"Live From Macao"
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Okay, live from the Mobile Export Beer Garden Studios, this is the Agenda Podcast for Tuesday the 21st of April? Sure.
The Agenda Podcast, the home of sporting nonsense and claptrap. Brought to you by Export Ultra.
Right, this is our special Agenda podcast live from Macau in China. What are we doing in Macau in China, Joe?
It's a great question. I still don't know. I actually woke up this morning with, I reckon... top ten hangover of all time.
Oh really? You had a top tenner? Yeah. Top tenner. Well we're here for the sevens in Hong Kong. Made our way over to Macau which is like ten times the size of Vegas. It is an absolute den of Just gambling, smoking.
Why are the hosts in Macau for the Hong Kong Sevens?
So much smoking. So much smoking. Anyway, we're here for the sevens. Came over here with our friends from DB. We arrived quite late on the Friday night. And then we hit the sevens on the Saturday, day two of the sevens. Went to the new stadium, the Kai Tak Stadium. How amazing is that? So good.
Like, it makes you realize how shit it is in New Zealand.
Yeah, it's a 50,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof. Yeah, it's built on the old airport, Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. It also has a 10,000-seater outdoor stadium outside and also a 15,000-seat indoor arena. Who would have thought a sports precinct... Would be a big thing. But an amazing stadium because you can actually, all the bars face in. So if you have ever been to Wellington Stadium, the Caketon, you're basically in the concourse facing out while you're ordering your beers and drinks. It's the complete opposite at Kaiti. Everything faces in so you can order a beer while watching the rugby. You can lean on the, you don't even sit in your seats. No.
We've spent probably three games just watching...
from the concourse yeah yeah and i think everyone else did as well however there is one small elephant in the hong kong sevens and that is it's free seating you basically can sit here wherever you want however we had secured tickets with reserved seats right on halfway in the second tier probably the best seats you could get if you wanted to watch rugby yeah and we had 28 in our party um And we went to get in our seats and there was a bunch of expat Brits. And there's no one's more scorned than an expat Brit who gets told what to do by a Chinese official. And when we tried to move them out of their seats, there was a bit of a fricasse. Yeah, fricasse is a good description, but it took them an hour to remove.
20 people from these seats and then we came down and sat in them and got booed by the entire stand at kaitak stadium which to be fair was it was a surprise i didn't know what happened i was so i immediately went on the back foot and started abusing uh everyone everywhere everyone everyone back i may have done the fingers to them um but not a great not a great start to the to the um to the sevens for us being booed by a couple of thousand people as we sat in our seats i still think though that it was
It was a response to Grim Lane and his curse coming to the Sevens and they saw you and just booed you.
Anyway but you know it's nothing seven or eight jugs of rum and coke or bourbon and coke or gin and tonic wouldn't fix because they sell three litre jugs of gin and tonic at the Hong Kong Sevens. Yeah that is so dangerous. My god.
Like in New Zealand it's hard to get a steam on I think at a sporting event in New Zealand.
Oh my god this one was pretty easy.
And like they had the fan zone thing out the back which was amazing where you could just get jugs of verve probably.
Pims, the jugs of pims were good. Jugs of pims. Jugs of pims were good. Then before the last games on the Saturday night they had a downtime of about two hours and they rolled out. The Venga Boys. I did not know that the Venga Boys were coming. I didn't. I didn't. Do you know what? It could have been anyone, really. Because if you lined up the Venga Boys in front of me, I would not be able to name them in a lineup.
There was a cowboy. There was a sailor.
Yeah.
And then a couple of smoke shows.
Yeah. Yeah.
Singing, sha-la-la-la-la.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:53
2
Why are the hosts in Macau for the Hong Kong Sevens?
0:53–4:46
3
What are the highlights of the new Kai Tak Stadium?
4:46–7:48
4
What challenges did the hosts face with their reserved seating?
7:48–13:14
5
How did the hosts react to the drinking culture at the Hong Kong Sevens?
13:14–15:42
6
What unexpected entertainment occurred during the event?
15:42–21:39
7
What experiences did the hosts have at Joe Bananas bar?
21:39–23:40