Latest / The Tom & Gerry Show Podcast / Episode 83: Bargains Galore
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- 0:00Speaker 1: These days it's all black Friday. There's some black Friday
- 0:04Speaker 1: that when I went knocking chimneys, Saturday would be the
- 0:09Speaker 1: day that'd be black. That's when I'd light fires at
- 0:12Speaker 1: the base of chimney within an hour and it'd come
- 0:15Speaker 1: down in a cloud of dust and smoke and soot.
- 0:19Speaker 1: They beyond the people gathered to watch the spectacle. There
- 0:23Speaker 1: wouldn't be a clean face in the whole crowd by
- 0:25Speaker 1: the time it were finished. I'll see they come, Oh money,
- 0:39Speaker 1: how are you doing, Boddy. I'm going to tell you
- 0:41Speaker 1: one thing. It might be just worth my while.
- 0:44Speaker 2: As December rolls in to go up into an attic.
- 0:47Speaker 1: And stay there. There's a lot to be said for it.
- 0:50Speaker 1: I mean, my favorite place in the house is actually
- 0:52Speaker 1: to get the shed out in the riage. Like it.
- 0:54Speaker 1: There's a lot to be said for just some down time.
- 0:56Speaker 1: I left the phone, the last plugged in out in
- 1:00Speaker 1: the garage for five hours. Yes, the jar out streaming.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Do you know? It was lovely and I was strimming
- 1:07Speaker 1: in the pits and rain. That's what that's. Do you
- 1:10Speaker 1: know what I mean? I walk down I look like
- 1:12Speaker 1: some matter of the fucking the swamp thing green ship
- 1:14Speaker 1: stuck all over my face. Yea itself fucking srimming, bustming.
- 1:20Speaker 1: I didn't give a ship, didn't give a ship. Happy
- 1:24Speaker 1: as a clam, I was jerr, I get it. You
- 1:26Speaker 1: need some alone time, like I get it. And this
- 1:27Speaker 1: has been I'm not even I'm not even saying.
- 1:30Speaker 2: I'm going up to be a hermit in the in
- 1:31Speaker 2: the in the attic. All I'm saying is, Tom, I'm
- 1:34Speaker 2: going up and down to that much for stuff to
- 1:37Speaker 2: do up the house for Christmas, that it will be
- 1:41Speaker 2: better worth my while just moving up there and staying there.
- 1:44Speaker 2: All I'm doing, Tom is putting excess wear and tear
- 1:47Speaker 2: on a perfectly good styra.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Do you know what you do? Not? Er? Just leave
- 1:50Speaker 1: the Christmas decorations of all year round? Huh. I when
- 1:56Speaker 1: when I started dating herself, for she was living in
- 1:58Speaker 1: a place called Stratford UPONNY, and Stratford upon A even
- 2:03Speaker 1: has a year round, three hundred and sixty five day
- 2:06Speaker 1: Christmas shop, and I thought, Jesse, go Madden here. But
- 2:09Speaker 1: then I was in it, and era shop's a shop
- 2:12Speaker 1: and they seem happy out. The whole whole outlook was
- 2:15Speaker 1: happy out. Said you know what, there's a lot to
- 2:17Speaker 1: be said for a.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Jure, you slide on dating there, Tom, I know.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I said it just just to draw you, just to
- 2:24Speaker 1: draw yeah, yeah, just to draw you out.
- 2:26Speaker 2: There's actually, as you mentioned, all year around Christmas shops,
- 2:29Speaker 2: there's an all year around Christmas shop up airway. Is
- 2:32Speaker 2: that they say it's an all year around Christmas shop.
- 2:35Speaker 2: They don't have all this stuff out on display. But
- 2:37Speaker 2: if you go to him in June and say here,
- 2:38Speaker 2: you wouldn't have a big sandy out the bake to go.
- 2:40Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get you one.
- 2:42Speaker 2: It's the M it's the end to M fifty area.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's a big garden center that's there. And
- 2:52Speaker 1: I don't know that.
- 2:53Speaker 2: I don't know the name of it off the top
- 2:54Speaker 2: of my hand in my head, and no free plugs
- 2:56Speaker 2: on the Tom and Jerry Show. But anybody that knows
- 2:58Speaker 2: what I'm talking about will know what I'm talking about.
- 3:00Speaker 2: And it's the perfect place for a Christmas shop. It's
- 3:03Speaker 2: in a townland called Cold Winters. I swear to god
- 3:08Speaker 2: somebody actually named the place cold Winters. No, there was
- 3:11Speaker 2: a place called cold Winters and then they built a
- 3:13Speaker 2: garden center.
- 3:13Speaker 1: In it, and was it like a cool von Tauuk
- 3:18Speaker 1: or something along like that, and the bridge just kind
- 3:20Speaker 1: of went. I can't say that, so let's just go
- 3:22Speaker 1: with cool winters. Sounds like something to do to do,
- 3:25Speaker 1: you know, like the Phoenix Park was fion and can't
- 3:28Speaker 1: say that it's the Phoenix Park. And you know what
- 3:33Speaker 1: would be great. It'd be great if we had a
- 3:35Speaker 1: place he had to do push ups in the grass
- 3:41Speaker 1: in full view of everybody, just in case anyone would
- 3:43Speaker 1: have run up on us or anything like that.
- 3:45Speaker 2: But yeah, cold Winter, So we just call it the
- 3:47Speaker 2: Cold Winter Shop.
- 3:49Speaker 1: What its actual name is, I think it's like the
- 3:53Speaker 1: end to Garden Center or something like that. I don't
- 3:55Speaker 1: know anybody that's in duble know what I'm talking about. Hey,
- 3:57Speaker 1: a year, I'm an officially a proper farmer, now you before, buddy, no,
- 4:08Speaker 1: I was only pricking at it for oh no, no, no,
- 4:09Speaker 1: I'm an officially a farmer. I took for precaution of
- 4:13Speaker 1: snow coming and ship like that. And the two lads
- 4:15Speaker 1: can't keep mowing, which, by the way, they're doing an
- 4:17Speaker 1: unbelievable job. Hats off to the fucking goats check.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Every every every podcast is somebody's first podcast.
- 4:24Speaker 1: We better stress that these are.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Tom's two goats, two lads, is two.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Cabin boys or whatever it might be. No, I got
- 4:32Speaker 1: I took charge of a round bail of hay yesterday.
- 4:35Speaker 1: So it's a neighbor who's a very good man. He says,
- 4:38Speaker 1: no botter over I come. But I I also at
- 4:42Speaker 1: the same time, possibly the greatest thirty five second phone
- 4:47Speaker 1: call I've ever had. I'm going to just do it
- 4:49Speaker 1: for you now. I rang a guy. He's a local farrier.
- 4:53Speaker 1: So you know what farriers are. They change who's they
- 4:55Speaker 1: They change out horseshoes and stuff like that. But if
- 4:59Speaker 1: it's gott nails, dell pair it, you know what I mean?
- 5:01Speaker 1: This guy I ring him and apparently he's hard to
- 5:03Speaker 1: get in the phone. I've met him years ago and
- 5:05Speaker 1: he's a tough character, but a hell of a nice guy.
- 5:07Speaker 1: I ring this guy and this is this is verbatim
- 5:10Speaker 1: how the call went.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Well, no, hell, well, Paddy is as however, Tom, come on, Tom,
- 5:24Speaker 3: Well I know I've had all.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Said that's him.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, yeah, I got your number.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Of Dave Fatty up the road. Dave's the same chap
- 5:33Speaker 1: who doesn't mind me telling the story because I told
- 5:35Speaker 1: him I had to tell you.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Dun goat, I need her her who's pared right, A
- 5:47Speaker 3: donkey not a donkey. He was under one second, right, he'd.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Like a fucking ate under kilo horse on his shoulder
- 5:58Speaker 1: while he's changing his hopes and still took a phone call.
- 6:01Speaker 3: So he's all right, right, I'll be on the next week.
- 6:04Speaker 3: So yeah, so don't get or go this goat right, Yeah,
- 6:08Speaker 3: that'll take two seconds to nip, all right, and I
- 6:11Speaker 3: might call out someday man.
- 6:12Speaker 1: And I said, we take them to mess on Sunday morning.
- 6:16Speaker 1: He fucking lasted raor and fucking athlete comes straight back
- 6:20Speaker 1: to me and.
- 6:20Speaker 3: Goes, all right, that's no matter.
- 6:22Speaker 1: So is it Michael? Is it? No? Tom?
- 6:24Speaker 3: Right? Tom fa no Tom?
- 6:26Speaker 1: O'manny right Tom. I'll be on for that dunky tick like, okay,
- 6:32Speaker 1: I'm just gonna text you about this afterwards. It takes me.
- 6:35Speaker 1: It's definitely a goat we have.
- 6:37Speaker 2: You just want to say not and then the rock
- 6:39Speaker 2: up to the donkey and just say, yeah, it's a
- 6:41Speaker 2: smaller than usual donkey.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Just exactly come up and have a look at me. Donkey. Yeah.
- 6:47Speaker 1: Hell if people think that I'm country when I meet
- 6:50Speaker 1: these scenarios, And I told, I told even Dave who
- 6:52Speaker 1: dropped off the Hey yesterday. He goes, Now, you're a
- 6:54Speaker 1: proper pharmas. This is what all my friends in Dublin
- 6:56Speaker 1: think I do all the time. Anyway, this is actually
- 6:58Speaker 1: very exciting to be take the M fifty. We're all farmers, Tim,
- 7:02Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Should we all have hay
- 7:04Speaker 1: in our pockets all the time for feeding whatever?
- 7:06Speaker 2: We even know what a farmer is, like technically what
- 7:11Speaker 2: a farmer is anyway, it's me well with that being
- 7:15Speaker 2: in mind, Tom, do you know what I'm going to
- 7:16Speaker 2: farm right now?
- 7:17Speaker 1: Buddy, I'm going to farm.
- 7:19Speaker 2: The name of this show, this is the Tom and
- 7:21Speaker 2: Jerry Show. We just didn't even bother introducing this. That's
- 7:25Speaker 2: that's how confident we are that our audience has not
- 7:27Speaker 2: grown since last week. This is the Tom and Jerry Show.
- 7:31Speaker 1: I'm Jerry McBride. That's Tom o'maney. If they need if
- 7:35Speaker 1: they need tellent come on now.
- 7:37Speaker 2: So that's what's going to say, Like, you know, who
- 7:38Speaker 2: needs telling at this don't But on the off chance
- 7:42Speaker 2: somebody kind of flitted around and are still with us.
- 7:45Speaker 2: At the seven minute mark, here we are the Tom
- 7:47Speaker 2: and Jerry show, we talk shot by and large novel
- 7:52Speaker 2: concept in the podcast world, I will say, but here
- 7:54Speaker 2: we are. But we don't just talk random shit. We
- 7:57Speaker 2: do we a bit at the top of the show,
- 7:58Speaker 2: but then the rest of it.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Is very are important things to talk about throughout the
- 8:03Speaker 1: rest of the show. So we're gonna move straight on
- 8:05Speaker 1: into the first of those where we delve into the
- 8:08Speaker 1: big news and segment we call the weekly what have you.
- 8:13Speaker 1: This is a very complicated case mod you know, a
- 8:15Speaker 1: lot of a lot of outs, a lot of what
- 8:17Speaker 1: have you, and uh, a lot of SCRAMs to keep
- 8:20Speaker 1: in my head. Man. They're eating the wires. They're they're
- 8:25Speaker 1: they're breaking in, They're here everywhere, They're over the board,
- 8:27Speaker 1: they're breaking They're eating the wires, Jery, eating the wires,
- 8:32Speaker 1: eating the components. Beautiful chiny chain, beautiful Chinese wires. They're
- 8:38Speaker 1: eating them, Jr. Why it shouldn't be laughing too much.
- 8:42Speaker 1: We shouldn't be laughing. But you know what, this is funny.
- 8:47Speaker 1: This is a serious face on This is serious. This
- 8:50Speaker 1: is affecting people's livelihoods and recreational activities. To be fair,
- 8:54Speaker 1: this for long enough that I lived in Dublin and
- 8:56Speaker 1: people looking down their nose and me gone, just a colch,
- 8:59Speaker 1: you like, and they asking me questions like so like
- 9:02Speaker 1: do you know like if you have to wear willies?
- 9:04Speaker 1: Is that? And you're like, Okay, your fucking day is common.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Your day is common, and might be here.
- 9:09Speaker 2: What's happening in the world of South County Dublin.
- 9:12Speaker 1: South County Dublin. There is a spate of vandalism going
- 9:17Speaker 1: on there in these cars and in a housing estate
- 9:20Speaker 1: in Still Oregon, Still organ it's almost D four. It
- 9:24Speaker 1: would be up the road from RT and whatnot. It
- 9:27Speaker 1: basically residents of the South Dublin up to forty cars there.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Forty cars have been all damaged in the same way.
- 9:35Speaker 2: There's a squad lard that's coming around and evening to
- 9:37Speaker 2: take Catholic converters and things.
- 9:39Speaker 1: You think it right, but here in lies the problem.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Most of these cars don't have catalytic converters. The problem
- 9:45Speaker 1: being is most of these cars are electric based or
- 9:48Speaker 1: hybrid at the very least fancy new.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Electric cars vandalized forty at a time in a South
- 9:53Speaker 2: County Dublin suburb. We're all tickens.
- 9:57Speaker 1: We're up to like anywhere between five under to twenty
- 10:00Speaker 1: grand depending on the breedy car is getting damaged here
- 10:04Speaker 1: from this year, right, So this is a horror of
- 10:07Speaker 1: a situation, and like residents are just losing their mind
- 10:10Speaker 1: over the whole time. They can't figure out who these
- 10:12Speaker 1: nasty bastards are they are getting under their cars and
- 10:16Speaker 1: cutting and nipping wires and whatnot. Come to find out
- 10:20Speaker 1: it's most likely animals. Thomas tom So, it's seem right.
- 10:27Speaker 1: This one particular Chap seemed to be the first to
- 10:29Speaker 1: kind of raise the issue of it. He said, he
- 10:33Speaker 1: came out to his car started up. He's postman, and
- 10:36Speaker 1: fairnessed him, we'll call her chat postman car Chap.
- 10:39Speaker 2: And then you know, people here saide country Dublin are like, oh,
- 10:41Speaker 2: that's terrible that fearicle can't drive to the rugby. These
- 10:45Speaker 2: people are blue collar workers.
- 10:46Speaker 1: A lot of these people got left their houses in
- 10:48Speaker 1: a wealthy area anyway. But this poor out Chap, he
- 10:52Speaker 1: was the first to kind of raise raise the alarm,
- 10:55Speaker 1: starts up the car, warning lights left, right and center.
- 10:58Speaker 1: We all haven't been there, yeah, and you're going and
- 11:02Speaker 1: you know, a heart thinking moment. Long term listeners to
- 11:05Speaker 1: the podcast would know that Jerry normally rings Tom rather
- 11:08Speaker 1: than the mechanic first to see what the Christ he
- 11:10Speaker 1: can what he can get away with basically, and how
- 11:12Speaker 1: long he can get away with much before they're going
- 11:13Speaker 1: to drive this. But it would seem if you were
- 11:16Speaker 1: caught in this scenario, Jarr, I'd have nothing for you.
- 11:18Speaker 1: I'd have nothing for you. So it lo and behold
- 11:22Speaker 1: thirty to forty other other neighbors, like his next door
- 11:25Speaker 1: neighbor and the next guy over was like what in all?
- 11:28Speaker 1: They all started getting this And the first thing was
- 11:30Speaker 1: that these gulperts were young flos acting the balocks because
- 11:33Speaker 1: they didn't know whether it was under the bonnet, whether
- 11:35Speaker 1: it was inside the wheel arch, whether it was under
- 11:37Speaker 1: it or not. They all seem to be the wiring
- 11:40Speaker 1: looms that were underneath no overly exposed wiring looms. Kind
- 11:44Speaker 1: of worrying and today's uh, today today's current cars because
- 11:48Speaker 1: they shouldn't be that exposed as it is. But immediately
- 11:53Speaker 1: upon bringing one of the cars in, a couple of
- 11:55Speaker 1: mechanics just start to kind of I guess, I don't
- 11:58Speaker 1: know they are they on Reddit or whatever, but they
- 12:00Speaker 1: just seem to kind of come together and go no, No,
- 12:02Speaker 1: nobody's cutting these with a nips. Them's be teeth that
- 12:06Speaker 1: are biting thems be chewed wires that are biting through
- 12:10Speaker 1: your your wires.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Right, So so Tom, if animals are chewing the cables
- 12:15Speaker 2: underneath these carrors, like, why isn't this a thing that
- 12:17Speaker 2: we've always battled down through the last the age of
- 12:20Speaker 2: automobility kills?
- 12:22Speaker 1: Why only now? Why animal biting?
- 12:24Speaker 2: Now?
- 12:25Speaker 1: Tom? Well, this is where it gets very interesting, right,
- 12:29Speaker 1: And there's I'll tell you a story. To tell you
- 12:32Speaker 1: a story. Jer So, when I lived in so South Dublin,
- 12:35Speaker 1: it was north wicklow right, the kind of people that
- 12:38Speaker 1: were delighted when Prince Charles came to visit the local
- 12:40Speaker 1: garden center. You're not what talking about, right, I know,
- 12:43Speaker 1: I'm just doing that to get Jerry fired up. Right,
- 12:45Speaker 1: But my neighbor once approach, approached me and literally asked me, Now,
- 12:49Speaker 1: we live technically in the countryside, but he it wasn't gone.
- 12:53Speaker 1: And I literally this was his statement. I hate even
- 12:56Speaker 1: over the state using the word literally, but I need
- 12:58Speaker 1: you to understand that this is exactly what the man
- 13:00Speaker 1: said to me, because Tom Morning, you're a countryman. What
- 13:06Speaker 1: you're a countryman, as in, you know at the small mini.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I'm what a countryman. Our hens have been devoured. I said, okay,
- 13:16Speaker 1: tell me how does one get rid of a mink
- 13:18Speaker 1: as a mink or mink? You? I said, geesz, mink
- 13:22Speaker 1: are rare enough. How many hens are gone? He went no?
- 13:27Speaker 1: Maybe seven? I says, okay, Well, it's not a mink.
- 13:29Speaker 1: I can tell you that, because they'll just go in
- 13:31Speaker 1: and just they'll just cut all their necks and drink
- 13:33Speaker 1: their blood. And they might take about it, but really
- 13:35Speaker 1: they're just doing it just a hunt for the thrill
- 13:37Speaker 1: of the hunt. A fox can't be a fox. Can't
- 13:40Speaker 1: be a fox. I'm one percent sure can't be a fox.
- 13:44Speaker 1: How are you one hundred percent sure it's not a fox?
- 13:47Speaker 1: Because we have put down electric fencing at what would
- 13:50Speaker 1: be about waiting here this year. This is the kind
- 13:52Speaker 1: of fucking thinking we've got going on here. We have
- 13:56Speaker 1: an electric fence running at what would be your average
- 14:01Speaker 1: fox's news height. Now that took me a good fifteen
- 14:07Speaker 1: seconds to digest. That man, a fully grown man in
- 14:10Speaker 1: his fifty said that out loud to me as a countryman,
- 14:13Speaker 1: and I said, have you ever seen a fox jump.
- 14:17Speaker 2: He went new but I think we all know a
- 14:22Speaker 2: statement I'm about a quick brown fox and what he does.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, moving, I won't go into the full out
- 14:29Speaker 1: of the story. And he was still convinced it with
- 14:31Speaker 1: this and so fucking posh. You can't even have weasels that. Yeah.
- 14:37Speaker 1: So this is where we get to. This point is
- 14:39Speaker 1: where residents and local counselors are now one hundred percent
- 14:45Speaker 1: when they're they're there about even though it's never been caught,
- 14:48Speaker 1: they've gotten to their into their heads that it's foxes
- 14:51Speaker 1: getting underneath cars because long behold, somebody's ring camera saw
- 14:53Speaker 1: some foxes circling car. Lookout most Dublin we get. We
- 14:58Speaker 1: get foxes on the green out here, more foxes than
- 15:00Speaker 1: we have, like you know what I mean, there's there's
- 15:02Speaker 1: foxes glore, right, But it would seemed, it would seem
- 15:06Speaker 1: now this isn't happening anywhere else. This is why you
- 15:10Speaker 1: ask them why now they put out they've put out
- 15:14Speaker 1: this theory that because of the a lot of wiring
- 15:19Speaker 1: coatings nowadays are soy based rather than petroleum based. That's
- 15:22Speaker 1: what plastic is soy based and plant other plant based
- 15:26Speaker 1: that that's what these foxes are nipping through. Now here's
- 15:30Speaker 1: a couple of theories to go against that one. One
- 15:33Speaker 1: when and all, fuck, did you ever see mister Todd
- 15:37Speaker 1: chasing a fucking soybean around fucking Peter rabbits? No foxes
- 15:43Speaker 1: are carnivores. Carnivorous? Help me outward. Number two? Why would
- 15:52Speaker 1: you think it's not happening country wider? Because still organ
- 15:57Speaker 1: isn't the only place with over the electric cars, Like
- 16:01Speaker 1: you don't have a spade of it, And I bet
- 16:02Speaker 1: you've a rake of electric cars in your neighborhood. There
- 16:04Speaker 1: are electric cars in the neighborhood. I don't know, Tom,
- 16:07Speaker 1: do you have Do you have a character theory? Because
- 16:09Speaker 1: I was buying it up to this point, I wouldn't, jerr,
- 16:12Speaker 1: because I need to look and look at it. It
- 16:13Speaker 1: seems to be in an isolated area with forty forty
- 16:15Speaker 1: cars in an isolated area. Suddenly the foxes there have
- 16:18Speaker 1: gotten a taste for fucking Sawyer being.
- 16:20Speaker 2: Fucking wire to which I to which I to which
- 16:22Speaker 2: I say to you, Tom, what if the foxes in
- 16:25Speaker 2: that area have gotten a taste so you've been ware they.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Fucking haven't, Jerry, It's not foxes at all. I'm telling
- 16:31Speaker 1: you now, foxes since time in a memoriam has not
- 16:34Speaker 1: been my biting wires underneath cars. Not when there is
- 16:37Speaker 1: delicious bins to be going fucking through full of pizza crusts.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Why would he? Christ would he get under there to start? Nationally?
- 16:44Speaker 1: Because there's one thing for animals hate is hitting a
- 16:47Speaker 1: metal fucking bit inside inside what they were part of eating.
- 16:50Speaker 1: But if anybody has ever had trouble with an animal
- 16:54Speaker 1: biting through looms of wires through the beginning of time,
- 16:58Speaker 1: well the automotive industry anyway, it's a fucking rat that's
- 17:01Speaker 1: doing it. Okay, guess what a rat will go after?
- 17:06Speaker 1: A rat will go after. So you've been green and
- 17:08Speaker 1: all the usual fucking base team. Okay, so so yes, okay,
- 17:13Speaker 1: sorry here I thought you were going to suggest that
- 17:16Speaker 1: it was ghosts or something, but okay, so not an
- 17:18Speaker 1: elegant animal like a fox, and not a mink. Alight,
- 17:23Speaker 1: All right, on fucking on, Rogan, I believe today it's
- 17:28Speaker 1: the shock fucking wires have been eaten forever by rats. Now,
- 17:36Speaker 1: I'm sure there is a few cases where our listeners are.
- 17:39Speaker 3: Going no, no, I a fox.
- 17:42Speaker 1: I've no doubt, but they were only acting the ballocks.
- 17:45Speaker 1: I'm telling you now because it's an isolated stage. But
- 17:48Speaker 1: yet you have foxes all over the entirety of our capital.
- 17:52Speaker 1: You and electric cars all over our capital, over our capital,
- 17:57Speaker 1: and wires all over our capitol. Why aren'td you all
- 18:00Speaker 1: the fucking wires, because so many wires now are plant based,
- 18:02Speaker 1: like the coating on them. But I would suggest, and
- 18:07Speaker 1: this is why counselors are sweeping this under the car,
- 18:09Speaker 1: but I would suggest that there's some fucking dump site
- 18:12Speaker 1: or some building site nearby that isn't disposing of something properly,
- 18:17Speaker 1: and it has drawn and it has drawn rats. Now
- 18:21Speaker 1: there's bullshit, gun, there's a cold snap coming. Oh yeah,
- 18:24Speaker 1: because you know what really warms up a fucking fox,
- 18:26Speaker 1: it's going national on some fucking wire coating underneath your
- 18:30Speaker 1: wires on the head job. Like, let's get fucking real.
- 18:34Speaker 1: A fox is a decent sized dog, right, a medium
- 18:36Speaker 1: sized dog. He's gonna honker down onto his fucking elbows,
- 18:40Speaker 1: turn his head backwards and cash on the wires inside
- 18:42Speaker 1: in your fucking underneath your car, the wiring loom underneath
- 18:45Speaker 1: your car. When like I said, I've watched I saw
- 18:50Speaker 1: seven foxes jumping up and down in where were they living? Rats?
- 18:54Speaker 1: One of them rats, wraths? Whether red minds the car?
- 19:01Speaker 1: It was one of them, right, they were living hanging No,
- 19:04Speaker 1: it is in South Doublin. But there was seven foxes
- 19:07Speaker 1: after the rain, jumping up and down, mimicking more rain
- 19:10Speaker 1: drops in their front garden. And guess what that brings
- 19:14Speaker 1: up there? What they were pulling worms up out of
- 19:17Speaker 1: the ground so they can go to there to get
- 19:21Speaker 1: what they want. Do you get me they're cute enough
- 19:23Speaker 1: to go to there? What benefit would it be? Like?
- 19:26Speaker 1: All these people have seen so far. All they've seen
- 19:29Speaker 1: so far is foxes circling the odd car. And these
- 19:33Speaker 1: poor bastards are going out clearing out their local woodies
- 19:36Speaker 1: for the tinnest, shittiest doyle chicken wire. I've ever seen
- 19:40Speaker 1: any fox that wants to get around Like one guy
- 19:42Speaker 1: is like they've made frames and stuff, and you're like,
- 19:46Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but the fox if he wants If a
- 19:49Speaker 1: fox wants your car, he'll know, he'll just go in
- 19:53Speaker 1: your house, take the keys and steal your fucking car.
- 19:56Speaker 1: He'll start slowing your key cart like foxes. This is
- 20:01Speaker 1: gonna stop a fox.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Got a hey, got a key card cloner off TIMU
- 20:06Speaker 2: that will read your key card hanging up inside your
- 20:10Speaker 2: house from the from the street. They don't need Foxes
- 20:15Speaker 2: have earned their name.
- 20:16Speaker 1: Sli Fox. Like there's bad, bad propaganda against mister Todd
- 20:21Speaker 1: is apparently stupid all the time. I guarantee you, Henry
- 20:24Speaker 1: in the real world, Peter flapsy MOPSI autumn, get fucking
- 20:30Speaker 1: done inside five seconds, the whole fucking that lot. Like,
- 20:35Speaker 1: there's no fox going to look at the bit of
- 20:38Speaker 1: chicken wire with with a two two by fucking one
- 20:42Speaker 1: frames stack together against your fucking keyesportage and go, well,
- 20:46Speaker 1: that's me done. I'm here for a good, good feat
- 20:50Speaker 1: Christmas lad, a good feast of wire under reach your car.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Rats though, will eat through it. And I mean their
- 20:57Speaker 1: their advice, here's their advice going when you take it
- 21:00Speaker 1: and we kind of getting, you know, to put a
- 21:03Speaker 1: tubeing cubing over your wiring. I mean, if ever they
- 21:07Speaker 1: were pedaling shit at poor on misfortunes who don't know
- 21:10Speaker 1: one end of a fucking thing. I mean, I can't
- 21:13Speaker 1: buy that a fucking car is coming from a manufacturer
- 21:18Speaker 1: and they're just letting the wires dangle around, and I
- 21:20Speaker 1: would believe in these days, yeah, okay, yeah, quality control.
- 21:24Speaker 2: I would believe in these days. And I truly had
- 21:25Speaker 2: believed that the soy based wiring in these cars had
- 21:29Speaker 2: just become like a salt lick for the animals of
- 21:32Speaker 2: farthing Wood, that they just got a taste for him.
- 21:35Speaker 1: They're like, nom numb, I'm not buying it. I'm not
- 21:37Speaker 1: buying it. It's I would you need to look at
- 21:42Speaker 1: this as from an investigative point of view, if you
- 21:44Speaker 1: know nothing about animals, you'd go, well, why is this
- 21:46Speaker 1: an isolated incident? In this part? Is still organ Why
- 21:50Speaker 1: that they're everywhere? These electric cars are everywhere, There's wires everywhere.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Why would they be just here? I do like it
- 21:56Speaker 1: heary that there's been a plumping ground later.
- 21:59Speaker 4: Breeding, right, guarantee, I guarantee again everywhere time there is,
- 22:03Speaker 4: But there's again a concentrated area of them, Like you
- 22:06Speaker 4: know that it doesn't make sense that no, okay, no,
- 22:10Speaker 4: it doesn't make sense.
- 22:10Speaker 1: I mean they' said it's a cold snap, and it
- 22:12Speaker 1: was like, well, of course animals will go on the
- 22:14Speaker 1: cars for heat.
- 22:15Speaker 2: I do you know that they will? Yet you have
- 22:18Speaker 2: the engine has been running, and it wasn't strange to
- 22:20Speaker 2: me that a fox chilling out underneath an engine, just
- 22:23Speaker 2: nice and cozy. But like any snacks what we got.
- 22:28Speaker 1: They live underground here, it's so training where they live.
- 22:32Speaker 1: They don't go, do you know what, Let's stay under
- 22:33Speaker 1: here in this drafty, four open sided bit of a
- 22:36Speaker 1: fucking car. Or how about I go back in the
- 22:39Speaker 1: tunnel that I fucking dug. That's subterraining and that's probably
- 22:42Speaker 1: sitting at about sixteen or seventeen degrees down there. Anyway,
- 22:44Speaker 1: the rest of the fucking family and on the way,
- 22:47Speaker 1: I'll just grab a fucking pizza box. How about I
- 22:49Speaker 1: do that?
- 22:51Speaker 2: How better get your thrown out KFC and just tip
- 22:53Speaker 2: on home?
- 22:53Speaker 1: Yeah see the missage? Yeah yeah, yeah, I would say,
- 22:56Speaker 1: Look still Oregon quite close to DCU, isn't it a
- 22:58Speaker 1: student areas? Not fucking pointing fingers the U C D whichever.
- 23:03Speaker 1: I'm just I don't know. Is there a lot like
- 23:07Speaker 1: look along the back gardens if you're in you know,
- 23:10Speaker 1: like I'm just wondering, have you got to look in
- 23:13Speaker 1: the front drive?
- 23:14Speaker 2: Look in the back garden is the advice of Tom
- 23:16Speaker 2: of Mohney here.
- 23:17Speaker 1: This is what I'm thinking. I can't bible is a
- 23:20Speaker 1: borrow that the hole I hate and I love that.
- 23:25Speaker 1: Like there's they brought in like this guy, he's a collie,
- 23:29Speaker 1: he's a biodiversity off on Twitter. He was like a
- 23:32Speaker 1: nice fellow comes but he mays he turned around more
- 23:35Speaker 1: or less the nicest way possible and focuses I'm not
- 23:37Speaker 1: doing the tap than foxes about every right in the
- 23:39Speaker 1: world to be here, indigenous to the land on like you.
- 23:45Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, like your b why for
- 23:49Speaker 1: yeah exactly?
- 23:51Speaker 2: Okay, well, okay, we're gonna throw that open. If anybody
- 23:54Speaker 2: is living in the still Organ area and is a
- 23:56Speaker 2: fan of the Tamagery show, the feud is over and
- 23:59Speaker 2: we feel bad that your car getting eaten by rodents
- 24:02Speaker 2: or whatever the hell might be going on, well let
- 24:04Speaker 2: us know how you're getting on in the day. We
- 24:05Speaker 2: got to move this show on tom because as much
- 24:07Speaker 2: as there's animals doing bad, there might be a couple
- 24:09Speaker 2: of animals doing good. In the next segment where we
- 24:11Speaker 2: picked one animal, vegetable, mineral, person, place or thing and
- 24:15Speaker 2: say hey.
- 24:16Speaker 1: How about this lad, Do you know it's rare that
- 24:21Speaker 1: we get too lining up in such a way we
- 24:23Speaker 1: go yin and yanger. This is yin and yang in
- 24:26Speaker 1: the animal world right now. Again, I didn't put I'm
- 24:30Speaker 1: not I got no hate for the rats. I got
- 24:31Speaker 1: no hate for foxes. But there's times when I've had
- 24:33Speaker 1: a pain in my bollocks from these lads, especially when
- 24:36Speaker 1: I had fucking eggs that were robbed and bust open
- 24:39Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But you know, sometimes rehabilitated lads
- 24:41Speaker 1: can do a good thing too. You know, maybe such
- 24:44Speaker 1: things as a closed book, Tom, no such thing as
- 24:46Speaker 1: a finished story. Well do you know a fucking poacher
- 24:48Speaker 1: turned game war and kind of a scenario. But leave
- 24:51Speaker 1: it to the Swedes. By I'll tell you something. There's
- 24:54Speaker 1: some operators these.
- 24:55Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if anybody's gonna do it, it's them.
- 24:58Speaker 1: Right now. They're training I I must love how this
- 25:01Speaker 1: would never this would be a heallly raised statement and
- 25:05Speaker 1: it would be laughed out of fucking out of out
- 25:08Speaker 1: of leinster house. But they are training. Wild crows and
- 25:11Speaker 1: Sweden are to help clean up fag bots all over
- 25:14Speaker 1: the roads. Given to me in one sentence, wild crows
- 25:20Speaker 1: and Sweden help clean up cigarette butts.
- 25:23Speaker 2: No notes, no no notes, wild, crows wild even the
- 25:26Speaker 2: Swede of these lads, because these lads despair here in
- 25:28Speaker 2: this do you know what there is?
- 25:29Speaker 1: Even? Even the fag boats at this stage are like Jesus,
- 25:32Speaker 1: Mary and Joseph. Right, this is unbelievable. So the Swedish
- 25:35Speaker 1: this city wouldn't be far from Stockholm, the one we
- 25:37Speaker 1: would have heard of, but this one, and I went
- 25:39Speaker 1: to I went to Google prior to see how to
- 25:42Speaker 1: say this correctly. So it is a Swedish city of
- 25:45Speaker 1: suitor Halia suit higher and you have to do it
- 25:48Speaker 1: like you're asking a question. It's suda haighyah. There's about
- 25:52Speaker 1: fourteen outs in it. There's little inflections every but it's
- 25:57Speaker 1: an unconvention. Yeah yeah, do you know what I mean?
- 25:59Speaker 1: If couple is exactly inside there. So apparently it's like
- 26:03Speaker 1: sixty percent of street rubbish is fag buds, right, and
- 26:08Speaker 1: sweeping them up all day long, hoovering up whatever you
- 26:10Speaker 1: can be doing. Somebody came up with a notion that
- 26:15Speaker 1: why don't we do a kind of a you know,
- 26:17Speaker 1: you get you know for bringing back your bottles, now
- 26:20Speaker 1: you get cash incentive. Crows, no need you know, it's
- 26:26Speaker 1: we all know what they're doing. The crows are straight
- 26:28Speaker 1: up making here we are stooges because they're overcharging us. Look,
- 26:33Speaker 1: they could bring them back like a knob to the water,
- 26:36Speaker 1: and I mean it is I think personally, I think
- 26:39Speaker 1: it's a side up at the bottles, just to see
- 26:40Speaker 1: how much controls any But that's for a different style
- 26:43Speaker 1: of podcast. But anyway, these lads, what they do is
- 26:46Speaker 1: essentially it was come up by a crowd called I'm
- 26:50Speaker 1: gonna say this right because I almost said, it's Curvid cleaning,
- 26:55Speaker 1: Corvid cleaning.
- 26:57Speaker 2: It's okay, okay, so Corvid that's like that is crows
- 27:01Speaker 2: like it iss ravens and rooks.
- 27:03Speaker 1: And exactly exactly so I was, I was gone, a
- 27:05Speaker 1: Covid cleaning. I was like, no, we're we're beyond that
- 27:07Speaker 1: now at this stage. But mainly mainly crows, because crows
- 27:13Speaker 1: are the ones like I'd say, a raven would tell
- 27:15Speaker 1: you go, there's something fancy about a raven, isn't there?
- 27:18Speaker 1: Like a rook? There's something a bit like uh, Johan,
- 27:21Speaker 1: I'm the one smoking the fake thank you very much.
- 27:23Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? Where's the crow?
- 27:25Speaker 2: Well, we'll all right, raven, why don't you go ahead
- 27:27Speaker 2: and fucking if that's rundgud, why don't you go ahead
- 27:28Speaker 2: and carry this message across the land for me?
- 27:30Speaker 1: Exactly? Oh no, don't worry, I can text it. So
- 27:33Speaker 1: you're out of a business. How's it going? So essentially
- 27:36Speaker 1: what they did they came up with the bespoke machines,
- 27:39Speaker 1: Like so there are mini rubbish bins, but it spots
- 27:43Speaker 1: a cigarette like it recognized the cigarette, but being dropped
- 27:46Speaker 1: in not leaves, not stones, like the crows have been
- 27:50Speaker 1: acting the ballocks at the beginning. Really yeah, because they're
- 27:53Speaker 1: class in one way. Everybody will they're funny, like they're
- 27:56Speaker 1: just gone. But it dispenses a peanut or a little
- 28:00Speaker 1: couple of seeds or something out to the lad. So
- 28:03Speaker 1: the crow drops in a cigarette barter.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Yeah, and it dispenses a little numb number on peanut
- 28:07Speaker 2: seeds whatnot?
- 28:08Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. So, according to a Sweden Tidy Foundation, cigarette
- 28:14Speaker 1: bots composed sixty two percent of all litter. I mean
- 28:17Speaker 1: that's not like we all know the size of the thing.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Fag butt, Like it's used condoms because there's so large
- 28:25Speaker 1: streets just so guard righting each other. Yeah, horrible little
- 28:29Speaker 1: oysters laying all over the place apparently, though its sweet
- 28:32Speaker 1: trying to get fag butts up off the oak. Is
- 28:34Speaker 1: not like it's easier to actually sweep out bigger rubbish
- 28:37Speaker 1: than I can imagine. You've got to go hoover with
- 28:40Speaker 1: the big hoovers on that I can.
- 28:41Speaker 2: Imagine this garb would just like skip straight across them.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So, oh god, sometimes there's just a shameless
- 28:48Speaker 1: or chocknacy in every in every town, isn't there, Like
- 28:51Speaker 1: Gunter hints, and of course Henson, of course it's good
- 28:55Speaker 1: estimates that using crows could reduce the cost of butt
- 28:58Speaker 1: cleanups by seventy five per scent.
- 29:01Speaker 2: But they haven't actual money in your pockets with you.
- 29:04Speaker 1: This is like they haven't actually you know, that's just
- 29:07Speaker 1: thrown it out there, right, that's just throwing it out there.
- 29:10Speaker 1: But they they started training these two years ago, right,
- 29:15Speaker 1: they took a couple of because they knew if they
- 29:16Speaker 1: took a couple of I suppose startup birds, other birds
- 29:19Speaker 1: would cap what's going on because crows, crows are up
- 29:22Speaker 1: there with like a four year old or a five
- 29:23Speaker 1: year old brain or something. It's something really significant, like
- 29:27Speaker 1: there were there is intelligence as a child black and
- 29:30Speaker 1: probably sharpened Somewhere's bastards for starting fights if you ever
- 29:33Speaker 1: got it, went down that rabbit hole on Instagram or whatever.
- 29:38Speaker 1: But of course the lads, the crows now are out
- 29:41Speaker 1: doing a great job hoovering up fag but putting them
- 29:44Speaker 1: in the bin, getting the sweetie, the whole lot. Of course,
- 29:49Speaker 1: wouldn't you know what, wouldn't you know what? The fucking
- 29:53Speaker 1: rights crowded out? The key concern to us, the health
- 29:57Speaker 1: risks of the birds cigarette filters contained to it's the
- 30:00Speaker 1: chemicals handling them. They don't handle them. They put them
- 30:03Speaker 1: in the fucking knife that's stuck to their face and
- 30:06Speaker 1: they drop them in. They're fucking rubbing them under their
- 30:08Speaker 1: armpits are licking them. They're gross. These lads have worked out,
- 30:12Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. They've worked out how to pick up some
- 30:14Speaker 1: of the grossest ship and now they're getting a peanut
- 30:17Speaker 1: for it. It's like what.
- 30:19Speaker 5: Moreover, there's a fill of nutritional positive to hold on. Moreover,
- 30:23Speaker 5: there's a philosophical debate about sustainability. Is it ethical to
- 30:26Speaker 5: turn natural foraging behavior into a job for animals?
- 30:31Speaker 1: Jesus swept? What do you think they're fucking horsted for millennia.
- 30:37Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what we do. Let's just bring
- 30:39Speaker 1: a combustion engine down there with a big, giant fucking
- 30:42Speaker 1: hoover and hoovered up. So if you prefer yeah, how
- 30:46Speaker 1: would you prefer that instead? Like, I have a better idea.
- 30:49Speaker 1: With respect sir, whoever came out with that statement, would
- 30:53Speaker 1: you do be one favorable and close the door from
- 30:55Speaker 1: the fire side. Yeah, don't let the don't let the
- 30:57Speaker 1: door hit you where the good Lord's bleach you. Here's
- 31:00Speaker 1: the take of that one. We favor goats or goats eye.
- 31:02Speaker 1: But crows are that cute, they're that fucking sharp. I
- 31:06Speaker 1: tell you one thing. They wouldn't be if they were
- 31:08Speaker 1: getting sick of what the reward was and they were
- 31:11Speaker 1: like they would no more, they'd be smoking fags and
- 31:14Speaker 1: throwing butts on the ground themselves.
- 31:16Speaker 2: I will put it to you, Tom that when you
- 31:19Speaker 2: introduce a trained crow into a street level, when you
- 31:22Speaker 2: when you put them into the twenty one jump street
- 31:24Speaker 2: and he goes under cover in a fig busting operations,
- 31:28Speaker 2: when it do rag and he's got to do rag,
- 31:31Speaker 2: He's doing a whole lot. He's picking up cigarette butts
- 31:33Speaker 2: dropping him in and get peanuts. I didn't say every
- 31:35Speaker 2: crow around the way, For the nature of crows, the
- 31:38Speaker 2: whole murder would be looking at him, going like, you
- 31:40Speaker 2: see what he's at, You see what he's It's like
- 31:43Speaker 2: arrest them, and now they're all at it.
- 31:46Speaker 1: And that's what they did. They didn't have to take
- 31:48Speaker 1: every crow in souder hula. They just had to take
- 31:51Speaker 1: a collection of them from an area, and knowing full
- 31:54Speaker 1: well other crows would clock this in too behavior in
- 31:57Speaker 1: a way you go, hold on, did Jimmy just get
- 32:01Speaker 1: a fucking peanut out of that thing? And you think,
- 32:03Speaker 1: going with all the peanuts, how do you get peanuts?
- 32:05Speaker 1: I see he's picking up them cigarette butts and dropping
- 32:07Speaker 1: them in. All right, tweet, do you know what I'll do?
- 32:09Speaker 1: I'll take a little twigs?
- 32:10Speaker 2: Now, now they figured that out, shemus, No, no, no,
- 32:12Speaker 2: what a pebbles? The wise to it, man, the lighter ways?
- 32:18Speaker 2: All right, fair enough cigarette butts.
- 32:20Speaker 1: It is by all accounts. And I mean this is
- 32:23Speaker 1: you have to love the Scandinavians, like did that that?
- 32:26Speaker 1: Nobody took the piace out of that, Like nobody laughed
- 32:28Speaker 1: that out of parliament. But apparently, like the project is
- 32:31Speaker 1: drown international media coverage and it's compelling example for leveraging elements, animals, intelligence,
- 32:36Speaker 1: urban innovation, and environmental problem solving. Yeah, how about we
- 32:40Speaker 1: make foxes like guards? Do you know what I mean?
- 32:44Speaker 1: Like just put little fucking go pros on their heads,
- 32:47Speaker 1: pay them in fucking worms or whatever they're into. I
- 32:50Speaker 1: hate them in fucking sobin wires or whatever is ibing
- 32:56Speaker 1: wires all you want.
- 32:57Speaker 2: I got no problem with any of this, Tom and
- 32:59Speaker 2: I did little bit of research on it, and it's
- 33:01Speaker 2: it's it's a thing that they've been doing and perfecting
- 33:03Speaker 2: for about three years.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two. Seems to be the force mentioned of it,
- 33:06Speaker 1: but like of late, it's they're rolling it out. Yeah,
- 33:10Speaker 1: they're rolling it out.
- 33:11Speaker 2: Properly or the eye of everybody, including two young podcasters.
- 33:15Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, You think of it like,
- 33:17Speaker 1: who are the absolute pests in around Dublin City Center?
- 33:21Speaker 1: And they're they're the polar opposite to what these crows
- 33:25Speaker 1: are doing. The fucking seagulls, And there's bigger the seagulls.
- 33:28Speaker 1: You can't train them to get out of your way.
- 33:30Speaker 1: But there must be something we can do with them.
- 33:33Speaker 1: How could we like there must have been very specific
- 33:36Speaker 1: thing to I'm like, oh, you know, it's got two
- 33:37Speaker 1: bars on the end of it. I know, get you,
- 33:39Speaker 1: but surely, bit of Jesus, we can get them to
- 33:42Speaker 1: do something. And now I know this is kind of
- 33:44Speaker 1: like possibly, you know, the Australian effect. We bring in
- 33:47Speaker 1: the kind eating towns to and then you bring in
- 33:51Speaker 1: the loud because the Guild of tows and then you
- 33:53Speaker 1: realize before you I was like, fuck, but like, there
- 34:01Speaker 1: has to be something we can do with the absolute
- 34:04Speaker 1: pests that are city city pigeons or city you know
- 34:08Speaker 1: what I mean, city seagulls. Like there has to be
- 34:10Speaker 1: seagulls generators on their back and just siphon off the
- 34:16Speaker 1: power at the end of the day that they've got
- 34:18Speaker 1: that they've created from flapping their wings and stealing chips.
- 34:21Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I'm like, if if, if if
- 34:24Speaker 2: anybody thinks I'm being hard on seagulls, I'm gonna tell you,
- 34:26Speaker 2: you have a new puppy in the house, and you
- 34:28Speaker 2: walk them past a dump and you see how friendly
- 34:30Speaker 2: you are the seagulls afterward, because they swooped on me
- 34:33Speaker 2: and the dog, go ahead, swooped, Are you gonna kill it?
- 34:37Speaker 2: Kept fucking swooping on us, like dive bombing the dog
- 34:40Speaker 2: to get them.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Geez.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Yeah, that was after, you know, after, after it happens
- 34:45Speaker 2: two or three times, I'm like them fucking things are
- 34:48Speaker 2: getting closer to me. But then you're like, you know,
- 34:51Speaker 2: they're fucking going for us, and just get out of them,
- 34:54Speaker 2: like I'm getting chased.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Up the fucking road by seagulls. Here. This is not
- 34:57Speaker 1: the natural order of things. This is what I'm saying, right,
- 35:00Speaker 1: they did, like the Ethics Committee. More over, you know,
- 35:02Speaker 1: the full of the baby, you have to turn natural
- 35:05Speaker 1: forging and behave. You're into a job for animals, we
- 35:11Speaker 1: like everybody in the country. I don't want the cat,
- 35:13Speaker 1: not so that they can clip its fucking clothes and
- 35:15Speaker 1: bring it indoors and make an Instagram account for it. No,
- 35:18Speaker 1: it's that it keeps fucking away the rats away. Now
- 35:21Speaker 1: it's just let's roll. Let's we could melt one section
- 35:25Speaker 1: into another and go, hey, it still organ I've got
- 35:28Speaker 1: a suggestion for you. How about you go a little
- 35:33Speaker 1: Sweden and get yourself a few fucking No, and I
- 35:36Speaker 1: don't want any of those cute cats that you gave
- 35:37Speaker 1: a couple of ground for. I want that cat from
- 35:39Speaker 1: the pound missing an ear, busted tail, but he's got
- 35:41Speaker 1: a back like Arnold Schwartzer in his fucking day, do
- 35:44Speaker 1: you know.
- 35:44Speaker 2: What I mean?
- 35:45Speaker 1: You want that cat that's constantly in like a cloud
- 35:47Speaker 1: of dirt like your man from Charlie Brown, just like
- 35:50Speaker 1: ye literally and he just wants to walk around like
- 35:52Speaker 1: a beano fight smashing anything that walks up four legs.
- 35:56Speaker 1: That's the that's what human fish. And he eats all
- 35:59Speaker 1: of it and just the skeleton on a plate, he
- 36:01Speaker 1: just pulls it out, just the tail back. Yeah. So
- 36:05Speaker 1: I'm just I'm thinking there's gotta be something we can
- 36:08Speaker 1: do because I mean, there's enough rubbish around and let's
- 36:11Speaker 1: talk about the capital for for for the main reason
- 36:16Speaker 1: of this, because there's we gotta start getting what you
- 36:20Speaker 1: know what I mean? People start like a bird. If
- 36:22Speaker 1: you can train a fucking bird to do it, they
- 36:23Speaker 1: can spot stuff from from a you know, half my love,
- 36:27Speaker 1: Maybe we could, hey, get rid of the drone problem.
- 36:29Speaker 1: People can't complain about the noise of the drones. How
- 36:31Speaker 1: about we started training seagulls or pigeons to start dropping
- 36:34Speaker 1: off Jerry's fucking uber eats.
- 36:37Speaker 2: To tell you what, we get the trains running a
- 36:39Speaker 2: little hand, or if we teach these animals to clear
- 36:41Speaker 2: leaves off the line.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're saying, we're just spitballing here people for
- 36:46Speaker 1: the last ten minutes and we're already solving problems left
- 36:48Speaker 1: right in the center.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Well, I got to tell you, it's an incredible story,
- 36:51Speaker 2: and it's a it's an incredible testament to the fact
- 36:54Speaker 2: that you can train crows to collect cigarette butts quicker
- 37:00Speaker 2: and you can train humans to not fucking drop them.
- 37:03Speaker 1: Well, there you go. That's I mean, there you go.
- 37:06Speaker 1: It's almost it goes without one. I didn't need to
- 37:08Speaker 1: even say it, but everybody knows there are pieces of
- 37:11Speaker 1: shit on two legs, there is on four leggs that
- 37:14Speaker 1: just fucking throw everything outside the door. And there you go.
- 37:17Speaker 2: But listen, we will circle back to that now because
- 37:20Speaker 2: we are racing til the end of the Tom and
- 37:21Speaker 2: Jerry Show. It's been a long, attic fill day, so
- 37:26Speaker 2: I'm not gonna give one of my big rambling intros
- 37:28Speaker 2: to this segment. We remember a time when there wasn't
- 37:30Speaker 2: crows clear and cigarette butts and we remember other things
- 37:33Speaker 2: in a segment we called we Remember when when.
- 37:37Speaker 1: I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty
- 37:39Speaker 1: years ago. Jesus Christ, you wrap that up nice and tight.
- 37:43Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Yeah, normally that one goes goes, goes, goes a little
- 37:47Speaker 2: bit around the world. But we do remember a bunch
- 37:49Speaker 2: of things here on the Tom and Jerry Show, because
- 37:50Speaker 2: myself and Tom are and on mid forties, which means
- 37:53Speaker 2: we've seen it awful, seen a lot of times common,
- 37:56Speaker 2: a lot of things go. I always say, Tom, we
- 37:59Speaker 2: exist on a fog from a life, and it's very
- 38:01Speaker 2: strange every now and then to notice that, you know,
- 38:03Speaker 2: we actually fucking did you know, like we can look
- 38:06Speaker 2: back and go, no, that wasn't a thing.
- 38:09Speaker 1: Well what I don't come out with that?
- 38:11Speaker 2: I goes as met Joe, like the stuff is cat,
- 38:15Speaker 2: You're like, huht.
- 38:18Speaker 1: It is there you go.
- 38:20Speaker 2: And the thing that we're dealing with right now is
- 38:23Speaker 2: the thing that we're right in the middle of as
- 38:24Speaker 2: we record this podcast. If not now, then shortly before
- 38:30Speaker 2: or shortly common you will have seen a thing called
- 38:34Speaker 2: in Ireland a Black Friday event, ah, a Black Friday event.
- 38:40Speaker 2: Some shops are calling it black tag events. Some shops
- 38:42Speaker 2: are just calling it straight out Black Friday, or indeed,
- 38:47Speaker 2: bizarrely enough, Tom, black Friday week. Yeah, but one thing
- 38:51Speaker 2: or another, it is a pre Christmas sale.
- 38:55Speaker 1: It comes around.
- 38:57Speaker 2: It was traditionally in America the day after thing Thanksgiving,
- 39:00Speaker 2: Thanksgiving takes place on a Thursday. I think it's like
- 39:02Speaker 2: the second last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving, which this
- 39:07Speaker 2: will be if you're American listeners listening to us, we
- 39:09Speaker 2: hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. And the day after
- 39:12Speaker 2: Thanksgiving was when stores would put everything on sale, all
- 39:16Speaker 2: their old merchandise they needed to sell it to get
- 39:19Speaker 2: rid of it, to make away from.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Your Christmas stock coming in, or just to wrench.
- 39:22Speaker 2: The money right out of your pocket. And it became
- 39:25Speaker 2: known as Black Friday because it was the busiest shopping
- 39:28Speaker 2: day of the year. Now in Ireland town, we didn't
- 39:31Speaker 2: have that until as best as I can Google, twenty
- 39:36Speaker 2: fourteen to twenty sixteen was when it started to creep
- 39:39Speaker 2: in right.
- 39:41Speaker 1: There are thereabouts.
- 39:42Speaker 2: So in the last six to eight years, God what
- 39:45Speaker 2: am I saying? The last ten to twelve years, that's
- 39:48Speaker 2: there you go, Tom, that's what it is. Beforey five.
- 39:51Speaker 2: I just lost four years out of order.
- 39:53Speaker 1: Do you know what too? And it's it's the American
- 39:55Speaker 1: When it came in first, it fucking annoyed me. I
- 39:57Speaker 1: don't mind the sale. I don't mind Fox say why,
- 40:02Speaker 1: like I guess why you're doing it or whatever. I
- 40:04Speaker 1: get write your copy and whatever. But could we just
- 40:06Speaker 1: call it something else? Do we have to do? We
- 40:09Speaker 1: have to because okay, let me let me get in
- 40:11Speaker 1: on that, all right, let me get in on that. Okay. Ah.
- 40:16Speaker 2: We never had Black Friday sales in this country. We
- 40:19Speaker 2: never had end of November sales in this country. But
- 40:22Speaker 2: what we did have was January sales. The January sales
- 40:25Speaker 2: were real simple. You had spent all your money in
- 40:29Speaker 2: the lead up to Christmas, but you might have you know,
- 40:32Speaker 2: it's it's, it's, it's it's a paradox. You might come
- 40:35Speaker 2: into January with a bit of money in your pocket
- 40:37Speaker 2: because someone might have given you a fifty quid, you
- 40:39Speaker 2: got a Christmas bonus, you had a bit of money
- 40:41Speaker 2: left over.
- 40:42Speaker 1: Or whatever it might be.
- 40:43Speaker 2: You had a little money in your pocket, and shops
- 40:45Speaker 2: were like, we'll have that please, Yeah, yeah, you can
- 40:47Speaker 2: give that to us, because what we need to do
- 40:49Speaker 2: is get rid of old stock and old inventory and
- 40:51Speaker 2: get the new year's stuff in.
- 40:53Speaker 1: We're gonna do that in January.
- 40:54Speaker 2: There's gonna be week of January sales where we're gonna
- 40:56Speaker 2: sell off old and unsold items to just try the
- 41:00Speaker 2: money out of your pocket. That's all we're doing here,
- 41:02Speaker 2: Tom Morey. We're not the same make a wish buddy.
- 41:04Speaker 2: We are just like prying money out of your pocket.
- 41:06Speaker 1: Well, that was it, because also they like to be
- 41:09Speaker 1: nothing moving in January, like nothing moving in January, some
- 41:12Speaker 1: incentive to get you up and out.
- 41:13Speaker 2: Yeah, and there are still January sales, don't get me wrong,
- 41:16Speaker 2: there are still January sales more than in a second.
- 41:21Speaker 1: But it appears to be like we're.
- 41:22Speaker 2: Like, hey, why don't why don't shops are just like
- 41:25Speaker 2: why don't we pry money out of people's pockets twice? Yeah,
- 41:28Speaker 2: in a week period in November and started January. Fuck it,
- 41:32Speaker 2: that's again, it's the pincer movement.
- 41:34Speaker 1: What that was? The thing I didn't understand fully because
- 41:36Speaker 1: reading into it a small but like there was it
- 41:39Speaker 1: was Black Friday, the first recorded everyone eighty ninety one.
- 41:43Speaker 1: It would seen, but it was actually in January jar
- 41:46Speaker 1: It didn't swing back around to this. They didn't get
- 41:48Speaker 1: cute like they if we were still on the January
- 41:51Speaker 1: sales back in like twenty ten, what shall we say
- 41:55Speaker 1: they they packed in their January sales in around nineteen
- 41:58Speaker 1: hundred because by nineteen twenty four, oh, they were onto
- 42:02Speaker 1: Black Friday.
- 42:02Speaker 2: It was different because it must it must not be forgotten.
- 42:05Speaker 2: The Thanksgiving is American Christmas.
- 42:08Speaker 1: It really is much bigger than Christmas. And what is
- 42:10Speaker 1: the pilgrims saying thanks for the crops or harvest or whatever? Right?
- 42:14Speaker 1: I think so it is at fully know, But anyway,
- 42:18Speaker 1: I mean it was the Americans don't need an excuse
- 42:19Speaker 1: to eat tom.
- 42:20Speaker 2: But what I will say is this, Okay, here's when
- 42:22Speaker 2: you and I heard of Black Friday first, and by
- 42:25Speaker 2: you and I I mean by extension, every human being
- 42:27Speaker 2: in the country of Ireland. Yeah, we started hearing hearing
- 42:32Speaker 2: properly about it after the dawn of the Internet, after
- 42:36Speaker 2: YouTube started going, when we started to see on our
- 42:40Speaker 2: very very low resolution, poorly buffering YouTube channels, we started
- 42:45Speaker 2: to see footage of doorbuster events where Americans would o'clock
- 42:51Speaker 2: in the morning below like like start kicking in the
- 42:56Speaker 2: door of a costcoat to get in and get a
- 42:57Speaker 2: two hundred dollars telly.
- 42:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 43:00Speaker 2: Right, And every year it started to be a thing
- 43:02Speaker 2: like these videos will go whatever was the early form
- 43:05Speaker 2: of viral, and we hadn't really seen anything like this.
- 43:09Speaker 1: You know, this was brilliant. It was absolutely brilliant to
- 43:12Speaker 1: say it screaming.
- 43:13Speaker 2: I remember, like back in the eighties we would have
- 43:16Speaker 2: I remember.
- 43:16Speaker 1: There was like news footage of people going mad trying
- 43:18Speaker 1: to get like cabbage patch dolls for their kids and
- 43:20Speaker 1: shit like this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll go mad,
- 43:23Speaker 1: like Americans going mad in shops.
- 43:24Speaker 2: But then this became like a yearly thing and it
- 43:26Speaker 2: was the thing that we laughed at and it was
- 43:28Speaker 2: a thing that we mocked. It was a thing where
- 43:30Speaker 2: we go like, look at all these Americans getting into roaring,
- 43:33Speaker 2: screaming fight, savage crumpling on their fellow man to get
- 43:37Speaker 2: themselves a two hundred dollars telly. And then we started
- 43:41Speaker 2: to say to ourselves, two hundred dollars.
- 43:44Speaker 1: Not bad for a telly. Yeah yeah, oh can you
- 43:47Speaker 1: get a tally for two hundred euro? Can we? Yeah?
- 43:49Speaker 1: Anybody over here want to start doing these Black Friday
- 43:52Speaker 1: sales where the start giving away tellies for two hundred
- 43:54Speaker 1: euros and retailers were like absolutely, sorry, yeah, not a problem,
- 43:58Speaker 1: because a problem in the wide early world. Were all,
- 44:00Speaker 1: we're all buying them in the one fucking place. They're
- 44:03Speaker 1: all coming out of the one people's Republican promise. You
- 44:06Speaker 1: are making all of these things, so we can probably
- 44:08Speaker 1: do a price drop as well. Why not, let's do it?
- 44:11Speaker 1: Why not?
- 44:12Speaker 2: We got new models coming in, we got you know,
- 44:15Speaker 2: those old ones are four k. These new ones are
- 44:17Speaker 2: four and a half case. So we got to get
- 44:19Speaker 2: rid of the four cases. We can sell you animals
- 44:21Speaker 2: four and a half k. But all that to say,
- 44:23Speaker 2: now here we are ten years later. Tom and Black
- 44:26Speaker 2: Friday sales are yearly occurrence, and I would like to
- 44:32Speaker 2: stand here before you and the listeners of the Tom
- 44:35Speaker 2: and Jerry Show and say I don't buy anything that
- 44:39Speaker 2: would be liese.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they are. Ourself has a new hair
- 44:44Speaker 1: fryer on the way there. It's so I'm not gonna
- 44:48Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hold your feet over the goals on
- 44:49Speaker 1: this one. Like, but you sent me a bargain. You
- 44:52Speaker 1: sent me a picture the other day and I was
- 44:54Speaker 1: like Jesus in all fairness, that is some drop.
- 44:58Speaker 2: Well that's what I want to that's what I want
- 44:59Speaker 2: to it into, because like this is this is sort
- 45:02Speaker 2: of a tail or.
- 45:03Speaker 1: Two, this is a this is a segment of two halves,
- 45:06Speaker 1: Tom number one.
- 45:06Speaker 2: I want to say, Hey, black Friday wasn't the thing
- 45:09Speaker 2: in Ireland nowadays.
- 45:10Speaker 1: Look at this here we are, silly animals that we are.
- 45:14Speaker 2: This isn't us kicking down the doors to get cheap insulin, buddy,
- 45:16Speaker 2: This is us kicking down the doors to get cheap
- 45:19Speaker 2: hair straightener.
- 45:20Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. Yeah, cheap such such as
- 45:25Speaker 1: the nature right, cheap diffusers for your fucking hair dryer.
- 45:28Speaker 1: Yeah alright, so do you know what I'm gonna get.
- 45:31Speaker 2: I need to get a cheap hair straightener and a
- 45:33Speaker 2: cheap set of hair courlers.
- 45:34Speaker 1: Because you're never fucking nobody right yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 45:37Speaker 1: yeah yeah. It is. It beggars belief. The amount of shite. See,
- 45:44Speaker 1: that's the only problem is that, Okay, there are staples
- 45:47Speaker 1: in the home. But at the same time you find
- 45:48Speaker 1: yourself going, of course I need aini maker twice, donut
- 45:53Speaker 1: maker twice a year. I eat paninis. Let's take up
- 45:56Speaker 1: some morning. I want waffles? Yeah, what am I gonna
- 46:01Speaker 1: be over here?
- 46:02Speaker 2: Over here like a waffless pastard? Fucking waf it's sitting
- 46:07Speaker 2: in there with the popcorn maker.
- 46:09Speaker 1: Yeah, the popcorn baker. Oh my, where's that us? Right
- 46:13Speaker 1: behind the dehydrator. There, you're a maker forever. Man will
- 46:18Speaker 1: make it. You want man, you want it, you want it.
- 46:20Speaker 1: We have a maker for it. And after that we've
- 46:22Speaker 1: got it like a breaker for it. We've gotta smash. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 46:26Speaker 1: But the picture you did send me kind of shock
- 46:28Speaker 1: to me because I was like, Jesus Christ, this is
- 46:31Speaker 1: where it became. So this became like, you know, part
- 46:36Speaker 1: two of this segment. Yes, a fifty inch Telly Jerry,
- 46:39Speaker 1: What was it going for? A fifty inch? Tom? And
- 46:42Speaker 1: I stressed? Is here, buddy? A fifty inch flat screen TV?
- 46:47Speaker 1: They're all flat screen teeth.
- 46:48Speaker 2: They're all flat screen these days. But as we're about
- 46:50Speaker 2: to get into they weren't always a fifty inch flat
- 46:53Speaker 2: screen TV was two one hundred and fifty year.
- 46:57Speaker 1: Old, buddy, Now it was it the latest? Great?
- 47:00Speaker 2: This high faluting old D EIGHTK shit, No it's not.
- 47:04Speaker 2: But you know why I don't need that, Tom, because
- 47:06Speaker 2: my favorite program isn't slow mo images of butterflies landing
- 47:11Speaker 2: on flowers. You know, you walk into Harvey Norman. What's
- 47:15Speaker 2: showing on the TV? Rain drops hitting puddles in slow
- 47:19Speaker 2: motion to show off the spectacular jet black old head TV,
- 47:23Speaker 2: No Tom and what terrestrial TV?
- 47:26Speaker 1: Forget about it.
- 47:28Speaker 2: I don't need to see the fucking Angelus in eight
- 47:31Speaker 2: k you'll grant. I don't need to be so high fluting.
- 47:36Speaker 1: This is, this is, this is the thing. We didn't
- 47:38Speaker 1: have a comparative either back in the day. You gotta
- 47:41Speaker 1: tell you you were delighted. Like the one in the
- 47:43Speaker 1: kitchen was black and white because a small portable one
- 47:47Speaker 1: and had a handle on it. Yeah, when it was
- 47:49Speaker 1: black and white with a rabbit ears off it. The
- 47:51Speaker 1: one in the sitting room, we.
- 47:52Speaker 2: We broke them, Old Tom. We had we had two
- 47:54Speaker 2: TVs in the house, which was like kind of unheard of.
- 47:57Speaker 2: One of them was TV TV and the other one
- 47:59Speaker 2: was the monitor of.
- 48:00Speaker 1: The amstrad Go.
- 48:02Speaker 2: Sandy Sandy, Sandy was upsold on getting the TV tuning
- 48:06Speaker 2: or for that was a separate box that plugged into
- 48:09Speaker 2: it that you tune TV stations into it, like literally
- 48:12Speaker 2: like tune in a radio. You had to, you know,
- 48:15Speaker 2: do a little sort of safe cracker job on it
- 48:17Speaker 2: to tune in RT one RT two, And that machine
- 48:21Speaker 2: fucking saved my life, no doubt about it, when I
- 48:23Speaker 2: learned that you could take a coat hanger in the
- 48:25Speaker 2: back of that and tune in RT two and watch friends.
- 48:27Speaker 1: Forget about it. Forget about it, buddy, game changer. I'm
- 48:31Speaker 1: looking here as.
- 48:32Speaker 2: And that's what, and that's what the segment, that's what segment,
- 48:34Speaker 2: that's what the second half of this segment is. Yeah,
- 48:37Speaker 2: you know what I'm going to tell you, Black Friday.
- 48:40Speaker 2: It's dreadful. Don't buy into the into the hype. But
- 48:43Speaker 2: if you feel like you can get yourself a good
- 48:44Speaker 2: TV at a good price, then by all means. And
- 48:46Speaker 2: the other half of it is, we came up in
- 48:49Speaker 2: a time when this shit cost way more than.
- 48:53Speaker 1: It does today.
- 48:53Speaker 2: Okay, Mental, somehow, Tom, somehow I could go back to
- 48:58Speaker 2: I could go back in time twenty years and catch it,
- 49:00Speaker 2: you know, my younger self by the collar of the
- 49:03Speaker 2: short and go A pack of Honky Dories is two euro.
- 49:06Speaker 2: A pack of Honky Dories a two euro. Don't live
- 49:08Speaker 2: in this future and me back then, It'll be like
- 49:11Speaker 2: a pack of Honky Dories is two euro Next you
- 49:14Speaker 2: kind of tell me that a bottle of coke is
- 49:15Speaker 2: two fifty five, and I'd be like, it is and
- 49:17Speaker 2: you pay fifteen euro on top of that, it's two
- 49:19Speaker 2: sixty for a fucking little bottle of coke. But at
- 49:23Speaker 2: the same time, I could say to myself twenty years ago, uh,
- 49:25Speaker 2: by the way, a fifty inch telly is two hundred
- 49:28Speaker 2: and fifty euros. Now I'm looking at the top of
- 49:31Speaker 2: my old head would lift clean off my shoulders. Now
- 49:34Speaker 2: there's there's I'm just looking here, right.
- 49:36Speaker 1: I went back and I had a look because my head,
- 49:40Speaker 1: in my mind, I remembered, like you were talking about
- 49:42Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. They were a thing to be minded because
- 49:44Speaker 1: they were like a piece of furniture. The one for
- 49:46Speaker 1: the longest time, there was one in the one in
- 49:48Speaker 1: the sitroom when I was very young. It had like
- 49:50Speaker 1: a it was timber, you know what I mean. And yeah,
- 49:52Speaker 1: the timber frame. Yeah, they did progress up to a
- 49:55Speaker 1: Panasonic with a matching video recorder at one point, but
- 49:59Speaker 1: I I'm just looking here. In the eighties, here's a
- 50:02Speaker 1: km Art advert advert in the eighties. So I have
- 50:04Speaker 1: a whole mad here coming up. Yeah, I have like
- 50:07Speaker 1: phenomenal original price. This is full, so they have they
- 50:13Speaker 1: have it if you don't want the remote, so you're
- 50:16Speaker 1: not Yeah, the remote is fifty dollars right, Okay, Now
- 50:21Speaker 1: this is America. That's so they would have had lots
- 50:24Speaker 1: of this stuff like this Comparatively in Ireland. I'm sure
- 50:27Speaker 1: vas different the km art discount fifty so they can
- 50:31Speaker 1: do you do the best they can do you for
- 50:33Speaker 1: on a twenty five inch yure half the size you're
- 50:37Speaker 1: talking about is six hundred and ninety eight dollars. But
- 50:41Speaker 1: if you want remote and you don't have your your
- 50:43Speaker 1: cake Kmart card, it's going to cost you seven hundred
- 50:46Speaker 1: ninety eight dollars. I mean by equivalent, what are we
- 50:50Speaker 1: talking In Ireland, it would have been Jesus Christ. It
- 50:53Speaker 1: would have been that in punts or maybe less, maybe
- 50:55Speaker 1: five hundred pounds. But nobody have that here, Tom, Yeah,
- 50:59Speaker 1: have that here? What I've gone?
- 51:01Speaker 2: And we stress TVs because I feel like TV's are
- 51:05Speaker 2: like the gold standard. They're like that, They're like what
- 51:07Speaker 2: else was there?
- 51:09Speaker 1: It's like the price of a barrel of oil, Like
- 51:11Speaker 1: this is the thing that you can sort of you
- 51:12Speaker 1: can measure exactly. I mean nobody, nobody gave two folks
- 51:15Speaker 1: about the toast sandwich maker. The kettle was I mean,
- 51:19Speaker 1: that could have been a hob kettle just you know,
- 51:21Speaker 1: heating on the hob. The toaster that was it. Really
- 51:24Speaker 1: there was no other fan dingles, you know what I mean.
- 51:27Speaker 1: The mother might have had the mother might have had,
- 51:29Speaker 1: you know, a kitchen aid that might be it. Or
- 51:32Speaker 1: you know the yok for for beaten cream, you know,
- 51:34Speaker 1: for you know, the fucking propeller. You brief period there
- 51:38Speaker 1: was electric knives. Remember the two electric knives for cav
- 51:41Speaker 1: to make clean ships of turkey, like just to smashing
- 51:45Speaker 1: the turkey debates. Who would have thought it saws all?
- 51:48Speaker 1: Wasn't the machine? Yeah, saber soa with saws on it.
- 51:52Speaker 1: But the but the TV is the TV.
- 51:54Speaker 2: Because what I'm going to take you through right now, Tom,
- 51:57Speaker 2: We're not going to take up too much of your time.
- 51:58Speaker 1: Folks, or the end of the second they're injured. I'm
- 52:02Speaker 1: going to take you through the Winter two thousand, our
- 52:06Speaker 1: goss catalog. Oh yes, perfect, because I feel that it's
- 52:09Speaker 1: like a fair two thousands, that's fair even Yeah, people
- 52:13Speaker 1: younger than that would go ok, all right, yeah, so
- 52:15Speaker 1: that's that's twenty five years ago. And again, like I say,
- 52:19Speaker 1: there are some listeners to the Tom and Jerry Show
- 52:21Speaker 1: that they might not be twenty five years of age. Yeah. Yeah,
- 52:26Speaker 1: the average listenership of our show is easily in the forties. Temple.
- 52:29Speaker 1: Let's imagine this, this four quarternant appeal that we have,
- 52:34Speaker 1: that we've got a sleugh a twenty year old going grundig.
- 52:38Speaker 1: What the fuck are these people talking about? There there's some,
- 52:41Speaker 1: there's some let's let's have it hit me jar. So
- 52:44Speaker 1: these are UK prices about what you can do right
- 52:46Speaker 1: yeah now? And I wanted to do this on a
- 52:48Speaker 1: sweeter product, Tom, but as you browsed the two thousand
- 52:51Speaker 1: the Winter two thousand Argos catalog, it's a desert. There's
- 52:56Speaker 1: products in this there's just no equivalent of today. Yeah,
- 53:00Speaker 1: Walkman's disc men, car stereos, home land lines, VCRs. Even
- 53:08Speaker 1: if we got.
- 53:09Speaker 2: Into the earliest DVD players, these things just don't exist
- 53:11Speaker 2: these days. And I can't say, well, that's the price
- 53:13Speaker 2: of one then, and this is the price of one now, Kettles,
- 53:17Speaker 2: I guess you could always get one for a tenor
- 53:19Speaker 2: or one for fifty quid.
- 53:20Speaker 1: So it's neither here nor there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Both
- 53:24Speaker 1: televisions are like a barrel of oil.
- 53:27Speaker 2: It's like a bar of gold. You can see what
- 53:28Speaker 2: it costs you, what it costs you now. So I'm
- 53:32Speaker 2: just flicking through. And the one thing that that strikes
- 53:34Speaker 2: you when you're going through this TOM is there are
- 53:37Speaker 2: no big TVs. Just no, like, you're not going to
- 53:40Speaker 2: get a fifty inch TV. That's not a thing, okay,
- 53:43Speaker 2: because the technology wasn't there. What you had was I
- 53:46Speaker 2: and I still say flat screen TVs to this day
- 53:48Speaker 2: because I remember when they weren't like the one that's
- 53:51Speaker 2: over my shoulder, the THOM a CRT a cathode ray tube,
- 53:55Speaker 2: and the thing with them was, given the nature and
- 53:58Speaker 2: make of them, they had to be incredibly deep.
- 54:01Speaker 1: Yeah, that you're behind you is probably a foot and
- 54:03Speaker 1: a half deep.
- 54:04Speaker 2: That that you're there is deeper than it is wide. Okay,
- 54:06Speaker 2: that's just that's how you got TV back then. Now
- 54:09Speaker 2: you've got a flat screen TV. That's the thickness of
- 54:12Speaker 2: a copybook that works with magic spider webs. I don't
- 54:16Speaker 2: fucking know.
- 54:17Speaker 1: The tellies back then were that in case you're absolutely
- 54:20Speaker 1: youthful and you have no idea what we're talking. They
- 54:22Speaker 1: were so deep you could have literally had the fucking
- 54:24Speaker 1: actors and set inside the TV just putting on a
- 54:28Speaker 1: play for you. You were halfway to the studio or
- 54:31Speaker 1: the shop. Relationship at the time. About this on the wall.
- 54:34Speaker 1: That's it. They was opening on the water. You had
- 54:36Speaker 1: to have you to go and buy furniture to fucking
- 54:39Speaker 1: keep it up, and by a three corner table. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 54:45Speaker 1: There was the there was the TV unit. The TV
- 54:47Speaker 1: unit was a stable and everything. It was a unit. Brother,
- 54:49Speaker 1: fucking right.
- 54:51Speaker 2: If if you're asking where are all the fifty inch TVs?
- 54:53Speaker 2: If there had been a theoretical fifty inch Cathold ray TV,
- 54:57Speaker 2: that thing would have been seven foot deep.
- 55:00Speaker 1: Not kidding, Oh, there was like a serious piece of machinery.
- 55:04Speaker 1: Just bring it into the house. Oh yeah, you have
- 55:06Speaker 1: to knock out a wall if you had a big
- 55:08Speaker 1: screen back in the day. And I only ever saw
- 55:10Speaker 1: one of these in my life, never in anybody's house.
- 55:13Speaker 1: It was just like in a shop in a shop,
- 55:16Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and everybody's hair in the entire shop is
- 55:19Speaker 1: standing on end because of the static electricity coming off
- 55:21Speaker 1: the fucking thing. It was what's known as as a
- 55:23Speaker 1: rear projection TV, which basically it wasn't a screen. It
- 55:28Speaker 1: was a cinema. It wasn't that screen. It was a screen.
- 55:32Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't a screen. It was like a cinema
- 55:33Speaker 2: screen and the image was projected onto it from the back.
- 55:36Speaker 1: So it was like it was done with.
- 55:38Speaker 2: It was genuinely literally done with smoke and mirrors. Was
- 55:40Speaker 2: a fantastic piece of machinery, but beyond the kin of
- 55:43Speaker 2: mortal men and would get you maybe a forty inch
- 55:46Speaker 2: TV right right, right right, Okay.
- 55:48Speaker 1: These were for the uber rich.
- 55:49Speaker 2: This was above and beyond what you and I would
- 55:52Speaker 2: probably have had in our hand in our in our houses.
- 55:54Speaker 2: Tom let me get into a couple of these here,
- 55:58Speaker 2: and when we get into the two thousands, you get
- 56:00Speaker 2: into things like Trintron. Oh god, yeah, y co logics
- 56:05Speaker 2: around sound and all this kind of thing. But your
- 56:07Speaker 2: average in your house TV, yeah yeah, give us regular stuff. Now,
- 56:11Speaker 2: something that would be in your house TV would have
- 56:14Speaker 2: been a Sony. Let's stay with a sort of a
- 56:16Speaker 2: good make okay, because we can all get byd TV
- 56:20Speaker 2: is all you want.
- 56:22Speaker 1: Sony, The foxes of all the fun wires. It not.
- 56:25Speaker 1: You're talking about.
- 56:28Speaker 2: A Sony twenty one inch TV. Oh, I'm looking at
- 56:31Speaker 2: it right here with my eyes. A Sony twenty one
- 56:34Speaker 2: inch TV was three hundred and thirty pounds sterlo. Oh,
- 56:41Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty pounds Sterland, three hundred and thirty
- 56:44Speaker 2: pounds sterling.
- 56:45Speaker 1: Tom.
- 56:45Speaker 2: Now, like I said, the TV I sent you a
- 56:49Speaker 2: picture of was a fifty inch flat screen TV for
- 56:54Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty euro and it connected to the TV,
- 56:58Speaker 2: it connected to the internet. Was this my You can
- 57:00Speaker 2: play whatever you want to know. You know you don't
- 57:02Speaker 2: want to pay three thirty for Sony. Fine, you can
- 57:06Speaker 2: give the same people that argust three hundred and thirty
- 57:08Speaker 2: zero for a day TV, and it too is a
- 57:11Speaker 2: twenty two inch TV. These are small, Tom. Let me
- 57:13Speaker 2: just I'm just gonna. I'm not just gonna. There's no
- 57:15Speaker 2: comedy value in throwing out the price of tvsier, but
- 57:18Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you this one here, a Sony pro
- 57:22Speaker 2: logic wide screen TV.
- 57:25Speaker 1: That's a lot of fancy words. Okay, someone asked you
- 57:28Speaker 1: why you paid so much for your TV. You could say, well,
- 57:29Speaker 1: that's prologic and don't you know it's it's a wide
- 57:32Speaker 1: screen dipshit with nothing that would display wide screen on it.
- 57:36Speaker 2: You know, I seem to recall in the early nineties
- 57:40Speaker 2: into the late nineties there was a bit of a like,
- 57:42Speaker 2: a wide screen is better than all this kind of shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever,
- 57:47Speaker 2: you fucking nerd. A Sony wide screen TV is going
- 57:51Speaker 2: up to thirty two inches. Yeah, oh jesus, thirty two inches, Okay,
- 57:56Speaker 2: a thirty two inch TV tom is listed in the
- 57:59Speaker 2: Argos Into two thousand catalog at eleven hundred and forty
- 58:03Speaker 2: nine starel.
- 58:05Speaker 1: And I'll just look at the average wageure, the average
- 58:08Speaker 1: wage in two thousand. This is medium across there. And
- 58:13Speaker 1: this isn't this is a median. This isn't taking into
- 58:15Speaker 1: account the really fucking rich bastards in the UK, right,
- 58:19Speaker 1: the super wealthy, because they have them super wealthy in
- 58:22Speaker 1: the UK. Three hundred and fifty nine pounds, that's what
- 58:28Speaker 1: the average in two thousand. That's what the average medium
- 58:31Speaker 1: grows week. That's gross weekly waged. So that's pre tax.
- 58:35Speaker 1: So and you can imagine if you're probably blue collar,
- 58:39Speaker 1: you ain't making that. And here's the thing I'm making now,
- 58:42Speaker 1: that's that's the stuff that that these high fight companies,
- 58:47Speaker 1: high fight listen to me, high fight companies and whatnot
- 58:50Speaker 1: would have targeted poor misfortunes. They can't really afford it
- 58:53Speaker 1: because they're like, this will make you a better person
- 58:55Speaker 1: for having this, do you know what I mean? Yeah?
- 58:57Speaker 2: And and and and like you know that that eleven
- 58:59Speaker 2: hundred euros only trin it on TV. You or I
- 59:02Speaker 2: weren't getting that, Tom. That would be the kind of
- 59:04Speaker 2: TV that like fucking Jamiroqoi would have in this house.
- 59:08Speaker 1: And it would show up in the video, the music
- 59:10Speaker 1: video just to yeah.
- 59:12Speaker 2: I'd be like, I've got a big TV and now
- 59:14Speaker 2: I have a TV down in my living room with
- 59:16Speaker 2: fucking twice the size of that, and I paid something
- 59:19Speaker 2: like four hundred and fifty quid Hardy Norman a couple
- 59:22Speaker 2: of years ago.
- 59:22Speaker 1: And it's grand. Yeah, yeah, this is a but I
- 59:26Speaker 1: mean there was also like there was there was I
- 59:28Speaker 1: remember our bus driver moonlit as a TV repair guy
- 59:35Speaker 1: to no, sorry, I beg your pardon. The guy straight
- 59:37Speaker 1: across the road from him, he had a video shop.
- 59:39Speaker 1: I talked about him before. He had a video shop.
- 59:41Speaker 1: But the guy straight across the road from him repair TVs,
- 59:47Speaker 1: and honestly, going in there was like something. You know,
- 59:49Speaker 1: you see these Indian guys who were incredible effixing the shit,
- 59:52Speaker 1: but the whole place is just a fucking catacomb of
- 59:56Speaker 1: TV bits or and you just want But why I thought,
- 59:59Speaker 1: why I Mendela affected myself for a second, was Mike
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: or TV our bus driver would collect your TV for
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: you while dropping the kids off home from school, and
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: he would bring it to your man if he knew,
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: you know, that kind of way, because he knew heet
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: he'd be pulling up by your man's shop. But this
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: guy was out the fucking door busy repairing TVs. Oh yeah, no,
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: this was it, Tom.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: There was the TV man, the TV man. I remember
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: a couple of times our TV broke down and like
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: you know, picture is Tom.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: We got it fixed. But that we didn't just be
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: like going up anyone, but the thing was got it fixed.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: There was fixing in him, jer you know, the kind
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: of way like a man would fucking he'd have he'd
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: have a screw drive to take off the back and
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: much like a carbonnet he'd take off the back and
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: to be a part blown in it. That he'd have
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: a repair a bit for nobody.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: Nobody has remembered.
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: Tom.
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: It was among the bleakest times in my young life
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: when you know, the TV was aware of away of
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: being repaired, and you had like two or three days
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: with no telling Jesus might Yeah, you had to with
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: your long night to the soul.
- 1:00:58Speaker 1: He had to go find round bails to jump on,
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: you know that kind of I was hoping to go
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: through the catalog and find some other things that we
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: could we could find wild comparisons on it.
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: But I'm looking at the black and deck arrange here, Tom,
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: and and and you know, not for not a bush
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: cord of drill here a bush hammer action cord.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Of drill is fifty fourth Starland, which is about kind
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: of what it is these days. So there's not much
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: much to say about that. TV really do seem to
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: be the they were like, but they do, you know
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: what they were. I can't I can't fathom that they
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: I can't believe that they had so much technology in
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: them that made them do that. I think they fucking
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: gouged people because they knew how much people love them,
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: to the point that I in small towns and stuff,
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: you'd see TV leasing people. Do you know what they
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: lease a Yeah, yeah, yeah you could. You could put
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: it on layway and buy the fucking thing over two
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: years and stuff. And remember Jesus Christ having you know,
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: I was always taught to never be over a barrel
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: to fucker like, you know what I mean, if you can,
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: but I guess if they you know, if you've you've
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: got for it ally and you have a house full
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: of screaming youngsters and you need to keep them quiet,
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: like and the Ninja turtles aren't fucking going on. You
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: do whatever. You will pay you five pounds a week.
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: You know you can go down, you know, you can
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: go down to Harvey Normans during their black Tag event
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: and and and pick up a massive tally for half
- 1:02:17Speaker 2: the price that you would have otherwise done. And don't
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: you worry if you don't get the money, the Harvey
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: Normans of this world will do you a deal where
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: it'll get get that money out of you over two
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: years as well. I dare say, just in time for
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: the break and get you and get you on a
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: new one, how about that?
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well I mean there was there was
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: dedicated shops to just TV leasing and fucking long term sales.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: Like there was one I lived around the corner from
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: the cork and I was like this. This was in
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: the early two thousands. Yeah, early two thousands. He was
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: still trucking. He was doing alright, because at that stage
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: we had flat screens were being mooted, but they weren't
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: fucking flat air. They still had like a seven or
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: eight inches deep at the backlack.
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: And you still need remember when flat screens came in
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: for Tom the earliest above an earliest the flat screens,
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: we could do a whole bit and what those fucking
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: things cost. But all this to say, Black Friday, responsibly,
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, if you can get it, If you
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: can get a cheap TV and you need a cheap TV,
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: you buy that cheap TV. Don't don't kick down doors
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- 1:04:49Speaker 2: And also, yeah, sorry, I also on the on the thing,
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: Seann chimes I didn't think you remember, Sean mac chimes
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: in and says that in yes, the kind collections in
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: for Italian ninety, Yeah, we put our money on the
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: fucking big the big heads that you stick up on
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: your window.
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: But coind collections were a big yeah. Keep an eye
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: on that. Keep an eye on that.
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: Coin collections were a big thing, not just for Italian
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: ninety back in the day, about just in general, anything.
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: They can do to separate kids from their money. Coin collections. Yeah,
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- 1:05:20Speaker 1: we want these fine people to do? Just go ahead,
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: share if you can't do, share with whoever you find
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: out the window of a moving car. Exactly I'm going
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- 1:05:48Speaker 1: they're probably out eating the wires mounderneath my car.
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