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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam.

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Speaker 2: Nation Michael Hooper, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Here he is.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Jones in Amanda. How you doing?

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Speaker 3: We are great? Is this like Highlander that can be

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Speaker 3: only one? Except you're not lopping off each other's heads.

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Speaker 3: You're playing rugby.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like that with rugby, but no, it's

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Speaker 1: a cool thing, right. So it's really different than normal

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Speaker 1: rugby tournaments in that you know, it doesn't run for

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Speaker 1: six months. It runs for three days and you have

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Speaker 1: your crown a winner. Yeah, there's a bigger piece of

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Speaker 1: the puzzle that comes later in the year, but you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot of rugby over three days. It's really unique.

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Speaker 1: It's a great sport.

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Speaker 2: And it's it called seven because there's only seven players

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Speaker 2: on the field. It's a smaller unit.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it seven on the field for each team? And

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Speaker 1: seven minute halves as well, so you know it's fourteen

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Speaker 1: minute games, not eighty minutes. But it's much much more

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Speaker 1: physically demanding at times because of the less players on

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Speaker 1: the field. So it's a hard game.

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Speaker 2: Because you were going to play in this tournament and

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Speaker 2: you had an injury, what happened?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm starting to learn that the agent, maybe the

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Speaker 1: training age catching up with me a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty two. Is a young man and woman's game,

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Speaker 1: so I'm trying to get my body adjusted. It's just

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Speaker 1: taking some time, like more my tendons and calves, hamstrings,

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Speaker 1: all that, just to get up to speed. So unfortunately

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Speaker 1: going to miss this one and need to get up

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Speaker 1: to speed. But it would have been great except that

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Speaker 1: maybe it might be forty degrees across the course of

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Speaker 1: the weekend. Good luck to the players.

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Speaker 3: You'll be sitting in the air condition booth. Oh I

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Speaker 3: wish I was out there.

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Speaker 1: I'll find any excuse to be in that booth.

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Speaker 2: When you said you need to get up to speed,

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Speaker 2: a little birdie told me that you'd love to be

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Speaker 2: part of the rugby sevens for the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: That's right. I mean, it's a huge carrot, no question

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Speaker 1: to go to an Olympics. It's something as a rugby

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Speaker 1: player grew up thinking of a possibility because it just

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Speaker 1: wasn't in the games at the time I was growing up.

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Speaker 1: And then since twenty sixteen, obviously it's come into the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: The Olympics is in Paris this year, so it's going

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Speaker 1: to be absolutely pumping. It'd be a really cool thing

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Speaker 1: to be a part of walking out with the other

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Speaker 1: countrymen and women like that would be pretty special.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know what, because Peter, if it's Simon's,

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Speaker 4: he's got some sort of villa over there, you could

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Speaker 4: stay there.

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Speaker 3: If they chuck you out of the village.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think you get to stay in the

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Speaker 1: village for the two weeks anymore. I think that's what

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Speaker 1: kick you out after you. Yeah, compete, So you can.

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Speaker 3: Say, look, Pete and Lisa will put me up and

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Speaker 3: hang around a bit longer. You could maybe do the

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Speaker 3: lawns or maybe work on the.

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Speaker 1: Cold call. I'll just give him a cold call and.

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Speaker 3: I'd appreciate that. How are you going with the new coach,

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Speaker 3: Joe Schmidt? Is he good?

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Speaker 1: Well, he's he was appointed one last last Friday, I

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Speaker 1: think Thursday or Friday. So look, I think he's got

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Speaker 1: great pedigree where he's come from and what he's seen

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Speaker 1: over the last ten years. So you know, in terms

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Speaker 1: of any advice, you know, don't do what we did

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Speaker 1: last year.

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Speaker 3: Well that's a step up.

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Speaker 4: So is it a bit of a kiss sort of

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Speaker 4: stage at the moments, like when you get a new

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Speaker 4: boss at a radio station.

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Speaker 3: You know you've got to do a little bit of

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Speaker 3: kiss bum in the first week.

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Speaker 1: Are you in that stage?

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Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, no, he still doesn't.

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Speaker 4: I've been in radio, so I love this. Coming up

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Speaker 4: this weekend, it will be my thirty fourth.

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Speaker 3: Year in radio.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of bum kissing.

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Speaker 3: How many program directors I've seen in that time, I've.

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Speaker 2: Seen thirty Fourwllen.

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Speaker 3: I'm great at kissing bum.

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Speaker 1: Look, look, I think honestly for the players who are

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Speaker 1: going to be selected this year, just play as good

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Speaker 1: as rugby as as possibly can. That's your best way

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Speaker 1: to kiss bumb That's.

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Speaker 3: Your best way to kiss bum. I love it.

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Speaker 4: Well, Michael, that's some I'm hoping to see that in

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Speaker 4: the commentary box, not the kissing bumba. You can watch

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Speaker 4: all the action this long weekend live and add free

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Speaker 4: on stand Sport. Michael Hooper, thank you and get better.

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Speaker 3: With your leg.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, thanks a lot, nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Bye.