Hello everyone.

I hope you have an excellent day, and now I am.

We had some great moments, some great interviews over a twenty twenty five.

We're going to relive some of those today, starting off our first two here none other than the King of commercial real Estate, Brad Parker, followed by Mitchell stark Oussie Cricketing Legend, Enjoy.

Cooper, and Sue DC.

His wedding.

Yeah, can we tell some of the jokes that he said or I said?

He did a series of jokes which he thought were hilarious.

My first question before we talk about some of the jokes.

Did he go too far?

He came at me twice, Yeah, which wasn't fair.

If you come at me once, you have a laugh bagged out in the studios around.

I was wearing all black to a wedding, which was probably not the smartest scene.

He was fine because Brad was the only one in all black tie shirt.

Mind you, some other people look like they were dressed up to go to wolf Bar.

It was ridiculous.

So we had a wedding or we got.

To wolf Bar exactly, and Brad thought he looked really good and I was hoping him up before I got up there.

I said, you look good, you look good, you look good.

And I got straight up there at the start and I said, I just want to I just want to thank everybody who's come here today on the back of a really big effort.

Herbo flew back from Europe that morning and he got there, so chat out the turbo Benny Hunt.

He's going into prison tomorrow, which is pre season under Michael Maguire.

I know that one because I gave it.

He gave me that one.

How did you credit?

It was the only one gave And then then then I said, and just condolences to Brad Parker, who's just.

Come straight from a funeral.

And but the thing was he said.

That, I was like, why am I wearing all black to a wedding?

And I looked at my partner.

I was like, why didn't you say that?

She's like a lot of weddings, a lot of marriages don't last.

The good thing was like, throughout the night, random people would come up to Brad's but he's like, I'm so sorry, and some people are being serious.

Mate, Young Sam Sam Constance probably not since you know, Shane Warn has so many headlines around a young guy coming into a test match and you know, after that debut test pretty amazing.

It was.

It was great to see and yeah, for a nineteen year old, he's full of confidences.

He's just he was able to be himself.

It's not an arrogance.

It's just a really comfortable in his own skin, very outgoing, wants to come and say hello, hello to you.

If you're meet him the first time or you met him thirty seconds ago.

He's just a lovely kid.

And then yeah, it just came out and played his own way.

And it's amazing, Mitch because it's as big as it gets.

You know, it's Boxing Day test match.

He's about to go out there on against India.

It's absolutely huge.

How was he What was he like in the change rooms as he was about to walk out?

Yeah, all right.

So we were in the warm up on Boxing Day, hasn't even been presented his cap yet and Nathan Li and I were warming up with him and he's like, oh, boys, when you reckon, I'll get nervous, Like it feels like a great game.

Really you hate to hear that too, Like you don't want.

To hear that.

David.

I didn't say boo for the whole day.

I was crapping my pants and his kids like it's a great game kicking.

What was the reaction all the mood, you know, when you blokes were all watching the change in there and all of a sudden he's like vamping doing all his trick shots for fours and sixes.

What what were you guys doing?

Yeah, it was it was quite something.

It was I think for the first over that he started doing it, it was like, what is going on here?

What's his kid doing to?

Basically everyone was on board apart from one player, and everyone was like this is awesome, Like he's taking it on his kids.

He's got he's either got nothing between the years or he's got bigger one bloke and Steve Smith was stressing I'm not hating it was just like this is bizarre.

It's been quite a bit made of it.

Quite an older team, and I remember coming down he goes, no, I'm past it, trick's done.

It's past me.

I'm too old for this.

Yeah, you're probably right.

I think i'm there too.

Wow, the Colie bump and there's no virt's got down and go right with a young bloke here, He's probably thinks he's getting a little bit ahead of himself, and he gave him the bump to sort him out.

Now, how was Sam you know what, what sort of advice did you blokes give him or was it just water for ducks back?

It seemed like water for Duck's back.

He the fact that he's not bit back.

He he sort of stood his ground and said something if you're at just as like, well, this is a nine year old kid.

He's not phased by Virat, who's a god in India, by coming and giving him a bump.

Yeah.

I can't remember what he said exactly, but it was bloody hilarious.

Yeah.

Probably shouldn't throw Hm under the bus.

I feel free if you're out there.

Let's imagine you're in a Test match and you have a really spiteful encounter with a via kuhligue on the film.

Could that impact your IPL career?

It's a good question.

It's been joked about before.

Whether that's true or not.

I'm not sure it could do.

And we had the auction day three of the first Test match, which was pretty unusual.

So yeah, I mean, I think there's a fair bit more made in the media or off the field about how players might be too nice because you know you're looking for an IPL contract or something like that.

And yeah, we might not sledge like that in ten to fifteen years ago, but you're still trying to win just as bad.

So yeah, I know there's the whole i PL factor comes into it.

But I'd argue that you know that auction was day three of the first Test.

After that, I wouldn't.

I would argue that how the way we approached the rest of the series didn't change.

We discovered some some things about poor old Mitch Marshes.

Mitch marsh of a small appendage.

Yes, is it.

True you have the smallest penis in the current cricket cricket squad?

Yes, is that true?

I love the fact he owns it.

Yeah.

I mean he's not alger techtive test so it's pretty hard to lie.

Is that?

Is that?

Obviously if FLACHENHEINDI knew that?

It is that somehow public knowledge?

Like, how is that such public knowledge?

How does that get out?

It's funny all the things he's done done in cricket, all the success he said when he when he walks to the to the crease.

Now he's in the field.

They flashed to him.

All I can think is small cleans.

Anyways, some things you just need to keep yourself and the players, you know, celebrate out of having a few beers after a series win, which which cricket was most likely to get a guitar and entertain the boys.

Good question probably is that Mitch Well, he's one of the good ones.

Is there a player that's not good on the guitar?

I know you're alluding, well, let's have a listen, because in my opinion, tickets are on sales soon.

Steve Smith has a really unique musical talent.

Around and I've seen you is painful.

Was he going through something.

That's the clearest I've ever heard it, because normally when it starts being played the whole rooms in rapture.

Does he does that get played in team meetings and stuff and he hates it?

Does he really regret it?

I think now the fact that he's taken up golf and I haven't seen him with the guitar lately probably says enough.

Now we're joined by Loss's lock Laurie Daily, one of the great interviews new so Well's coach this year, one over all of our hearts and none other than Jachi from We me and Well and one of the funniest blokes I've come across.

Remember when we're coached by Tommy tom rodonog is how entertaining it was.

Let's talk at the time ever, the defensive pattern that was so good.

So Tommy, I don't know whether he coached a lot of the players before, but we were telling them about Tommy.

He's very special as a coach because you want to play for him.

We're doing these defensive drills and the defense was just go up and hit the pads.

Anywow, Tommy's just gone just go and bash them, just bash them anyhow.

We get down the other end, I have to do on some ball work and the boys are going no loss.

We actually don't understand what Tommy means with the defense, what the system is going to do.

I said, what do you mean?

And he goes, well, all he wants.

Us to do is just bash on, just go up and bash, just smash, just go and smash, just bashing.

I said, that's all right.

I said, what I'll do, I'll talk to Tommy tonight.

By tomorrow morning we'll have it all sorted.

So I speak to Tommy after the training session.

I said, oh, Tommy, he has what do you want?

Dale's any blake that calls me Dale Fresh?

When do you want Dales?

I said, oh, Tommy, the boys are a little bit worried about the way we're going to defend.

He what do you mean?

And I said, oh, I mate.

Some players are coming from different systems.

You know, went up and out and up and InStyle system under their coaches.

And he tell me more about them.

I said, well, you know, I said, you know, those teams are sort of just working on the principle they move forward some while over the balls on their inside.

This is the easiest way to explain it.

While ever the balls on the inside, they just stay square and once the ball goes past them, I sort of start then to drift out.

Or you can have this up and in defense that you would have played and you know, you leave the winger and you just put pressure on the players on the inside, and he goes.

I love them, I love them right.

I said, well, what do you want to do?

And he said, I'll think about over night.

So I saw him with breakfast.

I said, what do you think about that defense?

Tommy?

He said, yeah, I got a sweet I know what we're doing.

He said, I let the boys call them over.

I said, I called them out, and he will just do it.

We get the training go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, good good, good call do so you get the training boys.

I had a yarnder Dales last night and he told me, you're a little bit concerned about our defense.

He said, I had no concerns, but I'll take it all on board.

He said, So you didn't want to go up and bash him.

So this is what we've decided to do.

He said, We're going to go up, We're going to go in, We're going to go sliding, and then we're going to bash it.

Your coast origin level by Gus.

Yeah, of course had been the influence.

Apart from conspiracies and paranoia.

What else did you take from Gus's coach.

I'll tell you what Gus could do.

He could liver his message like no, he could have you believe a black wall is a white wall.

I remember one year, so it would have been at the end of eighty nine.

You know, I got dropped from that series and Gus came in in ninety two and one of the first sessions.

He spoke about was what we need to do to beat Queensland.

Anyway, we were out of coffee one day and he goes, mate, what are your thoughts on your first Origin Series?

He said, you coming up against Male's your captain, club captain.

You know he's done it all.

Wouldn't you like to get one over him?

At times?

I said, oh yeah, I'd like to get that.

He says, well, what's your biggest regrets so far in Origin?

I said, oh, well, you know the day I played against him in that Origin Series Game one, Mail scored all these points and I had a.

Shocker and you know I got brushed after that.

He goes right out, gets to nineteen ninety four Game three, Mal's last game at Lean Park.

It's one of all and I'm in the sheds and he goes, how you feeling?

I said, oh yeah good.

He said, remember a couple of years ago and I had a yardie about Mail and your greatest regret.

I said yeah.

He said, what are you going to do about it?

I said, I haven't really thought about it.

He said, well, no, the time's come mate, You're going to stand and deliver.

What are you going to do?

And I said, well, I'm going to play well.

And he said, mate, he's had his time, but yours has to arrive, and he's got to arrive at some time.

Why not be tonight?

And I said, all right, no worries.

And he said, when they come asking for you to do the toss, go and hide.

Like, what do you mean going hide?

He said, well, we're not going out there.

He said, we're going to make him wait.

He's going to wait for you.

I don't know.

Worries.

And then touch he comes in and Captain can't find him.

He can't make captain anyway.

It felt like ten minutes.

It was probably ninety seconds or whatever it was.

I go out to toss and Mali's just standing there and he's filthy.

He's just stearing me and I'm going, oh my god, he's got to kill me.

And then I go back in and I said, boys, no regrets.

I said, I'm not having a regret to not And that's sort of how I got inspired for that game.

And it was amazing that Gus was able to recall a story three years before to actually get me ready and up about.

For that gun.

So John Rolls is like Australia New Zealand's version, like a Tom Jones type performer, cabaret performer and really theatrical.

Go into this bar anyway.

John Rowles is playing there and he spots the team and goes right and Gazavan has a bit of a chat to Laurie gets back on the mic front of all the crowd.

Gaz Well, everyone want to welcome the new South Wales Blues.

And I've been over there talking to the captain and a great made of mind.

Come on see it.

Mister Warren Daily.

He's got a segment charge called tough Talk, so he writes all these questions himself.

These are the hard hitting questions, right.

You may have not have been asked these sort of questions by hard hitting journalists like Matthew before, but you have to answer them and if you don't, there's consequence.

We'll got the bolb cap wait down there to chew your face off.

Talking about trees like that.

Or chewing your face it feels still love.

There's not nothing too seriously state while we're on impersonations, you got any for us because you you have got an immaculate ear for replicating noise.

Well, I've got one that I've done on the party before.

I can do a bit of James Blunt.

Oh yeah, that's a weird one.

It is odd, isn't it.

Yeah?

Okay, are you ready going?

I haven't done this for a while.

That hold on, are you singing?

I'll sing it?

Oh okay, she said.

To me, go staddy on me.

Want to tell me what the wise man says when they came down from heaven smoked nine till the seventh.

All the ship that they could find, but they couldn't be safe from your, couldn't be free of your.

And now they know there's no way out and there pretty sorry enough for what they've done.

There were three wise men.

D I'm now.

It's a good song.

I think if something happens to the podcast, you could be a very good James Blunt personation.

I don't know if anyone will turn up, because so many good, many James Blunt fans out there, some of these actors who name any kids and make me go, god, you know this school yard walk correct.

That's and they think, oh, you know, I name this kid this sick unique name.

No one's got it.

Brother, There's a fucking reason no one's got.

It, because this is Twinkle dust Elon Musk's kid like b part server.

It's a fucking formula.

Yeah, Michael Jackson's kid blanket.

And even Steph she was sort of she was dropping some girls names.

You know, it's a girl.

She was like, what about this?

What about that?

Was done?

It seems a weird thing to me that people have stopped calling their dogs dog names and they starting.

To call their kids.

There's dogs called Gary and kids kids called Rover.

Yeah, we fucking swapped.

Yeah, Yeah, that's your point.

Yeah, the real Yeah, Gary and Keith Bill, they're actually the dogs.

And these days Graham.

I heard a blood calling his dog Graham.

The other day he's doctor Coffee's going Graham Graham, which I thought.

Was the funniest thing.

The cat called Phil.

Yeah, let's flash back to Las Vegas when Fletcher heind He joined us.

Those two not only were a good laugh, but everyone was extremely hungover.

So try to keep up with this one.

How long you too long?

Matthew, We arrived last Wednesday sort of stuff you've been doing.

You know what?

I loved getting in a chopper and shooting guns.

Watching the stuff that put through honestly, like Westy Heaven.

And the Big Bears and becoming Westy as he Yes, he loves.

Do you shoot in Australia as well?

Do you shoot guns there if I have to?

Yeah?

Yeah, Yeah, he's convinced these two numb nuts.

Is last night that I have a bunker at home or do you know?

We lying, yes, they're pretty easy to get.

Still, I'm still thinking about these low hanging fruit.

Yeah.

He convinced.

He said that he built.

You were so convincing, and it wasn't that far fetch you, like, I just built this bunker in my house, and you went into some details, like so we've got a slab of concrete, and then you need air holes, and then another slab of concrete, and then we've got down there, and he's like, I've got a pool table in there.

I've got a small pool table, and I've got like some guns in there, just to be safe for the family.

And he just kept going, and I was so convinced.

Warriors and raiders.

Who wins.

I'm going raiders.

I'm going raiders me too.

Really, I'm going.

I think wise.

I think a bit of a scuffle in the elevator, Oh, you think it could be could serve as a distruction.

Sometimes they can galvanize.

I think it'll make it lucky Gallery.

Gal shout out to Galvin Coronella pen I'm going Canella.

Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking very confident.

You're quietly confident, very confident, ehim quietly loudly screaming from the head.

What do they say?

Quietly?

I don't know.

That's the story for another day.

Almost quietly, you know what I mean.

On the slide, quietly confident.

You get those blokes sometimes he's a lot of people behind that.

When a bloke comes up together, races and again they reckon the six is duced.

I reckon, it'll be.

Or you used to play footy when you were a kid, like you've been playing like under fourteen's up in Newcastles.

I make the number eight Golden Gloves champion.

Remember, I reckon, he's he can fight and he's fast.

That happens in every generation.

There's always some Golden Gloves champion sixteen fifteen years old.

I can't fight.

I've never met a person who won the gold.

Exist Sweet for forty one.

Next on the hit list was Braith Anasta and Marx Bud Carroll, couple of NRL legends.

Both had some great stories and a good laugh.

How long you've been doing three sixty four now trees three years.

I mean you enjoy it.

I love it, Yeah, I love it.

I was a bit overwhelmed at the start, got thrown in the deep end, but I wanted it, like that's what I wanted to do.

The first few sort of months were just fine on my feet, getting used to the hosting role and producer in your ear and journals go on mad.

And you find it high stress because it is a hard hitting like you.

Guys cover the topics.

I would say as far as hosting, it's probably as stressful or as put the job that exists in Fox Sports dealing with journalists dealing with big issues.

I can only imagine the politics behind them.

So you must get phone calls all the time.

Actually, Nick Nick called me on the way here because Buzz last night tossed up the jar was coming back.

But then Nick said that was bullshit.

That's the kind of stuff you deal with.

But it is a high pressure in a way that you've got to be careful.

It is quite political you're dealing with, you know, with players and their careers, coaches their careers, the journals coming with information.

A lot of their information is spot on, like a lot of it is.

Sometimes they get it wrong, but they like they do a lot of work Buzz and reading and carry ons, Ricky your man, Bulldog.

The political side that you said, and it's not a show for the players.

Being a player yourself, you know that when you're in that high stress as a player and you're a player manager yourself.

You've got a lot of good relationships with the boys.

How do you find when you have to when you have to criticize someone.

It's tough.

With my own clients, I tell them the truth.

Like I said, if I've got to be critical of your performance and you're not playing well, I'm going to call it how I see it, Like that's just the way it is.

It's a tough one because I've been there before, you know, even even the stuff with the troll last year, Like you know, he took offense to a few comments I made on the show, and you know, and in front of me about it.

I get it because I used to hate Buzz and really I did.

You know, we all know where ex players, all of us here, so we kind of know.

It doesn't feel good, you know when you're kind of getting critiqued and criticized so I get it.

But at the same time, I think if you do it in the right way, in the right manner, and you're not just bagging guys, you kind of it's constructive with it.

As you get older, it becomes easier because you actually learn than if you're constructive and you actually make the right point and you make it not personal.

For instance, I use the Dylan Brown situation.

Like Dylan due to the circumstances, I think in my time football, there'd be no player scrutinizers and analyze more in the next month than Dylan.

But a lot of that won't be pointed toward Dylan because thirty meters for ten years.

I mean, even the Patriots sate of generosity.

So Nicholas would have knocked that back.

I mean, you take it what.

It'll directed more at the Knights.

You know, if Dylan is a bad game, they'll go the night to say, see.

Yeah, the training there, Billy Johnson was just an animal and they just wanted to break out.

That was there.

They wanted to break you.

And you know that first session there, Gary Carden, who was under Billy at the time, he flogged the shit out of me until I was vomiting into the bin next to the real machine.

All that.

But it was kind of a system they had where, you know, if you got through the session, you didn't complain, and you turned up the next day, then you're there.

You're welcome.

But a lot of guys don't turn up that next day.

They just go home and say, Mum or dad, they can't do it.

Yeah, it's kind of a system they had there.

You know, if you're either a bulldog or you weren't.

And then once you got in there, and the training we do is crazy, like we'd ride one hundred k's, we'd do biathlons, triathlons because Billy was a mad cyclist and Box made a utah on a bike going around Centennial Park falling off bikes, and then you know, doing swim leagues.

They couldn't swim.

A lot of the guys that they have to wear their fins and they were like next level.

I remember Billy.

We there was myself and a few of the boys who were the ems.

In the first couple of weeks, like Billy would take me out every single night, come on, let's go out, and we go out to be three or four o'clock and two hours later I have to go and sleepy banging on the door, get me up doing boxing.

It was just it was both the best and the worst.

And every time you get me, every night you get there and radio mate, you good job, mate.

Come we'll go out again.

We go out again and do it the next morning.

But I won't do it.

It just it just went on.

I never learned my lessons.

Well, I knew what was coming for your night out.

Yeah, I mean it's worth worth Fisher.

You could not walk in the joint Omnio and at Caesar's Palace.

How good is he?

I sad the week before did you double wed Live Live Golf when me and Cameron went down.

That's right, Munster.

Munster and Fish are that.

Same personality, same person When we were at Melbourne and twenty twenty one, the comp Money was talking to him because the remember they had the state of origin.

After that, Ye, Munster had some sort of He's had like a social media relationship with Fisher for like four or five years, and I believe that was the first time he met him to Live Go.

So they'd been talking a lot and Cameron had got him tickets to an Origin game and I think when you know, when ended up in Byron after the win, and I think he even had the wall of Lewis Medal and Fisher had it.

Don't even know all that sort of thing.

So Cameron he ows me, he owes me a favor.

So he's been he's been hitting him up for tickets and he wanted him to come and DJ at his wedding, and Fisher didn't get back to him, get back to him.

And then there was an after party that lived and Cameron's gone, mate, you don't get back to my messages.

And so he tried to put Fisher on the ground a bit, you know, like put and Fish is the best at roasting people.

And he just come back and he just hammered Cameron in front of the whole party who were on the floor.

I mean, who are you monster?

You're going to come and play at your wedding?

Mate?

You know, I just I can't see what he said, but it was it was Kevin was on the floor, fish.

Out like it was bald.

And now it's got the Morton Bay fig.

Is the Morton Bay fig.

It's unbelievable.

Yeah, yeah, he looks good.

Was it was that a Turkey job.

I don't know for what.

Actually it was a.

Local bloke up in the wow because Maddie Lodgers was Turkey and he's just unbelievable.

He's so happy with that about Carlos.

Was he carl Laughton?

Is that plugs?

He was there too Fisher?

Yeah, I didn't think Carlos.

Is a legend.

It was a good time Carlos, Yeah.

He does, doesn't it.

He was talking about blokes that were having a good time at Fisher.

He was sweaty at one stage like I was.

There was literally beads of sweat dropping off his nose like he was just drenched.

And then he goes, I got, He goes, I gotta go.

You know where you going?

He goes, I got Today's show in the morning the cabin.

For one second, did Beaver throw a punch.

The on.

The worst injury he ever got was a cork.

Remember Third Gaming ninety five, second game in ninety five of the game at the mcg words starts to fiddle through to Gus that mate, they're going to double down.

Fatty's got them.

They're going to double down.

They're going to actually they're boot us in game one.

We're going to get out there and gain U two.

We're going to throw them off completely.

We're going to bat.

We're going to put a stink on in the first couple of minutes.

Right, So he goes right, ah.

So he brings in a boxing trainer and he's got everyone like holding the box and bits over that.

So the starting lineup, Beavers the starting lineup, right, and they're going on the line of Guss is watching and Beaver's literally going yeah.

It's like he's knocking.

He's you're knocking on the door anyway.

Gus just sits there and goes yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, until I'm going to do boys, I'm going to put Beaver on the bench and don't pay.

You're going to start start those people that haven't seen it's the it's the collision of the century in rugby league.

Someone then said, your silly brother to kick off the me.

Yeah, what happened behind the line, right, he'd heard his groin chief and our trainer come on and he was limping around and said, mate, you've got to get off.

And just previous to that, for that, you crow pecked him and he was going nuts and he said, I'm not going off.

I want one more tackle and said to Joey kick off at spad right, and Joey went, no, no, I'm not doing it.

We all went Chief's a bad idea.

And the trainers come and get off.

Chief get off, and he said I'm coming, but I'm taking him with me, and Joey's like.

I said to Joey, mate, joe don't kick off, just kick the other side.

And then she said I'm telling you now, kick off.

So Chief got his wish kicked off and then him and I are playing for Australia the week before.

We're actually rooming together.

So you and Chief room together once and once and in State of.

Origin camp game one State of Origin and how how.

Did you Obviously you didn't like each other on the field, but was that off the field as well?

Or did you not like each other?

I remember he went up to car Eve, the manager, and said, I can't do this.

I'm not doing this, and they said, mate, you've.

Got to do this.

So the beds they're too like single beds.

And I slept like this, I was waiting for action.

He was full on Chief Chief me and goes, mate, they're trying to being smart asses.

I went, why they said, spy night room together.

Now this one was one of my highlights of the year, Brandon that she smith reminiscing on the good old days and some excellent stories.

Have a listener to this one.

If we have a listened to the full one, go and have a listen because it is a bloody pearler.

There was one.

It's one of the players, and I have to say who was he was watching Lee mown do.

This doesn't need to be no names, Yeah.

No names, No names is fine, right, jeez, you chime in here, and if I missed something.

One of the boys.

Now he's a family man, let's paint the picture.

He loves his kids, loves his wife.

Stop your right there.

Even family men can masturbate her in.

Our correct Now, this player, he was very, very excited.

Obviously.

Now his wife said, see you, honey, I'm gonna go drop the kids to school.

And that wasn't even like an euphemism.

She was genuinely going to drop the kids to school.

She jumps in the minivent, hurting the kids, and run of kids got to go to school.

Now this player must have been in some mood.

He was so excited he went straight to the bedroom and started putting an adult movie on to start to get himself going.

Now, what he didn't know was his wife's still out in the front trying to heard the kids in the car.

She gets in the car and his phone was the first one that connected to the Bluetoothe so this player and I don't know exactly what he was watching video wise, but I don't think it was good and I don't think there was in the video.

I don't think it was just two people.

I think it was a group thing.

So apparently the audio that comes through the bluetoo in the car was so loud, and his wife just texted him it was coming up as he's watching, and it just said, you can pick.

Texting back, what does take me to Brown Town?

Remember?

Because he wasn't supposed to tell the boys, she was like, don't tell the players, Like I'm ashamed of you.

And he came in the next day peeling so like guilty, but he wanted to get like he knew it was going to be so funny for the boys.

He told the boys that isn't funny.

To the wife, He's like, I'm so sorry.

Like as soon as he walks into the boys life like his own personal hero.

He was the king.

I'm going to throw these rocks to your.

Because you used to get like with a lot of pranks.

Did you have you got over any pranks?

No?

No pranks, not yet No.

I love that still.

The best one was the stones in the bag when you just put all those rocks and I just can't believe.

He's just dragging the faces when he was walking it up the stairs and he was like, but you know, when he opened the bat, I got a text.

I knew.

I knew.

He assumed it was me straight away.

He texted me, I'm going to throw these rocks to your The year that we were staying here and then I was here for three days and I was flying in New Zealand eleven am the next day and I've just got I started packing my bags.

I had a few beers, like, actually, where's my passport?

And I've rang I think Georgia Moore, he was living.

She was staying at my house at the do you have my it's my passport out there and.

She was like, yeah, it's right here.

What COVID and you couldn't go over the border.

Yeah, So but we tried to make this plan.

I had my I had an uncle that lived in Aubrey that had like a had a pass because he was a truck driving and it was like we'd be touching go.

But somehow, Maddie, I don't know how you done it.

I don't even know so what I did, I decided, don't worry.

I'm going to go after all of this.

I'm going to call the New Zealand Embassy.

No, you rang someone first, he rang someone.

You rang the boss of sky mate, very official, mate, Have you got the number of New Zealand Embassy?

Said?

Oh yeah, this guy's givem call.

Remember ringing.

I was on the phone for ages.

Can we give context on to your state of mind at the time as well.

We've been on the drink all afternoon when until Brandon found out Sammy Burgess was here and Billy Walters Billy won't we won't.

Go into that.

Not going to that.

No, no, no, because that got weird.

Dad was very well hydrated and he was he gets very confident.

When I told Maddy, just like look came over his eyes.

He's like, I've got to sort this and he just locked he locked in.

He's on the.

Blower, Mate, I got this.

I got the last thing.

I remember.

I've been on the phone to this lady and she said, I'm sorry, sir, I haven't been able to understand you for the last minutes.

Can you give me to someone else?

Yeah, gave it to Trish.

Wake up at the morning.

Trish goes, we got a result.

I went, what do you mean?

She goes, Brandon, He's able to fly back to New Zealand.

I went, yeah, mate, what happened you?

You gave me this number?

You or Tris gave me this number.

And it was so they had no confidence.

Gave me this number.

You're like, mate, when you get to the checking this ring this number, give the phone to the lady.

And I was like, this is not this is not going to work.

I had no confidence, but I was like, I'm not driving.

Aub back, mate, true to your word.

I got to the counter, rang the number and I was like, oh, this is branded.

He's like, oh yeah, yeah, no worries.

Put me onto the lady at the counter, gave her the phone and she was like, gave me this little pass.

And she was like, yeah, you can go now.

And then I just walked to the gate, gave the people the thing this like letter, and then I just flew straight back to New Zealand, no problem.

So I wish I could very listen.

I'll tell you what.

I wish you remembered that number, because they would.

I feel like I had come in to hand you again.

I've managed to fly internationally without any idea or anything.

And rounding out part one of our Best of for twenty twenty five, Joel Sugarcane and joshadowed the Fox, two great characters the Fox.

I don't think anyone's got as good a laugh as Joshadow car Have a listen to this.

From put mcquarie to the Dragons, right, and it impacts your life.

Actually, I get invited to this trial, so pumped for it.

This is my chance to make it.

I get down there and I run into a mate from Tari the Tari Red Rovers.

Here mate, blah blah blah blah.

We play.

I'm thinking I'm in good shape.

If he's got to start, I'm going to be flying in.

Get out there, bad start, had a shoka.

Meanwhile, the boy from Tari Red Rovers is carving up and my head's imploding, right, so I'm kicking stones.

I'm walking out of Cogra and phone rings Sally Peter O'Sullivan.

Oh yeah, great Sally.

He rings me, says, so, how are your mate?

I said, oh, Pete, it was my best day.

He said, fancy being a dragon way relief.

Peter and Sullimon was still recruiting back then.

Hold yeah, yeah, he said, mate.

Not only that, you're gonna live with me some going not beautiful.

Three months later, then we're driving home from training Monday.

So we're driving at home and dinner tonight is his ex wife Therese, which is Sean O'Sullivan's mum.

She'd make this beautiful beef strogen off, so we having that for dinner.

Pete goes to me.

He started to get a bit serious and always sort of joke.

He said, may do you I'm homesick?

I said, oh, I'm loving it.

He goes, you're missing your girlfriend.

I said, I missing my girlfriend.

But arm good.

He goes, mate, We're we're gonna have prop sit down the night he said, between you and said, the club's this close to get ready.

I've played a game.

It's just been the off seats.

When I first got down there, they rolled the red carpet out.

But it starts to diminish, and now I can't think about this.

I'm eating the strogging off and it's favorite meal, but I can't enjoy it, you know.

And we sit down and Therese brings out a cornetto for us s eat.

We're sitting on the carpet.

We're watching the TV.

He puts on.

He said, you're not homesick.

I said, I'm not homesick.

He goes, all right, well let's watch this.

So he watches.

He puts his tape on.

He goes, what do you think about that run?

I said, oh, it's a great run.

You know what about the past?

Bang ran?

Tackles went through all these metrics, bang bang bang bang bang.

So you promise me you're not amsy.

I said, not amsy.

He goes, and everything's okay.

I said, everything's okay.

He goes, well, how do I get you back to doing that?

I said, how do I get back to doing that?

He goes, yeah, how do we get get back to doing that?

That's the boy we signed?

I said, Pete, that's impossible.

He said why.

I said, well, that's not me.

He goes.

He goes, what do you mean that's not you?

I said.

I said, that's not me.

Like two little blokes a brand.

I said, that's my mate from the tari Red Rovers.

He goes, that's who we wanted to sign.

He goes, he goes, Well, where the hell's he gone?

I said, Oh, I made He got a last minute trial with the Knights.

D Danny bris grew up as a Dragons fan and was he wanted to be a Dragon.

And you know what, Danny Badiera's what happens if you get stuck behind Nathan Brown all those days.

West Tiger's coops of two thousand and going forward for a couple of seasons there.

When you talk about that the Crazy Gang referred to an English soccer side who were when Nefsu who had Vinnie Jones, Dennis Wise that they were they were nuts.

Well, I'm telling you now, I reckon this West Tiger's site has got them covered.

And I'm not joking.

We've played you blokes one day Campbelltown.

Yeah, and I could hear you blokes roaring in the dressing room next door, and it was just made like there was some seriously scary blokes.

I was like a twenty twenty one year old, so I was quite naive to what was going on, and I know there was in hindsight lot going on, but there was things like like, we're playing at Paramatta one day and one of the boys said, oh, watch this.

They've tipped out one of the water bottles out of the tray and they filled it up with beer.

And I've got to kick at the end of the game.

And then I would always put the water on the face first, and that comes his beer.

It actually relaxed me.

I get the kick right.

Terry Hill if he had a bad game.

So Terry Lamb wasn't a big fellow and he couldn't reach the when he put the video care set in.

So if Terry had a bad.

Game, he'd actually reverse the taper around and so when bargat to do it, it wouldn't work, you know.

And Terry Hill used to call one of Terry Lamb's assistance I won't name because he' embarrassing him, right, a minibath, right, a mini bath, And I'd say, what do you call him?

Minibus?

He goes because he's half a fucking coach.

He had all these one liners Hopper, who they couldn't control.

Hopper he'd play every game, he'd do twenty carries two hundred meters but was the worst training.

He was just a natural athlete.

So they kind of worked out, if youre going to give us the twenty carries, who cares?

You know, he'd do the beep test with a lock of bat and if he just touching each stuff.

Someone told me, I think some of those boys are about eight to fifty.

Oh yeah, then yeah, back then about eight fifty.

So there's twenty five twenty six years ago.

But on top what I heard about Crackers.

The Crackers had the big contract, but he also said to the West Tigers in the contract and I need to have a car dot dot dot on my choice.

Yes, that's right, and they went, oh yeah, no problem.

Not really not understanding the fine print and how ruthless Crackers could be.

Well, Crackers goes you, I want a hummer and he turned up with a hummer.

That's exactly what happened.

So that were they two hundred and fifty two hundred ground then yeah, absolutely, and that's under the cellar cap.

Well, at the time there was a superly come together.

For for a while there there was no salary cap.

It was just do your best, and I think the total expenditure there.

Wasn't because that Broncos side, there's no way they fit.

They were all Australians.

So ninety nine when the Storm beat george'll Warre and the Grand Finals sat George Lawara, I believes total expenditure on players that year was almost fourteen million.

Oh wow, yep, Well you don't hear that, Like that's not really talked about much that there was a few years where there was no salary.

Well you go through the two thousand Broncos side.

His room, he's he is a hoarder.

Really, yep.

He's the stuff that I found in your eyes up advertising.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now I've always struggled, like with culling.

Yeah, like I used to like pretty well document I used to Stealmaniac yeah, massive clet I was taken into trip Land.

I used to steal everything off people.

He stole ten bucks off Jamie Angel the Boss once off his desk.

Yeah.

Chris Page, who was Matthew's Panelope, had a lot of these things in his like horny goat weed remember that stuff.

Yeah yeah.

And I was like twelve and I just took it not knowing what it was.

And I was like, well, I didn't need any use for it, and at that time, which had it now because I could put it.

To good use these days.

Was pages review on the Horny Gateweek.

I don't know, I don't know.

You guys were like you guys had heaps of it in a triple am.

I don't know whether they were a sponsor or something.

There's lots of things we play, all sorts of tricks and shenanigans.

Someone would be going to the airport, traveled on to Brisbane and we had a massive, big dial over there, big and we used to strap it to a diator and camp there pretty an mgy's bag.

I will.

I'm not living with them.

I'm just staying with them.

I'm looking I'm taking care of them at the moment.

Yeah, because I don't know if you know, but these two, like you know, they're like that, you know, they're getting old.

Let's hope you do look after me when I'm like mid seventies and I'm actually shooting myself and things like that.

You to wipe my ass, change my nappy, all that sort of stuff.

Look forward to that.

I'm sure the home I put you in when I'm living.

The right.

He's got a segment charge called tough talk, So he writes all these questions himself.

These are the hard hitting questions, right.

You may have not have been asked these sort of questions by hard hitting journalists like Matthew before, but you have to answer them, and if you don't, there's consequence.

We'll got the bold cap wait down there to chew your face off.

Talking about truths like that, or chewing your face out, how good it feels to laugh.

There's not nothing too seriously