The Country 30/04/25: Scott Barrett talks to Jamie Mackay

The All Blacks captain, born and bred on a Taranaki dairy farm, is also the Kaiwaka Clothing brand ambassador. Today we talk farming, footy and whether he plans to milk cows when he retires.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All this week on the Country, We've got a wonderful
giveaway from the team at Kaiwaker Clothing. We've got a
storm Force Parker worth four hundred and sixty nine dollars
to give away. We'll tell you how you can win
one of those and a tick. But we thought because
we're doing this promotion with ky Walker, we'd speak to
their brand ambassador this week, none other than All Blacks

(00:20):
Captain Scott Barrett. Scott, thanks for some of your time.
I realized you're a busy man. Am I still correct
in calling you the All Blacks Captain? Has Raiser confirmed
the job for twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Um, yeah, I don't know. I think we Yeah, I
guess we assume that still, captain. Yeah, they're going to
keep playing well for the Crusaders and hopefully that doesn't change.
So yeah, it's yeah, I'd still like to have the job.
And that's my folks at the moment, is to keep
playing well for the Crusaders. And you turn up in

(00:52):
July ready to go for the All works, well.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I'm sure you will be the All Blacks Captain. Look,
you Crusaders and I'm in Highlander's territory here, Scott you're
getting annoyingly good again. It was better last year when
you were useless. And I say that somewhat facetiously, but
the Crusaders are looking menacingly menacing.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah. I think the last three or four games has
sort of you've built a bit of confidence within the
team and certainly the team without the ball at the moment. Yeah,
defense has been pretty strong, so I think that's pleasing
to see we've made shifts from last year.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
You certainly have all right. Hey, yeah, I note that
you've got a share in a dairy farm, not you
and your mum and dad's farm, Robin and Smiley. They've
got like a picture perfect farm there on coastal Taranaki.
You've got one up the road. Do you ever get
your hands dirty these days? Or do you get the
opportunity in the time to get your hands dirty wearing
your kaiwaka parker on the farm.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I haven't had too many opportunities. We had a working
bee there late last year and you got out then
didn't for a day or two. But time's pretty limited
and being based down in christ Church. Yeah, it is
nice to have an interest in the farm on the
coast and Tartanaki and it's good to keep the mind

(02:13):
ticking over outside of rugby as well. So I've certainly
enjoyed that the last last season, and it was looking
like a great season for us until about January when Yeah,
the man upstairs turned the tap off the irrigator and
she tried up pretty quickly. But I think we're bounce
and deck. Yeah, after a bit of rain recently.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well, your brother's Bowden and Geordie have probably got a
bit of spare cash splashing about. Are they involved with you?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Jordy is he's he's interested in agriculture. Body, I think
he's not in this farm with us. He's got a
few other things going on. And you know, it's good
to be in partnership with the with Jordy and learn about,
you know, operating farm. It's been a great experience so far.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Were you born and raised on one all eight of
you obviously, but you went down to Lincoln UNI and
studied agriculture. So is that going to be your ultimate
future in that industry once you've retired from rugby. I'm
talking Scott, Yeah, potentially.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I talked to the wife a little bit around you know,
going into the dairying and I think it's probably one
of those things you don't know if you unless you
give it a go. So yeah, certainly there might be
an option to, you know, just give it a crack
for a couple of years and see if it's for us.
But until then, I'll keep chasing the rugby by around

(03:36):
the foody field.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
How did you get the job as the brand ambassador
for Kiwalker?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, I've got an agent who put me in touch
with the team up there and the Far North, and yeah,
we've sort of got talking and they are such a
great fit in a local MW Zealand company that's been
around for you know a few decades, and you know,
they make great kidd and I think the fit was

(04:03):
quite right. And then from a dairy farm, they were
keen to have me on board.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, well they've been or they're celebrating two hundred seasons.
I fifty years of farming and making the jackets. You're
nowhere near that with your rugby career, but you must
be getting close to twenty years eighty seasons, are you.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, so I think I'm thirty one now and I've
been playing since you know, six or seven. Yeah, so
it's not quite two hundred seasons, but it's certainly get
not there.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Scott Barrett. Look, thank you very much for some of
your time today on the country. It's great to have
the son of because we enjoy yarning to your old
man Smiley. He's a bit of a character and a
very good farmer. I might add two in the Taranaki region. Look,
do you know what the game of footy I'm mostly
looking forward to this year and no doubt you guys
will be as well because Eden Park is your fortress.

(04:58):
You're playing the South African rugg beside arguably the best
team in the world at the moment at Eden Park.
You guys haven't lost there since nineteen ninety four. That's
a hell of a lot of seasons. How good is
that game going to be?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, I think it's going to be a huge game
I was seeing. I guess the South Africans over the
past you know, six or seven years have been right
up the top and you know they'll love to come
down and break that record. So yeah, it certainly you know,
got the highlighter around it as a game of the year.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Scott Barrett, a kai Walker clothing ambassador or brand ambassador.
Thank you very much for your time today on the country.
Appreciate it. Enjoy your weekend off. I know the crusaders
have got to buy. Really looking forward to your next
game on May the tenth against the Chiefs. It'll be
a cracker as well. Top of the table.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
See you later, cheers, Thanks Shammy,