Matthew Ridge
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What am I going to do, you know?
And I got home and I had a message from Loie on my, you know, on your, what do you call it?
Your answer phone.
Answer phone, yeah.
And it was just like – it was pretty much like, G'day, Matthew, it's Graham Lowe here.
Mate, I was just wondering if you wanted to come and play rugby league for Manly.
Hey, give me a call back.
This is my number.
I was like –
Fuck, I remember I walked in the kitchen.
I was like, what the fuck?
And I was like, straight away, cha-ching.
That's what I thought.
I was like, oh, hundreds of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands, right?
And, mate, I had no loot, right?
I was like living on the bones of my ass.
In those days, I had a B bursary, so you used to get paid to go to university, which was pretty amazing, right?
Can you believe we got paid to go to university, right?
Those were the days.
Anyway.