1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: the podcast on Josh Clark with me as always this 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: Charles w Chuck Bryant, and we are going to sit 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: still for this episode of Stuff you Should Know, not me, buddy, 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: Yes you are. I'm gonna do some cong vaulting. Hey, um, Chuck, 8 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: you watch The Office right? Yeah? Okay? Love it? UM 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 1: in season six, which I guess was last year. Second 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: episode starts out very funny, UM with Michael, Andy and 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: Dwight all engaged in a little something called Parkour um 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: and they shout parkour like every couple of seconds and 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: then Um. What struck me as funny, especially after we 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: decided to do this UM episode, is that Jim explains 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: what Parker is for anybody who doesn't know, and he 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: he cites it as the Internet sensation of two thousand four. 17 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: So it took you know, Michael six years to finally 18 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: catch onto it, taking us seven to finally start podcasting 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: on it. Yes, yeah, we've been had calls for this one, 20 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: uh for since we started the show. People have written in, 21 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: so what about Parker, dude, Yeah, I love it Parker, 22 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: and we know it's old, but we we've not just 23 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: discovered this. It's and this article clearly has been on 24 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: the site since about two thou six or seven, because 25 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: there's actually a date sited in it um as like 26 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: two thousand and six. And from the extra research that 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: we did on this, it seems like this community has strengthened, expanded, 28 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: and gotten more legitimate. Whereas you know, I'm sure with 29 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: a lot of the rest of the world it's like 30 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: the awe and an amazement of it, or the newness 31 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: is worn off. But I was I was hartened to 32 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: see that the people who do Parker are like, well, 33 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: we don't really care if you like it or not. 34 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: We're gonna keep doing this, and and they've grown and 35 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: gotten better. Yeah. I think most people that I know 36 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: have the same reaction though, when they see the Parker 37 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: videos for the first time, which is this is pretty cool. Oh, 38 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: it's very cool. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm not saying like 39 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,839 Speaker 1: anybody's like this sucks. It's like the newness is worn 40 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: off for the general public. Yeah, but people are generally 41 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: knocked out, uh, and then board right, so, Chuck, I 42 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: think we should begin to begin, right, great song? Uh. 43 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: In nineteen two on the little island in the Caribbean 44 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: known as Martinique. Have you ever been there? No? Yah? 45 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: Do you think I would tell you every couple of 46 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: days like, oh I've been to Martinique, you probably would. Uh. Yeah. 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: It's got a pretty interesting history in some trace the 48 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: birth of park. We're back to then French naval officer 49 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: name Lieutenant George Herbert. I don't think that's how you 50 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: say his name. What would you say Georgebert? Or Jabert? 51 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: H he? Uh? What happened was ofvolcano blew up in 52 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: nineteen o two there and heed Martinique, yea and Martinique. 53 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: He coordinated the rescue of locals and Europeans there and 54 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 1: had a chance to watch people fleeing this and saw 55 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: a decided difference I take it between some of his 56 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: European comrades and the local Caribbeans. Well, people are like 57 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,679 Speaker 1: trying to get around obstacles, like you know, chunks of 58 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: flying rock that had landed right in front of them, 59 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: and running for their lives. Something about that scene struck 60 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: E Bear, like, Wow, this is really amazing. Well, he 61 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,839 Speaker 1: saw a great deal of athleticism going on around him, 62 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, you combine that with 63 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: some courage, and what you have is what we're gonna 64 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: call in America to be strong and useful. How would 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: you say that in French? Dog strong? And that's what 66 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And that's the basis of the natural method, right, yeah, 67 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: the natural method um, which in French would be what 68 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: method natural? And that inspired French military training. That became 69 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: the basis for French military terry training. Apparently they were 70 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: the first people to use obstacle courses or or what 71 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: the path of the warrior parkour dick combat town. So 72 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: you hear that word Parker with the C I heard it, 73 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: that's where it came from. Yeah. So and this basically 74 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: this guy is like this French um physical fitness guru 75 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: that you've never heard of, but really has inspired a 76 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: lot of the probably cleaner cut quarters of France. Right yes, um, 77 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: So that formed the part of the basis for the 78 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: philosophy of what came to be known as Parker because 79 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: it inspired this kid named David Bell right. Well, first 80 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: it was his father, Raymond Bell, was a soldier in 81 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: French Special Forces. He learned all this stuff, passed it 82 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: on to his son David and said, it's pretty cool. 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: I wanna learn this. Yeah, and we left out a 84 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: very important point. Um. The natural method is basically like 85 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: physical fitness is um. All you need is what you 86 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: find in nature. Do you want to do some chin ups? 87 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: Could find a tree branch jerk? You want to like 88 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: work out your upper body, push a huge rock up 89 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: a hill and isometric and push against the wall. Right, 90 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: And then the point of that, this is the other 91 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: big point. The point of being physically fit is, like 92 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: you said, so you can be useful to society in 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: case of an emergency, in case an old lady needs help, 94 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: like you can pick her up and carry her across 95 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: the street with one hand. That kind of thing. There's 96 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: something be said for that. Okay. So David Bell is 97 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: fifteen years old. It's he lives in Liza's, France, which 98 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: is a suburb of Paris Um and his dad's been like, 99 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 1: check this dude out, and he is just inspired. But 100 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: not only e Bear but also again named Bruce Lee. 101 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: That's right, Bruce Lee's fluid movements um not not as 102 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: rigid as a lot of martial artists were before him. 103 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: It's about adaptability, adapting to the situation. Somewhere in that 104 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: um in in David Bell's brain, he'd put that together. 105 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: He put Bruce Lee, Georgie Bear, and a mailbox in 106 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: front of him all together and decided to leap over 107 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: it with his hands rather than walk around it. Boom, Parker. 108 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: That's the Parker he changed. He added a k instead 109 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: of a sea, got together with his best buddy, Sebastian 110 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: Foucam and they established a group um. They were called 111 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: themselves tresseurs, which means to leave a trail in French. 112 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: Tray ser is slang in Paris for hurry. Well there 113 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: you have it. Yeah, hurry up and make a trail. Yeah, 114 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: that's what you're doing. So they organized a group, the 115 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: first group of parkour enthusiast basically called the Yamakazi, not 116 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: to be confused with yamazaki, which is san tori time. 117 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: It's Japanese single malt whiskey. Yeah, it's good stuff anyway. 118 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: I had it in an Econo Miaki station. Chances are 119 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: if you type in Yamakaze on the Internet, it'll bring 120 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: up the other Yamasaki and you'll be buying liquor before 121 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: you know it, and then you can watch some cool 122 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: parkour videos while you and bud. That's right. Uh. Luke Bisson, 123 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: famous French filmmaker, made a film called The Yamakazi Um 124 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: definitely kicked up the awareness about what park war was, right, 125 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: and prior to that, he included it in his UM 126 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: film Taxi Too. Oh yeah. Yeah. So that was the 127 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: first time parkour was introduced to the general public in 128 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: mass media. And because Luke Bisson apparently was a huge 129 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: uh DE vote very early on. So in two different 130 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: movies in two successive years, he made you know, Parker 131 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: part of the theme. Yeah, and if you recognize Bells 132 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: Buddy's name, Sebastian fu Kan, he was the dude who 133 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: was chased in Casino Royale, the opening awesome parkour chase 134 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: that Daniel Craig chases this dude. Yeah. So it starts 135 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: to kind of percolate into um to the public consciousness 136 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: in the early two thousands, the late nineties, we should say, 137 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: by the late nineties, there's already uh rift in the 138 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: um in the Parker community. Yeah, the communities like this 139 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: always like the battle, like there's always purest it seem 140 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: like and then people who want to change it and 141 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: take it into what they feel like the next level, 142 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: like skateboarding. Same thing happened back in the seventies. So 143 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: with parkour. The the point is, if you're a purest 144 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: with parkour, you don't you never moved backwards. Everything is 145 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 1: for utility and you get from point A to point 146 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: B most as efficiently as possible, which often includes jumping 147 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: over a mailbox. Yeah. The main rule, and this is 148 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: what's cool in parkour is that obstacles are used to 149 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: increase your efficiency. It's not like this is something I 150 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: gotta go around. It's let me use this to vault 151 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: forward faster and possibly gain some momentum, maybe twade a 152 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: little little kinetic energy for a little potential energy, yeah, 153 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: and then turn that into more kinetic energy. And the 154 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: the Red Bulls, well, Red Bull actually sponsored one of 155 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: the what was it called the the Red Bull Art 156 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: of Motion Tournament competition. Yeah, and we'll get into that 157 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: in a minute, because the purest don't like the competition aspect. 158 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: But the motto of the w fpf UM, which is 159 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 1: the World Free Running in Parker Federation, I think that 160 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: was established an oh seven, it is no obstacle, no 161 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: freedom K and O W for both get it? I 162 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: do now, I didn't until you have told me about 163 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: the K. You know your freedom. Um, so that's so 164 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: part court A to b using obstacles, never going backwards. 165 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: Free running huge huge difference. You can go backwards. Now 166 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: going backwards? Does that mean like you, I get the 167 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: idea from park Ers that you you're running toward the 168 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: wall and you don't stop and go all right, let 169 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: me see, I should probably go like here here, you 170 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: just attack the wall, don't you. I think that's the 171 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,839 Speaker 1: case with both of them. But really, honestly, one of 172 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: the main differences is like free running allows for movement 173 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: backward to continue going forward, where park cour is like, no, 174 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: you have to keep going forward all the time. And 175 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: free running also allows for movements that are purely aesthetic 176 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: and nature right and not necessarily just the efficiency of 177 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: moving forward. Those are the two differences between free running 178 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: and um park court. And if you think that's stupid, well, um. 179 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 1: The the reason behind it is that there was a 180 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: rift or separation and ideals between David Bell and his 181 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: as the UM uh the f P Wait what is it? W? 182 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: F p W w f PF. Yeah, yeah, as the 183 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: w f PF puts it, um his then best friend. 184 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: So that seeing fou Kong, yeah, they know they fell out. 185 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: I guess I think they're still buddies. But basically foukan 186 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: is like, no, you can move backwards, and Bells like, 187 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: no you can't. And they were like, well, it looks 188 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 1: like we have a problem here. And that's where free 189 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: Running came from. It split off from Parker. I bet 190 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: you there was a little bit of well I founded 191 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: it in you are in Casino Royale. Well that came 192 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: after So that split within the late nineties, so that 193 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: really cemented. And then yeah, and then a lot of 194 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: people are like, you know, food con is a big sellout. 195 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: He's an ads he uh, he's all flash and everything. 196 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,839 Speaker 1: Um and that that Apparently that um argument doesn't hold 197 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 1: much water because David Bell has been has done quite 198 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: a bit to bring um parkour into the public consciousness. Specifically, 199 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: he introduced it to Britain in two thousand two, I 200 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: believe right with a BBC short Yeah, rush hour, Um 201 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: that did you see it? Huh? It's pretty awesome. Yeah, 202 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: it's on you know, he's sitting at it's much like 203 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: an ad. He's sitting in his apartment and his clothes 204 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: and then he gets up you know it, takes his 205 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: shirt off of course, and strips down to the like 206 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: the running pants, and then just climbs out his window 207 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: and takes off and there's you know, traffic going below, 208 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: and he's zipping all over the place like a you know, 209 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: Parker expert that he is. And then he eventually gets 210 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: back in his apartment and sits back down the couch. 211 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I'm done. And so they showed that 212 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: on BBC one and everybody was like, what was that? 213 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: That was awesome? And then they found out, well, wait 214 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: a minute, the people actually do this. This guy is 215 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: real and that was the birth of Parker I think 216 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: a year later UM Urban Free Flow, which is like 217 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: the the fact though British wing of UM Parker and 218 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: free free running, free running. Yeah. And for some reason, 219 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 1: my brain just glitched and I was like, that's not right. 220 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: Well and almost immediately kids started getting hurt because they 221 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: didn't uh, I don't know if they didn't realize, but 222 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: Bell had a decade of training of learning this craft. 223 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: We're creating it, creating it and then UM, teenager saw 224 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: a rush hour and like let me go out and 225 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: like let me try to scale a wall. And there 226 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: were a couple of deaths. Um. Yeah, that was one 227 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: recently actually in California, right in Sacramento in two thousand nine. 228 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: The kid was into park Corps and he died from 229 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: falling off of an eighth story UM parking deck. Yeah, 230 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: and this is we should have frontloaded this. But this 231 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: is where we say park course very can be very 232 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, can be 233 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: very dangerous even if you do know it. Yeah. It 234 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: requires a high degree of skill with like gymnastics, possibly 235 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: martial arts. Yeah. Yeah. If you look at Sebastian food con, 236 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: the dude is ripped like he's he's probably going to 237 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: be able to hang on to allege with one hand 238 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: if he really needs to. I can't. The average twelve 239 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: year old doesn't have that kind of upper body strength exactly. 240 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: But I average twelve year old the one who's like 241 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,599 Speaker 1: really fascinated with this. Yeah, and if you are fascinated 242 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: in UM, there are a lot more It's been legitimized 243 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: to the extent that there are a lot more training 244 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,719 Speaker 1: facilities indoor, padded things where you can practice this kind 245 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: of thing, so you don't just go out and hit 246 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: the streets and start jumping off of buildings. That's right, 247 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 1: we would not advise that. No, all right, so Chuck, 248 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: there's a I think in UM the public imagination, there's 249 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: a lot of comparisons with skateboarding, right, Others kids like 250 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: they're they're right there in front of the courthouse, so 251 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: and they're they're they're skateboarding and they're not using a skateboard, 252 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,239 Speaker 1: but they like to be doing the same thing. Apparently, 253 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:36,239 Speaker 1: especially parkour purists, find this very very offensive. That's not offensive. 254 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: That's a lot of offensive either using buildings, you know, 255 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: the same deal. They're basically like, no, skateboarders are bad kids. 256 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: We're good kids if we're doing this so we can 257 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: be useful to society when the time comes. Skateboarders are 258 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: great kids, agreed and Josh like skateboarding in the seventies, Um, 259 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: once the popularity increase, it started to be thrown or prostituted, 260 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: if you will, onto like ads and TV shows and 261 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: corporate events. They listed that I did not know corporate 262 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: events hired parker people. Corporate event if you've got enough 263 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: money to do everything. Okay, there's this great show of 264 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: Bruce Hornsby playing for the food JITs corporations like Christmas Party, 265 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: and it's awesome. It's like an hour and a half 266 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: long Bruce Hornsby show and he gets increasingly drunk er 267 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: to where like he does a little ditty and improv 268 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: diddy about his scotch. Yeah, it's really great. It's really great. 269 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: If you can never get your hands on the bootleg, 270 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: it's it's worth it. Well. And then up in the Air, 271 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: which I know you didn't care for, but when they 272 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: had hired young MC, you know that one corporate event 273 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: to perform those pretty funny us to move alright, Yes, 274 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: like skateboard, um also like skateboarding. Once competition started to 275 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: be mentioned, UM Purist said, no, no, no, no, it's 276 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: not about competition. We compete all the time against each 277 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: other on the streets. Man. But we don't need no metal, 278 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: we don't need no judge word. But you know, like anything. 279 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: Red Bull was like, oh you know what about this 280 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: stack of money? Red Bull in Barclay World Free Running Championships. 281 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: MTV has a show now, of course, called Ultimate Park 282 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: or Challenge um. The purists still aren't too happy about 283 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: most of that. To be honest, there's a lot of 284 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: complaining going on on parker boards. And here we are 285 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: representing both coasts, east and west. Let's talk about the moves. 286 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: Let's do it. You want to talk about the cat 287 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: leap first. Yeah, there's a few standard moves. So the 288 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: cat leap is basically like, say you're clut your eyes 289 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: unless you're driving right now. Uh. Say you are on 290 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: a the edge of one five foot parking deck. Okay, 291 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: all right, it's five ft off the ground, and then 292 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: there's another there's a gap five ft gap in between 293 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: it and the edge of another parking deck which is 294 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: seven ft off the grounds the wall in front of you. 295 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: So let's say you are um, you You're like, well, 296 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: I think a cat leap would be best for this. 297 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: What you do is you run off of the first 298 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: parking day, jump the gap, grab the ledge of the 299 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: um first of the second parking deck, and hit it 300 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: with your feet. Just plan it right there on the 301 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: wall and basically you're just hanging off the side for 302 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: a nano second before you you use the momentum to 303 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: pull yourself up with your arms and jump the rest 304 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 1: of the way onto the next parking you very cat like. 305 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: It's used to get onto a higher object than you're 306 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: currently on and it's a good way. That's much much better. 307 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: The role very common. You've seen stunt guys do this forever. 308 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: They jump off a building onto a lower building, and 309 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: they always you know, to absorb the shock on their legs, 310 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: they tuck and roll. They observe it in their shoulder 311 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: instead exactly tuck and roll, cover the head, pop back 312 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: up and keep going. Because it's all about forward movement 313 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: with Parker. Yeah, whereas I would jump off, I would land, 314 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: probably break my ankle, vomit, and then like later until 315 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: somebody found me. That's what Chuck would do. My favorite, 316 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: as you know, is the cong vault. Well, the cong 317 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 1: vault is the coolest. It's the coolest. It It looks 318 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: like what apes do in the jungle. Uh. You run 319 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: up on let's say a wall, and you leap forward 320 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: and you push yourself off with your hands, play with 321 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: your hands and don't let your legs touch at all 322 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: and just follow on through. And there's double cong rolls 323 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: where you tap twice. There's triples there. We saw a 324 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,919 Speaker 1: quadruple in a gym. So basically, when your hand is 325 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: touching that wall, your your body is laid out behind you. 326 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: It's like you're diving toward it, almost exactly, but you 327 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: have like your two hands about just a little ahead 328 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: of your shoulders, and then right when your hands touched, 329 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: you bring your legs up basically through your chest in 330 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: the wall, and then you you just bound away. You 331 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: vault away. Hence the name cong vault looks very animal like, 332 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: and one of the early practitioners said that he noticed 333 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: that it's it's like witnessing an animal in the jungle aggressive. 334 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 1: That's one of the goals of park Corps is that 335 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: you can basically move as quickly and fluidly as an 336 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: animal and instinctually too, is what I understand. I will 337 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: never know that sensation, but it's it's what I understand. 338 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 1: Is the goal. You got the precision jump, which is 339 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: pretty easy. It's basically like a standing broad jump. Just 340 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: jump from one place to another. Yeah, but that's if 341 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: like I want to jump on that little two foot 342 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 1: section of wall, like you don't have the benefit of 343 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: a role because there's nothing else there. And then the 344 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: speed wall, Yeah, that's easy. That's basically to do that. 345 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: How any kid has ever jumped like a chain link fence. 346 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: You just put one hand down and throw your throw 347 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: your feet the opposite side over and uh, I guess 348 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: with part core the differences that you're doing this much 349 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,400 Speaker 1: more quickly. Yes, and you keep running and uh, those 350 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: are just a handful of moves or many many more 351 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: Jim Kota like moves that you can do like side 352 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,640 Speaker 1: wall runs and sliding, and people now are doing those 353 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: little half flips adding a little flare to it. I 354 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: guess the free runners are pretty cool. So, Chuck, let's 355 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: say that you are listening to this, You're like, I 356 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: have tons of upper body strength, I'm eighteen or older, um, 357 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: and regard for my own well being, right, and I'm 358 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: really interested in this. Where would one go to find 359 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: out more about parkour or to learn parkour? Uh? You 360 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: get a jam. Well that's one place. That's when they 361 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: get together and hit the streets. But if you want 362 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: to learn, like I said, you can go to the 363 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: there's gems all over the country. Now there are there's 364 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: academies where you can sure you can pay. If you 365 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: go to Parker dot com slash groups, you can look 366 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: up basically people who are doing it in your area, 367 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: and that's probably one of the most recommended ones if 368 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: especially if you don't have any cash to shell out, 369 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: because you're going to learn in the context of other 370 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: people who know Parker no more than you do and UM, 371 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: so you'll you'll learn, you'll learn safety as well, but 372 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: you'll be challenged to UM. And then yes, there's academies 373 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: as well. There's videos everywhere everywhere. YouTube has UM at 374 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 1: least six different channels according to parkour dot Com of 375 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: just parkour videos and UM basically, you want to wear 376 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: a helmet at all times. You want to wear knee 377 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: pads and one of those big sumo guy suits. To 378 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 1: see a park where people wearing any of that stuff, 379 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: I'm okay, CEO and yeah, beginners, you should always do that. 380 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: Oh also, I should have probably mentioned at the beginning 381 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: of this that by UM downloading this episode impressing play, 382 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: you immediately forfeited any rights to sue US or any 383 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: of our parent companies. You'll be careful out there. Yeah, 384 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: I want to. I'm gonna you know, my goal in 385 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: life should be I want to do a successful Kong leap. 386 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. I want to do that, dude. 387 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: I will watch you try. I'm fast. I will watch 388 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: you try anytime. I'm a lot faster than you would think. 389 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: Let's go right now. I get these little legs pumping 390 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: and I can. I get my upper body leaning in 391 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: the right direction, and it's it's pretty funny. And remarks 392 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: about my my cat like speed for a guy with 393 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: a few extra pounds on him. I want to see this. 394 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna learn this. Okay, we're gonna want to. I 395 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: don't want you to see the final results. I'm gonna 396 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 1: perfect it. I want to see everything leading out to that. 397 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: Now you're not gonna do I'm gonna learn it in secret. 398 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: And then next time we're in New York, I'm just 399 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: gonna bust it out. One day You're gonna be like leaf. 400 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: That would be very surprising. I look forward to that 401 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: day too. If you want to learn more about parkour 402 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: type than P A R. K oh, you are now 403 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: at the sea, because then it wouldn't be down with 404 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 1: the street into the search bar at how stuff works 405 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: dot Com and I said search bar, I didn't say 406 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: handy um. Either way, it still brings up listener mail. 407 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: That's right, Josh, We're gonna call this and the winner 408 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 1: is because you and I have to decide. Did you 409 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: get this from Matt from England? He and his wife 410 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: twisted couple. You know when you put me on the spotlight, 411 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: it's okay, I know you read it. Um, Hey, guys 412 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: for up in great podcast. I love it. I'm a 413 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: watch commander in the fire service here in Leeds, England, 414 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: and my wife is an A and E nurse. Um, 415 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: it's an entertainment there. I think that's emergency room in England. 416 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm guessing because you see some weird stuff right now. 417 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: We have always tried to tireslee one up one another 418 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,920 Speaker 1: at the end of each shift, which with the worst 419 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: story of the day, because they both see odd things, 420 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: odd and horrific. Generally we tie on things like car 421 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: x fires, uh burn victims, suicides and by the way, 422 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: I'm acutely aware of how sick this is, but it's 423 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: the spice that keeps our particular chilli going. That's what 424 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: he says. The only ones he's talking shop about work. Basically, 425 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: the ones we really compete with are the extra disgusting ones. 426 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: So here's a conundrum um. On the last tour, I 427 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: was sure I had a winner. We had to assist 428 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: a morbidly obese gentleman from his house onto an ambulance journey. 429 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: Upon moving his portly frame, I felt something land on 430 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: my leg. I couldn't initially Jerry, he's getting grossed out already. 431 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 1: I couldn't initially see what it was because my hands 432 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: and face were pressed firmly into the mushy flesh at 433 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: the time, but I could hear the intakes of breath 434 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: and gipping noises from the firefighters on my shift. I 435 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: don't even know what a gipping noise is. On inspection, 436 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,959 Speaker 1: it turned out that nine inches of this man's intestines 437 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: were draped over my wet legs. Stuck for what to 438 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: do in such an instance, should I push it back in, 439 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,320 Speaker 1: carry it with me, tuck it into his pocket. I 440 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: opted to shuffle with him to his to the ambulance, 441 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 1: and then gently peel it free from my leg and 442 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: said it beside him, making sure to break with the 443 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 1: awkward silence with here you go, mate, you better take 444 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,160 Speaker 1: this with you. Regardless of this incident, I was sure 445 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: I had my wife beat and then she hits me 446 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: with this. A guy walked into her triage department, pulled 447 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: his pants down and had the tail of a fish 448 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: sticking out of his rear end. Evidently it had been 449 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: frozen and then thought out. I get the feeling this 450 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: is one of those docket was a million to one 451 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: chance the type of things, and when it thought out, 452 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: the bones splayed out and it became stuck inside of 453 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: his butt. Uh. The boys that need your help, which 454 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: one wins? Which is worse? H? Chuck? This as much 455 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: like comparing apples two oranges. Um. In some ways they're similar. 456 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: They're both roundish, they're both fruits. But then they have 457 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: many distinctions. The apple skin is smoothed, the oranges is speckled. Um. 458 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: The oranges orange colored. The apple is generally red, although 459 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: it can be yellowish or green. You never see an 460 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: orange apple. I guess it's my point. I'm going to 461 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: say that, Um, while they're both extremely interesting, both entirely gruesome, 462 00:25:53,720 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: the fish story, yes, is far too comical to win 463 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: this one. In my opinion. I think the man's intestines 464 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: coming out and having to be put back in by 465 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: hand with a gentle here you go, mate, is by 466 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: far the winner. I agree. I feel like Judgejohn Hodgment. 467 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,639 Speaker 1: All of a sudden we render our verdict and uh, 468 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: we're going with you, Matt, you are the winner. Matt 469 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: and Leads England congratulations, were enduring the Intestine on your leg? Yes, definitely, 470 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: And he said anytime if we want to, if we're 471 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: ever in Leads, he will let us ride on the 472 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: fire truck. Awesome. So I would take him up on that. 473 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,199 Speaker 1: I would too. Um. Yeah, so we really should have 474 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 1: put that one after the Decapitation podcast if you asked me, Yeah, 475 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: it would have been fitting either way. Um. 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