Ruck 'n Roll

The world is prepared for the moon landing, petrol rationing, fluctuations in the share market and global political upheaval, but is anyone ready for Stephen J Peak and his juiced up laptop? His drive is hard, his discs no longer floppy and his storage has increased, but calling himself ‘The Gigabyte King’ might be a stretch.  

Ken ‘The Gig Pig’ Francis has been gadabouting across the CBD (ie: Chel...

It's like sitting around a campfire, toasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya! 

Said no-one ever about this podcast.

With Finey toiling away in the Lenny's Fine Food kitchen, the gleesome threesome roll on regardless and clueless.  

Stephen J (The Pompitous of Love) makes some bold football predictions that verge on comedic genius or madness. A team of AI monkeys is currently discussing possible surgical options.&nb...

Disney had Fantasyland. The Ruck 'n Roll equivalent is Peakville, a land of endless buffets, unlimited litigation, pointless conversations and tuneless music. With that in mind, we forge on regardless to discuss a wide and varied array of human connection points like football, cricket and death, as well as some lighter subjects like death, cricket and football. 

Did someone say footy tripping? Did one, or even two panellists t...

We are only two rounds into the AFL season, but the tension is palpable, the emotions are stirring, the loins are being girded and the goats are being scaped. Footy tipping really is serious business, isn't it? 

In unrelated news, the Patron Saint of Losing Thoroughbreds Stephen J Peak has had a life changing experience, so too our resident social butterfly Ken Francis, who has been gigging in Frankston and lived to tell the t...

Finey had a better offer, so it is the gleesome threesome discussing the events of the week. And what a week, with footy, Formula One and cricket providing plenty to slice and dice. Despite that, SJP gets in a tizz over an AFL player's jewellery and players not wearing gloves. No-one said it had to make sense and it rarely does. 

Musically, it is a trip back to January 1966 for the 3UZ Official Top 40 with The Carnival is Over...

After a summer of twirling our seventies cricketing moustaches and enthusiastically rubbing a red ball in our groin area, it's time to get real. Time to get our rucks in a row, our behinds in gear and our floggers in hand. ..Footy is Back, Baby! 

Armed with a mouthful of words, a fistful of opinions and a head full of you know what, the Ruck 'n Roll team will leave no turn unstoned to bring you a totally unique perspective on ...

Some very painful school memories kick off this episode, with the sting of the cane, the strap and the long wooden ruler echoing in the stories from four very naughty boys. But wait, there's more where that came from as discussion turns to the big news of the week: the Bardot reunion. On a more serious note, sports of all persuasions get the once over, including footy, T20 World Cup, the Moto GP, EPL and the Polish darts. 

On ...

If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then one member of the R 'n R ensemble is a weapon of mass destruction and he proves it beyond reasonable doubt when talk turns to the AFL State of Origin clash. It's self destruction at the T20 World Cup as the Aussies do a Bradbury - something they don't need at the Winter Olympics, where gold is easier to find than condoms. Speaking of that, romance is in the air as the R 'n R Love God...

It's Trouble with a capital T and yes, it does include the 1982 Lindsay Buckingham hit, but that's not all folks. Also on the menu is a Superbowl serving of Bad Bunny, a feast of T20 World Cup action, a slice or two of the AFL's financial pie and the Chef's Surprise is a little something from the Milano Cortina Games that might be hard to swallow. 

Musically, we visit February 1982 and the new romantics are making an impressio...

If the expression 'Worming his way into your affections' was to be used in relation to any member of the R 'n R team, who would you think it would apply to? Find out in this illuminating, eventful and (as always) classy episode. 

Noah had enough trouble with two tablets. We have a panellist juggling sixteen a day! Who do you think that might be? Did someone say hypochondriac? Let's just say it is more Dachshundsen than Munchau...

No bells, whistles, marching bands or fireworks are needed to herald the return of the fab four for a new year of chaos, chatter, blather and whack. Bring on the tennis, cricket, Olympics and a World Cup or two, not to mention footy of all codes.

Whether based on fact or fiction, this quartet of talking heads, of various shapes, sizes and attractiveness, will pontificate, adjudicate and facillitate their views and opinions but neve...

'Tis the show before Christmas, the last for the year

The rundown resembles something you’d get from Ikea

Kevin and Ken will supply lots of banter

And Peaky’s built to be our resident Santa

The boys are full of cheek and good cheer

And plan a big finish to a bloody good year

So come all ye faithful and ripe

It’s the last time you get to hear all this tripe.    

That’s how we finish, we’v...

As 2025 winds down, our fab four find plenty to get wound up about, including our favourite summer pastimes - cricket and eating sweets. The Poms might have served up another load of tripe but the RnR dessert trolley is laden with everything from fairy bread to Bombe Alaska. 

Thankfully, a distinct lack of unprovoked animal attacks for any of the panel this week. 

There is some F1 chat, cricket commentary analysis, golf t...

The Kangaroos may have slayed the AFLW Lions, cricketers with pink balls are poised to stampede the Gabba but the Ruck 'n Roll headline this week is the home invasion you won't read about in the papers or hear about on the nightly news.

We have the EXCLUSIVE inside story with graphic details of the invaders' entry via the bathroom window, ransacking of rooms and a full-on confrontation with the victim before fleeing via a front win...

As the name of the show suggests, football is always in our thoughts and the AFL Draft and AFLW Grand Final are up for discussion, dissection and derision, as is Perth's two day hit anf giggle fest, or - as they called it - the First Ashes Test. Sprinkle in some EPL, F1 and golf then get ready for the main attraction. 

Our musical analysis is resting like a good eye fillet or a opening batsman with a dodgy back. Our attention ...

Google Maps tried, NASA satellites gave it a shot, sniffer dogs had no hope. This episode travels down rabbit holes, along bumpy, pothole-filled roads and sails unchartered and unfriendly waters before disembarking to a sweet and savoury sideshow of snacks. 

So just your average show really!

From reviewing AC/DC live at the G to the latest on the dachshund saga, there's Monster Trucks, Tetris champions, Don Lane's son and dart...

Marlin Perkins, Robert Irwin and Tarzan would cower if they tackled the wilds of our intrepid Ruck 'n Roll explorers. Finey returns from his fishing expedition in the Territory with tails and tales - fishy and true. Ken braved the Collingwood natives to catch his current favourite band Hot Machine in action. Stephen J Peak laughed in the face of potential dachshund retribution though he did it slowly as his knees are as wonky as hi...

It has taken 360 episodes for there to be no words capable of describing the contents of the weekly episode. This keyboard could not possibly convey the drama, absurdity and hilarity that you are about to hear. Trained counsellors, hostage negotiators, animal welfare workers and trauma specialists have all thrown their hands up in despair.

These are unprecedented times ... but you have been warned.      

Kevin H...

John, Paul, George and Ringo; Abraham, Martin and John; Coles and Garrard. The list goes on but it has nothing to do with this show or anything else to be honest. On the show this week - a word salad of immense intellectual importance to which Mensa, Densa and several other of Santa's reindeers have been alerted. Sport of all peculiarities is covered plus homage to the fallen with the weekly Deathalyser. 

And the Grand Finale ...