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Speaker 1: Morning mat Heth, how's your week been? About thirty odd
Speaker 1: podcasts for you this?
Speaker 3: Yeh?
Speaker 4: Actually I did one. I was still recording the podcast
Speaker 4: at midnight last night. I did the Mandate podcast. Oh yes,
Speaker 4: did you go out there? I went out there, great
Speaker 4: great people.
Speaker 1: Boy the studio because I went out into their podcast
Speaker 1: the other week. He was doing a studios just like
Speaker 1: in a garage. But yes it's in the garage, but
Speaker 1: set up well. It looks great on the on the YouTube.
Speaker 1: They had a great two hour chat. But you know,
Speaker 1: they have your a breakfast host.
Speaker 4: You start, you know, five am, and then you're still
Speaker 4: doing a podcast at ten am. I don't know if
Speaker 4: I don't know if I delivered the best material air
Speaker 4: in my life.
Speaker 1: But it was a good time. And you would you
Speaker 1: say that the quality of their studio is better than ours?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Because I was saying that I still was saying you
Speaker 4: should see the a SEC studio. Yeah, they've got they've
Speaker 4: got a round situation like round couches. It's actually actually
Speaker 4: I was gonna have a word to acc head g
Speaker 4: Lane about a round couch situation. It's actually perfect with
Speaker 4: the table in the middle so you're facing each other. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: rather than what we're sitting on here is like a
Speaker 4: couple of the shittest couches ever to be thrown out
Speaker 4: into the street from the front of a student flat
Speaker 4: when someone moves south because they no point in taking
Speaker 4: it anywhere else.
Speaker 1: And then a publicly listed company comes along picks them up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then I've got and I'm having to hold
Speaker 4: my headphone it's connection so I can hear it.
Speaker 1: Come on, No lumbar support on these couches.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Also it forces you into a position that makes
Speaker 4: you look like a like a fifteen chin piece of shit.
Speaker 1: Not you me know, I no, no, me too. Though. Also,
Speaker 1: every time a video comes out from these podcasts, my
Speaker 1: missus will just send it to men like you've got
Speaker 1: to sort your posture up.
Speaker 4: Something has to change. The came I saw a picture
Speaker 4: of me and Laura mcgulta. She took a picture of
Speaker 4: me and me and her put it on social media
Speaker 4: at the rugby last week. Oh yeah, yeah, and I'm
Speaker 4: going to put that on my mirror because because it's
Speaker 4: got to be my before.
Speaker 3: She took the before photo that she took a great before.
Speaker 4: I mean, she looks amazing obviously, so you know you're
Speaker 4: standing beside Yeah, something pretty good. Not to objectify her,
Speaker 4: but she's a beautiful, strong, powerful woman.
Speaker 1: We don't do that.
Speaker 4: We don't do that at the a sec beautiful woman,
Speaker 4: but just a sack of shit that needs to do
Speaker 4: something about himself.
Speaker 1: I know, and I know the one sweeping change that
Speaker 1: I could make to my lifestyle that would have the
Speaker 1: biggest impact that I'm not willing to make it, and
Speaker 1: that's alcohol. Stop having fifteen beers on a Friday night before.
Speaker 4: Every plan I put together, and a plan together with
Speaker 4: my girlfriend, I'm like, wow, let's be realistic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am going to keep drinking heavily.
Speaker 1: So the other thing I'll do is I'll be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do fucking keto or like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to cut out carbs or high fat, high protein,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah you'll do almost everything except
Speaker 1: for just be like, hey, why don't you just take
Speaker 1: a month off.
Speaker 4: I had an absolute keto blowout where I was ordering
Speaker 4: these packaged meals because I was like zero, you know,
Speaker 4: chackaged meals, but I just I didn't realize that the
Speaker 4: site had all different kinds of things, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 4: you can eat that, where you can eat that, where
Speaker 4: you can eat it. And I went on those for
Speaker 4: a month and I was just putting on so much weight.
Speaker 4: And then I looked back and go, oh, I've been
Speaker 4: ordering just the meals. Yeah, And I was like the
Speaker 4: reason why I was wowed that they were healthy was
Speaker 4: because they weren't. I was just pounding TV dinners and
Speaker 4: thinking it was going to make me better.
Speaker 1: This seems like I'm dropping a three thousand calorie bomb
Speaker 1: on myself, but it's off the healthy website, so I
Speaker 1: can't be. I had a flatmate like that. Everyone was getting,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty heavily into the gym, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: the steroids as well. But they were also on the
Speaker 1: protein powder and so he got swept up in that
Speaker 1: as well. He was hitting the protein powder milkshakes pretty hard.
Speaker 1: It'll Cartman, you up pretty nicely. Yeah, it wasn't working
Speaker 1: out at all, and so yeah, it just really really
Speaker 1: blew out.
Speaker 4: It really works out for my seven ten year old son,
Speaker 4: just pounding protein powder and he just seems to get
Speaker 4: jacked really quickly.
Speaker 1: But their just gets fat. Yeah that's right. Well, because
Speaker 1: he's out there, you know, moving around. I ever think
Speaker 1: about how much a seventeen year old moves constantly and
Speaker 1: a day to day, whereas I am almost entirely like stationary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 1: If it can be avoided, I will be standing like sitting.
Speaker 4: Especially with me, yelling for my kids to go downstairs
Speaker 4: or upstairs to get stuff for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, can you get that for me? That's right?
Speaker 1: Can you do that? I'm at the age where if
Speaker 1: I walk up stairs and I forget something and I
Speaker 1: asked my missus to bring it up the stairs for
Speaker 1: me and she doesn't, that's a heated argument because I
Speaker 1: will not be going down the stairs again to come
Speaker 1: back up.
Speaker 4: And you were like me, You live in a townhouse situation,
Speaker 4: so there's a lot of steerage.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stairs. Yeah, yeah, I know, And
Speaker 1: I swear they add an extra step. The other day,
Speaker 1: speaking of getting old, I old maned it down the stairs.
Speaker 1: I slipped out, the missed the stairs, and I went
Speaker 1: flying and I landed on my back and slid the
Speaker 1: whole way down the staircase. And the mark from my
Speaker 1: shoes on the wall was about where my head was. Man,
Speaker 1: that's when you want CCTV footage. Yeah, because it looks
Speaker 1: like you've done a full cartoon fall. Yeah, with her
Speaker 1: feet go right up. It was a rude awakening and
Speaker 1: I was like.
Speaker 3: It's a Jpeshi and home alone kind of situation.
Speaker 1: But I was looking back at the stairs. My missus
Speaker 1: comes to the top of the staircase. She's like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck has happened? Turns the thing on black Schoemer
Speaker 1: eye level halfway down the staircase. Look, one day you're
Speaker 1: going to come and I'll be unresponsive at bottom of
Speaker 1: the staircase. Here, it's about how it's going to go.
Speaker 1: I was looking for a Friday we should check in
Speaker 1: on how our week went with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a thing I like to do in my personal life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pits and peaks. What were the pits and peaks of
Speaker 1: your week? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'll go first the pit was and it always is.
Speaker 1: Thursday morning after Origin, you wake up and have to
Speaker 1: come back into work again. You're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I felt like I'd been shot Thursday morning because Origin
Speaker 1: never finishes till about now. It's insane midnight twelve thirty. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, you're also like, you know,
Speaker 1: probably having won too many beers for a Wednesday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: You've then also got two full days to get through.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a real week ruin. And I've gotta
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I actually was intending to sleep
Speaker 1: through it and watch it in the morning. And then
Speaker 1: chris Keytspy is like, oh, should I come around to
Speaker 1: yours to watch the Origin?
Speaker 4: I was like, you would have missed if you hadn't
Speaker 4: watched that live, you would have missed live.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: Cam Murray being sent off for the beach one of
Speaker 4: the great things. I've got a take on that though.
Speaker 4: That's there was a home invasion. He was on the beach.
Speaker 4: The fight came into his house, you know, a bunch
Speaker 4: of big dudes piling through the front door. He's just
Speaker 4: sitting there and his slipper slippers with us, with us
Speaker 4: dressing down and his pipe. Yeah, on the bench, they piling.
Speaker 4: What's he supposed to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, does the stand your ground rule bluffs of bench players?
Speaker 1: Just like he was in an open carry state home
Speaker 1: only Olokuatu was on the bench in a suit. He
Speaker 1: wasn't even playing. I think he was eating a peer
Speaker 1: when the fight come crashing over the sideline. What's he
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Because he only saw you know, there
Speaker 1: was only like one or two blue jerseys there. He's like, fun,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get busy here. So downs your
Speaker 1: ground rules should have should have applied there? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I think in the States you would have been within
Speaker 1: your rights to shoot them all in the head. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But if you end up in the dugout and the
Speaker 4: wrong wrong team's dug out in a basketball game in Texas,
Speaker 4: I mean in a baseball game in Texas, you're gonna
Speaker 4: get shot. You can be shot legally, and no one,
Speaker 4: no one, no one asked a question, won't even go
Speaker 4: to court.
Speaker 1: You're right, he was within his rights to pull a
Speaker 1: baseball bet out and just start clubbing duds. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was your that was your my pet, but
Speaker 1: my peak. Yeah, And I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: the video came out quite late last night. I went
Speaker 1: to the New Zealand cricket launch Oh yeah yet, and
Speaker 1: I met Gary Stead and we had you know, media availability,
Speaker 1: which is always hilarious because we the a SEC get
Speaker 1: put in with the actual journalists. Yeah right, and you're
Speaker 1: standing there, you feel like you're sticking out like dogs balls.
Speaker 3: Like, and they're like, they don't think you deserve to
Speaker 3: be dead?
Speaker 1: No, yeah, absolutely, And so a hard hitting ernest journalist
Speaker 1: was about was asking Gary Stid some questions and the
Speaker 1: media guy goes, hey, after you talk to him, to
Speaker 1: Tom and I are over here, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I genuinely just want to ask you about my wrong
Speaker 1: and how to fix it. And he was just like,
Speaker 1: oh really, I've got some drills and he like it.
Speaker 1: Immediately switched on that coach brain. You were one hundred
Speaker 1: percent wrong in I think I bowl a stock wrong in. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've always only bowled stock wrong and I've only ever
Speaker 1: had one person peck it. Oh, two people picked it.
Speaker 1: One was either James or Hamish Marshal, I don't know which.
Speaker 1: But when we played in the Dulux trailers a week week,
Speaker 1: yeah that's right. Yeah, because I bowled my first ball
Speaker 1: to him and he clubbed it for six, and then
Speaker 1: he goes, was that a wrongin? I was like yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the other one was we were bowling in
Speaker 1: Jerry's backyard at the start of the year. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Kan Williamson was watching from the deck and he goes.
Speaker 4: Was that a wrong Well in that last a c
Speaker 4: C game we had, we had that great technique where
Speaker 4: you had bowled four wrongins and we're like, we were
Speaker 4: going to the batsman he no, one bowls four wrongins.
Speaker 4: When's there when he can't keep bowling the wrong and
Speaker 4: when's he going to change it up?
Speaker 3: And it totally worked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I literally can't.
Speaker 3: It's like six wrongins, so way you never would have
Speaker 3: picked it. Each one was less likely than the last.
Speaker 1: It's like tossing a corn and it coming up here
Speaker 1: six times in a row. Every time. You're like, no,
Speaker 1: I've got I've got to go to us. But anyway, yes,
Speaker 1: So I told Gary std that and so he was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can give you some tips and bar ba ba
Speaker 1: and he's like, what do you want to ask me?
Speaker 1: I was like, ye know that that's all long is
Speaker 1: really Yeah. So then we did the interview, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we're kneeling on the floor and men Gary
Speaker 1: Steered are bowling wrongins back and forth at each other,
Speaker 1: and he gave me a drill to do to try
Speaker 1: and fix. You know, it's a risk position, right, But
Speaker 1: really changed how I thought of Gary Stead. I don't
Speaker 1: know why not that I thought negatively of him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know he's got skills as a coach.
Speaker 4: I guess you'd assume that as the national coach of
Speaker 4: a of a cricket team.
Speaker 1: But it would have been so easy for him to
Speaker 1: be like, what, I'm not going to give you fucking
Speaker 1: bowling tips.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you've got into it. But that schedule looks
Speaker 4: which looks good, doesn't it? It does got a lot
Speaker 4: of England there. It's another weird donut schedule, right, I
Speaker 4: just looked at the names.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so three tests England series, which is going to
Speaker 1: be awesome, phenomenal, And I love it that it's at
Speaker 1: the December, like before New Year's Yeah. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: like the tail end of work. You're still kind of
Speaker 1: clocking off, but everyone's still around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you don't.
Speaker 1: Really miss it. So three games as well, that's the
Speaker 1: other exciting part. So there will be a decider and
Speaker 1: even then, like, I don't think you have a dead
Speaker 1: rubber in cricket if there's a three test series. Even
Speaker 1: if we win the first two, the third is still
Speaker 1: not a dead rubber. But yeah, so I'm pretty excited
Speaker 1: about that. Then we fuck off to Pakistan for like
Speaker 1: a month that we're.
Speaker 4: Still paying for pissing them off with going home after
Speaker 4: a slightly threatening email, aren't we. I feel like we're
Speaker 4: still paying our dues to them.
Speaker 1: Well, so there was there was a slightly threatening email
Speaker 1: where we pulled pin. Then there was during COVID they
Speaker 1: stayed at the Shutter on the Park in christ and
Speaker 1: they flouted the rules. Yeah that's right, and so we
Speaker 1: reprimanded them for it. And then Shower Bakta came out
Speaker 1: of the clouds and threaten nuclear war against that.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right, And we've stayed at the Shutter on
Speaker 3: the Park.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It is true.
Speaker 4: I would like to be out of all the hotels
Speaker 4: in New Zealand. There's spacious water features. Yeah, you're going
Speaker 4: to be locked down for COVID. That's not a bad
Speaker 4: hotel to be in.
Speaker 1: But you know, we were staying there and we weren't
Speaker 1: in lockdown and we didn't leave our rooms.
Speaker 3: No, that's true.
Speaker 1: You don't have to because it's such an amazing complex down.
Speaker 1: They're not an AD but kind of an AD. But yeah, no, no.
Speaker 1: So the February thing is the Champions Trophy, which we
Speaker 1: haven't done since like twenty fourteen. I don't really remember it,
Speaker 1: but it's an ode competition. Then there's like a three
Speaker 1: try series with South Africa and Pakistan. Then weirdly we
Speaker 1: all get on the same flight and come back to
Speaker 1: New Zealand. It's all very confusing, but yes, it is
Speaker 1: exciting that we have the summer of cricket coming up
Speaker 1: Pakistan as well, and I've forgotten who the third team is.
Speaker 1: It's coming over here. What were your pits and peaks
Speaker 1: of the week?
Speaker 4: Heath Well, the pet was the return of my hemorrhoids
Speaker 4: after you know, I doubt with them. There was actually agenda.
Speaker 4: There was an Agenda podcast where me and Glane took
Speaker 4: supposits one twin suppositories in Doneda Yeah, yeah, in Donedan
Speaker 4: and then and that was at the end they were gone.
Speaker 4: Yeah I thought we were they were out that that
Speaker 4: was the final of the treatment. They were all completely gone.
Speaker 4: And then I went to Arrowtown for a week and
Speaker 4: just punished red wine around a bunch of vineyards and.
Speaker 1: They just popped back out.
Speaker 4: So so the pet is the return of the hemorrhoids.
Speaker 4: When they were out there, I was out and now
Speaker 4: I'm back dragged back in. But the peak was Ian
Speaker 4: Jones at the at the Rugby last week on Saturday.
Speaker 4: He came up to me and a circle is talking
Speaker 4: and he goes he points at me, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: Ian Jones is talking to me. This is fucking great.
Speaker 4: And he goes, did you think we were going to lose?
Speaker 4: And I said, I did it should a couple of
Speaker 4: points I thought. I actually got quite worried. And he goes,
Speaker 4: that's why you were never an all black. And there
Speaker 4: was quite a crowd talking. What there's quite quite a
Speaker 4: crowd talking? He laughs, And then I just said, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of reasons why I wasn't an all black.
Speaker 3: I mean, look at me. Brought the house down with laughter.
Speaker 4: It was a great Oscar wildie back and forth, room laugh,
Speaker 4: a room laugh.
Speaker 1: It was a room laugh.
Speaker 3: Always leaving a room laf so often when I talked to,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: Heroes of my youth, I clam up and I become
Speaker 4: shrinking violet. So so just to have her back and
Speaker 4: forth with Ian Jones was was a real It was
Speaker 4: a real peak kid.
Speaker 1: So he was you weren't talking to him? He just
Speaker 1: came over to tell you why you weren't, and all black.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right, I was talking to I was
Speaker 4: talking to Jeremy Wells actually.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, I just came over, Yeah, came. It's quite
Speaker 1: a gentle natured dude. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was all very It was all very gentle
Speaker 4: and funny and well meaning. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it was the greatest comeback of all time.
Speaker 4: It's almost like if you just say something confidently back
Speaker 4: and forth, there's the rooms ready to laugh, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a bit of tention there. Yeah that
Speaker 1: was your peak. Yeah that was my peak. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The peak was that pits the roids? It pits the roids.
Speaker 4: What's what's the next steps? Have you have you on
Speaker 4: the surgery route? Do they have to cut those things off?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how you deal with it.
Speaker 4: Got I've got a doctor friend that I pepper pictures with,
Speaker 4: like my mate Sean, Gail and Ralph. I just send
Speaker 4: a picture and he and he sends me and he's like,
Speaker 4: have you.
Speaker 1: Seen Sean peaks of your hemorhoids?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I do, and he says they're all pretty
Speaker 4: much the same. I don't need the pictures, you know.
Speaker 4: It's I'm aware of the the you know, the phenomena.
Speaker 4: Yours are particularly unicorn. It's only one as well. It's
Speaker 4: just it's just one. I've deployed so many resources are
Speaker 4: basically keeping the chemist Warehouse in business with the amount
Speaker 4: of resources I'm deploying on the on it. But anyway,
Speaker 4: like I'll keep you updated, Yeah, no, please do. It
Speaker 4: was an unwelcome return.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah. I know people who have been to
Speaker 1: you know, have them treated and and we're taken for
Speaker 1: like a local anesthetic sort of scalpel situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They referred to that doctor as the Butcher of
Speaker 1: Barrington down there in Christs because I don't think they
Speaker 1: administered the requisite amount of local anesthetics.
Speaker 3: I'm going to need a general for that. Put me out, yeah,
Speaker 3: put me out.
Speaker 1: Because at some point I'm going to make eye contact
Speaker 1: with the block, you know, and that's gone. It's great
Speaker 1: work if you can get it moving inroids.
Speaker 4: You go to mid school for eight years and then
Speaker 4: with scalpel up some stinky dudes.
Speaker 1: Ass. Yeah, your mum's so proud of you because you're
Speaker 1: a doctor. And what do you do all right? You're
Speaker 1: mainly up dudes asses. Yeah, anything wrong with it? No,
Speaker 1: And while we're staying, while we are already downstairs in
Speaker 1: the AFL, but AFL news underrepresented on the Gender podcast.
Speaker 1: An AFL team charted a flight between two cities over
Speaker 1: there in Australia after the game. It was a four
Speaker 1: hour flight and about halfway through the flight, the whole
Speaker 1: airplane ran out of water, right, so the toilet couldn't flush. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was stuck and the ear the cabin crew had
Speaker 1: to shovel human feces out of the toilet so that
Speaker 1: people could keep using it. Wow, it's kicked up a
Speaker 1: massive stone over there. Excuse the punt because obviously the
Speaker 1: AFL team look high protein diets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh god, are terrible. They're also all about.
Speaker 1: Seven feet tools ran into their cubicle. Yeah, it's caused
Speaker 1: some issues with the cabin crew. You Yeah, like we
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to deal with that.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't have to deal with that. No, that's that's
Speaker 4: more for you. Do they need a onboard plumber at
Speaker 4: all times? Did anyone yell out is there a plumber
Speaker 4: on the plane? I mean that on a commercial flight
Speaker 4: you might get a plumber on the plane, you know,
Speaker 4: but you're not on a charter flight.
Speaker 1: You're not. You're just going to get a bunch of
Speaker 1: AFL guys that don't know what to do. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then you've got a bunch of phizios on there. It's like,
Speaker 1: what good are you going to be? Yeah? Sure, if
Speaker 1: I go into cardiac arrest or have a bit of
Speaker 1: a cramp, you could help me out. Yeah, but what
Speaker 1: happens when I clog the toilet down the back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Professional teams need to be traveling with plumbers. It's a
Speaker 1: good take. Yeah, I think they do.
Speaker 4: I mean the English team travels with a hairdresser, so
Speaker 4: that guarantee to go with the English football team is
Speaker 4: guaranteed to go with sweet fades. If you ever wonder
Speaker 4: why they all come onto the field with the sweetest
Speaker 4: fads I have, and it's because they travel always with
Speaker 4: the hair dresser.
Speaker 1: Not a bad gig. They were traveling. Yeah, if you've
Speaker 1: got a hear dress and models, we'll take a plumber.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who knows if you need to you know, knock
Speaker 4: together a I don't know, a windy house or something.
Speaker 1: Take a builder as well, a full trade stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: we're going to take quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to preview the All Backs taking on Fiji
Speaker 1: in San Diego tomorrow afternoon. Snap Dragon Stadium is the
Speaker 1: name of the venue for tomorrow's game.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, powerful namevers that fifty five thousand. I was
Speaker 4: talking to Mills mullya earlier today and he said that
Speaker 4: it's hard to get tickets where he said he found
Speaker 4: eat enough it sold out, but he said he was
Speaker 4: struggling to get free tickets.
Speaker 3: Because for his family.
Speaker 4: So so you know, like if there's a lot of
Speaker 4: tickets floating around, you know, if someone's rung up Meles
Speaker 4: and said, mate, four hundred tickets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like you.
Speaker 1: Got to need anyone want to go.
Speaker 4: I've got some tickets, you know, I've got twelve tickets
Speaker 4: or something that hasn't happened. So Meles is scratching around
Speaker 4: for tickets. That's a good sign.
Speaker 1: It is a good sign. I don't know whether that
Speaker 1: means that it's going to be a seller, because paid
Speaker 1: tickets probably still very very available. Fifty thousands quite a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what of them filled out Eaden Park on the weekend.
Speaker 4: And that's yeah, and like no disrespect to Fiji, fantastic.
Speaker 4: They was put on a show. But you know, in
Speaker 4: terms of bringing in the crowd, you know, yeah, you
Speaker 4: know you've got the all blacks, the mistique of the
Speaker 4: all blacks.
Speaker 1: It was all blacks. I don't know England or.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I'm interesting to see it go back,
Speaker 3: but I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 4: I think something, you know, like you all blacks are
Speaker 4: only paying a dollar six And me and Jerry were
Speaker 4: thinking about mortgaging our houses and putting it on there
Speaker 4: because you know you're going to get if you put
Speaker 4: a million dollars down. I mean, Jerry will be bringing
Speaker 4: in about nine million dollars for his house. But you
Speaker 4: know that's it, that's almost I was thinking, that's almost
Speaker 4: a guaranteed six percent return over a week.
Speaker 3: What's six percent of a mill well, yeah, sixty thousand, so.
Speaker 1: Okay, sure, is it sixth grade? Yeah, no, sixty sixty.
Speaker 1: But anyway, what have you lost it?
Speaker 4: But then I was just suddenly thinking crazy stuff can
Speaker 4: happen in San Diego. You're over there. I mean, the
Speaker 4: first time Myland beat us was in Chicago. You've got
Speaker 4: you've got the freshest team. You know, a lot of debutants,
Speaker 4: a lot of debut a lot of a lot of debutants.
Speaker 1: The Fiji. I've beaten England, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so the seven dollars that that, you know, I
Speaker 4: don't think there's there's a there's a world really with
Speaker 4: Fiji beat us. No, but we used to think there
Speaker 4: was no world where Island would beat us. But seven
Speaker 4: seven dollars Fiji's playing, So it's a crazy it's a
Speaker 4: crazy n No one's home ground. You're in California. It's
Speaker 4: twenty six degrees, which is which is kind of knowably
Speaker 4: better for the Fijians.
Speaker 3: So there's enough weirdness around, Yeah, that something could happen.
Speaker 1: Oh totally. Somebody asked me this morning when I came in,
Speaker 1: They said, oh, what are your tips for this weekend?
Speaker 1: I said, I've gotta be honest with you. They're clear
Speaker 1: of both the Warriors and the All Blacks this week.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's too much value. You could get
Speaker 1: on a tri scorer for the All Blacks, yeah, pretty comfortably,
Speaker 1: but it won't be paying.
Speaker 4: You could get on a small margin for the All
Speaker 4: Blecks victory win, all that victory, small margin.
Speaker 1: I just always think that if I'm betting on something
Speaker 1: that's around a dollars six or a dollar fourteen or
Speaker 1: something like that, I'm like, all I can think of
Speaker 1: is if it doesn't come in, And I'm like, I
Speaker 1: so much for such little reward. Yeah, and I missed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always think of my bets. Aren't what do I
Speaker 1: think is gonna happen? It's how would I like to win?
Speaker 1: If I win? It's on what? Yeah, So I'm always
Speaker 1: on try scorers and you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I don't like to beat the unders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, although again, like an afternoon seems pretty good at
Speaker 4: an afternoon game, you know our time, Oh, it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a it's going to be a high scoring game,
Speaker 4: high scoring afternoon game.
Speaker 3: A few punts, not a bad not a bad afternoon, not.
Speaker 1: A bad afternoon. Lane's still in witness protection. So myself
Speaker 1: and Matt Wood on that one. Yeah, score protection do
Speaker 1: I think we're going to score around the sixty seventy
Speaker 1: point mark, right, I think they could still score about
Speaker 1: twenty odd. Yeah, I do. They think we're gonna blow
Speaker 1: them out off the park though, Yeah. I think it's
Speaker 1: actually worse for fig that we've got all these debutantes
Speaker 1: and rookies and that in there, because they've got like
Speaker 1: Wallace the city, he's got something to prove. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: going to be killing people out there. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, court he's he's starting, is he?
Speaker 1: Yes? He is? Yeah, yeah he was. He changed the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah last Saturday, and Barrett as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Bart's not he's not playing impact. He's starting
Speaker 4: at fifteen. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I love Body as an impact player. Yeah. Well, and
Speaker 1: you would argue that the most dangerous we were last
Speaker 1: weekend was when Body and Courtiez came out. So Fiji
Speaker 1: been looking at that and going off, Oh that sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although I guarantee you Fiji not looking at that at all. Courtiers,
Speaker 1: you know, so named after the Nike shoes? Was that
Speaker 1: the heaven Escape shoes? Were they wearing Nike Courtiers when
Speaker 1: you know they.
Speaker 4: Drunk the kool Aid and the San Francisco cult that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they were wearing the same same sneakers.
Speaker 1: Were they were wearing the Courtiers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's not named after I'm not saying
Speaker 4: suggesting he's named after the heaven Gate Heaven's Gate cult. No,
Speaker 4: but it's a great name. It's the greatest name in
Speaker 4: using a sport at the moment.
Speaker 1: Courtier. Yeah, Jacob Ruts and my Sovuki Nickins. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: up there. Mark no Wang going need to whissy. I
Speaker 1: suppose he's in Australian Yeah, I think sixty seventy points
Speaker 1: to about the twenty odd singing on rugby though its
Speaker 1: stories just come out that Artie Savia is allegedly off
Speaker 1: to mone and pacifica next year. Have you heard that?
Speaker 3: Is that next year?
Speaker 4: I was trying to work it out because it's said
Speaker 4: he's on contract to twenty twenty five, but he might
Speaker 4: be able to get out of the contract to the
Speaker 4: end of you know what I mean, So that would
Speaker 4: be with that, that would mean I always struggle when
Speaker 4: you're out, but you're going to be you know, you're free.
Speaker 4: But they said they might they might let them off contract. Yeah,
Speaker 4: why would the Hurricanes in the off contract. I guess
Speaker 4: if you don't want to be there, you don't want
Speaker 4: to be there. But I mean it would be great
Speaker 4: for Wina PACIFICA and there, and they're you know, sort
Speaker 4: of a light you know.
Speaker 1: Trying to look for the road word chances of drawing
Speaker 1: an audience. He's going to reunite with his brother Julian
Speaker 1: save the last year, and I actually think that's why
Speaker 1: they signed him, Yeah, to be like, hey, can you
Speaker 1: get in your brother's here and bring him over here.
Speaker 1: You know he's did you get your misses and your
Speaker 1: brother's here. He's about a year away from being World
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. Yeah, he was our best player
Speaker 1: at the World Cup as well.
Speaker 4: We'd need to stack teams a bit more, don't we.
Speaker 4: You know, that's the thing. I mean, a close competition
Speaker 4: is a good one. And if you're running basically a
Speaker 4: communist regime like we are with the rugby Union, that's
Speaker 4: what's why you might as well just stack the teams
Speaker 4: and make them more even.
Speaker 1: Is there a salary cap in super Rugby. I don't know.
Speaker 3: No one knows how it works.
Speaker 1: Nah.
Speaker 4: It's sort of some someone rings someone and they pay
Speaker 4: them some money and they move to someone and someone
Speaker 4: some people are allowed to go away and come back,
Speaker 4: and there's there's but but you know, in the perfect world,
Speaker 4: you'd go, let's rank them all and let's make all
Speaker 4: the teams across New Zealand as even as we can.
Speaker 1: So give them a point value, and then each team
Speaker 1: gets like a you've got fifty points to spend and
Speaker 1: you can only put one from column one.
Speaker 4: It kind of doesn't work because of the positions, Like
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, are there you know, how many
Speaker 4: incredible halfbacks are there? Yeah, and how many incredible verse
Speaker 4: fives are there?
Speaker 1: But like that, you know, we always say that a
Speaker 1: draft system wouldn't work, and Super Rugby I fucking would
Speaker 1: because that's pretty much how they used to do it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: when they would sign the NPC players to Super Rugby teams,
Speaker 1: they'd get all the dudes together at the start of
Speaker 1: the season. It's like, look, we're probably going to sign
Speaker 1: this guy. Did you want this guy? This guy? Oh
Speaker 1: you want him, we'll sign him. Oh he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to move to Auckland. Yeah, well cool, Well we'll pack
Speaker 1: this guy up. That's basically a draft anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always amazing in the draft where someone goes
Speaker 4: they've got no idea where they're going to go. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and then they celebrate and it like, you know, they
Speaker 4: might be from California and it's like you moving to
Speaker 4: New England.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they're like what the That's usually the kneejerk
Speaker 1: reaction against the draft system in New Zealand because it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: but then they have to go and play. You know
Speaker 1: what if you're from Wellington but you got drafted downstairs
Speaker 1: need and it's like, hey, we all have to move
Speaker 1: cities to neither of us are from Markland. Hey, exactly,
Speaker 1: take your half passed podcast and tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I guess the problem is that you're paying millions and
Speaker 4: millions and millions of dollars to in the American draft.
Speaker 4: You might be getting sent down, you know, four hundred,
Speaker 4: like a thousand kilometers from your home to a very
Speaker 4: different climate and get getting paid seventy five grade a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good point. Having said that the
Speaker 1: NBL they brought a draft in last year, only one
Speaker 1: player got sorry a trade window, only one player got traded.
Speaker 1: But you know, if the NBL, the National Basketball League
Speaker 1: of New Zealand, can do it, yeah, then anyone can
Speaker 1: do it. Which, speaking of there's some exciting news out
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Speaker 1: Zealand Matt Heath, Yes, the basketball competition that's going on
Speaker 1: at the moment, and they are eyeing expansion next year.
Speaker 1: They're going to bring some new teams in the teams
Speaker 1: that they're looking at bringing in from India. They're looking
Speaker 1: to bring in teams from India into the men's and women's. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they would have to move to New Zealand. Because
Speaker 1: I've been to India and it took me about two
Speaker 1: days to get there. I was thinking when I read this,
Speaker 1: I was imagine you play for the Canterbury rams. You're right,
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, you're playing against the Otago Nuggets. Then on
Speaker 1: Friday you have to fuck off to a meta bed.
Speaker 4: So you'll be there's a there's there's a brutal layover
Speaker 4: in Singapore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna get off and like run some suicides
Speaker 1: just to get the leagues. But a blood pumping in
Speaker 1: the leagues.
Speaker 4: But it'd be a great idea if they moved down
Speaker 4: here and just pick somewhere where they're going to stay,
Speaker 4: and then you know, they probably get quite a lot
Speaker 4: of support.
Speaker 1: I feel like they looked at, like the NBL looked
Speaker 1: at what are some of the richest sports and the
Speaker 1: fastest growing sports that are going on at the moment,
Speaker 1: and cricket is going on in leaps and bounds because
Speaker 1: of the IPL. Yeah, it's changed most sports. Every other
Speaker 1: sport has had to try and come up with their
Speaker 1: version of the IPL. And when whenever anger the Indian
Speaker 1: cricket fans our social media blows up seventy thousand comments
Speaker 1: on a post blah blah. Yeah. So I think they've
Speaker 1: just looked at them and go, well, fuck it, if
Speaker 1: we're going to bring in a new team, I bring
Speaker 1: in another team and Ash Burton. Yeah, when we could
Speaker 1: just have access to one point five billion people. Do
Speaker 1: you know I've got a theory about the NBL because
Speaker 1: you know, basketball's you know, incredibly you know, popularizing, popular
Speaker 1: getting bigger, and not just the NBA, but like participation.
Speaker 1: I've got my theory on this.
Speaker 4: It's a game you can play by yourself, two people,
Speaker 4: five people. It's half courts all over town. It's a
Speaker 4: fantastic game like that, you know. But I was thinking,
Speaker 4: if you're a TV and Z, you know, they've got
Speaker 4: their problems with everything, just throw.
Speaker 1: The money at the NBL.
Speaker 4: I put the NBL on after freaking seven sharp yep,
Speaker 4: every night, because who cares about your stupid American shows
Speaker 4: you're spending million dollars on. Everyone's going to watch something
Speaker 4: better on Netflix or Amazon or whatever. So just if
Speaker 4: you just throw the fucking any money you've got in
Speaker 4: the bank, TV and Z, if you're at buying the NBL,
Speaker 4: and that could just blow up in this country, if
Speaker 4: you know, if move the games seven o'clock, you know,
Speaker 4: and the thing about playing a game later, you know,
Speaker 4: going along to basketball games. I should go to Nuggets
Speaker 4: games all the time. It's fine, because it's inside. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's fine, it's not. It's not sitting outside in a
Speaker 4: freezing cold park.
Speaker 1: It's chill.
Speaker 4: It's the perfect game to be put moved into and
Speaker 4: you could up, you could ramp that league right up
Speaker 4: the wazoo. Yeah, so easily, because we're so desperate to
Speaker 4: all we care about us watching live sport.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if there's anyone from TVNZ just
Speaker 4: opened the check book. I don't know how you're going
Speaker 4: to just throw money in it.
Speaker 1: I know Sky looking at doing something similar, because you say, right,
Speaker 1: it's like going to a movie. You're sitting inside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seats are quite nice. Down a Q too long to
Speaker 1: get a beer. And if you don't know anything about basketball,
Speaker 1: it's a sport that you don't need explained to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know when you see a dunk that that was
Speaker 1: a good play. You know, when someone hits a three point,
Speaker 1: you like, oh, that was probably pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You take someone along to cricket, they'll be like, wait,
Speaker 1: why was that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 3: You put the put the ball through the.
Speaker 1: Hoop, Yeah, do it in spectacular fashion and get the
Speaker 1: oos and as great. Yeah, I'm I'm all in on.
Speaker 4: So someone needs to just get that into primetime and
Speaker 4: just it could be it could be something that changes
Speaker 4: New Zealand's sporting landscape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can play so many games.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 4: I mean one of the problems with you know, rugby,
Speaker 4: yeah and league, because you can't play that many games
Speaker 4: unless you're Mitch Barney.
Speaker 3: And then you seem to be able to just fuck it,
Speaker 3: ram it.
Speaker 4: You seem to come back from an oh and probably
Speaker 4: have a massive night out. Yeah, and and and then
Speaker 4: I mentioned he's going to be incredible tonight.
Speaker 1: I just brought him into my fantasy teach I reckon
Speaker 1: he's going to go great as well. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: The other thing is every kid's playing it because you know,
Speaker 1: obviously appearents are concerned about head knocks and that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not too many head knocks and basketball. Also, it's
Speaker 1: played on a week nights, you know, giving up your weekend.
Speaker 1: It's indoors, you don't stand on a freezing sideline.
Speaker 4: It It's got the inside track, plus a bunch of
Speaker 4: cool kit you know, oh.
Speaker 1: The best, the best kit, the best kit. Michael Jordan's
Speaker 1: got dudes wearing sneakers with jeans sounder control. No one
Speaker 1: else has done that for any other sport. Moving on
Speaker 1: to Gulf, the Open Championship is teed off overnight our time.
Speaker 1: They're over there in Troon in Scotland. Have you seen
Speaker 1: Rory McElroy. He shanked his T shirt. It was one
Speaker 1: of the most relatable things I've ever seen. So the
Speaker 1: fairway went alongside of train track, train tracks just on
Speaker 1: the right hand side of it as you're looking down
Speaker 1: the fairway and he sliced the fuck out of it
Speaker 1: and you could see him looking at it go and
Speaker 1: it just sailed out over the train track into the bush.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I was like, why not of us amount
Speaker 1: of times I've been there, we have four kiwi's in
Speaker 1: the field lanes. Actually put a bit on Dan Helliers
Speaker 1: to come top.
Speaker 3: Forty Okay, how's fox he doing?
Speaker 1: See is two over, Kazuma Kabori's two over as well.
Speaker 1: Michael Hendry is three over and Dan Hillier is five over. Okay.
Speaker 1: To put that in perspective, the leader at the moment
Speaker 1: is Shane Lowry is five under. Wow, so not too well.
Speaker 1: I think we got really excited about having four kiwis
Speaker 1: in and we're like conflated that to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: they going to win it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got four of them. One of them is
Speaker 3: going to win the problem with.
Speaker 4: Four Kiwi's is when they get together in any area,
Speaker 4: they're going to get first night fever and get massively
Speaker 4: on the hammer.
Speaker 1: Oh we should have been against them, Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: have been four keys in one place.
Speaker 3: First night fever is impossible to avoid.
Speaker 1: You run into four of your mates in Scotland like
Speaker 1: you're on.
Speaker 4: There's basically entrapment for New Zealander. We shouldn't let it happen.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't. It should be one Kiwi minimum maximum at
Speaker 1: any international sporting event.
Speaker 4: That's what their agents are trying to organize. You can't
Speaker 4: go into another agent. You can't put if they If
Speaker 4: those guys get anywhere near each other, we're going to
Speaker 4: be dusty.
Speaker 3: For the whole whole fucking thing. I think you stagger it.
Speaker 1: I think what they should have done is sent Ryan
Speaker 1: Fox and Michael Hendry should have sent them over their veterans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get on the purse, but they can handle it.
Speaker 1: We need to keep Dan Hillier and Kazuma Gabori away
Speaker 1: from those dudes, because they'll get caught in the backdrap
Speaker 1: and they'll be fucked for the weekend. That's such a
Speaker 1: good point. Just one last thing before we knock this
Speaker 1: on the head for this week. This is the headline
Speaker 1: that's got nothing to do with sports. It's vaguely sports adjacent.
Speaker 1: That it's proved a theory that I've had for a while.
Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan to warm up the crowd for Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: first speech since assassination. Intent.
Speaker 4: Man, that's the kind of thing that you see in
Speaker 4: a movie that's a joke, you know, like it's just
Speaker 4: off on a headline. Yeah, you know, like sometime in
Speaker 4: the future. It's like back to the Future too or something.
Speaker 4: There's a crazy ass headline happening. It's like something the Simpsons.
Speaker 4: It would have been an idiocracy.
Speaker 1: And I've had this theory for a while that actually
Speaker 1: what happened in COVID was we all actually died, right,
Speaker 1: and the last four years has been you know, the
Speaker 1: last like brains like alive for eight minutes and it's
Speaker 1: thinking all these weird thoughts and you don't know that
Speaker 1: you're dead yet. Jesus, I reckon. That's been us for
Speaker 1: the last four years, all of the shit that's happened.
Speaker 1: It's like, Maverick, have you read that theory about Top
Speaker 1: Gun Maverick? No, that he died in the in the
Speaker 1: you know, the first test pilot when he put it
Speaker 1: over mac ten and then he walks into that sort
Speaker 1: of diner and it's never explained what happened and the
Speaker 1: rest of that because everything's gone wrong. And then after
Speaker 1: that everything goes right for him. He falls in love,
Speaker 1: he sorts out the whole problem with Goose and the
Speaker 1: problems he's had with Goose's son, and if you can
Speaker 1: actually there's a really good theory if you watch the
Speaker 1: movie like that, and I've watched it like that, and
Speaker 1: he goes, oh shit, I think he died. I think
Speaker 1: he died when he pushed that plane too fast. Does
Speaker 1: it explain Top Gun Maverick. Oh wait, this is about
Speaker 1: Top Gun Maverick, not the original about Top Gun Maverick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, So Top Gun Maverick is because he's in
Speaker 4: a bad state after Top Gun and losing Goose, and
Speaker 4: he's just sort of and then he then he pushes
Speaker 4: it and then everything goes freaking you know, everything sorts
Speaker 4: out in his life and he basically ends up in heaven.
Speaker 1: You know, do you think we've been mavericked as a people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's likely. But the good thing about Hulkkon
Speaker 1: coming out is if they've got to play fight for
Speaker 1: the Rights of every Man. You know that song I
Speaker 1: Am a great American fight for the rights of every man,
Speaker 1: Fight for your rights, fight for your life. I feel
Speaker 1: like theme song. That's as powerful a moment as any
Speaker 1: to go out on.
Speaker 4: So I feel like we're not the second We've got
Speaker 4: all lyrics around wrong, but you know, you know what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Look it up. Look it up.
Speaker 3: Great song that's about the vibe. Enjoy your weekend.
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