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You've got a pontoon boat. Yeah. And

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you take guys out that are disabled in wheelchairs that probably don't have regular access

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to getting out in the water. Yeah, that's right. One of the guys that you

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took out, you recently took him somewhere else afterwards. Yeah. I

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was like, well, I want to take him to the... You've made it popular. Man on

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Bloke on bloke. Couple of blokes on that boat. It could be turning guys gay

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I love seeing the old blokes and their discomfort in being able to deal with

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it. And they're kind of the guys you're going up to. When a bloke like you comes up

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Oh yeah, they're very uncomfortable. Gay test. A lot of people think

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I am gay. I'm not, but I suggest anyone that wants to know

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Welcome to the Better Bloke Podcast. I'm Matty. I'm Rob. And

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we're just a pair of average blokes on a mission to try and be a

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We're going to speak about all things highs and lows of what it feels like to be a

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bloke, plus speak to some legends along the way about what it takes to be a better

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bloke. Let's get stuck in. Welcome

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back to the Better Bloke Podcast. Now

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we have an absolute weapon of a bloke with us. I've got some stats

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here. So he is not only is he a household name

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throughout Australia, he's a leader within the community. He

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is a bloke that brings a heap of laughs to hundreds of thousands worldwide, a

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generous man, not only with his time, but also

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with what he gives back to the community. And he's the current world

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record holder for harpooning the elusive three

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In the house. Thanks for having me, gentlemen. I appreciate it.

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We got it. The reason we've got you on

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is everyone knows who you are as a character, but

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you also don't hide who you are as a bloke. And what we do, obviously with

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Better Bloke Project is we like to speak to blokes that are fucking

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Yeah, you could. Depends. Crushing

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You're doing some good shit. Yeah. I would say that's crushing

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it. I guess, yeah, different perspective. Look, if you say

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financially, no, I'm not crushing it.

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Happy, kinda. But

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yeah, I don't know about crushing it. I don't want to burst

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a bubble, but yeah, like, yeah, I guess. Yeah.

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I'm crushing it. The whole thing is

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like we, so the better, like we like to have honest conversations and

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that's what you've just done is exactly what. We want to have bonus conversations.

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And it's probably more the point that people probably look

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at you and be like, he's crushing it. Right. So being able

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to relate to like who you are, just having a chat. Yeah. Would

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you say that like what you're, you're doing in

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terms of your work, your content, you're giving back, that you've

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been able to get at least fulfillment and being content with what

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Yeah. A hundred percent. That's been like the most

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rewarding. Yeah. Parts of it is being

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able to make people laugh and then give back, you know,

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I think if you enjoy what you're doing, that's kind of crushing

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All right. Cool. So he's crushing it. Okay. I'm crushing it.

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So a lot of people know, Willem

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Pelfish. Yeah. This big internet persona

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of a character. I think it's probably good to say that that

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is exactly what it is. It's a character. Yeah. Because you walked in

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Yeah. You're shitting yourself a little bit. So I had

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to do a quick pant change, but you know, I appreciate that. But

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That like that persona is not you as

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No. Uh, not at all. Um,

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a few beers in me. Yeah. Yeah. I'll fuck any man that's

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in front of me or, you know, say your dog or whatever. But

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yeah, generally now it's just people come up to me in public all

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the time. What's going on? You fucking dog. Like, and it's like, Oh fuck. Just

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say, Hey, what's going on? Like it gets a bit. But

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Did that take some adjusting for you to do? Yeah. Because obviously

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it wasn't a, it wasn't really a slow burn for

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Yeah, it was pretty hectic,

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really. It's kind of surreal in a way, you know?

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Yeah, very surreal. Like, still

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sometimes now I'm like, what the fuck? Like, how is this even possible? I

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get paid to do what I do, which

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is kind of weird. And then the position I'm in now with Adrian,

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with LMCT Plus and all that sort of stuff, it's like, Like,

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mate, there's people that would give their legs to work with a bloke like

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Taking it back to when it first started, I guess, was there intentions?

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You probably didn't expect it to go this big and this wild, but,

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you know, there was a point where you decided you were going to make some videos, chuck them on the internet.

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my friends have a laugh, pretty much. Because I had a personal Facebook page

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and I was like, oh, I'll just put them to there. And then

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someone said, make a Facebook page. I was like, yeah, OK, make an

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Instagram. And then it just kind of followed from there. And

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then like three videos in, it just kind of went skits. And

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then the merch came along. And then when I did the merch, I was like,

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holy fuck. Like, what is going on? This is psycho. It's

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Yeah. It's, um, yeah, it's mind blowing for sure. Yeah.

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At what stage did you sort of go from being

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like, I'm just going to do these stupid videos to, I

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guess, really realizing that you have some sort of power,

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like you have people watching you and you've, you've used that in

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a bunch of different ways. A lot of it's in the giving back, but you

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know, you talk about some pretty real issues too. And that's where. I

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see it as less of the character. When you jump on your stories and talk

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about like a specific thing that's bugging you or a specific thing

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that you're seeing out there in society, was

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there a point where you realized, hey, I got maybe a bit of responsibility

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I guess. Yeah, I

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don't know. Like before the power fish, I was a disabled

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support worker. So, and then aged care. So like, I always

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kind of, I don't know, I guess I

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cared a little, you know, cause if you look at anyone

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in that industry that works in there, the money's not amazing. Like, and

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the people that work in that industry are like so kind hearted and just beautiful

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Like care, have like give back in a way. Yeah, I

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guess so. I started seeing all this money coming in and I was like, fuck, like,

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I want to do something with it, you know what I mean? While this lasts

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kind of thing. And it made me feel so good. You

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know, like, you know, you go out and you give $5,000 of

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groceries to someone or something and like, Yeah. That

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feeling you get there is way better than spending $5,000 on yourself

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A hundred percent. I think that's a pretty special thing. The fact that you,

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before this whole sort of internet fame and whatnot, you were

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already doing good stuff in the community with, like you just said, disability work

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and aged care work. Yeah. What you were doing with giving back to the

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community, it's not Like, Oh, look at me. I'm

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doing social media. Good shit. Like you're actually just a good

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bloke that would have done it anyway. It's just that you've, you've found fortune.

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You've gone. Yep. Sweet. I'm going to do what I can with what

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I've got for as long as I can. Yeah. It's you've capitalized

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on, I guess. What,

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what you've gotten. Yeah. That's not just for getting views and all that sort of stuff. You're doing

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A lot of people do say that, but then there's probably 90% of

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people that are like, Like, you

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can do good things without filming it. And it's kind of like, yeah, I can.

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But at the same time, that's kind of how my whole business

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works, is kind of like including my audience. Like, they're

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participating in, you know, they help towards giving

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money to these people or whatever, you know. And that's why I film

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it. And it's so obvious it's why. And like, I can watch people's videos where

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they do the same sort of stuff. And like, I can see straight off the bat, like,

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And I get it. It's very apparent that the ones that do like, all you need to look at and you, if

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you're watching a video and you're like, fuck, this is cringe. Yeah. You

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know, it's not coming from the heart. Well, I don't get that from, from your shit, which

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is. No, I appreciate that. And I'm a pretty good judge of character in

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Yeah. And like, you know, just because people

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are doing it for clicks, who cares? Because at the end of the day, like

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that person is still receiving something, even if it is to, you

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know, for them to get clicks, you know, regardless if everyone

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went out and did it just for clicks, good on them, go fucking do it. They're still

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I can draw some comparisons to like Bloke's advice, right? Because obviously

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we grew to Infamy and you

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know there was a lot of clap back on offending people like all

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this shit we did, but we did do a lot of good shit too. We raised a

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hell of a lot of money and had this platform where these boys could help.

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So sort of morally and ethically, like we're able

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to look at it and be like, Oh, we're a positive force

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here. We're doing a lot more good than bad. Yeah. But we still get

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And like. No, not shitting on these people,

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but if they got a normal job, they're living their life. Like they're

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not helping many people at all. So yeah, we might take some people off

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by the way we do things, or maybe you won't agree with everything, but you've got

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to understand the big picture is you're helping

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so many people and it's just a

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very positive thing to do. Yeah. And they, I don't know, I

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I don't think it'll ever change. I think the internet's just getting

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more ruthless as time goes on. If you're, like,

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if you've got thin skin, you are not meant for the internet. The

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internet is fucking hectic. The amount

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of, like, the messages, like, you know, death threats

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or kill myself or, you know, that's why I try and

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keep my life private. I don't show my misses

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on video or, you know, I try

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and keep everything very, very private. because then it's just giving them

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ammunition. I don't want to give them that shit because then it just gives them something

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to, because eventually they'll say something that's going to trigger me, you

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know, and a lot of things don't, but they will get something that will trigger you

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one time. But yeah, like the internet, there's just, I

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don't know, man. It's kind of like, there's no consequences to, to

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what you say on there. You know what I mean? You read it

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every day, some of the comments, like, fucking, like, if you look at some of the

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people that are saying this shit, it's like, Jesus, like, have a

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Do you find yourself getting more wrapped up reading? Because I'm sure, like,

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I've gone right through your comments and that, and usually I'll try and throw

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some very... Yeah. I mean, it's,

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it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,

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it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,

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it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's

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a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,

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it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,

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...hectic ones come from. You know, the middle-aged,

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Mid-life crisis kind of guys, you know. And I get it. And like people

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hate the world and they're not happy or whatever. And

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it helps them. And fuck if it helps them, good on them. Keep doing it. But

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yeah, I'm just not really going to take it on board as much, you know. Yeah.

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You seem to have quite a lot of empathy for people doing

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it tough. So obviously even in those guys that

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are having a crack, like you can see that they

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got some shit going on. A hundred percent. You can see it

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in, you know, the groups that you're trying to help, especially like

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these older people, stuff like that. And you've

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spoken about it as well. Like when you're talking

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to people, not trying to base their life, the shit they're seeing on

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social media. What do you think are some of the

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core problems we're seeing in society? Some of the shit people are facing in

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2024, I think that inflation and just the cost of living is psycho.

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It is absolutely psycho. And like, if you look at humanity, like

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humans, right, we all, we have hope, you

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know, and I'm not a big religious guy at all, but if

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I'm in a cancer bed and I'm terminal, I'm dying, I'm going to start

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believing in God. You know what I mean? So I think with

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social media, that a lot of people on there aren't

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happy with their own lives. They're doing it tough financially. They can

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go on social media, they can look at these people and it kind of takes

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them away from reality and then puts them

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in this mindset of, you know, well, fuck, I

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want that. Why can't I have that? You know, and I try and say to everyone that,

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like, not everyone can be a boss. You

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know, those life coaches that say, hey, you can fucking be a boss. You

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can do anything you put your mind to. That is the biggest load of shit. You're going

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to do anything that they allow you to, like literally. If

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we're all rich, who are we going to have washing our

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car? Who are we going to have working at McDonald's at Hungry Jack's? It's

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just like, there has to be the lower class, middle class, high

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Yeah, don't get me started on life coaches. Yeah. Holy

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moly. The worst thing about them is that if

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that's their best business ever is their life coaching thing. Yeah.

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It's like you are in no position of authority to

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But that's how much like people are clinging on

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to hope and that is so desperate. Do you know what I mean? To be

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successful and have that status of a a Lamborghini or

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a Ferrari or a mansion and all that sort of shit. But the

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biggest thing I ever learned was you can have money,

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but at the end of the day, it's momentarily, it's

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not forever lasting happiness. You can go

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out and, I don't know, you can go to the fucking shop and buy something that

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you would never buy for five grand and you'd buy it and then

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you'd be like, oh yes, I bought this. And then the next day

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you're like, well, this is shit. Like, yeah,

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I don't know. I just think that money is just bullshit. It's not going to

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make you happy for a little or it depends on the person as well. Like, and

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from what I'm saying is like, my judgment is, is from what I see

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on social media. And I see people that are actually wealthy that aren't actually, you

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know, it's not all flaunting it like that, not flaunting, like it's

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not bullshit. They own this stuff. Like, but are they really happy? Do

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I don't know. I think that's the thing with social media in

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that aspect. It's all a whole lot real. And you've

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got all these people who are looking up to,

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you know, the rich, the wealthy, the famous, and they're like, fuck,

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I want this. I want that. I want that because they've got this. They're

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not saying the work that it took to get that. They're not saying if they're actually

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happy behind those photos that they're posting. And it, everyone

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forgets that, that, you know, it's, it's not.

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all Instagram or, you know, social media, like real

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Nah. And that, that's a big thing as well. Like I wish more people would

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talk about, you know, their own mental health issues or

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whatever. Like, cause I know a lot of people that like are big on social media, but

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they struggle so bad mentally, but they, they never talk

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about it. I think it would just help so much and it

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would make people feel as if they're not alone and they're not any different to

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everyone else, you know, instead of feeling like an outcast because they're not

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I think that that's something that sort of has given

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you, I guess, more ears because of how

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open you are with talking about like, you've spoken very comfortably about your struggles.

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It's so fucking hard to like. talk about your

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own personal issue. But you have to look at the big picture and

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the reward of that is that even if 100 people

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hear that and there's 20% of those people have issues, they're

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like, you know what, fuck this guy, he's talking about it

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and he's saying it to random people. I can put

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my hand up, I can tell my dad or I can tell my mum and

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not feel embarrassed or like

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Yeah. It's pretty powerful when we've, we've spoken about

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this before with a few of the other boys we've had on. We can go

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out there and we can talk to just say like the other week, we spoke to a hundred

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people in a room and we did all of this stuff, you

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know, through the Better Blake project. The message a

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lot of the time isn't what's being said. It's who

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says it. So you could say the same message that we're saying, but

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because it's coming from you, it just hits so differently.

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Yeah, I can see that for sure, 100%. Yeah,

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Yeah, big time. Like when Volkanovsky started, you

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know, talking about some of his struggles, one of the hardest men on the planet, right?

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And he's like, I got the demons. Yeah, he's got demons. And he's

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talking about that. And, you know, I think you can relate

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to it. Like that bloke is way tougher than me. He's

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stronger, he's got the willpower, he's got everything and he's struggling.

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I think when people with that sort of platform

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or respect talk about it, it

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I would love if some

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of these worldwide hackers could just hack into social media

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and just Fucking delete everything. And

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then everything's just wiped and it has to start all again. Just

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a big reset. Fuck, man, I've met

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some people in real life from social media, their egos

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are so fucking big and it's like, what? You

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fucking, you got followers on Instagram, you're not an A-list

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celebrity, man, like, calm down. But yeah,

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some people handle that shit a lot different, you know what I mean? Like some people might

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get popular on social media and then they just change. And

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they just only wanna hang around popular people and fucking suck

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Yeah. Yeah. Look, you know, my views on clout chases, I'm

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not a big fan of it. Just be a good fucking

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person. It's as simple as that. It doesn't matter if

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you've got half a million followers, if you've got 3 million followers, if

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you're a shit bloke or a shit person, you're a shit person.

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But that can be like, you know, due to their upbringing as

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well. Like their parents who they've been surrounded by their whole life and

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they don't know any better, you know, and they're not educated on different things.

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And that's what I say to a lot of people about mental health. Like, you know, there

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are people that don't suffer from mental health and, you know, they

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don't understand it and they aren't, you

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know, talking to their mates that are struggling with it

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or whatnot. And it's not necessarily their fault, because they're not educated on

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that subject of mental health, you know. So you can't, I

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don't really blame people for not understanding, you

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know what I mean? But the more that people talk about it, the more

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it will educate and finally get in some people's ears. Because some people, you

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know, you will talk about it on social media, and I get it. Like, they

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probably watch it, and then they fucking, they just keep, because they don't want to

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fucking, they don't understand it. But if they see it enough, you

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Do you find if people are saying that too much though, that, cause we, we see a lot of

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it on blogs advice where if people are

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posting the same, I guess, like trending

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topic about, you know, Oh, I'm down in the dumps about this. It

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then creates as good as it is people talking about it, then creates like a bit

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of a, a sheep mentality

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where everyone goes, Oh fuck, they're getting a few likes on this. I'm now going to where

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they may not necessarily, I'm not to say They are feeling that way or not.

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You never know when it's just text, but it sort of creates somewhat

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100%, that's a trend. I've seen it.

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And I can tell when people aren't talking legitimately about it.

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And at the end of the day, I think it's just the same kind of

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thing as giving back. Even though they're doing

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it for clicks, it's still talking about it. You know what

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I mean? So they may be fooling some people, but they're

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I think the healthy way to do it is kind of what we both do. Bloke's

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advice isn't a mental health page, right? It's

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bloke culture, it's cars, the boats, the tits, whatever. But

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then after all that entertainment, you know, it's a safe space

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to have these difficult combos. Much the same, you're making these funny

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videos, you're engaging people, you're getting people to know who you

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are as a bloke, and then you can give them that little sprinkle of, you

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know, what you're talking about. Yeah. And I think that's a

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more genuine way of going about it. And if All

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these people that are doing the other stuff to entertain people or

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build a platform just had a little sprinkle to say,

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hey, we're all relatable here. We're all humans. I

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think that's, you know, getting that conversation started so

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the people that aren't educated can

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start looking at that journey. Yeah. That's what it is too. It's

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a, you know, we're not taught it in schools how to have like

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good, stable mental health and have a good self care. I

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Yeah, they're definitely like my little fella is definitely learning a lot more about

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sort of talking about emotions and feelings and what not and

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But you know, like my dad, he's old school.

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Like he, he doesn't understand it. He's never, he probably

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has, but he's just like, he's old school. He's like, you know what, get

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on with it. But some people just can't get

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on with it, you know? And like. I think the best thing to do is just fucking hit

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it straight on and like, you know, address that situation

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that's going on, you know, and don't be ashamed or

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And that's the big thing. As much as, and particularly

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in the bloke side of things, everyone is

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too afraid of thinking what their mates are going to think of them. But like

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we've said it so many times, your boys would rather hear

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Yeah. And it's like, when, when you put it that way, it sort of makes everyone

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go like, fuck, okay. Maybe we should start talking a

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bit more. Yeah. No, that's very true. Obviously it's

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Yeah. It's very, very hard to talk to, even if it's your mates, you

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know, but it's, fuck, you got to choose. Do you want, do

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you want to be happy? You know what I mean? Like, if you want to

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be happy, you'll be happy and you'll get to there, but. It's about making

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that first step and putting, like, a plan in progress, you know, and take

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day by day, you know. And that's the other thing, like, talking

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about putting things into a plan and then you're like, all right, I'll go to

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the doctor and the doctor puts you in a mental health plan. And then you go to a psychiatrist

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and the psychiatrist just throws all this shit at you. And you're just like,

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fuck, I want all these pills. Oh, yeah, take this, take that, take this. And

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then you're just like, fuck. Look, sometimes medication works

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for some people, sometimes it doesn't, but I just think, like,

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the whole thing needs to just turn on its

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head. But there's too much money involved, you know, and that's

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the issue. Like, if you were to go to a doctor and talk about

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it and say, look, I'm feeling depressed, I've got anxiety, panic

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and all this sort of stuff. And then they said, okay, well, how much exercise are

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you doing? What are you eating? How much alcohol are you drinking? Do

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you do any drugs? You know, instead of, all right,

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here's a referral for a psychiatrist. And then you go there and they

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just fucking throw this shit down your throat, you know, so. But

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It's not going to change from the system. But I think if we

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educate some people, like we get messages constantly and

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all those things you just said, the exercise, the drinking. People

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come to us and they're like, oh, I'm feeling fucking awful. I'm

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at the edge. And we're like, are you doing

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this? And they are doing all the things they know

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they're not supposed to do. Like how

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about changing those things for a month and then just let's

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start there. Can you change those things for a month? Take some accountability

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of the situation. Because if you're eating shit, you're drinking too

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much, you're not getting outside, you're probably going to

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feel like shit. Yeah. So there's something to be

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said about people fucking taking a bit of accountability over

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A hundred percent. But at the same time, it's like, you can only, you

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can't help people that don't want to help themselves. And like, I've experienced that so

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much in my life with friends and whatnot, you know, having alcoholic

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friends and. try and help them and

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it gets to the point where it's just like you have to just cut

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cut it and cut them off and just be like fucking if they come

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good they'll come good but me staying here and putting all

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my time and energy into this while they just keep you

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know just keep getting in that cycle it's just like it's not

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Yeah it's a tough predicament. Moving on

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from there Something that you

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were very well known for, which it surprises

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me that you haven't been awarded from, I guess, the Australian government

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for this. Oh shit. Yeah. This like, this is, this is

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how big you are in this scene. Yeah. You've almost normalized

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or made it, I wouldn't say acceptable because it

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is acceptable, but you've made it popular. Man on man action.

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Bloke on bloke. It's funny. This

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is real funny. You said that. Like I have had messages off kids. It's

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not kids, but you know, high school students or other kids, but

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they're like, you know, they'd say like, you, you, you've helped, you've made

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it easier for me to come out and like talk to

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my mates about it, you know, because everyone at school saying bloke

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on bloke, or you ever had a man like, you know, and it's created this

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kind of I don't know, something around

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it where people have all just had a laugh. But at the same time, I've had the thing

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where... But you know the one thing, I've never had a gay person come

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No, because as much as you're doing it in a humorous way, you

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are normalizing it in exactly what you just said with

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the messages you're getting. Like you're making it... It not that

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this day and age, there shouldn't be a fucking issue with it, but then obviously there

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is still some issues going around some people, but you're making it

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acceptable for guys to comfortably come out cause they can go, Oh

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I could be turning guys gay as well.

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You ever thought about that? I mean, I'm having those thoughts right now.

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It's normalizing it. I love seeing the old blokes and their

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discomfort in being able to deal with it. Like, I think that's the

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best bit. Cause it's like, you know, my dad's same as yours. Yeah.

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Hard country boy, right? And they're

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kind of the guys you're going up to. And whether or not they're

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getting a little bit more liberal in those thoughts, when a bloke like

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you comes up and starts talking your shit about that, they're

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uncomfortable. Oh yeah, they're very uncomfortable. And it's

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funny to watch, but for the younger generation, it's probably

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like a point to be like, oh, I'm not like that. Like,

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Yeah. And a lot of people think I am gay, but I was like, nah,

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I'm not. Like I have kissed a dude, I pashed a dude. And

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that was so fucking hectic. That was just before with Matty, wasn't

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it? It was so brutal, man. Like I was so drunk, but

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I knew what I was doing. And I

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wanted my mate to take a photo of it so I could post it on my water

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We'll do a handy later. Like who's giving, who's receiving.

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All right. Yeah. Sweet. It's going to be a quick one. I'm

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Yeah, go on, carry on. Anyway, there was this gay guy at this Eddie's

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Crub House just in Cooley here. And, um, he was cool as man.

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It's fucking not my kind of guy. Cause I'm not really into

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Anyway, I told him, I said, can we just kiss? Because I just wanted to

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peck. But next minute, it was just like a full, and

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it went for like 20 seconds. It was full on. And

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after, I was like, holy shit, my mate. He was like,

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what the fuck? What's going on? And I was like, I don't know. And then I went

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home, and I posted it. And then I went home and woke up

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to all these missed calls and stuff. And my

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mom was like, fuck. What the hell is this? She wasn't angry,

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she was cool as a bat, but she was like, I didn't know you were

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gay. And that moment when

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I woke up, I was like, yes, I know I'm not gay,

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I'm not kidding, man. Because I tell you, look, if

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you, it doesn't matter if you're drunk, right? But if you're out

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and you're kissing a girl, right? You're passionate. Nine

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Anyway. So then, cause I didn't get a boner. So

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Nah, man, trust me. Cause

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he recorded it video as well. So I've had to, I've

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watched it back heaps, but the footage is now gone.

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Yeah. And I was like, nah, I didn't enjoy it. But, um,

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yeah, I suggest anyone that wants to know if

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they're going, I'll just go out there and pass your bloke. You'll know straight

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Oh, um, something like, obviously you

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do like power fish as a character, but you do actual characters

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Yeah. We fuck around with like these, um, latex SFX

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kind of masks and stuff like that. And. Yeah, no,

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yeah, there's a few. But people are weird, man. They get

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so attached to something they like. And then if you get

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rid of it, and then you bring something else in new, they're like, no, I don't want fucking that.

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I don't want this. It's like when all

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my content at the start was all 100% legit,

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right? But then I got to a position where

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I was kind of like, I was talking about mental health and I was,

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you know, I started having regret and

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then I started to feel sorry for these people that I'm going up and pesterizing, right?

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So I was like, all right, let's just fucking stage it.

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Like at the end of the day, it's entertainment. And

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as long as we're making a few people laugh, who gives a fuck? But I don't want to really go out

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there anymore and fuck people's days. So

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yeah, people got really, really up. Like they still kept watching it

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and it helped the videos when they all comment going fake, fake, fake, bullshit,

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fake. It just made it go more viral. So, um,

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but yeah, like what was

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Well, I was going to say it's hard now cause

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you're such a recognizable figure. Like we're in Tweed, it's not a big place.

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Nah, and that's why we had the masks to do other stuff like that. Um,

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but yeah, it's so funny cause like people would even say

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fake when the video was real. And then

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it was like, I want to, I want to eventually do a video

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where I show all the videos and I'll be like, this is real, this

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is real, this is fake. Cause people would just be like, people

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are weird and they're kind of. Not very intelligent, some of the people that

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Yeah, they're fucking space cadets. You

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know what? Fuck them all. I like the people that support

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me. You know, I think I've got a

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pretty good crowd. I've got some fuckwits in there too, but they're

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all, all there for the journey. And, um, yeah,

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to those fuckwits get fucked. Suck

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That's beautiful. One of, um, one

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of the things which, and it's, it's only just recently started resurfacing. I've

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seen, I don't know if Ladbob will repost it or something like that,

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but you've got a pontoon boat. Yeah.

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What is it? Is it a pontoon boat? Is it a pontoon? It's a pontoon boat.

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It's a pontoon boat. And you take guys out that are

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disabled in wheelchairs that probably don't have regular access to getting out

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in the water. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. One of the guys that you took

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Yeah. So that was really cool, man. Like,

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yeah. People email and they say, Hey,

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can we come out in the boat? And then we G it up. Anyway. So. He

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came out with his mom and then his mate and then we started

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talking with his mom and she said that, you

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know, does his Johnson still work? Has he got a sex life, you know? Because

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it's still normal. They're people, you know? And she'd

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never really talked about it with anyone. And then I was like, well,

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I want to take him to the brothel. And we were fishing at Jack Evans. I

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could see the brothel. It was right there. You can see the

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doors and everything. I was like, let's take him there. And she goes,

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yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, let's take him. And that was amazing, man.

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And he was so excited. Obviously, because he'd been in that wheelchair, he

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had a car accident, major quadriplegic. He's

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not verbal, but he could move his leg and a little bit

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of his arm. And that was cool. We

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took him there and didn't give him any notice, just took him there. And they accommodated him

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and set up a bed downstairs. And we had to carry him in

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and put him on the bed. Then obviously

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everyone else left, but me and him. And

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then I sat in the corner and watched

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her have sex with him and I started jerking off and no,

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that didn't happen. We put him on the bed

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and then we left and then we let them do their thing. Yeah. But

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unfortunately, rest in peace to that gentleman. He's recently

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Yeah, at least we got to give him a little bit of something, because

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he loved it, and the lady said he loved it. But

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yeah, she went into full detail, actually, and the mother passed on the

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information to us. And we're like, shit, this is. Yeah,

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There is. Well, they've actually, Maddy recently just learned that that

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used to be part of the NDIS. Oh, nice. Took it off. They've taken

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it away now, which yeah. I don't know

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if I agree with taken away. Cause it's, that's

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What? So the carer has to jerk them off. What

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Man, I'll tell you, when I was doing aged care, just around the corner

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at Kirra here, actually, and this fucking guy, man, this old guy,

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and because when you'd have to shower the men, obviously if they're not circumcised, you'd

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have to pull the foreskin back and clean their

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jaunts and their knob. Yeah, and

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he's fucking grabbed my hand, trying to put it on his... He

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touched right at you. Man, I was like, fuck, am I just going to

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have to jerk this guy off, like, get him to leave

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When they get that old, like, do you still finish? Or are you just doing it for

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They're the most corniest, active, sexually sexual

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Oh, they are fucking... Yeah. No

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shit. Like the amount of affairs that go on when the couples are

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Well, they reckon nursing homes are like really bad for STDs too.

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It's a fucking swingers club in there. Yeah. And do you know that some of

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those medications they do for Alzheimer's and stuff, it kick drives,

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like the sex drive, it ramps it right up. The actual meds are making them horny.

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So, man, I was at her 80th birthday party a couple years and there

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was this chick 85 years old. She was

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randy. She was on the hunt at this party. You could tell that.

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Would you? Oh, probably definitely not. I would have broken her, I

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reckon. If it was dark? Look,

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You can say that I'm not going. She,

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no, she, she was grinding on some old blokes on the dance floor. So I

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Wow. Incredible. See, there you go. It doesn't discriminate. You

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know, we all have needs. Whether you're, your body's not

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able to, to, to walk around like all of us or, um,

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Oh, I just lay there anyway. Starfish mode. It's

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Oh God. So what do you

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reckon is on the cards for you? Like, are you just like coming

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up with the new content ideas? You want to keep this thing going? You're doing with your

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I'm just cruising along, man. And,

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um, I don't know, maybe I was thinking like, I

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don't know, I'd done a stand-up comedy set last Sunday

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in Brisbane and then I was kind of like, fuck, that

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could be kind of fun. Just going up and just like, you

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roast a crowd and then you can just like. tell stories

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and make people laugh. That's another way to make people laugh, I guess. So

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maybe that, but I don't know. I'm just going to keep hanging

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on to fucking Adrian's dick while he drags me along. How

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Yeah, because that's what I mean. It's a character and he's fucking

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weird as shit, man, with like Dicks

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Real hectic. They full get their dicks out

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Nah, nah, nah, nah. Troy's

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not very large. Adrian's kind of. Average. It's

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kind of got a good color. Like it's kind of tanned. You know, I

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He's got that going on. I reckon, I heard you have

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Yeah, we'll get them out. It's not much, but you know, I

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We had, um, we had the best dick in Australia come on

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I went to school with him. Matty went to school with him. So he's seen like the

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Is he doing the OnlyFans? Yeah, he's doing, he just won- He's tall?

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He's tall, yeah. Yeah, that's a guy then, yeah. Yeah, big bloke, yeah. We went

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to school together, so I saw it when he was 14. Oh, cool. But it wasn't weird, because I

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was 14. But- Thanks for clarifying that. Yeah, you gotta clarify

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that shit. Yeah, you do. But he just won the

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best male performer in the big dick category at the

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Pornhub Awards. So he's internationally- Wow, get fucked. Yeah,

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he's top tier. Oh, he be making some good money. He's making good money. But man,

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I'm pretty sure you could get surgery to increase the girth

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But a lot of women don't like massive cocks, man. I wouldn't

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know. No, that's why you have to go into the industry. Because you've got to think about this, right?

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I've only really discovered this in the last, what, fucking five

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years. But a penis does nothing for a woman.

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It doesn't, it doesn't do anything. The penis going in and out of the vagina is

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That's exactly right. And the whole time I'm here thinking like all

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Still, it's, it's a decent thing. That is a full size wine

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Oh shit. That's a wine bottle. Yeah. That's a fuck.

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It's weird, man. The knob goes real small. Usually the knob's

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He's got red hair, eh? He's a bit gingery. Yeah, I can see his pubes

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See, that's the gay test right there. You need to

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take that to know if you're gay or not.

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Nah, but yeah, nah, I'm not even kidding. I didn't even realise that about the,

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Look at this. Sex tips with Powerfish. There we

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Think about it. Like, man, all my ex chicks must have just been

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fake and everything. That's amazing. But you finished, so that's

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It's just going on a tangent. This

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On that note, I think we're going to round this one out. But thanks so much

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for coming in, man, from like talking about that heavy stuff to

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your life lessons for taking guys to brothels. I think it's

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I'm super excited to see what. You've got coming

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out and where are you going to go with

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Don't have anything coming. I'll say this quick. We literally,

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because I don't have a team, it's literally me and a filmer. And

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then it will be like, we work week to week. What are we doing this week?

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We literally just think on the spot what we're doing pretty much, you know, so.

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It's kind of good having it that way, but I kind of wish I did have like a full team, you

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know, cause then you could have better production and whatnot. But yeah,

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This, this has changed your life saying all this, hasn't it? It's

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It's fucking ridiculous in here, man. Yeah. It takes some

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of the load off you. You know what we should have done? We should have done it naked. I'm

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No, we just blur the crutch. I'll do it. You come back and do another one.

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I mean, I'm open to it. I'm open to it. Can we do it in summer? I

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don't have the length to do it in winter. We'll

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No, well, I've never seen it. Oh, maybe there is a podcast that do it, but. I

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don't know, because it'd make the conversation like, you know, you'd be

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Power fish, fully exposed. Yeah. Let's roll it back in a couple

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Probably, not sure. Not sure. You gotta wait for the F on

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it. Cool. Holy shit. We need to call that one. We do.

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Make sure you check out his videos. It's fucking awesome to

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see some of the stuff he's doing with the boys and girls and the old people

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as well. And disabled people. All of them. It's all in the comments. Make

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