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My hair's a honey in his life. I have a honey in my life. Oh honey, my granddaughter. Damn it. Nice. Good work. Sorry, I thought you would, yeah. I thought you scooped that one right on up. But honey comes in all shapes and sizes. But there's no honey we don't like. Man. Love you honey bear. Mark, this is me the A. A. What type of honey is that? This is honey. Is this the $178 one? Because whoo. It's the Manuka Health one. Yeah. If it is $178, that's a bargain. I stole one of those from Countdown once. I'm joking, I was making sure you're listening. I did it in Honest of God, I did it in Honest. We're not talking Countdown, we're talking. Chemist warehouse, proud sponsors. He must have been pissed. Up in the morning. Thank you. Bahimunday with L.D.V. Built to help Kiwis work harder every day. Let's push. Give me some. Let's go. Never fall. Team Towers down baby. You know who this is. I'm trying to be laggy. You, lubber. Shush. It's too late to turn back now. The morning shift.
Howard by the people's media. Yeah. La la la la la la la la. Poo. Yes. Yes. God, a good morning. Good evening and everything. Give it to me. This is L.D.V. Mahimunday. We have our money service from our masters. I'm a stanker. Oh my gosh. You're right there young fellow. I'm so sorry. I almost blacked out just then. Too much pushing. Oh hang on just let me calibrate. I'm not being dramatic. Wow is that what it feels like? What's this happened? Oh. Did you leave and come back? Hey. Where are you going? Hey. Dude. I'm good. I'm good. Three, two. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. Back for another show just to case you missed us. Dude. Just. We. We. We. We.
We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. Have another show. We're on to the very like to our advantage but not as good as the rapist Schultz. We. We're done. We got scored. We made it worth it. 13. 13. 16. Submit. 17. grateful to have active grandparents in our lives that want to look after them more than us. That's it. They did allow you, sir. I forgot to speak about this, but we were lucky enough to go to the breakers the other day. And I want to give a shout out to Patelio. Patelio was, I think he made me six, and he was at the game, is he? You can be a shout out, sir, but he was a lovely, lovely kid. So Patelio, my man, nice to meet you, bro.
I'm shout out to the breakers this. Quickly, I left the breakers many years ago when Rubin Tarangi went to the Brisbane Bulls, because that's one of my best mates. I shouldn't have, but I just was like, I'm back now. Okay, that was good, eh? That was really good, sir. Oh, it was fun. I'm back. I haven't really followed in BL, I'm basketball, but I went to that game, I thought, no, you know what? That's our team. That's our country. We're going to try and pack that thing up. Rubin's back in the team, you know? We're winning. Hey, beat it. All is good in the world. Or break it. What is on the show for you today? Yo, yo, yo, yo. Ah! Kill the music one time. We have the captain of the world on the show. Music back up, please. Ah, he's over! Now you know where he's going already. You do. But we get the interview with him, right? I don't know where he's going. No, you would have seen the livestream. It's Monday now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Monday now. But you just ignored all the... Did he talk about, like, where he's going? For super rugby, yes, you would have seen,
but I don't know where he's going in life. Oh, I've seen this about. He talked to him in different levels. He's never getting to do it. Oh, sorry. Sometimes you go on level eight. I'm 87. Yeah. On the upper roof. Oh! All right. Aris are there, though. Incredible. And it's so nice to just have a chat with Aris and it just... And it seems like normal, you know? Yeah. And sometimes when you do these media chats, the players get a little bit... I don't know. I feel like they've got to say the right thing. Man, he's got a dope chat that was there. 101. 101, very blessed. So we get to play out there for one's of you, which was, yeah, man, such a cool part of the journey to be a part of. That's all, Mark. Yeah, I'm also going to bring to you the men born and these months are exactly who they say they are. This is a post that I found that when I read it, I felt naked. I've been seen and heard, but I felt absolutely naked. I was like, how do you get it? Yeah. Why don't we just do your month and just unpack that together? That sounds boring. That sounds boring for a Monday. I feel like we all should be on there.
I feel like we all take our clothes off. But that's not just... Hey, I'm just really quickly. I'm just really stupid. Without anybody, without taking anything away from our all-black captain, I do want to say I am ready. You have my attention again. Rugby League. Rugby League. Great grand final. Oh, depends on what team you were supporting, but, uh, that didn't watch it. Guys, Rugby League World Cup. Rugby League World Cup. Get them on the way. Not this week, but next week, but this week, Kiwis are getting named Kiwis and Kiwis fans. Bones. We're at Fence! Kiwis! I haven't felt... I haven't felt... Excited for a long time, when I say a long time. I haven't felt excited since we got eliminated out of the, uh, out of the, you know, RL playoffs, I guess you could say. I haven't felt excited like this for a while. I've got my escapism again, but I've got some, like, you can actually... Yeah, I can see the two. What a welcome. What a welcome. What a welcome. What a welcome. B.A. Bones going to be insane. What happened, Samoa? Huh? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's that? He's a devil, huh?
What about Tino? Tino going to, uh, I'm just... Oh, no. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! You know what, I love about this. When we're at the Warriors, we're... Hey, hey, when we're at the Warriors, it's all gravy. You know, we're all in there together. We ain't together now! No! We ain't together now, can't we? Tell them, I mean... I'm so excited about the regular league walk-up. I'm so excited that we get to hang out and be... I'm pushing for us to be a Kiwis team. That's what I'm saying. For sure. You know what, there's so many great teams available. Right now, Australia could win it, England could win it, some more could win it, Tonga could win it, Kiwis could win it. There is not a World Cup globally, I don't reckon that. That... That any sport that could have this amount of... But, you're looking at me like... The Wrecking Football World Cup could come close? Yeah, I reckon. I always picked the World Cup. Yeah, I think football World Cup could be... I picked Spain from the World Cup. But, you know... I know what you're doing, though. Rugby League World Cup, um, cannot wait. Obviously, there's a game in Christchurch for us
to be able to get down to. For the guy that was silent, yeah. Opener is New Zealand Australia. Open it. On a Thursday. On a Thursday, no Thursday, no Saturday. A week out. A week out. A week out. What a sweet spot. A week out. How are we going? A week out. We got something to look forward to. Yeah, if it's morning shift. Hey, look, we can't speak for shifters, but... After Kiwis baby. After Kiwis. After a start. It is in us. Come on now. I can't help it. I'm so excited. I'm not even... I don't know about that. Same, but like, I'm saying it. Are you with us? I'm going to say, are you with us? Hi, you. I'm saying it is Dennis. Who's Dennis? I think that's the raw error. It's the raw error. I think that's the raw error. I think that's the raw error. It's the raw error. You can be in us. All day long. Anyways, I just wanted to let everyone know Tuesdays and tomorrow team naming. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Kiwi Funes come out with. There's Wade Egan news. There's Wade Egan news. There's Wade Egan news. There's Wade Egan news. There's Wade Egan news. Here my team. Here my team. Here he's in my team. But we got a squad. Wade, Wade, because you... I'm not the coach, but you are my team.
Delhi, him hook girl, and there. But we got a squad. We got a squad. And it's a cool squad. What a good problem to have. Anyways, sorry brother. Good luck brother. Welcome to my escapism for the next four weeks. Five weeks, six weeks here, six weeks up here. Yeah. And obviously we're in Kiwi on the NRL. Because... Warriors are in it. So we ain't going to hear him. I'm stuck by. I'm stuck! Hey Wade! Stop the rugby like this. It's a daily break. Let's do it. That's right guys. Daily bread. We're the news of today. And today it is Monday 5th of October. That is 278 days, even today. 87 left together. Get her done. Happy World Teachers Day today. Celebrating teachers. But... Teaching teachers. Yeah, celebrating teachers. Yeah, celebrating teachers. Change the world man. Straight up. Change the world. And superhero stories. You don't get into the teaching profession to make money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're the only person to make money. Think about... Yeah, it's true. Can I just say this one thing? Think about how many like... Great humans who've had a great impact on the world.
Often have told the story of like, I didn't have nothing. I had that one teacher and they told me keep going. They told me. One teacher that helped me do my... You know, my assignment or gave me that time or said, hey, I believe in you. I didn't have nowhere else to go. My... Family at home. My parents situation. My living situation. Shut up to the great teachers out there. teachers out there. I love that. If I was, if you were right now, you had to fill in at a high school for a subject. What do you reckon you could be the like the fill in teacher for right now if you just like, John, quick, we need somebody. It's what's what subject do you reckon you could carry one class in? Easy. What's that? Cooking. Cooking. I can eat. I can eat. Home-made eating. Yeah. Home-made. I want to say English, but no. I want to say OPE. OPE. I could waffle my way through a PE class. Not like the anatomy ones, like the bone structure stuff. I mean like guys,
we're on the court playing soccer. Yeah. Here's a couple of drills. Yeah. Yeah, say, I could winger now. Touch the line. Don't cut corners. And if I had a full day or six hours by the end of it, I'd actually think I'd probably nail in it. Yeah, I don't care. You didn't bring your PE uniform. You're doing that in uniform. I love that. I'm getting no blur to my uniform. It's a look to all the great teachers out there. World men and judges stay dead. That was the thing that I was. That was the thing that I was trying to think of when, so you know how you were talking about drinking no lips. Men and judges was the thing that you stood there. Yeah, that was the thing that, so for all the young bloods listening right now, you'd be sitting there thinking, what, what, why, why were you not sharing drink bottles? Why was there such a big thing? Men and judges, we keep it and told about men and judges. It was everywhere. Yeah. And I could kill you. Yeah. Yeah. And men and jacoccal. Men and jacoccal. Yep. Men and judges. Men and jacoccal. Wow. That was the thing that scared us. I don't know if those in a long time. Yeah. No, they are still very pretty. Yeah. So just a happy world men and judges stay bringing international awareness and observation observance on this today.
And finally, world. Oh, I was almost say agriculture. It's world architecture day today. Architechers of our celebrating architecture and the contributions of architects to society and the building environment. You know, it's quite interesting. That sounds boring on its own, but when you actually think about the design of the world, how we've moved away from a lot of color and a lot of kind of vibrancy and things have become quite plain and sleek. But I saw that down to the houses. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's it's a it's not conspiracy chat. It's just a wider chat around how that can reflect a lot of the feeling like when you when you go into a space, the architecture can actually really matter. And then the architecture around the the old Roman Catholic churches, you know, and how you you've been in the in some of those buildings. And tell me you don't feel different because of the architecture. Yeah, it's like you go back in time and you can sense. There's a feeling and there's a there's a airy feeling. You
know, there's a but there is there is definitely it's like a different feeling as soon as you walk through those doors. It reminds me of the conversation you were having the other day around our camera depth and percepts or something like that. Like there are just certain things in certain places that we know like the just the layman would know nothing about and would never never consider but feel it. We'll see it once they're in there. Yeah. And I imagine that's the the world of architecture is is a sacred place to few but so many people get to experience second hand because of architecture. About the permits. Hey, what about them who built them? Wean. What happened? That's what I mean. Like I'm loyal. I'm loyal to the foil, but like there's a lot of crazy stuff that can be set up there. But like let's just start with the permits. Clearly something's going on. I could build a permit. Sorry, I don't know why I'm sick. I just wanted to be. Anyway guys, my turn. Hey, Fiji.
Fiji's going through a lot at the moment eh? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'll just say one thing though. 40k g's of cocaine goes missing and is replaced by flour and Fiji corp. I know that would have seemed like a good idea. Hey Spotify listeners, when you travel with American Airlines you'll enjoy comfort and convenience at every altitude. Before takeoff unwind in the Admiral's Club lounge with curated self-serve offerings of hearty vites and refreshments. In flight stay connected with high-speed Wi-Fi, sponsored by AT&T. Your journey is designed to feel easy from the moment you check in to the moment you arrive. No matter where you're going, American get you there. Book now at AA.com. At the time, look up. Listen. And I do like that's not beneath me. All right. I'll say that. It doesn't look maybe like if you don't know, you know, just how they won't notice. You know,
maybe you couldn't try and get away with it. I don't know what's going on. The situation is there. But Fano, flour, oh God. Who bought 40 minutes? All price. Flour on there. Damn. Yeah. You know, I'm pretty easy. It's not like the steaks are supermarkets and there's a lot of cakes over the last couple of weeks now. No. Also, 40 kgs of flour on a small island. Right. What a waste. Yeah. Can I just say something about Fiji at the moment is, I mean, the reports around the HIV and what's going on there. I feel like I love Fiji. It's an awesome place to go holidaying, but it's very commercialised. It's probably the most commercialised of our Pacific Islands. It feels like cooperation is really crushing people here. Well, there's those of China and the poor things like that. And I've been talking as well. It's quite a quite a big one. A lot of drugs coming into those islands. Yeah. Some of the parties, if you've seen a bit, but that's actually what's been happening, guys. Those how do I know? No, just love you, Fiji. Speaking of flour and that other white substance,
breaking bad stars. I see this. Yeah. Have you seen this too? Yeah. In January too. What's up with that? Where's the leader? Where's the time? I don't have time to prepare. So people go, what are you talking about? Breaking bads, Brian Cranston and Aaron Paul, who are the two main characters on Breaking Bad, which is an incredible show. Top three shows of all time. It's right up there. Top three. Speaking in Auckland for a 90 minute double acts, January 28th. So if you're a fan of them, you can buy tickets online. They would have been so much that. Like that's where I'm frustrated. Or you know, someone needs to inform me is there a sell date because they're in a theatre. They're of course they've sold out. If they're, you know, I'm annoyed. They don't need to speak to. These two? You would go and listen to these two, right? I think Brian Cranston's incredible. I will go listen to them talk about paint drawing. Then you're going to be guys breaking with the news of today. This is the morning shift.
Tyler will have a shift nation. That's my skip. That's the captain. That's the capy-chon. All right. On our podcast. New media. Go, go, go, push media. Please welcome to our show, Adi Saver. Hello from my brothers. Thank you for having me. Oh, so thank you. You're welcome anytime, because just I want you to know that anytime, Michael. Oh, my goodness. We were pushing ourselves at the realization that you were keen to come on the show and talk to us about where you are taking your energy, your heart, your soul, your heart. First and foremost, just want to honor you guys. I know you guys are the people's media. So I just wanted to jump off you guys first and let you guys know where I'm going for my super club next year. This is so dope. I'm like genuinely. I've heard whispers, but I don't know.
I don't know if they're true. You guys ready? I'm ready. You ready? I'm ready. Okay. Four, three, two. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. We're going to the blues. We going to the overtime. We going. Come on. Be how you feel. I'm going to do those like I'm happy before you want to see. But I was like, you know, you know, I was hopeful. Congrats. Congrats, brother. Congrats. Thank you, brother. Sorry. Brook. I know. Careful for the for the old nine, you know. Yeah. Oh, great. Hey, we're going to get into a bit of that.
I just want to say that here we say Tom McKinley, you're really not out there. No, no, we always on time. You feel me. So hey, but under sole sole, it's always well. He deep to we sleep. Okay. Man, it's just. Oh, it's just really just in case. I was really just in case. Um, I do want to say my brother, uh, brook. I know your canes all the way through. I do. I do. I was there, but a new journal saw. But you're a new journey. Yeah, 100 percent. It was obviously, you know, like, I was at the canes for 11, 12 years. So I honor, I honor that honor the franchise and love my brothers there. And what they're doing and then obviously, when some one, uh, but yeah, God's taking me to the back to the old nine with the blues. Yeah. Um, so, um, yeah, I'm ready for the last dance. Oh, so I just, I'm just going to I'm going to assume every, um, every, every team offered you something, you know, you must have just been picking your hats, you know. Yeah. Okay. I don't know if this is like, I want to be the cheapest, but man,
only the blues came to the table. So I'm just grateful. Hey, very, very grateful. And you know what? Pull up a seat because he's plenty to eat. Maosah on the own. Thank you. I thank you. I just, uh, yeah, I got you. I got you. I just want to make a mess of shout out to the, to the blues. Budget. Alfie. Uh, they showed love from the kicker. As soon as obviously, um, the news on one, uh, they, they've been just showing love, um, and been the only ones. So I'm very grateful, man, like, and I'm really to run it back with the Joker. Oh, man. You know, the regens of the blues. Hey, and uh, 22. 530. Something special. Yeah. I did talk to us about, um, co-, co-budges, like, I don't know if many people actually realize this. Co-budge has a, has a, has a really, um, stellar record when it comes to the ASB open and bringing some of the biggest tennis stars in the world to move over to the blues and to be doing what he's doing. Tell us what that type of pitch is like when you're talking to someone like that and, and, and, and you know, this is your future you're talking about. Yeah, Ma, but he came to, he was in Tokyo when I was in, um, co-be.
He trained down to co-be, and we chatted. Oh. And I was like, oh, but we sat there for like five hours at a cafe, talking about like, um, credit of content, new media, um, new ways to like promote the game, which was up my alley. No, I'm sorry, like, I really, from the get go, um, love the measure is a CIO and is vision, but also is just the person who just seemed like one of us. So, um, when you kind of have that kind of interaction from the get go, you kind of really feel like valued and whatnot. So, um, I just want to say quickly about all the last time we had a sit down interview with you, obviously you'd moved to Marwana. I just quickly want to just touch on that and just say, I, I, I really, um, I don't think we should forget that at a time when, you know, you were going to give your, the best party or career, you're the best player in the world. Um, you gave it up to, to go to Marwana to chase a bigger vision. That didn't end up, um, you know, going any further, but I just want to say,
it was huge respect to what was built there, that the boys that were there. I know. Um, and I don't even, I don't even know the details on that, but I just want to, I guess, give you your props, give you your respect, because we, we often, you know, and our players, to be honest, a lot of our best players aren't given the opportunity or are able to take that kind of opportunity where they're able to give the best part of their career to, to, you know, to a space that is developing that's growing. Um, and so yeah, just, just the Marwana chapter, I just want to say, huge ups to that and, um, yeah, I don't know if you want to add anything to that. Yeah, no, thank you also, um, man, if someone was to ask me what the highlight of my career so far would be more than a hundred percent, um, people ask why? And I said, we always started with God and we finished off him. And I've never been a part of the team that actually put him at the forefront of everything, and I'm called church and, and our heritage and understanding, um, just being authentically yourself, Pacific, um, which was awesome. Um, so like, I, and having those boys there,
they taught me a lot, even though they think I did a lot, I learned so much from them. And I feel like I'm the leader in play I am today because of that and because of Marwana and the brothers in that team. Um, so I'm really grateful for that chapter. Um, it just happens, you know, Auckland's the biggest Pacific population. I'm in the world, so like, I'm just keen to, I guess, add, um, to the brothers, we some awesome boys there, but also learn, like, I want to, I'm hungry, still hungry, especially after this. I'm a shoulder. I'll be back at the start of the year, so I'll be really hungry and really to go. Well, I'm grateful, Ulster, I've got to put this juicy pack on. I took it off to go to go to the river to, I got crowned for that too, but it's been called, it's been called, it's my arm. Oh, congratulations, bro. Like, well done. Um, but, but congrats and just congrats on everything, you know, since Oris, you're able to sit here now and, um, yeah, from a five, always been able to follow the journey, you know, and so I know how much this
game means to you. Um, but where, where is your rugby at now? You know, when you're out there? Uh, because I, I remember, I, and these are the stories, but we're dressed in the uniform the night before, you know, and then be ready to go play with Jules at Oris down at the park, you know. And so the development of your game, I think we've all seen it since sevens to lions to all blacks at a really young age. Hurricanes, the championship back in 2016, like we've seen the journey, but I think we are at now and I watch you as there's like, uh, uh, from what I see, you read the game at a different pace than everyone at the moment. When you're out there, how do you feel like where's your rugby at the moment? Um, but, uh, by my heart, it's more than rugby for me. Like, like, I, everyone that's playing on the game know how to play rugby. Um, for us as players, we're trying to find the extra two, three percent that makes us different. And I feel like my faith is like, I feel like anything
that's front at me, I'm able to adapt. Like, I can adjust nothing phases me. Um, but yeah, I'm on the rugby field, but it's kind of hard, man, because I know, uh, Jules, like you're on your faith journey, like in the faith journey, we talk about like having pride and you go to go ego and all this, but in scripture, you have to strip that away as a human because that's the default bus. So when you're going, you're doing that in your life and then having to go on the rugby field, like, I'm just like, I don't even take these guys that I'm playing. I mean, that's what I used to draw on. Um, so for me, man, it's, it's a bigger, bigger purpose. And I feel like my mind is if I can play well, play an awesome style of footy back myself, then when people ask why, then I'm able to give glory to them, person that's behind me. So like, I'm understanding that. So when my rugby, my rugby oosters, like, I'm at the latest stages, I'm on his unit career. So I'm understanding it's a bigger purpose, but also,
I just want to have fun. I want to enjoy it. I want to enjoy it, man. And I know when myself, A7, joys 40. Yeah. 100% in the world. Um, hey, we didn't get to, we didn't get to talk too much, during the South African tour. Um, we love, uh, man, can I just say for all of us, we, we woke up watch those midweek games. Obviously woke up watch the tests. Thank you. Thank you, bonus. No, 100% man. The, what a team. What a country like it hurts me to admit that, that those losses really stung. But what's, what's, what's a positive reflection you've had from that tour that you can share about, um, under under under Dave Riny, I'm really liking what I'm seeing with his leadership. I'm liking what I'm seeing with the boys. What, what's something? Maybe you can just share with us in your, in your affections from that tour. First, first and foremost, um, like, I know people, our country hurts and, and key we hurt because they care. So we, on, we on our fans, um, and just want like people to know that we take it just, we probably,
I take it harder than anyone else. 100%. We take it harder. So, but I think it's a, it's a good indication, bro. What's good? What, what it's given us is a good indication where we need to go. What, and what, what, what, what a, what a opportunity in an era to be in in the All Blacks when, it's not that the days are old, where we just knew we could roll teams. What an opportunity to be, to have competition, what a story to tell. I'm fascinated by your time at Moana Pacific and so you're like, I, I feel like it's hard for, um, it's hard for me in my, the journey I've walked to understand the, um, the light, I guess that shines upon you when you walk into a camp where religion is front and center and who you are as a person and I mean, I kind of understand from my time and media the, the circles of what a super rugby side is like, but I can't imagine what that, um, what that moment was when you walked in and you, you felt the difference and I can't imagine what that does for a player and a person moving forward in their life to have seen and
a working example of how it can be done. I, yeah, I just a moment to talk on that if you would. I'll tell you what happened the first time I walked through those those, so I walked out, went to the gym and obviously, you know, and you know, my, um, my announcement song was, uh, Stormzie, Laura, um, in broken, uh, I walked in saying hello and all the boys were in the gym and in straightaway, all I heard was, Laura, the boys were all just mocking me. Said my first interaction with the brothers and boys, just mugs, and me mugs, and me mugs! I said it mugs and then group chats or then they already found my Facebook photos. And I was like, my spot, but like, if you walked into an insulating, that would never have happened, you know, so these guys were just, they just treated me as like one of my boys back at home. And I think that was the massive differences that we were just all brothers from the herd or from
the streets that we had all grown up with that happened to come together and play rugby. And I think what I found what I bought was the professional side was that we can have a laugh, we can joke, we can sing off the field, but when it's time to lock in and train, we do that. So I think that was like massively the differences. We've been part of teams where like, you're just a robot in 24-7, you lose the joy, we had fun. And when it was time to train, we trained hard. So and that's what I've learned, tearing onto the A-Bs and other teams that I've been apart with is like, boys, we don't have the stress about the little things, just enjoy, relax. Yeah. Oh man, better chat. I'm just, I'm buzzing out here, just kind of going like, what a cool thing, I need to be a part of with you. You know, like it's never lost on us how incredible these moments are. And so, yeah, just just back to you, bro. Thank you for having this y'all with us. There's like three people in the world that I never want to see in a sling and you're one of them.
Like real for real. How's the injury, bro? How you can know? Yeah, it's good, bro. Like obviously, you can't sleep, but I'm honestly, bro, like people might get pushed off, but I'm actually happy and blessed, man. Like, like we, me and Matt always talk about counting the stars and counting the stands, the sand, sorry. And like there's a reason for each season. And what I'm going through now, I just look at the positives and the civil lining and things. It has been there. There has to be a reason because that 26 minutes you played on that last year. Yeah, but I'm telling you the way, you know, obviously with your faith, with our faith, we say, God took you off there, but there must be a World Cup waiting for some World Cup one lady for the night. Yeah, I hope so, bro. And the beautiful thing is, man, like, I read my read today and I talked about unexpected places and I talked about the beautifulness when we have a plan, but we're redirected into an unexpected place, but beautiful things happen
in it. And there's a story in the Bible anyway. So my, my, my hope is that this is an unexpected scenario situation, but I know a lot of beautifulness is going to come out of it. I wouldn't be on this chat with you guys. Yeah. I wasn't injured. So I look at that, I look at the stars, bro, and I just count them and just see what God's got me working through this season and just taking it day by day. I mean, no, that I'll work my ass off to keep back in the black jersey. 100%. That's my skip, bro. That's my skip. That's our skip. All right. That's our skip. I know he's not on the K&B, but that's our all black cap. Thank you for your time, bro. Thank you for the message that you share with us and just be able to be yourself also and all the best you've got please, bro. Now, thank you most of the people's media. I did just off Moana. I did it off you guys again. I'll probably do it again when the next concert comes up. Yeah. Do it when you're on here on the Injira U-Board in 15 years. Love your soul. Thank you, bro. Thank you, man.
I'm a leader of men, but more importantly, a man who knows himself. And learning and open to that. And I think the leaders that kind of have a, you always feel a little bit sideways at anyone that's like, I want to be a leader. Best leaders are the ones that have a bit of humility, a bit of caution, but of care, you know, you watch the ones that say, nah, nah, yeah, I got it. I do that. That's all sounds like me. Allow me on the second week of the school holidays, gentlemen, to make you feel heard and sing, what your birth months is about you. This is for July. A July man loves quietly, but completely. He remembers what matters to you and notices when your smile changes and carries the people he loves with him everywhere he goes. Sure did you lie. That's my dad. There? That sounds fair. Very fair.
I love that. I feel like this is really touched. He's here. Wrap it up, bro. I feel like you're about to get out of November. That's him trying to get out of November. It's not working. It's broken. I know you, car. Okay, August. An August man was born with leadership in his bones. People naturally look at him, trust him and expect him to take charge. Even when he never asked for that responsibility. I wonder how many August there are in our lives. I wonder how true that is. I was thinking about this after we finished last time and I was just thinking there must be some people in the car wherever you're listening. Cap. Yeah. My August wasn't that leader. My August wasn't doing those things that this August man is apparently doing. That's why I left it. What happened when my August? People are allergic to the truth. They sit, killed August. September. A September man notices everything. The effort you made, the words you almost said,
the tiny details everyone else completely missed. His standards are high because he expects excellence from himself before anyone else. Is that tiring? Must be debilitating. Oh, it's you. Change your stars. Change your stars. What's my start? What's my sun sign? It's you notice the things you don't want to notice. Really? Yes. And they aren't always good. Oh my goodness. It's like, get out. No. No, actually, elaborate. We're on September. Let elaborate a little bit. He'll spend hours fixing a problem. Nobody even realized existed simply because that's how his mind works. No. And then he knows worse about beat. If we didn't know existed, we can't give him the props that he's been for after it. And then he
just, he'll just go home and you pull his room pumpkin. No, not the second part. I think very much. I don't need clothes from anybody else. No, no, 100. But yeah, yeah, for sure, you'll get in the car and it'll be like, yeah, you'll just overthink nothing. You're making up situations in your head. That's a tiring part where it's like you're playing this own game with yourself. That's like no one else is playing the game. Yeah. Why is no one else playing this game? Oh, because it's a dumb game to play. It must be. It must be. It must be. It's a one player game, bro. Like there's a reason to be trying to help. No, I'm saying what's it really player one? I like that. Yeah. But I must where does it, um, I don't expect this. It can't always feel tiring and always a burden and always like, uh, because there has to be, you know what I mean? There's to be something in there that you
kind of enjoy. You know when you're scratching it, for sure. So it's actually starting scabbing over. The sweet, the sweet spot. The sweet spot is, how do I get this? I, yeah, so, so how I judge people is how I would do the thing. So it's like, uh, don't get mad about that because I wouldn't get mad about that. Yeah. Oh, the truck, the truck, the fuel carts. Yeah. Yeah. Don't, don't approach that like that because I wouldn't approach like that. And that's not necessarily the right way. It's because I'm just thinking this is the easiest way from where you're looking at it. I don't often see where you're looking at it from and what angle that is. It's that part is tiring. But when you can find a space or someone or a group or, or, or friends where, um, where you're not thinking, where it's like, uh, where it's safe. Yeah. Where it's where it's, where you can't get to that point of like no judgment. That's in me is like, that's why I value
our relationship so much. Well, you know, like our relationship here and like we'll have our things, but then we'll also get past things super quick too. Yeah. Like, you know, like, yeah, yeah. And it's, it's, um, so the, the relationships that I have that I value are so valuable to me. And I'd, I'd, yeah, but I probably don't verbalize how much they do mean to me because those safe spaces are really half of me to get to. Yeah. I love that. I love that. Your green flags. Um, no, no, no, no, no, what we're going to do is we'll do is he's soaking up all the time on you, so he doesn't have to do anything. You good. You good. Okay. We see you. We hear you. October, please. I know what you're doing. I know what you're doing. You're trying to put all the time on Brooke. You don't want to know your friends. So that you don't have to, you can quickly do them. I should have done it. We're taking our time on you. Okay. Yeah. I shouldn't. You touched on us. We're going to get to you. Yeah. Touch all you want. Hey, we'll finish on you. Green flags for our September babies. Exceptionally reliable. You say you're going to do it. You're going to do it. You might be
a little bit late from time to time. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. But you're going to get it done. Yeah. Yeah. Relay on me. You know what I mean? Relay on me. I like to think so. Yeah. Should we talk a little bit more? No, no, no. Thoughtful planner? No, not a thought. Oh, no, thoughtful planner. Yes. Thoughtful planner. Not a great planner. Thoughtful planner though. My heart isn't the right intention. Totally. Totally. Yeah. Thoughtful yes. Gives practical advice. Yeah. On things I know. He'll just be like, you look a bit pudgy in that. Go up one. That's it. You're going to get a practical advice. But I'll give praise to you. Did I get a good in the Jersey that I could praise? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Pays attention to details. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you got high gums. And constantly improving himself. I like to think it's why I think it's not like a book. I hate it. I hate it. It depends on space. I mean, your red flags overthink everything. Yeah.
Can be overcritical. Yeah. Struggles to relax. Yeah. Perfectionist. Yeah. Get to you Mark. Find it difficult to switch the brain off. Yes. Come relax. Here we go. Kilda September. Kilda October. An October man has a way of making people feel comfortable almost instantly. Oh, this is your month right now, October? No. Yes. Hmm. He's easy to talk to, naturally charming, and knows how to bring calm into a situation that could easily become chaos. Love that. Kilda October. Kilda October. Kilda November. It takes your birthday in October. Happy birthday. Yeah. Yeah. It's a very different. Hello. On to December. This one. November. An November man isn't interested in surface level anything. He pays attention, trusts his instinct more than opinions, and can usually tell when someone is being genuine within minutes. He'll protect the people he loves. Seconds. Hey Spotify listeners. When you travel with American Airlines, you'll enjoy comfort and convenience at
every altitude. Before takeoff, unwind in the Admiral's Club lounge with curated self-serve offerings of hearty vites and refreshments. In flight, stay connected with high-speed Wi-Fi, sponsored by AT&T. Your journey is designed to feel easy from the moment you check in to the moment you arrive. No matter where you're going, American gets you there. Book now at AA.com. Sorry. He'll protect the people he loves with everything he has. But if someone betrays that trust, they'll quickly discover forgiveness doesn't always mean another opportunity. This is like a... There's nothing more than that. That was the Bible of Matupa. It's almost like you've gone somewhere else and found this. You look like it's that spot on. Now that's who you are. Yeah. Yeah. And our point of reference when it comes to people is my talk mark. I'll be honest with you. I will never force my opinion on what I think
of that person unless it's asked of me. Great. You're a good judge of character. I am. Which we have. But I'll let everybody else be friends with that person. Be that person. Be that person. Be around us. But unless you ask me, then I will give you my... Not to make it about me, you know, my problem is I won't stop telling that person what they need to know until they ask me to stop. Excuse me. I didn't actually ask. Can you shush? Oh, sorry. I just thought you'd want to clear apart to the truth and like improving. Ah, no, that is you, my. Green flags. Unshakable loyal. Unshakably loyal. Courageous. Emotionally intense. Highly intuitive. Never put it. You know, you know, Unshakably loyal. That might be hard for people in your life is because you have very low maintenance of what that relationship is except but you'll die to the loyalty. So you get this
and you know this about you is like at any point we can go bury that body. You know what I mean? Well, you can make that call but you yourself don't actually need any maintenance or you need very little and so it's this maybe tension between access to you but knowing that there's a deep, deep deep loyalty and connection, you know. I said this the other day too much or mark and the most positive respectful way is that has this like dog like energy. Yeah. Of loyalty, love. But when it's time to go, it's time to go and yeah, has that has that dog in there as well but that doesn't want to be petted. But we'll go somewhere quietly. He's like biscuits. I already
I already ate three rabbits today. It's the top. Yeah. November, November baby slash dogs are the ones that when you go up to the owner and you're like, can I pat it? They're like, no, no, don't. No, it's not one of those. It looks, it looks like it should be petted but it's not a pating dog. Also, Green Flag is never quits on people. He loves red flags. Slow to trust. Gilly keeps too many secrets. Guilty can become possessive. Guilty. That's my jacket. That's my jacket. No, no, I want this. Give it. And the most embarrassing thing, it's usually dumb stuff that I'm possessive of like it's not the name is not picking it now. Superb all makes about the $1,400 jacket. It's about the process. There you go on it. Superb. Look at this little
brat. Look at this little brat brook. Try not to jack it. Not even his dream. I will never ever if you don't know what we're laughing about. It's too bad. That's what they wanted. That's what they wanted because we shared that. The one that really strikes me with red flags is doesn't forget betrayal. I like man. No, don't do that. That's a Green Flag. That'd be a bit to me. You've got to give people chances but I'm shocking at chances. I know I am. I'm like you betrayed it. No. You know my lose. I'm down. You know my lose. I'm down. Talk to God. Because he'll have to talk to me. That'd be so. Don't talk to me. I can't. I hate your guts. Talk to God. If he talks to me, then we're all good. But I do that. I do you do that. Broke rocks forever forever. Kurena no. That's a Green Flag. What do you mean red flag?
Till we sleep. Talk to God. Kurena no. Oh God. Yes. No, my mark. That was. That's basically what I'm doing. Finally, December. At December man refuses to believe life should be lived small. He dreams bigger than most people even dare to. Last louder than he probably should and encourages the people around him to stop settling the less than they deserve. Oh, I see. Now, you know why he got a dream boo? Because it's definitely a dream thinking you're going to get a good Christmas present. Oh, you got the good present on your birthday. You're getting undies in school. Charmons on Christmas. Just Christ. But God, you're poor December babies. He's such a hater. Yeah. But their presents sound so stale like the best. See, what's the December as well as the best time of the year? It's not about the present. It's sunny,
it's joyful, it's family. It's fun for you guys. Christmas. For you guys, it's the best time of the year. You know, man's reckon he's dreaming for presents. Yeah. He said, you guys are just showing your dirty undies here and that you don't have much foresight and like people in December feel like they don't get seen. They feel like they've got to share it with all the energy of everyone's ended the year and the Christmas that needs to happen for everybody else and oh, that's right. You got your born-aid. What's that? This feels like 27th, 28th. I'm back me up in the comments. That's how you feel. I see you. That feels like a May baby trying to put himself into December babies. What's going on down here? I would hate it. It's fun. It's me. I hope you feel seen today. And that's, you know, that's what this is all about. Lesson. May the sun shine upon you.
No, you might be. Guys, check on your people. We love you. We'll see you tomorrow. I need to lose, baby. Oh, no, we're back to do it one more time. Let's push! This is the shift. The shift. The morning shift. I'm going to make an an offering game with you. The shift. This is the shift. Okay. Let's get it, get it!
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