WEBVTT - EP 38 - THIS IS OTTIE 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.480 Coming up on relatables. 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.040 For me, I would prefer to be on the other 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.320 side than to be unhappy, fair. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.400 And to and like that came for some reason with 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.119 your personality that came easy. Like to you, that's a 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.720 very very logical decision making process, but to some people 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:28.600 it's not. A light of his podcast is so said 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.920 by myself, Jake Craig aka Daddy and my apartner on 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.320 Crime is to Oddie Clark aka Mummy and Boo ODDI is. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:38.559 Mummy because. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.080 Through years of joining the podcast, we have come to 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.320 the conclusion that if you are to go to someone 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.520 and talk about maybe something's going on in your life, 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.240 it's more than likely going to be Oddie. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.600 I felt that was so formal. And Jake is your 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.280 father because sometimes he's just there at the right times 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.240 and sometimes he doesn't pick up his phone. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.240 Actually, you know what, it's pretty description of myself. Oh, 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:02.640 I would say so too. It just came to me 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:02.880 like that. 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.760 But Jake, we actually have a very very special and 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.160 different episode today, don't we. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.639 Yes, we do. I've wanted to do this. I reckon 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:18.280 for like wow over a year, two years, two years? 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.640 You reckon, But I never really knew how to execute it, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.600 and then also like, I didn't know if it's what 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:29.119 the baddies wanted you listeners being the baddies of course, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.800 of course. And then a couple of things have been 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.280 happening behind the scenes in the podcast and my frontal 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.800 lobe has been developing. I was like, you know what 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.600 Jake I said to my voice message yesterday. I was like, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.480 I've got a fucking idea. And the idea is, So 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.440 we've been doing the podcast now for four years and 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.280 on out end it's sometimes really really hard to distinguish 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.360 who was actually actually listening, and there's so much assumed 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.840 knowledge that you know who Jake and I are, but 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.000 the reality of that is probably a lot of you 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.840 don't have a Scooby doo who Jake and I are 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.520 and why we are the way we are. Yeah, so 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.520 we wanted to do a two part series of getting 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:15.119 to know Jake and myself. So this is gonna be 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.400 by episode of who is Oddie Clark YEP? And I 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.480 feel like, actually I thought of this idea too, because 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.680 everyone knows or maybe you don't know. I love listening 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.320 to Dak Shepherd Armchair Expert YEP. The podcast and he 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.600 interviews a lot of famous people who are American. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:30.519 Yes, he does. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.520 And I don't want to make this sound wrong if 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.919 you're an American, but I feel like Americans love talking 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.160 about like themselves and their culture, like where they. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.799 Yeah, if it's a common personality thing in. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.200 America where they grew up and everyone, like if they 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.679 say college, everyone's like fucking go with the Seahawks or 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:46.079 some shit. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.600 That's actually a good point. There's a lot of patriotism. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.480 Yeah, but as Australians, if you or anyone asked me 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.360 about like my childhood or what school I went to, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.560 I would just try and get past that as quickly 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.600 as possible, because I'm like, no one about Australia. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.040 Yeah, true, no one. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.400 No, not that no one cares, not that no one cares. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.080 More that like no one will know what I'm talking about. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.040 I think that we always think that. Yeah, so this 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:11.680 episode is stuff with that. Yeah. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.880 Yeah, but basically this episode is going to be like 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.760 all about the nitty gritty of what makes up me. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.280 Yeah, so we really want to learn about So obviously 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:26.079 we're going to do an episode each and we just thought, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.519 I if this is something we would want to learn 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:33.080 about a podcast we listen to, then maybe it's something 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.119 that all the baddies we want to learn about us 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.800 and if like, and another thing we think about is 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.600 how some of the baddies being you guys listening, you 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.360 guys have been some we have been here for a year, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.840 two years, three years, maybe four years. Yeah, and then 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.280 something like so the people that have been here for 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.960 four years are going to know more than the people 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.160 that have been here for one year exactly if you 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.360 just got here. Then it's always nice to kind of 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.600 like know about a person and feel them feel like 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.640 you know them on a more personal and parasocial level. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.040 The whole thing about a podcast is feeling like you're 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.840 in a conversation with us two of your mates. Yeah, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.960 and like if some of my favorite podcasts like gave 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.960 more depth to who they are, I'll be like, oh, yeah, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.279 I want to know, like what makes up Dax Shepherd 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:17.880 or who had James from Ships and Gigs? 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.400 Like what were they like when they were twelve? 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.320 Same they mentioned things they do? Yeah, like we mentioned 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.160 things too, but then we always think like no one cares. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.640 So this is basically getting all. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:26.600 Of that out of the way. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.760 It's like, yeah, we did, like, why not just go 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.600 like you remember remember back in the day and YouTube 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.080 when there's this massive trend of YouTuber. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.039 It'd be like draw my life. Yes, oh I draw. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.560 They get a whiteboard and they draw it and race it, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.360 and they draw seeing any race it and draw seeing 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:41.800 any race it. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.640 I used to watch those. I used to love those. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.400 I remember that too. I love that too. Side Men 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.840 still like brought it back occasionally here and there. Really yeah, yeah, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.560 on the second channel, we should have done a draw 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.080 in my life. That would have been cool. We can't draw, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.839 but no, that drawing would be fun. Just stick figures 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.680 and ship anyway, So this is Oddy's episode, so we're 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.160 going to try and chill. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.960 I'll ask gotty questions that I think people listening would 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.760 want to ask because I may learn some stuff. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.840 You never know, you might actually, yeah, maybe I will. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.599 But I think I'll shut up and I would love 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.039 to let Ottie take the reins a bit and give us. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.560 You know, we want everything. I want it from the moment. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.240 You know why am I kind of a bit nervous. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.240 I never like talk about it. I never even in life, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:25.760 I never talk about myself this much. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.120 Yeah, talking about yourself is a bit weird because you're like, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:29.799 just who gives a fuck? 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.560 Anyway, I want to know. I want to know about 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.520 the moment from when you first breathed there. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.560 Okay, okay, So I was born from there, no, right, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:40.279 So I am. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.400 Turning twenty six this year. I was born twenty second 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:44.320 of August two thousand. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:50.160 Yeah, I was originally born at Windsor Hospital in the 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:50.880 Blue Mountains. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.560 You were originally born there and then unoriginally born where 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:55.760 I was originally A good point. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.719 I was born full stop, and we moved on like 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.640 my brothers. So I have a brother who is four 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:02.400 years older than me. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.360 Yeah, and your brother was born there as well as you. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:05.359 Let me say that again. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:14.000 My brother's three years older than me, and they lived 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.440 in the Blue Mountains and they saved a lot of 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.680 money to move to the central coasts of New South Wales, Australia, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.720 to a place called McMaster's Beach. And I moved when 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.280 I was a couple months old, and I have lived 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.360 at McMaster's Beach ever since then until recently. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.680 So the house that you're in now, I know that 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:36.800 your dad built, right. Yeah, when you moved from Windsor Or, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.039 the Blue Mountains When you moved from the Blue Mountains 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.040 to McMaster's Beach, was it literally to the actual property 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:43.760 that you live at now? 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:44.200 Yeah? 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.800 So this property now, Dad's done major renovations to it. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.359 We knocked the whole house down and then redid it. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.479 But it was in stages. It was one of those 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.240 firebro shacks on stilts, so the laundry was underneath, and 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.039 then upstairs was all one level. It was two bedrooms. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.720 Me and my brother shared a bedroom, I remember, bunk beds, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.160 and then my parents had the other room, and then 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.560 it was just a living room and a bathroom. That 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.480 was it laundry underneath. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.720 Danah, And so four years old you went there? No, 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.880 for like four months? Four months old? Yeah, I was 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.640 a newborn baby, said you lived in the Blue Mountains 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.080 for four years? No? 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.840 No, no, So my brother was three years older than me. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.520 I chucked a few numbers out there, and then I 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.640 moved to the center coast mick Master's Beach. This house 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.880 is not the same house, but where were We now 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.240 have a studio in my parents' house too. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.480 So you so it's twenty basically, it's twenty six years 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:35.520 pretty much. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:35.720 Yeah. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.760 Yeah, And you just moved in with your girlfriend, which 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.560 is only you know, five minutes away from there. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.720 Yeah. Yeah, so I'm a bit of a homebody. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:47.120 Oh wait until I don't want to promote my own episode. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:48.160 Waiting to you. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.240 Yeah yeah, well I think that's what's so interesting. We 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:53.440 have such different upbringings. 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.320 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And then I guess, give me, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:57.120 give me a. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.960 Core memory from from like when do you remember the 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.640 house being a fiber shack or did your dad randomly? 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.520 Yeah, I got a core memory, So I don't you 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.320 remember a lot when you were a child. I don't 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.680 remember much. I think, like honestly, like it must be nice. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.560 But I had a very blissful childhood, and I don't 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.960 think I remembered much because nothing was really like stand out. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.360 It was just it was just nice. It was just good, 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.400 I remember, though. So dad knocked down this house in stages, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.480 so he built underneath at first and then knocked down 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.080 on top, so we had someone to live underneath, and 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.040 then his him and mum's bedroom. They let us draw 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.600 or draw all over the walls. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:36.400 That's acting. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.440 So me and my brother had like permanent markets. I 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.280 remember friends coming over and we had this whole it 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.679 was like a graffiti wall, Like our friends would come 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:43.839 over and we would fucking join it. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.360 I was the coolest thing. Everyone's like, oh, comes on 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.800 my wall, and shit, I remember that. That's a core memory. 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.080 That is actually that as a kid, that's the funnest thing. Yeah. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.360 But like I said, my memory is pretty like just 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:58.679 not good. From a young age. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.719 For some reason, it starts to like can I would say, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.800 around like eight or nine. But the biggest bomb drop 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.920 I reckon that a lot of people maybe don't know, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.320 is my name's actually not Oddie. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.040 Oh yeah, what the fuck. Let's let's sit with the 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.640 birth certificate government name. Yeah, my name is Osway Conrad Clark. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:16.600 Take that in. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.360 Yeah, take a second and take it in. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.480 So ever since I can remember, like even before I 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.520 can remember, I was always called ODDI I think because 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.800 I actually as a kid, I wasn't the biggest fan 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.480 of Oway because it sounded like an old person's name 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.319 to me. Yeah, but the older it's also it's also 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.120 hard to say. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.280 Yeah, I just it just sounds so different to me. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:41.120 Yeah yeah yeah. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.760 And and the older I've gotten, the more I've started 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.080 to like appreciate it, and I love being unique. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.880 Yep, but no one. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.040 Only mum calls me out where occasionally or Cassie and 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:53.640 that's about it. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.360 UK, throw it out there here. Very I've heard in 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:56.920 a while from you. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, but very his mom actually calls me 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.120 all way too sometimes my girlfriend's mom. 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:04.439 Yeah, that is so funny. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:09.000 I've always thought, like, I don't know too many people 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.360 like this, like we have a couple, right, So, like 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.840 my name, my name is so simple, it's one syllable, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.800 very popular for the year I was born, Like I 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.840 know so many people named Jake. Yeah, I've always been 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.240 I've always thought so for some reason, so cool when 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.600 someone's got this, like whether it be a unique or 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.080 even not a unique name, but they for somehow, they 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.560 somehow developed this nickname true at childhood, which becomes like 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.679 their name, what was yours? 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.040 I don't I didn't have one name. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.400 Did you call Craigs or not? Because it's kind of 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:42.600 like your family name, So I. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.960 Got I got Craigs by friends in like high school. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:47.040 Yeah. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.520 So, but like I'm like my family was always just 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.200 either Jake or like Jakie. Like as a kid, it's 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.240 Jakie because like, like I still have aunties that will 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.160 call me Jakie because like they just called me that, 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.680 but I never like Otti is similar to Otway, but 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:00.240 it's not. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.000 It's ODDI no, no, no no. And then we have a. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.040 Friend named Jack whose nickname is JJ and like literally 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.520 everyone just knows him by JJ. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.600 True, his last name is Jenkins, so. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.520 Jack guy whose name is Bruce and he and I 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:15.880 literally thought his name was. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.199 Larry for four years. Really well, it's funny. We always 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.280 found that so interesting. But this is about this. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.880 Is about ye when I was, when I was born 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.480 or a couple of years old. I don't remember this, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.560 but I've been told this countless times. My brother didn't 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.440 like my name. He tried calling me Frank for a year. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.480 He wanted me to be he wanted to be called 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:35.800 he wanted me to be called Frank. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.280 That is so picked me from eating. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.800 I know my brother's name is Eating, so it's eating 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.559 a naughty. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.240 And then we've got a mother named Brenda. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:48.920 Yeah, and father Michael, Yes, yes, yes, And I'll hop 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.400 skip and a jump and I'll say we'll go to 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.240 about five or six. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.040 Yeah, that's where that's where I start to remember. Yeah, okay, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.760 that's quite young. Still, that's good like. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.040 I said, I I had a really really good childhood. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.440 Nothing really like stands out as bad, to be honest, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.600 And my parents are very much into the environment, so 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.240 I do remember I have a lot of cool memories 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.680 going bushwalking, going to the beach, and always just loving 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.720 the environment, and that sticked with me. But the next 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.840 bit's probably going to be like not yet, but there's 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.720 gonna be a lot of soccer chat because literally that 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:27.880 was my whole life. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.959 How were you when you started playing soccer? So I 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.559 started playing soccer when I was six six years old? 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:37.680 Yeah, and I were you when there was like when 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.520 you maybe started to realize, but then also like your 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.280 parents and maybe coaches and stuff started to realize like, oh, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:44.600 he's actually quite good at this. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.880 So I started playing soccer for a team called the 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.320 Cucumber rous Let's Go. And dad actually held me back 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.640 a year from playing because my dad's background is in union. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.880 He played for Eastwood Boys in like I don't know, 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:01.160 I don't know if he made for a first grade 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.640 or whatever, but he didn't want me to play footy 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.560 because of like the effects a hat on him and 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:05.920 like he was a winger, so he was kind of 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.280 like away from it, but he knew how much like 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.319 fucking impact and it is on boys and like the 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.360 environment and shit, and he goes, you can play soccer, audy, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.160 and he helped me back because, funnily enough, I remember 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.000 this is a core memory. He wanted me to like 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:27.400 understand like movement of a ball and like catching and 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.400 have like the skills to like kick a ball, catch 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.120 a ball and like understand where it's going to go. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.680 And he was quite good at footy, and I remember, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.400 like core memories. He would always give me grubber kicks 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.880 of a footy ball and it'd say, when you can 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.240 like get a grubber kick every time, you can go 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.360 play soccer because like it's hard to distinguish where the 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:44.840 ball's going. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.600 Yeah, And I remember as a. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.640 Kid like I could never fucking get it. I'm like, Dad, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:49.320 give me a number one. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.000 He's like, here you go. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.920 I was just like so frustrated because it just bounces 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.400 and it hits you in the face. It bounces and 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.040 it goes three meters high. And then like I'm fucking 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.760 six years old at this point too, ye yea yeah. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.440 Yeah, yea yea yeah, what's the bet? It's only like 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:01.559 ten meters away from you too. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.040 He's like yeah, yeah. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.120 But at six, I started to get like good at 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.199 like catching and kicking, and Dad's like, oh, yeah, you 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:09.880 can go play soccer now, because I think he just 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.679 also didn't want me to just like put me in 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.200 the hands of someone else and go like here you go. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:14.520 You like wanted me to have a little bit of 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.880 like yeah yeah, fair background behind it. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.880 And I'm also grateful too because I remember my. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.320 Mum was very hands on and like teaching me coordination skills, 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.680 like from a young age. My mum was always really 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.520 good at like throwing catching. My mum's a bit of it. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.160 Was a tomboy, like to a tea and like loves 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:29.760 all that stuff. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.240 And what's her sport? She she did everything. I remember 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.160 she played hockey. Fuck that's deadly. I think that was 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.400 her sport. But she was also a really good runner. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.120 I didn't really know know it, but but so six 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.480 I started playing for the king Koma Rus And you asked, like, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.640 when did they know I was good? I'm pretty sure 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.760 I was like good, like better than a lot of kids, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:50.920 just as soon as I started. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.200 So it just clicks. But for some kids it clicks 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.600 like they have a vision. Yeah, and Dad. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.240 Likes to claim like it was because of him and 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:58.960 he's like teaching me that and they hold me back 0:14:58.960 --> 0:14:59.200 a year. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.040 I tell you what could it helped? 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:06.400 Yeah? Yeah, So six through to eleven I played for 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.560 the kingcumber Rus and then in the background, I went 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.520 to a public school called Kincomber Public School, which is 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.000 like ten minutes away from McMaster's Beach where I grew up, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.400 which is also like a small coastal town on the 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.040 East coast of Australia. So basically I love soccer just 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.440 from the start, made a lot of friends throughout that 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.560 time as well, and then hop skipping a jump, I'm 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.480 now eleven, okay, And we had a very good soccer 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.040 team at kin Komba. We won a lot of awards 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.680 and I think we went on like the longest undefeated 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.960 streak ever as like a team. It was like something 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.280 from Crazy, like seventy games or some shit. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.480 I love seventy Yeah. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.600 Yeah, we didn't lose for like two or three years 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:46.040 or something. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.120 I wish I was on one of those teams growing up. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:49.960 I just never was. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.920 Yeah, And what happened with that was so like the 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.920 representative team around here was the Central Coast Mariners. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:56.280 Yep. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.480 And when I so you had to go trial for 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.800 a REP team. I think it was called CenTra Coast 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.240 Lightning when I first went there, and all the everyone 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.360 who thinks they're good enough goes trial, and eleven's the 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:10.840 first year you can get in, and it goes all 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.200 the way up to eleven suitor eighteen twenties first grade 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:15.160 and then the A League team. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.800 So the A League is our top, our, top league 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.200 for soccer. Yeah, yeah yeah, And it's like, this is 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.440 what are we going to do? This is this is 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:24.560 I want to be a soccer player. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.800 This is what I thought to be fair like, you 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:31.960 would have experienced so much what's the words I'm thinking 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.520 of here? So like throughout the earliest of you playing 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.520 soccer and then when you were on that team that 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.520 had that massive winning streak, right. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.359 Yeah, you would have experienced so much. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:48.160 What's the right word I'm looking for here, Like companionship, belonging, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.080 like a like soccer became the thing that was like, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.880 this is what brings me joy. Being good at this 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.520 brings me joy, like obviously in high watching. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.320 In hindsight too, I think it brought me value. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.720 I was like, this is what brought you vow, this 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.520 is what made it so people valued you. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:07.840 So obviously you. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.800 Being good at this and going and pursuing this is 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.000 what's going to keep like I don't know, subconsciously, like 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.520 my parents proud, my friend's proud, my friends actually want 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:16.160 to be friends. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.160 With me, like all that type of shit. It's interesting 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:18.960 how it works. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.560 And I think, so, I you had to go through 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.399 this whole trial process, and I remember being like an 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.320 eleven year old kid, and I'm thinking, this is extensive. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.320 This is fucking They have to they have to like 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.680 start cutting kids and stuff, and like eleven kids cry 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:31.159