Speaker 1: Hey, let's just welcome back to the Mason Cox Show.
Speaker 1: This is the Tiny Cox Epp. Yes, we're doing the
Speaker 1: preview for this round. We've got the big game, the
Speaker 1: Grand Final rematch Collingwood versus Brisbane. And also we take
Speaker 1: your fan questions. Yes, we're giving back to the community
Speaker 1: because you're the reason we are here and we love
Speaker 1: you so much. By This is gonna be an awesome episode,
Speaker 1: gonna be a quick one, so settle in and let's
Speaker 1: get into it. All right, Welcome. I like the idea
Speaker 1: of this a new name, the Tiny Cox Epp. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's really helping us out at all,
Speaker 1: but here we are. Brandon, Welcome to the pod.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Mace. We fumbled around a few names, Little Cox,
Speaker 2: small Cocks, tiny Cox, I reckon distribute.
Speaker 1: We don't use our last name enough. Now Cox one
Speaker 1: pods we get out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like two cocks, one pod, and we cram
Speaker 2: it in on this episode.
Speaker 1: It in, we'll go straight in to it. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about that the Grand Final rematches the end
Speaker 1: of this, but we're going to go into the first game,
Speaker 1: North Melbourne versus Carlton over there at Marvel Carlton's got
Speaker 1: a big drive ahead of them to get out there.
Speaker 2: It's the good Friday Appeal game, which is always good
Speaker 2: to see. They raise the money going into it and
Speaker 2: then normally they all roll into the Marvel Stadium and
Speaker 2: watch North Melbourne just get absolutely pump by whoever there
Speaker 2: vers and each year. But hopefully they can take it
Speaker 2: up to Carlton.
Speaker 1: They mean North Fall is going to make a little
Speaker 1: appearance up there.
Speaker 2: They've been competitive as far as this year goes so far,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. Carlton's its own beast. Hopefully the
Speaker 2: Carlton fans roll out to Marvel Stadium. I feel like
Speaker 2: they go.
Speaker 1: Wherever Carlton had it weak off and just feeling real
Speaker 1: refreshed going into a good Friday game. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a tough ask for North Melbourne, I must say.
Speaker 1: But you never know in this game. You just never
Speaker 1: know the ladder so even nowadays I think that Clark
Speaker 1: wrote the helm you know anything as possible.
Speaker 2: Well, the ladder means absolutely nothing because around zero we
Speaker 2: don't know who's where. Oh well we know where Collingwood
Speaker 2: and Brisbane are.
Speaker 1: But outside the two best teams get to win a game.
Speaker 2: We don't know where the rest are, but yeah, it'll
Speaker 2: be good to see. It's all as much as everyone says, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's good to see Carlton. Nothing about the big teams
Speaker 2: winning the games. It is true. It is true, and
Speaker 2: we like to see them out there showing up. And
Speaker 2: they would have been walking around the last two weeks
Speaker 2: with the big head wobbling down like on straight just
Speaker 2: you know, on.
Speaker 1: Streets gone over the last few weeks. But who do
Speaker 1: you got on this who're tipping is Yeah, I'll probably
Speaker 1: give it to I will go Carlton for both of us.
Speaker 1: Next time we gots free O versus Adelaide at Optus
Speaker 1: oval at worst.
Speaker 2: We've had some crappy tips.
Speaker 1: We've got real question marks around Free and free has
Speaker 1: essentially come to us and gone here. You can get stuffed, mate.
Speaker 2: And we said Adelaide was going to win at home
Speaker 2: against your Long last week, which they did not. So
Speaker 2: I don't know. I keep feeling like you've got to
Speaker 2: get on a team until they give you a reason
Speaker 2: to get off them. Now, we got Freo really potent
Speaker 2: forward line at the moment, and you know the Crows
Speaker 2: coming into the season, they were exciting up and coming team.
Speaker 2: Now we need to see a bit more of that.
Speaker 2: I think Nixy said at post game we need to
Speaker 2: just get back into that groove. Now. Can they get
Speaker 2: into the groove against Freo? I'm not sure because they're
Speaker 2: pretty good defensively, although they don't get out of the
Speaker 2: blocks quick. So you know, we might see Crows get
Speaker 2: out of the blocks and then we see the big
Speaker 2: Frio resurgence goals in last week, nine goals in a
Speaker 2: row last week, and they got that potal forward line.
Speaker 2: We get to see Luke Jackson again running out there.
Speaker 1: We got fifty four points in a row. I just
Speaker 1: did the math and I had fifty four points insane.
Speaker 1: That's actually a wild from Free metw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there was points kicked in between. Yeah. But
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ruin your quick math.
Speaker 1: No, No, I appreciate that. I'm still trying to get
Speaker 1: my sixers figured out. I know Australian's it's like natural
Speaker 1: to them, but that's so much for me. But I've
Speaker 1: got Freer winning at home versus Adelaide on this one.
Speaker 2: I've got to give it to Free. They're giving me
Speaker 2: no used to say otherwise, And I'm so happy for long.
Speaker 2: He got the extension going into the season and he's
Speaker 2: everyone Even when he signed the extension, everyone has given
Speaker 2: him shit.
Speaker 1: But look, Luke Jackson absolutely dominated again this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Actually that's my bog for the work.
Speaker 2: I don't want Sean Darcy to come in and ruin
Speaker 2: his vibe. Man, you know, I feel like you can
Speaker 2: play anywhere. He's an absolute jet. Let's jump over to
Speaker 2: the Essendon Saint Kilda game because there's a there's a
Speaker 2: lot of exciting, interesting games that are going to answer
Speaker 2: some questions this weekend, and I reckon this is one
Speaker 2: of them. Essenon versus Saint Kilda. Who's good? I feel
Speaker 2: like Saints are more proven with their consistent pressure. They
Speaker 2: did it all last year. Essendon, we didn't really know
Speaker 2: what we were going to get coming into the season.
Speaker 2: They've dished up some pretty good performances. Even the loss
Speaker 2: to Sydney by like thirty odd points last weekend, they
Speaker 2: were competitive and they were right in it and Sydney
Speaker 2: and Sydney is no you know, easy beat over there
Speaker 2: by any stretch of the imagination. So I can't give
Speaker 2: it to Essendon. I gotta say Saint Kilda, but it
Speaker 2: would be good to see a close competitive game.
Speaker 1: I will say between this and the next game we're
Speaker 1: gonna go into, these are the games that around I
Speaker 1: think St Kildof I've got them beating USENEM but I'll
Speaker 1: say it's within a goal reckon. It'll be a really
Speaker 1: close game this is which would be.
Speaker 2: A good result again for usen in there. Like I
Speaker 2: feel like the word we're getting out of Essendon is
Speaker 2: be patient. They've given themselves an eight year window where
Speaker 2: they can win a flag or whatever or be successful
Speaker 2: in eight years. But that might come next year, but
Speaker 2: it might come in eight years. So they've given themselves
Speaker 2: a long runway to your window.
Speaker 1: That is a massive runway. I know that's in airport's
Speaker 1: over there. It's got plenty they're putting in the new
Speaker 1: runway out there. Is that part of the plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they've given themselves a very long runway. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it's I don't know, are they in their window? They
Speaker 2: might win it this year, but yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: they're going to win this game. I'll give you to
Speaker 2: Saint Kildo. But if as someone can get this game,
Speaker 2: I think we'll have a lot better idea where they're
Speaker 2: at they're thereabout.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, I've god, Yeah, I've got Saint Killer
Speaker 1: win this one. We'll move to Port versus Melbourne at
Speaker 1: Adelaide Oval.
Speaker 2: This is very interesting because although you know they're two
Speaker 2: very good teams or so it would see them at
Speaker 2: the moment, I don't think we're going to get the
Speaker 2: best Melbourne going out.
Speaker 1: With a few arts from Melbourne. Y. Yeah, they go
Speaker 1: out and then leavers question mark. There's a few things
Speaker 1: going into the game. Maybe they're not as strong as
Speaker 1: they are whenever they're a hundred percent. Yeah, that's going
Speaker 1: to be a very very big question mark for him.
Speaker 1: Adelaide at Adelaide Oval not and easy feet. Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: got a massive crowd that shows up to every single
Speaker 1: one of the games. Yeah, it's gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: one to pick Melbourne over on this one. I think
Speaker 1: Port's probably going to get him on this one, and
Speaker 1: this is going to be one of those that you
Speaker 1: Melbourne maybe can afford to lose. I think at this stage,
Speaker 1: knowing the situation they're.
Speaker 2: In, want any Port fan, if we got any Port
Speaker 2: fans that to this podcast, give us a little pair
Speaker 2: in the chat or something, because I want to know
Speaker 2: if you're out there and if you exist. If I
Speaker 2: want to know who listens to this thing, if it's
Speaker 2: all Collingwood supporters, So if we've got to range, I
Speaker 2: know we do have a range. From our live show,
Speaker 2: we had a lot of people show up, Hawthorne supporters,
Speaker 2: which I didn't know many were out there, Essendon supporters
Speaker 2: and the like. But yeah, I want to see Port
Speaker 2: fans because we are big Ken Hinckley fans. I love
Speaker 2: and I think what Port did really really well over
Speaker 2: the off season is trade people in to fill specific roles.
Speaker 2: So it'll be cool to see if that's what it takes,
Speaker 2: just that little top up to get them over the line.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, if I have a feeling that they could
Speaker 2: go really deep this year.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Soldier too. Rockman over there absolutely killing
Speaker 1: that so yeah, I love seeing him doing his thing.
Speaker 1: Great man doing incredible things over there. So I think
Speaker 1: that's one one position they've been able to put someone
Speaker 1: in to make their team stronger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've got Port winning this one.
Speaker 1: To the next one. I got Western Bulldogs versus the
Speaker 1: West Coast Eagles at Marvel. That's it. And then the
Speaker 1: next game goes well.
Speaker 2: There is a question. There's a talking point out of
Speaker 2: this one because team selection has been a big talking
Speaker 2: point from the Bulldog since the opening round, because they
Speaker 2: have Riley Sanders, who's the young up and coming star.
Speaker 2: He got subbed out in his first game for Caleb
Speaker 2: Daniels who wasn't starting, who's also an absolute jet, and
Speaker 2: then they got McCrae playing in the VFL side, they
Speaker 2: got Lob just came out for Sam Darcy, so they're
Speaker 2: shifting a lot of magnets early in the season. Now,
Speaker 2: they did get the win over the Suns at Ballarat,
Speaker 2: but Lob kicked four I think in the VFL, and
Speaker 2: we've got McCrae who had forty seven touches ten clearances
Speaker 2: and he just tore them a new one at VFL level.
Speaker 2: So but I think this is just a contextual thing
Speaker 2: because we don't know the context why he was down there.
Speaker 2: Because he's always been a contested ball beast. He's always
Speaker 2: been able to get stoppage to stoppage and get a
Speaker 2: million touches. Is that why he's in the VFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's a question mark. It is
Speaker 1: a question mark. But with those kind of statistics, it'd
Speaker 1: be tough not to be playing him in the AFL,
Speaker 1: And if he's not playing the AFL, it'd be tough
Speaker 1: to say he's not going to be looking elsewhere. Yeah. True, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very true. And if you're getting numbers like that, there's
Speaker 1: definitely other teams that are looking at that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: his agent's working very hard.
Speaker 2: We reunite the McCrae brothers.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know, defend's getting a better run now
Speaker 1: for us. You never know what happened, but I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he'll he'll probably get the call up this
Speaker 1: week given those kind of numbers. Not to say that
Speaker 1: he's looking elsewhere by any means, but I think he's
Speaker 1: definitely improved himself and playing at a better level than AFL,
Speaker 1: or sorry, better level than VFL in the VFL, which
Speaker 1: usually ends up being an opportunity in the AFL.
Speaker 2: And they're going to need him to get over West
Speaker 2: Coast at Marvel Stadium though, mass.
Speaker 1: Who are you picking, I'm going to have to go
Speaker 1: West Coast Eagles to lose by time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I feel like this is we're just going
Speaker 2: to go back over the same conversations from last year.
Speaker 2: But where we talk about the evenness in the competition
Speaker 2: and the fixturing and all of these things, but just
Speaker 2: having one team that floats around the competition that is
Speaker 2: going to and get smashed week in week out and affect,
Speaker 2: you know, your percentage. If one team comes up against
Speaker 2: them twice and it's a massive percentage boost as opposed
Speaker 2: to teams that come up against West Coast once, it's
Speaker 2: going to skew the whole competition. It's not something that
Speaker 2: you want. So you want to see them get as
Speaker 2: competitive as possible, as quick as possible, but they still
Speaker 2: seem a fair way off it. And Oscar Allen injured injured, Yeah,
Speaker 2: knee injury out.
Speaker 1: Definitely, a top player goes down, You're like, fourth, cheez,
Speaker 1: not again. We can't have this happening, can we.
Speaker 2: They've had an absolute horror run with injuries and to
Speaker 2: all their stars, it's always their starts.
Speaker 1: We'll kids try to. We'll be on Reid Watch Hardly
Speaker 1: Read Watch where I was on that every single week
Speaker 1: and we're helping. Hegoes really well. And obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on them being a number one draft pick,
Speaker 1: but we got we're on his side, you know, we
Speaker 1: hope he's He's doing incredible things over there, so we'll
Speaker 1: keep out an eye out for him, and how he goes,
Speaker 1: we'll move into the next game. Richmond versus Sydney at
Speaker 1: the MCG. Now, Sydney has been able to prove themselves
Speaker 1: at the MCG this year now a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks and previous years whether or not they play better
Speaker 1: at you know, a player all right at the MCG,
Speaker 1: if they can hold up, yeah, you get very different
Speaker 1: ground size. And so far by the the opportunities they've
Speaker 1: had at the MCG, they made the most of them.
Speaker 1: So who do you got in this one Richmond versus Sydney.
Speaker 2: I've got Sydney just tearing through this year. I don't
Speaker 2: want to say they're going to win the flag. It's
Speaker 2: obviously early in the season. The scary thing is every
Speaker 2: one of their players can run. They've all got a tank. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they've all got crazy kicks on them, so they can
Speaker 2: just go one end to the other. So fast do
Speaker 2: you think of just their midfield, Like all the way
Speaker 2: across they've got Mac and Ernie, they've got Haywood, they've
Speaker 2: got Errol Goulden, they've got like he and he's gone
Speaker 2: into the middle and just stepped the right up. So
Speaker 2: they've got all these like flashy outside great like kicks
Speaker 2: and then once you know, the likes of like Mills
Speaker 2: and Parker and Adams comes back in if they can
Speaker 2: squeeze back into the side, they're just going to be
Speaker 2: giving them the ball on the outside and say here,
Speaker 2: do whatever you want with it. Because at the moment,
Speaker 2: you know, they've just got to get on top of
Speaker 2: that the clearance side of things. But at the moment
Speaker 2: they're just winning it back through their pressure and then
Speaker 2: they just tear teams up, kicking it through the guts.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they're just a scary team. And they're starting
Speaker 2: to put two and two together up the front as well.
Speaker 2: They've got the forwards coming out under Buddy's shadow, the
Speaker 2: AI party, they got big hatos down there. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're a scary, scary proposition for anyone.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure. I think they're going to win this
Speaker 1: one quite convincingly. Over at the MCG Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's going to be tough to beat Sydney this year.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to get a lot of wins
Speaker 1: on the board. And you look at the list and
Speaker 1: It's like, man, there's gun after gun after gun. You
Speaker 1: wonder how you can fit them on one team, but
Speaker 1: they're doing it. The Lizard Man one of my favorite players.
Speaker 2: I couldn't name about the Lizard Lizard Tommy Papley kicked
Speaker 2: four casually.
Speaker 1: Oh man, unreal, But we've both got sitting there in
Speaker 1: that game. We'll go to Hawthorne versus Geelong at the
Speaker 1: MCG Monday game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this one. I always love this one.
Speaker 2: I wish it was as competitive as the Kenneck Curse days,
Speaker 2: but like now it's like the Kenneck Curse is it's dead,
Speaker 2: but like Geelong is still going to smash awor it's Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going.
Speaker 1: To be one big celebration for Tomahawk. Yeah, three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty games. He's going to have a big party
Speaker 1: at the MCG, and I think he's going to kick
Speaker 1: at least five or six. They're going to be just
Speaker 1: feeding him the ball.
Speaker 2: Against the old rival.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If they can get out to a nice comfortable lead,
Speaker 2: I feel like they're the type of team that looks
Speaker 2: after each other, like, let's make sure Tomahawks having a
Speaker 2: good day playing for the club this Yeah. Yeah, especially
Speaker 2: because I feel like Jess Cameron will just be super
Speaker 2: selfless and be like I'm giving him all to.
Speaker 1: Tom hw looking around waiting for him to come up.
Speaker 1: Tom Hawks still in wait. Wait.
Speaker 2: I met a lot of good blokes in footy over
Speaker 2: my time.
Speaker 1: Jas Cameras one of the biggest legends.
Speaker 2: That one of the old time. We spoke about Travis
Speaker 2: Clarke last week. Anytime I can crow bar that man
Speaker 2: into the podcast, I get it in there. We've got
Speaker 2: two teams with no wins coming up against each other.
Speaker 2: It's hard to sell this one really, but Brisbane versus
Speaker 2: Collingwood up at the Gabba, two teams, two battlers, just
Speaker 2: trying to get a win on the board. Grand Final rematch.
Speaker 2: I think they played in that last year? Was that
Speaker 2: only last year?
Speaker 1: Last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Brisbane have Dowo Day back maybe Apparently he's an
Speaker 2: absolute gun according to Harrow on the decks, big Brisbane
Speaker 2: fan coming back after his ACL injury. So that's something
Speaker 2: that you love to see. H And who gets who
Speaker 2: gets the zero rubbed off their name? Well, we don't
Speaker 2: have to get tips from this one because we know
Speaker 2: it's going to be Collingwood. Mate. Yeah, you're going to
Speaker 2: go up there and feel.
Speaker 1: Comfortable, probably putting my opinion on it's always gonna be
Speaker 1: the same every week, Brandon. Yeah, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big game up there at the Gabba. Obviously, neither one
Speaker 1: of us since I think one of the first times
Speaker 1: in history I want to say that both teams are
Speaker 1: played in the Grand Final haven't won a game within
Speaker 1: the third round. The weird thing is the same things
Speaker 1: going on in the interral too. Someone told me this. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: said the NLS hit the same issues.
Speaker 2: Great to be part of history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not in this case, mate, But yeah, it'd
Speaker 1: be an awesome opportunity for us to go up there
Speaker 1: as a team, be able to hopefully, you know, prove
Speaker 1: ourselves over there at the Gabba and get a win
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 2: I just had a thought, But then I don't know
Speaker 2: if I bring it up, because you talking about stadiums
Speaker 2: doesn't end well. But heard a lot of trash talked
Speaker 2: about the Gabba, how it's dilapidated and they're going to
Speaker 2: rip it down before the Olympics starts and all this.
Speaker 2: Do you like the Gabba? I've been out on the plane,
Speaker 2: so playing surface wise, I love it.
Speaker 1: My biggest issue with the Gabba. You walk into it
Speaker 1: and you walk down to the rooms. There's a big
Speaker 1: red sign as soon as you walk in and says
Speaker 1: clearance six and a half feet. Now, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this. I'm six foot eleven and that's then do
Speaker 1: my math six inches taller than what the actual clearance
Speaker 1: is underneath. So my neck is sore as soon as
Speaker 1: I walk into that place. I don't know who built it.
Speaker 1: I know what it was now part of the Oopahloopa
Speaker 1: gang or something like that.
Speaker 2: Is the stadium?
Speaker 1: Figure this out, Gaba, figure it out. Take some pipes
Speaker 1: out and put them somewhere else. Give us a bit
Speaker 1: of head room. Unlet's walk around without having to look
Speaker 1: sideways walking out of the place.
Speaker 2: Sam Landsberger was saying that there's parts of the stadium
Speaker 2: that aren't up to code, and there's parts of like
Speaker 2: disability seating so isn't isn't up to spec. So they're
Speaker 2: looking to rip it down. But like it's doing me
Speaker 2: interesting what.
Speaker 1: They do because the Olympics is coming there and I think,
Speaker 1: like what six or eight years yeah, and they're going
Speaker 1: to have to have a you know, a major sporting stadium.
Speaker 1: That's going to be up there in Brisbane to showcase
Speaker 1: all the different sports going on.
Speaker 2: So it's like they just want to cut some corners
Speaker 2: and just you know, put a fresh coat of paint
Speaker 2: on it, and it's okay.
Speaker 1: The Olympics are kind of a big deal. You can't
Speaker 1: do that, So you're going to be interesting how that
Speaker 1: pans out if you.
Speaker 2: Wanted them, if you want it, to ship them down
Speaker 2: to Melbourne.
Speaker 1: I mean we put the MCG.
Speaker 2: We just cancer the Commonwealth Games, so we can't.
Speaker 1: We cancel them, so we can have something bigger, bigger
Speaker 1: happens here.
Speaker 2: But let's get into it. We got our fan questions.
Speaker 1: Our favorite parts the little little say on the podcast.
Speaker 2: I love it because one, we don't have to do
Speaker 2: as much work they send us the questions. Two, I
Speaker 2: just love answering the questions. Now.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, interesting ones get thrown our way.
Speaker 2: They're not directed at me, but I get to ask them,
Speaker 2: so I feel special. Let's jump into some footy questions
Speaker 2: off the top, and then we go general life questions
Speaker 2: and we go dating questions, and that's when things spice
Speaker 2: up a bit. Last week I mentioned the bird ship
Speaker 2: on my head. The actual bird, the bit of extra
Speaker 2: gel on the hair. Yeah, it was it was brown.
Speaker 2: I was telling Harrow.
Speaker 1: Still waiting for the dam from the.
Speaker 2: Okay, first funny question, how would you have handled the
Speaker 2: streaker from last week? Say there's a streaker up there
Speaker 2: at the Gabba. They come running right at the Big Mace.
Speaker 2: Now we've heard what you said allegedly that you might do.
Speaker 2: We want specifics.
Speaker 1: Well, I think after this week, knowing that there's a
Speaker 1: ten ten thousand dollars fine on the other end of it,
Speaker 1: I might have to change my answer. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I would full tackle him now. I might just
Speaker 1: you know, pull the jersey, hold him up, have them
Speaker 1: have the running man feet just going underneath them, and
Speaker 1: then just hand him over to the security. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if that's against AFL laws or not, but maybe
Speaker 1: just a trip, maybe just a you can't trickle.
Speaker 2: That's gone. I feel like it's a.
Speaker 1: Ten grand fine for tripping a streaker. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be just in absolute all.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's going to be streakers running out there,
Speaker 2: and there's going to be players running away from.
Speaker 1: Streakers, and we're going to try not to get fine.
Speaker 2: It's like that Benny Hill music as everyone runs around
Speaker 2: the stadium, the Scooby Doo. How they're running in one
Speaker 2: door and out the other door.
Speaker 1: Let's just help the security. There is athletic this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're limbered up.
Speaker 2: I hope he's done his yoga like I suggested. Last week,
Speaker 2: we got Old League. That's from Old League twenty three.
Speaker 2: This one, this one was sent in by a lot
Speaker 2: of people. We've got a lot of John Noble love.
Speaker 2: When are we going to see John Noble?
Speaker 1: John Noble's birthday this Monday? It was so we always
Speaker 1: say John Noble's got an incredible birthday. We keep celebrating,
Speaker 1: and it was actually his birthday on Monday, so shut note. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been playing really well in the VFL. Don't make
Speaker 1: decisions as far as selections, so apologies. I can't really
Speaker 1: undredstand answer this question in there. I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of love for John Noble, and we have a
Speaker 1: lot of love for John Noble here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I've got no idea. He is playing really
Speaker 1: well and he's doing his job in the VFL, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, up to selection to be able to
Speaker 1: decide where his fate lands. But he's doing everything in
Speaker 1: his power to be able to try to play AFL,
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a credit to him in the
Speaker 1: way he's gone about it. Obviously not an ideal situation
Speaker 1: of being up. Been there many times in my career
Speaker 1: and it's it's a tough pill to swallow having to
Speaker 1: play in the twos. But he's doing everything you can
Speaker 1: try to get to the FL level.
Speaker 2: Again, he's having some good games down there in the VFL.
Speaker 2: Now this from m Black forty two. How do you
Speaker 2: handle everything personally when the team's going pretty shit?
Speaker 1: You turn off social media. I've deleted Twitter, deleted TikTok. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just kind of TikTok's. Yeah. You get to that
Speaker 1: point where you just kind of realize, you know what
Speaker 1: brings you positive and what brings you negative energy in life,
Speaker 1: and you try to just cut off all the negative
Speaker 1: stuff and you only focus on the positive. My number though, no,
Speaker 1: i'n't deleted a number of restricted I think, but I
Speaker 1: think I haven't blocked it yet. But now you kind
Speaker 1: of you look to your inner circle friends and bring
Speaker 1: your happiness. You find the things that fill your cup.
Speaker 1: You focus on those and you really try to block
Speaker 1: out as much noise as possible. I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that are being said, and I come
Speaker 1: into the studio sometimes and you tell me stories that
Speaker 1: are being said because I've got no idea, because I
Speaker 1: afficiately said I did not pay attention to the media
Speaker 1: this week because it wasn't healthy for me. So there's
Speaker 1: things that you do to look after your own mental health.
Speaker 1: There's things you do to make sure that you're in
Speaker 1: a positive attitude going into the club. You're not, you know,
Speaker 1: stressing about things that are out of your control. And
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things we try to
Speaker 1: do is we try to stay level throughout the season.
Speaker 1: We talk about not being on the roller coaster, the
Speaker 1: ups and downs and everything else. So, yes, we hope
Speaker 1: to be in a better position than we are right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, we want to stick to the process
Speaker 1: and have faith that things will work itself out.
Speaker 2: Is there a player out there that you admire? Is
Speaker 2: there someone that you look at them? I'm guessing it's
Speaker 2: probably in the rock sphere. Is it a bit of
Speaker 2: poly Farmer? Do you ever look back at poly Farmer's
Speaker 2: old film Real? So that's the guy Sam Newman, you
Speaker 2: go back and check his old three hundred game resume.
Speaker 1: I probably would not say Sam newans stuff he said recently,
Speaker 1: but is what it is now. There's people you admire,
Speaker 1: I think in the way they go about it and
Speaker 1: the way they handle media and stuff. Obviously, Darcy Moore
Speaker 1: is what everyone kind of looks at is the perfect person,
Speaker 1: right the perfect role model, and I will say he
Speaker 1: is the perfect role model for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: Brotty Grundy a good friend of mine obviously too. There's
Speaker 1: other people that I think they're a part of Phil
Speaker 1: Davis with someone you know, I still stay in contact now.
Speaker 1: He's a very intelligent human being. Stephencniglio another very intelligent
Speaker 1: human who's been through it and had that Amazon stuff
Speaker 1: and very public about a situation. The way he's kind
Speaker 1: of worked through that you definitely idolize and you say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a credit to him what he's been
Speaker 1: able to get through. There's those kind of players I
Speaker 1: think you think of right away. There's definitely a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in the league that you look at and
Speaker 1: you play against stuff like that, and obviously they are opposition.
Speaker 1: But whenever you're off the field, you see how they
Speaker 1: do their media and how they represent themselves and different
Speaker 1: things they do often and you just kind of take
Speaker 1: a leaf out of the book and oh, that's pretty
Speaker 1: cool what he's doing. I wonder if I can kind
Speaker 1: of somehow put that into my life. So, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that come to mind, but I
Speaker 1: think those are the ones that you look at and
Speaker 1: you say, Wow, they're pretty intelligent in the way they
Speaker 1: go about it, and it's a credit to them and
Speaker 1: their professionalism to be still where they're at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you reckon the rock? Craft has changed so
Speaker 2: much over time that it's hard to go back and
Speaker 2: kind of take anything away from previous rucks. What do
Speaker 2: you mean, like, so, like, would you go back and
Speaker 2: look at like a Dean Cox's game like the early
Speaker 2: two thousands and go like I could take this and
Speaker 2: that Or has it evolved so much over time? Or
Speaker 2: is the rock still the same as it was twenty.
Speaker 1: Years as much gray area and the rock contest is
Speaker 1: there ever? I has been now? I hundredson think that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you look at any center
Speaker 1: bounce and there's a free kick, given you look at
Speaker 1: eight players that probably look at each other and go
Speaker 1: whose free kick is it? And then once the umpire
Speaker 1: of points one late, everyone just sprints that way. It's
Speaker 1: like no one really one hundred percent knows what's going on.
Speaker 2: I feel like the rock is just completely like I.
Speaker 1: Think I've never met an umpire that played rock.
Speaker 2: I think I say that Bill Buckley talk about it,
Speaker 2: where it's like the Rock is just different. They're playing
Speaker 2: a different game to everyone else out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's a one v one kind of situation.
Speaker 1: You go against someone else. The free kicks that you
Speaker 1: would get if you weren't in a rock contest, you
Speaker 1: would get all the time, but because you're wrestling and
Speaker 1: throwing each other and everything else, Like, it's just depending
Speaker 1: on the umpire where I wants to call it. On
Speaker 1: the day. You can sit there and look at some
Speaker 1: people and it's like, if you were to do that
Speaker 1: in a marketing contest, oh my god, it should be
Speaker 1: the easiest free kick you could possibly call. But because
Speaker 1: it's a throw and all of a sudden, we just
Speaker 1: allow it. It's the weirdest concept I still don't understand
Speaker 1: to today, And it's getting to the point where I
Speaker 1: think when I first came into this situation of being
Speaker 1: at rockman, I was kind of like, oh, that's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. Why is he getting away with this? And
Speaker 1: it became the understanding of what can I get away
Speaker 1: with rather than sometimes in what you know, like especially
Speaker 1: when your learning the game, it's like what can I
Speaker 1: get away with? Rather than you know, how can I
Speaker 1: handle such a situation, because you realize that there's so
Speaker 1: much as a rockman that the little things you can
Speaker 1: do there probably should be a free kick, and that
Speaker 1: a lot of rockmen get away with. Not me personally,
Speaker 1: I try to be as straight down the line as possible,
Speaker 1: but I could name every single rockman in the league
Speaker 1: and what they do illegally that they get away with. Well.
Speaker 2: I think like if you were to take the arm
Speaker 2: chop as an example, if a midfielder goes for any
Speaker 2: mark above their head and gets their arm chopped, instant
Speaker 2: free kick ruckman does it.
Speaker 1: There's no discriminations. Discriminate with height.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like it's unfair because they go, like
Speaker 2: I remember Geelong, early in your career, you did get
Speaker 2: paid like five free kicks in one game because people
Speaker 2: figured out like if you're seven foot, if you put
Speaker 2: your arms up no one can spoil that, so they're like,
Speaker 2: for the good of the game, we can't call arm.
Speaker 1: Shops like arm chops and like like pushing people under
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, the taller you get, the less of
Speaker 1: those calls you get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1: Weird it's a weird dynamic, but that's just futty.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll get into the general questions. Now, what made
Speaker 2: you keep going when you wanted to give.
Speaker 1: Up in footy in general?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in footy they angled it towards footy for you
Speaker 2: and then life in general for me.
Speaker 1: Love that all the time. Yeah, I think, like, obviously
Speaker 1: we are going waves of I guess encouragement from friends
Speaker 1: and you know, I guess motivation to want to do things.
Speaker 1: I would love to say that every single day I've
Speaker 1: walked into the club, I've been in one hundred percent energy.
Speaker 1: It'd be an absolute lie. No one is like that
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. But I think you have to
Speaker 1: remind yourself. And one thing that I try to consistently
Speaker 1: do is just, you know, remind myself of the impact
Speaker 1: you can have on other people, Like seeing kids at
Speaker 1: training sessions and seeing them get so hyped up to
Speaker 1: see you and stuff like that is awesome, and that
Speaker 1: gives me a lot of energy to show that you
Speaker 1: kind of are a role model for other kids out
Speaker 1: there and be able to give them a bit of hope,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe an opportunity to say I can
Speaker 1: be like that one day. You know, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And I think the other thing is just to remind
Speaker 1: myself just kind of how far you've come from whenever
Speaker 1: you first came here and never seeing a football and
Speaker 1: everything else to the experiences I have now. I'm so
Speaker 1: fortunate with what I've been able to do and what
Speaker 1: I'm still doing and the things that come with it,
Speaker 1: Like you talk about the f one over the weekend,
Speaker 1: like things like that that I never thought my life
Speaker 1: I would ever be able to experience. Now I look
Speaker 1: at it those awesome times, I'm like, man, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: Like never in my life I think I would be
Speaker 1: able to get here. So those those kind of humbling
Speaker 1: moments are things that kind of get me through the
Speaker 1: tough times, just trying to remind myself that those things
Speaker 1: do happen. And there's a lot of positivity that's going
Speaker 1: in my life. I've got an amazing family and friends
Speaker 1: that support me. So I think those are things I
Speaker 1: consistently try to look at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hard one because you don't you don't
Speaker 2: overanalyze it. You don't want to.
Speaker 1: Over No, you don't want to just keep digging that hole.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, no, Yeah, I feel like you kind of
Speaker 2: just have to keep going because you can't just give up.
Speaker 1: You can't just Yeah, you'd be more upset with yourself
Speaker 1: after you gave up than if you just grind through it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely like the thing of like, yeah, one
Speaker 2: hundred percent going to fail at something if you give up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but at least if you have a crack, there's a
Speaker 2: chance that you could succeed. That would be my little tidbit.
Speaker 2: But how do you get through engineering? That's from Alistair Mitchell. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's I think that's for you.
Speaker 1: I think I wish I could say one hundred and
Speaker 1: centruth here, But I think I might get my my
Speaker 1: diploma taken from me if I did a lot of
Speaker 1: hard work, a lot of sleepless nights.
Speaker 2: Is it hard?
Speaker 1: It is so hard? Man, Like it's all about you know.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say is a bit of advice
Speaker 1: writer is as an engineer. Whenever I was going through
Speaker 1: my interview process to see if I can get a job,
Speaker 1: one of the things they valued almost sometimes not as much,
Speaker 1: but it was definitely a part of it was your
Speaker 1: people skills and your ability to talk to people and
Speaker 1: you know, the things you did outside of education, so
Speaker 1: like whether you're involved in net book clubs or societies
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. People really valued that. Just to say, like,
Speaker 1: you know, on a Monday morning and if you come
Speaker 1: into a job, you never want to be going to
Speaker 1: your coworker and go what'd you do over the weekend?
Speaker 1: They go just you know, just watch TV. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to have a story to tell.
Speaker 1: You want some energy that's brought into the office. You
Speaker 1: want someone that can sit there and be, you know,
Speaker 1: bringing the energy up rather than bringing it down. So
Speaker 1: I think that's one of those things that as a
Speaker 1: not only you need the education side of things, you
Speaker 1: have to work really hard and that's what engineering teaches you.
Speaker 1: And I think about my work, ethic and everything else,
Speaker 1: and how much of that came from having to struggle
Speaker 1: through engineering to try to get that degree. And I
Speaker 1: was doing you know, two or three nights a week.
Speaker 1: I was doing sleepless night. So it was because I
Speaker 1: had to juggle basketball and obviously this education side of it,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't easy. But yeah, I think it's trying
Speaker 1: to make as many friends as you can that can
Speaker 1: help you out with study and all that, and then
Speaker 1: that also will help you out as far as the
Speaker 1: interview process, to show a bit of personality that you
Speaker 1: know people are interested in.
Speaker 2: In a couple of words, what was your study technique?
Speaker 2: Were you a crammer or were you Did you have
Speaker 2: a good memory?
Speaker 1: Did you I was. I made the most impeccable cheat
Speaker 1: sheets you could possibly think of. So if it was
Speaker 1: an open book exam, oh my gosh, that book had
Speaker 1: that many notes and they were like scribbled in the
Speaker 1: tiniest of texts to get everything. I had. Every single
Speaker 1: problem I could possibly come onto the test was written
Speaker 1: in the book. So as soon as I got to
Speaker 1: that that problem, I solid I memorized it. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's on page thirty nine. I can flip straight to that.
Speaker 1: I know exactly how to figure out this problem. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was a bit of cramming as far
Speaker 1: as a text size or cramming in. But I think
Speaker 1: you know the most. Sorry, the more you can prepare
Speaker 1: for the things like that, the better you'll do. Preparation
Speaker 1: as key as I say.
Speaker 2: And what happened to your arm? Because people are starting
Speaker 2: to notice this week too. People are starting to notice
Speaker 2: that you've got this scratches and stuff every week. They're saying,
Speaker 2: it's almost every week.
Speaker 1: Happens three four tackles on the weekends. That's what happened
Speaker 1: to me. Now this is from rock contests. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you talk about the things you can get away with
Speaker 1: and everything else. You can rip people in the face.
Speaker 1: That's where we're with the glasses and I've got the
Speaker 1: black eyes scraps on my face from people ripping at
Speaker 1: me over the weekend. Yeah, these will be scars here.
Speaker 1: This is just from rock contests throughout the week and
Speaker 1: someone had long deal with it. Yeah some rockman do
Speaker 1: you find out pretty quick. But yeah, now's it's just
Speaker 1: part of it. Like unfortunately, that's amazing that people are
Speaker 1: looking into the detail that much of what's going.
Speaker 2: On come in, really coming in. They thought it was
Speaker 2: zooming in on the phone. It was fly with the
Speaker 2: nine tails just whipping you up for another whatever you did,
Speaker 2: whatever you did, it would have been your phone. Are
Speaker 2: you planning another live podcast? Both of those are from
Speaker 2: kendle Man.
Speaker 1: We'd love to. I know, I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: other people doing them at the moment. The biggest thing
Speaker 1: is probably a lot of people the live podcasts around
Speaker 1: games and like gather around and things like that. But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the situation I'm in right now, I can't really do that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well fortunately, yeah, fortunately unfortunately, So yeah, we
Speaker 1: don't have anything planned in the month. We did do
Speaker 1: the on the Valley live podcast. That was awesome. That
Speaker 1: was a really cool experience, first time for us doing that,
Speaker 1: and we'd love to, but we probably just need to
Speaker 1: make sure that if we were to do one, we
Speaker 1: would be able to sell enough tickets. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'd have to really don't know how we do that,
Speaker 1: but we'd love to do another live show. Would be
Speaker 1: pretty fine. I love the one down in the Golden
Speaker 1: Plains and b TV. That was really good fun. So
Speaker 1: shout out to everyone that showed up and just hold
Speaker 1: your horses on that one. We'll get back. I think
Speaker 1: we'll get there.
Speaker 2: We'll get there. This one from Mary and duffy. What's
Speaker 2: the most underrated state in the US. That's a quick one, Texas.
Speaker 1: We'll go to Utah. Yeah, mountainous scene and kind of
Speaker 1: rolls through there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, underrated, like it can't be. You can't say like
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, New York. It's over. Yeah, argum, it's just raided.
Speaker 2: I'll go you all right, let's get into the dating
Speaker 2: advice because this, this is.
Speaker 1: This is where you shine.
Speaker 2: It's a bit hot in the studio. First of all,
Speaker 2: Ja Thorp these see what I was realizing that I
Speaker 2: was cutting people's names in half. So the name is
Speaker 2: probably not Jay Thorp, but it might be it's j
Speaker 2: Can you run a dating event?
Speaker 1: What like a speed dating event?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like that. Maybe it's like you know, however,
Speaker 2: I'm starting those fun run club things. What if you
Speaker 2: just couldn't be fucked running.
Speaker 1: I'll say, I'll give a shout out here. There's a
Speaker 1: new app one of my friends is running called hump Day.
Speaker 1: Check it out. It's so yeah, it's like a meetup.
Speaker 1: I think they do it every Wednesday. They have a
Speaker 1: big meetup. Recent stufff No. Branden Jesus is a classic establishment.
Speaker 1: It's a class establishment. Yeah, Wednesday's hump Day man Haven
Speaker 1: event every Wednesday. Ah, you're sick about it?
Speaker 2: Looking for the other app I think from here down,
Speaker 2: I'll stop mentioning names just in case they want some anonymity,
Speaker 2: So I'll stop mentioning names. But you know your questions.
Speaker 2: How do you push nerves away when you're trying to
Speaker 2: make a move, Like obviously it's a nerve wracking experience
Speaker 2: to go up and ask someone for their number or something.
Speaker 2: How do you push the nerves away? What's some nerve tactics?
Speaker 1: Nerve tactics I always I always think like the likelihood
Speaker 1: of me probably running into them ever again is very slim.
Speaker 1: That's a good call, and I'm like, who really cares
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, might as well do it.
Speaker 1: And if you stuff up and fumble your words or
Speaker 1: like look like you, it's like you you do, you
Speaker 1: just leave the establishment, just go to the next one.
Speaker 2: I think that's always the thing. Hey, when you're like
Speaker 2: interstate or whatever, you always just walk around with a
Speaker 2: like a higher sense of self confidence because you're like,
Speaker 2: I'll never see these people again. I'm not from here,
Speaker 2: And it always works. You're always like chatting up people,
Speaker 2: and you're in circles that you don't normally mingle with
Speaker 2: and you having a blast. If you can treat your
Speaker 2: home like states or city the same as if you're
Speaker 2: in a like interstate, yeah you'd laughing.
Speaker 1: I think confidence is key is the thing.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm not sure if that helps with the nurse,
Speaker 2: but and then for everything else, there's alcohol in a
Speaker 2: in a nice amount.
Speaker 1: Can find amount that gets your home and.
Speaker 2: Real safe good, don't drive and just look after yourself
Speaker 2: out there anyway, I'm twenty one and no guy has
Speaker 2: shown interest in me. How do I get out there?
Speaker 2: If I don't like dating apps, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I'm think getting out there is like you go do
Speaker 1: social things with people, right, Yeah, I'll told him. I
Speaker 1: know our first moved here, I didn't know anyone like
Speaker 1: I had to go out and I went to random things,
Speaker 1: you know. I would go to the night Noodle or
Speaker 1: the night markets that Queen Vic and South just talked
Speaker 1: to random people or so hard to people, or bring
Speaker 1: a little crew and.
Speaker 2: Get the potential.
Speaker 1: I think there's like an app called like meetup, which
Speaker 1: has a bunch of organizations you can do stuff with.
Speaker 1: Join like a netball club or something like that. You know,
Speaker 1: just kind of get to the point where you can
Speaker 1: be in a social environment. I think whenever you're in that,
Speaker 1: you'll start making friends.
Speaker 2: It's definitely put yourself in a social environment if you're
Speaker 2: if you're trying to look for things you don't like
Speaker 2: dating apps, which everything's moving towards dating apps, so you
Speaker 2: should probably try and get comfortable with dating apps for starters.
Speaker 2: But outside of that, I definitely get there's a massive
Speaker 2: portion of people that don't like the dating apps. You
Speaker 2: have to be willing to put yourself into those social situations,
Speaker 2: whereas sporting clubs. Sporting clubs are massive.
Speaker 1: Great, it's a great social thing. I think. I know
Speaker 1: some people get like, you know, I'm stressed because my
Speaker 1: friends are meeting people and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Where do I meet them? And like, if you never
Speaker 1: put yourself in the scenario of what you want. So
Speaker 1: if you want to meet someone out, you have to
Speaker 1: be out. You can't just be sitting at home. So like,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's hard to like sit there and go
Speaker 1: I have to put myself out there and go do
Speaker 1: these things with people and like go to events and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I think that's the first app.
Speaker 1: And then you start meeting other people and you buy
Speaker 1: the people, and then you kind of you tear down
Speaker 1: your ego and say, look, maybe I just moved here.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find friends. You know, is there anything
Speaker 1: that you are doing next week? I would love to
Speaker 1: catch up again, whoever it may be. And then you
Speaker 1: start making friends.
Speaker 2: In that scenario, get out to those like the art
Speaker 2: sip classes, have a couple of SIPs, paint and sip
Speaker 2: your peyton and you're sipping and.
Speaker 1: You try to bring this up while you're talking about
Speaker 1: dating apps. You sent me a photo this week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: of a woman's bumble account. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was her profile and in her profile was
Speaker 2: a picture of you and her. Now in my profile,
Speaker 2: there's a picture of me and you, and we didn't
Speaker 2: bond over this shared picture.
Speaker 1: She didn't like your bad.
Speaker 2: I didn't not to throw shade on anyone, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I just put it to you to be like, how
Speaker 2: do you know this person? What is this going on here?
Speaker 2: But there's a massive chance that I'm not swiping You're right.
Speaker 2: If I see a big picture of Mason cox profile.
Speaker 1: I want to tell this story because when you sent
Speaker 1: me that message, right, I was thinking something of the
Speaker 1: podcast has come up. I need to look at this, right.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting in the box at the f one
Speaker 1: I'm talking to, you know, let's say it's a big
Speaker 1: wig of some sort. But I get this message from
Speaker 1: braid and I go, I should probably, you know, check
Speaker 1: this real quick, make sure there's no issues. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the first thing comes up as a
Speaker 1: bumble video. I couldn't have just swiped away from that
Speaker 1: thing quicker in my life. And I'm sitting there. I
Speaker 1: was like, what the hell is that about? And I
Speaker 1: kind of like, yeah. The next thing I go and
Speaker 1: I go check and I was like, what is he
Speaker 1: talking about? And then someone starts talking to me, so
Speaker 1: I locked my phone and then I started talking to
Speaker 1: someone else and I opened it up and the damn
Speaker 1: the same photo showed up. I was like, Braiden, just
Speaker 1: why are you doing this to me? It's not the
Speaker 1: place of time.
Speaker 2: That's not good for you. But I think I do
Speaker 2: that often where I'll be on the dating apps swiping
Speaker 2: and then I'll go, I need to go get some
Speaker 2: chocolate or something from Carls. I'll go to Carl's and
Speaker 2: when I go to pay up my app and there's
Speaker 2: like thing and I'm trying to tap it and it's anyway,
Speaker 2: it's a shambles.
Speaker 1: On to the next one.
Speaker 2: So this one is a very good one from Jessica.
Speaker 2: How long is too long to stay in the talking stage?
Speaker 1: I'd say, if you haven't had this conversation six months,
Speaker 1: then it's probably an issue.
Speaker 2: Well during COVID. During COVID there was like the talking
Speaker 2: stages were forced very long. I hate talking, but I
Speaker 2: am not great for this advice because I try to
Speaker 2: go conversations like just talking in general, Like you know,
Speaker 2: you're back and forth on the app or you're messaging, messaging, messaging.
Speaker 2: How when do we meet up? We talk for a week,
Speaker 2: we talked for two, Come on, let's get on a date.
Speaker 2: Because you might get on the date and you might
Speaker 2: be like, I actually hate this purse. So my thing, though,
Speaker 2: is like get through it quick, go hey, how's it going.
Speaker 2: How's your deb been? Oh yeah, haha, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Do you want to catch off for coffee sometime or
Speaker 2: drink most of the time, that's too quick, And people say, really,
Speaker 2: they just disappear. Yeah, so I'm out there trying to
Speaker 2: get into some dates. Let's go get through. I want
Speaker 2: to see catch up for a date because I can
Speaker 2: hate messaging mate so much. I hate messaging, So there's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with go out, grab a drink, grab two drinks,
Speaker 2: grab a coffee whatever, get a vibe of a person
Speaker 2: in person, because that's what they're.
Speaker 1: Really like to date the coffee day, not the full.
Speaker 2: And then date two is like the real day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's very true. You do the coffee date,
Speaker 1: which is an initial meet you see how you're going,
Speaker 1: do I like you do? We vibe so you don't
Speaker 1: have to commit to too much. It might be thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: might be an hour. You always have somewhere to go after,
Speaker 1: you know, I always something to do. You got to
Speaker 1: get to and then if it goes well, you just extended,
Speaker 1: so I'll just cancel the plans. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah, in answer to your question, I would say
Speaker 2: I don't want to be chatting to you for longer
Speaker 2: than a week.
Speaker 1: Yep. I concur on that one.
Speaker 2: Last one, we go into this one. How do I
Speaker 2: convert my Carlton boyfriend into a Collingwood boyfriend?
Speaker 1: Shoot him berry and put a colining wood jumper on
Speaker 1: and he has no choice.
Speaker 2: That's that's great, it's gonna happen. So it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know death.
Speaker 1: Death, do us part.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you ended up getting together. That's Blesphemy,
Speaker 2: that's Juliet's the.
Speaker 1: Real awkward day at least twice of the year, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 1: I don't know you got yourself into that one, Julia,
Speaker 1: So not my fault.
Speaker 2: But you've had it over for years. Yeah, some pains
Speaker 2: coming back your way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I can't really give you too much on
Speaker 1: that one. Good luck. That's all.
Speaker 2: Wrap it up, Wrap it up.
Speaker 1: That is the preview to round four. Round four, I
Speaker 1: want to say round three and a half, we'll call it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is the preview to the round. And then also
Speaker 1: we love the footy question, so massive thank you to
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Speaker 1: So make sure next time you see it on the
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Speaker 1: But that is it from us today. Hopefully we get
Speaker 1: the win over the weekend and we'll be back on
Speaker 1: your airways on Tuesday morning. You that's it. Nice