Latest / The Tom & Gerry Show Podcast / Episode 31: My Fellow Americans
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- 0:00Speaker 1: M hm.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Hm hm. I was gonna Tom, I was gonna say
- 0:11Speaker 2: dearly beloved. No, the title of this episode is my
- 0:13Speaker 2: Fellow Americans. Although it would be it would be unusual
- 0:17Speaker 2: for a president to take to the stand the podiums,
- 0:21Speaker 2: I'm my dearly beloved. You know, as things are turning out, Tom,
- 0:26Speaker 2: anything possible, and.
- 0:28Speaker 1: It is possible, Jared, the soap opera that is going on,
- 0:31Speaker 1: you know, well, I've kind of missed a lot of
- 0:34Speaker 1: the whole thing. It would seem a lot of people
- 0:37Speaker 1: be quite concerned and invested in this in the scenario.
- 0:40Speaker 1: But anyway, either way, I'm up to me whole in
- 0:42Speaker 1: sawdust and everything else. So like, you know, that's where
- 0:46Speaker 1: my life is at at the minute. And the wife
- 0:50Speaker 1: is talking about getting too little dogs and I haven't
- 0:52Speaker 1: we haven't even moved into Jesus Christ. And then they
- 0:56Speaker 1: go to a parent teacher meet last night and to
- 0:58Speaker 1: an a parent teacher meet thats all to his appearancessociation thing,
- 1:00Speaker 1: and I'm tapped me up for comedy club tickets and
- 1:02Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there, going and what do we think
- 1:04Speaker 1: about the day, And I'm going, I don't think about it.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I can't think about anything at all at all. Right now,
- 1:09Speaker 1: I need to go and talk to Jerry and the
- 1:10Speaker 1: Tom and Jerry Show.
- 1:12Speaker 2: This is it, Tom, this is and this is not
- 1:14Speaker 2: for nothing, Tom, the Tom and Jerry Show. Indeed, indeed right,
- 1:17Speaker 2: that's Tom Omney and we hope you enjoyed the spooky
- 1:21Speaker 2: spectacular that we sent out to you guys last week.
- 1:25Speaker 2: A little bit of a spoiler. That was two weeks
- 1:28Speaker 2: ago to cover me because I endless scandalous. But I'm
- 1:33Speaker 2: back now and I'm like a cutcat Tom, because I've
- 1:36Speaker 2: spent the last two weeks in America.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Some place to be. Over the last two weeks, I
- 1:43Speaker 1: have been.
- 1:43Speaker 2: On a family holiday too, Orlando, Florida. Tom, and I
- 1:46Speaker 2: somehow arrived back home with as many holes in me
- 1:49Speaker 2: as I left with. Somehow.
- 1:50Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. That's always yeah, that's always a plus.
- 1:54Speaker 2: When you're not shot.
- 1:56Speaker 1: You've been in Orlando before, haven't you.
- 1:57Speaker 2: I have. Here's the thing, right, and we're going to
- 1:59Speaker 2: get in to it here now with the weekly what
- 2:02Speaker 2: have you in a little second. But just to give
- 2:04Speaker 2: you a taste of that, the last time I was
- 2:06Speaker 2: in Orlando, Florida, Tom was in twenty six I mean,
- 2:11Speaker 2: let me do the count here. Twenty sixteen. November twenty sixteen,
- 2:16Speaker 2: I blew out of Orlando, Florida the day Jesus that
- 2:21Speaker 2: Donald Trump went up against Hillary Clinton in that year's
- 2:25Speaker 2: presidential election, because I remember when we woke up the
- 2:27Speaker 2: next morning, the flight attendant came through and goes like,
- 2:30Speaker 2: happy Donald Trump Day, everybody, and we're like, fuck, no,
- 2:33Speaker 2: did he win? Because we had no phone reception in
- 2:35Speaker 2: the air until we landed in Dublin the next day,
- 2:37Speaker 2: and that's when the results hit me.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, you really have your timing right for these
- 2:41Speaker 1: kind of things.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Apparently, Yes, apparently I am a bit of a bad
- 2:44Speaker 2: omen for these things.
- 2:47Speaker 1: I'd say, Trump with this guy.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Well, here we go, Tom, here we go. Tell you
- 2:52Speaker 2: what we'll do, because he is indeed the subject spoiler
- 2:55Speaker 2: alert of a segment that we take off the show with.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I do want to point out, I don't know, you
- 3:00Speaker 1: probably didn't see it because you you handle the the
- 3:03Speaker 1: social media and just so so I just want to say,
- 3:05Speaker 1: because I forget it and it's over your shoulder. Fred Dibner,
- 3:07Speaker 1: did you see the song that somebody wrote with Fred Dibner?
- 3:10Speaker 2: Oh? I did see that. I'm gonna have to I'm
- 3:12Speaker 2: gonna have to share that on so while they're still well,
- 3:14Speaker 2: while the lights are still on, while the lights are
- 3:16Speaker 2: still on, I get that up and running.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Good, good, good, Sorry, sorry, I'm stepping on your skirts.
- 3:20Speaker 1: I'm stepping on your skirts here now of apologies, do
- 3:22Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Don't worry about it at all. I am jet lagged
- 3:26Speaker 2: toa billio. Yeah, like a weasel.
- 3:29Speaker 3: So good, good, good, Enjoy the next forty minutes of comedy, everybody, right,
- 3:34Speaker 3: But yes, indeed I was over in Florida apparently as
- 3:37Speaker 3: a bad omen during the election season for twenty twenty four,
- 3:41Speaker 3: and I witnessed things that we're going to mention now
- 3:45Speaker 3: in the segment that we call the Weekly What have You.
- 3:48Speaker 2: This is a very complicated case, mod you know, a
- 3:50Speaker 2: lot of a lot of outs, a lot of what
- 3:52Speaker 2: have you, and uh, a lot of scrans to keep
- 3:55Speaker 2: in my head.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Man, Well, this is all in your truck altogether. This
- 3:59Speaker 1: is in your back pocket now because.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Like, honestly, Tom, like I would have I would have
- 4:04Speaker 2: been a happy man, not talking about Donald Trump winning
- 4:07Speaker 2: the US presidential election, but for once, like we're buying
- 4:10Speaker 2: on time this is going out kind we kind of
- 4:13Speaker 2: have things are fresh, you.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Know, because it's it seems to be like I just
- 4:18Speaker 1: saw something like I just saw a synopsis. Somebody was
- 4:22Speaker 1: kind of in my court on this one. Somebody put
- 4:24Speaker 1: a snaps stuff the madness at least comedy we're coming
- 4:29Speaker 1: out with one one was talking about letters or something.
- 4:31Speaker 1: Man's talking about I don't know, just brilliant and the
- 4:34Speaker 1: way somebody cut this whole thing together. And I was like,
- 4:37Speaker 1: that was the two candidates to hat that.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Was how America is fine?
- 4:41Speaker 1: Yeah, that was your your finest Okay, great, this is
- 4:43Speaker 1: going to be great crack over the next couple of years.
- 4:46Speaker 2: And I gotta tell you to him, like, no, we're
- 4:47Speaker 2: not a political podcast. If you want to, if you
- 4:49Speaker 2: want to discuss the New Hampshire primaries, Jesus all right,
- 4:55Speaker 2: ain't going to be done here. So we were going
- 4:57Speaker 2: to avoid the US presidential action all together. But it's
- 5:02Speaker 2: hard not to mention. But here's the thing. Here's what
- 5:04Speaker 2: we'll do. We always, here's what we do. Tom We
- 5:06Speaker 2: do our own twists better men, We do our own
- 5:10Speaker 2: twist on it. We put ourselves in the middle of it.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Because today, as well, uh, the Irish government called an
- 5:17Speaker 2: Irish general election for the twenty ninth of November. So
- 5:20Speaker 2: at least you have the young fellow home from school
- 5:22Speaker 2: that day.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Oh great, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so right, okay, let's
- 5:28Speaker 1: get into it. Let's get into it. Yeah, let's get
- 5:30Speaker 1: into it.
- 5:30Speaker 2: So so, so it's two very different things we're coming off.
- 5:34Speaker 2: The American president presidential election and the general election are
- 5:37Speaker 2: two different things. But what we're going to do on
- 5:39Speaker 2: the Tom and Jerry Show here now for the Weekly
- 5:41Speaker 2: what have You, is take a look at a US
- 5:44Speaker 2: election such as the one that we're anklely witnessing, and
- 5:48Speaker 2: an Irish election and see where the twin meets, if
- 5:51Speaker 2: indeed it does. But bear in mind, we had a
- 5:54Speaker 2: we had a US correspondent me in Florida, volatile swing state,
- 6:00Speaker 2: handly won by the Republicans. There you go, so not
- 6:04Speaker 2: so much the knife edge drama that it was. But
- 6:07Speaker 2: I was there, Tom, and I can tell you what
- 6:08Speaker 2: I saw, and I'll tell you how it relates or
- 6:12Speaker 2: how it yes to what you're going to see around
- 6:18Speaker 2: care and manson all these places.
- 6:19Speaker 1: So you were there, you landed what a week ten
- 6:23Speaker 1: days ago? How you were over there ten days. You've
- 6:25Speaker 1: got ten days of juicy Florida goodness into your sunshine state.
- 6:31Speaker 1: I don't first of all, can you, for the love
- 6:34Speaker 1: of Jesus, I don't know what it would seem. It's
- 6:36Speaker 1: a four here's the thing, it's a four year presidency. Yes,
- 6:40Speaker 1: but you can do it two times like Obama and Bush.
- 6:43Speaker 1: But it would seem your fourth year seems to be
- 6:47Speaker 1: just gearing.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Up, just just gearing up for the stupid.
- 6:50Speaker 1: Setup, Like you only just get in the door and
- 6:52Speaker 1: next thing you're going, You're going again there. Sure, how
- 6:54Speaker 1: can they do any president?
- 6:56Speaker 2: You really only get two good years at it, you know,
- 6:59Speaker 2: like it? Yeah, the middle two points, Tom, Your first
- 7:02Speaker 2: points are settling yourself down, scratching your arsrom settling into
- 7:05Speaker 2: the chair, and then your last point. They're kind of
- 7:06Speaker 2: clock watching, like all right, but the midle two points
- 7:09Speaker 2: is right. You can in the case of Joe Biden,
- 7:13Speaker 2: fuck all. But I was there, right, and I went
- 7:19Speaker 2: over to Florida fully expected Tom to be met with
- 7:25Speaker 2: a wall of Trump and yeah, a lesser wall of
- 7:27Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, for them to be slogans everywhere for all
- 7:31Speaker 2: this kind of thing. I want to tell you the
- 7:33Speaker 2: absolute gods honest truth seen with these two eyes. I
- 7:37Speaker 2: didn't see a single sign for either of them. I
- 7:41Speaker 2: was driving around the.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Place in that guess because our phone would tell us
- 7:45Speaker 1: that the whole place.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Is, the whole place is draped in the American flags
- 7:48Speaker 2: and all this kind of thing.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Much like much And do you know what, as I
- 7:52Speaker 1: was kind of suspected, much like everywhere else in the world,
- 7:57Speaker 1: people have to be just getting them with their work
- 7:59Speaker 1: and their day and everything else, and they hadn't time
- 8:01Speaker 1: for our shite most of the time, Like you know
- 8:03Speaker 1: what I mean.
- 8:03Speaker 2: And I'm a tell you, Tom, it's not like well,
- 8:05Speaker 2: I was in a built up municipal area, know we
- 8:08Speaker 2: we we we stayed a little out of time, and
- 8:10Speaker 2: we had to drive in like the forty five minutes
- 8:11Speaker 2: three residential areas knowledge, And what I was expecting to
- 8:14Speaker 2: see was you know those little lawn stickers. You can't
- 8:19Speaker 2: do two spikes and you stick it down in your lawn.
- 8:21Speaker 1: And it's like a real estate agent would have in
- 8:23Speaker 1: the exact movies. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 8:25Speaker 2: I would expected just wall to wall of those, so
- 8:27Speaker 2: I would not Okay, that's the Trump House, that's the
- 8:28Speaker 2: Horror's house. There's ten Trump houses in a row. You know, yeah,
- 8:33Speaker 2: nothing none saw none of them whatsoever? Go aheah, right, yeah, okay,
- 8:38Speaker 2: nothing to my brother. Nothing Okay, Now I want to
- 8:43Speaker 2: flip the switch on what you're about to see the
- 8:45Speaker 2: Irish general like, yeah, which is you cannot drive past
- 8:49Speaker 2: the lamp post. But there's not three lads on it.
- 8:52Speaker 1: I tell you one thing. If we don't go into
- 8:54Speaker 1: the post for making business to be remissive us. But
- 8:58Speaker 1: you'd want to be raised like they call, well do
- 9:00Speaker 1: they get a tip off? They must, the poster pice
- 9:02Speaker 1: must get a tip off, like, and they must be
- 9:04Speaker 1: buying in that curry board. That's what they call it,
- 9:06Speaker 1: carry board.
- 9:07Speaker 2: The curry board.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Yeah, they must be buying that in from you know,
- 9:10Speaker 1: wherever it is made. We'll say most likely pure Chinese
- 9:14Speaker 1: because them buy is made stuff in bulk. But you
- 9:17Speaker 1: must be buying in like.
- 9:19Speaker 2: If I'm right with that stuff, Tom, and I'm open
- 9:21Speaker 2: to be wrong. But the curry board, because we had
- 9:25Speaker 2: curryboard put down here when we were getting a bit
- 9:27Speaker 2: of painting on but getting a bit of renovations done,
- 9:29Speaker 2: and they put it down to protect the wooden floor.
- 9:31Speaker 2: So you don't want to mark ten year o yard.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Laminite, right hundred percent, you don't.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Right, So, and they brought that stuff in in like
- 9:39Speaker 2: a in like a roll. Oh so I'm wondering does
- 9:43Speaker 2: the curry board when you roll it out, does it
- 9:45Speaker 2: stay rigid or is there a process make it rigid?
- 9:47Speaker 2: Or is there other curry board that comes in eight
- 9:49Speaker 2: by four sheets that you slice up? Maybe that's more
- 9:51Speaker 2: like it doesn't.
- 9:52Speaker 1: For anybody who just dipped in and wonder how politically,
- 9:55Speaker 1: you know, interested are the two leads. This is where
- 9:58Speaker 1: we've ended up very quickly.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Where quickly three minutes in we're like curry board, great stuff, Tom,
- 10:04Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it is on the Irish posters
- 10:08Speaker 2: and you will see this. They keep carry boards are
- 10:12Speaker 2: very still Jesus they are.
- 10:13Speaker 1: I tried to get a few of them from another
- 10:15Speaker 1: politician and I wasn't allowed because they have to send
- 10:18Speaker 1: them back for recycling.
- 10:19Speaker 2: But that's the dude, Tom. No, they go into his
- 10:22Speaker 2: they go, they get taken down and put into his
- 10:24Speaker 2: garage for the next five years. He's not buying new
- 10:26Speaker 2: ones the next five years. Sometimes you'll drive around and
- 10:29Speaker 2: you'll see ones that are blatantly sun bleach, and you're
- 10:31Speaker 2: like you were out before.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Here I saw one and your man to this community picture,
- 10:35Speaker 1: I say put up because the man has definitely in
- 10:37Speaker 1: no hair.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Since I've seen a couple, I've seen a couple where
- 10:43Speaker 2: there are a lot smaller than other ones, so they
- 10:45Speaker 2: seem to be like a fairly standard size. But you
- 10:47Speaker 2: can see some that are like a little bit shorter
- 10:49Speaker 2: than others. And I'm like, there was like voth no
- 10:53Speaker 2: in a referendum at the botom of that, and you
- 10:54Speaker 2: just scored it off with.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're like, that's neither AIDS two nor a one.
- 11:02Speaker 2: What exactly what did we do? What is that that does?
- 11:05Speaker 1: That does its bloods and schnitz that you bought it? Know?
- 11:09Speaker 1: You cut the off with an exactly what you did?
- 11:12Speaker 1: The table.
- 11:13Speaker 2: I've got like a thumb and four finger up going
- 11:14Speaker 2: like does the square No, it doesn't. The golden ratio. No,
- 11:20Speaker 2: that's like oh independent kickout expecting mothers or whatever it
- 11:25Speaker 2: might be. And they just cut that bit off the bottom.
- 11:27Speaker 1: So we're going to be peppered. Every country, lane, every city,
- 11:32Speaker 1: every town, everything is going to have now the general
- 11:35Speaker 1: election here because recently you know, in relative recent times
- 11:39Speaker 1: we had kind of local elections, didn't we like we
- 11:42Speaker 1: had around here and with local people representing the local
- 11:46Speaker 1: area and their parishes and their constituents, as well as
- 11:48Speaker 1: going into Europe and stuff like that. But now the
- 11:50Speaker 1: general election is going to be the parties, isn't it.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, exactly, and we'll probably throw in a
- 11:57Speaker 2: couple of local elections in at the same time. And
- 11:59Speaker 2: like you know, I suppose if there's some other damn
- 12:01Speaker 2: thing we get in there. But that brings me to
- 12:03Speaker 2: the next element of how Irish elections are different from
- 12:06Speaker 2: US elections. We need the we need the robotic TikTok
- 12:08Speaker 2: voice there. How Irish elections are different to the US elections.
- 12:12Speaker 2: That's the bit, all right, there we go, We're borning
- 12:15Speaker 2: money with this podcast here a campaign And now it
- 12:20Speaker 2: strikes me, okay that in Ireland, if you want someone's vote,
- 12:26Speaker 2: you go around and you knock on their house and
- 12:28Speaker 2: you ask them to vote for you, and then you
- 12:30Speaker 2: go door to door. We call it canvas in town. Yes,
- 12:33Speaker 2: now I appreciate Kamala Harrison and Donald Trump aren't going
- 12:36Speaker 2: to go canvas and door to door, but it seems
- 12:39Speaker 2: to be a different thing, whereas here the politicians go
- 12:42Speaker 2: door to door. In America, it's like the politicians is like,
- 12:44Speaker 2: I'm going to be here and you can come to
- 12:48Speaker 2: me in a big rally.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is.
- 12:52Speaker 2: Baffling to me. You see these Trump rallies and the
- 12:55Speaker 2: Kamala Harris rallies and there's like thousands of people in
- 12:59Speaker 2: a stadium and it's it's it looks like WrestleMania phenomenal.
- 13:05Speaker 1: We couldn't hardly get twenty to fifteen people over to
- 13:07Speaker 1: the Parents Association that last night, right before I would
- 13:11Speaker 1: after my body's going to see somebody talk that wasn't
- 13:16Speaker 1: a comedian, And even that I struggled to do that,
- 13:19Speaker 1: Like what do.
- 13:19Speaker 2: You what do you happened Friday night?
- 13:21Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, I know, can you imagine me?
- 13:23Speaker 2: What do you happened Friday night? Well, I've got two
- 13:25Speaker 2: tickets to go see the Republican nominee for Senate in
- 13:31Speaker 2: the in the in the chiroplast then the way here,
- 13:33Speaker 2: and we're gonna go and sell that like it's like
- 13:36Speaker 2: we're watching Jersey Boys, do you know?
- 13:39Speaker 1: Aren't like there's no wonder America is pure cracked they're
- 13:44Speaker 1: so enthusiastic about any fucking thing they put their head
- 13:48Speaker 1: behind behind it all. An, is it that we're all
- 13:50Speaker 1: cynics of what going.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Don't I don't think we afford that. We're not a
- 13:56Speaker 2: political podcast, not a political podcast, no my taking a Thomas.
- 14:00Speaker 2: I don't think we afford our politicians the celebrity status
- 14:04Speaker 2: that Americans do.
- 14:05Speaker 1: I'm sure that's America is yes, yeah, because you know
- 14:09Speaker 1: it's not for for what I see. It's not really
- 14:12Speaker 1: like we have a party kind of here and they
- 14:13Speaker 1: have their own selected leader really like and now there's
- 14:16Speaker 1: two parties kind of change change hands or whatever. But
- 14:19Speaker 1: there it regards to the party, it's well, I suppose
- 14:22Speaker 1: people are affiliated to their party. There's it's a two
- 14:25Speaker 1: party system in America, and which is mad. But there's
- 14:27Speaker 1: a two party system, and it's a person of.
- 14:30Speaker 2: A two party system.
- 14:31Speaker 1: I know, true, true, true, But it just seems to
- 14:34Speaker 1: be a personality competition more than anything. You're going, what
- 14:37Speaker 1: are their policies? Nobody cares. It's just do we like
- 14:40Speaker 1: him or do we like him? Or do we like her?
- 14:43Speaker 2: And this is it and you will go and see
- 14:45Speaker 2: them like you're going to see a concert to see them, right,
- 14:50Speaker 2: and you can't like you can't tell me you know
- 14:54Speaker 2: that that anybody up there we are going to be like, hey, hey, hey,
- 14:57Speaker 2: I'm in look on Friday night. I got two tickets
- 14:59Speaker 2: to go see you have a Humphreys and bally Bay.
- 15:01Speaker 1: Now here's the question, jar they do put on a
- 15:05Speaker 1: fair good show, like just lighting wise and you know
- 15:09Speaker 1: Tom tricks like them, yeah, like the theater of it all.
- 15:14Speaker 1: But here, let's be honest. The parish hall out in
- 15:17Speaker 1: art Finnan isn't going to light your candle as much
- 15:19Speaker 1: as Madison Square gardens. If you get me, do you
- 15:22Speaker 1: know what I mean? Is that's what drawn? I mean,
- 15:23Speaker 1: I'm wondering what's drawn? I mean like because.
- 15:26Speaker 2: It's it's I don't know they're there, Like I wanted
- 15:29Speaker 2: to hear the man speaker. I wanted to hear the
- 15:30Speaker 2: woman speak.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Okay, have you got nothing to be I don't think
- 15:34Speaker 1: they do, jer I think we've got stuff to be doing.
- 15:38Speaker 1: So our one just won't. Our one won't. There's no
- 15:43Speaker 1: way the general election would pull anything off. Like we're
- 15:46Speaker 1: not going to have the Jim Crow And by Jim grow,
- 15:48Speaker 1: I don't mean the civil right move. I mean the
- 15:50Speaker 1: fellow that was do you know he was was he
- 15:52Speaker 1: a Liverpoolian or something? He was like, you know, he
- 15:54Speaker 1: would stand it. And or Daniel O'Connell standing there and
- 15:58Speaker 1: banging the podcast.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, the optimation crowd.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Yeah, we ain't getting we ain't getting that anymore.
- 16:04Speaker 2: Long gone the color TV and that was it.
- 16:08Speaker 1: Ah.
- 16:09Speaker 2: But that brings me to the last thing. We're going
- 16:11Speaker 2: to talk about this, of course, fucking us election. God
- 16:14Speaker 2: will and we lot event and say about it for
- 16:16Speaker 2: the rest of the run of the Tom and Jerry Show. Ah,
- 16:21Speaker 2: the count.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Track it.
- 16:24Speaker 2: I don't mean that what was forc thing into my
- 16:28Speaker 2: head right, I'm talking about the count count, the votes,
- 16:33Speaker 2: oh yes, the finish up, the who one of it all. Okay, Now,
- 16:39Speaker 2: I understand that there's such a thing called the first power,
- 16:42Speaker 2: first past the post system, and that's what they use
- 16:44Speaker 2: in England, meaning to say, tot them up, whoever wins wins,
- 16:48Speaker 2: and in America they use like an electoral college, which
- 16:50Speaker 2: I cannot fucking understand.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Between swing states, battlegrounds and electoral college shocks. I don't know.
- 16:58Speaker 1: It's like, lads, you have made this so convoluted and
- 17:03Speaker 1: so many different all axology is going on? Why would
- 17:08Speaker 1: you make it so difficult? I got more than you look, Yeah,
- 17:13Speaker 1: across the board, as best.
- 17:15Speaker 2: As I understand it, it is. It's every state has
- 17:22Speaker 2: the same weight regardless of population. Oh right, ten million
- 17:27Speaker 2: people living in California and there's one million people living
- 17:31Speaker 2: in Montana. Right, But Montana aren't going to be like, well,
- 17:35Speaker 2: we're never going to get our guy across because California
- 17:39Speaker 2: has ten times of voters of us. But their vote
- 17:41Speaker 2: is worth the same as their vote. Not a political podcast, Hum.
- 17:45Speaker 1: No, but it's going I didn't. That's the I'll never
- 17:48Speaker 1: use this information ever again, but I'm glad to know
- 17:52Speaker 1: it now.
- 17:53Speaker 2: And Ireland uses the system. It's what they used, Tom,
- 17:57Speaker 2: called proportional representation, which is where you picked two, three, four,
- 18:01Speaker 2: and then the votes transferred from one to two, in
- 18:02Speaker 2: the votes fans from two to three, and then the
- 18:04Speaker 2: trans You've seen this happen, yes, yeah, yeah, h whether
- 18:06Speaker 2: whether you followdy explain, understand it or not. And I
- 18:09Speaker 2: have full disclosure, I don't. That's what we do. The
- 18:14Speaker 2: difference between these two things, Tom, is that I went
- 18:18Speaker 2: to bed last night at ten o'clock with voting still
- 18:22Speaker 2: going on in the States. I woke up this morning
- 18:25Speaker 2: at eight o'clock and the voting was done and the
- 18:27Speaker 2: winner was announced. Right the Irish count. Oh Jesus Christ
- 18:32Speaker 2: rolls in two weeks, Tom, it rolls into weeks again.
- 18:37Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck is going on. It's like, oh, yeah,
- 18:42Speaker 2: Leoveradgar elected on the fifteenth count. I'm like, but then
- 18:46Speaker 2: he wasn't elected. He fucking lost a long time ago.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Did you keep did you keep counting until you got
- 18:50Speaker 1: what you wanted? That your said, it.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Seems to be like that, and and I've seen it explained.
- 18:57Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen the tech talk words explain like
- 18:59Speaker 2: you're dividing the sweets between kids, and it's like everybody
- 19:01Speaker 2: gets that. That that and then that's enough. You've enough,
- 19:04Speaker 2: You're that's enough to failure. Okay, So whatever the left,
- 19:06Speaker 2: we're gonna put it over into and then that's not
- 19:10Speaker 2: learning podcast, Tom, But that's what it is. But the
- 19:12Speaker 2: long end, the story, long story short is you're not
- 19:16Speaker 2: going to see Donald Trump in a community center in Mote,
- 19:21Speaker 2: just hanging around for days on end, unshaven and unkempt,
- 19:26Speaker 2: wondering whether he's got in or.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Not, but an cold cup of tea in his end.
- 19:30Speaker 2: Right ah, and and there's no and then and and
- 19:34Speaker 2: then when the us thing is done, they go out
- 19:35Speaker 2: and they just say hello, I want and thank you
- 19:37Speaker 2: for all your bits and pieces.
- 19:39Speaker 1: They didn't even hist what an absolute scandal, would you now?
- 19:44Speaker 1: He's a big old fucker like everybody everybody around him.
- 19:48Speaker 1: I was looking the fucking woman and is just a big,
- 19:51Speaker 1: strong looking woman. Is fucking get him up to fuck again?
- 19:55Speaker 2: His other two pencil next suns. They're not going to
- 19:58Speaker 2: be lefting anybody, but.
- 19:59Speaker 1: There's enough the throw him up, throw him up to fuck.
- 20:01Speaker 1: I think you're dead right heist if you're going to
- 20:03Speaker 1: win the thing, it's only one if you're awkwardly thrown up.
- 20:08Speaker 1: If anybody wants to go back with this, we did
- 20:11Speaker 1: a podcast and Jerry explained it and exactly how you
- 20:14Speaker 1: should hoist somebody up. We went through the body mechanics
- 20:18Speaker 1: of how to get somebody up onto your shoulders and
- 20:20Speaker 1: how to bob them up and down a few times
- 20:22Speaker 1: and way way, and then down they go. And after
- 20:26Speaker 1: the pub do you know I would I could, I
- 20:30Speaker 1: could associate myself I suppose much more with what went on,
- 20:34Speaker 1: if that's what I saw was the winning, I went
- 20:36Speaker 1: he clearly won. I don't need to know any more
- 20:38Speaker 1: about this.
- 20:39Speaker 2: If I see a man on anybody's shoulders, I'm not
- 20:40Speaker 2: disputing that victory.
- 20:42Speaker 1: No, not one bit. And I'd say that, yeah, that
- 20:44Speaker 1: would have done me. And now I go back there,
- 20:46Speaker 1: but that would have done me. But yeah, we're we
- 20:48Speaker 1: have about to be peppered with carry board, which I'm
- 20:53Speaker 1: not disappointed by because I I appreciate carry board for
- 20:55Speaker 1: what it is. But yeah, I don't know the bolly
- 21:00Speaker 1: like I like the way they call the general election
- 21:02Speaker 1: today is what your today is? What the eleventh? It is?
- 21:05Speaker 2: The fifth? No, today's the sixth November.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Sixth November fireworks out here last night. Twenty three days.
- 21:11Speaker 1: That's to give the Irish lads there too, that's more
- 21:14Speaker 1: like it.
- 21:15Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm going to tell you?
- 21:16Speaker 1: Do you know what?
- 21:16Speaker 2: Working around for a year and I'll just say this much,
- 21:21Speaker 2: it's not going to take twenty three days for a
- 21:22Speaker 2: lot of people to make the mind up voting for
- 21:24Speaker 2: around here, that's at all a long long time made.
- 21:28Speaker 2: And I can save you if I can save yours
- 21:30Speaker 2: ending politicians, I can save your curry board. It's fairly
- 21:33Speaker 2: seen stone at this stage.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 21:36Speaker 2: We can't give out to America for voting in Trump
- 21:38Speaker 2: twice when we keep hoping in the same people over again.
- 21:41Speaker 2: Not a political podcast, Tom, I.
- 21:43Speaker 1: Know we're reiterating that it's not a political podcast, and.
- 21:47Speaker 2: That's why we're going to stop talking about that lad.
- 21:50Speaker 2: So there's the other lads to talk about. Tom. I
- 21:51Speaker 2: was in America for two weeks. Do you think I
- 21:53Speaker 2: was over in America for two weeks and I didn't
- 21:54Speaker 2: see a lad? Or two? Oh? I rephrased that.
- 22:00Speaker 1: To be fair, this whole section for the last whatever
- 22:02Speaker 1: nearly thirty episodes has been lad like lads.
- 22:07Speaker 2: There's lads, but there's lads, and there's lads, Tom, But
- 22:10Speaker 2: every time and then there's this lad, Now there's that guy.
- 22:16Speaker 1: True, and I think we've gone well, we know we haven't.
- 22:19Speaker 1: We haven't done every formation of what a lad can be,
- 22:23Speaker 1: but we have. We have gone through from animals to
- 22:26Speaker 1: children to everything you name it. But you've you selected
- 22:32Speaker 1: And to be fair, I never got into it because
- 22:35Speaker 1: I I just thought it was the most ridiculous thing, right,
- 22:40Speaker 1: But you were state side, as they say, and you.
- 22:43Speaker 1: I witnessed up close and personal one of those fuck
- 22:47Speaker 1: is stupid cyber truck.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Look in the Yaks, I witnessed a cyber truck. Tom,
- 22:51Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you this much now, in
- 22:56Speaker 2: all the years since the first as I first went
- 22:58Speaker 2: to America twenty years ago, was a young fella, young
- 23:01Speaker 2: old fella. Everything's over here.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Now.
- 23:04Speaker 2: You can get whatever you want over here. Your Twinkies
- 23:06Speaker 2: over here. We've said this before, the new Mystery. If
- 23:08Speaker 2: you want flaming hot Cheetos, you can get them over here. Yes,
- 23:14Speaker 2: you you heard, like, Oh, there's lovely borders and five guys.
- 23:17Speaker 2: There are five guys over here. Everything is over here,
- 23:20Speaker 2: every single thing, with the exception that I know maybe
- 23:24Speaker 2: someone's important one of Elon Musk's Tesla cyber truck.
- 23:29Speaker 1: When you could import one, but you may keep it
- 23:31Speaker 1: in your arge because the if I remember correctly, the
- 23:36Speaker 1: what do they call it, They called it a bluff
- 23:38Speaker 1: or something. The bumper on the front is highly legal, and.
- 23:43Speaker 2: That's the start of its concerns. Tom. I was over
- 23:46Speaker 2: in the States and I saw several cyber trucks go away. Yeah,
- 23:52Speaker 2: not an uncommon thing.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Like the start off price I remember the start off
- 23:57Speaker 1: price of them, and I just looked it up there
- 23:59Speaker 1: this I suppose they call them whatever. Maybe they the
- 24:03Speaker 1: legacy Force. Few were one hundred and twenty thousand, but
- 24:06Speaker 1: they were they were rolling out for sixty thousand dollars.
- 24:09Speaker 1: So it's not completely beyond the realms. Like if you
- 24:11Speaker 1: if that's what you're like, I can tell you a
- 24:15Speaker 1: do you know a raptor is going to be a
- 24:17Speaker 1: hell of that more?
- 24:19Speaker 2: Right? Okay, so far from like, okay, A couple of things, right,
- 24:25Speaker 2: A couple of things. I saw several cyber trucks. By
- 24:28Speaker 2: cyber trucks. I remember four instances where I went, oh,
- 24:30Speaker 2: look a cyber truck. One when I was out for
- 24:32Speaker 2: a walk, I mean, and I was like, oh God, damn,
- 24:33Speaker 2: there's a cyber truck. Another when I was driving and
- 24:36Speaker 2: I was like, okayd's look there's the cyber truck. Another
- 24:38Speaker 2: where I was like, just park on a crossway, there
- 24:40Speaker 2: was a cyber truck. And then one other time when
- 24:43Speaker 2: I saw a cyber.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Truck that was pink, pink, pink.
- 24:48Speaker 2: Jesus so some last year bought I'm assuming I'm sorry.
- 24:51Speaker 2: I'm terribly sorry to be sexist. But I'm going, yeah,
- 24:54Speaker 2: you know, in the state that I was in, you know,
- 24:57Speaker 2: maybe when it's not that big of an assumption and
- 25:00Speaker 2: put a pink wrappot.
- 25:02Speaker 1: Now I look at it the first time I saw
- 25:05Speaker 1: it when somebody's taking the piece, like, because this thing
- 25:08Speaker 1: is just ludicrous looking. It looks like something I used
- 25:10Speaker 1: to draw with a ruler when I was maybe seven,
- 25:13Speaker 1: and it was the coolest thing ever. And then I
- 25:16Speaker 1: saw him in actually, you know, more and more pictures
- 25:18Speaker 1: of them driving and stuff, and I still think it
- 25:21Speaker 1: looks ridiculous. What are they like? Are they massive? What
- 25:26Speaker 1: are they like?
- 25:26Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Okay, I knew we were going to
- 25:28Speaker 2: get there first, right, Ah, they're not that big. Okay.
- 25:32Speaker 2: When I say that, not that big, you're grading on
- 25:36Speaker 2: a curve because everything in America's god damn massive. Guy, Like,
- 25:41Speaker 2: the car that we hired was a Nissan Armada. Now
- 25:44Speaker 2: I'm driving this and cash car at home because your man,
- 25:46Speaker 2: your man said what do you want to drive? I've
- 25:47Speaker 2: got this, this, and this, and I was like, I'm
- 25:49Speaker 2: taking this on Armada because I got a this not home,
- 25:51Speaker 2: and you know, I have a familiarity with.
- 25:54Speaker 1: It, or they would call it a Nissan Anisan.
- 25:58Speaker 2: But it was like someone took my cash guy and
- 26:00Speaker 2: shot it up with like hgh. It was massive, Like
- 26:04Speaker 2: it was like a real sort of hold the handle
- 26:07Speaker 2: and step up into it. But it's just like a
- 26:08Speaker 2: seven seat or suv. Right, Okay, the cyber truck that
- 26:13Speaker 2: drove beside me was underneath that. So it's smaller than
- 26:16Speaker 2: a right, it's it's it's it's it's not dainty by
- 26:21Speaker 2: no means, but when you're grading it against the raptors
- 26:23Speaker 2: and the and the whatnots, it's not that big, right, right,
- 26:27Speaker 2: But what it lacks in size, tom it makes up
- 26:29Speaker 2: for in fucking stupidity.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's ludicrous looking like it.
- 26:36Speaker 2: It genuinely feels right, It genuinely feels like your eyes
- 26:42Speaker 2: are playing tricks on.
- 26:43Speaker 1: That's what I looked at the picture, and I don't believe.
- 26:46Speaker 1: I don't believe in it until I see one. And
- 26:48Speaker 1: thankfully you've seen one, and I believe you. But I
- 26:51Speaker 1: just can't stop looking at the thing, going no, that's silly,
- 26:55Speaker 1: that's absolutely silly.
- 26:57Speaker 2: Because it's so sharp and angular and it's just like
- 27:00Speaker 2: maybe like every car. I mean, like if you go
- 27:02Speaker 2: back to the Ford corteena that we drove around when
- 27:04Speaker 2: I was small, at least had like a curve to
- 27:08Speaker 2: do you know what? I wasn't just flat metal?
- 27:11Speaker 1: The only thing I looked at and when I saw
- 27:13Speaker 1: a first meant he's got a bit Delaorean with that.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Do you notice there was a bit of a Delarean vibe.
- 27:19Speaker 1: Delaire In at least had fins and cool things, you know,
- 27:21Speaker 1: like and a gull wing doors and stuff like.
- 27:23Speaker 2: But like if you even look at your at your
- 27:25Speaker 2: lovely Landover Defender or anything like that, it.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Was boxle but it had rounded edges.
- 27:30Speaker 2: It was boxing but rounded edges. Right, this thing is
- 27:33Speaker 2: like sharp angled?
- 27:35Speaker 4: Is it stepped out of one fucking one sheet or what?
- 27:39Speaker 4: It could very well be, right, I wouldn't be surprised.
- 27:42Speaker 4: I it was that he gives the appearance of a
- 27:43Speaker 4: thing that is and when it drives down the road.
- 27:47Speaker 4: When you see it drive down.
- 27:48Speaker 2: The road, because every car in your life you've ever seen, tom,
- 27:53Speaker 2: every tractor, every moving vehicle you have ever seen, has
- 27:56Speaker 2: some form of curve to it. This thing just breaks.
- 28:00Speaker 2: You're like, what the hell am I looking at?
- 28:02Speaker 1: What is that thing drive?
- 28:04Speaker 2: Or did someone throat, like, what is.
- 28:06Speaker 1: Is that something stuck in my eye? Maybe that's actually
- 28:08Speaker 1: just shaped exactly yeah.
- 28:09Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And and they're electrics, so they're not making
- 28:14Speaker 2: huge amounts of noise aroundnything like that, but certainly not like.
- 28:18Speaker 1: Which, to be fair to me, it's already like yeah,
- 28:20Speaker 1: you're granted.
- 28:22Speaker 2: And it doesn't strike me as because it is like
- 28:26Speaker 2: they don't call it a cyborg truck for nothing. It
- 28:28Speaker 2: is a truck. It's a flatbed truck, right, although everything
- 28:32Speaker 2: that I seeing, all the four of them that I saw,
- 28:35Speaker 2: I had like it's like a it's like a garage
- 28:37Speaker 2: door shutter over the back of it.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Anybody buying that, it's like rolling in pulling for all
- 28:44Speaker 1: you know.
- 28:45Speaker 2: And it's not pulling, no, but that is that is
- 28:47Speaker 2: a flatbed so you can in theory throw a couple
- 28:49Speaker 2: of bags of peat moss up into it.
- 28:51Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, nuts. And it's a truck right right.
- 28:56Speaker 2: And it's righteously stupid looking. And I couldn't see the
- 28:58Speaker 2: face of anybody that was dry it because the windows
- 29:01Speaker 2: are tainted black black backs, so I couldn't see anyone
- 29:03Speaker 2: that was driving it. But I can only see them
- 29:04Speaker 2: not bricks.
- 29:06Speaker 1: You have to be some bolocks like they're I mean,
- 29:09Speaker 1: there's there's bollocks, si oaks. But what's hilarious is that
- 29:12Speaker 1: he went I suppose, I don't know. I don't know
- 29:14Speaker 1: they went in that direction with it too, I suppose,
- 29:16Speaker 1: and it probably is to bend your brain as mobile.
- 29:18Speaker 1: But I don't know if you've noticed, because I do
- 29:20Speaker 1: keep an eye on on four wheel drive vehicular I
- 29:24Speaker 1: suppose directions and what they're doing with designs and stuff
- 29:27Speaker 1: like that. And for the longest time they work heading
- 29:29Speaker 1: in hot wheels direction ludicrous stupid looking for things, right,
- 29:34Speaker 1: But they seem to be turning back now towards my
- 29:37Speaker 1: beloved era of early nineties looking is Zuzu, Trooper, Pagero
- 29:44Speaker 1: classic quality, chunk, chunky looking what they're supposed to look like,
- 29:49Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? A bit more umph
- 29:52Speaker 1: to them, like you go, all that's that's that's a jeep.
- 29:55Speaker 1: That's yeah, yeah, that's what most brands seem to. Toyota,
- 29:59Speaker 1: the new Land Cruiser is class looking. It's heading back
- 30:02Speaker 1: towards nearly there's the Safari edition from the seventies. Even
- 30:07Speaker 1: it's like, oh okay, that's a cool look. And then
- 30:09Speaker 1: I see this yoke, I'm like, sh what's that far?
- 30:12Speaker 1: Do you know?
- 30:12Speaker 2: But then what are you doing here? What you doing here?
- 30:15Speaker 1: I think they probably knew with that bumper that okay,
- 30:17Speaker 1: this is the only country in the world we'll get
- 30:19Speaker 1: away with it. But here's the thing. They'll sell loads
- 30:22Speaker 1: and loads of test US guys cars here, but they
- 30:25Speaker 1: won't sell fucking one of them things even if it
- 30:29Speaker 1: was legal, because they make no sense at all on now.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of lads by jeeps
- 30:36Speaker 1: and pickup trucks around cities that will never back up
- 30:39Speaker 1: a triple ACXL trailer around the corner. But right that joke,
- 30:42Speaker 1: you'd go, there's an what because it's such a bollocks
- 30:47Speaker 1: of a thing you're going to shout that now is
- 30:50Speaker 1: only absolutely like you're just pulling the pace by having
- 30:56Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and.
- 30:57Speaker 2: You're pulling for call that. Here's one thing I will
- 30:59Speaker 2: say before we off the liber truck, Tom and I
- 31:02Speaker 2: don't want to just be relentlessly negative about it, because
- 31:05Speaker 2: there's a lot of that going around this week. Okay, yeah,
- 31:07Speaker 2: so I want to give it. I want to give
- 31:08Speaker 2: it one small bit of credit Okay, if I could,
- 31:11Speaker 2: if I could, if I could say one small thing
- 31:13Speaker 2: in its favor, The tires are class tires. The tires
- 31:18Speaker 2: look fairly badass. They've got these big thunder.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Tank or yeah, I do like that now, I like that.
- 31:26Speaker 2: And the tire looks like it's the tire looks like
- 31:29Speaker 2: there's no separation between rim and rubber away, but it
- 31:33Speaker 2: just looks like it's one molded piece and tom it
- 31:38Speaker 2: might be you know it's yeah, yeah, in a picture
- 31:42Speaker 2: you can probably see the rim, but in motion it
- 31:44Speaker 2: really just looks like a I guess, like with any tire,
- 31:47Speaker 2: but like it looks like just like a block of black.
- 31:51Speaker 1: Do you know what I see when I see it?
- 31:53Speaker 2: I hate that.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Did you see that Black Mirror episode with the steel
- 31:58Speaker 1: dogs bull Metal or whatever called it. Did you ever
- 32:00Speaker 1: see that episode where there was steel dogs chasing people
- 32:03Speaker 1: and they were all angular like that, right right? You know,
- 32:07Speaker 1: like and you know, for the that was the first
- 32:10Speaker 1: thing I thought, and I genuinely thought they were only
- 32:11Speaker 1: concept vehicle because the one a handful of times I've
- 32:15Speaker 1: seen it. They were testing it with ball bearings and
- 32:18Speaker 1: they shot it and stuff like that, and it's supposedly
- 32:21Speaker 1: relatively bulletproof and stuff. But again I thought it was
- 32:24Speaker 1: what you.
- 32:24Speaker 2: Need when you're going to the seven eleven and parents.
- 32:27Speaker 1: Well yeah, but am I joking?
- 32:30Speaker 2: Maybe not?
- 32:31Speaker 1: Maybe not, But at the same time you're looking at
- 32:33Speaker 1: it going, yeah, that sums up America. That's what that does.
- 32:38Speaker 1: That sums up America to me because a thing like
- 32:40Speaker 1: that people will have the readies to buy it. But also,
- 32:44Speaker 1: do you know, much like the huge rallies and stuff
- 32:47Speaker 1: like that. If I told you or you told me
- 32:50Speaker 1: that you're going, Hey, myself and the family are heading
- 32:53Speaker 1: up to do you know the rally of such and such,
- 32:55Speaker 1: I would expect you to go. I mean, you're nothing
- 32:57Speaker 1: fucking better to be done. Sense. If you told me
- 33:01Speaker 1: Tom after buying a cyber truck, I would go, you're
- 33:04Speaker 1: a fucking clown. What are you doing? Man? Have you
- 33:07Speaker 1: got seventy thousand to spend on something else? Eubolics, what
- 33:10Speaker 1: are you doing?
- 33:11Speaker 2: Like, I don't know, I don't know a mapp buying
- 33:13Speaker 2: a cyber truck.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Yeah, well look and people were they were going on, oh,
- 33:16Speaker 1: well it's got you know, the same pulling power as
- 33:18Speaker 1: a raptor does. Yeah, but it'll get to the end
- 33:20Speaker 1: of the drive before the fucking battery runs out. Oh well,
- 33:22Speaker 1: it's it'll do not to sixteen two point seven, So
- 33:25Speaker 1: will loads of fucking cars? And where are you doing?
- 33:27Speaker 1: Loads of cars nowadays? We'll do that.
- 33:29Speaker 2: Do you know I'm gonna I'm gonna stop you there now, Tom,
- 33:32Speaker 2: This thing wouldn't pull a greasy string out of a
- 33:34Speaker 2: cat's Are.
- 33:34Speaker 1: You knew buy it? Yeah? Yeah, you knew buy it.
- 33:36Speaker 1: It won't because they've tried electric trucks. They do not
- 33:38Speaker 1: have to talk for pulling. They've tried electric brook and
- 33:41Speaker 1: loads of rugs. They will not. They just don't have it. Unfortunately,
- 33:44Speaker 1: that techno lology is not there yet. And I hate
- 33:48Speaker 1: to tell the electric car world, but I think you
- 33:50Speaker 1: know what's coming is hydrogen is going to replace you.
- 33:55Speaker 1: If you know what, It's going to be way easier
- 33:57Speaker 1: to produce and convert diesel then gines actually too hydrogen,
- 34:02Speaker 1: and then all them charging banks that they have around
- 34:05Speaker 1: the place, making your hours goodbye with the fuckings.
- 34:08Speaker 2: And and and and that. I'm sure Tom, by the
- 34:11Speaker 2: time the hydrogen power cars come along, hydrogen versus electric
- 34:16Speaker 2: will be a row for the It's not one for
- 34:19Speaker 2: this very so.
- 34:21Speaker 1: No, no, no.
- 34:22Speaker 2: But perhaps there is something we could start around about
- 34:26Speaker 2: don't stop.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, there definitely is. And you've I mean,
- 34:33Speaker 1: you've just been immersed up to your oxters.
- 34:36Speaker 2: Yes. And sometimes my oxers weren't where I expect them
- 34:38Speaker 2: to be.
- 34:39Speaker 1: They were hanging in they were up around the top
- 34:40Speaker 1: of your head.
- 34:41Speaker 2: I'd say, exactly exactly. I was in Orlando, Florida for
- 34:46Speaker 2: a couple of weeks on a family vacated Wait.
- 34:48Speaker 1: Where are you? Where are Yeah, you hit this episode.
- 34:53Speaker 1: You didn't come back with any pigmentation whatsoever. Then you
- 34:57Speaker 1: didn't have prior to you leaving, And I like that.
- 34:59Speaker 1: I like that.
- 35:02Speaker 2: I'm like, here's the thing. I'm like Michael Jackson in
- 35:04Speaker 2: the Son, Like I have like the little beekeeper helmet
- 35:08Speaker 2: on me in the little Parasol. I'm like, I'm like
- 35:10Speaker 2: a I'm like a Southern bell with a with an umbrella.
- 35:13Speaker 2: And I did see a lady walking around, a young lady,
- 35:17Speaker 2: and she was Southern bell ish and she had the
- 35:21Speaker 2: little dainty umbrella so that she wouldn't get Son.
- 35:25Speaker 1: And she was like, you have little lazy gloves like
- 35:27Speaker 1: a fan as well, and.
- 35:29Speaker 2: She was a very she was. She wasn't that deep
- 35:31Speaker 2: in it, but she was like a very sort of
- 35:35Speaker 2: like a pale looking lassie that you could tell that
- 35:38Speaker 2: she was just like, I don't want the son. I've
- 35:40Speaker 2: made a choice that I'm not getting any of the sun,
- 35:41Speaker 2: and I'm going to do what I can to you know.
- 35:44Speaker 2: You know there's been son smart with sometimes otion and
- 35:47Speaker 2: then there's walking around like oh man, I got the vapors, yeah,
- 35:52Speaker 2: and all for not for nothing time like she was
- 35:53Speaker 2: going to loads so I couldn't. I couldn't make head
- 35:59Speaker 2: nor tail of this.
- 36:00Speaker 1: It.
- 36:01Speaker 2: That's what we're going to have a route about stay
- 36:03Speaker 2: safe from the sun. But one thing that people go
- 36:06Speaker 2: to Orlando for old thing the famous Orlando is famous
- 36:09Speaker 2: for is theme parks. Yeah, price knows. I was on
- 36:12Speaker 2: my share of them when I went over there. Tom
- 36:14Speaker 2: and the theme parks contain items known as roll the coasters. Yeah,
- 36:20Speaker 2: I want to ask you, and indeed the fine folks
- 36:22Speaker 2: of the Tom and Jerry Show, they're mileage on loop
- 36:26Speaker 2: the loop, roller coasters, upside down ors, spinner around or
- 36:30Speaker 2: is not necessarily the walls as we've been there before.
- 36:33Speaker 2: I'm talking about strapping get taken to a height and
- 36:36Speaker 2: get dropped off the other side of it.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we we We definitely discussed it in
- 36:44Speaker 1: past ones about shye ones we've been on and stuff
- 36:47Speaker 1: like that, and yes, good ones we've been on, because
- 36:49Speaker 1: we put I was in Orlando once and did the
- 36:51Speaker 1: whole universal thing, and the yes.
- 36:53Speaker 2: I was in Universal the other place, that's the other one.
- 36:57Speaker 1: Doesn't end cut a couple of them anyway, all this
- 37:02Speaker 1: kind of thing. Even by that time in my life career,
- 37:06Speaker 1: by the time I was on the fifth one, Jere,
- 37:09Speaker 1: I had the fuck enough of them things forever. Yeah,
- 37:12Speaker 1: because here's the thing you can get through, like you
- 37:16Speaker 1: see the ads on TV, like we only have have
- 37:18Speaker 1: we only one here in Ireland.
- 37:20Speaker 5: I think outside of the outside of the outside of
- 37:26Speaker 5: the tremors of this world and the thunderlands, I will
- 37:30Speaker 5: not go on.
- 37:31Speaker 1: Oh no, Now, when I can see, when I can
- 37:33Speaker 1: see the wells on the fucking welding and the thing,
- 37:36Speaker 1: I'm I'm all right, I'm not knowing.
- 37:38Speaker 2: When I can see the struts trembling, I'm like, you'll
- 37:41Speaker 2: be grand right. But in Tato Park there are a
- 37:44Speaker 2: couple of good roller coasters. I would recommend anybody that's
- 37:46Speaker 2: you know in the greater media area to go check
- 37:49Speaker 2: that out. And indeed, if you're coming across, here's the thing.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Time.
- 37:53Speaker 2: I would have been a roller coaster junkie. I would
- 37:57Speaker 2: have been in a roller coaster avocado an advocate. I
- 38:00Speaker 2: would have been a big fan of them, higher for
- 38:03Speaker 2: the faster baby, and whatever it is about this trip here,
- 38:06Speaker 2: maybe it's just because I couldn't. I was on a
- 38:11Speaker 2: couple and I'll tell you about them now. And as
- 38:13Speaker 2: I got off them, I'm like, I'm good, I'm gonna
- 38:17Speaker 2: go ahead.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Have you tapped out now after this holiday? I'm tapped
- 38:19Speaker 1: out right? And what was your reasoning? Because I have
- 38:23Speaker 1: a funny feeling. Well, no, I want to hear your reasoning, because.
- 38:27Speaker 2: Here's the thing, tom right, I have the Universal Orlando
- 38:30Speaker 2: has a couple of kick ass roller coasters, and a
- 38:33Speaker 2: couple of years ago I went over to Alton Towers
- 38:34Speaker 2: in the UK for pure nostalgia. They mentioned it in
- 38:37Speaker 2: the Beano enough times when I was the child. I
- 38:39Speaker 2: had to get over this. Yes, right, So I've over
- 38:42Speaker 2: the last couple of years, especially with the kids taking
- 38:44Speaker 2: them on things like this, I've been upside down my
- 38:46Speaker 2: fair share times, right.
- 38:48Speaker 1: Uh, huh.
- 38:49Speaker 2: It seems to me now and I'm not getting any younger,
- 38:53Speaker 2: but it seems to me now to be a fairly
- 38:54Speaker 2: silly pursuit that what wanting you is there to a
- 39:00Speaker 2: death in the face. Yeah, what is wrong with being upright? Tom?
- 39:05Speaker 2: It's it's how many g's is enough cheese to experience?
- 39:08Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you. I I have the white knuckle ride.
- 39:14Speaker 1: That is like having to speak to a bank manager
- 39:18Speaker 1: or something like that. That that that'll that'll crank my heart,
- 39:21Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I I I zero fear
- 39:24Speaker 1: on being on these things, especially in our land. Like
- 39:27Speaker 1: you could see, these things were professionally built and stuff
- 39:30Speaker 1: like that. Not that I went around kicking the tires
- 39:32Speaker 1: of the thing. But at the same time, you give
- 39:33Speaker 1: it a good old gander. I'll tell you what withered media.
- 39:35Speaker 1: By the time I was after doing the fifth one,
- 39:38Speaker 1: I am queueing. This is what broke my iron, the
- 39:43Speaker 1: queuing for having to go on this thing and it's
- 39:46Speaker 1: done and dusted in two minutes. I'm like, okay, this it's.
- 39:50Speaker 2: A it's a sixty minute investment for a minute and
- 39:53Speaker 2: a half payoff.
- 39:53Speaker 1: Yeah, And as the phrase says, you know it was
- 39:56Speaker 1: the juice worth the squeeze? No, No, it fucking wasn't.
- 40:00Speaker 1: By the fifth one, I'm like, oh, so that's that. Now,
- 40:02Speaker 1: I've done that. Now, I no doubt with our lad
- 40:05Speaker 1: he's five. He's a complete, you know, fearless lunatic Mike
- 40:10Speaker 1: I was when he was his age. No doubt we'll
- 40:12Speaker 1: be going back on the things soon enough. But there
- 40:16Speaker 1: will not be the excitement. I know they won't because
- 40:19Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, christ of Boll, Now you watch any
- 40:23Speaker 1: of these TV shows? Are great? Beloved? Fred Dibner went
- 40:26Speaker 1: up in one one time, yes, but he came off smiling,
- 40:32Speaker 1: but the same the same man was. And I'm taking
- 40:35Speaker 1: from the fred Dibner kind of book I'm going. Of course,
- 40:37Speaker 1: he was non plussed that man hung off the side
- 40:40Speaker 1: of chimneys three hundred foot in the air with nothing
- 40:43Speaker 1: putting out rope around his back, do you know, and
- 40:46Speaker 1: the ladder.
- 40:48Speaker 2: Around him tom So he knew immediately. He was grand Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 40:52Speaker 2: you're insulted that they made him wear grant. Fred I've
- 40:56Speaker 2: don't launch into the Blackpool Sea.
- 40:58Speaker 1: I don't like for the money that goes into building
- 41:00Speaker 1: these things. And I get it, I get it. But
- 41:02Speaker 1: when people kind of there seem to be okay with
- 41:06Speaker 1: the the wait and then the two minutes of all right,
- 41:09Speaker 1: that's all over. Now. I can't think of anything that
- 41:12Speaker 1: I would put an hour into only to get two
- 41:15Speaker 1: minutes out of that. I could actually genuinely go, well,
- 41:18Speaker 1: it's this balance podcast. Yeah, exactly exactly like there's it
- 41:24Speaker 1: just isn't. I was and I didn't want to beat
- 41:26Speaker 1: the bollocks that the same day, but I was kind
- 41:29Speaker 1: of gone and it was being put do I hate
- 41:31Speaker 1: you want to go on the incredible hope come like
- 41:33Speaker 1: fucking grinding because I'd say it's going to do similar
- 41:35Speaker 1: ship to the last joke, Like, no.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Well that was it. After a couple after a little while,
- 41:39Speaker 2: it was just like how many Yeah, how upside down
- 41:42Speaker 2: can a man get? Yeah?
- 41:44Speaker 1: No, this one goes backwards for a bit and twists
- 41:46Speaker 1: and then goes forward and like all right, but it's
- 41:48Speaker 1: still just thrown me around the same way around the place.
- 41:52Speaker 1: There's spitting flame coming after one in front of me. Okay, no,
- 41:55Speaker 1: I I'm all right, I'm okay, I there's it's not
- 41:58Speaker 1: a fear thing or whatever. I us don't maybe I'm
- 42:02Speaker 1: dead inside your I don't know, but I just could.
- 42:06Speaker 2: Not go not for not toime. I'm gonna tell you this,
- 42:08Speaker 2: and I no of this is getting any younger. And
- 42:10Speaker 2: the neck muscles are a little bit more nudely on
- 42:14Speaker 2: me these days because I was smacking around the.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Place newly, like so, you know, the thing takes off,
- 42:24Speaker 1: but McBride's head is still like it's stretched away back
- 42:29Speaker 1: nine foot behind and then comes and it up as
- 42:31Speaker 1: we want to.
- 42:33Speaker 2: Here's one thing I noticed, right, and and and and
- 42:36Speaker 2: and I didn't come apart tom. I maintained my composer,
- 42:40Speaker 2: but like I yep, and I yet and it was
- 42:42Speaker 2: all good crack. But at the same time, when you
- 42:44Speaker 2: come off, I'm like, god, damn, I'm sure on the
- 42:45Speaker 2: next day, like your arms killing you? Like why is
- 42:49Speaker 2: my arm killing me? I was like, well, your arm
- 42:50Speaker 2: was that minus five g there yesterday for a long
- 42:53Speaker 2: period of time, What what would you expect from I
- 42:58Speaker 2: think there's something evolutionary happening with humanity and inversion being
- 43:06Speaker 2: upside down, because you would often hear like old timers
- 43:08Speaker 2: be like and then I went on the carousel, and
- 43:10Speaker 2: I nearly went sick. Oh, I went on the I
- 43:12Speaker 2: went on the I went on the helter skelter slide
- 43:15Speaker 2: and it was like, oh my god, I couldn't you know?
- 43:18Speaker 2: It was just insane. And now kids are like, I
- 43:20Speaker 2: was on the Incredible Hope roller coaster and it turned
- 43:24Speaker 2: me upside down seven times in quick succession, and.
- 43:27Speaker 1: I'm grand, Yeah, I'm fine.
- 43:29Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm like, have we evolved to be more
- 43:33Speaker 2: thrown around the place somewhat? Ah? I don't know. Let
- 43:37Speaker 2: us know in the comment, But what I will say
- 43:39Speaker 2: is this, I don't know for what it is. It
- 43:44Speaker 2: just dawned me. I don't know how it's not a
- 43:47Speaker 2: more regular occurrence in a theme park for someone to
- 43:50Speaker 2: go on a roller coaster a big and get off
- 43:54Speaker 2: and just have had a complete mental breakdown and all
- 44:00Speaker 2: to their knees, screaming in tongues that would be experienced.
- 44:05Speaker 1: They have just had bet you anyone need to do.
- 44:06Speaker 1: They probably have a couple of members of the staff who
- 44:09Speaker 1: are exactly for that, who can sweep.
- 44:10Speaker 2: You to catch under the oxtars and carry you off.
- 44:13Speaker 1: Yeah, because yeah, yeah, it really is.
- 44:16Speaker 2: I'm going to take it up to the very tip
- 44:17Speaker 2: top height. I'm going to hold you for a second
- 44:19Speaker 2: and then I'm going to plunge you screaming into what
- 44:21Speaker 2: appears for a long time to be certain death.
- 44:24Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask you this year, if you
- 44:27Speaker 1: think that we did the kids today and the youngsters
- 44:29Speaker 1: of today have become desensitized to being flung around like
- 44:33Speaker 1: a washing machine, what would you suggest now as a
- 44:38Speaker 1: team park attraction, slash, ride, slash whatever it needs to
- 44:43Speaker 1: be to blow their minds.
- 44:46Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know, but I will say
- 44:49Speaker 2: we're a lot of a lot of the There was
- 44:51Speaker 2: no there was there's only one new roller coaster since
- 44:54Speaker 2: I was there last year, but their last year last
- 44:56Speaker 2: eight years ago, when I was over ensuring the victory
- 44:59Speaker 2: of the Trump the first time.
- 45:01Speaker 1: Good Man.
- 45:03Speaker 2: What there have been several of is like simulator rights,
- 45:06Speaker 2: where you sit into a thing with three D glasses
- 45:08Speaker 2: on and the thing plays on the screen and it
- 45:10Speaker 2: throws you around the place. And it seems to me
- 45:12Speaker 2: like they're cheaper and easier to make and less likely
- 45:15Speaker 2: to break a leg.
- 45:15Speaker 1: Actually, bring all that in the truck. You can pack
- 45:17Speaker 1: that in the truck in the morning, you know.
- 45:19Speaker 2: And I'm and I'm hearing it's like the super Duper
- 45:22Speaker 2: or super fast transformers blah blah blah, and I'm like, no,
- 45:25Speaker 2: this is like a this is a simulator. I was
- 45:28Speaker 2: on one of these in Doctor Quirky's in the nineties.
- 45:30Speaker 2: It's it's a fancy or version of it, but it's
- 45:32Speaker 2: the same thing. So no, I don't think I'm going
- 45:34Speaker 2: to Universal specifically for this, So they can fuck right off.
- 45:38Speaker 1: I think that's what we need to do, is that
- 45:39Speaker 1: we know we need to resurrect maybe something that's just
- 45:43Speaker 1: mundane from our childhood that kids would have no grasp
- 45:46Speaker 1: of today, like a landline phone just to hold the
- 45:49Speaker 1: rude landline phone's gone? See can you make a phone
- 45:53Speaker 1: call out of that?
- 45:53Speaker 2: See?
- 45:54Speaker 1: Can you get the internet on that show? Can you
- 45:56Speaker 1: watch YouTube? Kids on that thing?
- 45:58Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 45:59Speaker 1: The Universal watched the stress Face tried to swipe on
- 46:03Speaker 1: the buttons.
- 46:03Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, yeah, the Universal. The Universal Horror Nights
- 46:08Speaker 2: are just like here's a picture, but you can't enlarge it.
- 46:11Speaker 1: It's a real picture.
- 46:12Speaker 2: Pint it all you want, it's going nor. Yeah, Well
- 46:19Speaker 2: there you go. Tom. Thank you for indulging me on
- 46:22Speaker 2: Jerry's holiday photos the podcast. But it was all all
- 46:26Speaker 2: I could do for you this week, Tom, because I
- 46:28Speaker 2: was away for two weeks with no internet access because
- 46:30Speaker 2: I wasn't paying for it, so I don't know what
- 46:32Speaker 2: the hell else was happening around here. You're gonna turn around,
- 46:34Speaker 2: you know. We could have talked about the Halloween parade
- 46:36Speaker 2: in Dublin. That wasn't Oh my god. Yeah, let's keep
- 46:40Speaker 2: that for next year, because that's that's a great story.
- 46:42Speaker 2: I'm sorry I missed. I was. I watched a bit
- 46:43Speaker 2: of it on I watched a bit of an online.
- 46:46Speaker 1: It was so sad. It was so sad, it was
- 46:48Speaker 1: so set Jesse. You did'ly run back home and get
- 46:51Speaker 1: an out bin bag or something and I'll turn up,
- 46:53Speaker 1: wouldn't you him?
- 46:55Speaker 2: That stage, I was drinking cansby said I was grand.
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