July 23, 2024 • 41 mins
James McOnie joins us to give a shambolic rundown of Paris, we reflect on our favourite moments and Aerobic Oz Style. We react to some classic moments from Sports Cafe, Marc's Team Bulgaria apology, our Jonah Lomu interview and more!
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Ric Salizzo, Marc Ellis and Leigh Hart catch up to (uniquely) discuss sporting issues of the day, create havoc, welcome in special guests; and find time to look back with insight, and lay blame for moments from the popular Sports Cafe TV show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm hearing some feedback in my headphones.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I've got some feedback. This show is fucking awful.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
A lot of negative I am as well.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But negative feedback. So don't worry about the start up.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Right all right, I would never seen the feedback.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Now for the thousands in attendance and the millions around
the world who wish they could be here, ladies and gentlemen,
let's get ready for sports carpe.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, let's get into it. Like Welcome to the DA,
the sports cape is. We've got a special guest with
us today. Apart from Lee and Mecca, James mcconey is
joining us live from Paris with the Olympics are about
to start.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Welcome James, Oh Killer, A bien venue from gay Pali
and a beautiful place that it is?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You lost?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Your sun is shining. What's that you've lost? You've lost me?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, they're shooting the river.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Does that interesting? Yeah? That's interesting?
Speaker 6 (01:16):
An absolute class. I can't see anything, I can only
hear it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You picked your camera anymore? You picked your camera. You've
done something to your camera.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've got to read you in the session when I
was trying to look at the notes.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, don't do anything else. Every time you do that,
that steps it up.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
All right, I'll tell you what I should do because
I should see you later and then get out of
there and then whisper whisper backstages.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, So when you're doing this, can you try not
to answer your texts and and sort of check your
Facebook feed and stuff like that. Can you just focus?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Sort of thought I had that under control?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Wreck the focusing?
Speaker 7 (01:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh no, just you know new age it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Can I ask you all a question, like with the
Olympics coming up, what is what's your favorite ever Olympic moment.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
For who? Me or Mark or Lee, all three of you?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Just someone come in with a favorite Olympics.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
It's got to be got to be John Walker with
the with the main with Rob Dixon and Dick Quacks,
the three of them, you know, the late seventies, early eighties,
but Johnny Walker coming through and sort of breaking the
line there to win. That was at eight hundred or
fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It was the fifteen hundred, and I don't think either
Rod Dixon or Dick Quacks were in that race. I
think they raced in the five thousand.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
How do you become a great middle distance runner, how
sit in the bath to your bick quacks.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Totally worth it, only worth it for me, possibly Ferguson
and McDonald. You know they look like robots out there.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It was just ridiculous how in sync they were. Some
boy bands would just strive and never actually get that synchronized.
They were incredible. And then live Nick Willis. I know
he only won bronze on the night, but when I
was there, I was like, yeah, here we go, the
black singleer is back in the fifteen hundred. That was
pretty cool. In the bird's nest.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And what about you, Lee, what's yours?
Speaker 9 (03:35):
Yeah, I think you guys might remember this. It was
that the day after my wedding, we watched Swindows and yeah,
when they got their medals, remember with two separate Olympics
Shepard Olympics. Yeah, but it was specially after the wedding.
(04:00):
It would have been Athens. It was a big night
at my wedding and then the next day it kind
of blurred into a day two kind of thing and
they were part of.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That on the big screen at the pub.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
It's a bit of a blur after that, but yeah,
that would probably be It was pretty emotional.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, he was Commonwealth Games.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, but he was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It was beautiful. So mine was nineteen seventy six, Olympics
nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It was Jack Lovelock thirty six in front of that.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, that was funny. That was just after your twenty first,
wasn't it right? You know? Like le it was he's
got a memory after his marriage and yeah, j.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Jesse hey Rick Rick was coming. Jack, jolly good show, Jack.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, all right, back off, will you? It was
seventy six and I was watching Nadia common Each get
perfect ten and the women's gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
How old were you I was.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm not going to tell you how old I am
because then people know how old I am. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, no, I mean, we're just trying to entertain.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Really, I was fourteen. I was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You certainly wasn't for her sporting performances.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, she was, she was fifteen, and I was very impressed.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I remember the old man coming in and catching me
watching aerobics ho style at like on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Oh how good was that show?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
So it's the same gim of fashion exactly, the same swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I was watching athletic performance, not not like that blond
lady doing Arabic ODS style.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Iffy was your name? Don't with that?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Blond lady married the executive of the show in the end,
and she became the main every people out there.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 9 (06:10):
Ye watching that kids show high five that that could
be quite quite.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Quite quite good one, you know, the one.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
With the the you know, not obviously as an adult,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Just I've got a question.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, I've got a Christian who was the guy who
hosted the aerobics show before Aerobics ODS Style, Not Richard Simmons,
but he was in the Bahamas and he had like
a group of other aerobics people behind him, and he
was in a sort of tight jumpsuit himself.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Anyway, Yeah, can I can I bring this back to
the Olympics. James is obviously comparis at the moment. We
were lucky enough to send Leehart to Athens to cover
the Ethens and the sports cafe. We've sort of the
other problems with that guy. He's absolutely in Athens. Now
(07:05):
that guy are you are you there? That guy in
Athens the time here alive standing by it.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
G give us a rundown.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I made.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Is it true that the athletes used to eat sheep's
testes to get you know, a bit of a bit
of a buzz before the games?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yes, Mark, you are indeed correct there that information.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
You've done your research well the ancient Greeks, of course, yes,
they did at the early Olympic Games each sheep's testicles,
of course, for the testosterone, the hormone. It helped them
with their performance, of course. And then that's pretty much
what everyone here is talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Why do they why did they stop eating eating the naggers?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Over and later on?
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Of course they started testing for the hormone, so they
had to be a little more discreet about it. They
started using other other forms of testosterone like hamster or
guinea pigs testicles, and which of course we're a lot
how to detect, especially if you're canon around.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Thanks that guy, that's give us an incredible insight into
the element. No, thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
The money that can be saved these days with the
green stream.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, the same issues every Olympics.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Isn't it what sheep's testies?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Wow?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Drugs and performance open seeing genetics? Male testosterone?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Is it male? Is it female? You know? Can stuff?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Can we get into the bigger controversy was that during
the Ethns Olympics you went actually in Athens like that
was filmed like three months before the Athens Olympics.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Oh, no week or so before. But that's a technical thing.
It's a small technical thing. I couldn't be everywhere at once,
reckon getting some distance on the Games. I thought gave
a unique perspective. Often does. I mean, I did the
Beijing ones from Disneyland, LA, so it gives you idea.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I know I've said this before, but I would have
thought that the Olympics could be really spiced up a
we but and you know, if we just said a
clart blanche removal of any issue for any legislation against steroids,
and we just slip you, I mean, which which Olympics
are You're watching?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The Steian Olympics or the natural Olympics.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I just want to see it go about one hundred
meters and six seconds and explode like a fly on
a winterring.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That yeah, all right, there's a guy who's doing that?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Is it a German bloker? A billionaire who's decided to
have those Olympics? And I thought for the show, I
better check on here and I turned on the TV
to watch the sports channel. Here they keep sports and
all they had was no Olympics, but they did have
the World's Strongest Man event and they step inside VD
beatle car for about thirty meters. Yes, can you we
(09:49):
all start amka?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, but on their shoulder, guys, James Is and Paris
and you were supposed to tell us something about the Olympics,
not not about strongest men and stuff like what's what
do you think, what's going to happen in the Olympics?
Who what should we look out for? Who that where's
the medals going to come from? Where's some expert analysis.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
To the winners?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yes, and mostly Chack and Field medals, I think from
being the Sun Olympics. Well, no, that you asked where
the Olympic medals coming from? LI said Charlay Gold, and
I said mostly Chack and Field.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
On brons, isn't it forty percent go to the USA
or thirty percent and then another thirty percent go to
China and then there's a lolly scramble for the other
thirty odd forty percent.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Of gold, thirty three percent of silver, about three percent
of bronze.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I've done I've done some research and that most people
prefer gold one. Yeah, So for New Zealand, the chances
of gold are in the woman's K one five hundred
with correct Lisa Carrington and Amy Fisher head the head.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's going to be an absolute showdown there, huge James,
who you got, I don't know. I think Amy Fisher
is going to be tough to beat in that. But
we'll see the goat could just I could do it.
It's too tough to.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Just and just bring it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And then at least Andrews and the woman cycling yep, yep,
she's up there, and and the sprint team's pretty good
yeah as well with Rebecca Pitch is in there as
well from Taomutu. And then we've got the obviously the
two sevens teams that they'll be battling for gold hopefully.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah. They've underestimated of I know that article you've printed out, Rick,
I think that it's done by some data company. I
think they've underestimated us the sixteen medals of forecast.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know, I just scribbled a whole of the names down.
That's not an article.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
As much as I love the ruggy Sevens, I just
don't think the ancient Greeks would have probably contemplated that
being part of what they started.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So I'm going to go a step further back.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
And this is no disrespect to any of the teams
that we've got in there that are team based sports.
I mean, I'm going to go as far as even hockey,
football's in there, rugby seven's, tennis. You know, I like
the field, like traditional stuff. But look, I'm all behind
those teams and if God you're getting, you're going to
(12:28):
go for it. And we've got some great teams there,
but I don't really see teams you know, eight ten
eleven members in it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It doesn't feel right for me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But they used to have tag of war at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, why bloody great events, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:45):
I mean, James you'd be and caped Rick you'd be,
you know, pulling the gun, and Le'd be right up
the front pulling faces.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It'll be ship what a team if.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
You like some of What about that red light green
light from good Game? That was a good that would
be amazing at the Olympics. Have you seen squad game.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Stop you stop.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Otherwise taken out by an archer or something like that?
But what about in that movie Apocalypto where they run
the gauntlet and you've got javelin throwers throwing the javelin
and you've got to try and get to the end,
but they all throw it once, you know, and you're
doing It's just called Apocalypto, And.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Like the questions to the lines, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Can we yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Can we know?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
We're not really getting anywhere that's going to help the Olympics.
Where else do you see the medals coming from? James?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I think our athletics team is stronger than it's been
for a long time. So Hamish Kerr and the high
jumps good or great. Really, we've got really good middle
distance runners. James Preston broke Peter Snell's record which stood
for over half a century just the other day. But
it's still an amazing time. And so the eight hundred
(14:03):
is not bad. Fifteen hundred we've got old Sam Tana,
I think Tory Peters and the javelin's good. So yeah,
look out for athletics, and of course Tom Walsh, you know,
he's always going to be in the mix. And I
think in the pool we've got well you asked for
this and we've got Eric Affair with Lewis Claire and
even Hazel Our hand in the and the Butterfly is
(14:25):
good as well, So I mean, let's be those are
the two biggest events our hand. Yeah, yeah, hand it's
a Dutch name. Yeah, what about six foot three?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What about No, he's not that in the in the
track and field, like in the sprints. I've been watching
that Netflix show Sprinter, so that's going to be yeh,
We've got Noah Lyles, Jakarie Richardson, Shrieka Jackson.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You're reading that from it, You're reading that from a
last rack.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I know, I wrote them down. It's called research preparations.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Which is the most arduous of all all check and its,
which is the most physically daunting and painful.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I used to hate the eight the eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Before because little legs I wreck.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
A few years ago on another sports show, Olympico, I
brought up this issue and again it doesn't go away.
Interesting to get the panel's thought on this, Jimmy Wellson
itself and discussing this point, is it time to have
a designated Caucasian lane and say hundred meters ts, you know,
just on the side, so you've always got a DC
(15:36):
album The Ginger Guy in.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Hyper Olympics, remember the ginger Nobody effects?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Eating with the best you know how can improve it?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, do you think you're fine. One of the things
that happened on the show that probably calls me the
most grief was was showing up to work and being
met by an American lawyer who had accused us of
breaking into one of the Well it was a male
and they accused us of breaking into the America's cup base.
(16:17):
And well it was a fair accusation because you had
I told you to just go and visit on the
boat and have a look back at it. You broke
into it. So we had to apologize. And here's the apology.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, somebody gave us.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Somebody gave us a boat when I was alone duck
shooting boats to you know, to skim on the really
shallow ponds, and it fed it under the wall perfectly.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Security had contemplated that you'll get shot.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Just look back at t bulg area.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
It was all bear and skipples for the Brave Bulgarian
franchise until three of the organization were breaking into the
secure area of America.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
True, it was our player preds.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
I want to tell you that that was the most
just incredibly horrible thing you could have done to us.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now what happens to us?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
What about if you're just qualified. Our course was to
make a peace, not war, and now you're gonna have
to apologize.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
This is via americanas yaa alloy from Saint Bulgaria, even
Bush or not my landa pusk Crika.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
There's been a Travis Stave justice and we're partly responsible.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Troy gorgostakers.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
In our country and the campaign.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Nika done is natas debtor.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, and now it's time for those responsible to step
forward and take their punishment.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Like men, I've got a confession to make. That wasn't
the real Ralph. That was a step and you can
tell by his movements that they weren't quite as.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Fluid as Mecca is that is that now a captain
of industry or maybe even the like a local body
politician or something like that.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Well, we tried to actually spread the room. It was
Paul homes back of the day. So we we got
Paul to put the bask on.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And we did a toka through made that little mole
on the in of his nose.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah, and we did a Who's Ralph and there was
just a little moles showing, so there was all sorts
of conject show that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It was actually poor, but next it wasn't tonight you
should be.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
A full documentary on us.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, who.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Funded?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
What are you amazing?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What are you sitting on?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Are you sitting on the swing?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, yeah, it's at the airport though, are you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And the kids playground paid for it?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I'm in a pope bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Right and we're about we're about to are you what?
What country?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
You?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
And and Italy and Puya down down the opposite Naples right, lovely,
lovely place. Yesterday I should have seen some pottery tree
blew out a fifteen meted jump sixteen ection.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Thank yeah, bet you were you Lee.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
I'm in Germany the head down Spain way shortly on
researching documentary at the moment where the Hitler may have
survived the war actually faked death.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know you've seen that before.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
But and you spend on it would be one hundred
and forty now if you had, But so it's just
kind of pointless.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But yeah, he may have done. But look, I'll look
into it and and see what we can make of it.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Well, what about the children that he had the problem
with the class that didn't he he wasn't firing.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That's why he wasn't.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Really, I've actually interviewed someone who actually has one of.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The pumps of one of Heitler's Alsatians. Well, you know,
the same lineage. So we're going to meet them, and
so the alsation is probably the.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Great great great great great great great great grand.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Pup of one of Hitler's question. That's trier question on dogs.
Which dog has the greatest biting pressure? Little surprise you, kay, No,
I'm probably going to go with you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
You're husky.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Yeah, is.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
One of those, you know, one of those one of
those dogs like Slash out of Boss Hoole.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Bloodhound bloodhound, but the bloodhound is a bigger but the
floppy thing with the short, stumpy legs, it's got the
biggest biting pressure of any dog, thank you. Basically, it's
equivalent to calling a tiger shark if it had a
bigger mouth of the turtle in half.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Okay, if it had a bigger mouth and could swim.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, all right now, reshid be a bike.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's very interesting that you talk about the.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
T a b we before you before you get going right.
I interviewed a Hitler before. There were some Hitlers and
Evan Dale and Auckland. I just looked and I found
them in the book and and I I thought this
would make a good story. I was working for Sunday
News at the time, and I thought I'd go and
see the Hitlers.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Hey, can you guys suck up about Hitler.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Don't get this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Talking about the whole subject, and let me get back
to the TV.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It was a prick of a man. Let's just be
clear about that. They're not friends him. Yeah, it was
an Asshold what about idiot men?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, just away from dictators.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Okay, no.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Whole pot.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Let's just clarify one thing. Dictators aren't funny, and we're
not going to make any jokes about dictators.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Kim Jongen was quite funny.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
No, no dictator jokes. We've got to have a line,
and that's the line. No evil dictator jokes. Like, let's
just let's just clear things up a little bit. Let's
just relax. Let's just watch one of our greatest guests
on the shows, Jonah.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
It's you know, just getting the opportunity, you know, to
improve my game planning against playing with those guys. You know,
it's just just realizing that, you know, during the World Cup,
you know, playing around players like the caliber of Christian Color,
Tang and alamor me sort of improves my game that
much and heaving me to perform every week every day.
You know, it's just going to help me try and
(23:36):
take myself to another level to improve on my own game.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
And you come from Weeksley College and the you're talented.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
When you're really young, people are going, man, just check
this guy out.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Have you seen anyone else let a young that that's
come through and people are saying, wow, watch out for
this person.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Or baby sister, Baby sister, she's really quick at taking
off of someone's turkey.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Lega, what's those turkeys?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What about?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
What about? I mean, let's not dwell on the World Cup,
but I mean, do you ever get over something like that.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
You don't really get over them.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
You you sort of like take what you need from
it and then you you dump the rest of it
and and you carry on because you know, if you
the more you dwell on it, the more it's going
to ficture.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Say for the All Blacks or whatever, what's what's the
try You've enjoyed the most.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Of the Jordan the most.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Actually, I've enjoyed all of them just but the biggest
enjoyment for me is just playful playing and representing my country,
you know.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That's that's the biggest thing of it.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
I could say that.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You know, any musical and rugby player could.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Have lucky enough to have a lot of great guests
on the show. And one of the things that really
struck me actually is looking back over the last sort
of you know, ten years or whatever we did the show,
a lot of people aren't with us anymore, you know,
so like Joana obviously been one of them. Good chance
to to segue nicely into the t a B. Now
I had our money and I put one hundred bucks
(25:05):
down and I lost all of it again again, Yeah
you put it on. So I bet against the r
Blacks like you told me to which was done. I
bet one, yeah, well that's what Mark told me to do.
And then I bet on sever to score two tries.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
And Jesus, sorry, mate, I'm just my studior has just
falling over. I'm silly using it to prop the tray up.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Sorry, So I put I put another hundred bucks down
this week on on the Yankees to win. I've put
some money. I've had a bet on the big big race,
the woman's four hundred meters freestyle at the Olympics, which
is Ladki versus Timus versus Macintosh, which is cool. I
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went with young Macintosh, the Canadian. I think she.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Might's a good shower. Yeah, great shout.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
She's been doing a lot of cold water training.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
What's that it's still like, well, it's basically jumping into
its wood hot You heard of him, Rick, Yes, I have.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, there's deep breathing in very in clement confession.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
She's been swimming four hundred meters basically in conditions and
then when you get in the warm water, of course
your body is that much more supple, you're not cramping,
and the.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Pain fact that you just don't feel pain.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
And it's an endurance event for four hundred meters, So
new form of training, and she's been obviously there's some.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Pretty cold lakes, how girly Canada. That's what she's been doing.
And I think that's a great bet.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Can I ask you you're telling the truth? Are you lying?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No? I'm telling the truth, mate.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
I mean, you know the you know the ice bars
that people are getting into these days. The contrast arapeple
It makes good sense, doesn't it make sense? Absolute sense.
You've got freezing, frigid you know, they're cutting basically, you know,
you know the movie, the kids movie Ice.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Age, not Ice Age with Elsa frozen frozen. Yeah, they're
soaring through the ice and.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Creating a channel you know, funds not exactly, and she's
swimming that entire How.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Do you know that? How do you know?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I do my research.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Like seals, you know, or do gongs or what do
you call sea cows or they swim and cold water.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
They're usually covered with it, like about two inches of
pet over part of their body.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, of warm water.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Animals ran lands are quite ungainly, you know, and they uncoordinated,
but once they get in the water, they turned into
it's a whole New World team.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well, you don't know, you don't want to know what
you know? To Pa you go and see Captain Catchers
and on what they do to it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, don't don't go there, please, We've we've talked about that.
It just brings it just brings back memories that I
just don't like to deal with.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
So Rick you mentioned Summer Macintosh, who's the phenom from Canada,
seventeen year old swimmer. Apparently Matt Richards from Great Britain
is going to be the closest thing to Phelps or
whatever he's He's going to win a few medals in
the pool as well. So there you go, there's something
for you.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Games. You're in You're in France, you're in Paris.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Yeah, what's the river situation, because weren't they talking about
having some of the open water swimming events in the river?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The mayor of Paris had had a swim in the
same the other day the river here saying it's totally fine.
But I haven't seen her yet, like whether she's surfaced
or not. It was three days ago. Is she okay?
How's your health? But it's the triathlon and open water
swimming is in there. But there's also some French protesters
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are vowed to even though they've tried to remove all
the ship, they've threatened to take a dump in the
sin as well to reringnew to replenish it add to it.
But as far as I know, all of our athletes,
the key With athletes are avowed to swim on undertred
undert yeah, undertoed the.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Dropping moon fish according to a calendar that made them
all meat at the same place with the tide.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Wasn't that right?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Like on social media they said, like, if you live,
you know, three kilometers up the sin, you need to
drop it at this time in order for them all
to coordinate meeting when the mayor or the like.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Converience.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
They were on social media they showed the water current
and the time that it took floats to come down,
and so if you live thirty k up stream, you'd
have to do it on Wednesday night in order the
Friday morning release you'd be you know, thousands of them
are converging at the same spot.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
It's amazing what you can do with social media, isn't it?
Going for a record?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
You got a nampy, you're swimming, you're going to the
home stretch and you're like a nappy or something on
your head or something.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Hey, Mecca, Mecca, can you remember talking about driving? Can
you remember when we went driving and you made me
get stuck over the traffic island?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, yeah, there was a it was green lane and
they were putting in sort of a medium.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Barrier and you didn't.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
You didn't attack it on the right angle or with
enough gusta and you suld of got plumped on top
of it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, well you told me that, like I shouldn't have
gone over it in the first place. It wasn't it
wasn't doable and.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Should have No, you just don't go over it on
that angle. You go over it like that.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Well, let's have a look. I've got some proof under
the award that we have to give it for a
little bit of bad navigation, and I've got to admit
some slightly bad driving. Coming back from the rugby on
Saturday evening a bit of a traffic jam, and Mark
allis uh, wouldn't I say, suggested that we try and
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drive over the traffic islands. Driver I ever know you.
Here's the tow truck driver that we called, which also
got stranded on the traffic island because of my bad driving.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
His idea was the drive for traffic island.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Well you're in a four wheel drive, mate, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
In a four wheel drive and it's not supposed to
go over traffic islands and downs big crevass.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Well, any idiot would have been able to do it.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Well, I who's done idea?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Was it? So?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
It was my boss? If I tell you to jump
a cliff, you'll give it an age, will you.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Possible?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Obviously we're in a little bit caught down the heaven
driver damned behind us.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, that is fake. I mean we rank images. I'm
sure you were given possibly some bad advice.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
Hold on, get out, clown, you know here those things
are people are gonna get on the.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Street. Your enuity.
Speaker 11 (32:23):
It was just a matter of getting a hits together
ready and coming up with a tragedy and.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Over a stool there, Yeah, to see it was it was.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Your Actually, this is lovely. I've been joined by some
young nippers. They were on the swings with me.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Now, it was never gonna be an easy show to
do that.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
That's beautiful. Have you have you come prepared with something
that's made you feel good this week?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Anyone?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Well, I can start. I was in San Diego for
that rugby game, the All Blacks versus Figi, and the
enthusiasm that American fans showed for rugby. Just they don't
even know the game as well as us as something
we need to basically replicate. I mean, we've got no
atmosphere in an All Blacks test, you can pretty much
(33:26):
yell across the stadium to a mate on the other
side and the other stand at an All Blacks game,
and the amount of noise from those American fans I
thought was awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think it's the culture of American sport that the
fans feel already connected to the event, so they feel
like they can get involved, that they can influence it,
and stuff like that. Was you think historically, if you
look at rugby, we're encouraged not to boo when people
care and all that sort of stuff. In fact, a
lot of countries it's now silenced. It's just a cultural difference,
and I think what the Americans do is awesome. They
(33:58):
sort of say get involved and basketball, when you're shooting
a three point free throw, they want you to yell
and try and put the person off. You know, it's
just a different mindset. I love it. What about you
Lee anything that's.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Look again, that's way sand wishes me this question.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
But I'll just say this, much as much as I'm
sort of I wouldn't say anti or social media and
all this sort of modern technology and now that sound real.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Old school here, but being able to do this.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Actually, you know, formats us can actually get on online
to get and make a really bad podcast is actually
quite quite quite a cool feeling and quite fun, and
I'm sort of warming to it. I've been dreading this
every week, but it's actually getting easier. Idiot, And yeah,
I mean that's a positive. I'm slowly going shit, that
is so bad. This is quite fun, you know, catching up.
(34:46):
I wouldn't have seen you guys for a while if
I hadn't done this, So that's great, that's actually quite nice.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, it was hard to help. I sorry.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Went to a look a place called Monopoly and there's
like the cliffs jumping thing where Red Bull do they
cliffed up jumping, but it's off the beautiful Italian sort
of castles.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
And this kid climbed the hill and he timed grew
very high. I think he got up to eighteen meters
and he had a fat friend.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Not body shape shaming, but he wasn't quite as capable
of climbing, and in his indeavor at climb the ad meters,
he fell.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He didn't hurt himself. He sort of fell for about
nine meters, but he did land flat on his back.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
And just before he had done that, the other guy
got to the eighteen meters and he was giving the
crowd the old and he was whooping up, so the
whole crowd was getting invite.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Everyone was in the water. It was like human soup,
about two hundred people in the water carrying him.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
And then the big feller fell and did a backflop,
and the whole crowd by that stage was not on
their toes but cheering.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And then this guy that it would have.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Been fifteen when eighteen meters up, stood on the edge
of this thing and just fell backwards, and we thought, well,
here comes like a maybe a death defying backflop, but
he just did the full loop and straight in like
a pin feet first.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
To these in Monopoly in po.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yeah, yeah, we all jumped off like the ten meter.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
But it was again I did that with my young
lad and it's quite nice to get to the age
where your kid's got a little bit more balls in
you and he's sort of trying to push the boundary
of going off told maybe as you say, novel call
it quips.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
There the passing of the torch as well, that was
a lovely moment.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
But what happened to the big fellow. Did he did
he survive?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Oh yeah he did. He certainly got the stuff knock
out of him. But I think the fact that the
ground was behind him, he was pretty embarrassed. He sort
of got helped off to the rocks and clung there
for a while and he fell the sort of pale
and significant when his mate in the back of the
back of them they made us up freedom.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
So the good part for you was the big guy
falling over or the or the good guy doing the dive, which.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Both of them.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I mean, it was absolute theater.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
I mean, it wouldn't have been as good as the
fact that I didn't fallen on his back, nor would
have been as good if that had been the only thing, right,
intellible still there, right.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
So my one was just you know, James referred to
the San Diego game. Well, young Hotham made his debut
in that game, and watching him was his sister Jasmine,
who was watching Who's part of the Black Fern seven?
And uh and this is who watching her brother make
his debut. This is cool, y god, Jesse, I reckon.
(38:24):
It's just a great reminder that not only what it
means for the people that make their debuts will play
for the Or Blacks or go to the Olympics and stuff,
but what it means for their families, for their parents,
for their for their brothers and sisters and stuff like that.
I mean, you know, I can imagine your dad and
mum were pretty excited when you made your first game
for the All Blacks. Mecca.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Oh sorry, yeah, Mecca, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I was just thinking about that, just thinking.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I mean, obviously I was never there to see how
they reacted, but they're always pretty low key, so I'd
imagine at home they might have been a couple of
good show. But yeah, I was just imagining. I mean,
being an only child and have any brothers listeners, they
would have.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
One thing that we need to do for this podcast
is we need a sort of a name for our
supporters group. So I don't know if you want to
send in some names on social media. You know, we
used to call the supporters group in the old days
the Loose Cannons. But whether there's a better name than that,
you know, whether someone can send in the name that
we should call our supporters group. So you've got any ideas,
(39:27):
send them through you talk to us listeners, talking to
the listeners and the viewers on YouTube. But you know,
if you've got any names, chuck them in.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Sure is there a prize for it?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Is there a price for it? No, it's just the
opportunity to to sort of have your name put forward
and sort of locked in as history.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You're one team size people these days online.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, well the prize is listening to another one of
your stories worth it.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I was gonna say, Noah Hopan was incredible as a
sub in that game. I thought he was played so well.
But also fun fact there were five ex Hamilton Boys
High students playing in that test match. He had Noah Quarters,
Latima in Morning, Nadawa Sevu Reese and Caleb Monts for Fiji.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Is that fine? Sure?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You watch a lot of sports, don't you.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, Like I went to that school.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I went to that school. So Nigel, Nigel, Noah's dad
has just quit or resigned as first fifteen coach and
he's had an incredible record, was like eighty five percent
win record.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
And uh, sorry there, James, James, I think you've I
think you've mistaken this for a normal sports show, like
like like none of the people on this can go
back to now, can I just show you this is
(41:03):
my birthday cake? Thank you very much. Sorry, I'll enjoy
my birthcake on my own. Well do you guys enjoy Europe.
We're going to finish now. Thank you very much and
good night. Thank you very much for joining us, you
strange people, and thank you James. Enjoy the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Thank you, guys. Lovely to see you.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
This is where the podcast ends.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
For it.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Happy birthday mate, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
You've got about four good summers there
I'm hearing some feedback in my headphones.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I've got some feedback. This show is fucking awful.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
A lot of negative I am as well.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But negative feedback. So don't worry about the start up.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Right all right, I would never seen the feedback.
Speaker 5 (00:22):
Now for the thousands in attendance and the millions around
the world who wish they could be here, ladies and gentlemen,
let's get ready for sports carpe.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay, let's get into it. Like Welcome to the DA,
the sports cape is. We've got a special guest with
us today. Apart from Lee and Mecca, James mcconey is
joining us live from Paris with the Olympics are about
to start.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Welcome James, Oh Killer, A bien venue from gay Pali
and a beautiful place that it is?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You lost?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Your sun is shining. What's that you've lost? You've lost me?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, they're shooting the river.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Does that interesting? Yeah? That's interesting?
Speaker 6 (01:16):
An absolute class. I can't see anything, I can only
hear it.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You picked your camera anymore? You picked your camera. You've
done something to your camera.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I've got to read you in the session when I
was trying to look at the notes.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, don't do anything else. Every time you do that,
that steps it up.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
All right, I'll tell you what I should do because
I should see you later and then get out of
there and then whisper whisper backstages.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, So when you're doing this, can you try not
to answer your texts and and sort of check your
Facebook feed and stuff like that. Can you just focus?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Sort of thought I had that under control?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Wreck the focusing?
Speaker 7 (01:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh no, just you know new age it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Can I ask you all a question, like with the
Olympics coming up, what is what's your favorite ever Olympic moment.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
For who? Me or Mark or Lee, all three of you?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Just someone come in with a favorite Olympics.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
It's got to be got to be John Walker with
the with the main with Rob Dixon and Dick Quacks,
the three of them, you know, the late seventies, early eighties,
but Johnny Walker coming through and sort of breaking the
line there to win. That was at eight hundred or
fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It was the fifteen hundred, and I don't think either
Rod Dixon or Dick Quacks were in that race. I
think they raced in the five thousand.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
How do you become a great middle distance runner, how
sit in the bath to your bick quacks.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Totally worth it, only worth it for me, possibly Ferguson
and McDonald. You know they look like robots out there.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It was just ridiculous how in sync they were. Some
boy bands would just strive and never actually get that synchronized.
They were incredible. And then live Nick Willis. I know
he only won bronze on the night, but when I
was there, I was like, yeah, here we go, the
black singleer is back in the fifteen hundred. That was
pretty cool. In the bird's nest.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And what about you, Lee, what's yours?
Speaker 9 (03:35):
Yeah, I think you guys might remember this. It was
that the day after my wedding, we watched Swindows and yeah,
when they got their medals, remember with two separate Olympics
Shepard Olympics. Yeah, but it was specially after the wedding.
(04:00):
It would have been Athens. It was a big night
at my wedding and then the next day it kind
of blurred into a day two kind of thing and
they were part of.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That on the big screen at the pub.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
It's a bit of a blur after that, but yeah,
that would probably be It was pretty emotional.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, he was Commonwealth Games.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, but he was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It was beautiful. So mine was nineteen seventy six, Olympics
nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
It was Jack Lovelock thirty six in front of that.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, that was funny. That was just after your twenty first,
wasn't it right? You know? Like le it was he's
got a memory after his marriage and yeah, j.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Jesse hey Rick Rick was coming. Jack, jolly good show, Jack.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, all right, back off, will you? It was
seventy six and I was watching Nadia common Each get
perfect ten and the women's gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
How old were you I was.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm not going to tell you how old I am
because then people know how old I am. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, no, I mean, we're just trying to entertain.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Really, I was fourteen. I was fourteen.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You certainly wasn't for her sporting performances.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah, she was, she was fifteen, and I was very impressed.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I remember the old man coming in and catching me
watching aerobics ho style at like on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Oh how good was that show?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
So it's the same gim of fashion exactly, the same swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I was watching athletic performance, not not like that blond
lady doing Arabic ODS style.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Iffy was your name? Don't with that?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Blond lady married the executive of the show in the end,
and she became the main every people out there.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 9 (06:10):
Ye watching that kids show high five that that could
be quite quite.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Quite quite good one, you know, the one.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
With the the you know, not obviously as an adult,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Just I've got a question.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, I've got a Christian who was the guy who
hosted the aerobics show before Aerobics ODS Style, Not Richard Simmons,
but he was in the Bahamas and he had like
a group of other aerobics people behind him, and he
was in a sort of tight jumpsuit himself.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Anyway, Yeah, can I can I bring this back to
the Olympics. James is obviously comparis at the moment. We
were lucky enough to send Leehart to Athens to cover
the Ethens and the sports cafe. We've sort of the
other problems with that guy. He's absolutely in Athens. Now
(07:05):
that guy are you are you there? That guy in
Athens the time here alive standing by it.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
G give us a rundown.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I made.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Is it true that the athletes used to eat sheep's
testes to get you know, a bit of a bit
of a buzz before the games?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yes, Mark, you are indeed correct there that information.
Speaker 10 (07:25):
You've done your research well the ancient Greeks, of course, yes,
they did at the early Olympic Games each sheep's testicles,
of course, for the testosterone, the hormone. It helped them
with their performance, of course. And then that's pretty much
what everyone here is talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Why do they why did they stop eating eating the naggers?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Over and later on?
Speaker 10 (07:45):
Of course they started testing for the hormone, so they
had to be a little more discreet about it. They
started using other other forms of testosterone like hamster or
guinea pigs testicles, and which of course we're a lot
how to detect, especially if you're canon around.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Thanks that guy, that's give us an incredible insight into
the element. No, thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
The money that can be saved these days with the
green stream.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, the same issues every Olympics.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Isn't it what sheep's testies?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Wow?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Drugs and performance open seeing genetics? Male testosterone?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Is it male? Is it female? You know? Can stuff?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Can we get into the bigger controversy was that during
the Ethns Olympics you went actually in Athens like that
was filmed like three months before the Athens Olympics.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Oh, no week or so before. But that's a technical thing.
It's a small technical thing. I couldn't be everywhere at once,
reckon getting some distance on the Games. I thought gave
a unique perspective. Often does. I mean, I did the
Beijing ones from Disneyland, LA, so it gives you idea.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I know I've said this before, but I would have
thought that the Olympics could be really spiced up a
we but and you know, if we just said a
clart blanche removal of any issue for any legislation against steroids,
and we just slip you, I mean, which which Olympics
are You're watching?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
The Steian Olympics or the natural Olympics.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I just want to see it go about one hundred
meters and six seconds and explode like a fly on
a winterring.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That yeah, all right, there's a guy who's doing that?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Is it a German bloker? A billionaire who's decided to
have those Olympics? And I thought for the show, I
better check on here and I turned on the TV
to watch the sports channel. Here they keep sports and
all they had was no Olympics, but they did have
the World's Strongest Man event and they step inside VD
beatle car for about thirty meters. Yes, can you we
(09:49):
all start amka?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, but on their shoulder, guys, James Is and Paris
and you were supposed to tell us something about the Olympics,
not not about strongest men and stuff like what's what
do you think, what's going to happen in the Olympics?
Who what should we look out for? Who that where's
the medals going to come from? Where's some expert analysis.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
To the winners?
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yes, and mostly Chack and Field medals, I think from
being the Sun Olympics. Well, no, that you asked where
the Olympic medals coming from? LI said Charlay Gold, and
I said mostly Chack and Field.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
On brons, isn't it forty percent go to the USA
or thirty percent and then another thirty percent go to
China and then there's a lolly scramble for the other
thirty odd forty percent.
Speaker 9 (10:45):
Of gold, thirty three percent of silver, about three percent
of bronze.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I've done I've done some research and that most people
prefer gold one. Yeah, So for New Zealand, the chances
of gold are in the woman's K one five hundred
with correct Lisa Carrington and Amy Fisher head the head.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's going to be an absolute showdown there, huge James,
who you got, I don't know. I think Amy Fisher
is going to be tough to beat in that. But
we'll see the goat could just I could do it.
It's too tough to.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Just and just bring it.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And then at least Andrews and the woman cycling yep, yep,
she's up there, and and the sprint team's pretty good
yeah as well with Rebecca Pitch is in there as
well from Taomutu. And then we've got the obviously the
two sevens teams that they'll be battling for gold hopefully.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah. They've underestimated of I know that article you've printed out, Rick,
I think that it's done by some data company. I
think they've underestimated us the sixteen medals of forecast.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know, I just scribbled a whole of the names down.
That's not an article.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
As much as I love the ruggy Sevens, I just
don't think the ancient Greeks would have probably contemplated that
being part of what they started.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So I'm going to go a step further back.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
And this is no disrespect to any of the teams
that we've got in there that are team based sports.
I mean, I'm going to go as far as even hockey,
football's in there, rugby seven's, tennis. You know, I like
the field, like traditional stuff. But look, I'm all behind
those teams and if God you're getting, you're going to
(12:28):
go for it. And we've got some great teams there,
but I don't really see teams you know, eight ten
eleven members in it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It doesn't feel right for me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
But they used to have tag of war at the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, why bloody great events, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
You know?
Speaker 6 (12:45):
I mean, James you'd be and caped Rick you'd be,
you know, pulling the gun, and Le'd be right up
the front pulling faces.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It'll be ship what a team if.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
You like some of What about that red light green
light from good Game? That was a good that would
be amazing at the Olympics. Have you seen squad game.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Stop you stop.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Otherwise taken out by an archer or something like that?
But what about in that movie Apocalypto where they run
the gauntlet and you've got javelin throwers throwing the javelin
and you've got to try and get to the end,
but they all throw it once, you know, and you're
doing It's just called Apocalypto, And.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Like the questions to the lines, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Can we yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Can we know?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
We're not really getting anywhere that's going to help the Olympics.
Where else do you see the medals coming from? James?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I think our athletics team is stronger than it's been
for a long time. So Hamish Kerr and the high
jumps good or great. Really, we've got really good middle
distance runners. James Preston broke Peter Snell's record which stood
for over half a century just the other day. But
it's still an amazing time. And so the eight hundred
(14:03):
is not bad. Fifteen hundred we've got old Sam Tana,
I think Tory Peters and the javelin's good. So yeah,
look out for athletics, and of course Tom Walsh, you know,
he's always going to be in the mix. And I
think in the pool we've got well you asked for
this and we've got Eric Affair with Lewis Claire and
even Hazel Our hand in the and the Butterfly is
(14:25):
good as well, So I mean, let's be those are
the two biggest events our hand. Yeah, yeah, hand it's
a Dutch name. Yeah, what about six foot three?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What about No, he's not that in the in the
track and field, like in the sprints. I've been watching
that Netflix show Sprinter, so that's going to be yeh,
We've got Noah Lyles, Jakarie Richardson, Shrieka Jackson.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You're reading that from it, You're reading that from a
last rack.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I know, I wrote them down. It's called research preparations.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Which is the most arduous of all all check and its,
which is the most physically daunting and painful.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I used to hate the eight the eight hundred.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Before because little legs I wreck.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
A few years ago on another sports show, Olympico, I
brought up this issue and again it doesn't go away.
Interesting to get the panel's thought on this, Jimmy Wellson
itself and discussing this point, is it time to have
a designated Caucasian lane and say hundred meters ts, you know,
just on the side, so you've always got a DC
(15:36):
album The Ginger Guy in.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Hyper Olympics, remember the ginger Nobody effects?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Eating with the best you know how can improve it?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, do you think you're fine. One of the things
that happened on the show that probably calls me the
most grief was was showing up to work and being
met by an American lawyer who had accused us of
breaking into one of the Well it was a male
and they accused us of breaking into the America's cup base.
(16:17):
And well it was a fair accusation because you had
I told you to just go and visit on the
boat and have a look back at it. You broke
into it. So we had to apologize. And here's the apology.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, somebody gave us.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Somebody gave us a boat when I was alone duck
shooting boats to you know, to skim on the really
shallow ponds, and it fed it under the wall perfectly.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Security had contemplated that you'll get shot.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Just look back at t bulg area.
Speaker 9 (16:46):
It was all bear and skipples for the Brave Bulgarian
franchise until three of the organization were breaking into the
secure area of America.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
True, it was our player preds.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
I want to tell you that that was the most
just incredibly horrible thing you could have done to us.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now what happens to us?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
What about if you're just qualified. Our course was to
make a peace, not war, and now you're gonna have
to apologize.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
This is via americanas yaa alloy from Saint Bulgaria, even
Bush or not my landa pusk Crika.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
There's been a Travis Stave justice and we're partly responsible.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Troy gorgostakers.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
In our country and the campaign.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Nika done is natas debtor.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, and now it's time for those responsible to step
forward and take their punishment.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Like men, I've got a confession to make. That wasn't
the real Ralph. That was a step and you can
tell by his movements that they weren't quite as.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Fluid as Mecca is that is that now a captain
of industry or maybe even the like a local body
politician or something like that.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Well, we tried to actually spread the room. It was
Paul homes back of the day. So we we got
Paul to put the bask on.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And we did a toka through made that little mole
on the in of his nose.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah, and we did a Who's Ralph and there was
just a little moles showing, so there was all sorts
of conject show that.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It was actually poor, but next it wasn't tonight you
should be.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
A full documentary on us.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, who.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Funded?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
What are you amazing?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
What are you sitting on?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Are you sitting on the swing?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, yeah, it's at the airport though, are you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And the kids playground paid for it?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I'm in a pope bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Right and we're about we're about to are you what?
What country?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
You?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
And and Italy and Puya down down the opposite Naples right, lovely,
lovely place. Yesterday I should have seen some pottery tree
blew out a fifteen meted jump sixteen ection.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Thank yeah, bet you were you Lee.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
I'm in Germany the head down Spain way shortly on
researching documentary at the moment where the Hitler may have
survived the war actually faked death.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know you've seen that before.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
But and you spend on it would be one hundred
and forty now if you had, But so it's just
kind of pointless.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But yeah, he may have done. But look, I'll look
into it and and see what we can make of it.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Well, what about the children that he had the problem
with the class that didn't he he wasn't firing.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That's why he wasn't.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Really, I've actually interviewed someone who actually has one of.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
The pumps of one of Heitler's Alsatians. Well, you know,
the same lineage. So we're going to meet them, and
so the alsation is probably the.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Great great great great great great great great grand.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Pup of one of Hitler's question. That's trier question on dogs.
Which dog has the greatest biting pressure? Little surprise you, kay, No,
I'm probably going to go with you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
You're husky.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Yeah, is.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
One of those, you know, one of those one of
those dogs like Slash out of Boss Hoole.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Bloodhound bloodhound, but the bloodhound is a bigger but the
floppy thing with the short, stumpy legs, it's got the
biggest biting pressure of any dog, thank you. Basically, it's
equivalent to calling a tiger shark if it had a
bigger mouth of the turtle in half.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Okay, if it had a bigger mouth and could swim.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah, yeah, all right now, reshid be a bike.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's very interesting that you talk about the.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
T a b we before you before you get going right.
I interviewed a Hitler before. There were some Hitlers and
Evan Dale and Auckland. I just looked and I found
them in the book and and I I thought this
would make a good story. I was working for Sunday
News at the time, and I thought I'd go and
see the Hitlers.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Hey, can you guys suck up about Hitler.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Don't get this.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Talking about the whole subject, and let me get back
to the TV.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
It was a prick of a man. Let's just be
clear about that. They're not friends him. Yeah, it was
an Asshold what about idiot men?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, just away from dictators.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Okay, no.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Whole pot.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Let's just clarify one thing. Dictators aren't funny, and we're
not going to make any jokes about dictators.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Kim Jongen was quite funny.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
No, no dictator jokes. We've got to have a line,
and that's the line. No evil dictator jokes. Like, let's
just let's just clear things up a little bit. Let's
just relax. Let's just watch one of our greatest guests
on the shows, Jonah.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
It's you know, just getting the opportunity, you know, to
improve my game planning against playing with those guys. You know,
it's just just realizing that, you know, during the World Cup,
you know, playing around players like the caliber of Christian Color,
Tang and alamor me sort of improves my game that
much and heaving me to perform every week every day.
You know, it's just going to help me try and
(23:36):
take myself to another level to improve on my own game.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
And you come from Weeksley College and the you're talented.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
When you're really young, people are going, man, just check
this guy out.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Have you seen anyone else let a young that that's
come through and people are saying, wow, watch out for
this person.
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Or baby sister, Baby sister, she's really quick at taking
off of someone's turkey.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Lega, what's those turkeys?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What about?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
What about? I mean, let's not dwell on the World Cup,
but I mean, do you ever get over something like that.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
You don't really get over them.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
You you sort of like take what you need from
it and then you you dump the rest of it
and and you carry on because you know, if you
the more you dwell on it, the more it's going
to ficture.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Say for the All Blacks or whatever, what's what's the
try You've enjoyed the most.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Of the Jordan the most.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Actually, I've enjoyed all of them just but the biggest
enjoyment for me is just playful playing and representing my country,
you know.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That's that's the biggest thing of it.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
I could say that.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You know, any musical and rugby player could.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Have lucky enough to have a lot of great guests
on the show. And one of the things that really
struck me actually is looking back over the last sort
of you know, ten years or whatever we did the show,
a lot of people aren't with us anymore, you know,
so like Joana obviously been one of them. Good chance
to to segue nicely into the t a B. Now
I had our money and I put one hundred bucks
(25:05):
down and I lost all of it again again, Yeah
you put it on. So I bet against the r
Blacks like you told me to which was done. I
bet one, yeah, well that's what Mark told me to do.
And then I bet on sever to score two tries.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
And Jesus, sorry, mate, I'm just my studior has just
falling over. I'm silly using it to prop the tray up.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Sorry, So I put I put another hundred bucks down
this week on on the Yankees to win. I've put
some money. I've had a bet on the big big race,
the woman's four hundred meters freestyle at the Olympics, which
is Ladki versus Timus versus Macintosh, which is cool. I
(26:04):
went with young Macintosh, the Canadian. I think she.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Might's a good shower. Yeah, great shout.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Do you think so?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
She's been doing a lot of cold water training.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
What's that it's still like, well, it's basically jumping into
its wood hot You heard of him, Rick, Yes, I have.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, there's deep breathing in very in clement confession.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
She's been swimming four hundred meters basically in conditions and
then when you get in the warm water, of course
your body is that much more supple, you're not cramping,
and the.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Pain fact that you just don't feel pain.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
And it's an endurance event for four hundred meters, So
new form of training, and she's been obviously there's some.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Pretty cold lakes, how girly Canada. That's what she's been doing.
And I think that's a great bet.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Can I ask you you're telling the truth? Are you lying?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No? I'm telling the truth, mate.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
I mean, you know the you know the ice bars
that people are getting into these days. The contrast arapeple
It makes good sense, doesn't it make sense? Absolute sense.
You've got freezing, frigid you know, they're cutting basically, you know,
you know the movie, the kids movie Ice.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Age, not Ice Age with Elsa frozen frozen. Yeah, they're
soaring through the ice and.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Creating a channel you know, funds not exactly, and she's
swimming that entire How.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Do you know that? How do you know?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I do my research.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Like seals, you know, or do gongs or what do
you call sea cows or they swim and cold water.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
They're usually covered with it, like about two inches of
pet over part of their body.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Yeah, of warm water.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Animals ran lands are quite ungainly, you know, and they uncoordinated,
but once they get in the water, they turned into
it's a whole New World team.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Well, you don't know, you don't want to know what
you know? To Pa you go and see Captain Catchers
and on what they do to it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, don't don't go there, please, We've we've talked about that.
It just brings it just brings back memories that I
just don't like to deal with.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
So Rick you mentioned Summer Macintosh, who's the phenom from Canada,
seventeen year old swimmer. Apparently Matt Richards from Great Britain
is going to be the closest thing to Phelps or
whatever he's He's going to win a few medals in
the pool as well. So there you go, there's something
for you.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Games. You're in You're in France, you're in Paris.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
Yeah, what's the river situation, because weren't they talking about
having some of the open water swimming events in the river?
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:46):
The mayor of Paris had had a swim in the
same the other day the river here saying it's totally fine.
But I haven't seen her yet, like whether she's surfaced
or not. It was three days ago. Is she okay?
How's your health? But it's the triathlon and open water
swimming is in there. But there's also some French protesters
(29:09):
are vowed to even though they've tried to remove all
the ship, they've threatened to take a dump in the
sin as well to reringnew to replenish it add to it.
But as far as I know, all of our athletes,
the key With athletes are avowed to swim on undertred
undert yeah, undertoed the.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Dropping moon fish according to a calendar that made them
all meat at the same place with the tide.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Wasn't that right?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Like on social media they said, like, if you live,
you know, three kilometers up the sin, you need to
drop it at this time in order for them all
to coordinate meeting when the mayor or the like.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Converience.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
They were on social media they showed the water current
and the time that it took floats to come down,
and so if you live thirty k up stream, you'd
have to do it on Wednesday night in order the
Friday morning release you'd be you know, thousands of them
are converging at the same spot.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
It's amazing what you can do with social media, isn't it?
Going for a record?
Speaker 9 (30:16):
You got a nampy, you're swimming, you're going to the
home stretch and you're like a nappy or something on
your head or something.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Hey, Mecca, Mecca, can you remember talking about driving? Can
you remember when we went driving and you made me
get stuck over the traffic island?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, yeah, there was a it was green lane and
they were putting in sort of a medium.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Barrier and you didn't.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
You didn't attack it on the right angle or with
enough gusta and you suld of got plumped on top
of it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, well you told me that, like I shouldn't have
gone over it in the first place. It wasn't it
wasn't doable and.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Should have No, you just don't go over it on
that angle. You go over it like that.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Well, let's have a look. I've got some proof under
the award that we have to give it for a
little bit of bad navigation, and I've got to admit
some slightly bad driving. Coming back from the rugby on
Saturday evening a bit of a traffic jam, and Mark
allis uh, wouldn't I say, suggested that we try and
(31:20):
drive over the traffic islands. Driver I ever know you.
Here's the tow truck driver that we called, which also
got stranded on the traffic island because of my bad driving.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
His idea was the drive for traffic island.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Well you're in a four wheel drive, mate, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
In a four wheel drive and it's not supposed to
go over traffic islands and downs big crevass.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Well, any idiot would have been able to do it.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Well, I who's done idea?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Was it? So?
Speaker 3 (31:44):
It was my boss? If I tell you to jump
a cliff, you'll give it an age, will you.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Possible?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Obviously we're in a little bit caught down the heaven
driver damned behind us.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, that is fake. I mean we rank images. I'm
sure you were given possibly some bad advice.
Speaker 11 (32:06):
Hold on, get out, clown, you know here those things
are people are gonna get on the.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Street. Your enuity.
Speaker 11 (32:23):
It was just a matter of getting a hits together
ready and coming up with a tragedy and.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Over a stool there, Yeah, to see it was it was.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Your Actually, this is lovely. I've been joined by some
young nippers. They were on the swings with me.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Now, it was never gonna be an easy show to
do that.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
That's beautiful. Have you have you come prepared with something
that's made you feel good this week?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Anyone?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Well, I can start. I was in San Diego for
that rugby game, the All Blacks versus Figi, and the
enthusiasm that American fans showed for rugby. Just they don't
even know the game as well as us as something
we need to basically replicate. I mean, we've got no
atmosphere in an All Blacks test, you can pretty much
(33:26):
yell across the stadium to a mate on the other
side and the other stand at an All Blacks game,
and the amount of noise from those American fans I
thought was awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think it's the culture of American sport that the
fans feel already connected to the event, so they feel
like they can get involved, that they can influence it,
and stuff like that. Was you think historically, if you
look at rugby, we're encouraged not to boo when people
care and all that sort of stuff. In fact, a
lot of countries it's now silenced. It's just a cultural difference,
and I think what the Americans do is awesome. They
(33:58):
sort of say get involved and basketball, when you're shooting
a three point free throw, they want you to yell
and try and put the person off. You know, it's
just a different mindset. I love it. What about you
Lee anything that's.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Look again, that's way sand wishes me this question.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
But I'll just say this, much as much as I'm
sort of I wouldn't say anti or social media and
all this sort of modern technology and now that sound real.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Old school here, but being able to do this.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
Actually, you know, formats us can actually get on online
to get and make a really bad podcast is actually
quite quite quite a cool feeling and quite fun, and
I'm sort of warming to it. I've been dreading this
every week, but it's actually getting easier. Idiot, And yeah,
I mean that's a positive. I'm slowly going shit, that
is so bad. This is quite fun, you know, catching up.
(34:46):
I wouldn't have seen you guys for a while if
I hadn't done this, So that's great, that's actually quite nice.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, it was hard to help. I sorry.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Went to a look a place called Monopoly and there's
like the cliffs jumping thing where Red Bull do they
cliffed up jumping, but it's off the beautiful Italian sort
of castles.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
And this kid climbed the hill and he timed grew
very high. I think he got up to eighteen meters
and he had a fat friend.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Not body shape shaming, but he wasn't quite as capable
of climbing, and in his indeavor at climb the ad meters,
he fell.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
He didn't hurt himself. He sort of fell for about
nine meters, but he did land flat on his back.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
And just before he had done that, the other guy
got to the eighteen meters and he was giving the
crowd the old and he was whooping up, so the
whole crowd was getting invite.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Everyone was in the water. It was like human soup,
about two hundred people in the water carrying him.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
And then the big feller fell and did a backflop,
and the whole crowd by that stage was not on
their toes but cheering.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And then this guy that it would have.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Been fifteen when eighteen meters up, stood on the edge
of this thing and just fell backwards, and we thought, well,
here comes like a maybe a death defying backflop, but
he just did the full loop and straight in like
a pin feet first.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
To these in Monopoly in po.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Last year.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Yeah, yeah, we all jumped off like the ten meter.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
But it was again I did that with my young
lad and it's quite nice to get to the age
where your kid's got a little bit more balls in
you and he's sort of trying to push the boundary
of going off told maybe as you say, novel call
it quips.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
There the passing of the torch as well, that was
a lovely moment.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
But what happened to the big fellow. Did he did
he survive?
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Oh yeah he did. He certainly got the stuff knock
out of him. But I think the fact that the
ground was behind him, he was pretty embarrassed. He sort
of got helped off to the rocks and clung there
for a while and he fell the sort of pale
and significant when his mate in the back of the
back of them they made us up freedom.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
So the good part for you was the big guy
falling over or the or the good guy doing the dive, which.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Both of them.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I mean, it was absolute theater.
Speaker 6 (37:11):
I mean, it wouldn't have been as good as the
fact that I didn't fallen on his back, nor would
have been as good if that had been the only thing, right,
intellible still there, right.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
So my one was just you know, James referred to
the San Diego game. Well, young Hotham made his debut
in that game, and watching him was his sister Jasmine,
who was watching Who's part of the Black Fern seven?
And uh and this is who watching her brother make
his debut. This is cool, y god, Jesse, I reckon.
(38:24):
It's just a great reminder that not only what it
means for the people that make their debuts will play
for the Or Blacks or go to the Olympics and stuff,
but what it means for their families, for their parents,
for their for their brothers and sisters and stuff like that.
I mean, you know, I can imagine your dad and
mum were pretty excited when you made your first game
for the All Blacks. Mecca.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Oh sorry, yeah, Mecca, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I was just thinking about that, just thinking.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I mean, obviously I was never there to see how
they reacted, but they're always pretty low key, so I'd
imagine at home they might have been a couple of
good show. But yeah, I was just imagining. I mean,
being an only child and have any brothers listeners, they
would have.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
One thing that we need to do for this podcast
is we need a sort of a name for our
supporters group. So I don't know if you want to
send in some names on social media. You know, we
used to call the supporters group in the old days
the Loose Cannons. But whether there's a better name than that,
you know, whether someone can send in the name that
we should call our supporters group. So you've got any ideas,
(39:27):
send them through you talk to us listeners, talking to
the listeners and the viewers on YouTube. But you know,
if you've got any names, chuck them in.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Sure is there a prize for it?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Is there a price for it? No, it's just the
opportunity to to sort of have your name put forward
and sort of locked in as history.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You're one team size people these days online.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, well the prize is listening to another one of
your stories worth it.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I was gonna say, Noah Hopan was incredible as a
sub in that game. I thought he was played so well.
But also fun fact there were five ex Hamilton Boys
High students playing in that test match. He had Noah Quarters,
Latima in Morning, Nadawa Sevu Reese and Caleb Monts for Fiji.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
Is that fine? Sure?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You watch a lot of sports, don't you.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, Like I went to that school.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I went to that school. So Nigel, Nigel, Noah's dad
has just quit or resigned as first fifteen coach and
he's had an incredible record, was like eighty five percent
win record.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
And uh, sorry there, James, James, I think you've I
think you've mistaken this for a normal sports show, like
like like none of the people on this can go
back to now, can I just show you this is
(41:03):
my birthday cake? Thank you very much. Sorry, I'll enjoy
my birthcake on my own. Well do you guys enjoy Europe.
We're going to finish now. Thank you very much and
good night. Thank you very much for joining us, you
strange people, and thank you James. Enjoy the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Thank you, guys. Lovely to see you.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
This is where the podcast ends.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
For it.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Happy birthday mate, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
You've got about four good summers there
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