Reuben Williams

This meeting cannot be moved, but on the same day, um, and at the same time, like my business is in strife, like we, we need this pitch to go well.

And, um,

And on the same day, they say, hey, Ruben, can you come into court and give your evidence?

And thankfully, the only sort of power I had was that I could say to the judge, can we wrap this up at about two o'clock?

Because I've got to walk across town to Docklands to give this pitch.

And in this meeting- You said that to the judge?

Yep.

You can do it beforehand.

Okay, right.

But it meant that like, yeah, after an hour and a half, I was like, you know, thanks very much, Cross Examiner.

I'll catch you tomorrow.

Power walk across town, get into this meeting room with Deacon.

The meeting's being chaired by Malcolm Speed, who is former CEO of Cricket Australia, one of the godfathers of Australian sport.

I've never met Malcolm, know a lot about him, but I'm meeting Malcolm for the first time.

I'm like-

G'day, Malcolm.

G'day, everybody.

If I'm a bit frazzled during my pitch, it's just because I've come from a courtroom where a defense lawyer is trying to prove that his clients didn't touch my penis.

How did that go down?

They jumped up and were like, are you okay?