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Speaker 1: I'm being wheeled out to the ambulance in a trolley right now. At this point, you would expect that basically you get some sort of sympathy from the family. Instead, right here on the Cooper and Matty Johns podcast, right here, right now.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another week of the Johns Family podcast. What a week it's been. Trish, you've been away. This is actually the first time we've seen you. You're literally just coming through the door.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: That's why Luigi got a special note to come in. He was allowed in.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was the only reason he's allowed in. But if he messes around, he's going to get a good old-fashioned whooping.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Discipline.
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Speaker 1: How was your flight?
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: Who did you fly with?
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Speaker 3: Virgin.
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Speaker 1: No, it's who did you fly with?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: No, who did you fly with? It's just a joke.
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Speaker 2: What joke is it?
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Speaker 1: No, I said who did you fly with? Oh, right.
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Speaker 4: That's not funny. But you know what? On the way up, someone famous is sitting in front of me.
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Speaker 3: Who? Can I guess?
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Speaker 1: Give us clues.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Like movie?
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Speaker 1: Movie.
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Speaker 4: Movie star?
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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it has to be a Hemsworth? No.
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Speaker 4: It's a female?
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Speaker 3: Australian?
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Speaker 4: Australian.
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Speaker 2: Margot Robbie?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Miranda Otter?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: Dr. Zaius?
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Speaker 4: No. She probably does more work internationally than here.
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Speaker 2: Is she a model?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Would you say actress?
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Speaker 4: Just an actress. Pure actress. Has always been an actress.
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Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Rebel Wilson?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Rick.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Geez. Is there a movie any of us have watched in the last 10 years?
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Speaker 4: The Sixth Sense.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Toni Collette?
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Speaker 4: Yes. Muriel's Wedding. I was going to say Muriel's Wedding, but then that would be a dead giveaway.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen it.
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Speaker 1: I saw her when we lived in Chorley in the north of England. She was shooting a video there. She's walking one way, I'm walking the other, and I go, I think, that's Toni Collette. But at the time, I don't, I'm going, what's her name? What's her name? What's her name? She gets 50 metres down the road and I went, oh, that's it. I went, Colleen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Colleen. Colleen.
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Speaker 2: Did you speak to her?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: No, no, she was there with what might have been her daughter, I think.
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Speaker 1: Oh, she was in some big movies there for a while.
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Speaker 3: Oh, huge.
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Speaker 4: She's a big, she's a big and very understated, breezed in. It was only that she was literally sitting in front of me and the gap in the seat. I went, that's a recognisable.
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Speaker 1: Flying economy.
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Speaker 4: No, she was flying business and I was the seat behind.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you weren't in business.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it funny? When we fly, I'm always economy, but when you go.
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Speaker 4: No, I wasn't business. She was business. In domestic, there's only like two rows of business.
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Speaker 2: Is there even a point of having business when you're flying domestic?
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Speaker 4: Well, if you get a free upgrade with your bonus things and bots.
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Speaker 2: Is that the first famous person you've ever sat next to? I didn't sit next to her. Sorry, is that near? Because, Dad, you sat next to Leo Sayer.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, well, I was on the other side.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand, but I was just wondering if there's any other famous people of note.
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Speaker 5: I think the closest I've got to famous, famous, I mean, I saw Billy Joel in a hotel.
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Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson went past us on a flight.
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Speaker 4: Remember?
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Speaker 1: Because I had the earphones. I went, Trish, look at that.
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Speaker 4: It's Britney Spears.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I had the ear things in. I turned around and she was staring at me. I don't know. I turned around and it was Jessica Simpson.
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Speaker 4: I think Liam Gallagher is probably top notch.
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Speaker 2: Not on a plane.
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Speaker 4: No, just meeting in general.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: On planes, yeah, interesting. It'd be great. There's Mark Richards, yeah, the four-time surfing world champion, MR, one of the great Novacastrians. He was on a flight once and an American guy came up and goes, hey, you know, I really like you and blah, blah, blah. He says, if there's an opportunity, if this person would change seats, would you mind if I sat next to you on the flight? And MR went, oh, yeah, okay. And he said, talking about surfing and everything. And MR said, oh. About halfway through the flight, mate, sorry, I didn't ask your name. He said, Eddie Vedder.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No way. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And when he heard the name, did he know who he was?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: He just didn't know the face.
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Speaker 4: He didn't recognise him.
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Speaker 2: I feel like there's a lot of people that you'd know the name, but if you walk past them on the street, you wouldn't know the face.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Billy Peden said he saw Emma, he was surfing out of Dudley one day with Eddie Vedder. Eddie Vedder was out there. Eddie Vedder, when he comes over, he gets Emma out of the concert's. And at one gig went, everyone, I'm dedicating this to this man. He was a hero growing up. Paul's MR up on stage was seeing his better man. Really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's nice.
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Speaker 2: That is nice.
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Speaker 1: He's a gentleman, Mark Richards.
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Speaker 3: He is.
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Speaker 4: And his beautiful wife, Jen.
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Speaker 2: We've all spoke about nights being in a grand final all week. Now, we haven't seen you. We've just like– Haven't I heard about it? But are you– as a Nova Castrian, because you were born there. I know you're Italian.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I'm more Newcastle than that. Like I was actually born in Newcastle.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, she was.
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Speaker 4: Like down the road from the workers' club.
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Speaker 2: Like you're literally– like you're more Nova Castrian than anyone in this house then. That's true.
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Speaker 4: It's true.
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Speaker 2: Well, what's your reactions? Are you going to cry about it?
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Speaker 4: No, big sucker bubbers.
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Speaker 2: No, it's good emotion though.
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Speaker 4: I know, but that's just about, you know, it's nice. I'm just so excited that everyone's so excited.
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Speaker 3: There's more estrogen pumping through them at the moment than yourself.
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Speaker 4: I know. Well, I'm not allowed to have any.
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Speaker 1: She's not allowed to. After you had chemo, thanks for that joke.
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Speaker 4: After my cancer, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You're setting a real sombre bar today, Matthew. That joke out at the start, it was shit. Yeah, virgin.
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Speaker 4: But everyone, everyone, everywhere I went, Was going, oh, your bloody husband had me in tears. And I went, oh, you're such a sucker.
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Speaker 2: You know what? So, like, it's funny, right, because. Like we can take the piss out of him because we see him like– we see him every day and like he might get upset about the most weird– like he's watching a dog on YouTube and he starts crying. So we see it like our whole life.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 2: And then you hear– like people who have never seen dad cry, they see him on TV and they go, your dad had a– like the amount of messages.
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Speaker 4: But they're all crying.
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Speaker 2: They're all– everyone's crying with him.
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Speaker 3: I love that.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going, if you live– Don't. He's not crying now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not crying. I'm laughing.
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Speaker 2: I think he's laughing.
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Speaker 4: I was like, Jesus.
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Speaker 2: But it's funny because– All these people, all my friends, like other teammates, are like, how emotional is it? How cool is it to see? And it's like if you lived with him. If only you lived with him and seen this your whole life, you would be taking the piss out of him too.
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Speaker 4: But he never used to be like that.
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Speaker 2: Never used to cry.
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Speaker 4: He never used to be like that. It's only been in the last, what? What would you say, Matt?
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Speaker 2: Five years?
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Speaker 4: Five, six years.
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Speaker 2: I feel like it does get.
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Speaker 4: Remember when he started crying in the lounge up there? Yeah, since we've been in this house.
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Speaker 2: It's as you get older. It's just an age thing.
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Speaker 1: You see the end coming. Oh, stop being– oh, my God. No, you see tragedy in everything.
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Speaker 4: No, you should be more excited because you're still around.
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Speaker 3: Oxytocin is one of the hormones that increases as you get older, known for empathy and the bonding hormone. There you go.
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Speaker 4: Oxytocin?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 4: Isn't it also the one that brings on– It's also there for laughter.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Are you thinking the painkillers, Oxycontin?
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Speaker 4: No, there's something else they give you to bring on labour.
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Speaker 2: Oxycodone.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not Oxycodone.
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Speaker 2: We could speculate about it for hours.
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Speaker 1: I've been getting messages through from people. I don't know, like text messages through. I'm not one of these real, how can I say, these modern terms that people sort of throw around a little bit. I just put it this, you got it. I keep going, people are going, Maddy, you said you were embarrassed. Do not be embarrassed. It takes a great man to show his vulnerability. The word vulnerability is, It's been thrown at me I reckon about a thousand times in the last week or so.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's good. It's actually a really good message. Message, yeah. Everyone should be allowed to show their emotions.
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Speaker 1: What's the message?
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Speaker 2: No, it's good to see that you're not just bottling down how you felt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You put that out there.
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Speaker 3: Show your emotions.
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Speaker 2: For everyone in Australia to see for years to come.
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Speaker 3: Let it manifest.
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Speaker 2: You know what I hope, right? What I hope happens to Dad.
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Speaker 3: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Hope he dies.
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 1: Can you stop again? I don't need this experience. We'll get there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 2: So what I hope happens, right, because everyone looks at this– everyone this week, Dad, you and Joey's emotion, the tears and stuff, everyone's looking at it and they're going, how good is this? But, like, in six years' time, what happens with social media, the images of you crying will be there forever. So, like, for example– If Cale and Ponga signs with a different club in five years or something.
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Speaker 1: They'll use it.
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Speaker 2: They're going to use you as a meme. John's brother's distraught. Just anything. Like a beer gets discontinued.
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Speaker 3: Boom.
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Speaker 2: John's brother's distraught. I hope you turn into a meme, and I hope our listeners are the ones that drive that. Because there's one with Michael Jordan crying, and that has been memed for years. They were just like– I think it was.
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Speaker 3: When he got his presidential award from Obama.
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Speaker 2: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: So what you're preparing me for basically till the day I die, that thing will just pop up.
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Speaker 2: Correct. Let's just, because we just talked about Joey, just before we get to your near-death experience, because it was very traumatising, we have an exciting episode coming out tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: It's a special episode.
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Speaker 4: A special episode. And that's a special grand final.
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Speaker 2: Grand final episode. I mean, the Knights are in, so we thought, what better than a Saturday morning drop? We've got Joey in studio alongside... All of us, and more importantly, Matthew.
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Speaker 4: Not me.
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Speaker 2: No, no, sorry, not true.
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Speaker 4: I was excluded.
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Speaker 3: You were excluded.
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Speaker 2: Well, you didn't want to be in there.
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Speaker 1: You and Joe don't get on.
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Speaker 4: I noticed he barely said hello to me when I walked in.
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Speaker 3: He's a weirdo.
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Speaker 2: Don't just bag him. We just got him on the potty.
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Speaker 1: He's weird. We've got his flesh. It's fine. You can bag him now.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 2: But it's a big episode. Just like talking all things Newcastle, the Knights, what it means to them, the 97 Grand Finals. So all of our Knights fans, just rugby league fans who came for the NRL Grand Finals, You've got that to listen and watch over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: That is.
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Speaker 2: So it's a great episode. And I think it was needed in Rugby League because obviously you're with two different networks, but networks have allowed it to happen, Nine and Fox, so we thank them for that.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Thank you to Channel Nine. Thank you to Fox Sports for allowing us to do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. Dad, your near-death experience. You've alluded to it on a few different podcasts and stuff this week, but we wanted to wait for Trish to be in here because she was your right-hand woman the whole time. What happened?
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Speaker 4: Hold my hand up.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second, what happened there. Okay. So every now and then, inadvertently, I get this pain, like a rib cartilage, right? It sits in the ribs around the back near the scapula. So I go into NRL 360 on the Thursday night, right? Anyway, I'm walking along and Cooper Cronk and Luke Keery are going, mate, what's going on? I said, I don't know, boys. I've got this rib cart. They're taking the piss out of me like you blokes would. And they go, oh, mate. And I'm going, yeah. Anyway, as I'm sitting on the– doing the show, I'm going, man, this thing is getting tighter. Anyway, we come home. I came to bed. Me and Trish put a movie on, The Invite, which was excellent.
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Speaker 3: We watched it.
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Speaker 1: Which was excellent, by the way. Very, very good.
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Speaker 4: Like he was moaning and groaning.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there, and every time I moved, I'm like, oh, my shuddering pain.
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Speaker 4: Don't sneeze into the mic.
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Speaker 1: I was getting emotional.
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Speaker 2: I thought he was having a heart attack. I thought he was about to cry. I didn't know it was the world's biggest sneeze coming on.
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Speaker 4: Did you know? Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: So I get there, and it's tightening. And suddenly, like, it's going into spasm. And it's like once every minute, I'm having a 10-second spasm. Then every 30 seconds, then it was just constant. So I said to Trish, I'm thinking, am I going to get it? Got to go to the hospital? Mate, I said to Trish.
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Speaker 4: I think you're going to have to drive me to hospital.
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Speaker 1: I said, Trish, you've got to call an ambulance.
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Speaker 4: I think I have to go to an ambulance.
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Speaker 1: And, mate, luckily we did. And so I'm going down, and what's happening is this pain, wherever I've come from, it's hitting me in the heart, and my heart's only beaten out of my chest. So the AMBOs who come in, who are fantastic, man, they were good, they put us on the ECG. He goes, okay, you've got an elevated heart rate, but we don't think. You know, you're going into cardiac arrest. Oh, good, yeah. So, people, I'm being wheeled out to the ambulance in a trolley, right? Now, at this point, you would expect that basically you get some sort of sympathy from the family.
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Speaker 3: You had plenty of sympathy from me. You had plenty.
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Speaker 1: Instead, what I have, I have oldest son mimicking basically Warren from There's Something About Mary in that scene going, he's been masturbating, he's been masturbating as I'm being put in the back of the ambulance.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: So we're going along the airfield.
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Speaker 3: That's one of the great scenes too, just watching you on the trolley sitting there like literally like you've been carried to a footy field.
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Speaker 2: My favourite thing was apparently it was traumatic and Dad was loud. It wasn't loud enough to wake me up.
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Speaker 4: No, even though we were outside your bedroom door.
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Speaker 3: Outside Cooper's room.
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Speaker 4: To Bill End's office.
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Speaker 2: I woke up in the morning, 6am, and I needed to sleep because I'd had a big day.
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Speaker 3: Sorry to hear that.
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Speaker 2: And I'd had a text, Jack, midnight. Dad's been taken to hospital. And I was like, what?
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Speaker 3: 2am. 2am.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing tests on him. He's been taken to hospital. I've come in.
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Speaker 1: What the hell's happened?
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Speaker 2: They go, did you seriously just sleep through all of that? He was out there like screaming.
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Speaker 1: He's going, ah.
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Speaker 2: And the ambulances were checking him outside your bedroom door.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm in the back of the ambulance and they're just pounding me full of fentanyl and morphine. It's hardly hitting the sides. And they go, mate, we're going to give you more. So I'm sitting there. Then the guy goes, okay, we're going to test your heart one more time. And the guy, when he does it, goes, Okay, okay, okay, put the siren on.
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Speaker 4: And I'm following in the car and I notice them put the siren on.
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Speaker 2: What are they putting on? Oh, so you just followed in behind and then are you like– I.
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Speaker 4: Was like, why are they putting the siren on?
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Speaker 1: And they start running through red lights. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And what were you thinking?
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Speaker 4: I was thinking– He's dead.
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Speaker 5: No, I didn't think he's dead. I'm like, what's going on? Why are they doing that? Because it was like quarter to 12 at night.
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Speaker 1: So then what happened, my heart started to get really irregular and I thought maybe I am. So when they got the sirens going, I looked at the guy and I went, Am I dying? And he goes, no, no, no, you're not. Just breathe. Just breathe. Which is probably a thing you don't want to hear.
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Speaker 4: Well, if you're breathing, you're alive, mate.
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Speaker 2: You know what's crazy?
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Speaker 4: Stop sneezing.
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Speaker 2: No, let him sneeze. Sneeze cam, put it on him.
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 4: Don't cover your mouth.
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Speaker 2: So athletes, people who have been athletes and stuff, they naturally have an irregular heartbeat. So I remember because Harry Grant was in hospital and we were in there waiting to get discharged. And they checked his heart and it was irregular. And the same thing, they took him to the emergency thing. He was fine. But team doctor had to ring the hospital and say, nah, because we do ECG. As an athlete, you do ECG at the start of every year. And it's heaps of them because of, it must be a fitness thing. You get a regular heartbeat.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's good to hear that your boyfriend's okay. Now back to your dad.
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Speaker 3: I thought you said he was a new one. I think DCE might be his this weekend.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 2: I'm a nightmare this week.
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Speaker 1: So basically Trish is next to me. They knock me out.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm being dragged from scan to scan and different things. Anyway, I sort of come through about 5.30 in the morning. Trish is laying next to me. And Trish puts a hand on mine. I put my hand on her and I say, Trish, I just thank you so much for being here. And she said, Matt, you know how much I love my sleep.
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Speaker 2: Is that true?
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Speaker 3: Why?
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Speaker 2: What made your head think that?
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Speaker 4: Because by this time it was, like, 2 o'clock. My eyes were hanging out of my head. Like, I go to bed at 7 o'clock.
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Speaker 1: It's true.
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Speaker 4: And then, like, I was in there all night with him. Sorry for having a heart attack. And, like, my neck is still sore from sitting upright in the seat.
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Speaker 1: Sorry for having a heart attack.
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Speaker 4: You didn't have a heart attack.
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Speaker 2: The best thing is, right, Dad loves sympathy. Dad is someone who laps up in sympathy, feels sorry for me. He loves it. I reckon there was a part of him that when he was getting results back, he didn't want it to be a heart attack, but he wanted it to be something enough when he's telling this story to people, they go, whoa, that's crazy because I've heard him, Jack. We went for a walk the other day. He told everyone on the way back from the walk, but ultimately he tells this long story like he's just told the people on the podcast, but it ends up with no result. They don't really know what it was. They just think he had a bit of a shoulder problem.
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Speaker 1: Well, they don't. They don't know what it was.
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Speaker 4: Well, I have a diagnosis. I think that it's… There.
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Speaker 1: You are.
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Speaker 4: Choriocondritis. It's the inflammation of the intercostal muscles.
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Speaker 3: The way you tried to give context to the whole story, though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Be honest.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Be honest. Were you a little bit disappointed that it wasn't a serious issue?
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Speaker 4: I think he probably was a little bit disappointed that there just wasn't an outcome.
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Speaker 1: Guys, I can take control of this.
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Speaker 3: Can I just say for context before you go into that, that very much so– And when I say we're so shocked that Cooper wasn't awoken, he literally, Matthew was making sounds I've never heard come from him before.
00:16:42
Speaker 4: From a human.
00:16:43
Speaker 3: As if he'd been stabbed through his whole body.
00:16:46
Speaker 1: That's what it felt like. But it was.
00:16:47
Speaker 4: It was like electric shocks for you, wasn't it? Because it was going from your back around into your heart and sternum into your back and vice versa.
00:16:54
Speaker 1: Well, the ambo, she said, Maddie, what's the pain? What is it? And I went, oh, it's a 10. And Trish goes. So it's hurting? Yeah. It's a 10. It's a 10. Oh, poor thing. Okay, was I hoping there was something? Oh, I'd just love to be able to hang my– Get out of work. Just something, you know, just, you know, a rare disease.
00:17:20
Speaker 4: Do you think the trauma– Oh, don't say that.
00:17:22
Speaker 1: Not one that was life-threatening. Touch wood. Touch it.
00:17:26
Speaker 2: Do you think like– because that was the day– you didn't actually talk about this on your show. You kept it kind of private. We're sort of only really pulling the curtain back now because you are okay.
00:17:35
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:17:36
Speaker 2: But do you think that had anything to do with you being emotional after the night's win as well?
00:17:41
Speaker 4: See, this is what I was going to say. When people have heart attacks or heart surgery, I'm not sure which one it is, apparently– they become very emotional after it.
00:17:53
Speaker 1: It might have been a heart attack. Who knows?
00:17:55
Speaker 4: Well, no, they did every scan and check.
00:17:56
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, very true actually, yeah. When you have a traumatic experience like that, it's supposed to bring out the emotions. Can we talk about how the Ambos were very.
00:18:07
Speaker 1: Very good?
00:18:07
Speaker 4: They were awesome. They were really nice.
00:18:10
Speaker 3: A male and a female. And basically as the guy was like putting you on the trolley and then you're getting shipped into the ambulance, You were like, it's like something about Mary, huh? And I said something along the lines of, yeah, you got your cock stuck in a zipper again? Yeah. And the ambulance guy started bursting out laughing. So he obviously knew the reference.
00:18:29
Speaker 2: Yes. That's brilliant.
00:18:31
Speaker 1: It was good, Jack, because he was a serious dude.
00:18:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
00:18:36
Speaker 1: He was good when he dropped because he stayed an extra hour.
00:18:38
Speaker 4: Oh, they both stayed. because they were coming out to see me in the wedding room.
00:18:41
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the scenario Jack needs to find himself to be funny is like life-threatening situations. That's where Jack becomes his most funny.
00:18:48
Speaker 3: That might be my niche.
00:18:50
Speaker 1: For instance, let me pretend now, Jack, that I'm having a heart attack and dying and say the first thing that comes into your mind, ah, ah, Jack.
00:19:01
Speaker 3: No, I'm happy to let this go.
00:19:03
Speaker 1: Actually, that's funny.
00:19:04
Speaker 2: That actually was pretty funny. It hasn't been an easy week for all of us in this house as well because obviously hospitals have been a recurring theme. I want to send my love to my sweet partner, Poppy. She was the victim of a hip drop this week in her AFL. She has surgery. When we're recording this, she would have had surgery yesterday. So our thoughts and prayers are with Poppy.
00:19:27
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
00:19:29
Speaker 2: Another hip drop that's brought an iconic Australian athlete undone this week.
00:19:32
Speaker 1: It was interesting. When I returned from my potential heart attack, I got no sympathy whatsoever. But then I came back a night later and you were distraught. And I said, mate, what's happened? I thought maybe the pennies really dropped at the man who brought me into the world, which is going to pass. And he goes, no, I hit poppies. Mate, poppies hurt a ring. And I was like, okay. But my heart's okay, Coop.
00:19:54
Speaker 2: I actually understand what it's like now for what you guys, like if you guys had watched Jack and I get hurt in a game, particularly when Jack got his shoulder done, or if you see one of us get knocked out.
00:20:05
Speaker 4: Because you were particularly unsympathetic at that.
00:20:07
Speaker 2: No, but that's. Because you never got injured. I never got it. I was so resilient. And I was so diligent with my prehab and rehab. But to see, like, someone that you love so dearly get hurt and then I wasn't getting emotional then. I had a hiccup. Get hurt and then, like, there's nothing you can do about it. It was actually quite hard for me. And I've seen Jack get hurt. I've seen, you know, Dad fake a heart attack. I've seen you be hurt as well, Trish.
00:20:33
Speaker 1: On the ankle.
00:20:36
Speaker 2: You had that rolled ankle in Vegas that time.
00:20:37
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
00:20:38
Speaker 2: Was that syndesmosis as well?
00:20:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, and all the ligaments.
00:20:41
Speaker 3: I stuffed everything. That wasn't bad at the time. That was just more punishing for the months afterwards. Yeah, it was.
00:20:46
Speaker 2: The funny thing is Poppy's Rehab, they said, you know, it's season ending for there because they've got a short season in the AFLW. They say that's, you know, whatever, like six to eight weeks. Trish, I think yours hung around for what, months?
00:20:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it did because it was misdiagnosed originally. So I was at six weeks before one of my girlfriends said, Trisha, I really want you to go and see a specialist. I went, oh, okay.
00:21:05
Speaker 5: So by the time I got into him, I was like, you know, seven weeks post-injury.
00:21:11
Speaker 4: And then he looked at me and he laughed. He goes, yeah, you need surgery on that. He said, that's never going to heal. I went, oh.
00:21:17
Speaker 3: And it didn't help that I recall there was a lot of drinking afterwards during your recovery. Yes. Was there? Yes, there was. Yes, there was.
00:21:24
Speaker 2: You went to the games.
00:21:25
Speaker 3: I mean, you had fights like multiple times. Fights? Because your ankle is below your heart, Trish. So when you're walking around on it, particularly after a few drinks when your blood thins, it just swells up and it just doesn't recover.
00:21:38
Speaker 1: I told her the day when she went to Vegas.
00:21:40
Speaker 4: Mate, you told me to go to the game. I wasn't even going.
00:21:42
Speaker 1: Just hold on. Just hold on just there a second.
00:21:44
Speaker 4: I just wanted to lay there.
00:21:45
Speaker 1: So Britt Fletcher, Fletcher's dear wife.
00:21:50
Speaker 4: And Amy.
00:21:51
Speaker 1: And Amy. They've got there, and I've said to Trish, last instructions, don't drink, otherwise it's going to swell like a balloon. No problem. All good. I'm on the field at Allegiant Stadium. We're about to start the whole broadcast with an American crew And they go, righto, guys, you're on 30 seconds. Yep, no worries. Ready, 20, 15, 10, 9. And I look behind the goalposts at this bar area. It's a bunker sort of thing. And there's Trish holding like a schooner, having a beer and just knocking it back. She's got her foot in the air. Trish was in the inner old bunker.
00:22:26
Speaker 3: She was actually making decisions.
00:22:27
Speaker 4: Now, I actually had to because I'll tell you why.
00:22:30
Speaker 3: Why?
00:22:31
Speaker 4: It was very difficult to find that special area.
00:22:33
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:22:34
Speaker 4: So– There was Britt, myself and.
00:22:38
Speaker 3: Amy.
00:22:38
Speaker 4: No, I think it was. No, Amy came from Valens. No, it was Gemma.
00:22:43
Speaker 1: Gemma Elwood.
00:22:44
Speaker 4: Talis.
00:22:44
Speaker 3: Talis.
00:22:45
Speaker 4: And we could not find how to get in. So I'm hobbling around on it. And in the end I went, girls, I was about to vomit. I felt like I was about to pass out because I was in so much pain. I said, girls, you're going to have to go and find where it is. And then they came back with a wheelchair for me.
00:22:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:23:00
Speaker 4: And I put my foot up. Elevated it up on a bed.
00:23:03
Speaker 2: I don't think that was what was wrong with the wheelchair sort of thing. We understand that. It was more him like you never gave an excuse for drinking. When did that start?
00:23:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was in such pain by that stage.
00:23:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
00:23:13
Speaker 4: I'll follow the story, boys.
00:23:14
Speaker 3: Naturally.
00:23:15
Speaker 1: Sort of heart attack that was.
00:23:16
Speaker 4: And I walked in and everyone saw the colour of me and they were like, yo, we'll get you something.
00:23:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, you look like Barney, the giant dinosaur.
00:23:24
Speaker 2: Fake tan. Trisha, you've just been up in the Gold Coast all week.
00:23:27
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:23:28
Speaker 2: Like we just said.
00:23:29
Speaker 5: I was up there for the NRLW final. And I really appreciate Gaz's comments the other day.
00:23:34
Speaker 4: He saw it. Those Broncos players were laying all over the ruck.
00:23:38
Speaker 1: They were.
00:23:39
Speaker 2: Gaz knows about laying in the ruck.
00:23:40
Speaker 4: Everyone said that, yeah.
00:23:41
Speaker 2: But you were also at the Titans award night?
00:23:44
Speaker 4: I did, yeah.
00:23:44
Speaker 3: How was that?
00:23:45
Speaker 4: It was actually awesome. Like I'm not an awards person. It was a great night, really super.
00:23:50
Speaker 2: Who was up there?
00:23:51
Speaker 4: Everyone. What do you mean?
00:23:53
Speaker 2: Was there anyone of note?
00:23:53
Speaker 3: No.
00:23:54
Speaker 2: John Howard?
00:23:55
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld was there.
00:23:57
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
00:23:57
Speaker 5: All the players and the NRL players and the NRLW players and the netball players were there.
00:24:03
Speaker 4: It was awesome. It was just a great night. And special shout-out to Sienna who broke her jaw and had three plates. This was on Sunday.
00:24:10
Speaker 5: Had three plates put in. Got herself out of hospital and turned up to the awards night. Everyone was in shock.
00:24:17
Speaker 4: She was a lot of pain in the game. And she was co-winner of NRLW Player of the Year.
00:24:22
Speaker 2: Alongside Tegan Levi?
00:24:23
Speaker 4: Tegan Levi, yeah.
00:24:24
Speaker 1: Was she drinking?
00:24:25
Speaker 3: No.
00:24:26
Speaker 5: The poor darling, her face was so swollen out and she just had her hair all over the side.
00:24:31
Speaker 4: Those girls are, and what Murph does with them, they're just the greatest. You just want to hang around with them. They're just the greatest group of girls.
00:24:39
Speaker 2: Did you go on their Mad Monday?
00:24:40
Speaker 4: No, I wanted to though.
00:24:41
Speaker 2: Did you go in the sheds after the game?
00:24:43
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:24:44
Speaker 2: And what were they like?
00:24:45
Speaker 4: They were very flat. They were really upset, yeah. They were disappointed.
00:24:50
Speaker 1: It was disappointing. It was disappointing. It would have been great to have seen them in the grand finals.
00:24:54
Speaker 4: Oh, it really would have.
00:24:55
Speaker 1: It would have been.
00:24:55
Speaker 4: They deserved it. They would have, you know.
00:24:57
Speaker 1: They played great. Oh, great through the year.
00:24:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:25:00
Speaker 2: Did you meet any of the boys up there at the awards night? Was it the girls and the boys?
00:25:03
Speaker 4: There was like 700 people there. Yeah, everyone was there. I saw Tino. He had his little daughter, Gia. He won the– Player.
00:25:11
Speaker 1: Of the Year.
00:25:12
Speaker 4: Player of the Year. And, yeah, now everyone. Oh, I saw Sats now. I was just talking about old injuries. Sats.
00:25:20
Speaker 1: Just link inclusiveness here. Yep.
00:25:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's on crutches. I was like, Sats, what you doing? He goes, oh, just arthritis in my ankle from an old injury. He said sometimes it just flares up for no reason at all and he couldn't even put any weight on it.
00:25:32
Speaker 3: See, that injury is more– you get more sympathy for that, Matthew, than what yours was.
00:25:37
Speaker 1: It's not a hard thing.
00:25:38
Speaker 4: Because crutches. Cooper learnt that many years ago.
00:25:41
Speaker 1: What?
00:25:42
Speaker 4: You need– You need to see that there is an injury. You need crutches, you need bandage, you need a brace.
00:25:48
Speaker 3: Visible.
00:25:48
Speaker 4: Cooper was like, if something was wrong, he went, oh, can you strap that up for me? I was like, oh, it doesn't, oh, no, can you please strap it up? I was like, okay.
00:25:54
Speaker 2: See, the reason I did that.
00:25:55
Speaker 1: I respect mummies.
00:25:56
Speaker 2: And it's because the reason I do that is because, like you said, there's no use, and I mainly did that in school because I needed to tell the teachers. If I had a bung ankle, if you tell your PE teacher, I can't play basketball at recess because, I've got this ankle. They assume you're lying. They assume the worst in kids. And you do that so people know. I mean, there were some times I had just a sore shoulder. I'd wear a sling out just for sympathy. A lot of things like that.
00:26:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would.
00:26:23
Speaker 2: I also wore a Michael Jackson glove for like the whole of kindergarten. You remember that? It was a golf glove.
00:26:27
Speaker 5: And then remember when I went to see MJ the musical and I bought you a proper Diamante one and you went, what's that?
00:26:33
Speaker 4: I said, I bought you the glove. No appreciations.
00:26:36
Speaker 1: Oh, right.
00:26:37
Speaker 3: Nice. One away when you didn't wear that.
00:26:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
00:26:40
Speaker 2: It had diamonds on it.
00:26:41
Speaker 4: And can you also mention.
00:26:42
Speaker 1: Bad time for Michael Jackson. I'd say that's part of the reason you didn't wear it.
00:26:48
Speaker 4: That just drifted off, didn't it, mate?
00:26:49
Speaker 2: Spit that out.
00:26:50
Speaker 5: And Evania Isako in our NRLW team.
00:26:55
Speaker 4: Now, she's played the year after having a baby. Little lady.
00:26:59
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
00:27:00
Speaker 4: Incredible. But what I look at, the whole.
00:27:07
Speaker 5: Club, the boys, the girls, everyone, the whole, everyone, everyone in every department just embrace it all and make it work.
00:27:14
Speaker 4: And it's so awesome. Like little Eddie is at all the games, travels with them, everything.
00:27:19
Speaker 2: The baby.
00:27:20
Speaker 4: It's amazing. And that's a credit to Murph. Like she was the one that said, let's see if we can do it. And if we can do it, let's do it.
00:27:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something I've always appreciated. She's awesome, Karen Murphy. I've never been a fan of like coaches from juniors all the way to high leveled. that don't like it when kids come to training. Spot on. I understand that you've got a job to do and you need the players' attention and stuff like that, but sometimes people just don't have a choice. Spot on. So you might as well just lean into the fact that, embrace it for what it is, and just get on with it. Everyone's got different situations. Have you seen what childcare costs these days?
00:27:56
Speaker 4: So expensive. When you boys went, it was like $ 50 a day.
00:28:00
Speaker 1: Well, that's $ 50.
00:28:01
Speaker 4: Last time I spoke to someone, I was freaking out. It was $ 100. Now it's more like $ 150 now a day per child.
00:28:09
Speaker 1: What Jack's saying, like the kids, when you get the kids in the environment of the team, they add to the team. They do. Everyone knits tighter.
00:28:17
Speaker 4: That's exactly right.
00:28:18
Speaker 2: I remember like Cameron Smith's kids and the interesting thing with that dynamic, right, they're almost a bridge to make you closer to the older players because I sat I think I was closer to Jasper, who was Smithy's young boy, than I was to Smithy. So you know what I mean? So I probably had more in common with Smithy's son when I was in the team than Smithy. But it is a natural leap when you see all the kids around. And they're the kids that run out and they run the tees out. They're the ball boy. It's got harmony. I think Danny Badiris' son is the ball boy for nights.
00:28:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack. As Joey says, Jack has the devil in him. Yeah, yeah. He's one of the– That was one of the benefits actually of COVID, the COVID bubble was obviously all the families were in there with the teams and stuff like that. So it was a very good opportunity for the clubs, particularly the football department and the players– to get closer because everyone was forced to be together.
00:29:12
Speaker 1: A question for you guys, just a question on that. And this is a serious question. I'm not trying to be provocative or doing something for a laugh.
00:29:19
Speaker 2: If you say, yeah, go on.
00:29:21
Speaker 1: So a group, like, you know, they say it takes a village to raise a child. And it does. That's what we're talking about here with the team. So let's say, for instance, Jasper was playing up one day. Do you think, because that means he's part of the team, have you, do you think you can take on the responsibility of disciplining him?
00:29:39
Speaker 2: I don't think Smitty would have liked that. I don't think Smitty would have.
00:29:42
Speaker 4: What's your definition of discipline?
00:29:44
Speaker 2: Smack on the.
00:29:45
Speaker 3: Oh, of course.
00:29:46
Speaker 4: Well, he shouldn't be smacking children anyway, let alone to one else's.
00:29:48
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
00:29:49
Speaker 2: Well, a little smack on the bum never hurt.
00:29:51
Speaker 5: No, but you need to pull them aside and go, okay, we need to talk about what you're doing and.
00:29:57
Speaker 1: Doesn't work.
00:29:57
Speaker 4: Why is that not appropriate?
00:29:59
Speaker 3: But particularly not anyone else's kids.
00:30:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, no.
00:30:01
Speaker 1: But that doesn't work. Reasoning doesn't work.
00:30:03
Speaker 4: Well, it depends on their age.
00:30:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find martial punishment far more.
00:30:08
Speaker 2: You never disciplined us once. You're the softest dad. You still are.
00:30:13
Speaker 1: Glad you blacked out.
00:30:14
Speaker 4: I mean, he never disciplined at all.
00:30:16
Speaker 2: Are you joking? Mum used to be the angry one.
00:30:18
Speaker 3: No, him.
00:30:19
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. But I'll tell you, Mum, you were the disciplinarian. Yeah, of course I did.
00:30:22
Speaker 4: I had to do everything.
00:30:23
Speaker 2: You broke a wooden spoon on my ass. I know.
00:30:26
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a belt mask, but I didn't wear belts. Unfortunately, it was a drawstring. I didn't want to pull the drawstring out because it wouldn't have hurt.
00:30:32
Speaker 2: Me and Jack could have beaten that up. Absolutely. David would have let us, though. Roll over. What are you talking about? That seemed worse.
00:30:41
Speaker 1: People who don't know us must be listening and going. I can imagine some people, let's say, for instance, in the Netherlands listening to this show and listening and.
00:30:52
Speaker 3: Going, jeez.
00:30:54
Speaker 1: That father seems like a real loser.
00:30:56
Speaker 2: Is the Netherlands in Germany? Is that why you put that accent on?
00:31:00
Speaker 4: No, it's Dutch.
00:31:02
Speaker 3: No, your geography group. No, I meant his accent. Oh, right.
00:31:06
Speaker 1: Yes, well, they talk with the dish like we're a gold member. That's a crazy Dutch bastard.
00:31:11
Speaker 2: Trish, you just spoke about how expensive childcare is. Now, I went to a florist during the week because I got poppy flowers because she hurt her ankle. Oh. She did a syndesmosis. She's got surgery when this is actually yesterday.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: Cooper, don't give the opposition anything.
00:31:24
Speaker 2: So I went and bought flowers, right, just to support her because that's what you do when you love someone. You guys will figure it out later when you meet someone. I went to a florist, cost of living. So I spoke to him.
00:31:37
Speaker 3: Oh, florist, man. No, no, no.
00:31:39
Speaker 2: It wasn't that expensive.
00:31:40
Speaker 4: Really?
00:31:40
Speaker 2: But I said to the guy, how's business been going? Worst mistake I ever made.
00:31:43
Speaker 4: Oh, no.
00:31:44
Speaker 2: He's dropped at the moment just due to cost of living 50%. In terms of sales at Florist, I said, why? People aren't decoring their homes anymore. That's the first thing to go. He said, the only two things that I get is for birthdays.
00:31:58
Speaker 4: And funerals.
00:31:59
Speaker 2: No, not funerals. Birthdays and just men who are in the doghouse who know I need to go buy flowers. People aren't putting floral arrangements around their house anymore. He said, they're the only two sales I get.
00:32:10
Speaker 4: But to be fair, they're so expensive. So expensive. Like even from the supermarket, the flowers are so expensive. Like that little bunch I got and I got them from the supermarket the other day and they're a nice bunch but they're still a supermarket bunch. They were $ 55.
00:32:24
Speaker 1: I went edible underpants are just outrageous. I wanted to get some edible knickers for you yesterday but outrageous.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Well, there are certain businesses that are.
00:32:35
Speaker 2: She's got allergy. peanut allergy there are.
00:32:40
Speaker 3: Certain businesses that are somewhat recession proof so.
00:32:43
Speaker 4: Yeah beer and lingerie i reckon.
00:32:45
Speaker 3: Spiro tors no glue my old um mate uh his father greek fella uh he used to tell me growing up just relentlessly used to say chicken shops chicken shops are chicken is recession proof because uh obviously the meats it's far more affordable than obviously your other meats, red meat and stuff like that. So chicken shops, recession-proof.
00:33:05
Speaker 4: There's a fact. And if you, rather than eating out as such, get a chicken, take it home, put some veggies with it, there's dinner.
00:33:10
Speaker 3: Exactly right.
00:33:11
Speaker 1: Alcohol, lingerie and gambling.
00:33:13
Speaker 4: Apparently.
00:33:14
Speaker 2: I've never bought lingerie.
00:33:16
Speaker 1: You haven't.
00:33:16
Speaker 4: I'm glad you haven't.
00:33:17
Speaker 2: They don't have it in my size.
00:33:18
Speaker 1: You haven't lived.
00:33:20
Speaker 3: What is it?
00:33:21
Speaker 2: There's chicken-proof because chickens, I think there's more chickens than humans on earth.
00:33:25
Speaker 3: Probably.
00:33:26
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure.
00:33:27
Speaker 4: Well, you think about each chicken, each egg. How many eggs?
00:33:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:33:32
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is a very sad day for chickens.
00:33:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, just their wings.
00:33:37
Speaker 1: I just get there and I think, how many chickens are there in the world given how many wings? How many Americans? How many wings are eaten on Super Bowl day?
00:33:45
Speaker 3: No, there's not. They aren't taken from individual chickens, Matthew. They actually– there are certain chickens you have to breed for the chicken wings in America. What? There are certain chickens that Costco has a– Actually, not Costco. There's another big company that do chickens and they have multiple wings so they can take more off.
00:34:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:01
Speaker 4: You just made that up.
00:34:03
Speaker 1: I was going to say.
00:34:04
Speaker 4: I'm like, what the hell?
00:34:06
Speaker 1: I find caged chickens tastier. You're an idiot.
00:34:10
Speaker 2: You're an idiot.
00:34:12
Speaker 1: I'm not joking, everyone. Free range all the way.
00:34:15
Speaker 2: Keep rocking the free world.
00:34:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stay away from junkies.
00:34:18
Speaker 4: Did you go horse riding? Can I see a picture of you horse riding, my friend?
00:34:21
Speaker 2: I did go horse riding the other day.
00:34:22
Speaker 4: Have I never taken you horse riding?
00:34:23
Speaker 2: That was my first time on a horse.
00:34:25
Speaker 3: Actually, I think. Sterlo. Yeah.
00:34:27
Speaker 4: I've got a photo.
00:34:28
Speaker 2: When I was young, we went to, was it Sterlo's Farm?
00:34:31
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:31
Speaker 2: He had a horse. So when I was young, I was on a horse at Sterlo's, but that was, then as an adult, I've never been horse riding. I went the other day. It's majestic. They're a good beast. Like they're a great animal.
00:34:41
Speaker 1: Mouth obsessed though. They are.
00:34:43
Speaker 4: Did you learn how to sit properly so that you don't hurt your sternum?
00:34:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went, hurt my sternum?
00:34:48
Speaker 4: Oh, no, your coccyx, rather, I should say.
00:34:50
Speaker 3: Not really.
00:34:51
Speaker 2: Just got to stay up, just go with the flow on it.
00:34:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, what you do is you just put most of your weight on your heels.
00:34:58
Speaker 2: It was very nice, though.
00:34:59
Speaker 4: One of the funniest days of my life was one weekend back in our night stays. And we had a Friday night game. So quite a few of us went up to Nelson Bays for the weekend and we went horse riding at someone's mum ran a horse riding thing.
00:35:16
Speaker 1: It was a bad day.
00:35:17
Speaker 4: Matt Jones.
00:35:20
Speaker 2: Horses would hate that.
00:35:21
Speaker 4: Like it's just, what do you call them when they're just in track?
00:35:23
Speaker 3: Parading.
00:35:24
Speaker 4: You know, they just follow one follows the other. Oh, yeah, pack horse. Yeah, pack horse. And so Matt's was quite naughty.
00:35:31
Speaker 1: Peppa. I'll never forget his name.
00:35:33
Speaker 3: You know why?
00:35:34
Speaker 4: Because he was falling off it, grabbing it around the neck and going, whoa, Peppa.
00:35:39
Speaker 1: Whoa, Peppa. It was running.
00:35:41
Speaker 4: It was unbelievable.
00:35:42
Speaker 1: We were in sand dunes. It was leaping off like dunes.
00:35:45
Speaker 4: He was probably trying to shake it. You're strangling the poor bugger.
00:35:48
Speaker 1: It was actually one of the most terrifying things of him in life. It just went rogue.
00:35:51
Speaker 2: Were you at the front? Was he at the front of the pack? No, he just broke away.
00:35:55
Speaker 1: It just broke away. Peppa went rogue.
00:35:58
Speaker 2: Why would they do– who else were you with?
00:36:01
Speaker 3: Oh, not the team.
00:36:01
Speaker 1: The mules and the crows.
00:36:03
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:36:03
Speaker 1: Where was Salt? Salt died. Salt died, unfortunately.
00:36:09
Speaker 2: Pepper killed him. Cholesterol problem. All right, let's go to our tips. It's grand final week this week. It's a very exciting week.
00:36:18
Speaker 4: Okay, well, currently the tips are sitting.
00:36:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are they? At? You got it.
00:36:25
Speaker 4: Well, Matt and I are out. We can't do. Jack, you're on. 126, got full points last weekend, and you're on 135.
00:36:33
Speaker 2: So I'm basically away then.
00:36:35
Speaker 4: No, not if Cooper and not if Jack's original. Yeah, he doesn't want it spoken about.
00:36:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Awesome. Thanks, guys.
00:36:45
Speaker 2: You're really smart, aren't you? It's very hard for us to say it without doing it when we've done this competition.
00:36:50
Speaker 3: Well, I had them at that period. I didn't think the Knights were going to get there. And it was a huge bet to do.
00:36:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:36:57
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:36:58
Speaker 2: But you can still– we're going to put our tips in now.
00:37:01
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:37:01
Speaker 4: I mean, we're not putting the tips in because– Only Jack is allowed to because he's the only one still in it.
00:37:06
Speaker 3: But we can still do it. Ours have all gone. Well, guess what, Trish? I backed the Knights this week.
00:37:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:37:10
Speaker 4: Well, yourself, but in our competition, if the Roosters win, you win that by one point.
00:37:16
Speaker 3: Thanks, Trish.
00:37:16
Speaker 2: That's all I want to say. The good thing for Jack is it's an each way.
00:37:19
Speaker 3: You said it last week.
00:37:20
Speaker 4: You're a winner either way.
00:37:21
Speaker 2: He did say it last week on the pod that if I get there, you're going to back the Knights anyway. Exactly, personally. So it's an each way bet for Jack. Can't lose. Dad, who are you tipping, obviously?
00:37:29
Speaker 1: Knights. Yeah.
00:37:31
Speaker 4: I really think they're going to win.
00:37:32
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going the Knights as well then. Jack, you're the Knights probably.
00:37:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got the Knights by one point, golden point, and I'm backing in one of my best mates, Matty Croker, to get the Clive Churchill medal.
00:37:42
Speaker 4: Oh, wouldn't that be lovely?
00:37:43
Speaker 3: He deserves it.
00:37:44
Speaker 1: Wouldn't Karma, wouldn't you just believe in Karma if that happened?
00:37:46
Speaker 4: That would be beautiful.
00:37:48
Speaker 2: That was my horse's name. I rode Karma.
00:37:50
Speaker 3: Swear on my life.
00:37:51
Speaker 1: Mine was called Pepper.
00:37:52
Speaker 4: I know.
00:37:52
Speaker 2: You said that four times. But mine was generally called Karma.
00:37:55
Speaker 3: We'll clip this up next week if it happens, all right? Karma.
00:37:58
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker 3: Karma Sutra.
00:37:59
Speaker 2: Mum, you're the Knights as well. So shorter episode today, just because we're releasing so much content this week. I've got to head to- Another one tomorrow. When we're recording this, I've got to go to the Dalliams. Oh.
00:38:08
Speaker 3: Oh, no.
00:38:09
Speaker 2: So that'll be all right. But anyway.
00:38:11
Speaker 4: It's at an interesting place, the cutaway at Barangaroo. It's like cut into the cliff.
00:38:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
00:38:17
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
00:38:18
Speaker 2: It's usually at Randwick Racecourse, which is good because there's good parking around there.
00:38:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:38:22
Speaker 2: So I can get in and get out.
00:38:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:38:23
Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm going to park to get there. It's annoying.
00:38:25
Speaker 1: Barangaroo?
00:38:26
Speaker 2: And I don't like suiting up.
00:38:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate it.
00:38:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, ties.
00:38:29
Speaker 4: But you look so handsome.
00:38:31
Speaker 2: Thanks, Mama. Anyone else got anything?
00:38:34
Speaker 1: I'm good, guys. Enjoy the grand final. It's going to be an incredible day.
00:38:39
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend.
00:38:40
Speaker 4: Be safe, be sensible, be kind to each other.
00:38:42
Speaker 2: And be aware, we've got the Johns Brothers return. Networks have allowed it tomorrow morning.
00:38:49
Speaker 3: What time, Jake? It'll be out very early, very early tomorrow.
00:38:52
Speaker 2: Early morning.
00:38:53
Speaker 3: So get up.
00:38:54
Speaker 2: Don't drink Friday. Get up early and watch it. Get ready for the game.
00:38:57
Speaker 4: Have a good weekend. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm being wheeled out to the ambulance in a trolley right now. At this point, you would expect that basically you get some sort of sympathy from the family. Instead, right here on the Cooper and Matty Johns podcast, right here, right now.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another week of the Johns Family podcast. What a week it's been. Trish, you've been away. This is actually the first time we've seen you. You're literally just coming through the door.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: That's why Luigi got a special note to come in. He was allowed in.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was the only reason he's allowed in. But if he messes around, he's going to get a good old-fashioned whooping.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Discipline.
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Speaker 1: How was your flight?
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: Who did you fly with?
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Speaker 3: Virgin.
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Speaker 1: No, it's who did you fly with?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: No, who did you fly with? It's just a joke.
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Speaker 2: What joke is it?
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Speaker 1: No, I said who did you fly with? Oh, right.
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Speaker 4: That's not funny. But you know what? On the way up, someone famous is sitting in front of me.
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Speaker 3: Who? Can I guess?
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Speaker 1: Give us clues.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Like movie?
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Speaker 1: Movie.
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Speaker 4: Movie star?
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Speaker 1: Tom Cruise.
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Speaker 3: Oh, it has to be a Hemsworth? No.
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Speaker 4: It's a female?
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Speaker 3: Australian?
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Speaker 4: Australian.
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Speaker 2: Margot Robbie?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Miranda Otter?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: Dr. Zaius?
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Speaker 4: No. She probably does more work internationally than here.
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Speaker 2: Is she a model?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: Would you say actress?
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Speaker 4: Just an actress. Pure actress. Has always been an actress.
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Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Rebel Wilson?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Rick.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Geez. Is there a movie any of us have watched in the last 10 years?
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Speaker 4: The Sixth Sense.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Toni Collette?
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Speaker 4: Yes. Muriel's Wedding. I was going to say Muriel's Wedding, but then that would be a dead giveaway.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen it.
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Speaker 1: I saw her when we lived in Chorley in the north of England. She was shooting a video there. She's walking one way, I'm walking the other, and I go, I think, that's Toni Collette. But at the time, I don't, I'm going, what's her name? What's her name? What's her name? She gets 50 metres down the road and I went, oh, that's it. I went, Colleen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Colleen. Colleen.
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Speaker 2: Did you speak to her?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: No, no, she was there with what might have been her daughter, I think.
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Speaker 1: Oh, she was in some big movies there for a while.
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Speaker 3: Oh, huge.
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Speaker 4: She's a big, she's a big and very understated, breezed in. It was only that she was literally sitting in front of me and the gap in the seat. I went, that's a recognisable.
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Speaker 1: Flying economy.
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Speaker 4: No, she was flying business and I was the seat behind.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you weren't in business.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it funny? When we fly, I'm always economy, but when you go.
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Speaker 4: No, I wasn't business. She was business. In domestic, there's only like two rows of business.
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Speaker 2: Is there even a point of having business when you're flying domestic?
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Speaker 4: Well, if you get a free upgrade with your bonus things and bots.
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Speaker 2: Is that the first famous person you've ever sat next to? I didn't sit next to her. Sorry, is that near? Because, Dad, you sat next to Leo Sayer.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, well, I was on the other side.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand, but I was just wondering if there's any other famous people of note.
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Speaker 5: I think the closest I've got to famous, famous, I mean, I saw Billy Joel in a hotel.
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Speaker 1: Jessica Simpson went past us on a flight.
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Speaker 4: Remember?
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Speaker 1: Because I had the earphones. I went, Trish, look at that.
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Speaker 4: It's Britney Spears.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I had the ear things in. I turned around and she was staring at me. I don't know. I turned around and it was Jessica Simpson.
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Speaker 4: I think Liam Gallagher is probably top notch.
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Speaker 2: Not on a plane.
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Speaker 4: No, just meeting in general.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: On planes, yeah, interesting. It'd be great. There's Mark Richards, yeah, the four-time surfing world champion, MR, one of the great Novacastrians. He was on a flight once and an American guy came up and goes, hey, you know, I really like you and blah, blah, blah. He says, if there's an opportunity, if this person would change seats, would you mind if I sat next to you on the flight? And MR went, oh, yeah, okay. And he said, talking about surfing and everything. And MR said, oh. About halfway through the flight, mate, sorry, I didn't ask your name. He said, Eddie Vedder.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No way. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And when he heard the name, did he know who he was?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: He just didn't know the face.
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Speaker 4: He didn't recognise him.
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Speaker 2: I feel like there's a lot of people that you'd know the name, but if you walk past them on the street, you wouldn't know the face.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Billy Peden said he saw Emma, he was surfing out of Dudley one day with Eddie Vedder. Eddie Vedder was out there. Eddie Vedder, when he comes over, he gets Emma out of the concert's. And at one gig went, everyone, I'm dedicating this to this man. He was a hero growing up. Paul's MR up on stage was seeing his better man. Really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's nice.
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Speaker 2: That is nice.
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Speaker 1: He's a gentleman, Mark Richards.
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Speaker 3: He is.
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Speaker 4: And his beautiful wife, Jen.
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Speaker 2: We've all spoke about nights being in a grand final all week. Now, we haven't seen you. We've just like– Haven't I heard about it? But are you– as a Nova Castrian, because you were born there. I know you're Italian.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I'm more Newcastle than that. Like I was actually born in Newcastle.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, she was.
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Speaker 4: Like down the road from the workers' club.
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Speaker 2: Like you're literally– like you're more Nova Castrian than anyone in this house then. That's true.
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Speaker 4: It's true.
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Speaker 2: Well, what's your reactions? Are you going to cry about it?
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Speaker 4: No, big sucker bubbers.
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Speaker 2: No, it's good emotion though.
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Speaker 4: I know, but that's just about, you know, it's nice. I'm just so excited that everyone's so excited.
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Speaker 3: There's more estrogen pumping through them at the moment than yourself.
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Speaker 4: I know. Well, I'm not allowed to have any.
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Speaker 1: She's not allowed to. After you had chemo, thanks for that joke.
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Speaker 4: After my cancer, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You're setting a real sombre bar today, Matthew. That joke out at the start, it was shit. Yeah, virgin.
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Speaker 4: But everyone, everyone, everywhere I went, Was going, oh, your bloody husband had me in tears. And I went, oh, you're such a sucker.
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Speaker 2: You know what? So, like, it's funny, right, because. Like we can take the piss out of him because we see him like– we see him every day and like he might get upset about the most weird– like he's watching a dog on YouTube and he starts crying. So we see it like our whole life.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 2: And then you hear– like people who have never seen dad cry, they see him on TV and they go, your dad had a– like the amount of messages.
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Speaker 4: But they're all crying.
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Speaker 2: They're all– everyone's crying with him.
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Speaker 3: I love that.
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Speaker 2: And I'm going, if you live– Don't. He's not crying now.
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Speaker 1: I'm not crying. I'm laughing.
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Speaker 2: I think he's laughing.
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Speaker 4: I was like, Jesus.
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Speaker 2: But it's funny because– All these people, all my friends, like other teammates, are like, how emotional is it? How cool is it to see? And it's like if you lived with him. If only you lived with him and seen this your whole life, you would be taking the piss out of him too.
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Speaker 4: But he never used to be like that.
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Speaker 2: Never used to cry.
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Speaker 4: He never used to be like that. It's only been in the last, what? What would you say, Matt?
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Speaker 2: Five years?
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Speaker 4: Five, six years.
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Speaker 2: I feel like it does get.
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Speaker 4: Remember when he started crying in the lounge up there? Yeah, since we've been in this house.
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Speaker 2: It's as you get older. It's just an age thing.
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Speaker 1: You see the end coming. Oh, stop being– oh, my God. No, you see tragedy in everything.
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Speaker 4: No, you should be more excited because you're still around.
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Speaker 3: Oxytocin is one of the hormones that increases as you get older, known for empathy and the bonding hormone. There you go.
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Speaker 4: Oxytocin?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 4: Isn't it also the one that brings on– It's also there for laughter.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Are you thinking the painkillers, Oxycontin?
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Speaker 4: No, there's something else they give you to bring on labour.
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Speaker 2: Oxycodone.
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Speaker 4: No, it's not Oxycodone.
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Speaker 2: We could speculate about it for hours.
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Speaker 1: I've been getting messages through from people. I don't know, like text messages through. I'm not one of these real, how can I say, these modern terms that people sort of throw around a little bit. I just put it this, you got it. I keep going, people are going, Maddy, you said you were embarrassed. Do not be embarrassed. It takes a great man to show his vulnerability. The word vulnerability is, It's been thrown at me I reckon about a thousand times in the last week or so.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's good. It's actually a really good message. Message, yeah. Everyone should be allowed to show their emotions.
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Speaker 1: What's the message?
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Speaker 2: No, it's good to see that you're not just bottling down how you felt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You put that out there.
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Speaker 3: Show your emotions.
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Speaker 2: For everyone in Australia to see for years to come.
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Speaker 3: Let it manifest.
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Speaker 2: You know what I hope, right? What I hope happens to Dad.
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Speaker 3: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Hope he dies.
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 1: Can you stop again? I don't need this experience. We'll get there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 2: So what I hope happens, right, because everyone looks at this– everyone this week, Dad, you and Joey's emotion, the tears and stuff, everyone's looking at it and they're going, how good is this? But, like, in six years' time, what happens with social media, the images of you crying will be there forever. So, like, for example– If Cale and Ponga signs with a different club in five years or something.
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Speaker 1: They'll use it.
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Speaker 2: They're going to use you as a meme. John's brother's distraught. Just anything. Like a beer gets discontinued.
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Speaker 3: Boom.
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Speaker 2: John's brother's distraught. I hope you turn into a meme, and I hope our listeners are the ones that drive that. Because there's one with Michael Jordan crying, and that has been memed for years. They were just like– I think it was.
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Speaker 3: When he got his presidential award from Obama.
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Speaker 2: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: So what you're preparing me for basically till the day I die, that thing will just pop up.
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Speaker 2: Correct. Let's just, because we just talked about Joey, just before we get to your near-death experience, because it was very traumatising, we have an exciting episode coming out tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: It's a special episode.
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Speaker 4: A special episode. And that's a special grand final.
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Speaker 2: Grand final episode. I mean, the Knights are in, so we thought, what better than a Saturday morning drop? We've got Joey in studio alongside... All of us, and more importantly, Matthew.
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Speaker 4: Not me.
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Speaker 2: No, no, sorry, not true.
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Speaker 4: I was excluded.
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Speaker 3: You were excluded.
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Speaker 2: Well, you didn't want to be in there.
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Speaker 1: You and Joe don't get on.
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Speaker 4: I noticed he barely said hello to me when I walked in.
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Speaker 3: He's a weirdo.
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Speaker 2: Don't just bag him. We just got him on the potty.
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Speaker 1: He's weird. We've got his flesh. It's fine. You can bag him now.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 2: But it's a big episode. Just like talking all things Newcastle, the Knights, what it means to them, the 97 Grand Finals. So all of our Knights fans, just rugby league fans who came for the NRL Grand Finals, You've got that to listen and watch over the weekend.
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Speaker 3: That is.
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Speaker 2: So it's a great episode. And I think it was needed in Rugby League because obviously you're with two different networks, but networks have allowed it to happen, Nine and Fox, so we thank them for that.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Thank you to Channel Nine. Thank you to Fox Sports for allowing us to do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. Dad, your near-death experience. You've alluded to it on a few different podcasts and stuff this week, but we wanted to wait for Trish to be in here because she was your right-hand woman the whole time. What happened?
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Speaker 4: Hold my hand up.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a second, what happened there. Okay. So every now and then, inadvertently, I get this pain, like a rib cartilage, right? It sits in the ribs around the back near the scapula. So I go into NRL 360 on the Thursday night, right? Anyway, I'm walking along and Cooper Cronk and Luke Keery are going, mate, what's going on? I said, I don't know, boys. I've got this rib cart. They're taking the piss out of me like you blokes would. And they go, oh, mate. And I'm going, yeah. Anyway, as I'm sitting on the– doing the show, I'm going, man, this thing is getting tighter. Anyway, we come home. I came to bed. Me and Trish put a movie on, The Invite, which was excellent.
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Speaker 3: We watched it.
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Speaker 1: Which was excellent, by the way. Very, very good.
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Speaker 4: Like he was moaning and groaning.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there, and every time I moved, I'm like, oh, my shuddering pain.
00:10:52
Speaker 4: Don't sneeze into the mic.
00:10:54
Speaker 1: I was getting emotional.
00:10:54
Speaker 2: I thought he was having a heart attack. I thought he was about to cry. I didn't know it was the world's biggest sneeze coming on.
00:11:00
Speaker 4: Did you know? Oh, yeah.
00:11:01
Speaker 1: So I get there, and it's tightening. And suddenly, like, it's going into spasm. And it's like once every minute, I'm having a 10-second spasm. Then every 30 seconds, then it was just constant. So I said to Trish, I'm thinking, am I going to get it? Got to go to the hospital? Mate, I said to Trish.
00:11:18
Speaker 4: I think you're going to have to drive me to hospital.
00:11:19
Speaker 1: I said, Trish, you've got to call an ambulance.
00:11:22
Speaker 4: I think I have to go to an ambulance.
00:11:22
Speaker 1: And, mate, luckily we did. And so I'm going down, and what's happening is this pain, wherever I've come from, it's hitting me in the heart, and my heart's only beaten out of my chest. So the AMBOs who come in, who are fantastic, man, they were good, they put us on the ECG. He goes, okay, you've got an elevated heart rate, but we don't think. You know, you're going into cardiac arrest. Oh, good, yeah. So, people, I'm being wheeled out to the ambulance in a trolley, right? Now, at this point, you would expect that basically you get some sort of sympathy from the family.
00:11:56
Speaker 3: You had plenty of sympathy from me. You had plenty.
00:11:59
Speaker 1: Instead, what I have, I have oldest son mimicking basically Warren from There's Something About Mary in that scene going, he's been masturbating, he's been masturbating as I'm being put in the back of the ambulance.
00:12:12
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:12:12
Speaker 1: So we're going along the airfield.
00:12:14
Speaker 3: That's one of the great scenes too, just watching you on the trolley sitting there like literally like you've been carried to a footy field.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: My favourite thing was apparently it was traumatic and Dad was loud. It wasn't loud enough to wake me up.
00:12:27
Speaker 4: No, even though we were outside your bedroom door.
00:12:30
Speaker 3: Outside Cooper's room.
00:12:31
Speaker 4: To Bill End's office.
00:12:31
Speaker 2: I woke up in the morning, 6am, and I needed to sleep because I'd had a big day.
00:12:35
Speaker 3: Sorry to hear that.
00:12:36
Speaker 2: And I'd had a text, Jack, midnight. Dad's been taken to hospital. And I was like, what?
00:12:41
Speaker 3: 2am. 2am.
00:12:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're doing tests on him. He's been taken to hospital. I've come in.
00:12:45
Speaker 1: What the hell's happened?
00:12:46
Speaker 2: They go, did you seriously just sleep through all of that? He was out there like screaming.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: He's going, ah.
00:12:52
Speaker 2: And the ambulances were checking him outside your bedroom door.
00:12:54
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm in the back of the ambulance and they're just pounding me full of fentanyl and morphine. It's hardly hitting the sides. And they go, mate, we're going to give you more. So I'm sitting there. Then the guy goes, okay, we're going to test your heart one more time. And the guy, when he does it, goes, Okay, okay, okay, put the siren on.
00:13:14
Speaker 4: And I'm following in the car and I notice them put the siren on.
00:13:17
Speaker 2: What are they putting on? Oh, so you just followed in behind and then are you like– I.
00:13:22
Speaker 4: Was like, why are they putting the siren on?
00:13:24
Speaker 1: And they start running through red lights. Yeah.
00:13:26
Speaker 2: And what were you thinking?
00:13:26
Speaker 4: I was thinking– He's dead.
00:13:28
Speaker 5: No, I didn't think he's dead. I'm like, what's going on? Why are they doing that? Because it was like quarter to 12 at night.
00:13:34
Speaker 1: So then what happened, my heart started to get really irregular and I thought maybe I am. So when they got the sirens going, I looked at the guy and I went, Am I dying? And he goes, no, no, no, you're not. Just breathe. Just breathe. Which is probably a thing you don't want to hear.
00:13:50
Speaker 4: Well, if you're breathing, you're alive, mate.
00:13:53
Speaker 2: You know what's crazy?
00:13:53
Speaker 4: Stop sneezing.
00:13:54
Speaker 2: No, let him sneeze. Sneeze cam, put it on him.
00:13:58
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I'm so sorry.
00:14:00
Speaker 4: Don't cover your mouth.
00:14:01
Speaker 2: So athletes, people who have been athletes and stuff, they naturally have an irregular heartbeat. So I remember because Harry Grant was in hospital and we were in there waiting to get discharged. And they checked his heart and it was irregular. And the same thing, they took him to the emergency thing. He was fine. But team doctor had to ring the hospital and say, nah, because we do ECG. As an athlete, you do ECG at the start of every year. And it's heaps of them because of, it must be a fitness thing. You get a regular heartbeat.
00:14:27
Speaker 1: Well, it's good to hear that your boyfriend's okay. Now back to your dad.
00:14:31
Speaker 3: I thought you said he was a new one. I think DCE might be his this weekend.
00:14:35
Speaker 1: That's true.
00:14:36
Speaker 2: I'm a nightmare this week.
00:14:38
Speaker 1: So basically Trish is next to me. They knock me out.
00:14:41
Speaker 2: I don't know.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: I'm being dragged from scan to scan and different things. Anyway, I sort of come through about 5.30 in the morning. Trish is laying next to me. And Trish puts a hand on mine. I put my hand on her and I say, Trish, I just thank you so much for being here. And she said, Matt, you know how much I love my sleep.
00:15:08
Speaker 2: Is that true?
00:15:09
Speaker 3: Why?
00:15:09
Speaker 2: What made your head think that?
00:15:11
Speaker 4: Because by this time it was, like, 2 o'clock. My eyes were hanging out of my head. Like, I go to bed at 7 o'clock.
00:15:17
Speaker 1: It's true.
00:15:18
Speaker 4: And then, like, I was in there all night with him. Sorry for having a heart attack. And, like, my neck is still sore from sitting upright in the seat.
00:15:25
Speaker 1: Sorry for having a heart attack.
00:15:26
Speaker 4: You didn't have a heart attack.
00:15:27
Speaker 2: The best thing is, right, Dad loves sympathy. Dad is someone who laps up in sympathy, feels sorry for me. He loves it. I reckon there was a part of him that when he was getting results back, he didn't want it to be a heart attack, but he wanted it to be something enough when he's telling this story to people, they go, whoa, that's crazy because I've heard him, Jack. We went for a walk the other day. He told everyone on the way back from the walk, but ultimately he tells this long story like he's just told the people on the podcast, but it ends up with no result. They don't really know what it was. They just think he had a bit of a shoulder problem.
00:15:57
Speaker 1: Well, they don't. They don't know what it was.
00:15:59
Speaker 4: Well, I have a diagnosis. I think that it's… There.
00:16:03
Speaker 1: You are.
00:16:04
Speaker 4: Choriocondritis. It's the inflammation of the intercostal muscles.
00:16:09
Speaker 3: The way you tried to give context to the whole story, though.
00:16:12
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:16:14
Speaker 3: Be honest.
00:16:15
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:16:15
Speaker 3: Be honest. Were you a little bit disappointed that it wasn't a serious issue?
00:16:21
Speaker 4: I think he probably was a little bit disappointed that there just wasn't an outcome.
00:16:26
Speaker 1: Guys, I can take control of this.
00:16:29
Speaker 3: Can I just say for context before you go into that, that very much so– And when I say we're so shocked that Cooper wasn't awoken, he literally, Matthew was making sounds I've never heard come from him before.
00:16:42
Speaker 4: From a human.
00:16:43
Speaker 3: As if he'd been stabbed through his whole body.
00:16:46
Speaker 1: That's what it felt like. But it was.
00:16:47
Speaker 4: It was like electric shocks for you, wasn't it? Because it was going from your back around into your heart and sternum into your back and vice versa.
00:16:54
Speaker 1: Well, the ambo, she said, Maddie, what's the pain? What is it? And I went, oh, it's a 10. And Trish goes. So it's hurting? Yeah. It's a 10. It's a 10. Oh, poor thing. Okay, was I hoping there was something? Oh, I'd just love to be able to hang my– Get out of work. Just something, you know, just, you know, a rare disease.
00:17:20
Speaker 4: Do you think the trauma– Oh, don't say that.
00:17:22
Speaker 1: Not one that was life-threatening. Touch wood. Touch it.
00:17:26
Speaker 2: Do you think like– because that was the day– you didn't actually talk about this on your show. You kept it kind of private. We're sort of only really pulling the curtain back now because you are okay.
00:17:35
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:17:36
Speaker 2: But do you think that had anything to do with you being emotional after the night's win as well?
00:17:41
Speaker 4: See, this is what I was going to say. When people have heart attacks or heart surgery, I'm not sure which one it is, apparently– they become very emotional after it.
00:17:53
Speaker 1: It might have been a heart attack. Who knows?
00:17:55
Speaker 4: Well, no, they did every scan and check.
00:17:56
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, very true actually, yeah. When you have a traumatic experience like that, it's supposed to bring out the emotions. Can we talk about how the Ambos were very.
00:18:07
Speaker 1: Very good?
00:18:07
Speaker 4: They were awesome. They were really nice.
00:18:10
Speaker 3: A male and a female. And basically as the guy was like putting you on the trolley and then you're getting shipped into the ambulance, You were like, it's like something about Mary, huh? And I said something along the lines of, yeah, you got your cock stuck in a zipper again? Yeah. And the ambulance guy started bursting out laughing. So he obviously knew the reference.
00:18:29
Speaker 2: Yes. That's brilliant.
00:18:31
Speaker 1: It was good, Jack, because he was a serious dude.
00:18:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
00:18:36
Speaker 1: He was good when he dropped because he stayed an extra hour.
00:18:38
Speaker 4: Oh, they both stayed. because they were coming out to see me in the wedding room.
00:18:41
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the scenario Jack needs to find himself to be funny is like life-threatening situations. That's where Jack becomes his most funny.
00:18:48
Speaker 3: That might be my niche.
00:18:50
Speaker 1: For instance, let me pretend now, Jack, that I'm having a heart attack and dying and say the first thing that comes into your mind, ah, ah, Jack.
00:19:01
Speaker 3: No, I'm happy to let this go.
00:19:03
Speaker 1: Actually, that's funny.
00:19:04
Speaker 2: That actually was pretty funny. It hasn't been an easy week for all of us in this house as well because obviously hospitals have been a recurring theme. I want to send my love to my sweet partner, Poppy. She was the victim of a hip drop this week in her AFL. She has surgery. When we're recording this, she would have had surgery yesterday. So our thoughts and prayers are with Poppy.
00:19:27
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
00:19:29
Speaker 2: Another hip drop that's brought an iconic Australian athlete undone this week.
00:19:32
Speaker 1: It was interesting. When I returned from my potential heart attack, I got no sympathy whatsoever. But then I came back a night later and you were distraught. And I said, mate, what's happened? I thought maybe the pennies really dropped at the man who brought me into the world, which is going to pass. And he goes, no, I hit poppies. Mate, poppies hurt a ring. And I was like, okay. But my heart's okay, Coop.
00:19:54
Speaker 2: I actually understand what it's like now for what you guys, like if you guys had watched Jack and I get hurt in a game, particularly when Jack got his shoulder done, or if you see one of us get knocked out.
00:20:05
Speaker 4: Because you were particularly unsympathetic at that.
00:20:07
Speaker 2: No, but that's. Because you never got injured. I never got it. I was so resilient. And I was so diligent with my prehab and rehab. But to see, like, someone that you love so dearly get hurt and then I wasn't getting emotional then. I had a hiccup. Get hurt and then, like, there's nothing you can do about it. It was actually quite hard for me. And I've seen Jack get hurt. I've seen, you know, Dad fake a heart attack. I've seen you be hurt as well, Trish.
00:20:33
Speaker 1: On the ankle.
00:20:36
Speaker 2: You had that rolled ankle in Vegas that time.
00:20:37
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
00:20:38
Speaker 2: Was that syndesmosis as well?
00:20:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, and all the ligaments.
00:20:41
Speaker 3: I stuffed everything. That wasn't bad at the time. That was just more punishing for the months afterwards. Yeah, it was.
00:20:46
Speaker 2: The funny thing is Poppy's Rehab, they said, you know, it's season ending for there because they've got a short season in the AFLW. They say that's, you know, whatever, like six to eight weeks. Trish, I think yours hung around for what, months?
00:20:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it did because it was misdiagnosed originally. So I was at six weeks before one of my girlfriends said, Trisha, I really want you to go and see a specialist. I went, oh, okay.
00:21:05
Speaker 5: So by the time I got into him, I was like, you know, seven weeks post-injury.
00:21:11
Speaker 4: And then he looked at me and he laughed. He goes, yeah, you need surgery on that. He said, that's never going to heal. I went, oh.
00:21:17
Speaker 3: And it didn't help that I recall there was a lot of drinking afterwards during your recovery. Yes. Was there? Yes, there was. Yes, there was.
00:21:24
Speaker 2: You went to the games.
00:21:25
Speaker 3: I mean, you had fights like multiple times. Fights? Because your ankle is below your heart, Trish. So when you're walking around on it, particularly after a few drinks when your blood thins, it just swells up and it just doesn't recover.
00:21:38
Speaker 1: I told her the day when she went to Vegas.
00:21:40
Speaker 4: Mate, you told me to go to the game. I wasn't even going.
00:21:42
Speaker 1: Just hold on. Just hold on just there a second.
00:21:44
Speaker 4: I just wanted to lay there.
00:21:45
Speaker 1: So Britt Fletcher, Fletcher's dear wife.
00:21:50
Speaker 4: And Amy.
00:21:51
Speaker 1: And Amy. They've got there, and I've said to Trish, last instructions, don't drink, otherwise it's going to swell like a balloon. No problem. All good. I'm on the field at Allegiant Stadium. We're about to start the whole broadcast with an American crew And they go, righto, guys, you're on 30 seconds. Yep, no worries. Ready, 20, 15, 10, 9. And I look behind the goalposts at this bar area. It's a bunker sort of thing. And there's Trish holding like a schooner, having a beer and just knocking it back. She's got her foot in the air. Trish was in the inner old bunker.
00:22:26
Speaker 3: She was actually making decisions.
00:22:27
Speaker 4: Now, I actually had to because I'll tell you why.
00:22:30
Speaker 3: Why?
00:22:31
Speaker 4: It was very difficult to find that special area.
00:22:33
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:22:34
Speaker 4: So– There was Britt, myself and.
00:22:38
Speaker 3: Amy.
00:22:38
Speaker 4: No, I think it was. No, Amy came from Valens. No, it was Gemma.
00:22:43
Speaker 1: Gemma Elwood.
00:22:44
Speaker 4: Talis.
00:22:44
Speaker 3: Talis.
00:22:45
Speaker 4: And we could not find how to get in. So I'm hobbling around on it. And in the end I went, girls, I was about to vomit. I felt like I was about to pass out because I was in so much pain. I said, girls, you're going to have to go and find where it is. And then they came back with a wheelchair for me.
00:22:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:23:00
Speaker 4: And I put my foot up. Elevated it up on a bed.
00:23:03
Speaker 2: I don't think that was what was wrong with the wheelchair sort of thing. We understand that. It was more him like you never gave an excuse for drinking. When did that start?
00:23:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was in such pain by that stage.
00:23:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
00:23:13
Speaker 4: I'll follow the story, boys.
00:23:14
Speaker 3: Naturally.
00:23:15
Speaker 1: Sort of heart attack that was.
00:23:16
Speaker 4: And I walked in and everyone saw the colour of me and they were like, yo, we'll get you something.
00:23:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, you look like Barney, the giant dinosaur.
00:23:24
Speaker 2: Fake tan. Trisha, you've just been up in the Gold Coast all week.
00:23:27
Speaker 3: Yes.
00:23:28
Speaker 2: Like we just said.
00:23:29
Speaker 5: I was up there for the NRLW final. And I really appreciate Gaz's comments the other day.
00:23:34
Speaker 4: He saw it. Those Broncos players were laying all over the ruck.
00:23:38
Speaker 1: They were.
00:23:39
Speaker 2: Gaz knows about laying in the ruck.
00:23:40
Speaker 4: Everyone said that, yeah.
00:23:41
Speaker 2: But you were also at the Titans award night?
00:23:44
Speaker 4: I did, yeah.
00:23:44
Speaker 3: How was that?
00:23:45
Speaker 4: It was actually awesome. Like I'm not an awards person. It was a great night, really super.
00:23:50
Speaker 2: Who was up there?
00:23:51
Speaker 4: Everyone. What do you mean?
00:23:53
Speaker 2: Was there anyone of note?
00:23:53
Speaker 3: No.
00:23:54
Speaker 2: John Howard?
00:23:55
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld was there.
00:23:57
Speaker 4: No, no, no.
00:23:57
Speaker 5: All the players and the NRL players and the NRLW players and the netball players were there.
00:24:03
Speaker 4: It was awesome. It was just a great night. And special shout-out to Sienna who broke her jaw and had three plates. This was on Sunday.
00:24:10
Speaker 5: Had three plates put in. Got herself out of hospital and turned up to the awards night. Everyone was in shock.
00:24:17
Speaker 4: She was a lot of pain in the game. And she was co-winner of NRLW Player of the Year.
00:24:22
Speaker 2: Alongside Tegan Levi?
00:24:23
Speaker 4: Tegan Levi, yeah.
00:24:24
Speaker 1: Was she drinking?
00:24:25
Speaker 3: No.
00:24:26
Speaker 5: The poor darling, her face was so swollen out and she just had her hair all over the side.
00:24:31
Speaker 4: Those girls are, and what Murph does with them, they're just the greatest. You just want to hang around with them. They're just the greatest group of girls.
00:24:39
Speaker 2: Did you go on their Mad Monday?
00:24:40
Speaker 4: No, I wanted to though.
00:24:41
Speaker 2: Did you go in the sheds after the game?
00:24:43
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:24:44
Speaker 2: And what were they like?
00:24:45
Speaker 4: They were very flat. They were really upset, yeah. They were disappointed.
00:24:50
Speaker 1: It was disappointing. It was disappointing. It would have been great to have seen them in the grand finals.
00:24:54
Speaker 4: Oh, it really would have.
00:24:55
Speaker 1: It would have been.
00:24:55
Speaker 4: They deserved it. They would have, you know.
00:24:57
Speaker 1: They played great. Oh, great through the year.
00:24:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:25:00
Speaker 2: Did you meet any of the boys up there at the awards night? Was it the girls and the boys?
00:25:03
Speaker 4: There was like 700 people there. Yeah, everyone was there. I saw Tino. He had his little daughter, Gia. He won the– Player.
00:25:11
Speaker 1: Of the Year.
00:25:12
Speaker 4: Player of the Year. And, yeah, now everyone. Oh, I saw Sats now. I was just talking about old injuries. Sats.
00:25:20
Speaker 1: Just link inclusiveness here. Yep.
00:25:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's on crutches. I was like, Sats, what you doing? He goes, oh, just arthritis in my ankle from an old injury. He said sometimes it just flares up for no reason at all and he couldn't even put any weight on it.
00:25:32
Speaker 3: See, that injury is more– you get more sympathy for that, Matthew, than what yours was.
00:25:37
Speaker 1: It's not a hard thing.
00:25:38
Speaker 4: Because crutches. Cooper learnt that many years ago.
00:25:41
Speaker 1: What?
00:25:42
Speaker 4: You need– You need to see that there is an injury. You need crutches, you need bandage, you need a brace.
00:25:48
Speaker 3: Visible.
00:25:48
Speaker 4: Cooper was like, if something was wrong, he went, oh, can you strap that up for me? I was like, oh, it doesn't, oh, no, can you please strap it up? I was like, okay.
00:25:54
Speaker 2: See, the reason I did that.
00:25:55
Speaker 1: I respect mummies.
00:25:56
Speaker 2: And it's because the reason I do that is because, like you said, there's no use, and I mainly did that in school because I needed to tell the teachers. If I had a bung ankle, if you tell your PE teacher, I can't play basketball at recess because, I've got this ankle. They assume you're lying. They assume the worst in kids. And you do that so people know. I mean, there were some times I had just a sore shoulder. I'd wear a sling out just for sympathy. A lot of things like that.
00:26:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would.
00:26:23
Speaker 2: I also wore a Michael Jackson glove for like the whole of kindergarten. You remember that? It was a golf glove.
00:26:27
Speaker 5: And then remember when I went to see MJ the musical and I bought you a proper Diamante one and you went, what's that?
00:26:33
Speaker 4: I said, I bought you the glove. No appreciations.
00:26:36
Speaker 1: Oh, right.
00:26:37
Speaker 3: Nice. One away when you didn't wear that.
00:26:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
00:26:40
Speaker 2: It had diamonds on it.
00:26:41
Speaker 4: And can you also mention.
00:26:42
Speaker 1: Bad time for Michael Jackson. I'd say that's part of the reason you didn't wear it.
00:26:48
Speaker 4: That just drifted off, didn't it, mate?
00:26:49
Speaker 2: Spit that out.
00:26:50
Speaker 5: And Evania Isako in our NRLW team.
00:26:55
Speaker 4: Now, she's played the year after having a baby. Little lady.
00:26:59
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
00:27:00
Speaker 4: Incredible. But what I look at, the whole.
00:27:07
Speaker 5: Club, the boys, the girls, everyone, the whole, everyone, everyone in every department just embrace it all and make it work.
00:27:14
Speaker 4: And it's so awesome. Like little Eddie is at all the games, travels with them, everything.
00:27:19
Speaker 2: The baby.
00:27:20
Speaker 4: It's amazing. And that's a credit to Murph. Like she was the one that said, let's see if we can do it. And if we can do it, let's do it.
00:27:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's something I've always appreciated. She's awesome, Karen Murphy. I've never been a fan of like coaches from juniors all the way to high leveled. that don't like it when kids come to training. Spot on. I understand that you've got a job to do and you need the players' attention and stuff like that, but sometimes people just don't have a choice. Spot on. So you might as well just lean into the fact that, embrace it for what it is, and just get on with it. Everyone's got different situations. Have you seen what childcare costs these days?
00:27:56
Speaker 4: So expensive. When you boys went, it was like $ 50 a day.
00:28:00
Speaker 1: Well, that's $ 50.
00:28:01
Speaker 4: Last time I spoke to someone, I was freaking out. It was $ 100. Now it's more like $ 150 now a day per child.
00:28:09
Speaker 1: What Jack's saying, like the kids, when you get the kids in the environment of the team, they add to the team. They do. Everyone knits tighter.
00:28:17
Speaker 4: That's exactly right.
00:28:18
Speaker 2: I remember like Cameron Smith's kids and the interesting thing with that dynamic, right, they're almost a bridge to make you closer to the older players because I sat I think I was closer to Jasper, who was Smithy's young boy, than I was to Smithy. So you know what I mean? So I probably had more in common with Smithy's son when I was in the team than Smithy. But it is a natural leap when you see all the kids around. And they're the kids that run out and they run the tees out. They're the ball boy. It's got harmony. I think Danny Badiris' son is the ball boy for nights.
00:28:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jack. As Joey says, Jack has the devil in him. Yeah, yeah. He's one of the– That was one of the benefits actually of COVID, the COVID bubble was obviously all the families were in there with the teams and stuff like that. So it was a very good opportunity for the clubs, particularly the football department and the players– to get closer because everyone was forced to be together.
00:29:12
Speaker 1: A question for you guys, just a question on that. And this is a serious question. I'm not trying to be provocative or doing something for a laugh.
00:29:19
Speaker 2: If you say, yeah, go on.
00:29:21
Speaker 1: So a group, like, you know, they say it takes a village to raise a child. And it does. That's what we're talking about here with the team. So let's say, for instance, Jasper was playing up one day. Do you think, because that means he's part of the team, have you, do you think you can take on the responsibility of disciplining him?
00:29:39
Speaker 2: I don't think Smitty would have liked that. I don't think Smitty would have.
00:29:42
Speaker 4: What's your definition of discipline?
00:29:44
Speaker 2: Smack on the.
00:29:45
Speaker 3: Oh, of course.
00:29:46
Speaker 4: Well, he shouldn't be smacking children anyway, let alone to one else's.
00:29:48
Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
00:29:49
Speaker 2: Well, a little smack on the bum never hurt.
00:29:51
Speaker 5: No, but you need to pull them aside and go, okay, we need to talk about what you're doing and.
00:29:57
Speaker 1: Doesn't work.
00:29:57
Speaker 4: Why is that not appropriate?
00:29:59
Speaker 3: But particularly not anyone else's kids.
00:30:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, no.
00:30:01
Speaker 1: But that doesn't work. Reasoning doesn't work.
00:30:03
Speaker 4: Well, it depends on their age.
00:30:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find martial punishment far more.
00:30:08
Speaker 2: You never disciplined us once. You're the softest dad. You still are.
00:30:13
Speaker 1: Glad you blacked out.
00:30:14
Speaker 4: I mean, he never disciplined at all.
00:30:16
Speaker 2: Are you joking? Mum used to be the angry one.
00:30:18
Speaker 3: No, him.
00:30:19
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. But I'll tell you, Mum, you were the disciplinarian. Yeah, of course I did.
00:30:22
Speaker 4: I had to do everything.
00:30:23
Speaker 2: You broke a wooden spoon on my ass. I know.
00:30:26
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a belt mask, but I didn't wear belts. Unfortunately, it was a drawstring. I didn't want to pull the drawstring out because it wouldn't have hurt.
00:30:32
Speaker 2: Me and Jack could have beaten that up. Absolutely. David would have let us, though. Roll over. What are you talking about? That seemed worse.
00:30:41
Speaker 1: People who don't know us must be listening and going. I can imagine some people, let's say, for instance, in the Netherlands listening to this show and listening and.
00:30:52
Speaker 3: Going, jeez.
00:30:54
Speaker 1: That father seems like a real loser.
00:30:56
Speaker 2: Is the Netherlands in Germany? Is that why you put that accent on?
00:31:00
Speaker 4: No, it's Dutch.
00:31:02
Speaker 3: No, your geography group. No, I meant his accent. Oh, right.
00:31:06
Speaker 1: Yes, well, they talk with the dish like we're a gold member. That's a crazy Dutch bastard.
00:31:11
Speaker 2: Trish, you just spoke about how expensive childcare is. Now, I went to a florist during the week because I got poppy flowers because she hurt her ankle. Oh. She did a syndesmosis. She's got surgery when this is actually yesterday.
00:31:23
Speaker 3: Cooper, don't give the opposition anything.
00:31:24
Speaker 2: So I went and bought flowers, right, just to support her because that's what you do when you love someone. You guys will figure it out later when you meet someone. I went to a florist, cost of living. So I spoke to him.
00:31:37
Speaker 3: Oh, florist, man. No, no, no.
00:31:39
Speaker 2: It wasn't that expensive.
00:31:40
Speaker 4: Really?
00:31:40
Speaker 2: But I said to the guy, how's business been going? Worst mistake I ever made.
00:31:43
Speaker 4: Oh, no.
00:31:44
Speaker 2: He's dropped at the moment just due to cost of living 50%. In terms of sales at Florist, I said, why? People aren't decoring their homes anymore. That's the first thing to go. He said, the only two things that I get is for birthdays.
00:31:58
Speaker 4: And funerals.
00:31:59
Speaker 2: No, not funerals. Birthdays and just men who are in the doghouse who know I need to go buy flowers. People aren't putting floral arrangements around their house anymore. He said, they're the only two sales I get.
00:32:10
Speaker 4: But to be fair, they're so expensive. So expensive. Like even from the supermarket, the flowers are so expensive. Like that little bunch I got and I got them from the supermarket the other day and they're a nice bunch but they're still a supermarket bunch. They were $ 55.
00:32:24
Speaker 1: I went edible underpants are just outrageous. I wanted to get some edible knickers for you yesterday but outrageous.
00:32:33
Speaker 3: Well, there are certain businesses that are.
00:32:35
Speaker 2: She's got allergy. peanut allergy there are.
00:32:40
Speaker 3: Certain businesses that are somewhat recession proof so.
00:32:43
Speaker 4: Yeah beer and lingerie i reckon.
00:32:45
Speaker 3: Spiro tors no glue my old um mate uh his father greek fella uh he used to tell me growing up just relentlessly used to say chicken shops chicken shops are chicken is recession proof because uh obviously the meats it's far more affordable than obviously your other meats, red meat and stuff like that. So chicken shops, recession-proof.
00:33:05
Speaker 4: There's a fact. And if you, rather than eating out as such, get a chicken, take it home, put some veggies with it, there's dinner.
00:33:10
Speaker 3: Exactly right.
00:33:11
Speaker 1: Alcohol, lingerie and gambling.
00:33:13
Speaker 4: Apparently.
00:33:14
Speaker 2: I've never bought lingerie.
00:33:16
Speaker 1: You haven't.
00:33:16
Speaker 4: I'm glad you haven't.
00:33:17
Speaker 2: They don't have it in my size.
00:33:18
Speaker 1: You haven't lived.
00:33:20
Speaker 3: What is it?
00:33:21
Speaker 2: There's chicken-proof because chickens, I think there's more chickens than humans on earth.
00:33:25
Speaker 3: Probably.
00:33:26
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure.
00:33:27
Speaker 4: Well, you think about each chicken, each egg. How many eggs?
00:33:31
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:33:32
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is a very sad day for chickens.
00:33:35
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, just their wings.
00:33:37
Speaker 1: I just get there and I think, how many chickens are there in the world given how many wings? How many Americans? How many wings are eaten on Super Bowl day?
00:33:45
Speaker 3: No, there's not. They aren't taken from individual chickens, Matthew. They actually– there are certain chickens you have to breed for the chicken wings in America. What? There are certain chickens that Costco has a– Actually, not Costco. There's another big company that do chickens and they have multiple wings so they can take more off.
00:34:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:01
Speaker 4: You just made that up.
00:34:03
Speaker 1: I was going to say.
00:34:04
Speaker 4: I'm like, what the hell?
00:34:06
Speaker 1: I find caged chickens tastier. You're an idiot.
00:34:10
Speaker 2: You're an idiot.
00:34:12
Speaker 1: I'm not joking, everyone. Free range all the way.
00:34:15
Speaker 2: Keep rocking the free world.
00:34:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stay away from junkies.
00:34:18
Speaker 4: Did you go horse riding? Can I see a picture of you horse riding, my friend?
00:34:21
Speaker 2: I did go horse riding the other day.
00:34:22
Speaker 4: Have I never taken you horse riding?
00:34:23
Speaker 2: That was my first time on a horse.
00:34:25
Speaker 3: Actually, I think. Sterlo. Yeah.
00:34:27
Speaker 4: I've got a photo.
00:34:28
Speaker 2: When I was young, we went to, was it Sterlo's Farm?
00:34:31
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:31
Speaker 2: He had a horse. So when I was young, I was on a horse at Sterlo's, but that was, then as an adult, I've never been horse riding. I went the other day. It's majestic. They're a good beast. Like they're a great animal.
00:34:41
Speaker 1: Mouth obsessed though. They are.
00:34:43
Speaker 4: Did you learn how to sit properly so that you don't hurt your sternum?
00:34:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went, hurt my sternum?
00:34:48
Speaker 4: Oh, no, your coccyx, rather, I should say.
00:34:50
Speaker 3: Not really.
00:34:51
Speaker 2: Just got to stay up, just go with the flow on it.
00:34:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, what you do is you just put most of your weight on your heels.
00:34:58
Speaker 2: It was very nice, though.
00:34:59
Speaker 4: One of the funniest days of my life was one weekend back in our night stays. And we had a Friday night game. So quite a few of us went up to Nelson Bays for the weekend and we went horse riding at someone's mum ran a horse riding thing.
00:35:16
Speaker 1: It was a bad day.
00:35:17
Speaker 4: Matt Jones.
00:35:20
Speaker 2: Horses would hate that.
00:35:21
Speaker 4: Like it's just, what do you call them when they're just in track?
00:35:23
Speaker 3: Parading.
00:35:24
Speaker 4: You know, they just follow one follows the other. Oh, yeah, pack horse. Yeah, pack horse. And so Matt's was quite naughty.
00:35:31
Speaker 1: Peppa. I'll never forget his name.
00:35:33
Speaker 3: You know why?
00:35:34
Speaker 4: Because he was falling off it, grabbing it around the neck and going, whoa, Peppa.
00:35:39
Speaker 1: Whoa, Peppa. It was running.
00:35:41
Speaker 4: It was unbelievable.
00:35:42
Speaker 1: We were in sand dunes. It was leaping off like dunes.
00:35:45
Speaker 4: He was probably trying to shake it. You're strangling the poor bugger.
00:35:48
Speaker 1: It was actually one of the most terrifying things of him in life. It just went rogue.
00:35:51
Speaker 2: Were you at the front? Was he at the front of the pack? No, he just broke away.
00:35:55
Speaker 1: It just broke away. Peppa went rogue.
00:35:58
Speaker 2: Why would they do– who else were you with?
00:36:01
Speaker 3: Oh, not the team.
00:36:01
Speaker 1: The mules and the crows.
00:36:03
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:36:03
Speaker 1: Where was Salt? Salt died. Salt died, unfortunately.
00:36:09
Speaker 2: Pepper killed him. Cholesterol problem. All right, let's go to our tips. It's grand final week this week. It's a very exciting week.
00:36:18
Speaker 4: Okay, well, currently the tips are sitting.
00:36:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are they? At? You got it.
00:36:25
Speaker 4: Well, Matt and I are out. We can't do. Jack, you're on. 126, got full points last weekend, and you're on 135.
00:36:33
Speaker 2: So I'm basically away then.
00:36:35
Speaker 4: No, not if Cooper and not if Jack's original. Yeah, he doesn't want it spoken about.
00:36:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Awesome. Thanks, guys.
00:36:45
Speaker 2: You're really smart, aren't you? It's very hard for us to say it without doing it when we've done this competition.
00:36:50
Speaker 3: Well, I had them at that period. I didn't think the Knights were going to get there. And it was a huge bet to do.
00:36:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:36:57
Speaker 3: Okay.
00:36:58
Speaker 2: But you can still– we're going to put our tips in now.
00:37:01
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:37:01
Speaker 4: I mean, we're not putting the tips in because– Only Jack is allowed to because he's the only one still in it.
00:37:06
Speaker 3: But we can still do it. Ours have all gone. Well, guess what, Trish? I backed the Knights this week.
00:37:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:37:10
Speaker 4: Well, yourself, but in our competition, if the Roosters win, you win that by one point.
00:37:16
Speaker 3: Thanks, Trish.
00:37:16
Speaker 2: That's all I want to say. The good thing for Jack is it's an each way.
00:37:19
Speaker 3: You said it last week.
00:37:20
Speaker 4: You're a winner either way.
00:37:21
Speaker 2: He did say it last week on the pod that if I get there, you're going to back the Knights anyway. Exactly, personally. So it's an each way bet for Jack. Can't lose. Dad, who are you tipping, obviously?
00:37:29
Speaker 1: Knights. Yeah.
00:37:31
Speaker 4: I really think they're going to win.
00:37:32
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going the Knights as well then. Jack, you're the Knights probably.
00:37:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got the Knights by one point, golden point, and I'm backing in one of my best mates, Matty Croker, to get the Clive Churchill medal.
00:37:42
Speaker 4: Oh, wouldn't that be lovely?
00:37:43
Speaker 3: He deserves it.
00:37:44
Speaker 1: Wouldn't Karma, wouldn't you just believe in Karma if that happened?
00:37:46
Speaker 4: That would be beautiful.
00:37:48
Speaker 2: That was my horse's name. I rode Karma.
00:37:50
Speaker 3: Swear on my life.
00:37:51
Speaker 1: Mine was called Pepper.
00:37:52
Speaker 4: I know.
00:37:52
Speaker 2: You said that four times. But mine was generally called Karma.
00:37:55
Speaker 3: We'll clip this up next week if it happens, all right? Karma.
00:37:58
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:37:58
Speaker 3: Karma Sutra.
00:37:59
Speaker 2: Mum, you're the Knights as well. So shorter episode today, just because we're releasing so much content this week. I've got to head to- Another one tomorrow. When we're recording this, I've got to go to the Dalliams. Oh.
00:38:08
Speaker 3: Oh, no.
00:38:09
Speaker 2: So that'll be all right. But anyway.
00:38:11
Speaker 4: It's at an interesting place, the cutaway at Barangaroo. It's like cut into the cliff.
00:38:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
00:38:17
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
00:38:18
Speaker 2: It's usually at Randwick Racecourse, which is good because there's good parking around there.
00:38:22
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:38:22
Speaker 2: So I can get in and get out.
00:38:23
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:38:23
Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm going to park to get there. It's annoying.
00:38:25
Speaker 1: Barangaroo?
00:38:26
Speaker 2: And I don't like suiting up.
00:38:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate it.
00:38:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, ties.
00:38:29
Speaker 4: But you look so handsome.
00:38:31
Speaker 2: Thanks, Mama. Anyone else got anything?
00:38:34
Speaker 1: I'm good, guys. Enjoy the grand final. It's going to be an incredible day.
00:38:39
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend.
00:38:40
Speaker 4: Be safe, be sensible, be kind to each other.
00:38:42
Speaker 2: And be aware, we've got the Johns Brothers return. Networks have allowed it tomorrow morning.
00:38:49
Speaker 3: What time, Jake? It'll be out very early, very early tomorrow.
00:38:52
Speaker 2: Early morning.
00:38:53
Speaker 3: So get up.
00:38:54
Speaker 2: Don't drink Friday. Get up early and watch it. Get ready for the game.
00:38:57
Speaker 4: Have a good weekend. Have a good weekend.
