Speaker 1: Life and the Export Beer Garden Tour of Munich and
Speaker 1: actually in Munich this time and brought to you as
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Speaker 1: into a bear fest. This is the Agenda podcast for
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Speaker 1: the Export on Beer Garden Tour of Munich and welcome
Speaker 1: into the cloudy Munich this morning. But gentlemen, we finally
Speaker 1: made it to the Beerguden Tour of Munich. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is the big day, isn't it.
Speaker 2: As this is the big day and we broadcast to
Speaker 2: you today and full German attire, classic traditional German attire,
Speaker 2: full leader Hausen, which is a leather pant with a
Speaker 2: little design on the front of it and a strange
Speaker 2: little flap on the front that you pull down when
Speaker 2: you need to go ease yep overalls or suspenders that
Speaker 2: go over the top leather.
Speaker 1: Of course it's a good look. It is a good look.
Speaker 2: And then a long hose, a long woolen hose. Yeah
Speaker 2: it's oh yes, is one of those Export just my
Speaker 2: way and you.
Speaker 3: Can just tip beer on it.
Speaker 1: Look as it's just and well, these are leader housing
Speaker 1: of yours. Do lane. These are.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's be honest, these are. These are well worn leaderhouse.
Speaker 1: I've seen some things.
Speaker 2: This is not your first Octoberfest.
Speaker 1: No, these are.
Speaker 3: This will be the fourth for these pair of leader hoosen.
Speaker 3: And you know the good news about these letterer hoos
Speaker 3: in the thick leather, it's almost what sheerers wear on
Speaker 3: the front of their kind of pant as well. You
Speaker 3: don't wash them. And I got laughed at when I
Speaker 3: said that. But then we hung out with a couple
Speaker 3: of locals last night and I said, do you ever
Speaker 3: wash your leader housing?
Speaker 1: Look at me me. No, never. No. He said that
Speaker 1: the shepherds will go up into the hell for an
Speaker 1: entire year just in the one set of leader hosen
Speaker 1: and they won't wash them, and then they'll come back
Speaker 1: down into town. And fine, they're a hard wearing pant.
Speaker 1: They're hard to break in though, aren't they? They certainly are.
Speaker 2: And I think the best thing about the leader housing
Speaker 2: is to say, if you did have a knife and
Speaker 2: you were skinning an animal, yeah, if it slipped, it
Speaker 2: would it wouldn't purpose wouldn't permeate the surface of the leadhouse.
Speaker 2: I guess that's what they're for. But might sharpen the knife.
Speaker 2: Say how come the men? So why did they want
Speaker 2: wear any pants? Because I asked, I asked our German
Speaker 2: for instances. I said, why why the shorts and you
Speaker 2: know in the winter, just to wear the shorts? They said,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, So yeah, you go. The socks come
Speaker 2: all the way up and it's like, well, do you
Speaker 2: not wear a pant at some stags? He is, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't wear it. But this way you can go
Speaker 2: up appears.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, you can walk further. If
Speaker 1: I had to guess how hard it is the hinge
Speaker 1: at the hip in these things, Yes, if you also
Speaker 1: had to contend with that at the knee, it would
Speaker 1: be quite tough to get around. Yeah, but why do
Speaker 1: they have to be leather?
Speaker 3: Well it's as hard, isn't it.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guarantee you there's not many Bavarians or
Speaker 3: Germans who have several sets of leaderhosen. You just have
Speaker 3: one and then that one serves you. It's like a kilt,
Speaker 3: I reckon, it's the same kind of vibe.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. And actually there's so many more people.
Speaker 1: I was wondering that, like with the kilt, when you
Speaker 1: go to Scotland, You're like, how many people actually wear
Speaker 1: a kilt around? And it's more than you'd think. And
Speaker 1: I know we're here in Munich during Oktoberfest, but you
Speaker 1: do see people just rocking the old the old leader
Speaker 1: who's a leader housen. I wouldn't say casually. It's definitely
Speaker 1: still a formal attire, but they'll go out to dinner.
Speaker 1: It's like putting a shirt on over here, it seems. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And they did say last night, Axel did say our
Speaker 3: German friend, he did say that this time of year,
Speaker 3: there's three weeks where it's pretty much an open window
Speaker 3: where you can get away with doing a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff that you normally wouldn't get away with in Bavaria.
Speaker 1: Because it's october Fest.
Speaker 3: These parties in the street, these people drinking everywhere, these
Speaker 3: people and bad leader hosen, good leader hosen and great dingdrels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Darndel, which is the traditional German female dress, yes, with
Speaker 2: the fruitfy sleeves and then the very low plunging line
Speaker 2: around the breasts. And it turns out that in German
Speaker 2: is actually a saying for describing people in there doing
Speaker 2: and that is that you say and this is the
Speaker 2: literal translation into English. It's one word in German. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's translated literally into English as there's a tidy stack
Speaker 2: of wood out the front of your house. Yes, because
Speaker 2: as we took it, it's one of the great saying.
Speaker 1: As we took a train ride out we saw all
Speaker 1: the traditional German houses and they do they have stacks
Speaker 1: of wood, And obviously it becomes a keeping up with
Speaker 1: the Joneses thing. You want to have a better looking
Speaker 1: stack of wooden than your neighbor, and a tidy stack,
Speaker 1: and a tidy stack and a large stack. And if
Speaker 1: you see a large stack, it's called holtz vide juta.
Speaker 1: That's that's how that's that old. And that's a polite
Speaker 1: euphemism that I probably still won't say to a frail line.
Speaker 1: Yeah we did.
Speaker 3: We did ask whether that was whether you could just
Speaker 3: blurt that out and got a kind of fifty to
Speaker 3: fifty on it. You said, you've got to read the
Speaker 3: room and you've got to read the recipient before delivering
Speaker 3: that line.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 2: The big part about it is, as well, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: it's it's not just about the size of the stack out,
Speaker 2: although important, you can they have a massive woodstack out
Speaker 2: in the front of your house, but if it's all
Speaker 2: unruly and all over the place, it's nobody wants that.
Speaker 2: But the ideal is the large woodstack that's also tidy.
Speaker 2: I think that's what they're trying to get at. It
Speaker 2: is because you can say, well, that's a very small woodstack,
Speaker 2: but it's also tidy. Yes, absolutely, It's probably better than
Speaker 2: a very large, unruly wood stack. Yeah, but probably not
Speaker 2: as favorable as the large woodstack that's also tidy.
Speaker 1: What I quite like about the old Leiderhosen is the
Speaker 1: individual expression because I feel like when we see them
Speaker 1: back home, it's like you've brought it from look sharp
Speaker 1: and you just go into a halloween or a fancy dress.
Speaker 1: But over here it's it actually tells a story and
Speaker 1: you decorate it with things that you've accrued throughout your lifetime.
Speaker 1: It's a it's sort of like you know your tapestry
Speaker 1: of all of the things that you've achieved. And Jerry
Speaker 1: was looking from the get go is like I want
Speaker 1: a feather in my hand, and we talk to the
Speaker 1: people about about why they have that, and often it's
Speaker 1: an animal that they've killed themselves. Hunted themselves. We figured
Speaker 1: out at breakfast morning that's probably where another feather in
Speaker 1: your cap comes from.
Speaker 2: That must be exactly where it is. I'm looking for
Speaker 2: a feather because I've got a a Brixton hat that
Speaker 2: I think will double fine as a German hat kind
Speaker 2: of looks like one and as well. But I'm looking
Speaker 2: for a feather, and turns out the feathers quite hard.
Speaker 2: But I did speak to the concerags this morning. They said,
Speaker 2: I actually need to go to a proper store, this
Speaker 2: traditional store, and they have all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: The thing I want is a feather, but I particularly
Speaker 2: want the badger he comes out at.
Speaker 1: The top of the fluffy one, the fluffy.
Speaker 2: Thing, because I saw some dudes in that in that
Speaker 2: parade that we accidentally found ourselves in yesterday, and I
Speaker 2: love the guys with the real fluefy stuff coming out
Speaker 2: the top of theirs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very much. The dress is very much similar
Speaker 3: to a real reference before. With Scottish celts. You just
Speaker 3: can accessorize and keep on accessorizing because you can get
Speaker 3: the formal jacket as well. You can get the calf
Speaker 3: warmers so you have ankle socks and just a stretch
Speaker 3: of wool across the calf.
Speaker 2: So obviously that the calf warmer is for mid season,
Speaker 2: so we're thinking that's more autumnal, more spring, whereas the
Speaker 2: obviously you'd have a low sock in summer, you wouldn't
Speaker 2: have any or the very very It's kind of like
Speaker 2: an ankler as well. They've got the anklord option and
Speaker 2: then obviously the long host for winter. But do you
Speaker 2: think they are the carp I mean, why just the
Speaker 2: middle of your calf? Why does that need to be warm?
Speaker 1: Well? I did consider that perhaps it was because you
Speaker 1: were pissing up so hard that your calves were cramping,
Speaker 1: so you needed It's like a compression socks a situation
Speaker 1: or is it?
Speaker 3: Is it a hiking situation where you've got to keep
Speaker 3: your calves warm, calf muscle warm maybe?
Speaker 1: Or is it to do with vericus veins?
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it stops vericus veins?
Speaker 1: Was it for the long haul leader Hosen to stop
Speaker 1: deep vein thrombosis? Perhaps? Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So going back to yesterday, obviously we left Amsterdam, we've
Speaker 3: we bid farewell to Amsterdam. Did great town had a
Speaker 3: great last evening having a few beers in a windmill.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, so we finally got the windmill. We eventually
Speaker 1: found the windmill that we went looking for in nardin which,
Speaker 1: if you've just listened to the last podcast, got a
Speaker 1: fair run on the podcast, it's been it sent ripples
Speaker 1: around New Zealand. We're hearing back from various different legal
Speaker 1: departments of various companies. But yeah, but the thing is,
Speaker 1: we never did get the closure of the windmill that
Speaker 1: we didn't quite find. So we did go and find
Speaker 1: a windmill. An ounce that was glorious. Wasn't a brewery
Speaker 1: at the base of a windmill surrounded by canals? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it one? More working? Was it a working win
Speaker 1: going around? Okay? So is anyone using a windmill anymore?
Speaker 1: Are they still doing that? I think they're more decorative. Okay,
Speaker 1: they do have the windmills that we've got with the
Speaker 1: Meridian energy when oh they got power, they've got they
Speaker 1: got those ones. Yeah, not a milling.
Speaker 2: The windmill was used for milling grain, yes, and water, Yeah,
Speaker 2: moving water from one dyke to a next.
Speaker 3: Is that kind of because I think I feel like
Speaker 3: that was just wading through that.
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe that might be the case. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it seemed that the windmill never really took off
Speaker 2: from the rest of Europe.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I think once once kind of all power and all
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff took off, they became a little
Speaker 3: bit redundant, that's right.
Speaker 1: Sense.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we made our way here to Munich. It's
Speaker 2: about what an hour and a half or something like that. Yes,
Speaker 2: on a plane, and very early in the morning when
Speaker 2: we were up at six straight into the bus, sinds
Speaker 2: out the bus driver didn't know how to take the
Speaker 2: handbrake off.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. That was interesting.
Speaker 3: And then when you asked, do you know how to
Speaker 3: change gears anyway?
Speaker 1: Oh god, he laughed, but genuinely. We sat down and
Speaker 1: Jerry's gun he can't find the handbrake. And then he
Speaker 1: looked over his shoulder and he goes, he's now googling
Speaker 1: the model of the bus that we were on. He
Speaker 1: was gurgling, Oh glad.
Speaker 2: I was at the back of the I was gurgling
Speaker 2: it and then I and then I locked down and
Speaker 2: I thought, it's it's it's a handbreak, and it's right
Speaker 2: where a handbrake normally is. Just it was a hand handbrake.
Speaker 2: And I was just sitting there and then I was
Speaker 2: watching him. I thought, I'm going to wait for him
Speaker 2: to go through the Google thing. It's like quarter bus
Speaker 2: six in the morning. You know, I've just had a
Speaker 2: very strong coffee. And I thought to myself, how long
Speaker 2: am I going to sit? Because I was in the
Speaker 2: seat right behind him. How long am I going to
Speaker 2: said here before I say something? I thought, I, God,
Speaker 2: I'm going to say something. I said, I think the
Speaker 2: handbrake's there, and he goes, oh, thanks very much, and
Speaker 2: then he couldn't put it in gear. And then I
Speaker 2: actually asked some of he knew how to steer, that's right, said,
Speaker 2: you do know how to steer, don't you? Said you?
Speaker 1: And I've got that. But I'm glad you were at
Speaker 1: the front. I was at the back.
Speaker 3: I was rid of with anxiety at the back, so
Speaker 3: that would.
Speaker 1: Have tipped out of the in claustrophobia because it was
Speaker 1: about a twenty seat a bus, but it had room
Speaker 1: for three pieces of luggage. Why are you fearing people
Speaker 1: doing from the airport with this, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess people do a lot more carry on here.
Speaker 2: I suppose you know, if people are going from city
Speaker 2: to city minute, because it's only an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: And the interesting thing is from Amsterdam to Munich. So
Speaker 2: you go from from the Netherlands to Germany. No passport control, nothing,
Speaker 2: no customs.
Speaker 1: They didn't check anything. Oh they did, well, I will say,
Speaker 1: they did scan my bag. So when you and I
Speaker 1: went through the little X ray machine, our bags both
Speaker 1: got siphoned off. Now we hadn't done anything too underwater
Speaker 1: in Amsterdam, but anytime you're leaving Amsterdam and your bag
Speaker 1: gets sectioned off, a million things start going through your head,
Speaker 1: your palms start sweating. I was like, oh god, what's this?
Speaker 1: She said, Can I open it? It's like yes, She goes,
Speaker 1: you have to open it. I open it, present her
Speaker 1: the bag. She puts the drug thing on the wand
Speaker 1: goes through that puts that in. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what is happening here? Because also we got issued ACC
Speaker 1: bumbags ACC export bum bags. So I'm feeling like a
Speaker 1: drug dealer at this point, because you've got to slug
Speaker 1: across your chest. Yeah, I look, I look for all
Speaker 1: intensive purposes a drug dealer. And she scans that and
Speaker 1: then she goes, Okay, what we've actually found? So the
Speaker 1: thing comes back. She's holding the ticket in her hand.
Speaker 1: She goes, well, we've actually found is you've got a
Speaker 1: bottle of beer and your carry on luggage that you
Speaker 1: can't take with you. And it was the sixty nine
Speaker 1: dogship bottle from the day before mate, that I couldn't
Speaker 1: get sixty nine dogshit written on. She said, can you
Speaker 1: throw this out? I was like please. I didn't get done.
Speaker 1: I'm done. I didn't get on it. What I what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do.
Speaker 2: Well, she did the same thing to me because my
Speaker 2: bag also went into that into the dream did second
Speaker 2: tier zone? You know you're waiting it sits there and
Speaker 2: that in the on the convey about purgatory.
Speaker 1: Are you going to go? Yeah? Are you going to
Speaker 1: go to hell? Or are you going to come to Hiven?
Speaker 2: No, my one's going to hell. And she got out
Speaker 2: the made me open up my bag and my heart
Speaker 2: started racing tune and I don't know exactly how you're feeling.
Speaker 2: And then she I had a sandwich in my bag
Speaker 2: and she said, oh, it's a sandwich And I said yeah,
Speaker 2: would you like sandwich? And she goes, oh, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Then and then that was it. When I was fine,
Speaker 2: I was allowed to bring the sandwich in but that's
Speaker 2: the alarm bells off. Maybe people don't eat.
Speaker 1: I noticed that because we got as we're getting off
Speaker 1: the plane, you were opening your box and it's actually
Speaker 1: in your rubbish, just the you brought your entire pack
Speaker 1: lunch on an international float, which I don't think i've seen.
Speaker 2: Well, did everyone else eat their lunch? But I said
Speaker 2: to me, the only one eating my lunch after like breakfast?
Speaker 1: It was breakfast? Oh was it breakfast? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, I had Lolli's for breakfast.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, I dust the mind before we went
Speaker 1: through the thing. But this is my first lift hans
Speaker 1: Afloat and the funniest thing that happened as we were boarding,
Speaker 1: So it was different boarding groups, but we were sitting
Speaker 1: next to each other. Do you know what the boarding
Speaker 1: groups were? And I walked in this is genius.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So basically they have all these different groups, but
Speaker 3: since you're sitting next to someone, you're all in different groups.
Speaker 1: And we were like some lane and jury is sitting
Speaker 1: next to each other, but we were all in different
Speaker 1: boarding groups. Yes, because they loaded from the window first, genius,
Speaker 1: So you don't you know because the wounding you have
Speaker 1: to get up and let the guy into the window. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they eliminate that.
Speaker 3: So you get on and all the windows seats are
Speaker 3: fall and then it fills from the middle to the center.
Speaker 1: Because that is the biggest hold up because you get
Speaker 1: in there, you stand in the aisle. Sorry, I've got
Speaker 1: to jump over there. They get out, and meanwhile the
Speaker 1: whole plane's been brought to its knees.
Speaker 2: Because it was the first time I've ever heard a
Speaker 2: pilot a The pilot addressed the plane standing looking down
Speaker 2: the aisle, which was very nice. Maybe that's a Leftanza thing.
Speaker 2: But then he then said, and I thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your efficient boarding. And it's like, wow, okay,
Speaker 2: that's the first time I've ever heard a pilot thank
Speaker 2: the passenger for their efficient He was so pleased with
Speaker 2: the efficient boarding.
Speaker 1: It was efficient.
Speaker 2: It was very contrast that with getting on a domestic
Speaker 2: flood in America where people are just coming in with
Speaker 2: the giant suitcases carry on that you've ever seen in
Speaker 2: your life, trying to shove it out over head compartments.
Speaker 1: At his houses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, falling across people and sweating away and it's terrible.
Speaker 1: That was efficient, and you saw someone familiar on the flight.
Speaker 1: Did you recognize someone? Yes, I recognized the left edge
Speaker 1: for the right ear rather for the Brisbane Broncos. Jordan
Speaker 1: Ricky and former Warrior Jesse Arthur's were on the plane
Speaker 1: with a couple of other players as well. So they're
Speaker 1: obviously in Amsterdam for a bit, heading over to October Fest.
Speaker 3: For a Mad extension of the Mad Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, and I yeah, because of course they
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs this year. And you know the
Speaker 1: notorious Pansman Joel Harrison. He is a debt at punishing
Speaker 1: NRL players wherever they are. He can find them anywhere,
Speaker 1: he'll sniff them out. So I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: he just materializes in our tents at Oktoberfest today. They
Speaker 1: just chew Jordan Ricky's ear off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he's definitely on his way to Oktoberfish. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: hamon his mat geez. He's a specimen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god. Widely regarded as the best looking
Speaker 1: man in the NRL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what they're talking about there. He's a
Speaker 2: very good looking man. But he's a he's a well
Speaker 2: proportioned unit. I mean, he'd be about six four, yeah,
Speaker 2: six three six four tall for a league player, yes,
Speaker 2: but just he's got that sunny bill thing going on
Speaker 2: where the height doesn't look tall. He just looks like
Speaker 2: a large man. That's right.
Speaker 1: Until you see him in person, you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's enormous and and dreamy. A chin they just won't quit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: piercing piercing eyes.
Speaker 2: Also, he was quite shy though, and I was watching
Speaker 2: him hanging out with his mates and it was quite interesting.
Speaker 2: He's quite a loner. He sort of stood around by himself,
Speaker 2: and then when he walked down he had the cap
Speaker 2: very low. It was very self conscious. But I didn't
Speaker 2: think he didn't need to realize that nobody on that
Speaker 2: flight knew who was apart from the punishings New Zealanders.
Speaker 2: And I had texts of three people and had told you,
Speaker 2: but that was a man. That was a man who's
Speaker 2: used to hiding. Yeah, you know, and he's obviously it's
Speaker 2: an old habit.
Speaker 3: And it was like, well, unfortunately, he's not going to
Speaker 3: be able to hide at October Fist because there is
Speaker 3: one particular tint that is rammed with dingoes, the half
Speaker 3: Frow House. So I'd advise jeordn Recky to stay away
Speaker 3: from the half brow house.
Speaker 1: Well, he's in trouble because there are a lot of
Speaker 1: keys here. We've seen photos of Warriors jerseys with Alida Hozen.
Speaker 1: He's the keys from christ Church actually John Rooky. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he is going to get absolutely wounded.
Speaker 2: Also, he's going to have some huge issues because some
Speaker 2: of those Frau line dendels are going to be all
Speaker 2: I mean, I can imagine and me look good in
Speaker 2: a pair of leader house and tell.
Speaker 1: You what, He's going to have a few logs chuck
Speaker 1: at him, isn't he He really is thought some press
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah? Absolutely, all right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break here. We'll come back and recap our first day
Speaker 1: in Germany. So, as we said, we landed in Munich,
Speaker 1: and then, as his tradition, we immediately left Munich. Fist
Speaker 1: all our bus are into town. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: It was driven by none other than Paul Horton.
Speaker 1: Paul fed What was he doing here?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, but he was not
Speaker 2: a brilliant bus driver. He wasn't bad. He was better
Speaker 2: than the guy who couldn't find the handbrake. Don't have
Speaker 2: to google anything, No, but he maybe should have googled something,
Speaker 2: because it turns out that there was the October Fest
Speaker 2: Munich parade going right through the middle of Munich. As
Speaker 2: we were leaving, it started up, and which meant that
Speaker 2: all of the roads around the CBD, the central part
Speaker 2: of the central businesses, were shut down and he couldn't
Speaker 2: go down in. Our hotel is right in the middle
Speaker 2: of the CBD, so we couldn't get to a hotel,
Speaker 2: and he had no idea that was going on, and
Speaker 2: so he was furious because obviously the traffic was terrible
Speaker 2: because it was being redirected, and we ended up going
Speaker 2: around and around in circles trying to get our way,
Speaker 2: and he couldn't get in there. In the end, we
Speaker 2: had to leave the bus with our bags and attack
Speaker 2: the hotel by foot. But then we couldn't get across
Speaker 2: the bloody road because our hotel was on the other
Speaker 2: side of the road, and it was the parade was
Speaker 2: going right down the same road that a hotel was on.
Speaker 1: What a parade.
Speaker 3: Though initially I was like, oh, for fuck sake, and
Speaker 3: then I was like, God, this is actually quite good.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. I couldn't really figure out what was
Speaker 1: going on. But they were all different clans or groups.
Speaker 1: I think we found out later on that they are.
Speaker 1: They represent different regions. Some of them are cultural groups,
Speaker 1: which it presume is like a marching band sort of situation.
Speaker 1: Some of them are regions. Some of them were trades.
Speaker 1: Like there were guys there representing the dairy industry.
Speaker 3: Yes, they were the big bells. Went they giant bells.
Speaker 3: So they had the you.
Speaker 1: Know, the classic bells that you think of around an
Speaker 1: alpine cow's neck, but they were these things were enormous, enormous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were walking down the main street with them
Speaker 2: that looked like balls. Yes, so they had them hanging
Speaker 2: between their legs and they were marching in a way
Speaker 2: that meant that they were dinging in tune.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gong, which is very clear.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of people playing instruments. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you walked into that like we did, completely cold
Speaker 2: and saw all those people in traditional German clothes, all
Speaker 2: of them wearing leader housing, et cetera, and the dindals,
Speaker 2: a lot of d indals, then you would think every
Speaker 2: single person in Germany plays an instrument. Yeah, so a
Speaker 2: lot of French horns, a lot of trombones, a lot
Speaker 2: of trumpets.
Speaker 1: A glockenspiel, which I've never seen in the wild, a glockenspiel,
Speaker 1: and vertical glockenspiels. So they're holding basically a brass or
Speaker 1: silver sort of thing that stands up in front of
Speaker 1: them and they play it in front of their face.
Speaker 1: And I thought, well, because some of them were walking,
Speaker 1: they were representing different eras, so some of them had swords,
Speaker 1: some of them had rifles. I thought, I gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: If I show up to a war and my enemy
Speaker 1: rocks up and he's got five dudes with glockenspiels in
Speaker 1: the front, I'm like, oh, boys, we are going to
Speaker 1: light these.
Speaker 2: Can I just make one observation? What I noticed was
Speaker 2: you obviously had the traditional marching bands. Then there was
Speaker 2: military outfits represented from the Napoleonic Wars, I think from
Speaker 2: the eighteen hundreds. Then there was some Wilbar outfits. What
Speaker 2: I found fascinating was this seemed to be a gap
Speaker 2: missing in history from about nineteen sort of thirty two
Speaker 2: ish through to about forty five, and there was no representation,
Speaker 2: no military representation of that era. Interestingly, that seemed to
Speaker 2: be missing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that too, and actually the only one that was
Speaker 1: missing there was one person did have a flag that
Speaker 1: said forty seven forty, So I think that's when they
Speaker 1: picked it back up. It's as close as it gets.
Speaker 3: I think they gave it. They gave it a buffer
Speaker 3: that is as far as it's going to get over.
Speaker 3: Afraid on that.
Speaker 2: Wow yeah, wow, yeah, wow, Because I mean they lost
Speaker 2: World War One, didn't they.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they lost World War One?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, And also I mean, look, it's a bit
Speaker 3: closer to the bone and Munich, isn't it. It was
Speaker 3: a city close to Adolf's heart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. Yeah, his favorite Italian restaurant was down here.
Speaker 1: In traveling around Amsterdam, it is not. The buildings are
Speaker 1: all much newer and much more brutalist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the totally the whole place got completely
Speaker 2: smashed over.
Speaker 1: I think there's some bits that were left. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: sort of see those buildings over there might have been
Speaker 1: a little bit older.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a couple of palaces that got left
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But amazing to think this whole
Speaker 2: place is rebuilt and completely wiped out at one stage.
Speaker 2: But we did end up then catching a train, didn't
Speaker 2: we And we sort of headed into the mountains, not
Speaker 2: to the eagles Nest where at we used to have
Speaker 2: a place in the in the Alps.
Speaker 3: There I felt like it was close by. There wasn't far.
Speaker 2: Away from the eagles Nest, that's more towards kind of Salzburg,
Speaker 2: more towards the east. We were straight south of Munich
Speaker 2: and a place to Turgenesi.
Speaker 1: Gerseycy, beautiful lakeside village. It was just t I mean
Speaker 1: think Queenstown basically if Queenstown had a thousand year old ditecture. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then we went to a brewery that was built
Speaker 3: in sixteen twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was part brewery, part church, part monastery
Speaker 1: and they were all still operating. So as we're sitting
Speaker 1: there crushing beers, people are walking past to go into
Speaker 1: their Sunday church service at six o'clock. It was quite something.
Speaker 1: You just would not see that in New Zealand. No.
Speaker 2: Beautiful the restaurant itself, I mean I'm going to say
Speaker 2: one hundred tables, yeah, easy.
Speaker 1: It was massive. It was outdoor and indoor.
Speaker 2: Inside it had the beautiful architects, amazing arches, the monastery
Speaker 2: part of it, and then outside just some people just
Speaker 2: jugging back darts next door to families and all that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: They love a dart over herecause the tables are kind
Speaker 1: of random.
Speaker 2: And then the waiter in Leaderhouse and traditional leaderhouse and
Speaker 2: bringing us bears and fantastic traditional German food, which is
Speaker 2: no nonsense. No, you get some meat, you get some potatoes,
Speaker 2: chuck some cheese in there, but beautifully cocked and everything
Speaker 2: here is it's nice.
Speaker 1: A service is incredible. We sat down, we had our
Speaker 1: German friend Axle with us. He was explaining all the
Speaker 1: different things on the menu, and we all went for
Speaker 1: the book bell because we're keepis and but they came
Speaker 1: out in like a split second we'd ordered them, and
Speaker 1: as soon as we'd ordered them, he turned around walked
Speaker 1: back out with the most beautiful pork belly I've ever had,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of steins of beer within like a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then finishing off with the with the pear snaps. Oh,
Speaker 3: a couple of rounds of the pear snaps.
Speaker 1: How how does the pear snaps a little bit?
Speaker 3: A little little nugget appear at the bottom that was
Speaker 3: soaking up the snaps, which he threw down your gall at.
Speaker 2: Last, it's just a nice little palate cleanser, and it
Speaker 2: kind of cut through the fat as well, or the
Speaker 2: richness of the pork belly, which can often be a
Speaker 2: little bit you know, considering your stomach in a certain way,
Speaker 2: but if you follow it up with a dig stief
Speaker 2: like that cuts it right down.
Speaker 1: Something about these old I mean I noticed this when
Speaker 1: we were in Paris last year, these old cultures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't do it set laugh. They have figured out
Speaker 1: how to live about a thousand years ago and they've
Speaker 1: been doing that ever since then. Nothing's changed. Everyone's got
Speaker 1: a phone now, but that's about the only difference they have.
Speaker 2: They've only worked out a really, really good way to live.
Speaker 2: They've been living this place for thousands of years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's quite interesting.
Speaker 3: And then coming back into Munich in our train ride,
Speaker 3: Octoberfest was over. They closed at nine and it was
Speaker 3: about nine thirty by the time we got back into
Speaker 3: to munchin Huffbenhoff, and.
Speaker 1: I wasn't as chaotic as I thought.
Speaker 3: There were some people who were obviously but steamed, but
Speaker 3: they were all caring fistfuls of roadies for the train.
Speaker 3: They were all dead armloads of beers ready to carry
Speaker 3: on on the train home, yeaph no one blinking an eye, nah,
Speaker 3: And it wasn't too chaotic. I didn't think it was
Speaker 3: overly cared it. There was one particular gentleman. He almost
Speaker 3: fell out of his shoes into an oncoming train. But
Speaker 3: apart from him, well, and he wasn't coming from October now.
Speaker 1: He was actually coming back to Munich from de Guernsey
Speaker 1: with us, and we saw him. Joe was so concerned
Speaker 1: for this old man. He would have been in his
Speaker 1: late sixties, I think, and he was stumbling down the
Speaker 1: side of the train that we're going to get on,
Speaker 1: and Joe was worried he was going to fall in
Speaker 1: front of the train, so he followed them, and eventually
Speaker 1: he managed to get on and he sat down, and
Speaker 1: he just looked like the drunkest man on public transport
Speaker 1: you've ever seen. He couldn't keep his eyes open. He's
Speaker 1: looking left, he's looking right. But the thing is he
Speaker 1: managed the whole thing. He got on the train fine.
Speaker 1: At any given moment, he could have fallen over, but
Speaker 1: he didn't. Just what he was teetering on the brink
Speaker 1: and he got in the guy came down to check
Speaker 1: everyone's tickets. He fumbled around his pockets, produced the correct ticket.
Speaker 1: Then when he got off the thing, he just about
Speaker 1: fell off the fucking out of his shoes.
Speaker 2: A kid, but that's a man who's been doing that
Speaker 2: his whole life. So he's been getting drunk all his life.
Speaker 2: He's been getting on public transport, he's been successfully, he's
Speaker 2: getting from Turgency to Munich successfully.
Speaker 1: He's probably in his eighties. What he reckoned, he could
Speaker 1: have been. Yeah, and he's a professional, that guy. Probably
Speaker 1: not the first time he's done that this week. No,
Speaker 1: that's right, but.
Speaker 2: I thought actually we should hand out a certificate because
Speaker 2: for the team, because when we were watching the parade yesterday,
Speaker 2: as it was as it was going down, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden became quite hot. It was about one o'clock
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, and it was it was sunny, and
Speaker 2: it sort of heats up in the afternoon. Here it's
Speaker 2: about twenty two twenty three degrees. We're standing there the parade.
Speaker 2: We're told the paride's going to go in for an hour.
Speaker 2: We arrived at about five minutes and so we had
Speaker 2: about fifty five minutes before we could go across the
Speaker 2: road to get to our hotel. So even if we
Speaker 2: wanted to chick and we couldn't, so we were in.
Speaker 2: We were taking in the parade and enjoining the parade
Speaker 2: some some of the group not so much. And then
Speaker 2: g Lane, to his credit, said you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna go and just going to go for a
Speaker 2: bit of a walk, walked off, classic g Lane.
Speaker 1: He came back with a crate of beer. He came
Speaker 1: back with a crate like I don't know how many beers.
Speaker 2: Were there, twenty four twenty four beers and a plastic
Speaker 2: crate milk and five hundred mill bottles which I later
Speaker 2: found out was six point three percent.
Speaker 1: Two euros each? Rubbish were they? Oh my god?
Speaker 2: And dushed them out to the group. And so we're
Speaker 2: standing there drinking the beautiful big bots of beer and
Speaker 2: really nice beer and watching this bloody parade in the sun.
Speaker 2: It was like, what a what a great addition that
Speaker 2: was after you, Yeah, what a great thing to do.
Speaker 1: That was grateful, And I cracked because we had a
Speaker 1: policeman directly in front of us and he was quite militant.
Speaker 1: This policeman. A couple of people tried to just scarp
Speaker 1: across the road. No no, no, no no, and then
Speaker 1: throw them back over the thing. I'm standing there. You
Speaker 1: gave me this beer. I cracked the top of it
Speaker 1: and drink it. As I'm drinking, and I locked eyes
Speaker 1: with the policeman and I was like, they're going to
Speaker 1: shoot me for this. And then I realized, Oh, we're
Speaker 1: not in New Zealand. You can actually you can drink
Speaker 1: on the streets. You do what you want.
Speaker 2: You can drink a big bot on the streets while
Speaker 2: you're watching a parade. Yeah, no problems about that. He
Speaker 2: didn't give a shit. He didn't give a shit. I
Speaker 2: think we take one more quick break. Well, we have
Speaker 2: one more thing to address on this podcast. It is
Speaker 2: the Ballad of Maria up next.
Speaker 1: So at the start of the podcast we did address
Speaker 1: the the lingo that we've learned holds for the hootah,
Speaker 1: which means a lot of wood at the front of
Speaker 1: the house, and it's often in reference to an ample
Speaker 1: bosom and a dondle, which we were presented with almost
Speaker 1: immediately when finally the parade finished and we managed to
Speaker 1: get in to check into the hotel, and I was
Speaker 1: just sitting down having a yarn to some of the
Speaker 1: other guys on the trip with us, and then Joe said,
Speaker 1: are you going to come over here and check in
Speaker 1: with me? I was like, okay, weird that we have
Speaker 1: to check in together. Okay, I come over there, and
Speaker 1: Jerry goes, I reckon, you jump in Maria's queue over there.
Speaker 1: We jump in and sure enough, the lovely Maria was
Speaker 1: serving us and she was holds her for the hootah
Speaker 1: very holds for the hoodah. You know, we talk about
Speaker 1: the size and the precision of the stacking. It was
Speaker 1: all there in the dendal, in the darndal traditional the
Speaker 1: traditional dandal then and so Joe's standing there with a
Speaker 1: hard case suitcase and then on top of it what
Speaker 1: we call the nuclear football, which is a hard shell
Speaker 1: case that we carry the podcast equipment in. And so
Speaker 1: the person in front of him checks it and then
Speaker 1: she goes next in line. Please. He goes to push
Speaker 1: on the suitcase. He I'm looking at Marin. He's so flustered.
Speaker 1: The bottom of the suitcase doesn't move. It hinges at
Speaker 1: the top. He drops the nuclear football and then trips
Speaker 1: over his suitcase lad on his face.
Speaker 3: He came out from here with the reddest player and
Speaker 3: didn't know what.
Speaker 1: To do next. In line, everybody in the fourier stopped,
Speaker 1: turned around. Joe's on the floor and stuffs everywhere, and
Speaker 1: he stands up and goes, we got to check in well.
Speaker 1: The thing is, we were so flustered by that stage
Speaker 1: that we had to pay a deposit fifty euros for
Speaker 1: each day that was staying standing there for three days,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty euro Somehow Maria stuffs up the
Speaker 1: number and it comes out two and a half thousand euros.
Speaker 1: Jo just pulls the credit card out, swipes it. He
Speaker 1: was he was taking my money out. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know what the number was. I didn't care what the
Speaker 1: number was. It wasn't It was very hard.
Speaker 2: The other problem with Maria was that her name badge
Speaker 2: was dangerously placed right on us, right on the skirt.
Speaker 1: I'm not the skirt, what would.
Speaker 2: You call it?
Speaker 1: First on the woodstack.
Speaker 2: Was just on the side of the woodstack, wasn't it
Speaker 2: right on the side of the well.
Speaker 1: And actually, funnily enough, we learned later on that just
Speaker 1: on the other side of the woodstack was a badge
Speaker 1: that read trainee. Yes, But of course none of us
Speaker 1: noticed that at the time because of the wold foot Huz. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the thing is he scan lead the credit card
Speaker 1: two and a half thousand, which is four grand, almost
Speaker 1: four and a half thousand New Zealand dollars, and it
Speaker 1: didn't work. It was like card decline and he goes,
Speaker 1: I'll try it again, pops up again, try to get
Speaker 1: again again. Yeah, we go again. Then I'm flustered Lanes
Speaker 1: getting in the elevator. I go over to lane. They're
Speaker 1: trying to charge us like four grand for this hot room.
Speaker 1: Heesn't that. It's like one hundred and fifty doors closed.
Speaker 1: Lane fucked up up, So we're back there, like jeez,
Speaker 1: Menjo got to come up with four grand between us
Speaker 1: or Maris angry with you. You just didn't want to
Speaker 1: upset it.
Speaker 3: You didn't want to disappoint her, and that's totally acceptable.
Speaker 2: But every decline was another moment spent with.
Speaker 1: Maria, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: That's the thing. It's just another moment. Oh well, declines agamage.
Speaker 2: We'll just keep swiping it up. It's silver the afternoon.
Speaker 2: One more time, Marina one more time, and eventually she
Speaker 2: had to get the manageries.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and fifty year. He looked at us, like,
Speaker 1: what she was doing A good job.
Speaker 2: Minight she was doing she was in training, she was
Speaker 2: doing an excellent job.
Speaker 1: She's doing a tremendous job. I think the only thing
Speaker 1: wilder than the fact that she tried to charge us
Speaker 1: four grand for us stay here is the fact that
Speaker 1: we tried to pay it twice. Yeah. Powerful stuff. So
Speaker 1: we are here in Munich. We are about like a
Speaker 1: ten minute walk from October Fest. Yep, we're leader hoosened up.
Speaker 1: You've told me, you've advised me not to wear the
Speaker 1: birkenstocks that I've got on at the moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just it does get. It does get a
Speaker 3: little messy in terms of when you when you're everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of beer got spilling everywhere. And that's why
Speaker 3: these are so good, because they just get shit all
Speaker 3: over it. But yeah, they're quite slippery as well. The
Speaker 3: floors are quite slippery. So yeah, by the end of
Speaker 3: the day, she's she's a real beer fist.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Well, I might have to make a couple
Speaker 1: of adjustments to my kit and then we might have
Speaker 1: to head out to the Octoberfest. We'll do another podcast
Speaker 1: if we survived this recapping the day's events.
Speaker 2: Was there any sport that happened over there?
Speaker 1: Oh? Sorry, yeah, the Black Camps. I watched four balls
Speaker 1: this morning and we lost.
Speaker 3: We lost some four balls, okay, we were there were
Speaker 3: a sniff, you know, we need sixty four two wickets
Speaker 3: and a hand.
Speaker 1: Revenger on ninety one.
Speaker 3: AG's at the other end a bit of a barnacle
Speaker 3: faced eighteen balls for his zero, so he didn't really
Speaker 3: you know, you just need to stick around revenge and
Speaker 3: we could have hit thirty or forty and it would
Speaker 3: have gone down.
Speaker 1: Revenger got out. Then a rock got bob.
Speaker 2: It's a shame because that's quite close. Yes, we've done
Speaker 2: quite a lot. We'd stayed in. That we'd stayed in.
Speaker 3: It was that second inning, three hundred plus second innings
Speaker 3: from Shri Lanka. That was that actually, but that was
Speaker 3: the nail in the coffin.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah. It was the undoing. And we still
Speaker 1: don't know who won the election, do we. I believe it's.
Speaker 4: Actually heard that I saw that on Ja run Atunga.
Speaker 4: It was a grand La Broyce. He's involved in it,
Speaker 4: isn't he? Jin Remenisce Remenika, I believe it's I believe
Speaker 4: it's a left wing government.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh well great, all right, let's pack this thing
Speaker 1: in head out to October Fist. I'm pretty excited. Oh
Speaker 1: it's you.
Speaker 3: It's gonna love this and I can't wait to for
Speaker 3: the stories to come out of this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Here on the agenda. Yeah, we'll see that you've been
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