Matthew Ridge

What I should have said is, hey, fuck you, mate.

That's what you just told me back in there.

Because you'd never been, you know, like I'd never been in trouble before.

And like always, this is what I say to my kids, don't ever fucking lie.

Just tell the truth.

When you get in the shit, if you've done something wrong, if somebody calls you on it, just tell the truth, that's it.

If you tell the truth, then I'm good with it.

I'll back you to, I like to the hilt.

But if I find out you're bullshitting,

then we've got an issue, right?

So that was always my mentality, right?

So I didn't think that the police were like,

dodgy as fuck, right?

So long story short, they get me down there and they're trying to get me to like, and I had no lawyer, no nothing, you know, like I'm trying to navigate this shit on my own because I've been navigating this shit on my own most of my life, you know, because my granddad's old, my grandmother's old, my mum's not home, you know, like I didn't think to, shit, I need to get a lawyer.

No, it doesn't.

All you are is just like, hey, I can get out of this.

This is easy.

I'm just telling the truth.

Surely it's going to come around.

Anyway, so they try to make me sign something and stuff.