Oh What A Time... - 🚨 IT'S ANOTHER EMERGENCY PODCAST 🚨

Episode Date: October 12, 2025

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Hello and welcome to, oh, what a time, welcome sadly to another emergency podcast, but welcome to the podcast in which we discussed elements of history, including Tom, once wearing this, you've just, you've just, discuss this Tom actually I'm just going to throw to you just tell the listeners what you've just shared well the conversation Ellis and I was having was about a particularly cool clothes shop in the early 2000s in Cardiff which was called El called Pavilion a much missed clothes shop that I really liked and that Tom really liked absolutely if you were into sort of football casual clothing even in a light way it was a place to go I bought her a jumper there I wore it for a month around Cardiff had a cool picture of a guy on the front I thought what a cool screen print jumper this is the first time Ellis saw it he said to me you are aware that's Pol Pot you're wearing a picture

of Pol Pot never have I removed an item of clothing quicker you thought I got my clothes off quickly on my honeymoon wait this was this was far quicker than that I'd be wearing Pol Pot around for a month Ellis then arguably topped that well I've actually I've actually found the image so I'll send it to Tom bought... This shop was really cool. Same shop.

It was a... Same shop. It sold really good stuff and Tom loved it in there and I loved it in there. And Tom shrunk a t-shirt that he really liked. And he said, I'll give it to you well.

I ended up with a lot of Tom's clothes because he'd shrunk them in tumble dryers. And it was of an image. It was a white t-shirt with an image of a sort of half a man face and half a bear or maybe a wolf's face with a wolf's sort of claw, a wolf's paw and then a man's hand with long nails.

Sounds cool, to be fair. Yeah. And some Russian writing underneath it, right? And I really loved this t-shirt and I thought, I am going to wear this every day for the rest of my life and I gave it a good go in the mid-2000. It was a cool t-shirt. It was a cool t-shirt and that I was in a nightclub

and a bloke him up to me, pointed at my t-shirt. shirt and said don't touch me if you want to live and I said what and he went your t-shirt don't touch me if you want to live and I said I don't know what you're talking about and he said that's what your t-shirt says I've got a Russian degree it's a thing that murderers and stuff tattooed on their chest in Russian prisons and you've got it on a t-shirt and the best thing about this only the scariest people would know what that tattoo means as well So if you're, the people you don't want to be annoyed at you having that t-shirt and the people want to know what it mean. What's the worst thing you've worn, Skull, apart from West Hamshire, am I right?

Hey! Talking about problematic items of clothing. Got to be that, isn't it, the West Hamford? I did have a t-shirt in the mid-noughties, and it was like a palm tree scene, like Los Angeles, loads of these palm trees. And in just huge bubble writing, it just said, Essex. well there you go well the reason we bring this up well actually isn't the reason we brought it up

if we're looking for a segue if you want to keep us in unusual clothing that we shouldn't be wearing around cities and cause a fence inadvertently then there's a way to do that isn't there Chris so obviously we're not with Wondery anymore and we're searching for a new home

and it's just taking a bit of time to get set up in that new home and we thought it might be today but it's not today we haven't actually sorted it out yet but it's imminent we've got everything in place and hopefully very, very soon we will be back on air.

But however, and Ellis, I think it's worth saying you'll agree with this. I mean, credit where credit's due. It's good the listeners to know about this. Chris is using the phrase, we haven't sorted it. Basically, Chris is the only one who's having to deal with this. Ellis and I are completely useless and have no idea what's happening at any point. Totally absolve myself for responsibility.

Chris could tell me, in a month's time, we're going to be broadcasting from speakers per corner in Hyde Park. We're just going to be standing on an old milk crate and talking. and then, yeah, it's best skiing. Essentially, it's a podcast busking. You can see, we're going to be climbing trees and city centres all over Europe and just shouting on the podcast. I'd be like, okay, if he thinks that's the best way you've done it,

that's what happens is. Chris sends a quite technical message around to our WhatsApp group explaining different things that are on the table, and Ellis and I give that message a thumbs up. As if to say, yeah, great, whatever you think. Nice one, man. A real peek behind the showbiz curtain. So if you want to enjoy Oh What a Time for now, we are on Patreon now.

And we've got bonus episodes out. So the first couple of episodes of O What A Time when we do come back are already there on Patreon. And we've got a new special coming out very soon. In the next week or so, we're going to have the Lance Armstrong book by David Walsh, Seven Deadly Sins, that details the rank cheating of Lance Armstrong at the Tour de France. Lance. I've read that book. He was on a line bike, wasn't it? That was the main one. I've read this book. It's one of the best books I've ever read. And I'm so excited to share that review with you. So, Seven Deadly Sins. My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong by David Walsh will be on the patron very soon. Can I ask one question about that? In a general sense, does he come across as a good guy? I'm intrigued by this. No, I'm intrigued.

Yeah, yeah. Like, do you have any warmth from by the end? Well, I guess we'll find out. Yeah, maybe a little bit. Maybe a little bit. I think his argument would be that everyone was doing it. That's absolutely. So he didn't believe he was cheating because he was like, well, everyone does this. And I keep winning. So surely I'm the best. Okay.

It's like the argument for the enhanced games. Yes. Which is a sort of a version of the Olympics where you're allowed to take what you like. Do you want to know what my idea for the Olympics is I was discussing with a friend last week? Oh, yeah. Which is the Olympics, as it is. But in every event, you just have one normal person. like just an average guy

I don't mean someone who runs track for county level I mean just like a normal bloke who's like 38 Yeah no no no I've I've also talked about this I think we might have discussed it I think the two of us might have discussed it's Because I would call it the context games It's a great idea

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so there's lots of benefits. Now L, you seem keen to mention something. I'm guessing it's probably not Patreon related but you think is important. It's not Patreon related but my other really good idea for the Olympics is that you just introduce catch. Catch at an Olympic level

would be so exciting. That's a really good idea. How would it work? You just, well we actually, I remember discussing this on the on the Ellis and John show and somehow producer Dave a bloke from the IOC to come on to try and quiz them how it would work.

Is it two people moving further and further away from each other? Yeah, that's how I'm imagining it. In different zones. Oh, interesting. What are these zones? Zones that delineate how far away you are.

Okay, so there's not like a different sort of flaw. It's not like jelly zone or custard or whatever and it makes it tricky. No, no, no, no. If you like Tom Crane and I was James, they've been a catch partnership for some 14 years. Oh, you're a partnership?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you've got a throw and a catcher. Oh, that's really good. And how far you can throw it dictates whether you win or not. Yeah. I think that's clever. I think every throw, you go back by half a meter. That's what it is, and you're getting further and further apart. I think that's

got to be it, surely. So we're in the heats now, and Tom Crane and Ellis James, Tom the thrower, Ellis James, the catcher. They wouldn't be able to reverse these roles. Ellis is a terrible thrower, Tom. An awful catcher. They're going for 80 metres, and they've done it.

They're through to the semi-final. That's a great choice from Crane to pull his trousers forward and try and catch it in his pants. I don't know why he's done that, but the audience have loved that. 10 style points. That's huge. That's showboating from Grain.

I would love that. I used to play a game in secondary school simply called Long Throw. That's all it was. I probably wasn't just my game, where you just throw the ball as far as you could. to your friend and then throw it back again a long throat that's literally what he was

it was a different time kids didn't have mobile phones in schools and I tell you was a better time that's a very naive game have you read Sided with Rosie it's like something that would happen there you're sort of in Gloucestershire in about 1909

Here Tom do you want to play long the throat Oh I don't mind When you're done spinning your wooden hoop down this cobboard lane do you want to play long throw it is quite sweet isn't it it it's always the it evokes like a hovis advert yeah i miss long throw it's also what's quite sweet about it is how on the nose the name is it's like calling football kicky time or something yeah yeah yeah yeah but ball kick yeah there you go pull kick well that's it for this week hopefully we will be back very soon

but don't forget if you want to enjoy oh what time right now you can including the first two episodes the series when we come back you can head over to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time and if you use the discount code custard you get 25% off your first month you can't say fairer than that to wrap it up let's just try the longest throw ever done l can you see in my hand i've got a ball can you see this yeah you're in london i'm in norfolk so how far away this is a three hour drive you ready for the record okay if if this lands in your hand and you're listening okay i think you have to agree you'll definitely sign up as a patron immediately but it won't that it's not I can't do it surely you ready here we go you ready three two oh oh yes wow that dog toy no it's a it's a ball

of wall there you go sign up you have to you agreed see you guys see you soon bye goodbye You know,