September 11, 2024 • 38 mins
This week on the Mason Cox Show, Brayden and Mason discuss the finals, including Jack Ginnivan's off field antics, incidents that have happened in AFL off seasons and Mason gives an update on his travels. Tune in!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hey, legends, welcome back to The Mason cock Show Vacation Edition. Yes,
we're going to talk about some off season travels. We're
also going to recap some off season travels that other
people have may have stuffed up in the past. Plus
we'll cover the footy and much much more on this episode,
So stay tuned in, legend, It's going to be good one.
(00:28):
All right, Legends, let's get straight into it. It is
the Vacation holiday edition of The Mason cock Show nine Overseas,
and it's the technical off season, unfortunately for me. But
without further ado, welcome Brandon Toms.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Get a Mason's always good to see that you're alive.
I get sweaty when these players go overseas because I
never know what shenanigans you get up to. So I
thought I'd ease my mind and go on the internet
and just find out that. I was hoping to find
that players don't actually get into a lot of mischief overseas,
but I actually uncovered a whole heap of stories that
(01:03):
begs to differ. And yeah, so I'm pretty sure we
were leaning to not doing any more podcasts for the year,
but I did want to tune in. I did want
to get on a call just to see your face.
There's a lot riding on these trips, Mace. We need
you to come back so we can keep going on
with this podcast. But I just wanted to tune in.
(01:24):
So it's good to see you alive. I haven't heard
anything from you, so I want to know where you are,
what you're doing, what you've been doing, and how your
welfare is.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Welfare is great currently sailing Croatia in the middle of
the Mediterranean. Can't complain. And I'm on a boat. I
think the lonely boys, I'm on a boat, you know
what I mean. I think that's my lifestyle at the moment.
Saw some dolphins this morning, which was beautiful, and yeah,
life isn't too bad. But I'm still paying attention to
(01:56):
a bit of the football and I'm hoping not to
be one of those stories that I'm sure got plenty
of of news that have happened in the past different
football players.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, no, is that a chacuzie you're sitting in front of.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's a very great observation, Brandon. It is a chacuzi,
or a hot tub, as I like to call it,
a hot time on top of the top deck of
the sun deck of this yacht mine at the moment.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So what's the temperature like there? What are we talking?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh man, it is a brisk probably twenty five twenty
six maybe right now it is eight am or eight
thirty in the morning, so still the sun hasn't come out.
But I might be coming back a little darker than
I came here.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We haven't seen a leak of sunlight here. Like I'm
I was pale before, I'm I'm turning translucent. I'm wider
than an a four sheet of paper. You know what's great? Wind,
and we are getting a lot of it. Wind is
just the best, especially when you match that up with
rain and cold.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's the trio that we're talking about. So that's great.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's good to hear that your miserable over there in
front of you. So did you want to how did
you want to structure this? So you have seen a
bit of footy? Did you want to lightly dip into
the footy? And then I want to bring up some
of these stories because I just want to have them
in front of mine when you're traveling the rest of
your your jaunt around the world. I want to have
(03:21):
them in front of mine so you can go. You
know what, maybe I shouldn't, you know, do the worm
on top of a taxi or anything a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, Brandon, I've got a great story I'm going to
tell you before we before we get into it, that'll
talk about the football over the we because I'm pretty
sure that every single team that we picked a win
got spanked over the weekend or had a dramatic loss.
I think we need to probably redeem ourselves of our
football knowledge before we get into some of these stories. Now,
(03:52):
I'll let you kick us off. That Geelong game, Oh
my gosh, what world is going on?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We really backed in, We really really backed in Kenny Hinckley.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We backed him in hard.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And obviously it's not the coach out there doing most
of the stuff. Zach butter Is getting injured didn't really help.
But you know, outside of maybe Horn Francis and I
don't know Ollie Wines or like that, there wasn't much,
(04:26):
you know, of a fight back, which is just damning
to say there's not much of a fight back from
Port that Actually they just got obliterated eighty four points
at home. That's got to do some lasting scarring damage,
doesn't it heading into next week where they have to
well this week where they have to go again, do we.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Do we think they're out in straight sets again? I mean,
all my confidence I had of Port Adelaide essentially going
out the window, and I have no idea if they're
even going to win this next game. I really am
a fifty to fifty on the possibility. Like I was so,
I was gun her Grand Final team, no doubt whatsoever,
and now I feel like I couldn't be more on
(05:06):
the opposite into the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now, now they're coming up against the Hawks, who you know,
had a pretty convincing win thirty seven point victors over
the Bulldogs, which the Bulldogs were, These two teams were
in equal almost equal run of hot form, and the
Hawks went in there and you know, it did scary things,
(05:29):
interesting interesting move I'm not sure if you saw it,
but didn't do a hell of a lot in the
first half. So they moved him forward where the ball
wasn't going. So then obviously he didn't get much of
the ball in the third, and then when they were
six goals down, they put the back in the middle.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
He had nine touches kicked.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The goal probably should have had two if Norton didn't
touch it on the Western Bulldog's goal line, which is
probably not what you want. But yeah, so the Hawks
going up against port and they're actually the favorites Hawks
at a poor home game, which is I don't even know,
that's pretty hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Who would have gussed that it was? Yeah, that Bulldogs
talks team as well. I did love a little shout
out to the Wizard. Remember he put on the Wizard
ad after the game. That was absolute gold. I do
enjoy what Hawthorne is doing at the moment with all
their social media and they're kind of just the youth
that they have there. It is good fun. I think
everyone has a smile on their face seeing people enjoying
their football like that. And yeah, it wasn't predicting them
(06:33):
to take the line like that and be able to
punish them like they did. But you look at that
Hawthorn versus a poor game, it's like, yeah, I understand
why their favorites. To be honest, I can't imagine that.
You talk about momentum the time of year, and Port
Adelaid just got absolutely stopped with their momentum, and the
Hawks just didn't continue there. So it's gonna be tough
(06:54):
to not choose Hawthorn in that game, even though it
is a Port Adelaide home game. And I hate to say,
but my boys are about ros.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't want it for Kenny because we've backed him
in this whole time. But I genuinely fear what happens
after a straight set's loss. So I'm hoping it's a
bit of overreaction.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
We normally see these in finals where the two teams
vying for a prelimp spot, there's obviously got to be
two losers, and then when they lose, it's like, oh,
doom and gloom, we think they suck all this stuff.
But then they've got into the top four for a reason.
They normally come out the next week and get the
job done. But I don't know, we're seeing against the
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Mighty Hawks and there I saw stats and it's like
there since round eight them number one for scores, for
number one for defense, number one from like stoppage goals
number one, Like it's like, calm down. I don't know,
Oh my god, They're like a superpower of a team.
And maybe it's just come that long to get into
it round eight, but it's all turned around for him.
(08:03):
I do have to ask, you're on the other side
of the planet Earth now, outside of this Melbourne bubble
that I live in. Did you hear about Jack Ginovan
having a water at the London tavern?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Wild? Absolutely wild? He is a unique human in me
and you could see in the photo that went public,
like he locked eyes with the person that was taking
the photo and he's probably gone, a shit, He's oh no,
just realize that I don't know what just happened there
(08:35):
with the video and he he legit, just locked eyes
with whoever it was and realized I'm in for a
bit of a headline here for the next week. But
you know, if it's part of us, you know what,
it's kind of made him successful during the year. You
can't really knock it. You know. It's if he likes
to hang out with his friends, take his mind away
from it and have a you know, have a pub
(08:57):
meal as you say before a game. Then you know
Tom love to do it. So it's obviously working for him.
But I got to shout out someone else first, Lloyd Meek.
This man is absolutely killing it at the moment. He
is an incredible force. That is I think one of
the reasons that Hawthorn team is being so successful. He's
absolutely dominating in the middle there. And you got to
(09:18):
give a band as flowers when it's well deserved like that.
So get that shout out a little drawby to my
Lloyd Meek who's been absolutely killing it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I do like the big boys out there.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I do have to drag you back to Jack Ginovan
for one more because we don't mind the water at
the London tavern.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Hat.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What are our thoughts on texting your potential prelim opponents
two weeks ahead of time saying see you in fourteen
days on Instagram? Because that's what he's done. He's just
bypassed Port Adelaide completely and send a message straight to
BG Big Brody Grundy and said see you in fourteen
(09:54):
days now. Is that putting the heat on yourself or
onto your team and off in that one?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That is peak confidence right there if I've ever heard it.
Oh my gosh, the gold Now he was good mate
to Brodie obviously playing with him and stuff like that.
But to sit there and just look right past and
I guarantee you that will be up in Port Adelaide's
meeting room, just saying this fella does not respect us.
Let's absolutely take it to him. So you know, you give,
you give a little bit to the opposite. Sometimes it
(10:24):
can be detrimental. Sometimes it's called duck and our dinner,
as some people have said in the past. But it
is an interesting thing to be able to put that publicly.
You probably as a coach be saying, look, yeah, you
can say those things. You know it was a personal
relationship with Brody, but don't put it out to the
rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, it's not as bad as saying the showgrounds comments
six months ahead of time. Now, anything that you say
on international waters. I just want to put this out
there to the public. Anything that Mason says can't be
used against him in the court of law. He's on
a boat in front of a hot tu International Waters.
There's a jeeva convention or something. There's something that goes
(11:01):
about that.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know if you saw this, but the Battle
of the Bridge finally lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I mean, they have in Fannis had some.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Pretty good close rivalries, but this game was it was
well for starters. Clearly clearly the best game of the
first week of finals, because outside of.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
This, they were all a bit shit, to be honest.
But Sydney VGWS.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
GWS got the early jump on him and looked like
it was gonna they were gonna get it done. And
then I don't know if you know this bloke, Isaac
Eeney thirty touches. I think he had eight score involvements,
three goals, and he took what would be mark of
the year if it wasn't in finals.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He is an absolute freak. Like we're looking back on
that vision and like he kind of dragged him over
the line. I felt like similar to whenever we played him,
you know, he stood up in those moments that mattered most.
And that Markie tug, Oh, it was so sound. I
loved it. But he's he's as you know, we looking
(12:03):
at that game and like you thought the whole way through,
GWS surely finishes this out, and in that fourth quarter
they just came home strong, and yeah, it's it's pretty wild.
I could only imagine what the crowd was doing there
and how insane that atmosphere would have been being a
home game for Sydney and that come back and I'm
already kicking that last goal that just kind of dribbled
through and just absolutely going nuts. Man, it looked like
an absolute vibe there, real sick. But yeah, it was
(12:27):
crediton GBS man over there, Brighton, But your team didn't
didn't get across the lawn. Now they're going to go
and and face a Brisbane outfit that's uh, you know,
be Carlton over the weekend here, so it's gonna be
an interesting game there. But yeah, you still you still
think WUS has what it takes. Definitely Sydney, you know,
there was question marks around them obviously, you know, weren't
(12:48):
as dominant the back half of the year as the
first half of the year. But they they proved their
worth over the weekend and now they get that week
off that's so incredibly important during finals and we'll see
how they go.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, I definitely think out of GWS and Port GWS
is still very much a live chance to get across
the other side of the.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Fixture and get to a prelim.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
They you know, they did everything except for win the game,
and as we saw in the Collingwood game that Sydney
only needs a quarter, like they only need a quarter.
If that they half a quarter, they can chuck on
five goals. So yeah, they're still a scary proposition. I
feel like that's the game they needed to show people
(13:29):
that they can still really turn them around. So that
was a great game. One that wasn't Brisbane b Carleton.
Now Carlton just didn't arrive at the ground. Well they
could have just they could have stayed on the bus
for the first couple of quarters, because it took them
till like I think three minutes left in the second
quarter to kick their first goal. Then they kicked a
(13:50):
couple in a minute, which is pretty impressive. But they
were sixty to nothing at one stage, which is just curtains.
Like we've seen a lot of big comebacks. Unfortunately they
were nowhere near it. There was a couple of interesting
moments out of this where Kennedy went up and he
(14:10):
just had his partner just gave birth to their child,
made the trip up to Brisbane and got subbed out
halfway through the second quarter and he was sitting in
the back of the bench.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Steaming, which as it would be.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's probably fair because yeah, it's pretty rough to make
the trip up, but we did see Doherty return Sam Dougherty,
and he did return with a goal.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Sixteen touches a goal.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Nice little, you know, moment for Carlton in a game
that was you know, pretty dark for him.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone was probably favoring
COVID Carlton win that game. And whenever you looked out
of the score and it was sixty to nothing is
insane for a final. You think that like obviously being
in top eight teams you'd be able to put a
bit of a scoreboard pressure on. But obviously Carlton had
a few different people that were out and weren't playing.
But it was one of those things that Brisbane just
(15:06):
got off to such a hot start. It was never
going to be a chance for them to really try
to call back. I feel like in that moment, especially
being away too at the Fortress, and it was a
beautiful moment. I will say, Sam darker eagle. I think
that was kind of like the highlight for Carlton. If
you're a Carlton fan, have a pretty bleak kind of day,
But credits m He's a great man. I've always loved
Sam the way he's done it what he's kind of
(15:27):
done for, you know, testicular cancer and everything along those lines.
Every time you see him, you know, out there and
doing this thing, it's always a feel good moment, right,
It's always a feel good moment for Yeah, like I said,
which was not a not a great day to be
a Carlton fan, but probably to be expected.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah. So I'm fortunate for Carlton.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I know you and I really feel for him in
this moment, and thoughts and prayers go out to them
and the fan base because it's it's just a it's
a hard time for him, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
So that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Anyway, we do look ahead the next week, so we
do have Port Adelaide v.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Hawthorne. I feel like.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It feels like you're you've already said the Hawks. I'm
gonna I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I can't actually say that.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Can I stick with Port? I?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Ah, come on, do it? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, I'm gonna well, Yeah, for Kenny's sake, I'm sticking
with Port because if he if he loses, it's trouble.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
H Hey, I'm gonna do the same. I'm gonna stick
with Port Adelaide and worst case scenario. I'm saying, worst
case scenario, Kenny loses and he goes to West Coast
and they just rebuilt that program.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, don't mind it. Don't mind it, and hopefully he's
just loved and cherished there the whole way through.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
GWS Australia GWS, but no pressure in Perth. Apparently it's
nice and cruisier GWS v the Lions at NG Stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, that's gonna be an interesting one. I think that's
probably the one everyone's looking at as the big kind
of big ticket game. It's a question mark, maybe more
of a fifty to fifty than the other games. I
have to go wos on this one. There they took
Sydney to the line. Should they won that game, they
definitely had an opportunity to. But yeah, it's tough with
them been playing throughout the whole year. Really, I think
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it's hard to pick against them. Obviously, person had been
momentum winning their last game, But overall, I think a
home game for them gives them a chance to go
and play that winner that port out a lead game
and probably get back to that Grand Final spot. So
I'm gonna have to GOBS on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, I'm backing in my boys, the GWS Giants, Mighty Giants.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, I just think they're too.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Goods been have obviously lifted in the second half of
the season.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I just don't know if.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They're as good as they are at the Gabba, like
obviously they're not. But yeah, I just feel like Giants
should get the job done at home. So yeah, that's
a massive week of footy. Hopefully next week's games are
better than last week's games, and then so on and
so forth.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Hopefully we get a couple of good prelates.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
What about Geelong, We didn't really touch on Geelong's win,
but that's very impressive to go over there get the
job done. Danger lifted massively because yeah, I just thought
they were going to tag homes and then once you
tag homes it kind of gets a bit thin. But
Holmes had sixteen at halftime. He was just towing them up,
(18:34):
setting up everything. Grian Myers pretty much. It feels like
every kick that he kicks is a goal assist. Like, yeah,
they just keep getting it done the old Cat.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's impressive. I think you talk about experience and how
important that is coming towards finals and I mean they
don't have Gary Rowan, who unfortunately I broke I think
he broke the score with fractions tomahawk. There's a few
guys that, you know, they end up still having out.
Like I think that the leaders really kind of stood
up in that game, and it is insane to look
(19:05):
at that score line and go that actually happened. Like,
I think everyone was so convinced it was going to
be a close game or port out of that was
going to beat them, and Geelong just went over there
and absolutely spanked them at their home ground and no
one saw it coming. So I think a lot of
people probably look past your along a little bit. You know,
it's an out of the top four. They probably the
(19:25):
weekest out of the top four, all that kind of stuff.
After that game, people are going, well, Geelong now might
be you know those teams that actually makes a flag. Yeah,
it's kind of kind of crazy. How think many people
would have probably been saying that before the final series
kind of started, But after that performance, you can't you
can't knock them.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, Yeah, it's and like they're run as soon as
they like now they're at the g I assume for
the pre lim and then at the g again with
a home run through the potentially another Grand Final where yeah,
they've over here, they've been belding up how well Chris
Scott has done so he kind of it deserves that
(20:04):
given he's been in something like thirteen pre limbs since
he's been at the at Geelong since twenty eleven, won
a flag in his first year, one two since he's
been there, runner up in one heap of pre limbs.
They just keep taking it over anyway, I'm not going
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to I don't want to stray too far away from
your holiday because I want to know about that. I
want to live vicariously through you. And before we jumped
into the footy, you said you had a little story,
a little teaser.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, so as you know, I'm selling Croatia at the
moment right now, and I'm sitting there going okay, perfect.
I got to Croatia, I got to split eight days
on a boat and now going beautiful. I'm half a
world away from Australia, no one or know anything about football,
be able to get on this boat, meet some people
from all over the world. Right, I'll get there, I'll
put my bags on, I'll check in, I'll talk to
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the guy that's talking, yeah, that's looking after the boat,
and he goes, what's you name? Where you're from? Sad
on from Australia. He goes, oh beautiful, everyone else on
this boat is from Australia. I said, you got to
be absolutely kidding me. There's the twenty eight people on
this boat. All of them are from Australia. So the
guy goes, oh, do you think anyone would know you?
And I said, ah, depending on where where they're from,
(21:17):
Sydney or you know, up in Queen's I'm probably not,
but maybe the other ones would probably have heard of
something if they're an AFL fan. They get onto this boat.
As I walk up the stairs, this guy goes, oh,
I just might welcome to the by I've traveled half
a world awide to get away from football. What about not.
I've landed on a boat with a bunch of football
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people and there's these lovely people from w I They're
very very nice, a few Collingwood fans, which is ironic
being half a world awide, but they're absolutely legends of
the Nazist people and a bit of a story. The
first night, one of the guys comes up to me
He goes, can you give me a favor? I said, yeah,
what do you need? He goes, well, six of us
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played local you know, footy as kids, and I brought
jerseys of our local football club. I said, yeah, okay,
that's kind of eq and interesting is will you do
a jersey presentation on the boat for the first night.
Not only have I rocked up to a boat full
of Australians, I am doing a jersey presentation on the
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first night of this cruise, which is something I don't
think I could have fathomed whenever I told myself I'm
going on a Croatian tour, on a cruise for a
whole week. And it has been lovely. They've been amazing people.
But it was hilarious and they are enjoying a drink.
They're all from w A. They're hoot as we would
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call them back in America. But you wouldn't believe it. Brighton,
I've landed myself on a footy boat in the middle
of Croatia, half world away from where footy exists.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
W A to out of everyone that it could have made.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, I didn't say it. I didn't say oh my god.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That reminded me of I think Pendules said that he
went all the way to Greece once and he went
out onto his balcony just to set it up. I
think it might have been way back in the day,
like we're talking twenty ten, and he walked out there
and someone was watching the replay of the Grand Final
on a phone next door.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You could hear it. You can't, you just can't escape anyway.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
This is why I want to jump into some of
these because obviously we'll get more into the rest of
your trip going on, but I want to just bring
up some things that can happen because sometimes sometimes you think,
you know, rational thoughts, I should be fine to do this,
and that I should be fine to go on that
elephant ride. I should be fine to you know, getting
(23:45):
the jacuzi on the roof. Should like you're going through
you're doing a lot. Well, you're not through Asia, but
you're through Europe. You know the gondola, right, just be careful,
you know, they could they can come out of anywhere.
And I just want to give you some of the
weirder and whackier one. So obviously we'll start pretty light
and you probably know this one because it was well
(24:05):
within your time. But Max King, you know, in his
second season he was playing a round of golf and
got hit by a stray golf ball and now that
can cussed him and he had to miss two weeks
from concussion. So just when you're like, oh, maybe we'll
just go have a nice chill round of golf, your
(24:26):
head on a swivel, mate, because anything can happen.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Helmet, We're a helmet now.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Good seguees because a former teammate of yours, Jaden Stevenson,
loves a mountain bike ride now. He just finished He
just finished his first season for the North Melbourne footy
club back in twenty twenty one. Having a couple of
drinks at home, he said, look at me do a
fancy trick on my mountain bike and went tits up.
(24:54):
I landed on a concrete pavi, resulting in an ambulance
ride to the hospital with a fractured hip. So have
you got any mountain bike rides planned for the trip?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I am going to do a bike ride through a
national park here in a couple of days, so I
will take it on only paved roads. I will be
very diligent in the way I go about it. I
will make sure I don't do anything like you did.
What do you do? You rupture your testicle? It?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I just did something that's all together, no ruptures. I
didn't rupture my what is it my blood vessels or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Thing?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then but that was I was being a silly goose.
I tried to do a trick like Jade and Stevenson.
And that's when when your ability and your confidence like
don't align, that's when you get into trouble. So just
you're not as good as you think you are. Just
pull it back a stretch. Now we know Jeremy, how
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right your teammate, very talented individual, and will take him
on his word for this one, because obviously he broke
his finger with an incident with his dog and a
frisbee and it definitely didn't happen in the T twenty
clash in Melbourne's eastern suburbs where he also played a game,
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but that was just coincidence because it was a frisbee
and his dog. Now, I also stumbled across one where
Jeremy got kicked out of the MCG for building a
giant beer snake. So Jeremy likes to have a crack
during the off season, So don't it. Just don't do
what how he does?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Is that? I think that's a good motto.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well, how he also just released that he's having a
second child, So don'll double down on that line and.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Don't Yeah, don't do that. Way you're over.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
There, do that.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
There's plenty of avenues I can go down.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
With that forgot to his wife, but I'll try to
stay away from it for the time.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
He congratulations and as always, wear a helmet. You were
talking about with the bike riding, wear a helmet. Both
both scenarios wear a helmet. Uh. Now we all know
this one famous one cal Mills WrestleMania comes early postseason celebrations,
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bit of a wrestle dislocated the shoulder, torn rotator cuff
in the left shoulder and was just that kind of
ruled out.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The start of his season.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So named captain after that, which is great. I think
maybe that was the that was the final whoever won
that wrestler be a captain. But I don't know how
you win with the torn rotator cuff. So when you're
out there no wrestling, that's a pretty simple one.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I reckon. You could probably stay away from that.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's good advice. Yeah, I'll try to stay wear a helmet. Helmet,
don't don't do anything with dogs, is what I've learned
over the off seasons. I think dogs lead to broken hands.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Dogs are a big one. I don't even think you're
pretty accident prone. You've had a lot of accidents over
the time. I don't even think you could break your
hand with the frisbee. But Jeremy how I did it. Anyway,
we'll get off Jess Stevie J. Christmas drinks disaster. Now
this is a pretty famous one. Three time Premiership a
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Norm Smith Metal a successful assistant coach. But way back
December two thousand and three, Stevie J decided to jump
the fence of a Torquy hotel to get back into
the venue in the early hour. So already right there, right,
you get kicked out, it's probably a good sign.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
To stay out. You're done.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You're done, though, what you're not doing is climbing a fence,
scale a fence and try to jump back into the
venue and shatter both heels in the process.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So poor, I feel that's a pretty that's a pretty
fair one.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now we can all dabble in a bit of the
alcohol from time to time, especially the athletes in the
off season, and I know that you don't drink a
lot during the season, so it can go straight to you.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
So maybe just if you get kicked out, stay in.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It reminds me of one of my favorite stories of
when of our first came to Australia and Jack Reewald,
who was obviously playing at Richmond at the time. One
of my first impressions of the Richmond Football Club was
the media was outside because he had said something about
Demma and the media cameras were all over the place.
I'm upstairs doing a psychology assessment and all of a sudden,
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I see this human in a dead strength across Richmond's
field hops a fence, gets over to the train station
and I'm sitting there looking at these reporters chasing on them,
and I'm going, who is that? And the guy kind
of like embarrassingly says, yeah, he's kind of one of
our best players. He's running away from the media decided
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to take the trade home to the day. I was like, Wow,
this AFL thing is real. Just anything goes That.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Was very I was actually there for that one, so
that was it was interesting the run to the train
station chasing after Jack. He you know, he's smartened up
since then. Immatured up, so that was good to see.
We can not that he was a mistake, but we
do learn from these things and we.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Do grow as people.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Now there was a famous one. This is probably more
when you get back. But I never know what they
do on these Kentiky tours, these Kentiquy to not that
you're on one of those, but they make you do
all kinds of dumb bonding shit over there. And one
of them, if they say, mace, we can motivate you
to endure any type of pain because we can get
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you so in the zone you can just switch your
mind off, and that's what they did. Nigel Smart in
Adelaide where a bunch of Adelaide players for the preseason
were convinced to walk over boiling hot coals and they
all kind of melted to their feet and then they
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all got pretty severe burns. So that's something that I
wouldn't suggest you do.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You I Lay football club, not great history.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Not great at the preseason camp, it's very safe to say,
have you ever got talked into doing some dumb bonding
ship on any of these these trips you've been on.
I know a lot of people we did the the
you have to you take the shot without using your mouth,
and then you spit out the shot, and then you've
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got to kiss the person next to him.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, no I didn't. I haven't done that one.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You're leaking.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
For those listening to the audio only version, that's the
QUSI that's not Mason just kissing himself.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, it's so good. I've done any of those bonding yet.
I think I've jumped off a few cliffs and stuff
over my times just to kind of, you know, be
part of the group. But I don't think I'll be
doing that. And it's yeah, it's a I think the
group I'm with right now. I've been told that the
average age for this cruise is forty five plus, so
I don't think that's probably a longer line than one
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of a lot of people on here. I think I'm
actually okay with it. You know, I'm here just to
have a good, lacking time, and I don't need to
be doing shots and kissing people that left right at me,
like you brighton. Yeah, that's just not my future.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You gotta get over there. You've got to experiment whoever's
next year, just have a crack.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I do want to get to this one because very
interesting backyard blitz leaves Red Otton's stuck. A bit of
a backyard diy went horribly wrong for the Richmond Forward
after the two thousand and two season. The number two
draft pick from nineteen ninety seven fell from a tree
while trying to hang an outdoor swinging chair and landed
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on what he described as a broomstick sized garden steak,
which got stuck in his thigh nikes.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That's oh, that just sounds rough. And then also kind
of explaining that story to the club. I would have
loved to have just been on that phone call of
just trying to explain what the hell just happened. And
you have to have to believe them because it's such
a detailed event, Like you can't sit there and say
that that's like that's a wild story, just to makeup
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to say that's not even true. So credit to him,
I guess, but I don't know. I almost would probably
make up a fake story to be able to come
to this point.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's very it's an innocent thing, like a like a
hanging rope swing from a tree, so I get where
they're coming from. A couple of these are very creative.
Now we've got the frisbee, we got the rope swing.
Now what about another. There's a lot of Collingwood former
He's not a former teammate, but former Collingwood player Shared
Wellingham's trampoline shocker.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Now, isn't that a headline?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
West Coast gave up the first round pick for Shared
Wellingham at the end of twenty twelve, but the former
Magpie took longer than expected to debut for his new
club after suffering ankle cindusmoses late in preseason in twenty thirteen.
Wellington Wellingham thought he broke his leg after falling from
a trampoline.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
True ideal, that's for sure. And I think I've done
a bounce. We've been to Ponzi Castle, kind of thing
for adults to bounced my knee and one of those
coffee a month or two of a pre season, so
I think just staying away from general plays ago, I
would say Bran, Yeah, he was one of the first
people I think I'd seen actually play football. So it's
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interesting that a bit of backstory of all no, no,
exactly how much risk he's going to season, but stay
away from trampolines in general, because as a kid, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
As an adult, now, yeah, I think tall people in general,
tall people trampolaines don't go hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Now, I do want to give an honorable mention to
Brian Lake, who spent a week in a Japanese jail cell.
He went over to play a nice innocent game for
the AFL Asia tournament, but he had an altercation with
the local man.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So stay out of jail.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Japanese people they don't stuff around, so don't don't mess
with that.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Lucky, you're not.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Going to make sure everyone stays out of is the
biggest thing I think. But give us one more.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
The Western Bulldogs first pick in the two thousand and
seven AFL Draft was stung on the back of a
leg by a sting ray during a recovery session at
the Beach in February two thousand and eight. Now that's
very rough, especially because he grew up playing for the
Danding Long Stingrays. They think they would have had one
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of their own in the back of their mind, but
just be very careful over there.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
This is the last thing I will say.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Don't go messing with any stingrays, any creatures in the water,
I reckon, maybe just stay out of the water. No sharks.
We're wearing a helmet in the in the bike department.
Are you rock climbing, mountain climbing? Are we doing any
you snorkeling? Because we've already said stay out of the water,
are we doing anything? Tell us what the rest of
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your trip is from here on out, and we can
just give it a bit of a grading on where
you should be careful and how you should be able
to get through this. We've got to navigate your way
through this, mate.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
We've got another boat for five six days like after that,
and we're going to hike thro the Domonds. I will
wear that helmet then, and then it will spend a
month in after that's four of a cl which is
music festival, and then we'll do the U S a FL,
do some stuff over there with AFL what should be
good fine, and then the rest of it's a bit
up for debates. So I will keep the helmet in
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mind whenever doing biking or whatever kind of be able
to use that, I guess. But the biggest thing. Yeah,
I'll try to stay away with the thing right is,
don't like to steve her one stuff. I didn't get
bit by a crab, was a torquy recently. That's the
absolute but Jesus out of me, So I'll try to
stay away from those the sea creatures. I think it's
probably a good good advice for the off season.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I like that I did hear a lot of don't
get crabs, don't fall off a mountain, uh, don't. Just
Texas in general, a lot of guns, a lot of
heap of guns.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So just gun. Just take yourself there.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I don't know about going to music festivals or anything
like that. We did hear about your shenanigans last time
with your brother, so maybe we skip. Let's just bubble
wrap it up. But it is good to see that
you're currently still alive. It looks like it's getting a
little windy on top of the boat there, which I'm glad.
I feel like that's coming from Melbourne, it's coming across
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the line, so I don't know, we're gonna have to
wrap it up there, but yeah, it is good to
see you. It's good to hear from your any words
for our loving fans before your head.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Off, massive, massive thank you for the year everyone. I
hope you've joined it. We might release a few episodes
of some hurricane here, released a few episodes of some
of our favorite kind of interviews we've done over the
next few weeks, but no massive thank you as always
from the community, hopefully here. Yeah you're surviving down there
in Melbourne, in the windy city, but yeah, thank you
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to everyone, and I'm going to go enjoy my holidays
for the last a little bit. I can't wait for
next year. It's gonna be good, fun.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Too easy. We'll see you when you get back.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Thanks Jia, We'll catch a later. Rob
Hey, legends, welcome back to The Mason cock Show Vacation Edition. Yes,
we're going to talk about some off season travels. We're
also going to recap some off season travels that other
people have may have stuffed up in the past. Plus
we'll cover the footy and much much more on this episode,
So stay tuned in, legend, It's going to be good one.
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All right, Legends, let's get straight into it. It is
the Vacation holiday edition of The Mason cock Show nine Overseas,
and it's the technical off season, unfortunately for me. But
without further ado, welcome Brandon Toms.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Get a Mason's always good to see that you're alive.
I get sweaty when these players go overseas because I
never know what shenanigans you get up to. So I
thought I'd ease my mind and go on the internet
and just find out that. I was hoping to find
that players don't actually get into a lot of mischief overseas,
but I actually uncovered a whole heap of stories that
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begs to differ. And yeah, so I'm pretty sure we
were leaning to not doing any more podcasts for the year,
but I did want to tune in. I did want
to get on a call just to see your face.
There's a lot riding on these trips, Mace. We need
you to come back so we can keep going on
with this podcast. But I just wanted to tune in.
(01:24):
So it's good to see you alive. I haven't heard
anything from you, so I want to know where you are,
what you're doing, what you've been doing, and how your
welfare is.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Welfare is great currently sailing Croatia in the middle of
the Mediterranean. Can't complain. And I'm on a boat. I
think the lonely boys, I'm on a boat, you know
what I mean. I think that's my lifestyle at the moment.
Saw some dolphins this morning, which was beautiful, and yeah,
life isn't too bad. But I'm still paying attention to
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a bit of the football and I'm hoping not to
be one of those stories that I'm sure got plenty
of of news that have happened in the past different
football players.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, no, is that a chacuzie you're sitting in front of.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's a very great observation, Brandon. It is a chacuzi,
or a hot tub, as I like to call it,
a hot time on top of the top deck of
the sun deck of this yacht mine at the moment.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
So what's the temperature like there? What are we talking?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh man, it is a brisk probably twenty five twenty
six maybe right now it is eight am or eight
thirty in the morning, so still the sun hasn't come out.
But I might be coming back a little darker than
I came here.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
We haven't seen a leak of sunlight here. Like I'm
I was pale before, I'm I'm turning translucent. I'm wider
than an a four sheet of paper. You know what's great? Wind,
and we are getting a lot of it. Wind is
just the best, especially when you match that up with
rain and cold.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That's the trio that we're talking about. So that's great.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's good to hear that your miserable over there in
front of you. So did you want to how did
you want to structure this? So you have seen a
bit of footy? Did you want to lightly dip into
the footy? And then I want to bring up some
of these stories because I just want to have them
in front of mine when you're traveling the rest of
your your jaunt around the world. I want to have
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them in front of mine so you can go. You
know what, maybe I shouldn't, you know, do the worm
on top of a taxi or anything a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, Brandon, I've got a great story I'm going to
tell you before we before we get into it, that'll
talk about the football over the we because I'm pretty
sure that every single team that we picked a win
got spanked over the weekend or had a dramatic loss.
I think we need to probably redeem ourselves of our
football knowledge before we get into some of these stories. Now,
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I'll let you kick us off. That Geelong game, Oh
my gosh, what world is going on?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We really backed in, We really really backed in Kenny Hinckley.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We backed him in hard.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And obviously it's not the coach out there doing most
of the stuff. Zach butter Is getting injured didn't really help.
But you know, outside of maybe Horn Francis and I
don't know Ollie Wines or like that, there wasn't much,
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you know, of a fight back, which is just damning
to say there's not much of a fight back from
Port that Actually they just got obliterated eighty four points
at home. That's got to do some lasting scarring damage,
doesn't it heading into next week where they have to
well this week where they have to go again, do we.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Do we think they're out in straight sets again? I mean,
all my confidence I had of Port Adelaide essentially going
out the window, and I have no idea if they're
even going to win this next game. I really am
a fifty to fifty on the possibility. Like I was so,
I was gun her Grand Final team, no doubt whatsoever,
and now I feel like I couldn't be more on
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the opposite into the spectrum.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now, now they're coming up against the Hawks, who you know,
had a pretty convincing win thirty seven point victors over
the Bulldogs, which the Bulldogs were, These two teams were
in equal almost equal run of hot form, and the
Hawks went in there and you know, it did scary things,
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interesting interesting move I'm not sure if you saw it,
but didn't do a hell of a lot in the
first half. So they moved him forward where the ball
wasn't going. So then obviously he didn't get much of
the ball in the third, and then when they were
six goals down, they put the back in the middle.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
He had nine touches kicked.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The goal probably should have had two if Norton didn't
touch it on the Western Bulldog's goal line, which is
probably not what you want. But yeah, so the Hawks
going up against port and they're actually the favorites Hawks
at a poor home game, which is I don't even know,
that's pretty hard to believe.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Who would have gussed that it was? Yeah, that Bulldogs
talks team as well. I did love a little shout
out to the Wizard. Remember he put on the Wizard
ad after the game. That was absolute gold. I do
enjoy what Hawthorne is doing at the moment with all
their social media and they're kind of just the youth
that they have there. It is good fun. I think
everyone has a smile on their face seeing people enjoying
their football like that. And yeah, it wasn't predicting them
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to take the line like that and be able to
punish them like they did. But you look at that
Hawthorn versus a poor game, it's like, yeah, I understand
why their favorites. To be honest, I can't imagine that.
You talk about momentum the time of year, and Port
Adelaid just got absolutely stopped with their momentum, and the
Hawks just didn't continue there. So it's gonna be tough
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to not choose Hawthorn in that game, even though it
is a Port Adelaide home game. And I hate to say,
but my boys are about ros.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't want it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't want it for Kenny because we've backed him
in this whole time. But I genuinely fear what happens
after a straight set's loss. So I'm hoping it's a
bit of overreaction.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
We normally see these in finals where the two teams
vying for a prelimp spot, there's obviously got to be
two losers, and then when they lose, it's like, oh,
doom and gloom, we think they suck all this stuff.
But then they've got into the top four for a reason.
They normally come out the next week and get the
job done. But I don't know, we're seeing against the
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Mighty Hawks and there I saw stats and it's like
there since round eight them number one for scores, for
number one for defense, number one from like stoppage goals
number one, Like it's like, calm down. I don't know,
Oh my god, They're like a superpower of a team.
And maybe it's just come that long to get into
it round eight, but it's all turned around for him.
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I do have to ask, you're on the other side
of the planet Earth now, outside of this Melbourne bubble
that I live in. Did you hear about Jack Ginovan
having a water at the London tavern?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Wild? Absolutely wild? He is a unique human in me
and you could see in the photo that went public,
like he locked eyes with the person that was taking
the photo and he's probably gone, a shit, He's oh no,
just realize that I don't know what just happened there
(08:35):
with the video and he he legit, just locked eyes
with whoever it was and realized I'm in for a
bit of a headline here for the next week. But
you know, if it's part of us, you know what,
it's kind of made him successful during the year. You
can't really knock it. You know. It's if he likes
to hang out with his friends, take his mind away
from it and have a you know, have a pub
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meal as you say before a game. Then you know
Tom love to do it. So it's obviously working for him.
But I got to shout out someone else first, Lloyd Meek.
This man is absolutely killing it at the moment. He
is an incredible force. That is I think one of
the reasons that Hawthorn team is being so successful. He's
absolutely dominating in the middle there. And you got to
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give a band as flowers when it's well deserved like that.
So get that shout out a little drawby to my
Lloyd Meek who's been absolutely killing it.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I do like the big boys out there.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I do have to drag you back to Jack Ginovan
for one more because we don't mind the water at
the London tavern.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Hat.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What are our thoughts on texting your potential prelim opponents
two weeks ahead of time saying see you in fourteen
days on Instagram? Because that's what he's done. He's just
bypassed Port Adelaide completely and send a message straight to
BG Big Brody Grundy and said see you in fourteen
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days now. Is that putting the heat on yourself or
onto your team and off in that one?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That is peak confidence right there if I've ever heard it.
Oh my gosh, the gold Now he was good mate
to Brodie obviously playing with him and stuff like that.
But to sit there and just look right past and
I guarantee you that will be up in Port Adelaide's
meeting room, just saying this fella does not respect us.
Let's absolutely take it to him. So you know, you give,
you give a little bit to the opposite. Sometimes it
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can be detrimental. Sometimes it's called duck and our dinner,
as some people have said in the past. But it
is an interesting thing to be able to put that publicly.
You probably as a coach be saying, look, yeah, you
can say those things. You know it was a personal
relationship with Brody, but don't put it out to the
rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, it's not as bad as saying the showgrounds comments
six months ahead of time. Now, anything that you say
on international waters. I just want to put this out
there to the public. Anything that Mason says can't be
used against him in the court of law. He's on
a boat in front of a hot tu International Waters.
There's a jeeva convention or something. There's something that goes
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about that.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know if you saw this, but the Battle
of the Bridge finally lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I mean, they have in Fannis had some.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Pretty good close rivalries, but this game was it was
well for starters. Clearly clearly the best game of the
first week of finals, because outside of.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
This, they were all a bit shit, to be honest.
But Sydney VGWS.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
GWS got the early jump on him and looked like
it was gonna they were gonna get it done. And
then I don't know if you know this bloke, Isaac
Eeney thirty touches. I think he had eight score involvements,
three goals, and he took what would be mark of
the year if it wasn't in finals.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He is an absolute freak. Like we're looking back on
that vision and like he kind of dragged him over
the line. I felt like similar to whenever we played him,
you know, he stood up in those moments that mattered most.
And that Markie tug, Oh, it was so sound. I
loved it. But he's he's as you know, we looking
(12:03):
at that game and like you thought the whole way through,
GWS surely finishes this out, and in that fourth quarter
they just came home strong, and yeah, it's it's pretty wild.
I could only imagine what the crowd was doing there
and how insane that atmosphere would have been being a
home game for Sydney and that come back and I'm
already kicking that last goal that just kind of dribbled
through and just absolutely going nuts. Man, it looked like
an absolute vibe there, real sick. But yeah, it was
(12:27):
crediton GBS man over there, Brighton, But your team didn't
didn't get across the lawn. Now they're going to go
and and face a Brisbane outfit that's uh, you know,
be Carlton over the weekend here, so it's gonna be
an interesting game there. But yeah, you still you still
think WUS has what it takes. Definitely Sydney, you know,
there was question marks around them obviously, you know, weren't
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as dominant the back half of the year as the
first half of the year. But they they proved their
worth over the weekend and now they get that week
off that's so incredibly important during finals and we'll see
how they go.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, I definitely think out of GWS and Port GWS
is still very much a live chance to get across
the other side of the.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Fixture and get to a prelim.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
They you know, they did everything except for win the game,
and as we saw in the Collingwood game that Sydney
only needs a quarter, like they only need a quarter.
If that they half a quarter, they can chuck on
five goals. So yeah, they're still a scary proposition. I
feel like that's the game they needed to show people
(13:29):
that they can still really turn them around. So that
was a great game. One that wasn't Brisbane b Carleton.
Now Carlton just didn't arrive at the ground. Well they
could have just they could have stayed on the bus
for the first couple of quarters, because it took them
till like I think three minutes left in the second
quarter to kick their first goal. Then they kicked a
(13:50):
couple in a minute, which is pretty impressive. But they
were sixty to nothing at one stage, which is just curtains.
Like we've seen a lot of big comebacks. Unfortunately they
were nowhere near it. There was a couple of interesting
moments out of this where Kennedy went up and he
(14:10):
just had his partner just gave birth to their child,
made the trip up to Brisbane and got subbed out
halfway through the second quarter and he was sitting in
the back of the bench.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Steaming, which as it would be.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's probably fair because yeah, it's pretty rough to make
the trip up, but we did see Doherty return Sam Dougherty,
and he did return with a goal.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Sixteen touches a goal.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Nice little, you know, moment for Carlton in a game
that was you know, pretty dark for him.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone was probably favoring
COVID Carlton win that game. And whenever you looked out
of the score and it was sixty to nothing is
insane for a final. You think that like obviously being
in top eight teams you'd be able to put a
bit of a scoreboard pressure on. But obviously Carlton had
a few different people that were out and weren't playing.
But it was one of those things that Brisbane just
(15:06):
got off to such a hot start. It was never
going to be a chance for them to really try
to call back. I feel like in that moment, especially
being away too at the Fortress, and it was a
beautiful moment. I will say, Sam darker eagle. I think
that was kind of like the highlight for Carlton. If
you're a Carlton fan, have a pretty bleak kind of day,
But credits m He's a great man. I've always loved
Sam the way he's done it what he's kind of
(15:27):
done for, you know, testicular cancer and everything along those lines.
Every time you see him, you know, out there and
doing this thing, it's always a feel good moment, right,
It's always a feel good moment for Yeah, like I said,
which was not a not a great day to be
a Carlton fan, but probably to be expected.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah. So I'm fortunate for Carlton.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I know you and I really feel for him in
this moment, and thoughts and prayers go out to them
and the fan base because it's it's just a it's
a hard time for him, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
So that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Anyway, we do look ahead the next week, so we
do have Port Adelaide v.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Hawthorne. I feel like.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
It feels like you're you've already said the Hawks. I'm
gonna I can't.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I can't actually say that.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Can I stick with Port? I?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Ah, come on, do it? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Yeah, I'm gonna well, Yeah, for Kenny's sake, I'm sticking
with Port because if he if he loses, it's trouble.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
H Hey, I'm gonna do the same. I'm gonna stick
with Port Adelaide and worst case scenario. I'm saying, worst
case scenario, Kenny loses and he goes to West Coast
and they just rebuilt that program.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, don't mind it. Don't mind it, and hopefully he's
just loved and cherished there the whole way through.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What do we got?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
GWS Australia GWS, but no pressure in Perth. Apparently it's
nice and cruisier GWS v the Lions at NG Stadium.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, that's gonna be an interesting one. I think that's
probably the one everyone's looking at as the big kind
of big ticket game. It's a question mark, maybe more
of a fifty to fifty than the other games. I
have to go wos on this one. There they took
Sydney to the line. Should they won that game, they
definitely had an opportunity to. But yeah, it's tough with
them been playing throughout the whole year. Really, I think
(17:22):
it's hard to pick against them. Obviously, person had been
momentum winning their last game, But overall, I think a
home game for them gives them a chance to go
and play that winner that port out a lead game
and probably get back to that Grand Final spot. So
I'm gonna have to GOBS on this one.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, I'm backing in my boys, the GWS Giants, Mighty Giants.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, I just think they're too.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Goods been have obviously lifted in the second half of
the season.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I just don't know if.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They're as good as they are at the Gabba, like
obviously they're not. But yeah, I just feel like Giants
should get the job done at home. So yeah, that's
a massive week of footy. Hopefully next week's games are
better than last week's games, and then so on and
so forth.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Hopefully we get a couple of good prelates.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
What about Geelong, We didn't really touch on Geelong's win,
but that's very impressive to go over there get the
job done. Danger lifted massively because yeah, I just thought
they were going to tag homes and then once you
tag homes it kind of gets a bit thin. But
Holmes had sixteen at halftime. He was just towing them up,
(18:34):
setting up everything. Grian Myers pretty much. It feels like
every kick that he kicks is a goal assist. Like, yeah,
they just keep getting it done the old Cat.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's impressive. I think you talk about experience and how
important that is coming towards finals and I mean they
don't have Gary Rowan, who unfortunately I broke I think
he broke the score with fractions tomahawk. There's a few
guys that, you know, they end up still having out.
Like I think that the leaders really kind of stood
up in that game, and it is insane to look
(19:05):
at that score line and go that actually happened. Like,
I think everyone was so convinced it was going to
be a close game or port out of that was
going to beat them, and Geelong just went over there
and absolutely spanked them at their home ground and no
one saw it coming. So I think a lot of
people probably look past your along a little bit. You know,
it's an out of the top four. They probably the
(19:25):
weekest out of the top four, all that kind of stuff.
After that game, people are going, well, Geelong now might
be you know those teams that actually makes a flag. Yeah,
it's kind of kind of crazy. How think many people
would have probably been saying that before the final series
kind of started, But after that performance, you can't you
can't knock them.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No, Yeah, it's and like they're run as soon as
they like now they're at the g I assume for
the pre lim and then at the g again with
a home run through the potentially another Grand Final where yeah,
they've over here, they've been belding up how well Chris
Scott has done so he kind of it deserves that
(20:04):
given he's been in something like thirteen pre limbs since
he's been at the at Geelong since twenty eleven, won
a flag in his first year, one two since he's
been there, runner up in one heap of pre limbs.
They just keep taking it over anyway, I'm not going
(20:25):
to I don't want to stray too far away from
your holiday because I want to know about that. I
want to live vicariously through you. And before we jumped
into the footy, you said you had a little story,
a little teaser.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, so as you know, I'm selling Croatia at the
moment right now, and I'm sitting there going okay, perfect.
I got to Croatia, I got to split eight days
on a boat and now going beautiful. I'm half a
world away from Australia, no one or know anything about football,
be able to get on this boat, meet some people
from all over the world. Right, I'll get there, I'll
put my bags on, I'll check in, I'll talk to
(20:57):
the guy that's talking, yeah, that's looking after the boat,
and he goes, what's you name? Where you're from? Sad
on from Australia. He goes, oh beautiful, everyone else on
this boat is from Australia. I said, you got to
be absolutely kidding me. There's the twenty eight people on
this boat. All of them are from Australia. So the
guy goes, oh, do you think anyone would know you?
And I said, ah, depending on where where they're from,
(21:17):
Sydney or you know, up in Queen's I'm probably not,
but maybe the other ones would probably have heard of
something if they're an AFL fan. They get onto this boat.
As I walk up the stairs, this guy goes, oh,
I just might welcome to the by I've traveled half
a world awide to get away from football. What about not.
I've landed on a boat with a bunch of football
(21:39):
people and there's these lovely people from w I They're
very very nice, a few Collingwood fans, which is ironic
being half a world awide, but they're absolutely legends of
the Nazist people and a bit of a story. The
first night, one of the guys comes up to me
He goes, can you give me a favor? I said, yeah,
what do you need? He goes, well, six of us
(22:01):
played local you know, footy as kids, and I brought
jerseys of our local football club. I said, yeah, okay,
that's kind of eq and interesting is will you do
a jersey presentation on the boat for the first night.
Not only have I rocked up to a boat full
of Australians, I am doing a jersey presentation on the
(22:23):
first night of this cruise, which is something I don't
think I could have fathomed whenever I told myself I'm
going on a Croatian tour, on a cruise for a
whole week. And it has been lovely. They've been amazing people.
But it was hilarious and they are enjoying a drink.
They're all from w A. They're hoot as we would
(22:45):
call them back in America. But you wouldn't believe it. Brighton,
I've landed myself on a footy boat in the middle
of Croatia, half world away from where footy exists.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
W A to out of everyone that it could have made.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, I didn't say it. I didn't say oh my god.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That reminded me of I think Pendules said that he
went all the way to Greece once and he went
out onto his balcony just to set it up. I
think it might have been way back in the day,
like we're talking twenty ten, and he walked out there
and someone was watching the replay of the Grand Final
on a phone next door.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
You could hear it. You can't, you just can't escape anyway.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
This is why I want to jump into some of
these because obviously we'll get more into the rest of
your trip going on, but I want to just bring
up some things that can happen because sometimes sometimes you think,
you know, rational thoughts, I should be fine to do this,
and that I should be fine to go on that
elephant ride. I should be fine to you know, getting
(23:45):
the jacuzi on the roof. Should like you're going through
you're doing a lot. Well, you're not through Asia, but
you're through Europe. You know the gondola, right, just be careful,
you know, they could they can come out of anywhere.
And I just want to give you some of the
weirder and whackier one. So obviously we'll start pretty light
and you probably know this one because it was well
(24:05):
within your time. But Max King, you know, in his
second season he was playing a round of golf and
got hit by a stray golf ball and now that
can cussed him and he had to miss two weeks
from concussion. So just when you're like, oh, maybe we'll
just go have a nice chill round of golf, your
(24:26):
head on a swivel, mate, because anything can happen.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Helmet, We're a helmet now.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Good seguees because a former teammate of yours, Jaden Stevenson,
loves a mountain bike ride now. He just finished He
just finished his first season for the North Melbourne footy
club back in twenty twenty one. Having a couple of
drinks at home, he said, look at me do a
fancy trick on my mountain bike and went tits up.
(24:54):
I landed on a concrete pavi, resulting in an ambulance
ride to the hospital with a fractured hip. So have
you got any mountain bike rides planned for the trip?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I am going to do a bike ride through a
national park here in a couple of days, so I
will take it on only paved roads. I will be
very diligent in the way I go about it. I
will make sure I don't do anything like you did.
What do you do? You rupture your testicle? It?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I just did something that's all together, no ruptures. I
didn't rupture my what is it my blood vessels or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Thing?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And then but that was I was being a silly goose.
I tried to do a trick like Jade and Stevenson.
And that's when when your ability and your confidence like
don't align, that's when you get into trouble. So just
you're not as good as you think you are. Just
pull it back a stretch. Now we know Jeremy, how
(25:54):
right your teammate, very talented individual, and will take him
on his word for this one, because obviously he broke
his finger with an incident with his dog and a
frisbee and it definitely didn't happen in the T twenty
clash in Melbourne's eastern suburbs where he also played a game,
(26:15):
but that was just coincidence because it was a frisbee
and his dog. Now, I also stumbled across one where
Jeremy got kicked out of the MCG for building a
giant beer snake. So Jeremy likes to have a crack
during the off season, So don't it. Just don't do
what how he does?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Is that? I think that's a good motto.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well, how he also just released that he's having a
second child, So don'll double down on that line and.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Don't Yeah, don't do that. Way you're over.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
There, do that.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
There's plenty of avenues I can go down.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
With that forgot to his wife, but I'll try to
stay away from it for the time.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
He congratulations and as always, wear a helmet. You were
talking about with the bike riding, wear a helmet. Both
both scenarios wear a helmet. Uh. Now we all know
this one famous one cal Mills WrestleMania comes early postseason celebrations,
(27:18):
bit of a wrestle dislocated the shoulder, torn rotator cuff
in the left shoulder and was just that kind of
ruled out.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
The start of his season.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
So named captain after that, which is great. I think
maybe that was the that was the final whoever won
that wrestler be a captain. But I don't know how
you win with the torn rotator cuff. So when you're
out there no wrestling, that's a pretty simple one.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
I reckon. You could probably stay away from that.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's good advice. Yeah, I'll try to stay wear a helmet. Helmet,
don't don't do anything with dogs, is what I've learned
over the off seasons. I think dogs lead to broken hands.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Dogs are a big one. I don't even think you're
pretty accident prone. You've had a lot of accidents over
the time. I don't even think you could break your
hand with the frisbee. But Jeremy how I did it. Anyway,
we'll get off Jess Stevie J. Christmas drinks disaster. Now
this is a pretty famous one. Three time Premiership a
(28:24):
Norm Smith Metal a successful assistant coach. But way back
December two thousand and three, Stevie J decided to jump
the fence of a Torquy hotel to get back into
the venue in the early hour. So already right there, right,
you get kicked out, it's probably a good sign.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
To stay out. You're done.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You're done, though, what you're not doing is climbing a fence,
scale a fence and try to jump back into the
venue and shatter both heels in the process.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
So poor, I feel that's a pretty that's a pretty
fair one.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Now we can all dabble in a bit of the
alcohol from time to time, especially the athletes in the
off season, and I know that you don't drink a
lot during the season, so it can go straight to you.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
So maybe just if you get kicked out, stay in.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It reminds me of one of my favorite stories of
when of our first came to Australia and Jack Reewald,
who was obviously playing at Richmond at the time. One
of my first impressions of the Richmond Football Club was
the media was outside because he had said something about
Demma and the media cameras were all over the place.
I'm upstairs doing a psychology assessment and all of a sudden,
(29:39):
I see this human in a dead strength across Richmond's
field hops a fence, gets over to the train station
and I'm sitting there looking at these reporters chasing on them,
and I'm going, who is that? And the guy kind
of like embarrassingly says, yeah, he's kind of one of
our best players. He's running away from the media decided
(30:00):
to take the trade home to the day. I was like, Wow,
this AFL thing is real. Just anything goes That.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Was very I was actually there for that one, so
that was it was interesting the run to the train
station chasing after Jack. He you know, he's smartened up
since then. Immatured up, so that was good to see.
We can not that he was a mistake, but we
do learn from these things and we.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Do grow as people.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Now there was a famous one. This is probably more
when you get back. But I never know what they
do on these Kentiky tours, these Kentiquy to not that
you're on one of those, but they make you do
all kinds of dumb bonding shit over there. And one
of them, if they say, mace, we can motivate you
to endure any type of pain because we can get
(30:51):
you so in the zone you can just switch your
mind off, and that's what they did. Nigel Smart in
Adelaide where a bunch of Adelaide players for the preseason
were convinced to walk over boiling hot coals and they
all kind of melted to their feet and then they
(31:11):
all got pretty severe burns. So that's something that I
wouldn't suggest you do.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You I Lay football club, not great history.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Not great at the preseason camp, it's very safe to say,
have you ever got talked into doing some dumb bonding
ship on any of these these trips you've been on.
I know a lot of people we did the the
you have to you take the shot without using your mouth,
and then you spit out the shot, and then you've
(31:46):
got to kiss the person next to him.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Yeah, no I didn't. I haven't done that one.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
You're leaking.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
For those listening to the audio only version, that's the
QUSI that's not Mason just kissing himself.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, it's so good. I've done any of those bonding yet.
I think I've jumped off a few cliffs and stuff
over my times just to kind of, you know, be
part of the group. But I don't think I'll be
doing that. And it's yeah, it's a I think the
group I'm with right now. I've been told that the
average age for this cruise is forty five plus, so
I don't think that's probably a longer line than one
(32:32):
of a lot of people on here. I think I'm
actually okay with it. You know, I'm here just to
have a good, lacking time, and I don't need to
be doing shots and kissing people that left right at me,
like you brighton. Yeah, that's just not my future.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
You gotta get over there. You've got to experiment whoever's
next year, just have a crack.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
I do want to get to this one because very
interesting backyard blitz leaves Red Otton's stuck. A bit of
a backyard diy went horribly wrong for the Richmond Forward
after the two thousand and two season. The number two
draft pick from nineteen ninety seven fell from a tree
while trying to hang an outdoor swinging chair and landed
(33:12):
on what he described as a broomstick sized garden steak,
which got stuck in his thigh nikes.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
That's oh, that just sounds rough. And then also kind
of explaining that story to the club. I would have
loved to have just been on that phone call of
just trying to explain what the hell just happened. And
you have to have to believe them because it's such
a detailed event, Like you can't sit there and say
that that's like that's a wild story, just to makeup
(33:40):
to say that's not even true. So credit to him,
I guess, but I don't know. I almost would probably
make up a fake story to be able to come
to this point.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
It's very it's an innocent thing, like a like a
hanging rope swing from a tree, so I get where
they're coming from. A couple of these are very creative.
Now we've got the frisbee, we got the rope swing.
Now what about another. There's a lot of Collingwood former
He's not a former teammate, but former Collingwood player Shared
Wellingham's trampoline shocker.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Now, isn't that a headline?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
West Coast gave up the first round pick for Shared
Wellingham at the end of twenty twelve, but the former
Magpie took longer than expected to debut for his new
club after suffering ankle cindusmoses late in preseason in twenty thirteen.
Wellington Wellingham thought he broke his leg after falling from
a trampoline.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
True ideal, that's for sure. And I think I've done
a bounce. We've been to Ponzi Castle, kind of thing
for adults to bounced my knee and one of those
coffee a month or two of a pre season, so
I think just staying away from general plays ago, I
would say Bran, Yeah, he was one of the first
people I think I'd seen actually play football. So it's
(34:56):
interesting that a bit of backstory of all no, no,
exactly how much risk he's going to season, but stay
away from trampolines in general, because as a kid, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
As an adult, now, yeah, I think tall people in general,
tall people trampolaines don't go hand in hand.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Now, I do want to give an honorable mention to
Brian Lake, who spent a week in a Japanese jail cell.
He went over to play a nice innocent game for
the AFL Asia tournament, but he had an altercation with
the local man.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So stay out of jail.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Japanese people they don't stuff around, so don't don't mess
with that.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Lucky, you're not.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Going to make sure everyone stays out of is the
biggest thing I think. But give us one more.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
The Western Bulldogs first pick in the two thousand and
seven AFL Draft was stung on the back of a
leg by a sting ray during a recovery session at
the Beach in February two thousand and eight. Now that's
very rough, especially because he grew up playing for the
Danding Long Stingrays. They think they would have had one
(36:08):
of their own in the back of their mind, but
just be very careful over there.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
This is the last thing I will say.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Don't go messing with any stingrays, any creatures in the water,
I reckon, maybe just stay out of the water. No sharks.
We're wearing a helmet in the in the bike department.
Are you rock climbing, mountain climbing? Are we doing any
you snorkeling? Because we've already said stay out of the water,
are we doing anything? Tell us what the rest of
(36:38):
your trip is from here on out, and we can
just give it a bit of a grading on where
you should be careful and how you should be able
to get through this. We've got to navigate your way
through this, mate.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
We've got another boat for five six days like after that,
and we're going to hike thro the Domonds. I will
wear that helmet then, and then it will spend a
month in after that's four of a cl which is
music festival, and then we'll do the U S a FL,
do some stuff over there with AFL what should be
good fine, and then the rest of it's a bit
up for debates. So I will keep the helmet in
(37:09):
mind whenever doing biking or whatever kind of be able
to use that, I guess. But the biggest thing. Yeah,
I'll try to stay away with the thing right is,
don't like to steve her one stuff. I didn't get
bit by a crab, was a torquy recently. That's the
absolute but Jesus out of me, So I'll try to
stay away from those the sea creatures. I think it's
probably a good good advice for the off season.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
I like that I did hear a lot of don't
get crabs, don't fall off a mountain, uh, don't. Just
Texas in general, a lot of guns, a lot of
heap of guns.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
So just gun. Just take yourself there.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I don't know about going to music festivals or anything
like that. We did hear about your shenanigans last time
with your brother, so maybe we skip. Let's just bubble
wrap it up. But it is good to see that
you're currently still alive. It looks like it's getting a
little windy on top of the boat there, which I'm glad.
I feel like that's coming from Melbourne, it's coming across
(38:05):
the line, so I don't know, we're gonna have to
wrap it up there, but yeah, it is good to
see you. It's good to hear from your any words
for our loving fans before your head.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Off, massive, massive thank you for the year everyone. I
hope you've joined it. We might release a few episodes
of some hurricane here, released a few episodes of some
of our favorite kind of interviews we've done over the
next few weeks, but no massive thank you as always
from the community, hopefully here. Yeah you're surviving down there
in Melbourne, in the windy city, but yeah, thank you
(38:38):
to everyone, and I'm going to go enjoy my holidays
for the last a little bit. I can't wait for
next year. It's gonna be good, fun.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Too easy. We'll see you when you get back.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Thanks Jia, We'll catch a later. Rob
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.