1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: You're on the air with Jason Lauren. Clint's here as well, 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: and so is this man. 3 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: Our next guest is a footy legend. 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 3: Good captains the Essendon Football Club for six seasons. 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 4: Badly tried to get away, Happle gets his moment. 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: It's bending back. 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 3: Now he's facing new challenges in the Jungle with I'm 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 3: a celebrity. 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 2: Get me out of here, please, welcome to the show. 10 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 1: It's Dyson. 11 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, good morning, morning guy. 12 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: What are you doing here and not in the jungle? 13 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 5: We're confused, but we thought the Jungle was live. 14 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, look, I think it's for the first year, 15 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 3: for the first season. They did a they've already filmed, 16 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 3: so we've already had a dance in the can and 17 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 3: rolling out it currently, so I've been and I'm back. 18 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 6: Is that the worst because then you watch it like 19 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 6: when you're in there, you sort of it's just happening, 20 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 6: you're just living. But now you're watching yourself back going on, Yeah, 21 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 6: did I actually say that? Did I actually do that? 22 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 2: There is a bit of that. 23 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 3: It's very strange watching it back in where I think 24 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 3: we're a few episodes in now and it was about 25 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 3: this time that you get really comfortable, forget about the 26 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 3: mics and cameras. So I'm a little bit nervous about 27 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 3: what's to come because some of the stuff you start sharing. Yeah, 28 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 3: you're a bit like, oh see, how we go with you? 29 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 6: But because you have that like feeling in your stomach 30 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 6: where you're like, I know something's coming up that I 31 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 6: said that. 32 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 5: I I didn't say. 33 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: Night out the last but it's like a night out. 34 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 5: Every morning when I'm like, oh, what is coming? 35 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: It's anxiety. You wake up after a night out, you're like, 36 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: I know I say. 37 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,039 Speaker 5: Something you're allowed to drink in there. 38 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: No, I'm just so you know, when you wake up 39 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: on a sad day and you're like, at the party 40 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: last night, what did I say? 41 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 3: Yeah you got the scary Yeah yeah, No, there's a 42 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 3: bit of that, but it's been fun. Been a lot 43 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 3: of fun mates have just been ripping me after some 44 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: of the bits and pieces that's going on. 45 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: But the reason it was recorded is it because it 46 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: clash with Robert doing Dancing at the Stars. 47 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. Robert already nailed that. 48 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 3: He I think he literally came straight from Dancing with 49 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 3: the Stars flew into South Africa. 50 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 5: Surely he's too popular and busy that he can't do it. 51 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: Now he would have thought crazy. He's just popping off. 52 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 5: So you don't get to see much of him though, 53 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 5: do you had a good. 54 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: Yarn with him? 55 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: Is literally what you see is what you get. The 56 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 3: best bloke you know I've met. And he's also a 57 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 3: Bombers fan. His old man Steve Bagg for Essenden, so 58 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 3: he's sort of taken up that. So yeah, that was 59 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 3: pretty cool. 60 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 4: So you were just talking about the talking you actually 61 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 4: do in the jungle, and I wonder how therapeutic it 62 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 4: actually is because one of the things that came up, 63 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 4: and something that has probably been festering within for so 64 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 4: many years is the essen and drug crisis. 65 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: What was it like sharing your experiences from that time? 66 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, really interesting, Like it was quite amazing how because 67 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: you don't have any phones, nothing to do, you literally 68 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 3: talk about some. 69 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: Of your deepest stuff. Within a few days on the show. 70 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: You get to know everyone really quickly, and look, it 71 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 3: was it was interesting, like and I'm in a space 72 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: now where I'm you know, I'm fully open and happy 73 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 3: to talk about it. Absolutely that full piece and it 74 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 3: all need to I guess to move on. 75 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. 76 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 3: But it was also really interesting talking to it with 77 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 3: people that had some of them hadn't heard about it 78 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 3: at all. 79 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, so that was some of them probably weren't born. 80 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 3: There were a few older partners in there than I was, 81 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 3: but it was it was really interesting and just hearing 82 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: you know, their reflections and just baffled as to the 83 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: whole situation and how it all came about. And you know, 84 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: that was my lived experience at the time, but you 85 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 3: look back now and you go, wow, that was just crazy. 86 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 6: Because have you been allowed to talk about like you 87 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 6: imagine when all that was going down and you weren't 88 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 6: allowed to talk about it at the time, the players 89 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 6: would have all been told to zip it. Yeah, how 90 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 6: was there like a certain amount of time you weren't 91 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 6: allowed to publicly talk about it? 92 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 2: No, not necessarily. 93 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 3: I think it was just everyone coming to terms with 94 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 3: it and getting to a point where they felt comfortable 95 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: to talk to it. And it's you know, it had 96 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 3: a damning effect on the players lives, the people in 97 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: it in our as well, so you know, and it 98 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 3: just got for me to a point of like, Okay, 99 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 3: I'm just that I completely forgave everyone that was involved 100 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: at the time, and you know, I got myself in 101 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 3: a position to be really joyful and happy and inspired 102 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 3: to come back to the footy club and make our 103 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: fans and members really proud to be a part of 104 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 3: it again. And you know, and just unbelievable from our 105 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: fans and members to keep sticking fat through thick and 106 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 3: thin for us going through it all. And I look 107 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: back now and go look at I wish I never 108 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 3: went through it, but it helped me grow up a 109 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 3: hell of a lot. I learned so much and there's 110 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 3: part of me that's semi grateful for the experience. 111 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to labor it too much, 112 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 4: but do you think it still haunts the Bombers the 113 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 4: footy club. 114 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, look you go back and you go we 115 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 3: were stripped of draft picks, we had that full season 116 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 3: out the team. Who knows what it could have done 117 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: through that four year period, you know, under the guidance 118 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 3: of herdy and incredible coaches at the time that were 119 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 3: thrown about after that. 120 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 2: So yeah, it certainly has. It's had a damning impact. 121 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 5: On the club and get their Brownlow taking Yeah, Judge Brownlow. 122 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: You know, just oh mate, because I grew up in Brisbane, 123 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 1: so I was like some of the people in the jungle. 124 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: I wasn't aware of the backstory to. 125 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 5: It, and you are like some of the. 126 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: And one of the school dads actually played on the 127 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: team and he was running me through it and I 128 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: could see it was still with him. I could still raw. 129 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 3: It's crazy, and it's probably finally at a point I 130 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 3: think I was when I retired. I think I was 131 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 3: the last remaining player that had been through the drug sug. 132 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 2: So it's sort of at a. 133 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 3: Point where there's a full finality I feel on it all, 134 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 3: and there's just a full clean slate for the guys 135 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 3: that have been now to rip in, go forward, move 136 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 3: forward with everything and create a new. 137 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,559 Speaker 2: Chat down the dawns. 138 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: Hey, it's hard for us at home watching trying to 139 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: work out who they are in the jungle. What's it 140 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: like actually being in there looking at people going. 141 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 4: I have no idea who they walk and you're like, oh, the. 142 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 5: Small talk must be amazing. 143 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: That's my favorite. You guys trying to work out how 144 00:05:58,680 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: you know each other? 145 00:05:59,320 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 6: What do you do? 146 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: Because you want a fan contest? 147 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: It was I thought I would have knew more people 148 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 3: when I rolled through the tunnel, and and then I 149 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 3: like apparently Gazz and I had like Gary Gary. 150 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 5: Everyone knows Gary what I loved. 151 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 2: Gary wasn't my vintage. 152 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: But we had had a big day at Derby Day, 153 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 3: the races one day and the market. I think it 154 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 3: was after a few jars. That was the first time 155 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 3: i'd met gas. 156 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 5: Him if he was on water rats, really. 157 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: He's like Peter Phelps, Stingers Colin. 158 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 5: He was Gary Sweet was on police rescue. 159 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 2: What a start. 160 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 5: I love Gary Sweet. Now, what's the worst thing you 161 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 5: had to eat? 162 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 6: Test? 163 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 2: So? 164 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, they ate it last night, big ox nut, big 165 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 3: ox testing that was stuffed with you know, off egg whatever. 166 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 2: It was just the nasty thing. I vomited in my mouth, 167 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: got it. 168 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 5: Back down, swallowed your own spear. 169 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 2: You loved it. Good grit, good, great. Had a bad 170 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 2: a bad state. 171 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,239 Speaker 5: That's different to anticle. 172 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 2: I thought I would have nailed it, no worries, like 173 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 2: I wasn't. 174 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 3: I wasn't worried about the food challenges, but actually going 175 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: through it, it was way worse than I exposed. The impact, 176 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 3: the afters, the aftermath, I didn't. I actually kept it down. 177 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: I didn't spew it up. Yeah, just that when you 178 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: were like burping and stuff. 179 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 6: It's so, it's so gross. I remember working with Shane 180 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 6: Crawford when he went on it, and I just found 181 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 6: that the most amusing thing ever the stuff that they 182 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 6: made him eat. 183 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 184 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 5: Have you eaten an eyeball yet? 185 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? I did, nailed it was a lamb's eyeball. Yeah, 186 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: a century egg, like one hundred year old egg. 187 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 2: This was a vicious one. 188 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: Just quickly, what was your meal? Because you know how 189 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: they all get their favorite meal when they come out 190 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: of the gym. Well, yeah, this is so like your 191 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: death row meal you get to chew. 192 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 3: I won't say I got stitched here, but they gave 193 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 3: They gave me machers at nine am in the morning. First, 194 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 3: so nailed a big burger, Chips Coke had the lot, 195 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 3: which you know, after eating rice and beans for however 196 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 3: long I was before. 197 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 5: It was pretty t Yeah we don't know you Yeah. 198 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,119 Speaker 1: I should have them and forgot the sauce. 199 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 5: Maybe he won? 200 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 2: Who does tune in for the winner? 201 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: Joys and hepp Will you be able to see him 202 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: in action? Homo celebrity, Get me out of here. That 203 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: is back on Sunday at seven pm, or you can 204 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: stream at free online with ten. 205 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 6: Via the app My God, this is Greg from the 206 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 6: Brady Bunching Show me a. 207 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: Couple of apps to work out who he was? 208 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 2: Yes, Big Barry. 209 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 5: Oh didn't they have the mother in one? They can 210 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 5: have the entire Brady. 211 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 4: Rachel Hunters in there. 212 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 2: The crew were unbelievable. 213 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 3: Honestly after meeting them all, it's just an awesome crew. 214 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 4: So and just quickly dice where do the bombs finished 215 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 4: this year? 216 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 2: Let's go. Don's get him in the A eight. Everyone's 217 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 2: it's a ten. Now to the final, put him in ten. 218 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: Then let's got a chance, get him in the ten. 219 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: And it's just gone. Twenty five Aways Jason Lauren Lauren 220 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: wake up feeling good following them on the Socials