Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to the Mason cock Show.
Speaker 1: Plenty going on now. To start off, Tasmania is getting
Speaker 1: a football team. Never thought I'd say that we've got
Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game. A huge flop. We've got
Speaker 1: life could be worse, could be. Seer's husband, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: will explain more, talk about superbikes, everything that's all happening.
Speaker 1: But first of all, let's get straight into it. This
Speaker 1: is the sporting segment on the Mason cock Show. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Brandon, Welcome, What a week in sport.
Speaker 1: It's happening.
Speaker 2: It's good that sport is finally starting to kick off,
Speaker 2: like I was getting bored there for a bit coming
Speaker 2: out of you know, the summer, and we're gonna get
Speaker 2: footy back up and up and running, and it's good
Speaker 2: to see that it has kicked off. And three weeks yeah,
Speaker 2: you're on the corner. Well before we jump into it,
Speaker 2: I saw you at the superbikes. Yes, well you're doing
Speaker 2: down there? Are you another fly in celebrity just to
Speaker 2: walk lane? And oh are you doing down there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean someone offered a helicopter ride pit lane experience
Speaker 1: and a few other things. Yeah, shout out to tisso
Speaker 1: she tran tast we need a sponsor, tess up, get
Speaker 1: around it. But now I was down there Philip Island.
Speaker 1: It was a bucket list atum. I always wanted to
Speaker 1: go down there. Check out the track down there. It's
Speaker 1: a massive, massive ordeal. So I got a helicopter ride beforehand,
Speaker 1: got to go across Phillip Island. But I must say
Speaker 1: one of the highlights, and this is not really sporting related,
Speaker 1: but saw the penguins. And by golly, the Philip Island penguins.
Speaker 1: They're a sight. I would hang crap on them like
Speaker 1: I do Tasmania. But I'm telling you totally changed, totally
Speaker 1: change once you actually go experience at firsthand.
Speaker 2: You got to get them on the bikes. Penguins on superbis.
Speaker 2: Now that's that's selling tickets. I just selling tickets, no doubt.
Speaker 2: But they are They are crazy to the box. They
Speaker 2: go over like three hundred kilometers an hour. These things
Speaker 2: are the f one on two wheels. It was so
Speaker 2: impressive to watch live the loudness of like the bikes.
Speaker 2: How I they scream past you and they go buying
Speaker 2: a flick of like a second it's just insane.
Speaker 1: It was really cool. If you haven't done it, highly
Speaker 1: recommend it. Awesome experience down there, And if you're a
Speaker 1: bike enthusiast, I'm sure it's one of those things that's
Speaker 1: going to be on your buck list for a long time.
Speaker 2: You ever ridden the motorbike, I don't them see the
Speaker 2: mechanics working very well.
Speaker 1: There was a time in Bali. Actually we don't like to,
Speaker 1: you know, go into it too much. But I was
Speaker 1: on the back of a Bali bike. I think my
Speaker 1: legs actually probably wrapped around the person in front of
Speaker 1: me because I had to do that just to be
Speaker 1: able to fit on the bike. But yeah, we don't
Speaker 1: we don't like to go into Bali. Bolli's a bit
Speaker 1: like Vegas of Australia, you know, like what happens in
Speaker 1: Bali stays in Bali.
Speaker 2: A pretty good record. I'm still here. I'm still here.
Speaker 1: I once fell off a scooter in Thailand and told
Speaker 1: the club I tripped and fell from a waterfall hike
Speaker 1: and I broke my hand. And I'm still sticking to
Speaker 1: a line until now because I know my physio is
Speaker 1: listening to this going. I knew it.
Speaker 2: I think everyone at the Collingwood Football Club gets one
Speaker 2: extravagant excuse. It wasn't a dog, it wasn't frisbee, it
Speaker 2: wasn't cricket.
Speaker 1: It's fill in from a basketball stance. We have plenty
Speaker 1: of stories, no doubt, but yeah, let's get into it. Man.
Speaker 2: Well, well you can walk me through this one. Because
Speaker 2: I don't know much about the NBA. I can flick
Speaker 2: it on and have I like the Stars. I like
Speaker 2: the stars better than the games. But the NBA All
Speaker 2: Star Game I didn't even know what was on. Is
Speaker 2: that a sign of how big a flop this thing was?
Speaker 1: It was bad, like real bad. I go through the numbers.
Speaker 1: There's only four point six million viewers, which is down
Speaker 1: twenty seven percent from last year's All Star Game.
Speaker 2: How many people in the States, Oh.
Speaker 1: It's three hundred and thirty three million. Also, I don't
Speaker 1: like NBA being one of the biggest sports and like
Speaker 1: being one of the biggest like kind of you know,
Speaker 1: things that get together for an All Star Game. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, like the NFL is changing stuff. They
Speaker 1: did it. They're not doing the Pro Bowl anymore. They're
Speaker 1: doing different competitions from like Dodgeball and Greatest catch and
Speaker 1: all this random stuff, and now the NBA is now
Speaker 1: looking at doing something similar because people aren't people aren't
Speaker 1: tuning in. Like you might have the best stars in
Speaker 1: the whole league and not the best stars in the game,
Speaker 1: but whenever you're dropping like one hundred and eighty points
Speaker 1: to one hundred and seventy something, it just doesn't there's
Speaker 1: no defense. It's like this is just essentially a dunk
Speaker 1: contest and a game form.
Speaker 2: Now I want to get into this because everyone always
Speaker 2: brings up the same old point as we got to
Speaker 2: bring State origin back and all that crap.
Speaker 1: It won't work.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't work. There's not enough passion in the rivalry.
Speaker 2: And now that's my point. Every player in the AFL
Speaker 2: is friends with the other team as soon as the
Speaker 2: siren goes, Hey, buddy, how's your family, how's the kids. Oh,
Speaker 2: we got stocks together, we've got a business together. We
Speaker 2: sell watches and sonnies and all this kind of junk.
Speaker 2: I want to see rivalries and passion in the game.
Speaker 2: And if you're like complaining about not making enough money
Speaker 2: and not enough percentage, I don't care if it's fabricated,
Speaker 2: but I want to see more rivalry in the game
Speaker 2: talking about each other. And I've figured out the way
Speaker 2: around it. There's a loophole that you can get around
Speaker 2: because obviously you can't go and talk like you can't
Speaker 2: walk up to Maxicon after the game and like start
Speaker 2: shit or something because you like the bloke. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: but you can hate the team him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's easy for Mason Cox to hate Carlton. As
Speaker 2: an example, it's a like a rivalry. You just say,
Speaker 2: like just a little snipe, Oh, their facilities aren't as
Speaker 2: good as ours, or something like something like no duck,
Speaker 2: no dinner exactly, no duck, no dinner, Like just some
Speaker 2: little thing where you just talk shit. You could tear
Speaker 2: Richmond to shreds. You could just bring up that every time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, remember that time I took X amount of
Speaker 2: contestant marks and down here killed the four peete. Just
Speaker 2: talk shit about the team and not the individuals, because
Speaker 2: it will be a bit, you know, put on if
Speaker 2: you talk shit about the individuals, but the team I
Speaker 2: think is fair game. And then as soon as Mason
Speaker 2: Cox talks about Richmond, you circle it in the calendar
Speaker 2: round whatever that game's coming up. It sells more tickets.
Speaker 2: Gets more people in the door, generates more revenue, more revenue,
Speaker 2: more money in your pocket.
Speaker 1: You know what happens whenever someone talks bad about a
Speaker 1: team like that, that makes a team review, That makes
Speaker 1: a team review, and that amps up the team. Somember
Speaker 1: they were like, oh duck, no dinner. That made our
Speaker 1: preview for that round of that game against Melbourne. And you're, look,
Speaker 1: I'm all for rivalries. I'm all for it. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be the guy saying that stuff. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you up Bradon. But I think there is I think
Speaker 1: the AFL has gotten to the point where they don't
Speaker 1: want it to see and as like a rough kind
Speaker 1: of like rugged, redneck kind of sport. You know, they
Speaker 1: wanted to have a bit of more class, Like there's
Speaker 1: no real fighting anymore. You know, you're going to stand
Speaker 1: the mark. You can't really syke people out, like they're
Speaker 1: kind of going a bit more conservative. Where yes, I
Speaker 1: am in the same boat. I'm in the same boat, man.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to see the scuffle. I want
Speaker 1: to see people just you know, crack onto each other
Speaker 1: and just have a little bit of hate, you know,
Speaker 1: like just rip blokes off. I want to see some
Speaker 1: rip jumpers, like let's actually just get into it, like
Speaker 1: let's bring the jumper like jumper punch back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's going to be a bit more action.
Speaker 2: Like the game's in a great spot from a you know,
Speaker 2: scoring perspective. The scores are up a little bit year
Speaker 2: on year finally and everything's nice. Yeah, there's just it's
Speaker 2: it's missing something. For an example is Essendon Hawthorne I
Speaker 2: think are playing Round one and like the line in
Speaker 2: the sand game and all of that stuff, they used
Speaker 2: to rip each other's heads off. Now if they both
Speaker 2: come out and they're like, good job, guys, way to go.
Speaker 2: That was great, Like well played, we lost, We'll get
Speaker 2: to next time. That just doesn't do it for me.
Speaker 2: And that's what's going to be. You can't do that
Speaker 2: in the State of Origin. I just don't think that
Speaker 2: we could ever get that passion back and it'll be manufactured,
Speaker 2: but bring it back week to week, get everything just
Speaker 2: going again.
Speaker 1: He is hyped for Aunt one. You just want the
Speaker 1: most hype possible to get into this thing. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: off for I think there's definitely hatred between like fans.
Speaker 1: I think fans genuinely hate each other like whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to you know, supporters for certain certain bases. But
Speaker 1: the players now, because a lot of them like play
Speaker 1: growing up and stuff, they're all mates. Like a lot
Speaker 1: of the guys have played together at some point. There's
Speaker 1: not really a lot of hatred between players. And we're
Speaker 1: going to one man that is possible to hate later,
Speaker 1: Ben Brown, which is one of the most lovely humans ever,
Speaker 1: but lovely. I do agree. There is room for us
Speaker 1: to have a bit this sounds terrible, room for us
Speaker 1: to have a bit more hatred in the league.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I know I've got this. I already I've
Speaker 2: marked it down. They're a bit irrelevant. But you and
Speaker 2: North Melbourne, you've already talked that much. Ship not talked
Speaker 2: any about I'm going to cut up to be like
Speaker 2: Mason Cox hates North Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Great to Clarkson, be like, did you know on the
Speaker 1: Mason Cock.
Speaker 2: Show Clarko doesn't even know what team he is coaching.
Speaker 2: Did you need that video come out?
Speaker 1: Also? North Melbourne just thrown them under the bus like
Speaker 1: that rough rough gig.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, Yeah, just make something worse.
Speaker 1: But it was probably the biggest most media they got
Speaker 1: all year.
Speaker 2: There see this is what that's going in the hype.
Speaker 2: Real are you?
Speaker 1: You're gonna Tazzy sooner we are Wednesday, we're headed south
Speaker 1: south of the border.
Speaker 2: Well six of them are going to be the airport.
Speaker 1: It's gonna it's gonna be a ruthless craft the and
Speaker 1: Tasmania lessons, Sirst. They probably don't love me too much,
Speaker 1: but I do. We love to do live tais Mania here.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful place, but we do pockp on it
Speaker 1: like just the rest of mainland Australia.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: Do we want to get into this now? We'll push
Speaker 2: it forward a little bit. While we're talking about Tazzy.
Speaker 2: They're going to get a club, Well, it's looking like
Speaker 2: they're going to get a team. It's it's on the villain,
Speaker 2: it's right on the precipice. So they're all just kind
Speaker 2: of figuring out, justling to figure out who's going to
Speaker 2: pay for what. So it's the AFL, the state government
Speaker 2: and the federal government. So the state's chipped in what
Speaker 2: are they chipped in three hundred and seventy five million,
Speaker 2: The AFLs chipped in three hundred and sixty million, and
Speaker 2: they want two hundred and forty million from the federal
Speaker 2: government and that's to go into everything. But the most
Speaker 2: important thing is the stadium being built in Hobart at
Speaker 2: Macquarie Point. So it looks the most likely there's ever
Speaker 2: Look that Tazzy's going to get a team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen teams just not a great That doesn't sound clean,
Speaker 1: does it. We have nineteen teams in the AFL.
Speaker 2: So he's just about to get a new team, and
Speaker 2: you're already taken the shine off him.
Speaker 1: You're already thinking a team. I'll actually finish that and
Speaker 1: thing to think of that one. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: that stadium they build, I hope it has a roof. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're playing in June down in Tasmania and Hilbart. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. I hope the AC and the heater's pumping
Speaker 1: in that joint. Oh my gosh, he's over by the MCG.
Speaker 1: You need to get a roof. I think this becomes
Speaker 1: a priority all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: Now I think it'll be one up there with one
Speaker 2: of the best crowds in footy. Like it might be
Speaker 2: a bit smaller, like they might build this like boutique
Speaker 2: stadium overlooking the harbor or whatever, so it'll look nice.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like if it doesn't have a roof, like
Speaker 2: you're getting the weather, the wind, the rain. It'll be
Speaker 2: a real home ground advantage that everywhere. It doesn't take
Speaker 2: long to get around Tazzy. It's a pretty small place,
Speaker 2: so the crowds will turn out. They'll be as passionate
Speaker 2: as ever. They get their own team. It's not you know,
Speaker 2: you get the share in North Melbourne or Gold Coast
Speaker 2: or Hawthorne or whoever. It's their own team. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm super pumped for it, and I can definitely see
Speaker 2: myself going down there for a game or two, suck
Speaker 2: on a bit of wine, laying in front of the
Speaker 2: fire on the what the like the beskin rug?
Speaker 1: Oh god, just wearing a pair of No, I don't
Speaker 1: need this picture in my head right now. And Bradon
Speaker 1: it is. You'll be there. We'll recording Wednesday. Wednesday, maybe
Speaker 1: we hey, maybe we go for the launch. I want
Speaker 1: to know what they're going to call this team too,
Speaker 1: because they I mean, they went strong with the NBL team,
Speaker 1: the jack Jumpers, which I was I still question. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what that is today.
Speaker 2: You've got to go with the Tazzy Devils. It's it's
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 1: And shout out to the North Texas Tazzy Devils, which
Speaker 1: is a USAFL team, because I know they call the
Speaker 1: Tazzy Devils that's one hundred percent or the Tazzy Tigers,
Speaker 1: but the Tigers are already taken, so I think.
Speaker 2: It'll just leapfrog into that's top off the top of
Speaker 2: my head, that's got to be top four mascot. I'll
Speaker 2: put it out there, Tazzy Devil, the Tazzy Devil. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's sick. That'd be so good. They always, you know,
Speaker 2: tie themselves into the green color. Green look pretty gross.
Speaker 1: But the green is like I mean, it's very nature rich,
Speaker 1: so it kind of makes sense. But also like grown,
Speaker 1: no one else has green, so that's very much them.
Speaker 1: It's on brand. They can make it their own.
Speaker 2: I've always thought that there must be some reason why
Speaker 2: they don't have green, whether it clashes with the grass
Speaker 2: on the broadcast angle or something. But you think the
Speaker 2: only team that ever had some kind of green in
Speaker 2: it from you know, off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: is Freer in their three color and which looked awesome.
Speaker 1: I actually like one thing. I know you say, that's
Speaker 1: that the green thing. So there's a team called Boise State, right,
Speaker 1: and they're bright Blue, and what they've done is they've
Speaker 1: painted their their football field in the US bright blue.
Speaker 1: So they have like this.
Speaker 2: Discussion.
Speaker 1: They kick it off and one guy's laying down. He
Speaker 1: literally just camouflages into the ground and it's like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like everyone's on one side thinking one
Speaker 1: guy's gonna get it, and he just always and turns
Speaker 1: around and chunks it the other way. And the guy
Speaker 1: jumps off the ground out of this camouflage little hole
Speaker 1: and then catches the one runs into the end zone.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if he can pull that off, maybe
Speaker 1: for the Green imagine that.
Speaker 2: Already thinking tactics that team. But talking about that, the
Speaker 2: XFL has started.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're a massive XFL cooking, it's
Speaker 2: basically all they've got. From what I can see is
Speaker 2: the rock is is obviously the owner. He bought it
Speaker 2: off Vince McMahon. So you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: history around the XFL, and it's been around for a
Speaker 2: lot longer than probably people know, at least in Australia.
Speaker 2: But how would you explain this league for someone that
Speaker 2: doesn't really know what it is.
Speaker 1: It's like a essentially a bunch of celebrities and just
Speaker 1: people wanted to like have an NFL in the off
Speaker 1: season of NFL. Right, So there's no like NFL just
Speaker 1: has one tier. It's the NFL. There's not really like
Speaker 1: there was a Canadian Football league for a long time,
Speaker 1: but now they still want like an American affiliate. So
Speaker 1: it's the twos of the NFL. And there's no because
Speaker 1: you go from college and then like there's only a
Speaker 1: small percentage that makes it to the NFL. So what
Speaker 1: do all these you know, other people do. There's like
Speaker 1: over fifty people on a team, so this gives an
Speaker 1: opportunity for those people to play. Now, I think we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, was like these are being played
Speaker 1: in stadiums that are not meant to be football stadiums. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they are like soccer fields where the end zone
Speaker 1: is concrete, like wall past the end zone, like there's
Speaker 1: not much space beyond it, and they're running on a
Speaker 1: tight budget. Let's just say that they're just picking out
Speaker 1: any like stadium they can hold maybe ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand people save a bit of cash on the way
Speaker 1: in sell as mini beers as possible and try to
Speaker 1: make as much money.
Speaker 2: I mean, it makes sense. I did see one clip
Speaker 2: a bloke's looking over his shoulder kind of running back
Speaker 2: with the flight as quick as he can, but the
Speaker 2: wall is flush up against the end zone and just
Speaker 2: run straight into the wall. You could just hear the CTA.
Speaker 2: You could hear his brain just mashing around in his skull.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's not back with the flight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's very unique because I mean there were
Speaker 2: some AFL games that were played back in the eighties
Speaker 2: and like early mid nineties of like the AFL would
Speaker 2: go over and play in like Miami and stuff. I
Speaker 2: think there was a Collingwood game where they're playing in
Speaker 2: Miami on a dirt baseball pitch and it's this weird
Speaker 2: shape and there's not really like the goals aren't really
Speaker 2: in a line, and they're like it's only a couple
Speaker 2: of kicks from end to end and stuff. Yeah, I don't,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's it really reminded me of AFL X.
Speaker 2: When I first saw this thing, that the AFL was like, well,
Speaker 2: we got to be able to play anywhere, so opening
Speaker 2: it up to soccer stadiums and like pitches like that.
Speaker 1: Great idea, terrible execution, just terrible. That was a circus,
Speaker 1: hey all, big fan of the super duper goal, it was.
Speaker 2: It was literally a circus that that opening shot the promo.
Speaker 1: I will never if I ever get to interview Gill
Speaker 1: in this thing, and we don't. I did an interview recently.
Speaker 1: I said, Gill is the man I want to get
Speaker 1: on and I want to ask this question specifically of
Speaker 1: what was going through his mind when he took that
Speaker 1: photo with all the different circus people around him, Like
Speaker 1: is he going in his head I am sacking this
Speaker 1: marketing manager as soon as I get out of this place.
Speaker 2: It was like it was just an instant meme.
Speaker 1: I think it was like the most I felt so
Speaker 1: bad for him.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they were thinking. But another thing
Speaker 2: that came out of this, like another thought that I
Speaker 2: was that I had, was, you know, the rock is
Speaker 2: the owner, and that really brings a lot of shine
Speaker 2: and a lot of attention, a lot of media spotlight
Speaker 2: to the XFL that you know, even when Vince McMahon
Speaker 2: owned it, he didn't really come out. He's like he's old,
Speaker 2: he's like eighty. I was thinking it would be cool,
Speaker 2: hypothetically to have some kind of private ownership over NFL
Speaker 2: over AFL clubs. It would be really cool to you
Speaker 2: could really ramp stuff up because at the moment, like
Speaker 2: every club is kind of hamstrung by you know, the
Speaker 2: funding that they can receive from the AFL and things
Speaker 2: like that. You don't want to lose any ownership from
Speaker 2: the fans obviously, so it would have to be some
Speaker 2: kind of split that would be like fifty one percent
Speaker 2: owned by the fans, so they still had the final
Speaker 2: say on majority. But then if an owner came in,
Speaker 2: they would still be able to shake things up and
Speaker 2: earn money back because they've got to get some kind
Speaker 2: of return on their investment, don't you.
Speaker 1: Okay, I do, And it's it's it's wild to think that,
Speaker 1: like the AFL is hamstrung you said, quote unquote on finances,
Speaker 1: but has three hundred and sixty million dollars to throw
Speaker 1: down in Tasmania. But yeah, it's an investment. Three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty meals a lot. But anyway, it's I would
Speaker 1: like that. I think it'd be cool, Like you still
Speaker 1: have fans own a majority at least fifty one percent, right,
Speaker 1: and then you have the option for other people to
Speaker 1: buy out and like be part of it. So the
Speaker 1: only thing that we really have is like a number
Speaker 1: one ticket holder, which kind of like changes depending on
Speaker 1: the team and like every year, and that's like a
Speaker 1: way for them to kind of get media around the
Speaker 1: team and stuff like that. But if there was someone
Speaker 1: or like let's say someone owns a business and they're
Speaker 1: like very you know, affluent, whatever it is, they can
Speaker 1: have like a part ownership of a team, Right, I
Speaker 1: think that would be kind of cool to find a
Speaker 1: way to bring more finances into the AFL beyond just memberships,
Speaker 1: but still have the idea of members owned clubs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the fifty one percent share it more is
Speaker 1: like the best way to do.
Speaker 2: It because it is something unique to the AFL that
Speaker 2: the fans own the club. But at the yeah, at
Speaker 2: the same time, and people might think, you know, it'll
Speaker 2: skew the competition even more, that the stronger teams will
Speaker 2: only get stronger, blah blah blah. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: you know, if there's Chris Hemsworth massive Doggies fan wants
Speaker 2: to buy it, invests into the dogs. He could lift
Speaker 2: them up past what they'll, yeah, will to achieve, because
Speaker 2: there's there are just smaller clubs that have been you know,
Speaker 2: grinding away for a long time that just have a
Speaker 2: ceiling on what they can kind of achieve financially, and
Speaker 2: I could see them breakthrough stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think there's probably some American billionaire and be like,
Speaker 1: I love to have a part ownership and the Kangaroos
Speaker 1: of Australia like that. I mean, just saying that to
Speaker 1: Americans makes them kind of laugh. I think it would
Speaker 1: just be like a hilarious thing on the side that
Speaker 1: people would just love to be invested in and be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: every year I go down to Melbourne, I go watch
Speaker 1: my bloody kangaroos play against the Tazzy Devils and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a great time and it's kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: you think of was it Ryan Reynolds as by Wrexham
Speaker 1: United and is like invested in that and like that's
Speaker 1: gone really well and Wrexham has gone through the roof
Speaker 1: with funding because they have someone like a celebrity like
Speaker 1: that on board who is willing to invest and willing
Speaker 1: to bring attention to it. And now that I've got
Speaker 1: major responsors like TikTok and stuff, they are a part
Speaker 1: of it. And now he's part of this Disney channel
Speaker 1: or sorry Disney. He sponsored like show that goes with it,
Speaker 1: and Wrexham's going really well, and it's like there is
Speaker 1: like proof in the pudding that's already out there that
Speaker 1: this can be a possibility to actually go forward and
Speaker 1: be successful one percent.
Speaker 2: If I was investing, if I was an overseas investor
Speaker 2: Gold Coast, oh.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, damon, Damon, just throw a cash and there got.
Speaker 2: A lot of upside. I go visit my team in
Speaker 2: the sunny, twenty six degree dry weather, go for a surf,
Speaker 2: stay in the penthouse, go watch my beloved son's run
Speaker 2: out on metro Con Stadium, probably by the stadium too.
Speaker 2: That is a good one. People will shut it down
Speaker 2: straight away, I reckon, Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: People will shut it down. But we said the fifty
Speaker 1: one percent, which was still giving ownership to you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, I definitely love it. I love that idea.
Speaker 1: We'll move on and we mentioned this briefly before. Now
Speaker 1: we love the positive news of AFL and this week
Speaker 1: something awesome happening. I want to bring attention to it
Speaker 1: because it's one of my favorite stories of the already.
Speaker 1: And there's a very early early in the year. Now
Speaker 1: Ben Brown. We all know Ben Brown. He's one of
Speaker 1: the nicest, most loving humans. Moved over from North Melbourne
Speaker 1: over to the Melbourne Demons and he's just he's a
Speaker 1: character in the league for all the right reasons. And
Speaker 1: Hunterson agree. And he is known for his locks, his
Speaker 1: luscious little curly locks. You know that got him looking
Speaker 1: like who's the guy from the Simpsons Side show Bob.
Speaker 1: He's got only like side show Bob. I mean that
Speaker 1: the most loving way, Ben Brown, and he decided to
Speaker 1: cut him off an iconic look of his. He to
Speaker 1: cut off for an amazing, amazing charity called Challenge. It's
Speaker 1: a nonprofit organization. It supports families and children living with cancer.
Speaker 1: And his seventeen year old cousin, Grace, has beaten leukemia
Speaker 1: two times and he was doing it for her and
Speaker 1: he's raised over eighty thousand dollars And to be honest,
Speaker 1: I just want to give massive props to the man
Speaker 1: because he's an absolute legend. He's gone out and done
Speaker 1: this on his own bat He's gone and done something
Speaker 1: that's changes his image somewhat like he's a family man,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. And I think people are looking
Speaker 1: him probably differently on the field, going who's that guy
Speaker 1: running around without the hair on? Because it's so iconic
Speaker 1: to him. But it's awesome to see people like this
Speaker 1: do amazing things with their image and with their platform.
Speaker 1: Being an AFL player and a massive props to Ben Brown.
Speaker 1: If you want to donate, go to fundraise dot challenge
Speaker 1: org DIU over seven hundred and thirty donations already. It's
Speaker 1: awesome to see these kind of things. And I love
Speaker 1: whenever someone that's such an icon like Ben Brown just
Speaker 1: keeps being the person that everyone should be admiring.
Speaker 2: Role model gets thrown around a lot, but he is
Speaker 2: genuinely a great role model to you know, children, adults
Speaker 2: and everyone in between. He's raised eighty thousand dollars, which
Speaker 2: is absolutely insane, but he's still raising more money. So
Speaker 2: if you want to get around it, like Mace said,
Speaker 2: fundraise dot challenge dot org, dot au, jump on, donate
Speaker 2: whatever you can. It all goes to an amazing course.
Speaker 1: What a bloke, awesome guy. But we're going to move
Speaker 1: on to someone who hasn't had a great year. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest. And his name, I'm not gonna say name now,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna it's Sierra's husband. Now, if you know
Speaker 1: a little bit entertainment, Sierra's husband you might know. And
Speaker 1: for those sporting enthusiasts out there, I'm just gonna give
Speaker 1: a little quote, and that quote is let's right, let's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. The man Russell Wilson. He has had a
Speaker 1: help of a year. He's signed a mega deal with
Speaker 1: the Broncos last year and everyone hyped him up to
Speaker 1: be this big turning point for the club and everything else,
Speaker 1: and it has gone the total opposite way. He has
Speaker 1: struggled the whole year and it's been tough to watch.
Speaker 1: But it's gotten worse, Braden.
Speaker 2: It has actually gotten worse. So he has a foundation,
Speaker 2: The why Not You Foundation, has spent six hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars on charity, which is you know, it's nice, yeh,
Speaker 2: not bad. Well, it is kind of bad when you
Speaker 2: find out they've spent one point one million dollars on
Speaker 2: employee salaries in that same time. So it works out
Speaker 2: to about twenty one to twenty five cents per dollar's
Speaker 2: being donated and the rest is going straight in the
Speaker 2: old pocket.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, I'm talking about wanting to donate to good
Speaker 1: good causes. I think we maybe skipped this whole Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson thing and moved back to Ben Brown. Goly, that's
Speaker 1: not a good look as it. This guy just literally
Speaker 1: cannot I mean that's on his own bat. I mean
Speaker 1: that's his own fault. I feel like being the head
Speaker 1: of the charity in the face of it. But seriously,
Speaker 1: you can't be paying your employees more than you're actually
Speaker 1: paying to the charity that you're running.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think silver lining out of all this. He's
Speaker 2: been paid enough and his new Broncos deal the top
Speaker 2: that up.
Speaker 1: Fix that little accounting mistake pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get those numbers up. At least you can look
Speaker 2: good in the public's eye if you're not looking good
Speaker 2: in your teammates.
Speaker 1: Imagine this guy won the Walter Payton NFL Man of
Speaker 1: the Year award in twenty twenty and it's just gone
Speaker 1: absolutely shit out since then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a bit of a curse. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be some kind of Jinx on it.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel bad. I'm really starting to feel bad.
Speaker 1: But then you go back and if you ever have
Speaker 1: seen it, it's just cringed the whole.
Speaker 2: That's it's so bad. I was like, yeah, throughout the year,
Speaker 2: he just kept going with it, and it was like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to drop you, mate, because you've been two.
Speaker 1: Mates were making fun of them the year. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, so.
Speaker 2: Let's jump in to the practice game. Collingwood Premiership out
Speaker 2: the window. This year, it's all done. He lost by
Speaker 2: ten points against Carlton in the preseason game one silver
Speaker 2: lining from this situation. Dan McStay was Dan mcgrat.
Speaker 1: Oh, he was damn mcgood and great. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: He called it early. He kicked three goals, no one
Speaker 2: got injured. Pendle's gonna go forever.
Speaker 1: What was the quote? He was going to play for
Speaker 1: a few more years at least.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just at least, like if.
Speaker 1: He can do it's a fine wine, said, he's a
Speaker 1: fine wine.
Speaker 2: But then he eaks out a few more years. It's
Speaker 2: it's a failure. He's got a few more years left
Speaker 2: in him. So how did you find the match day?
Speaker 2: I didn't. I tuned in for bits and pieces. I
Speaker 2: saw Elliott Jamie take a take a hangar just warming
Speaker 2: up for the season.
Speaker 1: Got front row seat to that one. I was like, day, okay,
Speaker 1: so how was the game?
Speaker 2: Did you just take the foot off the gas in
Speaker 2: the last little bit then let them win to you know,
Speaker 2: get a little back from l after you knocked them out
Speaker 2: of finals, Going.
Speaker 1: Now, we don't ever take the foot off the gas.
Speaker 1: We did trial a few different things too, to get
Speaker 1: game styles and stuff like that. You know, it's what
Speaker 1: pre seasons are about. It's getting a few opportunities to
Speaker 1: trial some things against some new opposition, playing against new people. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we've been training against each other for like four or
Speaker 1: five months and seasons finished, so it's nice to have
Speaker 1: a bit of a different person and personnelity you go
Speaker 1: on against and be able to throw different things at you.
Speaker 1: So successful, No, we got injured. Everyone's happy at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. Yes, we would have liked to
Speaker 1: have won, but it's pre season. We'll kind of keep
Speaker 1: moving on. We had done in Tasmania soon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a good game. Can't compline. Everyone's happy And
Speaker 1: where'd you play? Primarily played a bit of rock and
Speaker 1: then played a little bit of forward, so Dos Cameron
Speaker 1: played three quarters and then Billy Frampton went into the rock.
Speaker 1: Very interesting, love Billy. I think we still figure out
Speaker 1: if you can get a shin guard shot the center bounces.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, it was good. I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: just it was a good day. And then had a
Speaker 1: little team dinner after and everyone just enjoyed a bit
Speaker 1: of pre season relaxation before the chaos kicks on.
Speaker 2: One last one about the actual game itself. Is there
Speaker 2: enough room for you up there amongst the Damn mcgreats
Speaker 2: and the my checks of the world.
Speaker 1: My Checks of the World didn't play over the weekend,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it.
Speaker 2: Was I'm not for Big Mace, the big fellas up here.
Speaker 2: Clear out, boys, clear clear the goal square, Dan McStay
Speaker 2: outside fifty, this is mine.
Speaker 1: Oh that's thirty. I'm like, probably still giving a hair
Speaker 1: ball received to be honest, No, it was. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting. The four lines got a lot of different
Speaker 1: talent going through there, so who knows what will happen,
Speaker 1: But now it's exciting to be have so many options.
Speaker 1: I think going into the season and as long as
Speaker 1: down we get to this next game will be hopefully
Speaker 1: sitting pretty with a pretty uninjured list.
Speaker 2: Knock on wood on ward. So you're heading to Tazzy gonna,
Speaker 2: Oh did you get this week off? Just to build
Speaker 2: that rivalry a bit a bit further. Ah, Nah, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna play I don't know, Tasmania. I'm gonna be interested
Speaker 2: to see how the crowd is over there. I've never
Speaker 2: we've never played in Tasmania. Like, we don't even play
Speaker 2: in Geelong, like it's like literally next door. So going
Speaker 2: to Tasmania is gonna be a unique experience for us.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's not too cold, probably super windy, knowing Tasmania,
Speaker 2: but yeah, we'll go down there. We'll play Hawthorne, which
Speaker 2: obviously attached to the Tasmania and I think Hawthorne probably
Speaker 2: like helped Tasmania and the you know, the drumming up
Speaker 2: of like the audience of wanting to get a Tasmanian team,
Speaker 2: and it's worked because now obviously, like we said, they're
Speaker 2: starting to get into it. So it it'll be a
Speaker 2: good little chat down there with them. Play Hawthorne and
Speaker 2: I've never really spent much time in Launceston, so we'll
Speaker 2: take advice on places to go.
Speaker 1: Go down and see the boats. But that's about it.
Speaker 1: I think think is there tulips down there in Launie.
Speaker 1: I think there's a tulip farm somewhere around there. I
Speaker 1: might go check out.
Speaker 2: You get the week off after that, right week off? Yeah,
Speaker 2: So what do you do? Do you stay down there?
Speaker 2: Do you spend the week traveling? Tazzy?
Speaker 1: I have travel Tazzy. I have spent some time in
Speaker 1: tay into one glass bay, one glass bed, done that
Speaker 1: Mount Amos. I love the place, fresh and a sure thanks.
Speaker 1: So I don't know we're probably portraing that. But Craidle
Speaker 1: Mountain should go to Cradle Mountain if you haven't been.
Speaker 1: A credit mounta beautiful spot. But I'm coming back here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do my birthday's March fourteenth, to get
Speaker 1: around it, pie day three point one.
Speaker 2: Four, my birthday seventh? Oh what's that? Next week?
Speaker 1: Next week we should probably start getting prepared for that.
Speaker 1: I'm going on a little golf trip. I'm going down morning.
Speaker 1: T're gonna do a little golf there and then take
Speaker 1: the ferry over the next day to do a bit
Speaker 1: of golf there and head backs. What are you doing
Speaker 1: for your birthday.
Speaker 2: I'm packing gear because I'm driving.
Speaker 1: Going to Newcastle to do some plug is going on
Speaker 1: a road trip.
Speaker 2: Here we got oh, it's the first big road trip
Speaker 2: for the van, so I gotta get it.
Speaker 1: Get it ready, change the oil.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna get its service because it hasn't had
Speaker 2: a service since I got it. So it's just hanging together.
Speaker 2: But no, I think that's it. I think that's it
Speaker 2: for sport.
Speaker 1: Look's it's what we're doing. We're doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of a quick hit of sport because we've obviously had
Speaker 1: entertainment coming up later in the week on Wednesday or Thursday,
Speaker 1: will release it and we are going to cut this
Speaker 1: up into two, so you know, you might be dropping
Speaker 1: to work right now and you're gonna go, man, thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm just pulling into the parking lot. How beautiful. This
Speaker 1: is perfectly timed. And that's what we're thinking. That's what
Speaker 1: we're going for here, and we're gonna give be a
Speaker 1: quick hit, a little bit of a water cooler chat
Speaker 1: version of sport to let you know whenever you get
Speaker 1: into the morning, what's happened over the weekend.
Speaker 2: And it was damn mcgood.
Speaker 1: It was damn mc great. All right, anyway, go have
Speaker 1: an amazing day of work, Go have an amazing day
Speaker 1: ahead of you, learn something new, and follow us on
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