Papa Mike McRoberts
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1,801 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Papa Mike McRoberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It kind of reminded me and you guys are probably too young to remember this, but when when the Wallabies were doing real well against the Wallace.
I know we remember Mortlock we remember Mortlock and Lockier and Gregan and John Hills.
But you know, um we had the strength and the forward power and you know and and and they had the the way of just sort of
Skipping around us, yeah.
Skipping around us, yeah.
Just throwing the ball wide and you know, like uh I I I I'd be tough to be.
Wouldn't it be tough
Yeah, and I I I thought um I thought that was an incredible win.
Uh now they go back to uh sea level of course b back in Cape Town, but um just just a little story from that ninety six tour.
So uh we we started in in Cape Town and went all the way up through to the high vault and uh it was nineteen ninety six, so it's uh a couple of years after Mandela had taken over.
There was all sorts of stuff going on.
Um there was a lot of crime.
It was one of the worst crime
crime nations in the world, uh carjackings, hijackings, um, you know, murders, you know, it was it was pretty tough.
In fact, when I was reporting there, I one of the guys from the SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, offered me a handgun while I was driving around the car just in case, you know, someone stopped me at the lights or something.
No, it'd be like that.
Yeah.
So we're we're in Pretoria, which is uh eighteen, nineteen hundred feet above sea level.
So during the winter, when the sun's out, it's still very, very warm in like early twenties.
As soon as the sun goes down, it's it's freezing cold.
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