Do Go On - 459 - Terry Fox & The Marathon of Hope

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Terry Fox is a Canadian household name. In 1980, Terry set off to run the length of Canada, to raise money for cancer research. He ended up inspiring a nation.This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 09:09 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSupport the show on Apple podcasts and get bonus episodes in the app: http://apple.co/dogoon Live show tickets: https://dogoonpod.com/live-shows/ Watch Do Go On The Quiz Show: https://youtu.be/GgzcPMx1EdM?si=ir7iubozIzlzvWfKSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/Check out our merch: https://do-go-on-podcast.creator-spring.com/  Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://terryfox.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Foxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPcXMg3E9KQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. And welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave Warnocky and as always. I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello.

Hello, Dave. Hello, Jess. What a pleasure to be here in the podcast studio here at Stubedall Studios. Where we don't live. No. That is weird that that seems to have been insinuated online. We don't live in this room. On the Reddit.

Do you see it on the Dogo on Reddit? I just want to know where people are getting their information. Because that's crazy. And that photo is clearly doctored. Yeah. I wasn't in my jocks out the front, scratching my balls, reading the morning paper. That didn't happen here at Superdil's Studios. That didn't happen here.

They took that photo from my home. Which you have. And they chopped it out and put it out the front of Stubbard's studios, which is a place that don't live. It was a joke. Yeah. Yeah. So it's crazy that people think we live here because we don't. We arrive here.

We do our work. And then we leave. We leave. Every time. We've been outside. side of this place. Of course. Far beyond the welcome map where you might be in your jocks in the morning.

Sure. Or hypothetically. If you were to live here, hypothetically. I keep all my clothes here, but that's just for convenience. Yes. Would you like to get changed mid-pod? You do a Taylor Swift five times changed pod. Correct.

Which is what she's going to say. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Podcasts are wild. And so is mine. Yeah. I'm wearing our black pants now, but by the end of it, blue.

Brown. Well, that's in the middle. That's before the change. You can't turn black into brown. I said, yes, I can. I think you'll find. You're real illusionist. Practical magic.

Anyway, what's this show about Jess again? This show is about the three of us and our friendship, ultimately. It's documenting nine years of friendship now, isn't it? Yeah, you could go back to the start and hear us hate each other. Very frosty. Yeah, frosty. Your hate's too strong. We don't know each other.

He just didn't know you. We were sending her a room together by our producers. Yeah. Because we are a, what do you call those things that are like an industry thing? A plant. We're a plant. We're industry plant. We're industry plants and we were planted together by the industry.

We were created by Simon Cowell. Yes. Yes. And yeah, so you can hear us get along. But while we're learning about each other, we're also learning about different topics. We've done all sorts of things. From Dolly Parton to Bigfoot. Bigfoot.

And how that works is one of us goes away. research as a topic, often suggested to us by our wonderful listeners. We live in it, we bathe in it, we become experts in it, and we come back and we tell the other two about it, who listen politely, never interrupt and never say anything done or inappropriate. And never say die. Never. Never. Yeah. Unless you have a gun to our head. You'll actually be really impressed. What sets us apart as well as that we never speak over each other. Never. It never happens. It's the craziest thing. I'll stop there, Jess. That's a famous. I think it's in important for the people who believe in feminism, which I do.

And that is to raise up people like you, Jess, and not to talk over people like you, people like you, which I think of as women. Yeah. And that's just me. But I... What about people like Dave? If you would let me finish... Can I talk?

Yes, of course. Thank you. It's Jess's turn this way. to report on a topic. Yes. And of course, we'd love to hear what you're going to say. But before you get to that, you always, where you always start with a question, famously, Jess, you don't always have a question locked and loaded.

I certainly don't have on when I arrive here first thing in the morning. Of course not. When you arrive, yes. When I arrive, which I do. Yeah, not when you wake up. In my car, I drive here. I go brum, brum, and I get here. Yes.

Now I'm here. But right before we hit record, I do always write a question. Fantastic. Okay. That's maybe not always in the past, but always. now. Yes, because Matt and I, we're in the darky. We don't know what you're going to talk about.

So it could be anything. What's it going to be? It's exciting. My question is, the Terry Fox run originated in which country? Canada. Thank you. Unfucking believable. Wait, unbelievable.

You asked the question. Unfucking believable. What? Jesus Christ. What was I meant to do? You've ruined everything. That's for sure. Sorry.

You've ruined the flow of the show. Yeah. Because it was going to be a reveal at the end that it all happened in Canada, a bit like when you're watching a really good movie and then it turns out it was all a dream. Why did you ask the question then? Oh my God, it was all the Canada. Yeah.

I'm kidding. Well done. It's Canada. Canada. Well done. Sorry, I forgot to tell the new listeners that we're also a comedy podcast. So we have a bit of fun. Okay.

We're a kid. So that was just a classic kid. And also, hey, comedy, it's subjective. So you might be saying, when are you going to say something funny? Correct. Well, maybe never. to you. To you, but somebody else might be absolutely pissing their pants right now.

Dave, that's why he's got to get another pair on Pricksmart. He's up to stage yellow. You're obviously aware of the Terry Fox run? I'm not, but I don't know why I know that, but I just, I hear Terry Fox and my brain goes Canada. Yeah, right. So there's, I don't know, I don't think I know a single thing about it. Cool. Dave, any recollection of this at all?

Maybe. Because it has been suggested a lot. lot. I think that's probably, possibly why I have some vague ideas because it's been suggested a lot. Honestly, it's quite a list of people that have suggested this topic. And anybody can. It's a free choice for me at the moment, but this is one I've wanted to do for a little

while because, yeah, it has been suggested a lot. It's been suggested by Jake from Canada. Luke Kruger from Calgary, Canada. Travis Saar from Canada. Scott Coventry from Canada. Okay. This is probably why we're starting to think it was a Canadian. Christine Mulder from Brisbane.

Okay. Molder. Matthew Boar from Canada. Justin Graham from Canada. Jamie Ellison from Canada. In fact, I'll just read it. And if they're from somewhere else, I'll say. Kelly Trey.

Darcy Williamson. Gracie. That's Canadian. Michael Luchisano. Oh, that's so Canadian. Dan Kyle. Mama, that's Canadian. Sorry, I've never spoke over them.

Dan Kyle. Thank you, Dan Carl. John Wick from Iowa. So that's not Canada. Okay. Joel Tremblay, Canada. Shannon Goddally, Fraser Green, Jared Brazzle.

And it's... Jared Brazzles. Well, it's written like Brazil, but Jared has said, pronounced like Razel, but with a B in front. Oh my God. Jared Brazel.

Jared Brazel is so good. But it's spelled Brazil. Yeah. Jared. I'm so sorry for your whole life. Jared Brazil is also fantastic, but Jared Brazle. Incredible.

I think that one person has suggested this. topic and then come up with all these aliases. Surely. Jared Brassel. So good. That's the best. But I love that little extra detail if it is made up.

Not like Brazil. Yeah. It's like razzle-bazel. Brazzle. Brazzle. Brazzle. Very good stuff. Will Groneveld.

He's given it phonetically, which I appreciate. Justin Walsh and Lily Bag. Beg. B-A-E-R-G. That is such a great, like you go, wow, what a lovely Oh, Lily Bag. Oh. Brazal.

I've definitely butchered it and Lily, I apologize. But Lily is also from Canada. Canada. Right. Great. So really only there was someone from Brisbane and someone from Iowa, but everybody else was from Canada. There's a great Canadian crowdwork comedian so named Bag. Ian Bag.

Ian Bagg, the king of crowdwork. Before it was big on TikTok. He just come out and do half an hour of... Wow. Just riffing. So funny too. Yeah. Must be nice.

Ah, the bag family. I did some gigs in Sydney once and he was on every night as a headliner. And it was like... You were on with Ian Bagg? He had similar sort of routines to get into the crowdwork, but then it would be different every night based on who was there and it was just really impressive to what's like... I can't believe you've performed with Ian Bag. I bag.

That made me hate him a little bit. Dave? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know we normally don't like say that on the podcast. We keep that for our private chat. I bagged with the bag.

Yeah, he sucks. That's awful. It's disgusting. Anyway, so this is a report about a Canadian legend. Ian Bagg. Ian Bagg. No, he fucks. Sorry, sorry. Terry Fox.

So Terence Stanley Fox, great name. Winnipeg on July 28th, 1958 to parents Roland and Betty Fox. He was the second of four kids growing up with his older brother, Fred, and younger siblings, Daryl and Judith. Great names. Yeah, I like them. In the year after 1965, the family moved to Surrey, British Columbia. I was like, that's a weird.

Oh, I turned my body towards Dave, like, just keep reading and maybe they won't notice. Listeners, you might not know this. What was this the year before 1967? Ninety-Six 65, the Saints lost the grand final that year, but the following year they... He's got one for every year. I know, it's incredible. The following year, the Saints won there, one and only VFL slash AFL Premiership. It's a bit like how he remembers where he was every time he saw a movie.

He actually remembers every year he has existed. Yeah. So, yeah, he has a pretty good memory. Anyway, so they moved to a part of Metro Vancouver. He was a very competitive kid, very sporty kid. He desperately wanted to join his school's basketball team, but I'm, Unfortunately, it was a little bit short to make the team. And I think also not particularly good at basketball.

Okay. Tell that to Mugsy. Yeah. But the height was a factor. They've definitely softened that with him. Hey, you just got to wait to grow a little bit. There's like a montage of him throwing up bricks. Airball after airball.

Just a bit short. It's the height thing. Yeah, maybe it grows a bit. We'll see. He's six foot two at 12 years old, but just a bit short. Anyway, so yes, he's, this is from the 10. Terry Fox Foundation. Terry, however, was terrible at the game, even by the standards of the Mary Hill Cobra's. It's like their primary school, basically. Bob McGill, the PE teacher,

suggested Terry try out for cross-country running. He might as well have asked Terry to skydive. The boy had no interest in running, but Terry started training anyway because he had so much respect for the coach and wanted to please him. I think he said because he had so much time on his hand because basketball people are like, get out of here. He found the workouts exhausting and was often afraid to start the runs because they were so demanding. It would be funny to find the workouts anything but exhausting, right? Otherwise, what's the point of them? Is there any point to do anything if you don't end up exhausted?

Yeah, there's definitely stuff that you can do that you don't. Does everything exhaust you? Yeah, not the way we do it. Pretty much. Not the way we do. Again, I hate him a little bit. What? The way Matt and I approach life.

It is exhausting. It is exhausting to watch us. well. Yeah, exhausting to be around, that's for sure. Certainly exhausting to listen to. Well, I've bagged with the bag, sir. Pretty good. He's trying to make it better and it's making the worse.

I'm messaging Alice at Trombo Burture right now saying, Dave Bag with the bag and see if he understands what that means. So he was determined to stick with basketball, even if he was the 19th player on the team of 19. He worked hard in practice and was rewarded with one minute of floor play all season. So he ended up making the team, but he was sort of like, you know, He was like you and cricket. Right, the honourer.

But was his one minute, like, during half time, like to polish the middle? Yeah. If you could just clean up some sweat. That'd be good. Thanks, Terry. One minute of play is so great. Especially the coach keeps putting it off to, and it's the final minute of the game. Scores are tied.

It's like, fuck, I've got to get Terry in there. But we actually just really need a goal. Or you wait to a game, you're winning by 20 points. And you're like, you chuck it in for a minute. How about going to be 30 seconds later? You're losing about 50. How? How?

So this is again from the Foundation's website. McGill's policy was not to cut anyone from the team, but he let the boys know that only the best 12 players would be allowed floor time. In grade 9, Terry was one of the 12 best. He worked hard. At basketball? Yeah. One of the 12 best, five on the quarter of time.

He was 12. And do you think that I mean one of the 12 tallest? Had he just had a grassberg? He had a grass bird. No, no, he worked really hard. Like he was like really dedicated to it and practiced a lot, where some of the others were sort of like, you know, just maybe a bit more naturally talented,

so took their foot off the pedal a little. He was like really working. He was very dedicated to it. And he's young. Australia is in the group of death in the men's Olympics basketball. The group of death. Group of death. You know, that's the one.

There's always one group in those tournaments that is like two go through, but there's three teams that would think they maybe could or should. Right. And are we the fourth team? Well, yeah. All four nations are quite good basketballing nations. You know, world stage style. Canada's one.

Okay. Australia, Spain and Greece, which is Janus's team, obviously. So they've got one particularly good player. But anyway, it would be fun to watch us play Canada. Yeah. Although people were upset. We didn't name, what's his name, Thiebold or whatever in the town? team. Theobald? I'm a real basketball guy. Yeah, and you're talking to two people, and

our eyes are glazing over. I thought you would be able to take that up and run with it. No, I'm sorry. I watched it. Like, I'll watch it during the Olympics, but I'm not, I don't know anybody. I don't know anybody. Who are you? What am I doing? Just don't think of who you could mean by Theobald. No, yeah, that's a name I recognize. Or I could be wrong. I don't know anyone. Was it Theobald or Dante Axon maybe, which is very different. It doesn't matter. I know that name.

Yeah, Matisse. Yes, it was Matisse. I don't know if I, yeah, Theobul. It's written like Thibulee. But I think in my head I just always sort of, I should have said Matisse. AJ, could you edit that around so I sound really good at basketball knowing? And also edit that sentence around so that the words are in the right place to make sense. Thanks, AJ.

Or just chop it all out if it's easier. We're talking about a 12-year-old child, or maybe not even. So, Terry, so yes, he's worked really hard. He's gone from, like, not making the team to making the team, but, like, being the 19th person on the team and getting one minute to being, like, one of the better players. That's great. So he's worked his way up.

He wanted to be as good as the coach believed he could be. He was such an inspirational person. I wanted to show him that I was a lot better than being laughed at by the other players, Terry recalled. So he's talking about the coach. The coach that told him, you shouldn't play basketball. you should just run around. Yeah, I don't, I think he's misunderstood.

Was the coach believing in his running abilities or his basketball as well? Well, McGill, there's a quote from McGill next. McGill chuckled with pride, remembering the way he pushed and encouraged the team and the way Terry in particular responded. If I told Terry to hit his head against the wall, he would have, McGill said, because that's how much he believed in what I was trying to do. So, McGill kind of, he was like, yeah, he wasn't good enough at basketball to make the team the first time. So he said, like, try cross country running or, and I think he also said, like, wrestling. something. So Terry did other sporting stuff and then worked hard and made his way onto the team. So yeah. By year 10, he was a starting player and earned the respect of his teammates and

teachers. So you get the idea. He works hard. He's very determined to excel. That's great. It's impressive. And he did. He was a talented athlete, not just in basketball. He shared athlete of the year with his friend Doug Allwood in grade 12. Doug had become an accomplished runner and came second in the British Columbia cross-country finals. He always liked to defend. He always liked to deflect the attention from himself saying that Terry deserved the award more because Terry was a better basketball player. He was a first class soccer player and a gutsy rugby player. So he was just very sporty. Wow. After finishing school, he enrolled at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He studied kinesiology. While at university, he made it onto the junior varsity basketball team

and planned on using his education to become a PE teacher. So he was obviously quite inspired by his school PE teacher. Mike McNeil, the first string guard on the varsity team, said, in the summer after high school, we knew Terry was coming out for the team. I played against him offensively, and he wasn't that good, but defensively, he was one of the toughest I'd ever played against. He had a lot of pride, and he worked hard. His determination and hard work paid off, and he made the team.

There were more talented players who didn't make it, McNeil recalled, but Terry just outgutted them. People tend to look in awe at players who have a lot. lot of natural ability, but respect from other athletes goes to the guy who works really hard, and that was Terry. Did he outgutter them or just gut them? He outguttered them. Yeah.

Yeah. He was putting up guttering around a house. Yeah. He did that better than anyone. Yeah, and very quick. Because the coach kept going, basketball, not your thing. Try guttering? We haven't found it yet.

We'll find what you're good at. Painting. Accounting. Yeah. With numbers? Six times five. Don't know it? Okay.

Okay. That's off of this. Okay. We can do this. We'll figure this out. I keep thinking back to the name that you called this. The Fox Race? Cherry Fox Run.

Babe, I'm two paragraphs in. I'm setting the scene a little. No, I'm just curious how we're going from... I know, it's exciting, babe. I'm trying out of your thing. Do you like it? Babe, I'm excited. He's a little too excited over there.

Yeah, I won't call him Babe anymore. Yeah. Like the pig? That's sick. Oh my God. It's actually awesome. I want to be a little pig. That would be sick.

I want to be a little smart pig. I'd be a little talking pig. I'd be so sick. Matt's really into being a talking pig. Anyway, so. I want to be a little talking pig, babe. Okay, babe. That'll do.

I'm just sitting the scene of like the type of person, very driven, very determined, hardworking. Yeah, a lot of guts. A lot of tenacity. That's right. Love this guy. So, November 12, 1976, Terry's driving home to like the family home. And as he's driving, he gets distracted by there's some like bridge construction happening.

And he kind of is having a look at that. I could do better guttering than that. It's terrible. And because he was distracted, he crashed into the back of a pickup truck. Luckily, no one was seriously injured, but he did injure his right knee. And after several weeks, he was still feeling quite a bit of pain. But he decided to play through the pain until the end of the basketball season. But by March the following year, so four months after the car accident, the pain in his knee was still there.

And if anything, it was kind of intensifying. So he finally went and got it checked out. He went to the hospital and doctors ran tests to see what was causing the continued pain in Terry's knee. So I went to the doctor and said, do you know what's causing it? Yeah, yeah, gotcha. Finally good answer. And the test revealed that Terry had osteosarcoma, so an aggressive bone cancer. And, wait, caused by the accident or the accident unveiled it?

Terry kind of blamed the accident, but doctors were like, that is not how it works. Yeah. So. I'm so confused by cancer because I, someone said to me like when I was a kid that you can't get cancer from like being hit in certain ways and stuff. I'm like, that can't be right, can it. But then I heard recently that that can, you know, weird things can, like spark a cancer. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Well, so I looked into this one and this is just from.

Wikipedia, which is a fascinating medical journal. Medical journal. Peer review. Well, people review. Some. Yeah. Yeah. And it says, people.

Many patients first complain of pain that may be worse at night, may be intermittent or of a varying intensity and may have been occurring for a long time. Teenagers who are active in sports often complain of pain in the lower femur or immediately below the knee. If the tumour is large, it can present as overt localized swelling. Sometimes a sudden fracture in the. is the first symptom because the affected bone is not as strong as normal bone and may fracture abnormally with minor trauma. So maybe the car accident, someone with a healthy leg, wouldn't have had

exactly right. The trauma. I just googled, can an impact injury cause cancer? And the first thing that comes up is the Canadian Cancer Society, which says injuries cannot cause cancer, but an injury may lead to finding cancer in the injured area. And so, yeah, exactly right. For example, a bone that is weak from a cancerous tumor is more likely to break and treating the broken bone could lead to the discovery. Yeah, exactly right. Do you reckon if there's another paragraph, just like our hero, Terry Fox? Quite possibly.

So, yeah, that's kind of how his cancer was discovered. And whatever I just said before is absolute nonsense. And see, that's why it's important to peer review. Yes. Matt says something unhinged and Dave and I go, oh, and that's peer review. It was clever for me to Google it now because people would have been. absolutely furious about it. So backspace, back, back, back, back, back space on those tweets. That's like, because 50% of our listeners are doctors, is that right? That's right. Yeah, that's right.

So he is 18-year-old Terry, finding out the pain in his knee is actually bone cancer. Oh, God, that's so awful. And the doctors are telling him that his right leg needs to be amputated, and he'll have to undergo chemotherapy. He's 18. He's a star athlete. That sounds like if he's playing all those sports, it sounds like it's his life. Yeah, it's a big part of him. And he's like, he's studying. kinesiology so it's like the movement and he wants to be a P.A. T. Which you can absolutely do as an ampute. But I'm just saying like obviously sport and everything is very important to him. So doctors also told him that recent medical advances meant he had a 50% chance of survival,

which doesn't sound that good, but only two years earlier, his chance of survival would have been more like 15%. Wow. That's quite an advancement. Huge advancement in two years. So timing was something like Yeah. So the night before his amputation, Terry read an article about Dick Tram. Okay, now, I've got a picture in my mind, but let's see where this goes. Traum, T.A. Maybe it's trauma, because it's essentially trauma without the A of the end. Oh my God, Dick Trauma.

Dick Trauma. That's awful. No one wants any of that. Dick Trom was the first amputee to complete the New York City Marathon. And the article inspired him. It sort of gave him hope for life after the surgery that he would still be able to be active. So the next day, his right leg was amputated about 15 centimetres or six inches above the knee. And Terry's determination and drive was admired by hospital staff who watched him persevere and commented on his positive attitude.

So much so that within three weeks, he was walking with a prosthetic leg. He sounds like the perfect person to deal with any adversity. Yeah. Like he's never, I mean, from what I've learned, it's like it just never seems to get down or hardly does. and you see, like, I get knocked back from the basketball team, you know, good. I say, I'll never touch a basketball again. I will never touch a basketball. I'm stabbing basketballs left front and centre.

No worries. I'll never. If I'm not immediately good at something, I'm never doing it again. If I'm having my leg amputated above the knee or anywhere, I'm feeling sorry for myself for a bit. Yeah. For the first three weeks, yeah, I'd be feeling sorry for myself. And you're 18. Like, I remember being 18 and feeling bulletproof.

Like you can't fathom a world where something. isn't perfect or working right in your body. And bullets did used to bounce off you. That's true. Until I was 19 and then they just started penetrating. You were penetrated by so many bullets after that. I know, it's crazy, is that? But your body then pushed them out and healed quickly.

Yeah, yeah. Which I assume everyone does. But still, it's annoying that they penetrated at all. The bullets are a local basketball table. That was a big hit, behind the shelter shed. Behind the shelter shed. Anyway, so. Jess, you're excited.

An interesting place. Okay, babe. So, yeah, three weeks, he's walking with a prosthetic leg, which, like, yeah, can take a lot of time to get used to and build up the muscles. But the amputation was just part one of his cancer battle, and he had to undergo 16 months of chemotherapy. Wow. While receiving his treatment, Terry spent time, obviously, with other cancer patients and watched as some of them suffered through really uncomfortable. treatments and obviously die from their illness. So this firsthand experience, along with the fact that the chance of his own survival had increased from 15% to 50% in a two-year span, it sort of

proved to him how important cancer research and funding was. And secretly, he began to devise a plan for ways he could raise money, but to his family, he just seemed to be Terry finding a way to continue his love of sport. But he's sort of in his mind, he's devising something. That's such a funny thing. That's such a funny thing to be a like my secret, my little secret shame. I hope no one finds out. I'm thinking about ways. I'm scheming. I'm scheming about ways to raise money for cancer research. Please. I don't know what finds out. Don't tell anyone. Please. Schemeaning. Does that mean he's going to like, you know, rob a bank or drug lab or something?

Oh, the run is the getaway. This story could go. The Terry Fox run. Yeah. Yeah. It's exciting. Fox on the run. I'm telling you. My reports are very exciting. I agree. Can't wait for the big twist. Thanks, babe. In the summer of 77, a man named Rick Hanson, who was working with the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association, invited Terry to try out for his wheelchair basketball team. He played a lot of basketball. 77 is a year that Collingwood drew with North Melbourne in the Grand Final. I'm fucking believable. So less than two months after learning how to play wheelchair basketball, Terry was named a member of the team for the national championship in Edmonton.

What? He won three national titles with the team and was. named an all-star by the North American Wheelchair Basketball Association in 1980. What? That's actually amazing. So he's gone from, you're not good enough to make the team, to playing through high school, playing in college, very quickly picking up wheelchair basketball and then being named, winning a national championship three times.

Entirely different skill. Very different, yes. So when we said you're not good enough to make the team, we mean you're good enough to make any team. You know what I'm ready? Not good enough. You're too good. You're too good. You're very, very good.

You made everyone else look really bad. Some of them... Holy shit. Some of them have been playing wheelchair basketball for a decade. Yeah. And you're better than them after day one. We've had to kick them off the team. We've said never come back.

They're stabbing basketball's out there right now. The morale is awful. Terry, you're too good. Canada's just going to be a one-on-five team from now on. Terry's just... So, he's playing basketball. But aside from that as well, he's also running a lot. He told his family he wanted to run a marathon, just like Dick Trom.

But in private, he devised. a more extensive plan. His hospital experience had made Terry angry at how little money he was dedicated to cancer research. So he intended to run the length of Canada. Oh, that's a big one. In the hope of increasing cancer awareness. If you're from like a really small country, you're like from Singapore, you're like,

this is so much easier. But then you're like, Canada, fuck. It's quite big. Yeah. Yeah, quite a big country. Imagine he's going east to west. Imagine running up through the north, like he's finishing. chasing polar bits.

So he started training. So he couldn't run with a normal gate because he had like springs in his artificial leg that required more time to reset between each step. So he sort of had to do like a little hop step kind of skip when he ran. So it's just to give the springs time to reset. Not surprisingly, training was very painful. The additional pressure he had to place on both.

his good leg and his stump of the amputation led to bone bruises, blisters and intense pain. But where most people would stop, Terry found that after about 20 minutes of each run, he crossed a pain threshold and the run became easier. He's like, it hurts so much, it didn't hurt anymore. Yeah. Yeah. It's like his body releases some sort of natural painkillers, I guess. After 20 minutes, he passed out and every day his support team would go and pick him up,

drive him home in the next day, do another 20 minutes before he'll stay up on the plane. Isn't that incredible? But like I have, I have, like, when training up to do longer distance runs, and I'm not a long distance runner, so it takes me ages to train to do like 5Ks. Like you wouldn't run across Canada, but luckily you could run across Australia. Easy. Yeah. Yeah, obviously, just as a warm up.

Would you go east or west, north and south? Oh, it'd be nice to end up in Cairns. Yeah. That'd be nice. I don't want to run through the desert. Uh, good point. Camels. No thanks.

They're going to run right along the coast. Really take an inch. Just beach. Yeah. I'll just do beach the whole way. Just sand the whole way. That'd be nice, actually. Yeah.

Anyway, no, like I have experienced it where you're sort of, you're uncomfortable and then you do hit a bit of a, you hit a threshold in it and your feet are just moving and you're not really thinking as much about it. But that's not with incredible pain. He's just persevering through it. I mean, sometimes I've had pimples that are too painful to pop. I've gone, oh, I want to, I should, but that's really, that hurts too much. That hurts, yeah, yeah.

The ones of your eyes just start watering immediately. But like, what are they? Yeah. So you and Terry, very similar people. I just am a standard by people that even someone, you know, there's people that run from one side of the country to the other, and they do a marathon every day for 100 days or whatever, and they're doing it without. Yes. Doing a single marathon is mind-boggling.

I know. Do one day after day after days. Like, if you told me that's a lot of us. physically impossible. I would have said, yeah, no, it is. Of course it is. I know, people do that kind of thing. How? How? It doesn't make sense. How? Yeah. What are they? What are they?

Yeah. What kind of aliens are they? Yeah. Let's figure this out. It's wild. Are they a cyborg? He's right running long distances. Just, yeah. With a prosthetic, with extreme pain. Bone bruises, blisters. Yeah. Bone bruises. Some time.

Brusing a bone really hurts. I didn't know you could do that. It's crazy. I do also sometimes think you don't have to do. this man. Yeah, you don't have to do it. Come on, your body's telling you. I think that's my problem is I listen to my body. It says, don't do it. And I say, yeah.

Fair enough, let's go to the couch. And that's why you've never inspired anyone. You've never inspired anyone. I have a funny feeling that Terry's about to inspire. I think that might be right. So in September of 79, Terry completed a 17 mile or 27 kilometre road race, finishing in last place, but to tears and applause. Like other competitors, he's

family and friends and stuff, people are losing it. Yeah, they were really sad that he lost. We've stood at this finish line for ages. And to be fair, he was only like 10 minutes behind the last one. So it's not bad. It's not like they waited for like five hours in the dark. Because he can't run with like the same speed as as other people can because he has to sort of let the leg reset.

So he's kind of like hopping along. I'll say the tears were genuine, but the applause was patronising. Fantastic. Wow. Finally. They're crying from boredom. Yeah. We've been waiting here for ages.

Anyway, so it was... How long of a race was it? 17 miles or 27Ks. Yeah, okay. So, longer than I've ever run. Of course, yes. But I mean, I don't know why that's relevant. I just in my own head, I'm like, okay.

I can't fathom it. An early run for him is just a run that I've got close. I think I've done like... I've got close. I've done like 18. Oof. Okay. And that was like, you know, it was delirious.

by the end of it. Yeah. Yeah, 18Ks. Well, that's right. Is this 20... 27Ks. Fuck, it's crazy. Yeah, that's a small run.

I'll never do that. So he did another half of what you were. Yeah. And you were already delirious. Yeah, I was like full delirious. I remember running. It was a bit of a downhill thing. And I'm like, okay, this is like, I'm falling more than running at this point.

You were rolling. That's my dog going downstairs. Yeah. He's just, he's strategically falling. Which is actually very impressive. But these legs are too short for the stairs. He's falling. Just have to stick the landing in you're up.

Yeah, he falls with grace. So it was after this race that the now 21-year-old finally divulged his plan to his family, that he was going to run from the east coast of Canada all the way to the west coast. His mother, Betty, was upset by the idea, and she tried to sort of talk some sense into her son. His father, knowing the determination and drive of his son, simply replied with, when? I was like, okay, when? Yeah, mate, I got a change of schedule. Betty came around pretty quickly and later recalled, he said,

I thought you'd be one of the first persons to believe in me. And I wasn't. I was the first person who let him down. Oh, Betty came around. Betty said that. Oh, no. She came around, but you can completely, from then on, she was very supportive, but I think it's totally reasonable for a parent to be fearful of their kid taking on such a mammoth effort when he, you know, like he's only 21.

Right that she feels bad many years later, I assume. Yeah, she's still like, God. Because he never let her forget it. You let me down, mum, you're dead to me. Anyway, Dad, here we go. Here we go. Let's do it. So family and friends were on board with the plan.

Terry wrote a letter. Except for Betty. Except for Betty. No, she was on board now. No, baby came around. What are you referencing there? When I come around by Green Day. But I do it.

When I come around. But I also don't know how to change the tone or do melodies and stuff. Betty, come around. Is that what you're trying to do? Betty came around. Yeah, I don't know that's it. It's not doing the doors.

Come on, Betty, touch me, Betty. Okay, that's a very different song. Come on, Betty, touch me, Betty. Most parody artists won't get Betty in there twice, but I did it. You are freakishly good, that's why. But also, not many parody artists. artists will do a parody and people will be like, what's that song? What's that I can?

What's that song? Who is Betty? Who is Betty? What are you doing? Everyone's like, great original. Like, no, no, no. I need to give credit. Billy Joe wrote this one.

Love you, Billy Joe. So, family and friends, including Betty, are now all on board. And he wrote a letter to the Canadian Cancer Society requesting their support. I've got some of the letter here. This is what he wrote. The night before, there's a bit of a chunk here, but it's I really like his writing. The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge

head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me. But I soon realized that would only be half my quest. For as I went through the 16 months of physically and emotionally draining ordeal of chemotherapy, I was rudely awakened by the feelings that surrounded and coursed through the cancer clinic. There were faces with the brave smiles, the ones who had given up smiling. There were feelings of hopeful denial and feelings of despair. My quest would not be a selfish one. I could not leave knowing these faces and feelings would still exist,

even though I would be set free from mine. Somewhere the hurting must stop, and I was determined to take myself to the limit for this cause. From the beginning, the going was extremely difficult, and I was facing chronic ailment, foreign to runners with two legs, in addition to the common physical strains felt by all dedicated applications. athletes. But these problems are now behind me, as I have either out persisted or learned to deal

with them. I feel strong not only physically, but more importantly, emotionally. Soon I will be adding one full mile a week, and coupled with weight training I've been doing, by next April I'll be ready to achieve something that for me was once only a distant dream reserved for the worlds of miracles, to run across Canada to raise money for the fight against cancer. The running I can do, even if I have to crawl every mile. We need your help. The people in cancer clinics, all over the world need people who believe in miracles. I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles.

I have to. How good is that? That's a letter he wrote to them. Gosh, I hope they get on board, because that's a really great letter. They were a little skeptical at first. They were sort of like, I don't know if he can do it. But they did agree to support him on the condition that he, like they said, if you get sponsors will support you and also requested that he get a medical certificate just saying he was

fit to run. They just wanted him to, I mean, you know, like I think his cancer is basically in remission, but they're still dealing with this young person who only a couple of years ago was diagnosed with bone cancer. So they're like, let's make sure you're okay to do this. So during this checkup, they found that he had left ventricular hypertrophy. It's an enlarged heart. It's apparently quite common in athletes.

So he's diagnosed with something else in this checkup. And I guess that's because the body's like, it needs to be a bigger to deal with it. But that seems bad. I would have thought that makes you like a superhero. It can come, it comes with some risks or it can lead to other things. But it wasn't a huge deal. The doctors didn't think it'd be a concern. They endorsed his run, but just said, like, be conscious of it.

Seek medical attention if you're having heart issues or anything. But they were like, you're fine to do it, but just be aware of it. So it's just interesting that they're like, do a checkup. There's, oh, something else. So it's, yeah. But anyway, it's not a big deal. They're happy for him to do the run. Nothing's a big deal to this guy.

No, he's like, cool, whatever. He's like, yeah, next. Yep. What else do you go? No problem. Why, just take my heart out. I don't need it. Fine.

Can I run now? Incredible. So along with this letter to the Cancer Society, a second letter was sent to several corporations seeking donations for a vehicle and running shoes and to cover the costs of, you know, other stuff. So he sent letters. asking for grants to buy another prosthetic, like a running leg. The Ford Motor Company donated a camper van, while Imperial Oil contributed fuel, and Adidas gave him his running shoes.

I mean, honestly, a camper van, that's going to make a lot easier. Sorry, Adidas. He's going to, he just drive it. That's great. Yeah. That will, that's super helpful. Sounds like a really cool road trip. It's like, thanks for the runners, Adidas.

Yeah. I've got a camper van. I've got a camper van now. Do you have any driving shoes? I like the idea that Dave's in the next doctor's office. He's going to, your heart, you've got hypertrophy of the heart. And he's like, no, I'm in the next office, the doctor's going to, Dave. I'm so sorry, we've found a second pimple.

And Dave's like, I can't go on. I can't take this. I cannot take this. Call my wife. Call my wife. If you're going to remove it, you'll have to put me in a car. I need a general He's not even put me under

I'm going to have to be in a coma A few weeks Otherwise the screaming won't stop He'll have to put me down The pimple is spread There's a secondary pimple You didn't quite get it And now it's got a double head

Oh no It's got to have to have twice the squeezing Please put me in a coma Please not And he walks past He's leaving after finding out about a new thing he's going to get through. He walks past and he hears your sobbing.

He says, I'm doing this for him. I'm doing it for that boy. For that little boy in there. I'm 34 years old, Terry. Terry. And I'm frightened. Terry, do it for me. So, yeah.

You're right, Terry? You wouldn't know what I'm going through. Exactly. Terry. Some of us have adversity to overcome. I thought it was kind of cool. I thought it was kind of cool. that he got these things donated to it.

It is very cool. And that's great of... And I'll have any chance to say Adidas. Adidas. Ford, Adidas and the Motorola company come on board. That's what you need. He also turned away any company that requested he endorsed their products. Right.

And he refused any donations that carried conditions because he insisted that nobody was to profit from his run. Right. Which I kind of respect as well. He puts you to do something guys. These Adidas suck. They suck. My feet are bleeding because of the Adidas. I mean, it would still be good marketing for them because...

Yeah. It's so funny that some didn't see that and they're like, no, we need a photo with you going, these are real good in the photo. This is my favourite t-shirt. Yeah. So his initial goal was to raise a million dollars. This is in like 1980. Then he changed to a goal of 10 million.

What? Before finally he decided he wanted to raise $1 for every. Okay, that's gone way back. Like, he's bouncing all over the place. I thought a million was good. 10 million maybe been ambitious, but a dollar, Terry? Terry, I'll give you a dollar. Come on.

Terry, I'll give you a dollar. You could sell a camper van for at least a few dollars, Terry. Jess is shaking her head. She is not pleased with this interruption. I mean, Jess, it's, no, it's not our fault that Terry is being ridiculous. Yes, I mean. One million, 10 million, one dollar. Does Terry know the value of a dollar?

Sometimes when I'm writing the reports And I'm like, this will be a really impactful statement Every time we get to those Have you underlined it in red? Read with hearts Read with heart Read with an enlarged part So okay

He decided he wanted to raise $1 for each of Canada's citizens Which was 24 million So 24 million dollars Yeah, okay, now we're talking She's bouncing around a dollar Now up to 24 million. Terry, this scale is crazy.

I hate these boys. I don't live in America because there's a lot more people there. Yeah. So that's the goal. 24 million. That's ambitious. It's pretty ambitious. Can I ask a question?

Is it because he hit a million pretty quickly and was like, oh. No, he hasn't even, he hasn't started yet. Before, before $1,000, he went from $1 to $10 to $24 million. Yeah. That is incredible. He just thought, well, like, you know. Stretch goal. Imagine if you could, if everybody in Canada gave $1, you'd have $20.

you'd have $24 million. That's, you know. Yeah, okay. So, that's his goal. And he's including babies in this? Yeah. I suppose like... He's robbing babies?

I think like, okay, if you're a family of six, you're giving $6, you know what I mean? Like... Yeah, okay, orphan babies, Jess. Okay, like, I'm talking to... I'm talking to Terry, but I'm really talking to Terry here. Let's be reasonable. You know, like, sure, orphan babies can't give a dollar,

but like maybe Ritchie McRitch could give like 10. Oh, I didn't really. realize Richie McRitch was Canadian. Yeah, okay. Well, yeah, if he's in, if he gives 10, and that'll cover the nine orphan babies in Canada. I've got an idea. What if Richie Mick Rich gives 24 million? Covering all the orphans and everyone else. Okay, that's not bad. Hey, what about this? Richie McRitch pays tax. Okay. All right. And then, and then we don't have to privately fund cancer research. Okay. That'll do, pig. Okay. You're talking crazy now. Sorry, I just got a coffee order from our Trotskyist borrista, and I think a bit of it seeps through.

I've become a commie. A bit of taste of Leon in every trip. Okay, he set his goal. True to his word to the Cancer Society, in April of 1980, Terry Fox was ready to start running. So, on the 12th of April, 1980, Terry Fox dipped his right foot in the Atlantic Ocean near St. John's, Oh no. Oh no. What?

He's running the wrong way. He's going to be... His first step. Oh my God. No, Terry, no, turn around. Lucky did it right at St John's, where the ambulances are from. St John's, Newfoundland, the Labrador. He's on the West Coast.

That's where he's... No, he's on the East Coast. And he's what the... The first step should be onto land. Let me finish! Run west. Terry. Terry!

His whole support team. The camp fan. driving it after. Terry, no. He's running into the... No. Put it in reverse. No, Terry. No.

Oh, this has got off for a bad start. This is the end of the report. Terry Brown. He was a great runner. Not a good swimmer. One of the... One of the sketches on Australia Get It Up here,

which I think was a great concept that was maybe not that well done. But me and Andy were doing bad American accent. At the very last second, Alastair goes, you should do American accents. I'm like, I'm not doing an American accent. And he really pressured me into doing it. And it's bad. Didn't practice at all.

It's awful. But anyway, the sketch was that we were training for the Sydney to Hobart foot race. And it starts, so I'm Andy's trainer. I'm teaching. I'm revving him up. And he takes his first steps out. Pan across the man. I like, I really believe him, whatever.

Pan out. And Andy's floating in the water in Sydney. It's like it's a very funny idea. That's pretty funny. Get rid of the awful American accent. You can be Australian. What? Yeah.

I think Al just liked trolling in person. Like, this is going to make it worse, Al. Nah, it would be interesting. There's another one where he made me do like a thick, like Australian-Italian-y kind of accent. Oh, no. I'm like, this doesn't feel right. He's like, yeah, of quarter Swiss a time. It's fine.

I think it is fine. I don't think it's fine. And I'm going to find that. I'm going to find that. Ten years later, I get cancelled. Anyway. So he took a step into the ocean? I got one.

I didn't even get one sentence into the start of the race. That is very funny, though. I thought this would be exciting. That is very funny, Dave. Yeah, it's very good. He gets in the water and drowns and Adidas is like, we just gave him 100 pairs of shoes. We should have given him togs.

That's a swimming costume for our... Is that not an international? Togs. Togs. You think everyone calls them Togs. I guess not. Not everyone calls them tog, some call them swimmers. When we did a Patreon episode earlier today, and you were saying how much you love the Australian term, cracking the shits?

I'm like, it's that an Australian term? Surely. But yeah, it probably is. Surely. What is the origin of that even feet? And it's often kids and teenagers crack the shits. Yeah, they're the ones that crack the shits. And cracking the shits is actually like, it's an adult tantrum, basically.

Like, if an adult cracks the shits, you're kind of laughing at them. Yeah. Oh, man, I love crack the shits. Normally the person who cracks the shits later goes, sorry about that. Yeah, sorry, sorry. That was not a good moment of mine. That's embarrassing.

That's embarrassing that I cracked the shit. I apologize. Sorry. Oh, it's so good. Anyway, so it's just, it's ceremonial. It's symbolic. It's symbolic. He also filled two large bottles with ocean water.

Oh, Terry. Oh, Terry. You're not going to make it to midday. Mate, that's full of salt. That's terrible for hydrate. I'm sorry, sorry. You guys are killing me. Two bottles of the seawater.

Yeah, yeah, okay, yep. No, to keep us a souvenir and also he wanted to pour it into the Pacific Ocean once he made it to British Columbia. Which I always find funny because I imagine the waters would be like, what the hell? What is that? That's a bit of eco-tourism. Terrorism. Eco-tourism. He's like, there's little, like, life forms in that water and they end up spreading and just like, it has this huge flow-on effects.

It's actually why the ice caps are melting. Yeah. Because of Terry Fox. All the water in Vancouver is actually purple because of Terry Fox. So, yeah, that's sort of part of it. He's childhood friend Doug Allwood, who they... Oh, yeah, they're co- MVP. That's right.

He accompanied him on the journey. He was driving the van behind Terry. And speed it up. Go. And so this run that he's doing for cancer research was... He called it the Marathon of Hope. Love it. A lot of people know it.

He took off running 26 miles of 42 kilometres that first day, the equivalent of a marathon, and he would continue to run that distance every day. How do people do it? How does Terry do it? I love that. That first day, the equivalent of a marathon, day one. Fuck.

He does it every day. I'd run across Canada, but I'd take three decades. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd run from here to, you know, to the shop. The shops? I would do it, like, on a treadmill over the course of my lifetime, you know? I don't know if I would. No, God, no.

Because do you know how far it is in distance, is it? Yes. Or if you don't know how far it is in distance, you know how far it is in another measurement? Well, it's... Rather than days of how... You probably know how many days it takes if you makes it. But, like, I don't... I know Canada is so, so big, but I couldn't give you a number if it's like...

What is it? 10,000 K? I'd say a million? Well, okay, so here's the thing as well. This is where it maybe gets a little tricky, is that he detours a little bit along the journey. Like, a town he's approaching will be like, come and we'll have, like, we'll throw something for it.

So he might go out of the way. So it's not perfectly. A straight line. But if I give you the idea, so he starts in St. John, which, yeah, St John, and then I'll go directions. And then he ends up in Vancouver. Yes, okay. And then if I just go walking distance.

Vancouver's right on the East Coast. That's cool. West. West Coast. So it would be about, it includes a ferry. And this particular route also includes, it crosses through the United States. But walking, It's like 6,800 kilometres.

Okay, unbelievable. So it's a long... Yeah, it's a long journey, which isn't a surprise. But he's running a marathon every day. That's unbelievable, Terry. It's insane. So in the first few days he was met with less than ideal conditions. There was heavy rain, strong winds.

Apparently one of the days there was a snow storm. His spirits were lifted, though, when he arrived in Channel Portobasque, in the southwest tip of Newfoundland, where the... town's 10,000 residents presented him with a donation of over $10,000. Wow, so they did it. That's more than one each. Pretty good. They cover their orphan babies.

The orphanage was going, thank God. Thank God. That would have been embarrassing. And it's sort of like, especially early on, it's just him on the road and Doug's driving along behind him. Like there isn't a whole heap of buzz, but it builds over time. Does Doug like have like a trailer full of cash on the back? Like, how are they taking the damage?

I don't know. Because apparently sometimes he'd be running along and people would just be handing him cash. So I don't know That's lovely But that's really annoying For me, thank you Just put it in the G string Please

Now I've got to store this cash It'd be easy In today's day and age Because you could just like You could wear like a QR code Or a Venmo thing And then they could transfer That'd be easier

But anyway It was the 80s So yeah So he made it to I should tell you guys About the 80s at some point Fantastic decade I'd love to know about the 80s

You should do a report on the 80s Yeah I will Which ones are we talking about I love the 1780s Oh fantastic Yeah you're Which ones are these are? This is the 1980s.

Sorry. I should have been... Recent history. Yeah, yeah. 1980s are great. Probably feels like yesterday for you. It does feel like yesterday. But I should say, if you remember the 1980s, you probably went there where you are.

I don't get it. I wasn't there. Yeah. Maybe you were then. Oh. Because you don't remember. But I was born in 1990. Uh-huh.

Like a good eight months in. Technically, that's the end of the 80s. Okay. Is that true, Dave? Is that true, Dave? I'm not sure. That's true. Or is it the start of the 90s?

Which is it, Dave? Dave. Dave. Dave. You're not saying anything. I know I don't often stick to these, but I will shut up for a bit. I feel like I've been a nightmare today. Today.

Babe, can I be real? You're always a nightmare. Thank you. But we love it. We're those like sickos who love horror movies and nightmares. Bring on your biggest freak, babe, because we love it. Right, Dave? You know what I mean?

I love feeling uncomfortable. Squeezing pimples and feeling the pain. You're that to me in human form. A human pimple. So I kind of, that was a confusing way I did that just then, I guess, because I was like, yeah, first few days it was kind of stormy. But then he made it to this town and they got $10,000. That was the 6th of May.

By that time, he had run 882 kilometers. Which is still amazingly. And he was still in Newfoundland. That's just the start, though. Yes. He has made it from, like, St. John, down to the, southwest tip so that now he can catch a ferry across to Nova Scotia. So he's still in the same state.

Yeah. He's run 882 kilometres. I try to do miles and kilometres if I don't. Google. So yeah, from there they had to catch a ferry across to Nova Scotia. Throughout the trip, Terry frequently expressed his anger and frustration to those he saw as impeding the run. And he fought pretty regularly with his friend Doug. Oh, okay.

When they reached Nova Scotia, their relationship was a bit tense, and it was arranged for Terry's brother, Daryl, who was then 17, to join them and kind of help ease tensions, be a third person. But I can kind of, I get it, because I think Doug is probably concerned for his friend, who's doing something pretty huge, but Terry is so focused and determined that he sort of gets annoyed if people are fussing over him or telling him to, do you want to have a rest day or something? He's like, fuck, oh, fuck off, I'm running.

It's snowing, maybe we should take today off. Yeah, yeah. He's got the vibe of a guy who doesn't need to be, like, mothered or fathered or whatever. And he's... You don't hear fathered as much. You don't. Isn't that interesting? No one needs that.

What is it... Stop fathering me. What is it to father someone, you know? I think it's to go... Want to play catch? Yeah. Throw a baseball with him. You need to learn out of shave.

Yeah. Teach him to drive manual. Want to get me a beer. Grow me a beard, son. Yelling it. Stop fathering me. Stop fathering me! Just get me a beer.

So, yeah, Terry later reflected, people thought I was going through hell. Maybe I was partly. But still, I was doing what I wanted and a dream was coming true. And that above everything else made it all worthwhile to me. Even though it was so difficult, there was not another thing in the world I would have rather been doing. I got satisfaction out of doing things that were difficult. It was an incredible feeling. The pain was there, but the pain didn't matter.

But that's all a lot of people could see. They couldn't see the good that I was getting out of it, my head. myself. So Doug's kind of like, do you want to like take a rest? Should you chill out? And Terry's like, I'm fucking loving this. Like, it hurts. And it's really hard. But I'm having a great time. That's like when my dad orders an extra hot curry when we're out. And like, I'm like, Dad, are you okay? She's crying. Snotts coming out of his nose. And he's like, I'm loving it? This is awesome.

This is the best day of my life. Dad, you look like you're struggling. Yeah. Dad, I don't think this is awesome. You can have a heart attack. He's like, I love this. He loves the pain. Martin loves to be uncomfortable. He should meet Matt. You guys get on. We do get on really well. From my end, we get on really well. I can't imagine anybody you're not getting along with Martin.

No, that's true. He's a delight. All of our dads. Yeah, I get on with both of your dads, pretty well, and dare I say your mums. Hey, hey, hey, don't you dare say that about our mums? You'll have lovely families as well. Don't you lie to me. So Terry's story grabbed the attention.

and the hearts of the Canadian people. That's great. So it's really starting to get a bit of buzz. People waited for hours on the roadside to watch Terry pass. They'd hand him cash, like I said before. They cheered him on. His run inspired others to do what they could as well to contribute towards his fundraising efforts.

A man in Hamilton sat in a vat of banana lemon custard. I'm doing what I can. Terry, you inspired this. He raised 900. $112. A van of custard, it's surely going to cost more than that. I'm paying you to not ruin that beautiful custard. Why are you doing it in the custom?

Terry, I'm doing it for you too. Terry, I took your advice and you've inspired me. Oh, great, you're going for a run? I'm sitting in a vat of custard. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Terry's running along and he sees a man run up to him.

Covered in custom. Terry, I raise $900 for you. Covered in custard as well. The money is ruined. It's fallen apart of it, but it's so legal tender, Terry. It's so funny. It's delicious legal tender. How did it make people think of that idea and they think this is a good one?

It's a good one. In Gravenhurst, the heart of Ontario's cottage country, with a population of 8,000, they raised more than $14,000. They've gone above and beyond $1 each. A musician, apparently without cash, handed Terry his $500 guitar. What? So people are just like, it's this really a buzz. about it. It's very like...

Sorry, I didn't think I understood that sentence. The guy didn't have any cash on him, so he gave him a guitar that was worth $500 and said, this is worth $500. He's running and now he could have finished the marathon for the day with a guitar. Thank you, but this is really annoying. Surely you just shove that straight in the van. You go, could you give that to Doug? Doug will take that one, I reckon.

And when you said, no money on him, no cash on him? Yeah, so obviously, like, if he was busking, he was not good. So maybe it's a blessing that he took the guitar. Okay, I'm like, I'm worried. This guy's the last thing he hasn't. It's the only means to make money. he gives that away. He's just like, oh, I don't have cash on me, but I do have my guitar on me.

And I've got one of my many guitars on me. Exactly. That's probably more yet. But I never have cash on me. That would have been a good guitar. When you make a donation, though, that's the kind of language you use when you've got a alone, Chuck. Take my guitar.

It's worth $500. Yes. That's where you'll get a good dollar. Get at least $300 for that. Promise me you'll get at least $300 for that. And where are you, have you been experiencing that kind of stuff, Dave? Is everything okay, Dave? Yeah.

I had to pawn my watch collection. Extensive. This Mickey Mouse watch. I swear. Sorry, he misspoke. He had to watch his porn collection. Sorry. And the dealer's like, what?

Why did you come in here to do this? No, I'm good for it. Look, look. You can watch me watch. You watch me watch. Do you like to watch? Oh, this is a good bit. This is a good bit.

I love this bit. I love this bit. This is why the tape's a bit funny. You have paused on this. In hands. You can really see. I think you can see a boob in this one. What kind of porn is this stuff?

You could see a boob. So Terry's run caught the attention of Isidore Sharp, the founder and CEO of Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, who lost a son to melanoma in 1978 just a year after Terry's diagnosis. So Sharp gave food and accommodation at his hotels to Fox's team. When Fox was discouraged when donations slowed up a little bit, Sharp pledged $2 a mile and persuaded close to a thousand other corporations to do the same. Whoa, that's got to add up quick. So he really got on board.

He was a big supporter. Because that, like, I imagine just being able to stay in a nice hotel most nights. Just get a decent sleep. Yeah, and quite often if they didn't have a place to stay, they would sleep in the van, which like it's a camper van, but it's not like we're thinking the bougie ones today. I think it's pretty rough. Full of cash and guitar. It's filled with guitars and money.

Yeah, it's more like a Scrooge McDucks money pit. Yeah, yeah. It's uncomfortable for them to sleep in it because they're sleeping on money. Which doesn't breathe well. It sounds fun, but it's not. It's not. Dave's done it. Dave's done it quite a few times.

I mean, I've got a water bed, but it's stuffed with cash. So as I sort of mentioned before, at the beginning of his run, he kind of, it was little fanfare. Some people would cheer him on as he passed, but more often than not, it was just him on the road and dug along behind him. But as attention grew, so too did the crowds. When Terry crossed into Ontario on the last Saturday in June,

He was met by a brass band and thousands of residents who lined the streets to cheer him on while the Ontario provincial police gave him an escort through the province. And there's video footage of it of just streets lined with people, thousands of people turning up, police escorts and he's just running along as people cheering. It's so nice. On his arrival in Ottawa, Fox met Governor General Ed Schreier, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Any relation? Yes. I didn't know I was like, wait a second

There's no way we've got two traders And after a very quick Wikipedia search I went oh you're Nazi son And he was the guest of honour At numerous sporting events in the city In front of 16,000 fans He performed a ceremonial kickoff at a Canadian football league game And was given a standing ovation

Oh and he had also barely slept the night before And had run about 14 miles or 22Ks that day And so far had run had run a total of 3,123 kilometres. Wow. So it gets up, does a run, has a little bit of a rest, goes and does a ceremonial kickoff in front of 16,000 people, gets a standing ovation, normal day. So events like this kept happening.

On July 11, Fox arrived in Toronto, where a crowd of 10,000 people met him, and he was honoured in Nathan Phillips Square. As he ran to the square, he was joined on the road by many people, including National Hockey League star Darrell Sitler, who. who presented Fox with his 1980 All-Star Game jersey. Whoa. The Cancer Society estimated that they collected $100,000 in donations that day alone. That's awesome.

So it's really like there's a lot of buzz. It does also feel like these people are hindering his run, though. It's hard to get through the square. There's too many people. That's why there was a police escort. What do you think is more important to him? The run or the fundraising? On the way to your run, can you just kick up football here?

Mate, I've got another 14 miles to do today. All right. I suppose I'll come in there. And he kind of, I don't know if I mentioned this in the report, but essentially he would get up at 4.30 every day, run about like 14, have a rest, run the rest in the afternoon. Like, it was, he would be up every day. It's insane.

And is he, it's his body really hurting and he just runs through it. Yeah, absolutely, yes. How do you do it? Yeah, I don't know how. How many pimples does he have? None. That's the thing. He doesn't know true pain.

Bless with good skin, okay? Hard to feel sorry. Must be nice. Hard to support. Yeah. I had to get on board with this guy. I don't know. He just rubs me the wrong way with his perfect skin.

Do you know how many? I can't believe it. I just can't get my head around it. Yeah, same. Do you know how many pairs of like runners he's getting through and stuff? No, I'm not sure. I didn't read that anywhere. Like they must be wearing out every couple of days almost.

Right? You're running so much. Yeah, wow. And on like, you know, highways and stuff. Yeah. Very interesting. And how does it work on the highway? He's obviously running like, you know, a running pace, but not that quick. Yeah.

And then Doug's behind him in the van. Yeah. Is there just like a stream of traffic behind him all the time? Go around. Yeah, I'm sure they go around. This main job is just waving. Go around. Go around.

Fun run. Fun run. Funrasing run. That's what it stands for. That's what it stands for again. Fund run. Fund run. That's a fund run.

Go around. But safely. Savely, don't hit it. Don't hit him. Don't hit him. He's saying to this to every single car. And the force is the hotel I like the wave around you're doing

It's funny He gets a dollar for every time He says go round Go round Go round Go round That's a dollar raised That's a dollar raised right there

So yeah I don't think he's upset That he's meeting Hockey stars And making hundreds of thousands of dollars In one day I don't think he's upset by Hi I'm hockey star

Get out of my way I think for him The priority is the fundraising And the publicity Okay And like I said before, like he, he would accept invitations to stuff if he thought it could, you know, raise a bit more money. He would detour to go and, like, speak to people in a town or, like,

yeah, go to stuff like this where he might be honoured or where people turn up. Because it's going to raise money, it's going to create buzz. And he can have a fucking rest for a second. No, he won't do that. You have to stand, but he's running around them as they're like, at the... Like when you stopped at the lights and you see runners keep jogging. I'm like, shut up. Enjoy a breather for a second. Jesus.

Gotta keep the rhythm. So, yeah, the day that they raised $100,000 and he met Darrell Sitler, that evening, he threw the ceremonial first pitch at Exhibition Stadium before a baseball game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Cleveland Indians. As he continued through Southern Ontario, he was met by Hockey Hall of Fame player Bobby Orr, who presented him with a check for $25,000. And Terry considered meeting Bobby Orr the highlight of his children. journey.

Wow. He was like, Bobby Frick and Orr, it was really exciting. He's, what's Bobby or a baseballer? Uh, hockey. Hockey. Hockey Hall of Fame. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, that's what I mean.

Yeah, same thing. He was so good at baseball. They put him in the hockey hall of fame. Can you believe that? But he threw the first pitch. He threw the first puck. Through the first puck. Through a window.

It was really weird. Terry, no. He crashed the first Zamboni. Ceremonally. As his fame grew the Canadian. The Cancer Society scheduled more and more functions for him to attend, and he made speeches, and he met people all over Canada. Right.

So before, they were a little bit, like, I don't know if this guy's going to do it. Now he's like such a superstar for them, raising such good money, such great, such great awareness. They're like putting him out as like the number one PR. They're really trying. Yeah, they're really backing him. This is from Wikipedia, that wonderful medical journal, which had quite a bit of information about this story, which is interesting.

It's not all medical, but they still had a lot of info on it. The physical demands of running a marathon every day took their time. hole on Fox's body. Apart from the rest day in Montreal, taken at the request of the Cancer Society. Oh, yeah. So the Cancer Society asked him, he was like approaching Montreal and they were like, oh, can you, like, can you slow down a little so you arrive on a certain day so they could, you know, thousands of people can turn up.

So he did have a couple of rest days leading up to that, but in totally he had about four rest days. Unbelievable. Insane. Anyway, so apart from those couple of days so that he could sort of delay his arrival in Montreal, he refused to take a day off even on his 22nd birthday. Now, I love to, I can give myself a day off on a birthday. So I'd be like, no, I can't run today.

He's my birthday, I can't run today. No, no, no. But Terry just keeps doing it. I don't get this guy. What's his deal? He frequently had shin splints and an inflamed knee. He developed cysts on his stomachs. stump and experienced dizzy spells.

At one point, he had a soreness in his ankle that would not go away. Although he feared he'd developed a stress fracture, he ran for three more days before seeking medical attention and was then relieved to learn it was tendinitis and can be treated with painkillers. He just keeps going. Cists, Dave, are they better or worse than pimples? Probably easier to deal with them pimples. You don't have to pop, you never hear of popping a cyst, do you?

No, you never do. You never pop a cyst. I don't think you pop a cyst by yourself. I think a doctor deals with a cysts. Exactly, so it's nothing. Your drain a cyst, maybe. And a doctor does it. Right.

So whatever. But you did go to a doctor for your pimple. You went to Dr. Pimplepuppet, didn't you? Yeah, that's right. But for a assist I'd also put into a coma. Yeah. Double coma. Put me under.

So he continued to run through the summer heat, despite obvious discomfort. I mean, he's running a marathon every day. By late August, Terry was feeling exhausted when he woke up, even before he'd started the day's marathon from Wikipedia. On September 1st, outside Thunder Bay, he was forced to stop briefly after he had an intense coughing fit and experienced pain in his chest. He resumed running as the crowds along the highway shouted out their encouragement. A few miles later, short of breath and with continued chest pain, he asked Doug Allward to drive him to a hospital. Oh, no.

Now, we've already talked about, like, Terry battling through everything. Like, he just keeps going. So it's sort of, he's the type of person that if he's like, I know. need to see a doctor. You're like, oh shit. Yeah, I'd be like... You don't say, are you sure? Clock sticking.

You'd say, fuck. Get in. That's right. So the next day, so now it's like September 2nd, Terry held a press conference during which he announced that cancer had spread to his lungs. Oh. He was forced to end his run after 143 days. Wow.

And 5,373 kilometers or 3,339 miles. He doesn't seem that far off then. Yeah, he's done pretty well. from Terry Fox.org. He'd made it about two-thirds of the way. Amazing. He said, I'll do everything I can. I'm going to do my very best.

I'll fight. I promise I won't give up. And this is all from Terry Fox. His father, Raleigh, was overheard saying, I think it's unfair, very unfair. I don't feel this is unfair, Terry told him. That's the thing about cancer. I'm not the only one.

It happens all the time to other people. I'm not special. This just intensifies what I did. It gives it more meaning. It'll inspire. are more people. I could have sat on my rear end. I could have forgotten what I'd seen in the hospital, but I didn't. Like, fucking what, what an attitude to have. How many people do something they really believe in? I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try.

Dreams are made if people try. When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we'd have $22 million for cancer research, or 24. And I don't care, man. There's no reason this isn't possible. No reason. I'd like to see everybody go kind of wild, inspired with the fundraising. So the run... Oh man, that custard going. What's he going to do with that? You want me to go, what? I'll be pretty reserved before, but... All right, I'll go a little wild. So the run didn't end with Terry dipping his artificial leg and the seawaters off Vancouver's Stanley Park, as intended. Instead, he was taken by ambulance back to the Royal Columbian Hospital. He continued to wear his Marathon of Hope T-shirt in hospital and refused the many offers, including one from the Toronto

Maple Leaf hockey team, to finish his run for him. He was like, it has to be me that finishes it. So other people were sort of like, we'll pick it up from here. And he's like, nah, but the whole hockey team was like, we'll do it. That's incredible. Isn't that amazing? So. And they don't, that's not part of their sport running. Not typically. That's not something that I assume can even do. If they'd offer to skate the whole way, I'd be like, well, yeah, they'll do it quite quickly. Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't think they're interchangeable skills, but running and skating up. No.

Jeez, it's interesting. So it was a huge national response. By the time he was forced to abandon the Marathon of Hope, Terry had raised 1.7 million, equivalent to 6 million in 2020. So 1.7 million, which is huge. So he ticked off his first goal. Yeah, yeah. And actually his third goal of $1. He done it.

A week after his run, the CTV television network organized a nationwide telephoon in support of Terry Fox and the Canadian Cancer Society. Supported by Canadian and international celebrities, the five-hour event raised $10.5 million. Holy shit. That's unbelievable. So he's not even running now, but the funds keep coming. And you said a bit over one is worth $6 million?

Yeah, so the 10.5 equivalent today would be about $37 million. That's unbelievable. It's wild. And like he was up not even at two yet. So it's like quadriple-dripled it. Yeah, and so he's right. He's kind of like, I hope that me having to stop because the cancer has spread really lights a fire under people's arses, and it does. So of that 10.5 million, there was a million dollars each by the governments of British Columbia and Ontario, the former to create a new research institute to be founded in Fox's name, and the latter an endowment given to the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. He really, he seems like a guy, if he was around at the right time, a whole religion would have started around him. You know what I mean?

Yeah. If he was around a thousand years ago, there'd be Foxites. Yeah. And they'd be different of the Fox viewers, you know, probably the modern-day Foxxites are quite different. I don't know, I don't know, but I know you're a big viewer of Fox News. And I mean, 50% of our audience are Fox News viewers. I love Fox News. And they are the 50 are doctors.

There's no crossover. Funny that. So donations continued throughout the winter and by April over 23 million had been raised. Oh, Terry! 23 million! Yeah. Supporters and well-wishes from around the world

in undated Fox with letters and tokens of support. At one point, he was receiving more mail than the rest of his hometown combined. Such was his fame that one letter addressed simply to Terry Fox, Canada, was successfully delivered. Is that wild? He's like Santa. He's getting more, he's getting more male than his entire town.

Wow. And he'd had enough guitar stonaded to open up an entire music shop. No offence to his town, but I'm not that surprised by this. It's insane. What's his town? You know? In September. What's his town done?

Yeah, what are they done? In September of 1980, Fox was in, he was honored in a special ceremony as a companion of the Order of Canada. He was the youngest person to be honoured this way. The lieutenant governor of British Columbia named him to the order of the Dogwood, the province's highest award. That sounds cool.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame commissioned a permanent exhibit and Fox was named the winner of the Lou Marsh Award for 1980 as the nation's top athlete. The Ottawa citizen described the national response to his marathon as one of the most powerful outpourings of emotion and generosity in Canada's history. It's huge. Terry, wow.

So this is all happening. Over the following months, Terry received more rounds of chemo as well as experimental treatments to try and battle his cancer. Canadians hoped for a miracle and Pope John Paul the second sent a telegram saying that he was praying for Fox. In June of 1981, he was admitted to hospital with chest congestion which developed into pneumonia. And tragically, he fell into a coma and passed away in the wee hours of the morning of June 28, 1981, one month shy of his 23rd birthday.

Holy shit. So young. Wow. And that, like, just, yeah, it's incredible and so sad. The government of Canada ordered flags across the country lowered to half-mast, an unprecedented honour that's usually reserved for statesmen, but they lowered the flags for Terry. Addressing the House of Commons, Prime Minister Trudeau said, it occurs very rarely in the life of a nation that the courageous spirit of what,

one person unites all people in the celebration of his life and in the morning of his death. We do not think of him as one who was defeated by misfortune, but as one who inspired us with the example of triumph of the human spirit over adversity, which is very nice. His funeral was broadcast on national TV. Hundreds of communities across Canada also held memorial services. A public memorial service was held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and Canadians, again, overwhelmed Cancer Society offices with donations. So again, it just kept bumping.

So he absolutely met his goal of a dollar for every Canadian. That is awesome. It's huge. He's left a massive legacy, obviously, although he didn't get to complete the marathon of hope and passed away at a tragically young age, his efforts and spirit were hugely impactful. During his marathon, Isidorep proposed an annual fundraising run in Fox's name,

and Terry agreed, but insisted that the runs be non-competitive and include anyone who wanted to participate. Over 300,000 people took part and raised $3.5 million in the first Terry Fox run. 300,000? Yeah. Oh, we shit. 300,000 people did it. Schools across Canada were urged to join the second run held in September of 1982.

School participation has continued since evolving into the National School Run Day, which is a big part of the reason so many Canadians suggested Terry as a topic, because several of them mentioned growing up doing the Terry Fox run every year at school. They all learned about him. Yeah. So the runs, which raised over $20 million in their first six years, grew into an international event, and now as over a million people in 60 countries took part in 1999,

raising $15 million that year alone. It's a huge fundraiser. By the Terry Fox Runs' 25th anniversary, more than 3 million people were taking part annually. Grants from the Terry Fox Foundation, which organizes the runs, have helped Canadian scientists make numerous advantage, advances in cancer research.

Oh, you're wishing new. I know. So the Terry Fox run is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research. And as of May 2022, I couldn't find the most up-to-date numbers, but as of May 2020, over $850 million has been raised. Fireman's are on my head. That is unbelievable. Isn't that insane?

It's absolutely incredible. There is a... So I've wanted to do. this topic for ages, but I was also like, it's very sad, but it's incredible. Like, it's so, I don't know, it's so bittersweet, but also so beautiful to see what this young man did. Yes, and that it's still ongoing. The legacy is unbelievable. Like, who else does that? There's a couple of times, even just like reading the Wikipedia page, just alone in my study going, just little, like getting a bit choked up. It's amazing. So there's an entire Wikipedia

a page of monuments and memorials to Terry Fox, but let me just list off a few for you. So there's approximately 32 roads and streets, 14 schools, seven statues, nine running trails, and a previously unnamed mountain in the Canadian Rockies that have all been named after Terry Fox. It's named Mount Terry Fox. Oh, I like it. Yeah. Maybe Mount Terry would be good. Mount Terry would be fantastic.

His story was dramatized in the 1983 biographical film The Terry. Fox story. It was aired as a television, like a TV movie in the US and had a theater run in Canada. It starred amputee actor Eric Fryer and Robert Duval. A bit of fun. As Doug. High school friends. In my head, Robert Duval has always been very old. But he definitely was like, it was in the 80s. He was still. No, I mean, in the godfather, he was already like, looked like he wasn't a high school. Yeah. That's right. So while Terry, wouldn't allow anyone else to take over his run when he was forced to stop. He did, of course, inspire others. Steve Fonio, an 18-year-old with the same form of cancer and who also had a leg

amputated, sought in 1984 to duplicate Fox's run, calling his effort the journey for lives. After leaving St John on March 31st, Foyneau reached the point where Fox was forced to end his marathon at the end of November and completed the transcontinental run in May of 1985. The Journey for Lives raised over $13 million for cancer research. Crazy. And he stopped where, like, Terry had to stop sort of on purpose, like, as a nod to him. It's, yeah, like, and that probably didn't even count in that money you're talking about before. Like, the fundraising he even inspired is wild.

It's incredible. How many custard bars are people having every year? Yeah, I was wondering why everyone did that. It's because of Terry. Yeah, and they cost $900. Canadian Paralympic athlete Rick Hansen. He was the one who had recruited Fox to play on his wheelchair basketball team in the 70s. He was also inspired by the Marathon of Hope.

He had first considered circumnavigating the globe in his wheelchair in 1974, and he decided to do it. He began the Man in Motion World Tour in 1985 for the goal of raising $10 million towards research. into spinal cord injuries. As Foyneau had, Hanson paused at the spot Fox's run ended to honour the late runner. He completed his world tour in 87 after 792 days and 40,000 kilometres or nearly 25,000 miles, and he travelled through 34 countries and raised over $26 million. Wow.

Isn't that insane? So... Love that name, man in motion. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? That song's on my running playlist. It's a good running song. Man in motion? Yeah.

It's an almost fire man in motion, I think it's called. Or I'm totally wrong and it's called something else. Like flibbitty flub. And I've just misremembered it. I love flibbbyty flub. It's also in my running playlist. Want to be a flibbiddy flubb. Great song.

A banger. So Terry's family continued to fundraise and spread awareness, as Terry had set out to do. With so much public attention on his, on his cause and on his passing, Betty Fox, she basically had no time to grieve. She took on the development of the Terry Fox Run with the Canadian Cancer Society.

In 1988, the Terry Fox Foundation became its own charitable organisation. And Betty took the lead on many parts of the run and the foundation, ensuring Terry's wishes and goals were reflected in the Runs organization. It's estimated that Betty spoke to more than 400,000 schoolchildren alone

during her 25 years of touring the country. leaving each and every child with the inspirational story of the Marathon of Hope. The final words of every speech, never ever give up on your dreams, have become her hallmark. So she just spent the rest of her life working on this organisation. That's really nice. She passed away at the age of 73 in 2011. Terry's father, Rolly, passed away in 2016. The Fox family is still heavily involved in the Foundation.

And on the Foundation's website, they say, Terry's legacy is vibrant today because there are Terry Foxes from Coastes. to coast, south to north, responsible for continuing the marathon of hope. Our collective promise to Terry is we will not rest until his dream, which has become our own, is realised. Isn't that nice? So nice. That is nice and still going is amazing. Yeah, it's huge.

Like, there's runs every year. There's all sorts of events. It's absolutely massive. And yeah, you can see now why so many Canadians and one Australian and one American suggested the story of Terry Fox. because although it's so sad that a person died so young, it's also like what an amazing achievement he did, what an inspirational person and just a very cool story.

And just his vision, right? Yeah. Like I kept forgetting he was so young. He's 22 and he's like, we can do another run, but it's not competitive. Like, yeah. Yeah, great. Put my name on it for sure. Totally.

Make it a run? It's going to be competitive. Fantastic. Yeah. What a... I don't know. But he's like... Yeah, it's sponsored by shell.

Everything he's just like, no, no, it's important that it's this way. I need it to be. Anyone can enter. Yeah. Competitive makes it a totally different thing. Yeah. I'm like, of course. Yeah.

What Terry said, actually, I'm in the bed next one. Yeah, yeah, Terry. In the bed. You mean like in a hospital? I poke my head out. Yeah. You're not just in his bed. Yeah.

I'm like, no, no, what Terry? Yeah. Don't ask why I'm in here. Why are you even asking me? Listen to Terry. Listen to Terry. And everyone's like, who's this guy? Who is this?

Could someone shut this guy up? Yeah, people do say that. Sorry, mate. I don't know. I've got a problem. Sorry about that. I can't chat up. I talk so slow, but I don't stop.

I'm a nightmare. Sorry. But there you go. That is the story of Terry Fox. That is amazing. It's pretty cool, huh? It's a roller co. By the way, Terry is, that's on my list of great names.

So they're with Gary and Greg. And Fox is a great last name. Fox is fantastic. Nearly any name goes with Fox. Megan Fox. Incredible. Do another name. What about Fox Fox?

Oh, Molder Fox. Oh, Molder Fox. What about Jessica Fox? Oh, that actually is really good. Incredible. Matthew Fox? Yeah, that's a person, isn't it? I think David Fox works.

Dave Fox. Dave Fox isn't as good. You'd have to be a David. David Fox. It's because the V and the F run together. Yeah, David Fox. Too much. David Fox.

David Fox by name. David Fox by nature. Fox in the streets, but also a fox on the sheets. I think it works, Dave. It all works. I mean, false advertising, but I think it would work. There's, um, the Terry, Terry Fox.org is the foundation's website and there's a lot of information.

There's a, there's like a visual map there as well of sort of his journey and how far he made it. And there's a timeline and stuff. Not to be a smartass. What other kind of maps are there? Just wondering. We're just wondering. What is it mean? What is a visual map? I'm not trying to be a smart. What is a visual map mean? Like it's interactive. Gotcha. Sorry. A little fuck. I'm sorry about that. Babe. Come on, babe. I'm so sorry, babe. I'm a nightmare. I'm so sorry, babe. I'm being a nightmare. I'm not, babe. You are a nightmare, babe. You are a nightmare, babe. I'm talking myself now, babe.

Yeah. Do we need to be here or can we go? I don't know who they are, babe. Don't worry about him, babe. We're all good, babe. We don't need them, babe. Well, hey, Jess, what a fantastic tale. Thank you. And you know what?

It is, you know, where I remember it from? It's in the mix for, because it's been so often suggested, it's in the block poll every year. Ah. And I think, you know, in brackets, I put what the story is, and the brackets is Canadian hero. Yeah. But I never knew more than that. Yeah.

So that's why my head went Canadian. it had been baked in. It was in there. I knew none of that. Yeah. But I'm so glad I do now. I mean, it makes me feel like a real piece of shit, but also inspired as well. Oh, what an inspiring person.

Just, yeah. And I mean, that's part of the fun of like this podcast is we get to talk about people who do pretty amazing things. And we get to sit here and go, Jesus Christ, I could never do that. Yeah. But then we talk about a serial killer and we go, Jesus Christ, I could never do that. And then we reflect well. Yeah. That's true.

So, you know. Jesus, I could never rob a bank. No. Because I'm a good person. A good person. A lazy person. A lazy person. Yeah.

I'm lazy, but that's got nothing to do with it. But, yeah, so good, Bob. But hey, did you know that that brings us to everyone's favorite section of the show? A lot of people probably have just skipped to this point now. Welcome to the show. You should rewind. Yeah, that was a good one. Just have to rewind?

Yeah, of course. And go back to the start of the tape. And listen to a fantastic story about the life. of Jeff Foxworthy, I think. And am I remembering that right? Yep. We also mentioned Robert DeValle. Oh, that's true.

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as well as over 200 plus bonus episodes that you get access to straight away. Including what was can use? tell us tell them briefly about what we recorded today that it'll already be out oh we went through the it was an oral history of my high school punk band weed hornet with the singer we had the singer in as a guest tom mitchell the singer my dear friend tom came on and we spoke about the history of the band how it all came about and then we listened to our cd that we recorded 20 years ago and uh it was a lot of fun it was so much fun had a great time um and you can hear jess really enjoy the term crack the shit.

Oh, I love Crack the Shits. Exactly, that was that episode. And you can also hear about live shows before anyone else and get discount codes for the live show. So you get money off tickets. During the Patreon, it saves you money as well somehow. That's right. There's like four different levels, depending on where you're on.

But any level you get the discounts and whatnot. I think the lowest level we get to vote one every cycle and whatnot. But anyway, the first thing we normally do is the fact quote or question section, which actually I think, if I'm remembering right, it has a little jingle, maybe go something like, somewhere like this. Fact quote, all question. He always remembers the ding, but that's not how I remember it going. I loved that.

I liked it. I loved it. I hope that's the new version. Was that the old part? The sing. Oh, thank you. His ding was shit. The ding was fine.

The sing was fantastic. The sing. I back you up. No, no. It's true. You do back it. I said, I don't think I said it was shit. shit, but it did feel shit compared to how good the singles.

Well, so we don't like great at that. The ding needed a lift in, you know, in light of the new sing. That's all. Someone to think about for next week. You want the ding to outshone the sing. Outshone. Yeah, that's true too. Anyway, if you're on the fact, quite a question level, which is the Sydney

Scheinberg level, you get to give us a fact, quote, a question. Or really, whatever you like, brag suggestion. People have really been taken up for a bit of a walk recently. I've got three to read out today. If you are on that level, feel free to get them in because the sack is running low, which is what I put the fax quotes and questions in. DM me on Patreon if you don't have the link,

but you should have it somewhere. Anyway, the first one comes from Piper Galaher. Everyone also gets to give themselves a title. I should also say, I don't read them out until I read them out, just in case I stuff anything up. Anyway, Piper has got the title of everyone seems to be picking, a do-go-one family member title. So I feel like I should too.

Let's see here. I don't know. I'll be the fucking dog or some shit. Oh, I took a turn. Okay, well, yeah. That tone was confusing. But that's, I think, mostly in Matt's. I was in the read.

That's right. Any notes? God, no. No, no. There's nothing I can do to fix it. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's beyond help. Yes.

Anyway, Papa Gallagher, the, Galaher, sorry, Papa Galaher, the podcast dog is offering a recipe. We love dogs, so that's good. Yeah, it'd be interesting. What kind of dogs, what kind of recipes are the dogs on we come up with? Dog treats. All right, well, let's see if this is what it is.

Papa writes, I'm sorry if this is long, the written word carried me on an unstoppable wave that I had no choice but to ride until it's breaking on the shore of literature. Wow. This is a recipe for an everything source I developed while carrying out my sentence at Papa's pizza on West 11th Avenue. I call it Zaza sauce and the reasoning is twofold. One fold. It was developed at a pizza restaurant.

I hope you're following the train of thoughts there. Yep. So far so good. Yep. Fold two. It's so good. It makes you feel like you just smoke some of that exquisitely dankilicious zaza. We all know that feeling.

Yeah. Dave especially. Oh my God. Puff, puff. But yeah. Enough of the puff, puff, Dave. A bit more of the gear. mate.

This recipe is as follows. Two parts, buttermilk ranch. Medium consistency, not too runny or too thick. Goldilocks style. One thing. I'm already lost at what buttermilk ranch is. Don't worry about it. Yeah, ranch.

Ranch. Ranch is big over there. With buttermilk, is that two things put together? They love ranch. No, I think it's just a style of ranch, buttermilk ranch. It's a more specific thing of a thing we don't know. Ranch. Does Subway do ranch, though?

Ranch. You could go to a local subway and, and ask for a bottle. Can we get one bottle of ranch, please? Oh, buttermilk versions, as you guessed it, have the addition of buttermilk and tend to be a bit thinner. In what? According to all recipes.com. They have buttermilk in the what? In the ranch.

Ranch. Ranch. Sorry, rather than the ranch. So you've got two parts buttermilk ranch. One part, barbecue sauce, garlic powder to taste. Oh, this word, I don't know, cayenne powder to taste or cyan. Cayenne. Chian. The best version, what does that mean?

It's a pepper. It's pepper. The best version, like a green pepper or a black pepper? Red. Red, but it's like a big, like a bell pepper. Red, yes. Like a chalicum. You can also get in like powdered form too.

Yeah, I get cayenne powder. The best versions to use for these base sauces are from Puppas pizza itself. But since they don't exist outside of Oregon, your favorite varieties should certainly serve you just as well as long as you don't dwell for too long on what might have been. It's sweet, creamy. Oh yeah It's like a chili

Chili pepper Gotcha It's sweet creamy And a little spicy Just like it's creator It's delicious On cold cut sandwiches Dipping fries or Chippies

I think that's for you Jess Tippies Into and it's good on burgers Hell It could even make a decent salad dressing If you're one of those Perverts who like salad

No judgment I mean it sounds like a little bit of judgment Perverts Perverts are in all caps Pervs love salad Pervs Not pervy themselves There's always always

Especially tossing a salad. Oh my God. Stop it, Matt. This is a child-friendly podcast. Creamy salad, no, thank you. Have I sworn on this podcast? This episode? Yeah.

It's going to be the first time. Maybe this might get a child free. Get a child free. It might be child, whatever the version. Friendly. Child-friendly. Mark the episode is child-free. And for another week, we haven't had a child on the show, so no child labor laws broken here.

Child-free. We're all adults. I checked. What does that mean? You have to have ID to come into this podcast too good. That makes more sense. It actually was very flattering when he asked me. My personal favourite use for the Tsar, as it's known to legend, is on a hoagy.

To legend, that's all good. With turkey, salami and pepper jack cheese. A generous drizzle on a firm flattening of the sandwich to get the sauce nice and soaked into the bread. Makes a perfect summertime lunch. I now realize that this has become one of those recipe blog posts which rambles on too far and for too long about anything other than the recipe and that this realization is just adding to that fact. But frankly, if that's an issue,

it sounds like you need to chill out and just enjoy some Zaza wink emoji. Wow. Thank you so much, Papa. Thank you so much, Papa. That was one of the most American recipes I've ever come across. It was indescipherable. But I could imagine what it was going to be like.

I mean, I'd love to try it. I was going to be on a hoagie with turkey and like a pepper cheese. That sounds incredible. Yeah. It sounds like you'd go down to the. I wonder what it means. A Daga and get a sub. What is a bodega again?

It's like a corner shop. Yeah. Corner shop. I think they sometimes have like a little deli thing in there. Oh my God. I want to go to a deli. And it had something like that with a really saucy sandwich with... I want to go to a bodega.

A couple of types of cheese. I want to go to a bodega. Next, thank you so much, Papa. The next one comes from Rebecca Healy. Junior AI Wrangler or Junior Al Rangler. I'm not sure. And it's a suggestion. And Rebecca, right?

Hi, all, I have a couple of suggestions, if that's okay, sure it is. First of all, Matt, whenever ice hockey comes up like I did today, you seem to talk about the penguins. I didn't today, but yeah, the penguins, go penguins, go flames. You know, there's a place called Penguin and Tazzy? So good, and there's a big penguin there. Yeah. Tony Martin talks about it in his soundup at some point, I think.

And he's like, I can't, I butcher it, but it's just, it's not that big, but it is big for a penguin. It's big for a penguin. It's like a model of a penguin? There's not just one big penguin that lives there? Yeah, yeah, model of a penguin. Like an statue. Finally, I did imagine a live one and now I'm disappointed.

There's just one big penguin there. There's a big penguin there. We don't know how I got there. How big? Recker says, that's okay and all, but since you're a Pantera fan, I'd really like to humbly invite you to the Dallas Stars fault because they, oh, about to write that, I was about to say, Pantera wrote our goal slash fight song and its hands down the best one in the league.

Honest, watch it here. You can watch it. I've seen it's very good. Oh, cool. If it wasn't for me getting a penguin's hat as a child as a reward for not biting my nails for a month Did you get to pick the hat or was it just given to you? I was in a...

I picked it but it was out of the discount being at Sportsmart. It was cool hat. I had no idea what I had an Orlando Magic hat just because I thought it was cool. I got given it. I couldn't afford an Orlando Magic hat. That's what I wanted. That's the difference between you and I.

Yeah. My grandparents brought me back from America a San Jose Sharks hat. Wow. What do they play? That's an NHL one. Right. It was a really cool hat.

I lost it on a school camp. Oh my God. Did that have that thing where you could pull the thing and it like snapped the shark? Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, you lost it. It's even better live, even if it's been over 20 years since I've heard it last, unfortunately. Anyway, since you appear to be a 49ers fan, I know you'll do the right thing and choose the other best team out there. Okay, maybe I didn't nail that humbly bit.

I love it. I think Dallas is now, I'd love to go to a Dallas game for sure. I haven't been to Dallas. I'd love to go. My other suggestion is for everyone listening because I took Jess's suggestion around the holidays and purchased and read Aidan Simpson's reincarnation of Tom. Okay.

I loved it. Everyone should read it and not just because Mr. Simpson has the right connections. It's so funny and thought-provoking. I won't give anything away. but just wanted to say thanks to the recommendation. So there's a suggestion for Matt. A second and suggestion from Jess and Dave.

I can only think to keep being absolutely 100% okay and not at all dead. Seriously though, congratulations on becoming a dad, which is not dead. I hope you're living in sleepless bliss. Thank you. It's all going great. She's nice. Rebecca. Didn't sleep that great last night, but I'm feeling in bliss.

And thank you for buying my partner's book because that contributes. to my rent. That's a good book. That's good book. That's my good book. If you're going to buy one of them, buy Reincarnation of Tom. You can get it on ebook, I'm pretty sure, too. Can you?

Yeah. So you reckon that's better than the more recent one when you say you can only buy one? Yeah. He would back that up. All right. Okay. I don't think that. That's what he would say.

Yes. I'm just a messenger. I'm the messenger. Don't shoot me. Finally this week, we've got. one from Pete Holburton, who works for Nassar as you two are well aware. And Pete Holburton has the name, I mean, I wish he'd kept the name that I know him as Steliard Missile Missile Man. Yeah, God, that's a good thing. Let's see. Let's see what he has there. Anyway, Pete's

giving himself the title of Share of Dull, Boring and Bland Facts. Okay, well, I'm going to zone out for a bit then. Thank you, Pete. I have a little break. I've done a lot of talking today. I'll step up to the plane here, Pete. So Pete writes, the village of Dull in Scotland has been twinned with boring in Oregon since 2012. Is that actually fun by accident? That fucking rules! That's really good. Oh no, I swore!

That... Freckin' rules. Yeah, yeah. I had nothing else. What else do you say? What didn't all people say? Effin? That absolutely rules?

That's disgusting. You're going to say that rules? No, that rules isn't enough. It means nothing. In 2013, they were joined by Bland Shire in New South Wales. Dull, Boring and bland call themselves the League of Extraordinary Communities, though they're also known as the Trinity of Teadium. Thanks for the laughs, as always.

Oh, my God, I love that. That's killer. That's great fact, Pete. Oh, that is so good. I love it, like, because he's keeping his eyes on the skies, but he's also keeping his eyes on some great facts. Thanks so much to Pete, Rebecca and Piper. The next thing we like to do, shout out to a few of other fantastic supporters.

Is Jess you normally come up with a bit of a game based on the topic at hand? Yeah, so I was thinking, like, if they're doing some sort of journey across their country, what mode of transport, whether it's, you know, like Terry Ran, that other guy was in a wheelchair, what they're using. Okay, great. And I think... What's their gimmick? Yeah, okay.

We had Samuel Johnson do a famous one in Australia on a unicycle. Yep, I was thinking of that, yeah. And he raised lots and lots of money for that. Mm. Good on him. Yeah, that was pretty cool. All right, so Dave, you want to read them out, and me and Jess will come up with the... Absolutely.

We'd love to read out some lovely names from some supporters that, you know, mean the world to us. I'll give Jess an adjective, and she can then have the mode of transport. Great. Love it. All right. First of all, I'd like to thank, from Wellington in New Zealand, a place that we dream of visiting one day for some live shows. We'd love to get to New Zealand all over both islands, but, you know, we'll see what we can get to. I'd love to thank from Wellington, though, Florence Dean.

Oh, fantastic name. Big? Come on. Zamboni. Oh, really big. Really big. Is that an adjective? I think it is.

Well, like the first hurdle. I forgot who said what word. I'm like, he's saying Zamboni is an adjective? That's great. Florence Dean tearing it up. Yeah. Big Zamboni. Yeah.

I really hope, I was going to say, I really hope that you're in an icy place. I guess Wellington can be. It's a windy city. It's known as one of the windiest. Wow, take that Chicago. You fuck it. So thanks Florence. I'd like to also thank from Mount Dandenong,

a bit closer to home here in Victoria, Stacey Carpenter. A fabulous. Tandem bike. Oh, yes. Wow, solo, though. Solo. It's actually quite clunky, yeah. That's really hard work.

Yeah, and that's part of the gimmick. And everyone says, Stacey, do you need a hand? No. No, nobody else get on. It's me. This is my thing. Yeah. It's nice.

I was supposed to do it with Eric, but he bailed. All right, now I want to show him up. I don't need him. I don't need you, Eric. Fuck you, Eric. I mean, stuff for you, Eric. I'd like to thank now from location unknown to us. We can only imagine they're deep within the fortress of the malls.

A big thank you to Simone. A high octane. Guitar-shaped motorbike. Whoa. That's awesome. That is sick. Is that real? Yeah.

It's raising money for music. awareness. Yeah, that is awesome. That would do some damage if it drove into it. It's got like a rocket. It's pretty cool. Taps to the back of it. Are you Googling high octane motorcycle?

No. There are a lot of them. Guitar shaped motorbike. It can't be real. It just looks dangerous. It looks like they are riding on the body of the guitar and then the... That looks like maybe AI or something. But yeah.

The neck goes out in fun. Oh, yeah. Oh, I like that one. Okay. That looks fun. So mode's got to look very cool. Cool. Simone, your email starts with a P, if that makes you know who you are just in case.

Thank you so much. We only read out the information that we've been given. I'd like to thank now from Margate. Margate in Great Britain, probably in Kent. I'd like to thank another single name here, Gareth. Gareth from Margate. In an aerodynamic. Tube.

I'm getting rolling? Yeah. Oh, that would be a nightmare. Yeah. There's like a Pringles tube type thing. Is that what do you mean? Do you reckon they're dancing on top of it? Or are they, it's big and they're inside of, ooh, woo.

A bit of both. Okay, yeah. Yeah. It's nice to take a break. Yeah, you got to have variety. But on top, you have to like, you're sort of running backwards very quickly. Good on you, Gareth. Maybe like a hippopotamus would in a cartoon about a circus or something.

Exactly right, yes. Yes. That might be a very specific memory. No, no. Or a made-up thing. I think you're right. Or a real thing. Now, over to Denver in Colorado, where I would like to thank Avery Whitewater.

I like that. In the horniest. Horse. It's got to stiffy the whole time. He's getting distracted. Right past the paddock. I'll be, uh,

settle down. Those are cows. Sorry, Matt, that was you on the horse. Yeah. As the horse was running towards

something it wants to fuck. Yeah. And then just holding on for dear life as it sucks. You're so, You're at a weird angle. You've got to really engage the core to stay on the horse.

She, that sounds like a nightmare. Yeah. Good luck out there, every. I would like to thank from Palo Alto in California. It's Amanda Rob. The mysterious. Razor scooter. Oh.

What's so mysterious about it? They're spray painted it black. Yeah. We don't know whose it is. Where to come from? Where to come from? It just appeared. It's crazy.

Oh my gosh. Amanda Rob, you are so mysterious. Are you ours? That's a big one to get across as well. Yeah. On a razor scooter. I don't race a scooter. Still easier than running, surely.

The razor scooter has Noss. Oh. Yeah. That's cool. Whoa. I would like to thank from Footscray. Also here in Victoria, a big shout out to Trav. Craff.

Crappenshits. Trav. That's a beautiful name. Crap-Cropin-Shits. Crappin-chitz. I think it's crapinchits. Crappinchitz. I'm going to go with rambunctious.

Train. Oh, yeah. What's so rambunctious about it? I don't know what rambunctious means. Toot-to-to-to-t. That's your rambunctious train? Tut-to-to-to-t. Hey, Trav, crap and shits, you can have whatever you like.

Just enjoying a nice train journey, actually. Yeah, it's quite nice. I would like to thank from St. Petersburg over in Florida. Thank you to. Molly Spuddy or Molly Spuddy. Molly Spuddy, a diligent. A diligent dingo. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Eyes on the pros. That's right. Very focused dingo. They're not that big. Dave, can you do, when I tell you the dictionary definition for rambunctious, can you give me another rambunctious train? Because yours was not.

I would like, that's the opposite of rambunctious. Wildly boisterous. Tone, mother, boom. Is that better? Yeah. You're happier with that? Difficult to control a handle, wildly boisterous. Oh, so you?

Yeah. You're untameable. You didn't think... It's like that horse. You didn't think my first... Toot-to. Not obnoxious enough. Toot-to-to-to.

It was cute. I'm coming through. You-hoo! I'm a train! You're a man of words. You know, you're a man of books. Uh-huh. And you thought rambunctious meant, like, meek.

I just like doing a, um, doing a little... Meek train. It sounds quite fun. Tootoo, a coy train. You ho! Over here! Who, me? And finally, I would like to thank this week from Sparks in Nevada.

Thank you to Dana, not Diana. Okay. Dana has been called Diana a lot, I think. Because it is spelled D-A-I-N-A, and then the surname is not Diana. Yeah. Dana, not Diana. Dana. Well, that's very American, because here we'd say,

Nurt, Diana. Nour. Nurt. Nurt. Is your name Diana? No. Nurt. Nure.

It's Dana. Nour's Dana. And what's Dana on? Dana's on a... Oh, geez, the last one, I'm going through so many great options. I know, you got heaps, yeah. What kind of thing do you want? Anything.

Oh, okay. So you want to use it. An all encompassing. Uh, orb. Perfect. Perfect. Inside the orb. Inside the orb.

Yeah, like, Zorbing. Because it's all encompassing. I guess it's already, it's either side of the country all at once. Yeah, it's actually quite dangerous. I would get out of the way of Dana, not Diana. That's also not diner. Diner. Diner. Not diner.

That's for sure. All meals are included. It's all encompassing. Thank you so much to Dana, Molly, Trev, Amanda, Avery, Gareth, Simone, Stacey and Florence. And the last thing we need to do is welcome with just the one today, very special inductee into the Triptitch Club. Just to quickly let you know, if you don't know, Triptage Club is a very exclusive area for patrons have been supporting on the shoutout level or above for three straight years. Once inside, they're not allowed to leave, but they don't want to. Why would you want to?

There's no reason to it. It got everything you need. That's ridiculous. From like ice hockey tables to, you know, like a fridge with multiple drinks in it. Just behind the bar, she's on with putting together a new special cocktail on her ever-expanding menu. She hasn't, I don't think she's included a new digestible drink for a while, but the back catalogue's still there and there are a lot of good ones. Dave also books a man for the after party. Oh, man.

You're never going to believe her book this week. What? We've just mentioned them. It's completely coincidental because obviously there's been a lot of back and forth that were supposed to come in four weeks ago but then there was a bit of food poisoning so we've had to bump them to this week.

But thank you. Hitting the stage tonight, singer of St. Elmo's Fire in brackets, man in motion. John Parr is here. Wow. I got Paul. I got Parr also famous for his number six hit, Norty Norty.

Oh, I love Norty, naughty, naughty. I don't think I knew we had any other songs. Yeah. But that, I mean, if he's going to, going to play naughty naughty naughty. Wow. How high did Man in Motion get? It's naughty naughty, naughty, his biggest hit?

No, man in motion charted at number one of the US and number six in the UK. There you go. So good. Also, but it was released in Australia as flumbar flumber, was it? Yes. Gonna be a flumba. Flambi, dundee. They didn't think Man in Motion translated to Australia.

Yeah, we don't get it. What does that mean? No, we don't get it. No. No. Yep. That's better. Thank you.

Nair. Is that closer? Yep. Niu! So get ready for the musical stylings of John Parr, everyone. John Parr. And Jess, have you worked on any new dishes this week or drinks? Well, you made me feel a bit shit before because you said, like, I haven't, I haven't said anything that's consumable.

But this time I got the, I made a Terry Fox cocktail. Oh, cool. And it's fox blood. And I thought that would. I guess that's consumable. I thought, yeah. It's not. It's like not all this thick blood.

It's like I've diluted it. In the first few years of it, you made some really delicious sounding cocktails. Uh-huh. And now you don't... They're still available. It does feel like you've lost your mind. It does be a little bit like... Well, okay, okay, so the drinks, not good.

But the old good ones are still available. Yeah. But I have... But this is thinned out fox blood. It's thinned out fox blood. But also, dining-wise, because our stove's still on the fritz, I have got in some catering from the four seasons. Oh, fantastic.

So it's actually fancy as fuck. Oh my God. They're the ones who donated. Yeah. Cash. Yeah. Oh, the four seasons. So it's actually, it's honestly like, it's a level of fancy I'm uncomfortable

with. Yeah. But some of our trip ditch club members might enjoy it as a little break from really hot soup. They'd be different. The four seasons over in America would be a bit different to ours because we have all our boughs in one day in Melbourne. Um, so I am, which is very unique to Melbourne. Nowhere else in a world has that.

We have very changeable weather here and coffee, which other cities don't have. We don't have it. We do have it. They don't have it. I really think we should take coffee to the world. I think they'd really enjoy it. I don't know if they would appreciate it. I did need to double check though.

When he was staying at the Four Seasons, was he staying at the Four Seasons Hotel? Was he staying at the Four Seasons total landscaping? Oh, yes. We should double check that. Has been made publicly before. True by the past and future US president. All right. Are we ready?

We're ready. So the way it works is I'm on the door. I'm the bouncer, basically. I'm the muscle. Just this once. Yeah, okay, you're the muzzle. Just be nice to Dave about this web like, because sometimes you're always like, it's pretty weak.

And I just think it deflates me a little bit. So just this time just try to like. Oh, that's not for, he's not meant to hear that's for the listeners so that they lower their expectations and he can nearly, you know, get over there. You say it loud enough that he can hear it. Oh, okay. I'll just whisper it.

All right, listeners. Thank you for standing off. Dave's, um, Dave does some wordplay to welcome in the inductee and it's normally dog shit. Um, and I'm only letting you know that just so you're prepared and you actually feel okay about it. Say you say something over there? Can't hear it. No, we're just, we're just pausing for a moment.

So, yeah, it's honestly, it might make you feel sick with how bad it is. But, um, if it doesn't make you physically vomit and that's the only one, way I know how to vomit. If it doesn't make you do that, think of that as a win and just be, yeah. All right. So I'm going to go back to the group now. Okay. So don't tell him he said that because apparently he's a real fragile little bitch.

So don't, never message him and say that I said this because he apparently he's weak as, you know, like fine china, which I don't know if that's weak or not. But I couldn't think of an analogy. But you understand. Forn chana. Fuck in the room, Jess. Why were you eaves dropping on me right then? No, absolutely not. I was just, I was waiting patiently while you obviously had a break for some sort of reason,

and now we're ready to finish up. So, all right, Dave's on stage. He's going to hype you up. If you hear your name, run on in. Everyone else is already in the club because they're not allowed to leave. They're there cheering you on. Jester's hyping up Dave. He doesn't need it because his work so good, but she's there just in case on the off chance

Dave does a really bad dog shit wordplay pun or anything on either their place of residents or their name. All right, here we are. We ready to go? Hands on the tush. Let's do it. Welcome in from Blakeview in South Australia. It's Troy Partridge. Aha!

And a Troy in a pear tree. Welcome, Troy. Knowing me. Dave Ornicki, knowing you. Troy Partridge. Uh-huh. Welcome in Troy Now just to go back through those names

Welcome Troy Everyone like we give everyone a couple of shout out Yeah you must because you forget Enjoy the musical stylings of John Parr And from Foxblood That's right Hang around And Troy if you're still in there in six years time

You will be entering into a secret second room Which is the triple tripditch club Yeah Which we're still renovating at this stage Yeah but we have plenty of time And it yeah We say the kitchen in the main areas on the fritz, but in there it is fully functioning.

We'll put a lot of the budget into the kitchen in the triple trip to each club. Which we can't use for another six years. Yeah. So that's a mistake on our part. It was we are bad with planning. And, you know, all sorts of stuff we're bad with. But that brings the end of the episode,

anything we need to sell people before we go, Jess? Let's list some of the things we're bad with. Okay. Emotions. Pleasuring. Oh, sorry. I thought we were doing an honest thing here. You just don't jokes.

Yeah, emotions. Yeah, you're great with emotions, mate. Anyway, I think we need to tell people is that we love them. Oh, my God. Bloody hell we love you. Especially the people listening still at this point. What are you doing with your life? You might be the only one and that's why we love you.

Yeah. Can you tweet me and say, I was listening. And we'll understand. Oh, we'll understand. That one understand. Because this will be coming out about three weeks time. Yep. That you can suggest a topic.

Like we said, so many people suggested this topic. I really hope our Canadian listeners, you know, we're happy with that report. And you can search a topic. There's a link in our show notes. It's also on our website, which is do go on pod.com. And you can find us on social media at do go on pod as well. And do go on podcast on Tiki-toki. Dave, boot this baby home.

Hey, we'll be back next week with another episode. We will not be stopped. But until then, I'll say thank you so much for listening. And goodbye. Later. We will not be stopped. I want to get the last word in. Word.

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