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Speaker 1: It's Mela Maddie here with you on Nova for our final show for this stint and melt Rassena. You have just wrapped up watching off campus and we are living in an off campus dream for you right now.
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Speaker 2: It's an off campus dream in the studio and I can't wait for everyone to be able to see this on the socials. I'm on the ice hockey bandwagon, which I think a lot of people are at the moment. So I would like to welcome from the Melbourne Mustangs Matt Noah, Darby Day and Colin.
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Speaker 3: Hello, gentlemen, what's up?
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Speaker 4: What are we doing?
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Speaker 3: They're are ice hockey Melbourne.
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Speaker 1: Team, the Mustang. So tell us a little bit about the melbourn Mustangs. Who wants to go first? Who wants a lead in? And tell us a bit about ice hockey here in Australia.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I said, it's a first for myself come down to Australian planner o here and what is their winter and our summer back home? But so far I've been a great experience and the city is a great sport to have a team, and like I said, the fans have been a huge part of what makes it a fun experience here, so it's been a good time so far.
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Speaker 1: There has been a sort of new love fan for ice hockey off the back of TV shows like Headed, Rivalry and Off Campus. Have you witnessed that here with the Mustangs and the Ice Hockey League here in Australia?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. I think we're sold out for the rest of the year here, so it's kind of interesting to see something we didn't expect in Australia. But every single arena we go to his pack, so something we definitely didn't expect and it's good for a game, so we're pretty happy about it.
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Speaker 3: In the TV show.
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Speaker 2: Off Campus, they've got puck Bunnies, which are you know, the fans, the die hard fans that come to the games and obviously want to date.
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Speaker 3: The players have Have Australia got the same thing? Have you got puck Bunnies?
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Speaker 5: I think you definitely get a couple of fans I mean, Maddie or you guys answer this.
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Speaker 1: I think the single guys would know more.
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Speaker 3: Than Okay, you guys are in a relationship. Oh, we need to unpack that. Okay, single guys rivalry representative.
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Speaker 5: No, there's definitely a lot of fans, But like I said, it's cool to see, it's cool to fuel the support, but it's definitely a yeah, there's some similarities.
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Speaker 3: I'd say, Okay, interesting.
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Speaker 1: It is not a top ten sport here in Australia, like we are learning it. It is something that is coming to us and we're obviously starting to embrace it. I'm fascinated by it. Like the concept of playing ice hockey, where does it start. Do you start by learning how to skate, do you start with the stick or is it all together?
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Speaker 4: I would say the skating is definitely like the fundamental aspect of it. Without that kind of the beast, it's to add the other things in. So i'd say probably from most of us, yeah, it starts with the skating aspects of it and then you know, building on it from there.
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Speaker 5: So, especially back home, you get on the ace early, you get out on like five or six when you're young, and then you slowly get a stick in your hand. It's how we kind of got into it.
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Speaker 2: How does it compare from overseas because I assuming you also play ice hockey in your home countries and then you come to Australia, how does it compare and does it compare like culture wise, or how big the sport is.
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Speaker 5: I think just the difference here is just the arenas we plan. Back home, we're obviously a lot bigger, but it's for a bigger fan base obviously. Here that's a little smaller scale, more like off campus arenas are back home what we're kind of used to playing in, but here it's just a smaller version, but similar similar culture wise.
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Speaker 3: That's it for sure.
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Speaker 2: I find it so interesting because I was looking at some of the stats around the Mustangs and your social media in particular since January. I don't know, if you guys are across this, You've gained more than ten thousand followers on TikTok, You've passed, You've had so many, like millions of views on videos, and sixty percent of your Instagram audience are female.
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Speaker 5: I think that's I think that's when those shows came out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when it started peaking.
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Speaker 4: It must have been.
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Speaker 2: Would you say that it is as violent as they make it out to be on off campus where it's you know, lots of ralls and well, look, oh yeah.
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Speaker 4: Okay, no, I mean I think it's it's definitely a little bit more team than it is in North America. It's a little bit more regulations on and rules on fighting things of that nature. But yeah, you still have the physical aspect of it very prevalent. So I think that's also what the fans are. You know, someone attracted seem as well.
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Speaker 5: I think I think back home sometimes it's gets a little bit of gladiators on ice, but I love that show here it's here. It's definitely a little bit more to him.
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Speaker 1: Sure, he's the goalkeeper of the maddest unit on the team, like just a goalie.
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Speaker 3: Here, goaliere.
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Speaker 5: I blame my father. I mean, I wish she told me not to be a goalie. I tell the boys out to the day where shows a player. But twenty years later, so we're playing.
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Speaker 1: Is the goalkeeper the lead singer or the dramma if we're talking in band terms, I don't know if he's the voice. We're joined by the Melbourne Mustangs. This morning, Meal is having her own off campus moment.
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Speaker 3: Where everyone's got their clothes on. I just want to practice that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we don't have we don't have these playing well now we do. What are we going to do here with the boys from the Mustang smell.
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Speaker 3: We're going to play some ice ice breakers, ice breaking.
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Speaker 2: We're going to ask you some questions because I know that you're from different parts of the world, Vancouver, Seattle, so I wanted to ask some questions, especially around Australia. So let's do some quick fire we'll go around. Biggest culture shock being in Australia.
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Speaker 5: No left, no turning on left, hunts and spiders.
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Speaker 4: We're just driving on the wrong side of the road in general. Took some adjustment time for that.
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Speaker 3: A lot of Asian food. Oh you didn't expect that. Oh yeah, we're really good at that. So many yeah, yeah, I love that. Have you gotten into any sport AFL, NRL?
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Speaker 2: It still doesn't know the rules of it.
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Speaker 5: We haven't mad AFL, I don't think.
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Speaker 3: But it's like a mix of four sports. Oh the AFL. Do you think what sports? Do you think? It's mixing basketball, volletball, voll A bit of everything.
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Speaker 4: Actually, we do want to check game.
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Speaker 3: We should.
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Speaker 2: You should go check out a game, especially one at the MCG because that's like a really iconic venue. What's like the worst injury you've had from the sport?
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Speaker 5: Okay at twenty so that's that's a.
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Speaker 2: Sixteenth.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, you're you're what a doctor? Oh wow, gosh, this is so painful.
00:06:26
Speaker 1: Ask him to show your.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I just found out Saturday, the eighteenth of July Collingwood v. Culton at the MCG. Now, that would be a great game to really show you the supporters of Melbourne.
00:06:42
Speaker 3: We have a joke. Actually you would be a Callingwood supporter because we do.
00:06:45
Speaker 2: We say that they don't have any teeth, but they don't have any period, not even at home. So that would be a really good game for you to go see Carlton and Collingwood.
00:06:53
Speaker 3: That would be rowdy.
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Speaker 5: Explain the rules, but we'll be there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Oh you know what, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of rules, we'll let you go because mel will hold you captive for as long as she can. But I want you to think about an Aussie fan who's never watched a game of ice hockey. Who's going to do it? Firstly, and what's your thirty second sort of sales elevator pitch to get people in the doors to watch ice hockey around Australia.
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Speaker 5: Just like a fast piece growing sport that's got a great fan base, and you plan like high inten serrenas with a loud crowd, so I mean, it's just a fast game. It's fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: Well, Jens, it's been a real pleasure. Some of us have enjoyed it more than others, but it has been a real pleasure to have you here in the studio with us. And a good luck against the adrenaline on the weekend for the rest of the season and I see ice hockey keep growing here in Australia. Have a great weekend, Jens.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you for good on
Speaker 1: It's Mela Maddie here with you on Nova for our final show for this stint and melt Rassena. You have just wrapped up watching off campus and we are living in an off campus dream for you right now.
00:00:14
Speaker 2: It's an off campus dream in the studio and I can't wait for everyone to be able to see this on the socials. I'm on the ice hockey bandwagon, which I think a lot of people are at the moment. So I would like to welcome from the Melbourne Mustangs Matt Noah, Darby Day and Colin.
00:00:28
Speaker 3: Hello, gentlemen, what's up?
00:00:30
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
00:00:31
Speaker 3: They're are ice hockey Melbourne.
00:00:33
Speaker 1: Team, the Mustang. So tell us a little bit about the melbourn Mustangs. Who wants to go first? Who wants a lead in? And tell us a bit about ice hockey here in Australia.
00:00:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I said, it's a first for myself come down to Australian planner o here and what is their winter and our summer back home? But so far I've been a great experience and the city is a great sport to have a team, and like I said, the fans have been a huge part of what makes it a fun experience here, so it's been a good time so far.
00:00:56
Speaker 1: There has been a sort of new love fan for ice hockey off the back of TV shows like Headed, Rivalry and Off Campus. Have you witnessed that here with the Mustangs and the Ice Hockey League here in Australia?
00:01:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. I think we're sold out for the rest of the year here, so it's kind of interesting to see something we didn't expect in Australia. But every single arena we go to his pack, so something we definitely didn't expect and it's good for a game, so we're pretty happy about it.
00:01:25
Speaker 3: In the TV show.
00:01:28
Speaker 2: Off Campus, they've got puck Bunnies, which are you know, the fans, the die hard fans that come to the games and obviously want to date.
00:01:36
Speaker 3: The players have Have Australia got the same thing? Have you got puck Bunnies?
00:01:41
Speaker 5: I think you definitely get a couple of fans I mean, Maddie or you guys answer this.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: I think the single guys would know more.
00:01:46
Speaker 3: Than Okay, you guys are in a relationship. Oh, we need to unpack that. Okay, single guys rivalry representative.
00:01:56
Speaker 5: No, there's definitely a lot of fans, But like I said, it's cool to see, it's cool to fuel the support, but it's definitely a yeah, there's some similarities.
00:02:04
Speaker 3: I'd say, Okay, interesting.
00:02:07
Speaker 1: It is not a top ten sport here in Australia, like we are learning it. It is something that is coming to us and we're obviously starting to embrace it. I'm fascinated by it. Like the concept of playing ice hockey, where does it start. Do you start by learning how to skate, do you start with the stick or is it all together?
00:02:27
Speaker 4: I would say the skating is definitely like the fundamental aspect of it. Without that kind of the beast, it's to add the other things in. So i'd say probably from most of us, yeah, it starts with the skating aspects of it and then you know, building on it from there.
00:02:38
Speaker 5: So, especially back home, you get on the ace early, you get out on like five or six when you're young, and then you slowly get a stick in your hand. It's how we kind of got into it.
00:02:48
Speaker 2: How does it compare from overseas because I assuming you also play ice hockey in your home countries and then you come to Australia, how does it compare and does it compare like culture wise, or how big the sport is.
00:02:59
Speaker 5: I think just the difference here is just the arenas we plan. Back home, we're obviously a lot bigger, but it's for a bigger fan base obviously. Here that's a little smaller scale, more like off campus arenas are back home what we're kind of used to playing in, but here it's just a smaller version, but similar similar culture wise.
00:03:14
Speaker 3: That's it for sure.
00:03:15
Speaker 2: I find it so interesting because I was looking at some of the stats around the Mustangs and your social media in particular since January. I don't know, if you guys are across this, You've gained more than ten thousand followers on TikTok, You've passed, You've had so many, like millions of views on videos, and sixty percent of your Instagram audience are female.
00:03:35
Speaker 5: I think that's I think that's when those shows came out.
00:03:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when it started peaking.
00:03:40
Speaker 4: It must have been.
00:03:41
Speaker 2: Would you say that it is as violent as they make it out to be on off campus where it's you know, lots of ralls and well, look, oh yeah.
00:03:50
Speaker 4: Okay, no, I mean I think it's it's definitely a little bit more team than it is in North America. It's a little bit more regulations on and rules on fighting things of that nature. But yeah, you still have the physical aspect of it very prevalent. So I think that's also what the fans are. You know, someone attracted seem as well.
00:04:06
Speaker 5: I think I think back home sometimes it's gets a little bit of gladiators on ice, but I love that show here it's here. It's definitely a little bit more to him.
00:04:15
Speaker 1: Sure, he's the goalkeeper of the maddest unit on the team, like just a goalie.
00:04:19
Speaker 3: Here, goaliere.
00:04:22
Speaker 5: I blame my father. I mean, I wish she told me not to be a goalie. I tell the boys out to the day where shows a player. But twenty years later, so we're playing.
00:04:30
Speaker 1: Is the goalkeeper the lead singer or the dramma if we're talking in band terms, I don't know if he's the voice. We're joined by the Melbourne Mustangs. This morning, Meal is having her own off campus moment.
00:04:43
Speaker 3: Where everyone's got their clothes on. I just want to practice that.
00:04:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we don't have we don't have these playing well now we do. What are we going to do here with the boys from the Mustang smell.
00:04:54
Speaker 3: We're going to play some ice ice breakers, ice breaking.
00:05:00
Speaker 2: We're going to ask you some questions because I know that you're from different parts of the world, Vancouver, Seattle, so I wanted to ask some questions, especially around Australia. So let's do some quick fire we'll go around. Biggest culture shock being in Australia.
00:05:16
Speaker 5: No left, no turning on left, hunts and spiders.
00:05:20
Speaker 4: We're just driving on the wrong side of the road in general. Took some adjustment time for that.
00:05:26
Speaker 3: A lot of Asian food. Oh you didn't expect that. Oh yeah, we're really good at that. So many yeah, yeah, I love that. Have you gotten into any sport AFL, NRL?
00:05:38
Speaker 2: It still doesn't know the rules of it.
00:05:40
Speaker 5: We haven't mad AFL, I don't think.
00:05:42
Speaker 3: But it's like a mix of four sports. Oh the AFL. Do you think what sports? Do you think? It's mixing basketball, volletball, voll A bit of everything.
00:05:58
Speaker 4: Actually, we do want to check game.
00:06:01
Speaker 3: We should.
00:06:01
Speaker 2: You should go check out a game, especially one at the MCG because that's like a really iconic venue. What's like the worst injury you've had from the sport?
00:06:12
Speaker 5: Okay at twenty so that's that's a.
00:06:17
Speaker 2: Sixteenth.
00:06:21
Speaker 3: Sorry, you're you're what a doctor? Oh wow, gosh, this is so painful.
00:06:26
Speaker 1: Ask him to show your.
00:06:32
Speaker 2: Hey, I just found out Saturday, the eighteenth of July Collingwood v. Culton at the MCG. Now, that would be a great game to really show you the supporters of Melbourne.
00:06:42
Speaker 3: We have a joke. Actually you would be a Callingwood supporter because we do.
00:06:45
Speaker 2: We say that they don't have any teeth, but they don't have any period, not even at home. So that would be a really good game for you to go see Carlton and Collingwood.
00:06:53
Speaker 3: That would be rowdy.
00:06:56
Speaker 5: Explain the rules, but we'll be there.
00:06:58
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:06:58
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, don't worry about it.
00:07:00
Speaker 1: Speaking of rules, we'll let you go because mel will hold you captive for as long as she can. But I want you to think about an Aussie fan who's never watched a game of ice hockey. Who's going to do it? Firstly, and what's your thirty second sort of sales elevator pitch to get people in the doors to watch ice hockey around Australia.
00:07:18
Speaker 5: Just like a fast piece growing sport that's got a great fan base, and you plan like high inten serrenas with a loud crowd, so I mean, it's just a fast game. It's fun to watch.
00:07:28
Speaker 1: Well, Jens, it's been a real pleasure. Some of us have enjoyed it more than others, but it has been a real pleasure to have you here in the studio with us. And a good luck against the adrenaline on the weekend for the rest of the season and I see ice hockey keep growing here in Australia. Have a great weekend, Jens.
00:07:42
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you for good on
