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Speaker 1: This is the Agenda Podcast for Wednesday, the twenty third
Speaker 1: of October.
Speaker 2: The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap Trap,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Export Vulture.
Speaker 3: Morning, Matt Heath, Morning, when I stew it, Sorry I'm late,
Speaker 3: Not that that makes any difference to podcast listeners, but
Speaker 3: to you with you sitting here.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm vaping. I'm vaping away furiously over the side here.
Speaker 3: Vaping in the studio is the new Not vaping in
Speaker 3: the studio, It's new smoking in the studio. Does I
Speaker 3: mean I'm vaping up a storm up at news talks?
Speaker 4: He'd be.
Speaker 1: And it just feels good. It feels like what's that
Speaker 1: movie with Laddy? Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: Thank you and good night with good looking man what's
Speaker 5: his name?
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's about the reporter and everyone's smoking in the studio,
Speaker 1: the studios.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like so they producers.
Speaker 3: Smoking, like Adam willd be smoking over everyone on TV smoking,
Speaker 3: the cameraman smoking.
Speaker 5: Why did we stop there? I think it was the
Speaker 5: lung cancer. Yeah, I think about it.
Speaker 1: But everything looked better because you know they release a
Speaker 1: smoke machine on TV shows.
Speaker 4: Yees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like you'll have noticed in Game of two Halves
Speaker 1: they're pumping that stuff out because you need to have
Speaker 1: that smoke in the air for the lights to work
Speaker 1: and everything to look good. Well, we was we should
Speaker 1: just put a bit of nicotine in the old and
Speaker 1: the old smoke machine, and then just we'd have the
Speaker 1: most chilled episode of Game and two halves of all
Speaker 1: the time. Five taps on the bottom of this. For
Speaker 1: some reason, someone send us a bunch of vapes. I
Speaker 1: think we must have talked about it on a podcast
Speaker 1: or something, and then someone sent us a million vapes.
Speaker 1: And now I was like, well, can you vape in
Speaker 1: the studio? You've you've tested it up there and Hosking.
Speaker 1: That comes in quite strong, that one you've tested it
Speaker 1: up there in the old Hosking studio.
Speaker 5: Yeah. He hadn't mentioned anything about it, No, he hasn't.
Speaker 3: He's mentioned a lot about the crumbs and food I
Speaker 3: leave lying around, but nothing about the vaping. I think
Speaker 3: it's sort of well, you've got to go through here
Speaker 3: to do plas Allen before it gets to and then
Speaker 3: a night show before it gets to Hosking. So of
Speaker 3: course that so the air conditioning deals with Tyler's rampant vaping.
Speaker 3: It was the first thing that my co host Tyler asked,
Speaker 3: he us, how do you feel about vaping in the studio?
Speaker 5: And I said, I feel very good about it? Great? Great,
Speaker 5: Sybarnet wasn't into it.
Speaker 1: So you talked to did Jerry get you on the
Speaker 1: former Matt and Jerry show last week? Talk about iffing
Speaker 1: with m H Yeah, yeah, he did.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm the mate as well, this is my costing
Speaker 3: So when they first when they first pitched that to me,
Speaker 3: I was like, well, are you guys coming from me?
Speaker 5: But you're concerned about a double cross? Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also so their idea was that every every morning
Speaker 3: I somehow vandalized the studio. Yeah, to sort of do
Speaker 3: a little bit of active terrorism, maybe move remove the
Speaker 3: ink from the printer, yeah, or run the dice and flat, Yeah,
Speaker 3: run the diceon flat, or take a screw out of
Speaker 3: his chair or something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then what they don't understand is this isn't my
Speaker 1: costing studio, this is now mad Heath Studio. So at
Speaker 1: that point you are yeah, you're just vandalizing your net,
Speaker 1: but I will still do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, have you have you had a shot at anything yet?
Speaker 1: Or are just my general pigginess has been causing problems
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 3: There's a very different attitude, Like Hanaki's just sort of
Speaker 3: like a student flat big time. There's just crap everywhere
Speaker 3: and it's sort of a family vibe. So I sort
Speaker 3: of took that feed up on the desk. Yea food
Speaker 3: on the floor, Yeah, vaping in the studio, yeah, drinking
Speaker 3: on that kind of vibe to upstairs, and it's.
Speaker 5: It's just very different. It's very different. Yeah, well they
Speaker 5: need a bit of that, maybe a little bit of culture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like to explain that the studio set up in
Speaker 1: the Hadaki studio, there's like a vent in the ceiling
Speaker 1: is there are most offices, and in there is confetti
Speaker 1: from a boat giveaway we did like five years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jackie flew a load early. Yes, it hadn't even been
Speaker 1: announced who won the boat, and she fired off right
Speaker 1: up into the vent and it's straight out of the
Speaker 1: vent and no one's being able to get on a
Speaker 1: chair to get it down. No, I mean been able
Speaker 1: to do bother No one said time, that's right, No,
Speaker 1: one's had time to pull the confiti.
Speaker 5: Out of the event so that we could successfully errate
Speaker 5: the room.
Speaker 1: Stuff goes into that studio just never comes out again.
Speaker 1: There's the cannabis Christmas tree that's going to since before
Speaker 1: I started, it was a night of the Realm that
Speaker 1: was there for about five years to see some promotion
Speaker 1: for some movie. It was like a full night on
Speaker 1: a mannekin after the Crusades. It's just people come and
Speaker 1: what do you say with that? We're like, what's it for?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It was just it was part of
Speaker 5: a promotion. Who's going to clean it? Yes?
Speaker 4: We are?
Speaker 5: You gonna put it? Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 1: We had like a cleaning session out of our b
Speaker 1: studio here at the ACC and there's just stuff coming
Speaker 1: out of there that we're like, when the fuck did that?
Speaker 1: Remember when there was a brewery that sponsored the buttholes
Speaker 1: of the Tartanaki team, Yeah, they sent us a bunch
Speaker 1: of the shorts there. We just found those. It's like, God,
Speaker 1: what are we going to do with that? Incinerate that shit?
Speaker 1: Outside of the what's been firing up Mike Hosking on
Speaker 1: ZIB what's been firing up the listeners?
Speaker 5: On ZIB this week.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we talked a lot about buying New Zealand beef
Speaker 1: over Australian beef. Oh yeah, And I always try and
Speaker 1: change into stuff I'm interested in, such as barbecue chat.
Speaker 1: So then then I sort of turned out into you know,
Speaker 1: the best temperature to you know, serve up and I
Speaker 1: fill it bearing in mind that your kids don't want
Speaker 1: a full car accident on the table, so you have
Speaker 1: to sort of go a bit medium rare for kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't be the big swinging deck with the full
Speaker 1: rear meat.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: And I try not to judge other people for how
Speaker 1: they want this steak because that's how they want it,
Speaker 1: So I'm going to leave it to them. But we've
Speaker 1: got my own laws are up with us over the
Speaker 1: weekend and they brought up a bunch of homekill meat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so we've got these beautiful steaks.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: But my messus loves it like real well done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm like, you kind you can't kind of yeah,
Speaker 3: you're kind of destroying something quite amazing.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like, well, if that's how he likes it, yeah,
Speaker 1: who am I Yeah, exactly grew up on.
Speaker 5: A dairy farm.
Speaker 3: So she's in a million states, but alsudd, there's no
Speaker 3: one better than someone that just tries to have it
Speaker 3: as rare as possible just to prove that they are
Speaker 3: hard men, and they basically I mean one of the
Speaker 3: most embarrassing things ever went out for dinner with the
Speaker 3: mate's dad and he was like, he said. The waitress said,
Speaker 3: how do you like and it goes, cut its horns off,
Speaker 3: wipe it sas, and put it on the plate.
Speaker 5: And she was like what.
Speaker 3: He goes, cut it's fucking horns off, wipe its us
Speaker 3: and put it on the plate.
Speaker 5: She goes, how do you want your steak? And he
Speaker 5: goes rare? But it was like, you know, the big man,
Speaker 5: how re you can you have it?
Speaker 1: Do you really do you really want them just to
Speaker 1: cut the horns off, wipe itsas and put it on
Speaker 1: your plate. Some day someone's going to do that to
Speaker 1: you and you're gonna have a full carcass on your plate.
Speaker 1: Yeahs are still in there. How are you going to
Speaker 1: deal with it? Al So, why the horns off? Who
Speaker 1: cares about the horns at that point? But still got
Speaker 1: the hoofs on? Who cares about the horns? Probably doesn't
Speaker 1: have the horns anyway, so yeah, what are you gonna
Speaker 1: do with the horns?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I know exactly what you man.
Speaker 1: This is the guy makes a show of I also
Speaker 1: think he just wanted to get that joke off.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you could tell you want to get their
Speaker 3: joke off because he was staring at me when he
Speaker 3: did it, like it's not at her, So it was
Speaker 3: like he was waiting to pull the trigger on the
Speaker 3: unfunny joke.
Speaker 5: He's like, Man, have I got some shit on more
Speaker 5: material like this? All evening? Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Allbacks team list came out after we recorded the
Speaker 1: podcast yesterday. I don't know if you went through it
Speaker 1: with the listeners yesterday. Did you talk about that on
Speaker 1: your show? You had a bit of a look at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: any anything stands out, Camerooid's back, Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: That's burg potential debuts for Peter Lucky. I've got the
Speaker 1: team list on the back sheet there and there's nothing
Speaker 1: really because we're playing Japan. Yeah, you know, so, I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't see it being an upset. It's interesting.
Speaker 3: You got Sam Kaine, his vice captain, working his way
Speaker 3: back up to captain before he leaves and I see
Speaker 3: Patrick two is the captain, so I'm just he's great.
Speaker 3: Patrick to ap a lot to be back, great man.
Speaker 1: And then Billy Proctor gets to start at center. Potential
Speaker 1: debuts for Peter Luckeye and Rubin Love, who I think
Speaker 1: two of the future stars of the All Blacks, particularly
Speaker 1: Reuben Love and Peter Luke has had a brutal Super
Speaker 1: Rugby season in terms of a brutal ball runner and
Speaker 1: tough to bring down. We're gonna have one of his
Speaker 1: teammates on the podcast later on the show as well,
Speaker 1: Brad Shields joining us.
Speaker 3: What TJ perrenar he won't be going on a holiday
Speaker 3: after n bro Oh he might, It's O no, he
Speaker 3: will because everyone everyone deserves a holiday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone's on holiday.
Speaker 1: That's what he told me when I when we flew
Speaker 1: down to Dunedin and we're on the flight, was when
Speaker 1: they played England. We were on the flight with the
Speaker 1: English boys and they were booking villas in Bali and
Speaker 1: so when I saw I saw it.
Speaker 3: We heard them making stock investments and talking about stock
Speaker 3: taps and booking holidays.
Speaker 1: Yeah you heard that Intel. I was standing right beside
Speaker 1: them as we were boarding the plane show.
Speaker 3: You said to me, then at their very point, they're
Speaker 3: gonna lose if this is where their heads are. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're on holiday and they're working out, working on their
Speaker 3: stock portfolio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they checked out. That was a long tour for them.
Speaker 1: This is the end of it. And then I saw
Speaker 1: T J. Peter and walking up the street actually with
Speaker 1: Reuben Love, and I said, I was on the same
Speaker 1: flight as the English team and they already checked out. Mate,
Speaker 1: They're booking holidays in Bali, they're checking their portfolios. You
Speaker 1: guys are going to give them a hiding. And he goes, well,
Speaker 1: you know, athletes are all out holidays too.
Speaker 5: Everyone's out a holiday, bro, you're allowed holiday too.
Speaker 1: And I was like, and you're like, it's just you're
Speaker 1: just trying to engage in a little bit of friendly
Speaker 1: to say that you support the team.
Speaker 5: You're not really questioning their right to have a holiday.
Speaker 1: What I think it was was he's probably been punished
Speaker 1: about fifteen times and down George Street, down George Streets,
Speaker 1: left one more fucking You're the first.
Speaker 3: Guy in a row that's come on with a quip. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the next guy I see it just wop its horns off.
Speaker 3: And wipe its ass and put it on my plate mape.
Speaker 3: Everyone had their quip up and down the road. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then he's like really, and then four of us
Speaker 3: standing out sort of a pie shot with mental over
Speaker 3: our faces desperately you come up with a ry aside.
Speaker 5: As he walks past, he's like that was one too many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's important to us, because we've spent so
Speaker 1: much of our life watching him.
Speaker 5: Every little word hurts.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That isn't just thanks man, Yeah, cheers for your support.
Speaker 1: That's anything less than that hurts us because we want
Speaker 1: to be able to go, hey, talk to he was awesome.
Speaker 1: That's all we want to do. That's all we want.
Speaker 1: I'm not over it, es Quirklan, now that we were
Speaker 1: so hungover Jess quirk clear before we do go to
Speaker 1: brand shields and I just put a suppository in.
Speaker 5: Oh you had to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd actually put one in Julane and you put
Speaker 1: one on me, one in Gulane. So we were hurting.
Speaker 1: He didn't need one.
Speaker 5: Wow, he always needs one, he just wasn't using them.
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: Just quick clear the common off games. So they're going
Speaker 1: to burn about because they weren't going to do it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one. They couldn't find anyone to host it.
Speaker 3: Is it just the sad diminishing, you know, inning, you know,
Speaker 3: not burning out, fading away?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, I think it is. It's fluttering out.
Speaker 1: And I think that well, they're going to take ten
Speaker 1: sports out of it to try and make it a
Speaker 1: bit more fundable, you know. Yeah, but so that includes
Speaker 1: seven's hockey squash, all the stuff that we were met with,
Speaker 1: all the stuff we hear about. Yeah, that's right. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but at least they can go ahead.
Speaker 1: I can see Brad Shields in the waiting room of
Speaker 1: the zoom link here, So we're going to take a
Speaker 1: quick break.
Speaker 5: And we'll come back with Brad Shields is connecting shields
Speaker 5: connected to audio. Shields is connected to audio. Good morning,
Speaker 5: can you hear us?
Speaker 4: Morning?
Speaker 5: Hey mate?
Speaker 4: How are.
Speaker 5: There we are?
Speaker 1: How's it all going, Matte? Yeah, story very well, thank you.
Speaker 1: We've just found a pack of vapes of the studio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got seen a pack of I guess expired
Speaker 3: vapes from someone.
Speaker 5: So you know, we're doing a bit for the kids.
Speaker 1: Expired vapes expired both So yeah, so if the if
Speaker 1: the fire alarm goes off. It's just that we've been
Speaker 1: vaping in the studio. There's no there's no there's no
Speaker 1: vaping in the team. Is there a head of a
Speaker 1: big final.
Speaker 6: Maybe you can maybe you can send some of those
Speaker 6: expired ones our way thunder.
Speaker 5: A big pack pamp of expired bapes to celebrate with.
Speaker 1: Kevin Proctor was vaping at halftime of a Gold Coast
Speaker 1: Titans game.
Speaker 4: And he had all there.
Speaker 5: He got his contracting up. This was a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bad luck when your team's getting absolutely
Speaker 1: humped and then you're at halftime the sport you.
Speaker 3: Can you know they were smoking full enlog you know,
Speaker 3: nlog votes. They're on the darts for a long time
Speaker 3: in cricket, wren't they Yeah, because you don't need the
Speaker 3: full lung power that you guys need.
Speaker 4: Nah.
Speaker 6: Well yeah, but there's always there's that myth around a
Speaker 6: few players, high profile players that were full time smokers.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know you.
Speaker 3: I shared that with Jerry Collins out out the front
Speaker 3: of an Irish bar in Wellington one.
Speaker 5: Day, Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: His bicyp was bigger than my TITLESO.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it wasn't at halftime of a game though, No,
Speaker 1: this was off season, but you did.
Speaker 4: You did.
Speaker 1: Used to hear stories about like guys at halftime of
Speaker 1: a game to prip and a dart on the sideline.
Speaker 5: I don't know how true it was.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if that back in my I
Speaker 6: don't know if you know well anything very well my
Speaker 6: folks vally days.
Speaker 4: I know that I don't called rugby.
Speaker 6: But there was like more of a pint an mode
Speaker 6: on the sideline, ready to go on the field.
Speaker 3: Well, as long as you've done the prep, like a
Speaker 3: data halftime is not going to affect your overall prep.
Speaker 3: I was talking to Dame Lisa Carington about this and
Speaker 3: she said, it doesn't matter if you have a bad
Speaker 3: sleep the night before the you know that you know
Speaker 3: the big or a big race or the big game.
Speaker 3: As long as you prep up to that point, it's
Speaker 3: been fine. So you know the dice has already been
Speaker 3: rolled by the time you're at halftime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you say anything about smoking darts before going
Speaker 1: out to the Olympics. Mister Arrington is not on the darts.
Speaker 1: I couldn't confirm that much. Neither is Brad sheels. But
Speaker 1: you are playing in the n PC final we calling
Speaker 1: it a Grand final this weekend against Plenty home final
Speaker 1: as well. You guys beat them a few weeks ago though,
Speaker 1: Does that factor into it? Do you think about that
Speaker 1: going into a final?
Speaker 6: Well, she's the skin of our teeth, you know.
Speaker 4: Was it Golden Point or whatever it was? Yeah, there
Speaker 4: we got them. So that was a pretty close game.
Speaker 4: And they're they're pretty.
Speaker 6: Good, like they're on fire at the moment without being
Speaker 6: you know to rugby and rugby cliche and all that
Speaker 6: sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: They're they're not too bad.
Speaker 6: And obviously old Richard what used to be uh, you know,
Speaker 6: Wallington's thought.
Speaker 4: So it'll be an interesting sort of match up.
Speaker 1: The question I had about a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: when all the all black squad got released back out
Speaker 1: into the regions and then we saw I don't know
Speaker 1: if you call them upsets, but like there were a
Speaker 1: few really short favorites that got tipped up that week.
Speaker 5: Is it disruptive.
Speaker 1: To have those dudes coming in and out of squads
Speaker 1: all the time, and is it a little bit like
Speaker 1: because there were some teams that didn't have guys for
Speaker 1: most of the season and all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: get like pumped up for just the semi finals or quarterfinals.
Speaker 5: Is it a little bit yeah, upset rhythm a bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I can I can see where from like
Speaker 6: Bad Plants probably one of those teams who haven't had
Speaker 6: much change throughout the whole season, Like they had their
Speaker 6: storm week early on and sort of had the similar
Speaker 6: theme most weeks. But it was a huge positive for us,
Speaker 6: And yesterday on one of the radio shows, like having
Speaker 6: those guys just in their environment for the week creates
Speaker 6: that sort of level of intent that you need and
Speaker 6: like maybe they'll maybe we're slightly off a little bit,
Speaker 6: and those guys just bringing their presence, their knowledge, their
Speaker 6: experiences coming in for a few days, and you know,
Speaker 6: we had a couple of injuries at that time, so
Speaker 6: you know, kind of just timing is everything, and the
Speaker 6: time for us for them to come in and import
Speaker 6: was was really good. And you know, their leadership obviously
Speaker 6: helps and so the cality, you know, look at the stuff.
Speaker 6: One more, he was like one of the best games
Speaker 6: I've ever seen him playing a oneing in Jersey.
Speaker 4: So I will take that any day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose, particularly if there's a guy in your
Speaker 1: position you just really want to be up and about
Speaker 1: when he's back from the Oh yeah, he's been in
Speaker 1: the black jersey a bit.
Speaker 5: We'll fucking check this out.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what though, You know what it's like
Speaker 6: professional thoughts these days, It's like you could be one minute,
Speaker 6: you could be in and out, and I think boys
Speaker 6: just realize that's all part of it, you know.
Speaker 4: If you're winning games, that's the end of the day,
Speaker 4: that's the main thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: Barnsy was saying that the All Blacks Test should have
Speaker 1: been pushed back a week and that all of those
Speaker 1: boys should have still been around for the for the final.
Speaker 5: Do you do you agree with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I totally agree with it.
Speaker 6: And like if I remember growing up watching Wellington, if
Speaker 6: I remember correctly going to watch Wellington, all the All
Speaker 6: Blacks are playing most weeks, you know, and it kind
Speaker 6: of just situated itself at the back end of the season.
Speaker 6: It actually was the end of year tour, so I
Speaker 6: can see it. But you know, the Rugby Championship and
Speaker 6: all of that, But there is a good chunk of
Speaker 6: window that we could just you know, finish the season
Speaker 6: off the plus four or five games or six games
Speaker 6: sort of thing with all the all blacks scattered across
Speaker 6: the unions, and I think that the will you know,
Speaker 6: boosted some of the teams, but also benefit the community
Speaker 6: as well and inspiration for young kids and fans and
Speaker 6: bums on seats and all that sort of stuff. So
Speaker 6: I totally agree with Buns in that sort of tense.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem to be the way they do things though. No, No,
Speaker 3: they don't look that way. They don't think about that.
Speaker 3: They don't look at the holistic picture, do they. They're
Speaker 3: just like, we've got to be in Japan.
Speaker 5: We're out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as Japan opens up their wallet.
Speaker 4: And.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that might be a big part of it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 1: Something I wanted to address with you is that we
Speaker 1: on this podcast have actually had a really terrible run
Speaker 1: of late. Every player that has come on the podcast
Speaker 1: in the last sort of three months has lost the
Speaker 1: next game after they've come.
Speaker 5: On the show.
Speaker 1: Probably should told you last time you came on was
Speaker 1: ahead of the Shield Challenge.
Speaker 5: I presume you weren't aware of this potential curse before
Speaker 5: we agreed to come on this on the Meden video
Speaker 5: game curse.
Speaker 4: I can't find the hang up button.
Speaker 3: Wow, these things are made to be broken, you know.
Speaker 3: It's like the cake tin curse. At some point they've
Speaker 3: got to be broken. They can't continue on, and so
Speaker 3: you're you're amen to break it.
Speaker 1: And the other part of it is as if there
Speaker 1: is a lost people like to just hang it on us.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, anything we've done our listenership is very cruel.
Speaker 1: Anything that we've done in the last week is somehow
Speaker 1: becomes a curse. If one of us has had a
Speaker 1: car accident, it's the curse of the dingle.
Speaker 4: I'll make a deal with you.
Speaker 6: If it doesn't go away, well fingers crossed in the weekend,
Speaker 6: you've got to ring me on Sunday and we've got
Speaker 6: to have another chair and then I get.
Speaker 4: To blame you on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, perfect, We'll be definitely looking to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're all about accountability here. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Does anything change going into a final week from the
Speaker 1: from the rest of the season for you guys.
Speaker 6: We sort of talked earlier in the week, like I
Speaker 6: suppose the occasion changes a little bit, and not many
Speaker 6: guys would have played you a final.
Speaker 4: At this level, and we.
Speaker 6: Sort of said, like, it's interesting because there's a lot
Speaker 6: of guys who you know, win World Cups and all
Speaker 6: that sort of stuff, who sometimes don't even get to
Speaker 6: playing an NBC final, win an NBC championship.
Speaker 4: So it's quite a cool little thing.
Speaker 6: And there's a there's a special bond you've got with
Speaker 6: your union and your franchise, sorry, your union and your province.
Speaker 6: So I think it's different in that sense. In terms
Speaker 6: of rugby, maybe we do a little bit less. Maybe
Speaker 6: it's more quality over quantity sort of thing. You've done
Speaker 6: all the work through the year, and then I think
Speaker 6: obviously outside of rugby there's a few more people asking
Speaker 6: for tickets and all that to get that ticked off
Speaker 6: during the week. But look, rugby stays the same and
Speaker 6: boys are in a pretty good place, so we're we're
Speaker 6: pretty excited.
Speaker 1: Did I see in the second half of the last game,
Speaker 1: did you give the boys a bit of a I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say a spray, but did you give them a
Speaker 1: bit of a hurry up or something in the second half.
Speaker 6: I'll probably I kind of dip in it out of being
Speaker 6: real grumpy days. I think I've taken over from Colby
Speaker 6: and Thrushy from when he was there. If I give
Speaker 6: us spray, I'll be pretty quick.
Speaker 4: Sorry, boys, just in the moment there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it wouldn't prize me.
Speaker 4: What's accountability?
Speaker 3: Accountability? As I said, we're big on there here. When
Speaker 3: I gave me a spray just before vaping in the studio.
Speaker 5: And now we're both done it. That's the way I've apologizing.
Speaker 3: Is there anything around organizing anything post game?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is there any who doo on that? If you know
Speaker 3: you can't book the restaurant, you can't you can't discuss
Speaker 3: the party in advance, because that's getting ahead of yourself.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 6: Most Yeah, usually a couple of injury boys that get
Speaker 6: lumped with the sort of responsibility.
Speaker 4: This year, we've kind of had a few different plans.
Speaker 6: But look, the more experienced you other than where you
Speaker 6: can partmentalize that sort of stuff. And the good thing
Speaker 6: about being in a final is that it's inevitable it's
Speaker 6: going to be on after the games, so yeah, well
Speaker 6: it's going to be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know in a good time, one time
Speaker 3: of the day to you know, leave until good evening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: We had you're not finishing up at like ten thirty
Speaker 1: at night kind of situation. We had Maddy Exton's on
Speaker 1: the show, Yes sir, and he's the canon of the
Speaker 1: Swamp Foxes. So they just won hard and he was
Speaker 1: saying that exact thing. It is just like a couple
Speaker 1: of the boys had to like ring around and make
Speaker 1: a couple of reservations.
Speaker 5: But they're like, well, look, we might be a on
Speaker 5: Saturday night. We may or may not be.
Speaker 3: We may not there may or may not be fifty
Speaker 3: five dudes coming in hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Good thing is you just need a win. Win.
Speaker 4: Then everyone's like, oh come on yeah yeah yeah, if.
Speaker 5: You will, yeah, they'll kick everyone out. They'll kick the PM.
Speaker 1: Out Luxe and that's right what bar and Tim is
Speaker 1: not going to let them in. Yeah, the whole the
Speaker 1: whole waterfront will be down there in Wellington, will be
Speaker 1: clamoring to have you guys in there.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 6: I think it's the am I right, and saying it's
Speaker 6: a public holiday Monday as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Labor Day, so yeah, set up.
Speaker 4: For you should a good day. Yeah, we're not.
Speaker 6: We always get kicked out real early on Sunday and
Speaker 6: like suns get home. So we're like, oh, we're just
Speaker 6: getting started, but we got to get out of here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got a good landing strip.
Speaker 1: That's another good point because those Heartland boys, they all
Speaker 1: had to go back to work on Monday, had a big.
Speaker 5: Sunday and then turn up on Monday.
Speaker 1: We had a guy call into the podcast yesterday and
Speaker 1: he said he had the inside oil that Hecker Elliott
Speaker 1: had been called up from the South Canterbury squad into
Speaker 1: the Wellington squad.
Speaker 5: Have you seen him around the traps? Can you confirm
Speaker 5: or deny that?
Speaker 6: I can't confirm nor can I deny, But there's well,
Speaker 6: we're seeing a bit of a Prince staint. Coles turned
Speaker 6: the opportunity down to come back and play. We're trying
Speaker 6: to figure out what we're going to do for the
Speaker 6: back end of the the back end of the season
Speaker 6: or the back end of the week, so we're kind
Speaker 6: of going through that at the moment. But you know,
Speaker 6: obviously he's still playing, so whether he's on the radar
Speaker 6: or not, we'll we'll see what happens an.
Speaker 5: We'll find out.
Speaker 1: We'll find out when you run out onto the park
Speaker 1: on Saturday's brilliant well go well mate, and thank you
Speaker 1: very much for joining the show again and with any
Speaker 1: luck breaking the curse of the Agenda podcast.
Speaker 6: If there's anything I'm taking out of the main thing
Speaker 6: I want to get this weekend is to break their case.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, man, We really appreciate it. When
Speaker 5: all those would love to talk to you on on the.
Speaker 1: Tuesday, one of those will be on the Boost when
Speaker 1: all those we certainly will be on the Burst.
Speaker 4: Lovely. Yeah, I think I think that'll be our team
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, cheers back boy, good one. I'm in an
Speaker 5: interesting situation.
Speaker 3: I'll be like, because it's the game one of the
Speaker 3: world series Dodgers Yankee from one, so I'll be running
Speaker 3: a double screen situation with the Wellington plenty.
Speaker 5: How do you run the double screen? You go the
Speaker 5: lappie and then into.
Speaker 3: The I've got the capability on my computer. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm on my on my my TV year powerful.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and when we
Speaker 1: come back of yours please.
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Speaker 1: But I wasn't the vapors kicking My ass was quite strong,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, Yeah, they've got a high percentage. I
Speaker 1: think it's two percent, so we go only rocking two percent. Hey,
Speaker 1: can you indulge me just a little bit, just like,
Speaker 1: just give me two minutes of Dodgers chetes, please please,
Speaker 1: This is huge first science since nine ninety one. Yankees
Speaker 1: Dodgers World Series MLB is just on fire because it's
Speaker 1: the two biggest population centers going head to hear, two
Speaker 1: iconic teams.
Speaker 5: And you know they're both originally from New York.
Speaker 3: Actually, the Dodgers, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers
Speaker 3: were actually in New York before the Yankees were there, right,
Speaker 3: And the first time they played was in nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 5: Oh the history, Yeah, the history.
Speaker 3: They've played eleven times in the World Series. Since then,
Speaker 3: the Yankees have won eight times. Yeah, Dodger's got no pitching,
Speaker 3: which is an interesting, interesting situation going forward. In fact,
Speaker 3: if you're interested, and I know people are thinking right now,
Speaker 3: I'm not interested. But at Medheath dot Substack dot dot
Speaker 3: com on Friday, I'm releasing the full History of the Dodges.
Speaker 3: I've written a two and a half thousand word piece
Speaker 3: on on my beloved Dodgers and their history with the Yankees.
Speaker 1: And the Dodgers have Otani, right, yeah, yeah, ye, show
Speaker 1: how Atani seven hundred million dollars, well spent.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: I saw an interesting video about Otani. It was so
Speaker 1: obviously he has a translator. In every interview he does
Speaker 1: is through a translator. And last year his last translator
Speaker 1: that said the jail for ever the start of the seio.
Speaker 1: But show Hey, he shug it off. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 1: and so now I stole fourteen million dollars from him.
Speaker 1: It didn't even stop smiling. It didn't even stop smiling.
Speaker 1: But he got a new translator, and every interview he's
Speaker 1: got the translator. I saw a video of him behind
Speaker 1: the scenes talking to a couple of a couple of
Speaker 1: a couple of smoke shows who had made their way
Speaker 1: backstage all of a sudden, no translator.
Speaker 3: That's the interesting thing about show How a Tani because
Speaker 3: also there's some other footage that's come out when because
Speaker 3: you know, they put the ski goggles on when they
Speaker 3: win when they win like a series, so they don't
Speaker 3: get alcohol in their eyes, and then they spray each
Speaker 3: other with booze and they get absolutely steamed. And show
Speaker 3: Hay was so steamed and seem to be able to
Speaker 3: talk fluent English about people not drinking. He's really good
Speaker 3: at peer pressure. He's got all the language of peer
Speaker 3: pressure on people not drinking enough postgame win. So it's
Speaker 3: one of those interesting things. He can speak English, but
Speaker 3: he needs to be drunk to do it very selectively.
Speaker 3: But that's a great situation to be in it because
Speaker 3: he stands and smiles and he's a good looking fellow.
Speaker 5: He's huge, he's amazing. The whole world loves them.
Speaker 3: When you watch a Dodger's game now they have when
Speaker 3: he's batting, is always on the screen. So if as
Speaker 3: at bats and four, it goes show how or Tony
Speaker 3: in four? Really because because people are just there, there's
Speaker 3: a huge the whole of Japan's following the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Now he's got this press corps around him, you know,
Speaker 1: so he can talk, you know to the Japanese press,
Speaker 1: say what every once never comes back.
Speaker 3: But he can just stand there with a smile in
Speaker 3: his face. Takes so long for him to answer a question,
Speaker 3: no questions curly, yeah, because he's got a long time
Speaker 3: to answer. Plus has who knows what he said to
Speaker 3: is what he said to his translator, But whatever comes
Speaker 3: out of his translator's mouth is such perfect Yeah, kicking
Speaker 3: things to touch baseball cliche.
Speaker 5: So the translator is essentially as PR person.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and sometimes his PR person will steal fourteen
Speaker 3: million from him.
Speaker 5: Sometimes he won't.
Speaker 3: You wins amulas, but that becomes your best friend. You know,
Speaker 3: he's got he's got a moto on the team as well.
Speaker 3: Who's who's a picture for the Dodgers? Fantastic? You know,
Speaker 3: he's much better. He's been much better in the postseason. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he was in the regular season. But so their mates.
Speaker 3: Who's who's the Yankees got. Who's their big name that
Speaker 3: people would recognize anyone?
Speaker 4: Judge?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: So that's an interesting match up. But it's a funny thing.
Speaker 3: If you follow baseball, you follow you know, the World
Speaker 3: Series is when the American League and the National League
Speaker 3: come together. So if you're a National League guy like me,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, you only know the National League players up
Speaker 3: until that point, and then the yank Yankees come up
Speaker 3: as a sort of terrifying you know, It's like when
Speaker 3: you first played South Africa after a year and you go,
Speaker 3: who are these guys?
Speaker 1: You know or an inter school high school. You've only
Speaker 1: heard stories of rumors of this. Know, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: guys you heard about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right. And then you see him and he's
Speaker 5: about five to one.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So you're really bone up on the team. I mean
Speaker 3: because you played the same teams over and again and
Speaker 3: in a year of baseball, so you know that you
Speaker 3: hate the Padres, absolutely hate the Padres, and you know
Speaker 3: everything about them because you've played them so much throughout
Speaker 3: the regular season.
Speaker 1: And then you've got this unknown and a great matchup
Speaker 1: for hats, the l A hat.
Speaker 5: You've got one on.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I feel like every man in New Zealand owns a Yankees.
Speaker 5: Hat or Dodger's hat, whether they know it or not.
Speaker 3: The percentage of LA Dodgers hats around compared to the
Speaker 3: percentage of Dodgers fans, Oh, it must be one in
Speaker 3: a thousand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a Dodgers had a wardrobe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those big American franchises. I'm actually right about it
Speaker 3: in my article about how American sports crack, and that's
Speaker 3: they're on every corner and you've got the NBA on
Speaker 3: the corner trying to steal. Yeah, you got the MLB,
Speaker 3: you've got the NFL just flashing in. We've got a
Speaker 3: guy that's got basically on hockey heroin here at the
Speaker 3: ACC Joe Jury. And the stupid thing about it is,
Speaker 3: I don't live in la I have no contection of
Speaker 3: the connection to the team except for once saw them
Speaker 3: playing the Rockies in Colorado and fell in love with
Speaker 3: the game about twelve years ago. And then when you
Speaker 3: get into American export, there's so much of it. You know,
Speaker 3: one hundred you can play one hundred and eighty four
Speaker 3: games in a season if you get right through and
Speaker 3: win the World Series. That's a lot. That's an everyday habit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's and they're coming for us. It's fan That's why,
Speaker 3: you know, talking to Brad Shields before Rugby Union needs
Speaker 3: to do you know, New Zealand Rugby needs to do
Speaker 3: things like pump up the NPC by like getting the
Speaker 3: big names into into the final because because you've got
Speaker 3: you've got people selling, you're selling those guys.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: American sports crack, yeah, you know, and the cracks on
Speaker 3: every corner.
Speaker 1: And they change rules mid season just to make the
Speaker 1: game as interesting as possible to work.
Speaker 4: Watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean they increase the size of
Speaker 3: the bags in baseball, so what so it makes stealing
Speaker 3: bases just a little bit easier. They do little they
Speaker 3: do things like them bags, you know, like on the plates.
Speaker 3: Oh right right, yeah, so it's yeah, so it's easier
Speaker 3: and more fun to watch. Yeah, and you know they
Speaker 3: brought in the pitching clock. They're always doing things because
Speaker 3: because there are big, multi billion dollar companies that have
Speaker 3: people that want to make money.
Speaker 1: Whereas rugby is just like, no, that's not how you
Speaker 1: play it. No, we got to go to Japan now,
Speaker 1: could you leave it for a week?
Speaker 5: Yeah no, no really, but but we as fans when
Speaker 5: to watch it. Well, if you like it, if you
Speaker 5: love the team, then you will watch anyways.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know this is yours place, it's your chance
Speaker 1: to get involved in the show.
Speaker 5: First call of yours.
Speaker 2: Please, Giddo fellas from me to tell you how to
Speaker 2: do your job or run your business.
Speaker 4: Commentary.
Speaker 5: This sounds a lot like it is.
Speaker 4: Look at doing something like that.
Speaker 1: It's been a while, Yeah, just just wondering what's what's
Speaker 1: to go there?
Speaker 4: Gonna do the AB's game this weekend?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, it's such a it's interesting the alternative commentary
Speaker 3: Clickliff because say, for example, at that football if are
Speaker 3: the auklingdift Ce game not commentating it but racking it
Speaker 3: up in the crowd. Yes, so you don't see Nesbo
Speaker 3: when he's not rosted on trying to pull down the
Speaker 3: scaffolding at Mount Smart Stadium, jumping up and down and
Speaker 3: letting off flares getting out with Fox South Kennibury did
Speaker 3: and yelled but I no, you.
Speaker 5: Don't, and that's why we're replacing them.
Speaker 1: But well, I have been asked a lot of this,
Speaker 1: so particularly it was around that Indian Test, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: we just won, and.
Speaker 5: That was Gentleman's hours to commentate it as well.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: The reason is whenever we're not commentating one we generally own,
Speaker 1: they do the home games, and that is because we
Speaker 1: can't afford the rights to the away games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we will commentate.
Speaker 3: I mean if there's anything that the ACC's provenent of
Speaker 3: the years will commentate anything, we're allowed to commentate.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's right. We've commentated some.
Speaker 1: I mean snowboarding, Yes, I commentated a fucking snowboarding competition.
Speaker 1: While Lane flew himself back to Auckland to commentate the
Speaker 1: warriors that we will commentate anything. I think we're commentating
Speaker 1: chasing the fox. We commentated a ping pong tournament the
Speaker 1: other day. Yeah, so it's not that well.
Speaker 5: I sometimes get off a plane and ask Lane, what
Speaker 5: are we commentating? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then and then I go we have been to
Speaker 1: get on Wikipedia work out things about the sport.
Speaker 5: How scared? What is it? Polo? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Water polo or horse polo? Started this year we commentated
Speaker 1: the World Money Champs. You know, it's where we are
Speaker 1: willing the commentator yachting. I think the biggest problem is
Speaker 1: when it comes to TV and radio commentaries, we have
Speaker 1: to scavenge off the live feed that Sky or t
Speaker 1: Vinz or whoever gets.
Speaker 3: So they have to be willing to put one person
Speaker 3: on pressing a button to cross to us. And then
Speaker 3: generally speaking, they're not willing to do that. They're not,
Speaker 3: so I hate it.
Speaker 1: The way the ACC works is you know in those
Speaker 1: countries where there'll be you know, a power line going
Speaker 1: down the main street and some dood will just attach
Speaker 1: his line to it and then run his power off it.
Speaker 1: That's how we work. We're that dude. And when it
Speaker 1: comes from overseas, it's very hard for us to do that.
Speaker 3: We're patching an a legal cable on if you see us,
Speaker 3: that means we're breaking the law to be there for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I reckon, We just we'll park it there.
Speaker 1: We'll knock this thing on the edge.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Half all episode of the Agenda podcast today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just once again to plug my own ass. Yeah,
Speaker 3: if you want to be punished with Dodger's shack of
Speaker 3: that great history of the Yankees, Dodgers and my comparison
Speaker 3: between American sports and crack what medheath atmetheath dot substack
Speaker 3: dot com For.
Speaker 5: Those of us who can't read. Is there an audio? Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's video.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of video, and it's an audio version
Speaker 3: as well. But the thing is that's really got to happen.
Speaker 3: A we've you know, NRL does it they think about
Speaker 3: the product. Oh yeah, we've got to start. We've got
Speaker 3: to take the serious threat of American sports in this
Speaker 3: country and we've got to we've got to we've got
Speaker 3: to sort our crap out. I know a lot of
Speaker 3: people didn't watch much of the npcn I'd actually throw
Speaker 3: myself into that as well. But it has been tremendous
Speaker 3: this year, high scoring as well. Yeah, in the Heartland,
Speaker 3: the over under every game we said this yesterday was
Speaker 3: over fifty points. So if you tuned into a Heartland game,
Speaker 3: you were going to watch fifty to sixty points be scored.
Speaker 3: And it's the same in n PC. All of the
Speaker 3: games that Wellington have been winning up into this final
Speaker 3: have been I've been scoring thirty five forty points in
Speaker 3: each of them. We have got it's a good product.
Speaker 3: It's a good product. We're just rugbied out. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: it just needs to be organized. Yeah, so things mean something.
Speaker 3: It's right there, and it can be fixed.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you look at the Warriors exactly, and
Speaker 1: also look what Auckland C's doing exactly.
Speaker 5: They don't even exist, they.
Speaker 1: Don't even exist, and they were already delivering the full
Speaker 1: US sports experience exactly. So yeah, it can be fixed.
Speaker 1: And that's why we're asking for your vote in the
Speaker 1: upcoming election of the a SEC. Anyway, All right, let's
Speaker 1: look this thing on it all right then? Okay, you
Speaker 1: seem busy.
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