Marc Ellis on life after SportsCafe, Charlie's millions and Ridgey
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Published 2023-02-13
He played rugby for Otago, North Harbour, Blues, Highlanders and All Blacks and League for the Warriors and Kiwis, founded Charlie’s juice company – which after 10 years he sold to Asahi for $129 million, and was one of New Zealand’s top television stars for over a decade.
0:00 A pinch yourself moment and a local speak easy
2:08 That time Marc nearly killed himself alone with a bowling machine
5:00 The Human Cannonball, the boat, and the Round Lake Taupo cycle
13:01 The last ten years of Marc Ellis
14:38 Macca at high school
17:23 The King of Otago University
20:30 Scarfie hijinks
22:40 Otago rugby and All Blacks tours
27:40 “Susie” at the 1995 Rugby World Cup
31:14 Setting up Charlies
37:10 The decision to sell Charlies
42:28 The Warriors (and Jonah)
50:10 Sports Café
1:01:35 Matthew Ridge and Marc Ellis
1:08:56 Working on More FM after becoming a multi-millionaire
1:13:01 The Rangitoto stunt
1:16:42 Media Blanco and life now
1:19:04 Fame and anonymity
1:20:18 Advice from a father to a son
1:27:09 Last words from Steve, Seamus and Marc
All Comments (21)
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Marc Ellis is what you call a true blue kiwi. Great sense of humour, hard worker, great family man, good values, just a great human being.
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One year on and it’s still a good podcast with Marc Ellis
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I was in the Otago team when Marc made his debut, his attitude to rugby was brilliant, a great team man and a real scarfie, Loved his few beers and his mates, and played rugby with such talent and the freedom just to enjoy the game. The likes of Marc, JT (John Timu) and JL (John Leslie) were a band of brothers on and off the field. Great fun, always followed his career, and his shows. Loved this reminder. Great to see you Marc
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Marc what a bloody legend, best 90mins I have listened to in a long time.
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Marc reminiscing about Otago is exactly like myself and mates…attempting to contain the laughter when regaling people with tales of old is almost impossible. Some of the best years of my life
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He was always going to be successful. Anyone who lived in Dunedin in the 90s knows he was a lot more than just a rugby player. Unquestionably the king of scarfies!
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Best watch in years, thanks guys!
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Well done boyz,great show and good to see Ellis looking so young and still a mischief bugger! Been living all over the world for the last 30 years and awesome to see NZ has still got that heart and soul I've been missing for so long. I've never been homesick but dam you guys as well as Marc have made me make plans to finally go home. That last quote at the end got me man!
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Great podcast lads. Loved Marc's book and this was the cherry on top!!!
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Bloody hell he so correct in what he says of/to Bob Jones at the very end! NZ needs more people like you Marc.....Power of love over a love of power you are!
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Awesome, grew up living to watch sportscafe/game 2 halves. Marc your the last of a great era!
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Absolute legend of NZ. Done it all and still one of the most humble and down to earth men around. Thank you for everything Marc ❤️
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Marc is the man who would bring all the good of us kiwis to the surface
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Great episode, lads! Marc is the man! But, one of yaz shoulda bloody got up and got the extra beer for the old fella and his crook knee! lol
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What a bloke his humility and humbleness. Top pod boys. All the best
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What a good bloke.
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Wow lads bloody top show brought back some great memories...l would love to go back to those days good times. Well done team and congrats to you maca!!!!
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What a fantastic episode. Love the way you guys structured the conversation and did your research to bring up different stories. Awesome to hear Marc share stories, one of the best story tellers out there. Things I’ve taken away and looking to implement are getting into the story and really sharing it like you were there, discipline and having a structured early wake up time, dreaming big as, and doing more fun things that don’t harm anyone. Looking forward to seeing what the future holds for between two beers, you guys are going from strength to strength.
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What an absolute legend. So humble. Great interview guys.
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Just stumbled across this. Awesome poddy. Im 39 and loved this guy growing up.
