The Debrief - Episode 7 Ian Prior

I actually bumped into a Zimbabwean. Did you? There's

many of them here, isn't there? Yeah,

but he is a big Springboks fan. How is a Zimbabwean a Springboks fan? Because obviously they haven't had a massive team to support for.

Oh, yeah, true. For a while. Great segue. Yeah. Great segue. We're going to be talking about Zimbabwe. Hey, guys, how are we going? We are here to talk about who are we here to talk about today? Ian Pryor. Episode 7, Ian Pryor. What a legend. Ian, I think one of the huge things, Ian's lived this life that's very, has got so many different elements to it, right? You talk about the influence of Zimbabwe and growing up in Zimbabwe and in Africa, coming and living between Australia and there, the sport side of things. And now, like, This cool opportunity is going to be, you know, very much so potentially going to get an opportunity to be in the World Cup next year representing Zimbabwe in Australia. It's like this amazing full circle moment. And I joked with him about it as well. It's like his life's a movie.

Yeah, because a lot of people at his stage in their career don't ever actually get the opportunity to represent their nation in a tournament like

that. 100%.

Think about any of the guys in the Australian squad. Think about how old they are or what position they are in their career. They haven't retired from playing club football. 100%. Rugby, sorry.

Yeah.

They're still in their so-called prime. They're not semi-retired. Exactly. Yeah.

I made the mistake of saying he was retired. He's not retired. He's not retired. Semi-retired. You're correcting me, and rightly so. It's actually in my notes. This is bad. I thought my research was quite good. But, I mean, you guys, tell us about you having listened to it and watched it. What do you take, I

guess? Yeah, I'm not the biggest rugby fan, especially because the Wallabies haven't Been great for a while. We're

going to be on the march, I think, now. Got a new coach.

Really?

Yeah. I think it's Robert Kiss. His last name is Kiss. Got Harry Wilson, who's, I think, super young. Yeah, okay. Really good culture. Yeah. We're trying to get Harry on, by the way.

Yeah. The only time I really ever watch rugby is when I'm with my family in the UK in Twickenham because that's their sport over there.

And we're in WA, right? And WA is not a rugby state. Again,

yeah. So we've got

excuses. But yeah, we love seeing the Wallabies be successful. And

now you've talked to Zimbabwe and Aussie and the All Blacks. What a

setup, Shane. He's trying to sell it. We need to talk to a Wallaby. We're an Australian podcast, right?

It's true.

Well, I am linked with Harry Wilson on LinkedIn. Okay, nice. So I'm going to send him a message, and you never know, right?

Yeah. But that

would be cool. Surely. Surely. Yes, what about you? How was your chat?

Again, I'm not the biggest rugby fan, but I'm more – paid more attention and had more takeaways from his like outlook on life and the way he handles things. I know he talked a lot about like meditation and like how he does that. And after some of his losses or like he reflects on them in the big game and the way that he will like calm himself down or like reflect on his poor points was by