The Shepmates Show

It's the Season 2 finale and it might be one of our best yet, so maybe we shouldn't have a break. Maybe we shouldn't.

Archie has the solution to the cost of living crisis. We saw a movie that made everyone cry. Archie is life-maxing a bit too hard. Then the commentator's curse is alive and well at the World Rally Championship final in Italy, and we need to talk about it.

But before all that… the Shepmates Team of the Year gets finalised for Season 2, with new people added and some big names cut. We have contentious thoughts on the NRL grand final. And it's Word of the Week time, with a look back over all the words from the season and a chance to put them into practice.

Then we explain the real reason we're having a break from the pod, and Archie lists exactly what he expects to see on Miles's Instagram stories in Bali.It's a bit longer, but it's jam packed. Hope you enjoy, mates.

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Back to back guests, and this week we took the show to the MCG. Sunny day, birds chirping, trucks reversing, and the bloke who draws the Grand Final poster. Mark Knight joins us in the MCG gardens. Chief editorial cartoonist at the Herald Sun, a drawing every single day, and the man behind every premiership poster since 2009.

He peels back the curtain on the biggest week of his year: how he preps a poster when there's still four teams left, who's sweating on his big year cartoon , where his ideas actually come from, and what happens to the losing team's poster.

The boys also brought something with them. Two framed drawings that have been on their wall for 15 years, done when they were 10, copied from a Mark Knight original. Mark's review is worth the price of admission. And then he picks up the pen and draws the boys, live, while Miles decides to draw him back. But before all that..

Archie witnessed the greatest local footy game of the year , Dumb and Dumber is BACK and it's Marketplace related again, and the boys had a run in with a Team of the Year member outside the G that we still can't explain.

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The boys are back and the bedroom has a new chair.. because this week we have our first ever in-house guest, and we thought we'd start small.
Brian Taylor joins us in the studio. One of the great voices of Australian footy, two decades on Seven and Triple M, and a bloke who owes the boys an apology after the Legends Game. He delivers it. Then he peels back the curtain on the whole thing: how it took him ten years to find his voice, the one line from his boss that gave him permission to go big, why he can tell inside five minutes whether he's on, and the call he's proudest of.

He also gets honest about the criticism. What his sons told him to do about the comments, the mates in the industry who've needed help, and the number one of the best in the world gave him that changed how he thinks about the haters.

And then there's the footy he played. Two jobs at once, a plumbing apprenticeship that took a 16 year old somewhere he wasn't expecting, 100 goals in a season, pre-seasons with no water, and the one thing from the 80s he'd bring back if he could. PLUS the boys get BT to rank his tools, because everything's got to be battery these days.

But before all that.. the NFL took over Melbourne. The boys tried on a Super Bowl ring, got onto the ground at the G with a drink in hand, sat next to an Essendon full forward, and watched 100,000 people throw paper planes. Should the AFL do premiership rings? The boys have thoughts, and one of them called the result last week.

Keep a close ear out for this weeks Word of the Week.. Archie's been told to try harder.

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The boys are back in the studio and Melbourne is humming.. finals are here, the NFL has rolled into town and the Sunday Footy Show has apparently started listening to the pod.

Word of the Week is back, and it's got a new ambassador. Dermot Brereton had his say on the Clarko sacking and dropped six words in one take that had the boys reaching for the dictionary. Is Dermi out of touch with the common AFL punter, or are we just dumb? Miles also gets hit with "anti-politeness" in a supermarket aisle, and no one can work out what that even is.

The NFL is in Melbourne.. the 49ers have been here all week, the Rams are flying in the night before. Genius or disrespectful? The boys disagree.

Archie's Bulletin makes its return with a wildcard Aussie at the US Open, a 19 year old punter roosting it in college, a suspicious number of Bens signing contracts, a goal-line clanger from the Geelong Footy League that has to be seen frame by frame, and grave concerns for Dan after a disruption to his nightly magnesium regime.

And a new segment gets debuted by our Vice President, local cricket captain and producer Daniel Allen. His cricket club is on its knees, he's got a committee meeting this week, and the podcast is now running the pitch. Write in with your ideas.

Keep a close ear out for this weeks Word of the Week.. the department is only growing.

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