WEBVTT - 🏆GRAND FINAL SPECIAL: PART 2🏆 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.480 Hey Legends, Welcome back to The Mason Cox Show. Part two, 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.120 Episode to the Grand Final. This is where things get 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.480 a bit, let's say, out of the ordinary. It's the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 celebrations of the Grand Final, everything that happens after you win. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.400 The cop people. Phil Cox drinks a beer out of 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.160 it huge. We get into that, the family's there, all 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.280 the friends are happening, We go to the bars, we 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.640 get the after party, then the after party, after party. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.400 We party for a week straight and we roll through 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.040 all the details everyone and then we talk about the journey. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:36.560 Let's be honest, it's a big one for me, so 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.280 we're gonna talk about the hides, lows, everything in between. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.720 It is an incredible Part two. It's gonna be a 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.879 big one, So listen in, tune in, settle down. It's 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:52.680 gonna be big. But we'll get into it now. They 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.360 kick down line. They go like, tap it down, Will, 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.320 and we'll kick it. Four of the son goes right 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.840 and then the game's over and it's like a moment 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.400 that I just I just like was just so exhausted. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.039 I just fell over and I was like, that's it it, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.680 It's done, thank God. And then the moment's like you're 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:14.280 a premiership player, it's like, oh my god, the resurrection 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.160 kind of just get back to your feet, and then 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.240 you just go find the whole crew and Will Will 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.640 it's there about and you just grab the hand. There's 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.959 a big hug, and everyone's freaking out. There's pandemonium and 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.840 you kind of you go from like the exhausted like 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.600 collapse and then your brain is like quiet, and it's 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.440 then all of a sudden you kind of your senses 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.319 come back, and then it's, oh my gosh, you like 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.480 crazy experience that just happened, and this is it's done, 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.480 and you're You've won the whole thing, and it's like 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:51.320 just this amazing just flush of adrenaline that until it is. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.520 It's seriously, it's it's a weird thing to say it 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.920 and like describe kind of what the feeling was, but 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.360 you just have that rush of like, oh my god, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.160 we did it. And then you find your teammate and 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.480 you're like celebrating with them and it was just chaos, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.200 man like just absolutely chaos in the best way. And 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.800 I didn't even I didn't shake a single Brisbane player's hand, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.720 Like I just didn't even see them. Like it was 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.639 just like the whole, like the whole like field was 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.680 rushed by people. Right. You got like all the VFL 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.200 and the afl blas of players come on, and if 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.600 you all the coaches come down. You got all this 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.440 like people and everything around, and the cups there and 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.800 Peter Moores there, and you're you're hugging everyone. You're like 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.280 sitting there like a high five and one you're like 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:33.840 in just this crazy pandemonium, and it was just nuts 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.160 and you get you get to that point you're like 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.760 we've done it, like we've actually done it. And then 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.079 I think the first hype bit was like Brandon came 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.160 up to me and he was like what God, They're 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.480 just like he's a hype man, right, He's like chest 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.960 bumps the shit out of you. And I was just 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.800 like so like so happy for him, because you know, 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.680 it's like, I mean, like it sounds like maybe a 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.240 bit shit on my side, but it's not like been 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.840 my life goal to be a premature. Yeah, it's an 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.160 amazing experience and like you said, like fulfills this journey. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.000 It's incredible. But like for someone who grew up from 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.920 the age of five years old to go through oz 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.160 kick and go through the whole experience and like dream 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.880 of that moment. It was so poetic in the sense 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.800 of seeing how much it meant to everyone else, And 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.640 it meant a lot to me too, but like I 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.480 got more happiness from other people there and the motions 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.639 that were coming out of them of what it meant 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.840 to And I'm not just talking players, I'm talking staff 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.200 and coaches and everyone else. Like that's that's the pit. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.600 Like that's the little part that I loved the most 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.120 about that experience. It sounds like weird saying that, Like 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.560 you don't think about yourself in that moment, but like 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.720 for the next like five days, I couldn't help but 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.560 just be so happy for everyone else that I knew 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:49.520 it meant so much too. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.680 Yeah, And each person that you would have gone up 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.560 to in that hectic, chaotic moment, each person you saw, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.440 you would have just thought of everything that you'd been 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.080 through with that in that moment, Oh my god, this 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.320 and this and we've been on this journey and they've 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.160 been through all these things, and you just embrace and 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.560 you hug and you move on to the next person. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.520 Because there's there would have been forty fifty people out 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.360 there that you've all shared a moment over the past 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.440 ten years with that has led to this that everyone's got. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.599 There's not many workplaces out there in the world that 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.839 you're like striving towards one common goal, like one very 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.359 specific common goal more than in sport, and like to 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.400 finally achieve that. Like it's not the same people from 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.960 day one to the ran, like the people that do 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.159 make it through together, Like I can't even begin to 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.320 imagine how amazing that moment would have been before any 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.440 self reflection, before a moment of like fuck, like I've 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.760 done this, Like because you're looking at them going like 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.799 we achieved all of this. Yeah, so talk us along 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.840 the way of like each little moment where something hit 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.560 you because you go up you get the medal, like 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.840 you're thinking all of these thoughts and you haven't had 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.719 any time to collect yourself and then you've got to 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:12.760 go receive your medal. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.960 It just everything happens so quickly and you want to 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.359 soak it in, like the experience everything, but like you 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:19.919 go from one thing and you're being told to go 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.280 up to the stand and you're going to get give 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:22.640 them the medal and then the cap and then the 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.400 walk around the field and it all just happens, and like, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.920 I mean, that's like an hour of like your life, right, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.280 but it's something like you just want to enjoy every 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.120 second of and you want to last as long as possible. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.760 So you go from starting going, collapsing, hugging the players, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.760 and I went to the sideline. I waited for Craig. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.680 Craig had to hug like twenty staff members before he 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.440 got to me, so I waited for him patiently, just 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.560 like an idiot, grabbed him and like celebrated with him, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:51.320 which was awesome. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.920 I want to stop in that moment because obviously we've 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.520 talked about it. Repay Fly on the inside of your collar, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.320 and this is the first moment that you would have 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.040 seen your coach, the guy that taught you to kick daylight, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.600 taught you about the AFL, taught you what it is 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.040 and what it meant. And you've done it. You've achieved it, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.760 you've succeeded, you've repaid fly what you set out to 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.839 do the whole time. What did that moment mean in 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.599 that instant did you both share that moment when you 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:24.240 saw each other. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.760 Yeah, I think it's like Hogman for the jb Ice 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.200 game went by a point a prelim incredible to like 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.599 experience just going to a Grand five and then winning 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.719 it and then being able to like have that moment 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.360 and like it was very queer because it's like there's 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.160 just chaos everyone, but like, yeah, like inside the jump 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.200 and repay Fly and there's still there's still more to 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.200 repay him. I feel like there's not it's not like 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.279 a finite done with this. You know, there's so much more. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.760 You got another two years in. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.599 Another two years, so he's going to drag that shit out. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.719 But I think like in that moment and like I 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.800 was talking to Justin Lafitte about the other day, and 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.680 we're just gonna spit bying like kind of the whole 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.840 journey and stuff and how incredible it's been. He's like 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.960 man like to meet someone like flies, like your first 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.600 coach is like just so important to the whole thing happening. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.720 Like there's not many coaches that would not only give 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.320 so much of the time and energy to you to 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.280 become a better player starting from scratch, but also to 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.280 like help you in a personal standpoint, to be a 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.800 better person. Like there's a lot of coaches you know, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.200 they've got so much going on that they don't have 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.040 the time energy to put into people. But I think 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.920 like Fly just saw something different than me and wanted 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.080 to develop me on and off the field as a person. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.880 And that was one of the things I'm super super 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.360 fortunate for is to have him be kind of like 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.600 my first mentor along with Anthony Roca, to go through 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.760 the whole experience with. And he kind of treated me 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.640 like family from day dot where I didn't know anyone. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.920 So to have that moment where now you feel like 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.920 you've been part of something together that you've both sacrificed 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.680 so much to be able to earn was pretty cool. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.360 Man Like, it's there's no word to really describe it. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.520 I'll always be indebted to the man is just like 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.800 such an important part of my life and has done 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.280 so much for me. And I was telling like before 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.400 the game, like I was, I was like so emotional 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.400 before the games because I was so happy they had 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.520 a kid and everything went well, you know, like every meeting, 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.000 I feel like I went in there and I was like, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.400 how's she going, She going all right? How she feels 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.080 she gonna cut you out? And he was so Stokedy now. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.760 So to have that and like have that full circle 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.080 moment of like him coming in here and me wanting 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:25.440 to play for him, and me wanting to give back 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.520 what he has given to me and give my time 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.520 and energy and sacrifice for him to be able to 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.880 reach the pinnacle with him as the leader of the 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:37.200 club was just an amazing moment for me and probably 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.120 him also in that sense to just sit there and say, like, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.719 you know, you've sacrificed a lot for each other and 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.280 given a lot of your time and life and energy 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.240 to be able to hopefully reach this moment and you 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.000 finally do it together. It's pretty cool. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.199 Yeah, And it's it's going to be pretty cool moving 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.400 forward because it's a snapshot, but it's those guys that 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.600 he won the flag with. You be tied together forever, yeah, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.240 Like you will see each other every year, every other year, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.400 every ten year, twenty year. Fly just met up with 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.480 his teammate mates for the twentieth year, So you are 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.360 tied together forever with like the all the people that 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.600 you ran around, you hugged, all the people that you 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.559 you know, got around after the game, all the postgame celebrations, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.880 Like you'll be able to share those moments, and you'll 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.000 be able to tell the stories. Steel's kick will get 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:27.840 longer every year. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.960 You'll get to one hundred meters by next year, I'm sure. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.000 But it's just an amazing thing. Now, before we get 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.839 to hold up the cup, you go up, your name 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.520 gets called out, your last because well your second to 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.760 last because obviously Captain's last, but number forty six, Mason Cox. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.320 You go up to receive your medal. You've had a 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.800 whole bunch of blokes, you know, give you an example 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.800 of what to do and what not to do with 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:58.320 the hat and the handshake very meticulous. Oh and my god, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.600 isn't everyone watching in judge, So did you have a 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.800 plan going up for the handshake? Because by McCreary, my god, 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.800 he copt some flak for his and got the kid 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.000 through the club, which is an amazing little thing. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.480 In the moment, we didn't know that happened. Like everyone's 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.560 too excited that it hits social media far right away, bang, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.640 and it's like that's the instant kind of thing of it. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.520 But I remember sitting on the side as everyone's getting 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.800 the medals, I'm like kind of dissecting what to do right, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.959 and like I'm like, okay, yep, hat, first metal, second handshake, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:34.319 double cobras, right, that's the that's the transaction fall in line. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.240 And I was like, oh, I remember Geelong. I gu 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.360 three went up there and he I think it was 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.320 a three. I want to say, no, it's Stuart went 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.800 up and he like flicked the hat off the kid 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.720 and then became a whole thing, right, and like nab 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.480 ran a whole like media press thing with it, and 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.400 he probably would have got paid thousands of dollars for that. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:57.040 So I'm thinking, yeah, throw the hat. I go one 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:02.440 step further Mason f yeah, far out now. But I 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.720 do remember the kid came out, and I'm like, this 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.679 is a fair way down, so I gotta get there 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.760 and you get the hat and get the medal and stuff. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.600 And then luckily enough, I think the difference between Maxton 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.960 because I snubbed the kid too. I don't think I 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.680 gave the handshake and I went straight to the double cobras. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.720 But I think Bo. The problem with Bo's was his 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.160 kids stuck the hand out and he just snuffed left. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.480 And well, I'm pretty sure my child just didn't didn't 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.160 didn't give the hand first, so therefore I didn't see 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.720 it nor I was. I was just too excited to celebrate, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.600 and I think that got me away from the media scrutiny. Yeah, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.880 the kid was like free hat awesome, which I was 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.480 all for too. So I unfortunately did the same thing 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.320 as BO did. But luckily media didn't throw me under 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.559 the bus. They were like, Mace is an American, he 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.640 didn't know what the hell is going on. They're like us, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.640 I U. But that was cool. One of the cool 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.560 things I guys, looking back on it was like you 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.040 go up on the stage right and you've got like 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.800 obviously a massive crowd there to like watch it happen, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.480 and then you've got your teammates and stuff, and everyone's 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.760 happy and smiling. And a lot of people were asking 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.360 this question after the game and about like the USA 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.920 chant and like it's it's a pretty unique, cool thing. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.800 It's very different, and I guess it's somewhat it's nice 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.000 because it's like an individual acknowledgment for something you do, right, Like, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.000 there's not many people that get that, and it's not 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.760 something I did. Like I say, everyone chant USA like 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.400 it just naturally happened. And when if I went up, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.360 like the whole team started chating the USA, which was 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.840 really cool. When you get up there, you do the 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.760 metal on the hat and then you're like hear the 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.679 chant in the background. You're like and you look at 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.720 the stadium. This is sick. Yeah, like metal on like 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.480 all eyes kind of on you and you just so 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:55.280 Hyph're just like what you go yeah, And it was 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:56.880 it was a cool moment. Man. It's like one of 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.640 those you kind of see people do over the years, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.680 and to be able to experience that, you know, it's 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.120 something that not many people can. So you soak it in. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:09.520 Darcy More goes up incredible human speech and then Dad 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.760 gives the trophy to him, and that was that was 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.680 kind of like a soft It was just like, man, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.800 that's so cool. And then him and Craig hold it 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.160 up and you're sitting there on the edge're going, hold up. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.040 We know the big photo is coming, right, so you 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.520 know the photo cops lifted. The team runs onto the 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.160 state so I'm looking around, I'm like, where do you 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:28.839 Where do you want to go? Right? You want to 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.280 position yourself. You don't want to be last on stage 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.880 because then you're just going to be like out the 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:33.520 back right. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.720 Yeah, Jordy got himself through like front right. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.520 Everyone's thinking this, you know, everyone starts creeping towards the 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.960 front because they're like, like, we're going to lift the 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.880 cop up, and I'm just like kind of sneaking off 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.560 to the right. I'm sitting there behind besides DC I 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.240 think it was and Darcy Cameron. I'm like, he's like, yeah, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.079 for sure. And I was like, let's take the right 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.959 stairs and we'll get up the right side so then 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.280 we can get on that side and we can be 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.559 front right. And so we get up there, and then 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.720 as soon as I jumped up, there's like ten players 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.319 in front of me, like, well there it goes that. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.160 I was like, I'll do what I do every single 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:09.640 photo back center right next to but I was next 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.280 to the cup in Darcy, which was sick, like iconic photo. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.720 Obviously that will you know, go down in the memory bank. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.680 But that was epic. And then you come down and 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.280 I don't think I actually even touched the cup until 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.360 they had already done the full lap, like oh no, 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.480 I went up and did the cup raised with Patty 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.040 the pinske, which was sick and sketchy, super sketch by 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.080 the way, like and the guys just holding your ankle 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:35.120 and I'm sitting there. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.880 Like that's worse. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.920 At one point I grabbed Patty, but then Patty's just 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.840 as like, you know, off balances me. So then we 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.400 almost both went tumbling over the edge and I'm just 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.080 sitting there like, there's this cheer squad and sorry to 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.040 whoever the cheer squad remember was, but I'm pretty sure 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.760 I used their head as a balance point. And then 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.960 my god, I've touched and yeah, so you sit there 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.320 and you hold it up and that was all awesome, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.480 and like they had the flag and Patty's an absolute legend, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.880 a good friend and someone who you know, was played 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.360 his role for the whole team and been through you know, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.880 trials and tribulations changing clubs, and he slided into our side, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.880 so well it was awesome to hold it up with 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.760 him and everyone's doing their turn up in front of them, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.240 you know, and that was that was epic, a really 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.280 cool moment. But before that, what everyone was doing, I 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.760 was like, oh, his sounds really cocky. And I haven't 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:28.400 told anyone this. This will be clipped up, I'm sure. Ye. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.400 So before the game, before we go in there, you 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.880 know a bit of confidence that we're going to win 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.680 this thing. Yeah. I may and may not have gone 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.560 down to my storage cage gotten my American flag and 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.200 given it to my brother. I was prepped. Well. I 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.280 told him, I said, I want two things if we 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.200 win this. I want you to bring the American flag 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.680 to me, and I want you to bring me a cigar. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.040 He forgot the cigar, but he at least got the 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.000 American flag. So I'm sitting there and everyone's holding the 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.320 cup up, and you're kind of just like loving the moment, right, 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.560 like experience and like you get Nick and Josh like 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.600 holding the cup up. Awesome, iconic moment. And I'm like 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.640 looking at the crowd and I see a few USA flags. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.360 There's a little kid that always brings the same flag, 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.120 which is awesome seeing him down there. There's what up 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.560 on the concourse. And then I saw one out of 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.080 the corner. My Mam'm like off to the right near 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.680 the race, and I was like, oh, that's interesting. And 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.760 then like the flag comes down a bit and I 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.600 see my brother's head and I was like, oh shit. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.120 I was like, that's sick. My brother so like run 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.520 over there and he's like ten rows deep product there's 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.480 a million fans in front of him, and he like 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.520 tries to like throw the thing down. It lands like 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.560 five people in front of him, and I'm like, can't 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:33.840 get the flag into the flag. And I get the 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.840 flag and he's like yah, And I was like, everyone 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.640 move out the way. I was like, my brother's coming 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.440 down and they're like what. I was like, he's there. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.000 That man right there is my brother. He's coming onto 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.480 the field and everyone's like whoa and they like kind 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.800 of like shuffles his way down, jumping over all the seats. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.440 Anyone would do anything for you in those. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.200 Insane It is crazy. What a medallion that's gold that 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.680 looks like this will get you in this in this city. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.640 It's it's insanity. But we digress to the next thing. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.360 But he comes down and then he's like, oh, I 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.800 don't want to get on the field security ball. I said, Nolan, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.119 fuck them, you're coming on the field. I don't have 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.320 whatever you want. Have anyone else here that's like part 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.800 of my family, Like you were at like mom and 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:15.320 dad and stuff are down in the race, Like I 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.080 don't see them anyway, Like you just came on the field. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.640 Who cares. So I have the flag and I'm sitting 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.600 there and I look back securities not looking. So I 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.480 just hold the flag up and I go jump and 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.280 he just jumps over the fence and gets on the 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.440 field and we just start walking around and chatting. We 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.439 got a photo together on the field which was epic 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:34.840 awesome and like the camera guys know who it was, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.560 so they came over and took a photo. So yeah, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.359 So I did a little bit of prep work and 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.879 that's how I got the American flag, so it wasn't 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.680 stolen out of the audience. It was actually my own property. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.520 It was good and it sets up for so many 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.240 amazing photos. And we did touch on this year over 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.280 your journey with your brother. He was your agent, your 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.800 first manager, and there's the moment where you, you know, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.560 you walked into the MCG for the first time and yeah, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.439 you get the this could be your office. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.159 No one actually posted that photo. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.040 Yeah, and now full circle, yeah your office. You know, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.000 you go out there one hundred thousand people, grand final 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.440 day and you get to share it with your brother 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.920 who started the whole journey with you. Like, how much 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:22.480 did that mean? 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.360 In that moment, it's incredible, Like he's he's been there 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.879 through the good, bad and very ugly, and there's been 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.679 times like that. So it was awesome that he was 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.399 too scared to walk around the ring with us, like 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.080 around the circle, like around the field. I try to 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.640 get him to deal it with me. But now he's 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.679 kind of been someone who I've definitely leaned a lot on. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.760 You take, I'll try to get emotional here, but someone 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.320 will ever you know you're in those depths, like he 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.720 gives that energy to you to make you get through it, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.120 If that makes sense. I think a lot of people 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.159 probably have that in their life, where you might have 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.639 a partner as someone who whenever you're in not a 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.199 great mood, they give some of their energy of positivity 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.679 to you to lift you up. And he's always been 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.040