Speaker 1: Gooday everyone, and welcome to the catch up. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not Mason Cox, obviously, but we will be crossing to
Speaker 1: Mason shortly. As we all know, he's in the United
Speaker 1: States of America, so it's going to be interesting.
Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Crossing now via the power of the Internet, to the one,
Speaker 1: the only six foot eleven and a half. We'll give
Speaker 1: him the extra half an inch. Mason Cox. How's it going, Mason?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. How about the intro from him? How
Speaker 2: he's got it all seven platforms. You've been nervous. You've
Speaker 2: been nervous. There you're you're bitch shaky, But hey, you
Speaker 2: got through it. That's the important thing. Brother.
Speaker 1: I feel like an absolute betroot. My head is about
Speaker 1: to explode.
Speaker 2: Look, man, you know it's it's practice makes perfect. You know,
Speaker 2: sometimes a lot of people think these things are easy.
Speaker 2: They're easy, you know, just to intro into a podcast,
Speaker 2: but you know, it takes a lot of time, It
Speaker 2: takes a lot of effort and takes a lot of
Speaker 2: looking in the mirror and practice yourself. So well done, Brandon,
Speaker 2: I must say it was a great intro, and I'm
Speaker 2: actually really started for this podcast. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff we're going to cover. I know I'm in a
Speaker 2: different kind of magically kind of connecting through the internet,
Speaker 2: but there's a lot of stuff going on the world
Speaker 2: in the world at the moment, and we got a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff cover. Man, a lot of stuff cover.
Speaker 1: So where are you, like nestled between these two pitcher frames?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 2: I am in Las A. I'm actually in Ontario, California,
Speaker 2: which is just outside of Los Angeles. So I'm at
Speaker 2: the USAFL National Tournament. So there's an AFL league here
Speaker 2: in the US, and I'm here as a representative, as
Speaker 2: the AFL representative I guess, one of the AFL representatives
Speaker 2: over here to help grow the league essentially. So I've
Speaker 2: gone to the last four or five, I want to say,
Speaker 2: and I've always been a representative here and just enjoy
Speaker 2: it and it's kind of a bit of a family
Speaker 2: out here, and it's always perfect timing in the off season.
Speaker 2: So this is one of the first first stops on
Speaker 2: my whole tour to America while I am back in
Speaker 2: the off season in the States.
Speaker 1: You've been to so many that you would probably be
Speaker 1: the one of the leading experts in us AFL knowledge
Speaker 1: history the whole show.
Speaker 2: I'm a bit nervous. I don want to be quizzed
Speaker 2: on it, but I feel like I know a decent amount.
Speaker 2: A decent amount. There's people. It's been twenty five years,
Speaker 2: so this year is the twenty fifth anniversary, which is
Speaker 2: a big deal. So they've had a gala, had a
Speaker 2: big celebration, everything else, and it's kind of cool. I mean,
Speaker 2: twenty five years of essentially creating a league out of nothing.
Speaker 2: It's been awesome to hear some of these great stories
Speaker 2: from people that were here since the very beginning and
Speaker 2: just had this crazy idea. I was like Australians in America, going, hey,
Speaker 2: let's randomly get some people together, let's go have a kick,
Speaker 2: and let's see if we can create a league in
Speaker 2: a country half a world away from this place that
Speaker 2: the sport has actually played in. So credit to them, man,
Speaker 2: they've they've come a long way and it's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Every year there's forty one teams, I think, and there's
Speaker 2: over a thousand people playing this weekend. It's they rent
Speaker 2: out this whole complex. Man. It's actually it's a great experience.
Speaker 2: And a lot of XAFL players and people in the
Speaker 2: media and stuff have come through over the years and
Speaker 2: been able to experience it and everyone just has a
Speaker 2: really good time. So it's it's a great it's great experience.
Speaker 2: If anyone's listening from America, you know, go find a
Speaker 2: local team. Go find a local team. You'll have it
Speaker 2: in your city. Go join, Go play a bit of
Speaker 2: footy and have a kick, and maybe we'll see you
Speaker 2: here with the nationals next year.
Speaker 1: Surely part of it is the fact that we take
Speaker 1: our sport over there so the Australians can be the best.
Speaker 1: Maybe they weren't the best when they were back here
Speaker 1: in Australia. There, you know, country pluggers or their VFL
Speaker 1: battlers or whatever. Take it over there. You're Chris Judd,
Speaker 1: You're Gary Ablett Jr. You're the Mason Cox of the league.
Speaker 1: Once you take it over to the USAFL.
Speaker 2: The fact that you just loop me in in this
Speaker 2: team category is Christian Gary is just ridiculous. Beyond belief.
Speaker 2: Braden I appreciate the compliment. I think both of them
Speaker 2: probably half my size. If you stack one on the other,
Speaker 2: you might get my hight. But I think they're carrying
Speaker 2: a lot more skills than I ever will. So there
Speaker 2: is there is players that come over here though from
Speaker 2: the like Australia that moved over to the US and
Speaker 2: are playing in this league. Man, they're absolutely killing it.
Speaker 2: So you got these guys that might have played VFL
Speaker 2: or played you know, samful or something like that, you know,
Speaker 2: in their day, and they come over here and the
Speaker 2: playing with Americans essentially teaching Americans how to kick a
Speaker 2: football and how to handball and everything else. And the
Speaker 2: level of standard for you know, half these guys being
Speaker 2: in the eyes and girls so it's men's and women's
Speaker 2: for them. Half of them don't. I've never even played footy.
Speaker 2: They're essentially Americans. I just got into it randomly, And
Speaker 2: it's pretty awesome to have this many people kind of
Speaker 2: involved and have it come thus far.
Speaker 1: I like what you did there. So you're saying, Chris
Speaker 1: Judd and Gary Ablick combined makes you.
Speaker 2: Between the three of us, we've probably got like what
Speaker 2: seven brown lows probably kicked a thousand goals and played
Speaker 2: about seven hundred games. So yeah, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: sitting here saying one better than the other. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a team effort, but I'm just saying the three
Speaker 2: of us have quite a resume.
Speaker 1: Same same, it's the same.
Speaker 2: Same.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if if you've if you've heard,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you need to check in
Speaker 1: on your apartment while you're over there, but Australia has
Speaker 1: basically ceased to exist since you're left. We're under the ocean.
Speaker 1: We're having a little bit of trouble with the rain
Speaker 1: and the water and the flooding. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've heard if it's made it over there to
Speaker 1: the States. But Rochie, my birth town, it's got, it's gone,
Speaker 1: it's underwater, it's it's it's everyone's been evacuated. Yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 1: It's the Atlantis of Victoria. And a Chuka is well
Speaker 1: on its way. Just a little update from back here.
Speaker 1: We're struggling.
Speaker 2: So I've heard I think that York Street Bridge and Melbourne,
Speaker 2: I've I've heard that's back underwater, which it does every
Speaker 2: time it even sprinkles. So it's a little bit of rain.
Speaker 2: That thing's flooding. But it's crazy, Like you know, I'm
Speaker 2: being in a different country. You don't like probably hear
Speaker 2: the news as much. But obviously in how nuts it's
Speaker 2: been over there since I laugh oud, and you know,
Speaker 2: I want to wish all the US to those small
Speaker 2: towns because we've said on this podcast before. You know,
Speaker 2: we're big fans, big fans of Rachi, and you know,
Speaker 2: we hope anyone that's up there listening, which is you know,
Speaker 2: there's only five people in town, so max five people
Speaker 2: hopefully you know, hopefully your friends, family, everything are okay,
Speaker 2: and you know you've evacuated, done the right thing, and
Speaker 2: hopefully you can come back to to something at home.
Speaker 1: It's crazy times, crazy crazy times.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, speaking about getting the community together and everything else.
Speaker 2: Now there's a man called Ned Brockman. This guy has
Speaker 2: done something phenomenal. Now I don't know if you've been
Speaker 2: following him. I'm not sure who out there is known
Speaker 2: about this, but this man is crossed country. And I
Speaker 2: don't mean cross country in a car or a bike
Speaker 2: or a push bike or anything like that. This man
Speaker 2: has ran across country. He's ran from Perth all the
Speaker 2: way to Sydney. He's just finished up a few days
Speaker 2: ago and he's raised like one point five million dollars
Speaker 2: I think at the moment for Mobilized, which is an
Speaker 2: amazing charity out there, and this man is just now
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people this has been in
Speaker 2: the media in Sydney and stuff like that, but I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if it's made it to Melbourne. But this
Speaker 2: man Net has done some phenomenal stuff and he's done
Speaker 2: over like a marathon a day. He's almost like done
Speaker 2: one hundred kilometers a day, which is just insane to
Speaker 2: think for like forty odd days, so over a month
Speaker 2: doing a marathon a day. This man is an absolute jet.
Speaker 2: He's absolutely killed it and he's made it all the
Speaker 2: way to Bond Eye and he's finished this race and
Speaker 2: it's so so cool to see someone like this raise
Speaker 2: that kind of money for an important charity nonetheless, but
Speaker 2: also do this amazing human feat. And I think he's
Speaker 2: a he ran the second fastest person to ever run
Speaker 2: cross country in Australia and he's an absolute jet. He's
Speaker 2: a young man, he's like in his twenties early twenties,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's a credit to him. It's been awesome
Speaker 2: following his journey from day one. He's he's started all
Speaker 2: the way out and called his lean to say, and
Speaker 2: he's finished in Bondai. And this man is just insane.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine some of the stuff he's put his
Speaker 2: body through just to be able to get through that.
Speaker 2: I mean seriously, he's going like in like ran through
Speaker 2: the nol bar nol bar nolible. What did you say?
Speaker 2: It's not good bye man, Hushul you know that, but no,
Speaker 2: he's done something amazing. Man. And to do like one
Speaker 2: hundred k's a day, I cannot even fathom like the
Speaker 2: pain and exertion your body would be going through to
Speaker 2: have to be able to do that in a whole
Speaker 2: like forty days straight.
Speaker 1: I doubt my car could do one hundred k's a
Speaker 1: day for a month.
Speaker 2: I've seen your car. I don't think you could either.
Speaker 2: I don't think that thing's making across country unless it's
Speaker 2: getting towed. What's there?
Speaker 1: You get your GPS data? How many k's would you
Speaker 1: say you would run in a game as a ruckman.
Speaker 1: You got to get around, You've got to do a
Speaker 1: lot of k's. How many caves?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Not as much as a small fellows, but I'd
Speaker 2: be running like probably twelve k's a day or sorry,
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 1: How cook are you after you've run twelve k and
Speaker 1: could you imagine doing that another ten times in the
Speaker 1: same day.
Speaker 2: No chance. I don't think I could walk a hundred
Speaker 2: k's a day Like that is absurd. Like you were
Speaker 2: sit there and say, like, Mason walk one hundred k's,
Speaker 2: like I would probably go nuts, Like I don't know
Speaker 2: what he's listening to. Hopefully he's listen to The Mason
Speaker 2: cock Show because there's a lot of entertainment in that.
Speaker 2: But I just can't imagine what he's been doing and
Speaker 2: what's going through his head on a daily basis on
Speaker 2: one hundred k's and your body just being absolutely yelling
Speaker 2: at you with pain. It would just be an absolute sandity.
Speaker 2: So yeah, credit to him. It's been an awesome compisration
Speaker 2: something awesome. I've been able to kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: follow him on socials and everything else. He's got a
Speaker 2: whole crew in a van and everything following around with
Speaker 2: physio and all that, and it's a it's a massive
Speaker 2: feat and just human history, I think. But also he's
Speaker 2: an amazing dude, that's doing some amazing work too, which
Speaker 2: is which we love.
Speaker 1: That's a very good point because the demons crawl into
Speaker 1: my head when I go for a five k all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff up here that's like, you can't do it.
Speaker 1: Just stop, mate, just be fat, Just embrace it.
Speaker 2: There's like, just embrace it. Dad Bards are in. Dad
Speaker 2: Bards are in.
Speaker 1: So well he's he's traveled across Australia from side to side.
Speaker 1: Tell us about this America trip before we get too
Speaker 1: far into the podcast. Outside of footy, you're doing a
Speaker 1: lot for the community with the USA FL but how
Speaker 1: about just the trip in general? You what are your plans?
Speaker 1: What do you plan on doing while you're over there.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm a bit of a loose unit, so I
Speaker 2: don't like the plan too far ahead. I literally don't
Speaker 2: even know my plans. I've got a loose plan for
Speaker 2: about a week ahead of me. I'll be here and
Speaker 2: so I'm going to the Monday night football game, or
Speaker 2: I would have just been to the Monday night football game. Sorry,
Speaker 2: And I'm essentially going to go to Oakley do that.
Speaker 2: So Oakley Headquarter is going to have me, because you know,
Speaker 2: everyone knows where these glasses nowadays, and they're gonna have
Speaker 2: it on wearing in games to see if there's anything
Speaker 2: they can do there, which would be pretty cool. And
Speaker 2: then I'll fly over to Austin, Texas. I'll go to
Speaker 2: the f one meet up with some friends there. Whould
Speaker 2: be a great time down in Austin. And then from
Speaker 2: there I'll fly to Mexico. I'm going to do a
Speaker 2: little R and R in Mexico a little then out
Speaker 2: in Mexico, and then from there it's a been open ended.
Speaker 2: I'm not really honestly sure. I'll go back to Dallas
Speaker 2: at some point too, thanks to you for the family.
Speaker 2: And then I've got about a week in lou i
Speaker 2: might go up to New York. I've got some friends
Speaker 2: up there there. They're living up there. Pretty pretty cool
Speaker 2: to see and yeah, and then I'm all head back
Speaker 2: to Australia and I'm actually going to go up to
Speaker 2: the Northern Territory and go to a place called Groot Island.
Speaker 2: It's off the east coast of sorry, off east on
Speaker 2: them Land, and I'm going to go do a little
Speaker 2: bit of a fishing trip and a bit of community
Speaker 2: work up there in the indigenous community, So trying to
Speaker 2: put all that together at the moment with a fl
Speaker 2: k P York house and the Polyfores, so a few
Speaker 2: things on that to do some community stuff along the way.
Speaker 1: You're going to get back to pre season and it's
Speaker 1: going to feel like a rest. That's going to be
Speaker 1: like I, thank God, thank God, I'm into preseason training.
Speaker 1: I can finally have a.
Speaker 2: Break, finally have a schedule again. Finally I can just
Speaker 2: do know what I'm doing every single day for the
Speaker 2: next three months of my life, and then we'll get
Speaker 2: into the season, which we'll last for another six months.
Speaker 1: What I do want to see though, is when you
Speaker 1: do Thanksgiving, I want to see what you cook, because
Speaker 1: like I don't think a lot of our listeners would
Speaker 1: experience a Thanksgiving in the States, Like is it turkey?
Speaker 1: Obviously you got to do and then what what's what's
Speaker 1: on top of that.
Speaker 2: Well, there's the classics, man, So you got turkey, cranberry sauce, obviously,
Speaker 2: the pumpkin pie is a massive thing. And then you'll
Speaker 2: have mashed potatoes, gravy. Those are kind of like the
Speaker 2: main staples. Now we have that, but then I've also
Speaker 2: got so I'll have my Thanksgiving with my family here
Speaker 2: in America, and then I also have a friends Giving,
Speaker 2: which is like a Thanksgiving with friends back in Australia
Speaker 2: whenever the first weekend before we start training again, which
Speaker 2: is probably not the best thing in the world to
Speaker 2: be smashing a ton of food and just becoming a
Speaker 2: fat piece of shit right before you start training. But
Speaker 2: you know, you got to traditions, so we'll do that.
Speaker 2: And then essentially I've got a lot of friends from
Speaker 2: all over the world that kind of have come into
Speaker 2: Melbourne and stuff, and each one of them brings something.
Speaker 2: So I've got a friend from Sweden. He brings Swedish meatballs.
Speaker 2: Is that part of thanks Seeming dinner? Usually no, but
Speaker 2: we let him do it, you know what, because he
Speaker 2: doesn't do thanks to me and Sweden. So we kind
Speaker 2: of make it around, which is good fun. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll have two Thanksgivings this year and then we'll be
Speaker 2: back into training to hopefully run all that off.
Speaker 1: What's the Australian Thanksgiving meat?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What could what meat could we provide?
Speaker 2: I feel like Kangaroo's easy one, right you just like
Speaker 2: you know, I do one of the kangaroos, like I
Speaker 2: think they bury it in the ground, like the kangaroo
Speaker 2: tail and they do like a whole coals underground, Like
Speaker 2: oh man, actually sounds pretty good. I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: kind of weird to be like people like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: you can get kangaroo at a local supermarket in Australia.
Speaker 2: You kill kangaroos. I was like, Gods, kangaroos are like
Speaker 2: deers back in Australia. I don't think you understand. Like
Speaker 2: sometimes they're a pest on the road and they're like,
Speaker 2: but they're cute and cuddly like koalas, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's not really like that.
Speaker 1: It would be way worse if we were killing and
Speaker 1: eating koalas. They're so cute. They're too cute.
Speaker 2: Before you move on, I just want to say this
Speaker 2: because a lot of people will know this.
Speaker 1: What are you going to see?
Speaker 2: Chlamydia is the number one killer of koala's brandon, So is.
Speaker 1: That why we're not aiding them because we don't want
Speaker 1: to get Can you get chlamydia? If you an animal
Speaker 1: that's got chlamydia? If we can affect check.
Speaker 2: This, I mean I think we should maybe refrained from
Speaker 2: that after COVID from the Bat, So maybe that's I
Speaker 2: don't know if there's kind of crossover there, but I
Speaker 2: think we've maybe learned our lesson as a world to
Speaker 2: not screw with certain animals. I think Cola is probably
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: Now we're jumping straight into hot takes, and you've got
Speaker 1: one here. You've put it to the top of the list,
Speaker 1: so I imagine it must be pretty near and.
Speaker 2: Very important. And this is gonna upset a lot of
Speaker 2: families because as everyone knows, I'm sure everyone's played this game.
Speaker 2: It is a very very popular game worldwide. Worldwide. It
Speaker 2: is called Uno. Now Uno the card game, as everyone
Speaker 2: is understanding, you know the different things that happen. You
Speaker 2: can have a reverse, you can have a skip, you
Speaker 2: can have a draw four, you can have a draw two. Right. Well,
Speaker 2: Uno has come out recently, and I'm a bit hey,
Speaker 2: there's a hot take. I'm been living on this bright
Speaker 2: and I'm not I'm not gonna lie because this this
Speaker 2: was a like, this is a big thing in our household.
Speaker 2: You now, because you get let's let's set the scene.
Speaker 2: Let's set the scene. Okay, you're playing Una, right, You're
Speaker 2: sitting there and you got this asshole to your left,
Speaker 2: and this guy's got you. He's dogged you like four times. Right,
Speaker 2: he's got the draw four, he's chosen the wrong color
Speaker 2: every time. He's just been a pain in the ass
Speaker 2: all game on. Right, Yeah, and this guy goes up
Speaker 2: right and like, let's say, the person before him, you know,
Speaker 2: puts down the draw too, and you've gone, oh, yes,
Speaker 2: the guy before me has to draw too, right, Well,
Speaker 2: this dickhead, as as they do. He goes and lays
Speaker 2: down and draw two on top of a draw too,
Speaker 2: which makes a draw four. And you're stuck there drawing
Speaker 2: double the amount of cards, and you're like this, I
Speaker 2: hate this game. I don't want to be a part
Speaker 2: of it. Right, you've got twenty cards in your hand.
Speaker 2: You're going, literally, I've got the pick of the bunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, Uno has come out and they've actually corrected this rule. Now,
Speaker 2: Uno doesn't really come with directions. I feel like it's
Speaker 2: a bit at adhac. Everyone's got their own kind of
Speaker 2: rules and regulations. But Uno has changed the rule where
Speaker 2: you can't put down a draw two on top of
Speaker 2: another draw too to make it draw four. So now
Speaker 2: it's just draw two the next person draws two, so
Speaker 2: you can't get like draw to the next person goes
Speaker 2: draw too. You go draw four, and the next person
Speaker 2: puts another draw to, the next person gets draw six,
Speaker 2: and then you get another person that's like draw two,
Speaker 2: and it's like the next person got draw eight cards
Speaker 2: and you go from one and UNO to like nine cards,
Speaker 2: and then you're sitting there screaming at the people next
Speaker 2: to you who are your family at Thanksgiving dinner because
Speaker 2: you're so pissed off with them for protriating you, like
Speaker 2: absolute dark shiting. Ah, it's just so frustrating. But anyways,
Speaker 2: So not that I have any connections to this, and
Speaker 2: I'm passion about this whatsoever it's happened to me, but anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so UNOS has changed, the rules, were clarified the rule
Speaker 2: per se, probably more than anything, because I just let
Speaker 2: everyone run with the rules. No one really had any
Speaker 2: rules they came to the box. But apparently now the
Speaker 2: draw to cannot be put on a draw two to
Speaker 2: make it a draw four.
Speaker 1: Sometimes life's not fair. Sometimes you get piled up with
Speaker 1: draw toos and you get slammed into the dirt, but
Speaker 1: you pick yourself up and you dust yourself off. But
Speaker 1: now we don't have to learn how to be resilient
Speaker 1: because they just changed the rules so we don't hurt
Speaker 1: someone's feelings.
Speaker 2: Like that's I'm more on the patient.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm more on slam them down.
Speaker 2: Create some feuds in the family. People hate each other.
Speaker 1: Drill Ane with like seven draw toos in her own
Speaker 1: like stuffer. If she's not ready to play, don't come
Speaker 1: to the table. That's what I reckon.
Speaker 2: You step in this arena, you gotta be ready to play.
Speaker 1: Like that's the brakes. That's what happens. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: That's where I learned resilience as a child.
Speaker 1: Out of Monopoly, We'll say, and I'm going to put
Speaker 1: it out there. I don't know if you've got like
Speaker 1: a crazier game or Risk. You remember Risk? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I add two housemates and one ended up moving out
Speaker 1: because I don't know if I've told it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So Risk is essentially your countries and you're at war,
Speaker 1: and it's like it plays out that way. But one
Speaker 1: of my housemates let another housemate play on. He said,
Speaker 1: I take pity on you. Instead of wiping you out,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like just let you play on, I'll take
Speaker 1: you down to the bare minimum and then you can
Speaker 1: just you can still feel like you're part of the game. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the other housemate ended up coming back and winning the
Speaker 1: whole thing, and then that housemate flipped the table and
Speaker 1: he's like, you should have been gone in the first place.
Speaker 1: I let you stay here, And it was like this,
Speaker 1: It was like a war in the household.
Speaker 2: I've flipped a few tables and Risk, and I feel
Speaker 2: like any of the listeners out there have played Risk,
Speaker 2: they've experienced it, because whether you're on the winning end
Speaker 2: or the losing end, someone's flipping the thing. It's not
Speaker 2: the thing is too it's not. It's not just like
Speaker 2: a few pieces. And anyone that that's played Risk knows this.
Speaker 2: There is a thousand pieces of this game. So whenever
Speaker 2: you flip the actual board, it scatters into a million
Speaker 2: different areas in the house and like three weeks later,
Speaker 2: you're pulling soldiers out of the closet going how the
Speaker 2: hell did you end up in here? And it's just obnoxious.
Speaker 2: Like I've I've personally flipped a few a few of
Speaker 2: those Monday. Don't get me wrong. I have been like
Speaker 2: a competitive if you know that, Brandon. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: feel like in the grand scheme of that, he probably
Speaker 2: let them keep Australia, you know, but Australia the little
Speaker 2: continent on the corner that like, you know, it's very
Speaker 2: hard to get to the rest of the continents, as
Speaker 2: we all know in the game of risk, and he
Speaker 2: probably loved that. And then Australia came back.
Speaker 1: Where battle is where you can't count us.
Speaker 2: Outlers and prisoners.
Speaker 1: It's good jumping to my hot take. And this I've
Speaker 1: experienced this recently. So every experience that I've ever had
Speaker 1: with my goov has just been a big old steam
Speaker 1: and pile of shit. You've got to link like forty
Speaker 1: accounts to your MyGov but none of them work. And
Speaker 1: I called up I got like, you know, Janine, she's
Speaker 1: eighty seven, she's in the call center. You're like, hey, Janine,
Speaker 1: I just like I want to just go outside and
Speaker 1: like live a life. Can I like link up my
Speaker 1: vaccine passport. She's like, oh, it's just our system, dah.
Speaker 1: You know, it just does you know, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: And You're like, cool, story, But you do force millions
Speaker 1: of people to use this system, and if they don't.
Speaker 1: They can't go and live a life, So fix your shit.
Speaker 1: It's like, link your ato to the thing, but a
Speaker 1: bada ba put in all my information. It's like, nah, bro,
Speaker 1: this isn't the right information. You're like, well it is
Speaker 1: because it's been my super fun for the past thirteen years.
Speaker 1: I don't have another one, so that has to be
Speaker 1: and they're like, nah, bro, you better call our call center.
Speaker 1: It was like hello, Janine, It's like, yeah, I need
Speaker 1: to link my shit and she's like, oh no, you're
Speaker 1: back again. Yeah, it's just a system. If you try
Speaker 1: turning it off and on again, you're like, oh, nah,
Speaker 1: I didn't just thought that the you know, multimillion dollar
Speaker 1: system would like work once ever. And it was like nah,
Speaker 1: so you just get to do that loop over and
Speaker 1: over and over. But the best part about it is
Speaker 1: they don't give you an option. There's no other option, Like,
Speaker 1: I just want to give the government money please, and
Speaker 1: they're like yeah, they're like, you just want to give
Speaker 1: us money.
Speaker 2: No, it's going to be hard to give us time.
Speaker 2: To give us time to with your money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you got to spend like two hours on
Speaker 1: the phone. You gotta like you got to you got
Speaker 1: to jump through like hoops to give us money. What
Speaker 1: you just want to give us money? No, we'll make
Speaker 1: it difficult for you. So yeah, my hot take. And
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's a hard take. I think
Speaker 1: everyone will agree. But my GOV is us, It's just us.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting for the day that MyGov turns into
Speaker 2: optis and has this whole, this whole thing where everyone
Speaker 2: everyone's stuff goes public. I got an email the other
Speaker 2: day saying my information was released from OPTIS from like
Speaker 2: ten years ago when of our first came here. I
Speaker 2: was without just like a year now, obviously with Telstra
Speaker 2: big Fantelstra, big ambassador. But yeah, at least you know,
Speaker 2: I'm waiting for that day that you know that the
Speaker 2: MyGov kind of has the eighteen year old that hacks
Speaker 2: into their system and releases everyone's Medicare information.
Speaker 1: I think everyone's waiting for that day. I have zero belief.
Speaker 1: I have zero faith in any government online anything. But
Speaker 1: it's good because you get forced into it, so you
Speaker 1: have no choice. So we're just all on the roller
Speaker 1: coaster together. We're all in the same boat.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking about being in the same boat, mate, we're
Speaker 2: going to go into the greatest part of every podcast.
Speaker 2: It is the water cooler chat. I know everyone's been
Speaker 2: hyped up what we're going to talk about. You know what,
Speaker 2: can I go to work with and say, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna bring this little snippet, a little tipbit up
Speaker 2: to you, and I'm gonna let you fill the rest
Speaker 2: of this story. And that's what we're here for. We're
Speaker 2: here for weird, wacky stories.
Speaker 1: We get the ball rolling. You got to do a
Speaker 1: little bit on your end, like, come on, we're giving
Speaker 1: you convos starters, So don't rely on us to do
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but we'll get the ball roll in foot.
Speaker 2: Don't rely on me to be one hundred cent factual
Speaker 2: on any of these things. But you know what, this
Speaker 2: is a great conversation starter, and that's the important thing.
Speaker 2: We're all here for a good story. Now, there's something
Speaker 2: massive happening here and it's unfortunate, it's a little bit
Speaker 2: of negative, but you know what, we've got to know
Speaker 2: this because these are the important things in life. Right,
Speaker 2: The important things in life are divorces, and Tom Brady
Speaker 2: and Giselle are talking about getting a divorce and it's
Speaker 2: absolutely killing me because I am sitting here as a
Speaker 2: professional athlete, hoping that I'm gonna be able to marry
Speaker 2: a model one day and live a beautiful life. And
Speaker 2: Tom is screwing this idea up for me, but don't
Speaker 2: appreciate it one bit. Tom and Giselle, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what the issue is. I know it's probably Tom not
Speaker 2: being able to retire, and Tom just keep coming back
Speaker 2: from retirement dominating the NFL as dies at fifty years old. Now,
Speaker 2: I understand you can be upset, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: but come on, like, what can we Can we work
Speaker 2: through this? Can we just figure it out? You're a
Speaker 2: power couple. I need I need power couples of my life.
Speaker 2: You know, the entertainment world needs Giselle and Tom to
Speaker 2: stick together. But unfortunately they're both I think hired divorce lawyers.
Speaker 2: Brady's seeing it. He was seeing at the Robert Craft
Speaker 2: wedding by himself. It's never a good sign. If you're
Speaker 2: the wedding by yourself married, it's never a good sign. Tom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and she's just supporting. Apparently she's not happy with his
Speaker 2: decision to come back out of retirement because Brady essentially
Speaker 2: retired and said nah, I've spent about a month at
Speaker 2: home and they're doing my head in, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go back to work. So yeah, it's it's a tough
Speaker 2: time out there. But Tom Gizelle throws up.
Speaker 1: I can actually he's doing all right because he's laughing
Speaker 1: all the way to the bank. If they do break up,
Speaker 1: she's worth more than him.
Speaker 2: Apparently she is worth more. Yeah, there's a few NFL
Speaker 2: like and stuff. I've had a divorce and have been
Speaker 2: more wealthier than the actual professional athletes. They've been all
Speaker 2: leverage the position they're in. So Gizelle actually might be
Speaker 2: paying Tom Brady out for a divorce, which would be
Speaker 2: a pretty wild scenario. I mean, she's made her own
Speaker 2: money in her own right, doing me wrong. But it
Speaker 2: is kind of funny because Tom's known to be this
Speaker 2: one of the best professional athletes ever and he might
Speaker 2: actually be getting money from her, which is kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: Now. I know, Tom Brady's probably had a few offers,
Speaker 1: but hear me out, Gizelle. I'm on Inge, I'm on Bumble,
Speaker 1: I'm on Dave. If you do sign up, just keep
Speaker 1: an eye out. I am single. You know, good blow
Speaker 1: funny sense of humor mustache, great guy, good accent in Australia.
Speaker 1: Get a gizelle. See I could put it, I can
Speaker 1: thicken it up. Oh, cricky, get a gizelle. Well you
Speaker 1: come over here and wrestle a few crocs. Why don't you.
Speaker 2: Swooning over that accent? No doubt, I think you're hey.
Speaker 2: I think you slide into the DMS. I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 2: sure she'll get back to you. She'll be here in
Speaker 2: a jiffy. And who knows what will happen mate Now
Speaker 2: over the weekend, obviously in so football, massive, massive sporting news.
Speaker 2: Now in CLA football, we put up a post about this.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a pony that is the mascot of
Speaker 2: Southern method the Methodist University, right SMU, and SMU is
Speaker 2: playing I think Navy at the time over the weekends,
Speaker 2: and something happened, right, so this horse slash pony miniged
Speaker 2: your horse. Maybe, I don't know what you wanna call it.
Speaker 2: Every time they score a touchdown, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: we go in the end zone, you know, people dance
Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. Yeah, horse goes and sprints
Speaker 2: across the field. Right, So SMU scores a touchdown, they're going, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: let's get it. And then this pony goes the Pony
Speaker 2: Express across the across the field and unfortunately, as you
Speaker 2: can't really predict these things, the pony goes number two
Speaker 2: as it's running in the middle of the field. So
Speaker 2: what happens? Break? What do you do? I mean, it's
Speaker 2: it's sprayed just ship everywhere, and I mean that in
Speaker 2: the most literal terms. It is pretty shit everywhere, and
Speaker 2: it's on the field and players are still gott to
Speaker 2: finish the game. So what do you do. You go
Speaker 2: into a bit of a time out, essentially for a
Speaker 2: TV timeout, so they can clean up the ship from
Speaker 2: the actual field. So, yes, they had to go get
Speaker 2: the horse people to go out and with cups and
Speaker 2: scoop up all the different little trails that this body
Speaker 2: had left throughout the field as it celebrated, and the
Speaker 2: game essentially stopped for about two or three minutes while
Speaker 2: they had to clean it up. Man, it was a
Speaker 2: pretty shitty situation.
Speaker 1: You could say, gags who gets that jump the ship
Speaker 1: clean up gun?
Speaker 2: It wasn't just one solid one man, it was it
Speaker 2: was pieces everywhere.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a decent cleanup. I must say on five.
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's let's wind up this sadness and jump straight
Speaker 1: into the highly credible, well researched news that I run
Speaker 1: and I don't. I've kept this separate from you. I
Speaker 1: haven't shown you, so you don't know what's coming up.
Speaker 1: So I do want to play something off the top,
Speaker 1: and I want to get your thoughts on what you
Speaker 1: think it could be. So have a listen. Alright, I'm
Speaker 1: going to fade that one out there, any any thoughts
Speaker 1: on it?
Speaker 2: About five seconds to long? Brand that's what I think. No,
Speaker 2: I've got no idea what that is. Man, it sounds
Speaker 2: At first I thought it was a cruise ship horn,
Speaker 2: and then I think it turned into maybe a bit
Speaker 2: of a some kind of instrument someone's playing. I'm not
Speaker 2: really sure the background to it, but.
Speaker 1: I give you the listening to give you the headline.
Speaker 1: Man plays saxophone while doctors perform awake brain surgery on him.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I've seen these before.
Speaker 1: Also known as an intraoperative brain mapping and awake craniotomy,
Speaker 1: aids neurosurgeons in removing tumors that are deemed inoperable, so
Speaker 1: awake brain surgeries are performed on tumors that have spread
Speaker 1: across the brain and do not present clear boundaries. Such
Speaker 1: tumors undergo significant shrinkage following the surgery. So the surgery
Speaker 1: lasts nine hours and he played the saxophone the entire time,
Speaker 1: and it's said that he is recovering.
Speaker 2: Well, it's crazy. They can sit there and like literally,
Speaker 2: oh geez.
Speaker 1: What are you doing over there?
Speaker 2: Oh? Just cramped them.
Speaker 1: Ah, this is going well.
Speaker 2: I just cramped from running water in the sifl. Oh
Speaker 2: how good is that? Oh my god? Wow?
Speaker 1: Okay, I thought you were giving us an example of
Speaker 1: like someone getting surgery. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh I can't believe that just happened. Anyway, Sorry, I'll
Speaker 2: go back to I've seen these before now, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: They do like a violin. Every once in a while,
Speaker 2: they'll have someone talk during this operation and they can
Speaker 2: sit there and like poke on one point in the
Speaker 2: brain and then they just go absolute blank, like they
Speaker 2: don't know how to speak, or they can't play like
Speaker 2: the tune they were playing or whatever it is. And
Speaker 2: it's like, it's so interesting that we know the brain
Speaker 2: so well to be able to sit there pinpoint something
Speaker 2: to say, this is the one kind of nerve that
Speaker 2: connects your ability through your brain and your arms and
Speaker 2: your limbs to be able to like play music and
Speaker 2: things like that. It's it's it's phenomenal, Like if people
Speaker 2: haven't seen, it's actually really cool. There's people that will
Speaker 2: play violins. Those people are like literally talking different languages
Speaker 2: to a bit, to each other, to the surgeons while
Speaker 2: they're actually doing it and operating on the brain. It's
Speaker 2: it's phenomenal what we can do from the medical sense nowadays.
Speaker 1: I've moved Florida Man to second because the last one
Speaker 1: is insane. So that's a little preview for the next
Speaker 1: one coming up. But I don't know if you know
Speaker 1: where Crestview is, But Crestview Man has a nine year
Speaker 1: old drive him seven miles home. You know, it seems
Speaker 1: pretty innocent enough. A witness suspected that the driver was
Speaker 1: impaired due to the vehicle being all over the roadway,
Speaker 1: so the witness then cut off the car before noticing
Speaker 1: that it was actually a child behind the wheel. The
Speaker 1: nine year old told deputies that Arios, which is the
Speaker 1: twenty two year old, asked him to drive him home.
Speaker 1: They say that the nine year old then began driving
Speaker 1: back to his house alone. He traveled three miles back
Speaker 1: to his house before he got pulled over. The mother
Speaker 1: told deputies that Arios, the twenty two year old, was
Speaker 1: at her house the night before drinking alcohol and stayed
Speaker 1: the night. So he's gone, I've had a few too much, mate,
Speaker 1: I reckon, you could drive me home. So he's done
Speaker 1: the responsible thing. He's got that nine year old, he's
Speaker 1: got the DESI driver. But unfortunately the Asi driver was
Speaker 1: nine years old and he was intercepted. So that was
Speaker 1: this close.
Speaker 2: A nine year old like sitting on phone book stacks
Speaker 2: with like you know, a block for the pedal, pushing
Speaker 2: the pedal down to be able to drive this car,
Speaker 2: and his hands are like literally stretched as far as part,
Speaker 2: grabbing both ends of the steering wheel and just driving
Speaker 2: like a clown.
Speaker 1: So this is it. This is the big one. This
Speaker 1: is already instant classic before we even start. Woman scammed
Speaker 1: by Russian astronaut who claimed he needed money to return
Speaker 1: to Earth.
Speaker 2: Russian space and went down recently, so it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: The man claimed he needed money to pay for landing
Speaker 1: fees once on Earth and the rocket to fly home,
Speaker 1: so we had to buy a rocket, and then you
Speaker 1: got to you got to pay the landing fees. You
Speaker 1: can't just land like anywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I played for the parking.
Speaker 1: You got pay landing fees. Not everyone can just crash
Speaker 1: her out in the ocean. A man claiming to be
Speaker 1: a Russian astronaut in space allegedly scammed a Japanese woman
Speaker 1: into paying his return trip to Earth, vowing to marry
Speaker 1: her once he landed.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: On his profile, he uploaded a whole bunch of random
Speaker 1: photos from space and said he worked at the International
Speaker 1: Space Station, where astronauts have limited access to cell service,
Speaker 1: So you know he couldn't he couldn't just message her
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, like you know, you don't get
Speaker 1: the four or five G up there. Their relationship quickly escalated,
Speaker 1: he proposed, but said to tie the knot. You know,
Speaker 1: I got a land back on Earth. So, believing the
Speaker 1: man would be her future fiance, the woman paid him
Speaker 1: about four point four million yen, which is about thirty
Speaker 1: thousand US in five in five installments. But the old
Speaker 1: Russian astronaut didn't just you know, take the win, take
Speaker 1: the easy dub. He demanded more from her. She you
Speaker 1: know a bit suspicious reported him to the police, and
Speaker 1: now they're after this Russian astronaut. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how they're going to catch him. Like one, they got
Speaker 1: to get a rocket or so, they got to get
Speaker 1: up there. They've got to play the you know, the
Speaker 1: landing fees on their end. It's a whole thing.
Speaker 2: So essentially the space forces you know, tender swindler is
Speaker 2: essentially what this guy is. And I can't imagine this
Speaker 2: lady who has thirty thousand dollars, is that you know,
Speaker 2: gollible to actually believe that someone you know needs to
Speaker 2: pull up a Pace day app to be able to
Speaker 2: make sure they can park their you know, their space
Speaker 2: force with jet to get down there to make sure
Speaker 2: they get to Earth safely.
Speaker 1: But the only thing that I can think of that
Speaker 1: would be just the last little twist in this is
Speaker 1: the police investigated. And it's true, like he's still up
Speaker 1: in space trying to figure out the planting arrangements, and
Speaker 1: he's like, just isn't.
Speaker 2: That new easy app? I can't figure it out.
Speaker 1: He can't download the app because, as he said, there's
Speaker 1: limited cell phone service up in you know space, and
Speaker 1: he's still waiting for his banking app but he comes
Speaker 1: back and then he's he's a bit miffed that she
Speaker 1: even questioned him, and then it turns into a full
Speaker 1: you know, spat and then Giselle finds out and she
Speaker 1: ends up getting married with the Russian astronaut, and it's
Speaker 1: a full.
Speaker 2: Thing, Braden. We must, we must move on because there's
Speaker 2: there's also many things we need to catch up on
Speaker 2: and everyone's favorite segment. We have a lot of female listeners,
Speaker 2: and I feel like a lot of male listeners get
Speaker 2: a lot out of this too, mate, And it's the
Speaker 2: dating life, the dating life, Mate. Now I've been told
Speaker 2: by you that we have a bit of a submission,
Speaker 2: Is that correct? We do.
Speaker 1: We do have a fan submission this week, and it's
Speaker 1: a real you know, up and down a fair I
Speaker 1: won't say anymore because I don't want to spoil it,
Speaker 1: but let's just jump straight into our fan submission.
Speaker 3: Good eight, Cocky and co because you'll hope you lads
Speaker 3: are both well. Got a bit of a story for you.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of an awkward moment, bad day, but
Speaker 3: not really because it actually a really really good day.
Speaker 3: So anyway, basically talking to this girl for ages really
Speaker 3: really like this. I took her out one day and
Speaker 3: had this great plan. I was like, I took her
Speaker 3: to the beach, We had a picnic sorted out, was
Speaker 3: super good. Just didn't have a picnic basket, so she
Speaker 3: supplied it, which was still killer. Got some nice like
Speaker 3: a cheese board. Like I was feeling fancy, like I was,
Speaker 3: I was head over here.
Speaker 2: I was keen on this.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we go. The date's great. It watch the sunset.
Speaker 3: It's really really nice. Then I go to drop her
Speaker 3: home because I picked her up in the gentleman I am.
Speaker 3: And as I'm dropping her home, we get to her
Speaker 3: house and like we're on the way up and I
Speaker 3: do I've just really really got a fart. Like I
Speaker 3: know that sounds so bad, but the entire drive I'm
Speaker 3: just like thinking, I can't let this go here. I cannot. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we finally gets her hacks. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: thank god. I get out. I do the courteous thing.
Speaker 3: I go over to her side. I open the door
Speaker 3: for her, and then I go and I opened the
Speaker 3: boot to get to the basket. She's standing there waiting.
Speaker 2: I opened the boot.
Speaker 3: It's all fine. Then I go shut the boot and oh,
Speaker 3: like my car's a little bit old and had to
Speaker 3: over exert, and oh, as I slammed the car door down,
Speaker 3: I just let out the biggest far of my life.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was so bad. I can't even describe it. And
Speaker 3: we both just look at each other and we both
Speaker 3: knew and we just had that like quick glance each
Speaker 3: other and then looked away, and I was so embarrassed,
Speaker 3: like I dropped her off. Then the whole way home,
Speaker 3: I'm just like head in hands. It was like a
Speaker 3: long drive but worked out in day for two years.
Speaker 2: So fight on, so faright on, wow, fart on. Hey,
Speaker 2: that's how you know if she's a cool check if
Speaker 2: she just if she just rolls with it and just
Speaker 2: laughs and you move on and like it's no big deal.
Speaker 2: That's an absolute keeper.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Blame the car straight away, no doubt
Speaker 1: in my mind.
Speaker 2: No doubt. I would have done that instantly, like oh,
Speaker 2: this old piece of shit and just like throwing the thing,
Speaker 2: like I would have tried to create that same noise
Speaker 2: again somehow and be able to play it off as
Speaker 2: if it was the car. You know, your car, So
Speaker 2: I'm like that'd be like, oh, I must have been
Speaker 2: the muff for her.
Speaker 1: Suspension. Creek saw this old thing and if you see
Speaker 1: and then if she's still cool, she like, lets you
Speaker 1: get away with that full well knowing that you're lying.
Speaker 1: That's a good sign, a green flag.
Speaker 2: We'll move into We'll move into the last segment. Mate,
Speaker 2: we've got the footage.
Speaker 1: Chat jump back into this. So the USAFL. We touched
Speaker 1: on it briefly at the top of the podcast. But so,
Speaker 1: what's the deal. You were at a tournament today. So
Speaker 1: the whole thing's played over the span of a day
Speaker 1: or how's this thing work?
Speaker 2: So the tournament's played over two days. Both brothers are
Speaker 2: playing it, so there's men's women's divisions, there's everything here.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they played two games a first day and
Speaker 2: then depending how they go on the first day and
Speaker 2: the second day, they kind of have different pools for
Speaker 2: the tournament. Doing how they go, they can play four
Speaker 2: games as they get to the grand final and then
Speaker 2: they'll be crowned a winner at the end of the thing.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of games over the weekend. There's
Speaker 2: plenty of grounds and stuff. It's really good fun. Everyone
Speaker 2: out here just having having a blast, learning more about
Speaker 2: the game and becoming a bit of a family over
Speaker 2: here because everyone's just surviving on AFL in America and
Speaker 2: it's a very unique thing. So you got people all
Speaker 2: fly from We're in LA at the moment. We've got
Speaker 2: people flying from New York. We've got people flying from
Speaker 2: Florida and Seattle and up in Camp and all over
Speaker 2: the US, and everyone's flown in for this weekend just
Speaker 2: to be able to play footy together.
Speaker 1: Tell us how did the family go? Two brothers, which
Speaker 1: one's the best?
Speaker 2: The Nolan's team won the national championship in Division one,
Speaker 2: which is a massive deal. So they've actually, want to think,
Speaker 2: either the last four or five national championships, so they've
Speaker 2: they've been absolutely smashing it there the Austin Crows. So
Speaker 2: if I ever wear Crows gear, it's the Austin Crows,
Speaker 2: not the Adelaide Crows. Don't throw a shade at me,
Speaker 2: please everyone, but represent the Austin Crows. But the other
Speaker 2: brother also plays with Seattle Grizzlies. They tied one lost too, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: but they have actually, like I said before, they've they've
Speaker 2: grown a lot in the last two years. They've played
Speaker 2: played really well and they've they've become a lot better
Speaker 2: in their skills and just kind of you know, movement
Speaker 2: to the ball and everything else where. It looks like
Speaker 2: a proper game AFL now. So yeah, both brothers played.
Speaker 2: Nolan won the national championship and got to drink out
Speaker 2: of the club, drinks out of the cup. They got
Speaker 2: this massive cup they win and everyone pours beer into
Speaker 2: it and drinks out of it and it's a whole
Speaker 2: circle thing and it's it's good fun, man. And there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of videos coming out in the
Speaker 2: next few next week or so about it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they've been dominating the Austin Crows and on the women's side,
Speaker 2: the Iron Maidens, which is the San Francisco team. They've
Speaker 2: been absolutely dominating over in the AFL W on that
Speaker 2: side of it. So two powerhouses at the moment that
Speaker 2: are waiting to be knocked off. But this year it
Speaker 2: goes to to the Crows and the Iron Maidens.
Speaker 1: He's starting to get a little jealous. The gap is
Speaker 1: getting bigger between you and Nolan just keeps getting another
Speaker 1: cup to the trophy cabinet. The cabinet at home is
Speaker 1: going to be full of all Nolan's medals and trophies.
Speaker 2: He keeps telling me, I'm the only brother who hasn't
Speaker 2: won a Grand final, which is true, but he's it's
Speaker 2: kind of crazy, man, because like he came over here,
Speaker 2: and obviously we've had him on the podcast. He's one
Speaker 2: of our previous Nolan Is. I've got two brothers here,
Speaker 2: but Nolan has been on the podcast. Check it out.
Speaker 2: It's a great, great chat about my life and his
Speaker 2: involvement and everything that kind of happened and got me
Speaker 2: through the AFL. It's in the in the storied archives,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's it was just kind of awesome to
Speaker 2: see him get into it. He's now one of the
Speaker 2: best players in the league and plays rock also and
Speaker 2: he's one best on ground a few times and MVP
Speaker 2: of the tournament a few times and things like that.
Speaker 2: So he's definitely making a statement over here. He's entirely
Speaker 2: too old to be playing the AFL. A lot of
Speaker 2: people ask me that, you know it's probably going to
Speaker 2: come over here and now all he's I al want
Speaker 2: to say, his age result enough to that to not
Speaker 2: be in the AFL, that's that's for sure. But no,
Speaker 2: it's awesome to have them involved. Mom and dad fly
Speaker 2: up here, you know, and the two brothers all in
Speaker 2: the same place, and it's become a bit of a
Speaker 2: family reunion every year.
Speaker 1: We just went through the trade period. Everyone's favorite time
Speaker 1: of year, especially the players. They love it. No anxiety,
Speaker 1: know nothing. You thought your thoughts on the trade period
Speaker 1: because you've got a fair few new teammates. You clearly
Speaker 1: lost one. Oh well, you lost a couple, but you
Speaker 1: lost one that's very near and dear to you in
Speaker 1: Brodie Grundy. You've been on this journey for pretty much
Speaker 1: the entire time and you're like in the similar role.
Speaker 1: But the way that you, guys, I saw it firsthand
Speaker 1: connected over the journey and you know, starting with like
Speaker 1: the Falls Creek experience, kind of going head to head
Speaker 1: and you know, driving standards between each other. It was
Speaker 1: really you know, it was impressive to watch at times.
Speaker 1: And Brody had this just you know, preseason he would
Speaker 1: go insanely hard, like like there's never going to be
Speaker 1: a question around him, and the effort that he puts
Speaker 1: in and his pre seasons because it was like insane
Speaker 1: and just to see like you two kind of drive
Speaker 1: each other with that, you know, that energy and that
Speaker 1: work rate, like you only made each other better. But
Speaker 1: I can imagine that that kind of solidified, like a
Speaker 1: friendship between you two guys. Have you spoken to Brody
Speaker 1: or have you reached out or you've been overseas, So
Speaker 1: I imagine it's hard. But like, what's that process been
Speaker 1: like just watching from afar?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of knew it was going to happen beforehand,
Speaker 2: so probably I probably myself obviously very close and we
Speaker 2: kind of had a conversation I guess a little bit
Speaker 2: before it came out. And yeah, it's just it's just tough,
Speaker 2: like I mean it is. I mean, at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, you know, there's got to be decisions made,
Speaker 2: I guess from a from a club standpoint, to try
Speaker 2: to put them in the best, best possible scenario. But
Speaker 2: whenever it comes to these things, you know, you make
Speaker 2: these amazing friendships with with guys over the years, and
Speaker 2: Bertie is definitely one of those I'll value at a
Speaker 2: very very high level and is, like you mentioned, pushed
Speaker 2: me to be a better player, not only on the
Speaker 2: field but off the field, and he's he's done some
Speaker 2: pretty amazing things. He's a great, great human, great great
Speaker 2: motivator and a guy that you know will be missed
Speaker 2: at the club. He's probably he's someone that you kind
Speaker 2: of you always kind of think, oh, you know, he's
Speaker 2: always going to be there, and you know, have all
Speaker 2: these experiences with people, but you know, everyone including myself,
Speaker 2: you know, we all have a finite time in this
Speaker 2: in this league, and unfortunately things kind of don't always
Speaker 2: go to plan. But Brodie's you know, he's an amazing person.
Speaker 2: I think he's handled it quite well. He could could
Speaker 2: have gone the other way and been really filthy and
Speaker 2: everything else, and he's been really really kind to everyone
Speaker 2: through the whole process and has been really a stand
Speaker 2: up person. So credit goes to him. And yeah, he'll
Speaker 2: definitely be a mess. From my side, I always love
Speaker 2: competing against him, you know, whenever you get to compete
Speaker 2: against some of the best ruckman in the league, and
Speaker 2: Brodie was one of those. And you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's tough now to be able to see him go,
Speaker 2: and you know we just have to kind of step
Speaker 2: that up from our perspective, I guess myself and dar
Speaker 2: camera and now we've got damn stay there and you know,
Speaker 2: Aiden Bag and bas the other Fellaw, sorry, we'll kind
Speaker 2: of have to drive that standard now. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: is it is tough to see him go. He's a
Speaker 2: he's a person that's been at Staple Round the club
Speaker 2: for a long time and someone I've highly respected, and
Speaker 2: you know, I know you've had your experiences with them also,
Speaker 2: and he's always been so kind for to everyone, not
Speaker 2: only just in the footy side, but also the admin
Speaker 2: side and everything else. And he's just a stand up human.
Speaker 2: But whenever I kind of found out, you know, we
Speaker 2: kind of sat down and kind of, you know, I said,
Speaker 2: you know, I understand, I understand these things have been
Speaker 2: out there and I thought that might be the case,
Speaker 2: but kind of said, you know, step back, and I
Speaker 2: always try to think, you know, what's what's life going
Speaker 2: to be like in ten years and fifteen fifteen years time,
Speaker 2: you know, And I said, in fifteen years time, we'll
Speaker 2: have a laugh about this whole thing over a beer
Speaker 2: and talking about how crazy life is and that the
Speaker 2: whole kind of circumstances let us in the path that
Speaker 2: we end up at at the moment. So yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's a sad thing to see him go. Totally understand
Speaker 2: from the club standpoint. I think Brody understands too, along
Speaker 2: with Melbourne. But yeah, as a friend and someone who's
Speaker 2: somewhat been of a mentor of mine over the years,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a bit different with not having him around,
Speaker 2: and I'm definitely going to miss him. But luckily he's
Speaker 2: just going to be across the streets, so I'm sure
Speaker 2: we'll still catch up and have a few lunches and
Speaker 2: dinners and whatnot a on the years.
Speaker 1: That is a benefit that he's just there. I imagine
Speaker 1: that it's.
Speaker 2: Because literally walks like one hundred meters. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: does change he doesn't have to change his Carpark pass. Yeah.
Speaker 1: True, it's going to be crazy coming up against him
Speaker 1: for the first time and all all those little things,
Speaker 1: and it's not like you have an experience that before.
Speaker 1: Adam Trelaw was, you know, the obvious one loved Collingwood
Speaker 1: and you know it obviously pained him to go, And
Speaker 1: then kind of it feels like this is almost the
Speaker 1: same or even bigger like those two guys they're going
Speaker 1: to take with them so much like culture is there
Speaker 1: moments just along the journey that it clicks and you
Speaker 1: go like Okay, it's a business.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting time in the IFL because you're thinking
Speaker 2: it at the moment, right, there's this old school kind
Speaker 2: of thinking of like you know, you owe the club everything,
Speaker 2: and you know you're going to be the same club
Speaker 2: your whole career and all this kind of stuff. And
Speaker 2: this is this old school mentality that was the situation
Speaker 2: a lot of times for a lot of players. But
Speaker 2: in today's world, like players are getting traded left, right
Speaker 2: and centered of the moving states. You know, all this
Speaker 2: stuffs happening because there's more money in the actual league.
Speaker 2: And I think the more money that comes into the league,
Speaker 2: the more it becomes a business, the more there's not
Speaker 2: this kind of like connection, a sense of owing clubs
Speaker 2: as much. And you know, players don't feel like they
Speaker 2: owe them and clubs don't feel like they own players.
Speaker 2: And there's a bit more of like a distance in
Speaker 2: that sense, which is it's sad, but it is the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter. Whenever things become more financially stable,
Speaker 2: there's more money in it, and there's more money to
Speaker 2: drag you away from things. And you know, the same
Speaker 2: thing from both sides of the spectrum. You know, whether
Speaker 2: it be the players or be the clubs like these
Speaker 2: these things do happen. And the AFL is a multi
Speaker 2: it's over a billion dollars, it's worth over a billion dollars,
Speaker 2: and you can't say that something that's worth over a
Speaker 2: billion dollars isn't going to make business decisions whenever it's
Speaker 2: got that much money and based on money, like that's
Speaker 2: just not going to happen. And I think it's this
Speaker 2: a unique time where these older generation has this idea,
Speaker 2: this dream that you know, like no, no, no, it's
Speaker 2: it's okay, like you know, you're always gonna play for
Speaker 2: the same club and it's always gonna be like that.
Speaker 2: But I think this newer generation is realizing that the
Speaker 2: chances of you playing for a club for your whole
Speaker 2: life is probably gonna be pretty rare. In five to
Speaker 2: ten years, I don't think that's going to happen very often.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be a unique scenario where I
Speaker 2: think this this idea of playing for a club for
Speaker 2: your whole whole career is going to be you know,
Speaker 2: it's not gonna it's not gonna happen very often. And
Speaker 2: the more money that comes into the league, the more
Speaker 2: that's going to happen where people are gonna get traded
Speaker 2: and jump around and want to go home or want
Speaker 2: to make more money somewhere else, whoever it is whenever
Speaker 2: there's a salary cap. And that's just the fact of
Speaker 2: the matter, and it's not it's nothing against a club
Speaker 2: and it's nothing against you know, a player. And I
Speaker 2: understand from this situation with Brody and Collingwood, like both
Speaker 2: of them probably understand it. Like, you know, we went
Speaker 2: on an eleven game winning streak whenever Brody got injured,
Speaker 2: and it's like, well, you know, if we could continue
Speaker 2: that and then not have the money under the cap,
Speaker 2: then it's like, okay, well, you know, like it's it
Speaker 2: is a business, and it's okay, Well, if we could
Speaker 2: bring in Mixday and you know, Mitchell and Hill and
Speaker 2: Frampton all these other guys, then the club's definitely going
Speaker 2: to look at that. And that's that's what centially happened.
Speaker 2: And you can't blame either party. Like it sucks. It's
Speaker 2: not a great situation anyone wants to be in, but
Speaker 2: it's the fact of the matter. And unfortunately, there's enough
Speaker 2: money in this game that we can have a proper
Speaker 2: lifestyle and be able to have this as a full
Speaker 2: time child. But the other side of the spectrum is
Speaker 2: that some of these business decisions are going to get
Speaker 2: made to be able to try to put the club
Speaker 2: in the best position going forward.
Speaker 1: It's one of those like you win some, you lose some.
Speaker 1: Like you know, for every Brodie Grundy that was out
Speaker 1: there or Adam Trelaw, there's a mixed at Mitchell, a
Speaker 1: Hill and a Frampton that got to the club that
Speaker 1: they wanted to get to and it worked in their favor.
Speaker 1: And saying that we have mentioned their names quite a
Speaker 1: few times, Mixed Day and Mitchell Hill and Frampton. You
Speaker 1: do have a few more teammates. Are you excited to
Speaker 1: see some of those boys at the club? I hope
Speaker 1: you say yes, because if you say no.
Speaker 2: Like I'm going to miss Brody. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: I want to preface this someone miss Brodie because I
Speaker 2: love the man. He's an amazing human. But it's great
Speaker 2: to get some new faces into the club. Every year
Speaker 2: you know you're coming back from the off season, you
Speaker 2: have these people that come in and you get to
Speaker 2: know them a lot better and you come friends with
Speaker 2: them and everything else and Tom Mitchell. I've known for
Speaker 2: a while and whenever I found out the news, I
Speaker 2: texted him right away. He was actually in Austin hanging
Speaker 2: out with one of my brother's friends at his house.
Speaker 2: I think. So there's a few people like Sean Darcy
Speaker 2: and Tom. Tom Mitchell had rolled through and trained with
Speaker 2: the Austin Crows, the USAFL team, so there's a bit
Speaker 2: of a connection there in that sense. And he's been
Speaker 2: traveling all over the US, so it'd be it would
Speaker 2: be great to have him in the middle man, you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully rock tapping to that fella. He's one a brown loan,
Speaker 2: He's got quite a bit of skills in him in
Speaker 2: the house, so he's I think he'll He'll be a
Speaker 2: great addition to the team. We're really excited to have
Speaker 2: him on board.
Speaker 1: Just a time check over there in the US. What
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