Podcast 70 show notes
Added 2021-08-15 18:02:00 +0000 UTCUs again, and it's a very random show this week as our car podcast lurches from bin food to pylons to waking in a Norwegian hospital to find a pile of Euro smut by your bed. This will all make sense if you've heard the podcast. Or maybe not. Picture-wise, this week we kick off with that expensive tractor, then it's the Shell Draugen oil platform on which Jonny almost died, followed by the bottom of a cooling tower to get Richard excited, and then a Ford Traaaaaaaansit County and a Dodge/Renault Series 50 4x4, this one in the ill-fated RB44 military spec. Now, some links...
Scary 1970s pylon safety film (smoking trousers; not pictured) - https://youtu.be/KryOYburlFI
Can't seem to find Jonny's Industrial Junkie show about the oil rig online but here's the story of the Draugen oil platform - https://bit.ly/3COxVTO
A website all about the Transit County 4x4 - https://transitcounty4x4.co.uk
And one all about Dodge/Renault Series 50s - http://www.dodge50.co.uk
That very expensive tractor - https://bit.ly/3scKhAt
That song by aspiring KGB agent Shaggy - https://youtu.be/T_x6QmuJdms
Comments
Great pod as usual guys, those safety videos remind me of the sex education videos in like 2010 era at secondary school with blackberrys and abbreviating every possible word and the over use of very early emojis to suggest a bit of naughtiness in the 2000s style bedroom.
Luke George
2021-08-31 20:10:18 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPMYRlvySY&ab_channel=JLBZombie
David Burns
2021-08-27 13:04:34 +0000 UTCWorse one is the public warning of swimming in ponds showing a reaper like figure waiting to take children away.
David Burns
2021-08-27 13:04:29 +0000 UTCThat's utterly bonkers, don't recall ever seeing it before, they certainly don't make them like they used to
Richard Grove-White
2021-08-22 19:12:02 +0000 UTCThanks for this episode gents! I was listening in my car as usual, and when Jonny was relating his story about his appendix/oil rig experience I laughed out loud Really, properly, heartily out loud. It’s been a tough 12 months personally and I realised that might have been the first time I’d laughed out loud in quite a long time. In return, subscribing to your Patreon seemed like the least I could do. So thanks for the LOLs guys. Jonnys story about getting fingered was quite the tonic. On that (back)side of things.
Alan Arthur
2021-08-19 21:49:50 +0000 UTCHorrifyingly realistic accident scenes. Reminds me of the time I made my brother cry by telling him that when people die in films and TV shows, they actually do die in real life. In my defence he had recently thrown a pair of scissors at me. Kids, eh? We're nicer to each other now.
Hamish
2021-08-19 14:33:29 +0000 UTCAnd of course, the Jimmy Hill version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbUo1uT7mc
Hamish
2021-08-19 14:24:57 +0000 UTCThanks for the reminder about the railway one - NOT! That was truly terrifying. But the one I have always remembered is the Think Once, Think Twice, Think Bike one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYJYA0P5ls8
Hamish
2021-08-19 14:23:15 +0000 UTCI still clearly recall a film we were shown at school in the 70s about farm safety where a child drowns in a vat of slurry. A little light googling tells me it was called ‘Apaches’, although I’m not sure I feel the need to retraumatise myself forty years on by watching it again! 🤣 https://youtu.be/P0PUMmVU4qQ
Helen Hooker
2021-08-18 22:05:29 +0000 UTCThanks for the link - It is even more surreal than I remembered . Rich & Johnny - you gotta take a look. My memory is that this was played on Nationwide or similar when it was launched - My parents were busy doing something upstairs (Not Pnaarr Pnaarr) and I switched the telly on about two minutes in and then sat there mesmerised in my first ever WTF? moment for the remaining 20 mins
Matthew Aves
2021-08-18 15:27:41 +0000 UTCHaving Spent of time working in and out of Norwegian Ports I can tell you the level of Smut on full display in their news agents is staggering. It was a constant game to purchase material and secrete it into people's luggage.
Robin White
2021-08-17 13:04:35 +0000 UTCThat was filmed at the disused power station at sandwich Kent
Russ Hill
2021-08-17 12:32:15 +0000 UTCCan we draw a straight line from Jonny's father taking him to the landfill on family holidays and eating from the bin? I think perhaps. Regarding all the talk about electric companies and their service vehicles, OTSOT: Subaru owes its entire AWD image to an electric company. (Subaru is far bigger in North America than the UK, so bear with me) In 1969, the Tohoku power company asked their regional Subaru dealer if they could fit a front-wheel-drive FF-1000 wagon with all-wheel-drive. The wagons were a decent replacement for the company's spine-breaking Land Cruiser service vehicles, but winter snows needed more grip. So (Datsun owned a chunk of Subaru at the time), the dealer ordered some RWD 510 driveline bits and patched together a few vehicles. These were so well received, the dealer decided to call head office, "look what we did." 1971, the prototypes were at the Tokyo show. Sadly, the last of these prototypes was lost in Fukushima when the tsunami came.
Brendan McAleer
2021-08-17 01:21:13 +0000 UTCAbsolutely agree on the sports day safety film. The sole purpose seems to be how many children can die, the winning team with the most dead?! - https://youtu.be/SXGqwCbeFD8 . The full 20min version is here - https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online. Pretty much everyone dies in the ‘tunnel walk’ at the end.
Trevor Bylett
2021-08-16 22:56:58 +0000 UTCThe nastiest govt safety film was the weird railway/school sports day one where they were playing chicken with the trains and lobbing bricks through the windscreens of trains from bridges - loads of claret
Matthew Aves
2021-08-16 21:55:48 +0000 UTCSniff ....boi spotted this..interested...bet you are! It's a no from me! https://www.grandtournation.com/cars/simon-cowell-to-launch-top-gear-and-grand-tour-rival-bring-it-on-jeremy-clarkson/
Paul Fargher
2021-08-16 21:10:53 +0000 UTCOh and my Mr utterly terrorised his little brother by telling him that pylons are Tripods. I always thought if you stood directly underneath that lightning would come down and zap you. My mum had to walk under one to demonstrate that actually that doesn't happen.
Helen Morris
2021-08-16 20:46:16 +0000 UTCTry National Grid's training video for substations... my first proper job was working on 132kV-400kV subs. Working on one in the rain is a freaky experience as the rain goes bzzzt on the busbars. Also banging headache and if you have a fluorescent tube it will light up without being connected to anything...
Helen Morris
2021-08-16 20:43:24 +0000 UTCThanks Jonny for reminding me of one of the scariest characters of my childhood! You referenced the old BBC kids school programme’Look and Read’…. With the infamous floating ‘wordy’, he was scary enough but do you remember the ‘side show’ they had called ‘the boy from space’, a blonde haired kid and his dad both wearing blue space suit!!! Thanks Jonny, if I have a nightmare tonight and wake the kids the Mrs won’t be happy!
I B
2021-08-16 20:39:10 +0000 UTCIt was me who suggested the car word association game. Ie talbot solara instantly makes me think very tappety
Russ Hill
2021-08-16 14:54:23 +0000 UTCLonely Water was always the scariest of the PSA films for me. That hooded figure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWD2sDRESk
Mark Elliott
2021-08-16 11:00:18 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/7ESliSNdo8I?t=451 It turns out Richard was 100% right about the smoking trousers! They're just not in the short version. In the full version you see a flash frame of them, followed by a Robin voiced by Bernard Cribbins lamenting the boy's death.
Adam Francis Smith
2021-08-16 10:41:42 +0000 UTCOn a Tractor note, further down the page from the expensive county is a Ford Silver Jubilee 7810, I drove an epic journey in a non Jubilee 7810 from the Black Isle (north of Inverness) to Montrose on the NE coast of Scotland (126 miles ) a route that took me through the cairngorm mountains, cracking roads to drive in a car, not so much in a tractor
Richard Grove-White
2021-08-16 08:38:18 +0000 UTCHere's a couple of dark public information films, there is the ominous short Lonely Waters https://youtu.be/teu4mkFEFGk And the horrifically epic Apaches https://youtu.be/P0PUMmVU4qQ Incidentally #otsot , I was involved in the construction of the Draugen platform (specifically the sub-sea pipelines to the semi-sub storage tank) that Jonny had his near death experience, it is an amazing structure, it sits in over 250 meters of water, so effectively a factory built on the top of something the height of the Eiffel tower.
Richard Grove-White
2021-08-16 08:06:18 +0000 UTCCracking pair of ‘bonhams’ on her…. On that auctioneer side of things.
Paul
2021-08-15 22:54:36 +0000 UTCI grew up with one in my back yard. My day gave me a proper leathering when me and a mate were fucking about with the locks on it. One that I did deserve in hindsight.
John P
2021-08-15 22:39:15 +0000 UTCDespite growing up in the 90s, me and my fiancé both seem to remember the early public service announcements about not flying a frisbee or going in to a substation to get your football. I’m quite sure the child in that psa also ended up frazzled. Conversely at the same time as these scarring images, we were also stuck with those sodding hedgehogs singing about the road. Regardless, I grew up with an irrational fear of washing machines. I used to spin them around as a child until I was told a man was going to reach out and grab me, on that side of things.
Martin McKenna
2021-08-15 21:06:52 +0000 UTCRemember Full Metal Challenge on Channel 4, where they used the base of a cooling tower for their 'sumo' finale game? I'd love to see that on TV again and/or find the winning truck 'Octopush' that was made from two Range Rovers.
Matt Tester
2021-08-15 20:25:49 +0000 UTCRemember going on holiday with my school at outdoor adventure place where they took us spelunking in water filled caves and they used traaaaaaaansssssssit County 4x4
John Hempson
2021-08-15 20:12:23 +0000 UTCThat oil rig story… love the fact Jonny remembers the make of ambulance, amid all the drama.
BoringCarDriver
2021-08-15 18:25:01 +0000 UTCCor that Transit is nice
Fergus McIver
2021-08-15 18:17:42 +0000 UTCThanks you 2 for bringing back childhood nightmares about electricity sub stations.... 😮
Paul Fargher
2021-08-15 18:11:30 +0000 UTCHaha yes indeed, things are looking up for my 1958 Fordson Major 😆🚜
Andrew Jude
2021-08-15 18:10:01 +0000 UTC
