Speaker 1: Hey, legends, welcome back to The Mason cock Show Vacation Edition. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about some off season travels. We're
Speaker 1: also going to recap some off season travels that other
Speaker 1: people have may have stuffed up in the past. Plus
Speaker 1: we'll cover the footy and much much more on this episode,
Speaker 1: So stay tuned in, legend, It's going to be good one.
Speaker 1: All right, Legends, let's get straight into it. It is
Speaker 1: the Vacation holiday edition of The Mason cock Show nine Overseas,
Speaker 1: and it's the technical off season, unfortunately for me. But
Speaker 1: without further ado, welcome Brandon Toms.
Speaker 2: Get a Mason's always good to see that you're alive.
Speaker 2: I get sweaty when these players go overseas because I
Speaker 2: never know what shenanigans you get up to. So I
Speaker 2: thought I'd ease my mind and go on the internet
Speaker 2: and just find out that. I was hoping to find
Speaker 2: that players don't actually get into a lot of mischief overseas,
Speaker 2: but I actually uncovered a whole heap of stories that
Speaker 2: begs to differ. And yeah, so I'm pretty sure we
Speaker 2: were leaning to not doing any more podcasts for the year,
Speaker 2: but I did want to tune in. I did want
Speaker 2: to get on a call just to see your face.
Speaker 2: There's a lot riding on these trips, Mace. We need
Speaker 2: you to come back so we can keep going on
Speaker 2: with this podcast. But I just wanted to tune in.
Speaker 2: So it's good to see you alive. I haven't heard
Speaker 2: anything from you, so I want to know where you are,
Speaker 2: what you're doing, what you've been doing, and how your
Speaker 2: welfare is.
Speaker 1: Welfare is great currently sailing Croatia in the middle of
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean. Can't complain. And I'm on a boat. I
Speaker 1: think the lonely boys, I'm on a boat, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I think that's my lifestyle at the moment.
Speaker 1: Saw some dolphins this morning, which was beautiful, and yeah,
Speaker 1: life isn't too bad. But I'm still paying attention to
Speaker 1: a bit of the football and I'm hoping not to
Speaker 1: be one of those stories that I'm sure got plenty
Speaker 1: of of news that have happened in the past different
Speaker 1: football players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, is that a chacuzie you're sitting in front of.
Speaker 1: That's a very great observation, Brandon. It is a chacuzi,
Speaker 1: or a hot tub, as I like to call it,
Speaker 1: a hot time on top of the top deck of
Speaker 1: the sun deck of this yacht mine at the moment.
Speaker 3: So what's the temperature like there? What are we talking?
Speaker 1: Oh man, it is a brisk probably twenty five twenty
Speaker 1: six maybe right now it is eight am or eight
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, so still the sun hasn't come out.
Speaker 1: But I might be coming back a little darker than
Speaker 1: I came here.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen a leak of sunlight here. Like I'm
Speaker 2: I was pale before, I'm I'm turning translucent. I'm wider
Speaker 2: than an a four sheet of paper. You know what's great? Wind,
Speaker 2: and we are getting a lot of it. Wind is
Speaker 2: just the best, especially when you match that up with
Speaker 2: rain and cold.
Speaker 3: That's the trio that we're talking about. So that's great.
Speaker 2: It's good to hear that your miserable over there in
Speaker 2: front of you. So did you want to how did
Speaker 2: you want to structure this? So you have seen a
Speaker 2: bit of footy? Did you want to lightly dip into
Speaker 2: the footy? And then I want to bring up some
Speaker 2: of these stories because I just want to have them
Speaker 2: in front of mine when you're traveling the rest of
Speaker 2: your your jaunt around the world. I want to have
Speaker 2: them in front of mine so you can go. You
Speaker 2: know what, maybe I shouldn't, you know, do the worm
Speaker 2: on top of a taxi or anything a lot.
Speaker 1: Well, Brandon, I've got a great story I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you before we before we get into it, that'll
Speaker 1: talk about the football over the we because I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that every single team that we picked a win
Speaker 1: got spanked over the weekend or had a dramatic loss.
Speaker 1: I think we need to probably redeem ourselves of our
Speaker 1: football knowledge before we get into some of these stories. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll let you kick us off. That Geelong game, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, what world is going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We really backed in, We really really backed in Kenny Hinckley.
Speaker 3: We backed him in hard.
Speaker 2: And obviously it's not the coach out there doing most
Speaker 2: of the stuff. Zach butter Is getting injured didn't really help.
Speaker 2: But you know, outside of maybe Horn Francis and I
Speaker 2: don't know Ollie Wines or like that, there wasn't much,
Speaker 2: you know, of a fight back, which is just damning
Speaker 2: to say there's not much of a fight back from
Speaker 2: Port that Actually they just got obliterated eighty four points
Speaker 2: at home. That's got to do some lasting scarring damage,
Speaker 2: doesn't it heading into next week where they have to
Speaker 2: well this week where they have to go again, do we.
Speaker 1: Do we think they're out in straight sets again? I mean,
Speaker 1: all my confidence I had of Port Adelaide essentially going
Speaker 1: out the window, and I have no idea if they're
Speaker 1: even going to win this next game. I really am
Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty on the possibility. Like I was so,
Speaker 1: I was gun her Grand Final team, no doubt whatsoever,
Speaker 1: and now I feel like I couldn't be more on
Speaker 1: the opposite into the spectrum.
Speaker 2: Now, now they're coming up against the Hawks, who you know,
Speaker 2: had a pretty convincing win thirty seven point victors over
Speaker 2: the Bulldogs, which the Bulldogs were, These two teams were
Speaker 2: in equal almost equal run of hot form, and the
Speaker 2: Hawks went in there and you know, it did scary things,
Speaker 2: interesting interesting move I'm not sure if you saw it,
Speaker 2: but didn't do a hell of a lot in the
Speaker 2: first half. So they moved him forward where the ball
Speaker 2: wasn't going. So then obviously he didn't get much of
Speaker 2: the ball in the third, and then when they were
Speaker 2: six goals down, they put the back in the middle.
Speaker 3: He had nine touches kicked.
Speaker 2: The goal probably should have had two if Norton didn't
Speaker 2: touch it on the Western Bulldog's goal line, which is
Speaker 2: probably not what you want. But yeah, so the Hawks
Speaker 2: going up against port and they're actually the favorites Hawks
Speaker 2: at a poor home game, which is I don't even know,
Speaker 2: that's pretty hard to believe.
Speaker 1: Who would have gussed that it was? Yeah, that Bulldogs
Speaker 1: talks team as well. I did love a little shout
Speaker 1: out to the Wizard. Remember he put on the Wizard
Speaker 1: ad after the game. That was absolute gold. I do
Speaker 1: enjoy what Hawthorne is doing at the moment with all
Speaker 1: their social media and they're kind of just the youth
Speaker 1: that they have there. It is good fun. I think
Speaker 1: everyone has a smile on their face seeing people enjoying
Speaker 1: their football like that. And yeah, it wasn't predicting them
Speaker 1: to take the line like that and be able to
Speaker 1: punish them like they did. But you look at that
Speaker 1: Hawthorn versus a poor game, it's like, yeah, I understand
Speaker 1: why their favorites. To be honest, I can't imagine that.
Speaker 1: You talk about momentum the time of year, and Port
Speaker 1: Adelaid just got absolutely stopped with their momentum, and the
Speaker 1: Hawks just didn't continue there. So it's gonna be tough
Speaker 1: to not choose Hawthorn in that game, even though it
Speaker 1: is a Port Adelaide home game. And I hate to say,
Speaker 1: but my boys are about ros.
Speaker 3: I don't want it.
Speaker 2: I don't want it for Kenny because we've backed him
Speaker 2: in this whole time. But I genuinely fear what happens
Speaker 2: after a straight set's loss. So I'm hoping it's a
Speaker 2: bit of overreaction.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: We normally see these in finals where the two teams
Speaker 2: vying for a prelimp spot, there's obviously got to be
Speaker 2: two losers, and then when they lose, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: doom and gloom, we think they suck all this stuff.
Speaker 2: But then they've got into the top four for a reason.
Speaker 2: They normally come out the next week and get the
Speaker 2: job done. But I don't know, we're seeing against the
Speaker 2: Mighty Hawks and there I saw stats and it's like
Speaker 2: there since round eight them number one for scores, for
Speaker 2: number one for defense, number one from like stoppage goals
Speaker 2: number one, Like it's like, calm down. I don't know,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, They're like a superpower of a team.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's just come that long to get into
Speaker 2: it round eight, but it's all turned around for him.
Speaker 2: I do have to ask, you're on the other side
Speaker 2: of the planet Earth now, outside of this Melbourne bubble
Speaker 2: that I live in. Did you hear about Jack Ginovan
Speaker 2: having a water at the London tavern?
Speaker 1: Wild? Absolutely wild? He is a unique human in me
Speaker 1: and you could see in the photo that went public,
Speaker 1: like he locked eyes with the person that was taking
Speaker 1: the photo and he's probably gone, a shit, He's oh no,
Speaker 1: just realize that I don't know what just happened there
Speaker 1: with the video and he he legit, just locked eyes
Speaker 1: with whoever it was and realized I'm in for a
Speaker 1: bit of a headline here for the next week. But
Speaker 1: you know, if it's part of us, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's kind of made him successful during the year. You
Speaker 1: can't really knock it. You know. It's if he likes
Speaker 1: to hang out with his friends, take his mind away
Speaker 1: from it and have a you know, have a pub
Speaker 1: meal as you say before a game. Then you know
Speaker 1: Tom love to do it. So it's obviously working for him.
Speaker 1: But I got to shout out someone else first, Lloyd Meek.
Speaker 1: This man is absolutely killing it at the moment. He
Speaker 1: is an incredible force. That is I think one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that Hawthorn team is being so successful. He's
Speaker 1: absolutely dominating in the middle there. And you got to
Speaker 1: give a band as flowers when it's well deserved like that.
Speaker 1: So get that shout out a little drawby to my
Speaker 1: Lloyd Meek who's been absolutely killing it.
Speaker 3: I do like the big boys out there.
Speaker 2: I do have to drag you back to Jack Ginovan
Speaker 2: for one more because we don't mind the water at
Speaker 2: the London tavern.
Speaker 3: Hat.
Speaker 2: What are our thoughts on texting your potential prelim opponents
Speaker 2: two weeks ahead of time saying see you in fourteen
Speaker 2: days on Instagram? Because that's what he's done. He's just
Speaker 2: bypassed Port Adelaide completely and send a message straight to
Speaker 2: BG Big Brody Grundy and said see you in fourteen
Speaker 2: days now. Is that putting the heat on yourself or
Speaker 2: onto your team and off in that one?
Speaker 1: That is peak confidence right there if I've ever heard it.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the gold Now he was good mate
Speaker 1: to Brodie obviously playing with him and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But to sit there and just look right past and
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that will be up in Port Adelaide's
Speaker 1: meeting room, just saying this fella does not respect us.
Speaker 1: Let's absolutely take it to him. So you know, you give,
Speaker 1: you give a little bit to the opposite. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: can be detrimental. Sometimes it's called duck and our dinner,
Speaker 1: as some people have said in the past. But it
Speaker 1: is an interesting thing to be able to put that publicly.
Speaker 1: You probably as a coach be saying, look, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can say those things. You know it was a personal
Speaker 1: relationship with Brody, but don't put it out to the
Speaker 1: rest of the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not as bad as saying the showgrounds comments
Speaker 2: six months ahead of time. Now, anything that you say
Speaker 2: on international waters. I just want to put this out
Speaker 2: there to the public. Anything that Mason says can't be
Speaker 2: used against him in the court of law. He's on
Speaker 2: a boat in front of a hot tu International Waters.
Speaker 2: There's a jeeva convention or something. There's something that goes
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this, but the Battle
Speaker 2: of the Bridge finally lived up to the hype.
Speaker 3: I mean, they have in Fannis had some.
Speaker 2: Pretty good close rivalries, but this game was it was
Speaker 2: well for starters. Clearly clearly the best game of the
Speaker 2: first week of finals, because outside of.
Speaker 3: This, they were all a bit shit, to be honest.
Speaker 3: But Sydney VGWS.
Speaker 2: GWS got the early jump on him and looked like
Speaker 2: it was gonna they were gonna get it done. And
Speaker 2: then I don't know if you know this bloke, Isaac
Speaker 2: Eeney thirty touches. I think he had eight score involvements,
Speaker 2: three goals, and he took what would be mark of
Speaker 2: the year if it wasn't in finals.
Speaker 1: He is an absolute freak. Like we're looking back on
Speaker 1: that vision and like he kind of dragged him over
Speaker 1: the line. I felt like similar to whenever we played him,
Speaker 1: you know, he stood up in those moments that mattered most.
Speaker 1: And that Markie tug, Oh, it was so sound. I
Speaker 1: loved it. But he's he's as you know, we looking
Speaker 1: at that game and like you thought the whole way through,
Speaker 1: GWS surely finishes this out, and in that fourth quarter
Speaker 1: they just came home strong, and yeah, it's it's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: I could only imagine what the crowd was doing there
Speaker 1: and how insane that atmosphere would have been being a
Speaker 1: home game for Sydney and that come back and I'm
Speaker 1: already kicking that last goal that just kind of dribbled
Speaker 1: through and just absolutely going nuts. Man, it looked like
Speaker 1: an absolute vibe there, real sick. But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: crediton GBS man over there, Brighton, But your team didn't
Speaker 1: didn't get across the lawn. Now they're going to go
Speaker 1: and and face a Brisbane outfit that's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: be Carlton over the weekend here, so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting game there. But yeah, you still you still
Speaker 1: think WUS has what it takes. Definitely Sydney, you know,
Speaker 1: there was question marks around them obviously, you know, weren't
Speaker 1: as dominant the back half of the year as the
Speaker 1: first half of the year. But they they proved their
Speaker 1: worth over the weekend and now they get that week
Speaker 1: off that's so incredibly important during finals and we'll see
Speaker 1: how they go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely think out of GWS and Port GWS
Speaker 2: is still very much a live chance to get across
Speaker 2: the other side of the.
Speaker 3: Fixture and get to a prelim.
Speaker 2: They you know, they did everything except for win the game,
Speaker 2: and as we saw in the Collingwood game that Sydney
Speaker 2: only needs a quarter, like they only need a quarter.
Speaker 2: If that they half a quarter, they can chuck on
Speaker 2: five goals. So yeah, they're still a scary proposition. I
Speaker 2: feel like that's the game they needed to show people
Speaker 2: that they can still really turn them around. So that
Speaker 2: was a great game. One that wasn't Brisbane b Carleton.
Speaker 2: Now Carlton just didn't arrive at the ground. Well they
Speaker 2: could have just they could have stayed on the bus
Speaker 2: for the first couple of quarters, because it took them
Speaker 2: till like I think three minutes left in the second
Speaker 2: quarter to kick their first goal. Then they kicked a
Speaker 2: couple in a minute, which is pretty impressive. But they
Speaker 2: were sixty to nothing at one stage, which is just curtains.
Speaker 2: Like we've seen a lot of big comebacks. Unfortunately they
Speaker 2: were nowhere near it. There was a couple of interesting
Speaker 2: moments out of this where Kennedy went up and he
Speaker 2: just had his partner just gave birth to their child,
Speaker 2: made the trip up to Brisbane and got subbed out
Speaker 2: halfway through the second quarter and he was sitting in
Speaker 2: the back of the bench.
Speaker 3: Steaming, which as it would be.
Speaker 2: It's probably fair because yeah, it's pretty rough to make
Speaker 2: the trip up, but we did see Doherty return Sam Dougherty,
Speaker 2: and he did return with a goal.
Speaker 3: Sixteen touches a goal.
Speaker 2: Nice little, you know, moment for Carlton in a game
Speaker 2: that was you know, pretty dark for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone was probably favoring
Speaker 1: COVID Carlton win that game. And whenever you looked out
Speaker 1: of the score and it was sixty to nothing is
Speaker 1: insane for a final. You think that like obviously being
Speaker 1: in top eight teams you'd be able to put a
Speaker 1: bit of a scoreboard pressure on. But obviously Carlton had
Speaker 1: a few different people that were out and weren't playing.
Speaker 1: But it was one of those things that Brisbane just
Speaker 1: got off to such a hot start. It was never
Speaker 1: going to be a chance for them to really try
Speaker 1: to call back. I feel like in that moment, especially
Speaker 1: being away too at the Fortress, and it was a
Speaker 1: beautiful moment. I will say, Sam darker eagle. I think
Speaker 1: that was kind of like the highlight for Carlton. If
Speaker 1: you're a Carlton fan, have a pretty bleak kind of day,
Speaker 1: But credits m He's a great man. I've always loved
Speaker 1: Sam the way he's done it what he's kind of
Speaker 1: done for, you know, testicular cancer and everything along those lines.
Speaker 1: Every time you see him, you know, out there and
Speaker 1: doing this thing, it's always a feel good moment, right,
Speaker 1: It's always a feel good moment for Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: which was not a not a great day to be
Speaker 1: a Carlton fan, but probably to be expected.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm fortunate for Carlton.
Speaker 2: I know you and I really feel for him in
Speaker 2: this moment, and thoughts and prayers go out to them
Speaker 2: and the fan base because it's it's just a it's
Speaker 2: a hard time for him, isn't it.
Speaker 3: So that's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we do look ahead the next week, so we
Speaker 2: do have Port Adelaide v.
Speaker 3: Hawthorne. I feel like.
Speaker 2: It feels like you're you've already said the Hawks. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't actually say that.
Speaker 2: Can I stick with Port? I?
Speaker 1: Ah, come on, do it? Do it? Do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna well, Yeah, for Kenny's sake, I'm sticking
Speaker 2: with Port because if he if he loses, it's trouble.
Speaker 1: H Hey, I'm gonna do the same. I'm gonna stick
Speaker 1: with Port Adelaide and worst case scenario. I'm saying, worst
Speaker 1: case scenario, Kenny loses and he goes to West Coast
Speaker 1: and they just rebuilt that program.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't mind it. Don't mind it, and hopefully he's
Speaker 2: just loved and cherished there the whole way through.
Speaker 3: What do we got?
Speaker 2: GWS Australia GWS, but no pressure in Perth. Apparently it's
Speaker 2: nice and cruisier GWS v the Lions at NG Stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be an interesting one. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably the one everyone's looking at as the big kind
Speaker 1: of big ticket game. It's a question mark, maybe more
Speaker 1: of a fifty to fifty than the other games. I
Speaker 1: have to go wos on this one. There they took
Speaker 1: Sydney to the line. Should they won that game, they
Speaker 1: definitely had an opportunity to. But yeah, it's tough with
Speaker 1: them been playing throughout the whole year. Really, I think
Speaker 1: it's hard to pick against them. Obviously, person had been
Speaker 1: momentum winning their last game, But overall, I think a
Speaker 1: home game for them gives them a chance to go
Speaker 1: and play that winner that port out a lead game
Speaker 1: and probably get back to that Grand Final spot. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to GOBS on this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm backing in my boys, the GWS Giants, Mighty Giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think they're too.
Speaker 2: Goods been have obviously lifted in the second half of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if.
Speaker 2: They're as good as they are at the Gabba, like
Speaker 2: obviously they're not. But yeah, I just feel like Giants
Speaker 2: should get the job done at home. So yeah, that's
Speaker 2: a massive week of footy. Hopefully next week's games are
Speaker 2: better than last week's games, and then so on and
Speaker 2: so forth.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we get a couple of good prelates.
Speaker 2: What about Geelong, We didn't really touch on Geelong's win,
Speaker 2: but that's very impressive to go over there get the
Speaker 2: job done. Danger lifted massively because yeah, I just thought
Speaker 2: they were going to tag homes and then once you
Speaker 2: tag homes it kind of gets a bit thin. But
Speaker 2: Holmes had sixteen at halftime. He was just towing them up,
Speaker 2: setting up everything. Grian Myers pretty much. It feels like
Speaker 2: every kick that he kicks is a goal assist. Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: they just keep getting it done the old Cat.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. I think you talk about experience and how
Speaker 1: important that is coming towards finals and I mean they
Speaker 1: don't have Gary Rowan, who unfortunately I broke I think
Speaker 1: he broke the score with fractions tomahawk. There's a few
Speaker 1: guys that, you know, they end up still having out.
Speaker 1: Like I think that the leaders really kind of stood
Speaker 1: up in that game, and it is insane to look
Speaker 1: at that score line and go that actually happened. Like,
Speaker 1: I think everyone was so convinced it was going to
Speaker 1: be a close game or port out of that was
Speaker 1: going to beat them, and Geelong just went over there
Speaker 1: and absolutely spanked them at their home ground and no
Speaker 1: one saw it coming. So I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people probably look past your along a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: it's an out of the top four. They probably the
Speaker 1: weekest out of the top four, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: After that game, people are going, well, Geelong now might
Speaker 1: be you know those teams that actually makes a flag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of kind of crazy. How think many people
Speaker 1: would have probably been saying that before the final series
Speaker 1: kind of started, But after that performance, you can't you
Speaker 1: can't knock them.
Speaker 2: No, Yeah, it's and like they're run as soon as
Speaker 2: they like now they're at the g I assume for
Speaker 2: the pre lim and then at the g again with
Speaker 2: a home run through the potentially another Grand Final where yeah,
Speaker 2: they've over here, they've been belding up how well Chris
Speaker 2: Scott has done so he kind of it deserves that
Speaker 2: given he's been in something like thirteen pre limbs since
Speaker 2: he's been at the at Geelong since twenty eleven, won
Speaker 2: a flag in his first year, one two since he's
Speaker 2: been there, runner up in one heap of pre limbs.
Speaker 2: They just keep taking it over anyway, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to I don't want to stray too far away from
Speaker 2: your holiday because I want to know about that. I
Speaker 2: want to live vicariously through you. And before we jumped
Speaker 2: into the footy, you said you had a little story,
Speaker 2: a little teaser.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so as you know, I'm selling Croatia at the
Speaker 1: moment right now, and I'm sitting there going okay, perfect.
Speaker 1: I got to Croatia, I got to split eight days
Speaker 1: on a boat and now going beautiful. I'm half a
Speaker 1: world away from Australia, no one or know anything about football,
Speaker 1: be able to get on this boat, meet some people
Speaker 1: from all over the world. Right, I'll get there, I'll
Speaker 1: put my bags on, I'll check in, I'll talk to
Speaker 1: the guy that's talking, yeah, that's looking after the boat,
Speaker 1: and he goes, what's you name? Where you're from? Sad
Speaker 1: on from Australia. He goes, oh beautiful, everyone else on
Speaker 1: this boat is from Australia. I said, you got to
Speaker 1: be absolutely kidding me. There's the twenty eight people on
Speaker 1: this boat. All of them are from Australia. So the
Speaker 1: guy goes, oh, do you think anyone would know you?
Speaker 1: And I said, ah, depending on where where they're from,
Speaker 1: Sydney or you know, up in Queen's I'm probably not,
Speaker 1: but maybe the other ones would probably have heard of
Speaker 1: something if they're an AFL fan. They get onto this boat.
Speaker 1: As I walk up the stairs, this guy goes, oh,
Speaker 1: I just might welcome to the by I've traveled half
Speaker 1: a world awide to get away from football. What about not.
Speaker 1: I've landed on a boat with a bunch of football
Speaker 1: people and there's these lovely people from w I They're
Speaker 1: very very nice, a few Collingwood fans, which is ironic
Speaker 1: being half a world awide, but they're absolutely legends of
Speaker 1: the Nazist people and a bit of a story. The
Speaker 1: first night, one of the guys comes up to me
Speaker 1: He goes, can you give me a favor? I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you need? He goes, well, six of us
Speaker 1: played local you know, footy as kids, and I brought
Speaker 1: jerseys of our local football club. I said, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's kind of eq and interesting is will you do
Speaker 1: a jersey presentation on the boat for the first night.
Speaker 1: Not only have I rocked up to a boat full
Speaker 1: of Australians, I am doing a jersey presentation on the
Speaker 1: first night of this cruise, which is something I don't
Speaker 1: think I could have fathomed whenever I told myself I'm
Speaker 1: going on a Croatian tour, on a cruise for a
Speaker 1: whole week. And it has been lovely. They've been amazing people.
Speaker 1: But it was hilarious and they are enjoying a drink.
Speaker 1: They're all from w A. They're hoot as we would
Speaker 1: call them back in America. But you wouldn't believe it. Brighton,
Speaker 1: I've landed myself on a footy boat in the middle
Speaker 1: of Croatia, half world away from where footy exists.
Speaker 3: W A to out of everyone that it could have made.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't say it. I didn't say oh my god.
Speaker 2: That reminded me of I think Pendules said that he
Speaker 2: went all the way to Greece once and he went
Speaker 2: out onto his balcony just to set it up. I
Speaker 2: think it might have been way back in the day,
Speaker 2: like we're talking twenty ten, and he walked out there
Speaker 2: and someone was watching the replay of the Grand Final
Speaker 2: on a phone next door.
Speaker 3: You could hear it. You can't, you just can't escape anyway.
Speaker 2: This is why I want to jump into some of
Speaker 2: these because obviously we'll get more into the rest of
Speaker 2: your trip going on, but I want to just bring
Speaker 2: up some things that can happen because sometimes sometimes you think,
Speaker 2: you know, rational thoughts, I should be fine to do this,
Speaker 2: and that I should be fine to go on that
Speaker 2: elephant ride. I should be fine to you know, getting
Speaker 2: the jacuzi on the roof. Should like you're going through
Speaker 2: you're doing a lot. Well, you're not through Asia, but
Speaker 2: you're through Europe. You know the gondola, right, just be careful,
Speaker 2: you know, they could they can come out of anywhere.
Speaker 2: And I just want to give you some of the
Speaker 2: weirder and whackier one. So obviously we'll start pretty light
Speaker 2: and you probably know this one because it was well
Speaker 2: within your time. But Max King, you know, in his
Speaker 2: second season he was playing a round of golf and
Speaker 2: got hit by a stray golf ball and now that
Speaker 2: can cussed him and he had to miss two weeks
Speaker 2: from concussion. So just when you're like, oh, maybe we'll
Speaker 2: just go have a nice chill round of golf, your
Speaker 2: head on a swivel, mate, because anything can happen.
Speaker 3: Helmet, We're a helmet now.
Speaker 2: Good seguees because a former teammate of yours, Jaden Stevenson,
Speaker 2: loves a mountain bike ride now. He just finished He
Speaker 2: just finished his first season for the North Melbourne footy
Speaker 2: club back in twenty twenty one. Having a couple of
Speaker 2: drinks at home, he said, look at me do a
Speaker 2: fancy trick on my mountain bike and went tits up.
Speaker 2: I landed on a concrete pavi, resulting in an ambulance
Speaker 2: ride to the hospital with a fractured hip. So have
Speaker 2: you got any mountain bike rides planned for the trip?
Speaker 1: I am going to do a bike ride through a
Speaker 1: national park here in a couple of days, so I
Speaker 1: will take it on only paved roads. I will be
Speaker 1: very diligent in the way I go about it. I
Speaker 1: will make sure I don't do anything like you did.
Speaker 1: What do you do? You rupture your testicle? It?
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I just did something that's all together, no ruptures. I
Speaker 2: didn't rupture my what is it my blood vessels or whatever.
Speaker 1: Thing?
Speaker 2: And then but that was I was being a silly goose.
Speaker 2: I tried to do a trick like Jade and Stevenson.
Speaker 2: And that's when when your ability and your confidence like
Speaker 2: don't align, that's when you get into trouble. So just
Speaker 2: you're not as good as you think you are. Just
Speaker 2: pull it back a stretch. Now we know Jeremy, how
Speaker 2: right your teammate, very talented individual, and will take him
Speaker 2: on his word for this one, because obviously he broke
Speaker 2: his finger with an incident with his dog and a
Speaker 2: frisbee and it definitely didn't happen in the T twenty
Speaker 2: clash in Melbourne's eastern suburbs where he also played a game,
Speaker 2: but that was just coincidence because it was a frisbee
Speaker 2: and his dog. Now, I also stumbled across one where
Speaker 2: Jeremy got kicked out of the MCG for building a
Speaker 2: giant beer snake. So Jeremy likes to have a crack
Speaker 2: during the off season, So don't it. Just don't do
Speaker 2: what how he does?
Speaker 3: Is that? I think that's a good motto.
Speaker 1: Well, how he also just released that he's having a
Speaker 1: second child, So don'll double down on that line and.
Speaker 3: Don't Yeah, don't do that. Way you're over.
Speaker 1: There, do that.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of avenues I can go down.
Speaker 1: With that forgot to his wife, but I'll try to
Speaker 1: stay away from it for the time.
Speaker 2: He congratulations and as always, wear a helmet. You were
Speaker 2: talking about with the bike riding, wear a helmet. Both
Speaker 2: both scenarios wear a helmet. Uh. Now we all know
Speaker 2: this one famous one cal Mills WrestleMania comes early postseason celebrations,
Speaker 2: bit of a wrestle dislocated the shoulder, torn rotator cuff
Speaker 2: in the left shoulder and was just that kind of
Speaker 2: ruled out.
Speaker 3: The start of his season.
Speaker 2: So named captain after that, which is great. I think
Speaker 2: maybe that was the that was the final whoever won
Speaker 2: that wrestler be a captain. But I don't know how
Speaker 2: you win with the torn rotator cuff. So when you're
Speaker 2: out there no wrestling, that's a pretty simple one.
Speaker 3: I reckon. You could probably stay away from that.
Speaker 1: That's good advice. Yeah, I'll try to stay wear a helmet. Helmet,
Speaker 1: don't don't do anything with dogs, is what I've learned
Speaker 1: over the off seasons. I think dogs lead to broken hands.
Speaker 2: Dogs are a big one. I don't even think you're
Speaker 2: pretty accident prone. You've had a lot of accidents over
Speaker 2: the time. I don't even think you could break your
Speaker 2: hand with the frisbee. But Jeremy how I did it. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we'll get off Jess Stevie J. Christmas drinks disaster. Now
Speaker 2: this is a pretty famous one. Three time Premiership a
Speaker 2: Norm Smith Metal a successful assistant coach. But way back
Speaker 2: December two thousand and three, Stevie J decided to jump
Speaker 2: the fence of a Torquy hotel to get back into
Speaker 2: the venue in the early hour. So already right there, right,
Speaker 2: you get kicked out, it's probably a good sign.
Speaker 3: To stay out. You're done.
Speaker 2: You're done, though, what you're not doing is climbing a fence,
Speaker 2: scale a fence and try to jump back into the
Speaker 2: venue and shatter both heels in the process.
Speaker 3: So poor, I feel that's a pretty that's a pretty
Speaker 3: fair one.
Speaker 2: Now we can all dabble in a bit of the
Speaker 2: alcohol from time to time, especially the athletes in the
Speaker 2: off season, and I know that you don't drink a
Speaker 2: lot during the season, so it can go straight to you.
Speaker 3: So maybe just if you get kicked out, stay in.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of one of my favorite stories of
Speaker 1: when of our first came to Australia and Jack Reewald,
Speaker 1: who was obviously playing at Richmond at the time. One
Speaker 1: of my first impressions of the Richmond Football Club was
Speaker 1: the media was outside because he had said something about
Speaker 1: Demma and the media cameras were all over the place.
Speaker 1: I'm upstairs doing a psychology assessment and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I see this human in a dead strength across Richmond's
Speaker 1: field hops a fence, gets over to the train station
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there looking at these reporters chasing on them,
Speaker 1: and I'm going, who is that? And the guy kind
Speaker 1: of like embarrassingly says, yeah, he's kind of one of
Speaker 1: our best players. He's running away from the media decided
Speaker 1: to take the trade home to the day. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this AFL thing is real. Just anything goes That.
Speaker 2: Was very I was actually there for that one, so
Speaker 2: that was it was interesting the run to the train
Speaker 2: station chasing after Jack. He you know, he's smartened up
Speaker 2: since then. Immatured up, so that was good to see.
Speaker 2: We can not that he was a mistake, but we
Speaker 2: do learn from these things and we.
Speaker 3: Do grow as people.
Speaker 2: Now there was a famous one. This is probably more
Speaker 2: when you get back. But I never know what they
Speaker 2: do on these Kentiky tours, these Kentiquy to not that
Speaker 2: you're on one of those, but they make you do
Speaker 2: all kinds of dumb bonding shit over there. And one
Speaker 2: of them, if they say, mace, we can motivate you
Speaker 2: to endure any type of pain because we can get
Speaker 2: you so in the zone you can just switch your
Speaker 2: mind off, and that's what they did. Nigel Smart in
Speaker 2: Adelaide where a bunch of Adelaide players for the preseason
Speaker 2: were convinced to walk over boiling hot coals and they
Speaker 2: all kind of melted to their feet and then they
Speaker 2: all got pretty severe burns. So that's something that I
Speaker 2: wouldn't suggest you do.
Speaker 1: You I Lay football club, not great history.
Speaker 2: Not great at the preseason camp, it's very safe to say,
Speaker 2: have you ever got talked into doing some dumb bonding
Speaker 2: ship on any of these these trips you've been on.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people we did the the
Speaker 2: you have to you take the shot without using your mouth,
Speaker 2: and then you spit out the shot, and then you've
Speaker 2: got to kiss the person next to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no I didn't. I haven't done that one.
Speaker 3: You're leaking.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: For those listening to the audio only version, that's the
Speaker 2: QUSI that's not Mason just kissing himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good. I've done any of those bonding yet.
Speaker 1: I think I've jumped off a few cliffs and stuff
Speaker 1: over my times just to kind of, you know, be
Speaker 1: part of the group. But I don't think I'll be
Speaker 1: doing that. And it's yeah, it's a I think the
Speaker 1: group I'm with right now. I've been told that the
Speaker 1: average age for this cruise is forty five plus, so
Speaker 1: I don't think that's probably a longer line than one
Speaker 1: of a lot of people on here. I think I'm
Speaker 1: actually okay with it. You know, I'm here just to
Speaker 1: have a good, lacking time, and I don't need to
Speaker 1: be doing shots and kissing people that left right at me,
Speaker 1: like you brighton. Yeah, that's just not my future.
Speaker 2: You gotta get over there. You've got to experiment whoever's
Speaker 2: next year, just have a crack.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I do want to get to this one because very
Speaker 2: interesting backyard blitz leaves Red Otton's stuck. A bit of
Speaker 2: a backyard diy went horribly wrong for the Richmond Forward
Speaker 2: after the two thousand and two season. The number two
Speaker 2: draft pick from nineteen ninety seven fell from a tree
Speaker 2: while trying to hang an outdoor swinging chair and landed
Speaker 2: on what he described as a broomstick sized garden steak,
Speaker 2: which got stuck in his thigh nikes.
Speaker 1: That's oh, that just sounds rough. And then also kind
Speaker 1: of explaining that story to the club. I would have
Speaker 1: loved to have just been on that phone call of
Speaker 1: just trying to explain what the hell just happened. And
Speaker 1: you have to have to believe them because it's such
Speaker 1: a detailed event, Like you can't sit there and say
Speaker 1: that that's like that's a wild story, just to makeup
Speaker 1: to say that's not even true. So credit to him,
Speaker 1: I guess, but I don't know. I almost would probably
Speaker 1: make up a fake story to be able to come
Speaker 1: to this point.
Speaker 2: It's very it's an innocent thing, like a like a
Speaker 2: hanging rope swing from a tree, so I get where
Speaker 2: they're coming from. A couple of these are very creative.
Speaker 2: Now we've got the frisbee, we got the rope swing.
Speaker 2: Now what about another. There's a lot of Collingwood former
Speaker 2: He's not a former teammate, but former Collingwood player Shared
Speaker 2: Wellingham's trampoline shocker.
Speaker 3: Now, isn't that a headline?
Speaker 2: West Coast gave up the first round pick for Shared
Speaker 2: Wellingham at the end of twenty twelve, but the former
Speaker 2: Magpie took longer than expected to debut for his new
Speaker 2: club after suffering ankle cindusmoses late in preseason in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2: Wellington Wellingham thought he broke his leg after falling from
Speaker 2: a trampoline.
Speaker 1: True ideal, that's for sure. And I think I've done
Speaker 1: a bounce. We've been to Ponzi Castle, kind of thing
Speaker 1: for adults to bounced my knee and one of those
Speaker 1: coffee a month or two of a pre season, so
Speaker 1: I think just staying away from general plays ago, I
Speaker 1: would say Bran, Yeah, he was one of the first
Speaker 1: people I think I'd seen actually play football. So it's
Speaker 1: interesting that a bit of backstory of all no, no,
Speaker 1: exactly how much risk he's going to season, but stay
Speaker 1: away from trampolines in general, because as a kid, go ahead.
Speaker 2: As an adult, now, yeah, I think tall people in general,
Speaker 2: tall people trampolaines don't go hand in hand.
Speaker 3: That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2: Now, I do want to give an honorable mention to
Speaker 2: Brian Lake, who spent a week in a Japanese jail cell.
Speaker 2: He went over to play a nice innocent game for
Speaker 2: the AFL Asia tournament, but he had an altercation with
Speaker 2: the local man.
Speaker 3: So stay out of jail.
Speaker 2: Japanese people they don't stuff around, so don't don't mess
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: Lucky, you're not.
Speaker 1: Going to make sure everyone stays out of is the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I think. But give us one more.
Speaker 2: The Western Bulldogs first pick in the two thousand and
Speaker 2: seven AFL Draft was stung on the back of a
Speaker 2: leg by a sting ray during a recovery session at
Speaker 2: the Beach in February two thousand and eight. Now that's
Speaker 2: very rough, especially because he grew up playing for the
Speaker 2: Danding Long Stingrays. They think they would have had one
Speaker 2: of their own in the back of their mind, but
Speaker 2: just be very careful over there.
Speaker 3: This is the last thing I will say.
Speaker 2: Don't go messing with any stingrays, any creatures in the water,
Speaker 2: I reckon, maybe just stay out of the water. No sharks.
Speaker 2: We're wearing a helmet in the in the bike department.
Speaker 2: Are you rock climbing, mountain climbing? Are we doing any
Speaker 2: you snorkeling? Because we've already said stay out of the water,
Speaker 2: are we doing anything? Tell us what the rest of
Speaker 2: your trip is from here on out, and we can
Speaker 2: just give it a bit of a grading on where
Speaker 2: you should be careful and how you should be able
Speaker 2: to get through this. We've got to navigate your way
Speaker 2: through this, mate.
Speaker 1: We've got another boat for five six days like after that,
Speaker 1: and we're going to hike thro the Domonds. I will
Speaker 1: wear that helmet then, and then it will spend a
Speaker 1: month in after that's four of a cl which is
Speaker 1: music festival, and then we'll do the U S a FL,
Speaker 1: do some stuff over there with AFL what should be
Speaker 1: good fine, and then the rest of it's a bit
Speaker 1: up for debates. So I will keep the helmet in
Speaker 1: mind whenever doing biking or whatever kind of be able
Speaker 1: to use that, I guess. But the biggest thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll try to stay away with the thing right is,
Speaker 1: don't like to steve her one stuff. I didn't get
Speaker 1: bit by a crab, was a torquy recently. That's the
Speaker 1: absolute but Jesus out of me, So I'll try to
Speaker 1: stay away from those the sea creatures. I think it's
Speaker 1: probably a good good advice for the off season.
Speaker 2: I like that I did hear a lot of don't
Speaker 2: get crabs, don't fall off a mountain, uh, don't. Just
Speaker 2: Texas in general, a lot of guns, a lot of
Speaker 2: heap of guns.
Speaker 3: So just gun. Just take yourself there.
Speaker 2: I don't know about going to music festivals or anything
Speaker 2: like that. We did hear about your shenanigans last time
Speaker 2: with your brother, so maybe we skip. Let's just bubble
Speaker 2: wrap it up. But it is good to see that
Speaker 2: you're currently still alive. It looks like it's getting a
Speaker 2: little windy on top of the boat there, which I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's coming from Melbourne, it's coming across
Speaker 2: the line, so I don't know, we're gonna have to
Speaker 2: wrap it up there, but yeah, it is good to
Speaker 2: see you. It's good to hear from your any words
Speaker 2: for our loving fans before your head.
Speaker 1: Off, massive, massive thank you for the year everyone. I
Speaker 1: hope you've joined it. We might release a few episodes
Speaker 1: of some hurricane here, released a few episodes of some
Speaker 1: of our favorite kind of interviews we've done over the
Speaker 1: next few weeks, but no massive thank you as always
Speaker 1: from the community, hopefully here. Yeah you're surviving down there
Speaker 1: in Melbourne, in the windy city, but yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: to everyone, and I'm going to go enjoy my holidays
Speaker 1: for the last a little bit. I can't wait for
Speaker 1: next year. It's gonna be good, fun.
Speaker 3: Too easy. We'll see you when you get back.
Speaker 1: Thanks Jia, We'll catch a later. Rob