Not Another F*#ing Rugby League Podcast
Run On Debut
It's the run on debut for the podcast no one asked for. In their very first episode the boys chat about the NRL's 5 year Vegas plans, middle aged sickos flirting at council pools, and of course State of Origin 3. They even secure an exclusive interview with Stu Baker from the Wingham Tigers! Stu gives the boys the down low on the mood about town since the news that Mitch Barnett has been selected for Origin and how every other team in group 3 can go and get stuffed.
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- Duration:
- 45m
- Broadcast on:
- 10 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
(upbeat music) ♪ Not another ♪ (beep) ♪ Rugby League podcast ♪ (upbeat music) Since the podcast that no one asked for with three blokes whose opinions no one gives a shit about. This is not another fucking rugby league podcast. You got me, Andrew Barney Barnett. Joining me as always, Steve, Philpy, Philpy, Philpy, how are ya? Yeah, I love that intro. You made that intro Barney, is that right? I didn't make that intro. My son made that intro. I love that. You know what I loved about it? 'Cause the beep on the fucking was just a little bit off and I dug that, you know? Yeah, I asked him to do that. Yeah, right. And of course on the ones and twos with us every week, the man who brings some gravitas to this podcast. Nathan Brooks, he Brooks. Brooks, how are you the saver mate? Good gents. So I always needs to be someone around you guys just making sure everything's going smoothly. Mate, ironically. Full disclosure, we came into the studio as we were recording this today and you'd had an afternoon in your real job at SCN Radio. But I don't think I've seen you that stress. You were ready to throw things. Oh, stress, no, that's just excitement. We've gone up again in the ratings. Four straight ratings periods have gone up. Well, I remember four years ago, we were being told we got 0.3. Times that by about 15. And that's where we're at now, don't we? Yeah, we're flying, we're killing it. No, it's, we've passed TUE. Did you know TUE does? I didn't even know TUE was still around. Five hours of easy listening from one to six. That's what we've gone up against. We just passed them. Hey, here's the TUE breakfast show. Who hosts that? Is it like John Harker, Nappy Sand Doorstep Challenge guy? Oh, no, he left because, yeah, he was around people's places after he shot. He got cancer. Allegedly. No, I don't know. I don't know. Couple of stains he couldn't erase, let's just say. (laughing) John Harker. I'll tell you what, it's good to have Brooksey here though, Barney, 'cause you and I, for full disclosure, are massive Newcastle nightstands. Yes. And we didn't want this podcast to turn into, just a circle jerk of Nova-Kastrian issues. And Brooksey, you're an Illawarra Steelers tragic, so. Yes. But what in '82, the same year the Steelers came into the New South Wales rugby league, so I was a Steelers baby. I think I was conceived on the announcement. Bob Millwood was like, and the winner is Will and gone. And my parents just went at it and went, look, Michael Bolt's gonna be the captain someday, so they called me Nathan. Your parents just went at it. Is that what you, I bet they can't wait to listen to this first episode. Well, we'll see, we'll see. How's work going, Nathan? Good mum. Have a listen to this. Just get past the two minute 98 period. 98. There we go. Well, we got a big show, boys. 'Cause in a little while we're gonna see what caught our ears. And later on. I've got some ears to be caught. Yeah, you're a good listener by the size of those ears. I'll see you. We're gonna talk origin three, obviously to the size coming up, and a huge match, and there's loads of origin stuff going on a little bit later on. Well, you know, what caught your ears this way, boys? Well, let's start with you, Bruxy. 'Cause you were telling me when I came in here, you had one straight away, you did you see this and I hadn't heard, let us know, let us in. So, we know we're going over to Vegas for five years, boys. We are! We are. As a rugby league nation, the podcast. We're the official podcast. The podcast is TBA. But media release came out on Tuesday afternoon, Jans. There are four games at Vegas this year. Wow, wow. Two this year, four next year. We've got Wigan Warrington, Raiders V Warriors, the Jillaroos V, the England lionesses, and the Panthers and Sharks. So, it is going to be about nine hours of footy at the Death Star, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. What a great way to start 2025. You've got teams from England, New Zealand, and Australia, vying it out in front of the American audience. It's gonna be sold out. There's no doubt that the Death Star will be full. How confused are the Americans gonna be that you start with people from an English comp, then you have two national teams, women's, and then you go into the other two NRL games. Like, are they gonna get that this is an all-one comp? They'll need little rules at the start of each game. With Russell Crogh on it. Get even more. Get it like yours. It's Russell. Thomas Kanelli can walk in. He's playing a few things here. This is sort of starting to look a little bit too. It's a knockout for me. Like, we've got all these different teams from different areas. Like, you said from Mount Gambia soon? Like, yeah. You said that like it's a bad thing. Oh, no. Bring back Billy Jay Smith and Fiona McDonald. Maybe they should send them over. Those two. Oh. And Jackie McDonald was it? He's one of them. Yeah, it's Billy. I think Billy's the only one. Where do we go? It'll be AO. We could get a hologram. We could get a hologram. A Billy hologram. We probably need two machines. He was quite a large lad. But he wasn't even sure. Oh, I could, boys. What do you-- the wads are the going? Is that right? Wads are going. Raiders are going, which is great, because the Las Vegas Raiders are both happy to see Ricky blow up in another country. And how's the bloke from the Viking club going to get his drum on the plate? Like, where's he storing it? Are they going to take our horn? Like, the big horn from Canberra. In the NFL, it's the Vikings, isn't it? That does the Viking clap sort of thing? Is that right? You do well in Vegas if you've got a big horn, allegedly. That's really-- Yeah, that's rumor on the street. Cheers. Buzz Brothfield told me from being honest. Shout out to the Thunder from Down Under. He has guys of got some Viking clap. You went Brooks in to Vegas. Yes, I did. Barney, you did not. I did not. I got my brother. What are you going with this? Went. And I got just peppered with photo after photo after video of all the experience. So FOMO? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. He was on one of those. Like, I think Lion, Nathan, might have taken him over. The beer company. Oh, yeah. So he was on one of those corporate-- Not Nathan, Lion. Shunkits. No. Oh, how good would it make a lion on Nathan? Yeah, a lion, Nathan, Tripp. With Nathan, Lion. Vertigo on the Nathan, Lion. Tripp, the goat, wouldn't you? Oh, yeah. Text in, yeah. Which you'd prefer. Yes. That's a number, boys. Do we have a text line here? No, we don't. No, we're a podcast that doesn't happen. I'd go on the Nathan, the Lion, Nathan, Brooks tour. That would be-- What did you do in Vegas? See, I spent as much time out of Vegas. So I spent a week in LA and then two nights in Vegas, because I know how hectic that place is. And three nights as a stretch, four is enough. And so I was like, I've been there twice. Third time, I'm just going to fly in, fly out, sort of style. Like a minor. Like a minor, yeah. Not without the rage one. Like a flu rose hole. Yeah, no, but yeah, like a drilling in hole. Oh, OK, that doesn't help the situation. OK, so I spent a week in LA, did the NBA games. Went and saw your man, Bill Burr, did all that stuff, then went to Vegas, went and saw Thunder from Down Under, and then got out of there. No, I did go and see the league. But there's so much going on, too. Yeah, unbelievable. There's a 9's tournament. There's the combine. They're trying to tap into that American, sort of hard knocks. Let's do the combine here and try and get as many American players playing football. Oh, you know what it might be good? They got two. They got two. Let's do a check in a bit later in a match episode. Let's see. Yeah, let's do a match check in with where those combine winners are now. How they going? Oh, look at this is your life. Yeah, let's match check in with them. I like it. After five years. Imagine that. You just have them all up on stage. Where are you now? What are you doing? Are you playing for? I'd like to do a where are they now with my car keys. We're continuously losing. Barney, what caught your rear this week, mate? All right, what caught my boys? I'm a bit off topic. I need to chat to your boys about swimming pool let it go. Okay. So you both don't mind swimming a lap? Yeah. You don't piss in the pool. Don't pee in the pool. No, no, no. I'm a cross that one. Yeah. I know when you were kid, there was one of my cousins, I won't know, but I was about to. She was well renowned for doing a poo in the pool. Really? Yeah. And then was that rumor that if you'd weed in the pool that the pool would turn to different color? Yeah. There was a certain diet. Material. Diet. Yeah. You could put in. Princess died. Just sort of like it. The anchor, shame. Whatever you get your hands on. Yeah. Yeah. But sorry, Barney. What'd you say at the pool? So I was down at the pool. I'm trying to just maintain a little fitness and give my knees a break from running. So I thought I'll go down and do a few laps. So I was down at the local council pool. I'm in the area of four laps, right? And I know at school holidays there's going to be a bit of shenanigans, a bit of hijinks going on. So it's pretty busy. I score myself a lane. I'm in the lane. I'm sharing it with the bloke. He finishes his workout, gets out, right? I think. Clear water here, boys. Yeah. I'm good, right? I'm feeling good. I'm in a better medium lane, right? Which I, that's where I max out at the medium. And income this couple into my lane, man and a woman, the man would have been, I reckon, early to mid 30s, lady 45 in the shade. No, they're ages, ages. That's medium lane. No, no, no. 25, 25, 45. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so she's, that they have proceeded not to swim, but to sort of, I call it a prince and play grabbers the whole way down the pool. They were basically just flirting, right? And at one point I was like, oh, you know, I don't want to disturb. And then I'm like, hang about. I'm not doing laps in the swim up bar here. Yeah. Like we're at the local pool. Like it's not a romantic atmosphere in general, like there's, there's old people doing jazzers sizes, special knee kids getting taught to swim. It's 10, 30 in the morning. Right. This isn't generally where people, middle age, let's call them middle age people, would find time for, uh, PDAs and romance, but that is all, and they were getting the shits when I'd swim past them because they'd get a bit splashed. Ugh. Am I in the wrong? I think they are. They're in the wrong lane. Yes. Yeah. I think, you know, based on that, like I don't feel sorry for them. Maybe there needs to be a lane. Yeah. Yeah. The bundle. You know, I'd get it if they were 15, right? Because it is school holidays, 15 year olds, you know, 10 out of 10. It's a passion, whatever you can. Yeah. They're going to get a pass away. They've got nowhere to go. Yeah. But these two, I'm like, clearly, you're losers, but surely one of you has a flatmate who's out and you can go make out on the, you know, on the futon. Yeah. Pull it out. Bang for all I care. But I'm just saying, yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I don't know. I'm not down with the, the PDAs in the, in the pool, in the public pool. It's sort of reserved, you know, that hand on the water is reserved for the dodges. We're being instructed normally, isn't it? Let's be honest. This is the problem. This is the problem too. Is I'd bought new goals so I could finally see everything that was going on. Oh, right. And it was just, it really, I was enjoying it up into that point. You know, just watching the old band-aid float by. Oh, yeah. That's, that is such a turn off when you see a band-aid just floating around. Yeah. Maybe that's like a little... They saw, yeah, boy. I was like... I was like... And maybe I'll make... She went for his octopus, did you? Let me tell you. All right. We've got plenty more coming up. We might get a break. All right. I'm legendary NRL coach Wayne Bennett. I'm currently coaching two teams, and it's hard. Have you having trouble getting hard and speak to the people from the late flop? They're the specialists in erectile dysfunction. So next time the misses gives you a separate repeat in the bedroom, you'll be ready to go in for the try and the conversion. Yes. You're listening to not another fucking rugby league podcast. You've got Barney, Philpy, and Broxy. Now, Philpy, what caught your E? Well, it's just... You've just been obsessed with one thing, mate. I have. I like the state of origin teams were named, and I actually thought origin was this week. So I went a bit early. You know that. I was like... You can see it's all week. I was like... Wednesday, we're doing this. Now we're going over the in-house. Yeah. I'm like, "Oh, right." Okay. So, origin three... Well, I'm still getting pissed and eating sausage rolls. I'm like... 100% yelling at the TV kicking the dog. So, origin three is next week, right, depending when this comes out, and that's the name the teams, which is exciting. Yes. Apparently, all the queens. Maroons and the blues, they're named. That's right. Yeah. The Queenslanders are all still Queenslanders. Allegedly, that's still on the record, but... Not the person to begin. Yeah. The winning team made a change. They made a couple of changes, but were forced through injury, but of course, they made a change that wasn't, which is very unusual for a winning team, especially the way they won origin two. And look, as a change that I probably would have brought in earlier on, but I'll get to that in a little while. But the thing that happened just before that this week was Jerome Luai, the boy's headed out for a bonding session out at Urban Surf in Homebush, right? Are you pronouncing that right, isn't it? No way. No way in urban. Yeah, it's urban. Yeah, it's urban. Yeah, you're pronouncing the A. Okay. Keith Urban. Oh, hey. No, it's weird that you won't be in. Urban. Urban. So urban. Well... So in case you want to go out and get your herb and your surf on. Urban surf. Sounds like someone had already bought that website, or whatever. Yeah, it could be. It could be. It could have been that. Well, it's one of those. It looks quite good, apparently. You know, there's one in Melbourne. There's one in Homebush. You know, in the Eastern suburbs. We've got actual beaches. Whoa. But, yeah. Ooh. That was in Sydney and Tell them a range. Jerome Luai, apparently. Like, on the worst episode of Bondo Rescue All Time, it's allegedly drowned. Now, I saw the footage. He never looked in any day of drowning. I think a bit of a media beat up, but boys, this shows you really can't take a bloke from Penrith and put him in any form of water. He seemed pretty keen. I think he was like, "All right, boys, welcome to..." And he was already in the water with his bodyboard, just keen to get some barrels. Maybe if it was a bit of cable skiing, water skiing, he'd be up and about, or hit the golf balls into the water, because he's done that at Panthers. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Yeah. I liked the fact that he'd gone boogie board, too. Yes. He was riding the lead. He wasn't going to try to stand up stuff. He's like, "Nah, nah, look, I went as a kid." He was wearing a wetsuit, which I thought was good, because I'd usually, like, that'd be just the t-shirt and jean shorts. Rashi and Zink. Rashi and Zink wasn't there. No, no, Rashi and Zink. You know, I actually was worried, because he said he thought he was going to die. And I just had a little... Miss that crab. No, he did. That was the quote on the Fox Sports website. Sure. You almost died out there. You sure that wasn't from Paul Kent recently, similar quote? No. No, this was Jerome, like, attributed to Jerome, like, he thought he was, he almost died out there. He's just grateful to be a light. And I thought, "How bad would it have been?" Like, it's a tragedy when we lose any of our rugby league players, but particularly Jerome Loewi, like, he needs to outlive Brian Tahoe, just so he can do the eulogy at Brian Tahoe's wife. Can you imagine that same speech? Because what I want to see, this is my dream to see that same speech just through tears. Like, if you didn't know this man, Brian Tahoe had the stinkiest, stinkiest ass, and he was proud of it. Oh, yes. Wouldn't that be just... Wouldn't that have moved you to tears, wouldn't it? Oh, I love that. You know, they didn't chuck it. I don't know if you send a footage, but usually they throw in like a boy, not like an actual kid, but, you know, a boy. A buoy. A buoy, yeah. But like a lifering. That's right, for him to grab on, do. But what they thought would be better is they threw in, like, his boombox. And he just didn't want to lose that, so he swam straight towards it. It was playing some shit rat song at the time, but it's all about motivation. That's right. You've got to make him believe. Yeah, 100%. But boy's... In my opinion... Or bois. Or bois. Oh, boy. Sorry, we've moved on. The big origin story for me was the selection of Mitchell Barnet, a former Newcastle night now at New Zealand Warrior. And one of my favourite all-time plays, I think Origin, when New South Wales needed an angry redhead. I think... It was so Origin Barnet. Isn't he? Yeah, he's ready to go. I was ready to name him in Origin 2. I had him in my team. You guys know where he's from, where he grew up. But he is, well, he's got the swagger of a country, boy. Tari? That's right. Oh, wow. It's a little town called Wingham. Wingham. Oh, the chickens. Yeah, and the... No, that's Wingham. Oh, sorry. Oh, Wing. For a minute. You convinced me you went that off. I was like, "Oh, yeah, mate. You're awesome." You didn't say it with confidence. I like a mistake said with confidence. I'm not saying there's no chickens in Wingham, but there probably is, but yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Now I'm hungry. Bullardealer, there's chicken farms. Is there? Yeah, I knew a bloke. It was a chicken farmer from Bullardealer. Bullardealer has one of the great landmarks. There's a...I think it might be the Bullardealer in motel. It has a pool and a sauna. And on the wall, it has pool and sauna. And this happened for years, and you would know if you've driven through Bullardealer, somewhat local, very funny local, kept stealing the L from pool, and it became poo sauna. So for years, that hotel was known as the poo sauna. As soon as they'd replaced it with another L, bang it had come down. And at just the end, they're like, "Well, let's just leave it off," and it just was poo sauna for years. It's not going to be overcrowded if we just keep it at poo sauna, or it'll be sauna. Yeah, it's a bit like your pool experience, isn't it? Actually, speaking of sauna experiences, when I was a young fellow, we used to go out to the golf club, the coral golf club, used to have the sports complex there. And school holidays, we were just mad for it, the squash courts, tennis courts, swimming put into a heated swimming pool, and they had a sauna. And so we just get dropped out there, like, sort of nine in the morning and picked up at five in the afternoon. And so we'd play some golf, play some squash, do whatever. I got full time job. And there was a jockey who used to shed weight, a local jockey used to shed weight in the sauna. We're in there one day, and one of my mates is like, "What are you going to happen if I peed on the coals?" You know what, why would we not find out? We're all scientists. It was up here. We're going to have a hypothesis, and it is the worst smell I think you've ever smelled. And so we've cleared out, and we're just in the pool, we think we've got away with it. This jockey comes storming out. He knew it was a straightaway - I don't know if he recognized the smell, he knew exactly what had happened, and he was trying to cut weight for that weekend's meet, and was not a happy little man. We need a little to smell - there's not as far to travel to smell, you know, so like, when you're a bit tall, the smell takes a while to get there. But Wingam Boys is where Mitch Barnet is from, and I'm a new castle boy, and as you are Barney, and it's a great little town, right? You've probably never been to Wingam Brooksy yet, because there's nothing like Wingam down the South. Oh, the beef? Yeah, the chicken. So, great little town. The most famous thing in... What would you say? If you had to pick one thing, say we're going to take Brooksy, we're going to show him the sorts of Wingam. What are you picking, Philpy? Well, post-origin 3, it's going to be, oh, Mitch Barnet lived there, Mitch Barnet went to school there, Mitch Barnet, you know, like Brad, Mitch who's going here. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, you all that sort of stuff. But there's a... Mitch Barnet got some over-the-shirt action with his first girlfriend about year 12, with a bus stop. With a bus stop. Yeah, that bus stop. Oh, really? Mitch Barnet? Bus stop. Yeah, that's the one. What's she doing now? Ah, she's actually the local hairdresser. Really? Yes, you can get your hair cut there. I would just pitch, like, yeah, we have the full Mitch Barnet to it, but before that happens, what would you say we're going to look at? The big log. Mitch Barnet's big log, yeah. It's not a Nate Miles story this one. It's the big log, like genuinely, down in the park, the main park, there's a giant log that's just across, go sort of, I don't know, say, 30, 40 metres. It's big. It's not too dissimilar to a power pole, but like laid down. And it's got a plaque on it, if you'd like me to read what it says. There's a brush that's safe. It's going to be very good, very good. Oh, is it got a logging, has it got a wood history wingum? Well, Sam, the log's been wood for a long time. There's a picture of the big log, I know we're on a podcast, but people can't say that. Just so you guys can get it. Just if you're at home and you want to get a feel for it, just Google Big Log. Actually, add wingum, because I've put wingum in my hotel, dot com. You get two girls, one cup. Safe search on. It says this log symbolises the part plate of the timber industry in the development of the Manning Valley. If cut, it could produce enough decking boards to stretch over four kilometres, which is not that impressive, is it, really? Would you think about it? Get you out of wingum. Yeah. But it made up. I like that they weren't with decking boards too. Yeah. This is the first time wingum have ever had anyone in the state of origin. What a moment for this small little town. What do you think they'll do this week? Well, this is going to be huge. Yeah. Channel 9 is going to have to bring back the Mitch Barnet. Wingum Tigers. Oh. Well, they do that. They do that. They do that. Oh, they still got it? Yeah, they still do that. Yeah, 100%. But could they find, like, I don't know, the relative, the closest relative, like a second cousin, putting on the back of a float, like some kind of tick attack parade, or like, I don't know, an inflatable version of Mitch, or let's hurry the statue up, like get it out now. Well, his brother, Richie Barnet, could be there to present his jersey. Oh, Andrew, who's in the studio here. Andrew Barnet. Hey, we're going to Richie. You've got to Richie to have a look. Right, right. You guys are cousins. Richie, the brother, would have been the go-to. But boys, I just thought, isn't this a great opportunity to just give Wingum a ring? Like, right. A vibe check wingum. Yeah. Oh. Call up wing. Ringum. Ringum. Let's call that ring that four dogs. We're going to ring Wingum. I don't know. We'll call it the local pub, but I'd say Barnet is probably going to be kicked out of the local pub, so. I haven't seen him in a while. I'll ring the footy club, the Wingum Tigers, and they gave me a number of a bloke. We might go to a break, and we'll give him a call. How about that? Hi, I'm Daly Cherry Evans. I'm very rich, and you're not. You're listening to another fucking rugby league podcast. Not sure why, it goes. All right, it's time for this brand-new segment that wasn't in the rundown. It's called Ringum. Wingum. Let's give Wingum a call, Brooksie. All right. Hey, is that Stu Baker from the Wingum Tigers? Speaking. Hello, Stu. It's Steve Philpier from not another fucking rugby league podcast. We just decided to give someone in Wingum a call, and your number fell upon me. The reason we call it, mate, is obviously Big Week in Wingum. Can you tell us what's going on, Wingum, this week? Oh, Big Tiger Town, Big Mitch is on it. Big call up for Oregon. Yeah, beauty! What's happening in the town, mate, are there posters up of Mitch? Are they down a street parade? Is there colouring in competitions with red hair down at the local school? Anything yet? Oh, mate. I think my slice has got the box and glove here. I've gone back to the old days of his under 20 days against Nathan Brown and bring him back to Biff. Yes. We like this. Did you play with Mitch Barnet? No, he wasn't lucky enough, mate. I like that. So you've got 200 first grade games for Wingum Tigers under your belt, mate. If you had five minutes to win Mitch before Origin 3, what wisdom would you pass on from your experience, mate? Because clearly, you know, there's every chance he's going to be a deer in headlights unless he can draw on that Wingum experience. Oh, mate. You've just got to go back to the old William Complex days, mate, running up the grandstand, getting smashed up there, doing the sit-ups on there, the push-ups on there, these old coaches, Troy Atkins, you all want to abuse at them and getting a big knuckle-out, punching them and all that sort of stuff, you know? Yes. I'm sure he'll be sweet, Mitch, he was born for it. He was made for it. He does, see, mate. He'll have the dairy farmer, young dairy farmer coming out at him, and he'll be just a dairy tail. What's the chances of a big screen being erected down near the big log, potentially, or like a live site, Mitch Barnet live site, then he'd chat about that? Oh, I think he'll be handed the keys to the town when he finally comes back, if he's ever let out in New Zealand. I'm surprised I let him out there, actually, but he certainly brought the town to life. That's for sure. Yeah, absolutely. I believe there's only one pub currently, the top pub, so that'll be heaving with people down there. Has Mitch ever been kicked out of there from your knowledge before? What do you think? Is he got a good rap down there? I'd be surprised if he's still letting. Yeah. I'd love to. I'd love if they named the Mitch Barnet bar, like the front bar's just the Mitch Barnet bar, but he's not letting. No. Still barred. You know what you'd be able to do. Yeah. Well, who knows, by the time he gets back and gets back, he might be in for long anyway. Yeah, that's right. He enjoys a good time. Here's what I reckon. I reckon you should do a letterbox drop tomorrow, Stu, and get everyone to deposit sort of five bucks into an envelope in the 14, 15 houses there, aren't we? And let's get on him for either any time tri-scorer, obviously, gamble responsibly, or first time tri-scorer. Get down the top pub, watch it. Imagine the scenes down there, boys, if Barney goes over for a tri or scores the first tri. I know he's on the bench, right? So probably not a chance he'd be scoring the first tri, but it's an origin three. Who knows? It'll be crazy. He's an absolute, absolute, lock for any time, tri-scorer. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Get on. Get on. Yeah. He's screw gamble responsibly. We don't have a sponsor. We don't have to say any other. Hello, boys. Yeah. You can't believe it responsibly. Oh, no. It's something I've never done, so that's what you do. No point changing now, Stu. Thanks for joining us. Before we go, can you give us a little bit of the Wingham Tigers theme song? At all, or the winning song? It's actually off the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on that tune. Is that? Wow. It's T-O-G, E-E-R-S, Wing, and Tigers, obviously. Yeah. So it's obviously, but it's probably still my favorite song in the world. Yeah. Yeah. Edgar would agree to get Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, back together just to do the Wingham Tigers after a win. Right. It is. It's here in Mitch. Just get Mitch to sing it after Origin. Oh, that's it. I'll tell you what. If you watch them blokes singing it after Origin 2, you might as well sing a song that someone knows. None of the boys knew the words. It was great for Brian, trying to whack the esky and no one knew any words. They're all holding the bloody words, shooting all that sort of stuff. So that's probably against the blues, obviously, because we haven't beaten them too often over the last 20 years. Yeah. So we'll be beating them next Wednesday. That's for sure. Also, reading from the front. Reading under pressures of trouble, too, when you're trying to read the words to the song. Yeah. And acapella is weird because they took the boombox, remember? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, stew, Origin time. Who's the Queensland for Wingham? Like who's the team that you guys play twice, maybe three times a year that you just want to give it to and play footy with? Well, I'll be honest. I don't like any of the other clubs going out of there. Yes. Because you guys are groups, right? Yeah. Group three. Yeah. So basically, Wingham just hates the rest of group three rugby league. The band will hear you. Yeah. Well, obviously, we've had a couple of skippers from our group, like Boyd Cordon. Obviously, he was a pirate and then Danny Baderis was a Atari boy, but yeah. That's on the had a real Origin player, though, isn't it? Yeah. Next couple of years. Mitch should be kept on the new South Wales. That would be all good. Then Wingham will get their turn in the sun. Well, Sherry Bagger, thanks for joining us, mate. Good luck on next Wednesday. Where will you be watching the game from? Mate, I'll be at home watching it, and I'll be cheering how I reckon Mitch will nearly be able to hear me from here. Yeah, you're beautiful. Thanks for joining us, mate. Go to Blues. Go to Blues. Philpy. Good guess. Yeah. Thanks, mate. No wonder we're called the people's team. How good's Wingham's up and about for Origin? Just say, Mitch. Did you say, Mitch, this week, earlier in the week? Yeah, how good was that? He's throwing cryptic shade left, right, and center. He loves it. You know, the funny thing is that Queensland were out in Twomba last week, and he's now out like, because Billy's just, you know, a bit rattled off. Are they still Queenslanders? They are still Queenslanders officially. Yep. We'll see in the next few days, but yeah, they were out and about last year, last week because they were up and about, one-nil lead. We're going to Twomba, we're doing there, so we're doing that. And then as soon as they lose, Billy loses his mind in the press, huh? Yeah. And then he's now saying, "Oh, the Blues, we're signing autographs around here." And man, just like, "Yeah, we're up and about. We're the people's team." Loving that, huh? The people's team. You can't call yourself the people's team, like, you can't call yourself, like, where the people's team without asking the people, right? It's like a nickname, right? Yeah, 100%. Well, you did see, you did see Billy at the airport the other day. But he'd made it. Look, down, trodden, slightly. He was a bit glum. He looked up, maybe he was just flying Jetstar. Wow. So which airport were you? Melbourne Airport. Melbourne, yeah. So, yeah. It's hard to leave Melbourne at this time of year to head to Queensland, isn't it? So he lost his there. Jetstar in applause. Yeah. He didn't look happy. No one spoke to him. People walked past him, didn't even double take. I saw Tim Bailey, a former news reader at the airport recently, and just was like, "Fine." Like, no one did that. Like, no one even went near him. Like, it just was like, "Oh, there's Billy, let's leave him alone." Yeah. Who knows which way he's going to go. He's in a mood. He's in a mood. You know what? Billy, download the People's Podcast, and we'll cheer you up, buddy. Yes. Hi. My name is Dempsey Phil, from the South Easton, I'm the 8th, and you're listening to not another f*cking rugby league podcast. I'm only doing this because my dad is making me. I hope I don't get in trouble swearing. Oh, you are on not another f*cking rugby league podcast, Barney, Philpy, and Brookesy, and boys. We'll get into the pointy end of the podcast, so we're going to have to wrap this thing up. What are we looking forward to in the week ahead vis-a-vis the rugby league? Well, I'll go origin. I know whether or not we do another episode of this before we get to decide a bit. One thing I enjoy around this time, and I think it could be up a bit, boys, is the betting that the premiers have when they're significant games, and so I don't know what happened last time. But it's very generic, normally. It's either flag flies on top of the bridge, whether it be the, you know, stories at story bridge, coins at general. Yeah. You know, one of the bridges here, not the spit bridge, they never joke it on the spit bridge, do they? But, like, let's have the game a bit, boys, like, let's, like, oh, here's what I'd like to see. You know, whoever, let's say New South Wales win, then Queensland Premier has to pay for literally every tunnel toll for the next day, or the next week, or whatever. So every time you go through one of the nine million tunnels here in Sydney, it gets paid for. I might finally try the M8. Is there an M8? There's an M8? There's an M8. Oh, mate. Or what about Spencer, though? So, you know, you don't want to accidentally get on the M8. You know what? If the Queensland Premier is paying, oh, I'm M8 all day. You're just doing loops. I've been in that, um, the one going from Para to our area, God's country around, um, they're good. Ranwick down Gardener's Road, and I'm going to back out the home bush, because, you know, when you're in, in there, your GPS is like, just doing circles, and I'm stuck back out. M4. You went M4, M8. I think so. M12. Oh, see, yeah, you, you, you missed your exit. That's, you, you got full M8ed. Right. That's it. That's at least a $35 mistake. Oh, a thousand. Yeah. Like, you go through that. My favourite one is the North Connects. I love that. Because I would travel up to, you know, new cars for quite a lot, and the disco tunnel gets close. Yes. Like, and I know a lot of people's houses were ruined in the making of that, and I appreciate them a lot. Because it is so good. I come up with a line of bumper stickers for it. You know, I'd have sex with the North Connects, was my, because I generously, I would fuck that tunnel. Like, that is a good tunnel. It's nice and deep for you, feel me? Nine and a half grand to go through it, but I'd fucked it. We've got our first bit of merch. What about a, like, I'm going a bit rogue here, but what about a prisoner release? Like, New South Wales gets 5,000 prisoners released if the blues went from Queensland jails. Yeah. Do we get to pick a bit of a whiskey bar? Yeah. So we had a chopper at the border, but they're ready to say it. We get them released, but they've got to be, they're Queensland, we get to pick their Queensland crooks and they've got to stay in Queensland. Yeah. We get the biggest pests in Queensland, released onto the streets of the Gulf Coast. Cop this. We can get Jared Hayne put back in, right? The other thing could be, because, you know, this is all this argument about, like, you know, where's Queensland and, like, you know, we've stolen the players from borders. Like, yeah, yeah. So maybe that, whoever wins this series from here and in, the borders are pushed. So let's say we win again, you know, South Wales, you know, all of a sudden, how many points? Yeah. The border gets pushed further. Correct. Yeah. Yes. We've gotten cool and gutter, cool and gutter gets moved into the tweed area. Yeah. And it becomes our catchment area. We'll take all the good bar areas. We've got to be careful. If we started this 10 years ago, we'd be living, like, the Northern beaches of be Queensland. Oh, I have Byron. Oh, yeah. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Take that. But, like, Cavill Avenue, fuck that can keep that. That's theirs. That's theirs forever. But, um, yeah, boys, what are you looking forward to it this way? Brooks, what are you up to, mate? I want to say, Tommy, at fullback, Tommy to avoid it. Yeah. It was all going to be, uh, he's going to, you know what? He's going to be a center for a while to see what happens. Neck, minute, second game back. He's at fullback. It is because of injury. Colours injured. But, yes, I'm interested to see if he's up and about for fullback with, say, six hamstring injuries for Tommy. Yeah. Can he make it a seventh? Is the question on everyone's lips this way? Bingers crossed, just quietly. Um, yeah. Yeah. I'm looking forward in that game. Um, one of my favourite players is, uh, back, he made a debut about a year ago. Who am I? This is good. He played against the dolphins on debut. His name's Tommy Kent. It's spelt can't. Um, and don't, yeah, just be careful with your top it into your text. Auto corrects them in a different type of mode. Don't ask Siri to look him up. Do not. He's a great little weapon from Maitland. He's hard as nails. Um, did a geek recently where he was. And he's only a little fella, but he's gone from, uh, was it two weeks ago scored 34 points in reserve grade? Wow. And three tries, he's traditionally like a lock forward. I know we're going in a bit of a rugby analysis here, and we promise we wouldn't do this on this show. Um, but I'm pumped about Tommy Kent / can't, um, doing it. Yeah. Right. Well, it's always nice to see a nice name who was also a nice player. Yes. That's good. I like that. And I'm looking forward to hear Vossi shout the name at some point. I like that guy that debuted, uh, many years ago for a new town called Gary Fuckface who just, you know, was, was pretty much a shit bloke, so how many games did he find? Can I, do you reckon we can get a betting partner to, um, because I'd like to put money on how early Tom, uh, Vossi goes, Tommy Kent, yes he can. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's sure. Yeah. What are you looking forward to? Mate. I'm looking forward to, you know, my favorite coaches are all super coaches and the original super coach Wayne Bennett is coaching, uh, well, the dolphins and the rabbitos this, this week. Oh come on. Ben Horn be his on fire jets, former dragon five straight wins. Is there been a better caretaker coach in history? He's not coaching me. Yeah. He's not the coach at all. How do you think the vibe is going to be between the players? It's like, you know, when like, you know, dad's new family meets dad's old family like the kids are they going to get along like, I don't, I don't want you to Google those videos either. Just quietly Brooks. He is sicko steps. Right. Well, but, but yeah, do you, do you reckon there's going to be a bit of a vibe of like, you know, like both teams looking going, dad, like, you know, because Souts, if you're a South player, it's been a bit of a, because he's especially at the moment with, you know, there's been some injuries, there's some origin outs, there's some guys probably a bit on the bubble in both squads, like, are you look, if you're a South player playing this weekend, are you looking to have a blinder of a game and like defeat Wayne Bennett's current team to maybe get in his mind that you're a guy to hang around next year? Or do you sort of want to go well, but not so well, you piss him off? Well, the, the person that's been bubbled, Damien Cook, where we are for a big game against the team, you've sent me to the dragons of all times. Yeah, 100%. I'm going to give it to you this week. Do you good? I'd like to see the borough get up and about in a tribute to Ben Horn, because like he, as you said, he formed a dragons player. Dragons are well known. Probably ship captain. Probably ship captain. Well known, the dragons fan. Oh. 2010. 2010. Who was his coach? Way better. Oh, the circle is complete. Gentlemen. Stepchild. Yeah. So yeah, he's even the coach out there's looking over going dad. It is. The dragons are that far behind the worries in terms of their, those posters and the big banners. Yes. Like they're, they're probably the second best team. Yeah. For banners. Um, compared to Boris. And I'd love to see, maybe that's what they do this week, the, you know, the rabbits get out there in the tribute to Ben Hornby, dragon style with, you know, am I making you Hornby baby or like. Me so Hornby. Me so. Me love rabbit. Well, there was, that was the dragons one. Yeah. Yeah. Me so Hornby. Me love dragons long time. There you go. I don't know if it's a 2024. That banner would be allowed in chaos stadium this week. No. Most rabbit is fans. We know. We know. I can't spell anything. Few F's in there. Yeah. All right, boys. Plenty to look forward to for the week, but yes, we, we're going to leave with a fun fact. I've always, I think that the best way to end the podcast is just to leave our listeners with a fact that, you know, when that, that moment gets silent at the pub, you, or you're hanging around in a social situation and you just need the little conversation starter. This is what I think this, this segment can be. We give our listeners a fact just to start a little conversation when it lulls. Now I like to keep it sport based. I've got one for this week. Are you guys happy for me to impress you with my knowledge? I'm ready. Anything that makes me smarter. I'm a big fan of. All right. Let me give you a drum roll. Oh. Wow. I didn't even notice the drums, you had a set of drums in here and you, he played that live just quietly. It's amazing. Now, now, gentlemen, the great game of golf, we think of it's been around a long time. Well, golf was actually banned in England in 1457. Just that year? Yeah. Well, it was banned for a period because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery. Wow. Yeah. So King James II, he was worried that his subjects weren't practicing their archery enough during England's ongoing wars with Scotland, which is a couple of, like, sneaky of the Scottish to introduce this game of golf that then distracts them. Do you think that's what's going on with TikTok and Shauna? Oh. Oh, I thought you were going to say AFL in Victoria. Yeah. You think they're going to try to... Have you been to JWS games recently? No, you haven't. Of course. Oh, it has. Yeah. No, but the question I had, this is a good conversation to start out. What sport would you blokes ban temporarily or even permanently if you had so that people in your life or you can focus on something more important? Golf and archery? No. I'm interested by that. So like the archery, they weren't doing the archery for sport. It was... Well, the... So the archery was... The archery, obviously, was target practice, but you want your archers. You want your people well-versed in their archery. If there's going to be a bunch of Scots coming down the hill in their kilts. Well, why didn't King James II just give golf a try, you know? Archers. Golfers. You know? Who knows? Like it could have been just maybe the front line of attacks at golfers and the archers come in. You know what the English are like though. They're all about etiquette. You know that those guys are going to hit it at the Scots and then be like, "For!" Yeah. Don't you reckon this could have been the first-ever driving range? Yes. And actually, you know, they've just got the blokes and some cans just out there, smacking balls into some people, like ultimate time then, following, like you said, bringing the archers. You could say like the archery driving range, right? It's the same thing. You've got your bag of arrows. Yeah. You're sitting there. Yeah, your quiver. Yeah, your quiver. And you're just launching them. And then, yeah, you're having a couple of... What would you drink back then? A flag and a... Need? No, one. No, one. Oh, one. How'd you shoot 'em? Meanwhile, the Australian army just had shang eyes, you know, a bit of wood carved out. Do you ever have a shang eye when you were a kid? Oh, no. I didn't. No, Barney. No. Did make a bow an arrow as a kid? Never a shang eye. Oh, mate. We were mad. Maybe it was a newy. I don't know. Like, we... And you used to hide the shang eye in the bushes with the porn magazines too, like... Oh, that's wing-a-maries, aren't you? I'm going to be honest. That does sound like... It does sound like a euphemism. We went up there and hid the shang eye and down. Oh, good on you. What a weekend. I got a sport. Cycling. Oh, yeah. You know what... I could do without the tours. Yeah. And I could do without the attempted tours in Centennial Park. Oh. Every weekend. Actually, I think I'm going to go with you because to get in here, I have to, or to get almost anywhere from south, you have to go past the airport through the airport's town, and when you get stuck behind a panel of homes on a weekend, it is just an absolute nightmare. Some of you, let's ban the cycling. Yeah. Junkies on bikes. Like, that's it. They are really high. You know those people, like... And it's so common. Like, my mother-in-law or father-in-law, they're mad for the tour de France, and they'll say, "We watch it for the scenery." And it's like, "Fucking, watch getaway." Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. "Watch travel guides." Like, that's a show with his scenery. You watching blokes on bikes, like, there's lycra, there's testicles in your face. I'm sure you can just find drone footage over the French countryside on YouTube, too, like, it's not... Yeah. It's like those creepy Aussies that watch Copa America when Columbia and Argentina are in, and they're not watching the game, they're just watching the cutaways to the crowd. Yeah. It's going, "God, I want to go to Bogota." Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! Bogota! All right. Well, that is not another rugby league podcast, not another fucking rugby league podcast for this week. With a whole bunch of other shit that you didn't really ask for. Boys. It's been a fun one. Yeah. Big shout out to Jonas Holt, who helped us out with a couple of those fake little ads. A fantastic committee, Larry's voice on his podcast a few times. Thank you, boys. That was fun. Thank you. Brooke, see you bye-bye. See you, gents. [music]