Speaker 1: Hello, it's me Art Simone, and I've got a confession
Speaker 1: to make. I hate boring people. People with no sparkle,
Speaker 1: no color, no personality, no nothing. It disgusts me. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm finding the most interesting people, ones with unusual jobs,
Speaker 1: weird hobbies, and sometimes scandalous secrets to chat with. Truthfully,
Speaker 1: sometimes they do seem a bit boring at first, but
Speaker 1: that's because I don't actually know what it is that
Speaker 1: makes them interesting. We'll find that bit out together. This
Speaker 1: is Concealed with me at Simone. Let's meet our guest
Speaker 1: roll the time.
Speaker 2: Hello. My name is Mason. I'm a thirty two year
Speaker 2: old male. I hail from the place of Dallas, Texas
Speaker 2: in the United States. I'm six foot eleven, so very
Speaker 2: very tall. I also have a mechanical engineering degree from
Speaker 2: Oklahoma State University. Tea is one of my favorite hobbies
Speaker 2: I enjoy in my free time, and I am probably
Speaker 2: one of the most unique people in my career choice
Speaker 2: that you could possibly find.
Speaker 3: Oh amazing, How are you?
Speaker 2: I am well? How are you good?
Speaker 3: Welp me to the concealed studio. How do you find
Speaker 3: it so fast?
Speaker 2: I'm stoked to be here.
Speaker 1: Oh good, good. So let's recap a little bit, all right.
Speaker 1: Thirty two. Tea is a hobby, which is a very
Speaker 1: strange thing. I don't know what that specifically entails.
Speaker 2: It's like an obsession of mine. I love tea, every
Speaker 2: single flavor. Get into it. Sis. It's one of those things.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm far, I'm all over it.
Speaker 1: One of those people where you think you think that
Speaker 1: like tea can fix anything. You're like, I've got a
Speaker 1: tea for that. Yeah, I've got a tea for that. Yeap,
Speaker 1: sleep energy, So you can just solve all problems with tea.
Speaker 2: Do you have any issues I need to figure out?
Speaker 1: No, but I was going to go that I love
Speaker 1: t but I love a different type of tea, which
Speaker 1: is the truth, which is when you talk shit with
Speaker 1: your friends and go tea.
Speaker 3: All right? And Dallas, Texas?
Speaker 1: Ye right?
Speaker 3: Okay? And how long have you been in Australia for
Speaker 3: nine years?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm a citizen now?
Speaker 1: Oh can grat you? Do you like veggimte yet? Well
Speaker 1: I'm going to revoke that citizenship right now. A mechanical
Speaker 1: engineering degree. Oklahoma. When I hear Oklahoma, all I think is, oh,
Speaker 1: Alkohoma weather. I don't know the rest of the words
Speaker 1: in the musical Oklahoma, right. So what got you into
Speaker 1: mechanical engineering?
Speaker 2: It's it's in the family. Mom and dad, both mechanical engineers,
Speaker 2: follow down the same path. So it's very cute.
Speaker 3: Yes, what's the mechanical engineer? Can you?
Speaker 2: Can? I do probably anything from fixing cars doing that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, to heating and ventilation air conditioning stuff,
Speaker 2: so you know how buildings are built and things like that.
Speaker 1: To have you used your mechanical engineering degree recently?
Speaker 2: Not at all? Got nine years?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's at least you kept busy and all right.
Speaker 3: Elephant in the room six ft eleven? What did you
Speaker 3: eat as a child?
Speaker 2: Everything that was put in front of it? Anything and everything?
Speaker 1: And giant people running the family? Are you a family
Speaker 1: of giants? The bfgs?
Speaker 2: Yes, The BFG is my favorite book.
Speaker 3: Grind there you go.
Speaker 2: It's me six foot six brother and then six foot
Speaker 2: eight brother, and mom's about six foot so we get
Speaker 2: it from mama's side.
Speaker 1: Okay. And what there been like for you being a
Speaker 1: giant person.
Speaker 2: It's it's good and bad. Don't get me wrong. It's
Speaker 2: like some pretty amazing opportunities in life. But whenever I
Speaker 2: go to flight, maybe it's not so great. A shower
Speaker 2: fitting through doorways, shower head, I'm and it's just washing
Speaker 2: the tits all It's not really shit, It's great. I'm
Speaker 2: fresh from there on down. We don't really know what
Speaker 2: to expect, all right.
Speaker 1: So what am I gonna do is ask you three questions,
Speaker 1: and from the answers to those three questions, I have
Speaker 1: to determine what it is you were concealing from me. Yes, okay, alright,
Speaker 1: you ready it all right? First question I have for
Speaker 1: you is do you have any nicknames?
Speaker 2: I do. The best known nickname is cox Zilla, kind
Speaker 2: of like Godzilla.
Speaker 3: Cox. Why are you Coxzilla? How do you call?
Speaker 2: Is similar to Cox? Oh yeah, not the other way
Speaker 2: you're thinking, yeah, okay, all right, And it's similar to Godzillazilla,
Speaker 2: big massive animal.
Speaker 3: Do you think of yourself as a god?
Speaker 2: No doubt? No, tower over people. Okay, there's a little bit,
Speaker 2: I guess. No, no, no, never consider myself a god?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So so Cox, where's that coming from?
Speaker 2: I can't tell. We'll give it up.
Speaker 1: Oh oh what okay? Question number two? Which one animal
Speaker 1: do you think would survive the apocalypse.
Speaker 2: I would say a magpie.
Speaker 1: A magpie? Why a magpie? Well, Maggie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're aggressive animals, very aggressive animals. Don't mind swooping people,
Speaker 2: keep you know, people, people away from their nests.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's how they'd survive?
Speaker 2: They can also fly, you know, I mean, like, how
Speaker 2: cool to be to be able to fly? You know,
Speaker 2: you can get out of situations easily, not many people
Speaker 2: that are probably coming after you in the air.
Speaker 1: Flying seems like a lot of effort. Imagine how hard
Speaker 1: you like your arms would hurt, you know it would?
Speaker 2: It would be amazing. Imagine soaring above the clouds.
Speaker 1: I rather just sit down. No. I like magpies because
Speaker 1: I get called a bagpie all the time because I
Speaker 1: like sparkly things and shiny things, and I collect lots
Speaker 1: of sparkly, shiny things, so people often call me a magpie.
Speaker 1: So maybe by proxy I'll survive the apocalypse. The only
Speaker 1: things that will be left after the apocalypse share yep,
Speaker 1: cockeraches and magpies. Final question out of the twenty six letters,
Speaker 1: which is your favorite? Gee for God? Smart? Okay? God? Alright, okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Gee for God? Why G can you tell me.
Speaker 2: Probably has to do with where I enjoy spending time.
Speaker 1: A letter, G letter Okay, okay, Jim, Maybe Jim, that
Speaker 1: could be the gym.
Speaker 2: Alright, yeah close, you're getting there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Jim, all right, I haven't been in one
Speaker 1: of those in a long time. But that's okay, that's
Speaker 1: you know, I still pay for the membership.
Speaker 2: You know, just in case you're supporting smallers.
Speaker 3: Anytime Fitness Alton and no even though with the Geelong now.
Speaker 1: If you want to, I can't get to ALTONAO to
Speaker 1: cancel my membership, which I've had for like the last
Speaker 1: four years, even though I live in Geelong.
Speaker 3: Could you please just cancel it?
Speaker 1: Things anyway? All right, Okay, recap Okay, likes tea, spilling secrets,
Speaker 1: Giant Man Dallas, Oklahoma, God Magpies g could be Jim. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to put this together. Oh I was going
Speaker 1: mafia for a second. I was just singing mafia because
Speaker 1: you know the God you know, that could be your
Speaker 1: like mafia name Cox Youler, alright, and you could be
Speaker 1: a mafia who uses T as a code name to
Speaker 1: sell things. But now I don't think so, okay, because
Speaker 1: you're not very inconspicuous because you're a giant. So I
Speaker 1: feel like he really wouldn't work in the mafia or
Speaker 1: a bikie gang because you're like, oh there he is
Speaker 1: again tough to stirk and now, yeah, that's true. But
Speaker 1: instead I'm going to go left a field. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: because what I think is that you're concealing from me
Speaker 1: is that you aren't actually a human person. You are
Speaker 1: two human people on each other's shoulders wearing a coat.
Speaker 3: Am I right? Are you two people?
Speaker 2: No? Not at all. My full name is Mason Cox.
Speaker 2: I am an American AFL player, a place for the
Speaker 2: Collingwood Magpies at the mcg or also known as the
Speaker 2: g and currently the only American Borner Bread player to
Speaker 2: play one hundred games.
Speaker 3: A sporting star.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say start.
Speaker 1: I don't know that. You're pretty starry, giant, sporty man AFL.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I should have done some push ups.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So Mason is not two people in
Speaker 1: a trench coat. No, he is actually a Collingwood football player.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what I do like ball sports,
Speaker 1: so this could be fun. We're here with Mason the
Speaker 1: professional AFL player, but from Texas.
Speaker 3: I'm confused.
Speaker 1: Please explain how did you come all the way from
Speaker 1: Texas and then end up in the AFL.
Speaker 2: This is a very very long story.
Speaker 1: Cliff notes.
Speaker 2: Cliff notes love that Okay, in a long time, went
Speaker 2: to school to Colombis State University Stadium mechanical engineering, and
Speaker 2: then from there it got recruited to go play on
Speaker 2: the basketball team, actually get recruited from playing women's basketball.
Speaker 2: If you can believe that. Very weird women helped the
Speaker 2: women's team play basketball, so i'd emulate one of their oppositions,
Speaker 2: who was Britney Griner was recently in Rush. Yeah, as
Speaker 2: her play that. And then the men's team asked me
Speaker 2: to come play with them. And then I played on
Speaker 2: the men's team for about three.
Speaker 1: Years because top people know we played basketball.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I was a late bloomer, is what you
Speaker 2: would call it. Six inches in a summer is what
Speaker 2: I grew in height. Oh, it's to hit puberty.
Speaker 3: Yes, six Actually it sounds like a movie. I've watched
Speaker 3: six Inches.
Speaker 2: And then from there, God's offered to come over to
Speaker 2: Australia to try out a new sports in AFL and
Speaker 2: learn it from scratch.
Speaker 1: Who found you and said AFL.
Speaker 2: I played soccer growing up, so like soccer and basketball
Speaker 2: to that kind of correlate best to AFL, so kind
Speaker 2: of a good mixture to go.
Speaker 3: Into people in America. I'm confused.
Speaker 2: It was a basketball draft scout that the AFL had
Speaker 2: hired to find me in the US playing basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very weird. Unique hasn't been done since.
Speaker 3: It's a very odd strange.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Someone comes up and says, hey, you're tall. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: a business card. And then they said AFL, what do
Speaker 1: you do? You go what?
Speaker 2: They go, you played soccer before, you can kick something right,
Speaker 2: And I was like yeah. And then they go, you've
Speaker 2: played basketball, you can go and like understand the three
Speaker 2: sixty degrees of sport. And I said yeah, and they
Speaker 2: said I think you might be okay to play AFL.
Speaker 2: I said, hold on, you're going to pay for a
Speaker 2: free trip to Australia, to a beautiful place. So I
Speaker 2: never didn't know anything about it, never heard of Melbourne
Speaker 2: before it. Only heard of Sydney, beautiful Place, Sydney Opera,
Speaker 2: pro House, the Bridge. That's all I knew about Australia
Speaker 2: and they asked me to come to Melbourne, and then
Speaker 2: I found out what this was, found out what AFL was.
Speaker 2: I never heard of it, and then learn the whole
Speaker 2: game from scratch, and now I'm here. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: What did you have to leave behind to like be
Speaker 1: all right, I'll take the golden ticket. We'll give it
Speaker 1: a shot. Come on.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: I had a job at Excellent Mobile and working as
Speaker 2: a mechanical engineer. I was going to travel the world
Speaker 2: doing that and then got this weird call and came
Speaker 2: over here, did a combine in Los Angeles, then kind
Speaker 2: of did one in Australia and they said, look, do
Speaker 2: you want to drop that combine.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be stopping you at a thousand times
Speaker 1: today because you were speaking another language to all right,
Speaker 1: sleigh hunting work.
Speaker 2: A combine is like a athletic testing kind of expells gus.
Speaker 2: Like fitness tests, Yeah, fitness testing for the big tests.
Speaker 1: In high school?
Speaker 2: Didn't How did you do on the big test?
Speaker 1: Not very good? Look at judge, judge away, that's what
Speaker 1: I go for it. No, I was awful at the
Speaker 1: beat tests. That's afled at anything.
Speaker 2: I've never done a big test. Really no, I don't
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 1: I think the thing you'd struggle with is just having
Speaker 1: to bend down to tap to.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I'll be more of just like touched with
Speaker 2: the foot.
Speaker 1: And maybe you could have an extender.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been inspector gadget.
Speaker 1: So you did some fitness things and they you're actually
Speaker 1: all right, and then you do some more fitness thing
Speaker 1: combines whatever here and they go, oh, actually all right,
Speaker 1: what happens? Then they go okay, you get drafted.
Speaker 2: They flew me out to Ash, all expenses paid. I
Speaker 2: didn't think it was a real thing like AFL. I'd
Speaker 2: never heard of it, never seen it.
Speaker 1: So your family and is over in America, right, so
Speaker 1: you're just saying bye, yep, see you later some man time,
Speaker 1: and to come to Australia. I don't know, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to do it, you said, by family, I don't care.
Speaker 1: How old are you at this time?
Speaker 2: Twenty three?
Speaker 3: So you get to Australia. What's happening.
Speaker 2: I'm realizing it's not kangaroo and quallas everywhere. I'm realizing
Speaker 2: there's not as nice as a weather in Melbourne as
Speaker 2: probably you would expect. And I have to learn this
Speaker 2: whole sport from scratch.
Speaker 1: Right, how do you study? Do you watch lots of
Speaker 1: videos or you're just like on the field.
Speaker 3: I don't know anymore.
Speaker 2: The first two months spent with coaches and stuff learning
Speaker 2: the game, just kind of vision and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I didn't go into games and then got thrown into
Speaker 2: training with like people that are Hall of famers and
Speaker 2: stuff like that, And.
Speaker 3: Well you drafted to a team.
Speaker 1: At this stage Collingwood, they're investing a lot of time
Speaker 1: and money in you. Do you feel like a secret
Speaker 1: weapon that they're like, we've actually got this Mason Cox,
Speaker 1: I don't tell anyone. It's like top secret. It seems
Speaker 1: like it's like some military compound where they're like training
Speaker 1: up a superhuman there was Did they grow you in
Speaker 1: a lab? Are you lying?
Speaker 2: I gained eleven kilos in two months?
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, right, so they were really training you. Do they
Speaker 1: do a big reveal they're like, you know, like did
Speaker 1: they take off a big piece of fabric and be
Speaker 1: like tea and you're.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, whatever you play?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Do you have a position?
Speaker 2: What do you rock?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm your new rock.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that good of an introduction.
Speaker 3: I've just never heard of like this. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you feel like a secret superhuman weapon thing?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that. I would say I feel very
Speaker 2: unique because no one else has kind of done the
Speaker 2: same thing I have, which is kind of cool. So
Speaker 2: there's only been one other born and bread American player.
Speaker 2: I Fly only played like three games, so yeah, it's
Speaker 2: very different.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a hard record to beat, then.
Speaker 2: Break record every week plays.
Speaker 1: So I like to think that, Okay, so you've trained up, alright,
Speaker 1: you're good to go. How long is this process before
Speaker 1: you get onto the field.
Speaker 2: So I played my first game about a year and
Speaker 2: a half into learning what the sport was, and I
Speaker 2: played it on as a day.
Speaker 3: They're really investing in your time. It's a big game.
Speaker 3: I know that one day. Is it Essendon? Is it
Speaker 3: against Well Died?
Speaker 2: I said, you weren't a footy fan?
Speaker 3: Well I'm not, but I've lived in Melbourne long enough.
Speaker 2: There you go the Bombers yep. Oh geez, what's Collinwood's
Speaker 2: mascot bagpies? I just had the double check?
Speaker 3: Okay, year and a half.
Speaker 2: Anzac Day eighty five thousand people.
Speaker 1: You checked out. They go, all right, go out there, sinkers.
Speaker 1: We're unveiling our new secret weapon. Go for it.
Speaker 2: How did you go kick the first goal?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: That's three good, right, start, got the win pretty well.
Speaker 2: Tick tick okay, So that was a good start to
Speaker 2: the career. I'm not going to say it was easy, say,
Speaker 2: very nerve racking to go in front of eighty five
Speaker 2: thousand people absolutely love the sport and are crazy about it,
Speaker 2: and you're like, hey, I just showed up here. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm really sure what's going on.
Speaker 1: It's just a couple of weeks to it.
Speaker 2: It is, Yeah, performed in front of the little big crowds.
Speaker 1: Not eighty five thousand. What's the largest crowd up to down?
Speaker 1: I think like five or six thousand, but.
Speaker 2: Still five You still get the energy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me.
Speaker 2: You're in a group.
Speaker 3: All right, you're in a group after.
Speaker 1: You got that by myself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean twenty two eighty. By twenty two, you'd
Speaker 2: have more fans per person than I would.
Speaker 3: Stop lifting me up. Hey, all right, stop giving me confidence.
Speaker 3: But it's not about me.
Speaker 2: It's about you.
Speaker 1: Thank you avoiding the questions here today. All right, you're
Speaker 1: now playing the game, how do what does everyone else think?
Speaker 3: What are they feeling? What are they vibing? They're like,
Speaker 3: who is this? You know? Yank?
Speaker 2: Yank?
Speaker 1: Is that offensive?
Speaker 2: It's not early days. It was very much like teaching
Speaker 2: me the basics. So you can imagine it'd be quite
Speaker 2: probably frustrating as a teammate whenever you have someone else
Speaker 2: who's that far behind someone and skill set. Right, yeah,
Speaker 2: but the but yeah, it was like I say, steep
Speaker 2: learning curve from the beginning, and then once you kind
Speaker 2: of get put into the deep end, you start, you know,
Speaker 2: swimming a bit better as far as the more experienced.
Speaker 1: I don't want to alarm you, but you're not actually
Speaker 1: a swimmer. You play a f L. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: You got a bit confused.
Speaker 3: I totally get that, though.
Speaker 2: I will say something that's unique about me is I
Speaker 2: actually wear goggles in games. I've had six, i think
Speaker 2: eye surgeries from people poking my eyes out, so I
Speaker 2: now have to wear protection for him.
Speaker 1: You're the bagpie. Yeah, I know he's going and poking
Speaker 1: your eyes.
Speaker 2: Well, it's everyone's hands because they can't actually get to
Speaker 2: the ball, right, so they have to scratch through my head.
Speaker 2: And pull back.
Speaker 3: Is that actually, like, do you think that's a hype thing?
Speaker 2: They're like, that's as far as I can give to
Speaker 2: the head. And then the fingers go into the eye
Speaker 2: sockets and ripped the eye out. So yeah, footy injuries loved.
Speaker 3: Even in trouble for stabbing your eyes.
Speaker 2: It's it was considered an accident. Unfortunate. That's why I
Speaker 2: haven't now. Yeah, so if you try to just got
Speaker 2: a little well, I can't touch this.
Speaker 3: Does that distorge your vision at all?
Speaker 1: Though? I feel like it'd be bad for your peripherals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're customs, so they're tinted because I've had
Speaker 2: an issue with minds as far as my pupil, so
Speaker 2: you see, maybe one pupil is different than the other.
Speaker 1: Very David Bowie, very David Bowie, very good.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I've got one that's tinted, which is
Speaker 2: kind of unique. And it's also prescription, so I can
Speaker 2: see better with mine.
Speaker 1: Curious, okay, very interesting. So is there a player or
Speaker 1: a team that you have it out for because of
Speaker 1: like the I thing, what teams you have beef with?
Speaker 1: You know what team you're like beef with? I'm not
Speaker 1: with them. Megan.
Speaker 2: People always say I've got beef with rich men because
Speaker 2: I've we've played them a few times. There's a bit
Speaker 2: of a rivalry there. And I will say this, I
Speaker 2: don't mind a bit of trash talk on the field.
Speaker 3: Can you do some trash talk for we pretend I'm rich?
Speaker 1: Hi, girls, I'm gonna beat you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kick so many goals. Fine, I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: the one in the middle goals.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love your How much you know about ifl
Speaker 2: it's so good. I've been doing a couple of games,
Speaker 2: don't you worry? Meat pies, Meat Pies all four and twenties? Yes, yes, No,
Speaker 2: I think I don't know that. The trash talk is
Speaker 2: more after goals and stuff. So if you do something, well,
Speaker 2: so let's say you jump on someone's shoulders, sticking it
Speaker 2: in the back of someone's.
Speaker 3: Head, is that allowed?
Speaker 2: That is allowed? Just doesn't sound very safe at all.
Speaker 3: But get yours, get my tits?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. But no, I think a little bit
Speaker 2: of trash talk is always good. And it's always like
Speaker 2: if you do something that's like bad for them, because
Speaker 2: I feel like it's a mental game a little bit,
Speaker 2: I fl and you're allowed to trash talk and get
Speaker 2: into people's heads. So that's kind of something I'm probably
Speaker 2: known for, and I'm being America, yeah a little bit.
Speaker 3: The crowds wouldn't hear any of this, would they?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Eighty five thou people.
Speaker 2: Although I've realized this umpires now with microphones, I do
Speaker 2: pick up things here and there. So if you see
Speaker 2: a little greens, you gotta shut the mouth and are
Speaker 2: really just giving reel it in a little bitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, flap our wings and just it's so good. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Do you have like a team like chant
Speaker 1: before you play a game?
Speaker 2: We have a team song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but me and the girls that were on drag
Speaker 1: Race together. Whenever we do shows together, we have a chance.
Speaker 1: We say beforehand and we say none of this come
Speaker 1: by our ship. Ten inch cock is what we say.
Speaker 1: And then we go on stage or if I'm on
Speaker 1: stage with my good friend, etcetera, we say, none of
Speaker 1: this will matter. When you did, We've actually got a
Speaker 1: single play it now, Dull added in post none of
Speaker 1: this a.
Speaker 3: Met Thank you whoa good song? I love it?
Speaker 2: We do like it. I love that thank you great song?
Speaker 2: Do you have a pump up song? We all chant?
Speaker 2: To okay, do you know run this town? But Rihanna, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: what do you Actually it's like, you know part of
Speaker 2: the song it's.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: So we all yelled that whenever it comes on during
Speaker 2: that song because it's one of our pregame songs, so
Speaker 2: we all stop our warm up and just scream that
Speaker 2: part of the verses. And that's the way we get
Speaker 2: into a game.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, is there anything.
Speaker 2: A bunch of testosterond Rihanna gets this go on.
Speaker 1: I was like, are you sure? Well, I guess we're
Speaker 1: not that different. You know, both physical demanding professions. What's
Speaker 1: it like getting old?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happens pretty quickly in AFL. I think most
Speaker 2: careers last three years, is the average career?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you go into retirement. So the fact
Speaker 2: I'm at nine is pretty pretty crazy. Yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a quick turn, right, Like there's I mean, you can
Speaker 2: have an injury tomorrow and you know your career is done. Well,
Speaker 2: it's very much.
Speaker 1: Side that or do they tap out like say that
Speaker 1: you've had your other injuries, have you been like, you know,
Speaker 1: just put me out to pasture after this, you know,
Speaker 1: like a horse falls over and America you do get
Speaker 1: the feel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you do get the feel. Some people like concussions
Speaker 2: and stuff, like doctors said, look going forward, this is
Speaker 2: the best case in ara few is to stop playing sport. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so some stuff like that. People have had shoulder injuries
Speaker 2: and their shoulder keep popping out, keeps popping out, and
Speaker 2: they can't deal with that. So sometimes your body just
Speaker 2: says you can't do this anymore. You have to move
Speaker 2: on something else.
Speaker 1: Engineering.
Speaker 2: Engineering, it's not a bad plan.
Speaker 3: B where'd you go back to it?
Speaker 2: Ideally? No, I don't think I could sit behind a
Speaker 2: desk and just sit there all day. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: in the media world to do a podcast just like
Speaker 2: you hear that show?
Speaker 1: Oh is this where I have to credit the Mason
Speaker 1: Cock Show? Everyone? That's the Mason cock Show. But it
Speaker 1: must be weird because you have such a big fan
Speaker 1: base here, especially in Australia. What's it like for all
Speaker 1: the people back home?
Speaker 2: Very few. I was on sixty Minutes US, which is
Speaker 2: like thirteen million people watch that. That was cool, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's unknown in America. So the cool thing about it
Speaker 2: is obviously Melbourne's kind of a bubble for football, Like
Speaker 2: everyone loves football here and they go home and people like,
Speaker 2: what do you do for living? I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 2: play footy and they're like, oh soccer, Oh, soccer. It's good.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of cool to be like, you know,
Speaker 2: you go and you go to here and people are
Speaker 2: obsessed with it, and it's kind of cool to have
Speaker 2: that experience and you go home and you're just like,
Speaker 2: no one knows anything.
Speaker 3: Every day person, yeah, every day.
Speaker 2: Talks from actually being here in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: Every day giant person.
Speaker 1: You could be like, oh, thank god, it's only just
Speaker 1: back to being recognized of being a giant man, not
Speaker 1: being a giant man and a sporting star.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 2: That's basic. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: Everyone still thinks I play basketball though.
Speaker 3: It must be nice. You can just you know, blend in.
Speaker 2: It's like having two different lives.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wouldn't know what that's like. Okay, why AFL
Speaker 1: and not drag?
Speaker 2: Why I fel not?
Speaker 3: I feel like you started in.
Speaker 1: The drag you were starting, you know, playing pretending to
Speaker 1: be a Russian woman.
Speaker 2: I would be probably the tallest drag queen ever.
Speaker 1: I think, well, I have to check that, because I
Speaker 1: performed with a drag queen. Her name is Passion Coatur
Speaker 1: and she is a tall thing, living, living drag queen
Speaker 1: in the Southern Hemisphere. I don't know, but that's why
Speaker 1: I like performing with her, because I look so little.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and everyone needs to see me on videos
Speaker 1: and things before and with her and in the meet
Speaker 1: when they're like, oh, you're a lot bigger than I thought,
Speaker 1: I'm like, shut up.
Speaker 2: Would you rather be smaller than taller?
Speaker 1: It's nice to be a little petite lady, but I
Speaker 1: like being like tall when I put my heels on.
Speaker 1: I used to wear giant, like, you know, fourteen inch
Speaker 1: heels when I first started, because when you work in
Speaker 1: a nightclub, you need to be able to see over everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my greatest strength.
Speaker 3: Was hand like, oh they're over there, Yeah here, we're
Speaker 3: doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this happens with me all the time. I'll go
Speaker 2: to a place and people just stand in my circle,
Speaker 2: like stand in my like bubble, like real close, and
Speaker 2: you're kind of like, hey, can I help you? And
Speaker 2: they go, yeah, I'm just looking for my friends. I
Speaker 2: told them to go find the tall side the bar,
Speaker 2: and I'm standing next to I'm like to shame. That's
Speaker 2: actually pretty sure. A landmark. That's it.
Speaker 3: A giant man will be by the giant man.
Speaker 1: It's three, I am okay. I want you to teach
Speaker 1: me a phrase or two to yell at if I'm
Speaker 1: in the crowd. Okay, So it sounds like I know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about if I'm at an AFL game
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do it. So what do people
Speaker 1: don't scream.
Speaker 2: The big thing? People scream at AFL game? Right, So
Speaker 2: if an umpire makes a decision and someone gets tackled
Speaker 2: and they're not sure if they disposed of the ball properly,
Speaker 2: they just scream out ball, right, So like this is
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So it's like there's like someone and you just have
Speaker 2: to go and it echoes across the whole stadium.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, so I'm not happy with the ball.
Speaker 1: So it's real ball, isn't it a ball? That's what
Speaker 1: I normally do. But it's like I'm angry.
Speaker 3: Oh damn you, I'm batch.
Speaker 2: That was on the money. Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank well, gone, thank you. It's like it's like,
Speaker 1: isn't two.
Speaker 3: Men in the trench coat?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: He is apparently a well known AFL footballer for Collingwood.
Speaker 3: Good for him.
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