One of the connoisseurs of Australian variety television joins us on The Betoota Advocate podcast. The Indigenous community's answer to Fatty Vautin. The type of man that can draw a good yarn out of anyone. You might remember him as 'Willie Walgett' from The Betoota Advocate Presents TV series on Paramount+ (and Qantas inflight entertainment hehe). This year, Yaraman is showcasing some of the funniest anecdotes in Aboriginal and Indigenous sporting history. From Koori ice skaters to late-90s NRL stars, to Tony Armstrong's days as an AFL player. Catch Blakball on ABCTV or iView.

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One of the connoisseurs of Australian variety television joins us on The Betoota Advocate podcast. The Indigenous community's answer to Fatty Vautin. The type of man that can draw a good yarn out of anyone. You might remember him as 'Willie Walgett' from The Betoota Advocate Presents TV series on Paramount+ (and Qantas inflight entertainment hehe). This year, Yaraman is showcasing some of the funniest anecdotes in Aboriginal and Indigenous sporting history. From Koori ice skaters to late-90s NRL stars, to Tony Armstrong's days as an AFL player. Catch Blakball on ABCTV or iView.
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Clancy Overell and Errol Parker, editors of the explicitly raw but iconic Outback Australian newspaper known as The Betoota Advocate report fiercely - without fear or favour.

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This week Clancy, Errol and Wendell turn their attention to the only sensible way to launch a rugby league season. By shipping it 12,000 kilometres across the Pacific and hoping Americans finally understand what a forward pass is. With the 2026 NRL season kicking off in Las Vegas, the show previews the year ahead. The contenders, the pretenders, the coaches already under pressure and the annual question of whether this is finally the Warriors’ year.

Thankfully, Fox League host and one of the game’s sharpest minds, Yvonne Sampson, joins the show to unpack Vegas Round, the shifting power dynamics across the competition, the young stars ready to launch and the veterans wondering if it's time to join the London Broncos. From expansion chat to premiership windows and which fanbase is most likely to implode by Easter, this is your unofficial and entirely unqualified guide to the 2026 NRL season.

Get around it before your club is mathematically eliminated by May.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Clancy, Errol and Wendell turn their attention to the only sensible way to launch a rugby league season. By shipping it 12,000 kilometres across the Pacific and hoping Americans finally understand what a forward pass is. With the 2026 NRL season kicking off in Las Vegas, the show previews the year ahead. The contenders, the pretenders, the coaches already under pressure and the annual question of whether this is finally the Warriors&rsquo; year. Thankfully, Fox League host and one of the game&rsquo;s sharpest minds, Yvonne Sampson, joins the show to unpack Vegas Round, the shifting power dynamics across the competition, the young stars ready to launch and the veterans wondering if it's time to join the London Broncos. From expansion chat to premiership windows and which fanbase is most likely to implode by Easter, this is your unofficial and entirely unqualified guide to the 2026 NRL season. Get around it before your club is mathematically eliminated by May. See <a href="http://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

BETOOTA TALKS: Vegas Round & The 2026 NRL Season (ft. Yvonne Sampson)

Wendell Hussey, Errol Parker and Clancy Overell wrap up all the biggest stories from the week - live from the Desert Rock FM studio in downtown Betoota thanks to our friends at Dan Murphy's!

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This week Clancy and Errol attempt to finally answer a question that has plagued Australians for generations: what’s the go with New Zealand? From their polite accents and suspiciously competent rugby teams to their intense loyalty to provincial towns nobody here has heard of, this episode unpacks our strange cousins across the ditch. Thankfully, Kiwi comedian and New Zealand Today creator Guy Williams drops in to explain the cultural quirks, small-town politics, tall poppy syndrome and national psyche of Aotearoa... and why Australians still somehow don’t quite get it.

Get tickets to Guy Williams' Australia tour here!

 

This week Clancy and Errol attempt to finally answer a question that has plagued Australians for generations: what&rsquo;s the go with New Zealand? From their polite accents and suspiciously competent rugby teams to their intense loyalty to provincial towns nobody here has heard of, this episode unpacks our strange cousins across the ditch. Thankfully, Kiwi comedian and New Zealand Today creator Guy Williams drops in to explain the cultural quirks, small-town politics, tall poppy syndrome and national psyche of Aotearoa... and why Australians still somehow don&rsquo;t quite get it.
<a href="guywilliams.co.nz">Get tickets to Guy Williams' Australia tour here!</a>
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INTERVIEW: Yaraman Thorne A.K.A Yazzy Boi A.K.A Willie Walgett (Director of the ABC's 'BLAKBALL')

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