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Would you date your cousin? · Talking Shed

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Welcome back to the Talking Ship podcast.
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Yo. Welcome back to the Talking Ship
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podcast. It's 2026.
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And we're back. Babies.
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New Year's name Us. That's right, we'll bring you
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the latest in sports, pop culture and life's big
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questions. On today's episode, I'm gonna
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give you an update, general update on basically my No Spin
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week. Yeah, and I'm gonna touch on
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Djokovic's heroics in the Australian Open last night.
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Goated, goated, bro, absolute goated.
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The realities of buying a car because I'm trying to buy a car
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because it gets on the way out, Yeah.
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And then the flat chats we had this week was would you be more
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inclined to be friends with a person because they are famous?
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I reckon we kick it off with the general update.
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General update Yeah, Djokovic because he is actually the GOAT.
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He is 100% of the GOAT. Like he's going for his 25th
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Grand Slam, which is the most of anyone.
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He's surpassed Federer all that like, which is crazy that he
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kind of dimmed Federer and the Dal's light because they were
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the greatest ever for about a year.
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And then Djokovic, not a year, but a couple of years, Djokovic
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came through and just pretty much like took over their
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legacies. But honestly, I used to like
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Hand on Heart. I used to hate them Djokovic
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because I was a mad like Federer and Adele fan.
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Yeah, yeah, they were for me. The Ogs after who was Andre
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Agassi and all them, you know what I mean?
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Like when those two came into the scene I was like, bro, I'll.
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Yeah, that was the greatest, bro.
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They're like literally every single Grand Slam final would be
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them to. So the that was the greatest.
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Everyone was Yeah, they're the greatest.
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The greatest. I don't know where Djokovic
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slowly started. He's like, he would win a few
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and you'd be like, but he's he's won a few.
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But like, yeah, surely not. And then all of a sudden he had
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like 20 grand slams and it was off.
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We need to put the student in the conversation.
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I I honestly didn't even know he won that many too.
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No, he's won more than Federer and Adel.
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Yeah, well. He's got to be the GOAT.
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Then he's won. So just so just for context on
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on what has happened last night, he pretty much came back 2 down
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to one against world. I don't know if Sinner's number
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one or two at the moment, but two time defending consecutive
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defending champion Sinner Italian tennis young superstar,
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upcoming star. And so he came back 21 to win
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3/2 and pretty much like he wasn't even supposed to be there
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in the last round. He only he was losing the whole
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game. He's about to lose the game and
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only made it to the semi final because the other good dude
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pulled out through injury. That, that is actually what I
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find really crazy, isn't it? That's so funny.
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He. Wasn't even supposed to be
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there, bro. Apparently his he's got like
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crazy blisters as well at the moment.
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So he's just like he's just like mentally tough and bro, he
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always wins long matches. Like if it extends out, Djokovic
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is going to win. There's like he's, I don't know
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what the percentages is, but he just literally always wins the
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long matches. And it's actually interesting
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that one of the boys was telling me that Senna is zero and seven
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for matches that go over 4 hours.
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Yeah. So I reckon like a typical
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match, like a long match is like 3 plus hours.
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So 4 plus hours is like a that's a really long match.
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Yeah, I actually have. A bone to pick here too, because
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Australian Open or just tennis in general, whatever you call a
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world tennis, whoever the organization is for the matches
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to be finishing at 1:30 in the morning.
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Yeah, it's insane. That's when they finished last
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night. Yeah, 1:30 in the morning.
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Cuz let the brothers rest man. Yeah, come back the next morning
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and finish the match. But the other thing ocean open
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takes it with is the time of year they have it.
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But we it was 40 something degrees in Melbourne one of the
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days they were playing. That's too hot bro.
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Literally have it in. Winter.
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Yeah, just straight up have it once, yeah.
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In the gold. Coastal, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Literally It'll be too cold in Melbourne by the end.
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Yeah, so pretty much, but the thing I wanted to actually talk
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about as well is for Djokovic, cuz you know how there's that
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big thing couple years ago during COVID, he didn't get the
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vaccine. Yes, yeah, I've seen this pop
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up. Recently, I reckon he's a drug
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cheater if he's. First of all, if you're that
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worried about like drugs, you must have some kind of insight,
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knowledge or something about what you're putting in your
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body, that kind of thing. So I reckon because he's 38,
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bro, he's almost Lebron's. Lebron's 41.
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But he's kind of dominating more than LeBron is right now because
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he like tennis. You can't sit in the corner and
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shoot threes or take a position off in defense.
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It's literally you, 3838 years old, running back and forth with
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these 21 year olds. Yeah, it's all on you, I reckon.
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I reckon he's on. He's on something, OK.
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And I reckon that is kind of a show sign for he was putting
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he's putting stuff on his body and like he always wins long
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matches because everyone else is like fucking out and and he's
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not. Do you know what I mean?
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And so maybe him and have any, has anyone seen Djokovic and
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LeBron in the same room? That's it.
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Because if they have, there's probably a doctor with them
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giving them steroids. In all honesty, it probably
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across the entire sports world that's right now.
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You always think this. Bro, if you think Djokovic is on
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on steroids, I'm telling you right now 99% of these athletes
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are all on it or something, on performance enhancers or
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something. But are you serious?
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You don't believe in that? No, I don't, man.
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That is crazy, I think. I think South Africans are.
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Yeah, they're in school. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in school.
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I think South. Africans are so I think that
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they're fitter and so Russians probably, but I I reckon New
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Zealand's way too strict. Day in what way?
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Drug testing but they get tested like randomly and often as.
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But that comes in the. If we're talking New Zealand
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athletes, I don't know about what that's the only kind of
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because just for my friends and stuff, I know that play
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professional sports and for damn sure they don't take drugs.
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They barely go gym. That's right, some of them
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barely go gym. I don't know how they're they're
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lucky, they're talented. Have you seen that video of
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Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz? Nah, I'll try.
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To find actually can you find it right now on your on your
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YouTube? Yeah.
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What is it? Just search up Nate Diaz, Conor
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McGregor steroids. Is this the I was, I was just
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talking about this with my colleagues yesterday.
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Yeah. And I was like for the first
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time ever, I've seen Conor McGregor get absolutely thrown
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in a press conference and Nate Diaz just calls them out.
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I'll I'll know what I'll let the video bro explain the story, but
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I'm I'm just saying if you're saying that Djokovic is one
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thing, right, All the I reckon honestly, 99% of all of all
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athletes put in steroids, steroids comment and it's like
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it'll be like a hot like a reel or something.
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They did. It's going to agree with
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everyone else. Yeah, yeah, that one there.
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Just play it. Play that.
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Steroids, the whole USC, everybody.
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Your teammate Kill and Jake were too caught on steroids.
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Not me, not me, not me. I'm not on those steroids.
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Wait, what the fuck are you talking about?
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Your two teammates were on steroids.
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That's your two boys. The scrap pack.
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Remember that while I'm there. They were.
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Did you know they were taking that stuff?
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Did you know they were taking that stuff?
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Did you? You're on steroids.
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I'm. Just an animal.
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I'm just an animal. I'm just an animal.
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Is the first of all, you know, when someone ends up explaining
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himself too much? Yeah, that line.
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It kind of triggered him, eh? It triggered him, bro.
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Yeah, 100%. Tell me, when has ever when has
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he ever been triggered like that?
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Yeah, he's he's a pretty like he doesn't want to lose the
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argument. So he always on attack mode.
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I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I reckon he
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well, he's 100% on steroids. He or he was for sure.
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You don't reckon it? I reckon I, I think New Zealand
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athletes, I, I think maybe 1%, if that 1%, I'll say 1% of New
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Zealand athletes. OK, let's Australian.
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OK, let's put this into perspective.
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OK, hold on. Look, I don't know these guys
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personally, but Paul Gallon, yeah, playing at 3839 in the
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arguably the hardest competition in the world.
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Yeah, he was. He got caught on steroids.
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I'm pretty sure the whole shot, Paul.
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Gallon, Greg, Bird, all the racist ones that race, all the
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They're all on steroids. Just anyone that played for NSW.
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No. Mitch Barnett might be on them.
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Mitch Barnett might be Ken Murray.
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Nah, Nah. Maybe.
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OK. Hey, let me give you this
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example. Let's go to rugby.
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OK? And do you think?
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White people are way more likely to take steroids than like
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Islanders. Of course, bro, serious.
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Why is that? Because they're demons.
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And then, you know, they can't keep they bro, because we see
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the Islanders grow so quickly when we're 12 and we're like,
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bro, how are you going to catch this?
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It's it's one way. It's across all sports, eh?
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But you know, the only sports that I don't know, like
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netballers, how are they? Like what they I'm.
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I'm serious. They can't afford it here.
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Yeah, they don't get paid well in that sport.
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That's true. That's true.
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That's very true, but we'll flip it over to basically my no spin
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week. This is my general update.
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This week my partner and I have decided that we were going to do
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a no spin week. We started last week on Sunday
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night all the way through to obviously Sunday night this
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week. I mean which is tomorrow for us.
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And it's actually made me realize what we end up spending
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our money on. It's it's a common stuff,
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nothing crazy, just the common stuff like coffees going out for
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food. But we're on a real tight
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budget. Like this year, we've made a a
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goal of ours per week we only get $100.00 of spending.
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Yeah. Oh.
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Bro. Have we told you that?
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No, that's. Crazy 100 bucks a week, that's
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what we each get, damn. What if you get a ticket, A
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parking ticket? They're.
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Getting. Paid mother?
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Damn bro, that's one round of golf pretty much.
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Yeah, that's serious. Yeah.
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So I can you're. Damn sure you're not getting any
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cut. Yeah, you want a cut now we're
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walking. But yeah, damn, yeah.
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So we, we've made a commitment this year, right?
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Just we, we did our budgeting at the beginning of the year.
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Yeah. And we found that there's a
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couple of things that we want to kind of boost.
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Number one is our emergency. And we're actually talking to
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Shania about this because we, we were just sharing kind of our,
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our, not our faults, but areas that we want to work on.
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And our emergency, we want to kind of get that up to like
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$17,000 by the end of the year. So in order for us to do that,
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obviously we have to put a little bit more money into that
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that area there. And that's because in the next
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couple of years or so, we know that there are a few things that
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might pop up. And if these things yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, quite a yeah yeah.
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And so which means one of us will be it without work.
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So little things like that. So we're forced, but we.
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Need to try to think of a way that like we can not be because
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that that is a big handicap like a handicap if you say because
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one of you because a girl can't work.
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Yeah. Damn, maybe they need to start
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podcasting when? They Yeah, what about the time?
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Gambling maybe. I don't know.
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What else could you do bro? How are you gonna damn?
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Because that is a big handicap. Hey, it is man.
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And it's a lot of pressure too on the couple.
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I've seen that play out, you know, in friends that we have or
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just like family members or just you hear of people as well.
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And it is man, it does it handicaps relationship, hey
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like. But say, say, say Hannah was
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making $1,000,000 a year and your teacher's salary and a
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study just came out and you could carry the baby.
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Would you carry it for her so she could keep working?
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Oh, like as in visit for nine months?
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Yeah, yeah. And then you obviously you'll be
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the stay at home dad and stuff because she's making bank
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$1,000,000 dollars or something. I'm just going to be honest
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here, it just sounds gay. Yeah, but it is.
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But I would but you. Yeah, I would actually if, if,
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yeah, if, if that was a possibility, I would be the
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seahorse in the family, bro. Yeah, yeah, You know what I
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mean? Like I I actually would try and
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do it even though I know it would be the worst thing ever.
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Yeah, Yeah, that is. But yeah, emergency, you know
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what is is. Out of out of ego and just
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wanting to prove to hear that I'll, I could do better.
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Yeah, I'll do it. And not complain, yeah.
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Not making noise? Yeah.
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Not ask for help. Just push it up.
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Yeah. Is that it?
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Yeah. Oh, we're done paying Fortnite.
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Yeah, yeah, I I would, but yeah, so we're on a tight budget this
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year. So it's crazy.
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Yeah. I don't know how what we are
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doing the right. Like I've realized like for
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example, last week we went in to our mates, we decided to go out
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for a round of golf that was 50 bucks.
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All right, We got 50 bucks left. But I do want to actually, I
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need to openly admit this. I also salary sacrifice at work.
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And salary sacrificing means you, you pay it, you, you get,
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it's like a deduction before tax, if that makes sense.
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And basically that money gets loaded onto a card and that's an
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extra 70 bucks. So technically we get between
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the two of us $270 a week, if that makes sense.
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But obviously 100 each personal money.
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She can do whatever she wants. I can do whatever I want.
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But this leads in to me needing a car.
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Yeah, and 'cause I was making phone calls, yeah, 'cause I've
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got no air con at the moment in my car, don't you?
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And bro, it is 35. The other day it was 38° here in
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the Gold Coast. That's crazy.
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And I'm sitting in the car. I honestly didn't need to go to
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a sauna. The sauna was my car.
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You know what I mean? And I made some phone calls this
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week and I said to them, listen, this is probably what's
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happened, but I think it's this. And when I said, but I think
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it's this, my motor, when I turn the air con on, it makes a
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noise. And then when I turn it off, it
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turns it off, which means pretty much that there's like a thing
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in the air con called a compressor.
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It's going to cost me about $2000 to fix.
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And I was like, that's the value of the car.
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Yeah. And I was like, oh, it's on its
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way out sounding like. Insurance Charles Gee Maybe
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leave it out on the road for one of those little electric bike
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crews that come steal J. That's true.
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Oh, great. I'm, yeah, it's, it's, it's on
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it's way up. And so I've been asking a lot of
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my mates recently who have gone and purchased cars, you know,
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what would you do? And they, they've gone and
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bought these cars, but they've bought them on finance.
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So I've been asking and curious, you know, trying to find out,
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you know, is that the best thing for me to do?
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Which I've ultimately decided it's not 'cause they're smart
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bro sales people away and they're, they're going to catch
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you, man. They're going to, yeah, they,
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they put you on, you know, these deals, whatever, whatever it
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would do. I don't even know what on road
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cost was. You know what that is?
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You probably do. No, I don't I.
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Honestly, don't you know when the car says it sells for, you
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know, 27 grand? Yeah, that's before on road.
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So then to get it on the road there's an extra like 3 grand on
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top once you put in like the extras for example.
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Well, is that like yours to get it roadworthy?
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I think so, yeah. Like to register it, like to
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make it OK to drive. I don't know.
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Yeah. Anyway, it's it's like.
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That's a, That's a That's bullshit.
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Yeah, I agree. Yeah, so I'm learning all these
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things. So my, my, my, my plea to our
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talking shit community is if you've gone and bought a car
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recently and you've bought it from a dealership or whatever,
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what are your tips and tricks? Because I want to know so that
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when my gets dies, probably in the next week or two, I'm ready
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to go. Or Plan B, if anyone's keen on
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an insurance job, because take it out, steal it for us, and
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I'll give you my address. Yeah, send.
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Me a message. Just let us get a comprehensive
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insurance and then we'll we'll give you a lot of time and place
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to go and pick it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Did you actually talk about insurance?
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Did you hear about that insurance company, I forget what
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they're called, that was cheaper if you said that you're non
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binary. Damn, I didn't even know that.
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Yeah, that's crazy. And I actually did the test.
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I actually went on their website and.
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You put it in. You had options, right?
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Yeah, single. Sorry, male, female and non
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binary. I did each.
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I did single. I did male and female.
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Male. Yeah, male.
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No, yeah, male and female. And then it gave me a price, but
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it was like 600 bucks, right? I went and put non binary in
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next but it was like 400 bucks. Damn.
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And I was like, damn, I'm all in favor of that.
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I was about to do it. Damn, what does that mean?
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That they're all like trustworthy?
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That means that's what I mean, right?
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Because if you're like 18, it's if I got $3000 and if you're 30
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it's all good. So they trust them more than.
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Either that or. Being straight people.
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The car is, you know, they say that the car is very much like
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the person that drives it. So you're a SOS?
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Yeah. So yeah, have you got any tips?
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Do you have any tips for? Bro insurance job, I'll tell you
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the insurance job you want to I'll yeah, but I'll do some
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burnouts on the on a farm and then.
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Yeah, so if you got any tips and tricks for our night, send them
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through because I need. Them all right, segment of the
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week was flat chats. It was actually something we had
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last year and we were talking. I asked everyone I was like, do
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you reckon that you're likely to be friends with someone because
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they are famous? And I asked all the people and
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we had a mixed a variety of answers.
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Do you want me to start with what I think first?
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So yeah, I honest, Hannah, I don't think this is right.
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And I don't think I am like bad compared to some people, but I
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reckon I am I'm more likely to be friends with a famous person,
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like want to be friends with them because of notoriety and
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all those bad reasons. But I think it's a gets to the
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point where you can't help yourself like and you a little
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bit in your head, you think they're famous for a reason.
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They might be able to help me. And it's probably honestly
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because you're trying to make friends with people that can
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help you like and you don't want to.
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I get you don't have to have a friend that's successful, but I
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think that lots of people like that because then it's more
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likely to make you successful or it's going to, you know, I, I
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even reckon based on followers because I'm honestly, girls do
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it bad. I'm call them out because I'm
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sick of seeing girls at dinner. And then they'll swipe past all
19:21
the girls with 300 followers and then when they get to the girl
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with 10,000 followers, for some reason it stops on them for 30
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seconds. It's like, bro, we get it, we
19:31
get it. That's your friend.
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Like give everyone some, give everyone some screen time, share
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the love. Yeah, bro, like stop it.
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Like it's just to be a watch hours of yeah, yeah.
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But then you, you said like you honestly don't reckon that you
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are like that. You know what?
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Upon reflection though, like at the at the time when you asked
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the question, I said no, but. I think I might have said
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followers though when I first asked you, AI might have exactly
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said like if they have more followers and it's been
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different. No, Yeah, I think you actually
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did. Now that I think about it, I
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did. But if we're changing it to the
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way we've just said now, you know, in terms of, you know,
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would you be more friends with someone, a famous person, I
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would. But in terms of the followers,
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that's why I said no at the time, because I was just like
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followers to me, just kind of, it really doesn't correlate with
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the human. Yeah, You know what I mean.
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Lots of times it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't like I just, I
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just feel like followers enjoy and in this day and age, bro,
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I'm watching someone that is actually either entertaining or
20:33
is put out there. Jayden Lane.
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Yeah, yeah, cuz he's the man. Yeah, yeah, he's a genuine
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person bro that actually wants to do good in the community.
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But he has a really good aspect to him.
20:45
Like he's just fun, energetic. He's got that sense of humor,
20:48
bro. That's what I really like.
20:49
Yeah, so he's someone that I would, but I'm just watching
20:53
people that yeah, obviously I get good entertainment from, you
20:56
know what I mean? I wouldn't just watch anyone
20:59
that just. I'll be honest as well, you
21:01
can't trust Instagram followers because there's some lame as
21:06
people that have heaps of followers like lame, like
21:11
stupidly lame people, bro, and it's it doesn't add up.
21:16
Like it sounds like we're hating a little.
21:18
I'm hating not you, but like, so for you to say like I'm going to
21:22
give this dude more of my attention because or this girl
21:25
because she has 100,000 followers.
21:27
You're trusting that all those followers has made a good
21:30
judgement call that that is someone that you should be
21:33
trusting when bro, they're doing some very so lame stuff to get
21:41
those followers. You know what I mean?
21:43
Do you know what I mean? And like bro.
21:44
Do you have someone in mind, bro?
21:46
I can't. I can't say enough.
21:48
Fair enough. I have a few people in mind.
21:51
But like, yeah, yeah. But it's more growing up as well
21:55
now that I'm like 30, people don't do it as much.
21:57
But when you're going out, if you're going out to the clubs
21:59
and that kind of thing, people are always trying to put famous
22:02
people in their stories and like they're friends with this person
22:07
because then like you friends with that person, then you must
22:09
be cool as well. Yeah, what what I will say
22:11
though, and one thing I do like is I, I appreciate the hustle
22:15
that some of these people are putting in.
22:17
I will say that because for me, if you're like, if they're
22:21
making a conscious effort, bro, that's a conscious effort like
22:23
they're they're making. It's a grind day.
22:25
It is very. Yeah, like we, we see it in our
22:27
field right now. Like, yeah, it is a grind.
22:29
Like we're putting in the hours, you know, to, to obviously make
22:32
this bigger and better and whatever, whatever, right?
22:34
That's true. And some of the stuff we do
22:36
people, people look like, bro, why are you saying you shake
22:38
yourself on online? Online saying yeah.
22:41
Yeah. For me though, like I will say,
22:44
yes, although I don't like that person, that's on me for
22:48
watching that content. I don't need to watch it.
22:51
I could block it, you know what I mean?
22:53
That's on me. But true, True.
22:54
Yeah, yeah. But I will say though, like I do
22:57
appreciate the grind and I appreciate the effort that
22:58
they're putting in if they're genuinely getting genuine
23:01
followers, not bought followers. Just scroll past if you who
23:05
gets. Yeah, if they can do what they
23:06
want, just scroll. Past or just unfollow it.
23:08
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You got two options.
23:10
All right, so this I'll jump into another one then because
23:12
that was a short one. Yeah, this is another one we
23:14
were talking about with my girlfriends because obviously
23:17
you're someone Maori. Your your girlfriend's someone.
23:20
I'm Maori, my girlfriend's Maori.
23:22
And it came to the question, how much?
23:26
Oh hell, how much? What's coming?
23:28
How wait, how do I word this? How much of A cousin is too much
23:32
of A cousin? That's what I'm saying to date
23:34
because a lot of these Maori Pacific cousins are dating their
23:37
cousins. But but OK, so I actually had a
23:42
look at this and if you're obviously first cousins, you
23:47
have the same grandparents, second cousin you have the same
23:50
great grandparents, third cousin, you have the same great
23:53
great grandparents. I can remember my great
23:56
grandparents, for example. Great.
23:59
A second cousin would be my brother's kids.
24:03
Yeah. Dating our cousin's kids.
24:08
Wait, wait. What?
24:09
So Toby, you know, my cousin Toby, he has a kid, for example.
24:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that kid dates my brother's
24:14
kid. That's second cousin.
24:15
Yeah. Third cousin would be those two
24:18
kids. Dating, dating, having kids and
24:21
then dating. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:22
Yeah. So what?
24:23
I asked my Mrs. And I was like, OK, obviously we've been dating
24:26
for a while now. If we actually found out because
24:29
she has some kind of weird history in her family where one
24:32
of her grandparents got Fang Light out and they're from.
24:35
Because when I first met her, she was like, yeah, from
24:37
Rotorua. I was all safe.
24:38
And because I'm from up north. And then she, and then later on,
24:42
like a year after her dad was like, we were having a chat and
24:46
I go, you guys from Rotorua, she goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Nah.
24:49
But my granddad was fine right out.
24:51
He's from up north, up in Milkyonga.
24:54
And I was like, bro, yeah, no, don't do that, Don't do that.
24:58
And then apparently though it's we're still safe, but you never
25:04
know because yeah, cross contamination is.
25:07
Well, I feel like. It's you never know.
25:09
OK, this rolls into this point here.
25:10
Look, if if you've gone the full 100 yards, you know what I mean?
25:15
Yeah, it's at that point I'm. OK with it.
25:20
Because if you have to find out right now, yeah, Hannah was your
25:24
third cousin. Safe.
25:27
I'm yeah, it's safe, bro. We're nine years in, bro.
25:31
Like a yeah. What am I doing at 3rd?
25:32
Cousin yeah, yeah, third yeah, bro, it's just like it's just
25:35
don't, yeah, don't just don't talk about.
25:37
It yeah, yeah, level wiping it up it's just like.
25:42
OK, second cousin that's pushing.
25:46
I can't do second cousinship but that's.
25:47
Too. Honestly, I'm gonna be straight
25:48
up like third cousins. Honestly pushing it already.
25:51
Yeah, saying. That for me is like, yeah,
25:55
that's already causing, but you're right.
25:57
But. We are down there like we've
25:59
already done everything. So it's like I'm saying, but
26:01
like we've already done the work, like let's just lock it
26:07
down. Because we're it's gonna level
26:09
us forever at that point. Yeah, You know what I mean?
26:12
But if in all honesty bro like if I found out that that Hannah
26:15
was my my first. First cousin.
26:18
Steve, give me the divorce. Oh bro, that would just be like
26:24
a. That would kill me.
26:26
Honestly, it would, it would because I'm like, that's my
26:30
auntie's pretty much daughter at that point.
26:35
But I know I'm safe because the first question that I got asked
26:38
from her mum because her mum's from salmon, right?
26:40
So and her mum grew up in salmon and.
26:43
So automatically there's a bit of separation because your
26:45
grandparents moved, right? So it couldn't have been the
26:48
same grandparent. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, true.
26:51
But the first question she asked me was, So what village are you
26:54
from? That was the first question that
26:56
honestly came out of Mom's mouth.
26:57
And I was like, oh, so I'm from Mota.
27:01
And she goes, oh, OK, that's good.
27:04
All right. We no, not the same.
27:07
One. Then she went on the next
27:08
question after it was so do you know this person?
27:11
I said I don't know that person I see.
27:13
Do you know this person? She goes no, no, all right,
27:16
we're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:17
So from there we're like yeah. And plus she's half German, so
27:20
yeah, it's a massive you know that splits it up straight away.
27:23
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm.
27:24
I reckon I am very, but there's. Some straight up more than you
27:29
think, like there's like smashing their second cousins.
27:34
First cousins. At first, sometimes I for sure
27:38
know. I for sure know a couple of ones
27:40
that are doing second cousins. I know a couple of stories but I
27:43
won't publicly say it cuz. That's that, and I think they
27:48
knew first. I'm just saying, if your
27:50
daughter or son rocks up and he looks like this person over
27:53
here, yeah, they smashed. But, and The thing is though,
27:57
you grew up in like a town with 100 people.
27:59
Yeah. And it's like, OK, do I do I
28:02
date the like the dusty non cousin or the all good second
28:07
cousins? Yeah, true.
28:08
That's like a OK, maybe this is getting a bit dodgy in the cut
28:13
topic, but it's interesting. It's interesting.
28:16
To think it's interesting, but. And it's natural, yeah.
28:18
But let's just say, you know, look, I would walk out if I
28:21
found out that it was my first, OK?
28:23
Yeah, even second. Yeah, second burst.
28:27
Yeah, second off, I don't, I couldn't do secondary.
28:30
Yeah, third off, Bob. I'll turn it on now to 3rd.
28:33
Yeah, let's just say that, you know, my partner doesn't like
28:36
talking about this just in case, so.
28:39
I better just not even check a. Just don't even, yeah, don't
28:42
even don't do the genealogy. Thing, yeah, don't anything.
28:44
Why are we trying to do that? Leave it at that.
28:46
Why? Are we trying to find ourselves
28:47
out all? Right, we got a reaction clip
28:50
for our last segment of the podcast.
28:53
It is a coach giving words of inspiration to his players, but
29:00
let's just say that it's quite direct and basically what we're
29:03
going to do is talk about the pressures of outside influences
29:07
on our own personal careers as well.
29:10
Get a Max. You're good, Max.
29:12
Don't double. I got you.
29:13
I'll drop the leverage. Tommy show everybody.
29:16
So it's a bit of looks like there must be an offensive line
29:18
than they must be. Wow, look at the feet.
29:21
Go, Tom. Control yourself, Boomer.
29:24
Go back, Boomer. I don't know what the fuck that
29:26
is. Go now.
29:28
Get in the back. Let someone else go.
29:29
Go. Demolition, Tom.
29:30
Go. The thing is, they're all moving
29:32
so terribly. We got.
29:33
To get you a longer shirt too. Good God.
29:35
Holy fuck, run Tom on the. Ladder the Pook who's out, eh
29:40
Tom, you got? To get a longer shirt.
29:42
Homie, get out Tom, Run. Alright, Tom, I'm gonna start
29:46
the top right. Time.
29:52
I don't know what the. Fuck, that was extra.
29:55
He didn't need to do that. Wow.
29:57
Tyler is just going to allow that shit to happen.
29:59
Good job Davis, phone compliments you, you fuck it up.
30:01
But OK, got me. A ball straighter.
30:04
Holy shit lurk. That's Yup dog dog nice jog off.
30:10
Does this kid not fucking get it?
30:11
Dog, come back and do it again. Do it again.
30:14
God damn it. You don't get the jog off Tom,
30:17
do you not understand? Second time in a row, jog again
30:20
Forest, see how it goes. Forest Gump if you jog.
30:23
This is not a fucking joke. Forrest Gump is crazy.
30:26
Now run. Stop fucking jogging.
30:29
Shake that ass bro. Hope.
30:31
Hope he's trying. Don't quick.
30:33
Keep fucking going back in Run. That dude doesn't.
30:36
Need it? Yeah.
30:37
Nick, run. Nick, go.
30:39
God. No bro that guy is moving so
30:42
weirdly good. Oh my God.
30:44
Go in the. Back and do it again.
30:47
Hurry up in the back. Get a Max, you're good.
30:54
This fuck is. I'll drop the oh, we've had some
30:59
stories of our owns man, but. For damn sure if you're yelling
31:02
at me like that, you better have been good.
31:04
Like, oh, you're. True.
31:05
Like bro, if you're true, have you, have you just a dad and you
31:08
never played and you're yelling? Nah bro, I'm walking out of that
31:11
session. Yeah.
31:13
Why? And like, where did you get the
31:14
like, why are you expecting? Obviously these dudes have never
31:18
moved before and you're expecting them to be like A to
31:22
be better. Or something.
31:23
Well, maybe. I mean, yeah, this is an
31:25
Academy, by the way. That's Academy of NFL prospect
31:29
or high school. Students I don't know, but math?
31:31
Students, it looks like. It could be just for for people
31:35
wanting to get better at their sport.
31:37
So these these kids obviously training for American football
31:42
here and the coach, he's just got a real good direct way of
31:48
speaking to the boys, which they some, you can tell they respect
31:51
it because Tom here keeps going back to the damn sessions and
31:55
getting made a fall off. That was crazy to calling his
32:00
poker coming out of the shirt. Hey.
32:02
We need to get you a longer shirt.
32:03
Yeah. Oh, but damn, yeah, some of
32:06
these kids, hey, they really don't know how to move.
32:08
Yeah, that's what I mean. Like you'll you can't see that
32:11
was crazy, bro. He literally like he damn it,
32:14
can't even step in the let and then this was crazy.
32:17
Oh bro, that was crazy. It's got to shuffle because it's
32:21
looking really. Yeah.
32:24
Like they, like, did they definitely never played much
32:29
sports before? You could tell.
32:30
Yeah. Yeah.
32:32
But anyway, what does this remind you of?
32:34
Bro, I used to get yelled at, eh, yeah, saying, you know, like
32:37
just just yeah. And we know by who, you know,
32:40
like my old man bro he And to be fair, bro, I look back in it
32:44
though. And honestly, it made me better.
32:46
Yeah, it did. I know you had a different
32:48
experience to what I did, but I understood where my dad was
32:51
coming from. And once I realized, bro, like
32:53
at the end of the day, he's the one that's driving me to my, my
32:56
games, my events and all that. I that from that moment, I
33:00
realized, damn, like my dad and my mum are sacrificing a lot
33:04
just to be here and support me and and you know, me wanting to
33:07
play this sport so I'd better play well, because they're
33:12
spending their money. I don't like that's the thing I
33:14
think about sometimes growing up not realizing until now now that
33:19
we've moved out of the house. Damn petrol is expensive bro.
33:23
Like signing your kids up to sports team.
33:26
Is expensive like I spoke. To my my my relatives, my auntie
33:29
and uncle here and for their son to play soccer when he was
33:32
playing soccer. Bro bro, it was like a grand
33:34
just for uniform. Oh hell no.
33:37
Just for uniform? Hell no bro.
33:40
Honestly, if that's what it's going to be when I'm, when I'm a
33:43
parent, I don't know. My kids are playing pick up
33:47
Sunday league or something like that.
33:49
That's crazy for uniform. But and he was only under
33:53
Elevens I. Think no way.
33:55
Under elevens bro. That's more than like a
33:59
representative team. What was this for?
34:01
Very soccer, just like Merrimack Football Club up the road here
34:05
I. Bet you they're trash too.
34:07
They're good. No, they were good.
34:08
So they're under elevens? It was at the time.
34:11
Nah, that's crazy, but I promise it's not worth that.
34:14
Yeah, he's about. He was under Elevens at that
34:16
time, I think. That's crazy, bro.
34:18
Yeah, like, OK, I get it that it's like, yeah, it is helpful
34:21
sometimes, but don't hold it against me for a sport you
34:27
wanted me to play as well. Like, yeah, true.
34:29
Like lots of time the parents are like, Nope, we're taking
34:32
you're playing a sport and then next minute, OK, I've come and
34:35
played the sport I'm trying for you.
34:36
And next minute I'm I'm a useless prick because I can't
34:41
even play the sport for you. So I get it.
34:43
But there's there's definitely like a balance.
34:48
Like it's some cases where it's kids that are like literally
34:52
need a stick up the ass to to do something and then they're going
34:56
to appreciate it later as well. But but lots of times without,
35:01
well, I don't know, I don't know your dad, but dads that my dad
35:04
and dads I grew up with, they weren't bad.
35:07
Like I've seen kids get like hidings and shit on the
35:09
sideline. Yeah.
35:11
I know, but like I never got that.
35:12
But like I got close to it. I got close, I got close and I
35:18
remember one time we played Glenora and I was like under 13.
35:23
Oh, OK. And but we had like a we lost I
35:27
think by like a try or something.
35:28
And I remember at the end of the game I tried to like do a chip
35:30
and chase and I gathered it and I got tackled.
35:33
And then I was like, I'm pretty sure that's the only good thing
35:36
I did all game. And then as we were driving
35:39
home, Dad didn't talk to me the whole game, the whole whole
35:41
drive home. And I was thinking surely he saw
35:45
the chip and chase. I'll see.
35:47
I remember thinking that like, what are you, what are you angry
35:50
about? You saw, did you see much of A
35:52
chase? I think.
35:53
But we got to the we got to the driveway and I was like, So what
35:56
are you reckon about the game? And he was like, you guys all
35:58
useless, like fuck the team. I can't believe we like you guys
36:02
train every week and you guys do that.
36:04
And I was like, but did you see my chip and chase?
36:06
What are you reckoning? And he's like, yeah, that's all
36:08
you did. And he's like, yeah, well, you
36:10
just want chip and chase every time, right?
36:12
I was like, oh, was I just didn't say anything.
36:15
He just walked inside. I've had some tough
36:18
conversations too man. And like I remember there was
36:20
this one time mate where I just finished my like J2 game because
36:24
in New Zealand they used to call it J remember J1J 2J3 right?
36:28
And J 1 was like the big dogs, like the heaviest of the heavy,
36:31
you know, the ones that were over like 85 kigs at the time.
36:34
And this is when we're all under what?
36:36
But we're like 12, yeah, maybe under 12.
36:38
Pretty much younger man. Yeah, anyway, and I just
36:43
finished my J2 game and I remember we were playing up in
36:45
Silverdale, but we were playing QMU and we just finished.
36:48
We just lost, I think it was. And then the J1 team were short
36:52
and so they asked a few of us to go up and play.
36:54
I was like, yeah, cool. All right, So I went up to J1,
36:58
bro, and I'm a half back, beat us to mine.
37:01
They chucked me into bloody prop.
37:04
That's insane. That's bullshit.
37:08
They chucked me into Propfro and I was like, this is actually
37:11
crazy. I'm playing this.
37:13
So here's this guy in front of me who's probably 100 and
37:16
something KGS at the age of 12 and I'm matching up against them
37:20
and we do the scrummaging brand. I'm like, Gee, my neck is
37:23
getting bent. And anyway, I finished the game
37:28
and my daddy and looks at me. He has my clothes.
37:32
Gee, my old man just checks my clothes on the ground date and
37:35
he's like, let's go. I went in the hurry and he was
37:39
like, I can't believe you guys are useless out on that field.
37:43
You make me come all the way up here from the shore and we lose
37:46
like that. And I was like that is J1J1 what
37:48
we're? Gonna do that?
37:50
I'm 30 KGS. I was, yeah.
37:53
I was and I was like, oh man, I've had some real good
37:56
conversations there. For 100%.
37:58
You see some public ones too out there like John Hopwati.
38:00
Damn bro, you're you're good. But even worse than that bro.
38:03
Like I've actually seen kids get hit and shit like bro.
38:07
That's where these anger management issues of all.
38:09
Day bro that's bad bro. Like don't, don't, don't ever.
38:13
You don't need to do. That like why, why you want your
38:15
kid to be that bad, good so bad. Like that's what I don't like is
38:19
like, why are you so obsessed and it's hurting you so much
38:25
that your kid isn't good enough? It's pretty much saying your kid
38:28
isn't good enough. Like, bro, if it was me and he'd
38:31
be carving up, it's all good. He maybe he's just OK or maybe
38:34
he's not good bro, help him to get better, but don't get angry
38:39
because this is where he's at right now.
38:41
Like that's why I don't like it and.
38:42
I think that's the thing that I realized too, is well for me
38:48
because I've always been the smaller on the smaller.
38:50
Side same, yeah. I didn't get good until after
38:54
school. Same year.
38:55
So that's when I really started to somewhat improve, you know
38:59
what I mean? Like now I can hold my own, I
39:01
can play, you know what I mean? I'm out on the footy field, I
39:03
can hold my own. But back then, it's a
39:06
psychological thing too. It's just probably too small.
39:08
Like the same with me, some dudes honestly.
39:10
Look like they're 30, Yeah. At the age of 12, yeah.
39:13
You know, pimples growing out of their faces, tattoos.
39:16
Yeah, Yeah. And I'm like, oh, hell no.
39:18
Yeah, let's say times change, you know, once you leave school,
39:20
how many of those kids now there's.
39:22
None, bro. Yeah.
39:23
None of those ones that are carving when they were 12.
39:25
Maybe a couple like yeah. So if you got stories of your
39:29
parents or your, your, your coach is putting pressure on
39:32
you, just remember there's always Tom.
39:36
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