Ep. 18 – "Lawns, The Odyssey & a Silver Medal"

Mitch and James Beale are back for a loose, funny catch-up covering backyard maintenance, painfully slow internet, bandwagon sports fans, and James’s review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. The episode wraps with big local wins and Emilie Miller’s wheelchair rugby silver.

What We Covered:

• 🌿 Backyard Wars — Cutting the lawn short vs chasing a greener patch, weed and feed, box hedges, green-waste runs, and the council-tree debate on nature strips
• 📡 Internet Pain — James’s NBN struggles, Starlink temptation, and another classic slow-wifi rant
• 🏀 Women’s Sport — Opals at the World Championship, quarterfinal exit, and how much women’s sport is locked behind Kayo and ESPN
• 🏅 Big Wins — Emilie Miller and the Aussie wheelchair rugby team take silver at the 2026 World Cup in Brazil
• 🐅 Katamatite Tigers — First grade and reserve grade both win, with reserves claiming a first-ever flag
• 🪵 Finska Roos — What Finnish skittles actually is, how the scoring works, and whether it could become a bigger summer sport
• 🎟 Bandwagon Season — What counts as jumping on a team in AFL and NRL finals, and why loyal supporters stick through the bad years
• 🎥 Movie Review — James on The Odyssey: stunning visuals, huge budget, but too long and overcomplicated

Relaxed backyard banter with sport, movies, lawns and a few dental war stories mixed in.

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Big thanks to James for jumping back on.

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