Do Go On - 252 - Sir Donald Bradman

Episode Date: August 19, 2020

Voted the greatest male athlete of the past 200 years by the Australian Confederation of Sport in 1988, Don Bradman is seen as the greatest of all time - but you may not know the story that got him there and about the adventures he had along the way!Buy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 8 available, all with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoonSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodCheck out our web series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2TuMQ31VXvqqEus9Bo6FZW-dDY5ukEuh Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://web.archive.org/web/20080719191540/http://bradmantrail.com.au/https://www.cricket.com.au/news/sir-donald-bradman-adelaide-symphony-orchestra-tribute/2014-08-14https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16728294https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bradmanhttps://www.cricket.com.au/news/sir-donald-bradman-adelaide-symphony-orchestra-tribute/2014-08-14

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who saved with Progressive between June 2022 and May 2023. Potential savings will vary, discounts not available in all safe and situations. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. Hello and welcome to another episode of DoGoOn. My name is Dave Wanuki and as always, I'm with a company of Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Yes, welcome to our company. And if one, two, three here in the company. Oh, you're the like a dance company. Oh, yeah, we're a troop. I was, you're the like a dance company. Yeah, we're a troop. You prefer the term troop? No, I was just thinking a tech startup.

Yeah, I was thinking of a really exciting business opportunity. Yeah. Get on the ground floor. You do regret it. It's just based in dance. Ah. Okay. That could work.

I was gonna give you a tour of the office, including the giant slide we have. But yeah, okay, we can giant slide we have, but yeah, okay, we can be a dance troupe, I guess. You can dance down a slide. Just watch me. I've tried. We've tried.

But God, he's done it. Hey, Jess, how does this show work? That's what everyone's got. There's a question on everyone's lips. Well, Matt, what a fantastic question. The way this show works is one of the three of us fucks off and we think about a topic. We think about it, we research, we read about it,

we watch stuff about it, and then we write a little report. We bring it back to the other two. They don't know what we're going to talk about. And we talk about it for a while. Well, they interrupt a lot. And we usually get onto topic with a question. Yeah, can I ask you a question? Please. Well, here interrupted a lot and we usually get onto topic with a question. Yeah, can I ask you a question? Please.

Well, here it is. Who was voted the greatest male athlete of the past 200 years by the Australian Confederation of Sport in 1988? A year you weren't born in yet. The greatest sportsman. Greatest sportsman male athlete of the last 200 years. Oh, it's the same but the kind of thing would be hard to judge when you assume most people on the panel were in a life of that whole period.

Most, most, not all, most. Yeah. You're a full to deal in absolutes. It's a famous quote from the movies, but it's from an Australian, the, what was the organization? Australian Confederation of Sports. So is it an Australian sports person? Sports man, we know it's a man.

I'm being politically correct, but we know it's a man. This is 1988. They've got no time for your PC. Ha, ha, ha. If in the 80s, PC meant penises and cocks. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. What was your guess say? If in the 80s PC meant penises and cocks What was your guess say my guess is Teddy Whitton Dropping an NFL legend there. This wasn't the footscray confederation of sport Dave

No, that is a that's mr. Football Is it a it was a cricketer? It was a cricketer. Was it the dawn? It was the dawn. Oh my God. Are we doing the dawn? We're doing the dawn. Finally. The dawn is getting done. His dawn is good. Cricketing legend, dawn Bradman. Oh my God. This is huge. It's big. I happen to know that no one's ever even requested this topic. Is that right? It's just one of my pet topic choices. No, it has been suggested multiple times by Adrian Newman, by Julian McMahon Hired. Adrian Newman actually said something like there was an injustice being done that we hadn't got around to it. And this was about three years ago. And it's just it.

Julian McMahon Hired with a fantastic triple barrel. Kelly Clark, Courtney from Townsville, Sam Charles Jones, another triple and Nathan Damon, and of course, Gaddy J for the UK. Gary J has been petitioning for how many weeks now? It's in the 30s. I found all of his posts in the Patreon Facebook group gave them all a tab to themselves and it almost blew up my computer. So many of them. So I feel it we should explain that to people that don't support us on Patreon right in the Facebook group there that every week he comes out begging us to put him out of his misery and let us do the topic.

He did not think it was going to take this long. And he gives us facts. He gives us stories. And I assume that you've written the entire report based on Gary Jay's stuff. What I did was I read all of Gary Jay's work. I screwed it up and I put it in the bin and I started again. Yeah, that's the way true pros do it.

Because Gary Jay's from the UK and Don Bradman would have hated some Pommi Git. No, I think he got on very well with the English Don, so I know I was trying to start trouble there apologies. She's Gary J from the UK Big cricket fan. So yeah, I did read a lot of what he wrote and Some of his fun facts off. I'll tell you about at the end of the report, but this is a long one. This is, I think this is the longest report I've ever written by word count. I don't know how I see would measure it.

How long is it in feet and inches? Okay. See you'll, can you measure it in sort of vibe? You can measure it in emotion, sure. Yeah. Emotionally, it's pretty small. Okay. Word count large.

I've got to say, other than obviously knowing the name Don Bradman, because he's an Australian legend, I know very little about him as a person. Yeah, right. Yeah, I think I was the same. I was the same. I was very similar. Most of what I know about him is from the Paul Kelly song, Bradman.

Of course. That's where I know most things. It's like a 10-minute song where he does go through a lot of his life. I mean, I know a lot. Anyway, I was going to include that in there, but I really, I've just been writing and writing. Anyway, let me start talking and talking instead. I'm going to include that in there, but I really, I've just been writing and writing. Anyway, let me start talking and talking instead. I'm in a transition now.

Okay, so Donald George Bradman was born in Kudamundra in New South Wales on the 27th of August, 1908. 27th of August. Yes. Oh, yes. Is that one of your birthdays? It's very close to it. He's in between us. Oh, my God. Is he turning of your birthdays? It's very close to it. He's in between us. Oh my God. Is he turning 30 this year? Well, I don't know if you heard the last bit.

He was born in 1908. So is he turning 30 this year? I cannot stress how bad I haven't met. Just answer the question. Yes. Thank you. Yes, he is. So if you're sharing that big milestone together,

that's pretty nice. That's cute. Yeah, that's funny. So yeah, you're sharing that big milestone together, that's pretty nice. That's cute. Yeah, that's funny. So, yeah, you're one of us on the 26th and one of us on the 28th. And I know Dave is the little one, so he's on the 28th. Good job. Yes. And the second littleist is Don Bradman.

That's right. But he was actually the youngest in his family, the youngest of George and Emily Bradman's four kids. In 1911, the Bradman's relocated to barrel, about 265 kilometres east, to be closer to Emily's family. According to the Bradman Trail website, at his new home at Shepherd Street, barrel, he developed a game to while away the hours where he would repeatedly tap a golf ball with a cricket stump against a curve, a curved course of bricks supporting the family water tank. Using the house wall as one

boundary on his offside, he managed to construct test matches in his head, where he, as the batsman, would pit himself against the unpredictable balls delivered by the tank stand. You know, it's funny about that. That's one of the three things that I know about Don Bradman. You know, he's his his test average that he was the best ever and then the third thing is that when he was a kid, he used a stump and a golf ball and hit it against a wall and for some reason that's why he's the best we've ever had. Isn't it funny? It's it's an iconic thing about him but when like I know I always I never question it but reading it back it's like all little talk. Like I know I was I never question it but reading it back. It's like all

Playing a made up game by himself you feel for the boy, but I mean oh he's three siblings. No, I want to play Yeah, what it doesn't mention is the other three are happily playing together a normal game they're playing picture-ary or something And they were asking him to play Don't come play with us. No I'm playing a test match in my mind. That's what it takes to be the best in the future. One day I'll beat the tank. Don, you'll never make it. You'll never be anything, anything, anything, anything.

Cut to him at the crease. It goes on to say his constant application of this game using the challenging tools that he limited himself to acutely developed his hand I caught what coordination to a very high degree. How's your I mouth coordination there? I'm not early on in this report, it's not looking good. Bradman would later write in his book title Farewell to Cricket. I can understand how it must have developed the coordination of brain, iron, muscle, which

was to serve me well in matches later on. Buddy too right, Don. Well, we're it. Hey, not only great at Cricket, also great with the word. Oh, Polish. It's inspiring. Bradman started Kinder in 1913. I know this is the stuff you want to hear about.

When you start Kinder though. Tell me, tell me when did he start Kinder? Was it four-year-old Kinder? But what point were you like, you realized this is your longest report ever and you're talking about it about Kinder? I get, this is very short. I whipped through his schooling. is your longest report ever and you're talking about it. But kind of. I get I this is very very short. I I whip through his schooling. So he started kindergarten in 1913 when he was five years old.

While at school, he played cricket. I don't know if that does that take you by surprise. In 1919, he played his first organized match scoring 55 not out. There weren't many games like this for young Don to play. But he had another chance to following you to play against the team from nearby town, Middegong. He scored 115 out of his team's total of 156. So straight off the bat, dominating. The Bradman Foundation writes that he never suffered from nerves when confronted with new or challenging situations. He simply met the challenges

as best as he was able at the time. He never did. He was never never came across something unknown and went, what's this? He was like, whatever, I've got that fuck off. He was missing that bit of his brain. It was very sad. It was also the bit of his brain that let him know it was embarrassing to play stick ball by itself. It didn't know. It sounds like he's got the same biographer as Kim Jong-un.

Like, oh yeah, he was the best ever. He got nine holes in one. He's never taking a shit. Right. I honestly never felt fear. Never felt fear about things I've done a hundred times. You know, I just have a general feeling of anxiety and unease all the time. I have that as well. People I think don't realise I do because I look dead on the outside, but inside, I feel bundle of nerves. I wouldn't say you look dead per se. I'd say dying, sure.

Death warmed up. The site goes on a recount what it calls a quite delightful story about Don Bradman. Let's see if you agree. The headmaster at the time was in the habit of wearing a bright red cardigan and went by the nickname to the school population as Robin Redbreast He would daily bring the school bell to close the lunch break after considering his fob watch at the time One day when the young Bradman was batting Robin Redbreast appeared beside the bell and while he was checking his watch Don said How's about I see if I can stop him ringing the bell. And with that, he hit the next ball straight

at the teacher, knocking him to the ground. It's an evocative school yard tale, but sadly cannot be confirmed. He killed that man. As a young boy. I just think what a delightful story. He hit the principal in the temple and he died on the site. Knocked him over.

I read that in a few different places. He just hit a ball. The headmaster on purpose knocking him to the ground. What a delightful tale. How many other people does he kill in this story? The body count is what? I didn't know that. Tylan is test average.

Sporting heroes. Also a serial killer. Cold blooded killer. He didn't feel nerves or Remorse Bradman left school at 14 years of age which apparently was pretty common back then he left with a positive report from the headmaster Who was terrified he was coming back for more Who wrote he is truthful honest, honest, and industrious,

and an unusually bright lad. Yeah, no mention of knocking him down. In 1924, the Bradmans moved around the corner to Gleab Street and into a brick California and bungalow style home, which George his father built. The Bradman Foundation writes that Don was then an increasingly confident youngster of 15 and was already known locally for his cricket prowess

as he'd been very successful in the few school games he'd played. However, his primary activities around the house often included musical recitals. There's something I definitely didn't know about him. Don Bradman had been taught the piano by his elder sister, Lillian, herself later to become a professional piano teacher and often the living room

of the house resonated with the sounds of piano, violin and accordion with wonderful sing songs as Lillian later described them. Often the Bradmans would invite neighbors over to participate in these musical gatherings so at times the modus lounge would have been very crowded. That's a great, nothing to light flanic don't cannot be confirmed. By the mid 20s his cricket was starting to attract more attention from beyond the local area according to the Bradman Foundation again. During the 1925-26 season playing for the Barrel cricket club he scored 234 runs against the team from Wingello, a town located between barrel and golden. Bradman was a diminutive 16-year-old and played that innings against the fiery Bill O'Reilly,

later to lead a distinguished career as an Australian test bowler. O'Reilly recalls his first encounter with Bradman played on Gleab Park, which would later be renamed Bradman Oval, which is fun. There's all these stories about him walking across Glelee Park on his way to school and different things. And it's funny to think, on in a couple of decades, that's just going to be named after you. Wow, that's kind of cool. So Bill O'Reilly later remembered when the Boy Bradman struck that memorable innings in 1925. He approached the wicket with what seemed like

the different gate of a stopgap performer. What stuck me most about him was the difficulty he seemed to be having in taking normal steps as he approached. His pads seemed to reach right up to his navel. Even though his size suggested that he would be better fitted physically to have been riding winners at Randall race course. He summoned up the energy required to land the ball right over the fence on half a dozen occasions. And that's, I was Bill O'Reilly recounting that in 1985, which is a real fun because he even fully grown, he was always a small guy for the sportsman. So it's a funny image that he was struggling to even walk with the pads and then he go out and just smacked around these adults. Yeah. I also like the writing

there that he couldn't just say, looked like a jockey. Yeah. That's that's ex-cricketer, Bill O'Reilly for you. I've got to wait with words. Beautiful. Back then, you couldn't only do one job, cricket and pay a lot. So most of them were also poets. Oh, and poetry as we all know, pays a big bucks. Poetry in mind, I think, of the two best paid in the art industry. Certainly in the 30s. Jugglers, I think, a third. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Especially the ones at traffic lights. That's one business people aren't talking about, which would be pretty hard hitting the lockdown. That's right. According to the Library of New South Wales, Bill O'Reilly was what rated by Don Bradman as the best bowler he had ever faced. By the end of the season, Bradman had broken the district record score by making 300 runs in the final play

between barrel and moss fail. The innings caught the attention of the New South Wales state selectors. It was invited to a net session at the SCG in October of Mossvale. The innings caught the attention of the New South Wales state selectors. It was invited to a net session at the SCG in October of 1926. He impressed and was invited to join the Central Cumberland Cricket Club, but when they refused to compensate the loss of income he'd suffered

from traveling the Sydney to play. So, from the Bradman to play in Sydney, he had to leave barrel every Saturday to catch a train at 5 a.m. and wouldn't return until midnight. And he's like, if you want me to play in Sydney, he had to leave barrel every Saturday to catch a train at 5 a.m. and wouldn't return until midnight. And he's like, if I, if you want me to play, I just, I'll just need some, some cash for that. If that's okay. And they're like, nah, you look very good, but you're not worth a bit of money. Luckily, another club saw his potential and some George jumped at the chance to sign him up. On the 27th of November,

1926, in Bradman's first match for St George, he scored 110 in as many minutes, scored pretty quick. Bradman continued to climb up the ranks when he was selected to represent his state for the 2728 summer. Bradman moved to Sydney later in 1928 and this meant that he would avoid having to make the long return train journey for games, as well as allowing him to train with teammates on turf wickets during the week. So before that, he was training on these bush wickets that weren't even the same wickets he'd play on the weekend.

So this really helped his game, I imagine. And he's only 20, but at stage. So it was just a gun the whole way through way through Dave are you impressed by my quick maths? Wow, I'm just catching up now. He was born in 1908 you see and then this is in 1928 and what I did there was I quickly deduced There's about 20 different there. I reckon that that was just a really lucky guess. It wasn't, it was deduction. He showed you what it was just rounding off. And got lucky.

It's deduction, I knew I was right. Are you deduced it? Very good. Hey, do you reckon it's worth overseas people just to explain briefly what cricket is? What cricket is? Do you wanna say it through the basics, Dave? Well, also I just want to talk about how like you're saying you're scoring over a hundred or 300 and all this sort of stuff, we should probably just say that that's a lot.

Yes. Yes, for the listeners, not for the other people on the podcast who perhaps don't know much about cricket, the listeners need to know how the scoring works. Obviously, we three do very well. Oh, yes. Oh, not so much. A hundred is a lot. A hundred. It's like the, probably the equivalent of like a triple double in basketball.

Thank you. No, that would be more like scoring a hundred and taking a couple of wickets, would it? I don't know. Is it like scoring 40 or 50 in basketball, probably? Yeah. That's a lot. Yeah. In most games, you'd be probably the person who scored the most runs or points for your team, basically. Yeah. Yeah. And he's doing that a lot. He's doing that at every level and every level he gets to, he dominates and goes up to the next level. So now is at state level, which is the second highest level you can play in Australia or in the world. So impress at state level, just first class cricket

was a K.A. Racking up runs and was rewarded with his first baggy green cap getting it the call up to the Australian team. The baggy green, that's sort of that, that's the symbol of playing test cricket for Australia. You get given a baggy green cap these days, you get it with the number you are like you're the 643rd cricket at a where the baggy green. I have no idea how many people have played it. Probably not that high, is it? I don't know. I was thinking that seemed low. It's a great honor. It's great. Yes. They say the Australian cricket team captain is the Is it the Australian cricket team captain? Is the second most powerful job in Australia after the PM? Or is it the other way around?

Who's got the new clear cards? I think it's the cricket. We don't have that. Yes, probably Michael Clark. Who can release the dingos? Michael Clark. Yeah. Yeah. The captain's in ten years ago. Yeah, yes. Yeah. The captain's in ten years ago.

Yeah, that's right. Well, you've got to have experience. Who's the captain now? It's pain, isn't it? I believe, Tim Payne. Is the test captain? Yes. That's not date, is that a episode?

Yes, sorry. Michael Clark, was it? Yeah, continue to talk about Don Brandman from the fucking 1920s. Yeah, don't date it Matt. Let's not date it. Let's not talk about the past. I'm right. So the first half of this I wrote like three weeks ago and I'm, I'm real, it's very dry and I apologize. I think the second half I wrote with a bit more of an eye for it to be interesting. So stick around, we've got some good stuff coming on.

Everyone just hold on. No, I really probably could have used the net at this one. Anyway, look, he's just got his baggy green. Yeah. You know, big to heating up. That's big. Getting hot at the top. So I got his baggy green cap. And it only is 10th first class match. Bradman debuted for Australia, but he found it pretty tough.

In fact, the whole side found it hard going, scoring only 66 in the second innings and losing the match to England by whopping 675 runs. Bradman scored 18 and 1 in his two innings. As a result, Bradman was dropped to 12th man in the second test of the series, but this would be the only occasion Bradman would be dropped from the side in his career. He returned for the third test, played at the MCG in our home state and city of Melbourne, Victoria.

God bless our boys. I can see it from my house when all the lights are on. When I close my eyes, I can see it from my house too. No, Matt, I'm not talking like metaphorically. God bless that fair stadium. Yeah, I know, I can see it from my house. Yes. I can not talking like metaphorically. God bless that fair stadium. Yeah, I know, I can see it from my house. Yes. I can see the lights around.

I can see it right now. No, guys, I'm serious. Right here in my heart. I can literally see it. I can see it too, that frame. No, my God. Photo of it on my walls. Oh, forget it.

I'm actually locked down in the MCG right now. Oh, why out? I'm sleeping now. Wow the MCG right now. Oh, why not? I'm sleeping now. Wow. Sleeping on the grass. Well, wherever you were, that's where you had to stay. I know. Why don't you break into one of the private boxes?

They're going to be a bit comfier. That's wherever you were, you had to stay. And I was streaking on the MCG. So I've got no clothes. I've been on the MCG turf, I think three times. What? At least three times. Once when I played like half-time little league footy between a Saint S&G.

Were they doing that back in your day? That was, I think, the first time I tried it out. It was very cute. It was just a paddock. That's just shoe some cows out of the way. And then one time, one time they do a fun run where you can you finish on the ground, which is kind of fun.

And then the other time was when a mate got married, he had his wedding after party thing at the MCG and we went out and got photos on the ground. There was only just tiny little bit of grass that he's stand on, but that was kind of fun. That's cool. That's an expensive wedding reception. Yeah, well, he had 100,000 people coming, so.

I mean, yeah, you limited them with. Yeah, and you know, we charged, but everyone paid. They made a tidy profit, I think. Was the celebrate my hooklark? Dave, don't date this episode. Don't date this episode with your day shift references. Matt, please continue to talk about a very old dead crookler. Oh, spoiler. So he got him for his second match at the top level and he showed what he could do,

scoring 79 and 112 with the second inning scoring, making him the youngest player to score a test century to that point at just 20 years of age. Records been broken since, but at the time it was a record. It was a broken by, broken by clocky. I don't think clocky did it. No, I think it's been broken multiple times. We had a fucking God, Dave? Neil Harvey, who I mentioned later.

Bringing out Michael fucking Clark. He's, I'm gonna murder you. Remember he was in that glamour couple with Laura Dingell? Laura Dingell? Oh, no. That was no idea. I mean, it was close. Oh, no. That was no any. Was it no? I mean, it was close. You knew what I was talking about. Where the bloody hell was an aim when I couldn't think of it. There's one for the one for the Australians.

Despite Bradman's scores, Australia again lost the match. In the fourth test, Australia lost again. This time by only 12 runs. Bradman looked set to take Australia victory, but he was run out on 58. This would be the only time he was run out in his whole test career. Wow, because that's a pretty common way to go out, isn't it? Yeah, relatively common. Most batsmen would go out more than once in your third test. I think he was pretty stubborn and he really learnt from his lessons. He's like, not making that mistake again. He sort of pretty famous

for not hitting many sixes, made so many runs, but very few of them sixes. And his theory was, if you hit it all on the ground, you can't get caught out. So he barely hit it in the air. Like he was just sort of wally and smart as well as being sort of brilliant. And Jess, I don't know if you know, but of course, a six being when he hit it over the fence on the floor, a bit like a home run, if you will. In basketball.

Yes. Yes. Now that I'm familiar with. And Dave, you don't have to explain it to me. If you feel at any point, you need to explain some of the lingo to our listeners. Plea, by all means. I won't step on your toes there, but I mean, I get it, obviously. The way I read that. The way I read that was Dave was talking a Jess sort of a personification of the listener. Do you think of me as a listener of this podcast? Yeah, I think of you as the dumb listener. I'm into explaining things to you.

I don't know if there's any need for that. Dave, but there you go. His true colors come out for everyone to see. I was just thinking about if I was listening to a baseball podcast, you always talk about like they're hitting average and all that sort of stuff. It means absolutely nothing to me. So just think I just try to do the rehearsal here. Yeah, and I always get confused about the scoring and cricket as well. So you're saying some

numbers and I'm like, I mean, those are big numbers. Well, right. Yeah. Well, if I say numbers, they're normally noteworthy big You you seem to have a pretty good test batting average In the 40s is sort of pretty good 40 and above the sort of 40s about the power to be decent Enter the 50s your brilliant and he's he's hitting these Bigger scores regularly So but he started in a time where Australia's doing it pretty tough against and at this time the two major powers in World Cricket are Australia and England. It's got the oldest rivalry and yeah, at that point Australia no good compared to the English.

But as he sort of set it into the team, they seemed to improve each test match in this series, his first series. They did a little bit better. And Australia finally broke through to win in the fifth and final test of the series with Bradman instrumental scoring 123 and 37 knot out. This only added a slight tinge of respectability to the series with England pulling down Australia's pants overall for tests one and they retain the ashes. It's fun to read these words that I wrote three weeks ago. I don't recall writing down the phrase pulling down Australia's pants. But, you know, in these tougher times, I've had to look to earn money in a different way and I've

looked to poetry. So you might get a little bit of that. And from pulling down people's pants. Yes, yes, I will do that for money. Dack for cash is my website. Look it up. Hi, icons. It's Danny Pellegrino from the Pop Culture Podcast, everything iconic, and

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time on minimum purchases of $1,000. Restrictions apply. See BlueNile.com for details. That's BlueNile.com. Here's a fun fact with information from Wikipedia. Until World War II, this kind of blue, I think I vaguely knew this, but I think this might be interesting for you too. And maybe some of the listeners as well. Until World War II, all tests in Australia were timeless, unlike those reference to Michael Clark. What does that mean? A timeless test match? Well, Dave, I'm so glad you asked. A timeless test match is a match of test cricket played under no limitation of time, which means

the match is played until one side wins or the match is tied, with theoretically no possibility of a draw. The format means that it is not possible to play defensively for a draw when the allotted time runs out, and delays due to bad weather will not prevent the match ending with a positive result. Only two of these matches were drawn, both against England in 1882, when the matches had to be left unfinished, owing to shipping schedules. There's no time limit, but there is a shipping schedule, I'm afraid. So we're going to have to call it a day. We've got a ship to catch. Or is it like, sorry,

we're going to, this cricket ground is becoming a dock tomorrow. You've got some ships covering in. And they're coming in hot. Pictures were left uncovered during matches. These days, I'll cover the pictures to keep them protected from the elements. But back then, they'll left uncovered during the matches. And in the Australian climate, the well-watered prepared pictures would dry out and crack and crumble as the match progressed, usually making batting more difficult by the fourth or fifth day.

The longest test match in Australia was the fifth test between Australia and England in Melbourne in 1929 which lasted for eight playing days, not eight days. There were also days off in between. It's like it's I love it's just such a funny old school way to play sport that takes days. I mean they still play it over five days, but over eight days I think it was nine or ten days altogether with including days off. It's it's pretty fun. I've never heard that. I did not know that. I am actually you know a bit of a cricket fan. I like watching it and the the test, as you say, these days go for five days, and that does seem like a long, long time, especially when it's a best of five series. There's

25 days all up, and it goes for about six weeks. But unlimited, that's crazy. Yeah, isn't that funny. But I think, yeah, So although the format should guarantee a result, it was ultimately abandoned as it was impossible to predict with any certainty when a match would be finished, making scheduling and commercial aspects difficult. So that's why the timeless tests were brought to an end. People had shit to do basically. Yeah, probably a good idea to end it.

It's, yeah, so funny, but I love the idea. I can't wish they'd do that every once a decade. One Asher's test is Thomas and they just play it out. Yeah, that'd be cool. I actually wish more things had time limits, like social gathering. Okay, I thought you were thinking about this podcast right now. Oh, that would be nice, but I'm not that much of a dreamer, but I just mean like, you know, we'll go out for brunch from 10 till 12. Yeah.

You know what I mean? And then everybody fuck off. Well, I think that's what smart if you can to just go, I've got a heart out. I'm so sorry, I've got an appointment at 12. Yeah, it's very important. And then when you do that with someone and they go, oh, no, I think it's been cancelled. You'd be like, oh, you're enjoying yourself. Oh, you love me. Yeah. So Bradman had now arrived on the international stage.

I'll let you know when I get to the part that I wrote this week. I'm still not there. So Bradman had arrived, but it wasn't until the return series in England the following year that he truly showed how great he was. A special send-off was organised at Barrel's Empire Theatre with the local community in attendance. Bradman called the event the proudest evening of my life.

Oh, that's nice. It's so fun, like this world-beating cricketer, and it's just in this little country town hall getting sent off by you know a couple hundred people so fucking cool that's lovely despite Bradman already showing he was a special talent his critics suggested he wouldn't be able to replicate the form in England sure you can score runs on your little Australian pictures but come over here and try that on our proper English wickets and we'll see what you've really got they probably said. Yeah, they would have said in an accent. Oh no. There we go. Kata, no that's not there. What's there? It's good day.

Good day. Sure, you can score runs on your little Australian pitches, come over and try that on our proper English wickets and we'll see what you really thought. They probably said. Was that the queen when she was like six? Oh, that was just one of the people who sound like the queen. Right. All of them. They all sound like the queen. Yeah. All of them. They look up to her. She's very influential. They used to speak a different language before. And she said, I've come up with some, it's called the Queen's English. Let's see what you think.

And they're like, sorry, don't know what you're saying. But they said that in the language they used to speak. He added to England as a 21-year-old, and according to the Bradman Trail, Bradman was an instant sensation in England, making a double century in the first match at Wuster. Wuster? Yes, Wuster, which set the scene for his record as written war chester, but I think it's

Wusster. Look forward to the tweets. Like Wushtershear sauce. Yeah. It's written like war chester shire. Yes. Have you seen that video of an old Italian man trying to say Wushtershear? It is.

It is. It's so funny. Wushtershear, eh? Doesn't make sense. I wish the sheer. It is. It is so funny. It is so funny. Just the sheer. It doesn't make sense. He has a convulsion lustrum. I get it. I mean, did you just see me?

I was like, it was very similar. And I am one eighths with the talent, so it makes sense. I have fond memories of some of my dad's golfing buddies coming around for lunch one day, two of them English, one of them, and very old Australian men at the time. Is he still alive? I think he is. So he's incredibly old now. And he kept saying it's Warchester Shire.

And they're going, it's Warchester Shire. He's like, read the bottle. It says Warchester Shire. And I was about 14 having a great laugh in the corner. That's a fun argument. Yeah, Dad knows that a party. I love about him. He knows people who know how to party, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, big time. He's party adjacent. Yes. So he made his double century. And the first match at Worcester. He set the scene for his record breaking somewhere to follow. He scored no less than six double centuries, 10 centuries and 15 half centuries. The giant world record score of 334,

made during the third test at Hattingley, proved beyond doubt that there was an exceptional test player here. Throughout his success, his unwavering modesty and bright personality made him a favorite with the England people Despite the vlogging he was giving their bowlers. Oh, it was he ugly Bright personality. I mean, he's ugly. Yeah, I've seen pictures of him. He looks like he You know, I'll go hey free looks color. You could be related to me. So yeah

Who's got a bright personality. Well, I mean, he became a, and it goes on to say became a pin up boy and his successes were eagerly received back in Australia. So, you know, I paid it over those cracks, so to speak. I think they mean literally became a pin up boy. Glamour shots. At the end of the tour, he had a master total of 2960 runs, which was more than twice the number of runs than Alan Kipak's, the player who completed the second most number

of innings. Wow. He dominated. I mean, those runs, that World Record score of 334 stood for a long time. And I think it stood until I was alive. So quite a long time. So they scored nearly 3000 runs in one series. Well, no, it wasn't the one series. That was one tour. So they play out matches against local teams and other things as well. So against county teams and different bits and pieces. So that's all together. Yeah. As I was saying, because these days,

if you get 10,000 in your career, you're in the history of all sorts. Yeah. That's test. So that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I forget you're a cricket man, Dave. I've been watching it the English cricket summer lately. We should talk. That's true. Your people call my people about cricket. We'll do it later. We won't do a fair cricket now. We'll talk about the Don. He's above cricket. Yeah, so those stats did include tour matches, but for the five match test series, Bradman scored 974 in only seven innings, a record that still stands today. What? It is insane.

So, we're saying before 100's a great score in an innings, he scored 974 in seven innings, so pretty bloody good. Wow. During the series, a song called Out Don Bradman was released back in Australia. How far is this? It was written by Jack O'Hagen and was recorded with a vocal by Art Leonard. Here are some of the lyrics. Who is it that all Australia raves about? Who is one our very highest praise? Now it isn't Amy Johnson or little Mickey Mouse. No, it's just a country lad who's bringing down the house and he's chorus Now I ask you is he any good? Don Bradman. I mean check that before you write the song, right? Was he asking questions

like that mid song? Why am I writing a song about this blog? Is he any good? Our Don Bradman, as a batsman, he can sure lay on the wood. For when he goes into that, he knocks every record flat for there isn't anything he cannot do. Our Don Bradman, every Aussie dips his lid to you. Oh, I love dip your lid. Yeah, I love it so much. And it was a hit. Apparently the sheet music sold 40,000 copies within a few days. F***.

It was climbing up the sheet music charts. 40,000 copies of the sheet music. What is that even? What a different time. Oh, it's fantastic. It's so they could play it at home. Yeah, I guess it maybe it was pre-gramophone. It wasn't.

But at the time, they went, sure, what was going to be the biggest mode of music? Was it going to be people playing the music on a record? Or was it going to be, you the music on a record, or was it going to be, you know, the instructions to do it yourself? DIY music. Pretty fun. So that's 40,000 copies in a few days.

That time Australia's population was 6.5 million. So that's Dave, you could do the sums, but that's like, I think that's two for every person. That's amazing. I think that's about right. That is amazing. That's it. That's also too many copies to be honest. Yeah. One is enough. What are you going to do with the other ones? Oh, frame it. Yeah, okay. Wonderful. I want to use. Yeah, that makes sense. One's doggy and the other one's pristine.

It'll be a collector's item. I reckon it probably would be. Yeah. They didn't use this to keep things back then, do they? Real disposable society back in the 30s. The same year, a song Bradman himself wrote. So I mentioned before how he played a lot of piano. That same year, a song he wrote himself was released, titled, Every Day Is a Rainbow Day for Me. Oh no. It was just like, Shaquilla and Neil rapping. Oh no. Oh no. It was just like Shaquilla and Neil rapping. Oh no.

Oh no. It was recorded. Every day is a rainbow day for me. I mean, and we all know it well. We all know what's a rainbow day. Well, it's a term that is caught on since that day and we all say it. Now I nationally have to have a rainbow day. I never knew where our national anthem came from,

but there it is. It should be. I mean, I don't love our national anthem. It's a bit sort of slow and plotting, but I reckon every day is a rainbow day for me would be a banger. I guess the guy I want to get you going. Ow, don't, Brad.

Brad, that's it. It's my head from your version. I don't, I, I assume that's how it goes. Is he any good, but is he any good, but he's lying on wood? That's fantastic stuff. So every day is a rainbow day for me. It was recorded by Columbia Studios in 1930. It sounded sound like, I mean, apparently it was pretty good at piano,

but it does also have the vibe of someone being very good at something and then just being surrounded by yes, man. I want to release a song. Well, yeah, you should. You should, Don Bradman. All right, okay. Every day is a rainbow, if I may sound like a hit. I don't think it was a hit.

It was recorded by Columbia Studios in 1930 and commercially released. Not heaps seems to be known about it, but apparently he was a pretty handy pianist. Pianist, pianist. According to the Bradman Foundation, upon his return to Australia, he was subjected to an almost frenzied series

of public engagements that took him away from his shipboard teammates, steaming around the coast. As he... People were proposing to him in the streets. Wow. Yeah. I mentioned it a bit later on,

but some of his teammates, I think, maybe don't love all the attention that gets heaped on him. And he's also meant to be, he's not the most social sort of, he's a bit of an aloof guy, keeps himself a bit. So some of his teammates didn't think he was the best guy. Some people have sort of said,

maybe there's a bit of an asshole. I like to think it was just misunderstood. But imagine that you're getting shipped around as a team and your star player gets off, goes, get hangs out with the Doring fans for a while while you're waiting on the ship. Then he comes back, you go to the next spot so he can go do that again.

Imagine you wouldn't start to probably feel some animals. It's like they're like the support band for you. That's what touring with you guys feels like that, to be honest. I'm like, all right, I'll pack up here. You take photos with your adoring fans. That's funny because it's the opposite of what happened. Very good joke, Jess. So then he, finally on the 4th of November, 1930, he arrived back in barrel to be

reunited with his parents and family and attended a civic reception in the town's Corbett Gardens. He was escorted to the dius with strains of the tune, our Don Bradman filling the air. How's that one going again? Oh, Don Bradman. Tell us, is he an ego. Hello, I used to sing in the 30s or whatever. Oh, Don, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bumacha. Oh, we all know the chacha. No, no, I know, I know, Joni loves chachi, sorry. What's a chanchu? Jess has pulled up a photo of Don and yeah, also did the, no, did the, uh, fanning the face sign, meaning Stone Cold Stunner.

Yeah, in that photo, in others, yeah, that one. He grows into looking like everyone's grandad, maybe not everyone's grandad, my grandad. Is everyone's grandad, my grandad? Now when you're full for the trap of assuming your experience as universal, yeah, everyone's grounded. Brian, O'Connor, yeah.

Mine's called Eddie. Oh, that's weird. Yeah. Still O'Connor. Oh, okay. My Brian was called Jim. It's your Brian's name. Send us a message.

Bradman continued scoring centuries when the West Indies and South African teams to it, averaging over 200 against South Africa. In these two series, Australia won nine of the 10 matches. They're on fire. It's about 90%. Don had them absolutely flying, averaging 200 in a series as well as well. South African fastballer Sandy Bell said bowling to Bradman was, quote, heartbreaking. Going on to say with his sort of cynical grin, which rather reminds one of the sphinx, he never seems to perspire. Is he man or is he robot?

Heart breaking. He can't sweat like Prince Andrew. Yeah, shot at during the four clans. I don't sweat. Despite dominating at test level, his most devastating performance that season perhaps came in a club match. I'll read the story is recounted

by Martin Williamson for ASPN Cricket. All right, we're into the stuff I wrote this week. All right, I was about to ask, but good. We've caught up. On Monday, November the 2nd, 1931, Bradman and New South Wales teammate Wendell Bill traveled into the Blue Mountains about 60 miles from Sydney to play in a match to open a new pitch at Black Heath. The two stars named were included in the Black Heath 11 against neighboring WISCO. So he's a dominating player at this point. Now he's going to play this little country game, which is a bit of fun. And he's brought a teammate along, two international players are now playing for a...

He'd be pissed off if you started bowling too. A little bit, but also they brought in a huge crowd raising money for the teams and like they were doing in a huge favor. Right, so it's a bit of an honor I guess. Yeah. Bradman was soon in full flow taking 30 off of 38 off the first ovary face. Back then it was 808 ball overs. I was going to say otherwise how's that possible? Yeah, these days it's only six ball overs. You can only really hit six maximum, maximum 36 although you know if there's no balls or whatever but still Yeah 38 often eight ball overs are still pretty handy. I didn't understand any of that, but I think he's good So this is for the listeners

Yes, the listeners Philiment so and over is we used to be eight balls apparently, but these days at six one bowl I will bowl from one end of the wicket six deliveries and Then they'll switch and another bowl will bowl from the other end six and they'll switch end to end so the ground sort of switches That didn't not make it any clearer did it. No, I think it did so with a large crowd gathered Bradman was soon in full flow After the 38, he took, he quickly got up to 100 and then a bowler named Bill Black was brought on. Bradman casually asked Wickedkeeper Leo Waters, what to expect. Waters replied, don't you remember this bloke?

He bowled you in an exhibition match in Lithgow a few weeks ago and has been boasting about it ever since at your expense. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no, they've just told Michael Jordan he can't do something. They really made me think of Michael Jordan and the last dance toco. I think this ball is about to die. Would you reckon I could hit him? Let's stop him ringing that bell.

What are you talking about? It's a call back from my childhood. So call back to an unconfirmed event from my childhood? A delightful tale, mind you. So, Bradley Black had bold Bradman for 52 in an upcountry match. A feat that caused the supposedly impartial local unpowered a yell, Bill, you've got him. Bill, myself.

Bill, you got him. The ball was mounted. So the ball that he bowed Bradman with was mounted and black had been dining out on the moment ever since. So Bradman avid down the pitch to chat with Wendell Bill and reportedly said, I think I'll ever go. What followed was brutal. In three eight ball overs he scored exactly a 100 runs. Three over. With Wendell Bill. So normally it'd be great to score a ton in a day.

He's done it in what they estimate to be about 18 minutes. It is fucking hell. I'm like, what? I have to find this on multiple sources before I even believed it. The first over from black went for 33 runs. The second from the blameless Hori, the article says, the blameless Hori Baker was for 40 and the third again from black

for 29. But that did include two singles that Wendell Bill had to just hit to get Bradman back on strike. So I was a couple of basically, I suppose in that otherwise would have been even more. Apparently, after the 100 came up in those three overs, a bewildered bake had demanded to be taken off. He's like, I'm not bowling another, I'm not bowling another over. Please don't make me bowl other. Wow. While Bradman was eventually dismissed for 256, including 146 and 294s, Wendell Bill made 68. It's important, I think, to emphasise that the thing was not planned, Bradman said years later. It happened purely by accident and everyone was surprised at the outcome. No one more than I. Wendell Bill became one of my staunchest friends and in later years, he said he got more notoriety

out of the two singles he scored in those three overs than anything else he ever did in his life. After the match Bradman presented the bat he used to the black heath mare who had it mounted on a wall in the council offices. It was said he asked people to swear on it when an honest response was needed. Like swearing on the Bible. Swearing on bread with the butt. That is now on. And they're like, I could it.

I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't lie. I can't lie to the bat. And if you wanted to see that bat, you can still say it. It's at the Bradman Museum in barrel. Oh, that's cool. Yeah.

On the 30th of April, 1932, Bradman married his childhood sweetheart, Jesse Menzies at St Paul's Church in Burwood, Sydney. They honeymooned in Melbourne before heading to North America and what Bradman described as an extended honeymoon. It was also a cricket tour. In North America. So it was a private tour, which was organized by former test cricketer Arthur Meiley, and was in part to try and boost the reputation

of cricket in the US and Canada. And obviously it was very successful. There you go. It's now the national sport in Canada and America. The newlyweds arrived in Vancouver, Canada on the 16th of June and according to a biography by Michael Page for the State Library of South Australia, in 75 days the Australians traveled almost 10,000 kilometres across Canada and the USA. They played 51 matches, including one in Hollywood against a team that included actor

Boris Karl. Does that name mean to any of you? Yeah, he played like the mummy and... Yes. And he played Frankenstein. And that famous picture of Frankenstein from the 1931 film, Frankenstein. He played Frankenstein's monster. And also in the Forbes, a bride of Frankenstein, he played Frankenstein's monster. And also in the Forbes,

Bright of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein. So Bradman played in Frankenstein, which is kind of fun. The other thing I think is maybe most famous for was that he narrated and voiced the titular character in Dr. Sussis how the Grinch Stole Christmas. Now that famous TV special, I think it's played in like home alone and stuff like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yep. So, because I was thinking that was Jim Carey. That's a real, that shows our age difference, doesn't it? I think of the 9 and 60s version of it. Matt, that's Mike Myers and his name is Shrek, so get it right. You look really stupid right now. Damn it. While in New York, Bradman attended a baseball game

between the Yankees and the White Sox as the guest of none other than legendary baseball of Babe Ruth. So he's kind of the Tom Bradman of baseball and vice versa, I guess. You from the, you do a bird of Babe Ruth. Otherwise known as just like the baseball legend. Yeah, I just knew him is a lefty. Famous, but that did help give it some context when I read that he was like the, he was baseball's Don Bradman. Um, so that analogy was actually used recently,

last year actually, when US president Donald Trump was doing a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. When Pratt told Trump, the PM is the Don Bradman of Australian job creation. Trump looked confused before Pratt quickly followed up saying, Don Bradman was our baby Ruth and Trump replied, oh wow. And then Morrison added in cricket. It is one of the greatest bits of foreign diplomacy that I've ever witnessed. It's so cringey. It's so much fun. I mean, that phrase, I think we all think of prime minister Scott Morrison as

the Don Bradman of Australian job creation. I mean, yeah, obviously. That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Bradman and Bay apparently chatted, they got on quite well. So I don't know, don't mention that they, yeah, so they were watching it in a Babe Ruth's box. I think Ruth was injured at the time, but they got on well. Ruth was a big guy. I didn't know this. He stood it over six foot tall.

It was around a hundred kilos. And he was expecting Bradman to be a similar size. Everyone's saying, this guy smashes it around just like you. And so this is what he's apparently said to Bradman. He said, from what they were telling me, I thought you were a husky and strong guy. Bradman replied, but us little fellows can hit them harder than the big ones.

When Ruth was asked by reporters, what he thought about cricket, he said, they tell me $40 a week is top paying cricket. I'll stick with baseball. All about the cash with babe. Was that, yeah, was that the question? Was that the question? I'm sorry, did I just ask you, what do you think about the pay discrepancies between the two sports? What do you think? No, they didn't ask that. It was a polite chit-chat question.

So there was attracted a lot of press. There was a lot of press there. The next day, the New York Times described Bradman as quote, the wild man of cricket. Yes. And also the ring-tailed wallaby of the cricket crease. Okay. Okay, so the ring-tailed wallaby, that's kind of like our Babe Ruth of the animal.

Yes. Yes. That's catchy though, I think. The ring-tailed wallaby of the cricket crease, the wild man of the wicket. Have they combined a couple of the same? Yeah, I think ring-tailed wallaby of the cricket crease, the wild man of the wicket. Have they combined a couple of them? Yeah, I think ring-tailed possum. Possum. And then just wallaby.

But our possums are different to their possums. Yeah, they're old possums. So I understand you don't say ring-tailed possum because then they'd be like, what do you mean? We've got different possums. Our possums are cute. Some of them are the little ones. Our ring-tails are shit-year.

Oh my god. That sound like they are just making out animals. Like the sugar gliding, a kibna of the wicket. Yeah. Especially if America doesn't understand cricket, I mean, it just sounds baffling. He just combining two things I haven't heard of a ring towel wallaby and a cricket crease.

Oh, now we get it. Oh, he's the ring towel wallaby of the cricket crease. Sure. Why don't you say so? Obviously. Who is he in terms of Babe Ruth? On the American tour, Braddon played in every match in a massed 3,779 runs at an average of 102.1. Who's just gone around smacking it up? Braddon's dominance of the palms in 1930. So we talked about a little while ago, where he had that record of 334 and whatnot, led to the English devising a new tactic for the 932-33 Australian tour, what would become known as the infamous Bodyline series. According to the National Museum of Australia, the 932-33 Asher series is the most controversial in the history of Australian English test cricket. The English team, desperate to contain Australian batsman Dom Bradman and win back the Asher's,

adopted a controversial strategy, technically known as Fast Leg Theory, who was better known as Bodyline. In preparing for the 1932 tour of Australia, England sought a way to stifle Bradman's scoring. They capped in Douglas Jardine developed an approach in which the ball was bold fast and short, rising up to the Batman's body while fielded as hovered close to the leg side. The strategy was intended to intimidate the batsman, stifled the swing of his bat, and forced him to play defensively. But it also posed a genuine physical threat. The relationship

between Jardine and Australian cricket fans was already tense. During the 1928-29 tour to Australia, he was perceived as super-cilious and rude. He's there of upper-class superiority wrinkled with the Australian crowds. Back in the 1930s, beyond pads and gloves, batsman wore very little protection, no helmet, no thigh pad, no arm pad, no chest guards. So you'd be pretty familiar with the Bodyline Series Dave, at least to the idea of it. Yeah, it was pretty dangerous, right, for the bad. Yeah, it was very bloody. A lot of players were going off injured and just as a battle of attrition sort of thing. going off injured and just as a battle of attrition sort of thing. And this is the two, just you know, in the Paul Kelly song, where he quotes, quotes an Australian

cricketer in the rooms after the game. And he says two teams were out there today, but only one of them is playing cricket. That was about this year. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically saying, this is, this is unsportsman like it's not real cricket. Bradman missed the first test due to illness, which England won. He returned for the second test and scored a century, leading Australia victory

and leveling the series at one all. Going to the third test in Adelaide, Jardine decided to bring in the bodyline tactics, especially deploying his fast-bola, Harold Lawward, to ignore the thumbs and instead, bow fast and short at the body. Maybe people who don't know cricket might not know the cricket balls are very hard. Oh yeah. Hard as a rock and they bow fastbolas and cricket bowl very fast. Yeah. Underton. What is it? I don't know what the fastbolas are bowling back then but these days like 140-2 is pretty fast. 150 is super fast. I like how I'm

trying to explain to Americans, and I'm using kilometers per hour. 100 mile an hour or plus I think is real fast. That would be real fast in anyone's language, right? Even American. The rest of the world understands cricket. This is only Americans we're talking to. Well, if only they'd caught on or we tried to teach them a book. I mean, we sent Don. What do we got to do? Send Michael Clark? Because that's how that's how Lime is all we'll do it. Clarky.

That will date the lessons that. What do you want? That's right. It's amazing that still to this day cricket Krigit has still only got paid 40 bucks a week. That's how Michael Clark got around in his Lamborghini. Paying that 40 bucks a week. So anyway, yes. So this was when they brought in the brutal body line. According to NMA, the already hostile crowd was furious and when one delivery struck Australian

Captain Bill Woodfall just above the heart, it was feared a right would start. Tempers flared on the field and in the stands, and while Woodfall maintained a diplomatic stance in public, in private, he too was furious. According to the state library of New South Wales, as well as Bill Woodfall being struck down, the team wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield suffered a fractured skull. Oh, shit. According to the Bradman Foundation, at the end of the day's play,

the England manager, Sir Pelham Plum Warner, visited the Australian dressing room to commiserate with the injured. The Australian captain Bill Woodfall is reputed to have received him isely with the words, I don't wanna see you, Mr. Warner. There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket. The other is not.

I like how Paul Kelly put it better, but. Well, I mean, he's a poet. People poet. That's why I get to pay the big bucks. The state library did note that the quote, new tactic even split the English side. The fast-bola George Gubby Allen refused to bowl body line despite the urgings of his captain Douglas Jardine. Gubby Allen described Jardine as a perfect swine in a letter to his parents Sir Walter and Lady Allen. Perfect swine. He's the perfect swine such a fancy piece. Yeah, that's a nice couple. Yeah, the perfect piggy. So that seems pretty noble of Allen, you know, to be gone, I'm not going to play those dirty tactics even if my captain's asking me to.

So you won't be surprised, a man showing such heart and ethics. You won't be surprised to hear that he was Australian born and moved to England at the age of seven for school. Ah, that makes sense. I felt that. I felt it. Australia wouldn't change. Australia's don't do dodgy stuff. Certainly not in the cricket field.

No. I mean, there's a couple of sandpapery issues and pretty full on sledging, but... Well, that was just a misunderstanding. See, the boys had just come from the job site as sanders, and they just happened to have a little bit of the sandpaper left over in their pockets. They couldn't get a job as a power, so they had to take the next best thing, sanding. Then they get paid $40 a week.

The NMA continues. A key aspect of Australian frustration was that the English tactics seemed to go against all that was valued in cricket, fair play, ethical conduct, and a shared cultural understanding of behaviour. In response to the danger faced by the players, the Australian Board of January 1933. This is what it's said. Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game, making protection of the body by the batsman the main consideration. This is causing intensely bitter feeling between the players as well as injury. In our opinion, it is unsportsman-like. Unless stopped at once, it is likely to upset the friendly relations existing between Australia and England. Pretty strong words in those old timey ways.

Is that... They're saying that relations as cricket teams or as nations? I think they'll talk in bigger than that. Yeah, nations. The English administrators did not appreciate their players being accused of unsportsman-like behavior. Not having witnessed the barrage of body blows, although they weren't out here in Australia for it. This is all telegram back to England, back and forth. They felt that the Australian side was making excuses.

The MCC responded sternly on the 23rd of January, quote, We, Marlabone Cricket Club, deplore your cable. We deprecate your opinion that there has been unsportsman-like play. We hope the situation is not now as serious as your cable would seem to indicate. But if it is, such as to jeopardize the good relationships between English and Australian cricketers and you consider it desirable to cancel remainder of program, we would consent, but with great reluctance. And so sassy.

Mm. We'll let you, if you need to, you need to quit. Sean, go ahead. That's fine. Hey, man, that's all right. If you want to be a little bitch, you want to be a little, a little, a spooky bitch, you quit it. Oh, I'll fructured skull.

That's okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. did you head hurt? Oh, I saw you. Oh, I saw you. Did I hit you just above the heart? Oh, I saw you. After intervention from the Australian Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons, the Australian Board of Control withdrew its charge upon sportsmen like behaviour and the final tests were played. England won the series 4-1 and reclaimed the ashes. So the Australian prime minister, England had to get involved,

politics did get involved and the prime minister had to tell the Australian cricket board to back off basically. Weird. What a weird page in history. Very weird. And for any international listeners, the Australian prime minister is like the Don Bradman of job creation. If that clears that up for you. That makes sense now. Oh, sorry. He's Australian.

Is there something so undignified about a billionaire sucking up to political leaders like that? This guy is disgusting. He's actually, he's like, honestly. He's like so good at job creation. Hey Okay, mate your billionaire come on Yeah, maybe you could create a job. How do you think you became a billionaire though? Yeah, I think being good to the working man No, don't know about that and woman and children. Yeah, almost definitely children The working children. We slowly morphed into a comedy podcast. Um, slowly. Anyway, that's what I tell my butler. Um, the impact of England's bodyline tactics extended beyond the cricket pitch, struggling with ongoing

hardship during the depression. Australians saw the aggressive tactics of the English team as representative of England's wider attitude to the country. So it was, it was seen as a bigger thing. It was, it was representing England, basically looking down their noses out us in the colonies sort of thing. Bradman finished the series with an average of only 56.57, a disappointing number for the Don to put this in a context. So this is still a higher number than the career batting average of legendary cricketers like India's Sashin Tanduka,

the West Indies, Brian Lowell and South Africa's Jacques Callis. He did. He got that turn away before they brought in the body line tactics so admittedly. The Bradman Foundation concludes that there was never a formal acknowledgement from the England authorities that body line bowling was on sportsmen like, but subsequent actions indicated a recognized culpability. Douglas Jardine would never again cap to England against Australia, while Harold La would never play Test Cricket again, despite topping the English first class bowling averages in 1937.

Another legacy of the tactic was a change in the cricket rules. Bodyline was banned and a new law was introduced to prevent no more than two fieldsman gathering between square leg and the wicket keeper. If we really want to baffle non-cricket listeners, we should start talking fielding positions. Silly mid-off. Silly mid-off is a classic cow's corner. Is that one?

Gully. Fine leg. That's something I think of myself as having in the way that it is very thin. He's a very perplexing positions. There's also one called big dick. Yeah, big dick. That's where I always fielded, ironically. Consequently, the 1934 Australian tour to England featured no bodyline bowling and relations between the two teams quickly healed. On that tour, Bradman was battling health issues with muscle spasms, a back problem, and suffering from periodic abdominal pains. Despite this, he still managed to score an innings of 304 and one of 244 in the final test to help Australia regain the ashes. The severe

abdominal pains turned out to be an infected appendix. He was operated on and the following day got parotonitis. Apparently he was so close to death that his wife immediately set off to England on the four-week ship journey. Isn't that be shattering? Oh, your husband's about to die. All right, I'll rush over. Just see you in four weeks. Five. Weeks into our journey, she finally got the news that he'd pulled through though. Once she arrived, they headed to France for Christmas. That's nice. Once she arrived, they headed to France for Christmas. That's nice. Oh, that's nice.

By now the Bradmans had relocated from Sydney to Adelaide and he'd started working for a stockbroker named Harry Hodgett. A bit of fun. He moved from Sydney to Adelaide. And he has a day job. Yes. I mean, they only got paid $40 a week, didn't they? He's the best in the fucking world. He's the day-brew world. He's the Babe Ruth.

And he moves to Adelaide. And has a job to be a, he was working for a stock broker. Yeah, I think he moved to Adelaide in part. I feel like it was maybe to get away from, like he didn't love the celebrity stuff as much. So maybe he wanted to go to a slightly smaller city. He was also, he was a country boy.

Yeah, city where fuck all happened. I love Adelaide. Adelaide's nice. Adelaide doesn't like me now. But I don't care. Fuck you, Adelaide. Yeah, I don't know 100%. But I know that he, he, he considered actually playing

in England professionally cricket and making, I think he would get paid 500 pounds a season over there. And he strongly considered that, even though that would mean he wouldn't be allowed to play Test Cricket anymore because of old school rules. But then a few businesses in Australia came together and said, Hey, we'll set you up with some jobs and we'll look after, we'll get you some writing work and different bits and pieces to help get you a better living wage, or even maybe getting paid what you're worth almost.

But anyway, yeah, you chose to move the Adelaide get in a stock broken. Things are going pretty smoothly off the field. What an anti-climax. I'm gonna move to Adelaide, work for a stock broker. I'm the best in the world at the time. Yeah, it's still peaking as well. And I live in Adelaide.

It's like that time. We're going too hard on Adelaide. You let me know. That time Ben Folls lived in Adelaide for a while. He was the best in the world in sort of being Ben Folls. Samba piano pop rock. Keyboards.

And he. He was the best in the world and arguably still is at Ben Folls music. Yeah, he's top five. I'd say he's in my Benfold's five. Yeah, right. So things are going pretty smoothly off the field, but things could be a little bit icy on it and in the change rooms. Some of his Australian teammates through his career, I said to have not loved playing with him. This has been explained in different ways.

Some say other players didn't like living in his shadow. Others say it was very aloof and didn't socialize much with his teammates. Someone had an example of when he hit his big 334 in England and Aussie businessman over there wrote him a check for a thousand pounds said, well don't make go up some fun or whatever. And he didn't share it with his teammates and someone said that was one of the reasons why that that sort of was an example of why he wasn't that good to his teammates which I found interesting. What would they do?

What they do for the thousand pounds. Well, I guess he needs someone batting at the other end. If someone gives me a check for a thousand pounds, am I supposed to share it with you? According to some, I wouldn't think so. Okay, well, no, because it's my thousand pounds. Depends on what you did it for. If it was someone said, jeez, you were so good on that podcast.

Here's a thousand pounds, I'd be like, well, she was and she deserved every penny. I hope she buys herself something very nice. Because I love a winter's happy. I love to see her happy. I'm happy when she's happy. An example of the unease between Bradman and his teammates occurred after he stayed home from the 1935-36 tour of South Africa. The Bradman-less side had a successful tour of South Africa and senior players like Bill

O'Reilly made not so subtle comments about how they love playing under the capency of Vic Richardson as opposed to Bradman. According to Wiki, a click of players who were openly hostile towards Bradman formed during the tour, for some the prospect of playing under Bradman was daunting, as was the knowledge that he would be sitting in judgment of their abilities in his roles as a selector. So at this stage he was both the star player, but he was also a team selector. To start the new season, the test side played a rest of Australia team, Captain by Bradman. So this is the Australian team playing best of the rest, which unfortunately for them included Bradman, because he wasn't in the team at the time.

And Bradman, Captain in the best of the rest team. It was played in Sydney in October 1936. The test 11 suffered a big defeat due to Bradman's 212 and a bag of 12 wickets by legs been a Frank Ward. Rather und diplomatically, Bradman let the members of the test team know that despite their recent success, they were not quite as good as they believe themselves to be. So, you know, it's interesting because a lot of the quotes he does are so polite and sportsman-like, but then he had little things like that. And I also think that is there something in it where to be absolutely dominant, you have to be a bit of an asshole. I don't know if that's true,

but it feels maybe like it is. Absolutely, yes. There has to be like that killer instinct in you. I think you would find that most elite sports people have an element of asshole in them. Yeah, right. Especially individual sports, like tennis and stuff like that. I'm sure, like they're nice people,

but they've gotta have just that little bit of our whole- Yeah, you've got to be somewhat selfish, right? Yeah, for sure. Like within that context of your sport, you're sure. But yeah, that's a bit of a shame if that is the case. But also, like, if it was just the fact that he didn't socialise that much with him, he was kind of a luth and maybe kept to himself. I mean, he obviously didn't like the the celebrity or the touring or anything like that. So, I mean, why do you dislike him

just because of his personal? Yeah, it does sound like people, he's like he'd have a win and he'd rather than go, have a drink, he'd go back to his room and play music on his gramophone or something. That sounds way better. Like, that's more what I do after shows. Yes.

Did he go back to his room, wheeled out the water tank, got the stamp and the golf ball and just hit it against there for about six hours. I think that sounds about right to me. So in this report, believe it or not, I skip over a bunch of his on field achievements. Figured it would get pretty tedious if I went through every century, maybe. He's made a lot of them. But, you know, he was very good in most games he played. Yep, I believe that. Finally enough, it wasn't just on the cricket field, he dominated.

He played a bit of squash to keep fit, which is like, um, racquetball, I guess. And in 1937, he won the South Australian Squash Championship. He just took it up to stay fit. And in 1937 he won the South Australian Squash Championship. He just took it up to stay fit. And up been winning the state championship, amazing. That's amazing. So he became the Don Bradman who was squatting. In South Australia, yes.

Anyway, back to cricket on the 1938 Tour of England, Bradman scored more centuries helping the Aussies retain the Ashes. There was a point where I was going to go through a free series, because there wasn't that many and I'll go and in the first test. He got this, but he asked a lot that might have got a bit tedious. Off the field, Bradman wasn't too happy with the Australian board, though.

This is from Michael Page's bio again. I found this kind of interesting, what an old school rule. It's almost like this was 80 years ago. Bradman called his team together to discuss a clause in their contracts that forbade their wives, children or other family members from being in England while the tour was in progress. They went out in the whole country. Why? Bradman simply wanted the board to allow his wife to join him at the end of the tour. He's like, there's a rule that says she can't come over and be in the country and then meet me at the end of the tour.

It's a only chance we can break this rule. The board subsequently refused his request, and he was so angry that he drafted a letter of resignation from Australian cricket. But he was talked out of delivering it by the team, Dr. Rowley Pope. All he would say publicly was that he was extremely disappointed. The board eventually relented under pressure from the other Australian players. No, that's just seems so strange. That's so weird.

You'll be distracted even if she's six hours drive away. Why? Why? Why? Why would I be? Yeah. Or even just like in the same city, just in a different hotel? Why not even in the same hotel?

When the door was over, yeah, why not in the same room? That sounds like someone from the board wanted to have an affair every time I went to England. No, why? No, we all grow up. Boys only, boys trip. Plus my mistress. Yeah, only wives. I said wives, I didn't say no wives. Secret second family, yes.

Of course. No legitimate children, okay? We go with that. We put legitimate in there in the contract. When war broke out in 1939, this is somehow to consider either. The world, second world war happened right in the middle of when he was smashing it. When War broke out in 1939, the decision was made to keep cricket going in Australia for morale, and Bradman kept banging out tons. This isn't state level. But according to Page, when France surrendered on the 25th of June, Bradman was among thousands of Australians

who rushed to enlist. He joined the RWAF but was secondored to the army where he was made a lieutenant and sent to Victoria to train as a physical training instructor bound for the Middle East. Wait, do we say left-tenant? We say left-tenant only. He was made a left-tenant, written lieutenant or written like something else. It's the one of those words. It certainly does not have left. There's no F in there. One of those dastardly words. I mean, even as Lutennan, it's funny stretch, but left tenant, take a fucking walk. I didn't know that. They should use him. Like that tennis player we talked about, they should just get Don over there, give him a bag, he grenades, and a cricket bat.

And he'll fuck you up. And tell him that the Germans are about to ring the bell. Yeah, I'll say, they were just mocking you last week, actually. Well, he was saying, oh, yeah, Jerry over there was saying that he bulged you out. Is that true? He's been dining out on it. He's been telling everyone, that guy over there driving that tank. He'd already had one kid earlier in the war and on the 17th of April 1941 his wife Jesse had a second child, Shirley June. Meanwhile, her husband's muscular spasms had spread to his right arm, which you could not raise above his shoulder. He was

invalidated out of the army and went with his family to Midagong near Barrel to Converless. The Bradman's return to Adelaide in 1942 and Bradman resumed work at Harry Hodgitz, the stockbroker. He was playing a little golf, but no cricket. On the 11th of May 1943, he was elected to the Adelaide Stock Exchange. You know, that was a thing you could do,

get elected to the stock exchange. But his job disappeared overnight when Hodgitz was declared bankrupt and faced criminal charges. I knew it. That's why you don't go to Adelaide. You boss will be a croc. I've heard it time and again.

Someone says, oh, you wouldn't believe it. My boss is a croc. That's a human Adelaide, don't you? That's how did you know? I said, because we're very fucking bossy in Adelaide. He's a crook. So he set up his own stock-breaking business, Don Bradman and Co, in Adelaide. What? What? Don Bradman!

Set up a fucking stock-broker in Adelaide. If it helps you understand, it was sort of like the Don Bradman of stockbroking businesses. Oh. Wow. OK, that doesn't make sense, yeah. Is that what it said on the poster? By 1945, he had not handled a cricket bat for five years.

He just hadn't picked one up. And his muscular problem now affected both arms. Obviously not good for someone who wants to play cricket. While in Australia, Sidetourid New Zealand during the winter of 1946, he built up his health with the help of Melbourne Masua. Ernst Saunders. Bradman was ambivalent about playing cricket again, but with his wife taking a greater role in the business, he accepted the Australian captaincy against England's 1946 touring team. I don't know if I want to play. All right, I'll be the Australian captain. And believe it or not, he kept smashing out runs.

You don't say it. The way his body was failing him though, it was expected his retirement was imminent, but he forged on so that he could play in the first Australian test series against India. In that series, as a 39-year-old, he made four big centuries. 39 is very old for cricket right, Dave. You nearly know, I don't remember any Australian cricketers in my lifetime playing that to that aid. No, it's really old, yeah. This set the stage for his final ever test series. The 1948 Ashes in England. I was caught. I just by the by I just sort of breathes over that but Australia first played

India there and in the late 40s It's kind of cool because they're one of the powerhouses of cricket now It's interesting that we've only got like a 70 year history of playing them So final over test series 1948 Ashes in England England hadn't won the year since the controversial bodyline series 15 years earlier, though the teams hadn't played since 1938 due to the break out of the Second World War. Since the resumption of Test Cricket after the war, the Australians were undefeated and started the series' strong favourites. Bradman was captain and he publicly stated his side had the lofty

ambition of going through the whole tour without being defeated. I love that sort of the public setting of expectations as impossibly high. Yeah, love that. Anyway, this is what they did. They're unbeaten through all their tour matches and the five test series, Betty England 4-0 with the third test ending in a draw due to rain delays. with the third test ending in a draw due to rain delays. Bradman walked out for his final test innings at 5.50pm on Saturday, August 14, 1948, at the Oval Cricket Ground in London. There were 40 minutes of play left in the day. The following is from an article written by Dan Colossumone of the ABC earlier this year,

and it sums it up pretty good. So a lot of people listening might not know anything about Brabman, and if they don't, I don't know about this. But this is one of his most famous innings for all the wrong reasons. Don came into bat facing Eric Holley's. The leg spin ball says legendary Australian all round at Neil Harvey. At 19, he was 20 years younger than his hero, playing in just his second test.

He sat in the pavilion waiting to bat, watching it unfold. The reception he got when he went out to bat at the Oval from the England team and the public, because the ground was packed, absolutely packed. The English players all got around him when he came into bat. All took their caps off and gave him his three cheers, and you can't tell me that doesn't affect somebody. And I don't think Don would be immune from that. I mean, we heard earlier that he was pretty much immune from that. But Neil Harvey suggested maybe you wasn't. Maybe that might have got to him. The emotion of it all. The English players were gracious, but not about to go easy on the figure who

had menaced them for four tours and two decades. We'll give him three cheers when he gets on the square, but that's all we'll give him. Then bowl him out, England captain Norman Yardley told his team. The English people loved him, and he loved them back, says Harvey. He really wasn't expected to go on the tour, but he felt he owed it to the English public. He had health problems, fibrositis, and such. He didn't want the English public. He had health problems, fibrositis and such. He didn't want the English people to be let down and because they'd been suffering so much during the war, he felt compelled to go. That's the reason he went. So, something I didn't really realize. I didn't realize this happened when he was so old and also that his body was failing and by this

point as well. And it's interesting that he was like, he felt a duty to the English supporters. They supported him so well that he wanted to give them one last tour. The English adored him right till the finish. The 39 years of age, he went to England in 1948 and Captain this great invincible's team and he still made two centuries. That's not too bad for 39, is it?

This would be Bradman's final knock. That was almost assured when he strode out for the fifth test of the Asher series, with Australia on one for 117, and looking to complete an unbeaten tour. England had been dismissed for 52, the whole team, in its first innings, meaning the Australians would not have to bat again.

He walked to the wicked in front of a crowd of 20,000, having scored 6,996 test runs and losses wicked 69 times. So that point is average. Nice. Nice amount of times. So he done, his average of that point was over 100. There was 101.39. If he was able to be dismissed for a 70th time, he needed just four more runs to reach 7,000 and end his career with an average of 100. But nobody knew that. In those days, statistics were nothing, Harvey says. Nobody had a clue. The press didn't know. There was no television, of course. And if the press didn't know, nobody's going to know. So that's how it was. We just played the game as a normal session.

That's interesting. I assumed everyone was like, needs at least four runs to get a hundred. Yeah, because these days you'd be counting down going, oh, three to go. Yeah. Three to go. He only needs one here. And he's got it. There'd be a graphic that already have like memorabilia for sale. Yeah. 100 plus average. In the BBC radio coverage, Rex Austin handed over to his junior commentator John Arlet as Bradman walked out the bat. And he's great. I really like his commentary. So I'm going to read some of that here.

The crowd settles down again. They got 40 minutes left to play and Bradman is now taking guard. Ollies is going to bowl and John Arlet shall describe the first bowl. So come in John. I love cricket radio. They really experience going on. And here's what commentator John Alex said from there. He bowls. Bradman goes back across his wicket, pushes the ball gently in the direction of the houses of

parliament, which are out beyond mid-off. It doesn't go as far as that. Mealy goes to Watkins that silly mid-off. No run, still a hundred and seventeen for one. That is funny, cricket comedy. I mean, you guys are laughing, but that's good stuff. That is almost the same as when Principal Skinner punishes Bart by taking him out with a telescope to look at stars and he's like, 98 degrees, not... 30 degrees south, 436 AM. Left no-sighting. Left the mentioned. Yeah, I don't

remember the language was there. Yeah, that was funny. That's also this no run. The ball goes in the direction of the houses of parliament which are out beyond mid-off. It doesn't go as far as that. It merely goes to Watkins. I mean, Watkins is the perfect player name as well for an English cricket team in the 1940s. Anyway, it goes on two slips. A silly mid-off and a forward short leg close to him as Holly's pitches the ball up slowly and he's bold. Bradman bold, Holly's not. And what do you say under these circumstances? I wonder if you see the ball very clearly in your last test in England on a ground where you've played some of the biggest cricket of your

life and where the opposing side has just stood around you and given you three cheers and the crowd has clapped you all the way to the wicket. I wonder if you see the ball at all. These are to give him excuses, I guess. Oh, the humanity. Two balls and the innings was over. So Don's career was done. Harvey says the complete silence around the ground also reached into the Australian dressing room. I'm sure that emotion was one of the main reasons why he didn't pick a wrong and from Hollies. Got an inside edge onto the sumps and that was it. I was padded up, ready to go in, and he walked in and sat down beside me and said, Fancy doing a thing like that. So, it's such a great, under-sated thing. Bally, others have said he was disappointed.

He wanted to go out with a big score and show the English. He appreciated them by beating them again. ColleSimon goes on and this ABC article is saying, Hollis had no time for sentimentality. Best fucking ball of bold all season and they're clapping him. He said it was too much. And the story of how that ball-candy ball is pretty great as well. He played in a tour match a few months earlier. He took the two played against any bowl to him and he realized

that Bradman he did. He's like, I don't think he's picking up my wrong and a wrong and for the leg spinner is the one that basically spins the other way. Instead of spinning out to the right hand or a spins into the wicket. Right. And he's like, I don't think he's picking it. So in the second innings of that match, he didn't bowl any wrongs to him going in case I play him in a test match. I won't give him any side as now. I'll save it for the test match. And that's what that's when he bowled it. So he's mind he the plan just all came together. That baller also had to be talked into playing that game. He was going to play for his county cricket side. It's like it's a dead rubber. They've already beaten us. They've already won the series.

It doesn't mean anything. I don't want to play and he got talked into it. And then was the guy who broke Bradman's heart in the last inning. Wow. Bradman's batting partner Arthur Morris watched the historic moment from the other end of the pitch. 22 yards away. His contribution would also be at Sean by Bradman's famous failure. He would tell the story in the decades to come. I often say to people, yes, I was there. I'm asked, will you play Yeah. Well, do you play that day? I've never even heard of that guy. Well, he got a, he got a hundred ninety six that day. Oh, and I have heard Arthur Morris.

He's, I think he's another legend. All right, I've heard of him. I'll give him that. So, Brabman's duck left his career test average at 99.94. A number no one has got anywhere near since with a a minimum of 20 career innings, the next closest only make the low 60s. So it's a huge gap. Yeah, wow.

Does it really, really annoy you, Bob? Yes, I was going to say that pisses me off. It was so clear. One, four, and he would have finished with the perfect average of 100. It would have been amazing. I think this, I mean, it can't have makes it more iconic. Yeah. There's something,

you know, a little bit of tragedy at the end of this heroic career. So it was, it's a bit of something to it. It was 99. What? 9.4. I just want to remember for future trivia. Yeah, well good. Oh, well, here's a fun fact that relates to you. Well, okay, he's a fat, but it does relate to your other employer. Oh, yeah. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation takes its postcode of 9994 from Bradman's career average. Takes its postcode. Yeah, so if you send mail to the ABC,

the postcode is 9994. Huh. I mean, I don't have to send mail to the ABC. You probably get your checks from them though, right? Yes, and they send it to me. And I'm one, one, one, one, because I'm number one. Oh, wow. That's actually 111. They might have told you.

So Bradman's final test innings was a failure, but his final Australian tour was not. In all the side went through their 34 match to are undefeated. 34 match to a what? And they would become known as the invincible as well as Bradman. This legendary team also featured great like Sid Barnes, Arthur Morris, Keith Miller and Ray Lindwall. legendary team also featured greats like Sid Barnes, Arthur Morris, Keith Miller, and Ray Lindwall. It was also the first action series for Harvey, who got his first chance in the fourth test, making 112 and being at that point the youngest Australian to make a test 100.

I think that's right. He's also the only member of the invincible still alive. The others having all died, making a mockery of the name. Did you have the same look on your face when you wrote that down? I'm like, I've got a squeeze one jerk in this report. I've got a squeeze one jacket in this report. Harvey made it over for the Ashes Test at Lords in England last year in 2019 and he told the ABC, it's my favorite ground. I've realised it's the home of cricket and I appreciate all that history of the place it's got and I just love going back there and this next line is the only reason I included this paragraph in here. Every time I walk through

those grace gates I get turned on. There's no doubt about it. It does something to me. I want to fuck it. I want to fuck it. I want to fuck that grey. I'm invincible. Fuck me, ground. I want to fuck humans. I walk through those gates and I've got a massive boner immediately. And I'm ready to fuck. Okay. Thanks. Okay, Neil, thanks for- Sure, I probably not going to publish that to you, I'm sorry.

But they did? They published the truth at the ABC. Turns me on. I get Randy for it. All right, okay. Toy stuff. The ABC article goes on. I get Randy for it. All right, okay. Toys stop. The ABC article goes on. Every Australian player on that 1948 tour wanted to share the crease with Donald Bradman. Harvey only got a couple of opportunities to do so, but said batting

with the dom was like living the dream. It was just a pleasure to get up at the other end and watch him. He was twice as good as anybody else, Harvey said. If you can't get out there and watch him. He was twice as good as anybody else, Harvey said. If you can't get out there and watch and learn something, well, there's something wrong with you. He was a joy to watch and a great bloke to get on with, which obviously is a different perspective than what others had. Cool to know that Neil really, Neil Harvey really enjoyed playing with him. The following year, 1949 Bradman was knighted for services to cricket. He's still the only Australian test cricketer to receive that honor. I think he's the only stockbroker as well. Yes. He got, yeah, he's got two knighthoods.

I don't even know you could get that. He's a double knight. So yeah, only Australian cricket I ever received that on a bill would fool who you would have remember from earlier he was the captain during the body line series. He was offered the same honor in 1934 just after the body line series but turned it down. Imagine with his finger up gone now, fuck you queen or whatever. I take it. Yeah, what am I? What am I?

John Lennon. I take a knighthood. I'd be a knight. Sir Jessica, I love it. Sounds great. I'd take that for sure. That just works. Thank you. Modern great, Sashin Tendulkar is the player,

some argue Eclipse Bradman, Kriger.com recounted the time Tendulkar visited the Don. He asked Bradman how he thought he'd have coped in the contemporary game. He said thatman how he thought he'd have coped in the contemporary game. He said that he didn't think he would have scored quite so many runs because of the more defensive field settings that he used nowadays. Tendulkar wrote. He also said that the standard of fielding was much better in the contemporary game.

Tendulkar and Warren then asked Bradman what his test average would likely have been if he was playing then. Bradman replied, around 70. We were slightly surprised and asked if he was sure it would be so much lower than his famous career average of 99.94 Tendell Carrots. He said, well, 70 isn't bad for a 90 year old. Hey, there's another string in Bradman's bow. Wisecracker.

I love that. Squash, cricket, poetry, song, stocks. Stocks. Wisecrackin. Yep. Long time, listen to Patreon and all around. Gentlemen, Gary J. from the UK, message me to let me know that as well as the knighthood, Bradman has received a companion of the order of Australia in 1979.

Voted the greatest male athlete of the past 200 years by the Australian Confederation of Sport in 1988. Selected as one of only two Australians by international who's who top 100 people who have done the most to shape the 20th century, the other former Australian selected was Rupert Murdoch. Nominated among the top 10 sports people of the 20th century by the World Confederation of Sport, named Male Athlete of the Century in 1999 by the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Ranked the number one Australian Athlete of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated magazine with a bikini cover. Don in a bikini, obviously. Don in a bikini cover. Don in a bikini, obviously. Don in a set of spread.

In 2000, it was voted the greatest cricketer of the 20th century by Wizzes and Cricket Ormanack. This decision was unanimous amongst the 100 judges, which you can't get much more definitive than that. And it was nominated captain of the Australian cricket team of the century.

So a couple of little feats there. Wow. But I wanted to finish with a maybe a weird effect. Hopefully fun as well. Let's see what Jess says. I'm so excited for weird. What's he into? What's he into? Well, it's not that weird. I mean, it's pretty plain for weird, but it is, all I'd say what you think. He always wore fishnet under his cricket pants. And that actually meant that he had to wear baggy a cricket pants, which inspired a lot of other cricketers. According to an ABC article, Seddonald was a very careful driver. As he got older, he only wanted to make left turns,

so drove in concentric circles. He didn't drive around the block. He didn't mean to. If you turn left enough times, you'll get there. Why did you do that? That's funny. I don't Bradman. I wish that was it. They should be a new verse in the song. Turning left dead left dead left. Don't honestly. That's funny. That's a fun fact.

We left later on to the end of the Don Bradman report. Well done. Wow. What a journey. What a mammoth report and an end to, you know, it's bittersweet. It's an end to Gary Jay's 30 plus week long petitioning for this very topic. So I hope he's happy.

Yeah, it's funny. I mean, he did actually, he, there was some time, I normally would finish a biography report with all good things must come to an end. And of course, or good things must come to an end. And of course, all good things must come to an end. There was hope that he would finally make the hundred in life when he wasn't able to do that with his average. Oh, no. But he died.

I'm not a four. He again, he died at the age of 99.04. Oh, no. If he was alive for six more hours, he would have made it. No, he died in February of 2001, age 92. So he died in a pre-911 world. Wow. 92, that's a fucking good ending, so.

Yeah. He only knew how to score big. So yeah, that does bring us to the end of the episode. Should we get into everyone's favorite section of the show? I reckon. OK. Well, I think it's got a little jingle. It's called Fat Quotal Question.

The jingle goes. Fat Quotal Question. Ding. Yeah, he always remembers the ding. So the way this one works is if you support us at patreon.com slash do go on pod on the Sydney Shamburgs Luxememorial Edition level resting piece you get to give us a fact to quote or a question there's a heap of different rewards that you can get involved on and different prices at different levels bonus episodes we now do three bonus episodes a month

Dave's in charge of those this month. He's already done a mini report. Yeah, we did a report which was inspired by our episode a couple of weeks ago. I talked about the Bat Bomb and other weird World War II explosives, inspired by... And the nickname of Don Bradman. Oh, the Bat Bomb. Yes, that was inspired by us talking very briefly about anti-tank dogs. I want to talk about a few other animals that they tried to blow up in World War II to kill the enemy. And it was very, very strange story.

Truly stupid. And, yes, so there's things as the Facebook group, which is if you're in there, you would have seen this Don Bradman campaign. It's been going on for the best part of a year. But yes, for this section, it's the fact quote of question section. First up from Bronn Alde. And in brackets, yes, you can thank me all day.

Correct pronunciation. Oh, Bronn Alde. Thank you, Bronn. Oh, no, we always say Alde until then. That one one. And Bronn has given herself the title of do go on Quiz Team Scribe. I seldom know the answer, but have excellent penmanship.

So there's on the Facebook Patreon group, there's a weekly quiz put up by Thomas. And he, yeah, obviously Bronn is the scribe. So that's another fun little thing you can get involved in if you want to. That's not even an official, that's an official reward or whatever you call it. But that's just a frickin' sweet bonus. Whenever I'm in there, I'm like,

smarter people are handling this. I'll leave him to it. I'll leave him to it. I often come in late and go, I don't know any of these. They've already figured it out. Cool. I'll slink away. I'll go back out, hit a ball against the tank. Anyway, Bronn has asked us a question this week and the question is, my favorite dinosaur

is a Brontosaurus because it has my name in it. If you were a dinosaur, what sort of dinosaur would you be? Oh, David'saurus. Yeah, well you'd be daftosaurus if you're using the same, for the same formula. Okay. So I couldn't help you because I didn't know where you were going. I'd be a Matosaurus.

I think my favorite, I think it maybe is even hack my favorite dinosaur. Trotteratops. I'd be a flying one. Oh yeah, teradactyl. Yeah, be a teradactyl. I love to fly. Actually, that's not true. I don't like being on planes.

They scare me. But if I could fly... But if you were a plane. Yeah, because I like to be in control. So if I if I was some sort of creature that could fly, I'm in control of that, then I feel comfortable. You're both the plane and the pilot. Yes, yeah, I like driving on like the Great Ocean road. I love driving on acid, but I love driving the Great Ocean road on acid. If I'm like with friends driving on the grey ocean road, I have to drive because I have to be in control.

Yeah, otherwise you get sick and you're tummy. Sure. But I say it like that. It's really just more a control-free thing. Right. I know people who don't like those windy roads unless they're in control of the vehicle just because it makes them feel car sick. Yeah, get less car sickseek. Sure, that's that. That's just a good way of you getting out of looking like a control freak next time. Yeah, perfect. That's a

little life hack. So yeah, can I be a triceratops? I'm gonna be there's little ones that fuck up new man in Jurassic Park. Yeah. A spitt gack, is that them? Yeah, the raptors, wasn't it? They're raptors, but I've been told by someone who's and dinosaur enthusiasts, but that's not what raptors actually are. I can be wrong. I know. No, no, then you know, there's little ones. Yeah, they also called raptors. Yeah, So Velociraptors are different. Well, I mean, you are talking to a couple of dino spurts. So I think just take our answer for it. Yeah, just put me down for one of those. But I'm pretty sure, no, don't listen to me. And don't at me.

Thank you so much, Bron. Hopefully you also, I mean, Bronosaurs are great too. I love those ones that are kind of like dinosaur giraffes with the long necks. Yeah, they're cool. They're cool. And I think of Bronisaurus in that sort of thing. Dinosaur giraffes.

Ha ha ha ha. Thank you, Bron. The next one comes from Jordan, John Dernassee. And Jordan's given himself the title of Dave's Sugar Bowl expert and Union rep. I mean, Dave didn't know what a sugar bowl was. Still don't. That was fun. Jordan's given himself the title of Dave Sugarball expert and you in rep. And Dave didn't know what a sugarball was. Still don't. That's fun.

Oh, and if you want to see that happen in real time, you can now get a ticket to that episode. That first series of live streams was only up at the time. You could get a ticket and only it was only up for 24 hours. But stupid else you just have got it up in their new system now, so you can buy a ticket and have it as long as you like. And C Dave, C is face as he is confused by sugar bowls. Enjoy the position. You can go to sospresents.com.

And if you did buy a ticket back then, you should have got an email explaining to you how to access those again. Yeah. Anyway Jordan, aka Dave Sugarball expert in Union Rep has a fact and the fact looks longish. Let me read it. I have a few facts about Canada, Canadian hero and future report topic Terry Fox ran 5,373 kilometers on one leg raising over $25 million for cancer research. I mean, Jordan, it feels like we don't need to do a report now. Yeah, you've done it.

You've done it for us. My hometown, Calgary, go flames, Alberta, host of worlds largest stampede, has been doing so since 9-12. That's on my list of things to do. Yeah, one of my friends went a couple of years ago. I met some Calgaryans when I was traveling through the Greek islands. Many moons ago, 10 years ago, something actually. And yeah, I've got on really well with them. And I've been mainly to go visit a Calgary Sam Poverty.

I've never got a rancher, but that's why I go over the flames. And the penguins are the different storiesrows, because I was given a hat. So I have two hockey teams. We have six time zones in Canada, fun fact. Right, just that fun fact. That's pretty fun. We call Bini's Toaks or Tooks. Toaks.

Yeah, they were. Toak? Yeah, on Nathan for you, we was just talking about his Tuk. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Canada is negative 63 degrees Celsius. That's gold. That's too cold. Calgary is famous for its chinooks, a weather phenomenon that can raise the temperature by 10 degrees in a matter of minutes. The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883. minutes. The baseball glove was invented in Canter and 1883. The CN Tower in Toronto was the world's tallest free-standing structure until 2007. Ah, world's tallest free-standing

structure. That's fun. Whatever it means. The Canadian delicacy called Poutine is made up of fries, gravy and cheese curds. Yep. I've seen that around. I'm writing this on Canada Day, July 1st. I want to not too delayed on that. That's six weeks. Oh, final question. Have these facts been sufficiently fun, Jess?

They're pretty fun. I've been thinking for a while now about how many time zones we have. It's like four. I know of three. Western Australia, South Australia, slash Northern Territory, center time, and Eastern time. A South Australian Northern Territory, the same? Yeah. They're half an hour behind us.

And Western Australia is two hours behind us. And then it does get complicated when daylight savings happens because Queensland doesn't do it. So that sort of splits us into four. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, three. Half of Canada. That's crazy. Those are some fun facts.

That was a lot. Do you know that China has one? Yeah. I love that. Just consolidate. It won't make sense for everyone, but it makes sense for some of them. I know. What are they doing?

Some cities. It's like, this is perfect. Some of them, some of the cities must be like oh It's a it's dark it made the China's a big country. Do you know that about camp China? Yeah, it's real big isn't the day would it be the top five? I know that it's show is five Brazil for China Russia and no Canada USA and Russia yeah

Fun fact. Yes, was that fun? You rambling through it Going wait no, yes wait. I still don't think what I said was quite right, but anyway Catherine Clow Is chief optimist, what a fantastic person to have on board. Thank you, Catherine, for bringing the optimism. And a question this week, which is,

what is your ultimate dinner party, such barbecue, such picnic, such brunch of six, with no regard to Thomas Bayes, laugh or death, and obviously all catering, venue expense, and so on on is taken care of naturally. What do you mean? Those are all so different. Yeah, I guess it's a bit of a barbeque picnic. Are we doing all of them?

No, I think it's your pick and one. What's your ultimate? I mean, is this for all of us together? Maybe we each bring two guests. No, one guess cuz it's six we always get to bring one guest Jess you had a location Dave food and I'll bring decorations no music, okay Decoration We got a fucking big party at food food wise It's just cheese. Oh, yeah big spread nothing else not even biscuits or bread just cheese. Oh, yeah. Big spread. Nothing else, not even biscuits or bread, just cheese. So you some cheese is sort of like the,

it places the biscuit and then you put a piece of cheese on top of that and then dip it in like a soft cheese. Fonda. That sounds terrible. No, no. Why, you do, it could be anything and you've chosen just cheese, not even a nice grazing place or anything. Yeah, there's a place.

This is ultimate. You're a fucking idiot. Just cheese. Can we take you out of the equation? Let's bring two friends each. Did I miss a bit? Why are we bringing friends? What's that?

She said it's your ultimate dinner party blah blah blah of six. Oh, that's real us. I reckon I'm going to replace my friend What's that? That's what she said. It's your ultimate dinner party blah blah blah of six. Oh, that's real. I'm gonna replace my friend with a block of cheese. No, you're not invited anymore. Are you not taking this seriously? Because it's definitely been waiting for this dancer. Seriously.

No, I'm taking it very seriously. So seriously that if you don't agree to this, you will both die. So we can't even put the cheese on a cracker. No. Or on some bread. put the cheese on a cracker. No. Or on some bread. It's no room for the bread. Is the quince paste?

No. What the f- it's just fucking cheese. Like, spit every type of cheese. Name a cheese, it's there. I do like, I like some cheese. Is there a smoky cheddar? I like the monobicky. Sorry, sorry about that.

There's a smoky cheddar, yeah. I love some sun dried tomatoes and olives as well. I'm afraid no room. Why the fuck did you put David? I will never make this mistake again. I Really thought he would have brought something cool to the party, but I have cheese. Lot of it like he said I Made about this now. I don't know why I just want it to be cheese it's my dream all right I'm now Jess who can we bring who will have food with them I'm gonna bring I'm gonna bring Gordon Ramsay yeah I'm gonna bring mr. Biscuits mr. Biscuits always comes prepared. He's always got the goose. So I'm bringing Mr. Biscuits and the music is going to be foc or foc's truck music about

the favourite. Oh, don't, Brad. I wish Dave didn't fuck this up. This was going to be a fun, mind project and he fucked it. Well, how is this fucked up? You get to do it if you want it's not disrespectful. I pick whatever what I want it But you won't even let us have bickies. Yeah, well, I'm afraid that I do for you Allowing us to have bickies. Sorry. You'll have to sneak to the toilet. If you want bickies Well, I think we will be with a purely cheese diet. We'll be sneaking to the toilet quite a lot. Or never again, one of the two. Yes, real roll of the dice. I mean, I never go anywhere. I'm gentle. It doesn't go to the toilet. Yes, I could have picked eggs,

but I didn't. Well, yeah, all right. I do prefer cheese over eggs. Fuck me. What, what's the location, Jess? Oh, you should do it in a cracker factory. Oh, okay. Cause he's what I was originally thinking. And I don't even remember which city we were in. So, trying to follow me here. I might have been Bristol. Where was the one that we were staying on top of the bar

that was very noisy? Yeah, Bristol. Bristol. And we went, we found that cafe across the road, which was like used to be a bank, and the building was gorgeous, and it was really nice inside. Do you remember that?

Yeah, and it ended up being a chain. Yeah, and then we had it again another time. I was going to say there, because it was really nice, but then Dave ruined it by only bringing cheese. So yeah, I guess we'll move it to a biscuit factory. But if you have it there, we can just order other things.

Have it there. Oh yeah. Dave can sit there with his wee bowl of cheese. I'm excited. I'm an order of meal. I just understand that somebody, you guys might get on board with the cheese. I'm on board with cheese.

It's got a bowl. If it's accompanied by other things. I think that ruins the cheese. I'm on board with cheese. If it's accompanied by other things. I think that ruins the cheese. Don't I lead the cheese just? Can you please move on to the next track? I'm going to lose. Okay, you seem upset and with good reason. Thank you, Catherine, for that great question. I hope fully. Luckily, she is an optimist, so you'll be able to find something in that. And finally this week from Michael Derizi, pronounced, oh my god, he's given us the pronunciation, but with those squiggly lines, I don't know what they mean, what a squiggly lines over the ears

Derizae. Anyway, Michael has given himself the title of official one half neopolitan Italian of the pod sucked in Matt. I love, I love three flavor ice cream. That's great. Oh, what's your favorite of the three chocolate vanilla, then strawberry. You can have all the chocolate. As a child, I went the other way. I was a fool when I was a boy.

Strawberry vanilla then chocolate idiot. But yes you don't like chocolate ice cream? I don't like that chocolate ice cream. Yeah I mean all of those are bad. It's the worst vanilla worst strawberry worst chocolate. Yeah it's very bad. If you combine three different types of food though. Then I take chocolate vanilla strawberry. Yeah agreed. Michael has asked the question, have you guys seen Avatar the last airbender? Is that the question? That's the question.

He goes on to say some more stuff, but I've just seen that's a big, it's a no for me dog. It's a no for me. No for me too. Uh, he goes on to say, and do you guys agree that it's the best? Yes, I agree. That's a no for me. Well, it's a no for me, dog. Dave, you know what, you and I are fighting.

We both just said no. Yeah, but first, what do you love about that? I love him, there's fun. This is fun because it feels sort of real. The cheese thing, and now now it's a no from me dog. I'm pretending to be that guy from American Idol. Which guy? Why? I think he's saying Brandy. Brandy the puppet? See how does American auto? Yeah, he was early on.

That's fun. Anyway, Michael is seriously mad at himself for not watching this in his childhood and waiting until Corona locked down a binge. It's so good. It's a little hot tip from Michael. Okay, great. See, you can give it a go.

You can really use the fact quote-a-question for anything. And Michael's done it for a little hot tip there. And we appreciate that, Michael, thank you, Michael, Catherine Jordan, and Brian, if you want to get involved, go to patreon.com-sus2gonpod. Another thing we like to do is thank a few of our other Patreon supporters.

Just when we comes up with a little game based on today's episode, what are you reckonin' this week, Jess? For a second, I forgot what the topic was. Could we give them a sport they're the best in the world at? Yeah, but squash and cricket are taken. Yeah, agree. Squash and South Australia, that is.

So it's a sport that they're the Babe Ruth of. Oh, hang on. Put it in the terms I understand, Dave. Honestly, David, you are on thin ice, my friend. It's a sport that they're the dawn Bradman of creating jobs of. Okay, great. The sport they're the prime minister of. Honestly, Dave, that's two strikes, one more strike, and you're out. Like, Babe Ruth?

Oh, yeah, I guess so. I was thinking like working strikes and you know job creation. To it, let's do it. I'll go through first from, may I thank from Jarrow in time and we're great Britain Patrick Ward. Patrick Ward is the best in the world at figure skating.

Oh, that's a good one. Figure skating, I like that. Because I mean, I would be probably on the podium for that one as well. So it's good to have you up there with me, Patrick. You and me, two of the best. Is Patrick the Toeville End or Dean? Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Big time, I'm the Toeville, he's the Dean. Love it. Without knowing what that means. Hahaha. Well, thank you so much, Patrick. You figure scatter you. I'd also have to thank from place unknown, Jordan Roundtree.

Do these from the Bermuda Triangle? Or the F from the Bermuda Triangle? Oh, could be, could be for sure. I'm going to assume yes. And I reckon Jordan Ranchary is the Don Bradman of Thesaint plucking. A well-known sport. Yeah. Is Jordan fast or are they just they do oh he's one of the fastest Feasant pluckers out there You can't Like a

Feasant faster Jeez Almost felt me own trap there But I'm Jordan good work there. These are a live fesinsants and they're basically going in. He's like a barber for pheasants. They want that. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, yeah. Stylish. Uh-huh. Plucking. And finally, also from a mysterious location, I'd love to thank Achilla Talamasca. I've got the feeling that Achilla is the Don Bradman of building sandcastles.

Oh, that's a real, that's, I'll, it's something sort of impressive for that about that. People who build those huge sandwiches, especially because you're like, this is going to be gone soon. I reckon there's someone, something about that, you know, it's said something about, it's like a comment on life. Rather than contemporary art, it's just temporary. Yeah. Oh, that was very good. Thank you. I've been working as a poet while we're in ISO. I feel like you have a Don Bradman of poetry. Thank you. Yes. Dave, do you want to

think some people also? Oh, please. I'd like to thank from probably the greatest place in the world, Wabash Indiana. I'd like to thank Kyle, Ah, Haggity. Oh, Kyle, Haggity from Wabash. Wabash Indiana. And Kyle is the Don Bradman of scuba diving. Oh, yes. Kyle's been deeper than anyone's ever been. Yep.

It's not the people who've tried. I can't. I can't do it. Kyle does it easy. Love you work Kyle. I would like to thank now from Baton Rouge in Louisiana, Jodie Schgram. Jodie Shgram. Jodie Shgram.

Jodie Shgram. She's the world champion, sorry, the Don Bradman. Thank you. Tapping people on the opposite shoulder and making them think that you're on the other side of them and then they look over there, but you're really on the other side and they go, what, what? Jodie.

They've never been beaten. That's really good. Also, I mean, I started by actually naming a fucking sport. Which one did you name? Which one did you name? That was so cute. I thought you said figure skating. That's not real.

Yeah. Which one did you name? Figure skating. Anyway. I mean, they're both worlds. I just wish you guys would fill me in when you're going to do a joke. Oh.

Just give me a heads up that you're going to make a joke. I'm sorry. So I can prepare myself for the joke. Well, coming up next from Seattle, Washington, Stephanie Perkall is the Don Bradman of Cricket. Oh. Sorry, Jess didn't tell you I was gonna do a joke one. Just kidding, she's the Don Bradman of break dancing.

Oh. Whoa. Good on Stephanie. Great thing. She can do like this. She can do like this. That's cool. The twist on her head and like the freeze and like the worm or this, but like, really, wearing a helmet. Or is this like body line era? She gets her B-boys to spin her on her head.

Oh, wow. That's sick. That's so cool. Well done, Stephanie Perg. It's amazing that this run of supporters are all top of Perg. It's amazing that this run of supporters are all top of their game. It's amazing that they're the best in the world at this. Pretty incredible.

Is it my turn now too? Yes. Well, I would love to thank from South Africa. Is that Gorting? Yeah, wow, South Africa, this is cool. Beatrix Williams. Beatrix Williams. Beatrix Williams. What is Beatrix the world's Don Bradman of?

Man, say pottery. Oh, um, sculpture. Oh, the fuck are you? But the sculptures are pots. Fire, you're screaming. Oh. Get it, Beatrix Potter? Oh. I did not get that, but I Beatrix Potter. Oh, I did not get that, but I love it now.

Beatrix is a great name. I like it a lot. Beatrix works. It's not the only ones who can make jokes. Is that a, the country thing for South Africa? I would not guess that. Great work. Everyone concerned.

South Africa is getting a good mention in the report today. Mm, and I would also love to thank, thank you again to Beatrix. I would love to thank from Saint John, is I in Indiana? Yeah. Saint John Indiana, Kathleen Péonc. Oh, that's a ripper.

That's Péonc. That's sort of Hall of Fame level great name. Yeah, that's really pretty good. Kathleen Péonc, oh my God. That's that's sort of hall of fame level great name. Yeah, that's really good. Kathleen Payonk. Oh my god. That's so satisfying to say. Kathleen Payonk. Oh, I feel good about myself. And she's actually the best in the world. She's the dawn Bradman of glass blowing. Oh, wow. Love that. That's so good. What is it into any shape you want? You know, miss shape. You can do it. Doing colors, whatever.

It's crazy. It's crazy. Cue. No problem. Yon. Glass bottle. Last one. Last one.

You can do it. You can do glass bottles. Yeah, what's that business? Paiyong, pines, like glass pines. Oh, very good. Yeah. And finally, I would also love to thank from Livermore, California,

Corey Stewart. Oh, cows. The Corey Stewart is the Don Bradman of skill tester machines. Oh, good one. Can get any plush tour you want. Really? That's cool.

I reckon that that makes sense, because I'm very good at those as well. So I imagine that that's a skill that runs in the family. Yeah, that makes sense. That's how families work, as I understand it. Yeah, I think things run in them.

I mean, I don't even know why you're even bringing it up again, because that's definitely what happens. Anyway, thank you, Catherine. Not Catherine. So I take that back. There's no thanks to Catherine, but I do thank Corey and Kathleen and Beatrix and Stephanie and Jody and Kyle and Akila and Jordan and Patrick. Thank you all. That only leaves us with the most luxurious and what's a better word here? Fancy pants.

Exclusive club, the triptage club. And this is only accessible if you support us on the shout out level or above the three straight years. And each week we let in a few members, if there have been on for three years, Dave normally comes up with a band to play, Jess has a little ord herb and drink, and I have a quick look to see if anyone's on the guest list tonight. Well, why are you looking at the music tonight? You're not going to believe it. It's not just one musician tonight. We've got 40,000 musicians all playing the music to O O Don

Bray. 40,000. Anyone who bought a copy of the sheet music will be performing for us tonight. Wow. That's great. It's going to sound horrific, but it'll be very fun. Yeah, it'll be really good. Well, to accompany that while you're watching the 40,000 horrific musicians, we'll just have a selection of cheese. My dream. And just fucking cheese. I love, thank you so much for catering to us cheese lovers. And drink to go with it. Just like chocolate milk hot milk or something, a fucking hot chocolate and some cheese. I'll just say god some cheese loving demographic. Thank you. It's great to be finally recognized.

Well, there's a few members coming in and Dave normally welcomes them in. Jess lifts up the velvet rope. I read out the name. They run in. Dave gives them a little, just sort of like a little, a jujup, a little bit of a, you sort of that hype man. You get hyped on your way through. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Firstly, from San Antonio in Texas, it's Colin Spenrath. Oh, Spen, some time in here, rat. From La Mesa, California, it's Cameron Hidalgo. Hidalgo, we ain't messing around. Now you're here, my brother. All right. From Padstow in New South Wales. It's Jake vent Oh When you've been venting outside not having a good time, but inside you be having the best time

From bedford, Texas. It's Monica Marie Lopez Oh, they said Jenny from the block. We don't need her. We want Monica Who pairs from the block. We don't need her. We want Monica. Who pairs from the block? From... Holes, kitchen. Holes, kitchen, Bavaria. It's Maritz Ramuda. Maritz! Oh, kids, Maritz.

Great, same supporter, Maritz. He's from Holes, Kitchen. I'm pretty sure I say it in Holes, yes, Maritz. Great. Same supporter, Maritz. He's from Horses. He's from Horses. I'm pretty sure I sat in Horses, Kirch and when I was in Munshan for the Octova Fest. Love it. Putting on Maritz. And finally, from Monterey Park in California,

it's Jacob Giran or Kiran Did you say the same name twice one with the hard G one with the soft Jacob Kiran or Jacob Kiran Possibly did I never gonna grin you up all right everybody Okay, thanks so late tonight. He was on so late. It's so late. Everybody can have it. Okay, Dave was on tonight. It was on. It's so late. It's so late. It's so late here and we've lost our minds. Well, that brings us to the end of the episode.

We did it. Well done, Matt. Hey, thank you. Thanks for sticking with it. Dave, well done. Fucking be better next week. Why? You know what you did.

You hated on Adelaide and you hated on cheese. Your heart was full of hate tonight, mate. Adelaide is a real wine and cheese city too. And that's why I feel a connection to that place. Oh, fuck off. Much like Adelaide. I'm also a big red. Oh, it's not anything.

Adelaide. That's pretty good. Much like Adelaide. That's pretty good. That's a big red. Much like Adelaide, no one likes me. Oh, that's a bit rough, Jess. I know a few people who like her. Who? I do. I thought you were saying that in my voice

and I was trying to spit it onto you, but you were just being sad in it. And there's no fun when that's the case. Thought I was being hilarious. You've been very funny. Anyway, Dave wrapped this shit up. Oh, thank you so much for joining us for another week of Doogalon. We'll be back next week, but guess what?

In between now and then, you can check out our other episodes, our Patreon, our Facebook Twitter Instagram by going to doogalonpod.com and clicking on some links or going to at Doogalonpod on the aforementioned social medias it's all there we also have a youtube channel check out the videos our faces move hmm big time it's crazy very animated but apart from that we'll say thank you so much for joining us and until next time the good bye ladies bye Bye!

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