Show Notes
A Mad Monday costume that became Reg Reagan. A brother who was good at everything. And a son who drove him across town at beer eleven to make things right. Matty Johns sat down with Beretts and told story after story. Beretts gets Matty on the heart behind the humour, Brad Thorn’s hidden anxiety, growing up Johns in a coal town, life in Joey’s shadow, and the 1997 grand final that carried a whole city. Funny, honest and full of heart. This is Matty Johns like you’ve never heard him. #BerettsBest #MattyJohns #NRL #RugbyLeague #Newcastle #Podcast
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She didn’t grow up dreaming of the Olympics. She bought her first proper bike at twenty-three, and a few years later she was Australia’s first gold medallist in Paris. Grace Brown’s story is one of a kind. Beretts sits down with Grace on the injuries that ended her running, the imposter feeling of starting late, the seven seconds that lit the fire in Tokyo, and the perfect ride in Paris that made her an Olympic champion. Honest, humble and full of belief. #BerettsBest #GraceBrown #Cycling #Paris2024 #OlympicGold #Podcast
Six Bathurst wins. Five championships. And a health scare in 2017 that Mark Skaife has never spoken about, until now. Two mates of thirty years settle in for a long one. Beretts and Mark Skaife go through the mind of a champion, the day Jim Richards called the crowd a pack of assholes in the rain at Bathurst, what Peter Brock really meant to him and the loss of Holden. Then Skaifey opens up on the two strokes in 2017 that nearly took everything, and the fight he kept to himself. Honest, funny and unforgettable. #BerettsBest #MarkSkaife #Supercars #Bathurst #Bathurst1000 #Motorsport #Holden #Podcast
He tore his hamstring clean off the bone the same day Australia won the Ashes, and he still calls it a good day. Nathan Lyon sat down with Beretts for one of the most open chats we’ve had. Gaz takes us from the groundsman’s shed at Adelaide Oval to a first-ball wicket on debut, why the baggy green belongs to his family and not to him, the dad who keeps him grounded, and the work in the bush that means more to him than any wicket. Warm, funny and completely without ego. This is Nathan Lyon like you’ve never heard him. #BerettsBest #NathanLyon #Cricket #Ashes #Australia #Podcast
Everyone remembers him strumming the air guitar at the Americans in Sydney. Almost nobody saw the fight that came after. Michael Klim sat down with Beretts for one of the most emotional chats we’ve had. Two blokes with a lot of history go back to that 4x100 relay and the friendships it made, then Klimi opens up on the day his legs gave way at an airport, living with CIDP, losing the body that defined him, and the new purpose he has found with the Klim Foundation. Courage, heart and one hell of a comeback. #BerettsBest #MichaelKlim #Swimming #Sydney2000 #CIDP #Podcast
For twenty years the networks told them to be enemies. Turns out they’d been having quiet lunches the whole time. David Koch and Karl Stefanovic sit down together for the first time, and it’s gold. Beretts gets the two kings of breakfast TV on the rivalry that never really was, getting the job “by miscarriage,” the daggy whiteboard that beat the slick news desk, the exits (one graceful, one a phone call at an airport), and the privilege of waking up Australia for two decades. Warm, funny and full of heart. #BerettsBest #Kochie #KarlStefanovic #BreakfastTV #Sunrise #TodayShow #Podcast