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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hello Freddie ahead of another episode of Dumb and Jerry,
- 0:05Speaker 1: and it's my sad duty to inform you all that
- 0:08Speaker 1: Chuck Norris has finally gone and at an af day
- 0:12Speaker 1: with undertaking. I didn't know Chuck Norris, but I had
- 0:16Speaker 1: a labor one time called Norris from uproad. Any tools
- 0:20Speaker 1: I needed? I check? Hey Norris, Chuck us up a
- 0:23Speaker 1: lump ammer. Anyways, enjoy, I'll see thee.
- 0:36Speaker 2: This is the Tom and Jerry Show. Welcome you back
- 0:38Speaker 2: to your regular schedule programming. We can't get away with
- 0:41Speaker 2: another omnibus edition this week time. We have to actually
- 0:44Speaker 2: record a full episode.
- 0:46Speaker 1: It would be ac indo bollocks. But to be fair,
- 0:47Speaker 1: to be fair to us, but you're not supposed to
- 0:49Speaker 1: say sure you're not. But to be fair to us,
- 0:52Speaker 1: we don't do it too often. And there and some
- 0:54Speaker 1: well known podcasts out there there that trot out out
- 0:57Speaker 1: the stuff left right and center. But at least there
- 0:59Speaker 1: was a point to our drinking getting drunk, and we
- 1:02Speaker 1: had just it with people enjoying it going nice nice
- 1:05Speaker 1: one for the throwback.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Lets you know like a good pind againness Tom, it
- 1:08Speaker 2: went down real smooth. How are you all keeping everybody.
- 1:11Speaker 2: I'm Jerry McBride. That is Tom. O'Mahoney, we didn't record
- 1:15Speaker 2: an episode last week. Thank you all very much for
- 1:18Speaker 2: chiming in on our old drinking stories that we put
- 1:21Speaker 2: out as to make good. I think we might have
- 1:23Speaker 2: a few more of them down the way. Tom, you
- 1:24Speaker 2: know we're gonna keep shoe in the back cheer.
- 1:27Speaker 1: It's when you go back through it. I was shuddering
- 1:29Speaker 1: just listening to the stories because I had to go
- 1:30Speaker 1: back through season five. Anybody wants to have againder back
- 1:33Speaker 1: through the yester years. If this is your first outing
- 1:35Speaker 1: with Tom and Jerry and the damn near one hundred
- 1:38Speaker 1: episodes of this this new I suppose take on Tom
- 1:41Speaker 1: and Jerry.
- 1:42Speaker 2: The current iteration of them.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Jesus, jer when you're listening back to him, like fuck,
- 1:46Speaker 1: hell did I not die seventeen thousand times?
- 1:48Speaker 2: Like I'll tell you. When you listen back to the
- 1:52Speaker 2: old episodes, Tommy, you're like, Jesus, why did we record
- 1:55Speaker 2: for four hours at a time?
- 1:56Speaker 1: I know, but look, you you live, and you learn.
- 1:58Speaker 1: You need to learn to tighten things up. It's so
- 2:00Speaker 1: funny out time to change. I'm so proud of myself.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I was in Goldway the weekend. Thank you everybody, to
- 2:06Speaker 1: the lovely people that sold out the town Hall theater
- 2:08Speaker 1: for me. You were fucking lovely. But I was so
- 2:11Speaker 1: tempted yanker for chocolate, and I've been offul then. This
- 2:14Speaker 1: is where I'm at now from the drinking stories. Back
- 2:16Speaker 1: in the day, I was hanging for chocolate like a
- 2:20Speaker 1: pregnant yeack, I do want to chocolate. I don't know
- 2:22Speaker 1: what it was. I was getting offers of chips left,
- 2:25Speaker 1: right and center. Got myself a bag of chips, but
- 2:28Speaker 1: I abstained and I passed ninety four Petro stations on
- 2:31Speaker 1: the way home. And we know petro stations are full
- 2:34Speaker 1: of two things petal diesel. That's two things, and the
- 2:38Speaker 1: third thing is chocolate and chocolate. Yes, like you ain't
- 2:41Speaker 1: getting sasidious.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Tom, It's like you don't want a bar, you want
- 2:46Speaker 2: two bars for a five or two bars? You think
- 2:48Speaker 2: I'm saving one of them to the morning.
- 2:51Speaker 1: That'll get me to the next for a Petro station
- 2:53Speaker 1: or that? Or would you? Are you sure you don't
- 2:55Speaker 1: want to like an eleven your chocolate part of the
- 2:57Speaker 1: size of a car door because you've got a long
- 2:59Speaker 1: journey ahead of the Tom, like we you know what
- 3:01Speaker 1: I do need the energy, but no I abstained. I abstained.
- 3:05Speaker 1: I didn't. That's where I'm at your That's what.
- 3:07Speaker 2: I I Your stead, buddy, I made it up in
- 3:09Speaker 2: your stead. I had like a fool. Last week I
- 3:11Speaker 2: was away on a on a family holiday to New York,
- 3:13Speaker 2: New York, and I just want to give a shout
- 3:16Speaker 2: out to the Monahan Society of New York for her
- 3:18Speaker 2: letting me and my family march with them in the
- 3:20Speaker 2: New York Saint Patrick's Day Parade.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Why you were adorable? You were adorable, big Irish hits
- 3:25Speaker 1: like you looked like you were plants like you. If
- 3:29Speaker 1: if Americans drew drew Irish people in the smile in
- 3:33Speaker 1: this albu you were so smiley and wavy and it
- 3:35Speaker 1: was adorable.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Tom. I gotta tell you, if you
- 3:38Speaker 2: were along, if you were in the crowds, the hundreds
- 3:41Speaker 2: of thousands of people that crowded up and down Fifth Avenue,
- 3:45Speaker 2: and you were looking at the Saint Patrick's Day Parade
- 3:48Speaker 2: and you said yourself, fuck me, that's very like your
- 3:49Speaker 2: man McBride. It was.
- 3:53Speaker 1: It was just some American actor just done up to
- 3:56Speaker 1: look like Jerry.
- 3:56Speaker 2: McBride, Yeah, exactly what about? Hey what hi? And then
- 4:02Speaker 2: I left the parade and went on to eat a
- 4:04Speaker 2: six thousand calorie meal. New York. Hell of a time.
- 4:07Speaker 2: But I'm gonna tell you, Tom, the Pogues weren't lying.
- 4:10Speaker 2: The fucking wind goes right through your buddy.
- 4:13Speaker 1: It sticks you to the ground, you know the way
- 4:15Speaker 1: You're somethingle here going ah, yes, well it's minus twenty
- 4:18Speaker 1: voter at home, but it's a different cold. It does
- 4:20Speaker 1: not hurt your body. Well, okay, we'll take Eastern Europeans
- 4:24Speaker 1: at the world. But I don't care what anybody says.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Whatever's going on in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago,
- 4:34Speaker 1: nobody should be there through those months.
- 4:35Speaker 2: It's great, it's amazing.
- 4:37Speaker 1: Can you imagine back in the day when it wasn't
- 4:39Speaker 1: even warm stuff to be wearing? There were hardy people,
- 4:41Speaker 1: as say back then, hence why mostly Irish people stayed there.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Well, this is the two Yeah, we came over from
- 4:47Speaker 2: the Blaskins and we're like mild.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Out, miles out, sweating bullets here in this minus night.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Do you know how to make themselves feel better about
- 4:56Speaker 1: the cold? Over there? They still use fahrenheit. Oh it's
- 4:59Speaker 1: thirty two degrees. Okay, all right, that's that's still for comparison.
- 5:04Speaker 2: That's yeah, exactly, that's that's the kind of temperature that
- 5:06Speaker 2: we hang meat at over Home Career, Tom. It is
- 5:11Speaker 2: with the merging, funny to say it is with the
- 5:13Speaker 2: merging of America and Ireland like we had last week.
- 5:15Speaker 2: It carries over into this week's show. It becomes part
- 5:20Speaker 2: of the big news that we kick every show off with. Folks.
- 5:23Speaker 2: We're talking about the scuttle bought, the re raw, the weekly,
- 5:27Speaker 2: what have you. This is a very complicated case, mad
- 5:30Speaker 2: You know, a lot of Ian's, a lot of outs,
- 5:31Speaker 2: a lot of what have you, and a lot of
- 5:34Speaker 2: strands to keep.
- 5:35Speaker 1: In my head, man, things I've gotten out of hander
- 5:40Speaker 1: And who would have thought? What nation would possibly have
- 5:45Speaker 1: taken a situation that was already a bit of a
- 5:48Speaker 1: pain in the hole and made it twice as worse
- 5:51Speaker 1: by culturally appropriating another situation.
- 5:54Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Tom, it's it's some people look for.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Trouble, they do, and none better than the US.
- 6:03Speaker 2: The US. No I didn't. I didn't know this why
- 6:05Speaker 2: I was in America, but I heard it on my
- 6:07Speaker 2: way back, and I said it to Tom and the
- 6:11Speaker 2: face fell of them. What are we talking about? Everybody?
- 6:13Speaker 1: Will?
- 6:13Speaker 2: You?
- 6:14Speaker 1: Messaged me? And literally my reply was they want to
- 6:17Speaker 1: cut that out fucking straight away. That was my exact reply.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And what essentially has happened. And no, America haven't started
- 6:23Speaker 1: another war somewhere.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Else, honestly, Yeah you want to cut that out as well.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Yeah they would, But this is them just just over
- 6:31Speaker 1: each and just be over the top of Americans when
- 6:33Speaker 1: things and we do. We do have relatives there, you
- 6:36Speaker 1: know what I mean. I lived in the place for
- 6:37Speaker 1: a while. I like it, but you need to cut
- 6:39Speaker 1: this ship out bad enough. Through Christmas chare that we
- 6:42Speaker 1: had this elf on the shelf shit going on up
- 6:47Speaker 1: and down the globe. Now Americans have decided, well, an
- 6:51Speaker 1: American toy manufacturer, not out or whatever whatever you'd call it,
- 6:55Speaker 1: have trends that are moneymaker capitalists, all probably made in
- 7:02Speaker 1: Asia or somewhere. But they're now jumped on the bandwagon
- 7:04Speaker 1: when it comes to lead up to Saint Patrick's Day,
- 7:07Speaker 1: and they've decided to get not the help in the shelf,
- 7:10Speaker 1: but the leprecaun acting the ballacks.
- 7:14Speaker 2: They have Elf in the shelfed Leprechauns, a game that
- 7:18Speaker 2: is spreading throughout kindergartens and primary schools in America, whereby,
- 7:23Speaker 2: if you leave out a trap for a leprechaun on
- 7:26Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day, you may not trap the leprechaun, but
- 7:28Speaker 2: when you check the trap in the morning, you will
- 7:31Speaker 2: find sweeties, maybe a couple of dollars, like box of
- 7:35Speaker 2: Lukie charms, whatever it might be. Number One, it's more
- 7:39Speaker 2: unnecessary shit for parents to do. There's the Easter Bunny,
- 7:43Speaker 2: there's fucking tooth fairies and Santa and Elf on the shelf.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Nobody's looking for another job to do as a parent, Okay,
- 7:50Speaker 2: and now all of a sudden we have to orchestrate
- 7:52Speaker 2: traps for leprechauns. But Tom, it's the least of our
- 7:55Speaker 2: worries that parents have more to do. There's something far,
- 8:00Speaker 2: far more worrisome, Clay here.
- 8:03Speaker 1: What there is? Because not only are they it's not
- 8:06Speaker 1: that they're not just leaving at that, because of course
- 8:08Speaker 1: families have taken on. They're they're going with the whole
- 8:12Speaker 1: fucking thing.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's no sense in doing things by halves
- 8:15Speaker 2: to be better than the next family up there.
- 8:16Speaker 1: They're all give like they're like they're staying in character.
- 8:19Speaker 1: We're talking to this reporter like a leprechauns showed up
- 8:22Speaker 1: there has on Sundays two Sundays ago and have been
- 8:24Speaker 1: causing me him ever since. Mike Newman, Fuck you, Mike,
- 8:28Speaker 1: fuck you. He so by all accounts, Oh he died,
- 8:32Speaker 1: dyed the dog's hair green. He was a.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Yeah, they do pranks. It's elf on the shelf.
- 8:38Speaker 1: In the green outfit.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Right.
- 8:40Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Now, you keep on pushing, pushing
- 8:43Speaker 1: the buttons Americans, and you think that's going to be okay.
- 8:45Speaker 1: But you have clearly not listened to the Tom and
- 8:48Speaker 1: Jerry episode when it came to pish Oaks because you're fucked.
- 8:53Speaker 1: If you you can, you can test it all you want,
- 8:56Speaker 1: but between loan bushes and these fellows and the fairy folk,
- 9:00Speaker 1: I'm not pushing this one. There. This I don't care.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Even if he finds out about it. It's novel, I
- 9:04Speaker 1: don't care. I'll give him. I'll let him listen to
- 9:06Speaker 1: our Pits episode. I don't care that we we course
- 9:09Speaker 1: swear every two sentences. I'll let him listen to it
- 9:12Speaker 1: and then he can make his own mind up if
- 9:13Speaker 1: he wants to draw that kind of trouble down to
- 9:14Speaker 1: top of him.
- 9:15Speaker 2: We want to say for new listeners of the Tom
- 9:17Speaker 2: and Jerry Show, but the official line of Tom O'Mahony
- 9:21Speaker 2: and Jerry McBride is that we do not fully one
- 9:25Speaker 2: hundred percent believe in little folk, leprechauns, fairies, the fay
- 9:31Speaker 2: folk and the other kin. But with that being said,
- 9:35Speaker 2: we know to stay the fucking right side.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Of them one hundred percent.
- 9:41Speaker 2: Do I believe in it? No? Am I gonna chop
- 9:43Speaker 2: down a loan brush?
- 9:45Speaker 1: Also, no, there you go. So it's a there's a
- 9:48Speaker 1: duplicity there in in action. Jer It's as well to
- 9:52Speaker 1: live at the fuck alone, because.
- 9:54Speaker 2: You think, for a second, Tom, I'm laying out a
- 9:56Speaker 2: trap for a leprechaun. You've another thing coming.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Well, there are a handful of things that they want
- 10:03Speaker 1: to most definitely have been known for. And this I
- 10:05Speaker 1: mean listen oral traditions from down through the years. Like
- 10:08Speaker 1: people tend to take the Native Americans deadly serious when
- 10:11Speaker 1: they've got seventy two words for Bigfoot, right exactly? Well, okay,
- 10:14Speaker 1: all right, well let's keep looking for Bigfoot. And in
- 10:16Speaker 1: a real case, the Irish have been around for nearly
- 10:21Speaker 1: as long. I mean, if you if you really look
- 10:23Speaker 1: back into we've been around for thousands of years or
- 10:25Speaker 1: a Celtic carry on and all the rest of long
- 10:27Speaker 1: before organized religion got here. And these fellows were talked
- 10:30Speaker 1: about long before that. And I mean even still, there
- 10:34Speaker 1: is no nice part. And I don't not talk about
- 10:36Speaker 1: Darbio gilland there's no nice part of these lads that.
- 10:41Speaker 2: You're talking about, mister America. My god, that Leprecaun came
- 10:44Speaker 2: around and died. Okay. A Leprechaun is not coming around
- 10:47Speaker 2: to die your dog's hair green. Okay. A Leprechaun is
- 10:50Speaker 2: not King Brian from Darbio Grill. Like a leprechn is
- 10:54Speaker 2: an evil.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Spir yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
- 10:57Speaker 2: They don't mess around.
- 10:58Speaker 1: Well, this is the thing. Like they they're spiteful, like
- 11:01Speaker 1: they are known. They will just plague you for what
- 11:05Speaker 1: you believe is bad luck. You go out to the car,
- 11:08Speaker 1: fucking tires punctures, right, that's the first start of it.
- 11:11Speaker 1: You go back, keep snapped in the lock. Fuck you
- 11:16Speaker 1: know what I mean? The shoes one of your shoes
- 11:17Speaker 1: go missing. These are all just light hearted things, and
- 11:19Speaker 1: it sounds like good crack. You know what I mean, Ash,
- 11:21Speaker 1: it's on even a crack.
- 11:22Speaker 2: Yeah, it's only a minor inconvenience until they keep coming.
- 11:25Speaker 1: But they will keep coming, and there is no there
- 11:28Speaker 1: is no What we're to believe is there's absolutely no
- 11:33Speaker 1: there's no worry about full on retaliation from these well
- 11:36Speaker 1: as like they don't there. They will win, that's the answer.
- 11:40Speaker 1: They will always win on the on these occasions. So
- 11:42Speaker 1: if you have been fucking about one or even a
- 11:45Speaker 1: representation of one, there's every possibility that you've pissed one off.
- 11:48Speaker 1: And as the Jerry said about cutting down the lone
- 11:51Speaker 1: bush or you know, you cut down a white horn
- 11:55Speaker 1: or black torn or whatever. If you see two of
- 11:56Speaker 1: them that can see each other and you decide I'm
- 11:58Speaker 1: taking one that because these are the gateways, and you
- 12:03Speaker 1: are like your animals will die. You think dying it green?
- 12:08Speaker 1: How about it just dying?
- 12:09Speaker 2: How about it just dying? Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
- 12:12Speaker 2: And we've we've gone through this before in previous episodes.
- 12:15Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of these guys, Tom, We're not afraid
- 12:17Speaker 2: of them. We just kind of have a little bit
- 12:18Speaker 2: of sense to not you know, invoke them. For example, Tom,
- 12:23Speaker 2: I know that if you break a mirror you don't
- 12:25Speaker 2: get seven years bad luck. But you don't see me
- 12:27Speaker 2: going through Ikia with hammers. No, there you go smacking
- 12:30Speaker 2: mirrors for the crack of it. I'll avoid the breaking
- 12:32Speaker 2: of a mirror if it's all possible. Well, that's because
- 12:35Speaker 2: why would you bring it upon yourself?
- 12:38Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly why would you bring it upon upon yourself?
- 12:41Speaker 2: And you've known plenty of digger men, Tom that when
- 12:45Speaker 2: asked to dig up a fairy foth or dig up
- 12:48Speaker 2: a loan bush, they'll just turn around, can't you be?
- 12:50Speaker 2: All right? Yeah?
- 12:52Speaker 1: And you go. And I know people who listen to
- 12:54Speaker 1: actually there only you know uneducated cultures. And when you're like,
- 12:57Speaker 1: well that uneducated cultures sitting into their brand new land cruise.
- 13:00Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. If he's able to
- 13:01Speaker 1: get there in life, I'm all right, he's done everything
- 13:04Speaker 1: right so far.
- 13:05Speaker 2: I've got to tell you, like, you know, twenty.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Grand machine and an eighty grand JEP sitting beside him.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I'm gonna take his word for grant.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you another one again. Tom. You
- 13:13Speaker 2: tell me to cut down a lung bush, I'm going
- 13:15Speaker 2: to tell you a story that I heard about when
- 13:17Speaker 2: I was small, about how someone cut down a lung
- 13:19Speaker 2: bush and woke up every night with torns in his bed.
- 13:23Speaker 2: Did that happen? No? Did it scare me for life? Absolutely? Tom, Absolutely,
- 13:29Speaker 2: you don't mess with wee byes.
- 13:32Speaker 1: No. Well, I mean if if you are trying to
- 13:34Speaker 1: push it, they'll they will come back like they've They're
- 13:38Speaker 1: known for ruining all the food throughout the house. Yes,
- 13:40Speaker 1: that's just an easy thing to.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Which in America is a push because it's ninety percent
- 13:44Speaker 2: ruined to begin with.
- 13:45Speaker 1: It is, or it's absolutely full of preservatives, you know
- 13:47Speaker 1: what I mean, And it's it's tasteless and it's start with.
- 13:51Speaker 1: But you can also like they can cast malicious curses, spells,
- 13:55Speaker 1: mysterious diseases can be brought down upon you. I mean
- 13:59Speaker 1: suddenly your head the goat of human doing your five
- 14:02Speaker 1: day day. The next you know, and you've got corlito.
- 14:06Speaker 2: You've got a dose of the o chakracies.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Miniscus is starting to play up, you know, Tennis, elbow,
- 14:16Speaker 1: bad hip, all this ship. It's as well to stay
- 14:19Speaker 1: clear of these things like elf on a shelf. I mean,
- 14:22Speaker 1: you're still you know, if you dug enough, like it's
- 14:26Speaker 1: an elf, you know, representation of a water sprite, you know.
- 14:29Speaker 2: With your shadow of a dead Tom. I got to
- 14:31Speaker 2: tell you that the elf on the shelf, the elves
- 14:33Speaker 2: that are Santa's helpers are almost certainly some sort of
- 14:38Speaker 2: Germanic cramp at demons.
- 14:41Speaker 1: I think.
- 14:41Speaker 2: I think we're freaking imput the devil kind of things
- 14:45Speaker 2: that that that that are like malicious. But they've been.
- 14:50Speaker 1: You know, cartoonized and.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Metellized Igain through the years, and they're trying to do
- 14:56Speaker 2: the same with lapacauns, and I got it. I gotta
- 14:58Speaker 2: wish them the best in the future endeavors. But like you,
- 15:01Speaker 2: I cannot see one single Irish household ever ad up
- 15:03Speaker 2: in this shit. Although mind you, I said that about
- 15:05Speaker 2: el from the shop ten years agoing here I am
- 15:07Speaker 2: every goddamn Christmas.
- 15:09Speaker 1: The problem is is the kids will see it, and
- 15:11Speaker 1: the kids of today aren't getting the core frightened out
- 15:15Speaker 1: of them by elderly grandparents. Well I say that, but
- 15:19Speaker 1: my parents have absolutely no problem in scaring. They live
- 15:22Speaker 1: in pit Jesus out.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Device If there are indeed any grandparents over in Ireland
- 15:26Speaker 2: that are as Irish as they claim to be. Yes,
- 15:29Speaker 2: I'm yes, I'm Irish. I'm Irish. Okay, well if you are,
- 15:32Speaker 2: then you need to sit your family down and say, lads,
- 15:35Speaker 2: there's a reason we're afraid of the dark.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, elves are Scandinavian from origin, they say. And again,
- 15:46Speaker 1: our spiteful little bastards, biteful bastards. Yeah, who will not
- 15:50Speaker 1: play they Yeah?
- 15:52Speaker 2: Well, there you go.
- 15:53Speaker 1: It's it's something you draw in trouble on yourself. Don't
- 15:56Speaker 1: have killed people, it would seem that have crossed our
- 16:00Speaker 1: paths wrongly or rightly.
- 16:03Speaker 2: What what is an elf other than a Swedish leprechaun?
- 16:06Speaker 2: There you go?
- 16:07Speaker 1: Yeah, and ikea leprechaun.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Nikea leprecaun. Tom, I gotta tell you we're gonna move
- 16:14Speaker 2: on with the show here a little bit. But to
- 16:17Speaker 2: all our American friends, have at it. Enjoy Saint Patrick's
- 16:20Speaker 2: Day or Patty's Day as you are known to call it.
- 16:24Speaker 2: But if you want fool's advice, let me tell you this.
- 16:27Speaker 2: Enough with the lepre con rapt lads, Yeah, because that
- 16:31Speaker 2: is enough bad fortune heading your way, you know what
- 16:34Speaker 2: I mean?
- 16:38Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, you've already poked enough situations.
- 16:42Speaker 2: That you haven't poked enough bears to begin Oh, by
- 16:45Speaker 2: the way, Tom's speaking of bears, we gotta move on
- 16:48Speaker 2: to the next segment of the show because, like you know,
- 16:51Speaker 2: we could have talked about the little lads as being
- 16:52Speaker 2: these lads, but we're going to talk about some other
- 16:54Speaker 2: lads that came in late. And we like the cut
- 16:57Speaker 2: of our jib. Every week on the Tom and Jerry Show,
- 16:59Speaker 2: we talk about people that don't just be like, oh yeah,
- 17:02Speaker 2: this lad, it's oh yeah, this lad.
- 17:08Speaker 1: Now there's that guy. And despite the fact that Jerry
- 17:11Speaker 1: did a hint of an Australian accent there, we're not
- 17:13Speaker 1: going back to Australia for this one.
- 17:15Speaker 2: This to India and this wasn't that accent tell you
- 17:20Speaker 2: that much. Tom and Jerry Show is on shaky enough
- 17:23Speaker 2: ground to begin with.
- 17:24Speaker 1: I would there's be a point during this story Jerry's
- 17:27Speaker 1: going to accidentally do the accent. Do you know what.
- 17:30Speaker 1: I'm an Indian friend. He loves the accent, he says,
- 17:33Speaker 1: it's just his is endearing that somebody is far away
- 17:36Speaker 1: from from India is giving it a go.
- 17:40Speaker 2: He's a good not an endorsement. Tom.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Oh no, he's the same guys. You know he's he's
- 17:44Speaker 1: a stand up comic, so he's a darkness humor anyway,
- 17:47Speaker 1: so maybe he's you know.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to stay on the side of caution anyway,
- 17:52Speaker 2: Tom as we head off for this week's This Lad,
- 17:54Speaker 2: which is indeed in India, specifically the Sambal District, Utar Pradesh,
- 17:59Speaker 2: if I'm reading this correct, where the farmers have encountered
- 18:04Speaker 2: an unfortunate event monkeys do you know.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Here, like we've blight? Do you know what I mean?
- 18:14Speaker 1: They're different sort of weavils and stuff like that little
- 18:17Speaker 1: eat your grain. I mean, India has tough. Sometimes they've
- 18:22Speaker 1: got like fact they sometimes you're up against it when
- 18:27Speaker 1: fucking monkeys are just appearing and eating.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Your monkeys are appearing. And you know, we're not a
- 18:32Speaker 2: very political podcast here on the Tom and Jerry Show,
- 18:35Speaker 2: just expect more of this, folks. With deforestation, climate change
- 18:39Speaker 2: and the whole lot running rampant through India, monkeys are
- 18:43Speaker 2: leaving their habitats and moving through agricultural areas where they've
- 18:47Speaker 2: never been before and saying, well, why am I in
- 18:49Speaker 2: a forest that's either being chopped down, burnt down, or
- 18:52Speaker 2: just uncomfortable to be in when I can be several
- 18:56Speaker 2: provinces over when all of a sudden there's like all
- 18:58Speaker 2: the potatoes and strawberries I can eat, and so be it.
- 19:00Speaker 2: In the Sambo district didn't really have a monkey problem before,
- 19:04Speaker 2: but they got one now. One hundreds monkeys descended upon
- 19:08Speaker 2: the farms in the area Jesus.
- 19:11Speaker 1: And what was their their their their vegetable of choice
- 19:14Speaker 1: was the potatoes.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Potatoes, tom and strawberries. So like I say, you said there,
- 19:18Speaker 2: it's one thing to have a blight to be walking
- 19:20Speaker 2: through your crops and notice stains on the on the
- 19:22Speaker 2: leaves like I don't like the look at that, or
- 19:25Speaker 2: weevils eating crops on the thing. It's another thing to
- 19:27Speaker 2: look out and see monkeys kicking back in the sun.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Jumping into usually poking strawberries, and about the Wexford of India.
- 19:36Speaker 2: Is having a great old time.
- 19:40Speaker 1: So because because of course, of course, for anybody who's
- 19:44Speaker 1: along his history buff or legs, No, that's a stupid
- 19:48Speaker 1: shot out of Tom's head. That's where our potatoes are fromer.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Introduced, so i'd imagine.
- 19:53Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, same as cattle. Britain and Ireland did
- 19:58Speaker 1: not have cattle until well, Walter Rally brought the potato here,
- 20:02Speaker 1: and cattle were brought over and first to Hereford, hence
- 20:06Speaker 1: the Hereford the Hereford.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Right, I always knew Rally brought over potatoes. Yes, correct,
- 20:12Speaker 2: I will hold my hands and say I did not
- 20:15Speaker 2: know where he brought them over from there you go, India,
- 20:19Speaker 2: There you go.
- 20:20Speaker 1: India was the shit back in the day. They also
- 20:23Speaker 1: tried to look after us Jordan the famine by sending
- 20:25Speaker 1: over ten thousand they equiding ten thousand pounds in rupees
- 20:29Speaker 1: their emperor king at the time, but unfortunately he sent
- 20:34Speaker 1: it by the way of Queen Victoria. All right, Okay,
- 20:36Speaker 1: he's give it out to the poor lads that are starving.
- 20:38Speaker 1: They will. Yeah, I'm away, I'm off to Vegas for
- 20:42Speaker 1: the weekend, Blackpool for the weekend, and put them all
- 20:45Speaker 1: and put it all on red.
- 20:46Speaker 2: You know, I gotta tell you time. We thought we'd
- 20:47Speaker 2: get out of a next book in the Brits, but
- 20:49Speaker 2: here we are. Anyway, Let's get back to this monkey
- 20:52Speaker 2: problem in India. Farmers in the area have tried everything
- 20:56Speaker 2: to get rid of these guys, but you couldn't shoot.
- 20:58Speaker 1: Enough from Jared. That's the honest, true not at all.
- 21:01Speaker 1: I challenge you to shoot one tom to be fair
- 21:04Speaker 1: to that's a very valid point, because it's one thing
- 21:06Speaker 1: to thin plotting along on four legs. But when you've
- 21:09Speaker 1: got a monkey that can is happy, just as happy
- 21:11Speaker 1: swinging through the fucking air as he is peddling along
- 21:15Speaker 1: the ground at twenty five miles an hour.
- 21:17Speaker 2: He's only he's not taller than the potato plants.
- 21:21Speaker 1: Best a look. I mean, he'd want to be full
- 21:24Speaker 1: to the rig of spuds before you get it. Get
- 21:26Speaker 1: a shot off on him, and if there's one hundred whatever,
- 21:29Speaker 1: they're gonna have that gun. They're gonna have that gone
- 21:32Speaker 1: off you soon enough.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna tell you today, his lads they have
- 21:35Speaker 2: tried everything. They have tried banging pots and pans, they
- 21:38Speaker 2: have tried just running at them with brooms, and I
- 21:40Speaker 2: guess you know it would have taken me, I guess
- 21:43Speaker 2: a little bit longer to get here, but they got
- 21:46Speaker 2: there quicker than anybody else. They decided that they only recourse,
- 21:49Speaker 2: the Indian farmers in the province, the only recourse to
- 21:52Speaker 2: get against the monkeys.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Let me guess, uh singing the British nation, and.
- 22:01Speaker 2: You don't make the Tom and Jerry Show. By that
- 22:03Speaker 2: Tom oh, No, these gentlemen are dressing up as bears
- 22:09Speaker 2: and running into the fields, and I have questions. Yeah,
- 22:17Speaker 2: I have a couple of questions. Tom Okay, So these
- 22:20Speaker 2: gentlemen are dressing up in bear costumes, which they're my
- 22:26Speaker 2: eye look quite just good.
- 22:27Speaker 1: I've googled them here and how they're fairly rudimentary.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Fairly rudimentary. They say that they bought them. I don't
- 22:33Speaker 2: know where they bought them from. These look quite they
- 22:38Speaker 2: look like the bears in say, if your local school
- 22:42Speaker 2: put on goldilocks on the three bears, and these will
- 22:45Speaker 2: be the costumes that to put the kids out in.
- 22:46Speaker 1: No, No, this is the costume that your mother finds
- 22:49Speaker 1: out you're one of the bears the night before, yes,
- 22:53Speaker 1: and cuts up one of your own lads, fucking jackets.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Like the face seems to be made entirely of doctor yep.
- 23:02Speaker 2: And it doesn't look like a bear, come to be
- 23:04Speaker 2: honest with you, now, it looks like a tall monkey.
- 23:08Speaker 1: That's I wasn't fully sure what was happening with these lads.
- 23:12Speaker 1: It's but now when I've read that, I'm reading then
- 23:15Speaker 1: through it now because I yeah.
- 23:16Speaker 2: Okay, so they dress up as bears, they walk into
- 23:24Speaker 2: the field and monkeys by the dozen scatter. They're like,
- 23:31Speaker 2: fuck the strawberries, lads, let's get out of here.
- 23:32Speaker 1: I wonder who is the lad because there's still I'm
- 23:35Speaker 1: reading here, it's groups groups of monkeys up to two
- 23:39Speaker 1: hundred and fifty times that they're they're fucking organized there.
- 23:42Speaker 2: They're organized, the monkeys.
- 23:44Speaker 1: They're not just coming in and eating this bubs and
- 23:47Speaker 1: the strabs. They're wrecking the gap as well. They're busting
- 23:50Speaker 1: things up. My one and only interaction with the monkey
- 23:54Speaker 1: was we were I was doing a land survey using
- 24:02Speaker 1: I was doing a land survey in a Photo Wildlife
- 24:06Speaker 1: park just beside Photo Wildlife Park for a new part
- 24:10Speaker 1: of a golf course. Yes, only to hear the news now.
- 24:14Speaker 1: I was using a golf bugget gator at the time
- 24:16Speaker 1: to go driving around with this little satellite thing on
- 24:20Speaker 1: top of it. And somebody said there's a monkey after
- 24:23Speaker 1: getting loose, and I went, is it under on my
- 24:26Speaker 1: radio that I had? I went, is that a monkey
- 24:28Speaker 1: or a chimp? They want? What's the difference is one
- 24:31Speaker 1: would eat us the other is just gonna eat everything else.
- 24:36Speaker 1: They went yeah, no, I don't think he's gonna eat us.
- 24:38Speaker 1: It turns out it was a monkey. But they managed
- 24:41Speaker 1: to corral him. The greenkeepers managed to corral him into
- 24:44Speaker 1: the greenkeeper shed, talk him down. There wasn't a thing
- 24:49Speaker 1: left in one park, like he put everything in two halves.
- 24:53Speaker 1: He broke rags, he broke strimmers, he broke all around him,
- 24:58Speaker 1: the strength of this thing. When ape shit to keep early, Yeah,
- 25:03Speaker 1: literally flung shit fucking like a dirty protests inside their
- 25:07Speaker 1: wrecked everything, bust open bags of seed. And he's only
- 25:11Speaker 1: in there five fucking minutes. To be fair, I sat
- 25:13Speaker 1: there from one hundred yards back on the eating crips
- 25:16Speaker 1: while listening to this unbelievably entertaining thing. They came up, drank, dirt,
- 25:20Speaker 1: darted him, dragged him off into a trolley and fucked
- 25:23Speaker 1: him back in over the head, just drag into But
- 25:26Speaker 1: to think, if two hundred and fifty of those little
- 25:29Speaker 1: savages showed up, you're fucker.
- 25:31Speaker 2: Oh you're gone. So I guess you know, like I said,
- 25:34Speaker 2: it might have taken me another six months of trying.
- 25:38Speaker 2: You would have got there there, I would have got there.
- 25:41Speaker 2: So we've got these Indian farmers dressed as monkeys a
- 25:44Speaker 2: bigger part of dressed as bears, lions and tigers and bears.
- 25:48Speaker 2: On my they look quite foolish. But by all accounts,
- 25:51Speaker 2: the monkeys are terrified them, or at least they're terrified
- 25:54Speaker 2: enough to scatter momentarily. The monkeys tom will come back.
- 26:00Speaker 1: This is the thing. And I think because monkeys are
- 26:04Speaker 1: let's be honest, they're not very far away from us.
- 26:08Speaker 2: No, they're not.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Whatever your beliefs are in evolution, them lads are fair
- 26:12Speaker 1: fucking clothes. When you look one of them in the face,
- 26:14Speaker 1: they're fair close to us.
- 26:15Speaker 2: They're figuring it out when they see what they first
- 26:18Speaker 2: initially think to be a bear coming for them. Next
- 26:21Speaker 2: time they're going to look a little bit closer and say,
- 26:22Speaker 2: hang on to the Tmu tae ganging off that bear.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Time for the costumes to start upgrading as the lads
- 26:29Speaker 1: are gone. Absolutely, the upgrades and costumes we need to see,
- 26:33Speaker 1: like the thing that looked like it was molested fucking
- 26:37Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio and in the Bear Bear. Yeah, in watch
- 26:41Speaker 1: the Color Reverend. So what was it called?
- 26:44Speaker 2: Not deliberate revenant?
- 26:45Speaker 1: Revenant And it was a strange word.
- 26:47Speaker 2: The most unrealistic movie ever.
- 26:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, come on, but yeah, you know, you
- 26:53Speaker 1: could easily fight off that bear of course, good of course,
- 26:56Speaker 1: good chair. Instead he just lay there and just took
- 26:58Speaker 1: it like some sort of That's where they need to
- 27:02Speaker 1: get to. They need to get to, you know, the
- 27:04Speaker 1: sort of thing that is hilariously huge they need.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Yeah, they what their problem is. They're putting out a
- 27:10Speaker 2: man in a bear costume. They want to put two
- 27:13Speaker 2: men in a bear costume.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Ye, now you're talking on their show on the shoulders
- 27:18Speaker 1: of the other one, like.
- 27:18Speaker 2: On the shoulders pantomime, donkey kind of ubdrs. I'll be
- 27:23Speaker 2: the front now.
- 27:24Speaker 1: You know, proper roars and proper proper clothes, like I
- 27:28Speaker 1: wouldn't do any harm. If you got into a fight
- 27:30Speaker 1: with one of them, I can just fucked him up.
- 27:32Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? If you could, if
- 27:33Speaker 1: you could just put the word out there, because those monkeys,
- 27:36Speaker 1: I guarantee you as we speak, are sitting in the
- 27:39Speaker 1: near trees, going hold on a second. We heard about
- 27:42Speaker 1: these bear things. Is that one of them? Because we're
- 27:45Speaker 1: not that much smaller than that dangerous We have said
- 27:51Speaker 1: many times on the Tom and Jerry Show.
- 27:53Speaker 2: I have said it. Tom has backed me up with
- 27:56Speaker 2: no argument. Bears ain't ship. Bears ain't ship. You fight
- 28:00Speaker 2: a bear, no problem. Yeah, of course you know you will.
- 28:03Speaker 2: You will overwhelm and fight a bear, no problem. If
- 28:07Speaker 2: I personally can fight a bear easy, then two to
- 28:10Speaker 2: three monkeys can stick and move enough to take a
- 28:12Speaker 2: bear down. And it's only a matter of time before
- 28:14Speaker 2: they work that out. And the farmers in this district
- 28:16Speaker 2: in India have to go back to the drawing board
- 28:20Speaker 2: now they do.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Here's we were almost going to talk about it a
- 28:25Speaker 1: couple of months back, but there was there was talk
- 28:29Speaker 1: in I think it was. It was another It was
- 28:32Speaker 1: somewhere in Asia, whether it the Koreans or what they
- 28:36Speaker 1: had they were wondering had like this. They had a
- 28:38Speaker 1: sun bear in do just you remember said it was
- 28:44Speaker 1: a sun bear in a compound or whatever. And people
- 28:46Speaker 1: are looking on, going that's no more a fucking sunbear
- 28:48Speaker 1: and a man the moon. It's a blow dressed the sunbar.
- 28:51Speaker 1: But the high up and low down are going No.
- 28:53Speaker 1: I swear to God, I swear to God it is
- 28:57Speaker 1: it's it's a sun beear. When I'm just looking to
- 29:00Speaker 1: see what, like, what kind of bears they actually have there,
- 29:03Speaker 1: so they obviously have They have sun bears, which are
- 29:05Speaker 1: very very but they're small little fuckers. They're not worth
- 29:08Speaker 1: the ship, right. They have the humilation brown bear. Is
- 29:12Speaker 1: it going to believable down in the Sambal used to hire,
- 29:16Speaker 1: used to the fucking Himalayas. Now they have the black.
- 29:19Speaker 2: Bear, which is what I think they're going for here.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Yeah, also known as the moonbear, which is a way
- 29:24Speaker 1: cooler name shows to everybody.
- 29:27Speaker 2: He might have changed up my tactic for a moonbear.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're they're they have the slots bear, but
- 29:34Speaker 1: that guy, you know, he's only eating termites and fucking
- 29:37Speaker 1: So I think they're going for the black bear. And
- 29:38Speaker 1: I'm just looking at what I'm here is Yeah, they
- 29:40Speaker 1: still got a fucking way to go there.
- 29:42Speaker 2: They got a way to goad this out a little
- 29:43Speaker 2: bit here.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Yeah, like they geez like, in all fairness, them some stupid,
- 29:48Speaker 1: stupid fucking monkeys.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Those are dumb monkeys and the team I like. I
- 29:55Speaker 2: like animals, don't get me wrong, but I'm team Farmer
- 29:57Speaker 2: on this one. I want these guys to survive and
- 29:59Speaker 2: make a living and all this kind of thing. And
- 30:00Speaker 2: as the story goes on to say that this is
- 30:02Speaker 2: only a temporary situation. They will get used to the
- 30:06Speaker 2: bear costumes. They will come back and eat and not
- 30:09Speaker 2: for nothing. As well, with the rated deforestation, land erosion,
- 30:13Speaker 2: et cetera, more monkeys are going to be spilling out
- 30:16Speaker 2: into the countryside. Who knew this was the way the
- 30:18Speaker 2: world ends, Tom, We all thought it would be tidal
- 30:20Speaker 2: waves and volcanoes and shit. No, no, just displace monkeys
- 30:24Speaker 2: soaring through agricultural land, eating up the bread basket of
- 30:27Speaker 2: the world.
- 30:28Speaker 1: I'm holding my hand in the air here like I'm
- 30:30Speaker 1: in school. I absolutely saw it going this way. Oh okay,
- 30:34Speaker 1: I'm just I didn't see it going any other way.
- 30:38Speaker 1: Slots bear, So I got that totally wrong. Slot bears
- 30:41Speaker 1: are psychopaths. Oh really, Yeah, they're fucking psychopaths. They'll only
- 30:45Speaker 1: cause slot bears because they've got really long claws and
- 30:48Speaker 1: that's about it. Their teeth are ferrosius. They'll fight a
- 30:51Speaker 1: fucking lion. Hey, I've got one for you. How about
- 30:55Speaker 1: you just go ahead and get theirself a bear?
- 30:58Speaker 2: Get a bear.
- 30:58Speaker 1: This dressing up shit, just feeding fucking monkeys.
- 31:02Speaker 2: How's that, I gotta tell you? Dressing yourself up as
- 31:05Speaker 2: a bear to scare off monkeys is step one on
- 31:07Speaker 2: your road to the most embarrassing death ever.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Ah, and you know they're going to take pictures, do
- 31:14Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
- 31:14Speaker 2: As you know, he's yeah, what happened to? What happened Tom? Right?
- 31:19Speaker 2: You know? He I told him not that he dressed
- 31:21Speaker 2: up as a bear to go out and chase the
- 31:22Speaker 2: monkeys in the bottle for a while. When he didn't
- 31:26Speaker 2: realize that Tom and strawberries for dinner.
- 31:29Speaker 1: One day, one just jumped on it was a fucking
- 31:31Speaker 1: black belt in jiu jitsu and just choked him to
- 31:34Speaker 1: the ground in a triangle and the rest just fucking
- 31:36Speaker 1: tore him to ribbons, got him down.
- 31:39Speaker 2: It was academic. After that.
- 31:42Speaker 1: They could hear him scream for up to an hour.
- 31:45Speaker 1: It was fucking blood curdling.
- 31:48Speaker 2: Well, folks, there we go. We wish them the best
- 31:52Speaker 2: in their future endeavors, but we're gonna move on because
- 31:54Speaker 2: we've got one last segment of the show to take you,
- 31:58Speaker 2: fine folks through. Me and Tom are not young gentlemen,
- 32:01Speaker 2: both mid forties. We've been around since the early eighties,
- 32:04Speaker 2: seen a lot of shit come on, a lot of
- 32:06Speaker 2: shit go, and we look back on how the world
- 32:08Speaker 2: has changed for us. In our closing segment, we remember
- 32:12Speaker 2: when when I was a young lad twenty or thirty
- 32:16Speaker 2: or forty years ago. Tom, It cannot be stated enough
- 32:21Speaker 2: that you and I came up in the golden age
- 32:23Speaker 2: of action movies. Yep ah, And we're now of an
- 32:28Speaker 2: age where some of our action movie heroes are starting
- 32:32Speaker 2: to grow old and pass away. We still have our
- 32:36Speaker 2: core three still up there, Arnold, Sly and Bruce. Bruce
- 32:39Speaker 2: is having his health troubles these days. God love them,
- 32:41Speaker 2: but they're old men. You've your next tier down, which
- 32:45Speaker 2: were your Gale, your Cigals, and your van Ham again
- 32:49Speaker 2: getting a little gray. And then you had another lad
- 32:53Speaker 2: who could have been this lad, but we said we
- 32:54Speaker 2: put him into the last segment and said, who passed
- 32:57Speaker 2: away this week at the age of eighty six one
- 33:01Speaker 2: of the big action stars of our time, mister Chuck Norris.
- 33:07Speaker 1: Jesus is with a heavy heart. I got that. I
- 33:09Speaker 1: got the message from Jerry the other day and I
- 33:10Speaker 1: was I literally wrote back and I went, well, I'm
- 33:12Speaker 1: glad it's you that told me. Do you know what
- 33:14Speaker 1: I mean? And not to herself wouldn't have put some
- 33:17Speaker 1: sympathy in it, but she would have just written it
- 33:18Speaker 1: like effect, you know that kind of way, here's one
- 33:21Speaker 1: for the podcast, kind of like you don't understand, Jerry understands.
- 33:24Speaker 1: It's notped me in my tracks for a moment, you
- 33:26Speaker 1: know that kind of way. It was like, there are
- 33:28Speaker 1: very few, you know, there's a handful of famous people
- 33:32Speaker 1: that I obviously have never met from my childhood where
- 33:36Speaker 1: you go, ah, fuck, ah shit when you hear it.
- 33:41Speaker 2: You know, it's the kind of thing and I'm sorry
- 33:44Speaker 2: you didn't put a little bit more reverence on his
- 33:46Speaker 2: name at the start there, Tom, But I'm gonna be
- 33:47Speaker 2: honest with you, I've seen a handful of Chuck Norris
- 33:51Speaker 2: movies in my time, because I feel even by the
- 33:54Speaker 2: time we came around in the early eighties, stallone and
- 33:58Speaker 2: Arnold and Bruce were on the rise. They were like
- 34:01Speaker 2: the megastars, and Chuck his star had faded by the
- 34:05Speaker 2: time I was in nineteen eighty six when I saw
- 34:08Speaker 2: Delta Force Force for the first time. Yeah, which, by
- 34:10Speaker 2: the way, six years of age is way too fucking
- 34:12Speaker 2: young to see Delta Force. But by the time I was,
- 34:15Speaker 2: he was like forty six. In that movie was he
- 34:18Speaker 2: forty six, he was he was like an old man
- 34:20Speaker 2: at not an old man, but he was an older
- 34:22Speaker 2: man at that point in time. So it wasn't that
- 34:25Speaker 2: we got him at the peak of his career, but
- 34:27Speaker 2: he started in some mighty fine shlock around the time.
- 34:32Speaker 1: But there was I do remember, and I've talked about
- 34:35Speaker 1: this and anytime a movie comes up from from yesteryear
- 34:38Speaker 1: when we were small, and much like when you were small,
- 34:41Speaker 1: you're watching shit that you shouldn't be watching. Yeah, but
- 34:44Speaker 1: I remember there was again from our bus driver who
- 34:48Speaker 1: had a video shop in town. He gave me the
- 34:52Speaker 1: poster from and this is a few years old. I
- 34:55Speaker 1: was I suppose it was in video at this at
- 34:58Speaker 1: the time, but it's got to be the late eighties.
- 34:59Speaker 1: And because I'm I must have been undertaen. But I
- 35:04Speaker 1: remember him giving me the poster to Missing an Action.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Yeah, Missing an Action.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember going, well, we're definitely watching this, and
- 35:12Speaker 1: the outflow was like, we're watching this.
- 35:15Speaker 2: A shadow over debt. That was the thing, like we
- 35:17Speaker 2: I saw a Delta Force and I remember Braddock. Missing
- 35:19Speaker 2: an Action was another one of the Vietnam movies, and yeah,
- 35:22Speaker 2: kind of Rambo.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Was that that's what I had version of it, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 35:25Speaker 2: And Chuck Norris was in Missing an Action, which was
- 35:27Speaker 2: like the shi En version of it, you know what
- 35:29Speaker 2: I mean, Yeah, which, which is fine and there's a
- 35:31Speaker 2: place for that. But I don't know that he was
- 35:34Speaker 2: ever you know, I was never like, oh wow, Chuck
- 35:38Speaker 2: Norris as as a kid, I was just like buying
- 35:40Speaker 2: large familiar with the two Chuck Norris movies I watched
- 35:43Speaker 2: in my youth were The Delta Force and the kids
- 35:47Speaker 2: movie he did called Sidekicks with one of the side
- 35:49Speaker 2: from Home Improvements. Yes, no, it was like Karate Kids
- 35:53Speaker 2: sort of a thing.
- 35:54Speaker 1: I think that that it wasn't just the density of
- 35:56Speaker 1: his beard. My god, I had a dense foliage on
- 36:00Speaker 1: his face, but I he didn't have the bulge and muscles,
- 36:04Speaker 1: even though he stayed fit. And we talked about it,
- 36:06Speaker 1: Chuck and his son selling those fucking and you know,
- 36:08Speaker 1: the the machines, you know, the that it wasn't the Abroler,
- 36:13Speaker 1: but he was selling.
- 36:14Speaker 2: The Chuck Norris training system and the yeah yeah yeah,
- 36:18Speaker 2: and ship like this.
- 36:19Speaker 1: He never had the big bulgeon fucking gear. You know.
- 36:22Speaker 1: He was never full of steroids and say like the
- 36:25Speaker 1: rest of him, So he didn't stand out for that,
- 36:27Speaker 1: but he always carried a level of legitimacy to him
- 36:30Speaker 1: because he was legit as fun when it came to fighting,
- 36:35Speaker 1: like he was a legit, you know, a third or
- 36:37Speaker 1: fourth then and he could always hark back even though
- 36:41Speaker 1: it's before our time. But I remember having been obsessed
- 36:43Speaker 1: with Bruce Lee movies as a child because I was
- 36:45Speaker 1: into martial arts. And of course I can't no this
- 36:50Speaker 1: is I haven't gone Google on this, but it's it
- 36:52Speaker 1: was either a return to the dragon, away of the dragon.
- 36:54Speaker 1: It was the way of the dragon. He was in
- 36:57Speaker 1: which is which is a Bruce Ley movie, and not
- 36:59Speaker 1: for nothing?
- 36:59Speaker 2: Who goes hold it? Tod him in the middle of it.
- 37:01Speaker 1: Like Bruce said, And word on the street was he
- 37:05Speaker 1: could easily go toe to toe with Bruce and Bruce
- 37:07Speaker 1: is one of, you know, the fastest people on earth
- 37:09Speaker 1: at the time. But he they fought in was it
- 37:13Speaker 1: the Colisseum? I think they fought, yes, but they there
- 37:17Speaker 1: was no there was no choreographer in there with them.
- 37:19Speaker 1: They choreographed themselves. I remember watching the documentary on it and.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Fuck it, we'll do it live.
- 37:25Speaker 1: Well, No, they they stood out themselves. They stepped it
- 37:28Speaker 1: up and they went so there was no movie come
- 37:30Speaker 1: food coming in. It was just one guy, like two
- 37:33Speaker 1: guys who knew what they're gonna look. You make it
- 37:37Speaker 1: look good, We're gonna do it well. Over a five
- 37:40Speaker 1: day period, they kicked the ship out of each other
- 37:43Speaker 1: and it was brilliant. And that's where he's legit. You're
- 37:46Speaker 1: kind of going, yeah, that's the one thing he had
- 37:49Speaker 1: over all of them.
- 37:52Speaker 2: The rest of the stars, even the I did watch
- 37:55Speaker 2: an interview with Chuck Norris where he was asked about
- 37:57Speaker 2: who he thought was was good, and he said, well,
- 37:58Speaker 2: Jeann Claud van Dam is very good. I've trained with
- 38:00Speaker 2: John Claude. He's an excellent martial artist, and he's he's
- 38:04Speaker 2: good look and good physique and he's got a good
- 38:07Speaker 2: career ahead of him. I've trained with him, I know him.
- 38:09Speaker 2: He's a nice guy. I know Steven Segal and then
- 38:13Speaker 2: he just trailed off.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Yes he's an enigma, right, that mad bastard.
- 38:20Speaker 2: Jesus So, so yeah, he'll.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Be on this someday. He will be on this someday.
- 38:23Speaker 2: Everybody's getting on this someday. So yeah, you know, there's
- 38:27Speaker 2: a whole bunch of Chuck Norris movies out there, and
- 38:30Speaker 2: they all have your typical action movie names a Force
- 38:33Speaker 2: of One and I for an eye, lone Wolf McQuaid.
- 38:37Speaker 1: It's probably one of the great Like if if the
- 38:40Speaker 1: Simpsons made a movie, you know, I like an action movie,
- 38:44Speaker 1: that's what it would have been called Lone Wolf McQuaid.
- 38:48Speaker 1: But was that kind of the early the nxues of
- 38:53Speaker 1: like Walker Texas Ranger.
- 38:57Speaker 2: Walker Texas Ranger was born out of I want to
- 38:59Speaker 2: say yes. I want to say that because Walker Texas
- 39:01Speaker 2: Ranger came along Tom Again, we would have been teenagers
- 39:04Speaker 2: around about the time of that, and it ran for
- 39:07Speaker 2: like fucking eight years.
- 39:08Speaker 1: I I liked what I saw.
- 39:10Speaker 2: I saw a few episodes, but I watched one episode
- 39:13Speaker 2: of Walker Texas Ranger, and I'll tell you how. I'll
- 39:15Speaker 2: tell you how. It's why that sticks with me that
- 39:17Speaker 2: I've watched one episode of the Walker Texas Ranger. I
- 39:19Speaker 2: watched one episode where he's like there's a fucking school
- 39:22Speaker 2: boast with kids on it and he's trying to like
- 39:24Speaker 2: rescue them and all this kind of shit, and I
- 39:26Speaker 2: kind of passed no remarks, but it was what it was.
- 39:28Speaker 2: But then like the next year on Friends, it was
- 39:32Speaker 2: a joke like Ross says to Monica, hasn't gone out
- 39:35Speaker 2: with anyone for a while, and the kind of slagger
- 39:38Speaker 2: a bit goes like, hey, by any chance, mincha what
- 39:39Speaker 2: happened on Walker Texas Ranger didn't And she goes, oh wow,
- 39:42Speaker 2: it was great Walker say this school boast full of
- 39:44Speaker 2: kids and it just shows that she hasn't been outside
- 39:46Speaker 2: the house in six weeks. And I was like, motherfucker,
- 39:47Speaker 2: I've seen that episode. That's the one episode I've seen.
- 39:50Speaker 2: I always just stuck with me. Here's the thing, right,
- 39:54Speaker 2: Chuck North. Yeah, the best thing we can say about
- 39:58Speaker 2: his acting is that you could always see his face.
- 40:02Speaker 2: That's about it. Yeah, it was he never he kind
- 40:05Speaker 2: of looked directly away from the camera. He knew that much.
- 40:09Speaker 1: He he got to legendary status for nearly some of
- 40:13Speaker 1: the wrong reasons in the way that but he he
- 40:18Speaker 1: he got anointed as being a legend a living and
- 40:21Speaker 1: you know, an anointed legend when he showed up. I
- 40:24Speaker 1: think he showed up in expendables too, and it was
- 40:27Speaker 1: it was a very cool moment because it's still one
- 40:30Speaker 1: ran that ship and he knew who to bring in
- 40:32Speaker 1: like he brought in that lunder, and he brought in
- 40:34Speaker 1: Jason States, and he was a big get.
- 40:36Speaker 2: He was like, you know, a big can get everybody,
- 40:38Speaker 2: but they're not going to get Chuck because most he said,
- 40:41Speaker 2: Chuck Norris at that stage was nearly seventy years of age.
- 40:43Speaker 2: Fucker could barely walk.
- 40:44Speaker 1: They're all larger that stage. They were all just cranked
- 40:47Speaker 1: on t RT and fucking steroids. Like, let's be honest,
- 40:51Speaker 1: But he much in all his people would would you know,
- 40:57Speaker 1: joke about Chuck Norris? And did he ever make a
- 41:00Speaker 1: good movie? Did he ever make a good TV show?
- 41:02Speaker 1: I still think all the way back to he did
- 41:07Speaker 1: one called Coda Silence. I remember that wasn't terrible, But
- 41:11Speaker 1: I still think getting to fight Bruce that was it
- 41:15Speaker 1: that that locked you in. And he didn't fall away
- 41:18Speaker 1: into total obscurity like a lot of guys did. He
- 41:21Speaker 1: He got the lead in what because there was a
- 41:23Speaker 1: lot of guys that thought Bruce in movies who got
- 41:25Speaker 1: played the bad guy? You know, yes, do you remember
- 41:27Speaker 1: that tank? What was the name of Sammy something Rother?
- 41:29Speaker 1: He was an absolute fucking tank of an Asian guy.
- 41:33Speaker 1: He was in blood Sport. He thought Bruce at one
- 41:36Speaker 1: stage in some movie I think as well, never got
- 41:41Speaker 1: never got the kudos of of, you know, leading a
- 41:44Speaker 1: movie now, certainly never got the title a title character
- 41:47Speaker 1: name in a movie like Top Walker, Texas Range, which,
- 41:49Speaker 1: by the way, the name of the kids of Ricky,
- 41:51Speaker 1: Bobby and Teldega Nights.
- 41:54Speaker 2: Remember a strain into Bruce Willis and Bruce Lean here
- 41:59Speaker 2: at the they remember one of one of the guys
- 42:01Speaker 2: that he either fought with or against and ended the
- 42:04Speaker 2: Dragon with John Saxon, who turns up in fucking Nightmare
- 42:06Speaker 2: on Elm Street as the guard. Come here. Here's the
- 42:10Speaker 2: other thing about Chuck Norris. So we can't talk about
- 42:12Speaker 2: Chuck Norris without his number one. We've talked about his
- 42:15Speaker 2: contributions to cinema and to beards and to martial arts
- 42:19Speaker 2: in general. But Chuck Norris did something else that we
- 42:23Speaker 2: witnessed in real time in our journey from the early
- 42:26Speaker 2: eighties to hear Tom, Chuck Norris became in the early
- 42:30Speaker 2: two thousands, one of the first Internet memes. Yep, now
- 42:36Speaker 2: here's the thing, Tom. I've always said.
- 42:37Speaker 1: One of the first and possibly the definitely the language
- 42:41Speaker 1: I would say.
- 42:43Speaker 2: The greatest meme well, you know what I'm gonna tell you.
- 42:49Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Tom, I've always said that the Internet
- 42:51Speaker 2: is based on comedy. It was built on comedy. The
- 42:54Speaker 2: Internet is built on cat videos and funny memes and
- 42:58Speaker 2: shit like this. Nobody bought a computer to access a
- 43:01Speaker 2: big encyclopedia. They brought a computer because it was good
- 43:05Speaker 2: crack and YouTube was built on skate border falling over.
- 43:09Speaker 2: You know, comedy is the oil that makes the Internet turn.
- 43:14Speaker 2: And in the early two thousands, not everybody had a computer,
- 43:17Speaker 2: but it was starting to get into an age where
- 43:19Speaker 2: there was a computer in every house and slightly before
- 43:21Speaker 2: the time when everybody had a computer in their pocket.
- 43:25Speaker 2: But we could communicate with each other in a way
- 43:27Speaker 2: never before seen. And one thing people learned that they
- 43:31Speaker 2: liked a lot was sending around what we now know
- 43:34Speaker 2: as memes. At the time, they were just called jokes folks.
- 43:38Speaker 1: Yep.
- 43:38Speaker 2: And one of the most earliest of these that I
- 43:43Speaker 2: remember that was easy to replicate. Everybody could get it.
- 43:47Speaker 2: It wasn't complicated, it wasn't hybrid humor, and pretty much everybody,
- 43:50Speaker 2: if they sat down a tottle, one could think of
- 43:52Speaker 2: one and share. It was a chuck Norris fact, which
- 43:56Speaker 2: was like a humorously overplayed example of how strong, tough
- 44:03Speaker 2: or goddamn unkillable Chuck Norris really was. And many of
- 44:08Speaker 2: them are incredibly hilarious and pretty much all of them
- 44:11Speaker 2: fit within the one hundred and forty character limit of
- 44:13Speaker 2: a text message. Henceforth they spread quick.
- 44:17Speaker 1: The amount of times I've seen, you know, on Instagram
- 44:20Speaker 1: where they'll just stop Chuck with the family or whatever,
- 44:23Speaker 1: as you know, a red carpeting or you know, some
- 44:25Speaker 1: launch of a thing to go, Hey, Chuck, what's your
- 44:27Speaker 1: favous meme? And the whole family have them. They love them,
- 44:31Speaker 1: like there, He's.
- 44:31Speaker 2: In absolutely love them. I've got a couple of them
- 44:34Speaker 2: here for you, just you know some of my favorites here. Yeah,
- 44:38Speaker 2: Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
- 44:42Speaker 1: I love the absolute impossibility. Ones like just it's not
- 44:46Speaker 1: physical possibility.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Chuck Norris doesn't do push ups, he pushes
- 44:50Speaker 2: the earth down. Yes, yeah. And one that he actually
- 44:53Speaker 2: delivered himself. By the time twenty twelve and the Expendables two,
- 44:57Speaker 2: as you mentioned, rolled around, Chuck Norris was in on
- 44:59Speaker 2: the joke enough that he could give a Chuck Norris
- 45:03Speaker 2: joke himself. Stillone says to him, I heard you were
- 45:06Speaker 2: a bit by a king cobra, and Chuck Norris says, yeah,
- 45:09Speaker 2: but after five days of agonizing pain, the cobra died.
- 45:16Speaker 1: One of my favorite ones. And it's so it's so subtle.
- 45:19Speaker 1: Is Chuck Norris can fold a fitted cheat? What a
- 45:25Speaker 1: condum a yoke to fold?
- 45:26Speaker 2: You know there was one like Chuck Norris can speak Braille.
- 45:32Speaker 2: It's like like they're just they're so outlandish and and
- 45:37Speaker 2: and and as we would say up our way, there's
- 45:40Speaker 2: no badness in them. No, And I'm not going to
- 45:43Speaker 2: say like the Internet we have today wouldn't look like
- 45:45Speaker 2: it looks without Chuck Norris, But I'm also going to
- 45:48Speaker 2: say maybe, I'm also gonna say he might it might
- 45:53Speaker 2: look slightly different if it wasn't for the advent of
- 45:55Speaker 2: Chuck Norris memes and people knowing that they loved.
- 45:58Speaker 1: There's a guarantee you can see little. You could probably
- 46:02Speaker 1: if you could track the Internet and its growth, you
- 46:04Speaker 1: could probably see spikes of growth around certain things, whether
- 46:09Speaker 1: it was cats, whether it was you know, huge moments
- 46:12Speaker 1: in history. But I would say the perpetuation of Chuck
- 46:18Speaker 1: Nurse memes got people in front of the computer, like
- 46:23Speaker 1: I can, I can. I can say that with a
- 46:24Speaker 1: degree as like and you look, there was a group
- 46:27Speaker 1: of us and this was before really like there was
- 46:30Speaker 1: no WhatsApp, but this was an email and we all
- 46:32Speaker 1: kind of work emails and on Friday maybe talks of
- 46:36Speaker 1: sessions and whatnot in a chat of email, but invariably
- 46:40Speaker 1: somebody would throw up the memes, the jokes of the
- 46:43Speaker 1: week something, and there would be definitely chucking.
- 46:45Speaker 2: There like without that. Well, just like you can use
- 46:48Speaker 2: Chuck Norris to trace the growth of the Internet, you
- 46:52Speaker 2: can use this podcast to trace the death of Chuck
- 46:54Speaker 2: Nurse because he didn't need leave us last week at
- 46:57Speaker 2: the age of eighty six, hadn't very active in the
- 47:01Speaker 2: recent years when it comes to TVs and movies and
- 47:03Speaker 2: all that kind of thing. And I'm just gonna come
- 47:04Speaker 2: out and say, Tom, Chuck Norris was a flag waving
- 47:09Speaker 2: American all his life. So you don't really need to
- 47:14Speaker 2: ask too many questions. Know what the man's politics were
- 47:16Speaker 2: come the end of it, But.
- 47:17Speaker 1: It's not what we want from somebody called.
- 47:20Speaker 2: We know it's there, and you don't like.
- 47:23Speaker 1: When people start go routing in politics or things. Fuck that.
- 47:26Speaker 1: I just want to know that there's a fellow called
- 47:28Speaker 1: Chuck Norris who can do a spin and heel cake
- 47:31Speaker 1: and I can have a laugh, like I think my
- 47:33Speaker 1: favorite one and that's like it's hard because it's all amazing.
- 47:38Speaker 1: I do think my favorite one is Chuck Norris had
- 47:40Speaker 1: a stunt double. Yeah, he used him for crying scenes.
- 47:47Speaker 2: Just enjoy. That's so much and how true? How true
- 47:50Speaker 2: could that be? So, mister Norris, you know, rest in peace.
- 47:54Speaker 2: I'm sorry for your family and all that kind of crack.
- 47:56Speaker 2: We didn't expect you to be a coming out on
- 48:01Speaker 2: the side of dead the Democrats, you know what I mean,
- 48:06Speaker 2: Like we kind of knew you were Republican through and through,
- 48:08Speaker 2: but you know what, you know, mayor God go with
- 48:10Speaker 2: you in those regards. Thank you for the memes. Thank you,
- 48:14Speaker 2: I suppose for playing in Delta Force when I was
- 48:18Speaker 2: six ball me Isa crying.
- 48:20Speaker 1: Thank you for the karate fucking amazing spinning wheel wheelcakes.
- 48:25Speaker 1: Rare would you get? And you know what, out of
- 48:27Speaker 1: all the kind of so we see the the the
- 48:31Speaker 1: A list slash B list superheroes, you know, our heroes
- 48:39Speaker 1: of the eighties and nineties, he was the only one
- 48:42Speaker 1: I think the consistently consistently had a beard.
- 48:46Speaker 2: Well guy, you know, thank you for the beard, Chuck,
- 48:49Speaker 2: Nars not thank you for the beard, Chuck. Thank you
- 48:52Speaker 2: for the beard, Chuck, and thank you all for listening,
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- 49:59Speaker 1: your favorite chuck chuck meme? What have you ever had
- 50:03Speaker 1: to scare off a plantation of any sort? Did you
- 50:06Speaker 1: have to dress up with something? I won't lie jar
- 50:08Speaker 1: a few times, I've had to be a scary bastard
- 50:10Speaker 1: to a few things around the place, as I've probably
- 50:12Speaker 1: told you down through the years. As well as that,
- 50:15Speaker 1: what's your feeling, that's what's your feeling on this Leprechaun shelf?
- 50:21Speaker 1: Carry on. I'm sensing a lot of eye rolling going on.
- 50:25Speaker 1: But either way, you know not the tempt tempt fate jure.
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- 50:31Speaker 2: you send me, if you send me a story on
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- 50:36Speaker 2: very much. If I don't see it straight away and
- 50:38Speaker 2: it expires, you know the way stories expire, yeah, I'm
- 50:40Speaker 2: terribly sorry. Find it and send it to me again.
- 50:42Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant, because yeah, neither one of us. Jerry needs
- 50:46Speaker 1: to put on his glasses. He has to make the
- 50:48Speaker 1: text three big and stuff like that. So just go
- 50:50Speaker 1: easy on him, will you.
- 50:51Speaker 2: No lies, no lies. All right, that's it, folks, See
- 50:53Speaker 2: you next week. Good luck then