Lost Arms and Legs At Age 19! DJ Hookie - Tom Nash | Podcast 920
Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast
Shaun Attwood Podcast
4.3 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
DJ Hookie's links: https://bit.ly/m/tomnash
Tom Nash mesmerises audiences around the world, either with his thought-provoking philosophies or hypnotic DJ sets. However, before his career had even begun, Tom, aged only 19, lost both his arms and legs was given the slimmest chance of survival. When the unthinkable becomes your reality, where do you turn? Tom not only went on to survive, but to thrive, taking on life with nothing more than a pair of prosthetic hooks and a dark sense of humour.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:29.0 | When I'm in the United States, |
| 0:31.0 | I'll often say that it was a shark attack and that was sometimes followed by, |
| 0:38.7 | because someone will ask, you know, what kind of shark? shark I tell them bull shark because it sounds like |
| 0:45.6 | bull. They often ask where it where it happened I say Byron Bay yeah yeah |
| 0:51.9 | because everybody's always like, |
| 0:53.1 | you know, oh, what happened? |
| 0:54.2 | And I should say, oh, you should see the shark, |
| 0:55.8 | and then if they're really invested, |
| 1:00.0 | they're like, so what, like it took your arms off and then you beat it with a stump at that |
| 1:05.4 | point you're like yeah like if you're willing to believe that yes absolutely what what else have I said? I've convinced more than three or four people that I was in this circus |
| 1:19.0 | and I had a trapeze accident where somebody grabbed my arms, somebody grabbed my legs and they ripped me |
| 1:23.5 | Lin from limb you know if I'm in an elevator and I feel the need to say you know it's |
| 1:28.6 | weird to be back where this all happened for the first time it's a good way to break the ice if there's somewhere. |
| 1:36.0 | Elevators are weird places, aren't they? |
| 1:39.0 | Because you're just in a very, very small room with somebody that you wouldn't otherwise be for a very short |
| 1:44.4 | period of time. Use it to your advantage. You've got a couple of seconds with these |
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