Rod and Gabi VS Americans in Canadian Bars BONUS

Canberra Brave star Matt Clark covers all bases, he is an American playing for the Canberra Brave while working in a Canadian Bar.

Rod and Gabi chat to Matt to find out if he is starting to take on any ‘Aussie-isms’ and whether the Canadian’s mind an American manning their bar, Caribou, in Kingston.

The Brave take on Brisbane Lightning this Saturday (June 14th) at AIS Areana 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gee, this was big?

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Last weekend?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Two ago?

Speaker 3 (00:03):
Just like that, after moving the Brave Cave from the
Phillip Ice Skating Rink to the ais Arena, we broke
the record for the national competition in the ice hockey
for attendance. And I think we're about can you rebreak
it two weeks later because it's a sellout on Saturday.

(00:24):
Matt Clark, the big American from the canber Brave joints
us again. Congratulations mate, what a turnout?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, it was awesome.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
What was the atmosphere like?

Speaker 5 (00:31):
It was soulful and there were so many people and
it was really loud in there.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well you and so this was the experience that, as
can Beern's, we wanted to go to what we see
with the NHL, you know, so that full stadium surround experience.
Growing up in that environment, going to those arenas as
a kid and then playing in them.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
How did that make you feel?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
To go out on the ice in that environment for
one of the first times in Australia.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
It was really cool.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Not something I expected in Australia, especially coming from phillip
which was a smaller venue and people kind of crammed
in not as much stands, but yeah, the full ball
and then it was absolutely full on Saturday, So it
was just it was amazing stepping out there for the
first time.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I couldn't believe it. It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Do any of the other states around Australia have similar
or what kind of experience do you have when you
do travel, like last weekend you were an away team,
is what kind of rinks are there elsewhere there?

Speaker 5 (01:24):
In Melbourne they have It's like a half ball kind
of like they have a big, big stands on one side,
but they don't have a full ball.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
They said, it's the first full ball experience in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, the AIS has been used here for a million
different things and I'm not sure it occurred to us
how perfect it was going to be for this, But
I just say, if it's the first time it's happened
in Australia, that explains why we've set the record. We've
got other international players or internationals who are naturalized Aussies
these days.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
What was the feeling amongst the group.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
It was a great feeling. Great, but everybody's been on
our team has been talking about it, like we just
can't wait to get back there and see if the
fans turn up again, and apparently they are because we
sold out again.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Saturday, so yeah, we're really excited to get back.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
We love playing at home in front of cam Baron's
and at the as.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Especially when you talk to the family and friends back home.
Are they noticing that you're becoming Australian You're doing anything
that they're like going, I'm going to a second what's
count on?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, they're not saying I'm going a second.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Mine say Aargie bargie to them.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
On the fund last night, I did tell people about
the Rgie Bargie incident.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
So now it's kind of like a running joke where
people say Algie bogie to me.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Inspired by Gabby, we even had a little bit of
the accent that you agie bag.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, so you guys understand it. Argie bargie, that's wrong.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Take the R out of it. It's just agie badge
a noise. You are really leaving the Australian experience. You're
working at a bar in Kingston.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
It's a Canadian.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
The Australian experience to a point.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
So as a Canadian, do you get many of the
Canadians or like Gabby who you're an exchange student over
in Canada for a while.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, I went there for a fa a few weeks
when I was in between near eleven and twelve. But
I love poutine and so it's like it's fries with
gravy and cheese curd sounds feral, Absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
You'd be surprised how well it works.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's so good. Do Assies get into.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
That, Yeah, well, yeah, they asked me what it is,
and then they try it, and then they come back
to the bar the next time and then they're like,
I have that poutine that I traded last time yet,
because it's really good.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Is that interesting working there though, because there is a
bit of a rivalry between America and Canada, especially when
it comes to hockey over there. You've got Canadians on
the team with you on the Brave, You're working in
a Canadian bar. How do your American family and friends
feel about that.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
There's no rivalry amongst my teammates at all. No, for sure,
we just think of ourselves as.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
All the team. But in the bar.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
It's interesting you say that because people always say, oh,
it's funny you're working in a Canadian bar.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You sound Canadian, and I'm like, oh, no, I'llmerican.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
And they're like, ooh, it's not your faults.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's not that's come out wrong. That's come out wrong.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I tell you, it's a nation we historically we love America,
a fantastic relationship with America.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
But maybe it's just more challenging in a Canadian.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Bar, right, Yeah, especially because everybody thinks I'm naturally assumes
I'm Canadian.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Being in the Canadian flags flying in the back of
the rest.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
It's the same confusion.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I don't know if you've come across it yet with
the Aussies and the Kiwi's. I was in an elevator
in San Francisco and a couple of Kiwis came in
and I said, I recognized that accent, and they said,
you're from New Zealand two and I said, get out
of you.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
No, I didn't say that part, but that's what we're thinking.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, there are so many It is a little bit
that relationship, that big brother little brother accent. It's so
close to anyone not from that part of the world.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
They can't tell the difference. So OSSI is we we don't.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Know, God, yeah no, and I would see Americans couldn't
tell the difference between Australian and a Kiwi accent. Now
living here, they are so different to me now, especially
living with it. I live with the Kiwi and I
can barely understand anything that he says.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
But with Australian, it's like it's kind of just it's
become natural. I don't know, where.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Are you starting to get the accent on?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Am I starting to get myself get the accents?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
I just more of like I'm introducing Australian vocabulary into
my yeah, my every day without even like noticing like
reckon like recon I never really heard well in the
American South will site. We'll throw around a wreckon once
in a while, but it's not really more like old
timey kind of.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well thanks to Gabby, you take that Augie boggy back
when you go back mine and continue the Astrala.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, Bluey's doing a good job. I hear all the
kids i'm there are beginning to say, all's the.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
Stuff going to the what is it not the toilet
going to on the footpath instead of the side walking son,
you know, all right, this is this is a.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Sailout on Saturday, but we have some of the last
tickets for Sundays go back at the ais Arena, or
as we are crowned it the a Ice AI Serena.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's as close as we've got to a new nickname.
Thirteen ten sixty.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
That doesn't like it?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Okay? Has anyone come up with anything as good as
the Brave cap we called the Brave Yard Braveyard?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, break ball, the Brave Bowl, No, the Braveyard like
the graveyard.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
You if you're a visiting team, they come and we
kill you exactly. So it's the Braveyard, all right, I
like it.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's good because the a Ice Arena we were working
a bit hard to get that over the life. So
the Braveyard tickets if you'd like to go to see
the Canberra Brave and the big American Matt Clark and
the team with all the naturalized dozsies an international players
from around the world. This is very exciting. Let's see
if we can already break the record two weeks in.
Just squeeze one more.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Into one and have a standing room.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
A great weekend on the ice mate. We look forward
to chatting to you again

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Thank you appreciate it, Thanks for having me