SPEAKER_02 0:07

My name is Tame Rustin. My name is Jaden Robbins, and this is a bigger one. Just a quick disclaimer before we start. If you are struggling, reach out to Lifeline on 131114 or book an appointment with your GP and talk about a mental health care plan today. Welcome back. Another episode. He's gone overseas to Bali, so we're here with Zoe Khan as just stepping in, a bit of a co-guest.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Yes, I have been promoted. Thank you, Jaden. You might not get your job back next week.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Yeah, if we get some better views on this, he can he can stay over in Bali.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Yeah, he can just live there. He might as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

We might bring him back on for a guest. Yeah. Maybe get him live from Bali. Live from Bali. God knows what he's up to this this time of the morning. What is it? They're like two, three hours ahead, I think, are they?

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Behind.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Behind. Yeah. True, so it'd be like 3 30 in the morning over there. He's probably just going to bed.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Literally.

SPEAKER_02 1:20

Um, yeah, so we got a good opportunity today to just run him down.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

So whenever you feel like it's literally the favours are running out for Jaden Wright. Yeah. They're they're adding up.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

Yeah. I always one of the quotes I always live by is don't count favours, but in this in this instance.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Yeah, in this situation, I'm I've been counting.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

Yeah. And what else you've been up to? You've had a pretty busy week.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Yes, I've had the busiest week, a couple of weeks. Still running um our Boots for a Brighter Future program in all of our schools. Um this past week I've been in Brisbane with No Limit for the Li Empiro fight, so that's been fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

Yeah, tell us about that. Obviously, what you work for No Limit.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Yeah, yeah. Working for No Limit. Um flew up on a Sunday. We had our grand arrivals, which is something we do when we have the bigger fights, and um that's just like a get together of all the fighters that are on the fight card this week. Um which was really good, and then yeah, the lead up to fight week. Fight day is always so hectic with a different event every day, like press conference and wan's and then fight night is always yeah, big one. So it was so good. All of like most of our fighters, all of them took their like took it out, which was nice. So um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

What's Lee Amparo win?

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Yes, Lee Amparo.

SPEAKER_02 2:44

Who did he vote?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Uh Lewis Crocker, he was and Lewis Crocker's from Ireland, he was defending his belt. RBF, yeah, yeah. So it was good, it was a good night.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

And you have Nelson.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:58

Big nasty.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Big nasty. He's a big human.

SPEAKER_02 3:01

I was saying you got a photo with him, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Yeah, yeah. He's a big human. Him and George Burgess are massive. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

Compared to your just in general.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Yeah, in general.

SPEAKER_02 3:10

Because you're not very tall.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 3:14

No, that's mad. Um talk to me about the boots, like yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

We um so we've got a lot of clubs on board this year, and a lot of NRLW clubs have come on board, which is so exciting. Last year we only did the Roosters NRLW team, but this year we have the Roosters, the Eels, the Sharks, and the Knight. So um, all of the girls are so keen. I was at a school yesterday on the coast, and um Liv Koenig and Jamie Fressard came out to the school and seen the kids, which was so exciting. Um that's the school that's painting the NRLW boots, and today I am going to Catherine Macaulay and Madawi. Um, and Dill Lucas is joining me to come and see the kids for their boot painting session. Um they're doing the night. Um we're also running a program in Frank Baxter with actually Jaded and a few of the guys there. They're gonna paint the eels NRLW boots, so yeah, it's all happening.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

That's good. Because when's when's the Indigenous round for NRL?

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Yeah, Indigenous Round falls in week one and two of August. So it goes over two weeks so every club can have a home game.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Madness. Um, I haven't really been up to that much. Thanks for asking. Probably probably just um Yeah, I've I've actually locked in pretty good this week, so just eating properly and going to the gym. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Um that's good.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Been good last weekend. Nothing really, I don't think. Had footy. It wasn't a good result for us again, struggling a bit. What for Maitland? Yeah. Oh jeez.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

What who'd just verse?

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Lakes.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

Yeah, right. Yeah, I think it was like I'm so sick of versing Maitland and Lakes. Like I feel like our draw has been structured around for us three teams to just verse each other the most.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

So who do you just play this week?

SPEAKER_00 5:12

We have South.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

Yeah, true. Yeah. We we got um central. Yeah, it's been pretty good. It really I it frustrates me how it doesn't line up with Regis or First Grade.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

Yeah. Like Only sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Yeah, very rarely for us. We we've never played the same team that Reggies and First Grade have played.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Yeah. Yeah, that's the there's so many issues with the women's combat. I don't think we have enough time to get into that.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

Yeah, let's talk bylaws. Um no. What's uh what are you use at South then?

SPEAKER_00 5:43

Yeah, we're at South. It's their ladies' day.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Yeah, we're it's in Central's Indigenous Round.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Oh wow, how exciting. I think I did see them promote their jersey last night on Instagram. It looks good.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

Yeah, we're at 1 30.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Yeah, I think we're at 12.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Yeah, I hate that later time slot. Yeah. Especially on a Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Yeah. Yeah. It's like that's that part of the year where it's like middle of the year, everyone's over footy. But then I feel like for us girls, like it literally just started.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Yeah, true. Probably halfway through, eh?

SPEAKER_00 6:13

Yeah, I think we've got seven rounds left.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Yeah, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

If this week doesn't wash out, the rain's been so terrible this week.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

Yeah, it might. I think there's some there's some rain forecast, but um, yeah, that was kind of me for the week. Just doing that. We've had a few a few events and stuff at work and probably get pretty busy um over the next couple weeks with Nadoc and stuff just around the corner.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

Yes, our favourite week of the year, Nadoc. No one talked to me NADOC week. That's my week.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

Yeah, that's my week. Um I I reckon or I I don't know, I wonder if if they'll look at moving some events or something if it's gonna rain. I know that the terrace one there Yeah got moved. Got moved, so um yeah, I remember it was a couple years ago when it rained and it was just mayhem through NADOC. Yeah. And there was like events cancelled left, right, and centre, and they ended up having 'em like late in the year, like October or something. Remember that?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Yeah, yeah. I feel like we've been pretty good with like winter this year. Like it's only just started raining, maybe the last two weeks, where I feel like we had that good three weeks of just like it going cold.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Yeah, very much so. Um, alright, we'll get into we don't have quotes this week because we've scrapped them. Um only because we were only really doing it for probably like a six-week period anyway. I think that if you keep asking for them, people sort of run out of quotes. But do you do you have one?

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Oh, do I have a quote? Let's come back to that.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

We'll come back to it. I'm gonna actually ask you later on in the episode what your greatest advice to anyone is. So you make sure that you come up with that. Um so yeah, we're we're sort of scrapping the quotes for now, but um we'll probably put a few we'll probably f put a few um interaction things up. We'll come up with what our listeners can sort of interact with next, maybe starting from next week. Um I know one of the one of the things we spoke about was talking about like your greatest inspiration or even role model, um, celebrity, or even someone that you're um in within your family. Do you want to talk about that a bit?

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Yeah, I would say I have a lot of role models um within my family family, starting off with you know my two sisters. Um they went through a lot when we were young. Um, they both made a lot of sacrifices for me to be where I am today. Um I'm the youngest of two older sisters, so yeah, I feel like they obviously supported my mum to raise me, and yeah, they've definitely made me the person I am today. And they're very they're polar opposite. I think they're very different, and then I feel like everyone's like, oh, you're a you're a mixture of both.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Do they live around you?

SPEAKER_00 8:48

One of my sisters lives um back home on country in Tamworth, and yeah, one lives in Cardiff, so very good.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Do you have any um celebrity ones?

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Celebrity ones, oh I've never really thought of this, hey celebrities. No, I wouldn't not that I can think of off the top of my head. What about you?

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Um for me, like I always sort of like my parents, probably more so specifically like my mum. Um, just because when I think about what she's been through, um, like she's lost both of her parents, she's lost like a sister, um, heaps of people, and she's like still soldiers on, and you you know, you kind of um it was yesterday was actually four years since my nan passed away. Called my mum, and I was just like, you know, how you going? And she's just like ripping into me about how the eels are gonna win last night. Like just you know, so um I guess deals with it in her own sort of way.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

Yeah, um our parents have this really great resilience about them, don't they?

SPEAKER_02 9:47

Yeah. Um I always when I always talk about like role models and stuff, always give Nev a bit of a shout out. Nevitters, yeah. I think for me, um I met him when I was in year 12 at school, um, and I think that yeah, just what I've our conversations and um our yarns are always pretty inspiring.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

So yes, I love Nev.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

He's such good quality and have to get him in here have to get him in for a yarn.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

Yeah, um Jaden Nev have a big yarn big big round table.

SPEAKER_02 10:18

Yarning circle Um For a celebrity, like one that I've always kind of um what's the word like one that I've probably always gone into bat for um since like maybe five years, but um is probably Lutrell. I think that he cops a lot of like shit through the media. Um and uh what people don't realise is like when you have mainstream journalism that create like a rhetoric around someone and they post the right stuff to fit the narrative, like people that kind of don't really involve themselves in um like footy as deeply, they only read those articles, so that's kind of the way that they make up their perception. Um so I feel like I've not not so much now because I'm just not that kind of person, but definitely a couple of years ago I've got myself into some some arguments on Facebook and and in comment sections.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

The arguments on Facebook can just trap you, I feel like. Yeah, and yeah, the media is definitely like so bad, especially with AI now these days. Like there's so many fake media stories that people like just click and they believe it. Like it's wild, and you just go, you haven't even like proof-checked this. Yeah, it's wild.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

Yeah, and I think um, yeah, I think we kind of all go through that age where we're always probably um like what's the word, marinating all the comments on Facebook and seeing everything. Yeah, um, I always feel like in our in like the rugby league culture, it's always like like after origin, like everyone's going hard in the comments. Um after certain things happen, everyone's going hard in the comments, and it's kind of very hard to sit there and read it all and not like react to any of it or say anything. Yeah, um, and I guess you just gotta like think to yourself, like, and this is kind of what like this was a couple years ago, but then I don't really do that much these days, maybe just as anonymous, nah. Um on the Rutherford community group as anonymous, nah. Um, but like I kind of thought to myself, like, even if I come up with a mad argument, the guy I'm arguing with is not gonna turn around and be like, oh you know what, that's actually mad. Yeah. I agree. Like it's never gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Some people just don't comprehend like your view and they don't, they just like they've already made their mind up.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Yeah. Um but I think for me, he's he's someone that like has worked pretty hard to get the platform that he has and um uses it to kind of like for the betterment of our community and our mob, and I think that's like pretty important because there's a lot of people that have done that in terms of like and when I think of like celebrity and role models, I never think about the role model they are within the sport. Like, obviously Latrell's a great player and um you know he does amazing things, but it's more so how they then use the platform they've created through sport to show to highlight issues in other areas.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

100%, and I think like for him to put a self-ban like without talking to the media for like over a year is also massive. Like his values are obviously like mean a lot to him and um that space, so yeah, it's mad.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

I think what he like doing that self-ban, I think it's similar to when we would just do like the no social media for a bit. Yeah, you're big on that A.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

Sometimes you'll just be like, I'm fed up.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Sometimes I will just go rogue and like delete everything, and then I've got like people texting me, like, are you okay? And I'm just like, Yeah, I'm good. I just need a break.

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Yeah, it gets like that, especially when there's like I feel like especially at the moment with like the rise in one nation and there's some absolutely wild um political arguments out there. A hundred percent I don't really get into politics, like because um the way I've seen things, like they're always designed for like the rich to get richer. Like in the way that's the way I see things. But yeah, um, and everything they say right now, they're never gonna deliver on. I think that's the whole point of it. But yeah, um, I feel like there's some people sharing some pretty diabolical stuff where I'm like and I guess uh the biggest thing is like um not even like you can tell, um, because like they're sharing it, but then like they're not even like diving deep into it and educating themselves. Like if you look at some of the stuff that she's opposed against, it literally goes against like the working class. Like you so then you've got a tradie who you know works 12 hour days and he's sharing it because of this one aspect where I'm like on about seven or eight other things, she's voting against what you b what you're doing in your life. Like so yeah, I think this day and age, like you all have phones and um access to do your own research. Yeah, do do more of it. Don't just c click on the first page at the top and what elections not until end of next year. Is it is it?

SPEAKER_01 15:13

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

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Yeah, I feel like it's like next year, so it's like obviously they're starting early, or even if it was the end of this year, like six months early to you know, say whatever their campaign is. And I feel like since the like obviously since the no vote, obviously the racists feel like they can just come out and be openly racist.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

It's actually so we're actually in a really weird space right now where it's so casually racist and everyone's so okay with it.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

It's so socially acceptable. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

It's a bit scary to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

It's really scary because it's like, are we going the opposite way here?

SPEAKER_02 15:50

I think so. Yeah. And it's people like this that can give everyone like the platform to do that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Um we could talk about politics all day, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Yeah. Um I was gonna say something. They might I I never like I always thought she could never be a prime minister because she's not liberal or laboural. Labour.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Yeah, I feel like we obviously grew up with that Labour and Liberal. I don't think I don't ha One Nation hasn't been around for No, forever, has it?

SPEAKER_02 16:17

Because it's like um you can only be a Prime Minister if you're from the upper house.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Is she not under liberal? Is she not under one of those things or someone that knows more than me? Yeah, we need someone in here that knows about politics.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Yeah, I yeah, I don't know if it's lower house or upper house, but yeah, I always thought that. I mean, I don't know, interesting. I'll do my own research.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Yeah, we're all stuffed if she uh becomes prime minister, so might move to New Zealand. Yeah, literally. Bali, where Jaden is.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

I'd never been to Bali. What? Have you?

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Yes, three times. Have you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Tell me about it.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

Oh, it's wild. Is it? Yeah, it's really wild.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

He reckons I'd like it over there.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

Yeah, you would. Or it's annoying, like the like the people on the street are so annoying, but you just have to ignore them.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

What do they do?

SPEAKER_00 17:05

They just say, Come in my shop, come in my shop.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

I'd be like, Yeah, go on then. What do you got in here?

SPEAKER_00 17:10

And then you like you gotta barter with them for like everything, everyone.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

Did I tell you Jan Howard did that in Brisbane?

SPEAKER_00 17:16

No.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

Oh bruh, so um I'll give him another shout out because he loves it. But deal, my best mate, we um we would like go on it to Sun Corp and that, and like obviously a magic round, and we're coming back and it was a little bit wet, and um we're on the e-scooters, and we're going like we're hooking it, and we're going um through these lights where like do you know the um big traffic lights where you got like down ramp onto the road and then middle island, and then then you go back to the footpath? We're on middle island, and I'm like, it's a crossing, but I couldn't see any cars coming. I'm like, go, go, go. So he goes, and as he's gone to go up the next ramp, he's misjudged it, and he's about to go up the hard gutter, not the ramp. So he slammed the back brake on, yeah, and it's just sliding out and he's hit the deck.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

And I'm behind him, and I am just losing my shit, like hysterically laughing. And uh, everyone's around like shit, like, is he alright? He gets up and he hammers at home, and uh I'm just the whole way home, I'm just giggling like I'm laughing. I get home, I'm like, bruh, what are you doing? He's like, I was hooking it like I didn't do a shit, like I'm hooking it, and I think I was like, and um he smashed like his um the camera lens on his phone. Um so the next morning we went down to the mall and we were trying to find a place to go, and we just come across like this little like it was legit, but it was like a phone repair place.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

And um we put his phone in there and he's like, Yeah, I can fix that for you. And he said to him, like, when do you do it? He's like, literally last night. He's like, You're lucky you come here because if it was like two or three days later, like you wouldn't be able to get a fix because once it does whatever, we can't do anything about it. I was like, Matt, so he put his phone in, we go and get breakfast, we come back and we get his phone. And my mate goes to him, um, he goes, You come in here and you want me to put um you want me to fix your camera? Like, do you want me to put the um camera lens protector on there? And he's like, Yeah, yeah, right. So like he's like, Yeah, that'll be 30 bucks. But I would give it to you for free, um, because you paid for the phone repair. And he's like, Matt, thanks. So um I've looked at him and I'm like, Well, I wouldn't mind that. Like, do you reckon you could put it on mine? Yeah, and he's like, Um, he goes, Yeah, it it'll be 30 bucks. And I was like, I'd probably do 15. And he was like, Yeah, he's like, right, I'll do it for you for 15. So I've given him my phone and he's like looking at my phone, he's like, Bro, you've asked me for a like lens protector for your cameras. You don't even have a screen protector on your phone. I was like, Oh yeah, I took it off. He's like, Why? And I was like, because it cracked and smashed. He's like, that should be a good reason why you get another one. I was like, Yeah, well, if you got one there, like chuck it on. He's like, Yeah, right. Well, it'll be 45 total. I was like, I'd probably do 30 for both, and he did it.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Oh my god, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

I was like, I'll give you a five-star review.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

That's what happens when they don't have like their prices open, right?

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Like, and that's what it's like over barley, is it?

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

Worse, but do they go real low?

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Yeah, it depends. And I feel like when you Do you feel bad, but yeah, I feel like it's already cheap, eh? It it's cheap, but like to be fair, like you do notice the quality in a different shop, so it depends where you shop. But to be fair, barley are going like a lot of shops are doing fixed price now.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Are they?

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

So it's like you can't buy now, but true, and it's it's getting like it's not the cheap sort of getaway. It still is, but like in the touristy kind of places.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Yeah, it's not as cheap as what it used to be, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

People are going to Vietnam now.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

Yes, Vietnam and doing like the the the loop.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

Yeah, and I think that's like what Bailey was like 10, 15 years ago.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Yeah. But Vietnam, where have you travelled? Have you travelled maybe? Not overseas. Really? Oh my god, let's book a trip.

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Yeah. I've only I went to um the first year I went to Magic Round, which was 2021, was the first time I've been on a plane. So I've only been to Brisbane and Melbourne.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Wow. You need to get travelling.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

I know. I want to I think I wanted to see a bit of Australia probably first. I want to go to Uluru.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Yeah, that would be so nice. They have a light show out there. I've never been either. Maybe we all go there. That'd be mad. Yeah, that would be mad.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

Yeah, track it out there.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Have do you have a passport?

SPEAKER_02 21:36

No.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

It's such a stuff around, but like once you have it, you have it for ten years, you know.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Yeah. Is it 10 years? Yeah. Maybe I'll just go and get it then. Yeah, just in case something pops up.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Absolutely. Because there's always like as shit as Jet Star are, like they have the cheapest flights. Like you could just go to New Zealand, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Well, one of um the girls that I used to work with, she's um a travel agent now.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

And well, I need like I'm planning on booking.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

She's a flight attendant, so she put me on some little list. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Oh wow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Go get your passport. Does your partner have your pass her passport?

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Yeah, they went to Singapore. Yeah, how nice. She loved it. Yeah. Said it was mad.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

So and start off with little trips like Fiji, New Zealand, like.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

I want to go to New Zealand. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Yeah, I haven't done New Zealand. I'd love to.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Where have you been?

SPEAKER_00 22:25

Yeah, I was I've been on a cruise, so I've done all the like.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Oh, the cruise is good?

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Yeah. I was only 13 when I went. So I mean it was so good being 13. But yeah, went to like all of the islands, like Manuatu, Island of Pines was beautiful. Um I've been to China. This time last year I was in China. How crazy is that?

SPEAKER_03 22:45

True.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

Yeah. Um Japan, Phuket, Bangkok, um Yeah, I've been to or Indonesia. Um yeah, I've only done like the South Pacific and like Asia. True. Asia countries. So next year I'm definitely planning on doing it. Did you say Japan? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

Is it good?

SPEAKER_00 23:05

Yeah, it was so good. My uncle lives over there. He married a Japanese lady and moved over there like 20 years ago. So um when we went over, it was like everything was paid for. Like it was so nice.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Mad.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Yeah. China was wild. Is it? Yeah, it's so crazy. Like the language barrier is so wild. Like very rarely speaking English anyone over there. Really? Yeah.

unknown 23:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

And they don't really have do they have like heaps of English signage in that?

SPEAKER_00 23:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Good. Because we don't really have Chinese signage. So at time they're like, you know what?

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

Come and deal with it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

But no, it was so good. I um I was there on a scholarship through the uni, and I feel like it was the best way to experience China because like everything was organized, like transfers were organized, your food was organized. So like it's already a very overwhelming place. And like just having to organise all of that would have been like So what you stayed at a uni over there? No, we stayed at like a few different hotels. So we went to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Um, went on the bullet train. We were there for two weeks, and um, yeah, it was like a cultural immersion. So um, yeah, it was the best experience of it. Best way to see China. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:18

They got some pretty fancy stuff over there.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

They've got so much, like their technology is crazy, like their AI will like change the world. True. We went to Alibaba headquarters and they were showing us like like we did a walkthrough of like all of their new designs and what they're designing, and like AI was massive.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

What do they design?

SPEAKER_00 24:38

So, like is that like the heaps of different things, like they're in they're using it a lot in their healthcare system. Their healthcare system is like so different to ours. Um, if you want to see like a doctor or a GP, you have to go to the hospital, true, but then you have to sit in a room with five other clients just to see one doctor, and you all have to tell the doctor like what is your issue is, and then he'll just go like bang, bang, bang, bang. How crazy is that? Like, no um Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Little little group sessions at the doctor's. Gosh, you wouldn't want to be there for something hectic.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

No, and they like don't really believe in rehab. So when I went over, I had like my leg brace because I did my ACL a few weeks before I went in crutches. And like I had people following me around filming me because like they they don't have rehab over there. So like if you go to the doctor with like a sprained ankle, the doctor will be like, Come back in three months if it's not fixed, we'll surgery. Yeah, bruh. You go back and yeah, sprained ankle, yep. So you surgery it, and then then they'll say to you, now rest for three months. True. Yeah, so like they don't believe in like spin out. Yeah. And because they have such like a hierarchy of like the the oldest doctor is like the top, you know what I mean? Like kind of like that elder system, like yeah, it's wild.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

No physios getting around out of there.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Well, see, and that's we went to like um investment New South Wales because they have a hub in Shanghai, and one of the blokes that was there was a physio, and he said like they're trying to change the culture of like rehabilitation and what that looks like there.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

Yeah, yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Are you on uh back overseas with the uni?

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yes, so I um I'm undecided, but I did get an opportunity to go to back to Bangkok for the United Nations conference, which falls the first week in August. But I'm just undecided if it works within my schedule because I'm about to start uni placement too, so I'm about to be so busy.

SPEAKER_02 26:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

But you need to travel, like start traveling, start stamping that passport. Yeah, put in put some stuff in a hat and draw it out.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

That'd be mad. We have to do a friend trip, like I would be keen to go like Vietnam or something.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Yeah, yeah, Vietnam would be sick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Because I think like if you don't then just get older and 100%.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

And I feel like obviously when we grew up, like I never seen my parents travel overseas.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

No.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Because they you know, we're in that lower socioeconomic um area. But my grandparents, like, they travelled all the time.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Did they?

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Yeah, yeah. So I was always like, I feel like I I definitely in in my phase where I'm like, I just want to travel, I think we got a travel bug.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Well, we we didn't never really traveled, like we'd go away camping or something.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Um but yeah, we my grandparents, I think last year they went and did Europe. Yeah like in their 70s because they were like they're probably the wellest we're gonna be. Like just never done it, so let's just go and do it like France and every like England, London.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

That's what I want to do next year. So like my I was like always said when I finish uni, like my present to myself will be like Eurosummer. Yeah. This time next year I'll be in Europe, so I'm busy like Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Yeah, that's always taking us to Europe.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Yeah. Eurosummer.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

It's expensive European. I know, it's so expensive.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

But I mean, living is expensive.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_00 28:20

So live here or spend a summer in Europe.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

How long's that?

SPEAKER_00 28:25

Uh I want to do eight weeks at least. Yeah. Yeah. Just to see it and and what, just do England. No, France. I've kind of got an itinerary. Like I kind of want to fly to London first because it's the furthest away.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Do London and then like catch the Euro like train and then like do all of Europe and then like go down to Greece and then finish in Greece. So I kind of have a plan and an idea. I just need to go and book.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

I'm just like you can go to someone and they can sort it all out for you, can't you?

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Yeah, yeah. But like then I've heard people say you can get it cheaper yourself, but like I'm not a hostel person. Like I can't stay in a hostel.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Like, I So I'm actually like in within my friendship group, I'm banned from booking hotels. I've had some absolute howlers.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

Um Did you just look for the cheapest?

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Well, not really. Like, I mean, yeah, but like so we went the the first year we went to Magic Round, I was like, yeah, I'll book the hotel. Um and we left it so late, so heaps of stuff were sold out. So I was like, boys, there's this joint, it's a bit out of the city, it's in Mount Gravat. I was like, it's about um you know 30 minutes to the to the stadium. Um but it's gonna cost us like 150 bucks for five nights each. Yeah. I was like, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

For everyone.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Yeah, there was three of us. There was two of us. There was two of us. Yeah. And then there was a third, but he lives in Brisbane. So I was like, it's gonna cost us um, yeah, so I think it must have been like I think no, I think it might have been five hundred dollars for five nights, so two fifty each. I was like, it's mad, like it's good. Yeah. So I get off the plane, my mate that lives in Brisbane's meant to pick me up. He's not there, don't know where he is. Shout out to Mitch, calling him, I'm like, bruh, where you at? And then he texts me, he's like, bro, I'm so sorry, I slept in, I gotta start work in 45 minutes. I was like, no worries. So like I'm in Brisbane, um, and then I walk up to this is my like this is the first time off a plane, first time landing in an airport, first time in Brisbane, first time or not first time in Queensland, but as like an adult.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

So I walk up to the um to the subway kind of thing, whatever it is, to like get the train, yeah, yeah. I look at this book and I'm like, um, can I please get an Opal card? He's like, What? I was like, I just want an Opal card. He's like, no, we don't do that. I was like, oh, so like how do I get the train? He's like, you get a ticket. And I was like, yeah, well, like, can I get a card that I can just put heaps of money on and I can just use it for the weekend? He's like, oh yeah, that's a go-kart. I was like, yeah, get me one of them. So um I'm like getting on this train, and um I get on the train, and like the same dude, for whatever reason must have just come down to the platform. Um I don't think it was for me, I think it was just a coincidence. And he pops his head in the platform, leaves his foot outside to sort of stop the door, and he's looking at me and he's like, Um, it's like you told me that you're going into the city, this train's going to the Gold Coast. What are you doing? And I was like, Oh, true. So I got off and then made it, went into the city, um, lapped it around in there for a bit, and then got a bus out to um I didn't realise how expensive that train I got cost me. It was like $19, and I put $25 in the go-kart.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

Are you like four bucks?

SPEAKER_02 31:54

Yeah, so I um travelled from Brisbane City um out to Mount Gravat on the bus. And as I get off the bus, um I tapped my go-kart and go into the shops, and then I need to travel like probably another five or ten minutes on the bus. Tapped my go-kart and it declined. And I looked up at the driver and he's just looking at me, and I was like, and he's like, just get on. I was like, mad. I'm saturated, I'm soaking wet, and um got my bags and everything. Rock up to this motel that I thought it was a hotel, um, which is like a house. So I'm like, walk through the back, come up to this house, and I'm like, oh, okay. Um, knock on the door, this guy answers. He's like, Are you seeing him? I was like, Yeah. He's like, Oh, let me take your um like goes and gets me a towel. I was like, Matt, because I'm so wet. He's like, Come in. I was like, sweet. I walk in and it's a house. So it's like whatever bedrooms downstairs and like three bedrooms up top. So I'm like, mad, like they're gonna go away for the weekend, we're gonna have this house to ourselves. This is deadly. Um, anyways, I'm like, go upstairs and I get changed and like get some dry clothes on, and I come downstairs and I sit on the lounge and start watching telly. Then he comes and sits next to me. Oh, and like it was it was clear by the way he spoke that he was like buggy. Um, and so we're just watching telly together, and I was like, this is cool. Like, what am I doing?

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Where's your friend at this point?

SPEAKER_02 33:20

They're it's still like making their way there. So then Are you like texting them? Yeah, like get me out of here, yeah. Like, but also not like telling them how bad it was because I don't want him to like bail. Um so yeah, basically that we um and then my mate that lives in Brisbane. I said to the owner of the house, and that do you reckon he could stay here for like the five nights? Even if it's just like a mattress on the ground. He's like, Yeah, $60 five nights. I was like, mad. Uh and they they stayed there the whole time though.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

So it's a bit awkward. Did you not like look did you book it on booking.com? Yeah, it looked mad. So it looked like a hotel. Like, what did you think?

SPEAKER_02 33:56

I'll show you, I'll show you before we or did it just like show the rooms? It's called Mount Gravat Guest House. And look, it was a good stay. Yes, absolutely. But like, and just like absolutely comical. So we went across to like the RSL club and we were walking home at like 2 a.m. and it was like this couple in front of us, and I said to the boys, I'm like, Oi, bet you any money there in one of the rooms above us, and they're like, nah, sure enough, yeah, they were.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

Wow, okay, so it's like reputable, like it was reputable enough where you like I feel safe to stay.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. And then me and Dill were going to Sydney um to watch, like we always try to go down there and watch like Dogs vs. Roosters every year at Alliant.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

I was like, I'll book the hotel, and then um I was working down there, so he was gonna get the train down there and I was gonna pick him up. We rock up to the hotel, we can't get in, like the door's locked. I'm like, what the hell? So I ring him and like, oh yeah, you've got to go to this other place down the road and get the key. Go down there and get the key, come back. We're climbing these stairs, there's no elevators, we're climbing these stairs. As I'm climbing the stairs, like I'm looking at like communal showers, communal lunchrooms. I'm like, this is not gonna be good. No, he's walking up the stairs like mad, we're here, get to the top. Literally, kid you not, the only thing in the hotel was a bunk bed and a window. That's it. Nothing else in the hotel.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

What?

SPEAKER_02 35:15

In the room.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Yeah, you're definitely banned from booking hotels.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

Um it was called Sydney. It was called like Central Inn.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Do you look at the star rating or do you are just like, oh, this is mad, this is cheap. Yeah, this is cheap. Just look at the price, eh?

SPEAKER_02 35:31

Yeah, shared showers, shared toilets.

SPEAKER_00 35:33

When boys book and when girls book, like we look for all of the amenities.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

So but we like we don't speak a word to each other, we put the bags on the bed. I sit on like the floor bit, he like lays on the bottom bunk. We're not speaking, like, we're not we haven't said anything to each other, and I'm I'm like sweating because like there's no air corn. Like sweating my whole up, and he looks at me and he's like, bruh, I'm not fucking staying here. I was like, yeah, right. So then we book he booked a night at the Vibe Hotel. Yeah. Um, and it was deadly air.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

Oh my god, that is so funny.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

Yeah, you definitely I'm beans, they don't let me book anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

I don't know what's on your booking.com algorithm, but like it's not fancy hotels.

SPEAKER_02 36:11

Yeah. So if you want me to plan that trip overseas, no, thank you. Let me know.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

There's been so many TikToks about um like hotels or Airbnbs not being non-existent, like over there.

SPEAKER_02 36:25

So Oh, like scams and that. Yeah, yeah. Wild.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

That would like send me into a spiral.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

Homeless over in Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

There's nothing worse with like being in an unfamiliar place and being like oh like so overstimulated and you like can't control your emotions.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

See, but there's there's a part of me that would like book tickets to London, book two nights accommodation, and then not plan anything else.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

Yeah, literally.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

And I'd just send it. Yeah, I'd rock up to a hotel, kind of stay here. No, sweet, I'll go to the next one. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, there's a part of me that would just do that, and it's not a great plan, but yeah, like sometimes that's how you have to live your life. Yeah, just vibe it out. Yeah, I think that's that's good sometimes because like I've stayed in some like hotels where I'm like driving there and I'm like, this is not a good area. Like this is a bit hairy, but I don't know. It's a it's a vibe, yeah, vibe thing. Um alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna arch her. And then we I think we probably nearly we're nearly ready to wrap it up. Um we've had a good yarn. I think if you can take anything out of that, travel overseas.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

Travel overseas, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Explore the world. But um, I actually loved Melbourne when I went down there. Yeah. I thought that was really good. I went down for the F1.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 37:43

Yeah, and um just how easy it was to get around and stuff. It was good.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Very convenient. And they have the meme cards or the trains, that's what they're called.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Yeah, are they? Yeah, yeah, I think it's just free in the C B D. Yeah, okay, yeah. Yeah, it's good. We're gonna do um like what's your greatest advice? And I don't I wanna make it like pretty chill, like we don't have to get too deep and stuff, but um, I feel like when Jaden and I get on here, we're always talking about other people's quotes and we throw some things in here and there. So um do you want me to go first or you wanna go?

SPEAKER_00 38:18

You go first.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

Alright, my greatest advice. Um I only actually thought about this on the way here this morning, but and I only looked at the date this morning when I when I got here and I realized that today is actually um six months off alcohol for me, which is pretty cool. Oh wow, yeah. So it was the 25th um into the 26th that I drank last year at Christmas. Um so I woke up boxing day and I was like, I'm gonna go 12 months sober, and we're six months in. Um, and I think my advice is like set yourself a hard objective and just do whatever you can to get there. Like set like it doesn't matter what it is, like don't make it unrealistic, like be a millionaire next next year, but set a challenge like that. Like when I was talking to the boys, they're like, You don't have to do that, you don't have to do that. Like um, you can just have a a couple every every here and then. I was like, Yeah, I know, but like I've told myself I'm gonna do it, so I'm gonna find a way to do it. Um so yeah, I think that's my advice at the moment in this like the way I feel right now is just um set set a target or set a goal, make it like make the duration long or you know, make it seem pretty hard, yeah. And then whatever you do along the way to get there is like skills that you can have forever.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

100%. It's character building. Yeah, that's why they say do 75 hard because it's not you know, it might be 75 days, but it's actually the skills that you learn throughout those 75 days that's that you are.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

And to be honest, like it's probably like it's almost the best I've felt because it's just so like you're not like and you know, feeling like shit all the time and you kind of just not like no anxiety, yeah, exactly, or even just like you know, you you don't drink for a couple weeks and you like kind of look at like sniff around and see what's on to have a bit of a charge. But yeah, it's been good. What's what about you? What's your advice for people?

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Oh, just touching on that, I feel very similar. Like, I reckon I've only had three or four drinks like this whole year, yeah. Um, and yeah, I feel like so much better, like a better headspace, and just I just hate it now. Like it's just something where I'm just like I don't want to do that, like just the thought of it. Yeah, yeah. But my advice, I would say um be ambitious, like uh follow your goals and uh yeah, set good goals that you know that you can set yourself up to achieve them. But um, I feel like you know, someone once said to me, like, say yes to every opportunity that you can.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

Um, because you know they take you places and those relationships that you build, you know, throughout your journey are so important. So yeah, I would say like be ambitious and um say yes to every opportunity and yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Mad, love it. Yeah. What's what do you got on for the weekend?

SPEAKER_00 41:00

I'm gonna head back home to Tamworth. Oh yeah. Yeah, tonight. Um my pop's a bit sick, so yeah, he might not last the week. So I've got to go say my goodbyes, which is always really hard. Um, but he's 90, he's lived to 90, 89, so he's lived the best life ever. So I think I'm just gonna go sit with him and talk and talk about his life and yeah, so mad.

SPEAKER_02 41:25

Yeah, very good.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

What about you?

SPEAKER_02 41:28

Um actually, I don't know. I might I was gonna go and watch a bit of footy tonight. Clarence Town play. My friend plays Clarence Town. Oh no, yeah. But I actually tomorrow morning um I don't have anything gone because usually we got footy Saturdays.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

So I think I'm gonna go and try and watch my nephew play.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

Yeah, that'll be good. The junior comms are getting so good. Yeah, my nephew plays in the cardiov team for 15s, and like I'm just like, how are these guys 15? Like, they've got structure, they've got everything, and I'm just like, this is wild.

SPEAKER_02 41:59

Yeah, it's good, eh? Yeah, he's only under nines or something, but um, he's like because they had had to play tag for a couple of years and they play full tackle now, and he's a big kid, like bigger kid, and he just like he's loving it.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

So my niece is five and she's playing footy and it's tag, and it's just the funniest thing to like watch. That's wild.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

Yeah, I think that's us. Yes, thanks for listening. Um, Jaden probably be back next week unless unless Zoe takes his place, we might not see him again.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

Yes, thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_02 42:28

No worries.