WEBVTT - Harry Grant | Part 1 | Wall of Legends, Army Camp & Storm Life 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.360 Welcome to the podcast today, and you're about to listen 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.720 to episode one. After you've finished, head straight over to 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.000 episode two. Okay, enjoy get that. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.800 Make yourself comforty you sit back, put the mic into 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.760 you on that, John, I'm comfortable. Are you happy now? Yeah? 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:15.200 You are. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:18.080 All right. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:25.000 We'll leave that in. But a bloke that we talk 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.639 about this person a lot on the podcast, Jack, would 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.080 you say, well we I would say he's probably the 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.479 most talked about player in the National Rugby League, not 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.680 for his ability, but for his being a part of 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.120 this family. He's almost like a unicorn to our listeners. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.320 They've never heard a word that you've said, but we've 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.200 made it happen today. Harry Grant, Welcome to the studio. Mate, 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.319 Thanks mate, it's good to be on. And yeah, it's 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.519 good to see Maddie. Yeah, made an appearance for the 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:52.000 big event. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:52.440 Yeah. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.520 Well, look, you're a big guest for us. We want 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:55.960 to get you on for a long time. But obviously 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.120 you live in Melbourne, so it's hard to liaise with 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.320 your busy schedule and and the amount that you cost 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.120 as well, and you'll be invoicing us, but Harry, best 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.520 price for your boys dad's in Lismore, so he's what's 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.440 he doing? Well, Loreno's as we just saw, it's expensive, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:10.560 so I think he needs to go and make some 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.039 spare cash. I think he's on speaking gigs and whatnot. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.600 We've better check in. These must be struggling. Yeah, I 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.400 don't think Fox Sport's paying him enough. Yeah, we might 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.280 have to renegotiate that. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.559 Honestly, Tricia slops him out like nothing she actually does. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.520 Trisha's gone for a long lunch. Well, this is the thing, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.360 right Trisha. She'll book all these speaking gigs for him 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.240 and be like, Matt, you've got this. Then. I don't 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.120 even think she checks with him half the time, especially 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.640 when there's costs that are going about, you know, whether 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.959 it be renovations or car costs and stuff. And then 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.320 she goes when he's not here, she'll go and just 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.200 have a massive long lunch with all of her friends. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.800 So she books it for her herself. Really, well, she's 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.200 probably said to her friends, let's let's have a long 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.880 lunch because that's the way I'll book. I'll book Matt 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.840 into Lizmore for a speaking gig. And you know what 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.480 she does, because he ticked, you know, how dad doesn't 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.080 have like laptop email shit, So she he doesn't even 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.800 have access to his bank accounts. Yeah, so she wouldn't know, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.200 he would seriously, she doesn't. So he wouldn't know how 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.200 much money's in the bank. So he doesn't know. Chris 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:10.440 could be scamming the shit out of. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.760 He wouldn't know what. He wouldn't know what he's been 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.280 able to accumulate over the years. He would have no clue. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.079 That's a good life, isn't it. It's it's nice. It's 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.080 naive because you would like, as far as he's concerned, 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.400 he makes well, he would have no idea how much 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:23.760 goes in. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.880 It works in two ways because in one way, you 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.200 know he hasn't got that over his head. But in 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.120 another way, because he's awfully cheap. I see him do 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.600 some things at dinner sometimes where people are like splitting 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.480 the bill or whatever it is, and you just see 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:35.320 him go quiet. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.000 He actually doesn't know how much money's good on the car. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.160 He goes, Oh no, he does do that a lot, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.240 Like if he's if he's at dinner and he's had 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.960 a few drinks and he knows the bill's expensive, he'll 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.560 almost like put his head down or go to the 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.440 toilet as he knows the bill is going to be 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.400 coming out so he doesn't have to chip in. Yeah, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.280 he's tight conservative talking about tight because you are, well, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.040 you're one of the biggest tight asses. I would say, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:03.119 as well, that's rich. Well, I would say, no, I 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:08.520 think you know for me personally, you know, you know, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.440 blue collar, coming from a working class family, class town, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.280 you know, you understand you've got to work for everything 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.359 in life. Where yourself personally like, over the years, it's 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.720 more of that silver spoon you know things. Yeah, things 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.280 just come easy in life, they come free. You've had 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.480 everything given to you. So that's sort of a harsh 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.120 I would say, that's a harsh comment than that. You know, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:35.800 my dad doesn't know how much he makes, so therefore 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.720 I never knew how much team made. And yes, we 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.040 grew up close to the beach. I would I'd like 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.680 to be closer. But you out there in your pon, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.080 where is your poon next to your knife and fork? Correct? 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.839 It is up there in rock Anton. Did you enjoy 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.080 your childhood up there? No idea. It is a good, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:59.560 good place to grow up. I think as you get 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.360 older and and you sort of go back there, you 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.080 appreciate it more for what it is and what it 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:09.000 gives you throughout those years. I don't really know if 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.160 I will end up back there or not. Not really sure. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.760 We've got real estate in every just about every town 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.360 at the moment. Not in Manly, Mate. It's too expensive 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.560 on the beaches. Yeah, did you? Someone was asking me 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.039 to because you're a surfer. They were saying, it's a 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.479 it's an anomaly that Harry Grant knows how to surf 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.440 given he come from your Pun. They said, the beaches 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.479 aren't that great there. Yeah, No, that's pretty shit surf. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.320 It's probably like one of the most northern parts that 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.520 gets like genuine swell. I don't remember when we're kids, 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.680 would you just like, as bad as it sounds, you'd 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.839 be hoping for for a cyclone because he'd create a 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.159 bit of swell and you'd get you'd get good surf. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:44.400 Where's that? 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.000 Where's that that wave? Pull up? There? Is that Kelly 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.000 Slater's or someone's up that way? 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.520 H Yeah, there's one. There was a prototype in your 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.000 Pun and that was Okolupo. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:54.920 Oh yeah, is that the giant bell? 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:56.480 Is it like a bell or anything like that? 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:58.039 Yeah. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.919 Yeah, isn't a bell like slams down and hits the water. Yeah, 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.640 So I think the guy had the idea. He threw 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.040 a rock in the pool and like as you throw 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.479 a rock in the pool, there was like a ripple effect. Yeah. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.680 So he's like, I think he was an engineer or whatever, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.240 and he was like, oh, I could actually make a 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:17.000 wave pool with this design, big plunge. Yeah, that was 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.799 his idea. And then it's sort of come to life, 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.400 but it hasn't really has taken off real Is it 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.120 left you or a ride or is it just mate? 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.680 I haven't look at this guy. It's all the above, Jack, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:29.440 Oh right. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.680 I know I'm really interested because I remember going out 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.520 to the surf with you out at Freshwater one day 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.440 when you're at the Tigers, and I do remember that. Yeah, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.400 it didn't last very long in there. It was pretty 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.560 pretty not. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.920 Well, Yeah, who did we go with that day? Yeah, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.839 that's raf That's what I was just telling you before. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.560 He's on the trunk because the Sharks at the moment, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.719 this up and down the South at the moment, Yeah, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.960 they beat they beat the Knights. We're gonna talk about 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.480 your game in a second as well. But the sharks 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.160 at the minute you are you surfing still at the 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.760 moment with all the shark tacks now, probably not as 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.240 much this year, a couple of couple of serfs here 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.960 and there. I think as as the years go on, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.599 probably get less time in the water. But yeah, it 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.200 definitely is a little bit of a concern, a bit 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.040 more attention around it and something. It's probably on your 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.840 mind a lot more now. But I think Cross. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.080 Doing the right things in New South Wales. I'm know 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.320 what they're doing in Queensland. So at the moment Chris 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.840 Mens has done like an initiative. So my mate Raff's 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.400 like the head of the board riders there at Curly, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.680 So he's basically been given like this life saver drone 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.320 where they you know, when they've got contests or anything 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.880 going on, sort of you know in the yea patrolling. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.039 He goes out there and susses it out before and 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.960 after and then if they get any like he's got 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.000 some footage of like a great white out there behind 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.360 the rock pool and then he'll send it off and 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.320 they like use it for now, like for research to 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.039 try and track them. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.640 Yeah, I was telling keeps before there's there's a guy 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.400 on Facebook hunter Shark Restoration. He's actually very educated and 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.280 if you're interested in it, he's he's got pretty good 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.040 opinions on it. All speak speak some truth about it, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.520 because I mat like I heard someone saying the other 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.760 they because they breed, don't the sharks breed like in 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.240 the creeks in the estuaries and stuff. There's like a 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.240 lot of a lot of bull sharks and stuff like that. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:14.640 So is that where they used to They used to 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.360 cull them in there before they'd get big enough. And 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.760 then because when they get big enough, they look for 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.760 bigger fish and that's where they go into the ocean. Yeah, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.920 I guess there's a lot of competition now for for 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.680 food sources as well for food, and so then they 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.480 sort of come closer and now where we're food look 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.520 at it. I didn't know how I got David Attenborough 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.880 on on the body of today. Oh yeah, A silly questions, mate, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.080 Get silly answer, good answers. Hey, we're going to talk 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.080 some footy in a minute about that this yearson and whatnot, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.000 some some serious stuff, some not serious stuff. But first 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.160 impressions of obviously me and you lived together for a 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.360 long time. I've never probably asked you some of these questions. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.720 First impressions when we sort of were assigned roommates because 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.720 we never met before, they sigt to just put us together. Yeah, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.679 first impressions. Do you remember. I remember I was heading 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.240 down there, and I remember BP. I was still going 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.680 to BEP, and I was probably more trying to live 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.640 with I think Louis Gerrity, because I knew Louis from 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.800 the Sunny Coast and and BP was sort of like, oh, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.520 you're going to live with. I said Louis like I'd 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.640 probably try, and he goes, I'm mate, of I got 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.720 a good good match for you. I got a there's 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.920 been a bloke coming and I think you'll be a 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.280 good match, and it was you. He goes, Oh, Cooper good, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.200 John's he's coming down. I was like, oh yeah, I 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.560 wasn't really sure. And then sort of push pushed Louis again, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.040 and then out of the blue on Facebook, I just 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.840 get this photo in these videos. Do you remember that. Yeah, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.120 you had a karaoke bar or something. I think you'd 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.080 messaged me just saying, oh, hey mate, I think we 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.080 may be living together or something. Yeah, we're gone into 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.920 the city. I think it was someone's birthday, might have 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.240 been Mum, or maybe I was celebrating. Me finished my 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.120 HSC and we all went Me, Dad, Mum and Jack 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.800 and we went so make it into this karaoke bar. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.000 And it just happened to coincide with you messaging me, 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.480 and I actually went. I went back not long ago 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.200 and had to look at him. I was just sending you. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.120 You're like trying to ask youerious questions like oh mate, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:07.079 you know what day do you going to have a 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:08.640 pre season that? And I was just sending you back 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.240 these videos of us singing karaoke. Yeah, oh here we go. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:13.199 This would be good. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.199 Yeah, it would have been a positive thing because I 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.959 would have met Harry before you. Yeah. I played Harry 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.040 twenty so yeah, so he played twenties. The first time 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.920 I ever met Harry Grant, he knocked me out. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.120 Yeah really he went. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.720 He scored a try on me. I was playing thirteen 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.079 or lock or back row and they excuted out a 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.360 dummy half and like you would have been like sent 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.400 off for it these days. He like full head butted me. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.120 I just went ahead first at him. That's your that's 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.400 you always been your treat the old head duck. Yeah, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:44.320 a couple of times. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:45.960 Maybe one of the worst knockouts I've ever had. I 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.240 reckon like waking up. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:52.000 That was the my one of my favorite because one 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.160 of my favorite yarns involving because when you first get 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.720 down to Melbourne, they put you on this like everyone 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.560 heard about the work program, there's a big Army camp, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.600 but I would say this, the work program is almost 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.400 harder than the Army camp because it's over a two 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.560 week period and you get up four in the morning, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.280 go and do your gym, your work all day and 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:09.960 then come back and do your training in the ARVO 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.480 like it's to show your appreciation. It's a very good initiative. Yeah, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.320 but you were a lot better because you've just been 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.720 you'd finished school, you're a year older than me, and 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.640 you before you come down you've done like an apprentice 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.680 as a sparky, so you were handy, you had a 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.719 good work rate. I was probably the opposite side of that. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.199 And we were working for this guy Maddie Dean at Drainflow, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.959 where basically what would we do, like what was our 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.319 actual job? It was like inspection plumbing. So they were 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.079 like all the sort of new builds in those newer states, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.760 and because they're pretty quick slap up homes, a lot 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.720 of the plumbing that was getting laid under the slab 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.920 or under the sort of dirt around the slab was 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.240 getting cracked and stuff. So we'd have to throw the 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.760 cameras down see which which pipes were cracked, and then 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.800 we'd have to dig up repair the pipes. It was 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.640 a tough job. Like it was hard. It was hard labor. Yeah, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.080 it was hard labor and shoveling, and we had to 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.120 dig pretty deep and then like cut the pipe. Like 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.719 there's a lot for a bloke that wasn't qualified, never 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.800 made a tape. It was a hard job, right, You, 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.560 on the other hand, like you sort of handle it well. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.720 So the guy loved you, Maddie Dean loved Harry Grant 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.480 like he'd probably still to this day you'd be his 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.440 favorite player because he'd just always be wrapping you and 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.679 just hammering me all the time. And he used to 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.400 get real personal too. Yeah your dad. Yeah, at one stage, Jack, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.120 he was like saying, oh, like you your shit, like 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.959 just like your dad and real like personal sledges. No, 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.560 I don't know, but I don't know what he had 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.720 against Dad and Joey, but fucking hated me, like with 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.160 a passion, just always went at me. And then one 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.200 day I was like this guy like I've had enough, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.480 I've had enough of him. And and then we come 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.640 up with a plan. Well, his apprentice, whose name was Simz, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.400 Steven Simons, the night before he tipped this off, the 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.520 day before he tipped us off, and he was like, oh, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.080 look he's waiting if you want to prank him. He's 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.880 waiting to get back from this guy from Burbank, which 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.880 was like a there building contract, building contractor they build 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.600 all those commercial homes out in fucking in a block 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.280 and they're all like identical. They might be al one 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.360 hundred homes, and he was wanting all that work because 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.360 it must be like a big contract for him. He's 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.720 waiting to hear backroom, you should prank him. So we 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.560 can't be a plan right, I'm going to bring him 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.920 as David from Burbank. No, I send him a text. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.960 I'm going to text him from David from Burbank, and 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.520 I'm going to tell him mate, you've got You've basically 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.920 got the job. You're going to get a ring soon. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.400 We're just doing some police checks and stuff like that. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.199 We're doing background text and sh on you and then 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.040 he goes So, remember we were sitting at I think 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.880 it was like Hungry Jacks or something. We're sitting there 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.240 getting lunch break and we send the text and we're 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.440 just like kids, like we're sitting there watching him, and 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.880 he's looking down at his phone, hadn't replied to it yet. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.880 And then he was like on the blower, got maybe 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.559 he's maybe he's just like maybe he's just telling telling 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.520 other He's got other ship to worry about. He's not 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.079 really worried about this right now until he gets a 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.240 good conformation. Let it go. Meanwhile, he's ringing his wife 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.760 and he rang his wife and he was like, oh, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.679 you know, we've honey, we've made it, basically yeah, and 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:06.040 he was like, buy that new car, yeah, whatever you want, 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.320 holiday book that holiday, let's move houses. Like we've honey, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.000 we've made it. We've hit the big time. All the 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.960 hard workers finally paid off. And he's basically like making 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.840 all these decisions with his wife. Anyway, during that time 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.520 as well, he rang his main contact at Burbank and 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.640 was like, oh, mate, you know I got this. I 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.880 got this text YadA YadA, and the guy was like, oh, mate, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.600 shoot me the number. I just confirm who it is 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.079 for you, like I didn't because he didn't have the 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.440 number save and he's saying he's got this job. The 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.960 bloy comes back to him. He'd reference like with the 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.360 security team at Burbank and they go, mate, this number 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.840 is not in our system. This number is not in 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.079 our system. And we get back into the car. Were 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.959 still don't heard anything. We're thinking, oh, like he'll see 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.199 it soon or whatever. And remember we're driving down the 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.680 highway and he rang it. He rings the thing and 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.480 I'm sitting in the back seat and for whatever reason, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.000 my ringer was on and it just goes bring and 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.640 he's looking remember like the look that he'd given them 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.679 the rear vision mirror. Fuck, it was that scary. I 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.120 would kill a blake. And he's just staring in and 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.640 you're staring at us, and he goes, is that you 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.720 was a little fuck, And I'm like, oh, oh yeah, sorry, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.920 he was just a prank. Pulls over, remember, and he 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.160 just like looked back at us and he just hammered us. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.640 Hammered you as well, because he thought you were the 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.400 one that told me to do it, and he's like, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.800 I expected it from you, but you you, and he goes, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.440 I'm going to like the report that I'm going to 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.680 give to Craig belly Me on YouTube. Fuck mate, you 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:31.000 guys will never playing a role everything. He was stone 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:35.200 cold too. Remember he knew Johnny Donahue. Yeah, John Donahue, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.600 who is the wrestling man Melvin mate and so scary. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.560 Everyone's that scared of him, And at that stage we 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.840 were like, such a good guy. Yeah, but like when 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.920 you were young though, when you were young, it's like, oh, 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.520 you're so scared of him. He knew a guy that 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.120 knew John Donahue and everyone Remember everyone had heard the 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.280 stories of like JD choking out Cooper Cromkin stuff. Yeah. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:54.520 Yeah. 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.240 Players used to say, like, don't get on his bad 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.560 sordy because one time Coop's like was into him. The 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.120 next pre season come back base choked him out, he 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.160 passed out, and then just dragged him off the mat 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:08.800 and kept So everyone was like, no one pissed off JD. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.200 Because you can make your life hell in a wrestle session. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.800 And then he goes, you wait two weeks into our 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.080 time down there, two weeks and you were going, you're 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.600 going to ruin my life, like they're going to hate me. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.160 Leave the names. And he was like we had wrestled 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.480 that afternoon. Remember he was like he's going to choke 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.120 You's out, Like he's going to choke you's out. Thank 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.320 god he didn't because if he come up to us 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:32.400 straight away, John's like, you know it's going to be 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.600 your your session today or something like that. I've just 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.720 spoken in a bloke from from drain Flood. That's right, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.200 and we're like a ship. He's got us, he's got us, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.880 He's going to simply we should ring him later made down. 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.800 I've still got his number. But some other yarns that 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.200 I love about our time around there because before Harry 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.480 Grant came a captain and a leader, you know, we 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.560 were the young people were we were the young people 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.120 in the squad. Uh and we used to be quite chirpy. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.120 Well and you sort of followed my lead. Remember we 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.600 used to go Adam O'Brien heat Just think about this 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.400 story the other day, And the best thing about them 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.520 was like, well, you'd finish a pre season session and 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.480 it would be like Saturday and we'd go straight to 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.680 the pub to have a beer precinct precinct and it 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.160 was like an AVO session that would turn into a nightclub. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.000 So like we didn't have to leave venues, we didn't 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.320 have to change and all the like a lot of 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.440 the assistant coaches would come and have a beer with us, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:28.880 and it was like the best singing, like we were 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.600 frothen yeah and we're tired and so we And the 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.960 good thing about an assistant coach is like you kind 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.080 of mates with the assistant like Belly would you have 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.480 a beer with Bellia, But he keeps himself at a distance. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.920 But like so remember Smith and Eric Smith and Adam O'Bryan, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.480 they used to always come down. They'd always come on 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.400 and Aaron Bella And so after every session, remember me 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.560 and you would like I Blliak and Adam would finish 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.320 their sort of speech and their address to the group, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.680 and then me and you were going, oh boys, you know, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.080 good sesshon, which we shouldn't even been speaking because like 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.280 at first year, we go boys, great sessterday. And the 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.639 good thing about his you know ads, he's put on 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.320 a bar tabe down at the precinct for everyone and 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.760 we all go down everyone and go yeah sweet, And 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.480 I think like it started to get on his nerves 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.040 a heat because we take the piece out of him 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.960 all the time. Remember he pulled us into into his office. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.000 See he goes, yeah, boy's look, I love you know, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.119 you guys bring a nice fresh energy, but probably the 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.639 jokes are starting to go too far. And you know, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.520 when we're out on that field and I'm addressing the team, 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.320 you know there needs to be a level of professionalism, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.840 and I think you guys are taken that to another level. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.280 So then we went, yeah, sweet, no worries. And then 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:37.919 we got together and we went, well, let's just not 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:42.080 speak to him anymore ever, give him the cold shoulder. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:43.760 We just never spoke to him for like a month. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.680