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Bad Boy Running

Ep 450 | Cool Runnings - The True Story Of The Jamaican Bobsleigh Team - With Dudley ‘Tal’ Stokes

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7539 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

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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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