Latest / The Tom & Gerry Show Podcast / Episode 59: Say Cheese
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- 0:01Speaker 1: I do like a bit of cheese, he must be said,
- 0:05Speaker 1: when them up the chimney, they have a cheese sandwich
- 0:08Speaker 1: and they just sitting here watching the clouds go by. Now,
- 0:13Speaker 1: much as I like cheese, I wouldn't go running down
- 0:16Speaker 1: a hill for it, like those lads over in Gloucester.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Well that's Gloucester for you.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Those lads were wired different, not like those lads. Here
- 0:25Speaker 1: in Boughton. We might clock chimneys, but we would all
- 0:29Speaker 1: run down hills, especially for wheels of cheese. Tom and
- 0:34Speaker 1: Jerry explained it better than I could in this week's episode,
- 0:37Speaker 1: So I'll let you get to it now.
- 0:40Speaker 2: I'll see them.
- 0:50Speaker 1: The earth did not split open, the seas did not
- 0:53Speaker 1: boil come. I went back on stage there last week
- 0:56Speaker 1: with the good self. We made her fucking diad, God
- 0:59Speaker 1: bless you. I wanted to start the show.
- 1:01Speaker 3: Today by thanking everybody that came out and helping ease
- 1:05Speaker 3: me back into the world of comedy.
- 1:07Speaker 1: It was lovely. I knew, I knew you'd have a
- 1:09Speaker 1: great time. You didn't know you'd have a great time.
- 1:11Speaker 1: But I was sitting there and you were doing We
- 1:13Speaker 1: could have right, We could have done three podcasts and
- 1:15Speaker 1: the amounted talk and Jerry did, but that's what happens
- 1:17Speaker 1: when you're in that situation. And he got up there
- 1:20Speaker 1: and were brand new material and fucking killed it.
- 1:23Speaker 2: It was absolutely brilliant and made a write shover shout
- 1:26Speaker 2: out to long term listener. It was an end that came.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Up after yes, yes and yeah yeah, yeah. It was deadly, deadly.
- 1:33Speaker 1: I was delighted. And you will find out that Jerry
- 1:36Speaker 1: is coming to kill Kenny and he's going to be
- 1:38Speaker 1: back in Dublin at the Dot Theater with me thirteen
- 1:42Speaker 1: thirteen to fourteenth, respectively, So.
- 1:44Speaker 3: As as you hear this podcast, it will be the
- 1:47Speaker 3: following week, so you have a chance to get tickets
- 1:48Speaker 3: to that.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Text your and sure, look and if we if he'll
- 1:55Speaker 1: take the bait, I'll get him to do a couple
- 1:56Speaker 1: of more, but I can't promise it. But there's definitely
- 2:00Speaker 1: the thirteenth to the fourteenth, Ny.
- 2:02Speaker 3: And stranger things have happened exactly.
- 2:04Speaker 2: How do you do that?
- 2:06Speaker 1: How's your body? How's your body keeping? I need to
- 2:08Speaker 1: know is it alright? Look at Tom?
- 2:09Speaker 3: Like you know, I've I've said it, I've said it
- 2:11Speaker 3: several times, Like you know, once you get once you
- 2:14Speaker 3: get by forty, your bed sort of acts like the
- 2:19Speaker 3: pit boss in the casino, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 2:22Speaker 3: you have to you have to pay off and a
- 2:25Speaker 3: good night's sleep with something. It's like, yeah, so here
- 2:27Speaker 3: you've got a pretty good nice sleep there. So what
- 2:29Speaker 3: will it be? Which will it be?
- 2:33Speaker 2: Sciatica?
- 2:34Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, what will it be? Neck or knee? You
- 2:37Speaker 1: can't have both?
- 2:37Speaker 4: You know.
- 2:38Speaker 3: It's you're not walking out of here, buddy. So that's
- 2:41Speaker 3: that's where I am with that. We didn't we didn't
- 2:43Speaker 3: even enter the show. So Tom and Jerry show know
- 2:45Speaker 3: where we are im Jerrem mc bride. That's some Oh man,
- 2:47Speaker 3: I'm we came out of We came out of fast there, Tom.
- 2:51Speaker 1: But we were very excited about the gigging. You're back
- 2:54Speaker 1: gigging again, so we're very excited about that. Is it was.
- 2:58Speaker 2: It was a momentous occasion. What was too years since
- 3:00Speaker 2: you've been, since you've been back in the saddle.
- 3:02Speaker 1: That was a big I've been two years and change anyway. Yeah, yeah,
- 3:06Speaker 1: so that was that was nothing, nothing to be shied
- 3:08Speaker 1: away from it. It was a very and you you did very,
- 3:10Speaker 1: very very well, as I guess you would you. I
- 3:13Speaker 1: very much enjoyed your set. I've rightly enjoyed it now,
- 3:17Speaker 1: it was very very good.
- 3:18Speaker 3: I got I gotta tell you, Tom, I've been away
- 3:20Speaker 3: for a couple of years, but that's because I've.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Been pouring my creative.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Wine into the goblet that is this very show. Yeah there,
- 3:34Speaker 3: I'm very excited. I'm just my brand new special just
- 3:36Speaker 3: came out. I meant to send it aunt.
- 3:37Speaker 1: Actually, my brand new specially came out at the weekend
- 3:39Speaker 1: that went live for Ocean I taken off, Yeah, taken off.
- 3:42Speaker 1: So that is up now for anybody who wants to
- 3:43Speaker 1: watch it, go ahead, it's the YouTube.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Enjoy yourselves.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Well, we'll have to bid your boots. The link up
- 3:49Speaker 3: to that. But before you run off and listen to
- 3:51Speaker 3: and watch Tom's new special, we about to do this show.
- 3:54Speaker 1: Should be no harm. We'll take off the show.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Tom with the big news, you know how you know
- 4:00Speaker 3: how we do a baby, We've got the big news,
- 4:02Speaker 3: and like you know, sometimes it's big news to us.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Sometimes it's the big news.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Of the world. But regardless of which it is, the weekly,
- 4:09Speaker 1: what have you. This is a very complicated case.
- 4:11Speaker 3: Mad You know, a lot of Ian's a lot of outs,
- 4:13Speaker 3: a lot of what have you, and a lot of
- 4:16Speaker 3: strands to keep in my head.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Man, I have a fascination with this.
- 4:21Speaker 1: I've watched programs on this, I have I've I've literally,
- 4:25Speaker 1: i'd say I watched more on this than I have
- 4:27Speaker 1: on North Korea.
- 4:27Speaker 2: And that says a lot.
- 4:31Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I've watched the fair Markorea stuff. But
- 4:35Speaker 1: and then nobody's going to be surprised when I tell
- 4:38Speaker 1: when we tell them that we have an interest in this,
- 4:40Speaker 1: immediately known some of the backstories of some of the
- 4:42Speaker 1: mental stuff from when we were drunk and stuff, and
- 4:44Speaker 1: you going with over the Pampalona you have, mad bastard.
- 4:47Speaker 1: I don't know how either one of us didn't end
- 4:49Speaker 1: up doing this, but it was. The week just gone
- 4:52Speaker 1: by was of course, the downhill race at Cooper's Hill
- 4:55Speaker 1: in Gloucestershire for the Wheel O Cheese, the Wheel, Oh Cheese.
- 5:00Speaker 3: You say you're amazed that we haven't done this time yet, buddy, do.
- 5:04Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Look, I'm just gonna put
- 5:07Speaker 2: it out there, will I do it?
- 5:09Speaker 1: Because honestly, no slight on your jar. But I think
- 5:14Speaker 1: we're we're getting a shovel on a bag of line
- 5:16Speaker 1: if you do it only right now because I'm in
- 5:19Speaker 1: okay condition, because I've been building a house. Give it
- 5:22Speaker 1: six more months and then it's never going to happen.
- 5:25Speaker 1: So I think I need to do it. Just do
- 5:27Speaker 1: it run by myself in the next six months.
- 5:30Speaker 3: We'll get into it a wee bit Tom. But I
- 5:32Speaker 3: reckon if I were to if the faith that befell
- 5:35Speaker 3: a couple of.
- 5:36Speaker 1: Young men this year's most recent cheese roll were to
- 5:41Speaker 1: befall me doing it, I reckon it might sort me.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Do you know what one big wrong could sort? Could
- 5:49Speaker 1: sort it doesn't be right?
- 5:50Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, get you get your back like
- 5:52Speaker 2: imagine it.
- 5:53Speaker 1: You just click back in place, everything right walks away
- 5:56Speaker 1: like a twenty two year old go what like you
- 5:59Speaker 1: just got to shot a step? You know, like this
- 6:01Speaker 1: is it?
- 6:01Speaker 3: Yeah, before we get too deep in the water about it,
- 6:03Speaker 3: because not every you know, everybody's.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Cheese roll is somebody's forced cheese rolled. The downhill cheese
- 6:11Speaker 1: roll takes place on Cooper's Hill. What is the tradition
- 6:14Speaker 1: of it.
- 6:15Speaker 3: Everyone's bound to have seen something that looks like this.
- 6:18Speaker 3: It's a wheel of cheese that gets rolled down a
- 6:19Speaker 3: hill and participants, mainly young people, perhaps with drink involved,
- 6:26Speaker 3: chase the wheel of cheese to the bottom of the hill.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Am I correct?
- 6:29Speaker 2: It is?
- 6:29Speaker 1: It's an eight pound and eight pound Now I'm a
- 6:31Speaker 1: fan of double glass to myself, very nice on and
- 6:34Speaker 1: some toast.
- 6:35Speaker 2: I would say, right, it's very nice. It's a strong
- 6:38Speaker 2: old cheese, doesn't mix. Knows what it's about?
- 6:41Speaker 1: Eight pound, eight pounds, like fourteen pounds in a stone.
- 6:45Speaker 1: That's a fair lump at cheese when you think about it, cheese.
- 6:48Speaker 1: It's probably a ten inch white wheel, maybe by four
- 6:50Speaker 1: inches take if you know what I mean? And it
- 6:52Speaker 1: is it looks like a big baby.
- 6:54Speaker 2: Bell exactly, so it's rolled.
- 6:57Speaker 1: Now if you see this in action, you may have
- 6:58Speaker 1: seen this, like you know, on the news and clips
- 7:01Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and you're going.
- 7:02Speaker 2: Is that the case? She's castle? Wait, but those are
- 7:04Speaker 2: all British people.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Why are they? Because it looks like something that guess
- 7:08Speaker 1: whours in Japan would give a go?
- 7:09Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
- 7:10Speaker 1: Because they they're fit. Whereas when you look closely at this,
- 7:15Speaker 1: it's a bunch of lads that look like they've definitely
- 7:17Speaker 1: had pints. Do you know what I mean, I'll forget
- 7:20Speaker 1: about it. Tom. It's it's, it's it's.
- 7:21Speaker 3: It seems like a real pinting day.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Now do you know the tradition of it? Because I don't.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Maybe you don't.
- 7:29Speaker 2: Either, I don't. Do you know what? I'm sure it's
- 7:32Speaker 2: if anybody wants, they're.
- 7:34Speaker 1: Going to have some sort of.
- 7:37Speaker 3: You know, shout out to any of our listeners from England,
- 7:40Speaker 3: but would become cover your ears with this next bit.
- 7:43Speaker 3: It's about to have some fucking mria made up English
- 7:46Speaker 3: nonsense where it's like celebrating Sir Cheesingling Gale who died
- 7:52Speaker 3: on this hill in nineteen sixteen. Away airs was nineteen sixteen,
- 7:57Speaker 3: wasn't it. Maybe that's how we got them, Tom, They
- 7:59Speaker 3: were busy with the chase.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Have more of these things around the UK than you could.
- 8:03Speaker 5: Like there's the you know, fucking there's the wall Ball,
- 8:06Speaker 5: there's the cuttle fish fucking Championships, there's the you know,
- 8:10Speaker 5: there's the dancing at the Maypole World.
- 8:14Speaker 2: They have more of these, and more often than.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Not, they're ending absolute violence like oh yeah, you know
- 8:21Speaker 1: it's it's England's they can't help themselves like a bit
- 8:25Speaker 1: of it so we.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Don't necessarily know exactly the origins of it, but we
- 8:29Speaker 3: know how it goes. Every year wheel Achieve is run
- 8:31Speaker 3: down the hill and scores Tom the I dare say,
- 8:36Speaker 3: hundreds of people run after. Now is it one goal
- 8:39Speaker 3: or is there several goals throughout the day.
- 8:41Speaker 2: I think it's the one race. I think it's the one.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Couldn't you couldn't, couldn't do this twice? Like, there's thousands
- 8:46Speaker 1: of lads down, like it looks like great crack to
- 8:49Speaker 1: go to if you're on the sauce.
- 8:51Speaker 3: There's a thousands down, up and down the hill.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Down the side of the hill, there's thousands people lined
- 8:55Speaker 1: up and down cheering everybody on.
- 8:56Speaker 2: But I think they.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Can only allow up to about two hundred from when
- 8:59Speaker 1: I can make Upcause you couldn't let hundreds of because
- 9:02Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, you just woul'n't have the ambulances in the glasses. No, no,
- 9:06Speaker 1: it'll be like action park. You do.
- 9:07Speaker 3: You have to bring your own ambulances. Now, Tom, we
- 9:10Speaker 3: say you run down a hill, tell us about this hill,
- 9:14Speaker 3: because this is a hell brother, this is.
- 9:18Speaker 1: A one and two incline. Now for anybody going. Because
- 9:22Speaker 1: you sometimes you'll see percentage gradients on European roads when
- 9:25Speaker 1: you're going around the bend. You see it's oh, it's
- 9:27Speaker 1: a fifteen degrees but white or fifteen percent. So I'm
- 9:32Speaker 1: going to explain a bit of engineering too, be please
- 9:34Speaker 1: do so this is These are two things you will
- 9:36Speaker 1: need to know going forward. The fact that we use
- 9:38Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degrees in a circle is fucking stupid.
- 9:41Speaker 2: It should really be four hundred.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Do you get me to fifty per quadrant? Yeah? Or yeah,
- 9:48Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Like it should like it
- 9:50Speaker 1: should sorry, it should be like you're it's mental. Like,
- 9:53Speaker 1: So ninety degrees is one hundred percent. So a gradient
- 9:58Speaker 1: to work out a gradient one and two. Basically you're
- 10:02Speaker 1: rising to two meters in every one meter, right, So
- 10:08Speaker 1: this is so a vertical wall is one in one
- 10:12Speaker 1: right what Like normally what you're talking about is like
- 10:15Speaker 1: like the fall of a pipe, minimum fall of a
- 10:18Speaker 1: pipe in your house. That's the orange pipes coming out.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Just to give you to context, the minimum minimum and
- 10:24Speaker 1: I would never advise somebody from build an house to
- 10:26Speaker 1: ever do this. The minimum you can have is one
- 10:28Speaker 1: in one hundred. That means the height difference between the
- 10:32Speaker 1: end and the beginning is one meter over one hundred.
- 10:37Speaker 2: This is one in two.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Okay, so this is a wall. This is why you're
- 10:43Speaker 1: trying to run down a dam. Yeah, yeah, this is ludicrous,
- 10:48Speaker 1: like I got because I gotta tell you, Tom, it
- 10:50Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily all.
- 10:52Speaker 3: I think that's part of the charm of it, or
- 10:54Speaker 3: how it managed to go super viral every single year
- 10:58Speaker 3: since the dawn of the Internet, is that gradient, that
- 11:02Speaker 3: steepness of the hill doesn't necessarily translate to the screen.
- 11:08Speaker 3: So when you're looking at it, it just looks like
- 11:11Speaker 3: lads are on the moon. They're bouncing off the off
- 11:14Speaker 3: the ground and bouncing like six feet in the air.
- 11:16Speaker 1: And I feel the brain just can't quite keep up
- 11:18Speaker 1: with it because looking straight on at it, see that's
- 11:22Speaker 1: the thing. Doesn't look it doesn't look that deep.
- 11:23Speaker 2: That's the thing.
- 11:24Speaker 1: Even if it was the one gradient the whole way down,
- 11:27Speaker 1: but it's not. The hill lumps all over the fuck.
- 11:30Speaker 1: So even if you say you got, you got your
- 11:32Speaker 1: your legs out of head and you I have the
- 11:34Speaker 1: pace of this, I have the pace for flats.
- 11:35Speaker 2: I'm okay. Put the next thing you plateaus and say
- 11:39Speaker 2: it goes to one and one and eighth. It's a
- 11:42Speaker 2: hump for five meters.
- 11:43Speaker 1: You're like, so you hit a hump, there's hump, there's
- 11:46Speaker 1: hills on the fucking hill the so all of a
- 11:49Speaker 1: sudden you're peking it, going, I have it, lads, I
- 11:51Speaker 1: have it. Then all of us like, if I'll tell
- 11:54Speaker 1: you this much, right, if that was covered in snow
- 11:56Speaker 1: and skiers were coming down it, that's Olympics. That the
- 12:00Speaker 1: level of slalom, do you know what I mean? That's
- 12:02Speaker 1: what you're looking at. If you're thinking, how steep is
- 12:05Speaker 1: that steep? When you watch the lads on you know,
- 12:07Speaker 1: sports on day or whatever, the lad's coming down the slalom,
- 12:10Speaker 1: it's fucking steeper than that. It's steep. You know what?
- 12:13Speaker 1: Do you know what it is? Tom?
- 12:14Speaker 3: When you say to that steep, it's like the it's
- 12:16Speaker 3: like the streets of San Francisco. And these men going
- 12:21Speaker 3: up and down it are the star skin hutch grand
- 12:24Speaker 3: a Reno.
- 12:25Speaker 2: They are the.
- 12:25Speaker 4: Hubcap wheels of flying off, just like screaming over like
- 12:31Speaker 4: in bullet, just like hitting the hump and just going
- 12:34Speaker 4: straight up and over and down.
- 12:36Speaker 1: Some of the spells, Tom Jesus Christ are incredible there
- 12:40Speaker 1: was one gentleman in this year's race. Race suggests there's
- 12:48Speaker 1: a winner.
- 12:48Speaker 3: I mean, I don't see any winners here, Tom, somebody's
- 12:50Speaker 3: somebody dying to night Frankie, Right, But this one guy
- 12:54Speaker 3: came down and again it looks like he's just running
- 12:57Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden.
- 12:59Speaker 1: He takes off like like it.
- 13:01Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I guess if I was there, I
- 13:03Speaker 3: could see that the steep hill and he just stopped
- 13:05Speaker 3: running where there was ground, Tom, he had to have
- 13:09Speaker 3: been throwing forty feet.
- 13:12Speaker 1: It's as you said, it looks like they're on the movie.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Like.
- 13:14Speaker 1: It doesn't make any like you should not like this
- 13:18Speaker 1: should be climbed up. Climbed up, yeah, not ran down.
- 13:22Speaker 2: Like this is you know them little goats.
- 13:24Speaker 1: You see them, you're going, oh in christ is Ephyla
- 13:27Speaker 1: and they're just gripping onto the side of the cliffs. That's
- 13:30Speaker 1: just to talk about. And what made this year worse
- 13:33Speaker 1: and probably even bounce her was the fact that there
- 13:35Speaker 1: had been a super Raine in weeks. So if you
- 13:37Speaker 1: look at any of the pictures from this one, from
- 13:40Speaker 1: this season's one, there's dust everywhere. Every time somebody hits
- 13:43Speaker 1: the ground, there's a dust like an ECME cloud, like
- 13:45Speaker 1: a little explosion, little explosion behind them, because it's bullet hard.
- 13:51Speaker 1: The fuck.
- 13:53Speaker 3: There are some there are some years where it becomes
- 13:55Speaker 3: a bit of a mud sled, like you sit on
- 13:59Speaker 3: your eyes and you slay like and you just slide
- 14:01Speaker 3: a Trota mode down the whole thing. This one guy,
- 14:04Speaker 3: I'm gonna try and finally thing and put it up
- 14:05Speaker 3: on the social stand. But it looked like it looked
- 14:08Speaker 3: like you remember, like in medieval times where they would
- 14:10Speaker 3: load corpse corpses on like the tribute and throw them
- 14:13Speaker 3: over the castle walls.
- 14:15Speaker 1: It looked like that. It looks like glassed out of
- 14:18Speaker 1: the cannon.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Like there's no way.
- 14:20Speaker 1: I don't care how fit or tough that fell is,
- 14:23Speaker 1: but he's coming up with something fucked up from that,
- 14:25Speaker 1: probably lifelong. Like I guarantee of the town, you know,
- 14:29Speaker 1: in the last year, I guarantee the town has the
- 14:32Speaker 1: world of lads with permanent limps, do.
- 14:35Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 14:36Speaker 1: Like like those fishing you know, those fishing towns that
- 14:40Speaker 1: have a fabled way they used to all the lads
- 14:43Speaker 1: are missing a leg or missing a fucking something because
- 14:47Speaker 1: old Whitey got them, you know, or some sort of
- 14:50Speaker 1: cracking bit something off them, or they've all got a
- 14:53Speaker 1: tail to tell and a bit of a body part.
- 14:54Speaker 2: I guarantee this town.
- 14:56Speaker 1: There's lads wrecked walking around. It's just chiropractic. There's like
- 15:00Speaker 1: you know the way you hear about like in some towns.
- 15:02Speaker 1: You know there's there's a gold rush and the smart
- 15:05Speaker 1: guy doesn't you know, he doesn't go for the gold
- 15:07Speaker 1: He's the guy selling the shovels.
- 15:08Speaker 2: I guarantee it.
- 15:09Speaker 1: This town is full of fucking chiropractors and physios on
- 15:13Speaker 1: site all year round.
- 15:15Speaker 3: Selling iby brof And you say, Tom, now you don't
- 15:18Speaker 3: care how fit or strong that man is. Here's what
- 15:21Speaker 3: I want to say to you, buddy, this is the
- 15:24Speaker 3: people lining up for this aren't the same guys as
- 15:26Speaker 3: line up for, say, you know those hell and back
- 15:29Speaker 3: tough Mother events.
- 15:30Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Like it's like a super endurance thickness race in the
- 15:33Speaker 3: in the forest and you have to carry logs and
- 15:35Speaker 3: shit like that.
- 15:35Speaker 1: This isn't Ireland's fitest families.
- 15:37Speaker 3: This isn't you know, you know, well, he'll be all
- 15:41Speaker 3: these people look to be students, look like they've never
- 15:43Speaker 3: been in the gym a day in their life. They're
- 15:45Speaker 3: all going they're wearing jeans. Tom, They're just rocking up
- 15:49Speaker 3: in jeans.
- 15:49Speaker 1: I mean there's a dress is fucking Superman here like
- 15:52Speaker 1: and his balls hanging out out over the place.
- 15:54Speaker 2: It's like just no business going down. The thing is
- 15:57Speaker 2: like a lead.
- 15:58Speaker 1: But I read something quite interesting on this, so it's
- 16:02Speaker 1: actually unofficial these days. It was it was physic actually canceled.
- 16:07Speaker 1: So was he old the fucking che you know, all
- 16:11Speaker 1: the chasting the wheel of Cheesington down the hill right
- 16:15Speaker 1: up to twenty ten and like the like the hat
- 16:17Speaker 1: officially officially close the down and going no boat. You
- 16:21Speaker 1: can unofficially do whatever you want. You can do whatever
- 16:23Speaker 1: you want, and the cops are happy enough to just
- 16:25Speaker 1: go on. So to fuck. But I'd say, there's there's
- 16:28Speaker 1: you know, there's a sign in your will, you know
- 16:32Speaker 1: what I mean, There's NBA has been written all over place.
- 16:35Speaker 3: There's there's a clause in life insurances around the world
- 16:38Speaker 3: that says policy void if participating in the following events,
- 16:43Speaker 3: and Gloucester Cheese Roll is one of them.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Well, this is where it even gets even. There's a
- 16:49Speaker 1: hint of humor in this, right.
- 16:50Speaker 3: Because oh no, teme, it's it's it's people hurting themselves.
- 16:54Speaker 1: I'm laughing from.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Eating from not even if not even.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Not the listeners of the talmage.
- 17:00Speaker 2: It's not it's not the hint of humor.
- 17:01Speaker 1: It's fucking brilliant, and that we're going on about how
- 17:04Speaker 1: yoldly Blighty is doing great things and all the rest
- 17:07Speaker 1: of its bloody bloody good and why wouldn't you bloody
- 17:10Speaker 1: do a bloody good job. And the guy that wanted
- 17:15Speaker 1: his name is Tom Kopka from you. Oh, he's a
- 17:19Speaker 1: he's a he's he came over done and he shredded
- 17:23Speaker 1: a course as well, like no beer going on, this
- 17:24Speaker 1: guy like and he was, he was like it was crazy.
- 17:26Speaker 1: This year was different because he's given her the go
- 17:28Speaker 1: he won it last year as well. He's a German YouTuber,
- 17:32Speaker 1: so he was coming down.
- 17:33Speaker 2: He said.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Last year the hill was muddy and this year was
- 17:35Speaker 1: dry and dangerous people and people got really injured. I
- 17:39Speaker 1: just shut my brain off, of course you did, Tom. Yeah,
- 17:43Speaker 1: if you leave, if you left your if you left
- 17:45Speaker 1: your even the fucking pilot light on your brain doing this,
- 17:49Speaker 1: you would not do it. All the people on the
- 17:52Speaker 1: top said they were going to steal my title and
- 17:55Speaker 1: did it was mine.
- 17:56Speaker 2: I worked with this. I risked my life for this.
- 17:59Speaker 1: It's cheese mine, cheese mine speech.
- 18:06Speaker 2: He had to do some pamphlets and now he has
- 18:08Speaker 2: a militia.
- 18:08Speaker 3: He said, I gotta tell you, Tom, I don't know
- 18:11Speaker 3: much about sport, but I know one thing, and that's
- 18:13Speaker 3: the English love to be beaten by the Germans.
- 18:15Speaker 1: The Germans. Yeah, well there you go, Tom, we might
- 18:20Speaker 1: find ourselves this time next year participating. I'd actually to
- 18:24Speaker 1: just you know what I mean, we just walk it
- 18:27Speaker 1: on day one, like I ain't look I like mid twenties. Yeah,
- 18:30Speaker 1: I'm giving that a go all day long. If I
- 18:32Speaker 1: can go down in full NFL gear, you know what
- 18:36Speaker 1: I mean, or maybe full NHL gear, you know it's
- 18:39Speaker 1: a full regularly of the goalie, then we're.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Talking business one of those suits. Although I would probably bounce.
- 18:45Speaker 1: All the way into Germany, like you know, that would
- 18:48Speaker 1: a bit of dignity to het and just rag down
- 18:52Speaker 1: your body and whatever happens happens.
- 18:54Speaker 3: But yeah, Tom and Jerry going to the cheese roll
- 18:56Speaker 3: next year. Our wives might have something to say about it. Yeah,
- 19:01Speaker 3: but there's another wife with a lot a lot to
- 19:04Speaker 3: talk about, Tom in her next segment, quite a lot
- 19:07Speaker 3: to give out about. So we may as well head
- 19:10Speaker 3: on over the horror because I know every week we
- 19:12Speaker 3: talk about this lad and that lad and the other lads.
- 19:14Speaker 3: But sometimes it's a lady. Sometimes a lady would agrievance
- 19:18Speaker 3: that involves a man. So there's these lads to go around.
- 19:20Speaker 3: But let's get into the story Tom with this week's
- 19:22Speaker 3: edition of this lad.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Now, there's that guy.
- 19:28Speaker 3: This we we we saw this coming up, you know,
- 19:31Speaker 3: like every now and then you'll see a story and
- 19:33Speaker 3: they'll be like, Okay, there's this lad potential in this story,
- 19:37Speaker 3: and then you're not going to go, damn it. That's
- 19:38Speaker 3: from twenty nineteen, so it's not new. We can't really
- 19:41Speaker 3: use it. And then you check it up and go, oh,
- 19:42Speaker 3: holy crap, this kind of thing is recurring all the time,
- 19:47Speaker 3: and it's it's the kind of thing that I personally
- 19:51Speaker 3: didn't know about it.
- 19:52Speaker 1: So you know, there we go. Tom and Jerry show
- 19:55Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily have to be like one hundred percent topical
- 19:58Speaker 1: every now and then it will be you know, I
- 20:00Speaker 1: think you just kind of said that this is recurringly
- 20:03Speaker 1: topical and a lot of people won't know about it,
- 20:05Speaker 1: like because no, let's let's let's get into it.
- 20:07Speaker 3: The lady's name is Jill Hanson, who in December launched
- 20:11Speaker 3: a complaint because her husband had passed away. Steve Hanson
- 20:17Speaker 3: passed away and he donated his body to medical science,
- 20:23Speaker 3: which is a wonderful thing to do, tom Right. That's uh,
- 20:26Speaker 3: that's that's right. And just you would have said donating
- 20:28Speaker 3: your body to medical.
- 20:29Speaker 1: Science, right asher half the family here, because the sisters
- 20:32Speaker 1: are fairly heavily involved in that kind of thing. I
- 20:34Speaker 1: have a professor sister, so that I'd say that the
- 20:36Speaker 1: half him are thinking about that.
- 20:37Speaker 2: I don't know what you know, and this is this
- 20:39Speaker 2: is just it.
- 20:42Speaker 3: And it was suggested to Jill that you know, maybe
- 20:45Speaker 3: maybe donate your don He was your man was sick
- 20:48Speaker 3: this long time, right, they said, diagnosed with roses liver
- 20:52Speaker 3: in twenty twelve. But again they came to pass lately
- 20:56Speaker 3: because Jill found out the medical science that her husband's
- 20:59Speaker 3: body went yeah, yeah, it was donated to the US
- 21:04Speaker 3: military and they blew it the fuck up, tom Ah,
- 21:12Speaker 3: which was news to me that that was a thing.
- 21:15Speaker 3: I'm sorry if people are like out there going like,
- 21:17Speaker 3: oh shit, yeah, that happens all the time. I didn't
- 21:20Speaker 3: know what you didn't know.
- 21:21Speaker 1: But apparently it does happen all the time because there
- 21:24Speaker 1: are not Jill Hansen is just the tip of the
- 21:26Speaker 1: spear here, Tom, there are dozens of articles.
- 21:29Speaker 3: Seems to be just like if there's a slow news
- 21:31Speaker 3: day in the newsroom, it's like, go get me a
- 21:33Speaker 3: widower or a widow that their loved one has been
- 21:38Speaker 3: donated to medical science and they didn't know where it
- 21:40Speaker 3: was going.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Go get some grand kids.
- 21:42Speaker 3: Come in here and tell us how fucking memo ended
- 21:44Speaker 3: up getting riddled with bullets by the FBI to study
- 21:49Speaker 3: the effects of bullets on eighty seven year old women.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Because that's what's happening, Tom.
- 21:56Speaker 2: It's the there's it's the I tell you America.
- 21:59Speaker 1: For all they talk about themselves, they're the most unregulated,
- 22:03Speaker 1: wild bastards. Do you know what I mean? There's next
- 22:06Speaker 1: to nothing, Like I thought, okay, because of the Army,
- 22:09Speaker 1: they can just step in and break the law, you know,
- 22:11Speaker 1: and and pass it through the CIA and pass it
- 22:13Speaker 1: back through you know, the whoever at the top of
- 22:16Speaker 1: whatever chain.
- 22:17Speaker 2: I would say, the defense forces can buy it back
- 22:19Speaker 2: off the CIA somewhere, you know. But nah, don't even
- 22:22Speaker 2: have to do any of that.
- 22:22Speaker 1: You know, it's completely unregulated, like ORG donation is apparently
- 22:27Speaker 1: regular orself Larry Hagman got himself a brand new heart.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Larry Hagman of j R.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Ewing fame got himself a brand new heart in his nineties,
- 22:34Speaker 1: like the heart like.
- 22:36Speaker 3: You know, a bull like in his ny got three
- 22:39Speaker 3: or four hearts and.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 22:41Speaker 1: But you can buy and sell bodies while it is
- 22:43Speaker 1: a felony, you can. You can when it's reasonable and
- 22:48Speaker 1: for the greater good of the country, you can just
- 22:51Speaker 1: I mean the American you know, military for military system
- 22:55Speaker 1: being being held held up and you know, being actually
- 22:59Speaker 1: called for and it's you know, it's uh, it's never
- 23:04Speaker 1: gonna forge happen, like reasonable is actually written into the
- 23:09Speaker 1: contract basically, well, it's reasonable that we do want to
- 23:11Speaker 1: use a fucking martar on Nana's see what happens if
- 23:15Speaker 1: we blow her to fucking Kingdom come out in the
- 23:17Speaker 1: desert in Arizona somewhere, do you know what I mean.
- 23:19Speaker 1: It's it's absolutely stunning to me, Tom, because this lady
- 23:23Speaker 1: Jill hands and she she said she was she her
- 23:25Speaker 1: husband died of Cirrosi's delivery. Was a heavy drinker, and
- 23:28Speaker 1: the people at the hospice said, you know, Jill, you
- 23:31Speaker 1: know maybe his dad could do some good. He could
- 23:33Speaker 1: he could help people.
- 23:34Speaker 3: You know, And she rightfully thought, well, yeah, I guess
- 23:37Speaker 3: you could study the effects of alcohol on the system,
- 23:39Speaker 3: and you know how it looks in a man of
- 23:41Speaker 3: this age, and blah blah blah, And I guess, like,
- 23:43Speaker 3: you know, learn to help people going forward.
- 23:47Speaker 1: And I dare say the people at the hospice weren't
- 23:49Speaker 1: in on the trick either. But when you donate your
- 23:51Speaker 1: body to medical science, all bets are off. All bets
- 23:55Speaker 1: are off.
- 23:56Speaker 3: And uh and and getting loaded into a humbye and
- 23:59Speaker 3: driven straight into wall on fire is not an uncommon
- 24:03Speaker 3: thing to happen. You're just literally your corpse is now
- 24:06Speaker 3: a crash test dummy. You can load them two hundred
- 24:09Speaker 3: of time into a plane and smack it into the
- 24:11Speaker 3: side of a mountain just to see how you see, Beltimore.
- 24:14Speaker 2: You see all these things, right, So they I've seen
- 24:16Speaker 2: You've seen the body farms, you know, like Louis through.
- 24:19Speaker 3: I had not seen the body from about the body firms.
- 24:22Speaker 2: So the body farms are.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Essentially they similate like the one that your man Louis
- 24:28Speaker 1: throw went to visit. It looked like somebody just an
- 24:31Speaker 1: unkept fucking redneck back back hole holler, kind of a
- 24:35Speaker 1: fucking setup. And what it is is there's just all
- 24:38Speaker 1: sorts of situations like bodies in old plastic bags and
- 24:41Speaker 1: old carpets.
- 24:42Speaker 2: Right fucked around like fuck, this is it?
- 24:44Speaker 1: This is a CIA thing or is an FBI thing?
- 24:46Speaker 1: An FBI think and what it is so that they
- 24:49Speaker 1: can the idea being is that you can get a
- 24:51Speaker 1: real time I suppose month and month, you can categorize
- 24:56Speaker 1: and and and I suppose you can see how the decomposition, composition,
- 25:00Speaker 1: and no doubt you'd be probably fucking studying what the
- 25:03Speaker 1: bite marks of a coyote looks like as well, because these.
- 25:06Speaker 2: Are just left out and about. And I'm serious now,
- 25:09Speaker 2: this isn't.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Like some well ordered well here is category A or
- 25:13Speaker 1: to write this looks like you ever do you ever
- 25:16Speaker 1: get like a tip off of where you'd get maybe
- 25:19Speaker 1: a hub or a back axle for a car. And jesus,
- 25:23Speaker 1: your man's breaking fucking citrons down behind watching and this
- 25:27Speaker 1: is soon you find yourself down on our road and
- 25:29Speaker 1: you're going, there's nobody Jesus Christ, no stone signals, right
- 25:32Speaker 1: like you know what them roads?
- 25:34Speaker 2: You find yourself down and that's what this looks like.
- 25:35Speaker 1: It looks like the back of beyonds and totally in
- 25:39Speaker 1: shit posted all cars because they want to see what
- 25:41Speaker 1: the cars bodies look like bloated inside and cars they wouldn't,
- 25:45Speaker 1: you know, this.
- 25:46Speaker 3: Is all this is all to study, like, okay, so
- 25:49Speaker 3: so this is what how I know what happens to
- 25:51Speaker 3: a fourty year old man who is partially buried in wetlands?
- 25:57Speaker 3: And this is what happens to a fifty year old
- 25:58Speaker 3: woman left in a car dead. And this is what
- 26:01Speaker 3: happens to you know, left out in the sun, sank
- 26:06Speaker 3: in water. What it looks like in salt water versus
- 26:09Speaker 3: you know.
- 26:09Speaker 1: So the studies going on, which is fair enough and right.
- 26:14Speaker 1: You can't say it's science there you can go, okay,
- 26:16Speaker 1: well this is science is for the better because we
- 26:18Speaker 1: all think, oh, they're going to open our head and
- 26:20Speaker 1: then hang onto my brain like like Einstein's and they're
- 26:24Speaker 1: going to study it and my body. They're going to
- 26:26Speaker 1: look through it and I will I will teach the
- 26:28Speaker 1: fucking the surgeons of tomorrow how to operate on somebody,
- 26:33Speaker 1: chances are unless you're a specimen.
- 26:37Speaker 2: I mean we've all did you go see that bodies?
- 26:39Speaker 4: No?
- 26:40Speaker 1: I didn't.
- 26:40Speaker 2: Oh, like the next level creepy by all accounts.
- 26:44Speaker 1: There's people in that I hope missing if you're not,
- 26:47Speaker 1: like they want to miss and miss. I think the
- 26:50Speaker 1: big how will I say this now?
- 26:53Speaker 3: The big talent pool for that exhibition is like Chinese
- 26:56Speaker 3: prisoners that were offered money for their families.
- 27:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Just got shanked in the canteen line two days later. Yeah,
- 27:04Speaker 1: I think yeah, But there was one or two people
- 27:06Speaker 1: who went like, there's a there's a dark story behind that.
- 27:09Speaker 2: But that's a story for another day.
- 27:11Speaker 1: But I can kind of go with all of the Okay,
- 27:15Speaker 1: we need to understand the police, the FBI need to
- 27:18Speaker 1: understand what happens to her body. Sorry, sorry, nothing sexy
- 27:23Speaker 1: happened with your body?
- 27:24Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 27:24Speaker 1: Sorry, you weren't displayed, you know, in the fucking you know,
- 27:29Speaker 1: the the tape fucking Modern museum, like you know what
- 27:32Speaker 1: I mean? Sorry, you didn't get the top bailing.
- 27:36Speaker 2: Now do you want to have your head? Your head
- 27:40Speaker 2: shot off?
- 27:41Speaker 1: From two hundred meters away with a brazuka. Okay, I mean,
- 27:45Speaker 1: even if you believe in the afterlife or whatever, you
- 27:47Speaker 1: assume that your soul has left the hold scenario, You're like,
- 27:49Speaker 1: it's not just a little uncomfortable with the whole notion
- 27:51Speaker 1: of it, or your little your loved one getting shot
- 27:55Speaker 1: like fucking hundred Hunter s. Thompson out of a fucking
- 27:58Speaker 1: cannon into right and hit the side of the moon,
- 28:01Speaker 1: or just been like you know, propped up weekend at
- 28:04Speaker 1: Bay Barney's style while some fucking jar head in Fort
- 28:09Speaker 1: Bragg hawks grenades at you just to see, you know
- 28:13Speaker 1: it goes and just tests knives to see how easy
- 28:16Speaker 1: you can take lumps out of what kind of grenade
- 28:19Speaker 1: thrown you call that?
- 28:20Speaker 3: Sorry, sir, I'll hit them with the next one.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Bernie's gonna be here for a fucking month with your
- 28:25Speaker 1: with your weak ass arm. These corpses aren't getting any
- 28:28Speaker 1: fresher private. I can tolerate nearly all of that, right
- 28:32Speaker 1: if I knew, you know, if I knew that was happening,
- 28:33Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well, look I put myself forward
- 28:36Speaker 1: for but what what's killing me in this whole story?
- 28:38Speaker 1: Jar is the skull Doug Ray involve in it, right, because.
- 28:43Speaker 3: Be a bit more honest about it, and even like.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Be a bit more honest. But here's the fucking thing.
- 28:48Speaker 1: These people donate, donate starity, which there's almost none of
- 28:54Speaker 1: an American. They donate their body to this to a cause.
- 29:00Speaker 1: And then the medical This is where it gets creepy,
- 29:04Speaker 1: creepy in the your fucking bastards. The medical institution sells
- 29:09Speaker 1: you for it up to six seven thousand, depending on
- 29:12Speaker 1: I suppose on the oddity of your death.
- 29:15Speaker 2: They sell.
- 29:16Speaker 1: They make like the army pays the medical and you
- 29:19Speaker 1: don't see a bean of that. Like there's ones that
- 29:22Speaker 1: have been soldier for a huge money. I was looking
- 29:25Speaker 1: through it and it's not just it's not just the army,
- 29:27Speaker 1: like there's there was one one there came to light
- 29:31Speaker 1: there last year and a fello had been had sold
- 29:33Speaker 1: Nana or sold the wife or vice versa. And the
- 29:36Speaker 1: next thing he went on basic tour like the fucking
- 29:41Speaker 1: rolling stones. They brought him to all these different conventions
- 29:44Speaker 1: for fucking I suppose surgeons that wanted to see it
- 29:49Speaker 1: was no longer being done with just a flip chart
- 29:52Speaker 1: or they actually had a body in and they would
- 29:54Speaker 1: wheel him around. Yeah, literally just laminated him. And rather
- 30:01Speaker 1: than you know, you didn't just pay, they give something
- 30:03Speaker 1: like fifty eight thousand and then mass if money was
- 30:06Speaker 1: made on ticket prices. The tickets were two hundred feet
- 30:09Speaker 1: ahead to go watch this body being fucking opened up
- 30:13Speaker 1: and reopened up. And what your man's kind of game
- 30:17Speaker 1: was like or whoever? You know, the partner was like,
- 30:19Speaker 1: hold on, I don't need it. We don't hate our body.
- 30:21Speaker 1: And there's hundreds of thousands been handed over now for
- 30:24Speaker 1: as a result of the body.
- 30:26Speaker 3: Yeah, can you not kick a wee bit back up
- 30:27Speaker 3: the road there?
- 30:28Speaker 2: But just that's my argument.
- 30:29Speaker 1: It's like if you will, if you're going to do it,
- 30:32Speaker 1: I mean, that's all with our beakon you know anything.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Tom, right, you know it's a okay
- 30:39Speaker 1: donate your body to medical science.
- 30:41Speaker 3: Yes, I willingly do that. If they just changed the
- 30:43Speaker 3: wording of a donate your body to military science. And
- 30:46Speaker 3: it's like, now, hang on, no, if I can hear now.
- 30:49Speaker 2: Military science you say, But Tom.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Here's here's the question.
- 30:54Speaker 3: What would you like to donate your body too? I'll
- 30:57Speaker 3: give you a little second there, because I got one
- 30:59Speaker 3: in the chamber here audio all right, Like I don't
- 31:02Speaker 3: know that the medical science, don't get me wrong, But
- 31:04Speaker 3: I'm not just gonna like, you know, tell have flamethrower
- 31:07Speaker 3: tested on me either. But if you need a body,
- 31:09Speaker 3: if you need a body.
- 31:11Speaker 1: For testing roller coasters, sign mc bright up.
- 31:15Speaker 3: All right, when I shuffle off this mortal kyle, you know,
- 31:18Speaker 3: in a fortnight or three weeks right just wherever you're
- 31:21Speaker 3: building the latest and greatest looply loop or kind of thing,
- 31:24Speaker 3: and you need to know if it's got like height
- 31:26Speaker 3: clearance and it's not going to fucking lop someone's arms
- 31:29Speaker 3: off when they go into a tunnel. Sign me up,
- 31:32Speaker 3: Prop me up, hands on, sticks up as high as
- 31:34Speaker 3: we'll go, and just wheel me around that thing. You
- 31:37Speaker 3: can't even put a week grin on your face if
- 31:39Speaker 3: you like, just check does the camera machine work? And
- 31:43Speaker 3: take the picture and send it back to my family.
- 31:45Speaker 1: Look at their chair, you there a great time? Look
- 31:47Speaker 1: at them? Yeah, I want something more obscure than that,
- 31:50Speaker 1: even I want to, like, I want him to use
- 31:53Speaker 1: my body to see if climbers, you know, up at Everest,
- 31:58Speaker 1: much like the Simpsons.
- 31:59Speaker 2: Can you use my kids? Frozen kid?
- 32:01Speaker 1: Ever as bob slid the whole way down, and a
- 32:06Speaker 1: corpse be used as a Bob slid. We took one
- 32:09Speaker 1: dead man from.
- 32:11Speaker 3: Middle of Ireland and you've got the handlebar, mustaches and everorting.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Tom, it looked a hard coming down the hill.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Just put a set of pit vipers on my over
- 32:20Speaker 1: my eyes, like just my two thumbs up. I see.
- 32:25Speaker 3: We'll be skewing the research times. You'd be, you'd be,
- 32:27Speaker 3: you'd be anchored into the snow with your massive balls,
- 32:29Speaker 3: so it'll be just dragging you back.
- 32:34Speaker 1: We need a smaller specimen with smaller balls. Where's his
- 32:37Speaker 1: podcast partners, He's still alive.
- 32:40Speaker 2: What's wrong with this guy?
- 32:41Speaker 1: What what happened is it's been bitten by something?
- 32:44Speaker 2: Is that what he died of? He got bitten by
- 32:46Speaker 2: something down here?
- 32:46Speaker 1: The giant fucking testes hanging off the back end cut
- 32:49Speaker 1: him off.
- 32:52Speaker 2: We'll use him as a break.
- 32:53Speaker 3: Put the two segments together, Tom, right, get you and
- 32:56Speaker 3: me our corpses donated to cheese wheels science. Okay, all right,
- 33:02Speaker 3: And just before before even the cheese rolling starts, it's like, okay, everybody,
- 33:06Speaker 3: we just want to let you know what you're getting into.
- 33:09Speaker 3: So Tom and Jerry have kind of done out of
- 33:11Speaker 3: the body bodies of signs. We're just gonna fuck these
- 33:13Speaker 3: bodies down the hill right now. Watch what happens to them.
- 33:16Speaker 3: And if that's something you're still up for, then we
- 33:18Speaker 3: will be cheese rolling in a half an hour two two.
- 33:20Speaker 2: And I wather.
- 33:26Speaker 1: To play like Back in Black or something, as we
- 33:29Speaker 1: just just bounce, and we just bounce on every fucking beat,
- 33:33Speaker 1: just the whole way down, and proper eyes open like
- 33:36Speaker 1: spray and proper like glued to.
- 33:38Speaker 2: Keep your eyes open.
- 33:39Speaker 1: It's pulled smiles on our faces so that we just
- 33:41Speaker 1: menacely and terrifyingly just bounce with smiles on our faces
- 33:44Speaker 1: the who way down.
- 33:46Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Tom, put us. Put us in the movies, Okay,
- 33:48Speaker 3: put us in the movies, like you know, the next
- 33:50Speaker 3: Marvel movie, like with tour Lands with the hammer and
- 33:52Speaker 3: like he smashes his guy in the face.
- 33:54Speaker 1: He's like, wow, that's great special effects. No, that's my bread.
- 33:58Speaker 2: I played it. I actually played it inad body. I
- 34:00Speaker 2: got recognized for it. Somebody. I was some weird level fan.
- 34:05Speaker 1: I was in the TV show called ve Knows It
- 34:07Speaker 1: Vexed and the guy he's popped up loads of times.
- 34:11Speaker 2: He would play the baddy in Go What's It Gold?
- 34:14Speaker 2: And I think he played the baddy.
- 34:15Speaker 1: In Oh Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I know the guy he
- 34:17Speaker 1: was in.
- 34:18Speaker 3: You told me this, he was in dianother day Diana
- 34:20Speaker 3: that the name escapes me right there, very second, anonymously,
- 34:23Speaker 3: very nice fella.
- 34:23Speaker 1: And I played a dead buddy in the back of
- 34:27Speaker 1: the car and somebody recognized me after a gig went
- 34:30Speaker 1: did you you played Carl Such? I didn't even know
- 34:33Speaker 1: my character's name. They were like, did you play Carl
- 34:35Speaker 1: such and such dead in the boot of Karl on
- 34:37Speaker 1: vexed like episode Jesus Christ might? Okay, you clearly watch
- 34:43Speaker 1: more television than I do at right? And I know
- 34:46Speaker 1: they paid me four hundred and fifty ears to sit
- 34:48Speaker 1: in the boot of a car for today. They were
- 34:49Speaker 1: very nice.
- 34:49Speaker 2: They kept bringing me tea.
- 34:51Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you, Tomas who books that.
- 34:56Speaker 2: One of the best is my life?
- 34:57Speaker 3: Actually, well listen, oh okay, the best days of your
- 35:01Speaker 3: life so far, Tom, The best days of our life, Tom,
- 35:03Speaker 3: have been many and several because neither you or I
- 35:07Speaker 3: getting any younger, buddy, that's just a cold hard fact.
- 35:11Speaker 3: And as we say, on The Tom and Jerry Show.
- 35:13Speaker 3: We've seen a lot in our forty odd years in
- 35:14Speaker 3: this life. Born in the early eighties and now here
- 35:17Speaker 3: we are on twenty twenty five. We've seen always die
- 35:20Speaker 3: off and new ways come along. Tom and we reminisce
- 35:23Speaker 3: on the things that we've seen in a segment that
- 35:25Speaker 3: we call we Remember When.
- 35:28Speaker 1: When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or
- 35:31Speaker 1: forty years ago.
- 35:33Speaker 2: This hits hard? What just does this hit hits hard?
- 35:36Speaker 1: Because again another thing that has just crept into our lives,
- 35:40Speaker 1: and that's you'll find the team of that. It's almost
- 35:42Speaker 1: Mandela effects what we're talking about. Everything wasn't it wasn't here,
- 35:45Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it was here, and
- 35:47Speaker 1: now we all believe they were here all along they weren't.
- 35:50Speaker 2: No, and Jerry made.
- 35:51Speaker 1: A very like we hit each other like three or
- 35:54Speaker 1: four of them this week, and we went for this
- 35:56Speaker 1: one because Jerry was right. It was like, you know what,
- 35:58Speaker 1: this is fresh and it was fresh from as well,
- 36:00Speaker 1: because we.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Both have youngsters, and.
- 36:05Speaker 1: Anybody who even doesn't you at the moment will go
- 36:09Speaker 1: fucking yeah. Playgrounds.
- 36:14Speaker 3: Most of my day is Tom exactly exactly the playground
- 36:20Speaker 3: you see now on the outskirts of pretty much every town, village, city, hamlet,
- 36:27Speaker 3: borough in this country. Ah, that ain't what it used
- 36:32Speaker 3: to be, Tom.
- 36:32Speaker 1: These are massive canceled funded climbing frame spinning a jig
- 36:39Speaker 1: zip line.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Rist unbelievably not what we had in there.
- 36:46Speaker 1: You wouldn't have any change out of quarter of a
- 36:49Speaker 1: million for a part of a one.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Now.
- 36:51Speaker 1: I remember when these came came. I can remember the
- 36:55Speaker 1: very year they started coming.
- 36:57Speaker 3: I can imagine, Tom, knowing your history, you might have
- 36:59Speaker 3: had a and in some of this.
- 37:01Speaker 1: I fucking didn't, and I put in I put in
- 37:04Speaker 1: more tenders for these because for me, I was like,
- 37:07Speaker 1: these are cotton dry. The money that's been offered for
- 37:11Speaker 1: these things these because the council will put out these
- 37:13Speaker 1: tenders and if you're wondering what I'm talking about, they
- 37:16Speaker 1: would put up specification and what they need built and loads.
- 37:19Speaker 1: You can do it. If you wanted to build a house,
- 37:21Speaker 1: build you can put it up on a tender website
- 37:23Speaker 1: and go who have at it? Who wants to give
- 37:26Speaker 1: me your best price? And the county council would more
- 37:28Speaker 1: often than not have their own tender page and you'd
- 37:30Speaker 1: go through it and you go, no, can't touch that.
- 37:32Speaker 2: Never seen that. I don't know what that is?
- 37:33Speaker 1: Well to do that, I don't know how to do that.
- 37:35Speaker 1: That's a bridge I can build that. That's such such
- 37:37Speaker 1: I'll put a price in for that and I'll break
- 37:39Speaker 1: it down. And you know, and all the rest of
- 37:40Speaker 1: these playgrounds I was looking on. They want what And
- 37:44Speaker 1: then you're looking and you go, oh geez, because I mean,
- 37:47Speaker 1: if you did not have experience in these things. The
- 37:50Speaker 1: first few lads were all German that were coming in
- 37:53Speaker 1: doing these because they had to be claim proof. Sure, well,
- 37:59Speaker 1: yea more or less in a second, that's what they
- 38:01Speaker 1: have to be. So when you look at them, you're like,
- 38:04Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, we can only put these up, but we'll
- 38:06Speaker 1: get one of these at home. The thing you will
- 38:07Speaker 1: ever get at home is only ever going to be
- 38:11Speaker 1: the whatever version, the team version of what these things.
- 38:15Speaker 1: These are.
- 38:16Speaker 2: The ferraris the.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Over engineering that goes into these things, like the swings,
- 38:20Speaker 1: the things like that. Don't get me wrong, A kid
- 38:23Speaker 1: could still split itself somewhere, but by Jesus Christ, they
- 38:25Speaker 1: have to dry right hard.
- 38:27Speaker 3: There's one swing down at our local playground, and it's
- 38:30Speaker 3: one of these big buckets wings and I can see
- 38:32Speaker 3: that there's a fail safe on it that if the
- 38:34Speaker 3: rope breaks, there's like a second fail safe.
- 38:36Speaker 2: Stop to catch it.
- 38:37Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 38:38Speaker 3: So it's this kind of thing. And guys, if you've
- 38:42Speaker 3: got kids, then you know what we're talking about. If
- 38:44Speaker 3: you don't have kids, then at least you have seen
- 38:46Speaker 3: these things. I have kids, and I noticed nobody had
- 38:50Speaker 3: never been in one until I had children.
- 38:51Speaker 1: That spent the last ten years, and that would have
- 38:53Speaker 1: been weird. Yeah yeah, yeah, well I tell you not that.
- 38:56Speaker 1: You see, I was in one two weeks ago. I
- 38:58Speaker 1: have to tell you this story because popped into my head.
- 39:01Speaker 1: And this is when you know, like there are stages
- 39:03Speaker 1: two children's personality, and this is sometimes you can see
- 39:06Speaker 1: little semblances of oh is he going to be a
- 39:08Speaker 1: guest bastard? Is he a complete messer? Or maybe it's
- 39:11Speaker 1: just a quiet let me because to head down. I
- 39:13Speaker 1: h yeah, I got a quick snapshot into what I'm
- 39:16Speaker 1: going to be dealing with because we were in a
- 39:18Speaker 1: petro station in from oil that has a mini one
- 39:22Speaker 1: of these things. Mother had gone inside. I said, oh, okay,
- 39:26Speaker 1: there's one you want to have a go the a
- 39:28Speaker 1: train and a couple of things.
- 39:29Speaker 2: On that there was. He went out and immediately befriended
- 39:32Speaker 2: this little boy who had this lovely little lessent. He
- 39:36Speaker 2: sounded like something of Peppa Pig.
- 39:38Speaker 1: And my influst is looking on and then looked at
- 39:41Speaker 1: me and went, who's that guy over there? I'm standing
- 39:44Speaker 1: with a pair of sunglass on handle barmustache arms fold
- 39:47Speaker 1: that stand in the corner of a playground and I
- 39:49Speaker 1: can hear him tell that other boy out loud, who's
- 39:53Speaker 1: that impostor in the playground and roaring laughing. I'm like,
- 39:57Speaker 1: who's he? And he starts roaring laughing and he goes,
- 40:00Speaker 1: look at him.
- 40:01Speaker 2: He shouldn't be here, Oh, what are you doing here?
- 40:04Speaker 2: Lifted the glass. I'm like, do you Yeah. I'm like, dude,
- 40:07Speaker 2: cut the ship if you ever want to go on one.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Of these again, because I'm want to joking, it's my daddy,
- 40:11Speaker 1: that's my daddy, that's my that's my daddy. Yeah, or
- 40:14Speaker 1: you can write on your daddy cut that ship.
- 40:16Speaker 2: If you ever want to see the inside of one
- 40:17Speaker 2: of these playground is deadly.
- 40:19Speaker 1: That is that as fast like put the I mean
- 40:23Speaker 1: properly put the ships up me like, I'm like, oh
- 40:25Speaker 1: you before I know what, I'm on the register just
- 40:28Speaker 1: because this guy was having fucking a good orders having
- 40:31Speaker 1: the bands. I gotta tell you at this stage, Tom,
- 40:33Speaker 1: now ever, what descended on the nation that decided that
- 40:36Speaker 1: everyone should have playgrounds? I just want to stress it
- 40:38Speaker 1: at this point, I'm all for it. I'm not like
- 40:40Speaker 1: scrap these things. This should be, this should be. Ah,
- 40:43Speaker 1: they're great dump inside.
- 40:44Speaker 3: No, it's a great thing. And then for kids to
- 40:46Speaker 3: go and play. And I guess they figured out, like
- 40:48Speaker 3: you know, fucking free either you know, the kids either
- 40:51Speaker 3: have something like this that they can play at or
- 40:54Speaker 3: they're messing and they're doing whatever.
- 40:57Speaker 2: I'll tell you how they come about.
- 40:58Speaker 1: They come about from a very good politicians getting the
- 41:00Speaker 1: things put in place, and they come about. They're a
- 41:02Speaker 1: great taxing center for large multinationals that are in your
- 41:07Speaker 1: local area who need to get rid of a load
- 41:08Speaker 1: of tax money in the form of charity. And it's
- 41:12Speaker 1: one often you'd find there's a nominated charity where they'll.
- 41:14Speaker 2: Go, could you build it's a playground to go cool.
- 41:16Speaker 2: We turned over three million last year, thanks very much.
- 41:20Speaker 1: And I'd like to just and we'd like to not
- 41:22Speaker 1: pay all of that in tax, and we would like
- 41:24Speaker 1: to keep our employees and local people.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Sweet because we're going building a fucking another load. So
- 41:28Speaker 2: let's build you this.
- 41:30Speaker 3: I can only imagine Tom like for a politician, it's
- 41:32Speaker 3: easy vote. Remember put in the playground. Remember I fix
- 41:34Speaker 3: the road and put in the playground.
- 41:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 41:36Speaker 3: But here's the thing, as the kids say, these days,
- 41:40Speaker 3: they didn't have to do all that. You didn't have
- 41:42Speaker 3: to put in like an orbitron. You didn't have to
- 41:45Speaker 3: put in a freaking Rapunzel's castle six stories high. Who
- 41:50Speaker 3: would have slide nine miles long that loops around six
- 41:54Speaker 3: or eight times and spits it out into a sand
- 41:55Speaker 3: pit which you.
- 41:57Speaker 1: Didn't have to build, you know, helping safety level at
- 42:01Speaker 1: you know Schillob's fucking web web Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're
- 42:06Speaker 1: like Jesus, Marry and Joseph. Even the cabling alone in
- 42:10Speaker 1: this is about ten grand, like before you even coat it,
- 42:12Speaker 1: or before you do a thing. Yeah, before you do
- 42:14Speaker 1: a thing, mother God.
- 42:17Speaker 3: And you know that we watched these things sort of
- 42:20Speaker 3: crop up around Ireland and greatly welcome and all that.
- 42:24Speaker 3: We do remember Tom a time when they weren't there.
- 42:27Speaker 3: Ye Now, I know you grew up in quite a
- 42:29Speaker 3: rural part of Ireland and know why did as well?
- 42:31Speaker 1: Sorry to say.
- 42:33Speaker 3: There was and I can remember distinctly there was a
- 42:36Speaker 3: playground in Karc in Carc Town which we would never
- 42:39Speaker 3: stop at because that was kind of like that's for
- 42:42Speaker 3: the kids of that area, which we weren't from, so we.
- 42:45Speaker 1: Didn't stop it.
- 42:46Speaker 3: And I would drive past that as a as a
- 42:48Speaker 3: wee child, going like, I'm not asking for much.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Can I go into the god damn playground? Yeah?
- 42:53Speaker 2: And what did that playground?
- 42:54Speaker 1: Even?
- 42:55Speaker 2: Consisting to a slide? Mary go around.
- 42:58Speaker 3: Even maybe around a bit maybe, but definitely just a
- 43:02Speaker 3: swing and a slide.
- 43:02Speaker 1: That was about it.
- 43:04Speaker 3: There was another playground. Everybody that knows the area you
- 43:06Speaker 3: will know there was a playground in fork Hill on
- 43:08Speaker 3: your way to Jonesburg Market, and another one outside jones
- 43:11Speaker 3: Burgh itself because that was up the north end of
- 43:13Speaker 3: what they were doing they were putting in playground. Yeah yeah,
- 43:15Speaker 3: yeah in the eighties again Tom a swing and a
- 43:18Speaker 3: slide and a swing and a slide in jones Bur
- 43:21Speaker 3: as well. We would on occasion get to go to
- 43:23Speaker 3: those if we were going down to the Jonesborough Market
- 43:26Speaker 3: and I gotta tell you the days you got to them,
- 43:29Speaker 3: it was like nothing on the earth like Jesus Christ
- 43:31Speaker 3: swinging the slide, so all I want, that's it, swinging
- 43:33Speaker 3: and slide. You would burn the fucking metal shiny and
- 43:37Speaker 3: the slide.
- 43:37Speaker 1: I remember, David, there was I think they had one
- 43:40Speaker 1: in a small parking plant.
- 43:41Speaker 2: Like you get the odd go off it like, but
- 43:43Speaker 2: really odd go. You're sure ship weren't being brought to
- 43:45Speaker 2: go to the playground. I can tell you that like that.
- 43:48Speaker 1: We there are days where we go, let's go to
- 43:50Speaker 1: the playground further, you know, I mean even they've built
- 43:54Speaker 1: what they what they've you know, it's called the Fairy
- 43:56Speaker 1: Walk it so it's a great spot around the care Castle.
- 43:59Speaker 2: Shadow to Andy Maloney and the rest of them who got.
- 44:02Speaker 1: Unbelievable work to build these these incredible walks all around
- 44:06Speaker 1: the forest area around there. But they are halfway around
- 44:09Speaker 1: people go for their runs and stuff. They stuff like
- 44:11Speaker 1: you'd see in Venice's Beach, you know those yeah, body
- 44:14Speaker 1: weight pull up machines and all that body weight and
- 44:18Speaker 1: all of them. They even have a wheelchair one, you
- 44:19Speaker 1: know what I mean, where you can wheel the wheelchair
- 44:21Speaker 1: in and they're all weather things and stuff like that.
- 44:24Speaker 1: So even to that level, these things are around. But
- 44:28Speaker 1: I mean at most I remember the odds swing and
- 44:32Speaker 1: the odd slide and and if you think there's helping safety,
- 44:38Speaker 1: it was like I got belted in the chest in
- 44:41Speaker 1: the forehead with those things like the like really you had,
- 44:44Speaker 1: like we sound like such a you had to make
- 44:46Speaker 1: your own back in the day.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Likely have to make your own rope.
- 44:51Speaker 3: And we mentioned that spider web thing, the climbing frame
- 44:54Speaker 3: spider web in playgrounds these days. If there had been
- 44:57Speaker 3: one of them in the eighties when I was going
- 44:59Speaker 3: up you would have had to get me off that,
- 45:02Speaker 3: like getting prisoners down off a prison roof. I would
- 45:06Speaker 3: have never been off that thing. I'd have been up
- 45:08Speaker 3: there the whole time.
- 45:09Speaker 1: Forgets the thing, Jerry. In today's standards, they're dipped in
- 45:12Speaker 1: like a nyland.
- 45:13Speaker 2: They're beautifully coated.
- 45:16Speaker 1: If they were around you on your day, they were
- 45:18Speaker 1: the same cables that they were used for pulling fucking
- 45:20Speaker 1: owl ships. And that's where they got them from the
- 45:22Speaker 1: cables that they don't pull any ships with. And you
- 45:24Speaker 1: would have come home with rust bits of metal in
- 45:26Speaker 1: your body like the well.
- 45:29Speaker 3: Let's let's get into it, Tom, Let's get into what
- 45:32Speaker 3: we did have. We may not have had these council
- 45:35Speaker 3: funded vote suckers of playgrounds in our areas, but we
- 45:40Speaker 3: did have swings and perhaps maybe even a slide or
- 45:43Speaker 3: two in our locality. Because whereas we may not have
- 45:47Speaker 3: been brought to playgrounds all that often, sometimes the mountain
- 45:53Speaker 3: comes to Muhammed if you get me, yep, it's through
- 45:56Speaker 3: and our dad, with some poles and a wee bit
- 46:00Speaker 3: of welder knowledge.
- 46:01Speaker 1: Made us a swing.
- 46:04Speaker 3: Now, if you think there wasn't much help and safety
- 46:07Speaker 3: in where they all scattered the polls, I'm thinking.
- 46:11Speaker 1: Back, I'm like, where did he get them poles? Like
- 46:13Speaker 1: you know, it was.
- 46:15Speaker 3: Like it's one of the kind of thing that you
- 46:18Speaker 3: remember distinctly. There was at least twelve foot high with
- 46:20Speaker 3: an eleven foot chain. So think about that as like
- 46:22Speaker 3: a foot off the ground, right. I remember as years
- 46:25Speaker 3: went by and we got bigger, you had to get
- 46:27Speaker 3: the swing and sort of throw it over itself.
- 46:29Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 46:32Speaker 3: Go up e eight inches every time they turn it around,
- 46:35Speaker 3: and that left you up a wee bit. But the
- 46:38Speaker 3: arc on that was you think about an eleven foot
- 46:40Speaker 3: chain swinging off a twelve foot thing like today is
- 46:44Speaker 3: today's swings Health and safety seven foot tall with like
- 46:48Speaker 3: a six foot seven foot tall with like a five
- 46:50Speaker 3: foot chain.
- 46:50Speaker 2: So, yeah, you're here.
- 46:52Speaker 1: You're never going to get all that much more. Yeah,
- 46:53Speaker 1: you're probably getting like fifty degrees of difference between one
- 46:57Speaker 1: and the other.
- 46:57Speaker 2: Like you're going you're going to want to eighties.
- 47:01Speaker 1: Heady, baby, We are like a protractor. Okay.
- 47:04Speaker 3: And again it is by the grace of God and
- 47:07Speaker 3: fools that the weld on that thing held for twelve
- 47:11Speaker 3: years because I was not gentle with it.
- 47:14Speaker 1: Tom. We had because the site need to be drained
- 47:18Speaker 1: around here, so we had the out fly had there
- 47:21Speaker 1: must have been foot There must be nearly two foot
- 47:24Speaker 1: concrete pipes, a few of them liner, Yes, yes, yes,
- 47:27Speaker 1: there was.
- 47:27Speaker 2: He rolled a few of them together.
- 47:29Speaker 1: So there was kind of a climby up there, or
- 47:31Speaker 1: you know, a little tunnel you go through to feel
- 47:33Speaker 1: like a hobbit or whatever, but also to be a
- 47:35Speaker 1: scattering board thrown on it and you make a seesaw.
- 47:39Speaker 2: Now, concrete and timber.
- 47:42Speaker 1: Fine fine bedfellows. But when you want to fucking seesaw
- 47:46Speaker 1: up and down, you get a heavier lane.
- 47:47Speaker 2: You gotta just sit a bit closer to it. You
- 47:50Speaker 2: at some stage.
- 47:51Speaker 1: Are going to hold on a bit too close to
- 47:54Speaker 1: the point of connection. Yes, and all of a sudden, ah,
- 47:58Speaker 1: maybe three on either hand are getting squeished. Yeah on
- 48:03Speaker 1: a pipe see seesaws today, or like you sit into
- 48:06Speaker 1: it like a saddle of a motorbike and it's got
- 48:08Speaker 1: a little handle bar to hold on.
- 48:11Speaker 3: Listen, it's rubber coated spring and everybody's all goot. But no,
- 48:15Speaker 3: back in the day, it was a barrel and a plank.
- 48:17Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 48:18Speaker 1: Yeah, And this isn't like a and we loved it
- 48:20Speaker 1: podcast No, and we enjoyed it. Looking back, I don't
- 48:25Speaker 1: know how we survived it.
- 48:27Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 48:27Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I definitely have finger issues as a
- 48:30Speaker 1: result getting caught in between the timber and the concrete pipe.
- 48:34Speaker 1: There's no give in either one of them. This is
- 48:36Speaker 1: the scaffold, the board and concrete. There's no give in
- 48:39Speaker 1: either one. Tom.
- 48:40Speaker 3: Every now and then you would invent a swing yourself.
- 48:44Speaker 3: This These were unsanctioned swings and slides. You know your
- 48:48Speaker 3: dare might build you a swing or like a slide.
- 48:52Speaker 3: I gotta tell you one thing, Tom. Sheets of galvanized
- 48:54Speaker 3: flat sheets of galvanized became the go to for slides
- 48:58Speaker 3: in Ireland. If you had inch box metal, a sheet
- 49:01Speaker 3: of black galvanize, a couple of rivets, you got a
- 49:04Speaker 3: slide going on. Baby, you got you got a slide
- 49:07Speaker 3: going on again? How I live through those things, I'll
- 49:09Speaker 3: never know looking back and now. But then every now
- 49:12Speaker 3: and then you get a little bit of divomind and
- 49:14Speaker 3: you decide I'm going to make something myself. Now, all
- 49:18Speaker 3: you need is good bail and twine, good rope if
- 49:22Speaker 3: you got it as you grew up in a bail
- 49:23Speaker 3: and twine the year when you're little, as you grew
- 49:25Speaker 3: up there, you need gonna eat good rope. Luckily, I
- 49:27Speaker 3: don't know why about those rope everywhere around the fucking house?
- 49:30Speaker 1: Right yeah?
- 49:32Speaker 3: I made myself this thing Tom with with a with
- 49:34Speaker 3: a ten gallon with a ten gallon drum, right nice.
- 49:38Speaker 3: So if you can imagine a ten gallon drum, you
- 49:39Speaker 3: tie a rope to.
- 49:40Speaker 2: It, right yeah, Antony Andle you throw that rope.
- 49:43Speaker 1: Over like the the girder of a shed. How I
- 49:47Speaker 1: did this? I don't know. This is the opening of
- 49:49Speaker 1: a movie. This is gonna be one of the most
- 49:50Speaker 1: horrific movies you've ever seen. Right, this is this comes
- 49:53Speaker 1: together like the opening of an episode of Casually. Right,
- 49:56Speaker 1: how I got up to throw it over the girder
- 49:58Speaker 1: of a barn? I don't know, right, but you're watch
- 50:00Speaker 1: me doing it now, right?
- 50:01Speaker 2: I know what you did? You tie this stick to
- 50:02Speaker 2: the end of that rope. Did you drew it up
- 50:04Speaker 2: and fucked it over? Yeah, because you're never going to
- 50:05Speaker 2: throw that rope over it.
- 50:08Speaker 3: And then I would sit on the on the barrel, yeah,
- 50:11Speaker 3: and with the other side of the rope, I would
- 50:13Speaker 3: sort of pull and that yeah yeah, that motion would
- 50:16Speaker 3: lift me up to the roof.
- 50:17Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I would pulling
- 50:19Speaker 1: myself twenty feet in the air.
- 50:22Speaker 2: Amazing core strength. Like when you think of what a
- 50:24Speaker 2: child can do when they want like a fun.
- 50:26Speaker 1: Like now all it.
- 50:28Speaker 3: Think about what I'm saying, Tom, Like, oh, I didn't
- 50:30Speaker 3: understand friction, rope, fraying, all the things that when you've
- 50:36Speaker 3: just thrown rope over a square grider, rusty square garrider.
- 50:42Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, just.
- 50:43Speaker 1: Look at that.
- 50:43Speaker 3: So sort of like see sawing over and back against it,
- 50:46Speaker 3: fraying with everything I hear like ten year old me
- 50:48Speaker 3: just pulling myself like twenty final destination written all over
- 50:51Speaker 3: the shit, final destination written all over and then.
- 50:54Speaker 1: Upturned rakes everywhere, all over the fucking garage exactly.
- 50:57Speaker 3: And then and then I'd let myself back down and
- 50:59Speaker 3: I'd use it as a sway. But as you swing,
- 51:01Speaker 3: you pull the rope and it hoisted you.
- 51:05Speaker 1: Up a little bit more.
- 51:05Speaker 3: You seem saying, give you ada the extra swing weeks, Tom,
- 51:11Speaker 3: I did that ship for weeks at least.
- 51:15Speaker 1: You were never going to get the unless you could
- 51:17Speaker 1: actually measure it in links. You're never really going to
- 51:20Speaker 1: get a two sided, you know, swing right, you know,
- 51:25Speaker 1: to be hanging off a tree, hanging off You're never
- 51:27Speaker 1: going to get it right unless you can count the links.
- 51:29Speaker 1: So what you typically would find lads would do would
- 51:32Speaker 1: be once one bit of a rope hanging off a branch,
- 51:35Speaker 1: a hole drilled in a bit of four but two
- 51:38Speaker 1: and not putting underneath that, and you throw your two
- 51:40Speaker 1: legs either side of that, either side, and hold on
- 51:43Speaker 1: to the rope because at least then you go when
- 51:45Speaker 1: I don't need to be I can be balanced because
- 51:46Speaker 1: it's right in the middle and I'm never I will.
- 51:49Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 51:50Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I was CTE as a result of
- 51:52Speaker 1: this moment. But I went over to my friend's house
- 51:56Speaker 1: and they were gone, and I had a feeling they
- 51:58Speaker 1: were coming back soon enough, so I just hung about.
- 52:01Speaker 1: And they had one of these and they always had
- 52:02Speaker 1: amazing oak line driveway nice. And they had one of
- 52:08Speaker 1: these oak branches, unbelievable branch. I always had a swing
- 52:12Speaker 1: after that, exact same type of swing. I'm fucking swinging
- 52:15Speaker 1: on halving the time my life fell off for a
- 52:17Speaker 1: few times, no bother as young fellers do, you made
- 52:20Speaker 1: fun with things. So now I want to see how
- 52:23Speaker 1: high I can just fuck it with one hand like
- 52:26Speaker 1: an American football quarterback? How figh can I just catch
- 52:30Speaker 1: his chunk of wood hung hanging from the tree? And
- 52:32Speaker 1: how far up can I get it? Can? I knocked
- 52:34Speaker 1: that a corner off and they drove. They turned in
- 52:38Speaker 1: the gate on one of my one of my throws,
- 52:41Speaker 1: I turned look back, and I mean, like something out
- 52:44Speaker 1: of Home Alone, Home Alone. It met me, not on
- 52:48Speaker 1: the shoulder, right between the fucking eyes, I mean for
- 52:54Speaker 1: like the thoughts of it. Now, if it hit me,
- 52:57Speaker 1: I would that would be it.
- 52:59Speaker 2: I just that'd be it. I would never be able
- 53:01Speaker 2: to speak.
- 53:02Speaker 1: Something would have There's no way the body recovers that
- 53:06Speaker 1: with that speed. Your brain as well included.
- 53:09Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm pretty sure people will argue.
- 53:11Speaker 1: That I shaved a few fucking IQ points off of
- 53:13Speaker 1: me that day, but I was left with like a
- 53:15Speaker 1: golf ball, not yes, And this will tell you a
- 53:18Speaker 1: wild of a family these friends are. I could feel
- 53:23Speaker 1: this golf ball popping. Nobody noticed, no now, I was dazed.
- 53:27Speaker 2: For a good hour afterwards.
- 53:29Speaker 1: Nobody fucking noticed.
- 53:31Speaker 2: Their mother didn't notice my body.
- 53:35Speaker 1: We went out, and I'm pretty sure we've talked about
- 53:38Speaker 1: this in some stage. We went immediately out then because
- 53:40Speaker 1: what was scheduled for me and him that day was
- 53:42Speaker 1: when nobody was watching. They had calves in the barn
- 53:46Speaker 1: and we used to jump on their back into rodeo
- 53:47Speaker 1: and again making your own. We should probably say like,
- 53:52Speaker 1: don't try this at home, but never at this stage,
- 53:55Speaker 1: I will say, like, you know, if I saw my
- 53:56Speaker 1: children doing anything like what we're about to talk about,
- 53:59Speaker 1: I'd be like, forget about it.
- 54:00Speaker 3: That's why it's good that they have playgrounds.
- 54:01Speaker 1: You kids will find this to do elsewhere. Do you
- 54:04Speaker 1: know what their podcasts are going to be so boring
- 54:07Speaker 1: in thirty years.
- 54:08Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just I was just a playground that
- 54:10Speaker 3: it was bored, but it was.
- 54:12Speaker 2: A rubber everywhere.
- 54:13Speaker 1: Every time I fell over, I just bounced straight back
- 54:15Speaker 1: up onto my feet like it was fine. It's fine.
- 54:17Speaker 3: One thing, Tom, one thing that I always wanted to try,
- 54:19Speaker 3: and I see them in the playgrounds these days now,
- 54:21Speaker 3: is the zip line. I was a big zipline kid,
- 54:24Speaker 3: those ziplines on gladiators.
- 54:26Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 54:28Speaker 3: And I wanted nothing more in my life than to
- 54:30Speaker 3: hold on to something as it slid down a rope.
- 54:34Speaker 1: That's all I wanted in my life.
- 54:36Speaker 2: Many's the time we tried.
- 54:37Speaker 1: I tried it with many of the time, but we
- 54:38Speaker 1: never had the technology, do you know what I mean.
- 54:41Speaker 1: We had a couple of like you'd have maybe an
- 54:44Speaker 1: inch take a bit of stick, and we used to
- 54:47Speaker 1: tie it across the river and if you said, worst
- 54:48Speaker 1: case scenario, if you fall off, you fall on the river.
- 54:50Speaker 2: At least never worked.
- 54:52Speaker 1: I'd get like four feet and it would just flap
- 54:55Speaker 1: one way, burnt the hand off, myself, hit myself in
- 54:57Speaker 1: the head with the stick. Fall onto the bank and
- 54:58Speaker 1: into the river. Ever got it to work?
- 55:03Speaker 2: I cracked it, did you? I did with a pulley?
- 55:06Speaker 1: No, what where was I getting a polly?
- 55:08Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 55:09Speaker 3: Ideally with it with a zipline you would have like
- 55:11Speaker 3: pulleys and wheels and all the kind of thing and
- 55:12Speaker 3: the ziplines that have these days of all little ball bearing.
- 55:17Speaker 3: But I cracked. This was my one yeureka moment. You
- 55:20Speaker 3: were trying to balance a stick over a rope. No, brother,
- 55:25Speaker 3: what you wanted to do was thread something onto that
- 55:29Speaker 3: rope before.
- 55:30Speaker 1: You tied it up. Oh so you put a bit
- 55:32Speaker 1: of pipe on it, did you? I put a bit
- 55:34Speaker 1: of pipe on it. I put a bit.
- 55:35Speaker 3: I bought a bit of three quarter inch hydrate air
- 55:38Speaker 3: pipe and a bit onto the rope, tied the rope
- 55:42Speaker 3: up from the treehouse down.
- 55:45Speaker 1: And now when I held onto.
- 55:46Speaker 3: That pipe, I could successfully zipline. Oh God damn way downtown.
- 55:51Speaker 3: And I was delighted with myself. Jesus Christ, I've never
- 55:56Speaker 3: been happier before or since. And then again in my
- 56:01Speaker 3: old friend, friction came into it. But the edge of
- 56:04Speaker 3: the end of that pipe was most likely had a
- 56:06Speaker 3: little bit of burr on it.
- 56:07Speaker 1: I'd imagine the heat too would probably be generated. The
- 56:12Speaker 1: heat it generated.
- 56:14Speaker 3: It only happened after a long time time that eventually
- 56:17Speaker 3: it kind of cut a little channel into the pipe.
- 56:19Speaker 1: So if you can imagine, right, because I can.
- 56:23Speaker 3: Finally getting hotter and hotter every time I tried it,
- 56:25Speaker 3: because it was getting closer and close in the hands,
- 56:26Speaker 3: and eventually it burned through the pipe and more pipe,
- 56:31Speaker 3: and then you just got more pipe.
- 56:33Speaker 1: We just got more pipe the weekend going.
- 56:36Speaker 2: It's all that fucking pipe. Have a job for that.
- 56:39Speaker 3: Why is this kyle of pipe disappear in eighteen inches
- 56:41Speaker 3: at a time?
- 56:42Speaker 1: You know what.
- 56:44Speaker 2: We've rats.
- 56:46Speaker 3: But I gotta tell you anybody out there, I want
- 56:47Speaker 3: to build a zipline.
- 56:48Speaker 1: That's how you do it.
- 56:49Speaker 3: Do not build a zipline. Don't come at me for this.
- 56:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure there's there's going to be better on
- 56:54Speaker 1: Just google it as chat GBT tell you how to
- 56:57Speaker 1: do it.
- 56:57Speaker 2: Don't listen to me, Jeria, Listen. We're trying to give
- 56:59Speaker 2: you a cautionary detail here.
- 57:00Speaker 1: Of how you sidestep fucking dieing five hundred times a
- 57:03Speaker 1: year as a child.
- 57:04Speaker 3: The last one I'm gonna give you, Tom, and I
- 57:06Speaker 3: think this was.
- 57:09Speaker 1: This was a culture playground. I'm gonna call it that.
- 57:13Speaker 1: Oh Baales Bales baby, Yeah, even before you I just
- 57:16Speaker 1: even the way you said it forgot's sake. Yeah, if
- 57:19Speaker 1: you had, if you had Baal's whole, baby, you had
- 57:24Speaker 1: Pat Sharp's fun house. Right now, we're in the fucking
- 57:27Speaker 1: height of it.
- 57:28Speaker 2: Like we're in the height of you.
- 57:30Speaker 1: And that's why I generally believe I didn't have I
- 57:32Speaker 1: never suffered from hay fever. I either continuously all year
- 57:37Speaker 1: round or I never noticed it, or just as immune
- 57:41Speaker 1: because I've taken on so much hay dust as a child.
- 57:45Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I'm ninety percent hat dust. If you had
- 57:48Speaker 3: square Baals Strawberales, you could build a little maze, a
- 57:51Speaker 3: little fortune.
- 57:52Speaker 1: You think of the spelunk and we were doing climbing
- 57:55Speaker 1: on in.
- 57:55Speaker 3: Absolutely pitch darkness under like forts, Yeah.
- 58:01Speaker 1: I mean real, every child, every child going loves a fort.
- 58:06Speaker 1: And you'll build one in the kitchen when you're small
- 58:08Speaker 1: with a cheat and a couple of the backs of
- 58:10Speaker 1: a couple of chairs and you say no girls allowed it,
- 58:12Speaker 1: or no buy's allowed.
- 58:13Speaker 2: Whatever.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Can you imagine as in urban dwell right now, going yeah,
- 58:17Speaker 1: that's what my our childhood was. We had lego bricks
- 58:21Speaker 1: the size of ourselves. Yeah yeah, yeah.
- 58:26Speaker 2: Water the time didn't really hurt.
- 58:28Speaker 1: But if there were a hint fucking damp or a
- 58:30Speaker 1: bail was set to set to do them real tight.
- 58:32Speaker 1: Those fucking things got heavy, they came at you, they
- 58:35Speaker 1: came when they fell on you, you.
- 58:38Speaker 3: Do it, and we'd be doing like big you know,
- 58:42Speaker 3: w WF dives off the kind of crack and then
- 58:45Speaker 3: when round baals came along, time buddy jump back had
- 58:49Speaker 3: of tire. Jumping on round baials was some of the
- 58:52Speaker 3: most fun I've ever had as a child. It would
- 58:55Speaker 3: only happen, you know, towards the end of sillage season.
- 58:58Speaker 3: The big round black bails of sillage or soft they
- 59:01Speaker 3: get warm in the heat, they get they get kind
- 59:04Speaker 3: of bouncy, and we just get up on them and
- 59:06Speaker 3: run around and like do laps and make big, massive
- 59:09Speaker 3: leaps and dives. Now what we'd be doing is we'd
- 59:11Speaker 3: be tearing the bills with our.
- 59:13Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and beat the live and fuck out if
- 59:15Speaker 1: you hands and because now he's got to go around
- 59:18Speaker 1: with because that will for anybody wondering that hole there's
- 59:21Speaker 1: a there's maybe four or five layers, if not more,
- 59:24Speaker 1: of this stuff, but a little child's shoot can cut
- 59:27Speaker 1: through all those and if you do, you'll it will
- 59:30Speaker 1: rot in one straight line from one side to the
- 59:33Speaker 1: fuck another. And they're supposed to be cracked open in January,
- 59:35Speaker 1: you know what I mean, December January, like they were
- 59:37Speaker 1: to feed hungry cows.
- 59:38Speaker 3: So like you know, we we we we played with
- 59:40Speaker 3: caution so we didn't take the pests out of it.
- 59:42Speaker 3: When the when the round bales landed across the road,
- 59:44Speaker 3: we would play on them one still and then you
- 59:47Speaker 3: knew to put them down away from because straw.
- 59:50Speaker 1: Hey, you know, all you were doing was getting shouted
- 59:52Speaker 1: at for maybe killing yourself, you know, are breaking the
- 59:55Speaker 1: body part. Like there's no detriment really to jumping on those.
- 59:59Speaker 1: But the problem with the they were rollable. And now
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: you've got kids going, Okay, so you're Indiana Jones and
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: this is the rock start fucking running. I'm not going to.
- 1:00:12Speaker 3: Stand here on the Tom and Jerry podcast and say
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: that I have never almost been crushed by a rolling.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've had one go over me. I've I.
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: Put the hard across several hardened farmers.
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: Yeah, we get that.
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: Get out of the big right.
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: But there you go, guys, the playgrounds that you know
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: today ain't the playgrounds we knew back then. If you
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: had some secretive playground method that you'd love to share
- 1:00:44Speaker 3: with The Tom and Jerry Show, we would love to
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: hear it, don't you know, Because we are getting some
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: lovely comments and they're starting to they're starting to roll in. Tom,
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: I got a lovely one here on Instagram the other
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: day from one.
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: Of our guys.
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: He says, he's listened to us for a long time
- 1:00:58Speaker 3: and it helps us get through fifteen hour nights out trucking,
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: you know.
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: So there you go.
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: We're not putting people to sleep. We're providing a valuable service.
- 1:01:07Speaker 3: And he even went back and revisited some of the
- 1:01:09Speaker 3: old deep dives that we did, which we highly recommend
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: to anybody. Yeah, you know, you want to go back
- 1:01:14Speaker 3: and listen to the whole lot again, we'll take that
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- 1:01:24Speaker 3: she chimes in. She says, for the sixth week in
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- 1:03:33Speaker 3: All right, Tom, I'm gonna truck on here, buddy, but
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- 1:03:41Speaker 1: Might actually watch it with a cup of tea. You
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- 1:03:46Speaker 1: I watched it earlier with the kind of tropical blast
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