F.R.E.A.M (Footy. Rules. Everything. Around. Me.)
Jun 1, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 11 segments
Footy. Rules. Everything. Around. Me. Pod (fka PODTRACCA).On the agenda: Round 12 summary, and Hot or Snot? Returns: Brad Scott, The Arc and Neverending Byes! Cooking with Gas: 'Pick Your Preferred'…
Joey SalemHostAll right.
Hi, all.
I'm Gas.
And we are the podcast formerly known as PodTracker.
Oh, shit! We've rebranded to our new name, which will be slightly controversial to some, and we are now called Freem.
Get on pod.
What?
Get on pod.
Freem.
Get on pod.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, it works because we're going to get some special guests on.
So it won't be like, are you available to come and speak on PodTracker? It'll just be speak on, you know, get on pod.
Get on pod.
Can you please explain frame? Because I feel like people are hearing frame.
They've heard frame.
Yes, you've heard it right.
It's frame.
It's like gabbo.
You say gabbo over and over, right? It's like, what's
that?
I think it's
about some podcast.
Let's just acknowledge that
many people are not going to like the name and we don't care.
I'm not so sure Podtracker was universally loved as a name either, so
fuck the police.
We didn't go from gold to not so gold.
So, Cass, what does FREEM, is it a, does it have a hidden meaning or is it an anagram? It's an
acronym.
Definitely
not
an anagram.
Allegory? Allegory? Footy rules everything around me.
And I think this was something that came up a little while ago in conversation between myself and Lanny, Big L.
And weirdly enough, we were workshopping a number of names and didn't quite land on...
Where we wanted to be or what we felt was representative of just a bunch of friends talking nonsense about football as if you were in a pub or, you know, hearing some insane conversations in front of you at the G, which is us.
And then, I don't know, football rules everything around me, paying a little tribute to Wu-Tang Clan, having the Prince song play in your ears.
I know it felt right the more we sat on it.
Right, gang?
Yep.
It did.
So footy rules everything around me.
There's the new pod name, Freem.
Freem.
Footy
never stops.
I'm not
that.
Prove us wrong.
We haven't not been the greatest thing to happen to football yet.
Like, you know in the 1996 centenary celebration of 100 years of AFL footy, and on the Wednesday that was actually the 100th year anniversary of the first game, they did like, ye olde timers, and all like the goal umpires, and even the commentators came out dressed like they were from the 1896s.
This is probably on par with that in terms of...
It sounds just as cool.
It
sounds just as cool.
Yeah, I think Podtracker was a little limiting, right, gang? Like as we expanded maybe away from being a bit more decentric, I think we did a pretty good job with you three on that.
I think what
helped too is Melbourne Football Club basically imploding in those two years.
We just didn't want to talk about them.
So we're like, let's just talk about every other club.
Let's
talk about
football.
Christian Petrarca threatening legal action.
His mum rocking up on our doorstep threatening
violence.
We didn't want to be associated with someone whose spleen couldn't handle the game.
We're a real spleen
positive pod.
We were actually thinking, like, the theme song could be, you know, cream, get on pod, no spleen, it couldn't
Oh, my God.
It's going to be harder to reign this in, not easier.
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
So this opens up a world of possibilities, merch, new expansions, new content offerings.
Yep.
So we're working on a couple of special guests, which we'll have to have on Spleen upcoming.
So there'll be some special episodes upcoming.
We'll do a run of merch like a hot dog thermos and a few other special T-shirts and whatnot.
We'll get there.
But we are now freeing.
Have we changed the content of the pod whatsoever? No.
No. We've done zero work on the curation.
Programming
as usual.
Yeah.
Same old yappin'.
That's it.
Yep, yep, yappin' away.
Which means that it's time to dig into Freem's first ever Hot or Snot.
Is it hot or is it snot? Is it hot or is it snot?
You know what? I think until we've decided on the whole frame spleen thing, let's just be Petrarca just for tonight.
Okay.
And next week,
we'll- Back to the future.
Okay, gang.
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All right.
Hi, all.
I'm Gas.
And we are the podcast formerly known as PodTracker.
Oh, shit! We've rebranded to our new name, which will be slightly controversial to some, and we are now called Freem.
Get on pod.
What?
Get on pod.
Freem.
Get on pod.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, it works because we're going to get some special guests on.
So it won't be like, are you available to come and speak on PodTracker? It'll just be speak on, you know, get on pod.
Get on pod.
Can you please explain frame? Because I feel like people are hearing frame.
They've heard frame.
Yes, you've heard it right.
It's frame.
It's like gabbo.
You say gabbo over and over, right? It's like, what's
that?
I think it's
about some podcast.
Let's just acknowledge that
many people are not going to like the name and we don't care.
I'm not so sure Podtracker was universally loved as a name either, so
fuck the police.
We didn't go from gold to not so gold.
So, Cass, what does FREEM, is it a, does it have a hidden meaning or is it an anagram? It's an
acronym.
Definitely
not
an anagram.
Allegory? Allegory? Footy rules everything around me.
And I think this was something that came up a little while ago in conversation between myself and Lanny, Big L.
And weirdly enough, we were workshopping a number of names and didn't quite land on...
Where we wanted to be or what we felt was representative of just a bunch of friends talking nonsense about football as if you were in a pub or, you know, hearing some insane conversations in front of you at the G, which is us.
And then, I don't know, football rules everything around me, paying a little tribute to Wu-Tang Clan, having the Prince song play in your ears.
I know it felt right the more we sat on it.
Right, gang?
Yep.
It did.
So footy rules everything around me.
There's the new pod name, Freem.
Freem.
Footy
never stops.
I'm not
that.
Prove us wrong.
We haven't not been the greatest thing to happen to football yet.
Like, you know in the 1996 centenary celebration of 100 years of AFL footy, and on the Wednesday that was actually the 100th year anniversary of the first game, they did like, ye olde timers, and all like the goal umpires, and even the commentators came out dressed like they were from the 1896s.
This is probably on par with that in terms of...
It sounds just as cool.
It
sounds just as cool.
Yeah, I think Podtracker was a little limiting, right, gang? Like as we expanded maybe away from being a bit more decentric, I think we did a pretty good job with you three on that.
I think what
helped too is Melbourne Football Club basically imploding in those two years.
We just didn't want to talk about them.
So we're like, let's just talk about every other club.
Let's
talk about
football.
Christian Petrarca threatening legal action.
His mum rocking up on our doorstep threatening
violence.
We didn't want to be associated with someone whose spleen couldn't handle the game.
We're a real spleen
positive pod.
We were actually thinking, like, the theme song could be, you know, cream, get on pod, no spleen, it couldn't
Oh, my God.
It's going to be harder to reign this in, not easier.
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
So this opens up a world of possibilities, merch, new expansions, new content offerings.
Yep.
So we're working on a couple of special guests, which we'll have to have on Spleen upcoming.
So there'll be some special episodes upcoming.
We'll do a run of merch like a hot dog thermos and a few other special T-shirts and whatnot.
We'll get there.
But we are now freeing.
Have we changed the content of the pod whatsoever? No.
No. We've done zero work on the curation.
Programming
as usual.
Yeah.
Same old yappin'.
That's it.
Yep, yep, yappin' away.
Which means that it's time to dig into Freem's first ever Hot or Snot.
Is it hot or is it snot? Is it hot or is it snot?
You know what? I think until we've decided on the whole frame spleen thing, let's just be Petrarca just for tonight.
Okay.
And next week,
we'll- Back to the future.
Okay, gang.
