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Speaker 1: the Agenda Podcast for October the third.
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Speaker 1: Mashallah, I have returned from the Lahaibi. I'm back from
Speaker 1: my foray into the desert. I landed yesterday at about lunchtime.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling to readjust how many Western.
Speaker 3: Life, how many people came up to you and just
Speaker 3: unloaded an Arabic to you.
Speaker 1: The first day I got there, I made sure I
Speaker 1: went and got my haircut. I got the bed tightened there,
Speaker 1: I got the tight fade going on. A Syrian gentleman
Speaker 1: cut my hair, either.
Speaker 4: Syrian or Lebanese. When it comes to the barbers in
Speaker 4: the Middle.
Speaker 1: East, yeah, Moroccan, any sort of North Africa Arab state,
Speaker 1: they'll sort of cut your hair and sort you out.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: So then, but I was in Dubai at that stage,
Speaker 1: so not a lot of Arab speakers there. It was
Speaker 1: when I went to Aman and bought the dish that
Speaker 1: you see me sitting in right now with the traditional
Speaker 1: head scarff and straight after that, I chucked this on
Speaker 1: walk straight out everyone, all of the people in the
Speaker 1: market because they could spot my friends from a mile
Speaker 1: away and they would say, you know, hello to them,
Speaker 1: what country are you from? They would just start berating
Speaker 1: me in Arabic, like.
Speaker 4: How can we wrap these guys off? Yeah? Give us
Speaker 4: how we wrapped these guys off?
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's quite funny because in Dubai there is obviously
Speaker 1: enough Australians and we for all intents and purposes, when
Speaker 1: we're overseas, we are Australian that they could spot us,
Speaker 1: or at least my friends. And we had these guys
Speaker 1: trying to sell what is it like, perfume and shit
Speaker 1: like that and spices.
Speaker 4: And as we will past, this guy goes hello.
Speaker 1: It was the funniest like impersonation of an Australian that
Speaker 1: I've ever heard Hello. It was actually fucking terrifying. So
Speaker 1: we didn't buy anything off the habibi there. I went
Speaker 1: over to Oman, which was like proper the people that
Speaker 1: em meant to Dubai. It's basically Disneyland meets Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's crazy and no one there is actually from there.
Speaker 1: Everyone's on the run from something. Yeah, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: feeling I get. Definitely running from something. I think something
Speaker 1: like listens, twenty percent of the population in Dubai from
Speaker 1: Dubai em.
Speaker 4: Rai it's way less than that. Yeah, it might be
Speaker 4: about ten.
Speaker 1: So anyway, went over to Iman, proper Arabic country. They
Speaker 1: dubbed me Manaya been Raushi el shit in the wadi
Speaker 1: because you you shit in the wadi because I've developed
Speaker 1: a rash. You talked yesterday on the podcast about how
Speaker 1: when I'm away on the road, I developed like I
Speaker 1: look like Imperor Palpatine. By the end of it, I'm rashy.
Speaker 1: My eyes are sunk it into the back of my head.
Speaker 1: So by the time I showed up to Iman, that's
Speaker 1: what I looked like. And I had some sort of
Speaker 1: stomach as you're going on as well as like, hi
Speaker 1: am going to ship in the waddy, which is like
Speaker 1: a desert oasis thing that you go swimming in.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So then I flew back yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you and Jerry talked about it, but that
Speaker 1: seventeen hour flight is savage.
Speaker 4: It's just there's something about you forget about it after
Speaker 4: a while. It's like child burst. It is. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: don't forget the pain of it.
Speaker 1: The first six hours, seven hours fly by and you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm doing well here, and then it just grinds to
Speaker 1: a halt.
Speaker 4: From there, it's like a I don't know, like a
Speaker 4: time chamber. Do you have any good neighbors?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, my neighbors. I had these fucking hell
Speaker 1: I could see them. They were so you could spot them.
Speaker 1: Everyone sitting on the plane as these two guys were
Speaker 1: getting on, was like, please not me, Please not me,
Speaker 1: Please not me.
Speaker 4: Because he walked straight past me.
Speaker 1: He was like staring at the numbers, clearly had no
Speaker 1: idea where the fuck he was sitting, walked straight past me,
Speaker 1: had an argument with the guy about six rows behind me,
Speaker 1: realized he was in the wrong, came back, sat down
Speaker 1: next to me, as like fucking we go. They couldn't
Speaker 1: figure out They didn't speak a loack of English, couldn't
Speaker 1: figure out the display thing in front of them, so
Speaker 1: they never watched.
Speaker 4: The guy watched the raw dog. No, he didn't rule dog.
Speaker 1: It the only thing he could figure out as the
Speaker 1: default channel on Emirates as like an Emmorati propaganda channel. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he got stuck on that with no headphones and
Speaker 1: just watched the hat for sixteen he busted out a book.
Speaker 1: So an hour and a half into the flight, my
Speaker 1: man reaches over to grab a juice over the top
Speaker 1: of me and just tips orange juice all down my leg.
Speaker 4: I'm like, fuck, beauty, here.
Speaker 1: We go then, because the sun was up, but everyone
Speaker 1: was starting to go to sleep, so they you know how,
Speaker 1: they put the blue lights on and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: everyone's going to sleep. My man couldn't figure out the light,
Speaker 1: so he just opened his curtain and just blinded about
Speaker 1: seven people. I had to explain to him how to
Speaker 1: get the light going, had to shut the fucking thing.
Speaker 1: And so then we got about six hours left in
Speaker 1: the flight. We get served a meal. He tries lifting
Speaker 1: it up and eating it, and he just tips sauce
Speaker 1: again down my leg. And then what I didn't know
Speaker 1: was all over the blanket that I had sleeping. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't until I tried picking the blanket up again
Speaker 1: that I found tomato sauce all over as like fucking hew.
Speaker 4: Soon as we got.
Speaker 1: Off the plane, I could see these guys being like,
Speaker 1: where do we go?
Speaker 4: How do we blah blah blah. I was like firelock
Speaker 4: eyes with them.
Speaker 1: They're gonna ask me to help them, and after the
Speaker 1: sixteen hours they just put me through.
Speaker 4: They can get fucked. I'd actually get I just had half.
Speaker 1: Of mine to try and get them deported, just like, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't need these guys in here.
Speaker 4: So we get off the plane.
Speaker 1: We go through customs, and I'm like, anytime I go overseas,
Speaker 1: it's customary to bring the tobleron back into the office.
Speaker 1: You'll notice they weren't any today. It's not because I
Speaker 1: didn't buy any I did. Let me tell you, they're
Speaker 1: doing a two for one deal at customs at the
Speaker 1: moment Doug Get sucked them by forty eight Bucksits for
Speaker 1: two toblerones. They'll throw one in for free, but fuck,
Speaker 1: you're still spending fifty bucks on chocolate. So I buy those.
Speaker 1: I go to film my declaration card out go to
Speaker 1: get my back. I bump into Mitch Mcleanigan, who was
Speaker 1: on my flight. He was doing commentary for like one
Speaker 1: of the world feasts over there. I see Adam Milne
Speaker 1: was on my flight. Jacob Duffy was on my flight
Speaker 1: as well, so I guess they'd all been over there
Speaker 1: with the black Caps and then came back.
Speaker 4: Mitch was in cattle class with me.
Speaker 1: Jacob and Adam were not presumably in first class because
Speaker 1: they look fresh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the rest of them came back last night
Speaker 3: on a later flight.
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, okay, yeah, So anyway, I go over
Speaker 1: and have a yander. Mitch grab my bag and then
Speaker 1: he goes, do you have to declare all that chocolate
Speaker 1: you brought us?
Speaker 4: Funk? Where is it?
Speaker 1: And I realized I'd put it down when I filled
Speaker 1: my declaration card went back to find it. Someone buddy
Speaker 1: swiped it. Ah, and I was like, I'm not paying
Speaker 1: another fifty bucks. Seve on the office can get fucked.
Speaker 1: But I have heard that they've had You've had plenty
Speaker 1: of No, we bought the tabla. Okay, when'd you guys
Speaker 1: get back Friday?
Speaker 3: Friday morning? Oh Friday afternoon. Yes, we had the week
Speaker 3: into convalesce. Yeah, but we're still We're still on Struggle Street.
Speaker 3: But like I say, a lot of people say a
Speaker 3: lot of people will be thinking crime River.
Speaker 4: Oh rightly.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to touch on the bend to flow
Speaker 1: off the back of October fist because I've seen people
Speaker 1: post on socialmediate that they've had it as well.
Speaker 4: It's definitely a thing. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: But thankfully in Dubai this very very little restrictions on
Speaker 1: what over the countermedications you could buy. So I was
Speaker 1: on like weapons grade puto if you dreamed for that
Speaker 1: whole week.
Speaker 4: Did you bring some bag? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1: I put it in my bag, so I'll give you
Speaker 1: some of that as well. It's great you could get
Speaker 1: It's basically myth and fetament, the stuff that they've got
Speaker 1: over there. You just get mythed up and you're just away.
Speaker 1: It's a miracle drug.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 1: I was outraged that we had banned it for so long.
Speaker 1: It's actually the only thing that genuinely fixes you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the only thing that makes you soldier on. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're away laughing.
Speaker 1: So I got home. I tried to stay up as
Speaker 1: long as I could. Last night, crashed out, died, work up.
Speaker 1: This morning five am. Cat brought a rat into the house.
Speaker 4: There's a gift for you, you've missed you. Here's a
Speaker 4: giant street.
Speaker 1: It was a big barsard too. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he got it from or how he got it over
Speaker 1: the fence and up and into the house, but yeah,
Speaker 1: what have I missed over the last sort of three
Speaker 1: or four days that the.
Speaker 3: It was the victory lap while they're still going on
Speaker 3: radio herd Aki finishes tomorrow.
Speaker 4: There's five laps. They've done five long laps, but the.
Speaker 3: Last lap is tomorrow. But I suppose the big news
Speaker 3: was the Saudi resignation. Yes, that happened in the same
Speaker 3: hotel room as the Ross Taylor boning in gaul before
Speaker 3: they flew out some demons in that hotel. And also
Speaker 3: the beef, the beef that's starting between Ireland and the
Speaker 3: All Blacks which started with Johnny sex Pess's book, and
Speaker 3: another Irish players weighed in saying that Rique's a piece
Speaker 3: of shit and Johnny Sexton's the greatest gift to rugby.
Speaker 4: So it's adding some real spice to that.
Speaker 3: The next game against Ireland on the November the night
Speaker 3: on the Northern Tour on the Northern Tourist, so that's.
Speaker 4: Kind of ramping up.
Speaker 3: And this old Irish player only played six tests for Ireland,
Speaker 3: but he's weighed on some shitty podcast uh and way
Speaker 3: and just basically piled in on you. I saw that,
Speaker 3: So that's going to be it's going to be interesting
Speaker 3: when goes on that way too, because he's the kind
Speaker 3: of guy who's not gonna he's not gonna go sorry guys, sorry,
Speaker 3: he is going to double down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's good for the game. But this is what we
Speaker 1: could play about with rugby. I know, like it's so boring.
Speaker 1: We don't know the players very well.
Speaker 3: But it has to wait until a book in a retirement,
Speaker 3: this is the thing. It has to wait into a book.
Speaker 4: And he didn't.
Speaker 3: They could have come out with that at the post
Speaker 3: match press conference. Yeah, yeah, it just got buried that
Speaker 3: there was just a bit of a bet of tour
Speaker 3: and for everyone knew that. Brady said four more years.
Speaker 3: Went to Peter Marney who called sam Kin a ship.
Speaker 3: Richie McCall, Yeah, so.
Speaker 4: We love that ship. That's that's what we thrive on.
Speaker 4: Everyone a gentleman's game. It's like, you know, come on,
Speaker 4: we need to be better than that.
Speaker 1: Because what did you only say to enjoy your retirement
Speaker 1: you can't, which, yeah I miss your playing, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: enjoy your retirement. It was a little unnecessary considering you're
Speaker 1: just beating him. Like if you if you see it
Speaker 1: at the start of the game, hey tomorrow, don't miss
Speaker 1: your fly that and enjoy your retirement.
Speaker 4: The start of the game, once he knocked them out.
Speaker 3: It would have been, but there was so much tension
Speaker 3: in that game, so much tension.
Speaker 4: You would be losing your mind. Even the way it finished. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that was right at the end. There was the penalty.
Speaker 3: It was and even Johnny Sexton's still banging on about
Speaker 3: the penalty that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, White shouldn't have been a penalty. Get out of here.
Speaker 1: I know, it's ridiculous. Great promo for the book, though,
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: Lie buy it though, No, I'll be buying. I'll be
Speaker 3: buying the a cc Ormanek, which is out.
Speaker 4: On I can't even read is that on Tuesday? Tuesday?
Speaker 4: It's available in all good bookstores acc Almanek.
Speaker 1: What so, whenever athletes really, and we're not athletes, but
Speaker 1: whenever athletes released a book, there's always a clip that
Speaker 1: comes out of it, and except obviously in this instance,
Speaker 1: particularly in New Zealand, it's the what rico? You only
Speaker 1: say to him. Sonny Bell's one was the funniest. His
Speaker 1: one was I didn't love my wife when.
Speaker 4: I married it. We even got a line, have we
Speaker 4: I know what's what's our one going to be?
Speaker 3: We need to find Let's just say Jason Hoyt threw
Speaker 3: it on the ground when I gave it to him
Speaker 3: and said, I told you not to put that in there,
Speaker 3: and he walked off. I suppose that that said he
Speaker 3: threw it on the ground.
Speaker 4: He didn't want it. Oh, this is the actual YEA
Speaker 4: on the ground. So there you go.
Speaker 3: There's the book that Jason Hoyt has one thing to
Speaker 3: do with. Yeah, and he actually says it on the back.
Speaker 3: His quote says I want to distance myself, but he
Speaker 3: literally does.
Speaker 1: I'd like to distance myself as far away from the
Speaker 1: post as possible from the contents of this book.
Speaker 4: And that is not Yeah, that's not a lie. That
Speaker 4: is not a lie.
Speaker 3: That was that that quote was a joke. But when
Speaker 3: we go I gave him the book, he didn't. He's
Speaker 3: not heavy.
Speaker 4: I think he spent on it.
Speaker 1: I guess you don't get to decide yourself what the
Speaker 1: what the line is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what the line is? People will find it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this will find it. That's actually that's true. They'll
Speaker 1: never flick through. They'll let us know what the quote is.
Speaker 1: It'll sell us books, it'll sell us books. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: out Tuesday. Ideal ideal gift for for Christmas. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's better too early for Christmas. It's October. No, it's
Speaker 1: not too for Christmas. It's not too early.
Speaker 3: Do yourself favor great coffee table book. You can pick
Speaker 3: it up any in any chapter and read. Have a
Speaker 3: read of it. It's full of the most lunatic stories
Speaker 3: that we've been up to. There's a few lies in there,
Speaker 3: but you know, you decide which is which is fact
Speaker 3: and which is fiction.
Speaker 1: We're about to discuss the delivery we had in the office.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Christmas presents.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, the Rebel Sport, Yes, e y c
Speaker 3: range oh man. The The new bat that we've releasing
Speaker 3: this year is a backyard cricket bat, a plastic hollowed
Speaker 3: out backyard cricket bat which I can describe as what
Speaker 3: David Warner uses. Yeah, it's the same shape as a
Speaker 3: David Water crooker barrough. It's basically thick ass. But it's
Speaker 3: a key cricket bat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's plastic, just like your picture, your classic plastic
Speaker 1: cricketyard backyard cricket bat, but is massive.
Speaker 4: It's called the Punisher.
Speaker 1: It's called the punisher, punish you by name, Punisha by nature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the first thing that you're going to reach
Speaker 1: for if you are going down to the beach, if
Speaker 1: you're going down to the bad you see this thing,
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, my cousin, my nephew, my kid is
Speaker 1: getting cut.
Speaker 3: We've got the entire by C range, actually balls, many
Speaker 3: mini bats, mini sets, the whole B y C set
Speaker 3: which we're doing to pay at forward, so everyone you buy,
Speaker 3: go one goes to charity.
Speaker 4: They're going to all be available end of October at
Speaker 4: Rebel Sports, so look out for that.
Speaker 3: I'd suggest kind of Black Monday, Black Friday, Cyber Monday
Speaker 3: is the way to get in those ones.
Speaker 4: They'll go pretty quick. There's a great range, actually it's tremendous.
Speaker 3: We've got the swing balls, we've got soft on the
Speaker 3: globe ball, there's the reaction ball. Have you seen that one,
Speaker 3: which is basically shaped like a meteorite and just bounced
Speaker 3: in the direction.
Speaker 4: So that's quite a good one. We have got your
Speaker 4: Christmas sorted. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I'm going to punch a bunch of that ship for
Speaker 1: my Christmas shopping. Actually, all right, let's talk. Let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back with some vaguely
Speaker 1: sports adjacent ship what's going on on New Zealand Rugby League,
Speaker 1: Auckland Rugbyukland Rugby and New ze Own Rugby League of
Speaker 1: Wayne In as well.
Speaker 3: So from what I understand, a new CEO came in
Speaker 3: who and she's gone. She's come from a corporate background
Speaker 3: and come in and going okay, there's no processes, there's
Speaker 3: no governance, there's no nothing going on here at Auckland
Speaker 3: Rugby League, Auckland Rugby League. I wouldn't say wealthy, but
Speaker 3: they're not too bad off because I've got the Carlor
Speaker 3: Park Trust which those who don't know where Carlo Park is,
Speaker 3: it's pretty much downtown Auckland Stanley Street. They sold Carlor
Speaker 3: Park and the apartments on it now so they made
Speaker 3: a wad of money.
Speaker 4: So it's where the it is where the.
Speaker 3: Tennis kind of as ye down further towards the water
Speaker 3: from there. So they they got they set up a
Speaker 3: trust which has a bit of money in it. So
Speaker 3: they've got a bit of money floating around. But they've
Speaker 3: come along and the new CEO has come along and
Speaker 3: said this is not right. There's dodgy shit going on
Speaker 3: these conflicts of interest. So she's can mentioned a PwC report, yes,
Speaker 3: which is not cheap. And so the first thing that
Speaker 3: the current board have gone now that you're wasting money,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: PwC come back with an initial report, I will tell
Speaker 4: you who's wasted.
Speaker 3: And so the three of the three board members have
Speaker 3: been suspended due to just gross conflicts of interest of
Speaker 3: them using their own accounting firms. One of the employees
Speaker 3: has been accused of spending one hundred and eighty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars in fake invoices and credit cards and spending it
Speaker 3: at scott City. So it's up that it's all a
Speaker 3: shit show. But then the board of Auckland Rugby obviously
Speaker 3: Oork Rugby League have appealed to New Zealand Rugby League
Speaker 3: and New Zealand Rugby League have then sent a note
Speaker 3: to all of the rugby league clubs in Auckland saying
Speaker 3: that the current governance of Auckland we're not happy with it.
Speaker 4: Are you the new CEO or this?
Speaker 3: So that's an old boys club going on infid and
Speaker 3: New Zealand Rugby League said that we don't believe that
Speaker 3: the current board is viable.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Orka Rugby League come out and you can't govern anything
Speaker 3: to do with that new zeon Ra but you can
Speaker 3: go fuck off. And so this battle starting between News
Speaker 3: and rugby League. But the final PwC report I think
Speaker 3: has just been released and the chairman of the board
Speaker 3: is arguing it from Ukaway League. But he's the one
Speaker 3: that's using his own accounting firm to do the accounts
Speaker 3: and tens of thousands of dollars of being build to
Speaker 3: his own company without declaring the conflict.
Speaker 4: It's just messy as all bugglers.
Speaker 1: It's basically what you would expect from a PwC investigation
Speaker 1: into the alternative commentary.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, where's the checks and balances?
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true, but yeah, it's it's probably what needs
Speaker 3: to happen because rugby league is growing massively in New
Speaker 3: Zealand and you can't have a mickey mouse operation, especially
Speaker 3: in Auckland. And that's I think they've just been running
Speaker 3: it like that and the past is that'll do, it'll do.
Speaker 3: And I think this new CEO has come in from
Speaker 3: corporate background goes this is fuck. There's no absolutely no processes,
Speaker 3: checks and balances in this organization, which actually has quite
Speaker 3: a bit of cash. And it also details the fuck
Speaker 3: when they bought the Warriors and lost four million dollars man, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and the chairman went out on his own, negotiated the
Speaker 3: deal and board it without consulting the board like shit
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then it went shit. They lost four million dollars,
Speaker 4: which is quite a big amount. It's not nothing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So apparently there's about seven million dollars that's gone
Speaker 3: all yeah, allegedly.
Speaker 1: So this is very timely because it needs to be
Speaker 1: sorted out because you know, the Warriors, despite the disappointing season,
Speaker 1: they just had still on the up. You would have
Speaker 1: to say the pendulum is still swinging up. And they
Speaker 1: just had the deli Am Awards last night. Yes, Keywi's
Speaker 1: cleaned up, the Supreme Edinvandil Blake was proper the year.
Speaker 4: I know he's back to baby, but were it year
Speaker 4: back to back? Proper the year.
Speaker 1: Jerome Hughes was the Dali m Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: which is incredible. He will be the Kiwis halfback. He
Speaker 1: had a gun season. I think he also benefited from
Speaker 1: the fact that Cleary was out for a while. Hines
Speaker 1: was out for a while. His own mate Monster was
Speaker 1: out for a while, so he had to really pick
Speaker 1: up there.
Speaker 4: But he was.
Speaker 1: He's been a gun these last few years, so it's
Speaker 1: incredible to see him just poke his nose out and
Speaker 1: win it.
Speaker 4: A better podcast would know this. Other keywis that have
Speaker 4: won the daim Well, Seawan Johnson win it.
Speaker 1: Seawan Johnson's never won. He should have won it last year,
Speaker 1: but he was pipped at the post by Caleb Ponger,
Speaker 1: who's also technically a Kiwi. The only Warrior to ever
Speaker 1: win the Dali m is Roger Tui vas as Shik
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4: Garry Freeman. Did he ever? I don't think he did. No,
Speaker 4: I don't think he did. About Benji Marshall. Benji Marshall
Speaker 4: never won it? No, Okay, so this is quite a
Speaker 4: big deal. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think if Benji Marshall was gonna win, it would
Speaker 1: have been that year was at five when they won
Speaker 1: the behind the Back. Yeah, but they happened in the
Speaker 1: Grand finals, so that the award had already been doled out.
Speaker 4: So yeah, this is this is huge. Stoked for Jerome.
Speaker 1: Here's it. He said in his acceptance speech. He never
Speaker 1: thought he was going to win this and you know
Speaker 1: you wouldn't he was. He was like a second string
Speaker 1: fallback that they brought in when Billy Slater was leaving
Speaker 1: the Storm though, were like, let's just get like five
Speaker 1: or six dirds and see if any of them can
Speaker 1: replace him. He was one of them and then he
Speaker 1: ended up being the half back and yeah, he's balled
Speaker 1: out this season. Dally am very deserving. Ali Carto, this
Speaker 1: is always hard to stomach.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 1: He was a warrior just a few years ago and
Speaker 1: he won Second Rower of the Year. Could have done
Speaker 1: with them this year?
Speaker 4: Did they pick two second rowers of the year?
Speaker 1: They do? Okay, Yeah, so he was one of them.
Speaker 1: I forget who the other one was. Crichton Angus Crichton.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what's going on in the National Rugby League.
Speaker 1: And later on in the podcast, we're going to place
Speaker 1: a bit on the NRL Grand Final which is this weekend, Yes, Sunday.
Speaker 4: Night nine and Kyzi are on the all on that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah you'll you'll be right by the Yeah, I'll be
Speaker 4: okay by them.
Speaker 1: I'll be back, yeah, yeah, I'll be back. What's going
Speaker 1: on with the America's Cup. Are we are we racing you?
Speaker 3: No, No, it's still the Louis Vitoine. I actually on
Speaker 3: the flight home watched two races live on the Immirates
Speaker 3: Live Score. It's quite cool. No, it's six four to
Speaker 3: Great Britains team over prior to Pirelli. Yeah, the Italian
Speaker 3: So six four, they only need to win one more
Speaker 3: because it's the first to seven.
Speaker 4: I think it's the first of seven. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it looks like New Zealand are going to
Speaker 3: come up against old mate Ben Ainsley, who famously had
Speaker 3: an argument with Blad Chook member in the s l
Speaker 3: GP game. You're so arrogant if you win an America's Cup,
Speaker 3: you think you can do everything.
Speaker 4: Blead tis like, I shut up, dick here.
Speaker 3: So that looks like that, and then that starts, I
Speaker 3: think in about ten days time with the Actual Americas,
Speaker 3: Actual America, Actual America's Cup against Enios. I'm presuming any
Speaker 3: we're going to win unless old Jimmy Spittle has a
Speaker 3: great comeback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's happened before, hasn't it.
Speaker 3: So do you go six to four, one to go
Speaker 3: or it could be potentially three.
Speaker 1: We'll pick that back up in ten days when it
Speaker 1: actually starts in earnest. I saw this announcement come through
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 4: Did it? Was it just announced today? Lou Vincent's in
Speaker 4: the Black Clash. Yep.
Speaker 3: Great to see. Great to see Lou Vincent back in
Speaker 3: the Black Clash. I know he got presented as his
Speaker 3: black cap hundredth cap a few minuts ago as well,
Speaker 3: which had been under a desk at a players association
Speaker 3: for about ten years. Yeah, Pedals gave it to him.
Speaker 3: Pedals gave it to him. So good to see Lou
Speaker 3: coming back. The rehabilitation of Lou he got. I think
Speaker 3: he's got my line massively.
Speaker 4: He got treated. He was the only one who put
Speaker 4: his hand out and said I've done wrong. I did it.
Speaker 3: I did it, and he got absolutely roasted for it
Speaker 3: while everyone else, everyone else just ran for the hills. Yeah,
Speaker 3: didn't answer phones and just lied. So good to see
Speaker 3: him come back. It'll be good for him. I know
Speaker 3: he's a he's got a young family now, he's living
Speaker 3: up North, loving life.
Speaker 4: He's going to a Beetha to play in a charity game.
Speaker 4: I saw that. It's like a T ten match, and
Speaker 4: I love this shit.
Speaker 1: I've only just realized in the last sort of like
Speaker 1: two or three years, what's going on with those old
Speaker 1: boys games.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is just a piss up. I don't know
Speaker 4: what it took me so long to figure this out.
Speaker 3: And he's he's still in good neck, he's still got
Speaker 3: a good eye, even though look it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: I don't really bowl that fast. But I bowled to
Speaker 3: him in the nets up and kept him oval last
Speaker 3: year for the November Test match, which has happening again
Speaker 3: this year in Hamilton, and I bowled a juicy half volley.
Speaker 3: I hit it so hard back to me that it
Speaker 3: went past me.
Speaker 4: If I if it had actually.
Speaker 3: Been at my body, I think I would have died
Speaker 3: because by the time it went passed me, I had
Speaker 3: no idea and he hit it so hard so would
Speaker 3: have gone through.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Great to save lou back for the Black players.
Speaker 3: Hopefully they mike him up and we can talk to
Speaker 3: him on the commentary because he's a good man and
Speaker 3: he deserves the second chance.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately for him, Chris Gale is playing in the same match,
Speaker 1: so I think if anyone's getting micd it's definitely Chris Game.
Speaker 4: I know, but Chris Gales on Team Rugby.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so we'll get a couple, we'll get a
Speaker 3: couple of chances.
Speaker 4: So really, yeah, that drip feeding the teamless through, aren't they.
Speaker 3: Well you've got Vi Tori, you got Karen Reed of
Speaker 3: the captains, you've got Anton Devsich. Who's going to be
Speaker 3: in team cricket again, I'd say the Marshalls, Hamish Marshall,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure why James isn't getting a run, but
Speaker 3: Hamish's it seems odd. The herey Jeff will probably be
Speaker 3: there again. I would say for Team Rugby, that kind
Speaker 3: of drip feed up because I think they really need
Speaker 3: to get the services of Jock McKenzie, Yeah, from the Auckland.
Speaker 4: One who's playing for both Auckland and the Blues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's quick, he's rapid and he'll put the
Speaker 3: ships up the cricket players.
Speaker 1: And I think he's playing rugby this year. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: or he's not playing cricket one of the two.
Speaker 4: But the game is a bit later.
Speaker 3: It's Jen nineteen and Super Rugby starts two weeks later
Speaker 3: or three weeks later, so.
Speaker 4: You're probably not getting the run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well this is disappointing because then he got Jordy Barrett,
Speaker 3: who we know can is Philly rapid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Reuben Love has been announced he is playing.
Speaker 3: Okay, well they might, they might, They might loosen that
Speaker 3: up a little bit.
Speaker 1: He was probably one of my favorite players last year.
Speaker 1: That catch that he took over the boundary non caul
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a catch, and he.
Speaker 3: Did annoy people like Jason Spices because he did the
Speaker 3: gritty afterwards and didn't really and Jason Spice very a man,
Speaker 3: a man of a man of very simple tastes.
Speaker 1: Was he did the gritty afterwards, and then when they
Speaker 1: interviewed him, he tried to be all humble about it. Oh,
Speaker 1: look it didn't count, you know, because my foot went
Speaker 1: over the rope. So I don't really want to talk
Speaker 1: about it, Like, hey, there's a ship like this is
Speaker 1: a bullshit game. Yeah, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. Also,
Speaker 1: you fucking did the gritty after it. Don't pretend that
Speaker 1: you didn't care that you did that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say Jason Spice will be back stuff like that.
Speaker 3: He played for Team Rugby because he's a handy cricketer.
Speaker 1: What's it going to take for an ACC member to
Speaker 1: get included in one of the teams.
Speaker 3: I've actually asked us before, but it's too at that stage,
Speaker 3: is too humiliating.
Speaker 4: How to a dead guy was on there? I know,
Speaker 4: and that's one of the reasons.
Speaker 3: I knew I'd say that I'm a one hundred times
Speaker 3: better than And they've asked Jeremy a number of times,
Speaker 3: but he's he again, he's the same. He's terrified that
Speaker 3: he's going to go out faceoo ball, get out for
Speaker 3: gold dark and just get rinse.
Speaker 1: I think what'll be way worse than that would be fielding.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's another thing. Yeah, because you get older,
Speaker 1: you just lose all depth.
Speaker 3: Perceptions gone, Yeah, you can't really throw, like I spay
Speaker 3: a lot of cricket. I pride myself in my catching.
Speaker 3: Now bull goes up, I'm like, I don't know where
Speaker 3: that is.
Speaker 1: Nothing rams that point home harder than the trade's living
Speaker 1: that we played at the start of the year. Eleven
Speaker 1: drop catches, even drop catches, obviously, I think it was
Speaker 1: closer to fifteen. But more than that, it was the
Speaker 1: amount of hamstrings that got to abductors, ham strings and
Speaker 1: ruins groins here, and the poor physio that was down there.
Speaker 4: She was working.
Speaker 1: Lee Baker described her as fearless, and you would have
Speaker 1: to be to work on all those middle aged men
Speaker 1: who yeah, you're right, you see it, and then you
Speaker 1: can't do it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't think, no, I I think maybe
Speaker 3: ten years ago. If that cash has started ten years ago,
Speaker 3: when the acc started, I reckon there had been a
Speaker 3: few of us that would have been into it, but
Speaker 3: just been too old and too long in the tooth,
Speaker 3: So I'd stick to just begging them behind the micro.
Speaker 4: Tickets are on sale for Black Clash. Oh yes, so
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Speaker 4: Oh my god.
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Speaker 3: one more quick break, will be right back. Have you
Speaker 3: seen to get political for a minute. The police are
Speaker 3: seeking a waiver to charge the partner of an Australian
Speaker 3: diplomat after a three thirty am altercation.
Speaker 4: Have you seen this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that. I loved the part a community like.
Speaker 3: But it's usually it's usually for something that's more politically
Speaker 3: motivated or but it's not for getting fucking ship face
Speaker 3: and thrown thrown hands.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not. It's not immunity.
Speaker 3: Diploamly immuit is not designed for again, ship face and
Speaker 3: round hands. It's designed for other stuff. So you can't
Speaker 3: be arrested for potential espionage or yeah, or they can
Speaker 3: try and coerce you because you're in a country and
Speaker 3: they will trying to intimidate you with you.
Speaker 4: Know, will arrest you. Yeah, that kind of shit. So
Speaker 4: I've got immunity. You can't do that. Yeah, not this
Speaker 4: to stop international incidents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's why that's why the police are applying
Speaker 3: for the wait for the for the immunity to be waived.
Speaker 1: So it's the husband or partner of an Australian diplomat
Speaker 1: who was out at three thirty am after the All
Speaker 1: Blacks game dressed and Wallaby supporters kid as well.
Speaker 4: Yes, and then just got into a dust up. It's
Speaker 4: three on a street.
Speaker 1: Diplomatic community.
Speaker 4: How many times he's built that car? Really? Yeah? Well
Speaker 4: that's the thing. Is this what he does?
Speaker 1: It just goes around and he's just like, no, diplomatic community,
Speaker 1: you can do whatever I want.
Speaker 3: Well, remember a few years ago there was one particular
Speaker 3: embassy that racked up about thirty grand's worth of parking
Speaker 3: fines and they and they pleaded diplantic community.
Speaker 4: They never paid it. So can you just do whatever
Speaker 4: you want? Pretty much?
Speaker 3: But I think in this case he's lizard after the Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's got into a fight. It's not really what immunity
Speaker 3: is designed for. It No, it's not designed to protect bad.
Speaker 1: Behaviors, to protect international relations. Not got on the but
Speaker 1: which arguably is one of the most Australian things to do.
Speaker 3: I think you should go out in that dish dash
Speaker 3: and it's caused trouble and it's got BBI.
Speaker 4: I'm only a diploatic community.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have diplomatic community from the Sultanate of Omart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll call the sultan right now. I never did get
Speaker 1: to talk to shake Mo about the sports Washington. It's
Speaker 1: having to do it, and I never did get over
Speaker 1: to Saudi tensions were escalating.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's true. You would have seen a couple
Speaker 4: of rockets go of your head. I did. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 4: Got to see the Iron Curtain from a distance.
Speaker 3: It's true because the right where oman Any is in
Speaker 3: the flight path from Iran to Israel, so they would
Speaker 3: have gone overhead.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't have gone overhead, but you would have been
Speaker 4: able to see them.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know you're in the mix of when your
Speaker 3: other When I lived there for two and a half years,
Speaker 3: I've told the story before, But a huge sandstorm came through.
Speaker 4: Out of nowhere. They're gonna get there, came out of nowhere,
Speaker 4: and like.
Speaker 3: It wasn't forecasts or anything, because usually they can forecast
Speaker 3: when there's a win coming or.
Speaker 4: Whip it up.
Speaker 3: And basically it was the movement of troops in Iraq,
Speaker 3: American movement of troops. They moved so many troops at
Speaker 3: once that they basically dug up the sand.
Speaker 4: And it blew, and it blew.
Speaker 3: A sandstorm to UAE and we're like, okay, I'm really
Speaker 3: in the mix of heres come from Iraq.
Speaker 4: And it's from a military movement. Yeah, there were a few.
Speaker 4: There were a few. Like, I didn't know Al Qaeda
Speaker 4: was in Yemen. Oh yeah, So I was sad being
Speaker 4: bombing a shitty yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the Americans everyone has been the light and Yemen
Speaker 1: up and I was not far away from Yman up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone's having a crack at Yemen. They well, no, it's
Speaker 1: because they've got they are right on there's that little
Speaker 1: channel I think what it's called, but it goes up there,
Speaker 1: the little canal that goes up that side of the
Speaker 1: Arabian Peninsula, and they have not been getting a scent
Speaker 1: for any of the boats that are going past them.
Speaker 1: So it's basically piracy. They've started pirating all the ship Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so instead of paying them for you know, the
Speaker 1: right to use their waterways, America's like, what if we
Speaker 1: bomb the funk out of about that? Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: only a couple of hours away from where I was.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if I said this at
Speaker 1: the top of the podcast, but it was to the
Speaker 1: point where my mum was ringing my misses and like yeah,
Speaker 1: as he on his flight, as he left here, I've
Speaker 1: seen things are heading up in the Middle East. That's
Speaker 1: all right, mom, I don't know. It's a spicy meat
Speaker 1: all the whole Middle East. I don't own a pager.
Speaker 1: I'm fine.
Speaker 4: That's crazy shit as well. Anyway, no reports on it
Speaker 4: over there for only enough anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, sticking with politics, the MP's credit card statements
Speaker 1: have been released.
Speaker 4: Have you seen this.
Speaker 1: This is for I think from April to June of
Speaker 1: this year, Okay, and because the you know, that's our
Speaker 1: tax funded payments, so they released the statements. The MP's
Speaker 1: credit card statements. Judith Collins spent the most. She spent
Speaker 1: ten k and that was mostly on flights and accommodation.
Speaker 1: She went over to a bunch of different stuff overseas.
Speaker 1: I'm cool that she's some sort of AI minister. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that tin is not a lot in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things. Chris Luxon bought a four hundred dollars harmonica
Speaker 1: from the Rock Shop here in New Zealand.
Speaker 4: There this gift.
Speaker 1: It was a gift for a foreign diplomat who was
Speaker 1: coming over to beat the shit out of someone, and
Speaker 1: on Courtney plays.
Speaker 3: At three point thirty in the morning, got in a
Speaker 3: fight shit harmonica player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where he was out there trying to bust all
Speaker 1: the shitty harmonica. This one called the sports Minister, Chris Bishop.
Speaker 1: He went to London and Switzerland. Documents show that he
Speaker 1: and a staff member traveling with him visited the fast
Speaker 1: food joint McDonald's three times in three days from.
Speaker 4: March tenth to March twelfth. Well look when you're when
Speaker 4: you're busy and you're on the move. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: A spokesperson for Chris Bishop said the minister takes seriously
Speaker 1: his responsibility to be a prudent guardian of taxpayer money.
Speaker 1: He also really likes fast food. His waistline is proof
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 4: That's quite good. I like that. I do too.
Speaker 1: I'm actually quite but I think Chris Bishop, if you
Speaker 1: see this video, take yourself to a flash restaurant, man,
Speaker 1: I think we'd all turn a blind dow.
Speaker 3: Fine, you go to Hitler's favorite restaurant in Munich, favorite
Speaker 3: Italian restaurant.
Speaker 4: We will send you the address.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, Ravioli. Treat yourself. You're overseas yeah, but look,
Speaker 3: I mean, good on them. It's quick and it's easy.
Speaker 4: It's nasty.
Speaker 3: He would have gone through the drive to re grabbed
Speaker 3: himself a filio fish.
Speaker 1: There is something about when you're overseas and you really
Speaker 1: don't trust any of the food, just going to macas
Speaker 1: and being like, look, fuck it, let's get it.
Speaker 4: That's like Joe Jury when we're in Dubai airport. He
Speaker 4: brought the mc rabia. Oh what's involved in that? He
Speaker 4: didn't know? He didn't like it. I'll tell you. It's
Speaker 4: not bacon.
Speaker 3: No, he's a lot of lamb in it, a little lambon,
Speaker 3: beef beef bacon. Have you even tried beef bacon? He
Speaker 3: probably would have chicken bacon. I tried chicken babon.
Speaker 1: It's trash. Yeah, I was trying to figure out why
Speaker 1: bacon over here?
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, just quickly while I'm distracted that
Speaker 1: while we were so, I'm in my full dish dash
Speaker 1: thing here, which, by the way, I had to buy
Speaker 1: to go into the mosque.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's not it's not cultural appropriation.
Speaker 1: It's not they make you buy like weir stuff like this.
Speaker 1: It's rude over there. To wear shorts. Shorts are band
Speaker 1: in most places you're not allowed to and all I
Speaker 1: packed the shorts.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna Yes, that's why you eat linen pants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I didn't have the linen pants, so I
Speaker 1: got the candor of the dish, dash the the full
Speaker 1: get up, wheeled it and we're having breakfast on the
Speaker 1: way out of Oman and we stopped there and this
Speaker 1: car just come to a screeching hole beside us. This
Speaker 1: guy jumped out and he came over. I had to
Speaker 1: shake your heads. Where are you guys? From where he
Speaker 1: goes from? From New Zealand. He's like, I saw you
Speaker 1: guys sitting here when I drove past before. So when
Speaker 1: I drove past again, I couldn't stop laughing. I couldn't
Speaker 1: stop smiling. I had to come and shake your heads.
Speaker 1: I saw the swag. I have to introduce myself. It's
Speaker 1: just four of us, like, clearly Westerners sitting there. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: local money dude. Just I thought he's here to put
Speaker 1: the hard cell on us, and he wasn't. He just
Speaker 1: he's just the swear. Could not stop laughing, could not
Speaker 1: stop smiling, like.
Speaker 4: The only passing the old dressed as multi Warriors or
Speaker 4: even just shorts and jandles.
Speaker 1: You know, Stubby's in a singlet and it's just like
Speaker 1: quite clearly three Arab dudes.
Speaker 4: You're like, I'll be beat. I got to introduce myself.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Ye shout up to Chris By, treat yourself
Speaker 1: next time you get overseas man, you're with it.
Speaker 4: Just before we knocked this thing on the head, we
Speaker 4: need a hunch. I think hunch.
Speaker 1: The n r OLD Grand Finals going on this weekend,
Speaker 1: and you said it's not till Sunday night nine point
Speaker 1: thirty pm.
Speaker 4: By the time they kick off, it'll be ten. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I guarantee it. They've got some powerful power players on them.
Speaker 1: One that caught my eye was clearly anytime try scorer
Speaker 1: and the Panthers to win at six dollars twenty five.
Speaker 3: That's yeah. I think the Panthers our favorites. They're not,
Speaker 3: they're outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Melbourne Storm a dollar ninety the Panthers a
Speaker 1: dollar ninety five.
Speaker 4: I didn't even consider that.
Speaker 3: The that I know that the Panthers wouldn't win this,
Speaker 3: I know same here, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I think that's really juicy. Yeah, and the Melbourne
Speaker 1: Storm have been rocking and rolling a lot. We said
Speaker 1: they've got the Delian player of the year in their team,
Speaker 1: but the you know, three in a row for the Panthers.
Speaker 4: So far, they've lost their front rower though suspension a
Speaker 4: solem money yeah yeah, no, no, no, he got.
Speaker 3: We've been hunching a storm up because our pot is
Speaker 3: up over three grand now I saw that. So after
Speaker 3: this weekend, depending on these a couple of results here,
Speaker 3: we're going to give that away.
Speaker 4: I'm not we're giving away ready, I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: No, still in the extill there, so we're gonna there's
Speaker 3: gonna be an almighty like dish up, yeah or dish
Speaker 3: out dishdash dash coming up there, all.
Speaker 1: Right, just before we knock the thing on the head tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I reckon, we just run a full yours please.
Speaker 4: There's so many yours pleases expose.
Speaker 1: I just saw the backlog this morning on a logged
Speaker 1: into my computer, and there are hundreds of them, and
Speaker 1: I think we need to boil them down because I
Speaker 1: know a lot of them will be asking the same thing,
Speaker 1: but they are all about our trip, right, So I
Speaker 1: think tomorrow, man, you probably won't get hold of Jerry
Speaker 1: because it's their last ever show tomorrow, so I think
Speaker 1: tomorrow we just sit down full expose a the PwC
Speaker 1: investigation into the Export Ultra Bergaard and tour of Munich and.
Speaker 3: Using people's yours pleases, Yes, okay, yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 4: And also we've got the sports book back tomorrow as well,
Speaker 4: with Carl Carl from the TV looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's knock this thing on the head and
Speaker 1: we'll see you tomorrow for another episode of the Agenda podcast.
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