yeah let's i mean i'd hate to bring up this particular memory but um luton on the final day um tell tell me about that how did it go down

uh It was a strange day because all season we'd struggled a bit but we'd never been in the bottom three at any point.

All we needed was a point and we just went out and played the game as we normally do.

Never in our wildest dreams did we ever thought we'd get beat.

They had a young goalkeeper, well they didn't have a young goalkeeper, Tony Gordon I think was played for them.

About ten minutes before the end of the game, they brought on a lad called Radhi Antish, who was brilliant at dead ball kicks, corners, free kicks, penalties.

The ball came over and I punched it clear and it dropped at his feet and he hit a perfect half-volley right to the bottom corner.

What was it like that meeting with Peter Swales when the club were basically saying we don't think you're going to be fit enough again we're going to move you on

Yeah.

For basically a whole day, they're trying to get in different ways.

It's all tunneled.

They know that there's booby traps, uh, things like feces in jars, and bricks and nails and things like that, really terrible, horrible things, uh, that could very much injure a person.

Someone breaks through, uh, uh, takes a ladder up to the second story, breaks through a window, and finds Homer Collier, uh, doubled up as he always is in the corner.

Ah.

There are heartbreak songs.

Uh, and there's fantastic singing and oud playing and things that you don't, that I don't really have the vernacular to describe.

Because what your story is, it's just compelling, man.

Yeah, it's such an honor to be a part of this station in general, and especially these two days.

You said it best, Jared.

Best two days of our year, I think.

I mean, it beats anything.

I love these two days.

It's so much fun hearing all the stories, hearing the stories y'all had today on Von Hessler's show, just throughout the day.

yeah i mean the the hospital i mean i know it's our second year there but i mean it is like going to a luxury hotel now it is so nice and so state-of-the-art and you and i were talking off air for a second i mean when you went to scottish right and you were dealing with leukemia I mean, it was like a room, right? It was like a tiny little

Because what your story is, it's just compelling, man.

Yeah, it's such an honor to be a part of this station in general, and especially these two days.

You said it best, Jared.

Best two days of our year, I think.

I mean, it beats anything.

I love these two days.

It's so much fun hearing all the stories, hearing the stories y'all had today on Von Hessler's show, just throughout the day.

I mean, when you went to Scottish Rite and you were dealing with leukemia, I mean, it was like a room, right? It was like a tiny

Uh, here's Alex again.

The shredded aluminum moves through a super hot rotating oven, where any ink and coatings are burnt off using hot gases.

The clean aluminum is tipped into a furnace heated to over 650 degrees Celsius.

That's hot enough to melt it into a glowing silver liquid, which is poured into molds to form ingots.

Each ingot can be nine meters long and weigh 27 tons.

That's about the same as 1.5 million recycled drinks cans packed together into one enormous silver bar.

An overhead crane lifts the giant ingots out of the casting pit like metallic giants, three at a time.

From your lunchbox to the runway, from the road to the railway, aluminium is quietly working away, making life lighter, faster, and just a little bit cooler every way.

Um, where, where do you pull, like when you're putting together an album, where do you pull your biggest influences stylistically from?

Man, I'm not, I don't really, uh, you know, really don't think about it too much.

It's kind of a natural thing, you know? I, I feel like as artists and songwriters, and I'm sure you've heard it before, but you know, you're constantly, uh, you know-...

transitioning and changing.

I mean, you know, uh, I, I wouldn't say that it's, uh, it's forced in any way.

I think it's just, you know, whatever I'm called to do in the moment.

You know, I'm still the same guy.

Mm

Yeah, just over 30,000.

I think as well, success, you know, like getting into finals and having that campaign last year will kind of get people more involved and, you know, winning a final.

People will jump on board, surely.

Yeah, right.

Well, the problem is, like in Western Sydney, right, people say the same thing about the Giants.

You go 35, you know, whatever it is, thousand members at the moment, and they go, you know, on the weekend, why is there only 11,000 people there? Or against the Hawks, why is there only 20,000 people there? And you go, well, there's 20,000 people there because the stadium holds 22,000 people.

And there's 10,000 people against the Saints because people in Western Sydney, the culture isn't really to go to the game, you know, because it's NRL heartland and soccer heartland.

I mean, are the AFL responsible for that?

how does Brandon get involved? 'Cause you are a massive Greater Western Sydney Giants fan.

I am.

So I'm a, yeah, been a big GWS Giants fan since...

I moved to Sydney when the Giants started, um, and I thought, "I'm jumping on board." Didn't really have a team, and for a while, I was like, "I'm gonna start a, I'm gonna start a podcast.

There's not really many out there." [laughs]

Yeah.

So you go like, okay, it's a bit of if you build it, they will come, and given how many people are in Western Sydney and, and how many athletes come from Western Sydney, I just think it was like, it's a great play, and you do get a, just a-