EP. 354 | Why Everyone Thinks They’re Good at Bowling & Darts Of Destiny Finale Drama! | New Years Eve Special
That Peter Crouch Podcast
Tall or Nothing
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this New Year’s special episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast, Pete, Sids, and Chris kick back with a relaxed end-of-year pod with listener messages, reflections on a huge year, and absolutely no pressure… until bowling enters the conversation.
The lads look back on some unforgettable podcast moments, react to thoughtful listener questions about football pressure, injuries, and dressing room dynamics, and share a genuinely moving message about prostate health awareness.
Then, in true Crouchy fashion, things take a sharp turn as a simple listener question sparks a full-blown debate about ten-pin bowling.
Is a perfect bowling game harder than a hole-in-one? Why does everyone think they’re better at bowling than they actually are? What’s the most embarrassing thing you can do on a bowling date — and when did bowling shoes quietly disappear forever?
It’s light-hearted, nostalgic, unexpectedly philosophical, and the perfect way to see in the New Year with the pod.
Happy New Year from the lads — and yes, most of the episode really does end up being about bowling.
00:00 - New Year’s Eve pod begins & relaxed holiday vibes
01:02 - Reflecting on podcast highlights from the year
02:05 - Wild journey home stories & “investment opportunities” tease
03:29 - Listener question: are managers hiding injuries?
04:16 - Emotional prostate health message from a listener
05:27 - Can players really fake injuries? Dressing room reality
06:46 - Playing through illness & injections in football
08:10 - Listener sparks the bowling debate: how hard is a perfect game?
09:24 - Is a hole-in-one actually easier than bowling 300?
11:21 - Worst possible bowling behaviour on a date
12:41 - Why getting a strike is still somehow awkward
14:04 - The mystery of bowling shoes disappearing
16:15 - Where do bowling pins actually go?
18:20 - The embarrassment of owning a bowling ball
20:00 - Realising the whole episode became about bowling
20:26 - Happy New Year & Darts of Destiny intro
21:19 - Darts of Destiny finale drama
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the ACAST creator network. Hello and welcome to that Peter Crouch podcast. Notorious S.D and Chris Stark with me, this is the New Year's Eve edition of the podcast. So basically no one's listening. So we can just have a beer and kind of just have a laugh, really. Well, we've been in this situation before. I remember we've released the podcast on New Year's Eve, |
| 0:21.7 | and we called it, |
| 0:23.1 | do you remember we called it a Podmoney? |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.2 | And we did that. |
| 0:26.9 | You know, like, oh, or, |
| 0:28.0 | Podmoney? |
| 0:29.9 | Yeah, we did it call it a Podmoney, isn't it? |
| 0:31.3 | And it was like, do you know what? |
| 0:32.3 | There are some, |
| 0:37.7 | there people that are, that actually do like to listen over Christmas. So this is for them. And if you are listening, you're a diehard fan, we appreciate you. So what we do is just do a few listener messages, I thought, today. Let's go. Yeah, nice. And what about like some sort of, I don't know, we should finish on some sort of rousing speech, perhaps one, to think about here, just to inspire people into the new year as well. Yeah, we've had a great year, haven't we? It's been a great year. You think about, like, I think Rod Stewart was a definite highlight of mine. Yeah. Enjoyed doing that part. Do you know, the image from that, I can't get out my head, by the way, is when, because I arrived a tiny bit later than you boys, because maybe it's from the radio or something, |
| 1:13.2 | and you inform me that he's got a running track. |
| 1:17.2 | And then you went and showed me the running track outside. |
| 1:20.3 | But you can see the motorway from the running track. |
| 1:22.8 | So people must be driving down the motorway, |
| 1:24.7 | and they don't know if they look to their left. |
| 1:27.3 | And it's a straight line, this running track. It's the idea that Rod Stewart does 100 metres, just sprints all out for 100 meters. And then has to walk back. He's only a second or so off the world record for a man of his age. Which is staggering, but the idea that you could be driving past and look left, you see Rod Stewart doing 100 meters. just can't see that coming i just can't get that that out my head that and his |
| 1:48.1 | train set as well well that was amazing model model city i hope he does the record it was |
| 1:55.6 | it was amazing if he did do it yeah what great fella that was that was that was a great that was |
| 2:00.3 | one of the days that we've had we've had some some crackers. When you actually go through the names, like Big Dunk, Luke Littler, Gary Oldman, Ashley Cole, Joe Cole. The journey home from I'll record with Luke Littler in Manchester. That was a high point. I don't know if we've ever taught about yeah that's a cracker if you encountered us on the M5 that was unbelievably loose isn't it oh wow yeah who were out the windows and everything that was a fucking absolutely disgrace can I just say that we weren't driving, by the way. |
| 2:34.6 | No, no, no, no. |
| 2:35.8 | And a big shout to Lee, who drives for us. Yeah. Who's a legend. He was in the front. I mean, he didn't know what him. No. We came in hot. We'd been, it was a long wait for Luke in the first place in the pub. And then we had a couple after. some investment opportunities, isn't there? |
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