Wolf and Owl - S3 Ep 15: Marathon Training & The Underdog Special
Episode Date: March 13, 2024We’re talking… product recommendations, Rom’s marathon training, tips from Mo Farah, quibbles with Quorn, the challenges of chaffing, bonks and running vests, a cheerleader challenge, Tom filmin...g his Underdog special, plunge pool preparations, more dog treats and the best underwater swimmer in the world. Plus, some email questions about how we’ve changed since starting the pod, girl vs boy parenting, and a concerning obsession with conspiracy theories. For questions or comments, please email us at wolfowlpod@gmail.com - we’d love to hear from you. Instagram - @wolfowlpod TikTok - @wolfowlpodcast YouTube - www.youtube.com/WolfandOwlPodcast Merch & Mailing List - https://wolfandowlpod.com/ A Shiny Ranga Production For sales and sponsorship enquiries: HELLO@KEEPITLIGHTMEDIA.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Can we start off, I need to address something
Go on, here So, we got an email in from a GP the wolf can we can we oh to the owl can we start off uh i need to address something um go on here
so we got an email in from a gp okay uh and he has suggested uh and was being like you know kind of
helpful that the i don't know if you recall and i say i don't know if you recall i know you do
recall because i've had nothing but messages about it, the magnesium butter that I talked about on the last show,
said that we're slightly running the risk of recommending things
without any medical background or understanding.
Oh, God.
So, look, there is nothing...
All I'm going to say is, this is how I'm going to qualify, right?
And a lot of people have been asking me for the brand.
What is the brand called?
Well, the brand have got in touch with me.
They've got in touch with me as well.
They are called Sweet B.
Right, that's...
Sweet B, yeah.
But I'm sure...
I've brought some Sweet B.
They've said they'll send some.
I've already...
And I've been...
Yeah, look, man, again,
I'd actually... you know what could
be quite good is to actually get a doctor on this like a jeep because we're like so since we've we've
spoken about the magnesium but uh tonka alley and all various other things i'm getting a lot of
people asking me for the brands and i'm like i i don't know i've i've had i've spoken to a doctor
about this stuff apart from the magnesium bar,
which I spoke to Dr. Ranganathan about,
or Dr. Al.
Everything else has been...
I've spoken to someone about Tonga Alley.
I've spoken to what brand is good and whatever.
I don't know if that will work for everyone else.
So just to give a little bit of qualification,
the butter has worked for me
I can't
I can't guarantee
it's going to
can I just say
with the butter
are you
how much are you
lathering in
in like
I guess like sort of
this is a piece
this is a bit
the size of a grape
no
I don't know if I'm putting
that's a big bit
I don't think
I'm putting that much on
Jesus Christ I'm going to go for a fucking tub a night.
That's what I feel, I mean, yeah.
But I will say, are you putting it between your toes?
It depends how sort of frisky I'm feeling, do you know what I mean?
Sometimes.
Wow.
Sometimes I put a bit on my calves.
Yeah, I've put a bit on my calves and my quads.
But then my quads felt quite weak.
I don't know whether the magnesium butter's infiltrated my quads and they're a bit like oh this is so nice and chilled so
yeah i sort of yeah i'm just gonna stick to the bottom of my feet okay it's incredible i've got
to say i'm very much i uh thank you i did the bottom of my heart that's all right i i did uh
i did a band workout yesterday with with this. You know, like where you like,
because obviously I'm marathon training,
but you've got to improve your leg strength or whatever.
So I was doing like, you know,
when you put the band around you.
By the way, the marathon thing is fucking insane, bruv.
Well, I've not done it.
It came from nowhere.
I knew you were enjoying running,
but it's insane that you've just been like,
I'm going to tell you now,
of all the things you've done in your life,
it's one of the most inspiring.
Well, you do say that about everything.
I mean, I'm pretty sure you said it
when I finished a burger and fries one night
when we were out together, but...
Yeah, that was a very dry-looking burger.
No, I think, fuck me, I was like,
where's this come from?
Shout out as well, you're doing it for a great cause,
calm, Carol Romish's page, give them the sponsor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right. But what I would say is... no I think fuck me I was like where's this come from shout out as well you're doing it for a great cause calm yes
Carol Romish's page
give them the sponsor
yeah yeah
alright
but what I would say
is
I want the whole
actually do you know
what I think we could do
actually
if you're up for this
when is the marathon
21st of April
oof
it's near my birthday
let's make sure
I don't know if I'm
gigging that at that point
just my luck
that I can't come
and fucking support my Jew
yeah let me just have a quick look because that would be amazing oh I'm around't know if I'm gigging that at that point. It's just my luck that I can't come and fucking support my Jew. Yeah.
Let me just have a quick look, because that would be amazing.
Oh, I'm around.
I'm around.
I'm around.
Right, okay.
I don't want you around.
Mate, I'll be there.
How can I not be there?
Also, is Sweet Lisa running it with you?
No, no, no.
She'll be there with the boys.
No, I don't.
You know what'll be fucking amazing
if I turn up
and the boys are like
fucking El Tom's here as well
I'm not running a marathon
your dad's a hero today
do you know
what I would hate
is to sort of be
because I'm going to be struggling
you know my target
you are
my target is just to finish it
and training is
training is really hard
I had no idea
like
yeah
it's hard
anyway
my big fear is that I look across and I
see you like you know like Arnold Schwarzenegger's neighbour in Jingle All
The Way where it's just like where you just sort of stood there with your arm
around the Swan just sort of thumbs up the kids all gathered around you
that's it that's it no no me and Lisa won't be close because we'll have to
big sign we'll be either sides of a big like a sheet with your name
on it yeah
run Rob run
the thing I don't
know I kind of
wait I mean
listen obviously I
want people to
sponsor but I
kind of feel like
I'm getting all the
good stuff out of
doing the marathon
without actually
having done it
do you know what
I mean like because
when I announced it
when I announced it
that's like the
England football team though Rob's like the England football team
though Rob
that's the England football team
bruv
England football team
do that every time
they all get their sponsors
they're all on fucking
adverts everywhere
they enjoy the fucking
bit of it coming up to it
then the pressure starts
when the tournament starts
I'd rather
do you know how I'd like it
I'd like it
if you don't announce it
you do the marathon
and then you say afterwards
I did the marathon could you yeah but bro then it's do the marathon, and then you say afterwards, I did the marathon, could you...
Yeah, but bro, then it's over, man.
Could you pay?
Then it's over.
No, but the run-up to it, you've got to enjoy every part of this.
There's going to be a lot of sweet, sweet acclaim.
There's going to be a lot of people shocked that you're doing it.
There's going to be a lot of people...
I'm shocked. I'm still not convinced I'm going to be able to do it,
to be honest with you.
What do you do? What is the score if you need...
You know what I think?
I keep thinking about getting more people,
because what I think we need to kind of do on this
is get someone who's run the marathon before,
like Mo Farah or someone, right?
It'd be quite interesting to get Mo.
He's quite a good laugh, actually.
And you sort of think all the achievements he's done
and everything, and his background and everything.
I feel like the ultimate legacy would be
to give some coaching to a limping owl throughout the marathon. all the achievements he's done and everything and his background and everything I feel like the ultimate legacy would be to
give some coaching
to a limping owl
throughout the marathon
yeah no
but if
if Mo came on here
we could have a banter
about loads of stuff
he was brought up
not far from us
or like sort of
lived not far from us
we could get him here
little bit of corn chat
yeah
and then get a strength
oh fuck yeah
because he's a vegan as well
he's not
he's not
he's not
he's not he likes corn. He's not, he's not. He's not. Oh, is he?
He likes corn, though.
Well.
Hold on.
Before we start and we invite him on this,
are you telling me that he did all the adverts for corn?
Yeah, he did, yeah.
But, I mean, look.
Actually, I'll tell you, I would get him on here and I'd say,
oh, hold on, hold on.
Before we start, because I think you're an incredible credit.
Hold on a second.
To the sport, to everything.
But this whole corn stuff is insane.
No, listen, before you make another horrible mistake
of going in two-footed on someone who doesn't deserve it,
all right, you know, corn isn't just for vegetarians.
And also corn is...
I like corn.
Yeah, and it's not vegan, by the way, a lot of it.
I like corn, by the way, if you put some beef stock in it.
Yeah, yeah, there you go i was trying to i took a pause for a second then see if you're being a troll but i actually think you mean it so no no it's really nice but because it actually absorbs
the beef stock and makes it really beefy um anyway i think but mo farah would be amazing
we love mo farah so let's maybe he could give you some advice. I imagine,
I imagine as this goes out,
his agent is absolutely,
is fucking straight on the phone to him right away.
Just like Mo.
This is the big one, mate.
I know you've done an award winning,
I know you've done an award winning documentary
about your journey to this country.
And I know that you're an incredible athlete,
but it's finally come in.
The thing we always hoped.
The wolf and owl have made the call.
He will be.
You know the guys that have been accused of quackery on the podcast
for just recommending just mad medical...
Yeah, them, those guys.
The snake oil salesman.
No, but listen, man, Mo is amazing, right?
I adore Mo.
I think he's a great geezer.
Well, I think if he comes on on number one, from what I know mate
one of the big things you've got to worry about is chafing
that's a fucking big one for you
I chafed at the weekend actually
what were you doing about it?
I went on a run in Newcastle
and got back to the hotel
I didn't feel it during the run
but then when I got into the hotel
the inside
this is disgusting isn't it but
the inside of my thighs felt quite sore raw raw yeah i mean yeah i mean it's you're using the
right word there but yeah i want to say hold up can i just say the friction is caused because i
was always confused is it your balls or your bollocks rubbing against your legs are you asking
me are you asking me if it's your balls or your bollocks no no no no no no no just same thing balls bollocks or your
legs running rubbing together what is the thing that well can i what i i don't know but what i
can say i i think it's clothing against your skin because my boxers the inside legs of the boxers
sort of gathered it sort of gathered. It sort of gathered.
Yeah.
So it's kind of like,
can I just make one suggestion?
And this is the only thing I,
cause I'm not a marathon expert,
never run it.
I don't even run.
Right.
But I will say,
get yourself down to Lululemon,
get yourself a pair of their 70,
uh,
uh, 70 millimeter or 70 inch,
I can't remember what they are.
Um,
boxer shorts.
It's unlikely they're 70 inch,
I'd say.
Um,
what, what, what are. Boxer shorts. It's unlikely they're 70-inch, I'd say. What are 70-millimeter boxer shorts?
They basically go further down so they don't gather,
so you're not running the risk of chafing.
They're lovely, man.
They're soft.
They're really absorbent.
My inside leg, I think, is 31-inch.
So having 70-inch boxer shorts.
I don't know if it's the way I want to go just
even if I fucking double them up
and we start off the marathon
and Robert Reganator at the back there
really seems to be in some trouble
tripping over his underpants
the legs of his underpants are dragging
through the tarmac
and they've got weapons sodden
and he's having a real nightmare well he's going to chief there underpants are dragging through the tarmac and they've got weapons sodden and
he's having a real nightmare
he's got a chief there big fella
he's got a chief there
I don't know who that is at the end
but I think yeah
70mm but I'd say
get those in your life
that's going to help you but before we do
I'd say let's just try and get
try and get Mo or someone
to give you
some advice and a run-up to it yeah i'd like to come and see you train i'd like to i'd happily
like get get a bike just drop like right alongside you as you're running that'd be lovely that'd be
really nice that'd be really nice just giving you sort of like words of actually do you know
let me do that at the actual marathon no i don't i mean i'm almost certain there's some things i'd
have to check on but that i'm almost certain of that well yeah no i don't think it's gonna happen but
thanks for the offer also that you know i think you should be grateful for the fact they wouldn't
allow you to do that i feel like riding for you riding 26 miles on a bike without any if you
remember a few a few years ago i rode around that big river that big lake whatever it was yeah well the lake
would have to be
pretty fucking big
for that to have been
adequate training
for you to ride the marathon
it was mate
I think it was about
22 miles
so obviously
let me just have a look
how long it was
because I actually think
I probably wouldn't need
too much training
because I did that
pretty quickly
yeah
I think that makes sense
yeah
if you did that
a few years ago
I think you're good to go
makes sense well I think that in fact what I. If you did that a few years ago, I think you're good to go. Makes sense.
Well, I think that, in fact, what I might say to them when they say... 23 miles, Rob.
23 miles, mate.
Yeah.
And that was with no training.
Well, I think if they say to me,
if they say to me, I don't really think Tom suited to that.
If I go, well, look, a few years ago,
he, during the course of a day,
rode 23 miles around a lake
with about six or seven stops
for sandwiches and various kind of snacks and that yeah beers like pubs and stuff yeah yeah
there's loads of but i'll tell you that could be a laugh if you made the marathon a pub crawl
yeah yeah like you went in yeah uh what you what's what what you're what you're hydrating with
well actually without getting too bored into it fueling has been an issue for me
because it's just well because before I started doing these kind of distances,
I would just run without anything
because you could get away with it.
You can do 10K without anything.
But you remember I told you about that?
I've since discovered,
do you remember I told you that story
about getting stranded in Ipswich?
Yeah.
And Greg's actually did get in touch.
Oh, did they?
Yeah.
I'll tell you what you keep that
care that to yourself doesn't surprise me greg's a completely fucking lovely people
uh so yeah um what have they offered you some sort of no no i think they'll just get involved
in the in the joke really but um i uh i had a i've had what i since have discovered is a bonk
is that's what it's called. It's called a bonk.
So many words, this.
Yeah, when you haven't fuelled properly
and your body runs out of, what is it, glycogen,
then that's when you hit the bonk.
So I've been having to try and figure out a few.
So I've now got...
You're going to love this.
I've now got a running vest.
What?
With two bottles of water in the front.
And then I've started taking some gels with me.
It seems ridiculous, doesn't it?
But you have to get...
Gels that you rub on or gels that you eat?
No, gels that you eat.
And you have to get your body used to them
because otherwise they give you the shits.
So that has to be part of your training as well.
Well, that's the worst thing you can have with a marathon.
No, you're absolutely right.
You don't want to shit yourself with a marathon.
Yeah, it's not absolutely the worst,
but I would say it's up there.
I'd say if I was compiling a list of top ten things
that I didn't want to happen,
shitting myself would be pretty high up.
I mean, I'm assuming that they've got toilets on the course, right?
Yeah, mate, email them about that or call them.
Yeah.
That's a lottery
you're running there
mate
it's a risky
I think it'll
come up in the
website FAQs
I don't think
it's sustainable
for everybody
to phone up
and ask them
but yeah
well yeah
if you put it
on here
oh actually
if you are
running the
marathon
if you want
to get in
touch
we'll call this
like Rom's
Running Buddies
get in touch
maybe send us
a video on
Instagram
of you doing
your marathon training Rom's Brethren whatever we call it Rom's Running Buddies, get in touch. Maybe send us a video on Instagram of you doing your marathon training.
Rom's Brethren, whatever we call it.
Rom's Kin.
Any marathon runners out there who are also embarking on their first
or maybe their seventh marathon, just get in touch, guys.
Only first and seventh, actually.
We don't want to hear from anybody else who's doing any other numbers of marathons.
Can I also say, if somebody can help me with the mental block
that i'm currently facing i'd really appreciate that i mean i mean the you know me i told you
before about dave goggins yeah but i'll be a bit that work okay so dave goggins i don't know if
first of all i don't even know if everyone knows who dave goggins is but dave goggins is
basically this guy that's like what is he hardcore fitness right is that the best way to say yeah
he's also he's a war veteran yeah he's done all sorts yeah but that's part of the problem
is i'm not a war veteran i've not got that mental state so for dave goggins to go you just got to
keep going it doesn't work i'm a different breed and you know people say when people normally say
i'm a different breed that means i'm built with like some stern stuff i'm not i'm built of like cotton wool you
know like mentally but you know what with someone like gogo right he's basically um he's so fucking
mentally tough you only need probably 10 of his mental toughness right now and that will grow
inside of you right that will start blooming inside of you if you can get inside of his way
of thinking like i i think mate, you give yourself very little credit.
You've signed up to a marathon, literally, without being rude.
If you told yourself, we've got a time machine now, right?
Me and you got the DeLorean, right?
You drive, right?
I'll probably be sitting shotgun,
just fucking having a laugh and playing with the radio and stuff.
Breaking the flux capacitor or something.
We are back to the future, right? like just fucking having a laugh and playing with the radio and stuff. Breaking the flux capacitor or something. Yeah.
We were back to the future, right?
Only a mere five years ago, or pre-COVID, whatever.
And you turned to you then and said,
hi, I'm you for the future.
You back then would go, fucking hell, look how amazing I look.
What?
Right?
And you'd go, yeah, listen, we've done some serious work on ourselves,
both spiritually, mentally, and physically.
I can fucking see that, mate.
Right?
And you go, I'm just about to do a marathon.
And the older you go, no, you're not.
That's insane.
That's a mad thing to say.
We'd never be able to do a marathon.
Right?
And you go, we are fucking doing one.
Like, you know, in like, well, the time is completely irrelevant
because we have a time machine. So it could be in like 45 seconds or it could be in fucking yeah but we are going to do
one and i feel like i could do it old you would turn around and literally go oh my god this is
like fucking just the speaking of a mad person and i'd be there and they'd go fucking hell we're
still friends i'll go best friends we've got a podcast now and you go fucking old and even even after
the way that you were so horrible to me on uh on house of fools we're actually friends yeah yeah
yeah i know it seems completely unpredictable but what happens is you kind of accidentally
do a podcast that gets more successful than you would have hoped and then
sadly your careers are fucking intertwined forever.
Also, you've become my sidekick in a relatively successful sitcom.
Anyway, we've got to go back.
Yeah, but listen.
That's amazing, bro.
You've got to look at that.
Yeah, fine.
But the big flaw in what you've said,
and by the way, I appreciate the support.
You're a great cheerleader,
is that I don't currently believe I can do that.
Oh, well, maybe you'd like me to do that,
dress up as a cheerleader.
I'd love you to do that.
Yeah, in fact, can I make that request?
If you would like Tom to turn up as a cheerleader,
in fact, let's do a poll.
Who would like Tom to dress up as a cheerleader?
This is your marathon. This is your marathon.
No, no, no.
If I'm going to do a marathon
I'll do a UFC fight
I'm not fucking
I'd sooner that
and dress up
and make that my stick
like you're turning up
at a big event
dressed up as a fucking cheerleader
well let's
let's throw
any dignity
that I've fucking managed
to claw up
let's throw it open
to a poll
we'll do a poll
on the wolf now
if you want him to be
a UFC fighter or if you want him to be a UFC fighter
or if you want him
to be a cheerleader
whichever one wins
will be what
Tom dresses up as
okay JT
put it up
put it up JT
that's quite nerve wracking
now
either way
either way
you've got off quite lightly
with the fucking marathon
well
yeah
arguably
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But speaking of marathons,
a man that has completed a mental marathon,
a career marathon,
Tom Davis recorded your special on Saturday night, right?
Congratulations, bro.
Yeah, man.
Thank you, bro. What a nerve-wracking evening, or day, recorded your special on Saturday night right congratulations yeah man thank you
bro what a nerve-racking evening well probably 48 hours of quite aggressive
nervous energy did the same was the cat there no no no she wasn't no no she
wasn't she's not she's she's not seen the show yet she's gonna come in a
London date I think no she wasn't i was i've been
even more nervous if she was in the room because i felt like i don't want to yeah you know let
myself and her down at similar it's it's like up there with the most nervous things i've ever done
in my life yeah like because you you'll know this because you've done a number of them but
like you get one chance to get it right right and in you you know you're so worried about a moment or like something going wrong or
well the one thing we were talking about before we started recording was like when they go to
pick yourself up what i mean but obviously you're doing it to pick yourself up mentally and
emotionally but i'm talking about the literal picking yourself up if you fumble a line.
Your big fear is how mental that sounds.
So if you go like, what's the deal with, hold on,
what is the deal with, and then you just go, well, that's shit, isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
But that's what you're supposed to do.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The trouble is as well that I'm not like, I mean,
you've seen the show a couple of times I'm not like
and it's quite short people are listening I'm not grammatically correct all the time
yeah it's quite a show and that's what I would say if you are going to see Tom
based on what you've heard on the on the podcast you will be I think it'll become
quite a shock to you that some of the words are used incorrectly and some of the pronunciation is a little off key.
And sometimes even he doesn't seem sure of what he's saying.
But listen, just don't let that put you off.
The only thing I'd say that is sometimes
is probably not a word that you needed in that.
He never quite seems sure of what he's saying.
But yeah, it was amazing, man.
I've got to say that Portsmouth,
the crowd in Portsmouth was absolutely phenomenal.
Listen, I'm doing Portsmouth again this weekend, right?
Portsmouth's amazing, man.
Those crowds are...
I'm saying this now, I'm going to fucking die on my arse.
I know it, I've jinxed it now.
But what a great place to go and do stand up
can I say by the way
enjoy the new stage
we're putting a new stage
that they're keeping
oh really
because the stage
is quite far back
wasn't it
yeah
so we've
we lengthened the stage
for them
and they loved it
so much
they're keeping it
as a thing
and is there going to be
is this going to be
when I do it
is there going to be
some scaffolding
that says underdog on it
mate how cool
did that by the way
shout out to Anna Sheldrake
who's my long term
very good friend
and she's done all that
shows from King Gary
to The Curse
and films that we made
yeah she's amazing
but she made that
as a thing
and I was like
it looks incredible
yeah
I mean I did some
of the fixing
I did a little bit of the fixing
I jumped on just a little tight,
did a little tightening up and whatever.
But yeah, it looks...
It's fucking...
I think I'm even more nervous about watching it back
because I don't really ever even listen to my...
You know when, like, shout out Dennis and Maxine
when they record them.
I don't even...
I can never listen back.
I find it really difficult.
Oh, yeah.
Can I just say
i'll take the opportunity as well shout out to dennis and maxine who go to the trouble of
recording and i've had it confirmed that it's completely fucking pointless tom never listens to
big shout out to you thank you for connecting all to the desk and those are the extra trouble
but just so you know thomas never listed and never will do
big shout out Big shout out to Listen Back Soon. Big shout out.
I do listen back down again
to little bits.
Bits that I forget.
But yeah.
But yeah, man,
it was an amazing thing
and I'm very,
yeah,
very, very thankful for it.
And yeah,
it feels like a big moment in my,
you know what?
I spent two weeks before cold plunging every morning to get myself mentally ready for it yeah um i'm looking to
get into the what have we become on this podcast we've become like magnesium butter tong ali
fucking plunge baths what the hell's going on I was I was a big
we're like the fucking
we're like the fucking
British Joe Rogan now
what the hell's going on
except without the money
and the support from Spotify
and the
life changing wealth
but I felt like
I felt the anxiety
I was feeling
on the run up to
it was fucking insane
so I was like
I need to
really like
key in some fitness
and
also I was by the
way i was very very fucking uh i had a negative feeling so i was like that whole cold punch thing
feels insane i'm not sure if it works and i will say actually it's pretty fucking bad i mean
very unlike me i was uh i made a very fucking hasty judgment and actually having used it now
for a couple of weeks i was like oh no this actually is
are you doing it every day
I was yeah
I'm not now
I'm going to do it
every other day
I'm going to try and do
like a workout
like this morning
oh man this is fucking
I know
it's awful
it's awful what's happening
it really is bad
yeah
yeah but you
you don't want to try
because it's really
it's good for you
for a runner
because it will help your like recovery do you know what I mean want to try it because it's good for you, for a runner, because it will help your recovery.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But to do it after you weight train or whatever.
I mean, look, man, I'm looking at getting into the UFC or some fucking wrestling.
Actually, you know what I'd like to do?
I'd like to get into WWE.
That would be fun.
Yeah, I think you'd be good at that.
I really do.
I could play your sort of shrewish manager.
Oh, like Paul Bearer?
Yeah.
Back in the day with The Undertaker.
Underdog?
Underdog?
We're not going to get the main event if we carry on behaving like this.
Underdog?
You know that's...
I'm going to shut up, you little weasel.
Underdog?
Underdog, I'm just trying to look after your career.
That's a breach of
I pooped my pants
because I went for a big run
that's a really random fucking thing that was
isn't it
well how have we gone from me managing your wrestling
to me shitting myself
that could be like the thing that you do
you're like at the side
I'm the dog he's half a leg in oh you are kidding me yeah this guy shit his pants
again um yeah and i think i think that uh underdogs managers he's running out of the stadium oh my god
he's had another one of his accidents oh god looks like little crappy shit himself again.
Why do you keep calling me little crappy underdog?
Actually, as well as talking about,
can I shout out Denzel's, the dog business?
Can I just say, by the way,
that I've been contacted via my agents,
through email, through most social medias,
from this company, Denzel's,
of the dog treats that I sampled,
asking if I want more of them.
So I'm not sure if they listened to the story or they just saw that you were mentioned.
I don't have a dog anymore,
which is something we've discussed here before.
I don't really have any need for dog biscuits.
Look, if you want to make a charitable donation,
I'd love you to send them to somewhere like Battersea Dogs Home
or somewhere like a dog's trust or something.
If you're going to do that,
that would be a lovely thing to do, a nice gesture.
But I don't really have any need for dog treats uh as you know as dog treats go and the ones that i've
sampled these were by far the nicest but it's not something i'm looking again into long time i all
send them to romesh and his you've got two dogs haven't you yes i do yeah yeah yeah yeah so i
mean you know but i mean yeah I think you know you're loaded up
with Prime
and loads of
other free shit
so it feels like
sort of
the dog treats
should go to
sort of dogs
that need them
yeah I would say
I would say
look Denzel
if you listen to this
and you are
for some reason
taking Tom's
instructions as
gospel
have you got a
choice between
sending them to me
and Battersea
dog site
I think
send them to me
no Battersea
no the dogs trust
there's some
there's great dog
charities out there
and that would
and then we'll
yeah that would be
a nice gesture
yeah
I'd have no use
for them
unless you're really
unless you're really hungry
do you know what I mean
like you'd have to
yeah yeah
I don't know if that
hopefully it'll become
or I'd just have to
end up being a weird guy
walking around
local parks and fields and like just with pockets full of dog i could say that i could see that i
could see you fitting that that might be me in my later years it's just like yeah i think the only
thing i'd disagree that is later late years i feel like that that could be that could be your
weekend you know oh good did you remember him before he did that big comedy special no he just lurks
around here all the time
he's always down the park
just with hands
and dog treats
he calls himself
underdog
because he is always
under one
offering them
some sort of
Denzel treat
here we go
my lovely
here we go
come here
he's got a manager now
leave the dogs alone.
Can I have one, please?
I like the peanut cashew and turkey one.
Please.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
You've shit yourself again, you little toad.
Oh, no.
Little toad's worse than little crappy.
Yeah.
What I love is we started all of this off
by talking about a banded workout you've been doing.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it's left me quite sore.
Oh, really?
Yeah, you have to do like, you know,
like you do like kind of donkey kicks and all that shit.
And like Lisa was showing me
what to do
and
Lisa's got
yeah I can imagine
Lisa's fucking handy
with the band
what does that mean
like
she's a good bit of band
like she's
trained like that
right
she does band
Catherine does it all the time
yeah why can you imagine
why can you imagine that
I'm not imagining it
I'm just saying
well you just said
that was literally your words
I can imagine Lisa being quite handy Lisa be like katherine right no that they
katherine's very like you go but if i go head to head like by the way me and katherine went
swimming the other day right she swims more than i do it was fucking embarrassing yeah i i can't um
i can't actually me three times oh my god i mean i mean, I can't really swim, as you know.
I'm a good swimmer.
I've got the fucking endurance now.
Yeah, I know.
You used to show off and stuff, didn't you?
Yeah, yeah.
Swim underwater.
Mate, swimming underwater, by the way, I'm fucking,
no one can touch me.
I go head to head with anyone swimming underwater.
Adam Peaty, fucking the big guy from Australia.
Yeah.
I genuinely think that, like, there's some fucking thing
that I've been born with like not gills but like some sort of incredible like ability just to sort of
hold my breath. Well you've got. If I go on holiday. Go on. No no go on. I was going to
say well I think it's probably got lungs the size of an ox. I mean it's probably sensitive
isn't it? Yeah but if I go on holiday right first day I'll probably be able to do a length
right. Then I train myself so hard for like
a week
ten days
by the end of it
Catherine's like
where's Tom
and someone's like
oh he went underwater
like a couple of minutes ago
and I pop up
and I'd have done
like six lengths
yeah I doubt she's asking
where's Tom
but yeah
I can believe
that you're increasing
your lengths
and then what
reporting back to Catherine
just going
oh it looks good
yeah
obviously
yeah and then like like, yeah.
Hopefully there's a time with Grace,
she's like, oh, my dad can, like,
swim, like, sort of six legs.
Yeah, fingers crossed.
That's something to look forward to, isn't it?
It'll be a little time when she finds that cool
and it'll just become a bit eggy.
So let's be clear.
When it comes to shipping internationally,
can I provide trade documents electronically?
Mm-hmm.
The answer is FedEx.
Okay. But what about estimating duties and taxes on my shipments?
How do I find all the...
Also FedEx.
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Is there a regulatory specialist I can ask about?
FedEx.
Oh.
But let's say that...
FedEx.
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Did you ask about Rebelsis?
Actually, I'm seeing my doctor later today.
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My dad's been talking about Rebelsis.
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Navigating adulting isn't always easy.
You're not just working,
you're working late.
And dinner dates are all, what's your five-year plan? And you're thinking,
paying off the bill for this fancy-pants
meal, probably. So, when you
need to break free from responsibility
and experience something that feels more
you, reach for Kraft Dinner.
Because when you're starved for moments that bring you
back to who you really are and what you really love that's when it's gotta be kd when you gotta do you
it's gotta be kd shop now
do you fancy um an email emotion yeah yeah okay on one sec. Well, thanks again once again to The Swan.
We've still got loads backed up here.
Okay, this is from The Baby Platypus.
When they get backed up like this,
I'm slightly nervous that I'm going to read one
that we've already done because, as we know,
JT had to message us about a 20-minute discussion.
That was a film pitch.
20-minute discussion we had about a film pitch.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
Basically, we'd already done it and hadn't realised and JT
knew instantly and the two
twats that he has to work with
first of all the twat that selected
the email and then the two twats
who went on to discuss it like they were having a fresh
conversation and had no idea
I mean
it was so pathetic.
And he also said that...
We're essentially
a pair of goldfish now
with that conversation.
We just talk about
the same fucking subject
all over again.
Yeah.
In many ways,
it's good to move on
to plunge balls and stuff,
isn't it?
Just for a bit of...
Anyway,
this is from the Baby Platypus
and it says,
Dear Wolf,
Owl, Swan and Cat,
thank you so much
for your podcast.
I'm an oncology nurse.
I can safely say that your weekly updates provide me with a lot of much-needed laughs says, dear Wolf, Owl, Swan and Cat, thank you so much for your podcast. I'm an oncology nurse.
I can safely say that your weekly updates provide me with a lot of much needed laughs after some difficult days. I was catching up on today on some of your earlier pods as I'm up to
date with the recent ones and I've been listening to pilot number one, Aliens, which is absolutely
cracking me up. It looks like it was recorded right at the start in 2020. I wanted to ask how
you sweet souls have changed since then
in your proudest achievements of the last four years.
Sending you all best wishes and many thanks.
First of all, thank you to the baby platypus.
Thank you.
The baby platypus, that was lovely.
Can I also say, Lisa, who chooses his emails,
she knows I struggle with questions like this.
So her selection of this this i've got to say
it's either ill-advised or malicious and i'll have to try and figure out which one that is
as we go on uh but tom how you've changed over the last four years in your proudest achievements
wow man how have you changed after the last four years well um wow well i guess
wow becoming a father would be it.
I think that's pretty much the biggest achievement
and the thing that's probably changed me
and sculpted me more than anything else.
As a husband and a dad,
I think that's the thing that, without parallel,
is the biggest thing yet.
That's been pretty amazing.
When we started off this podcast four years ago, yeah the biggest biggest thing yet that's that's been pretty amazing that's that's the like you
know when we started off this podcast um four years ago i think it was around the time that
we were sort of told that me and katherine we wouldn't have children so um yeah so uh to have
gone through the process we've gone through and now to be sitting here with an amazing little
daughter an amazing little girl that's that's uh and it's it's a
pretty incredible thing actually when sometimes you speak to people who have listened to this
from the beginning and people who've been along in a sense on that sort of journey and
remember that sort of time and now this one so yeah it's it's um that's yeah that's that's it's
quite yeah quite an incredible thing to think of so um yeah thank
you actually for for because that's uh something i've really thought about but yeah thank you very
much thank you uh for reminding tom of his daughter um i i i uh i hope my daughter's
half the woman you are by the way when when she she grows up exactly half yeah um i uh i don't yeah i i think uh i think probably my greatest achievement of the last four
years is i'd say probably convincing the swan to bring like to renew our vows i i i i actually feel like this is quite an open,
maybe I'm being too open here,
but I would say that you get into a thing,
you can get into a thing where,
like when you've been together for a while,
you not take things for granted,
but you can fall into a bit of a,
I wouldn't even describe it as a rut.
I would describe it as a settled thing
where you maybe you're not,
you're not, you just sort of get settled where you maybe you're not you're not you just sort of get settled and sometimes you realize that you're not doing enough things for the
relationship I mean it's you know you get busy with kids we've got three boys uh who successfully
uh occupy us I mean and then I feel like um you can sometimes I guess, be a bit negligent.
And so I think that's something that Lisa and I have addressed in the last four years.
And I do believe that our relationship is stronger than it's ever been.
And I'm very grateful for that.
And also the last series of League.
Last series of League.
I forget saving your marriage.
I say they're on
like about
yeah
yeah they're very close
they're very close
yeah yeah yeah
I'd say yeah yeah yeah
your managing of that
that show is
yeah up there
yeah to be fair
yeah yeah
yeah
yeah
let's leave that there
yeah
let's leave that there
for people to discuss
okay
this is from the excited Labradors.
Dear Wolf, Owl, Swan and Cat.
Dear Wolf, Owl, Cat and Swan, actually.
Thank you, Sweet Salts, for the podcast.
You've turned my partner eye into true Tom and Rom fangirls
and will now follow anything you guys are involved in.
Well, I would say, just based on the beginning of this podcast,
you know, have a little bit of measure to that, okay?
Because, as we said, we're not qualified yeah so if you're listening to this while you're lathering yourself
up uh with magnesium butter and chowing down on a couple of denzels i would say just just uh
have a think about have a think about the the intellectual quality of the two people you're
listening to uh we both thoroughly
enjoyed tom's warm-up show in newcastle though i was slightly disgruntled when my partner got
tickets to the finnish show so i had to take his best mate instead of me angry face emoji
we both have tickets for rome's newcastle show in march however uh so that is something to oh
however so that is something to look forward to i'll be 38 weeks pregnant at the time of the show
so hopefully ron can help laugh me into labor my question is relating to look forward to. I'll be 38 weeks pregnant at the time of the show, so hopefully Ron can help laugh me into labour.
My question is relating to the upcoming birth of our little girl.
There is a lot... That show's happened now.
She's not got back in touch,
so we can only assume that she's fairly indifferent to that.
My question is related to the upcoming birth of our little girl.
There's a lot going on around social media about being a girl parent versus a boy parent.
And as the Wolf and I have experience of both,
I wonder what your thoughts are on this phenomena
Tom do you have any tips for my partner
becoming a girl dad or do you think the gender of your baby
really means nothing when it comes to the parenting experience
I'd love to hear your thoughts thanks again
the excited Labradors
I mean
I've only had a daughter
so I don't know how that will run differently
I do think there's probably
a difference in sort of, you know,
when you're around kids of Grace's age and you sort of,
there is a difference between girls and boys, I think, you know,
in how they act and how they can be.
Personally, yeah, my advice, all I've, I've been quite open.
I wanted, I was hoping for a daughter i think she's
um yeah and i mean she's yeah it is it's an incredible journey that you're about to go on
genuinely and one that you know as as a part prior email so as i said it's it's one that
both challenges but also is the satisfaction of being a parent is is unparalleled and i say that
by the way um and i and i'm i always worry about saying this because uh and again i've been very
open about this but you know for seven years me and katherine tried to have children couldn't
have them i do realize that some people are in that position and it always i i i slightly worry
actually when i when i talk like this because i realize how difficult
it is for people who can't have children because like i say that was that was our lot for a long
time and that's something that i'm always very conscious of uh of doing because it's um yeah
something when it's very difficult man it's very hard like you know if you're in a conversation
and people are having kids and and you can't it's very difficult so so i do apologize if anyone is
listening to this and is going through that it's a really tough time and my heart goes out to you
and i do feel for you but um it is yeah it's just the most amazing thing and i think your partner
will love every minute of it it's gonna enjoy every every part of it it's um yeah it's never
it's tough at times it's tough being away from them when you've got to work away from them but um yeah like genuinely every time that if I
question anything I'm doing or if I worry about anything I'm doing I just
need to look at sort of pictures of her and it gives me a little bit of strength
and it gives me a little bit of um validates the things that I want to do
in life and the things that you know I want her to be proud of me and it's for
the first time in my life.
I feel that there's someone out there that,
uh,
hopefully that,
that,
you know,
can actually look at the things I've been through,
the things that I've done and go,
well,
actually,
you know what,
that's,
that's a bit of an accomplishment.
And,
you know,
he's not just a complete loser.
So,
um,
yeah,
it's an amazing thing.
So I don't,
I think whether it's boy,
girl,
whatever,
it's,
uh,
it's an amazing journey
about to go on so i wish you best of luck and all the love in the world um thank you so much
excited labradors i i like like time i can't comment on the differences between uh bringing
out different genders because i've got three boys um but what i would say is that I taught, uh, for a long time, uh, both boys and girls,
obviously.
And, uh, I feel like, I don't know.
They, I mean, what I would say is I don't think it's a, a huge, uh, unfair generalization
to say that the girls mature more quickly than boys do, uh, in terms of like their interests
and how they carry themselves.
But what I would say is like
having three boys that are all similar in some ways but also incredibly different in other ways
i just think it's down to the individual i think those challenges are represented by like what that
individual child turns out like i mean it's sometimes having three boys has given us this
thing of like i i sort of can't believe that all of them are a product of
us i really can't believe it for one of them no but in all seriousness i can't believe that they're
all a product of us just because they are so different in terms of their personalities and
what they're into and how they conduct themselves they've all got different elements of us but yeah
i i feel like allow yourself to be guided by your child i I would say is my advice, in terms of like, you know, we try and be completely open-minded
to what they might be like or what they might be into,
what they might want to do,
so that we can just support them in that as much as we possibly can.
And Lisa's great at facilitating whatever it is they want to do if she can,
if we can, and sort of taking them in the directions they want to go.
So, like, you know, one of them's into football,
another one's really into tech, one of them's really into art,
they're all really into acting and stuff like that.
They're all very funny in their own way.
So it's just kind of like nurturing that, I guess.
And I feel like the challenges uh
that you'll face as a parent are kind of brought up by the individual characteristics of your child
but what i would do is uh second tom again with the caveat that we understand that people are
struggling to have children that it's uh you're about to go on an incredible journey
so uh oh and the other thing i would say is it is all amazing but i would say that
on average i do 10 to 15 things that i worry that are negatively affected my children's ongoing
development i mean the number of decisions that you have to make about how you deal with them or
how you speak to them or you know we're constantly faced with new things we just go shit how do we
deal with this something might come up at school or they're finding something stressful or there's been a social interaction they've had
that they're they're not happy with there's so many demands of you to like judgment wise on how
you advise your kids and you know and when they're very little obviously that's that's keeping them
healthy and stuff like that and then as they get older there's other issues you know what i mean
and i can't think of
it the last time i went to bed without thinking oh maybe i did that wrong maybe i said maybe i
said the wrong thing there oh god maybe that's something he's going to be saying to a therapist
when he's older you know and there's all and also the other thing is tom and i being as riddled as
we are with uh anxiety and mental health concerns the The worry about passing that on to your children.
I mean, the number of years I managed to successfully pretend
I wasn't scared shitless of spiders,
just so that didn't get passed on to the kids.
Just a minor example.
But yeah, be prepared for a lot of self-doubt.
But with that, you are rewarded hugely.
So good luck with it, excited Labradors.
I hope it goes brilliantly.
One more of my son?
Yeah, let's do one more.
Let's do one more.
Oh, this is quite,
this is actually quite pertinent
for people that have seen
Tom's show,
this next email.
Hi, Wolf, Alcaton Swan.
I love your show.
You've kept me company
on long, boring drives to work.
It honestly feels like
having two hilarious mates in the car with me. it never fails to make me laugh out loud so thanks
for that i'm writing because i have a friend that i've worked with for quite a few years we get on
well i consider him a good mate the only problem is over the years he's gradually gone down the
rabbit hole of conspiracy theories what was once in the early days quite understandable in terms
of i could sort of see what he's talking about has now transpired into an alteration of what's real and what's not to the point i'm gonna i'm trying to defend the common
view that the world is round and we're not being lied to about gravity what makes matters worse
that he started voicing his opinions to more and more people we work with being labeled slightly
unhinged and i'm starting to get uncomfortable in the position of being his friend i don't want to
get tired with the same brush but also don't like the idea of abandoning him because of it i just
wish he would tone down the crazy a little bit my question to you is have you had any experience
with that sort of thing even if you haven't what do you suggest is the best move keep what you're
doing what you're doing you two are a beam of joy in the world uh sincerely the apprehensive alpaca
uh p.s uh i live near scott's butchers in cararsholton. Pretty sure the wolf's been there.
Is that right?
Well, we filmed actually King Gary in there.
Oh, right. Scott's Butchers, shout out.
Yeah, it's a beautiful, I mean, Butchers go.
I'd say if you're a love Butcher,
Butcher in, look, yeah, it's just a bit dark actually.
If you like a Butcher's like I do,
Scott's Butchers is unparalleled.
Yeah, I would second that.
They're my favourite Butchers. I'd say that I've been around Butchers is unparalleled. I've been butchered all around the world. I would second that. They're my favourite butchers.
I'd say that
I was about to say
I've been around
butchers all around
these aisles
and Scott's Butchers
could go toe-to-toe
with any butcher I know.
Yeah, 100%.
If you're really
lovely cuts of meat
succulent juicy.
If you're really
into butchering
I don't think
it's better than Scott's.
Scott's Butchering
is probably the best.
Also, beautiful shop. Yeah. Looks a bit like a barber's but it's actually a butcher's's Butchering is probably the best also beautiful shop
yeah
looks a bit like a barber's
but it's actually a butcher's
yeah
they need to do something
lots of loose hair
around there
and stuff like that
but once you get that
off the cuts
it's beautiful
I don't know why
I'm doing all these dad jokes
anyway Tom
what do you think
you've become
a Billy Dad joke
I don't know
what the fuck's going on
with me man
anyway go on
sit and talk about a father,
I decided to do exclusively dad jokes
for the rest of this podcast.
I've had a lot of experience of this, my friend,
from numerous people in my life.
The one thing I'd sort of say about this is
conspiracy, number one, I think there's a real shift in that
and how all of us, a lot of people,
people that I don't think look across the whole,
I think there was a time where news had to be sourced
and news had to be looked at
and we were getting news from news channels and newspapers and journalists.
For the most part, I think there was an earnesty to it.
And now I think, obviously, the world's opened up,
and I think there's a lot of stuff out there that whichever side you sit
on the fence, that you could easily find the stuff you need to find
to make your argument correct.
When it comes to conspiracy theories, and I've got a number of,
as I've said said a number of friends
in my life who've fallen down this into this a lot of it starts i think by a slight fear i think a
lot of it starts by a fear of how the world's changing um i think a lot of the stuff that the
people in my experience have read into or looked into starts off with a worry about something it
usually is a
worry of you know you know what's going on in the world whether it's politically whether it's war or
whatever and i think that if you look hard enough you know you can easily find evidence that will
push your theory or your your view upon the world and and to show other people and i think it's a
real sliding scale of what can,
as a friend, it can go from something that's sort of like,
you know, a little bit of bantering in a pub
and a bit of a joke or like, you know,
someone coming up with a sort of fact or something that, you know,
and then it can actually sort of spiral,
it can snowball into a sort of quite insane thinking.
I've got a couple of people who have been really close to me
who have really fallen
into that trap i've always tried to number one listen to it and discuss it with them because i
think it's important to go right this is your view this is kind of what i think and there's evidence
of both sides i think it's worth having that discussion rather than just going on this person's
a complete nut job or you know push them to the side um you kind of without qualifying or you know giving them saying that this is right or
this is whatever you've got to try and give them another side of it um but as silly as it sounds
sometimes i think it's also you've got to go what is really going on here it's like what is actually
happening and and in in one of these scenarios
the person i'm talking about you actually start breaking it down and they're kind of a little bit
low they're kind of a bit down and and like i say they're scared they're scared about the future
they're scared about what's happening in the world and like that can manifest in many different ways
and when actually you start having that you start actually going into detail about it you realize what what's going on and um hopefully you can you can break that a little bit i i think it's a really
difficult thing i think like because you don't want to be dragged into that you don't want people
thinking that they're your views or your opinion especially if they you know push into sort of
stuff that's slightly sort of offensive or alienating or whatever.
So I think you kind of want to make sure that's not your,
but also I think if it's a good friend,
it's someone you get on with,
I think a pint and just sort of trying to sort of,
and sometimes that's a,
that's something that could take a few times of chatting that you realize what
the source is and what was actually going on.
But yeah,
I'd say that if it's someone you like and someone you enjoy being around,
I think it's worth just,
yeah,
trying to,
trying to sort of get through to them a bit.
As my old man used to say,
there's different horses for different courses and the world would be a shit
place if we all just thought the same.
And I think that's,
yeah,
you kind of got to just hopefully educate and open their open their
mind just a little bit to what they're reading any uh yes very good advice from tom d as always
um i feel like without getting too worthy about it like there's lots of aspects of the world that
are quite frightening and conspiracy theories are a form of comfort if you believe that there's a level of organization
to something or there's something going on that you understand even though that feels like a scary
thing there's something in feeling like you understand things beneath the surface that is
comforting and i think that's why people some people gravitate towards conspiracy theories
having said that i do think there's an
argument that maybe we're too accepting of what we're told and information we've delivered so i
understand the inclination to go towards conspiracy theories and also if you read any of them they're
very tempting and also one of the things that's difficult about conspiracy theories is it's very
difficult to dissuade somebody uh from a conspiracy theory because
if you go well the evidence doesn't suggest that and you go well yeah of course it wouldn't because
that's what conspiracy is do you mean they're trying to cover it up so then it's very difficult
to argue against that um so what look what i would say to you is is i i think in first and foremost
primarily you need to support your friend um i don't think it's the right thing to dismiss
what they're thinking um i think that what you can do is support them and if they engage with
you in a discussion you can put your views across in a non-patronizing way in the hope
that they will kind of form they'll they'll settle into a groove of of being
of being okay with that,
do you know what I mean,
and not becoming obsessive or whatever.
What I would do in the short term though,
because that doesn't help your problem
of them seeming unhinged to other people,
is just explain to them,
having a discussion with them,
that some people will make a judgment
and that's not their fault,
but people make a judgment if people talk
in what they perceive to be like wacky ways or you know the idea that bullying stops uh at school
is a fallacy you know like we've all seen people that are a little bit different in the workplace
or they behave in a different way or they have a different set of values or they live their life in
a different way and those people can often be ostracized and i think that's what you're worrying
is going to happen to your friend.
So I would sort of, in a similar way that you've explained it to us,
is without being dismissive of their views, just going to them, look, man, like some people aren't really on board
to having those sort of chats.
So, you know, in the same way that some people have different unpleasant,
or not unpleasant, some people have different
or unorthodox political views or beliefs on some things they learn to sort of not necessarily always be engaging in
those conversations unless that's opened up for that because it leads to problems so i i think
you need to sort of explain that to your friend or at least have a chat with your friend about that
so that they can manage it in a way that you know you're not being dismissive and saying they can't
believe the things they believe but there's just a way of of doing that um i hope that's helpful uh apprehensive
alpaca uh good luck to you uh tom i'm slightly concerned that you have to do you have to leave
this very second i've got a press i've got a press chat but i'm gonna i'm gonna sum up and
i'm gonna follow you okay yo flip it um here we go okay people listen up and listen right my learning friend my closest
ally the man who isn't just my right hand he's my left hand and my soul the guy just above me in
this chat mr romesh ranganathan is about to kick off the biggest feat of his life yo he's about to
help a marathon that's incredible that's amazing but we should all learn a little
bit from this we should all learn that sometimes the seas that we're worried to sail are actually
the seas that can fulfill us the most sometimes the mountains that seem the tallest and seem like
we can't climb are the ones that we should head up and just climb i'm not talking about that in
just a reality of actual physical things i'm talking about in mental block two maybe there's
a friend you haven't spoke to for a while maybe there's a place you're scared of going that
actually if you can go you're going to beat down a door that's been closed for a while
what i'm talking about is bashing down the the man-made ceilings that we have that raised
above us what i'm talking about is growing as a person,
facing a new challenge. That might be a book you haven't read or a song you haven't listened to
because you don't like the eyes but yo Beyonce can do country. What I'm talking about is growing
your mind, your spirit and your soul to become a bigger, better person and become a better you.
And that can come in all kinds of ways. So every day that I think about the guy above me
stepping out of his house, rain, snow, sun, wind,
to go and train for a marathon,
a feat he never thought he could do,
I think, you know what?
I'm going to get out of my door
and I'm going to do something I never thought I could do.
Because that's what life is.
It's setting a challenge and saying,
yo, go fuck yourself.
I'm going to complete it
people don't stand
on just being
you for a little while
go be as good as you
can be because you're amazing each and
every one of you and I goddamn love
you
that was really
great Tom and you've made me change
you've made me change the song choice.
JT, can you play from the Karate Kid soundtrack,
Joe Esposito, You're the Best Around.
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