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The James Smith Podcast

#72 The Inception of Budgy Smuggler with Adam Linforth

The James Smith Podcast

James Smith

Sports, Health & Fitness

59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

An episode close to heart, why Adam Linforth and his Budgy Smuggler team is looking to replace to eradicate the word 'Speedo' in the English language and 'free thighs' around the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm sat here with the owner, the creator, the visionary behind Budgie Smugglers, Adam

0:06.3

Limforth, aka Lini.

0:07.7

Good morning, Jane, Salawi.

0:10.9

Mate, I'm great.

0:12.6

I'm quite excited to have this conversation.

0:15.2

We were actually talking online the other day and I was like, let's just have a podcast.

0:19.2

Yeah, I thought it was, you know, let's just film what we're talking about, what we

0:25.7

talk about normally for you're going to do something together, which we've never done

0:30.0

sort of officially before, but, yeah, I've enjoyed your smuggling antics from over the

0:36.7

years.

0:37.7

I think some people are confused by it, but British culture, they are very confused as to

0:41.6

why any man would choose to wear.

0:45.6

I can't use the word only in the first minute speedos.

0:48.0

No, drowners.

0:49.0

But then after that, we're not going to use that word again.

0:51.4

Why are we getting rid of this word?

0:53.0

Well, the goal of Budgie Smuggler, our business is to replace the word speedo in the English

0:58.6

language and to free the thighs of the world.

1:01.5

So that's the mission that we're on.

1:04.9

And for me, I was a skeptic for 20 years in my life.

1:07.5

I'm 32.

1:08.5

So only just over 10% that might be unconverted.

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