The Continuous Call Team – Full Show Sunday 11th August 2024 02:06:53

Now, live, right across Australia, the Continuous Call team. With Mark Levy, Daryl Broman, Mark Riddell and

Neil Breen. 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 he stood up, 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 to be honest. Oh, no. Just get that leg up. Oh, sorry about that one.

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? You see that when he knocked it off? It's a game of inches, Brady. Life, sport and laughter right across your weekend. I want you to give me the last 200 metres of a race at Ramek.

And the big man carrying that huge imposter, top weight of 71 kilos. He's in front, but he's hit a wall. Brainy the Blow-In, he's in front. I don't know why, because he comes up with crap stories and he's got nothing in general. Here's Democracy Manifest joining in. Oh, who's this? Hey!

I'm home. I'm through the middle of winter. Brady, of course, is a big batch of hot air. He's run last. Democracy, man, whatever that is. The Continuous Call Team. Thanks to Maccas, Harvey Norman, Ram Trucks, Ducks Hot Water, All.com, Brydon's Lawyers, Uber, Lowe's, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Westpac and Coles. Just a quick one from Lumpy before we get to a break. I'll leave you. I was paying my neighbour $30 a week to pick up the poo off my lawn at

He was a great neighbor until he found out I didn't have a dog. Thank you, Lumpy.

You know what he's dirty on? And I can add him on this. He's dirty on a dating app. Plenty of fish was out of action. He had a date planned and couldn't communicate with her. Even when he's on the date, he can't communicate with her. Imagine the date would go, he says, Karen, g'day. My name is Chris. Warren, as in Ray. Warren. Oh, that's a fine looking top you have on there.

Would you like a free dinner drink? Screener for Karen, thank you, champion. No, he says to the date, do you want a drink? No, he doesn't want a drink. She's got a skull and nose. No, you're not, darling.

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Yes, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome along to another Sunday afternoon with the Continuous Call team as we broadcast from the McDonald's Interactive Studio. And look, I want to thank Chris Warren for helping me out and lightening the load on me by calling some football over the last couple of weeks. But, geez, after listening to some of the carve-ups involving the great Chris Warren, he might not be back.

for the rest of the season. The poor bloke, he's got an absolute hammering. On last night, well, the main talking point is this incident involving Kyle Flanagan and Stephen Crichton, and the replays don't look good for the St. George Illawarra playmaker. Look, I've watched it again this morning, and look, Stephen Crichton's got his face all over Kyle's face, but the replays indicate to me that Kyle does bite down on the nose of Stephen Crichton. So if we're to look

at some of the other incidents involving biting. There are three and four week suspensions. There are six week suspensions.

What I can tell you is the Match Review Committee has referred him straight to the judiciary. And look, we'll put our hand up. Daryl and I are both friends of the Flanagan family. But that won't prevent us from saying what we think. That's what we're here to do. And I've got to be honest, I think Kyle Flanagan's in some strife. And usually when players are referred to the NRL judiciary, that would mean that they're going to face a lengthy suspension. So we'll wait and see what happens next.

on Tuesday night. I noted in the paper today, Shane Flanagan, his father and coach, says Kyle said he didn't do it, and I believe him. He's not that type of person. Crichton can say whatever he wants. He shoved his head in Kyle's face on the ground.

They're saying you bit him. Come on. Kyle's fine. He's not worried about it. Well, he's been referred straight to the NRL judiciary. And our judiciary update comes from Brydon's Lawyers. Protecting your future when winning is all that matters. You need Brydon's Lawyers on your side. The other charges out of last night, a $1,500 fine for Reece Walsh.

for a shoulder charge on Sam McIntyre and Reece Robson from the Cowboys a contrary conduct charge and he'll cop a $1,000 fine. Look, the other issue for the Dragons is Hame Sele and you would have heard this last night and seen the vision of him being taken off to St George Hospital in an ambulance.

The Dragons of this afternoon confirmed to me that despite reports Sele had experienced an irregular heartbeat last night, that was not the case. He remains, though, in hospital being monitored. So, in a sense, that's some good news for the big front rower, Hame Sele.

The Manly Seagulls had a 46-24 win over the Canberra Raiders. Brisbane kept its slim finals hopes alive with a 42-18 win over the Cowboys. And Canterbury with a 28 points to 10 win over St. George or Lawara. The Dolphins and Warriors are playing today at 2 o'clock.

and that's followed by the game that Darren Flindell will call Newcastle and the West Tigers at five minutes past four. If you'd like to join us, 131873. I'm sure you've got a view on the Kyle Flanagan incident from last night. You can email us via the website and you can text us as well, 0460873873. Let's welcome the continuous call team. The big man is here, Darrell Broman. Good afternoon to you. Hi, Levy. Great stuff from you over the last couple of weeks during the Olympics, et cetera, et cetera, and still managing to do this show. It's a...

stoic performance from you. Well done. And running a restaurant at the same time. It can't be easy. Good afternoon to you, to Greeny and also my friend Piggy. I thought I was so looking forward to the football yesterday. I've got to say I don't think it disappointed me. There were a couple of

Well, surprises, I thought the Broncos' performance, they looked to be done and dusted. They were down 18-6, and it didn't look good for them. I think the Cowboys had a try disallowed to maybe get them to probably 24-6 or something like that. But from that moment onwards, I thought Reece Walsh kept them in the game in the first half. I thought he was outstanding the whole game. But in the second half in particular, Katoni Staggs, I've never seen him play like that. He was a man inspired. He scored two tries.

set up others, he started bashing his opponents, he was incredible, Katani Staggs, and I think he was probably almost wholly and solely the reason the Broncos won that game, they were fantastic, I got home in time to see a fair bit of the Bulldogs and the Dragons, the Dragons were pretty good, and the Dogs were just that bit better than them, um,

They played well. The biting charge against Kyle Flanagan, you said it before, I'm mates of his and a mate of his dad. So, you know, from what I've seen, it doesn't look good for him. The fact that it's been gone straight, going straight to the judiciary is another reason to be a little bit despondent, I would have thought, if one of the Flanos or Dragons supported me, because I don't know anyone who's ever got off when it's been gone straight to the judiciary. So it looks...

Looks damning, and we'll have to just wait and see what happens. Look, there are mitigating factors. I'll make this point that Stephen Crichton's face is in Kyle Flanagan's face, but if you bite someone, you bite someone. And they take a dim view on that at the judiciary, and rightfully so. And it doesn't matter if it's Kyle Flanagan, Reece Walsh, or one of the great players of the past. If you bite someone, you deserve a suspension. So we'll leave it in the capable hands of the judiciary and the prosecution and the defence, no doubt, on Tuesday night. Mark Piggy-Riddell.

On the way to you, I've actually had some communication from the Dragons today, and it involves the car park last night at Cogger. What happened? I'm reliably informed, and you made mention yesterday, that Big Willis...

Yeah. Was playing at halftime. Yep. And I've actually got an email here today saying, Mark, we had a 2GB person use the car park last night, the media car park. To which I've responded, well, that's strange. We didn't have anybody rostered on at the drag of the game yesterday because we did it all from here. Yeah.

I'm reliably told, Mark Piggy-Ridell, it's a former Miss Australia. Carly Ridell accessed the car park. And I'm also told by the Dragons it was a young bloke in the back seat...

who flashed a NRL media pass with your mug on it saying, I'm Big Willis, I'm Piggy's son, I'm playing at halftime, let me in. Is this true? Plus I've got one of those cards if I need to pay you off. Good afternoon, Mark. Good afternoon, Brini, Big Man and to our listeners. Mate, I can confirm it.

I couldn't believe it when they got home. They got home late last night, and after the Dragons-Bulldogs game, I went straight to bed. I took Ava to bed, and we went to sleep, and we'll try to get to sleep. But they came in. Obviously, Big Willis was pumped that he got the opportunity to play on

on Coggrove but then I said how did you go with the parking because I'd actually sent Carly a map of Coggrove and I said park here you know you should be right you know by the time you get there and she goes oh no it was all good and I said what did you do she said oh well we'll add your media pass so we just drove into the where we normally all normally park on that field outside and

She spoke to the lovely gentleman there, and he let her park in there. So she parked in there. Well, that's good. Unbelievable. Sometimes when you're famous like you, you do get favours. Please. You do get favours, mate. I was a bit disappointed in her, to tell you the truth. I thought she should have done more. This might lead into a discussion on when you two, in particular, have used your notoriety and celebrity status to do things. Never. Never? I can't recall using it much. No? I might have.

I don't know. I can't recall. What about when you go to Lowe's?

I've got a card, get it for nothing. I don't need to suck up there. Hello, 25 years of giving, giving, giving. Very tight on something, isn't it? Family owned, operated business, one of our sponsors. We love Lowe's. I think there's 200 stores. Yeah, exactly right. What did you think of the well-spoken about incident last night? Oh, yeah, look, obviously, I'm the same as you boys. You know, the evidence is there. Unfortunately for Kyle, you know, Brittany and I were having another look at all the angles this morning. It doesn't look good for him.

You know, he's going straight to the judiciary. Big Man and I had a look at all the sort of previous cases over the last 10 to 20 years. Well, Kevin Proctor got four weeks. James Graham got 12. 12, yep. Brad Morin, I think, got eight. And then Jack White got three. Jack White got three, yes. So it's sort of all over the place a little bit. Yeah. So obviously we have to wait and see. He's going to have to do his time. You know, he's done the penalty, so...

What I will say, though, there's a young bloke and his name's Lycan Kingpongia.

He played in our SG ball side this year for the Illawarra Steelers. I know he's been 18th man for the Dragons on a couple of occasions, last week in particular down in Melbourne. He's been absolutely killing it in the New South Wales Cup, and I would like to think that he may get an opportunity like him. So he's one to look out for for Dragons fans. He's a six, but I think he's been playing a little bit of fullback as well for the Dragons in the lower grades. So if Kyle is to...

to sort of, you know, unfortunately have to spend some time on the sidelines with that incident. And it would be exciting to see a young bloke come through for the Dragons that's, you know, from the SG ball and from the local system. Thank you very much, Piggy. And Neil Breen is here. He's been a bit crook this week. Yeah, he's good today, though. He's good today. He's ready to go today. And look, I'm going to say this. The last couple of Sundays, I sort of go and have a little snooze before I get on the Olympics, right?

But the feedback I have received about Neil Breen's performance as a decorated media performer on this radio caper and newspapers and television as well. I mean, just unbelievable from you, Breeny. Afternoon, great man. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon, listeners. Look, this is what's happened to me.

I picked up a bit of a cold off young Harry, who's making a cameo performance in here later this afternoon. And I was battling through the week, but I made matters worse for myself because I overdosed on the Olympics at the same time. There is no one, nobody watched or listened to more Olympics than me.

I listen to you a lot, Levy. It's been, honestly, mate, it's been unreal. Thank you, mate. It's been unreal to go all night, every night, here, there, everywhere. Some of us have done that in the past.

That was a long, long time ago for you. Go all night. Long, long time ago. In the nightclubs? No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Hello, honeymoons? Workbench? Piggy? Come on, Greeny. Sorry, carry on, Greeny. This is disgraceful for me. In that kind of regard, I was more of a sevens rugby fan. Oh, no.

Short and sharp. Seven minute ask. Short and sharp. But look, the Olympics have been absolutely unbelievable. And it scrambled my brain on rugby league. You're trying to watch rugby league, but oh, hang on, there's a medal event on in the Olympics and you're here, there and everywhere. It's been a fabulous two weeks. The Australians have done so well. There's been so much great stuff to watch just across the board. Unbelievable. I've totally loved it. Can I just say something about the biting? Please.

And so a lot of people are saying, oh, his face was in his face. Someone's face is in someone's face the whole time in rugby league. Like, it just happens all the time. The damning evidence is that you can see Crichton's, it's like a piece of elastic. Stretch. You can see his nose stretch as it comes away from his mouth, and then there was the blood. And so all of these judiciary things, I've covered so many judiciaries,

A lot of it's going to hang on whether Crichton's going to turn up and give evidence. I'm tipping he won't. I'm tipping he'll just say, leave me out of it. So it'll be up to the committee. But he's in all sorts. Yeah. He's in all sorts. His season could be over and it's unfortunate. Yeah.

Yeah. Isn't it? Yep, it certainly is. Just on the Olympics, the most successful Olympic campaign ever. We're a chance of a bronze medal tonight in basketball, women's basketball. Opal's playing a game there. There's a couple of cycling events on too. At the Velodrome, yeah, right. So we're not done with yet. And just speaking to enemies. We've got to hold off Japan.

Japan, though. Japan's equal to us on 18, but they've got less medals overall. We want to finish third. And what about Jess Hull, the silver medal this morning in the 1500? So Jess Hull in the 1500, just so people can understand what she achieved today. Look, there's Olympic events and there's Olympic events. You know, there's the Blue Riband events. There's the other events that come along. Breakdancing, we'll move on from that. But the 1500. Did you say the Blue Riband? Is that like Grant who referees? Yes. Blue Riband. Blue Riband. When he put that...

Yeah, that's like really important. He's been listening to it a lot. He has a lot of ABCs. I've been listening to Gordon Bray. But listen, listen. The 1500, just to put this in perspective, it is one of the classic events. Australia has not won a medal in the 1500 men or women since 1960. 1960. Mm-hmm.

No Australian woman has ever won a medal on the track in an event longer than 800. So it's the first medal ever in a 1500, a 3000 steeplechase, a 5000...

10,000. It's just something that the world is really good at. And people go, oh, we've got all these great young distance runners around Australia. Well, when they get to the world stage, they can't compete. But she's just put together year after year of good performance. And then this year it's just come together. Yeah. And it's just been unbelievable. I love this story that her mum, so she stays away from her family and everything. Her father's a coach.

She stays away from her family and people when she's in competition because at the 2022 World Championship, she got crook. So she stayed away. So now she's got this new routine, just leave me alone when I'm running. Her mum sent her a photo this morning before her event when she was getting ready for it. And it was a picture of her on the cover of a little athletics magazine running. And, you know, like from when she was a little kid, like about 11. And the feature in the magazine was on Jess Hull.

And so there she was on the cover, and her mum sent her a text just with the photo and said, do it for this little girl tonight. How good. It was a beautiful story. She couldn't win. She couldn't beat that Faith Kip Yagon. She's like Winx. But a silver medal is unbelievable. Unbelievable in the 1500. But also, I read something sad, too, just now.

Our swimmers, Molly O'Callaghan and Kaylee McKeon have done a big interview with News Corp posing with all their medals. There's Molly O'Callaghan with three gold. So the 200 freestyle, the 4x1, the 4x2 Realize and two minor medals, right? A silver and a bronze as well. And there's Kaylee McKeon, McKeon,

with the two gold medals from the 100 and the 200. And both of them have done this interview saying that they're actually disappointed. No, please. Because they didn't swim that well and Molly didn't swim well in the 100. And you just want to shake them and go, are you joking? 100%. Like, Carly McEwen's gone there and defended the 100 and the 200 backstroke. No Australian's ever done that, defended two.

Like, and Ariane was disappointed that she lost the 200. She went and defended the 400. This is the world stage. Best of the best. You know what I mean? They do set high standards for the two. Massive standards. And I think that's a natural thing to do, mate. You know, I don't think anyone's ever, well, some people have, but come in and said, you know what, that was just perfect.

Everything that happened was perfect because they're not perfect. No. You know, you make mistakes. I think I read something about one of the blokes in the rowing or something. They had a bad start. Yeah, it was. They missed the start. They stuffed up their... And they were gone. Probably cost them the gold medal. We interviewed Liam Adams who finished 49th in the marathon yesterday and he was shouted. He was disappointed. And I said, Liam...

You finished a marathon at an Olympic Games where the reigning champion didn't finish the race. I said, mate, you're a sparky from Melbourne. You should be proud of yourself. You're an Olympian. He ran something like two hours 10. Yeah, he did. Unbelievable. How do you run two 10 in the Olympic Marathon and run 49th? Unbelievable.

Like Deke used to have the world record at 208.13. Crazy. Anyway, 131873, the number you can email us via the websites. You can text us as well, 0460 873 873. The Manly coach, Anthony Seabold, is going to join us after this. They had a demolition over the Raiders in Canberra yesterday, and they're going great guns. Manly, their coach, Anthony Seabold, he joins us next.

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Look, just before we have a chat to the manly coach, Anthony Seabold, I noticed this one from one of our listeners. Boys, last night after the game, Chris Warren signed off at the end of the call with Newcastle versus the Dragons. I only found this funny as he's the Tigers' media manager. Can you replay it and roast him? Well, look, he's copped the fair...

a fair chunk of criticism this weekend. So I'm assuming that he was pre-promoting today's coverage of Newcastle West Islanders. Leave him alone. I'm standing up for him. You know, most of us don't handle criticism all that well. Add him to the list. You know who else doesn't handle criticism? Your Big Willis. Big Willis? No, he doesn't either. Well, mate, look, he was star-watching yesterday at that game. I understand. You told me.

Well, you sent him a video. Well, you said he was off the pace. Big Man sent him another video saying... So, Piggy's youngest boy, Big Willis, William, was playing at halftime in the Dragons-Canterbury game yesterday, and he was pumped. He was, you know, telling everyone down on Shell Harbour, he's going to put on some big hands, put a shot on. So, Darryl sent him quite a... Inspiring...

Well, an inspiring video, but he's followed it up today with a damning pricey of his performance. I wasn't there, but that's what Piggy told me. How's Big Willis? Well, I sent the video to Carly to show Will, and she just texted me back and said, ha-ha, she said, Big Will agrees with Big Man. He's got very cranky now, and he said, well, it's not my fault they hardly pass me the ball. LAUGHTER

What age group is it? Under 10. Outstanding. Well, yesterday, Manly Seagulls had a big win over the Raiders, 46-24 down there at GIO Stadium in Canberra. The Seagulls have won four of their last five matches, and in four of those games, they've scored at least 30 points. Their coach is Anthony Seabold, and I'm pleased to say he's on the line. G'day, Anthony. G'day.

G'day, guys. How are you going? Really well, mate. You're certainly hitting your straps at the right time of the year as we lead into the finals. You must be wrapped.

Yeah, we feel like we're building along nicely. Obviously, managing that origin period was a little tricky because it's a great recognition to have the two captains of the two origin teams, but you get one of the boys coming back happy and one not so much. So we felt as though we navigated that tricky period as best as possible. We're both really professional guys. So yeah, we're happy with how we're doing. Obviously, we're going to have a good time.

There's some areas of our game that we need to continue to work on. But, yeah, we're getting some of our players back and in form. Hey, Seams, we were watching the game yesterday afternoon in here and that try right on half-time to Ethan Bullimore where Turbo sort of spun back around, came back through the middle of the ruck. One, it looked to us like it really hurt the Canberra Raiders, but then off the back of that, off out of half-time, Cherry Evans was able to go over early and really break their hearts.

Yeah, I mean, that probably was, I guess, a run of play. It was probably more of a 12-12 game at halftime. And one of the things we spoke to the guys about was just our accuracy. I was really happy with our attitude and our application, but we were really scratchy with our discipline. I think we gave away five or six penalties in the first half, which enabled the Raiders to get down our end of the field. And we made some errors in Yardies, which gave a field position. So we weren't happy with that, but we were really happy with our application and accuracy.

So we just tidied things up a little bit, changed one or two things at halftime. And yeah, you're right. So Chez's try after halftime probably broke up that scoreline a little bit. Anthony, it's Neil Breen. Look, I've got to stay on Turbo. I'm just obsessed with Turbo. Like there was that missed tackle on him. And then out of absolutely nowhere, he's just straight back through the middle and sets up that try for Ethan Bullimore.

He's just so important to you. I suppose I'm stating the obvious. He has those injuries. He is that important to you, isn't he?

Yeah, Brini, you know, that was good coaching, wasn't it, on Turbo? Unbelievable. Well, to bring him back in the centres and then move him to fullback. You might get a gig on this show if you wrap yourself anymore. No, look, he does things that, like, you know, you don't coach that sort of stuff, right? You know, some of the stuff he does out the back of shape or, you know, individual efforts like that, you know,

Yeah, look, I admire him probably as much as the supporters do. I'm just thinking, you know, he's just a fabulous player. You know, really blessed to sort of be able to coach him and work with him. And, yeah, he's really important for us. And, you know, I think his best position has always been fullback.

but, you know, we've tried to look after him there with putting him at centre for a week, but I think his last month of footy has sort of shown that, you know, he's our best fullback and he's really important to us, not just with the attack, but, you know, we look at the defence and stuff that he does. He saved two tries yesterday and, you know, his line organisation was really strong. Mate, I think you need a wrap too for the fact that you got Luke Brooks this year. Now, Luke Brooks

was probably always going to leave the Tigers, but we didn't know where he was going to go. But you blokes went pretty heavily for him. And look, 5'8 is a tough spot to play. We all know that, but he's done a great job. He's played 20 games for you. He's been one of your best players nearly every game, and you've sort of reignited his career, basically. It's a great signing.

Well, first and foremost, Big Man, he's like a really good guy. Like, I met him socially with the Tigers assistant coach. We had dinner one night in Noosa probably during the COVID period, and I was actually working with England Rugby. And I met him then. I just thought, geez, he's a really good young bloke. You know, I met his partner, who's now his wife. But he just seemed like a really good guy. And then when he came on the market, I just thought that he could help us and we potentially could help him, you know, by...

Putting Turbo and Chez around him, if we win or when we lose, it's not Brooksy under the gun, is it? They're looking at the coach or they're looking at Turbo or they're looking at Chez. So we just want him to come here and enjoy his footy, play a really important role for us with Chez and Turbo in particular. And I feel like he's done that really well this year.

One last one, Anthony. It's about the club itself. Every time we come over to Four Pines Park, the place is absolutely pumping. Capacity crowds every time you play a home game. The club's being well run at the moment, headed up, of course, by Tony Mestroff. And it's just the little things like...

We lost a dear friend of ours and a colleague of ours, David Morrow, a few weeks ago. And Wayne Cousins, your media manager, put a can of beer up on the window and closed off our commentary box for the day. So, mate, there must be a real buzz on the peninsula about the Manly Seagulls because you're winning football games, you're positioning yourself for a crack at the finals, and the fans are turning out in big numbers to support you guys.

Yeah, first and foremost, just pay my respects to David Morrow. I know you guys work very closely with him. I've listened to him over a number of years commentating. So obviously one of the really great commentators of our game has now gone. I remember that vision and the commentary when I think it was Sticky made the line break over in the Kangaroos Tour. I think it was 1990 from memory, but Sticky,

But, yeah, more to your point around the community, the Northern Beaches, yeah, they've really got behind us. I think there's been six or seven sellouts out of our eight or nine games that we've had here. I think it's eight games now we've had here. So, yeah, the community's really got behind us. You look, you know, around the streets, there's people wearing manly gear, which is really...

But, yeah, look, we're really wrapped with how the community's got behind us. We feel like we're playing some decent footy, you know, for them to sort of get behind. Mezzy's running the club really well. I really enjoy the club myself. I've lived in the area for quite a long time, but actually working for the club in the area, it's been really good reinvigorating for myself as a coach and as a person. So, yeah, there's lots of luck around our club at the moment. Well, you talk about reinvigorating yourself as a person. I think most people in rugby league would be familiar with

some of the dark places you went to following on from your time up there in Brisbane mate you should be enormously proud of yourself second year as coach of the Manly Seagulls the club's flying you're flying and you should keep your chin up and look forward to some finals footy in 2024 you're doing a great job Anthony we'll catch up soon

Yep, thank you guys. Have a good afternoon.

Went down 8-1 to Welsh darts champion Gerwyn Price in a one-sided match in Wollongong. Littler just bringing darts to a whole new younger audience. It's on to New Zealand now for the New Zealand Masters. What about darts for an Olympic event from Rob Wollongong?

Well, see, I grew up and I used to go down to the Rockdale Tennis Club with my mum and dad and they'd always be playing darts in there. Is darts still a thing at pubs and clubs around the place? No, not really. No, poker machines are. Yeah, true. That's about it. But there's usually a dartboard somewhere. Not many. Maybe in the country pubs, but not many. That's a shame. I've got one in my garage. Have you? Yeah, but it never gets used. It just sits on the wall of the garage. I gave my missus one once for Christmas.

A dartboard. Hang on, stop it. Hang on. Is there a line coming here or? I'll say over the darts. Oh, package. You bought your wife a dartboard for Christmas? She's very hard to buy for. Oh, no. Why? Well, this was a long time ago because I couldn't think of anything else she needed. And she needed a dartboard throughout the back of her head. Oh, my God. No, this can't be right. She didn't handle it very well. I'm going to give one of Bev's for you. What?

She already did that. But the woman who's got everything, you can't buy her anything. But you can't buy her a dartboard. Yes, you can. Better off buying her flowers and some chocolates. I'd give her flowers, but that's a waste of money.

So does a dartboard. Oh, my God. A dartboard's not a waste of money. Mate, I reckon there's something in that, some presents that you've bought your partner or your partner's bought you. What's wrong with that? That's shameful. It's not shameful. How would you know, Levy? That's shameful. What have you bought for Sheilas over the years? Let me say this to you, Darrell. What's the last present you bought for a girl that wasn't related to you? I'm going to say this. I know what he bought her. What? A pump. I know what he bought her. Batteries. What?

I can tell you. A pump. What sort of a pump? To pump her up. Inflatable one. I'll say this to you. I'll say this to you, you imbo. What? What bloke buys their wife a dartboard? That is ridiculous. He did. I did. That's stupid. Yeah, that's up there. That's exactly what she did. Can I say something here, though? No, please don't. No, I want to say something. Okay. Lizzie and I have been together 29 years. Yeah. Lizzie. When you've got...

The birthday, Christmas, anniversary, all of these things...

I'm with Daryl. It can become difficult to buy. No, no, no. Yes, it can. No, no, no. You're sticking up for him. I have bought some unbelievably good presents for my wife over the years. Get away from me. I bought her unbelievable. But one bad present can bring you down. So one year, because I wanted to get a good video camera to film the girls when they were little for lifelong memories, right? So I bought it for Lizzie for her birthday. I've copped it for the last...

15 years. What, a video camera? Yeah, whenever. What's wrong with that? Because that's a family present. I suppose you're going to get me like a video camera that you wanted for my birthday. What else are you going to get? What else are you going to get? What else are you going to get? What else are you going to get? What else are you going to get? Well, you get them perfume. I don't like that brand. You know, you do your homework on perfume, right? Yeah, but you get the brand. Have you ever bought a Sheila Perkins? Yes, I have, actually. Who did you buy perfume for? One of the first girls I ever dated. Oh.

Fresh out of high school, I actually asked my sister what perfume should I got. I remember it was in a love heart shape. Glen 20. I went up to Meyer and she loved it. But I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Daryl. I stand by my criticism of you. I respect you. But seriously, what bloke in Australia thinks it's a good idea to buy their wife a dartboard? Well, let us know. 131873. That's the worst. That's the worst. That is one of the worst. That's the worst present I've ever had. I could have got her a deck of cards. Oh.

Oh, my God. You know? Geez, he's splurging now. Well, you tell me what you can give him. All right. Here's the question, folks. You know what? We've got a $50 Macca's voucher to give away today, so this might be the place to give it away. 131873, do you think Darrell has done the right or wrong thing? Do you think it's fraught with danger buying Darling Bev a dartboard for Christmas? I say no. What do you say, Piggy? I'm with you. No.

Under new circumstances. Yeah, see, you blokes are soft. What you have to do with birthdays at Christmas, you have to start listening from months out. Something will get said, you write it down, then you go and get that. So why don't you get your Mrs. Javid's? Perfume, I get her everything. Like what? Perfume? What? Jewelry. I bought her a car. Negligee? A car. G-string? Yes. What else?

Toys? You bought her a car. He's a multi. Toys? You bought her a car. What, did you buy some Barbie dolls? What sort of car?

I'm not saying. You bought her. I bought her a car the other year. One of those slot racing sets. No, they're fun. All right, look, we're going to take a break. We'll come back with your calls. Do you think Big Man is stuffed up here by buying Bev a dartboard for Christmas? As if it's going to make any difference. And what are some of the bad things you've bought your darling bride or you've bought your husband over the years? 131873, the number. We've got a $50 Macca's voucher to give away this afternoon.

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Sonia is on the text line. I must say it's better than a toaster or an iron, a dartboard. Thank you very much for that. That's another one for me. Toaster and an iron. I'm sounding like Gal now. Yeah, that's another one agreeing with me. Paul asks a legitimate question. Does Darling Bev actually like darts, Big Man?

I don't think so. Was it off air you told me this? What? That you had the space on your wall and you were like, oh, a dartboard would go good there. We had it in our door area, right? This would have been...

18 years ago. It's a fair while ago. And we had an outdoor area with the plastic roof on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See-through sort of thing. Yeah, that sort of stuff. And we just, it was a perfect spot. There was a brick wall there, the dartboard, throw some darts. It's hard to find stuff. Oh, my God. Boys, I bought the wife a concrete mixture and a wheelbarrow for a 40th. That's from Wolfie. Oh, God. He

He said that's fair dinkum. Rob says an iron and an ironing board might have been a bit better big. No. She's already had them. That's not very nice. My wife got diamond earrings for her 40th that I bought in Singapore. Oh, beautiful. You're a suck. When was that? What? That, well... How old's your wife? Let's go through the math if you want. According to Lizzie, it was nine years ago, but it was a couple more years ago than that.

So you bought her diamond earrings. Yeah, diamond earrings. How much did they cost, roughly? I can't remember now. I bought them in Singapore, but it would have been well into the four figures. Let's get a few of these calls, gentlemen. Steve is first at San Susie. Hey, Steve. Hey, how are you? Good, mate. What did you buy your wives? Wife. Wife, buddy. Wife.

I'll tell you what, I'm still married. I've ordered some clothes pegs. They're stainless steel. We all need them. Were they plastic or wood? They're stainless steel. Stainless steel? Mate, you're off your head. Why would you buy a stainless steel? They're too expensive.

But you only have to buy them once. Oh, Steve. Oh, come on, they're pegs. Come on, mate. That's shocking. Thank you very much, Steve. Can I ask a question of you two? Please do. Do you have a clothesline with pegs and stuff on it, both of you guys, or not? Yeah. Do you? It's not real. Yes. Okay. Can I ask you this question? We don't use it often. When Darling hangs the clothes out, right? I know she hangs them out in a specific way. Hmm.

If she drops a closed peg, do you think there's any chance you could bend over and pick it up? Darryl. Is there any chance when she'd drop a closed peg, you could bend over, pick it up, and take it off the grass and just put it back on the basket? Is Ben listening this afternoon, Darryl? Probably. Because then you're going to mow the lawn. Exactly. And the pegs are in the grass. Straight over the top of the pegs. Listen to you blokes. That's true. Glenn's at Borkham Hills. Hello, Glenn. Hello. How are you going? Good. Thank you, mate. What have you got for us?

I was just thinking if Darrell gave her the dartboard, if he put a picture of his face on it, that might be a good present. Ooh. You know what? Glenn, you're making me think of a marketing chance. I could put people you don't like's faces on the dartboard. Okay, who's the person you'd put on there? Oh, it's a tough one. People's champions right up there. LAUGHTER

I reckon there's someone else. Gal, I can think of someone else. You two are good at the moment. Yeah, we are good. We're very, very good at the moment. Anyway, good on you, Glenn. Thank you very much. There's another one who writes stuff in the paper. Darryl. 131873, the number. Julie's in Brisbane. Hey, Julie. Hi, how are you? Good, thank you, Julie. What have you got for us?

Well, I was listening about the dartboard and I don't think there's anything wrong with the dartboard. I'd have loved it. Thank you, Julie. Thank you very, very much. I mean, it's different, you know, and I think it's a surprise. It's a surprise. She was shocked. And it's the thought that counts, remember? Julie, thank you for your call. It looks like you're getting a bit more support here. Maureen in Canberra. Hi, Maureen. Hi. I'm with the big man. Yeah, thanks, Maureen. You'd be happy to receive a dartboard?

I've had one hidden in the garage for 20 years and my husband won't let me bring it out. So I would love to have received a dartboard. I'm telling you, I think this just shows something, the way to a woman's heart. I've got it, you don't have it. Thank you. Melissa's at St Ives. Hello, Melissa. You've got it.

Hello, I'm actually ringing to say I would have loved to receive a dartboard. Oh, what's going on? And I've got a smoker. A smoker? Oh, that's a good... A smoker's a good present. You mean as in a smoker, a partner who smokes a lot? No. I've got a three-tier standing smoker and I was sold of the benefits because it actually allows you to smoke meat and fish at the same time. But you would have preferred a dartboard? Yes.

Well, at least I can play it with him because when he decided to assemble the smoker, he put on Facebook all his different ribs that he was smoking, how great the three tiers were. He bought it for himself. Why didn't you buy it for yourself? Yeah, that's exactly. See, that's a bloke who's not. Oh, no, I've got a message for the people's champion. I've got, oh, hang on. Melissa, stay there.

Melissa, stay there. We're going to send you a $50 gift voucher from our great mates at McDonald's. So $50 to spend at Macca's coming your way. And pass on our regards to Hubby at home as well. 131873, the number. When kids were little, I got a dog bowl and cleaning items for Mother's Day. That was from Maggie. I hope Bev isn't listening. If she is, don't go home tonight from Pete.

And there were a couple of other ones I wanted to mention here. Jeez, they've been pouring in this afternoon. What I might do is I'll pre-read a couple of them and I'll share them with you after the break. On the way to the break, it's time for an Olympic update.

Good afternoon, I'm Emily Minney with your Olympic update. Silver medals in water polo and athletics have brought Australia's total medal tally to 50.

The Stingers went down to Spain 11-9 in the water polo final. It's the best result for our women's team since the Sydney 2000 Games. Runner Jess Hull has become the first Australian woman to win a track medal at the Games, taking out Silva in the 1500m final. Aussie golfer Hannah Green has fallen short of a podium finish in the women's golf, finishing in equal fourth at six under par. Diver Cassiel Russo placed fourth in the 10m platform final.

The final day of Olympic action gets underway later this afternoon. The Opals have their sights on a medal when they take on Belgium in the women's basketball bronze medal match. Checking the tally, Australia sits in third, equal with Japan on 18 gold medals. China tops the table with 39, followed by the United States. I'm Emily Minney with the latest from Paris. That Paris 2024 medal tally was thanks to NRMA Insurance, a help company.

Well, well, well, look who's on the line. Good afternoon to you, Mike. And now, on the continuous call team, the Burnsy Report. Hello, Burnsy. Hello, Mark. Welcome, welcome, welcome, boys. How are you? Hello, Mark. Hello, Big Ben. Hello, Piggy. And hello, Greeny.

Hello, Burnsy. Hello, Burnsy. Did you blow Skippy's line number? I've just got to cut this short and sweet for you boys because I know you've got the news coming up, so the people on the switch said to me just try and cut it short and sweet. So I've had a few brevages as well, Mark, so... Or, yeah...

He's half cut. That's correct. That's correct. Just well, the booze weather's not on, Piggy. So, yeah. Turn it on. Yeah, mate, just one thing with David, mate. I couldn't get a chance to wish you Davey. Mate, yeah, we're thinking of you, Dave, and all the best to him. Good on you, mate. My heart went...

Oh, my heart went to my mouth, Mark, when I heard it. So, yeah. Good on you, mate. When I met him at Winnie Leagues, a terrific bloke. Terrific bloke. Yeah. I love you, Dave. I love you. Good on you, mate. And I'm with you, Mark. I'm with you, as you know. Hey, Burns, I don't want you getting too upset, mate, but thank you for

for giving us a ring and we're all missing him, mate. And he obviously had a huge impact on everyone's lives. So, mate, you look after yourself and you take care, buddy. That's our great mate Burnsy here on the Continuous Call team. The Dolphins and Warriors are about to do battle at Suncorp Stadium. We'll update the scores on that match as we take you around the grounds for Uber Reserve. But we've got the news up next.

Welcome back. Next hour, the continuous call team from the McDonald's Interactive Studio. Nil all between the Dolphins and the Warriors. Eight minutes gone in the first half. Nil all the Dolphins and the Warriors. That match will be followed by the game you'll hear with the continuous call team. Darren Flindell here to call the Knights.

And the West Tigers. He's a West Tigers supporter, gentlemen. So you're going to have to keep him in line. That won't affect his call, will it? Keep him in line this afternoon. He's very cranky. What if the Knights put a couple of early tries on the board? Well, this is the reason I'm not having a sleep today. I'm going to be out there ready to go. Yeah.

He'll have to lift. He can't walk to the back of the box like he did at Shark Park that night. Oh, that's right. He stormed off, didn't he? He stormed off outside. Anyway, he's back. Second crack at calling the footy and he was fantastic last week. So looking forward to having the voice of Sydney Racing here calling the footy with you again. Last night, Bulldogs beat Dragons 28-10. Broncos over the Cowboys 42-18 and Manly...

thumping the Raiders 46-24. Our number 131873. You can email us via the website and you can text us as well, 0460 873 873. Now, look, just an injury update for Deep Heat is our injury update sponsor, of course. Deep Heat. Where's Deep Heat on? Oh, there it is. Deep Heat, the iconic brand you know and trust. Feel at work is what I need to say. Hame Sele, he's still in hospital being monitored after experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath.

during last night's match against the Bulldogs as Felice Caffouse goes in to open the scoring for the Dolphins. Sille was admitted following a flu illness in the past three weeks. He did not experience an irregular heartbeat, as was suggested. The club will continue to provide Sille with the best possible care and will provide a further update on his recovery in due course. And Phil Gould has posted on social media that Blake Wilson was badly injured in the New South Wales Cup yesterday. His ankle, excuse me.

Scans have revealed a fracture and syndesmosis injury, and unfortunately that's a bad deal for him. After surgery, we will fix it up and go again. Blake has had such a great season, he'll bounce back a tough kid. So that news confirmed by Phil Gould in our injury update, thanks to deep heat. So 4-0 Dolphins lead Warriors. That's with a kick to come after eight minutes of play in the first half at Suncorp Stadium. Now, gentlemen, one of the other stories that I read

read today that caught my attention is by Adrian Prezenko our great mate from the Sydney Morning Herald it's

It says this, the NRL is planning to stage a mini Olympics on grand final day, culminating in a race to crown the game's fastest man over 100 metres. The NRL boss, Andrew Abdo, outlined the proposal to club bosses during a video conference last week, one that will end the debate about the identity of rugby league's top speedster. While the details are still being finalised, the proposal is for a series of events, which could include a goal kicking competition, a fastest forward sprint event,

Love it. It's great.

Unreal. I would think they would have to have some sort of prize at the end of it, wouldn't they, financially? Good prize money. Yeah. The only way it'll work is if they're all there. And it depends on who's in the grand final. They're talking about Tolu Kola, Saab, Moola Talo, Khan Perera, Reece Walsh, Tabarwai Fidao, Dom Young, like all of these guys, right? Whoever's not in the grand final.

If a couple of them are missing, it doesn't work. They've all got to be there, and they'll only get them there if there's serious money on the line because they're talking about getting sponsors to sponsor it. Because, okay, we all know Dez Hasler, right?

So, okay, Des, we've got this race on. So your man who's, you know, supposed to be on his, you know, mandated time off having his holiday now before he's got to stay in training and he's going to run this 100 metres and he won't ping a hammy, don't worry about it. So we're going to take Khan for error. You know what I mean? Yeah. Is Des going to go, no problem?

Well, it'll be if all the clubs decide if we're all in, then we're all in. We've got to make it work. They've done this stuff in the past, mate, and you haven't got all the best run. I mean, there's always problems. For the good of the game and for the good of the situation, you would hope and like to think that all the clubs would be doing well. But the issues, like Brennan's saying, the teams that...

Teams that finish and aren't in the semis, then those players are all gone. They've been gone for five weeks. They're away on holidays. They're trips overseas. Vegas, Bali. Doing whatever. I'm just saying there's got to be serious cash on the line. Well, that's the realistic. And I totally agree with you. But I'm thinking, right, and the NRL and the commission usually look to the continuous call team to come up with some ideas. I think we've already come up with this.

Well, let's write down some proposals for events. So obviously we're going to go fastest. Fastest man, fastest woman in rugby league. Yep. Okay? So there's your first thing. What else would you like to see? And our listeners can get involved in this. What other events would you like to see in the mini Olympics on grand final day? Oh, I'd like to see a relay. I would like to see a 4x100 relay do a whole lap. I mean, four players from each club. Fastest club, I think.

It's a great idea. Who would you have? And instead of a baton, you've got to hand over the corner post. Or a footy. Footy. Pass the footy like the mini kids do on there. That's a good idea. Okay. I'd be on Manly, I think. What about a one-lapper? What about a one-lapper? A 400. A 400 around the footy. With a cone in the corner. You know what I mean?

Old school. You know what they should do with a goal-kicking competition? They should get a car sponsor on board, and they pick, say, 17 people out of the crowd. What? And one of the 17 goal-kickers, so someone from each club. Oh, okay. Yeah, gets a person. And then whoever kicks the goal from furthest, the person who's with the player wins the car. I would like to see a goal-kicking competition where there was, say, there was five spots around the field. Hmm.

And it was whoever nailed the most. And then if they nailed all five, who did it the quickest? Yeah.

Oh, like the three-point shootout. Well, like it's on a timer, so you might take your time and nail all five, but someone is going quicker and nails them faster than you. See, I'm also thinking, gentlemen, that one of the great pre-game entertainments that we've seen in recent years are baby races. The baby crawl. Now, I'm thinking, given that there has been a surge in the number of current NRL players who have had babies, this is an idea for the NRL to seize upon something

future NRL stars. And offer them contracts. Absolutely. Are you saying there's a surge in current players having babies as opposed to maybe 10 years ago? Absolutely, Darrell. Every time I seem to go on social media, somebody's had another baby. And what do you put that down to? What do you put that down to? Well... Do you think they're fitter? They're probably more... Youthful exuberance. No, no, it's more than that. You have to have sex.

Thanks, Scoop. I think you're saying, Levy, you're saying because they're a bit fitter in this day and age and maybe better looking than what they were, say, let's say 10 or 15 years ago. Is that your point? Yeah, I can run with that if you like. So you're saying the players of today are better looking than in Piggies Day, for example. Definitely.

I'll let you respond to that. No, I'm not going to argue with that. You think so? But would you agree that there seems to be a lot of the current players having children? I don't think it's any different to when...

players were having kids when I was playing. Well, I'm just seizing upon this opportunity, Darrell, as an opportunity and a chance to seize upon some of the progeny, if that's the right word, of some of the current NRL players. And they've only, you know, it's a zero, what is it, six to 12 months? See, the reason... That's where they've got to be in that bracket. The reason I'm thinking this, Sam Walker, if he was having a baby race...

when the Walker brothers were still playing, could have been snapped up early days. Early days. Kyle Flanagan, Nathan Cleary. Could you imagine Nathan Cleary being offered a contract as a baby before a grand final because Ivan has brought his little bloke along and had a little baby race? Do you see where I'm going with this? Yeah, you are. You're an ideas man. Thank you. Good idea. Really good idea. Yeah, I'm not sure. I need to talk about that and think about it. Hey, can I raise another event? Yes. I know it's a touchy subject in here, but what about a bench press?

Well, we know our representative would be. Yes. We'll send Levi. Mate, you are. I can only do 100, though.

Although I haven't been for a few weeks, so it's probably going to be a bit. Oh, you'd be down to 90. I'd be down to 50. Well, let's get our listeners involved. I'd love a strongman. Maybe a sack race. Sack race? Yeah, you know, remember at school you used to stand in a sack race? Like the old potato sacks. Yeah, I know what a sack race is. Well, why are you shocked by that? Now you're just being silly. All right, the baby race was okay. I could handle that. What about the egg and the spoon? Yeah, I knew you were going down that track. That was always fun. The three-legged? Yeah.

From what we've heard, some clubs may only send one player. Could we do a... Piggy, considering some of the blokes, although they'll all have been knocked out, could we do a Mad Monday breakdance? Oh, Mad Monday. Breakdancing at the moment's a hot topic. Oh, man.

I'm not going there. All right, 131873, the number. You can email us via the website. You can text us as well, 0460873873. What are some of the events that you'd like to see as part of the Mini Olympics, as it's been dubbed by some club bosses, providing the governing body a new product to commercialise as well as a chance for the game's biggest names to supplement their pay packets with

and earn bragging rights. 131873, the number. You can email us as well, 2GB.com, 4BC.com.au, and you can text us, 0460873873. I'm racking my brain trying to think of a few other events. What say you, folks? Let us know. We'll take a break, come back with more 6-0 Dolphins League Warriors. That's after 15 minutes of play in the first half. 6-0 Dolphins League Warriors.

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They've scored another try here, the Dolphins. They lead 10-0 with a kick to come and Asako lining up the conversion attempt from right in front of the sticks. 10-0 after 20 minutes of the first half. The Dolphins lead the Warriors and Asako, you would think, will put this in between the sticks and make it 12-0. The Dolphins lead the Warriors just on bench press.

This story from a couple of years ago. Cronulla front rower Royce Hunt is right in the mix for rugby league's strongest man after becoming the first NRL player to officially bench press 200 kilos. Hunt remembers walking into Cronulla's gym on his first day two years ago and up on the wall eyeing a board with all the record lifts. Think power cleans, squats, deadlifts and of course the bench press. Again,

against that last of which writ large in black sharpie was the name Paul Gallen and 180 kilos, which immediately Hunt says, I wanted to beat and he did. He bench pressed 200 kilos. What were they benching back in your day, Piggy? Some of the big ones were up there, yeah, 150, 160, I think. Cool.

Some of the boys. And is that, what, once, twice, three times? Yeah, that must be, what, three rep max, is it? A three rep max? It'd have to be three reps. It must be. It'd have to be three reps. It's a hell of a lot. Gary's at Cranebrook. G'day, Gaz. How yous going? Good, mate. Yeah, I was just saying to the girl, I think you should do the sprint, but do shorted instances as well, maybe not 30, maybe 40 and 60 and 100, because, like...

That's all like a 5-8. Remember Wally Lewis? Wally was pretty quick for the first 30 or so, but then there's no way you'd back him over 100, but he was pretty quick. So, you know, that's all you need in a lot of, like, to set up tries and stuff like that. So I think you should break the sprint out and see if the fastest bloke is the fastest over even a shorter distance. Yeah, righto. We'll jot it down as a suggestion. Thank you, Gary. That's a great one here, Levy. What about...

We have the whole team there with their legs tied together. Like 13 of them. The 13-legged race. Yeah, 13-legged race. Just on that, Darrell, tell me if you did this back in sort of when you were playing. There's a club in the St George District known as Renown United, very famous club. The Gasnears come from Renown United. Yep.

The A-grade team back when I was refereeing used to do this thing where we were invited as referees to go and train with them. They'd all be tied to a rope and they'd have to go on a run for, say, three kilometres. But what they'd do is they'd stop at every pub. They'd do a pub crawl whilst tied to a rope.

And if someone had to go to the toilet, they all had to go to the toilet. If someone went to the bar, they all had to go to the bar. Is that something that sort of you did back in your day, Daryl? Not really? It might have happened to a couple of individuals who might have tied themselves together on Mad Mondays or something like that with the same purpose. If someone had to go to the toilet, you had to take your mate with you. Team building, apparently, they call it. Usually you handcuff them. It was a bit different. Excuse me? Well, you handcuff them. That's like an oldie. Handcuff them? Yeah. On Mad Mondays? Yes. Yes.

Really? Yeah. So you go and put the handcuffs on someone and then you're handcuffing the someone that they don't want to be with all day. Did you supply the handcuffs because you had a few at home, did you? Of course. So who didn't like each other in your day? You know what I mean. On a Mad Monday, you get a set of handcuffs and then just say you didn't like so-and-so. We were pretty simple in our day. Mad Monday just used to end up either going into the city or something like that, ending up at the cross or maybe...

Just going around a pub at Penrith or wherever I was. One of our emailers has come up with a decent idea. Out in the front of a course stadium on grand final day, you know that one where you hit the target and the person drops into the water? You just put the NRL referees up there and fans can come along, hit the target and the referee drops into the water. Brilliant idea. That's a good money maker for charity. Imagine how much money you'd make out of that. How good. Cop this, Gerry Sutton. Noel's at Pambula. G'day, Noel.

Yeah, you know how the husband and wife won the world record of carrying your wife? Yeah, wife carrying, yes.

The footballer should have to carry his wife. To make it interesting, though, they should have to put the baby in a shopping trolley in a bassinet and push a shopping trolley and carry the wife. Jeez, no, you put some thought into that one. Multitasking there. Look, as much as I think they'd probably be very keen to do it, I think it would be a couple of issues. Might be a couple. Yeah.

Where do we find your shopping trolley? There's one already. You ever tried pushing a shopping trolley on grass? It's difficult. They're hard enough to control on the normal ground. With the wobbly leg. Wobbly wheels. Don't worry about that. You ever copped a shopping trolley to the Achilles tendon? That hurts. Malcolm's at Kirribilli. Hello, Malcolm.

I've got a good one. Is that Phil Rothfield? I think they could have Tug of War, eight men on each team, Tug of War, Gold and Silver,

I mean, gold for first, silver for second, and bronze. Good idea, Malcolm. Thanks for the call, mate. 131873. He's got a concept there. Gold, silver, and bronze medals. I think Malcolm might be our friend that was about to say, and I'm not happy with the tab. Can I tell you, though? Can I tell you?

The fans would love tug-of-war between teams. Tug-of-war would be great. How good would that be? That would be a good idea. That's a good one. And that's simple to do. And the egos on the line. Oh, yeah. Oh, I should get willing. Oh, here we go. This one from Jackout Camden. Fellas, what about putting a caged ring in the middle of a course stadium and having a royal rumble with each club's mascot? No holes barred.

And in goes the mascot. Last mascot standing wins $100,000 for the club. I don't mind that. I'd like that idea. How would Reggie the Rabbit go? He'd run last. How dare you. Reggie. He'd go out early. He'd be in the rabbit charges. The bloke who's Reggie the Rabbit is about $100,000. I know. Charlie. He's a good man. He's a good man. Do you think he'd win? Yes. He's an old brawler from Redfern. I'm telling you. He's a million to one. I'd bring back old mate.

It's Captain Charger for the Gold Coast Chargers. He was fit as a bull. What about the Bronco? It'd be hard to beat with the horse in the middle. They're riding the horse around there. Just run over the top of them. How would you rank your mascots? See, the Warrior would go strong. The Warrior. The Dolphin, no chance. Cowboy would go strong. We'd need some inside knowledge of what's underneath those. What about the Titan? The Gold Coast Titan would be hard to beat. See, now we're talking. This would be competitive. The Titan, the Bronco, the Warrior.

What other mascots have we got? Bulldog. The shark. What does the storm have? What have they got? They've got a storm. Storm man. It looks like a cloud. He's actually similar to the charger. It looks like a storm. The skipper charger. Yeah, he's actually similar to the charger. The storm man. Well, this is great stuff, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much. What about the bulldogs in there? They just rumble. The bulldogs go, ruff, ruff, ruff.

Well, look, I'm reliably informed that Andrew Abdo has been sitting down taking notes at some of the suggestions coming through. Mate, the tug-of-war is a beauty. That's right, tug-of-war. That would be beauty. Knockout, everyone gets drawn out of a hat. Who plays who to start. We got an SMS before, but we discussed this years ago on this great show, where when you have the tug-of-war, you dig a hole in the middle and put water in there and put some piranhas in there. You'd be desperately trying to win, wouldn't you?

Oh, there's one gone off. There he's gone. There go Dallin Bateni's a lesbian. Good to see you, champion. You've turned this into Squid Game now. Squid Game. How good would it be? Squid Game. That was a good show. It was very good. Good show. Geez, there's a few people here that like the idea of the referees on that little seat out the front.

That'd be a... They could... You know... Well, I don't know what you just said with regards to that, but you could put that outside the stadium. That's what I mean. People on the way in. People go and pay $20. Yep. All for charity. Throw something at it. I'll tell you what they'd pay for. Cricket ball. If you put some of the journos up there. Oh! Yeah! We wouldn't get Piggy and Daryl up to the box. Booyah! I'd take out a loan for some of them.

The cast of NRL 360. Wouldn't the punters go hard there? We wouldn't get Davey. If Davey was still with us, he'd be late to the footy. He'd be out there lining up for Ashley Klein. Should have retired six years ago. He's all mine, boys. Davey would do 1,000 cash out there, wouldn't he? Easy. Easy. He'd do that on a Saturday at the races, but he'd always back the last winner. 12-6, Dolphins lead Warriors. 15 minutes left in the first half as we take you around the grounds.

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Thanks to Harvey Norman, proud to be Australia's official retail partner. Powered by LG, partner of Nine's Olympic broadcast. Emily Minnie here with the latest from Paris. The Stingers have recorded their best Olympic result since the Sydney 2000 Games, walking away with a silver medal in the women's water polo final.

The side unable to overcome world number one, Spain, going down 11-9. Goalkeeper Gabriela Palms says she's still taking it all in. I'm just so proud to be here with the girls and to be a stinger and to have represented Australia.

Runner Jess Hull has taken Australia's first medal for a track event, coming second in the 1500 metre final. The Olympic Games wraps up tonight, but there are still chances for some medals. Three Aussies will compete in the women's marathon, kicking off action on day 16. To the medal tally, Australia is in third with 18 gold, equal with Japan. China tops the table with 39, ahead of the United States with 38.

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.

Mark Levy, Neil Breen, Darrell Broman and Mark Piggy-Riddell back around the grounds for Uber Reserve. 12-6 Dolphins lead Warriors. 11 minutes left in the first half. 12-6 Dolphins lead the Warriors. The game you'll see live and free on 9 and you'll hear with the continuous call team is Newcastle and West Tigers from McDonald Jones Stadium. And Andrew Johns is back in his old stomping ground and he's on the line. G'day, Joey.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Joey. You'll have a trip back to Newcastle. I will say this, though. What's happened to your Knights, mate? They've lost three in a row and they've scored just 34 points. What's doing? Don't start me. I'll start crying again. Well, hopefully they aim up here. It'll be a bit crowded today. Fast track. So hopefully they aim up. Hey, Joey, it's not old boys day yet, is it, Newcastle? It's not today, is it?

Isn't it usually at the end of the year? End of the year. I think one of the last games of the year, yeah. What are you doing? Because you guys do do it the best. And when you said you were going to cry then, I thought you may have had a big night and you were getting a little emotional. Well, it is Sunday. So it's good enough. I was actually down at Young yesterday. I did a speaking gig for the Young Cherry Pickers. Oh, nice. I put in an immortal performance. LAUGHTER

That's what we want to hear. You know you're going well when you're speaking and up the front there's a table of 70-year-old blokes just looking at each other with their jaws hitting the ground. LAUGHTER You'll be 70 one day. Did you give them the A-grade speech, did you, Joey? The no-holds-barred. Oh, yeah. I just say, what do you want? Do you want G or do you want MA or do you want R? Do you want X? LAUGHTER

Let me guess. I think there was an X involved in it. Yeah. Triple X. Oh, jeepers. Oh, Joey's special. Hey, Joey, I've got to ask you, mate. A match like today where you've got two teams that have been faltering along, what's in it for these teams this afternoon? Oh,

Well, for Newcastle, it's aiming up at home. You know, we'd be a big crowd here again. So, you know, you're playing for pride, playing for your teammates, playing for your town. So that's for Newcastle and the Tigers. Well, they've just got to be consistent. I'd say a few of them are playing for their future.

But I'm looking forward to watching the young blokes, the Tigers, go about. Young Galvin, I'm being impressed with him. So one thing about it, it'll be high scoring, it'll be entertaining. I'm looking forward to it. Just on Galvin, mate, he's had a great season. I don't know where he's at with regards to his contract situation, but for a bloke to come in and almost run a side like he has, and a side that's under the pump big time, he's done a phenomenal job.

He's done a great job because some of those games where he's standing out, his foretack's getting smashed. So he's doing it behind the pack, not going forward. He's a real player of the future. I hope they lock him down pretty much long term.

All right. Well, Joey, enjoy McDonald Jones Stardew. We always love footy in Newcastle. Like you say, big crowd. The Nova Castrians will be out there to cheer on the Knights, win, lose or draw. Good on you, mate. We'll see you on the deli. Can you send someone up the con box to give me a cuddle? See you, mate. See you. There he is, Andrew. We actually had a couple of messages yesterday from people in Young saying how good he was.

And when you get to hear from the immortal, it's always great with the immortal stories as well. Who's the best after dinner speaker you guys have heard? There's a bloke from Melbourne who used to play AFL. He was a big bloke, used to be on Pardon the Interruption.

Forget his name. He's very good. I forget his name. I reckon... He did the Lamb ads. Oh, Kekovic. Sam Kekovic. Sam Kekovic is right up there. For me, it's a tie. The serious one, which was unbelievable, I heard Rick Charlesworth speak one day. You know, he opened the batting for West Australia when he was the legendary hockey player. I just sat there flabbergasted. I found him the most inspirational person ever.

But dead set, the funniest one I ever saw, the best I ever saw was at the Bradman Oration, which is a bit of a dinner they have at the SCG every year, was Kerry O'Keefe. Really? I've never laughed so much in my life. Wow. Just the best.

See, miracle Malcolm Johnston's away. See, I love my racing, so he's very good and he's quite entertaining. There's actually a comedian that performed at one of the continuous call team functions and I knew what was happening. He comes in and, you know, bungs on that he's drunk. Oh, yeah. Kenny.

Kenny Graham. He's hilarious. And the people in the crowd think this guy's actually... He walks up onto the stage, he's got a knife in his back. He goes... He's a dragons man. And it's just the whole skit. He tells the... I hope I do this justice, but the joke he told that got me one day, he goes, oh, the wife sent me up the road to get some dinner.

She felt like snails. So I've gone down to the local French restaurant to get some snails and I'm walking home and the boys are over the pub and they say, come on, Kenny, come and have a drink. So he goes in and has a drink. Next minute, he looks at the clock. It's 11.30 at night. He gets home and the lights are off. So he stumbles and falls over in his front alleyway to get up to the front door.

And the snails go everywhere. And the lights turn on. She opens the door. She says, where have you bloody been? He looks at the snails. He says, come on, fellas. We're nearly there. He's very good. Oh, God. I haven't seen him for ages. He's great. He's very good. I'll tell you who else is funny, and you wouldn't think so. Funny and very entertaining is Wayne Bennett.

Yeah? Yeah. Ben, it is good. Really good. And he tells stories and he's written in a real dry way. He's very funny. The bloke alongside is pretty good. I've been to a couple that Darrell spoke at. He's the big man. He's very good. I'm all right, but there's a lot that are better than me and they charge that way as well. A lot more. A lot more. But you know what? It's interesting because you get to see a lot of them do stuff and some of them are really different than what you expect. Yes. You know?

Kenny Graham was just, as I said, I haven't seen Kenny for ages. I hope he's well. But I haven't seen him for a long time. But he was brilliant. Well, he did one and, you know, he described the knife in the back and the suit. We were actually, when I was at the Dragon, so this was 25 years ago, we were at the, where do you all go? The Yacht Club? Oh, yeah. The Motorboat Yacht Club. We were having a dinner there in the private function room and it was set up, obviously, and

And some of the boys didn't know what was going on. So we're all just sitting there at dinner, and he just starts stumbling in the private function room, thinking he's just stumbled across us. And then he starts going into his act, obviously, and we're just all, you know, hosing ourselves laughing. But everyone's thinking that he's just walked in from...

upstairs at the club. Oh, he's the best. Fanny's very good. Yeah? Fanny's very good. Darren Carr's, from a comedy aspect, is very good as well. He's a ventriloquist. You seen him? No. Darren Carr? Mate, he's phenomenal. He's been on the footy show. He does a lot of them. He's done just about everything, mate. I've seen him...

I reckon I've seen him 20 times, but he's funny every time. What was that? There was a magician in Queensland who played with Mal. He played for South. Phil Cass. Phil Cass. I haven't seen or heard of him for ages. He played at South in the Malvin Ingrid. He was a winger. He played first grade, and he was a magician. Yeah, I remember Phil Cass. He was very good.

He's very good at a function. I never knew he was a football player. I remember at Mal's testimonial, he did the big magic act and was the big attraction in Brisbane. Obviously being a teammate of Mal's. Vince Sorrenti, there's another one.

He's hilarious. 131873 is the number. If you've got any other after-dinner speakers that you've been to see and you think are worth a rap, let us know as the Dolphins race away to score another try this time through Nicorema. It is 18 points to six with a kick to come. 18-6 kick to come. Dolphins lead Warriors. Four minutes left first half. We do that for Uber Reserve.

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Steve says at Ballarat... Oh, Steve, remember you put out the challenge for somebody to chew the gum? Yep. What? What did he do? Did he do it? So Steve from Ballarat in Victoria, the challenge was to chew chewing gum for 24 hours and to see...

No sleeping. Whether it disappeared. Yeah. Steve says, chewing gum update, 32 hours, and it didn't change apart from tasting terrible. Really? So there you are. Yeah, well, that doesn't surprise me, but it's good. Well done, Steve. You've won nothing for that. Who thought it would disappear? Were you here last Sunday? We did it last Sunday, didn't we? No, you didn't do it last Sunday. Oh, we didn't do it last Sunday. Oh, Saturday. Well, we did it one day. Anyway, I would have thought it was a Sunday. We just asked if we had any volunteers who would like to chew gum for a 24-hour period. Oh, my God.

No sleeping, obviously. Go right through. We had about half a dozen people wanting to do it. I thought, we'll just show you. There's inbows everywhere. You'd find plenty of people in the cross of the Chewgum for 24 hours. There's just inbows everywhere. Just on Kenny Graham, Duck Creek's listening. He's actually fishing in the Northern Territory. He's just sent me some unbelievable photos.

He's in a boat on a stretch of water, and on the bank of the water the way there is three crocodiles. So he's doing it tough up there. He says, Kenny Graham's a classic levy. Went to a party with a bottle of Greek wine called Domestos. Yes. These are beautiful. Greg McCallum, the decorated former rugby league referee, is on the line. G'day, Greg.

Good, thank you, mate. You've got a funny story about Kenny Graham to share.

I do, mate. I'm a married celebrant, as you know, and we were at a wedding a few years ago and Kenny Graham was coming in at the auditorium and the wedding cake was in the middle of the floor. And Kenny Graham's come in in his drunk composure and headed straight for the wedding cake. And the bride screamed out and the groom jumped up to try and run down and stop him before everyone realised that Kenny was the comedian. LAUGHTER

Mate, he's one of the best, isn't he? There was tension in the air, let me tell you. And then the bride found out that the groom had set him up. You might have had to call on the old refereeing skills there, Greg, to try and calm the situation.

Absolutely. Just coming back from a bowls day. We had a bowls day at Leichhardt today, the referees. How did you perform, mate? Brian Barry was there. Yeah, Brian, I didn't, I took the photos. I didn't perform. Brian Barry, our 101-year-old ambassador, organised the day again. So it was fantastic. Good stuff. I'm not sitting out on a boat looking at crocodiles. I'm heading back home.

Greg, as far as the referees go, who's the best bowler out of the crew? Well, I've got to say, Billy Harrigan was there today. He's the best bowler. Just ask him.

He's told me a few times that he is, but he proves it today. Good on you, Greg. Great to hear your voice, mate, and well done to all the referees that catch up regularly. Imagine the referees at bowls. I mean, you know at bowls, most people, it's gentlemen's sport bowls, where if you start doing the count at the end and it looks like they're pretty close together. You know, sometimes if you go for a measure, the tape measure, could you imagine the referees? Yeah.

That's a measure. That's a measure. They'd be blowing up on each other, not being able to go to the video or anything. No, no, I'm not giving you that one. Greg actually left early from the bowls. They called Harrigan a cheat. He said, don't talk, just go. Just go. You know who else is funny? I haven't seen him for ages. He lives down my... Steve Edge. Yeah. You seen Edgey? Edgey's... Gus is good, mate. Okay. Gus Good's very good. Good stuff. You see, you can get Gus for after dinner speakers. Ian's in Irmington. Hello, Ian.

Oh, hello. Good afternoon, gents. You mentioned Phil Cass. Yes. Years ago, I went to a new job and my boss thought he'd play a joke on me and send me on to the midday show to the new product segment with all these letterboxes shaped like different sort of animals. Right.

Okay. And so I was in the studio and before the filming of the show, I watched this guy, this

doing all of these magic tricks and I was intrigued and I was sitting up in the what they call the bleachers and he called me down to help him with a couple and we got along fine and then he said I'd like you to be in my act during the show which he did and during that time he took a $20 bill from me which I gave him lost a little corner of it had me

write something on the bill and then put it in a book and burnt it.

and then sent me ushered me away from the floor back into the seats and then he did a similar thing with another man's ten dollar bill and then uh the culmination of his show was he called me back out um onto the stage and um

Before I knew what he was doing, he ripped down the fly of my pants and then pulled out my $20 bill. How good's that? They're so good, the magicians. He was good. Unbelievable. I saw him do this trick where he cut this bloke's tie. It was at that Mal Meninga thing when he cut this bloke's tie and for the life of me, and this bloke was sitting at my table, and I said to him, that's...

I said, you're in on this. And he was just a bit, he just said, I don't know what he's done there. Wow. Have you ever been hypnotized? No. I went to a hypnotist show once and I was sort of one of those people that thought this is just BS. This is rubbish. Mate, I was up on stage for about an hour and a half giving birth, doing the most random things. You weren't. Yeah, 100% afterwards and I can't remember a thing.

Mate, I'm with you. I've been done. I've been done on the footy show. I got hypnotised years and years and years ago on the footy show. So they had a heap of us in the green room and they tried to pre-do it and then they work out who's

Yeah. Fair to keep... Yeah. That's right. He was fully hypnotized. He was fully done. Yeah. He was really into it. Yeah. Couldn't open them. Yeah.

And then it's like you know what you're doing, but you can't stop yourself from doing it. Yeah, agreed. It was a weird experience. Really? Yep. You know where you are, you know what you're doing, but you can't stop doing what they're telling you. So you know you're on the footy show, you've been hypnotized, and you're making a fool of yourself. Yep, and you can't stop doing whatever they're telling you. Mate, you could do that without being hypnotized.

I could imagine. But the bloke said to me, he goes, mate, I'd pay you to come back to some of my shows. He goes, you've got that good of an imagination. That's why you were so out there all this time. That's what they did behind the scenes. They sat everyone down and he tries to hypnotise you. And then, but like,

Out of, let's say there's 10, 5 would be hypnotised and 5 wouldn't be. Wow. And they're just, OK, you 5 are in. We've got to get to a break, gents. 20 points to 6, Dolphins lead Warriors, continuous call time. Just an update in the NRLW, thanks to all.com. Parramatta beat the Cowboys 20 points to 6 and the Broncos leading the Titans 22-0 at half-time in Brisbane. Half-time in the NRL match, 20 points to 6, the Dolphins 20.

leading the Warriors. So that's an update as we take you around the grounds for Uber Reserve. 131873, the number, 2GB.com or 4BC.com.au. Click onto the feedback icon. Just off the back of our chat with Greg McCallum, Mark, why not hypnotise the referees in the middle of the field?

I'd pay to see that from Amanda. Jeez, the referees are competent today. Vince Sorrenti is the best because he keeps updating his material. Phil Cass is very good, still doing his act. Saw him at a family of league function at Smithfield RSL this year. And I agree, edgy as entertaining. The comedians did it very tough during COVID. Well, it must be hard too in the cancel culture and the woke brigade culture.

that we live in at the moment in 2024, some of the comedians that do their gigs, there's always that threat of somebody taking it. They're really hard. Wouldn't they? They would be. Unbelievable. That's the beauty of Sorrento. He does update his stuff. And most of them do, I think. They've got to be up to date with what's going on politically and all that stuff. And the ones I see are outstanding. You'd get a real good look, wouldn't you? Because you do a lot of functions. But they're very good. They're good, mate. They're funny. You know, I mean...

Some blokes I've seen 25 times. The theory of what they do is pretty much the same, but they're funny every time. It's the way they deliver it and all that stuff. The faces they pull, they're funny. Who was the Australian actor that went onto the footy show and just bombed out? Craig McLaughlin. Craig McLaughlin. That was... I felt sorry for you. That was sort of the beginning of the end of his...

television career. Well, he's had a few bigger issues than that lately in the last couple of years. He's had a lot of issues, Paul Banger, but when he was on the show, I mean, everyone's, we all saw, I don't know if I was on the show at the time, but I remember sort of all looking at each other saying, oh my God,

Not good. On the topic of Vince Sorrenti, you know, he does the skit about everything being great, everything's great. Great is our favourite word. Great, mate. The kids are great. Mum's great. I feel great. Had a great night. Had a great day. Made some great money. Had a great year. I feel bloody great. The company's going great.

Got the Great Barrier Reef, Great Keppel Island, Great Dividing Range, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Great Artesian Basin, Great Southern Stand, Great Ravine, Great Hall, Great North Road, Great South East, Great Eastern Highway, Great Western Highway, Great Western Champagne, Great Ocean Road, Great Australian Bike, Great White Shark, Great Aussie Outback, Bloody Great! Bloody Great! Got the Great White Shark.

What a fantastic word, shark. A word developed here in Australia, ladies and gentlemen, by the first Aussie to come in contact with a shark. He didn't know whether to say sh** or sh**.

Very good. And he pulls the face. He looks like a shark. You know, he tucks the top lip under and the teeth around. He puts the head up like they do at the dolphins. It is something that's really missing from our TVs because Vince Sorrenti and all those guys, we met them through TV. I'm a kid growing up in Queensland. I'm not going to cabaret shows in Sydney. And we had the comedy company and the D-Generation and all these things were TV shows.

You would never get a comedy show on TV. I remember watching Carl Barron for the first time on the footy show. The footy show. He made his first ever appearance. I saw it. What was the... I think he said... He goes, I walked into a hotel and the lady asked me for an impression of my MasterCard. I said, I've never done one, but I'll give it a go. LAUGHTER

Continuous goal team. Halftime at Suncorp. 20 points to six. Dolphins lead the Warriors. Tommy says, Carl Barron has a funny routine about how Australians don't tell you how they are. They tell you how they're not. G'day, mate. How you going? Not bad. What have you been up to? Not much.

How much was that? Oh, it wasn't cheap. Where's this place? Oh, it's not far. Where are we going? Not long now. He's very good, Carl Varen, and very, very funny. Of course, coming up in an hour from now, that game between Newcastle and the West Tigers, Darren Flindell will be here to call all of the action, and we'll continue to update the scores on the Dolphins and the Warriors. It's the Dolphins 20 leading the Warriors 6. A break for some news.

Welcome back next hour, the Continuous Call team. And yes, we're an hour away from kickoff at McDonnell Jones Stadium where the Newcastle Knights are up against the West Tigers. Team news through thanks to Coles. Went with winter of the sports giveaway on now at Coles for the Knights. Dylan Lucas is out with a hamstring injury. So Christian Mapapalangi starts in the setters in 22. Thomas Kant is the 18th man. While for the West Tigers, they're 1-17 with Heath MacLeod.

Heath Mason lining up as the 18th man. So Dylan Lucas out with a hamstring injury. And Christian Mapapalangi. I just love saying his name. Christian Mapapalangi. Holy Cross Ride Boy, I think. Is he? Yep, my former school. I'm pretty sure he comes from there. And Darren Flindell will be along to call that one. He'll have some fun with that. Christian Mapapalangi.

It won't be a problem for him, mate. I hope he's all right calling the team he loves. That's never easy, I don't think. Needs to show no bias either. You need to lift him up if he starts feeling a little bit down in the dumps. That's his issue, mate. He's older than me. How old is he? I don't think he's older than you. Okay, fair enough. He's not older than you. He's not older than you. He'd be somewhere between Piggy and I. Well, what would that be? 50-odd? 50s. He's a veteran already, mate. He's a veteran.

Of course, races, mate. He knows what he's doing. Doesn't need to be pumped up. Democracy Manifest. So what was that? Sorry. He died during the week. Yeah, old mate, Democracy Manifest. Gone. Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest.

I thought you were going to play something. Yeah, I am. Who was? Now she's trying to pad. He's been hosting the Olympics. Big couple of weeks. I know, I've been listening. It's been excellent. I've got to find it. Have you had Oney with you the whole time as well? Oh, yeah. One Iron? Yeah. Has he been slow to react as well? You know what? We often joke about One Iron being a little slow on the buttons. I said to him the other day, I said, you know, when you left 2GB and came back, I thought maybe you'd sped up a little bit. Nah, still the same.

Still rats. And then he usually does, oh, my, my, my, my, my. My, my, my, my. I said, why are you sitting next to me, mate? I'm telling you what we do. Oh, my, my, my, my, my. And he loves it because he loves the sport. So if he gets to it, he's got to push the buttons and job to do. He was watching the basketball the other night and I said, all right, we're going to take a break and come back with the second quarter. And he stood there and went.

Oh, I've got to play the break. He's the best. Honestly, everyone's done such a great job off air as well. So we're very lucky to have a great team behind us. Now, Democracy Manifest. Sadly, we lost this bloke during the week. 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.

His inflections are all over the place in that. I love it. By the way, 20 points to 12. Dolphins lead the Warriors. Dylan Walker about to come on to the field after he was sin bin late in that first half. So 20 points to 12. Dolphins lead the Warriors. Last night, Canterbury beat the Dragons. 28 points to 10. The big issue in that one is this biting allegation of

levelled against Kyle Flanagan. The replays don't look good for him. He's been referred straight to the judiciary. Broncos beat the Cowboys 42-18 and Manly over the Raiders 46-24. And like we say, Darren will be here for the Knights and the West Tigers at five minutes past four. Big Man, what have you got for us? Levy, this is an issue that I often take up with Darling at home. There's only two of us here at the moment. She does most of the shopping. I'll do a little bit now and then, but she does the fruit shopping.

You know when you get... I'm already laughing. Mandarins. You know when you buy mandarins? Is there a specific type of mandarin you like or prefer to other mandarins? I'm putting my hand up. I like the fluffy ones. You know when the skin is not tight on the mandarin? You put your thumb in and there's a little bit of a...

At the end of it, a little bit of pressure is released. But there's distance between the outside and the mandarin itself. Well, Darling's now been on a buying spree where she's bought...

Tight mandarins. And I'm really anti them. I don't think they even taste as good. No, they don't. Are you with me? I'm with you a million percent. All I want is a fluffy mandarin. Yes. It can't be that hard to buy a... So much easier to peel. I love a fluffy mandarin. Tight mandarin, you can leave me out. I don't like them. And the other thing...

seedless mandarins these days. That's all I'm buying. What's wrong with a couple of seeds? I am not buying mandarins with seeds. I don't mind seeds in them, but I don't want tightness. You've got to spit them out. I want puffy mandarins.

Now, everyone, are you with me, Levy? I'm with you, but when it comes to the seeds, I just swallow them. Well, the seeds... Oh, hold on a second. Mate, you might have a mandarin tree growing out of your anus one day. You want to be careful. He went to the doctor to show the doctor. The doctor goes, they're grapes. He goes, no, they're not, mate. It's mandarins. LAUGHTER

Oh, goodness me. Imagine that happening. That wouldn't be good. But the reason I say that is the seeds in mandarins are that small. It doesn't matter. So I just swallow them and get rid of them. Oh, mate.

I'd rather spit them out. I can't. But I'm with you, Daryl, on the fluffy mandarins. Well, mate, I think it's not difficult, is it? No, I don't think so. And there's usually a few varieties of mandarins when you go to the shops. There must be. There is. I went the other day. I saw them. But, mate, the puffy ones are so much easier. They feel better. They look better. They taste better. But everyone's got their favourite apples and things. I get into a death row with Lizzie about rice.

I like medium grain rice. Oh, for goodness sake. And Lizzie likes like basmati or... I didn't even know there was a difference. There's a massive difference. Who's basmati? Hold on, we need to explore this. I don't even mean to be rude, Brodie, but your wife is the food editor for the Weekend Australian, is she not?

Yes. So she should have the final say when it comes to rice. Well, I'm allowed to have an issue with it. I've got to say I'm very blessed. She's an unbelievable cook. But if your biggest issue is that you want medium grain rice and she wants basmati, hello, play on. I like it. Can you explain to me the difference? And also, she went through a phase of buying wholemeal pasta. I ended that. No, wholemeal pasta. Can you please give us... What's basmati? Well, medium grain rice is just...

The rice is a bit thicker and a little bit rounder, and it's a bit more full-bodied. Right. So when you... I cook rice with the absorption method, right? A cup of rice, one and a half cups of water, boil it, put the lid on, put it down low, 15 minutes, bobs your uncle. So...

I reckon the medium grain rice when you make a curry and you have it with the curry is better. And I just find all the basmati rice, it's all loose and everything. What would you get when you order your Thai or your Chinese? What do you get? What rice is that? That is normal rice. That's medium grain rice? No, no, not medium. It would be the smaller rice. But they cook it, you know, they're cooking it differently. Right. I think you'll find it's called jasmine rice. Right. Hmm.

I never knew there were types of rices. I didn't know there was such a thing as Belmati rice. There's heaps of different... Basmati. What? Basmati. I just get the rice, put it in the rice cooker, put the water in, turn the lid on. I must admit, I don't cook rice very often. I don't mind rice. We're Chinese, but I don't have... We have sometimes...

Chicken korma or something like that with a bit of rice. Beautiful. We don't have a lot of rice. I could have mountains of rice underneath the curry. I mean, mountains. Yeah, I love it. And you have the sauce that goes right through the rice. Oh, I go right through it. Oh, yeah. I love it. If I've got to buy rice for something, I just get the little tubs that you put in the microwave.

They're great food. For your situation. They are. 100%. They're great. They're really, really good. They're a lot more expensive, though. If you buy the bags, they last you for ages. Different types of rice and their role in the kitchens. Mate, there's that many different rices. I know. Arborio rice, bomba rice, gluttonous sticky rice, sushi rice, black rice, matta rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice.

There's nobody that's not funny. Steph Rice. She's a great swimmer. I see she's got a new boyfriend. I read that in the paper. Yeah, I read that. There's wild rice, parboiled rice, instant rice. What's wrong with just rice? White rice. What about wild rice? They have got that there? Yeah, there's wild rice.

Yeah, it's got a little bit of the root on it still. I can't believe, Neil Breen, that the biggest issue with your marriage and in the kitchen at home with Darling is you prefer medium grain rice and she prefers basmati. Why are you making an issue with that? When big man can't cop tight mandarins. I don't like tight mandarins. There's a big difference between tight mandarins and medium grain rice, champion.

I'm going to make you a curry with medium grain rice. Okay, so the basmati and the medium grain. It's a lot thinner than basmati. I'm just trying to get my head around it. So you love the medium grain. Because it's a bit thicker. I feel as though I can get into it. What would you use the basmati for then to not use the medium grain rice? So is there dishes that you would rather have the basmati rice or not? Well, if you're using rice in a salad, I'd prefer the smaller rice.

Rice in a salad? Yeah, he can have rice salad and stuff. I've never had rice in a salad ever. You've never had rice salad? Never. What are you talking about? I actually haven't had too many salads. Mate, there's lettuce. These people haven't lived. You haven't had rice salad. You make rice salad? He's had rice salad in your life. You know what, Big Man? It's a Queensland thing. He's never had rice salad. He's had it. It's like rice that's got salad and stuff with it. You might make a rice salad and you put corn and...

sliced up, you know, chopped up capsicum and all sorts of stuff. That's fried rice. That's not salad. Oh, my gosh. I've never ever put a rice in a salad. People are going to – people, 131873, tell us about your rice salad. I've got a subject that varies as part of it because we actually had Chinese on Friday night waiting for the footy to start. Was it Chinese or Asian? Chinese. Chinese. We bought it from Cremona area.

I bought satay combination. I do love satay combination. He's going to go. I know. You know what it was full of? Flopping onions. What have I told you? I don't want onions. I'm happy to have a few onions in my...

Satay combination. But not the whole thing full of onions. How many times have I told you? I know you don't listen to me, but I've tried to tell you for years, when you order anything from a Chinese restaurant, say no onion. He has. He's drummed it into everyone for years, Levy. When did he say that? For years. Oh, that bloody time. I don't listen to him. 15 years already. You should bloody listen. I'm telling you, this satay combination, which I do adore satay combinations. You know what you get in that, Greeny?

I presume you'd get some beef, you'd get some chicken, there'd be a prawn or two, something like that. You missed the main ingredients, satay. My kids call it peanut butter chicken. LAUGHTER

I walked straight into that, didn't I? It was like an opening batsman, just, oh, I'm going to put this bloke over the fence and a bouncer straight in the forest. You're going to be on your toes today, Darren. I'm ready to go. Oh, my God. But, mate, seriously, there's so many. You know when you dig into it and you're really starving and you just can't wait. It's full of onion. It's just onion. Looking for the good bits. So if you bought –

Did it have prawns in it? No, probably had about four prawns in it. Four's all right in combination. How big? How big were the prawns? They're reasonable size. They're okay. Not king, but just a bit smaller. Not like little ones you see in your fried rice. Oh, yeah. Reasonable size. How do they catch those little prawns? How do they peel those ones? Oh.

And you know what else? Who peels those mini prawns that are in your fried rice? I love prawn cutlets, but how expensive are prawn cutlets these days? They're about four bucks each. I know. It's just ludicrous. They are the best, though. Let's get the listeners involved. So what are we talking about? We're talking about mandarins. I don't know.

whether you like floppy mandarins. I like floppy mandarins. Whether you like medium-grain rice or other rice. I'm sorry. I've never heard of rice going in a salad. If you put rice in your salad, ladies and gentlemen, 131873, the number, and explain what else is in your salad. Because the salad for me is lettuce, tomato, capsicum, dressing, cheese, some other stuff. 131873, the number. 26 points to 12. Dolphins lead Warriors. 15 gone in the second half. We'll get to your calls right after this.

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Darryl, just before we get to George Rose, Mooney from Denman says, I'm at the golf club with my daughter, Alani, and she was cracking up at the mandarin growing out of Levy's you-know-what. You know what? It's very uncomfortable to sit down. Imagine sitting down and squishing one out there like a horse. He has another mandarin. Is Brady an elitist? Next he'll tell us he eats quinoa in his rice salad too. Up the Tigers this afternoon. You're a quinoa man? No.

Not really. Can I bring up another bugbear? Lizzie likes putting pomegranates in things. Oh, they're nice. They're nice. Yeah, I know. They're beautiful. Anyway, George. Overrated. George Rose is on the line from Pointsbet. Hello, George. Hi, boys. How are we? Mate, are you a fan of a salad by any chance? Be into one.

What sort of question is that? Mate, we're talking about salads. Brady puts rice in his salad. No, I make a rice salad. It's the base of the salad. Oh, my God. George, just don't listen to these gibberists. Rice doesn't belong in salad, does it, George?

I don't know. I'm okay with that. I'd probably eat a salad if it had rice in it. I'm dodging the letter, so the rice I'm okay with. Leave the rabbit food out and just eat the rice. Why not? All right, well, let's get into the footy. Newcastle, $1.30 for this one. West Tigers, $3.50. Look, the Knights, when you start talking about mathematical chances, you know your Buckleys.

But the thing about the Tigers is, and Andrew John's made this point, they've got some really good young players that we get to keep an eye on this afternoon. Are you tipping Newcastle to win? I am tipping Newcastle to win, but I reckon it's a great game for the punters because I think absolutely anything can happen in this game. What about your same game, multi, then, mate? Because we love following these ones. How are you playing it? Oh,

I've got total match points over 48.5, which you'd expect with these two teams. I've got Greg Margeau, any time try scorer, and I've got the Tigers to score the last try because they're so unpredictable. I just think the Tigers can do absolutely anything. All right, so $6.03 for that one. Total match points over 48.5. Greg Margeau, any time try scorer, and the West Tigers to score the last try. $6.03. Enjoy the footy and your salad with rice in it too, George, and we'll catch you next week.

I'll chuck a few sausages in there too. There he is, George Rose from Pointsbit. What are you really gambling with? For free and confidential support, visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. Righto, gentlemen, let me get to a few of these calls, starting off with Ben at Gundawindi. G'day, Ben. G'day, guys. How you going? Good, thank you, mate.

Yeah, no, I definitely agree with a rice salad. It's actually rice and then you put carrot, peas, corn, sliced onion and all that through it with mayonnaise. And are you a fan?

Yeah, love it. Grew up on it as a kid. Okay. It's a Queensland thing. See, Gundawindi is on the right side of the border. This is a Queensland thing. It is. Wouldn't happen in New South Wales. Man, I'd never heard of it. Neither have I. Never heard of it. Although, what's the one where you have the rice and it's got the sultana through it as well? Is that a rice salad? That's called a rice sultana salad. Well, I suppose so. Just a variation of. Okay. Thank you, Ben. Ashley is in Vaucluse. Hello, Ashley. Hello. How are you? Good, mate.

I have to respond to the rice salad thing, and I'm not a Queenslander. I can remember it as a kid, late 60s, early 70s, all through everywhere, supermarkets in New South Wales and Victoria and Melbourne. So he's right. Rice salad. Are you a fan, though, Ashley? Would you eat it, or would you prefer just a normal sort of...

I didn't mind it at all. Yeah? Yeah. Well, I'm going to have one during the week and give it a go. I reckon it's just gone out of fashion. Yeah. Like, when I was a kid and you went to Aunty Anne's or Aunty Cole's or whatever place on a Sunday, which we did basically every week, there was always coleslaw, pasta salad, rice salad and some sort of meat. It was just every week. I will say about coleslaw, I think that's overrated. Not overrated. Coleslaw. I like coleslaw. I'm just... I love coleslaw.

Pasta salad. What about a roll? What about chicken roll with coleslaw? Oh, yeah, true. That's nice. Piggy, unsupervised, you would absolutely smash pasta salad. Pasta salad, hot chicken roll. Oh. Does anybody still? You'd have two of each. Oh, easy. Until your missus, you had one of each. Easy. Easy. My mum's go-to whenever we went to a family barbecue or whatever was the noodle salad where you get the cabbage and the fried noodles. Oh, yeah, that's nice. That is nice. That's beautiful. Yeah.

That's another one. Like those Chinese fried noodles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful. But see, some people, you go to some people's houses and they put on a salad and it's like the Rolls Royce of salads. Oh, yeah. Then you go to some people, it's a couple of tomatoes, a slice of cheese and some lettuce. My wife, Carly, and my sister-in-law, Nicky, my brother's wife,

They have salad-offs each year at Christmas. I love that. A salad-off to see who has the best salad. So what do you and your brother-in-law do? Eat it. Drink piss. It was so natural the way he said it.

Here's another one, Bob. For a moment, he was just lost. He was just talking to his mates, and he was just brutally honest about what he does at Christmas time. He just drinks, pee, eye, whatever. Sorry about that, folks. Sorry about that, guys. That's what Christmas is all about. Took me back to Christmas. Yeah. So when we're talking about the Rolls Royce of salads, what's in it? Well, those ones, you know, the ones with, like, the walnuts and the roasted beetroot and all that sort of thing. You think you need avocado in there?

I love avocado in a salad. Yeah. You know, I like avocado. I had it for breakfast. I don't think it doesn't taste like anything. Mate, I had it for breakfast. I had avocado and feta mixed together on a toast. What about avocado? I have avocado and Vegemite on toast. You ever had that? No, I haven't. It's very nice. I haven't done that combo. But I must admit, I like avocado, but...

I don't really know why. It doesn't taste like anything. You know when you started the Breakaway Coffee Club down in the Shire and went to that, I think it's called Kin? Kin, yeah. At Cronulla there? We only had one day at the Breakaway. We only had... I got sick of it. We had one coffee club meeting. But that little cafe there does a really nice prawn and avocado salad. Oh, that sounds nice. So if you're there once, give it a go. It's beautiful. I love prawn and avocado salad. Very nice. With the prawns with the poop shoot out? Yeah, yeah. But they're massive prawns too. Very nice. Massive. Massive.

I don't know why I love prawns, because I'm not a mad seafood lover, but I do like prawns. But I mainly like prawns, Piggy, with seafood sauce. No. Beautiful. Prawn cocktail. Yeah. Well, don't have a cocktail, but there's prawns, tomato sauce, a bit of mayo, Worcestershire. I only realised recently, because I'd buy seafood sauce. No, you can make it yourself. It's mayonnaise and tomato sauce. Maybe a little spoonful of Worcestershire. A little bit of lemon. That's it.

That's all you need. I've been wasting $6, $7 on seafood salad my whole life and I couldn't make it myself. No, never buy it. Make it yourself. If you make it yourself, you've got to buy the ingredients anyway. Yeah, but I've got mayonnaise in the fridge. You use mayonnaise. You use tomato sauce. I've got Worcestershire sauce in the fridge. Why not? Yeah.

Give it a crack. What's the best thing you can cook? Like, just say... Mexican. Mexican. I'm a great Mexican maker. Nachos. My nachos are unbelievable. I do a double deck of nachos. Beautiful. I love nachos. Guacamole, sour cream, and I don't stinge on it either. There's a fair chunk of it. And you spend a bit of time doing it? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You put mince, beans. What sauce do you put in the hot one? So I get the mince, I get the beans, then I get the taco seasoning, put that through. Some onions, some tomato, put all that through. You chop all the tomato and onion and all that? Do everything. Put it all, maybe some capsicum if I'm fearing daring. Then put all the CCs on the bottom. Layer of meat and cheese. So the CCs, you put them, like you cook them, you put in the...

in the oven for a while with cheese on the top. But you've got to construct it first, Errol. This is a trap for young players. So I put the first layer in under the grill, bring it out, put another layer on top, CC's mince, cheese. You're talking to a construction expert.

Expert. Well, I see your nachos and I raise you my nachos. Mine would leave yours for dead. Can I suggest to you you put it on the menu at pronto? No. It's my nachos. I've got a better suggestion. What? Okay. What? We can't do it next Sunday. Why? Because we're at the ground.

Our next Sunday when we're in the studio, we're having a nacho. Okay, done. A nacho between you and your wife. It's not a nacho. It's a nacho off. The judges will be us two. And Big H can come in. And Harry will come in and he will have the casting vote. We should bring your wife in. We can include her. It might knock Big H's head off if my nacho.

And let me just say this to you, Daryl. What? There's to be no help from Darling Bev. You've got to do it yourself. Of course I will. I'll do it myself anyway. I'm just checking. Have you got meat in it? Have you got mince on it? Yes, Daryl. It's a double-decker nachos. We won't be going to Wollongong. It's not necessarily a double-decker. I don't think so. Two weeks' time then. All right, two weeks done. Lock it in. Not next week, the weekend after. Nachos. Nachos. Hey, lock it in, Eddie. Watch out for that oven, though.

Because remember I put the pie in it for Harry a few weeks ago and I burnt it and smelt the whole joint out. No, you put the grill on, didn't you? I set it in the oven and I burnt it. Oh, my God. I have a distinct advantage. I'll be in here during the week to play around with said oven to work out the best setting for it. No, no, this is life. Well, that's what they've got to put up with. They've got to deal with the conditions.

Yeah, but he gets an unfair advantage. Have you got a bacon tray, like about, I'll say, a foot long and about six inches wide? I'm not giving away my secrets, Daryl. Oh. Okay, bring it on. And Brini, myself, and Big H enjoy the judges. I've also got one word for you, Levy, which is going to put you on the back foot right from the start. What? Big Man's Barbecue Cookbook. You don't do nachos in a barbecue. How's that going to help you? I'm just a good cook. He has techniques in there that...

He can draw on. Yeah, cooking technique. Like chopping and stuff. Well, Darrell, I'm just going to say this. Jeez, we've lost you two for a second here, haven't we? What's happened? Well, there's a try on here. Try on to the Warriors. I don't know whether he scored. I think he dropped it. Why are you two so interested in this? Have you had a little same game multi? No, overs. No, I mean, no, we're just looking at rugby league. No.

We haven't had a same game multi. That's why my comment is before. We've had a multi game multi. Potential try. I'll just butcher it if they haven't scored. Potential try to the Warriors. It's gone to the bunker and the on-field referee says no try. So at the moment, 26-20 Dolphins lead Warriors. 13 minutes left in the second half. If you've got any tips for the Nachos off, let us know. 131873 the number. Quick break. Back with

Well, the Warriors have just scored a pretty incredible try, Darrell, to make it 26-24. The Dolphins lead the Warriors. Kick to come for the Warriors. Well, the Dolphins have got a problem in the second half. They've led a number of games and lost them, but this was an outstanding try from the Warriors. Just the ball movement was great. The hooker threw a beautiful pass to the 20. I don't even know who he is. He just scored the try. Let me have a look at it. Who scored the 20? It's Dimitrik...

Sifakula. Well, you don't know him because he hasn't played. Never heard of him. He just stormed over and scored. He's got a brother numeric. Well, they've actually missed two kicks they should have kicked.

He had trouble last couple of weeks ago, didn't he? He's just been pushing kicks out to the left with his left foot. He shouldn't miss this. This will be tied up at 26 all here in a second. Still 11 and a half minutes to go. Don't touch that set! Oh, don't start, would you? Get ready. Darren, use that one if you want to today. Is Darren here? Is he? Yeah. Look at him out there. He's doing homework. Oh, look at him doing his homework. Are you ready to rock and roll?

He's got his homework. He's nervous. No, no. He's nervous. He's not nervous. I spoke to him during the week and he said, Levy, I was very nervous last week. I said, I would be nervous too if I've never done it before. I think the goal kicker's nervous here too. You know what they say?

You're better after the run. Well done. A lot of horses aren't good second up. Remember that? Second up, who do? Well, when the jockey says you're going to have a lot of fun with this horse. Tell me about it. Just give me another 10,000. That'll cover the next month. 26 all Dolphins Warriors. 11 minutes to play in the second half. 26 all as we take you around the grounds. We need to get to an Olympic update. In fact, let's do that right now.

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The final day of the Olympics gets underway shortly, with the women's marathon kicking off day 16. Aussies Sinead Diver, Genevieve Gregson and Jessica Stenson will take to the streets of Paris for the final track event of the Olympics. The Opals have their sights on a podium finish after bowing out of the women's basketball finals with a loss to the United States. They'll take on Belgium in the bronze medal match.

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Well, the Dolphins have scored a try here and it's been converted by Jermaine Asarco. So the Dolphins are back in front with eight minutes left in the second half. 32-26, Dolphins lead the Warriors as we take you around the grounds. And we do that for Uber Reserve. 131873 is the number. And just off the back of our Nacho chat, lock it in, boys, from Russ, Big Man and Levy, the Nacho Macho Man. Nacho, Nacho Man.

I want to be a nacho man. So when we're reading it next week, we can play. Nacho, nacho man.

I want to be a nacho man. I do love nachos. We very rarely have it. Do you really? Every now and then we'll make it. Very rarely. My wife, Carly, she blows up at me when we have nachos because I like to mix it all up. So, you know, you said you put your beans, your meat, and then, you know, your cheese. I like to mix it all up because of the guacamole, the sour cream. You did that to me over when we were going to Brookvale.

We went and saw Davey in hospital. Then we went over to... Oh, we had lunch, yeah. Then we got hardball diggers or something. Hardball diggers, yeah. You mixed it all up and I sat there, I was mortified. Whereas Carly likes to have like a bit of the mince, a bit of the guacamole. Yeah, that's how you eat nachos. But I like to mix it all together on top of the chips so then you just pick the chips up. He ruined it.

I think you'd be with me. But you mix it after it's served. No, like it's been served. It's been served. And then you just mix the whole thing up. Not the whole thing. Where I am, I'll just mix it all up with a fork so then you can just eat it. On your part of the plate, you just mix that up. What? When you say... Yeah, my part. All of the tray, you know. I take one from the edge and I go around the edge until you're left with this big thing in the middle. Hold on a second.

There's an art to eating a nachos. See, I just think you get sour cream, your guacamole, your mince and everything, your cheese. You want it all on the one chip. Every time you want it all on the one chip. That is amateur hour. So you mix it all up. Amateur hour. And then you have it all. I think that's much, much smarter. You know what it is? It's uncouth. It's un-Australian. It's...

Where did you win it? At the Harbour Diggers. Harbour Diggers. As if it's uncouth to do that at Harbour Diggers. Mate, it's a classy establishment. Oh, turn it up. You can go there and you can mix up your nachos and go for your life. How dare you? Have you been to Harbour Diggers? No, I know it's a great joint, but it's not like Neil Perry's Margaret Fine Diner. Mate, there were people staring at Piggy mixing it. No, there wasn't. There was. Oh, there was people staring. There were. They were staring at him going, what's this idiot doing mixing up all this stuff on top? That's because he was on his eighth

schooner on the way to California. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Actually, somebody dubbed us in. They said they saw us. Well, no, somebody said, oh, we saw Mark Lee having a beer at the pub before the football. I said, how was I having a beer when it was a lemon squash? Lemon squash ain't a beer, bro. Did someone send a photo to Buzz? No, no, no, it wasn't him. Hadley might have sent it. Oh, yeah, yeah. It was a massive news story. The headline was, Ray Hadley does washing. LAUGHTER

And the earth stood still. No, it's a good story. I'll campaign you. 32-26, Dolphins lead the Warriors. Five and a half minutes left in the second half. 32-26, Dolphins in front there. Now, speaking of Ray Hadley, he wants you to join him in Las Vegas, Brainy, and to our listeners for the launch of NRL season 2020. I'm not going with him. Why are you dropping your pants?

Because I've taken one. I'm going with him. You're going with him. When he gets up after about the second night there and he opens his hotel room door, I'll just have a bag of washing out there. Go on.

He finds laundromats when he's on tour. Actually, so do you, Peter. Weren't you and Phil Friss discussing laundromats? See, what I've done, Phil Friss is coming on my tour. I know you're doing an advertisement for Hadley's. Sorry, sorry, Lee. You better fish it off. But Phil Friss is my number one right-hand man. So I give him tasks.

That he's happy to take. I said, Phil Frist, can you find out where there's a laundromat? But hang on. Where's the nearest McDonald's? So Phil is paying full freight to come on your tour and you're giving him tasks to do. Yeah. I don't know why you need to find a laundromat in Vegas when we're only there for a week. Take a week's worth of clothes. I get a lot of dirty undies.

I need to clean my undies. I'm not doing them in the sink. Mate, you're there for a week. I don't know. Give them to the maid. Have you got more than seven pairs of undies at home? At the hotel. I don't know. I've probably got around about seven.

Surely you've got more than seven undies. What about all the free ones? We've got a heap of free ones every year we get them free. I've got them on now. Have you? Yeah. What free ones did you get? We get free ones every year. Who are they? Give us a look. Tradies. Tradies, they're quite good. But I find them good. I never got any tradie undies. Well, you weren't here in time. Someone took mine. You missed that. You missed the tradie ones. Oh, my God. Boxes and boxes. They weren't any your size. They were big men's size. Well, you know what sort of undies I wear? What? Lows. Oh.

I wear Bjorn Borg. Of course you do. Bjorn Borg. Is that a euphemism for something? Have a look at your Bjorn Borg. Yeah. And you can... Better than eager Brits. LAUGHTER

Inga Britsen's the Norwegian runner. Now, Bjorn Borg undies, I've got to tell you, they're outstanding. So I've upgraded from Bonds. Wow. Upgraded. Bjorn Borgs. I'm just watching. Sorry, there's a game on here and the Dolphins are leading 32-26. They've just put a grubber kick through. I'm just wondering whether the front row was...

was actually taken out as he was trying to get to the ball. He's knocked it on. He hasn't scored, but I'm wondering whether the 5'8 here has actually taken out the front rower, Mitchell Barnett, or not taken him out, but grabbed him and held him back. So this will go to the video, and, well, I suppose I'll have a real close look at it. But he certainly hasn't scored, but they'll probably be tossing up. No, they haven't tossed it up. It'd be no try.

The 32-26 Dolphins and Warriors. It's a try. It's a penalty try. It's a penalty try. You spotted it, big man. Well, he got held back by the 5-8 there, and I just thought it might have been a penalty try, but when they went there so quickly, I thought, well, maybe it won't be. This is where I say, here come the Warriors. Yes. Get ready, Darren. 32 is going to be 32 all.

Buckle up. Don't touch the sets. Listen, you blokes, would you shush? I'm just giving Darren some stuff. It's about to be 32 all. I'm trying to not speak over the top of everybody. Okay.

What about Nigel Edwards? G'day, Nigel. He's having a go at you. That's tacos, not nachos, you idiot. Now, under you're on the wide world of sport. I said, mate, nachos is on the plate. Thanks. He said, well, you must eat them different to the rest of the planet down under. Duh. Nigel, you're a goose. You weren't talking about tacos at any time. You know what? Nigel, crawl back under your rock, you goose. I'm anti-tacos. We have them once a week, and I'm now off them a little bit. You hard or soft? I love nachos.

No, we have hard tacos. Hard tacos. I like the soft. I like a combo. Oh. You are elitist. You have combo of nachos. We have both out on the table. Try this. So the soft ones and then we have the hard ones. Yeah, you can mix and match. Daryl should be an expert. I'm about to change your lives. Make yourself a hard taco and wrap it in the soft taco. Oh, no.

Now we're talking. That is clever. It doesn't spill out. Let me talk you through this. Okay, let's go. You make your hard taco. Mince, cheese, tomato. Flat bottom or round bottom? Whatever you want to do. That's a great song, flat bottom girls. Flat bottom girls. It's fat bottom. Then you get your soft taco. Are you listening, you idiots? Yes. Breathe.

You get your soft taco and you smear the sour cream and the avocado on the soft taco, sticking it to the hard taco. So what do you put in the hard taco? Just the meat? So you put the meat, the cheese and everything else you want in that.

Then you smear the sour cream and the avocado on the side. You stick that to the bottom of the hard one and wrap it in, and you don't lose it. All right, you're a winner there. You know what? I'm having that this week. That is a winner. And you get a larger size soft taco for the outside. And there's no spillage. That's a very good... I'm going to do that. I like it a lot. Can I ask you this? This is a tough question. Go for it. When you buy your mince for your tacos or for whatever you cook, do you get the cheap mince or do you get the...

Number one. I just get the mints. It's mints. Just plain mints. Well, I put it to you, Levy, that when you get the crap mints, that's why it's called the crap mints. You get crap in it. Does it taste like mints? No. Of course it does. Yes, it does. It's fatty. It's just got a higher fat percentage. It's fatty. So you blokes get the cheapest mints possible.

Listen, pet mince. I find that when I'm doing my, if I'm using mince to make meat pies or making a spag bol, I find the regular mince, the straightforward mince. So not the cheap one, the regular. Not the lean mince. I find it holds together better.

better. That's what it does. What about Michelle Bridges over here that doesn't want the fatty meats? I mean, please. You've just eaten six marshmallow. He just had six Polly Waffle bites. Did you just say, I've just eaten six what? Marshmallow things. What were they? Polly Waffle bites. You've eaten some too. I know, but I'm eating

the normal mints, not the lean mints. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. I'm happy to have the normal mints. Listen, while we're talking about nachos and tacos and everything else... Nachos, play nachos, man. Nacho, nacho, man.

I want to be. I'm not sure, man. Let's piggy up. Can I get back to the Ray Hadley package? Yes, please. Thank you. I've got to talk about Ray's package. I've got to talk about Ray's package. Leave him here. Let me just finish it, please. Now, Ray Hadley wants you to join him in Las Vegas. Did I mention that part? Yeah. For the launch of NRL season 2025, this will be the trip of a lifetime. Return flights with Hawaiian Airlines, five nights at the luxury Venetian resort, Las Vegas. The Venetian looks cracker. That'd be a nice place to start. You know what they've got on the windows? What? Venetian's.

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If you want to come and have a good holiday by yourself, let's go to the Venetian. One side of the building is just one whole Venetian. Pull that cord. Oh, God.

Do it after the break. 32-all golden point extra time is about to get underway. Dolphins Warriors at Suncorp Stadium. Now, as I was saying, Ray Hadley 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 the Wyand Airlines. Five nights at the luxury...

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Thank you, Geoff, for your... I was just pre-reading that before I read it out. I just saw it. It's quite clever. Yeah, boys, but how do you make a Venetian blind? You poke him in the eyes from Geoff. Thank you very much. 32 all, golden point, extra time is underway. And where are you staying, big man, when you're in Vegas? I stay at the Luxor. The Luxor. A little bit of luck there, champion. I've stayed there a bit. I just wonder. What are you saying? Why are you talking like that? No, I'd have to Google it a bit to see if it's up to scratch because it was getting a bit run down. Oh.

Oh, no. Not with the VIPs, they're not getting around. Oh, okay. So you were saying that's the pyramid, is it? Yeah, it's the pyramid. It's really good. It's sort of down the end. The ones at that end, like, they're all unbelievable. I love getting, like, when I've been to the Luxor, I stayed there a couple of times, and I just love walking all the way down.

Like, there's that much to see. A few bars along the way too, champion. I didn't get out of my hotel. No, you just walked down the footpath. The magic of Las Vegas is the fact that, you know, outside the Bellagio, there's the water show, and outside, you know,

Treasure Island, there's the... Treasure? No, well, there's the pirate show and everything and the light show. What did you... Did you guys just did nothing but drink what you drink at Christmas time?

Get out and live a bit. Mate, I'd have already been there to do that. I've done all the tourist stuff years ago, so I didn't need to. So now you're just interested in one hotel, one bar, one bedroom. That's it. Leave me alone. Put me on rotate. How many steps a day do you do in Las Vegas? You should do 20,000. How many did you do? He was lucky to crack 500. 100. 100.

He did that in dollars. Especially with the service at the machines. You don't have to walk anywhere. I think they've just kicked a field goal from a million miles out here, the Dolphins, to win. Sullivan. Sullivan, a two-point field goal. He has, and they've won the game. The Dolphins 34, the Warriors 32, with two minutes 15 left in Golden Point extra time. They've all jumped all over him, and yes, he has a two-point field goal. So the Dolphins...

have won it in a thriller at Suncorp Stadium, 34-32. Well spotted, big man. He was a nice kick. He's a fair way out. He was nearly 40 metres out. Well, he's got over reasonably easily. He's over 40. He's a two-pointer. Well done. So the Dolphins win that one, which leads us into the Newcastle Knights and the West Tigers from McDonald Jones Stadium. So have we got a winner for the quiz team? No, not yet. No.

All right. Daniel Tupo, Liam Martin, Xavier Coates. I didn't think they were that hard. 1-300-722-873. Daniel Tupo, Liam Martin, Xavier Coates. Give us a ring. 1-300-722-873. You win the $150 Lowe's digital gift card. So in the Luxor, just before I get your tips. Yes.

Because it's a pyramid, are they slanted windows? Yeah, they are. Yeah, yeah. So some of the rooms in the lower levels are sort of square, like normal hotel rooms. But when you get up to higher levels, like in your bedroom, the roof's a little bit angled. That would annoy me. No, it's not. Don't you feel claustrophobic? No. Like, it's a big hotel room. Yeah, okay, fair enough.

All right. And the beds are very, very comfortable. The thing is about Las Vegas is that the hotel rooms are big because they have plenty of real estate they use. Where are we staying? I don't know. I don't know if we're going. Are we going? I don't know. I don't know. Well, you won't be welcome at the Venetian now. Venetian.

I want to go just have a look to check out the Venetians. That's the other thing you can do on your walk from the Luxor down. You can look at the Venetians at the Venetian. Yeah, not that interesting. Let's lock in your tips, boys. Make it McSmart with the new McSmart meal from Macca's. Two burgers, small fries and a small soft drink for $6.95. McDonald's brings us the tip, the player to watch in First National Real Estate. A first try scorer really quickly, boys. I'm going to tip the Knights. I'm not that confident. 1-12, first try scorer, Caelan Pogger. Player I want to watch...

I probably want to watch Phoenix Crossland at halfback, just see how he goes there. Piggy? I'm tipping the Newcastle Knights. First try scorer, Greg Marzu, and my player to watch, Tyson Frizzell. And Neil Bruin? Newcastle Knights, I'll pick Fletcher Sharp to be the first try scorer, my player to watch, Dane Gagai. All right, thank you, gentlemen. We'll take a break when we return. Darren Flindell for all of the action between Newcastle and the West Tigers.