Speaker 1: Oh, hello, Freddie. Just listening to the latest episode of
Speaker 1: Dumb and Jerry Show while the boys talk about the
Speaker 1: oil crisis going on at moment. I had a solution
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: One time.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine used to run his truck on Timber.
Speaker 1: Would you believe he'd run it out the back with
Speaker 1: a little steam puff driving away? Mind you, he never
Speaker 1: got over a four mile an hour. A great lad,
Speaker 1: Timmy Timber. We used to call him, always bloody late
Speaker 1: but un bloody gray lad. Enjoyed the show.
Speaker 2: I'll see they they've.
Speaker 1: All fallen out with me, all of them. All of
Speaker 1: them rised on Christ above. I didn't think I'd be
Speaker 1: the bad guy, but if all fallen out with me, this.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't want to be the listeners of the Tom and
Speaker 3: Jerry Show, Tom, because otherwise I'm fucked.
Speaker 1: No, No, they're fine. They're absolutely fine because I didn't
Speaker 1: call around to their house and have to dose them
Speaker 1: in any way as a result of nature.
Speaker 3: Oh, be back to the lads.
Speaker 1: We're back to the lads I ought to be in
Speaker 1: a day. I've been an evening of it. We are
Speaker 1: in the countryside. I've talked to you about the deer situation. Here,
Speaker 1: the deer infestation that we have here. Will deer bring
Speaker 1: one thing and with them other than actually looking lovely
Speaker 1: for city folk when they see them every song, it's
Speaker 1: so magical, dear. They're eating apples from Yeah, you have them,
Speaker 1: and you know what else? They have fucking ticks And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't mean question, Yeah not question is
Speaker 1: somebody's intelligence. I'm saying, those little focus that lock on
Speaker 1: suck you with blood, walk around the blaze with lyme disease.
Speaker 1: Do you know they can go two years with their
Speaker 1: arms out waiting for a hug on the end of
Speaker 1: a blade of grass, without a bite teat or a
Speaker 1: bite to drink? That's how have you ever? You? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Have you ever had takes? You have had text time?
Speaker 1: I'm sure I've had takes, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: the life I have been through a million a million fields,
Speaker 1: and I could count on one handy amount of times
Speaker 1: I've had tasts. They just whatever, like they just they're
Speaker 1: not to get. There's a sourness to me, there always
Speaker 1: has been, but with bugs. I don't get riddled by
Speaker 1: midgie's and stuff like that. I never did. There's a
Speaker 1: kind of a country thickness to my skin where they
Speaker 1: just kind of go, they'd be rotten. Now.
Speaker 3: I think with me, they just wouldn't come near my
Speaker 3: skin because they could taste wap of bars coming through.
Speaker 3: Before we launch into a Tom, we may as well
Speaker 3: say hello to everybody to the Tom and Jerry show.
Speaker 3: As we mentioned, I'm Jerry McBride. That's Tom. O'manny. I
Speaker 3: believe what Tom is talking about is he's about to
Speaker 3: get into a story about the gouts.
Speaker 1: The goots on August and Madra I went to a
Speaker 1: local vet who is fantastic. They are the kind of
Speaker 1: vets that are aren't trying to It's not you know
Speaker 1: the vets now in every town, on every corner, and
Speaker 1: they look like a Beverly Hills place where you think
Speaker 1: your dog's gonna get a new set of fucking denters.
Speaker 1: This isn't it's a it's a an old school shop
Speaker 1: where the primary focus is actually coming out to see
Speaker 1: your giant fucking agricultural animals or you know that's what
Speaker 1: they're dealing in. And yet you can still bring your
Speaker 1: dog and cat and budgy in there all right, and
Speaker 1: they will treat them like But know that the vet
Speaker 1: you're dealing with won't have a Hollywood smile or a
Speaker 1: white jacket on or you know, scrubs. They will have
Speaker 1: a check shirt, weally boots and have just been shouldered
Speaker 1: deep in a cow or something, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So that it's that sort of an operation.
Speaker 1: So I had to go in to get a tablet
Speaker 1: for the dog for the ticks, and with that brings
Speaker 1: side effects up because you can this spot on stuff
Speaker 1: for the back of their neck and it might kill
Speaker 1: a flee. It ain't gonna it ain't gonna start out
Speaker 1: to take situation. You gotta get an expensive tablet that
Speaker 1: brings about a bit about a weirdness out of the
Speaker 1: dog and the squids. It would seem, yes, the dog's
Speaker 1: been outside pretty pissed off of me. And then the
Speaker 1: only situation for the goats is d ain't gonna eat
Speaker 1: no tablets. And he was like, I don't know. The
Speaker 1: only thing you're gonna have to do is inject him.
Speaker 3: Like fuck, you know, yeah, her man gets kicking the balls.
Speaker 1: That's oh my god, how I can't even go through
Speaker 1: the intensity. What It's one thing to have to inject
Speaker 1: one goat, but when the other one has just seen
Speaker 1: what happened, because the first one was like to fuck yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. They were in a calm, cool clark then
Speaker 1: actually got back into their little sheds that I built
Speaker 1: them in out of the sunshine chill, and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's done. He's all right. He brings hay and stuff.
Speaker 1: What's hey, fuck it?
Speaker 3: What do you bring us today?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What's the fucking weird guy? Because they don't love
Speaker 1: me at all, like they hate me in fact, and
Speaker 1: now they double hate me because I think And it
Speaker 1: was this look on the goat's face like what the fuck?
Speaker 1: She barrels out of the shed and then he knocks
Speaker 1: me upside down. The other one's gone, no, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid because not me. Yeah, this kid no problem,
Speaker 1: not me looking fraid. So you Yeah, there was this
Speaker 1: shriek from the goat jar that will be hurt. I
Speaker 1: will hear it in my soul. It well into my nineties.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I've seen them hurt themselves way worse,
Speaker 1: way worse. But it was it was this moment of
Speaker 1: disbelief where they're like what and now they've been walking
Speaker 1: around up in the garden just the younger one when
Speaker 1: in five minutes didn't give a fuck the older one.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus that oh she is just like if she
Speaker 1: can get her hands on a weapon between now and tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We won't have another podcast next week.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you that we we better get this one
Speaker 3: done at least. Folks, how are you keeping? And you're
Speaker 3: welcome to the Tom and Jerry Show. You know how
Speaker 3: we do it here. We break it up in the
Speaker 3: three segments and an unofficial like fourth segment at the
Speaker 3: start of the show, which is a little bit bonus.
Speaker 3: You know, here's what happened to us this weekend. It's terrible,
Speaker 3: earlfe some of some of this week. Some of these weeks, Tom,
Speaker 3: you'll find you and me to start chatting about that,
Speaker 3: dumping our into it and fuck the rest of the show.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this week, this week, it ain't this week. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we got we've got some ship to talk about. In particular,
Speaker 3: we've got the big news to talk about of the
Speaker 3: week time. We've got what we call on the Tom
Speaker 3: and Jerry Show, the weekly what have you. This is
Speaker 3: a very complicated case mod you know, a lot of
Speaker 3: a lot of outs, a lot of what have you
Speaker 3: and uh a lot of scrans to keep in my head.
Speaker 1: Man, it's getting serious, Tom, it is getting serious.
Speaker 3: Chair.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we've dand it around it and it
Speaker 1: isn't our place to talk politics because we ain't that
Speaker 1: fucking smart and we're not heavily opinionated. We're quite insular
Speaker 1: blokes where we just talk about what's affecting us three
Speaker 1: feet in front of our eyes. But it's come to
Speaker 1: a point now where it's it's it's this oil crisis
Speaker 1: carry on. There are starting to affect everybody, it really.
Speaker 3: Is, and we sincerely hope this oil crisis hasn't escalated
Speaker 3: into full blown nuclear war.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we can do that.
Speaker 3: Listen to this show we record on Mondays and drop
Speaker 3: on towards does anything could drop between them? And then
Speaker 3: But for the purposes of this bit, the straight Hermons
Speaker 3: is still in still.
Speaker 1: Let's just yeah, let's let's let's assume we all still
Speaker 1: have our teeth, you know what I mean, and we
Speaker 1: haven't turned into Lasagne like that fella from the Chernobyl
Speaker 1: TV show.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you here's one thing we might not
Speaker 3: have for much longer time, Connies. Yes, indeed, it.
Speaker 1: Would seem the biggest the biggest productive producer of condoms worldwide,
Speaker 1: is now in their serious pressure.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed to who thought about this when they started?
Speaker 1: This is the problem. This is the problem because it
Speaker 1: was I mean, the thinner, the better, the less of
Speaker 1: it they use the better. For this is the thing
Speaker 1: you were saying, you know what, for the minute like
Speaker 1: it is will be the last thing to get affected
Speaker 1: because like other products, you're hoping that they get stronger,
Speaker 1: they get better, more robust. This is the one product
Speaker 1: you're going make it less of it. If you can't,
Speaker 1: please make less, make it? Can you get down to microns?
Speaker 1: At this stage we have we have.
Speaker 3: Been battle in oil crisses over the last number of
Speaker 3: weeks there dare I say a month or two since
Speaker 3: the United States decided, for reasons that were never fully
Speaker 3: explained to the rest of the world, we can take we.
Speaker 1: Can take a shot at it. I think they need
Speaker 1: they need, like a lot of times, they need to
Speaker 1: help their friends, Yes, and out a good dose of freedom.
Speaker 3: And should people get distracted from this start or the
Speaker 3: other bonus, we knew that it was going to start
Speaker 3: impacting us at the petrol pumps and the diesel pumps
Speaker 3: and we've had tractor whatnot in protest of all this.
Speaker 3: We know, but there's like a much more insidious thing
Speaker 3: that's happening, which is all the oil based products which
Speaker 3: do not know or be familiar with or never have
Speaker 3: considered it, are being impacted, such as fertilizer which will
Speaker 3: impact on crops grown and all that. But for all that, Tom,
Speaker 3: the other thing that's made out of oil based products
Speaker 3: is condoms. And I'm about to take a hit.
Speaker 1: They are, but I mean on the flip side of that.
Speaker 1: You know, they are saying that, you know, the population
Speaker 1: is decreasing worldwide, and that's never but it's not.
Speaker 3: To dive two footed into the conspiracy of it all.
Speaker 3: Do you think that there's some long game conspiracy here
Speaker 3: to boost the population of the world by purposefully engineering
Speaker 3: war that would create a shortage of contraceptives or have
Speaker 3: I given that way more thought than any of these
Speaker 3: fucking knuckleheads up top half?
Speaker 1: I think probably if you wanted to go that way,
Speaker 1: you could just hire a couple of really stealthy double
Speaker 1: sevens to go into this factory with a load of pins,
Speaker 1: just poking boxes. Yeah, just tell the quality control guy
Speaker 1: and the jur X factory to take the day off.
Speaker 3: We're not even talking about the gur X factory. We're
Speaker 3: talking about the factory that makes.
Speaker 1: The X makes du X makes Trojan. They're all outsourced
Speaker 1: to Singapore and they're making five billion of the easy year.
Speaker 1: That's how many they're turning out. That's a lot of writing.
Speaker 1: That is my god, that's a lot of writing.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of writing if you only use them once.
Speaker 1: Buddy, this is it. But he's saying, and it's the
Speaker 1: only way to do it. He doesn't want to down
Speaker 1: production or whatever, but it is going to It is
Speaker 1: going to pair back, unfortunately, and the prices are going
Speaker 1: to go by thirty percent minimum. Chap Ceo. It came out,
Speaker 1: go mackay go my cat toward media outlets to the
Speaker 1: production costs have risen sharply because of course oil and oil.
Speaker 3: Is the less of it there is, the more expensive
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 1: Now. I incorrectly said Singapore. It's actually Malaysian based producer
Speaker 1: and he produces it from all the big ones. Right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't for the NHS, doesn't for all, like if
Speaker 1: you're getting them on the medical card anywhere, if.
Speaker 3: It's been on the end of your tool has come
Speaker 3: out of this.
Speaker 1: Plus yeah, yeah, which is a horrific fucking way. It's
Speaker 1: to sentence that you've probably must grossest thing you've ever
Speaker 1: said her. But it is not looking good because crude oil,
Speaker 1: which they would buy it, they would buy and crude
Speaker 1: form of course, and they would refine it themselves. They're
Speaker 1: going to buy it at the very right out of
Speaker 1: the ground stage. Even at that, with oil prices going
Speaker 1: into the two hundred per barrel nearly at this stage,
Speaker 1: it's looking like Connie's are going to have to go
Speaker 1: up in price there, and that is going to spell
Speaker 1: a fucking disaster worldwide, especially for what it's done for,
Speaker 1: like disease epidemics in impoverished countries, just regular diseases for
Speaker 1: regular countries, you know.
Speaker 3: And and and this is why we don't really get
Speaker 3: all that political with the Tom and Jerry show, because
Speaker 3: it's all very well and good to start a joke
Speaker 3: and have a little condom shortage and then your general
Speaker 3: but seriously, third world countries are going to see a
Speaker 3: spike in sexually transmitted diseases and that's like, well, that's
Speaker 3: just kind of killed a bit a bit, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: It does a small. But but look, there's there's where
Speaker 1: doesn't there's a silver lining for everything, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's.
Speaker 3: The battleby time was not LATEX one, you know.
Speaker 1: But there really is like there's there's always you know,
Speaker 1: there's an ill wind jar that says it doesn't blow
Speaker 1: good for somebody at some stage, like and this is
Speaker 1: always an opportunistic point. I think people jump in and go,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, let's have a look
Speaker 1: at this because right if oil prices, because it happens,
Speaker 1: it happens when oil products or a product isn't available anymore,
Speaker 1: somebody crafty somewhere will come up with an alternative. And sometimes, Jared,
Speaker 1: you can just it's it was right there in front
Speaker 1: of you all along in the history books. You don't
Speaker 1: have to go. You don't have to go. They have
Speaker 1: like own Johnny's have been around for years, Jared. I mean,
Speaker 1: they like to tell us that we're the cutting edge.
Speaker 1: You have everything. They've found stuff dug in the ocean
Speaker 1: that really much resembles computers. We I'm not getting heavily
Speaker 1: into the conspiracy there, but I you know, Ali is
Speaker 1: built the pyramids. I'm just saying somebody there's technology from
Speaker 1: in the day there the padding broke. You know, this
Speaker 1: oil stuff in its own right is a bit of
Speaker 1: a bastard. It took over the world when I'd say,
Speaker 1: there's alternatives out there, and there's always an alternative when
Speaker 1: you go looking hard enough, and I reckon if we
Speaker 1: look back in history, you go back to three thousand
Speaker 1: BC and who whogier the Egyptians, the fucking egypsums by
Speaker 1: the Greeks and the Romans, not of other on him.
Speaker 1: Didn't want to be getting anybody up the off. We're
Speaker 1: riding a flat out, especially the Romans and the Greeks.
Speaker 1: Very sexy bastards, no underpants anywhere to be seen. They
Speaker 1: were using animal intestines and bladders. I needs must but
Speaker 1: you know what, it's organic. Yeah, we should be no
Speaker 1: argument there, I suppose, do you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Let this. I mean we're all trying to get away
Speaker 1: from polyester and whatnot, and I mean a good rinse
Speaker 1: out you could probably use it again. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: there's not more SSS fast fashion jer it's one of
Speaker 1: the killers worldwide. That's my beag.
Speaker 3: Top of Tom and Jerry Show with a pinch of salt, folks.
Speaker 3: But there it's there for you if you need it.
Speaker 1: You can put salt on it if you want to.
Speaker 1: I suppose, I mean it is a meat product. Sixteenth
Speaker 1: century jump.
Speaker 3: Forward, we've been Yeah, if I can't lay your hand
Speaker 3: on I was going to say, a photo sheepskin sheep
Speaker 3: and testing, where the fuck am I going?
Speaker 1: Tom Well, if you can't, And it would seem there
Speaker 1: was like we went backwards technology wise from the lads
Speaker 1: of the Roman times and the and the Egyptians. We
Speaker 1: definitely went backwards. We went eating fucking mud. After the
Speaker 1: fall of the Egyptians and then the fall of the Romans,
Speaker 1: it turned into a shit show. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? They had They actually had, you know, latrines,
Speaker 1: they had proper we were throwing buckets of shit out windows.
Speaker 1: But you know, in the early but in the sixteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen hundreds, like so at least somebody took it
Speaker 1: upon themselves to go, you know what, maybe we need
Speaker 1: to upgrade a small bit.
Speaker 4: And an Italian anatomist waiting to hear this for a name, yeah,
Speaker 4: I wonder what he got named after him, Gabrielle Phalloppian.
Speaker 3: I mean, ye name like that tell I tell you that.
Speaker 1: He's a first cousin of Jeremiah Ovaries. He documented was
Speaker 1: documented a linen sheet, but a well made linen sheet
Speaker 1: be fastened with a ribbon specifically designed to protect against syphilis,
Speaker 1: which was absolute and the thing itself was treated in chemicals.
Speaker 1: What chemicals, star, I don't know how comfortable it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I wasn't around back then, but by
Speaker 1: all accounts it worked. Not for everybody, of course, because
Speaker 1: we still going to.
Speaker 3: Say, like, disease can't be working the cure time. I mean,
Speaker 3: to your point, what chemicals, sir?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean some of this stuff might be just
Speaker 1: you know, virtual signaling. You know, I'm a good person.
Speaker 1: I'm where I was sheathed one with chemic dipped in
Speaker 1: chemicals and a ribbon. You know. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I never thought i'd hear myself say no, opt for
Speaker 3: the guts. But here we are.
Speaker 1: Well, look just as well, because it didn't stick around
Speaker 1: by the eighteenth centuries, connies were back. But we're chemically
Speaker 1: treated now, chemically treated, and I you know, like like
Speaker 1: you go tanning a height chemically treated high quality intestines,
Speaker 1: high quality ones.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so so still intestines, but good ones, no.
Speaker 1: Good ones, good ones. Now you you don't want to
Speaker 1: you don't want to cows in Testine, Jerry, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You want something something slight, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like a chickens in Testine or something
Speaker 1: like that. And even they were so good that they
Speaker 1: didn't revert to they had the name at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was French letters and every no,
Speaker 1: they would just call them skins, skins, skins, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: There were prophylactics and contraceptives. They were they were safe
Speaker 1: as houses. Now obviously none of these things were shroowing
Speaker 1: up in Ireland, Catholic Ireland at the time because all
Speaker 1: those other heathenistic going to Hell bastards were using these
Speaker 1: I'm just talking as from a historical point of view.
Speaker 1: By you know, we're all organic and natural up unto
Speaker 1: this point, Linen, of course, and body parts of the animals.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. You know, it wasn't until the
Speaker 1: nineteenth century, eighteen fifty five, don't you know when who
Speaker 1: but Charlie Goodyear. Charlie Goodyear, yep.
Speaker 3: Developed was not satisfied with the tire money.
Speaker 1: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, No, he turned around and
Speaker 1: developed the first ever Rubbert handy. They did. He is
Speaker 1: a fucking bicycle too, by all accounts, not very stretchy.
Speaker 1: They offered improved protection that all over the other stuff.
Speaker 1: But by all accounts it was like putting on a
Speaker 1: Willy Well.
Speaker 3: I mean this is it too? Yeah, yeah, your heart
Speaker 3: is pure, mister Goodyear Well, I mean really all the
Speaker 3: fuckng to it was he'd left over Rubbert, That's all.
Speaker 1: This is Triment's is all. He melting down and putting
Speaker 1: him over there at the end of a brush handle.
Speaker 1: That's an keep. That's what he was doing.
Speaker 3: Like here' that's what it is. It's welly for your
Speaker 3: mickey as well, it is. So that's genuinely all it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some rough patches you can head into,
Speaker 1: all right with it, like, but I'm just saying that's
Speaker 1: her own business. They really struck popularity because these would
Speaker 1: have been only now, Jared, we're talking the upper the
Speaker 1: upper Echeland society would add their hands and the likes
Speaker 1: of this, like you know what I mean, the you know,
Speaker 1: the average grunt in the street was just banging out
Speaker 1: like fourteen fifteen children. They because they just didn't know
Speaker 1: what to do, Like they weren't no rocket surgeons, so
Speaker 1: they weren't fully sure how it was even happen for
Speaker 1: the most part, so.
Speaker 3: It was really only that it was free and it
Speaker 3: was Moorish, Yeah, very Moorish.
Speaker 1: So there was an awful realistically, there was an awful
Speaker 1: divide between the aristocracy getting their hands on these things.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really until the First World War, the First
Speaker 1: World War really through to the Second World War, all
Speaker 1: the way through it was really documented that they were
Speaker 1: given out to gis. Yes, because you know American souldiers
Speaker 1: coming over you know, over here, overpaid and over sex,
Speaker 1: you know, and all that. All the things that they
Speaker 1: said about him turning over here with a full mouth
Speaker 1: of teeth. There's been a few even, I know one
Speaker 1: chapter his great grandfather was a g I and and
Speaker 1: and he bounced, He absolutely bounced. But to be fair,
Speaker 1: the entire family have had a line of good teeth
Speaker 1: ever since then. I will say.
Speaker 3: That they have.
Speaker 1: They've had good teeth ever since. What can we say,
Speaker 1: But they were just giving out along with most like
Speaker 1: you know, the same way with v and Amvetz. They
Speaker 1: were probably just giving speed as well to stay awake.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of trial by r but in fairness,
Speaker 1: it was a smart enough thing to give him out
Speaker 1: to stop him, and I wasn't really to stop pregnancy.
Speaker 1: They just didn't want these lads getting sick with.
Speaker 3: Syphilis, getting all kinds of stuff and not being able
Speaker 3: to to go get garrotted in the some exactly.
Speaker 1: And now it was straight up rubber still at the time,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? It was rubber as
Speaker 1: rubber would be known as. But latex to present day
Speaker 1: is really what they use. And latex is kind of
Speaker 1: a different chemical structure. It is oil based, but it
Speaker 1: ain't the fucking stuff you know the Michelin are using.
Speaker 1: Like you know, your paradip zeros aren't keeping you between
Speaker 1: the car and the road, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It ain't the same thing. It is a slightly different
Speaker 1: and elasticated substance in the chemical form, but at its base,
Speaker 1: fucking aisle cher.
Speaker 3: War never changes. Tom Well, I gotta tell you, if
Speaker 3: you're out there and you're kurt in these days, ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen, you know, and you intend to kurt into
Speaker 3: the next year or so, Kurt, safely stock up on
Speaker 3: your Johnnies when you get the chance, because who the
Speaker 3: fuck knows when that straight's going to open again. Hey,
Speaker 3: might be open by the time this episode drops.
Speaker 1: Conventional wisdom says, it's not if you incootes with nabatur.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's been done before.
Speaker 3: Show me a boucher with a big family. Great, Now
Speaker 3: the butchers are Christ. Well, we better get off the subject. Tom,
Speaker 3: stop talking about our lads and start talking about this lad.
Speaker 1: Now there's that guy you have. I like this is
Speaker 1: a nice turn about. Typically, our this lad is a
Speaker 1: very specific person, team place that we have chosen. But
Speaker 1: this is this is a broad brush. Now, Jerry, you've
Speaker 1: thrown this is a broad brush.
Speaker 3: Hey, do you know what this lad? This week's this
Speaker 3: lad is Tom. If you're listening to the Tom and
Speaker 3: Jerry Show, maybe you're this lad. Possibly Jesus Yeah, you
Speaker 3: know you're doing it right now, this lad. We've had
Speaker 3: all we can stand, and we can stands no more.
Speaker 3: We want to talk about the lads, and indeed, ladies
Speaker 3: who play their phones out on public transport suffered in
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, I've had just a better fucking belly full
Speaker 3: of this now, Tom. So you you tell me that
Speaker 3: this is like a recent phenomenon, would you agree? I
Speaker 3: guess I get more public transport than you do, right,
Speaker 3: even just in public in pubs and.
Speaker 1: Cafine I first encountered because I still there's a I
Speaker 1: need to hear from my words here now. But I well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they all know there's a person
Speaker 1: who's close to my family, and when they imagine you're
Speaker 1: all sitting around extended family and everything, watching the match,
Speaker 1: watching a sporting life at Christmas, watching every time a
Speaker 1: bell rings, and iconic moments in the family, hope, yes,
Speaker 1: if the phone rings, you'll step the fuck out. You'll
Speaker 1: pa silence, I bring it back later, or you'll step out.
Speaker 1: This one particular family member, who is all the other
Speaker 1: points in their life, is unbelievably gracious and lovely, but
Speaker 1: for some reason sees no problem with just answering the phone. There.
Speaker 3: I know several people in my family like that, Tom,
Speaker 3: that we toss this full conversation on the phone and
Speaker 3: and and you listen in for it, and there's not
Speaker 3: even a little bit of come here. There's people here
Speaker 3: about that, But no, no, yeah, no news yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will shy talk and talked. It bends my
Speaker 1: I have to walk out of the room. It bends
Speaker 1: me my brain. That bad.
Speaker 3: Well, I take all that and put it into the
Speaker 3: compressed tube like nature of a train number one. There's
Speaker 3: a couple of things that play here. We're not really
Speaker 3: talking about the people that take phone calls in public. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: I feel even that bad. I sat across from a
Speaker 3: lady on the train while she had an argument with
Speaker 3: a solicit of Christ about the reading of a will
Speaker 3: and why her sister was getting Everton, And she was
Speaker 3: ball and crying and furious angry, speaking about very very
Speaker 3: personal details and about how the sister was getting such
Speaker 3: and such, even though she was the one directly to
Speaker 3: blame for her baby brother drowning in the bat forty
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 1: Fuck me, okay, there's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I sat across from a woman on the train. Listen
Speaker 3: to all that on the five thirty out of drum
Speaker 3: Contra and it packed. We all listened to it.
Speaker 1: Tom.
Speaker 3: Some people no idea why that call couldn't wait till
Speaker 3: she got off a fucking cool mind.
Speaker 1: Some people will be licking their lips at the ocean
Speaker 1: of that though. That's the fact, that's the only fucking
Speaker 1: thing I can see. It was like, there will be
Speaker 1: some people like I'm listening to that. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear it. I don't whatever the subject matter is,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear any of it.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't relate to that person has been
Speaker 1: the same fucking speed sees is me. She doesn't have
Speaker 1: the self criticism to go. I probably shouldn't be doing
Speaker 1: any of this in public.
Speaker 3: Just just neither here or there. If I get If
Speaker 3: I get a phone call in public, rare and rare
Speaker 3: these days. Tom, But if I get a phone call
Speaker 3: in public, I was like, I'll bring you back. I'll
Speaker 3: get back in five minutes. I'm just I'm on the bus,
Speaker 3: and even.
Speaker 1: Your voice voice notes here, if you leave me one,
Speaker 1: I will turn it down, hold it right up to
Speaker 1: my ear like a phone call. I just sit sildly.
Speaker 3: So let's move on to that. So phone calls in
Speaker 3: public transport, you know you're entitled to ring anybody at
Speaker 3: any time. I suppose, God damn it, I'll say, if
Speaker 3: you're sitting across from someone, talking pure Scott or Scott
Speaker 3: the phone. Yeah, at eight o'clock in the morning. Yeah,
Speaker 3: no news and you yeah, no news. God damn, there's
Speaker 3: no news.
Speaker 1: Shut the fuck up and get shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3: What are you doing send a text, voice notes or
Speaker 3: another thing? And I guess just sounds I'm not even
Speaker 3: going to say voice notes, Tom, Like if you're just
Speaker 3: there with your phone in your hand and you're pissing
Speaker 3: around as we were all known to do, and see
Speaker 3: like someone sends you a funny WhatsApp of a video
Speaker 3: and you say, will I get my headphones out of
Speaker 3: my pocket and put them in my ears and connect
Speaker 3: them to the bluetooth and listen to this?
Speaker 1: Or will I just play it at full volume? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, there are there are very few people that
Speaker 3: will be thankful to say, mostly young people if they're
Speaker 3: getting the train out of Malahideen Somemer or something like that.
Speaker 3: They won't like, put a song playing on the phone
Speaker 3: and just put it down on the table and listen
Speaker 3: to it like you just listen to music like you'd
Speaker 3: listen to the radio. Not a thing that's very common,
Speaker 3: except maybe some of the kids going out to like
Speaker 3: hot and forget that so thankfully uncommon. But people will
Speaker 3: just like flick through TikTok and watch TikTok after TikTok
Speaker 3: full volume full today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's that's already given me. Fucking give me moment,
Speaker 1: a moment of fucking do you know?
Speaker 3: And like maybe if you are a member of the
Speaker 3: public that does this, if you're if you like nothing
Speaker 3: better than getting on the bus home and listening to
Speaker 3: the Tom and Very Show without headphones, we appreciate your listenership,
Speaker 3: but god damn, get the fucking things in, like you're
Speaker 3: you know, I don't want I don't want that to
Speaker 3: be how people discover our brand. There was a one
Speaker 3: listening to art.
Speaker 1: It was the greatest little shit I ever listened. You know,
Speaker 1: It's funny because it's the only time I really see
Speaker 1: it is when I'm gigging in cities and you'll see
Speaker 1: a group of adds, three or four lads walking and
Speaker 1: one of them will have some shite and it's like
Speaker 1: that EMC. It's not even proper decent dance music. It's
Speaker 1: like that that that back in track to somebody being
Speaker 1: like fucking wrapping EMC. You know that ship and they're
Speaker 1: playing and they'll be walking down the path talking to
Speaker 1: each other, Like so your conversation with each other isn't
Speaker 1: enough that you've got to backfill the situation without you
Speaker 1: even to the point even the other day, we went
Speaker 1: for a lovely fucking forest walk and the boy turns
Speaker 1: around goes dead are your phone? And you're like what yeah?
Speaker 1: And he says, you play the playlist. I went not
Speaker 1: a hoping fucking christ because he has his playlist, of course,
Speaker 1: like all kids do nowadays. But I'm like, it ain't
Speaker 1: fucking happen. That's on.
Speaker 3: We'll connect that in the car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you hold on to the first. There is
Speaker 1: one particular woman that I seem to be. She's she's
Speaker 1: Eastern European. I don't know she is Polish, but she
Speaker 1: she is full blown like what do they call her
Speaker 1: fucking facetimes okay, with her grandkids back home, and I
Speaker 1: guess it. Okay, she's maybe middle aged or whatever. But
Speaker 1: you're like, dickhead, look around. Nobody else is doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing right now, and it's not a thing. And
Speaker 1: they're given a full tilt and You're like, you're wrecking.
Speaker 1: Everybody else is fucking just chill time, Like just what
Speaker 1: what are you fucking doing?
Speaker 3: Like, look around you. Is anybody on the train cracking
Speaker 3: open the can? And if they are, how the other
Speaker 3: people of the of the train and regard them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well I could imagine I were forced. I had something
Speaker 3: in public that I had never seen before. And it's
Speaker 3: got to be it's got to be ten years ago more,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe ten years ago. I was in London for
Speaker 3: a week gggin and.
Speaker 1: The first and this is where I thought. There's certain
Speaker 1: things I said I thought I'd never see enter Ireland
Speaker 1: because we slag each other too much, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And more and more I'm fucking wrong
Speaker 1: on that issue because I think we're turning into a
Speaker 1: nation of fucking absolute pussies with our friends, because we're
Speaker 1: letting our friends lads. You're letting your friends off with
Speaker 1: some ship nowadays.
Speaker 3: Like you couldn't see it on the podcast, folks, But
Speaker 3: I gave a weary shrug.
Speaker 1: There, Yeah, Like Jerry hasn't slagged me about my haircut.
Speaker 1: You're looking them out, Yeah, but you were fully win
Speaker 1: in your right to.
Speaker 3: Go got a haircut, haircut.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. He's fully been in the
Speaker 1: right to do that, and I appreciate it. There's a
Speaker 1: level of comfort when that happens. I'm like, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: Like I saw this thing in London. First thing I
Speaker 1: saw on the same danger I ended up walking on
Speaker 1: the way to shortage to do a gig. Shortage, like
Speaker 1: London is divided, especially the city center is divided into
Speaker 1: It's like the Hunger Games. It literally street block by
Speaker 1: block is different types of humans. So you will have
Speaker 1: shortage is out and out. And I've talked about this
Speaker 1: maybe a long time ago. Shortage is real hipster, Like
Speaker 1: is the place where the belfaestlats where he blowpen that
Speaker 1: breakfast bar or that you know, the seareal bar.
Speaker 3: It's not even they're putting it on for a bit hipster.
Speaker 1: They are ground zero of these cunts, Penny Farthings and
Speaker 1: fucking typewriters, you know what I mean. Yet there are
Speaker 1: you know their parents are worth millions. Yes. And next
Speaker 1: door to that is the financial department. It's you know
Speaker 1: where the shared is and stuff like that. And I
Speaker 1: saw a guy in a suit, but he had obviously
Speaker 1: had the trou it was a hot day. He had
Speaker 1: the trousers tailored to be shorts with suit and waistcoat
Speaker 1: and short and button down short and tie and you're
Speaker 1: wearing motherfucker for your three minutes that you get to
Speaker 1: get outside to have a sig. What the fuck? And
Speaker 1: I'm just remember going my friends would lash the backs
Speaker 1: of my legs. But or if they saw me doing
Speaker 1: something like that, slip on shoes, no socks, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it's like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3: And on the stand, so be it. Nobody is telling
Speaker 3: these people catch yourself on, don't be That's what happened
Speaker 3: for fucking TikTok's out loud.
Speaker 1: That's what happens. You see in the likes of London,
Speaker 1: I thought, because there's ten twelve million people there and
Speaker 1: anonymity in numbers and all the rest of it, and
Speaker 1: your core old school friends aren't around, yes, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Whereas we've only a small amount
Speaker 1: of people who were five million, there's a small enough
Speaker 1: number to slag the fuck out of your friend, do
Speaker 1: you know, because you're not allowed to get away with
Speaker 1: that shit. And the day I said that, same day,
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a guy he'd earbuds of some sort
Speaker 1: in whether and he's just talking as loud, and I
Speaker 1: thought he was a mental patient, which is okay in
Speaker 1: London because there's a lot of them. And I just
Speaker 1: thought this fhlad serious issue. Because he's walking down street.
Speaker 1: I see nothing, no phone in his hand. I'm going,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, this fella is fucking off it. But he's
Speaker 1: walking straight, he's got it, seems like he's got it together.
Speaker 1: He's well dressed. Yeah, I said what I said to
Speaker 1: him was all for. And I noticed that two yearbuds
Speaker 1: and oh my fucking god, they should. You should be
Speaker 1: hit so hard that they stay mid air. You travel
Speaker 1: backwards so fast, they should stay in the mid air
Speaker 1: because they just popped out your ears. That's how hard
Speaker 1: your friends should hit you in the chest for being
Speaker 1: being that whinker. And this guy's walking down the street
Speaker 1: like it's no big deal. And now it still catches me.
Speaker 1: When I'm in Dublin, I see people around the corner
Speaker 1: just randomly shouting to themselves some shite about picking up
Speaker 1: messages and the way, oh like, well you need to
Speaker 1: be you need the tablet of some sort, because there's
Speaker 1: no way you can genuinely believe that that's acceptable. Carry on.
Speaker 3: There's there's levels to all this as well. Like I
Speaker 3: said that, you know, talking into your talking into your
Speaker 3: phone on a phone call, that's one thing. Playing YouTube
Speaker 3: clips to yourself on public transport, goddamn. Like, and I
Speaker 3: know you have headphones. You saw have a bitch. The
Speaker 3: phone probably came with them. Yeah, you know, you're just
Speaker 3: too lazy to get them out of your pocket. That's
Speaker 3: all it is. I do, I truly believe. But you
Speaker 3: have easiness and it's carelessness.
Speaker 1: You haven't had your neck slapt by a mate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. You see, these people are wondering. This
Speaker 1: is a dangerous precipice. We find society injer where nobody's
Speaker 1: being held accountable for being a knob by their mates
Speaker 1: or people in society. Do you know, like I have
Speaker 1: an in in build fear which keeps being in line.
Speaker 1: By the way, this isn't people going here. Man, you
Speaker 1: need some liberty in your life. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's certain fucking things like I'll give you an example. I
Speaker 1: owld years ago working like fuck, the mother had to
Speaker 1: going to hospital for a week or two. We were
Speaker 1: had to go and stay with the name because that
Speaker 1: man and when in the weaker ten days that my
Speaker 1: mother was away. That man had the engine of a
Speaker 1: car inside in the kitchen he was working on. He
Speaker 1: was eating out of kens of beans. He had no
Speaker 1: clean under pants. He was a fucking dishevel fucking cave man.
Speaker 1: The house. The neighborhood's women had to come from four
Speaker 1: miles away to help clean the place up before my
Speaker 1: mother came home, and to give him a fucking sort
Speaker 1: him out and give me a toe the hole. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is she only he's now a high functioning
Speaker 1: member of society as a result of the fear of
Speaker 1: my mother. Yes, if the same liberal latitude was allowed
Speaker 1: with my old man to him and just fucking do
Speaker 1: what you want in society. Man, but your ears, dude,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have seen him in the thirty years. He
Speaker 1: might be dead, like we might be dead. Like there
Speaker 1: has to be some level of a thumb on the
Speaker 1: back of your neck going, I'll punch it, I'll punch
Speaker 1: the back of your fucking head if you carry on
Speaker 1: like a fucking goal. And that's what these people are
Speaker 1: there in Limerick. They would be known as fucking gowls.
Speaker 1: And it's a great word, and it's a great all
Speaker 1: encompassing word. And everybody knows what it means the second
Speaker 1: you hear it. If you have a loud phone playing
Speaker 1: and somebody goes, oh your fucking gowl, there's no really,
Speaker 1: there's no thought process in their head. I guarantee as
Speaker 1: an Irish person if they have any heritage at all
Speaker 1: here that they don't go I know what that means,
Speaker 1: and I am Now you can get up pity because.
Speaker 3: It's I'm sure it's not people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people nowadays have a high, high impression of themselves
Speaker 1: and there's no self criticism whatsoever. There's You're going, no, dude,
Speaker 1: have a gander look at the reflection of that mirror
Speaker 1: of the Lewis or that window of the Lewis. You're
Speaker 1: a prize cunt. Get your fucking shit together and put
Speaker 1: on your fucking big boy trousers and stop on reckon
Speaker 1: everybody's day with your shit.
Speaker 3: Well, I gotta tell you, if you're in road, are
Speaker 3: and want to employ a new degree of security guard
Speaker 3: that just walks up and down the carriages, picking phones
Speaker 3: out of people's hands and fucking them out the window
Speaker 3: if that music is too loud. Put Tom Oman and
Speaker 3: Jerry McBride down for two roles.
Speaker 1: In that no problem.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you one thing, Tom, It wasn't always
Speaker 3: like this. I swear this is a recent problem. And
Speaker 3: we remember a time when there was in people blasting
Speaker 3: phones out loud, watching TikTok's and short form media shite
Speaker 3: on public transport on the phone. We remember a lot
Speaker 3: of things in actual fact, because neither you or I
Speaker 3: are young men. We talk about it in the final
Speaker 3: segment of our show, where we go back through our
Speaker 3: forty somewhad years of history, through the fulcrum of life,
Speaker 3: and a segment that we call we remember when.
Speaker 1: When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or
Speaker 1: forty years ago, this one touched would have touched a
Speaker 1: lot of people down three years.
Speaker 3: I think this is one. Here's what I'm going to
Speaker 3: tell you, Tom, this is one that you and I
Speaker 3: will remember, and we might be the last people. We
Speaker 3: might be the first people to fully experience this and
Speaker 3: the last people to fully appreciate that. What has inspired
Speaker 3: this segment of the show, folks, is the release, if
Speaker 3: not this weekend, in the following weekend of Mortal Combat
Speaker 3: in movie theaters, a new Mortal Kombat movie coming out live.
Speaker 3: Mortal Kombat is of course a successful computer game franchise,
Speaker 3: But Mortal Kombat Tom was born in the arcades.
Speaker 1: It was and as combat with a K, much like
Speaker 1: you know you see your hairdressers, you know, curl up
Speaker 1: and day. You know it's it's a classic cuts. I
Speaker 1: never yeah, classic coats with ks and the cays are scissors.
Speaker 1: Like there's I I could never. I could never because
Speaker 1: it was the word combat showed up and many many
Speaker 1: things we were into as kids, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: all the war movies we watched, even the trousers the
Speaker 1: ore were combats, you know what I mean. Yes, so
Speaker 1: the words I knew what combat should be spelled like.
Speaker 1: And I always thought about this must be an Asian thing.
Speaker 1: And because Asia was always cool as fuck when your combat, Yes,
Speaker 1: because it was, you know, for me, especially being so
Speaker 1: deeply intrenched in marsh arts from the age of four. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: this is my jam. And I was never. I was
Speaker 1: never a street fighter guy. For whatever reason, I don't
Speaker 1: I always side with Martal Kombat. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: always thought it was more violent and just as it was,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking this is more my jam because
Speaker 1: for me, h street fighter, which there is also a
Speaker 1: movie coming out and later in the year. Yes, I
Speaker 1: just always thought it was a bit kiddy, a bit cartoony,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Whereas in Mortal Kombat you
Speaker 1: could when you hit you hit peak, you can reach
Speaker 1: inside the guy's soul, rip it out.
Speaker 3: And chop his head off and all this kind of
Speaker 3: shif Yeah, yeah, yeah, the so so Mortal Kombat was
Speaker 3: just one of hundreds of thousands of games that we
Speaker 3: ourselves experienced in the thing that just isn't around anymore, Tom,
Speaker 3: and that is the amusement arcade. Now, if you see
Speaker 3: an amusement arcade advertised anywhere in town these days, that's
Speaker 3: a casino. You can win and you can play the slots,
Speaker 3: and you can play the video poker and all this
Speaker 3: kind of shit. But we're talking about very hard to
Speaker 3: explain this to people these days, particularly younger people. A
Speaker 3: room in town where you went to play computer games
Speaker 3: for ten p at a time.
Speaker 1: Some pubs had them as well.
Speaker 3: They were some chip shops as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some chip shops had them as well, where you'd
Speaker 1: put a couple of pens which they were at the time, yes,
Speaker 1: into and you would get either There was Colum A
Speaker 1: Gray rally. There was, there was there was I think
Speaker 1: there was a Saga rally as well. There was Sally
Speaker 1: I remember love in that one. Now what there is
Speaker 1: nowadays in anybody for right youthful let's listening going, I know,
Speaker 1: I can't wrap. Sandbox is popping up in cities all
Speaker 1: over Ireland. It's an American based one and it's all
Speaker 1: VR headsets. You're going and you're going, and that made
Speaker 1: it with Quazar like was probably the the nexus of
Speaker 1: all that too, like where you go around and light
Speaker 1: and you're wearing you know, you're wearing a that has
Speaker 1: receptors on it and stuff, but prior to all that
Speaker 1: and you'll see them, you'll see them. Some of these
Speaker 1: things go for big money nowadays because they're just so nostalgic.
Speaker 1: Pac Man would have been the first one to start.
Speaker 3: You know honestly, like here's what I remember, Tom, what
Speaker 3: I remember, and what was the case? Would do different
Speaker 3: things you had, like as you say yourself, there the
Speaker 3: Sega rallies of this world, which was like a big
Speaker 3: sit down cabin with a steering wheel and you felt
Speaker 3: that you were driving a car. And there were various
Speaker 3: ones with jet fighters and afterburner and all. This kind
Speaker 3: of thing quite rare. You wouldn't necessarily see them. You
Speaker 3: might see them in the bowl and alley or whatnot,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't necessarily see them in the chip shop. What
Speaker 3: you would see is you would see cabinets. And here's
Speaker 3: what got me down through the years. I was just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that should makes sense. I always felt like when an
Speaker 3: arcade got a new game, they took that cabinet and
Speaker 3: wheeled it out and sold it off to someone else
Speaker 3: and whealed the whole new machine back in. It's not
Speaker 3: the case.
Speaker 1: You just switched out.
Speaker 3: You opened the cabinet, you took out the board inside it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that played pac Man, and you stuck in a new
Speaker 3: one that played Pong.
Speaker 1: And this is the thing.
Speaker 3: You literally swapped it out like you'd swap a cartridge.
Speaker 3: And then you change, like maybe maybe there'll be a
Speaker 3: little sort of banner at the top that said Space Invaders.
Speaker 3: You took that off and you put up Donkey Kong
Speaker 3: and Carry Warriors or something like that.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt that gaming isn't last. And the people
Speaker 1: listening to this gun I can't wrap my head around
Speaker 1: this guy. There wasn't really like, yes, there was the
Speaker 1: eight bit, you know, nintendoes to have a home and stuff,
Speaker 1: but nothing beat going to the arcade where you had
Speaker 1: a joystick three buttons and you could literally you two
Speaker 1: joysticks three buttons each at the same box.
Speaker 3: So same box. And the graphics in the arcade are
Speaker 3: we're leaps and mounds away from what you had at home.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, Tom says there, which your Nintendo's are a
Speaker 3: bare way of the amstrads and commodore of the day,
Speaker 3: very looking back, very rudimentary. What was in the arcade
Speaker 3: was night and day. I know you guys are all
Speaker 3: very used to your PlayStation fives where everything looks like
Speaker 3: absolute real life and not the case.
Speaker 1: Back in the day.
Speaker 3: If you wanted like real kick ass graphics and sound,
Speaker 3: you went.
Speaker 1: To the arcade, Well you had. What you had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do was actually battle each other too when
Speaker 1: it came to that, Like I couldn't care less for
Speaker 1: the motorbike. Do you remember the motorbikes that had like
Speaker 1: a spring in them and the different The Island Man
Speaker 1: t T was the fourth one that had that, and
Speaker 1: you can get the bag and then there was remember
Speaker 1: time crisis with the pink and Blue Gune.
Speaker 3: Time Crisis. I fucking love time crisis because time crisis
Speaker 3: gave you a put a gun.
Speaker 1: In your gun in your hand, yeah, gone in.
Speaker 3: Your hand, and you felt like a true man. Yeah,
Speaker 3: thirteen years of age or like this most this is
Speaker 3: exactly what I was put on this there to do
Speaker 3: is fucking cap fules.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and I think
Speaker 1: there would have been like Double Dragon and stuff like
Speaker 1: that that were the early door stuff, but I think
Speaker 1: Martal Kombat had to be. It was definitely out ahead
Speaker 1: of Taking and all these ones.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we would
Speaker 3: we would have been the right height for Mortal Combat
Speaker 3: because I would have been about eleven or twelve. You
Speaker 3: would have been about ten or eleven coming into it.
Speaker 3: So that was just the right age for it to
Speaker 3: really blow our minds, like holy shit, and the arcade
Speaker 3: and character more on that in a second. Got a
Speaker 3: mortal combat machine down to.
Speaker 1: It and forget about forget about we were we were petitioning.
Speaker 1: We had any time during the summer here because we're
Speaker 1: in Inland County. You'd get maybe three times four times
Speaker 1: getting brought to Tromore in whats and Tramore would be
Speaker 1: a mini blackpool, if you know what I mean. Still
Speaker 1: to this day people holiday down there and it's it's.
Speaker 3: A beautiful problem.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful part of the world. I've gigged on there,
Speaker 1: and very different vibe when you're gigging there. To the locals,
Speaker 1: I had more teeth than all of them put together.
Speaker 1: But maybe the market combat was a real thing for them.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're talking on the phone on the train.
Speaker 1: But I remember it was. It was just get out
Speaker 1: of my way the second I got out of the
Speaker 1: family car. Like I didn't care for Sander or or See.
Speaker 1: I mean, we think we all know my opinion on that.
Speaker 1: And this was was there even when when I was
Speaker 1: ten years of age on a new thing, folks, I
Speaker 1: would get straight to it, and it just came. What
Speaker 1: all the other games, I couldn't give a shit about.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was about Mortal Kombat, it came naturally to me.
Speaker 1: Street Fighter No, for some reason, not other fighting games,
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat just maybe it was the pure brutality of it,
Speaker 1: or the way it was set up in its movements,
Speaker 1: the buttons. I was fucking ripping out people's heads with
Speaker 1: the fine England off the end, finish him like you would.
Speaker 1: I would get finished him. I would get lads to
Speaker 1: cut like I was fucking sharking at the thing, like
Speaker 1: I was making ten p a go off. These lads
Speaker 1: going bring it, bring it, bring.
Speaker 3: Winner, stays on win. That's the thing as well. Like
Speaker 3: you know, for for an arcade, regardless of what you
Speaker 3: were playing, your Mortal Combats or anything like that, it
Speaker 3: was like how would I say this. I don't want
Speaker 3: to say like a culture anything like that, but like
Speaker 3: the people that were there were people that fucking love this.
Speaker 1: Shit to the point like it justified all the hours
Speaker 1: of martial arts I'd been doing in my head, like well,
Speaker 1: of course this is my training coming. Win my hands
Speaker 1: is coming to me. I remember going to the Masni Games.
Speaker 1: I think I was I was running. I think I've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. I was running for Tipperary at
Speaker 1: the time and didn't give a fuck about the running. No,
Speaker 1: because Masny itself was a holiday center, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: One of the biggest as we would know what arcades
Speaker 3: in Ireland. I was just like row upon row of games.
Speaker 1: If anybody is wondering what's that about, go listen to
Speaker 1: Action Park where we just got we talk about the
Speaker 1: comparative one here in Ireland at the time, and I
Speaker 1: remember I got in there and I was probably fourteen fifteen,
Speaker 1: i'd say, And I got myself to the arcade Arcades
Speaker 1: day one, and I mean it was racking up. It
Speaker 1: became I won't say legendary, but it became notable that
Speaker 1: your man from Tip is ridiculous at market combat. I
Speaker 1: didn't have martle combat at home. I didn't have it.
Speaker 1: We had a commedy or six. You just didn't have it. No, no,
Speaker 1: we didn't. There was no way my parents were working
Speaker 1: out for that. Not a prayer like so whatever whatever.
Speaker 1: It would take me a game or two to get
Speaker 1: the old ring rushed off, of course, but a couple
Speaker 1: of ten p's there, but I knew twenty thirty p
Speaker 1: would get me to where I needed to get, you know,
Speaker 1: brought back the old reactions again and I was just
Speaker 1: wiping the floor with people. Now A couple of lads
Speaker 1: who would have wealthier lads who had it at home
Speaker 1: were able to go toe to toe me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they're tasted. They were tasty.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question, Tom, Let me ask
Speaker 3: you a question. Now, okay, so did you have any
Speaker 3: sort of arcade or is now your hometown or to
Speaker 3: put it in other words, did you have a pool hole?
Speaker 1: We didn't what we had and it was the most
Speaker 1: bizarre thing. Tipperary town didn't have anything like that. It
Speaker 1: pubs had games. So but in our local village of
Speaker 1: Bench and it was a pub and it had two games.
Speaker 1: It had Sega rally, yes, and at one stage it
Speaker 1: had time crisis, but they never got in mortal combat. Right. Then, strangely,
Speaker 1: very strangely, a fellow took over the rental of what
Speaker 1: had years previous been a pub, but it now had
Speaker 1: been I don't know, maybe a residential house on the
Speaker 1: one street that's English little village. And he filled it
Speaker 1: with pool tables and with arcade machines. Yes, it was
Speaker 1: the most bizarre thing. It was this domestically lit house
Speaker 1: and with a tile floor and it was like a
Speaker 1: huge big front living room part and what I guessing
Speaker 1: was the kitchen. He put two or three pool tables
Speaker 1: in that bit and put arcade machines in the other.
Speaker 1: And he'd gotten in fucking street fighter and I go,
Speaker 1: I couldn't there was nothing he would he would do
Speaker 1: I could bend it because of course lads were spending
Speaker 1: money on Street Fighter of course, and everything I could do,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do it to get in Martle combat.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: It used to kill me to go in there with
Speaker 1: the lads and they were happy, how to be playing everything,
Speaker 1: and I'm just kicking dust, going load out. Shit. I
Speaker 1: had no time for any of it there. And the
Speaker 1: lads they had a shotgun one where you're going shooting. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was fantastic, fantastic if you didn't have a punch
Speaker 1: on for one particular thing. But this prick wouldn't get in.
Speaker 1: Of course, we fully within his fucking rights to do
Speaker 1: whatever we wanted.
Speaker 3: We had, we had, we had, we had a we had.
Speaker 3: We were not an amusement arcade like they would have
Speaker 3: had Doner for more. But we did have a pool
Speaker 3: hall in writing and carme across which was at the
Speaker 3: back of the video shop, which was also a taxi rank.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, there was no such thing.
Speaker 1: As funeral home as well, like just and.
Speaker 3: What everyone on up there, do you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like maybe there were alterning dresses upstairs or whatever we're doing,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Altern fucking diesel. Let's say, not give it where you're from.
Speaker 3: But you went out that, you went out the back
Speaker 3: of it, and it was and there was the pool hall.
Speaker 3: So it was a room that would hold three pool
Speaker 3: tables and then a row of arcade machines on the
Speaker 3: other it and about forty fifteen or sixteen year old
Speaker 3: gotta tell you, mostly boys and maybe if some of
Speaker 3: them had a girlfriend brought them down and pretty much
Speaker 3: everyone was smoking. So just just the thickest smokeest room
Speaker 3: I've ever been in my life. And you have tears
Speaker 3: coming out of your eyes trying to play fucking Sunset Rider.
Speaker 3: You know, like that does not exist anymore. It does
Speaker 3: does not exist anywhere in the world at all anymore,
Speaker 3: and if it does, it's probably some shortage hipster fucking bullshit.
Speaker 3: Like you know, you're certainly not smoking your brains out. Well,
Speaker 3: the last place I saw it was a pub in Dublin.
Speaker 3: We stopped in there for something a pint and maybe
Speaker 3: something to eat, just a couple of years ago. It
Speaker 3: was near Tara Street and they had like was totally
Speaker 3: deflated for me all together. They had like free arcade
Speaker 3: games to play and you're like, no, I want to
Speaker 3: pay from that. I need. I need somewhere I can
Speaker 3: drop a twenty twenty pekin.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to pay for it. There's no
Speaker 1: value in this at all. I just stopped mid game
Speaker 1: is just well, yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm not pushed to just fucking walk off.
Speaker 1: So for me, it was just like, okay, this is
Speaker 1: the death of it. So if their people are going nostalgia,
Speaker 1: I'm all right, guys, go.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's There was no value to it. But
Speaker 3: there was value in was that you got an hour
Speaker 3: for your lunch at school, and you fucking high tailed
Speaker 3: it down to the pool room. You add a sandwich
Speaker 3: as quick as you could, you went in, You had
Speaker 3: twenty minutes and forty p blow it all in games
Speaker 3: as quick as you can, and get the fuck back
Speaker 3: up to school. But I gotta tell you, Tom, that
Speaker 3: is that is what I remember about it all. And
Speaker 3: and that place they'd eventually get your beloved Mortal Kombat
Speaker 3: and say Mortal Kombat too. At some stage you could
Speaker 3: not get near that fucking machine because as much as
Speaker 3: people like to play it, people like to watch it.
Speaker 1: This is the thing.
Speaker 3: And I drew a crowd.
Speaker 1: There was one in Clammel and I remember going. It
Speaker 1: was like a Saturday morning, I think. Myself and my
Speaker 1: friend we went and the mother of course was doing
Speaker 1: the shop and she goes off, you go with your
Speaker 1: grand We're maybe thirteen or fourteen, and didn't We were
Speaker 1: only going around the time. We didn't really say what
Speaker 1: we're going to. With no replan. We found ourselves in
Speaker 1: this place called Circles and it's a snooker hole. Yes,
Speaker 1: and to say that too youngflas shouldn't be in this place. Now.
Speaker 1: They had a couple of arcade machines, but really this
Speaker 1: is like if you imagine the snooker holes where gangster
Speaker 1: movies have the backdrop.
Speaker 3: Yes, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Arms were broken over fucking pockets in this fucking place.
Speaker 3: Later in the day people are draped out over tables
Speaker 3: and asked where's the fucking money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because even early in the day while we were there,
Speaker 1: my friend was a very good snooker player, and I
Speaker 1: was all right, so we said we played a couple
Speaker 1: of computer agains and we said, well, why we're here,
Speaker 1: let's have a game a snooplazer the guy. The guy
Speaker 1: gives us out the balls. The whole lot. It was
Speaker 1: funny he did. He seemed non plus by the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But even ike cop at like thirteen fourteen years of
Speaker 1: age that we probably shouldn't be there when the lads
Speaker 1: on the pool table next to us, snooker table next
Speaker 1: to us, or comparing food choices in two different prisons
Speaker 1: in Ireland. Yeah, the time time to wrap it up,
Speaker 1: wrap it up. Don't go for the one four seven.
Speaker 3: Just let's these are And I swear to God Tom,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. But like arcades born very bright in the
Speaker 3: eighties into the early nineties, they got very fancy in
Speaker 3: the early two thousands, would all be you know, big
Speaker 3: cabinets and big machines to try and draw a crowd.
Speaker 3: Because you could get a PlayStation at home, you could
Speaker 3: do it. It had caught up. The technology had caught
Speaker 3: up at home you could play tech and at home
Speaker 3: you didn't have to leave your house.
Speaker 1: On your telly, on your tell.
Speaker 3: It was just like there was just like a fifteen
Speaker 3: to twenty year stretch that we were right there for it, buddy,
Speaker 3: And I gotta tell you it's never coming back, It'll
Speaker 3: never be replicated, but I fondly remember it.
Speaker 1: Where have they all gone, as the question, all those
Speaker 1: things because there's no repurpose in those things for anything
Speaker 1: like you make a fish tank out of them or something.
Speaker 1: Or are they all of Vanillasi's house?
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Where are they? Are they?
Speaker 3: A vast majority of them are smashed up there.
Speaker 1: Of course they are. They've been repurposed and they're probably
Speaker 1: making condoms right now out of the fucking thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. But by the way, Tom, did you know that
Speaker 3: the team song to Mortal Kombat is based on the
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