Good day, everyone. You're about to hear a little, or watch, a little preview of TGC Raw,

talking about the second test at the Gabba. If you want to hear it in full, if you want to watch it in full, there's two ways to do it. You can sign up at patreon, patreon.com forward slash grade cricketer. You're going to access the chat, which absolutely pops off during the entire test match. If you want the frictionless experience, you can sign up via Apple and you're going to get a free trial for a week.

Link in the show notes for all those details. Enjoy the preview. TGC Raw, here we go. Now, this is going to set the pigs off, Pezza, because it is not Friday, traditionally, when this show drops. But you know what? The cricket season is upon us. Dates are starting to mean less and less.

And so, you know, people want us to talk about the cricket before the cricket starts.

Fair enough.

I don't remember the last time I watched the game of cricket.

I don't remember when the last test was.

The best I run out feels more recently than Kratz's 7 for.

The whole thing is disorienting and i'm lost but also i am found uh

these ashes has been defined by the consumption of podcasts and other media that you're not

normally consuming you know fixes need to be um like, like, they need to be fed.

People need their fix, so you're listening to voices

that are unfamiliar to you, they jar with what your sensibilities are,

in particular this, but this is, these are the risks of Basball,

you know, the two day tests, the 11-day breaks not the correct

number of days in between test matches we we live in a world where we have an increasingly

packed schedule we furrow the brow we stroke the chin about the packed schedule but this is

not packed enough right now i feel like I've got to the end of TikTok.

I've finished it and I need it to start again for more content.

I know.

I mean, how many, how many conversations about whether or not England should have gone to Can we have?

You know?

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