Backstage with Cooper & Matty Johns

Matty welcomes his parents, Gayle and Gary Johns — Cooper’s Nan and Pop — for a hilarious, heartfelt chat about 55 years of marriage, wild Mad Mondays, junior footy memories, and the characters who shaped the Johns family legacy.

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0:00-Welcome Nan & Pop

3:00-First Bikes

5:00-Emu Egg

7:00-Married 55 Years

14:00-Married Young

15:00-Wicked Sense of Humour

18:00-The Rocks

20:00-Caravan Park

28:00-Troubled they'd get into.

30:00-Mad Monday!

34:00-Herby Pearson

37:00-Disrespecful

39:00-Junior Coaches

40:30-Characters

42:00-1997 GF

45:00-Game Day Incidents

49:30-Trish

51:00-Bunk Beds

53:00-Characters

56:00-Gazzas Playing Days

1:01:00-The Modern Game

1:04:00-The Mines

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The Johns family bounce from honouring Remembrance Day before diving into Cooper’s rubber ducky saga, Matty’s new tattoo, and a few haunting Snapchat encounters.

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0:00-Entry

3:00-Rememberance Day

9:00-Cooper’s Rubby Ducky

13:00-Snapchat Demons

15:00-Player Profiles

17:00-Your Song

23:00-In Memorium

28:00-Oasis

44:00-Film, Fame & Vinyl

49:00-Family Blue

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Cooper & Matty go from Britpop to backlines, unpacking Oasis mania and England’s Ashes soul-searching. They react to Daly Cherry-Evans’ Roosters switch. Plus, fresh updates on R360 and a few laughs along the way.

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0:00-Oasis

11:00-The Ashes

26:00-DCE Roosters

29:40-Ryan Papenhuyzen

32:30-Eli Katoa

34:00-R360

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The Johns family celebrate becoming co-owners of the Gold Coast Titans. Between talk of country songs, Halloween antics, and a family wedding, Jack wraps it up with a quiz that, as usual, goes completely off the rails.

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0:00-Titans Ownership

8:30-Country Songs

15:00-Halloween

19:20-Family Wedding

23:00-Matty’s Heart Check

28:00-Family Wedding

34:00-Jack’s Quiz

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Cooper & Matty sit down with champion jockey Tommy Berry ahead of the Melbourne Cup, chatting form, pressure, and life inside racing’s biggest week. Tommy opens up on Hong Kong, the state of Australian jockeys, and balancing life on and off the track.

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0:00-Tommy’s In Form

4:20-Peaking

10:00-Hong Kong

12:30-Jockeys by State

14:00-Spring Carnival

18:00-Melbourne Cup

24:00-League Chat

27:00-Bloodlines

30:20-Pressure on Track

32:00-Jockeys Say

35:00-Weight

38:00-Schedule

40:00-Business Class

42:00-Rapid Fire

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What scares you? Let’s hear the untold horror story, of Matt and a few footy mates, walking into a remote Darwin pub. It’s Halloween, and we’ve got hamstring sandwiches, exorcisms, wet frankfurts and Mick Taylor.

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00:00-Costumes

7:00-Horror Franchise

20:00-Fear

25:00-Your Fears

36:00-Impersonations

39:30-Bronze, Silver, Gold

45:00-Coopers Quiz

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Scott Drinkwater joins Cooper & Matty to chat Cowboys culture, Melbourne Storm memories, and life off the field. From Oktoberfest tales to two-can screamers and that infamous Grand Final mini-bar, nothing’s off limits.

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0:00-Drinking Water with Scott

6:40-Two-Can Screamer

10:00-Coast Boy

14:00-Relationships

19:00-Storage Capacity

22:00-Oktoberfest

23:30-Melbourne Storm

35:00-Attacking

38:20-GF Mini Bar

43:00-Tom Eisenhuth

45:00-Laughing Bug

48:00-Cowboys

53:00-Brodie Croft

56:00-Cowboys

1:02:30-NSW

1:03:30-Cowboys Next Level

1:05:15-Lips of an Angel

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The Johns family unpack a wild week — from Matty’s dab lessons and Kevin Rudd’s Trump humiliation to Cooper’s haunted ghost tour and a Louvre robbery, before it all ends with Cooper’s “jail” story and Trish’s shocking joke.

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0:00-Teach Me How To Dabby

5:45-Kevin Rudd Shamed by Trump

9:00-Cooper’s Ghost Tour

13:45-The Weekend

32:00-Louvre Robbery

43:00-Coopers Quiz

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Jason Ryles joins Cooper and Matty to chat about his first days as Parramatta coach, Bellamy’s best prank, coaching the game’s greats, and how he’s shaping the Eels’ new era — plus tea parties, BBQs, and plenty of laughs.

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0:00-Intro

3:30-Tea Parties at Joeys

7:00-Craig Bellamy Prank

9:30-First as NRL Coach

16:20-First Day

18:20-Recruits

20:20-Mitch Moses

23:45-De Silva’s Eyebrows

24:45-Coaching

27:30-BBQ at Rylesy’s

29:30-Rugby Union

33:30-English Media

36:45-Affects on Players

42:30-Jason The Monster

44:40-Coaching the GOAT’s

47:30-Favourite Video Session

49:00-Parra’s Happy

51:40-Dylan Brown Situation

55:40-Josh Addo Carr

57:00-Jason Ryles

1:07:00-Melbourne Round 1

1:09:00-Gifts

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Learn the real reason couples are having destination weddings. The tributes flow in for Jack, Cooper fumigates his grandparents and Trish has a very nasty incident. 👀

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0:00-Birthdays & Animals Facts

11:00-Gifts

20:00-Gold Coast Porcelain

30:00-Joey’s in G Land

33:00-Hull KR & Willie Peters

35:30-The Fox Selection

36:30-Springs Cleaning

44:00-Ages

45:50-Film, Fame & Vinyl

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