October 2, 2025 • 6 mins
It’s McKay and Mackay on sport, as Hamish catches up with Jamie, who is over in Perth waiting for the All Blacks v Wallabies match this weekend. Plus, infamous Mackay travel stories, including his battle with a noisy rooster.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And it's not out a whole lot of good roosters
(00:01):
in Firth, but apparently there's one outside Jamie's window at
four am in the morning. Let's see what sort of
mood that's, Letterman, Jamie McKay.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you, fella Koda Homus McKay. Thanks for filling
the void and you're doing a great job. I've just
been listening to the show while I've been waiting to
chat to you a year. Look, it's Perth obviously five
hours behind New Zealand, so it plays a weabit with
your sleep patterns. You wake up at three or four
in the morning anyhow, because that's sort of your body
(00:31):
clocks telling you to do that. But my sleep patterns
haven't been helped by a friggin rooster that I wanted
to attack him yesterday with the golf clubs. He's right
outside in the window. And I thought rooster's only crowed
like at the crack of dawn. This bugger is going
all night crowing, driving me nuts, driving me nuts.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh look, I just hope the All Blacks win because
on Sunday morning, that poor rooster will have a death
sentence the All Blakes, when you'll get him. You'll get
him with the big berther.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, well he's my golf clubs are sitting just outside,
not a mile away from the rooster, and I'll tell
you what. He's in a precarious situation here. Look, I
heard you commental web it the Aussies. What do you say,
one to twelve paying what?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, one to twelve they're paying three dollars seventy. I
thought that was really good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good money, all right, Because obviously
the All Blacks have had to had to make a
few changes, some because of injury, some I guess because
of form. I haven't seen the Aussie team. I'm assuming
that scout and that other big bloke a back yep, yeap.
So they're going to be pretty strong. And I always thought,
(01:43):
you know, after the hiding in Wellington from the spring
box Hamish, that the All Blacks would bounce back at
Eden Park. It is they're fortress. They always historically they've
always come back from bad performances with a good one.
And they weren't too bad were they at Eden Park?
Minds you the Aussies weren't that bad either, But I
reckon it's it's absolutely a game on over here in
(02:04):
front of sixty thousand fans. There's heaps of kiwis here. Ross,
I mean Hamish. I'm staying with my old friend Ross Stuart.
We went to primary school and Lincoln together. He's lived
over here for about thirty years. So there's a crew
of us from Riversdale over here, and then there's another
bus you go duck shooting with us in Riversdale from
(02:25):
christ Church who are over here. So the two my
eyes are meeting up tomorrow before the footy. So there's
going to be a lots of kiwi's and lots of
all black gir running around the middle of Perth tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, it does feel like that. Quite a bit of excitement,
just you know. I mean, we like going to Sydney
or Brisbane. At Perth just a little bit more of
a hop step and a jump, isn't it. I Mean
it's a long way from your settland at the end
of the day, but that's great to hear. Have you
bumped into the mercurial Joe Smith at any stage?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
No, No, Look, honestly I got here on Tuesday at
learn evening and we've we've had two full days of golfing.
We're going to some wonderful courses. They have so many
great golf courses over here. We're just about to head
north of Perth to a resort course called Joondalup or
something like that, and so I haven't even had I
(03:16):
haven't even been into Perth. But that's tomorrow's mission. It's
a non golfing day, Hamish. I'm really keen to get
in and have a look at the city itself. They
tell me it's wonderful. The new stadium, the Upa stadiums
are meant to be wonderful. I've only spent six hours
on the ground in Perth a dozen years ago on
the way to a South Africa farming and forty tour,
so I'd never left the airport, so it's all new
(03:38):
to me. And miss is a huge city. I think
there might be two or three million people here Hamish,
but it's so spread out. You can see it from
the air when we flew in. It's the size of
London and yet it probably has twenty percent of that
of the population. But really looking forward to exploring it.
(03:58):
We've seen some really interesting country. We took a bit
of a cross country tour yesterday on our way back
from the golf club south of Perth that we played
yesterday with some interesting country here. You wouldn't call it
prime what we would Southland or Manor or two grazing.
But you know they've had their wettest winter on record.
They're just heading into their springs. Everything's very, very green,
(04:22):
but I'm told that to come high this summer it'll
be looking pretty much like a desert, right.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Jamie Hay. One last thing does you make Ross Stewart?
Does he come back to Southland product shooting back? Is
there a spot in the mymi for him or how
does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, that's what he does. He comes right, He comes
back every years shooting. So look, it's wonderful. You know.
Make you met us five year old. You know we
went to high school to Lincoln together. He's a he's
a bit of a rough diamond. He's a classic and
you know, but he's got a beautiful property on the
(04:57):
outskirts of Perth. So we're very very lucky apart from
the bloody rooster.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Apart from the bloody rooster. Because I'm going to get
you on board. I'm going to need your help with this.
I want to I've got till May to get an
invitation back into a man of or two, my mi,
I and you know right now, I mean it's probably
the wrong time the season to be pitching for this,
but you know, I just want people in the man
or two to you know, I'm home, I'm ready. Where's
the invitation? You know? I need to you know, in
(05:23):
Auckland too long and yeah, so I just thought you
might a bebo to help me out with that one, Jamie,
come next month.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh well, you put the pitch out now. I'm sure
some of your old mates because there's like it's male socially.
I shouldn't say male social bonding, male and female. I'll
offend someone with that, but it's absolutely it's bonding at
its very very best. I'm a retired shooter now I'm
only a social convener, but I have a duck pond.
I have a wetland that's in a q E two
(05:49):
National Trust. It is my pride and joy Hamish and I.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hope that one day because we're such good mates and
I get to visit that place. Because that sounds bloody magnificent.
Jamie McKay, thank you for all. Are you going to
enjoy the Rugby. Hopefully the rooster shuts up. There we go.
There's Jamie over there and Perth. Great to chat to him.
And it's not out a whole lot of good roosters
(00:01):
in Firth, but apparently there's one outside Jamie's window at
four am in the morning. Let's see what sort of
mood that's, Letterman, Jamie McKay.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How are you, fella Koda Homus McKay. Thanks for filling
the void and you're doing a great job. I've just
been listening to the show while I've been waiting to
chat to you a year. Look, it's Perth obviously five
hours behind New Zealand, so it plays a weabit with
your sleep patterns. You wake up at three or four
in the morning anyhow, because that's sort of your body
(00:31):
clocks telling you to do that. But my sleep patterns
haven't been helped by a friggin rooster that I wanted
to attack him yesterday with the golf clubs. He's right
outside in the window. And I thought rooster's only crowed
like at the crack of dawn. This bugger is going
all night crowing, driving me nuts, driving me nuts.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh look, I just hope the All Blacks win because
on Sunday morning, that poor rooster will have a death
sentence the All Blakes, when you'll get him. You'll get
him with the big berther.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, well he's my golf clubs are sitting just outside,
not a mile away from the rooster, and I'll tell
you what. He's in a precarious situation here. Look, I
heard you commental web it the Aussies. What do you say,
one to twelve paying what?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, one to twelve they're paying three dollars seventy. I
thought that was really good.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty good money, all right, Because obviously
the All Blacks have had to had to make a
few changes, some because of injury, some I guess because
of form. I haven't seen the Aussie team. I'm assuming
that scout and that other big bloke a back yep, yeap.
So they're going to be pretty strong. And I always thought,
(01:43):
you know, after the hiding in Wellington from the spring
box Hamish, that the All Blacks would bounce back at
Eden Park. It is they're fortress. They always historically they've
always come back from bad performances with a good one.
And they weren't too bad were they at Eden Park?
Minds you the Aussies weren't that bad either, But I
reckon it's it's absolutely a game on over here in
(02:04):
front of sixty thousand fans. There's heaps of kiwis here. Ross,
I mean Hamish. I'm staying with my old friend Ross Stuart.
We went to primary school and Lincoln together. He's lived
over here for about thirty years. So there's a crew
of us from Riversdale over here, and then there's another
bus you go duck shooting with us in Riversdale from
(02:25):
christ Church who are over here. So the two my
eyes are meeting up tomorrow before the footy. So there's
going to be a lots of kiwi's and lots of
all black gir running around the middle of Perth tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, it does feel like that. Quite a bit of excitement,
just you know. I mean, we like going to Sydney
or Brisbane. At Perth just a little bit more of
a hop step and a jump, isn't it. I Mean
it's a long way from your settland at the end
of the day, but that's great to hear. Have you
bumped into the mercurial Joe Smith at any stage?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
No, No, Look, honestly I got here on Tuesday at
learn evening and we've we've had two full days of golfing.
We're going to some wonderful courses. They have so many
great golf courses over here. We're just about to head
north of Perth to a resort course called Joondalup or
something like that, and so I haven't even had I
(03:16):
haven't even been into Perth. But that's tomorrow's mission. It's
a non golfing day, Hamish. I'm really keen to get
in and have a look at the city itself. They
tell me it's wonderful. The new stadium, the Upa stadiums
are meant to be wonderful. I've only spent six hours
on the ground in Perth a dozen years ago on
the way to a South Africa farming and forty tour,
so I'd never left the airport, so it's all new
(03:38):
to me. And miss is a huge city. I think
there might be two or three million people here Hamish,
but it's so spread out. You can see it from
the air when we flew in. It's the size of
London and yet it probably has twenty percent of that
of the population. But really looking forward to exploring it.
(03:58):
We've seen some really interesting country. We took a bit
of a cross country tour yesterday on our way back
from the golf club south of Perth that we played
yesterday with some interesting country here. You wouldn't call it
prime what we would Southland or Manor or two grazing.
But you know they've had their wettest winter on record.
They're just heading into their springs. Everything's very, very green,
(04:22):
but I'm told that to come high this summer it'll
be looking pretty much like a desert, right.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Jamie Hay. One last thing does you make Ross Stewart?
Does he come back to Southland product shooting back? Is
there a spot in the mymi for him or how
does that work? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, that's what he does. He comes right, He comes
back every years shooting. So look, it's wonderful. You know.
Make you met us five year old. You know we
went to high school to Lincoln together. He's a he's
a bit of a rough diamond. He's a classic and
you know, but he's got a beautiful property on the
(04:57):
outskirts of Perth. So we're very very lucky apart from
the bloody rooster.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Apart from the bloody rooster. Because I'm going to get
you on board. I'm going to need your help with this.
I want to I've got till May to get an
invitation back into a man of or two, my mi,
I and you know right now, I mean it's probably
the wrong time the season to be pitching for this,
but you know, I just want people in the man
or two to you know, I'm home, I'm ready. Where's
the invitation? You know? I need to you know, in
(05:23):
Auckland too long and yeah, so I just thought you
might a bebo to help me out with that one, Jamie,
come next month.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh well, you put the pitch out now. I'm sure
some of your old mates because there's like it's male socially.
I shouldn't say male social bonding, male and female. I'll
offend someone with that, but it's absolutely it's bonding at
its very very best. I'm a retired shooter now I'm
only a social convener, but I have a duck pond.
I have a wetland that's in a q E two
(05:49):
National Trust. It is my pride and joy Hamish and I.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Hope that one day because we're such good mates and
I get to visit that place. Because that sounds bloody magnificent.
Jamie McKay, thank you for all. Are you going to
enjoy the Rugby. Hopefully the rooster shuts up. There we go.
There's Jamie over there and Perth. Great to chat to him.
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