Test Match Special - No Balls: England 'solving problems' & we actually get some emails!

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

Kate Cross and Alex Hartley discuss everything we can take away from the Men's T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka. We look at discuss England's ability to 'solve problems' in an untypically 'crickety' conversation. Plus, Crossy talks us through the winter training programme at Lancashire after she signed a new one-year deal.

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But don't worry, we beep it out. See your kids can listen. And Grandma Jean. Now I'm celebrating for Crossie. That one was for Crossy. That was a beautiful delivery. The wobble ball again from Kate Cross. And that is such an important wicket.

crossing for the Hattrick ball. Oh, it's so wide. Hello. What I was going? I said let's do it together, so you don't know who it is. Oh, okay. Three, two, one. Hello.

Welcome back to Noah Balls and Griggin' podcast with me, Alex Hartley, and you, Kate Cross. We didn't know because it's been forever, because we last recorded, I feel, about three years ago. Yeah. Do you remember that Valentine's episode? episode that we did. Do you remember it? No, because it was way before Valentine's Day, but happy Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentine's, happy pancake day, everyone. I'm quoted that not more people message me saying happy pancake day because everyone knows it's my favourite holiday. So much so. You message. Two days or two pancakes? Two days. Two days.

Oh, I did know like, because you text me and you're like, because why not? Well, I text you saying, how good's being an adult. You don't have to wait for the holiday to come around. So I had Pancake Day and then Pancake Boxing Day, effectively. Yeah, and how good is it that you're not really playing for him? So who cares. Perfect. So good.

Shout out to Matching, because we've not managed to get, we had a bit of a shocker, didn't we? The video in the studio didn't work. So we didn't have anything to put out about Matching's episode and the Love Doctor, but he was so perfect for that role. And we got some messages saying how good the episode was. So thank you, Matching Dendulcher. for coming on and being a wonderful guest. The love doctor.

The love doctor. I wonder if he's been aware to book an Airbnb since then. Well, that's true. I was going to say, how was your Valentine's Day? What did I do? I was with Hen. Hen two fingers for anyone playing the drinking game. We were in Copenhagen.

We did a lot of walking. We went to the Carlsberg factory. That's what we did, because I did not know that that's where Carlsberg originates from. Okay. And then Hen got food poisoning that night. So that was perfect. Yeah, you did message when you were like, I'm having a lovely time, but hence not. I felt so sorry for them, so sorry.

It was like, bad, bad. But anyway, we won't talk about that on the pod because it's not fair. How was yours? I worked. I did, what did we want? Island O Man, maybe. The big one. The big one.

The one everybody wanted. I actually got back to a rose. And I was like, oh my God. Like he's done something I was like this is really nice So I message saying Thank you so much for my rose And he put ha ha ha wasn't me

Oh who was it Do we know The hotel gave every room a rose Of course So then he came in the room Like an hour after me Because I got back early And he brought me the same bag

That was on the door It was like Happy Valentine's Day I was like You've just nicked that off next door Oh no Oh dear Yeah

Yeah So that's okay. Well, we hope everyone had lovely Valentine's days. We've got Easternex, so that's good. It's mini egg season. Like the perfect season. The best season. How have you been?

What have you been up to? I feel like we've kind of boycotted this World Cup because we have the Valentine's episode ready to go. I know. We've not really done any cricket for a little bit. I've been good and so is Karen. Karen being Karen on the end of my nose because she just won't.

This is the spot that you keep putting on Instagram, yeah. It's not. Do you know what? I just put it. on thinking like, you know, like it'll be funny. I reckon I've had about a thousand messages being like, how's the spot, how's a spot, how's a spot? I can still see it.

You can still see it. That is one of the biggest things I've ever seen. More like a boil than it is a spot. I know. And it's one of those where like you have to pop it because it's a massive whitehead. You can't leave it. You can't leave it because everyone then thinks you don't shower and you're a bit grubby. So you pop it and I've popped it that.

many times. I've now got a hole in my nose. Yeah. But when I shower, the scab comes off and it's still a white head. It's not a good one. You don't deserve that. I know. My mum text me saying, you don't need any headlights leaving the ground tomorrow, do you? It's like, thanks, mum.

Cheers, mum. Nothing like your mum to make you feel better. I know. She said it's all the badness coming out of you. I'm like, what do you mean? Badness. Right. That's definitely not getting to that. But other than that, I am Van Davidozi. I'm having the best time. Good. You're still in Sri Lanka?

Still in Sri Lanka. We've moved from Colombo. Well, no one will know, actually. Started in Colombo for the first 10 days in the conference. And then now we're in Candy. And then we're doing England's games now because England's got through to Super 8. They're here. We're doing England's games. And then go back to Colombo in a few days' time. I can't hear Candy without hearing then Robbie Williams' song. I can't. I can't. I went to a guy called Candy Man and got some rings made, so I can't listen to the thing going, sweet sugar, Candy Man.

No, that's not. This is one I get. Banga. That goes over the head every time. Does it? Yeah, so I'm in candy. Or as Dan introduced it on air the other day, Canada. Hello and well.

Welcome for the Palateli International Cricket Stadium in Canada. Greenland's first game in the... Yeah, there's not been many World Cup games played in Canada in this edition. And I was like, on air, and I was like, did he just say Canada? Did he say welcome back to Canada? Oh. Yeah. Had he been on the line?

No, it was a game. Does that stop the commentators? We're moving swiftly on. How are you? have you been more even up to? Yeah, I'm good, thank you. We've just had a little deal-load week, which has been so welcome. So, oh my gosh, since, yeah, we won't have spoke about this on the pod. It's been announced that I've signed with Lanks. Obviously, people have probably guessed it or had guessed it, but I've been training with Lank since, like,

January, so after Christmas, I came back in, started doing some cricket, and then it got announced last week, maybe, so officially one more year, hashtag one more year. hashtag we go again. One more year. Scott Reid messaged me when it went out because Scott's our BBC Lanks correspondent and he was down in Southampton when we won the 50 overcom last year

and he was like, are you going to have another year? And I don't know. And he messaged me as soon as the news came out just with capital letters, one more year. So I was like, this is be you, Scott. This is for you.

Okay, so now we can talk about it And I did actually, I accidentally mention it on the pod, which went out live, but it's fine. How are you finding it? Different. Winter trainings. I'll probably sound a bit like a bit like a bit talking like this, but I've never done a full winter. And I've never had to be too far away from playing competitive cricket, because obviously you just tore through the winter and play a lot.

So, like, I got to maybe my third or fourth week of bowling. And I was like, okay, I'm ready now. feel like I could play a game. Not in terms of like workloads and stuff. I probably would break down and get injured. But I was like, okay, I feel like I'm in rhythm. And I was like, oh, we're three months away from our first fixture. What do I do now?

So yeah, it's been a bit different. Yeah. It's an adjustment, isn't it? Mm. Because the next England tour is always just around the corner. And your next tour is now still a block away. Yeah, and we're going on pre-season tour next month So we've got like three weeks till we go away

So there's that to look forward to But the other thing when you tour with England And play international cricket is generally you've only got Three or four games in the tour And obviously when I wasn't playing T20 cricket for England It would be like I'd drop in for three one dayers And then that had kind of be the tour done Or however we've structured the tour

Whereas now it's like Okay, in two months' time I've got 38 games to get through. How many? 38 and something like that. If you think of the 100 and the Bond A Cup and the FAA Cup and the T20 blasts. So I'm then like, whoa, this is really different to prepare for. Is this where you go, I know I've been dropped from England,

but I should get a pay rise. I'm going to play more. Yeah, I'm playing more cricket now. But it has been really nice to be around Lanks consistently. I've really enjoyed that. And I've loved, like, spending more time with some of the younger girls and getting to know them a bit more. Because naturally, when you come back in, like, I've got my mates in the Lanks team that you gravitate towards. But I feel like it's been really nice to kind of get to know everyone in the hard bits of, you know, like, winter's pretty gruesome in a way.

And, like, you see everyone cry. Yeah, you get to the track and you see a few people vomit. And you're like, oh, okay, right. Yeah, this is, oh, it's like trauma bonding almost. Yeah, you did message me the other day and you were like, two people have been sick. four people didn't finish the session and I split my pants. I was like, how tough could it run his session be? It was a bad day.

Really bad day. So yeah, no, it's been, like I said, it's just been different, but it's, it has been, it's had enjoyable moments, but I'm not, I'm really not convinced they'll be able to do another winter. And that's, that's me talking in February before the seasons even started. That's okay. That's okay. We'll see.

Because you are of an age where, let's just say you play the summer and you enjoy the summer, you necessarily wouldn't need to do the full winter. And I know what you're like and I know you'll say, well, I can't not give 100%. Like, well, you've earned to be able to not give 100%. And you're going to be different to everyone else is 100% now. And I guess there's a world where I could just do like the blast or, you know, maybe sign a contract that I don't know. No, this is the stuff where I'm like, in my head it's 100% or nothing. Like your specialist, all right, Saki.

T's only specialist. I've never got any games for England, but here she comes at the ripe old age, 39. Perfect. You and Glenn Maxwell. But back to the original question, it's been good. It's been, so we had the delode week last week, which was nice, did Copenhagen with Ham, which was nice. And then just been trying to catch up on sleep because the body, ooh, the body's feeling the six-week block. Yeah, you said to me, you were like, I don't.

I don't know what's wrong with me, but I'm always tired. I was like, I think that's part of being an adult. And it being like dark depths of winter, it's February. It's the worst month, isn't it? Well, yeah, it is actually the worst month. Spring next month. I just drove back actually, drove back from Old Trafford from training, and there's tulips on the roundabout, so we get in there.

It's nearly spring. Is it dark? Is it light? What time are we on? It's light now and it's, what time is it? 10 to 4, so that's good. Okay. Okay, well, I'm obviously lucky enough for the fact that I've,

missed the whole winter. Yep. Perfect. And I cannot, cannot wait to get help. Oh, bless you. Have you got anything on your sticky note? No, check before. I've got one thing, and it's quite cricket.

Well, it's a big, big cricket thing, actually. I learn a new rule because of this men's walk up. Oh, for goodness, take. I didn't know. And I think there'll be a lot of people out. out here. So if there is, please back me up, get in touch on social media and email us. I didn't know that the non-striker could stand on the side of the stumps that the bowler's bowling from. Yeah. I thought you always had to stand on the opposite side. So if I came over

the wicket, that has to stand on, like, round the wicket. I didn't realize. And then someone from the USA was just stood on the same side as the bowler. I didn't know. He was on the other wicket, wasn't he? So you've got to be like, you've got to be out of the way. out the way. Yeah. I just never knew that. I've just never seen it. It's always been on the opposite side.

It's because people are always so polite. But I think people that don't do it, don't do it because they like to, they prefer to turn a certain way, if that makes sense. But would that not just depend on which way outside the ball goes? No. I don't know. Well, it would because that's how you turn blind.

Yeah. It doesn't matter where you stand on the pitch. Oh, well, the reason why people swap over now is the same. stand closer to the stumps for the LBWs to help their team get out. Well, you say that the reason that people do it now, as if it was a massive fad that people never did it. It's never been seen before. This was the first time in my adult cricketing life that I've seen this happen.

It has been seen before. Not often. It's not a common thing to stand on the same side. Because you were like, oh my God, I never knew this rule. I was like, what rule? You just send me a picture. I was like, yeah, what's the rule? Yeah, never knew.

I bet I'm not alone in this one. It's not like you and the sight screen. Oh, actually, you had a lot of people back you up on that one as well. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was on my sticking out, so there you go. No, it's fair. Every day's a school day. It's fair.

What if I learned in this World Cup? I've learned so far that pre-super 8s, the games have been better than the Super 8. Agreed. I've loved this World Cup. I think it's been one of the best editions that I've seen. So good. Yesterday we had England, Sri Lanka, a crap game. Then we had South Africa, India.

Saraka beat in India How Good Crap game And then now we've got West Indies We've just got 250 against Zimbabwe Do you think there's an element of like fatigue coming in now? Ooh, good question I think no

Do you know what I think it is Everybody has a rubbish game in a tournament And nobody's had one yet That's true It has felt like I've not, I must admit I've watched enough Because there's three games a day

It's brilliant But I've watched enough of the tournament But I've not watched it all But it's felt like every game has been close or like been pushed to the... And normally you don't get that a lot in men's cricket. I don't know why.

It feels like you get it more so in the women's game. But yeah, it felt like a really good entertaining tournament. It has been good. And the best thing for us is... I know it's on all day for you, but it's literally on all day for us as well. It's like, okay, we're doing the 3pm game. If we rush home, we can get back for the 7 o'clock game.

Yeah. It's literally 9.30 in the morning here. 1.30. I think there's one before that as well. Yeah. 5.30. There you go. This is not the future we were promised.

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wherever you get your podcasts. So has it been being over there because obviously you've been commentating on a lot of it and you've seen a lot of the... Well good. Well good. Like, right, okay. So I did the Women's World Cup

into the ashes into this? I thought I'm going to be so tired and so mentally like over cricket. I've had the best time. Good. But genuinely the best time. We did 10 games in 11 days and I was like,

that's going to be really, really tough. Like nine days on the bounce day off, another day. But because the games have been, like 3pm or 7pm, it felt like I had a day off on the 7pm games, if that makes sense. I saw mum and dad. I like, they came out on a holiday. Like, I've just had such an amazing time.

Now can you talk about the cricket? Yeah, the cricket's been good. Nice. So we had all the games here in Clumber, obviously, Pakistan, Oman, Ireland. But did you have the Zimbabwey Australia upset? Yes. and we had the Australia-S Sri Lanka upset. That was a great game.

Crossy, we've not even spoken about Australia, but I've stopped out. I know, because you're talking about your mum and dad on holiday. Yeah, well cute. Well, cute. So, yeah, we had the group that was like, when you looked at it, it was like setting stone, Australia would finish top, Sri Lanka second.

Anyway, Zimbabwe finished top. They go through and beaten. Sri Lanka finished second. Australia are out, Ireland are out, a man are out. That's fine. We expected that. The bottom two.

Australia, mental. They had the bad game early, didn't they? So they had the bad game against Zimbabwe. Yeah. And then they had a, I don't think they had a particularly bad game against Sri Lanka, but I thought Sri Lanka had an excellent game. Yeah, and then they played Ireland and obviously won in a game that Ireland were never expecting to win, Australia were always expecting to win.

And they hammered Ireland, to be fair. And then it was just like, oh, okay, we'll see what happens in the next game. And they lost to Zimbabwe and it was utterly wild. Yeah. But they've never beat Zimbabwe or they haven't beat Zimbabwe in a T20 game, World Cup game for like 18 years or something. I know they've only played them twice or something. They've played them twice and lost both.

Yeah. But how funny what's that? I know. And then obviously Zimbabwe now in the Super Bowl, and getting hammered by West Indies as we speak. But I think West Indies have got this game in them where they can score 250 against any attack. Like, they batted so well against England, didn't they?

West Indies and Zimbabwe, for me, are the only two teams that have actually shown up in this competition. Yeah. Like, everyone else is like... And Sri Lanka, I think Sri Lanka have had a good tournament. Yeah, they didn't play well against England yesterday, but... But they've had their bad game now. They've had their bad game.

And I think, like, those three teams are the three that have gone, okay, we'll play well, and everyone else has gone, we'll just get by. Yeah. It's been a... I wonder what it is about... I wonder what it is about World Cup cricket where you have a bad game, or is it our narrative as fans that if, like, in the ashes,

England had a few bad games and then they beat Australia. But I wonder if it looks more like a bad game because it's tournament cricket? Yeah. I don't know. Do you know what I'm trying to say? I think also we expect 200 runs scored, don't we? Like, as fans who watch a lot of cricket and a lot of franchise cricket, where we used to see in those scores.

And then you play on a wicket where it's a bit slower, it's a bit lower, there's more in it for the bowlers. Those like 150s look worse than they are. Yeah. I've really enjoyed England in this tournament. I know they've not been like Firework England, but I've loved them like, feels like the problem solving a little bit,

which is sometimes what they don't necessarily get the credit for doing. They are finding ways to win, aren't they? And I sent this yesterday, like on air. tournament cricket isn't about dominating. It's about finding ways to win and getting that winning momentum because if you win games, you find ways to win. And if you lose games, you often find ways to lose.

Yeah. England is finding ways to win. And I think Harry made me laugh at one of Harry Brooks interviews where it was early on. I think it was when they'd beat or lost to the West Indies and he was like, thank God we've beaten Nepal now because that would have put us in a tricky situation. And you know what Harry's like?

He just says what's on. and it's really honest. But that's almost tournament cricket summed up because it is that. It's like, thank God we beat them in that position because now we've given ourselves a better chance to get through, which is actually all that matters. Yeah, it's also so different as well, like going from India to Sri Lanka. So Sri Lanka have got the two biggest grounds in Colombo and actually probably the third biggest ground here.

I don't actually know how big candy is, sweet sugar candy man. Don't know how big it is. But India, the grounds are so small, postage stamps. the wickets don't turn, they're flat, and then you come to Sri Lanka and they turn, they don't really bounce as much, there's more in it for a bowler. So for a team for England in particular,

that have played their games in India and then had to come over here to adapt, I think they did pretty well the other day. Did you see Josh Butler got some stick off someone on Twitter for doing his podcast? And someone tweeted, I can't think who it was, saying I'm not sure how I feel about someone doing a podcast mid-world cup.

Were you like, why I always stopped? No, I was like, hang on a minute. This lad who's clearly like out of form is giving us an insight into how he's feeling, what he's going through, what his thought processes are when it's tough. Because it's so easy to do the interviews when it's going well, which is like incredible. And he's still getting stick for it. I'm like, what do you want?

You can't do right for doing wrong. You want the inside info and then you get it and you don't want it. It's mad. Mad. Apart from cricket, anything else for us? I think we've got a few emails which feels unusual. Whoa, who we're going upstairs with? I don't know who's been umpiring at this World Cup.

Can I, um, before we go upstairs? My brother thought I did a new job today. And he listens to your pod. He works in the police. How cool. Yeah, well, cool. I'm so happy. I'm so excited to see how his first day was.

Good work, Will. Yes. Right. E-Nails, who we're going upstairs with? Do you know what? We can't beat Kumar, can we? Because I love his little Instagram pictures. So fun for anyone.

Anyone that doesn't follow Kumar Sangha Kama on Instagram. Go and get that man followed. Do you know Kama? Kuma. Sorry? Kuma Sangha Korra is the cricketer. Oh, she. Kuma Damasina.

That was it. Sorry, Kuma. Sangha Gara. Kuma Damascina, you need to follow him on Instagram. He's such as if he could follow. And he's got his own perfume range. He has. I don't really want to smell it.

But then I don't want to get too close to him and be like... Do you think he wears his own? Has to. Has to. We need to get him on as a guest. No. But we're Kumar. Hi, Kate and Alex.

From a long-term listener down under, I hope you well. I was watching the war cook the other day when someone on Fox Sport briefly referred to Nambia before correcting themselves, I immediately got a flashback to the early days of nobles, pre-BBC, I believe, in the era of Chelsea Zoo, LBWs, lower. Oh my God, what a throw about lower is, and peaks and troughs of the week, vintage stuff.

And at the start of each match, I'm willing someone to say, Toinkoss, but sadly it hasn't happened yet. Take cake, Steve. P.S. When Alex and Steve Finn were on the comms during the, the COVID Men's Ashes Tour, it was gold. Some of the best TMS I've ever heard, bring it back.

Do you know what? I feel like everything we used to do used to be so much fun. I know. I think it was because we didn't get edited out when you make mistakes. We wouldn't edit them out. For anyone that doesn't know, Lower, that was a highlight, wasn't it? That was you reading out. Some person was from Iowa, and their I was obviously a capital line.

And you were like, I've never heard of Lower. When's Lower? I don't know what was better that or the manhole episode The manhole is good If you can go back and find these Because they are gold Anyway I do love a toynecos Toincos

So good Hello and welcome to the ToinCoss Oh no I've done it again Done it again Done it again Yeah anyway who is that from Steve Take Cake? That was from Steve

Take Cake Do you think Steve's dyslexic as well Or do you think he's purposely misspelling things No he's done that on purpose I think that's the irony of that bit Yeah Hi Alex and Kate So Alex's boyfriend is a cricketer at the World Cup,

but not for England. For her sake, I hope it's not Mitch March. Hey, we need to get Mitch on now, no balls. Yeah. Keep up the good work, playing coaching, commentated and making the podcast Bernie. I'll tell you what, the amount of people who messaged me trying to guess who it was was hilarious.

Has anyone got it right? No one's got it right. I even put him on my Instagram story and someone said, I thought you said your boyfriend was playing in the World Cup. Who is this? I'm lucky. You did soft launch slash hard launching,

but like different angles of different body parts, which I was like, what on earth you doing? Just put a picture up of the bloke. No. Funny. Dear Kate and Alex, we've had a women's softball cricket team

at our club for three years now, and this year we're launching our first women's 11 squad and playing in a hardball league for the first time. What advice do you have for us, but not about our game, about the other stuff. I'm talking about the stuff that no one tells you about the stuff that you won't find written anywhere

like wear your biggest pants or don't get the Velcro on your thigh gardener, your bikini line that kind of invaluable advice that you only get from years of playing spill, love the pod from Fiona. Right. Fiona, if you're wearing skins

do not, do not wear a thong because your asshole will chafe. That's what you learn. Mine doesn't but yep. You don't wear a thong though. You don't wear any pants. Have you gone back to the thong? Yeah.

Why did you go back to the seat? This is the conversation. Why did you go back to the phone? Because I found a better thong basically. Mm-hmm. Like a sporty one that doesn't chafe or ruff. So maybe I was wearing like lacy ones. Oh gosh, do not wear that.

Don't wear lacy underwear to play cricket. No. I was wearing like my Ansomers special. You know, England versus India, third ODI. They were not Ansommers. They were Bow Avenue and you know it. I couldn't afford Anne Summers. What would be mine? No-one tells you advice.

I don't think your thigh gardener, your bikini line's an issue, unless it's been a while, in which case, look after yourself a bit more. Different women of different ages. Some people have a bush. Okay, actually, my genuine advice would be always have spare skins, spare underwear, and spare sports bra in your bag. Mm-hmm. Because there's been so many, or there was so many times where I was like, oh, God, I feel grim and I've sweated because I've bowled

and I just want to feel clean and, you know, like shower mid-game or whatever. That would be my advice. Okay. Never did that. And socks, spare socks, always a good one. You say spare socks, I'd probably wear mine for two games in a row. I just give them the... Yeah.

Remember when you were saying people don't think that you wash because you've got a spot in your nose. Hi, Al and Crossy. Quick question. Some podcasts do live shows and tours across the country. I know you're both mega busy, but is it something you'd ever think of doing? I imagine it would be funny with good cricket banter. Cheers Ryan.

We've dipped our toe, haven't we? Oh. We did a few ashes, 2023, and we did... Do we do another one? No, they were during the ashes, because we weren't allowed to taunting during the ashes as well. Problem is, we got your dad as a guest. Oh, God, yeah.

That was live on the radio as well. We're live on the radio and he had to be emergency taken off. His emergency exited. Oh, God, that was such a low light. Of the whole podcast, that was a real low light. I had second-hand embarrassment. Well, it's quite a funny. We do keep, we always talk about it.

It's just getting the time to do it, isn't it? I think while I'm still playing cricket, it's borderline impossible. But I would, I do think we could do a little arena tour. Not arena. A little cricket. Library. Library tour. Yeah. Yeah. Well,

costly, the podcast is impossible while you're playing cricket. It's not impossible. We make it work. We do make it work. That's all our emails. That is all our emails. Thanks for getting in touch, though.

It's nice to have emails again. So Ryan, Fiona, Bernie and Steve, you get all the points this week. You get a high five. Nice. So what have you got next? End of Super 8s and then into the finals. Semifinals and finals.

wherever they may be. We don't know where they are yet because if Pakistan qualify, they're obviously in Sri Lanka. If they don't qualify, all the semifinals and finals will go to India. We've got two remaining England games,

one tomorrow, today, yesterday. Tomorrow, whenever. Yeah. And then one on Friday. God, I'm good. And then, yeah, we see. Nice, exciting. Well, good luck to England.

I feel like, come on the boys. That'd be lovely. If they could pick a nice trophy up on the way. It would be good. Can't lie, we're all Pakistan fans because we want Pakistan to get through so we can stay in Colombia. Okay, but that still means that England can qualify and win. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice.

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It's really strict. But then the more of those about it. No. Thorngon. What are you about? Sports Strangers Crimes presents Confessions of a Super Bowl streaker. Listen on BBC sounds. This is not the future we were promised.

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