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 Akubras. He is reminded of the nightmares of facing Andrew Gode in club cricket and the mental disint...
May 19, 2021•43 min
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 Warriors). Mitch’s pockets are heavier after a big win in Mackay but have they been lightened by the purchase of a ring...
May 12, 2021•44 min
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. He talks us through his contributions in the T20 Bash For Cash Tournament, and Leigh and Mitch Drennan’s lack of con...
May 05, 2021•36 min
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 horrid jokes. Some people have impressed us though! New segment called “Must or Dust” that decides whether Self Serve Registe...
Apr 28, 2021•46 min
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 form. Our new Friend Of The Show shares a gruesome, mowing related story of why his Second Grade si...
Apr 21, 2021•40 min
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 sports. Gode shares some controversial thoughts on the NRL’s new rules and Mitch brings out his inner stat...
Apr 14, 2021•48 min
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, despite averaging 0.33 with the bat in 3 first grade games. Mitch compares his First Grade statistics. We speak about his...
Apr 07, 2021•43 min
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 and the largest crowds ever recorded at the Olympic Games. Cameron Smith has retired but we have waited to it was out of...
Mar 24, 2021•44 min
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 his love for domestic cricket, sending off the opposition and his constructive criticism for the Queensland Bulls player...
Mar 17, 2021•43 min
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 events involving Andrew Gode in our Queensland Premier Cricket game for Redlands Tigers against Valley District Cricket Club leads to a d...
Mar 10, 2021•31 min
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 on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 03, 2021•42 min
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? Mitch fields a question from a listener; how do you feel about playing with leather cricket balls whilst being a vegan? Jana Gillam re...
Feb 24, 2021•51 min
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 Heazlett's? Is it acceptable to be "that guy" that pulls out the guitar at parties? Get in touch with us by sending your comments...
Feb 17, 2021•39 min
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. We also talk to a Sydney Sixers player Tom Rogers, the day after their win over Perth in the Final and find...
Feb 10, 2021•59 min
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 him mid innings. Mitch offered an insightful analysis into the Power Surge, as well as settling a debate over who has scor...
Feb 03, 2021•45 min
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 is copping a hammering from many social media experts who Mitch puts in the Social Sin Bin. We have a story about a recreational drug user going on a S...
Jan 27, 2021•45 min
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. Heazlett explains why he isn't a huge fan of facing Morne in the nets and Morne explains what living with AB d...
Jan 20, 2021•47 min
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 place in the Instagram network which is mildly inconvenient... and by that we mean, pretty rough actually. Donal...
Jan 13, 2021•40 min
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. Brad "Spud" Murphy is on for the first instalment of "Gode's Guests" to talk about his coaching stint in the IPL and his suggested rule ...
Dec 16, 2020•39 min
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 week’s chat about sporting blow ups, Leigh has produced a magnificent story right on cue… and it was live streamed. We tried to tackle our...
Dec 09, 2020•46 min
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 blow ups: Shane Warne, Jimmy Connors and Serena Williams all make the list. Haz gets Leigh and Mitch's sister, Bryonnie, on board to...
Dec 02, 2020•42 min
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 marketing team. We discuss the worst sporting awards you can possibly win which actually leads to discussing the best McDonalds ...
Nov 25, 2020•42 min
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. Jack has a long list of nicknames, refers to Leigh as the bus driver and spends time debating whether his origins are city or country. We even...
Nov 18, 2020•43 min
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 worst trophy you have ever been presented with? We have a couple stinkers for you! The FOTS card application form is now live! You can apply...
Nov 11, 2020•36 min
Social Sin Bin is here! We target braggers, Joe Burns haters and obvious comments. FOTS check in with Friend of the Show number 0001… Aaron Parsons. He airs his grievances about the postage process, and how the card has cleared up a persistent rash. A FOTS card has somehow found its way onto EBAY and the post includes some intriguing background imagery. We introduce a new segment called Perfect Partners with Parso. Andrew Gode tells us who won the Melbourne Cup this year …. the only problem is, ...
Nov 04, 2020•42 min
What could Cricket Australia have done better to get the season underway earlier? Why does Mitch have beef with Ian? What is in more strife? Heals’ hamstrings or his fingers? How did he get to be Wicketkeeping for Australia after only 6 First Class games for Queensland? What did Australian Test cricketers earn in 1989? What cricketers did we think Heals hated… but he actually liked? Check out our website to get in contact with us, find more episodes or grab some We Got The Chocolates merch! Or j...
Oct 28, 2020•47 min
There are some significant issues with the accuracy of the caricatures we have been utilising. Leighthal needs an Alchemy beverage due to the hangover he is experiencing. He still finds time to prank Skin though. We relive some of the highlights and obviously the lowlights from the boys flag winning performance on the weekend. We try to find out Haz’s net worth and talk about the biggest six that has ever been hit! Asking For A Friend is back with Jana in the studio as we look at the cheat codes...
Oct 21, 2020•44 min
Heazlett is trying to find the right breakfast combo between Alchemy Health Elixir drinks and KFC nuggets. A local sporting hero took all ten wickets in an innings last weekend. We couldn’t speak to him so instead we spoke to… someone he dismissed. Mitch grills Heazlett about his omission from the Queensland Sheffield Shield squad that travels to Adelaide. Andrew Gode checks in to tell the greatest celebration story we have ever heard. It involves a phone charger, a paper clip and the head from ...
Oct 14, 2020•45 min
Michael Kasprowicz on his unbelievable T20 record and that first international T20 game against New Zealand (where he sported some magnificent facial hair and a headband). Rebranding and marketing himself as the fashionable bowler for unfashionable tours. He challenges the perception of the “dumb fast bowler”. Whether DRS would have saved him and Australia in the second test at Edgbaston in the 2005 Ashes series. He gives us some tips on how to sledge people… without getting suspended! Check out...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min
A quick recap of how our sporting teams went across the weekend. Also the story of just how much we were holding back one team we were playing for! We then go to you guys to find out what you would change about AFL! This leads to us meeting Malcolm from The Alchemy Cordial Company (check them out here ) or Malchemy as Leighthal calls him. We have our NRL and AFL Supercoach presentations to or We Got The Chocolates league winners. Unbelievable prize pack included. Mitch outlines his plan for gett...
Sep 30, 2020•34 min
