#93 | Brent Read | Journalism, Rugby League & Media Feuds
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I mean, Matthew, a pretty special guest we've got on today. What a word we have. We don't get many, say, handsy journos on, but if we were... Hands on. Hands on. No, I said it right. I said handsy. But this one's the handsiest by far. Brent Reid.
Yeah, well... It's fantastic to be here. I'm excited. Never thought the invite would come.
Have you been sitting by the phone? I haven't been waiting, yeah. Because Buzz has been on here, hasn't he? Buzz has been on the family one. He replaced Dad. That's right. Talking about Hansy.
Exactly, yeah. Figure prints all over Trish. We had Webby. Webby was good.
Oh, the great man, yeah. Now living in Barrow Lewis, Robertson, where he is. Oh, mate. He's just, yeah.
Must be nice.
He often rings me from his sauna, Webby. Mate.
With the fireplace raging. Yes, I've heard about that sauna and spa. It's more like a laxer at the moment.
Hey, mate, I was just observing you before. The phone just always going off. Is that the life of a journo, just the blowers constantly going? Sometimes, yes. Some days it is, yes.
Today's a busy day because I'm on 360 tonight, so trying to get stories for the show and stand stuff up. So, yeah, the phone rings a bit, yeah. Wife loves it. Does she love it? No.
Jaws are insane. Is it like work hours? So from 9 to 5, people are ringing in there? Or you're getting calls at 9 p.m.?
No, yeah, sometimes, yeah. Depends what you say about the roosters because Nick Pilatus rings you from anywhere in the world at any hour of the night. Really? Oh, yeah.
He loves it, yeah. What about like really – I was talking to Webby last year, Andrew Webster, and Webby told me that when he went on 360, he said literally the first time he returned for ages, he forgot what it was like as far as what happens when goodnight. And he said at the moment he went off air, literally the texts and the phone calls just started. They flooded in.
Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing the people who watch that show, right? It's the power of that show. And Buzz has spoken about it.
How does a modern journo manage constant late-night calls and media obligations?
You know, Buzz obviously had a Sunday column for 20 years, right? But when he went on 360, he became a bit of a cult figure, right? And that's what it's like. I mean, everyone's got – because everything you say on there becomes – You know, it then gets put on Instagram, put on social media, and they make stories out of it, and it becomes – you know, I was talking to Peter Bedell earlier, actually, and Bomber was on Tuesday night. We know Bomber. He's a lunatic, right? Yep. And he ripped into Rousey in Parramatta, and he said to me today – I saw that. And he made the silly mistake of going on Twitter or X – today, right? And Parramatta fans have just been giving it to him. And I said, mate, don't go on... You've got to stay off Twitter.
Like, don't go on... Twitter's the worst thing to go on after you've said something like that on a show like 360 because you just get hammered.
Because, yeah, it's like walking into the worst pub and wondering why you got king hit. Yeah. You know? You just get off staying out of it.
Yeah.
Because you know what's there waiting for you. Yeah. Mate, talking about Bomber on Twitter, I know why he gets hooked on it. Remember we were in Paris? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And... So boys, in Paris, I saw Bomber the first day and he said, Matt, you know how he talks, Matty, what are you doing? And I said, Bomber, me and James Magnuson, we're doing swimming. He goes, oh, right. He goes, I'm doing the boxing. He said, takes a little while for the boxing to sort of heat up a little bit. Anyway, the first day he was there, Basically, everyone had left, and he was about the only journo left, and it was the last fight. And it was the Italian female boxer, the women's boxing, against the Algerian trans fighter. Oh, yes.
And he was the only one there. And he had the photo and posted it, the photo and ran the story. I remember being in the car with him and he goes, Matty, this is how he talks, Matty, it's had 20 million views. 20 million, Matty. It's nearly the population of Australia. Mate, I kid you not, 10 minutes later, Matty, it's hit 35.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:57
2
How does a modern journo manage constant late-night calls and media obligations?
1:57–4:28
3
What stories from the Paris Olympics show the changing power of social media?
4:28–22:15
4
How do columnists create debate versus publishing factual reporting?
22:15–47:07
5
How have relationships between journalists and coaches shifted over time?
47:07–56:02