"The Death Of BazBall Is Nigh"
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G'day Mania. Good morning, G-Lane. Did you suggest being the weekend with Willie Mason this weekend or just the weekend before? I want to address this because, that's the thing is, so last week, I don't think I came on this podcast. No, you didn't. You were running for the hills around. The story started to get wilder and wilder. I know, that's what I heard. So through the, I don't know what they call it these days, the telephone game. Went by a different name when I was a kid. But I, so on... Monday, it was like I just can't remember what I said to Willie Mason. I was way too drunk to be talking to him. Then by Tuesday, it was –
What really happened between Manaia Stewart and Willie Mason after the Wahs in Christchurch?
what happened with Minaya and Willie Mason. Then by Wednesday, Tony Law walked out of the studio here and he goes, hey, I want to hear about this fight with Willie Mason. Then people started making the memes and the AI memes of you knocking him out. Someone put, yeah, so then we talked to the pants man on the Mad Monday podcast and he goes, I heard you were showing him David Kidwell highlights of him putting shots on him. I was like, All it was was I was just too drunk and I can't remember what I was talking. And, you know, when you're meeting like a footy hero, you're like, God, what the hell did I say to him? If it was just some random mutant, I'd be like, I don't even care. But because it was Willie Mason, I was like, oh, Jesus.
And now the problem is, so someone made that meme of put my face on David Kidwell. Then some mutant in there has tagged their podcast. And I'm like, fuck. And so I commented, I was like, I just want the triple OG to know I had nothing to do with this. Because now what's going to happen is he will have almost no memory of meeting me, I reckon. No, I don't think so either. Because how many people would Willie Mason have met at the – Yeah. At the Christchurch Warriors game of the weekend. I don't know how many times Willie Mason has been knocked out. Yeah, that's true. CTE. And so he won't even remember that. Then all of a sudden they're tagging him in these memes. So then he's going to be like, what is this?
And his first instinct, and it'd be right to think this, is that I'm going around talking shit when I haven't said anything. This is the ad infinitum, Blake.
All over again. All over again. And that wasn't me either.
When you back called him a coward for leaving his dog behind.
No, I didn't. I didn't call him a coward.
Well, according to his missus, you did. You called him a coward. I said it was a cowardly act. You called him a coward. And then this is what you do. About a week later, a week removed from the incident, it was me that called him a coward.
How did AI memes and social media escalate the Willie Mason story?
It's like, oh, for God's sake. So, you know, because Sunday night we were at that bar until midnight. Should have been gone at 10. Yes. And then Monday morning up and did the radio show. I didn't really get a chance to recover that day. But, man, the howling demons didn't stop bouncing around my head until about Thursday, Friday. The Pants Man cropped a – A rundown? A photo of their rundown and then put inside it, like, Willie addresses the hotel altercation.
Yeah.
And he did a good enough job of it that when I saw it, my palms started sweating.
I was like, fuck.
Because I did, honestly, for like Monday, Tuesday, every time I got a notification on my phone, I was like, what is this going to be? I thought it was going to be like Joe's made a video of something that goes up. It's like, no, it calls out Willie Mason. So anyway. That's good stuff. It's not good stuff. It's good stuff. You're making me a villain in the NRL community. I don't think we're even in their sphere, so it doesn't really matter. It's great for the caravan, though. He's tagged them in that post because that was inside the caravan. He's going to need to request.
Join the caravan. Yeah, join the caravan.
Probably won't even see that.
No.
You might be okay. Nah, you're fine, mate.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:54
2
What really happened between Manaia Stewart and Willie Mason after the Wahs in Christchurch?
0:54–2:47
3
How did AI memes and social media escalate the Willie Mason story?
2:47–20:44
4
Why are the Black Caps on the verge of a historic Test win in Nottingham?
20:44–23:53
5
Why did Ben Stokes announce his retirement mid‑match and how did England react?
23:53–33:14
6
Has BazBall been killed by the England press and on‑field controversies?
33:14–51:30