October 16, 2024 • 54 mins
This week Marc and Tayla open up about the news that broke last week, and Marc explain just what life is like as a professional rugby league player. It's not over for the podcast though, so buckle in as Tay goes into what it'll be like to move back in with her parents and what they found when they first moved to New Zealand.
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Join in as The Montoya’s lift the curtain on the life and relationship of Aussie imports assimilating into New Zealand as a newly married couple. Think Keeping Up with the Kardashians crossed with Modern Family and tune in for the podcast you never knew you needed.
About The Hosts:
Tayla Montoya is an ex-cheerleader, and current radio producer for Jono and Ben on The Hits. Her roots are from a large Italian Australian family, with all the passion and fire that comes with that.
Most importantly, she is like that friend at the BBQ that is constantly surprising the group with a new questionable take, internet-based obsession or just something to annoy her husband.
Marcelo Montoya is a Fijian Australian professional rugby league player and brings insight into what it actually means to be a professional sportsman. He is a little bit bogan, and a whole lot of a perfectionist. He strives for everything in his life to be cantered and deliberate so he can perform at the highest level, while contending with his wife’s need to try and throw him off balance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is an iHeartRadio New Zealand podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sorry, hey, a mass another episode of the Montys and
another one where we can actually come in red hot
and speak of the last kind of eight weeks two months.
What's been going on in our lives behind the scenes?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You mean the last week. There's been nothing happening in
the past eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
This this the whole process of leaving the club, the
going to a new club doesn't just happen in a week.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
We felt like it, you have, No, it didn't for
you mentally.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Sorry, I've had a be on my plate throwing two babies,
two baby girls. Okay, so I can't copy it for
you anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Just shut up, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Sorry, I understand this is your big moment. No, sorry,
I went upstage, your big announcement.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
All right, and listen, because you're talking big game in
here about my big announcer, the mate.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
But you know that you're happy about it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You are being pregnant. Obviously, Oh my goodness, No that's
not true. Obviously, I'm so stoked and grateful that you're
going to Sorry, I feel like we should preface this
whole chat, so people like, what are they talking about?
Mussella is leaving the Warriors. You should say say that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I don't want to say it like that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
If you just stop talking ship and let me say
my piece jump on the back of it, people go,
oh yeah that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
No no sorry, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
No, no, I'm not I'm sorry, I'll suck as.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Let me say the way I want to say this.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I was gonna say, wow, we should have planned this out.
When Sean announced he was leaving on his podcast, it
was so beautiful, it was so well thought out. And
this is shit.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I don't care. Rewind, I don't care what Sewn did.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We can't afford to fly our family from Australia over
and have them all in a room.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
We can't do that. Sorry, And just to be mindful, yeah, yeah,
you didn't think, did ya?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And then guess what how we're going to feed someone
in his room as a five by five bocks.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
We're they gonna sit on the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Why are you so aggressive? This is meant to be
a nice moment. Wow, all right, I'll shut up and
let's see how good you are at talking by yourself.
Go showtime. Bye.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So last week it came out on Friday that we
are leaving New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You are, Yes, I'm saying shut up, shut off.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Anyhow.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Anyhow, any who, last Friday, Yeah, it came out the
news broke that were they were leaving New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm leaving the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And it's something that I want people to understand that
it's not something that just happens, you know, in one week,
or that happens overnight or lightly. Yeah, this has been
gone gone on the background now for about two months,
and people did understand. It wasn't it wasn't an easy
decision for us. We we we really really loved our
(03:29):
time here in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We love the people in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We love the way that they've embraced us us as people.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The Warriors is an unbelievable organization.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Everyone that works there, from upstairs down the owners, the
Robinson's to Webb, all the coaching staff, Cameron, George, just
wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You could literally name every single staff person, yeah, because
they're all amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And so it wasn't an easy decision, and it was
one that it was made with the heavy heart, But
at the same time, it was one that probably had
to be done, you know. Was it was all sweet
when it all happened, and when it unfolded about eight
weeks ago, was my manager had approached the club and said, look,
are you guys looking to offer mass and extension beyond
(04:17):
next year? And the Warriors were just so professional and
honest they said, look, we like we're in a position
where we can't offer mass contract beyond next year. However,
if you guys want to test the market, we won't
stand in your way if you can find a bit
more security beyond next year.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And that's how it happened. That's all.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's all. That's how it happened. And you know we're
we're all in talks, We're all in you know, the
right comms. And I was speaking to Eby every day
letting him know how it went down.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And then yeah, it went down like that.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know, the Bulldogs came in and showed their interest
or expressed the interest, and you know, I still have
so much love for the Bulldogs and that club, obviously
being a local junior there. I think it's the right
way to do it, going back to a place where
it all started, and going back to a place.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That I know really really well and that I've built.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Some memories and some strong friendships here, and I feel
like I have unfinished business here.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know, when I left the Bulldogs, I was I
wasn't playing my best footy. I was mentally depressed. I was,
you know, I wasn't in a good place with my confidence,
with my confidence.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And it was a weird time that COVID, Like that
whole season was so weird with COVID and the way. Yeah,
it was just there was.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A lot on and I was saying last night to
to my brother, you know, I probably wouldn't be the
person I am today if I didn't go through what
I went through at the Bulldogs back then. You know,
I think I had to leave. I had to get away,
and then coming to the Warriors, it gave me, you know,
like a new lease or my career.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And I said it to Webby too. I called Webby.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
As soon as I signed the contract to leave the
Warriors at the Bulldogs, I called Webby and said, mate,
I've I signed the deal. I just want to let
you know that, you know, I want to thank you
for everything that you've done for me and Tay, and
I want to thank you for making me a better person.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think it's important for people. I understand rugby league players.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I don't know if all of them think like this,
But I don't really care about what happens on the field,
Like I do the best I can to prepare every
week to put my best foot forward for my brothers.
But when my career is done, like whenever that happens,
I don't really care how people looked at me as
a player. I more cared about how they look at
me as a person and say, you know what, he
was a great he was a great character. He brought
value to this club for the person he was, not,
(06:43):
you know, for what he brought on the field.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
So, yeah, it was Friday. It was a hectic day.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, it was crazy because you hadn't even told your family. Really,
we had just told my mom and your mom because
we didn't really know when it was going to all
go down. It's like such a weird process. Yeah, how
that all pans out?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But yeah, yeah, but depends out. I mean, And that's
part of the industry that that that I'm in.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Right, Yeah, I've got a few emails to answer today,
a few bosses I need to call. So but just
because you're going don't assume I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Going to like, yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, but it's really exciting because you have so much
history at the club you are going to and very
grateful that they they even want you back.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So I think people like people that, like just a
general people don't understand how hard it is to get
a contract in you know, it's so hard, so hard.
So just to be able to, you know, to get
a contract in the NRL, it's something that I'm grateful
for and I thank God every day because this doesn't
come along like that.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So many talented.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Boys that you know, might miss out or might not
be to get in. So that's what I'm grateful for
as well. You can't you can't take this stuff for granted,
especially when you get a bit older in terms of
rugby league. Yeah, you know, but I still feel fresh
and my body's fine. But yeah, it's it's cool, it's exciting,
but just the way it happened was crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And a lot of people might not know that you
are a local junior of the Bulldogs club as well. Yeah,
so like to go back to that is huge. Yeah, Like,
that's that's so cool. I'm a local junior to the club.
Obviously cheerleader. So I feel like it was a no brainer.
Yeah I'm kidding. My days are well and truly over
(08:41):
of that clearly, but yeah, no, very very sad, but
very happy as well, because like you, being part of
a team is one one part of it, and then
me coming to another country to support your career, like
I was so determined and to get a career of
(09:01):
myself over here as well. I didn't want to just
move and not have a purpose, Like I like wanted
to continue my career over here, and I didn't want
to rely on you for sole friendship. But I was like,
I'm gonna, mate, I'm going to make it like an
effort to make friends over here and really make it
feel like home. So to have to say goodbye to
(09:24):
friends that you've relied on for the past four years
because you don't have family around, because even though we've
only been in New Zealand for two years, you've played
at the club for four years, so we haven't been
home for four years. We were in terrible Gold Coast,
Brisban and the New Zealand. So to have to like
get a career in every single one of those places
(09:47):
and make my job work for me as well, Like
I've met incredible people in contacts whilst you've done your career,
so I've got a lot of people as well, and
it'll be high to say goodbye to that. I didn't
not have to say goodbye to this early, but ye
see ya, no kidding, Laura mcgold took one person I'll
(10:09):
shout out because oh my god, getting a job in
radio is really scary and hard, and when you get
a job in radio in a different country, you don't
really know the radio talent and it's scary to get
to know people, especially people of that like that stature
and talented and can I just say, like the first
time I met her, she was like, where are you
(10:33):
guys going to move? Like straight away offered up her
house to us, like she had just met me as
her producer, and her and her husband Guppy Soul accommodating
always we had like they had us over for Christmas,
and so I did tell her and Nat as well.
So it's like people like that who just opened their
homes up for us no one we had no family
here and just actually made it feel like home. So
(10:57):
it's definitely a bittersweet, but was in Sydney all the
time and see her.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, and that's what I want to talk about.
We don't. This podcast isn't about my career. I don't care.
He doesn't care. No one cares, all right, and I
get it.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, you coming across a bit ego.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But there's some people that that we need to thank
from the Warriors, and I'll do it and then that's
it and then we can piss it off.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, and we won't talk.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
About it, yeah because like boring.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, but the owners from the Warriors, Amanda and Mirk Robinson. Yeah,
so no one knows about this, but last year had
a miscarriage.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You know, we will We talked about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, we spoke about this earlier on in one of
in one of our episodes, and we'll go on for
a tough time. It was hard for me. I took
it hard, and you know, I let Jazz know. So
me and Jazz are really close. And then Ja said, look,
I'll put you onto Amanda. You know, she has a
really really good natural path here in New Zealand that
could probably help Ta get her body back into into
(11:59):
shape where it needs to be to be able to
feel pregnant. And then she reached out to take you
through an email and then you know, she put into
contact with her natural path over here now. And all
this stuff costs a lot of money, like the consultations,
the supplements that she put you on, and Mark and
(12:19):
Amanda covered all that, covered all your your meetings with
your natural path and.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Got me straightaway as well. That is amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I think I think there was a six month waiting
list to see her.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
There was just no questions asked.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And then you know, after that or shortly after you've
seen her the second time, we fall pregnant naturally with twins.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So things like that is what people don't see from
the outside. I see the warriors. They just see an organization.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of like a business of business, but they don't see
the people inside the four walls. And I just want
to thank Mark and Amanda, like from the bottom of
my heart, because you know, they like they helped us
a lot, and even with stuff with me to do
with with recovery, Amanda's.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Been there so helped full. I want to thank Cameron George.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I think, I think, I think Cam is an absolute
champion of a person the way he has helped us.
When we first moved to news In and we didn't
have a place to stay out. Cam gave us the
keys to his apartment and says, you go stay there
for as long as you want. And just how he's
handled all this in the background is a great human
being and I think without people like that, it would
(13:23):
have made it hard to stay.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The worries, you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Know, Yeah, being away from family.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Made it easy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's so easy obviously the whole coaching stuff, but starting
from from webby Richie Aegar, Stacy Jones, Justin Morgan's moved on,
but he was He's played a big part of my career.
And then also Slade Griffin as well, Like all these
people that have come in and just been able to
help me be the player I am now. But even
(13:52):
more so that like a better person. That's hard to
do that as a coaching stuff. Ye, but yeah, just
just an unbelievable human being. You know, I'll miss him,
I'll miss everyone and just the boys, So it was tough,
but yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, it must be hard because this playing group as
well is especially close.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, no one understand like, no one will ever understand
what it's like, you know, when you come to a
club and you're a way for COVID for two years.
You have no family. The family we have is my brothers.
So we're like we're in each other's pockets every day,
like we we lived with each other for literally two
years on the road.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So the friendships and the memories that you make, you
can't get that again. Like, I'm sorry, you can't because
we're literally you know, like we we're rooming with with
Jermaine and Kane for a year and the rock and
then Rocker and then it's.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Like bro like a jackpot with me cooking.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So it's things like that, like you don't see, like
people don't see that from the outside, Like they don't
see the friendships, the.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Bonds that you make, the memories.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But it's cool because we can take that with us
into this next step and just reflect and say, man,
you know what, you know what a four years it's been.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that was nice. Mask. I'm sorry
though down at the start.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, I'm not an asshole like you am. I You're
just an asshole sometimes.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
My workplace doesn't even know I'm kidding. I've got a
phone call to make this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Ye what I wanted to say before they open her mouth.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So who else do you want to shout out? Or
is there anyone else you want to shout out?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't want to single out anyone in particular. However,
when you're playing the back line, you know, like you're
obviously real close to the back three. So I think
Chance and Dallen are going to be some people want
to miss the most. You know, we spend so much
time together. We're always hanging around each other. So there, yeah,
mainly those two boys. But I think just making the
(16:03):
move over to New Zealand, you know Tahoo and Nat Harris,
yeah and Harlan. You know what what Toyo has done
for us, you know, in terms of making the move seamless.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
No one knows this as well. But uh to who's
club car?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He gave it to us to use for the last
two years, so we've been so we've had a free
car this whole time.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
They pretty much kitted out our apartment, our first apartment
in New Zealand. They supplied us with an outdoor setting,
a coffee.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Machine, my gaming monitor.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Gaming monitor, the chair that you sit on when you
play your gaming. Yes, so yeah, then yeah, Christmas Dinners,
Christmas dinners and they never like we tried so many
times to show our gratitude and like give them something
in return, and they were just having none of it.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And this is a funny thing about it, Tahu and
wouldn't care, like, wouldn't care once about going out for
dinner with anyone. They don't care. They are understated home yeah,
and be with you and being their own space. So
I'm quite surprised that they've actually that they've made their
effort to come out with dinner with us numerous times.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, that's the least we can do to say thanks
for all this, Like mate a dinner? Where do we go?
La snowy value.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Actually, it's sorry. I am Italian. I just let down
a whole nation.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And there's my proof.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
There's my proof today, plastic Italianism.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, that's it. I just want to.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Say thanks to them from the bottom, because that's it.
I won't be able to say thanks ever again. Obviously
on the field is probably going to be coming from
my head, which I will. I can't wait for it.
Absolute legends, you know. Yeah, friendships that I will chose
for the rest of my life. I think I'll still
be closer to than for the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, and they've got a place to stay when they're
in Sydney. I think maybe not. We don't know where
we're staying yet, so I won't promise.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I think we're camping out our in laws for a
bit atay his parents house. That'll be some good content.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, one of us will end up in in a mental.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'd be left with the girls on the street. You'll
in the mental asylum. Yeah, because you just can't copy it,
like you you have a short fuse.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I do when I'm around them. I do when I'm
around them. You know, when you grow up with people.
Well I didn't grow up with him. They raised me.
But like you're just so comfortable with like knowing that
you can tell them off.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, but I still yeah, but I still I get it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's not respectful, it's you were raised. Well I was
raised that way.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah. Well we're not raising the girls that way.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
No, God, No, I won't have them speak to me
the way I speak to my mom and dad. I
kick them out. See, this is where my parents went wrong.
They always threatened to kick me out. They never did it, though,
So you know.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Dal tells me this story about about his daughter. Yeah,
and like I will say it because he won't care.
But it's so funny. She goes to Dylan and perty,
I've had enough of this family.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And then.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You're like yeah, and so what are you gonna do?
She goes, I'm packing my bags, Daddy, I'm leaving. And
then now he goes to me. It's so hard, mask
like I have to sit there and just let her.
That's his little girl, right, and he has to go, Man,
how do I handle this? So he guess, all right,
you go, Then you go. Yeah, but inside he's dying. Yeah,
of course inside he's like, don't go, Like, yeah, you know.
(19:35):
And then she packs her little bag, she puts in there,
she puts it on her back, and she walks outside
the front door. But they've got scatered off there the driveway, right,
so it's safe. But that I was watching from upstairs.
He's looking from the window, going, you know, don't leave, like,
don't leave. And then she comes running back to the doors,
bagging on the door, starts crying.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Daddy, Daddy, I don't want to leave. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And I hope our girls are like that. Yeah, I
want the girls to be like that. A bit of
person Look they need personality.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Mate, Yeah, god cha they will. They'll be ooz impersonality.
Look at their mama bear. Yeah. Well that's when my
parents went wrong. They would say we're going to kick
you and your brother out, and I'd be like, First time,
I'm like, oh my god. Second time they said, I
was like, I know how this goes. Third and fourth time, Okay,
I'm not even getting off the couch at this point.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, don't bring your friends and whenever you want, yeah,
shut up.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
See it'll be interesting. I haven't lived with them since
I was before we've got engaged, So what twenty I've
been twenty four or twenty three. Now I'm coming back
as a twenty eight year old. Be very interesting to
see how they want to discipline me. Are so past
those days. So it is, especially being pregnant, I'm calling
(20:45):
the shots.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I feel like i'd be the one discipline in you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, you think i'd be the one.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Saying yeah, yeah, I actually listen to what you have
to say.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, but then you don't take it with you get
upset at me for sticking up for them.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You get upset at me. You're oh your eyes and
I say, hey, you.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Can't see it from my point of view.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I don't like your point of view. Yeah, well, your
point of view is rude and it's not nice. You
don't talk to your parents like that.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, whatever. I'll ask you this on when you move
in with them to and see how you go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm fine with them, Okay, I am. She said I
can use a washing machine. There's no you know, I
can use a washing machine, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I fix the pipes, so my brushing my teeth and
blowing my nose is fine.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I've already been barred from the downstairs toilet. Apparently I'm
not allowed to use that. That's only Marcello's toilet.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, but let me explain in your mum's defense. So
for everyone listening on a listener's my wife. She's dirty.
We have a shower. I buy a squeegee in the shower.
Squeegeye the screen. After your shower, everything's a processed He
walks out water everywhere. I always explained to my wife
open the door of the shower door to get some
air in there so it's not as hot. Grab your sail,
(21:54):
dry yourself while you're standing in the shower. While you're
standing in the shower, dry yourself, right.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
She doesn't do that. She walks out soaking.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Wet, drags the water everywhere, all right, and puts herself
through that.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, my mom doesn't understand what I do in the
shower because when I used to live there, she come
and go, why the puddles everywhere? What are you study
the shower? Yes, I'm dancing. I'm especially if it's hair
washed day, because I have to flick my hair forward
to get underneath. It got very thick hair, and it's
purple shampoo I use because I'm not a natural blonde,
(22:27):
so I have to get all the brassiness out, so
I flick my hair, flick it back. There's spuds on
the roof and stuff. And then she always says, squeegy
the shower. I I'm not squeeging. I leave hair botles.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's not funny.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
No, I don't do that anymore because my hair is
growing really well, thanks for the pregnancy. But so yeah,
I'm barred from the downstairs toilet, which is fun making
a pregnant woman walk upstairs.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It'll be good, but exercise for you up and down
the stairs just to go to the bathroom. So I'm
looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to a lot
of things. And the funny thing about going back home
is no one cares about me anymore. From my family yea,
and your family.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
My older brother calls me us. She calls me and
he says, all right, perfect. I'm so happy, like there's
tainting anything.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's good. That's good because for the last four years
I've been shafted, mate, So it's about time.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Okay, we'll guess when the girls are here, you're gone,
we're both gone.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But that's that. Yeah. That help in itself is like
I'm so grateful for it. Yeah, yeah, I'm really Yeah,
because I think everyone was really concerned, but they didn't
want to say anything. They're like, oh, yeah, he's gonna
do it in news of okay, cool, cool cool. And
then when it got announced that we're coming back to Sitney,
everyone's like, oh, thank god, the girls will be fine. Yeah,
(23:52):
but yeah, so god, it'll be interesting for my mom.
She's she's in her actually will not reveal her age,
that is one, no go. But she's middle aged. Is
it middle aged?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
She looks great, Yes, she's beautiful, she looks great.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So she hasn't parented in years and years and years,
especially new boards. Like she's got Leonardo, my godson, my
nephew that she minds occasionally, but it's so different when
she's gonna have two twins living in her house full time.
So get ready to hope you've got some botogs booked
in dog because you're gonna age asat Rocky and put
(24:32):
me into Yeah. No, I haven't been able to see
someone in four years. Looking forward to seeing my lady
back in Sydney. Yeah, sad, sad, but happy and can
I just say yes. Before we moved to New Zealand,
everyone was like, you guys will be fine. People are
so nice in New zeal And. I was like, oh,
(24:54):
I didn't really think much of it. I was like,
people are nice everywhere and then it's not until you
move here you really lies. Holy crap. People being nice
as an understatement. Yeah, people are so accommodating, so accommodating,
and like it's just it's so true what they say,
like people just open their houses to you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Well, I want to say it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The people here are better than the ones in Sydney.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Because we're going back there. They're good to shut up.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I said it all right. People. They are the people
in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
They're nice and they're genuine and they just they're like me,
not like you tickets, You're like the ones from Sydney.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Actually, so that's probably why I.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Am That's why I can go back to driving like
fucking lunatic in city and people won't judge me.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
You can't be like that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, I'm a mom now, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
So yeah, that's that's what I'll miss.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah. Yeah, and the Warriors fans as well.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, oh my god, the Warriors fans.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, that that's something else. And it's so cool that
you were a part of that whole up the wires
moment in history.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But the Warriors fans, I love you guys so much. Yeah,
thank you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, Mooker, he's amazing champion.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah a man, see things like that. I want to
play you next year. They're going to be right in me.
I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I know, I can't wait. I'm going to come for that.
I'll be like, give.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You pump.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah literally, oh my god, have you been have you
thought of that?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah? I did on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Crazy, I thought of it of the weekend and yeah, look,
it's part of the game.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Like that funny comment someone wrote on the post.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Someone said, on the you told men't I didn't see anything.
I don't know. I don't like reading or seeing anything.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And then you you you read it to me and
it was like, all the best on your journey.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And next year we'll miss you, miss you.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But I hope Fisher, Harris and Barnett don't miss you.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, they're going to flog me.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Do you run at them?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is that in the same position, Well, they'll be I
will assume they'll be putting us on our line and
I'll be coming out of the line off the trial
line getting folded, which is.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Fine, Bunny, especially because.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Bonnie Bonnie folds me at training. It's all part of it.
But yeah, if you don't like it, don't play the game.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Well I'll be having words with him after the game
if he goes too hard, Bunny.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Part of it. It's all love, Like, it's all love.
You appreciate your respect. That it's a game.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's cool to leave a country and club like I
will sound such good terms, but it is like mutual. Yeah,
like it's so much love for this place in the club,
Like it's it's fine. Yeah, it's kind of like we
know that they'll be friends forever.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It's happened the way that it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, I think so, well, we won't we won't say
goodbye just yet because we're still here for a bit.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, we've got two more weeks. Crazy, you know what.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Our life's pretty hectic, right and I just want to
mention earlier this week was your anniversary to your wedding anniversary.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh yeah that too, Yeah, thanks to the president. Still
waiting for that.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
So we're going through a bit, mate, We've got to
pack a household up.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I always miss out, like I always.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No, don't try and make me look like the bad person.
We had agreed we knew what was going on in
the background.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
No one knew. We knew. Our people thought they knew.
And then I said to.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You, you know, this year, why don't we just go
out for a nice dinner.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
And we did a beautiful dinner.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
We went out for dinner on Sunday two, you know,
celebrate two years. And that's all we need to do.
What present do you want? You've got everything you need
and then you all right, what do you need?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Tell them? What you need nothing nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Surprise would have been nice flowers, no.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Surprise, your boom two girls. True, that's your surprise. True,
all right, pregnancy. Everyone was grateful.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Go to the six week scam bangs twins.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
That's his surprise, isn't it. That was a good surprise.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I regret opening, he said, Belope, Okay, well yeah, that's
that's that shoulder. Da, So big weekend coming up for us.
(29:33):
It is our best friends. Can I say best friend
us there.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Which bought a number of best friends?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Shut up, our very good fit. I will call them
family friends now because they're more like family now. Casey
and Adam Pompey are getting married. So for like, he's
your center, yes you play? Yeah, So I don't know
(30:03):
why I'm so confused, and you know, baby brain, because
it's weird for me that that's how we met them,
because like, you don't expect to become so close with
people like through your job. Really, but I guess when
you move overseas for a job, you you do create
friendships like that because they've become family.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
He's my favorite center to play with us.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Actually he's been the only center you've played.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Very talented is he and he's you know, he's come
a long way, means come a long way.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
He's a human being.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
He's a hard egg to crack in terms of getting
a sentence out of him. When you first meet him,
he just love your wets. The first time he met me,
he thought I was sucking. I know he never did,
but I think he was slightly terrified. I wou say that,
and I don't blame him. I probably didn't tone it
(30:59):
down enough for him. He's white, he's soon to be
wife Casey. She is just like me, if not worse.
So he's got a long life coming ahead of him.
So yeah, it's they're getting married this week, and I
hope I don't mind us talking about that. So it's
too late now, Sorry guys. Yeah, we've got the privilege
(31:22):
of being made of honor and you're the best man,
so huge shoes to fill, huge roles on the day
and leaning up. But we don't take it lightly, you know,
we take it very seriously because big it's a big
thing to be part of someone's wedding. So first and foremost,
thanks for the opportunity. Second world timing not ideal. I've
(31:42):
been thirty two weeks pregnant but hey, think.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
She'll cut you out of the photos. I hope she does.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Even my mom said, God, that poor girl are going
to ruin her photos. She's happy I've told her.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Can we just get to stand on the side.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, And I'm happy, mate, I don't get offended. I
remember when it was my time, when I was getting married,
I told my bridesmads, if one of you gets pregnant,
you're out, I said, straight up, I don't care, which
is case. Is obviously way nicer than me. So when
I told her, I'm sure I saw one eye shudder
like her, but she didn't. She didn't blew out. So
(32:21):
still there, I'm still holding that role. So yeah, we've
got a huge weekend. We're very excited. But if you've
ever been a maid of honor or best man, you
know that what comes with the role is a speech
on the day, which is huge. We had awesome speeches
at our wedding. My beautiful mative honor Cody nailed it.
Your beautiful best man Leon nailed it.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
So I looked to them at speeches because I hope
to do a good job, Like there, what are you
going to do? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I just start writing it.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, that's what. Yeah, why can't I wing it? Because,
like I speak from the heart, I already know what
stories I've got to talk about. So I feel like
if I just do like a bit of an opener,
like ha hey, like, get a joke prepared? Are you
going to do jokes? Actually? Because we're not comedian.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I want a comedian.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, And oh god, you've seen some horrible speeches at
weddings where people think they're funny, like oh hope you
made the right choice or something naff like that. It's like, oh,
I heard that before, heard that before.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
People Wait till you get married. Yeah, life changes.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Life changes, but doesn't shut up, and it won't change
for them either because they've lived with each other for
like four years now.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
So joke, I really like his fifty cent stroke What
was that? Fifty went on Stephen Colbert The Bog Show
and he goes to Stephen, are you happily married? And
then Stephen goes, yeah, I am, and then fifty and
then he asks fifty years, why why don't you married?
And he goes, because I'm happy by myself. He goes,
I don't want to be a happy hostage. Oh yeah, yeah,
(34:01):
I thought that was funny. Yeah, because you relate.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
No, but you're fine, Yeah, you're sweet.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Maybe there are people out there that are like hostage,
my hostage.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
My daddy's listening to this guy.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
That's me. That's me, So the hostage, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I remember years ago when we were all in Sydney
living with mom and dad, and my brother was still
living at home as well at the time, and I
can't remember the video he showed, but it was like
a stands up comedian hitting on marriage and who was
it I can't remember, but Luke. And this was before
Luke met his beautiful wife, now Chloe. So Luke showing
my dad and my dad's going, he's fucking spot on it.
(34:44):
A marriage is the worst. And my mom's sitting right there,
You're sitting right there, and I'm like freaking blow up, Like,
don't do that because this man is going to marry
me one day. Don't have that view on marriage.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
And I still think it's funny. We can still laugh
about it.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
No, I took it. I've got very offended, stuck, a nerve,
struck a nerve. I think because it was at that time.
It was at that time where all my friends are
getting engaged, and we had even been together longer than them,
and there was still nothing inside for us. So struck
a nerve, struck a chord I believe actually is stuff anyways,
(35:22):
So I kind of want to text Casey because I
just bypassed Adam. I know he's got absolutely nothing to
do with this wedding showing up that I want a message, Casey,
But like, hey, Dol, seeing as though it's me and
me Habby going up to save speech, why don't we
just kill two birds with one so can mean him
combine our speeches, because I know that every bride wants
(35:44):
a text message like that a few days before their wedding.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
The last thing they're thinking about is about me and
you saying something.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
All right, yeah true, Let them just have their let
them have their day, true dome stress in their heads.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Just go up there and talk whenever you have to talk.
I was talking after talk.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, but you're good at formal speeches. No, you are,
because even to your best friend's wedding last December, Leon, yes,
you were did a really good best man's speech.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
It wasn't that good.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It's just people are stupid people, And I think oh,
he's so good.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
It wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
No, no, no, no, people aren't stupid. People think you're stupid.
And then and then that's what it is. I look
at and so this is not being offctive. They look
at all football players like god, they are so stupid.
They yeah, And then when you get a football like
(36:37):
then a footballer comes up and says a speech. All
he does is the bare minimum. They go.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
I'm saying wow. Everyone was saying, oh my god, it
was And I said.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I know so many people came up to me. You
got yourself a nice speller, and I said, what do
you expect? I just love nice things. There were It's
no like derogatory stories, because a lot of best man's
make the mistake.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I wanted it, but you sprayed it's not.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
About you and this stupid chan. It's about him and
he's won and you're right. And I think that's where
a lot of people go wrong. Look at me thinking
I'm going to have this killer speech on Saturday. But
I think a lot of people go wrong when they
go I'm going to talk about me and him? And
how are you used to go to strip?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
And all this bring up when we met when we'll
fight you shit together. No one cares.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Thank you took the words out of my mouth. Not
one person sitting at that wedding gives a shit about
you and your friendship.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
And the last thing. People just want you in and out.
The last thing.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We're sitting in that wedding and everyone's talking. Everyone gets
the we don't even know. Some people they get a
muff from when they was six years old. I just
want to say a few words, shut.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Up, I know.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
And then they talk how many speeches? We just say, yeah,
and you know, the thinking about speeches. It's so introduction,
good story.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
And we both clicked out, yeah, a toast.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, oh god, I've got I don't even I didn't
even do.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
It, so you're not gonna know. I swear you raised out,
didn't raise nothing.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I raised nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I was drunk. Remember I was singing to the live violinists.
Everyone was very just.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It was I really appreciated the seafood platter. I really
appreciated me. And can I just say me and your
mom Downingham, you put your brother albut went missing. The
whole wedding.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Album was outside hallucinating us said, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
With it because it was a forty degree day.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Was my birthday, had stroke, Albert had.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
He was outside and your mom was like, can you
please just keep checking on Albert? I was like pleasure,
So because I needed some friggin'.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
It was just watch YouTube video.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
I just go out and we'd just chat and then
I'd be like, Okay, I'm going to go back in. Yeah,
I'll see you in ten.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
There was forty that day.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
It was forty degrees because it was my birthday. But
I don't know what that is too.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
That's what I'm saying about speeches, mate, you just say
it from your heart. Yeah, you don't stay there for
too long. People don't care about how you met, do
you know what I mean? Where you met fair enough,
but don't go into details. I don't say this and that,
this and that had a bit of laughter, you know,
and then finish it nice.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
That's you.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, I agree. I agree. I'm just trying to think
because like you do have to have a bit of
laugh a laughter though, there's nothing worse than like pause
for effect and there's no laughter there, and you're like,
could move on.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
There's no laughter in Leon's speech. When I said his speech.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
No, there was. There was a few laughs.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
No, but I'm pretty good at grabbing the room with
my eyes.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
You said my eyes, and people just know when I'm
talking and they just go, oh, he's serious, don't you reckon?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I was like, okay, yeah, you demanded the room.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, look at me.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Everyone see I'm like so I people listening to the podcast,
you probably already realize I'm have a out of breath
because I'm pregnant. So I'm going to be trying to
like spare a sentence outlet.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
If anyone laughs, ill.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Them because I can't even have a drink. I can't
even have a drink to get the edge of motel.
Oh yeah, will go down nicely before.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
You need a drink. Anyway, you bring the life of
the party.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
I'm not. No.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
This is where people get me wrong. People think because
I'm loud, i'd be like a social butterfly. I hate events,
I hate people. I'm an extroverted introvert. I believe the term.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Is yeah, you talk, then you get and then you get.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
The exactly I get there and I shit myself, and
God for bit I sneeze because at this point I
will piss myself I just happened to me twenty minutes.
Gud to shower before we get podcast because I sneezed
in a weed. So if that happened, happened.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
While we're wearing black, so it's fine, and I'll bring
a pantyliner. So yeah, I'm very nervous. But I've got like,
I've got a lot of stories with Casey because we
when COVID Lockdown was a thing and the NRL was
still running.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Maybe don't talk about some of these.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
No, No, what mean, Casey? What do we do? I'm
just saying we all moved to the Gold Coast so
the comp could keep going, and me and Casey had
the time of our lives, so much fun. So I've
got a few stories from there. What else. Actually, now
they think of it, those stories aren't even fun. They're boring.
We just went to the beach and went out.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
That's not funny. He cares about that. Yeah, I'm I'm
trying to explain to you. Don't come up there acting
like you know everything. Say my speech is a ship
because if you get up there and you start talking,
you start dribbling shit. I'll take the mug and say sorry, guys, I'll.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Just go to the heart, like I'll just go straight
for the heart felt.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Just go straight to the heart felt. No one cares.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
People want to hear from the heart, get people crying
in there.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah, and that's another thing made of on a best mane.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
Man, big mind, big man.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Say it men, best man.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
That sounds No, don't try cover your tracks by saying that.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
The best mind.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
I'm not gonna be able to say it's.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah, Well, don't come to me saying my speech. Jesus,
I'm not these much fumigated after.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, it's probably still got the flu germs from six
weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
What was they saying, baby brain has taken over you.
I have no idea what you're trying to say because
you just speak.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Let me back track stories. Yeah, so because we're made
of on the best men, then you guys are don't don't.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Try to act like I was wrong you you didn't
pronounce it the right way.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
We're gonna be the big speech. We are the highlight,
not the highlight of the wedding. But we're like, no,
we are. I was gonna say, ma fain so like
it works its way up to our roles. So like
I know, Casey's going to have for both those sisters
say speech. I think her daddy's grandie mate probably chuck
(43:07):
him in there to granddad. So like we're going to
be like leading up. People are leading up to us
huge and like another thing we need to do. You
know what weddings when the bridal party enters the reception.
Oh no, god, hiccups out pair by pair. We're obviously peter.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Couples yet a couple of couples.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yeah, we need to we need to practice our insurance.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
We can't do that while you're heavily pregnant.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
There's a lot of things I can still do.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
No, you're not dropping it.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I am dropping it low. I can still do the
splits probably the last thing.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
On you dropping and the babies come out, back up.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Drop a loaw, the girls come bo me out as well. Yeah,
all over the.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Floor breaks, could you imagine?
Speaker 4 (43:55):
And then that would be the main event. We're done.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Can I just talk? Yeah, that's an early night, so
I think that's happening at six before we were married
and start. This was back when I was immature and
very self conscious. No, yeah, probably, And you were a
grimsman at your friend's wedding. It's a weird thing when
(44:19):
you go to a wedding and your partner's in the
bridal party and you see them get paired up with
a bridesaid and watch them enter, and it was like,
how close you guys get a dance with each other? Yeah, sorry,
that was just thought I had because I remember at
the time, me and my friend who was your friend's
partner at the time. She's just she was just as
(44:41):
petty as me. Were born on the same day, so
both sagittarians and we were just riding you two and
the girls you were picked up with.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
How sadistic? You say, said sick? What's going for your mind?
I was like, nineteen, they're a sick.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
O, mate, Yeah, saying I'm crazy you got thinging things
like that, sick in the head.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
I'm sure other women would relate to that. Other women, Yeah,
like what I felt. Yeah, So leave this in, Adam, please,
even though it was just small, leave it in. I
think it's important. So yeah, okay, enough about us and
(45:30):
the roles at the wedding. Let's talk about Casey and
Adam and let's actually help them get something out of
this little segment. Was there any wedding advice people gave
you before we got married that you think is good
for them.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yes, yep, things are going to go wrong. It's not
going to be perfect. It'll be the most minute things,
will be the most smallest thing. It could be the
smallest things that happen and you think it's the biggest
thing in the world. Just staying by into it, enjoy
the day. Worts and case to be Yes, don't don't
(46:03):
get caught up and they go wrong.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
You know, we had people.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Will go wrong, wrong, and things that I knew that
I didn't her about our wedding, that she would have
blew up in the moment, in the moment where's say,
what's if you're listening.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
My brother nearly stepped out the band. That's normal.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
Normal.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Well, so like before the reception had even started, we.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Had people come to our wedding.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
We didn't even know, like someone had pulled out from
someone that we invited, so they gave that imitation.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
To a random person gets to a concert.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
And then they came. I knew I didn't told, I
didn't need touch the devil in my face advice Adam,
don't say anything to him, do not tell Casey anything.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
If you see something that you're like, wow, Casey didn't
want that person here, or just don't tell her. She'll
be fine.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, we'll take care of it in the background.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Yeah, get her dad, just bring Aaron over and say,
as let's sort this out.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Given with this.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
No, you took me, don't do a Luke Lardy. Yeah
that was great advice, actually, because I remember being the
bride and organizing all this stuff, and as the bride,
you fixate on the dumbest stuff. I remember the Wednesday
before the wedding. Our wedding was on a Friday. I
remember having an anxiety attack to my best friend Cody,
(47:22):
my mate of honor, saying, I don't trust the venue.
I don't think they're going to get the flowers here here, here,
It's just so stupid. It is stupid. But when you've
paid that much money and you've got a vision, you
want it to look like that. And then I remember
the day came and I didn't see my phone for
the whole day, Like I just rocked up to the
venue and I was like, yeah, this will do, Like
(47:44):
who cares? So yeah, don't. That was great advice Marterer
for someone that didn't have anything to do with planning
the wedding. God, that was great.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
I'm not as stupid as you think I am.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
No, that's again people think you're stupid.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
You're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
And then my piece of advice on top of that
is more for like the marriage moving forward, because it's
all fun and games to have a party. But it
will hit you that all the excitement's over. Hit me,
It really hit me hard.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
I don't care, so it won't effect what's this won't
affect you, DARNI.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yes, Casey, there will be a mental calm down. So
enjoy that honeymoon book an extra week because once you're back,
you're done mate, and then needs nothing to look forward
to giving. Yeah. Just my marriage advice actually is from
(48:38):
our producer Adam. He showed us that thing the other
day that actually is so true. Marriage is right one
hundred percent for a couple, but that doesn't mean fifty
to fifty some days. Some days one person needs to
give ninety percent because the other person can only give
ten percent. So you're having a bad day. I can
(48:59):
read into that. I know I need to be ninety
percent of the relationship just to that moment to get
you through.
Speaker 4 (49:04):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Yeah, So I think that's like read each other's vibes.
Just be each other's best friend, help each other out
when needed. I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
Yeah, and then don't get up.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Are caught up in the people saying, oh, how's marriage life?
It's the same thing people, it is. It's the same thing.
Nothing changes. Where you get a ring on your finger,
well you were like a diamond on your finger.
Speaker 4 (49:30):
A change. It doesn't change nothing.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
You still want to wash each other's clothes, You still
what to hang the clothes, You still what to cook dinner,
you still have to clean up after. It's the same
shit into all these people saying, oh wait till you
get married, shut up, thank you for your dame.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
So yeah, see you on satty people. Big day, Big Day.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
I went to see Reggie walk down on Yes, their
sausage dog. They touch it.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Feel so like talk thing about all this stuff is
actually bringing up a lot. So I've actually got more
than one piece of advice. So like with weddings, you
pay so much money and you're worried about everyone and
attending and if they're being fed and they've got enough
drinks and all that stuff, and if they're having a
good time stuff that, like it's actually about you two
(50:20):
and it's your money at the end of the day.
So as long as you guys are having a good time.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
You're pain you're paying for a big piss up and
people to come and drink for free, eat for free.
They want to be leaving you some money in the
wishing room.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
Give a shit.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Yeah, from the Lombardi's case, you write it down. Write
write down what people gave.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
I want to leave some money there because they're going
to come and eat and drink and ohhbreds are wedding.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
Yeah, they don't leave a card or the friendship's over.
That's look.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
So yeah, enjoy it. Enjoy it because it goes so fast.
Like I didn't even eat anything at our wedding, and
I said I was going to eat because we got
married at this Italian venue and me and mom went
ham on the menu, like we that was my mom's
biggest thing. She just wanted to make sure everyone left
full and welfared. And like it's so true what they say.
(51:15):
The bride and group, you get so caught up and
chatting to people, taking photos, dancing, like obviously having a
great time, but like you forget to eat, Like we
went to McDonald's on the way to our honeymoon sweet.
It was good, it was really good. Actually, yeah what
did I get? A happy meal?
Speaker 4 (51:36):
Yeah? And twenty nuggets? But I had ten. You had ten? Jesus.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Yeah. The room was spinning by.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
That honeymoon sweet because we didn't go honeymoon there.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
No, but that's what they say. That's what they call it,
honeymoon sweet.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (51:51):
Well, the venue called it that because the venue booked it.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Well, the honeymoon wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
How do you get caught up in like stupid son.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Because I'm I'm a detailed person. I'm ridiculous. I like
to know every single detail. If that was a honeymoon sweet,
it would have been in Hawaii where we went.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
I've got more advice for you, Casey. When your other
half rambles on about meaningless stuff, just tune it out.
You'll get really good at it. Because right now you
know what I'm in my head, I'm singing that song.
If you're looking for me, baby, you know you can
find me following the sun or while while you were
saying all that. So that's when.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
When the girls go on the little tantrums and they
have tazzy devil moments.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
Perfect thing, walk at the house and come back for
an hour.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
He already does that. He's so chill. I feel like
he's already like we're not dealing with this c because
they're all used.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
To it, mate, and it's never going to change. Look,
I've got two more on the way to give me
more drums.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, Adam. Just when you think life's pretty bad, think
of myselo. He's got me as why two girls on
the way that are going to just like me. So
there you go. Life's good for you, mate. I've got
a quote because we end the episodes like that. It's
(53:13):
a good one today. Do I say it first and
then you do your sign off?
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
But look, I just feel like you're not putting enough
effort into these quotes because you're reading enough a.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Moment now you're actually like, what do you mean? What
else am I going to read more?
Speaker 4 (53:26):
Well, you should be putting more effort into this. You
should be knowing.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
I'm going to make the quote up myself.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
But you should know what it is before we come
in on the episode.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
I do know what it is. It's here on my
phone ready, I reckon You'll you'll like this on learn
as if you will live forever, Live like you will
die tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
Oh that's how I live?
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Is it cool?
Speaker 4 (53:50):
So from that point, so.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
More than mother from me, it's a or nothing from
me because I just gave my quote. It's a micro
drop from me. Bit Ches out.
This is an iHeartRadio New Zealand podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sorry, hey, a mass another episode of the Montys and
another one where we can actually come in red hot
and speak of the last kind of eight weeks two months.
What's been going on in our lives behind the scenes?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You mean the last week. There's been nothing happening in
the past eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
This this the whole process of leaving the club, the
going to a new club doesn't just happen in a week.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
We felt like it, you have, No, it didn't for
you mentally.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Sorry, I've had a be on my plate throwing two babies,
two baby girls. Okay, so I can't copy it for
you anymore.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Just shut up, all right?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Sorry, I understand this is your big moment. No, sorry,
I went upstage, your big announcement.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
All right, and listen, because you're talking big game in
here about my big announcer, the mate.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
But you know that you're happy about it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
You are being pregnant. Obviously, Oh my goodness, No that's
not true. Obviously, I'm so stoked and grateful that you're
going to Sorry, I feel like we should preface this
whole chat, so people like, what are they talking about?
Mussella is leaving the Warriors. You should say say that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I don't want to say it like that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
If you just stop talking ship and let me say
my piece jump on the back of it, people go,
oh yeah that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
No no sorry, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
No, no, I'm not I'm sorry, I'll suck as.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Let me say the way I want to say this.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I was gonna say, wow, we should have planned this out.
When Sean announced he was leaving on his podcast, it
was so beautiful, it was so well thought out. And
this is shit.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I don't care. Rewind, I don't care what Sewn did.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We can't afford to fly our family from Australia over
and have them all in a room.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
We can't do that. Sorry, And just to be mindful, yeah, yeah,
you didn't think, did ya?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And then guess what how we're going to feed someone
in his room as a five by five bocks.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
We're they gonna sit on the floor.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Why are you so aggressive? This is meant to be
a nice moment. Wow, all right, I'll shut up and
let's see how good you are at talking by yourself.
Go showtime. Bye.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So last week it came out on Friday that we
are leaving New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You are, Yes, I'm saying shut up, shut off.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Anyhow.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Anyhow, any who, last Friday, Yeah, it came out the
news broke that were they were leaving New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm leaving the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And it's something that I want people to understand that
it's not something that just happens, you know, in one week,
or that happens overnight or lightly. Yeah, this has been
gone gone on the background now for about two months,
and people did understand. It wasn't it wasn't an easy
decision for us. We we we really really loved our
(03:29):
time here in New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We love the people in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We love the way that they've embraced us us as people.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The Warriors is an unbelievable organization.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Everyone that works there, from upstairs down the owners, the
Robinson's to Webb, all the coaching staff, Cameron, George, just
wonderful people.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
You could literally name every single staff person, yeah, because
they're all amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And so it wasn't an easy decision, and it was
one that it was made with the heavy heart, But
at the same time, it was one that probably had
to be done, you know. Was it was all sweet
when it all happened, and when it unfolded about eight
weeks ago, was my manager had approached the club and said, look,
are you guys looking to offer mass and extension beyond
(04:17):
next year? And the Warriors were just so professional and
honest they said, look, we like we're in a position
where we can't offer mass contract beyond next year. However,
if you guys want to test the market, we won't
stand in your way if you can find a bit
more security beyond next year.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And that's how it happened. That's all.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's all. That's how it happened. And you know we're
we're all in talks, We're all in you know, the
right comms. And I was speaking to Eby every day
letting him know how it went down.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And then yeah, it went down like that.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You know, the Bulldogs came in and showed their interest
or expressed the interest, and you know, I still have
so much love for the Bulldogs and that club, obviously
being a local junior there. I think it's the right
way to do it, going back to a place where
it all started, and going back to a place.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That I know really really well and that I've built.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Some memories and some strong friendships here, and I feel
like I have unfinished business here.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know, when I left the Bulldogs, I was I
wasn't playing my best footy. I was mentally depressed. I was,
you know, I wasn't in a good place with my confidence,
with my confidence.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And it was a weird time that COVID, Like that
whole season was so weird with COVID and the way. Yeah,
it was just there was.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A lot on and I was saying last night to
to my brother, you know, I probably wouldn't be the
person I am today if I didn't go through what
I went through at the Bulldogs back then. You know,
I think I had to leave. I had to get away,
and then coming to the Warriors, it gave me, you know,
like a new lease or my career.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And I said it to Webby too. I called Webby.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
As soon as I signed the contract to leave the
Warriors at the Bulldogs, I called Webby and said, mate,
I've I signed the deal. I just want to let
you know that, you know, I want to thank you
for everything that you've done for me and Tay, and
I want to thank you for making me a better person.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think it's important for people. I understand rugby league players.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I don't know if all of them think like this,
But I don't really care about what happens on the field,
Like I do the best I can to prepare every
week to put my best foot forward for my brothers.
But when my career is done, like whenever that happens,
I don't really care how people looked at me as
a player. I more cared about how they look at
me as a person and say, you know what, he
was a great he was a great character. He brought
value to this club for the person he was, not,
(06:43):
you know, for what he brought on the field.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
So, yeah, it was Friday. It was a hectic day.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, it was crazy because you hadn't even told your family. Really,
we had just told my mom and your mom because
we didn't really know when it was going to all
go down. It's like such a weird process. Yeah, how
that all pans out?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But yeah, yeah, but depends out. I mean, And that's
part of the industry that that that I'm in.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Right, Yeah, I've got a few emails to answer today,
a few bosses I need to call. So but just
because you're going don't assume I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Going to like, yeah, I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, but it's really exciting because you have so much
history at the club you are going to and very
grateful that they they even want you back.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So I think people like people that, like just a
general people don't understand how hard it is to get
a contract in you know, it's so hard, so hard.
So just to be able to, you know, to get
a contract in the NRL, it's something that I'm grateful
for and I thank God every day because this doesn't
come along like that.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So many talented.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Boys that you know, might miss out or might not
be to get in. So that's what I'm grateful for
as well. You can't you can't take this stuff for granted,
especially when you get a bit older in terms of
rugby league. Yeah, you know, but I still feel fresh
and my body's fine. But yeah, it's it's cool, it's exciting,
but just the way it happened was crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And a lot of people might not know that you
are a local junior of the Bulldogs club as well. Yeah,
so like to go back to that is huge. Yeah, Like,
that's that's so cool. I'm a local junior to the club.
Obviously cheerleader. So I feel like it was a no brainer.
Yeah I'm kidding. My days are well and truly over
(08:41):
of that clearly, but yeah, no, very very sad, but
very happy as well, because like you, being part of
a team is one one part of it, and then
me coming to another country to support your career, like
I was so determined and to get a career of
(09:01):
myself over here as well. I didn't want to just
move and not have a purpose, Like I like wanted
to continue my career over here, and I didn't want
to rely on you for sole friendship. But I was like,
I'm gonna, mate, I'm going to make it like an
effort to make friends over here and really make it
feel like home. So to have to say goodbye to
(09:24):
friends that you've relied on for the past four years
because you don't have family around, because even though we've
only been in New Zealand for two years, you've played
at the club for four years, so we haven't been
home for four years. We were in terrible Gold Coast,
Brisban and the New Zealand. So to have to like
get a career in every single one of those places
(09:47):
and make my job work for me as well, Like
I've met incredible people in contacts whilst you've done your career,
so I've got a lot of people as well, and
it'll be high to say goodbye to that. I didn't
not have to say goodbye to this early, but ye
see ya, no kidding, Laura mcgold took one person I'll
(10:09):
shout out because oh my god, getting a job in
radio is really scary and hard, and when you get
a job in radio in a different country, you don't
really know the radio talent and it's scary to get
to know people, especially people of that like that stature
and talented and can I just say, like the first
time I met her, she was like, where are you
(10:33):
guys going to move? Like straight away offered up her
house to us, like she had just met me as
her producer, and her and her husband Guppy Soul accommodating
always we had like they had us over for Christmas,
and so I did tell her and Nat as well.
So it's like people like that who just opened their
homes up for us no one we had no family
here and just actually made it feel like home. So
(10:57):
it's definitely a bittersweet, but was in Sydney all the
time and see her.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, and that's what I want to talk about.
We don't. This podcast isn't about my career. I don't care.
He doesn't care. No one cares, all right, and I
get it.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, you coming across a bit ego.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No it's not.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But there's some people that that we need to thank
from the Warriors, and I'll do it and then that's
it and then we can piss it off.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, and we won't talk.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
About it, yeah because like boring.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, but the owners from the Warriors, Amanda and Mirk Robinson. Yeah,
so no one knows about this, but last year had
a miscarriage.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
You know, we will We talked about that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, we spoke about this earlier on in one of
in one of our episodes, and we'll go on for
a tough time. It was hard for me. I took
it hard, and you know, I let Jazz know. So
me and Jazz are really close. And then Ja said, look,
I'll put you onto Amanda. You know, she has a
really really good natural path here in New Zealand that
could probably help Ta get her body back into into
(11:59):
shape where it needs to be to be able to
feel pregnant. And then she reached out to take you
through an email and then you know, she put into
contact with her natural path over here now. And all
this stuff costs a lot of money, like the consultations,
the supplements that she put you on, and Mark and
(12:19):
Amanda covered all that, covered all your your meetings with
your natural path and.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Got me straightaway as well. That is amazing.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I think I think there was a six month waiting
list to see her.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
There was just no questions asked.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And then you know, after that or shortly after you've
seen her the second time, we fall pregnant naturally with twins.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So things like that is what people don't see from
the outside. I see the warriors. They just see an organization.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Of like a business of business, but they don't see
the people inside the four walls. And I just want
to thank Mark and Amanda, like from the bottom of
my heart, because you know, they like they helped us
a lot, and even with stuff with me to do
with with recovery, Amanda's.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Been there so helped full. I want to thank Cameron George.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I think, I think, I think Cam is an absolute
champion of a person the way he has helped us.
When we first moved to news In and we didn't
have a place to stay out. Cam gave us the
keys to his apartment and says, you go stay there
for as long as you want. And just how he's
handled all this in the background is a great human
being and I think without people like that, it would
(13:23):
have made it hard to stay.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
The worries, you.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Know, Yeah, being away from family.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Made it easy.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's so easy obviously the whole coaching stuff, but starting
from from webby Richie Aegar, Stacy Jones, Justin Morgan's moved on,
but he was He's played a big part of my career.
And then also Slade Griffin as well, Like all these
people that have come in and just been able to
help me be the player I am now. But even
(13:52):
more so that like a better person. That's hard to
do that as a coaching stuff. Ye, but yeah, just
just an unbelievable human being. You know, I'll miss him,
I'll miss everyone and just the boys, So it was tough,
but yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, it must be hard because this playing group as
well is especially close.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Well, no one understand like, no one will ever understand
what it's like, you know, when you come to a
club and you're a way for COVID for two years.
You have no family. The family we have is my brothers.
So we're like we're in each other's pockets every day,
like we we lived with each other for literally two
years on the road.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So the friendships and the memories that you make, you
can't get that again. Like, I'm sorry, you can't because
we're literally you know, like we we're rooming with with
Jermaine and Kane for a year and the rock and
then Rocker and then it's.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Like bro like a jackpot with me cooking.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
So it's things like that, like you don't see, like
people don't see that from the outside, Like they don't
see the friendships, the.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Bonds that you make, the memories.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
But it's cool because we can take that with us
into this next step and just reflect and say, man,
you know what, you know what a four years it's been.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well that was nice. Mask. I'm sorry
though down at the start.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, I'm not an asshole like you am. I You're
just an asshole sometimes.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
My workplace doesn't even know I'm kidding. I've got a
phone call to make this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Ye what I wanted to say before they open her mouth.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
So who else do you want to shout out? Or
is there anyone else you want to shout out?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't want to single out anyone in particular. However,
when you're playing the back line, you know, like you're
obviously real close to the back three. So I think
Chance and Dallen are going to be some people want
to miss the most. You know, we spend so much
time together. We're always hanging around each other. So there, yeah,
mainly those two boys. But I think just making the
(16:03):
move over to New Zealand, you know Tahoo and Nat Harris,
yeah and Harlan. You know what what Toyo has done
for us, you know, in terms of making the move seamless.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
No one knows this as well. But uh to who's
club car?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He gave it to us to use for the last
two years, so we've been so we've had a free
car this whole time.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
They pretty much kitted out our apartment, our first apartment
in New Zealand. They supplied us with an outdoor setting,
a coffee.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Machine, my gaming monitor.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Gaming monitor, the chair that you sit on when you
play your gaming. Yes, so yeah, then yeah, Christmas Dinners,
Christmas dinners and they never like we tried so many
times to show our gratitude and like give them something
in return, and they were just having none of it.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And this is a funny thing about it, Tahu and
wouldn't care, like, wouldn't care once about going out for
dinner with anyone. They don't care. They are understated home yeah,
and be with you and being their own space. So
I'm quite surprised that they've actually that they've made their
effort to come out with dinner with us numerous times.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, that's the least we can do to say thanks
for all this, Like mate a dinner? Where do we go?
La snowy value.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Actually, it's sorry. I am Italian. I just let down
a whole nation.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And there's my proof.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
There's my proof today, plastic Italianism.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Yeah, that's it. I just want to.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Say thanks to them from the bottom, because that's it.
I won't be able to say thanks ever again. Obviously
on the field is probably going to be coming from
my head, which I will. I can't wait for it.
Absolute legends, you know. Yeah, friendships that I will chose
for the rest of my life. I think I'll still
be closer to than for the rest of my life.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah, and they've got a place to stay when they're
in Sydney. I think maybe not. We don't know where
we're staying yet, so I won't promise.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I think we're camping out our in laws for a
bit atay his parents house. That'll be some good content.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, one of us will end up in in a mental.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'd be left with the girls on the street. You'll
in the mental asylum. Yeah, because you just can't copy it,
like you you have a short fuse.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I do when I'm around them. I do when I'm
around them. You know, when you grow up with people.
Well I didn't grow up with him. They raised me.
But like you're just so comfortable with like knowing that
you can tell them off.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, but I still yeah, but I still I get it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
It's not respectful, it's you were raised. Well I was
raised that way.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah. Well we're not raising the girls that way.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
No, God, No, I won't have them speak to me
the way I speak to my mom and dad. I
kick them out. See, this is where my parents went wrong.
They always threatened to kick me out. They never did it, though,
So you know.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Dal tells me this story about about his daughter. Yeah,
and like I will say it because he won't care.
But it's so funny. She goes to Dylan and perty,
I've had enough of this family.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And then.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You're like yeah, and so what are you gonna do?
She goes, I'm packing my bags, Daddy, I'm leaving. And
then now he goes to me. It's so hard, mask
like I have to sit there and just let her.
That's his little girl, right, and he has to go, Man,
how do I handle this? So he guess, all right,
you go, Then you go. Yeah, but inside he's dying. Yeah,
of course inside he's like, don't go, Like, yeah, you know.
(19:35):
And then she packs her little bag, she puts in there,
she puts it on her back, and she walks outside
the front door. But they've got scatered off there the driveway, right,
so it's safe. But that I was watching from upstairs.
He's looking from the window, going, you know, don't leave, like,
don't leave. And then she comes running back to the doors,
bagging on the door, starts crying.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Daddy, Daddy, I don't want to leave. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And I hope our girls are like that. Yeah, I
want the girls to be like that. A bit of
person Look they need personality.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Mate, Yeah, god cha they will. They'll be ooz impersonality.
Look at their mama bear. Yeah. Well that's when my
parents went wrong. They would say we're going to kick
you and your brother out, and I'd be like, First time,
I'm like, oh my god. Second time they said, I
was like, I know how this goes. Third and fourth time, Okay,
I'm not even getting off the couch at this point.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Yeah, don't bring your friends and whenever you want, yeah,
shut up.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
See it'll be interesting. I haven't lived with them since
I was before we've got engaged, So what twenty I've
been twenty four or twenty three. Now I'm coming back
as a twenty eight year old. Be very interesting to
see how they want to discipline me. Are so past
those days. So it is, especially being pregnant, I'm calling
(20:45):
the shots.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I feel like i'd be the one discipline in you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, you think i'd be the one.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Saying yeah, yeah, I actually listen to what you have
to say.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, but then you don't take it with you get
upset at me for sticking up for them.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
You get upset at me. You're oh your eyes and
I say, hey, you.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Can't see it from my point of view.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I don't like your point of view. Yeah, well, your
point of view is rude and it's not nice. You
don't talk to your parents like that.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, whatever. I'll ask you this on when you move
in with them to and see how you go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm fine with them, Okay, I am. She said I
can use a washing machine. There's no you know, I
can use a washing machine, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I fix the pipes, so my brushing my teeth and
blowing my nose is fine.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I've already been barred from the downstairs toilet. Apparently I'm
not allowed to use that. That's only Marcello's toilet.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, but let me explain in your mum's defense. So
for everyone listening on a listener's my wife. She's dirty.
We have a shower. I buy a squeegee in the shower.
Squeegeye the screen. After your shower, everything's a processed He
walks out water everywhere. I always explained to my wife
open the door of the shower door to get some
air in there so it's not as hot. Grab your sail,
(21:54):
dry yourself while you're standing in the shower. While you're
standing in the shower, dry yourself, right.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
She doesn't do that. She walks out soaking.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Wet, drags the water everywhere, all right, and puts herself
through that.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, my mom doesn't understand what I do in the
shower because when I used to live there, she come
and go, why the puddles everywhere? What are you study
the shower? Yes, I'm dancing. I'm especially if it's hair
washed day, because I have to flick my hair forward
to get underneath. It got very thick hair, and it's
purple shampoo I use because I'm not a natural blonde,
(22:27):
so I have to get all the brassiness out, so
I flick my hair, flick it back. There's spuds on
the roof and stuff. And then she always says, squeegy
the shower. I I'm not squeeging. I leave hair botles.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's not funny.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
No, I don't do that anymore because my hair is
growing really well, thanks for the pregnancy. But so yeah,
I'm barred from the downstairs toilet, which is fun making
a pregnant woman walk upstairs.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
It'll be good, but exercise for you up and down
the stairs just to go to the bathroom. So I'm
looking forward to that. I'm looking forward to a lot
of things. And the funny thing about going back home
is no one cares about me anymore. From my family yea,
and your family.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
My older brother calls me us. She calls me and
he says, all right, perfect. I'm so happy, like there's
tainting anything.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's good. That's good because for the last four years
I've been shafted, mate, So it's about time.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Okay, we'll guess when the girls are here, you're gone,
we're both gone.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But that's that. Yeah. That help in itself is like
I'm so grateful for it. Yeah, yeah, I'm really Yeah,
because I think everyone was really concerned, but they didn't
want to say anything. They're like, oh, yeah, he's gonna
do it in news of okay, cool, cool cool. And
then when it got announced that we're coming back to Sitney,
everyone's like, oh, thank god, the girls will be fine. Yeah,
(23:52):
but yeah, so god, it'll be interesting for my mom.
She's she's in her actually will not reveal her age,
that is one, no go. But she's middle aged. Is
it middle aged?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
She looks great, Yes, she's beautiful, she looks great.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
So she hasn't parented in years and years and years,
especially new boards. Like she's got Leonardo, my godson, my
nephew that she minds occasionally, but it's so different when
she's gonna have two twins living in her house full time.
So get ready to hope you've got some botogs booked
in dog because you're gonna age asat Rocky and put
(24:32):
me into Yeah. No, I haven't been able to see
someone in four years. Looking forward to seeing my lady
back in Sydney. Yeah, sad, sad, but happy and can
I just say yes. Before we moved to New Zealand,
everyone was like, you guys will be fine. People are
so nice in New zeal And. I was like, oh,
(24:54):
I didn't really think much of it. I was like,
people are nice everywhere and then it's not until you
move here you really lies. Holy crap. People being nice
as an understatement. Yeah, people are so accommodating, so accommodating,
and like it's just it's so true what they say,
like people just open their houses to you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Well, I want to say it.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
The people here are better than the ones in Sydney.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Because we're going back there. They're good to shut up.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I said it all right. People. They are the people
in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
They're nice and they're genuine and they just they're like me,
not like you tickets, You're like the ones from Sydney.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Actually, so that's probably why I.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Am That's why I can go back to driving like
fucking lunatic in city and people won't judge me.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
You can't be like that.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, I'm a mom now, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
So yeah, that's that's what I'll miss.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah. Yeah, and the Warriors fans as well.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, oh my god, the Warriors fans.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, that that's something else. And it's so cool that
you were a part of that whole up the wires
moment in history.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But the Warriors fans, I love you guys so much. Yeah,
thank you guys so much.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, Mooker, he's amazing champion.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah a man, see things like that. I want to
play you next year. They're going to be right in me.
I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I know, I can't wait. I'm going to come for that.
I'll be like, give.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
You pump.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah literally, oh my god, have you been have you
thought of that?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah? I did on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Crazy, I thought of it of the weekend and yeah, look,
it's part of the game.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Like that funny comment someone wrote on the post.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Someone said, on the you told men't I didn't see anything.
I don't know. I don't like reading or seeing anything.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
And then you you you read it to me and
it was like, all the best on your journey.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And next year we'll miss you, miss you.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
But I hope Fisher, Harris and Barnett don't miss you.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Yeah, they're going to flog me.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Do you run at them?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Is that in the same position, Well, they'll be I
will assume they'll be putting us on our line and
I'll be coming out of the line off the trial
line getting folded, which is.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Fine, Bunny, especially because.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Bonnie Bonnie folds me at training. It's all part of it.
But yeah, if you don't like it, don't play the game.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Well I'll be having words with him after the game
if he goes too hard, Bunny.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Part of it. It's all love, Like, it's all love.
You appreciate your respect. That it's a game.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
It's cool to leave a country and club like I
will sound such good terms, but it is like mutual. Yeah,
like it's so much love for this place in the club,
Like it's it's fine. Yeah, it's kind of like we
know that they'll be friends forever.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It's happened the way that it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, I think so, well, we won't we won't say
goodbye just yet because we're still here for a bit.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, we've got two more weeks. Crazy, you know what.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Our life's pretty hectic, right and I just want to
mention earlier this week was your anniversary to your wedding anniversary.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Oh yeah that too, Yeah, thanks to the president. Still
waiting for that.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
So we're going through a bit, mate, We've got to
pack a household up.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I always miss out, like I always.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
No, don't try and make me look like the bad person.
We had agreed we knew what was going on in
the background.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
No one knew. We knew. Our people thought they knew.
And then I said to.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
You, you know, this year, why don't we just go
out for a nice dinner.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
And we did a beautiful dinner.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
We went out for dinner on Sunday two, you know,
celebrate two years. And that's all we need to do.
What present do you want? You've got everything you need
and then you all right, what do you need?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Tell them? What you need nothing nothing.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Surprise would have been nice flowers, no.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Surprise, your boom two girls. True, that's your surprise. True,
all right, pregnancy. Everyone was grateful.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Go to the six week scam bangs twins.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
That's his surprise, isn't it. That was a good surprise.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I regret opening, he said, Belope, Okay, well yeah, that's
that's that shoulder. Da, So big weekend coming up for us.
(29:33):
It is our best friends. Can I say best friend
us there.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Which bought a number of best friends?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Shut up, our very good fit. I will call them
family friends now because they're more like family now. Casey
and Adam Pompey are getting married. So for like, he's
your center, yes you play? Yeah, So I don't know
(30:03):
why I'm so confused, and you know, baby brain, because
it's weird for me that that's how we met them,
because like, you don't expect to become so close with
people like through your job. Really, but I guess when
you move overseas for a job, you you do create
friendships like that because they've become family.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
He's my favorite center to play with us.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Actually he's been the only center you've played.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Very talented is he and he's you know, he's come
a long way, means come a long way.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
He's a human being.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
He's a hard egg to crack in terms of getting
a sentence out of him. When you first meet him,
he just love your wets. The first time he met me,
he thought I was sucking. I know he never did,
but I think he was slightly terrified. I wou say that,
and I don't blame him. I probably didn't tone it
(30:59):
down enough for him. He's white, he's soon to be
wife Casey. She is just like me, if not worse.
So he's got a long life coming ahead of him.
So yeah, it's they're getting married this week, and I
hope I don't mind us talking about that. So it's
too late now, Sorry guys. Yeah, we've got the privilege
(31:22):
of being made of honor and you're the best man,
so huge shoes to fill, huge roles on the day
and leaning up. But we don't take it lightly, you know,
we take it very seriously because big it's a big
thing to be part of someone's wedding. So first and foremost,
thanks for the opportunity. Second world timing not ideal. I've
(31:42):
been thirty two weeks pregnant but hey, think.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
She'll cut you out of the photos. I hope she does.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Even my mom said, God, that poor girl are going
to ruin her photos. She's happy I've told her.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Can we just get to stand on the side.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, And I'm happy, mate, I don't get offended. I
remember when it was my time, when I was getting married,
I told my bridesmads, if one of you gets pregnant,
you're out, I said, straight up, I don't care, which
is case. Is obviously way nicer than me. So when
I told her, I'm sure I saw one eye shudder
like her, but she didn't. She didn't blew out. So
(32:21):
still there, I'm still holding that role. So yeah, we've
got a huge weekend. We're very excited. But if you've
ever been a maid of honor or best man, you
know that what comes with the role is a speech
on the day, which is huge. We had awesome speeches
at our wedding. My beautiful mative honor Cody nailed it.
Your beautiful best man Leon nailed it.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
So I looked to them at speeches because I hope
to do a good job, Like there, what are you
going to do? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
I just start writing it.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, that's what. Yeah, why can't I wing it? Because,
like I speak from the heart, I already know what
stories I've got to talk about. So I feel like
if I just do like a bit of an opener,
like ha hey, like, get a joke prepared? Are you
going to do jokes? Actually? Because we're not comedian.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
I want a comedian.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, And oh god, you've seen some horrible speeches at
weddings where people think they're funny, like oh hope you
made the right choice or something naff like that. It's like, oh,
I heard that before, heard that before.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
People Wait till you get married. Yeah, life changes.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Life changes, but doesn't shut up, and it won't change
for them either because they've lived with each other for
like four years now.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
So joke, I really like his fifty cent stroke What
was that? Fifty went on Stephen Colbert The Bog Show
and he goes to Stephen, are you happily married? And
then Stephen goes, yeah, I am, and then fifty and
then he asks fifty years, why why don't you married?
And he goes, because I'm happy by myself. He goes,
I don't want to be a happy hostage. Oh yeah, yeah,
(34:01):
I thought that was funny. Yeah, because you relate.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
No, but you're fine, Yeah, you're sweet.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Maybe there are people out there that are like hostage,
my hostage.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
My daddy's listening to this guy.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
That's me. That's me, So the hostage, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I remember years ago when we were all in Sydney
living with mom and dad, and my brother was still
living at home as well at the time, and I
can't remember the video he showed, but it was like
a stands up comedian hitting on marriage and who was
it I can't remember, but Luke. And this was before
Luke met his beautiful wife, now Chloe. So Luke showing
my dad and my dad's going, he's fucking spot on it.
(34:44):
A marriage is the worst. And my mom's sitting right there,
You're sitting right there, and I'm like freaking blow up, Like,
don't do that because this man is going to marry
me one day. Don't have that view on marriage.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
And I still think it's funny. We can still laugh
about it.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
No, I took it. I've got very offended, stuck, a nerve,
struck a nerve. I think because it was at that time.
It was at that time where all my friends are
getting engaged, and we had even been together longer than them,
and there was still nothing inside for us. So struck
a nerve, struck a chord I believe actually is stuff anyways,
(35:22):
So I kind of want to text Casey because I
just bypassed Adam. I know he's got absolutely nothing to
do with this wedding showing up that I want a message, Casey,
But like, hey, Dol, seeing as though it's me and
me Habby going up to save speech, why don't we
just kill two birds with one so can mean him
combine our speeches, because I know that every bride wants
(35:44):
a text message like that a few days before their wedding.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
The last thing they're thinking about is about me and
you saying something.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
All right, yeah true, Let them just have their let
them have their day, true dome stress in their heads.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Just go up there and talk whenever you have to talk.
I was talking after talk.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Yeah, but you're good at formal speeches. No, you are,
because even to your best friend's wedding last December, Leon, yes,
you were did a really good best man's speech.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
It wasn't that good.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It's just people are stupid people, And I think oh,
he's so good.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
It wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
No, no, no, no, people aren't stupid. People think you're stupid.
And then and then that's what it is. I look
at and so this is not being offctive. They look
at all football players like god, they are so stupid.
They yeah, And then when you get a football like
(36:37):
then a footballer comes up and says a speech. All
he does is the bare minimum. They go.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
I'm saying wow. Everyone was saying, oh my god, it
was And I said.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I know so many people came up to me. You
got yourself a nice speller, and I said, what do
you expect? I just love nice things. There were It's
no like derogatory stories, because a lot of best man's
make the mistake.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I wanted it, but you sprayed it's not.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
About you and this stupid chan. It's about him and
he's won and you're right. And I think that's where
a lot of people go wrong. Look at me thinking
I'm going to have this killer speech on Saturday. But
I think a lot of people go wrong when they
go I'm going to talk about me and him? And
how are you used to go to strip?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
And all this bring up when we met when we'll
fight you shit together. No one cares.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Thank you took the words out of my mouth. Not
one person sitting at that wedding gives a shit about
you and your friendship.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
And the last thing. People just want you in and out.
The last thing.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We're sitting in that wedding and everyone's talking. Everyone gets
the we don't even know. Some people they get a
muff from when they was six years old. I just
want to say a few words, shut.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Up, I know.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
And then they talk how many speeches? We just say, yeah,
and you know, the thinking about speeches. It's so introduction,
good story.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
And we both clicked out, yeah, a toast.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, oh god, I've got I don't even I didn't
even do.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
It, so you're not gonna know. I swear you raised out,
didn't raise nothing.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I raised nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I was drunk. Remember I was singing to the live violinists.
Everyone was very just.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
It was I really appreciated the seafood platter. I really
appreciated me. And can I just say me and your
mom Downingham, you put your brother albut went missing. The
whole wedding.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Album was outside hallucinating us said, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
With it because it was a forty degree day.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Was my birthday, had stroke, Albert had.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
He was outside and your mom was like, can you
please just keep checking on Albert? I was like pleasure,
So because I needed some friggin'.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
It was just watch YouTube video.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
I just go out and we'd just chat and then
I'd be like, Okay, I'm going to go back in. Yeah,
I'll see you in ten.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
There was forty that day.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
It was forty degrees because it was my birthday. But
I don't know what that is too.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
That's what I'm saying about speeches, mate, you just say
it from your heart. Yeah, you don't stay there for
too long. People don't care about how you met, do
you know what I mean? Where you met fair enough,
but don't go into details. I don't say this and that,
this and that had a bit of laughter, you know,
and then finish it nice.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
That's you.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Yeah, I agree. I agree. I'm just trying to think
because like you do have to have a bit of
laugh a laughter though, there's nothing worse than like pause
for effect and there's no laughter there, and you're like,
could move on.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
There's no laughter in Leon's speech. When I said his speech.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
No, there was. There was a few laughs.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
No, but I'm pretty good at grabbing the room with
my eyes.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
You said my eyes, and people just know when I'm
talking and they just go, oh, he's serious, don't you reckon?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
I was like, okay, yeah, you demanded the room.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Yeah, look at me.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Everyone see I'm like so I people listening to the podcast,
you probably already realize I'm have a out of breath
because I'm pregnant. So I'm going to be trying to
like spare a sentence outlet.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
If anyone laughs, ill.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Them because I can't even have a drink. I can't
even have a drink to get the edge of motel.
Oh yeah, will go down nicely before.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
You need a drink. Anyway, you bring the life of
the party.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
I'm not. No.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
This is where people get me wrong. People think because
I'm loud, i'd be like a social butterfly. I hate events,
I hate people. I'm an extroverted introvert. I believe the term.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Is yeah, you talk, then you get and then you get.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
The exactly I get there and I shit myself, and
God for bit I sneeze because at this point I
will piss myself I just happened to me twenty minutes.
Gud to shower before we get podcast because I sneezed
in a weed. So if that happened, happened.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
While we're wearing black, so it's fine, and I'll bring
a pantyliner. So yeah, I'm very nervous. But I've got like,
I've got a lot of stories with Casey because we
when COVID Lockdown was a thing and the NRL was
still running.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Maybe don't talk about some of these.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
No, No, what mean, Casey? What do we do? I'm
just saying we all moved to the Gold Coast so
the comp could keep going, and me and Casey had
the time of our lives, so much fun. So I've
got a few stories from there. What else. Actually, now
they think of it, those stories aren't even fun. They're boring.
We just went to the beach and went out.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
That's not funny. He cares about that. Yeah, I'm I'm
trying to explain to you. Don't come up there acting
like you know everything. Say my speech is a ship
because if you get up there and you start talking,
you start dribbling shit. I'll take the mug and say sorry, guys, I'll.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Just go to the heart, like I'll just go straight
for the heart felt.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Just go straight to the heart felt. No one cares.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
People want to hear from the heart, get people crying
in there.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Yeah, and that's another thing made of on a best mane.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
Man, big mind, big man.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Say it men, best man.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
That sounds No, don't try cover your tracks by saying that.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
The best mind.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
I'm not gonna be able to say it's.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Yeah, Well, don't come to me saying my speech. Jesus,
I'm not these much fumigated after.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, it's probably still got the flu germs from six
weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
What was they saying, baby brain has taken over you.
I have no idea what you're trying to say because
you just speak.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Let me back track stories. Yeah, so because we're made
of on the best men, then you guys are don't don't.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Try to act like I was wrong you you didn't
pronounce it the right way.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
We're gonna be the big speech. We are the highlight,
not the highlight of the wedding. But we're like, no,
we are. I was gonna say, ma fain so like
it works its way up to our roles. So like
I know, Casey's going to have for both those sisters
say speech. I think her daddy's grandie mate probably chuck
(43:07):
him in there to granddad. So like we're going to
be like leading up. People are leading up to us
huge and like another thing we need to do. You
know what weddings when the bridal party enters the reception.
Oh no, god, hiccups out pair by pair. We're obviously peter.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Couples yet a couple of couples.
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yeah, we need to we need to practice our insurance.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
We can't do that while you're heavily pregnant.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
There's a lot of things I can still do.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
No, you're not dropping it.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
I am dropping it low. I can still do the
splits probably the last thing.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
On you dropping and the babies come out, back up.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
Drop a loaw, the girls come bo me out as well. Yeah,
all over the.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
Floor breaks, could you imagine?
Speaker 4 (43:55):
And then that would be the main event. We're done.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Can I just talk? Yeah, that's an early night, so
I think that's happening at six before we were married
and start. This was back when I was immature and
very self conscious. No, yeah, probably, And you were a
grimsman at your friend's wedding. It's a weird thing when
(44:19):
you go to a wedding and your partner's in the
bridal party and you see them get paired up with
a bridesaid and watch them enter, and it was like,
how close you guys get a dance with each other? Yeah, sorry,
that was just thought I had because I remember at
the time, me and my friend who was your friend's
partner at the time. She's just she was just as
(44:41):
petty as me. Were born on the same day, so
both sagittarians and we were just riding you two and
the girls you were picked up with.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
How sadistic? You say, said sick? What's going for your mind?
I was like, nineteen, they're a sick.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
O, mate, Yeah, saying I'm crazy you got thinging things
like that, sick in the head.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
I'm sure other women would relate to that. Other women, Yeah,
like what I felt. Yeah, So leave this in, Adam, please,
even though it was just small, leave it in. I
think it's important. So yeah, okay, enough about us and
(45:30):
the roles at the wedding. Let's talk about Casey and
Adam and let's actually help them get something out of
this little segment. Was there any wedding advice people gave
you before we got married that you think is good
for them.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yes, yep, things are going to go wrong. It's not
going to be perfect. It'll be the most minute things,
will be the most smallest thing. It could be the
smallest things that happen and you think it's the biggest
thing in the world. Just staying by into it, enjoy
the day. Worts and case to be Yes, don't don't
(46:03):
get caught up and they go wrong.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
You know, we had people.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Will go wrong, wrong, and things that I knew that
I didn't her about our wedding, that she would have
blew up in the moment, in the moment where's say,
what's if you're listening.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
My brother nearly stepped out the band. That's normal.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
Normal.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Well, so like before the reception had even started, we.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Had people come to our wedding.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
We didn't even know, like someone had pulled out from
someone that we invited, so they gave that imitation.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
To a random person gets to a concert.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
And then they came. I knew I didn't told, I
didn't need touch the devil in my face advice Adam,
don't say anything to him, do not tell Casey anything.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
If you see something that you're like, wow, Casey didn't
want that person here, or just don't tell her. She'll
be fine.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, we'll take care of it in the background.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Yeah, get her dad, just bring Aaron over and say,
as let's sort this out.
Speaker 4 (46:58):
Given with this.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
No, you took me, don't do a Luke Lardy. Yeah
that was great advice, actually, because I remember being the
bride and organizing all this stuff, and as the bride,
you fixate on the dumbest stuff. I remember the Wednesday
before the wedding. Our wedding was on a Friday. I
remember having an anxiety attack to my best friend Cody,
(47:22):
my mate of honor, saying, I don't trust the venue.
I don't think they're going to get the flowers here here, here,
It's just so stupid. It is stupid. But when you've
paid that much money and you've got a vision, you
want it to look like that. And then I remember
the day came and I didn't see my phone for
the whole day, Like I just rocked up to the
venue and I was like, yeah, this will do, Like
(47:44):
who cares? So yeah, don't. That was great advice Marterer
for someone that didn't have anything to do with planning
the wedding. God, that was great.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
I'm not as stupid as you think I am.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
No, that's again people think you're stupid.
Speaker 4 (47:56):
You're not stupid.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
And then my piece of advice on top of that
is more for like the marriage moving forward, because it's
all fun and games to have a party. But it
will hit you that all the excitement's over. Hit me,
It really hit me hard.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
I don't care, so it won't effect what's this won't
affect you, DARNI.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yes, Casey, there will be a mental calm down. So
enjoy that honeymoon book an extra week because once you're back,
you're done mate, and then needs nothing to look forward
to giving. Yeah. Just my marriage advice actually is from
(48:38):
our producer Adam. He showed us that thing the other
day that actually is so true. Marriage is right one
hundred percent for a couple, but that doesn't mean fifty
to fifty some days. Some days one person needs to
give ninety percent because the other person can only give
ten percent. So you're having a bad day. I can
(48:59):
read into that. I know I need to be ninety
percent of the relationship just to that moment to get
you through.
Speaker 4 (49:04):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Yeah, So I think that's like read each other's vibes.
Just be each other's best friend, help each other out
when needed. I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
Yeah, and then don't get up.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Are caught up in the people saying, oh, how's marriage life?
It's the same thing people, it is. It's the same thing.
Nothing changes. Where you get a ring on your finger,
well you were like a diamond on your finger.
Speaker 4 (49:30):
A change. It doesn't change nothing.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
You still want to wash each other's clothes, You still
what to hang the clothes, You still what to cook dinner,
you still have to clean up after. It's the same
shit into all these people saying, oh wait till you
get married, shut up, thank you for your dame.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
So yeah, see you on satty people. Big day, Big Day.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
I went to see Reggie walk down on Yes, their
sausage dog. They touch it.
Speaker 3 (49:58):
Feel so like talk thing about all this stuff is
actually bringing up a lot. So I've actually got more
than one piece of advice. So like with weddings, you
pay so much money and you're worried about everyone and
attending and if they're being fed and they've got enough
drinks and all that stuff, and if they're having a
good time stuff that, like it's actually about you two
(50:20):
and it's your money at the end of the day.
So as long as you guys are having a good time.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
It's so true.
Speaker 2 (50:25):
You're pain you're paying for a big piss up and
people to come and drink for free, eat for free.
They want to be leaving you some money in the
wishing room.
Speaker 4 (50:36):
Give a shit.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Yeah, from the Lombardi's case, you write it down. Write
write down what people gave.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
I want to leave some money there because they're going
to come and eat and drink and ohhbreds are wedding.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
Yeah, they don't leave a card or the friendship's over.
That's look.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
So yeah, enjoy it. Enjoy it because it goes so fast.
Like I didn't even eat anything at our wedding, and
I said I was going to eat because we got
married at this Italian venue and me and mom went
ham on the menu, like we that was my mom's
biggest thing. She just wanted to make sure everyone left
full and welfared. And like it's so true what they say.
(51:15):
The bride and group, you get so caught up and
chatting to people, taking photos, dancing, like obviously having a
great time, but like you forget to eat, Like we
went to McDonald's on the way to our honeymoon sweet.
It was good, it was really good. Actually, yeah what
did I get? A happy meal?
Speaker 4 (51:36):
Yeah? And twenty nuggets? But I had ten. You had ten? Jesus.
Speaker 3 (51:42):
Yeah. The room was spinning by.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
That honeymoon sweet because we didn't go honeymoon there.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
No, but that's what they say. That's what they call it,
honeymoon sweet.
Speaker 4 (51:50):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (51:51):
Well, the venue called it that because the venue booked it.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Well, the honeymoon wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (51:58):
How do you get caught up in like stupid son.
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Because I'm I'm a detailed person. I'm ridiculous. I like
to know every single detail. If that was a honeymoon sweet,
it would have been in Hawaii where we went.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
I've got more advice for you, Casey. When your other
half rambles on about meaningless stuff, just tune it out.
You'll get really good at it. Because right now you
know what I'm in my head, I'm singing that song.
If you're looking for me, baby, you know you can
find me following the sun or while while you were
saying all that. So that's when.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
When the girls go on the little tantrums and they
have tazzy devil moments.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
Perfect thing, walk at the house and come back for
an hour.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
He already does that. He's so chill. I feel like
he's already like we're not dealing with this c because
they're all used.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
To it, mate, and it's never going to change. Look,
I've got two more on the way to give me
more drums.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, Adam. Just when you think life's pretty bad, think
of myselo. He's got me as why two girls on
the way that are going to just like me. So
there you go. Life's good for you, mate. I've got
a quote because we end the episodes like that. It's
(53:13):
a good one today. Do I say it first and
then you do your sign off?
Speaker 4 (53:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:19):
But look, I just feel like you're not putting enough
effort into these quotes because you're reading enough a.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Moment now you're actually like, what do you mean? What
else am I going to read more?
Speaker 4 (53:26):
Well, you should be putting more effort into this. You
should be knowing.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
I'm going to make the quote up myself.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
But you should know what it is before we come
in on the episode.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
I do know what it is. It's here on my
phone ready, I reckon You'll you'll like this on learn
as if you will live forever, Live like you will
die tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (53:45):
Oh that's how I live?
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Is it cool?
Speaker 4 (53:50):
So from that point, so.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
More than mother from me, it's a or nothing from
me because I just gave my quote. It's a micro
drop from me. Bit Ches out.
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