Life Uncut - When the goal posts keep moving - Uncut with Tony Armstrong

Episode Date: May 15, 2023

Hey Lifers!Today's episode is with a special someone that we've been trying to get on the podcast for ages! It's Australian heart throb, ex-footballer and media personality Tony Armstrong! In today's chat we talk: whether he will ever be the bachelor growing up not knowing his dad and where that relationship has progressed to 'making it' in football and still feeling like you're not good enough calling out racism  transitioning into media  But first up, Laura had a bigggggg ol' twinkle toes announcement that we've been bread crumbing for weeks! Spoiler * it isn't ninja warrior.And we have some live, life uncut relationship advice as one member of the team nearly dies of embarrassment. Everything is content, right?! If you have an accidentally unfiltered, your most embarrassing story, please send it on it to life uncut podcast on Instagram hereYou can watch our dancing journey on tiktok Or join the facebook group here  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Brittany, and I'm here today with a super famous Dancing With The Stars contestant, Laura Byrne. Hi everybody. Hi, I am a dancer now. That's what I do. I dance. I dance all the time. I dance from the minute I wake up in the morning, I dance into the middle of the night, I dance around the office. Thank you so much for making time to come into the podcast today. You are so welcome. I mean, I did have to stop my very busy dancing schedule to be here.

Well, the announcement's out, so this is obviously a Tuesday, this is dropping, but last Thursday it came to light that you have not been doing Ninja Warrior, but you have in fact been training very hard for Dancing With The Stars. To be fair, there was a part of me that was a little bit like, oh, Ninja Warrior would be fun. no you wouldn't last a day no i wouldn't even last the first hurdle i wouldn't even make it over the first jump over the phone pit have you seen that video of like seven three or four or five year old kids that are running and doing hurdles and the video is like watch this seven

times and look at a different kid every time and have you seen it they start running and they're all tripping over that's you that's what you would be like no but now we need to find that and put it on our socials everyone's gonna be like what i will find it it is so funny and i promise you you will watch this video and repeat it a hundred times. Well, that's just me, but at dancing. That was my first saying. Oh, I thought we were saying it Ninja Warrior. No, if you did Ninja Warrior, that would have been you.

But I think you're going to be really good at dancing with a star. No, you don't. I've seen some video snippets. You are looking like a sexy little prey mantis. I have gotten pretty fit. That's the one thing that I've gotten out of this. So we – I don't even know what a star. It's so much dance.

Start from the beginning. how could I even put into words what I've been doing everyone no you all know that I've been breadcrumbing that I've been training for something for like the last five weeks I kind of signed up I think it was five yeah what must be five weeks ago just before we went away to Rockhampton I was dancing in the garage in Rockhampton because I just learnt the first few steps of the jive so doing like an absolute dog's breakfast of it well at least you've got Matt at home to train with because if people might not remember but two years ago three years ago Matt did dancing with the stars yeah no no he's not training with me unfortunately no he's like the

dancing widow now he's got the kids 24 7 so you know when matt did it two years ago and lola was a newborn i was home with the kids and he was leaving for like eight hour training days this is payback because he at the moment has been having to do the lion's share of the parenting whilst i'm off being twinkle toes whilst you're off getting down and jiggy with it oh no that was wrong you're not getting down but you're getting jiggy and also like we have to be so careful because everyone's going to be like, ooh, what's happening with Laura's dance partner? What's going on there?

It is always a bit of a vibe, not with you, but a vibe and a theme with Dancing With The Stars, isn't it? I think it's more in the American series, but there's always like this controversy of an affair or someone hooks up with someone or there's so much chemistry on stage. It has to be real. I would like to have it on the record that my dance partner, my dance partner.

I'm a contra dancer, my dance partner, Daniil. Your dance partner's name is Daniil. My dance partner, Daniil, is almost two decades younger than me. So apart from the fact – How old is he? He's 16. He's 16? He's definitely not 16.

You can't do those moves at 16. He's 21. He's 21. So he's 16 years younger than me. So I could have literally given birth to him. Not that there would ever – even if it was Jason Momoa, there would never be a thing. Come off it.

I adore Matt. I love Matt so much. It just doesn't even enter my psyche. but the fact that he's so young matt was like thank god you're partnered with him i don't even have to worry about you rubbing your body up and down him all day so you have to pick him up from school on the way to training i pick him up from tafe and then i take him to training because he can't drive yet you know no he's gonna listen to this and be like fuck you don't yeah he's so lovely you're great we're just taking the piss he's great i have met him he's lovely he's a

lovely dance partner so this is his first season doing dancing with the stars but he's a dancing verge yeah he's a dancing virgin he's never ever danced before no he's like he's like australian champion he was like some crazy award-winning multi-accoladed dance person he's got the fire in his belly doesn't he yeah and so much confidence like if you said to him how do you think you're gonna go he's like oh yeah we're gonna win a mirror ball and I'm like you have not seen me dance yet no I saw a snippet a tiny little snippet oh yeah because I peeked in on one of your sessions I think it was because I text you yeah same same same same you guys actually look really good well We're going.

Producer Keisha and I are going. Some of the radio crew are going. We're going to go to your first night to cheer you on and I'm going to take my own scorecard and, like, just write a 10 on it. Yeah. And if Todd McKenney gives me, like, a four, just hold the 10 over the top of it.

Be like, fuck you, Dad. I'll be that person. You know how when you're at the football and someone runs on streaking and, like, everyone runs around trying to catch them? That's me. I'll be running around with the scorecard and everyone's like, get her off. With your face melting off?

I'm hoping my face isn't melting off by then. Britt, okay, so as you guys know, Britt's been doing the skin cancer treatment, but she arrived today and she was like, I think my eyelashes have been seared off. I wish I could laugh harder. It's true. They're gone.

I think they have. They're gone. Mainly the bottom ones but the top ones are looking a little bit pointy as well. I was like, why does your face look so bald at the moment? Very crusty, very bald. Do you know what? No, but take your time. Well, I'm just thinking of a way to say it because I am very proud

to be posting when I'm like my face bare and what's happening and I'm not worried about my looks in the sense of what's happening at the moment because I know it's for a good cause but this morning I did look in the mirror and I was like wow I just hate myself right now because my eyelashes are gone and my face is so swollen and you look at yourself and you're like this is what we're working with today okay yeah it's really cracked and scabby and it's painful and once I've realized that some of the lashes are gone it was a real low point and I was like I actually just I mean I'm still rocking I'm still living my life like normal still coming to work and I don't care enough to like hide away like I'm a witch but this morning I definitely looked at myself and I was

like okay it's three weeks deep and I don't want to look at myself in the mirror at the moment but I know that in a week or two it'll be better but I'm I hate myself right now we laugh about it you look beautiful stop it we can laugh I know we will keep laughing at you but like you look beautiful and also you should be so proud of because I think a lot of people you know especially when it's your face like it's so easy to be embarrassed and then to be like I'm not going to share this but I'm so proud of you for sharing it and for putting all the photos up there like you know the good the bad and the not as beautiful as what you know normally you would look like but I'm so glad that you're sharing all parts of it because the visibility is so important and we

all know that the conversations around skin cancer is so important so as much as we take the piss out of you now i'm very very proud of you out of myself but it's yeah the truth is yeah i don't want to look at myself right now but on a more serious note if anyone actually has recommendations for a lash serum that works like none of it you know like there's so much stuff that doesn't work but like okay i've got no extensions i have pointy little things burnt off by this chemo cream because i think i want a bit hectic under the eyes i need a good lash serum i need these to grow do you actually think that stuff works the chemo or the the lash serum apparently yeah a bit that you don't know i've got a question if it works so well then why can't bald people just shove it

all over their head and grow hair keisha's keisha keisha wants she's desperate to tell us the science she's literally in the background like she's like delilah in the morning she's like come with me i'm in here oh that's grim keisha just said that there's studies that have come out to say that lash serum has made some people go blind so what you're saying we're not promoting it what you're saying is i'm never gonna have lashes again no they'll grow back soon babe next cycle yeah yeah yeah next cycle they're not a period do they okay look back to dancing with the stars for two seconds and then we can move on to other more important things we are pre-recording this episode like the intro of this episode so this is we're doing this on friday normally we keep

our intros fresh we do it on the monday morning it comes out on the tuesday but laura's a really high-end superstar now so we have to try and fit it into her sketch but i'm a dancer now guys i don't know if you know but she's a glitter ball i am after the mirror ball my very first comp is tuesday night so if you're listening to this on the day that this drops i will be somewhere dancing the jive out in homebush that's where i think it's being filmed do you feel petrified okay great that was i was gonna say nervous but petrified is a great term don't think i've ever been so scared in my life and what about are you scared about not doing the dance well are you scared about being voted out first are you scared about doing it in front of people you know like what's the

i really don't want to be voted out first because that's just embarrassing at least second yeah it's like when you're on the batch i remember when i went on the bachelor i was like as long as i'm not the first if i'm on the second night that's fine but you can't be somewhere in the middle so i can hide amongst it you know i'm okay with being average i don't want to be really really bad so first would probably be a bit disappointing but you know what if it ends up being first we can all laugh about it in a couple weeks time there's no way you're first i've seen your moves no it could be i'm up against like paulini and bloody pia do you remember what was that movie that were your alabrandi looking for alabrandi i saw her the other day and then i got

like you know when you see a celebrity in real life and you get a bit of like starstruck i was like oh my god it's pia i watched your movie in school i watched it when i was like 16 she also looks exactly the same like she hasn't aged at all it's really weird i thought that when i looked at the cast photo it's like how old are you 50 how do you look like you're still 25 how old is she now no idea she's probably gonna listen to this and be like fuck you i'm 30 no she was quite young when she filmed that well she was supposed to be at school yeah but you know you can be 30 and film school okay after this face peel i reckon i can play like a 10 year old any casting agents out there i have just extended my age range

so Tuesday night we've got the competition that'll be my first one and I'm dancing the jive oh that's the super fast really fast so the reason why I'm nervous is not because I'm not so much nervous that I'm going to get out first if it happens it happens there's not much I can do about it except dance better but no blame an injury if you're out first you say I rolled my ankle yeah I'm sorry always yeah it's not you yeah it's not the ability it's something there was something sort of hurdle I had to overcome no the reason why I'm nervous is because I have to think so much about the steps because the steps are so fast whereas if I make a mistake in the jive there's no time to make it up yeah so it's like there's mistakes are so obvious whereas if

you make a mistake in a slower dance you can just kind of like do something with your arm make it look like you need to do it so if I had a waltz or something first I think I would be better off and everyone keeps saying like oh god it must be so good to learn a new skill and I was like it is but I'll probably never use the jive again I'm gonna say it's not really a transferable skill when you're out at a nightclub high kicks sorry when are you out at a nightclub when was the last time you went to a nightclub I reckon one day I've got nightclubbing in me again you know what you do and I'm gonna say this probably not necessary for the pod but Ben is coming in three weeks and he's made a request we're gonna go to a nightclub he's requested that all of our group of friends go out

for drinks and then he's like maybe we could go to a club and I didn't have the heart to tell him that we're all 80-year-olds inside. I was like, sure, babes, I'll get the group together for the club. And then in my head I was like, I don't even know where the club is anymore. Where do people go? Did you realise at that point in time that you were dating a 20-year-old? You were like, oh, my God, that's right, my boyfriend is 25. No, he's 31.

But he just, I guess he's probably normal. We are just not. We're like old souls. We're all old souls. No, I think we're normal. I just have two kids and I just drink rosé at home. Producer Keisha might, I was trying to do the math. We'll ask her where to go.

well yeah producer Keisha might know but what I was going to say is I was doing the math I was like okay I'll book us all a restaurant and I was doing the math of who could come and I was doing the partners and then I was like looks like Keisha might have a partner now so I added a plus one in for the new potential we're not sure yet because we haven't had the conversation I'm sorry are we talking about this on the podcast well obviously Laura hasn't listened to Thursday's episode that Keisha and I did together I didn't listen I've been so busy dancing I didn't even listen to my own podcast oh my god special announcements all around we sort of announced it but we didn't The conversation is, Laura, you could actually chime in on this.

Laura is not biased because she doesn't know the conversation. Do you have to have – I really should listen to my own podcast. Do you have to have the conversation when you're in a relationship and you're dating? Do you reckon you have to have the conversation that you're exclusive or not or is it implied? I've learnt from experience it is never fucking implied.

Brittany wins. It is never implied. If you think it's implied, someone out of the two of you is still fucking someone else. I told you. And I've learnt that the hard way, men are dames. Never implied. That was exactly what my conversation was.

But Keisha's like, no, I think it's just, you know, it is what it is. And I'm like, nope, no, it's not. No, communication is key. Let's not go with smoke signals when it comes to fidelity and monogamy. Let's just ask the question. Do you know why people don't want to ask the question? Because they're scared of the answer. That's why.

People don't like to say, are we exclusive, for fear of knowing that you're not exclusive and the answer being no. No, I also think some people have a fear of maybe you're more on board than the other person is. So sometimes people are like, I don't want to say, hey, do you want to go steady if they're like, I'm still rocking the boat, you know. My analogies are on fire lately. Rocking a boat just means like you're getting in trouble,

like you're making problems. I was trying to do an opposite of steady and it was rocking. That's where my brain went. So basically what I meant is like one person might be more ready than the other and I think that sometimes that's why people get scared of having the convo. But Keisha's got a hand up in the corner. You don't have to put your hand up.

It's because Keisha doesn't have a microphone at the moment. Come on over. um okay polar opposite thought and i got a couple of messages about this after our episode went live on thursday glad that someone listened to it when you said like you have to have the conversation that's because you dated trash people i've also dated trash people where i felt the need to have the conversation oh i didn't realize that they were trash until okay until a year later when i thought we were exclusive and we weren't she assumed exactly and in the past i've been exactly the same where I've been like no I have to have the conversation because otherwise you might be

fucking someone else and I don't know about it this time I don't have any anxiety about it like I just it is what it is and like I don't have any insecurities about where I stand like I'm calling him I'm calling him I'm gonna ask him if he's your boyfriend must be nice must be nice also you know what they say assume is it assume makes an ass of you and me something like that that's today's social video did you and matt have to have the conversation after the bachelor we literally had the conversation on tv on national tv we did it on national tv in front of everyone it was the most solidifying moment of my life because i was like you can't back out of this one motherfucker can i tell you guys you can't say you didn't know that we were in a monogamous relationship after this

one like all the exes did can you yeah i mean it also can just be cute you can just literally be like hey wouldn't be my boyfriend i'm so please don't do that can i say something so funny what i did one time you're gonna die you are going to die r.i.p dead levitating up to the sky no this is put me in the ground and say your goodbyes as i'm saying this as a part of me that is my internal monologue is like stop it britney but i'm not i'm gonna tell you anyway please please i will tell you to stop with your lack of eyebrows i mean eyelashes hold the back wait all i can think i literally looked in the mirror this morning i was like thank god i looked ben down when i did like giant thumb oh just like your trashy ex-boyfriends it gets worse what i was gonna say is i was dating

this guy a couple years ago and i quite liked him and we had had a history like we'd known each other for a long time but we'd only ever known each other as friends i like to think i'm pretty like cute yeah in terms of like i'm a romantic and i like to do cute things so we were sort of seeing each other and keisha this is a really good for you to listen to we had been seeing each other to the point where I was and we talked all the time on the phone he was a decent guy he wasn't a shit guy at all he was really nice he still to this day is but I was like oh obviously this is where this is going like you know so I wrote him uh I wrote him like one of those things you've been smoking a pack a day I've been really sick for weeks I know I've been really sick for

weeks and I'm because I forgot I did this I wrote him like this I got this piece of paper and I wrote at the top and you know those like where you ask a question and then it splits it's yes no and then you do a line and it splits then you ask another question it's yes no and it goes oh yeah it's like a tree it's a question tree that goes down the page I did this whole amazing tree and it was so in depth and it was so cute and at the bottom it was to get to like will you be my boyfriend kind of thing like do you want to go steady and I just thought it was going to be an obvious yes and I thought it was a cute way to do it anyway it was a no i'm still doing this they feel so awkward thinking about it

the good part was he didn't he didn't do the tree circle no one sent it back to me he just called me he's like we need to have a conversation and i was like oh sorry i really misread the room he's like but that was really a cute thing and I appreciate he was so great he was like it was really sweet and I was like totally fine I'd do that to everyone you're like let's pretend it never happened um but he was like I'm just not ready for a relationship with like standard Sydney man were you like but you're ready to continue to keep sleeping with me and treat me like I'm your girlfriend that would be great let's do that for the next year until you find someone better I think we did it like one more time and then we both were like cool the thing is when

it is how about you tell me that you're not ready for a relationship until you start dating someone else in a month they did he got married and had a kid he got married and had a kid oh live on air right now keisha's uh current boyfriend that we don't know just messaged her and said are we having the conversation which means he listened to thursday's episode oh my god can you respond right now and say do we need to no say do we need to or is it assumed can you please this is live content Keisha's getting a boyfriend live on air do it for the team Keisha or you're fired no that was too much pretty anyway let's mine your life let's mine your life for as much content as possible Keisha you poor thing you don't get paid enough Keisha send

him a photo of what's happening right now and say we're talking about right now record us and we'll ask him for you just video and you can send in the video yeah oh my god hello hello potential boyfriend hi his name's Toblerone hi Toblerone um rumor has it you must have heard the conversation that Keisha and I had on Thursday's episode of Life Uncut because you did just message Keisha and ask if you guys need to have the conversation and the question is do you think you need to have the conversation or do you think it is assumed and if it's assumed what are we assuming yeah yeah can't wait for the answer wait welcome to the Life Uncut family men must be so scared to enter this little world of ours because like they know all men know like

I'm lucky because Matt's locked in he already I mean he shares enough of our bloody sex life on his podcast now too it's double whammy but he's got four years to make up for it and get back at me but like for you guys over the years trying to bring a man into the chaos that is us sharing our life as podcast content truly would be petrifying for some men you know what you're lucky that Matt's quiet well he is not quiet he's very open and he's very in the media and he loves that kind of a life but like the people I've dated are all very opposite they're very shy they're very quiet this is like imagine if you were a shy quiet person coming into this kind of a life totally it makes it very challenging to date and I know that because I know you've spoken about it loads

before and I know that for a lot of people that we've interviewed who live public lives I know when I say public lives of course we don't share everything about our lives on the podcast but we share things that might make other people feel uncomfortable or awkward you know we'll talk about sex and then some people would think oh god I could never talk about that in an open setting well we also felt like that once time yeah and then the dial it just shifts over time and then here we are and all of a sudden Daily Mail's writing articles that the headline is Laura's big fat hairy vagina and I'm fine with it anyway we'll come back to Keisha and whether she has a boyfriend or not speaking of sharing too much and Matt getting me back over the years for everything

that i have been sharing on this podcast marley may is like almost four she turns four in a couple weeks time and in the four years of her life she has never walked in on us getting down and dirty although three times she hasn't walked in i know she hasn't caught us in the act yet and it could be because it's quite infrequent but she also sleeps in our bed so like marley gets up every single night at around 11 o'clock and she goes from her bed and comes and gets into our bed and then we spend the entire night with her kicking me in the tit for the rest of it so like it is surprising that up until this point and I know we joke all the time that I don't have sex but I do guys it happens so up until this point in time she's never ever walked in on us but Matt

shared the story on his podcast so I feel like I need to share my version of it we were doing the horizontal dance of love the other night yeah butt ass naked in missionary position which would me Matt was on top no blanket no nothing I feel like I was being semi-vocal but like not that vocal that it would have woken her up but vocal enough that she would have been like what are they what game are they playing some husky breathing anyway yeah nah a bit more than that oh that was scary it was scary it was pretty much your laugh so we're in the middle of it this you know passionate lovemaking session and all here is this pitter patter pitter patter pitter patter and it was

like a cartoon I heard the pitter patter and then as soon as I looked to the right she just arrived like a tombstone standing next to the bed like how'd you get there she was so close to our faces I was like this is gonna be traumatic for you and cost you a lot in therapy when you're older anyway she was literally right next to my face and we hadn't had time to do anything we were just kind of frozen in position but you know what that's probably the best position to be in when you're sprung because it could just look like you're laying down in bed like you're close and cuddling yeah just having a naked close cuddle yeah all she would have been able to see was her dad's butt really and like the side of my leg it's not like a 69er or how do you explain that

you don't yeah you really don't i don't know what you do for that no as we all know i've seen it before of my mom oh yeah laura did catch her mom that was true let's not visit revisit that anyway so I turned to her she's like there right at my face and like I said she gets into our bed every night there's nothing that you can do to deter her from getting into bed right like that's just her she as soon as she gets the bed she climbs on in and I turned to her and she like looked at us and she was a bit like the fuck is going on here and I was like oh sweetie um maybe you should go back to your own bed tonight and she just looks at us both and she goes okay mommy turns around and walks straight out and puts herself back to bed and the fact that she did that means she clocked

something was different because she would always get into bed kind of sent she was like i don't know what this is but i don't want to know and then she didn't mention anything she kind of did she said you told me to go back to my bed last night and i was like yes mommy and daddy were wrestling having a wrestle we were having we were having a special adult tickle you should have told her you were like practicing the dance or something oh i don't want her to get that impression then imagine how much that's gonna affect her when she's older and she thinks that's what i was doing with my dance teacher but you think anyway daily mail stay the fuck away from that headline oh fuck me oh okay guys we've just gotten a live update from keisha's this is the most amazing

content life uncut has ever had in real time keisha sent what we just did before to toblerone bless your soul you've taken on for the team keisha and he's just responded with please read out loud. This poor guy does not know what he's in for. I think he does. He wrote if I have a hall pass, I'm not exercising it. So you're not making a mistake, to clarify. Keisha's

got a boyfriend. That is basically, you're basically engaged. I think he's saying he's not, there's nothing going on with anyone else. He's trying to cue. He's exclusive. Yep. He's trying to say that you guys are locked down. Oh my god, she's so embarrassed. That's so cute. We haven't known Keisha to have

a boyfriend. We made Keisha traumatised. Can I also just put it out there, we are now hiring for somebody who is single because we need somebody single in our company at all times. At least, you know, Laura and I are on par with our opinions, yeah? Yeah, and also the content that we want. And he seems really nice. Yeah. Hi, Tablo.

Welcome. Welcome to the family. All right, let's leave her because she's dying of embarrassment. Speaking of embarrassment, I've got a great little Accidentally Unfiltered here. Oh, it's been a while since we've done an Accidentally Unfiltered. I love this. It's been a while, but this one came into it.

email all right they're really traditional format yeah hi life uncut team i was out for drinks with my friends tonight and we all decided to do accidentally unfiltered until our most embarrassing moments and they begged me to ride in with this now i love that you guys have have done this so a few years ago i was living in my parents garage that we had turned into a bedroom the sliding door to the room had a doggy door and my clothes were kept in baskets along the bottom shelf Now, I had a very lovely pink silicone vibrator, but it didn't look like a dick. It was just like a pink sort of stick-like shape.

Like a dick, like a pink dick. But just like, I guess, not real shape, just a pink. The pretty ones. It was a pink stick. Yeah, the pretty dildos. One afternoon, I arrived home from work to see my dad sitting in the backyard playing fetch with my dog throwing around my pink dildo. My dog had obviously found it in a basket through the doggy door.

I was so mortified but I had to play it cool so I decided to play with both of them let's play throw the dog toy with dad but then I had to yeet it over the fence and be like oops lost the dog's toy it was the most embarrassing thing ever and thank god my dad never clued on to it she played fetch with her dad and her dog with her big dildo wait imagine being the neighbor and finding a fucking dildo in your backyard just doing the gardening and you get yeeted in the head with the dildo it is so funny I love it so much I love the idea that you sat around with your girlfriends and shared your accidentally unfiltered stories what a good if I mean if you're going out for dinner with your friends this is such a good little thing for you to do

this weekend or next weekend sit down and ask like what is your most embarrassing story it'll give you the best laugh but then write them in and then make sure you write them in because you know we haven't been doing many accidentally unfiltered this year and I feel like it's time to bring it back baby or she also said please keep me anonymous love the podcast just so you know everyone is anonymous everyone never we don't even look at your profile sometimes we just sometimes because sometimes we do oh no sometimes when it's really funny we have a look but only because we're like i want to put a face to the name of that person oh yeah i want to put a face in the name of this queen yes but we promise you you will always be anonymous but please keep those

coming in because i live for them you can slide into the dms at life uncut podcast well tony armstrong wears a lot of caps he's a tv presenter he's an ex-afl player he's an aussie heartthrob he's a podcaster with a new podcast the pool room and if you listen to australian media he's the next bachelor tony welcome to life uncut oh it's such a thrill to be here love the laundry list of things that i am particularly the one that we all know is the most true which is the bachelor one very happy with that one can we either prove it or defunk it i mean I know we've spoken about it before on the pickup but just for everybody out there who's curious or who's dying to know will you ever be the bachelor or has it ever been on the table

no despite the weird nature of the job that I guess we all do I don't like people knowing weird shit about me and I can imagine that like if I was doing a dating show on tv you know like that'd be too invasive for me so no full respect to people who do it I'm not insulted don't worry I was going to say, I don't know, do you know we were both on the back? I reckon he probably knows. I don't think he does. No, I do. But I guess the thing is, like, for me, I couldn't, like, yeah,

I mean, I'm awkward enough as is, so I would find trying to be vulnerable like that, properly vulnerable like that, would be tough, I would imagine. What was it like? You say that you were awkward. I actually just think that you're smarter than us because you've been in the media ringer. I think, like, when we signed up and did it,

we had no idea of what to expect because we were so fresh and so green now looking back if i knew what i knew and i didn't think i'd get a husband out of it i certainly wouldn't be doing it look i think there's a lot of women out there that'll be disappointed to hear that those rumors are false because i think there is i know there is a long lineup for you tony so how do you know i was one of them at one stage okay just to make you really awkward while we start this but to make you even more awkward we start every single chat the same way with our guests and that is an accidentally unfiltered story basically the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you it's very humanizing

and we want you to bare your soul so i've got a couple i've got a laundry list but the first one that comes to mind right now i was lucky enough to be one of the hosts of abc's 90th birthday and like we did like extravaganza type night up in sydney and we were catching up on zoom to like talk through how the night would go and how the scripts was and you know doing line reads and all that kind of stuff and i do brekkie tv for people who don't know and like i am just so tired all the time i know that's a boring thing to say but i'm so tired all the time anyway i was on this zoom right with all the big wigs and i've done this more than once but on this occasion we were reading through all of the script and i was here at home on my couch like listening

and then i just fully fully fell asleep in the middle of this zoom and like my bosses and my bosses bosses are all in the and you know normally if you fall asleep there's someone there who can just how long so my phones on do not i don't know my phones do not disturb the only way they can get to me is through the zoom i'm asleep i can't hear the fucking zoom i come back and the script writers are in there and then at the end they go oh so what's the script like and i'm like well i fucking fell asleep yeah if that's anything to go by it was very and i've done it in interviews before as well where i've like i take say i do like a run of interviews for a show or something like that i used to have a noise cancelling headphones and i would just lie on my bed with

my phone here and just do the interviews like lying down and the amount of times i've fallen asleep in interviews and then had to like be like oh sorry you broke up uh what was that like you know waking up something tony tony are you are you there i really hope that we make it through the whole episode with you staying awake that would be a real dream imagine if we're like Oh my God. Tony, the other one, when I was like 16, I was playing for my combined school footy team. So like the kind of rep team and the coach of the side was a fellow called Ken Fletcher and he was a Bombers legend. And I was so nervous to meet him. We were in like a line, the same way that you do when you like cheat in like an exam or something. And you know how

sometimes you'd write their name because you're copying yeah the person in i introduced myself as the person in front of me because i was so nervous to meet this guy i can't remember his like i can't remember the guy in front of me his name he's like i know your name's tony we picked you we know who you i was like ken oh i've had a meltdown sorry man i just walked off also i don't want to be rude to Louise Fleming but she's like a tennis commentator that we get on and I think for ages she thought my name was Nick so at the end of our crosses she'd be like thanks Nick and I'd just be like because you don't want to tell them I hate that well I don't want to be rude as well like on TV and like correct someone right Michael Rowland would love it every time he'd be

like and I'd just be like and then eventually I think someone told her because there was one day where she was, like, over-the-top Tony-ing me. She was like, oh, thanks, Tony. Yeah, great question, Tony. You're like, you're never going to be able to hide the fact that you've been calling me Nick for six months and no one knows my name now. It does get to a point where you can't say anything.

I remember my old job, someone called me Bridget and I was new so I didn't want to correct them and I was like, I'll just go with Bridget. I was Bridget for three years. I just was like, I'll just roll with it. Wait, you never, ever corrected them and nobody ever realised that was wrong? No, we got too deep.

Hey, Bridget, I was like, morning! I feel like you know that you're conflict avoidant when you get to that point in your career and people are still calling you by the wrong name? It's just easier. Oh, like I will happily eat the thing that I loathe to avoid throwing someone, you know, I'll like, well, you know, if it matters to you,

let's do that. That's me. I'm scared of conflict. Tony, tell us a little bit about what your childhood was like. You grew up with your mum and she was a single mum at the time. Oh, it was awesome.

Where did you grow up? All over. So I was born at the old Royal Women's in Paddington. Not sure if it's still there. then grew up sort of out west Sydney so like Cabramatta, Fairfield, Caramar if you know it like past Parramatta spent some time on the south coast of New South Wales and then mum wanted do they call it a tree change is it a tree change if you move to the country oh well it's a sea change I don't know what the inland version I think a tree change is is when you yeah when you're heading

in for a bit more nature let's go with that yes so mum being a teacher she asked for a teaching transfer to within a half hour driving radius of Albury and we ended up in a little town called Brocklesby that had literally like a hundred people living there which was wild it was like a farming town and then went to boarding school at Assumption College but yeah growing up it was particularly when we're in the country like after school it would just be me so I got quite imaginative and just used to fuck around heaps uh so much when you say just you cheeky did you have no friends because there weren't many people around or did you live so far away from everyone else in this tiny town that no one could get to you like why yeah no no no no that's kind of what

it was like so all the kids were on the farms around the town and then all my friends from school were in Albury so like after school I didn't really hang out with other kids it would be just mum and I and yeah like I had a mint time I used to muck around heaps I'd like make bike jumps I'd play the drums I'd watch telly whatever yeah I had a really good time how old were you when your dad was out of the picture and it was just you and your mum so I never met my dad until like two years ago wow and how old are you yeah I am 33 years old and feeling you are a young little spring chicken that's what you are thank you are we recording can we we are we can say that soundbite that can be the highlight so yeah it was just mum and I but it wasn't necessarily I

guess something where obviously like I yearned for a dad because you see it but I also never had it so it wasn't like I lost something also I guess in your case in terms of like identity understanding where you come from having that sense of belonging or familiarity was there I mean not necessarily a longing for your dad or for a father figure because I do think that I mean for me I grew up with a single mom as well and I think that your mom can really fill that cup for you but was there a sense of kind of wanting to know a bit of where you came from and that was like the driving force to meet your dad so many years down the track or was there another reason as to why two years ago you decided to meet him yeah no that's a really good question I just felt like the time was right I'd never

really actively wanted to and then I don't know what it was that changed in me probably getting a bit long in the tooth and and thinking about things like deeper things I suppose and then I was like oh I mean it'd be cool probably because I was thinking you know like if I have kids I want them to know you know what I mean did you have access to your father whenever you wanted like you always knew how to find him if you wanted or did that only come later? Nah so like I didn't pursue it because you know I felt really loyal to mum and I didn't want to put her out despite the fact that she would always be like if you ever want to know. I have a sense of like loyalty that even though that's not being disloyal you know yeah just like being young and not really knowing

you how to navigate some of those tricky things that life throws up. What was it like when you finally met? Do you end up having a relationship with him? And I guess I'm curious for this because my mum didn't have a dad. My mum's dad left very, very, which I think she was two or three. She didn't remember him. And when she was in her forties, she got curious and she decided to meet him because she imagined it would be this beautiful reunion. And this is why he wasn't around. And, and she just said it was just shit. She's like, I wish I never met him. I wish I didn't get that curiosity and just continue to live my life. He didn't live up to what she had imagined so what was it like for you I went into it kind of not expecting anything we've got a

relationship but yeah like it was just fucking weird to be honest like it's just weird you're kind of like you know you're looking at half of yourself there's all like the woe is me feelings that go through but like everyone's got their shit he had his shit I think we're getting there I don't know where it'll get to I like him I'm fond of him but I'm also I've been burnt by him so yeah absolutely from I mean not so much about your relationship with your dad by any means but your relationship I guess with yourself as well your dad is indigenous and I guess growing up in a household and also in a community where you visibly present as indigenous but maybe don't have a good link to your history to your culture what was that like for you I got so fucking good

spinning yarns I bet because you know like kids are just so you just ask yeah yeah that was and I just make shit up so obviously that's like complex right as I've gotten older I've gotten more perspective on on what it is and I guess that was part of the reason why I did want to reach out well I actually didn't reach it but like that was why I kind of like opened myself up to wanting to connect was because I had like imposter syndrome but then it's like well like this is also a black experience right like it's just my one versus someone who's grown up with knowledge with culture with family with community mine's just a different version of that like i'm not robinson crusoe like with colonization and displacement all the fucking

shit that's happened my story is one that is so common so yeah like used to have imposter syndrome now I'm like comfortable with who I am I'm trying to be comfortable with who I am and curious I suppose you're wildly successful now do you still feel like you suffer from that when you get a new gig or you're on a new tv show or people are putting pressure on you to speak about your upbringing and your community do you feel like that's still you're not the person to be doing that even though we all know of course you are yeah it's interesting it's like I've got this platform which I'm so grateful for so I kind of feel like it's incumbent on me to be strong but then I'm also like fuck I am a bozo like you're not but I love that you think that no but I'm like

there are so many people who are so much smarter so much more researched so much more adequate to talk on things however for one reason or another they don't get given the microphone so I like try to align myself with really good thinkers and thinkers that I really respect and I know community respects and then I just try to echo what they say we had a really great conversation with Taylor Gray when it was Australia Day and I loved speaking to her because one of the things that she said was that she feels as though there is so much responsibility on her to represent an entire group of people and then she was like but no white person walks into a room and goes i'm representing everyone she's like you get to show up and just represent yourself represent the fact that you do

a podcast or you make jewelry or whatever it is she was like but when you are an indigenous person you walk into a room and people expect you to speak for everyone and she's like and it's such a wild expectation that everybody has yeah and responsibility but also one that's just so completely unfair and i think as well for you because you are this very respected voice in the media but there are very few extremely successful media personalities who are also indigenous that expectation falls even harder on you well for sure i'm really good mates with brooke boney she's awesome a bit she and i talk about it to each other basically like moaning to each other but it's really funny you say that because i was lucky enough to be the first

indigenous person to commentate afl on commercial radio and i remember in the leader they made a big thing about it i did it for triple m they made this huge thing about it because you know it was awesome for triple m to be like the ones who did it we were making history and i just remember in the lead up being like i can't fuck this up because if i do if i do i'll put blackfellas back and this is with no disrespect to white commentators but they're not thinking exactly to your point they're not thinking well i have staff this up i'm gonna fuck this up for you know it's not going to affect the perception of a people whereas sometimes I worry that worry's a bit strong but sometimes I think that I can directly affect perception of Indigenous

people just because of the platform I've been given like I can literally make people think and obviously the way the brain works worse like I can make people think worse of Indigenous people through my actions which is a really cooked way to think right like you should just be worried about being a good person I mean the pressure of the responsibility I've never quite thought of it like that that you've thought I can't be the one to fuck it up and change people's perspective for the worse and something you just mentioned which just struck me a little bit was you said like there are people more intelligent than me that should be you know having these conversations when the first thing I thought of is I never would have thought that I never would have thought

someone's not intelligent enough to have the conversation because at the end of the day it's your lived experience and it's your story to share and apart from that you're incredibly talented at everything that you do and that has nothing to do with you being indigenous let's cut that up too yeah we've got so many highlight reels here I understand why it's frightening I mean like also going back we're obviously going to get into talking about footy very shortly but you know you come from a very different background it's not like you came from a journalistic background and then all of a sudden you're working in media and being called up to do a whole bunch of different things and being asked to do breakfast media it's like the trajectory seemed to happen so quickly

and I'm sure it wasn't an overnight thing for you but I guess before we get into how you made that transition between football to media personality I'd love to know a little bit about your childhood football dreams how you kind of navigated that period of your life and then what it was like to transition into professional football oh well I used to sleep with a footy I was like that obsessed right having no friends around after school and stuff meant that I would just take the footy and I'll just kick it at trees kick it at targets you know the 10,000 hours thing like I would have clocked 50 60,000 like it was wild and I loved it and it's it's quite funny I've spoken about this before but it's so true when you're growing up I think this has happened to

all of us it's like try hard work hard and you'll get what you want you know like that's like the dream right it's like you work hard at whatever it is and success will come your way and what I found out through footy was that that actually isn't always the case you know you can bust the gut you can scrap you can you know move all over the country you can bust your ass and it still might not be good enough but then the best thing that came out of like all of that out of footy not making it not being good enough was I learned that I'll be okay like all of this could go away tomorrow and I'd be fine I mean I'll probably have to sell the house yeah you have to make some adjustments to the spending yeah but I'd be fine and so like that fear of failure that can

constrict people you know we all know people who you see like yeah come on man like just do it you're brilliant just do the thing and they get in their own way like I'm lucky that football gave me that fearlessness but it was also hard I mean how do you cope with that when you have all these dreams and aspirations when you're literally sleeping with a football as a child and then you make it I mean you're good but then maybe just not quite good enough all right Laura what I mean is is that there is an expectation that you need to be even better how do you deal and overcome that sense of failure? So I got like really sad because like football,

you get so much feedback both directly and indirectly. And when you're not in like the senior side, you're getting indirect feedback each week through non-selection that you're literally not good enough. Like we're all trying to play in the seniors, right? And if you're not getting selected, what are they saying? You're not good enough. But then all week you're busting your ass,

busting your ass trying to play in the senior team. and so I think over sort of eight years of on a weekly basis being told you're not good enough but then your identity being so wrapped up in what you do as well it just took a while for me to like realize that like sort of what I do is not who I am necessarily still work on that all the time still work on like learning to like like myself because I got like a deep sort of inbuilt kind the self-loathing through the feedback and footy and all that kind of shit but yeah I'm getting there it's good it's hard okay so you got drafted to the Adelaide Crows in I think 2007 then 2012 you debuted for the Sydney Swans and like that's a team you grew up supporting which is pretty

amazing surely that is a bit of a confidence boost for you what was that time like it was weird it was like awesome like fuck running around kicking a footy lifting weights getting massages going for coffees playing fifa it's fucking sick i was looking that good back then i was fucking ripped six pack it's not great now but back then anyway it was sick to work on something so hard and like hone a craft focus on getting really good at something hyper specific i found that really cool but then there was the other side of the coin which was what i just talked about with like the non-selection i've used this analogy before but i reckon it's a good one it's like i was having a shower with a raincoat on like i was like doing it but i wasn't playing

every week i wasn't one of the main you know like i was there but i just wasn't and like it happened so fast as well like i finished boarding school on the friday got drafted on the saturday moved to adelaide on the sunday started on the monday this might be hard for you to imagine but i was a pretty immature 18 year old and they expected me to be this like hyper professional and i just i was just growing up basically i probably early days had a perception of being a bit of a fucking idiot which is fair enough you played alongside adam goods and for everybody who knows afl you would know who goodsy is but for anybody who isn't aware goodsy is basically an afl god but at the same time he was racially vilified and he ended up later on rejecting a place in the hall of fame

because of the racial abuse he experienced on field what was that like for you one playing alongside him but also at a time where there was so much conversation around race i got to play with him i was at the game when the shit happened and it was so fucked because you're like we've spoken about race a little bit but it's like this is fucking black superman right and he's been racially vilified in his workplace right he's gone to work copped racial abuse he said something about it and then we decide that he's the bad guy i mean he was gaslit he was told well no you're not by a country it was really hard to watch i'm lucky enough to have a relationship with goodsy actually i'll show you something um so that's me as a kid with goodsy signing something for me yeah

and then getting to play with him my favorite memory ever was we were playing friday night footy against the hawks i did something sick i like got the ball half back dodged someone hit this like 50 meter bullet pass to goodsy on the lead and i just remember it was like the only moment when i was playing footy that i really like soaked up because it was a grand final rematch so there's like 80 000 people at the g couldn't hear shit and i just like looked around i was like if 12 year old me had of knew that this was going to happen at some point i would have lost my shit you know so yeah they're fucking cool getting to play a goodsy he's alleged even better person than he was a footballer and he was an amazing footballer it's interesting that you say

that your 12 year old self if they could see what you achieved at that time that he would have lost his absolute mind because I think sometimes when we get to that point where we we've always dreamt of the goalpost has moved and I hate I mean not to use that as fun but what I mean is is that you can get to the place that you've always dreamt of and then your ambitions have already move forward so you're not able to celebrate when you get there but I guess also for footballers and it's something that we we hear from time to time is that when you come to almost the end of your career or in your case maybe your career was shorter than what you had expected it to be that there's this real identity shift like who am I if I'm not the best footballer if I'm not still

a professional athlete 100% and I like it's so regimented as well so you're actually like living not a real life not that what i'm doing now is real it's fucking weird too but you're like told what to eat you're prescribed your training you're told where to be you're given a diary that's filled for you you almost like don't have autonomy and that obviously regiments you is that the right word that programs you and then you're told every decision you make needs to be about being the best footballer you can be. So do I eat that? Do I stay up and watch that movie? Do I do this? Every decision you make should revolve around being the best sports person you can be. And then when you come out of it, I think a lot of people haven't tipped into the other parts of their life

because you're so inherently competitive as well. You look around at all of your friends and you've gone from like being so elite and so pointy end at something and then you come out with like heaps of soft skills but quite often no degree no trade no work experience because you've been so focused on football and then you look at your friends and if you're 30 odd you know some of them are like i don't know junior partners or they've started their own business and you inherently are competitive so you look around and you go oh fuck I'm like 18 I'm back at the so I think it hits a lot of people really hard and they go from being the top dog you know so ego takes a bruise a big one I think I was in a way lucky that I wasn't amazing because I think

I would have struggled with the transition even more I mean obviously you played professionally but in your time did you experience anything like adam goods did oh yeah i mean fuck it's so quick to say but i just like you see what happens like as soon as someone calls it out and as i've gotten older speaking like i'm 70 as i mature and particularly now i've realized that i've got this platform when it happens to me i call it out not all the time but sometimes because i'm like this is a great opportunity to highlight that kind of no matter your perceived station in the world whatever the word might be racist don't give a fuck you call it out in terms of your media career and so the and i've heard you speak about this before the backlash and the outrage and the racism

is still there how do you deal with that in your own personal life what i do so like i don't have my social media apps on my phone i log in via web browser to then post something and then i'll like leave them behind what i do when i like go onto social media for instance it's kind of like you know you put the hard hat on you got the high viz you're like fuck all right anything anything could pop up online or i don't look because i get smacked if i do and that's not worth it and then the second thing I think is like, well, why would you give air or gas to like voices that you wouldn't go and have a meal with? You know, like I've gotten a relationship with some of these people who like want to have a go at you for whatever it is. So then why would I let their

opinion affect me? Like if it's my best friend and my best friend goes, mate, like then I'll listen. But if it's just some racist bigot, they're a jerk and that's on them. Sometimes I think you can get caught up in being trolled online. And what I mean by that is, I mean, we've both experienced it for very, very, very different reasons. But I remember speaking to Tim Wall from Channel 10 Publicity, and he kind of gave me the best advice. He sort of said that if you were in real life and somebody called something out at you from

across the street and called you horrible names, you'd cross the street and you'd look at that person and think that they were fucking crazy. but if someone does it in your dms if someone slides into your messages on social media it hits so differently and we hold on to that in such a way that we wouldn't if someone did it in real life why do you think that is i don't know but i know that for me it's what i've experienced that when somebody has said something hurtful on social media it has hit me and hurt me so much more it just has a very different weight to it do you guys find that it's like really weird the ones that get you you're like why that one like why is that one got me feeling like shit

I think it's because for me it hits me in a vulnerability that I hate that that person has perceived me to be somebody who I'm not or that I don't think I am and I think that they've misunderstood me oh for sure it's not the place to go for nuance well it's not it's not and like I think the other thing I try to think about as well is like whenever I'm feeling like everyone hates me i then remind myself that people aren't thinking about us like and then i like get into myself i'm like how big's your fucking ego to think like anyone cares about you yeah they're like the three steps for me get over yourself dickhead yeah you made a transition from being a professional athlete to a professional media personality what was that transition like and

how did the opportunity even come up honestly serendipity fucking walked down the street so i was doing some work for mentoring indigenous mentoring organization and i walked in i was like looking after some kids and there was chris johnson a former afl player won three premierships at the brisbane lions when they were unbelievable blackfella as well so i had a you know a relationship with him we knew who each other were he was doing commentary for indigenous radio nirs the afl Indigenous Broadcast which is a community radio right and he just on a whim goes oh would you like to maybe do some special comments and I was like why not anyway that weekend I walked into the box with a couple of fellas did some special comments I was like oh don't mind that so I was

getting paid like next to nothing to do this and for about a year and a half I'd do three games a weekend practicing my broadcasting broadcasting to a lot of people but it wasn't Broadway it wasn't even sort of one street back from broadway it was probably a bit further than that and then yeah triple m got wind of it through brian taylor so i'll forever be grateful to him i walked into a meeting that i didn't realize was a job interview with a fellow called lee simon who started commentary or football broadcasting on fm radio so he like you know jazzed it up made it entertainment rather than the old abc stuff i didn't realize that i was getting interviewed by him and then I walked out and basically two weekends later I was doing special comments on

Triple M and then he goes Tony you didn't have the on-field career to be special comments you need to learn how to call so do the play-by-play stuff so I taught myself how to do that through the help of other people over and over and over again I'd like sit on the couch turn the volume down and commentate the TV they got good at it good enough that Triple M would give me a crack and then yokai footy came along i had a chance to host that and then abc like slid into my dms so you got that dm tony that was when i used facebook three years ago maybe and they said hey i don't know if you've seen but there's a job going at abc we think you'd be great for it i was like because i don't have like linkedin i don't know how to i don't know how to do all that shit and

then basically from there everything's kind of snowballed but yeah it took like it was fair bit of grift has gone into it okay so what are you up to now tony because i heard a whisper that you might be off to of all places khan film festival yeah i'm nipping off to europe for a month so that'll be nice yeah i'm just going along to watch a film i'm like nervous i get nervous like in a room of people so i can't imagine what it's going to be like like i can't tell you how scared i was and this is not comparing one to the other but like walking the carpet at the Logies. I was shit scared of everything and everyone. I can't even imagine what this is going to be like. I've got anxiety already. Do you think people realize when

they're interviewing you that you get nervous or do you think that it just comes across as like being reserved and almost cool, calm and collected? Well, what's your perception? I would never have thought of you as being nervous. So that to me, I mean, it's surprising. I think you really actually exude like a calm shy confidence and I think that that's probably what's really endearing about you I think that's why people love you because whilst you're ridiculously popular and desired in the media you don't really give a fuck and you don't really want to talk about yourself and I think that really is why so many people are drawn to you well that's a massive compliment I think I've gotten better at being able to do the interview shit and give of myself in an interview but still

like protect me if that makes sense i think when i'm with my friends basically what everyone sees is me i just try to value my privacy as much as i can here i am doing a long-form interview but you know what i mean it's like because like i want to be genuine right i don't want to be charlatan or some fake version of myself however i want to protect my core it's kind of funny not comparing myself to like 90s film stars or anything like that but remember like back then no one had access to these people i was literally about to say you're actually like australia's version of keanu reeves i'll take that no but really like popular great at what he does but no one really knows anything about him he just keeps to himself and he's i don't know i guess

a bit of an enigma that fucks off probably watching kirby or enthusiasm that'd be a good guess and so like i think there's something really interesting in like scarcity it's also not a strategy either it's just i would feel quite uncomfortable if everyone knew fucking everything about you are speaking to the wrong people no no but no no but like and everyone's different with that right i mean speaking about your privacy and look i i'm not going to drill into your private life too much but when was the last time you had sex a couple of red hot questions right there okay no what i want to know is is what is it like when you are a media personality where you're trying to navigate dating and you're somebody who really likes to keep your life private but people

obviously have a public perception of who you are and you're one of australia's most desirable men it's tricky of course and it kind of has only gotten trickier it's so funny it's like i just I just don't get it either like why people are kind of like want to like hang out or like hit me up and all that kind of stuff like it's always like amusing to me you don't get it I mean you don't get why people would see you on tv and think I would like to date that guy I mean like it's always I fucking love that I'm a fucking idiot like gotta be careful gotta be mindful that everyone's in it for the right reason which I feel like is definitely something you'd have to think about because I feel like you just literally took over our screens all of a sudden

yeah well do you know what i think just to sidebar quickly i think it's because i started on news breakfast in the middle of the pandemic so people watched abc news breakfast in particular way more than they would have normally and everyone was at home so they got like seven years worth of normal watching in like 10 months so true it's just sorry i'm here again fucking here's some sport not covid well you've just taken on a new venture you've got a new podcast called the pool room tell us about that what like i feel like what aren't you taking over right now tinder oh you just wait you you just you just wait um so the pool room is basically kind of like 10 minute stories told by me and they're kind of like esoteric sporting tales that

you probably haven't heard but they're amazing like i was loving doing it because i was learning so much like the first one's about a japanese marathon runner that went missing in the olympic games in the marathon like and was only found years later how slow was he running to get lost in a marathon i don't think he got lost glacial glacial or like voodoo and the socceroos and how there was a curse over the socceroos done by like a shaman and they didn't qualify for the world cup for like 33 years like weird shit that is great for like if you're in the uber on the way to the pub and you want to rip a yarn to everyone slap that podcast in listen to it for 10 minutes on your journey and then you'll be holding court in no time what happens though when the podcast gets

so popular that everyone's listening to it and someone turns up and he's like tries to drop a knowledge bomb and everyone's like mate i know you just listened to that on the way in that's kind of nirvana i think yeah because it's a fucking yes i know you make up a little bit of a tall tale a bit of a furphy and then someone who doesn't know that it's come from you tells it back to you yeah boy yeah yeah everyone loves that kind of shit because it's like yeah sure it's sport but it's human stories told through the prism of what's also sport that like someone like me who doesn't froth sport would also be interested in listening to it because it's almost like they come into these mysteries of how who done it kind of a thing tony thank you so much

for coming and for doing the pod you have been on our hit list for a very very long time i'm sorry that it took me so long to come and have a yarn but that was really fun all right guys it is time for our suck and our sweet our highlight and our low light of each and every week brit you can go first i'm sure you've thought about it where's your eyebrows i'm an eyelash yeah my suck is that i'm i hate myself don't say my suck is my suck for probably in all honesty for this week last week this week next week is probably gonna be my face because it is burning off it is very painful and it's all i can think about all day because it's so sore it just hurts but also i don't want to scare anyone off from doing this it's not debilitating it doesn't hurt enough that you

can't get on with your day it's just that it's a constant bit of a throb so I don't want anyone to be like I'm never doing that treatment it is very manageable also let's be real it is so 100% fine in comparison to the alternate which is having skin cancer like I would choose this for a good three-week period over the other the alternate option my suite is I have booked some tickets It's up north for a couple of weeks with my boyfriend, Ben. My boyfriend. Ben is coming. As you guys know, I'm very excited because he hasn't been here.

Like I always go to him and he's only been to Australia once when I met him and that was on a football tour thing. So they were very strict with all they could do. And the only thing that Ben saw at that time was the inside of Britt's bedroom. So like, you know, he hasn't really seen Australia. I thought you were going to say the inside of Britt. He saw that too. No, so I'm really excited to show him Australia.

And it's funny. I woke up this morning. And it's so funny because he's Swiss. I forget that foreigners think this, but he sent me a video this morning of some people playing football and kangaroos like playing football and bouncing around on like, obviously an anomaly, obviously like a very rare occurrence for the kangaroos to be playing on the pitch. And I forget that foreigners think that that stuff's normal. They think that you go walk down the street in Sydney and there are kangaroos hopping

around. And I don't think people actually think you go for a walk down Sydney street and that there's a bloody koala on the centre point tower. no I think they do because all that stuff goes viral like one video goes viral and they think it's normal but I had to say to him look like they're not everywhere like we will see them because I'm going to take him to my hometown of Port Macquarie and they are everywhere there like across from my house on the golf courses kangaroos are everywhere in Port Macquarie go down to Green Point down south and they're literally everywhere yeah so I'm super that's my suite and so I'm super

excited I'm literally counting down the days I think it's three weeks well I can't wait to actually meet him properly because I've only met Ben in the club I met Ben only in passing at Brit's house when he was coming over for a booty call one morning on the first yeah the first second booty call yeah I met him on a booty call and now I can meet him as your booty boyfriend yeah and we can go to the club and I'm gonna be so experienced I'm gonna burn a hole in that dance floor anyway okay my sunk for the week is that I am absolutely fucking wrecked and I know that that is not very exciting to listen to but when I tell you that the training schedule at the moment for dancing is like 25 to 28 hours a week that's just on top of my normal work so I've still been doing radio

full-time job like that 30 hours a week is a lot yeah it's been mental so that I've still been doing radio I'm still doing podcasting I haven't been into the Tony May offices as much but my sister has been doing an absolute rock star stellar job of like compensating for that sort of work but it's been a huge undertaking to do this show and I don't want to say that that's the sucks it sounds like I'm not enjoying it I'm absolutely fucking loving it I'm loving getting back into exercise I'm loving dancing but I am truly exhausted I have found muscles in my body that I in my 37 years of life never even knew it existed but I am looking forward to having abs on my forehead by the time this thing finishes do you think you um stay on the fitness train after

this like you feel like you've gotten to a point where now yeah because it's such hard work to start so now you started and I know we joke about it but I mean I never really got back into fitness after having kids I would do like little random bursts of it but I never got back into any sort of consistent fitness it's so nice to be exercising again and feeling like how invigorated you feel from that and like how good you feel yeah so even though I'm exhausted on the flip side of that is like I feel really good I don't know it's a weird oxymoron anyway my sweet for the week though is that it's all happening my sweet for the week is that we've had costume rehearsals that the show has been announced that I can talk about it finally and I don't have to be like hey guys

I've got this really exciting announcement stay tuned in three two one I'm an influencer and I'm announcing something really soon so I'm just excited that I can talk about it because this has been this huge part of my life that I've been doing for the past four weeks or five weeks well You better win because I've put bets on a sports bet. Have you? Yeah, I dropped heaps of money. How much do I win? Like how much would you win if I win?

You're not paying much. No, I'm joking. I haven't even seen it. But I would put bets on you. I would think that if there is a sports bet running, it would be considerable for me to win because it's quite an unlikely occurrence. There would 100% be a sports bet. There's a sports bet on everything.

Can you bet on yourself? Yeah. Queen. All right. On that note, anyway, guys, we hope that you loved the episode. You can join in the discussion at Life Uncut Discussion Group. you can also join us on tiktok you know instagram all all the stuffs we're gonna be talking some more dances of your dances and stuff yeah life on cup podcast we're gonna be doing tiktok dances

because we're dancers now well i'm not but i will shake my booty behind you doing the drive you'll be my backup dancer we're ready and that is it from us you know the drill tell your mama tell your dad no tell your mama tell your dad i tell your sister and your dog and i can't say it if i Don't say it. Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your sister. Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your sister, tell your friends, tell your dog. And share the love.

Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your – no, what is it? Tell your mum. Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog. Thanks, Keisha. I've only said it 500 times. Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friends and share the love because we love love. Even that sounded weird to me.

I was like, are you sure that's it? I know you tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friends. Why would you tell your dog before you tell your friends? Well, that's why it's funny. We're not going to get the downloads from them. are we? Delilah listens. Have you seen that picture with her with the headphones on? She critiques me every time. Tell your friends to follow. Anyway, we're

going to go. Alright, bye.