What a very special day.

Let's just admit who did all the work that day, Matthew, actually for the days leading into.

It, for this, what's the context?

It should we announce it straight away at the top of the podcast, Ladies and Gentlemen, Jack John's Birthdayavy birthday.

Jack Jacko.

And to think, like, what a joyful twenty eight year you think last week he was so low on the priority list of the family.

He'd had a drunken mess of himself.

And now how quickly he can turn around.

It's his birthday, as they say, it's.

A real redemption story, isn't it, Coober?

For a week's a long time.

I believe we've got lots of support too.

You did, belligerent Jack seemed to have gotten a lot of support last week, so.

I think it provided a rare insight into what a dirt bag you really are.

Well, I just want to hear something straight away because tomorrow it's on again.

There's a part again for Jack's birthday.

A lot of his mates coming around, a lot like going on fellas, we don't we don't want to repeat you stop being a shit stir an important pointing to you, Cooper.

John's and Jack, don't take everything the heart, okay, because he can be because even though he's my son Cooper, he can be a real funckward.

Sometimes I don't know that, I don't care.

I don't see if I give a ship.

But what a day.

On the YouTube.

On the YouTube, I had a little glance and there was this cute little comment from Dave mac Nothing like a bit of family bickering to on one hand make you miss your family and on the other hand make you glad you moved from Belfast to Australia.

It's very that sums up things.

Well.

Belfast is going to get a mention in this podcast today is wow.

Yeah.

Yeah, Well we've got to look I've got to We're got to look forward to.

We've got to.

I'm sure there's going to be a couple of Jack stories that come up from birthdays throughout the year, maybe some of our highlights of Jack.

But as we introduce each other, we do have a little bit of an introductional question.

If you could be any type of bird, which would you be?

And why I forgot mine?

Now I remember it now I'm a willly bgtail.

They're tiny, They're really tiny.

They're so tiny.

You barely see them because they're they're the ones that flutter their wings.

Sounds like you're across it.

The wings.

Yeah, the willy wagtails there, they're wings.

They go at eighty beats.

For second, I've got the wrong bird.

I'm a humming bird.

I want to be a humming bird.

Yeah, I wish you were to be humming.

But they're the ones.

Their wings fluttered so quickly.

I've only seen them when we were in California and l a oh.

Yeah, yeah, they almost say bloody.

You can barely see the wings.

They move so quickly.

They reckon They reckon a woodpecker.

They're the ones that like peck.

Really, the power that they have unbelievable.

They're pecking wood was the other day when I fed the I mean feeding the cooko bars by hand, and.

One of them when the neighbors aren't and hit.

Me on the hand, and I think, but they didn't hurt.

The beak was like a cardboard.

It wasn't sharp, although it's sharp, it didn't.

It got me to have cooker bar for that.

Koko bar is are beautiful.

Even even when I've been getting up early, they're out the front like bloody what do you call a.

Cooka baring laughing and Cooper, aren't you like they have a big beak like you done?

Oh wow, wow.

That's cheap.

They are of the King Fisher fan.

He likes to knock on wood.

He's done.

So I went with the I went with the ostriche.

Oh yeah, yeah, I am a big fan of the ostriche fastest two legged runners on earth.

If you didn't know that already, one of the only birds that can't fly right, they.

Can't fly the wireless.

Their eggs is huge.

Has had like a had one under his bed for like twenty years.

Looked like a grenade.

Yeah, I don't know if that was legal.

And then their eyes are bigger than their brain.

So that's a fun fact for.

Highly unintelligent bird flightless birds.

But they're great runners.

But aren't they vicious?

They're savage?

You can yeah, yeah, yeah, badly.

I can't remember.

But similar to like giraffe, they kind of use their neck and then like swing at you like that, they attack you, like by using their long necks to use what you've got, because you've seen how girafts fight.

They just hit each other with their head.

But like their necks like they whip their neck and they head but each other.

It's wild if you haven't seen it.

And like the they spit like the outpackers.

Don't you make that up that?

Don't don't try to be cool.

I mix it up with the camel.

Don't try to be don't try to be all cool and one at me with with animal facts.

Can I say something I did learn since we've had the kooker bar is visiting and feeding them.

The bit of food that you give them is too large.

They bang it to smack it, smack it down to be a smaller portion.

Because the thumbs, they can't use a knife, befoll So no thumbs, no thumbs.

Well, I don't think there are any.

I think we're the only things that have thumbs and imposables.

Primates, us and monkeys would be the only ones with thumbs, right, silver backs, yeah, all them.

Also to.

Listen to all smarty pants over there.

Everything you say.

He's trying to ruth, it's not even your birthday.

I like it, color, I like it.

You're not looking good for it.

Without without me, there is no birthday.

You're with.

Someone would be celebrating Jack's birthday, just not you.

Yeah, Well, I think without Dad and you, perfectly, there wouldn't be a Jack.

Because even if you, if you made it with someone else, there would be you'd have a kid, but it wouldn't be jackil it'd be someone else.

You probably have much better personality, may be funnier if you were with maybe like a grand Dania or something.

Dear, Jack was the most beautiful baby, most beautiful.

You, on the other handcover what was so good about Jack?

He was just beautiful, like looking.

Or yet, just beautifully beautiful baby with black eyes and black hair and just.

Gent for a swim this morning, and we went for some came back and as we're washing out the sandf our shoes, Jem and Dad got caught having a conversation about me when I was born.

Dad, give some context.

What did what did you tell Jim about Cooper when he was born?

Look, this is what happened Jack, Jack was born.

Jack took a while, It took about fourteen sixteen hours, and on the way through, with that massive head of his, he broke Trusia's tail barn.

That wasn't his fault.

I'd broken my tailbone previously.

Okay, that's right, he tell it's his birthday because you usually say it, but he actually now she's.

He did break it, but it wasn't his fault.

Everyone's cock sicks usually opens out.

I fractured, so we could say that he blew your back out, Jack blew your back out.

Yeah, very painful.

If anyone's had broken cocksix before.

Sure is.

And Cooper, well, Cooper was a bit of a concern because that I saw the doctor's chit chatting and I'm going, what is going on here?

And I said, what's going on?

They had to emergency cesareant because Cooper wasn't being fed with court and when he came out, man, he was like string bean.

It was just a color, was not amazing.

What did truth say?

Went, Oh he's.

I couldn't even say, oh, he's beautiful, and oh he's not like Jack?

Is it?

So when you said that, that wasn't even digging me.

You mean I was a real ugly baby.

Oh yeah, but it was only because you were purple, like you've been start of opsiden and everything.

Yeah, somebody had been with grimace.

I actually said sure.

I said, no, true, he's perfect.

He's beautiful.

Now, however, it would be a Dodo bird as you would rare, flightless, extinct short bird.

Well, yeah, the shortened stature from the Mauritius.

By the way, it's one of the smartest.

It was one of the smartest birds given brain to body ratio.

It's it's a greedy Yet it's a greedy bird.

They said that its mouth obsessive, which is very similar to me because I had to walk past the fridge and it was made exti from the Mauritius by the Dutch.

When the Dutch went in there.

And they ate them.

They weren't that clever, were they called her?

They just wiped him ount and hence the why I'm naturally suspicious of the Dutch.

Yeah, you you always say that.

I went to a conference yesterday and there was a guy, a speaker who was Dutch and halfway through the there's nothing funny than on a panel when someone gets asked a question and they go, sorry, I was not listening at all.

You repeat the question, and he was Dutch.

Crazy Dutch bush, did you know?

And you know what's funny.

Usually we'd shut down Jack when he says that sort of stuff birthday, but it's his birthday.

So what we're going to do is we're going to charity laugh, and we're not going to put shit on him because we love him.

He's got a big, smiling fast And you know, Cooper, we have to thank you for not being grizzle pants today because for many, many many years, whenever it was anyone else's birthday in the family, Cooper crack the shits all day long.

Not there, nissic, narcissistic way.

Color, I have another track of that.

What have you done?

Have another crack at the wordissistic, narcissistic?

Yeah, I used to, But you know what I think.

I look at kids now and even they're the same.

Like no other child is.

Someone else takes.

Someone else takes the toy, they want to play with the toy, someone else's birthday.

I wish it was my birthday back then.

It's just the way ship was.

And maybe that came back from me back in the umbilical cord, when I was underfed, underappreciated.

Fight for your life, you were fighting.

You're a bing chicken, You're a.

I would I find scraps, I just pick up the scrapes and no one else would do.

I would put my head where people wouldn't put their feet.

Larry that's probably true, but you did you would always eat anything.

Yes, we found that as he's matured.

No, he was always he'd try it, he would try well.

That's what our dad's always said this, I'm trysexual.

I'll try anything.

Three times.

I got a bit of feedback from the back Stage podcast from the Great Martina Fire sent the text when I said, you know, I'd do anything for including eats.

What I said, Dylan Dylan Walker.

We're talking Dylan Brown's pay packet, paypacket.

That's right here.

Maybe try listening Coober and we.

Went boom boom boom and ice is made.

I'll do any of that sort of money, even eat us and Martin fied text me and goes, really, whose ass are we talking about?

I refrained from saying you're.

You are Well, there's a former friend for former Sorry I meant to say former teammates.

Don't know, I said friend who's a friend of the podcast.

It's not a former teammate anyway.

Didn't you play with it?

I didn't mate, just against him, just against you former team who cares.

Respectful rival.

I've been up early because I've been on a radio.

The cooker bars one Yeah, singular gifts for Jack.

What did you guys get him today?

For his birthday?

Special got him the world's most comfortable pair of.

He's very textual, just what everyone needs going into summer summer pajamas.

But in summer you just go new not everyone doing Jack does, don't you Jack?

It doesn't slept together.

Yeah, when we're like four and three, maybe then maybe possibly.

Should out to Eggain.

I can't even watch that sh that's the richest spee.

The Specter made.

I've gone.

I bought him an Oasis T shirt.

It's a cracking T shirt.

Yeah, it's cool, it's really cool.

It's it good Jack.

Yeah, it's actually main one.

I got one for Dad waiting for when we go see them later in the year as well.

Waiting there.

It's the same, we're doing it almost an exchange.

I got Dad an Oasis T shirt a year ago as well.

Yeah he still Yeah, I remember that one I've got you that you wear that one.

The one represent Liam Gallaghan one.

Oh yeah, yeah, I love it.

It's really really good.

I shouldn't have to remind you.

Sorry, I just so that was more singular.

Liam Gallagher as opposed.

To says Oasis on it because I've got I've got a few couple of gifts for Jack.

One is there's some audio gifts and then there's a physical gift.

Jack.

Start, what do you want to start with?

Let's go to the audio gift.

Start with the audio.

Okay, I can mix it out.

Yeah, well keep talking while I just connect to the blue tooth.

I wouldn't mind as listening to you awkwardly trying to.

Just actually could could you tell everyone what Jem got you JACKO?

You're very excited.

Yeah, Jim got me a pastor maker and like a what do you call that?

Where you're master and the pastor maker your past to make?

It is the run it through thing.

Yeah, it's a pretty cool gift.

It's a homemade or recipe of the week.

We should do we should actually do something vision wise the recie.

Well, it's your birth it's your birthday.

Do you want in your face?

You see the presidence Trus got me over your paper shredder, window cleaner and that wooden noughts and crosses pack.

That was another little gift today.

Actually, but now that you're sounding so, I appreciate if I might put it on myself.

It wasn't it wasn't one of Kim Kardashian's new Well they what are they?

They are hairy underwear where it's like they it's a G string with like fake hair on it.

If you're a brand Skims, they've released it like g strings.

But through the week it's like hair.

Oh yeah, and.

There's like there's like fifty different like colored ranges of hair that you can have like custom to it.

It's it's been big news this week.

They sold out people a lot of time.

Why do they want that?

Because everyone went hairless and now they want hair now?

Now everyone wants to be hairless, but they almost want like a twope for.

Their we want bush.

Okay.

Now.

The first voice these are just these are three voice messages from her or from your friends.

First one is Curtis Dark, your former roommate Jack.

He sends her a nice little.

Message, Happy birthday, Cobber.

So lucky to have you in my corner.

Mate.

You make me laugh, you made me cry, and everything in between, and it wouldn't change it for the world.

Keep being your unique self.

Yeah, Throwstone, I love it.

I can't wait to see you to mate chears.

Oh that's nice.

Is he coming tomorrow?

Jack Yeah, dark You'll be there excited to see he's staying.

He's staying the night, Darky.

You see, really I told him he staying in your bed.

You used to live in the Sex Loves together.

We did borrow the antals every night as I do.

Just see you're filthy.

That how his humor's gotten dirty or and dirty?

Don't you think as he's because you used to be really like family friendly, family branding friendly.

As you guys have got older, I mean, look, you're twenty, you're going on twenty six.

He's twenty eight.

You are twenty six, he's twenty eight.

Come on, I mean, really, you know you want to be family friendly?

Come yeah, I'm with you.

That's right, probably probably a good thing.

The next the next one is from another one of your great mates, Zach Hosking Jackson.

Hey, Jackie boy, here, mate, wanted to wish you a massive happy birthday.

I hope to today you're as.

Happy and joyful as our under.

Twenty is mad Monday.

Weekend where you were dressed in a cardigan top that reflect your sunglasses, and we kept.

Telling you how good you look.

And I've never seen you so tough.

I've never seen you ask for a photo or of my life at that moment when really you look like a complete fox with I hope, I hope to spouse you.

I would like to see a danger can from you if possible, And yeah, I hope you have a great day.

Mate, you drive Turkey.

The Great Mule.

Yeah, yeah, I brought that when my group of mates, my group will be a bit of a collab race.

A few of the boys that I grew up with a you're going to be there tomorrow, and my great mate Martha come up with the danger can, which is when you grab a pretty much a canas CC every time it ends up being and you smash it across your forehead until it except breaks.

Let's not do you know what the thing about it is they never really drank it, like they just they just smashed it and then they tried to like it back in those college days where you get a key and you puncture the key into the bottom, then you crack the top.

That's called a shotgun and you can drink it really quick.

It's like a beer final.

It's actually a really great way to scull the drink.

It's really easy.

But they're not no no, But like if you want to like up to you guys.

But yeah, what Jack and his mates used to do it just used to destroy the liquor.

I always be sitting there like no, and I'd lick it off the ground.

Hick actually said, nothing says lord of there like that.

It's a great idea to bring the newcast until we won't say his name, but a member of Lakes United these days might have accidentally glassed himself and forgot that he had it.

It wasn't a can, it was actually a glass.

But you know what, what if they can split and cut, that would be holy.

Don't danger can is a bad.

Famous But we got one more.

I haven't now.

I haven't proof listened to this one because he's just sent it through, just from Tommy Starling, another one of the boys that lived in.

That with you.

I didn't say we may have to hit it might be he'll be fine.

My dearest friend, Jack, I hope you have a great day on your birthday.

I hope it's spent with family and friends.

I hope you have a few beers.

Hopefully don't get too drunks and may fall out of yourself, which you sometimes can do.

But hopefully you have a.

Great day, mate.

I hope you tell a joke and everyone in the room last.

I know that's one of your your main goals.

Have a great day, brother.

I'll see you soon, mate, love.

Although it did started, it sounded like he was reading it.

It sounded like, my dear friend, Jack, how much did you how much did you pay for that one?

Friends?

Yeah, that one was very under it and like Stalo, he found it hard to wrap it up.

When you interview Staralo, we did it on a shower.

He just kept talking around in circles.

It came clear that he couldn't find the end of the sentence.

He was like drunken.

He was like a drunken looking for the doorway in the dark.

He just trying to trying to wrap up the interview, and he just didn't know how.

He just keeps going and going, doesn't know how.

And then Jack, I've got a little physical gift for you as well.

Oh there, brother, thanks to me, I got you.

Now, don't whatever you do, don't open it because if it's not the right size, you can get one size up.

We can return it.

But if something trying to show it, yeah.

Well I hope.

So what is this.

This is something sexual.

Is that of meta glasses?

It's a meta AI glasses.

So these are meta glasses.

So like they have a camera on them, is that right?

And like records so you can record.

You can They're like they're actual sunglasses to the sunglass version.

They're like with ray band and then they you can like listen to music or you can through your son you can film through your sunglasses.

You can take video calls.

What kind of sonnies are they doing?

Wayfair is but the look of it the sand is that a type of Yeah, that's the traditional rap.

I don't know.

I was on.

I bought it literally as we were coming on this partty, so last minute it's like a c I A almost only.

When you said, oh do you want your things?

I said, yeah, I could use like some new clothes because like you know, I just pay me out every twenty seconds for wearing the same kid all the time.

Is there possibly going to be a new outfit for we can know?

What I did was I went to the mall and I looked for ages and there was nothing that stood out to me.

I thought, this is all shit.

So then I walked into JB High Fine I saw those and I was like, you know what, that's good and I wanted to spend money on I didn't want to get you, like just a pair of shoes and a ship pair of shorts.

And you go, oh mate, because I'm proud of you and I although it's the shit I give you, I do love you.

Thanks for me have a moment.

What will don't open them though?

Yeah?

Is it just an empty box?

No?

No, no, they're in there.

But I'm still just trying to stick over what I'll use them for.

But a great thought.

Now, they were the ones that make things as you're walking down the street, pretend things happen.

I think they project like into your thing and that Okay, it's time to move on to the story of the week.

There's a big story this week.

We went up to the Gold Coast Trishan are and the day that we're leaving there was a nasty incident.

Tristan, you want to fill the people in what happened.

He began staying with friends and we knew the power is going to be off for a little bit because there was some work in the building.

Anyway, I you know, we've been up there a few days and sometimes when I'm away.

I get a little constipated.

Yeah, oh well that ended right.

So that was in there forever and I, oh, Matt, can you can I go?

And can I use the bathroom please?

So he does his business, he finishes, he flashes it.

Boom boom boom.

I go in.

It's a mega ship, by the way, she did Matt to speak about my personally, I reckon it was a two ko because I get to look at it.

Because so then I.

Do my business finally, thank god.

Go to flush, No flush, try again, no flush, no water, no flush.

I put led down immediately and go your water not working to Oh I don't know.

I don't think so I think, yeah, I think it's not.

And this is my reason.

And they said, under no circumstances open that leap.

It was chance, they said, of being off the water, not operating.

All day yet the afternoon after three.

So that toilet suit is down.

It was hot and humid up there.

That is just baking.

It just grew leg.

You were quicker, mat.

If you were quicker and you sit there on the toilet, you sit there for ages, wasting time.

But get in do business and you get out.

Well, well, do the business.

My god, I've really seen anything like it.

It was like it was like a piece of cable.

Almost stain the porcelain.

I remember that an incident happened to me when I was younger and single, where that sort of thing happened while I was staying at a lady's house, and it was almost like there's a movie where a similar thing happens and he throws the toilet out there still dumb and dumber, dumb and dumber when they're in pulls it out the window.

I didn't do that.

I just sat in there until it started working again.

I was in there for so long, like forty fifty minutes.

You know, if you get a bucket of water and pour it down.

But the thing was Matt said, oh, no, worries, I get a bucket of water.

I went that, you're not listening to me.

There's no water.

Water I had.

I had a similar incident where I'd woken up hungover one morning up at old bar and I was staying at Darky's parents' house and they're lovely, lovely family, and I'd gotten in there and you know, when you know, you just know it's going to be ugly because you might have done a few fars or something.

You're like, oh my god, you never a surprise.

You're never surprised, and it's going to be bad.

Right.

It's almost like it's chill.

It's like hot and it's coming out.

And I thought to myself, I need to you know, you're looking for the window and if you can't, you know, some of them were like their slide, like there's a screen, You've got to slide them to oways getting stressed.

I open this up and I just got to the point where I just couldn't open it.

And then you know, when you're doing it and you're like, oh god, like how is this?

How is this not seeping in?

Even if you do a cursey flush, sometimes.

You've got to do courtesy flash.

It makes a big difference.

Wait, you've told I've told.

Us four weeks and okay, can I tell another story.

A friend of mine went home with a girl.

Right home with a girl.

He goes in to get a shower.

She's about to join him in the shower.

He goes to fart in the shower before she comes in, completely ships himself, so he's actually to race before she gets in, and he's trying to kick it down the drain, all right.

I got a couple of I got a couple of ship I got a couple of ship stories.

Now that you've reminding me, Jack, can I tell the one about you?

I apologize to everyone, tell this all the time.

I don't remember one after your shoulder surgery.

No, I can't tell that it's my birthday.

How dare you?

It's right?

Because because you have to wait till.

It's not my birth I'm just going to tease what like a little bit of what in fairness, But I had that.

Pickline through to my heart getting pumped with the maximum amount of antibiotics the human being could be pumped with in Australia, no one.

There's no experimental experimental like medication, and the side effects were off their head.

My eyes nearly turned orange and my urine was honestly like orange jello coming out of me.

There is no excuse for I imagine I was.

All I will say is I videoed it and then Jack made me delete it.

But it may be out there still somewhere, and at Jack's funeral, I'll be playing here forever under in the ye cloud somewhere it is, but on gas and Gail.

Let's bring up another Gaz and Galia when I was up there recently, because I do some large herds every now and then, and I don't know you're the king of I don't think Gas and Gail are used to having someone in their house as of late who can really destroy your toilet, So they like don't really have any They have just like one of those little air freshen of things that hang there.

They don't have a spray.

Now I'm someone I'll spray whole thing so you know it'll come out and you can barely smell anything apart from air freshener.

And I'm in there and I absolutely destroy this there, destroy it and I'm looking and it stinks no courtesy flush, and I'm going, how do I get rid of this?

And there's just like a tiny window.

So I open this tiny window sort of like make fan things like to push it out the window.

And I come out thinking that Gas and Galic kind of kind of being the living thing.

They're sitting out the front having a cup of tea for.

Where I've just where I've just fanned, and I still remember going out and Gas was just looking at me and goes Jesus, you did a good job on that.

Another one, an NURL player on a mad Monday once went home with a girl and she was in the shower and he was saying, he's sitting there, did ad did a fart which ended up into to a pool?

Oh no, And it was he was laying on her bed.

So her whole bed and sheets get covered and he's sitting there thinking what do I do here?

What can I possibly do?

And he just picks up all the sheets and so she's just got a sheetless pet there now with two pillows.

He's sitting there holding it and he just goes screw it, just threw it in a closet and then just left.

And then and then just had she was in the shower and then and then he just had to block her and just like he couldn't because there's no way you can recover from something.

Find the washing machine and pop it in the washing machine.

Immediately, you got to explain yourself, well you.

Do just cut myself or something and actually intentionally give I wanted to put it straight.

Give us a clue.

Is it someone that's into yoga and pilates to basically entwiny.

It's not even it's not even someone I played with, but it's one of the one of his teammates told me once the drink, You'll never hear, You'll never know a story about these blas.

Who would you least want to your sister stink out a toilet in front of so say you're living like it's a really small apartment.

The bathroom's straight off the living area.

You know, it's all essentially like a one.

One Oh, it's a girl, like a Roman like I even when I was with my ex girlfriend up until like a year in, I didn't even want her knowing I was.

I had an asshole, you know what I mean?

Like you want.

I'm your son, any.

Sense of any sense of appropriateness that would that would that would be funny if I wasn't your son, Like that's.

Your your you're you're twenty six, grow up?

You go.

Yeah, I think there's I still know bokes who are married to girls and they've never seen them who that's.

Really I know people who will not ship in a toilet unless it's in their house.

People, Oh yeah, one of those now used to be I do nightclub poos all the time now, But back in the day, I would hold shop and I'd hold it at school all day.

Get me home, I'll go to get the door.

That was alright, camp hold on for our four days just because it was squat toilet.

I did the same thing one of my one of my school camps where we're going to the bush, I held on for like two or three days because it's not campus.

Yeah, it can't be good for you.

No, it's not can go when you need to go.

Speaking of speaking of people camping at the moment, Uncle Joe rang me for my birthday this morning.

He still complaints.

You got He's in g Land at the moment, so that's like Jahua in Java, Indonesia.

So he's over there, so you had to fly in the new beach and across he's staying at this like village, right, and he looks like it is driving him mad.

Oh no really, Yeah, he's wishing me have your birthday.

And I could just tell, like just looking at him, I was.

Like face tanged.

Yeah, yeah, he's a bit off and he was wishing me happy birthday.

He reckons he's having to walk around with a stick because the monkeys have just got it out for him.

He reckons they've just turned on him.

So he was saying that his village is like secluded because apparently there's like rumors of ghosts.

Although he's not very spiritually, I think it's starting to turn him that it's a very it's like a ghost infested village while they're surfing over there, and yeah, I think it's driving it pretty.

Mad that how long till he's home.

He's cord he's getting the early flight back now, so he's coming back a day early because he honestly reckons the monkeys are teaming up on him in groups of three, where one will distract him and the other two will try and circle around him to try and steal stuff from his room.

I do that.

But how self absorbed has Joey got to be to think that the monkey's only targeting him.

I know he would realize it's having to everyone else.

But he's telling you about his experience.

I think you're being a little unfair.

He just sent me.

He just sent me a vision of him on like his li like patio at front of his room, and there's a monkey.

I'm going to add it into the potty this week.

It's a monkey just staring in from the roof, and in fairness, it does look like this monkey has.

For him.

Another one has it in for him, not out has it in, he has it out for him.

And also thanks for it's a birthday.

Birth fix the vaca.

Can I just also give a I got a birthday message and he's been hanging out with the monkeys in Bali to the ras Man, Cooper, can we give a little bit of an update where the ras Man is at the moment, rais Man's over in Bali.

He's everyone's over in Bari.

He's over there, and we paid him for his services for our help during the final series, so we actually like now he had enough money to go to Balley, but he could only go one way, so he's fund well for the coma and the ticket there.

He said he didn't have enough cash.

He's over there for a while, so he's going to have to, like I think he said he's going to try to do some part time work somewhere in.

Shangle, Sleepless and Russian boilers.

So like I don't really know, like if they'll even let foreigners kind of do some part don't work over there if you can get money, but we'll.

Just send him more money.

The money is going to.

I did get to face some of whom last night.

It sounds like it's.

Yeah, he's pretty much hired a convoy of bikes.

So I don't know.

I don't know where that money is going.

Hey, Jackie, I think you've got a post too for people and Tricia's worst night there.

The guy that Jack's that Joey's over there with his bed's got their beds, got bed bugs.

To get rid of all their stuff.

You know you should bring it back.

To take your word for it.

His feet and just added into yeah, so the bed like the accommodation is a bit of a no.

He must be going mad over there because he sent me the photo of his mate's feet from the bed bargs and it is honestly it's.

Does his room have bed bucks?

Look at his I don't think.

I think he's all right, but you can imagine if it's in the room next year, you'd be getting paranoid.

But it's the luggage and the clothes and everything.

You have to burn what you got to burn everything.

As soon as they're getting your clothes, you can't get him out.

If you bring that back and put in your room, your room's gonna have.

But you can't even wash, like if you wash it while they die, I don't think so.

No, you can't have them fumigated apparently, I don't know.

You wouldn't burn it?

I would.

Can we just can we just do a shout out to somebody on a really positive note?

I want to shout out to Willy Peters.

Willy Peters who is just a tremendous man who was just so respected in regular league as not just as a terrific player, he's proved himself as an amazing cage but just a wonderful person and made He's gone over the whole whole have been a struggling club over there for a long long time.

They have just won the triple.

They won the Challenge Cup Final, they won the Minor Premiership and they've just won the Grand Final.

Wow, Willy, congratulations, incredible crowd they took on Wigan.

Incredible, fantastic game of football and well under Willie.

He had a difficult time he was here at and manly had a really difficult time from people in the coaching staff.

One thing, one of these he basically had a strengthening different conditioner he was giving him a hard time.

One thing is Willy is not a big guy, and he's really amicable.

He's really nice guy, but it overshadows the fact that he can fight like a like a tiger.

And this guy was hassling on a mad Monday.

The bloke was twice the size of Willy.

Will He said out the front, walked out there and just gave him a hiding.

So good on Willie.

Congratulations mate, and well und all the people at whul Kingston and you have.

A shoutout to Sue.

He's one with them over there.

He's been there since will He's been there.

He went from Newcastle with Willy two whole kr and Jesse said he texted me.

He said he will be replacing his laptop, Willi's work laptop.

As they poured the in the sheds.

If you saw the vision he poured the tea at our raid together the power raid container over him while Willi was holding the laptop.

It looks like that map laptop will not see another day.

Well, I think I don't think really would mind.

He was Apparently he was really apparently just like he's willly shacked him.

Apparently, will he said, I wish we didn't win the comp now because you ruin my laptop.

You often see that the old the old, the old sports drink over the coach at the end of the winning the ring.

I mean surely your wait till he's not holding his laptop.

They usually do it out on the field.

I feel would do it in the shed.

There's a long shot of winning.

No, no, no favorite favorites that I thought Wigan was.

Sorry, not the Grand Farm on the weekend.

No, I think Wigans might have been narrow favorites, but it wasn't a great shot that.

But you always do it out on the field when the coaches is out there kind of hugging the boys.

You do it then.

I don't know why they didn't have the gatoragge stuff out there.

Maybe Jesse thought, you know what, how could I ruin Willy's day?

Well, and the other thing, Will he is Will he's going to be assistant coach to Kevin Walters saw with the Australian side along with yep there with and good and just we're on that note.

I just want to say this because he's friends with the family, is that sometimes you do things for people and you don't expect any thanks back.

From last year when the Fox was going through a hard time.

We reached out to him as a family, invited him over and then we did the podcast early and we keep talking about how good he played.

When he got called into the Australian side, he ran me and said, Maddie, I just want to thank you and the family when I went through the hard time, you reached out to me and just tell the family it means a lot.

And I think that says a lot about Josh had Ocar.

Yeah, he will be fantastic on that tour.

Oh mate, he'll be good fun.

They've got a lot of characters in that team.

We like warriors.

What we like warriors, we like people who can come back.

Sorry, Andrew Webster, not the you've had You.

Know, that's when you're really find who your friends are.

Sure?

Have you ever had serious question for everyone here?

You ever gone through bad times and then like just not like had people seen true colors with people and then never befriended him again?

Yeah?

I have I reckon.

Yeah, when you go through tough times, one of the one of the silver linings is the fact you can do spring cleaning on your friends and associates.

Yeah, I reckon.

I've had a couple of them, and not that I have like completely given them the cold shoulder, just prior prior, but like you see who your real friends are as in the in the words that I often say to the boys who I've given a wrap during tough times, I said, you guys are the groomsmen.

That's what I give for my real type, the type boys who who they're wearing the tucks with me on grand final wed.

Okay, well who at the moment, I can't say.

That because then what if in two years time he's I go through a tough time and he brushes me, then I'll piece him off.

Groom party is changeable, you know when well, I'll say Jack will be the best man no matter what Jackson, even if Jack's just continues to be a piece of ship, just because blood, he is the best man.

I'm locally kind of in my wedding party.

I had a couple of guys as my my wedding party, and I actually extended the wedding party to make sure they were in on it.

When they got married.

They didn't invite me into the wedding party.

Really, I left a bit of the whole did that did that annoy you that you were hurt.

I was hurt by because it's very it's a very hard thing I'm actually going through at the moment.

Now I'm going to getting the age where weddings and people being married and I'm now going to be a groomsman at one of my best mate's weddings, and we're going through the list of you've only got like a limited amount of people, and you've got to invite family over friends, especially even if you haven't seen that feeling for a long time.

It's very hard to very it looks very very It's not it's not something I'd be looking forward to, to be honest.

No, it's and I think that's why a lot of people these deeds do tend to well, they don't necessarily elope, but they have destination weddings because by having a destination wedding, it like sure, yeah, narrows that wedding party, who group, who will win to travel.

For in the weeks to come, when when sort of we all start to depart for the end of the year, we'll do We'll do a big episode on weddings, film episodes on weddings.

Yeah, We've got a wedding coming up in a few weeks, so I've got I've got.

To come up, and they got Tomy Travorovitch's in December.

And proposals.

We're going to do a whole thing on proposals.

So if anyone has any unusual, strange, or particularly interesting or funny wedding proposal stories, please send them through to me on Instagram.

We have there are so many funny wedding and proposal guards.

We have so many good wedding stories.

Not that I want to tell them because.

I want to blow.

It's a way for the special.

But do you know, how did you catch up with during the week former teammate Carl Lawden, who's up at the Cowboys.

He came down here and we had a big few of us ex Manly boys all caught up down at the Collarway.

We had to be down there.

Jesus.

It was boody fun.

It was Oh you just there's something people give people an insight into Carl Lawton because you are I remember when you moved back to Sydney and he was at Manly when you went there.

I've never seen you take quite a shine to someone since probably shandor where you and Shandor became extremely.

Some messages here and there be the water you the duck.

Yeah.

Lordo is just a great man, great fishermen, real handy, very good looking bloke.

We take your shirt off, good re hairline completely gone now like almost completely, it all butchered.

But what I love about Lordo is and you know what's okay, this is a great Jack story because we were all talking about this.

Brad Parker loves this story.

Parks.

We had a good crew down there and we started telling stories and then Jack rang us.

I mean we FaceTime Jack at one stage, because we're playing a game where you have to FaceTime someone.

If they don't pick up, then you've got a skully beer.

So Parks rang Jack and Jack didn't pick up, and the Parks had a skull.

Jack rang him straight back.

But we started telling the young because for some reason, Jack doesn't really hate anyone, but he can have like we saw last week and have these moods where he gets angry and then just turns on everyone.

One night we.

Were out at having a beer Hilton the Hilton.

Just it was Aussie day, Coop.

You know how I know that because I remember why I was pissed off that day.

Why what was it?

That was the day that I put Cooper?

I had Cooper against the wall.

Oh yeah, he put me up by my throat against the wall.

That was fun anyway, Yeah, that was another great one.

There was also another.

There was another day not too long after that where he nearly put Dad through the wall as well, instead put a chair.

Instead put a chair through the walls.

Pretty share that the jip rocking.

Yeah, he paid for it, he'll be fine.

Anyway, we went out and then Jack.

Jack went out with his friends.

I went out with all I think I'm still playing the all potentially, so all my manly teammates.

And then we all ended up the same place, Jack with his mates.

And then anyway, we're kind of staying out of each other's way.

But then we all went.

Jack was pretty belligerent, So then we'll get home because it was in a bad mood, and Lordo came as well with it because he didn't live too far.

Anyway, Jack took it upon himself because he knew me lord over close.

Rather than take it out on me, he thought, to get to me, I'll go through Lordo.

Yeah I did, started saying some of just like just just some disgusting.

Things to that.

It wasn't that what I said, It was more what I was doing.

But LORDO offered to take us through Machas, right, you explained it what I did.

Yeah, But prior to that, you were just like, oh, yeah, good on your lord like you were giving him shit and that LORDO was just kind of coughingent like, what the hell's Jack's deal?

Because everyone keeps saying Jack's such a nice guy, and he clearly wasn't.

Lordo goes, oh, yeah, i'll go through macaus.

I'll get whatever you want.

And I went, I'll just get a cheeseburger meal.

Someone else was in the car.

I get that.

Jack ordered like fifty six cheeseburgers.

No, not that many.

How many was it that?

No, it was like two family mills.

It was two family boxes from McDonald and then and then yeah, well a family gst never heard a story about unfortunately for Jack's that you can ruin everything.

Yeah, and then made like LORDO pay for it, and then Jack all did.

Jack took one burger out of it, ate it and then just left the rest.

Oh wow, yeah, I hope you reimbursed him.

That's incredible and very unlikely.

I don't think you did lost all these money?

How together?

Cowboys?

Yeah, well, maybe do a bank transfer mate.

I know it was, it was over.

It was eighteen months ago.

I ranged lord of the next day we sort of it.

But did you pay for it?

I don't even remember getting it to a.

Family meal at MacDonald's.

I didn't even know.

It's just like it's like kind of like it's four meals.

It feeds a whole family.

Is it bad that I need to pay him?

I did think, true, I did think to myself that was quite creating for me, you know what I will say?

And all the boys said the same thing when we're talking about the weekend.

They said it was one of the great gets, like in hindsight twelve months later, but like it is something that is.

It was one of Jack's weirder moments.

He does have them in the last twenty eight years.

Hopefully got more to come in the next twenty eight.

You read it years, are you going to be Tom Jackson?

Jack case?

From my age, I'll be dead earlier.

Adien Brian took men would chat today, but how long we got left?

I went?

I read said I've got about twenty five years.

I reckon, that's not that's fairly seventy nine.

Science, medicine and science these days called who knows?

You could be three hundred way your body looks could be four hundred for sure.

Where do you want to get to?

What age do you want to go?

I'd like to go eighty eight, about eighty nine.

Eighty nine?

But I'm happy with like sixty.

Are you stoke?

Yeah?

But you're saying that now as a young person, the close you get to the older age, you want a little bit more.

Are you joking?

Three?

Like?

I was happy with like, I would have been.

Happy with fifty when I was younger.

I'm glad I've made.

Over when I was six.

I remember literally thinking when I was fifteen, I was happy with thirty.

Yeah, I was genuinely I was like, if I get to thirty, sweet when that goes to.

Show you got a pretty short term mindset?

Could old fish when you I remember being a kid up at the caravan park in the middle of a caravan part of the Neodas Beach, and and it was Chris, it was new ys Eve and Dad was singing two at a three am bad by meet life.

Everyone was singing, and I remember looking at Dad at the time going, man, I hope I never get that old.

And looking back now he was twenty seven.

Lay.

Yeah, Wow, that must have been so weird for you, having such young because they had you.

At what, Aden, Aden, that's so random?

Well, you know what, I'm surprised, Well, not that you're not.

But like I can't even imagine myself with a kid on twenty eight right now.

But I'm surprised.

Just aren't almost like closer being that being so close in age, do you know what I mean?

Because it's so close, Like I feel like I've got friends who are eighteen years older than me, Like former teammates would be Oh hang on, who would be old that old?

They'd have to be forty four.

It's a different relationship, you know, than friends because your parents are disciplined you and you always look at them as much older.

Yeah, who knows we're friends.

Did you think that we were when you were young?

Did you think we were older or younger parents?

No?

I always thought younger.

Yeah, and we kind of worked because everyone else at the school, their kids were the last ones where you guys are out.

There, don't get ugliness mixed up with age trush.

Yeah, I wouldn't about other people.

Have you got a film fame, Yeah, I certainly have.

And today I decided I was just of political mood.

I wanted to focus on political songs.

You know, oftentimes mate political songs and bands, great bands can change culture.

Countries.

Should have made it ideas, should have made it Jack themed?

Yes?

Too late?

Is it too late?

Yeah?

Because we could save political for next week.

But now it's all right, So I've spent a bit of time enough for Jack's birthday.

So whilst the political song can change things, it still needs to be a toe tapper and it still has to fail the old Gray Whistle test.

So what the hell is that great whistle?

Like?

You said that just to make sure it's in a niche.

You haven't you heard that?

You have not heard that saying the old gray whistle?

What's say?

No?

And I'm okay.

There used to be there was there was a music show in England that went from the sixties through to the late eighties, and it was it was called the old Gray Whistle test because all the gray bands like led Zeppelin, the great rock bands in their recording studio that they used to record.

It was an iconic recording studio.

What they would do to test They will go out in the street, get a couple of old people and play the music to them like led Zeppelin, and if the old people started whistling along with it, then they went and failed the old gray whistle test.

So they make it a little bit more hardcore where if an old person will sit down and go it's not really my kind of music.

They still were on the right track, so that was the old gray whistle test.

That's interesting.

If they didn't whistle, it passed the test.

If they did, then they tried to put more east to the.

Song reckon a flow rider.

Can't with that one cop that's for that song you had you knowing to blow my whistle, baby, whistle baby.

I've never even heard a flow rider apart from when you go on cruises and got that sort of that serving thing.

I just let that go.

That's my birthday.

I want to pull him up.

Did you see my face?

Yeah?

I actually talked to my face away, thinking do I do it?

But then I thought it is your birthday.

Okay, let's go gold, silver, bronze, political songs.

True, I went paper Lakes Billy, don't be a hero about civil War.

Then I went sex pistols, God Save the Queen, and then my numb more or not is Sunday bloody Sunday?

You do what's Sunday bloody Sunday about?

It's about It was about Croak Park when they were playing Gaelic football one day Croak Park, and it was when the troubles were happening, and the tanks rolled up at Croke Park, and the Irish thought it was a big joke and they and a bloke went along one of the Gaelic players and chipped over like did the chip and chase over the top of the tank.

Anyway, they turned their guns on them and started shooting people.

Oh no way.

Hence why they've only in the last ten years allowed rugby union to be played at Croke Park.

Traditionally Croke Park was only for gaa hurling and gay football and they wouldn't let England play there in a union because it was a British game.

Wow, that's that's actually very interesting.

I remember a movie about that when I was young, and after seeing footage of the of the movie, I don't.

Know what the movie was called.

Michael Collins.

Was that what it was when I was very young and I started having nightmares after that ongoing.

Very scary Michael Caine, Michael bloody.

I told about the safe, not blood, the bloody doors off.

You talk like Michael Kaine.

You start high pitched and slowly get down on my emotions, because that's how Michael.

Come on, Google, let's do it.

We've got all day three.

I mean, sorry, Bronze Midnight Oil beds are burning, Global warming.

Beds of burning?

Indigenous rights?

Was it Indigenous rights?

Okay?

I was because when I went to not oil concerts, to a concert at rod Laver Arena had like I didn't realize how many songs are political, all of them are of them.

It was actually very good to watch because I had like a screen behind it.

Number two Cranberry's Zombie.

That was about the cost of conflict.

It was after the Ira bombings, and it was about like the human cost of conflict.

Obviously zombies meaning that everyone's dead.

And then my gold was not ready to make nice by the chicks.

It's about war anti and they the government tried to I think it was the American government tried.

To cancel George W.

Bush Yeah, the chicks after they were they did like an anti war song.

They tried to cancel them, and they know.

They made a speech, they spoke.

They did the song a few years after because they had to essentially disappeared.

There were threats made on their life after some award show and they made some political comment in this speech.

Yeah, and that's what the song's about.

I'm not ready to make nice.

They're not ready to forgive because like they were getting it.

Because they come back threat It was terrible.

Birthday boy, I've gone with my third I've got Masters of War by Bob Dylan during I believe it was Vietnam.

Let's go Jah, Could you give us a little tune on your birthday?

It's like, it's very hard, It's very hard to do a Bob Dylan.

Was a young boy.

My father that is it took me to the city to watch that marching band.

What is that song that by my chemical romance?

Chemical, my chemical romance, Bob Dylan.

I think I'll go the other way, Jack.

I think Bob Dylan's really easy to sing.

I could do any sort of Bob doing so you give okay, I'll go stepping sad the a of your man.

Don't you know you've mad fast?

Why I didn't want to do it?

Please to please you see the thank you?

We get the idea.

Yes, Virginia, you're very good at that.

Do landslide.

I don't know the words.

The thing about Bob Dylan is you don't want to sound like Bob Dylan because he's if he if he came now, he would not be famous because he's just not He's not lyrically or vocally good enough.

Now.

It was that it was the juxtaposition of his songs, meaning did not have a great bully Well it's an acquired voice, but it sung about really important things.

But I don't think if he if he wasn't born mate, then I think that time appreciate him.

I reckon if it was now, I don't think you would like imagine imagine you're on the voice and you hear that.

What you know?

The thing is, what if the Beatles music was brought out now, would it be popular?

You know it's a relative time is everything they would Outlies is a very good book.

I think they would be able to adapt to the music these days.

Genius is genius, Thank you Time.

My second was Ohio By, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young from their Deja Vu album.

It's about protesters that were shot by the National Guard at the Ohio State University.

So one of the violence bit of a theme America.

That Jake you like trivia did Jenn Graham, Nash, Crosby, Stills and Nash.

He was the lad singer of the Hollies.

Interesting and my number one is Marvin Gaye What's going On?

From his obviously his favorite same same title as the album from when Ronald Reagan sent hundreds of police officers to bust up People's Park in Berkeley and yeah, towards all the young protesters known as Bloody Thursday.

So yeah, how good is that?

Why don't we to finish off?

Why don't we do a song?

Why don't we sing we see people?

My gold, Silver Bronze yet?

Oh haven't you?

My Bronze is Elvis Costello's Oliver's Army, which was an anti woar song about the troubles in Northern Ireland.

Was inspired when he saw the Brittish soul just walking through Belfast.

So my silver is mid not Oil's power and the passion off the Tender One album, it's about preserving our culture and rejecting American culture.

You know the thing Trish Australia don't become American.

Were you always were looking up to them?

And my number one is you're the Indies treaty, which was yeah, but indigenous rights and how the Australian government were very.

Slow to work on the treaty when when we're the Foxes last year at Melbourne, every time you'd score a try and they said, oh, what song do you just want?

They gave everyone a song.

I actually never got to have my song played.

What was your?

So I can't even remember because it never went up some Crosby sills in that the only triaschord was at SUNCRB Stadium, so they we didn't have control over the music, so it was like home crowds.

But that was Foxy's one treat.

Yeah for people, just a bit of a recommendation type in you're the Ydy Geil Break incredible version, awesome.

Absolutely, we'll round out with a song.

But let's it's a birthday boy, so why don't we let him pick?

You picked the song and we'll sing it.

I want you, I want you to sing flow Riders, blow my whistle we don't know, but we don't know the song.

You have to lead?

I know, but Jack, how how is anyone going to get into it?

No one will start singing.

It's birth?

Okay, all right, I'll go with We'll change it up.

Let's go with.

Do you know Marvin Gaye?

What's going on?

Let's going That's a ship song to sing, though, is it?

Why did I give it to Jack?

Why did you?

He pissed me?

I thought he.

No, No, scrap that getting better?

Do you feel the same?

People?

Watch on the movie if you get a spear moment.

It's really good and brilliant cinematography.

I gave you again, No Black Rabbit, also very good.

No song today, No, I've cracked it.

I gave you the chance stop no song.

I was halfway through one.

Trush has jumped in?

What was your actually half way through one?

And you jumped in the number one song of all times just by Rolling Stone Magazines?

You two?

One?

What time is it?

Time to get a watch?

Who is it?

It's almost time of the birth.

Okay, let's recreate it.

Let's recreate the whole thing.

Three?

All right, you wrap it up.

It's a wild and wily one today gentlemen.

All right, thanks everyone for listening.

Happy birthday.

I'm excited to celebrate it with you tomorrow over a few someone's on the.

Bit today, aren't sure you are?

Can come on on the bit you came, Lord and Gunner.

Yeah, he hates you so uh