July 17, 2024 • 31 mins
ACC Head G Lane joins Manaia Stewart to try and make heads or tails of the NZ Summer of Cricket schedule off the back of NZC's massive launch (02:28).
Then the fellas get to your feedback in 'Yours Please' (15:54).
Finally, Manaia talks to Tom from the Hello Sport Podcast about their initiative to support new father Mitch Barnett with nappies and wet wipes and how the ACC could potentially help (23:55)...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Life from the Export Beer Gun Studio and brought to
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the Agenda Podcast for Wednesday, the seventeenth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Agenda Podcast, the home of Sporting Nonsense and Clap Trap,
brought to you by Export Vulture.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And joining me from Witness Protection as acc head g Lane.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How how was wherever it is that you were.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Actually, you know, just just having some time out, yeap,
you know, just to regather my thoughts, you know, the
safety of myself and my family come first.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, that's right. So we're going to start the podcast
with us. It's it's sort of some of the biggest
sporting news going on at the moment. Certainly took over
the headlines yesterday. Norm Hewitt tragically passed away very suddenly
as well. Did I read he was only about fifty
five years old.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah, and died of like modern your own disease, which
I didn't even realize he had I did, obviously. Yeah,
So that's pretty hopefully named it. I think CTE related. Obviously,
He's a bit of a fair bit of media around
there this moment, Dylan Cleaver writing quite a lot about that,
so yeah, time will tell, I guess, but pretty sad,
(01:12):
pretty young, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh so young.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Only just a couple of years ago, I was hosting
a rugby show with him on the mainstream sports media.
It was like a half hour weekly show about the Hurricanes.
And I mean, I don't know if he had it
then or whatever, but he was always so ready to
share a good yarn. Like you could see you could
see his eyes light up when you triggered a memory
(01:36):
from his playing days, and then he'd light up and
be like, oh, it reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
This, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I always really look forward to so hosting that
show with him, and I was always just trying to
constantly bait a couple of stories out from him, because
you know he wouldn't remember them just to tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But if you managed to just get that little spark in.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
His eyes and he'd light up and be like, Oh,
that reminds me of this one time we're on tour,
like here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
They're always good like that, I think than I think
you did the same to Kyle Mills when he came
on this podcast. Yeah, you threw a couple of lines
out there. One had squaed on it. One had pictured
and he took the pilly and he ran with it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, I know, well, I mean, you know, at the
end of the day, I'm a fan of these guys,
so I just want to hear the same stories that
everyone else does. So if I can, if I can
somehow walk them into a story or two, then know well,
so yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed doing that with Norm Hewitt
gone far too soon, Far too young. The other big
sporting news of the day, and it happened today, is
(02:32):
that the summer of cricket has been announced Lane. They
had a massive media event down there at TV and Z.
They had who's who of New Zealand sporting media, including yours. Truly,
I probably put myself on the who's that of New
Zealand sporting media. Yep, no one really knew what was
going on why we were there. I was also confusingly
(02:54):
wearing a Black Caps jumper, so people like, yeah, does
he work for the team, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was a massive sort of kerfuffle.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They announced all of their plans, there's all sorts of
double hitters, blah blah blah blah. But I really really
can't wrap my head around it. So I asked Tom Latham,
who was down there, to try and explain it for us,
and so let's let him try and explain it with
them with.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Us right now.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I got the schedule obviously ahead of time. I was
trying to figure out the whole heading over to Pakistan thing.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
How does that work?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So you're playing England, then you bugger off to Pakistan,
you play a couple of games over there, then you
come back.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
How's that work?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
So I think it's England and then Shri Lanka come
here and then we go to Pakistan for that champions
trophy and then both teams come back or Pakistan come
back here later later on in the summer to finish.
So it's a pretty busy, busy summer, which is which
is exciting as crickets. You want to play as much
cricket as possible. And yeah, hopefully we can get plenty
(03:57):
of crowds there and have plenty of support like we
usually do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now have the hard hitting questions. You're walking through a
real sport.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You pick up a cricket bet, what's the immediate shadow
betting shot that you play when you pick up the bet?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
It's probably a Ford defense, which it shouldn't be about me.
But you're in you know, you're in the aisles, aren't you,
So you can't actually play too many shots, can't make
cross better shots again.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, so yeah, he goes to Ford defensive, just Tom
Latham when he pick.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, I'm a flick off the pads. Oh really Yeah, yeah,
I'm just a flick just like flick just rough midwicket.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm a Ford defensive as well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And I was just saying, I said the time after
that as well, I'll just call them Tom either that
or I'll sit.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Back on one a late cut.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Because the thing is you're generally either when you're playing,
when you're shadow betting, you're generally in a confined space.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You don't want to be going for a slog sweep. No,
that's why I go for the flick. I go for
the flick, and I flick the back leg up as well,
so it's kind of regal kind of you go there
and you flick the back leg up as well as
flicking along.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's that's my go to kind of rebel sport aisle shot.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
What do you think is the most common rebel sport
aisle shot.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's definitely the full defense, if not the leave.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Oh yes, they're kind of back and what you know, yeh,
Jason Horts.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Jason Hort's are Ford defensive front prawn and then he
would just go.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Waiting, you know, run there.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
He never takes the run.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
It's never taken. It takes the run. So the schedule, Yeah,
it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because obviously announced the
English Test series very early for reasons other than they
wanted to give English fans a chance to book, which
is odd. I thought New Zealand fans would have come first,
but they'd been confirmed a few months ago. They're happening
(05:41):
in November December. Then there's quite a decent not a
massive gap, a ten day gap from the last and that,
by the way, those tests are the only test we
played this summer.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I had tests.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, So christ Church Manington Hamilton against England Test match
cricket for New Zealand is over Wednesday, theeenth December. Yeah,
and then ten days later.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It looks like we lost your lane for a second.
But while we have lost him. I talked to Gary
Stead about those Test matches and how interesting it is
and how excited he is that there's going to be
three of them. Well, we're very lucky to have coach
Gary Stead here with us. Obviously we've just had the
full schedule announced. How excited are for a three Test
series against England.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Look, it's been a while since we've played three Test
series and I think to play England is always great.
We had a two years ago, had an amazing one
all series win with an incredible Test match at the
basein Reserve to make that one all and so hopefully
we're well, hopefully we can win all three, but we're
in a situation that if it is tied at one all,
(06:48):
we get to get a decider and.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So what I can't understand, Lane, maybe you can explain
is the black Caps in Pakistan the championship aspect of that.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, so interesting there that Graham gary Stead described the
one old drawers of victory.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, with one series victory.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
No, see what happens once Sri Lanka finished their last
ODII on Saturday, the eleventh of January at Eden Park,
New Zealand then kind of head off. Now there's a
couple of weeks off and that I think they get
to play but a super smash. But all of February
it's all happening in Pakistan. We have a warm up
ODI tri Series in Pakistan for a week and then
(07:33):
from the nineteenth to February to the ninth of March
there is the Champions Trophy. Now, the Champions Trophy is
a fifty over competition that sits in between World Cups.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They haven't done it all well, have they.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
No, they haven't done it for a very long time.
But it is the only silverware alongside the World Test
Championship that we have. Remember we won it in Zimbabwe.
Chris Ken's famously won us the game over there, so
that was our first ever bit of international silver. Were
fowed up by the World Test Championship. So it does
leave quite a significant gap from the eleventh of January.
(08:12):
This is black Caps. From eleventh of jan there's not
another black Caps game at home until the sixteenth of March.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, far up a long time.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They've being played in Pakistan.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, yep.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
The other Champions Trophy is in Pakistan, so that'd be
interesting thing as well. There'll be a lot of pressure
on the Pakistani Cricket board to make sure that goes
smoothly because I imagine if any issues before that, it'll
just get moved to UA again.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, and so then after that, so the Champions Trophy,
who plays in that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
By the way, is there's only like everyone?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Everyone?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah? Everyone.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I think there's no qualifying tournament like in the T twenty.
I think I believe it's probably the top eight teams
just go play the Champions Trophy. Yeah, eyes as well,
so it's not as compact as the T twenty.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Tournament.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
So oh yeah, hasn't been around for a while. I
can't remember the last time.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
There was a Champions Trophy, but yeah, it's back in Pakistan.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Good to have a warm up over there as well
for us.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I think the last time it was held was
somewhere around twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Then there was the
World Cup, then there was I think it was like
a COVID effected thing. And now yes, it's only that
we're getting around to it now. The awkward part is,
so we're playing Pakistan in Pakistan, we then get on
the same flight as them back to New Zealand to
(09:37):
play each other again.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, yes, there's the answer to that. They'll be there'll
be a fight for business class.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Yeah, on the way back, because once that tournament's over
on the ninth of March, there is a T twenty
and christ Church on the sixteenth of March, So but
of a seven day, one week turnaround between end of
that tournament and Pakistan heading to New Zealand for four
five T twenties and three od i's, So yeah, it's
(10:04):
quite a bit of a truncated summer if I'm honest.
But the good news is for real cricket heads and
the BYC guys will be pleased about this. That February
window leaves a window for the Super Smash and international
players who aren't involved in the Champions Trophy to all
get stuck into Super Smash as well. So that'll be
actually quite good for the domestic competition.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That Pakistan tour as well. When they come back at
the end of March, thorough all double headers, so the
White Ferns will play beforehand on the same ticket and
because they're all on TV and Z, they're going to
go White Ferns News Black Caps, which I think is
just a tremendous way to run that. I mean, it's
going to pass you off if you're into tipping point
or the chase, you're probably gonna think.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It's gonna piss you off. If you're it's gonna pass
you off.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
If you're a boomer, because you love Because there's no
doubt they're going to shorten the news to half an
hour and they hate nothing more than the because the
only other time they shorten the news is when the
Black Clash is on and then they have to deal
with us commentating and it just blows their mind.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
So they've got actually a few of these.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
There's the last T twenties against either All five T
twenties are going to be double headers. They're in christ
Church to need In, Auckland, Toadonger and Wellington. Once again,
Auckland misses out significantly. In a lot of these we
get and Auckland gets one one dayer against Sri Lanka. Yeah,
(11:29):
and one to twenty against Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
How we don't have a test venue in the biggest
city in the country.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Is It's crazy?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Crazy?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
The fact there's only going to be two days of
cricket in the biggest city in New Zealander is weird.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Look, I'm not saying that we should just force it
in there because I think places like Seddon Park, Bay Oval,
Seddon Park, Hagley Oval is way better, way better grounds.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Someone must have goat photos because how can McClain Park
keep getting games? How can they keep getting games that
the ground is ship it's it's a rectangle, no one
turns up. They've got issues with They've finished the drainage issues,
but they've got the light issue that comes through the
grandstand and finds the batsman.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But they have.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Got They've got a few gap quite a few. Look,
I don't understand how they get a game, but they
do against Pakistan. They get an odi I on the
Saturday twenty ninth and March. So yeah, and no games
in queens Sound, no games in Queenie happened there. I'm
not sure what's happened there. I think I'm not sure
the pitch is up to standard in Queenie.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Or no year.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Well, no, I don't know why that's falling out of
favor as well, because they did play a game there
against Sri Lanka a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Last year they played a game and I forget what
was I think it was against Sri Lanka. I didn't
see the game, but I did see the crowd from
the departure lounge Queenstown Domestic Airport.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Right, That's why they've changed the They will also changed
the direction of the pitch there and it looks like
a plane's literally going to land on you can see
passengers faces. When they showed it, they focused in on
the plane. You could see a person's face looking out
the window. There was legendary because obviously they're remarkables in
the background. But obviously they have their reasons u zealing cricket.
(13:22):
Obviously there are different associations, you know, get to pitch
their case as well to hosting internationals that brings them
a lot of money. So yeah, but I'm stumped about
McLain parks still and the fact, I mean, look, if
a McClain park's sold out every time, sure, yeah, i'd
be okay, you have to, but no one turns up
(13:43):
and it's a terrible ground and you can't nickel and
dimedon park when you've got McLean Park.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, one hundred percent with way less capacity.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But anyway, the jewel in the crown for this summer
of cricket is definitely that English Series. Thursday the twenty
eighth of November is the first one that's at Hagle Oval.
They go to the Basemin Reserve. I love a Test
series in New Zealand really signals the start of summer.
It's good to really sink your teeth into as well.
And obviously we all remember how good that that one
(14:12):
all series victory.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Was absolutely These black Bean game White fans sorry games
all summer as well. I think they're playing they play
Ossie and they play schri Lanka and then they play
Ossie again at the end of the summer. So yeah,
they're they're in for a tough ride against those Assies
as well. They've got three Odie Eyes and then three
two twenties at the end of summer.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, that'll be a challenge as well.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So the Odie Eyes, it's the Rose Bowl between the
White Ferns and Australia. All three of those are going
to be played at the Basin Reserve, which I quite
like as an idea, you know, just the back to
back to back who's the better team over three games
even you know, I think they would admit that it's
gonna be a mammoth task to try and beat Australia
(14:53):
at a game of cricket at the moment. Yeah, but
always fun and always one to get up for.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
So that is a schedule out.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It'll be on all socials everywhere across the day today,
So if you haven't seen it already, go and check
our socials, chickensyling, cricket socials, try and phone a PDF
of it and print it out because it's not going
to make sense to you when you first read it.
It hasn't to me, so you're going to need it
on your desk at work, I think, because.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I just yeah, just no, there's going to be no
cricket from mid January to mid March in New Zealand. Yeah,
so you know you can take a good holiday and
just watch some international cricket from overseas.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, don't come crying to us when that break happens.
As well.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
A little bit of a different structure of the podcast
today because at the end we're going to be talking
to Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sport podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
They have made an incredible pledge to support.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Mitch Barnett who've missed the birth of a second child.
So if you want to, you can scrub ahead to
that right now though we're going to take a quick break.
When we come back, we're going to get to your
feedback on Yours Please, Yours.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Please, brought to you by Leader Home of the list
on the top four.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Of them to get through today, laying a couple of
them inaudible. And I really wanted to address this on
the podcast today because this is becoming increasingly a problem,
and so I'd like for your listening pleasure to play
you just a sample of one of the more one
of the better quality yours pleases that we've been getting recently,
but still almost inaudible.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So without any further ado, call it yours please.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Specials help qu Kieren sitting up the stairs.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Than the radio.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Two's right, I think I I think I could kind
of get the gist of it was.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
That we should have guest commentators and Karen Reid would
be good.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yes, that's exactly what he was the same, but it's
not Yes, that is what he said, but how he
said it was he hit the voicemail function bottom right
hand corner of his iHeart Radio app and they just
chucked it in the coffee holder of his forklift and
went about his day. It was ridiculous. We get about
three or four of these a day. Just have a
look at where your environment is. Like, maybe wait till
you can get into the smoker room before you send
(17:21):
these ind but the port stands. You know, we've had
people on before.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Now we have.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
We've actually Karen Reid actually commentated a one day with
us at Eton Park. Yeah, and we presented him with
his ACC jacket we had to get At the time.
He was very recently retired, so he was still quite large.
I don't think it fits him anymore because he's trimmed
down quite a bit, but he has. He's got his
on an every ACC jacket. He's been a whole day
with us in the commentary box up in Eden Park.
(17:48):
We cause a bit of a bit of a stir
actually because we were in the Botham's box, which isn't
that level five corporate riam and you know they've got
a dress code there you can't wear open toad shoes
and where he had his wife with him and she
had like three hundred dollars birkenstock sandals on. I remember this,
and then they go, now you can't come in. We
(18:10):
were like, no, no, no, you're good, you're good, and
we just piled her into the lift and they chased
us up the stairs and then we like like a huddle,
almost like the Secret Service around Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
We were like that around Kiaran Reid's wife.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
We got her in there and we hit her in
the seats out the front, and they came out and
they said to me, she can't be in here. I
was like, mate, you go tell Karen Reid that he's
just there. You tell him that's not it's not my wife.
And now go, okay, look, okay, this one time, Okay,
this one time.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You absolute cowards. Yeah, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think the problem we have is we struggle enough
to get enough commentators together just to do a commentary ourselves.
If ile on top of that, I'm trying to get
someone in, you know, a professional athlete.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
The other thing is it becomes glaringly obvious.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I mean, obviously nobody comes to us for in depth analysis,
but when you have someone on who actually knows a
bit about the sport, it becomes glaringly obvious how little
we known. And it actually becomes quite a tough listen
to it.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, and they start saying stuff, and I remember we
hit someone on I think it was when the cricketers
used to pop into the caravan in the early days.
Willie Nichols used to bring them round to the caravan
and just it's been ten minutes in there and there's
a look on someone like Lee Hart's face when they
started talking about the game plan and how the picture
(19:28):
was playing and the back link deliveries and about you know, working,
and he's just like just you could see us just
blaze over and it was like you could see the
whites of his eyes like a lizard because he had
no idea what was going on. And yes, it did
expose us. And you'd have people like Jason Hoyt who
would just agree and go, yes, yes, exactly, yeah, Nathan,
(19:49):
I agree absolutely. He had no idea what he sank. Yeah,
and then the rest of us going Jesus Christ. I
didn't even know that was happening in that game. I
didn't even know that was that was an issue. I
didn't even know the picture was an issue. I didn't
know in conditions we're only sweet. I had no idea
what the picture was like. So you're right, it does
expose some rather weak foundations that we have within the commentary.
(20:10):
If we bring someone on who actually knows what they're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, well, it's even like the video I recorded a
video this morning when I was talking to Tom lathm
that'll probably never see the light of day. And I
asked him, you know, when I look at the schedule,
I look at the game on New Year's Even, I think, man,
it sucks to work when all your mates are just
on holiday and on the past. And I was like,
does that suck for you as well? And he goes, yeah,
I don't play ten twenties, so it's not gonna be
(20:35):
too big an issue for me. Oh yeah, true.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I know you walk into that one.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I know. I was like, okay, well to let that
footage then.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
On, you should have doubled down and gone well why
are you here?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Then?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, so this is yeah, so why'd they put you
up if you don't play T twenty? There's only one
who no one watches, so we're gonna sit around and
watch you play cricket for five days.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, just blatly double down and then you just go, ah,
so is that all the yours? Please? Just the one
inaudible one? No, no, no, all four of them are
like that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, you've just cut out for a little bit. There
you're back now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's like you've sent in one from your forklift on
yours please, No, we've got three more hits, So another
caller here, yours please.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
Fellas just listening to the podcast and old mentioned Lee
Hart on the jet skis anyone ask getting Kenny Powers
kind of vibes from that. Yeah, And I'm so glad
that the Europe's are over now? Could you guys have
stop talking about fucking soccer? God, you've been banging on
about it, right.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You can't please these people, can you? Leane?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Oh my god? Like not enough round ball? Not enough,
Europe's too much. Europe's not enough round ball? He started off, Well,
I agree Leehart on the panty dropper, the Kinny Powers
jet skis as an image I won't get out of
my head in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm picturing.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I don't know if you've seen the photo of Jay
Z on his jet ski. He's got a helmet and
glasses on and he looks like an insect on that.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
The other great jetski scene is off Tiger King And
you remember that the guy who owned the pet store, Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
That is that's one of the greats.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
As well there's this is just something about an overweight
American on a jet ski.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, that just does it for me.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That is powerful.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, yeah, apparently Lee HUD's someone sending a voicemail that
that's oldly had a jet ski three years ago, haven't
seen it back in for a service.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Since how much of a service does a jet ski need.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Really, especially if you're not using it?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, that's right. Another caller here, yours please.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Hey fellas. On the topic of favorite Olympic sport, I
love but a wait listening. Love watching some massive cunts
and little cunts to be fair, pushing some pretty massive
mounts of tin. The commentators are super knowledgeable and raw enthusiastic.
Is always a chance of a horrific untrey, which lords
the bonus.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, I completely agree with this. Weightlifting is my favorite
thing to watch as well. But it does put the
willies up me though, when you see someone just lift
something and then just elbow pops out the wrong way
and he gives out there on the floor. Then they
put the little fence around them like they're about to
shoot them thorough or horse. What's your favorite sport to
watch at the Olympics?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Lane?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Ah, I do like I do like a bit of
jeopardy that the weightlifting is good because you like you're
saying there's a chance of a horrific injury. But I
also like the fact they film the moments before with
their coach out the back, and there's different methods of
firing them up, like slapping in the face.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, just screaming at them. It's just like a massive
slap on them.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, unfortunately it seems like we've lost Gelane entirely, which
some would say is for the best. So what we're
going to do here is take one last quick break.
When we come back, we're going to be joined by
Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sports podcast. Well, it's a
great pleasure to welcome our dear friend from across the
from the Hello Sport podcast, Tom Birmingham.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Get a Tom, Hey, getting on this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Mate, very very well, thanks for having us. How are
you guys doing, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We're doing very very well, thanks mate. State of origin tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Obviously you're a proud New South Welshman over there, and
I see that it's caught your eye that our beloved
Mitch Barnett has actually missed the birth of his second
son just the whole pads at training across the ditch.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Let's call you right, didn't it?
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Oh? Absolutely did. We're calling him mana much from across
the Dutch. Yeah yeah. And also just we are new
South Welshman, but myself and Eddie who's my COEs on
the show, both half key we So I just feel
like mentioning that off the top, maybe just to ingratiate
ourselves further with your audience. Look, it was made apparent
(24:51):
to us after Mitch got selected in the second game
that he missed the birth of his child, and we
were like, oh, that's I mean, obviously that's incredible. But
then as the story developed, it was like he actually
a kid had been born for a couple of weeks.
He missed the birth of his second child to literally
come and train with the boys, not on game day, not,
I think man just to hold pads, run through some
(25:12):
plays and I just think that's New South Wales spirit
through and through.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, I've thought this from the moment that he got there,
he got named into the squad. I was like mtch
bhiit as a state of origin player, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
He's got all of the things.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I think he's raised on a dairy farm out in
rural New South Wales. I couldn't tell you where, and
I was like, that is the kind of man that
you need in your food, Peck, and I think you
and Edie came up with a plan to reward him
in some way for that.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Yeah, that's right. Look, I mean we sort of we
were just trying to think about how we could give
back to a man who's you know, given everything to
the state. Now you could argue that if you've seen
one childbirth, you've seen them all. Maybe that's true. I
don't know, but we felt like we needed to do
something for him. So we're in the process of basically
(26:00):
just trying to organize almost an obnoxious amount of Hauge's
nappies to be delivered to Warriores. Training basically is a
way to say thank you, see what we can do
to maybe just ease the strain at home having a
couple of kids. Myself, nappies and wipes a commodity, So
we sort of feel like that just will do our part.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Am I right and thinking if I got the mets
right on this, I think the metric was it was
tackles times meters run plus a fuckload.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Correct. Now, you know, it's not exactly an exact it's
not an exact science necessarily that tackles times meters times
of fuckload is the metric we're going off. So it'll
be interesting to see how that shakes out after the night.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, it's going to entirely depend on how many minutes
he gets and also what exactly a fuckload is? What
the I know you got Jacko on from the Warriors
to help facilitate a little bit of the logistics. He mentioned,
why don't you just give him the money and then
he could buy the stuff himself. I don't think that's
the spirit of what you were trying to do here.
I think it's about obviously as a as a good
(27:10):
half key to yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know, it's about the koha. It's about the gift
and the act of gift giving.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And so I think in that spirit, how how far
along the road are you with us?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do you need a hand? We've got a yute.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I mean, it's got fuck all storage in the back
of it, but we've got straps and stuff. Do you
need someone to pick it up at customs and take
it to the training facility?
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time. Initially
we reached out to Huggy you thinking, you know, maybe
we could help them, help help a good news story,
get Huggies involved. They gave us one of the great
parning offs of all time, as is there right, But
obviously they will come to rule the day and they see,
you know, the success of this gesture. But look, if
(27:53):
you guys, it'd be fantastic. We were, we were, we were,
We were considering flying them over there. Then thought it's
probably just easy to buy him on the ground in
New Zealand. But you're right, Jacko will be getting none
of our money, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well he's probably going to siphon some off anyway.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
We've just got as a concern.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
We've just had a Costco open up here in New Zealand.
I feel like that's probably the way to go in
terms of buying in bulk. Don't why don't we take
our ut it's a nineteen ninety six Ford falcon yut
sacked out. We have to take it to a dodgy
workshop to get the rigo over here. But why don't
we take that out to Costco? Get meters times tackles
(28:35):
times a fuck load worth of nappies and then drive
them out to South Auckland and deliver them and deliver
them to Muna mitch from across the ditch when he
gets back.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
That sounds like a fantastic idea now, where if you
can give us the details of this costco happy to
we'll get on the front foot and make the purchase
for you and then just have it all set up
so you guys can come and pick it up.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I think, I think that this is this could be fruitful.
We're all involved.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
If not on the back of the year, we also
have a caravan where we commentate sports out of the
back of we could probably you know, potentially empty that
out fillet with a metric fuck ton of nappies and
what wipes was it?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well?
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I just feel like wet wipes are If you're going
to be changing nappies, there's a very big challenge. You
can be covered in shit, and not just any shit,
it's new baby shit, which is the most potent of
all shits, at least from my experience, so you probably
want to have at least a healthy dose of wipes
in there as well.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, all right, all right, what Here's what I think
we do. I think we put a pin in this
and take it offline. We will see that if we've
got any connections over the side of the Dutch that
could potentially help out. You know, we scratch their beck,
they scratch our beck, We scratch your back sort of situation.
Love that and if we can't, then other option as
we get the hellows book credit card, run it through
(29:54):
the wall at Costco and happy families.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Sounds fantastic and listen, I mean, I don't know know
what our next couple of weeks look like. I'm not
going to commit to it. But if there's a world
where we maybe hop on a flight and get over
there and deliver them with you, then I'm just keeping
all options open at this point because I want to
see Man and Mitch from across the ditch Getty Navies.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, I think we all do, and so anything that
we can do to help make that happen, We'll just
keep our eyes up over the next couple of weeks. Well,
thank you very much for joining us on the podcast today,
Tom go well enjoy your state of origin.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Football. Quick prediction for the score.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
Tonight New South Wales by a fuck load to be honest.
Game one we basically wanted a man down. Game two
it was a fuck load, and then game three, I'm
just feeling it. There's a lot of positive vibes in
the air here in New South Wales. And whilst you
know positive vibes, have you know turned up to be
incorrect vibes in the past. I'm just I'm feeling it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well, I'll check.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I know we've got different bidding apps across the ditch
over your side and outside, but I'll check our bidding
partner and see if they've got a market for News
Wales by a fuck looad. Enjoy enjoy the game tonight, mate,
and we'll be in touch to see if we can't
get these nappies too much.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Perfect. Great to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Thanks, I really appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We'll have accidentally signed myself up for far more work
than I would like to have done. But a massive
thank you to Tom Birmingham from Hello Sports podcast. Go
listen to the podcast by the way, if you haven't already,
I'm sure if you're listening to this you're probably already
aware of that. And a massive thank you to g
Lane Live at a witness protection. Go well, wherever it
is that you are around the country, We're going to
(31:31):
knock it on the head for today. We'll be back
tomorrow for another episode of the Gender podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
And joining me from Witness Protection as acc head g Lane.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How how was wherever it is that you were.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Actually, you know, just just having some time out, yeap,
you know, just to regather my thoughts, you know, the
safety of myself and my family come first.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, that's right. So we're going to start the podcast
with us. It's it's sort of some of the biggest
sporting news going on at the moment. Certainly took over
the headlines yesterday. Norm Hewitt tragically passed away very suddenly
as well. Did I read he was only about fifty
five years old.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yeah, and died of like modern your own disease, which
I didn't even realize he had I did, obviously. Yeah,
So that's pretty hopefully named it. I think CTE related. Obviously,
He's a bit of a fair bit of media around
there this moment, Dylan Cleaver writing quite a lot about that,
so yeah, time will tell, I guess, but pretty sad,
(01:12):
pretty young, Jesus.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh so young.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Only just a couple of years ago, I was hosting
a rugby show with him on the mainstream sports media.
It was like a half hour weekly show about the Hurricanes.
And I mean, I don't know if he had it
then or whatever, but he was always so ready to
share a good yarn. Like you could see you could
see his eyes light up when you triggered a memory
(01:36):
from his playing days, and then he'd light up and
be like, oh, it reminds me of.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
This, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So I always really look forward to so hosting that
show with him, and I was always just trying to
constantly bait a couple of stories out from him, because
you know he wouldn't remember them just to tell you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But if you managed to just get that little spark in.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
His eyes and he'd light up and be like, Oh,
that reminds me of this one time we're on tour,
like here we go.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
They're always good like that, I think than I think
you did the same to Kyle Mills when he came
on this podcast. Yeah, you threw a couple of lines
out there. One had squaed on it. One had pictured
and he took the pilly and he ran with it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, I know, well, I mean, you know, at the
end of the day, I'm a fan of these guys,
so I just want to hear the same stories that
everyone else does. So if I can, if I can
somehow walk them into a story or two, then know well,
so yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed doing that with Norm Hewitt
gone far too soon, Far too young. The other big
sporting news of the day, and it happened today, is
(02:32):
that the summer of cricket has been announced Lane. They
had a massive media event down there at TV and Z.
They had who's who of New Zealand sporting media, including yours. Truly,
I probably put myself on the who's that of New
Zealand sporting media. Yep, no one really knew what was
going on why we were there. I was also confusingly
(02:54):
wearing a Black Caps jumper, so people like, yeah, does
he work for the team, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was a massive sort of kerfuffle.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They announced all of their plans, there's all sorts of
double hitters, blah blah blah blah. But I really really
can't wrap my head around it. So I asked Tom Latham,
who was down there, to try and explain it for us,
and so let's let him try and explain it with
them with.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Us right now.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I got the schedule obviously ahead of time. I was
trying to figure out the whole heading over to Pakistan thing.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
How does that work?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So you're playing England, then you bugger off to Pakistan,
you play a couple of games over there, then you
come back.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
How's that work?
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
So I think it's England and then Shri Lanka come
here and then we go to Pakistan for that champions
trophy and then both teams come back or Pakistan come
back here later later on in the summer to finish.
So it's a pretty busy, busy summer, which is which
is exciting as crickets. You want to play as much
cricket as possible. And yeah, hopefully we can get plenty
(03:57):
of crowds there and have plenty of support like we
usually do.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Now have the hard hitting questions. You're walking through a
real sport.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You pick up a cricket bet, what's the immediate shadow
betting shot that you play when you pick up the bet?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
It's probably a Ford defense, which it shouldn't be about me.
But you're in you know, you're in the aisles, aren't you,
So you can't actually play too many shots, can't make
cross better shots again.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, so yeah, he goes to Ford defensive, just Tom
Latham when he pick.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, I'm a flick off the pads. Oh really Yeah, yeah,
I'm just a flick just like flick just rough midwicket.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm a Ford defensive as well.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
And I was just saying, I said the time after
that as well, I'll just call them Tom either that
or I'll sit.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Back on one a late cut.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Because the thing is you're generally either when you're playing,
when you're shadow betting, you're generally in a confined space.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You don't want to be going for a slog sweep. No,
that's why I go for the flick. I go for
the flick, and I flick the back leg up as well,
so it's kind of regal kind of you go there
and you flick the back leg up as well as
flicking along.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
That's that's my go to kind of rebel sport aisle shot.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
What do you think is the most common rebel sport
aisle shot.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It's definitely the full defense, if not the leave.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Oh yes, they're kind of back and what you know, yeh,
Jason Horts.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Jason Hort's are Ford defensive front prawn and then he
would just go.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Waiting, you know, run there.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
He never takes the run.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
It's never taken. It takes the run. So the schedule, Yeah,
it's an interesting one, isn't it, Because obviously announced the
English Test series very early for reasons other than they
wanted to give English fans a chance to book, which
is odd. I thought New Zealand fans would have come first,
but they'd been confirmed a few months ago. They're happening
(05:41):
in November December. Then there's quite a decent not a
massive gap, a ten day gap from the last and that,
by the way, those tests are the only test we
played this summer.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I had tests.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah, So christ Church Manington Hamilton against England Test match
cricket for New Zealand is over Wednesday, theeenth December. Yeah,
and then ten days later.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It looks like we lost your lane for a second.
But while we have lost him. I talked to Gary
Stead about those Test matches and how interesting it is
and how excited he is that there's going to be
three of them. Well, we're very lucky to have coach
Gary Stead here with us. Obviously we've just had the
full schedule announced. How excited are for a three Test
series against England.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Look, it's been a while since we've played three Test
series and I think to play England is always great.
We had a two years ago, had an amazing one
all series win with an incredible Test match at the
basein Reserve to make that one all and so hopefully
we're well, hopefully we can win all three, but we're
in a situation that if it is tied at one all,
(06:48):
we get to get a decider and.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So what I can't understand, Lane, maybe you can explain
is the black Caps in Pakistan the championship aspect of that.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yes, so interesting there that Graham gary Stead described the
one old drawers of victory.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Yeah, with one series victory.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
No, see what happens once Sri Lanka finished their last
ODII on Saturday, the eleventh of January at Eden Park,
New Zealand then kind of head off. Now there's a
couple of weeks off and that I think they get
to play but a super smash. But all of February
it's all happening in Pakistan. We have a warm up
ODI tri Series in Pakistan for a week and then
(07:33):
from the nineteenth to February to the ninth of March
there is the Champions Trophy. Now, the Champions Trophy is
a fifty over competition that sits in between World Cups.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They haven't done it all well, have they.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
No, they haven't done it for a very long time.
But it is the only silverware alongside the World Test
Championship that we have. Remember we won it in Zimbabwe.
Chris Ken's famously won us the game over there, so
that was our first ever bit of international silver. Were
fowed up by the World Test Championship. So it does
leave quite a significant gap from the eleventh of January.
(08:12):
This is black Caps. From eleventh of jan there's not
another black Caps game at home until the sixteenth of March.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, far up a long time.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
They've being played in Pakistan.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yes, yep.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
The other Champions Trophy is in Pakistan, so that'd be
interesting thing as well. There'll be a lot of pressure
on the Pakistani Cricket board to make sure that goes
smoothly because I imagine if any issues before that, it'll
just get moved to UA again.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, and so then after that, so the Champions Trophy,
who plays in that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
By the way, is there's only like everyone?
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Everyone?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah? Everyone.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I think there's no qualifying tournament like in the T twenty.
I think I believe it's probably the top eight teams
just go play the Champions Trophy. Yeah, eyes as well,
so it's not as compact as the T twenty.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Tournament.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
So oh yeah, hasn't been around for a while. I
can't remember the last time.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
There was a Champions Trophy, but yeah, it's back in Pakistan.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Good to have a warm up over there as well
for us.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, I think the last time it was held was
somewhere around twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Then there was the
World Cup, then there was I think it was like
a COVID effected thing. And now yes, it's only that
we're getting around to it now. The awkward part is,
so we're playing Pakistan in Pakistan, we then get on
the same flight as them back to New Zealand to
(09:37):
play each other again.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, yes, there's the answer to that. They'll be there'll
be a fight for business class.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Yeah, on the way back, because once that tournament's over
on the ninth of March, there is a T twenty
and christ Church on the sixteenth of March, So but
of a seven day, one week turnaround between end of
that tournament and Pakistan heading to New Zealand for four
five T twenties and three od i's, So yeah, it's
(10:04):
quite a bit of a truncated summer if I'm honest.
But the good news is for real cricket heads and
the BYC guys will be pleased about this. That February
window leaves a window for the Super Smash and international
players who aren't involved in the Champions Trophy to all
get stuck into Super Smash as well. So that'll be
actually quite good for the domestic competition.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That Pakistan tour as well. When they come back at
the end of March, thorough all double headers, so the
White Ferns will play beforehand on the same ticket and
because they're all on TV and Z, they're going to
go White Ferns News Black Caps, which I think is
just a tremendous way to run that. I mean, it's
going to pass you off if you're into tipping point
or the chase, you're probably gonna think.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
It's gonna piss you off. If you're it's gonna pass
you off.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
If you're a boomer, because you love Because there's no
doubt they're going to shorten the news to half an
hour and they hate nothing more than the because the
only other time they shorten the news is when the
Black Clash is on and then they have to deal
with us commentating and it just blows their mind.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
So they've got actually a few of these.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
There's the last T twenties against either All five T
twenties are going to be double headers. They're in christ
Church to need In, Auckland, Toadonger and Wellington. Once again,
Auckland misses out significantly. In a lot of these we
get and Auckland gets one one dayer against Sri Lanka. Yeah,
(11:29):
and one to twenty against Pakistan.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
How we don't have a test venue in the biggest
city in the country.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Is It's crazy?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Crazy?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
The fact there's only going to be two days of
cricket in the biggest city in New Zealander is weird.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Look, I'm not saying that we should just force it
in there because I think places like Seddon Park, Bay Oval,
Seddon Park, Hagley Oval is way better, way better grounds.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Someone must have goat photos because how can McClain Park
keep getting games? How can they keep getting games that
the ground is ship it's it's a rectangle, no one
turns up. They've got issues with They've finished the drainage issues,
but they've got the light issue that comes through the
grandstand and finds the batsman.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
But they have.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Got They've got a few gap quite a few. Look,
I don't understand how they get a game, but they
do against Pakistan. They get an odi I on the
Saturday twenty ninth and March. So yeah, and no games
in queens Sound, no games in Queenie happened there. I'm
not sure what's happened there. I think I'm not sure
the pitch is up to standard in Queenie.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Or no year.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Well, no, I don't know why that's falling out of
favor as well, because they did play a game there
against Sri Lanka a few years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Last year they played a game and I forget what
was I think it was against Sri Lanka. I didn't
see the game, but I did see the crowd from
the departure lounge Queenstown Domestic Airport.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Right, That's why they've changed the They will also changed
the direction of the pitch there and it looks like
a plane's literally going to land on you can see
passengers faces. When they showed it, they focused in on
the plane. You could see a person's face looking out
the window. There was legendary because obviously they're remarkables in
the background. But obviously they have their reasons u zealing cricket.
(13:22):
Obviously there are different associations, you know, get to pitch
their case as well to hosting internationals that brings them
a lot of money. So yeah, but I'm stumped about
McLain parks still and the fact, I mean, look, if
a McClain park's sold out every time, sure, yeah, i'd
be okay, you have to, but no one turns up
(13:43):
and it's a terrible ground and you can't nickel and
dimedon park when you've got McLean Park.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, one hundred percent with way less capacity.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But anyway, the jewel in the crown for this summer
of cricket is definitely that English Series. Thursday the twenty
eighth of November is the first one that's at Hagle Oval.
They go to the Basemin Reserve. I love a Test
series in New Zealand really signals the start of summer.
It's good to really sink your teeth into as well.
And obviously we all remember how good that that one
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all series victory.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Was absolutely These black Bean game White fans sorry games
all summer as well. I think they're playing they play
Ossie and they play schri Lanka and then they play
Ossie again at the end of the summer. So yeah,
they're they're in for a tough ride against those Assies
as well. They've got three Odie Eyes and then three
two twenties at the end of summer.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, that'll be a challenge as well.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
So the Odie Eyes, it's the Rose Bowl between the
White Ferns and Australia. All three of those are going
to be played at the Basin Reserve, which I quite
like as an idea, you know, just the back to
back to back who's the better team over three games
even you know, I think they would admit that it's
gonna be a mammoth task to try and beat Australia
(14:53):
at a game of cricket at the moment. Yeah, but
always fun and always one to get up for.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
So that is a schedule out.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It'll be on all socials everywhere across the day today,
So if you haven't seen it already, go and check
our socials, chickensyling, cricket socials, try and phone a PDF
of it and print it out because it's not going
to make sense to you when you first read it.
It hasn't to me, so you're going to need it
on your desk at work, I think, because.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I just yeah, just no, there's going to be no
cricket from mid January to mid March in New Zealand. Yeah,
so you know you can take a good holiday and
just watch some international cricket from overseas.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah, don't come crying to us when that break happens.
As well.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
A little bit of a different structure of the podcast
today because at the end we're going to be talking
to Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sport podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
They have made an incredible pledge to support.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Mitch Barnett who've missed the birth of a second child.
So if you want to, you can scrub ahead to
that right now though we're going to take a quick break.
When we come back, we're going to get to your
feedback on Yours Please, Yours.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Please, brought to you by Leader Home of the list
on the top four.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Of them to get through today, laying a couple of
them inaudible. And I really wanted to address this on
the podcast today because this is becoming increasingly a problem,
and so I'd like for your listening pleasure to play
you just a sample of one of the more one
of the better quality yours pleases that we've been getting recently,
but still almost inaudible.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So without any further ado, call it yours please.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Specials help qu Kieren sitting up the stairs.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Than the radio.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Two's right, I think I I think I could kind
of get the gist of it was.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
That we should have guest commentators and Karen Reid would
be good.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yes, that's exactly what he was the same, but it's
not Yes, that is what he said, but how he
said it was he hit the voicemail function bottom right
hand corner of his iHeart Radio app and they just
chucked it in the coffee holder of his forklift and
went about his day. It was ridiculous. We get about
three or four of these a day. Just have a
look at where your environment is. Like, maybe wait till
you can get into the smoker room before you send
(17:21):
these ind but the port stands. You know, we've had
people on before.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Now we have.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
We've actually Karen Reid actually commentated a one day with
us at Eton Park. Yeah, and we presented him with
his ACC jacket we had to get At the time.
He was very recently retired, so he was still quite large.
I don't think it fits him anymore because he's trimmed
down quite a bit, but he has. He's got his
on an every ACC jacket. He's been a whole day
with us in the commentary box up in Eden Park.
(17:48):
We cause a bit of a bit of a stir
actually because we were in the Botham's box, which isn't
that level five corporate riam and you know they've got
a dress code there you can't wear open toad shoes
and where he had his wife with him and she
had like three hundred dollars birkenstock sandals on. I remember this,
and then they go, now you can't come in. We
(18:10):
were like, no, no, no, you're good, you're good, and
we just piled her into the lift and they chased
us up the stairs and then we like like a huddle,
almost like the Secret Service around Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
We were like that around Kiaran Reid's wife.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
We got her in there and we hit her in
the seats out the front, and they came out and
they said to me, she can't be in here. I
was like, mate, you go tell Karen Reid that he's
just there. You tell him that's not it's not my wife.
And now go, okay, look, okay, this one time, Okay,
this one time.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You absolute cowards. Yeah, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think the problem we have is we struggle enough
to get enough commentators together just to do a commentary ourselves.
If ile on top of that, I'm trying to get
someone in, you know, a professional athlete.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
The other thing is it becomes glaringly obvious.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I mean, obviously nobody comes to us for in depth analysis,
but when you have someone on who actually knows a
bit about the sport, it becomes glaringly obvious how little
we known. And it actually becomes quite a tough listen
to it.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, and they start saying stuff, and I remember we
hit someone on I think it was when the cricketers
used to pop into the caravan in the early days.
Willie Nichols used to bring them round to the caravan
and just it's been ten minutes in there and there's
a look on someone like Lee Hart's face when they
started talking about the game plan and how the picture
(19:28):
was playing and the back link deliveries and about you know, working,
and he's just like just you could see us just
blaze over and it was like you could see the
whites of his eyes like a lizard because he had
no idea what was going on. And yes, it did
expose us. And you'd have people like Jason Hoyt who
would just agree and go, yes, yes, exactly, yeah, Nathan,
(19:49):
I agree absolutely. He had no idea what he sank. Yeah,
and then the rest of us going Jesus Christ. I
didn't even know that was happening in that game. I
didn't even know that was that was an issue. I
didn't even know the picture was an issue. I didn't
know in conditions we're only sweet. I had no idea
what the picture was like. So you're right, it does
expose some rather weak foundations that we have within the commentary.
(20:10):
If we bring someone on who actually knows what they're
talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, well, it's even like the video I recorded a
video this morning when I was talking to Tom lathm
that'll probably never see the light of day. And I
asked him, you know, when I look at the schedule,
I look at the game on New Year's Even, I think, man,
it sucks to work when all your mates are just
on holiday and on the past. And I was like,
does that suck for you as well? And he goes, yeah,
I don't play ten twenties, so it's not gonna be
(20:35):
too big an issue for me. Oh yeah, true.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I know you walk into that one.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I know. I was like, okay, well to let that
footage then.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
On, you should have doubled down and gone well why
are you here?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Then?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, so this is yeah, so why'd they put you
up if you don't play T twenty? There's only one
who no one watches, so we're gonna sit around and
watch you play cricket for five days.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, just blatly double down and then you just go, ah,
so is that all the yours? Please? Just the one
inaudible one? No, no, no, all four of them are
like that.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, you've just cut out for a little bit. There
you're back now.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's like you've sent in one from your forklift on
yours please, No, we've got three more hits, So another
caller here, yours please.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
Fellas just listening to the podcast and old mentioned Lee
Hart on the jet skis anyone ask getting Kenny Powers
kind of vibes from that. Yeah, And I'm so glad
that the Europe's are over now? Could you guys have
stop talking about fucking soccer? God, you've been banging on
about it, right.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
You can't please these people, can you? Leane?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Oh my god? Like not enough round ball? Not enough,
Europe's too much. Europe's not enough round ball? He started off, Well,
I agree Leehart on the panty dropper, the Kinny Powers
jet skis as an image I won't get out of
my head in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm picturing.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I don't know if you've seen the photo of Jay
Z on his jet ski. He's got a helmet and
glasses on and he looks like an insect on that.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
The other great jetski scene is off Tiger King And
you remember that the guy who owned the pet store, Yes.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
That is that's one of the greats.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
As well there's this is just something about an overweight
American on a jet ski.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, that just does it for me.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That is powerful.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, yeah, apparently Lee HUD's someone sending a voicemail that
that's oldly had a jet ski three years ago, haven't
seen it back in for a service.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Since how much of a service does a jet ski need.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Really, especially if you're not using it?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, that's right. Another caller here, yours please.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Hey fellas. On the topic of favorite Olympic sport, I
love but a wait listening. Love watching some massive cunts
and little cunts to be fair, pushing some pretty massive
mounts of tin. The commentators are super knowledgeable and raw enthusiastic.
Is always a chance of a horrific untrey, which lords
the bonus.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, I completely agree with this. Weightlifting is my favorite
thing to watch as well. But it does put the
willies up me though, when you see someone just lift
something and then just elbow pops out the wrong way
and he gives out there on the floor. Then they
put the little fence around them like they're about to
shoot them thorough or horse. What's your favorite sport to
watch at the Olympics?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Lane?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Ah, I do like I do like a bit of
jeopardy that the weightlifting is good because you like you're
saying there's a chance of a horrific injury. But I
also like the fact they film the moments before with
their coach out the back, and there's different methods of
firing them up, like slapping in the face.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, just screaming at them. It's just like a massive
slap on them.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, unfortunately it seems like we've lost Gelane entirely, which
some would say is for the best. So what we're
going to do here is take one last quick break.
When we come back, we're going to be joined by
Tom Birmingham from the Hallow Sports podcast. Well, it's a
great pleasure to welcome our dear friend from across the
from the Hello Sport podcast, Tom Birmingham.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Get a Tom, Hey, getting on this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Mate, very very well, thanks for having us. How are
you guys doing, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
We're doing very very well, thanks mate. State of origin tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Obviously you're a proud New South Welshman over there, and
I see that it's caught your eye that our beloved
Mitch Barnett has actually missed the birth of his second
son just the whole pads at training across the ditch.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Let's call you right, didn't it?
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Oh? Absolutely did. We're calling him mana much from across
the Dutch. Yeah yeah. And also just we are new
South Welshman, but myself and Eddie who's my COEs on
the show, both half key we So I just feel
like mentioning that off the top, maybe just to ingratiate
ourselves further with your audience. Look, it was made apparent
(24:51):
to us after Mitch got selected in the second game
that he missed the birth of his child, and we
were like, oh, that's I mean, obviously that's incredible. But
then as the story developed, it was like he actually
a kid had been born for a couple of weeks.
He missed the birth of his second child to literally
come and train with the boys, not on game day, not,
I think man just to hold pads, run through some
(25:12):
plays and I just think that's New South Wales spirit
through and through.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, I've thought this from the moment that he got there,
he got named into the squad. I was like mtch
bhiit as a state of origin player, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
He's got all of the things.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I think he's raised on a dairy farm out in
rural New South Wales. I couldn't tell you where, and
I was like, that is the kind of man that
you need in your food, Peck, and I think you
and Edie came up with a plan to reward him
in some way for that.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
Yeah, that's right. Look, I mean we sort of we
were just trying to think about how we could give
back to a man who's you know, given everything to
the state. Now you could argue that if you've seen
one childbirth, you've seen them all. Maybe that's true. I
don't know, but we felt like we needed to do
something for him. So we're in the process of basically
(26:00):
just trying to organize almost an obnoxious amount of Hauge's
nappies to be delivered to Warriores. Training basically is a
way to say thank you, see what we can do
to maybe just ease the strain at home having a
couple of kids. Myself, nappies and wipes a commodity, So
we sort of feel like that just will do our part.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Am I right and thinking if I got the mets
right on this, I think the metric was it was
tackles times meters run plus a fuckload.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Correct. Now, you know, it's not exactly an exact it's
not an exact science necessarily that tackles times meters times
of fuckload is the metric we're going off. So it'll
be interesting to see how that shakes out after the night.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Yeah, it's going to entirely depend on how many minutes
he gets and also what exactly a fuckload is? What
the I know you got Jacko on from the Warriors
to help facilitate a little bit of the logistics. He mentioned,
why don't you just give him the money and then
he could buy the stuff himself. I don't think that's
the spirit of what you were trying to do here.
I think it's about obviously as a as a good
(27:10):
half key to yourself.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know, it's about the koha. It's about the gift
and the act of gift giving.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And so I think in that spirit, how how far
along the road are you with us?
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do you need a hand? We've got a yute.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I mean, it's got fuck all storage in the back
of it, but we've got straps and stuff. Do you
need someone to pick it up at customs and take
it to the training facility?
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Honestly, this couldn't have come at a better time. Initially
we reached out to Huggy you thinking, you know, maybe
we could help them, help help a good news story,
get Huggies involved. They gave us one of the great
parning offs of all time, as is there right, But
obviously they will come to rule the day and they see,
you know, the success of this gesture. But look, if
(27:53):
you guys, it'd be fantastic. We were, we were, we were,
We were considering flying them over there. Then thought it's
probably just easy to buy him on the ground in
New Zealand. But you're right, Jacko will be getting none
of our money, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Well he's probably going to siphon some off anyway.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
We've just got as a concern.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
We've just had a Costco open up here in New Zealand.
I feel like that's probably the way to go in
terms of buying in bulk. Don't why don't we take
our ut it's a nineteen ninety six Ford falcon yut
sacked out. We have to take it to a dodgy
workshop to get the rigo over here. But why don't
we take that out to Costco? Get meters times tackles
(28:35):
times a fuck load worth of nappies and then drive
them out to South Auckland and deliver them and deliver
them to Muna mitch from across the ditch when he
gets back.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
That sounds like a fantastic idea now, where if you
can give us the details of this costco happy to
we'll get on the front foot and make the purchase
for you and then just have it all set up
so you guys can come and pick it up.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I think, I think that this is this could be fruitful.
We're all involved.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
If not on the back of the year, we also
have a caravan where we commentate sports out of the
back of we could probably you know, potentially empty that
out fillet with a metric fuck ton of nappies and
what wipes was it?
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well?
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I just feel like wet wipes are If you're going
to be changing nappies, there's a very big challenge. You
can be covered in shit, and not just any shit,
it's new baby shit, which is the most potent of
all shits, at least from my experience, so you probably
want to have at least a healthy dose of wipes
in there as well.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, all right, all right, what Here's what I think
we do. I think we put a pin in this
and take it offline. We will see that if we've
got any connections over the side of the Dutch that
could potentially help out. You know, we scratch their beck,
they scratch our beck, We scratch your back sort of situation.
Love that and if we can't, then other option as
we get the hellows book credit card, run it through
(29:54):
the wall at Costco and happy families.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Sounds fantastic and listen, I mean, I don't know know
what our next couple of weeks look like. I'm not
going to commit to it. But if there's a world
where we maybe hop on a flight and get over
there and deliver them with you, then I'm just keeping
all options open at this point because I want to
see Man and Mitch from across the ditch Getty Navies.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, I think we all do, and so anything that
we can do to help make that happen, We'll just
keep our eyes up over the next couple of weeks. Well,
thank you very much for joining us on the podcast today,
Tom go well enjoy your state of origin.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Football. Quick prediction for the score.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
Tonight New South Wales by a fuck load to be honest.
Game one we basically wanted a man down. Game two
it was a fuck load, and then game three, I'm
just feeling it. There's a lot of positive vibes in
the air here in New South Wales. And whilst you
know positive vibes, have you know turned up to be
incorrect vibes in the past. I'm just I'm feeling it.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well, I'll check.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I know we've got different bidding apps across the ditch
over your side and outside, but I'll check our bidding
partner and see if they've got a market for News
Wales by a fuck looad. Enjoy enjoy the game tonight, mate,
and we'll be in touch to see if we can't
get these nappies too much.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Perfect. Great to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Thanks, I really appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
We'll have accidentally signed myself up for far more work
than I would like to have done. But a massive
thank you to Tom Birmingham from Hello Sports podcast. Go
listen to the podcast by the way, if you haven't already,
I'm sure if you're listening to this you're probably already
aware of that. And a massive thank you to g
Lane Live at a witness protection. Go well, wherever it
is that you are around the country, We're going to
(31:31):
knock it on the head for today. We'll be back
tomorrow for another episode of the Gender podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
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