The Country 29/05/25: Hamish McKay talks to Jamie Mackay

Tomorrow, the baton will be passed from a Mackay to a McKay, as one of NZ’s best-known broadcasters makes his debut hosting The Country. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, wrapping the country has promised a bit of a
special guest will be making his debut on the country,
although he has done the occasional piece in the past. Tomorrow,
I'm out of here. I've got a farewell my great
friend Rowan Horror getting a bit emotional thinking about it.
We're gonna have a great day in Riversdale to celebrate
his life. So Rowena's moving to is it greener Pasture's fmgah. Anyhow,

(00:23):
she's still going to be hanging around, but she's not
available tomorrow and this man is and he's running the
cutter tomorrow. So from one mackay spout correctly to another
Mackay spout incorrectly, Hamish, welcome to the country. Don't cock
it up tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I won't cock it up tomorrow, like when our four
my four beer has got off the boat and Dunedin
and missed out the A in our name and we
sort of became the second Ta makais forever in a day.
So yeah, no, I won't cock it up. I'm looking
forward to I feel like somebody who wanted to test
jump for all their life and Pat's going to grab one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
What I said to you. I texted you ever in
the week when I found out you're filling, and I said,
do too good a job, because, as you know in
radio Hamish, if you could, if they can find someone younger,
cheaper and smarter, and I think you're at least two
of those, you're gone.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah probably I'll probably be cheaper, or it might be
a bit young. And mind you're on the shearing board
a couple of years ago. You look like the younger one,
so I can't claim that. Really.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
No, you've got a good we know you used to
run the cutter with Old Lowey on the Opposition show.
You've got a good rural background, raised on a man
or two farm, was good enough to be honest, I
only won the sharing because you've got a kicker. You
were good enough to make the Golden shares. I think
was it junior final or something like that, So.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You know bottom tooth down from the comb up all
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Well, I was going to say you know your way
around the sheep. But people could misconstrue that Hamish.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yes they could, of course they could. You could bring
up all sorts of connotations MESSI university. Oh I didn't
say that, you know, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey you and maybe you'll talk about this tomorrow. You've
been through a huge and I've got about thirty or
forty seconds left, a huge health transformation. It's been inspirational.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, look at hairs and look at it. And it
came with some help by way of surgery. But losing
fifty five kilos, I had to go away and lose
twenty kilos on my own before I was considered for
bariatric surgery. Change. My life just different. You know. I
can't believe top two inches everything, and I feel like
it's all in front of me now and that my

(02:27):
date of birth is actually false by about twenty years.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, there you go, you've got you've got a second chance.
Well go well tomorrow. Don't be too good or I
might not be back on Tuesday after the long weekend.
Go well, my friend, there he goes Hamosh mackay. He'll
be running the cut at tomorrow