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Speaker 1: the Agenda Podcast for Wednesday, the seventeenth of July.
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Speaker 1: And joining me from Witness Protection as acc head g Lane.
Speaker 3: How how was wherever it is that you were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5: Actually, you know, just just having some time out, yeap,
Speaker 5: you know, just to regather my thoughts, you know, the
Speaker 5: safety of myself and my family come first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So we're going to start the podcast
Speaker 1: with us. It's it's sort of some of the biggest
Speaker 1: sporting news going on at the moment. Certainly took over
Speaker 1: the headlines yesterday. Norm Hewitt tragically passed away very suddenly
Speaker 1: as well. Did I read he was only about fifty
Speaker 1: five years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and died of like modern your own disease, which
Speaker 5: I didn't even realize he had I did, obviously. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So that's pretty hopefully named it. I think CTE related. Obviously,
Speaker 5: He's a bit of a fair bit of media around
Speaker 5: there this moment, Dylan Cleaver writing quite a lot about that,
Speaker 5: so yeah, time will tell, I guess, but pretty sad,
Speaker 5: pretty young, Jesus.
Speaker 3: Oh so young.
Speaker 1: Only just a couple of years ago, I was hosting
Speaker 1: a rugby show with him on the mainstream sports media.
Speaker 1: It was like a half hour weekly show about the Hurricanes.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know if he had it
Speaker 1: then or whatever, but he was always so ready to
Speaker 1: share a good yarn. Like you could see you could
Speaker 1: see his eyes light up when you triggered a memory
Speaker 1: from his playing days, and then he'd light up and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, it reminds me of.
Speaker 3: This, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So I always really look forward to so hosting that
Speaker 1: show with him, and I was always just trying to
Speaker 1: constantly bait a couple of stories out from him, because
Speaker 1: you know he wouldn't remember them just to tell you.
Speaker 3: But if you managed to just get that little spark in.
Speaker 1: His eyes and he'd light up and be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that reminds me of this one time we're on tour,
Speaker 1: like here we go.
Speaker 5: They're always good like that, I think than I think
Speaker 5: you did the same to Kyle Mills when he came
Speaker 5: on this podcast. Yeah, you threw a couple of lines
Speaker 5: out there. One had squaed on it. One had pictured
Speaker 5: and he took the pilly and he ran with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, well, I mean, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm a fan of these guys,
Speaker 1: so I just want to hear the same stories that
Speaker 1: everyone else does. So if I can, if I can
Speaker 1: somehow walk them into a story or two, then know well,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed doing that with Norm Hewitt
Speaker 1: gone far too soon, Far too young. The other big
Speaker 1: sporting news of the day, and it happened today, is
Speaker 1: that the summer of cricket has been announced Lane. They
Speaker 1: had a massive media event down there at TV and Z.
Speaker 1: They had who's who of New Zealand sporting media, including yours. Truly,
Speaker 1: I probably put myself on the who's that of New
Speaker 1: Zealand sporting media. Yep, no one really knew what was
Speaker 1: going on why we were there. I was also confusingly
Speaker 1: wearing a Black Caps jumper, so people like, yeah, does
Speaker 1: he work for the team, what's going on?
Speaker 3: It was a massive sort of kerfuffle.
Speaker 1: They announced all of their plans, there's all sorts of
Speaker 1: double hitters, blah blah blah blah. But I really really
Speaker 1: can't wrap my head around it. So I asked Tom Latham,
Speaker 1: who was down there, to try and explain it for us,
Speaker 1: and so let's let him try and explain it with
Speaker 1: them with.
Speaker 3: Us right now.
Speaker 4: Tom.
Speaker 1: I got the schedule obviously ahead of time. I was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the whole heading over to Pakistan thing.
Speaker 4: How does that work?
Speaker 1: So you're playing England, then you bugger off to Pakistan,
Speaker 1: you play a couple of games over there, then you
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 3: How's that work?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So I think it's England and then Shri Lanka come
Speaker 7: here and then we go to Pakistan for that champions
Speaker 7: trophy and then both teams come back or Pakistan come
Speaker 7: back here later later on in the summer to finish.
Speaker 7: So it's a pretty busy, busy summer, which is which
Speaker 7: is exciting as crickets. You want to play as much
Speaker 7: cricket as possible. And yeah, hopefully we can get plenty
Speaker 7: of crowds there and have plenty of support like we
Speaker 7: usually do.
Speaker 3: Now have the hard hitting questions. You're walking through a
Speaker 3: real sport.
Speaker 1: You pick up a cricket bet, what's the immediate shadow
Speaker 1: betting shot that you play when you pick up the bet?
Speaker 7: It's probably a Ford defense, which it shouldn't be about me.
Speaker 7: But you're in you know, you're in the aisles, aren't you,
Speaker 7: So you can't actually play too many shots, can't make
Speaker 7: cross better shots again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, he goes to Ford defensive, just Tom
Speaker 1: Latham when he pick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a flick off the pads. Oh really Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm just a flick just like flick just rough midwicket.
Speaker 3: I'm a Ford defensive as well.
Speaker 1: And I was just saying, I said the time after
Speaker 1: that as well, I'll just call them Tom either that
Speaker 1: or I'll sit.
Speaker 3: Back on one a late cut.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Because the thing is you're generally either when you're playing,
Speaker 1: when you're shadow betting, you're generally in a confined space.
Speaker 5: You don't want to be going for a slog sweep. No,
Speaker 5: that's why I go for the flick. I go for
Speaker 5: the flick, and I flick the back leg up as well,
Speaker 5: so it's kind of regal kind of you go there
Speaker 5: and you flick the back leg up as well as
Speaker 5: flicking along.
Speaker 4: That's that's my go to kind of rebel sport aisle shot.
Speaker 3: What do you think is the most common rebel sport
Speaker 3: aisle shot.
Speaker 4: It's definitely the full defense, if not the leave.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, they're kind of back and what you know, yeh,
Speaker 5: Jason Horts.
Speaker 1: Jason Hort's are Ford defensive front prawn and then he
Speaker 1: would just go.
Speaker 3: Waiting, you know, run there.
Speaker 4: He never takes the run.
Speaker 5: It's never taken. It takes the run. So the schedule, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because obviously announced the
Speaker 5: English Test series very early for reasons other than they
Speaker 5: wanted to give English fans a chance to book, which
Speaker 5: is odd. I thought New Zealand fans would have come first,
Speaker 5: but they'd been confirmed a few months ago. They're happening
Speaker 5: in November December. Then there's quite a decent not a
Speaker 5: massive gap, a ten day gap from the last and that,
Speaker 5: by the way, those tests are the only test we
Speaker 5: played this summer.
Speaker 3: I had tests.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So christ Church Manington Hamilton against England Test match
Speaker 5: cricket for New Zealand is over Wednesday, theeenth December. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then ten days later.
Speaker 1: It looks like we lost your lane for a second.
Speaker 1: But while we have lost him. I talked to Gary
Speaker 1: Stead about those Test matches and how interesting it is
Speaker 1: and how excited he is that there's going to be
Speaker 1: three of them. Well, we're very lucky to have coach
Speaker 1: Gary Stead here with us. Obviously we've just had the
Speaker 1: full schedule announced. How excited are for a three Test
Speaker 1: series against England.
Speaker 6: Look, it's been a while since we've played three Test
Speaker 6: series and I think to play England is always great.
Speaker 6: We had a two years ago, had an amazing one
Speaker 6: all series win with an incredible Test match at the
Speaker 6: basein Reserve to make that one all and so hopefully
Speaker 6: we're well, hopefully we can win all three, but we're
Speaker 6: in a situation that if it is tied at one all,
Speaker 6: we get to get a decider and.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1: So what I can't understand, Lane, maybe you can explain
Speaker 1: is the black Caps in Pakistan the championship aspect of that.
Speaker 5: Yes, so interesting there that Graham gary Stead described the
Speaker 5: one old drawers of victory.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with one series victory.
Speaker 5: No, see what happens once Sri Lanka finished their last
Speaker 5: ODII on Saturday, the eleventh of January at Eden Park,
Speaker 5: New Zealand then kind of head off. Now there's a
Speaker 5: couple of weeks off and that I think they get
Speaker 5: to play but a super smash. But all of February
Speaker 5: it's all happening in Pakistan. We have a warm up
Speaker 5: ODI tri Series in Pakistan for a week and then
Speaker 5: from the nineteenth to February to the ninth of March
Speaker 5: there is the Champions Trophy. Now, the Champions Trophy is
Speaker 5: a fifty over competition that sits in between World Cups.
Speaker 3: They haven't done it all well, have they.
Speaker 5: No, they haven't done it for a very long time.
Speaker 5: But it is the only silverware alongside the World Test
Speaker 5: Championship that we have. Remember we won it in Zimbabwe.
Speaker 5: Chris Ken's famously won us the game over there, so
Speaker 5: that was our first ever bit of international silver. Were
Speaker 5: fowed up by the World Test Championship. So it does
Speaker 5: leave quite a significant gap from the eleventh of January.
Speaker 5: This is black Caps. From eleventh of jan there's not
Speaker 5: another black Caps game at home until the sixteenth of March.
Speaker 4: Yeah, far up a long time.
Speaker 3: They've being played in Pakistan.
Speaker 4: Yes, yep.
Speaker 5: The other Champions Trophy is in Pakistan, so that'd be
Speaker 5: interesting thing as well. There'll be a lot of pressure
Speaker 5: on the Pakistani Cricket board to make sure that goes
Speaker 5: smoothly because I imagine if any issues before that, it'll
Speaker 5: just get moved to UA again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so then after that, so the Champions Trophy,
Speaker 1: who plays in that.
Speaker 3: By the way, is there's only like everyone?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: Everyone?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Everyone.
Speaker 5: I think there's no qualifying tournament like in the T twenty.
Speaker 5: I think I believe it's probably the top eight teams
Speaker 5: just go play the Champions Trophy. Yeah, eyes as well,
Speaker 5: so it's not as compact as the T twenty.
Speaker 4: Tournament.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So oh yeah, hasn't been around for a while. I
Speaker 4: can't remember the last time.
Speaker 5: There was a Champions Trophy, but yeah, it's back in Pakistan.
Speaker 4: Good to have a warm up over there as well
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the last time it was held was
Speaker 1: somewhere around twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Then there was the
Speaker 1: World Cup, then there was I think it was like
Speaker 1: a COVID effected thing. And now yes, it's only that
Speaker 1: we're getting around to it now. The awkward part is,
Speaker 1: so we're playing Pakistan in Pakistan, we then get on
Speaker 1: the same flight as them back to New Zealand to
Speaker 1: play each other again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, there's the answer to that. They'll be there'll
Speaker 4: be a fight for business class.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on the way back, because once that tournament's over
Speaker 5: on the ninth of March, there is a T twenty
Speaker 5: and christ Church on the sixteenth of March, So but
Speaker 5: of a seven day, one week turnaround between end of
Speaker 5: that tournament and Pakistan heading to New Zealand for four
Speaker 5: five T twenties and three od i's, So yeah, it's
Speaker 5: quite a bit of a truncated summer if I'm honest.
Speaker 5: But the good news is for real cricket heads and
Speaker 5: the BYC guys will be pleased about this. That February
Speaker 5: window leaves a window for the Super Smash and international
Speaker 5: players who aren't involved in the Champions Trophy to all
Speaker 5: get stuck into Super Smash as well. So that'll be
Speaker 5: actually quite good for the domestic competition.
Speaker 1: That Pakistan tour as well. When they come back at
Speaker 1: the end of March, thorough all double headers, so the
Speaker 1: White Ferns will play beforehand on the same ticket and
Speaker 1: because they're all on TV and Z, they're going to
Speaker 1: go White Ferns News Black Caps, which I think is
Speaker 1: just a tremendous way to run that. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: going to pass you off if you're into tipping point
Speaker 1: or the chase, you're probably gonna think.
Speaker 4: It's gonna piss you off. If you're it's gonna pass
Speaker 4: you off.
Speaker 5: If you're a boomer, because you love Because there's no
Speaker 5: doubt they're going to shorten the news to half an
Speaker 5: hour and they hate nothing more than the because the
Speaker 5: only other time they shorten the news is when the
Speaker 5: Black Clash is on and then they have to deal
Speaker 5: with us commentating and it just blows their mind.
Speaker 4: So they've got actually a few of these.
Speaker 5: There's the last T twenties against either All five T
Speaker 5: twenties are going to be double headers. They're in christ
Speaker 5: Church to need In, Auckland, Toadonger and Wellington. Once again,
Speaker 5: Auckland misses out significantly. In a lot of these we
Speaker 5: get and Auckland gets one one dayer against Sri Lanka. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and one to twenty against Pakistan.
Speaker 1: How we don't have a test venue in the biggest
Speaker 1: city in the country.
Speaker 4: Is It's crazy?
Speaker 3: Crazy?
Speaker 5: The fact there's only going to be two days of
Speaker 5: cricket in the biggest city in New Zealander is weird.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm not saying that we should just force it
Speaker 5: in there because I think places like Seddon Park, Bay Oval,
Speaker 5: Seddon Park, Hagley Oval is way better, way better grounds.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Someone must have goat photos because how can McClain Park
Speaker 5: keep getting games? How can they keep getting games that
Speaker 5: the ground is ship it's it's a rectangle, no one
Speaker 5: turns up. They've got issues with They've finished the drainage issues,
Speaker 5: but they've got the light issue that comes through the
Speaker 5: grandstand and finds the batsman.
Speaker 3: But they have.
Speaker 5: Got They've got a few gap quite a few. Look,
Speaker 5: I don't understand how they get a game, but they
Speaker 5: do against Pakistan. They get an odi I on the
Speaker 5: Saturday twenty ninth and March. So yeah, and no games
Speaker 5: in queens Sound, no games in Queenie happened there. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure what's happened there. I think I'm not sure
Speaker 5: the pitch is up to standard in Queenie.
Speaker 3: Or no year.
Speaker 4: Well, no, I don't know why that's falling out of
Speaker 4: favor as well, because they did play a game there
Speaker 4: against Sri Lanka a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Last year they played a game and I forget what
Speaker 1: was I think it was against Sri Lanka. I didn't
Speaker 1: see the game, but I did see the crowd from
Speaker 1: the departure lounge Queenstown Domestic Airport.
Speaker 5: Right, That's why they've changed the They will also changed
Speaker 5: the direction of the pitch there and it looks like
Speaker 5: a plane's literally going to land on you can see
Speaker 5: passengers faces. When they showed it, they focused in on
Speaker 5: the plane. You could see a person's face looking out
Speaker 5: the window. There was legendary because obviously they're remarkables in
Speaker 5: the background. But obviously they have their reasons u zealing cricket.
Speaker 5: Obviously there are different associations, you know, get to pitch
Speaker 5: their case as well to hosting internationals that brings them
Speaker 5: a lot of money. So yeah, but I'm stumped about
Speaker 5: McLain parks still and the fact, I mean, look, if
Speaker 5: a McClain park's sold out every time, sure, yeah, i'd
Speaker 5: be okay, you have to, but no one turns up
Speaker 5: and it's a terrible ground and you can't nickel and
Speaker 5: dimedon park when you've got McLean Park.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent with way less capacity.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the jewel in the crown for this summer
Speaker 1: of cricket is definitely that English Series. Thursday the twenty
Speaker 1: eighth of November is the first one that's at Hagle Oval.
Speaker 1: They go to the Basemin Reserve. I love a Test
Speaker 1: series in New Zealand really signals the start of summer.
Speaker 1: It's good to really sink your teeth into as well.
Speaker 1: And obviously we all remember how good that that one
Speaker 1: all series victory.
Speaker 5: Was absolutely These black Bean game White fans sorry games
Speaker 5: all summer as well. I think they're playing they play
Speaker 5: Ossie and they play schri Lanka and then they play
Speaker 5: Ossie again at the end of the summer. So yeah,
Speaker 5: they're they're in for a tough ride against those Assies
Speaker 5: as well. They've got three Odie Eyes and then three
Speaker 5: two twenties at the end of summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll be a challenge as well.
Speaker 1: So the Odie Eyes, it's the Rose Bowl between the
Speaker 1: White Ferns and Australia. All three of those are going
Speaker 1: to be played at the Basin Reserve, which I quite
Speaker 1: like as an idea, you know, just the back to
Speaker 1: back to back who's the better team over three games
Speaker 1: even you know, I think they would admit that it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a mammoth task to try and beat Australia
Speaker 1: at a game of cricket at the moment. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: always fun and always one to get up for.
Speaker 3: So that is a schedule out.
Speaker 1: It'll be on all socials everywhere across the day today,
Speaker 1: So if you haven't seen it already, go and check
Speaker 1: our socials, chickensyling, cricket socials, try and phone a PDF
Speaker 1: of it and print it out because it's not going
Speaker 1: to make sense to you when you first read it.
Speaker 1: It hasn't to me, so you're going to need it
Speaker 1: on your desk at work, I think, because.
Speaker 5: I just yeah, just no, there's going to be no
Speaker 5: cricket from mid January to mid March in New Zealand. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so you know you can take a good holiday and
Speaker 5: just watch some international cricket from overseas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't come crying to us when that break happens.
Speaker 3: As well.
Speaker 1: A little bit of a different structure of the podcast
Speaker 1: today because at the end we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: to Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sport podcast.
Speaker 3: They have made an incredible pledge to support.
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnett who've missed the birth of a second child.
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Speaker 9: Specials help qu Kieren sitting up the stairs.
Speaker 7: Than the radio.
Speaker 5: Two's right, I think I I think I could kind
Speaker 5: of get the gist of it was.
Speaker 4: That we should have guest commentators and Karen Reid would
Speaker 4: be good.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly what he was the same, but it's
Speaker 1: not Yes, that is what he said, but how he
Speaker 1: said it was he hit the voicemail function bottom right
Speaker 1: hand corner of his iHeart Radio app and they just
Speaker 1: chucked it in the coffee holder of his forklift and
Speaker 1: went about his day. It was ridiculous. We get about
Speaker 1: three or four of these a day. Just have a
Speaker 1: look at where your environment is. Like, maybe wait till
Speaker 1: you can get into the smoker room before you send
Speaker 1: these ind but the port stands. You know, we've had
Speaker 1: people on before.
Speaker 8: Now we have.
Speaker 5: We've actually Karen Reid actually commentated a one day with
Speaker 5: us at Eton Park. Yeah, and we presented him with
Speaker 5: his ACC jacket we had to get At the time.
Speaker 5: He was very recently retired, so he was still quite large.
Speaker 5: I don't think it fits him anymore because he's trimmed
Speaker 5: down quite a bit, but he has. He's got his
Speaker 5: on an every ACC jacket. He's been a whole day
Speaker 5: with us in the commentary box up in Eden Park.
Speaker 5: We cause a bit of a bit of a stir
Speaker 5: actually because we were in the Botham's box, which isn't
Speaker 5: that level five corporate riam and you know they've got
Speaker 5: a dress code there you can't wear open toad shoes
Speaker 5: and where he had his wife with him and she
Speaker 5: had like three hundred dollars birkenstock sandals on. I remember this,
Speaker 5: and then they go, now you can't come in. We
Speaker 5: were like, no, no, no, you're good, you're good, and
Speaker 5: we just piled her into the lift and they chased
Speaker 5: us up the stairs and then we like like a huddle,
Speaker 5: almost like the Secret Service around Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: We were like that around Kiaran Reid's wife.
Speaker 5: We got her in there and we hit her in
Speaker 5: the seats out the front, and they came out and
Speaker 5: they said to me, she can't be in here. I
Speaker 5: was like, mate, you go tell Karen Reid that he's
Speaker 5: just there. You tell him that's not it's not my wife.
Speaker 5: And now go, okay, look, okay, this one time, Okay,
Speaker 5: this one time.
Speaker 3: You absolute cowards. Yeah, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: I think the problem we have is we struggle enough
Speaker 1: to get enough commentators together just to do a commentary ourselves.
Speaker 1: If ile on top of that, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: someone in, you know, a professional athlete.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: The other thing is it becomes glaringly obvious.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously nobody comes to us for in depth analysis,
Speaker 1: but when you have someone on who actually knows a
Speaker 1: bit about the sport, it becomes glaringly obvious how little
Speaker 1: we known. And it actually becomes quite a tough listen
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they start saying stuff, and I remember we
Speaker 5: hit someone on I think it was when the cricketers
Speaker 5: used to pop into the caravan in the early days.
Speaker 5: Willie Nichols used to bring them round to the caravan
Speaker 5: and just it's been ten minutes in there and there's
Speaker 5: a look on someone like Lee Hart's face when they
Speaker 5: started talking about the game plan and how the picture
Speaker 5: was playing and the back link deliveries and about you know, working,
Speaker 5: and he's just like just you could see us just
Speaker 5: blaze over and it was like you could see the
Speaker 5: whites of his eyes like a lizard because he had
Speaker 5: no idea what was going on. And yes, it did
Speaker 5: expose us. And you'd have people like Jason Hoyt who
Speaker 5: would just agree and go, yes, yes, exactly, yeah, Nathan,
Speaker 5: I agree absolutely. He had no idea what he sank. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then the rest of us going Jesus Christ. I
Speaker 5: didn't even know that was happening in that game. I
Speaker 5: didn't even know that was that was an issue. I
Speaker 5: didn't even know the picture was an issue. I didn't
Speaker 5: know in conditions we're only sweet. I had no idea
Speaker 5: what the picture was like. So you're right, it does
Speaker 5: expose some rather weak foundations that we have within the commentary.
Speaker 5: If we bring someone on who actually knows what they're
Speaker 5: talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's even like the video I recorded a
Speaker 1: video this morning when I was talking to Tom lathm
Speaker 1: that'll probably never see the light of day. And I
Speaker 1: asked him, you know, when I look at the schedule,
Speaker 1: I look at the game on New Year's Even, I think, man,
Speaker 1: it sucks to work when all your mates are just
Speaker 1: on holiday and on the past. And I was like,
Speaker 1: does that suck for you as well? And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't play ten twenties, so it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: too big an issue for me. Oh yeah, true.
Speaker 4: I know you walk into that one.
Speaker 3: I know. I was like, okay, well to let that
Speaker 3: footage then.
Speaker 4: On, you should have doubled down and gone well why
Speaker 4: are you here?
Speaker 8: Then?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is yeah, so why'd they put you
Speaker 1: up if you don't play T twenty? There's only one
Speaker 1: who no one watches, so we're gonna sit around and
Speaker 1: watch you play cricket for five days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just blatly double down and then you just go, ah,
Speaker 4: so is that all the yours? Please? Just the one
Speaker 4: inaudible one? No, no, no, all four of them are
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 3: No, you've just cut out for a little bit. There
Speaker 3: you're back now.
Speaker 1: It's like you've sent in one from your forklift on
Speaker 1: yours please, No, we've got three more hits, So another
Speaker 1: caller here, yours please.
Speaker 9: Fellas just listening to the podcast and old mentioned Lee
Speaker 9: Hart on the jet skis anyone ask getting Kenny Powers
Speaker 9: kind of vibes from that. Yeah, And I'm so glad
Speaker 9: that the Europe's are over now? Could you guys have
Speaker 9: stop talking about fucking soccer? God, you've been banging on
Speaker 9: about it, right.
Speaker 3: You can't please these people, can you? Leane?
Speaker 5: Oh my god? Like not enough round ball? Not enough,
Speaker 5: Europe's too much. Europe's not enough round ball? He started off, Well,
Speaker 5: I agree Leehart on the panty dropper, the Kinny Powers
Speaker 5: jet skis as an image I won't get out of
Speaker 5: my head in a hurry.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the photo of Jay
Speaker 1: Z on his jet ski. He's got a helmet and
Speaker 1: glasses on and he looks like an insect on that.
Speaker 5: The other great jetski scene is off Tiger King And
Speaker 5: you remember that the guy who owned the pet store, Yes.
Speaker 4: That is that's one of the greats.
Speaker 5: As well there's this is just something about an overweight
Speaker 5: American on a jet ski.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that just does it for me.
Speaker 3: That is powerful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, apparently Lee HUD's someone sending a voicemail that
Speaker 1: that's oldly had a jet ski three years ago, haven't
Speaker 1: seen it back in for a service.
Speaker 3: Since how much of a service does a jet ski need.
Speaker 4: Really, especially if you're not using it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Another caller here, yours please.
Speaker 10: Hey fellas. On the topic of favorite Olympic sport, I
Speaker 10: love but a wait listening. Love watching some massive cunts
Speaker 10: and little cunts to be fair, pushing some pretty massive
Speaker 10: mounts of tin. The commentators are super knowledgeable and raw enthusiastic.
Speaker 10: Is always a chance of a horrific untrey, which lords
Speaker 10: the bonus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree with this. Weightlifting is my favorite
Speaker 1: thing to watch as well. But it does put the
Speaker 1: willies up me though, when you see someone just lift
Speaker 1: something and then just elbow pops out the wrong way
Speaker 1: and he gives out there on the floor. Then they
Speaker 1: put the little fence around them like they're about to
Speaker 1: shoot them thorough or horse. What's your favorite sport to
Speaker 1: watch at the Olympics?
Speaker 3: Lane?
Speaker 5: Ah, I do like I do like a bit of
Speaker 5: jeopardy that the weightlifting is good because you like you're
Speaker 5: saying there's a chance of a horrific injury. But I
Speaker 5: also like the fact they film the moments before with
Speaker 5: their coach out the back, and there's different methods of
Speaker 5: firing them up, like slapping in the face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just screaming at them. It's just like a massive
Speaker 4: slap on them.
Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately it seems like we've lost Gelane entirely, which
Speaker 1: some would say is for the best. So what we're
Speaker 1: going to do here is take one last quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to be joined by
Speaker 1: Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sports podcast. Well, it's a
Speaker 1: great pleasure to welcome our dear friend from across the
Speaker 1: from the Hello Sport podcast, Tom Birmingham.
Speaker 3: Get a Tom, Hey, getting on this afternoon.
Speaker 8: Mate, very very well, thanks for having us. How are
Speaker 8: you guys doing, Yeah.
Speaker 3: We're doing very very well, thanks mate. State of origin tonight.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're a proud New South Welshman over there, and
Speaker 1: I see that it's caught your eye that our beloved
Speaker 1: Mitch Barnett has actually missed the birth of his second
Speaker 1: son just the whole pads at training across the ditch.
Speaker 3: Let's call you right, didn't it?
Speaker 8: Oh? Absolutely did. We're calling him mana much from across
Speaker 8: the Dutch. Yeah yeah. And also just we are new
Speaker 8: South Welshman, but myself and Eddie who's my COEs on
Speaker 8: the show, both half key we So I just feel
Speaker 8: like mentioning that off the top, maybe just to ingratiate
Speaker 8: ourselves further with your audience. Look, it was made apparent
Speaker 8: to us after Mitch got selected in the second game
Speaker 8: that he missed the birth of his child, and we
Speaker 8: were like, oh, that's I mean, obviously that's incredible. But
Speaker 8: then as the story developed, it was like he actually
Speaker 8: a kid had been born for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: He missed the birth of his second child to literally
Speaker 8: come and train with the boys, not on game day, not,
Speaker 8: I think man just to hold pads, run through some
Speaker 8: plays and I just think that's New South Wales spirit
Speaker 8: through and through.
Speaker 1: Well, I've thought this from the moment that he got there,
Speaker 1: he got named into the squad. I was like mtch
Speaker 1: bhiit as a state of origin player, you know.
Speaker 3: He's got all of the things.
Speaker 1: I think he's raised on a dairy farm out in
Speaker 1: rural New South Wales. I couldn't tell you where, and
Speaker 1: I was like, that is the kind of man that
Speaker 1: you need in your food, Peck, and I think you
Speaker 1: and Edie came up with a plan to reward him
Speaker 1: in some way for that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. Look, I mean we sort of we
Speaker 8: were just trying to think about how we could give
Speaker 8: back to a man who's you know, given everything to
Speaker 8: the state. Now you could argue that if you've seen
Speaker 8: one childbirth, you've seen them all. Maybe that's true. I
Speaker 8: don't know, but we felt like we needed to do
Speaker 8: something for him. So we're in the process of basically
Speaker 8: just trying to organize almost an obnoxious amount of Hauge's
Speaker 8: nappies to be delivered to Warriores. Training basically is a
Speaker 8: way to say thank you, see what we can do
Speaker 8: to maybe just ease the strain at home having a
Speaker 8: couple of kids. Myself, nappies and wipes a commodity, So
Speaker 8: we sort of feel like that just will do our part.
Speaker 1: Am I right and thinking if I got the mets
Speaker 1: right on this, I think the metric was it was
Speaker 1: tackles times meters run plus a fuckload.
Speaker 8: Correct. Now, you know, it's not exactly an exact it's
Speaker 8: not an exact science necessarily that tackles times meters times
Speaker 8: of fuckload is the metric we're going off. So it'll
Speaker 8: be interesting to see how that shakes out after the night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to entirely depend on how many minutes
Speaker 1: he gets and also what exactly a fuckload is? What
Speaker 1: the I know you got Jacko on from the Warriors
Speaker 1: to help facilitate a little bit of the logistics. He mentioned,
Speaker 1: why don't you just give him the money and then
Speaker 1: he could buy the stuff himself. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the spirit of what you were trying to do here.
Speaker 1: I think it's about obviously as a as a good
Speaker 1: half key to yourself.
Speaker 3: You know, it's about the koha. It's about the gift
Speaker 3: and the act of gift giving.
Speaker 1: And so I think in that spirit, how how far
Speaker 1: along the road are you with us?
Speaker 3: Do you need a hand? We've got a yute.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got fuck all storage in the back
Speaker 1: of it, but we've got straps and stuff. Do you
Speaker 1: need someone to pick it up at customs and take
Speaker 1: it to the training facility?
Speaker 8: Honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time. Initially
Speaker 8: we reached out to Huggy you thinking, you know, maybe
Speaker 8: we could help them, help help a good news story,
Speaker 8: get Huggies involved. They gave us one of the great
Speaker 8: parning offs of all time, as is there right, But
Speaker 8: obviously they will come to rule the day and they see,
Speaker 8: you know, the success of this gesture. But look, if
Speaker 8: you guys, it'd be fantastic. We were, we were, we were,
Speaker 8: We were considering flying them over there. Then thought it's
Speaker 8: probably just easy to buy him on the ground in
Speaker 8: New Zealand. But you're right, Jacko will be getting none
Speaker 8: of our money, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 3: Well he's probably going to siphon some off anyway.
Speaker 8: We've just got as a concern.
Speaker 1: We've just had a Costco open up here in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's probably the way to go in
Speaker 1: terms of buying in bulk. Don't why don't we take
Speaker 1: our ut it's a nineteen ninety six Ford falcon yut
Speaker 1: sacked out. We have to take it to a dodgy
Speaker 1: workshop to get the rigo over here. But why don't
Speaker 1: we take that out to Costco? Get meters times tackles
Speaker 1: times a fuck load worth of nappies and then drive
Speaker 1: them out to South Auckland and deliver them and deliver
Speaker 1: them to Muna mitch from across the ditch when he
Speaker 1: gets back.
Speaker 8: That sounds like a fantastic idea now, where if you
Speaker 8: can give us the details of this costco happy to
Speaker 8: we'll get on the front foot and make the purchase
Speaker 8: for you and then just have it all set up
Speaker 8: so you guys can come and pick it up.
Speaker 3: I think, I think that this is this could be fruitful.
Speaker 3: We're all involved.
Speaker 1: If not on the back of the year, we also
Speaker 1: have a caravan where we commentate sports out of the
Speaker 1: back of we could probably you know, potentially empty that
Speaker 1: out fillet with a metric fuck ton of nappies and
Speaker 1: what wipes was it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 8: I just feel like wet wipes are If you're going
Speaker 8: to be changing nappies, there's a very big challenge. You
Speaker 8: can be covered in shit, and not just any shit,
Speaker 8: it's new baby shit, which is the most potent of
Speaker 8: all shits, at least from my experience, so you probably
Speaker 8: want to have at least a healthy dose of wipes
Speaker 8: in there as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all right, what Here's what I think
Speaker 1: we do. I think we put a pin in this
Speaker 1: and take it offline. We will see that if we've
Speaker 1: got any connections over the side of the Dutch that
Speaker 1: could potentially help out. You know, we scratch their beck,
Speaker 1: they scratch our beck, We scratch your back sort of situation.
Speaker 1: Love that and if we can't, then other option as
Speaker 1: we get the hellows book credit card, run it through
Speaker 1: the wall at Costco and happy families.
Speaker 8: Sounds fantastic and listen, I mean, I don't know know
Speaker 8: what our next couple of weeks look like. I'm not
Speaker 8: going to commit to it. But if there's a world
Speaker 8: where we maybe hop on a flight and get over
Speaker 8: there and deliver them with you, then I'm just keeping
Speaker 8: all options open at this point because I want to
Speaker 8: see Man and Mitch from across the ditch Getty Navies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we all do, and so anything that
Speaker 1: we can do to help make that happen, We'll just
Speaker 1: keep our eyes up over the next couple of weeks. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for joining us on the podcast today,
Speaker 1: Tom go well enjoy your state of origin.
Speaker 3: Football. Quick prediction for the score.
Speaker 8: Tonight New South Wales by a fuck load to be honest.
Speaker 8: Game one we basically wanted a man down. Game two
Speaker 8: it was a fuck load, and then game three, I'm
Speaker 8: just feeling it. There's a lot of positive vibes in
Speaker 8: the air here in New South Wales. And whilst you
Speaker 8: know positive vibes, have you know turned up to be
Speaker 8: incorrect vibes in the past. I'm just I'm feeling it.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll check.
Speaker 1: I know we've got different bidding apps across the ditch
Speaker 1: over your side and outside, but I'll check our bidding
Speaker 1: partner and see if they've got a market for News
Speaker 1: Wales by a fuck looad. Enjoy enjoy the game tonight, mate,
Speaker 1: and we'll be in touch to see if we can't
Speaker 1: get these nappies too much.
Speaker 8: Perfect. Great to talk with you.
Speaker 3: Thanks, I really appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1: We'll have accidentally signed myself up for far more work
Speaker 1: than I would like to have done. But a massive
Speaker 1: thank you to Tom Birmingham from Hello Sports podcast. Go
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast by the way, if you haven't already,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you're listening to this you're probably already
Speaker 1: aware of that. And a massive thank you to g
Speaker 1: Lane Live at a witness protection. Go well, wherever it
Speaker 1: is that you are around the country, We're going to
Speaker 1: knock it on the head for today. We'll be back
Speaker 1: tomorrow for another episode of the Gender podcast.
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