# 278: Brendan Fevola - The Millionaires Club (Player Profile)

An episode of [The Howie Games](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1146329262), 9 Sep 2026, 13 min.

Audio: https://enrichment.soundstack.com/4vjqq8/episode.flightcast.com/p0bfdyli4ueu1sqwjywtmwze.mp3

THE FEVOLUTION IS BACK! Ten years after Fev's first episode, the Millionaires Club gets reacquainted with one of footy’s biggest characters. In true Fev fashion, his Player Profile has it all! The dream dinner party, his first radio interview with Hugh Jackman, a shootout with Kobe Bryant, selling pizzas at Waverley Park and working at Macca’s. And what music does Fev love? Sinatra… apparently. It’s classic Fev, unpredictable, hilarious and always entertaining. Ten years on, Fev is ready for his next chapter. It's all a part of The Howie Games Millionaires Club. 10 years of The Howie Games. *** Follow the Howie Games on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehowiegamespod/ Follow the Howie Games on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thehowiegames See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] A listener production.
[0:03] Okay, are you recording?
[0:08] This man, he's dominated on Breakfast Radio.
[0:11] Fifi Febber Nick, if you're not listening on Fox, you're doing something wrong.
[0:14] Before that, he was a star with Carlton.
[0:17] He also played at Brisbane.
[0:19] We'll leave it at that.
[0:20] Brennan Favola, you've done it all.
[0:22] Are you ready for the How We Go To Play Profile question?
[0:24] What are you laughing at?
[0:26] No, I'm not.
[0:27] I said you played at Brisbane.
[0:28] Yeah, mate.
[0:30] Kid got 50-ish now.
[0:31] I know.
[0:31] I was on.
[0:32] I know.
[0:32] I had a good year.
[0:33] I know.
[0:34] There was a couple of issues.
[0:35] Nicknames, what are yours?
[0:36] You've got a few.
[0:37] Ah.
[0:38] Uh, stud.
[0:43] Our nickname's Loosh.
[0:44] Loosh, as in Fevolution.
[0:46] Fevolution, self-named.
[0:49] Fevolenko.
[0:49] Yeah, Fevolenko.
[0:52] The Shag.
[0:53] The Shag.
[0:53] That was an early cart one, wasn't it?
[0:55] Dickhead.
[0:56] There's your wife again.
[0:57] Yeah, there's a wife.
[0:58] No, I've got a few nicknames.
[0:59] Yeah, there's a few.
[1:00] The Loosh is the big one.
[1:01] Favorite food.
[1:02] Jeez, I love seafood.
[1:04] I love a prawn.
[1:05] I love a Morton Bay bug.
[1:07] Yeah, I like seafood.
[1:07] But I like all food.
[1:09] If you had to cook...
[1:11] Your best meal, people come around to your house for dinner.
[1:14] What are you cooking?
[1:15] And I know there was an Uber Eats situation back in the past that we did discuss in the main episode.
[1:19] I was about to say, if I'm trying to impress someone and I want to cook something, I'd order some Squires off ribs and I'd pull them out of the tray when they were there and just make my own salad and go, here, look what I whipped up.
[1:31] That's good.
[1:32] That qualifies.
[1:33] Have you had the Squires off ribs?
[1:34] Oh, mate.
[1:35] I Uber Eats them twice a week.
[1:38] So three people are coming around now for these ribs that you've knocked up.
[1:42] Alive, dead, you've met, you haven't met.
[1:44] Who are the three people you'd like to come to your specialty ribs via Squire's Loft?
[1:49] This is always the hardest one.
[1:50] Yeah, this is hard.
[1:51] I'd say LeBron James.
[1:53] Yes.
[1:54] I just would love to know.
[1:56] And how he gets about it.
[1:58] And he's 108.
[2:00] I'd love to bring Warnie back.
[2:02] Yeah.
[2:02] Yeah.
[2:02] That's a good answer.
[2:03] I'd love to bring Warnie back.
[2:04] We talk about him in the full episode.
[2:06] I'd love to bring Warnie back just to chew the fat.
[2:08] He'd love to run too.
[2:09] And he'd have his little pinky blinders hat on.
[2:12] He'd have a dart and he'd enjoy a rib.
[2:15] Yeah, he would.
[2:16] And the third person, Jesus.
[2:18] Jesus.
[2:19] Jesus.
[2:19] Jesus.
[2:20] I go, there you go.
[2:21] There you go.
[2:22] I was going to say Lionel Messi, the World Cup, because he doesn't speak.
[2:25] He doesn't speak English.
[2:26] No, he doesn't.
[2:26] So I just love to hear him speak.
[2:29] Funny you say that about LeBron James, because in next week's episode where people will listen, we talked about the fact we did Dead Set Legends together.
[2:36] And I didn't play the clip, but your first big interview was Hugh Jackman.
[2:41] Yeah.
[2:41] This is my first ever interview.
[2:43] Is it really?
[2:44] I'm about to lose my virginity to you on my radio debut, so it'd be a bit easy on me, mate.
[2:48] And we talked about it.
[2:49] Yeah, I was on the red carpet.
[2:51] Yeah, on the red carpet.
[2:52] We talked about it, and then I said, I think this is the start of your massive career.
[2:56] Who's the one person you'd like to interview?
[2:58] Yeah.
[2:58] And you said LeBron James.
[2:59] Yeah.
[3:00] So of all the stars you've talked to on radio, have you interviewed LeBron James?
[3:02] No, I've got Kobe.
[3:03] Right.
[3:04] I was one of Kobe's last ever interviews.
[3:05] Okay, there you go.
[3:06] Did him at Crown.
[3:07] For radio?
[3:08] Yeah.
[3:09] For radio, yeah.
[3:09] How was he?
[3:10] He was great.
[3:11] Was he?
[3:12] I had to wear the suit and I actually took, we had got a basketball ring in our studio and we throw the papers in, we'll just screw them up.
[3:18] And they said, you're not allowed to bring it.
[3:19] So I took it anyway, stuck it on the thing.
[3:21] And I thought at the end, I'll butt him up in the interview.
[3:24] And he actually, they're, you know, they've got the do's and don'ts.
[3:26] Yeah.
[3:27] Yeah.
[3:27] I go to the don'ts.
[3:28] And I try to weasel them into the questions.
[3:31] Just weave them in.
[3:31] Yeah.
[3:32] And it was not to talk about his kids.
[3:34] So I was talking about my kids, how they've got no sporting, they've got their mum's jeans.
[3:39] And I was like, you know, how do I get my kids in?
[3:41] And he's like, well...
[3:42] Bang.
[3:43] Away, guys.
[3:44] I let him into it, and he spoke about Gigi.
[3:46] Right.
[3:46] And the interview was supposed to go for 10 minutes, went for about 25, which was great.
[3:50] And then we had a shoot-off.
[3:51] I said, man, would you – I've got this basketball ring in our studio.
[3:55] So we had a paper shoot-off, and I beat him.
[3:58] You beat him?
[3:58] And he was flat.
[3:59] There's a great video of it, actually.
[4:00] We'll get some of that audio.
[4:01] Whack it in right here.
[4:02] There's a great video, and he gave me a big hug, and then a couple of months later he sadly passed.
[4:06] Wow.
[4:06] Do you reckon you'll be able to chuck that into the ring?
[4:08] Where?
[4:09] Just behind there.
[4:10] Here we go.
[4:13] Oh!
[4:14] That didn't go in the hoop.
[4:15] It says who?
[4:16] It did not go in the hoop.
[4:19] Oh!
[4:19] That's the three.
[4:22] Oh!
[4:22] The bowler has taken it and he's won!
[4:26] Ha ha ha!
[4:28] First car, what was yours?
[4:29] My first car was a Nissan Bluebird.
[4:31] Of course it was.
[4:31] Yeah, Nissan Bluebird.
[4:32] It was a red number.
[4:34] It was a piece of crap.
[4:35] Did you fire that into Princess Park?
[4:37] Is that where you drive the car?
[4:39] No.
[4:39] Or you had another one since then?
[4:40] Yeah, that was the first car that went to Princess Park.
[4:43] And I remember driving home because I lived in Narrow Warren and Fraser Brown.
[4:47] Oh, yeah.
[4:47] He had his big ute, like a big, his like a tradie ute.
[4:51] And we'd get on the southeast and he'd look at me and he'd, like I would just be driving normally just to do a 100.
[4:57] And he'd pull up beside me and he'd wind the window down.
[4:59] I'm like, who the hell?
[5:00] And he'd be afraid.
[5:01] He goes, I beat you home.
[5:03] And he, man, I'm like, this bloke's mad.
[5:05] And he was.
[5:05] Yeah, he was.
[5:06] And he was.
[5:06] And he was called the Mad Dog.
[5:08] So that was your first car.
[5:09] What was your first ever job?
[5:10] First thing you did that you got paid for, Feb?
[5:12] Oh, geez.
[5:12] I sold pizzas at Waverly Park.
[5:14] Did you?
[5:14] At the footy?
[5:15] Yeah, that was at the footy.
[5:16] Man, I loved it.
[5:17] I was a footy enoughy in the Saints.
[5:19] Obviously, the Saints played there.
[5:20] That was my team.
[5:22] But my first was selling pizzas, and I worked at McDonald's.
[5:26] Right.
[5:26] Yeah.
[5:26] I worked at Macca's in Hampton Park.
[5:28] First store.
[5:29] What are you currently watching?
[5:31] What am I currently watching?
[5:33] Jeez, that's a good question.
[5:34] What have I just... Bad Neighbours, what's it called?
[5:39] Oh, yeah.
[5:40] With...
[5:41] He goes and robs all his mates.
[5:42] Yeah, yeah.
[5:43] Good?
[5:43] Great show.
[5:44] Okay.
[5:44] Yeah, it's a great show.
[5:45] Very good.
[5:46] Favorite movie of all time?
[5:47] I've got two.
[5:48] Yep.
[5:48] Can I do two?
[5:48] Yeah, of course you can.
[5:50] Forrest Gump.
[5:50] Oh, yeah.
[5:51] I quote that all the time.
[5:51] Run Forrest.
[5:52] Forrest.
[5:52] Jenny.
[5:55] Lieutenant Dan, you got no legs?
[5:57] Thought I'd try out my sea legs.
[6:00] But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.
[6:03] Yes, I know that.
[6:05] I can do the whole movie.
[6:06] And Dumb and Dumber.
[6:07] Dumb and Dumber.
[6:07] For a good laugh, and if you're hungover and you're on the couch, you just put Dumb and Dumber on.
[6:11] When you go home from school way out in the suburbs and you weren't out and about footy, etc., what would you be watching on TV as a kid after school?
[6:18] I loved, I was a home and away neighbors, neighbors home and away back to back.
[6:22] Okay.
[6:23] And I loved the Gilmore Girls.
[6:24] The Gilmore Girls.
[6:25] Yeah, I loved it.
[6:26] Lorelei.
[6:28] Do you?
[6:29] I don't, I don't know.
[6:30] Do you listen to podcasts?
[6:31] Yeah, the Harry Games.
[6:32] Well, apart from the Harry Games, that's kind of you.
[6:34] Is there any podcast I should listen to?
[6:36] I've listened to Nick Cote, the Mid Flight Brawls.
[6:41] Mid Flight Brawls.
[6:42] Yeah.
[6:42] They talk about all the things that go wrong up in the air.
[6:44] Mid Flight Brawls.
[6:45] Yeah.
[6:46] So Nick Cote and Luke Heggie, the comedian.
[6:47] Right.
[6:48] Yeah.
[6:48] They go back and they talk about like two people arrested on a Bali flight from Thailand to Australia.
[6:55] Well, I'm about to fly to Adelaide.
[6:56] Probably not one I'm going to listen to on the flight.
[6:58] So mid-flight brawl is very good.
[7:00] Very funny.
[7:00] Music?
[7:01] Do you have anyone you particularly like listening to?
[7:04] A bit of Sinatra.
[7:05] Sinatra?
[7:05] Yeah.
[7:06] Really?
[7:06] Good old Frank.
[7:07] Frank.
[7:10] You're on Fox.
[7:11] I'm not saying Frank.
[7:13] I don't really listen to music.
[7:16] I like old stuff.
[7:18] I like a few oldies.
[7:19] Do you read books?
[7:22] No.
[7:23] Okay.
[7:23] What would have been the last book you read?
[7:24] Fair bit of my own words.
[7:26] No, I haven't even read that.
[7:28] It's actually my book and I've never read it.
[7:30] Have you read it?
[7:31] Oh, you haven't read my book?
[7:32] I probably have.
[7:33] How long has it been out?
[7:35] It's been out since 2012.
[7:36] Yeah, I will have read it before the last podcast.
[7:38] Jeez, obviously it hit.
[7:39] Yeah.
[7:40] Mate, there's been a few episodes and a few freaking books between now and then.
[7:43] No, I've got dyslexia.
[7:46] Yeah.
[7:47] I get bored, man.
[7:48] Yep.
[7:49] But I've never read a full book.
[7:51] Someone you've met, and your episode next week starts with the fact you just interviewed Amy Shark.
[7:56] We just talked about Kobe.
[7:57] Yeah.
[7:57] In your job, you meet all sorts of people of a high-profile nature.
[8:01] Someone we'd call of a profile that you've met that's made a positive impression on you, and you've met all sorts.
[8:07] Yeah.
[8:07] Yeah, I've met, mate, I've met some of the, interviewed some of the biggest stars in the world and you'd be the same, Harry.
[8:14] But I think like it doesn't impress me much.
[8:19] Like it's just my job.
[8:20] Okay.
[8:20] So it doesn't like, like if I see someone, I'll be like, oh my God, but it's like, oh, cool, done.
[8:26] Like I'm a real get over it pretty quick.
[8:28] Yep.
[8:28] The things that impress me, uh,
[8:31] we talked about the underdogs, parents of these kids.
[8:34] I love it.
[8:35] That impresses me to be a better person.
[8:37] It's like, you know, sometimes we work from the footy background and we can muck around and we bully a lot.
[8:41] Like we say, it's fun bullying, but to a point that these kids don't know the difference between that.
[8:47] So that makes you think before you do stuff in a way.
[8:50] So I'm, you know, the parents that, you know, I'm,
[8:53] deal with these kids emotionally and they get home and they've got to parent them and they've got to get them back on their feet and they've got to put a smile on their face and they tell us their stories.
[9:01] And that, that, that hits me positively.
[9:04] Like that, that inspires me.
[9:06] You're a man with a big heart.
[9:07] What, if anything, scares you?
[9:09] Sharks.
[9:09] Sharks.
[9:11] What is your favorite holiday destination?
[9:13] Geez, I've been on a few with a fam.
[9:16] I think it's just been with, it doesn't matter where you are when you're with the family.
[9:18] They're all great.
[9:20] And you make lifelong memories.
[9:23] But one that was, I think, Japan.
[9:25] Japan.
[9:26] Japan.
[9:26] Japan's a beautiful country.
[9:28] Bucket list destination.
[9:28] Haven't been like to go.
[9:30] Somewhere you haven't been that you'd love to go.
[9:33] Amalfi Coast in Italy.
[9:34] I can see you.
[9:35] I'm Italian.
[9:35] Never been there.
[9:36] I can see you with your little loafers on.
[9:38] Yeah, I put my little budgies on and pubes hanging out the side.
[9:42] Welcome to the Amalfi Coast.
[9:44] On the yacht.
[9:45] Get me a Peroni.
[9:48] What are you good at?
[9:51] It doesn't matter how niche this skill is, whether it's everything, that's not football or radio.
[9:57] Something you think I'm good at such and such.
[9:59] I'm good at getting myself out of shit.
[10:02] You've had a lot of practice.
[10:03] You've had a lot of practice.
[10:04] I'm an expert.
[10:06] What am I good at that no one else would know?
[10:08] I'm actually really good at fire.
[10:10] Fire.
[10:11] Like a fire at home.
[10:12] Lighting one?
[10:13] Yeah, lighting one.
[10:14] That's a good skill.
[10:15] Like I'm a lead at it.
[10:16] Right.
[10:16] Like it's up and done.
[10:17] You think you're a world-class fire maker.
[10:19] Yeah.
[10:20] I get the kindling and I stack it up like a teepee.
[10:24] Right.
[10:24] And then, mate, and I put like little bits of paper and then it's like.
[10:28] Up she goes.
[10:29] And then I bang and it's like even my wife's like, you've got good at that.
[10:32] Handy skills.
[10:33] Yeah.
[10:33] Last one.
[10:35] Your full episode is out next week celebrating 10 years of the show.
[10:38] It's bloody good.
[10:40] I'll just say it's bloody good.
[10:41] But this defines you.
[10:44] So we didn't do the player profiles when you came on the show 10 years ago.
[10:46] This defines you as a Carlton Hall of Famer, as a Richmond AFLW line coach, as a husband, as a father of four girls, as a radio star, as a proud Victorian, Brendan Favola, pineapple and pizza,
[11:06] Yes or no?
[11:07] No.
[11:08] Cliff said no, Tommy.
[11:10] He's the archetypical yes.
[11:12] What are you talking about?
[11:13] Well, it doesn't bother me.
[11:14] Where'd you grow up?
[11:15] Mate, I have a ham and pineapple, but it's like I'm Italian.
[11:19] All my Italian people will be like, you cannot have a pineapple on the pizza.
[11:22] Yes.
[11:23] You know what?
[11:24] It does not bother.
[11:25] It can't have anchovies on any pizza.
[11:26] There's a get out of jail.
[11:28] Yeah, okay.
[11:28] And I said this to someone the other day.
[11:30] If you get two strikes, the episode potentially doesn't go to air.
[11:33] Oh, it doesn't bother.
[11:34] Which would disappoint me, but it would have no effect on you.
[11:37] And it would screw me up enormously, to be honest, because then we'd have a bloody hole.
[11:41] But, Brendan Fowler.
[11:43] All right, here we go.
[11:44] Peanut butter, crunchy or smooth?
[11:45] Oh, smooth?
[11:47] He's none from Two Tommy.
[11:49] Get him out of the freaking studio.
[11:51] Mate, I walk past the peanut butter with a spoon and eat it from the thing.
[11:55] As do I. Yeah, but I can't have the texture.
[11:56] I can't have the crunch.
[11:57] Ooh.
[11:58] Peanuts are crunchy.
[12:00] What brand of peanut butter do you eat?
[12:02] Oh, the normal one with the...
[12:04] Well, I'm going to upgrade you.
[12:05] I've got a mate who's got a peanut butter factory.
[12:06] Oh, you've got connections.
[12:07] It's called Mavers.
[12:08] I'm going to get him, Paulie Raff.
[12:10] Yeah.
[12:10] His nickname, funnily enough, only your peanut butter factory is Nutsy.
[12:15] I'm going to get him to send you some double crunch peanut butter.
[12:18] Double crunch?
[12:19] Double crunch.
[12:19] Jeez, I'm going straight to this one.
[12:20] And it's going to change a lot.
[12:22] Can we put it to air, Tommy?
[12:23] Yeah, we can put it to air.
[12:24] Yeah.
[12:24] Well done.
[12:24] All right, brother.
[12:25] Well done.
[12:25] McCullough stands his ground.
[12:28] Starts off, bend it back.

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