Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Breakfast with Gary and Tim. If you live the life you please. Morning, everyone. Great to have you with us.
Wednesday, April 29th. It is McCafe Menu Try McCafe's Drink Range. Tom Green, lean, clean, joins us for his weekly spot out of 8 o'clock. Shane Crawford is in the studio at 8.30. That's always a joy. Andrew Russell's here for Wellness Wednesday. We've got a little special 6.40 Butcher Club chat. We like to do this once a year. Peter Robinson, the director.
The Butcher Club's going to be in the studio as well. Wisp's not here, he might miss out. All the footy news and discussions, as always. As I say, good morning to the Whisper.
Good morning, Gary.
Chapter 2: What special guests are joining the show today?
Good morning, everybody. I've had a great night's sleep. A great night's sleep, thanks to the temper pillow. I tell you what, I know it wasn't meant for me. No, it was mine. You very kindly gave me... Why didn't I get one of the temper pillows, by the way? Everybody else in the whole building, everybody even up on level five got a pillow.
I'm not sure you're part of the temper family. I'm not sure you've done any live reads for them over the years, have you?
Oh, is that what you have to do? I don't know. You've got to sing for your supper. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure, but I'm sure. Anyway, had a great night's sleep. Jason will be listening and he'll sing one in for you. My word, he will.
I had a great night's sleep.
Did you use it seriously or not?
100% I did because I do have trouble with my pillows and sleeping at night time. And it's sort of when you open it up and you look at it and you think, oh, is that sort of ā it looked a bit hard and it looked a bit sort of ā Oh, no. I'm not sure it's going to be nice and comfortable to put my head on, but ā I didn't wake up. You didn't wake up? I did not wake up until 3.33 this morning.
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Chapter 3: How did the pillow affect sleep quality?
Wow.
That's an endorsement right there. I don't use pillows, so that's why I was happy to give it up to you. How can you not sleep on a pillow? Do you sleep with your head on the mattress? Yep. Or on pumpkin. I sleep on my tummy. Like a baby. I sleep on my stomach, yeah. What's funny about that? You sleep on your tummy without a pillow.
I put a little tummy pillow under my tummy because my back goes into an arch and then it becomes painful. So I have a tummy pillow that I sleep on my tummy.
So you've had to adjust your sleeping because of your back over the years? Is that what you've done?
Yeah, I don't know why. I think I just found that position, and I don't think it helps my neck. But anyway, I've been doing it that long now. I don't think I can go back.
You're positively glowing this morning. Where did you get to after the show yesterday? Did you go and have some health and special Gary treatment?
I did, actually. Did I tell you that? Yeah, you did. But look at your skin. Nicky booked me into this. That's glowing. Lymphatic sort of facial stuff because I have sinus issues. You've got a lot of issues. I'm just about cooked.
So what did they do?
What did they do? Just tell me about the treatment. It was an hour and a half. You've had a facial before, haven't you? It was an intense hour and a half facial. It massages all these different parts of your face where you get a lymphatic drain and all this sort of stuff. I had a bit of a snooze while I was in there. I had a mask put on there for a while. That sent me off into a deep sleep.
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Chapter 4: What insights are shared about player salaries in country football?
Kogan.com is clicking awesome. Yeah.
I love this idea, Gary. I've had this idea from my local club in Bendigo, and you'd be able to put this together for this person. Get Razor Raider umpire a game, just like an ex-AFL player. I reckon there'd be a lot of fun and a lot of people would get to the game to see Razor, and Razor could do a little spot after that. He is one of the best after-dinner speakers I have ever heard.
Me and Razor might put together a package. It's the Razor and Garrity show. I could drive up. You'd go on the road with Razor? I'd go on the road with Razor. He would draw a big crowd to the umpiring and then a nice little spot post-game.
Okay. Sportsbet have just listed this. They're saying that you are 1,000 to 1 and drifting, that you will drive Razor up to Bendigo. I didn't say I'd drive him up there. That's what I'm saying. You and me in the car together for an hour and a half, two hours, that would be your ideal of pleasure.
Right, we'll take a break. Pete Robinson, the director of the Butcher Club, is going to come in. We're going to talk a bit of meat, Whispers, because you are Australia's answer to Francis Mormon. Is that his name? Yeah, that is. Well done. You've got the outside pizza oven. You've got the outside up and down open coal fire set up. You think you're a guru?
Well, let's see how much you know when Pete Robinson joins us next.
Breakfast with Gary and Tim.
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Great to have you with us and long-time listeners of this program will understand just how significant our next guest is to us because we love our meat. And Tim Watson thinks he's a bit of a guru when it comes to cooking on open flames and all sorts of things. So Peter Robinson from the Butcher Club joins us probably once a year.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Lee share about the AFL community's growth?
Shane Crawford's in the studio. Andrew Russell's got Wellness Wednesday coming up, about 7.30. Lee's from Lillydale on the line. We'll get to you straight after this, Lee.
Lee's been holding on from Lillydale.
Go, Lee. Yeah, good morning, boys. I'm pretty sure Bradley Hill would have been in and about when the saga at Hawthorne was going on. And it's so refreshing, and I think it's a positive thing for the AFL community to see the way this has been handled, perhaps, versus the way that was. And I'm a Hawthorne supporter, so I'm not criticising.
I'm just saying, obviously, things got out of control there and ended up in a way that none of us wanted it to go. But this time around, it seems to have been handled beautifully. And I just think the community in general, I know we feel like sometimes we're not getting better at this stuff.
But this is a clear picture in my mind that there was lessons learnt out of the Hawthorne saga and we are just generally as a community getting better at this stuff.
It's a good call. It's a good point, Lee. Not everyone will agree with the term handle beautifully because then they'll take that as praise for Ross Lyon. Clearly what you're trying to say is that parties, both sides of this, have been able to handle it as well as you possibly could. You identify the problem, you admit your mistake, you get together, you resolve it.
The story was broken by Caroline, which was a great story to break. Had she not broken it, we wouldn't have known anything about it. No one would be questioning it. the relationship in St Kilda between Ross and the Indigenous players, which is clearly strong.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. Just on another issue, and that is that you have all these random thoughts from time to time, and we had a great reaction to Gary's five fresh thoughts a couple of weeks ago. So I want to revisit it.
I think you're going to talk with your tongue in your cheek.
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Chapter 6: What are the key takeaways from the discussion on coaching changes?
So have you got five things you want to get off your hairy chest this morning?
Don't wear black compression shorts. If you're a player out there, you know the shorts that they wear under their shorts. Why? It makes you look slow. Unless you wear black shorts like St Kilda do.
Well, you want racing car red, do you?
If you wear white shorts, wear skin-coloured skins underneath it. If you wear black underneath your white shorts, it makes you look slow. You might not be slow, but you look slow.
Okay, there's number one. I'm glad we got to this.
Number two? There's a player at Collingwood particularly who I think of when I say this because I really want him to make the grade, and I hope he does. But one of the issues is maybe his leg speed. And when he wears his black tights under his white shorts, he looks slower. Who are you talking about? I'm not saying. I just want to put it out there as a general observation.
Okay, two.
Don't be afraid of a fresh coaching voice. So, you know, Craig McRae comes over. Nathan Buckley's coached his team for a long time. And Craig McRae comes in. No one really knows much about Craig McRae. What a breath of fresh air he was. And he had almost immediate success there.
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Chapter 7: How does Andrew Russell emphasize the importance of human connection?
You know, we're seeing it with Stephen King in a very short time. New voice comes in after Simon Goodwin had been there for a long time, premiership coach. And so if your team's struggling a bit and your coach is not quite working out, don't be afraid of a new voice. It might be the best thing that happens.
Can freshness be delayed sometimes? I'm just thinking about Dean Cox up at Sydney.
Yeah, well, that's interesting because he was there. They knew who he was. And maybe he took a little bit longer to separate himself from Dean Cox, the assistant, to Dean Cox, the main man. Yep, good point. No, it was your point. It was a nice point. Three. Be forever cognizant of the difficulties of playing in a poor team. And I'm talking about, if you want to compare Josh Caddy...
with the challenges he's facing playing at Essendon with Shannon Neal playing at Geelong, for instance. So I went down and watched Geelong play against the Bulldogs, I reckon it was, was it, a couple of weeks ago? And Shannon Neal was coming off a great game. He didn't look like touching it. He wasn't in the postcode of touching it. Mind you, Jeremy Cameron was going nuts and kicking 10 guys.
So for him, life's great. You know, I tried, but one didn't have a great day. But, you know, we won by 70 points and Jezza kicked 10. Poor old Nate Caddy, just by virtue of the fact that he gets drafted to Essendon at a time when they're not much good, is getting his ass kicked every time. Not him, but the team is every time. So... It's sliding doors.
Your introduction into footy is so determined on where you get taken and by whom and at what time. And we should never forget that, Tim.
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Chapter 8: What practical steps can listeners take to enhance their connections?
So Logan Morris is another one.
Yes.
I love Logan Morris. I think he's an absolute star. Imagine if you flip Logan Morris and Josh Caddy and Josh Caddy's playing the Brisbane Lions in the Logan Morris role. Yeah, correct. Sorry, what did I call Josh Caddy? Nate Caddy.
Nate Caddy. Having said that, there's a lot about Caddy that's still very much underage football-ish about the way that he goes about his football. There's a lot of craft that he still needs to learn.
I don't think this is Tim gets to backtrack over the top five.
Okay, give me four. Give me four.
What's your fourth? I think Jordan Dawson's performance on the weekend is... been undersold to some degree. Not deliberately.
Because of the grief that sat on him.
When you stop and think about what he did on the weekend against the best team in the competition up there, when they're getting pantsed, how easy would it Now, I'm not saying this costs his mind, but, you know, you just go, oh, look, oh, it's no good today. You know, and I've had, you know, terrible tragedy in my family.
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