The Country 09/02/26: Jeremy Rookes talks to Jamie Mackay

The Country's unofficial Canterbury-based lifestyle block and hobby farmer spokesman discusses why he's not keen on National Lamb Day.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are wrapping the country on Super Bowl Sunday Monday, our time,
three nil to the Seattle Seahawks. He's a man with
plenty of spare time on his hands because he is
a hobby farmer, a lifestyler. Jeremy Rooks, you'll be parked
up for the afternoon watching the Super Bowl, are you,
jez Well?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It will probably go quicker than the Welsh English Six
Nations game. I got up and watch yesterday morning. The
referees are just a poor.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Terrible mind you.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
England looked pretty good, don't they. And France I mean
it's early days, I know.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
But see, yeah, yeah, well both and shot you've got
a good half back first five and life gets a
whole lot easier for you, doesn't it, Which is what
we're lefting A good number ten at the moment, that's
for sure.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Well, we've got a very good number nine to be
fair in cam Royguard and your mate Richie Muong is
coming back.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I wouldn't He's not the answer. We need to go young.
We've got some sick of these old baggers of the team.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're a bitter, twisted and angry man.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I want to encourage the use of this nation and
to aspire to the all blacks Jamie, I don't want
has beans that spend most of the time on Instagram
playing first five and causing trouble behind the scenes and
the all black guy.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh you horrible, horrible man. Hey, you're not enamored with
National Lamb Day. You're so miserable or our national Day?
What's wrong with National Lamb Day? I think been for
LAMB New Zealand and AGG Proud and Rabobank and f
MG are doing a great job.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
There's nothing I'm not anti National Land Day. It just
ends up being a junket for politicians eating lamb wrecks and.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
So we love it.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Agriculture, No great new meat, more of our beautiful meat
where it should be something that's actually the whole country
A is aware of and B celebrates together. And that
would be a great way to replace the shambles which
is our national Day or you know why any day
I look.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I look at Australia Day and they do a great job.
And they have their issues over there as well. I
get that, but they do a great job of encouraging
to eat lamb. They do all sorts of promotions and
specials to get your joe average punter to try Lamb
on Australia Day. And the trouble with our national day,
why Tonguey Day. I would soon have it Anzac Day.

(02:11):
I think that's the one day of the year when
we're all rowing in the same direction. But it's too divided.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I agree, But we're getting back to national land, I mean,
of course, but it's not promoted to the punters. If
you walk down George Street today and ask and ask
the shoppers how many of them know which day National
Lambda is, they won't have a clue. But all the
fads and beef and Lamb that'll all be closing up
for the politicians over a Lamb wreck. They'll all know.
So we need they need to do a better job

(02:37):
of promoting Lamb with him, you know, and making sure
all the supermarkets have Lamb Day specials and everything else.
And yeah, well, Brady, what's great.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
About I would agree with you. There would be great
to see the supermarkets markets special lamb or a Lamb
leg or something like that. I know it's probably not
that easy with the price of lamb at the moment,
but anyhow, let's move on from that. We talked to
Peter Alexander a bit in the Hour about the season
you're having in Canterbury where you're based. If you're a
pastoral farmer, it's got to be happy days.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I've been playing golf on Wednesdays the last couple of
weeks and it makes my heart, seeing Jamie, to see
God's province looking so beautiful, and there's just nothing better.
And everyone's in a great mood at the moment because
we were in the in the stook before Christmas, but
it's rained and at the moment things just couldn't be better. Obviously,
the arable farmers are having a rough harvest, but everyone
has a turn, as they've always said, so at the

(03:29):
moment there's nothing but happy days. The store price has
gone nuts, the lamb jobs hanging up there nicely for you. Oh,
it's just great. And I'm having a moment lawn twice
a week and well.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
You've got nothing else to do.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Well, I'm working on the golf game, so which is
going to take a lot of work, a lot of time.
And honestly, the garden, the garden's gone mad, Jamie. I've
been dead heading all morning and I've got more to
do it this afternoon, so don't for a minute thing
I'm not busy.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, I won't for a moment. There, there we go.
Jeremy Brooks our Lifestyle, our hobby farmer out of Canterbury,
wrapping the country for today.