The off season unhinged podding continues in what was easily the most ridiculous recording I've ever done, I investigate the online trolling of a notorious troll of mine by a group calling themselves 'The Chris Thomas Council'. We hear from their leader.

I've moved on promptly from England and set my sights on Pakistan via Big Baby Babar The Elephant in The CricTok League, just in time for our tour of Pakistan and the T20 World Cup.

But stick around for the grand finale, as I've vlogged my first step in my health journey I'll be sharing with you all and it was deeply disturbing. I've had the swimmers checked and been given the failed German Artist as my material to extract the sample.

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The 28 Report: The book of moron with Harry Brook, a cure for exercise donk, and Adam Zampa lifts the lid on the enigma that is Travis Lasagna Gilmore Head

Why I love Test cricket, the politicisation trap trying to kill our shared moments, and how Love Actually is actually a dangerous terrorist movie but also test cricket.

It's been quite the summer, I've been... busy? So I think it's worthy of a quick check in in the wake of Englands Ashes utter capitulation and attempt to explain how it all looked through my eyes.

It's Mean Girls, it's KFC food court dackings, it's pure. I've missed you all. Enjoy the rant.

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We finally got him! After months of "ducking" each other, we sat down with Australia's most polarising and misunderstood boxer Michael Zerafa for an unfiltered conversation recorded literally inside the ring at his 13 Rounds Boxing Gym between training sessions.

Fresh off his clinical first round TKO dismantling of Mikey Dahlman in Sydney last month, where he captured the WBO Inter Continental Middleweight title in under two minutes, Zerafa let's us in on who he really is. From sending a MySpace message to Anthony Mundine at 15 years old promising to end his career (and then actually doing it), to his thoughts on rivals' eating habits, to the deeper misunderstandings that have shaped his public persona, Zerafa holds nothing back.

Vedran and I discovered someone who's as willing to go to war for people who show him the respect he very clearly shows others (ourselves included) as he is unforgiving to those who cross him. Maybe we're similar in that sense.

You'll see a funny, insightful bloke who's developed some seriously interesting perspectives through a career of hard work, controversy, and an unwavering belief in himself that I think most people just don't understand.

With his upcoming training camp against Nikita Tszyu on the horizon (which we'll be documenting), this conversation captures Zerafa exactly where he is: still hungry, still confident, still completely himself. In his own words: "The best of Michael Zerafa is still to come".

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Disclaimer: The recorder glitched right at the end, apologies for the 2 minutes of slightly sketchy audio, if its unforgivable please leave a 5 star review and let me know about it.

By what we all agreed was divine intervention, Jackson Warne joined us in studio for episode (wait for it) '23'.

Jackson and The Warne family are family to us, and as Jacko embarks on his new podcast project Warnes Way, we thought what better time to finally sit down for a yarn and share some stories. This was a genuinely great chat, Jackson shared many stories about his Father, Shane, while opening up about an array of personal reflections and topics.

You'll love this episode, I don't want to ruin it for you. Enjoy the show.

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This week we sit down with Ash Wicks, co-host of the hugely popular Two Doting Dads podcast. Ash has built a dedicated following by sharing the unfiltered reality of modern parenting – the sleepless nights, milestone moments, and everything that happens between.

Between the laughs, Ash opens up about his experience with postnatal depression, while I share something I've kept private until now – how an early miscarriage affected me and ultimately drove my desire to have this conversation with Ash today. You'll notice I'm more jumpy than usual, nervously laughing, qualifying my words before I've even said them and struggling to get my words out from start to finish – this is something that stress does to me often, but it felt important to leave it as it was.

Whether you're navigating parenthood yourself or have faced similar challenges, I hope this conversation adds something valuable to your day.

Ash is above all else a bloody fantastic bloke willing to take himself to very vulnerable places if it might help someone listening who might be going through something similar.

Hopefully it's a good listen despite my nerves getting the better of me - I really enjoyed it.

In one of our most thought-provoking episodes yet, I sit down with former Olympic swimmer and more importantly: FRIEND OF THE SHOW-James Magnussen for a conversation that's been years in the making. When I reached out to James to say G'day, he casually drops that he's been following my covert faceless ramblings as 'the28yearoldmale' for years. So naturally, we figured it was about time to have a proper chat.

James is knee-deep in what might be the most controversial thing to happen to competitive sport since someone decided drug testing was a good idea: the Enhanced Games. Think Olympics, but athletes can legally juice up with steroids, peptides, and whatever other performance-enhancing goodies science has cooked up. Before you start picturing roided out monsters smashing in stringer singlets, James breaks down the surprisingly rigorous medical oversight that keeps this whole experiment from turning into unethical madness.

We get right into the weeds with it all, and James—who competed clean at the Olympics—makes some bloody compelling arguments about how enhanced competition might actually save traditional sport from itself. His take on where Olympic sports are currently failing to keep people interested are refreshingly brutal and probably overdue.

James was honest about the existential crisis that hits the majority of athletes when their Olympic dreams wrap up, the weird business of finding purpose after spending your entire life chasing the clock without much to show for it financially, and why he's chosen to poke the entire sporting establishment with a very sharp stick.

It's the kind of conversation that starts with performance enhancement and somehow ends up dissecting what it means to push human limits—both physical and societal. James doesn't dodge the hard questions what so ever, wasn't afraid to have a laugh at his own expense and probably solved world peace in there somewhere too.

A bloody interesting chat with a great bloke, hope you enjoy the listen

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