April 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Hello Sports Tom & Eddy join Cooper & Matty to talk Punters & Dribblers, the legend that is becoming Good Day Hill, rogue Wikipedia edits, and how Hello Sport became a cult phenomenon.
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0:00-Skin In The Game
4:00-Bad Gigs
7:45-The Punters & Dribblers
12:40-Good Day Hill
19:00-Andrew Abdo
21:00-Eddy's Advice
23:00-Journo Infiltration
26:20-Starting Hello Sport
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37:00-Best Guests
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He goes here, you're going. This is part one of
our podcast with Tom and Eddie the Hollow Sports Boys.
Terrific fellas. I know you're gonna enjoy it, but don't
don't forget good like and subscribe. Okay, guys, jump into
the episode. I know you'll enjoy it. Tom and Eddie,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Boys? Very well?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thanks coming over you. Blake's Cooper here just with his
kiss of m A person ringing it on and said
you never play enough Australian music, so you're giving him
some Australian songs.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm just picking some Aussie songs.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
What do you got to play?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I have New Sensation in excess, Flame Trees, Cold Chisel,
and I need one. More suggestions would be.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Kyl I know Kylie's Red Kisses.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What about Australian ostentatious old man?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Right? Yeah, that'll go well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But have you have you seen the doco on Austin No?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
When is it is it new?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's new? You get on a five source called skin
in the game. Your dad's in it talking about it?
Oh mate?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Really, boys, he's wild. I would see him like he'd
come around everyone's and it was like this guy's fucking crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I feel like any he's fucking nuts. He basically it
was cool skinned the game and it was a celebration.
It basically followed him this documentary on his probably his
last ever gig, because he's just burnt every bridge, every pub,
every club in Australia and this was just about his
last gig and just showing a historical footage of email
(01:21):
help on stage telling like doing these jokes and the
whole crowd just been horrified, and then the police coming
in and arrest him.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
He didn't give there's some kind of like wild about
that type of like freedom in a performer, Like he's
like he's tapped clearly, but like he just would go.
Dad said they're going to Chinese restaurants after like meals
and ship and he just speak in an Asian accent
the whole time. Daddy be like, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Can't incredibly like genius obviously, but at one point, like
there's a lot of a lot of dark stuff there
and at one point gets his great gets like that.
But there's there's a moment in the documentary where there
at Narra celt and the group of German people there
and it goes from there and it ain't good.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
A stand up guy. That's sickening.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That's very bad.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It didn't go down well. No one was laughing in
the crowd either, which makes it worse.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That would be so like that.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I've seen you handle that work.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I've seen him do stand up once and he just
got he just started laying into this person in the
front row, and I was like, this is just wouldn't
be worth fucking coming your whole night and why would
you sit in the front row. I'd never ask him for.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Some of the routine play some of the monologues, and
you're just going and like it's true. Police went on
stage and literally arrested him, took off. Your dad's not
going because you're saying, like Billy Many managed him for
a stint and you go, mate, I'd book Austin O
the course of the weekend to go to different places
all around New South Wales, Cornensland, Australia. And you said,
(02:58):
I just sit by the phone on money and just
wait for the complaints to come in. And it was
people just reading all the time saying this bloke is
never fucking invited back to this let alone this club,
this town again.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Have you guys ever done stand up? Would you ever do?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Seems frightening.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
No, it's mate.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I would ship myself and just like the lead up
would be horrific.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We've done like we live shows, so I'm going need
another water in my throat's fucking just dying on me
here for some reason.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
We'll get you one in an hour.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, all right, I might just run again.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Take you're a guest in this house.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Sorry everyone, It's just hit me like a ton of bricks.
I'm just keep rolling. I'm shipping myself.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We'll just keep going. John Butler Trio.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Dude, we did like our first ever sort of our
first ever live show. We're opening for the Grade Cricketer
podcast like the Comedy Store, and we had not prepared
really anything, and it was like the day of just
making like slide shows and shit, and we were both
just like bricking it. So we were like the idea
of doing stand up, even when it was it was
(04:08):
difficult enough doing our own thing.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Yeah, because it was we were supposed to be.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
We were sort of hired to be funny at least,
you know, like we were warming up the crowd.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I think they had maybe fifteen minutes twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No one was coming to see us, so no one.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Really knew us.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
This was years ago, and it wasn't until Tom said
afterward finishes like, mate, I was petrified all day of bombing,
and I hadn't even thought about the chance that we'd
go out there, and all I was thinking of I
was like, mate, if I had known that, I probably
wouldn't have done it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Would The thing is.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The fact that you're opening for someone.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
If you're doing a live show for your own body,
everyone's there to see you, understand, They don't like they're
there to see another bloke and you're just there like
they could they could.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All you got to win them over, whereas you've got
the you got the friendly audience with your own or
they already know your stick. Oh dude, No. The worst
one we ever did was the Manly We've done We've
done a couple, but this is the worst one. We
got invited to the Chairman's Lounge and the Manly seagulls
whatever it's now, it's not. It's now just like a
box I think where good will goes to die. So
(05:09):
they invited us along just to be like, oh do
you want to come along, and just sort of hang
out before the game. We're obviously massive manly fans, and
then it might have been during COVID and they were like, oh,
there's been another COVID outbreak. So usually a player gets
up to chat. Do you guys want to but they
can't do it? Now would you guys want to get
up and chat? And we were like fuck right, Like
we were just sort of were trying to get in
with the club and we get up there, and so
(05:39):
they get us up there and we sort of are
just immediately like surveying the room and there's not really
many people under like sixty, and then there was like
the penrisk seat. It was manly like people and manly people,
and the guy who'd organized it was a fan of
was us. So he gets up and just starts asking
us the most you need to know, hello sport to
get these questions, and we're just like look at each other, going,
(06:01):
fuck it, bro, let's just like let's just go. Let's
just go all the way into it. And you could
hear the cutlery like just scraping the plates and we
were just like.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Not a single laugh.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
People in there were like ninety five old, as a
lot of them out there like the sponsors and that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Scott Penn I think had got up and spoken before.
He was like, I think this is going to be
a great season and then just a tough season.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Oh yeah yeah, because we've got we lost the first
four games. He's like, not an ideal start, and Tom
gets something. He goes, Scott, will do you respect?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Mat?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I think we've got them just where we wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And it looks like get that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was like who are these two threes?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
And then the guys leading us into just dumb hallow
sport rhetoric, like we had a bit all year about
how Brad Parker is as strong as an ant and
so like Brad Parker, you know, strong as a ranting,
strong as an ant, and then everyone's just.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like wonder.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Entertainment. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
As we walked off the stage at the end, and
justly this like nine year old guy, guys fellas, how.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Did you want to meet myself and Maddie Nabel And
we got there and the guy asking the questions led
names into so you've just feil it finished shooting Hacksaw Ridge.
What a question to ask a rugul So what did
you doing that? Film. What did you find out about
like learn about war right and names just pick picked
(07:28):
up a ball and just to get run with it.
When on this five sort of five minute spiel about
the horrors of war and what are you learning from that?
And I was sitting there going, Okay, they're playing the
Titans today, what are they going to come to me?
On the punters and dribblers? Would you describe it? I've
got you wear it well, thank you? Would you describe
(07:51):
it as an army? A cult colt's been used.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, it's definitely a bit cultish, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
It can be at times.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It depends there are predictable the punner at the trip.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
It's what if they get.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Their talents into something, their cause in the saying look
the fuck out as all I would say they can be.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
They're very loyal, but I love Me and.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Jack are talking just before we recorded this, and we
were going, remember when there was a certain broadcaster from
Queensland and decided to make a bold statement saying that
Andrew Johnson had never dominated origin, it was the only
thing he hadn't dominated, and just named all Queenslands who
had and you guys retaliated and then he came back
(08:32):
at you guys, and the punners and the dribblers had enough,
and any time he did anything, they changed his Wikipedia.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Yeah, we went into the logs of Wikipedia and you
just like you just see all these changes, and then
someone coming in and being.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Like, can we get moderation, like toup the on the
s getting out of control.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
We like to think it was the SNQ guy going
in there like asking for help.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
They keep changes, they kept changing, and then.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Someone who may or may not have worked at the
station would send us screenshots of what's it like when
you see who's calling through? And it was like he
was just getting to talk shit to him. Oh god,
it was so funny. He said, we worked out of
our mum's basement or whatever. Like it was just it
(09:19):
was the like super sort of you know, lame lame
comebacks or whatever. And then and then there was obviously
the unfortunate cyclone up in Queensland recently where then they
all went to broadcast from home and there was a
photo of him literally broadcasting from his basement.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I love I love how Wikipedia have just never changed
the fact that you can go and change anything.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
It's made. It's the best.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
We love doing it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Because we remember, like on the Family podcast couple of
years ago, I made a joke that Tyron my shark.
So just just letting people know this isn't true, because
a lot of peop believed it for a while that
he was training like his.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Flexibility, so we could try to suck himself off.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Like I would go into his room and he'd be
there to me like sit up to keep every day
trying to get.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
A closer and closer anyway, So then.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
People at games, it was it was around COVID time
when you would you'd ballboy for your own team, remember that,
when you'd see players on the sideline ball boying with
the gloves on his ship.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So remember were at sun Court, Me and him were
doing it together and people were spraying him saying.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Go suck yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
And he got He was like, bro, this has got
to stop. And then I said I'll stop saying it,
but didn't tell dad. Every week Dad would bring it
back up, calling him the contortion astuff. So then all
he said, the listeners run into wishes Wikipedia and it
was like you know, like it'd be a week by
week update on how much closer he's getting.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Flexibility wise, to sucking himself. I love that, and then
he ended up we ended up pulling the pin on it,
but people still yelling at him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's so funny.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To give an insight into the dribbler. We to golf
down Friday.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
One guy kept coming up to us being like, dude,
we're in a group with a guy that could suck
his own car, and he showed us do you want
to see the video?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And all the guys on the golf course just start
sucking his own ticking. Well, my god, this is not
exactly what we had planned. Let's there's no like course people.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Around Well, I think the very last Nobus lunch, so
we did do the triple Mabe's lunch of people that
hadn't heard it before was this grand final lunch we'd
had and basically you had to go through metal detectors
to make sure you weren't couldn't you take your phones
in of course, checking for knives and weapons and other
sort of stuff as well. But it was literally it
was so loose, unbelieving some of the things that happened.
(11:39):
We had people basically getting into fights afterwards, and where
was it once Rudy hilaroussel bloke came goes a fellas.
This was before it started ten thirty in the morning.
One of your guys has just fell through the like
the front door was the glass. So this also and
I reckon. The final thing where we went yep, it's over,
(12:01):
was this bloke cut up on stage, got the microphone
and said, halfway through the gig, Dave Glusen's plant up
there and goes, hey, everyone, I can myself and the
yeah right mate, and bent to stripped himself, got his
deck tuck up between his leaks and actually did it,
had sex with himself and everyone. I remember looking on
the crowds laughing, and it was just like that moment
(12:23):
we just said that's it.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Drawn.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Yeah, that's right, that's where you drew the line.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm not going to go back to me only for
one second, because you boy, was the Brookie Hills now
the good Day Hill right.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah yeah, well listen it's it's technically the good Day
Hill bar, but.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
But it's on good days. Like to shorten it, it's
easy to say.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know, it's a way of paying less money for sponsorship,
for getting the hold.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
We may have tried to continually push to not have
the words.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
He'll but there they're like put bar on, like it
doesn't fit.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
They're like, yes it does anyway, mate, we're loving it's great.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's actually got your gifts.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
For that as well that I do the handover.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Well, listen, you're here with freshen up your lid.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Let me dad, Dad has worn that happen to the boys.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Your nice brown one, mate, it's a ripper mate.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I love the earthy colors like brown and green.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Let's just these are bottles. You don't need to hold
these now. But in terms of what we're doing, good day, He'll.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Just do an unboxing, just.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Daily multi vitamins for the voice and electrolyteslights.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Mate, this is brand new, fresh hot off the proy. Yes, welcome,
but how good does it look? The sign looks hot though,
even particularly on Sunday. I know it wasn't a great
day out, but like it was for the heell.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Mate, the hills always packed rain hall shine and to
see when the when it goes to the long lens
and you see the full field, the pun is in
the background and you've got good day. Heill got the
bar It looked very good.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It's fucking nice.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, it must be so real for you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Seriously, it actually it's you know, we'd like we obviously
spend a lot of time just being stupid, but it's
definitely one of those things where we're like, that's really
fucking cool.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
When we went first went and looked at it, looked
at it.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I didn't want to leave one more, one more perf. Yeah,
it's mad.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, this is a completely like going off topic, but
let's just roll with it. When you said electrolytes, have
you guys never driven an electric car?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yes, no you have.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
My car got stolen last year and then I was
driving an electric car for a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
What are they good?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I found it kind of annoying In the end. I
was like, this thing, I've gotta go sit in a
fucking kmart car park and charge this thing for like
two hours.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, they are like cords you're gonna have at home.
They didn't give me one, but then you still got
a charge over night. It was just like, yeah, petrol's waysier,
and I don't feel they're popping up.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Everywhere corner, So how long do you have to wait until?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Like how long could it last? Could you drive up
to buyer and would you have to like charge it
every few hours?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It depends.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I don't reckon you could drive it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, you couldn't drive it by it, No, you'd have
to charge. Well, I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I love these come from Electric Elec.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I should have paid more money for school.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I just thought of it because I'm looking at Scott
Scott Scott's I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
For a new car.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, I was just I've just been thinking, like because
there's so many there's high Bridge now electric, and.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I reckon, you'll get an electric car and you'll be like,
this is not It's fun like they day zip.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
They go quick.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They can go quick and it feels like you're driving
a spaceship because it's just like you know, they just
have to.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Go and sit in the servo around the corner for
like two hours.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Charge.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, it was. It's a ball ache.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
There's a bit of an exposing, not on Tesla, on
another electric car company at the moment, I don't know
what it is. But the other thing, but I mean
we assume it happened if someone catching fire. But the
other thing about it is they've been vandalized to Tesla's.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
Oh yeah, I know, Like, isn't that Yeah, I know
what that's like when you turn up for election day
and one of the Greenies hands you at like a
paper thing to who to vote for this, and you're saying,
fucking paper please.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's good for the goose, it's good for the job.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, that's a good point anyway. Sorry, sorry to take
it off.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
No please, I'm just curious, a curious man.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
No, but have you got time to do that? Go
and sit in the serveo for two hours.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Look, that's sort of man, depends on how it makes
me feel when I'm behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It doesn't make you feel that cool. Oh really, I
don't think it does when you're like on a bit
of road. But not like you know what I mean.
If you imagine if you're up at five in the
morning to go into work and the thing that batteries
half dead, you can't just snip around the petrol stage four.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Thirty electric car. There's a little bit like a cult.
They all sort of get together when we're away for
the Olympics. I made the mistake and asked asking journalists
Brent Reid, I said, what do you drive? He said
to me, because I'm not an interesting car. He goes,
you're driven an electric car? Many nah, and he goes,
I've got one, and just went on this spiel for
(17:04):
about forty minutes about the nuances of electric cars. I'm
just going fucking I never thought I want for buzz.
I feel like they could put solar panels on top
so as you drive.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It at charges Listen, you've it's not the worst idea,
but then you probably don't have a sun roof there.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I don't need it. He wouldn't need a sun roof, but.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I mean, why not, mate, Yeah, an old roof.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You met ELS's dad when he went into.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Oh we heard him on kids.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Actually, we were in South Africa last year and we
were trying He invited us to his house in what's
not in Cape Town and he was like, oh, yeah,
we're going to do an interview with him, but times
didn't sink up.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We're gonna have to get two planes to meet it.
Were no just over the phone, Cooper, How are you
I ever knew we were South African?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, well the old man is yeah, no, no, definitely
say he's the old man. Seems like a wild bit
of gears.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
He does he does a lot of like media and
that he's old man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He loves he seems like he's loved.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
At the start, I thought it was a joke.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
I'm like, why the Elon dad on kids like a
full ran about politics and stuff was a we know
he's just doing he's because Elon like does nothing but
his old man.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's like it all does it for him.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Yeah, I think the old man loves the he does.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, funny that accent your dad does, yeah, really is great.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, we used to do.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Tony Greg.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I know a good edge, good adg is where you bought.
It's one of those accents like I never I remember
were Tricia and Iver in Cape Town and went past
and it went tonight. Yeah, so and so Australia so
Africa's number one stand up comedian and I thought of
all the accents have I just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I don't accent transit.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's very good for that.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
See that in German where you're like this is this?
How is this going to be funny?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It's aggressive?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do a good one.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Did you hear the one about that?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You don't want to go into that.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
No, not that one. Yeah, that one.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
That one.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
You've told it a few times, not not publicly.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The prank call.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Oh okay, the Andrew abd Yeah, oh yeah, I thought
you were talking about what other one? Yeah, there was
something okay, Andrew Actually Jack Cooper and I what did
Jack gave me? Kemball grames and other ones?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And I thought, right, what I'll do? I was pissed
from the night before still, and I said, man, I'll
ring him and I'll pretend I'm Andrew abdot and I'm
going to invite him to Adam Reynolds's retirement Jack, he's
not retired, said I rang up back here We're going go.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
He goes, ye, hello, good.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Get everything wrong?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
He goes, He goes, oh yeah, good game. This is
Andrew Abdote from the National Rugby League. And he goes,
oh yeah, how are you going great? I'm just planning
the retirement dinner for Adam Reynolds. What a wonderful player
he is. And you go, oh yeah, it's really good.
Now game. Are you going away anywhere? Oh yeah, Me
(20:05):
and a few of the boys are sort of going
down South Coast and okay, give me the dates, and
he starts going going go for the fifth to the twelfth.
Good aame, where are you going in the South Coast?
Were going to Mollybook. Oh, Mollybook. Wonderful? What is the
exact address? How he starts telling me? I said, good am,
a personal question. Are you single and ready to mingle?
(20:28):
And he went, oh, no, I've just broken up with
my girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Just keep going.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It was so funny and Johnny Sutton, Yeah, I got
Soto with what were you saying? I said, I said, hello?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Was this all on the same session.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's in the same day. You also got Jade Brayley.
That was about yeah that we won't going that one,
but the sud We rang him.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
To go, hello, John a national rugby league. Do you
have Kobe Evans number? I want to get him as
an ambassador for the It was like, can I take
this opportunity to say the way you played this year
John was magnificent and he goes, I've been retired for
the last two years. Oh sorry, I've been drinking anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
It was fun, you know, we actually have to particularly
you remember one of the it was it wasn't the
first time we met, but it was after I stopped
playing for Manly.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Remember we were you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
It was terrible shocking, not just from.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Maenly fans, but you guys were doing a party over
in the East and before we actually had come up
with the concept of this podcast. Me and you got
in like an hour and a half long conversation, you
remember that, and you were just going, mate, you got
to do it, you got to do it. You got
to do this podcast. And we were going and that
was a loose night.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That was.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
That was rose Yeah, yeah, yeah, But you were the
one that after that conversation we come back and we
all sat down, we come up with it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So it's my look, I'm not going to say it
was yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Were the push off the god just say something bridge off.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you get a couple of roses and ey, you
can get him yapp and you'll get me an amount.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Of time then and dribbles just quickly any do any
because you like get a lot of good mail on
there and whatnot, and people joining with being journos try
to jump in and be part of it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yes, we actually have Buzz tried to jump in one time.
I can't remember what was it about.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The problem is with the punters and dribbles. Is that
like most ninety percent of me, like, you know, just
get it in on the joke, get it and it
just like lighthearted. Then some of them, you know, we'll
be like we'll be like, oh, spotted her fucking injured
player out drinking and we're like putting a photo and
we're like, well, we don't really want to have that
energy in there, so we'll We used to have the
puns and we had like a fan page just we
(22:50):
shut down almost for that reason. But we're just too hot,
it's not too hectic.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, so that was you guys that shut it down.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah, we just fucked it off. It just was
too It got to a sixty something thousand p and
there was just two. So we had a couple of
rogues to fuck the joint. But so someone had start
like putting in photos. It might have been like a
I can't remember who they were injured. And then but
it made the screenshot from the page made it in
buzzes like spotted column or some ship, and then we
(23:17):
saw like you can see his request and again and
it was like buzz roth fields in here. How the
fuck did he get near?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Because we used to get so many requests. I would
just blanket accept them because I'm like, after a long week,
a long weekend, you know, Monday morning, you get in,
there might be like seven hundred. I'm like, fuck it,
I'm just going to accept everyone. So he's snuck in
that way.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
He was in there for a week.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was in never a week, and then we kicked
him out.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's a sixty thousand people. You know, you're going to
have some serious drop picks in there. Everyone. Everyone else
has got a different line of acceptance. Other people like
you get up at lunches and someone I'll ask your question.
You got like this guy's got a fucking brain. People
just posting yeah seriously.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
And then and then when they get deleted out of
the group, they go what the fuck door do mate,
and to will screens to send a screenshot of what
they said. Super racist.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, I had to make it. I had to make
a WhatsApp group with Tobler, our producer of like band
Punners and Dribblers members, just so that I could keep
tabs on who had said, who was who and why
had been kicked out? And I just would send them
a screenshot of them saying something about like a fucking whatever,
and I'm just like, this is why, dude. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Is there any that like when you when people are
trying to come into the group.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Was there any that you were like, holy shit, like
any famous people that you were just like, shit, they
want to come into the pungers and dribblers.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Not really that I remember, no, because again, you just
blanket accepting people. It was too much of a ball
aight going through everyone. Yeah, so no one that I
can particularly remember. It was more I guess like when
when we first started, someone was like, he Bernard Fanning
listens to your show.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't know if he does anymore. It is a
long time ago, but it was like one of our
mates like, yeah, dude, Bernard Fanning listens. We were like,
what the fuck, No way, that's sick. And then one
day we're at a golf day up in Queensland Byron
Byron yeah, yeah, and Eddie's standing at the bar. I'm
behind him and there's just this guy next to him him,
and then the guy just looks at it. He goes, oh, Eddie,
how are you going? And then Eddie's looking like, wait,
(25:04):
who the fuck's that? And I'm like it's a fucking
Bernard Fanning just saying, get a to Eddie, what on
earth is going on?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
That was very surreal.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, because he was taking a long time at the bar.
He was chatting away with it because I was getting
a bit like come on people, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What I mean?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
So I was going to half tap you on the back,
like wrap it up. Turns around. I half recognizing because
I just took me by surprise.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, mate, how I am like Jesus, what's I just
want to wish you well?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, that's probably like I would say, that's probably
the biggest one where we've been like Jesus Christ. Yeah,
and it took us by surprise.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So boys, the origins of it, like Coople were saying,
you blokes used to go on to Triple M. Yeah,
did you work there as well?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Tom worked there?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You were doing rush Air, I think yeah, yeah, and
then Footy I just used to We lived together at
UNI and so we were just like always chatting ship
and we were like it was around. Podcasts weren't very
big in austraight at the time, just like let's do one.
We're actually listening to some of our earlier episodes on
the way over here for a different thing we're doing,
which is fucking tough work.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But I'll bet you this when you're looking back, when
you listen back to some of it, you're actually some
of this stuff was good.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
There's a couple of things where you're like, oh yeah,
we still like this was sort of like we were
that we were laughing at but it's just sort of
uncomfortable generally to listen to yourself. But so you're sort
of like, please be something I like coming up because
I can't fucking how bad?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Like how is there a massive difference in there?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
There is stuff that's still similar that we've carried through.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
There is we were more.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Ruthless with our opinions of people, that's for sure, Like
like mainly now were generally speaking, we'll just we'll gloss
over the ship to keep it positive. The episode we're
opening up every player.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
When you got nothing to lose exactly.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Exactly talking about people's physical characteristic idiot.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Like what you doing? They played like show the big
borrod on Yeah, oh yeah, it was a big off
season signing. He fucking sucks and.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
We're like, my god, like and Q wasn't around then,
Well I imagine now because you've got a good relationship
with a lot of.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
The boys in that, like you've met so many people.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah yeah, you can't now like if you guys would
say something now, But has there been actually any backlash
like recently of stuff you may have said that the
boys go, oh no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
We we still will like make a point of saying
stuff we think. I think you find maybe just like
more delicate and funny ways to be critical or to like,
don't even be critical because no one gives a shit
what we think, but like, you know, funnier ways to
speak about someone in a slightly disparaging way as opposed
to being like, well fuck this guy.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So, like when we signed Luke Brooks, we weren't happy
about that because he was at the Tigers and we
hate the Tigers, and obviously Luke Brooks was like career
at the Tigers proceeds itself or whatever. But then when
he came to Manly, instead of shipping on it, we
just started referring him as the rescue dog and it
was like, we've got him out of a troubled home
and now he's.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
A pound dog.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
He's got a nice house on the beach and he
gets to live inside, he gets a he gets fed
every night, and he's allowed to flourish.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
How long abiding people exactly?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
And now he's you know, he's as opposed to in
the early episodes, at least the one we just listened to,
there's a lot of you're a fucking.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I don't that's the other one, your dad, Yeah, the line.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Front and blawing four points.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
So it isn't amazing you have time goes like Tom,
I remember you coming into Triple M when you're young
bloke and Charlie White and all those Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That was.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I was interning at Triple M off the back of UNI.
Like my degree in UNI got us into an internship.
And then Mate, I think the first time I ever
came in, he was on the grill team and I
didn't know what I was doing. I walked in at
four in the morning from my house and I sat,
you know, like right outside the door, which is we're
like famous people would sit before they'd come in, and
I was just sitting there and you guys are all
like doing the show and you're looking at me and
(29:04):
you're like, who the fuck is this? Who's this guy
coming on it? And then you come out and you're
all like shaking my hands and ship you didn't know
who I was. And then someone's like, oh, he's the Internet.
I remember. You're like, oh fuck, I thought we were
just about to interview this.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Man that made the fun times.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, mad, it was good, a lot of fun. It
was good.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
But where it was like that was nine years ago.
So when we first started we have voices have changed
a lot. Oh yeah, which we couldn't get over.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It sounds like you never hear you ever heard rab
and VOSSI like Rabs commentating in the eighties, Yeah, BOSSI
in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's just crazy different.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's so so different.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What is it alcohol?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Well, Rabs, they say we're Rabs. It was it was
smoking and whiskey. Yeah, gave him the timber.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Kids, if you're out there and you want to do
the next ray one, yeah, don't do it. Get on
the darts.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah, nice and thick though, what the boys.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Actually dangan Ain dan Ganne used to smoke and drink.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Which is he still smoking?
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think he does. And Paul Murray yes, but to
give an extra timber and the voice in a word. Oh,
I think I think Dan, And I gotta be careful
what I'm saying because a lot of colleagues were commentators,
but I think Dan gan Ane is the number one
commentator in Greed fantastic.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He's so good and I mean his voice, it's a
mixture of like the voice obviously, I think he's comfortably
got the best voice, and then he doesn't over insert
himself in games. I think he's sort of but he's
also kind of funny. Yeah, you know, like he's got
a he's a bit cheeky or I don't know, there's
something about but I've always liked Dan.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It's clever because you listen to him on the Triple
M call on a very casually on a Sunday, and
his call on radio is is different than what it's
in TV. People find that hard to change. Oftentimes people
who commentate on radio explain too much on the TV
and yeah, vice versa.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I remember when we were at Triple M and it
was the Dead Set Legends. I've use that show, which
was that was when RABS was on as well. It
was like that was like one of my first jobs
I was like, holy fuck rat one. I used to
have to call him and be like, what do you
want to talk about today? Like on SUD I'm just
on the golf course and I'm like, what is what
is happening here? But we were it was after a
show and Dan was calling I think maybe on TV
for the first time. He wanted feedback or something, and
(31:18):
we were just sitting there and we were just getting
this commentary like lesson from Rabs and he was just
playing audio of Dan and he's like, now see there,
what you doing there? And then like I was just
like this is so insane and asking for he asked
him for advice, and he was talking about the difference
between radio and TV and he's like, when I'm in
the when the when, the when, the when they're in
like the ten meter line, it's like I'm calling that
like the player's name multiple times to try and build
(31:40):
suspense of like the play and all this different stuff.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Like John's John says a ball, So it's like auto
building it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was interesting. I never even would think that
you'd think so much about that what you're doing. Yeah, yeah,
that's very like analytical.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
The early days of the dead Seat legends, the those
when I was listening to fair Way, but at one
point there was there was your dad on it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah he's a.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Warren and Greg Matthews, the three of them together, mate,
it was it was brilliant. And your dad had a
character who was Ray Warren's twin brother.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, Reg Warren.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah, yeah, he would commentate the game, but he would
get there they cross and his dad did the boy
say yea to cross now to Ridge to go? Yeah,
hello guys, how.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Like Ray doesn't acknowledge my existence. And he was like,
well that's fine brother.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
The Triple M days you did you guys start, so
you're obviously working there, did you?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I believe you told me once when you first started
you were using like one of the studios in yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Yeah, when when when he whenever it had gone home,
he'd smuggled me up there like a night.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
We just used one of the studios. So the audio
has probably got worse.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
So how many listeners like is that when you first began?
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Yeah, that's twenty sixteen.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
We had, like we always when everything anything good happens,
we always say thirty listeners to each other because for
four years we had like thirty listeners.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Is that Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did it for the love,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
But it's a good way of doing it. You're sharpening
the sword for sure.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Like the structure of the show, which has just changed completely,
there's almost there's almost no structure now in terms of
you just sort of like it's more comfortable just to
chat and you know when things sort of when a
conversation has done its dash or whatever else. But I
think it was the thing for us with thirty listeners
was like it was just our friends, and like your
friends are almost a good barometer where they're like if
they don't want to listen, they won't listen. They'll listen
(33:46):
to like a couple, they're not going to keep tuning in.
And they just kept listening like just the same. So
we're like, all right, well, like we'll just keep going.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But it's reps. Yeah, it's flying time. Yeah, it's like
I mean led Zeppelin said a time not comparing your
place to Jimmy Page was a studio musician for ten
or twelve years. Yeah, and you know the brains behind
the songwriter and those great licks and he just sat
there he was he would oftentimes play the lead guitar
(34:13):
and all the Beatles.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Oh really I didn't, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Abby Road. So he sat there and just basically absorbed
it all and went right out. And then when he
started led Zeppelin just changed everything where the microphone and everything.
There you go, boys, you've done the scene.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You get a Zeppelin about us.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
So it used to be a lot more segment heavy
back then, but it's changed over time.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I remember I came on your one one time and
it was the whole gag. I was just over there
to check the studio out.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
You guys were like, do you guys, do you want
to pretend to be like our producer for the day
and we'll refer to you as him, but we'll never
acknowledge it. And I was like, yes, I love that ship.
And yeah, like I said, so, what what are we
talking about? And you guys had like just phone notes
of like four dot points and it was just like
this for the last us an hour and a half.
(35:03):
This is so free flowing.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, we don't.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
We don't.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
We've never prepared anything. Yeah, and we only write down
notes so that there's topics that we would love to
talk about.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
But don't forget to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's more what it is. If yeah, if you don't
to forget about like something, sometimes that will happen as well,
because we'll get on a fucking tangent talk about space
for forty five minutes and we're like, whoops, we forgot
about the biggest story on the weekend.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Just like we just take tay things for a walk
basually like that sort of just rabbit hole the rabbit hole,
and if and if we killed something on the way.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Down there, that's fine because it's not live, so you
can just walk it.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Back and then edit it at n find where it
was funniest and.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Just cut cut, let the ferret go out of the
rabbit hole. Ye talk about like the free flowing nature.
We actually we wrote a rundown for this, right, like
just just sort of basic of where we're going to start,
where we're going to finish.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
And Dad mustn't have stapled his paper together.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
He started at the end and now and then I
seen him just rabbit through his notes and he must
have realized the first topic you brought up was at
the end.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
So now now he's just going.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Sorry to write some notes that I've lost them.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
He started, He asked the question, and I knew he
was going to finish with it, and I was going
where we'll find our way back.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Ground?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
What about some of the guests about over the years, boys,
a couple that really.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Stand out yourself not to blow smoke up and fishing
for already got that in there, I'll say me.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Eddie Hearn the boxing promoter where I was fucking terrific.
We went out to the Gold Coast because they had
a fight.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
On up there.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I think Rock Jervis and Lambard exactly right.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Went up there and he facing.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
And he was just probably the most charismatic person ever.
Mat just came in just fucking it was pouring out
of his paws, like just the coolest guy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
He knows what he's audiences like, you get to the
arguments and people just performance.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Way with words is incredible.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
He was.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
He was probably my fast Yeah, Rabs as well.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Rabs was great, Rabs is good.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Rabs was one that I was like that was a
bucket list. That was a bucket list. And I had
a relationship with him through Triple M. But I was like,
I just never want to ask him, you know what
I mean? Like I was like you just feel uncomfortable.
And also I'm thinking he's probably just going to say no,
So what's the fucking point?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Can I just predict how the phone called? It went? Yeah,
Ray Warren, Hey, Ray, it's Tommy Bermingham. So why your son?
Good to talk to you? I look grabs me and
myself and Eddie. If we get it on the podcast,
I don't know would anyone be even interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Well, in the end, I didn't have to call him
because Channel nine actually were like they wanted it.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
Might have been his final year or un documentary.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Oh that's right, documentary.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yes, So thankfully I didn't have to ask and was like, fuck,
we just got him because it was you know, good fortune.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
But you get nervous around a blow like that though,
because they're so revered.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And even when we were talking to him, it was
still like more than anyone where you were like, oh
fuck is he is he upset by this? Or like
we annoyed him more?
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You just don't know?
Speaker 11 (38:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Yeah, yeah, what you care?
Speaker 8 (38:20):
How?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
He's going very careful, a lot more mental line together.
He would always book, he goes matter what flight are
we going to get on? I'd say, I'm want to
get up there early. Him going to do that, get
on the ten thirty, get up there and have the
Dame and Brizzie. Yeah, Madde. I he only flies after
midday because he's a nervous flyer, so we can drink
on the flight.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Oh really, Yeah, I knew he was nervous, but I
didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, they always come mister Warren, there's your shar so
hed three or four on the way up. Just a
coolie flo. I thought he never flew.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I thought he always did it from like either Sydney
Games or he did it from studio.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Well, I think after COVID he was like, oh, I
don't have to fly.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
For these fucking lot they have those studious Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Is there anyone you were real nervous for, because I
know you guys. Did Craig Bellamy recently?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Like for a Yeah, that was all right, that was
like it was over zoom.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
It was short, so it wasn't the same and.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
He was doing he was doing little ten minutes stints
every out.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Of and it was zoom. With that, You're like, let's
just be cheeky here, because like you've just got this,
you've got this thing separating you and like you don't
have enough time to get into anything too sincere anyway,
So it was like and he said, cool, we're nervous
for him.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
No, not nervous.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Islam market share was intimidating, was he because you like
every interview I've seen him do, he's super straight and
stern and doesn't give much. And and we were in
like this cavanous warehouse for some reason, big warehouse, and
they've got to set right in the middle of the
fucking thing, like it was a weird spacing. He's got
all these heavies with him, like Jesus, we'd had a
huge night, were super ginger, and it was he was intimidated,
(39:54):
but we got him laughing.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
So that was like Whould thought the Chechens would be.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
And it was just a bunch of them just not
smiling at anything.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
And the interview he'd done before us was flat as attack.
This is going to be should they go? You should
go for about half an hour?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Should you?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Like it's insane or you're listening to the one before
the fight.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
And like the I think his name is Nick, who
works for main event, And it was like him in
the middle of the room this warehouse chair, facing each
other one on one, and just like everyone in their
sight and it's just like this whisper combo and they're like,
all right, yeah, you got half an hour this one.
We're like, what the fuck are we going to talk
about it? But we got him giggling and.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
That was him laughing.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That was joining Australia.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yes, honestly, dude, that was like what it was like.
And so we started asking about his six pack and
ship and he's.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Like, what are these guys like, how do you like,
how would we get a six packet six?
Speaker 5 (40:49):
How good is his English?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Good enough enough?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Don't need to translate U no, no, no, no, no
no no.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
We got through it fine.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, she's what those Chechens fighting now just starting to
dominate dying UF, So you are now starting to dominate
through the boxing.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
It's I mean, like they just seem so hard, like
they just come from like a hard place where they're
just everything's tough, and they're just.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
They really lean into the fact that like they don't
do like they keep to themselves. They're not out there
flaunting and you know, show booting. They're just up there
training in the mountains.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
And for it. You know, you see the videos of
could be wrestling bears swimming up freezing cold rivers.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
You're like, you guys are just.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Doing their heart.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
They're heart like jumping in, like they're breaking open like
the ice and just jumping in.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
They're like freezing cold, and none of them drink.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
They're all like devout religious Muslims and stuff. And you're like, okay,
so you're not even like you're doing absolutely everything.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I mean they'd be tough. You're living
in Chechnya in some of those places there. There's a
place called Daggerstan, which is the capital of Chess, which
just looks fucking terrified.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Dark alley.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
The whole places are dark.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, mate, that's serious.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Going back to the potty for a set, what was
the you said before thirty listeners for the first four years,
At what point did the listener start coming up.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Was there a breakthrough moment where you were like.
Speaker 7 (42:06):
We've had we've had a few breakthrough moments, like it
was building up towards like a couple of hundred by
the time the first big breakthrough was, which was Anthony Watmow.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
We knew him through a friend of a friend and
he agreed to come on.
Speaker 7 (42:20):
Originally, we just wanted to talk to Anthony because he's
a great at the club, manly, and we didn't want
to ask him about what had happened. We're like, fuck that,
we don't know him well enough, don't we go there.
As soon as he came, he goes ask me about DCA. Yeah,
but he was he came in, he was like it
was pacing, so he clearly wanted to get it off
his chairs and then he called DC a fuck wit
(42:40):
and the middle over the class all over the club,
like was very raw and honest, which got picked up
by the media. And Anthony had been as sick was
like every time we got called by a journo for
a quote, he go not hallow Sport exclusive.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
So we had to get quoted in everything.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
That's so funny for him.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
He's just out of the blue, like we were just
like so all the publications had to quote hollow Sport
at the end, they didn't get their own quote line,
who didn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Did you see them?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yes, yeah, on a podcast, I'm like share price just
on the speculation and like did you see instant listeners?
Like how bad?
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I think that episode got eight thousand, and then it
was time was like wow, and then it sort of
just came back to probably like maybe two thousand, you know,
like an episode, and then it just then it was
what would the next thing have been?
Speaker 5 (43:33):
Advocate probably, So we do this.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
We used to record out of their studios and at
the end of every year or the start of every year,
we get on with them and we do a recap
of all the off season scandals and just do like
a really in depth breakdown of like all the fucked
up things that happened in the off season lighthearted.
Speaker 8 (43:48):
Ones, yeah, because it was a couple of years there
Jesus animal stories of.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
And so that got us a bit more. And then
linking up with KEMPI I think was the one that
sort of because by that stage he was super big
and so then we started doing a show with him
and we were just always like if we can just
get in front of his audience, like we just were
confident of it, like they just don't know about us yet,
and once they once they do, we felt like there
was going to be at least just seeing a bit
(44:22):
of growth. But it's sort of pumped from there.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Which is mad Well, would I tell you terrific blakes,
Tom and Eddie really talented fellas. That's the end of
part one, right that, time to jump over for Part two,
which I hope you enjoy every bit as much I
know you will
He goes here, you're going. This is part one of
our podcast with Tom and Eddie the Hollow Sports Boys.
Terrific fellas. I know you're gonna enjoy it, but don't
don't forget good like and subscribe. Okay, guys, jump into
the episode. I know you'll enjoy it. Tom and Eddie,
how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Boys? Very well?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Thanks coming over you. Blake's Cooper here just with his
kiss of m A person ringing it on and said
you never play enough Australian music, so you're giving him
some Australian songs.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I'm just picking some Aussie songs.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
What do you got to play?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I have New Sensation in excess, Flame Trees, Cold Chisel,
and I need one. More suggestions would be.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Kyl I know Kylie's Red Kisses.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
What about Australian ostentatious old man?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Right? Yeah, that'll go well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But have you have you seen the doco on Austin No?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
When is it is it new?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's new? You get on a five source called skin
in the game. Your dad's in it talking about it?
Oh mate?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Really, boys, he's wild. I would see him like he'd
come around everyone's and it was like this guy's fucking crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I feel like any he's fucking nuts. He basically it
was cool skinned the game and it was a celebration.
It basically followed him this documentary on his probably his
last ever gig, because he's just burnt every bridge, every pub,
every club in Australia and this was just about his
last gig and just showing a historical footage of email
(01:21):
help on stage telling like doing these jokes and the
whole crowd just been horrified, and then the police coming
in and arrest him.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
He didn't give there's some kind of like wild about
that type of like freedom in a performer, Like he's
like he's tapped clearly, but like he just would go.
Dad said they're going to Chinese restaurants after like meals
and ship and he just speak in an Asian accent
the whole time. Daddy be like, oh, I.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Can't incredibly like genius obviously, but at one point, like
there's a lot of a lot of dark stuff there
and at one point gets his great gets like that.
But there's there's a moment in the documentary where there
at Narra celt and the group of German people there
and it goes from there and it ain't good.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
A stand up guy. That's sickening.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That's very bad.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It didn't go down well. No one was laughing in
the crowd either, which makes it worse.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That would be so like that.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I've seen you handle that work.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I've seen him do stand up once and he just
got he just started laying into this person in the
front row, and I was like, this is just wouldn't
be worth fucking coming your whole night and why would
you sit in the front row. I'd never ask him for.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Some of the routine play some of the monologues, and
you're just going and like it's true. Police went on
stage and literally arrested him, took off. Your dad's not
going because you're saying, like Billy Many managed him for
a stint and you go, mate, I'd book Austin O
the course of the weekend to go to different places
all around New South Wales, Cornensland, Australia. And you said,
(02:58):
I just sit by the phone on money and just
wait for the complaints to come in. And it was
people just reading all the time saying this bloke is
never fucking invited back to this let alone this club,
this town again.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Have you guys ever done stand up? Would you ever do?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Seems frightening.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
No, it's mate.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I would ship myself and just like the lead up
would be horrific.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We've done like we live shows, so I'm going need
another water in my throat's fucking just dying on me
here for some reason.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
We'll get you one in an hour.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, all right, I might just run again.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Take you're a guest in this house.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Sorry everyone, It's just hit me like a ton of bricks.
I'm just keep rolling. I'm shipping myself.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We'll just keep going. John Butler Trio.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Dude, we did like our first ever sort of our
first ever live show. We're opening for the Grade Cricketer
podcast like the Comedy Store, and we had not prepared
really anything, and it was like the day of just
making like slide shows and shit, and we were both
just like bricking it. So we were like the idea
of doing stand up, even when it was it was
(04:08):
difficult enough doing our own thing.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Yeah, because it was we were supposed to be.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
We were sort of hired to be funny at least,
you know, like we were warming up the crowd.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I think they had maybe fifteen minutes twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
No one was coming to see us, so no one.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Really knew us.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
This was years ago, and it wasn't until Tom said
afterward finishes like, mate, I was petrified all day of bombing,
and I hadn't even thought about the chance that we'd
go out there, and all I was thinking of I
was like, mate, if I had known that, I probably
wouldn't have done it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Would The thing is.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The fact that you're opening for someone.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
If you're doing a live show for your own body,
everyone's there to see you, understand, They don't like they're
there to see another bloke and you're just there like
they could they could.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
All you got to win them over, whereas you've got
the you got the friendly audience with your own or
they already know your stick. Oh dude, No. The worst
one we ever did was the Manly We've done We've
done a couple, but this is the worst one. We
got invited to the Chairman's Lounge and the Manly seagulls
whatever it's now, it's not. It's now just like a
box I think where good will goes to die. So
(05:09):
they invited us along just to be like, oh do
you want to come along, and just sort of hang
out before the game. We're obviously massive manly fans, and
then it might have been during COVID and they were like, oh,
there's been another COVID outbreak. So usually a player gets
up to chat. Do you guys want to but they
can't do it? Now would you guys want to get
up and chat? And we were like fuck right, Like
we were just sort of were trying to get in
with the club and we get up there, and so
(05:39):
they get us up there and we sort of are
just immediately like surveying the room and there's not really
many people under like sixty, and then there was like
the penrisk seat. It was manly like people and manly people,
and the guy who'd organized it was a fan of
was us. So he gets up and just starts asking
us the most you need to know, hello sport to
get these questions, and we're just like look at each other, going,
(06:01):
fuck it, bro, let's just like let's just go. Let's
just go all the way into it. And you could
hear the cutlery like just scraping the plates and we
were just like.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Not a single laugh.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
People in there were like ninety five old, as a
lot of them out there like the sponsors and that.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Scott Penn I think had got up and spoken before.
He was like, I think this is going to be
a great season and then just a tough season.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Oh yeah yeah, because we've got we lost the first
four games. He's like, not an ideal start, and Tom
gets something. He goes, Scott, will do you respect?
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Mat?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I think we've got them just where we wanted.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
And it looks like get that.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It was like who are these two threes?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
And then the guys leading us into just dumb hallow
sport rhetoric, like we had a bit all year about
how Brad Parker is as strong as an ant and
so like Brad Parker, you know, strong as a ranting,
strong as an ant, and then everyone's just.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Like wonder.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Entertainment. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
As we walked off the stage at the end, and
justly this like nine year old guy, guys fellas, how.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Did you want to meet myself and Maddie Nabel And
we got there and the guy asking the questions led
names into so you've just feil it finished shooting Hacksaw Ridge.
What a question to ask a rugul So what did
you doing that? Film. What did you find out about
like learn about war right and names just pick picked
(07:28):
up a ball and just to get run with it.
When on this five sort of five minute spiel about
the horrors of war and what are you learning from that?
And I was sitting there going, Okay, they're playing the
Titans today, what are they going to come to me?
On the punters and dribblers? Would you describe it? I've
got you wear it well, thank you? Would you describe
(07:51):
it as an army? A cult colt's been used.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, it's definitely a bit cultish, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
It can be at times.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
It depends there are predictable the punner at the trip.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
It's what if they get.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Their talents into something, their cause in the saying look
the fuck out as all I would say they can be.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
They're very loyal, but I love Me and.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Jack are talking just before we recorded this, and we
were going, remember when there was a certain broadcaster from
Queensland and decided to make a bold statement saying that
Andrew Johnson had never dominated origin, it was the only
thing he hadn't dominated, and just named all Queenslands who
had and you guys retaliated and then he came back
(08:32):
at you guys, and the punners and the dribblers had enough,
and any time he did anything, they changed his Wikipedia.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Yeah, we went into the logs of Wikipedia and you
just like you just see all these changes, and then
someone coming in and being.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Like, can we get moderation, like toup the on the
s getting out of control.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
We like to think it was the SNQ guy going
in there like asking for help.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
They keep changes, they kept changing, and then.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Someone who may or may not have worked at the
station would send us screenshots of what's it like when
you see who's calling through? And it was like he
was just getting to talk shit to him. Oh god,
it was so funny. He said, we worked out of
our mum's basement or whatever. Like it was just it
(09:19):
was the like super sort of you know, lame lame
comebacks or whatever. And then and then there was obviously
the unfortunate cyclone up in Queensland recently where then they
all went to broadcast from home and there was a
photo of him literally broadcasting from his basement.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I love I love how Wikipedia have just never changed
the fact that you can go and change anything.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
It's made. It's the best.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
We love doing it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Because we remember, like on the Family podcast couple of
years ago, I made a joke that Tyron my shark.
So just just letting people know this isn't true, because
a lot of peop believed it for a while that
he was training like his.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Flexibility, so we could try to suck himself off.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Like I would go into his room and he'd be
there to me like sit up to keep every day
trying to get.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
A closer and closer anyway, So then.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
People at games, it was it was around COVID time
when you would you'd ballboy for your own team, remember that,
when you'd see players on the sideline ball boying with
the gloves on his ship.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So remember were at sun Court, Me and him were
doing it together and people were spraying him saying.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Go suck yourself.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
And he got He was like, bro, this has got
to stop. And then I said I'll stop saying it,
but didn't tell dad. Every week Dad would bring it
back up, calling him the contortion astuff. So then all
he said, the listeners run into wishes Wikipedia and it
was like you know, like it'd be a week by
week update on how much closer he's getting.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Flexibility wise, to sucking himself. I love that, and then
he ended up we ended up pulling the pin on it,
but people still yelling at him.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That's so funny.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To give an insight into the dribbler. We to golf
down Friday.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
One guy kept coming up to us being like, dude,
we're in a group with a guy that could suck
his own car, and he showed us do you want
to see the video?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And all the guys on the golf course just start
sucking his own ticking. Well, my god, this is not
exactly what we had planned. Let's there's no like course people.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Around Well, I think the very last Nobus lunch, so
we did do the triple Mabe's lunch of people that
hadn't heard it before was this grand final lunch we'd
had and basically you had to go through metal detectors
to make sure you weren't couldn't you take your phones
in of course, checking for knives and weapons and other
sort of stuff as well. But it was literally it
was so loose, unbelieving some of the things that happened.
(11:39):
We had people basically getting into fights afterwards, and where
was it once Rudy hilaroussel bloke came goes a fellas.
This was before it started ten thirty in the morning.
One of your guys has just fell through the like
the front door was the glass. So this also and
I reckon. The final thing where we went yep, it's over,
(12:01):
was this bloke cut up on stage, got the microphone
and said, halfway through the gig, Dave Glusen's plant up
there and goes, hey, everyone, I can myself and the
yeah right mate, and bent to stripped himself, got his
deck tuck up between his leaks and actually did it,
had sex with himself and everyone. I remember looking on
the crowds laughing, and it was just like that moment
(12:23):
we just said that's it.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Drawn.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Yeah, that's right, that's where you drew the line.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm not going to go back to me only for
one second, because you boy, was the Brookie Hills now
the good Day Hill right.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah yeah, well listen it's it's technically the good Day
Hill bar, but.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
But it's on good days. Like to shorten it, it's
easy to say.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know, it's a way of paying less money for sponsorship,
for getting the hold.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
We may have tried to continually push to not have
the words.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
He'll but there they're like put bar on, like it
doesn't fit.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
They're like, yes it does anyway, mate, we're loving it's great.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's actually got your gifts.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
For that as well that I do the handover.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Well, listen, you're here with freshen up your lid.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Let me dad, Dad has worn that happen to the boys.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Your nice brown one, mate, it's a ripper mate.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I love the earthy colors like brown and green.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Let's just these are bottles. You don't need to hold
these now. But in terms of what we're doing, good day, He'll.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Just do an unboxing, just.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Daily multi vitamins for the voice and electrolyteslights.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Mate, this is brand new, fresh hot off the proy. Yes, welcome,
but how good does it look? The sign looks hot though,
even particularly on Sunday. I know it wasn't a great
day out, but like it was for the heell.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Mate, the hills always packed rain hall shine and to
see when the when it goes to the long lens
and you see the full field, the pun is in
the background and you've got good day. Heill got the
bar It looked very good.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
It's fucking nice.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Well, it must be so real for you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Seriously, it actually it's you know, we'd like we obviously
spend a lot of time just being stupid, but it's
definitely one of those things where we're like, that's really
fucking cool.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
When we went first went and looked at it, looked
at it.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I didn't want to leave one more, one more perf. Yeah,
it's mad.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, this is a completely like going off topic, but
let's just roll with it. When you said electrolytes, have
you guys never driven an electric car?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Yes, no you have.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
My car got stolen last year and then I was
driving an electric car for a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
What are they good?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I found it kind of annoying In the end. I
was like, this thing, I've gotta go sit in a
fucking kmart car park and charge this thing for like
two hours.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, they are like cords you're gonna have at home.
They didn't give me one, but then you still got
a charge over night. It was just like, yeah, petrol's waysier,
and I don't feel they're popping up.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Everywhere corner, So how long do you have to wait until?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Like how long could it last? Could you drive up
to buyer and would you have to like charge it
every few hours?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
It depends.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
I don't reckon you could drive it.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
No, you couldn't drive it by it, No, you'd have
to charge. Well, I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'm looking for.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I love these come from Electric Elec.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I should have paid more money for school.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I just thought of it because I'm looking at Scott
Scott Scott's I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
For a new car.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, I was just I've just been thinking, like because
there's so many there's high Bridge now electric, and.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I reckon, you'll get an electric car and you'll be like,
this is not It's fun like they day zip.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
They go quick.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
They can go quick and it feels like you're driving
a spaceship because it's just like you know, they just
have to.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Go and sit in the servo around the corner for
like two hours.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Charge.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, it was. It's a ball ache.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
There's a bit of an exposing, not on Tesla, on
another electric car company at the moment, I don't know
what it is. But the other thing, but I mean
we assume it happened if someone catching fire. But the
other thing about it is they've been vandalized to Tesla's.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
Oh yeah, I know, Like, isn't that Yeah, I know
what that's like when you turn up for election day
and one of the Greenies hands you at like a
paper thing to who to vote for this, and you're saying,
fucking paper please.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's good for the goose, it's good for the job.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, that's a good point anyway. Sorry, sorry to take
it off.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
No please, I'm just curious, a curious man.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
No, but have you got time to do that? Go
and sit in the serveo for two hours.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Look, that's sort of man, depends on how it makes
me feel when I'm behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It doesn't make you feel that cool. Oh really, I
don't think it does when you're like on a bit
of road. But not like you know what I mean.
If you imagine if you're up at five in the
morning to go into work and the thing that batteries
half dead, you can't just snip around the petrol stage four.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Thirty electric car. There's a little bit like a cult.
They all sort of get together when we're away for
the Olympics. I made the mistake and asked asking journalists
Brent Reid, I said, what do you drive? He said
to me, because I'm not an interesting car. He goes,
you're driven an electric car? Many nah, and he goes,
I've got one, and just went on this spiel for
(17:04):
about forty minutes about the nuances of electric cars. I'm
just going fucking I never thought I want for buzz.
I feel like they could put solar panels on top
so as you drive.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It at charges Listen, you've it's not the worst idea,
but then you probably don't have a sun roof there.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I don't need it. He wouldn't need a sun roof, but.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I mean, why not, mate, Yeah, an old roof.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
You met ELS's dad when he went into.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Oh we heard him on kids.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Actually, we were in South Africa last year and we
were trying He invited us to his house in what's
not in Cape Town and he was like, oh, yeah,
we're going to do an interview with him, but times
didn't sink up.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We're gonna have to get two planes to meet it.
Were no just over the phone, Cooper, How are you
I ever knew we were South African?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, well the old man is yeah, no, no, definitely
say he's the old man. Seems like a wild bit
of gears.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
He does he does a lot of like media and
that he's old man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He loves he seems like he's loved.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
At the start, I thought it was a joke.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
I'm like, why the Elon dad on kids like a
full ran about politics and stuff was a we know
he's just doing he's because Elon like does nothing but
his old man.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It's like it all does it for him.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Yeah, I think the old man loves the he does.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, funny that accent your dad does, yeah, really is great.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, we used to do.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Tony Greg.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I know a good edge, good adg is where you bought.
It's one of those accents like I never I remember
were Tricia and Iver in Cape Town and went past
and it went tonight. Yeah, so and so Australia so
Africa's number one stand up comedian and I thought of
all the accents have I just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I don't accent transit.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's very good for that.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
See that in German where you're like this is this?
How is this going to be funny?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It's aggressive?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do a good one.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Did you hear the one about that?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
You don't want to go into that.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
No, not that one. Yeah, that one.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
That one.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
You've told it a few times, not not publicly.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
The prank call.
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Oh okay, the Andrew abd Yeah, oh yeah, I thought
you were talking about what other one? Yeah, there was
something okay, Andrew Actually Jack Cooper and I what did
Jack gave me? Kemball grames and other ones?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And I thought, right, what I'll do? I was pissed
from the night before still, and I said, man, I'll
ring him and I'll pretend I'm Andrew abdot and I'm
going to invite him to Adam Reynolds's retirement Jack, he's
not retired, said I rang up back here We're going go.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
He goes, ye, hello, good.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Get everything wrong?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
He goes, He goes, oh yeah, good game. This is
Andrew Abdote from the National Rugby League. And he goes,
oh yeah, how are you going great? I'm just planning
the retirement dinner for Adam Reynolds. What a wonderful player
he is. And you go, oh yeah, it's really good.
Now game. Are you going away anywhere? Oh yeah, Me
(20:05):
and a few of the boys are sort of going
down South Coast and okay, give me the dates, and
he starts going going go for the fifth to the twelfth.
Good aame, where are you going in the South Coast?
Were going to Mollybook. Oh, Mollybook. Wonderful? What is the
exact address? How he starts telling me? I said, good am,
a personal question. Are you single and ready to mingle?
(20:28):
And he went, oh, no, I've just broken up with
my girlfriend.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Just keep going.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It was so funny and Johnny Sutton, Yeah, I got
Soto with what were you saying? I said, I said, hello?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Was this all on the same session.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
It's in the same day. You also got Jade Brayley.
That was about yeah that we won't going that one,
but the sud We rang him.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
To go, hello, John a national rugby league. Do you
have Kobe Evans number? I want to get him as
an ambassador for the It was like, can I take
this opportunity to say the way you played this year
John was magnificent and he goes, I've been retired for
the last two years. Oh sorry, I've been drinking anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
It was fun, you know, we actually have to particularly
you remember one of the it was it wasn't the
first time we met, but it was after I stopped
playing for Manly.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Remember we were you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
It was terrible shocking, not just from.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Maenly fans, but you guys were doing a party over
in the East and before we actually had come up
with the concept of this podcast. Me and you got
in like an hour and a half long conversation, you
remember that, and you were just going, mate, you got
to do it, you got to do it. You got
to do this podcast. And we were going and that
was a loose night.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That was.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
That was rose Yeah, yeah, yeah, But you were the
one that after that conversation we come back and we
all sat down, we come up with it.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
So it's my look, I'm not going to say it
was yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Were the push off the god just say something bridge off.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
If you get a couple of roses and ey, you
can get him yapp and you'll get me an amount.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
Of time then and dribbles just quickly any do any
because you like get a lot of good mail on
there and whatnot, and people joining with being journos try
to jump in and be part of it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yes, we actually have Buzz tried to jump in one time.
I can't remember what was it about.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The problem is with the punters and dribbles. Is that
like most ninety percent of me, like, you know, just
get it in on the joke, get it and it
just like lighthearted. Then some of them, you know, we'll
be like we'll be like, oh, spotted her fucking injured
player out drinking and we're like putting a photo and
we're like, well, we don't really want to have that
energy in there, so we'll We used to have the
puns and we had like a fan page just we
(22:50):
shut down almost for that reason. But we're just too hot,
it's not too hectic.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, so that was you guys that shut it down.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah, we just fucked it off. It just was
too It got to a sixty something thousand p and
there was just two. So we had a couple of
rogues to fuck the joint. But so someone had start
like putting in photos. It might have been like a
I can't remember who they were injured. And then but
it made the screenshot from the page made it in
buzzes like spotted column or some ship, and then we
(23:17):
saw like you can see his request and again and
it was like buzz roth fields in here. How the
fuck did he get near?
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Because we used to get so many requests. I would
just blanket accept them because I'm like, after a long week,
a long weekend, you know, Monday morning, you get in,
there might be like seven hundred. I'm like, fuck it,
I'm just going to accept everyone. So he's snuck in
that way.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
He was in there for a week.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It was in never a week, and then we kicked
him out.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It's a sixty thousand people. You know, you're going to
have some serious drop picks in there. Everyone. Everyone else
has got a different line of acceptance. Other people like
you get up at lunches and someone I'll ask your question.
You got like this guy's got a fucking brain. People
just posting yeah seriously.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
And then and then when they get deleted out of
the group, they go what the fuck door do mate,
and to will screens to send a screenshot of what
they said. Super racist.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, I had to make it. I had to make
a WhatsApp group with Tobler, our producer of like band
Punners and Dribblers members, just so that I could keep
tabs on who had said, who was who and why
had been kicked out? And I just would send them
a screenshot of them saying something about like a fucking whatever,
and I'm just like, this is why, dude. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Is there any that like when you when people are
trying to come into the group.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Was there any that you were like, holy shit, like
any famous people that you were just like, shit, they
want to come into the pungers and dribblers.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Not really that I remember, no, because again, you just
blanket accepting people. It was too much of a ball
aight going through everyone. Yeah, so no one that I
can particularly remember. It was more I guess like when
when we first started, someone was like, he Bernard Fanning
listens to your show.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't know if he does anymore. It is a
long time ago, but it was like one of our
mates like, yeah, dude, Bernard Fanning listens. We were like,
what the fuck, No way, that's sick. And then one
day we're at a golf day up in Queensland Byron
Byron yeah, yeah, and Eddie's standing at the bar. I'm
behind him and there's just this guy next to him him,
and then the guy just looks at it. He goes, oh, Eddie,
how are you going? And then Eddie's looking like, wait,
(25:04):
who the fuck's that? And I'm like it's a fucking
Bernard Fanning just saying, get a to Eddie, what on
earth is going on?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
That was very surreal.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, because he was taking a long time at the bar.
He was chatting away with it because I was getting
a bit like come on people, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
What I mean?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
So I was going to half tap you on the back,
like wrap it up. Turns around. I half recognizing because
I just took me by surprise.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, mate, how I am like Jesus, what's I just
want to wish you well?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, that's probably like I would say, that's probably
the biggest one where we've been like Jesus Christ. Yeah,
and it took us by surprise.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So boys, the origins of it, like Coople were saying,
you blokes used to go on to Triple M. Yeah,
did you work there as well?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Tom worked there?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You were doing rush Air, I think yeah, yeah, and
then Footy I just used to We lived together at
UNI and so we were just like always chatting ship
and we were like it was around. Podcasts weren't very
big in austraight at the time, just like let's do one.
We're actually listening to some of our earlier episodes on
the way over here for a different thing we're doing,
which is fucking tough work.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But I'll bet you this when you're looking back, when
you listen back to some of it, you're actually some
of this stuff was good.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
There's a couple of things where you're like, oh yeah,
we still like this was sort of like we were
that we were laughing at but it's just sort of
uncomfortable generally to listen to yourself. But so you're sort
of like, please be something I like coming up because
I can't fucking how bad?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Like how is there a massive difference in there?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
There is stuff that's still similar that we've carried through.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
There is we were more.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Ruthless with our opinions of people, that's for sure, Like
like mainly now were generally speaking, we'll just we'll gloss
over the ship to keep it positive. The episode we're
opening up every player.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
When you got nothing to lose exactly.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Exactly talking about people's physical characteristic idiot.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Like what you doing? They played like show the big
borrod on Yeah, oh yeah, it was a big off
season signing. He fucking sucks and.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
We're like, my god, like and Q wasn't around then,
Well I imagine now because you've got a good relationship
with a lot of.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
The boys in that, like you've met so many people.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Yeah yeah, you can't now like if you guys would
say something now, But has there been actually any backlash
like recently of stuff you may have said that the
boys go, oh no, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
We we still will like make a point of saying
stuff we think. I think you find maybe just like
more delicate and funny ways to be critical or to like,
don't even be critical because no one gives a shit
what we think, but like, you know, funnier ways to
speak about someone in a slightly disparaging way as opposed
to being like, well fuck this guy.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So, like when we signed Luke Brooks, we weren't happy
about that because he was at the Tigers and we
hate the Tigers, and obviously Luke Brooks was like career
at the Tigers proceeds itself or whatever. But then when
he came to Manly, instead of shipping on it, we
just started referring him as the rescue dog and it
was like, we've got him out of a troubled home
and now he's.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
A pound dog.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
He's got a nice house on the beach and he
gets to live inside, he gets a he gets fed
every night, and he's allowed to flourish.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
How long abiding people exactly?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
And now he's you know, he's as opposed to in
the early episodes, at least the one we just listened to,
there's a lot of you're a fucking.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I don't that's the other one, your dad, Yeah, the line.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Front and blawing four points.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
So it isn't amazing you have time goes like Tom,
I remember you coming into Triple M when you're young
bloke and Charlie White and all those Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That was.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I was interning at Triple M off the back of UNI.
Like my degree in UNI got us into an internship.
And then Mate, I think the first time I ever
came in, he was on the grill team and I
didn't know what I was doing. I walked in at
four in the morning from my house and I sat,
you know, like right outside the door, which is we're
like famous people would sit before they'd come in, and
I was just sitting there and you guys are all
like doing the show and you're looking at me and
(29:04):
you're like, who the fuck is this? Who's this guy
coming on it? And then you come out and you're
all like shaking my hands and ship you didn't know
who I was. And then someone's like, oh, he's the Internet.
I remember. You're like, oh fuck, I thought we were
just about to interview this.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Man that made the fun times.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, mad, it was good, a lot of fun. It
was good.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
But where it was like that was nine years ago.
So when we first started we have voices have changed
a lot. Oh yeah, which we couldn't get over.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
It sounds like you never hear you ever heard rab
and VOSSI like Rabs commentating in the eighties, Yeah, BOSSI
in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's just crazy different.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's so so different.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What is it alcohol?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Well, Rabs, they say we're Rabs. It was it was
smoking and whiskey. Yeah, gave him the timber.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Kids, if you're out there and you want to do
the next ray one, yeah, don't do it. Get on
the darts.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah, nice and thick though, what the boys.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Actually dangan Ain dan Ganne used to smoke and drink.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Which is he still smoking?
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think he does. And Paul Murray yes, but to
give an extra timber and the voice in a word. Oh,
I think I think Dan, And I gotta be careful
what I'm saying because a lot of colleagues were commentators,
but I think Dan gan Ane is the number one
commentator in Greed fantastic.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He's so good and I mean his voice, it's a
mixture of like the voice obviously, I think he's comfortably
got the best voice, and then he doesn't over insert
himself in games. I think he's sort of but he's
also kind of funny. Yeah, you know, like he's got
a he's a bit cheeky or I don't know, there's
something about but I've always liked Dan.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It's clever because you listen to him on the Triple
M call on a very casually on a Sunday, and
his call on radio is is different than what it's
in TV. People find that hard to change. Oftentimes people
who commentate on radio explain too much on the TV
and yeah, vice versa.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I remember when we were at Triple M and it
was the Dead Set Legends. I've use that show, which
was that was when RABS was on as well. It
was like that was like one of my first jobs
I was like, holy fuck rat one. I used to
have to call him and be like, what do you
want to talk about today? Like on SUD I'm just
on the golf course and I'm like, what is what
is happening here? But we were it was after a
show and Dan was calling I think maybe on TV
for the first time. He wanted feedback or something, and
(31:18):
we were just sitting there and we were just getting
this commentary like lesson from Rabs and he was just
playing audio of Dan and he's like, now see there,
what you doing there? And then like I was just
like this is so insane and asking for he asked
him for advice, and he was talking about the difference
between radio and TV and he's like, when I'm in
the when the when, the when, the when they're in
like the ten meter line, it's like I'm calling that
like the player's name multiple times to try and build
(31:40):
suspense of like the play and all this different stuff.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Like John's John says a ball, So it's like auto
building it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was interesting. I never even would think that
you'd think so much about that what you're doing. Yeah, yeah,
that's very like analytical.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
The early days of the dead Seat legends, the those
when I was listening to fair Way, but at one
point there was there was your dad on it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah he's a.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Warren and Greg Matthews, the three of them together, mate,
it was it was brilliant. And your dad had a
character who was Ray Warren's twin brother.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, Reg Warren.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yeah, yeah, he would commentate the game, but he would
get there they cross and his dad did the boy
say yea to cross now to Ridge to go? Yeah,
hello guys, how.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Like Ray doesn't acknowledge my existence. And he was like,
well that's fine brother.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
The Triple M days you did you guys start, so
you're obviously working there, did you?
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Guys?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I believe you told me once when you first started
you were using like one of the studios in yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
Yeah, when when when he whenever it had gone home,
he'd smuggled me up there like a night.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
We just used one of the studios. So the audio
has probably got worse.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
So how many listeners like is that when you first began?
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Yeah, that's twenty sixteen.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
We had, like we always when everything anything good happens,
we always say thirty listeners to each other because for
four years we had like thirty listeners.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Is that Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did it for the love,
don't worry about it.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
But it's a good way of doing it. You're sharpening
the sword for sure.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Like the structure of the show, which has just changed completely,
there's almost there's almost no structure now in terms of
you just sort of like it's more comfortable just to
chat and you know when things sort of when a
conversation has done its dash or whatever else. But I
think it was the thing for us with thirty listeners
was like it was just our friends, and like your
friends are almost a good barometer where they're like if
they don't want to listen, they won't listen. They'll listen
(33:46):
to like a couple, they're not going to keep tuning in.
And they just kept listening like just the same. So
we're like, all right, well, like we'll just keep going.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But it's reps. Yeah, it's flying time. Yeah, it's like
I mean led Zeppelin said a time not comparing your
place to Jimmy Page was a studio musician for ten
or twelve years. Yeah, and you know the brains behind
the songwriter and those great licks and he just sat
there he was he would oftentimes play the lead guitar
(34:13):
and all the Beatles.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Oh really I didn't, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Abby Road. So he sat there and just basically absorbed
it all and went right out. And then when he
started led Zeppelin just changed everything where the microphone and everything.
There you go, boys, you've done the scene.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You get a Zeppelin about us.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
So it used to be a lot more segment heavy
back then, but it's changed over time.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I remember I came on your one one time and
it was the whole gag. I was just over there
to check the studio out.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
You guys were like, do you guys, do you want
to pretend to be like our producer for the day
and we'll refer to you as him, but we'll never
acknowledge it. And I was like, yes, I love that ship.
And yeah, like I said, so, what what are we
talking about? And you guys had like just phone notes
of like four dot points and it was just like
this for the last us an hour and a half.
(35:03):
This is so free flowing.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, we don't.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
We don't.
Speaker 7 (35:05):
We've never prepared anything. Yeah, and we only write down
notes so that there's topics that we would love to
talk about.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
But don't forget to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's more what it is. If yeah, if you don't
to forget about like something, sometimes that will happen as well,
because we'll get on a fucking tangent talk about space
for forty five minutes and we're like, whoops, we forgot
about the biggest story on the weekend.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Just like we just take tay things for a walk
basually like that sort of just rabbit hole the rabbit hole,
and if and if we killed something on the way.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Down there, that's fine because it's not live, so you
can just walk it.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Back and then edit it at n find where it
was funniest and.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Just cut cut, let the ferret go out of the
rabbit hole. Ye talk about like the free flowing nature.
We actually we wrote a rundown for this, right, like
just just sort of basic of where we're going to start,
where we're going to finish.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
And Dad mustn't have stapled his paper together.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
He started at the end and now and then I
seen him just rabbit through his notes and he must
have realized the first topic you brought up was at
the end.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
So now now he's just going.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Sorry to write some notes that I've lost them.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
He started, He asked the question, and I knew he
was going to finish with it, and I was going
where we'll find our way back.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Ground?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
What about some of the guests about over the years, boys,
a couple that really.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Stand out yourself not to blow smoke up and fishing
for already got that in there, I'll say me.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Eddie Hearn the boxing promoter where I was fucking terrific.
We went out to the Gold Coast because they had
a fight.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
On up there.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
I think Rock Jervis and Lambard exactly right.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Went up there and he facing.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
And he was just probably the most charismatic person ever.
Mat just came in just fucking it was pouring out
of his paws, like just the coolest guy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
He knows what he's audiences like, you get to the
arguments and people just performance.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Way with words is incredible.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
He was.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
He was probably my fast Yeah, Rabs as well.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Rabs was great, Rabs is good.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Rabs was one that I was like that was a
bucket list. That was a bucket list. And I had
a relationship with him through Triple M. But I was like,
I just never want to ask him, you know what
I mean? Like I was like you just feel uncomfortable.
And also I'm thinking he's probably just going to say no,
So what's the fucking point?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Can I just predict how the phone called? It went? Yeah,
Ray Warren, Hey, Ray, it's Tommy Bermingham. So why your son?
Good to talk to you? I look grabs me and
myself and Eddie. If we get it on the podcast,
I don't know would anyone be even interesting.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Well, in the end, I didn't have to call him
because Channel nine actually were like they wanted it.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
Might have been his final year or un documentary.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Oh that's right, documentary.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yes, So thankfully I didn't have to ask and was like, fuck,
we just got him because it was you know, good fortune.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
But you get nervous around a blow like that though,
because they're so revered.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And even when we were talking to him, it was
still like more than anyone where you were like, oh
fuck is he is he upset by this? Or like
we annoyed him more?
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
You just don't know?
Speaker 11 (38:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Yeah, yeah, what you care?
Speaker 8 (38:20):
How?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
He's going very careful, a lot more mental line together.
He would always book, he goes matter what flight are
we going to get on? I'd say, I'm want to
get up there early. Him going to do that, get
on the ten thirty, get up there and have the
Dame and Brizzie. Yeah, Madde. I he only flies after
midday because he's a nervous flyer, so we can drink
on the flight.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Oh really, Yeah, I knew he was nervous, but I
didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, they always come mister Warren, there's your shar so
hed three or four on the way up. Just a
coolie flo. I thought he never flew.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I thought he always did it from like either Sydney
Games or he did it from studio.
Speaker 10 (38:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Well, I think after COVID he was like, oh, I
don't have to fly.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
For these fucking lot they have those studious Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Is there anyone you were real nervous for, because I
know you guys. Did Craig Bellamy recently?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Like for a Yeah, that was all right, that was
like it was over zoom.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
It was short, so it wasn't the same and.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
He was doing he was doing little ten minutes stints
every out.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Of and it was zoom. With that, You're like, let's
just be cheeky here, because like you've just got this,
you've got this thing separating you and like you don't
have enough time to get into anything too sincere anyway,
So it was like and he said, cool, we're nervous
for him.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
No, not nervous.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Islam market share was intimidating, was he because you like
every interview I've seen him do, he's super straight and
stern and doesn't give much. And and we were in
like this cavanous warehouse for some reason, big warehouse, and
they've got to set right in the middle of the
fucking thing, like it was a weird spacing. He's got
all these heavies with him, like Jesus, we'd had a
huge night, were super ginger, and it was he was intimidated,
(39:54):
but we got him laughing.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
So that was like Whould thought the Chechens would be.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
And it was just a bunch of them just not
smiling at anything.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
And the interview he'd done before us was flat as attack.
This is going to be should they go? You should
go for about half an hour?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Should you?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Like it's insane or you're listening to the one before
the fight.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
And like the I think his name is Nick, who
works for main event, And it was like him in
the middle of the room this warehouse chair, facing each
other one on one, and just like everyone in their
sight and it's just like this whisper combo and they're like,
all right, yeah, you got half an hour this one.
We're like, what the fuck are we going to talk
about it? But we got him giggling and.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
That was him laughing.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That was joining Australia.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yes, honestly, dude, that was like what it was like.
And so we started asking about his six pack and
ship and he's.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Like, what are these guys like, how do you like,
how would we get a six packet six?
Speaker 5 (40:49):
How good is his English?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Good enough enough?
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Don't need to translate U no, no, no, no, no
no no.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
We got through it fine.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, she's what those Chechens fighting now just starting to
dominate dying UF, So you are now starting to dominate
through the boxing.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
It's I mean, like they just seem so hard, like
they just come from like a hard place where they're
just everything's tough, and they're just.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
They really lean into the fact that like they don't
do like they keep to themselves. They're not out there
flaunting and you know, show booting. They're just up there
training in the mountains.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
And for it. You know, you see the videos of
could be wrestling bears swimming up freezing cold rivers.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
You're like, you guys are just.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Doing their heart.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
They're heart like jumping in, like they're breaking open like
the ice and just jumping in.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
They're like freezing cold, and none of them drink.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
They're all like devout religious Muslims and stuff. And you're like, okay,
so you're not even like you're doing absolutely everything.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I mean they'd be tough. You're living
in Chechnya in some of those places there. There's a
place called Daggerstan, which is the capital of Chess, which
just looks fucking terrified.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
Dark alley.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
The whole places are dark.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah, mate, that's serious.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Going back to the potty for a set, what was
the you said before thirty listeners for the first four years,
At what point did the listener start coming up.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
Was there a breakthrough moment where you were like.
Speaker 7 (42:06):
We've had we've had a few breakthrough moments, like it
was building up towards like a couple of hundred by
the time the first big breakthrough was, which was Anthony Watmow.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
We knew him through a friend of a friend and
he agreed to come on.
Speaker 7 (42:20):
Originally, we just wanted to talk to Anthony because he's
a great at the club, manly, and we didn't want
to ask him about what had happened. We're like, fuck that,
we don't know him well enough, don't we go there.
As soon as he came, he goes ask me about DCA. Yeah,
but he was he came in, he was like it
was pacing, so he clearly wanted to get it off
his chairs and then he called DC a fuck wit
(42:40):
and the middle over the class all over the club,
like was very raw and honest, which got picked up
by the media. And Anthony had been as sick was
like every time we got called by a journo for
a quote, he go not hallow Sport exclusive.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
So we had to get quoted in everything.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
That's so funny for him.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
He's just out of the blue, like we were just
like so all the publications had to quote hollow Sport
at the end, they didn't get their own quote line,
who didn't exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Did you see them?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yes, yeah, on a podcast, I'm like share price just
on the speculation and like did you see instant listeners?
Like how bad?
Speaker 5 (43:19):
Eight thousand.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
I think that episode got eight thousand, and then it
was time was like wow, and then it sort of
just came back to probably like maybe two thousand, you know,
like an episode, and then it just then it was
what would the next thing have been?
Speaker 5 (43:33):
Advocate probably, So we do this.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
We used to record out of their studios and at
the end of every year or the start of every year,
we get on with them and we do a recap
of all the off season scandals and just do like
a really in depth breakdown of like all the fucked
up things that happened in the off season lighthearted.
Speaker 8 (43:48):
Ones, yeah, because it was a couple of years there
Jesus animal stories of.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
And so that got us a bit more. And then
linking up with KEMPI I think was the one that
sort of because by that stage he was super big
and so then we started doing a show with him
and we were just always like if we can just
get in front of his audience, like we just were
confident of it, like they just don't know about us yet,
and once they once they do, we felt like there
was going to be at least just seeing a bit
(44:22):
of growth. But it's sort of pumped from there.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Which is mad Well, would I tell you terrific blakes,
Tom and Eddie really talented fellas. That's the end of
part one, right that, time to jump over for Part two,
which I hope you enjoy every bit as much I
know you will
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