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The Sounding Board

S11 E19 - Cynical about the Scoreboard

08 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What recent incidents involved Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson?

5.566 - 14.495 Damian Barrett

This is the Sounding Board Podcast with Hutchie and Damo. Thanks to Drinkwise. You won't miss a moment if you drink wise. Nice to have your company on the Sounding Board for Drinkwise.

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Chapter 2: What are the ticket prices for NBA Finals games at Madison Square Garden?

14.535 - 26.567 Craig Hutchison

If you're choosing to drink, choose to drink wise. I have Craig Hutchison back in the South Bank studio after a week in the United States. I know you're going back over there again at later this week, Hutchie, but good morning to you. Usual timing, Tuesday morning, 7.30.

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Chapter 3: What changes are happening at Channel 7 and SCA?

26.807 - 48.096 Craig Hutchison

And as always, this time zone, 7.30 a.m. in Australian time, Melbourne time, is a hot zone for breaking news. We've had coaches sacked in this very time zone twice this year already in the AFL system, and you're going to bring to us very shortly some details on an English cricket captain. Well, that's emerging as we go to air as well. So it is the slot for breaking news.

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48.136 - 51.942 Craig Hutchison

It's almost the reverse trash, isn't it, Tuesday mornings? Yeah, get it out.

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Chapter 4: What does it mean to 'Get Murdoched'?

51.922 - 71.342 Craig Hutchison

It's a place where the trash doesn't last. So yeah, Ben Stokes will talk about, if you're a New York Knicks fan like me, by the way, it's a pretty amazing day in New York with the city under gridlock and you can't move. So is this game three? Game three today. Trump's going today to game three, which has had a huge effect on security and logistics and people being able to get in.

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71.382 - 83.797 Craig Hutchison

And it's also, it looks like it's knocked the ticket prices around a little bit, which is interesting. Has it reduced them? Well, I think the late markets opened up. It was the most expensive ticketed game. This and the next one are the most expensive ticketed sporting games ever.

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Chapter 5: How is One Nation performing in the polls?

83.817 - 88.544 Craig Hutchison

Are these two back at Madison Square Garden? Yeah, oh yeah. And these are the last two for the Knicks in the series?

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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Netflix acquiring Melbourne's NFL game?

88.624 - 105.486 Craig Hutchison

Is that right? At the Garden? Or did they win their- Oh yeah, because they're 2-0. Yeah, 2-0. So we can talk a bit about, I wouldn't mind talking about the Knicks, the economics of that at the moment. But just to answer your question, Ben Stokes and, is it Gus Atkinson, I think have been both named by the ECB as having been in a breach of their protocols.

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105.466 - 118.6 Craig Hutchison

after the win of the test against New Zealand. So this is the first test back in the new basketball era after they've had a year of defending their drinking culture or their team manner and behaviour.

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Chapter 7: How is AI influencing Damo's songwriting?

118.64 - 124.426 Craig Hutchison

There's a midnight curfew famously. And what's clear is that they've broken. So this is the first test back, isn't it?

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124.446 - 125.026 Damian Barrett

First test back.

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125.046 - 139.513 Craig Hutchison

Just to remind everyone, after the debrief on the Ashes series where they again had their behaviours questioned and rightly so when they're socialising, Well, and amazingly so. It looks like the last report I heard was there was a rugby team involved in this. There was certainly an incident.

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139.533 - 148.618 Craig Hutchison

They haven't said what involvement they had in the incident, but widespread belief is that Stokes is out, will not be picked for the second test, which is...

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Chapter 8: What are the latest developments in Australian media and politics?

148.784 - 162.291 Craig Hutchison

Huge news in cricket. Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson were present at a nightclub in the early hours of Monday when an incident took place. The ECB said we're currently seeking further information and announcement regarding the squad for the second test will be made in due course. So I would say they're out.

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162.672 - 181.456 Craig Hutchison

We'll have this extraordinary situation where the vice captain probably becomes the captain, who, correct me if I'm wrong, Dudley, is Harry Brook. who's the one that lied about New Zealand. That's right. So he'll be being asked about the drinking culture of the team as the captain in a week from now. But potentially replacing a captain who has got a fairly long list of priors in this space.

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181.997 - 198.639 Craig Hutchison

Is that misrepresenting his status? I love Stokes. I love the competitiveness. I love how he has got some wins for England in major tournaments and major test matches regularly, but he has got a few problems off field. We might not survive this as captain.

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198.819 - 214.183 Craig Hutchison

Like if you're a 35-year-old in a nightclub, now we don't know whether we should give him the benefit of the doubt because they haven't said whether an incident happened around him and he merely watched it or he was part of the incident. If he was part of the incident, I think it's lights out for him as captain. But if there's a curfew, I wasn't even aware there was a curfew in this new era.

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214.964 - 239.127 Craig Hutchison

It's because of their behaviour. We saw the denial of it here with the Noosa drinking. With Duckett. Yeah. So there's a... There's a drinking culture problem in that team that they have been in denial about. It's not an 80s style the way they carry on in England, isn't it? I think most people have worked that through their system as younger people in life and with a profile. Not this mob.

239.628 - 260.837 Craig Hutchison

It's been led by Ben and enabled by Brendan in reality. Okay. Again, we don't know what happened, but we do know that we're out too late at a nightclub. Why you'd be at a nightclub as England captain in this era of trying to put this behind you. Talk about making stupid decisions. That's just a stupid decision to go to a nightclub. You wouldn't see Paddy Cummins out there, would you?

260.868 - 282.032 Craig Hutchison

Well, Paddy Cummins would say that this is a bad look for me to be here, regardless of where everyone's going, regardless of whether we're drinking water or whatever. It's a bad – look, you just make stupid decisions anyway. So there you go. All right. Now, you were in the States. You were actually specifically in Vegas last week when we spoke, back last night doing a TV show.

282.252 - 296.931 Craig Hutchison

But you are going back again this week, aren't you, for the World Cup soccer? Yeah, I'm going back for a little bit. But – I think I'm going to miss the Knicks away, the diary turns out, which is, you know, first world problem. But how amazing is the New York movement?

297.311 - 323.192 Craig Hutchison

So the game on Wednesday, I mentioned to you, the game on Wednesday, the cheapest seats in, I think, as of 48 hours ago, were about 9,000 US in the bleachers. The courtside seats are about 120, 130,000. The Spike Lee seats. They're in that neighborhood of 120, 130, 150,000. The market's gone crazy. Every concierge in New York's under huge pressure from their client base to deliver.

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