The Continuous Call Team – Full Show Sunday 4th August 2024 02:05:48

Now, live, right across Australia, the continuous Colt team. They go short, second man play, back to Nene. Oh, Felt's going to get a hat-trick, and he does! A little second man play out the back, beautiful skill from Nene. He finds Carl Felt in the corner, he gets a hat-trick, and he's in the back.

And the Cowboys are going to win tonight. With Mark Levy, Daryl Broman, Mark Riddell and Neil Breen. Queensland is the place. To better herself. You know what? I reckon you'll end up there, Levy, after you sell your restaurant. Your mum lives there. All I'm going to say to you two dribblers is this. Who won the State of Origin Series? Ah, you.

Who are white 14 of the last 17, Orison Searing? We're living in the present, you dribblers. No, we're not. We're living in the past, you idiot. Hello, any chance of a bit of support? Half my family are living quits. They're all moving up there. Piggy's going up there when he sells his kids. Oh, yeah. You're moving up there too. No. Piggy's got a pool guy on the golf course. Yes, I do.

Live sport and laughter right across your weekend. Ray, can I ask you one question? I was talking to Sophie, your wife, earlier today. Is it true you're calling this cycling? Because Sophie told me that you packed your Lycra gel foam padded seat pants to call in. Listen, when you start calling my wife, that's when she'll need counselling. Then you'll need to get another job.

The second thing is, you've been talking to those two dickheads. I'll never tell them at this time of the night. The Continuous Call Team. Thanks to Maccas, Harvey Norman, Ram Trucks, Ducks Hot Water, All.com, Bryden's Lawyers, Uber, Lowe's, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Westpac and Coles. We were getting into arguments, Big Willis and I, because he's like, Dad...

put it on the fencing. I'm like, no way in the world. No offence to fencing, but we've got the swimming coming up. I'm watching that every day of the week, the swimming, and then the basketball was on, I think, nine now. But he goes to me, Dad, put it on the fencing. I love big swords. LAUGHTER Are you serious? Yes. Don't want to call you Big Willis. LAUGHTER

And now on 2GB Sydney, 4BC Brisbane and network stations across Australia, it's time for the Continuous Call Team. Ah yes, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Welcome along to this Sunday afternoon with the Continuous Call Team as we wrap up the Harvey Norman Women in League round. We've got a couple of games coming your way this afternoon starting off at 2 o'clock.

with Penrith up against the Newcastle Knights from the foot of the mountains. And then at Belmore, the Canterbury Bulldogs up against the Canberra Raiders. And we'll have Darren Flindell, the voice of Sydney Racing, along to call all of the action at 4.05, the Bulldogs and the Raiders. And I had a chat to Darren this morning, making sure that he's ready to rock and roll. And I simply put the question to him, you know, are you ready to rock and roll?

Can he do it? Yeah, well, can you do it? I suppose that's the question. Yes! There's history! So we're looking forward to Darren being here a little bit later on to call the rugby league and he'll be along as well to add to some of the fun and frivolity that we expect with the continuous call team. Last night, Sharks over Rabbitohs, 20 points to 6.

The Titans beat the Broncos 46 points to 18. But what about the St. George Illawarra Dragons? 18-16 over the Melbourne Storm at Amy Park in Melbourne. Gee, I reckon Coach Flanagan will be happy. And Ben Hunt will be joining us in the first hour of the program. So we'll talk more about all of the footy. Have a stack of fun this afternoon. And we'd love to hear from you on 131873. You can email us via the website. And you can text us 0460 873 873. 24 minutes left in the NRLW match.

being played at Allianz Stadium. Cronulla 12, Parramatta 10. 12-10 the score. Cronulla leading Parramatta as we take you around the grounds for all.com. Let's welcome the continuous call team. Daryl Broman is here ready to take Darren under his wing and guide him through this football game this afternoon. Big Man, good afternoon to you. Well, Levi, good afternoon to you. I'm exhausted as well today.

Late night again, listening, listening, listening. I know Piggy's exhausted. What's happened to you, Piggy? I got 12 hours sleep, Big Man. I've overslept. Greeny, how are you? Actually, I was up a little bit late and up early. I've watched a lot of Olympics. I mean, I've OD'd on it. LAUGHTER

And I've listened a lot too, Levy. Yes. It's been amazing. It has been. Dead set. It's been so good, you and the boys, overnight. Thank you. And the team behind the scenes, the boys and girls. It's been a lot of fun. A lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. The thing about the Olympics is... Hold on, you haven't been introduced yet. You don't know where it's coming from, do you? Yeah, you do. It's from Paris. But you don't know what...

Their stuff just happens. Yeah. Well, that's in life, mate. Stuff just happens sometimes. You've just got to roll with it. Not that thick and fast. Look, with regards to Darren Flindell, who I don't know him very well, but I've listened to his calls for a number of years. I do have a slight issue with how he's going to call the football. Because as a race caller, you know how you look at their colours and you know the name and you associate colours with the names. Right. I feel as though he's going to have to take a different tact when it comes to rugby league because it...

All the 17 have got the same colours. I don't know if he'll be able to differentiate between who's who, you know, because they're all different. He can't call the same bloke 17 times in 17 different positions. You know where I'm coming from? Yeah, I'm with you. It's going to be a bit different for him. They have different coloured boots and things. Has he studied that yet, though? Well, when you talk about study, I'm reliably told that he was standing in front of the television last night with his binoculars trying to learn the colours. LAUGHTER

I thought you were saying... Leave him alone. Wicks, wicks, wicks, wicks, wicks. You're putting him under the palm trying to find part of his body. Where the hell is that? Do you really think that we're going to be... You blokes are going to be nice to him when he walks in at four o'clock? It's every man for himself on this show. You're telling me he doesn't need to use the binoculars here in the interactive studio? He's going to be looking around, oh, look at that. This is a big run. What if the phone rings? Yes, hello, broadcaster. LAUGHTER

No, I doubt if he'll stuff it up, but there's always a chance. He'll be all right. Well, Sarah, that was great footy yesterday. Enjoyed all the games. The Broncos, they're done and dusted. They've got no spirit at all at the moment, the Broncos and the Titans.

I think they've won five of their last six. They are making a little bit of a charge towards the semis. And, you know, a few sides not wanting them in there because they've got some good players in good form at the moment. The game we called Melbourne and the Dragons was a fantastic game of football. The Dragons were outstanding, simply outstanding. They did everything that the coach would have wanted them to do. I think they...

They didn't lead all the time. Melbourne scored the first try, and I thought we were a bit worried about that there because it was a bit simple. It was Harry Grant scoring it off a break, I think, from Jerome Hughes.

But after that, the Dragons really knuckled down and they were great. I thought Ben Hunt was great. He's coming on the show. Jadon Sewer was outstanding. And Terrell Sloan at fullback was good as well. But they were all good. It was a good game of football. The other one, I listened to the boys on the way home and then I watched the second half. Sharks did enough to beat the Bunnies, but I didn't think they were that impressive. All right, Darrell, thank you. James at Concord says, Mark, races are two to three minutes.

Will Darren be pooped after five minutes? He can't go too early. He'll be fine. You don't want him to go too hard too early. Story of his life. By the way, on the Penrith-Newcastle game, Matt Eisenhuth will start at prop, Lindsay Smith to the bench. Lurin Patea is the 18th man. Mitch Kenny playing his 100th game. While for Newcastle, they're 1-17, the 18th man, Thomas Kent.

There, of course, thanks to Coles. Win with the Winter of Sports giveaway on now at Coles. That is the first game this afternoon. Piggy, the Dragons, the front page of the Sunday Sport Liftouters. Party like it's 1999. Dragons in 25-year storm curse as race to finals hits fever pitch. Yeah, good afternoon, Mark, to Big Mar, Barini, and to our listeners. Yeah, it was a great performance from them last night, obviously.

Hadn't won down there in such a long period of time. So well done to Flenno and the Dragons. Obviously, they sit themselves in the top eight for the time being. And they've done that. That was a huge performance from them yesterday afternoon. Big Man obviously covered that one. Sewer and Benny Hunt, they were great for the Dragons. I thought defensively they were...

very good and hopefully over the next few weeks they can win a few more and get themselves a position in the top 8 what I liked about yesterday afternoon's footy was the game before the Gold Coast Titans and the Broncos you know what was nice it was nice to see a packed Gold Coast Stadium and a nice day and the fans actually turned out to support them I know there was a double header on the girls played beforehand I think so well done to the Gold Coast Titans they're in some form so

So just had a look at their run. They've probably got three games there that they, you know, would think that they're on 22. They're on 22. They play the Sharkies at home next Friday night. Then they've got Dragons, Roosters, Knights, Penrith. So they've got, you know. They've got two of the big guns. Yeah, they've got two of the big guns, but the other three they would like their chances. The other thing with that is,

I think everyone will be watching the Gold Coast Titans thinking, I don't want to play or take on the Gold Coast Titans because of the form they're in. So, going to be interesting. It's great today. Today's footy, all the games have got, you know, they've got a bearing on the top eight and the position.

positions for everyone. Panthers, you know, they're on at 2 o'clock and then this big game at Belmore, Bulldogs up against the Raiders. Now the Dragons won last night. The Raiders, they really need to win this one and the Bulldogs obviously searching for a top four spot. Thank you, Piggy. Grant says, Levy, I didn't realise that Darren Flindell called exactly like Rabs when Big Man impersonated him a moment ago. I'm sure it was Rabs' full brother. Yeah, well, that's the way he talks. He talks like that, doesn't he? Have you heard him talk? He's American. No.

That's the way Darren Findale calls. Have you heard him? Chautauqua. Have you heard it? Yes. If he doesn't throw a Chautauqua in today, I'm walking out. Length of the field. Length of the field. Try. 300 metres to go. Only 100 metres, Boo. Only 100 metres. Neil Breen is here. Breeny, afternoon to you. Good afternoon, everybody. Yeah, look, I've got to say, out of all that football yesterday, and I know you should

concentrate on the positives and that's the Titans performance. Don't bring up the Broncos. The Broncos. Bring it up the Broncos. What's doing? What's doing there? Wow. Like it's almost unable. They did lose a couple. They started well and then lost a couple. But look, you know, that happened yesterday. But what about the rest of the season? The 8 and 12, it just never really got cooking for them. Did it season 2024 and...

and maybe that grand final loss that they should never have lost has taken a toll and there's been a few other issues around the camp. Anyway, I can't get over it. I'll tell you what, though. I've invested heavily in the Olympics. Financially? Actually, I did. I told you last weekend that you can win money on swimming and I did. Well, Peggy almost did. Yeah, I took your advice there, Brady. Hang on, what was the advice?

Odds on pops. A lot of the odds on pops, you've just got to back the right ones and you just put them all together. I just got stuck into the Frenchman. Marchand? Yeah, Marchand. And then, see, he was $3 in the $200. Sounds like a few in the village have too, just quietly. Because of that Milak, because of the Milak, the Romanian, he was $3 in that $200 butterfly, and I just said to myself, he's going to win, and I used him as an anchor. And can I tell you what I spent a bulk of the money on? What?

Well, Friday night, whenever I have a win, because I only bet small, and so a win for me is a few hundred bucks. Whenever I have a win, we get Chinese. So the family's gone big on the Chinese Friday night. Then last night...

Harry Breen, my wife, the expert restaurant reviewer and food editor of the Weekend Australian magazine. We went to a restaurant, boys. Do you want to know what it was called? Where did you go? Pronto at Sylvania. Oh, yes, yes. Did you give it a rating? Have you done a review? Oh, boy. And wasn't the Levi under pressure?

And so what happened was, I went through the whole process and made the booking in secret, you know, where you go online and make the booking and all this. It was all very professional. Did you take a cameraman with you? No, no, I wasn't. I had a hidden camera. I had a hidden camera. No, I didn't. And so Lizzie and Harry and I went down there. Firstly, I want to tell you two blokes, you can shut up forever and a day.

There is so much parking out the back of that restaurant, we could have taken our choice. Thank you. Right? Thank you. Yeah, out the back. Heaps of parking. We weren't talking about it. I want to park out the front. No, you don't want to park out the front. Oh, listen to you, Jim. But we went, and it was fantastic. We really enjoyed it. And I told Ollie, Levy's partner, I said, don't tell Levy we're here. Mm-hmm.

Right, because I want to sort of spring it on him on the show tomorrow. I actually wanted to make him crap his pants that my wife, the restaurant expert, was eating at his restaurant. We really, really enjoyed it. She and I ate off the Balkan menu. Harry had a Hawaiian pizza. Absolutely fantastic. But I've got something I want to raise. I didn't tell Levi I was there. And I told Ollie not to tell him. And actually...

As I walked out the door of the restaurant, my phone, and this is about, well, we went early because we've got Harry, the 10-year-old. So we're leaving about quarter past seven. My phone goes, and I go, who's this? And it's the phone, Mark Levy's ringing. And I show it to Lizzie. I said, it's Levy.

I said, oh, Ollie must have given me up, right, his partner. So I answer and I said, Neil from Paddington. I was trying to make out I wasn't there. And he goes, I know where you are. I said, oh, did Ollie give me up? He goes, Levi says, oh, no, I looked on, logged onto the security cameras and I saw you there. I was like, so I'm going to call him Big Brother for the rest of the afternoon. This is Big Brother. Yeah.

Stalking you. What's he watching on those cameras? Well, see, because I'm the licensee, I need to have access to the place all the time. And there was a fairly large crew in there last night for a birthday, I thought. The place was chockers. Chock-a-block. The first two weekends have been fully booked and packed. It's been fantastic. So, look, the staff are still finding their feet and learning the systems and everything else. So there's going to be a few little issues. There is.

The thing is, everyone's raving about the food, which is fantastic. Mate, so what happened was we had off the Balkan menu, we've eaten... You've stolen a menu? You think they're free? They're not free. How much does a menu cost you to print one of them, Lee? I don't know. Give that back.

I can't read what I... How dare you? I don't know. So we had the salma, which is the stuffed cabbage leaves with meat and rice. I love that. This one here, the paprika-flavoured white beans as well. That's tavsi-gravesy. Tavsi-gravesy. We had garlic prawns. We had the signature calamari fritti. And you know how 10-year-olds are hard markers? Harry said, this is the best calamari I've ever had. And we had the ham and pineapple pizza. Nice. Fantastic. And...

What's the drink you've got on tap that Lizzie got? Water. Oh, the Aperol Spritz is on tap. Oh, the Spritz, yeah. It's on tap. I tell you what, I've had to put an order in for two more kegs. You know you've had a big fat week when you've got to order a couple of more kegs. Aperol Spritz kegs. Unbelievable. Your beers are cheaper than the RSLs. A few of the blonde eight bucks, straight northern eight bucks. Well, like I said, Darrell, from the get-go, we want to make it affordable for people to go in and... It was. And before everyone jumps down, we are advertising on 2GB after the Olympics, so yes, we've become advertisers. And I went there.

And thank you, Brodie, for the support. No worries. And I told my wife, I gave my wife the card to pay with all the money we won on Marchand, the great Frenchman, my new favourite person on the planet. And then Ollie gave us a discount and didn't charge us for drinks, which I didn't want him to do because I wanted to pay properly. And then Lizzie's ponied up the 20% tip for the staff. Whoa. On my card. Look, I'm on the subject of money. You know, I went in the other day with Jamos. Yeah. I shouted him lunch. Yeah.

I'm just looking on your menu and I've only just noticed this. He had the dearest product on the menu. What, when you said you'd shout? Yeah, the dearest thing on the menu. Like I had a...

Well, it wasn't crappy, but I had a little bacon and egg roll at $12. Yeah, small one. He's got a sea lion steak. 38 big ones. Steaks aren't cheap at the moment. The prices are reasonable, Levy. Well, that's what we've said from day one. We just want to make it affordable for people. Yeah. Because, you know, times are tough, so... Really good. We want people to go out and look after themselves and get a good feed. So thank you for supporting us. Because obviously, it's no secret, I live in the eastern suburbs. You know what the worst part about last night was? Parking? When we drove there...

It was about quarter past five in the ARV. We stupidly went through Brighton and La Sands. Oh, no. There's a trap for young players. There was like a light being beamed onto our car that said, biggest idiots in Sydney tried to drive through Brighton and La Sands on a Saturday evening. Yeah, you don't do that. What's everyone doing there? They do laps. They just do laps. Go round and around. Round and around. Coles to Coles. Coles Ramsgate, Coles Brighton. That's what they do. Round and round. I go through there all the time.

Like, if I'm driving home tonight, I'll go through that. Yeah, but not on a Saturday night. That's where I got caught.

Should I go on up through Rockdale? I've gone right earlier. I just need to be patient. Well, I wasn't patient. I thought I was late for the booking and everything. We're underway. 131873. The number you can email us via the website. You can text us as well. 0460 873 873. And look, I need to congratulate the big man Paul Gallen and Chris Warren because I'm reliably told not only has Leaping Libby Trickett become a social media superstar, that Paul Gallen has become a social media superstar after he

fell off his chair yesterday. And if you missed it, this is what happened. What's happened? There's man down. Penalty dragons. Man down. Shoot you. What's happened? With the dust. Gallants down. He was trying to pirouette around. Pick him up. He fell off the chair. I'm okay. There's medics. Medics. Get someone in here. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay.

Chris Warren still, he didn't know it had happened. He was still trying to call the game, Chris Warren. I love how he tried to shush her. Like everyone wanted to hear the footy. They wanted to know what had happened to Cal.

So what a gal. I watched it on social media. He was sitting in that chair and he went to lean back and he just tipped over. Well, there's a little lever here and you can change it, see how it leans back like that. Yeah. And he went off it. See, and you just fix it back up and it tightens up again. He's become a social media superstar and a few listeners have reminded me via social media it was like the day the late, great Bob Fulton took a tumble. Oh, there's been a fall of the immortals. Immortals gone. Immortals gone.

The broadcast box is full of danger.

It can get you in strife And one could control the laughter One get Bozo some ice Pop the immortals down And you can see it It's gone viral, he's a clown Now he's on campo In his dressing gown Pop the immortals down Bo's had his pick with Kross on some He showed the team Then he was gone

He looks like a fish out of water flapping on the ground. So funny we cry about the immortals.

And I vividly remember it. He was sitting where Brainy was sitting and he had the McGrath Foundation pink socks on. We were dancing about something and he fell into the corner and we all thought, oh, no. But thankfully he was okay. But the following week he came in on crutches and we thought, oh, no, the immortal, what's happened here? And then he said, gotchas, and threw all of the crutches away and he got us all right, the late, great Bob Fulton. We're off to a break. We'll come back with plenty more, including the Dragons' Captain Ben Hunt.

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Mark Piggie-Riddell, the big man, Darrell Broman, Neil Breen, Mark Levy, the continuous call team. Well, as we've touched on, the St. George Illawarra Dragons picked up their first victory over the Storm in Victoria since 1999. And the front page of that Sunday sport lift out in the Telegraph sums it up perfect. Party like it's 1999. Dragons in 25-year Storm curse as race to finals hits fever pitch. Their captain is Ben Hunt, and I'm pleased to say he joins us on the line. G'day, Benny.

G'day guys, how are you? Mate, really well. Congratulations on the win last night. The coach must be delighted. You blokes must be rapt to go down there and knock off the Melbourne Storm. Yeah, extremely excited, mate. I haven't had a lot of luck down there in Melbourne for quite some time, so it's always nice to finally get a win down there and I guess probably give ourselves a good chance to push for the finals now. Hey Benny, really nice combination with Jadon Seward last night, mate. He had a big night for you.

Yeah, definitely, mate. I think that's close to Jadon's best game for the year. He had a really hot start to the season, which I saw him get picked for some origin footy. I think he'll be the first to admit that it's formed it a little bit. But last night he was red hot, mate. I'm really proud for him. It's a great team performance. Ben, how do you explain the Dragons' performance

win one, lose one situation. It's happened. It's been happening for at least the last six weeks and probably happened most of the year. You play good one week and next week sometimes you get just hammered. How do you explain that? Yeah, it's a tough one being mine and a very frustrating one to be honest. It's not just week to week. It can be in games, you know, half to half. We can come out and have some really good first halves and then completely die in the second half and vice versa. So it's

You know, something that we've definitely got to address. You know, I think last night was our best, you know, complete 80-minute game. You know, we didn't phase out of the game at all. So that's, you know, something we can take a lot of confidence in. We know we can do it. It's just about getting our attitude right to turn up and do it each week.

Yeah, Ben, it's Neil Breen. I suppose talking about that inconsistency, a guy like Tyrell Sloan is a case in point. He can be a world beater at his best and he can dazzle the entire competition and yet he can make flaws. And we know that there was some well-publicized stuff in recent weeks. How do you harness a guy like him and the rest of those younger fellas?

Yeah, mate, we all know the talent Tyrell's got. You know, we love to see him. You know, it's just about getting him involved in the game. You know, as young kids, you know, and I was the same myself, you can really just fall out of a game and not really realise it. It'll pass you by. So, you know, I try and take a bit more responsibility and get him involved in games myself. But, you know, as we saw last night, the more we can get the ball in his hands, the better it is for us. So, you know, just keep...

working hard with him and getting his confidence up. Mate, where are you at? You've been unsettled there for a while, 12 months ago with the Dragons. Where are you at now? I know you've always been completely focused on them, but there was a lot of talk about you wanting to go to the Gold Coast or whatever. Are you completely focused with them now? Has Flano turned that around for you? Yeah, I'm completely focused, mate, and always have been on my actual footy there. It was more about the off-field stuff that...

Just before we take the mickey out of your coach, because he's a great mate of ours, Ben, we better give him a wrap, because...

You know, you have a look at what he's been able to do in a very short period of time as the head coach of St. George of Lawara. And, you know, we don't need to declare here that we're friends of his, but we said from, you know, day one when he got the job, he'll work his magic because, you know, he's done it before. He did it at the Sharks. And by the looks of things he's doing at St. George of Lawara, can you give the fans a bit of an insight into what he's been able to do sort of behind the scenes with senior players, younger players, the off-field stuff in turning the Dragons around? What's been the main thing he's done for you guys?

Oh, look, there's been a number of things. Obviously, you know, he's brought in a few new recruits. We've got a lot of new staff in there. He's changed a few things we do. But, you know, I think it just gives all the players a lot of confidence, a lot of belief that they can do their job. You know, some of these chats he has during the week around training and then, you know, pre-game, he really puts a lot of belief in boys that they can just go out and if they play their best footy, then we can win games.

Win some footy matches and that's what last night was about. He didn't talk about winning the game so much as he talked about if we play our best performance as a team, we'll give ourselves a chance. That's what we did last night. Alright, well we've wrapped him, now we can bag him. No, I've never heard that part of him. Paul Gowland works with us too, Ben, and when Gow played under Flannau, he said that

In team meetings, he'd forget players' names. For instance, Cameron Smith, greatest player we've probably seen in the modern-day game. We've got to get this wood duck. We've got to get the wood duck. We've got to give it to the wood duck, blah, blah, blah. I note last night Flano struggled with Nelson Osofa-Solomona's name. Here he is. Go out there and make tackles and put yourself in front of Nelson Osofa-Solomona running hard and...

He's an idiot. So, Ben, I take from that he's still struggling with opposition names? Yeah, mate, he's not the first coach that's come undone with a lot of names, but, yes, he completely forgets sometimes. And the best one he's probably got is Wood Duck, or the other one is if someone's got a headgear on, he just calls them the helmet. He's got the helmet. Wasn't he trying to buy Nelson a sophomore? LAUGHTER

Too good. Well, Ben, we really appreciate you giving up some time on this Sunday, mate. Your supporters are delighted and you boys should be as well. Let's hope it continues and it looks like you're on track to play some finals footy, which is great news for the club. Appreciate your time.

No worries, guys. Appreciate you having me on. Good on you, mate. That's Ben Hunt, the St George Illawarra Dragons captain and thankfully an easy name for Shane Flanagan to remember. Jeez, he wouldn't want to stuff that one up. It's close to a few dangerous ones, isn't it? Wow. As opposed to the big fella down there at Melbourne. Go out there and make tackles and put yourself in front of Nelson Osofamona running hard. LAUGHTER

Shade will be listening. That won't be replayed much. Did he do the sideline coverage as well for that game last night, Levy? Because he was doing a few things last night. Flaneau is very busy with that, obviously, at the end of the game. Well, you wouldn't have actually heard it. No. They went down...

Fox was calling the game last night. We were calling it as well. And thankfully, Shane donates a lot of his time to us when he's available to speak to us. Donates? Well, last night he did it for free, Darrell. Really? And we went down to him and we just said, Shane, how's that playing surface look? What's the field look like?

Yeah, the actual surface has got, you know, grass right across it, as you would expect at this stadium, but it is wet. The grass is wet. First grade rugby league games. He might have been doing that last night because it was a bit slippery down to the grass there. LAUGHTER

Oh, stand by for a text message from Shane. We're off to a break back with more. Well, right on cue, text message from Shane Flanagan. Hey, mate, just got home. What's doing? I said, all good. We just bagged you with your captain, Nelson Osofamona. Well done, super coach, on last night's win. What about the smother? Hey, mate, just got home. What's doing? As if he didn't hear it. You were listening, Shane. You were listening. I've had a few emails and text messages, and, Darrell, just repeat what you said because Darren Flindell's –

on the line. He's about to head into the interactive studio for the football this afternoon. Calling football is going to be very different for him, obviously. It's not easy to do it, and only the best can do it, and I'm sure he will be able to do it. But, Darren...

Mate, the thing is, all the players have got the same colours on in this game. Right? So the games we're calling, there'll be 17 players on each side with the same colours, so you can't call them all the same name. The other thing too, Darrell, is a few people have said, is he going to inject a bit of humour into the call? And he does that in racing, Brady. You're a racing man. Oh, he's funny. People would be familiar with this bloke who was arrested plenty of years ago. Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest.

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? Oh, that's a nice headlock, sir. Oh, yes. I see that you know your judo well. So off the back of that, the Democracy Manifest bloke, there's a horse called Democracy Manifest. And Democracy Manifest is getting his split, and McDonald's starting to execute his judo there on the favourite...

And Democracy Manifest moved up to join Italian informant. They beat off acidity and then came real key. It's Democracy Manifest in front with 100 metres to run from Italian informant. But gentlemen, this is democracy.

Democracy Manifest. Succulent Chinese meals all around. Democracy Manifest beat Italian Informant at Assiduity's run third. He's very good, and he'll be in the chair. He's got plenty. Look, I heard him. I spoke to him last week at the Roosters match at Allianz, so we had a good chat there. And then I heard him on...

on Sky Racing, and he was saying that he has been studying the players intently and looking at their boot colours and all sorts of things so that under pressure, he can go that person, that person. You know, and one of the real issues for callers is a lot of the Pacifica players that play in the middle, in the heat of the battle in the middle...

are hard to distinguish from each other when you haven't been calling matches week in, week out for years and years and watching these kids come through. But can you stop putting him under pressure? Don't worry, he's still going to work with me and you, big man. I was going to say, Brady, that's not the most pressure. It's dealing with these two alongside you. Darren Flindell's on the line. Hello, Boom. Yes, hello, boys. I'm ready to go. I was just wondering, should I bring a couple of milk crates with me to sit on? I believe there was an incident with a chair last night. Yeah.

You can start playing with Darren's chair. I will. But your chair will be ready to go. Don't worry about bringing anything in. Yours will be ready to go. Just don't feel too worried, though. Like David Morrow when he was calling the football with us, Darren, David just used to give him a little kiss on the forehead, a little stroke of the hand to make sure he's calling well and all that sort of thing. But are you ready to go, mate? Is it true you've been standing in front of the television with binoculars learning the colours? Yes.

No, no, but I have been watching the last couple of games of the Raiders and also the Bulldogs, so I hope I've got the names in my head and I can recognise them on site. As you were touching on, I guess when you're in a little bit of trouble like a race caller, sometimes you're looking for something to distinguish one similar-looking person from the other, and maybe you're looking at boots or bandages. The headgear's brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant. But, yeah, just I guess those little things you might look for if you're under a bit of pressure. You'll be right, mate. You'll be right. I'm looking forward to it. And as a bloke who loves his suburban grounds, the game at Belmore is the one that you'll be calling. So that'll have a great feel to it. Big crowd and, mate, you'll be brilliant. So I'll let you get ready and we'll see you in here this afternoon in the McDonald's Interactive Studio.

Terrific. Really looking forward to it. Good on you, mate. Good calling this afternoon. That's Darren Flindell, voice of Sydney Racing, and he'll be here this afternoon. And, of course, one of his great calls was that great horse Chautauqua that stormed down the outside, and I think it was a TJ. Here it is. It's English and Felsweep fighting it out. Chautauqua very late. It's English a half length in front. Can he do it? Chautauqua. He's flying. Yes. There's history. Chautauqua makes it three in a row. They've won.

That is unbelievable. It was a great call, bringing you that one. It was a great call that matched a great run because the horse was down and out the back. And the fact that he was grey, Flindell spotted him. Look, I don't know, and I've watched races since I was a tiny kid. I mean millions of them. I have no idea how race callers do it. I find it so daunting and so impossible a task. And they're just so skillful.

You'd think they would find calling the league easier, wouldn't you? You'd think so. But I think, you know. Because Davo was a great race caller as well. Yeah, for sure. For sure he was. But I reckon, you know, one of the things in league calling is to use you guys. Hmm.

Why wouldn't you? Like if I was here and say Chris Warren didn't read the roster or something and was a little bit late and I suddenly had to call the game, I'd go, okay, here they come in the Melbourne Storm. They've kicked off. They go to the northern end of the ground, Darrell. Well, I'm glad you've mentioned it. That was a quick one. You sound a bit discombobulated there. I'm glad you've mentioned that.

Chris Warren didn't turn up on Friday night. What's wrong with that bloke? I'll say this, right. So I'm in the Olympic studio and I'm doing a rowing race which goes seven minutes and I'm about to... Great call too, just quietly. Well, thank you. But I'm about to blow... Like, I'm about to explode. Seven minutes in rowing and we're on radio. You've got to paint that picture. Yeah.

So I've looked to my left and there's all these people standing at the door and it was like they had a morbid look about them. I think, oh, who's passed away here? Someone's dead or something's happened. I've opened the door and they went, Libby, can we speak to you? What's happened? What have I done?

Chris Warren isn't here. We need you to call the first half of the 40s. We were worried about who we had to tell him because we knew he'd be angry. Did you cop it all right? He did. It wasn't their fault. Look, admittedly, I wasn't impressed, but we just did it. You did well. I didn't even know who was playing. I walked in here and said, righto, who's playing? Away we go. This is a press conference. I've got some questions. So I'm going to ask an independent person. I'm going to ask Mark Levy. Mark, was there a Barry blow-up?

No, I was pretty good, wasn't I? You were good. You were good. Did you use right? No, you actually accepted and handled it way better than we all thought you would. Well, there's nothing we could have done, right? So Chris made a mistake. He made a boo-boo. So we've got to do the football, so you just do it. You'd think we'd only do one or two games, like one game a week normally at best.

Great opportunity for him this weekend. You'd think he would realise he's got two on Saturday, one on Friday night. You'd think he'd be aware of that. You would think so, right? You would think so. I mean, he doesn't do much else. He works for the Tigers. He does something there. What does he do at the Tigers? Anyone know? He's the media manager. He's the media manager. He's had a bit to do over there. It's a part-time job. He makes sure the media knows. He wouldn't really know unless you talk to him.

Hang on, he makes sure the media knows that Benji's gone to Fiji, things like that. You know what he's dirty on, and I can add him on this, he's dirty on a dating app. Oh, no, yeah. He's got all of them. He told me about them last night. Bumble, what's that? Bumble, that's one of them. He said to me the other day, remember when there was the big blackout and all the systems went down a couple of Fridays ago? Yeah. Plenty of fish was out of action. He was devastated. He had a date planned and couldn't communicate with her.

Is that plenty of fish? Plenty of fish in the sea. Even when he's on the date, he can't communicate with them. Yeah.

Imagine the day would go as, G'day, Christine, or G'day, Karen. How are you going? Christine! Whatever, that's it. I say that today. Karen, G'day. My name is Chris. Chris Warren, as in Ray Warren. Oh, that's a fine-looking top you have on there. Would you like a pre-dinner drink?

Skinner for Karen, thank you, champion. I'll have a pint. Do you reckon if he was having dinner there... These are my boys, they're all here with me. He's at dinner at the table and he calls the waiter over, he goes, can somebody clean this glass on the window? I can't see out of it with my binoculars. No, he says to the date, do you want a drink? No, he doesn't want a drink. She's got a skull, no! No, you're not, darling. LAUGHTER

Come home and see my boys. Oh, Jesus. We're off to a break. Back with more. I didn't realise I could stick with my industry super fund when I retired. Thankfully, I discovered if I stayed, I could set up a regular income, take money out when I wanted, and the rest can grow over time. Stick with your industry super fund in retirement. Visit compareyourretirement.com today.

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Consider the fund's PDS and whether the product is right for you. Levy, how is the bridesmaid preparation going? Remember late at night, you and Forby dancing in a dark corner? No means no from Gary. When again is that, mate? No means no. Levy, when is that again? That's not until early next year, so we haven't even got the preparation. Have you had your dress fitted? Shut up.

Shut up, Dan. There'd have to be rehearsals and things coming up soon. You know what it is. You know what you should do, Levy, because I'm not saying this in any other manner other than it's true. The women, when they're getting ready for weddings, often go on diets, don't they? Slim down. Because they want to look their best at weddings. Is that a fact or not? So, Levy, you may have to... Well, when you get your dress fitted... I'm not wearing a dress, Daryl. Aren't you matron of honour? I am the man of honour, yes.

He will wear a suit and his tie will match the other bridesmaid's dress. What? He's wearing a dress, mate. I'm not wearing a dress. He's not wearing a dress. You should be in the Olympics. Why? In the boxing. Oh, don't go there. I know exactly where I am. Thank you very much. Pete's near Coffs Harbour. Hello, Pete. How you doing, Luce? Good, mate.

Big man and... Hey, Pete. Greeny's here. Oh, I'm Bernie, yeah. Yeah. Oh, and how's things up there, guys? You sound like you're in fine fiddle today. Yeah, we've got a fine fiddle. You were talking about the horses. I know you listen to the Japanese races and they've got the American commentators and they're trying to get their names around, their lips around the names of the horses.

And then in the end, they just go, another one's coming first. It'd be much easier, wouldn't it, Pete? Good on you, mate. Thank you for the goal. I've got to run. We've got to get to a break. Panthers Newcastle kicking off in eight minutes. And, Pete, lovely to hear from you up in beautiful Coffs Harbour, mate. 131873, the number. Continuous call time. Emmanuel says, Levy, still listening to you blokes, even though we have a power outage in Abbotsbury and Bosley Park, areas affecting thousands of homes.

Well, Emmanuel, thank you for the tip-off. We'll get in contact with the electricity providers and find out what's going on there and when they hope to have the power back on. But if you're in any of those areas and you're suffering the same thing, please let us know. Abbotsbury and Bosley Park area is affected, so...

If there's anyone else affected by this power outage, please let us know. 131873, the number. Just quickly, Brydon's Lawyers brings us a Match Review Committee update or Judiciary update. Protecting your future when winning is all that matters. You need Brydon's Lawyers on your side. A few charges out of last night. They'll all cop fines. Elisa Katoa for a careless high tackle. Nelson Osofa-Solomona or Nelson Osofa-Mona with a careless high tackle.

Moses Soorley, Contrary Conduct. That was for something that was said or done to a match official. Tom Eisenhuth, the Crusher Tackle. Cam McGuinness, a Careless High Tackle. And Keon Kolamatangi, a Careless High Tackle. So all those players will cop fines for their respective charges.

And just on the injury front for the Broncos, Payne Haas suffered that Liz Frank injury and didn't return. So that doesn't look good for him. Ezra Mamm limped off with an ankle injury just before halftime. He didn't make it back. So they're off for scans, those two players. And Brendan Piakura left the field for a second to

HIA. He could be in some doubt for next week's clash with the Cowboys and they can't afford any more injuries. Braden Trindle for the Sharks. He's got a hammy problem. He'll go for scans. Craig Fitzgibbon hopeful it isn't too serious. And Tom Hazleton likely to return from injury next week against the Gold Coast Titans. That injury report thanks to DP. The iconic brand you know and trust. Feel at work.

Now there's a bit of drama here for the Newcastle Knights with Jacob Saifiti injuring himself in the warm-up. He's been helped up the tunnel by a couple of the trainers. So we'll stand by for some more news on that. Newcastle's made its way out onto Penrith Stadium and out come the Panthers. The reigning premiers led out by their captain Nathan Cleary. Another huge crowd in attendance as there always is for the Penrith Panthers games.

So we'll update the schools on that one as we take you around the grounds for Uber Reserve. Penrith and Newcastle, the first of today's two games. And later on this afternoon, Darren Flindell will be in the chair to broadcast the Bulldogs and Canberra Raiders. That match from Belmore Sports Ground with kickoff at five minutes past four. The news comes up next.

Welcome back. Next hour, the continuous call team as we do it from the McDonald's Interactive Studio on this Sunday afternoon. Caelan Pong are lining up a conversion attempt after a Newcastle try and it's successful. So it's 6-0 Newcastle leading Penrith. That's after eight minutes of play in the first half as we take you around the grounds for Uber Reserve. And later this afternoon, Darren Flindell will be here to call the Bulldogs and Canberra. That match at Belmore Sports Ground, 4-0-5 kickoff. And Darren will call that one with Big Marne

and Piggy the Manly Seagulls have the bye this week in the NRL. Last night, Sharks beating the Rabbitohs 20 points to 6. The Dragons, the big story, 18-16 winners over the Melbourne Storm. If you missed our chat with Ben Hunt, you can have a listen back to that on the website's

And dear, oh dear, the Broncos, hammered by the Titans, 46 points to 18. And Kevin Walters in the post-match press conference was asked, well, he was peppered with questions by the journos about their chances of making the top eight, et cetera. This is what he had to say. Well, I think the eight's the furthest thing from my mind at the moment. You know, we've got more issues than making the eight. Not issues, but, you know, that's disappointing there today, particularly the second 40. What do you think's actually caused this, Kevin? Oh, I've...

Again, it's too close after the game to say anything too much, but we'll have a look at it with the other coaches. It just wasn't good enough today in the second half. Kevin Walters speaking after that game. Darrell, you obviously saw bits and pieces of it. Can you get a read on what the issue is? Well, it's hard to say. To me, they don't appear to be trying. I hate to say that, but they're not putting their heart and soul into it. It's not as if it means anything to them.

You know, I think they're at the stage now, and they can't make the semis. You can't turn a side around as quickly as they need to be turned around now, and I think they're too far off the pace, too. I don't know, what are they on, 20 points or 22? I'm not even sure what they're on. Excuse me. But, you know, you could see a distinct difference in Kevvy then when he was interviewed during the week where he arced up during the week. He arced up at a number of things.

This time, when asked the questions, he sort of was more restrained. He thought about it, didn't want to say too much. You could see he was hurting inside. You know, I don't know what they do because even their good players aren't playing particularly well. When he arced up during the week, he got jumbled. He was, you know, journos were asking him questions and he was kind of accusing them of being outsiders and you're not an insider. And, you know, that...

That kind of garbage, you know what I mean? When you are the Broncos, you're going to be asked questions if you're going like bastards. And last year, you were going like superstars. They were a great team last year. They and Penrith didn't just make the grand final. They flogged teams three and four. Both of them flogged them in the two finals to make it and in the earlier rounds.

And it's just gone haywire from the start of the season. Nothing was ever right. I think Herbie Farmworth and Flegler not being there has hurt them. Rhys Walsh is being marked out of the game. There's all sorts of problems there. They've got a high-profile player who's not playing at the moment. No one can really say why.

You know, it's a mess. And you're the perfect person to ask this, Brennan, because of the people on this panel, you're the most recent in Brisbane. I mean, you were hosting a breakfast show and then a dry program on 4BC. So you know what Brisbane listeners and what Brisbane supporters expect from their Broncos. And at the moment, it's just not good enough. The Broncos...

They're the number one team. The Dolphins have got great support, don't get me wrong. But the Broncos are the team that's been there since the competition expanded in 1988, and there's a lot expected of the Broncos. And the public can tell when there's something not right. And look, the Broncos will say, if you start saying things like there's going to be a massive review there, there's always going to be a review. There is going to be a serious review. Like, the club's owned by Lachlan Murdoch. The coach is in trouble. He's got to be in trouble.

Well, there's going to be... I love... There has to be questions asked about... Because it's three or four seasons they haven't made the final. Then the one season, they played to all the potential. And they were a magnificent football side last year. They weren't just good. They were unbelievable. Like, look, let's go through the players. Ezra Mamm this season. He's done nothing. Ezra Mamm. He's gone from a Clive Churchill medal for 65 minutes in a grand final. He's done... Selwyn Cobbo, there's something going on there.

Is there deeper issues there? Like, aren't they losing all their coaching staff around, Kevvy? A lot of them are going. They're all gone. Can't write time off. Lee Brees is gone. I think, what does it talk? Matty Ballin as well may be going to join Des.

Like, they're all leaving. There's something very odd. Look, and past player power was what installed Kevvy into the job. You know, like Chris Johns. Even they're turning on him too. Yeah, well, Chris Johns and Lazo and those guys in Brisbane, they're quite sort of powerful and outspoken behind the scenes. And they're quite full on. And, you know, they really got their wishes with regards to Kevvy.

Kevvy was the right man for the job. Let's make no mistake. And he proved that by getting them to the grand final. And everyone was wondering whether, oh, can you put that behind you and can you move on into the new year? You never put it behind you. I'll tell you a stupid story. When I was 19 playing reserve grade rugby union at East, we won 20 in a row and went into the finals breaking the record for the most points scored in the reserve grade rugby union competition. And we lost two games in a row.

It was 1988, 36 years ago, and I'm still shitty about it. You know what I mean? And that's not the NRL, you know, where they'd won the grand final. Yeah, it was theirs. It was over. You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know what they do because they're just not playing well. And I don't think any of them can put their hand up and say they're playing well. You know, even though Payne Hart's only played a little bit of the game, he's playing okay.

But Patrick Carrigan, who tries his butt off week in, week out, he's not playing great. But he's just become a trier. And that's not critical of him. No one else around him. And Adam Reynolds. I love Adam Reynolds, but he's getting injured all the time. He can't get through a game without an injury, without a limp or some attention to his legs. And you can play into your mid-30s, but you have to be injury-free, like Ben Hunt is, like Daly Cherry Evans is.

You're no good to anyone if you keep getting injured. All right. Well, I have a feeling it's probably going to be the story that dominates this week, you would think. The Brisbane Broncos and some more tough questions for the players and also the coach. 131873, if you'd like to have your say, you can email us via the websites...

And text us 0460 873 873. Now, Jacob Siophidi is out with a lower leg injury, possibly a calf or Achilles. Thomas Kant comes onto the bench in 18. Brodie Jones now the 18th man. And after Newcastle opened the scoring, Penrith has hit back. So it's six all, Panthers and Knights, 14 gone in the first half. Six all to score. Penrith and Newcastle as Brian Totter leaps into the air and takes a high ball. That's the other story just quickly before we move on to other things and get back to having some fun.

The whole Brian Toho thing this week, Piggy, confused me because he looks like a bloke who absolutely loves playing for the Penrith Panthers. And I don't know whether it was a bit of manager talk, trying to get a bit more money. But thankfully, it's been sorted out. And I saw your great mate, Matt Cameron, the boss of the Panthers, on telly during the week talking about the fact that they'd met with the management and all that sort of thing. So you need Brian Toho happy at the Panthers, I would have

thought. Yeah, no doubt. He's such a terrific player for not only the Panthers, but also New South Wales. Yeah, I found that a real funny one. Obviously, there was something to it, but hopefully it's all been put to bed now. I think he's already one of the highest paid wingers anyway. What sort of dollars do we think he's on? Is he on about $6.50 or something like that? $6.50, I heard in dispatches during the week when this whole thing came up. It was all to do with the fact that his mates are all gone. They've all gone. Yeah.

They've all taken the payday and gone. Yeah, Crichton, Luai, Teruba. Fair enough to them. One after the other. The thing that... And I know a few people that are Panther supporters. The thing where I think players in particular... I don't know if the players need to be careful. Maybe more so the managers. I get that they use the media to try and milk a bit more money out of clubs and everything. But...

But I think a lot of the Panther supporters this week are looking at this going, really? Like, you know, you've won three straight premierships. You're already one of the highest paid wingers in the comp. You're still not happy? So I don't know. Maybe that's just Panther supporters that have emailed and contacted me. But just for the reputation of the player, I think managers also need to have that in mind. Do you sort of see where I'm coming from? Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I can also understand, you know,

To'o's feelings with regards just on the mateship level. You know what I mean? Because, you know, the May brothers, for whatever reason, none of them are there anymore. You know, you do turn around and all your mates are gone. He's the last one. But if I turned around and Nathan Cleary was still there, I'd be happy. I'm with you, bro. You know what I mean? If Cleary leaves, then I start going, you know, bail me out.

Look, I hope the newsroom is listening and Michael Packie, who's reading the news today on 2GB, we very rarely get nice feedback in this industry. But Steve has taken the time to email us from Maroochydore saying, Mark, I'm really enjoying Michael Packie reading the news. He is really good.

So our Canberra Bureau Chief, who is also the News Director, he's calling, oh, reading, calling the news, reading the news. Imagine calling the news. Call it. Good evening. So well done, Packy. You're doing a good job in there and listeners saying exactly the same thing. We all love you, Daryl, up here in Upper Caboolture. That one from Michael. Phil's listening. Afternoon, Levy, Big Pig and Breeny. Wonderful to be here for this weekend's gold. Just want to give Levy a wrap. Oh, that's all right.

You don't have to do that. Just the sad news of Davies passing, the overnight coverage of the Olympics, and, of course, backing up hosting this gold. You've been magnificent. You're a machine. That said, Piggy, you need to lift this afternoon a bit flat this last couple of weeks. Is that Phil? Pigmarnie, are you with me? Yeah, no, Phil. 205 days to go until Vegas, and I cannot wait.

Oh, no, he's already booked. He'll be on there. Mate, he goes like, what's a better than business class? First class. He'll go first class and tell everybody, show them his ticket. He'll photograph it and send it on to everybody. He photographed it. He sent me one the other day. The sad thing I always think about with Phil Friss is,

I don't know if he's still got a Fijian girlfriend. I'm not sure. What is it all over? I don't know. I haven't heard anything about it. Can you ask him in the email? Trouble in paradise? We also need to, and I think you'd be the man for this, Big Man, pass on Brainy's number to Phil for us as well. Oh, no, it's okay. No, no, no. Do you think, Big Man, like it's only fair that we all...

Do it together. Share the love. Share the love that I think, you know, we make sure Phil's in contact with Brainy. We're staying at a different place this year on the tour. And he's all over it, you know. Where are you staying? We're staying at Luxor. Luxor.

The Luxor's great. Yeah, well, I'm looking forward to it. Anyway, that'll be good because it's on the strip. Anyway, but he's done his homework already. Out of the blue, he texts me during the week. I don't think they've got a laundromat in the Luxor. How long are you going for? A week.

So I said, well, mate, you're going to have to, I'm going to give you this job because I do assign him a lot of jobs. Hold on. If we're going for a week, I ain't going to a laundry mat. Why do you need a laundry mat for? Just pay a week's worth of clothes. That's what he just said to me. He said, I don't think there's a laundry. He's in first class. He can take as much as he wants. Man, if he's in first class, he can get some laundry done by the hotel. Can you stop ruining my story? Oh, sorry. Okay, sorry. Go again.

So I said, well, Phil, you need to look to find where the nearest laundromat is. Well, he's done his homework. He said, it's not far away, the laundromat. Good. I said, is there also a McDonald's nearby?

Let me look into it. So Belfast is looking into all this stuff. So you're going to do your laundry with him and go to Macca's. I won't go to Macca's. I need it while you're waiting for the laundry to be done. Actually, if I remember back to Vegas, maybe he does need the laundry mat because I saw him in that red shirt three times. Actually, that brings up another issue about Vegas. We've got time. Of course we have. My wife suggested she may...

Premium sports. Go to. No. Come with me. She come over to Vegas. Oh, really? Yes, which she hadn't run by me just yet. I think that's a good idea. A couple of her friends or a couple of our friends, sorry, are heading over because they're. Why is this a problem, Piggy? It's not a problem at all. Why is it an issue, Piggy? In a way, because. Well, I just. Don't you want her to go? I just. Tell the truth. You want her to go? I'm just going to tell you.

I don't think I'll be able to enjoy Vegas like I did this year. Oh, how dare you? Oh, my. How dare you? We're getting into dangerous territory here. No, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. Is she like a noose around your neck? No. I don't think she'll appreciate...

The hours that I was getting back to my hotel room, that's all I'm getting. What if Carly lets her hair down and goes better than you? Yeah, but she can't go as hard as me. She might want to be in a different room to you. She might worry you. No, well, her words were, well, I don't have to worry about accommodation because I can just, I'm in with you. And I said, we haven't discussed this. LAUGHTER

Yes, because when Piggy and Josh did their money on the pokies, they found themselves sitting in their hotel rooms drinking the mini bar, didn't you? I don't think Carly's going to appreciate that. No, we had a good stash in there. At one stage, we're going down the lift and Piggy goes, hang on, I'll just go and get a little traveller. I said, a little traveller? We've got to walk 50 metres.

And we got into his room. He opened the fridge. There were about 400 beer cans in the fridge. Did you go and buy them like at the 7-Eleven or something? And fill up the fridge? Yeah. That's always a good idea. It's a lot cheaper, mate. But when you're playing the pokies, weren't they bringing your beers for tips? We were for a while. They were a bit tardy on the service. I don't know if they do that quite as strongly as they used to. As they used to in the old days. I don't think it's exactly the same. One night, J-Moz and I were playing this real old school sort of poker machine.

And the lady that was there, we did the right thing. We tipped her up. First drink. First drink, give her a good tip. Give her a really good kick. Just look after us. We're not after anything ridiculous. But every time, she's like, lovely. So that was great. But other times was a bit slower. But anyway, that's the issue that I'm dealing with at the moment. What beer did you drink over there? Did you have a...

What were we drinking? Was it Budweiser? Whatever was on tap. Coors Light? Coors Light or one of them. Coors Light, the Silver Bullet. What about those big cans when we went to, is it Fremont Street? Fremont Street. Fremont Street, yeah. Miller's Genuine Draft, is it? Yeah, that might be it. That might be one of them as well. They're pretty good. It's funny when you see wounded. Cans like that. Cans massive. When you see wounded people in Las Vegas...

At one stage, I was coming back from doing something, and at the bar, you've got poker machines at the bar. And I just remember walking past J-Moz, Josh Morris, and he was slumped over a poker machine at the bar with a half-drunk beer in front of him. Listen, mate, you're going to be right for our show in about three hours. Yeah, yeah, I'm right.

Oh, my God. What about, I mean, you do forget about all that stuff when you get over there because I've been there before. But when you're at the bar and they've got the card machines in the front, where you put your beers and stuff, on the counter, our goods are at. That's what life's all about. That would have been where Jay was. Our sports bar where we were in, what was it called? Resorts World? Yep.

that had exactly what you're talking about. So you could just sit there, talk to the bar people, and then play a little cardy as well. Where is Resorts World? Is it on the Strip? Yeah. It's one of the newer hotels. Why is it called Resorts World? Because you've got the Hilton, you've got... There's a few, isn't there? Oh, they're all in there together. And there's one common casino floor? And it all sort of links together underneath, yeah. It's a pretty good joint. Oh, I enjoy it. And you can't get to your room without walking through the casino? Of course not. But friends of mine actually tried to book...

the same hotel and they couldn't get in. So obviously it's all booked out again. There's going to be more there this year. There's no doubt. It's huge. I'm taking a tour. Hadley's taking a tour. There's a lot of tours. A real lot of tours. There's going to be a thousand. Who do you think will have more people on their tour? Ray or yourself? Oh,

Well, it depends if they want to have a good time. Well, I'm about to read a commercial for Ray's tour. Ray will be spending plenty of time with the people who go on his tour. He said he will be spending time with them in Hawaii, Vegas and at the football.

Unless you don't see him there. I like this bit here. It says, plus an exclusive social event with Ray. Whoa! Whoa! I bet you I know who else will be there. Who? All of us. We'll be there. It says an exclusive social event with Ray. Yeah. What does that mean? What means you go to an exclusive social event with the People's Champion? Wow.

Where? What is it? Let me tell you about it. Well, I don't know. I'm just sitting here reading the commercials. Ray Hadley, ladies and gentlemen, wants you to join him in Las Vegas for the launch of NRL season 2025. This will be the trip of a lifetime. Return flights with Hawaiian Airlines.

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Why are you laughing? You get to see one night. No, we'll be there the whole time. And then once all the Vegas fun is done, three nights R&R in Hawaii on the way home, staying at Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort. That is a good joint. That will be fun. And you'll tell you what, you'll need three nights R&R after Vegas, that's for sure.

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Nathan Cleary converts another try here for Penrith and they lead 12-6 over Newcastle. 12-6 the score, Penrith leading Newcastle. 12 minutes left in the first half, we do that for Uber Reserve. Brenda is in Coogee. Hello, Brenda. Hello, Mark. How are you today? I'm very well, thank you, Brenda. That's good. And hello to Neil, Daryl and Mark Piggy as well. Hey, Brenda. Hello, Brenda.

Hi, I wanted to share two things with you all if I could. Firstly, I'm Brenda Mark and it was an honour to hear you read out my words at David's funeral. Oh, thank you, Brenda. Yeah, I collected so many lovely messages from listeners and yours was certainly one that caught my attention. So I hope you didn't mind me reading it out at David's funeral the other day.

Not at all. It was such a privilege to be able to stream it on Zoom. And thank you to David's family and to QGB for making it possible so that we could actually be a part of his farewell. The other thing I wanted to just raise with you, if I could, was, you know, away from my day career, my passion is actually performing the dance of burlesque.

And I think that a glove peel or a fan dance around the David Morrow studio would be an entertainment hit and wonderfully called by you, Mark, after listening to you calling the Olympics. What a great idea, Brenda. Look, I don't understand the ins and outs of all this, but do you have some friends that would dance with you? Absolutely. Absolutely.

Well, we could do either. We could do a tour of us together. We could do solo. We could do the can-can. I love the can-can. The sky's the limit. The sky's the limit. Brenda, a very important question. Can we film this? What are you wearing whilst doing this particular dance? It's burlesque. Not much. Burlesque. Can-can stuff. That's a...

That would depend on the brief. Well, we want it as brief as possible. When you said can-can, I wasn't thinking about the dance. Oh, my God. Brenda, this would be an honour if you could... Can we arrange this?

I'm ready. And if we break burlesque down, it's the art of tease, the art of conceal and reveal. That's why we use our feather fans, our feather boas, our gloves. I'm over being teased. LAUGHTER

But I'd love, Brenda, for you to bring a couple of your... How many friends would you be able to bring in, would you think, for this little soiree? How many would you like? Well, I think the more the merrier. I mean, in my opinion, I reckon the more there, the better hope. No, on a serious note, I reckon about five.

Four or five, yeah, I think that's about right. What's wrong with Brenda? She was offering her services. But she wanted to bring her friends in as well. She's got a burlesque group. So just hang on a second. So Brenda, are you a professional burlesque dancer, are you?

I'm not a professional burlesque dancer, but I do perform. I do perform at different places. That's why I work, to pay for all my dancing. And I can do solo work or I can dance. There could be a group of us that can all dance together. It's whatever is needed. Oh, great. Well, Brenda, I'm going to put you back to Andrew and I'll get your people to talk to our people and...

We'll see what we can arrange. So they're going to dance around the David Morrow. Well, it's all about tease, Daryl. So prepare to be teased. You're going to be teased, Mark. Can you wear your dress in and dance with me? Listen, I'm not wearing a dress.

You know what's going to happen, boys? What? They're going to tease us to death. We'll never see Brenda in here. What? Yes, we will. No, we won't. He's negotiating. She's going to end up at Pronto. Wednesday night special. Once those... No, no, no. Kids eat free Wednesdays. Once the kids' menu's down for the night...

They just draw those curtains shut out the front. I think it's great that Brenda enjoys doing that sort of dancing. Why don't you stand up there, Daryl, and just give us an idea of what burlesque dancing is? The art of tease. Well, the burlesque is more what they're wearing, isn't it? Is Brenda still there? It's all the feathers. Yeah. Brenda, if you've got the camera on you, this is what I'd be doing in the can-can. You ready? Let me describe it to you, Brenda. So we stood up.

Please, I don't have the camera on. Well, he's kicking his leg. Now he's put his right foot up onto the desk and he's stretching his head. Poor old Breeny. Anyway, just let me hold it. Oh, no. Just get that leg up. I'm sorry about that one.

Sorry about that, Brady. Let's leave it to Brenda. What about a few push-ups while I'm at it, Brenda? Oh, push-ups. We've tapped out here, Brady and I. What about the noises, the sound effects? What about the one-armed push-up? I love that. You know what? I got a bigger eyeful than the spectators got when that French bloke knocked over the bar in the pole vault last night.

You call that an eyeful? Did you see that when he knocked it off? It's a game of inches, Brady. It was a game of many inches for that bloke. Are you blokes right? We've still got Brenda on here wanting to talk a little bit less. Brenda's just sort of, I don't know.

Got us going, so to speak. I'm being entertained. I'm being entertained. And I just want to check, Daryl, that you didn't pull anything vital while you put the food up on the table. Those days are gone, Brenda. I'm out of that one. I'm staying well clear of that. I think the hamstring just came off the bone. That bird's flown, Brenda.

Hello, prostate. Brenda, you sound like a lot of fun. Thank you very much for the call, and I'm glad I was able to share some of your words at Davey's funeral the other day. Thanks, Brenda. 131873, the number, 2GB.com, 4BC.com.au. Click onto the feedback icon. We've got to leave Brenda there because the Panthers are in again here. 16-6 kick to come. Panthers leading Newcastle. 16 points to 6 kick to come. Seven minutes left in the first half. We do that for Uber Reserve. Let's get an Olympic update. All right.

A Paris 2024 Olympic Games update. Thanks to Harvey Norman, proud to be Australia's official retail partner. Powered by LG, partner of Nine's Olympic broadcast. Emily Minney here with the latest from Paris. The men's and women's surf semifinals and finals have been rescheduled due to a lack of wave conditions in Tahiti. A call will be made tomorrow afternoon.

Golfer Jason Day isn't ruling out a chance of securing an Olympic medal. Day has a five-shot deficit to make up in today's final round to be in medal contention. He'll line up with fellow Aussie Minwoo Lee this afternoon. Ariane Titmuss has scored a second silver medal in the women's 800m freestyle.

USA's Katie Ledecky took the gold. Kayleigh McEwan claims bronze in the 200-metre individual relay after her American opponent was disqualified. The Aussies managed another bronze in the mixed medley relay. For the first time in decades, Australia has claimed gold in the tennis,

as Matthew Webden and Jonathan Pearce won the men's doubles, and the Hockeyroos have downed Spain to move through the group stage undefeated. To the medal tally where Australia sits in fourth on 12 goals, China at the top with 16. I'm Emily Minney with your Olympic update. That Paris 2024 medal tally was thanks to Woolworths, proud fresh food partner of the Australian Olympic and Paralympic teams.

Back around the grounds, Uber Reserve, 12-6 Penrith leading Newcastle. Five and a half minutes left in the first half, 12-6 Penrith leading Newcastle as we take you around the grounds for Uber Reserve. Mark Levy, Neil Breen, Darrell Broman and Mark Piggy-Riddell. Well, the Bulldogs and the Raiders is the game you'll see live and free on Nine's Wide World of Sports this afternoon. Darren Flindell will be here to call it on radio with the big man and Mark Piggy-Riddell. So let's have a closer look at it with the eighth immortal, Andrew Johns. Hello, Joey. Hi.

Well, mate, Belmore, it's going to be packed this afternoon. This should be a beauty. Well, it's packed already and the natives are restless. LAUGHTER

He must have walked from the train station, Joey. Oh, yeah. Did you ever play there, Joey? You played there a few times? Yeah, played there a few times. It was always great to play here, and that was sort of back in the mid-'90s when, you know, the Bulldogs were flying and Terry Lamb was here. So when you're playing here, it was always packed. It was so good to play here. Joey, the Bulldogs form. Last week, a big win over the Broncos. We spoke to their coach,

Cameron Serraldo last week, just about the way they attacked and the changes in their attack. Have you liked what you've seen from them?

Yeah, I just interviewed Stephen Crichton for the coverage and I asked him about that. He said it's just the evolution of the way we play. So we're working out our strengths and how we like to play. Pretty much all this team hasn't played too much footy together, especially in the key positions. But the offloads and the movement of the ball, it was so good to watch. And I think that's their DNA now. That's how they're going to play. So this game's going to be entertaining today. Yeah.

The Raiders will be interesting. They're a little bit like the Dragons a little bit. They win one, they lose one, they win one, they lose one. You just can't get a gauge on how they're going to go, really, can you? No, it's very up and down. I think the thing with that, they've got a lot of young players playing their first full year of footy. It can be hard to do a week in, week out. I think Jamal Fogarty being back, it's been a big influence for them. Yeah.

and the way he organises the team. And there's one bloke I know who likes to spoil a party. It's Ricky Stewart. He'll have a few rounds up. He could ruin Christmas, Ricky. Well, Joey, I've got some mail from inside the Raiders' camp that it's Papa Lee's 300th game. And so Ricky's got to conjure something up.

And so what he's come up with is that there hasn't been enough fanfare for Josh Papali this week and it's the Raiders are disrespected and this is the tactic he's using to create the siege mentality for them to go and storm the forts at Belmore. You couldn't be surprised about that, could you? No, it doesn't surprise me one bit. And they got off the bus, they all had 300 hats on, the hat with the number 300, which was really cool, all the players, so they'll be celebrating it.

But now, getting back to Ricky, my first year of footy, Ricky and Alan Langer were my heroes. Round four, round five, we were going all right the nights. We went down to Canberra, and they beat us by 50. Every scrum, things Ricky said to me, like I came from Cessnock, but I've never heard so many swear words. On the way home, when we got home, I rung my mum and said, get in the bedroom and rip down all those posters of Ricky Stewart. I hate his guts. LAUGHTER

That's gold. He's the best, Ricky. Bulldogs Raiders this afternoon. And, Joe, just before you go, I didn't get a chance to see you last week, but good on you for coming along and paying your respects to David Morrow. His wife, Christine, and his two daughters were absolutely rapt that you were there, mate. So thanks for paying your respects to the great man. Well, as you know, mate, he was a special bloke and...

Yeah, it was good. It was a great celebration of his life. And, yeah, the priest, I want to take the priest out for a drink. He's my sort of bloke. He was a ripper. He's getting a gig here next year. We're flicking Josh Morris and putting the 93-year-old priest on. Unbelievable. Good on you, Joey. Good calling this over. Yeah.

There he is, Andrew Johns, the eighth immortal Bulldogs Raiders. The game that will be played at five past four, so we're an hour and 20 minutes away from kickoff in that game. Back around the grounds, 12-6 Penrith leading Newcastle. 90 seconds left in the first half. 12-6 the score. Penrith leading Newcastle as we take you around the grounds. Now it's 16-3. Speaking of time, when you're heading out

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131873 is the number. Neil Breen, Daryl Broman, Mark Piggy-Riddell and Mark Levy on this Sunday afternoon. 131873 is the number to call. Boys, I'll be at a men's luncheon in Yonge next Saturday and Joey is the guest speaker. I cannot wait from Rod in Yonge. Well, I reckon he's got some stories to tell Andrew Joey Johns. That'd be good. That would be entertaining. Depends which draw does he go to for the stories. Which Andrew? Oh my God.

You know, he's an extremely intelligent bloke who's very, very well read. He reads novels and books all the time. You see him and he's got these 900-page novels. You say, don't you have Netflix? You know what I mean? Surfing or reading, it must be. I just saw our man Burnsy ring through. I hope he's doing well. What, is he hung up? Oh, he's gone. One of our bosses...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, I thought it was Burns. No, you don't. Might have been reverse charges. No, but, mate, Burns has even got his own opener. Have you ever heard this? Oh, yeah, earlier in the year. This is Burns. Good afternoon, Turnpike. And now, on the Continuous Call team, the Burns Report. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Burnsy's the only listener we've ever had on the Continuous Call team in 38 years who comes on, introduces himself, and then wraps up his own phone call. Yeah. But he's had enough speaking. We don't even say anything. He said, thank you, Levy. Thank you, Big Man. Thank you, Greeny. All right, boys. Thank you, Pig. That's all I've got. This has been the Burnsy Report, and he doesn't say anything.

He just dribbles on. Hannah's telling me he was enjoying a few beverages and couldn't stay on the lines. Oh, come on. In other words, he's rippling. He ruled himself ineligible. Mummy's told him to get off the phone. He calls his darling, his bride, Mummy. Oh, Mummy, I'm in the bad books with Mummy. That's actually her name. That is her name. Oh, really? Yeah, Mummy. Mummy.

She's mortified. No one would marry him. She's mortified. Just in a box. G'day, Mummy. When Birdsy says, Mummy sent me to bed, she really did. One, three, four.

It's amazing though, isn't it, Darrell? When you form... See, and people say this about me because they don't know what I look like. They say, geez, we form an opinion of what you look like and then we meet you. And I say, it's disappointing, isn't it? They say, yes, it is. Well, we did meet Burnsy and it was really disappointing. Yeah. Like, I didn't have high hopes for him, but geez, it was way worse than I thought. But he looked normal. He did actually.

He looks like a normal bloke. When you talk to him, he doesn't sound normal. We normally only deal in abnormal. That's our specialty. He is abnormal. Just quickly, current affair. Obviously, it's back after the Olympics with some sort of hardcore news at the moment, sort of Olympic-related stuff. But how are you going? Are you going to be doing over any solar panel operators or back to Gordon's place? What are you doing? Yeah, well...

I think you could sort of get yourself ready for Gordon Part 3. Part 3? Excellent. Well, I did Gordon Part 1. That was when he unleashed the dogs on me and everything. Who let the dogs out? He told me he was a jailbird and the whole confrontation. I'm a jailbird, you dog. Did he ever swear at you? Part 2. Oh, well, I had to edit that out. It's a family show, Darrell. And actually...

He said more swear words to me than Ricky Stewart said to Joey Johns when he was a kid coming through. Now, and then part two was when the authorities went in and cleaned the stuff out. Oh, that's right. Were you guys there for that as well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, and you reckon I got a gobful, should have seen what the authorities got. Now, part three is going to be, have you got that Eminem song, Shady's Back? Guess who's back? Guess who's back?

Back again. Yes. When are you going? Gordon's back. Gordon's back. I can't spoil the surprise. Okay. So he's done. It's growing. It's growing. The rubbish. Again. Back again. Oh, no. So they're just hoarders, are they? Yeah. He thinks he can sell the stuff. But some people... He thinks he can find old crap in the streets. Including popper boxes or whatever. But some people, that's just...

what they like. I know. You know, it's just like a sickness. But if you're living in a common area, in a common thing, and you've got one flat of 34, and you can't do it. See, I find throwing things away cathartic.

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's the best. See, I've got all my sister's crap at my house at the moment. She's got that much rubbish. I sent her a message the other day. I said, I'm throwing this stuff out. She goes, no, no, no. I need to sort through it. I said, listen, you don't need all this rubbish that's under the stairs and in the garage. I'm with you. I'm throwing it all out. I'm going to get a council clean up. I'm going to put it out the front. And she started crying on the phone, Karen Robinson. Oh.

I'm not a storage facility. You know what I find unbelievable in the modern day is packaging. So I bought a new Weber last Monday.

I'd had one of those Weber family ones in the backyard. Yeah, 15 years I had it out there. And I got the gas taken out the back. It's a natural gas one. Fantastic. Lasted 15 years. And I thought, I've got to get a new one for safety reasons. I got the new one. You should see the box, the cardboard that was holding all the stuff in the box. I've got it out the front of my place. And so when old mate comes tomorrow to do the yellow bin, I'm going to have to go out and go,

Oh, fellas, you know, like, here's a bottle of 4X Tallie. Like, can you please take this? There's that much packaging. How old are you? You give them a bottle of 4X Tallie.

Mate, there's four. There's about five of them. If my dad gave him 4X tallies in the 70s, it's good enough for me. Yeah, that's in Queensland. We're in New South Wales, bro. Okay, give him twoies. Just give him a carton. We're off to a break. Back with more. 131873, the number. Just quickly, we were talking about packaging there. Brunny mentioned the packaging with his Weber. Biggie, you just said something in the break that I found really interesting. Yeah, well, when we have the issue with the cardboard in our recycling in the bin. Because it won't fit in the bin. We hose it.

We hosed the cardboard. That'd make it a bit sloppy, wouldn't it? Yeah, and sloppy, and then you just shrink it down, scrunch it all up, and then put it in your bin.

See, this show is all about helping the punters out. That's what we're trying to do. That's Piggy's household tip. So hose it down. Hose the cardboard. Hose your cardboard. Can I ask if this is acceptable? When it gets delivered, before you unpack it, just hose it. Hose it down. And it falls off the Weber. It falls off. It's easy. The Weber's magically put together. Exactly. So how do you think this would go? All right.

because I'm here until 7 o'clock tonight and the bin would go at about 5 o'clock tomorrow morning. Should I text my wife now and say, just go out the front and just host? I've got a better one for you. Get Big H onto it. Get Harry. Get Big H onto it. Harry, you want a job this summer? Give him a $20 tip and what's that card you have? Spriggy. Spriggy card. I've been hammered today as well. Well, mate, you've given him a poultry tip.

$20. Yeah, he's blowing up. Give him $30. Big Mom wanted me to give... He was going to give me $10 so I could give Harry $30. What's he going to get for $20? He's at the footy, Penrith versus Newcastle with his mates. Yeah.

And 20 bucks is enough. It's not enough. I think your son needs a job. He does. He's got his own... He started his own business. What? He prints money. Can we talk about this after the news? He prints money. Hang on. Stand over. No, worse, he's a professional punter. Giving out tips. How's he getting home from Penrith? He's with his friend's parents. Oh, right. He's with his friend's parents. He's putting an Uber on the Spriggy. He's on the Spriggy. Worse, he's driving the Uber and picking up a Panthers. He's giving him a tip.

Thanks, Uber driver. Take a 10 for yourself. Remember to leave five stars. Continuous call, team. They're coming out for the second half at the foot of the mountains, where it's Penrith 14 leading Newcastle 6. 14 points to 6, Penrith leading Newcastle as we take you around the grounds for Uber Reserve, while in the NRLW, thanks to all.com, the Roosters leading Brisbane 16-6 at Allianz Stadium. So our NRLW updates tomorrow.

Thanks to all.com. And later this afternoon, the boys will be bringing you the action from Belmore. And that will feature the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and the Canberra Raiders to wrap up the Harvey Norman Women in League round. And it was great to catch up with Katie Page on the show yesterday. Katie's been a long-term advertiser across 2GB and 4BC as the boss of Harvey Norman. And Katie and Gerry, haven't they been great supporters of rugby league, in particular women's sport? News comes up next.

Yes, that song dedicated to the lovely Brenda who phoned through earlier, the burlesque dancer. Thank you very much, Brenda, for your lovely call. She's in contact. Are we in contact? Seriously? Well, we've got our people in contact with her people, yes. It would be a nice treat for the Olympic team, the bowling team, at the end of the...

Just have a burlap. Next Sunday. Imagine Gordie, he'd just drop off the perch. Gordie'd be sitting in there watching the care care. He'd say, oh. Campiji. He never saw any weird stuff when he was at the ABC. Well, mate, a lot of them are weird in general, you know. He's probably one of them. Yeah, Gordie was one of them. Because he used to sit in a spa and what was the drink he used to have? Cognac. Cognac. He used to sip this cognac in a spa.

Talk rugby. I love rugby. He still does. He's a great singer, Gordy, too. I took my troubles down to Madden Woo. You know that gypsy with the gold cap too. She's got her pie down on 34 and 9. And seven little bottles of love potion number 9.

He sings it, but he sings it in his talking voice. I mean, I think when you talk, you've got to have a singing voice as well. Do you agree? Yeah, I agree with you. You've got a very good singing voice, not so good talking voice. Especially not at the moment with a red skin in my mouth.

I love a rich man. Trying to deal with it. The thing I love about Gordie is, and having worked with him the last few days on the Olympic coverage, is all the preparation that goes into, like the backstories of the athletes. Yeah, yeah. He said, like last night with the Gray Morris silver medal in the windsurfing, he knew the backstory and he's putting it in there. He's a clean eater here. Yeah.

No meat or whatever he says. That was on Friday night, I think. I was listening to that. Yeah, it was unreal. But he's just got that iconic voice that you associate with rugby. He was the voice of rugby for decades in this country. Did he ever call league here or anything? I can't remember. He called league at the ABC, yeah, from time to time. But he's just one of those blokes. And I think Ray has said it. You throw any sport at him, he can just do it. And he does it really, really well. So...

Honestly, and I'm not just saying this because I'm working with them at the moment. I think our Olympic team this year has just been fantastic. You know, with Bill Woods and his knowledge of basketball and his experience calling so many different sports. Gordie as well. Bill McDowell.

McDonald, who's called a few of the gold medals in canoe kayak, called Sia Sakaki-Bara's gold medal in the BMX. And then we've got Carl Langdon from Perth, who's a champion AFL player back in the day with the West Coast Eagles. He's out there, Carl. He loves a good time. And he owns a brewery in Broome. I said management, any chance you can fly us over there, maybe for a week, just put the feet up. I think you're neglecting the television part too, because I think Libby Trickett...

Her calling of the swimmer has been exceptional because she doesn't say anything. All she does is throw her arms up. She's more entertaining on the videos. Hadley must have told her, zip it. Daryl, thanks for listening. She's on the radio, not the television. Who's on the television? Matt Thompson and Gerard Rooney. She's on the radio, that's right. But I see a vision. You see the videos. But, I mean, she must be doing it while Ray's going, zip.

while I'm talking. Well, she does a good job because she's waving them along. She's jumping up and down. There's moving parts to her body everywhere. The arms are all up in the air, then they're across. She's waving them over. She's one of the best commentators I've never heard. LAUGHTER

Can I ask a question about Gordon Bray singing? Yeah. Is he better than Ian Maurice? Oh, the bear. I think so. The bear. Is he better than the bear? She banged. She banged. You know, the bear signed me from Brisbane. He was a bloke responsible for getting me to Sydney. The bear? Yeah, he was the CEO at Penrith in 1978, he was. He wasn't. Really? Absolutely, he was. I found the great man singing.

Ian Maurice, ladies and gentlemen. Another decorated broadcaster in his own right. Did a bit of this, did a bit of that. And then, jeez, when the opportunity came to sing Neil Breen, she bangs, she bangs. I think he's working the karaoke circuit Peter Basuldis once told us. I've never met the great man, but he sounds like a ripping bloke. Anyway, here we go. Take it away, Bear. Tell me your name. You blow me up like it's all the same.

Yeah, baby.

He's got a good voice. What do you reckon? Maybe there's the opening. Mate, he put that out as an album. I'm a little bit concerned. Who bought it?

With his opening lines on that song. And that was Osama Sane. It went like this. You blow me off like Osama Sane. What?

I thought he said Saddam Hussein. Can you just play the start of that again? The intro's too long. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Hang on, you're blown. He got blown away in the end, didn't he? I think he said Saddam Hussein. They sent some dudes in. Go on, bye. Sent some dudes in. Yeah, but he was the CR Penrith in 78. You're joking? No, he signed me.

Good coin? Oh, good... No, shit. I mean, no, good coin. LAUGHTER

Sorry about that. Got him. Yeah, he got me once the money came involved. I just had a message from our former producer, Bailey, who's moved on to bigger and better things. Where is Bailey? He's a real estate agent these days. Is he still in love with that lovely girl? I'm not sure. I don't know what his relationship status is at the moment, but he was doing well in the fitness industry, and now he's doing well in real estate, apparently. But he said, Levy, could you imagine Jamos and Libby Triggott calling the 50 freestyle? Yeah.

there'd be nobody speaking. I'm sure Libby wants to say something, but I can't get in there.

I can't believe Jamos ordered the most expensive thing on the menu and stitched you up at that lunch. Mate, I just looked at $38. I mean, he could have had something else. It was probably good value with that, I imagine. But what was the conversation? Did you say, why don't we have a feed? I'll shout you. No, I said, let's go up and have a coffee up there. So we got up there. It was about midday. And I thought, oh, well, we might as well have a feed while we're here. And I didn't feel like anything too big.

So I said, can I just get a bacon egg roll or something like that? And they said, well, we only make them in the breakfast, but they did do one for me. And I said, okay, I'll get this, James. You want one as well? They said, no, I'm going to have a steak. I said, what?

Got him. You know, I haven't actually, believe it or not, eaten there yet because I've been obviously busy. But I can't wait to try the... See, I'm dirty on a spaghetti marinara. Oh, yeah. Mate, I want to get the prawn... What are they? Garlic prawns. Garlic prawns are great. And the good toast on the side. You know what?

There's one thing about garlic prawns I don't like. What, the garlic? The smell of your breath afterwards. Oh, right. You're in a different bedroom to Darling anyway. It doesn't matter. I can smell my own breath. Mm-hmm.

If Brenda came in for the burlesque and you just had the garlic prawns. Get the chewing gum. Imagine if I coughed or something. Poor old Brenda. It's a forward pass. That was a mile forward. Forward pass, but Tyson Frizzell's gone in to score and the referee's going to award it by the looks of things. So 14-10.

Kick to come, Penrith leading Newcastle. That kick to come for the Knights. So 14-10, Penrith leading Newcastle. 17 gone in the second half. We do that for Uber Reserve as we take you around the grounds. 131873 the number. Time for clue number two in the Sunday quiz for the $150 Lowe's digital gift card. We've given you the first clue. Here is number two. For the crowd that turn up in the numbers even though it's very cold out there.

Yeah, plays for the Canberra Raiders and one of their co-captains, obviously an Englishman. Couldn't be too hard to work out. For the crowd that turn up in the numbers, even though it's very cold out there.

What the hell did he just say? It's not Bateman. It's cold. No, it's not Bateman. Not Bateman. I think Bateman's... Actually, I meant to Google it. I'll do it in the halftime report. I think Bateman has played in the Super League. He played on the weekend. And I think he's done a post-match interview talking about how good of this to be at a good club. Yeah, well, they actually got beat. They got beaten by Hull KR. 22-4 might have been. I got up and watched it. I got up and watched it.

My great mate, Willie Peters, coaches Hull KR, and they won that game on the weekend and put themselves on the top of the ladder. Yeah, where's little Willie going? He's going very well. We're obviously in contact. So you've got a friend with little Willie and you've got a son called Big Willie. Big Willie. Who did they play? They played Warrington. Hull KR played Warrington on the weekend. Right.

And it was a top-of-the-table clash because Hull KR, Warrington, who were coached by Sam Burgess and where John Bateman's gone over to, and Wigan locked in a battle for the top spot.

top couple of spots. How's he handling the pressure as a coach? Has he become an angry little man? Really? No, he's doing a great job. He's done, mate, and for people that know the Super League... He's done it for a few years. He's done it for a couple of years. He's gone over there and he went to Hull KR and without being disrespectful, they're not known as a top club over there. It's Leeds, St. Ellen's, Wigan, Warrington. They're the top four clubs. Sometimes Catalan,

He's taken Hull KR to the Challenge Cup final last year and now they're top of the table this year. He's done a really good job. So...

Little Willie's going well. There's two holes. One of the holes is no good. One of the holes is terrible. That's Hull FC. That's where John Cartwright signed for next year. Oh, okay. He's turning things around there with some signings and clearing players out. But Hull KR, they're top of the ladder. I wasn't laughing at you. You figured they've just had a cutaway shot of the crowd and there was a couple of young ladies applying make-up with a pencil. And then taking a selfie.

They're there for the footy. How much do they love it? No, you know what they're waiting for. They're waiting for after the game. Because they meet the players when they go around. Benriff do it better than anyone else. Hi, Nathan. They do.

You know what I find interesting? I just got this today from my friend Andrew. Did you know that the couple who won the Olympic gold medal in the mixed doubles, they were actually together. They broke up before the Olympics and they won the gold. I saw that. I mean, that's unbelievable, isn't it? Do you think that's unbelievable? Katarina Sinio-Cover and Thomas Machak. Yeah.

I mean, that's... Mate, they're back now. Well, they shared a kiss as they won the mixed double. They're back now. How would they celebrate? Well, how do you reckon they celebrated? Well, I don't know. Horizontally? I don't know.

Excuse me. Not on the cardboard beds, Levy. They might have done the Jess Fox and rubbed the gold medal under each other's eyes. Can I point? I know Levy's been stuck in here just doing nothing but working for two weeks. But ever since Brenda phoned, he's had a bit of a blush. He's rattled. He's rattled. Have we got Brenda's number? The heart rate's still elevated. That's not the only thing elevated. Hey!

Come on. No, I'm just reading this story. It's about the doubles players. It prompted a reporter to ask the question everyone wanted to know, the answer to after the match, are you still together? And the response was, that's our personal life, so you don't need to know that. We like when you are confused. This is top secret. So they're not going to... Oh, what about this title of the movie? 40 Love. Oh.

Oh, yes. It's not bad. Not bad. What about juice? I don't. I thought of that. What about game, set and match? What about quiet, please? What about advantage server? I was talking about that the other night, Darrell, with Piggy and J-Moz, about the chair umpires have beautiful deep voices.

And I said, if, you know, your chair umpire, your next door neighbour's making too much noise, they just ring up and go, quiet, please. It'd be beautiful. Beautiful. Car parked near the front of their house. Code violation. Let me ask you this. Have you ever heard a chair umpire, 40, love? No, they've got great voices. They've got beautiful voices. They do. Well, they can't get the job just by coming off the street. I mean, you've got to practice at it. Advantage, Broman. Well, would you believe they'd have to practice that sort of stuff? No.

Are they full time? What, do you think they just stand at home in the kitchen 30 love? On the tour they would be. What do they do? It'd be full time. 100%. Just keep the score. 100%. It'd be the same umpires every time. Just going round. What about correction when you stuff up? Correction? You know what I love? Stuff that up. You know what I used to love? When they had the lines people.

and the chair umpire would overrule the linesperson, and then the little dirty look from the linesperson towards the chair umpire, you don't overrule me. I haven't watched much of the tennis. Have they got like the... Sensors. On the track, on the courts they've got there, the dirt courts, right? What are they called? Clay courts? Clay. Clay courts. Can they get a sensor underneath the clay there? It's just all done by the...

The Hawkeye thing now. There's no line judges anymore. It's all gone. The chair umpire still comes down and goes and has a look. Has a little ball mark and all that sort of thing. But that's all over. All those... That and the Hawkeye kind of killed off all the disputes in tennis. There was always a blow-up. Always. McEnroe blow-up. Did you see the one from Shane from Budred? New balls, please. New balls, please.

I'm just thinking maybe Graham Annesley and Andrew Abdo, when they're sitting down at the end of the year and thinking about what they can do better next year, rather than have the bloke go, rock infringement, maybe get one of the chair umpires from the tennis to do it so it's got that big, booming, commanding voice about it, rather than the... Rock infringement. It's just boring. You want something a little bit more upbeat or even involve some celebrities. Get Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rock infringement.

Even in the bunker, there should be celebrities that give the decision made. Like who? Well, whoever you want in there. The referees can tell them what the decision is, and then there's a celebrity in there to do the bunker. Like who? Whoever you want. Well, there's a celebrity that you'd like to do. Give me someone. Rocky Balboa. Sylvester Stallone. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Morgan Freeman. Where's he going to go?

How would Morgan Freeman say it? You've got nothing. Give me a Morgan Freeman voice. I don't have a Morgan Freeman voice. Okay, give me Arnie voice. Get to the chopper. Run. Get to the decision. Quickly. Knock on. That's nearly as good as Daryl's celebrity stackers in supermarkets. Good idea. I like that one.

Very good idea. Walking through aisle five through the bread section, you walk past Peter Obert and stacking bread. G'day, Pete. How are you going? What's on tonight? A lot of good stuff. Jess has cooked something. I've got to read the news. Anyway, 14-12 Penrith leading Newcastle. 17 left second half. We're off to a break. Back with more.

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18-12, score remains. Penrith leading Newcastle. Make that 14-12. They've had one taken off them here, Penrith. So 14-12, Penrith leading Newcastle. 16 and a half minutes left in the second half. A couple of listeners have been in touch with your suggestion of celebrities in the bunker. Arnold Schwarzenegger, get to the bunker. And Clint Eastwood, go ahead, make my decision. Clint Eastwood, he's still kicking, isn't he? Did I read that? Did he?

Spit up from his wife, did I read the other day? He's 90-something. Really? It's a bit late, isn't it? It's a bit late for that, isn't it? I think he did. Would have cost him a bit of coin at 94. I suppose so, but he probably doesn't know how much he's got anyway.

Piggy, can you stop eating while we're on air, please? Stop eating. I'm laughing. You're not entertaining the fans when you eat. I'm laughing at him. All you're doing is shoving lollies in your gut. No, these two over here, Breeney and Big Mom. Listen, I don't want excuses. Stop eating all the lollies. They've been smashing the VCs. How many? What's the VCs? The Vita Crumbles. Hang on.

Oh, there's Violet Crumbles? Yeah. Okay. Now, it's time for PointsBet's new NRL experience. What's gambling really costing you? For free and confidential support, visit gamblerhelponline.org.au. Oh, I love a Violet Crumble. How good is Violet Crumble? Yeah, they had them, and then they throw them over. They go, oh, we've had enough of them. Well, I cheated. I said... They're particularly nice. Because they're the little squares right in the bag. So I had one square, and then I said, I'm just going to have one more. Mm-hmm.

But I went in for the lucky dip. It was a double. They were stuck together. Oh, how good is that? Wasn't going back, was it? No, I said, oh, I've touched it now. I can't let Peggy eat that. I reckon this bloke would like a violet crumble. George Rose is on the line. Hello, George.

Boys, I absolutely love a violet crumble and my lips are salivating here listening to this conversation. Georgie, what is your favourite? I'm interested. What is your favourite chocolate? The one that's in front of me. How can you be picky? At the end of the day, how can you be picky? You know what I had the other day? Do you like a chomp?

Not particularly. I don't mind them, but I wouldn't buy one. Chomps are great, especially when they're soft in the middle. And when you were in primary school and you didn't have the 55 cents for a chocolate bar, you had about 35, you'd get a chomp. Yeah, chomp. The best. Standing chomp. George, you all right? You sound a little bit worse for wear today. Did you have a big set that night? I did. Look, I had a couple of winners yesterday. I also had a couple of losers, but I thought I'd celebrate either way.

It's a good Australian attitude. I love it. Mate, you're entitled to it. It's a Saturday night. Why not? Well, let's get into the footy. The boys will be along to call the Bulldogs and Raiders. Doggies, $1.37. Raiders, $3.10. Outsiders. Who are you tipping in this one, mate? Oh,

I'm all over the Bulldogs here. Bulldogs at Belmore, they've got the best home ground record in the comp. I cannot go against the Bulldogs. Especially at Belmore, you're right. What about your same game, Malty George? I've got the Bulldogs winning a big one, 13 plus. Jacob Kraz, any time try scorer. I like Jacob Kraz. I love what he does out there and I've got the Bulldogs to score first try as well. Alright, well $4.45 you'll get with

Points bet. Karaz anytime try scorer. Dogs 13 plus and dogs to score the first try. $4.45. George, enjoy the footy and we'll catch you next week. Cheers, boys. Have a good one. You too, mate. There he is, George Rose from points bet. You win some, you lose more. For free and confidential support, visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. We're all locked up at 14-all Penrith, Newcastle. 13 minutes to play in the second half. 14-all the score, Penrith and Newcastle, as we update the scores for Uber Reserve. Let's get an Olympic update.

I'm Emily Minnie with the latest from Paris.

Short game.

It just hasn't been as tight as I'd like it to be. Shana Jack and Meg Harris will be vying for gold in the 50-metre freestyle final. The men's and women's surf semifinals and finals have been postponed as a result of small waves in Tahiti. The competition is expected to go ahead tomorrow afternoon if conditions improve.

And the Boomers have checked into the Athletes' Village ahead of their quarterfinal showdown against Serbia. To the medal tally, Australia has dropped from second to fourth with 12 golds. China tops the leaderboard with 16. I'm Emily Minney with your Olympics update. That medal tally update was thanks to Toyota, Australian Olympic and Paralympic team partner. Oh, what a feeling.

Yeah, welcome back. Continuous call team. 131873 is the number. Now, Darrell. Yeah. Just correcting the record here. Clint Eastwood's wife didn't leave him. She sadly died unexpectedly a couple of weeks ago at 61. I'm sorry. I knew that.

She'd left. Parted. She'd left for good. Yeah, well, that's no good. She's only 61. 61, yeah. It was his girlfriend, apparently. No good. His partner. Well, how old's he? 94. 94. Oh, jeez. Doing well. Mate, that means I... What's that? 61, 94, that's 33, 68. I could crack on to a 35-year-old. I'm not giving up. If you can crack on. Don't worry about that. I haven't lost the gift of the gab. What's the point? No,

That's a very good point. No point, is it? Actually, I'm just thinking back to airport when the lovely Danica Mason, our colleague from Channel 9, was sitting at the table and Daryl just looked at Danica and said, Danica, I love you. Danica said, thanks, big man. I love you too. He goes, no, I love you. LAUGHTER

Well, too bad she's made things official on Insta. Yes. With Liam. Yeah. Liam Knight. Good on her. She hasn't done it on X yet, though. Oh, right. Hey, you know Clint Eastwood? What was his best movie out of all those? Good question. What was his very... Grand Torino? Was he in A Few Good Men? No. No, that was Jack Nicholson. Was it Grand Torino?

Yeah, Grant Torendo is an absolute beauty. Yeah, he was in there. I watched one probably about a month ago with him in it where he's a drug mule. I think it's called The Mule. The Mule. Yeah. That's a good one. That he drives the drugs over the border. What about the one when he said, go ahead, make my day? That Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry, I think I like that. Dirty Harry. Even when you watch it now, and of course it's dated, but it's still outstanding. I think Million Dollar Baby. Yeah.

Yeah, that was a good one, too. It was a boxing one. He made that movie. Was his daughter or something, boxing or something? No. What's her name? Jennifer Lawrence. And it won the Academy Awards and everything. That was a good movie. The only actress I can think of. I think it is Jennifer Lawrence, isn't it? Could well be. There is a Jennifer Lawrence. No, she wasn't. Jennifer Garner. Jennifer Garner was in it. Russell's daughter.

There's Danica up on the TV. Daryl, you handling that okay? She got the blue one on for me. Oh my gosh. That means big mutton. Did you see that shot from Ponga then? No. Have a look at this. Do you know what? I love the way you say Caelan's name. Just say it for me. Caelan Ponga. Ponga. Ponga. Ponga. Ponga. How do you say it? Ponga. Ponga. Ponga. The G is sort of silent. It's a Ponga. Ponga. Ponga. Have a look at this. What am I looking at? There it is. Watch his shot.

He gets penalised for it, I think. Comes in, Tago Wooshka. What's wrong with that? He shouldn't get penalised for that. Oh, he got penalised? I'm pretty sure he got penalised. Firstly, this bloke slipped over. He slips over straight into him. He hit him in the chest. And Piper hits the ball. Hey, hey, hey. Don't shoot the messenger. I'm shooting the messenger. You're an idiot. You said it. You know what? That's on you. Yeah.

You stuffed that up. Blame me. On you. By the way, I'm a bit concerned. He's done too much preparation. What's he doing? He's shown us all up. He's done similar preparation to Mark Gasnier. He's got notes. Oh, no.

Doesn't mean he's going to be entertaining. We'll ruin him. So I've just found out, right, so you know the big footy opener we play to, you know, now we're getting into football? Well, it throws to Darren. Oh. So when we get closer to football, I'm going to play the opener and Darren's going to say, yes, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to rescue this wonderful show that I've been listening to for over 30 years. Who's playing? Behind the barriers. Behind the barriers.

About to move in. When they kick off, we're going to get a da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-

Oh, that's going to be gilded, yes. Now live right across Australia, Darren Flindell.

And Democracy Manifest is getting his split. And McDonald's starting to execute his judo there on the favourite. And Democracy Manifest moved up to join Italian Informant. They beat off Assiduity and then came Real Key. It's Democracy Manifest in front with 100 metres to run from Italian Informant. But gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest. Succulent Chinese meals all around. Democracy Manifest beat Italian Informant and Assiduity's run third. All right, I've got a challenge for the three of you.

Given that Darren is about to call some football, I want you to give me the last 200 metres of a race at Rammock. Oh, I can't do that. No way. Come on, I'm putting you to the test. Piggy, you're going to go first, given you're a decorated racehorse owner now. So given that Darren's making the switch to rugby league today, I want you to make the switch to horse racing as a race caller.

I'm ready. You're ready? No, I'm not. Why not? All right. Hang on. Let me see. And I'm calling us for him. Hang on. Let me see if I can find some horse racing sound effects. All right. Here we go. All right. Here we go. Right. I've got the racing bugle and then I'm going to hit the button and the gates are open. Why are we doing this? Because I've got time to fill. Here we go. But I'm only calling the last 200. Yep.

Yeah, and they get out of it. Levy's in front at the moment, closely followed by Breeny. Breeny just in behind him, tailing up the field is Big Martin the Pig. They're not going to make it. They're not going to make it, Dan. It's Breeny and Levy. Breeny, Levy, Levy in front. Levy's going to get there. Levy wins. Levy by nose. I've never won anything in my life. There you go. Your little beauty.

Me and Big Mom, we were tailing. You know what? That was very good. Thumbs up, thumbs down, boom. Thumbs up from Flindale. Love it. All right, Brady, you're next. You're next. Rightio. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Good luck. Good luck.

And they race past the 200 and the big man carrying that huge imposter, top weight of 71 kilos. He's in front, but he's hit a wall. Levy's coming in. Oh, and look,

Look at Piggy Reddell! Right down. He shot at a single! Levy's come through. Levy's won it. Levy's won it from Reddell. I'm two from two. This is outstanding. There'll be a stewards' inquiry into what happened to the big man. He fell in a big fatty.

Wow. Is that right? Okay. He's still got his turn to go, yeah? He's writing notes. He's got notes. He's got notes. I'm ready to go. You ready, Daryl? Yeah. You're going to bring it home. You're going to be a superstar. Here we go. Okay.

Hey!

Harold Holt comes through the middle and wins. Brady, of course, is a big batch of hot air. He's run last. Demography, whatever that is. Second. And Chautauqua, the great second. Who won it? Oh, Harold Holt. Harold Holt won it. He's on fire. I'm glad we did that. That was very good. Very, very good. Very good.

Anyway, I'm tired now. I'm just watching the Knights try and scoring the try. It's 20 points to 14. There's three and a half minutes to go, and they're heavily on the attack. Darren's out there shaking his head. You wanted to do this. Well, I think he's normally in the caller's box on his own upstairs all day, and he's come in here and gone, this is actually a lunatic asylum. Oh, yeah. It's certainly that.

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Welcome back. Continuous call team 131873, the number. Look, while we're talking about calling and all that sort of thing, Darren's not the only special guest commentator we've had. We have had a former New South Wales Premier, Bob Carr, before. Good to see you, Gibras. It's the grand final of 2004. There's 23, 23 left on the clock. 13, 12 roosters. Great employers of young New South Wales people.

Bulldog scrum feed with just 30, 30 metres out in front of the posts. Blocker, for your own safety, strap on that seatbelt. Strap it on, my friend. You mustn't touch the set. You mustn't touch the dial. Do not...

Do not go anywhere. The ovicular object, the ovicular object is passed from one person in blue and white to another in blue and white. This version is El Masrai. He's a wonderful performer, a young, he scores a try. Wonderful. What a moment. What a great time to be an investor in New South Wales. The feeling is golden.

Make no mistake, it is a try, a try, a try. Yes, thank you, Premier. Wonderful stuff. Penrith 22, Newcastle 14. 13 seconds left in the second half. 22 points to 14. Penrith leading Newcastle. Now, we mentioned Democracy Manifest earlier. You'll remember this bloke.

Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest. What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? Oh, that's a nice headlock, sir. Ah, yes. I see that you know your judo well. Now, this all happened in Brisbane, Brennan. You're familiar with the story. Yeah, so it was in the 90s. And what happened was like 30 years ago.

So there's a famous Chinese restaurant in Fortitude Valley in Chinatown in Joyin where Arthur Beetson used to go and apparently used to stay between lunch and dinner and was famous for it. And this guy, right, so two things were happening at the same time.

The police in Brisbane, the fraud squad, were working with Interpol and they were trying to catch this international credit card fraudster. Remember, it's 30 years ago. They're trying to catch this fraudster and they believed he was in Brisbane at the time.

And this guy goes into the Enjoy Inn, and this guy was a notorious dine-and-dasher. In other words, he goes in, he has his feed, and he buggers off and doesn't pay the bill. So when he goes into the Enjoy Inn, just on his own, having a fried rice and a spring rolls and a sweet and sour pork, the restaurant ring the cops that the dine-and-dash is there. Now, in the messages...

It all gets scrambled, and the cops think that they're going down there to arrest the Interpol guy, like the big credit card fraudster. So at the same time, they tip off Chris Reason from Channel 7, who's been doing stories on it, which is how Chris Reason was there. So when the Dine and Dasher, who's a bit of a strange guy, gets arrested...

And he gets taken outside and he's got his arms behind his back and handcuffs and there's paddy wagons and coppers everywhere and Channel 7 cameras. In his mind, all he's trying to do is pinch a sweet and sour pork. Right? And he's on the street of the valley going, what? Which is where it all came from. And that was the story. It was all this jumbled thing that happened. Bizarre. Get your hands off. I won't say that part. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, very good. Very good. By the way, full-time, the Panthers here have ended up winning it 22-14, but I think you'd probably describe it as a hard-fought victory. Big man, the Panthers beating Newcastle 22-14. Yeah, I mean, I didn't get a chance to concentrate on it too much, but they did do it tough. I think it was 14-0 for a while, then Penrith scored a converted try and got a penalty with about a minute to go. So they put it away. They just do what they've got to do, Penrith. Sometimes they're just outstanding and win by big margins. Most times they...

They find a way of winning. And they would by no means at full strength. Just on your race calls, boys, one of our listeners says, was that Brainy or Jeannie Little calling the race? That's not very nice. That's not very nice. It's all right. Even though I do like Jeannie Little, even though she's no longer with us. Oh, wow.

She was great on it. What show was that on she was on? The Midday Show. Beauty and the Beast. Yeah. With Stan Zamanek. Yeah, but she did a lot of TV. Did she used to get on Blankety Blanks as well? I think she did, yeah. That was a good show. Paul, good show. I never went on it, mate. Blankety Blanks? At office. You'd have been perfect for a big month. You'd have been absolutely perfect. Paul says, let's bring it back. Seriously, how good are you absolute imbos? I love the weekends. Thanks to you boys. Thank you, Paul. Darren won't be calling Chautauqua because he won't come out of the dressing sheds.

That one from Rick. And, Chris, you boys, just quickly hearing Matt Hill call the relay when the Dutch came straight over the top of the USA, I thought I was at Moonee Valley. Well, Chris, we're very lucky to have some great race callers in this country, the best in the world. The other one I love around Warrnambool time is Rick McIntosh, who goes absolutely off his head. My King's Council next. Here's the one deep, George V. And then followed Pentelligentsia. Here's the next. Seriously?!

How bloody good is the Bull? They're up and over the third of the hula hand treble. Oh my God, they've done this before. The cream come to the top here. They jump the last in unison. It's the brave Kiwi ZM, the hometown hero. Gold medals on the outside. He's going to him. The crowd roars.

This is incredible. Gold medals from ZM. But gold medals, he's 11. But by day, he doesn't know it. ZM, look at him. He won't give in. But gold medals to Grand Daniels. What a hometown hero. What a Grand Daniel hero.

Douglas and Wilde, they do it again. How bloody good's the bull? How good is it? He does do a great job, doesn't he? Over the hurdles particularly. That text was talking about the 4x400m mixed relay last night. And the Americans had broken the world record in the heat. And they were like a dollar what to win the final. Yeah.

And the Dutch last year would have won the world championship in this 4x4 mixed relay where you have two males, two females.

Except this Femke Boll, who's a great runner, she's a hurdler, and she's really good at short course running and everything. She fell over with 10 metres to go and blew the gold medal for the Dutch and couldn't be sort of consoled afterwards. So last night they weren't expecting she'd run because they think she'll concentrate on the individual events where she can win individual goals, but she wanted to make redemption for the team. And anyone who's got a chance to watch the replay, they're running fourth overall.

with 120 metres to go, and she mowed them all down. Yeah.

It was the most unbelievable thing. You have had an OD, haven't you? It is unbelievable. Running. What's your name? Unreal. Femke Boll. B-O-L. The thing that I find fascinating about track and field is while you've got the track things happening, there's so much happening in the middle. Yeah. As far as the field. Like last night we had the semifinals of the women's 100 metres. How big are the big units? What about the men's shop? What about how far he threw it?

Did you hit... Was it the Jamaican? 21 metres. Yeah, a couple of them threw 22. How could you throw a shot put 21 metres? I don't know. I reckon you'd be... That's a long way. You know what? Technique. I wasn't good at technique. No? I also had shoulder issues as well. But, mate, I could probably throw a shot put, women's one, probably a bit further than the men's because they're a bit lighter. I reckon I could do... 10? 8 metres, maybe. We were watching the shot put this morning, the highlights of it, because...

My big Willis is going to the Diocese for shop put. Oh, is he? Next week. I think Tuesday. Tuesday he's got the Wollongong Diocese shop put for the under 10s. Is he aspiring to be like some of those blokes last night? Well, we started watching him and I said, I don't think you want to get that big, mate. You're going to have to start feeding him a bit more. He might need 50. He's going to need more on that card. Did you see the USA? Was it the USA, Blake? Oh, they're massive. He was just like...

Unbelievable. Remember Marion Jones when she came to the Sydney Olympics before she got busted for drugs? She was married to the sock putter. CJ. CJ Shotput. CJ Hunter. We'll take a break. Be back with more Continuous Call Time. 131873, the number 2GB.com. Click onto the feedback icon. Mark and Lads, Jeannie Little on the Mike Walsh Show. Darlings, and truly and honestly, when I first saw her, I thought,

She was a drag queen. Mind you, I was only 12. No, she was a great performer. Jeannie Little, sadly, no longer with us. 131873 is the number. We've got to give you the third and final clue in the Sunday footy quiz. Thanks to Lowe's Menswear for the $150 Lowe's gift card. Here is clue number three. Good to see him back out there. He's been a pest at training, actually, because he hasn't been playing. Yeah, plays halfback for the Melbourne Storm. Good to see him back out there. He's been a pest at training, actually.

because he hasn't been playing. So if you've got the three answers, 1-300-722-873, give us a ring right now. You've got a Roosters player who made his Origin debut this year. The English co-captain of the Raiders, your clue for number two, and the halfback of the Melbourne Storm as your clue number three. 1-300-722-873. You can give us a ring right now. Let's welcome in, for the first time this afternoon, the man I call Boom...

Darren Flindell, very good afternoon to you, sir. Good afternoon, Leaves. Great to be a part of the team. You ready to rock and roll, great man? Yes, you certainly built it up, haven't you? Yes, we have. No pressure. You finally got us some nice headlines as opposed to everybody bagging us. Oh, I love the race calling there too. Breeny got me in really, he just immediately, I thought of Bill Collins. LAUGHTER

He had that dandy Andy tone to it. Absolutely. Now, Darren, Darrell has been known to distract people in the past. Do you like cricket?

Not at the moment. And Piggy will just do his thing. But, mate, you'll be fine. You'll be great. And the thing is, and we should make this point, you've been a rugby league lover your entire life. You've been a West Tigers tragic for many, many years. You're a regular on the hill at Leichhardt Oval. And it's appropriate that your first game here with us on the Continuous Call team comes from another sportsman.

Suburban ground as in the Belmore Sports Ground. Yeah, very much. I grew up in Earlwood, so I did spend a lot of time in my youth going to Canterbury games at Belmore, particularly when the Tigers were on. Personally, I love these suburban grounds. I love going to Leichhardt and I'd like to go to grounds like Coggera and Belmore in particular. It's just, it's different class. This joint's going to be absolutely heaving today, absolute to capacity, what they allow today.

And it's going to be a great day for the Bulldogs fans to be getting out there amongst it. Now, I'm just thinking, right, so you've called Winx, you've called the races in Hong Kong, you've travelled the world going to race meetings, you've called some of the great horses in the past. Where will this rank in your career, calling with the big man and piggy? Be right up there, I'd say. Well, it is actually. This is probably the most exciting Sunday I've had in a long, long time. You must have a boring life, buddy. LAUGHTER

No, it's good to do something different. A new challenge for a day. So I've had a real spring in my step today. How long have you been calling racing for? Since you were a young bloke? Yeah, pretty much professionally since I was 17, 18. And it all really started with rugby league. It all started as a joke.

or not a joke as such, but a school assignment when we were 15, a mate of mine, better mention his name, Tufik Ramadan, the teacher said we had to pair up and do something unique, something completely different. So we thought, right, what we'll do, we'll grab our tape recorder, went out to Leichhardt Oval,

sat on the sideline there and we called the whole game into the tape recorder. He was a Sharks man, I'm Tigers man. We were biased as hell. But, geez, we had some fun and the teacher said, wow, I didn't see that coming and gave us the 100% because we followed the rules. It had to be original. There you go. Beautiful stuff. Well, Darrell, given that you've taken plenty of people under your wing in the past,

What are your words of advice for Darren this afternoon? Don't stuff it up, Darren. I said that the other day. He shared that on Twitter yesterday. I said that to many, many people. This is a chance for you. You're probably the oldest rookie we've ever had here. Good luck, and we'll see how you go. Look, if you're pleased, the punters and some of us, you might be okay for another gig, but this is a big chance you might not.

And if you're not sure, smother. Yeah, that's what you do. Yeah, just do that. If you're not sure, and I'm sure you probably do that in your race calling, if you're not sure...

Just crap on it. Yes. We'll throw over the pinion or something. Until you get it in your hand again and you're right. I haven't even had a look. Are there any difficult names for Darren to spit out today? I haven't even. Well, Papa Lee E. Tarponay. Is it Tarponay? Yep. You're still calling him Tarponay? Yep. Kick out. No, that's pretty easy. Oh, Harry Highpants is going around again too. Harry Highpants. Harry Highpants. Mariotta. So I've scored the Tigers game next Sunday, assuming I survive today. Yes. That's probably going to be more challenging. That'll be better for you.

Especially with Tiger's man. Especially if they're down 30 block. You'll be right for the day because I understand you're not charging much.

He'll be all right. All right, let's look in your tips, boys. We do it thanks to McDonald's. Daryl and Piggy will get your tips. Macca's, make it McSmart with a new McSmart meal from Macca's. Two burgers, small fries, and a small soft drink for 6.95. T's and C's apply a tip. Apply to watch in a first try score for first national real estate. Big man. Well, I know Ricky won't be listening, so I'm tipping the Bulldogs. The player to watch, I'm going to say Toby Sexton. He's got big shoes to fill at halfback. He's got to lead this side around, and he's done it pretty well in the last few weeks. He hasn't...

certainly cemented a first grade spot, but he went a long way towards it last year.

last week and first try scorer, well, I'm going to go Connor Tracy. He's in great try scoring form and he's playing great. I love Connor Tracy. What about you, Piggy? Yeah, I'm tipping the Bulldogs as well. My player to watch will be that man, Connor Tracy. As Daryl said, he's been phenomenal at the back for the Bulldogs. First try scorer, I'm going to go with Jacob Preston. Fantastic. All right, boys, one last break. When we return, Darren Flindell in the chair to bring you Sunday afternoon footy as the Bulldogs take on the Raiders.