SPEAKER_00 0:07

My name is Sam Russell. My name is Jaden Robbins, and this is your story. Just a quick disclaimer before we start. Or book an appointment with your GP and talk about a mental health care plan today. Sage. Hey? Episode 12. One two. Alright, before we start today, Jake. Dozen. I want you to look down the barrel of the camera right there. And I want an apology for Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

I'd just like to say I'm sorry. Things happen, you know. I slept in. I'll be the first one to put my hand up. Not only let the podcast down, but let the community down, you know. And I've been trying to pave my way the last few days. I'm starting to make it up for, I reckon. No, you're right. Okay, I was gonna wear my sunnies and just say I'm sorry, but I'm not taking my sunnies. Oh Corey Worthington. But now we're back. Episode 12. A dozen. A dozen deep. A dozen deep.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Um that might be the name dozen deep. DP. Um it's been a bit since we've we've sort of had one. We've just been flat out, both of us, I think. So what what are you being up to anyway?

SPEAKER_01 1:29

It's been it has been flat out, bro. I've like I've probably spoken on this podcast before, I I go to Ballinor for work of a weekend, but last weekend I didn't. I went during the week. So I had last weekend off. So um yeah, spending time with mates and family. Had a few beers to be honest, on Friday and Saturday. Um and then spent some time watching Sharks play Sunday and not really want to talk about that. Um but other than that, yeah, just mentoring. Um just yeah, pretty flat out to be honest, bro. And I got New Zealand coming up in a couple of weeks, so it'd be good just to turn my phone off. Yeah, that'll be good. No, I'll be good. And these last couple of days have been windy as of freezing. I've never seen the snow either.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

True.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

I think we went to Barrington Tops once when it was just snowing a little bit. When I was apes younger, it was like a little bit of ice on the side of the road, but yeah, other than that, no, I haven't seen it and I don't really know what to expect. I'd I need to go full shopping, I reckon, to get some new clothes. Well, that's how I've been looking in the middle of owl uh Isle of Alley. That that's go today.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

I reckon I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

I reckon it's every time I go to Aldi, I'm like, yeah, I'll just go over to Sussa the Middle stuff.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

See, my um my thought process is bad with that stuff. I'm like, oh it can't be that cold. Like I'll pick it, I'll pick it up on bare hands, boy me. Yeah, but nah, I'd freeze.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

I'm the type of person, like if I'm cold and really cold, I just can't function. Like, you know what I mean? When you're that cold and you're like sort of in survival mode and you're just like I can't even do anything. So I'll gonna get a mad just a mad um jacket. But they just reckon layers. If you if you layer up, then you're right. So like a shirt, long sleeve, jumper, and then like just a mad jacket.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

See I I'm usually alright in the cold, um, but my new job, it's freezing, brah. Down in the lake because it's um it's an old cop shop. True. So like all brick. Oh, and then there's this one room where all our stuff like files are stored, and it's with old cells. Bruh, it like it is freezing.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Well, good to see you taking this LN back one step at a time. We've got to look at the cop shop. What do we got next?

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Yeah, air on the station, look out.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Um, it should be fucking cold down there. But it's nice. Or is it like cell is it like underground?

SPEAKER_00 3:42

No, no, just next to it, just yeah, but um it's just freezing, bro. You put the air cone on, it does nothing, eh? Like, but then if you don't put it on, it's even colder. Yeah. But I've been a bit sick actually lately, just battling a bit of illness. Yeah, well you said that yesterday and now I think I'm maybe. I've been sick this year, you touch wood. Well, I didn't get the flu shot. Yeah, I didn't get the well I used to, and then I stopped, and now I've been a bit crooked, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

But I'm like I I say this all the time, but I'm always big on no cold and flu tablets or panels or anything at the start of the sickness. Just let your body fight it and pump it towards the end. So I had some cold and flues this morning, ready to trot, and that's it. But um yeah, I'm I'm kind of just this is my last week of freedom or my last week before I start uni, so I'm kind of just um kicking back really. Do doing a bit of the things that I like to do, like things that uh what I would probably class as um I don't know, like a luxury or use of time, like gaming and stuff like that. Does it start next week? Yeah, Monday. First day. First day, boy. Fucking hell. Are you nervous? I'm heaps nervous cuz. Like I I um I went and picked up my student ID card the other day, and I probably didn't have to. I probably could have waited, but I want to just go over there and get my my own over the layout and that and just wigging. Yeah, his bearings is so.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

I have I have dreams like pretty frequently that I'll go back to school and like I'm heaps older and like everyone's heaps young and I'll just start wigging out.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

You'll be like the it'll be like the first day of school, backpack on.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

But I think the good thing for me is like um like I have that bit of life experience probably over everyone. And I think that like um I'm not really there to make friends either. Like I I just do my own thing, and whereas like there'd be a lot of people fresh out of school that are thinking like you know, that are wigging and I'm just kinda like, oh I'm at a point now where I don't really care what other people think and I don't really care for social norms and stuff. So um yeah, obviously doing PE, so like the first um subject on Monday is like court striking game. So we do like netball, true, softball, volleyball, dodge ball, netball. So you have a board, you know? Um and then Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

What so you do obviously theory and pract to that stuff?

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Yeah, prank every second week, where it's like you gotta demonstrate the fundamental skills. True, that's alright. Yeah, break it up. Yeah, it'd be mad. If you are playing dog, what'd you say, boy? Bang, yeah. Um, it'd be good. So I said to Riley, you want to look out of it. I'm doing netball at uni, I'll be coaching that netball team next year. Yeah, the what the nation's one. Fuck him. No, the most thing. Oh yeah, true. Yeah. True. Guess what? I went on the weekend for the first time in about probably ten years. Yeah. Time zone. It's underated. Matt, it was hectic. Fucking take someone, quick bar. Yeah, we went with um Riley's two sisters. Bruh, I was like getting stuck on that punching thing because I was getting so close to the high school. I was like winding it up too, you know, and then you do that and you're like, cut, it's like I did that to someone, I'd break their skull. That was enough. I'm good at the basketball one, bruh. Yeah, that was mad.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

I'm good at just going bang, bang, bang, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

There's this one um at Green, it was there and it's at the back wall, and it's called I can't remember what it's called, but you it's got like it's full roped off. You go in there, and it's like um, I guess tempered glass, I guess, floor and like walls, or not glass, but like whatever, clearly, like see-through. And um you have like everyone works as a team, you can play one to six players, and if you've got to touch all the blue squares, but you can't get touched by the red squares. So you run around touching blue squares, you dodging the red squares on the ground, and then like it gets harder and harder and harder, and you have like six lives. True. And like, um, I was getting frustrated because I'm mad, like strategic brain. Like, I'm like it was coming, like we were up to like level 14, and it was coming to a point where it was like, um there's no red squares at all, you gotta touch blue, but then randomly, like every like four or five seconds, the whole thing's red, so you've got to get back to your green dots. True. So we lost like we burned like four lives, and I was like, guys, I've worked it out. You you've only got you've only got like four or five seconds to do it. I was like, just grab a couple and get back. Grab a couple, get back, and just keep doing that. Nah, old Riley May just standing on red squares for fun.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Trying to create her own story. Yeah, but no. See if she need to start from the bottom. Um, I love time zone. I well, especially when my nephews are a bit um younger, like every Christmas or birthday, they'd get a time zone VHR. So that means I'd be able to take them and play them with them. We should do we should do a create your story. We get 50 bucks each so you can get the most tokens.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

Yeah, that'll actually be mad.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

I'll win that coin. Yeah. I'm strategic in which games I play with because I know which ones get the more current coins. Yeah. But it's yeah, like I said, it takes your money pretty quick. I did some mentoring with a young fellow who goes, I just want to go to time zone. And then he just kept he kept loading. He tried to bignate himself on the um hammer thing. I said, bruh, it's taking $2.50 each time you do it. Like getting like 10 tokens. Hey. So just start from the bottom. That's one fifth of a red skin. Yeah, work your way up, boy. Work your be right.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

That's it. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Nah, but that like that's exciting for you, bro. Like, I know, yeah, it it's sort of like starting a new job, but in a bigger, in a in a bit bigger sort of way, because obviously you haven't been to school for a while. Um, and it's just a whole different environment as well.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Uh it's like to have this feeling of like and without sounding arrogant, like I've dominated my industry for like the last probably five, six, seven years. Yeah. Um, and to have this feeling of like uncomfortability and like this feeling of like don't know what to expect it out of my comfort zone. Like it's I'm embracing it.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Yeah. No, it'd be interesting. I'm keen to hear your feedback, bro. Probably uh probably next week, I'd say. Yeah. Well we'll we'll do we'll do the body still, like over your arm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But um, no, I'm keen to hear your feedback because it it's something uni was something that I wanted to do, but I just I just never got around to doing and it was something that we spoke about before where I was like, oh, I think I was like 22 at the time, like, oh I finished by 26, but I'm like, if I did it then, yeah, I think there's no better time, like we say, than the present. So um that was one thing that held me back. So I'd be interested in just get your feedback of your experiences and how it was, and um just the whole dynamic of it, because I know even from probably five or ten years ago, uni's changed a lot.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Yeah. Um yeah, I I think that's the biggest thing. Like I'm doing um Aboriginal studies as like my secondary. So the first course is online for that, and it's called Black Australia. And I was like, if I get a white teacher, I'm gonna be like follower.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

It'd be interesting interesting. Interesting to know the content of that stuff too. Yeah, and how that's progressing.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Yeah, they put a thing in there and was like, I don't think you're meant to do it until next week. But it was like, introduce yourself, tell your story. I'm like, right oh send a video or podcast or I'll just send an episode one create a story.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

Hey, that's me. Listen to whatever you want.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Nah, that's good as gun. Good nah, good on your brand, good luck. You'll smash it. It'd just be like you said, it's just something completely different, out of your comfort zone. Um, but like you said, you've got that lived experience where you're sort of ahead of everyone else, but it's just a yeah, probably just a different environment that you have to sort of get yourself in the rhythm in, really. That's it. But you'll be right. You just follow, follow my lead, huh?

SPEAKER_00 11:32

If you didn't do your census last night, you would have copped a $364 fine this morning when you woke up. That's fucking wild. Every day.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

I reckon one of the boys, yes, Dean, he's like, doesn't have socials, just he's a chippy, doesn't really yeah. He he has social sorry, but just for his business page.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

And I messaged him, I said, Census, I don't he goes, What? I said, You do your census? He goes, What the fuck's that? And I ring him, and I'm like, oh, he's like, What's your what's census? And I'm like, Oh, I explained him, he goes, Fuck that. He goes, they're just trying to work out what I'm doing. And then he's like, What? So it's a $360 fine each time. I said, apparently. Yeah. Like, that's a wall.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

See, I I don't really agree with the whole they're just trying to track me because that's a very new age ID that the government is trying to track everyone since COVID. But census has been gone for years. 100. It's just those statistics and stuff like that. Some of the questions they ask are pretty rogue.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

Honest bro, I was going down, I was deep diving into the questions, and I'm like, I think Ali answered one last yesterday, and she's like, um, it was like, who will be staying at your house tonight? She put my name down because I was staying there.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

That means you don't gotta do it then.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

No, I've already done it, but yeah, true. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

I'm just Well, you wrecked up the system because you you only do it early if you know where you'll be staying on the 11th. Which is at your own house. Yeah. See, well I did I did me and Riley's because like you if if everyone's staying at home, you can just do everyone in the house. Yeah, or all right. So I was like, oh Riley, I'll put you down for zero hours of cleaning.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

What so if I was working away, then I'd put that address down.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Um if you were working away, you'd you would have done it last night and you would have just said away from home. Oh right.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Yeah. Yeah, mate. I don't know, 360 a day, I'd like to if anyone hasn't done it.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Yeah, reach out.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Yeah, reach out, do us.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

What do you well yeah, because realistically, like you could you don't have to tell the truth, guys, if you're worried about them tracking you. Yeah. I won't dub you in. Yeah, like put what you want down. It's the census. I was answering them, but I was loving it. Yeah, I love just feeding them. Yeah, and my cars, like earning 250k a year, yeah, speaking gut tongue and home. Yeah. Full Christian. Yeah. Nah, I put no religion, eh? Nah, nah. Nah. I seen someone comment on a community page yesterday and said, guys, um, may I please ask everyone if you're an atheist and you don't have religion, can you please just put Christianity down? Because they'll use the information to build more things and we don't need any more mosques or anything like that in our area. I'm like, relax.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

You need to just worry about yourself.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

Like, yeah, yeah, create your own story.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

Hey, if you want to get on here and tell your story.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

They're probably not gonna um they're gonna probably not even use the info to work for them.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

They'll use it to what they what how suits that.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

I think it's more so like they update the populations of every town and everything with the census. Yeah, well it's like um and then I think for ab for Aboriginal people it's good to know our percentage um and see how that climbs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

But But it's also like with anything, right? Like data you need data and yeah, data and percentages and stuff to back things up. It's like if you run a program where you do this or do that.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

And if you don't agree with the census, then how else are they ever gonna track population?

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Well, that's right. And I think the only way to scare people to do it is a $360 fine each day. Yeah, because it scared the fuck out of me.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Like you need to know what the population is, and that's how you that's how you generate money, you fuck it. Yeah. It just frustrates me, bruh, because I'm like, everyone's just been scaremongered into this whole like government's trying to track me, like, and I'm just like, bruh, like, the census is not a new thing, and how do you think they sit there and go like Dungog over here has grown by 48%, we better get stuff out there. Yeah. And then yet you'll refuse to do the census, then you'll wonder why a small town like that doesn't have anything. Oh, we've grown, we're the highest growing suburb in the Hunter Valley. Well, we didn't do the census.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Yeah, did you do your fucking census?

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Like, oh my god, but some of the questions, I'm like, why do you gotta know what we're doing? But I think um they all kind of tie into each other. Like, if you look at it like you volunteered, you work full-time, and then they'll look, they'll break that down a bit more and go, like, now we have eight 70% of mum and dad's both working full-time, whereas 15 years ago it was only this amount, obviously the cost of living. Like, yeah, so get your senses in and relax. Can we stop with the whole like government's not every bruh? Have a look at what you're posting all this information on your mobile phone, have a look what name that phone's in, have a look what you know, every you they already got your info cuz, they're already tracking you if they want.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Right, you work at Aldi at Greenhouse, no one gives a fuck what you do.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

There are CCTV cameras in literally every single shop, every single street. You have you probably drive a vehicle that guess what registered in your name. Guess what? It's probably got a dash cam in it, it's probably got a number plate attached to it as well. You got a mobile phone in your name, maybe an Apple Watch, maybe AirPods, whatever else you got. You put your name down in all these other things to try and get money, you're probably doing surveys, you're probably completing 20 surveys for 20 bucks and putting your name to them, who knows? And you're worried about a census.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

You're posting selfies in your fucking work uniform and you're worried about a census. You probably use live 360. Hey, yay. What about the other day? Like, we speak about census, and the first thing comes to my mind is like people that come door knocking trying to sell you something. Yeah, I come around the other day and I was like, no one ever fresh, no one ever knocks on our door. And I was like, this young fella, I'm like, anyway, young up, he was like, Oh, yeah, talking about solar panels and shit. And I was just sort of gene him up, but I was, and I was like getting hex info, and we're going, we're talking for like five or ten minutes. And he goes, Would you be interested? I said, I don't know, I'm rent, I'm just renting here. And he goes, Oh, you're just renting. I'm like, Yeah, he goes, Well, this doesn't apply. I'm like, sorry, bruh.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

He goes, It was a good conversation, but should have said I was keen on half a solar panel on my car. Hey, fucking get a coffee machine out in my car. I remember um I got a phone call one time from someone selling like wines, and I just jeaned him up, like, yeah, this man, like, nah, you got anything a little bit more, like a bit nicer of a drop, and like full talking for ages about it. And then we got to the part where like I had to pay for these wines I'd selected, and I was like, is it alright? Like if I'm only 17, and she was like, Oh, I can't really do that. And I was like, Oh, real. And she's like, Yeah, I was like, I won't tell anyone. She's like, No, I can't. The LG woods, yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

Yeah, that was remember like Avon, remember that?

SPEAKER_00 17:55

Yeah, bruh, yeah. Avon, and then everyone that used to do Avon transitioned into Tupperware.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Hey, what happened to that? Tapware parties. Tupperware parties, Avon parties. We used to do Crisco. I remember do Chrisco?

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yeah, Chris, get it get that at Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

That was hectic, Avon. That was wild, hey. We'd just get into all the good shit like each early on, then it'll just be like all the canned stuff. Yeah. Fucking Crisco. Is that still a thing? Yeah. Is it?

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Does that girls at um Youth Express here was walking around with the Crisco magazine?

SPEAKER_01 18:29

Does anyone still do it? Bro, we used to get that all the time.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

It's like you knew it was Christmas and you can get heaps of other stuff on there that obviously my parents never showed me, but PlayStations.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

No, we never got any. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

No, we didn't just food on.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

We just got the food, food package. And it was like the b the basic food package. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

Mm dab would always um start up this old freezer we had in the shed, and we just put heaps of stuff in there, and then buy fed there's only like fish and that left in it. But yeah, we used to we used to love Crisco.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

That's that's when you knew it was Christmas time and Chrisco was around the corner.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

I'm gonna tell an embarrassing story. Um and if anyone remembers this place or can lead me in the right direction, I'd love to know. But um as a kid, this is a shame. So as a kid, um we went to this joint and at the time I just thought like it was like what Costco is now, for example. Um and we walked in there, bro, and there was like so much food in there, and it was all like a dollar fifty cents. Um now m from what what I know of it now was it's like I think if you need help with food, you can get like a voucher for this joint. And it's all like redu it's all like um out-of-date food.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

But we went in there and went ham, noodles, like milk, like whatever you name it. Like we just got all this shit from there. It was down like Toronto somewhere. Um it was wild. And I used to like walk around like, yeah, I want to go back to that place, that was hectic. Chocolates for like 50 cents. But um, yeah, I would love to know what it was called or if anything like that's still around where you can just I think maybe that um big warehouse in Maitland that was.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

That's what I'm about to say. It's like a wholesaler, eh? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

And you think it's buy bulk? I I from what I can gather, I think it was like um it wasn't open to everyone. Yeah. People that like struggling. I mean, we're living in a town, aren't we?

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Hey, give us some noodles fucking.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

No, it's like that that made me think. Do you remember the Morissette Mega Markets? You ever go down to them cuts? Remember those do you remember back in the day those bite baby Milo jumpers? True, no. Do you remember? No. Fuck, I'll try it. Oh, I don't even know if I had a photo, but like at like the Morissette Mega Markets, and you'd go down, you could buy like cheap as fuck monster jumpers, and that'd you'd wear it after one time and get all those woolly, you know, those little cotton things. But everyone would go down there and the it was a brand, and I would have been, 'cause I because my brothers, my brother's a bit older, so I'd try and wear what them older boys wore. I would have been like eight, and nothing fit me, bro. So I was everything was oversized. But yeah, I still remember these baby Milo jumpers.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

True.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

People listening would would remember. Yeah. They were the they were the fucking shit for a bit, eh? Shout out, baby Milo, if you're listening, bud.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Um what I was gonna talk about was just how how rubbish TV in general is these days. Like, I've been watching the block with Riley. Yeah. More so just because it's like it's good to do that. And I've actually been getting into the the i idea of it. I think I never used to watch it as a kid, but I think and I'm getting older and I'm understanding houses a bit more, and and you know, hopefully one day buying my own house. But I'm I'm like really enjoying the plot, I guess, and what they're doing. But bruh, some of the AI and like the music and like the jokes that the producers put in there, it's just that cringe, eh?

SPEAKER_01 21:40

I think I don't I don't know if I watched it last year, but I've I've watched it previously and I'm watching it this year, but I've just noticed how much AI is in it now. Like, you know how they do, like they break to something, and it's like I think last night it was Old Mate, like dressed up as something else.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Um She mentioned One Direction, so I started playing the music.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Yeah, yeah. Um did and did you see on was it Sunday night how they stitched up the budget and said you they were out of the budget 20k? I was sort of off that couple at the start.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

I'm still off 'em.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

I'm off 'em. But then I was thinking, fuck, that's actually pretty rogue to put them on show and say but But like if But they cheated at the st they were cheating anyway because they've got the fucking carpenter in their painting. And if you um It's not that big of a deal.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Like if you're off like if they stood their ground and didn't come back, I would have I would have respected them for it. Yeah. But you can't fault on that. You can't sit there and be like, you destroyed my character, I own my own business. Side note, your own business probably isn't doing well if you're also a support worker and you're also this and you're also that. That's the first thing I picked up. I'm like, cuz if like if you're a business owner and you're doing three jobs on the side, how's the business? And then when they got the budget wrong, I'm like, maybe that's why the business is struggling, but it wasn't even their fault.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

But I'm not even smacked his head on when he was walking it.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

I'm like, bruh, you can't sit there and blow up deluxe about your own character, but then fold and say I'm coming back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

No, you no, what they he was questioning his integrity. It's like, bud, you've said that 40 times, you ever know what that means? Yeah, there needs to be an investigation. Nah. I like it.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Yeah, it's but I remember as a kid, we used to come home, dad would always watch five o'clock news, like only the five o'clock news. Yeah. And then um I'd probably tune into it about 5 40, watch the sports section, bit of weather, 6 o'clock Simpsons, 6 30 neighbours, 7 o'clock home and away. Yeah. Then depending on time of the year, the 7 30 slot was like always mad shows. Um, do you remember Hole in the Wall? Yeah, or like match the shapes and like stick through it. Um Big Brother was Big Brother Games was gone. Friday night games, and then um Minute to Win It. Yeah. That was hectic, bro. Hey, explain that again. Um remember where it's like um they gotta they win all this money and then they they got they it's random games selected, yeah, and um they'll have to do these things. It's like you got a minute to win it. Oh, yeah. You gotta like one of the games was like bounce, there'd be like four tables set up, bounce the ping pong ball, puts all four and get it in, they've got to get three in. Yeah. But I just remember how hectic like the noises were like when the time ran out or when they got it and then um they kept going and stuff. Like that was hectic. Ninja Warrior. Ninja Warrior, wipe out, wipe out, wipe out. Nah, yeah, I agree. Like they were all mad shows, and nowadays you got like block, the voice. Yeah, they're just not good.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Nah, but I think like Netflix and stuff is is just taken over. Like you can just watch whatever you want at any time. Well, I think I think that's really it takes the experience out of a lot of things, but because like you said, you'd be like, oh yeah, right, I can't wait. Do your stuff and you got 7.30, but now kids can like, I want to watch this. Bang. Like that, everything's just like that. There's that's what no one has.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

I'm still programmed old school. Like I was like the other day, I'm like, quick, quick, we gotta put it on at 7.30. And Riley was like, if we miss the first half an hour, we'll just watch it on the app from start. And I was like, oh. Yeah, it's not it's not the same. Um, but um we got this like mad smart TV, I don't even know what it is, Samsung, I think. But um, bro, they've got all these wild channels that are like not it's not Fox, we don't pay for Fox, but you got your normal channels, and then there's like a 24-7 wipeout channel. Yeah, right. Um like a sport channel, like there's all the like there's a um highway patrol channel that displays all highway patrol crime scene investigation, like it's weird on demand, aren't Highway Patrol's a good watch. Yeah, and they used to have highway patrol, then the force would be on straight after it, yeah. Yeah, that's it. Like just stuff like that, bruh. It was just way better.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

I always wondered on highway patrol, like, because some of the people that get interviewed or some of the people get filmed, I'm like, fuck bro. If I was I would not allow that to go on on air. They'd have a choice, eh? They'd have to, wouldn't they?

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Like you look at they must because some of them are blurred out.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

Yeah, but yeah, I think it might depend on the state, but some of them must be that dumb, then if they're like, yeah, put that up.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

They probably give permission before it happens, though.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Yeah. I don't know. Some of the stuff that's been with.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

I don't think they do need permission.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Well, they can do whatever the fuck they want, really, eh?

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Yeah, because the thing will just they've got body warns anyway.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

True. But yeah, to play in front of everyone. True.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

You want to carry on like a cock here, carry on like a cocker.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Hey, well, if you want to wait for a mate there, yeah, off his face.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

I'm just waiting for a mate. He's caught in. There's some wild ones, eh? And they what about that? I remember when they caught like three times in the same day. Yeah. Yeah. What are you doing? The force was always mad, just sending the dogs in and shit.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Yeah. Alright. Bring back early 2000s, mid mid 2000s, 2010 and and below TV.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Yeah, I remember um even like Cartoon, like even like those kind of shows, bruh, like the Saturday Disneys.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Well, remember the Saturday marathon, like The Simpsons, it'd be like the 24-year-old marathon, you just watch them all.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

It was always mad growing up as a kid because we would play footy at like nine or ten o'clock. I'd get up at seven, but uh boom, Saturday Disney. Yeah. Um, if we didn't have footy, we'd get to watch hot like top 40 countdown. And if you didn't, and that was like music 40 to 1. Yeah. If you didn't watch that, you didn't know what the top songs were. Like you maybe the radio.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Do you remember Rage?

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Did you ever watch that too? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

Fucking bring it back.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

Like Mortified.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

Mortified, gun. Blue Water High. H2O just had water. But yeah, nah, she's all changed now. The block's the first thing that I've watched in a while. Or if there's like something interesting that I want to watch on like 60 Minutes or at a current affair, then I'll put it on.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

I don't mind them, eh? Um sometimes there's some good like um like crime investigations on 60 minutes, or like I like them, yeah, like the shows that they'll do where it's like um what was I watching a couple months ago? Like um events that change the nation or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Yeah. So I'll regularly go on YouTube and there'll be like the the episodes from that and I'll just watch that just for something to do. Um, but yeah, like I said, everything's just at a click of the finger now.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

I found myself watching the current affair a lot more now than I'm watching the block because I'm just waiting for it to come on.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Yeah. Some of the shit on the current affair is fucking wild, but the bird man. Some of the stuff, bruh. It's just like, bruh, you just want to get on T like, you just must be that lonely. You want to get on TV. Yeah. Shout out to him, but respect to him. You want to read that Would you rather out? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pick your story out.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Oh, that's another thing I was when we're talking about the census. Nah, just came and post these census questions. You want my whole size too? Yeah. Nah, we're good. Sam them Sam, I'd have a bit of a list there. Oh, yep, yep, yep, yep. Let's give me a break. Bit of a drink break, guys. If you've got a coffee, have a sip of it.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

They put a big um iceberg in this, aren't they?

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Hey, brother, that yeah, shout out to um AM's on church. Brother, the quickest coffee makers ever. She's a big one, but I'm gonna be bouncing off me.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Off me Johnny R Jolly Roger.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Just one size fits all at AMs.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Um, so bit of a new potty segment. Um, like I said, we haven't been in here for about a week and we'll doing obviously the quotes and sort of change it up and get in and have a yarn, but um, it's sort of like a would you rather pick your story um type segment. But it's would you rather get one chance to apologize to someone you've hurt knowing they might reject you or live with never knowing whether they would have forgiven you? Do you want me to go? You go. Um I'm someone that hates having something like linger and me just overthink it because if I if there's something that I need to say or um I want to tell someone, um, I feel like I just need to get it off my chest. I'd I'd hate I wouldn't I would way rather be able to tell them um and have that conversation than me sit there and think of what if, what if that like e I feel like everything that's meant to happen will happen, whether you apologize or whether you tell them something, um how they take it is always going to be the same way. Um but if you sit there and and let that just sit with you and eat your lie, which it would do to me, um, would just sort of spiral me out. So I think being able to um just speak how I feel and and have that one chance, whether they accept the apology or um or what, I I feel like I just need to speak my meat mind and speak the truth. Um whether I'm in the right or wrong. Even if I'm I'm in the wrong, I I'd like to have that chance to be able to apologise. Um and like I said, sitting there what trying to work out the what if or what if I didn't do that or what if yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

I think I probably care more about easing the burden of hurting someone than rejection, yeah. Rather that. But I I feel like I feel like I used to be like that. Um now I'm like whatever.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Well, I think it's also you've got to put in context like who it is and what you've done. Like if it's something silly, bruh, where I'm just like, now I'm just like I don't even have the energy to deal with that.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

If it's just an argument between someone, but I'll I'll cut people out of my life.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Yeah, well, I've done that.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

Yeah. Whereas back in the day, it uh it I probably wouldn't have been like that.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

I think in context of who it is and what it what it is, but I think oh yeah, I'm someone if it's something that I know is read the end of it out. Or like that the second one, or live with never knowing whether they would have forgiven you.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

That's probably me right now. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

I think in context as well, but I think when I read that again, live or live with never knowing whether they've would have forgiven you. I don't really care in saying that. But if it like I say, if it's someone close to me, or like fit like you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Oh yeah. I think it's hard.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

But if it's if it's just some random that's yeah. I think I think you can look at it like what you're saying, yeah. Um like I think my my look on it has changed from five years ago to now.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

I'm at the point now where I'm like, right if it's over something stupid and it's just wasting my energy, then I'm just like I can't even be fucked.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

Yeah. Um but the other spin to this is like if you're a big hearted person like me, and I know you are sometimes you feel like you're an apology when you actually don't.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

I know, because you feel like if you don't do it, then no one's gonna do it. Then it's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:46

And I've been that person where I've apologised to mates four or five years ago. If they listen, they'll know who they are. And I know for a fact that I didn't do anything wrong, but it was just easier because they were stubborn. I was a bit stubborn, but I come to them, we're just like, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

Alright, yeah. I'm b I I've I'm known to do that. Now I'm just like And it's just like bud, I'm doing me, you do you. Yeah. But yeah, I I've done that previously where it's just like fuck, I'll just get it over and done with and apologise because I know the other person is probably just and and the the other people are like the ones that are sitting there like, fuck yeah, I've won, but it's like I don't I don't give a fuck. And you sort of let them I'm the type of person that I I could let that happen and I just don't really care.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

Yeah, I'm unapologetic, me, bud.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

Dang, sorry for what, boy. You don't fuck all for me.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I just I just um I think if yeah, but I also think the situation I'm in right now, and I don't know if I should share this on a podcast because it's something that happened last Friday, but I but like the situation I'm in right now, I feel like everything that I used to apologize for um used to happen on the pierce. And I'm like what, nearly nine months over. Um and I've pr pretty well made my mind up that I don't think I'll drink again. And that's because like there's been so many incidents that's happened um or I've seen people that are drinking, and I'm like, f like I can't believe that used to be me. Um like I went to Dungorg last Friday to blue shirt him, and obviously like everyone's on the piss. Um the game actually it got a bit rowdy. Some of the crowd, like Dungorg's always a hostile environment on a Friday night, and that's what we're known for. Like, I love that. Wouldn't change it. Who was against again, sorry? Kersley. Oh yeah. Um one of the boys was injured on the ground and the crowd was just beating him. Like Kirzley was. Yeah, which I'm I'm not. I'm not against, but depends on what you're saying. And um the halfback from Kersley was like, um he yells out to the crowd on the hill and was like, um Shut the F up. Um your inbred C's. And they were like just giving it to him even more. And then he was like, Oh, you people on the hill are all related to each other. And then I'm walking off the sideline, and um their yellow shirt goes, You gotta do something about that. He was can't be like that. I'm like, Yeah, but a player can't be abusing the crowd either. And then he's like, Come on, mate, and then as I was leaving, one of um there was this bloke from Dungles that I've known my whole life. I won't go into it who or like how I know him and that. But they just said something like wild to me that was like clearly he'd been drinking all day, yeah, and just like call me a name and shit, and like trying to start. And I'm like, bro, like I'm sober. Yeah, like and then I just got in the car and I'm like, that was probably me when I used to drink, just like say something dumb to people or whatever. I just get people offside for no reason. I was just like, I'm so glad I'm not in that.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

And you wouldn't even think about it.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

No, yeah, like just absurd to what he said. I'm just like, bruh, like my family and your family have been that close growing up our whole lives, yeah. Out of nowhere. Um, you'd say something like that. It was just so like after just dabbling each other up, like it was just so out of the blue, where I'm like, clearly, you're just that drunk that like that's you think that's cool, or you just think that now, you know, cups of courage or whatever. It was wild actually.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

But um But also, can I just say something on on that as well? Like, if you're a player and you're gonna bite back, expect it to come back like if you're gonna say something like that, then you're just feeding them, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's right. Um, and that's all age footy, but yeah, like it obviously dependent on what they're saying.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

But I said too, because I was as he was yelling it out, um, and you know, I've got a bit offensive. I didn't say anything to him, but I got a little bit cut about it because that was my family's part of that hill, not the part that we're yelling, but the whole hill that he referred to. Yeah, so I looked at one of the boys, I'm like, surely someone jammed just kind of what he was like, I've been trying all game, bruh. Yeah, and I turns out that his dad's actually connected to Maitland, but true. Anyways, we'll leave it at that.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

Um Yeah, shout out. I remember I had all aged East Maitland there, like at King Edward Park, and I was touching him, and I was it was old boys' day, and it was like my dad and all his mates, and I would have been like 15 or 16, and they were just feet like feeding me on the soil line as a touchy.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yeah, true. But I will say that like yelling out at people that are injured's wild.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

You can't do that shit. Nah, bruh. I've always been someone that's like even doesn't matter what you still clap, even clap the other team off and stuff like that. Yeah, if you if you just give if it's just banner, yeah, expect that noise, but not if you're calling him a weak C and shit. Not if not if he's not injured. I yeah, sorry, I completely missed.

SPEAKER_00 37:26

But I just yeah, I wanted to just say that because I it sounds like I was going hard at the the Kurzy player, but nah. Nah, fucking crutches.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

She had the crutches.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

What else? What else we got on? Well, we got it finals this weekend, actually. The girls do.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Oh, is it boys as well?

SPEAKER_00 37:42

Um first grade's got a week off. Yeah, fuck bro, that caught that's gone quick.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

I don't know how it feels for you. We're gonna be far away.

SPEAKER_00 37:48

We play at the entrance on Sunday. True. Yeah, 11 30. Ninetings play before us at the entrance.

SPEAKER_01 37:54

Well, that's alright.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

Pickers take over, aren't we? Ninetings are going alright now, I yeah. And I was saying to their one of their coaches the other day, like they got a team where it doesn't matter where they finish, they can they can really shake it up in finals. That's Matt, that's where you want to be, I reckon.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Yeah, um you want to be those underdogs.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Elimination final against entrance. And then I think um Regis plays south at South on Saturday.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

True.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

So And that's the qualifying. That that'll verse first place for in the qualifying winner. Um Wes, maybe. Yeah, I was gonna say Wes. Yeah. True. Which is all Atman.

SPEAKER_01 38:35

True.

SPEAKER_00 38:35

Which will be beyond. Second and third will be South and England. No, Entrant's got few things. No, I think it's Sass and I can't remember. It might look in Central. Nah. You wanna look in Central? Yeah. I'm gonna go It might be Central, actually.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Because ain't Curry Well that Carrie playing to whoever lost out of Western.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

I thought Entrance got fifth, Central got fourth, Cass got second, Maitland first, third would be Noah's fucking You want me to find it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

But that um yeah, she's all fuck this year's just going so quick, bro. I remember like back in the day our parents were older people like, oh just mm make the most of it, mate, because once you get a bit older it goes quick. And now I find myself telling that young fellas, I'm like, I'm just a repeating the thing, but I always said I'm like, bruh, I know what you're thinking because I used to get told this.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:45

And it just like it just merges all into one, bro.

SPEAKER_00 39:48

Yeah, it's wild.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

I think it doesn't really help, like, because I obviously I've been sort of like playing in like CS Central.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

Yeah. Central got third, entrance fourth, Curry fifth.

SPEAKER_01 39:59

Yeah. So so Curry did make it. So Curry versus Entrance. Yeah, at entrance.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Three o'clock, and then Seattle central, and the winner of that will play at Maitland.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

And then a loser out of central and South versus the winner out of that's footy.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

That's fourty for you. That's footy for Yunk. I think the last week this week for um community too. Four finals.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Yeah. So yeah. What's um will Dung Dungog make it? Yeah, I think they're third. True. Is that the D-grade or C grade? Sea grade. Sea grade, true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

The Warriors Unk. The Warriors Unk. I reckon they can beat them top two teams too. Which are who? West Wolz and Swansea. True. Yeah. So Dungog, bruh, like um, they just got a wake up. Yeah, it was cold. They just got a way different energy when it comes to finals, Dung. Like well, it's just that community feeling. It just hits different, bruh. The whole town's there.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

And they're all they all know each other too, you know what I mean? It's no ring-ins really, it's all people that have usually from out that way, um, or connected to that way too. So it's got that real community feel about it.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

No, because I'm obviously been Dungal films through my whole life. And um there's been a couple boys over the years that have moved and gordon played for Claro or Stroud, and they're like the the rivals.

SPEAKER_02 41:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:18

There was this one year, I think it was 21 maybe, and um Stroud were about to fold, Claro were about to fold, so they teamed up and they were like, they called themselves the Clouds, Claro Stroud. Um and but they were obviously a bit stacked because you've got like two teams towns, two teams coming together. They first dung look in the grand final. Me and like Alex, my best mate, we were um like on the piss, but we were like over the grandstand side of field one, yeah. Um, and Claro, like the clouds just scored, so they were ahead by um two, and all their crowd was behind us on that hill just at Lakeside, yeah. Yeah, on that hill there. Feeding us, um like no, we were on the grandstand side. Oh yeah, true. All that hill, all in the corner, just feeding me and him, and um, anyways, we kick short, dungle kick short, kick it out on the bounce, get the ball back, um, run a bit of shape, and then they run it all the way to the wing, bro, and they score in the corner to win the corner siren, our corner. True, and we've just turned around and just like gotten up the crowd, like it was that good. Um I think I remember that. Yeah, bro. It was um Alex's brother that scored in the corner too.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

True.

SPEAKER_00 42:29

Um, it was well, there's a video of it. That's mad. Um it was just wild, like it was the most I'll find the video, it was a hectic ads.

SPEAKER_01 42:36

But there's no better feel, bruh, than like around for like community grand finals, I reckon. It's a mad feeling. And he's like got so many different clubs there and stuff like that. Yeah at Lakeside, that's a mad, that's mad.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

You wouldn't have it anywhere else, really.

SPEAKER_01 42:48

Nah. God's country out there, mate.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

That's us or what?

SPEAKER_01 42:52

That's us.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Nothing really else to touch on anything.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Nothing else to touch on. Um, yeah, it's been about a week and a half since we've done the potty. So I hope everyone enjoys it. I hope everyone has a good week Wednesday morning. Um, but we'll be back next week. And like I said, bruh, good luck to the new adventures at uni. Um, can't wait to hear about it next week, bro. That's us, that's so