Ep 450 | Cool Runnings - The True Story Of The Jamaican Bobsleigh Team - With Dudley ‘Tal’ Stokes
Bad Boy Running
Jody Raynsford & David Hellard
4.7 • 539 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They're bad, their boys, and occasionally they talk about running. |
| 0:06.6 | Yes, it's the Bad Boy Running podcast with your host, Jody Rainsford, and David Heller. |
| 0:13.0 | Come back. |
| 0:16.1 | Baby, come back. |
| 0:17.6 | But a bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. |
| 0:20.4 | I must admit I was a clown to be messing around, but that doesn't mean that |
| 0:26.6 | you have to leave town. |
| 0:28.6 | Come back. |
| 0:29.6 | We've recently, we've probably been doing more episodes with individuals slightly outside |
| 0:35.6 | running. |
| 0:36.6 | Partly I think just because the podcast has grown |
| 0:38.5 | in stature, and that means we get approached by stories that don't necessarily focus, pinpoint on |
| 0:45.4 | running, but are more to do with performance and more to do with, I think, amazing people. And during |
| 0:50.4 | the course of the conversation, I've already had with our next guest, we've established that he was a hash house hush house harrier, which we've spoken about many, many times. So he is a dina runner. So good news. We can try and pretend that's why it's on the podcast. But actually, we all know the story of cool runnings. And a lot of us know the story to a certain extent about the Jamaica Bob Slay team, but not really what the proper story was. |
| 1:15.7 | Cool Runnings obviously was a fictionalised version of what was an incredible performance over many years by individuals who weren't expected to do well. |
| 1:24.8 | So to tell us about how, well, the truth behind the film, the truth behind |
| 1:29.6 | years of performance. And in particular, a new book he's written about how he went from |
| 1:35.2 | someone who was seen as not necessarily being respected in Bob Slay to actually being a fierce |
| 1:42.5 | competitor known around the world. Welcome to the podcast, |
| 1:45.3 | the lovely, deadly town Stokes. Yay! |
| 1:52.9 | Thank you for that. Very kind. Of course. I honestly, I'm so excited about this because |
| 1:59.9 | and I grew up with cool runnings as one of my |
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