Weekly Journals: The best days of the year

Every week we follow in Matthew McConaughey's footsteps and write journals reflecting on the week just gone - so here they are in podcast form

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, all right, all right, Yes, indeed you are
the author of your story, of your journal. In this journal,
you will get to know yourself better, and who better
to get.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
To know their journal? The countdown is on thirty three
days till Christmas? Is that correct, Joseph? Yeah, you can
almost see the finish line.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
There's deadlines for work, obligations, shopping list, foodless It's a
real juggle.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
But make sure you lift your head above the water.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
To look around. Here's a little secret. These days are
the best days of the year. The weather is improving,
but the car seats won't burn your bum. There's sun,
but not enough to have to have to spread sunscreen
on everyone every five minutes. The evenings are longer, and
yet your relatives haven't arrived yet. It's beach weather, but
you can still get a park. Yes, you still have

(00:50):
to go to work, but even your boss is halfway
out the door. So yes, it's manic, But with some
clever planning, the next month can extend your summer long
enough to make it feel.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Like you've got six weeks off.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Like school teachers, we shouldn't have fought our boss like that.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
All school teachers class half all though night, I.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Feel like they've all been really dedicated.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
No high journal.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
What feels like two years in the making, the long
overdue boys weekend is finally about to happen. Life, kids busy,
We're all devoted dads with wonderful wives, and one of
my best mates just so happens to be married to
my sister. But while we've been busy with kids, sports
and family functions and work stuff, time has ticked by.
We've tried a few times, but our diaries have never
fully matched up until today, and even now, in a

(01:35):
late development, one of us will sorely be missed, but
we'll raise a glass to him as we swing some
golf clubs, real love our glory days, tell tall stories,
debate the greatest sporting moments, and pretend we're too young
for hangovers while seek withly regretting it all the next morning.
We've all seen the stats. Guys in New Zealand just
don't catch up with their mates nearly enough, and that's
if we're lucky to even have more than one good friend.
I'm far too guilty, far too often of putting it off.

(01:56):
But this weekend, the logistics have been sorted. The only
thing I'm more excited about the week in itself. Is
the nan and app I'm going to have afterwards.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
You're going to need it. Can I just check the
guy that's sorely missed he's no longer with us?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is he's still alive? Still alive.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Us?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Because you can't.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm no, no, no, fair enough was a late breaking development.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
No, I want to do down on the logistics too.
What's going on? You glazed over those.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Details so that our wives are under control, that they've
got everything they need so that so we made sure
the wives have been pampered this weekend too.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I wasn't worried about that. You mean, how are they
getting pampered?

Speaker 5 (02:30):
Which things are lined up for the wives to enjoy
themselves too? Because they're looking after the kids. Obviously they've
got the kids in the solo apparent weekend so the
boys can have a voice weekend thought of everything.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Look forward to the firefighter rhyming. Okay, did you know
I've been reminded this week of how familiar childhood settings
can be, even when over twenty years have passed. I
was back at my old high school yesterday, New Plymouth
Girls to speak at my old Netble coach Josie Cleaver's
farewell on arrival, I remembered precisely the room where I used.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
To do Year nine studies.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I remember who was teaching me, shout out to you,
miss Glover, and who I used to sit by, Emma Shure,
who's still a bestie to this day. Those memories are
so vivid, and I realize it's because time goes so quickly,
and it really is the little things that you remember,
the moments when you were in fits of laughter and class,
the things your teacher said, you remember the way you felt,
they're always the best memories. As for my coach, Josie,

(03:22):
she's been at the school for forty four years and
in that time has coached some of New Zealand's top
athletes like Dannika Whipietti sprinter, Zoey Hobbs and current silver
Fern Callie Jury. That doesn't happen by accident, and even
those of us that didn't go on to represent New
Zealand have also been impacted. Josie was ultra competitive. She
created a culture of excellence and didn't do anything by halves.

(03:45):
She poured over our positions on court and painstakingly analyzed
our opposition. She cared deeply, and then it dawned on
me while I was delivering her farewell speech last night,
that my full form coach has shaped me and the
way I now coach the next generation in more ways
than one, and that will be her legacy.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Oh it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
You're doing a good job too. That is a little
snapshot of our week.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Hopeful you'll hope for your week has been really nice
and either way, your weekends even better yours.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
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Speaker 1 (04:23):
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Speaker 1 (04:31):
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