HOLIDAYS With The Lions

And just lke the that our dastardly duo are BACK! And this time it's live in the flesh, recorded at The Hill Comedy Club. Banana & Bear look back on the Lions series and how a lumpy road can often be a blessing and why a wet-arse can be deal-breaker.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Banana and Robbie pot.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Back.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Okay, we're here.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
We don't know what to do after seeing each other
for the first time in the year and a bit.
Welcome everybody, while yeah, yeah, welcome, welcome, welcome back to
the Hill Comedy Club. These are the this is the
light that we're normally blinding, the living bages for all
the audio listens. But not just the audio. This is
because me. Now we're filming. So if you go to
somewhere on YouTube and type in banana and Bear, we'll
put it somewhere.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Now everyone will know how ugly we are.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
This is the unfortunate event of being actually online. Two
of us are talking to each other, but really we're
just circling the train here. And and I suggested something
that I have never ever done before. And I think
it's not me trying to be cool, but I'm normally
drinking pubs like this.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
You see, this is no splitting g. There's no this
is a thing like you drinking, But there's there's a
thing about the first big Gulf, and actually splitting the
g taught me that enjoying. I enjoy my point a
lot more when I take a big first Yeah, now alright.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Just okay, all right, let's try and and split the
G slaunch. I got greedy, Jesus, you are way after
Jesus Christ. You're tracking as way we will. You'll zoom
in if you want to see how this fared for Anna.
That's how Anna fared.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I got sitting there while.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh it's oh, that's it right, it's gotten. It's gotten ticker.
It's gotten ticker. That's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, Jesus say, is very bad.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I thought somebody. I thought I'm blaming that top or
bottom four millimeters is instill in my mustache. That's the problem.
You have, No, you have no excuses. You left half
yours on the plate behind you.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
First attempt to split in the G, that's very nice,
went disastrously. God, that is tasty.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Something wrong with it with the glass.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, they have oversized pintes here. It's actually six hundred
mile that's the problem. Yeah, very very welcome everybody too.
We're back on the podcast. We were just avoiding each
other in indiscriminately very effectively, but for one reason ornother
we just couldn't get together with the now and as
back on Terra Firma. You're back in Monster FM, not

(02:22):
your fox sake. Those eyes like to the listeners, the
amount of time I've seen those eyes.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
No, you haven't actually really seen them, but you've sensed them.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, Like yeah, I went Terra firma. In other words,
your mother will give you these eyes people when you
are full sure you're after getting a certain present for
a birthday and she definitely didn't get you that present,
but she got you something similar but it's not a present,
and she gives.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
You those eyes that go Jesus, well, and that's.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Those are the eyes before okay, before we find out
where you're off next, if we're allowed to even find out,
because everything is incognito. You're just back from the lions.
Oh my Jesus. Yeah, so let's get a snapshot for everybody.
Let's get your crazy three weeks was it three and
a half weeks in Australia, starting on one side, getting

(03:23):
too other? Yeah, how I look kept it every time
I opened Instagram, all as al was like, oh well
this is another wallpaper for Microsoft, like everything is ludicrous.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Look yeah it was class like. So yeah, I wasn't
like usually I'd be coaching. Usually I'd be in California
the same year coaching, but with the head injury, with
everything else, I just said like, no, I'd take some
time off. And then I was at home and I
was like, fucking I go to Australia.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Nobody does that. And you're saying out loud.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Like you know the way you'd be, but you haven't been.
In my mind, I've been thinking about it for a year.
I've been thinking about it for a year. And I
was like, oh, I won't go because I need to
recover whatever. And then I was feeling better, so I
was like and alight, and then it was so then
I went, well, look here we are. And a few

(04:13):
weeks later and look back, you know, I'm back and
I might as well have just been sitting here the
whole time and no one would have noticed.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
At the same time, though, when we look at your Instagram,
it was like, well, this is me in another postcard,
This is me inside another postcard. Look at us just
living our best life. Do you ever not live your
best life?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
No? Okay, no, I that's kind of the theme bos
So to explain the actual journey, because I actually met
someone the other day. I was like, oh, I was
down at Monster versus conduct in Cork in Virgin Media
Park for starting of the Enterprise and someone stopped me
and they were like, oh, Hi, you don't know me

(04:52):
at all, but I've been following your journey across those
train I was like, oh yeah, and the Kebab and
they were like, oh yeah, you're a cabb.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, right right, this is podcast.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
First of all. Okay, well let me start to start anyway.
You're mad have no idea what I was talking about
when I mentioned the keb anyway, so I just brought
He was like, oh, you had a great trip the
keb and he was like what So right, I went
to Australia because my cousin's right. They live in Perth
like very experienced campers, outbackers. They know they know the deal, right,

(05:22):
which is why they had mentioned this trip to me,
which I got to go. My cousins like, never find
anyone else who'll be able to bring me on a
trip like this. So we had we had four vehicles,
three caravans, one camping trailer. It was thirteen of us
and took off from Perth and the plan was to

(05:42):
drive the whole way to Ularu, but not the main roads,
the outback roads off road four by four.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Like backroads and mellow scenario. No like you.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
So it's the one part of it is called the
gun Barrel Highway, right, great name, right, yeah, right. And
there's like burnt out cars left and right of the
road all the way, like either the cars that couldn't
make it through or just cars that have been like
robbed and ditch there. I don't know, but it's cool.
There's all these burnt out cars all along all along
the way. But this corrigation on the road for the way. Yeah,

(06:13):
because because the rain and the sand sand, the roots
are made of scand it's so cool. So you can't
drive slowly because you'd be doing too much of this.
You have to drive fast to kind of glide along it.
But it goes as you're driving along. So I think
that's why it's called the gun Barrel Highway. I'm not

(06:34):
exactly sure, but what was the.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Like going over that what was the headlight going over
that ship?

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I was about must have been like five or six
days into the trip, and I was like, I'm not
a headache all week.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Then you just needed to have the living shit shook
out here.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I just needed a bit of adventure. This is what
I needed and I have on my my headache was
was my headaches were almost gone. Like that's the furthest
i'd made it in terms of like days without symptoms.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
When you heard it here, folks, for all the all
your headache needs, just ring Anna, She'll send you up
some bollocks of a road sign.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sign up to some like high risk adrenaline stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Almost die shit, it's lovely, Tom. There was burnt out
mad Max looking cars all over the way.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
We were so close to leaving, like with the car
the camping trailer outside of the road because there was
so much damage being done to the vehicles because it
was so flipping challenging.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
So then I sitting there, these aren't my vehicles.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
This is me in the bank of the car. Well,
actually this is me so cheap as it was classed.
And we got to.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Is that in the middle.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Two thousand kilometers from Perth. So it took us six
six seven days to get there, and we were camping
or like you know, camping on the way. You'd find
a spot. One morning I woke up in the bottle
of water next to my head was frozen. That's how
cold it was during the night.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I didn't know that happened in Australia at all.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Yeah. Oh, very cold, very cold during the night in
the middle of the outback. But you know, the good
thing about it is that I'm a massive scaredy cat
from snakes, spiders, insects, perfectly so because of the cold.
I take the cold any day, rather than thinking that
they'd been nearby. But there was no sign of them,
no sign of so one kangaroo, one dingo, about ten

(08:34):
camels and no insects whatsoever. Hold on, did you say camel? Yeah,
there's loads of camels in Australia, camels, like camels everywhere, camels, camels,
camels that were brought from North Africa to put like
centuries ago. Oh, the place is overrun by camels. They

(08:56):
actually have to call them. Actually some more dead camels
and then live camels.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
To be honest, How did I never know this?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
I know, people don't know. People don't.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You didn't bring me back a cuddly camel. You brought
me back's being tested, by the way, because I've heard stories.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
He hasn't, so be careful, Bosh, it's not the image,
you know, like they prefer known MARSUPI yeah, talking marsupial
and and the camel is not on marsup. So anyway,
got to Ularu like, which was so you know he
played a rugby season in ages ago in Sydney and

(09:34):
bon Bons Eye Beach and Japanese area of Sydney Bondi Beach,
you call a Bonsaie beach. But do you know do
you know that character?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm missing a joke here now, No, do you know the.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Cartoon it's Martin's life? Yeah yeah, he says his parents,
his parents, but you know your man? But you know
your man who wrote that? He his dad was my
geography teacher. No way, yeah, yeah, mis trolls, would you

(10:09):
bring u s cart back to Pennies for me? So
Bun's Eye beat right, I played the seasonal rugby and
buns I beat years ago and what was the point
of this? Really wanted to go to Ularu, didn't have
the money and not the time. But so this is
like on my list. It was unreal. But like a

(10:31):
lot of people, everyone knows Ularu or airs Rock to
the Old White Man, which we don't call it anymore.
And then there's the a sister mountain range really close by,
like you can see both of them from lookout points
that are amazing, like in a lot of ways, like
more amazing than Ulos. It's funny, like it's not as

(10:53):
well known the other sister mountain range.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
You know what that is. It's the patriarchy. Oh absolutely, yeah,
sister one is never going to get the respect. I'm
learning so much. There's an extra set of mountains near
Ulu and there's looking camels. Okay, we haven't even gotten
the game yet.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Oh, the game is the least my worries any what.
Actually when I was in I watched the second Test
and there were a good few tours like myself in
Lyons Jerseys, like in the little kind of restauranty place
in the village near Ularu which is called Yolara, and
everyone was outing for Australia because everyone wanted the third

(11:36):
of everyone who was like selfish like me and wanted
like you know, ah Man and Australia were so good
in that second test and we'll get to that, right,
we'll get to that. Flew into Sydney, my god, the rain.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I had no idea like I thought you were there
was a video from home or something. I was missing
a point because you were running along just decideways run
going Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
That was literally when we were now we knew it
was going to rain, was forecast rains. We brought Pancho's
we like got an uber to the stadium. We were like, yeah,
but it had rained like hell during the week, so
we knew what it was going like. It was literally
so like this was the term that everyone was throwing around, biblical.
It was biblical like actually pretty apt and we were

(12:29):
just arriving up to the stadium. Next thing like you
wouldn't see rain like in Ireland, and if you did,
it would only be far like Max two and a
half minutes. This was insane.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I watched it on a p and O ferry and
I'm watching it in the barn.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
What the third test? Yeah, okay, so.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm watching it, going, God, the reception is kind of
shite on, this isn't it? And then I stood I
went ashon, Farnes were out at sea. We have no
re that must be And then I stood close and went, oh, no,
the reception is absolutely fine. That is the shittiest game
I've ever saw, just the sideways rain and all the
players had this look Tea I just want to fucking tea.

(13:15):
Can I just go in the Only time I can
ever remember something even close to that was playing an
under seven, under eighteen or seventeen matching Galbuli.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I do believe Galbili has rained like Sydney.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, and this when it was sleet and it was
just I looked. I looked at it was Tiger Ferlong's
face and he had that that face and I remember
seeing other. The other time I saw that face was
when I was seventeen and I saw that's going. Can
we call it off? And we did. They match ended
up being called off, but it was looking at that
going I can't believe this because this album was sitting

(13:51):
beside me watching the gun. Is that Scotland? And for
a finish she she named three more countries and I
kept on going, No, the Lions versus austral Yeah, it
must be on a Twickenham, is it? And she's gotten
three things wrong in a row, and I went, I
think our third one was asking was it Argentine? I went,
tiss ye. Yet, we'll leave it there, Nora, We'll leave

(14:11):
it there. We're not getting into this ship. Why is
everything stopped off? For the love she can't.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, she was as smart as I was. She was
as clud as life, because I was like, obviously there
was the you know, the the long injury or we
talk about this now with the injury, and then I
just I another point about the lines tour. I found
people exceptionally easy to start up conversation with. Way easier
than any other match I've ever been to in my life.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I think very kind of Monster esque in a way,
like it was like.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Even in Monster. Yeah kind of suppose it's great, says you,
says you like Monster going hello, Well to time here.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Kicking in the door like a really camp dude. Gun.
Has everybody met me?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
No, it's the Emperor's new groove? Well, yes, boss, be
a little lion store. I don't know me and I
I'll give you one if you want. Jesus so many
jumping between all the stories, so well, I give you.

(15:25):
We won't talk about the match, yees, We'll get through
the story first anyway, Right, I also worked out is
that working that is?

Speaker 2 (15:37):
No, it's just something came up on it there. I
don't know what it was. No, it's still going fine,
it's lightning, It's going exactly fine. As soon as you
mentioned weather, the recording devices said mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well it will talk about okay, well we'll talk about
the match afterwards there because the actual rugby, so I
feel like we'll get into some good nitty gurty there.
But I found the Lions fans great crack, great crack. Now,
big groups of welsh Men, lords of Welsh lads, their
big groups of exactly. But I said that to them.

(16:08):
I was like, oh, this is nothing else to do,
and they're like no, like we'd always go like it
just seems to be a massive thing for Welsh fans,
which is really honorable. I feel, you know, they're just
still love rugby and they love the Lions. But like
it's really easy to wind them up. I can't even
remember this stuff I was saying to them, but they're
like getting angry and then you just start laughing and then.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
They're like, there's a lot of things you could have poked.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, to be fair, no, not in a rugby sense,
just more of a I knew you were a Welsh
because you're a big ugly bunch that classic they're all like,
and I was like, oh, yeah, you must be good singers,
and they're like I was like what so, and then
they start getting pissed off because they're probably being asked
to sing all the time. And uh, anyway, they were

(16:55):
great crack.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
But you like missus Doyle poken, go ahead, sing as
the sound, singing the song I brought my guitar. Come on,
come on, come on, just come on sing as a sound.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, that was exactly what was it like? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Do you want to send and send me? There's there's
nothing better when Anna's mid flight in the middle of
a scenario, because she'd send me snapshot videos and I
have to then ask her, please disc break down what
you're talking about? There?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Should I send you those from the Lions?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Did I? You sent me one from the Lions game?
One of the there the rain was come aside with
another one then was just like people moving down the
island front show and what am I missing here? And
it was the Red Trousers Trouser Brigade.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, will I tell you about the Red Trouser Brigade?

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Right?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
So I walked in Okay, it's because I worked out.
I know I am single. Right, So I walked into
pub Jp o'brians or something like that in Sydney and
my friend Jail who I played for years in Ulbow's.

(18:01):
We also played together in Harlequins. She is one of
the coaches for the Wallaroos. Yeah, so she's coming to
the World Cup now with the Wallaroos, so it was
great to see her. Saw her there and went to
We had some ramen Murray Kinsela recommended by Murray kinsel
A some unbelievable ram and.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
He yeah, he would, he would have done his research.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
So I was like, Jail, come on, I know where
we're going for dinner and it was around the corner
from Japer Brown's morn in here. We get a pint
and went in. There was three three young fellus and
there were lovely looking pints a guinness and I was like, well, lads,
how's the guinness? And they were like grand yeah, yeah, good, yeah,
do you want to taste that? I said no, no, no,

(18:44):
you trust you. I trust you. So I end up
borders two pints of guinness for me. I know what
you'll had, and then.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
How good it would be if I walked back in
here a while ago with two pints again, what are
you having yourself? And you ignus? You turned away from
the bar.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
To Jill gone going there there?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
No is this why you're sinking?

Speaker 1 (19:19):
No? Could be? Could be? But came back to were
walking back down the latter. Well how's again good? Yeah? Yeah,
so where are you from? Three lads from Derry. One
of them was living there, his brother was visiting. Three
lovely fellows now, but they weren't there for the rugby
like do you know? So it's like looking around two

(19:43):
Red Trouser Brigade, two members of the Red Trouser Brigade.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Long term listeners will know and a last ship one
night when I explained it when I talked about the
Red Trouser Brigade, because it brought so many memories flushing
through her brain that she'd never thought about before. That
owned there's a certain type of man that will wear
a pair of red fucking trousers, and our listeners will know.
I know, I listened to. This is just purely for
the people that might have just jumped on board gone

(20:06):
Red Trousers Brigade. Is this some sort of code that
with Illuminati? Possibly, But there's a certain type of bloke
that wears red trousers. They are Every nationality has them,
Every nationality of all rugby fans has these absolute well,
they ended up typically being fucking tonails, don't They typically like, nah.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
They don't maybe if you push them hard enough, but
not these fellows anyway. But they were still members of
the Red Trouser brigade. They're wearing blazers. Often the red
Trouser and the blazer will go hand and hat, so
we're wearing blazers. And the blazers were embroidered, and they
did badges on them, and they had luminous green sunglasses
and they were chatting to One of them was chatting

(20:47):
to a lady. The other fellow was eating tatoes. And
I was like, well, I know who I'd prefer to
be talking to here, So just abandoned the three dairy
lads and went over, lads, what's the story? And like
they played for decent you. They were back in the day,
They've been here, there and everywhere, and they went, that's
what the blazers are for. And they were telling me
all these stories and I was just.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Loving it, like just a couple of gas lads.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh, gas lads, like, but they were liked me and
what app They were sending me pictures of their outing
the next day and like, oh, there will be friends forever.
We'll be friends forever. Me and the two lads and
I'm looking over. The three lads were looking over and
Jail was like, and I was like, what over chat
to the lads And we spent the rest of night
talking to them, and they're just that's just that's who

(21:33):
I prefer to be talking to.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Like it. So is this the three three?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
The three young handsome Jerry ladds ye scratching the ras.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
While I was over talking to the two alicads.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's smell the cheese onion.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Even I could see myself going, I ain't got no
skin in the game, but.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
You give me an Alica do any day?

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Lads, I can see where the Yeah, you see, your
problem is, you're a crack monster. This is the problem
you of You love eating up the crack and there's
no crack in three blokes in the middle of a
Lions tour who aren't actually going interested in the rugby
And well, yeah, yeah, you have two out of three.
You're all good looking, young and healthy, looking at it

(22:15):
like your teeth. But I'm gonna go over and talk
to these lads about ruggers and have the crack because
I need to tell a story after this, and you
will not give me a story.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
You are not podcast material.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
You know, but you have no good cracker.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I know I could. It honestly means the world to
me to speak to people like that, honestly now because
I don't can't remember who was talking to him, but
about like era, like making something of your Instagram and
I can see there's so many influencers there, and the
influencers get invited to boxes and like that's so cool.
But like those two lads now as an example, and

(22:50):
there was loads of people like this, like you know, Welsh, English, Scottish,
like loads of people that I spoke to that if
at any stage those people are feeling like I was
only talking to them to get a bit of content,
well then yeah, it's gross. Well then absolutely gross. No,
it's fair, it's fair if that's a part of it
as well. But those connections for me are so important

(23:11):
that it can't I can't tarnish it with wanting to
record it or wanting to like it's great to be
able to talk about it on podcasts, but that's that's
what I'd be doing anyway.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
This is where you gather all the stories and this
is the good place, so know these people.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, and we don't fucking get invited to anything right now.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
But at the same time, and I won't be exploiting
your good correctness by going, Okay, well while we're at it,
let's just hold on, hold on, let's just set up
my phone there have we got a light ring and
youth sitting.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
There now unless I because I'm good for pictures and
videos too, unless I want to do it for my
own personal albums. Yeah, but they rarely do you get it.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
You're like, I know, because you are terrified of being
an absolute pothole or dose of shite. And I know
what you're saying. The crack. There's zero crack if you
have to break there to break the organic chord. In
the evening, you go, this is all great. Could you
almost run that story again there? And yeah, we'll get it.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's it, Yeah, but it never it just there. It's
just that was like that was one of my peaks
of the trip actually, like chat to those lads on
that night in Peter O'Brien's this is so many gas
characters there, so like that was it? What was that?
Was that? The day before two days out from the Test,
I think, and then the Test match, which was fine whatever,

(24:35):
that's not really why I was there. And then I
had mi kebab the following a week.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Okay, the Test, the Test, You go to the Test,
you get into the Test.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Where'd you get your tickets? I should?

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Where does any get our tickets? Well let's give me go, akad,
tell me where to get tickets.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, I'll tell you where the ticket I got it from.
A friend of mine is CEO of Rhino. Oh there
was a rhino ball there.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
No, it's not a rhino of smaller ball as a
rhino ball. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
And he organized a little get together of all his
Rhino pals and I met someone there who gave me
a ticket.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
So Rhino being scrum caps, all the gear, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, yeah, supplying all the well he's supplying the Women's
World Cup as well, but he does, you know, like
all the tackle pads, the post protectors of course. So
that's where I got the ticket. Now when I got
to the stadium, now they'd lovely pints again us outside
the stadium. Oh they did, they did.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
That was gonna be one of my questions going guin
us a situation.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, they'd get us inside as well, but the Q
was too long, so he just settled for a little
CEC dry. Those who lived on we'll know what I'm
talking about. A little sec dry Ginger Ginger or something
ginger and Rome, I think, and they can but lovely
pints against Outside the stadium there's a good little disco
going on, and they like the rain would just go
and everyone would go in under the tents and singing

(25:55):
all together.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Like I saw clips of it, and I was just
I didn't think it was the Lion Store. I thought
it was something that had happened Mumbai or something.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh yeah, that's what it was like.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Where it carrinage of people just running as hard as
they can out of the rain and like no, well,
and you'd see hashtag lions underneath.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Its brilliant. It was brilliant. But okay, so do you
know what, Despite the fact that in kind of the
run up to the game, most of the fans, it
was more likely to find a fan there who had
been there for the full thing rather than someone who
was just living in Sydney who's getting I don't know.

(26:33):
Some people were there for three weeks, some people were
there for six weeks.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Who's get I suppose you're self employed successful self employed.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
You can like I know that definitely doesn't account for
the amount of people that were.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
The one and only guy I know that goes every
single year, every single time. He is a self employed
tour manager and he's puts away in his credits, union
or whatever he puts away like and over that that time,
he puts away like ten twelve grand just to go
to the Lions. Just go to the Lions.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Know what?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Him and his bodies they do the exact same thing.
They're all a self employed and just do and but
he he did the this time, he did the full
He went to midweeks and every fucking thing like like
six week run. But it's no question there's I go.
I go every single time.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
So all of these people who were there, who were
there for the whole thing were like struggling with the
rain and like you'd walk into an Irish pub inside
in Sydney and they're all there like yeah, yeah, yeah,
the artise. Yeah, home on Tuesday, Home on Tuesday, Like
you know, they're breaking point because the series was one
the rain was canceling all the tours. You couldn't even

(27:42):
go out. It was desperate and so, but the excitement
for the game was really good. It was really exciting,
like there was loads of people in great forms. So
it was I thought it would be a bit of
a but it wasn't at all. It was great build up.
And so I got my ticket, went in. I was
a little bit lost and like asked someone where to go,

(28:04):
and they were like, oh, row forty three, seat five,
thank you so much. I'm now Your man who gave
me the ticket was like, tickets rubbish, sorry about that,
I'll sorry. Grat the steps, Satine, Jesus, this isn't a
bad seed at all, Like this is grand. Like the

(28:25):
rain was bucking down, but I was in under the thing.
I was like losers and but I was still sitting
in my pancho because I was still sitting in my
pancho because just needed to make sure that I wasn't
like putting it on and off. And well, anyway, it

(28:46):
looked cool. I looked cool. And anyway, someone came along
as like, you're in my seat. Of course I was
in row five, seat forty three.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Good Tobin. Things got very different.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Well, look I lisual walk down into like like such charm.
It was such camera and the rain was running down.
I was completely dry at the top. It was grand
and the rain was running down in under my ars.
My arse was soaked.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Now here's my question. Right, we are Irish people. We've
been drenched our entire life, We've grown, we are partly
made of rain. What is the one body part that
bothers you if it gets soaked from the rain. Feet, okay,
I can feed from me or uncomfortable, head, shoulders, uncomfortable.

(29:44):
Once my arse gets wet. You just said it there,
I'm Tommy's going home there now, I'm getting fair upset there.
Now I'm sitting and it's running down the crack of
my hole and under my arm cheeks. I'm going she said,
I'm joining one bit of this now. Just as soon
as you said, just run down arse, I went. I
could say my feet horrible. Yeah, but I'm like Grand

(30:05):
every other base ground, but my arse.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
See if if if the stadium was filled with stools,
you'll be all right, because you could sit like this
and the water would flow down your back and away.
But it's you're not sitting on stools. You're sitting on
stage in the stadium. But still there's things there was
I would try it every which way. There was water
just running under my arse. Either that or I wet myself,

(30:28):
but I'm pretty sure that that's not a problem yet.
So I was. But it was grand, it was fine,
It's like whatever. And my feet were dry because I
bought little welly booties, which is very as of gum boots,
gum boots. But so I was happy up, happy, happy
out up in my row forty three. Row five was

(30:49):
a different fucking story. Like the most annoying bastard in
the whole stadium was sitting in row six. Rows exceed
forty three. So when the lions, Now, the lions have
no songs to sing until there's an injury. But we'll
get to that in a minute. So the only thing

(31:09):
to say is lions, lions, and you can't have said
an English accent.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
So I was gonna ask.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
I know, I can't of enjoy it. Whatever, whatever, everyone together,
we'll forget the history for now. Lions, Lions, and your
man behind you was like, shat up, shat up, shut up,
like in Ridden with lines.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
And like I'm assuming he was an Australian bloke.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Now he I wasn't sure, because he was shouting holidays, holidays,
and I was like what, and I listened a bit closer.
He was actually saying walla base wall the bays.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Because I heard holidays a decent condom.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I was like, this, fellow must be honest. Holidays.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Wow, how excited must fellow be.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Holidays.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
I'm gonna do that in future holidays, Holidays, long weekend,
long weekend, didn't pant.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Mares are anyway, Jesus okay. So he was like, he
was going on and on, and look, you don't mind
an outburst.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
This is the thing we've discussed funny outbursts in the
past when you did the bit about I call these
bits like a comedian and we're on a comedy stage,
because this is exactly what Anna isn't She doesn't realize it,
but it's she's a fucking comedian. She does bits. And
you told me about that. We were exchanging times that
people got players' names wrong, like one bloke was calling

(32:44):
the guy wrong and you were going on, yeah, the
guy that putty putty puffy sang in the program after
you don't like, you don't mind that because it's it's
it's a consequence of somebody trying to be sound fine.
It's all about intent, and it sounds to me like holidays, Holidays, Holiday,
Jimmy behind you, Holiday, Bruce behind you. Was being a

(33:08):
complete dose of shite on.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Purpose, complete dose of like Australian shite, like.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
The worst flamydia filled shite.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
It is very bad. So whatever, Look, he's entitled to whatever.
But it was getting a bit incessant, and so Finn
Russell had that really sloppy slidey knock on.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, anyone was like.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
The side ship the side.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Shit like you know this, this was that fucker's first
time at a rugby match. You realize that.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
I don't know. But what was annoying me was that
he obviously went to these colleagues and I think it
was their first time in the rugby match, and they
thought he was hilarious. So I kind of thought that
he was trying to carry the office. I know who
he is.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I know who he is. He sits in the front
row of a comedy club and thinks heckling is going
to have help the question status in the office and help.
I'm just trying to help the comedian, Like the comedian
is crushing around you. You fucking clown.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Shut your fucking mouth.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
They he's exactly the guy.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
He thought he was helping the Holidays, I mean the wallabies.
But he was like, so I had my my Bonnings Pancho,
Bunnings is the hardware store.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
But I was going Burger Bunds would be a great crowd.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Bunningsh No, Bunnings is the hardware store, Like.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
What is this has been brought to you by Woodies
and Bunnings. Whoever wants to shout.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Out to Bunnings. It gave me a great Pancho even
though my ax was up, but he was covering my
peripheral vision right, so I just couldn't. When he was
like yes, ship, I was like, I can't stand this anymore.
So like turn around to look at him, and I
had to turn around like the whole way in my
chair because.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Vision and so you turned around like et.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I literally turned around like eat yeah, like and I
was like with my finger like who do you play for?
I was like who do you play for? And he
was like ah, and he like sat down and the
girl next room, who I couldn't see because he had
no provision, was like Hayes the Reserve. Hayes the reserve
fly off of the walla bays Hayes there reserve and

(35:16):
I couldn't see her, so I couldn't write. And he
was like, yeah, yeah, I'm the reserve for the wall
of his and I was like, well, you must be
pretty fucking shit as well. And the whole place went way.
And the woman who was sitting like three seats over
us like cheers.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Do you know what you should have done? Right? But
what do you do at that point? You you lift
up your drenched pancho and you hold out your pocket
and they say, now get into that for the rest
of the fucking Matthew tramp.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, this is what I should have done. What do
you got?

Speaker 2 (35:44):
What did you got.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
From from? You? Talk about et from out underneath the pancho?
Holladays all about anyway, I went back up to Row
forty three. I left. I left. I couldn't handle it.
I couldn't handle it, like he was really pissing people off.
So I left went back up. The game was.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Crack Yeah, so shit, game could never have been good
and those conditions if it wasn't the Lion three and
the entire fucking stadium was on holidays and flying out
on Monday or Tuesday that game was called off. I'm
telling you now that game, Yeah, those Monster versus Connaught,
that game is getting called off because everybody can go,

(36:30):
we'll come back next week. And do you know what
I mean? That's the option, wasn't there for No?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
For sure? Yeah, yeah, too much on the line. But
actually so poor James Ryan and the and the injury
that was really obviously serious. And they didn't show any replays.
You know, it's bad when they don't show a replay. Now,
the thing about the injury, you know, this whole thing
of like, it's a disgrace that they're singing Sweet Caroline

(36:54):
when when someone's like dying on the floor, Lads, if
I'm dying on the floor, please sink so Caroline, like so,
I know that you're busy.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I my biggest problem with it, and I saw, I was,
I was. I was on Twitter at the time, on
on the boat and my biggest problem what it was,
And people were bitching, going to disgrace. Have you ever
been to a match? You can't just let it sit silent.
The biggest disgrace for me is that they played Sweet Caroline.
I fucking hate that song. I hate that song one

(37:24):
of it, I know, but for some reason, I just
wanted to play understruck if I'm on the ground.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
No, no, it's gotta be a crowd participation.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
For me as the dying person. Sorry, yeah, no, I'm
just talking. I know they're gonna play something by Rod
Stewart or Neil Diamond. I know they are. I know
they are.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Do you remember that whatever journalist was writing in like
the Examiner of the Independent about like a really bad
injury and they were playing shots by La.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Pretty No, it's it's.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Well, I don't know, I don't know how well the
Red Trouser Brigade know that one. But it's gotta be
a crowd participation thing, like it's it's it's really fun.
You can't you can't do the lions. So Sweet Caroline
was the right songs to play, and then it went
to Zombie and then but they were putting up the lyrics.

(38:19):
It was like a massive karaoke session. They're putting up
the lyrics to I Come from a Landown Under, which
is the one that I learned on the tin Whistle
I played later free and sounds very good that in
whistle by the way, but that is really strange lyrics
as well, so everyone's just watching lyrics. So this was

(38:41):
obviously during the injury, which then led into the break
and play, and I chatted to something obviously chatted to
some fel in nearby who was working out in Sydney
in one of the big like rugby schools. It was
very interesting. I was like, god, you had to ask
them everything about the rugby schools and the pathway and
I turned around. I was like, sorry, where are all
the players gone? And or they wandered off, well, just

(39:04):
wandered off and I was like, what's going on? Where
is everyone? And Rose one to nineteen had to leave?
But I was in row back in row forty three,
so I had to I could stay there. Where did
they get center sent under this? Under the belly? Did
they open the bars at lease from? Oh yeah, there

(39:24):
was a sign up saying Rose one to nineteen have
to go back. There was one flash of lightning and
everyone went away and then there was it.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Way and they could have lit the whole stadium up.
That is made of metal.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
It was only a smile flash like it must have
hit some fell outside.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Apparently there was one it was ten kilometers away and
that is within the range that they have actually an
algorithm forst You know, there's there's a set equation.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
That when it's closed through the stadium.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Inside I don't know, something like twenty kilometers if it's
gonna if if it hits ground within twenty kilometers of
US stadium, it's like, oh, okay, day day, bye bye,
we're stopping for at least for five minutes here because
that hits the stadium and lights the whole thing up.
And what some of your half caught licking as you
might be licking the metal bars of the stadium, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, it might have been, but everyone was safe. I
can't believe. Like they must have felt awful coming back out,
especially the lions, Like what do you say? During that
third shapement, appeared like they were literally saw Tyg Furlong
just lying on the bean bag like looking like he
was about to have a baby.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
I thought he was going to give birth. Yeah, yea yeah,
but he wants it. I'm going to actually put the
image of what do you say?

Speaker 1 (40:37):
What do you say? You're having the crack tea? Fine, fine,
but that's why they lasted as well, Like they were
so switched.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Off I'm telling you they want on the rip for
at least a day or two after the winning it,
and then not even if they searched downstairs in the
basement for half a fuck, they couldn't find it when
they came back out for the second bar that match.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Not a hope and they were never going well. If
they'd lost the second Test, they would have won the
third Test, I think. However, however, I'm really sorry to
say this now spin on my mind and I can
feel like I need to get it off my chest.
I don't trust and Andy Farrell.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Selection.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
I'm sorry now is why didn't Josh vander Flair play.
He's thinking that the selection for three games is going
to be the same in the first game it this
is the third game. It's not like like he he
thinks that the quality a player can put out in
three games straight is going to be the same. He

(41:43):
thought the same with the World Cup. I was just
gonna say, and selection was why we lost. No, sorry,
not the selection fatigue is why we lost because he
didn't rotate someone like Joe McCarty sitting on the bench
full of beans, never rotated in as if he's going
to bring the quality down. Okay, maybe we didn't know
Joe McCarty is more so we couldn't have that trust
as if we don't have trust in someone like Josh
vander Fleur. The only two sitting there doing nothing and

(42:06):
the lads are fucked. Sorry, Now rotate for the second Test.
Rotate with world class players, by the way, not rotate
to like with the world former World Player of the year.
It's not fair who's still on the top of his
It's not fair. He didn't deserve that. I think. I
think that Andy Farrell selection choices are poor.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
So he is flawed.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Well we knew that anyway. That's fine. Yeah, but he's
not learning either.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
It's a weird one. I genuinely thought we're going to
see at least three four changes of the starting line
up for the third Test. I was like, and that
it's nothing to do with Ireland two Pilato had definitely
saw coming in, like for sure, Like I mean, he
was being badin, has been as he was being told,
has been a starter. Yeah before the tour even went anyway.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Jack Morgan deserved to start. I'm sorry, but there's all
this right and you can be like, Okay, maybe he's
still like figuring out what to do. But this is
really annoying me. But then we add in the whole
Jack Crowley and I'm just I'm not I'm losing my
losing my faith. No, sorry, that's not fair, not to

(43:11):
say losing my faith, because there's elements of him that
are obviously brilliant. The whole Katie Taylor thing was class
clam and I just thought, yeah, that was amazing. And
then apart from that, I don't think Andy Farrell is
coming back to us any better than when he left.
Because this is the thing. Andy Farrell is going to
be a better coach for the World Cup.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
He's not.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
He didn't learn, or maybe he's learned now we'll have
to wait till we get knocked out of the next
quarterfinal to see.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Sor right if he's If he's young flest stays out
of this England set up long enough, he'll be if
you fit to play for Ireland, come to the next
World Cup.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Sorry but how how bad was that him calling it on?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
You can't like politics wise, there's I'll go to win
regardless of anything. I want to win, understood Andy. But
there are certain politics in any scenario where you could
have called anybody up there you didn't need.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
But again again not like there's a lack like if
there was a massive holder like Jesus, there's no one
final call him in.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
That wasn't the key called out half slash center for
a full back.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
That's what we called in mm hmmm. And I'm also
embarrassed as an Irish fan, like they didn't.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Need they didn't need a they didn't need another long
you know, long serving lions. No, they Johnny Sexton already
there to bring whatever I have is for the word,
you know, to bring him on. So it wasn't like
he was like, who's not going to do what they're
told when Johnny Sexton is around?

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Like, so you didn't need on fire along the pitch.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
You could have gone.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
But the Welsh player's name. I was like, just bring
in the Welsh, just bring him in, like and also
Jack Morgan deserved to start. I can't remember his name,
I started to come from my mind. But there's a
Welsh full.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Back, yeah, the bland feller, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, who.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Could have done the job just as well. Are not better?
Like I don't know, I just not impressed. I like
I was shouting for Australia and the third test until
I sat in front of your men and then and
then it changed. Well, I was, well, I I know
you see do you follow Will Skeleton on the Instagram?

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Yes? I do?

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that he took like family picture with
all his family and you know obviously I know them
from Rochelle and I was just coming down to say hello,
and I was like and then the foot and I
was like, why ducked down because I'm not a skeleton
And that I said to Kate after was like I

(45:42):
should have just sided in the picture and then fucked
half nut said anything to anyone.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
That's why you.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
See, I know you.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
That wasn't you being cheek or you've been in a
norse or anything that was know, that's not you were
in the middle of walking that actually would have been
hilarious mid walk, like you're looking up going like literally
like hello Will, Hello.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Right, okay, look we've we've the lions disaster. Yeah, see
me even worse. Yeah, I'm glad I had.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
My big love scenario. But okay, let's get let's move
swiftly long.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Do you want to share your peak and pitch?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yes, I will, and I'm gonna take you. I'm going
to do it form for the Lions the Lions Store,
because I'm going to condense it into that because my
memory is good anymore. But of the Lions, to my peak,
my my pit. First, my pits fairly obvious one. It
is kail and Dars not getting to go yeah, because
it's all that's all it was on my mind. And

(46:38):
I'm not taking away from like Jack Morgan class, you know,
fucking check on it. He must be like lucky me
now some mustache in all fair ands, like you know,
well deserved to be there for the mustache alone, if
nothing else. But at the same time, I was like, oh,
I loved thinking. I was constantly there chipping away, going

(47:00):
fuck dang it. I would love to see Kailen Darris
at that my peak in the same same thing though,
I fell out that you just mentioned I fucking love
Will Skelton and he was after the second test, he
was so broken, like like something that we didn't think
Australia were. It almost seemed in the last two or
three years that Australia didn't give the folk because Australians

(47:22):
don't give a fuck about rub union. So kind of
felt that's when it comes across the TV and across
the media to us that other than the odd Matt
Williams kind of bloody hell, bloody bloody And you know
my feelings about Matt Williams. He put me right off
Australia at all together. But when he hears Will Skelton
absolutely ripping that they lost that match, I'm like, oh,

(47:45):
Australia are back. That was a moment that I actually
went because they were class in that second second Test
and they really shouldn't have lost it, but I was
immediately I got excited for the World Cup. Then I
was like, ah, do you know that those I will
remember that moment in the interview afterwards when the World
Cup rolls around, because that would be a moment where
I'm that's the turning point where Australia are back. It

(48:08):
wasn't the game. It was Will Skelton being fucking absolutely
cut to pieces that they didn't pull it off from
the team like yeah, you know with some lads you
se him shrugging the shoulders go. He looked like a
fellow who was cut up. And then for him to
win in the second one just I'm obviously not neutral
because Lions fan, but at the same time a Will

(48:29):
Skelton fan. I loved seeing it was pure class rugby
where he even his shit conditions, but still at home,
they did themselves proud like.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Yeah one and I was thinking the same. I was like,
you know, what have been so much more to Ozzie
rugby for for them to get a win that would
for the Lions like who cares? Like we won the series?
Who actually cares? It doesn't really matter. I think the
biggest you know, damage, the potential for damages against Ireland

(48:58):
and Andy Farrell, like that's the biggest risk there. But yeah,
I agree, I'm delighted they got they got the win
in the third Test because it just means more for them. However,
I think I sent this to you. Do you know
the podcasts Coco or whatever Kickoffs and Kickoffs the lads
and I really like their podcasts and they do really
good content and they they wear Boddy smugglers and stuff.

(49:20):
But did I send you the thing that they were
sharing about the stats? Yeah? Sorry, now, well I won't
get into it too much. Where basically they were trying
to say that Australia as a David and the Lions
are goliath, like, oh, we've got only this many number
of professional players, this man number, Like basically the comparison

(49:41):
is massive, like rugby is much more professional here now.
He definitely had inflated stats as well, and also we're
not a team. It's just a token thing that happens
once every four years. Like, yeah, it's not that the
stats were actually embarrassing. It was really embarrassed for the
guys he was reading them out. It's like like but
also you'd swear he was talking as if they were

(50:02):
a kind of I don't know. I was about to
say samone Orfiji, but that's even a different story again,
Like it's as if Australia I know nothing about rugby,
poor little loss. No way, No, I'm not. I'm not
taking that you won the World Cup. You were always
like when Australia would come on tour and they play

(50:22):
Monster and Ireland and they were the goliath. So you're not.
You shouldn't be asking like oh why, like oh poor
little loss, like tap on the back for getting away. No, no,
you should be asking how did we let rugby get
so ship in this country? Who is accountable? What are
we doing about it? That's what they should be asking
instead of ripping out these measly embarrassing stats like sorted out,

(50:47):
sorted out.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Bloody fucking hell, fucking holiday, holly.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Facking.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
You're fucking right, you are right.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
No, don't buy it. Stop winging, stop winging, sorts of
ship out. I know what they're want to do when
Joe leaves, like they still have. They've got a bloody
hungry like team there. Now we better show up to
the world.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
If Will Skelton told me to pull my trousers and
pull me socks up, I'd be pulling them up. I'd
be pulling them up. That wouldn't be worried about let's
kids coming in and maybe not being able to pull
it together as well as Joe did. But I have
a funny feeling if that man started swinging his boot
around the fucking room he kicked three arses all at
the one time, and say.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
With the of his feet, peak and pit please for
me of the Lions tour.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Off the Lion Store, or even the last the past
rugby season has gone by. I know it's it's we
closed it out with a very weird Ireland match and
we nearly have to get out here. We kind of
do in a minute. Yeah, there's a darts tournament about
to kick on after us, which is very odd to be.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Fair like that. One hundred and eighty my peaking pills
from the season.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Gone by, Now, no, they'll knock on the door. It's okay,
grand okay, season come by your peaking pit.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
So putting all the rugby together, which includes my own
journey as well. So my peak was Monster comes to Larachelle.
Oh yeah, oh my god, yeah, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
That seems like three years ago, just this season. Wow.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
And you know who got drawn in Larachelle's group for
next season?

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Leinster?

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:25):
For fuck, I know, screw those guys.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
We've had enough. We've had enough. I thought I'd done
enough for the Monster community over there for us to
be definitely pulled out again. Alas, who fucking knows what's
gonna happen. But Munster comes Larachelle. Despite me still being
kind of in the throes of I can cushion, they
couldn't really enjoy it as much as I would have liked.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
It was class, it was it was go back and
find that episode.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
That plenty of stories from that weekend. So my that
was my peak. My pit was our practice game against
Belgium where you got your second where I got the
secondary knock which ruined the end of my career.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Essentially, it's a cautionary tale to anybody's you've gotta you
already got one knock. You shouldn't you know, you shouldn't
have played or allowed yourself to be played and playing
in the second match.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah, but I'm yeah, I'm taking that. Those those lessons
from us, and like I'm still dealing with them. Were
glasses now, yeah, but you don't look good though.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah, I look like a fucking lemon. Where if you
put glasses on a lemon, that's they do? I do
like the green edges on them?

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Oh they suit you.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Wait a minute, I think I need glasses. Oh my god,
Oh my god. Okay, people, we just these classes.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Other than that, they're kind of a bit foggy in
the left eye.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
You must have rubs up.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
No, no, they're filthy. Yeah, oh my god, this suit.
You can have them when my headaches are gone. I
actually you can.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Actually see better. I can actually see better even like no, no,
no shite, long distance, but close you're super clear all
of a sudden. Oh Jesus Christ, no, that. Yeah, I
need him twisted, I need him changed a bit. I
can't see the dark board signs at all. I can
there along sides right now. The improve my short, my god,

(54:30):
we found so hey, we just found something else. This
is a peak slash.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Maybe now I need to go buy glasses and peak
slash pitch.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
But they peak for me? Is that I knew on
that our very I know it's been a wise as
our last podcast, but our last podcast. If anybody is
a keen eared listener, and I listen to people speak
because this is the thing I do for a living,
and I'll tell you here now. And I was like
a fucking machine gun on the last episode. You've actually
had an improvement. I feel a much better. I was

(54:59):
on and riddling or something. What else would you did?

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Jump?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
I could see in your improvements, the incremental improvements, and
it actually gave me a better sleep at night that night.
It was like, thank God.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
And it's and now when you maybe share, you're like,
oh jeez, it's gone again.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
I'm hearing people sharpening the ends appoint the metal sticks
outside very quickly. Very you can hear that those are
big metal sticks. They're sharpening Reasonabaye's let's just make sure
somebody text me it's not the bar owner, is it. No,
it's grand We're okay that the Wexford Dark Team aren't.
And yet monsters new rugby jersey. You were at the

(55:37):
Enterprise at the weekend to jersey class beautiful, it's class beautiful,
it's it's it's a motive and the girl the women
were wearing it at the weekend at the Inner Proea
was cool.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
How did they get it so early?

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Get it on?

Speaker 1 (55:48):
You know, normally they would wait till they normally I
say normally a long time ago. No one gave a
shit about the women and you get like just whatever
jerseys were left in the edit that warehouse. But it
was a long lunched, you know, one week and the
girls are wearing it the next week, Like that was
really cool. That's class, that's beautiful, Like two thousand and
six wives, Like, I'm literally, who do you think of

(56:09):
when you when you see that jersey?

Speaker 2 (56:11):
David Wallace, I don't know why? No, yeah, even though
I was I literally have the one Dennis Leamy war
in the two thousand and sixty.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
No, no, I have like it's but it's a very
particular thing. I think of Trevor Halstead and Federico.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Yes, okay, Trevor Halstead I remember looking because he was
I was playing center at the time and he was
the center. But it was like this, you know, this
incredible player, but for some reason, David Wallace was just superman.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Yeah yeah, actually, but like I can picture all of them,
like John Hayes, Axel Phone, Barry Murphy, Barry Murphy, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Even Payne, Ian Dowling.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Yes, you can see them all so clearly, and even
it was Roger Strings.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
There was a moment when when Craig Casey saw it
for the first time and he just held held it
up or they didn't, they weren't showing it. It was
a great reveal and they were like you see all
the raw emotions and he he just looked with oh
we bet baby, we beg And he would have been
he would have been a child in a prem nearly
at the time.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Like but Craig Casey, for one, if there's one player
that is could be sitting here alongside us, now, that's
that's as invested in everything as we are.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Oh, you've in incredible like in credit the one and
the only time I've probably met the man. He was
so wanted to know how comedy even worked. I'm like,
why do you give a ship man? You're one of
the baddest motherfuckers on the pitch right now. He's like, no,
but this is fucking But he's not one bit cool,
just out there into everything, brilliant. He was like the

(57:36):
biggest Monster fan growing up. I feel like he knew
what he knows that Jersey, he's living that. He is
much like yourself. He is living his best life because
he's literally playing for Munster, the team that he loves.
Imagine that, Like you never hear about that in football,
you know, because their mercenaries for big cash, like which
is fair enough. But like people who are die hard
fucking nearly get a tattoo on their fucking cheek of

(57:58):
Munster and they get to play for it. That's why
I was not surprised Craig Casey was made captain that
But we spoke and we said, was it a bit?
It was bittersweet for him because in his head he
is better. He's a better scrum half than James gives
a Park, which he is in a lot of ways.
His fast, his past is fast. Yeah, not the gems
gips apart did that and wrong. But I definitely believe

(58:19):
that Craig Casey is better than Alex Mitchell in getting
a team going. Alex Mitchell is a better player. I
know we're going back into the lines, a better player
at broken play himself.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Well, imagine, oh my god, if they think.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Like the level of of joy and investment was brought
by any player nobody hain't seen nothing like Craig Casey.
How into it he would be, but he'd be on
the next one. He'll start the next one. But we
hope so, and we we we barely have time, but
we will get another one done next week and we'll
properly cover the the Women's World Cup which is kicking off.

(58:53):
I'd like it.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
I'm like tell you where I'm going as well, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Right, big final final reveal before we No, no, no,
I'll tell you what next. Let's wait till next week, right,
everybody tune in next week. This has been a live
Pladabir rugby podcast.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
It's the Banana and Bears Rugby pod.