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Speaker 3: All right, let's get it.

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Speaker 1: I've always struggled to, I guess, say no to people.

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Speaker 1: I've always been that person to say yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: or I'll help you, I'll help you, I'll do this

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: They've always I've had a few people take advantage of it,

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Speaker 1: but that's you know, that's nothing major for me. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm quite knocked. And I seen Lizzie Collins

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Speaker 1: coming in and just like giving it to him, like

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Speaker 1: laughing at him, and like it just stayed in my mind.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously I'll see if I was to wear

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Speaker 1: the tong of jersey like ten times. I'll do it

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Speaker 1: all over again to.

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Speaker 4: Take us back to the area of the world. What

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Speaker 4: does that mean to you? What? What was that environment

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Speaker 4: like to you growing up? Let's go by the way

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Speaker 4: are back.

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Speaker 3: You'll know who it is.

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Speaker 4: The one and only Bros and com baby. Man, guys,

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Speaker 4: I'm excited where we're here of a very special guests today.

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Speaker 4: And man, it is an honor to introduce to you

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Speaker 4: guys the biggest, the baddest, the most ferocious.

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Speaker 3: He goes by the name of the small Yo.

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Speaker 4: Just before we get to our guess, just quickly try

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Speaker 4: some something in the box in the oxy shred bank,

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Speaker 4: which these guys have is he send us some protein

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Speaker 4: bars and man, this guy's been keeping us updated with

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Speaker 4: their latest drops. Let's go.

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Speaker 5: Let's go in now got the hops and ship protein bar.

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Speaker 5: Protein bars come on in the strawberry one.

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Speaker 4: He usually we don't eat on the podcast, but just

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Speaker 4: give it a quick taste. Man, protein bars. That just

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Speaker 4: came out.

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Speaker 5: Bro, I was gonna wait for the other guy to

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Speaker 5: come in, but you know what, chain gotta keep on rolling.

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Speaker 4: But what flavor do you got, Well, I've got what chocolate, ma'am?

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Speaker 4: This is strawberry like what chocolate. I can see now

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Speaker 4: why there's a lot of people eating this loves nothing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not very big on a strawberry. I'm not

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Speaker 5: a very big strawberry person in general. So let's just

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Speaker 5: give us the taste.

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Speaker 3: Mhm. But it's actually good.

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Speaker 4: I love a protein, but that tastes exactly like chocolate.

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Speaker 4: That's what you want. You know, you're di and you

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Speaker 4: need something. But just to remind you of of how

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Speaker 4: good life was back in the day. And too bad

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Speaker 4: Jay Lex is missing now. Unfortunately he wasn't able to

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Speaker 4: make it to the podcast show today. Chane's gotta keep

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Speaker 4: on rolling. He's got some commitments to his family that

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Speaker 4: happy to take them. This guest ourselves, we've seen Jay's

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Speaker 4: head everywhere, so it's yeah.

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Speaker 5: And it's that time of the year, guys. It's it's

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Speaker 5: coming to Christmas, it's coming towards the end of the year.

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Speaker 5: A lot of hectic things are going on, and we

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Speaker 5: totally understand.

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Speaker 3: We totally get it, and we get it.

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Speaker 5: If you guys don't even have time to watch this

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Speaker 3: That you're gonna want to be sound on this but

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Speaker 3: because the guess that's coming on amazing.

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Speaker 4: Bro. Yeah, he's got a big, big story to tell.

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Speaker 4: He's got a big story to tell. Hopefully we can

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Speaker 4: tap into it. Speaking of stories, just finished watching the

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Speaker 4: docum menory did He and by? Fifty by fifty cent

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Speaker 4: on Netflix? What a crazy documentary. The fact that I

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Speaker 4: like the fact that it was so professionally done. Everything

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Speaker 4: was make like bang on proper documentary. Man, Like, this

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Speaker 4: guy has taken beef to a whole new level.

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Speaker 3: What do you think?

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Speaker 5: Well, but if there's anyone that you should turn the blind,

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Speaker 5: I too. When it comes to beef in America, it's

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Speaker 5: fifty cent. Hold on, Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. I forgot

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Speaker 5: to silence my phone. That's obviously one of our general rules.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, a lot of a lot of is can

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Speaker 5: to learn from this guy.

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Speaker 4: This guy has proven that you don't have to be

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Speaker 5: Fifty cent. Bro's here's a character. Man, here's one individual

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Speaker 5: that I've been like, I've just been witnessing over for

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Speaker 5: a lifetime now, and he's he's making major, big moves.

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Speaker 5: Every single week He's doing some thing or or creating

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Speaker 5: another documentary or making another series of power.

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Speaker 4: Do you think if it came down to it, he

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Speaker 4: did he gets out they actually want to go.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure didn't get he didn't get granted belt.

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Speaker 4: No, okay, So do you think he did it?

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Speaker 3: Coming out?

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Speaker 4: Do you think fifty cent would stoop down to a

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Speaker 4: level of going to war with him if he had to?

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Speaker 4: Because he did he started starting the same shots.

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Speaker 3: No way with it.

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Speaker 5: With the amount of integrity fifty cent has built over

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Speaker 5: the years his businesses, his own his own brand, like

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Speaker 5: his own self development as as a character, as an individual,

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Speaker 5: I don't think he will ever stoop down to that level.

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Speaker 5: I think and sometimes he may be using that status

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Speaker 3: You know, do you reckon like he kind.

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Speaker 4: Of feel like he like he's he's a proper gangster, right,

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Speaker 4: I feel like he's a real gangster. But he's just

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Speaker 4: changed his energy into something or some people that he

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Speaker 4: usually beefed with in the past. He's changed the way

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Speaker 3: So yeah, well his.

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Speaker 5: His mature, it was very very mature, very wise about

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Speaker 5: every decision that he's making now. Obviously with this P

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Speaker 5: one of the biggest things that's ever come across fifty

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Speaker 5: cents controversial topics. And I think there's a there is

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Speaker 5: a couple of celebrities that are backing P Diddy throughout

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Speaker 4: Of course they are. They were all there were all

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Speaker 4: at the parties, that's what. Yeah, but come on, it's

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Speaker 4: already after watching his documentary P Diddy fuck man, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: guilty as fuck, brother well man.

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Speaker 5: But then again, there was evidence you know that he

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Speaker 5: type of evidence, man, like, come on, like, even with

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Speaker 4: We gotta guess how we're excited. We're gonna start it off,

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Speaker 4: mister simple stuff. I hateed then, but oh, the cameras

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Speaker 4: are video rolling anyways, man, guys, I've got a big

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Speaker 3: There and I had some better stuff going on there.

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Speaker 4: They did want to photo So what we're gonna do

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Speaker 4: is we're gonna photo shop him in anyway, guys, ladies

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Speaker 4: and gentlemen. Before I waste any more time, I want

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Speaker 4: to introduce to you, guys the man Biggie smaller.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: He's actually got a lot of mutual friends with us.

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Speaker 4: He grew up in the area around us as well.

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Speaker 4: And maybe we'll start off with that, like, take us

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Speaker 4: back to the area. What does that mean to you?

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Speaker 4: What what was that environment like to you growing up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Man, obviously being a Gifford Gifford junior born and raised there,

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Speaker 1: It's the only place I call home. Despite moving around

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Speaker 1: all the different areas, mister Sydney Guildford will always, I

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Speaker 5: I know a lot of boys, especially Pacific Island, the

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Speaker 5: and boys from Guildford, they're very locked up to the

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Speaker 4: Compared to everywhere else. You have seen some of the

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Speaker 4: lot of them are like mixed culturally. But the Guildford boys,

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Speaker 4: I do remember, they are like the proper tongue. And

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Speaker 4: so if you guys don't know we're Guildford is if

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Speaker 4: This guy grew up was the environment I do remember

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Speaker 4: gil for being like a very like it's also home

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Speaker 4: to g forty boys, some known boys. The environment could

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Speaker 4: be bad sometimes. Do you ever have to get like

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Speaker 1: No, not really, to be honest, My child growing up

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Speaker 1: was I was never about that, you know, that gang

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Speaker 1: I also had three parents, you know, forcing us to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's fad, that's man, And like I did

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Speaker 4: want to ask you about it because reallye Mason, he

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Speaker 4: was like intrigued by your tattoo. Oh, And I was

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Speaker 4: saying that, like a lot of the boys in that

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Speaker 4: some some idiots like us that we're representing a bad way,

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Speaker 4: but a lot of people call call our place Homeie.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think it's a bad thing. Just I

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Speaker 5: think the way Sydney is going, I think maybe the

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Speaker 5: which I gotta admit, But just ripping where you're from

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Speaker 5: has always been a thing for any celebrity and anyone

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Speaker 5: was to go on Australia's Got Talent. Of course I

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Speaker 5: was saying from Grandmall, Sydney, you know, and everyone be cheering, Yeah, yeah, man,

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Speaker 5: shout out to Guilford do forty boys.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I know a lot of the boys are

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Speaker 4: gonna be where's the big man. It's been so interesting

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Speaker 4: watching you this year. A lot of us have seen

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Speaker 4: your personality on the field and you have been doing

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Speaker 4: a big man, and I'm so proud of you. Just

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Speaker 4: for the audience at home, I wanted them to maybe see,

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Speaker 4: how could you explain your lifestyle? What's what happens behind

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 4: How is how is living life for you?

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Speaker 1: The most important thing for me now is my family.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's ever it's outside of footy. It's I'm

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Speaker 1: always at home with my family. You know. I like

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Speaker 1: to take him out, you know, obviously because I live

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Speaker 3: A little rest. So yeah, he did. He did speak

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Speaker 1: His way to all check up on everyone. Man. So

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Speaker 1: it's a good human being.

439
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Speaker 4: I just wanted to ask, since we're coming up towards

440
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 4: the end of twenty twenty five, we might as well

441
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 4: highlight your whole year this year. What would you say

442
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 4: it was your favorite game this year?

443
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 1: Favorite game this year?

444
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 3: Man?

445
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 1: Too many, I don't really know. I only played like

446
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: a handful of games this year, but I would probably

447
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 1: have to be the first round this year. Yeah, you know, obviously,

448
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 1: because I didn't have the best preseason last year, and

449
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 1: you know, going into Round one, I was all nervous

450
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: and none and obviously when I first touched the boar,

451
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 1: you know, just something else scored and then you know, yeah,

452
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: after that, everything just started flowing.

453
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Speaker 4: You know.

454
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Speaker 1: It's like something to realize who I was and what

455
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Speaker 1: I was capable of. And I think the first game

456
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Speaker 1: was probably my favorite.

457
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 3: Well that's mad.

458
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,040
Speaker 4: And to hear you say nervous, but it takes you

459
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,119
Speaker 4: shocking because you actually never look nervous. I was just

460
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Speaker 4: I was just telling running before probably one of the oldest,

461
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 4: uh try celebrations we've seen when when tongue and you

462
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 4: just stood up.

463
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:09,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, funny that one.

464
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Speaker 1: What was your what was your behind that twice celebration?

465
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: My I just had a big, like a brain fog.

466
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: I got up and I don't remember, I don't remember

467
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,480
Speaker 1: like scoring, and everything just happened like very quick, and

468
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: I got up and I tried to think of a celebration,

469
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 1: and obviously, you know, in the heat of the moment,

470
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do. So I just thought

471
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: up and just stared at the camera.

472
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Speaker 3: And I.

473
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 4: And then remember you had a lot of people saying

474
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 4: cold cold, fan cold. That's probably one of the best

475
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 4: tie celebrations I've ever seen. Especially this edit that this

476
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Speaker 4: guy made. I'll quickly shout this guy out made the

477
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 4: editor where you transitioned from you to Jason. I don't

478
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 4: know if your name of the horror. Yeah, it's that

479
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,359
Speaker 4: character crazy real man, I love that. But anyways, now

480
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 4: that we know that you haven't been sped in a

481
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 4: lot of time at home, how has that been for

482
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 4: your experience?

483
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,959
Speaker 3: Been able to spend more time with your family.

484
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Speaker 1: Probably the best thing that's ever happened to me off

485
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Speaker 1: the phild this year. And I've had a lot of

486
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: good things during the year of footy, but the main

487
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: thing was having my daughter. So yeah, my missus gave

488
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 1: birth to my daughter, and probably the best thing that's

489
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: ever happened to me, you know, and that you know

490
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: the tongue of the tradition. You got a name after Prais,

491
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: so I named it after my mom. Oh wow, yeah, man,

492
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 1: it's probably the best thing that's ever ever happened to me. Man,

493
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: it's just just I guess you see life in the expective, man,

494
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: It's just it's crazy.

495
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Speaker 5: You'd have to also admit as well, this will change

496
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 5: like the whole concept of the NRL career as well.

497
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 5: This kind of gives it a different type of fires.

498
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, congratulations first of all. But man, I'm

499
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 4: so excited because we are actually fathers ourselves. Yeah, I'm excited.

500
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 4: How how is that journey like been for your father? Oh?

501
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: Man, it's it's been. It's been crazy, but it's definitely

502
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: been a very humbling experience, you know, especially I've got

503
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: a boy. He's his three, and you know, it's it's

504
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: a good feeling when you have a boy, but it's

505
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: it's a different type of feeling when when.

506
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Speaker 3: You have a girl.

507
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Speaker 1: Yea some reason, I don't know why, but I can't

508
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Speaker 1: really explain it. But when you have girls, it's a.

509
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 4: Saying, right, it's different, like you mentionally, it touches your

510
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 4: I feel like sometimes it was like my son annoys me.

511
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 4: I just want to buy your me.

512
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Speaker 5: I remember I remember you said something on it before,

513
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 5: like it must have been the old podcast, but I

514
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 5: remember you said something on you know when you have

515
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 5: your your first daughter or whatever, like the dad is

516
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 5: always their first boy love, you know, that's and that's

517
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,199
Speaker 5: the love that they try and.

518
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 3: Look for when they grow up, you know what I mean.

519
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 5: They're always trying to look for something that's similar or

520
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 5: common to how they grew up with their father. So yeah,

521
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 5: I reckon that's like it's a big thing, you know,

522
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 5: having a girl, and it's a big thing also for

523
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 5: the father as well, you know, just like I feel

524
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 5: like that's like that love.

525
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 3: Is different and then it's heaps different.

526
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, my girls, man, I'll do anything for them. They

527
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 4: really changed me as well, even myself, like they played

528
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 4: a big part and taking me out of the crime off.

529
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 4: I think before I started the podcast was about a

530
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 4: month before I had twin girls, not just one year.

531
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Speaker 4: I had to like like, I'm gonna copy it. I

532
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 4: gotta I'm gonna what the what are these girls gonna

533
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 4: say when they grow up? And I gotta start switching

534
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 4: the narrative, and like, man, it did change my life

535
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 4: in a big way.

536
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 3: What about for you?

537
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 4: Has it? Has it changed anything? Your perspective on life itself?

538
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 4: Has it has it changed your personality? Maybe we'll see

539
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 4: a different hormoney on the field.

540
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

541
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: I definitely haven't really thought about that, but she has

542
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: definitely changed a lot in me over the past few

543
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: months she's been in this world. Yeah, I've definitely become

544
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: a lot more softer, especially being a father with my son.

545
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: I've been very very hard on him, and you know,

546
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: just every time I see him in the room, every

547
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: time I look at my son, I just you know,

548
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: give him that little that little look that's tough love.

549
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: And then I look over to my daughter and she's there,

550
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 1: She's just staring at me. It's just she she definitely

551
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: clicks just makes me like I need to settle down here.

552
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

553
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: It's just different, a different type of love. Yeah, yeah,

554
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: I know, between the two. So it's definitely definitely changed

555
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 1: the way I see things in life.

556
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 3: Now.

557
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 4: That's amazing. I'm excited and I'm excited for you. I'm

558
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: following you on Instagram. I love the I love the

559
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 4: messages that you share and even some of the rules

560
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 4: that you repost. A lot of it has to do

561
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 4: with faith and you know, Christianity, and I love what

562
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 4: you actually share because you've got a big platform, probably

563
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 4: bigger than own. I was just wondering behind behind the field,

564
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 4: behind football, behind everything, is there is there a big

565
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 4: faith that that you have behind closed doors.

566
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: There is there is, It's It's something that I definitely

567
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: want to get back to. I'm teenage of life, you know,

568
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: I was, I was drawn away from it, you know.

569
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: I was too worried about, you know, doing things from like,

570
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, the outside world. You know, have partying and

571
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go out with boys and that. And

572
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: I guess since having a family now, it's definitely something

573
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: that I really want to get back into. You know,

574
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: take my my children to church and just all the

575
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: little things.

576
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: And know, even like.

577
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: When I'm just by myself in the room, you know,

578
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: I just I just magically pops up, you know, God

579
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,719
Speaker 1: just pops up in my mind. I just think about him.

580
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: It's definitely something I want to get back into.

581
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 4: Would it be right to say that you had like

582
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 4: a bit a bit of experience in the church when

583
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 4: you were younger, and then you sort of lost it

584
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 4: along the way.

585
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, you know obviously because I'm I'm a Mormon,

586
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: so yes, So I grew up, you know hard in

587
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: the church. I went to church every Sunday, I went

588
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: to every like activity, you know, me, I was there,

589
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, and I don't know everything just I just

590
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 1: went away from everything as soon as I started high school,

591
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: you know, I just started wanting to hang out with

592
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: friends and you know, do all that sort of stuff.

593
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: And but yeah, definitely it's definitely something I really want

594
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: to get back into my faith, especially now that's mad.

595
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 3: That's mad.

596
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 5: We always encourage like our audience out there, you know,

597
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 5: like the stronghold of especially our faith, you know, and

598
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 5: we've gone through like experiences ourselves where you know, we

599
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 5: arguably grew up around just our faith as well church

600
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 5: and mom and dad you know, just being very strong

601
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 5: in the their faith as well.

602
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Speaker 3: So I think like we just always had it in

603
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 3: the back of our mind too, So I know what

604
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 3: you mean. But we're definitely, I think.

605
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 4: Especially if you've got kids, like it's yeah, it's amazing

606
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 4: that you're starting to think about it more because you're

607
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 4: your father too, And I think that's one of the

608
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 4: biggest strongholds any man can have for his family. It's

609
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 4: looking up to to go on because you know, I

610
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 4: feel like every like when once you once you build

611
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 4: a family, you go along, you leave the boys behind

612
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 4: the end of relying on yourself, you you take responsibility

613
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 4: for everything. You look after the family, but it's always

614
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 4: amazing to know that there's there's still someone you can

615
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 4: look up to. You even though you leave the boys behind,

616
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 4: you go and move on with your family, but there's

617
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 4: someone to h to look up to at the end

618
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 4: of the day. Let's get to the next question. What

619
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 4: do you think was the hardest obstacle you had to

620
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 4: face this year?

621
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Speaker 1: This year, Ah, it will probably have to be my injury. Yeah, see,

622
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: because I'm very passionate about my sport, you know, especially

623
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: when when that injury happened. You know, there was I

624
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: had two options to get a surgery and and just

625
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, not play this whole year, or or just

626
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: do a recovery and try to let my shoulder heill back.

627
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: And obviously I took the the recovery option, and you

628
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: know that was that was not an easy journey as well,

629
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: that recovery. So so you can let it hell, Yeah,

630
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: you can let it hell, but it's there's a ninety

631
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: ninety chance of it, you know, going off again. And yeah,

632
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 1: so so I chose to let it hell. And the

633
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: recovery time was like six weeks. So I come back

634
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: in four weeks and I rushed everything. I rushed through

635
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: my rehab strength just to push to come back before finals,

636
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: and what you know, first game back, I do it

637
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: in the second half.

638
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 3: And yeah, I should have.

639
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: Just listened to my listen to my partner.

640
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 3: My partner said, take the shoulder.

641
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 4: Does she want you to do the surgery? H Yeah.

642
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 4: I was about to say, like, wouldn't it be better

643
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 4: to do surgery?

644
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the but for it to happen is yeah.

645
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 3: Ten Yeah.

646
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 4: So but then then again, if you do the surgery,

647
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 4: it's just the waiting time.

648
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, that you'll be out for the whole year, you

649
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: won't be back to next year.

650
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 5: But yeah, man, I think that basically highlights your passion

651
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 5: for the fully game. I remember I remember this like

652
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 5: it was some similar situation that happened with Alistor. But

653
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 5: something happened to him during training, but massive controversial controversy

654
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 5: and he's still decided to play on. I'm not sure

655
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 5: exactly what happened, but bro, like some of these people

656
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 5: just don't understand the passion that some of these players

657
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 5: have for the game.

658
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 4: You know. And I heard the people who let him

659
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 4: back on they got and or something.

660
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard about that.

661
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 4: What would your view b on the whole situation.

662
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, Elie Gods position, I would be, I will definitely

663
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: do the same as him, you know, you know obviously

664
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: if he can, if he can go on, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

665
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, obviously that's the doctor's job to to rule

666
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: a player out. And yeah, he didn't obviously do his job.

667
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: So I think that's what led Ellie to continue to

668
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: play and even cause more damage.

669
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 4: So the doctor's tom, I think it was. As soon

670
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 4: as I remember even I was like, but of course decide,

671
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 4: but yeah, I think you're right, But I think it

672
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 4: was definitely the doctors. Doctors see well, I think doctor

673
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 4: it will be hard to like, you know, to be

674
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 4: able to choose whether Luck to decide whether this GUIDs

675
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 4: are right play or not if he's like still excited

676
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 4: for the game, because you know how Tongan is. I

677
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 4: can imagine I can imagine how Early was like, no,

678
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 4: I'm sweet.

679
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: Especially a game that represents nation.

680
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. Yeah yeah, and it was only the start

681
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 4: as well. Yeah, so I feel like you could go

682
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 4: through anything, like you could be like walking on one

683
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 4: leg and you'd be like, yeah, i'm sweet, I'm playing

684
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 4: for Tonna, you know, yeah, that's probably exactly what he

685
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 4: was his mony was speaking of playing for Tonga. Yeah, yeah,

686
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 4: how's that experience for you? Yeah, we love watching when

687
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 4: you're on the team for unfortunately we weren't able to

688
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 4: see you this year. Man, you're always killing that. What

689
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 4: is that experience like for you?

690
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 5: Oh?

691
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: Man, that's a crazy experience because I remember worked up

692
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen being a part of the crowd, the fan,

693
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,240
Speaker 1: you know, just watching all the old tongueing boys playing

694
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: and just saying, I was just saying to myself, man,

695
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,399
Speaker 1: I'd really love to play for this team.

696
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 3: Well full time.

697
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in the team. We're in the jersey

698
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: and it hits the for it, you know, especially when

699
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: your parents they come from Tonga to Australia and they

700
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: try and find a better life for your kids. And yeah,

701
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: definitely every time when I wear that red jersey, you know,

702
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: I try and represent my parents and their villages and

703
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: also trying to represent God to so God plays a

704
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: big part of all of our careers and I try

705
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: and try my best to represent Him in my family.

706
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 4: Yeah.

707
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 5: Amazing, amazing, But we're glad to see you represent, you know,

708
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 5: the World Cup.

709
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 3: So I think it's going to be a big time man,

710
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 3: big time coming around this time.

711
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 4: So what's it like this? Because I know, you know,

712
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 4: people are like they're crazy man, like you never stand

713
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 4: the other.

714
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 3: What's that experience?

715
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 4: Like, you know, you've got tongue is everywhere looking at you.

716
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 4: I can imagine that pressure.

717
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 5: Especially because you've been on both sides and now is

718
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 5: there no pressure?

719
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: Is that it's more like a privilege? Really, Yeah, to

720
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: play for Dong you know, especially for all the crowd

721
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: and everyone around. You know, we're so die hard when

722
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: it comes to like especially comes to to footing and Dong.

723
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: I It's just it's a mad feeling. It's a cool

724
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: feeling that I can't explain. But you know, if if

725
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: I was to wear the tongue of jersey like ten times,

726
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: I'll do it all over again.

727
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 4: Yeah that's mad. Well, hopefully you do wear the tongue jersey.

728
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: That's the plan, man, that's the goal. That's the goal

729
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: for next year, trying to represent THO.

730
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's yeah, that's the man.

731
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 4: I say excited. I actually love that you were able

732
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 4: to represent us. I'm just thinking about your parents. They

733
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 4: must be the proudest people on this earth for the

734
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 4: milestands that you keep them stepping, like, you know, do

735
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 4: you feel like there's any stones unturned that you want

736
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 4: to do to make your parents happy? Is there anything

737
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 4: that you feel like you haven't done yet to make

738
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 4: your family happy?

739
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: And terms of goals on field, I feel like I've

740
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: I've made my parents proud. You know, they always remind

741
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: me how proud they are as well, especially my old man.

742
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: You know, he's such a proud proud person, especially for

743
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: him to be my my dad. You know, he messages

744
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: me before every game, which is me luck caused me.

745
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,959
Speaker 1: But yeah, in terms of on field stuff, I feel

746
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: like I've done I've done hips to make them proud.

747
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: And but on the flip side of off field stuff,

748
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: probably the their main thing for me is probably just

749
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: to get married. Y. You know, my mom keeps reminding me,

750
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,439
Speaker 1: make sure you get married, you know, pull God first,

751
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: make sure you get married this and that. So you

752
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: know that's a goal for me next year. And yeah, yeah, okay,

753
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: all things go well to then.

754
00:37:54,160 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 4: So that's great insight for twenty twenty six. Amazing. But

755
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 4: you heard it your person exactly. We're looking forward. We're

756
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 4: looking forward to it.

757
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 5: And then well, what would you say is like the

758
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 5: what would you say is it was like the highest

759
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 5: pinnacle moment of your whole, n real career.

760
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: It have to be to represent okay, you know, because

761
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: you know all these milestones in footy, you know, making

762
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: my debut playing your games, it's it's made my parents proud.

763
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: But when I told him the news I was playing

764
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 1: for Tom, you know, it hit different. Yeah, Mom started crying.

765
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: Dad got a bit teary. He usually doesn't tear up,

766
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: so you know, to hear them crying, and when they

767
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: found out the news, it was definitely a humbling experience

768
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: for myself.

769
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 4: So tell us about your family. What was the experience

770
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 4: like growing up? So did you did you grow up

771
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 4: your whole life in Guildford your whole title?

772
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, so I grew up. I grew up in

773
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: Guildford to the age of maybe sixteen seventeen.

774
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 4: Yeah.

775
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 3: And you have siblings? Yeah I do. Yeah.

776
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: So I'm the oldest of five. I have two younger

777
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: brothers and then two girls under them, so it's five

778
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: of us.

779
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. Just give us some insight on like where was

780
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 4: your household like growing up? Was it like a tong

781
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 4: in houses? You know, like, yeah, shoes at the front.

782
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know there's little you know, those big

783
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: followed those straw You had one of those. Yeah, yeah,

784
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: that was used to cleaning and hidings. So yeah, that

785
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: was that was the That was my household growing up.

786
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: You know. We had two rooms. Dad, moms sleep in

787
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: one room and obviously sisters and the other room. And

788
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: I spoiled was just either with my parents or in

789
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: the in the living room.

790
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 3: So it was.

791
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 1: Small house, but it was. It was a good childhood life,

792
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: you know growing up. Uh didn't complain.

793
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was.

794
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: It was a fun, fun childhood.

795
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 4: Did you But did you guys ever move to Tong Nah?

796
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 1: Did? I just always just to fly over and visit

797
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: family there, but never never moved in and lived there.

798
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

799
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 4: We end up getting sent there because my dad thought

800
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 4: it was it was smart to send us there, because

801
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 4: you know, if the boys Tongue boys are running money

802
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 4: and seeing the parents at the many thing, let's send

803
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 4: him to Tong and he will learn from you from that.

804
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 4: Like me there come back ten times. I think you

805
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 4: were a good boy.

806
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 3: He no, I was.

807
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: I was definitely the responsible one in the family. It's

808
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: good because you're the oldest as well, so hectic role.

809
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 3: More than I had.

810
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: I had to be a leader at a very year.

811
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's my how's your tongue in language?

812
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 3: Is it?

813
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 4: Is it fluent?

814
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 3: Not really?

815
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: Not really, but I understand fluent.

816
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 4: You understand it?

817
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I would say like fift like tonguean.

818
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 3: Ah, that's enough.

819
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think after Jay's dollars story last week, I

820
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 4: think percentage went cover. Man, come on, you putting these

821
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 4: two cents in cover? Well, we got another question going

822
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 4: into twenty twenty six. Actually he already told us, Yeah,

823
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 4: his biggest goal is getting married. Wow, what else do

824
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 4: you have in store for twenty six? Are we looking

825
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 4: to see you more on the media as well or

826
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 4: anything like? Oh?

827
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what I got to say, Like most

828
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 5: of these NRL players, they're always doing like a side thing,

829
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 5: whether it's social media or something else on the side.

830
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: Do you have like anything like that?

831
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: Nah? Not really a funny you brought that up. My

832
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: partner brought her up last week. Actually, she's she wanted

833
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 1: me to post more content, do more flogs than that. Yeah,

834
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: knowing me, I don't really like to yeah, record myself

835
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: and put it out. Yeah, I feel like it's out. Yeah,

836
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: but she told me you just thought and we'll just

837
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: see where it goes. So yeah, I'm gonna start shooting

838
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: some content, so yeah, see where that goes.

839
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 4: But if your partner, I feel like it can really could,

840
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 4: really like you'll be a demand. Your partner is encouraging you.

841
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 3: To do stuff like that, that's mad, she's the one

842
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 3: pushing it.

843
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited, man, I'm actually excited to see on

844
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 4: the podcast, to see you luck more than me. And

845
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 4: I was actually nervous today because I was sending the

846
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 4: boys I never see. I'm willing like I'm dump on it. Yeah,

847
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 4: but I was excited as well. So I'll be happy

848
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 4: if you dump on the media more often, it'll be good.

849
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

850
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 4: What do you think you could? You could come up

851
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 4: with you Yeah, probably just do like some I think

852
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 4: vlogging in general. But yeah, a lot of people will

853
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 4: love you for just general vlogging, logging like travel blogs

854
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 4: or maybe like a day of life with Me or

855
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 4: something like that. A lot of people got to know

856
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 4: what's behind the terminator everyone.

857
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 3: I think people are just intrigued just to.

858
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 5: Want to know how NRL players life is in general,

859
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 5: So I think, yeah, I think it's always hectic, especially

860
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 5: with her status like that.

861
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 3: Brom Yeah, a lot of rat doubt, a lot of

862
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 3: people will be tuning in. Man, I was.

863
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 4: I was just saying, since you brought up your partner,

864
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 4: how's that, how's it been like being able to juggle

865
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 4: a relationship and being part of the then, No, real

866
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 4: has that been a challenge.

867
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: No, Surprisingly, she's been like she's doing really well with

868
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: it actually, So she's like she's kind of like my

869
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: personal manager. So you know, everything I get or like

870
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: I receive, you know, everything goes through her. She approves her.

871
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 1: And then she's actually been like.

872
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 3: She's the big bullet.

873
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she's like the boss. Yeah, she's made life

874
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: easy for me, especially like in terms of rugby and that,

875
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: you know, when I tell her I need a bit

876
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: of space time alone, like nights before games and that,

877
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: it's just like in you know, try and lock in

878
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: four games, and she will do that for me. You know,

879
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: she will get the kids away and and you know,

880
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: just let me have my you know, my me time.

881
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: She's us. Yeah, she's pretty well balanced.

882
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 3: With that's amazing.

883
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 5: Speaking of me time, I've noticed some some NRL players

884
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 5: have this little thing where they'll maybe get away or

885
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 5: have a.

886
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 3: Piece of mine.

887
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 5: I remember we spoke to Sonic outdoor and he was

888
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 5: telling us that something that he used to do just

889
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 5: to get away from everyone and like, especially when things

890
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 5: get hectic in the NRL career, he would go fishing.

891
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 3: But now he's doing.

892
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 5: Content wise, you know what I mean. Is there something

893
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 5: that you do similar to that, like just to get

894
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 5: away and get to have a piece of mind?

895
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 3: I yeah, I do. Actually I play a lot of golf. Wow,

896
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 3: So so that that's like, that's like my Yeah.

897
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love playing golf when it's like when I

898
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: get some me time and sometime away from footing in

899
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: the family. So when I when I try and have

900
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: some free time, I go away and play golf.

901
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's mad. I've never played golf. I think that's

902
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 3: like the rich tongue in sport sport. We were still playing.

903
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 4: I'm still trying to get the hang of it too,

904
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's mad. Have you ever thought of basketball,

905
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 4: because I know you've got the mad hype for it. Yeah.

906
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: I'm terrible at basketball. Oh yeah, man, I can't shoot

907
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: for to save my life. Man, I'm terrible at basketball?

908
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 4: You have any other sports that that yet that maybe

909
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 4: you're into if you weren't doing NRL.

910
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: Man, it'll probably be basketball, like you have to try

911
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: and training and then the sport. But that maybe NFL

912
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: given a feel crack I wasn't playing, or maybe rugby

913
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: union you know, true, well just go play union, see

914
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: suss all that.

915
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 4: That's wow, amazing, amazing. Some of the league fans are

916
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 4: gonna get dirty.

917
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 3: How were you like athletic wise? Growing up?

918
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 5: Were just always active, like how was your training? Eating

919
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 5: and obviously like living in a small household, the dietary factor,

920
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,919
Speaker 5: he would just play a bit different, you know, because

921
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 5: there's siblings and especially.

922
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 3: Coming back from a Tonguean background, you know, I know

923
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 3: we our like our.

924
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 5: Nutrition wasn't like all glamor and it was masically just

925
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 5: like rice and kiki on just just basic stuff.

926
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: So that's exactly the same as me.

927
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 3: Man.

928
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know were times we're struggling to eat and

929
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: I think rice was the yeah, like the main source

930
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,959
Speaker 1: for our our household and we was just seeing rice

931
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: and some mine would make a there. Sometimes the buck

932
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: was just we had to like always improvise when it

933
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: comes to Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't really and it was

934
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: it was very hard trying to go. Yeah.

935
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 4: Remember you were saying that you're trying to put weight

936
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 4: on yeah, which is actually one of the most rare

937
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 4: cases in trying to put away because everyone is trying

938
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 4: to lose. You're a billion to put on.

939
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: The way, and now I'm struggling to lose the weight now,

940
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: so oh I put on too much way.

941
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 4: So yeah, now something something when you wanted to bring up.

942
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 4: We don't know if you're comfortable enough for us to

943
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 4: speak about it, but we did. I did hear a

944
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 4: story about me. I think it was your nephew or

945
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 4: something that passed away.

946
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 3: To bullying.

947
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 4: I just I didn't know before, but I realized you

948
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 4: were related to him, and I'm very sorry for your

949
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 4: lost So I just wanted to see if you're comfortable, like,

950
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 4: what was that, Like it's stuck.

951
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 5: For you, and did this like kind of impact your

952
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 5: your career as an NRL player?

953
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: Lucky enough, it wasn't. It happened during my injury, so

954
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: I was, you know, outside of a foodio lucky and

955
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,840
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing because it definitely would have impacted me

956
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: while I was playing. But yeah, yeah, when I was injured.

957
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: I remember I was, I went away actually I was

958
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: in Japan at the time when when I got the news.

959
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: So I got the news and you know, all that

960
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: happy vibe away going away in Japan. You know, it's

961
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: just all like went away in the house. I didn't

962
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: want to go out anymore. I was just like, yeah,

963
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: you know, I want to go back home now. Yeah,

964
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: but yeah, it was a definitely a tough time for

965
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: me and my family and and just hope you know,

966
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: they're doing well right now. So yeah, in terms of

967
00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: his parents and everything's slowly coming back together. You know,

968
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:05,400
Speaker 1: I try my best to stay in touch with my

969
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 1: nephew's parents. Every once a month, I try and message him,

970
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: call him see if they want to go out, you know,

971
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: to eat. It's definitely something I should have done when

972
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: he was here. You know, I was always too worried

973
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: about footy and my type of you know thing away

974
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: from everyone. But yeah, man, I try my best to

975
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,799
Speaker 1: tap in with his parents and try and go see

976
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: him every now and then.

977
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, well do you do you think do you think

978
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,879
Speaker 4: bullyings is becoming a lot more bigger in our day

979
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 4: and age right now? Yeah, definitely it's becoming a lot

980
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 4: bigger because would you say that social media, like you know,

981
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 4: plays a part in it?

982
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: Definitely, you know social media is yeah, it's basically what

983
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: runs everyone's lives now. You know, what have you seen

984
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: social media? You know, people get intrigued and they try

985
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah copy or follows that follow those things.

986
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:03,479
Speaker 3: Yeah.

987
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that bullying is.

988
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 5: It's gone out a hand now, definitely, especially with all

989
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 5: this AI stuff. You know, very dangerous, man, very dangerous,

990
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 5: but it's always good.

991
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 3: You know, just to.

992
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 5: Haven't haven't I open all the time, you know, with

993
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 5: family and friends, always checking up, like you said, always

994
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 5: checking up on people, you know, just seeing if they're right.

995
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 5: I remember watching this this show like two days ago

996
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 5: on sixty minutes. This mother lost her son to an

997
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 5: AI bot and he ended up, you know, matter himself

998
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 5: because well from talking to AI, talking to an AI

999
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 5: bot and it was like a female bot. Yeah, but

1000
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 5: she she just never seen it. She never seen it.

1001
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 5: You know. She thought that he was a normal kid

1002
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 5: growing up to his teens, you know, fifteen sixteen, that

1003
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 5: that puberty, you know, and Bernie was so bad man.

1004
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,720
Speaker 5: They didn't know it was that deep until the police

1005
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 5: caught his phone and showed her all the messages. She

1006
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 5: was just still in disbelief for months, couldn't believe it. Man,

1007
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 5: much love and respect for these young lads. That's why

1008
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,440
Speaker 5: it's so important for us, like especially on President cons

1009
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 5: we love like we love sharing a better life for

1010
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 5: young kids who are growing up. I know a lot

1011
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 5: of young kids are gonna watch this episode, and I'm

1012
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:31,320
Speaker 5: sure everyone's gonna know your top top gentleman, just for

1013
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 5: for anyone that could be like struggling with.

1014
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 3: Their life right now.

1015
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 4: What sort of advice would you give to a young

1016
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 4: kid who maybe maybe going through whatever tough times or

1017
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 4: just can't hack life like you know itself?

1018
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: Probably just like you know, I always always open up,

1019
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, I always you know, don't try

1020
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: and stay inside your show. You know, always ask for

1021
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 1: help or seek help, you know, ask questions because you

1022
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: know we're not mind readers. You're asking and will do

1023
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: our best to try.

1024
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 3: And help and.

1025
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: Of the issue.

1026
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 4: I guess yeah, yeah, that's mad advice, man, That's actually

1027
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 4: that's actually what we we really try to push out there.

1028
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 4: We try to bring many here so we can conversate.

1029
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 4: We love conversating back and forth. I feel like when

1030
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,439
Speaker 4: everyone gets gets things out, you know, the world becomes

1031
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 4: a better place. Such great advice for the man. What

1032
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 4: about what about a young lad coming into NRL, you know,

1033
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 4: so the boys start joining their mates. I think that's

1034
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 4: a good idea. Concreting first, concreting and then maybe you'll

1035
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 4: get turned out for concreting. Do you feel like if

1036
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 4: you've never done the NRL concreting, you'll be like running

1037
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 4: the business and everything like that.

1038
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, we haven't really thought about it, but

1039
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: because because NRL, you know, you're only last to like

1040
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: you're thirty thirty two, So yeah, it's definitely something you

1041
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: want to try and do outside start a business or something,

1042
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: or or you started conquering conquering business.

1043
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's the best choice, to be honest, when

1044
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 4: I started my scaffolding business. The reason why I will

1045
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 4: say easy because well, the boys that experience. Yeah, what

1046
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 4: would you say is like maybe your biggest struggle ever

1047
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 4: from since growing up? What would you say your biggest

1048
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 4: struggle was?

1049
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: My biggest struggle probably my kindness. You know I've always

1050
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,799
Speaker 1: struggled to I guess say no, to two people. I've

1051
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: always been that person to say yeah, you know, or

1052
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: I'll help you, I'll help you, I'll do this for you,

1053
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: I'll do that for you. You know, they've always I've

1054
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 1: had a few people take advantage of it, but that's

1055
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: you know, that's it's nothing major for me. Now, you know,

1056
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: I'll try my best to to give and and not

1057
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: ask for anything more. So, yeah, you're probably the main

1058
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: thing was my kindness. A lot of people took my

1059
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: kindness for weakness.

1060
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, that's so.

1061
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 4: Hard to hear because it's such a gentleman, and I

1062
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 4: understand that could have happened a lot.

1063
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 5: I'm glad we this podcast highlighted a different side of you.

1064
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:15,720
Speaker 5: So a lot of fans are going to be intrigued

1065
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 5: by this.

1066
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 4: What is your strategy now for a lot of people

1067
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 4: who take your kindness for weakness.

1068
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: My partner's pretty like she's she's the heavy no filter,

1069
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:28,919
Speaker 1: so it's always got.

1070
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 3: To be a ying yang, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're.

1071
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:38,360
Speaker 4: Just coming up to the end of our say, I

1072
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 4: thought I asked a fun question, do you know anything

1073
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 4: about boxing?

1074
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 3: A little bit? Yeah?

1075
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 4: So I got said, this is pretty much going to

1076
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 4: be the Face of the Media. Next week, we've got

1077
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 4: Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua.

1078
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I heard about that.

1079
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 4: Who do you think might have this fight?

1080
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 3: And why we have to go with Jake?

1081
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 4: Boy, Well, so you actually believe he's got the he's

1082
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 4: got the will power to get this done.

1083
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: He's got the money. That's the only reason why, Paul,

1084
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: because he's got the money.

1085
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 3: Man.

1086
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, you feel like some of his fights are really

1087
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 4: I reckon. I actually was hoping that he would he

1088
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 4: would win this, like legitimately, because I don't know if

1089
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,240
Speaker 4: I feel like for for anyone that has really jumped

1090
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 4: into a real commitment where they have to try and

1091
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 4: get something done, I feel like he's in that position

1092
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Speaker 4: where he's he's got to be really committed and determined

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Speaker 4: to win this match. So I like to think he's

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Speaker 4: he's going to try to tap into that mode. And

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Speaker 4: like you probably know yourself, any man who taps into

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Speaker 4: like his goals and really wants it can get the

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Speaker 4: job done. So I'm hoping I'm hoping he does something

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Speaker 4: like that. Uh, just any just before we end the podcast,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much Douggle for coming on. But we

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Speaker 4: really appreciate you We know you don't like going on

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Speaker 4: cameras and that, but we love that you came past.

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Speaker 4: Is any last shout out shout out to anything you'd

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Speaker 4: love to say to our beautiful fans.

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Speaker 1: That yeah, Man, the big shout out to to the

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Speaker 1: bros and cons Man, you guys. I listen to you

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Speaker 1: guys every now and then. Yeah, you know, you guys

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Speaker 1: have been a big role model for the for the

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Speaker 1: community and social and you guys are doing big things

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Speaker 1: and you guys are thinking big moves too, So I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what's in store for you guys

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: And thanks. I appreciate it. We appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually had a lot of mad things going

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Speaker 4: on for twenty twenty six. Jay, bring up this cold

1115
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Speaker 4: thing so we're gonna go for man, appreciate it a

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Speaker 4: lot that we're coming from you. We're so excited for

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Speaker 4: your upcoming games. Much love and support from us always.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, man, Thank you, Thank you a lot.

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Speaker 4: Dog bringing you want to end the shay, that's it.

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Speaker 5: If you guys are Actually we got one more guest

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Speaker 5: coming on because as you know, we're hitting December now.

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Speaker 3: It's finally the end of the year, so we've got

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Speaker 3: one more guest.

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Speaker 5: Guys, stay tuned and leave some comments, but let us

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Speaker 5: know what's on your mind. And other than that, stay

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Speaker 5: tuned for the next episode.

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Speaker 4: Bros and cos, let's go