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Speaker 1: This is the Agenda Podcast for Thursday, the twelfth of September.
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Speaker 1: Later on the podcast, Brad Shields is going to be
Speaker 1: joining us the Wellington Lions Storm Week this week. Last
Speaker 1: night they played against Otago they won. They have the
Speaker 1: Shield Challenge this week. So weapon Brad Shields. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: you see him on the field. He's got that bag,
Speaker 1: he's got the beard that like all those Argentinian players have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the big kind of big that increases his jaw by
Speaker 1: about ten Yeah, bugger coming up against him twice in
Speaker 1: one week. But he didn't play last night. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll pick his brain on. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: won the Shield or not.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think he has. I think he has.
Speaker 1: How you go contesting for the Shield in the Storm
Speaker 1: Week And I want to know a bit about that
Speaker 1: wasps thing because it still confused me that there was
Speaker 1: a team and then there wasn't a team anyway. That's
Speaker 1: coming up later on. We sort of glossed over it yesterday.
Speaker 1: But how did you mark nine to eleven.
Speaker 3: By watching the presidential debate? Oh my god, yes, Oh
Speaker 3: my god. Like that was one of the funniest ship
Speaker 3: I've ever seen in my life. Like I was lolling
Speaker 3: around laughing and in the office I was ruffling around
Speaker 3: the off because some of the ship mayo, my ass off.
Speaker 3: Some of the ship that Trump was saying was probably
Speaker 3: one of some of the funniest shiver here, like getting
Speaker 3: cats and dogs and they're it in the dogs.
Speaker 1: Again, the cats in the pats and the cats they're
Speaker 1: in the dogs.
Speaker 3: How do you I mean he's talking about there are
Speaker 3: bording babies after they're born.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what if sometimes after the burn? That's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. Was there at CapMan on, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got to work on the I've got to work
Speaker 1: on my Trump. No, that's how That's how I marked it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the memes were out of control straight away as well
Speaker 1: while the debate was still going on. The most salient
Speaker 1: point I thought I saw was if you went into
Speaker 1: a job interview and said half the ship that he
Speaker 1: just said, that, you'd be escorted out of the building.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I want him to be president again, purely for the comedy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we don't live in that country, so I don't care
Speaker 3: what I do not care. And if they he gets
Speaker 3: voted and it's on them. But if they do vote them,
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. I've been walking around asking people did
Speaker 1: you know that they were eating dogs and cats over there?
Speaker 3: Trying to say the migrants were ravaging Springfield by cats
Speaker 3: and hilarious. Anyway, we don't even Delvin Apolyodets batters as
Speaker 3: politically as we're going to get.
Speaker 1: There was another thing that it was like he clearly
Speaker 1: thinks that people asylum seekers are people who have broken
Speaker 1: out of asylums.
Speaker 3: Oh he said mental asylum as well. Yeah, Like he
Speaker 3: was just dropping these bombs.
Speaker 1: I can illegal aliens. It's just tremendous for the memes.
Speaker 1: Sticking with a miracle because we were stuck on an
Speaker 1: American channel from watching that yesterday. This morning they were
Speaker 1: playing a sports show, Yeah, and one of the topics
Speaker 1: was the All Whites. Yeah, because they drew one all
Speaker 1: with Team USA yesterday.
Speaker 3: And they described it as one of the luckiest goals
Speaker 3: in international football, you're gonna put yourself in the position
Speaker 3: that day if you haven't seen it. The ball was
Speaker 3: kind of hacked forward in a classic kind of New
Speaker 3: Zealand football style. I'm not taking it away from them,
Speaker 3: but it's usually smash it up to the strikers away
Speaker 3: from the backfield. Yeah, and the defender or was the
Speaker 3: defender will look to just clear it and it hit
Speaker 3: the face of one of the All Whites and ricocheted
Speaker 3: off his face, middled it, his face middled it and
Speaker 3: back of the neck, top corner.
Speaker 1: And even the.
Speaker 3: Keeper you could see him, he was like, what the
Speaker 3: fuck was that?
Speaker 1: What am I supposed to know about that?
Speaker 3: But saying that, they kept them, you know, to one
Speaker 3: nil till then. So they played pretty well defensively, they
Speaker 3: played well. They got a lucky goal against their sixteenth
Speaker 3: rank side in the world stuck on.
Speaker 1: That put themselves in a position.
Speaker 3: So you know, and look, and we know that the
Speaker 3: All Whites will be at the next World Cup because
Speaker 3: Oceania get an automatic entry in the next World Cup,
Speaker 3: so presumably that's going to be absolutely going to be
Speaker 3: us to tip us up. Yeah, so we've we've got
Speaker 3: to get more practice against these top teams before that World.
Speaker 1: Cup, And isn't it fitting that we end up drawing
Speaker 1: the game and quintessential Kiwi style, hope it from the
Speaker 1: backfield and just see what happens, and something happened, and
Speaker 1: something happened. It was the cheapest celebration as well. I've
Speaker 1: forgotten a man's name.
Speaker 3: He kind of did a little bit of a a
Speaker 3: little bit of a celebration.
Speaker 1: Who's obviously stoked, but he was like, don't put that on.
Speaker 1: He still scored it. I put that on my highlight reel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still scored a goal against America. Yeah, so football's
Speaker 1: coming home. That's what I'm here. And long short of
Speaker 1: all that, you've done a bit of research on these
Speaker 1: bloody via sideline situation.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so you would have seen, I know, you
Speaker 3: can't get away from it on social media, these those
Speaker 3: great clips of people sitting in a pub but it
Speaker 3: looks like they're behind the goalposts or in there all
Speaker 3: on that sideline, Yeah, the sideline of NBA, or they're
Speaker 3: behind the goalpost during a Chelsea Man United game, and
Speaker 3: it's just an epic kind of imax three sixty scre
Speaker 3: and it's just like a basically stacked out with people
Speaker 3: drinking purse like there at the ground.
Speaker 1: So there's two of these.
Speaker 3: It's a company called Cosm, which is they've just raised
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty million US so half a billion
Speaker 3: dollars New Zealand dollars to expand around the world. So
Speaker 3: they've got two of them at the moment. Ones in
Speaker 3: like near so Far Stadium. It's it's and the arenas
Speaker 3: are designed by the same guys they designed so Far
Speaker 3: in LA And then he's one in Texas as well,
Speaker 3: of course, and it's the company. This is great. The
Speaker 3: company usually supply like you know those planetariums, you know,
Speaker 3: the where your kids go and you lie down and
Speaker 3: you look at the stars and ship. Yeah. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: the US, that's what they usually do. That's what was
Speaker 3: their core business was planetariums they're called Yeah, and now
Speaker 3: they've moved into this and they've like this. Now they're
Speaker 3: into a real money maker.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't understand why. More like movie theaters don't
Speaker 1: show games, you know, people don't go to the movies anymore.
Speaker 3: This is especially built though, it's like it's like a dome.
Speaker 3: It's like a dome with a sphere and yeah, but
Speaker 3: a miniature version just built for sport as well, and
Speaker 3: they already supply cameras. They've already have done deals that
Speaker 3: there's a USC so you can be basically mixed to
Speaker 3: the cage in USC. So it's fucking cool. And I've
Speaker 3: got deals with ESBN, NBC, Fox, T and T, NBA
Speaker 3: and the UFC, so they've got all these deals stitched
Speaker 3: up in the ACC and the ACC ringside at the ACC.
Speaker 3: I don't know why you want to do that.
Speaker 1: We should put that in our studio. It's getting done
Speaker 1: right now. We should have the little like ring side
Speaker 1: of the ACC. So yeah, so this is setup.
Speaker 3: It's an eighty seven foot by fifty five foot screen,
Speaker 3: so I have that in metric PA that's kind of like,
Speaker 3: yeah meters by twenty five meters high, so I think
Speaker 3: of a ten meter high diving board. It's more it's
Speaker 3: higher than that. So it's pretty epic. Yeah, But tickets
Speaker 3: to go in there and be refront railer like two
Speaker 3: hundred US.
Speaker 1: And if we did it here in New Zealand, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to buy a beer and get kicked
Speaker 1: out if you're too noisy.
Speaker 3: I hate to say it, it's never going to happen
Speaker 3: because each one costs between eighty to ninety million US
Speaker 3: to build.
Speaker 1: Jesus. Yeah, but they do.
Speaker 3: Have like a kind of a sports bar out the
Speaker 3: back which has a smaller screen, which he only costs
Speaker 3: ten bucks to go in, so they've got little pockets of.
Speaker 1: It they're banking on. Once you're there, you're going to
Speaker 1: want to go out because you'll see everyone else. And
Speaker 1: we're talking.
Speaker 3: The LED display you've got is between eight and twelve
Speaker 3: K in definition. It's like next leve. Well, that's why
Speaker 3: it feels like you're on the ground.
Speaker 1: This is the future of watching sports because people don't
Speaker 1: go to games because you know, you're competing with home
Speaker 1: and how comfortable that is. But this is like all
Speaker 1: of the comfort of home without actually having to go
Speaker 1: and sit in the stadium in am I putting a
Speaker 1: roof on Eden Park put all of these next to it.
Speaker 3: Well, you think about all the biggest teams in the world.
Speaker 3: You know, halfy games are away, so fans are going
Speaker 3: to travel. They just go to this bar and it's
Speaker 3: like you're at the ground anyway. So COSM lookout for it.
Speaker 3: They've just, like I said, they're just raised two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty million, which values the company up plus one
Speaker 3: billion US. Now so and in terms of PR, it's
Speaker 3: gone through the roof. If you haven't been served that ad,
Speaker 3: and you're a sports fan and you haven't been served
Speaker 3: not the ad, the video of people you know, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you have even been served that, then you're not really
Speaker 3: probably searching the right thing.
Speaker 1: Well, they've just made it onto New Zealand's number one
Speaker 1: sporting podcast two years in a row. That's right there,
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so coming to a town near you, except
Speaker 3: in New Zealand will be COSM and those fucking epic
Speaker 3: sports bars. I mean, forget full time pales in comparison
Speaker 3: to that. It just shows that if you want to
Speaker 3: actually have an outstanding sports experience, you're going to have
Speaker 3: to go to the States or Europe. Really hopefully they've
Speaker 3: built on an assy Ossie seem like the kind of
Speaker 3: people that would put one in eventially, imagine watching a
Speaker 3: game in our game from one of those Yeah yeah, anyway.
Speaker 1: It's just basically all those people on put one on
Speaker 1: Caxton Street. So you go. If the game's that's Uncork,
Speaker 1: you go there. But if it's not. You can still
Speaker 1: watch it just down the road at the old Cosmo
Speaker 1: Club or whatever it.
Speaker 3: Is, the Cosmos Cosm, which is CECM, which is Cossum Club. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Cossom Club, go down the Cossom. Yeah, maybe we
Speaker 3: can get a mini version. Maybe we don't need the
Speaker 3: you know, the twenty five meter by fifty meter one.
Speaker 3: Maybe we just maybe we built a smaller dome.
Speaker 1: Look, I didn't want to, but I will talk about it.
Speaker 1: I go to the gym quite a bit. And at
Speaker 1: the gym that I go to, there is a there's
Speaker 1: like a bike class thing where it's got a massive
Speaker 1: screen that wraps around. This thing is enormous. It'd probably
Speaker 1: be about fifteen twenty meters long. Yeah, and it wraps around.
Speaker 1: Just get all bin all the bikes out of there,
Speaker 1: put seats in and put that on. Yeah. The ship
Speaker 1: not the issue.
Speaker 3: But the advantage of these guys is they have camera
Speaker 3: set ups already at these grounds, so they pipe that
Speaker 3: into they have specific cameras the bike studio. Oh you're
Speaker 3: saying like we've partnered with them and just get the
Speaker 3: feed from the feed from I thought you mean like
Speaker 3: they do it for a super rugby or well cricket
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 1: But oh no, no, no, check in the NFL game on
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, yeah, I've got to watch it. Fuck,
Speaker 1: leave the bike and it might get a workout.
Speaker 3: I love our emphasis on the word mic.
Speaker 1: I might. I don't know. I'll jump on it for
Speaker 1: a laugh and I'll probably It is quite sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, if we can't afford a half
Speaker 3: billion dollar stadium, waterfront stadium, I'm happy for ratepayers to
Speaker 3: pay eighty to ninety million, yeah for COSM Arena.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And then we can watch literally any
Speaker 1: sport from around the world. They don't have to come here.
Speaker 3: And during the day you get some primary school kids
Speaker 3: and they can look at some fucking planets and shit,
Speaker 3: yeah what shrek?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And then during the evening just get lizard and watch sport.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a nip. Yeah, all right, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break and when we come back, we're going to
Speaker 1: be joined by Brad Shields. Well it's storm week for
Speaker 1: the Wellington Lines and the NPC. They played last night,
Speaker 1: they play again this weekend and joining us live from
Speaker 1: well presumably Wellington, is Brad Shields. This good morning, Bred,
Speaker 1: How are you mate, we're abouts in the country.
Speaker 4: Are yes, I'm comfortable in Wellington at the moment.
Speaker 1: Did you head down to Dunedin last night for that game?
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: I was glued to my television screen though. That was
Speaker 4: a freaking sort of back and forth game.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's just I don't know, it's something about the NPC
Speaker 4: competition that each game seems to get more and more exciting,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly last night, that was such a nail byer,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't really have a dog in the fight,
Speaker 1: but it was just so back and forth, disallowed tries,
Speaker 1: then allowed tries, than a sideline conversion, just about to
Speaker 1: win it, then all of a sudden, you guys won
Speaker 1: in the end. How nervous were you watching that one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, nervous is probably not the right word, but
Speaker 4: like I was just on the edge of my seat
Speaker 4: and adrenaline pumping, like show I could play a game.
Speaker 4: You know, kind of felt like I was missing out
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Focusing though on this weekend. You would have been pretty
Speaker 3: stoked that the mark Or got up the other week
Speaker 3: against Hawk's Bay, which means you have a challenge this Saturday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's pretty cool. And obviously pretty cool
Speaker 4: for the Marcael as well. To you not take that
Speaker 4: back to Tasaman, the Tatsman region. I was almost just
Speaker 4: as sort of on my edge of my seat as
Speaker 4: I was on Saturday night as I was last night.
Speaker 4: Yeah with that game, as probably was most of Tasman
Speaker 4: and Hawks Bay. But oh look, it's just it's an
Speaker 4: awesome opportunity and that's the one thing that the Shield
Speaker 4: gives the competition. There's a little bit of added either
Speaker 4: it's pressure, you know, holding on to it, or a
Speaker 4: little bit more excitement for teams to challenge for it.
Speaker 4: So there's not many competitions in the world that sort
Speaker 4: of have that sort of well loggerwood that we call,
Speaker 4: have it throughout the season, which is bloody cool.
Speaker 1: Is it tough having it during your storm week? Like
Speaker 1: if you had to pack a week to not have
Speaker 1: the Shield challenge, this will probably be it because you
Speaker 1: got two games in one week. Does that change anything
Speaker 1: or do you think that just the fact that the
Speaker 1: shield's up for grabs that will see the boys up enough?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the boys will be pretty gig duck
Speaker 4: ready to go, like we we actually when we had
Speaker 4: the Shield. I've only ever challenged for the shield once.
Speaker 4: In twenty fourteen. We lost every single game for Wellington
Speaker 4: except for the last one, and that was the what
Speaker 4: we're holding up hopes on that Hawk's Bay challenge. But
Speaker 4: now my second chance, so I don't think. And we
Speaker 4: obviously had it. We defended it last year throughout storm Week,
Speaker 4: which was awesome. I think we actually played Tasmin on
Speaker 4: the Wednesday night, So there is an added pressure for
Speaker 4: the team that's kind of got it. But you're kind
Speaker 4: of like a team that's visiting has got nothing to lose.
Speaker 4: You know, you win a game, you try and do
Speaker 4: everything you possibly can. So it's tough, but I just
Speaker 4: think it comes Sunday, the boys will be ready to
Speaker 4: go regardless. I think CD Caleb Delaney will need to
Speaker 4: put his legs on ice for a few days. We
Speaker 4: don't care if he doesn't move until Sunday mornings to
Speaker 4: make sure it's press ready to go.
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to ask because neither of you
Speaker 1: guys have lost. You know, I was looking at the
Speaker 1: standings this morning. Do you ever get like the speed
Speaker 1: wobbles after you've won so many games in a row?
Speaker 1: Is that is there ever added pressure not to lose
Speaker 1: that zero in the lost column.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably a probably more external noise than anything else.
Speaker 4: A bit of a rugby term there. But I don't know,
Speaker 4: we kind of got I guess last year if you
Speaker 4: look at the way we played, we kind of got
Speaker 4: those speed wobbles towards the back end of the season. You know,
Speaker 4: when we played Hawk's Bay in the last round robin,
Speaker 4: then you know, played them again in the semi final.
Speaker 4: We couldn't quite get over the line. So I suppose
Speaker 4: there was a little bit headed pressure, but also you know,
Speaker 4: brings a little bit of confidence. Like you look at
Speaker 4: our squad last night. It just shows the great depths
Speaker 4: at Willenton, scott and to get a one away from
Speaker 4: home on a Wednesday night in Otago with you know,
Speaker 4: you know, I think we had five debutantes in the end,
Speaker 4: so you know, that's pretty exciting in itself. So it
Speaker 4: doesn't you know, it doesn't add too much pressure, but
Speaker 4: it definitely adds a bit at edge, I suppose.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of you are your squad, Dips, You've got
Speaker 3: a pretty pretty stack squad with super rugby players. You've got,
Speaker 3: as Mike Correcton's saying that Rubin love and the Doctor
Speaker 3: Proctor's returning Is this this weekend?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I read something yesterday. I think All Blacks might
Speaker 4: have put something out saying who's available to play, So
Speaker 4: we haven't selected them yet, but maybe if available.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, look, that'd be pretty handy off the bench.
Speaker 3: I reckon there'd be the Lion's own bomb.
Speaker 4: Squad the game for the last couple.
Speaker 1: I think, I think it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be pretty even this weekend, you know. And
Speaker 3: my reasoning is, I mean, it's a hell week for
Speaker 3: for the for the Lions with two games, but I'm
Speaker 3: I'm picking that the Tasman mark or may have pushed
Speaker 3: the boat out and celebrations you see, and I think
Speaker 3: they might be on the back foot slightly this week
Speaker 3: in terms of preparation. So that's why I'm that's why
Speaker 3: I'm picking potentially the Shield's going to head back over
Speaker 3: the cook straight Mania you're discussed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, because right on from South Canterbury. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've paid much attention to the Heartland over
Speaker 1: the last few years. South Canterbury haven't lost since pretty
Speaker 1: much COVID, and so every year the Heartland team gets
Speaker 1: the challenge for the Shield and I would love for
Speaker 1: the Shield to end up back in Heartland. I think
Speaker 1: it would just be one. It would be great for
Speaker 1: the competition too. It'd actually be quite funny to have
Speaker 1: the Shield just flitting around Heartland, you know, to see
Speaker 1: all these different thans having it. But this year South
Speaker 1: Canterbury couldn't afford to travel to Hawk's base.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, but if it stays in Tasman. Selfishly, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to stay in the South Island. Yeah, we'll pony
Speaker 1: up for a coach.
Speaker 3: We'll coach, we'll they'll bust them there if they because
Speaker 3: I reckon they were just runing scared.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to get a hiding. That's That's what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Mina. But to be but to be fear,
Speaker 1: Wellington's not much further than Nelson, you know, if the.
Speaker 4: The fairy, who knows what, they might get stuck in
Speaker 4: the middle of the straight. But I think it's on
Speaker 4: your point. I think it's great that the Partlan gets
Speaker 4: a challenge for it, and it would be it would
Speaker 4: be so awesome if that Shield went down to that division.
Speaker 4: But you just don't want to be the team that
Speaker 4: that division, so you m knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not something you want on your on your
Speaker 1: working viedio page. While I've got you know, I've got
Speaker 1: to I've got a question. What happened with the the
Speaker 1: wasps thing over there? Did they I've never been able
Speaker 1: to wrap my head around it. So they went under.
Speaker 1: Was that halfway through the season or something? Well ben't there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like so four games or five games
Speaker 4: into the season, basically we got told, you know, halfway
Speaker 4: through October. I think it was that. Basically the administrator
Speaker 4: said that the club doesn't have any money to pay anyone,
Speaker 4: so we don't basically have a job. It was like
Speaker 4: the week that weekend we played our game and then
Speaker 4: they say it on the monday, Oh can you guys
Speaker 4: all come in quite a four more sort of meeting,
Speaker 4: And a couple of weeks before that, they're all like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be good. We've got to buy we got this,
Speaker 4: We got that, and then got to that Monday and
Speaker 4: I was like, no, I think it's not right to
Speaker 4: fo more. And then that was that.
Speaker 3: It was a hell of a three years or so
Speaker 3: for you though, because you went over there, you represented
Speaker 3: England and then COVID hit and then you had this,
Speaker 3: you must have been like, geez, that that is that
Speaker 3: is like a literal rollercase.
Speaker 1: Ye, I had nothing to do with your ability or
Speaker 1: form playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, we we kind of you know,
Speaker 4: we reflect back and we don't regret going over there whatsoever.
Speaker 4: I've got to do some pretty amazing things.
Speaker 3: I was playing in front.
Speaker 4: He's always did in a dream of mine. Probably a
Speaker 4: little bit frustrating and sow the way it finished, and yeah,
Speaker 4: COVID kind of it was the same for everyone. I
Speaker 4: guess it kind of just locked everyone away and we
Speaker 4: weren't able to do sort of the traveling that we
Speaker 4: wanted to do. But we got a good i think
Speaker 4: eighteen months of just no of uninterrupted and pieces and
Speaker 4: that was pretty cool. But yeah, it was a bit frustrating.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, we made some great friends
Speaker 4: and we've got to do some amazing things and yeah,
Speaker 4: like I said, we don't regret it. It's just a
Speaker 4: bit of a sour taste in the mouth. Look, even
Speaker 4: for a reason is just as people say. And we
Speaker 4: ended up back in New Zealand and enjoying it so far.
Speaker 4: I've got to travel a little bit through France for
Speaker 4: eight months when I was playing over there. So yeah,
Speaker 4: he's always you know, one door closing, of door opens
Speaker 4: and who knows what the future holds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: And you played for England under Eddie Jones, didn't you.
Speaker 3: He's a mad bat? Is how mad is Kitty Jones? Oh?
Speaker 4: I think? Yeah, I mean, I mean I got on
Speaker 4: really well with them, and and and I thought he's
Speaker 4: a really good coach and he and he generally wants
Speaker 4: the best for players. But I think, you know, sometimes
Speaker 4: some you know, the mental strain or I think he's
Speaker 4: a lot harder as coaches than he was on the players.
Speaker 4: And you know, not everyone's gonna suck anything. You can't
Speaker 4: always please everybody. And I think he's tickled a potentially
Speaker 4: a couple of people up the wrong way in Australia.
Speaker 4: But look, I mean I got on really well with them,
Speaker 4: and he got the best tu of here along with
Speaker 4: Steve worthworkinghas playing for him. And because you know, I
Speaker 4: feel like I've played some pretty good rugby, so yeah,
Speaker 4: from whatever building has been pretty good. Obviously, I see
Speaker 4: now what you guys see in the media, so you
Speaker 4: can make up your own story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole Ozzy thing aside. I actually quite loved
Speaker 1: that there was that whole drama going on at the
Speaker 1: last World Cup. But you hear all these, like some
Speaker 1: of the stories that you heard. I heard one at
Speaker 1: the japan and World Cup where he brought out a
Speaker 1: kiwi fruit and had brought himself a samurai sword and
Speaker 1: he cut the kiwi fruit and half of the samurai
Speaker 1: saw it. It was like, that's what we're going to do
Speaker 1: to the kiwis tomorrow. Did he do anything like that
Speaker 1: with you guys? No.
Speaker 4: I remember when we played the All Blacks and over
Speaker 4: and over in England for the end of season tour,
Speaker 4: and he'd like got life size cutouts and he'd put
Speaker 4: them in all through the hallways and we're the meeting
Speaker 4: room and stuff and Aaron Smith's body Bear Brodie retellic,
Speaker 4: So like you got these last size Brodie retelics hearing
Speaker 4: at you every time you get into a meeting. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if it's more intimidating or like supposed to, like,
Speaker 4: you know, pump me up, But I think there's been
Speaker 4: a few of those sort of moments. Everyone had a
Speaker 4: sort of interesting running or interesting memory or experience, that's
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 1: That sounds MOLDI terrifying because I mean I far ast
Speaker 1: him up.
Speaker 3: Would place Aaron Aaron Smith and the and the disabled toilet,
Speaker 3: and you're going put them in place, put them in
Speaker 3: your cover it or something. Brodie retallic and you covered
Speaker 3: coming at you.
Speaker 1: That's brilliant. But we really appreciate your time. We won't
Speaker 1: keep you for much longer, Brad, but go well this
Speaker 1: weekend and if and when you guys win the shield,
Speaker 1: can we can we have a young with you next week.
Speaker 4: Well, let's get through the game first, and I hope
Speaker 4: you haven't bloody regardless of the result.
Speaker 1: Regardless of result, will chat to you next week, of course,
Speaker 1: or otherwise you've got someone to blame it on out there. Brilliant,
Speaker 1: Thanks very much your time, bro go well, thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Go the lines.
Speaker 2: Yours please brought you by leader home of.
Speaker 1: My palms are actually sweating from telling bread Shields would
Speaker 1: only have him on the shelf. They wont I really
Speaker 1: regret that?
Speaker 3: And him throwing a curse back at us was you've
Speaker 3: just cursed it. Yeah, I got a bit of PTSD,
Speaker 3: he said that, because that's going to come back on me.
Speaker 1: The thing is, I know if if, if they lose,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they will or not, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna want to He's not gonna want to come
Speaker 1: back on the shirt. He's not gonna be honest, if
Speaker 1: they weren't, he's probably not gonna want to come back
Speaker 1: on the shirt.
Speaker 3: And look, Brad, I'm not gonna fly to blend them
Speaker 3: and watch that game.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're safe, You're safe. I'm sorry. All right,
Speaker 1: it is time for yours, please we get a bunch
Speaker 1: of them to get through. First call at yours please.
Speaker 3: I've been absolutely frothing this nigh versus cassawary chat.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mate, you're not gonna take this one out.
Speaker 4: So when Casso is hunt, they have a talent just
Speaker 4: like a voss or. It was clawed and it's sharpened
Speaker 4: on the bottom a little bit. And what they do
Speaker 4: is they disembowel you. So they attack for like the
Speaker 4: stern them on a roof and at a google of it, mate,
Speaker 4: they can rip you from stern them to balls, one
Speaker 4: of strokes. So your guts are going to be used
Speaker 4: for garters.
Speaker 1: Stern to nuts. I've got a lot of hate online
Speaker 1: in person about saying that I could be to cassiary.
Speaker 3: Well, I know, let's just say you see did be
Speaker 3: any bird? Yeah, it's going to see the bird of birds.
Speaker 1: I said that there wasn't wasn't a bird on God's
Speaker 1: green earth that could beat me in a fight. And
Speaker 1: I stand by sign the contract. I have not seen
Speaker 1: a cassower stand up for itself and you know, come
Speaker 1: back at me.
Speaker 3: I think you should start some online beef I have. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm going at cases worldwide. Fuck is, find your biggest
Speaker 3: and baddest and let's go.
Speaker 1: And people keep saying exactly what this caller said there
Speaker 1: and he's and he's dead right. They disemboweled kangaroos and
Speaker 1: things like that because they got these claws. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, I'm not just going to stand there with
Speaker 1: my hands behind my back like I'm aware it's going
Speaker 1: to try and disembow me. I'm going to be defending
Speaker 1: myself and I'm not saying that I'm going to walk
Speaker 1: in there and dust it without getting you any injuries myself.
Speaker 3: Look, and I'm just going to say that this cassawary
Speaker 3: is trained to fight men, yeah, and to disembow me.
Speaker 3: It's not even just pulled it from the desert and
Speaker 3: chucked it in a ring put some lights on it,
Speaker 3: because it'll just can.
Speaker 1: Well, the lights will get too bright for casiris. And
Speaker 1: that's why they've never beat me in a fight.
Speaker 3: But this one here has been in a training camp
Speaker 3: for two or three years is and we bring dummies out,
Speaker 3: We bring dummies out and it just runs at it
Speaker 3: a Texas.
Speaker 1: I sit out of respect for the cassowary. I'll allow
Speaker 1: it a three month camp and it can it can
Speaker 1: you pick the best and brightest from around the worlds
Speaker 1: of combat sport. I'll probably hit over to Morecambe Bay
Speaker 1: and go jogging with David and Tyson and Joe and them,
Speaker 1: and they're like, who are you fighting me?
Speaker 5: Yea.
Speaker 1: The thing is David probably wouldn't trade with me because
Speaker 1: he's in Team Cancer. I'm going to need to bring
Speaker 1: someone in and tape some knives to their feet to
Speaker 1: try and simulate fighting a cancer weary.
Speaker 3: Oh, just go down k road and just throw some
Speaker 3: expletis out and then people will come at you with
Speaker 3: high heels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that'd be very similar. Yeah, about two
Speaker 1: in the morning, three in the morning, all the way
Speaker 1: through into eight of the morning. Sometimes when my bus
Speaker 1: comes past. I did talk to an animal expert who
Speaker 1: may or may not live in the same house as me,
Speaker 1: but for legal reasons, will remain nameless, but does work
Speaker 1: with animals and large birds about whether I could or not. Thought.
Speaker 1: She she's she's not all the way there with me,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't think it's as ridiculous as most other
Speaker 1: people do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a bird, got a small brain.
Speaker 1: It's a bird. Thinking that's the thing, because people keep
Speaker 1: saying it's just going to scratch the shit out of you,
Speaker 1: is like, okay, so oh yes, ol, But it's not
Speaker 1: a fight to the owl. It's a fight to the death,
Speaker 1: and I'll be snapping that thing's neck.
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be scratching you. What do you
Speaker 3: think if it gets hold of you, it's opening you
Speaker 3: up lots from Stirnham to board, but.
Speaker 1: It's not getting holding it. Don't their arms, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Another thing about a kangaroos. It's only
Speaker 1: got we tiny we t rex arms. See, I'm keeping
Speaker 1: it at distance. Yeah, but then it'll go back and
Speaker 1: just kick the crap out of you. Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'll keep my distance. I'll keep my distance and then
Speaker 1: once The problem it's got is it's got three weapons
Speaker 1: and it can only use one of them at any
Speaker 1: given time. It can it can kick me, but at
Speaker 1: that point it's only standing on one leg, or it
Speaker 1: could kick me with the other league. The third weapon
Speaker 1: it's got is its face, so that like I would
Speaker 1: recommend it doesn't use that because if I hung my
Speaker 1: hand out, tried to buy me, I've got its head
Speaker 1: and that's gay. Like, yeah, it doesn'tbel me, but it'll
Speaker 1: die before I do. And so yeah, but if you
Speaker 1: die later in hospital, then then so be it. State funeral,
Speaker 1: probably on the bank note. Yeah, got the w Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got the dove. I'll walk out of it. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, same argument against a snake. I will die,
Speaker 1: but I'll walk out of that cage with my hand
Speaker 1: out smollen, smollen and passing. But I'll collapse before I
Speaker 1: get to the end of the cage. I think we'll
Speaker 1: get another one here.
Speaker 5: On a similar note, Kay Fellas Josh had lines of
Speaker 5: the car here, but no, I absolutely love your confidence.
Speaker 5: Then you can win out to But you remember at
Speaker 5: the start of the first dress of Park when Sam
Speaker 5: Neil has to put that little one for lumber in
Speaker 5: his place for talking about velosa raptors.
Speaker 1: I feel like he needs to have a similar check
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 5: And what a we'd do to leave your in trails
Speaker 5: and all the KFC you head to lunch all over
Speaker 5: the wors. Yeah, I don't think it'd be ready, mate, anyway.
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 3: Both those callers had a slight Australian twang to them,
Speaker 3: because I think both of them are assies going, you're
Speaker 3: a fucking lunatic, mate, There's no way. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you've come in with this key. We our flightless birds
Speaker 3: are just fat and lazy and now you're talking smack
Speaker 3: to one of the most dangerous birds in the world.
Speaker 1: And ossies are like, you're dreaming, mate, just off the
Speaker 1: back of I've seen a wicker before. I'm back. Oh
Speaker 1: so it's just a big wicker. Yeah'll waste it. They're like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's a big wicked No, it's a small dinosaur. I
Speaker 1: love to leave my guts and all the KFC had
Speaker 1: for lunch. Yeah, fuck you, I've got another caller here,
Speaker 1: yours please.
Speaker 6: When we're talking about the biggest animal you could fight,
Speaker 6: are we're talking weight. Are we're talking size as in
Speaker 6: height weight? Because I reckon, a tortoise would wait quite
Speaker 6: a minute. But you can probably flip it one hundred
Speaker 6: kilos at least a tortoise, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know what I think that's my new answer. Tortoise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the biggest animal you can beat in the fighter? Reckon?
Speaker 1: It's a galaping his tortoise. But you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't know a few.
Speaker 3: You're going to have to wait for its head to
Speaker 3: come out and just like jab its head. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: he said, flip it over on his back, and what
Speaker 3: are you going to do? Pound its belly? Wait, but
Speaker 3: these are twelve rounds in three minutes. No, then we
Speaker 3: never decided that is it just a fight to the death?
Speaker 3: So you're flipping it over and starving it?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm flipping it over, and then I'm retreating
Speaker 1: to my corner where Eugene Berman is going to pass
Speaker 1: me various water bottles through the cage on it's tummy.
Speaker 1: I'd probably give it a whirl just to try and
Speaker 1: speed the process up a little bit. But I'm with
Speaker 1: just flip it over and just stop the His corner
Speaker 1: is eventually going to throw the towel.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're going to do that, then I'm saying
Speaker 3: a whale shark.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, obviously any water aquatic.
Speaker 3: Flop it in the ring and I can sit back
Speaker 3: and watch it slowly suffocate.
Speaker 1: I just doing a little google here. One of the
Speaker 1: largest of the Galapagos tortoises have weighed up to four
Speaker 1: hundred cages. You're not flipping there. I think he's been
Speaker 1: generous on the Hondy just flip. No, but one hundred
Speaker 1: k one hundred kilo one I could flip. But a
Speaker 1: four hundred krelo would be would be pretty tough.
Speaker 3: And it's just going to retreat its head inside the
Speaker 3: tortoiseshell and just look at you, like, go on, then
Speaker 3: let's see who can survive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we're just sitting down and we're finding
Speaker 1: out And I walk out of that cage skinny, looking great,
Speaker 1: and the.
Speaker 3: Three hundred year old tortoise is good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I could probably stay here for a couple of years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if we're honest with ourselves, I think I think
Speaker 3: the paper of you would would dip. It'll be like
Speaker 3: after a couple of weeks, So I think you need
Speaker 3: to put a time on it, on.
Speaker 1: It press conference afterwards, I'll be like, look, the tortoise
Speaker 1: wasn't willing to engage, and I can't help that. You know,
Speaker 1: this is my title. It needs to come and take
Speaker 1: the title off me. And if all it's going to
Speaker 1: do is roll around on the back of its shell,
Speaker 1: oh am, I walk out. They're still the champion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the lapagus tortoise is my answer. But this
Speaker 1: is why I was saying I reckon I could take
Speaker 1: out a giraffe. It was because no, because it's a
Speaker 1: fight through the desk, there's no time limit. And I
Speaker 1: reckon because it's a grazing animal. It has to wait like,
Speaker 1: it has to eat more often than I do. And
Speaker 1: it's also way bigger.
Speaker 3: One swing of that here on your cranium and you
Speaker 3: are dead.
Speaker 1: No, I'll stay busy, though, if I just if I,
Speaker 1: if I stay off cinder.
Speaker 3: You know, if that's on pay per view, I'm paying
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can see that the animal expert that I
Speaker 1: have talked to, may or may not live in the
Speaker 1: same house as me, does not think I.
Speaker 3: Can be I tend to agree with you at all,
Speaker 3: all right, I think we've two more.
Speaker 1: You call it your space.
Speaker 7: You goat yourselves a new studio, you goat yourself. As
Speaker 7: a TV show, You're getting all these hope, high profile guests.
Speaker 7: You don't commentate the rugby, you don't commitate the cricket.
Speaker 7: You barely talk about sports anymore. And now I've got
Speaker 7: a new red You're going to all the laviation industry events. Question,
Speaker 7: has the ACC gotten too big for its boots?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, when you put it like that, we have no
Speaker 3: We're commentating the Bleders like Cup games coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we're also commentating the silver Ferns coming out a
Speaker 3: series against England and the Macadie and Sam Winders are
Speaker 3: going to be commentating with either myself or Mania or Kezy.
Speaker 3: But no, it's true. We've got a TV show or
Speaker 3: you have with Matt Heath and Kezy Tonight.
Speaker 1: Eight thirty pm, Sky opening Skysport one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw Mikaela Blythe walking around the spot. Luckily
Speaker 3: she had a long sleeve top on. I got something
Speaker 3: intimidated by her pythons. Oh mate, they are a couple
Speaker 3: of pythons. She's operating.
Speaker 1: She is an Olympic nick. Yeah, and that scar on
Speaker 1: her forehead. It is starting to heal, but like it
Speaker 1: is as men. Yeah, it's like she she got that
Speaker 1: winning an Olympic gold for our country. Yeah, God, she bleed.
Speaker 3: She bleed from the head for gold.
Speaker 1: When you when you put the dossier together like that
Speaker 1: man there has Yeah, it does seem like we've lost
Speaker 1: our way. But in my defense, for the amount I
Speaker 1: talk about going to the gym, my rig is just
Speaker 1: the same.
Speaker 3: I still look like shit, it's the gym of diminishing returns.
Speaker 3: That's what that gym that you go to is. And look,
Speaker 3: we're going high end. What high profile industry events.
Speaker 1: Have marketing awards?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah, we shouldn't have been there and that
Speaker 3: was that was not high end.
Speaker 1: I can give you that. Again. In our defense, we
Speaker 1: disgraced ourselves entirely at that event.
Speaker 3: We did we did, We were booing, boing winners. It
Speaker 3: was it wasn't It wasn't great behavior. But no, the
Speaker 3: commentary is bad. We're not doing the cricket because you know,
Speaker 3: we're taking a stand yeah against Taliban, Yeah on that one,
Speaker 3: and rightly so, because it's a shambles and that game
Speaker 3: is going to.
Speaker 1: Be who else is going to stand up and fight
Speaker 1: the Taliban if we're not going to exactly, and that's
Speaker 1: I feel an obligation to do that. So yeah, look,
Speaker 1: I think it was a fair question. I think it
Speaker 1: was a hypothetical question as the a SEC gotten too
Speaker 1: big for its boots. But thank you for sending it
Speaker 1: in anyway, boots another call here yours please answer.
Speaker 7: Yes, it has fucking listen though I've got nothing better to.
Speaker 1: Do, shout out to you. Do we have one more?
Speaker 1: That's all right, let's knock this thing on the head.
Speaker 1: This thing went pear shaped from the get go. But
Speaker 1: thank you very much for joining us. And again, go
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