WEBVTT - #4 - Neroli Meadows 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.600 Welcome back to the Mason Cox Show. Now today we've 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.800 got one of my favorite people in media. She is 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.040 a lovely, lovely lady. She's actually one of my mom's 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.480 favorite people, and I think she messages my mom back 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.560 and forth on Twitter. But we'll give it a bit 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.239 of a background. She's nine years at Fox Sports, AFL 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.599 cricket basketball, worked across all different sports. Started in Perth 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.880 Radio at six PR in two thousand and six Tonight 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.720 sorry today tonight for seven Network before the Game? Have 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.720 you been paying attention? Also was on the Footy Show 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.120 with myself back in twenty nineteen, and she's also worked 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.760 for things like the Australian Open. She's an absolute legend 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.720 people really breaking the stigma I feel like a female 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:44.879 in sport and commentating. She's one of the OG's, one 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.600 of the best that's ever done it. We've got nearly meadows. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.960 Thank you very much. That was a very kind intro. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:50.600 I take that. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.880 That's good. Well, you've got an impressive resume, I must say. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.600 And I was ignorant come to this country, but I 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.840 love the fact that you are. I feel like the 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.640 in my mind, probably the number one person I feel 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.280 like I've got along with probably on air whenever I 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.120 do things in the media. I feel like you're very 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.520 obviously you've got the podcast ordinarily speaking, which we'll talk about, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.800 and it's all about kind of mental health and showing 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.800 a different side of athletes. And for some reason, I 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.200 don't know, maybe you can maybe give me a bit 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.040 more intro on it is You're very good at being 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.760 able to get people to open up to you. I 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.400 feel like you're a very calming personality. You know your stuff, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.280 and that's what's gotten you really well in that in 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.000 your career. But I feel like you're just a person 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.680 that everyone loves to be around, and it's just an 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.480 enjoyable person to have on the podcast. I'm excited. 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:40.000 Can I just get that audio clip? My ring tone one? 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.280 I love it? Brand can give it to you? 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.600 That is very kind of you, Thank you? 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:51.240 And yes, your mom does I do love your mom 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.480 because I think I interviewed your parents who managed to 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.760 make it via deboot game and it was antag day right, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.240 and your mom was just such an absolute sweetheart, and 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.800 then from there she's just loves it, followed what I've 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.200 done and sort of sends messages of support. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:08.040 Does my mom d. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:14.720 Has DMD me, but mostly it's published. Sorry you to 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:15.519 be honest. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.760 Yeah, it's better. My mom's a lovely lady, but the 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.200 fact that she's dming friends of mine and her colleagues 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.680 of mine is very questionable. No, I love it. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.640 She she's amazing and she's such a supportive woman. I 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.160 think just in general. And yeah, like you say, I 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.120 think she recognized. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.560 Early days that I was more of a human. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.000 Story type journalist and she jumped on ball with that. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.160 And I love your mom. She's absolutely fantastic. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:45.800 But she's going to love this, no doubt, no doubt. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.760 She was asking about I told her I was getting 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.440 you on. She was very excited for this. So she's 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.080 going to be very excited for this podcast and what 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.280 we go through. Big shout out to Jay Cox. We 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.160 love her on the pod. You're going to get a 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.600 DM within the week. I guarantee it. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.640 Next time I'm in the States, I'm just gonna like 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:02.280 the house. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.520 She will full kit out the whole house ready for 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.280 you to go down, will cook a barbecue. It'll be 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.040 a whole thing. I'm telling you, it's going to be 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.320 narrowly is week in Dallas. Taxes the biggest week of 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.800 the year, probably better and me coming back. In all honesty, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.079 we'll jump in that. We'll talk about your early life. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.680 Now you're born and raised in Collie, w a outside 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.799 Maga River. Now, Mogo River's on my top list of 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:22.880 places I haven't been yet too. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.679 You need to go. I go at least every every year. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.639 My best mate lives there and works a vast Felix winery, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.280 which is one of the top notch wineries. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.359 Yeah, so it is, and I was there just a 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.080 couple of weeks ago. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.200 Actually, it's top pless a top thing to do in 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.480 my river besides go to the winery. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:38.800 Well, I go to the wineries. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.640 I mean, the beaches are fantastic, but the long lunches 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.640 that you can have with you know, with your mates 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.840 is just like it's the stuff that you make memories 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:47.360 out of. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:47.600 You know. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.320 It's just an epic place to be. Beautiful coastline, beautiful cafes. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.160 Yeah, I love very relaxing holiday. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:55.640 Very relaxing. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.840 It's that it's that beautiful sort of bush meets ocean aussieva. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.120 Yeah yeah, So did you say Collie is the bush side? 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.320 So Collie is inland. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.560 So we're about forty five minutes inland from Bumbry and 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.440 as we got teased back in the day, you go 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:18.279 up hill to go down a hole. Yeah, but it's 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.400 a beautiful town Collie, some amazing little water spots and 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.960 everything like that, and a great outdoor town, so big 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.360 sporting town, country town sort of every you know, everywhere 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.040 had to like a network club and a footy club 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.240 and that sort of thing. So had an unbelievable out 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.120 bringing because we had a little hobby farm, five acre 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.400 hobby farm because that's how my dad grew up on 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.040 a farm. So yeah, we had everything like a third 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.119 of a basketball court and all like sort of Dad 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:52.240 made it like it's not fancy stuffy, yeah, amazing. Yeah, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:53.640 like marion ponds. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.719 You wouldn't know what a marin is? Would you give me? 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.800 Give me in Australian says I need to learn this, 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.320 so you please please inform me. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.280 A lot of at don't know either because it's from 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.720 that region. So it's basically freshwater crayfish. It's delicious, delicious, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.200 but really really hard to get, really expensive. But we 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.640 grew up marining and on that little bit of river 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.839 and we had marin ponds and stuff like that. So yeah, yeah, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.599 and like little cricket setup and basketball and netball. We 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.960 had a bit of everything. So it was an epic 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.200 place to grow up. Yeah, I was very lucky. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.320 Did you did you play sports growing up? Like? What 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:29.080 was your top sport? 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:29.200 Like? 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.120 I feel like I've dabbled in different sports growing up, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:32.680 and a lot of people do. They play different sports. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.320 They kind of find their niche and go towards it, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.559 Like what was your niche sport that you loved? 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.680 Basketball was always my favorite, Like, if I could have 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.040 chosen a career, I would have been a professional. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.200 Basket on my shout out You've got the Valley T 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.000 shirt too. She's a fair say she's a fan of 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.680 the NBA and a fan of the Suns. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.840 I would say, yeah, and Da signed on, so I'm 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.280 happy we kept the boys together. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.080 So another. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:55.960 I was like, she's really investigating. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:57.560 That's when the siblings grew. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.400 Really glad gets on a high is when there's signing 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:01.720 news the whole. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.480 Family, whole family supported someone. Yeah, so how did that 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:04.920 come to it? 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.280 Well, basically, my oldest brothers five and a half years 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.680 older than me and in the early nine Yes, that's 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.400 Ross Ross, Yeah, yeah, so ross. He played hockey for 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.719 Australia and he's now a teacher and he was so 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.000 he always set the standard with sport in our family. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.359 And he yet loved Charles Barkley as so many people 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.440 did back in the day and just hardcore went in 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.240 on the Suns and so we followed him basically as 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.560 you know, the younger brother and sister do. And so yeah, 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.080 thirty plus years on and we went and watched them 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.200 live when I was twelve, and that were crap. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.960 I was, they were great. That was confused while you 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:48.080 were actually so excited as Chris came around, I feel 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:48.839 like things turned around. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:49.640 Yeah, exactly. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.360 So it's so exciting now to actually be in and 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.760 amongst it. Obviously it was devastating this year to get 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.120 knocked out and not get that run at the actual 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.000 final series. But we're going to talk about but yeah, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:02.800 I got the opportunity when I was covering the Super 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.560 Bowl and All Star NBA All Star Weekend earlier this year, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.240 I did like a sort of twenty two hour stopover 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.200 in Phoenix to watch them, and I dropped a k 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:11.880 at the Suns. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:17.160 Star thousand dollars of American dollars Okay, so like twenty bucks, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.600 that's too bad. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.120 Right, because obviously I got my two big brothers, five 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.560 nieces and nephews, so myself. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:26.520 A lot of colleagues. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:27.800 Exactly, it's hard to. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.840 Come by, although it's easier now because they're actually good, 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.400 but for years, you can get anything. So I was 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.800 the full blown uffew with two bags of merch watching 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.360 the game by myself. But anyway, my brothers appreciated it, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.280 and my eldest brother, Ross, who I got the DeAndre 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.360 eight and shirt for, so he's very. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.800 Relieved that da Is signed off huge. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.920 But yeah, so I played basketball, but as I say, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.800 I was always too short, too slow, and just not 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.440 good enough to play for a living. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.560 So I decided to watch for a living instead. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.960 A celebrity termament or something. I feel like you'd probably 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.480 would just be that secret, just undercover person that rolls 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.440 in just she dominates no one expects. It's like it's 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.640 a bit shorter side like we own. She just absolute 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.320 murders everyone. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.119 I am the person that does all the one percent 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.120 is because I'm no good at anything else. So I'm 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.640 setting the screens. I'm doing like hard day, I'm like 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.960 delivandover without being able to shoot basically. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.440 Yeah, well that was my college career of basketball. So 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.800 you've really summed it up in one. Now you talked 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.160 about Ross. You've got another brother, Ian who this is 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.800 an interesting kind of like fun fact. I didn't know 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.800 about Ian. I was on Home and Away and we're 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.720 recently talking about this. He also had a Netflix series 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.400 come out, which is I love to hear it because 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.160 I know you love your family. I love my family. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.920 We've talked about already, but you're really in doing some 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.240 very unique things that my people probably didn't know that you. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.000 I guess we're related or maybe like you had their 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.160 connection to him and what he's doing now in like 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.880 the Netflix series and everything else. So tell us a 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:45.760 bit about that. Yeah. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.040 So it's funny because Home and Away, obviously you know 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.720 it's it's in the institution in Australia, but also in 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.800 like the UK and places like that, and his storyline 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.400 is still to this day one of the most popular 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:57.480 storylines that ever. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:58.400 Existed on the channel. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.559 Will give it to us, what is it? 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:00.600 Sally? 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:02.080 Sally? 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:03.800 Anyone who. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.160 Sally is Kate Richie and she basically just grew up 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.560 on the show and no he didn't collect. But the 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:18.520 cliffhanger for the summer was will Sally survived it. And 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.800 I remember when he first got that storyline, he sort 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.160 of he was like, You're never going to believe this. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:23.160 I stabbed Sally. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.200 Did you get the did you get like the inside Infhon? 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.160 And You're like, I'm literally sworn to secrecy. I can't 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:27.560 sell anything. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:28.800 I'm quite good at that. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.400 So I have Sally what known for. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.760 It's actually more people know him for a show called 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.920 The Moodies and a Moody Christmas, which has sort of 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.560 become a cult classic on the ABC and and a 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.880 lot of families watch it as their family tradition now. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.839 So it's this amazing comedy show on the ABC. And 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.520 it's funny because he gets recognized most of that. And 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.199 we were at the footage just the other week and 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.400 somebody came up to him, Dad Moody. And one of 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.080 the almost most embarrassing moments of my life was when 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.560 Frio made it to the twenty thirt and Grand Final, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.160 when I took my brother, even though he's a West 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.120 Coast supporter, as my plus one, and somebody came up 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.079 to us outside the mcg and said, oh, my god, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:07.840 can I get a photo? 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.120 And I was this, like so close. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.959 Because it was in context at the MCG, I. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.880 Was you or him though, I was I was this. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:16.880 Close saying you, no worries. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.959 And then he turns to my brother and says, I'm 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.599 a massive fan of the movies. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.480 And so good also degrading for you. I was like, 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.640 oh no, I don't really want I was. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.560 So relieved that I didn't say yeah, no worries or 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:30.319 how embarrassing. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:31.920 I've heard people be like, oh I can I get 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.520 a photo? And then it's like to the person next 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:34.920 to me and then they just hand me the phone 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.360 and I'm like the best, Yeah, yeah, we'll do all right. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.040 But yeah, And so he's he's created a show called 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.360 r FDS, which was a big success on Channel seven 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.000 as well. We sort of wrote and created that and 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.600 it's been renewed for a second season and clickbait. So yeah, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.079 he's doing stuff, which is awesome. I'm really proud of 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.880 him because it's it's obviously a really tough industry. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.720 Yeah it's crazy, come all the way from Collie to 0:10:58.720 --> 0:10:58.960 to the. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.400 Big smoke of Yeah, it's pretty cool. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.000 And that's the thing, like RFTS is all about telling 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.240 those sort of outback stories of Australia and telling them 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.920 in a really compelling way, because I think a lot 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.880 of the time, you know, it's the same as the 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.000 States in a way, like people refer to rural places 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.480 in a kind of dismissive or Hicksville kind of way, and. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.360 It's yeah, and it's just not true. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.600 Like there are so many amazing people who live in 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.400 the country that just didn't want to live in the 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.080 city and that doesn't make them dumb or whatever. Like 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.360 so I think, you know, the beauty of the storytelling 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.560 that he's doing is pretty cool because it is those 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.080 inclusive sort of stories and a. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.000 Small town like family type place, you know, everyone knows everyone. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.000 I love that of like maybe colors like this you 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.800 talk about Minor River. You like walk into a place, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.080 I mean you had your local cafe here, and I 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.000 walked in and you like instantly knew who the person 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.640 was that was behind. I was like, I don't need 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.120 to introduce anyone Like this is like. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.280 Like all our friends are so tall, and like not 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:56.040 this tall. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.640 I would think I'm on the higher end of the structure, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.800 but yeah, no, it's I love that kind of family 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.000 feel like something in Australia. I've noticed as people here 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.199 very generous and just very caring and like everyone's a 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.960 family here. It's kind of a weird, weird thing to 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.079 I guess so much try to describe to people, but 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.120 that's kind of been my experience. I feel like the 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:12.920 Australian culture. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:13.960 Yeah, like the mate ship. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.120 And so Dad was the country doctor and he had 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.480 quite a unique land Cruiser car. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.040 It was a unique color. No one else in town 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:21.480 had it, so every time it. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.640 Was like sort of this brownie sort of tinge but 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.480 nothing fancy, but no one else had it. And because 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.520 we were in the town of just under ten thousand 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.520 and when we were learning to drive, if you were 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.840 behind his car, you had to do the two fingerways single. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:39.440 Country. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.000 No, it's like Dad's car. So yes, the two finger 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.480 acknowledgement off the steering wheel. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.360 If you're all lazy, just the one. Yes, it's cool. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.600 But yeah, that full blown country thing that you've got 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.120 to say hello to everyone and. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.160 You'll be in the small town doctor, I feel like 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.640 you'd be the most important person in the town. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:58.440 Yeah. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.920 So the year before me, my year and the year 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.080 after me, he was the only doctor doing obstetric So 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.040 if you're my age, you were delivered by my dad. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.720 I was delivered by my dad in our house. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:08.839 How many deliveries you reckon? 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.160 He's done I think like a couple of thousand over 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:11.720 the years. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.040 So he's delivered like a tenth of the town. Probably. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:15.079 Well he's moved on. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.280 He's moved on from from Collin now they now live 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.040 in Perth. But yeah, I mean a big chunk of it, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.000 Like he's either he's and there's a few people that 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.160 he delivered both generations, which is which is pretty cool. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.600 So it's yeah. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.160 And I don't think the country GPS get enough credit 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:36.200 as well, because everything that they do it impacts them. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.880 You know, they know the people they're dealing with. And 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.360 mum was the psychologist in town and dad was the 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.080 country doctor. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:42.800 So smart family. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.200 Yeah, I mean I'm a real letdown. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.240 I just watched that's what you're going to say next. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.319 You're like, oh, I'm not a doctor or a lawyer 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.320 into psychology, but I think you're the most well known 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:59.160 person of the Meadows family. I mean, look, just say yes. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.199 I now, I'll take it. I'll take it. Thank you 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.839 for the compliment. I appreciate it. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.160 May be advantage of India that my brother, Yeah. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.920 You've got the most followers of everyone. I would say that, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.080 let's just go with that. I do want to ask 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.880 you something because you had an experience that I've had. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.079 You went to university in America at the University of Tennessee. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.240 Go balls because of the balls. Bright unch. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:19.960 Be a Tennessee ball. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.400 That's awesome. I did not. I've been it, but I 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.000 want to ask you. Obviously going to university, you've probably 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:33.280 been to a football game. Tennessee balls, massive, massive stadium. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:34.600 I'm not sure how many they would fit. There be 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:35.600 coursed off. One hundred and. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.840 Four thousand, I think from memory Nayland's scene. Yeah, and 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.880 it's sold out pretty much every game. And they were 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.680 pretty crap when I was there. It was Phil Former 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.480 and they couldn't pick a quarterback and it was hilarious 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.680 because I was doing an internship at the local TV 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.520 station and they obviously loved the fact that it was 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.480 a chick from Australia who loved sport. And I remember 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.720 turning to them going what they need to pick and stick? 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.760 Like they keep swapping between quarterbacks and they're like even. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.960 Though the shit again, so why do they not get it? 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.400 Kind of thing? But yeah, it was an unbelievable experience. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.240 What was your favorite, Like, I know, obviously you've got 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.040 Alabama is probably like one of the biggest games you 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.200 will probably play, But was there any experiences that kind 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.280 of stick out in your mind of like college, because 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.240 I feel like a lot of people in Australia don't 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.360 quite understand it and it's tough to describe it until 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.160 you've actually experienced it firsthand. Of the tailgating the game 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.720 being amateur level, but having is just as much, if 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.480 not more, actual supporters. Like, yeah, it's kind of tough 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.200 to get your head wrapped around it. Like give me 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.920 a I guess, some way to maybe describe it in 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.080 your words of the college experience back in the US. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.440 Yeah, so it's it's like every movie you've ever seen, 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:44.360 and then some it's it's like the movies actually happened. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.920 but it's it's like On Royd's kind of thing. So 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.640 like a couple of experiences that I had. Kenny Rogers 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.080 came and played at halftime and played the Gambler and 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.000 the band spelled out Kenny with their bodies there were 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.040 I wex you. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.680 Know after every touchdown. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.320 Peyton Manning because he was a role He had his 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.600 jersey retired homecoming. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.040 While I was there and gave it the older. I 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.960 don't want to be remembered. It was a great football. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.680 I just want to be remembered. It was a great 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.160 man to play football. And everyone's just like. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:20.720 Loses their mind. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:26.400 The icons of every exactly, the icon of exactly. And 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.080 Candice Parker as well, from her basketball perspective, she was around, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.640 she was playing when I was there. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.280 I didn't know where, but his basketball be a massive there. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.680 Yeah, well there's the basketball stadium is about twenty five 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:43.400 thousand capacity as well. So yeah, just an epic life experience. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:48.200 And yeah, loved every every second of it. So but yeah, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.720 the tailgating, all of that, it's it's very much real. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:53.760 It's very much rare. I feel like it's a it's 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.840 a bucket list starting for people. They need to experience 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.040 it before you have to do it firsthand. Like you 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.080 can't like people can talk about tailor getting, but it's 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.840 literally you could walk up in the middle of a 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.200 football game, not I know anyone in the like the 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.320