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Johnny, Brass, Birdsville.

Yeah, mate, I've got a little bit of history in Birdsville.

While I was up there in Queensland, we were out on the Simpson Desert doing the QAA, just, you know, doing patrols, making sure people weren't doing the wrong thing.

And we've done so many days out there and, yeah, come in for...

The big day, the big races.

So we pulled in there on Thursday and had a bit of a tub and had a feed.

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Yeah.

Um, I've been doing it since 2014.

I took a traineeship back then and, um, yeah, she was hard going coming from the mining wage to that.

Um, moved down to...

I was in Bama to start with, which is in Victoria.

On the other side of it is New South Wales, on the river there.

Um, was traveling from there because I tried to get a house, a rental, and they're like, "No, you have to come and inspect it." And I'm like, "I can't, I ju- I don't know anyone down there." I...

So you fucking learn a fair bit of stuff off the, you know, indigenous fellas.

Yeah.

Fucking, when we were kids, man, we used to go out the river, out the Cudgegong, and we ...

I don't know how we got, we got our hands on, like, a heap of 100 pound fishing line.

And, like, we ...

Our parents encouraged this, like, go out and fucking set as many lines as you can, give us loaves of bread, and pull out as many carp out of the river as we could.

And so we'd just set all these lines and, you know, pull all these carp out.

Like, we, we pulled out this one carp, and it was as big, like, as long as a shovel handle.

That's fucking loose.

Yeah.

He's got me that carton of rum throw downs for something I'd done for him and, yeah, we got stuck into that, went to a party and he's like, "Come back around here with all the older boys." I'm like, "Yeah, fucking ...

That's all good." I'm, you know, carton of rum throw downs and all that stuff.

I was pretty well done.

"Have a bong, Johnny." "No, no, no." "Have a bong, Johnny." I'm like, "Na, I'm right." He's like, "Fucking have one, you weak cunt." I'm like, "Righto." Had one, spewed everywhere, all over everyone.

We did the whole fingers over the fucking mouth and it just went all [laughs] over everyone, sprayed everyone and then they're into me and they're like, "Get out of here, you mongrel bastard." So they've gone and kicked me out on the grass and I've just greened out.

I've got back up, sitting with the boys, quiet as fuck, white as a ghost.

Yeah.

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the most roguest event ever.

Anyone that doesn't have tickets need to go and get them because this is insane.

Like we've been the last two years.

Everyone has a fucking great time.

Everyone looks after each other.

Yeah.

They're the sort of fellas you need on the fucking front line.