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Speaker 2: This house, don't do anything that's not for.

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Speaker 1: A dollar exactly, you know your judo will we.

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Speaker 3: Powerful to go Look at you go dack. Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: that looks so professional. It looks good.

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Speaker 1: You like it made?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's professional. About standing up for an hour.

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Speaker 2: Though, better than sitting down for an hour. He used

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Speaker 2: He used to just sit on a stool and once

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Speaker 3: Because but it's a stool. It's a lot different.

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Speaker 1: This is I'm comfy, good, this seeds are wonderful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so we're underway.

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Speaker 2: We can keep some of that in. We won't keep

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Speaker 2: all that stuff that you were saying about some of

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Speaker 1: I want to apologize with some of the things I've

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Speaker 2: Yeah he really is.

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Speaker 2: He's a good player too. Let's do a big, big,

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Speaker 2: heartfelt intro. I mean, someone who's a part of the family.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he really should be almost on the Family podcast.

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Speaker 2: He's not. He's on the backstage on the Monday. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, one of my best mates, one of my

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Speaker 2: Brandon Smith, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Guys, Hey,

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Speaker 2: don't worry you are and I know usually have to

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Speaker 3: Think he's all sorted that out. But yes, thanks for

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: You're one of my mates too, one of my good Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know what he said, that. The other day he

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Speaker 4: He'd pretty much asked, like where on the best mates

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Speaker 2: We have that conversation quite often with like like where

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Speaker 2: things like that, And I'm pretty sure I'm still in there, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what.

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Speaker 3: It hasn't turned out so good for Sieves and Deally.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. I killed that wedding.

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Speaker 2: Or it's just I don't think it was close enough.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it was close enough I could have

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Speaker 3: You were the reason DC wanted to leave me.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing, right, what I what some intel from

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Speaker 2: to negotiate with their clubs. What did that coincide with? Answer?

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Speaker 2: You leaving leaving MVP on the way out, which makes

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Speaker 2: Cooper's such a good bloke. He's making such big moves.

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Speaker 2: He's moving in the media from rugby league. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: I know what he was thinking. He thought to himself.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys, it's really calptable here in a Cooper.

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Speaker 1: You know, he plays primary ballplayer on the deputy. I

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Luke Brooks will make me look

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Speaker 2: I can't remember what I have My first My first

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Speaker 1: So how was it, Brandon? Like you were in You're

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Speaker 4: Well, we had the it's gone out on the stand sport,

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Speaker 1: You got to work for two weeks without pay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you have to wake up in the morning.

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Speaker 4: I was we were sort of doing it was Concreting.

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Speaker 4: stuff like that. Like, mate, Melbourne have got it. So

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Speaker 2: Peter Robinson, who's welfare now, his house had he had

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Speaker 3: To Peter Robinson, he knows how to save a dollar.

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Speaker 3: Oh Rodbery the tightest man I've ever met. Yeah, side

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah. Where do you think that

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Speaker 1: Not me?

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Speaker 1: Tell what that voice. It gives you a really good

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Speaker 1: you When you were blokes those plates in the eighties

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the hardest part for me was the like,

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Speaker 3: So you go, you worked till about three thirty pm.

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Speaker 2: How bad on the Gary Jack.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, you just get straight into bed and you

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Speaker 3: The Melbourne three day Army Camp than do another work program.

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Speaker 3: And that does put in perspective of how tough actually

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is tough. How's it about returning to the

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Speaker 3: Keeps getting saw and sora. But I just recently, I

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Speaker 3: don't want to say influenza A, but I had the flu.

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Speaker 4: Influencer A yeah, influence but yeah, I hate when people

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Speaker 4: say that, But why not really, but just say you

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Speaker 4: had the flu?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, essentially influence is the same thing, right, isn't COVID.

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Speaker 1: tear boys not good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on COVID twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and that that kind of gave me seven days

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Speaker 4: since mine near hasn't been sore. It's so there's something

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Speaker 4: in rest and recovery. I think we should shorten the

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Speaker 3: You'll see the results of place to.

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Speaker 2: Go flying three day training weeks because you're looking fit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're not looking like a block of cheese anyway, looking

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Speaker 2: like chisel Greek cheese.

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Speaker 3: Like feta.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fatter, very very That makes me feel like I

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Speaker 2: look pasty to go on to Persian, Well, you shaid

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Speaker 2: You and Dylan Brown were probably the two happiest people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that was really under wraps. That was really

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 2: But did you is that a genuine thing like from

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Speaker 4: No, just because I was injured, I met the Roosters

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Speaker 4: Also I think that's how Wayne operates as well. I

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Speaker 1: Brandon, it's and it's not like you're just you're leaving

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Speaker 2: He started at South and they pinched him. Do they

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Speaker 1: All having a mill. Then Russell goes right, everyone to

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Speaker 3: The hell is Russ Russell Crowe? Yeah? Who's talking about?

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Speaker 4: Every time we had spare it was with each other,

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Speaker 3: More than I hang out with anyone else. Really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll ask you this, Brandon. So the Melbourne Storm,

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Speaker 2: almost an afterthought. Everyone congratulates whoever got picked, finished the

441
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,080
Speaker 2: Whiles or queenslande, but get on with it.

442
00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:34,960
Speaker 3: No one really cared, no, Yeah, exactly.

443
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,800
Speaker 4: And I feel like after the games, if like Queensland,

444
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,800
Speaker 4: when Billy and Cam were there, when Queenslany won, they

445
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 4: could be banter with.

446
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 3: Belzer or something like that. But other than that, it

447
00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:46,160
Speaker 3: was heard.

448
00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,040
Speaker 1: I heard it was a little awkward to years of

449
00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 1: bellyer Coast there, the Coast of the Blues. Sorry, in

450
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,399
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven he coached them for three years,

451
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,840
Speaker 1: lost all of them lost all Yeah, you know, and

452
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,040
Speaker 1: I reckon it was it started to get a little

453
00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,399
Speaker 1: bit awkward when they turn up to training.

454
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:01,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was it two from nine, the

455
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 2: individual and the individual. Remember we asked him, Remember we

456
00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,640
Speaker 2: did that. We did like a content piece of storm

457
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,360
Speaker 2: one time and it was around Origin and me and Brandon.

458
00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:12,919
Speaker 2: It was called between two Nines and it was usually

459
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,359
Speaker 2: Brandon and Harry, but Harry was in Origin, so I

460
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,320
Speaker 2: had to fill in. And it was like a Belly

461
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,159
Speaker 2: ate Origin quiz and we were asking him like do

462
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 2: you remember how many how many games did you win?

463
00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,679
Speaker 2: And he was like oh, he was filthy. And then

464
00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 2: it was like two from nine and then it was

465
00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,679
Speaker 2: like and what's that win record? And he was like

466
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:29,240
Speaker 2: not good.

467
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 1: But you know what it was where you blokes know

468
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,239
Speaker 1: what Craig is like.

469
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,919
Speaker 2: You know Brandon for you, you like Craig, can you

470
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 2: have his cranky head on and you can do something

471
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,680
Speaker 2: just like light in the mood or you just you

472
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 2: blokes knew what he was like. I remember going speaking

473
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,679
Speaker 2: to players who were in that camp, speaking to my

474
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,199
Speaker 2: brother Andrew, who was like an assistant coach. They were

475
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 2: terrified at Belly because Belli had come with this reputation

476
00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 2: and you know, sometimes he wears his mood on his

477
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,600
Speaker 2: face and so they.

478
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,119
Speaker 1: Were literally terrified. It's just because they weren't used to

479
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, he'd had this reputation.

480
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got a persona that is so fake. I

481
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 4: reckon like he is. He is an aggressive and angry man,

482
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 4: but like away from that, he's just giving you ship

483
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 4: all day and like he'll think of a joke for

484
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 4: two days just to say it, and usually shipped shoes

485
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:23,719
Speaker 4: any levels.

486
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,160
Speaker 3: Like after he tells it.

487
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 1: That documentary, Brandon, you're showing all those things where I

488
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 1: think it says a lot with Elia, you know, who's

489
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 1: just new to clubs, steal in his bag at the airport,

490
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,400
Speaker 1: Like how many new players would do that to their coach.

491
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 4: I think there was a video of picked up bells

492
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 4: and started humping him in the butt.

493
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,120
Speaker 3: I didn't give if I did that. Robert probably next,

494
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 3: probably murdering.

495
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 2: Me because you used to get with a lot of pranks.

496
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 2: Did you have you got rob over any pranks?

497
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 3: Since no pranks, not yet? No, I love still The

498
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 3: best one was the stones in the bag, when you

499
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 3: just put.

500
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: All all those rocks in belly xpact. I just can't believe.

501
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 3: He's just draggon it.

502
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 4: The faces and he was walking it up the stairs

503
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 4: and he was like, but you know, when he opened

504
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,400
Speaker 4: the ball, I got a text. I knew, I knew

505
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 4: he assumed it was me straight away. He texted me,

506
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 4: He's on, I'm going to throw these rocks. Who your

507
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 4: fucking window?

508
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:22,679
Speaker 3: Right?

509
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,879
Speaker 1: You spoke about how close all your blokes are at Melbourne?

510
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 1: Tell me about COVID then when yous were literally just

511
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,640
Speaker 1: together continually full time.

512
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty twenty, we did twenty and twenty twenty one.

513
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did two years of it. But mate, there

514
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 3: was those two years that probably the best years of

515
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 3: my life.

516
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 2: But I was going to say that easily the best memory.

517
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:49,120
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty was definitely probably the best year of my life. Yeah, wow,

518
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 3: I it was fun, oh mate, it was. It was

519
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 3: that good.

520
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: Like where were you blokes based your blokes for Sunshine

521
00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: Sunny Coast, Malula Bar at Twin Waters Resort, where any other?

522
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 2: So we were the only team the NRL side there, Yeah, Collingwood,

523
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 2: Melbourne Demons.

524
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't remember, but yeah, there was a few

525
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 3: AFL sides.

526
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 2: So we used to do this thing called the storm

527
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: out like once a week we do essentially we made

528
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 2: our own TV show that we would play to ourselves,

529
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: like it's like a live show with all the boys

530
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 2: in the studio audience and a few people had a

531
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 2: segment and we'd get up there once a week and

532
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 2: it was so much fun, like look alikes, anything that

533
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 2: happened during the week. We just put shit on each other.

534
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 2: My favorite segment, you're probably second this not because it

535
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 2: was good, because it was the worst thing ever. Brian feeling,

536
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 2: so he was he was the welfare Officer BP, like

537
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,160
Speaker 2: the servo BP and BP get up there. I reckon

538
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 2: you had a crack at about Frank Ponisi would give

539
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 2: him a segment. I reckon he had a crack. It's

540
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,640
Speaker 2: three different ones. The first one was Joke of the Week,

541
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 2: and he'd get up there and tell a joke never

542
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 2: no one would ever laugh.

543
00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 3: It's be hilarious.

544
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,360
Speaker 2: And then it went to Tip of the week and

545
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 2: his first tip was like handling COVID in isolation, things

546
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 2: you can do to he was like, and he was

547
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: showing it was a PowerPoint he'd made. It was like puzzles.

548
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 2: Puzzles are good to keep the mind going. Frank acts

549
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,239
Speaker 2: that and then remember the final one he had. It

550
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 2: was like storytime with BP, and he'd call someone up,

551
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 2: say if it was Brandon, he go, Brandon Smith's up

552
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,239
Speaker 2: this week, and he would have contacted Brandon's parents and

553
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 2: got like a funny story, a serious story, and an

554
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 2: embarrassing story from his childhood.

555
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 3: But the one with Monster, Yeah was that the did

556
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 3: you have the something about ants in your pants? Monster?

557
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's right. He goes, he told a

558
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 2: story and then he goes, he'd fish for he'd try

559
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 2: to fish the story out of Munster. So he'd go, money,

560
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: you ever compete in a sporting carnival and money run?

561
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, he'd tell a story and he goes, No,

562
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 2: not that one. Maybe one where you ended up with

563
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 2: ants in your pants and everyone was like.

564
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 3: What the hell are you talking?

565
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he'd tell it and he would just

566
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 2: tell it so bad.

567
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 3: I remember. Yeah, Like he'd say it and he'd be

568
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 3: laughing the midway through the story.

569
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Shandor. Shandor hated the segment so much. And

570
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 2: Shandor would be shand would put his head down and

571
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 2: sledge BP while he.

572
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 1: Was doing it.

573
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,120
Speaker 3: He goes, shut the funk down.

574
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: It was so much fun.

575
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 3: It was great.

576
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 1: We've got to do a g on Brian film. So

577
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: I'll ring him and say, maybe a little bit of

578
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: a thing for the Sunday night show. We're going to

579
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: get like welfare offices.

580
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 3: Would you be interested in telling your experiences?

581
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: Now he's gonna listen, he's gonna know.

582
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 3: God damn, they did it. They did it like they

583
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 3: did a.

584
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 4: Really good job because obviously the scary thing was boredom,

585
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,479
Speaker 4: like you're you're stuck in a you're stuck in a

586
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 4: compound sort of, but it was it was really nice.

587
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 3: It's a nice resort.

588
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 4: But they did a lot of like player and partner

589
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,679
Speaker 4: function and mate, it was that funny.

590
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 3: Every time we had like a function.

591
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 4: At the end of like when everyone was a bit

592
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 4: juiced up or in, you know, a little bit drunk,

593
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 4: we'd all get in a circle and we'd all like

594
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 4: we're we're a.

595
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 3: Very white team as well.

596
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 4: And Mate, we'd sing the Fiji and Him as like

597
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 4: we'd have a party of fifty people in the circle.

598
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 4: Sometimes we'd get randoms. When when some randoms were we'd

599
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 4: just get him in the circle and we'd sing the

600
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 4: Fiji and Him at the top of our lungs and

601
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 4: two we would drive these and then I remember feeling

602
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 4: like we've done one. I remember feeling like we're going

603
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 4: to win the comp this year because I didn't feel

604
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 4: like it was a novelty laughing like. It felt like

605
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 4: it was like you felt spiritually lifted with your mates

606
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 4: and like your mates partners all beside you, and after

607
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 4: it you'd just be like in this feeling of euphoria. Yeah,

608
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 4: and like just feeling like we're so well connected here,

609
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 4: like we're And then that was the moment.

610
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 3: It was probably late in the year, probably.

611
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 4: Round sixteen, and that was a short season, but that

612
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 4: was the moment I was like, mate, we're going to

613
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 4: win this, Like.

614
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: Isn't it funny? Like I don't want to sound like

615
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: father Matthew here, but again they talk about the power

616
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: of prayer. You know, I'm not sort of.

617
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 3: Not really yet.

618
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm not doing.

619
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 3: Anymore Brandon, but but you know what I mean, the

620
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 3: unity you get.

621
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 2: From that, Yeah, well I remember I think the one

622
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 2: you're talking about was that was after we'd had the

623
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 2: big dress up night.

624
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 3: Yeah that I was the Tellytubby.

625
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 2: Yeah you were, you were you, Jerome Hughes and everyone

626
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: were like tal A Telly Tubbies and it was the

627
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: night me and Dale played the gig and then in

628
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 2: the after the gig, I remember you know who drove

629
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: you know who actually I think who started the Fijian

630
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 2: him that night was Cameron Smith.

631
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 3: Yeah remember two He was like that that was the one.

632
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 4: It was, it was the one and yeah because Cam

633
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 4: does that hey when they do the team song, I

634
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 4: think he was the ooh and the until he just

635
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 4: took over after that.

636
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 1: I can imagine people in the resort going, oh wow,

637
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: it was beautiful, but it was yeah yeah, walking up

638
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: and just grouping these little honkey's all sitting there.

639
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we're all standing and it wasn't like you're

640
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 4: like just joking around singing like everyone was taking it

641
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 4: seriously and proper, like screaming lung our eyes closed and

642
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,919
Speaker 4: you open up and you're like locking eyes with eachailer.

643
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 4: It was a really weird feeling.

644
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: Like after I've got the video.

645
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: Was in the side then yeah yeah, yeah.

646
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 3: Probably should have won Clove Church with that game.

647
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

648
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: Do you blokes do you speak to him? Because I

649
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: reckon your blokes have all got really really strong links

650
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: to see he's gone to rub you and had a

651
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: difficult time.

652
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean his hamstrings were.

653
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 4: I haven't really spoken to him for like a comment

654
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 4: on a lot of his Like there's a lot of

655
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 4: funny sayings.

656
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 3: And quirks that all the boys haven't inside.

657
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you keep an eye out, you'll start

658
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: to pick up on it. But he's over in Japan, now,

659
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 2: I believe Japan. Yeah, ptty, sure he's over in Japanese.

660
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 5: Jack, Can I ask you boys something because I heard

661
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 5: a rumor through a bunch of X Storm boys they

662
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 5: reckon Unvalu, the boys were saying before he did boded

663
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 5: in twenty seventeen, they said he might have been one

664
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 5: of the worst trainers at the Melbourne store.

665
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 4: They thought he might have been one of the worst

666
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 4: players really, yeah, Like he played reserve grade for Sunny

667
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 4: Coast and was apparently he was woeful, Like but he

668
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 4: just there was just no one left. Yeah, there was

669
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 4: just there was no one to come through. And then

670
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 4: when he got his opportunity for the rest of.

671
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 2: He scored three tries or something like.

672
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

673
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: Well, him and Josh had a card debut in the

674
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 2: same game, different teams, the Tigers, but Bally it was

675
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 2: saying it was like two wingers that went down and

676
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 2: they were apparently they were sitting in the on the

677
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: Tuesday when they're supposed to name the team and they go, sure,

678
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 2: he's the other one left, and they were going, oh no,

679
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 2: And they were talking about at this time, you couldn't

680
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: like like they didn't have rookies then, so it wasn't

681
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 2: like they had a rookie six of rookies that you

682
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: could bring in. So they were going, we're gonna have

683
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: to play surely this way, and they're gone, he's not ready,

684
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: he's not ready. We're gonna have to throw them in.

685
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: There's no one else. We can't bring someone else from

686
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: the Brisbaneese Tigers or the Falcons. And he just went

687
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: out there.

688
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: And come first touch in first grade schools on the ball. Yeah.

689
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: See, that's the thing.

690
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: I think when he was in reserve grade, he wasn't

691
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 4: being unlocked into the potential that he has because he

692
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 4: didn't have kicking him across field kids.

693
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: What a cool incidence because like the godfather of Fiji

694
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: and regular league players is no One Andku and no

695
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: one Andrew who came over. They didn't know a lot

696
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: about him. The Raiders playing lower grades, there were a

697
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: number of injuries, no one left. Tim Schoen said let's

698
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: just throw him in against the Broncos two tries. Yeah.

699
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: Do you know what else was good about that? Back

700
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: to the COVID thing, So I was just thinking the

701
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 2: pig pong tournament we did, remember we did this.

702
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 3: I like to honestly, I don't want to be like,

703
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 3: but I did that whole thing pretty much?

704
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 2: Did you organize?

705
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 3: Pretty much started that thing? Did because you know, I

706
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:58,719
Speaker 3: was playing with the lights.

707
00:30:59,200 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

708
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 4: So they had like this team room and I was like,

709
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 4: playing with the lights. And I'm taking so much credit

710
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 4: for this, but we had this ping pong comp and

711
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 4: I was like, I started playing with the lights and

712
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 4: the lights would go green. I was like, mane, we

713
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 4: should do like walkouts for this for the ping pong

714
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 4: com Yeah, And I was like, mate, And then everyone

715
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 4: got around it.

716
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: So the grand final, Monster.

717
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 4: And Nico and me and me and Whiles she started

718
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 4: a betting agency.

719
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: Mate.

720
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 2: Boys had your own economy and people, so we didn't

721
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 2: know how like the odds work.

722
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 4: So we we had Monster was the clear favorite and

723
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 4: Nico was the second favorite, and then they had the

724
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 4: dog poles after that. But we had like tried to

725
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 4: structure these bets, but people were taking it seriously, like

726
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 4: trying to because our figures were obviously not right. So

727
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 4: they were trying to put like fifty on something, twenty

728
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 4: five on take and then you'd end up with a win.

729
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 2: But it was just like, yeah, they messed up the

730
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 2: math so you could win no matter what if you

731
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: put the right amount on and then.

732
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 3: It's the bloody dock. He was like, mate, come together together.

733
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: It was tall white rhino. Yeah, white rhino bets rhino bet.

734
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: Then I'm getting shut down. Yeah yeah, no, no, I

735
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: think remember someone intervened. I think it was like Frank or.

736
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: Someone someone someone someone didn't like it.

737
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, anyway, we were trying to just take.

738
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 4: Basically it was me, whal She and Darren trying to

739
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 4: steal money from the boys because mate, we started betting,

740
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 4: and no one beats the betting agencies. So yeah, I

741
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 4: mustle was a heavy favorite and Nico ended up pumping them.

742
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

743
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: So boys, when you're in camp and a lot of

744
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: the families are there, like, did some of the kids

745
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: almost feel like your kids that make sense, like, you know,

746
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: like Felice's kids, Orlando.

747
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, Orlando.

748
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: You must have built a real strong bond with all

749
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: the families as well.

750
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon like particularly the partners. I think that's

751
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 2: what you don't get from like a lot of other

752
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: clubs because you're not you know, you might see partners,

753
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: you know, five times a year at a function or

754
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: after the games or something. But in there, like you're

755
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: walking around, you're having breakfast with the whole like your

756
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 2: mate and their whole family. So it was pretty It's

757
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: pretty surreal.

758
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: See the partners of breakfast as opposed to bring in

759
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: the husband back after a massive night. Totally different receptions.

760
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 4: But the partners used to have their own drink ups. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

761
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 3: And my partner at the time, she got really drunk,

762
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: really really drunk, and I was I was riding around

763
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 3: on my little scooter and I just seen like she

764
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 3: had both feet dragging across the ground and the other

765
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,239
Speaker 3: two partners were like carrying it, and I was like,

766
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 3: I was pretty proud of that moment.

767
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: Well, girl, girls certainly get the what do I call

768
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: it regret the next day where they go, you know,

769
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: where they blackout and Trish Lawys go, what do I do?

770
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: I do something stupid? Yeah, yeah, of course you did.

771
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: You always do.

772
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, well she yeah, Trish gets bad. But the bad

773
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: part about when you get blind in a twin waters

774
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: and go home. Because there were snakes around all the time,

775
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 2: so they'd always be like there was like a snake

776
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 2: catcher who worked at the resort, and there was always.

777
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 4: The like carpet pithon and we had all we had

778
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 4: all bikes as well, and it gets really dark so

779
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 4: you can't really see on the thing. But there was

780
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 4: this one that was just massive.

781
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: Let me out of that. He end of your trips.

782
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,319
Speaker 1: I don't how many trips you've like gone on as

783
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: a team and together actually before.

784
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 2: We get to that, because at the end of this

785
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 2: COVID year, obviously the comps won. Yes, we got a massive,

786
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 2: massive piece up back at the resort for a few

787
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: days and myself, Brandon, Jack Connor Watson and Sam Verel's

788
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 2: we had a trip that was booked already to Byron

789
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 2: Bay yep. So not predicting that we were going to

790
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 2: win the camp, but we just had an off season

791
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 2: trip down to Kayla. Kayla wasn't there, Calor wasn't there? No, No, no,

792
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 2: Kaylen wasn't He was doing something else. I don't know

793
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 2: what he was doing, but obviously things went out, things

794
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 2: went well. We ended up winning the camp. Now Brandon

795
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 2: and Munster obviously well documented. Those two probably enjoyed themselves

796
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 2: the most of anyone, like for a few days like

797
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: there was because we couldn't leave for three days. Well,

798
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 2: but I didn't feel guilty about these drinks though. I

799
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: was like, I'm celebrating something, of course, you know what

800
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 2: I mean. Yes, if you go on like a big

801
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 2: piss up, like what am I doing?

802
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 3: Why am I doing this? But I had a reason

803
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 3: to do all the things I was doing.

804
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 2: Of course, tell them about the when when everyone had

805
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: to sign the jerseys.

806
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, anyways, so weird me and Mince is fear

807
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 4: thinking was about two and a half days of non

808
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 4: stop drinking and no sleep, like we're and you know,

809
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 4: I've told this story before, But the son would come up,

810
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 4: we'd be on the same balcony doing the same thing.

811
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 4: It was just me and my video in ourselves, just

812
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 4: like singing these songs like to the and we didn't

813
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 4: even know the lyrics or anything, and you'd see bells

814
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 4: are running past and we'd just spray him, start throwing

815
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 4: stuff off the balconies at him, and like you, I'd

816
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 4: seen bells that go for a morning jog twice and

817
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 4: I was still on the same damn balcony, not much

818
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 4: just going. So we still can't leave the resort or anything.

819
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 4: And then Mate, the last day, we were able to

820
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 4: go to Byron that day, but.

821
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 3: When when we go up to the reception, there was

822
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 3: like two thousand jerseys to be signed, and they weren't like,

823
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 3: they weren't fully made jerseys. They were just the front

824
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 3: part of the jersey. I really thin like jerseys, and Mane,

825
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 3: I was not good. Monster was not good.

826
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,959
Speaker 4: Like I was sleeping on the couches, like while trying

827
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 4: to slot, like trying to sign it. Mate, I was

828
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 4: fully laying laying down on the couches, just falling, falling asleep,

829
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,400
Speaker 4: and I really didn't want to do it, but I

830
00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 4: was signing jersey and obviously I was a bit drunk.

831
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 4: So like when you flick like this, then one you

832
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 4: probably miss about ten. Keep signing, keep signing. And I've

833
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 4: been framed, I think, but apparently I've been caught writing

834
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 4: like Mickey Mouse and like drawing, drawing funny signatures, and

835
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 4: you know, I was Honestly, I put my hand up.

836
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 3: It might been me, but I feel like it was Monster.

837
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: It was one of you. It was narrowed down to

838
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: you too, because we were we were dog shit, we

839
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: were we were not looking good.

840
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 4: But it ended up boding us on the ass a

841
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 4: bit because like all those jerseys that had Mickey Mouse

842
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 4: and like drawings on them and stuff, all those jerseys

843
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 4: were not sellable. So I think we cost like our

844
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 4: whole playing group like fifty grand and made it did

845
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 4: not go well with the boys. So me and Monster

846
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 4: after the thing, you get like a big payday for it.

847
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 3: You get a little cut of the pie. And Me

848
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 3: and Months ended up having to pay money to the boys.

849
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 3: So I still to this day hold my innocence.

850
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 4: I feel like it was Monster, but I don't have

851
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 4: too much recollection of.

852
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: State of Origin was after after the season that so

853
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 2: money had to go straight to Origin camp.

854
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: I remember he remember he rang, He rang Wayne, It

855
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: was a famous story, and said, I can I stay

856
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: in camp for another couple of days to get your

857
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: fucking assy now?

858
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get you?

859
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: And he went the volleyballs yeah, and then yeah, so

860
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 2: they've gone and all those boys couldn't come to Byron.

861
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 2: But back to the Byron story, so US five had

862
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 2: the trip. Now everybody's basically like another fifteen blokes ended

863
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 2: up just coming down to Byron with us with no

864
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: accommodation books, so like they've just got this shitty airbnb

865
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: that I'd booked and they had like four or five bedrooms. Anyway,

866
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 2: I said to Brandon, I said, he was rat to us.

867
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 2: He couldn't drive. I said, I'll drive us to Byron.

868
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: But then we were standing there for a week, I said,

869
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 2: in a week's time when we got to drive, because

870
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 2: he was coming back down here to Sydney and then

871
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 2: he was gonna fly and news in.

872
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,959
Speaker 4: I said, but I don't think you said you're both drive

873
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 4: all the way to by And I think he said

874
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 4: I'll drive for the most part and you have a

875
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 4: map and then you can drive.

876
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 2: Well, look, Byron was four hours, I said. I said,

877
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: I was thinking I'll drive for three. Maybe he'll help

878
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 2: me out. In the last hour. He ended up asleep

879
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 2: the whole way to Byron. I said, that's fine, but

880
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: we're doing halves from Byron to Sydney because that's a

881
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 2: that's a big old drive and I'm going to be

882
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 2: hung and I need help because I'll be falling asleep

883
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 2: at the wheel. He goes, sweet, anyway, we get a

884
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: week's time later, we get to the morning if we're

885
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 2: about to leave. Me and him are sitting like drinking

886
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 2: in some random house at three am and we're leaving

887
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: at seven am to leave to drive to Sydney. And

888
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 2: he goes, you better go home and get some sleep.

889
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 2: And I go and I go, what do you mean.

890
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 2: He goes, oh, we're leaving at seven. I went yeah,

891
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 2: And he goes, what we'll do is you go home

892
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 2: sleep now, and then I'll come home as we're leaving,

893
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 2: and I'll sleep for the first four hours of the trip.

894
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: Then we'll swap and then I'll drive from there. And

895
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: I said, sweet, that's fine. I go home.

896
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: Good plan.

897
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 2: It was a great That's exactly the word. It was

898
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 2: a great plan. So I get up at seven. Literally

899
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 2: I've packed his bag for him. He literally walks in,

900
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: puts his bag in the boot, just gets in the

901
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 2: front seat, head hits the head rest.

902
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: Boom.

903
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 2: Cheese is out like out like a light, like it

904
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 2: just got knocked out by tim Zoo. I get in there,

905
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: I start driving, stopping at Macas, trying to get all

906
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: this coffee. I'm literally like falling asleep, just like kept dozing,

907
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 2: and I was like staying three more hours than we're swapping,

908
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: two more hours than we're swapping. I get to the

909
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 2: four hour mark and I'm nudging him, and Brandon is

910
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 2: just like a corpse, just like standing there so silent,

911
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'll do one more hour and

912
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 2: then then anyway I start driving. I'm literally like slapping

913
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 2: him on the head, yelling at him. Couldn't wake up.

914
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 2: I'm just like far out. We get all the way

915
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 2: from Byron to the Central Coast, there's like an hour

916
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 2: left in the trip. Cheese wakes up and he looks

917
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: at me, and he looks down at the maps and

918
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 2: it says like fifty five minutes, and he goes, bra,

919
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 2: that was the quickest, true, babe.

920
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 3: Very good. I'm very good. So that went quick.

921
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,760
Speaker 2: And when you're slapping my head is an old saying

922
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 2: you cannot wake a man who's pretending to be a no.

923
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 4: I was out cold, man, I'll promise you. And then

924
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 4: I remember going, oh, do you want me to drive now?

925
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 4: And he just looked at me and he goes.

926
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 3: I can of the day. So he drove me all

927
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 3: the way to doing me all the way to Borro

928
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: and then all the way Yeah, so good. And do

929
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 3: you know I feel bad because imagine driving eight hours

930
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 3: with you made of sleep. You can't even play the

931
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 3: music too.

932
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: I know I was one out and I wasn't give

933
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 2: you slapping him on the head. You should be able

934
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: to play the music. Yeah, yeah, But I was pulling

935
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: over into truck those big like sort of rest not

936
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 2: even the rest stops, like the rest lanes where they're

937
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 2: just like an eighty meter lane on the side of

938
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 2: a highway and like they're just built for truckies to

939
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: just pull in. I was pulling in there, setting an alarm,

940
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 2: sleeping for fifteen minutes, getting up, and then driving an hour.

941
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 2: It was the only thing that could get me through.

942
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 2: It was like rest recovery. I was like fifteen minutes

943
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 2: into a power hour, back into a fifteen.

944
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: Minute It's that it's seriously scary doing that driving when

945
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: you're so fatigued. I remember driving down a Newcast once

946
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: from sess at forty five minutes and I was just

947
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: really tired after day's work and I'm driving down and

948
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: I just remember feeling all of a sudden really relaxed

949
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: and going, oh yeah, that's and that feels good. Suddenly, Mate,

950
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: what wakes me is my hand goes off the world

951
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: and slaps me. Sof slaps my leg. I wake up.

952
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: It is scary. Some other trips. I wanted to cooked that.

953
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 4: Actually that year though, before we get that year though,

954
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 4: it was the year that he drove to my your house,

955
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 4: we're staying here, and then I was here for three

956
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 4: days and I was flying in New Zealand at eleven

957
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 4: pm eleven am the next day and I was just got.

958
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 3: I started packing my bags.

959
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 4: I'd had a few beers like, actually, where's my passport?

960
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: What about it?

961
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 3: Only you? I was like, mate, and I've rang. I think.

962
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 3: Georgia Moore was like she was living.

963
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 4: She was staying at my house at Georgia Moore, do

964
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 4: you have my it's my passport out there?

965
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 3: And she was like, yeah, it's right here. What I

966
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 3: was fuck.

967
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 4: COVID and you couldn't go over the border. Yeah, So

968
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 4: but we tried to make this plan. I had my

969
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 4: I had an uncle that lived in Aubrey that had

970
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 4: like a he had a pass because he was a

971
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 4: truck drive he could go over the borders. And he

972
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 4: was like, this is the plan. We're going to get

973
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 4: him to drive to my house. We're going to drive

974
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 4: right now to the the border. And it was like

975
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 4: we'd be touching go. But somehow, Maddie, I don't know

976
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 4: how you done it.

977
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: I don't even know. So what I did. I decided,

978
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: don't worry, I'm going to go after all of this.

979
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm going to call the New Zealand Embassy.

980
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 4: No, you rang someone first, he rang someone, You rang

981
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 4: the boss of sky.

982
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: I rang, Paul said, mate, very official. Mate, Have you

983
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: got the number of New Zealand Embassy? Said? Oh yeah,

984
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: this guy's him. Call remember ringing? I was on the

985
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: phone for ages.

986
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: Can we give context on to your state of mind

987
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 2: at the time as well?

988
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because we.

989
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 2: Were like we've been on the drink all afternoon when

990
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 2: until Brandon found out Sammy Burgess was here and Billy Walters.

991
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 2: Bill won't we won't go into that, not going to that, No, no, no,

992
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 2: because that got weird. But yeah, dad, Dad was very

993
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: well hydrated and he was he gets very confident.

994
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 3: And now pick up from that because when I told

995
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 3: Maddie just like look came over his eyes. He's like,

996
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 3: I've got to sort this, and he just locked he

997
00:43:58,800 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 3: locked in.

998
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 4: He's on the I just kept you kept seeing and

999
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 4: walk past on the phone.

1000
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 3: On the phone, he's like, mate, I got this.

1001
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: So I got to the point I was gone. The

1002
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: last thing I remember, I've been on the phone to

1003
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: this lady just going yeah, well you know, and she

1004
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: she said, I'm sorry, so I haven't been able to

1005
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: understand you for the last minutes. Can you give me

1006
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: to someone else? Yeah, gave it to Trish. I remember.

1007
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: Then I passed out. Wake up at the morning. Trish goes,

1008
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: we've got a result. I went, what do you mean?

1009
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: She goes, Brandon, he's able to fly back New Zealand.

1010
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: I went, yeah, mate, what happened you? You gave me

1011
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: this number?

1012
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 4: You or Tris gave me this number, and it was

1013
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 4: so I just had no confidence, Like you're still pissed

1014
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 4: at you gave me this number.

1015
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 3: You're like, mate, when you get to the when you

1016
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 3: get to the reception, what do you call it? Yeah?

1017
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, again the checking the check and this ring this number,

1018
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 4: give the phone to the lady.

1019
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 3: And I was like, this is not this is not

1020
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 3: going to work. I had no comfort, but I was like,

1021
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 3: I'm not driving Aubrey back and.

1022
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 4: Mate, true to your word. I got to the counter,

1023
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 4: rang the number and I was like, oh, this is branded.

1024
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 4: He's like, oh yeah, yeah, no worries. Put me onto

1025
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 4: the lady at the counter. I gave her the phone

1026
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 4: and she was like, gave me this little pass and

1027
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 4: she was like, yeah, you can go now. And then

1028
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 4: I just walked to the gate, gave them this like

1029
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 4: the people the thing, this like letter, and then I

1030
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 4: just flew straight back to New Zealand.

1031
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 3: No problem. So I wish I could a very lesson.

1032
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,880
Speaker 2: I wish I'll tell you what. I wish you remembered

1033
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: that number, because it would't I feel like I would

1034
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:33,319
Speaker 2: come in handy you again.

1035
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 4: Sometime I've managed to fly internationally without any idea or

1036
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 4: anything coming back.

1037
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 3: Was it an issue? No, I got I bought one

1038
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 3: over there.

1039
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: Oh you got.

1040
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 3: I got a new passport over there.

1041
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 4: They're so just the I just remember Maddie when he

1042
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 4: was drunk.

1043
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 3: Mate, just just ring this number. When you get to

1044
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 3: the checking desk, you're going to be.

1045
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: Use the code word, Maddie John.

1046
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 3: I think you're going to be okay, you had a

1047
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 3: strut to his walkout the party.

1048
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,720
Speaker 2: So he spun that yard a couple of times on radio.

1049
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: Remember like he was for the next six months he

1050
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 2: was telling that story.

1051
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 3: I dined out on that.

1052
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: Don't worry.

1053
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 2: It was his kid of fame. Another trip we had

1054
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 2: while we were on trips Bali Bali was twenty nineteen.

1055
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: Remember we had the big We raised all this money

1056
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 2: through like in the players fun throughout the year, and

1057
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: we got boys, who's twenty of us. We're all going

1058
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: to Bari in a villa. We've got a great week planned.

1059
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 2: Shandor organized everything because he lived over there for a bit, obviously,

1060
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,919
Speaker 2: the networking king do Or just had everything. First day,

1061
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 2: I remember everybody got a bike. Everyone had a motorbike,

1062
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 2: and I'd never written a moped before, and I was like, sweet,

1063
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 2: I'll love a crack on this moped like inexperience and

1064
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: Barlie's a hard place to ride.

1065
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: Yep.

1066
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: Anyway, I've ridden to the pub, had a couple of schooners,

1067
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 2: and then I'm riding back and I started to getting

1068
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 2: my confidence and Harry was right behind me. All the

1069
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 2: boys are in the pool starting to have a little

1070
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 2: pool party at the villa. I was like, we're going back,

1071
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: We're going back. I come around this corner and I

1072
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 2: don't know the technique. You must have to take a

1073
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 2: corner wide and do you accelerate.

1074
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you accelerate out of the corner.

1075
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 2: You accelerate out of the corner. Well, I've accelerated into

1076
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 2: the corner and then lost control of my moped. I

1077
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 2: went straight into this Barlinese guy's bike and then through

1078
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: a wall, like there was a concrete wall, and I've

1079
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 2: gone into this guy's like it looked like his laundry

1080
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 2: room because I've gone the bike and me have gone

1081
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: through a wooden door and I'm in the wooden door.

1082
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 2: My bike's completely ridden off, and Harry was like, oh shit,

1083
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 2: And I'm in so much shock because I was like

1084
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 2: thought I was about to die and my leg was

1085
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 2: just pissing blood from like the wooden splinters from this door.

1086
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 2: And this Barlow just comes screaming out and he was like,

1087
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,760
Speaker 2: I'm calling the cops on you. You've defamed my door

1088
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 2: and my and my bike. And I was like, please

1089
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 2: don't ring the cops. I just don't know how to ride.

1090
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 2: And then he was just like give me a hundred bucks.

1091
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 2: So I like paid him off and it was the

1092
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: biggest walk of shame. Now in the meantime, Harry left

1093
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 2: me asshole, and he because we were like a hunndred

1094
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 2: meters from the villain, that's how close I was. He

1095
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: rode up told all the boys the story. So everybody

1096
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 2: was in the pool just waiting for me to limp in,

1097
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: and I walked my bikes because I didn't want to

1098
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 2: hop back on again. I walked it back, put on

1099
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: the stand and I come up with this story of

1100
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 2: why my leg was bleeding any So I walk in.

1101
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 2: Everyone was in there just pissing themselves, laughing at me,

1102
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 2: and I was that embarrassed. I was so rounded I

1103
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 2: had to get a nurse to come over and stitch

1104
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 2: my leg. Yeah, it was so embarrassing. Tom Eisenhearth was

1105
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 2: still my favorite on that trip.

1106
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 3: W Yeah, how good.

1107
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 4: Was speaking of Tom's this is where the infamous like

1108
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 4: quote at Melbourne the Turbo round.

1109
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 3: It means you shout like you shout a lot of drinks.

1110
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 2: I think I've told it. We had Turbo last year

1111
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 2: and I told him that it's the round.

1112
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the like with what months it did to me.

1113
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 4: So Turbo brought like twenty four double double, obviously well

1114
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 4: paid Turbo twenty four double double, Gray Gooses.

1115
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: It was just in BALI.

1116
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, was over there, Mixy Kola.

1117
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 4: So we ran into him, say, we were in a

1118
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 4: pack about twenty four, so us all a drink like Turbo.

1119
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 3: He looked like a hero. And then Monster got a

1120
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 3: little bit of jealousies. Well I'm pretty rich too, like

1121
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And he goes, boys, I'm

1122
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,280
Speaker 3: gonna get thirty double double Greg Gooses for all the boys,

1123
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, go on.

1124
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 4: Then mate, that guy comes over to pay. It was

1125
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 4: like eight hundred bucks or something. Mate goes to scare

1126
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 4: his coat and goes declined and goes back.

1127
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 3: Can you get me? I looked at him, I was like,

1128
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 3: are you.

1129
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 2: Remember every drink up from then? We'd always stitch someone

1130
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 2: up to like we just started a chance and point.

1131
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 3: It usually was.

1132
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 2: Police because Police Fuss was so tight with his money,

1133
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 2: like ridiculously tight.

1134
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 3: But when he got on the pistol, he was a

1135
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 3: different beast.

1136
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 4: Mate wouldn't buy a coffee at all, Like he had

1137
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 4: this like list of debts that he owed people for,

1138
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 4: like bits that he plays like who won this game

1139
00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 4: or whatever? And you could never get anything. But as

1140
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 4: soon as you went out and got a few drinks

1141
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 4: in him, he'd order like twenty expresso martinis.

1142
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: One of the ways, always espresso.

1143
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 3: Espresso is always.

1144
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, he says, he's money on haircuts anyway.

1145
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 2: Now, then he had luscious hair, luscious. The hairline was bad,

1146
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 2: but the hair itself.

1147
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: Was really good. It was very, very good. He was yeah. Now, well, no,

1148
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: I don't jack to have to edit the story out.

1149
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: I imagine I'll just hold on it.

1150
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:24,879
Speaker 2: Oh no, what is it?

1151
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: There was one it's one of the players, and I

1152
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: have to say who it was that basically was watching

1153
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: Lee mourn.

1154
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 3: This doesn't need to be no names.

1155
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, no names, no names is fine, right, and Jesus

1156
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 2: chime in here and if I miss something. But one

1157
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 2: of the boys. Now he's a family man. Let's paint

1158
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: the picture. He was a family man. He loves his kids,

1159
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 2: loves his wife.

1160
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: Stop your idea. Even family men can masturbate every now

1161
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: and then.

1162
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 3: Correct.

1163
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 2: Now, this player, uh, look, he was very he was

1164
00:50:59,360 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 2: very excited.

1165
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: Obviously.

1166
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: Now his wife said, see you, honey, I'm gonna go

1167
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 2: drop the kids to school. And that wasn't even like

1168
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 2: an euphemism. She was genuinely going to drop the kids

1169
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 2: to school. She jumps in the minivent, hurting the kids

1170
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 2: and right her kid's got to go to school. Now,

1171
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 2: this player must have been in some mood. He was

1172
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: so excited he went straight to the bedroom and started

1173
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 2: putting an adult movie on to start to get himself going. Now,

1174
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 2: what he didn't know was his wife's still out in

1175
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 2: the front trying to heard the kids in the car.

1176
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 2: She gets in the car and his phone was the

1177
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 2: first one that connected to the bluetooth. So this player

1178
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: and I don't know exactly what he was watching video wise,

1179
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 2: but I don't think it was good and I don't

1180
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 2: think it was in the video. I don't think it

1181
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: was just two people. I think it was a group thing.

1182
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 2: So apparently the audio that has come through the bluetooth

1183
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 2: in the car was so loud, and his wife just

1184
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 2: texted him it was coming up as he's watching, and

1185
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 2: it just said you fucking pick.

1186
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: Texting back, what does take me to break?

1187
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 2: It was so funny. Remember, because he wasn't supposed to

1188
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 2: tell the boys. Remember, she was like, don't tell the

1189
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 2: players like I'm ashamed of you. And he came in

1190
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 2: the next day feeling so like guilty, but he wanted

1191
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 2: to get like he knew it was going to be

1192
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 2: so funny for the boys.

1193
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 3: He told the boys to.

1194
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: The wife, He's like, I'm so sorry, Like as soon

1195
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: as he walks into the boys, he is like his

1196
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:24,839
Speaker 1: own personal hero.

1197
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 2: He was the king.

1198
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 3: I remember at Twin Waters when I was talking to

1199
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 3: Bianchor one time and she was telling me that month no,

1200
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 3: but yeah, Monster's parted. Monster hates farting in front of her,

1201
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 3: like he just when they first like were together.

1202
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 4: He hated fighting in front of her, And she told

1203
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,839
Speaker 4: me the first time he ever fared like in front

1204
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 4: of her, he got so embarrassed.

1205
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 3: So he was in the toilet blushing his teeth and

1206
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 3: he was naked and walked in behind him and she

1207
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 3: didn't he didn't know, and he's just gone and let

1208
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 3: her fart out and she goes monster, and he turned

1209
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,879
Speaker 3: around and looked at her and urgans. He got these

1210
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 3: wide eyes and just stormed out like it, didn't say

1211
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 3: anything and just walked straight out of the bathroom, straight

1212
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 3: down the hallway. And what's so embarrassed?

1213
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: But Oh that is the only dating, isn't it. You

1214
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: feel like you got a bathroom.

1215
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: I think it was like years in, not early early.

1216
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, he went like, yeah, twelve months before he

1217
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 2: even showed that side of him. That's so funny because

1218
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 2: he's such he's so polar opposite to that. Yeah, he's

1219
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 2: the kind of like that had fart on the boys

1220
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 2: in the locker room. But he goes home and his

1221
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 2: missus doesn't even.

1222
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: Know he's got a Yeah, she thinks he's Cameron, nice guy.

1223
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think she's picked it up now.

1224
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure.

1225
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're first going out and your first dating,

1226
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 1: like you actually you've got a basketball worth of wind

1227
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: just sitting in your stomach and you just don't you

1228
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: just you hold it on. You just don't want to

1229
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: cut it, and you work out a reason, go out

1230
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: and check just check the car. It's okay, just get it.

1231
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so bad. Another we spoke about the work

1232
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:54,879
Speaker 2: program before. We had some good trips the Army camp

1233
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 2: because me and you were we actually did the storm

1234
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 2: Army camp together.

1235
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 3: Yes, me, you. It's another thing that brings us so

1236
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 3: close together.

1237
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,439
Speaker 2: Yes, correct, It wasn't that a ship time.

1238
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 3: It was I see I love that ship. I love

1239
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 3: that sort of training.

1240
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah you can, and to be letting people know you

1241
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 2: get a man of the Camp at each Army camp.

1242
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 2: Give cheese a wrap. He was outstanding. It was a

1243
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 2: two horse race.

1244
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 3: It was me and Harry and then it was daylights

1245
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 3: to anyone. Yeah, Cooper, Cooper, tell you what started off

1246
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 3: so bad? What we started off? So because you know

1247
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 3: how Cooper gets, he can get he can get the

1248
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 3: red mestic.

1249
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 4: I felt like he was angry at the world at

1250
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 4: the start of the camp. But Jeezy come home like winks.

1251
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 4: I'm telling you remember that walk.

1252
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:41,959
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the walk.

1253
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 4: We've done the walk and you were the leader and

1254
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 4: you not that not that, not the one with your bum.

1255
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:48,240
Speaker 3: But oh yeah.

1256
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 4: So he was just powering along in this and then

1257
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 4: we had to do this one walk and it was

1258
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 4: it was a pitch black. You got nothing but you

1259
00:54:56,280 --> 00:55:00,399
Speaker 4: like headlight to see the ground. Yeah and no oh yeah,

1260
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 4: he had like a glowstick, but I had like my

1261
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 4: head talk so I could see the ground.

1262
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 3: Mate. And you'll just.

1263
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 4: Walk and it is a mind I believe that just

1264
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 4: walking that's just mind numbing.

1265
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 2: You're just walking along this road and you go through

1266
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 2: the like a little fencing and you walk along like

1267
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 2: a grass for a bit and you're you're pacing. You

1268
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: can't talk.

1269
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 3: And I remember walking past and it's pitch black and

1270
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 3: there's like a tree. You walk past, and Bells is

1271
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 3: a little sneaky bustard and he must he's standing on

1272
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 3: the street and I just hear him random and all

1273
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 3: I can see is just these eyes and he's just

1274
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 3: it's pitch black and he's just But anyways, I remember

1275
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 3: seeing this guy. I swear he was running and you're

1276
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 3: not let it run, that's hitting. But I just I heard.

1277
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 4: All these footsteps going fast, really bad, and I put

1278
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 4: my head lamp up and I could see. All I

1279
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 4: could see was this hairy Italian asshole and so he

1280
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 4: had taken he must say, it was like hot.

1281
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 3: He's taken his skins off and he was just walking

1282
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 3: this this Pitt's black thing, fully nude in the middle

1283
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 3: of the army camp. And Mate, that was the one

1284
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 3: thing I struggled on with that event. I got chafed

1285
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:10,399
Speaker 3: so bad that like.

1286
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 4: I started feeling like I thought it was sweat and

1287
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 4: my butthole was bleeding. Yeah, like the hairs, and so

1288
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 4: I had to get this random guy to bend over

1289
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 4: in front of him, spread my cheeks, and this random

1290
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 4: army guy.

1291
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 3: Never met before he had to put like strapping table mask.

1292
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 3: It was the first time I ever met this.

1293
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, you don't even get embarrassed because

1294
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 2: you're that that. So that walk is two days in,

1295
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 2: so you haven't we haven't slept for two days and

1296
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,240
Speaker 2: watching you because I walked past you as your ass

1297
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 2: was getting strapped and the guy's headlight was like directly

1298
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 2: and I saw that because I had a really bad

1299
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 2: chafe in between my thighs, get it real bad.

1300
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 3: That's why it was nude.

1301
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 2: So that gave me the idea went, I got to

1302
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,280
Speaker 2: take my skins off because they're rubbing, so I've gotten nude.

1303
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 2: The thing I got nude up near that tree so

1304
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 2: where there was no one watching, so like the army guys.

1305
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 2: So I walked up near that tree where balli Ac

1306
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 2: was behind, not knowing he was behind there, and I'm like,

1307
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 2: at this point, I'm that tired, but I'm like three

1308
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 2: meters from belly a and I'm taking quickly, like taking

1309
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:17,959
Speaker 2: my skin to my shoes off. So the army guys

1310
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 2: didn't notice. And I'm sitting there and I come up

1311
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 2: and I just start pacing, well like like old fellas

1312
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 2: out in the front, assholes out in the back and belly.

1313
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 2: It was just like and I could hear someone like chuckling,

1314
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 2: I look bad, and the beady eyes, like the possible

1315
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 2: get that.

1316
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 4: You could actually see like just like a figure of

1317
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 4: his face. We're talking pitch black, but you could see

1318
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 4: like a figure of his face and just these beady

1319
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 4: eyes behind this tree standing.

1320
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 2: So much fun, all the boys hallucinating.

1321
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 3: That that was. That was Boollerline torture. Yeah.

1322
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 2: That So after that silent walk they put they dropped

1323
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 2: just out in the bush. Was that like at midnight?

1324
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 3: So I'd want I'd be.

1325
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 4: I'd been wearing a jumper for those camp because it

1326
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 4: was pretty cold, but like I was so sweaty that

1327
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 4: I couldn't wear it anymore. It's disgusting, So I've taken

1328
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 4: it off. And then we've had this do this like

1329
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 4: silent oh not this. We had to walk out in

1330
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 4: the pitch black and one by one, every like one

1331
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 4: hundred meters, that just dropped you in the middle of

1332
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 4: the bush. I just dropped you in the middle, and Mate,

1333
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 4: I was the last one they dropped off, and he

1334
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 4: just kept like going, Mate, look at those look at

1335
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 4: those wild dog tracks over there, And Mate, I was like,

1336
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 4: what the fuck?

1337
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 3: I am very scared of dogs.

1338
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: Of course you haven't slept, You're obviously a little bit

1339
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: out of mind, So what do you what?

1340
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 3: It was it called?

1341
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 4: So one by one they dropped you off and then yes,

1342
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 4: you have to just guard your area. And you, I'm

1343
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 4: not even kidding, you're standing in the pitch black and

1344
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 4: it was pissing down with rain, lightning coming down. My

1345
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 4: jumper was soaked in sweats I couldn't wear it. And

1346
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 4: that was that was the thing. I couldn't fall asleep.

1347
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 4: I hadn't slept for forty hours, but I couldn't fall

1348
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 4: asleep because I was just like the whole time, I

1349
00:58:58,640 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 4: thought I was going to die.

1350
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 2: It didn't feel like that. And the only thing you're

1351
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 2: allowed to say the whole time is holt who goes there?

1352
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 3: They try to sneak up on you and steal stuff.

1353
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,919
Speaker 4: A few and it's it's pitch black, but every time

1354
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 4: the lightning hit, the whole bush would light up.

1355
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 3: And Mate, when the bush light up. All I could

1356
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 3: see was like dogs and people's faces like everywhere, and

1357
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 3: like I could hear. I thought I was hearing like howling. Mate.

1358
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: It was.

1359
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 3: It was a crazy experience.

1360
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: Special kind of torture.

1361
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

1362
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 3: It was. And Brandon ask you was it during the day? No,

1363
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 3: it was. I'm talking pits black man. How many times

1364
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 3: did you say pitch black?

1365
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 2: I don't know, Jack, were you counting, Yeah, I can't believe.

1366
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 2: Jack signaled me to turn his bu just to sledge and.

1367
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: Put back down.

1368
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 3: Sit in the corner, doubby, you know.

1369
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 2: And on the last day, just quickly, one more story.

1370
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 2: It's kind of mine. You do boxing on the last day,

1371
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 2: so you get they drop us at this one of

1372
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:02,919
Speaker 2: the last things before you get back to Amy Park.

1373
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 2: Everyone's tired, but they want to They test out.

1374
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 3: The one V milling you like, punch you teller in.

1375
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 2: The stomach, in the stomach, no headshots.

1376
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: Oh yep.

1377
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 2: Anyway, Brandon at this point, he'd been killing the whole camp,

1378
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 2: and he talked about Red Miss. He started to get

1379
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 2: a little bit angry, so he was fighting. He got

1380
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 2: to the semi finals after beating someone, and he was

1381
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 2: fighting calmer to a lung yar. I believe it was.

1382
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 2: I was TINOI anyway, Tino, okay, dumb boy that used

1383
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 2: to be his nickname, and uh, and dumboy was hitting it.

1384
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 2: They go right O three to two, one go, and

1385
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 2: they're milling, milling, and Tino's accidentally it was a full accident,

1386
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 2: but I think Brandon thought he took it serious.

1387
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 3: It bounced on make the test, but straight in the face.

1388
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 4: So I just been fucking for minutes and then it

1389
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 4: was on and then we got sacked.

1390
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon, because Brandon could like Brandon can scrap and

1391
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 2: Tino's hit him, and Tino can't scrap, but his strong

1392
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 2: as and.

1393
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 3: But this wasn't this wasn't one hundred, and this wasn't

1394
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 3: the Tino we see today.

1395
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 4: Is Yeah, this was before he got on that like

1396
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 4: SAMO and bloody steroids.

1397
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what.

1398
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the mullet hadn't come out. He was an innocent

1399
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 2: boy at this stage. And Brandon just starts wailing on

1400
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 2: to you, I reckon, you've got four head shots in

1401
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 2: and then the army guy, the head army guy, mister Walsh,

1402
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 2: sprints over and like grabs brand and he's.

1403
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: Like the Squalified.

1404
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 3: Show, the Talion. They gave him a special mate. You've

1405
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 3: got to learn to control your emotions in there.

1406
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 2: That was just that's your strength. It only like a

1407
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 2: pull on the gate.

1408
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 3: Let him get a quick.

1409
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: Playable our standing.

1410
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 2: It was very funny. Just getting on a serious note

1411
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,280
Speaker 2: for the last forty minutes. We've just told some good stories.

1412
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 3: Uh, but we were here all these stories as well.

1413
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 3: I know, and every weekend you come over and get

1414
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 3: on the remember that story.

1415
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 2: I know there's so many more that come out. But

1416
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 2: leaving Melbourne, like everyone probably gains a bit of an

1417
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 2: insight there as to how close to where all the

1418
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 2: fun times, all the good memories. How hard was that

1419
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 2: decision when you when you chose to leave and go

1420
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 2: to the roosters.

1421
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 3: Oh, it was.

1422
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 4: Like looking back at it now, man, it was probably

1423
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 4: the hardest. Like I didn't think at the time it

1424
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 4: would be this hard, but you know when I when

1425
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:19,040
Speaker 4: I when it finally sunk in, like all the memories

1426
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 4: I had made there was it was real tough. And

1427
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 4: the decision to leave, because of the way it happened,

1428
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 4: it made it really tough.

1429
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 3: The whole year was just because I signed so early.

1430
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 3: The whole year was just like, it was quite a

1431
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 3: sad year for me at Melbourne, and I didn't.

1432
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 4: Get to really tell Craig and and Frank and everyone

1433
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 4: sort of what I wanted to before it happened and

1434
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:44,439
Speaker 4: it really come out.

1435
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 3: So it was. It was tough and it was I

1436
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 3: just the only regret. I don't regret leaving.

1437
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 4: It was tough to leave, but I regret the way

1438
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 4: it happened, And like, because I got a great relationship

1439
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 4: with Craig and Frank, and Frank is done so many

1440
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 4: amazing things for me over my career. Obviously I'm I'm

1441
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 4: definitely a work in progress and a not quite polished turd.

1442
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 4: You're getting, yeah, and yeah, they've just done a whole

1443
01:03:12,320 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 4: lot for me, And I felt like I kind of

1444
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 4: left on a really disrespectful note towards them.

1445
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Brendan, you're only a young bloke at

1446
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, still are, but you're a young fellow

1447
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: at the time, and I understand how difficult, how difficult

1448
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: is to leave, you know, particularly when you're so close.

1449
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: It is literally it's like you're being cast out from

1450
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: the family. I can't remember leaving Newcastle took me twelve

1451
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: months at least to get over it. Just you know,

1452
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: those guys who're so close with and you've always got

1453
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: one eye back on them, what are they up to?

1454
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the fortunate thing about the point you

1455
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 3: create with.

1456
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 4: While while I was there, like Cooper's probably my best mate, Harry,

1457
01:03:51,400 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 4: you good mate. All those boys like Munster, Duron, they

1458
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 4: all were all just everything so normal, like every time

1459
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 4: I go home for Chris. I spent most of my

1460
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 4: time with Jesse and Kenny and because they took me

1461
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 4: in as the young Maldi boy and and they you.

1462
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 3: Know, I could have I could walk over to Jesse's house.

1463
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 4: When I was like probably my second year at the club,

1464
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 4: I lived close to Jesse. I'd be able to walk

1465
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 4: to his house, walk straight through the front door, open

1466
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 4: their fridge, make a plate of food without even saying

1467
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 4: hello to them, and like that's that's what it was like.

1468
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 3: And he really took me in that way.

1469
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, I say, walks through the house straight as well,

1470
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 1: Like I think that?

1471
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 3: Do you think that? Like?

1472
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 2: Because Jesse and Kenny they were like the when we

1473
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 2: were there. Smithy was like the captain, but like Jesse

1474
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 2: and Kenny were like the enforcers, like they were like

1475
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 2: the big dogs in the squad, Like they were almost

1476
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:46,480
Speaker 2: like you stay on their good side otherwise, like you know,

1477
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 2: there's there's dramas the rules, but you were the one

1478
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 2: who like obviously you're all three of you guys are

1479
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 2: Maldi and you guys played Muori all Stars and stuff together.

1480
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 2: But I was really like you were literally like their little.

1481
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 4: Sale, Like they literally were called like it would call

1482
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 4: me the little brother and stuff like that. And I

1483
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 4: could get away with a lot more than other players

1484
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 4: with them, like I could be a lot more cheeky. Yeah, yeah,

1485
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 4: but yeah, they they definitely beat me up a few times.

1486
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 4: Jesse is like a genuine enforcer like every wrestle ssh

1487
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 4: because mate, he just I feel like he tries to

1488
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 4: hurt you, even just to say, like mate, I'm the

1489
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 4: big cha definitely, I remember. But he was so good

1490
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 4: at wrestling.

1491
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 3: He was he was so good.

1492
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you get like there's big men who were

1493
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 2: strong and you know you're not going to beat him

1494
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 2: just based on how strong they are. But Jess had

1495
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 2: strength and technique because he'd been drawn it for so long.

1496
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 2: And when you get ya and he's just the elbow

1497
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 2: in the face.

1498
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 3: But he had the ear the tactics that would just

1499
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 3: really make you uncomfortable.

1500
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Willie Chambers had because remember Chamber was there the

1501
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 2: first couple of years I got there, and he was

1502
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,440
Speaker 2: just he wouldn't even try to win when you'd wrestle him.

1503
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 2: He'd just tried to like hurt you. And he used

1504
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 2: to have this techniqu where he just put his knuckle

1505
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 2: in between your ripase and he'd just like the tress

1506
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 2: it in and you just couldn't even breathe it and

1507
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:06,160
Speaker 2: you're like trying to just you just asking him please stop.

1508
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 3: Please. I remember what probably our first year wrestling, you

1509
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 3: were a bit littler than Merest. Looking at each other,

1510
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 3: he goes, mate, I'll just go down. We just looked

1511
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 3: like gues mate, I'll go straight on my bag. We

1512
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 3: just I look like I'm finding hard.

1513
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 2: Ye as gentlemen's agree if anybody wanted an easy win

1514
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 2: those first.

1515
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 4: Year when you when you when you getting close with

1516
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 4: Nelson and Jesse and that there's the gentleman's agreement on

1517
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 4: your chat, so like they're not going to put you

1518
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 4: in those really ridiculous positions if you don't.

1519
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: Like if you want to play up.

1520
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, but may I swear Nelson has this thing bo

1521
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 4: when any ever a new guy comes to the club,

1522
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 4: it's just mission to like.

1523
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1524
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, my first year he hit me. I threw a

1525
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 2: short paull and he was putting inside pressure and I

1526
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 2: had a red beer bomb, which people I know, if

1527
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 2: you're listening in the Running of the Bulls, if you're

1528
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 2: wearing red, it means come at them and kill them

1529
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 2: red beer and Rugby league, you don't hit them, maybe

1530
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 2: just to touch. Nelson hit me that hard. That's my

1531
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 2: neck Sometimes I look to the left now and I

1532
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 2: still like, it's still pinches in my neck from that day.

1533
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:11,840
Speaker 3: It is.

1534
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 2: It was so.

1535
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: Bad, the poor bloke and Balley.

1536
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks brand Brandon, you're a legend man.

1537
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's actually been. I've actually enjoyed it so

1538
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 3: much because it's been a nice would you say nostalgic

1539
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 3: I walk down memory lane because a lot of stories

1540
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 3: Coogle was bringing me into I completely forgot about it.

1541
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 2: May I'll tell you right now, I've written down a

1542
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 2: lot of stories and things on that we didn't even

1543
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 2: I reckon. We got through half of them.

1544
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 3: So it's always there's always room to get me off

1545
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 3: the bench again.

1546
01:07:45,440 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 2: Sorry Jack Scott.

1547
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 3: One more thing, let's thank Brandon as well because there might.

1548
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 5: Have been an incident that happened and we had to

1549
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 5: get him last minute and save ours.

1550
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll get that guy for you.

1551
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:02,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, no problem, appreciate that. And I mean it looks

1552
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: at any time. Make you want to get back to

1553
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 1: New Zealand without a passport, just give me, I know someone, Yeah,

1554
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: you do. The embassy