Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome back to the Mason Cox Show. Now
Speaker 1: we've got another catchup today and we're doing things a
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Speaker 1: further ado will get into the podcast. Mate, We've got
Speaker 1: some awesome stuff here. But I think everyone's been really
Speaker 1: asking for this, this segment. The segment's become a bit
Speaker 1: of a staple and everyone loves and it gives us
Speaker 1: a bunch of feedback on some of their kind of
Speaker 1: moments and too. But we'll start off it is awkward
Speaker 1: moments that is between us two. We've got a few here.
Speaker 1: We've got a few in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, normally we write down one in the document. I've
Speaker 2: got about what three in there. And some happened this morning,
Speaker 2: some happened, yeah, some happened over the weekend. So I'll
Speaker 2: jump straight into mine. So I've got I've got two housemates,
Speaker 2: and one gets an Amazon package delivered every day, like
Speaker 2: every day, every day, And it's like most of the
Speaker 2: time when they come to the door, my housemates called Jim.
Speaker 2: So they say, ah, you Jim, and I just say, yeah,
Speaker 2: give me the package. The package, Like he's never here,
Speaker 2: he's at his girlfriend's house. Pays rent. Still, that's great,
Speaker 2: greatest room it's pretty good. And so but on the weekend,
Speaker 2: they deliver over the weekend Amazon, and on Sunday they
Speaker 2: came and said, hey, are you Jim And I said yeah,
Speaker 2: and he said yeah, you got id.
Speaker 1: Oh no, And I was like not left it in
Speaker 1: the car.
Speaker 2: I had no idea what to do. So I was
Speaker 2: just like, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of that dog. So you know,
Speaker 1: I recently had a package stolen. To mind, so I
Speaker 1: like the signature on delivery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah, now I can see it. I had
Speaker 2: to just say yeah, you know, like, oh, did you say,
Speaker 2: am I gym?
Speaker 1: No, I'm not jim My roommate.
Speaker 2: He's here, He's not here, but he lives here. This
Speaker 2: is his house for sure.
Speaker 1: Just waiting on a mate.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got another package and I was like, here's
Speaker 2: one from that I've stolen from this guy. And I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, here's another one. So I bamboozled the
Speaker 2: system and I got the package.
Speaker 1: So Amazon, you're saying it doesn't have great security. Is're
Speaker 1: trying to say, yeah, what I do, but they don't
Speaker 1: really they don't really go follow through with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't go to the nth degree. He just
Speaker 2: went the degree before the end love that.
Speaker 1: What about you.
Speaker 2: You've had a few.
Speaker 1: I've had a few on here. We'll get into them now.
Speaker 1: The very last one is the best. The very last one.
Speaker 1: I'm actually embarrassed to tell the story, but.
Speaker 2: We'll just jumped straight into that.
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be a great transition into the
Speaker 1: last one, but I'll say one of my first ones is,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's weird because I came from America.
Speaker 1: Everyone drives on the opposite side of the road, right,
Speaker 1: so everyone drives on the right side. Everyone here drives
Speaker 1: on the left. And it's weird because people do the
Speaker 1: same walking as they do driving. So people walk on
Speaker 1: the right side of people, like you know, and that's
Speaker 1: how it is. We're here. I find that no one
Speaker 1: really knows it's still meant to be. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: be or's supposed to be left side because you drive
Speaker 1: on the left. But I feel like people just go
Speaker 1: either middle, left, right, or just kind of just do
Speaker 1: a little snake through the thing. So I had one
Speaker 1: of those things. You're walking towards someone right and there,
Speaker 1: maybe on their phone, you're on your phone. Then you
Speaker 1: kind of do like the awkward like you know, stutter
Speaker 1: step of like left and right, and then you kind
Speaker 1: of like just mirror them and then just get this
Speaker 1: real awkward looking at each other and just kind of
Speaker 1: look at each other and go you just walk fast.
Speaker 2: I hate I think the middle walkers are my least
Speaker 2: face because at least if you're walking on the right
Speaker 2: hand side, you're like, okay, you've been living under a rock.
Speaker 2: You don't know the left and right, and you can
Speaker 2: get around him. The ones that walk down the middle
Speaker 2: and expect you to like stick up against the glass
Speaker 2: and like just like almost bow down to him, like
Speaker 2: throw confettiot them as they walk past.
Speaker 1: Like give me some room, give me something, Give me
Speaker 1: some room. But that's what out of slow walkers get me.
Speaker 2: We had a bit of crossover with this one because
Speaker 2: I ducked out to the supermarket before the podcast and
Speaker 2: I was I put my hand up and say I
Speaker 2: was walking on the right hand side, but it was
Speaker 2: because there was a bit of slow traffic on the left.
Speaker 2: I was going around, so I was overtaking, and then
Speaker 2: this guy coming towards me. He started on the left
Speaker 2: and started drifting right, and I'm like I'm like okay,
Speaker 2: like maybe I can work around this. And then like
Speaker 2: everywhere I went, he was following me, and I was
Speaker 2: like one of those situations and I was gonna be like, mate,
Speaker 2: pick a lane, like you go right or left, whatever,
Speaker 2: I'll go around you. Yeah, it turned out he was blind.
Speaker 1: Mate.
Speaker 2: I don't know how the stick. I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I didn't see the stick. I saw him using the stick,
Speaker 2: but it didn't register say anything, did you No? No,
Speaker 2: it didn't register in my head at all. But then yes,
Speaker 2: so I ended up going extra white. I walked out
Speaker 2: onto the road just.
Speaker 1: You felt bad and give everyone walk in front of
Speaker 1: a car and just get hit. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: That was the way that I got around that. So
Speaker 2: are you gonna you're going to tell your last awkward story?
Speaker 2: Is there a way that I can help you get
Speaker 2: into that? Or you just going to dive in.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend? Just no, this this has happened before,
Speaker 1: and it's only happened once to man, it's it's a
Speaker 1: story that scarred my life. Right, And we've talked about
Speaker 1: toilet stories and bathroom stories. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of awkward things happened in the bathroom broad and it's
Speaker 1: very like this scored my life for right, and I'll
Speaker 1: open up about this is I've had a colonoscopy. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're a listener and you don't know what a
Speaker 1: colonoscopy is, it's one of those things you probably don't
Speaker 1: want to google. And it's someone takes a camera, goes
Speaker 1: up the back end and decides to you know, figure,
Speaker 1: it's like the worst shop in the world. I couldn't
Speaker 1: imagine the person that goes, I'm going to med school
Speaker 1: so I can be a colnoscopist. I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: if that's a word. And I'd to go get one
Speaker 1: done right. Not an enjoyable thing the night before worst
Speaker 1: thing in the world. If anyone had a colonosopy, they
Speaker 1: know this experience because you have to You imagine, you
Speaker 1: gotta flush everything out of your system, so it takes
Speaker 1: satchels and this satchels is like it's water by the
Speaker 1: time you're done. I know this is just quite graphic
Speaker 1: for our listeners. I'm sorry. I apologize, but if you
Speaker 1: ever have to get a colonosopy for medical reasons, get it.
Speaker 1: But I can guarantee you it's not going to be
Speaker 1: an enjoyable event. And I was in I was prepped, right,
Speaker 1: So it's this awkward moment. You go into this room, right,
Speaker 1: and everyone's wearing a white robe, white robe of all robes.
Speaker 1: Why a white robe for this thing, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but everyone in this room is getting the same thing.
Speaker 1: So you're all kind of awkward. It's like seriously being
Speaker 1: in a yuralal when you're like, just look straight, don't
Speaker 1: look at anyone, don't make eye contact, don't make small chat.
Speaker 1: Is just awkward silence in this room.
Speaker 2: So you know everyone in there has had the same
Speaker 2: experience they're about.
Speaker 1: It's about to go in, yeah, the night before where
Speaker 1: it's like you're eyeing off toilets as you're driving into
Speaker 1: the hospital. It's that bad. And everyone's in there, and
Speaker 1: I'll sit there and you go into that room and
Speaker 1: then you get to move to the next room and
Speaker 1: you're carted into this like little it's it's maybe a
Speaker 1: meter by a meter, like it's seriously just like a small,
Speaker 1: little like cubicle thing. And I'm chilling there and you
Speaker 1: can you can imagine what's going through your mind. You're like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, my stomach, Like I've literally had the
Speaker 1: worst experience of my life. I never can look at
Speaker 1: my toilet again. And this lady comes in right and
Speaker 1: she goes, oh my gosh, I thought it was you
Speaker 1: whenever I read the paper, Mason, I'm a mad calling
Speaker 1: Wood fan, mad calling Wood fan. Oh absolutely mad Can
Speaker 1: I take a selfie with you in the robe? In
Speaker 1: the robe, Just don't worry, don't It won't go on
Speaker 1: social media. I don't worry. I just just the kids
Speaker 1: love you. The kids just love you. And I was
Speaker 1: just sitting there in my mind, I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't think there could be a more awkward or inappropriate
Speaker 1: time to ask for a selfie as I'm literally about
Speaker 1: to get a tube up my bomb and be knocked
Speaker 1: out for this thing. And literally ten minutes before I
Speaker 1: got wheeled in, I'm like sitting there doing a selfie
Speaker 1: with some lady. Gone, yeah, no worries.
Speaker 2: Love, that's rough, Like some people, you're gonna have some
Speaker 2: kind of boundary.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I thought. I was like, at what
Speaker 1: point do you go? Maybe not the place or time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just thinking like so she took it with
Speaker 2: the phone camera, not the other camera.
Speaker 1: No, no, no she didn't imagine that. No, here's your
Speaker 1: photos sorry, that's the selfie in that one. Is there
Speaker 1: only a hot takes you've got for us today, Brad,
Speaker 1: You've got one that you told me previously. I'm interested
Speaker 1: to dissect this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so full disclosure. I'm a meat eater. I'm not
Speaker 2: a vegan.
Speaker 1: We're okay with vegans.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can understand where vegans come from. It's
Speaker 2: probably like my lack of empathy, if anything, that I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like I grew up on farms, Like I've seen
Speaker 2: the gruesome process.
Speaker 1: Shout out the small town. I shouted out, shout it out.
Speaker 2: Toturer Toura. So if you if you ever had a
Speaker 2: Totura butter. Anyway, my old man works on a farm
Speaker 2: into Tura, and so I've seen the process from start
Speaker 2: to finish, and it's gruesome, so I can appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Like I don't take the whole process for granted. And
Speaker 2: I know that, like we're just living in blissful ignorance
Speaker 2: when we just go to the shop and get our meat,
Speaker 2: pick it up and it's just all prepackaged and all
Speaker 2: neat and done. But that's why I don't get I
Speaker 2: can understand when I see like vegans protesting and stuff,
Speaker 2: because it's I get it from an empathetic side of things,
Speaker 2: Like it's like, yeah, it's a bad process, probably shouldn't
Speaker 2: really be doing it in the way that we're doing it,
Speaker 2: and so I can understand why they protest. What gets
Speaker 2: me is the sadder people that think they're like up
Speaker 2: on this high horse, that like will go to protests
Speaker 2: and eat meat in front of them, or they'll like
Speaker 2: tweet about it and be like because it's ironic, because
Speaker 2: they'll be like, oh, vegans are happy to tell you anytime,
Speaker 2: like they're a vegan. But it's like these guys will
Speaker 2: be like, I'm eating four times the amount of meat
Speaker 2: tonight just to offset it. Yeah, like veganism, And it's like.
Speaker 1: That's the way too much free time, homeboy.
Speaker 2: And most of these people wouldn't have seen the process
Speaker 2: being a part of the process, have to catch and
Speaker 2: kill their own meat, any of that, but they're just
Speaker 2: sitting there with their smug look thinking they're doing something. Mate,
Speaker 2: jug On.
Speaker 1: It's it's so sad to be a segment jog On
Speaker 1: jug On who are telling a jug on who's telling
Speaker 1: the jog on love that we're all for vegans. By
Speaker 1: the way, we love.
Speaker 2: Vegans because I can get it. I know, I can
Speaker 2: understand it.
Speaker 1: I'm probably just I feel like once you see an
Speaker 1: actual like how it's made of beef going to supermarket.
Speaker 2: You really get a different view of it and the
Speaker 2: way that it's mass produced just to just to create
Speaker 2: and meat that's simple and convenient for us and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not great, but yeah, at the same time, vegans
Speaker 2: probably look at me and think that I'm still like
Speaker 2: a hypocritical dick because they still eat meat, but you are.
Speaker 2: I just don't get in there grill about it.
Speaker 1: That's true. You just don't say anything about it. But
Speaker 1: we'll go on to the next time. We got simple pleasures.
Speaker 1: Everyone really likes this. I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: people may be like attracted this because it's something that
Speaker 1: they also do in their life hopefully.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a positive.
Speaker 1: It's a connecting part to our viewers and our listeners
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah. So you let's story off the bat,
Speaker 1: what do you go for?
Speaker 2: Well, I did this over the weekend, got that little glimmer.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if we cracked twenty degrees. We
Speaker 2: may have just nicked it on the way through. But
Speaker 2: so I busted out the barbecue. I made burgers like
Speaker 2: on bulk.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 2: I had had six burgers over the weekend. So I
Speaker 2: was having burgers for like and dinner. So this is
Speaker 2: good coming off the last segment. Yeah, so I had
Speaker 2: the barbecue over the weekend and my at the same time.
Speaker 2: It was a it was a I don't even know
Speaker 2: what you say. We doubled up on the simple pleasures.
Speaker 2: Because my housemate was cutting the lawn, I got the
Speaker 2: fresh smell of lawn. I was cooking the smoke of
Speaker 2: the barbecue, cooking the barbecue, A couple of tins. Yeah, delicious.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a great afternoon.
Speaker 2: It was very nice.
Speaker 1: It was very justus. I spent the whole weekend on
Speaker 1: a boat catching squid.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, negative couldn't make an absolute mess of the boat
Speaker 1: in everywhere?
Speaker 2: Were you trying to catch squid or.
Speaker 1: Actually kind of octopus to which is pretty wild. I'm
Speaker 1: a river boy myself. Go river fishing, Hey, Murray Carr,
Speaker 1: that's where it's at, mate.
Speaker 2: But when you go ocean fishing, are you on the
Speaker 2: hunt for a specific fish? And then how do you like,
Speaker 2: are you like get out of here, marlin, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to catch a squid.
Speaker 1: Totally different rick system, real mate, it's.
Speaker 2: Not jug on, little tuna. I'm trying to catch a
Speaker 2: squid over here.
Speaker 1: Do you have a certain set up for so and
Speaker 1: things that you're catching, right, So you have different kind
Speaker 1: of strength of line, different reels, different rods, different everything
Speaker 1: else to fish for a certain species. So it's it's
Speaker 1: very much unique to how you say, if.
Speaker 2: You're going milin fishing, if you catch a tuna.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you do that, yeah, probably, Yeah, Well a
Speaker 1: lot of times wore your fishing. Also depending on what
Speaker 1: top fish you get. Yeah, I can't catch a marlin
Speaker 1: in the bay. I guarantee you that. Oh, but I
Speaker 1: am going marlin fishing in the off season. We have
Speaker 1: to get a update on that one. So I'm pretty stoked.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get your mate. I fished on that.
Speaker 1: We're going to get Paul Whirstling on and I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with the whole weekend. Good fella, great stories.
Speaker 1: You get an easy I'll do as I gave a
Speaker 1: little bit of a little you know, a little push,
Speaker 1: a little push. He said, he's king. He's got to
Speaker 1: drive down to to the Peninsula holiday down.
Speaker 2: There for we had a mobile recording terrible.
Speaker 1: Now we'll do we will get them on, we will
Speaker 1: get them on. But I'll go to my simple pleasure.
Speaker 1: Mate and I have recently, as you can see, maybe
Speaker 1: film the video. I've got my ears lowered as the
Speaker 1: Australians locked a side, not my ears lowered, Mike, and
Speaker 1: I don't get a haircut.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone can tell you get haircuts because
Speaker 2: I'll keep it pretty simple. They look identical.
Speaker 1: Very sweet of you to say my neck, get on
Speaker 1: the back of your neck, and you're like, I need
Speaker 1: to get it. I need to get a haircut.
Speaker 2: They get out of control.
Speaker 1: Gross And we do have thirty percent females listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast, you know.
Speaker 2: I say, And I feel like the haircutting process is different,
Speaker 2: so different. My sister would always come up, no matter
Speaker 2: what she like, I would should come home with a haircut.
Speaker 2: And I think I didn't even know that she had
Speaker 2: a haircut. But then she'd be like bowling her eyes
Speaker 2: out because they cut off like too much or like whatever.
Speaker 2: And it's just like, I don't know, it looks exactly
Speaker 2: the same.
Speaker 1: But I need to ask this to the podcast listen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does just about podcast listens, because I've had this
Speaker 1: happen before. Right. So let's say, let's say you're talking
Speaker 1: to someone or a friend gets a haircut wherever it is,
Speaker 1: and they're kind of looking at you, and you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, how you been? You get through the first
Speaker 1: ten minutes of introducing yourself, you know, and then the
Speaker 1: next person comes up and goes, I love your haircut.
Speaker 1: How do you backtrack on that to not look like
Speaker 1: an ass for Michigan originally? Is there anyone out there
Speaker 1: that has a good excuse as to going, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you did get it looks lovely.
Speaker 2: It's always like the I was gonna say that, yeah,
Speaker 2: like I was thinking that, but.
Speaker 1: The person's going nay, yeah, dick, Yeah, that's a rough one.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry. I'll go back to simple pleasures. Whenever
Speaker 1: you actually get a haircut and they shave your neck, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like that fresh feeling of just fresh haircut.
Speaker 1: And then I guess one of the annoying things is
Speaker 1: like not annoying, but like I find it funny and
Speaker 1: a lot of men I feel like this too. They go, oh,
Speaker 1: do you want products in your hair? And I'm always like,
Speaker 1: now good, because like I appreciate the offer, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but like I'm going home to wash all
Speaker 1: the little bits of hair out of me, so now good,
Speaker 1: Like I'm just gonna wash it out in like two seconds.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So that sounded tell them that you're going home
Speaker 2: to have a shower, because I was thinking that the
Speaker 2: other day. I say that every time. Nah, right, I'm
Speaker 2: going home to a shower. Is that weird to tell
Speaker 2: someone you going home to have a show?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like, my mother used to cut my
Speaker 1: hair growing up. She's still in our home. She will
Speaker 1: still cut it. Had some shockers too, And I love
Speaker 1: your mom, but you have to for a while. Oh
Speaker 1: dead sexy dad sexy. I had to Justin Bieber before
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber was a thing. But yeah, Mama used to
Speaker 1: cut my hair. Actually had frosted tips at one point.
Speaker 1: Is you everwhere that the cat? Then you had to
Speaker 1: pluck the hair out, and then you dyed the hair
Speaker 1: and then yeah, I haven't seen that hairstyle since the nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did it, and it went too far and
Speaker 2: goes like to that like orange color.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh gosh, some great times as a killer, The
Speaker 1: Home Job, the Home Kit. You gotta love that. We'll
Speaker 1: go to the next album. We got new stories now.
Speaker 1: This is this is your shining, shining Mom. There's one
Speaker 1: shining mom right here. The news stories of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm always a bit nervous what's going
Speaker 1: to come out of your mouth whenever comes to these
Speaker 1: new stories if I'm being honest.
Speaker 2: But I'm always talking shit about America.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it's going to be a Texas, Florida or
Speaker 1: let's go Missouri. We're gonna go to Missouri on this one.
Speaker 2: One thing I do want to say for all those
Speaker 2: listening along, I always put a Florida man in.
Speaker 1: Here, so just annoy me.
Speaker 2: If a Florida man doesn't pop up because Mace has
Speaker 2: told me to cut it out because it's too juicy
Speaker 2: to juicy, I put in.
Speaker 1: Some juicy, weird stuff. I come out of Florida.
Speaker 2: I try to push the line as far as I can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we have to cut it, and I
Speaker 1: tell them it's not appropriate.
Speaker 2: We got to cut all right. Hit us with the
Speaker 2: first one, This one I've been waiting to bring up
Speaker 2: all week. No paddling makes a comeback in Missouri School.
Speaker 1: Missouri off the top.
Speaker 2: Love that Missouri school. In the Mississippi Missouri School District
Speaker 2: announcement to bring back paddling drew a lot of attention
Speaker 2: and dismay this.
Speaker 1: Week, can we go back to this? Paddling isn't like
Speaker 1: a punishment paddle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like corporal punishing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, because I was kind of thinking like kayaking paddling. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're back on back on track. Paddling is in
Speaker 1: like spanking someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a paddling. But corporal punishment never went away
Speaker 2: in a large number of schools. The practice remains legal
Speaker 2: in nineteen states.
Speaker 1: Nineteen states, you can paddle.
Speaker 2: People, surprisingly, mostly in the South, despite efforts to abolish it.
Speaker 2: The practice remains legal because a US Supreme Court decision
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy seven. The court ruled that corporal punishment
Speaker 2: in schools was constitutional, which meant that each state could
Speaker 2: make its own rules about physically disciplining students.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Now the obvious standouts in this is a large population
Speaker 2: in the South saying we can't make our kids wear masks.
Speaker 2: That's disgusting behavior, it's traumatic for children. But now you
Speaker 2: can hit them with a big bit of wood. And
Speaker 2: then if an adult hits another adult with a big
Speaker 2: bit of wood, that's a sault. But it's fine for
Speaker 2: an adult to hit a child with a big bit
Speaker 2: of wood. Thoughts, there is a very.
Speaker 1: Interesting place, bru Now, I actually don't know what to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a real contradictory kind of place.
Speaker 2: So do you remember any corporal punishment based stuff when
Speaker 2: you were growing up? Because I swear when I was
Speaker 2: a kid, were you spanked as a child? I wasn't spanked,
Speaker 2: but I reckon like teachers used to when they had
Speaker 2: the chalkboards they used to throw erasers around the room
Speaker 2: and stuff like the like like the soft chalkboard eRASS okay,
Speaker 2: they pelted at you, throw it at you or in
Speaker 2: your direction, and like that wasn't it was?
Speaker 1: Imagine the kid not paid attention to actually do his
Speaker 1: work behind of an old old young Scottie is just
Speaker 1: sitting there going, oh, yes, he equals himsey Coke.
Speaker 2: Because we we had a teacher the big one meter
Speaker 2: rulers that used to just slap it on the desk
Speaker 2: as hard as she could. And then we had missus
Speaker 2: Hickey who was good miss Hickey climb up on the
Speaker 2: desk and on her feet and like on the desk, yeah,
Speaker 2: and like sing a song though to like you then
Speaker 2: bring everyone's attention back into the room.
Speaker 1: What we did the clap? Do you'll do the clapp here?
Speaker 2: Like oh yeah, yeah that's a good mind true.
Speaker 1: That's international, that's international. How to get kids to listen to?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just tricks everyone into like a melody and then
Speaker 2: you're like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Everyone, just what did we all just do? We're brainwashed
Speaker 1: little kids.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get attention to school all the time? Yeah,
Speaker 2: kiss off all the time? Give it like a bad
Speaker 2: guy at school?
Speaker 1: You are? I did show up like a few classes. Ye,
Speaker 1: I think nothing too. I used to kind of like
Speaker 1: I used to sneak out of school to go get
Speaker 1: like takeaway food. So I'd like. There's a Sonic drive in,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if people know what are driving
Speaker 1: is here? You drive essentially drive in, get food, drive
Speaker 1: out right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the old school ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, school, but you're like going to a parking lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you seeing your car and they roll the blade out.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's called sonic drive through drive in and
Speaker 1: something like that. And there's one those closer high school,
Speaker 1: and like during kind of lunch period before, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'd go, oh, I can't go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'd go and take the you know,
Speaker 1: the whole passer or I was on going. I'll just
Speaker 1: leave the whole passing there and I just go and
Speaker 1: get food and I'll come back and there be lunchtime.
Speaker 1: I just come into the lunch room. Yeah. I eventually
Speaker 1: got caught because I was walking in with the sonic
Speaker 1: drive through it take back. Where did you get that from?
Speaker 2: I was like, so this is a good one. Hopefully
Speaker 2: it doesn't get cut out. Six year old regularly given
Speaker 2: smirn off ice says it helps him sleep. Ohio sheriff says.
Speaker 1: The six year old says he helps him sleep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so six year olds asking for him to be able
Speaker 1: to keep drinking alcohol.
Speaker 2: The police got called to a gas station disturbance which
Speaker 2: was this lady. Yeah, okay, they went to the gas station.
Speaker 2: They were interviewing the lady or interrogating her or whatever
Speaker 2: you call it, and then here comes the boy running
Speaker 2: out with his smirn on a six year old. She's
Speaker 2: like shit, just didn't realize that he must have picked
Speaker 2: up one of her drinkscidents happening, Yeah, okay, offer to say,
Speaker 2: pay a bit more attention. It all cleared out. They
Speaker 2: go to her house to inform her that she's banned
Speaker 2: from going back to this gas station. Outrides his six
Speaker 2: year old on his scooter with another open.
Speaker 1: What yeah, so imagine thing wasn't wearing helmets. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So after that the woman was arrested. The dad came
Speaker 2: home and said that she wasn't the mum, She's just
Speaker 2: a friend of his. That's that he took in because
Speaker 2: she's gone through a hard time and she'd been feeding
Speaker 2: his son smirn off ices to help him sleep during
Speaker 2: the day. And then the dad found out. But then
Speaker 2: the dad was arrested for like negligence, and she was
Speaker 2: arrested for giving alcohol to a.
Speaker 1: Child, to a minor. I think they were to do it.
Speaker 1: I used to drink.
Speaker 2: Smirr off ice in college. You're going to say it
Speaker 2: is a secure No, not as a six.
Speaker 1: Year old we used to do. Give her to being iced?
Speaker 1: Someone being iced now, so explain it so to everyone
Speaker 1: out there listening. Being iced? Is this I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want Actually, maybe I shouldn't say this is gonna
Speaker 1: start happening to me. But smo faces whenever you hide
Speaker 1: a smearing off somewhere, right, and this and the worst
Speaker 1: is never it's like like warm, like a warm smearing off,
Speaker 1: like straight off the shelf. You hide it somewhere and
Speaker 1: if someone the next person that finds it accidentally quote unquote,
Speaker 1: so you put in a drawer, someone opens a drawer,
Speaker 1: they find a smear off ice, Yeah, right, you have
Speaker 1: to go on one knee and chug the thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: like the whole thing sitting there right right then in
Speaker 1: there well, and so.
Speaker 2: You don't have to. It's not like a one and
Speaker 2: done thing, like you could hide a six pack around
Speaker 2: someone's room.
Speaker 1: I was like, so someone I got one of my
Speaker 1: roommates in college once and he put a twelve pack
Speaker 1: hidden all over my room. I just wore the same
Speaker 1: clothes for about three days, like draw I knew they
Speaker 1: were in there. I was like, there's no chance, I
Speaker 1: don't want to go go to class. Actually just smashing
Speaker 1: it through off ice before I went.
Speaker 2: That never caught on here, But I'm surprised that it hasn't,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be surprised if it does. It does
Speaker 2: all right, so we're going to end on a Florida man.
Speaker 1: Ah. Yes, I knew it would be in here. I
Speaker 1: knew the Florida Man makers all presents.
Speaker 2: Which we've got, like it's almost like a little double
Speaker 2: up double Florida Man. We've mentioned Tornado Alley and how
Speaker 2: I think it's incredibly stupid that people live in an
Speaker 2: alley that's full of tornado.
Speaker 1: That's where I grew up.
Speaker 2: Yep, Florida man illegally picking berries along Alligator Alley is
Speaker 2: attacked and pulled underwater by an alligator. Who would have
Speaker 2: seen it coming. So for those that don't know, do
Speaker 2: you know Alligator Alley.
Speaker 1: I don't know alligator Ali. I know in Florida there's
Speaker 1: heaps of alligators. You just find him walking on the
Speaker 1: side of the road. Just wild scenarios.
Speaker 2: So Alligator Alley in Florida is a stretch of the
Speaker 2: Ice seventy five that spans eighty miles. It cuts through
Speaker 2: the Everglades between Naples and Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, it's open
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty eight, so it's been around it for
Speaker 2: a while. But essentially you can pay a toll go
Speaker 2: through the road that cuts from like essentially one side
Speaker 2: of Florida to the other and through there is all
Speaker 2: these like swamp land. I'm guessing where people, that's where
Speaker 2: you see the traditional like hovercraft with the big fan
Speaker 2: on the back, cruising around the glades. But uh, vic,
Speaker 2: let's let me have a crack of this. Victoriano Victoriano
Speaker 2: Victoriana Victoriano Martin called nine to one one in excruciating
Speaker 2: pain after an alligator grabbed hold of him near Naples.
Speaker 2: Martin was with his brother and son along alligator Alley,
Speaker 2: picking palmetto berries, which is against the law. He was
Speaker 2: snatched by an alligator. He thought he was going to die.
Speaker 2: He fought the alligator for his own life, and his
Speaker 2: brother actually helped get him out of the alligator's jaws,
Speaker 2: and he thanks God every day for being alive.
Speaker 1: Casays, I don't know, I might need to know this
Speaker 1: information because then I'm sure you've got crocodiles, which is
Speaker 1: very similar to alligators. Yeah, if you if you go
Speaker 1: and you know the old Texas drawer and you're staring
Speaker 1: one down, what do you do? Like, what's I know
Speaker 1: if a shark attacks, you're supposed to punch in the
Speaker 1: nose or gag it's eye out or something like that. Like,
Speaker 1: what do you Is it a zigzag? Everyone's told me
Speaker 1: that you have to zig zag or something like that,
Speaker 1: Like is it? I mean, like bears are supposed to
Speaker 1: make yourself massive and screaming over everything else to stand
Speaker 1: your ground.
Speaker 2: Like I think that's my go to with every animal
Speaker 2: that I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Stand your ground, get big.
Speaker 2: Wow. No, but I don't think that's with.
Speaker 1: Because alligators and like crocs are very fast on land,
Speaker 1: aren't they fast?
Speaker 2: But I feel like fast in a straight line, if
Speaker 2: you can get around the back every every wrangler that
Speaker 2: I've ever seen jumps on the back of it. Get
Speaker 2: around it can whip. But like I reckon, there's a
Speaker 2: dead zone either side. You get in the dead zone, Yeah,
Speaker 2: jump on the back. I feel like that's the play.
Speaker 1: For the legal reasons, I think we have to maybe
Speaker 1: say that we cannot get this as.
Speaker 2: An absolute guess a thing that I was saying to you.
Speaker 1: You get Matt right on, Matt right with us with
Speaker 1: our back wrangler.
Speaker 2: Possums here, I'm sure it goes for square else essentially
Speaker 2: the same thing. Just fairy rats that squirrels look cute
Speaker 2: ass super.
Speaker 1: You'll have an absolute obsession with squirrels.
Speaker 2: Plossoms are like disgusting. Yeah, rough, but the whole thing
Speaker 2: with those they want to climb the tallest thing possible.
Speaker 2: So they want to go up a tree to get
Speaker 2: to safety, which is why when they're coming at you,
Speaker 2: they climb up humans to get to safety. Possums, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so when if you're ever in if you're ever in
Speaker 2: a circumstance where like possum's coming at you because there's
Speaker 2: nothing else around and he wants to climb up for safety,
Speaker 2: lay flat on the ground, face down.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, but then what if the possum's trying to
Speaker 1: scape something else. Doesn't that just make you in danger.
Speaker 2: Also, we don't have anything that's like, we don't have
Speaker 2: bears or anything like if it's a snake, snakes won't
Speaker 2: they don't want anything to do.
Speaker 1: I would be scared, shit scared if I saw a
Speaker 1: possum coming on, I'd run the other way. I thinks
Speaker 1: got Rabi's no doubt possums is one of the top
Speaker 1: ugliest animals in the world.
Speaker 2: I'd say they're just scared of everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look disgusting things that I feel out with
Speaker 1: a long monkey's tail.
Speaker 2: Things that I fear are like animals that if they
Speaker 2: were bigger and wanted to have a crack at us,
Speaker 2: like stuff like that. Like imagine if like a like
Speaker 2: there's wasps that are like, oh, like the size of
Speaker 2: like a rot wheeler or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you be screwed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or like a like a like a rat that's
Speaker 2: like massive. When I was a kid and I was
Speaker 2: out in the paddock, they lifted up these like old
Speaker 2: tomato bins. Yeah, and there was like a whole fleet
Speaker 2: of rats underneath that, and I was like two meters away.
Speaker 2: So I start running and everyone is watching me and
Speaker 2: they're like, go, go, go, because I was like trying
Speaker 2: to get to the back of the ute utility vehicle.
Speaker 2: I was trying to get to the back of the
Speaker 2: ute to get to safety, and these things were running
Speaker 2: after me, and I was wearing thongs and they were
Speaker 2: hitting the back of my thongs and flicking up and
Speaker 2: what oh man. For the longest time after that, I
Speaker 2: hated rats.
Speaker 1: I'd love to catch that on video.
Speaker 2: Yeah, things like you used to get emotionally scarred as
Speaker 2: a kid, but then like you could get over it
Speaker 2: because you don't have to relive it all the time.
Speaker 2: But now there would have been twenty people filming me
Speaker 2: on phone.
Speaker 1: No one what Actually, no one actually helps people in danger.
Speaker 1: Everyone just brings their phone out. I was like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this will go great on the ground.
Speaker 2: But you just got like I documented it for you
Speaker 2: just in case you need to like call the police
Speaker 2: or like.
Speaker 1: Yeah whatever, who knows, you never know. Well, I want
Speaker 1: to get into this because this is kind of going
Speaker 1: to be my favorite segment because I've have really been
Speaker 1: wondering and we've got a lot of fan questions about this.
Speaker 1: Also Brandon, Yeah, how's the dating life going?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I kept it on the hush last episode.
Speaker 2: I had a date booked in for the week ue
Speaker 2: so yeah, and another good thing side note before we
Speaker 2: even get into it, and I can't get into the
Speaker 2: specifics of it.
Speaker 1: Because I respect, you know, I respect people's privacy.
Speaker 2: And I did drop on the date that I had
Speaker 2: the podcast. Oh no, she knows and there and there's
Speaker 2: a dating segment, so I don't know if she's going
Speaker 2: to go do some some digging. Digging so I hear this,
Speaker 2: I can only say complimentary things. Great day, she didn't
Speaker 2: mind the mustache.
Speaker 1: So I didn't mind it. We're keeping it.
Speaker 2: Then I think I'd go even further. She said that
Speaker 2: she liked the mustache, so I.
Speaker 1: Think we're keeping you grow the sides out and get
Speaker 1: a little curl to it. Yeah, I reckon you start
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the way to go. So
Speaker 2: I had a first date and it went well, and
Speaker 2: drank a fair me No.
Speaker 1: I heard you went through a few bottles of wine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just say a few bottles and it was good.
Speaker 2: Following conversation went really naturally. So that being said, we've
Speaker 2: both agreed to a second day. Both agreed, both agreed.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 2: It's not like I just agreed and.
Speaker 1: In Texas time and place and hopefully Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: That's that right, Yeah, Okay, the most successful, the best
Speaker 2: part of the date was it? Well, what let the conversation.
Speaker 1: Surely you know she's got a you know, lovely background,
Speaker 1: or you know she's very beautiful and pretty her eyes
Speaker 1: maybe all of that. I'm just trying to throw things
Speaker 1: at you and hopefully you take one.
Speaker 2: And say that. The conversation flowed and now I had
Speaker 2: a lot of advice, which I really appreciate.
Speaker 1: So like she gave you a lot of advice.
Speaker 2: Listeners, listeners, our listeners damned us, which is great, awesome
Speaker 2: because like, yeah, we put it out there. I didn't
Speaker 2: know if people were going to get back to us.
Speaker 1: But can you tell us one of the things you
Speaker 1: used in the date that one of the listeners.
Speaker 2: Said, well, number one thing was was pretty evident, don't
Speaker 2: be a dick.
Speaker 1: That's it's pretty obvious.
Speaker 2: But I tried my best, and then a lot of
Speaker 2: people agreed with your analogy of the baggage.
Speaker 1: The baggage really okay.
Speaker 2: Don't take all your baggage all at once, check it
Speaker 2: in slowly over time, which I feel like I did
Speaker 2: a good job because like sometimes when you're having a
Speaker 2: couple of drinks and then you just like, yes, open
Speaker 2: up a bit too much. So I read it back in.
Speaker 2: I was as good as I could be. I still
Speaker 2: open up a bit too much. Maybe maybe I took
Speaker 2: one case, so we're a little bit down the track
Speaker 2: with that. But this is where I need your help again.
Speaker 2: So first date is always I feel like it's easy.
Speaker 2: It's you go for drinks or you go for coffee.
Speaker 2: There's like two things you can do.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Second date, it opens up a bit more like, do
Speaker 2: you go for more of like a sit down dinner
Speaker 2: or do you do an activity based date.
Speaker 1: I think either's fine, and probably check her vibe on
Speaker 1: how much she likes activities. Some girls, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're going on like a hike or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know some girls wouldn't be a hiker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be weather based.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, I think, and I sit down down,
Speaker 1: but you kind of did that last time I stood
Speaker 1: up before.
Speaker 2: Surprisingly, my biggest car crash date that I can remember
Speaker 2: is I tried so hard and I did like a
Speaker 2: three part date, which is like the biggest.
Speaker 1: Overkill ever because he committed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So my end goal was to go to the
Speaker 2: Coburg Drive in which I don't like the movie thing now,
Speaker 2: being older, you just sit next to someone for two
Speaker 2: hours and then you go home.
Speaker 1: So I'm not as a movie is good.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big movie based guy. But so like,
Speaker 2: without taking up too much time, I went, Okay, the
Speaker 2: movie doesn't start till nine o'clock. Uh know, I'll start
Speaker 2: off by going to the ice rink ice skating drinks
Speaker 2: in duck Lands. Well, let me tell you I figure,
Speaker 2: I don't ever do that for a date, So as
Speaker 2: you do. I paid the money, got us tickets. We
Speaker 2: went in. I was putting on the ice skates and
Speaker 2: she said, yeah, I'm not doing this. I don't like
Speaker 2: ice skating at all.
Speaker 1: And you paid.
Speaker 2: I was like, why not say that when we were
Speaker 2: before at the front?
Speaker 1: Get there?
Speaker 2: And then so I was like whatever, mebing this is
Speaker 2: where don't be dick comes in. I'm like, well fuck it,
Speaker 2: I'm going for a right around the rink.
Speaker 1: He just said stuff, and I paid my money. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy this.
Speaker 2: So she stayed there.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine went out there and you did like
Speaker 1: some twirls and stuff and looked like an absolute guy
Speaker 1: of this.
Speaker 2: In my defense, I thought I could entice her out
Speaker 2: by doing a lap and this is so much fun,
Speaker 2: it's awesome. Oh it sucked. I hate us. I was
Speaker 2: going to die every moment that I was out there.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I got out of there, and then I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, well, let's go to dinner. There was
Speaker 2: like this little pop up bar like dinner thing on
Speaker 2: the way to the Coburg, and I was like, well,
Speaker 2: let's go to dinner. There went there got dinner. It
Speaker 2: was like this pulled pork thing. She took the she
Speaker 2: opened it up, took all the pulled pork out, closed it,
Speaker 2: took one bite and said, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: Even like this. This is the same girl. And so
Speaker 1: then I was like, enough stuff this, Like, would you
Speaker 1: ever just go, hey, let's just mutually agree this isn't working.
Speaker 2: I was packing it up.
Speaker 1: I want to actually enjoy the rest of my day.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the viewers, this is anyone ever just like
Speaker 1: looked in the middle of a date and just go on, look,
Speaker 1: it's not working. Maybe you don't look what I thought
Speaker 1: you looked like, or maybe like that, maybe you know
Speaker 1: this is we're not vibing like you can tell, and
Speaker 1: the conversation is terrible, and you're going, this isn't going
Speaker 1: to work, and you just leave, like halfway through the day,
Speaker 1: or maybe like appetisers and you're like, I don't even
Speaker 1: want to eat the rest of this menu, like because
Speaker 1: it's just going to be paying the bite.
Speaker 2: It won't have to be so many.
Speaker 1: Surely, well maybe we should ask. I said, what's your
Speaker 1: best way to get out of a date? What's your
Speaker 1: what's your bailout?
Speaker 2: Smoke? Bomb, can you no?
Speaker 1: But you get like, do you have a friend that's
Speaker 1: got you on? You send a text and go, hey,
Speaker 1: call me emergency. Someone's in hospital. You need me to
Speaker 1: drive the roommate if I text you this word pineapple
Speaker 1: like something like that, is there a safe word to you,
Speaker 1: like for your friend to call up or something? Or
Speaker 1: yeah okay? But then the other person's like, chances are
Speaker 1: this is actually they're trying to bail on me. But
Speaker 1: then you know, I'd be like, you know, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with it. We obviously know this isn't going well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you a terrible, horrible date I had once? Yes?
Speaker 2: Please do?
Speaker 1: I was sixteen, scared me for life, Like yeah, I
Speaker 1: almost say so. It's about fifteen sixty or something about
Speaker 1: this girl named Ashley, lovely girl, lovely gal and one
Speaker 1: of those friends you know you're like, oh, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: friends will take to the next level.
Speaker 2: That's always And she was like, oh, you know.
Speaker 1: I was talking back and forth and she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to see this movie and I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: when we go together, you know guess what the movie was?
Speaker 1: Chicago Musical. I had no intention to want to go
Speaker 1: see Chicago, but I wanted to hang out with her,
Speaker 1: so I was like, you know what, I'll go to Chicago.
Speaker 1: I'll go to Chicago.
Speaker 2: All good, right, isn't that the idea that you're like,
Speaker 2: you almost want to pick a bad movie? Nah?
Speaker 1: Well, but then you just want to leave. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so this happens, right, I'm before driving, so Mom drops
Speaker 1: me off at the movies AMC. Thanks thanks mom, hashtag
Speaker 1: Jake Cox love you. And she even knows. But it
Speaker 1: drops me off right, I'll get into the movie theater
Speaker 1: and she's like. I text her. I was like, where
Speaker 1: are you at? And she goes, oh, sorry, something's come up.
Speaker 1: So I'm in Chicago at the movie theater by myself,
Speaker 1: and I just watched the whole thing. Watched the whole
Speaker 1: thing on my own. I didn't want my mother to
Speaker 1: know that I got ditched to a date. Therefore I
Speaker 1: had to just sit there for two hours watching this
Speaker 1: movie I wanted nothing to do with. She came back,
Speaker 1: fixed me out. She goes, how was it? I was
Speaker 1: like a great time. Mom loved it. She's a lovely gal.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately she was moving to China next year. I will
Speaker 1: never see her again. And yeah, I got left and
Speaker 1: ditched at Chicago the movie, And maybe I'll feed a
Speaker 1: few few dating stories throughout my times over the next
Speaker 1: few We got a few podcasts catch ups coming up,
Speaker 1: so I'll go one. I'll go one dating story propot.
Speaker 2: So, as we say you love the dating chat, I
Speaker 2: love the footy chat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I always say dating is my favorite theme
Speaker 1: talk and foot is your favorite thing.
Speaker 2: Dating evidently seems to be other people's favorites. But I
Speaker 2: wonder how it's going to pan out now that it's
Speaker 2: like it's not so much of a car crash I'm coming. Well,
Speaker 2: maybe it's setting me up to fail.
Speaker 1: Bit I'll tell my car crashes. Well you go, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we got to hammer through this footy chat,
Speaker 2: got a lot to cover and not a lot of time. So, uh,
Speaker 2: we're in the pre finals by period. Ye get a
Speaker 2: bit of a break. You went down, went down the
Speaker 2: coast and all of that. So you're a fan of
Speaker 2: the pre finals by period? Yes, I am, just from
Speaker 2: a selfish point of view, or from like you get
Speaker 2: to heel, recover and load up for finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bit of both. I think everyone enjoys a bit
Speaker 1: like a break before finals, because finals time is a
Speaker 1: totally different beast, Like there's a lot of attention. Obviously,
Speaker 1: now from eighteen teams you go down to eight, so
Speaker 1: now the media turns into those eight teams and the
Speaker 1: rest of the ten are just you know, go off
Speaker 1: on holidays. So you feel like you might have twice
Speaker 1: the media attention that you usually have. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of scrutiny and everything else and whatnot going on
Speaker 1: live dissection of the games and all that jazz. But
Speaker 1: it's a good kind of refresher and then you go
Speaker 1: into the finals. But I was telling some of those recently,
Speaker 1: so I think it's it's it's good because it's everyone
Speaker 1: to maybe heal, maybe brings out back some people from injuries,
Speaker 1: and it allows the quality of games and finals to
Speaker 1: be better.
Speaker 2: But does it benefit the bottom four of the eight
Speaker 2: more than the top four? What's sense that they get
Speaker 2: a chance to recover and reload given them got one
Speaker 2: chance as opposed to like the top four earns the
Speaker 2: double shot, you want to get the bottom four while they're.
Speaker 1: Like, now, I think that the double chances like is
Speaker 1: good enough of a carriatter I think for people anyway,
Speaker 1: because in the US it's not there's no chances like
Speaker 1: you just you lose your out kind of thing.
Speaker 2: That's why I want to bring up the final structure
Speaker 2: of the wild Card weekend. Yeah, it is like a
Speaker 2: double chance type scenario.
Speaker 1: Double chance and a half chance that in that gap.
Speaker 2: This is I don't know if you know him, Nathan Buckley,
Speaker 2: he was on sen this morning and he proposed a
Speaker 2: wild card weekend that falls in this by period and
Speaker 2: almost use it to leverage and promote the AFLW. So
Speaker 2: you have curtain raisers into the wild card games, So
Speaker 2: seventh versus tenth, eighth versus ninth for the last two
Speaker 2: spots in the eighth. Do you like the idea of
Speaker 2: like a wild card weekend? What's it bringing America? Because
Speaker 2: I don't really know the vibe of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is so NFL as a wild card weekend,
Speaker 1: and even I think NBA did a play in they're
Speaker 1: doing that nowadays too. I'm not sure if they kept
Speaker 1: it after the COD the COVID bubble, But yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually don't mind. It brings new eyes, It brings obviously
Speaker 1: new pressure because like that's when I go home for
Speaker 1: these teams.
Speaker 2: It feels like you get an extra week finals.
Speaker 1: It is, That's what it is. Is essentially you get
Speaker 1: more eyes for a longer period of time.
Speaker 2: And it also takes away any advantage for those bottom
Speaker 2: two sides of the eight because they don't get a break.
Speaker 1: So they're playing one extra game for bottom two they eight. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't mind it. If I'm finishing seventh or eight,
Speaker 1: they'd be pretty filthy that they changed it, you know,
Speaker 1: that year or whatever it is. But I think in general,
Speaker 1: I really like the bye week. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: just there's so much I know, for me from a
Speaker 1: physical and mental standpoint, you feel so much fresher after
Speaker 1: having a week off, and you go into this finals
Speaker 1: period knowing that the next month is going to be
Speaker 1: pretty crazy hopefully yeah, and you kind of get into this,
Speaker 1: I guess, this mentality of knowing that and being able
Speaker 1: to prep yourself for a week for it. So I
Speaker 1: do like the wild card weekend though, because I think
Speaker 1: it is something that can add eyes, adds, you know,
Speaker 1: adds chatter and stuff during this bye week. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not like this kind of dull period and we're
Speaker 1: banged straight into it again. It's like we can maybe
Speaker 1: you know, siphing this out over a longer period of time,
Speaker 1: so I don't mind. I actually yeah, I like the
Speaker 1: like the AFL They probably will try it out and
Speaker 1: then see how it goes. But maybe maybe they'll bring
Speaker 1: afl X.
Speaker 2: Back soon, maybe when we introduce more teams, when we
Speaker 2: get Tazzy in and Tazzi Townsville. I have no idea, no,
Speaker 2: I think the last one on the foot of EA
Speaker 2: chat and it's going to come up for you soon
Speaker 2: is well, hopefully later rather than but the off season
Speaker 2: and Tom.
Speaker 1: Brown Tom Brown Breaking Tom Brown News.
Speaker 2: Said that there will be about thirty odd, not thirty
Speaker 2: odd Essendon players, about thirty odd Essendon players they're going
Speaker 2: to they're planning to meet up in Spain during this
Speaker 2: offseason trip in Europe. You wouldn't have been around for
Speaker 2: many Like team trips used to be like a comedy.
Speaker 2: It used to be a thing like the whole team
Speaker 2: would go away together and then would have situations like
Speaker 2: I think it was the Bulldogs in Balley. You've gotten
Speaker 2: a bit of strife and you basically got thirty to
Speaker 2: forty blokes running a muck around the world and it
Speaker 2: can end bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's say that you tell me in bol and Bad.
Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts on footy trips? Do you
Speaker 2: go and do your own thing? Don't you normally go
Speaker 2: back to the States? But do you like you do
Speaker 2: you think it's a bad idea to have like thirty
Speaker 2: blokes running around the world doing whatever they want.
Speaker 1: I think it's terrible. I think in this day and age,
Speaker 1: everything's documented, so really like if you're going to be
Speaker 1: an idiot, people will find out, even if you're in
Speaker 1: a different country. But I think there's a certain amount
Speaker 1: of kind of camaraderie and memories made on these trips
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and like, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: if you just keep you know, these things that you
Speaker 1: if you do something that's you know, like having a
Speaker 1: few too many drinks or it is like don't be
Speaker 1: an ieddy going out in the public, Like just do
Speaker 1: it around your mates you know that you trust. So
Speaker 1: I've never been invited to a to a footy trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah at the club now we just don't really do them.
Speaker 1: Like there's there's little groups of maybe five, six seven
Speaker 1: that might go and do like all a trip together
Speaker 1: and the whole team going somewhere anymore, you know, like
Speaker 1: there used to be that. But you said, I'll go
Speaker 1: back to the States. I haven't seen family for, you know, however,
Speaker 1: many months, and I spend my time back there with them,
Speaker 1: and I'll catch up the guys in the US here
Speaker 1: and there. Like Tom Phillips was in the US last year.
Speaker 1: I caught up with him, an old teammate of mine,
Speaker 1: and guys that kind of roll through the same place,
Speaker 1: same time. You kind of say hi. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think I think they're fine footy trips
Speaker 1: as long as you can be mature enough to handle situations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's more your list, because it's
Speaker 2: like you guys went away and you had, you know,
Speaker 2: smart people like yourself and Darcy.
Speaker 1: Moore there to like not look after the young guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the older responsible statesman's of the club. Pendal's sipping
Speaker 2: on his whatever, going in for his morning runs, Like
Speaker 2: you're not getting in trouble. But if you're like one
Speaker 2: of those more party prone teams out there, yeah, I
Speaker 2: figure it's more based on your list.
Speaker 3: I don't subscribe to like they had a bad year,
Speaker 3: but I don't think you should tell someone they can't
Speaker 3: do something. Yeah, can you imagine Tom Brown and everyone
Speaker 3: else going, no, you can't go on holidays together. You
Speaker 3: can do it individually, you can't do it together. Like,
Speaker 3: I feel like the reaction from not saying that he's
Speaker 3: saying that, like.
Speaker 2: Media personalities is more often than not, like, oh, you
Speaker 2: you perform poorly, therefore you can't have a life, Like
Speaker 2: you need to like put one hundred percent of yourself
Speaker 2: into training to make sure you're good next year. And
Speaker 2: it's like, well, like we know that doesn't happen. Mental
Speaker 2: health is a real thing. And if you don't escape
Speaker 2: like the three sixty five.
Speaker 1: Everyone, because there's so much scrutiny in once out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like bottling it all up is more
Speaker 2: likely to have a bad result. Yeah, Like if you
Speaker 2: keep telling people they can't go out or whatever, you
Speaker 2: end up having people sneaking out on their like like
Speaker 2: short weeks and having drinks during the week or like whatever,
Speaker 2: Like it always leads to bad things through that.
Speaker 1: I think it's just like you have to once you
Speaker 1: get to off season. It's no one else's business really
Speaker 1: what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and no one really.
Speaker 1: Legally If you don't get anything to like you know,
Speaker 1: like if you're not in jail or not allowed, you're
Speaker 1: going to anything to do anything that's detrimental to anyone else,
Speaker 1: whoever it may be. You know, like it's someone else's business,
Speaker 1: Like just go enjoy your holiday, as if someone would
Speaker 1: whenever they get a vacation from work and they spend
Speaker 1: two weeks and you know, we're time land wherever they go.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like let us be. There's not everyone's
Speaker 1: going to be able to make the eight. That's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a fact. Every single year there's gonna
Speaker 1: be ten teams. They're not going to make the eight.
Speaker 1: And like let them live. You've now got eight teams
Speaker 1: to scrutinize and eight teams of other stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Like let them go enjoy their life. And if they
Speaker 1: screw up, don't get me wrong, like you know, you
Speaker 1: hold an account and all that kind of stuff. But
Speaker 1: if you're going to just keep you out following people
Speaker 1: around or where they're going in the world, not really
Speaker 1: giving them some time away from this whole thing, then like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you talk about mental health and everything else, and it's
Speaker 1: never gonna get any better.
Speaker 2: That's what I really always think back to that episode
Speaker 2: we had with Pete Hellier and he was saying, not
Speaker 2: every team can win the flag, Like, not every team's
Speaker 2: going to win the premiership. So you've got to be
Speaker 2: able to enjoy the journey, which is something that like
Speaker 2: I feel like a Carlton would be in that situation.
Speaker 2: This year, it's like they had some amazing wins over
Speaker 2: the course of the year, had some really high highs.
Speaker 2: And if you can't learn to enjoy that part of
Speaker 2: the game, you're destined for misery. Because there's teams out
Speaker 2: there that don't win a flag for forty to fifty years.
Speaker 2: And if that's your only source of happiness is to
Speaker 2: win that flag, you're destined for misery.
Speaker 1: It's a carrot you have to have for motivation. But
Speaker 1: like if you say it's the end, I'll be all
Speaker 1: of your career and your experience, then I think you're
Speaker 1: going to set yourself up for failure somewhat. I mean
Speaker 1: there's people that sit there and they win it and
Speaker 1: they go, Okay, well what's naxt Yeah, it's like cool, No,
Speaker 1: you should be enjoying every single day actually like a
Speaker 1: cool like let's do it again, Like let's you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm enjoying the experience of life I'm in with
Speaker 1: the people i'm with. Then I want to keep that
Speaker 1: going much less than, like, you know, all the other
Speaker 1: stuff that they kind of get sometimes get lost in.
Speaker 2: All right, so let's quickly jump into fan questions. We've
Speaker 2: got a few to get through before we wrap up.
Speaker 2: Your goggles up.
Speaker 1: There's a perpetrator out there I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: Look for a guy wearing goggles in this story.
Speaker 1: Dog the bounty hunters after him.
Speaker 2: Imagine opening up that. He's like, I've got the bounty here,
Speaker 2: opened it up and it's and it's goggles.
Speaker 1: I can see. Send me a ransom note. I'd probably
Speaker 1: actually pay him.
Speaker 2: Give us an update on the goggles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they've been stolen. It's official. They've gone through
Speaker 1: the CCTV. They've got a photo of the guy. They
Speaker 1: won't give it to me becase I want to put
Speaker 1: it on social media. Really, just I want to pin
Speaker 1: this guy down. I want a corner. I want to
Speaker 1: find him.
Speaker 2: Why would they not give it to you?
Speaker 1: They said, I said, oh, it's like a stolen package.
Speaker 1: I say, it's actually burglary because it was actually inside
Speaker 1: closed doors. So they simply stole from the mail room
Speaker 1: of our complex, took it out, and then took a
Speaker 1: few a couple of packages in there, and just like
Speaker 1: walked in, took him and walked out, and I talked
Speaker 1: to my neighbor and they said, oh, now it's we
Speaker 1: saw it in there. And then I went down there.
Speaker 1: It wasn't there. So I had to go to the
Speaker 1: police station, which I've never really I've never had to
Speaker 1: go to a police station. I didn't really know how
Speaker 1: to do it. I was like, I've never been inside.
Speaker 1: So just like walked in and the fellow starts, you know,
Speaker 1: writing down the information when it happened, where was that?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, and and the sergeant comes in. He
Speaker 1: goes wait, Coxy put he in him and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I got a package sting, Oh what's in
Speaker 1: the package? And I was like, oh, lenses for you know,
Speaker 1: like playing and stuff. And he was just like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: are you gonna be all play next week? And I
Speaker 1: was like, ah, not if you can get this done earlier.
Speaker 1: I was like I'll say no if that makes you
Speaker 1: actually care about it anymore. And he was just like,
Speaker 1: we'll get right on it. We'll get right on it.
Speaker 1: So they're all calling for fans at the local police station,
Speaker 1: which definitely probably helps out. But yeah, there's been no update.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the the of the police image
Speaker 1: of the guy, and they want a corner him and
Speaker 1: just go all kind of you know, inspector doggy bounty
Speaker 1: hunter on him. I'm gonna confront him and then you know,
Speaker 1: all that kind of just But the thing is, though,
Speaker 1: is if someone steals a package right there, low probability
Speaker 1: that they kept those things because they're no value to
Speaker 1: anyone else because are very customs about three or four
Speaker 1: grand with the lenses. So before we move on, he's
Speaker 1: three or four grand worth lenses and these people have
Speaker 1: helped me out. I got shout out the place that
Speaker 1: does it. So if you sign kids know anyone that's
Speaker 1: looking for goggles. I sports dot com dot au huge
Speaker 1: fans of their absolute legends, say John, I said, Hi.
Speaker 2: Get around them. See my first thought was like, thank
Speaker 2: god it was lenses and it wasn't like a package
Speaker 2: from sexy Landers.
Speaker 1: Might actually resell that. No, just lenses, just lenses. Mate.
Speaker 2: Jumping into this one because you posted on Instagram when
Speaker 2: you were out on your trip down south. You said
Speaker 2: you were you went swimming in the ocean once and
Speaker 2: you're attacked by seals. Seems a very Mason Cuffs thing
Speaker 2: to have.
Speaker 1: It is, I do some weird things in my life,
Speaker 1: and I was getting scuba sodified, so I was getting
Speaker 1: my scuba diving license. Yeah, very unique. And they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to do something different. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up? Or they like, there's this little island kind
Speaker 1: of thing, this hut thing in the middle of the bay.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should actually say that the huks.
Speaker 1: It's kind of there'll be the name will be changed soon,
Speaker 1: we'll say that. And there's he's a bunch of seals
Speaker 1: sit there, and there are all the seals that couldn't mate,
Speaker 1: you know, and they come in since you depressed on
Speaker 1: this little.
Speaker 2: I would think, and I know the feeling.
Speaker 1: They're like you can, yeah, follow that and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can jump in the water and go swimming with them.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, that's kind of cool. The
Speaker 1: seals are pretty grossy smell and the smell like garbage.
Speaker 2: They trying to attack.
Speaker 1: Well, you jump in the water, you got the fins on,
Speaker 1: you know, you got the mask and everything else. You
Speaker 1: kind of do like these flips in the water, and
Speaker 1: then the seals kind of do the flips with you,
Speaker 1: and they're kind of showing off doing these flips and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's really cool experience, right, and I was just gonna
Speaker 1: have a bit of fun. You're not doing all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and then the seals like kind of real curious this one.
Speaker 1: He kind of comes up to me and he's kind
Speaker 1: of just like sitting there staring at me. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, now no, I don't know how to do this,
Speaker 1: so I kind of know really what to doing. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll do a flip hopefully kind of mix it, you know.
Speaker 1: I do a flip and I've got my arm out
Speaker 1: doing the flip, trying to like you get the water
Speaker 1: like to turn, and the seal just comes out and
Speaker 1: shows its teeth and like tries to nip it my hand.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh no, no, no, no, I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm out. I just like STIPs to the surface straight
Speaker 1: raise the hand boat come back. I need to get
Speaker 1: picked up. I'm out this thing. No chance I'm dealing
Speaker 1: with these seals again. You know. I just bounced and
Speaker 1: that was That was the moment I also got attacked
Speaker 1: by a seal. I that it was a great experience.
Speaker 2: It sounds to me like though we're a little frisky.
Speaker 1: Though just we're a little frisky. That's probably while they're
Speaker 1: at the lup on themselves.
Speaker 2: Trying to get a little piece of the Mason Cocks.
Speaker 2: I think one last one before we run out of tape.
Speaker 2: What's your Who is your brown Load tip for this year?
Speaker 1: Brownload Tip? So the Midfielders Award for the Year. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to go to Yeah, there's a dumb
Speaker 1: ass award. To be honest, it just makes no sense.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say maybe the Clayton Oliver or something.
Speaker 1: He always gets touches in a game. I reckon he's
Speaker 1: going to be pretty good. Ankus Brayshaw, He's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I want to throw a left field out there. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say, oh no, I'm gonna I want Ben
Speaker 1: Brown to win. I want Afford to win. Brown won't
Speaker 1: win it. But like I love Ben Brown Picket, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's my man, my man.
Speaker 2: Love Melbourne.
Speaker 1: I just don't know why I always end up watching them.
Speaker 1: They're on Prime Time all the time. They won them
Speaker 1: obviously last year, so I think they're always in prime time.
Speaker 1: But my man Picket, he gets like more than ten
Speaker 1: votes on a Happy Days Happy Days, But Midfielder's award
Speaker 1: it is. Don't tell me any different.
Speaker 2: You should get another three for Queen's birthday.
Speaker 1: Shout out to clean. I don't know. We'll Clayton Oliver
Speaker 1: got the metal so still salty anyway, No, I want
Speaker 1: to ask this. Okay, so what are you watching? I
Speaker 1: watched this ridiculous show, and I want to tell people
Speaker 1: who need to watch it.
Speaker 2: I did watch the new Game of Throne spin off.
Speaker 2: Yeah good, it was good. It started really brutally, like
Speaker 2: the first episode is brutal.
Speaker 1: I'm watching. I'm watching this thing called I'm Told with
Speaker 1: Monty Taylor, and it's a college football guy who gets catfish.
Speaker 1: Crazy story. I'm telling you you'll be on the edge
Speaker 1: of your seat to two parts to it. Insane. Check
Speaker 1: it out. It is my recommendation of the week.
Speaker 2: Well there you go.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that'll be it. Well we'll finish up, mate. I
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