meat. Darkie and the Mule have a really
close relationship. Feel because during COVID lockdown, something happened. Darky's
brother unfortunately passed away due to a on field injury.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
That happened. It was quite you know, it was a really.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Hard time in his life and a few of us
during that period had to shoot up to Old Bar
you know, had to get out of the bubble a
bit and go and say good ay to him because well,
you lose your brother and his only brother and whatnot,
and it's a really it's a it's quite a nice story.
I needed to I need to stay in Newcastle the
night before because a few of the boys were training
and we had to head up. So if the Mule

(09:40):
said to me to stay at my house, all right,
stay at my house and then the next day you
head up with Hosco and the boys and you'll go
up and see doggie. So as I'm driving up the
highway ring Zach and I say, mate, what can I do?
Should I get something for your old man? He goes, mate, mate,
don't get him anything if you are get him a
VB or you know.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
He loves VB. It's like his things. So all right,
week So we so on the way.

Speaker 6 (10:02):
Up, I bought a case of VBS and he goes
get Stubbies because he only likes Stubbies, doesn't like from
He only drink stuffiestubb Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Have a name a shot down there.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Throwdown.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
So Stubbies, of course is a little sort of fat
glass like you see what they have like ginger beer.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
And yeah there's once a little bit bigger now the
really small ones.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Ye yeah, the really big ones don't live. The long necks.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
No, no, there's ones between. There's the medium sized and
the long necks.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
And you can't drink a long nack like long next is.
But if you see someone drinking a long neck, don't reckon.
That's a bit. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
My dad used always have a long net on the table.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I think that's a bit like degenerate though, right, I don't.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Think no, because he poured it into a glass but
if you see it sometimes I had a shandy.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
God anyway with the story, so that I buy this
case and I rock up to the mules front door,
knock on it, and I thought, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Cock and a walk. He answers the door. He already
bought a case of VBS.

Speaker 6 (10:59):
So it was and him stuck at his house for
the night before, had to head up to Old Bar
and we sat there the night before having a few beers.
It was quite a nice moment. And then we head
up to see our great mate Darky. So essentially when
I when we saw him, he was a captains running.
He when he saw us, he was a cock and
a walk.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
He was.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
He got excited and he had an eight A. He
had a nine am T time that he pushed back
to midday. He goes, you two have come with me.
We're having you know, pick us up. On the way
we played golf. So, I mean, Darky thought, well what
do we do if we're going to play golf at
the meal? So we go straight past an I g
A Plus on the way up and we buy a
case of.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Studies and again they sell them at J plus.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah get out, Yeah, are you serious?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, I'm serious. On a school night as well.

Speaker 6 (11:41):
And yeah, and then we're pretty much drinking from about
midday onwards. And by the end of the day we
invited ourselves to the lunch to dinner with the with
the family.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
We just were ye, brother in law and whatnot.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
And by the end of the day the mule grabbed it,
grabbed me and dark and said, that might have been
one of the greatest days I've.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Had, really good, great fella until he misses that.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was made.

Speaker 6 (12:05):
It was hilarious. His brother in law like, his name
was John, and he was a country fellow from Dubbo
and me and Dharky got and his wife wasn't drinking.
She was across the table from us, and I just
thought yes because he was a bit of a straightie
when d at first, and we thought our goal is
to get John blind. And we started bringing Jamerson's to
the table and we don't drink jam Jamerson whiskey.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, yeah, and Irish whiskey.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
By the end of the night, he was hit. Darky
had him in his palm. He literally every story Dark
he told he was barely laughing and just running off
the back. I want to ask you as well, because
you of course I was up in Townsville, but you
facetimed me when I was with Scotti Drinkwater and you
were on the phone with a rather strange looking man
who you later told me was Corey Hawsper his dad. Yeah, yeah, mate,

(12:53):
great fellow too, champion fellow.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
He read.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, he didn't have her air. He's got white.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
What his bold?

Speaker 6 (13:00):
So it's kind of hard, but yeah, it's great. Fall
bit went to the BOWLO went to the ruck ship.
Out to the ruck there was a few characters there.
It's pub after the gate. It was like a bowlo pub.
Yeah big, but I go, Yeah, it was big.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
It was packed and.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
I went in there with the team, had a few
beers and I met make Corey's old man, nice little
must like dirty dirty sand chez.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
He looked like Chopper Red, but like if Chopper Red
had lived like on and late into his life because
his whole his mustache was white like Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but it was hilarious. So I started
asking some Starlo grabbed me your team, me up, Starlo
and he goes, oh, he asked him about butter bean
and kickboxing, and I went, fucking what I'm going? So
I went throughout to grabbed him a beer.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
I said, he made nice to meet you mate, actually
played against your son before. And he goes, oh, may,
nice to meet your mate. I said, mate, Starlo has
told me to ask you about kickboxing and Butterbean. He goes, oh, oh, yeah,
I was nineteen ninety four kickboxing Australian champion.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Wow, what was it true?

Speaker 6 (13:56):
He goes, yeah, I guess so he took his word
for it and he said, oh yeah, I came very
close to fighting Butterbean in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Wow. But Butterbean wasn't a kickboxer.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I don't, but they used to. It was the precursor
to ultimate fighting.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Ah right, okay, yeah, but yeah, champion Feller. But we
had there was a few characters that that rock was
a great joint.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
May tell you what camp. We had a lot of listeners.
We went out that night, so many listeners.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
We had a nation capital lovers.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, there was this guy. I met this guy.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
He might have been in his mid forties and he
was pretty muscled up and he came up to me
and he sort of goes longtime listener said oh yeah,
nice to meet your mate.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
And he's like sitting there he there pouring drinks, and
he goes, yeah, I love it.

Speaker 6 (14:37):
I love it when you're old man just takes the
piss out of you and your brother and just gives
it to you. I went, oh yeah, he guess yeah.
I try to do the same thing with my kids.
Oh yeah, how old are you your kids? He goes, yeah,
my boys are four and five. Actually said to himself. Oh,
he actually doesn't take the piss out of a sort
of like off camera, like it's more on camera.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Got sure, sweet, mate's good. Got listeners there, And if
you're listening, brother, don't worry. I hate my kids to
All right to your children.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
All right, are you done on camera? Can I go
into some townshill stuff? Yeah, well look, I don't want
to give the little sho geest. You just your dicko.
He was hilarious. He could like you knows at Captain drun.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Then after the game, the boys took a while to
get back into the sheds and we were in there, mate,
he just every time he saw me and Dharky without
a beer in our hands, he ran back to the
back of the sheds grabbed us beers.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Mate. He just kept refeeling us. He was an absolute champion.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
They're always fantastic.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, and like the gearswards for people that haven't heard
that term before, that's that's someone who like they'll set
up training and they'll bring in the pads from the
post and they'll hold all the tackling bags.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
They are the most underappreciated me in a rugby league club.
An army vet as well, and he's been there since.
He's been there since two thousand and six, so he
was telling us you've seen some highs and some lows,
but he was saying, this is one of the best
groups you've seen come through so well.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
The Gears at Wigan was the Geese chewards since the
late nighting sixties, George and he'd be there so he's
burning through all their errors and he's such a great
bloke you know, and he'd take your jersey. But they
think in England the Geese charts take your boots as well,
so they taken yeah, they do and clean them. They'll
go before the game and they'll have a look at
the field and then put the studs and they think

(16:17):
you need because they've just got so much.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Experence over there. It's important too, like the condition massively.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
It is Dica by name, Dica by nature. All right,
So my tip towns Will started off we were doing
I was up there for a lunch and with fletching.
HEINDI right, I the interview on for that.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
The boys told me what way for? This turned up
with listen to how we've raised him two shirts and
two shirt and shorts. Even Fletcher was horrified.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah they were towns I don't care and shirt if
you're paying it, if you ask it, sorry, not paying
even though it was paid. If you're if you're.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Asking a twenty five year old to MC, I'm doing
it my way. I'm not gonna blow you rocks up
in a collared shirt and.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
A slick back. That might be it might be your
last gig.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Probably No. No, they asked me to come back next year.
I'll be back. Yeah around Townsville.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Nine's are now the trip up there, right, So I
had a I had quite a late flight out of Sydney,
a direct. There's only like two flights ago direct from
Sydney to Townsville.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
I organized that now thanks, I didn't want to go
via Brisbane. Now I'm on the plane and I.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Shared out to the people that booked it. They've booked
me in business class. Right, So I'm at the front
of the plane. Now, business class when you're flying into
state is it's not like international where you got the
massive legram.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
But it is convenient, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's a good win.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
It's good now.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
And you get your own pisser in there, like you know,
you're only sharing one year in all between eight of
years rather than.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
The whole plane.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, in the cockpit.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
And then anyway, I get a text from Craig Bellamy
and he goes, fuck, you've changed, And I instantly shipped
myself because I was like, just sat down the plane.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
I thought, you know, what have I done?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I thought I've said something. I've offended Ricky Stewart and
now I've offended my only other ally in this world,
Craig Bellamy. And I go, I replied, trade away again,
what have I done? And he goes, you fucking change, mate,
sitting up the front of the plane, and I look
back and he's like seven rows behind the economy in
economy and laughing and he's giving me the bird.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
He's filthy at me, like genuinely off it.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And he's gone anyway, so I'll come down after, so
the seat belt sign goes off, we take off, I go,
I get up, I grab her. I just a little
thing of wine, and I thought, maybe you want of wine.
So I take a little bottle of wine down that
they'd given me, and I'm walking down and I'm standing
out in front of his seat, but belly falling asleep
obviously going up. And I'm sitting there and there's all

(18:38):
these people looking at me, like what's you doing? And
then I got embarrassed and I thought, well, I'm not
walking back, like walk a Shane back to my seat.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
So I just brushed my fingers over his lips and
he woke up and I'm just and he's staring at me,
and I'm.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Like move over and he's like what And I'm like
move over and he's like shuffled over and I sit down,
take down the tray table, whatever you want to.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
You're on a wine crag.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
And he's like nah.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
He's like I love a coke zero, and I was like,
all right, don't get him a coke zero. And we're
sitting there and we just yarned for like, and he
was tired. He'd obviously just come out of the blue.
Mountains from the Blues News World Blues Camp.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Of course he was like he was buggered.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
He didn't want to talk, he just wanted a nap,
like he was ready to go to game day the
next day. And I've chewed his ear off for what
felt like an hour turned out to be three hours
until the lady until the seatbelt time. We're back on
and we were descending and he be like, I'll let
you go.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I'll go back out the fuck.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Then decided to leave the scum and then go back
to him.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah. I was like, enjoy this.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I said, if this, if we if we crashed on
the way down, like you know, this is the first
row that's dying, so good luck with that.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
I got to ask one thing of the New South
Wales Ugby League because he was in origin camp. That's
why he flew up because the Storm were playing in town.
Surely the most iconic coach alongside Wayne Bennett in regular
league history, deserves to fly business class. You would fix that.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is what I said to him. I said, why
did and he goes, I don't, I don't know, I said,
I didn't know whether the Storm had flown him or
where the New Rugby League had flown him. But I said,
whoever flew yourd surely you're getting flown business. You know.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
This is this is This is a Phil Rosfield article
on h Spotted Spotted.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Craig Bellamy and economy. Cooper John's in.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Business where there are any available seats in business? Yeah,
that's incredible.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Screw him, that's incredible, like imagine.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know, and he's not a young man, that's can
I just say, though, not enough wicked if he wants
to upgrade his mate, he's helping out the Blues.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Surely if they follow him up there. Honestly, rule one
O one put the icon in business anyway and put
the dead ship in.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Economy if they win.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
If they won, well, if they won game too, do
you think then they might have flown him up business.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Maybe it was a bit of a hey, maybe they're
probably he's probably well hydrated, well paid, he ends and
he's the tightest bloke in the world.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Really, it's paper. Still didn't start to have his news
up around his ears for three hours going to Townsvill.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Again, he's speaking of Peggy, speaking of Tyrone Wisher. But
I did catch up with all the storm boys up there.
It was good to see they had a good win
against the Cowboys. It was I was actually up there
catching up with Scotti drink water as well. But there's
a couple of good yarns here, so I went into
the storm sheds after the game. Now it doesn't show

(21:31):
this on that they don't advertise this too much, but
after a good win and a long turnaround, it's usually
Harry Grant, the captain, gets up and he will nominate skulls.
You know, it might be a debutant, it might be
there's a couple of old boys in the room. Anybody
come in and you know your scull of beer and
the whole crowd like cheers you on. Anyway, I'm in there,
and there was a few debutants. One of the debutantes

(21:51):
didn't drink, so he nominated one of the other boys.
I've gotten done for a skull given them an old
legend of the club, me jam and Lowe and Dan Nielsen.
So we're all up there and he was Jerome Hughes
that was doing it because he was skipper over the weekend.
And Hughes he goes to me, is there anywhere else
I can get? Anywhere else I can get? And the night,
but the day before at the luncheon, I met Brent Tate,

(22:11):
who was he was actually working as a sideline reporter
that day and we had a few beers. Taty he
was a good bloke, bloody good, bloody go terrific and
an excellent footballer.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
With the neck brace on. And do you remember him?

Speaker 5 (22:22):
And would he be the only one player that has
ever played with the neck brace?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Would have been a few that neck protector. No, it's
an NFL thing, the NFL players where there was a couple.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Backgrounds, the most iconic. Yeah, everyone remembers him because he
couldn't he couldn't look left and right.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Shave his head made it look even sort of more. Yeah, yeah,
sharper more. Sheer look like a shark.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Anyway, if Taty was at the he was at the
locker room door. He wasn't even in the locker room.
He was just looking in, just watching and working. And
I go get Brent Tate, Get Brent Tate, and he's
in a suit like he's he may have still had
to do an interview or something, and husually goes, no,
I can't do that, I can't do it.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I said, no, get him I had to be with
him yesterday. He's good bloke, Get him, get him, get news.
He goes and we've got one last nomination before we start.
The skulls Brent Tay.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And everyone goes huh like everyone usually cheers, and Taty
goes what.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
And then everyone goes Brent, Brent Toty come in here,
come in here. And he had no idea what he
was coming in for.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
He comes in, he goes, hey, boys, and then Hughesy's
just thrown him a beer and goes here's and then
everybody starts sculling and Tati's there holding his but hasn't
cracked it yet, and he was like ship.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Then he starts drinking us excellent. It was so funny
just watching him and he was still like.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I think he was still rattled from the day before.
But shout out to Taty good man. And while we're
on Huge as well. Now, have you guys been to
the Mad Cow or heard the Mad Cow?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Ever?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yeah? So the Mad Cow? Trican, you've been up there.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
I've never been to Townsville.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Oh well, we got to take you because, by the way,
lots of listeners up there who love it, lots of
listeners out there, so we should almost take a show
to the Mad Cow's huge, huge Italian community.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
And love it.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
So the Mad Cow is known for being quite a
loose place. It's not a place you go to have
a nice food. It's a place you go to where
your feet stick to the ground and you get so
belligerent drunk that the security guard ends up throwing you.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Out on the street. They give you a boxing gloves
when you walk in correct.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
But it's one of the funnest nights out of all time.
We used to go there all the time when we
played Queensland Cup. Yeah yeah, like sort of country music.
But then like it's a big place now they build
upstairs as well. It's expanding.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's growth in this economy anyway.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
So we're in there and we had a little bit
of a section where some of the cowboys. Boys are
in there, school boys are in there. We're all in
there having a good time. Now, Hughes he's got a
bet going on at the moment against Cameron Munster where
they're trying to see who like cannot drink the longest
or like they're allowed to have something.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
So the exception for hughs is. He's only he's allowed
to have like a bottle of red. Now that's it.
That's the only thing you can drink. Because his nickname
is red Wine Rome, because he loves red wine.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
He can only have one bottle or he can drink
red wine.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
We can have like a.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Few glasses like red Wine's fine for him because he
plays well on red wine.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
His theory. So we're at the Mad Cow and Hughes
he should know better because he us to play for
the Cowboys and lived a long time in towns were
playing for the Blackhawks. Hughes. He goes up to the
lady who was looking after the section marine and she goes,
what does everyone want?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Everyone's getting like, you know, vodka, lemonades, look a red bulls,
YadA YadA, whatever you want to beer.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Hughes. He goes in front of anyone, puts his hands up.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
He goes, what bottles of red do you And she goes,
she goes what, And he goes, what bottles of.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Red do you have? And she goes, ah, this is
the mad Cow. We don't.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
We don't have red and then laughed so hard, and
then all of us started laughing, and usual.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Was just there like oh filthy. So then he just
couldn't drink because the bet like.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
If he gets caught drinking, he loses. I think there's
like a thousand bucks on cover.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
I imagine that some of the reds up in towns
Will wouldn't be on the same level as some of
those darling pinots in around the malgra and the region.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh, some of those ones down in Country Victoria that
he's used to drinking, particularly the big Dog.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Oh hugely. Nothing out of two hundred dollars three hundred
bucks is swill.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
He won't even say, he won't even look at it.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
He must have had a fair impression too, because I've
I was texting Toddy Lowry a couple of days ago
because he did he did the podcast with Hughesy and
Phaps the other day and I gave him listen listen
to the first half an hour until it became dribble and.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
There's a lot of dribble girls their favorite numbers and
stuff like that. I've got to givehim a tip on it.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
And they text HI. Actually, as I did text you,
I said, he spoke very well, very good.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
And he goes, oh blah, and he was going I
haven't actually got that much good feedback.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
But I tell you what read into your brother on
the weekend. I tell you what. He was in fine form.
He looked like he made a real impression on the
on the northern community. Yeah, I did, so Waite.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
When I went in there on Friday night after the luncheon.
The boys couldn't come out because obviously on the Saturday,
but a few of the Melbourne staff for out the
night before they were allowed to go out, like some
of the marketing team. And that anyway, when I saw
him at the game the next day, all of them
will come not going, jeez, you were on fire last night.
I had zero memory of even seeing some of the
yeah yeah, yeah, But and then they were showing.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Me videos singing dancing what I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't know if I was in any state to
be singing and dancing. There was a picture of me
once behind the bar pouring schooners for people like that.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you really do just blend into wherever
you are. Do you just really take form?

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah yeah I did. Cole Jack. You even go to Townsville? Yeah,
heaps of radio listeners up there?

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Oh really?

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, yeah, Cole used to live up there for a while,
so he's They're very loved up there.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
He is the most unlikely North Coinslander in the history
of North Coins.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Oh yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't know how he's but they love him up there,
like they they were all loving.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
They all they love.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
They all love this podcast and they all listen to
the radio fantastic shout. So I was like a king
because I had a foot in both camps. I was king.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
But yeah, it was so good to see everyone. I'll
tell you what though, Like the plane ride up there
was good to see belly A. There's nothing sadder than
the plane ride hard.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
It's it's a tough flight home, and boys, it's a
tough flight.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah it's only three hours, so it's not too bad.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
But you didn't do to stopover Brisbane.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
No, no, I didn't have to do the stopover. Belly
A did though. Oh God.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Text me the next day he said, are you I
bet you're not stopping through Brisbane. I went, know, man,
I'm directed down. I'm doing in fact the Sydney and
he as, you've bastard. But I'm on the plane anyway.
I had a three pm flight or something, so I
was sitting in the airport for about four hours after
I checked out of my hotel, and I'm sitting there.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
You know, you could have asked for a later to
check out, right.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
I didn't matter anyway, I'm sitting there and I'm my
head hits the my head hits the back of my
seat on the plane of Boss.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
I'm out.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
I literally wake up as we touched down.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
How nice.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Everyone on the plane was screaming when I woke up.
Apparently we'd flown into a thunderstorm and the turbulence was
so bad that they were about to redirect us back
to Queensland.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
And I had no idea because I was completely out
as that hung over, I've been on the pits for
three days.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
And the lady next to me, she goes, jeez, I'm
envious of you.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
I said, what she said, I have.

Speaker 7 (29:06):
Never seen someone so peaceful sleep. I go what she goes,
you haven't moved a muscle in three hours. At one stage,
I asked my husband should I should I take his
pulse because.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
I thought you died.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
After me.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Do you know when Matt and I first started sleeping
in the same bed, I was careful with my words.
One time, one morning I wake up and he was
like hovering over me.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
I was like Jesus, and.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
What are you doing?

Speaker 5 (29:40):
And he said, oh my god, I've never seen anyone
sleep so silently. I was worried that you died. Do
you remember he must have lived in a house of
bloody Dinosaurslevant.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
And Garrett what I mean, Gail's bildog an elephant. Gas
is the YouTube. He's got the trunk. He does still
make love every day, you.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Know, you know, and they listen. I said this last time,
but they listen. They watched this podcast every on YouTube,
every single Friday.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
That Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
When I stayed at the house that time I went on,
I was on their YouTube because Gas was going, can
you put some music videos on for me?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
And sweet?

Speaker 2 (30:24):
And it was all there recently viewed and it was
just all of our podcasts. They must just sit there
and watch it. Yeah, and we bag him quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, they'll be sitting there with their wines in their
special chairs, just go yeah, well, I'm over.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Usually go on holiday.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Soon.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
We can replace you with them, just for an episode,
maybe a couple of weeks. We just get to just
you guys, know, away over a couple of weeks and
we just get two weeks of just sledging. Yeah, I
don't know, I don't good enough talent.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
I will Gas is red hot, gazz is very good
story teller.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah yeah, Gas is a great storytop. But gls good.
I was getting better.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Man, she's wild talking about she's quick, she's wild.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
She's for an old lady.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Get you go out on the town. She's at the
bar dancing and like literally on the on the table sometimes.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, she actually moves good too, like for.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
For a woman who's got to thritus. Neither the knillion
a hip does really well. I thought I was going
to ask for here's Wishy going now?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Man, Wishy, the Wishbone is very good.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Has he hit pay dirt yet?

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Has he hit pay dirt?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah? What's that? You were contautionism? He was actually going
past the pedal rooge and actually going for the dirt box.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
He's going he hasn't hit it yet, he has not
hit it yet. Well, I look forward to it now.
But the Wishbone is going excellent. He was he come
to the mad Cow as well. He was. He was
having a good time.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Let's just say that flexible a you mat me mate?
Well up to your flex lion like in Sacomon.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Nibbles, I reckon the what's the The old challenge was
if you can lick your elbow elbow the wes.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I used to be able to. Actually, yeah, Jack could
because Jack's double joint mobile elbow.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Like if you get your tongue to your wien it's
called the weieness, like the right on the edge of business. Yeah,
so what happened? Who told you that? No?

Speaker 3 (32:05):
I swear my life called the winners. We knew all
through school.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
It's the one place on your body where you can
cut someone like with or like pinch someone really hard
on that skin on your elbow and it's got no
nerves in it. It doesn't hurt. But he hit that bone. Yeah,
if you hit the funny bone. You know, if you
pinched that, you could everybody in the car right now
pull over. And if you can skin when you describe
it gives like the xx skin at the point of

(32:29):
the elboweah, but it's called the weieness.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
That part isn't funny. The juxtaposition how the area that
has no feeling next to the funny bone that has
the most it is.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
It's and yang.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Everything's amazing. All right, we've done with towns, We've done
with camera. Matthew and Trish, you guys went away to Melbourne.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
We had a good time.

Speaker 5 (32:47):
We did have a good time, didn't we, Matthew, we
had a great time.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
We did. We had a great time, great time. Just
when we got.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Back, just last night, matt decided that he'd like to
spider over something.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Now stop, okay, let's let's just people listen. Let's just
wait for this because when I'm away.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
Okay, now, don't mention names, because this is about someone's
wedding and they haven't actually announced it.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah yeah, right, chatting about a wedding and next year,
and they're saying the wedding in Greece. We're going, oh yeah, yep,
no worries. And I'm thinking, oh well, it's good, good
for them, maybe good for them and their family. Go
away anyway, when we're here, Trish goes, yep, I already
had a yonder Matt, and I'm going, I'm going, sorry,

(33:32):
and I'm going. And last night I was laying their bed,
Now this is this is the crucial bit. And I'm
laying there in bed and I'm about to daze off,
and I said Trish, don't get angry. I'm not having
a go at you here in any way, shape or form.
But the other day when you were talking to your
friend and you said, yet you'd run, you had a yarder, Matt,
and don't worry, I'm going. I said, we've never discussed it, actually,

(33:55):
and we said we've never We've never discussed it. And
You're like, oh, no, no, you were sitting with were
talking about I said, yeah, but we've never discussed it.
We've never had a conversation. And Trick goes, I don't
have to. I don't have to have that conversation with you.
And I said it would be nice.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
You're changing all of it, Okay, now give me your perspective.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
So he said for it, said you didn't you didn't
ask me if you could go.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
It wouldn't they were, Trish.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
And I said, no, I wouldn't ask you if I
could go. I said, but Matt, you were there a
few weeks ago when the whole lunch that we have
with these people was talking about the wedding in Greece
and when it was and you knew that you couldn't go,
And I'm like, how drunk were you at lunch that
you cannot remember this.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
But we never had the discussion.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
No, we did.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
No, we didn't have the discussion. That's all I was
going to say, Trish.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
You don't let me just are you done with your partner?

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah, you know what he said before.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Just one point I'd like to make that I'm not
making accusations.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
I'm not trying to start anything. Then he said, you're
a liar.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
No, no, after you called me a fucking something and
a fucking something else, and I wait, yes you did,
And I said, here she goes after that. Now, now
I have no problem with your gump. But I mean,
let's imagine.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
That I'm sitting there with we have had it, though,
the fact that you can't remember is not my truth.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Trish, and we agreed on last night. Let me just
wait for this, when we're sitting around having a discussion
we're having They were having the discussion, the scushles having them.
We were privy to their plans, that's right. But Trish,
we've never had the discussion.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
So you guys have never had the discussion one on
one at home.

Speaker 8 (35:45):
No, And actually, boys, I'm going to bring you in
on this because we have discussed this with you because
I said, don't say anything. All that's cool because she
was saying, I'm going to be bridesmaid unofficial bridesmaid.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
That was the conversation. Do you remember that conversation.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
I don't remember any of that.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
I will say we did have a conversation. I don't
remember that. Can I just give you a bit of
advice for a second. Somebody has somebody who's quite good
like in relationships and ship Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
I would say if my partner was going to go
overseas and I couldn't go, whether it was a trip
with her girls, whether it was a trip for a wedding,
I would expect to sit down one on one and
have a healthy discussion.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
The problem is Matten is always so busy. We don't
actually sit down and have these discussions. Just on the
way home at night, we discussed it, though I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
You're so busy. You are busy.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
That's tertal.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
I get very little time to actually speak to Matthew
these days, and that's why when we were away in Melbourne,
we actually had a lot of time to actually converse and.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
It was nice.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
And you guys, did you remember.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
That time.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Again? To the point one back to the point. Let's
go back to the point. I'll say this. I have
no problem's going over there. But my thing is is
just because someone goes, oh, you're married in Greece, don't
naturally assume that. It'd be like me talking to a friend,
you know, and Crowe is saying I'm going to get
married again in Albania, and we're going, oh, yeah, fantastic.

(37:20):
I can't wait to go over Albania. Trish, you know,
you go. You'd think that I'd go and say, you
can't know exactly, and she knows that and this is
what she does all the time. But Matt, you're invited.
But Trish, guess what four letter word work? Right, That's
what it's called. And that's right, and you always do that.

(37:41):
You're invited, Trish, I can't go. It's work. I have
no problem with you going, but it'd be nice to
have the discussion, not have your natural assumption just kick
in and then start to say things about it happened
that did not.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Have no problem? Okay, Matt, Jungle, Matt, young.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Woman, what's that?

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Man?

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Oh, I get it. That's a good reverence, but not
that I'm taking aside here, Jungle.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
The King Wounds, the Kims, King jungle the Kim what
did you say a little slow today?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Actually you should have said Kim John John's because they're
the Kims. Name changes from generation to generation, just clarifying
that as a part of a dictatorship.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Kim John's that said, it's pretty good, Kim back John's.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
I like Matt the Mass.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Come on just and I think I think I'll have
a lot of blokes in my corner here just saying
it is just you know, I mean it.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Should be a discussion.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
What I like is that all the blokes and I
get Dad's perspective and like, I know, all the boats
and go, yeah, let's have a discussion.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
And then I know all the women are going to
be on just as I go.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
No, But that's the way it should be. And this
is what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
The world is going to be ever green like this forever,
where the women take one side, the men take the
other one, and nobody's willing compromise.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Right now, what I'm saying is I absolutely one hundred
and ten percent agree there should be a discussion. What
I'm saying is that discussion was held at lunch.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
No, it did.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
There there was a chat there talking.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Not taking a side. All I'll say is generally if
one party feels like.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
They've had the discussion and the other one doesn't, generally
it falls towards the side that hasn't.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yes, but they were just fall.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Towards the side of the person who is drinking more
at lunch.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
But noris Again, those discussions don't take place.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
At at in front of the other people. What it
was you guys, You guys had the discussion and it
was there was no discussion about oh, I'm going to
be going you that that that was no discussion. They
were discussed in the wedding, but there was no discussion
about me and you. That's the important thing. So you're
boxing a little clever here, but I.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Will yeah, that is thank you Gus and chamis the first.
What I will always say is these situations relationships, I've
never seen one go down well where either party is
happy for the other party to travel without them. So
this is something that is just everyone just has to
live with.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
I'm used to it.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yeah, just mentioned like that going to Paris last year.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Then the full of the word Las Vegas the work.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Are you are joking joking? We all know there no
ve the week before.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
Like work, you've gone over for with you.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Have you have? Yes, you have you have done? Greece
and Croati, You're going to have their weddings and so
on and so forth and that sort of stuff. Yes,
my stuff full of the word baby work.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
And what we're trying to find what we're doing today
is for the younger listeners, the younger males or young
is that these are the things that we're not doing this.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
To annoy you. We're doing this to teach you a
lesson what you may need to do in your future relationship.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Don't get married?

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah, am I right? Cooper?

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Sure, I get anxious when these two fights in front
of me.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
It's funny two weeks ago with Connor here kind of
what's it you're saying, mate, I don't care if they get.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Divorced, get divorced, but I don't like his fighting in
front of me. I'mfraid you guys do it like all
of the couples behind closed doors.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
It's like a pribal thing. Okay, I'll take that on board.
I present the school line.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Are you seriously are.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
We actually talking about any either good of.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Melbourne or can yeah, caught up with Robbie Ross and
Robbie Kerns.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yes, of course, Robbie Urns of Australia, New South Wales,
Melbourne Storm.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
And the Sharks calling off a horse phone falling.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Off a horse. Robbie Kerns and Robbie Ross, two of
the best blokes. You will not find better people in
rugby league. And me and Boo Boo came through the
Grays together at Newcastle. We're long, long term mates and
Kurnsey is just a legend. Buty's working down there doing
night shifts and so we had a drink in the
afternoon with Kerny, then he went, then me and Boo

(42:01):
Boo kicked on. Now it was quite a Let me
just paint the picture.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
Have you taken a note Cooper Love on the Romantic Getaway?
He's out with Booboo and Canty with my blessings again.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Well, you're such a cool wife. She was going to
come and meet us, but she couldn't be bothered anyway,
you saught.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
I destroyed your own.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Was fine, but I didn't mind.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Unbelievable. And so I wake up in the morning and go,
oh god, oh so I ring Booboo and go Boo boo. Yeah,
he sounds worse than I do. Mate, What the funk
we got to do last night? He goes, I don't know,

(42:46):
but I've waken up with a new haircut. I've gone
what so then I've gone and have had a look
in the mirror and I've got a new haircut. Apparently
we went to.

Speaker 4 (42:55):
A bar, whiskey bar.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
A whiskey bar one of Booboo's mates, and he's just
converted half of the whiskey bar into a hair dress
and yoursel on like a barbershops in Richmond. In Richmond,
So we were sitting there drinking and a guy apparently
said to me, I could do something with that hair
and enthusiastically got myself in and was a magician. And

(43:19):
they were just and they were just. They were just
plying us with whiskies apparently and then playing Oasis and
all music. It was fantastic, but.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
The most expensive haircut you had, the.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Whiskey was free because booos mate, really yeah yeah kidding.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
People in like people going to Melbourne. Richmond has so
many cool.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Little spots like that. It was how late are.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
We talking when you got the haircut?

Speaker 3 (43:42):
That was it?

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Nighttime?

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Yeah, it was well into it was well into the night.
Put a bit eleven eleven o'clock, eleven pm. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Luckily they did just like if you're drunk, you lucky
they were.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
We have vision like Boo Boo sent me through goes mate,
we got vision of it, said, my mate did a
took a photo of you're getting a haircut, and also
you got a video of get your hair done, so
we might put it on from people for our bit
of thing. You could actually see how heavily in tox
scattered of course.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Robbie Ross, like you played together at Newcastle. He's actually
playing number one at the Storm. He's the first player
on the wall.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah, he's playing number sign Yeah, first signing and then
of course first number on there. So shat out of so.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
We wound the clock back what we did Boober goes Hey,
Maddie got some of you guess what at this pub
down the road, that rough pub we went to that
always had the live bands. Oh yeah, the precinct, Yeah,
the precinct went went across the road from the precinct. Oh,
the corner hotel, corner hotel at the corner and walking
and by the way was the Friday night. We'll leaving
on the Saturday. The Saturday night the Angels were playing there.
I was like, damn you anyway.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
I saw Pete Murray there one night.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Good man, Pete.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
So he goes, guess what's downstairs at the pub? He
goes NBA Jam. You know that game game? Because mate,
we used to play it when we were development officers
of the Newcastle Knights. They just send us to school
to schools, school schools and we would go to time zone,
PLAYBA Jam, turn up half an hour late, school, leave
half an hour early, go back and play the NBA gam.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Geez, you guys are great.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
I remember the boss, Keith Honslow called us into the office.
He goes Fellas and he just dropped a dossier of
all the complaint letters we had from schools over the years.
But we wound the clock back were there playing. It's funny.
The technology isn't as good as I remember, compared to
the modern games of war.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
It's funny. How do you even know what that is?

Speaker 3 (45:35):
That's so funny.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah, and shout out shout out to Robbie Ross because
he probably doesn't get their respect he deserves. At Melbourne
for the developing of players like Billy Slater.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yes, so people see what Billy Slater has done for
blokes like Scott Drinkwater Dermes used, Ryan Papenhouers and but
Billy and Billy credited himself. He's he puts a lot
of credit to Robbie Ross with some of the stuff
that he learned from.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Some of the best support players of all time. Terry
Lamb Booboo is one of them. He'd actually take the
ball out of his hands if you offered it. But
you know, it's always some mass respect for him. All
comes through and being young. He said to me, Maddie,
I'm only going to play for NRL or Rugby League.
It's along twenty eight. Then we're going to move over
sus to like New York and London and start businesses.
That's exactly what he did, very successful entrepreneur area.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Did you have anything else from your your memories of
the trip down in Melbourne.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
I'm just going to say Matt reached the pinnacle of
his mistaken identity in Melbourne.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
He was walking through a park.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Daryl Summers, wait what happened?

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Came back very excited to tell me.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
I had like this cap on backstage cap a heavy
coat and walking along. It was really shoulders off, you know,
walking along and these blokes were pointing and going up
and I thought, and one of them went like that
and looked at me, and I thought, oh, do I
know that bloke from somewhere? And I'll go, how you're doing?
And he goes, oh, good mate. I was just telling

(47:03):
my friend. I was just saying to my friend, there,
look at that blow. He could be Tom Hardy's brother.
I hang on your chase or Tom Hardy.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Yeah, thought it was Tom Hardy.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
He said he could be he could be Tom, And
I went really, I said, well, myself and my wife
have been discussing this all the time after Mobland and
she said, you know, she said, mate, why don't you
grow your hair? Why don't you do this? She used
to hate my wrinkles and scars. Now she likes them.
She digs them.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Wow, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Know you love him.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
He's always been one of your favorites.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Books.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
Talking about mistaken identity, there was a guy that walked
into this supermarket and as he's shopping, he noticed this
this very attractive woman waving at him. He's like, oh,
she comes over to him, and he goes, oh, sorry,
do I know you?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
She goes, oh, I think you're the father of one
of my kids. And the guy it's like he's worrying
in his mind. He goes, oh god, and he goes
back to the only time that he's ever been unfaithful
to his.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
Wife, and he asks, are you the stripper at the
bachelor party that I made love to while your partner
tiggled my butt with wet celery And she goes, no,
I'm your son's teacher.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
That's actually not that. Of course it was a joke.
I didn't pick up. You never do because you're very
good at selling it. Shall we wrap it up?

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Can we just do it? Can we finish with a
quick film fame? And yeah, let's just finish on and
today I'm going to do the fact that we've come
off our wassis. And by the way, do you know
our wassis? Up on stage? What they said? Someone someone
mentioned brit pop and they old out, we're not fucking
brit pop. We're Irish music. Our mom and dad were Irish,
Irish ancestry, So today we're going to Irish rock and pop.

(48:47):
When you think of Irish music. You generally think of
Irish folkal Irish national songs, but there's been some great
rock and roll bands and pop artists come out of Ireland.
So I want us to do gold, silver and bronze
best Irish songs. And you can't do the same band
three times, so you can't go.

Speaker 5 (49:04):
You to you too, tris Okay, I've got to no
you too. My silver is Fisherman Blues the water Boys.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
How do they go? Fisherman Blues? Cool?

Speaker 5 (49:17):
You have to do it, yeah. My bronze goes to
Whiskey in a jar. Now the Dublin has did it,
but I actually don't like that version. Tallica's version does awesome.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
That's a cool.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Awesome, that's a cool Irish.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Because I think I think Thin Lizzy might have had
done it. This will cover anyway they have.

Speaker 5 (49:37):
They have Tin Lizzy and my gold is fairy Tale
of New York the Pogues.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Good on you, all right? I did take me to
church by Hosey. Yeah, a bit of a modern one. Nice.
You guys might not know that one, you too. Sunday
Bloody Sunday number two that is silver of course. And
then my.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Gold jack you'll attest to this as well. I hope
you've got it. Ronan Keatie life.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Is a role.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
He's obsessed.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I just drove back from Bloody up the coast. Let
me tell you something. I listened to it ten times
in a row. That's how much I love that song.
And it always gets me in the best mood.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Say, there's something about Suri killers who listened to the
same song over and over and over again. Do you
remember there was a bit that a guy who abducted
He would abduct people and tell them that mafia and
that were after him, and he just moved them around
different towns and stuff. Series a series, and all the

(50:36):
people he would duck abduct at different times over the
year said how they linked him together? Would he had
to hit a tape recorder and he hit a tape
deck and he just pop it in and he would
listen on loop for hours. On an Ordinary World by
Duran Duran, Really, if you listen.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
To I've Gone with My Bronze, I've Gone into the
Mystic by Van Morrison is a great song. I Went
Silver A girl called Johnny by the Water Boys, nice
great song.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
How does.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Johnny?

Speaker 1 (51:14):
And then, uh, what's it? Called by the Cranbridges. I
just forgot what the no not Zombie linger Linga, Joey Marnu,
Joey Manu, Mauma.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Ninger, hashtag tackle breast cancer?

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Did you go?

Speaker 4 (51:38):
That's all right, I forgot about you.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
I've gone. I've gone. Bronze Fontanine, DC's Boys in a
Better Land. I think the biggest best band in the world.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
I reckon is that that song you always play like Boys?

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Yeah, it's got a good beat.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Uh By Silver is Emperor's New Clothes by Nat O'Connor
and My Gold is You two one which Rolling Stone
Magazine in the five hundred Best Songs of All Time
put number one in their opinion opinion. What the hell
that they know? The curver of the roll Ian Stone.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
And of course we've got the hashtag tackle breast cancer.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
Yes, who the NRL are using as their fifty fifty
sponsor for Day one of the NRLW Magic Round.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
How good's that.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
That's going towards cancer research, breast cancer research and trials.

Speaker 5 (52:38):
And it's really important because they're so many cases of
it everywhere surrounding us everywhere, and what they do, I mean,
our success rates are a lot better these years than
they used to be. And that's all thanks to the
research that they've done. I'm living evidence.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
You're still here and we're very luck we're still here.
And that's all because you felt around, found little lump.
Found it wasn't that wasn't even the cancer scene.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
And that's the other thing I'd like to say to people, like,
go and get checked, and go and have an ultrasound, to.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Run a Mamma gran and and if.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
I would never have felt mine because early detection is
your best best.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
Yes, that's with everything.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, good on your guys, Good on you. Thanks to
take Care