Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Friday Flashback: Speights G'day Mate!

Episode Date: June 22, 2023

We take a look back at the iconic ads of yesteryear and this week is the infamous Speights pride of the south ad!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Friday flashback We like to look back at something iconic From yesteryear in New Zealand Probably reflect to when it was a better time to be honest Yeah Although some of the stuff doesn't really age too well Does it? But I appreciate that

Because at the time it was just It was a snapshot of where we were, the time capsule of history. And this is trying to keep in the theme of the rugby this weekend being boys. And it reminded us when we were talking about what we should do for Flashback Friday of an ad.

The old man's got a box at Eden Park. Do you remember that ad? Well, yeah, the Spates ad, the iconic Spades ad, the two sort of, I guess they were farmer types, they were the horses. I don't know what they were, they were kind of, they had horses, they had long jackets, they kind of looked, they looked

about... Southerners, they were southerners. Yeah, southern men. Out there with the horses. They looked 68 and 82, they were probably only 19 and 21 in all reality, but yeah, they were in the wild, you know, in the middle of the South Island with a couple of horses and the music starts playing.

You've been seeing a city girl. Yep. She wants me to go up to Auckland with her. Oh, yeah? What's the attraction up there? Place in the harbour. 500 SL Mercedes. 80 foot yacht. An old man's got a box at Eden Park.

Oh yeah? She doesn't drink spades, but... She's a hard row finding the perfect woman, boy. Reckon. Still. Now hurry, eh? Spades. Spades. Pride of the South for over a hundred years. Good on you, mate.

Very understated edge, you know, just laid back as well. I feel like he's missing out on a, like, she's not stopping him from drinking spades. He's missing out on a huge she's not stopping him from drinking spades she he's missing out on a huge opportunity here true just because she doesn't drink space for his loyalty to space like he's unreasonably loyal to that beer yeah you're right i don't know i'm not a relationship expert but you don't have to base whether you're compatible with someone whether she drinks space and maybe she hasn't even tried space like maybe she doesn't drink space she's like oh like hey i live in auckland i haven't really hasn't really come up here at that time.

I'm watching the ad and I'm thinking, bloody hell, you two are perfect for each other. We should bloody hook up. Like Brokeback Mountain. Yeah. You just live into the same things. Well, there's another one of that series as well. I think there's a slightly different guy,

but the old guy is still there as well. And they kind of go to the ball. It was like whatever it is where the farmers will get together and stuff. And they kind of go off together. And the lady's like, oh, I thought I was going to go with you. You had to hook up, guys. Like, jeez, you're bloody perfect for each other. I'm trying to figure out, too, how the guy on the horse met the lady in Auckland.

I'm assuming her and her rich family came to Queenstown or somewhere and he took the horse back riding or something. There you're right. Anyway, there's the Spades commercial. Good on you, mate, became a saying, though, that many people would use for many years. Good on you, mate. Good on you, mate.

It's coined that sort of phrase in New Zealand, the iconic Spades commercial. That is today's Friday Flashback.