Speaker 1: Good day everyone, Welcome back to the Mason Cox Show.
Speaker 1: Now today is a big, big episode. We've got the
Speaker 1: catch up, We've got all the big entertainment news.
Speaker 2: You best believe. We've got your Florida man. We've got
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, We've got.
Speaker 1: Kanye West has gone nuts, We've got Tom and Giselle
Speaker 1: are getting divorces.
Speaker 2: Plenty to cover here.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's going to be a great episode
Speaker 1: and plenty of laughs along the way.
Speaker 2: And a bit of footy news at the end. Who
Speaker 2: even knows. But without further ado, you got to do
Speaker 2: the seven platforms.
Speaker 1: We've got Spotify, we got Apple, we got YouTube, we've
Speaker 1: got Twitter, we've got Instagram, we've got Facebook, and we've
Speaker 1: got TikTok like shared comment everything. Get as many people
Speaker 1: following this one as possible, because we want this thing.
Speaker 2: To go to the bood. Yes, we also cover Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: But without further ado, I will introduce my partner in crime,
Speaker 1: that is Brandon Cox.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Where on earth are you? I like to this is
Speaker 3: this is I catch up with Mason Cox. Like you
Speaker 3: guys catch up with Mason Cox. I never know where
Speaker 3: you are or what you're doing, and you're always like, oh,
Speaker 3: give me a second flying into here. I'm in the uber.
Speaker 3: I'll be two minutes and then we can start the podcast.
Speaker 3: So I try to decipher where you are off the
Speaker 3: picture in the background, but I can't quite tell. It
Speaker 3: looks like some rocks or dirt or something. So are
Speaker 3: you in a place where there's rocks or dirt.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of that. I've been Mexico, Mato. I'm
Speaker 1: practicing my Spanish now. I had Spanish in like high school,
Speaker 1: and it's really gone downhill. But I've really gotten a
Speaker 1: few different words back, you know, player, which is La Beach.
Speaker 1: I've been to the beach in Whole Box, which is
Speaker 1: a place in north of Camcoon, about two hours of
Speaker 1: a remote island, played some basketball some of the local
Speaker 1: kids and stuff. Good fun, just chilled out, really just
Speaker 1: one of those ball andies, kind of just catch the vibes,
Speaker 1: catch a bit of vitamin D, a bit of the sign,
Speaker 1: jumping the water, catch back and forth between the little
Speaker 1: daybed you got there and just jumping into the ocean
Speaker 1: and back and a real relaxation. I did the f
Speaker 1: one out in Austin last week, which was awesome, and
Speaker 1: then came back over to Mexico and then now I'm
Speaker 1: going to Houston next, then New York, and then I've
Speaker 1: headed Austin again. Then I'll be back in Dallas and
Speaker 1: then from there I'll fly to Los Angeles and I'll
Speaker 1: fly over to Australia again before I go back to
Speaker 1: Northern Territory do some charity work, and then I'll be
Speaker 1: back in Melbourne sober fifth whenever my contract tells me I.
Speaker 2: Need to be. So that's my travel plans, Brandon.
Speaker 1: So next podcast, I might be in one of those
Speaker 1: places I'm not sure which.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. I went to Mooney Ponds yesterday. Don't
Speaker 3: hear me bragging.
Speaker 1: We speaking of ponds. I feel like Melbourne's just been
Speaker 1: one big pond as of the rest, Like, since I left,
Speaker 1: essentially this place has just been torrential downpour. You got
Speaker 1: the races on today, they're since you're getting canceled, the
Speaker 1: T twenties getting canceled. We're getting into all this in
Speaker 1: the podcast. But what is going on over there? It's
Speaker 1: just been an absolute thunderstorm since I left.
Speaker 3: It's depressing, it's so depressing, it's and it's the whole
Speaker 3: East coast even no I got a tweet saying that
Speaker 3: South Australia is going to have severe thunderstorms and hail.
Speaker 3: The whole place has just gone to sheet break. We
Speaker 3: just had two years of lockdown. Now Lenina rocks up
Speaker 3: and just screws everything. Give us a break. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I just my fingers were numb coming in here, going down.
Speaker 3: The cafes closed because the stupid Melbourne cups on and
Speaker 3: everyone's out there, you know, pretending to be happy even
Speaker 3: though they're getting rained on, and it's cold and miserable
Speaker 3: and smushy, gross mud grossness. It's it's very depressing and
Speaker 3: it's so it's it's nice and refreshing seeing you. You
Speaker 3: know you don't Tan, but I've been seeing your Instagram's
Speaker 3: playing basketball in the sun. You're on the beach. It's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great. I love it. It's so good. It sounds
Speaker 3: so good.
Speaker 1: I've got to ask this, because you know, we're a
Speaker 1: big fan of small towns.
Speaker 2: How's Rochie doing? Is Roch all right?
Speaker 3: Rotchie's gone? Man, that's gone. That's not that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 3: There's no Rochie. It goes almore. A sugar Rochie Gone rip.
Speaker 3: Prayers up for Rochie a Chooka. I got yeah, mates.
Speaker 3: The whole town's divided, literally, not figuratively. Literally, they divided
Speaker 3: the town with a they built like a sand bank.
Speaker 3: And there's one side of the town that just copped
Speaker 3: the big l and their house is flooded and they're done.
Speaker 3: And then there's the other side of the town that
Speaker 3: you know, you get to say dry because this levee
Speaker 3: bank that they built. So yeah, shit's going down all
Speaker 3: across the place. It's just pouring rain. It won't stop.
Speaker 3: If it was just consistent, if it was just like
Speaker 3: rain all day, happy days inside on the couch. I mean,
Speaker 3: I got work today. I'm not you know, I'm not
Speaker 3: an AFL player. I don't just get that freaking ten
Speaker 3: weeks off a year. I got shit to do. But
Speaker 3: rain all day, be windy all day, be sunny all day.
Speaker 3: Just just pick one because I'm sick of you know, optimism,
Speaker 3: just crush it, crush my optimism, because the there's only
Speaker 3: one thing worse than like there's like having no faith
Speaker 3: or you know, glimmer of hope. It's like having that
Speaker 3: and then it just gets pulled from you and having
Speaker 3: it and then pulled from you. I'll tell you what it's.
Speaker 3: It gets me fired up. And yeah, because of the
Speaker 3: stupid Melbourne cup for breakfast. They had a sausage roll
Speaker 3: and a cup of blend forty two or what forty
Speaker 3: three or whatever number. They're up to the plain coffee
Speaker 3: that they give to workers so that they don't complain
Speaker 3: about not having caffeine in their system. That's anyway, that's
Speaker 3: my morning mate.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're having it what they call a ripper,
Speaker 2: an absolute ripper.
Speaker 3: Of a day sounds.
Speaker 2: Super depressing in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: It's corker, it's a scorcher here in vehicle. But no,
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're having a rough one. So I
Speaker 1: apologize that your weather is not as good as up here.
Speaker 3: One thing that I will say that does fix it
Speaker 3: is the kids can't come to my house and do
Speaker 3: that stupid trick of treating stuff that you do. I
Speaker 3: don't know what the deal is. It's somehow made its
Speaker 3: way across to here. I saw some kids sitting underneath
Speaker 3: a like a like a little cover out of the
Speaker 3: rain and hail and thunder, dressed up as you know,
Speaker 3: Shrek and a fairy and a sailor or whatever the
Speaker 3: hell they were dressed up as. But does keep them
Speaker 3: away from my door because I ain't got shipped for them.
Speaker 3: But what's the deal with with Halloween? Do they wonder
Speaker 3: they celebrated in Mexico? What's going on in Mexico? Can't
Speaker 3: can't imagine there's a lot of houses with candy in
Speaker 3: Mexico or like you want your kids roaming around? What's
Speaker 3: the deal in Mexico?
Speaker 2: Not that bad? It is celebrated here.
Speaker 1: I actually was on the uber from the airport and
Speaker 1: I think I saw the whole Katy Perry you know,
Speaker 1: sharks Shark to do. People came along and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, from the what you would call it from
Speaker 1: the music video, and they were walking across. I assume
Speaker 1: they're celebrating out here in Mexico. But the big thing
Speaker 1: here is Dia Demertos, which is like Day of the
Speaker 1: Dad that's coming up in the next few days, where
Speaker 1: they kind of honor people that have passed away, which
Speaker 1: is a pretty cool experience in Mexico on the biggest
Speaker 1: days of the year. So that's why I'm in Mexico
Speaker 1: City at the moment.
Speaker 3: But it's Mexico a safe place because in my head,
Speaker 3: they like they knock on the door, I get the
Speaker 3: little in a little package, some little the other candy,
Speaker 3: the adult candy. Here's so no, is that not what Mexico.
Speaker 2: Mexico has been fine. Mexico has been totally fine.
Speaker 1: I've been in kind of a bit of a touristy place,
Speaker 1: remote island that was hoolebash. But now I'm in Mexico City.
Speaker 1: I've only been here for about twenty four hours. So
Speaker 1: call me back again in two weeks time. We'll be
Speaker 1: able to talk about how safe it was. But I've
Speaker 1: had family be here and they've all raped about it.
Speaker 1: They said, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: What about it?
Speaker 2: I think I'll be okay, well, what about it? It's
Speaker 2: amazing that it's good?
Speaker 3: Jeez, okay what you said the other words? What about it? Anyway,
Speaker 3: I'm leaving that in. We might get other than what
Speaker 3: the R word was, might get flagged. Maybe it was
Speaker 3: just a glitch in the audio, but the so are
Speaker 3: you going to go to the favela? Am I saying
Speaker 3: that correct? In your El Spanol vella?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The oh sorry, I didn't say love bro.
Speaker 2: Speak Spanish. Break now, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I'm next to the major parking stuff here, so I'll
Speaker 1: go for a run and whatnot, obviously do the footy stuff,
Speaker 1: and then go to some of the cemeteries and check
Speaker 1: out some of the dee stuff they have going on,
Speaker 1: which wild be really cool, and then headed up to Houston,
Speaker 1: LA or sorry, New York for the marathon. So, if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard, Dan Churchill's podcast was the last one
Speaker 1: that came out. I'm actually going up to watch him
Speaker 1: run the marathon and I need I need help. I
Speaker 1: need help as far as the sign. So if you
Speaker 1: can think of a funny sign to give to a
Speaker 1: marathon person, if you go back and listen to the
Speaker 1: last episode, one of the best signs he said he
Speaker 1: saw was don't trust the fart as he's running forty
Speaker 1: two kilometers, so I need something that's comedic relief like that.
Speaker 1: If anyone has the idea slip into the DMS as
Speaker 1: I say, but hopefully, hopefully I get to the marathon,
Speaker 1: I have something funny for him. And then also a
Speaker 1: bit of a costume. Who knows, maybe I'll dress up
Speaker 1: for it, but it should be good fun.
Speaker 3: For a costume. Is it offensive? Now to dress up
Speaker 3: as a Mexican like with the sombrero, the mustache and
Speaker 3: the is that offensive? Can we can we do that still?
Speaker 3: Or is that no buena?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure sure, Braindon, but I will use that
Speaker 1: as a launch into the next segment because we are
Speaker 1: going to talk about whether or not it's appropriate for
Speaker 1: me to wear Yea's Yes, that is Yeasy's Kanye West's shoes.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if this is appropriate anymore in life.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it, but before that, we'll get into
Speaker 1: the entertainment news because there's plenty of stuff going on,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna rebrand it. It's not gonna be called
Speaker 1: entertainment news. It is the water cooler Chat now cool
Speaker 1: out further too. We're gonna jump straight into it. You
Speaker 1: gotta kick it off strong. Got to kick it off
Speaker 1: strong in that the strongest couple that ever was Homage
Speaker 1: Zelle officially no more. Yes, yes, it's true. They have
Speaker 1: admitted that they were getting a divorce. They haven't divorced yet,
Speaker 1: they're the process, but it is going to happen. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: and the power couple for decades is officially breaking up.
Speaker 2: There's no hope for love anymore. We're done. We're done.
Speaker 1: Let's just go off the dating apps of Snowpoint, Stow
Speaker 1: Point Love snow Point, which were bump finished.
Speaker 3: So last week they let me get this straight. So
Speaker 3: last week everyone was saying that they were going to
Speaker 3: get divorced. Now they've announced it officially. Tom put out
Speaker 3: a press release, which, imagine getting divorced already sucks, and
Speaker 3: imagine that you have to put out a press release
Speaker 3: to say, yeah, world, yeah, the entire world, we are
Speaker 3: getting divorced, which is it's crazy, but saying that jacking.
Speaker 3: At least from Tom's side of things, there's a bit
Speaker 3: of regret. He's they're not doing too well.
Speaker 2: The old Bucks, the Bucks are struggling too.
Speaker 1: Man, his life's not going well. At the moment, you
Speaker 1: go from super Bowl chair everything going well, you know, like.
Speaker 2: On a high. You know, He's like, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm going to retire. I'm retiring. Oh wait, no, I'm
Speaker 2: coming back. We're gonna one more. And then it doesn't
Speaker 2: go to as well as he probably hoped from the start.
Speaker 2: So I hope they can turn around.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they can, but Tom has got
Speaker 1: quite a few things going on in his life right
Speaker 1: now that you feel for him. But on the other
Speaker 1: side of things, right, Giselle, now single are.
Speaker 3: We are we actually going to sit here? Are we
Speaker 3: going to sit here and say we feel sorry for
Speaker 3: Tom Brady? I feel like in his lowest depths of life,
Speaker 3: it would still shop online.
Speaker 2: All of ours would all of ours, man, you can
Speaker 2: could buy all of our life.
Speaker 1: Experiences to other Tom would just sit there just laughing
Speaker 1: at us from the top of his chair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom Brady having a bad week. He probably only made,
Speaker 3: you know, like ten million dollars, got a few more endorsements.
Speaker 3: He's playing in the NFL as a starting quarterback. Shit life, really,
Speaker 3: it would suck.
Speaker 1: I mean Tom Brady becoming one of like the Hinge
Speaker 1: Ambassador or something like that, just dating app ambassador after
Speaker 1: the bores.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure. You know, Tom having a
Speaker 3: terrible week, He's probably struggling. There would be zero offers
Speaker 3: from women. There would be nothing lined up at his door.
Speaker 3: Paul bro I don't know. Hey, I'm pretty selfless. I'm
Speaker 3: going to dive on this one. I'll say I'll swap
Speaker 3: lives with him. There you go, Tom, I'll swap lives
Speaker 3: with you. I'll cop your terrible life at the moment,
Speaker 3: and you can swap and come down to Melbourne and
Speaker 3: make sure you bring a bloody raincoat and a boat
Speaker 3: because you're going to need.
Speaker 1: It in a snorkel if you're going north to the hometown.
Speaker 3: Oh no, but what else? What else do you go for?
Speaker 3: Is I'm sick of Tom, I'm sick of him.
Speaker 1: Sick of Tom. Well, let's go to more positive news. Now,
Speaker 1: Taylor Swifts some big news. All the Swifty fans out there.
Speaker 1: My brother is a massive Swifty fan for no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 1: He literally knows every single word to every song she's
Speaker 1: ever sang. And big news just come out on the
Speaker 1: album and she is now I think broken the record,
Speaker 1: the first person to ever have the top ten spots
Speaker 1: on the Billboard charts all her, all Taylor Swift. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine that, like literally the top ten songs in
Speaker 1: the world. Yeah, all one person. That is a banger album.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't say she is not just one
Speaker 1: of the most influential people in the world right now.
Speaker 3: It does work a little bit different though, because it's
Speaker 3: like more like the Spotify, you know time where streaming,
Speaker 3: like the album drops so everyone is listening through the
Speaker 3: entire album in one go, so like that's how the
Speaker 3: numbers get up. They might think, you know, track eight
Speaker 3: is a banger, don't come at me Swifties. I don't
Speaker 3: know what track eight is.
Speaker 2: But well they will come hord.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I don't know. But yeah, I went
Speaker 3: on the Australian Top fifty or whatever on Spotify and
Speaker 3: she had it was like what's thirteen of the top
Speaker 3: fifteen as well, so like she's got depth and yeah,
Speaker 3: so I don't know. She yeah, she goes all right,
Speaker 3: and she does have catchy songs. You know another artist
Speaker 3: that I don't think anyone would want to say that
Speaker 3: they know all the words to their songs but they
Speaker 3: do is is Nickelback. Spot No Nickelback, which is like
Speaker 3: everyone hates Nickelback, but it's like, ah, look at this
Speaker 3: for and Rev. Everyone hates Nickelback, but every time, like
Speaker 3: everyone says, like sling shit at Nickelback, and then you'll
Speaker 3: just be driving a Nickelback song will come on and
Speaker 3: it'll be you just start singing along and you're like,
Speaker 3: how do I how do I know all the lyrics?
Speaker 3: Where the hell did this come from? Like I know
Speaker 3: I reckon, I know about ten of their songs, line
Speaker 3: for line, like it's insane.
Speaker 1: So would you go to a Nickelback concert if they
Speaker 1: came back, I don't know if they're.
Speaker 3: Even from I wouldn't go to.
Speaker 1: The CONCESSI comes to that like a nineties rewind concert,
Speaker 1: you know, just all of a sudden guest appearance Nickelback.
Speaker 3: There was that. There was that viral video from back
Speaker 3: in the day of like they're up on stages and
Speaker 3: people were throwing rocks at them and then the lead
Speaker 3: singer is like, if you throw one more rock, and
Speaker 3: then a rock like drills him in the head and
Speaker 3: he's like that's it. I'm out of here. So like,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know why people hate them because
Speaker 3: it was like, oh yeah, like Nickelback's this. You know,
Speaker 3: they're being created by a recording studio. They're fake. They're
Speaker 3: not like rock stands for or whatever, like bullshit it was,
Speaker 3: But it's like yeah, but at the same time, like
Speaker 3: every hip hop artist doesn't write their own stuff, they
Speaker 3: don't produce their own beats, like no one does in
Speaker 3: this day and age. No one produces their own like
Speaker 3: real music, Like that's when we end up calling people like,
Speaker 3: oh the genius and all of that stuff. Which, speaking
Speaker 3: of musical geniuses, we've got another one coming up. What's
Speaker 3: Kanye West been up too lately?
Speaker 2: He's a little bit brydon, He's he's been a bit active.
Speaker 2: He's busy. Yeah, he's been busy, There's no doub about that.
Speaker 1: From his White Lives Matter of shirt at Paris Fashion
Speaker 1: Show to essentially him being escorted out by Sketchers. Yes,
Speaker 1: Sketchers because now Additors or Adidas is like to say,
Speaker 1: as he cut ties with him and yeasy brand, so Sketchers,
Speaker 1: he went to their head office and they literally escorted
Speaker 1: him out of Sketches. Can you imagine Sketchers. They're going,
Speaker 1: are we cool?
Speaker 2: Like? Are we cool now?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Do we that Yay wants to come to Sketchers?
Speaker 1: Are we like a thing? Does he think we're like fashionable?
Speaker 1: Like we are literally marketing to seventy and eighty year
Speaker 1: old men and women, and all of a sudden, literally
Speaker 1: like Kanye West walks in the door, we have to
Speaker 1: escort him out because we think it's a joke.
Speaker 2: At that point, I think you've.
Speaker 3: Got you've got clout as well. Off the back of that.
Speaker 3: So you're like, oh, we're too good for Kanye, Like
Speaker 3: get out of here, hit that's it, kick Rocks, Buddy
Speaker 3: West sketches. We don't just collaborate with anyone.
Speaker 1: They would be chuffed. Let's just say that they'll be chuffed.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he said some inappropriate things in There's I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people would be aware of the
Speaker 1: anti Semitic stuff that he said. Obviously not a fan
Speaker 1: of it, obviously don't agree with it. But he did
Speaker 1: lose a billion or sorry, two billion dollars in a
Speaker 1: day is what he said. Two billion dollars in a day.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? Because essentially everyone cut taz him.
Speaker 1: You're like Vogue, his music label, Jeff def Jam, separate
Speaker 1: with him, gap Ballinciaga.
Speaker 3: I think is how you saying, yeah, I come on.
Speaker 1: His lawyer also cut ties with them. But he just
Speaker 1: went to these crazy things. And like he's done some
Speaker 1: crazy things in the past. We all know he's for
Speaker 1: asked him and Pete Davidson. You know, he's made comments
Speaker 1: like slavery was a choice, and it's just the crazy
Speaker 1: what blows my mind. I always think back to, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the last four years where he's really kind of lost
Speaker 1: his marbles a bit.
Speaker 2: And now I'm like, this dude.
Speaker 1: Was like literally in the Oval Office like within like
Speaker 1: four or five years ago, hanging out with the president.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going like, now he's saying these things like
Speaker 1: how insane is our world we live in? Now, this
Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense whatsoever.
Speaker 3: There's a lot to digest here because you said, fastatus,
Speaker 3: could I imagine losing two billion dollars? I couldn't imagine having,
Speaker 3: you know, fifty thousand dollars, so like losing two billion
Speaker 3: would be a fair stretch. And then yeah, well he
Speaker 3: was in the Oval Office, but you know the president
Speaker 3: was Donald Trump, so it's it's crazier things have happened.
Speaker 3: And then talking about that, talking about crazy and losing
Speaker 3: your marbles and all of that. That's that's the touching
Speaker 3: point in all of this because we as the world knows,
Speaker 3: like Kanye West has like his own mental issues and
Speaker 3: he takes medication and sometimes he doesn't take medication, but
Speaker 3: it said that he's bipolar. So as the world knows
Speaker 3: that you've got this bipolar person out there, but you're
Speaker 3: also like people are egging him on pushing him further
Speaker 3: than he's saying this stuff, and then they write articles
Speaker 3: and based stuff off that. There's a bit of like
Speaker 3: you have to be held to account for your actions
Speaker 3: and what you're saying and what you're doing. But at
Speaker 3: the same time, there's some like level of obligation to
Speaker 3: like media and like people out in the public sphere
Speaker 3: to like not egg him on or things like that.
Speaker 3: Like it's a real weird like position, like like if
Speaker 3: there was any other like bipolar person out there and
Speaker 3: you're like, ah, it's crazy bipolar guy. Like he's saying
Speaker 3: this and that, and it's like he's not on his
Speaker 3: medication and he's gone crazy. Like people would be more concerned,
Speaker 3: but like because it's Kanye, and like everyone's kind of
Speaker 3: fostered this, you know, Oh, you're a genius man, and
Speaker 3: like it's all part of his genius. And yeah, like
Speaker 3: it's it's this real like I don't know where I
Speaker 3: sit with it because it's like, yeah, he's said and
Speaker 3: done all of this like terrible stuff that you can't condone.
Speaker 3: At the same time, like people can't be egging him on.
Speaker 2: You can't start people from egging him on. There's a problem.
Speaker 2: But I think you ever, like back as a kid,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like whenever someone kind of went off the rails,
Speaker 1: they just went to rehab for like six months and
Speaker 1: then came back out and everyone was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: they went to rehab, and like now they're better, Like
Speaker 1: Kanye is, Like whereas Kanye's I don't know his agent
Speaker 1: or whoever it is it's giving him advice in life,
Speaker 1: Like maybe he's just got to the point where he's
Speaker 1: lost those close people that kind of direct him in
Speaker 1: that sense.
Speaker 2: And obviously his mom was definitely one of them, but you.
Speaker 1: Kind of think who is his right hand man that's saying, look, man,
Speaker 1: like pull your head in, like we all need one
Speaker 1: of those, you know, we all need one of those.
Speaker 1: And like he's definitely gone, you know, too far one way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, who knows, who knows what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, But it's going to be an interesting Oh
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's going to interesting fall out from
Speaker 1: his standpoint, And I just want to know, Like I've
Speaker 1: got a pair of Yeezies, is it actually appropriate to
Speaker 1: even wear them anymore? Like in the world, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like now I just have to throw those things out.
Speaker 2: They're expensive but not cheap.
Speaker 3: It's a good point because it's like maybe a pre impost.
Speaker 3: So it's like, did you buy them before he said
Speaker 3: bad things? Did you purchase them after? You can't be
Speaker 3: buying them after, but if you had them before, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting one. They're very comfortable shootes. I will say,
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting there. I can't really say too much,
Speaker 1: and then it sounds like I'm supporting this crazy human,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure nice people around him that were able
Speaker 1: to make the shoes.
Speaker 2: Not really him.
Speaker 3: Let me pose you another question. Can you or do
Speaker 3: you listen to Michael Jackson's music?
Speaker 1: Now we're getting into the depths. I do listen to
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's music. I know this kind of came up.
Speaker 1: I remember this in the media too, but I do.
Speaker 2: Not often.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a, yeah, this is me digging my
Speaker 1: own hoole braid and shit, I do listen to it.
Speaker 1: I still listen to Kanye West as like old school
Speaker 1: music before he went crazy, of like the Dropout album
Speaker 1: was insane, one of the best albums to ever be written,
Speaker 1: I think, But I think because of that, it's crazy
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, because he had that fame early
Speaker 1: and everything else is kind of what we're seeing now
Speaker 1: as almost a side effect of fame to another level
Speaker 1: that none of us can really understand because none of
Speaker 1: us have really been there. He's probably one of the
Speaker 1: only people in the world that's really been through the
Speaker 1: same circumstances and become this person that he is through
Speaker 1: his life experiences. So you know, there's I think the
Speaker 1: big thing is do you I know, the biggest question
Speaker 1: in the media is do you separate the person from
Speaker 1: the art? And that's like the big question mark I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are having, like do you
Speaker 1: can you separate the person that might be a little
Speaker 1: bit nuts or done something crazy or terrible in their
Speaker 1: past from the art they created that is everlasting. Like
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure where I fall on that, because like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the right answer is, to be honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it. So it's like, can you look
Speaker 3: the other way Kelly? All the stuff that he did
Speaker 3: with children, but ignition it's kind of a banger, you know.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should always say those two things together,
Speaker 1: banger and ignition.
Speaker 2: I'm just clear of the word banger Bradion. Whenever you
Speaker 2: talk about these kind of items are.
Speaker 3: I'm just agreeing with what you said. You can definitely
Speaker 3: look the other way. You have no morals. That's great,
Speaker 3: that's cool. It's good that that's the way that you've
Speaker 3: justified it in your own head. That's fine.
Speaker 1: That's so, that's very kind of you, well, talking about
Speaker 1: no morals and no ethics and being able to speak
Speaker 1: your mind.
Speaker 2: Let's get to.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
Speaker 2: He is the essentially king of Twitter.
Speaker 3: He's the chief twit man him Twitter.
Speaker 1: Actually it's quite clever, it's quite funny. But now, in
Speaker 1: all honesty, he has you know, taken over Twitter. He's
Speaker 1: look to, you know, sack a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: in there. He's already sacked a bunch of board members
Speaker 1: and he's really just gone, you know, crazy this. I
Speaker 1: don't know what if it's good or bad or ugly
Speaker 1: or kind of where we sit on this whole thing
Speaker 1: right now, I'll be interested to know you're kind of
Speaker 1: aspect on it and whether you think it is going
Speaker 1: to be a positive or negative for someone of profile
Speaker 1: getting something that big that is such a social media platform.
Speaker 1: Or news and everything is shared so much from it,
Speaker 1: Like what do you what do you think? Do you
Speaker 1: think it's you know, it's good for the platform, and
Speaker 1: maybe have someone who's not, you know, just a typical
Speaker 1: boardroom kind of person who's got the NBA and has
Speaker 1: done XYZ and created these companies whatever it is, or
Speaker 1: someone who's been out there and just a bit of
Speaker 1: an outcast I think.
Speaker 3: And this is off the top of the dome. He's becoming.
Speaker 3: He's like a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's it's essentially
Speaker 3: a twenty twenty two version of Rupert Murdock. You know,
Speaker 3: these like super rich guys that have control over a
Speaker 3: platform that connects directly to people and passes on information good, bad,
Speaker 3: or indifferent. So it's like Rupert Murdock obviously owns half
Speaker 3: the world's news papers, channels everything, and can just tell
Speaker 3: people what to think and feel. And that's incredibly dangerous
Speaker 3: for a guy that has that much money. Is it
Speaker 3: much different to this situation with Elon, Like he can
Speaker 3: communicate directly to people, he gets to dictate what news
Speaker 3: can and can't be seen by people. It's kind of
Speaker 3: just another rich guy with a massive platform. To spread
Speaker 3: whatever information that he sees fit. So is it no doubt?
Speaker 1: And you think about even back to like whenever he
Speaker 1: did the crypto thing whenever like Dodgecore, dogecoin, whatever it was,
Speaker 1: you know, and he like tweets one thing and it
Speaker 1: just goes nuts and he makes a bunch of money
Speaker 1: off it. It's like, now he owns that platform that
Speaker 1: essentially created that spike, so can he now essentially manipulate
Speaker 1: markets like that?
Speaker 2: Like there's so many little things, and it's.
Speaker 1: Like, do we do we need to involve the government
Speaker 1: whenever it becomes you know, or maybe some kind of
Speaker 1: regulation wherever it is to whenever it comes to social
Speaker 1: media sites or whether it be you know, people that
Speaker 1: share news or news platforms that you know have the ability.
Speaker 1: And then I guess the audience that Twitter has, which
Speaker 1: is worldwide, Like do we need to involve some kind
Speaker 1: of restriction and regulation around it? Or is this essentially
Speaker 1: a free speech platform?
Speaker 3: I feel like it uses those vessels as a way
Speaker 3: to kind of nique past all the regulation, so things
Speaker 3: like free speech is back and it's alive and well,
Speaker 3: and like creating around saying that you kind of I
Speaker 3: did this, so you can have like your freedom of
Speaker 3: speech back and stuff. But it's like, I feel like
Speaker 3: that's the pr side of things, like putting that out there,
Speaker 3: like you're doing it for that reason. But really it's
Speaker 3: the stuff that, like you said, it's like market manipulation
Speaker 3: and things like that that he would see massive value
Speaker 3: in because you wouldn't be spending tens of billions of
Speaker 3: dollars on a company not knowing how you're going to
Speaker 3: use it to make that money back and make it
Speaker 3: back quickly for you and your investors.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I love the way that Elon
Speaker 1: pushes the status quo of what's acceptable, what's done. You know,
Speaker 1: like not many people would say I'm just going to
Speaker 1: all of a sudden buy Twitter, which is one of
Speaker 1: the biggest companies in the world at the moment, Like
Speaker 1: that doesn't exist, whether it be oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: put people on Mars and try to you know, populate
Speaker 1: Mars and things like that. I think people that you
Speaker 1: need to have break the mold of what's possible, and
Speaker 1: those are the people really kind of push civilization forward.
Speaker 2: And he's done that.
Speaker 1: But also it's kind of goes to the point you
Speaker 1: get to a certain part where you go as he
Speaker 1: pushed a little bit too far in the wrong direction,
Speaker 1: or maybe he's pushed something that he shouldn't have pushed.
Speaker 1: And I think this Twitter thing, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be great for him. I just can't see this
Speaker 1: being a positive pr you know, adventure for him. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna turn just upside down and Twitter will
Speaker 1: go back to being owned by someone else and we'll
Speaker 1: buy it out from him wherever it is. But I
Speaker 1: think he's he's putting himself in front of a fire.
Speaker 1: He's not really prepared for a thing.
Speaker 3: This week. We have an absolute a Kelly banger for
Speaker 3: a Florida me. Let's try to hype it up, he said,
Speaker 3: hype it up anyway, We've got.
Speaker 2: To flog r Kelly probably. Okay, so this is making
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. So we've got a Florida team this week.
Speaker 3: And what did he do well? He won a competition
Speaker 3: by capturing twenty eight, not twenty, not ten, not five,
Speaker 3: not twenty five, twenty eight Burmese pythons. Now you're asking,
Speaker 3: how do you do this? What's this all about? What's
Speaker 3: this sir? What's this competition? What tell me more well,
Speaker 3: I will. Nineteen year old South Florida man captured twenty
Speaker 3: eight Burmese pythons during a ten day competition and capp
Speaker 3: in a couple of day. It was created to increase
Speaker 3: awareness about the threats of invasive snakes and what they
Speaker 3: can do to the ecosystem over there in Florida. He
Speaker 3: won ten thousand dollars for capturing the most snakes. But
Speaker 3: what about the longest snake? Well that went to dust
Speaker 3: and Crumb. Dusty Crumb, Dusty Crumb.
Speaker 2: That's his name, respect it, he got it? How big
Speaker 2: was a snake? Dusty Crumb?
Speaker 3: Dusty Crumb pulled in an absolute woppler. He got fifteen
Speaker 3: hundred bucks for catching an eleven foot python. That's how
Speaker 3: big fella, he says. He just roams around in the
Speaker 3: in the glades, in the in the swamp with a
Speaker 3: torch and just catches him as they're moving from A
Speaker 3: to b. That just sounds dumb as shit.
Speaker 2: Dustin't Crumb on the hunt for the biggest python?
Speaker 3: Oh, Dusty Crumb, this is I'm still stuck on that name,
Speaker 3: all right, Moving on to the next one. This one
Speaker 3: is this one's interesting. US woman unleashes thousands of bees
Speaker 3: on police officers to protest an eviction. So she wasn't
Speaker 3: being evicted. It was someone else in a different county.
Speaker 3: This lady drove twenty miles to another county because there
Speaker 3: was a group of people pro testing this eviction. Now
Speaker 3: I don't want to get down into that because that's
Speaker 3: not the story. Who knows, who cares about what? Who
Speaker 3: was getting evicted for what? Anyway, this lady rocks up.
Speaker 3: Deputy is from the Sheriff's department in Hampton County, Massachusets
Speaker 3: sits Massachusetts is that's how you say it, Massisett, Massachustee.
Speaker 3: They were going there to serve in eviction order. But
Speaker 3: here comes Rory's Rory Susan Woods, fifty year old, fifty
Speaker 3: five year old resident of Hadley, Hamden County. That's twenty
Speaker 3: miles down the road. She drove up with a trailer
Speaker 3: full of bee hives, like stacked and when they when
Speaker 3: she gets there, she jumps out and she's wearing full kit.
Speaker 3: She's ready to rock like some kind of like evil villain.
Speaker 3: She got like the well maybe vigilandi. Maybe she's the
Speaker 3: good person. I don't know, but she's wearing the full
Speaker 3: bee keeper outfit and she gets out and she's like
Speaker 3: she's attack and like starting ripping the lids off these
Speaker 3: bee hives. And there's pictures of this. That's great, we'll
Speaker 3: put them on the Instagram. So she's ripping lids off
Speaker 3: and she's like get them, and then like thousands of
Speaker 3: bees starting attacking the police officers and like she keeps
Speaker 3: trying to like knock over the bee hives and they're
Speaker 3: like half arresting her and stuff.
Speaker 1: She's essentially used a deadly weapon that is bees, giving
Speaker 1: herself and ned Kelly outfit to protect herself from the
Speaker 1: bees coming in attacking her, and used him against the
Speaker 1: police from a conviction. That is insane to think that
Speaker 1: someone goes through their heads like she's going to be
Speaker 1: a beekeeper surely and like just that's I mean, technically happen.
Speaker 2: To just stumble over. Sorry, good one.
Speaker 3: You're a big NASCAR fit.
Speaker 2: You best believe in Dale her and her jun is
Speaker 2: one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: Brother, have you legitimately been to like NASCAR like event, No.
Speaker 2: I've never been to NASCAR race.
Speaker 1: Well, Texas Motor Speedway was around the corner from my house,
Speaker 1: and believe me, the people that went to those was
Speaker 1: unique to say the least were what you would call
Speaker 1: a bogan in Australia or a redneck in America.
Speaker 3: So but bare minimum you would obviously know who Ross
Speaker 3: Chastain is, right.
Speaker 2: Of course, one of the best, one of the greatest.
Speaker 3: Oss.
Speaker 2: He's been in the news this week.
Speaker 3: He has been in the news this week. He he
Speaker 3: pulled off an incredible move. It was it was like
Speaker 3: something out of a video game, but kind of literally.
Speaker 3: So he was sitting at eleven. Everyone that he was
Speaker 3: racing against slows down to take the last turn before
Speaker 3: going across the finish line. Everyone except for Ross. Ross
Speaker 3: is humming down the back straight in fifth, keeps it
Speaker 3: in fifth, foot flat to the floor, goes up to
Speaker 3: the wall that surrounds the track, grinds around the wall
Speaker 3: and kind of like sling shots around the last corner,
Speaker 3: passes six in front of him, and finishes in fifth.
Speaker 3: So he's gone from eleventh to fifth on the last corner.
Speaker 3: He was interviewed after the race and this is where
Speaker 3: he said he got his idea from.
Speaker 4: Played a lot of Dass Car two thousand and five
Speaker 4: on the GameCube with Chad growing up and you could
Speaker 4: get away with it, and I never knew if it
Speaker 4: would actually work.
Speaker 3: And I've I mean i've done.
Speaker 4: I did that when I was eight years old and
Speaker 4: I grabbed fifth gear. I asked off of two on
Speaker 4: the last lap if we needed it, and we did.
Speaker 4: I couldn't say who was leading, and I just made
Speaker 4: the choice. I grabbed fifth, geared down the back and
Speaker 4: full committed one thing. I guess, so will I basically
Speaker 4: might go to the wheel. I just hope I didn't
Speaker 4: catch the turn four access gate or something crazy, but
Speaker 4: I was willing to do it.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 3: So straight from the GameCube. He played GameCube Nascar on
Speaker 3: the game cube as a kid, and it worked when
Speaker 3: he played back in the day, and it worked in
Speaker 3: real life side what.
Speaker 1: An insane human can you imagine being his pit crew
Speaker 1: and he's just.
Speaker 2: Wrecked the car, absolutely totaled the car.
Speaker 1: Just literally slingshoting himself with some triple force around the
Speaker 1: back turn of the last turn. If you went from
Speaker 1: eleventh to that to what fifth man, that's a fair
Speaker 1: amount of like difference. That's actually I mean, the payday
Speaker 1: between that might actually pay for the car that he
Speaker 1: absolutely totaled. But I just love the fact that he
Speaker 1: admitted like he had no clue. He just he just
Speaker 1: winked it. He was like, you know what, done this
Speaker 1: on a game cube. I'm gonna trust some game developers
Speaker 1: out there that this actually works in real life.
Speaker 2: And he just absolutely full gun hose it into the
Speaker 2: freaking corner and just slingshots him up and he like
Speaker 2: gets behind this other guy and goes over. It was
Speaker 2: like perfect, perfect time into It was a phenomenal move.
Speaker 2: Credit to him where credits due. And it takes some guts,
Speaker 2: some absolute guts, cause you imagine if he just clicked
Speaker 2: something and he goes straight into four other cars and
Speaker 2: you just go, oh wait, awesome, you just made seriously
Speaker 2: a whole pile up wreck just because you wanted to
Speaker 2: slingshot into fifth you prick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be the freakiest part if there's a
Speaker 3: little bit of anything like sticking out, like a little
Speaker 3: rail or a safety guard or an exit, like he
Speaker 3: hits that and probably just launches into the stratosphere and
Speaker 3: it's game over for Ross. But yeah, it was nuts,
Speaker 3: like to just call ahead, well not call ahead, you
Speaker 3: don't phone them, but few comps to say hey, do
Speaker 3: we need this, and they're like, yeah, buddy, like eleventh
Speaker 3: is shit, and he's like, I'm going full send. I
Speaker 3: don't even know if they knew what his thoughts were,
Speaker 3: what his plan was, So I can't imagine that your
Speaker 3: team's like, yeah, buddy, keep it in fifth flat to
Speaker 3: the floor and just grind the rail and hit the
Speaker 3: line like it's pretty insane. But it was sick to see.
Speaker 3: It was like something straight out of Talladega Knights, like
Speaker 3: something straight out of a movie. And first or last yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Moving into the footy chat, there's been a lot of
Speaker 3: touchy subjects popping up lately, investigations into very significant issues
Speaker 3: across the board in the AFL, But there is one
Speaker 3: that jumps to mind, and it's around concussion and concussion protocols.
Speaker 3: And we've spoken about concussion a lot on this podcast
Speaker 3: because a teammate that you have, I don't know if
Speaker 3: you know him, Jack Innovan, had been tackled a lot
Speaker 3: higher this year, so there was some concern there. Now
Speaker 3: we know that the AFL launched a multimillion dollar study
Speaker 3: back in twenty fourteen that promised groundbreaking findings in the
Speaker 3: area of long term effects of concussion and CTE and
Speaker 3: things like that. And now you know, fast forward to
Speaker 3: twenty what are we twenty twenty two and haven't heard
Speaker 3: a lot from that investigation. Haven't heard a lot And
Speaker 3: the study finished a couple of years ago. The findings
Speaker 3: from it, it's a little murky. Maybe didn't do the
Speaker 3: best job. At the end of the day, we want
Speaker 3: to play a safety paramount number one. So have you
Speaker 3: looked into any of these findings? Have you seen the
Speaker 3: outcome of the investigation into the original study, Like what's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 1: It's it's unique, and it's embarrassing, as probably the word
Speaker 1: I think that the AFO would.
Speaker 2: Probably agree on.
Speaker 1: They're not wanting this to be a media thing because
Speaker 1: I know, concussions a major, a major kind of focal
Speaker 1: point in the game of the moment, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be in the future and there's going to be
Speaker 1: a lot of questions around it given the fact there's
Speaker 1: a lot more research going into it. And I remember
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen I came here and that was my
Speaker 1: first year, and I remember they're going, oh, we've got
Speaker 1: this groundbreaking thing we're doing, you know, this research project
Speaker 1: to understand concussions and CTE and everything around it, you know,
Speaker 1: and we're going to involve past players and you know, hoolah,
Speaker 1: hoop blah, you know, everyone applaud us. We're going to
Speaker 1: do this amazing thing. And then I kind of just
Speaker 1: never heard about it. I was like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Like what was kind of the you know, the fallout
Speaker 1: from this? What happened? Like where do we get to?
Speaker 1: What kind of research should we get into? What do
Speaker 1: we find? You whatever it is? And you know, I've
Speaker 1: read some up on it and said it found the research.
Speaker 1: This is the people who reviewed this whole thing. They
Speaker 1: said it found the research project was underfunded and under
Speaker 1: resource and suffered from a lack of governance, stewardship, and coordination,
Speaker 1: and how it was rolled out and implemented and how
Speaker 1: it simultaneously accommodated clinical and research objectives. Now, if the
Speaker 1: reviews people are saying that about your groundbreaking experiments.
Speaker 2: That is not a good sign.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that is a, like I said, an
Speaker 1: embarrassment that the AFL has now had to front up
Speaker 1: in front of and say, you know, we we stuffed up.
Speaker 1: They've had to apologize the past players and say essentially,
Speaker 1: you know, the review that they you know, were groundbreaking
Speaker 1: with is you know, was poorly put together, in poorly
Speaker 1: constructioned constructed, and nothing came from it. So you're starting
Speaker 1: to hear I think a lot of things in the
Speaker 1: media now from ex players coming out saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: they were asking, what's going on with the information that
Speaker 1: I've provided, have we gone to this and they were
Speaker 1: getting nothing back.
Speaker 2: And you can imagine, you.
Speaker 1: Know, if you're an ex player who's gone through this
Speaker 1: for a long time and maybe is suffering some kind
Speaker 1: of symptoms from you know, concussions that they had playing
Speaker 1: back in the day, and you want to be heard,
Speaker 1: and the IFL, you know, said that they were going
Speaker 1: to give them a platform to be heard and to
Speaker 1: be understood and everything else, and then came back and
Speaker 1: essentially just told them, you know, it just didn't work out,
Speaker 1: and they brought on a guy who's now you know,
Speaker 1: being accused of plagiarism, which is crazy enough. So it's
Speaker 1: it's a real quote unquote shit show, I would say
Speaker 1: for the IFL at the moment with everything going on,
Speaker 1: and I think at the end of the day, you
Speaker 1: just really feel for those people that were promised, you know,
Speaker 1: a bit of understanding of what's going on and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe where their future is going to lie with their
Speaker 1: mental health and their everything else that's going on in
Speaker 1: their life. Have kind of been you know, disillusioned by
Speaker 1: the IFL to to say that they're actually going to
Speaker 1: do something about it and be able to help them.
Speaker 1: So you feel for those people as that people are
Speaker 1: really kind of you know, look at this whole thing
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, like.
Speaker 2: Those are those the people we really feel sorry.
Speaker 1: For, and you know them and the families of people
Speaker 1: like poly Farmer and Fraley and Shane Talk and all them,
Speaker 1: and you know, they want to see a step forward
Speaker 1: in this whole experience, in this whole process, and then
Speaker 1: today this week's been kind of a step backwards, I
Speaker 1: would say, in the whole process.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, it could be really bad news for the AFL,
Speaker 3: and I know that that's not the primary objective of it,
Speaker 3: Like the primary objective is player safety from now and forever.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, this could end in lawsuits
Speaker 3: and get tied up in legal findings, so like I
Speaker 3: can see that it's tricky for them to be like
Speaker 3: they're caught up in Okay, we want to find out
Speaker 3: the truth and bring in preventative measures. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, we don't want to be sued into the
Speaker 3: dirt and not exist anymore. The athletes will want to
Speaker 3: find out the results, find out the science behind it,
Speaker 3: and move forward quickly. But the AFL just won't be
Speaker 3: able to move at the speed I don't think that
Speaker 3: they'll they'll want to move at and it'll just be
Speaker 3: a frustrating and you know, tricky situation for both parties.
Speaker 3: It's just gonna get messier and messier. I feel like
Speaker 3: it's just going to be one of the biggest topics
Speaker 3: in sport. We've talked about it for years, but it's
Speaker 3: and it is. It is the biggest topic in sport now.
Speaker 3: I'd like to get your take on this because that's
Speaker 3: what I see in the AFL. They've brought in preventative measures,
Speaker 3: so you get the concussion two weeks off non negotiable.
Speaker 3: There's a two action the slinging motion in a tackle,
Speaker 3: you hit their head on the ground, that's weeks. You
Speaker 3: go the bump and you hit the head. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if that's an accident or not. That's weeks. But
Speaker 3: then there's spectacles in our game that everyone knows and loves,
Speaker 3: in particular the specky. So right now, as it stands,
Speaker 3: you can go up, take a specy neeed someone in
Speaker 3: the back of the skull. You cauld kill a person
Speaker 3: and take a mark. There's zero repercussion, zero like fall
Speaker 3: back like you could do some serious, serious damage. In
Speaker 3: combat sports, you're not allowed to hit the back of
Speaker 3: the head let alone, you know other sports, so you're
Speaker 3: allowed to need someone in the back of the skull
Speaker 3: just to take a specky because we don't want to
Speaker 3: take that aspect of our game away. But it'll come
Speaker 3: to a crossroads in the future where it'll be like
Speaker 3: are we fully serious or are we serious for most
Speaker 3: of the things, but we let other things through because
Speaker 3: we like that spectacular in our game. Where do you
Speaker 3: see it going?
Speaker 1: I think over the years, the more we understand this,
Speaker 1: the less contact the game's going to be.
Speaker 2: We've seen it. We've seen it over the last thirty years.
Speaker 1: You know, people used to simply a punch on in
Speaker 1: the middle of the games, and that doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 1: It's only going to keep going in that direction. I
Speaker 1: think you talk about specky's are going to be a
Speaker 1: question mark. You know, obviously center Bounces has become a
Speaker 1: focal point in the last few years and things along
Speaker 1: those lines. And I think on myself, like I'm a
Speaker 1: ruckman who wears a shin guard. It's like if I
Speaker 1: stick that shin guard going full speed into the back
Speaker 1: of someone's head, like we're going hop there's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. Like they're for sure going to go to hospital.
Speaker 1: And like I said, it's not going to go away
Speaker 1: for the AFL anytime soon. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: talking point that's going to continue on. And unfortunately, that's
Speaker 1: something they're gonna have to deal with. And it's not
Speaker 1: really unfortunate. It's something they should have to deal with
Speaker 1: being a contact sport, and that's just part of the
Speaker 1: game of trying to understand what's going on. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the game is definitely going to change.
Speaker 2: I think it will change quite a bit in the future.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're seeing slowly things being implemented, like
Speaker 1: you said, through those and through head high tackles and
Speaker 1: singing all that kind of stuff that was probably just
Speaker 1: ignored in previous years that now are being a focal
Speaker 1: point because I know that there's leading to longer term
Speaker 1: health effects. And as a league, if you're understanding of
Speaker 1: that and you know that's a you know, a repercussion
Speaker 1: of something that is something you might be able to
Speaker 1: pre you know, to prevent, then it's your duty of
Speaker 1: care to make sure that does happen. And that's why
Speaker 1: you have the MRO, that's why you have suspensions, that's
Speaker 1: why you have things to de incentivize players from doing that.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it just be a free for all. So I
Speaker 1: think they're heading the right direction. Even even with this
Speaker 1: can cush some research and stuff, it was the right
Speaker 1: idea terrible execution, and they'd be probably understanding of that,
Speaker 1: and they probably admit to that. But I think whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to CT's concussions and everything else, this is
Speaker 1: going to be get more and more protective and more
Speaker 1: and more, you know, a headline on a weekly and
Speaker 1: monthly and yearly basis for the AFL and contact sport
Speaker 1: in general, whether it be the NFL, you know, a
Speaker 1: FL basketball, whatever it is that you know there is contact.
Speaker 1: This is going to be something that you know, maybe
Speaker 1: the world needed to come together and say, let's get
Speaker 1: the top you know, the top doctors and every country
Speaker 1: to come together and try to really figure this out
Speaker 1: and see where we can minimize it and you know,
Speaker 1: make everyone better for it.
Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, it's going to land on a
Speaker 3: compromise of you can't stop all contact, We'll do as
Speaker 3: much as we can to implement preventative measures moving forward,
Speaker 3: and then you're just going to have to agree as
Speaker 3: an athlete in whatever league that, Okay, I agree with
Speaker 3: the preventative measures, and that the company, the league or
Speaker 3: whatever is trying to prevent cting concussion as much as possible.
Speaker 3: Then everything on top of that going forward, I understand
Speaker 3: that I'm putting myself in risk.
Speaker 1: You talked about the differences and you know, the two
Speaker 1: two week concussion things, full support of that. I know
Speaker 1: some people might be in, you know, up in arms
Speaker 1: about finals and missing finals and that stuff, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's all about player welfare in the long
Speaker 1: term mental health, and you know where you're going to
Speaker 1: be from a health perspective once you finish football, like
Speaker 1: you've got a life to live after it.
Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't end once your football career ends.
Speaker 1: And I think whenever you're a company like the IFL,
Speaker 1: you know you have to put your employee's health as
Speaker 1: a top priority. And that's that's that's their you know,
Speaker 1: that's what they have to do. That is their responsibility.
Speaker 1: And they're going to have to continually keep updating rules
Speaker 1: and regulations and doing things to be able to try
Speaker 1: to do that to the best of their ability. And
Speaker 1: as you said, as a foet, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: sit there and say, do I think that.
Speaker 2: They uphold a high moral standard?
Speaker 1: Remember it comes to you know, had to eye contact
Speaker 1: or you know, things that are going to cause issues
Speaker 1: down the road.
Speaker 3: There's always a sports.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: It's a very good point you make.
Speaker 2: I want to finish on something.
Speaker 1: I want to fish on, finish a good note, on
Speaker 1: a positive note, a light note. And this week, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been hanging out with a few Aussies in America
Speaker 1: and they've told me some interesting things. They're like, how
Speaker 1: do you explain as an American in Australia back home
Speaker 1: in America, how do you explain some of the Australian
Speaker 1: slangs you've got give me a rundown and maybe where
Speaker 1: you think they came from, what they mean, et cetera. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm also sling through these get a dog up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like with our stuff it could be positive
Speaker 3: or negative. It's get a big dog up. Her means
Speaker 3: stuff you. I don't know. That's that's my explanation.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got stuff you. Next one bloody oath.
Speaker 3: Mate means absolutely friend, Okay.
Speaker 2: Absolutely struth. Where does struth come from?
Speaker 3: Well, struth almost means kraaky.
Speaker 2: Where does krikee come from? Crocodile dude?
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much. No, it s truth and krikey. It
Speaker 3: just mean it's a it's like an exclamation.
Speaker 2: Okay, stone the flame and crows.
Speaker 3: That's like bloody how the bloody how? It would be
Speaker 3: like God, damn it? And then you can't say God
Speaker 3: over there? Can you just damn it? Let's just go
Speaker 3: with damn it. That crack the shits is that that
Speaker 3: self explained? You're upset. I cracked the ships before when
Speaker 3: all the stores were closed and I had to have
Speaker 3: a bloody sausage roll for breakfast, the sausage roll and
Speaker 3: a coffee.
Speaker 1: Crack the ships comes from. Though, Cold as a mother
Speaker 1: in law's kiss is one of my favorite ones.
Speaker 3: Well, that just means it's it's cold, but it's more,
Speaker 3: it's more like through actions. Like I wouldn't say the
Speaker 3: weather's as cold as a mother mother in law's kids.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that. I'd say like something that's like,
Speaker 3: you know, ice cold, like someone's like heartless, colder than
Speaker 3: a lawd's kiss.
Speaker 1: All right, now, the last one, and this is the
Speaker 1: greatest one, all because I still don't understand it.
Speaker 2: We're not here to fuck to spiders. It's like we're spiders.
Speaker 3: We're here for a reason. We're not here to fuck spiders.
Speaker 3: We're here to do I don't know what you guys
Speaker 3: do back in America in the world.
Speaker 1: Is someone just sitting there going you know what? I
Speaker 1: think this is a good saying. We're not here to
Speaker 1: fuck spot as Mike.
Speaker 3: Like, it's pretty hard to fuck with spider up. Imagine
Speaker 3: it's not the easiest task, but that just means that
Speaker 3: you're there to do the job. And yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know what you guys do in America. A bunch of
Speaker 3: spiderfucker's over there, but we're not. We're not here.
Speaker 2: There is one place to do it, to be Florida.
Speaker 2: We will end there.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot, it's been heavier times, it's been
Speaker 1: like hard at times, but unfortunately Tom and Giselle have
Speaker 1: divorced or going to in. Taylor Swift's at the top
Speaker 1: of the charts and Kanye's crazy, So nothing has changed
Speaker 1: in all honesty, but we.
Speaker 2: Have had a bit of fun with it.
Speaker 1: The Cooler chat, the Florida Man, as always is always
Speaker 1: one of the best, the men who caught what was
Speaker 1: his name, Dustin, Dusty Crumb, Dusty Crumb with eleven Foot Python.
Speaker 1: There's been plenty we've covered here, but as always, I
Speaker 1: just want to say massive thank you everyone for tuning in.
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Speaker 1: some big news for the podcast. It is big, big news,
Speaker 1: and once that time comes around, I'm telling you and
Speaker 1: go oh, we're about to launch absolutely lounge people.
Speaker 3: When are you back? But when are you back?
Speaker 1: Get back November twentieth, and I think I'd duck off
Speaker 1: to the Northern Territory do some charity stuff up there,
Speaker 1: but I will be back December fifth because I have
Speaker 1: to my contractual agreements and be able to start training,
Speaker 1: so I will be back to Super fifth in the
Speaker 1: same ban as you. We will get back to it
Speaker 1: before then, but we might do a podcast on the twenty.
Speaker 1: It just a little catch up of the off season.
Speaker 1: But like I said, follow us on all seven platforms.
Speaker 1: Thanks again, have an amazing week ahead of you, and
Speaker 1: go pause.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know why I said that, but I'm
Speaker 2: just figuring why not.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it.