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Episode 69: Jumpers For Goalposts · The Tom & Gerry Show Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I was listening to Tom and Jerry this week talking
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  Speaker 1: about going on a ramble at the countryside, asking each
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  Speaker 1: other if they have the proper boots and what not.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell thee it kind better boots than the ones.
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  Speaker 1: I wear one solid piece of leather, no stitches. I
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  Speaker 1: have a technique to see the had and like iron.
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  Speaker 1: Then I use my armor to shape it into the
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  Speaker 1: shape of a boot. Completely inflexible. It's like a clog.
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  Speaker 1: But if ire proof, break ankle proof, and drop a
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  Speaker 1: grinder an anvil on proof. And I've had the same
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  Speaker 1: pay for nearly forty year. I've got married in him
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  Speaker 1: lasted longer than my marriage. Mind, you can climb everest
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  Speaker 1: in him. No better boots anyway, enjoyed the episode, I'll
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  Speaker 1: see they.
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  Speaker 2: And the boys. I mean, let's let's start the show
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  Speaker 2: with a copyright strike number one. Oh don't worry, Jerr.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the best AI in generator or surveillance
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  Speaker 1: in the world will pick up on.
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  Speaker 2: How shite we just sang that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a whole new song by by anybody's standards.
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  Speaker 1: Even the people listen to this gun, I never heard
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  Speaker 1: that before.
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  Speaker 2: What's that now? Because it's so off the mark, but
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  Speaker 2: it's fair on the mark timewise, because the boys of
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  Speaker 2: Summer have gone. The summer is indeed drawn to a close,
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  Speaker 2: but the frivolities go on here at the Tom and
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  Speaker 2: Jerry show, I'm Jeremy McBride. That's Tom, o'manley. Of course
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  Speaker 2: they do. The boys of Summer have gone, Tom, but
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  Speaker 2: the boys of Autumn are about the kick into high
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  Speaker 2: year is say.
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  Speaker 1: I welcome it, because in one way you thought I
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  Speaker 1: was mad. Right, I was saying the midgies around here
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  Speaker 1: were on at scale that I'd never seen the like of,
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  Speaker 1: as my childhood would tell me, maybe i'd ticker skin
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  Speaker 1: as a child.
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  Speaker 2: I was right, they aren't the the midgies of these.
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  Speaker 2: We had mosquites up until most mean we didn't. I was, well,
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  Speaker 2: I knew there were.
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  Speaker 1: Big, bastard and bitey yokes these for us. I went,
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  Speaker 1: I never see the like of them before. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: turns out your and they worded it so funny on
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  Speaker 1: the radio today they went, there's been an upsurge or
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  Speaker 1: a record number of mosquito related injursturies And all I
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  Speaker 1: imagine was like really sick mosquitoes going in with like
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  Speaker 1: broken legs and stuff. You really should have worded that
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  Speaker 1: that people were involved in the scenario here like that people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what injuries people are getting. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: got bitten on the eye or something, you know, soft
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  Speaker 1: bastards like I, you know these things. But it turns
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  Speaker 1: out there were mosquitoes in Ireland because of the summer.
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  Speaker 1: Was that good sore?
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  Speaker 2: There are farmers around here will be millionaires after the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Do you need any hete? Do you need silag Halich?
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  Speaker 1: I'll start in selling Halich and I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: a contractor on behalf of people on this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking that over there. I'll put the Lincoln below
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  Speaker 1: where I'm selling Hey, silod and and hey and and
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  Speaker 1: possibly even straw as well, because there's leads with barns
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  Speaker 1: to the neck and there's probably a cut half left
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  Speaker 1: in it. Yet so exciting times all around the country.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to hear a farmer giving out all
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  Speaker 2: year never. Oh, I'm taking over the part because I
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  Speaker 2: haven't talked to in ages right, but I'm very excited
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  Speaker 2: I pulled off, I merged the words up. Now can
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  Speaker 2: you ever imagine Steve Jobs and fred Dibner comming together
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  Speaker 2: to solve a solution, can you because I never had
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  Speaker 2: caused him. But they'll go on because.
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  Speaker 1: In the memory of the two great men engineers of
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  Speaker 1: their time. I see that keyboard there, right trump of
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  Speaker 1: a thing, right wireless Apple keyboard. It has given me
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  Speaker 1: down through there the past couple of weeks, even going jar.
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  Speaker 1: I've changed the fucking batteries in this yoke again. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a christ because I went to send the link across.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out what had happened was this these two batteries
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  Speaker 1: that toe down the tube at the top, they springing
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  Speaker 1: up that they keep them under a bit of attention
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  Speaker 1: against the cap. It had kind of gone awake. So
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  Speaker 1: the batteries weren't actually failing. What was happening was they
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  Speaker 1: weren't making a proper connection. Now, a fella, and that
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  Speaker 1: I would normally bring that into the Apple shop, wouldn't you,
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  Speaker 1: And they'd say, well, what we'll do is we'll replace
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  Speaker 1: that now for you, and it'll cost you for whatever.
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  Speaker 2: If you were going to bring that into the Apple shop,
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  Speaker 2: you might as well be the type of bite that
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  Speaker 2: I would write a home.
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  Speaker 1: About it now you're talking, but you know that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even leave this room. Sorry, I went to the
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  Speaker 1: garage by the way, very proud of my garage of place.
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  Speaker 2: What do you get? See that there a washer off
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  Speaker 2: of what tiny hole in it? We saw a weepenny washer?
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  Speaker 1: What is it of off a masonry nailer? So you
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  Speaker 1: taped a washer off the washer off a masonry nail
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  Speaker 1: because it's got it's a tiny Holy see, there's more
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  Speaker 1: metal than there is a whole, if you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. If people were it's smaller than a parliament,
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  Speaker 1: but just about the size of a battery, right, And
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  Speaker 1: that'll give it the It gave it them the one
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  Speaker 1: millimeter of spring that at last, because minimeter there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: When you need it, you tell thembody, I know put
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  Speaker 2: it in the well. I'm there's level of pride that
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  Speaker 2: came out. Well, I have to say, that is fantastic time.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what my mind was. It's my mind was
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  Speaker 2: that or what did I put a fucking steam powered
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  Speaker 2: for at the back of the computer here or what? No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: what I would have done was I would have went
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  Speaker 2: out and I would have got a bit of you
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  Speaker 2: know the green tian wire for a garden. I have
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  Speaker 2: that all right, but I figured it wouldn't conduct enough.
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  Speaker 2: But it wouldn't it wouldn't be well played.
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  Speaker 1: I needed I needed springer, all right, Sorry, I needed
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  Speaker 1: to fill the gap.
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  Speaker 2: But what you let me go where I'm going. I'd
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  Speaker 2: gotten the time wire, I had have fashioned a hook.
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  Speaker 2: I'd have putting it down the tube to have caught
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  Speaker 2: the spring and pulled the spring back up a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: to stretch the spring out.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, I reckon, I reckon. If the spring
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  Speaker 1: was staying down, the spring is fucked.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't inject anymore spring into said situation.
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  Speaker 2: So I have a spare one. I have an extra
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  Speaker 2: one next to it for when it goes down another
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  Speaker 2: bit I'm god forbidden and happens, and this causes a
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  Speaker 2: spark that isn't supposed to be. You'll be coming back
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  Speaker 2: to delete this episode really quick.
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  Speaker 1: Stainless steel would just stop out of that, just better
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  Speaker 1: than any shite and sound that keyboard, do you know
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  Speaker 1: what I.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm all cotton a joke and saide the water
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  Speaker 2: you knocked off a masonry and Neil probably cost more
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  Speaker 2: than the components. That's insane. I tell you one thing.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who's bought masonry nails, you want to get some
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  Speaker 1: straight or now when you go to buy a box
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  Speaker 1: of masonry nails anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm so proud of that. That's good. That's the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's work right there. Engineering feats I've ever pulled off.
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  Speaker 2: I was so tough because this tick ship is not me.
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  Speaker 2: And when I get one over on the man, which
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  Speaker 2: is what I think, technically think I did, I'm half
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  Speaker 2: tempted to make like a tutorial video of me all
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  Speaker 2: the time with my tongue sticking out the side of
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  Speaker 2: my mouth, going I have it, I have it. It's
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  Speaker 2: the well, hello on Tom, let me do after that?
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  Speaker 2: Let me just do a quick count here on a
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  Speaker 2: two and two, four, six, eight, ten, sixteen. I think
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  Speaker 2: we might have sixteen people still listening after that story.
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  Speaker 2: But that's do you know? You say that?
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  Speaker 1: More and more people I'm meeting, and we did our
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  Speaker 1: gig in Dublin and everybody was a podcast listener.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you now, there's there're more I met. I
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  Speaker 2: was in tim a league, but you don't know where
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  Speaker 2: that is. I know I drove through it. I think
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  Speaker 2: you would buy it when you would have driven.
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  Speaker 1: You might have driven by it if you were near Bandon.
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  Speaker 1: It's INChO down a very court McSherry, very nice part
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  Speaker 1: of the world. I did a show on Monday Night,
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  Speaker 1: all of which they are an Armory recording night, and
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  Speaker 1: I swear to god, six different of the blokiest blokes
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  Speaker 1: you've ever seen, completely different. Went after listening to and
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  Speaker 1: they name an episode of.
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  Speaker 2: Like Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I completely forgot we did that episode, okay, and they
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  Speaker 1: were talking about obviously the house building one is still
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  Speaker 1: the most popular, but they hit the different one. Lads
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of opinions, a lot of just a
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  Speaker 1: lot of two cents to put into that put in
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  Speaker 1: a very cool kind way, you know that kind of way.
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  Speaker 2: So no, we are, We're no, we're we're out there. There,
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  Speaker 2: we are out there, do you know what, Tom, I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad you're feeling them questions and these people aren't bothering
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  Speaker 2: me about them. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure there's
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  Speaker 2: something there. There's something there. I can refer back to you,
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  Speaker 2: like I said it, back to you and your chat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the recluse, don't come here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also I'm after discovering where we will be going.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be going direct with Spotify so as that we
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  Speaker 1: can put these videos up on Spotify direct, because it's
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  Speaker 1: probably the handiest place to parents. No, you look beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: Well just you look exactly what everybody will hope you
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  Speaker 1: look like. To be honest with you, No, you don't
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  Speaker 1: actually on screen.
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  Speaker 2: Well come here, Tom, four and sixteen odd people that
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  Speaker 2: are still less. Hi, guys, there are people Harry is keeping.
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  Speaker 2: We better do a bit of a show for you here.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just rambling about masonry nails up the top
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  Speaker 2: of the show. Although you know what I tell you, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: thus weeks I'm tempted.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like if if we do get this
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  Speaker 1: video up or whatever. There was a spark came across
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  Speaker 1: Jerry's eyes there when I showed him the washer. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, I'm I'm chips across the table that put
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  Speaker 1: bit the house on this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm into this moment, into it. But we'll get on
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  Speaker 2: with the rest of the show. And which is the
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  Speaker 2: four segment were split into three segments. You know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on here? The four segment we take a look
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  Speaker 2: at big happenings around the world, which we bring to
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  Speaker 2: you in a segment called the Weekly What have You.
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  Speaker 2: This is a very complicated case, mad You know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ian's, a lot of outs, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: what have you, and a lot of strands to keep
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  Speaker 2: in my head. Man, this week's Weekly what have You?
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  Speaker 2: Is sporting related with you or I struggle with I
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  Speaker 2: would say I'm all right with sports.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like two sports, that's it. And even at that,
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  Speaker 1: it's really only one. But and I'm no expert in
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  Speaker 1: the field. But hey, do you know what I make.
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  Speaker 1: I find myself making a lot of sporting analogy is
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  Speaker 1: to kind of explain myself my thoughts to people, because
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  Speaker 1: God bless sport in a lot of ways. 'tis a
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  Speaker 1: simple thing, great leveler, you put in the effort, Yeah
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  Speaker 1: that you get out the other side and.
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  Speaker 2: Say, it'll save you an ear and a half awkward conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much of you know, a wee
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  Speaker 1: bit of we a little bit can I tell you
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  Speaker 1: sport can? It does break down barrier, especially international kind
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  Speaker 1: of sports. It does people And if people like like
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  Speaker 1: Competter vege, you know what I like about sport is
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  Speaker 1: it's a meritocracy.
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  Speaker 2: If you're shit. Go Look, well, this week we are
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  Speaker 2: talking about someone who's definitely not shit. He didn't he
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  Speaker 2: didn't quite make it into this lad territory. This lad
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  Speaker 2: tends to be for you know, why not. I won't
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  Speaker 2: say ne're do wells but wild bastards. Yeah, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: lad is in actual fact newsworthy in of his own right.
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  Speaker 2: He is fifteen year old ben Lyine from Ennis County Claire, who,
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  Speaker 2: in the week gone by Tom has signed for Manchester United.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah football club which I know is not the powerhouse
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  Speaker 2: it used to be, but gyilded lily it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: But still and all that is a schoolboy dream scouted, found,
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  Speaker 2: trained and signed up by Manchester United at fifteen years
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  Speaker 2: of age. And we're both fathers, Tom, we have kids.
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  Speaker 2: Might wee man is a little bit older than yours.
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  Speaker 2: Might wee man is eleven years of age now, and
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you he is not four years away
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  Speaker 2: from being signed for Manchester United. Yeah. Well, do you
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  Speaker 2: know what you could You can throw it out there
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  Speaker 2: and say almost no child is going to be this
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  Speaker 2: is I want to you know. Benlin, Congratulations from Ennis
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  Speaker 2: County Claire. Thank you very much for your service to
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  Speaker 2: Ireland Sport. Enjoy yourself and enjoy your time at Manchon.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're going to give you the quick cliffs notes
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  Speaker 2: of where he got to where he's going Tom, and
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  Speaker 2: then we want to get really into it. Then I
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  Speaker 2: understand hails from Ennis, County Claire. He's fifteen years of age, Tom.
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  Speaker 2: This kid is younger than iPads. Yeah, yeah, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: He's born twenty ten.
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  Speaker 1: I have a short hanging over there, jar and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's as old as ben if not. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a really good short, but it's it's as old.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha, right, funny and all as it says. But
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  Speaker 2: anytime you're kind enough to bring me on support with
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  Speaker 2: you on tour, I tell jokes that are older than
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  Speaker 2: this man. That's a candid fact. Yeah yeah right. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about Hello, I'm Jerry McBride. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about bits in the middle that really should have been
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  Speaker 2: a bit. Yeah you know, so Reagan material of yours
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  Speaker 2: is really how about that bailet? So this lad it's
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years of age, and I understand that I can't
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  Speaker 2: really tell now he's Wikipedia pages two lines long at
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  Speaker 2: this stage now because he literally is only an infant,
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  Speaker 2: but he appears to have lived in the Cayman Islands
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  Speaker 2: with his parents for some such whatnot, and he played
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  Speaker 2: for like some Cayman Islands football team and then went
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  Speaker 2: on a tour of England as a school boy for
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  Speaker 2: twelve or thirteen years of it. Twelve or thirteen years
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  Speaker 2: of age, he's taken on footballing tours. And in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of all this, they played against Wolverhampton Wanders Wolves
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  Speaker 2: and this kid slotted four past whatever the yeah had
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  Speaker 2: Wolves eleven year old because they like, if they're.
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  Speaker 1: The Wolves team and these are, you know, a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of lads Smartland showing up whatever, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, a bunch of lads from the Cayman Islands, San Marino,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, yeah, I said, like, there's.
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  Speaker 1: No way that you know, the academy of a Premier
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  Speaker 1: League team or at least divisional. I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: Wolves are now, but you know they're there there about.
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  Speaker 2: They're thereabouts, They're they're hanging in there. McCarthy, the great
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  Speaker 2: Mick McCarty, and they played for Wolves. I think we
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  Speaker 2: are all going back very very far here. But that's
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  Speaker 2: what we have to do. That's where myronology. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So this kid goes over, Ben goes over, slots four
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  Speaker 2: past the Wolverhampton keeper, the Wolverhampton crowd going like, you know, actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know any bad they can slot four past us,
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  Speaker 2: he's actually pretty good. Signe him up to a world
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  Speaker 2: of Whampton Wanderers academy. Contract stays there for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years until and this go around he was signed
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  Speaker 2: up at one five fifteen. For the hard of hearing
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  Speaker 2: out there, we're not saying a fifty year old man,
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  Speaker 2: although that would be newsworthy too. Fifteen year old kid
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  Speaker 2: gets signed up for Manchester United. Who knows what awaits
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  Speaker 2: in his future? Dumb? That's mental to me? It is?
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  Speaker 1: It isn't it isn't it. It's still as wild to me.
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  Speaker 1: But now I've heard kind of these stories before. But
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  Speaker 1: like they they throw a lot of They have money
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  Speaker 1: to put a lot of nets out there to like
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  Speaker 1: some Man United. Even if Man United doesn't win the
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  Speaker 1: Premier League or Champions Cupper out for which they haven't,
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  Speaker 1: then they just the money that's behind it, so they
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  Speaker 1: can throw a lot of hooks out there. So you
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  Speaker 1: do hear a lot of failure stories sometimes, and I
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  Speaker 1: really I do hope that Ben's parents, which just sounds
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  Speaker 1: like they can keep him on the straight and narrow like,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes they can just shelve the kid too like.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean there's that too like because they have
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  Speaker 1: the money to contractually keep these kids.
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  Speaker 2: Just where until they need them to a certain point.
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  Speaker 2: But it just in case, just in case they get good.
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  Speaker 2: Now I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: This kid must be might be on a trajectory that's
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  Speaker 1: just like, well, he is going to be in the
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  Speaker 1: starting team. But I think because it's such an unprecedented thing,
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  Speaker 1: I think he will get looked back, looked at by
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  Speaker 1: the senior team here in Ireland. But that would definitely
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  Speaker 1: propel him at the very leatcause apparently there was a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of clubs after this kid, Like you know what
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  Speaker 1: this is, This.
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  Speaker 2: Is what I wanted to talk to you, and this
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  Speaker 2: is what amazs me about sport. And I could give
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  Speaker 2: you toppens for watching the ninety minutes of a game
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  Speaker 2: of football. Yeah, you can't think event and work to do.
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  Speaker 2: But I do love the drama of it, the succession
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: level drama of it, the backroom dealings and all this
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, and the idea to me the idea
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: that there are whole systems that literally go out and
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: watch twelve year olds play football and cherry pick the
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: best of them. And in my mind, I'm like, how
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: fucking good are is a twelve year old going to
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: be like it? And there's not a your old playing
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: football today, Tom that couldn't dance rings around me and
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: leave me clutching my chest in cardiac arrest if I
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: attempted to play Bob. I see kids playing football out
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: on the green here, and anytime the ball bounces over
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: to me and I just kick it back to them,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: just balloon it. Just I actually spike the ball off
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: into the fucking railway yard their metatarsals, cruciate ligaments and
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: fuck for the rest of the days. Yeah. But again,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: like I say, it is madness to me, the kids
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: are being picked up this early.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I tell you what it is, that jar It's not
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: even on that they can kind of do it in
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a close proximity to Ireland. But I guarantee it they
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: have contracted scouts in other places just looking much further
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a field than Ireland, because they wouldn't be there wouldn't
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: be a tenth of the money in rugby, right, now
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: one of the richest nations is France, and this is
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: just to give you the wild the wildness of where
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: they'll just they'll just go for they'll take a chance
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: on kids like there was. There are clubs in France
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: so that you have your the big dogs like Toulouse.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Larachelle.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: They have the kind of money jar where they can
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: set up because it's a safe bet. Sometimes you can
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: just go for straight genetics of a nationality i e. Polynesians.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: You go like, there are lads you'll never no white
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: boy will ever get to their size. They've actually had
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: to introduced weight categories in Australia as a result because
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: some kids are showing up.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: There's one kid called the Simon Poor at the minute
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and he's after seen him. Yeah you've seen him. He
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: got from my house. Yeah he got signed at like sixteen.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: But they actually set up, they've built built they like
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: they're to loose and Tulan have built academies in Fiji
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and Samoantanga built academies just purely to filter.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: These kids straight from there straight back to France. And
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: they're they're trying in up the road at home and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: go right whenever you're ready let's bring you over for
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a Looxi in our academy.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Over there, do you know what I mean? Because it's
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: incredible to that, to me that that machine exists. Tom
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Now I want to tell you obviously it doesn't. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: like you know, you do hear stories that Lionel Messi
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: was spotted at fifteen and all this kind of things.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: So this is not necessarily big news fifteen year old
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: signs for It is for us here in Ireland because.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: You go all the way back to the sixties and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: the Irish Man United Liverpool correlation is a big thing.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: So for a kid to get signed to Man unite
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: where let's be honest, every even if he's a fan
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: or not, every kid, soccer plane, kid prestigious the world
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: from Cameroon to guitar.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Every kid in the world could only dream of being
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: put in pen to paper and the red Devil's logo
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: at the top. You know what I mean? Can you
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: if that's like it's it's roy and the Rover stuff.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: It is literally roy of the Rovers. It literally is
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Royal the Rover stuff there's going to be and even okay,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the ludicrous money aside the fame, the accolade that you
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: know turning up to training and you know sport, you
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: know in it's the it's the prestige that that kid
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: forevermore will be a Mani United player from Ennis in
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Claire like that is FORO. There's nobody who can like
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: even us as non soccer fans will turn around, high
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: five that game, go oh yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Like you know, there could have been in the time
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: we're speaking to him, that might have been like fifteen
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: lads from gord signed up for Southampton and I just
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have heard it. Manches tonight has got a little
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: cachey too.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It's got but listen, I don't know the name. Ninety
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: percent of the fans I think they reckon. It's ninety
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to ninety five percent of the fans the worldwide fans
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of Man and Nite have never been to Old Trafford.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They make most of their money from like merch, Like
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it's ludicrous. They're like apparently the like half the crowded
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: people who are from London based, do you know what
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I mean?
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Like because it's such a draw.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It is such it's in the same I don't know
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: what other teams, but international teams, the all blacks. The mystique.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: There's almost a mystique, you know what I mean? Like, yes,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: even though Man United have done nothing in years, but
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: they're still you know, they're still so that that logo.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: We all know it. Well, Tom I have I have
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: two questions for you, and then we'll move on with
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the show because we've a hell of a lot to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: cover today. True, and best luck to young Ben give
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: him hell kid. If ever you want to throw fifty
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: grand towards a couple of podcastss, be amazing. We could
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: dedicate most of the episodes to you if you want to,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: We'll become the Tom and Jerry and Benjo have two
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: questions for you, okay, yep. Question number one, If this
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: machine exists to pluck teenagers fresh out the fucking womb
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: and train them from the ground up to be super
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: soldiers on the field exists, is there any avenue for
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: older people. I'm not talking about my adrend like that,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and I'm talking about lads in their twenties or whatever
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: who have never gone through this system, who might play
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: a little bit of five A side with the lads
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: or a little bit of Sunday League football five A
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: side with the Gang is there an avenue for those
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: people to progress through the sporting system?
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Technically, yeah, there is a course, Like I mean, you
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: get there and you get to the League of Ireland
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: which is a professional outfit in itself, and it's getting
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: more and more popular, which will bring more money to
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the game, which allows for players get better as a result,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and you could I mean, if you've I think they
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: think about football is you literally have to be playing
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: football from the age of three onwards.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And chances are, because.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It's such a well organized thing worldwide, chances are you
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: will have already been looked at.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Now, maybe you're a late bloomer.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Realistically, I'd say in your twenties you're kicking a brown
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: five a side on a Sunday. Your fitness levels are
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: where you're probably not going to be the show show
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a scout something that he hasn't already seen. But if
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: say you did, absolutely you can make it the League
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of Ireland. Social media is a great thing nowadays. You
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: put some clips up there of how you looked amazing
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you not make nine players on the way, you know,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you did the whole Maradona thing and and scored nineteen
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: goals in the match, like there'll be somebody goes, fuck it,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: how do we miss this guy? And I'm sure that
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: a few people have gotten through the cracks, Like but then,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like I know of a guy from back in the day,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: incredible player, could do things that only were God given,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like and this is from listening to guys that played
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: room or saw him playing. He had trials when man united,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the same guy, you know, local areas saved up bunch
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: for him, got over there and I don't know what
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the full story is, but kind of.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Have went on the pace, you know what I mean,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: came in like this hell drink in England to like
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: it just did you know?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And that was just one of these other stories where
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: had he gone a different avenue would have been a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: roy Keane, you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Know what I mean? Literally, had he gone down a
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: different avenue that had no pubs, Yeah, yeah, literally. So yeah,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: there's there is, But chances are you have like if
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: you have what is needed to do the job at fifteen,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: you've shown everybody what you got at fifteen, gotcha, nothing
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: magic happened. So that brings me to my second question.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah that if you are twenty eight, twenty nine and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you haven't been spotted or picked up or signed up
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: by anybody at this stage and you are playing five
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: a side and it's unlikely you're ever going to make
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it as a professional footballer. Why does every fucker that
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I've ever played five a side with act like it
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: is a thing that's going to happen. Yeah, it was
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: your seal body fucking slow down. Yeah, we're here for
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a kick around, all right.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I say, but you know what, please, here's the thing.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: There's there's a there's a true line that people won't
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: get sometimes, and it's it goes with I guess whether
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: it's cars, sport, maybe even playing music and stuff like that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: There's something there's machinery, tractors. It's been put to me
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: before on you know, by Dublin based radio presenters.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: What is the deal with guys loving tractors? Like because
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: all every man grown man wants to do. He doesn't
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: want to make himself look younger, typically with no classic surgery.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: He just loves the thing still that he loved when
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: he was a kid. Why the guys, why grown.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Ass men love wrestling? Because he loves the things he did.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: He got his all his ducks in a row when
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: he was five and now he still fucking loves those things.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And that's why those guy's bust have got literally got
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: flapping all over the place, belly out, arses out, giving
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: it socks like they're, you know, Christiano Ronaldo because they
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: just for that brief moment, they're seven years in his
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: age again in their head. That's all it is, like,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You know what it is time? I suppose I didn't
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: think about it that way. I just thought about being pricks.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: But come here, we love as children a little later
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: on in the show, but for now we're going to
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: move on and stop talking about Ben Lang. God love them,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: great man, Come man, Ben, go for it. But like you,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you didn't fall into the category of this lad, because
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: if the Tom and Jerry show, you can't just be
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: good at the thing and be this lad. You've got
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to do something that makes us stop in our tracks
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: and go ship. Check out this line.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Tracks nicely, put in there, nicely, put in there, fairness,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Like we said, the criteria typically for this lab but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it has to be something kind of extreme that has
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: come about it as a result of normally an action
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that somebody has pulled off of something some which way
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and it helps.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, we're we're not. But if we're international, we're very international.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: We've been all over the world scouring for lads. You know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: men beased doesn't make a difference. You always have to
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: be Australia. But man, the you show up every now
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: and then, it is true.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It's true, well in this particular one and man clings
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to high speed train and survives in Austria.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Right when you when you sent me to this first term,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: it was like man clings to high speed train and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: it was like an Austrian man. I was like, oh
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: those climbing all these read it wrong because it sounded
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: like such an Australian thing to do. But no, this
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: is our this is our friends over in Austria. Austria.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: That's right. So this dude, now, I mean, we've all
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: pulled off the funny old superman. Tell me, tell me,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: tell me Tom okay, just real quick, give me this
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: man's name and tell me and indeed the listeners how
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: he came to do what it is that he did.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Well, look, we talked about it, I think last week,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and it was there is no doubting with good Battern different.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: We're not a health podcast, nor will you hear us
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: pushing anything healthy for whatever reason.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: We don't have we don't have c be these bonsorships
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: just yet. We pointed out last week. I think it
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: wasn't perhaps the week before that smoke effects bad for
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: your health. But look less right this chap.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Now I've gone through a couple of man I can't
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: seem to find. They won't give the guy's name.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Right. He's an Algerian.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Chapter was living in Vienna, and he he stood out
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: at at a train station, a stop he stopped at
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a train. Now, you don't fuck around on Austrian or
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: German trains, which if it was an Irish train, he'd
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: get the smoke nearly the full pack between fucking stops, right,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: because there'd be some fuckery going around on the track somebody,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: it would, you know, the driver would probably be out
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: with you bowman a fag Offia. Yeah not when you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: get to you know, Germania slash Austria.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Right, you don't right.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: They pulled over at uh they were heading for I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: think I think they were heading for Vienna.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: They were from heading from Zurich heading to Vienna, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: they stopped. He stopped at Saint pultin the old junction
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of Austria.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the Limerick junction of Austria. So he basically
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: it wasn't far from Vienna by all accounts.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: No, but he said he had to hang, he had
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: to go. And as as he said, punched art, yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: punch it art, smoke a bag, you know.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: He steps out and the train goes to take off. Now,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: in all fairness to him, we've all.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Had a kind of a knee jerk moment.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: We go, oh, left me bag, you know on the trail,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you know, or something to that effect, like you will
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: bang the side of it. Austrian and German trains don't
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: stop for nobody. They are on time. They apologize if
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: they're thirty seconds late. You know what I mean, this guy, you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Might get a Dublin bus driver to wait for you,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: like if he sound yeah, exactly exactly, but not an
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Austrian train driver. No, No, he just put the I
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: was won't to say he put the boot down, but
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: he put the handle forward. Whatever. The train sped off
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and airman, uh, how did he react to this time?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Wait for the next train? Surely not the doll.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: He decided to jump up on whatever step he could
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: get his foot onto. Fashion underneath him and cling to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the bastard thing. And as the the train was, of course,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: he's roaring the house down. It's a high speed train
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: would probably well insulated glass and walls, nobody hears the thing.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's ripping off down the track. And finally, which must
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: have been, in all fairness, while terrifying and scary, it
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: must be fairly funny to see from the inside looking out.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Was this chap clawing his way along like some sort
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of Tom Cruise bullshit.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Cruise mission, possibly like he's clinging on to the side
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: of a high speed train. And there are systems for
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: this time, like if I see that, if I see
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: that happening outside the commuter train to minute, you rub
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: your eyes like a.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Cartoon level come out on stocks first, and then you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: go rugalled.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I pulled. I fulfill my lifelong ambition pulling the fucking
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: the bird glass thing that stops the train. Yeah, yeah,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: and I'm just I'm sorry. I just had to google
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: it here, so I had to do like a Joe
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Rogan here, just kind of learn me facts while I'm
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: doing it. Here, it's a twenty two minute train ride
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: from San Paulton to Vienna. If that was he couldn't
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: hang on for the fag because he's only going to Vienna.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Like Jesus Christ, man, you couldn't got your You're a farmer,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: smoker yourself. You know when you need a fag, you
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: need a It's right enough.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Right now, right He he got himself between the carriages
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and then was able to stick his head around to
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the windows like to hang on.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It's like, this isn't the big old diesel bastard you
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: see pulling in out of Connolly, lads, This is one
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: of those motherfuckers. There's one of these sleek trains. That
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: ship will.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Pull the makeup off a woman's face if it passes,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you know, if she's standing close enough to the fucking
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to the platform.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Also, I haven't got full schematics of the train to hum,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: but at a glance, no handles on the side. No no, no,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: no no. So he got himself.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: He jammed himself between the carriages and managed to get
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: his face in front up window and scared the living
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: ship out of somebody.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: So they can imagine, Tom, do you imagine he still
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: has like a fag hanging out the corner of his mouth.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Oh Jesus Christ, how good would that be, like if
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: like I'm I'm not mad at him at all, like
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: that's why he's in the in this lad like you know,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not overly mad at.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Him, but no, I'll tell you the police appeared to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: be mad at him though.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: To be fair, I liked the way they described it,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: like the conductor had a right big goat him.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: That was actually something a passenger said. That was a
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: line straight out of Thomas the tank engine. The conductor
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: had a right big goat at him, Like I'm pretty
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: sure that wasn't the German fellow that told whatever German
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that was a fellow from either north of England or
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: he was from like ross Common. You know.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: The conductor had a right big goat, you know, like
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: just pollocked him from high heaven.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: But they arrested them on some thing.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine they arrested him for this fat
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: right he acted the ballocks, right, that's she's the only
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: slapping the wrist for that. Typically right, you fucking Egypt,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: like you nearly got yourself killed. And what you have
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: then is you you're bringing out all sorts of emergency
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: services for you being a ballocks, which I.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Think is okay, so wasting emergency time.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I guess I really like I like that if you're
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a fucking ballocks right now, Okay, he got caught rotten
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: and probably jumped without on without thinking, and then you're there.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Now what do you do now, do you know? I mean,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: do you hang on and just go? Look, we'll try
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and make it to me and I'll say not, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: allow myself to be sucked under the wheels of this
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: train and just say fuck it. I gave it a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: good go. I'm looking at these trains to these things
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: are like, you know, you've got as much place to
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: hang on as you would on the outside of it
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: drinking straw. There is nothing, there's nothing, that's why, just
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and even between the carriages, there's not much buckeup space
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: between the carriages, like I don't know, like I'm guessing
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: there isn't a lot of big bends on this and
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: this journal I wouldn't want to be but I think.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: What they arrested him for, right because they were fucking
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: raging that there was wait for this jar a seven
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: minute delay on the train.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: At seven minute delay and ill commerce Tom, I genuinely
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: like that is I'll be honest with you that by
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: ours terms, that's half early. Do you know what I mean?
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Seven minute delay? Should I missed it? It was too early? Tom. Uh.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: It might surprise you to learn that running along the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: top of a moving train is one of my lifelong ambitions.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: It's not at all. Actually, I absolutely understand that year.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I know you know because you and I were raised
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: with the great train robbery cowboys and Indians like you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: it was like you never saw a train without somebody
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: running along the top of And I get trains to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and from work all the time. Do you look up
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: at the roof all the time? All the time, I
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: look up at the roof of a train as often
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: as I look up at the ceiling of an elevator,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: the ceiling of a lift. See, is there a panel
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: that I can lift off? That I can climb on
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: top of it? Like in die Hard and all my
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: travels around the world, come never seen a lift that
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I could into the liver not a thing, pure movie bullshit. Okay,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: why would such a hatch be there? There's nothing that
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: will let me get on top of a train, Tom.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: But I have a plan, Oh yeah, I have a
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: plan which someday, when I'm done fighting bears, I might enact. Okay, yeah,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: would you like to hear God. I'm on the edge
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of my seat all the train stations that I incur
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: on my way to and from work, and I'm including
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: darts in this, there is one train station where I
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: can get on the roof of the train. Go on.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I'm taking out of consideration the entire dart line, even
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: if it's a commuter train on a dart line. Because
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the dark lines have electric cables overhead, you're dead man.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: You're a dead man. So you want a line that
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: doesn't have that. So that is the line from Minute
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: to Bray, And as you get past from Condred you're
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: into Connolly station. In fact, even at from Condred there's
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: just too many eyes on you. So you want someone rural.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So you want to get on the roof of that
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: train somewhere between Minute and Castlenock, right, Okay, Yeah, Now
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the train station I get on is Clonsilla, and Cloncilla
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: has something that not very many other trains have. Train
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: stations have. Yeah, they have an old fashioned wrought iron
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: bridge over. That's pretty good. Get that. Okay, every other
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: train station around the Place Leake Slip Consby Lakes Slip
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: louise A bridge. They have the covered bridge that you
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: can't climb out over. Okay, yeah, but Cloncilla has the
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: old fashioned wrought iron bridge that only has a waste
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: high railing on it that you can literally throw your
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: leg over and get over the railing. From there time
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: it is a mirror four foot drop down to the
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: roof of a train. You follow me so far, yeah
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So the standard issue commuted
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: to Minuta with the ridged green roof travels from Clonsilla
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: either in one direction goes to coal mine where there
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: is a bridge that will knock you to your debt,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: or it goes the other way where the railway line
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: spike split one goes to leaks the confree and leaks
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: the water bridge where more bridges will Jesus Christ, I'm
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: gonna stop you right, okay, all I've thought about this
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: way too. Think about this every day, baby, or it
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: will go. If you time it right, you will get
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: the train that goes to the M three parkway out
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: at Dunboyne. And if you get on that train, there
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: is a mere six hundred to eight hundred meter journey
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: from Clonsilla to Hantsfield train station, which long term listeners
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: of the Tom and Jerry Show will be familiar with.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: It's a straight line from Clincilla to a Hansfield eight
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: hundred meters takes three minutes, so you're not going to
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: be cleaning out to this all fucking day. You hit
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: me so far, so what I need? That entirely jared,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: but go on so so. Basically that means that I
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: will be able to jump down from the bridge in
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Plantilla onto the roof of the train, stay on it
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: onto Hansfield, which is an incredibly short journey, and then
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: just get off the train. So I'm not talking about
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: clinging on to it to Belfast. Okay, I'm not stupid.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: And the train never gets that. The train never builds
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: up any speed between Coloncilla and Hansfield because it's only
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: eight hundred meters. Nobody's in any rush. It just basically
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: rolls from one end of it to the next. So
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I have an opportunity to jump the railing and get
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: on the roof of the train at Plincilla. It's going
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to fucking trundle eight hundred yards up the line and
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: get me to Hansfield and stop there. And the only
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: thing that has the only thing I have to work
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: out is how do I get down off the roof
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: at Hansfield because my knees won't take a jump from
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: the roof of a train to a platform anymore. Oh, listen,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: you need to bring a rope of some sort, cherry.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: You need to there's this, Jesus Christ. It's like I think,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: if it pulls up long enough, I can I could
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: probably slide down and let my legs down and drop down.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: But you know, mind the gap, as they say. I
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: just haven't figured that out. But when I do, tom
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: oh boy.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: And here was me thinking that you want to do
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the Iron one train across Jordan, you know that one
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: that you can do.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: A friend of mine has done it. He did he
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: lay in coal.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: It's kind of illegal to do now, but you can
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: still technically do where you go across like the Sara
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Desert overnight and you basically lie on top of a
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: train and it's mental and it's dangerous and then all
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the rest.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no time. I just wanted to. I
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: just want to scratch an itch, like you know, this
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: is like this is like you know, have you have
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: you ever shot a gun? I'd like you know, yeah,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I shot a gun. No you didn't, No, you didn't.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: You didn't go out shooting guns or anything like that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: You had six shots at a shooting range on a
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: stag in Vegas with the lads. It doesn't count. But
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: that's the equivalent of what I want to do here.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you it's it's right up there now
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: with what you're fighting bear stuff. I'll tell you, I mean,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: it's never gonna happen, Jar, But you keep living that dream.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: You keep living that dream. And in the meantime, in January,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I can tell you this carry on is is absolutely rampant.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: So you're not alone rampant across Europe. In that there
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: was one other case of a forty year old Hungarian
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: man survived clinging to a German high speed train for
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: twenty miles, which would be about twenty six kilometers.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Likewise.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Before it sets up pay a fag story again. So
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: maybe if you brought a packet of cig's with you, Jar,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: for some reason or another, you might get away with
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it by accidentally ending up on the roof of.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: No, I'm going to intentionally get on the roof.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Well, of course, but if somebody catches you got sorry,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I's going up for a fag, and you know, before
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: you know what I was on the roof of the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: train might get you. It seems to be Siggy's tend to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: be the story anyway, of how people end up in
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: ridiculous places on a moving train.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: You might jairly certain I can say, well, I started
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: having a smoke and then I shimmy down off a bridge.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: You dropped her lighter, you dropped your old lighter that
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: your great grandfather in the war had left you.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Well, come here, Tom, what can I tell you other
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: than this? Shimmying along the roof of a train is
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: something that I've wanted to do since I was a
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: young man. Ah, And I'm not a young man aid anymore.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Neither are you. Tom. We've aged terribly in my instancy,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: fine milk, like a fine milk. Two of us just
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: aged like a yop in the sun. But in our
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: forty some odd years on this planet, Tom, We've seen
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: a lot of shit come. I've seen a lot of
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: shit go. And every now and then on the Tom
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: and Jerry Show, we like to look back on our
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: passing through the fulcrum of life that was the eighties
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: to the twenty twenties. In a segment we call we
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Remember When when I was a young lad twenty or
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: thirty or forty years ago, Bridger, I'll tell you it
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: was my turn to be on holidays there last week.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: You didn't notice that the listeners of the Tom and
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Jerry Show, because we're pre recorded and all that. Sneaky
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: bastards don't don't Jesus, this is the great Oz. Why
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: would you pull back the curtain for Christ made folks?
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: For you don't want to know how the sage made
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: kill a pig, then you smush him up and get
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: him into his own intestines and then stick it to
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: the pen. I was in holdest and I like to
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: keep a wee bit fit. Okay, but I'm out in
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Lanzati and it's thirty six degrees heat. I'm not going
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: out running around, okay. You to die? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: all right. And besides that, I don't know if anybody's
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: ever been to the Canarians. But the terrain itself doesn't
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: lend itself to a good long run. I gotta be
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: honest with your Tom. So I found myself walking long
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: distances over rugged train and rugged madnus. So what barren terrain, slow, steady,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: methodical walking across it? Hiking? Some might say, when does
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: a walk become a Hikeer is the question, you know,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I honestly don't know, but I will tell you this much, buddy,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I'm suddenly very willing to find out, because I found
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: it to be a very very pleasant experience to be
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: out in the absolute wilderness. And I gotta tell you, Tom,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I like to run, but at forty five years of age,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: there's only so much more run on my knees can take.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: But I can walk, buddy, I can walk with the
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: best of them. So I had a lovely time hiking
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: in the volcanic terrain of Lanzerotti, and I'm thinking about
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: bringing it back home to Ireland in some wonderful walking
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: and hiking excursions in the coming months. Hold Annie, you
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: thinking you're introducing hiking to the Irish people. I think, no, no, no,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: because we wouldn't be remembering anything there in that regards.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: But in actual fact, there's a reason why it all
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: just really struck a chord with me, and it is
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: because it brought to mind my childhood in the country
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: where there's absolutely nothing better for a boy to do
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: than to just set off into a field, start walking
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: and I'll see a tea time. It's called rambling. It's
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: called rambling, baby. It's a lovely, lovely thing, I know,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: a wonderful thing. We live.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: We're living pretty much in a hiking trail, you know
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: what I mean. We see people every so often they've
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: got that full gear on and sometimes you're like, tone
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: it down, Jeffrey, do you know what I mean. You've
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: got the sticks and everything.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's a lot of that now. I always
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: thought like a barrier to any sort of hill walking
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: around and sort of crack was the fact that you
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: needed to go drop a grand in north face. Not
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: the case Tim's way. There's ways to do it safely
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: and ways to do it, you know, responsibly. But at
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: the same time, this is, you know, one foot in
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: front of the other and take it from there.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: It's a thing that I've been I'm to do. I
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: am not built to run. I've got a goat like
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: built to me in that I've done. I've done Ironman's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I've done. And I hated the cyclone. I hated the running.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I hated the swimming. I hated the kayak. And I've
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: done you know, adventure ones and I found any time
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I had to do any hill running slash hiking, man,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: let me at it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Give me some terrain. None of this yeah that stuff.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, terrain would have been a you know,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: a bit of traction under photo was it in tarmac?
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Christ above? Let me at it. They got to tell you. Yeah,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: that's that's very much what it was like. When I
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: was out on this ramble in Lands of ROTI there
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: were you know, and everything was on a trail. I
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: didn't just kind of wander off into the into the
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: wilderness like in fairness. There was always trail underneath me.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Every now and then you get to a bit that
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: was like going up and down the side of the cliff,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: and I was like, no, we're we're talking about it. Okay,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: let's see what you got. I was, I say, famed.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: I was. It was kind of just an okay thing.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: And I would put the heart across any current modern
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: parent the notion that their child would just go off
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: for a walk and not be seen for a few hours.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was many a thing that the lad
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: could fall into and knock it out, but you kind
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: of worked it out like I can. I'll give you
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: this one. This is one, and I can't to be
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: an older than six or seven. Yeah, I had discovered
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: the ability to put together a sandwich, and I loved
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: a jam sandwich chair. So I didn't need to go
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: cutting breads or anything like that. I just needed to
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: put enough jam on one side, folded over, and I
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: made four or five of these nice sandwiches, and I
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: put them in a bag of sorts.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I can remember this much.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: And like the little Sobo or something sort of you know,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: like cartoon level tramp will say, you know, with the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: thing on a stick on a stick and off told
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: nobody off.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: I went, Yeah, Now I.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Was Christopher Robin in my head. I was off to
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the races, way off down fields. I ended up in fields.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: In my head, I had traveled miles like I was going.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: I thought I was in fucking Mordor like you know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd gone miles. But the thing is the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: only in the countryside, you only need to travel one
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: hundred yards before you're not fucking seen fairly quickly. If
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: you're only five or six, you can vanage easy in
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the country, but there was after a couple of hours,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: there wasn't. Well.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know how long it passed, but it was
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: a summer's day, and I remember.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: The freakout of not freak out, but then where the
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: fuck were you where? Like we were looking at it
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: and they had they had looked within I guess one
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: hundred yards of the house. Where else would the lad
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: be had noticed?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I guess the jam yard with the knife still stuck
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: on it, and the pan of bread is still wide open.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Brindlestick missing. Do you know?
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I remember the same day, I was like, when I've
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: told friends about this, They're like, You're the most country
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: motherfucker ever, because this is I I met a horse
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: chair that day. I'm not even a big horse guy,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: but I met a nice horse that day, standing in
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: a field, just me and him, just me and this horse,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: just just us, and it was like a man beast.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. There was a symbiosis where I didn't want to
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: go jump on his backer and or did he want
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: to be going anywhere, but we just I can remember
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: feeding him one of the sandwiches. He was all about that.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: I won't lie. Oh yeah, But.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Then I don't really know how it worked out, But
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I woke up asleep against him. If you imagine the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: horse had made himself a giant like Buddha bag I
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: woke up. I don't know how many hours I slept
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: beside that horse, don't know that horse's name, don't know
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: whose horse it is, don't know where he came from.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: But I thought I had traveled about.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Fourteen and a half miles from my house. Turns out
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I was only in the next field over, which is
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: about five.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Hundred meters six hundred meters. But I slept beside the
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: horse for a good couple of hours because I fello
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: be knackered after traveling fourteen and a half miles high grass,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: and you share a couple of high fructose sandwiches with
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: your friend, you may as well have a nap on
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: a hot summer day.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: And summer's day the heart the horse sat down, so
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I figured, if he's having a sit down, I love
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: to sit down.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: It was only when I walked back it was like
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: you slip beside a hot What the fuck? He'll believe.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest Still to this day, I don't
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: remember a whole pile from my childhood, but I remember
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: that day being tip eat top right up there with
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you know, there are great days in people's lives, you know, married,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: had a kid, but I'll be honest with this one
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: was right up there with euphoria and just sheer.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Do you know what. I didn't have to no worries,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: no worries. I just went for a ramble and ended
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: up just befriending a horse. We didn't shake goodbye my life.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Never saw him again. Don't miss him, he doesn't miss me.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: We just had a moment where we had a bit
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: of a snooze and it was a nice thing, you know.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: And as the summer draws to a close, Tom again,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: like you know, we did our best rum rambling in
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: the summer day. As it must be said, Oh yeah,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: it's there's a bit there're wanting me. All of a
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: sudden this started getting out into doing it again, because
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I do remember the joys of and as you said yourself,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: there Tom, you could ramble an off a long way
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: in the country and be one field across. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: you weren't lost. I remember a couple of things that
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: I absolutely loved was getting from one field to the
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: next was a wonderful thing. Because here's the thing with
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: farmers and fields, right, Farmers and fields then generally don't
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: like their animals to leave their field and go to
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: someone else field, so they will fence them. They will
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: put a bushes, there will be gaps, will be all
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: this kind of thing. And the joy you would have
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: of walking along a hedgerow and finding that there was
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: a gap that you could shimme through, oh god, yeah,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah and get to another previously undiscovered field. It
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: felt like you were in the fucking North Pool. Yeah.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: And then if that field happened to have a tree
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: that you had never seen before and it looked like
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: good for climbing. Again. These sound like very very basic
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: sort of things, but these are the kind of things
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: that when we grew up into our forties, as you
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: said earlier, with the football, it brings you right back.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: You know, you just want to beat that kid again.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: And you know, come to find out, if you hike
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: the Sally Gap you might get that feeling again. I'll
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: tell you one thing that I loved him, and it
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: just so happened to be, just roughly speaking, where we
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: were at home and where we grew up. If you
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: rambled across the field for about a half an hour. Yeah,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: R and D time. If you were to go down
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: to the bottom of the road, turn left and walk
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: two minutes, we'll get you to the same place. But
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: the way more fun. If you rambled down to the bog,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: across the stone wall, up past the stream, through the briers,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: over a gap and into a hedgerow, he met windy
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the pool better than when you poo. You got a quarry,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: and quarry had a big headed, a big pond as well,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: where you can fuck a rock from. It didn't have
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: a pond. It didn't have a pond. Manton's two gray
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: and stony for that. There was a pal or two
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: about that. Yeah, good drainage. You're right. But we got
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: to an old quarry and old blasted out quarry, and
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: forget about it. We found him out. We found him out,
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: and that we had never seen before in our lives
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: and the time we drove past this mountain every week
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: on the way to mass It's not an undiscovered country.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: It was always there. But Jesus Christ of Almighty Tom,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: I just like that. That was your summer gone right there.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: We are just going to play in this quarry. Yeah,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to climb this little cliff and this is
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: my end of the quarry, and that you're end of
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: the quarry and we're just going to go to the
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: top of it and throw stones to the bottom of it. Yeah,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: and your echo of your voice across the thing. Oh
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: my god. Yeah, Jesus Christ of somebody. Yeah, I'll tell
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: you I want to go to that quarry right now.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you about ramble you got if you rambled
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: through a field and along a pass, like, there's there's
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: something just very wonderful to me, eat hum find there
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of things about myself, something very wonderful to
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: me to be in like a wide open space, but
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: find a path. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's something
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: comforting to me in that. Like you know, Okay, so
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not the first human being that was ever here.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know that I would do well in
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Iceland because I don't know how any of this got here,
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: and I don't understand glacier dropping off massive boulders, and
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I don't understand eons of volcanic activity. But I know
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: a broken down track. I want to see one. I'm
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the great
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: things around here, and there's some I don't know how
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I be guys, they just created.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: That's because there's an awful lot of big tick hedge
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: what's you called hedge grows here, edge rows here, but
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: they actually have a void up the middle of them.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, you walked up. You are like you're hiding in
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: plain sight.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: You can walk up the middle of a giant hedge
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: and nobody knows your there.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows you there. That's your den. That's your your den.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: You're den, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. So if you if
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: you found yourself like a path that was there, you're
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: to me, that's very peaceful. It's like, okay, I'm not
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: completely utterly stupidly lost. People have come and gone here. Yeah,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: And if I don't do any and focus stupid, then
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I can come and go here as well. You get
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: to an old farmhouse that's no roof, round ramshackle. Oh
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: I'm licking my lips here like this is Yeah. You
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: get into when you look around and there's nobody around,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: glass on the ground, all this kind of crackice. To
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: find an old bottle that has nineteen twenty six written
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: on it. People haven't been in this place since the
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: declaration of an independence, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: and then you play there, yeah yeah, and then you
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: go home. Now you're talking Jesus Maria Joe's like, that
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: was a day in the summer. I'll tell you that. Yeah,
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: yeah it was. You know what I mean.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: You slide down along whatever bit of cargetdron it's thrown
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: against the wall over them. Yeah, there's Jesus Christ, all Mike,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: you will make fun thing this out of stuff like, oh, look,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: there's another room in here, and it hasn't I mean,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: it's on the brink of collapsing on top of you
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: for sure, like but it doesn't make a blind bit
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: of difference. Like you find an old he bar, like
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ Almighty, nobody's around for us to climb up
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: on this thing. Are you you joking me?
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna come
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: back here, and I'm gonna come back here rope mixed wing. Ye,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: now you're talking.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Now, You're I'm gonna come back here prepared for the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: crack that this place is better again. You find tires,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: there are old tires and an old sided bit or
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: something like that, and you just start rolling them down
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: off a ship.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Unbelieve. Yeah, like these are these these are simple childhood
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: joys that we remember when we just did nothing all day.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: But like you know, every now and then, on the
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: tom of Jerry Show, we will get like, you know,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: I wasn't Arnie great? And do you remember when the
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Mega drive came out and all this kind of crack?
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: But every now and then, we said, somewhat pointed, I
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: will say, we will say, do you know what you remember?
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Some days you just fucking rambled off into the middle
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: and oar. And if you're from an urban area, if
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: you if you grew up in a town or city,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you might have had some vague equivalents of this.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: That there was. There was, I guarantee there was. They were.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: So they were trying to source or sound out or
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: find something similar to her.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Whether we're looking.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: For what we had on our doorstep yea, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: they were looking for the same thing, I guarantee, climbing
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: shit climbing find and finding you know, you know, abandoned ship,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: wondering to a place that I have not been before.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: And I just I don't know, I just I just think, yeah,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: you don't want to get all philosophical about the time.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: But now that I'm getting a little bit older and
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm I'm looking to to find that again. I
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: think it's something going forward that I might fold into
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: my list of hobbies because I gotta tell you, running
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: ten kilometers you ain'ted any more, buddy, And hey, you've
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: got a good coming out for PlayStations.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: So you finally, I depending its dropped after about fourteen
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: years of me telling you that running the ship and
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: stupid Stoff doing that, that's that's no, there's no fun
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: in that whatsoever. And you know you hate it. You're
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: just punishing yourself for whatever I don't know, for whatever
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: reason whatever, No calvinist, you'll get on it. You gotta
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: get yourself a good, strong pair of boots, the kind
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: of ones that make your ankles feel like they're eighteen
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: year olds.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Again, I will say, when I was hiking in Landorati
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: in a pair of runners, wasn't it, buddy, No, I lottimes,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: I was, yeah, let's see how rubbery my ankles really are. No, No,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: you gotta get those.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: You get those strong, strong ones where you can tighten
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: them like like they'll make your eyes fucking water how
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: tight you can make them, But you get it to
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: a point that ankle that suddenly feels as strong as
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: when you were in nineteen Yeah, you will go up
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the side of fucking You're going.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: You're going, Why are all these bitches making such a
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: wind about everest? Give me, give me an RD face,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: I'll go up that. How's that? And I don't even
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: need the branded jacket? There? You go? Well, listen, if
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: any of you find folks out there or had some
• 56:53
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• 56:58
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• 57:00
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• 57:02
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• 57:05
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• 57:08
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• 57:16
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• 57:22
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• 57:24
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• 57:25
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• 58:12
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• 58:14
  Speaker 2: what That's what I ran off to get my phone home.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: We were we were corrected by mister Stephen Reid here.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: While you were corrected anyway, you claimed that Mike from
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: The Young Ones sang on part of Live. Gotta tell you, Tom,
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: that just didn't exactly bounce right with me. But I
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: didn't want to say no at the time. But an
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: actual fact, he says that it was Phil Daniels. Yes, right, okay, right,
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: what can we tell you, Stephen? Every cock in the
• 58:37
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• 58:39
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• 58:42
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• 58:47
  Speaker 2: Way, I have to talk straight over this. But thank you,
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: but thank you for your for your commentor Stephen, uh
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: and yes, there we go. That's what I got for you.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: That's what I got for you, buddy, nice nice.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Hey, Listen, I'm going patented my new nail washer Apple
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• 59:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be a millionaire. Come let me. Let
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• 59:10
  Speaker 2: call that the eyewasher, although I think I think Charcher
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: might have wonder for him. Right you look at lod