The Blocked Content Podcast

Part 1: Pregame and First QuarterIf Hanif Abdurraqib isn't the best working writer right now then I'm not here

Not even if there's a fire.

I'm not afraid to say it but I've been swept up in one of the best selling fantasy series of all time and I don't care who knows it

Moving away from the rugba leeg and into The League, with Kirk Goldsberry's seminal work

In this week's Bookpod I'm talking Wayne Bennett's Man in the Mirror - a 2008 autobiography published following the 21st and final year of Bennett's first stint at the helm of the Broncos. An odd book with an audience that Wayne doesn't necessarily seem interested in speaking to.

It's the off-season, that means it's time to get through that huge chunk of footy books lying around, and to start with, it's the book that has sat in the corner of my mind for my entire life

YEE-HA!

Thanks to Billy for joining me on this episode, and if you have a take and a dream, all you need is a wifi and to DM me.

The NBA is back!

In advance of the season, let's test out how all this equipment works and see how low confidence I am on my own

It's the last episode of still the last for the rugby league season, and we go down swinging on some of the worst infrastructure in the country, Accor stadium

Joining me on this comeback edition of the Blocked Content Podcast (ball edition) is Will from Junior Senior 2 views. You can find Will and his show here, and I encourage you to check them out: https://open.spotify.com/show/7voVx0TyDsfkrK24f2sk9S?si=e126ef88c1584f68

With a single game left in the rugby league season, let's spent 45 minutes talking about a guy wihtout a job

PLUS: We are Lions fans, and the Youth Olympics

Discussing everything that happened in the first week of the finals plus, for some reason, the 2025 origin

We recorded this before the debate but my god I wish we hadn't - THEY'RE EATING THE DAWGS

PLUS educating Dave and Izaak in takeology

Who knew there was a rugby league hall of fame?

What a week, huh? Did you know that Stephen Curry is the greatest shooter of all time? I'm sorry that, for another week, I've not found an opportunity to do my RFK Jr impression, I'm going to try again next week.

Whoops sorry we mostly watched Lympics this week. Podcast NOT brought to you by Pizzeria Sicily.

How good is Lympics?

I forgot to mention Manchester by the Sea as a movie to cry to but my god that film completely ruins me. Michelle Williams' "do you want to get lunch some time" is the single most innocous yet destructive line of dialogue

I've not read anyore of God Emperor of Dune since two podcasts ago, I felt like I needed something to disrupt the sameness of the narrative after only reading the first three books, so I picked up Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson, which is a great and really easy read. Some people recommend that book as a good leadership/mentoring type read but I just like it for the Jordan stories.

David is back from his undisclosed mission to help save a man whose identity we cannot mention

I haven't got much further in God Emperor of Dune this week, sorry.

I've hit somewhat of a snag reading God Empeor of Dune. I am enjoying the narrative and I find Leto II a really interesting characters, with Herbert dialling up the introspection and making a very weird guy if not understandable, at least interesting, but I find that now, four books into the series, I would prefer a story that isn't about everyone trying to assassinate the Atreides. Bit of Fremen conquest maybe?? Oh yeah Tyronne Thomas joins us for this episode too.

Dune update: I'm about 100 pages into God Emperor of Dune and I'm enjoying it. It feels like Herbert is trying to write another version of Dune Messiah but this time do it properly. It's immediately obvious that the writing is much more polished in this one, and the time jump so far is working for me.

I just finished reading Children of Dune last night, which means I get to read God Emperor of Dune now which everyone says is good but wow Dune Messiah and Children of Dune are such a drop in quality aren't they? Like Messiah feels like a first draft the entire time, and while the tone of Children matches the first Dune, Herbert's attempt to reintroduce the wide scope of characters and stories it just doesn't really hit in that narrative does it? Anyway - rugba leeg.

Talking origin: mate vs. mate, state vs. state, I didn't throw up on a train this weekend.

Bit of a bumper episode covering the last two weeks of the greatest game of all

PLUS - our way too early origin teams

In this episode we resume NRL mediawatch, including Peter Fitzsimons tweet about who were the bad guys in world war 2, really? Paul Kent's night in Rozelle, Footy Legends and the movie Napoleon - oh and some rugba leeg

You're not reading the description, are you?

It's round four but how good does a hint of petrol on the air smell?

Reviewing NRL round 2, previewing round 3 and talking playing increasingly lower divisions at an increasingly higher age

We are now named for our NRL podcast, and in this episode we're talking round 1 review, round 2 preview and Stuart McGillfe. Featuring the talents of David and Izaak. Thanks for reading this, if you did. Yours sincerely, Deez

Last time we said we were back but this time we are so back baby!

Look at me rhyming in the titles. This second episode of the as-yet untitled rugba leeg version of the podcast goes over the excitement and scandal of round zero and what's to come in round one.

Welcome to a new, as yet untitled, issue of the TBC podcast talking about rugba leeg, cricket, and where peoples wives may or may not be located.

We return with days before the NBA regular season is due to start and there's a whole lot basketball to talk about before that begins.

We return, but with some audio issues for which we apologise.

Hey I'm on lunch why is Jaylen Brown getting so much money?

Hey it's Joe uploading the day after recording. I'm not precisley aware of all the things we talked about in this episode but I believe it was mostly basketball.

It's still Heat in 5, but what if it was also Nuggets in 6?

When the Celtics and the Lakers are on the verge of elimination, is there anything better to do than praise the Heat?

It's the second round and we're losing our mind over some incredible matchups