broadcasters during a global pandemic england's ashes have been like one of those zombie films where everyone is worried about being eaten by the undead but the actual real problems come from those they are locked in the house with this has been the ashes of the living dead and then after all this we go to the scg for rain and a flat pitch and a dead rubber and have you ever seen the davis cup or the billie jean king cup if the scoreline is over the deb rubber matches are played out like charity events but without any fun they're not even phoned in it's like some doubles player with the racket that borrowed from a friend is puffing on a cigar at the change of ends and no one gives a PROFANITY_TOKEN other sports kill their dead rubbers completely if you're four kneel down in the nba finals they don't make you perform three more times because they'd already booked the court not cricket people traveled on boat to get their back in their day and tickets helped pay the way for the trip back home so you better believe they were squeezing every last dollar out of every test they could and we could have changed this but we've had bigger things to worry about like light up bails and what color shoelaces the players are wearing and because this is our sport we got to the finish the big finale with a part-time bowler delivering to one of the worst batters in the world baseball is cricket's illegitimate child and their sport is going all in and making sure that the best pitchers are thrown to the greatest hitters and we just finished one of the most watch events of recent times with jimmy anderson famous for being england's losing wicket and steve smith who hadn't taken a test victim since before NUMBER_TOKEN until today if these two had switched places he'd have two all-time greats doing what made them legends but cricket is so PROFANITY_TOKEN up that we had two part-timers apologizing for even being in this mess PROFANITY_TOKEN the best of the best let's have shittus versus the least bothered in fading light and finish it up with a ball that most people in the crowd could have delivered and played a little bit of grass on the wicket is good but too much and all hell breaks loose not enough and things can go sideways very quick the same is true of your pubic hair and you don't have a groundsman who smells like fertilizer telling you what to do no you are the curator of your own pubic pitch so if you're having trouble grooming your pitch what about manscaped they've invented a sleek well-designed optimized trimmer that helps you shave your balls i've used it and it's incredible it's good enough to use it loads so get NUMBER_TOKEN off and free worldwide shipping with the code redinco and you just put that in at URL_TOKEN that's NUMBER_TOKEN off free worldwide shipping URL_TOKEN the code is red inker i always thought this podcast took balls more seriously than anyone else then i tried manscaped and then of course there's the draw a tie wasn't enough for our sport we added a whole new element when no one wins there is no golden goal or penalties or overtime or nothing just handshakes and stale beer a sport that involves you to be tested physically and
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