July 3, 2023 • 25 mins
Standing at 6ft 11, Texan born Mason is a specimen. He's the type of person that gets stopped on the street and gawked at wherever he goes, but it's not just his height that makes him stand out...
In fact, what Mason is concealing is not a secret, you may even recognise him from first listen or first look... but because he and Art run in such different circles, it may not be as obvious to her.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hello, it's me Art Simone, and I've got a confession
to make. I hate boring people. People with no sparkle,
no color, no personality, no nothing. It disgusts me. That's
why I'm finding the most interesting people, ones with unusual jobs,
weird hobbies, and sometimes scandalous secrets to chat with. Truthfully,
(00:32):
sometimes they do seem a bit boring at first, but
that's because I don't actually know what it is that
makes them interesting. We'll find that bit out together. This
is Concealed with me at Simone. Let's meet our guest
roll the time.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Hello. My name is Mason. I'm a thirty two year
old male. I hail from the place of Dallas, Texas
in the United States. I'm six foot eleven, so very
very tall. I also have a mechanical engineering degree from
Oklahoma State University. Tea is one of my favorite hobbies
I enjoy in my free time, and I am probably
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one of the most unique people in my career choice
that you could possibly find.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh amazing, How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I am well? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Welp me to the concealed studio. How do you find
it so fast?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm stoked to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh good, good. So let's recap a little bit, all right.
Thirty two. Tea is a hobby, which is a very
strange thing. I don't know what that specifically entails.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's like an obsession of mine. I love tea, every
single flavor. Get into it. Sis. It's one of those things.
I'm just I'm far, I'm all over it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
One of those people where you think you think that
like tea can fix anything. You're like, I've got a
tea for that. Yeah, I've got a tea for that. Yeap,
sleep energy, So you can just solve all problems with tea.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Do you have any issues I need to figure out?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, but I was going to go that I love
t but I love a different type of tea, which
is the truth, which is when you talk shit with
your friends and go tea.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
All right? And Dallas, Texas?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Ye right?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Okay? And how long have you been in Australia for
nine years?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, I'm a citizen now?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh can grat you? Do you like veggimte yet? Well
I'm going to revoke that citizenship right now. A mechanical
engineering degree. Oklahoma. When I hear Oklahoma, all I think is, oh,
Alkohoma weather. I don't know the rest of the words
in the musical Oklahoma, right. So what got you into
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mechanical engineering?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's it's in the family. Mom and dad, both mechanical engineers,
follow down the same path. So it's very cute.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yes, what's the mechanical engineer? Can you?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Can? I do probably anything from fixing cars doing that
kind of stuff, to heating and ventilation air conditioning stuff,
so you know how buildings are built and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
To have you used your mechanical engineering degree recently?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not at all? Got nine years?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, Well that's at least you kept busy and all right.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Elephant in the room six ft eleven? What did you
eat as a child?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Everything that was put in front of it? Anything and everything?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And giant people running the family? Are you a family
of giants? The bfgs?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, The BFG is my favorite book.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Grind there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's me six foot six brother and then six foot
eight brother, and mom's about six foot so we get
it from mama's side.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay. And what there been like for you being a
giant person.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's it's good and bad. Don't get me wrong. It's
like some pretty amazing opportunities in life. But whenever I
go to flight, maybe it's not so great. A shower
fitting through doorways, shower head, I'm and it's just washing
the tits all It's not really shit, It's great. I'm
fresh from there on down. We don't really know what
to expect, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So what am I gonna do is ask you three questions,
and from the answers to those three questions, I have
to determine what it is you were concealing from me. Yes, okay, alright,
you ready it all right? First question I have for
you is do you have any nicknames?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I do. The best known nickname is cox Zilla, kind
of like Godzilla.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Cox. Why are you Coxzilla? How do you call?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is similar to Cox? Oh yeah, not the other way
you're thinking, yeah, okay, all right, And it's similar to Godzillazilla,
big massive animal.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Do you think of yourself as a god?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No doubt? No, tower over people. Okay, there's a little bit,
I guess. No, no, no, never consider myself a god?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Okay, all right, So so Cox, where's that coming from?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I can't tell. We'll give it up.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh oh what okay? Question number two? Which one animal
do you think would survive the apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I would say a magpie.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A magpie? Why a magpie? Well, Maggie.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, they're aggressive animals, very aggressive animals. Don't mind swooping people,
keep you know, people, people away from their nests.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you think that's how they'd survive?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They can also fly, you know, I mean, like, how
cool to be to be able to fly? You know,
you can get out of situations easily, not many people
that are probably coming after you in the air.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Flying seems like a lot of effort. Imagine how hard
you like your arms would hurt, you know it would?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It would be amazing. Imagine soaring above the clouds.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I rather just sit down. No. I like magpies because
I get called a bagpie all the time because I
like sparkly things and shiny things, and I collect lots
of sparkly, shiny things, so people often call me a magpie.
So maybe by proxy I'll survive the apocalypse. The only
things that will be left after the apocalypse share yep,
cockeraches and magpies. Final question out of the twenty six letters,
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which is your favorite? Gee for God? Smart? Okay? God? Alright, okay,
all right? Gee for God? Why G can you tell me.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Probably has to do with where I enjoy spending time.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
A letter, G letter Okay, okay, Jim, Maybe Jim, that
could be the gym.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Alright, yeah close, you're getting there.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, okay, Jim, all right, I haven't been in one
of those in a long time. But that's okay, that's
you know, I still pay for the membership.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, just in case you're supporting smallers.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Anytime Fitness Alton and no even though with the Geelong now.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
If you want to, I can't get to ALTONAO to
cancel my membership, which I've had for like the last
four years, even though I live in Geelong.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Could you please just cancel it?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Things anyway? All right, Okay, recap Okay, likes tea, spilling secrets,
Giant Man Dallas, Oklahoma, God Magpies g could be Jim. Okay,
I'm going to put this together. Oh I was going
mafia for a second. I was just singing mafia because
you know the God you know, that could be your
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like mafia name Cox Youler, alright, and you could be
a mafia who uses T as a code name to
sell things. But now I don't think so, okay, because
you're not very inconspicuous because you're a giant. So I
feel like he really wouldn't work in the mafia or
a bikie gang because you're like, oh there he is
again tough to stirk and now, yeah, that's true. But
instead I'm going to go left a field. Okay, all right,
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because what I think is that you're concealing from me
is that you aren't actually a human person. You are
two human people on each other's shoulders wearing a coat.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Am I right? Are you two people?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No? Not at all. My full name is Mason Cox.
I am an American AFL player, a place for the
Collingwood Magpies at the mcg or also known as the
g and currently the only American Borner Bread player to
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play one hundred games.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A sporting star.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I wouldn't say start.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't know that. You're pretty starry, giant, sporty man AFL.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh my goodness, I should have done some push ups.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh my god. So Mason is not two people in
a trench coat. No, he is actually a Collingwood football player.
And I tell you what I do like ball sports,
so this could be fun. We're here with Mason the
professional AFL player, but from Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Please explain how did you come all the way from
Texas and then end up in the AFL.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
This is a very very long story.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Cliff notes.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Cliff notes love that Okay, in a long time, went
to school to Colombis State University Stadium mechanical engineering, and
then from there it got recruited to go play on
the basketball team, actually get recruited from playing women's basketball.
If you can believe that. Very weird women helped the
women's team play basketball, so i'd emulate one of their oppositions,
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who was Britney Griner was recently in Rush. Yeah, as
her play that. And then the men's team asked me
to come play with them. And then I played on
the men's team for about three.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Years because top people know we played basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right, Yeah, I was a late bloomer, is what you
would call it. Six inches in a summer is what
I grew in height. Oh, it's to hit puberty.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, six Actually it sounds like a movie. I've watched
six Inches.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And then from there, God's offered to come over to
Australia to try out a new sports in AFL and
learn it from scratch.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Who found you and said AFL.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I played soccer growing up, so like soccer and basketball
to that kind of correlate best to AFL, so kind
of a good mixture to go.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Into people in America. I'm confused.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It was a basketball draft scout that the AFL had
hired to find me in the US playing basketball. Yeah,
very weird. Unique hasn't been done since.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
It's a very odd strange.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Someone comes up and says, hey, you're tall. Yes, he's
a business card. And then they said AFL, what do
you do? You go what?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They go, you played soccer before, you can kick something right,
And I was like yeah. And then they go, you've
played basketball, you can go and like understand the three
sixty degrees of sport. And I said yeah, and they
said I think you might be okay to play AFL.
I said, hold on, you're going to pay for a
free trip to Australia, to a beautiful place. So I
never didn't know anything about it, never heard of Melbourne
before it. Only heard of Sydney, beautiful Place, Sydney Opera,
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pro House, the Bridge. That's all I knew about Australia
and they asked me to come to Melbourne, and then
I found out what this was, found out what AFL was.
I never heard of it, and then learn the whole
game from scratch, and now I'm here. It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What did you have to leave behind to like be
all right, I'll take the golden ticket. We'll give it
a shot. Come on.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
One.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I had a job at Excellent Mobile and working as
a mechanical engineer. I was going to travel the world
doing that and then got this weird call and came
over here, did a combine in Los Angeles, then kind
of did one in Australia and they said, look, do
you want to drop that combine.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm going to be stopping you at a thousand times
today because you were speaking another language to all right,
sleigh hunting work.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
A combine is like a athletic testing kind of expells gus.
Like fitness tests, Yeah, fitness testing for the big tests.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
In high school?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Didn't How did you do on the big test?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Not very good? Look at judge, judge away, that's what
I go for it. No, I was awful at the
beat tests. That's afled at anything.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I've never done a big test. Really no, I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I think the thing you'd struggle with is just having
to bend down to tap to.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Like yeah, I'll be more of just like touched with
the foot.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And maybe you could have an extender.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh, I've been inspector gadget.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So you did some fitness things and they you're actually
all right, and then you do some more fitness thing
combines whatever here and they go, oh, actually all right,
what happens? Then they go okay, you get drafted.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They flew me out to Ash, all expenses paid. I
didn't think it was a real thing like AFL. I'd
never heard of it, never seen it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
So your family and is over in America, right, so
you're just saying bye, yep, see you later some man time,
and to come to Australia. I don't know, I'm just
going to do it, you said, by family, I don't care.
How old are you at this time?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Twenty three?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So you get to Australia. What's happening.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I'm realizing it's not kangaroo and quallas everywhere. I'm realizing
there's not as nice as a weather in Melbourne as
probably you would expect. And I have to learn this
whole sport from scratch.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Right, how do you study? Do you watch lots of
videos or you're just like on the field.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I don't know anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The first two months spent with coaches and stuff learning
the game, just kind of vision and stuff like that.
I didn't go into games and then got thrown into
training with like people that are Hall of famers and
stuff like that, And.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well you drafted to a team.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
At this stage Collingwood, they're investing a lot of time
and money in you. Do you feel like a secret
weapon that they're like, we've actually got this Mason Cox,
I don't tell anyone. It's like top secret. It seems
like it's like some military compound where they're like training
up a superhuman there was Did they grow you in
a lab? Are you lying?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I gained eleven kilos in two months?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, right, so they were really training you. Do they
do a big reveal they're like, you know, like did
they take off a big piece of fabric and be
like tea and you're.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Like, yeah, whatever you play?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you have a position?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What do you rock?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I'm your new rock.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It wasn't that good of an introduction.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I've just never heard of like this. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, do you feel like a secret superhuman weapon thing?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I wouldn't say that. I would say I feel very
unique because no one else has kind of done the
same thing I have, which is kind of cool. So
there's only been one other born and bread American player.
I Fly only played like three games, so yeah, it's
very different.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It wasn't a hard record to beat, then.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Break record every week plays.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So I like to think that, Okay, so you've trained up, alright,
you're good to go. How long is this process before
you get onto the field.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So I played my first game about a year and
a half into learning what the sport was, and I
played it on as a day.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
They're really investing in your time. It's a big game.
I know that one day. Is it Essendon? Is it
against Well Died?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I said, you weren't a footy fan?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well I'm not, but I've lived in Melbourne long enough.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
There you go the Bombers yep. Oh geez, what's Collinwood's
mascot bagpies? I just had the double check?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, year and a half.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Anzac Day eighty five thousand people.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You checked out. They go, all right, go out there, sinkers.
We're unveiling our new secret weapon. Go for it.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
How did you go kick the first goal?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's three good, right, start, got the win pretty well.
Tick tick okay, So that was a good start to
the career. I'm not going to say it was easy, say,
very nerve racking to go in front of eighty five
thousand people absolutely love the sport and are crazy about it,
and you're like, hey, I just showed up here. I'm
I'm really sure what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's just a couple of weeks to it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It is, Yeah, performed in front of the little big crowds.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Not eighty five thousand. What's the largest crowd up to down?
I think like five or six thousand, but.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Still five You still get the energy.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, give me.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You're in a group.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
All right, you're in a group after.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You got that by myself.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, I mean twenty two eighty. By twenty two, you'd
have more fans per person than I would.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Stop lifting me up. Hey, all right, stop giving me confidence.
But it's not about me.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's about you.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Thank you avoiding the questions here today. All right, you're
now playing the game, how do what does everyone else think?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
What are they feeling? What are they vibing? They're like,
who is this? You know? Yank?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yank?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Is that offensive?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's not early days. It was very much like teaching
me the basics. So you can imagine it'd be quite
probably frustrating as a teammate whenever you have someone else
who's that far behind someone and skill set. Right, yeah,
but the but yeah, it was like I say, steep
learning curve from the beginning, and then once you kind
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of get put into the deep end, you start, you know,
swimming a bit better as far as the more experienced.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't want to alarm you, but you're not actually
a swimmer. You play a f L. Yeah, I don't.
You got a bit confused.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I totally get that, though.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I will say something that's unique about me is I
actually wear goggles in games. I've had six, i think
eye surgeries from people poking my eyes out, so I
now have to wear protection for him.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You're the bagpie. Yeah, I know he's going and poking
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Well, it's everyone's hands because they can't actually get to
the ball, right, so they have to scratch through my head.
And pull back.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Is that actually, like, do you think that's a hype thing?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
They're like, that's as far as I can give to
the head. And then the fingers go into the eye
sockets and ripped the eye out. So yeah, footy injuries loved.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Even in trouble for stabbing your eyes.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's it was considered an accident. Unfortunate. That's why I
haven't now. Yeah, so if you try to just got
a little well, I can't touch this.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Does that distorge your vision at all?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Though? I feel like it'd be bad for your peripherals.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, but they're customs, so they're tinted because I've had
an issue with minds as far as my pupil, so
you see, maybe one pupil is different than the other.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Very David Bowie, very David Bowie, very good.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And yeah, so I've got one that's tinted, which is
kind of unique. And it's also prescription, so I can
see better with mine.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Curious, okay, very interesting. So is there a player or
a team that you have it out for because of
like the I thing, what teams you have beef with?
You know what team you're like beef with? I'm not
with them. Megan.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
People always say I've got beef with rich men because
I've we've played them a few times. There's a bit
of a rivalry there. And I will say this, I
don't mind a bit of trash talk on the field.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Can you do some trash talk for we pretend I'm rich?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Hi, girls, I'm gonna beat you.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, I kick so many goals. Fine, I'm gonna do
the one in the middle goals.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah. I love your How much you know about ifl
it's so good. I've been doing a couple of games,
don't you worry? Meat pies, Meat Pies all four and twenties? Yes, yes, No,
I think I don't know that. The trash talk is
more after goals and stuff. So if you do something, well,
so let's say you jump on someone's shoulders, sticking it
in the back of someone's.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Head, is that allowed?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That is allowed? Just doesn't sound very safe at all.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
But get yours, get my tits?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh my god. But no, I think a little bit
of trash talk is always good. And it's always like
if you do something that's like bad for them, because
I feel like it's a mental game a little bit,
I fl and you're allowed to trash talk and get
into people's heads. So that's kind of something I'm probably
known for, and I'm being America, yeah a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The crowds wouldn't hear any of this, would they?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You know?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Eighty five thou people.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Although I've realized this umpires now with microphones, I do
pick up things here and there. So if you see
a little greens, you gotta shut the mouth and are
really just giving reel it in a little bitch.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, flap our wings and just it's so good. Oh
my god. Do you have like a team like chant
before you play a game?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We have a team song.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, but me and the girls that were on drag
Race together. Whenever we do shows together, we have a chance.
We say beforehand and we say none of this come
by our ship. Ten inch cock is what we say.
And then we go on stage or if I'm on
stage with my good friend, etcetera, we say, none of
this will matter. When you did, We've actually got a
single play it now, Dull added in post none of
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this a.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Met Thank you whoa good song? I love it?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We do like it. I love that thank you great song?
Do you have a pump up song? We all chant?
To okay, do you know run this town? But Rihanna, Yeah, yeah,
what do you Actually it's like, you know part of
the song it's.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So we all yelled that whenever it comes on during
that song because it's one of our pregame songs, so
we all stop our warm up and just scream that
part of the verses. And that's the way we get
into a game.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Oh my god, yeah, is there anything.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A bunch of testosterond Rihanna gets this go on.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I was like, are you sure? Well, I guess we're
not that different. You know, both physical demanding professions. What's
it like getting old?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, it happens pretty quickly in AFL. I think most
careers last three years, is the average career?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Really?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, and then you go into retirement. So the fact
I'm at nine is pretty pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it's
a quick turn, right, Like there's I mean, you can
have an injury tomorrow and you know your career is done. Well,
it's very much.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Side that or do they tap out like say that
you've had your other injuries, have you been like, you know,
just put me out to pasture after this, you know,
like a horse falls over and America you do get
the feel.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, you do get the feel. Some people like concussions
and stuff, like doctors said, look going forward, this is
the best case in ara few is to stop playing sport. Yeah,
so some stuff like that. People have had shoulder injuries
and their shoulder keep popping out, keeps popping out, and
they can't deal with that. So sometimes your body just
says you can't do this anymore. You have to move
on something else.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Engineering.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Engineering, it's not a bad plan.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
B where'd you go back to it?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Ideally? No, I don't think I could sit behind a
desk and just sit there all day. But yeah, I'm
in the media world to do a podcast just like
you hear that show?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh is this where I have to credit the Mason
Cock Show? Everyone? That's the Mason cock Show. But it
must be weird because you have such a big fan
base here, especially in Australia. What's it like for all
the people back home?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Very few. I was on sixty Minutes US, which is
like thirteen million people watch that. That was cool, but yeah,
it's unknown in America. So the cool thing about it
is obviously Melbourne's kind of a bubble for football, Like
everyone loves football here and they go home and people like,
what do you do for living? I'm like, oh, I
play footy and they're like, oh soccer, Oh, soccer. It's good.
So it's kind of cool to be like, you know,
you go and you go to here and people are
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obsessed with it, and it's kind of cool to have
that experience and you go home and you're just like,
no one knows anything.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Every day person, yeah, every day.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Talks from actually being here in Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Every day giant person.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You could be like, oh, thank god, it's only just
back to being recognized of being a giant man, not
being a giant man and a sporting star.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's basic. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Everyone still thinks I play basketball though.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It must be nice. You can just you know, blend in.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's like having two different lives.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh, I wouldn't know what that's like. Okay, why AFL
and not drag?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Why I fel not?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I feel like you started in.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The drag you were starting, you know, playing pretending to
be a Russian woman.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I would be probably the tallest drag queen ever.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think, well, I have to check that, because I
performed with a drag queen. Her name is Passion Coatur
and she is a tall thing, living, living drag queen
in the Southern Hemisphere. I don't know, but that's why
I like performing with her, because I look so little.
I'm like, and everyone needs to see me on videos
and things before and with her and in the meet
when they're like, oh, you're a lot bigger than I thought,
I'm like, shut up.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Would you rather be smaller than taller?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's nice to be a little petite lady, but I
like being like tall when I put my heels on.
I used to wear giant, like, you know, fourteen inch
heels when I first started, because when you work in
a nightclub, you need to be able to see over everyone.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, that's my greatest strength.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Was hand like, oh they're over there, Yeah here, we're
doing this.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, this happens with me all the time. I'll go
to a place and people just stand in my circle,
like stand in my like bubble, like real close, and
you're kind of like, hey, can I help you? And
they go, yeah, I'm just looking for my friends. I
told them to go find the tall side the bar,
and I'm standing next to I'm like to shame. That's
actually pretty sure. A landmark. That's it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
A giant man will be by the giant man.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's three, I am okay. I want you to teach
me a phrase or two to yell at if I'm
in the crowd. Okay, So it sounds like I know
what I'm talking about if I'm at an AFL game
and I'm going to do it. So what do people
don't scream.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
The big thing? People scream at AFL game? Right, So
if an umpire makes a decision and someone gets tackled
and they're not sure if they disposed of the ball properly,
they just scream out ball, right, So like this is
the thing.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
So it's like there's like someone and you just have
to go and it echoes across the whole stadium.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
All right, all right, so I'm not happy with the ball.
So it's real ball, isn't it a ball? That's what
I normally do. But it's like I'm angry.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Oh damn you, I'm batch.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That was on the money. Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Okay, thank well, gone, thank you. It's like it's like,
isn't two.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Men in the trench coat?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
He is apparently a well known AFL footballer for Collingwood.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
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Hello, it's me Art Simone, and I've got a confession
to make. I hate boring people. People with no sparkle,
no color, no personality, no nothing. It disgusts me. That's
why I'm finding the most interesting people, ones with unusual jobs,
weird hobbies, and sometimes scandalous secrets to chat with. Truthfully,
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sometimes they do seem a bit boring at first, but
that's because I don't actually know what it is that
makes them interesting. We'll find that bit out together. This
is Concealed with me at Simone. Let's meet our guest
roll the time.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Hello. My name is Mason. I'm a thirty two year
old male. I hail from the place of Dallas, Texas
in the United States. I'm six foot eleven, so very
very tall. I also have a mechanical engineering degree from
Oklahoma State University. Tea is one of my favorite hobbies
I enjoy in my free time, and I am probably
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one of the most unique people in my career choice
that you could possibly find.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Oh amazing, How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I am well? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Welp me to the concealed studio. How do you find
it so fast?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm stoked to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh good, good. So let's recap a little bit, all right.
Thirty two. Tea is a hobby, which is a very
strange thing. I don't know what that specifically entails.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
It's like an obsession of mine. I love tea, every
single flavor. Get into it. Sis. It's one of those things.
I'm just I'm far, I'm all over it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
One of those people where you think you think that
like tea can fix anything. You're like, I've got a
tea for that. Yeah, I've got a tea for that. Yeap,
sleep energy, So you can just solve all problems with tea.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Do you have any issues I need to figure out?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, but I was going to go that I love
t but I love a different type of tea, which
is the truth, which is when you talk shit with
your friends and go tea.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
All right? And Dallas, Texas?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Ye right?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Okay? And how long have you been in Australia for
nine years?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, I'm a citizen now?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh can grat you? Do you like veggimte yet? Well
I'm going to revoke that citizenship right now. A mechanical
engineering degree. Oklahoma. When I hear Oklahoma, all I think is, oh,
Alkohoma weather. I don't know the rest of the words
in the musical Oklahoma, right. So what got you into
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mechanical engineering?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's it's in the family. Mom and dad, both mechanical engineers,
follow down the same path. So it's very cute.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yes, what's the mechanical engineer? Can you?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Can? I do probably anything from fixing cars doing that
kind of stuff, to heating and ventilation air conditioning stuff,
so you know how buildings are built and things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
To have you used your mechanical engineering degree recently?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Not at all? Got nine years?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Okay, Well that's at least you kept busy and all right.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Elephant in the room six ft eleven? What did you
eat as a child?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Everything that was put in front of it? Anything and everything?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And giant people running the family? Are you a family
of giants? The bfgs?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yes, The BFG is my favorite book.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Grind there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's me six foot six brother and then six foot
eight brother, and mom's about six foot so we get
it from mama's side.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay. And what there been like for you being a
giant person.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's it's good and bad. Don't get me wrong. It's
like some pretty amazing opportunities in life. But whenever I
go to flight, maybe it's not so great. A shower
fitting through doorways, shower head, I'm and it's just washing
the tits all It's not really shit, It's great. I'm
fresh from there on down. We don't really know what
to expect, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So what am I gonna do is ask you three questions,
and from the answers to those three questions, I have
to determine what it is you were concealing from me. Yes, okay, alright,
you ready it all right? First question I have for
you is do you have any nicknames?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I do. The best known nickname is cox Zilla, kind
of like Godzilla.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Cox. Why are you Coxzilla? How do you call?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Is similar to Cox? Oh yeah, not the other way
you're thinking, yeah, okay, all right, And it's similar to Godzillazilla,
big massive animal.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Do you think of yourself as a god?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
No doubt? No, tower over people. Okay, there's a little bit,
I guess. No, no, no, never consider myself a god?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Okay, all right, So so Cox, where's that coming from?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I can't tell. We'll give it up.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh oh what okay? Question number two? Which one animal
do you think would survive the apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I would say a magpie.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A magpie? Why a magpie? Well, Maggie.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, they're aggressive animals, very aggressive animals. Don't mind swooping people,
keep you know, people, people away from their nests.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you think that's how they'd survive?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
They can also fly, you know, I mean, like, how
cool to be to be able to fly? You know,
you can get out of situations easily, not many people
that are probably coming after you in the air.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Flying seems like a lot of effort. Imagine how hard
you like your arms would hurt, you know it would?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It would be amazing. Imagine soaring above the clouds.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I rather just sit down. No. I like magpies because
I get called a bagpie all the time because I
like sparkly things and shiny things, and I collect lots
of sparkly, shiny things, so people often call me a magpie.
So maybe by proxy I'll survive the apocalypse. The only
things that will be left after the apocalypse share yep,
cockeraches and magpies. Final question out of the twenty six letters,
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which is your favorite? Gee for God? Smart? Okay? God? Alright, okay,
all right? Gee for God? Why G can you tell me.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Probably has to do with where I enjoy spending time.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
A letter, G letter Okay, okay, Jim, Maybe Jim, that
could be the gym.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Alright, yeah close, you're getting there.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, okay, Jim, all right, I haven't been in one
of those in a long time. But that's okay, that's
you know, I still pay for the membership.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You know, just in case you're supporting smallers.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Anytime Fitness Alton and no even though with the Geelong now.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
If you want to, I can't get to ALTONAO to
cancel my membership, which I've had for like the last
four years, even though I live in Geelong.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Could you please just cancel it?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Things anyway? All right, Okay, recap Okay, likes tea, spilling secrets,
Giant Man Dallas, Oklahoma, God Magpies g could be Jim. Okay,
I'm going to put this together. Oh I was going
mafia for a second. I was just singing mafia because
you know the God you know, that could be your
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like mafia name Cox Youler, alright, and you could be
a mafia who uses T as a code name to
sell things. But now I don't think so, okay, because
you're not very inconspicuous because you're a giant. So I
feel like he really wouldn't work in the mafia or
a bikie gang because you're like, oh there he is
again tough to stirk and now, yeah, that's true. But
instead I'm going to go left a field. Okay, all right,
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because what I think is that you're concealing from me
is that you aren't actually a human person. You are
two human people on each other's shoulders wearing a coat.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Am I right? Are you two people?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No? Not at all. My full name is Mason Cox.
I am an American AFL player, a place for the
Collingwood Magpies at the mcg or also known as the
g and currently the only American Borner Bread player to
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play one hundred games.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A sporting star.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I wouldn't say start.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I don't know that. You're pretty starry, giant, sporty man AFL.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Oh my goodness, I should have done some push ups.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh my god. So Mason is not two people in
a trench coat. No, he is actually a Collingwood football player.
And I tell you what I do like ball sports,
so this could be fun. We're here with Mason the
professional AFL player, but from Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Please explain how did you come all the way from
Texas and then end up in the AFL.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
This is a very very long story.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Cliff notes.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Cliff notes love that Okay, in a long time, went
to school to Colombis State University Stadium mechanical engineering, and
then from there it got recruited to go play on
the basketball team, actually get recruited from playing women's basketball.
If you can believe that. Very weird women helped the
women's team play basketball, so i'd emulate one of their oppositions,
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who was Britney Griner was recently in Rush. Yeah, as
her play that. And then the men's team asked me
to come play with them. And then I played on
the men's team for about three.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Years because top people know we played basketball.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Right, Yeah, I was a late bloomer, is what you
would call it. Six inches in a summer is what
I grew in height. Oh, it's to hit puberty.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, six Actually it sounds like a movie. I've watched
six Inches.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And then from there, God's offered to come over to
Australia to try out a new sports in AFL and
learn it from scratch.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Who found you and said AFL.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I played soccer growing up, so like soccer and basketball
to that kind of correlate best to AFL, so kind
of a good mixture to go.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Into people in America. I'm confused.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It was a basketball draft scout that the AFL had
hired to find me in the US playing basketball. Yeah,
very weird. Unique hasn't been done since.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
It's a very odd strange.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Someone comes up and says, hey, you're tall. Yes, he's
a business card. And then they said AFL, what do
you do? You go what?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They go, you played soccer before, you can kick something right,
And I was like yeah. And then they go, you've
played basketball, you can go and like understand the three
sixty degrees of sport. And I said yeah, and they
said I think you might be okay to play AFL.
I said, hold on, you're going to pay for a
free trip to Australia, to a beautiful place. So I
never didn't know anything about it, never heard of Melbourne
before it. Only heard of Sydney, beautiful Place, Sydney Opera,
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pro House, the Bridge. That's all I knew about Australia
and they asked me to come to Melbourne, and then
I found out what this was, found out what AFL was.
I never heard of it, and then learn the whole
game from scratch, and now I'm here. It doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
What did you have to leave behind to like be
all right, I'll take the golden ticket. We'll give it
a shot. Come on.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
One.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I had a job at Excellent Mobile and working as
a mechanical engineer. I was going to travel the world
doing that and then got this weird call and came
over here, did a combine in Los Angeles, then kind
of did one in Australia and they said, look, do
you want to drop that combine.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I'm going to be stopping you at a thousand times
today because you were speaking another language to all right,
sleigh hunting work.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
A combine is like a athletic testing kind of expells gus.
Like fitness tests, Yeah, fitness testing for the big tests.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
In high school?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Didn't How did you do on the big test?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Not very good? Look at judge, judge away, that's what
I go for it. No, I was awful at the
beat tests. That's afled at anything.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I've never done a big test. Really no, I don't
think so.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I think the thing you'd struggle with is just having
to bend down to tap to.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Like yeah, I'll be more of just like touched with
the foot.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And maybe you could have an extender.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh, I've been inspector gadget.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So you did some fitness things and they you're actually
all right, and then you do some more fitness thing
combines whatever here and they go, oh, actually all right,
what happens? Then they go okay, you get drafted.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They flew me out to Ash, all expenses paid. I
didn't think it was a real thing like AFL. I'd
never heard of it, never seen it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
So your family and is over in America, right, so
you're just saying bye, yep, see you later some man time,
and to come to Australia. I don't know, I'm just
going to do it, you said, by family, I don't care.
How old are you at this time?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Twenty three?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So you get to Australia. What's happening.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I'm realizing it's not kangaroo and quallas everywhere. I'm realizing
there's not as nice as a weather in Melbourne as
probably you would expect. And I have to learn this
whole sport from scratch.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Right, how do you study? Do you watch lots of
videos or you're just like on the field.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I don't know anymore.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
The first two months spent with coaches and stuff learning
the game, just kind of vision and stuff like that.
I didn't go into games and then got thrown into
training with like people that are Hall of famers and
stuff like that, And.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well you drafted to a team.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
At this stage Collingwood, they're investing a lot of time
and money in you. Do you feel like a secret
weapon that they're like, we've actually got this Mason Cox,
I don't tell anyone. It's like top secret. It seems
like it's like some military compound where they're like training
up a superhuman there was Did they grow you in
a lab? Are you lying?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I gained eleven kilos in two months?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, right, so they were really training you. Do they
do a big reveal they're like, you know, like did
they take off a big piece of fabric and be
like tea and you're.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Like, yeah, whatever you play?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you have a position?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What do you rock?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I'm your new rock.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It wasn't that good of an introduction.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I've just never heard of like this. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, do you feel like a secret superhuman weapon thing?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I wouldn't say that. I would say I feel very
unique because no one else has kind of done the
same thing I have, which is kind of cool. So
there's only been one other born and bread American player.
I Fly only played like three games, so yeah, it's
very different.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It wasn't a hard record to beat, then.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Break record every week plays.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So I like to think that, Okay, so you've trained up, alright,
you're good to go. How long is this process before
you get onto the field.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So I played my first game about a year and
a half into learning what the sport was, and I
played it on as a day.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
They're really investing in your time. It's a big game.
I know that one day. Is it Essendon? Is it
against Well Died?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I said, you weren't a footy fan?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well I'm not, but I've lived in Melbourne long enough.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
There you go the Bombers yep. Oh geez, what's Collinwood's
mascot bagpies? I just had the double check?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, year and a half.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Anzac Day eighty five thousand people.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You checked out. They go, all right, go out there, sinkers.
We're unveiling our new secret weapon. Go for it.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
How did you go kick the first goal?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's three good, right, start, got the win pretty well.
Tick tick okay, So that was a good start to
the career. I'm not going to say it was easy, say,
very nerve racking to go in front of eighty five
thousand people absolutely love the sport and are crazy about it,
and you're like, hey, I just showed up here. I'm
I'm really sure what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
It's just a couple of weeks to it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
It is, Yeah, performed in front of the little big crowds.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Not eighty five thousand. What's the largest crowd up to down?
I think like five or six thousand, but.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Still five You still get the energy.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, give me.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You're in a group.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
All right, you're in a group after.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
You got that by myself.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, I mean twenty two eighty. By twenty two, you'd
have more fans per person than I would.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Stop lifting me up. Hey, all right, stop giving me confidence.
But it's not about me.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's about you.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Thank you avoiding the questions here today. All right, you're
now playing the game, how do what does everyone else think?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
What are they feeling? What are they vibing? They're like,
who is this? You know? Yank?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yank?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Is that offensive?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's not early days. It was very much like teaching
me the basics. So you can imagine it'd be quite
probably frustrating as a teammate whenever you have someone else
who's that far behind someone and skill set. Right, yeah,
but the but yeah, it was like I say, steep
learning curve from the beginning, and then once you kind
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of get put into the deep end, you start, you know,
swimming a bit better as far as the more experienced.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't want to alarm you, but you're not actually
a swimmer. You play a f L. Yeah, I don't.
You got a bit confused.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I totally get that, though.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I will say something that's unique about me is I
actually wear goggles in games. I've had six, i think
eye surgeries from people poking my eyes out, so I
now have to wear protection for him.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You're the bagpie. Yeah, I know he's going and poking
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Well, it's everyone's hands because they can't actually get to
the ball, right, so they have to scratch through my head.
And pull back.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Is that actually, like, do you think that's a hype thing?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
They're like, that's as far as I can give to
the head. And then the fingers go into the eye
sockets and ripped the eye out. So yeah, footy injuries loved.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Even in trouble for stabbing your eyes.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's it was considered an accident. Unfortunate. That's why I
haven't now. Yeah, so if you try to just got
a little well, I can't touch this.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Does that distorge your vision at all?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Though? I feel like it'd be bad for your peripherals.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, but they're customs, so they're tinted because I've had
an issue with minds as far as my pupil, so
you see, maybe one pupil is different than the other.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Very David Bowie, very David Bowie, very good.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
And yeah, so I've got one that's tinted, which is
kind of unique. And it's also prescription, so I can
see better with mine.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Curious, okay, very interesting. So is there a player or
a team that you have it out for because of
like the I thing, what teams you have beef with?
You know what team you're like beef with? I'm not
with them. Megan.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
People always say I've got beef with rich men because
I've we've played them a few times. There's a bit
of a rivalry there. And I will say this, I
don't mind a bit of trash talk on the field.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Can you do some trash talk for we pretend I'm rich?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Hi, girls, I'm gonna beat you.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, I kick so many goals. Fine, I'm gonna do
the one in the middle goals.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah. I love your How much you know about ifl
it's so good. I've been doing a couple of games,
don't you worry? Meat pies, Meat Pies all four and twenties? Yes, yes, No,
I think I don't know that. The trash talk is
more after goals and stuff. So if you do something, well,
so let's say you jump on someone's shoulders, sticking it
in the back of someone's.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Head, is that allowed?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
That is allowed? Just doesn't sound very safe at all.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
But get yours, get my tits?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh my god. But no, I think a little bit
of trash talk is always good. And it's always like
if you do something that's like bad for them, because
I feel like it's a mental game a little bit,
I fl and you're allowed to trash talk and get
into people's heads. So that's kind of something I'm probably
known for, and I'm being America, yeah a little bit.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The crowds wouldn't hear any of this, would they?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You know?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Eighty five thou people.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Although I've realized this umpires now with microphones, I do
pick up things here and there. So if you see
a little greens, you gotta shut the mouth and are
really just giving reel it in a little bitch.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, flap our wings and just it's so good. Oh
my god. Do you have like a team like chant
before you play a game?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We have a team song.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, but me and the girls that were on drag
Race together. Whenever we do shows together, we have a chance.
We say beforehand and we say none of this come
by our ship. Ten inch cock is what we say.
And then we go on stage or if I'm on
stage with my good friend, etcetera, we say, none of
this will matter. When you did, We've actually got a
single play it now, Dull added in post none of
(19:51):
this a.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Met Thank you whoa good song? I love it?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We do like it. I love that thank you great song?
Do you have a pump up song? We all chant?
To okay, do you know run this town? But Rihanna, Yeah, yeah,
what do you Actually it's like, you know part of
the song it's.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So we all yelled that whenever it comes on during
that song because it's one of our pregame songs, so
we all stop our warm up and just scream that
part of the verses. And that's the way we get
into a game.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Oh my god, yeah, is there anything.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
A bunch of testosterond Rihanna gets this go on.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I was like, are you sure? Well, I guess we're
not that different. You know, both physical demanding professions. What's
it like getting old?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, it happens pretty quickly in AFL. I think most
careers last three years, is the average career?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Really?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yeah, and then you go into retirement. So the fact
I'm at nine is pretty pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it's
a quick turn, right, Like there's I mean, you can
have an injury tomorrow and you know your career is done. Well,
it's very much.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Side that or do they tap out like say that
you've had your other injuries, have you been like, you know,
just put me out to pasture after this, you know,
like a horse falls over and America you do get
the feel.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, you do get the feel. Some people like concussions
and stuff, like doctors said, look going forward, this is
the best case in ara few is to stop playing sport. Yeah,
so some stuff like that. People have had shoulder injuries
and their shoulder keep popping out, keeps popping out, and
they can't deal with that. So sometimes your body just
says you can't do this anymore. You have to move
on something else.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Engineering.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Engineering, it's not a bad plan.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
B where'd you go back to it?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Ideally? No, I don't think I could sit behind a
desk and just sit there all day. But yeah, I'm
in the media world to do a podcast just like
you hear that show?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh is this where I have to credit the Mason
Cock Show? Everyone? That's the Mason cock Show. But it
must be weird because you have such a big fan
base here, especially in Australia. What's it like for all
the people back home?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Very few. I was on sixty Minutes US, which is
like thirteen million people watch that. That was cool, but yeah,
it's unknown in America. So the cool thing about it
is obviously Melbourne's kind of a bubble for football, Like
everyone loves football here and they go home and people like,
what do you do for living? I'm like, oh, I
play footy and they're like, oh soccer, Oh, soccer. It's good.
So it's kind of cool to be like, you know,
you go and you go to here and people are
(22:08):
obsessed with it, and it's kind of cool to have
that experience and you go home and you're just like,
no one knows anything.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Every day person, yeah, every day.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Talks from actually being here in Melbourne.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Every day giant person.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You could be like, oh, thank god, it's only just
back to being recognized of being a giant man, not
being a giant man and a sporting star.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's basic. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Everyone still thinks I play basketball though.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It must be nice. You can just you know, blend in.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
It's like having two different lives.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh, I wouldn't know what that's like. Okay, why AFL
and not drag?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Why I fel not?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I feel like you started in.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The drag you were starting, you know, playing pretending to
be a Russian woman.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I would be probably the tallest drag queen ever.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I think, well, I have to check that, because I
performed with a drag queen. Her name is Passion Coatur
and she is a tall thing, living, living drag queen
in the Southern Hemisphere. I don't know, but that's why
I like performing with her, because I look so little.
I'm like, and everyone needs to see me on videos
and things before and with her and in the meet
when they're like, oh, you're a lot bigger than I thought,
I'm like, shut up.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Would you rather be smaller than taller?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's nice to be a little petite lady, but I
like being like tall when I put my heels on.
I used to wear giant, like, you know, fourteen inch
heels when I first started, because when you work in
a nightclub, you need to be able to see over everyone.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah, that's my greatest strength.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Was hand like, oh they're over there, Yeah here, we're
doing this.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, this happens with me all the time. I'll go
to a place and people just stand in my circle,
like stand in my like bubble, like real close, and
you're kind of like, hey, can I help you? And
they go, yeah, I'm just looking for my friends. I
told them to go find the tall side the bar,
and I'm standing next to I'm like to shame. That's
actually pretty sure. A landmark. That's it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
A giant man will be by the giant man.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
It's three, I am okay. I want you to teach
me a phrase or two to yell at if I'm
in the crowd. Okay, So it sounds like I know
what I'm talking about if I'm at an AFL game
and I'm going to do it. So what do people
don't scream.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
The big thing? People scream at AFL game? Right, So
if an umpire makes a decision and someone gets tackled
and they're not sure if they disposed of the ball properly,
they just scream out ball, right, So like this is
the thing.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
So it's like there's like someone and you just have
to go and it echoes across the whole stadium.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
All right, all right, so I'm not happy with the ball.
So it's real ball, isn't it a ball? That's what
I normally do. But it's like I'm angry.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Oh damn you, I'm batch.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That was on the money. Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Okay, thank well, gone, thank you. It's like it's like,
isn't two.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Men in the trench coat?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
He is apparently a well known AFL footballer for Collingwood.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Good for him.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
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