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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jones and Amanda. I read this fantastic

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Speaker 1: article in the Guardian about a secret society we don't

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Speaker 1: know much about. These are the giant vegetable growers, and

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Speaker 1: the top of the heap say that we are like athletes,

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Speaker 1: they say, in this secret society of giant vegetables. These

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Speaker 1: are people who you see who grow a cabbage the

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Speaker 1: size of a double bed. Actually, listen to some of

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Speaker 1: the stats here this guy had. Well, they're saying that

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty has been a bumper year. I don't know why,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of people attending to their gardens because

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Speaker 1: they can't travel. This is a story from England, but

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Speaker 1: just the weather has suited it. Even though the big

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Speaker 1: touring shows where you'd normally go and show your giant

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Speaker 1: weares aren't happening. They're getting bumper crops. They've had cucumbers

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Speaker 1: the sizes the size of four year olds.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a big cucumber.

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Speaker 1: There was an onion the size of a head. Look

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Speaker 1: at this picture. Oh, his head looks a bit like

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Speaker 1: a nun.

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Speaker 2: Actually, where does the onion end and his head start?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Brings tears to your eyes, But listen

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Speaker 1: to some of these stats when they had their big

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Speaker 1: when they have their world records. This is what's been

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Speaker 1: going on. The world's heaviest cabbage was thirty one and

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Speaker 1: a half kilograms. That's the weight of a ten year

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Speaker 1: old a cabbage. What do you do it?

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Speaker 2: All the stats with kids? You're weirdo, Well, the cucumber

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Speaker 2: is because of a four year old, and then you

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Speaker 2: get a cabbage as big as a ten This is statistics.

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Speaker 1: I understand the world's longest beat troot eight and a

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Speaker 1: half meters.

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Speaker 2: What kid measures up to that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Who I couldn't find.

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Speaker 2: Did you say eight and a half meters? Yes, eight

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Speaker 2: and a half. Are you sure about that?

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Speaker 1: Eight point six meters Brendan, This is the world of

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Speaker 1: giants as big as a bush. Well, listen to the

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Speaker 1: ten year olds this month. This month, these fifty nine

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Speaker 1: year old twins who have giant vegetable growers, grew the

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Speaker 1: UK's heaviest ever pumpkin. It weighed over a ton ton ton,

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Speaker 1: which was the weight of a baby whale nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: nine Volkswagen Beetle with several children inside. You know, actually

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Speaker 1: you know the world's longest beat troop. That's the length

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Speaker 1: of a tow truck.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.

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Speaker 1: So this interest, as they say in Giant Vegetables, has

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Speaker 1: swelled in Lockdown and this man, Kevin Fortney, he says,

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Speaker 1: I'm known as mister Giant Vege. That's that's his That's

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Speaker 1: where he rocked.

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Speaker 2: Is his wife? Is she happy with that title? Well,

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Speaker 2: she would want to be missus Giant Vege.

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Speaker 1: Well, this because he couldn't compete in some of the

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Speaker 1: big road shows that they have because of Lockdown. He

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Speaker 1: fed his giant marrows to a pig, but not just

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Speaker 1: any pig. This is where the story gets even weirder.

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Speaker 1: He fed his giant marrow to Timmy the Pig at

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Speaker 1: a neighboring farm. Timmy the Pig is famous for miming

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Speaker 1: to the lyrics of Michael Jackson's Beat It On Britain's

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Speaker 1: Got Talent in twenty ten. Of course, there's more to

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Speaker 1: the story. Brendan, don't go anywhere this year. The world's

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Speaker 1: heaviest tomato. Guess how heavy the world's heavy is tomato.

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Speaker 1: It's not the size of a truck.

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Speaker 2: It's a tomato the size of a twelve year old.

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Speaker 1: It's three point one kilo.

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Speaker 2: That's a skinny twelve year old that would be a

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Speaker 2: four year old.

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Speaker 1: And they grow them using tights. That's part of the

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Speaker 1: thing as well. So they some women.

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Speaker 2: In the tights and that's how you get a big one.

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Speaker 1: That's how you get a big one.

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Speaker 2: You wear them today.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to push through because I find this story interesting.

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Speaker 1: They spend four hours a day tending to their crops.

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Speaker 1: You can't eat them because they're inedible. But but there

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Speaker 1: do have cheats. At the Nationals. At the Championships ten

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Speaker 1: years ago, a man tried to pass off a shot

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Speaker 1: bought cantalope melon as his own. It was the residue

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Speaker 1: from the price sticker that gave him away. In the nineties,

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Speaker 1: people would sometimes inject vegetables with water to increase their weight.

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Speaker 1: Organizers brought in water detecting machines to stamp this out.

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Speaker 1: He says he's seen onions filled with putty, carrots with

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Speaker 1: orange have been covered with orange, floor polished disky is

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Speaker 1: the fact they were rotten. They're the lowest of the low,

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Speaker 1: said mister giant veg. But you know what, what I've

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Speaker 1: heard on the grape vine is it a big grapevine,

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Speaker 1: very oversized Grapevine with.

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Speaker 2: If you had a four year old child, eight.

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Speaker 1: Four year olds on it that a giant vegetable will

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Speaker 1: be the next Bachelor.

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Speaker 2: Of course, he's got the tights and he's after some

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Speaker 2: big veg too.

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Speaker 1: Ve Yikes. Why do I bother dancing around anything when

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Speaker 1: you just drive through in a mac truck with eight

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Speaker 1: ten year olds in it With and Amanda