Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone. Today is a big day. We've got
Speaker 1: the first guest of season two on The Mason Cock Show.
Speaker 1: And this man is quite possibly the most entertaining person
Speaker 1: I've ever met in my life. You can read the
Speaker 1: title obviously we have Jack Chris Won, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: rifle through a little bit about him. He's played for
Speaker 1: the Murray bush Rangers. Love the bush Rangers, also part
Speaker 1: of the Myrtleford oz Kick program, Absolute Star and Stud.
Speaker 1: He's been picked up at forty in the twenty twelve
Speaker 1: Rookie Draft. Big Rookie Draft Player two hundred one game
Speaker 1: so far, twenty twenty two Copeland Trophy of the Year.
Speaker 1: Those that don't know what that is, it's the MVP
Speaker 1: of Collingwood Football Club. Big Deal played three years at
Speaker 1: colin Brisbane Lions, turtling eighteen games. Ninth year at Collingwood
Speaker 1: playing he's played one hundred and eighty nine straight games.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, his nickname is Steak Knives. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the pod Legend, Let's go.
Speaker 2: That is probably the best intro I've ever had in
Speaker 2: pleasure to be a part of.
Speaker 1: And thank you for having me mate. Pleasure to be
Speaker 1: steak nice. Who's the first one to call you steak nights?
Speaker 1: Give him a shout out.
Speaker 2: I actually can't remember. I've blocked that part of them
Speaker 2: all off because I do not like that nickname. Thank
Speaker 2: you once again for bringing it up.
Speaker 1: Do you have one that's like like I like my
Speaker 1: nickname one to be big Text. I keep telling people
Speaker 1: that call me big Text. Do you have one?
Speaker 2: It's not cripp it's not steak nose. Nah, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't have a favorite. Probably just Chrispy all settler of.
Speaker 1: That month, potato chips.
Speaker 3: All right, get Chrispy Bacon, chris Bacon, Crispy Chris what
Speaker 3: else Chrispy kremed anything to do with the Chrispy in it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Win will workshop that. We'll start this podcast off.
Speaker 1: We're going to start doing these with some of the guests,
Speaker 1: a bit of a different start, a bit of a
Speaker 1: get to know you. It's gonna be a quick fire
Speaker 1: of questions. Okay, so we've got ten of these. I'm
Speaker 1: going to roll through and I'm gonna ask you one
Speaker 1: question to ask the next person that comes onto the
Speaker 1: podcast at the end of the episode. But we'll start
Speaker 1: off number one, Life's greatest moment for.
Speaker 2: Me personally, it'll be the birth of my little girls.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to get to those little beauties. Two
Speaker 1: greatest moment of your.
Speaker 2: Career for the career making the Grand Final one.
Speaker 3: But then I think playing two hundred games was pretty special.
Speaker 3: So the end of last year was pretty amazing to
Speaker 3: be part of getting cheed.
Speaker 1: Off, which which game was it?
Speaker 2: When we lost the prelim? Unfortunately, unfortunately the game didn't
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 3: But to know that I played two hundred AFLUR games
Speaker 3: is pretty special, and having Will and Checkers stress out
Speaker 3: about trying to carry me off was actually pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Take it so good? So good? When I say sticky situation,
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to mind. So I feel
Speaker 1: like you've been in a few in your life with
Speaker 1: your kids, your wife, I feel like they're very outgoing people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, depending which scenario talking about, but or keep it
Speaker 3: all obviously PG And the last week's I left accidentally
Speaker 3: left some super glue on the table and Sloan you know,
Speaker 3: got into it with one of her toys and she
Speaker 3: had some know what it was, stuck on her fingers.
Speaker 2: But it took me a while to kind of warm
Speaker 2: it up and peeled off a.
Speaker 1: Bit, and she has a to go to the last
Speaker 1: bal No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I mean thankfully not yea than unfortunately I left
Speaker 3: the super glue on the table.
Speaker 1: Never still there to this day. Well, number four, what's
Speaker 1: your go to dance move? I can see you being
Speaker 1: a good dancer, Crispy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, as you know, you probably see me bust
Speaker 3: a few moves at the footy club.
Speaker 2: But what I've done for a number of years now
Speaker 2: is your.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't go down really well.
Speaker 1: The kids like her. They're just kind of like dad
Speaker 1: self embarrassing us or how's that working?
Speaker 3: Not yet, they don't get embarrassed yet. They actually joined
Speaker 3: in dancing, which is a lot of fun. But I'm
Speaker 3: sure I will embarrass him soon enough.
Speaker 1: What's the worst fashion of hericision you've made? And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna double down on this because I've got
Speaker 1: a question from one of the boys at the club.
Speaker 1: They want to know about the velvet suit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, see, mate, I loved it at the fashion show.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I thought, I said, what should I ask Crispy?
Speaker 1: They get got out some about the velvet suit?
Speaker 2: Was it Simon?
Speaker 1: I'm loking to release my sword.
Speaker 2: Great feedback that I actually thought it was really good.
Speaker 2: I thought I looked pretty sharp.
Speaker 1: You looked really good. At anything you've worn that you
Speaker 1: look back now, I mean like you dyed your hair
Speaker 1: yellow for a bit of blond. Is there anything you
Speaker 1: look back in regret? You had a silly mustache like
Speaker 1: a beard I feel like would be right up your alle.
Speaker 2: Well. When I liked my bed when I was growing it,
Speaker 2: Mickey didn't like it.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, it was a ginger beard while I was wrapping
Speaker 3: the blonde hair in the hub life. So it was
Speaker 3: a bit of a weird combo. But my first two
Speaker 3: years in Brizzie, I actually won the Worst Dressed to
Speaker 3: award twice two years running.
Speaker 2: I would wear all my old stuff from when I
Speaker 2: was in Merdleford, like old Flanney's ship that didn't fit
Speaker 2: me properly. And as this all faded and yeah, the.
Speaker 1: Old Murray Bush Rangers got to give him a shout out, bro,
Speaker 1: I got to give him a shout out. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: and it just it's just grows, you know, it's antiques
Speaker 1: now antiques. Do you ever hidden talent? No?
Speaker 2: I don't. I feel like I'm just all and with
Speaker 2: the rhythm. Na no no hidden talents.
Speaker 1: If you had one superpowerl would it be? Yeah, teleport, holoporting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, sick of flying, sick of traffic, sick
Speaker 3: of drive and Myrtleford three hours up up the highways.
Speaker 2: Too far made.
Speaker 1: I'd rather just God's country that Yeah, click.
Speaker 2: Me fingers and I'll be there. I would save a
Speaker 2: lot of time.
Speaker 1: If you had to work at an amusement park or
Speaker 1: a famous lamb lambmark for the rest of your life,
Speaker 1: what would it be.
Speaker 3: I'd have to be wet and wild, love that joint going.
Speaker 3: I always loved Gold Coast Holiday and it's probably nearly
Speaker 3: an all year round top of place you can actually
Speaker 3: hop in. The water doesn't get too cold over winter,
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 1: Could seeing the dickhead at the top of the slide.
Speaker 1: What goes down and you're like yep, gon as gonax,
Speaker 1: like throwing people literally just slingshot down.
Speaker 2: I won't. I won't wait till people are down the
Speaker 2: end and just like send them down.
Speaker 1: Whether they all pile up onto each other like a
Speaker 1: car crash at the end, and then I'll blame someone
Speaker 1: else exactly what's your favorite singing in the shower song,
Speaker 1: what You go to.
Speaker 2: We'll Singing in the Shower just reminded me of that
Speaker 2: shower song by was it Becky? He is singing in
Speaker 2: the shower? Literally just popped in a head.
Speaker 3: Then other than that, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash,
Speaker 3: you've got the tattoo to match.
Speaker 1: Yeah, got the tattoo on the chest. Big fan of
Speaker 1: that was actually one of my first met you. I
Speaker 1: was like, I loved the Johnny Cash statue tattoo.
Speaker 2: That's very rare, big part of my life.
Speaker 1: Awesome. And what is the weirdest thing your parents and
Speaker 1: grandparents owen?
Speaker 3: Uh, weirdest thing, I have to say, Dad, Actually I
Speaker 3: think mum bought it was like an old arcade arcade game.
Speaker 2: It's actually one of the big ones. It's got like
Speaker 2: a hundred games on it. But Dad keeps in his shed.
Speaker 3: So go home a a few beers and play like
Speaker 3: the old Donkey Kong where you got us say, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's so many games on it.
Speaker 2: It is actually quite cool.
Speaker 1: Hold on, do they have like space space gym? What
Speaker 1: is it called space jam? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Space and it's got a couple of different modes of
Speaker 3: it as well, and there's all these games on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He's got I'm true your dad. Knowing your dad, I
Speaker 1: feel like you would have a man Caven Motorford.
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of things. Whatever he once he buys.
Speaker 1: Now we'll go back to ask this because you mentioned
Speaker 1: that Johnny Cash tattoo. Tell me a bit about that.
Speaker 2: Uh So I got it from a par So he
Speaker 2: was made Johnny Cash fan. My whole family is.
Speaker 3: And every year we go on like a like a
Speaker 3: boys trips, just shooting, camping, fishing kind of trip, and
Speaker 3: all we do is smash Johnny Cash the whole time
Speaker 3: there for a week whatever, and that's all we play.
Speaker 2: Morning night. It's Johnny Cash over and over and over
Speaker 2: and over. So it's a bit of a tribute him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and obviously, yeah, I love Johnny Cash myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, top sign.
Speaker 2: I love Highway Man with a bit of a mixture
Speaker 2: with Billy Nelson will Yeah yeah, oh man. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got to save a playlist on me Spotify's all
Speaker 2: Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1: Obviously. Does he make it into the game day playlist?
Speaker 2: Maybe Highwayman does. But I mix mix a few.
Speaker 1: Songs, mix a few songs up. All right, we'll get
Speaker 1: into the career now on ask your country boy, country boy.
Speaker 2: The country accent you're trying to put on.
Speaker 1: It's great grand all time Murray brush Ray, just big fans. Now.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a bit of rivalry between city
Speaker 1: and country players. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have to say that.
Speaker 1: I don't think Do you think country players are better?
Speaker 2: Hands down? Hands down, hands down, hands down?
Speaker 1: And why is that? It's just tougher?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just.
Speaker 3: Backround half in the country, I had bloody fight and
Speaker 3: scrap for cheap and horses and.
Speaker 2: And some real mud mud.
Speaker 3: Grands, just sloppy grounds that just don't get the country
Speaker 3: city feel where they're just well manicured and well looked after,
Speaker 3: look like you're running in poles and mud sometimes in
Speaker 3: the winter.
Speaker 1: Do you think playing a city versus country football game
Speaker 1: would be worth it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've done a couple of times at the pause
Speaker 3: the Intra club. Think about league wide though, Yeah, actually
Speaker 3: I think it'd be would be.
Speaker 1: The number one country player ever ever to play.
Speaker 2: I know I haven't really had time to think about this,
Speaker 2: but I'd probably put myself on.
Speaker 1: Let's go you make my top five because I have
Speaker 1: no idea anyone else?
Speaker 2: Yeah, who else is in the country?
Speaker 1: Who else?
Speaker 2: Tell you? I have him up full forward, I'll kick
Speaker 2: it turning from the gats.
Speaker 1: Do you idolize someone like that growing up in the
Speaker 1: AFL world or were you into other sports?
Speaker 2: Uh Na for Carlton growing up?
Speaker 3: So I used to love cuter fetes, Matthew Lappin and
Speaker 3: Brendan Favola bigeev.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Now do you play Cord with?
Speaker 2: That's great?
Speaker 1: Who's got the better kde Rastia? What?
Speaker 2: I don't actually check him, just to save myself. He
Speaker 2: goes a he's on there, fair bit, is he? Yeah?
Speaker 3: He's always on the after radio, goes home and plays
Speaker 3: and he's good to go to get on with and
Speaker 3: have a bit of band to with.
Speaker 1: How often would you play? I haven't played with him.
Speaker 3: For a little bit because I don't get on there
Speaker 3: offer at the moment. I'm always busy with the kids
Speaker 3: and bitter yeah outside laugh, but every now and then
Speaker 3: jump on.
Speaker 2: It's good fun.
Speaker 1: Huge shout out to FEV for being a Cord Connor sewer,
Speaker 1: Brendan Brendan now country footy, Mortal food, beautiful place, been there,
Speaker 1: myself driven through. I want to say stopped great, we
Speaker 1: stopped at the bakery. I think that was about it.
Speaker 1: I do remember, I think I did your house.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, went to the baker.
Speaker 1: And we went on the way back and dropped through
Speaker 1: all murder for myrtal Furedom and mispronounced that ten more times.
Speaker 1: It's spelt so freaking funny. But yeah, what it was?
Speaker 1: What was playing footy? Like growing up, like you know
Speaker 1: country town, was there a lot of people showing up
Speaker 1: to games? Was the whole league the town shut down
Speaker 1: just for the footy game on the weekend? Pretty busy.
Speaker 3: So like obviously after juniors when it goes through and
Speaker 3: Aden's reserves and seniors.
Speaker 2: It's a football nepple like league like Alvan's and Murray.
Speaker 3: So there's there's a different three different grades of netple
Speaker 3: four or five now grades I think there are, and
Speaker 3: then the three grades of football and it's all put
Speaker 3: on a one day. So say if it's metal adverse
Speaker 3: is Wang Gretta, the whole Midleford footy club, football nepple
Speaker 3: club will all be there and everyone plays their games
Speaker 3: and obviously by the end of the senior is a
Speaker 3: last so everyone's just watching the senior so they get
Speaker 3: good crowds, You get a few thousand people, which is
Speaker 3: fantastic for the league.
Speaker 2: And yeah, just do that all yearn for you yet
Speaker 2: statue there yet?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, maybe maybe one day and just put
Speaker 1: a few steak nonsense, just a giant steak. There's one
Speaker 1: thing I've learned about Australia. Y'all like to just make
Speaker 1: random things giant. It's just like it's a twost attraction
Speaker 1: for some reason. Bunder big bottle, that's a big banana lobster.
Speaker 1: There's just like it's just the most random crap.
Speaker 2: You'll just put out steaknf in Middleford.
Speaker 1: Giants steak knife and Myrtleford you heard it here? First
Speaker 1: you finish up Myrtleford. You go to say that right Myrtleford? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should have started off trying to pronounce a damn
Speaker 1: place you're from. Uh there, So you pick up in
Speaker 1: the roof rookie draft at forty and twenty twelve. Now
Speaker 1: I know your family. I've met your your dad who
Speaker 1: loves it, loves the footage, it loves a good time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how big was the party? Well?
Speaker 3: So well, originally thought I was going to go in
Speaker 3: the national draft. So I went to Marcle's place, just
Speaker 3: family there and I message a few mates. I said,
Speaker 3: you know, if I get drafted or we'll go meet
Speaker 3: at the pub. Unfortunately, didn't get picked up. Dad couldn't
Speaker 3: watch the draft, had to sit in the car. It
Speaker 3: was quite flat obviously, I was quite flat to I
Speaker 3: didn't get picked up. I didn't end up going to
Speaker 3: a pub. A few of my mates went to the
Speaker 3: pub and like where I am. I just ended up
Speaker 3: going home and had a few beers at home and
Speaker 3: got my closer mates to come home and it's got
Speaker 3: some first smashed.
Speaker 2: At home instead.
Speaker 3: But two days later well, then went up to schoolies.
Speaker 3: Because I didn't book schoolies because I was hoping to
Speaker 3: get picked up. The next day Mum booked me school's shadow.
Speaker 3: I could have spend a week with my mates.
Speaker 2: Came home trained with Saint Kilda for a week as well.
Speaker 3: They didn't get picked. They didn't pick me up in
Speaker 3: the rookie draft. And then I was just by the
Speaker 3: end of it. When the rookie draft was on, Mum
Speaker 3: was just watching iPad, Dad was at work. I was
Speaker 3: just playing Call of Duty in the PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and those days.
Speaker 2: I wasn't televised anything. It was just an iPad me.
Speaker 2: Mom had to just watch the live blog or whatever
Speaker 2: and just came up with my names. Yes, been picked up. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 2: three days later I was in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: That's insane, just.
Speaker 2: Playing card Yeah wow, dged ship.
Speaker 1: Yeahwe at that point you don't think you're getting picked
Speaker 1: up at all.
Speaker 2: I was trying not to worry about it because I
Speaker 2: was like, this sucks balls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're sitting there playing for Vola. Yeah not then
Speaker 1: you know, and then nah, okay, so you're sitting there
Speaker 1: in the bean bag get picked up at at the
Speaker 1: rookie draft. Yeah, Mom and dad they freaky out there.
Speaker 1: This is a dream come true. I was very happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of a weird, surreal feeling, I think
Speaker 3: because then we had a Brisbane rep come down from Melbourne.
Speaker 3: I think it was drove down, drive up, I should say,
Speaker 3: to see me, and then Gaby a little bit run down,
Speaker 3: got to meet him a little bit and then pretty
Speaker 3: much had to pack the bags and be in prison
Speaker 3: in Brisbane like two days later.
Speaker 1: Jeez. Yeah, the turnaround that is insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the thing is like trying did one training
Speaker 3: session on the Saturday morning, then the Brisbee boys had
Speaker 3: like a catch up with probably a cricket to be
Speaker 3: or whatever, which is great. Then on Monday we went
Speaker 3: into like some special emergency response camp where I was
Speaker 3: like one of the Yeah, hands down the hardest cab
Speaker 3: I've still done to date.
Speaker 1: Oh feedback, Collingwood.
Speaker 2: You don't want, you don't want. I don't want to
Speaker 2: go to another hard camp like that. That was hard,
Speaker 2: like three days whatever.
Speaker 3: We had our backpacks of food and drink for the
Speaker 3: three days and doing three challenges all about bonding and
Speaker 3: stuff as well. But at the start, like they obviously
Speaker 3: make it quite challenging and mentally challenging to try and
Speaker 3: break you a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so you got drafted and then how many
Speaker 1: days later are you doing this?
Speaker 3: So I think I got draft on a Tuesday, Friday,
Speaker 3: flew up the Brizzi, just met everybody at the club,
Speaker 3: Saturday train and then on a Monday did this three
Speaker 3: day camp.
Speaker 1: What was the toughest part about the camp? You say
Speaker 1: it's one of the hardest ones. Yeah, well that's pretty
Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff at the class.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think probably like after the first full day.
Speaker 2: Actually no, you know, not the first long run when
Speaker 2: our bags were full. I forget how long it was,
Speaker 2: but I was cramping in my quads. This is the
Speaker 2: first run. But that night, you know, we get went
Speaker 2: to bed.
Speaker 3: I forget what time it was. But then everyone thinks
Speaker 3: you're fast asleep. But I think after literally about now
Speaker 3: they through banging pots.
Speaker 2: And pans, yea.
Speaker 3: Bags, everyone's like planning going to get dressed, not even
Speaker 3: got dressfully up, Like everyone's real tired, like trying to
Speaker 3: hold our bags above our heads.
Speaker 1: And I was.
Speaker 3: And then we had the whole push up positions and stuff,
Speaker 3: and I was just like living condensed milk and up
Speaker 3: and goes.
Speaker 1: And was anyone star cast naked.
Speaker 2: Ready to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think everyone was just like in jocks or whatever.
Speaker 2: Obviously because we had to sleep in these beds are
Speaker 2: probably be as big as his couts.
Speaker 1: On a budget of Brisbane.
Speaker 2: But now it was like a.
Speaker 3: Scout scout area where they have like certain beds. It
Speaker 3: was it was made for like the big groups and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And then we went to bed. After that, everyone slept
Speaker 2: in their clothes.
Speaker 1: Ready ready, ready, yeah, and we had what we have.
Speaker 3: We had a like a wife, beatter single's we had
Speaker 3: white ones on were numbered one to twenty two.
Speaker 2: That's how the US as number one, number two, number three. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's pretty.
Speaker 1: Crazy tactic to like kind of grade you a bit.
Speaker 2: It was just, yeah, I think it was just like,
Speaker 2: no one's going to be challenging. That's how theyre going
Speaker 2: to talk to about. Then by the end of the three.
Speaker 3: Days, like we got to know that the bloke's a
Speaker 3: bit and they broke down. We actually hang out a
Speaker 3: bit and it was an enjoyable end of it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: But the first couple of days, I think it was
Speaker 3: just meant.
Speaker 2: To be like scare a little bit, like mentally prepare
Speaker 2: you for and resilience and stuff like that, and understand
Speaker 2: it was kind of like teaching us about what they
Speaker 2: did for their training to be able to serve the
Speaker 2: country and whatever they have to do for their jobs,
Speaker 2: and then like helping us a little bit and how
Speaker 2: it can relate to football and bonding and yeah.
Speaker 1: Well it was was this the first of four year players?
Speaker 2: Was this older first of four years because the old
Speaker 2: guys did it the year before.
Speaker 1: That's saying I'm just trying to picture Jonathan Brown and
Speaker 1: a white single with a number and how he would
Speaker 1: handle that.
Speaker 2: It looks dare you do that?
Speaker 1: So you got Michael Voss was the coach at the time,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Brown, some big, big names that we were playing.
Speaker 2: I was playing. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Was there any kind of thing you kind of picked
Speaker 1: up from them or any kind of experiences that you
Speaker 1: were just kind of laughed at now looking back, not really,
Speaker 1: This is very string I feel like person like he's
Speaker 1: very straight kind of person. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think like there was no different to like any
Speaker 2: other probably coach that I had before. Like, obviously you
Speaker 2: want to win. They've got plans in players, you try
Speaker 2: and if you lose, obviously try to find ways to
Speaker 2: fix them. I think one loss we had in the
Speaker 2: first year, I think we we played Sydney. I think
Speaker 2: I'd done by probably ten goals or something.
Speaker 3: But the first quarter was good. But then like air
Speaker 3: review what we did, we just sat and watched the
Speaker 3: whole last quarter. Yeah, as a team, no coaches in there,
Speaker 3: and then I think we had to feedback about what
Speaker 3: we thought. Some of the stuff was a bit different,
Speaker 3: but a bit scary at times. Obviously, been an eighteen year.
Speaker 2: Old coming in and afil environment. Some of that can
Speaker 2: be intimidating, but it was different.
Speaker 1: I was fun. The direct feedback when I first came
Speaker 1: here was quite like took me back. I was like, ooh, jeez,
Speaker 1: we're not just We're not tiptoeing around the question anymore.
Speaker 1: We're straight down the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then when a lot of the teams, like
Speaker 2: we used to do as well, was like the player
Speaker 2: to player feedback with the people will tell you like
Speaker 2: what they actually think you're playing, and shit you are.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, well, Jackie's cold.
Speaker 1: Just I need to book in an appointment.
Speaker 2: I'll move on.
Speaker 1: So you get traded Calin with twenty fourteen, You're last
Speaker 1: year head coach is actually Justin Leppitch correct, Yes, and
Speaker 1: he is now an assistant coach at the club. Is
Speaker 1: that a bit awkward for you?
Speaker 2: I don't know, all right now. He's a different man,
Speaker 2: different time of both of our lives.
Speaker 3: Obviously, I was, yeah, in my third year when he
Speaker 3: came to coach, his first time trying to be a
Speaker 3: senior coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was a bit hard. He's obviously trying
Speaker 2: to find ways to win when the team's not in
Speaker 2: a great position.
Speaker 1: Eiler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and by the time, like I played the last
Speaker 3: six games, but by that time, I probably made up
Speaker 3: in my mind that I wanted to fresh start and
Speaker 3: try and get somewhere else. But I was great to
Speaker 3: have those last six games experience. They probably helped me
Speaker 3: as well to get to where I am. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we have a couple of times. Yeah, Bridge one of
Speaker 3: those things. Yeah, that's pretty funny. We've laughed about it
Speaker 3: a few times. Yeah, like jokes about near the last
Speaker 3: time we saw each other.
Speaker 1: And so when you get traded. Now I've almost got
Speaker 1: traded to Brisbane myself, but obviously you're doing the reverse. Now,
Speaker 1: what was going through your head? Like I always kind
Speaker 1: of find this interesting with players. He's like, you were
Speaker 1: kind of in and out of the team. Now you've
Speaker 1: played that many games in a row, it's ridiculous. Like
Speaker 1: in that Brisbane three years you were kind of in
Speaker 1: and out and not really sure kind of where you're
Speaker 1: out of the confidence probably not percent there, all those
Speaker 1: things that probably play in your mind as a professional athlete.
Speaker 1: Never you get I guess, like other clubs contacting you
Speaker 1: and things like that. What was the moment I guess
Speaker 1: you were like, no, I think I'm gonna end up
Speaker 1: leaving here and going to another club.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think because I wasn't playing games, and
Speaker 3: I think by before I started playing the last six
Speaker 3: I think because we had had a few injuries and
Speaker 3: like even the first and second year guys were getting
Speaker 3: goes ahead of me, and I was getting a bit
Speaker 3: pissed off.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: So I kind of already made up my.
Speaker 1: Mind like that, but like halfway through the year you
Speaker 1: were gonna look, not halfway.
Speaker 2: Through the year, like I wasn't sure. But I had
Speaker 2: got to that point because that was my last year
Speaker 2: on my contract, and I was like, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Go to make up my mind and see what I
Speaker 2: want to do. So obviously spoke to a manager and
Speaker 2: put a few feelers out to see what would happened.
Speaker 1: Did you decide before the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: People, I don't feel like realize this that these things
Speaker 1: are actually bubbling along in the background before season even finishes.
Speaker 1: They all see like art trade period, bang, like this
Speaker 1: just happens within like a week. It's like no, these
Speaker 1: are months long conversations that are happening.
Speaker 3: Behind They're big, big, loft decisions you have to make
Speaker 3: and you know whether they're gonna be best for you
Speaker 3: or your partner and your family and what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Like is it for more? For football? Is it more?
Speaker 3: Because you know you need your closer friends and family
Speaker 3: around you just for support, and there's a lot of
Speaker 3: factors that go into it all. My mom was mainly
Speaker 3: just wanted a fresh start. You had a different club.
Speaker 1: It's a huge relief. Did you feel like just the
Speaker 1: weight off your shoulder, like once you kind of like
Speaker 1: made the decision, you made it?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, funny thing was I found out at my
Speaker 2: twenty first party that I was going to be part
Speaker 2: of the deal?
Speaker 1: Were you? At the time, I was on my way.
Speaker 3: I was on me way because one of my mates
Speaker 3: came up and said an article a picture of me.
Speaker 3: I was a missing piece part of the Dane Beams
Speaker 3: deal whatever.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 2: Long story. Show was a long night.
Speaker 1: It was a long night.
Speaker 3: Not for that because I was celebrated my twenty first,
Speaker 3: but that was a Saturday night Sunday to recover.
Speaker 2: Monday, I was down in Collingwood did doing a medical So.
Speaker 1: You flew down do the medical one.
Speaker 2: Still, I was in Mirtleford for me twenty first okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was it. One of those sneaky behind
Speaker 1: the scenes like don't tell any one type deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, Yeah, I didn't. I didn't see
Speaker 3: anyone at the club. I saw Chris Howler at the
Speaker 3: time I was working there did my medical. I didn't
Speaker 3: see it anyone at the club.
Speaker 1: Because I was not a club that's easy to sneak into,
Speaker 1: per se, anyone see you. I can't remember I went
Speaker 1: in the gym. I met you one time, surely in
Speaker 1: the gym, just and iron bro.
Speaker 2: This is like your first year as well.
Speaker 1: I would have been. Yeah, I probably would have been
Speaker 1: in the gym trying to learn how to kick a football.
Speaker 2: No, I think you were trying to do dumbole kills
Speaker 2: but obviously didn't work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, still working on it.
Speaker 2: I think I'm not sure if that was the day
Speaker 2: I met you. Might have been another day, because I
Speaker 2: remember I met you in there and you were the
Speaker 2: only person.
Speaker 1: First impression, honesty, I want I want straight direct feedback.
Speaker 2: Round is tall?
Speaker 1: Good? Good?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, looking back I think about that trade. Obviously you've
Speaker 1: got the Dame Beams yourself. We got pick five who
Speaker 1: turned into Jordan de Goie, not a bad player, and
Speaker 1: then pick twenty five. I'm not sure what happened there,
Speaker 1: but I look back and I think between you and
Speaker 1: Jordan to go who are still in the club in
Speaker 1: the morment like that was one of the best trades
Speaker 1: we possibly could have ever made in our life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think picked twenty five went to North for
Speaker 3: Levi Greenwood. Yes, yeah, and he was obviously good for
Speaker 3: the club for a number of years as well. So yeah,
Speaker 3: said up really well, like Jordie's playing some great footy,
Speaker 3: got a great some great footy to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in some good nick right now.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, Stilly nine years later and you've won
Speaker 1: two bing f's in that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I can't complain about my move at all.
Speaker 1: The fact that we trade for a B and F
Speaker 1: winner from forty in the rookie draft to win a
Speaker 1: being africalling where it's a hell of a credit to you.
Speaker 1: It's not something that should be taken lightly. It's pretty
Speaker 1: incredible or you've been able to accomplish mate. What would
Speaker 1: it feel like did you feel like you were confident
Speaker 1: going into those knowing that you were one of the
Speaker 1: better players on the team that year for the ban As.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty twenty one, definitely, like, obviously we had a
Speaker 3: bit of a rough year as a team, but I
Speaker 3: felt like I was able to hold my head high
Speaker 3: with what I was able to do. So I was, yeah,
Speaker 3: quietly a little bit confident. But you never know how
Speaker 3: the votes will go, obviously, and how the coaches see things.
Speaker 2: Last year was a little bit different.
Speaker 3: I was quite nervous, like I knew I'd had like
Speaker 3: a reasonable year again, but so had you know, ten
Speaker 3: to twelve other blokes, and yeah, so it was quite
Speaker 3: nerve wracking on the night, and hence I got up
Speaker 3: and swore in front of everyone for my speech.
Speaker 1: For the first ten seconds it was the great, one
Speaker 1: of the great speeches, and you and Brandon main I.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I had a couple of beers,
Speaker 2: but I was trying not to have too many. And
Speaker 2: then I was I think I probably needed on more,
Speaker 2: just to come in down a little bit more. And
Speaker 2: I was sweaty arm pits and even Mickey was squeezing
Speaker 2: my hand heaps. I was like, you're making me nervous,
Speaker 2: You're making me nervous. She's like, I'm nervous.
Speaker 1: Did you get to okay? So he goes like five
Speaker 1: four three two one? Right? Yeah, when you get to
Speaker 1: the two and your name hasn't been called, are you
Speaker 1: going shit? I might have to give the big speech
Speaker 1: of the night.
Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, well this is after. You know how
Speaker 2: he speaks well, Darcy speaks well, Panels spoke well, and
Speaker 2: Steel spoke well. And I'm getting up shituck.
Speaker 1: Gay, I was up and about after I was like,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good night for Crispy. I feel
Speaker 1: like he's.
Speaker 2: About to see a couple of eggs. It's always good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always good, always good. And you're loved by
Speaker 1: all the congred fans, there's no doubt about that. Now
Speaker 1: I want to ask why twenty five? You're twenty five
Speaker 1: for Collingwood. Why that number?
Speaker 3: Well, I think there's only three numbers available for when
Speaker 3: I was in when I got to the club.
Speaker 2: So really there's no special reasoning, mind, no special reasoning.
Speaker 3: I was five for my last year in Brizzie, and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, maybe I'll get five at Collingwood.
Speaker 3: But then Trevaca came across as well. Actually, the same time,
Speaker 3: and he was five with Gee Long.
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, maybe he's going to get number five,
Speaker 2: but then Jamie Elliott went from nineteen or whatever it
Speaker 2: was to five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the famous number five of Colin.
Speaker 2: Nick Maxwell retired, offered it to Jamie. Yeah, so I
Speaker 2: got twenty five. Man, love it.
Speaker 3: So just Fraser at the club now previous number twenty
Speaker 3: five were he did two hundred games for the club, so.
Speaker 2: You beat him nearly.
Speaker 1: Sorry calling a game getting ahead of myself here, but
Speaker 1: we are well aware everyone knows longest continuous games holder.
Speaker 1: I can't not talk about this be mentioned. It's been
Speaker 1: mentioned entirely too much, and it's one of those things, don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're sitting here, I'm gonna I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: do that while we're here. But it's pretty incredible. Feat
Speaker 1: I can't play ten games. I'm lucky for that, to
Speaker 1: be honest, ship House. My body is fucked. But I
Speaker 1: want to ask, is there anything like what's your secret? Like?
Speaker 1: I think of yourself right, I've known you over the years,
Speaker 1: and I think one of your biggest things I take
Speaker 1: away from yourself is how happy you are with your
Speaker 1: family and your your life balance Here and outside of football,
Speaker 1: And do you think like that plays into the fact
Speaker 1: that you're able to get up every single week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be Yeah, I would have to say
Speaker 3: probably a pretty big reason. Being able to mentally and
Speaker 3: physically switch off when you need to probably really important.
Speaker 3: Like obviously at times when you need to think about
Speaker 3: foot you can do that and help yourself recover outside
Speaker 3: of foot you which I do as well, But being
Speaker 3: able to just switch off and enjoy your life it
Speaker 3: would definitely help. Helps you get up in the morning,
Speaker 3: helps you want to come home, and it makes you
Speaker 3: enjoy wanting to go to work as well.
Speaker 2: The rest of it. I would say, Mum and Dad,
Speaker 2: good jeans, thank you.
Speaker 3: But obviously I love a bit of like my physio
Speaker 3: massage and ossier treatment, so I do a fair bit
Speaker 3: of that, and then a little bit of IRP stuff
Speaker 3: behind doors as.
Speaker 1: Well, saying that this man's came from a sauna and
Speaker 1: a Croyo therapy session, so he's not lying, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: It is one hundred percent truth. Now I've been told
Speaker 1: you're a bit pedantic about your pregame routine.
Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yeah, there's a few things you walk
Speaker 2: us through it. Yeah, well who you been talking to
Speaker 2: me first?
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. I don't reveal my sources, Chrispy.
Speaker 1: I'll just do a little research beforehand. We get into it.
Speaker 3: Well, the major ones I'll start off with, obviously, past
Speaker 3: the night before. I can't go without my pasta. If
Speaker 3: it's at home, I'll make leftover, have enough to have
Speaker 3: leftovers for lunch the next day.
Speaker 2: Always have a nap, no matter what the time is.
Speaker 3: So we're playing, you know, afternoon game this week, I'll
Speaker 3: make sure I'll get up that little bit earlier so
Speaker 3: I can have two meals.
Speaker 2: Because I tried playing a day game off one meal
Speaker 2: and I just ran out of gas.
Speaker 1: No good.
Speaker 3: So I have breakfast and I'll lay down for at
Speaker 3: least half hour past going to the game in the
Speaker 3: shop when I shower. Obviously before a game is all
Speaker 3: as always.
Speaker 1: Shaving legs, shave the legs.
Speaker 2: Aerodynamics is a good thing.
Speaker 1: That's what I need to do. I need a little
Speaker 1: bit of speed guard help me shave the legs.
Speaker 2: Shaved legs. Okay, I've been doing it for the last
Speaker 2: six or seven years now.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be kids out there, and I
Speaker 1: was kicked shaving their legs.
Speaker 2: Now I don't have any hairs on their legs yet.
Speaker 3: I used to for three or four years have some
Speaker 3: specific music I listen to, which was all the pitch
Speaker 3: Perfect songs from the pitch Perfect movies.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeh, I think that was from twenty to you
Speaker 2: do the Cup song. Yeah, there's a whole playlist on Spotify.
Speaker 2: It's got from all three movies.
Speaker 3: Got all the songs, so I just sometimes I wouldn't
Speaker 3: like some of them, but there's a few.
Speaker 1: Your pregame is pitch Perfect soundtrack.
Speaker 2: It used to be songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've actually got a video on YouTube of me trying
Speaker 3: to sing that Lollipop one Yes that I did with
Speaker 3: the Footy Club.
Speaker 1: That was funny. Well, well get into part two. We
Speaker 1: will get into your TikTok and Instagram presence because that
Speaker 1: is something that everyone knows a lot about. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So you do that and then you go into the games.
Speaker 1: Their mindset you have gone into the game is a
Speaker 1: similar to every single game, like repetitively or is it
Speaker 1: just go and play see you later?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's probably one.
Speaker 3: One of my major focuses is run hard both ways,
Speaker 3: so like making sure I get back defensively to help out.
Speaker 3: First offensive game for me comes off defensive work. So
Speaker 3: you get yourself back to help out and you'll be
Speaker 3: in a great position to attack.
Speaker 2: That's one thing. And then too, just just keep like,
Speaker 2: don't give up, scrap, just work hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably meant to I'd think about pregame, but
Speaker 3: that obviously relates to a lot of different scenarios in football,
Speaker 3: so it works really well for me.
Speaker 1: Do you work with that with Jackie? Jackie's are head
Speaker 1: psychologists at the club. Do you do stuff with that
Speaker 1: or like with her before game or.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily with that.
Speaker 3: That's just what I speak about in my own head
Speaker 3: when if I'm in a team meeting with fly whatever.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll just stop think about folks on me for.
Speaker 2: A second there. Sorry, sorry, Craig, I've got your message.
Speaker 2: I just need like twenty seconds. Mate.
Speaker 1: You're like us, the big ruckman whatever you get, like
Speaker 1: the quarter time huddles. It's like the big ruckman of
Speaker 1: the huddles next to the huddle and everyone's there, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, we'll just keep doing our job and
Speaker 1: you'll keep doing yours.
Speaker 2: And then, yeah, sometimes I think about making the kids
Speaker 2: and like I'm doing I'm doing this for you. I
Speaker 2: had too, That's which is actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I think to think about you ever written anything on
Speaker 1: like people right down there? Like boots are there?
Speaker 2: Nah? Look at some people like that, And I just
Speaker 2: have time to look at my wrist in the game.
Speaker 1: And too busy kicking shnags. Now we'll walk you through
Speaker 1: a situation here. Crispy Coxy takes a mirk middle of
Speaker 1: the ground, Hambo. Crispy is running outside fifty, kicks the snag.
Speaker 1: What's the celebration? What's the go to?
Speaker 2: Oh? Hang on, how long is it run?
Speaker 1: The runs you ran? What's a sold candy? Stiff farming?
Speaker 1: Another dude ran thirty meters kicked it from outside fifty.
Speaker 3: I reckon that'll probably be the tight one, which I've done. Yeah,
Speaker 3: after a few big runs, a couple of bances.
Speaker 2: Go and then you're just like super Pump come on,
Speaker 2: but much louder. It looks like Dragon ball Z sounds
Speaker 2: super Saiyan my trips from gym the other day. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think a different, different time and game and different
Speaker 2: moment maybe might call for different celebration.
Speaker 1: I know I've done the double cobras is my favorite,
Speaker 1: the double overhead cobras, the lifeguard. Oh, nothing gets me
Speaker 1: up more, nothing gets me out. We've got a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful year I had of us. I want to ask
Speaker 1: you in your career, looking forward to the rest of
Speaker 1: your career, what are some of the accomplishments you hope
Speaker 1: to achieve.
Speaker 3: I think obviously premiership would be one. We've been around
Speaker 3: the mark for the last five years. I think we've
Speaker 3: been in three prelims in five years. Is a pretty
Speaker 3: cool thing about So that would be not that'll be one.
Speaker 3: That's probably the major team thing, to be honest. Other
Speaker 3: than that, whatever our claud's come my way for the
Speaker 3: work I'm doing for club is very grateful.
Speaker 1: Do you do much outside of it outside of footy? Yep,
Speaker 1: to work on foot or yeah, Like do you do
Speaker 1: kind of a lot of you know, extra hands work
Speaker 1: and kicking work and all that kind.
Speaker 2: Of Not necessarily.
Speaker 3: No, Mine's more about recovery and making sure my body
Speaker 3: is right, because if my body is right and I'm fit,
Speaker 3: then I know I'm going to be bloody running up
Speaker 3: and down and doing my thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like the older you get, the more you
Speaker 1: realize recovery is probably top night's importance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you might realize earlier, but you don't put
Speaker 3: as much work in as you do, Like I do
Speaker 3: extra like obviously cry and so on on my days
Speaker 3: off as well, and then I see my therapist as well,
Speaker 3: maybe once every two weeks just for that extra hour
Speaker 3: long treatment.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you're going to celebrate two hundred.
Speaker 2: Two hundred in a row?
Speaker 1: What we got?
Speaker 2: Well, I celebrated one hundred in a row. I think
Speaker 2: I went to Munich broad House for whiles. I might
Speaker 2: make it, Yeah, big.
Speaker 3: Big party in a stunt, you go back for two
Speaker 3: hundred maybe, Well, it just has a great idea just
Speaker 3: popped in the head that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: We're going to make it happen. Half for House, Unich,
Speaker 1: brah House, Christy Row were happening unreal man. Well that's
Speaker 1: it for the footy stuff. We're gonna get into part two.
Speaker 1: And this is the real juicy shit, real juicy shit, Crispy,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you there's some stuff in here from Poults
Speaker 1: or TikTok and Instagram. It's all to come from pults
Speaker 1: will be in here. Yes, No, I didn't ask him,
Speaker 1: But believe me, I'm gonna ask about him because he's.
Speaker 2: A very important Oh yes, I thought you meant you've
Speaker 2: already asked him.
Speaker 1: But listening to the next part, it's gonna be plenty
Speaker 1: going on. It is next up now, all right, welcome
Speaker 1: back to The Mason Coalk Show, Part two with Jack Crisp. Now,
Speaker 1: this is the juicy ship we're getting into. Now, it's
Speaker 1: the off field, the off field chat. There's plenty. This
Speaker 1: man knows what it's like to create some content on field.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that we're gonna get straight into it now.
Speaker 1: I've got I was told this situation. This is quite
Speaker 1: gruesome and gross to start off. Do you take three
Speaker 1: ships to day? This is just word on the street
Speaker 1: in the locker rooms. I'm not telling you sources.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 3: Thinks I'm a serial sh I known main trained day
Speaker 3: because I have like two coffees in the morning.
Speaker 2: I'll sleep on one on the way I have another one.
Speaker 2: So it's normally one after breaking and then another one
Speaker 2: pre training, and then one after lunch. A lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say that A game down like three too.
Speaker 2: Well, we got to make sure you empty. You don't
Speaker 2: know you're having a run off the track.
Speaker 1: Three ships to start the podcast off. We love that,
Speaker 1: a man, We'll get good. Lord, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how to go from from shitting to your beautiful daughters.
Speaker 2: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: The most amazing little girls you'll ever meet, very young,
Speaker 1: little two gals. Now you are a dad, a girl dad. Yes,
Speaker 1: how does it feel to be a sportsperson a the
Speaker 1: girl dad? Like, I know you love your kids so
Speaker 1: much and it's so cool to see him around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's it like being a girl dad?
Speaker 3: To be honest, you can't really describe the feeling like
Speaker 3: as a as a bloke, you probably think I'd love
Speaker 3: to have a son whatever, But having two girls is
Speaker 3: just like the most surreal feeling ever, Like they just
Speaker 3: just have their special connection sames like a little boy
Speaker 3: and their well, they just have their you know, the
Speaker 3: super special connection.
Speaker 1: So the girls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the girls and I have a lot of fun together,
Speaker 3: Like we wrestle all the time, like Sloan in public
Speaker 3: and stuff comes up to me and starts laying into
Speaker 3: me and gets me in the throat and face. Sometimes
Speaker 3: I've got to tell her to maybe not go for
Speaker 3: the throat and face and when she goes to kinder
Speaker 3: in school.
Speaker 2: So she's just about other kids.
Speaker 3: But you know, they love wrestling, like with pillow fights,
Speaker 3: and it's very special and they love giving them.
Speaker 1: Love a dress up too, I've noticed, and you don't
Speaker 1: mind it. Yeah, let their guard down and up a
Speaker 1: couple of times, much too. The makeup on the hats, yeah,
Speaker 1: the bows. I feel like maybe they love their makeup too.
Speaker 1: I was actually getting not bad at it.
Speaker 2: Yea is she yeah?
Speaker 1: Possible future. Yeah, what's the most ridiculous thing they've put
Speaker 1: on you? I feel like you've worn some interesting outfits
Speaker 1: over the years.
Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, I've got an Anna from Frozen outfit.
Speaker 1: You wore the Anna from Frozen outfit?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well I did a video and a bloody and hub
Speaker 3: one time, and then I've had to wear a couple
Speaker 3: other times and girls wouldn't taken.
Speaker 2: I had to put it on, got a wig and everything.
Speaker 2: There's a pretty depressing time. That's where fun.
Speaker 3: They get happy and then we're dancing around and yeah,
Speaker 3: they love trying to put makeup on me at times
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: They love it. Man, it's Soreat's cool to see. It's
Speaker 1: cool to see a young dad like yourself, have the
Speaker 1: two kiddos and be so invested in them, like they
Speaker 1: do their dance. I want to say, also, is that
Speaker 1: true they got dancing school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they love their dancing. They did ballet for a
Speaker 3: couple of years. Sloane's doing some jazz at the moment,
Speaker 3: and yeah she does the jazz walk.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool. Lila's doing acro dancing at the moment acro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a mixture of gymnastics and dancing, because they
Speaker 3: did gymnastics last year and loved it. So I was
Speaker 3: getting pretty good at a few cartwheels and all that,
Speaker 3: and a few different moves.
Speaker 1: Talked to anything. Did you do a court will? I
Speaker 1: could see you maybe an average one. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: the next alloleration Chrispy cartwheel. It just rolls out to
Speaker 1: the times.
Speaker 3: All my energy used up for the It's it's hard
Speaker 3: en after trying to scream and say come on, come
Speaker 3: on for a long run, I can't be doing a
Speaker 3: cartwell after I run one hundred meters and kicked the goal.
Speaker 1: Oh man, but it's so cool. I think maybe you
Speaker 1: can talk a bit more about it, about being a
Speaker 1: young father and playing AFL like that. You can imagine
Speaker 1: because when did you have your first kid?
Speaker 2: When I was twenty four?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so twenty four. A lot of people probably you know,
Speaker 1: just getting into the career, really feeling like they're in
Speaker 1: the team and all that kind of stuff, and you've
Speaker 1: got this massive responsibility of having your first kid, Like
Speaker 1: what was that like, I mean, be onble to juggle,
Speaker 1: I guess the professional life of that, and then also
Speaker 1: realizing you've got that that home life that's yeah serious.
Speaker 3: The lucky thing is that with my job, and being
Speaker 3: able to do that at an early age, like at
Speaker 3: a young age of normal people being blessed to you
Speaker 3: got married young and then had Lelah young. So it's
Speaker 3: probably been a bit hard at times, obviously because you
Speaker 3: know a lot of my mates of football just still
Speaker 3: going out and joined the weekend having a great time together,
Speaker 3: and you know, I've had to not go out and
Speaker 3: much much as hard as it's been sometimes and mad
Speaker 3: at times, but it's all it's all worth it.
Speaker 2: Like they're very special girls and they love it.
Speaker 3: And now I love sitting at home on a Saturday
Speaker 3: night watching a movie sometimes and just having a quiet beer.
Speaker 3: It's very special being able to get out in the mornings,
Speaker 3: and sometimes I take the kids when they wake up
Speaker 3: early and let me his sleep. I'll take them to
Speaker 3: the local cafe and just sit down and have a coffee.
Speaker 3: Like all that special stuff means a lot to me,
Speaker 3: and it actually I feel like it's really good for
Speaker 3: my football.
Speaker 1: Whenever you had your first child, can you describe that
Speaker 1: feeling me and breaking or nowhere near that.
Speaker 3: We were booked in because we're five days over over due,
Speaker 3: so we booked in to have her waters broken and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So I was kind of planned start
Speaker 3: off the morning. She had some cooked some bacon eggs
Speaker 3: at home and toast. It's like, right, aman's amazing on in.
Speaker 1: Here and Chrispy Bacon.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I can do, Joe, Yeah yeah, funny.
Speaker 3: So I got the seven, got out seven in the morning,
Speaker 3: and then Larle was born at twelve thirty eight, which
Speaker 3: is the time I've got my tatoo here.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, just turned a little bit. Yes, twelve thirty eight,
Speaker 2: so the time my family started.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: But I was getting a bit hungry by lunchtime in there,
Speaker 3: and I almost come to play to asking Mickey, if
Speaker 3: you know you're right?
Speaker 2: If I go down and like grab her feet. Luck
Speaker 2: I didn't. She probably would have really like really yelled at.
Speaker 1: Me, ripped your head off.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, because even with Sloan, I think we're in
Speaker 2: the hospital and Mickey's like started going to a bit
Speaker 2: of cramps and all that jazz before we started giving birth,
Speaker 2: and I started setting up with this little single bed.
Speaker 2: I laid down the dinner and it was like, got
Speaker 2: down amy shorts. I was about to up in and
Speaker 2: trying to have a little sleep, and She's like, what
Speaker 2: the heck do you think I'm trying to get a
Speaker 2: little bit arrested.
Speaker 1: You'd be comfortable, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, long story, show was a really long night,
Speaker 2: not that I can complain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just therefore watching you just man was pacing.
Speaker 3: Around the room for like two hours, and I'm holding
Speaker 3: her hands all the time, and I'm just like falling asleep,
Speaker 3: and She'll be like, because she had a bit of
Speaker 3: sleeping stuff to try and help her rest and stuff.
Speaker 3: So she's like walking around blinking her eyes and goes,
Speaker 3: oh did I fall asleep for I'm like, you're serious,
Speaker 3: you just blinked your eyes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like she did like three times, Like how long
Speaker 2: was I sleep? Babe, you just blinked.
Speaker 1: She's yeah, taking a micro asleep to the was the
Speaker 1: question again, now, how it feels like to have your
Speaker 1: first child, Like, yeah, I think, like at twenty four,
Speaker 1: like pretty amazing, pretty life changing. Really yeah, anything to
Speaker 1: have a kid like that young and like I said,
Speaker 1: we're nowhere near I'm a child half.
Speaker 2: So amazing feeling just something you'll never forget, you know.
Speaker 3: I think I remember the first night in the hospital,
Speaker 3: like I was up holding Lola and she had her
Speaker 3: eyes open. I was looking at me and I was thinking,
Speaker 3: this is so good and I can get up every
Speaker 3: night and do this. But literally the next night I
Speaker 3: was like, couldn't help me.
Speaker 2: I was like I can't do it. Yeah, oh gee, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was pretty funny, but yeah, best feeling ever.
Speaker 1: Unreal. And Michayla after she has she was like, I
Speaker 1: want another one.
Speaker 2: Uh nah. Actually was in the process of giving birth
Speaker 2: whatever and she's holding my hand gowing we're never doing
Speaker 2: this again. So it's painting in my head and going
Speaker 2: oh man. She's like.
Speaker 1: Never was good.
Speaker 2: But afterwards she's like, yeah, we can do it again. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Well, it's pretty amazing, Like I said the girl. Dad
Speaker 1: thing pretty cool. I think out of the a f L, like,
Speaker 1: you're one of the people I look at and see
Speaker 1: you and how happy you are with your family and
Speaker 1: how you bring him into the club and sing the
Speaker 1: song with the girls. They're always running around the change
Speaker 1: rooms after. Like, it's it's cool to see them involved.
Speaker 1: It's cool to see them just enjoying the whole experience
Speaker 1: that you're having in AFL. Yeah, and I'll bring this
Speaker 1: up now, you're a man of the people. You love
Speaker 1: a little a little event, a little event from the
Speaker 1: fashion Festival. Just went to every single movie premiere. So
Speaker 1: even if it I mean, I think if literally cafe
Speaker 1: that just opens up, you just got Jack Crisp, He'll
Speaker 1: be there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've actually got a message about another cafe called may
Speaker 3: I think it is. I like message about their owns
Speaker 3: baby eggs as.
Speaker 1: Well fuel shout out here on the pot. I love that.
Speaker 1: I think you're one of those players and people don't
Speaker 1: quite understand. I feel like these opportunities until they've kind
Speaker 1: of passed, of making the most in the moment of
Speaker 1: playing AFL and being in that kind of career and
Speaker 1: the people you meet along the way is so interesting,
Speaker 1: Like you can meet some of the most amazing people
Speaker 1: that have come out of the most random experiences and
Speaker 1: connections whoever it is. Is there anyone that sticks out
Speaker 1: that you've met and you just kind of think, like,
Speaker 1: how in the world, Like, am I mates with that person?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I think there's just like the pr companies
Speaker 2: that looking Mickey and I went to with the pole. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're ambassadors for that. And Michelle Stamper that was in
Speaker 2: charge of it all works, worked for Channel nine for
Speaker 2: a number of years whatever it was, and ended up
Speaker 2: like obviously good mates with my manager. And you know,
Speaker 2: we're at the stylist house in Tuak and it was
Speaker 2: a bloody nice house. This is pretty pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: There's just some of the people you meet and some
Speaker 3: of the places you go, Like sometimes Mickey and I
Speaker 3: pinch yourselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're a small country town. She grew up on
Speaker 2: a dairy farm away from myrtle for it milk and cows.
Speaker 3: And here we are in the in the city, just
Speaker 3: one of these nice events fashion shows, front right of
Speaker 3: the fashion show.
Speaker 1: For two nights.
Speaker 2: That was pretty bloody cool. So we stopped to think
Speaker 2: about that and pinch yourself sometimes and it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: I know you don't mind doing the social media stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of it. You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of different things you do, from fromotional work to
Speaker 1: scare cam yep, a lot of scare camp.
Speaker 2: It's good stuff that one.
Speaker 1: Has anyone is it scare cam gone wrong? Has anyone
Speaker 1: just sucked you?
Speaker 2: Not yet?
Speaker 3: I feel like a few people maybe getting a bit
Speaker 3: frustrated at times.
Speaker 1: At the Yeah, it's grumbling the line.
Speaker 2: They crack it shits and laugh at the same time.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: I neverly had my phone throwing the other day. Stay
Speaker 3: tuned another one coming. Yeah, but there's a lot of
Speaker 3: people swearing off.
Speaker 2: Pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Where do you come up with these ideas?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, the kids at home as well.
Speaker 3: Like I scared Micky the other night and she dropped
Speaker 3: her phone and probably nearly smashed it, just like as
Speaker 3: she laughed it off. Yeah, I scared the kids sometimes
Speaker 3: and now they try and scare me at home, which
Speaker 3: is quite funny. And Sloan's actually got me a few times.
Speaker 3: They know how to use the phone now and they
Speaker 3: just hold around the corner and then.
Speaker 1: You're on medicine mate.
Speaker 2: Pretty funny.
Speaker 1: I guess the idea of athletes in AFL here, I
Speaker 1: feel like is stay within the box. It's very much like,
Speaker 1: don't go outside of it. Make sure your team player
Speaker 1: and you can be a team player and do the
Speaker 1: other things. But I think it's changing quite a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the last year.
Speaker 1: Is there anything I guess, like advice to people that
Speaker 1: might be struggling to be themselves in front of a
Speaker 1: group situation like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. For Mickey and myself for instance, like
Speaker 2: we never for a while there we won't even be
Speaker 2: on social media at all, or we won't do much.
Speaker 2: But we've found from us being who we are, just
Speaker 2: nice country people who you know, we're happy to happy
Speaker 2: to be where we are and pinch ourselves at every moment,
Speaker 2: like that's already getting us traction and to do these things.
Speaker 3: And that's why we've been probably invited to a number
Speaker 3: of things as well, is because the people we are
Speaker 3: and then yeah, take you down different pathways and all
Speaker 3: this lot of social media partners I've been working with
Speaker 3: at the moment is probably because you know, I'm happy,
Speaker 3: I'm being easy to work with, I'm happy to work
Speaker 3: with you. I don't know where life was going to
Speaker 3: take me. Good, take me down new foods, some food direction,
Speaker 3: or could you take me to a media with Channel
Speaker 3: seven or Fox Footy in terms of the footy stuff,
Speaker 3: or a radio you know, been on Triple Them a
Speaker 3: couple times as JB and Bill.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm putting my.
Speaker 3: Little feelers out there and doing a few different things.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, I don't know, it's just yourself who
Speaker 3: you are. If people don't like you for who you are,
Speaker 3: then stuff.
Speaker 1: Then is there anything that you're particularly interested in at
Speaker 1: the moment but doing work with post career stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I stop and think about what I actually
Speaker 3: want to do, I don't know, because I've found myself
Speaker 3: not being like fully fully invested in something while I'm
Speaker 3: so invested in my football still and I'm still.
Speaker 2: Trying to play for another ten years. Yes, I know,
Speaker 2: I've just signed another deal, but add maybe five more
Speaker 2: to that. That'll take me to about.
Speaker 1: Very little coin on the table for your.
Speaker 2: Thirty nine years of age, which some might happily retire
Speaker 2: after that.
Speaker 1: There you go, there, you go happily to retire, but
Speaker 1: you've got some interesting things. You've got Hale Palter living
Speaker 1: with you now. This guy used to play the club.
Speaker 1: A lot of people know him as the man with
Speaker 1: the mullet. Very attractive human being.
Speaker 2: A feedback, Galed, I live with him for a couple
Speaker 2: of years.
Speaker 1: Now you've done a few things with him, his missus
Speaker 1: and your family has now become kind of his family
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Like, is it been interesting our guess
Speaker 1: to be able to take in a younger player and
Speaker 1: show him somewhat of the ropes in that sense and
Speaker 1: guide him in life a little bit with your experiences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been nice.
Speaker 3: Like I've done it a couple of times before where
Speaker 3: I've had like new draftees move in and live with
Speaker 3: us just for a short period. But yeah, when we
Speaker 3: got Caleber, we're happy to have him for the year,
Speaker 3: and then you know, he wanted to stay another year,
Speaker 3: which is perfect. So I had him for two and
Speaker 3: a half years.
Speaker 1: Now I won't leave.
Speaker 2: Yeah now he actually I want to get him out, nah,
Speaker 2: but like we're because we're still in the process of
Speaker 2: building house, so we're more than happy to have having
Speaker 2: lived with us until they're ready to move out. But
Speaker 2: he's been He's been great with the kids, like he's known.
Speaker 2: I think Sloan was.
Speaker 3: Or she just just one and a half maybe when
Speaker 3: she first met Caleb, and she would be turning four
Speaker 3: in July now, so pretty much her whole life. Yeah,
Speaker 3: pretty much. And you know, he's been great with the kids.
Speaker 3: Helped us to have a babysitting a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you had Poults as a babysitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam's helped as well. Now Cales don't want a
Speaker 2: couple of times by himself. I come home and he's
Speaker 2: you know, he's laid with the kids in bed, put
Speaker 2: him to sleep, and changed dinner. We wouldn't put that
Speaker 2: on him. But yeah, I think he took You took
Speaker 2: Sloan to bounce the other week with Sam, which is
Speaker 2: nice because I think we're Yeah we're in Tazzy and
Speaker 2: Mickey was away in Sydney.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they had Slane all day which is nice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they've been great.
Speaker 1: It's going to have a few hands around the house.
Speaker 2: Yep, very handy.
Speaker 1: Any cook or anything else? Does anyone to help you
Speaker 1: with that? Is that the house?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, mainly me, Well, because yeah, Caleb, now like these
Speaker 3: were Sam like they're kind of do their own thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: little is going I've gone away from like we've gone
Speaker 3: away from having dinner together now.
Speaker 2: Early days when I was getting to cook, I was
Speaker 2: getting to cook like once a week started off by
Speaker 2: really really barbecueing the meeting the barbie to the point
Speaker 2: that it was rock hard, couldn't burnt to a crisp Yeah,
Speaker 2: but yeah, so I ended up just having salad that
Speaker 2: night for dinner. Oh but yeah, he's getting better. There's
Speaker 2: a few different things here and there, but yeah, I've
Speaker 2: been enjoying cooking lately.
Speaker 1: Do you see yourself as a bit of a mentor?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I've been at home.
Speaker 3: I've helped me out when he was at the club
Speaker 3: with some footy stuff, starting our game a bit obviously
Speaker 3: a bit of feedback here and there.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like now even at the club from
Speaker 1: a footy standpoint, Like, do you feel like you're now
Speaker 1: one of the older guys at the club that we
Speaker 1: have a very youthful team there, you have to kind
Speaker 1: of be of a mentor some of those younger kids
Speaker 1: coming through.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it probably took me a little bit more
Speaker 2: to understand that I was getting old to the older
Speaker 2: side of things too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people actually listen to what I have to say, so,
Speaker 3: which has been great. In the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've taken that step in my career
Speaker 2: another step further sway with in terms of leadership and
Speaker 2: advice and helping people and teaching them the game a
Speaker 2: little bit and how we want to play. That's been good.
Speaker 1: Unreal man, Well I'm going to ask this now. I
Speaker 1: hear you're a bit of a charitable guy. Journey a peril.
Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, Yeah it was Michael o'dono, who's staff there.
Speaker 1: Enjoy that give him back a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's it's all him, man, I just.
Speaker 1: Up online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just promoted here and there because he's
Speaker 3: a really nice fellow and does a lot of work
Speaker 3: behind the scenes mental health and that's his actual job
Speaker 3: as well, promoting that so and raising awareness. So yeah,
Speaker 3: he's just give me a shirt here and there, but
Speaker 3: I'll wear it heaps and promoted stuff on social media.
Speaker 3: But yeah, been an ambassador for Footy Colors Day the
Speaker 3: last couple of years as well. That's been pretty cool.
Speaker 2: And then you know on Swiss Gives.
Speaker 1: Back does give back and then get some cash, mainly
Speaker 1: about giving back. Yes, well, I'm going to ask you
Speaker 1: to finish this off now. I asked you the ten
Speaker 1: questions at the beginning. I want to ask you. What
Speaker 1: do you want to ask the next person that's going
Speaker 1: to come onto the podcast.
Speaker 3: Next question, Let's see, we'll keep it simple. What is
Speaker 3: your favorite hobby to do outside of work life?
Speaker 1: Ever hobby outside of work life? For the next on
Speaker 1: the pod, listen out for it. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming in, Chrispy, absolute legend. Seriously, you should be
Speaker 1: so proud of what you've been able to accomplish so
Speaker 1: far and what you're going accomplish in the future. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what's going to happen. I'll be
Speaker 1: sitting there in the stands or on the field with you,
Speaker 1: one of the two. I'm not really sure, but we
Speaker 1: will check it out. I'm excited everyone else to stay
Speaker 1: for you. Man, You're an absolute legend, a good man
Speaker 1: of the club and good man of the league. And
Speaker 1: I just want to say thanks so much for coming on.
Speaker 2: Pressure pleasure, he's a pressure player, come on under pressure.
Speaker 2: Thank thanks, I appreciate it.