Rebecca Rolls was a goalkeeper for the Football Ferns from 1994 to 1996 before switching codes to cricket and playing over 100 games for the White Ferns where she won an ICC Cricket World Cup. Then, at the age of 36 she returned to football, 16 years after walking away from the game, and went to a further two Olympic Games and one FIFA Women's World Cup. She’s also worked for 10 years with the NZ Police and held senior positions at the Ministry of Health, the Serious Fraud Office and the Department of Corrections. She is also a Director of NZ Cricket, about to start a new job as the Diversity and Inclusion manager at Sport NZ and is a cricket commentator for Spark Sport.

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Jeremy Redmore was the lead singer of Midnight Youth, who were probably NZ’s biggest rock band from 2009-2012. In this episode we talk about the band's wild ride; Jeremy’s transition from journalist to musician, the fame – and attention he got on night's out, stories from backstage at the Big Day Out, the manager who ripped them off and why the band split up. We find out why he walked away from music to make coffee in Canada for a few years, and the break-up that brought him back to his guitar.

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Danny Hay is the coach of the All Whites and a former captain of the team. In this episode we talk about the time at Leeds United playing with Rio Ferdinand, Harry Kewell, Mark Viduka and Jonathan Woodgate, making his Champions League debut against Barcelona at the Nou Camp in front of 90,000 people, playing against Man United at Old Trafford and why Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer is the smartest player he's ever seen, plus the nine groin operations across three seasons that killed his dreams of playing at the top level, and his coaching influences and philosophies.

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In this episode we talk about how Honey Hireme-Smiler fared at the Putaruru athletics championships as a teenager, some of the toughest times from her childhood – and how she turned a corner, why she only discovered her legal name as a teenager, the sudden loss of her mum and the lessons in strength she received from her final weeks, why she peaked as an athlete in her mid 30s and the time she skipped from a Sevens World Cup to a Rugby League World Cup in a week.

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In this episode we talk to Scotty Stevenson about the highs and lows of commentating on the All Blacks for the first time at the Rugby World Cup, his transformative running journey and the race that made him cry, why he left SKY to join Spark, why he dropped out of journalism school to be a bartender, the problems with sports media in New Zealand and his biggest influences in sport media.

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We talk to Paul Ifill about the time he tore his groin celebrating Tim Cahill’s winner in the 2004 FA Cup semi-final, playing against Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane and Ruud Van Nistelrooy in the final, the time he was dropped due to one of Neil Warnock’s wife's dreams, his experiences with Keith Gillespie – who gambled away 7 million pounds across his career, why he’s a part owner of a petrol station in Sierra Leone, and why he hung one of Steve's columns from his fridge in 2015.

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In this episode we get Peter O'Leary to officiate on some unresolved Between Two Beers matters, we go in-depth on his experience at the FIFA World Cup 2014 when he received death threats as the result of a mistake his team made during a match between Bosnia and Nigeria, we talk about the time he was plucked out of the stand to officiate during an English Premier League match, the time he pulled a condom out of his pocket in the middle of a game and the health of refereeing in NZ.

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How can David Liti do the splits at 180kgs? Why a doctor told David not to compete at the Commonwealth Games, and why he ignored the advice, the pains and struggles of balancing his weightlifting dreams and family expectations, how his life changed after winning gold at Comm Games, how he would expect to win gold at Tokyo if the sport was clean, and that one time he put on 11kgs of weight in seven days after a competition.

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How David Higgins got David Tua and Shane Cameron to agree to the Fight of the Century, why he lost control at the infamous Hughie Fury press conference in London and how he feared for his life in the aftermath, growing up in poverty, his relationship with money and how he manufactured a rivalry between Joseph Parker and Anthony Joshua that earned Parker a world title fight.

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We talk to Kevin Fallon about the struggles of coaching a national league team as a 24-year-old in Gisborne, the time he fought Ken Dugdale at training, what it was like watching his son Rory score the winner against Bahrain on that special night in Wellington, his reflections on his controversial sacking from Mount Albert Grammar school and how he turned Gisborne into a footballing juggernaut.

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