Radio Killed the Podcast Star

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It's like we do the same jokes every week.
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again. It's been a long season and
we're almost done. We're almost done now.
We think so. I don't know.
We the the the fans demand that we continue.
Well, that's the thing in our all finals are almost complete.
But are we? They're fine.
They're they're, they're done asfar as I'm concerned.
Yeah, that's good point. I don't.
Care about any others? Pistol blazing 2 guns is here.
Up the lines is all I'm gonna say.
Back-to-back to back follow it next year to back again I'm.

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Surprised stick out straight going for that, yeah.
Moving on that. One, yeah, it's, I said it
earlier, we had one hand on the cup this year and I reckon we've
got 1 1/2 on it next year already.
Look to to to give you credit, you've have been saying
back-to-back pretty much since this time last year.
Yep, so. But he said that about the

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Brisbane head and the bloody Queensland Bulls and pick a
team. And I say, you see, when Penrith
lost their first grand, the final, they went on A4
premiership streak and lines arefollowing in that footstep.
Yes, well, that's the end of onedynasty right there, and the
start of another one. As they say.
Billy is here. Hello.
He's got a remote microphone. We're calling it Microphone

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Online. Yeah, Pistol, and I'll share 1
here and there. Yeah.
As we go and the reason for thatis special guest tonight from
*106.3. It's Archie.
G Day, guys. Well, good.
What time is it? I've been up since 4:00 AM.
Yeah, it's, well, it's late. Yeah, it's late for you.
This is an honour. I've been listening to this pod
for a while. I know you guys have invited me
over loads of times and I'm a bit of a sucker for an early

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bedtime because of my job, but it's great to finally be here on
grand final week too. I actually feel like not the
right person for the job tonight.
Crescendo of your season. Yeah, pretty much.
Unfortunately, Cowboy's not involved in either the men's or
the women's, but is what it is and it's he's.
Been up all day but he fails to tell you that he finishes at
9:00 AM every. Morning.

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And. Then my boss is why this week
so. And then they they usually fluff
around for an hour, hour and a half looking at clips for the
tomorrow show. So by 10:30 he's out the door
having a swim and he's had a napby 11:30 till about two in the
other every day. Tough life.
You know what hurts about that, Pete?
I was going to come on this spotand say I got to watch you work
for a change the last seven daysof my life.

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But yeah, I need a new sparky cause Jesus dodgy, I'll tell you
that one. That sounds like the life of a
Sparky, that's for sure. Having a nap at nap at 1:00.
Yeah, I know. Speaking of trades, we had a
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You do use a free drink at Molly's, yeah?
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Yeah, yeah. Just say you hit.
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I'm. Pretty sure that he doesn't keep
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Don't. Don't give it.

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Away he does listen. So yeah.
What's the longest Patreon special like runtime you've ever
done? Or we try to we try to nip it in
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Bit longer than that. It starts to people start to
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I'm surprised they go that long to be honest, but they do.
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Yep. That's a good question, great
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It's not Basil, No, that's ages away.
No, that's a bit more South. Yeah, it's a bit more.
Near Bern, I think that's oh like.
Bern, I don't. Know, actually you go a bit

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You haven't Speakpipe just yet. Yeah, I haven't won.
Send us a speak. It's a voicemail for podcast.
Oh, yeah, Yeah. Oh, no.
How come? Yeah, I'm just waiting for the
right moment. Yeah.
You'll know when it when it's there.
Good answer. It'll be there.
Yeah, that is a good answer, Very good.
Now we do have a bit of run sheet here that Morgan has
thrown Morgan. My first one ever.
Morgan has courteously thrown this.
One 218 episodes and I've done one.

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I was. I was a little predisposed
today. That's probably not the right
word, but I wasn't able to do it.
So Morgan's done it for us. So I apologise in advance, but
you're. Welcome.
I cut the crap out of it. Yeah, no, you did.
It's actually quite succinct. AFL grand Final review it is.
No, there's more to. It there's a couple pages.
A little bit more to it, yeah, yeah, now AFL grand final review

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and he wrote. It sucked us.
Who cares? Yeah, next.
You're not even a Cats or a Lions fan.
I'm. Being I'm a neighbor fan, but
I'm Collingwood Magpies fan which is I decided to go over
John Katz for this final that's.Because he's betrothed.
She is a cat. Fan is that right?
And I just kind of had a good vibe about the cats this year.
I'm like, you know what? They're a bunch of old blokes

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and I'm an old bloke. And they're having, like, the
final crack at this before a fewof them probably going to
retire. Yeah.
And I'm like, you know what? Let's just.
And also, you know, pizza lions fans, so you can't can't go for
the lions. So I'm like, I'm back in the
cats this year and they just effing they fell apart.
They absolutely died in your ass.
It was half equal. I don't know if you watched the.
Grand. I did, yeah.

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Equal at halftime. I thought, right, we've got a
game here, we're going good. And then that lines came out,
bang, bang, bang. And then I'm sort of just
sitting there eating my popcorn and I'm like, oh, this is not
good. And then the phone starts
lighting up and. And then lucky, lucky Neil came
out and it was game home. Yeah, it was that cool.
Really. What changed the game?
Like, yeah. It helped, right?

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It did help, but I think that Cats played the grand final the
week before. Yeah, I think they're too old,
too slow. Like the Broncos, maybe?
Like the Broncos? Go to the store, God willing.
Out of the store, yeah. They've played two grand finals.
The Broncos, to be fair, go to. A store.
Speaking of, yes, the Broncos versus Panthers was on Sunday.
16 points to 14 for the Broncos getting up over the Panthers.

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It's disgusting. I hated it.
How's it going? Have any of you guys seen a
bloke who I used to work with atthe?
He still works at the radio station but he's on Power 100
now. He last year got a four peak TAT
with all the years before the game.
Oh, and he he decided to get thefive peat.
Oh, no, and he got 2025 added tothe the list on Thursday.

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I believe it's when he got it. Oh, no.
And that tell you what, It's good for the views though, boys.
It got like more than half a million hits.
The big rig did that. The big rig has got Penrith 2025
premiers tattooed on his left chest and he's proud of it.
He's, you know, he's got very thick skin A.
Five can turn into a six easily.It took a while to be fair.

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Yeah. That is confidence.
I can work but it worked last year so.
I can work wonders with lasers and stuff.
Now they can remove stuff. I love me team and everything
but I I don't know, you've see other people getting premiership
taps and. What would it take?
Come on, what would it take? I I don't think I could.
Not a preempt. I would never preempt, Yeah.
But even now, like the Lions back-to-back, I yeah, I don't.

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Think I'm way. I don't need it.
I'm way too superstitious to do something like that.
Are you guys superstitious? Yeah, I'm a bit to a point.
Yeah, right. What do you point?
Where's the point? Well, put it this way, I went to
the same person's house even though it was a different house
but the same owner and drank thesame alcohol.
For what, a whole season? No, no, no.
For this grand final, for the for the Lions.
So same as like I was with you guys last year for the grand

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final of Pete's Place? Yeah.
So you stayed to the same that was the year before, OK, Right.
Oh no, hang on, that was. Last year, yeah, when you
smashed the Swans, yeah, yeah. I was trying to convince Pete.
I was trying to test his superstition because he he was
halfway through building Titanicout of Timu Lego.
You're right, you're right. I said how confident are you at
half time? I bet you that I can break that
boat. It had all its pieces.

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So it's not quite Timu true. Yeah, give it that.
Now. You're right.
That wasn't Pete. That's my bad.
The year before we were at Andy's, OK.
And so we were trying to break the curse this time.
But that's sort of where my superstition.
This is not. It's not that.
Close, I always piss in the second last over before having
to go to bat at indoor cricket. That's a good one.
What do you mean like? Like if I'm bat in the the
second pair I'll always go for athird over piss if I'm batten.

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At indoor cricket. Yeah, if I'll batten in the
third pair, I'll always piss in the 7th over.
Even if I don't need to, I'll always go to the toilet.
Just so you know when you're shaking his hand after a.
Game and then if I field 1st andI have to go and open the
batting, I've got to run to the toilet, piss and then come back
out. That is weird.
That's a quirk I'll. Always.
I'll always wear a Cowboys jersey on game day.

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For a Cowboys. Yeah.
Yep. And if I've if once I put it on
in the morning, it doesn't come off until after the game.
What do you guys stand on the day after a Cowboys game?
Right. That's so they they lose.
Would you wear a jersey in public the next day?
Yeah. Maybe not a jersey as such if
they've lost, but probably a shirt or something still or a
singlet or whatever. Yeah, I've.

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Always admired that when I see people wear the team's jersey of
the night before. If the result hasn't gone your
way, I'm like good on you. If it's a drubbing and it was a
terrible performance, I might hesitate or actually not even
leave the house. But yeah, I'll wear it.
Like Townsville's probably a bitdifferent.
I don't know if you'd get away with that in Sydney or you
probably we would in Brisbane too.
You'd probably see plenty of Broncos jerseys win, lose or

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draw because they're just fanatical.
I think for me, like my number one most passionate sport is
English football or just soccer in general, right?
So it's very, very tribal. Coventry City?
No, I'm a Liverpool fan. Oh, never walk alone.
Yeah, Premier League champions, obviously proper title.
But I knew I would never. I would never dream of wearing
that jersey the day after a loss, which is a good thing that

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they don't lose very often anymore.
But but, but it's just, I don't know.
It's like a weird thing, but I used to be very superstitious.
Like, I used to wear a jersey when I watched the games, but
I'd only put it on after the referee had blown to start the
game. Oh.
Really. So the ref blows whistle, that's
what. I put the news on you.
Worked in a like pub or something.
Do you take it with you? You know, that's when I would
bend the rules. You're right.

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No, that's a very good point. It was mainly when I was a kid
that, like, I kind of grew out of my superstition.
I was so superstitious. I'd be like if I don't use this
town in this bathroom on this day, and like how does a team in
England playing at that level care about what towel I find?
But it's legit a thing. It's really.
Yeah, yeah. Got better as I got older
though, yeah. You're from now?
You're originally from Newcastle?
Yeah, Sydney. Sydney Yeah, okay, I thought.

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You're in Huey, boy. No, born in North Shore of
Sydney, don't hold it against. We went to a public school or
close public school. Public school boys.
I didn't ever had public schools.
In they do, plenty of them. Nothing wrong with.
Public school. Everyone as soon as I say the
North Shore of Sydney, it's. Like Sadies Park outside.
Of public school? Not sure there was a lot of
them. No public school.
Grew up in a suburb called St. Ives.

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Went to Clara High. And much of A footy fan back
then. Like rugby league?
Yeah. No.
So my dad's South African. So I grew up watching a lot of
rugby, right. Rugby union.
Yeah, like a lot. My dad loves it.
My dad hates South African rugbyas well.
My dad has a huge South African accent, but he would actually
probably support the All Blacks over the South African.

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He just. Wow.
Yeah. Like he left during the rough,
you know, he left during apartheid, so.
And he's and he's made a great life.
Yep. Yeah.
So he's made a great life in Australia and he's a very
passionate cricket and rugby boy.
So I grew up watching a lot morerugby union than rugby league
can. You rate Pete's accent, can you
can you do your accent and and someone who who genuinely can
rate it, can you do your best so.

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I'm quarterly African. Hit me.
It no, it's do. Do your best one.
Do your best one please. Come on, come on, break it out
now. Danny.
Where's Danny? The planes of Pretoria, please.
Yeah. Isn't he my friend?
Albert, you just go parked your car at the back of the words.
I parked your garage. Ditch that.
Was very good, not bad. That was very good.
I felt like I was in Cape Town. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It was really good. Very authentic.
As in, you feared for your life.Then you have the grudge.
In fact, the grudge is a piece. You parked your car well.
Where I was going with that, Yeah.
Are you a Cowboys fan now? Yes.
I mean, you don't. Don't feel obliged.
To no, no, no. Like to be fair, I even though I
grew up in Sydney, my circles offriends like it was soccer was

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the big one. Yep, right.
And then it was probably rugby union and cricket and rugby
league. Just in just in my circles, it
wasn't the number one sport and I never really felt like a huge
affinity to any rugby league side.
My dad's a W Tigers fan so that doesn't.
Make sense either. No it doesn't.
Because you should be what? Manly.
Fans technically like yeah or, or the Bears, Bears right by

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where I grew up, but probably Manly.
Brookie would have been about a 20 minute drive, can I say?
They're not sure that's the peninsulary out there.
Yeah, so yeah, all the beaches would have been close, but
that's what I've loved about living up in Townsville.
So I got to Townsville February 2022 and living in A1 town, one
team, one town set up. Like I've really felt since I've
left here how it just just sucksyou in, which is so cool.

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Like, I love going to match day down at Queensland Country Bank
and just feeling like the the whole city's talking about this.
And, you know, part of doing local radio is trying to reflect
on what the community is feelingand talking about.
So I've really felt that connection.
And I've got a new job and I am sadly going to be leaving
Townsville, moving down to the Sunshine Coast.
And people have been asking me, you know, you're still going to
support the Cowboys. And I said, yeah, like it's it's

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left a big mark on me. And it's, it's made me really
appreciate how big rugby league is, of course, in Queensland.
But yeah, long way of answering that question.
At least you'll be able to see some of the QLD derbies, you
won't be far from any of them. Yeah, well, what?
So, Redcliff, how far is that from the Sunshine Coast?
It pretty much is sunshine, yeah.
So it depends on where you are on the sun.

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Coast too, but and also because I know there's the Falcons in
the QRL. Yeah, that I will still be a die
hard Blackhawks fan. Well, yeah, it's.
Still a Blackhawks. Yeah, yeah.
And I've got, I've got my jerseythat you gave me, Pete.
I've got a beautiful Cowboys jersey that I will not be giving
back to you. No, I was wondering why you
bought that in. I was gonna put it on, but I
might do that later. I feel like it's like a podcast.
I'm so superstitious that I onlyput on the jersey after it

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starts. Once the game starts, yeah.
I was. Thinking please don't tell me
he's brought that in to give back 'cause he's no.
He's leaving. Prob I'm out.
The first game that was on the weekend was the Storm smashing
the Sharks 22 points to 14 and Amy Park in Melbourne.
Do anyone actually watch this game or is it just highlights?
Just highlights. I had it on in the background
while I was doing other stuff. I think we watched the first

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half and then had to see the season finale of Heart of Dixie.
Totally. That's.
That's it's lemon fall in love with.
Ohh, Lemon and Lavonne. Lavonne living happily ever
after, Yeah. Like.
No ohh. Do yourself a favour ohh.
Get around it. It's such a good show, no?
Have you seen? Sorry, a bit of a sidetrabbit.
My missus just started watching the the story of the Guinness

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family. You guys seen that it's all
about? I'm aware of it, haven't seen it
yet, no. Did you see his eyes just light
up in there? Yeah, Peter, Peter's eyes, just.
House of House of Guinness, brilliant.
Like a period drama all about like the Guinness family.
So I thought that was what we were talking about.
I didn't watch the footy air, but I wanted Sharky's Roll the
Storm and just, well, you guys. I I would have liked to have

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seen sharks. Panthers.
I like Storm. Yeah, I'm happy.
Storm. Yeah.
Is that because you're Queenslander and it was like
basically the feeder club for the Marones for?
Pretty much. Is that a second team?
Yeah, a lot of Queenslanders like.
Sharks, hence the the South. What is it the Falcons Yes the
storm feeder team so so hmm yeahyou you might be in luck there
see some new players coming through but anyway Sunday is the

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grand final so this Sunday, the 5th of October and it's storm
versus Broncos it's. Go storm.
Go storm. Go Storm I.
Mean everyone's going for the storm, right?
Yeah, you would think so. You know, I agree.
We're not massive fans and I like my new favorite player is
1. Stefan Otui Kamani who?
He thinks that there's a few stuck up players in the Broncos

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squad, so he's gonna always gonna run at him.
I like that. I believe there was a response
from Reese Walsh, but I couldn'tbe bothered clicking on it just
quietly. So you guys are kind of bucking
the trend 'cause I thought that,you know, I hear this, a lot of
people ring the radio station. It's all about Queensland
spirit. You know, it's as long as
there's a Queensland side in thegrand final.
And I know it's very, you know, because I agree.
I mean, I grew up hating the Broncos because when I was a

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little kid it was, you know, Wayne Bennetts, immortal
Broncos, right? So they're always winning.
So yeah, they were like the Panthers when I was a little
kid, right? So I find that really
interesting that I mean, you guys obviously not going to want
the Bronx wind, but there's no part of the Queensland spirit
that comes, in a word, not. During origin, yes, but it's
during regularities and make an F right off.
And look, look, most of what's running out in a purple Storm

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jersey is Queensland or anyone. Yeah, I mean, it started with
like Slade or a northern QLD. This is, this is effectively a
QLD tally. Yeah, it is de facto.
Queensland Derby The Storm's like an Origin team.
And you know, if Victoria, look,probably the good thing about
this is there's no Sydney teams in a Sydney grand final.
You can reckon the NRL thinks that I hated it.

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Well, do you guys reckon this game on Sunday?
Storm Broncos If it was the Panthers in the grand final
again, do you reckon the TV audience would be bigger?
It'll be huge for TV US. You reckon bigger than if the
Panthers are in. Yeah, I.
Reckon yeah, No, you disagree. Yeah, you're gonna have all the
Queensland and Victorians tuningin.
That's what I mean. This will be be bigger than than
Storm Panthers, Yeah, I'm saying.

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Yeah, you don't reckon like the New South Wales audience will
just switch off? No, because I think that the NSW
audience over time shitted off that Penrith had done four in a
row so they'd be going. I don't really want Storm to win
it because they made 12 grand finals in 20 years or whatever.
Fuck Penrith, I won't watch it. Whereas this year you'll have,

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you know, the Brisbane faith forwhat's there, 2 million people.
They all want the Broncos win, to ride the high of the Brisbane
Lions storm. There's no way it helps.
Slot that in there. There's no AFL left and so the
Storm probably have a bit of Melbourne viewership where
Geelong lost the GF, so I reckonyou'll see more viewerships here
than. And I reckon people TuneIn

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anyway, just because it's a grand final and sport, you know.
Yeah, yeah, I, I reckon will go well.
It still sells out like Home Bush.
Home Bush will still sell 83,000tickets.
We'll all still watch it like welike we we might go.
I'll watch it until the Broncos are ahead and then I'll turn it
off. How's a bit like me last
weekend? Well, in the 23 boys.
Lost. Yeah.
Now when the bloody cats catchedto bed, yeah.

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Well the 23 grand final because that was when AFL and Rugby
league were on the same weekend and when Lions got darted with a
minute to go and they lost. I was that filthy.
Didn't watch the grand final at all and actually watched
Kandahar. It's a movie.
Gerard Butler. Oh, Pete was on suicide watch
when the Lions lost. I was I.
Was seeing someone so upset. 2023 now 23 Is that Panthers?

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Broncos. Panthers.
Broncos. And when Panthers broke the
Broncos hearts, yeah, that was one of the best grand finals
outside of 2015 that I've ever seen, yeah.
Yeah. What is this?
Could be the. This is shaping up to be the
second. I watched 90 seconds of it,
didn't even watch any preview game, nothing.
And then I just kept the look onthe Broncos up 26 to 8.
This is shit. Don't care watching this movie

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and then your phone starts lighting up and you look how
didn't you go 26 all with a kickto just gonna watch this last 90
seconds here and then it was in Penrith one.
It was just unbelievable. It was incredible.
I've never seen one person just drag the whole team over line
like it was mind blowing. Do you reckon anything can stop
the Broncos right now? The momentum they're bringing
into this game, like they've played two of arguably the best

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games of the season from a from a neutral point of view.
Can they do it again? No, No.
No. Well, who's who's the ref?
If it's Klein, Broncos have a chance.
No, I don't think Klein's in it.Klein's out.
Green has been good, yeah. And I, I think that's a good.
Choice he did. Klein.
He had a good refereeing game onSunday.
Klein is the bunker official though.
Ohh. No, you fuck.

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So that could screw. Us maybe.
No, I I think Storm gonna be toobig, too powerful.
They've got a nine day turn around.
They've had an easier run. Better coach.
I think it might better coach. Broncos played a 94 minute
qualifying final, then they played a bruising 80 minute
Penrith game which went to 80 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and they're right and
high, but I think they're going to come short and then the Lions

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can claim supremacy of the Brisbane team.
You say better coach right but hit me out on this one right?
You are sitting here with a NSW right match.
He wins Origin last year. He he wins a lot of things.
He he, he comes into a as he finally gets a job I've done for
the Blues, which is awesome, youknow, if I don't say so myself.
Now he's taking the Bronx to a grand final.
Maybe he's a better coach. He broke.

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I wish he was still the coach ofthe Blues.
I won't lie. I.
Mean, you make a good point. In the last year or two, he's
had a good run. He's had a very good run like he
was. The coach of the Bunnies when
they broke a 43 year streak as well.
Well then yeah, in 2014 he was the Bunnies coach and yeah and
then also he was the coach for the New Zealand rugby league
team that beat Australia 30 nil to break of.

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Course. Yeah.
Supercoach, yeah. And then he was also NSW last
year and then. Bellamy can get stuffed.
Halfway, even halfway through the year this year, you know,
Broncos were travelling ordinaryand oh, he's over coaching him,
he's over training and why are they going on a cruise trip and
all this sort of stuff and. Well, hasn't he gone to no
dickhead's policy? He's he's straightened him up
and he's got, you know, Walsh straight and Arrow a bit and

(22:35):
isn't that part of what's done? Who knows?
I don't think that's worked as as well.
We still. Damn he still dig it but I
still. Think ASADA needs to come in
with that toilet water. I mean, what's going on there,
guys? Like seriously, what's in that
water? Ever since, yeah, it's a little.
You know, plumber's Pete. What's going on there, mate?
Robbie, you're about to say something.
Come on, it's a whole lot betterthan what they normally do with

(22:56):
toilets. Footy players.
Let's just. Say that's true.
That's true. Looking at you kinda Ponga.
But anyway, look aside. Jerome Hughes has a bit of an
injury cloud over him. I think that could decide what's
going on. Who's favorite to win the
Dallium? I know we're recording this now,
but. Who's favorite?
I reckon Teddy. I can tell you.
I thought I was read today Teddyjust withdrew from Iranian

(23:17):
selection as well he did. Oh, is he going to play for
Italy or just. Withdraw.
Actually going to play rugby in your mate the Wallaby is a sign.
Of I laugh. The live golf equivalent, The
rugby. What is it?
The rugby sevens? The rugby nines.
Yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's shaping up to be pretty good.

(23:38):
Tell me versus match, I don't know.
I don't know if that's happened anywhere ever before.
Tell you who is the favorite of a dalium all?
Right, I thought. I don't think you can bet on it.
Anymore, since you can't bet on it.
Since the betting scan it. Never came back.
No. No.
Oh, boy. OK, we'll take it back.
Yeah. I think it's it's tonight.
Yeah, it is. Yeah.
I'm gonna lock it in now. Teddy.
Teddy, you'll win Dalium. I suppose he is.

(23:59):
Is he a standout at the Roosters?
Yeah, I think. I reckon Tedesco wins it.
It doesn't over shadow the wholeVictor Radley thing, doesn't
over shadow anything well. Who?
Yeah, I think Brandon Smith is gonna get the Daily in this
year. Too many.
Games he's been good that's goodwhen are they gonna bring out
fun magic awards you know like scandal of the year, you know
they should do we're not gonna have a bit of like you know who

(24:21):
got the most articles in news.com.edu I mean Reese Wiles
would buy country mile win that but.
Like the was it the Razzies? Yeah, yeah.
Well, awards like that, someone like Betoota advocate of all
people should be running awards like that.
Definitely like you think like you think 100.
Percent, yeah, I remember 1. I remember one season, it must
have been 2019 I think, and it was like the quietest offseason

(24:43):
ever for scandals in the NRL. It was a disgrace.
It was an absolute disgrace. And I wrote a whole song about
it and, you know, it was building up to the core.
It was written, what about me, Shannon Knoll?
And it was all about Todd Carneypissing in his mouth.
And yeah, it was just where are the scandals?
Then about a week later something happened.
I can't remember. It goes down all the classics,
yeah. Well, you got the LEM Team of
the year. Can we get 1 to 13 of hottest

(25:05):
guys? Hottest and ugliest?
Well, they do that. Don't the podcast guys do that?
Yeah, they. Probably do.
Here's the the 100 hottest play.I think they.
Yeah, but the Hottest 100, Let'sjust do 1 to 13.
Well. Who's your top five?
Yeah, who's one? I Reese be fullback.
Come on. It depends on what your
criteria. He's most certainly prettiest,

(25:26):
yeah. Fall back, Is that what you
mean? Yeah, but hottest?
Yeah. Come on.
It's subjective. What?
About Liam Martin, he's he's a pretty good looking racer.
Former male model. Fucking hate Liam Martin.
Really. Everybody guessed so.
So. Reese Walsh from US Ryan
Pappenhausen. Yeah, Papal, have you?
The decent match up there. Hang on, we're going for looks

(25:47):
or skill. I don't know skill.
Look, you you go whatever criteria.
I mean, I think, well, she's gothim more.
Do you go into hair products? Yeah, because perhaps putting
something in that hair. Perhaps being over to Turkey,
he's got dotted up. Right, all right, you got Will
Warbrick and Xavier Coats up against Karapani and Dean
Mariner. Now I'm taking Warbrick over any
of them. I'm.
Taking warbrick and coats over the two of them, yeah.

(26:08):
For sure. Easy.
All right. Senna's Jack Howarth and Nick
Maney versus Katoni. Stags and Gemet Shibasaki.
Tough call. I reckon Stags and Shibasaki
are. Stags is a handful.
I hate his. Stags.
Even when he has a meringue jersey on.
Stags is a blue. Oh no, he's a blue.
Yeah, OK, edit that out. Even worse.

(26:29):
There's no edits in this one, right?
There's no. What do you?
Well, there's a delay button, yeah.
Didn't tell you we're live 0. God, where's a delay?
And Cameron Munster and Jerome Hughes versus Ben Hunt and Adam
Reynolds. Jesus, youth, inexperience.
There isn't. There, Munster fan.
Munster and Hughes. Yeah, I think Munster's got to
have a hunt for sure. Yep, Actually I think Hughes has
got to have a Reynolds. X is a better ball too.

(26:50):
X Factor. You are surprised that, you
know, Reynolds obviously been out for a long time, Broncos
been on a roll, I think was a tough choice for Match to bring
him right back in as soon as he was fit to play on the weekend
against Penrith because that's such a hard thing as a coach
when it's all working. He is older, right?
Yeah, but then you see him clutch right at the end of the
game and he wins it for you. But it'll be hard for a coach.

(27:11):
It's like, you know, they have saying radio never go on holiday
because the person who's fillingin might be better than you and
they've been on a great run without him and that must have
been AI mean. Obviously it paid.
I think tough call. I think if Billy Walters didn't
do his ACL, Reynolds might have come off the bench and they
would have still kept hunting whoever their their five eighth
was. I don't even know who that was.

(27:32):
Prior, wasn't it, wasn't ma'am. I mean he come on and made an
impact as well. But no, I can't even think.
I love how biased you guys are supporting the Cowboys.
You don't know who's in the halves for the Broncos.
That is awesome that that is whythis podcast is the best.
Actually might have been Hunt and Billy Wilders in some time
and then Corey Paige's is playing 9.
I think if Walters doesn't do his ACL, Reynolds probably comes

(27:55):
off the bench similar to Lucky Neil.
I said a similar thing like that.
What you said about the lions. I've been saying for ages that
the better of Neil not playing because he's been injured for a
few weeks and then he came alonghalfway up of graphite on.
This is history. Yes, history.
So maybe I'm wrong, but I've I've been back in that theory
for. That leans back on the tough
coach question or tough tough for a coach.

(28:15):
Like do they put locking Neil straight back in?
They didn't. They held onto him till about
half time. Kind of genius what they did.
It's good mind games too. Yeah, in a similar way, Ezra,
man, they, they held on to him until.
Half time. Yeah, half time.
And he came on and brought some energy.
Yeah, Energy I. Wouldn't say everything he did
was brilliant. I think.
I'm never gonna say that, let's be honest, but it is what it is.

(28:37):
Stefano Otui Kamano up against Corey Jensen.
Yeah, I'm taking. Stefano, Stefano, I'm taking
Stefano for. Me, I don't mind Corey.
Yeah, Corey's solid. That's a bit of Cowboy's bias
creep. Bit of cowboy boys.
Yeah. All right.
Harry Grant versus Corey Pykes, I think.
Harry has a that's a no brain. Yeah.
Oh, Corey. Josh King versus.
Harry's a wizard. You know a wizard, Harry Josh

(28:59):
King versus Payne Huss. Payne.
Payne. Payne, sadly Sean Bloor and
Elysi Katowa in the 2nd row up against Brendan Piakura and
Jordan Rickey. I'll take Katowa over pick Hill,
Ikora, and Ricky, but I would probably take Ricky over Blur.
Yeah, I'm with Pete. Yeah, I'm with you there as

(29:19):
well. Yeah, what's good call and
Locke, Trent Liero versus Pat Carrigan again, another straight
back from injury, straight in. Yeah, what's the deal with
Carrigan? He's 100%.
In actually I thought it was suspension, suspension the
suspension. My bad.
Carrigan's pretty good, Carrick,it's pretty.
He is 1 Broncos player who I do admire when he's in a Bronx.

(29:39):
Yeah, even in a Bronco. I don't mind, Pat.
Yeah, yeah. Especially in a yeah.
Now the bench is Tyron Wishart at Ativalu Lasati, Tui Kamika
and Alec McDonald up against Ezraim, Kobe Hetherington,
Xavier Wilson and Tyson Smoothie.
I think Broncos have a better bench.

(30:01):
I think Broncos bench is better but it all depends.
I like Tyron Wishart. How they go about ma'am?
You're what they do. How so?
Wishart plays a lot more different better positions than
ma'am It's. A better utility, yeah, yeah,
yeah, for sure agreed. But I think.
Lasati's high since actually Lasati and Tui.
Tui and Willison's gonna be a good match up.
They're two big bodies. Can't smoothie play just about

(30:23):
anything as well. Toyson Sweeney.
Yeah, they're a bit light on Bronx.
MMM. I don't know.
Interesting. Yeah, you only need, oh, look,
you don't want injuries or anything but.
Oh well. You you throw.
A Bronco breaks a leg. I'm not gonna cry, but if.
You if you have an outside back that goes down, you need to
Chuck Mam out there. Yeah, but they'll shuffle.
They they might shuffle. Yeah.

(30:44):
You know who's more likely to crack is Adam Reynolds.
Yeah, Reynolds. Old biscuit legs over there.
Yeah, What about Benny Hunt though?
You know he's still shaking off 2015.
I actually saw the grand final replay today, the last five
minutes of it. It was playing on a screen that
I just have to be sitting here and I saw the old Ben Hunt drop.
What do you reckon at his level?What do you think about stuff

(31:07):
like that? I love reading into stories in
sport where the main man, you know, has that moment that costs
his team the whole season. You know, like I remember
reading about for me, like with Liverpool, Steven Gerrard, Yep,
back in 2014, he slips over, loses the ball against Chelsea
two games to go on the season, we're pretty well home and dry
and he slips over like the last guy.
You thought it was going to makea silly error like that.

(31:28):
And you know, obviously that went down.
And I remember reading in his book just about how much that
moment affected him mentally for, well, a long, long time.
Even for Chelsea. There was their skipper.
I hate him so much, but John Terry in a Champions League
final, the biggest club moment of his career, slips over,
taking a penalty. It comes racket shooting back
off the post even he talks aboutbecause that's the last game of

(31:51):
the season for months and monthsand months and it just affected
him for so long and you just think I wonder I mean it's been
10 years, but and he's played ingrand final since there No, no,
no, no, of course not 'cause been the dragon this.
Is his first one. So, you know, like it's a big
moment. I think it affected him for a
couple of years there. Oh.
For sure I'd have to. I think he was out of form.
Well that or he was out of form,but it just seemed to have

(32:12):
something playing on him and everyone was hoping he would
drop the ball anytime it went anywhere near him do.
You reckon that you're a Melbourne Storm player when
you're in a rock or whatever, you're trying to cop a sledge
his way to remind him of that during the game.
Yeah, absolutely. Every time you kick it to him,
you'd be saying something. Yeah, yeah.
I was genuinely happy for him the other week when he.
Slotted the field goal. And you know, like I was like,

(32:34):
you know what? Good on you.
Like he's, he's bounced back andgood on him.
Good on him. Good on him as a person.
Yeah, as a person, not as a team, but as a as an actual
person. I went, you know what?
We yeah, 2015, we had our great time.
And if this helps him get over that disaster, then good on him.
But I also hope he loses. But you're right, those are
moments where you gotta just if you love the sport and you

(32:56):
respect the moment, you just go to get up and face all the
adversity that you've done for 10 years.
Following that, he's a tough stints at the clubs he's played
for, like to come back and have a moment like that.
But again, maybe that was a grand final.
What if he doesn't do it again? Though that's like when you're
playing, that's like playing basketball in the front yard,
you know? Maybe not golden point, but.
I'll tell you what, if it goes to golden point, I know where
that. Kicks going it's 16 all.

(33:18):
Yeah, yeah, it's. 16 all again and Stormer kicking off with a
minute to go and then lens righton him and. 100% the storm
supporters are yelling at him. Don't drop it, don't drop it,
don't drop it. Oh yeah, because whatever gets
in his head. But I think he overcome all that
when he did that charge down kick against the Blues, not to
rub that in, but when he ran thefield, I think that was probably

(33:39):
his. Yeah, Friday.
Yeah, true. That game actually that whole
not just that charge down kick. I think that game was a turn
around point for him. Yeah, because he's been, he
seems to be seems to have that confidence back ever since then
do. You reckon?
Like, do you reckon a player? If you ask them, would you
rather win one State of Origin series for your state or a grand
final for your club, you can only have one.
What do you can they pick? Grand Final.

(34:01):
A few of them have been asked that over the years.
And yeah, State of Origin is up there.
A lot of, I think a lot of them do say State of Origin.
Yeah. Grand final, though, is a whole
year's work. Yeah.
To get to get to make it that far and so hard to win.
Like State of Origin. Yeah, you get three shots out of
the year. I don't want to trivialize it,
but you know what I mean. Like, it happens more often.
You got more of a change. Provided you're good enough to

(34:22):
make the team even. Barking Club Club would.
Club so much, so much harder, especially when a team like the
Panthers put on a dinner seat like that.
And you're with those people allseason, you know, for multiple
years at a time. Yeah.
Whereas of Origin, you're with them for, you know, origin camp.
And you know, I reckon it be more.
Busting your guts for 11 months of the year?
Basically, yeah, if not longer. Like being at Queensland though,

(34:43):
I love Origin. Like I would, I'd it'd be tough.
Like I'd probably say Cowboys just, but it'd be a very close
race. I'd take a Cowboys premiership
anytime soon, thanks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Like it's hard enough to get there, like I'm still riding
clouded on from back-to-back in a different code.
But we, we hadn't done nothing for 20 years either.

(35:04):
So. And in that time, Queensland's
won Origin, what, 15 times or soin that period.
So we're a bit gifted in that. But as a Queenslander, they
Queensland was our team before we had any club, you know, like
for until Broncos came in, in 88, we Queensland, Origin was
our only team to support. So yeah, I think players would
rather win a comp, but that's winning Origin and lifting that

(35:28):
shield. It's a good feeling too.
And that's probably why we get it.
Yeah, we get it. More.
Yeah. And you so far it's just.
Like that? Yeah, just waiting for that one.
Yeah, I just had to stay. How does origin go with you?
How do you suck so much? Well, you guys just nipped our
coach. That's what happens.
Yeah, but being a, being a blue,Yeah.
Does Origin hit home to you a lot or is it sort of?

(35:50):
It's good if we win, but it's not the end of the world.
Oh. Look, I've always loved Origin,
man. Like I, I gotta say, it's much
easier watching it and losing when you're in NSW than it is
since I've moved up here. I think I've learned to
appreciate it a lot more since living up north and just I mean,
game three this year, I was too terrified to watch it out after
what happened in game one down at the rear of the Tav.
I just it was honestly watching game one there at that pub was

(36:13):
sorry, it was Game 2 because that you guys we won game one
and then you guys won't game two.
That pub, the atmosphere and thehostility in that joint because
I was wearing a blue shirt at that pub watching a game.
It was some of the best live sport atmosphere I've ever had
at a pub ever from anywhere I'veever been.
So when it was game three, I just watched at home and I could
pretty much see the pub from my house.
I could hear that. I remember saying Alicia, best

(36:36):
decision of my life, not going to that pub tonight.
So like, you know, it's it's I've learned to appreciate a lot
more. I I will say this, I do feel
like it means more like to Queens Sanders, which I think
that's what makes it so great, right?
But yeah, I mean, I guess we have to tell ourselves that
because my entire childhood was going to school on Thursday
going well, let's just get over it and move on.
You know, and we're shit and that's just life.

(36:58):
Move on. But you you can see it
differently. Sorry, mugs up here when we lose
a Wednesday night and then everyone's kicking stones on
Thursday and even throughout thewhole weekend.
Oh yeah. Whereas Blues lose.
It is what it is. But that's the attitude or even
if you guys win, yeah, there's alittle bit of a rub in but.
And if we win, we are we're ready to go again now.

(37:19):
Yeah, just. But I've always wanted to, what
I've loved about working in radio in Queensland, I've always
wanted to do that because you know, you've got to wear your
heart on your sleeve and you've got to be who you are.
And I always thought being on air during Origin season is
just, that's gold because you'vegot to be true to yourself.
And I've always worked, it's in a duo where the other host has

(37:39):
always been a maroon, right? So it's US against them and the
listeners just Fija and Fija andFija.
And I think it's what I actuallymissed this year most was going
through Origin OnStar 106.3 as opposed to Power 100.
Because like, you know, year oneon Power 100, I made a bet with
a listener who said if the Maroons win the series, you got
to stand on the corner of Wolcock with a bucket of maroon

(38:00):
paint and let anyone rock up andpaint your bald head, which I
said 100%, yeah, no, Why? Like, And so it's really
conflicting when I'm watching these games, I'm going, OK,
yeah. Personally for me, it's always
going to be better if the Blues win from my heart.
But for the radio show for the first day, jeez, if the Maroons
win, I'm going to cop so much shit, which is going to make it

(38:21):
way more enjoyable. And so, yeah, it's a bit
conflicting because you kind of put, oh, work and pleasure, you
know, whatever. But yeah, jeez, that's some.
But yeah, OnStar this year one lady rang up in the morning
putting on like a what you you doing OK with your Blues?
And like that was all I copped for the whole 3 hour show.
I thought on power 100 people couldn't get through because

(38:41):
they wanted to lay into me and, you know, remind me that I'm a
piece of shit. You know, it's I miss that.
I miss satellite. I really miss it.
Good demographic that listens tostars.
Yeah, we did have some feedback from last year or last week.
Well, it's the offseason stuff. Aaron Parkinson's sent in a nice
long message where he said loving the offseason stuff.

(39:02):
Glad you guys have had another great season on the air.
Thanks Aaron. I'm glad I'm not the only one
finding a drive through slower than going in.
We did talk about that, althoughI do wonder about where Subway
are putting drive through. Logan isn't the most reputable
part of Brisbane, I think he lives down that way.
Good content on the Craigsley Childcare.
Super relevant for me as our eldest is due to enroll and we

(39:24):
live not far from there. Yeah, you might want to see
check, check if the director is still there.
Aaron. Let's see how it goes.
Great to have all four back in the pod this week.
I guess it'll be another three weeks until Pistol is back at
his current absentee rate. Get fucked, I'm here.
Tonight and then I bailed dog last week.
So anyway, I was at the door. Thanks for another great year.

(39:44):
Makes driving in Brisbane traffic bearable.
Thanks very much, Aaron. Shannon, Aaron, thank you.
With that, did you hear about the Craigsley Childcare Centres?
No, it was it was one specific childcare centre in what?
In Craigsley. Oh sorry, it's just the one who
they were holding the kids paintings for ransom.
Yeah, 2 and a charging 2 1/2 grand bite back.
Yeah. Yeah.

(40:05):
Crazy. Yeah, how?
How's that even happened? Bold, Very bold, very bold.
I said we we spoke about on the radio show and I said, surely
there were a couple of parents saying to their kids, hey, look,
little Johnny, if you go in today, you know, just take home
a painting. Don't tell your teacher about
it, you know? Yeah, surely had to be a bit
loud. What does she think the teacher
like they're Banksy's or something down there?
Yeah, none of them were great. They famously never are.
They showed a few of the the. Samples in there, would it make

(40:28):
it to? Your free drop no OK.
Not that well. My wife doesn't listen.
No, my kids don't listen to thisone.
So look, I've got, I think I talked about it.
I've got a, a door and one specific door in our house,
which is actually my office door.
And that one gets the the the good pictures on it.
You guys have a toilet door? Oh look, I I did say my office.

(40:51):
That's got the old picture. He does his hard work.
Pin UPS picture and people pin UPS.
Jeez, that's going back. Sammy Davis said that he also
doesn't have a joker. I reckon everyone's used theirs
but doesn't show up for Rob. That's entirely possible Sam.
I don't know what's going on with footy tips.
Half the time it shows me the right stuff.
Well, as we know, it's not the world's most reliable side.
Half the times I put my tips in and they don't register.

(41:11):
That's why I came so bad last year.
Sure, that's why. That's why I'm doing so good
this year 'cause I submit them about 6 times.
This is what happens when Disneyowns something, yes?
Disney if oh you guys use the ESPN yeah yeah, yeah I.
Don't even know what else is outthere.
Like it's. Everyone's using ESPN, Disney,
what do you do? I think a whole bunch of people
got 0 this week. I think they've been boycotting
Disney for Oh yeah reasons. Oh, Disney's disappeared on my

(41:35):
TV. My partner, she's really.
Yeah, she removed it. It's gone, asked it.
You sure the subscription's beenpaused though?
Or cancelled. That's what I'm told.
That's what I'm told, yes. Wow.
What's what's she hating? Disney event.
The Kimmel have to remind me of the Kimmel fan.
Yeah, the Trump, the Trump Kimmel fan.
Yeah, because Disney what, Disney owned ABC or their merger

(41:56):
or some sort of. Yeah, it's complicated.
It is very convoluted but basically Disney and Kimmel in
bed or something. Yeah, right.
Look, I'm not missing. I don't watch anything on Disney
anyway. It's really hurt and hurt more
than me. Happy days to me.
I got my K on the Netflix on Disney.
Just put up their prices again too, so it's.
Not a good time. It's now read the Room Disney.
Yeah, yeah, yes. It couldn't be any less an Optus

(42:18):
though. So much you can watch Titanic in
a year anyway. Please, a good point.
We've been telling you that for 10 years.
It still happens. Thank God I know if I might have
only had it once this year. Safer A.
Little rumour that I thought I'dbring up.
Matt Burton. Cowboys are reportedly
interested in signing him. Understood.
The Bulldogs may consider an early release to fast track a

(42:39):
halves combination of Locke and Galvin and Mitchell Woods in
2026. Now, this does come from, well,
it was, it comes through Clarky's page, but apparently it
was via Fox Sports. So I don't know.
I don't know who put that out there.
Slain Newsday. Mad Bird's agent.
Probably. That's actually very, very
apartment observation there. Would you take him?
Yeah, I think we could find Spot.

(43:00):
I'll take him. Play him in a centre or on the
edge. Good kicker.
If you could review this season and there's one player or one
position you could fill for nextseason to make a big difference,
who would it be? What's the key point?
There's two things I want to say.
There's a comedy side of me and a realistic left.
The comedy side is coach. OK, Comedy.
That's the comedy side. You say coach because you get
the laughs. You say that he has sat in that

(43:21):
exact chair. Yeah, pain.
That's the comedy side, in theory.
You'd say. We all no.
The Rookie of the Year. My boy, my boy.
No, no. I'd, I'd big front row.
I'd I'd shift off Tamil Lalo. I'm retiring Tamil Lalo.
Medically, I'm bringing in a newfront row.
Now, well, Mclean's already retired, so we need Tamil Lalo,

(43:42):
yeah. No, that's why we need an actual
active front row who's not injured so much.
See take some more minutes. I'd go 2nd row, yeah, yeah.
Who would you wrestle out of theteam?
No, no, I was on a thin. They're nice.
Yep, Yep. He's too much in and out of form
this year. And I think the other side and
on the other side, there was toomuch shuffling around.

(44:02):
I think we needed someone solid there.
I I should quickly just say reason I'm Russell in Tamalalo
is not because of him. It it's more than money.
He's getting a good wicket, yeah, but not much activity.
Maybe if he took a bit of a pay cut then I'll be happy to keep
him. Could.
Be Kate and Pogger. That's true.
That is true. Same.
Same money for less games. Yeah.
So that's a good point. That's a good point.
Adam Reynolds, same money for less games.

(44:22):
Yeah, I just feel it's hurting the team.
Running more money? Actually, yeah.
Reynolds. Reynolds OK Was he going to be
more money than Chad when he wasOK I.
Think Chad signed for 800 and they were gonna get Reynolds for
more? Yeah, right.
Who would you take, Pete? What position?
I'm sort of with morgues. I think we need just another
bigger body upfront. Like McLean was good and all,

(44:44):
but he was coming to the end. If we added Tom Lolo with a
paying house for argument's sake, or even there's Xavier
Willison, like that would be huge.
I think we've got an all right cattle where we are like we've
got Griffin name still there. Hill and Luke, he's going to
come back from from injury. Yeah.
John Bateman, Look, he's gettingon, but he can probably serve
the roll off the bench and. Our wingers are going OK Brandon

(45:06):
Burns. Yeah, our wingers a decent my
boy. I don't think we I don't think
we need Matt Burton like we're losing Reese Robson by getting
Reid Marney and you know, when you look at a team off top of me
head and you have drinky Burns, Labour Derby Viola or who was
the other senator that we had? Purdue, Purdue.
That's right. Yeah, Purdue.
Purdue and. Telangy is a that is a strike.

(45:28):
You get Telangy on the other on the edge.
Yeah, you get Telangy. Then you've also got Dearden
Clifford. Like do you bring Burton in to
play 6 or keep Clifford there? I'm a big Clifford fan.
I. Like I'm a big Clifford fan.
But I'd probably swap him me. Too, but had to Clifford can
only ever seem to sign a yearly deal.
Yeah, at anywhere. There's nothing long term going

(45:49):
on there and so I don't know if he's just got weak
representation or there's something or he just doesn't
train well. I don't know what it is, but
they don't seem to want to sign him on for a long time.
I think he's gone to the Bears in 27.
He always seems to. Be a bit of a.
Temp play always seems to come in to fill a hole, you know?
Yeah. And then that's why he gets to
be a deal because there's alwayssome other, I guess, a bigger
plan come in over the top of him.

(46:11):
Yeah, yeah. Probably unfair for.
Him some of the other way. Read Money 9, Griff name 10,
Lukey Nanoi Cotter 8 and Tom Mckaylee.
I think we're missing just one punching front rower just as a
come in and come back. Back like Youngs Young Tom.
Oh, you got coming. Yeah, young Tomalalo.
Like that's what we need, not older Tomalalo.
Don't forget we had 11 top line players out this year, yeah.

(46:34):
Yeah, that's a big key. So that was that was massive.
We also got six players in Origin.
Yeah, like, and if Drinkie can find form, depending on how dual
Edwards go, I don't think there's too many Blues number
ones lining up outside. Like Tedesco's getting on.
If you lose Edwards, who else isout there for a Blues fullback?
Ask me in June. Maybe maybe good answer.

(46:56):
Maybe Papenhausen KO weeks? Is he a blue?
No, I don't have a feeling he's a Queenslander.
Yeah, I actually don't know. Bring.
Back Big Red, get Corey Wallsberg up here.
Speakingoffootytips.com that I. Don't mention it, I don't know.
I don't know, look out in front on the main com.
Amelia on 156 points, one point clear of Evelyn, and the Yerk on

(47:17):
155 points apiece. One game left, you see.
What do you do there? Do you go with who everyone else
is going to pick? You got to go on your own.
Yeah, go out on your own. Yeah, you got to do you.
Yeah, but you're a point in front.
Which is what I tried and it back failed on me.
Backfired. Backfired big.
Time back failed on your big time Skyvar and Princess Cahill
on 154 points. No one else can win it from this

(47:37):
point on. They can't win it.
You don't get a perfect round. You don't get not on, not on a
single tip. So.
How do you read that thing? Who's winning?
At the at the very top there, Amelia.
I can see Amelia, but where's her?
Tips points, Yeah, now you're looking at, oh, you're looking
at, we're looking at change the round where it says round, drop
that down. Oh up up.
This is great audio, right? This is great content.

(47:59):
Yeah, leaderboard. Yeah, oh, here.
We go you you're radio show. Now I'm just commentating on the
big TVI must say, having ATV feel like I'm on the Joe Rogan
podcast here when and we can talk about things and then it
can pop. Up.
Yeah, we got we got Jamie over here.
It's good, isn't it? This is really good.
This is what is very handy. It's again terrible for radio,
but but it works. No, it's great.

(48:21):
We're about to start talking to UFC and COVID back then.
Still doesn't have, doesn't. Have points though something to
do with your resolution because I can see it perfectly on mine.
OK, I'm the one reading it anyway, so it doesn't matter now
if I I I don't know if we copiedthis one.
Who's who's the stat? I've copied this today.
OK, Fusion Morgan, this is freshnow.

(48:43):
Disaster happens. Those of us sitting at the
table. Apologies Archer, we don't have
your tips, but that's OK. For the author.
Sitting in 25th spot on 146 points.
Fusion Morgan. I shit the bed.
But you're beating everyone elseat the table.
Well, here's the problem. I did what I told people never
to do half hour before the game.I was Panthers.
You changed. No, I was Bronx.

(49:04):
Bronx. You changed half hour before.
You don't. I'm looking at a team list.
I'm looking at Kerrigan. Never.
I'm thinking about the experience.
Panthers have so much experience.
They're stacked playing in Sydney.
Oh, Brisbane. Sorry.
And I'm like, I just think they're gonna go up there and
they're just gonna have experience and Broncos will get
nervous playing at home and blah, blah, blah.
I talked myself into changing mytip and I shit in the bed

(49:24):
because I was in front of like Hendo.
You were. I was leading all these people.
You would have beaten. Now that aside, you would have
gotten that one extra point which would have just put you
ahead of Head of Hando. Yep, in 22nd.
I know, but you finished 25th. I know.
We do. That is a disaster.
You're hard rating yourself. I finished in 49th spot.
Well, I mean this still this weekend I'm on 140 points.

(49:46):
The potato on 129 points in 80thand 100th.
Crack the ton, pistol blazing. 2guns on 123 trips.
Well, you got 0 on this week. Yeah, I know.
This week and last week. Yeah, I know.
Cowboy Chicken 101st, 122 points.
Oh. So you could get it back this
week. I thought you tipped Storm

(50:09):
Bronx. Oh, I didn't submit.
No. The old changed his.
The old ESPNA didn't get the best of us.
Billy, don't worry. Get the best of us.
All right, well this will be pretty quick then who went?
Actually, before I go there, there is the exclusive Patreon

(50:31):
tipping comp. The leader there is Grizzly 87
on 149 ahead of Hawk for Life on148, but with a 10 point better
margin. Oh, so Hawk was out in front
until the weekend, just gone. He got 1, Grizzly got 2.
So Grizzly can protect the lead here and and win it or Hawk

(50:52):
could get it back and win on margin.
So it's it's down at the final game, who would have thought?
It comes down to the grand finalin the tipping, Who would have
thought? Speaking of Storm, $1.67 plays
the Broncos at 2 bucks and 20 cents. 6:30 PM, Stadium,
Australia. It's sunny Sydney, do you like

(51:13):
Stadium Australia? I've shared some pretty special
moments in that stadium with my dad and seen some pretty cool
stuff there. But I mean as far as location,
everything does. Can we just RIP it down and
pretend it never existed? The location is so bad, you
know, like I don't think I really appreciate it how bad it
was until I went to a couple of games of Suncorp and you go,
this makes complete sense. It's a stadium in the middle of

(51:33):
a city. And even with the Cowboy
Stadium, like I mean, I still, I've said this 1000 times to
people, but I find it really hard to imagine what it would
have been like when dairy farmers was here, knowing where
it was in the city. I mean, I guess everyone would
have what most, you know, over to Cannon Park afterwards and
pretty much gone there. But.
Either Brothers or Finnegans, Yeah.
Yeah, Finnegans had a moment there for a bit.

(51:55):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, Brothers Leagues Club must have been so
devastated when they when they move, but it makes sense for the
the stadium to be in the middle of the city.
And yeah, with home books, there's just no, they try and
manufacture the pregame vibe where they set up.
I don't know if they still do it.
I'm sure they do. But these are sort of all these
little like tents, like you would see it like a food
festival or whatever. And there's like cuisine from

(52:15):
everywhere. But there's no massive outdoor
bar that's pump and music that there's, you know, can bring you
that kind of Caxton vibe to it. And.
There's no Caxton Street, right?There, no, there isn't.
I mean, and, but like, you know,the good thing about like the
SCG and the SFS is it's in Surrey Hills, it's in the middle
of Sydney and you know, but they're just, they can't take
the capacity that you kind of get obviously at Suncorp with 52
or 55,000. So and it's, it's a nightmare to

(52:38):
get home from Homebush as well. It's just.
It's like a $6080 Uber. I was lucky enough.
Yeah. Well, UFC at Kudos Bank, yeah.
It's just a dumb. There's nothing there.
It's all concrete. It's lot of shit.
And then like there's one pub down the road that's like on the
left hand side. It's like something theme pub
and that's it. There's nothing.
Nothing there, It's just a. It in.
It's an interesting situation for Sydney because, yeah, they

(52:59):
obviously had to build it where there was space out there.
Yeah, for the Olympic Park. But yeah, compared to where?
I mean, it's interesting becauseI just did a refurb of the
Sydney Football Stadium, but it's the same capacity, I
believe. It's just they're modernised.
I mean, when I remember going there, there are not many
sellouts there anymore. But I remember going to a
Wallabies Wales like twilight kick off in the afternoon and it
was like 40,000 and it was so obvious that that stadium had

(53:21):
outgrown its. There weren't enough facilities
to have that many people in it. There weren't enough female
bathrooms, I believe, so they had to, you know, do that up as
well. So it's a shame because there's
enough people who love sport to go there.
Yeah, but makes us that heart and soul of a pregame, like that
moment when you're smashing beers and getting ready.
There's just nothing. I went to the 17 grand final
when it was Storm and Cowboys and a Middle league stand at a

(53:44):
mate's place. He had a Cronulla but straight
up that's an hour and a bit train ride in.
We stopped off and had a beer ata couple of places in Redfern
and stuff and then again, hop ona train and keep going along.
You get to Homebush and nothing.Yeah, like there was one pub in
the whole of this. Everything.
And even at Allianz Moore Park area, there's a light rail, but

(54:05):
there's nothing there either. There's no hospitality.
It's all just Sydney. Got no idea.
Come on, can I ask you a controversial opinion of mine?
But I want to get your boys thoughts right.
So a lot of the press has been all about the pregame
entertainment, right? Snoop Dogg with the AFL, Teddy
swims. By the time this podcast comes
out, maybe he's cancelled because he's had to pull out a
few of his shows in Hawaii. Yeah, exactly.

(54:26):
Do you guys care at all about who is chosen to do the pregame
entertainment at the grand final?
To an extent you do, Really, totally.
Snoop was cool. Yeah, yeah, when they Snoop was
good for that was very for TV even Katy Perry last year was
pretty probably. Williams the year before, I
think. Robbie was good.
Yeah, Robbie is good. But like, see, my controversial
opinion is like, you're there for the grand final.

(54:48):
Yeah. Like who?
Cares about. It's a bonus.
And when you're at the ground, the sound's shit.
Well, in the 17 and my my only, every NRL grand final was 70 but
they had Macklemore and he put on it.
He got the crowd pumped. You reckon?
Yeah, 'cause I always find it interesting when you watch it on
TV. They, especially American
artists like that. They'll have like a mosh pit of
maybe they let like 100, Yeah, people who are on the field,

(55:09):
which they do. But in the stadium, it doesn't
look very impressive on telly. Looks great.
My best like iconic moment of a grand final that I went to, I've
been to a couple, was the famousone with Billy Idol where the
tech issues, the tech issues like prevented him from
starting. Yeah, I love my footy.
And then the the drum just stopsand there's nothing.

(55:31):
I I remember it was comical because I was in the corner that
night. It was Roosters, Warriors.
Was it that game? I think it would have been.
Isn't it too? Yeah, and then when they were
pulling off the stage, like theydragged it over the corner post
and which it wasn't on TV, but Iremember sitting down there.
But yeah, I don't know. I just have this funny thing
about like entertainment, like musical entertainment at like
footy games and sports games because yeah, like the sound

(55:53):
just doesn't really translate. But I get from like ATV
perspective, it does look good. I didn't watch the Snoop thing.
I'll I'll admit I didn't see it.From ATV, yeah, it does.
But I think since you're waitingthere, you want kick off, but
obviously you got to wait. I think entertainment is good.
I I sat at the start of this year, I think before before the
season even started. Get Creed.

(56:14):
Yeah, if he's been backing in Creed all season.
Yep, that would be. Awesome in 2001 Dallas Cowboys
half time show Creed with Scott Stapp.
Just belting it out if you had something like that.
What about Nickelback? I'll get Nickelback up Creed
100%. Oh yeah, I'm with you, A.
Lot of yeses around this time, Rob's.
He's taking his glasses off and he's shaking his head.
Well the AFL usually spend about5 million, so I think they they

(56:35):
paid Snoop 5, they paid Katy Perry five last year.
Surely you could get Creed for five?
5 grand mil. How to count Pete if you drop 5
mil in front of Creed Grant, Yeah you would not get to me a
quick enough. Five clip that's that is why
over. By that play the whole that play
the whole Game 5 mil. See, Pete, you talk.
A lot but they got but they got they pay in AFL, they pay their

(56:58):
their stars 5 mil like when the AFL got the killers out here.
Snoop was cool but he was a little underwhelming I thought,
but it was cool is to. Yeah, to change a.
Lot with Snoop Dogg. Yeah, dear.
See, this is you. Love when I on the radio have a
campaign, a story, a narrative. I think this is the start of
season in 2026 on the ranch. He's going to do it, get Creed
to the NRL grand final. Well, they will, yeah, because

(57:19):
it's going to take some work. Well, you're dreaming, Trevor.
The travel later was just a thought of the sky Rob, and we
made that happen. Aim for the stars and you miss
100% of the shots you don't take.
That's. Exactly.
Right, let's do it, Creed. I reckon Creed.
Creed would be. We were gonna.
Let's lowball them though. Let's not give them five mils.
Can we offer them like 1? We could offer them one with a

(57:41):
sky box. And some with a sky.
Economy class and a comedy classand two nights accommodation at
Star City Casino. Yeah.
Yes. And $1000 worth of bedding,
chips and a free buffet breakfast.
Are any of your boys gonna be going to Vegas with the cows?
No, no, Vegas is a good time, but I'm not going there with how
much in. Advance.
It'd be wicked, but. That surprises me, boys.

(58:03):
It's a there's a, it's a cost. It's a cost.
It's a cost. Yeah, it's a bit much for me,
but yeah. I can't believe the club have
enough to sponsor the podcast for a special episode over.
There. Look, we've reached out.
We've reached out. I'm still in shock.
I'd probably leave with that over Creed first and then see if
they can make that happen. Yeah, because I was going to
say, if you were in the States, maybe you can, you know, get a
meeting with Creed's management.Exactly.
A local meeting. You can always sell yourself

(58:25):
better in person. I don't know if you're aware of
this, but last year I went to Vietnam.
Yeah, you can spend you barely share the photo about it.
I don't know how I can. Spend so much less and get so
much more for two weeks in Vietnam than four days you get
a. Vietnamese version of Creed.
Brilliant idea, but no one wouldknow.
Yeah, I like that. Creed of a cake Yeah, yeah,

(58:45):
yeah, yeah so. That's some kind of
entertainment like you get around, you know?
Be good. Well, if you can get $30 Oakley,
surely you can get a Creed with AK, yeah?
Actually, I've got a genuine question.
What would you do to amp up, let's call it the the QCB
Cowboys Entertainment Experience?
Oh, that is a, that is a, yeah. Because I've been on it for a
bit, I reckon it's a little lacklustre sometimes.

(59:06):
Obviously, obviously you can't get Creed for round four,
Cowboys versus Dragons, but. How do we, how do we amp it up?
How do we get more of a pump up,more excitement?
I I found out the cowbell. Didn't last long, no.
For the North didn't. Last long no either it all
should have I think. That had legs.
I thought the cowbell had a bit of legs.
But that that that the hammer that they used for it was, I

(59:27):
know it felt a bit. It was.
Very. It should have been, It should
have been a big gong like I had Saturday, like.
The Viking clap in Raiders with the horn that's not a real horn
works. I think the cowbell could have
had nice I'm. Trying to think of all the best
like half time entertainment I've ever seen.
Like I've been fortunate enough to see a couple of NBA games in
the States and that's just entertainment personified.

(59:48):
You forget you're at a basketball game.
After that, yeah. Because of all the sports over
there. But I found out recently a
little bit more about how the entertainment works of the
Cowboys game. Won't reveal my source, but a
lot of it's to do with every match day there's a match day
sponsor and it really depends onhow much the match day sponsor
wants to put their hands in their pocket.
Kick in to make a spectacle of it.
Because I was asking the question of I don't know if any

(01:00:10):
of you guys went to one of the games during the Origin.
Period. And so all the stars are out.
And I just thought not only was the energy in the stadium
totally off, it was just like even just felt like nobody
wanted to be there. I'd felt that that was like,
well, we know it's going to be abit of a non event.
All the stars are out. So therefore I just felt there
was a bit lacking in what was shown on the field that

(01:00:31):
particular day, like the entertainment.
Yeah, it's a good question. I like what's the best thing?
Because I always like when you're watching someone catch a
highball and all that. The old bully bomb that, that
was good. Well that that's the highball,
that's the ball in the machine and flick it up.
The bully bomb used to be great.That was back at the old
stadium. I don't know that I haven't seen
them do that. They do a race.
The was race Valentine Holmes last year.

(01:00:51):
Remember that. Oh yeah, yeah, dude, Bully
Tammy. So the NRLW, we went to the
finals game, I took my daughter to that against the Sharks here
a week before last and the half time entertainment I found at
that was better than at the men's game, really well that
they do. So they did.
So they did the race MMA and someone down the side of the
just an image of her on the on the Yep, screens down the side

(01:01:13):
of the stadium and a kid ran on and did that.
They had, you know, like like kiss Cam, but no Coldplay
playing. But it's it's, you know, dance,
dance for the camera or whatever.
Then they had a cheer as loud asyou can sponsored by Telstra.
And then they had it's the otherone.
I can't remember what it was, but it had a bit more crowd
interaction and it could have been that there was only, you

(01:01:35):
know, this is about 5 or 6000 people there.
It felt like it suddenly lifted the crowd.
And at the time, because it's a finals game and the game is a
bit tight then. So maybe maybe it was just sort
of the right time for it. But it just felt that, you know,
you go to a men's game and what do they kick it in the back of
the the Toyota thing you try. I find that to be a bit average.

(01:01:56):
Like that's your crown. Do it good after at half times
and even after each game and they've got to pipe it up for
the next game. Like they have the bazooka
person going around shooting shirts into the crowd.
DJ's, they usually have 1/2 timemascot race as well.
You also race and Hamiso or whoever it is.
Like if it's Sharks versus dolphins, it might be Nico Hines

(01:02:17):
that you're running and then thenext game it could be someone
else. I don't know, I think freebies.
Got 3 ideas, 2 which I think they could easily do and one
which I'll never do. The first one.
We've spoken about this before. Creed.
We need to we need to tailgate in the dead Street car park.
Ohhh yeah, we need to do Texas American NFL college football
style. Get the tailgating in.
I don't know. I don't know if the Bell Street

(01:02:38):
car park is. An appropriate location.
I'm I'm avoiding every joke. We're under the sun the next one
night time games like the Chicago Bulls or the New York
Knicks. You know when they come out,
they get the lights out, they get the music going and the
spotlight and each player runs out like you get the you know
that Doo Doo. #23. Michael Jordan.
Yeah, exactly like that. You know the song.

(01:02:59):
You know that. They do keyboard, they do try to
do that. It's just not, it's not hitting
it, they're not hitting it and then they can steal from the
AFL. Each player gets their own song
when they score. Well, they do.
That I thought they did that. They do that.
Yeah, it doesn't really feel like they do.
I thought the song that they play after each try was a song.
That it's not really like a, it's not really like promo

(01:03:20):
though, you know, they don't make it into an event, you know,
Whereas in the AFL, like these days, you know, Charlie kicks
it, everyone's singing, you know, like it's a big deal.
It's just not a big deal for us here I reckon.
I reckon 2 little things that would be kind of amp it up a
bit. Or the tailgate party I'm all
over. I'm into a tailgate party.
That'd be amazing. So, OK, how do you just convince
everybody to do that to get around it?

(01:03:42):
Free Pierce. Yeah, that's definitely.
Free snags. You.
Could have. You could.
Honestly, though, you could haveTraeger or Weber sponsor that.
Yeah, barbecues. Galore.
Get on in. Or even barbecues galore?
That makes more sense. And you know what?
It only takes two people to start something like that and
then throws every week. That's like that's put your
money where your Barbie is next.Thing you know, you got 150

(01:04:03):
people riding a travel later oneweekend.
That's true. Yeah, get Bobcatter down, start
getting along the Toms. If you do that tailgate, you can
do it that you're raising money for junior club as well.
Like the Bunning sausages? Like bunning Bunning sausages,
yeah. That's one thing I put in the in
the member feedback survey everyyear is that the food options at
the stadium need to get back. Local community clubs doing

(01:04:25):
their own burger. Cookups.
Oh, that's good, yeah. Yeah, bring back barrels, bloody
vanilla slice and stuff. Hey, oh.
Barrels vanilla slice was the. That's you.
Good luck with Red Rooster beingcorporate saying hey I know we
paid this amount and these guys get a free.
There's definitely more independent vendors.
Like you know, you've got the BBQ guys down near the corporate
stands. Pete knows about the corporate

(01:04:46):
stands. We don't so much, but you get
the BBQ boys. Like there's actually some more
food trucks that are not franchises and red roofers and a
Porto's coming in. Is it?
Is it a Porto's now? Yeah, there's no Porto's.
There because like at the Wallabies game I went to
recently I saw a Porto was whereRed Rooster normally and I
thought is that a corporate partnership that had to change
for that one day the. Question because I saw a porto's

(01:05:06):
there too and I just sort of assumed it's now in a portos
fair but maybe not. No, I don't think.
I think it's Red Roost. Depends on where.
Is it still ready? I only ever see.
Yes, but for the Wallabies it was Portos.
Yeah. And that's like a, you know,
when you go to a Blackhawks game, they only serve your
forex. You can't get it Northern during
the game. Yep.
Yeah, yeah, it'll be corporate sponsorships because the stadium
will will switch anything out. Yeah, whoever's paying.

(01:05:28):
Quick sidebar, how good was thatBloody Union game?
Oh, that was awesome. That was incredible.
Like I didn't know what was going on at the end there.
Like how did we just keep going over and over again, like 10
minutes overtime? And I'm like, what if I just
kick it and tie it up and I assume there's extra time?
I didn't know, but they just keep going for it, but backed
themselves in. That was a cracker.
Yeah, yeah. Sign me up.

(01:05:48):
Back-to-back to the tipping get.Flinder St.
Oh yeah, tipping. Get Flinder St. on board every
venue if every venue wants to but you take your footy ticket
thereafter the game you get 2 for one drink.
Love that that's smart to just stimulate that night time and
call me man. That would be a brilliantly easy
thing to execute. It's like when remember when
Pink was here and you know, venues were doing pink burgers
and really, you know, owning that.

(01:06:10):
I think what's it's happened thelast couple of years, like I
loved for the first two years I lived here, towns elites that
used to happen pregame, like turn turn the city into a
festival. Everybody marches to the
stadium. I know that it's to do with
money and council and everythinglike that, but that is just a
home run. There's obviously a reason why
they're not doing that anymore, but that was for me what really
probably made me fall in love with the Cowboys experience the

(01:06:32):
most. It was like this is what you do
before the game. You go to the Leeds club and
then you walk to the stadium andyou feel like you're part of the
whole game. I think part of that was the
mayor changed, but that's something to do with it.
Yeah, Council's far a normal cylinders.
Yes, it's going to. This podcast's gonna wrap up
because we could keep talking about that.
I think I'll put that in run sheets.
On the run sheet, yeah, we'll get to.
Know, All right, yeah. So very quickly around the

(01:06:53):
table, Storm, Broncos. I'm going storm.
Pete, watch your margin. I went 8.
Storm by 8. I got storm by 38. 30.
Fuck the Broncos. Oh, well, look, I mostly agree.
Billy. Billy.
Yes, give me the Broncos becauseI can stop anyone.
Yeah, that's true. I like it.
That's true. Yep.
Yes. Actually, if you're not aware,

(01:07:15):
Billy got on the the Crows just before finals.
They went out in straight sets. League leaders.
Yeah. So, OK, we're all aboard.
Whatever Billy goes, don't get on.
Both goes quite well. Morgan's not too far behind with
that either. But anyway, Storm, Broncos.
I'm gonna go Storm by 12 and Morgan.

(01:07:35):
Storm by 6. Storm by 6 bit tighter.
I think even less. You could go storm by two.
You could because Storm are verygood at getting a penalty in
front when it's tight so. In fact, I will go storm by two.
Yeah, yeah. Storm by two.
There it is. All right.
Well, that's probably rugby league for the year.
We may come back next year, who knows?
When I say next year, I mean next week.
Are we still next week? Fuck.

(01:07:57):
Well, the people. The people.
People demand it. Now we've only got 1 pale pass.
It's would you buy Broncos shares?
I don't know who put. This in there, That was me
because I found out today that you can invest in the Broncos on
the ASX. Did we all know this?
No, you can genuinely buy. Can we bring up Billy Chucky?
Listed. Company ASX Brisbane Broncos
publicly listed company. They're trading about $1.90 for

(01:08:17):
memory, $30.50 now. They've had a bit of a spike in
the last couple of days. It's a hot stock.
Yeah, right. This is just.
Change it to Max some sell, sell, sell, sell.
So they are popping right now. Now would you?
When you say popping, that starts at 2003.
No, no. But right now we are.
We are popping it right now. So I'm not saying we all love
the Broncos, but as a financial investment would you buy 500

(01:08:41):
bucks worth of Broncos stock at?$1.32.
And sell it just before the gameon.
See, for me, this comes back to superstition, right?
It's like I gave, I hung a lot of shit on Donnie, my Co host,
because last year he couldn't get a ticket to a particular
Broncos game. So he became A1 or A2 match
member just so he could go to the ground.
He hates the Broncos. But I challenged him on that and

(01:09:01):
said, but now you're a member sohow does that sit with you?
Right? I feel like trying to make
financial gain to put money intothe Bronx.
I don't mind it. No me out I reckon.
It's pretty cheap, $1.32 OH. It's very, yeah.
Look at this. Reason, Fredo.
Yeah, they'll lose on Sunday andthat'll go from $1.32 back to.
$0.48. 2020 at $0.48. Can you do some numbers for me

(01:09:23):
more so if you got in at the at the best time, which is back
into 1999, Can we do like if you'd only invested $10,000 then
how much would you have now I. Mean, I don't think you might
can. Oh, I guess you'd easily double
triple your money. 500,000% all time. 500 bucks at 12 cent
shares. What that give you 6000?
Shares, yeah, I mean, it's a decent investment.
And now selling at $1.32. This is me bailing out 'cause I

(01:09:46):
don't know the math to do it, but someone I'm sure could do it
quickly in ChatGPT or. Something in short, never.
I would not buy Bronco shares, no.
You could wait till they're gonereally crap again and then.
I'm actually. 600 shares. That actually, if you're buying
a Broncos membership just to gettickets, tickets, I can see
that. That's how Broncos have such a

(01:10:07):
high membership. Yeah, because being a one team
town, if you're a Rooster supporter living in Brisbane,
that's the only way you're getting tickets.
Well, some people get it just for the cheap KO and stuff, you
know. Yeah, that, yeah, Although I.
Rob. Rob Rob's a Roosters fan.
We just find out. No, no, no.
The the current worst team in the AFL is who I support so, but

(01:10:27):
I've always supported him and I picked my team.
The Lions? Who?
Oh, sorry. We're back-to-back.
West Coast. Gonna be back-to-back to back.
Supporters. I thought you said worst
supporters. Yeah.
The maths on ChatGPT while we go.
Last one and then we'll wrap it up and let Archie get some
sleep. He's gotta get up and about.
Sleeping all day. He's gotta get up in about 3
hours and do a radio show. It's true.
It's hard work. Yep, terrible.

(01:10:49):
This one, it's gonna. Take all this content and just
talk about this show for the 1st2:00.
Hours you just zoom in. I'm still trying to find this.
Anyway, this $10,000 start. Now, if we get a like I'm, I'm
gonna summarise this. Yep.
Well, let's pay a pass. So it's either one or the other.
So Troy Thompson or Nick Demettowas the original question, and
I'm pretty sure. Well, I'm gonna go Nick Demetto.
I think he's gonna win in the landslide.

(01:11:10):
I'll buy shares in him. He's gonna win.
I reckon 85% of a vote. He's gonna win.
Oh wow. Yep, he's gonna kill it.
OK, well, yeah, I mean, he was on the front foot, wasn't he?
He got out there, they're on dayone, so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know who Pete's going for.
I'm I'm in two minds. I like the idea of Nick Dimeno,
but I'll be going Troy. I reckon he's got a lot to offer
still. Help.

(01:11:33):
That's good. Doctor Nick.
Nick. Nick.
Nick. Nick Riviera?
I don't know. You've probably got to remain
impartial. You never know who's going to be
on the show next week. That's very true.
I'm not going to be here anymore, but yeah, I probably
shouldn't have. You had.
Our boy Troy on the show, Has heever?
Been funny story because no, I don't think so.
However, like we have a we have a system, right?

(01:11:54):
And like we save people's numbers and mainly it's like,
well, it's mainly so like if youring up, I can immediately say I
really like being able to make it personal rather going, Hey,
who's this every single time? Gotcha.
There is a guy called Troy and Stewart, right?
And he popped up last week and we were we were doing this
sketch about Anthony Albanese. You know how we took that photo
with Donald Trump? Yeah, yeah, we did this sketch

(01:12:14):
about like, you know, he finallygets his meeting that he's been
waiting for forever. And we thought it'd be funny to.
We used AI to have we got the webugged the office.
I heard that and it was basically, you know, he finally
gets his meeting and Elbos trying to negotiate with Trump
to because we got Snoop Dogg. We want Jimmy Barnes to do the
Super Bowl halftime show. That's fair, right.
So that was the premise of the gag.

(01:12:35):
It went to where and then someone called Troy from Stuart
rang up afterwards and started going basically accused Alba of
being useless and whatever. And it was only until after it
went to air where a listen to text messaged me and said I
reckon that was Troy Thompson. We listened back to it and like
it sounded a little bit like him.
But another Danny at the station, she reckons that this

(01:12:55):
guy who it's labeled Troy and Stewart rings up all the time.
He's got a kid who's with NDIS or something like that.
So she had a bit of a back storyabout him.
And I said, OK, well, that doesn't check out with, you
know, the the now suspended resigned.
It's hard to keep up there. So run.
Run in again. Yeah, it's quite a long one, but
candidate, yeah. So I don't think he has run up.
I know that while he has had himon Power 100.

(01:13:18):
Yeah, right. Yep.
OK, definitely. Yeah.
So. Power Fan.
Yeah, it was a while ago. Like, you know.
Yeah, it was in the afternoon. I'm pretty.
Sure, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
I was driving home from work listening to that and I was
thinking, Oh yeah, you know, this is good new man, a little
bit of a prospect and give it a turn it up, give it a listen.
Yeah. And yeah.
Wow, yeah. I don't know.
It's gonna be tough. I think like Nick announcing

(01:13:40):
early, I think is probably goingto scare off anyone else who
wanted to put their hand up because they don't just dilute
it. But I don't know, tell you what,
I'm really upset that this is happening now.
I mean, the content that's goingto come out of this and I
believe in the city. I mean, that's what I've got a
bit of gripe with Troy about. Couldn't he not have done this a
lot, a little, a little bit sooner and then we could have
had a bit of fun. He's really.
Scared you? He's really scared.
You on this? Yeah.
Jeez, don't forget that. How long?

(01:14:03):
This sounds morbid. How long have you got?
Yeah, that's so funny. Somebody asked me, you know,
asked me about Cliffo from Triple M Really.
Actually we're at NAFR on Thursday night and I saw him and
we were, we were actually good mates and we were standing in
line getting a beer and he goes to me.
So how long have you got? I said, oh the doctor says 2
weeks, just two weeks. I wrap up next Friday, the 10th
of October, that is. Soon.
That is soon. That is quick.
Not soon enough for a by election apparently so no.

(01:14:24):
Yeah, but I had we had a good moment today on the show because
last year I wrote this song all about the year of Townsville and
like all the news. And it was in this in the theme
of like, you know, in the the start of the Grinch where it's
the Doctor Seuss kind of poem all about Whoville.
So I did a whole thing last yearabout all the crap that happened
in our city. And right at the end, it was the
last line was, you know, the last, I can't remember the

(01:14:47):
rhyme, but it was like, what happens next year?
Did someone say by election? And so today on the show, I said
just like The Simpsons predict everything.
We predicted a by election, justa type of Christmas.
I reckon that what the council should do is work out how
they're gonna unveil the new man.
Like, I reckon like an explodingChristmas tree or something cool
like that. Yeah, like, how's that moment

(01:15:07):
gonna happen? It's a big moment in the city.
Cannonball popping out of a Christmas cake.
Yeah, like under siege. Like, very much like under siege
at what minute? 4 minutes, 33 seconds.
I've got it. If you hear what you do, Creed,
you get 2, you get 2 buttons, 2 plunges, right.
And you get the Christmas tree. And, you know, like if I got hit

(01:15:29):
the button to light the tree up.Yeah.
So it's like when you get the key for the car, you get the
listeners, you know, someone's got a key.
So then the mares rock up, you know, you got Nick and Troy and
whoever else and they can all goup and they can try and hit the
button and see if a tree lights up, the tree lights up.
You'll be mare. You should be in radio
promotions. I like it.
Talk up. Yeah, that is pretty good.
I'm happy about. I think we deserve that as a

(01:15:49):
city. What do you guys think?
You know, it's bidding. I'm tumultuous time.
We need a bit of fun. To make us all go to the polls
again. We can tailgate it.
That, that's the reward, yeah, yeah, I like it, yeah.
Or even I'm just gonna take it astep and.
Bring back public St. caroling as well.
I thought you were gonna say Public St.
That's like. Public streaking.
I'm not Whatever way Winds fights, yeah.

(01:16:12):
Just not the not the mayors who are going for it anyway.
I'm gonna rest mine after that. That's not, come on, what I
think. Street We gotta, we gotta I was
gonna. Line up the mayors in though.
You know those dunking tanks? Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, have them all like that. Well, you don't throw a ball.
It's just like, Yep, whatever's the winner, bang.
And then one, one person just gets to stay.
They're all dry. The rest?
Imagine that, like on voting night, you know, we're all look,

(01:16:33):
checking our phones, watching the votes come in.
And then it's like go out to either Queens, that country
bank, Perfect, or we go to RiverWay for our fans up in Kerwin.
And it's just these two guys or whoever else is in the race
sitting on dunk tanks. Yeah.
And it's as soon as like when they're ready to concede, they
just go bang. And then they have to make a
speech and they're soaking wet. That's really brilliant.
Perfect. Theater suits N Queens you.

(01:16:54):
Can't leave yet? You've got too many ideas.
No, that was this is this is youguys.
I'm giving this to you. It's either this or Creed at the
Grand Final. I'll take Creed.
Why not both? And on that note, yes, thanks
for following. Look, thanks Archie.
It's been a pleasure listening to you for the last two years,

(01:17:17):
three years, 3 1/2, three and a half.
It has been an absolute pleasureand it has been a pleasure
getting to know you over this time as well.
Having run into each other here and there.
I will never forget the let's call it a catch at the Goldfield
Ashes. Thank you.
Leave me with that little right hook.

(01:17:37):
The my cricket team has a thing that we call, we used to call
the Howie flop, which when you when you drop a catch but you
fall down as you're taking a catch, it's now called the
Archie flop, so. I'll be back for the Ashes.
Good. That is good.
Thank you so much for having me on the pod guys, I really
appreciate it. Best of luck in the Sunny Coast
and I'm sure it won't be the last week here of you.

(01:17:58):
No, you can download iHeartRadio.
So it's 92.7 Mix FM, There we go.
There's a part for the new Therewe go.
Got a damn part already? But keep listening to Power 100
or Star here in Townsville. And the next person coming in is
going to have big shoes to fill and take it in your footsteps.
Yeah, I'm a size 11 mate, so. Really.
With that size body. Think about it.
Call yourself Thorpy. Think.

(01:18:18):
About it. On the range, big socks on the
range. Thank you on Instagram XL, on
Twitter, on the spot Facebook page.
I don't know, you might do a video.
Probably not. There's no footy shit name at
Morgan Holmes Evans thanks to Fusion Networks.
Thanks have me. And thanks again, Archie.
Thank you boys. Let's go.

(01:18:40):
Go storm. Go storm.
Go the Philly Eagles for an eye Go.
Brisbane. Brisbane Hey, there we go.

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