Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Flashback Friday: Richie Mccoy Ayyyy

Episode Date: October 26, 2023

We flash back at some iconic moments of the Rugby World Cup including Richie Mccoy Ay, Richieeee Mastercard and the John Key handshake!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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No, no, no, no, no! Boom! Richie, bring it in, mate! Register and use your Mastercard before September 15 and you could go on tour with the All Blacks. Good to see you. Yeah, you too. So, who am I rooming with? Very funny.

Those were funny ads. That was so good. Those were really funny ads. Just to remind you that Mastercard promotion no longer in play, obviously. No. Just in case you were starting to enter that. And we never, for some reason, the advertising industry decided Richie loved running.

They wouldn't let him talk, but they made him run in every commercial. He became sort of advertising's Forrest Gump, didn't he? He ran in beats commercials, ran through shops, supermarkets. I mean, the guy trains all day. And then when he goes and films an ad, you make him run up a mountain. I mean, it's probably playing to his strengths, to be fair. Like, I love Richie All Black legend,

but that's, you know, he's just a fit. You're a runner. He's probably like, yep, I can run, take off some cardio. It's just great. Well, just after the last World Cup too, something went viral. A fan bumped into Richie at a petrol station.

That's Richie McCoy! It's not one of these! Yeah! Richie McCoy! It's not one of these! Richie. Richie was staring at the camera very confused. Still not talking. I'm going to go for a run, mate.

But that went viral. We actually met that guy. He was lovely. Richie McCoy I'm going to go for a run, mate. But that went viral. We actually met that guy. He was lovely. He was lovely. Richie McCoy, the guy. It was very, very cool. And we can't reflect on

Friday flashbacks without taking a look at the 2011 three-way handshake being boys. John Key out there with Richie McCoy out there and the head of the rugby union, overseas

the international rugby union. They all sort of went to shake Richie's hand at the same time. And what a collider. It was a lovely three away. It was an orgy of interlocks, fingers and confusion. No one knew where anyone stood. It was like when you go to an intersection and the light's around.

No one knows where to go first or what happens. And actually, John Key and Richie McCaw, they were interviewed by Jeremy Wells and Hilary Barry on 7 Sharp about this. And this was the blow by blow account of what happened. Anyone who's interested, go and have a look at the YouTube slow motion

video of it. Bernard Lapid say he comes over the top. I'm looking into Richie's eyes. He's just won the World Cup. That hand comes up. Honestly, it's not for me. Let's have a look, let's have a look right now. You talk us through. Yes, see there we go. Yes, he's over the top. He does, he comes in over the top. Oh my goodness, I've never noticed that before.

And for years I've been maligned over this. And then, look, I mean it's awkward. It's really, I've got to say, in amongst this fantastic moment of Richie holding the Rugby World Cup 2011, very close to an election, I thought to myself, you know, I reckon I'm going to see that again. Can I just ask you, Richie, whose hand were you going to shake? Was it his hand? I think you can see from there, yeah, with Prime Minister of New Zealand, I was like, we've, uh... He's confirmed it.

There we go, Richie was going for John, John was going for... Oh, so John! It was Bernard Yeah But John you're right He's been blamed for that Yes Mocked him for years The awkward three way handshake