WEBVTT - "The ACC Gang Patch" 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.360 Live for the Export Biergadin Studio and brought to is 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.520 always by Export Ultra, which is to be for here. 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.480 This is the Agenda Podcast for Thursday, the twenty month 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:08.119 of November. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:13.319 The Agenda Podcast the home of Sporting Nonsense and clap trap, 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.400 brought to you by Export of Culture. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.000 And it's good to see Giliane this morning that you 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:20.800 were abiding by the gang patch band. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.720 Oh yes, I was. I was thinking the exact same 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:24.320 thing each year. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.680 I was coming in this morning and the dude that 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.960 got arrested at three past midnight, and I was thinking, fuck, 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.160 I'm going to have to put my common Tero's jacket away. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:33.880 Yes, because are we going to get arrested for the 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:34.640 Common Teros? 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.159 I think there's worse fates for what we're doing with 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.279 the commentarios. Yeah, so we were. We I drafted up 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.760 a a sec gang patch yep, figured that you know, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.760 we are a gang of commentators. Yeah, we should rebrand 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.839 as the common Teros now. I want to establish this 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.480 is not taking the piss out of any particular gang. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.760 And if anything, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:00:59.000 It is. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.880 It's just that we wanted to dip our toes into this. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.760 Yeah, you know, and I'll be honest with you. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.119 They look good in the leathers, the leather, the vest 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:09.600 look with the cutoff sleeves. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.720 It's a sack lot bad ass. So that's that's all. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.039 But obviously the first stumbling block we had in forming 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.520 the common Tears. And we've got the gang, we've got 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.759 the artwork. Yeah, but no one would do the embroidery for. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.000 Us, you know what. I was just talking to Pantsman 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.640 about it before. Very hard to find someone to embroider 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.600 into leather. He was wanted to put it on the blazers. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.360 Yeah, but embroid it's quite it's a very light kind 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.560 of linen our jacket. Yeah, and putting that much stitching 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.120 on the jacket will completely deform it. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.360 Yeah. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.880 You might need the leather, actually, yeah, to keep its integrity. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.839 That's why they have the leather, you see. But yeah, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.400 you raise a good point about the the guy that 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.240 got arrested three minutes past. They had to make an 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.080 example of someone. It was always going to happen. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:53.960 But I love that. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.279 I've got the image in my head of two dudes, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.600 a policeman and a man in a gang patch, just 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.760 standing there at eleven fifty nine pm, like the wild 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.480 is waiting for the sound clock to ring. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:08.880 All the small talk to. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:11.160 You go. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.760 Where do you Yeah? Do you have anything good for dinner? 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.800 What are you up to this weekend? Just like waiting 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:16.760 for it. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.680 I was also thinking this morning about imagine being like 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.600 the only cop and a small gang down, and you 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.280 wake up this morning and all of a sudden, every 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.120 single person you've seen in a gang patch has to 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:30.840 be a confrontation. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.760 Yeah, yeah, you're in like a porta key. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:40.680 Yeah, Like there would just be like god, what really? 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:41.520 Really? 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.440 Okay, okay, every single one? 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:45.320 Yeah, Mudipata. 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.639 You're in Mudipata is how are you going to negotiate that? Guys, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.959 we just don't take any photos or anything. That'd be 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.520 my that'd be my approach community. At least thing would 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.800 be like, guys, this is one of me. There's about 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.160 there's about fifty of you years. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.680 You're to the teeth. Can we just come to it. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.960 You can wear your patches and shit around like I 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.400 don't care, but just don't put anything on social media. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.560 Don't let everyone kind of don't just no evidence. Yeah, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.200 otherwise I'm going to have to pretend like I care well, otherwise. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.400 What's going to happen is they're going to send cops 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.080 down from Auckland, and that's going to be a whole thing. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.680 I don't want that. You don't want that, and so 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.800 let's just leave it. And I think that's applicable to 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.760 all walks of life. Whatever you're doing, If you know 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.120 you're doing something that you probably shouldn't be doing, just 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.120 don't rub whoever has to enforce it. Don't rub their 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:26.760 nose in it. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.840 Yeah, because don't make them have to go, oh god, 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.320 I'm going to have to call the riot squad. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.560 I would say that most of most bosses and supervisors 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.680 don't mind you having the idea on a Friday afternoon 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.120 or a Tuesday or a Tuesday, as long as you 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.680 getting the job done. As long as you're getting the 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.040 job done. What they don't want is for other people 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.040 to find out you're having a beer, well you're doing that, 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.240 or not turning out for work up front up of it. Yeah. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.400 Absolutely, don't tune up because you go to a bed 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.280 sick and you were out in until two in the morning. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.480 Yeah, I mean, that's another one of my business theories. Yes, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.800 always do you hangovers on the clock. Yeah, I'm thinking 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.000 about writing a business book. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.280 Yeah, I think your other one is always shut on 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.040 the clock as well. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.120 Is that your not on shooting? That's that's Joe Jerry's. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:07.720 No. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.360 Mine is piss up, show up, pass up, front up 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.200 first of all, and then always do you hangovers on 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:15.880 the clock. Never take a sick day. Don't waste a 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.160 sick day on being being hungover, because if you get 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.040 a physical job, you'll sweat it out by smoker. If 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.240 you've got an office job, just have an extra coffee 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:24.680 and shut up. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.560 I thought you was actually in general, never take a 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:27.039 sick day. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.680 Just oh no, take a sick day if you crook thinking. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.360 That's quite aggressive, because sick day should be days when 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:34.600 you go out and play golf. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.640 No, no, no, I hate when someone comes in and 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.760 there on death's door and you're like, just get out 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.120 of your coffin, all over me coffin and splutter and 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.159 grubby bust. Anyway, So yeah, the the Gang Patch band 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:48.440 is in full offiction. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:49.000 We should do. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.840 We have to let Sky know because we got them 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.159 a whole lot of well you divined, devised the mighty 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.200 missionary mob Gang Patch as well. So I'm going to 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:58.800 have to let them know, just to maybe pump the 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.680 brakes on just where that in public. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.680 Yeah, yeah, we were the common arrosts and we were 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.760 up against the mighty Mission Rooy mob. I'm glad none 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:10.960 of that ever saw the light of day. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.719 I'm still holding out hope, I still kind of want to. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.040 I can see what's going to happen here is you're 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.480 going to get them made in the first bit of backlash. Look, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:20.120 and I made them. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.800 I would never innoy you like that. That is a 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.080 classic n Or maneuver. I you don't want to know 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.159 an en Or maneuver that was. That's an Enoll. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.400 Courtney, not Brandon nor would never do that, No, I know. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.159 But the thing is that their family gets mentioned on 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.920 this podcast far too often, and I get hit up 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.920 about it. Yeah, I'm shut up to big shoe bigs. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:42.719 Chewey hey. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.520 I did a roady yesterday. I went to Hamilton to 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.839 kick off because every year, I mean, these guys are crazy, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.120 but it's it's the Sededon Cricket Club who are total 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.440 cricket houndis and this is the pink Blazer that you'll 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.280 see them in the test matches in Hamilton. You've got 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:59.840 a big marquee and they're all in their pink and 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:05.280 light pink stripey blazers. You know, basically mainly men forty 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.240 plus a couple of youngsters in there just to whip 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:08.279 it down and do the running. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.440 But they instigated the kind of Kindred Cup, which is a. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.440 Competition around the country played by kind of private, privately 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.960 owned kind of grounds and older gentlemen generally who just 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.480 want to escape their families, get on the piss for 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.960 a weekend and they get together and play cricket. So 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.320 they play a five day Test match. Will they attempt 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.520 to play a five day Test match? They schedule for 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.279 five days against the November eleven. Yeah, and it was 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.000 up and funk it a up at Commmobile last year 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.080 and I think it went just got to three days 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:39.640 last year. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.440 And because of that's just how long the game went. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.919 Or Andrew Nada, the GW along the game with because 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.839 I mean, test cricket your five days, it's a lot 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.279 of it's a lot of balls. And when you're people, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.279 you know, I would we were there for the first 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.400 ten overs they really lost two wickets, so it's kind 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.760 of it'll be over before the weekend. I imagine, but 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.960 God bless them, they're all there, they're all set up 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.960 ready for five days of cricket. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.760 It's so ambitious because we played in the Juloux trade. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.440 He's eleven and the amount of hamstrings were torn totally. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.320 There's a there's a bucket of deep heat down in 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.360 the changing rooms that I went down there. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.160 From our team alone, Lead Baker tore every tendon in 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:20.840 his legs. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:23.080 The big thing is these said the guys. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.160 They might be older orthough I say older pro same 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.600 ages as me, but they still play quite regularly, so 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.160 they've broken it. That's the key. And then the November 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.280 team is a mish mash you know around. He's in there, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.400 Robert Darnel who heads up, He's in there. And they 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.080 do raise a lot of money from this game as well, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.640 so they have a competition within each team who can 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.320 raise the most amount of money. They've all got great 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.520 lip two pays everyone. Every single one of them is 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.560 rolling a great, great mo so that was good. When 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.960 our new it was passing with rain, but they did 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.520 manage to get under it. The greatest drainage. They're at 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.960 Saint Paul's, my old school. Some terrible photos of me 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.720 in the pavilion, which Joe Jury took delight and taking 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.080 photos of them and milking me. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.040 But great drainage. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.720 They managed to get a start about two o'clock in 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.600 the afternoon. So things are well and truly underway down there, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.240 and we headed down there tomorrow night, Friday night for 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.560 an exhibition T twenty match down there. So once day 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.240 three is over of that match, we're going to roll 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.320 out there and play a Hamilton invitation or eleven? 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.600 Who they got? Do we know? What are we up against? 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.760 Tim si Fit's one of them. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.760 He's a couple of other kind of first class cricketers 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.920 are They're kind of assembled a bit of an all stars, 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.760 which is a bit disappointing because then I said who 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.559 you got and I see it's me my nia, but 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.800 made some contexts. Riley McCullum is going to play for us. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.560 Oh so there you go, star of the Black class. Yeah. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.320 So that's that's the kind of one name that we're 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:51.840 rolling out just to try and intimidate them. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.520 Three of us. Yeah. So we've got a bowler, a 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:55.520 working in one fielder. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.199 That's our Simon Grafius. He's a ill graft away. He's 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.160 hoping the best. Yeah, we have got a full eleven. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.040 But it's going to be an interesting interesting Yeah, we 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.840 got Look, let's just say we're going to be relying 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.520 on the ringings. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.959 There's nine ringings and me and you. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.199 I heard we've got I heard Lucky Ferguson's using this 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:17.959 as a warm up for us, and he's playing for us. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.320 So I heard, did you. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.439 I sent it out to him, but he didn't confume. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:21.640 No. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.280 I just love the last couple of times we've played 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.439 some of these games, we've talked shit on to the 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.120 microphone about having random people on our team, and the 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.000 other teams have shit their pants. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.960 You remember they there was a rumor in the DEWLX 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.240 trades and the weird Neil Wagner. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.640 Yes, yes, that's what it was, and they were fucking 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.360 shitting themselves. They were like, and we didn't even start 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:40.840 that they started that rumor. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.720 Nah. Well, we pulled up to that thing the night before. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.679 I'd had a couple of beers and I was just 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.440 walking through into the bathroom. I didn't even know we 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.199 were actually at the event already. Yeah, but we're at 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.000 the Jewls Tradings eleven and as I was walking through, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.400 people were like, hey, do you actually have Neil Wagner 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.600 and your team? I was like, what how do you 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.520 know about this? How do you even know about the 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.640 cricket game? This is the So yeah, anyway, Shane Bond 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.920 is coming down to play yep for us as well as. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.679 Yeah, we've managed to get him, Yeah, managed to get 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:09.080 him down. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.280 Tim Saudi apparently looking he just lives out in Cambridge's 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.160 over and roll the arm over. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.760 Yeah that's right, he said. He's having a bit of 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.880 trouble the short short ball at the moment, so he 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.439 wants to come down and work that one out. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.719 Yeah, given one under the arm pit because he knows 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.120 that Ben Stokes hates it under there. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.920 So that's right. Yeah, so you're be coming around the 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.600 workout to pinning it right into your fucking lymph nodes. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.200 So yeah, good luck to those of you playing that. Now, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:32.920 there's so many cricket games we're trying to wrap my head. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.960 So there's the sin and One that's going on yep. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.720 Then we've got the we're playing on Friday night, Yes, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.520 Then there's obviously the Black Clash, and then there's the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.079 Better Man. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:43.520 Yes. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.840 So we're going to talk to todd est Or a 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.400 bit later about the Better Man and have great New Zealander. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.600 Todd Estill retired eighteen months ago from All cricket. You 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.280 know New Zealand League spinner places for the black Caps 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.920 short form in tests. I believe he has got a 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.000 shift down there focusing on mental health, mainly men's mental health. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.200 He's the Better Man charity foundation he runs and just 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.200 to give it a bit more profile and to get 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.120 the community along, we've agreed to play a T twenty 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.440 under lights at Hagley Oval on Sunday the December the 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.480 eighth down here in christ Hitch So we have we 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.439 have a chat to him about that. But you know, 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.800 we haven't got a great record under lights on an 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.080 international pitch after yeah we have actually, yeah, you're right, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.920 we don't have a great record. Just put a full 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:29.400 stop on that. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.960 Under the sun, under the moon, under anything. All right, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.360 let's take a quick break and let's come back with 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:40.400 todd Estel. It's a great pleasure, honor and privilege to 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.240 welcome into the podcast for a Thursday morning todd Estel. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.280 Hi Jans, very well, you're looking very much forward to 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:47.200 with our chat today. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:52.600 Yeah, hey, listen bit of background, Todd. You retired from 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.160 Is It All Cricket last year? 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.240 You have you Bend It All? 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:58.360 Eighteen months ago. 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.280 Yeah, I retired officially, but over the last six weeks 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.640 I've actually played a T ten competition in Tellas, Texas. Yeah, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.040 and then in a New Zealand team to the Hong 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.840 Kong Sixers which got reinstated. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.880 So it's been a busy last of the six weeks. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.160 Oh sweet come back. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.959 It's the speck of sorts a Sean Johnson retirement, that's it. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.839 Yeah, And you just love it when you come back 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.600 and you're playing something that you just has such a boyhood, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.800 you know, enjoy the like Sean. So you can see 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.319 in the space right when you get another charts it's 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.120 that just really cool way of going out and expressing yourself. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.440 Hey, before we get into it, because obviously we've got 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.839 a game to talk about down in christ Church where 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.760 several members of the ACC will once again disgrace an 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.320 international ground under lights like we did at Eden Park 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.560 a couple of years ago. But before we get to that, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.560 do you want to give a bit of background Todd, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.480 Because you've been a busy man since you've hung up 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:53.880 the Boots, I mean, and there's no doubt you were 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.680 involved in this kind of thing before you even hung 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.800 up the boots. But talk us through what you've been 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.920 up to with this Better Man initiative. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.720 Yeah, Well, since retiring, I've started up a charity with 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.040 my brother and another good mate, Jed Robinson, and it's 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.760 all about men's mental health and well being. And so 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.680 essentially we're taking the best parts of when you're in 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.760 a team, right, the fun, the games, the connection and 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.360 camaraderie and tying it in with our I guess background 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.640 and knowledge and positive psychology and well being and just. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.439 Creating lots of these events and initiatives and courses. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.280 Which bring people together and then you can layer in 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.400 some of those deeper, more meaningful sort of mental health concepts. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.720 So that's what, yeah, we've loved doing in the last 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:36.760 eighteen months or so. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.600 Do you are you specialize in sports people? Is it 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:41.160 all people? 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:41.360 How? 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.120 I mean? Is it or is it around just sports occasions? 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:47.480 No, it's all people. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.040 And look, this cricket game we've got coming up is 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.480 just a way of I guess, showcasing my networks and 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.480 tying in with November, and it's just going to be 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.040 a really cool celebration of that. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.320 But for us, it's all people. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.280 I mean, my background since retiring as well has been 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.720 the mental skills coach, so working with yeah, sports teams, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.200 but also corporates people of all background. Better Man is 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.200 about the community rights, about helping all men, but in 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.440 particular women as well have been the ones that have 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.640 really got behind it because they want better men. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.120 And that's where we're. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.000 Trying to use our our profile and our backgrounds and 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.920 our skill sets to help people from all walks of life. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:28.040 Yeah. Nice. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.080 As a mental skills coach, could you give me any 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.960 advice about developing the yips on the golf course? How 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.160 do I get out of my own heads? And I'm 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:37.680 that driver? 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.120 Well that's I've got actually a charity golf day today 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.200 at Pigger System, so I'm probably thinking the same thing 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:44.840 around hutting. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.160 So if anything, it's just about you know the next shot, right. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.040 You're only as good as your next shot, So that's 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.240 that's all I would say, is will your toes take 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:55.880 a breath and then you go for it? 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.920 That's interesting your toasting is that that's not just a 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.160 balance thing. That's like a I've seen athletes do things 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.600 like this where they will either like tap their foot 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.560 behind them or Damian McKenzie smiles, or like a weird 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:08.360 little thing like that. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:08.840 Is that? 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:09.880 What does that do? 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.080 It's obviously a thing, right, Yeah. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.880 It's all about bringing you back to the present moment. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.760 So if you will with your toes now right, you're 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.080 kind of where your feet are. And it's just that 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.400 real way of being present because so often we're testrifizing, 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.480 thinking of worst case scenarios, what might happen, what has happened, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.160 and it is essentially about managing all those distractions and 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.600 just coming back to being in the prison. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.480 Yeah, well, I love that advice. You're on as good 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.440 as your next shot. You're going to be waiting a while, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:42.000 and I for what the next shot? Did you see 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.000 the Caitlin Clark t off on that celebrity golf tournament. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.560 That is my worst nightmare. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.600 And now I'm never gonna not that I've ever been invited, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.360 but I am invited with a crowd who are in 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.960 front of my drive, I'm out. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:56.480 I'm not doing that. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.320 If you're standing off John as well, John Keyespin, someone 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:00.600 of them. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.560 Yeah he did it, Yeah, he did it. In that 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.240 in the Chasing the Fox last year, I think. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.360 There's that great footage from the woman back in like 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.920 the eighties or something. She hit the about four shots 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.680 straight into the same woman standing in the crowd. She's 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.960 yelling maker stuff. A bit bit of that. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.720 So to let's get back to this cricket match because 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:25.320 on December the eighth Sunday, a good gentleman's hours. You've 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.720 assembled a better Man eleven and you are going to 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:33.040 play a November kind of acc eleven invitation eleven at 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.800 Hagley Oval under lights. Like I said, we haven't got 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.280 a proud record under lights at international venues after being 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.080 humiliated by the November team there a few years. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.120 Ago scored one sixty to fifteen. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.400 Yeah we got we got rolled so early they let 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.520 us back again and then the wind's got a huge 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.160 astress because we choked them out for one forty but 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.320 Danly lost four wickets, So yeah, there is a bit 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.120 of astress on that. Anyway, you've managed to assemble quite 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.480 a motley cruise. I mean, the Black Clash is there 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.440 in January summer calling this the Slack Clash, the better 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.880 Man versus Mo. You've got people like Joey Wheeler, You've 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:13.080 got Marty Banks, James Marshall, Will Hall, Colin Slay, Hurley's 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.600 going to roll the arm over Aaron Major obviously yourself. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.919 What's the story with the actual game? Is everyone welcome 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:20.480 to come along? 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.600 Yeah? Look, it's free entry to the game. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.159