December 03, 2025

S10 Ep8: Tim Bresnan - Why The England Ashes Team All 'Strongly Disliked' Each Other - Monty's Mastermind & Gary Ballance 'The Super Sopper'!

45 minutes

Silly season meets Ashes season in this chaos-fuelled episode of the Rigbiz Podcast as Archie and Freddie are joined by double Ashes winner, T20 World Cup winner and Yorkshire legend Tim Bresnan. Before Bresnan dials in, the boys warm up with peak Rigbiz nonsense – Ivy Asia lunches, how to weaponise a client Christmas do into a surprise deal, bulking season gym chat and prep for the infamous Feathers Ball. It is pure December city energy: prawn toast, pool on the roof, fake Thai, real bids and a lot of lash.

When Bresnan arrives, the cricket chat is anything but straight bat. He takes us inside that brutal pre Ashes Germany boot camp, the Hong Kong Sixes stag do in disguise, life in a dressing room where half the team barely tolerated each other and Kevin Pietersen was writing books about it for years afterwards. There is sledging on and off the field, Monty on Mastermind, Gary Ballance as the super sopper on a night out, Chris Tremlett’s terrifying rig, Ben Stokes as the man you always want next to you in Tony Boller and some brutally honest views on Bazball, pundits and whether England can actually turn an Ashes series around.

Off the field, we get Bresnan the crypto CEO, Gibraltar lads trips disguised as “business”, Bitcoin breakfasts and FCA regulated chaos as Archie tries to wedge his way into the fund with city chat and bone crusher handshakes. It is part cricket nostalgia, part city boy survival guide, part financial nonsense, all wrapped up in heavy Northern energy and relentless Rigbiz silliness. If you like your pods full of lash, live sport scars and just about legally acceptable client chat, this one is an absolute gift.

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