We Got The Chocolates

There were lots of sin bins during the most recent NRL round but even more in our Social Sin Bin segment!   Marnus Labuschagne has a batting technique article written about him by every Tom, Dick and Harry which doesn't really impress us!   Mitch was ambushed by a bunch of retirees who setup a makeshift wedding for him on a bus tour.   Our 12th Friend Of The Show Card is presented t...

Jimmy looks back on his younger days as a fiscally responsible rookie contracted player and what he spent his first pay cheque on. We talk about his development on the field; from long term 2nd choice QLD wicket-keeper to his breakout season as Queensland Bulls and Brisbane Heat captain. We mention his off the field development in dress code, from earrings and trendy hair cuts to RM Williams and A...

Two regulars are missing but one original member comes back! James Bazley is back on the podcast after an amazing summer of cricket for the Brisbane Heat and Redlands Tigers. He talks cricket, marriage and podcast progress.    We are joined by Jason Fiddes who loves basketball and Steph Curry but also works as a player welfare manager for the New Zealand Warriors (not Golden State Warrio...

This is our first ever podcast on the road! We record from Mackay at the Great Barrier Reef Arena. Having a beer, watching some cricket and having a chat to Nathan Reardon.    Reardo has played multiple seasons of BBL cricket for the Adelaide Strikers, Brisbane Heat and Hobart Hurricanes. He also played for the QLD Bulls so he takes the role of “professional athlete” on this episode.&nbs...

Leigh missed the train home and managed to travel on an express train, 8 stations the wrong way, clearly it was someone else’s fault though.    Mitch ambushes Leigh as he ousts him for rocking up to an appointment in a full suit… from the night before.    The Social Sin Bin allows for people to go in based on their spelling, an egotistical view of their own importance and their...

The Queensland Bulls won the Sheffield Shield but Sam Heazlett reveals to us that the podcast has gotten him in strife within the squad. Haz is wearing questionable kit after coming straight from Mad Monday! We tell celebratory Mad Monday stories and hear others from listeners. Leigh ‘tells all’, revealing freshly uncovered details from his Bruce Oxenford run-in. He does this partly in song parody...

We have a special guest delivering the Joke of the Day and hear word that our recent local sporting hero may be struggling living in the spotlight from his new found fame. Andrew Gode's dad delivered an unplayable delivery to one of our listeners.  We discuss which sports have the biggest home ground advantage and find out that our followers seem to be experts in a wide range of rather niche...

This man does not do things slowly! He went from playing club rugby for Brothers, to playing for the QLD Reds and then the Wallabies, all in the space of 2 years. He explains why he will always wear the red headgear and who he would play NRL for if he converted.    He holds the record for the fastest GPS cricket century and claims to be the most talented cricketer in his family, des...

Our ear is to the ground as we discuss a couple of listener voicemails about the notion of "Champing" and being "Champed" and whether anger management classes really work.   Jamie Ryan is the Local Sporting Hero after taking 21 wickets in his last three bowling innings and scoring a free season!    Mitch talk about Olympic sports that have been dropped from the games over the years...

Leigh Drennan is confronted about his poor performance last episode but the tide quickly turns as Mitchell Drennan is grilled for missing a whole-club photo.   Sam Heazlett goes through some more weird sporting injuries and village moments being brought to us by elite and non-professional sportspeople.    Cricket Australia and Queensland Bulls super-fan, Max, joins us to talk about...

Innocent mistake or poor choice of words? Hear our opinion and the fallout from Shane Warne’s ‘proper footy’ comment.   The worst places to try and pick up (which even includes some scholarly references; in addition to the first hand recounts).    Sam Heazlett leads us in a 'What are the chances' segment as he tells you how he met his girlfriend.    A rare sequence of even...

Mitch has his chair stolen from him... well the back of it at least!  Bad pitches or batting? Skin runs his stats microscope over the 2 day test match between India and England. We find out some weird and wacky ways that people have injured themselves.  We ask how we can possibly go on without Bruce Macavaney commentating AFL games and present a new Friend Of The Show card.  Hosted...

We speak to Adelaide Strikers bowler, Spencer Johnson about his return to club cricket and a story about clocking off in the second innings to talk to his girlfriend.    He also tells the story of setting the Darwin Golf Course on fire with Fireworks.    What to make of the Novak Djokovic fake injuries and what is with the random booing after the Australian Open final?   M...

Jack Wood on just how nervous he was when he made his BBL debut for the Brisbane Heat! Getting a wicket first ball and getting abuse from the crowd.    He explains why he doesn't think too much of surfing, and why everything he does, he does weirdly.    Who does he have a bromance with from within the Brisbane Heat squad? How does his board-game prowess stack up against Sam Hea...

The Rolling Stones, honestly, they aren’t very good.... they just one band on Gode’s list of most overrated things in the world! After some early technical difficulties we take the risk of going live for the first time and answer listener questions during the episode.   Matthew Renshaw joins our exclusive Friend Of The Show club, and discusses his BBL10 experience with the Adelaide Strikers....

The night Sam Heazlett rescued the Brisbane Heat. Obviously he was assisted by Jimmy Peirson and other teammates, which we also mention… just less frequently.    Who are the worst runners between wickets in cricket? What did Haz’s teammates think of the LBR (Low Bat Raise)?   We have Heazlett on the line responding to some of the classy tweets and comments that were written about hi...

Hottest 100 songs and Hottest 100 Beers. We talk quite a bit about one and not a lot about the other.    Did Douglas Henry Nut invent the doughnut?    Day for it, DFI or Dave Ferrit. What is it and why is it overpowering Instagram? Leigh tells us in his Parody.    Andrew Gode leads a BBL10 new rules review and offers ways to fix the competition.    Tim Paine...

Morne Morkel is with Sam Heazlett in the Brisbane Heat BBL hotel bubble. He holds a world record for the most amount of wickets taken from No Balls in international cricket.  Morne talks about recovering from his ankle injury and the weeks of quarantine he has had to do in the lead up to his first game in the Big Bash.  He has encountered Sam Heazlett's frugal ways during a fines meeting...

We review the break, trips to Adelaide to contribute nothing for West Torrens in the SACA competition, the Covid test and Andrew Gode starts the new year off with a joke.    The Brisbane Heat Facebook page provides a lot of 'Social Sin Bin' candidates, as does the Marnus Labuschagne on air critique that involves Shane Warne, Andrew Symonds, Tim Paine and Matthew Wade. It also cost us our...

Andrew Gode makes his first in person appearance on the podcast. He even provides a different location for the podcast to be recorded.    "Skin's Stats" is back as Mitch goes for the 'Lowest Totals in Cricket' edition.    Wally Lewis is on for a chat to Leigh about his movements at the moment, his new book and his thoughts on the rule changes for the 2021 NRL season.  &nbs...

Sam Heazlett is not able to be with us as he completes his "soft quarantine" or "purification process" as Leigh calls it.    Mitch has a great idea for Leighthal’s Christmas gift and it involves his significant hair loss.    Who Got The Chocolates features one of the great verbal gaffes from Mitch and our thoughts on the Wallabies National Anthem debate.    After last...

Leighthal had a runaway kid on his latest relief teaching day. The reasoning for the bolt will surprise you! Apparently bullying has taken a lot of new forms.    Why is Leigh so scared of Chris Lynn? Greg Norman's followers have won the internet in the comments section.    Mitch tells us the story about the day he was sprayed in the line at subway!   We talk large sporting...

The Brisbane Heat have signed James Bazley, yet another host of the podcast to be signed with the Heat… Leigh and Mitch are still waiting.    Leighthal forgot his box for cricket training and had to get very creative to ensure the seeds were looked after.    We have a live Social Sin Binning, as Jason joins us on the phone after being relentless on the poor old Brisbane Heat ma...

Jack Wildermuth is another man who has got the better of Skin on the cricket field!   We chat about his move from the Melbourne Renegades back to the Brisbane Heat.    BBL10 will have three new rules and Wildermuth gives his thoughts on those.    We get his T20 match day eating routine and talk about him being the Kryptonite for Australian selector George Bailey.  &nb...

Who got the chocolates last week? Has to be Will Pucovski, the Wallabies and the Maroons.   We get Mitch to display some more emotion on a topic that actually fires him up.    What stopped you from making it as a professional athlete?   Leighthal informs everyone of his podcast spending while we chat to our local sporting hero of the week, Daniel Drew.    What is the...