Cooke & Cranny

Bobbo wins the tipping comp, uncovers a Father's Day record & defends the rights of Rugby League fans to prosecute the two times table on their own. Mick talks 'scenarios'.

Cooke & Cranny record LIVE outside Carriageworks, during the 2019 Rugby League Hall Of Fame ceremony.

With Mick Cooke mysteriously absent, Bobbo wastes no time in fulfilling his fantasy of giving Jack Fulton his First Grade debut.

Shaun Johnson is a marked man, Reed Mahoney is not himself and Robbie Farah opens a Devonshire Tea House on the sidelines of Leichhardt, with a sideline in dealing contraband.

Mick gives Bobbo all the insider gossip on how the new season of Master Chef is shaping up. Robbie Farah brings his trademark influence to an elite new club. 

Ricky Stuart tells everyone that they don't know what they're talking about, including Mick & Bobbo. Mick has a new direction for the Gold Coast, including a brand new home ground and coaching staff. The first female NRL referee is appropriately addressed. 

Mick turns his hand to the oversaturated "true crime" podcasting market. Bobbo buys some NRL merchandise from Mister Minit.

Mick and Bobbo discuss the game of the season. Bobbo meets a man who has been locked up since the ’89 Grand Final. The boys investigate the new craze in music and the arts. They share some bold ideas about incorporating Rugby League into song. And discover what Rugby League can learn from trends in live music.

Peter Sterling gets bill shock. Cooke and Cranny take the game to Carlton, Woolooware and Leumeah to discover it's already there.

Mick and Bobbo revolutionise sky-to-plate eating. The boys find a way to hang out in Lang Park all weekend for free. Bobbo quizzes Mick about what is going wrong in Penrith and opens up a festering wound.

Bobbo and Mick launch a consortium of ordinary Rugby League fans to outbid the Roosters for Latrell Mitchell and integrate him into our daily lives. Bobbo suggests a novel way to use the Israel Folau crisis to bring down the Parramatta Eels. The boys use cricket maths to spice up the way “double-headers” and “hat-tricks” are counted.

Bobbo believes that Tyler Durden has joined the Brisbane Broncos and started some kind of club. Mick won't talk about it. Wu-Tang Clan member, Ghostface Killah, honours boom Broncos back, Kotoni Staggs. Bobbo tries to sell Mick a personalised Wagga Wagga

Mick and Bobbo are joined by Jack Fulton, who explains the benefits of having a proper Rugby League name. The boys name a host of Australian suburbs after Rugby League players. Garlo realises that the most important pie ingredient is people.

Recording on a Thursday, Bobbo tries to maintain order whilst Mick tries to watch the Penrith match. The pair take inspiration from Game Of Thrones and Married At First Sight to solve Queensland·s leadership conundrum. Later they dine on Tiger and Eel.

Making Rugby League hipster again, Valentine Holmes, Trent Merrin & James Segeyaro sign to Newtown Jets, just in time for 'Sour Beer & Psych Rock' round at Henson Park. Mick and Bobbo also try their hand at making goal-kicking interesting. And is there a hairy beast on the loose in Penrith? Because something has been blocking the drains!

Changes to private health cover slash NSW Blues' alternative therapy budget. Bobbo gets an opportunity with the Under-9s. Mick explains the share bike industry. Jack Fulton enters the kitchen.

In light of poor ratings, the boys get racial. Taking a leaf from ‘Sky News After Dark’, Mick and Bobbo thin-wedge some hot-button water-cooler race-baiting blah blah paradigm zeitgeist. Then they starting name-dropping the stars of much better podcasts #davidgately #stevemascord #brettoaten. Jack Fulton almost forgets to put in his tips. 

This week Cooke & Cranny talk mostly about footy, Mick tips a smokey for 2019 highest tryscorer and suggests a merger between two clubs. Jack trails by 22 points in the tipping comp after one round.

Cooke and Cranny return with the third series of Rugby League's premier paranormal podcast. The boys look back to 1993, lament the draconian rule changes of the tipping comp and realise that the answers they seek may be found in files marked 'X'.

Mick and Bobbo reach the end of 2018 without meeting any of the KPIs set for them in their first full season. They proceed to congratulate each other for twenty minutes then ply themselves with recreational drugs and recreational meat pies.

Bobbo discusses the meaning of the word 'mathematical'. Mick learns the most interesting thing about a bloke named Peter Dutton. The missing questions from the players' poll are revealed, including the players' vote for best Rugby League podcast.

Mick discovers he has a connection to a known mystery man. Bobbo stuffs up and loses the episode of the year. The boys realise they are a similar age in Rugby League years.

Mick and Bobbo discuss grief and death. Mick talks about life behind bars and reveals the content of his neck tattoo. Bobbo discovers Kiwi sashimi. The pair compare themselves to Bradman.

Our hosts are drawn to the General Gordon Hotel by a mysterious figure who looks like Mick and thinks Bobbo needs a girlfriend. Taking the opportunity to turn the adventure into an outside broadcast, the boys find themselves enmeshed in the two biggest news stories of the week.

Cooke and Cranny get hit by the Origin ratings slump and conspire to seek notoriety through manufactured outrage. Bobbo learns about toxic Manly-ness. Mick finds a practical use for Ed Hardy hooded sweatshirts.

Andrew Voss accuses Brett Finch of dealing recreational drugs, new Roosters players learn about their divine right, Mick and Bobbo learn all about the new fads in sporting injuries & Bobbo cooks up a controversy

Mick and Bobbo plan an audacious opening to the 2021 World Cup. A stick of gum from a packet of footy cards inspires Mick to theorise about Rugby League's journeys to the past, its extra-terrestrial future and the true nature of the Immortals.

Mick and Bobbo spend sparse rounds watching weird things like soccer and the Australian Christian Channel, the Bluebags go back to Belmore, Robbie Farah goes back to Leichhardt and immediately acts like he owns the joint.

International Rugby League boldly goes to Campbelltown, representative players stay off the cans but can't keep off the grass & Brad Fittler draws on C16th wisdom to make a young NSW side perform their ablutions.

Cooke & Cranny deliver all the Round Twenty-Six news, which for the first time ever, has been culled from the end of the NRL season and placed in the middle of the season, between Round Fifteen and Round Sixteen.

Queenslander Mick suddenly loses interest in Origin, Bobbo pays tribute to the greatest Ivans, the Suits & Pies segment gets back to basics and the boys suddenly realise that they are setting the agenda for the entirety of Rugby League media.

It’s state against state, but what rhymes with territory? What does James Graham do with the Origin bye? And is this what it sounds like when doves cry?

Penrith win the May Premiership. Cooke and Cranny lament missing their first shot at a scoop, bag their fans and continue to dress for someone else's job they want. The problems of Rugby League are blamed on fantasy football.

In a sea of tributes to the greatest Australian representative footballer of all time, Cooke & Cranny look beyond the surface rumours and investigate the post-league destiny now awaiting this great man.

The boys suck up to five other Rugby League podcasts but continue to pick on non-existent Rugby Union podcast, Gardner and The Gardener. Mick has a eureka moment and explains how Artie Beetson became a C17th deity in Japan's shogun era.

Cooke & Cranny reveal the shocking truth behind Rugby League's acquisition of the Immortals and expose a violent, vehicular cover-up of an ancient Rugby League mystery.

Cooke & Cranny call for an embargo on naming any further Immortals, then induct themselves into the Rugby League Hall Of Fame. Bobbo is erased from the timeline. Implausibly ancient Japanese statues of Artie Beetson are set to arrive in Australia.

Bobbo pulls three crates of old Rugby League magazines out of storage. Mick and Bobbo stand in solidarity with Peter Beattie. Bobbo meets a man who can predict the future and a girl who wants to visit the past.

Cooke and Cranny pick a fight with a rival podcast. Sean Garlick is going to make the pies. Who's gonna make the gravy? As the NQ story reaches a fiery climax, Mick puts the 1940 Canberra Air Disaster down to alien intervention.

Bobbo learns the meaning of the word 'ordinary'. Mick and Andrew Johns share toilet habits. Cooke & Cranny solve the problems of Rugby League with meat pies. The NQ story continues.

If a tree falls in the forest at 6pm on a Friday, does it really fall? Did the Min Min lights signal the birth of Rugby League in North Queensland? What will it take to propel Cooke & Cranny to No. 1 on the podcast charts?

Mick experiences a celebrity sighting. The boys compare the different types of buses used by NRL clubs. They take time to acknowledge their podcasting peers, introduce a new word to the Rugby League dictionary and persist with their theory that segments equals success.

Mick and Bobbo attempt to take their podcast to all new levels of professionalism. Mick uses sex to decode betting markets. Bobbo divulges a bizarre fantasy. AFLX brings much-needed diversity to league crowds. Arthur Beetson appears in religious statues from Japan.

A special, twenty-minute digest of all the stories from Season One of Rugby League's Premier Paranormal Podcast.

The boys announce they are releasing a digest of the first season and detail all the segments that deservedly missed the cut. Bobbo unleashes a Biblical curse on James Tedesco. Mick tells his most shocking tale to date and reveals how he was personally touched by the mystery of the balls.

Mick and Bobbo interview their first First Grade rugby league player. Medical mysteries engulf the ‘Military All Stars’. Mick invokes the Roswell UFO incident. More questionably, Bobbo becomes an instant convert to AFLX. 

The boys leave the kitchen for the first time to investigate the disappearance of a junior footy player. Bobbo wastes a weekend at Brett Morris's. Players from the Eastern Suburbs destroy the coffee culture of the Hunter. The boys relive their glory days, briefly, up a mountain, and are told to piss off.

A promising footballer fails to return from a 2017 nudie run. Bobbo and Mick are seduced by the shameful habit of reporting archetypal pre-season news. Michael sees beauty in what is omitted by social media. Bobbo learns that the Defence Force is the best form of attack force.

As the glow of the 2017 RLWC Grand Final fades, the boys crash back down to earth, making futile attempts to replace Rugby League with other fringe sports. Amongst the self-congratulation and pathetic pleas for approval, Bobbo reveals plans for a 30-episode second season. Mick thinks he knows what to call it.

Bobbo parties with Tongan fans in Liverpool, Mick traces the history of Rugby League in the South Pacific back to the 1700s, the US Army dumps nuclear waste in the Marshall Islands but Mick reveals a deeper plot by the enemies of Rugby League.

Mick captivates Bobbo with a beautifully tragic tale of love and loss. A perfect, fragile love, built on baguettes, pipettes, Renaissance art & Rugby League, shattered in the merciless grip of mistrust and suspicion. A journey through his own vulnerability which finally connects the dots between some of his sprawling theories regarding the paranormal origins of the game.