BTB Daily May 26

If you listen to one podcast this MBC build up, this is it. Carnival drops by to discuss a new initiative being brought into the tour in honour of a great mate. The Boffins go over all the comp results and positions with just 1 week left of the BTB18 season. Timmy Rawmeatakiss gives the Shooters a serve.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Hello, hello, hello, all you bather bottles. Just nine sleeps to go, fellas. Not long till Thomas arrives, and we'll be arriving with it. Natalie can't wait for it. How about you, Lori? Yeah, I can't wait for it either, mate. I love them. Yes, mate, I love it a bit both ways too. I've heard that about you, Mario. What are we doing here, actually? Well, we're getting ready for a huge show today. We've got to cover all the weekend results. Look at the comps as we head into the last week. 48 weeks of competitions coming down to one more weekend. Then we'll have our champions. We're having a look at the tour. There's a special special guest coming in today. Carnival will be joining us to speak about a special new thing that is being entered into the Mum's Mum Cup weekend and the Be the Ball tour. All very exciting stuff. For now, it's time for the Aguitars, boys. Oh geez, that got the blood pump and I am sweating it up big time. I can't wait. The Tory's nearly here and that song, it really gets you going, get you where you live. Will it hold special significance to a man we've got coming up very soon in Carnival, and he'll explain why. What did you get up to over the weekend, boys, Mario?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Well I watched a documentary on Netflix, mate. There was about the Jamie, Vardy, and Lester, who won their soccer over there or football, whatever you call it. I don't know. I normally don't even look at this sport, mate, but I tell you what, he was a great doctor. I enjoyed it immensely.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Oh my lord, you're changing your spots. The leopard is changing his spot.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

No, I'm not, mate. There was more about Vardy than Lester, but 5000 to one, mate. It was incredible, so I enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

What about you, Ben? What did you get up to over the weekend?

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Ah, I watched uh a movie as well. I paid for mine, but not like Mario, who waits for them to come around when you don't have to buy them.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

Not all of a sudden the money you do, mate.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Well that is correct, Mario. I must say that. I watched a show called Project Hail Mary, a movie, and I tell you what, it gets you right where you live. You were talking about it earlier, Laurie, and I can see you over there still sweating it up big time. Uh very good movie, and uh Rocky and Adrian, they pay a special visit for those who haven't seen it just yet, but I give it four point five wines out of five.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Excellent, excellent. What about you, Sandy? What did you do?

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Well I went out and had a round of golf actually last Friday with some of the wranglers. Uh big Neath, big win Neath. He uh got a call away to the hospital halfway through the round, and we thought that the baby was gonna drop and uh he may be a chance of getting on tour, but unfortunately, little bit of a false alarm, so he is dead set walking the tight way to get to tour this year.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Oh, he's 100 to 1. Yeah, you wait till that baby drops, you know. It's all over them. We all know. Changes your life a bit. Although I am a single man and never had a baby, but I've uh watched other lots of other people have babies. Yeah, one sick papy, Lurry. Yes, how how do you watch other people have babies? Oh, you can get on anything on the YouTube and on the internet these days, yeah. Yeah, so I just it's fascinating to me. I mean the absolute pain that those girls go through. Incredible stuff. But uh yeah, big win, Nate, the Wranglers, they're stuffed. No good at all. Well, you do bring that up. Uh there was a statement put out earlier today. It was a long interview that your nephew Lyle did, and uh cadet reporter, of course, uh, with Sideshow Sam the Captain. They're under a fair bit of uh you know vitriol, the Wranglers, shall we say, at the moment, from others death riding them. Uh and fair enough, they're going in uh looking to go back to back in the THC premiership. Mumsbum Golf, thousands and thousands of points on offer there, and uh they are going to be shorthanded by the look of it. Yeah, it was quite an interesting article, I've got to say. Uh, and the excerpt that was sent out, he's very defined, very bullish, uh, is Sideshow Sam. He he thinks the Wranglers are uh you know dead set not to be worried about the golf. Mumsbum Cup there. They may not have someone on the podium, but they do have two or three that are in contention.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I think it made if they get two boys into the cart, they're gonna be very difficult to beat. We've done the mathematics. Well I didn't, I watched while Leber and the Cattle Dogs, they went through it in the kennel, and they said we've got to go very well in the golf.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Speaking of the golf, we've got the shooters out there. Uh huge whispers coming out of there that two of their players have been spending more time with each other than they have their wives. And the golfing stimulator, I believe. Oh really, where's that? I might go and give it a visit myself. I don't think it's the golfing stimulator, it's a simulator, uh, Ben. Uh maybe Oh well, I won't be going at all. I was thinking about hitching a row with Sandy. All right, so these two shooters are out there. The shooters got a very strong Mum's Bum Cup team. Uh and of course they've probably not allowed on the Dubbo golf course after the shenanigans that went on out there between the King Browns and the C uh Crocs last week. Uh still very tender with some of the players, I must admit. Metro Matt hasn't said a word since then. He's just letting all that anger build up and build up, and he's gonna explode on the golf course. I can I can feel it from here. So uh good luck if you're in Metro Matt's group. There shouldn't be a mum's bum cupper out there who's not practicing at the moment. I mean, the guys off 60, well, they probably don't know how to practice, so uh forgiving them. Uh the rest should all be out there. I mean, it's a wide open field and anyone could win it. Alright, okay, let's get down to tin tax. We have a big week planned. We have a big run into the mum's bum cup. We're nearly there on the luxury coach. It's been fantastic. Uh more of that to come later in the week. Uh, but for now, we need to cover off where the comps stand with just one week to go, fellas. Triple B's.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

Big basket bet week forty seven.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

Just the one week to go, as we said, and it all comes down to this next weekend. You've got one day to make this happen, make it work, and become the champion of one of the big four pillar events. And my goodness, were there some ruffies again on the weekend?

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Ah, saving Pravit is blowing up deluxe. He can't believe that we're tipping through this uh quagmire in the middle of winter. Doesn't like the winter carnival, doesn't like uh being part of the top eight by the sounds of it.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

He doesn't like a lot at all, Ron, let's be honest here. Uh it's always been the same. That last month is the toughest month. You're going into winter carnival, there's a lot of donkeys mingling with horses out there, thoroughbreds on the racetrack, and you've got to be good. Double points in Brisbane too. They are throwing up, you know, twenty to one, fifty to one. There was a horse and won at 150 to 1 two weeks ago. And believe me, some of these boys I'm hearing whispers, Ron, are actually uh picking some of these. Well, I can say there has been a lot of changes in the Mum's uh Triple B championship. Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself there. And last weekend, again, there was a a number of changes in that top eight. You wouldn't think that you could have had 15 changes in the last four weeks in that top eight. There's only eight people in there, for goodness sake. Uh but that's how many there's been, and this is never over until it's over.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Well, who could forget Augusta Meek hat that year? It is bought up a lot, but the fifth last race of the year, double points, GMO at 120 to 1. He wins the Roosters golf bag.

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Yep, that's right. So uh and he's not the only one that's come from behind. Ugh. Really? There have been many others, I believe, right down through the course of history. Uh so 15 changes to the ladder. Let's go back and have a look with one week to go. I keep saying it because it's that important. 48 weeks of toil, trouble, getting your tips in, riding the emotional roller coaster of the ups and downs, just trying to make the top eight this year was massive. Uh, I've got a feeling that the first couple at least way set big records for the Triple B's. Uh and there's still uh a bit of a gap between first and last. There's 300 points between first and eighth. So when I say last, I mean eighth, of course. Uh so if you're sitting down in that bottom six, seven, eight, you think that you need to have a bit of a crack. Go wide, my friend. That's all I can say, especially up in Queensland. Uh double points. You only have to fluke one, maybe two, and uh you could be soaring to the top of the ladder. Yeah, it's very tight, but up the top, looking at the first three or four there, you know. You mustn't say a word to anyone, Lori. Oh no, you'd have to, you know, you could do whatever you like to me, but uh, I still wouldn't say a word.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Damn believe that for a second.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Well, that's where we're at. So good luck. When we went behind closed doors, those top eight were Water Tank, Matt, Manscaper Naz, Dukesrow, Daniel Lonroe Lever, Saving Private, Mustard Key, Matt Wokstar, Jimmy and Gold Digger Gavy in no particular order. And I tell you, it has been fabulous watching this. Very exciting stuff. DALEMS Week 47. Week 47 of the Dally Ams, and when we went behind claws doors, it was Craig's Carnival who'd had a very Roxel Damons year, but a fair few Demons in there. He was leading the Dally Ams for the Wranglers going in, but I'm not so sure that that will be the keys coming out the other side of this fave week block. No, well he became ineligible when he missed the cut to continue to gather points, and that is always problematic as far as the Dally M goes. You generally need to make the top eight. It's it's quite actually not as often as you think that the winner of the Triple B's wins the DALEM. It happens often enough, but uh probably only about 60% of the time. Quite often there is a different winner of the Dally M's, and there were 29 changes over the last four weeks going into this final weekend, uh, and it is tight, very tight. Surely they all can't be in the running to win the Dally M. Some of those boys in the top eight have had very consistent years, but didn't accumulate a lot of Dally M points along the way. That's true. Uh let me say there's two or three that uh that can win it. There you go. Bottom line is they can win it. Uh but there's nothing between them. Struck match, that's about it between them all. Uh so the Dali M's too is right on a knife edge going into this final weekend.

SPEAKER_03 9:40

Punter of the year party.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

Every time he says a word I need to go to their bathroom.

SPEAKER_03 9:47

Me too, but for definite reasons I'm thinking more of a nightclubby style bathroom with lots of people in there and uh you know, anyway, I won't go down that.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Yeah, you want to go potty, he wants to go party, if you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Oh not really, no.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Sixty-two changes to the punter of the year ladder since we went dark, and I say that uh Frogman Grant was a long way in front, but with these ruffies and the punter scouting water being their last bets and if you're not up this weekend punting, that's it, you're finished for the year. You are not going any further. Uh there is still we saw where Einstein Graham years ago do this, where he came from dead last on the ladder and had four or five weeks of just, you know, a little bit of arse mixed in with uh some class and uh a little bit of luck, and you can win it from here, but Frogman Grant's still the man to beat, you would assume. I I don't have eyes on this ladder. He's very hard to go past, and and let's be honest, he probably deserves to win, but those ruffies have thrown spanners and work everywhere. And it's not over, never over, and if you're punting this weekend and you don't believe you're anywhere near the leader, I would go away, close your eyes, throw a dart at the board, and hopefully hit the donkey in the ass.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

That was almost poetic in a pathetic tapa way, Sandy. Uh thank you, I think. I couldn't have summed it up better myself.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

What about the vests, Ron? Who's uh looking forward to wearing those vests? Well of course that's behind closed doors as well, Lori. Uh but let's say that that that wink stable they have been shitting bricks for quite a while and they'd still be shitting bricks because the vests are worn on that Thursday night, so the opening Thursday night you're there in Fluro saying I'm an idiot. Basically, I can't punt, I punt for shit. Uh but like them all, it ain't over. You know, there could be a shock or two in here for everyone. I don't want to give too much away. What about the other competitions then? Uh the THC Premiership. Well, these will all be revealed. The THC Premiership, the score will be revealed next Monday when they do the podcast. We get this out when we do the podcast, we get this out. Uh so an update on the ladder will be there. And of course, we had all that USPGA points go in for the team. So uh is that change? You'd expect there to be some. We'll also have our MVP leaderboard, uh club champion race, and uh we do know our Tattoo Trophy winner, but we will not be uh obviously declaring that until tour time. So all the other comps are are in play too, still, most of them. Uh it's been a heck of a year, and it's just getting stronger and more competitive every year. The captains are doing a great job getting their teams together, and uh should be fantastic when we get there. But no more to be said on any of these comps today. If you're still in the comps, congratulations, well done. You have gone from the first to the last week of BTB 18, and there's only eight blokes who can say that across the entire board.

SPEAKER_05 12:29

I'm stupid, you're smart, I was wrong, you were right, you're the best, I'm the worst. Uh you're very good looking, I'm not attractive.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Alright. As long as you're willing to admit that now. Are you ready to get down to the business and do exactly what I tell you to do? Believe me, I'm ready. And let's get to work, alright?

SPEAKER_02 12:55

Well, joining us now, we are very lucky to have Carnival. Craig's Carnival indeed has joined us. Uh, he normally does just before the tour this year. Thank you for coming in, Carnival. Well, thank you, boys. It's great to be here as always, and I see that uh you're all well. In particular, you're looking pretty good down there, Ben. Uh you found the solarium. You're looking more like a day seven pitch at the moment.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

I have what a magnificent setup this is, and thank you, Carnival, for organizing this for us. I have been making good use of the solarium, I must say, and that wine room is a fan wine room if I ever came across one. I had a wee bottle of an unlabelled product last night, a clean skin, and I tell you, it was one of the most magnificent red wines I've ever tasted in my life.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Well, we do have some wines that were bought in from various sellers that uh were very limited editions, and you know, they don't have labels because I'll kept that secret, although I was so s such small batch wines that um we thought we'd put them on the bus and see if anyone was game to try them and I'm glad you've uh had a crack at them. I certainly did magnificent. Okay, Carnival, we don't want to waste your time. Uh how's everything looking with the tour? Everything going to plan? Everything's looking really good at this stage. The only thing we may need a little help with is the weather. Long term, and we're still nine days out. It's not looking too bad for the weekend, maybe a a little bit of rain, a few showers. Uh, but early in the week next week, it looks like it's gonna be a lot of heavy rain unless there's some winds come in and blow it all away for us, uh, which means carts may be an issue on course. We haven't been told that yet. Uh, but experience tells us all that when it rains and it pours like it it has been in Adelaide, uh, that carts sometimes are if they're kept to the actual cement paths, we should be fine. There'll be a fair bit of walking in there, but that's not too bad. Hopefully not all walking. But as I said, we haven't been flagged by the clubs that that may be an issue. So all systems go at the moment, all the accommodation's been settled for a long time, uh, the entertainment and what we're doing around it, and of course we're trying that new setup this year where our big nights are the Thursday night and the Sunday night, which is Champions Day and Champions Table Day, closing ceremony, and they look like being good fun.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Do you think that any team in particular may win the carnival? The THC Premiership?

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Well, I'm a Wrangler, as you know. Uh I'm in the Wranglers. I've been in three teams, and and the Wranglers are my team at the moment, and uh things are going pretty well for the Wranglers. That's all I can say with that. They are we are looking like we're gonna miss a couple of golfers, so that will put a bit of pressure on us at that end. But there's still a lot of points to be made. Uh people tend to give up a little bit too quickly in this, I think. But uh, you know, go the Wranglers. Wushka or Wukchar, whatever they say. Hi, Carnival. Uh Lori here. Yes, Laurie, I can see you. Oh, great, great. Uh I was just wondering, uh there's been the E-word that's been spread around, and uh there's been a lot of E-words said by the boys here on the podcast. Uh can you give us any further light on that E-word might it what might appear and what we're thinking about with the E-word? Excellent question, Laurie. Oh, thanks. Are you gonna say anything? E is for excellent, Laurie, and I said that. Uh there let me just say that there will be after the player draft for Beat the Ball 19, after we have our final field closed, uh, there is going to be a major announcement and an exciting announcement, and that's why E is for excitement. Alright, so it's been a great year for the tour. Uh, and I know that you've already got a couple of people uh looking to come in next year, and there's people sort of coming up every week to you, is that correct? Yeah, not a week would go by where I'm not asked about the tour from outside people uh wanting to come into the tour. Uh does it just wanting to come in and getting in are two different things sometimes, but uh it's growing in popularity each year, that's for sure. Which is uh it's a wonderful thing, you know, it's great. It's a great thing we have here on the Beat the Ball Tour. There have been also some moments during the year that, shall we say, haven't been the best carnival. No, that's that's right, and that's one of the reasons I'm here today and I've agreed to come on, is that I want to talk about something new that we're introducing to the tour this year, and I, for one, am and looking really forward to having this come in, and I'm hoping it's embraced by all the boys in there, uh and as I'm sure it will be. And I think it's probably one of the most meaningful things we've ever done on tour. Yeah. Do you want to talk on about this or what it leave it to us, or how do you want to do this? No, I'll talk about it. We're introducing this year, uh we've decided we're introducing a thing called Hendo's Hole. Uh, we lost one of our teammates last December, of course, Peter Henderson, Handemonium. He had been a longtime member of the tour, great supporter of the tour, uh, was a fabulous golfer, more importantly, a fabulous fella. Uh, he captained the shooters, he made donations with Diva Dave every year on the quiet for prizes for nearest the pins, long drives, all that stuff. Always had a smile on his face, always great fun to be around.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

Yeah, you asked for this song at the top of the show because of Hendo, did you not?

SPEAKER_02 17:40

I did, because one of the great memories I have of Hendo is away on tour in Beatle Ball 10, and we just sort of stumbled across this bar. We we'd had dinner in a pub and we've walked out the back and there's this massive, beautiful space, but it's empty, completely empty, except for one guy and his guitar in the corner, uh, and he's just playing to an empty room essentially. So we asked if he would play us some songs, and uh he played everything we want, all the pub classics, you you name it, he played it, and it turned into one of the best nights you could have in your life, let alone on tour. Uh, and there was probably around 30 of us, 35 of us, and it went deep into the night. I think we rushed well not rushed, we got rushed out of there at about 3.30 in the morning. Uh there were tables and tables filled with empty glasses. Uh, and this guy was supposed to finish at midnight, and he continued to play until 2 or 2.30 in the morning because we just kept feeding him drinks, and he was happy to play for drinks, and he was happy to have such a big crowd there. Uh, which, you know, from an empty room to 35 was a big crowd for him, and he was excellent. And uh Hendo was one of the players of the match that night, he was on fire, and I actually have a clip of him uh to that song by ACDC, You shook me all night long, playing the air guitar on his leg, bouncing across the room. And it is a night that I've never forgotten. He was in such fine form, and it's probably a night I got to know him uh a a little bit, which was absolutely wonderful. And I'm gonna probably post that or get someone to post it on the chat group uh not long after this goes up, uh, just to remember our mate Hendo, and that's it's really important that that this is what it's about. It's about celebrating Hendo. He he was a very smart man, he was great at his job, he was fabulous uh aristocrat, uh he's country boy at heart, and he'd had a a couple of things happen to him in his life that uh weren't easy, but he always got through with a smile. He was just top fun to be around. Uh the one thing I am missing personally this year, uh and it hit us all hard last December, but he used to call me in the lead up to the tour at least once a week for probably the last three or four weeks, sometimes two or three times a week. And it was for no other reason he'd ring up just to have a chat and see how it's all going and and basically to convey his excitement about getting away. And you know, I formed a friendship with Hando over the years, as I have with many of the other people in Be the Ball, and that's a massive part of what it's about. Trying to explain Be the Ball to anyone outside the group. Uh it's more difficult than saying, Oh, we do these comps and we go away and we play golf and and we do this or that. Um it's much deeper than that, and it should be for life, you know. It should be this sits on the side of everyone's lives, this whole thing, and there's a support network there for you at all times, and lean on it. Uh that's what we've got to do. So I want to celebrate Hendo because he was a bloody good golfer too, you know. He he would have won the Mum's Mum Cup at some stage, there's no doubt about that. Uh, but you know what? Selflessly, uh he did the handicapping and and headed up the handicap committee, the golf committee for a few years, and he never handicapped himself higher than he than he should have. He should have handicapped himself higher, that's what I guess I'm trying to say. Um so he he would have won it one day. He spent nine years in the shooters, uh, a couple as captain, and the Hendo's hole, the way it's going to work each year is we're going to pick the shortest par three. He was a big, big guy for the underdog, Hendo. Uh he liked everyone to have a good time, everyone to be treated equally and fair. And the shortest par three from each weekend going forward in the beat the ball will become known as Hendo's Hole. So if he will live on and tour with us every year, Hendo, from now on till the time this tour finishes, stops, uh, whenever that may be. It may be one year, ten years, twenty years, a hundred years, who knows? But Hendo will be part of it every year. Uh, we're also going to have a a spot on the website uh with Hendo's Hole. It'll be story of our mate and uh just really, you know, making sure that he stays with us and and in our thoughts forever, which he will through this. The captains and I and a few of the other boys, uh, one of the great things that I'll always remember is going up to the Hunter Valley and being so proud to be among I think it was 15 or 16 beater ballers had made the effort to get there and made the trip they could. And I know that every other beater ball member had hit him, us, and everyone in their thoughts uh over those days. The other thought is uh in my head is standing in the bar there in the Hunter at Harrigan's, and the news came on about the Bondi um massacre, uh, and it was so it was a Really surreal weekend overall. Uh, but I was so proud of us all uh being there, and Hendo will be with us on tour. There's no doubt about that in spirit. Uh he'll be chuckling away, having a laugh, having a beer in the background, and uh overseeing it all. So Hendo's Hole. Now the bookies have also done a wonderful job for me. So Manscaped and Ads are Mickey B. McKenna. They've been doing this for a long, long time. They've both been on tour for many, many years, and they have set up two markets for Hendo's Hole. And you can bet on uh somebody to be the nearest the pin on that hole. Uh, whoever is the nearest the pin will get one of Hendo's favourite gifts that he used to give out. Him and Diva Dave. They they did this, and Dave still to this day contributes to this tour quietly, humbly, and he will always have our thanks and my thanks for that support. Uh and Diva Dave will present someone with a hundred dollar uh gift card, and it'll probably be Drummond or it might be Dan Murphy's, it'll be something like that. Because Hendo loved it. He he he always loved it. And we've picked the shortest part three so that everyone is a chance. Doesn't matter if you're off a handicap of 60 or a handicap of six. Uh 113 metres, I believe the hole is this year on the Friday, and whoever wins nearest the pin will get that voucher. Of course, you can have a bet with the bookies on who you s on on yourself or on who you think will get nearest the pin, but you can also bet on which team you will get nearest the pin. Uh so it doesn't for instance if you chose to back the shooters, they've got 10 players, and you decide you want to have a bet on a shooter being the nearest the pin, uh you win. Obviously, if you win, you get cash back. Uh, any profits made from it will go into the tour, they'll be split, and they'll go back into the tour for the Beatle Ball 20 tour, which is coming up, which we hope will be a real milestone anniversary and a big occasion that year. Uh, and the other half or other portion, whatever way we decide to do this, uh, will go to a charity. And we're looking at probably Beyond Blue or a similar charity now, and we're going to begin our affiliation with a charity as well. So a lot plan, I'm just really thankful that I can announce this and it has the support of all the boys on tour uh that Hendo's whole Hendo will tour with us every year going forward non-stop. Oh, that's wonderful stuff.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

I'm nearly in tears, mate. You've got to stop that there. Oh, I think that's a beautiful thing. He will be with you every year now.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Yes, he will. He will, Mario. That's what he said two or three times. So thanks for listening. Alright, Colonel. So you there I think that's a wonderful idea with the charity as well. Uh and how is that going to actually work? Are you getting together with the captains? Well, actually on tour this year, because of the way it's structured, we have Saturday morning off. There's no pubs, would you believe it? Basically, an Adelaide CBD that open before 11 30, 12am. The races will be starting at the same time, and there's a lot of boys going out there. Thank you to Tank Rider Jace for that, mind you, for uh organizing that. Tickets 30 bucks, you know, you don't even have to get dressed up that much, and you're out at Morphoville for the day at the races. But the captains and I will be getting together uh and having a breakfast, uh a meeting, shall we say, over breakfast where we're gonna discuss a lot of stuff. So we'll put the final nails into that one and uh then release it to everyone how it's gonna work. I love it. I've just got to see Carnival the Moore. I've been sitting here thinking about it. I I think there's no better way. He would love that Hendel to have his own Hendel's Hall every year and it's a path three, and you get given a gift card as you meet your praise. I mean he did that for years on the choir. Uh but now to stand up there and to have some of the the portion of it going back into the tour and a portion going into a charity. I uh I can't think of a better way to honour him. Well, I'd like to claim it all as my idea. It wasn't all my idea. Uh we spoke about it at length up at the Hunter on that weekend. Uh I threw up the idea and the boys all seemed to run with it and then added bits and pieces as you do uh and whatever, and that's the way it's worked out. So it was a real team effort to get to that point, uh, and it's something I'm I'm really proud of and excited about. I can't wait to stand on that tee, uh, maybe have a little toast to our mate Hendo and then hit the ball and hopefully he puts it in the hole or very close to it for me. Yep, super stuff that uh origin tonight uh carnival, sorry, tomorrow night. Uh do you have a preference for that? Oh, I'm a blue, I live in New South Wales, have my whole life, live in Sydney. Uh it's got to be the blues, but there's no confidence. Uh I think the Queenslanders get it more than the blues do these days, as far as that passion for your state, but I'll always cheer the blues, no doubt about it. Alright, we've got to let you go. I can see that you have your helicopter rider, driver, sorry, uh pilot, whatever his name is, he's out there. I don't know his name either, so it's all good. Alright, so you've got to go. Thank you. Will you be dropping in again before the tour? Maybe, uh I don't know. Very strapped for time, trying to get a lot of stuff done, but if if there's anything important, I will drop in.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Just one question, Carnival. How come how did you get here with I saw that Timmy Romiticis came in with you, and with the chopper is only a two sitter, and Timmy's up very soon, I think. He's coming on to talk about the shooters. Yeah, where did he sit on your lap or you on his lap or or whatever?

SPEAKER_02 26:44

No, Mario, no. Timmy Romedekis, he's uh a tough, passionate man. I don't know if you realise he he uh he ran into a bit of trouble a few years ago. He's that passionate that he tried to make love to a store mannequin uh at Grace Brothers, uh so it was quite a while back. But uh that's the type of passion he carries on. He he's also pretty tough now. He just hung from the chopper, you know, the things under it that you land on. He hung on that and and as we nearly hit the ground he just let go and scurried away.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

He is one tough hombre, mate.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Yeah, can I ask you about Bruce? Uh what's going on with Bruce? You know, I I I'm terrified of him quite frankly. There's nothing to be terrified about Bruce Laurie. Uh he's a good man, uh he does what he needs to do. He does stuff in the shadows that you don't need to know about nor anyone else here. And uh but he at heart he is a good man. Don't worry about that. Yeah, all right. All right, thank you for answering that. Will he be here for long? Uh as long as I want him to be.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Oh, one more more thing. Uh I want to jump in here first. Uh Carnival, our contract status, the podbuffins with uh Beat the Ball, we've had a long affiliation and we feel that quite valued as much as we should be at times. Oh no, that's not what I think. Me either, mate. You speak for yourself. Hey, what are you talking about, Ben?

SPEAKER_02 27:48

Yeah, I think we should fire him right now, Carnival. I don't think we'll be firing Ben. Ben, we have massive plans for you boys next year. As you know, we've had meetings. Uh, your contract situation will be sorted out in the near future, and uh we've got some very special plans coming in. You will do the draft for us, as you always do, you boys. Do a fabulous job. Uh, and then there'll be an announcement on more of the stuff you'll be into. I also hear while we're going down that track, uh, there's going to be a lot more done with the website, sponsorships, things like that. Uh, there is a little birdie that has whispered that possibly uh our major sponsors are all now on the website with direct links back to their business. Well, we it is something that we're hoping to get done uh and and put out there and and have a lot more support grow or even just interest in our sponsors. We love our sponsors. Uh, I mean Wes On-Trem Wes this year has jumped in with a great sponsorship and he is our major sponsor this year. Zivo Global, uh crying out loud, if you knew how much money that Chris saves the tour each year and the per the beautiful merchandise he puts out. Uh you know, some colours may not be your cup of tea some years, but Chris looks after us no end. Wes is you know huge for us. Uh Jace with AAA Race, Ink Tank Rider Jace. Uh there have been supporters the whole time he's been on tour, which is five years now, I believe. Uh so I just want to get a bit more sponsorship exposure. I'm going to be looking to gain more sponsors, not necessarily from within the group, but looking to do some external stuff, which means we have to upgrade and and do the website a bit better as long as uh as well as social media, uh video. We're gonna move to a lot of pictures next year, uh videoing, things like that. Uh so lots of plans.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

What about the uh small tours or short tours? You talked about this uh two years ago. I have not seen anything yet, I have not seen my invite.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Well, they haven't gone out. We were looking at we were doing stuff like that late last year, and then just with the way things happen and holidays and whatever, it sort of got put on the back burner. It hasn't been forgotten and it will be there. Um there are people who want this tour to get larger. I'm not sure that it ever will. Uh there are others who would like to add tours through the year, but uh you know, I don't know that we'll go down that path either. These are all things that'll be discussed at length with the captains and then with the wider group, um if anything like that was there. But I'm very happy with where beat the ball is at at the moment with the sh when we talk about sheer size, numbers, uh how many times a year, frequency, all that sort of stuff. Uh we look at everything, but not necessarily put into play things that we don't believe uh benefit for all of us as a group, as a whole. Because in the end, the beat the ball is about people, it's about nothing else. Uh it's just about being together, being mates, uh enjoying company, being respectful and and of where we're at and who we're with, and just really just having a good time, enjoying life. And that's uh what we're gonna do wherever possible. So no plans on world domination or anything like that. Oh no, far from it, far from it. It's the last thing on our minds. Uh I love the way it is, I love the people involved. I I hope that people stay involved for as long as they can. We do have plenty of people who would like to join. Uh I don't think getting numbers is ever going to be a problem. Uh sometimes we hold off for various reasons uh in filling that entire 48 field. Uh but other times, you know, we we have to turn friends and family away from it because there there isn't a slot there. But uh it's fabulous the way it is right now, I think. We just need to build on that. Well, starting with Hendo's hole, what a great thing. Uh I can't wait to call that uh and see the boys have their shots. Uh there'll be an extra element of pressure there. Uh not only because Hendo will be with them and watching them, uh there's also gonna be money riding on it. Uh the bookies will be standing there too. It sounds like great fun. What a great way to make uh the shortest hole on the weekend fun. Yep, sure is. Alright, boys, I've got to get out of here.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Hold up, mate. See you later. Thank you. Yes, thanks, Carnival. See you next time. I'll try another one of those clean skins if I can find one. Look for the dusty bottles. Ah, nice tip. Catch you on tour, Carnival.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

That you will, Sandy. Yeah, bye. Bye, Carnival. Thank you. I've uh I've been welling up a little bit too. Anyway. Alright, there it is, Carnival. He's gone, out the door, and uh Timmy Romiticis is in there throwing out air punches outside, shadow boxing in the hallway. I guess he'll be up next.

SPEAKER_04 31:47

I would fill a pillowcase with golf balls and beat the best out of them. I would tear the jacket over his back and shove it down at the goal!

SPEAKER_02 31:56

Alright, well, it's that time of the show. We've looked at the first two teams, the Crocs and uh the Cattle Dogs, two of the five teams, and now we uh got Timmy Raw Mediciss who's here and he looks quite worked up today uh about the shooters.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Yeah, g'day boys, great to be here. Gotta make it snappy though, fellas. Wouldn't that be about the crocs then? Yeah, yeah, very far can funny.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

Oh yeah, he was the Indian umpire. That's right, mate. And cricket. Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

Shut up, Mario.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

Yes, Tommy. So you've been out and about at the new look shooterville, and you've come back with your opinions on where this team has gone right and wrong this year.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

Not a bloody right a lot of bloody right in there, is there? No, no. Well I was out there and I tell you what, they've come a long way from the days of Los Hendos. A lost long ways backwards. My goodness, they're in a full rebuild here in Benzaber. Ugh. Does he shit in the woods? Well, he's done about eight of them out there. I'm telling you now, looking at that team. Fair dinkum.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

Alright, off the top then, what do you think of come later Ronstey?

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Come later Ronsy. Fadinkum. If he was never any later, he'd never come at all. No, I'm amazed he's got kids. Let's be honest about it. Come later Ronsy. Last time we saw him was in Adelaide. Who the hell goes to Adelaide twice in seven years and nowhere else in between? Fuck me. That's all I've got to say about Ronnie. I expect a big game of goal from him because he needs to put in because the shooters have been the shitters for most of the year. Let's be totally honest about that. Up top, I think they're weak. I don't think they work near hard enough. And I don't know if Benny has got the bazookers to make these guys do what he wants them to do. Hey, that's a bit unfair. I think he's been a wonderful skipper so far. Yeah, yeah. Do you remember the drafts, Andy, eh? Hey, I do, I was there. What a short. What a absolute outright bag of balls that was, eh? Benza Bears up there, he could have ripped the Wranglers apart limb by limb. Bought built himself an instant empire. But oh no, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Oh, Benza. So he took Major Mortar. Major Mortar, who takes Major Mortar as one of your top two picks, your marquees? He must see something in the mortar that no one else can. And where the fuck is mortar now? That's right, they're off on the side of the road, him and Josh and the sergeant, and they're having a breather. Arrest because one of 'em stopped peddling because they couldn't organise a bloody flight between them to save their lives to get over for the shitters. Is that the sign of a marquee player, I tell you? God, no, it is not. Fair Dinkham, I cannot get over. How poorly organised. They couldn't organise a shit flight in a sewer, a root and a brothel. These guys are dead set all over the fucking shop.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

Major Mod has been pretty good for him this year, I think. He he wonderful knocking the cricket grand final. They're still talking about it out in the central west. Cricket?

SPEAKER_03 34:32

Yeah. And what the bloody hell has cricket got to do with what we're doing here? We're building men, machines, men who are strong in mind, strong in body. And these two are pulling over every five minutes on an e-bike, let me tell you, to have a breather, probably a little picnic. We'll get out the candles, we'll have the a little bit of bree together here. I'll I'll chop you some up, Joshin. Would you pop some on a water cracker for me and feed it to me? Get stuffed. No good at all.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

Alright, well you've gone through come later on, Steve, fair enough, you know, who does go to Adelaide toilets in seven years. That's a decent enough question. Uh Barnsy's boy Dave, what do you think of him?

SPEAKER_03 35:07

Cambo is one of the shining lights for the shooters, because Cambo, he lives up to it straight away. Fuck all. That's it. I'm not doing any extra. I'm gonna take some photos on tour, and I'm gonna get them all blurry and buzzed, and I'll get the occasional good shot, but that's all you're getting out of me. I am not trying in the golf, I am not trying in any of the technologically advanced contexts, but he does like the tipping, and he's going all right in that for this year. So Cambo does just enough at the end of every year to get in there next year.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

Oh, that's very harsh. Cambo's one of my favourites, mate. You know, I still remember that first year where he drove the cart into the bunker and thought he was gonna die, and Carnival thought he was never coming back again. Uh he was, but Cambo wasn't. Um but he has lived on, he's one of the greats, mate.

SPEAKER_03 35:48

Yeah, he is. He's a shooter through and through, and maybe that's their problem. Maybe they need a little bit of new blood in there. Maybe Barnes' boy Dave needs another home, but I tell you, it'll be hard to get rid of him because he's is the SN shooter.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

Grunton growing, well, there's all sorts of whispers that uh uh he's been out and about with the skipper uh late at night, just the two of them doing things that uh even their wives aren't really sure about what they're doing.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

Yeah, Grunton, he loves to hit a golf ball that bloke. Loves it. Him and Benza, he's been canoodling up to the boss of the bear. I reckon he might be a little dagger in the ribs there if Benza's not careful. Grunton might come and take his spot because he's gonna go hard at the golf. He's gonna be hard to beat this year too. He took over on the golf handicap committee, the golf committee. So he's actually could he be bending rules to suit the shooters? That's the question. They're in cahoots, I tell you. In cahoots. Rangstorm Graham's pretty good for him. He's one of the only two grand slam champions around. You know, you can't be bagging him. Well, how good did he go at the Crocs? Why don't you ring Mickabee and have a little asky? Say, how did Graham go over there? Is Graham passed it? Has he fallen so far down the other side of the hill he doesn't know which way's up anymore? That's the question. Can Rhinestone get his sparkle back? I don't know that the shooters are gonna do it. He was a longtime player there, and in his day, in his heyday, he was one of the very best. But I don't know if that fire burns anymore in his chest. I don't know if it burns anymore anywhere in him, to be totally honest. And I think Graham might be the same as brother Barnes' boy Dave, who is also a Campbell, the Campbell brothers there, very good singers, great singers together. We might get them up on tour, I believe, for a bit of a duet to Islands in the stream. And I don't know that he's any different to Campbell. He can play golf, but Graham, he is a former champion, and the shooters have stacked their team with golfers. Benny obviously went in with the idea into the draft. One, I ain't upset no bastard, and two, we're doing nothing but gonna win the mum's bum cup. Maybe that's their plan. And for their sake, I hope it is because there's a wooden spoon staring them in the face, unless the King Bounds keep their hands on it. Who knows how that's gonna play out?

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Well you've been pretty mean on the shit, as I've got to say, and some of it is very unwarranted. Oh Waxstar Jimmy, he's been one of the fines of the season.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

That he is, Waxstar has got the hang of it all, and he has done really well in the comps, not bad in the kitchen either, out there in Shooterville, or whatever they're gonna bloody call it when it's eventually built. Uh he he whipped up a fine storm, he makes a wonderful fried rice, uh, nothing in it except uh rice and he fries it, but he's good at it, the Waxstar. Occasionally you could find some green peas and he throw them in and stuff like that. But what the fuck has that got to do with winning THC premiership? Come on, do you seriously think he's an opportunity? He is a paid assassin, that man. He tried to take out carnival a couple of years ago. Who could ever forget that? How do you do that from a passenger seat? He is sneaky. Sneaky Jimmy, be careful of him, and you make damn well sure you're nowhere near a golf cart while Jimmy's around.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Well you can't give it to copy that condo too much, can you? He's one of the favourites to win the golf. He's out there all the time. He's a shooter, a marquee player, and he's had a pretty fair season. Middling to fair.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

No, it isn't. And you know what? The shenanigans he gets up to practising his golf swing in the shower and all that other bullshit. Come on, he's got a wrist injury, and we all know why. RS high, for one reason and one reason only, is he won't put down the clubs, and that's the problem. He's gonna get on tour and he'll go for a beer and he'll have the golf club in the way. He'll go to shake hands with people and they'll uh be grabbing onto a with the head of his nine on, things like that, just the way he likes it, mind you. But Kondo, can he if he wins the golf, yeah. Is he a marquee player? I think this year, maybe he's shown it, but they need more from him. He needs to show these young fellas how to get it done in and out of the shower.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

Well, you must think they've got a bit of new blood in there, here early Harry. Uh he's been backed in too. Uh the bookies update will be out tomorrow, but there's strong mail coming out that uh here early Harry is a real favourite.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Well, that's their only hope. If I was Benzer, I'd be promoting him to lieutenant. ASAP get some young blood in there. And if he can wield a goal stick like he can wield a wand, young Harry could produce a bit of magic. And that's what they need at the moment. One thing we do know for sure he's turning up because the old man's turning up, so he has to be there. You know, next time we go to Adelaide, it might be another seven years. Harry might have had eight tours and Ronnie will still be on six, where he's been for years and years. But I don't mind, I'm gonna reserve judgment on young Harry. He was the one who was getting through all the reps out there. When I said do push-ups, he could actually do 'em. Not like the others all collapsed on top of each other and said, This is bullshit. That's what they're telling me. So get up, come on. Hitting him over the back with wedges I was, and you know what? Most of them cried. Like babies. Shooters, shitters, shookers, suckers. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

And all the Wranglers weren't happy to lose Josh and the sergeant last year, but he doesn't seem to have replicated that same form.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

When you look at them, Timmy, do you see anything in him that he's just not enjoying his team there? No, no, no, quite the opposite. He is loving his time there. He loves nothing more than being doubled around double on it with a sister's bike of mortar. And the two of them, you know, all sorts of hijinks and shenanigans. Harry and Lloyd, yeah, the two of them. They're still out there on the highway somewhere. No one even knows if they're gonna bloody turn up. They might go on a lope. Who knows? That's that's the type of stuff you'd expect from the shooters. I don't think these guys are gonna get within a ball's roar of winning the THC Premiership, but I think if they toughen up just that little bit extra, they might have one of 'em standing up there in the green jacket come the end of it. Well, that's about the nicest thing you've said about the shooters all day. Well, that's all I've got to say now because I see Carnival. He's giving me the bird, he's telling me to hurry up. I've got to get out there, we're on the chopper. I'm out to see the King Browns next. Oh, fuck me, that's gonna be fun. But anyway, we'll do our best while we're out there. Gotta go, fellas. Need to go and find me a real beat the ball team. Won't be the King Browns, but maybe that E word sticks its head up next year and I can find myself a real team of grunters, no holds barred, who aren't scared to go and grab the Mum's Bum Cup THM Premiership and all the rest of the be the ballers by the shortened curlies.

SPEAKER_02 41:52

Alright, boys, that'll do us for today. It's gone a lot longer than we wanted it to go, but uh that's what happens. It was great of Carnival to drop by. It was excellent to talk about Hendo's Hole. Looking really forward to that coming in. Uh we've got a lot to get through over the next couple of days. What are we gonna be talking about, Laurie? Oh, we're gonna have the nominations for the big man of the year, no doubt about that. Always look forward to that too. All those boys who have done really well. What about you, Mario? What have we got?

SPEAKER_00 42:13

We've also got the bookies reports coming up, mate. There's been some big market movers for the Mum's Bum Cup.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

Sandy, what are you bringing to the table? Myself, you don't need any more than that. Oh yeah, right, okay. And Ben, uh, do you absolutely care about any of this? Of course I do.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

I really deep down, love every part of it, and I'm not bringing jack shit to the table other than myself either. Me and Sandy, we sit down here like the two Muppets that we are.

SPEAKER_02 42:37

Alright, everybody, thank you, ballers. Be back tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

Until then, wherever you are, whatever you're doing. Be the ball.