Donut Anyone?

🔥🔥🎧 Episode 217 - Donut Anyone?🎧🔥🔥

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Episode Transcript

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Yeah, no, not you guys. You'd be listening to Bored.
I listen to this one all the time, see where I can and can't
improve, Yeah. I like everyone that's on.
Yes, this week on the Ranch, theMighty Lions down the Pies to

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take on the Battle Cats at the MCG.
We're down to four in the NRL with the Mountain Men taking on
the Ponies from Brisbane while the Sharks try to weather a
storm and we're going to talk all things Ashes.
This is on the ranch. Yes, that lovely voice you just

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heard there is the one and Amy Pistol.
I am back for another week. I've been missing the last few.
Or brought to you by Molly Malones as well.
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around, share it to one more mate.

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The person to my left as you're going to hear the magical Rob.
You can find him at XR Bob on X as it's now known.
Good evening. Good evening.
How are we going? That's I'm out of a job.
Yeah, look, you've been put downto the Rezis.
William's in the house. How are we tonight, mate?
Making us all look good on the video.
Yeah, doing me best. And.

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Takes a bit of that. And the black and white bars
over there, how are they tonight?
Haven't had the best weekend? Collingwood supporter.
He's still got 2 missing teeth as well.
None of my sports teams have hada good weekend at all.
It's been a disastrous run, actually.
Some could say it's a horror movie.
Beaten by the Lions, Beaten by the Browns.
Beaten by the Browns is a wee one.

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No good. No one loses to the Browns.
No like because I actually said all my teams suck blah blah
blah. Except the Packers are going
good and then literally maybe 8 hours later they lose to the
Browns. I I every team you've backed in
the last two to three weeks, Luke Littler went down.
Luke the Nuke is Luke the Nuke. It's just a disaster.
It's a horror show. Hit the steel work.

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So whoever you're putting money on, we're not.
I'm not putting money on anyone.I'm off.
I'm off it. Probably, but we got a bet
against Geelong versus Lions. Well, triple or nothing I hear.
It's triple or not. Geelong.
I'm picking Geelong all day long.
Oh. Yeah.
Me. Howdy, Dangerfield.
There's a camera. Seen the guy?
You know, we. OK, so we've got Ben, who
dresses up in the in the full Cowboys regalia.

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Yeah. Yep, every.
I think every team's got someonewho does it.
There's always seems to be Mad Dog at the old stadium.
Yep. Have you seen the cat?
Yeah, I've seen the cat. Did you see Ate the Hawk?
He ate the hawk. That was weird, He.
Is weird mentally not. Sad stuff, No, but the cat's
good on him. Get into it.
The cat is weird. He's iconic, Yes, definitely
give him that. You're not gonna see anyone
dressing up as a lion. You know, the Pies had a bit of

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a bad history there. You know, the Pies had the guy
in the gold jacket. Yeah.
Joffer. Joffer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Joffer's not very good in
history terms. You don't wanna look him up.
He he, he was our main cheer guy.
So he led the cheer squad for like, it must have been 10 or 20
years, I mean. It's Collingwood.
And he had the gold jacket. And the thing was when he put
the gold jacket out of prison, that's when we were going to
win. Might be heading to it, heading

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towards prison. That's nice.
Turns out he went overseas to some Asian country and, Oh yeah,
did what some old dirty men do in Asian countries.
And what's worse is that it cameout that in Australia he may
have done some things really notso good either.
Good. Yeah.
So it turns out the head of the cheer squad is basically a sex

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person. That's Collingwood, so not
shocked. Definitely reinforced a lot of
these stereotypes. It doesn't help you does it?
Not at all on the rain. Chang Q to my shopify.com One of
us is. Self a fat cap.
One of us is wearing merge. I'm wearing premiers.
Raining, raining. Good fit.
Reigning premiers, You know there's an actual stat and you

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can I can vow for it being true that whenever the Lions have
been reigning premiers, they've been in the grand final the
following year. Is that right?
So 2001 they won the comp premiers.
We're gonna go. Won it in O2.
We're gonna go through the history.
Now they won it in O2, they in the grand final in O3 won it.
They're still premiers. We're in the grand final in O 4.

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Didn't win it. Who'd be in a port?
Mark Williams with the Ji. Remember that.
I think this year they're in thegrand final.
They were premiers last year. That meant true every.
Time, every time they've been. Finally, the year before though,
too. Yeah, but every time they've
been premiers, they've been in the grand final.
The. Following year, 3 grand finals
in a row. Three in a row.
It's not bad. It's a dynasty if they want.

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Them meanwhile Panthers are about to do 5 grand finals in a
row, so I hope they actually 6 grand finals in a row.
Yeah, I hope. Penrith winner.
God, I think it's just anyone but Bronco.
Yeah, that's fair. I don't care about the other
three teams. Like I wouldn't mind seeing
Sharks make it. I'm surprised sharks have got
this far. I was pretty shocked about that.
So am I. Yeah, I think a lot of people
were. Raiders in straight sets.

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I would never have seen that going.
I've done Adelaide Crows. You ever have?
Yeah. Billy, were you on Raiders?
Yeah, it was. That makes sense.
Well, I turned my attention to the Raiders.
I mean, I didn't watch the game or anything.
I just yeah, I've packed. I've packed up sport for the
year. I'm done.
Well, then you win a lot of us. Well, I go and back like an AFL

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team and then I think I go for Crows.
And then I know the three games of theirs I watched this year, I
think they won the first one I watched.
And then I watched them go out in straight sets like that.
That Hawthorne game, it was, I don't know shit about AFL, but
but I was just watching Hawthorne come up with the ball
every single time. And it's just then and I just
went, well, this yeah, we can't be playing well here.

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And then all I've heard is just like, jeez, have you seen them?
Crows? Yes, yeah.
Minor premier is straight, sets something far out.
OK, They they were 15 last year,though.
They've had a real big season. Yeah, 15th to 1st and I think
they just didn't have it in themto finish the job.
You give us West Coast, maybe next year.
Bit of hope for West Coast. Bit of hope for West Coast.
Well, you've resigned West CoastHarley, Harley Reid, right?

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So that's pretty big. But you paid heaps for him.
Yeah. Big bucks.
Worth it. Big bucks.
Worth every cent. Worth every cent?
I don't know exactly. Just do something but man, you
need more than Jesus and 1000. Have you seen old people going
to lions? It's not good.
You're Captain Oscar going of the Lions.
Yeah, Essendon's main guy, Sam Drover going of the Lions, and
there's another one going there,too.
They're going to have an incredible team next year.

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Some could say stacked. Honestly, it is my stacked team
next year if you think this year.
Some could say. Next season.
Amazing. Salary capped.
No salary cap. They're going to do a Clippers.
It's going to be an investigation.
You seen the LA Clippers? No.
So is it Steve Ballmer the Microsoft guy?
Yeah, some. Yeah, he, I'm pretty sure it's
this guy. He owns the LA Clippers.

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Oh, it doesn't. And he got Kawhi Leonard over to
the Clippers on some amazing deal.
Turns out, turns out why Leonardwas getting paid 30 million from
some training company or, you know, some unrelated entity.
Stock Clippers owned by Steve Ballmer.
OK, I I I might be wrong with Steve Ball, but I think it's
Steve Ball sounds. Very Melbourne store.

(07:09):
Yeah, big time. Like just incredibly blatant.
So essentially they're gonna have, they're gonna get super
fined points, the whole thing. They're gonna get stripped over
everything. Guys gotta hand back the money.
Like, it's really blown up into like, this huge scandal.
So do they have a salary cap? Can you, can you check if it's
ball, I think? Steve Ballmer is LA.
Yeah, they do. I don't think they do, But you
got to like give, you have to like be on the level, you know,

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you have to like, you know, showyour figures.
You have to say how much everyone's getting.
The NBA salary cap, or 2526 season, is set at approximately.
8 billion. 154.6 That's important million.
I I think you can go over though, is there like a luxury
tax? In an NBA team, is it 15?
I thought. It was 15.
Yeah. I don't know that.

(07:52):
Don't know that would be for your like top 15 players I
suppose. So that's.
So out of 100? 5010 million a player.
Yeah, about 150. Well, it's not because
154,000,000 a year salary cap. Yeah.
How much would a LeBron take outof?
That, yeah, I know. I know. 40.
It's fifty. Well, it's no different 60, no
different to like the NRL salarycap.

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You've got your million dollar players, but in that you've got
your $10 million players. Yeah, but you've got to split
your salary cap over 30. If, then you have to split it
over 12 or 15. Here we.
Go The NBA has a lot luxury tax,so it's a penalty imposed on
teams whose total player payrollexceeds A predetermined salary
threshold. So you can go over, but you pay
like you know you got to pay 100% over.
LeBron James is only on 52.63 million US, yeah.

(08:37):
A year. It's his final season this year.
For a five year contract at that.
Average annual salary of 50.6. It works out there being
ridiculous like and he's $200 a second that he makes.
And that's nothing compared to his endorsements and all his
shoes. And, you know, the other crap
he's got going on, pocket change, like his actual salary
is nothing. Yeah.
He's been playing for, what, 20 years?

(08:58):
This is his last season, his last go around.
Hmm. Like it's phenomenal how much
money he's made. Yeah, but then he doesn't have
to work again. But he probably.
Will he'll be like an analyst orsomething like Tom Brady?
Doesn't Jordan work? Jordan no.
He golfs and punts and plays poker, and he owned a team.
He owns an IndyCar team. Yeah, he owns a few things.
So Jordan's just got fingers in pies, but he doesn't work.

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He hasn't. So he's.
Broken down exactly. He would.
He would make money through. He's not doing a 12 hour shift
in the mines, is he? No.
No, God, no. He he works on his investments.
Yeah, he would make money through his investments,
whatever they happen to be. Yeah, but I mean, like, he's not
working like he would do maybe what, 2 hours a week on the
books? Buy, sell, share.
Righto, let's go play golf. No, I reckon he's hustling all

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that long, like all these guys, especially Jordan, he's like a
top flight, you know, I reckon he'd be going hard all day
because there's. Obviously the stigma between
Jordan and LeBron as they go. Jordan.
Man, it's no. Jordan's ago.
It's it's no comparison, it's calm alone all day, but we'll
run with. Jordan the mailman.
The mailman always delivers on Sunday.
Jordan. Jordan's No, it's no question

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it's Jordan. Yeah, Jordan didn't choke in
finals. No.
And like, like LeBron, LeBron chokes in finals.
Well, how many people in Americatoday are wearing LeBron shoes?
And how many people are still wearing Jordan's 20 years after
he's retired? I think he's Jordan.
'S they can still, Can you still?
Are they still new Jordan's being brought out of it?
All the time, but. They released a lot of retros,

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new colorways and just a lot of like old, you know, the 90s.
But people are still buying them20, he gets.
Jordan golf shoes. But he would he would also get
kickbacks from them big. Time Have you seen the movie?
You seen the movie Air? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With Matt Damon, good movie. Great, good movie.
It it. It's basically he got a sign in
his studio. I'll call it queued up to watch.

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Yeah, queued up. It's a good movie.
Watch it. It is a.
He changed the game. Yeah, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
surprised the duo linked up again.
Of age when he was at the top, Iwas never really into
basketball, I. Forgot how old you are.
But it's actually done well. No, too far behind.
Fucking baldy over here. But you actually never see the.
Interaction with Jordan in trouble.

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They've done, they did it well, where Jordan actually has no
interaction. Like, yeah, you notice like when
they shake hands or whatever, it's always behind the scene.
There's no face shot or anything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true.
I don't think Jordan made too many friends in his career.
He's too competitive. He's too ruthless, Him and
Pippen at each other. Yeah, and like Jordan's.
Son is Rod Zilla. Isn't Jordan's son with Pippen's
ex-wife? Have you seen that?

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Really. What a love tribe I'm.
Fairly certain Michael Jordan's son is currently with or just
was with Pippen's wife. That's more of a love triangle
than part of Dixie and Bluebell.OH.
It's basically like Liz Lemon and.
Lemon and Levon. Levon and the Gator.
Mayor Hayes, am I right? Marcus Jordan.
Yep, that's Jordan's son. Well, I don't know.

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I just went Michael Jordan's son.
When? Marcus Jordan.
Yeah, but I don't know. Jordan dated Larsa.
Larsa Pippen. There you go.
From 22 until 24. I don't know who Larsa Pippen
is. That's his ex-wife.
I don't. Think it's Mary's.
Daughter. Oh, OK, so she's been.
In Oh, that's Mary's pop she's. Been in the Real Housewives of
Miami? They'll be Keeping up with the
Kardashians, House of Villains. You know, Pippen came down for

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the NBL, They got him down here,spouse.
Was Scottie Pippen OK? When the NBL season kicked off
in the last year, they got him down as like the guest to like,
you know, VIP to kick it off right.
The media was told no questions about the ex-wife.
Of course the Australian media first thing.
Mr. Pippen, what do you think about blah blah blah dating your
ex-wife? Apparently he fucking chucked

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it. He was not.
This presser is over. Yeah, he did a bit of story.
NBA players have come to play inthe NBL.
I can think of Bogut, Shane Hill.
NBL players in the NBA. No NBA players.
Coming to NBL. Like Shane Hill started in NBL
and went to NBA but then he cameback.
I don't, I don't care versus. Trying Bogut.
Bogut came back from NBA to NBL.He played in the NBA for a

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couple, couple games. He won a ring with his.
Teddy Mills first, Teddy Mills hasn't come back to NBL.
Oh, I'm not sure. He may have.
Delhi hasn't. Delhi has.
Delhi. Has Delhi's done a couple
seasons I think with Melbourne United or something?
I don't really follow the NBL very much since we lost the the
Crocs. Crocs sun's up, Crocs never
meet. Your hero is Derek Crocker.

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That was that was disappointing.I didn't want to hold a garage.
That was disappointing. I'll never forget your call.
Never forget a night out of Derrick Cracker.
That was a real eye opener. Right, Patreon this week had
what, 45? I'm just trying to move it on
before we get ourselves into trouble.
Patreon, you can sign up if you really want to.

(13:37):
This she isn't? Well, there's not too much footy
chat this week. There is one game that we're
gonna look at. Yeah, very briefly.
A lot of AFL chat currently, youknow, we're topical.
We're. Very topical.
Staying on top of the AFL Grand Final coming up this week.
I do wanna have this on the record and I'm pretty sure you
can check the tapes, but I did say back in February, Lions have
one hand on the flag already andI would not be surprised if the

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Lions do what Penrith's done andgo on a four peak run. 4 peak.
You have said that. I will vouch for that.
'Cause they lost in 23, similar to Penrith losing in 20 and then
they've dominated and I've got you gotta.
Go. You gotta get him in a row.
Yep. How about dominate?
Well, there there every chance on Saturday to go back-to-back.
Back-to-back is 2. Hasn't been back-to-back in AFL

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for Hawthorne in the mid 2000 tens.
I could easily see him winning next year.
They are gonna be dominant next.Year I can see him win this year
and next year I I would not be surprised if we see a three even
A4 peat. And I'll, I'll tell you what I I
do like Grandpa Fagan. Oh, he's, he's a good he's.
A cold hero. He's good.
I was, I was nervous this because I thought that he only

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signed on for a year contract and he was going to go and coach
Tasmania. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he's even said the other night, no, I'm, no, it's
Tasmanian. I'm contracted here until 2028
or 29. When Tasmania doesn't happen
anyway. And if the club still wants me,
I'll I'll still stick around. But I thought that he was going
to because I thought Tazzy. Isn't Tazzy coming in in 26 No

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27? The stadium's nowhere near
closely. Ever.
Very much depends on. Wasn't it meant to be 26?
They were coming in. I think it was meant to be 20,
explain in a different Oval. And then the next year I move
into the new stadium in 27. The stadium is not going to
happen. No.
Is it because they decided to build a Cadbury film instead?
Did you remember that? I don't know anything about
Cadbury film but. Speaking back to backs.

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Sorry to interrupt. Richmond went back-to-back in
19/20/19 and 20. Oh yeah?
Well, Dusty. Did and then before.
Hello, I'm black. Because they lost it in 18 and
then won it in 17. They were almost on the. 4th it
was it was Collingwood that lostit in 18 to West Coast.
Yeah, Richmond won. Richmond won 17.
That's what I'm saying. Richmond won 17, didn't make 18.
Gotcha. Yeah.
And then when they. Did 19 and 20 and then Hawthorne

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did a three peat 131415 yeah yeah against Fremantle, Sydney
and fucking West Coast. West Coast.
Anyway, I think Lions will go 3Preally.
Hang on, can I? Here's a question for you.
No notice AFL, they've got the club songs, you know, yellow and
black and you know all that stuff.
Some are better than others. NRL teams don't have really
official club songs, right or not.
Like the Cowboys get in there and they hammer out a song and

(16:08):
stuff, but it's not like an actual song that plays over the
stadium and. Everyone when Cowboys win, it's
life at the outpost. Yeah, but it's not really like
an AFL the. Team aren't singing Life at the
Outpost as their team song, no. And the team song that gets sung
in the sheds isn't the same thatyou hear every.
Whereas with AFL, you're right, they go in and and that's what I
said. Yeah, do we bring in the actual
official team songs for the NRL?Love.

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To so while we have in Townsville, are we sticking with
life at the air post or we go onsomething?
Different, that's the FDA original.
On the way to the stadium in theold day at 1300I rode out a
cowboy theme song to the tune ofthe Lions and Pass it around the
bus and had a go. Yeah, look, it would have legs,
but do you remember after You'vegot to get?

(16:51):
Admin and we got the bus singingyeah on the way back to the.
City. Yeah, what was that song I was
singing? Oh.
We'd sang 1000 different. It was just like Top 40 stuff.
Yeah, I get you. Or something.
Yeah, that was good. That's a good time.
Good fashion ride. I I reckon we need an absolute
banger. Like we are the pride of North
Queensland, we wear the blue, grey and white.
We will always fight for victory.

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Always fight the bunker tackle to do.
Don't give me stuff to do. But it was something like it.
It fitted in and it was completely cowboy related but to
the chain of the lion. Why don't you do that under On
the Spot? Or maybe you should revisit it.
Put it out there and sing it. We'll plug it.
We can write 1 tonight. I think there was something on
on the spot on the weekend before last, wasn't it?

(17:34):
Yeah, there was. Yeah, I was up in Mission Beach.
Yep, Yep, Yep. I remember seeing something
briefly. I don't know.
It doesn't pop up on my feet. I don't know why.
My friend Donna and Casey, we'rehaving a few beers with them and
did you have we mentioned on thespot and they said, oh, yeah, we
watch shows every now and said, well, I'll do one, yeah.
And completely off the cuff and after response after it was all
done and look, I watched it backand it could have been better

(17:57):
but is what it is. I.
Mean save it like. Fuck yeah, but.
That's the same as. It was there was no script,
there was no anything. It was literally just off the
cuff rabble and even Don, in case you've gone, holy shit,
we've wondered how many takes you do or whatever.
That was outstanding. That was just live in front of.
Us. I reckon your best one was magic

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round when we walked up the street.
That was a little bit backwards.That was a beauty.
That was a good one. That was so good.
Former cowboy to shave head for ovarian cancer.
One Jake Granville. It's going to shave his locks.
That's a big step for him. Don't hate.
Now he lost his mum to ovarian cancer and he has decided enough
is enough and will shave his head to raise awareness and

(18:39):
vital support for the aggressivedisease.
Lost his mom 3 years ago and yeah, he's signed up for
Saturday, October 18. He'll shave his iconic hair
which has not been properly cut,which is might be a bit of a
slight on his misses but hasn't been properly cut in 15 years.
Jeez. That's a.
That's a I can't even pick trim.Is there a link where people can

(19:02):
go to it? Look, this is just on the on the
I just found this on the Towns of Bulletin web page.
So if you wanna chase that one up, I'm sure it's for something
in particular. You could probably find it on
through the Cowboys website itself if you're looking for it
or don't have a direct link. Only did half my research as I
as is usual, but yeah, Jackie Granville will look very

(19:24):
different without those. Without that mob, it's iconic
that more be. Interesting.
Yeah, but like when you shaved yours off Pistol.
I was just gonna say that Bill. Do you reckon?
Because when I did more and everyone's gone, that's just
bullshit. He actually does have good
looking head shaved you reckon? Jake?
He's got a good shaved head. Look, I, I have Kai Loman for

(19:45):
the Lion shaved his. Yeah, because he had a botched
haircut. Yeah.
And he just. It's not.
It didn't. It's not the greatest.
No, I, I, I kind of remember seeing Jake Granville with
shaved head, like back in the early days.
I'm talking, you know, maybe 2017.
Yeah, right. Well, if he said he hasn't cut
it in 15. Years.
Well, that can't be right then. Yeah, although that's 10 years

(20:06):
of growth from 15/16/17 around there.
I kind. Of 15 years ago, 2010, yeah.
Yeah, true. Maybe I'm thinking something
else. It hasn't been properly cut.
I don't know. I just have this picture in my
head of him shaved, shaved, shaved.
I don't know. It's not a South in a South
Jersey. That's winter manly.
Oh, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah.No, that's just the picture in

(20:27):
my head I have of it. Maybe I'm thinking of someone
else. But anyway, that's.
When are you gonna shave your head?
Yeah, I'm going the opposite. I'm going it all the way.
I don't. Want it?
Growing it down. Yeah.
Oh, a bit of a shovel. How about that one The other
one, this other bit of news in our news item, the Craigsley
Kindergarten demands 2200 bucks for children's portfolios.
The. What the what, what and what?

(20:51):
This Brisbane childcare centre are in battle.
They the mounting debts somehow.Yeah, yeah, childcare centre
mounting debts. Like the old ABC learning days
where potentially the owner would just clearly bezel.
Yeah, clearly this is a private,must be a private childcare
centre. I don't know, I haven't looked
into it, but Craigsley Kindergarten and Preschool, the

(21:14):
administration there was starting to charge 2200 bucks
for their own for kids artwork to sell back to their parents to
raise cash to pay off mounting debts.
To the point where one of the anoutraged mother who complained
and took her child's portfolio home despite the prohibition,
was even accused of stealing by the centres manager, who then

(21:34):
called police to report a break and enter.
I. 2200 bucks for the parents tobuy their own children's
artwork. Now you've got kids.
I do and would I spend 200 bucks2200?
Bucks I I don't wanna sound likea a prude or a evil person here.

(21:56):
I wouldn't. But.
How many of your kids drawings have made it to the fridge?
Well. Magnets on the front.
When I when I OK the fridge house.
'Cause that's the pinnacle with the child's artwork.
Well, I'm gonna just magnet. This to the fridge so it doesn't
go on our fridge. I've got a wall which is in my
office when I work from home andthat's where the kids artwork

(22:17):
goes on, right? How many make it to that wall?
Well, the door is full and it filled up probably 7 or 8 years
ago and hasn't been updated in quite some time.
However, their artwork's not badlike for for for their age, but.
At kindergarten. I'm not paying 2200 bucks and
this is a child kindergarten andpreschool so we're talking.
So I'm going to go anywhere between the ages of 3 1/2 to 5.

(22:41):
Yeah, they're about 5. It's all right, so in.
The Queensland system. A crayon drawing.
Very similar to the rest of Australia.
Of a cat which is just squiggleswith multiple different colours
and not in the lines at all. Look and something that you
would just throw in the bin later on or there is a start the
fire there. Is a bit of an example of the
artwork. Yeah, yeah.

(23:02):
That's that's not $2200 worth. And that's a penis.
It's not that. That is a yeah.
How did that that one there on the left?
Yeah, that's. OK, how?
Even the one on the right. How did they get to the figure
of 22? 100, Yeah.
Look, there's probably a bit of reasoning there, but I don't

(23:26):
know, yeah. I'm pretty sure I'm sure that
Craigslist kindergarten is gonnahave no kids there in the next
couple of months because they can obviously not run a truck
raffle and they will definitely be broke.
Now Craigslist Kindergarten preschool is an affiliated
centre of CNK. Now there are CNK daycare

(23:46):
centres here in Townsville. Pull your kids out of them if
you're in CNK. Keep going to those ones.
They're doing fine. They're great.
I can vouch for the local ones. This is clearly an outlier.
Nothing wrong with them anyway. But yeah, they're about 45 grand
in the red, so they were lookingfor a quick buck.

(24:08):
Quick buck. Yeah.
Because because childcare is notalready one of the most
expensive things on earth. Oh, and subsidised to hell.
And as far as I knew, they were like a money printer.
Like if you own one, they just make money.
Clearly not this one. Clearly not.
I don't know about that. Like there's some of them seem
to stay there forever, but then you get like after, I mean, 2019

(24:30):
ravaged a few in Herman Park andAdalia, but they've never
reopened some of them. But have a look at the new ones
that are popping up like they'reeverywhere.
And they are. They are.
They build special facilities. Yeah, OK.
Full on concrete block and they look from the outside, they look
sterile as hell. They full on concrete block.
Like a whole hospital. Like yes, hospital, but they

(24:51):
just look like like you think they're just playing in a
concrete jungle. They're not actually there's the
outside and doing nature, but you go inside and the rooms
inside are fully kitted out likea classroom, like really
appointed well. And then out the outside play
areas, you wouldn't know you were inside one of these
concrete structures like you like you see from the outside.
So they're actually really quitegood.

(25:12):
What was the name of the bloke that owned the ABC Learning so.
Geez, I don't know, was it? Eddie Walsh or something like
that. That does ring a bell, but.
Price someone price. I can't remember, but anyhow, he
he had all the ABC's all up and down the coast.
Just a license to print money. Eddie Groves, for some reason

(25:33):
that that name rings a bell too.But yeah, yeah.
That's. Related to Scott Groves.
License to print. Money.
He is a subscriber. He he definitely made some wrong
decisions, like he he was the owner of the Brisbane Bullets
and kept pumping money into that.
Yeah, that's right. Would wear these $300,000
watches, drive these sports carsand then realize that his

(25:56):
outgoings weren't matching the incomings and had to get rid of
ABC learning centers. Yes, agreed anyway.
Lesson in life, that's whatever your incoming is, don't
overspend it. Oh.
I mean, you know, a lot of people knock business, failed
businesses around town. They're like, oh, another
business failed in town. A lot of it is not the fault of.

(26:17):
Of the business owner, No. No, but a lot of it is, Yeah.
And I mean, most of them, A lot of people blame, you know, the
government is charging them too much or someone's.
Coming coin tell. Yeah, yeah.
You know, people don't support local business and all this
various other factors. I reckon 99% of it is the actual
business owner doesn't know how to run a business.

(26:37):
Yeah, I'd go on that. Maybe not 99, but it's it's up.
Yeah, yeah. Like.
Yeah, if it's not 99, it's 90. And I've seen a lot of people.
So like, there's a little shopping centre near where I
live, right. You know the one.
Yeah. And a lot of people go, oh, you
know, what would you like to see?
And it's got a vacant tenancy. And people go, oh, wow, a little
cafe there would be nice. If you know anything about
running a business, a cafe in a suburban shopping centre like

(27:00):
that. Yeah.
Work. It's not.
You're not gonna make money. No way.
Not at all. So unless you are, like, really
good and people are gonna come out of their way.
Yeah. To be like, how many fish and
chip shops did we go through? And now it's a Barber.
Yeah, because it just doesn't. Work there was 4 different name
changes. Catch and cook was probably the
longest running 1. Yeah.
And that was, I think he was thelongest running because he had

(27:21):
another store somewhere. Yeah, in Charter's towers.
Yeah, and that's where he originally came from and I never
really. Liked it then he wanted to get
out. I I thought he he was it was
probably the best fish and chipsout of the lot that were there
out of the ones. This is a paper rock started
there. That was a paper rock was huge.
What happened to them? They would be on the Strand next
to the ice cream shop. They were.
At 1300 Smiles they were. I don't think there's a paper

(27:44):
rock is. I don't think it exists anymore.
But they would have had about 6 or 7 shops around here at.
One stage and I really liked their the seasoning they put on
the chips like that lemon sort of zesty.
Because they would cone. Lemon pings.
As well, like you'd get a cone. Of fish and chips or a cone.
Of calamari or a cone of prawns.Yeah, yeah, like.
It was their signature. Thing they're upside down like
triangular prism. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember

(28:05):
them. That was yeah that.
Oh, and they had the the little buckets too, little sand buckets
that you had with like little calamari pieces or whatever,
like the kids things. Yeah, yeah.
And it was good. But I don't know, they're
flavouring just wasn't the greatest.
I don't know. But again.
Well, apparently the frosty Mango has been bought.
Oh, really? Yeah.
You see, I don't have. Been wanting to sell for years.

(28:28):
But I think Mrs. was talking to me.
The Sabo have a suspicion it might be auto support it.
Oh, there you go. So in Castletown.
There. Yeah, this is the example she
was using. Yeah, so there's a frosty mango
store that sells fruits that allegedly come from the farm up
there. I don't know if they all do.
Let's say they do, for argumentssake.
And there's a little coffee shopjust outside that that is also

(28:50):
owned by Frosty Mango, which is now Autos.
Right. Yeah, that happened six months
ago. Maybe longer, but you're saying
that they want to like, rebrand the whole thing.
Now that's something that I don't think that they should
because it's been a staple in North Queensland for years and
years and years for sure. Yeah.
And if you go and start changingthings like that, like people up
here don't like change very much.
No. And especially something like

(29:11):
that, like it's it's ice cream on the side of the highway.
Like it's if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
You would think Autos would understand that too, because
Autos has run the Autos name forhow long now?
And they've established a hell of a brand.
But they they bought get a burger and ruined it though.
Oh. Yeah, yeah.
Would you say they ruined it? Well, I don't know.
I like to get a burger. I don't like get a better.

(29:33):
OK. And then they buy Pete's Riviera
and we discussed that that that's gone downhill since they
bought it. Yeah, I think Autos owns
nothing. Yeah, yeah, that 'cause they
moved Pete's Riviera on Charter's house right down to
the old tire shop, correct? So now it's the like the big
pizza extravaganza, the side or whatever.
I think it's drive through pickup too, maybe.
I don't know. That's one thing about

(29:54):
Townsville. Geez, we love a drive through.
Yeah. I don't mind.
Drive through. I think we're we're the first
city to have a drive through subway because I remember when
that first became a thing, I hadcousins up and weeper.
They came down and they went. You guys have a drive through
subway? Yeah, they're from Weeper.
Yeah, well, they get KFC when they go to Mariba, but it was

(30:16):
like, yeah, what? Don't you just haven't drive
through tobacconist, drive through coffee?
I mean, drive through coffee is pretty much everywhere.
Yeah, there is, there is a drivethrough subway in Logan that's.
But I'm pretty sure that one of domain was the but it was the
first one in Townsville but. It's a drive through Boost
juice. Yes, across the road from there.
Over there and that's actually not bad there.

(30:37):
I have been through. Yeah, that line gets huge.
That makes sense though like quick drinks like boost juices
are basically quick drinks. They have bloody calorie dense
this can. Drive through is fast food.
Subway is a maid sandwich. It's not a fast food.
It's not like here's your chips and burger and wrapped up and
going like a Maccas or a Hungry Jacks.
Yeah, but it's quick. Subway sandwich is.

(30:58):
Quick, it's still. Fast.
Have you been through the SubwayDrive?
Through. Yeah, a couple of times.
Not a fan. Yeah, not a fan.
I like to walk in and. Yeah, I like to say what?
I'm preferring because you get in a sub you.
You want certain salads? You do, but well, I I just get
everything. Of course you would.
I'll eat there instead of like if you get a Macca's or
something you can eat a burger on the drive, whereas a sub is

(31:21):
very hard to eat on the drive ifyou get a footlong.
I find I prefer I find myself going in to any fast food place
a lot more now than I used to. Yeah, yeah, yeah 'cause you get
served quicker. Generally yes, it's bloody Dr.
throughs tend to be a lot slowernow.
I don't know why, there's probably a reason for that.
Anyone own a drive through I remember?
When the when the drive through Tobacconist first popped up on

(31:43):
Ingham Road, Yes. I wasn't a smoker then and I
thought, jeez, that is just unreal, isn't it?
Well that makes sense. Just just drive through to get
your ciggies. Well, then there's that and then
over on Riverway Drive, that used to be a donut shop, I'm
pretty sure in where. You're right, yeah.
Yeah. And then that's now signal and
then that's a drive through as well, just like just like the

(32:04):
one on Abbott St. as well. That's a little drive through
like around the building sort ofset up.
Yeah, Yeah, it's, it's unreal. I'm with you though.
I like going in because right, Even if like I don't smoke, but
you go in and you might just getyour normal drive through carton
of PJS or whatever. It might be that time where you
go in and think Peru's around. It's like Dan Murphy more

(32:24):
importantly, shopping or something.
You know, like instead of just getting a click and collect
Dan's order and you go right, I'm gonna get me carton of
whatever and a bottle of something.
Sometimes that's good, yeah, butalso.
But I would also say 9 1/2 timesout of 10, it's better going in
because, oh, they've got a special on this.
Yeah, a bottle of wine. I'll.
Yeah, I will get this. Actually, I am running low on

(32:45):
that. I'll.
Yeah, click and click. I think it's acceptable if
you're having a party and you know, you need 10 carts of this,
10 cartoons of that. So you just, yeah, that's just
sort of done easy. It also works if you've got
kids. Right and.
They'll bring it straight to your car.
You don't have to take them inside.
Yeah, that's fair. Well, that's that's like you
can. Collect shopping like Coles.
Sometimes. Sometimes I've never the missus.
The missus does that a lot. She's usually got the kids with

(33:07):
her. Yeah.
Whereas I, I would prefer to go in because I like to see what is
on special and. And I'll pick that, but.
You might go right. I will click and collect a
having rump steak tonight. But you've gone in and you've
seen, oh, lamb racks on special.I'll get that instead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if I go, if I want steak for
dinner, so I mean you if I look at it, I'm not going to buy the

(33:28):
300 gram pack. I'd buy the 500 gram pack
because I want it to be bigger steaks whereas or if or I
personally would pick a ripe advocate, not just any avocado.
Correct, if they've got some 17 year old fruit.
Veg I'm definitely. Going if they've got a 17 year
old packing your order like that, it's just like when you
complain about a shit burger from Mac is like hey, a 15 year
old made. That's right.
What do you expect? Yeah, and they're on 12 bucks an

(33:50):
hour maybe. I don't know what the.
Minimum that'd be on. That'd be on at least 35 by now.
I would not be surprised. I'm pretty sure it's not quite
that. Not that but I reckon AI reckon
your 16 year old Macca's work isprobably on 20 an hour casual
day. No super in no holiday.
Oh, could be, could be, right? I'd say at least 20.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not bad.
I don't, I, I don't have a distrust for fast food, kids

(34:13):
making food. I mean, no, sure, Surely I've
eaten someone's spit at some point.
Well, it was in Subway on Fridayat Domain because it's Moko
there and as we left and everything because we ate in and
as we left and I said, geez, it's odd shit.
There wouldn't have been any worker in the Subway Domain
under 4550. That would have been the
youngest Which? Oh, here we go.

(34:34):
Which is good, like people are still in the workforce, but how
many kids are not wanting to work out there?
If you've got there would have been eight of these older ladies
all over 50. Yeah.
Where's where's the 22 year old uni student?
Coles. Yeah, that's still in night,
Phil. Coles and Willis, yeah, I find
I've, I've find a lot of uni students that that I know of.

(34:55):
Yeah, fair. So 2565 per hour is the fast
food industry award as of July 24.
It's probably slightly above that now.
That's for an adult early rate. Is that casual?
I'd say so. Average early rate, it's
probably not actually so. You know, yeah, it'd be full
time. So then you'd plus 20% or
whatever. For something like that, yeah.
So let's say it's 27 for argument's sake.

(35:17):
A 16 year old would get 50% of that per hour that will, yes.
So it's like 12. 18 is a percentage of the.
Yeah, it's a percentage. Of the award, yeah, but the
award rate is 2565. But then it says the 18 year old
would earn 70%. Wouldn't the 18 year old earn
2565? No, I think when when you're
considered an adult in working terms, I think it's 21 because

(35:40):
if you start an apprenticeship at 19, you're still.
Up the top under 18. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But if you start an apprenticeship at 19, you're not
an adult apprentice. You're still a normal
apprentice. You don't.
You don't. You don't do your age is 20,
Yeah. But yeah, you don't do a mature
age apprenticeship until you're 21.
That's the AI overview as well. If you went into the actual Fair
Work thing, you can calculate itand it's about, I don't know,

(36:02):
it's a scaled percentage, so nothing.
Is that when you think of if you're a 17 year old or 18 year
old, then you'd be on 22 an houror 20 an hour?
But also you look at how much isit for a Big Mac meal now?
Yeah, like 16 bucks. So.
Yeah, well, Macca's I think the most expensive one, right?
Oh. Is it?
I I find it, I find Macca's to be more expensive than Hungry

(36:26):
Jack's. I don't eat or a fast food or
compare. Or they'll be about the same
price, but you get better value for money out of Hungry Jack's.
Yeah, I think that's always beenthe case.
Yeah, the burgers are better. I mean, the saying isn't there
for no reason. That's right.
I mean what I mean it's that it's not bad dollars just in the
fast food industry, Like you'd rather be working than being on

(36:47):
the doll. Yeah, yeah, 100%.
You know, I mean, I would. But why do we have such a high
unemployment of people that not wanting to work?
Because I'll just choose the Rock'n'roll instead.
I think you'll find that people not wanting to work the
percentage of it is is actually pretty low.
Yeah. Compared to people who can't or,
or yeah, you know, for whatever.Small majorities scream the

(37:07):
loudest of. Squeaky, squeaky wheel.
Yeah, or is it? Oh, there's just not a job that
suits me, mate. Don't the burgers and then
you'll the door will open. Don't worry, there's plenty of
that, but I mean like night filling that there's plenty of
doing night fill, there's plentyof just working the registers at
Coles. Yeah, shit lights off them.
Yeah, fair. So there's plenty taking on
apprenticeships yeah as well over going to uni.

(37:28):
Yeah, good to. See I can think of a couple
examples. Yeah, everywhere, but they they
only wanna be either electricians or carpenters.
But a fast food work right? Just looking at those wages
make. There's a lot more trades.
Than a third year of. Preface No one wants to be a
welder. It's too frigging hard.
Hey, Bill. Yeah, don't do that.
And. No one wants to be a plumber,
that's all. That's shit.
Plumbers is probably the richesttrade.

(37:48):
Yeah, that's what I've. I had a plumber come and quote
something and he's like just putting in drains for me.
He's like, mate, get a landscaper to do it.
We're too expensive. Yeah, and I've just gotten a
quote from a landscape at half as much as the plumber going in.
The landscaping bill, maybe, Whynot?
Plumbers do deserve a lot more. Oh, they do, don't get me wrong.
That's. I mean.
Landscaping would be rewarding. But the argument there.

(38:10):
Back breaking but rewarding. Yeah, but what the thing you
create at the end? Yeah, looks.
That's what shits you about doing undergrounds or from a
sparky point of view. Or you've done storm water.
As a plumber, you don't see anything.
No, everything's. Coming.
Spent two days there digging trenches and everything and then
yeah, oh, what have you done? No, you do.
There's plenty. I've I see plenty after

(38:32):
electricians been. There I mean like.
Stripped. Stripped cable bit everywhere.
I could say the same about. No water broom looks.
Like, but being a welder in the in structural steel, like it's
you're like one of the first trades in there putting up the
structure and then it gets completely covered by the walls
and ceilings and also so you never ever get to see any of the
structure ever again. So yeah, it.

(38:53):
Can work both for and against you spot.
Well, it does work very well. Shitty work also gets covered.
It gets hidden very well, yeah, but.
Shitty work. Also in the electrical trade
does get seen. Yeah like if you need to replace
something. Who the fuck did this?
Like that happens in in the boilermaking world too.
Like you go do a, a renovation. Like I've done a renovation at

(39:15):
Macca's at Fairfield. Oh, yeah, There should be a post
in the wall here, but we're not really sure.
And then you, you get there and you right.
Nothing's like it should be. I'm just gonna sit here and turn
shit into chocolate. Let's go.
It's like anything though, like,you know, like the kids flipping
burgers. Some of them are doing a good
job, some of them are not. No, and you know you, we've all
gone through and gotten a burgerand going.
Who the fuck built this? Yeah, but then some get is a

(39:37):
work of art I. Had have you had the big arch?
Yeah, because I've had one. I had one, not a fan of it.
No, I had one. The other what is very nice,
it's basically basically a Big Mac.
So two big patties, cheese between them all and this
special sauce, but it's like mustard basically with crispy
onions. Okay, so it's like a double

(39:57):
angry, angry angry whopper. Kind of yeah, kind of.
Yeah. I had one the other night and
yeah, it's impressive. I liked it.
It was commiserating because theCowboy girls went down to the
sharks. You got the in town Mackers.
Yeah, yeah. So took the elders.

(40:18):
To the To the youngest Nuggets, sweet and sour.
So yeah. And then we commiserated with
some Mackers afterwards. For the chocolate shake. 18
points to 24 the girls not quiteliving up or not living up.
Look, they did amazingly well tomake it this far, having this is
their first finals appearance and beaten by the Sharks by only
6 points was was pretty good. Unfortunately, I like to blame

(40:41):
the ref on this one because it was Casey Badger was it?
Yes, and some absolutely horrid unequal calls, you know, like
you asked for consistency. Yeah, there went there was none.
Yeah, right. We had a player go down at one
point injured in in defence and they didn't stop the game, they
just kept playing. And then the Sharks had an
injury, say 20 minutes later andthe game was stopped instantly.

(41:05):
No, no trainer on the field. Yeah, You know, I like it.
It wasn't up to the trainer calling or anything like that.
It was just immediate with stoppage.
Yeah, it was in near the play, but so was the first one and
little things like that and whatCasey badges like.
She's inconsistent in the best of times.
And yeah, it was just I don't want to blame the whole thing on
her. We had some we had a crud load
of errors. But yeah, look, it was it was

(41:27):
good for the girls. They did.
They did really well. And credit to him, stuck around
after the game, signed umpteen things, Gave away shoes, gave
away socks. They were throwing socks to the
crowd. I don't know if I'd want socks
myself, but. Well, there was a Legends of
Leagues game here at 1300 years ago, Australia versus New
Zealand, and we hung around and,and Marc Carroll's walking

(41:48):
around and I got his socks. Oh, I gave her a pair of
Australian Marc Carroll socks. Yeah.
Didn't wash him. Forgot, forgot all about him.
I just rubbed him up. But they didn't stink.
I go just there and then Australia were playing Japan in
the World Cup soccer about a year later.
These socks haven't seen wash Australia socks.

(42:09):
I'll put them on. Lovely.
Game One. Too game one.
Game one, Lovely. Lovely indeed.
Yep. Well, anyway, that ends the
Cowboys season for good. That's us boys and girls done
out. But a good effort from the
girls. They made it that far at least.
Good to build on. Yeah, it didn't help in the the

(42:32):
final round, losing 50 points tothe Bronx.
I think that was a bit. That one in the two, it's going
to be Broncos versus Roosters inthe grand final more than
likely. It's looking more and more like
that because both those teams are just ridiculous.
In the men's on the weekend, Raiders took on the Sharks and
the Sharks upset. The Raiders took them out
straight sets. Yeah, unfortunately.

(42:53):
I think Gio Sharks just coming out of way.
I think that result took it out of all league fans to be honest.
It feels that way. Like it.
That was the last hope, Yeah. Of you know I you wanted to see
Stuart cry with Papali on the sidelines lifting the the shield
this year. Yeah, and it was, it was a
little. You wanted to see Raiders?
Fairy tale with with what's his name, Stuart Young Stewart, Jed

(43:16):
Stewart, Jed Stewart and. But the fact that every person,
all these so-called experts and I use air quotes, had written
Raiders as wooden spooners from the get back before, before a
ball had even been kicked. Yeah, Raiders are gonna get the
spoon to get the miners and then, Yep, no good.
On you know, I think they did well.
I still think they should have had the week off.
I wanna it's It's old news, but can someone explain to me why

(43:40):
Rhys Walsh got a penalty goal right in front when it was 2826
after the siren I. Still don't know.
I still don't know. It can.
It can cause professional foul. On through the legs kick.
Yeah, because he's goal kick. He's got on for a field goal at
about the 45 metre line. He's gotten touched, but the
ball has travelled about 3 metres and got charged down.

(44:00):
Yep. So as far as I'm concerned, the
penalty is where the ball lands,correct.
That's and the ball went out or it got touched.
Apparently that's the normal rule.
How can they traject it that theball landed right in front?
What I heard, and I don't agree with it, is that they know he's
going for a field goal, so they know the ball is going in that
direction towards the goal. But it's still got charged.

(44:20):
Down, I'm with you. If it didn't get charged down
I'm more for. It should have been where that
where that where it was where that ball landed.
Yeah, regardless of whether or not it's a charge down.
Yep, because every other time ifit's a kick penalty it is where
the ball lands. Like if there's a tackled kicker
on the 40 meter line and the ball drink he's caught it on the
10 penalty on on the 10m line. Yep, no drama but the ball got

(44:43):
charged down correct and went. Backwards, actually.
Yeah, who's to say that he slotsit, and a gust of wind hasn't
pushed it all back. Who's to say he doesn't Shank it
and it goes nowhere near the goal?
Exactly. So how that was in front is.
A mystery. They're gonna give a penalty and
they've made a broad for it. OK, fine, but shouldn't it be
from 45 out? Yep, 10 in from touch.

(45:04):
Yeah, yeah, if Reese. If Reese kicks it from there, by
all means we go to golden point.It's all on.
I just I want to know how comet was taken in front if anyone
can. And they found every.
Reason to. Us every reason to slow every
call down, yeah, to the 15th of an inch to find a reason not to
give the Raiders or two tries after that.

(45:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They slowed and they you'd think
they were painting the frames tomake it look like, yeah, This is
why this is, this is. And one of them, I don't think
it was even I can't remember whotouched it.
They called a knock on in the end.
I don't think it was. Yeah, I could that he's gone to
knock it back. It could have gone either way,
but I that they were just dead set on taking it away from the

(45:45):
Raiders at that point. Yeah.
And it just you gotta you gotta you gotta judge it in real time.
We've said it how many times, you've got to judge these games
in full speed. And how does Hudson Young go 10
in the bin? I know it's all old news and
everything but but I wasn't herefor taunting.
Yeah, that, that was a load of shit.
Yeah, yeah, the NF LS got a taunting rule.
Now how did How? Did Reese Walsh not get sent off

(46:06):
for head butting? And a $3000 fine and no
suspension. Yeah, for a head butt.
Like that is a blatant head butt.
You are off. That's not tending to men.
You are off. Because it's Reese Walsh.
And then Hudson Young also gets the same punishment Walsh did
for just taunting. And then they come out three
days later and said, Oh yeah, hegot that wrong.
Well, that doesn't help. That doesn't help.
Like OK if he's had a howler, but they do it too.

(46:28):
Often Ash Klein that that Reese penalty at the end.
He's gone poop soft whistle. Same as what happened with
Cowboys versus tight Tigers and Chad challenged it.
Yep, no challenges left and he'sgone.
Game over And then bunkers gone.Oh, hang on, Nana, you've been
full time. Yeah, games done.
Yeah. Regardless if it's the right or
wrong call, you've gone game over.

(46:49):
Yep, if the bunker wanted to do something they should have got
an easier after the software. But.
Yeah, yeah. But they don't, and they change
the rules depending on which team is there.
And I'll tell you now, the four teams still in contention get
away with it more than 100%. Maybe not Sharks, but yeah.
So Bulldogs went down to the Panthers as well.
I don't know. They're blaming the mid season

(47:11):
bloody change around Locker Galvan.
Good reason to. Yeah, I don't know, whatever.
I didn't really read too much into.
I didn't really follow the Bulldogs that much.
So that leads us into the week coming up with the Storm taking
on the Sharks at Amy Park on Friday night and they're doing
this to avoid the AFL grand final, that's the reason.
Smart. It's smart.

(47:31):
Why wouldn't it be silly to put a game up against that and then?
What's the alternative? They play it Saturday night.
Yeah, and you've got not 100,000especially raising fans at the
MCG then. No one at Amy Park.
Two hours later, well, that's still Shelly at Amy Park.
They would. But.
It's how many people in the one spot do you need?

(47:51):
Yeah, no, it's silly. I'm go to the grand final parade
on the Friday and then straight over to Amy Park.
No, I'm, I'm all for this 'causeif you're gonna be in Melbourne,
you're gonna be staying there two nights and shit, both, yeah,
you're going to both games, wouldn't you?
I mean, there's plenty of peoplewho Oh no, don't like.
I felt all right. I don't like NRL.
Like fucking grow up. And if you're a Storm supporter
and a Lion supporter and you loved your sport, you had the

(48:12):
money and you were going, this is the perfect weekend.
Yeah, indeed. Absolutely perfect.
Or even a cat supporter if you're a storm.
Yeah, you're more likely to be astorm and cat supporter if if
you're into both codes. Oh, maybe then if if you're in
one town, yeah. But I mean it could be.
Like if you lived. Here it could be Lucas who's a
cat supporter in Ipswich. Yeah, yeah.
Well, yeah, yeah, maybe. If you had cat supporters.

(48:35):
Maybe. North yeah, like look at me like
I'm a cowboy supporter in a lion.
If it was Storm versus Cowboys in a prelim in Melbourne like
2015, if this is this would be amazing weekend.
Well, same if it was West Coast like.
Yeah, Geelong, West Coast I. Couldn't get further for my team
honestly. Anyway, Storm versus Sharks on

(48:56):
the Friday night and then happy Sunday it's gonna be.
Except it's at Suncorp, which I think is bullshit.
The Broncos taking on the Panthers and I'm I'm really as
much as I like. It's amazing that the Panthers
are making like their 6th grade final potentially in six years
like that. That's a hell of a feat and you
can't put that down to 1 particular player.
You could put it down and NathanClear or Ivan Clear, whatever,

(49:18):
but the rest of the team has changed so much.
So is the coaching staff. And we keep saying every year,
oh, they've lost, they've lost happy, they won't do any good,
Haven't they come back and win? They look, they lose Luai, they
come back and win. You know, they've lost Matt and
Steve Crichton. Do the Army kick out Jerome
Lewi, Sonia Teruva. Happy.
Happy. Just to name 6.

(49:39):
There'd be more James Fisher, Harris, Spencer than you.
They've they've lost a few. But not only that.
When Panthers won it in 22. Yeah, 22.
So they won it in 21 and 22 in 23.
Ivan Cleary's assistance in 22. Was Cameron Seraldo at the Dogs
now? Yep.

(50:00):
And Webster, who's coaching the wars and Webster's taken the
wars from a basket case to a prelim in 23.
Look at the bull didn't do much last year but then took him to
the finals. This year.
Seraldo's taken a basket case Bulldogs to back-to-back finals
since being appointed there. Like he's lost coaching staff as
well as players and they were coming dead last after round 12.

(50:24):
I hate Penrith win it this year.I want I want to watch Dynasty.
Yeah, yeah, yes. And I know people are sick of
it. Hey, I'm all for it.
I'm being an XX Panthers fan from way back but so long as
they beat Broncos this we can't actually don't care.
Like if it's if it's Panthers storm.
Go Penrith bloody 8th. What if it's Sharks?
Broncos. Look at this.
Panthers could win it from outside the comp.

(50:45):
Outside the four. Sorry.
You're right. Yeah.
Yeah, that hasn't happened in a while.
Never. Cowboys made it in 2017.
Yeah, coming from eighth. Yeah.
Parramatta made it in. What did Sharks 2009?
What? Did Sharks finish in 16?
Now they're top four. They.
Were OK, yeah, I wasn't too surethat.
Yeah, because we played them in a prelim 'cause they would have
won week one. Yeah, you're got the week off.

(51:05):
Yeah, you're right. But four straight five in a row,
like that's unheard of. And when the Raiders went out,
'cause I was financially invested in Raiders Lions, I may
have tempted Satans into a Panthers Lions double.
Yeah. Had you, Have you?
I got Penrith at 425 before theyplayed dogs.
Oh, that's not bad. I'm surprised.
Have you put that in with Brisbane Heat?

(51:27):
Philly Eagles. We're getting up to pistols
multi. Oh, good.
Excellent. It's a it's a long play.
It's a very long play. Pistols, multi LP.
Yeah, excellent. Good to see.
All right, well, that's coming up a little bit later on.
Actually, we're almost there already, but Molly's the usual
specials, $15 prime steak on a Tuesday night.
I'll. Be there tonight.

(51:48):
Actually, as we're recording, you'll be there in very, very
soon. My but my Bonnie lass is fine in
from Brisbane and we have no dinner and we organise mollies
tonight. Oh, very good, $20 beer and
burger on a Wednesday night, $15Palmy on a Friday, and a $15 cob
loaf on a Saturday. Look, it doesn't change.
It's the same every week. So why not get down there and
eat? Get down if you're gonna eat.

(52:09):
That's a good place to eat, drink and be merry.
Let the good times roll. That Bandyokie.
They have trivia. Yeah, addicted to the shindig,
Yeah. Indeed.
Is that sign still working or isit still working?
It's still broken. Broken.
It's still broken. That's a shit's broken.
There's no good neon people in Townsville.
No. Well, there is actually, yeah.
There's one, but he charges accordingly.

(52:30):
So he should. Yeah, if you're a special.
If you're a specialized trade, why give it away for free?
This. Is true, This is true.
Look, we'll have a quick look atthe tipping comp for this year
and and it's it's getting close,very close, isn't it?
Isn't what what 3 potential three points left in it that you
can win unless you've got a joker up your hand?
Which I heard someone still did.There is the irk, an NB sports

(52:53):
fan. Guys, you've got jokers in hand
and you're 5th and 6th are. They are they far?
Off No, that's so leading the comp.
Amelia 154 points. Evelyn 154 points.
Now whoever you 2 are, we need amessage from you because I've
had a look at your e-mail addresses and you're related.
So there's something going on here.
A little bit of dodgies, 154 points apiece in 1st and 2nd

(53:14):
place. Send us a message so that we
know that you're real. You heard me.
In 3rd place is Skyvo 153 points, only one point behind
Princess Cahill and the Irk. Long time listener, the Irk.
These guys are all on 153 pointsand there's three points up for
grabs. So joker up.
Well, the Irk has a joker now. I think now would be the time to

(53:37):
use that. If you get because there's only
two games, if you get both right, do you get a bonus point
for tipping a perfect round I. Don't think you do.
Not in finals, OK, Because yeah,no, Princess Cahill got four in
the last week and and didn't geta bonus.
I'm pretty sure it. Doesn't so with their joker they
could get 4 points. Well, yeah, yeah, 4 points.

(53:59):
This week, bridge that gap. They're only one point behind.
Cool, you'd be mad and put it in.
NB sports fan also with a joker in hand on 152 points so it it
could still happen for these guys.
Timoi on 152 along with Ma'am Constar Kirky and get to the
kick. That's your top 10 in your main
thing now. Kirky's got 2 spare jokers.
Ma'am Constar's got a spare joker.

(54:20):
Like guys start using them like they're there for a reason.
I don't see any spiders around here.
No, and that's not what we're here for, pretty much as it
goes, Fusion Morgan is in 23rd on 145 points.
So you might be wondering why you haven't heard much of Fusion
Morgan for the last half hour. We had an emergency.
He had to leave. Yeah, we went mad and we shot.

(54:41):
Him. That's better.
That always works well. I'm in 50th.
I've gone absolutely downhill. I got none last week.
None from 2. I mean, it's only two games.
Well, I forgot to put my tips in.
Oh really? But then I looked and saw a
pistol. Didn't get either of his tips
right. No, he didn't.
So I'm still, so we're still in this like one point battle here.
Well. The potato got potato got 2 from

(55:03):
2O. Is that where are you the?
Potato's in 86. I'm 101 and.
And pistol blazing 2 guns in 100th on 123 points.
Ohh. Cowboy Chicken Cowboy Chicken in
101st on 122 Well come down to the wire for these guys.
Can't we chicken? Before we do tip I.

(55:23):
Don't have a joker? I think you.
I thought you did. No, I don't.
I'd check because I listened to the pod and I went No I don't
and I had a look and I can't putanother joker on.
I think I must have put it on prior to week 10.
I wonder. If that's where it is, then and
it's not showing up in here because normally I'll let show
up. I'll let you have free reign of
this because I've tipped and I'mgoing both the ways, just for a

(55:44):
heads up. Well there's every chance that
the York and NB sports fan have already used their Joker and
it's just not showing up in on footy tips so I apologise.
But if you do have one in hand, I would I would get in there.
And but I but I was pissed off because I was going to back the
Panthers. I was definitely going to back
the Panthers. And then I seen that one.
There's only one thing I want todo.

(56:05):
That is fair. Oh.
You should have put them. In now in our Patreon tipping
comp leading that one. Hawk for Life 147 points.
Grizzly 87 on 147 points. It's down to the wire in that
comp as well. Fusion Morgan is in 3rd on 145.
He's grizzly. That's Elmer, isn't it?

(56:26):
No, I. Think it is.
Wow, I would have to look it up now.
Just a Lily Dicken in fourth on 145 as well.
Catastrophe on 144. Sugar Glider in 144.
Let me just look up Grizzly 87. Tell you what, the margin there
as well with Grizzly, it's only an 8 point margin.
So pending who they pick if theyboth go storm this week.

(56:50):
Yeah, I don't wanna give away his name, just in case.
If they both go storm and one ofthem goes like a margin of two
and the other goes margin at 10 and.
Yeah. Stormwind by 8.
It's gonna be it's it's come down to a margin between Hope
for Life and Grizzly. There's a 395 place 403, so
there's eight points in it. Or do you think that storm if

(57:12):
I'm just saying if they both go storm they.
Both go storm. Do you think, does a storm wipe
the asshole of sharks or is it atight game and one goes low
margin, one goes high margin, orthey both go similar low
margins? Yeah.
I'm with you, Sharks are 8 bucksto win the whole thing hey?
It's not bad. It's not bad.
Anyway, let's have a look at this week very quickly.

(57:34):
Storm Verse sharks as we said before 7:50 PM Amy Park Stormer
Buck 37 sharks are $3.10. The 8 bucks is to win the whole
comp, so I'm going to storm here.
I'm just going to say by 6 because I don't like I put my
margin too far out of there. The potato's gone.
The storm pistol. I've gone storm by, I have not
storm. I've gone sharks by 7.

(57:55):
Oh Sharks by 7. Yep, Cheeky little field goal to
put it out of contention. That'll be up by 6 with 90
seconds on the clock on the attack in slot 1.
Nico. Nico Wall, Braden Trindle.
Braden Trendle, yeah, he tends one of the two.
He tends to stand up in big games.
Yeah, I think sharks are gonna upset the storm.
It would be I look but if. I'm here, I'm on 123 points and

(58:18):
currently sitting in 100 So whatthe fuck would I know?
Fair enough, Belt. Yeah, I'm going the Storm just
because I need to get one back on pistols.
Yeah, and I I think the Storm will beat the Sharks, too.
Yeah, very good. Finally.
Pretty sure Morgan said he was going to go to the Sharks.
Actually, I have no idea. But anyway, we'll see what
happens Sunday the 28th, 405 Suncorp Broncos generally not

(58:41):
going on a Sunday, so I'm going to Panthers.
No, I was always going to go to the Panthers.
There was no way I'm taking Broncos there.
The potatoes are on the Bronx Pistols.
Strive for five. Campaign up, Strap the Riff.
And do you think the Riff will be wearing their jersey from
last week? The black with the four gold
bands? Yep.
Yeah, I hope so. I hope they'll I'm going to be
wearing my my Panthers jersey comes out of the the drawer

(59:04):
maybe. I think it's been out of there
twice. When the when the third or
fourth team that you're wanting to see when it can't, oh fucking
come on. I better get on, Phil.
I've on the Broncos because I can stop anyone and anything.
Good. I like it.
Actually. I think I want Morgan to be on
the Broncos as well for that same reason.

(59:25):
Tell you what Bill, if these tips if you get Storm right and
Broncos wrong, it comes down to us for the what's our margin
looking? Like my margins way better.
No. Oh no.
Yeah, my margin shits all over yours.
Yours is 518. Mine's 465.

(59:45):
That's a that's a lot, yeah. We need AI mean there could be a
blowout. I mean, you did probably put on
a couple of 50 point games. No, I've put on 20s and 30s and
the other team got the win by things.
And there's like a 60 point. Turn Jesus.
Well, that's tipping. That's tipping almost for the

(01:00:05):
year. There's only one more that we
have to do. So you know what comes after
tipping. That's it, and that's all we
get. That's all we're at.
That's all we're. Going to do Fusion networks.
We've been riding this basket case all year long.
I don't think I've, I don't think I've got a multi pod yet.
I think I've had three or four private civilian ones that have
come in which were good. Well, they're not.

(01:00:27):
They're not just to just to interrupt here.
They're not pistols. Multi from last week, which was
bulls. The RMS multi.
RMS the the Queensland Bulls, they won.
Yep. So we're on them.
Liverpool won again. Hey, never walk alone.
Never walk alone. Buffalo Bills got up over the
Dolphins. That wasn't gonna be hard.
Now we also had the Cowboys women, which we know lost, and
then we had Raiders, which also lost.

(01:00:48):
Panthers got up, we were on them.
Philly Eagles got up, we were onthem.
The Green Bay Packers, for some reason, we were on them and they
got beaten by the Browns. Weren't they the lock?
They were $1.22 and got done by the Browns.
The only the only shorter one was the Buffalo Bills who were
at the top of their conference and they they shitted in but
are. The Buffalo Bills a good team or

(01:01:09):
what? Yes, at the moment, yeah.
You might want to jump on that. Well, I was looking.
For a get on the bills. Well, because I was.
That's why I brought up the listof all the team NFL teams.
Early, yeah. Not because I was looking at all
of them thinking which one, because I don't know who's good
and who's not. And it was a tough decision
between Buffalo Bills because their mascot was like Billy
Buffalo or something like that. Yep.
Or Miami Dolphins purely becauseof nice venture.

(01:01:32):
One I think Liz I Horn. Horn is Finkel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Buffalo Bills are good, you
reckon? At the moment, yes.
Now they have just a quick history.
They've got 2 league championships.

(01:01:52):
They've won their conference. If you don't know NFL, it's
broken up into basically teams of four in each conference.
They are in the AFC, which is the American conference.
Actually, they are AFC East, so they've won the conference.
There's two conferences, American and Northern, I think
it's cool, and they've won that four times in 19909192 and 93.

(01:02:13):
So nothing in 30 plus? So it's before I was even born,
Yeah. They've won AFC East The the so
the teams are 4. So, you know, winning it is a
bit yeah, they've won that in 808889909193952020212223 and 24.
So they've won their their division.
Also, they're coming back. Yeah, plenty of times they were,

(01:02:35):
they were very good last year. They I think they only they came
close last year. This year, they're looking even
better so. The only thing that turns me off
the Buffalo Bills is also from Joe Dirt when he puts If you
watch Joe Dirt. Not not a long time.
So when he's going around the country looking for his parents
and he's got a list the names ofpeople who potentially could be

(01:02:55):
his parents, played by David Spade.
Yep. And he rocks up to this guys
house and you know, the, IT putsthe lotion on the skin.
So he one of the guys on this list is Buffalo Bill, the guy
who puts the people in the hole.So Joe ends up in the hole.
Yes. And it's it's absolutely
hilarious. So there is Buffalo Bill, there
is that. Yeah, but it's I don't want to

(01:03:16):
be the the lotions on the skin guy.
No, no, so I mean your Billy, itmakes sense.
Buffalo Bills. It's it's all good.
Our friend of the board hope forlife who is leading the patron
tipping comp Also a Buffalo Bills fan.
Oh, there. You go, that's cool.
Have they got a cool jersey? They've they've got a what they
call a white out jersey now. They're, they're notorious for

(01:03:37):
their home ground snowing out. Yeah, they have a white out.
So they have, they've got a white out uniform this year and
it looks really, I actually likeit.
That's not it. That's that's very blue, I'm
pretty sure. Looks like Looks like an NHL
jersey almost. Yeah, kind of, kind of.
But yeah, they're they're, they're not bad.
So do you have an NHL team? Do I have other than the Bruins?

(01:04:00):
No, no, no. There you go.
Kind of it's the I think it's the Penguin, it's the
Philadelphia team. Just because it's next to the
Eagles. That's the only reason.
So I picked Winnipeg Jets because I like Jets.
Turns out one the year that I decided though on my team, I
googled them enough times that Google started giving me the
cards every time they've had a game and it seemed like they
always won and all went this is a beauty.

(01:04:21):
So it's on. So the multi.
Multi. Yeah, it was multi for this
week. Yeah, I bought to you by Fusion
Networks. It's not a weak multi.
Oh no, it's a long play multi. Oh no, these always go well.
Yeah, look, it it's got, it's got potential, this one.
Now hear me. Yeah, Lions I've got in.
They're going to win the win theflag.
I then have Oscar Piastre to winthe drivers championship with

(01:04:44):
the. Arised after he just put it in
the ball. Yeah, I know.
Yeah, he's still leading. He's still good.
He's got, he's got 25. Points.
He's he's pretty clear. He's 25 points on Norris.
Yeah, he's pretty clear. Max Max is kind.
Of a Max isn't Max in striking distance like he could he?
Can do it. He's about 50 points behind and
there's still 8 races. Yeah.
A couple of DNF and that really.Well, I've gone P Austrian.

(01:05:07):
I'm gonna stick with it. Stick with the Aussie, back the
Aussie and I'm all from McLaren.I've got Penrith to win the comp
in the NRL, yeah. I like it, but I like it because
it means Broncos are knocked down.
Australia to win the Ashes, so they have to go at least three,
two now. We do have rain down here, we
have to. We have to win it.
We have to win it. Not just not draw, not draw, not

(01:05:27):
2 all in a draw. It has to be at least three, two
minimum. OK, have to win it all.
Right, I'm with you. Into the Brisbane heat to win
the Big Bash. Christ.
Into Philadelphia Eagles to win the Super Bowl.
Now I'm all over that. I'm actually on that as well,
separately. Now we've gone this at 20 Power
played, of course, of course it's $1072.20 to 1, so

(01:05:51):
$21,444.13 that those little six, well, two of them are
short, sort of short plays with Lions and Penrith.
Within the next. Week and then we've got Week and
a Bit, F1, Ashes, Big Bash and NFL.
Well, NFL goes through to what? Fed.

(01:06:13):
Big Bash will go through till. About January.
Yeah, it should be January, isn't it, Because the finals are
generally late January. India or Australia?
And Australia Day, yeah, the Ashes could go if it's too all
leading into the Sydney Test. So that will go into early Jan.
This is good. That'll give you plenty of funds
to to play on the Cowboys for the year.
Yes, it will. Yeah, or a deposit for a house.

(01:06:38):
Yeah, well, that's all thanks toFusion Networks.
Fusion Networks. So it's a long player and look,
if I was going to do something this week, I haven't really
looked into it yet because it's Tuesday, but I'll be going
something simple like Charlie Cameron, Cam Rayner, Logan
Morris, Zach Bailey, Zach Bailey, all to kick a goal.

(01:06:58):
Yeah, Alamotti, Alamotti, anytime.
Something like that. And probably a Braden Trendle.
Anytime. Anytime.
While you go on to the next segment, see what that comes.
That's pretty much our segments for the, for the.
Yeah, you and Bill Quick talk about yourself.
Let's talk amongst ourselves, how good is the sport?

(01:07:20):
Yeah, well. Imagine how good is sports?
Yeah, look like we was discussing in the green room.
I'm done with sport. You've just picked an NFL team.
Yeah. And one that's that you might
have just. Cursed.
Yeah, well, I could. Let's just see if the theory
still works. Yeah, if I could stop anybody.
They're three and oh to start the season.
So that's that's a good start. Yeah.
There's only 18 rounds. I'm actually disappointed that

(01:07:42):
Morgan had to go because I had agood thing to talk to him about
this this part of the podcast. That's all right, just save it
for next week. Look, now I have to give a shout
out to Sammy Davis, who has signed up to Patreon in the last
a couple of weeks. He's been leaving comments on an
episode announcement, episode 214, because I've forgotten to
do 2:15 and 2:16, and now we're at 2:17.

(01:08:06):
So sorry Sammy, you got nothing to comment on, but he's jumped
on episode 214 and every week he's been comments on.
So he he mentioned the Kieran foreign thing two weeks ago he
had a happy 10 year anniversary of beating the Sharks 39 nil
picture that he had there with his face painted in Cowboys
colours when we beat them 39 nil.

(01:08:29):
And he six days ago he said goodto see it's offseason for Billy,
too. How am I supposed to leave
comments if the last two apps haven't been added to Facebook?
I had a whole rebuttal about CamGreen last week.
Well, Sam, it's actually me thatdoes the posts on Facebook, so.
Yeah, you might also notice the last YouTube episode didn't get
a thumbnail because I just. I was waiting for the picture

(01:08:50):
and it never came. It never.
Came and I don't think there wasany YouTube last week because
Billy wasn't here so or the weekbefore which whenever.
No, it was last week. There you go.
So it's the offseason. Some of us haven't weeks off
here and there, hence I'll make something showing up once every
three weeks now. I've been busy with work.
And sure, we'll call it that sickness.
Totally. So anyway.

(01:09:10):
What? We're running hot.
This weeks multi. So Brad and Trindle, Paul, Al
and Modi anytime try scores. Yep, Logan.
These are all just anytime goals.
Doesn't have to be two or three or anything.
Just anytime. Logan, Morris, Cameron and Zach
Bailey, Kyle home and Charlie Cameron into the Braden Trindle
Alamotti is paying 3549 to one. That's not bad.

(01:09:30):
So 20 on. That's about 700 bucks off the
top of the Dome. Do it.
Do it now. Now while I'm out of power play,
so I've got to do it tomorrow when I get a power play that's
redone. That's a good idea, Yeah.
Wait, Wait until the next power play game.
The system. Yeah, that's always works.
Don't hate the player, I hate the game.
Where's Cam Green Bean you ask? Only scoring the second fastest
ton in Australian history 17 days ago against the team that

(01:09:53):
previously beat us by a hundred runs in the last two games a
month ago bid big bad baggy green is back baby.
That's a lot of bees Sammy. That was 11 days ago.
He commented on that one and I'mI'm I'm slack that was on the
Luke the nuke episode on YouTube.
So I'm very slack with comments these.
Days so well, I just remembered about it again.

(01:10:13):
Yeah, yeah. But thanks for the comments on
YouTube. Keep them coming.
That's YouTube's our it's been our secondary channel, but it's
sort of kind of taking off in a way.
Very slowly. It's slowly but surely.
Look, the main show itself, whatwe do here every week, started
off very slowly as well. So we don't mind an old slow

(01:10:35):
play 29. I think it's 2019.
We started this gig. It was.
We've been going for a good six years.
It was. A while.
It's and we still haven't got a permanent student.
No, no we do not. Get on to that.
Trenton reckons he was going to be here at 5:30.
Yeah, he said he had a meeting. Yeah.
I. Can't jump on the pod because

(01:10:55):
I'm in a meeting until 5:30 at the same building.
I reckon I. Reckon his meeting was with a
certain bottle of red. I reckon it was with the
doughnuts. Oh, it could be, Could have
been. Do you call him a doughnut or a
fuckable cake? I think we got the episode title

(01:11:18):
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Share us around. That guy's it on the spot.
It really makes us look good. Morgan was here for Fusion

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Networks. He'll be back next week.
Have no doubts. Stay safe, keep it real and up
the Lions. Up the lions.
Come on, make it two in a row, baby.
And the Panthers, because if theBroncos win, I'm going.
To come back. Here and go, birds.
Birds.