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You know us from such hilarious and original features like: Billy-eve it or Not and Hit Us With A Poll. We also discuss sport. Help Raise Money for Movember by donating by clicking the link: https://movember.com/m/tomrouse194?mc=1 Please get in touch by leaving us a voice note to use in next week's podcast: https://anchor.fm/rouseandroche/message Get in touch with us on social media to suggest a future topic: Twitter: @rouserochepod Instagram: @rouserochepod Email: rouseroche.pod@gmail.com F ...
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Funny, warm, surprising and original, it's the weightlifting podcast that contains only 2-3% weightlifting! (It's basically not really about weightlifting!) Comedians and great friends Rob Rouse (Upstart Crow, 8 out of 10 cats) and Tom Wrigglesworth (Tom Wrigglesworth calls home - BBC) chew the fat on all things life in this endearing new podcast that frequently contains a surprising of home improvement advice. If your after something different that's inclusive, intriguing and really funny, ...
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Set your time machines for the past . . . and the future! Celebrating the history and next generation of themed entertainment, “The Spirit of the Time” Zoomcast shares the philosophies, insights and industry tradecraft of the top creatives and executives who made or are making their mark in timeless and timely out-of-home entertainment projects all over the world.
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Episode 61 "Gustave Eifel's Soil Stack"
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Back in business after summer recess, Rob and Tom reconvene their strength training in the build up to the 2048 Pontefract Olympics. So much to churn through here! Robot Hoovers, The Institution that is Radio 4, Rob's Citroen throws another wobbler, Tom's bought a new family tent and we have the soil-stack to end all soil-stack conversations (There…
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit Of The Time Episode 37: Laine Dunham White
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Passenger 36: Former creative director/show producer at Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Creative, Sony Development, Knott’s Berry Farm, and Hildene, who played a primary role on the creation of the Disney-MGM Studios and then oversaw the design, installation, and construction of the original Tower of Terror attraction at the park, Laine Dunham …
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit Of The Time Episode 36: Chris Brown
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Passenger 35: Former technical director and senior show & ride executive for Walt Disney Imagineering, former president of Spectra Entertainment and Auriga Entertainment, and current president of Contour Entertainment, Chris Brown. Chris Brown is what happens when technical prowess, extreme creativity, and business acumen all collide in a purple ex…
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Hello there Dearest listener and potential Patron? Episode 60 contains a potential murder mystery/ enormous jump to the wrong conclusion, only you can decide as Tom thinks he may have witnessed a heinous crime at the tip while dropping off a destroyed sofa that also he realised in hindsight might have been a ticking time-bomb. Tom also regails Rob …
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit Of The Time Episode 35: Richard Vaughn
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Passenger 34: Former Disney Imagineer & creative exec at Universal, Sony, SpectraFX & Contour involved in such classic projects as EPCOT Center, Catastrophe Canyon/Disney-MGM Studios, Blizzard Beach, Poseidon’s Fury/UIOA, & The Beatles' Yellow Submarine simulator, Richard Vaughn. Richard Vaughn is an artist, a designer, and an articulate creative l…
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Hey there Dearest Listener, It's Episode 59 of the Unlikely weightlifters podcast. An away lift for Rob at Platypus heights. Tom has opened a brand new aquatic centre. There's a Hamster on the Run, will it be found before the cat pounces?! All this and loads more spot on nonsense for your entertainment. Tom explain heat pumps and why Rob gets gas o…
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Episode 58. "Pouring Urine into the back of a Citroen"
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Hello there Dearest potential Patron and listener. I hope you're in fine fettle. Quite the Bumper Episode this one, coming in at a girthy Hour and Ten! Due in no small part that there was so much to talk about this week. Tom had been on the slot machines in Wales with the kids, there's a new hamster afoot, the Citroen is demanding I pour urine into…
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Episode 57. "Special Guest - Marcus Brigstocke"
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Hello there dearest listener! Hoping this finds you in good fettle and or if you need any cheering up, that this offering helps nudge you in that direction. We had a load of fun recording this with our special guest Marcus Brigstocke. Marcus was in town doing our comedy village gigs www.thecomedyvillage.com so it only made sense for him to join me …
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit Of The Time Episode 34: Anthony Esparza
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Passenger 33: Former creative leader at SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Herschend Family Entertainment, Paramount Parks, Carnival Cruise Lines, and Landmark Entertainment Group, Anthony Esparza! Few have so successfully established and executed the creative vision for so many owner/operators in the immersive entertainment world as Anthony Esparza. …
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Helloo there dearest Patrons and beloved podcast listeners. get in touch with the podcast at theunlikelyweightlifters@gmail.com give us a like on the new facebook page just search "the unlikely weightlifters podcast" on Facebook We hope this finds you in good fettle. It's time for another episode of the weightlifting podcast that really does only c…
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit Of The Time Episode 33: Tom Morris
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Passenger 32: The long-awaited return of the former Disney Imagineer responsible for leading the design of such beloved parks and attractions as EPCOT Center, Star Tours, Sleeping Beauty Castle and Fantasyland at Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Carsland at Disney California Adventure, Tom Morris! Our very first time machine passenger cl…
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Episode 55. "Throwing Up into a Rabbit Jelly-Mould"
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Hello there Dearest Listeners and extra supportive Patrons. Can't tell you how much I appreciate your support on here, it is of immense meaning to me and I think of you guys every time I'm editing and mixing and this podcast. After a short break Me and Tom got back under the bar, for a grunt and a good waffle. Helen joins us in the locker room hot …
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit of the Time Episode 32: Mike West
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Passenger 31: Forty-year industry veteran; writer, director, and producer of over 80 themed entertainment projects for both Walt Disney Imagineering and Universal Creative, Mike West. From The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, to the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, The Simpsons Ride to Skull Island: Reign of Kong, Mike West is one of just a…
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Episode 54. "You're Never on Terra firma with Clearance Sushi"
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Hello there Dearest Patron and Listener. The title of course is a window into an element of the content in this episode, although I'm delighted to inform you that for once, it doesn't refer to my (Rob's) stomach. Tom describes in hilarious detail his own recent emergency. We also discuss Tom's recent high rolling celebrity activity at his local Tob…
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Episode 53. "The Return of Dahood Eriquat"
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Hey there Dearest Listener and Potential Patron We hope this finds you well. Apologies for the delay in posting this next episode - the old 'Diarrhoea permitting' clause may have been maxed out with this one as mine and Tom's respective local education authorities placed their half terms in successive weeks. Obviously the title gives away the fact …
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Hello there dearest listener and potential Patron, It's time for the podcast that isn't about weightlifting! This week Tom scares the bejesus out of Rob and all the parents at his school gates by waxing lyrical about the seminal 80's film 'Threads' and brings round a deeply terrifying cheese that really leaves it's mark on the dojo. There's deep di…
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit of the Time Episode 31: Don Carson
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PASSENGER 30: Veteran art director, designer and illustrator of physical and virtual worlds whose projects include Mickey’s Toontown, Splash Mountain (WDW), San Francisco’s annual Dickens Fair, and theme parks and attractions for Universal, THG, The Jim Henson Company, Herschend Family Entertainment, and Walkabout Mini Golf for Mighty Coconut, Don …
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Episode 51. "A Triumphant Return to Pant Cage Journalism"
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Hello there Dearest Patrons and Listeners. It’s the first outdoor lift of the 2024 Season. Tom blows the lid off another huge baby milk story and explains how Rymans the stationers are bizarrely an official retailer for soda-stream! Having just watched touching the void again, I'm rather freaked out by the sheer number of climbers frozen into the i…
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Episode 50 "There's a shield bug in the locker room!"
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Hey there Dearest Listeners and potential Patrons. Of course 50 is just a number, something I'm continuing to tell myself as I hurtle rapidly towards it, so as you'd imagine in the podcast that isn't really about weightlifting, we don't really dwell on the number and just get stuck into the waffle! On the menu are: A large shield bug that's made it…
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Episode 49 is finally here, recorded just before the New Year, it contains amongst other things, Tom's unique vision of milk being available through a simple tap in every kitchen up and down the land. If you want to support the podcast, come join us on patreon where you'll unlock loads and loads of extra stuff. Enjoy the podcast. Hosted on Acast. S…
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit of the Time Episode 30: Eddie Sotto
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PASSENGER 29: Former senior vice president of concept design at Walt Disney Imagineering, whose projects include Main Street USA at Disneyland Paris, Space Mountain, trackless dark rides, and consulting to Virgin Galactic, Porsche and Aston Martin, Eddie Sotto. The hair; the voice; the sweet seduction of another brilliant idea. Of course we’re talk…
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Episode 48. "Poetry of The Pant Cage & The Christmas Blanking Plate Debacle"
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Hey there Dearest Listeners and potential Patrons, Seasons greetings to you and good will to all humans! Baa-Humbug, mince pies and reindeers to one and all and little Donkeys all round with their massive loads all round. Here's a bumper Christmas Edition of 'the podcast that really isn't about weightlifting'. It's my first one back since having ho…
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Episode 47. "Might as well put the macerator on with the light"
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Hello there Dearest Listeners and Patrons, Firstly, profound apologies for the lack of pod the last couple of weeks, but between us we've all variously been injured or ill or had sick kids and or partners, and in Tom's case a little bit of both. However like all things, they have passed and it was great to get back under the bar with the Sheffield …
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A welcome away lift for Rob this week at Platypus heights. It was a crisp & bright autumn/winter's day, perhaps a fitting tribute to one of Tom's chickens which had expired the day before. Tom had been to see Ben Folds Five at a theatre in York and was blown away by the sheer lack of lavatories. The weightlifting platform is sporting a new pigeon d…
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This week there’s a huge Row in the locker room regarding Helen placing Rob on a tea-making ban, Tom gets dragged into the legal wrangling and only further confuses things. All this before Tom takes off his hat to reveal his LOWLIGHTS! we’ve got 2 superb submissions to Pant cage UK from listeners Steve Burley and Alan Lunt and there’s a hint that t…
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Zeitgeist's The Spirit of the Time Episode 29: George Scribner
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PASSENGER 28: Walt Disney Animation director (“Oliver & Company," “The Prince & the Pauper"), Walt Disney Imagineer (“Mickey’s PhilharMagic,” “Gran Fiesta Starring the Three Caballeros”), and fine artist (Panama Canal Expansion, Shanghai Disneyland, Disney Cruise Lines”), George Scribner! Renaissance artist George Scribner lives three distinct live…
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Hello there dearest listener and potential patron. This week Tom reveals a deep, deep love of the power ballad, as he prepares himself to have his 'low-lights' done. I can confirm by the time you hear this, they have been done, so stick around to the end of the pod to here Tom's despatch from the hairdressers. We've also got a superb "Pant Cage UK"…
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Episode 43. "The Least Rock and Roll Thing Ever"
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Hello there Dearest Patron and Listener. Another bumper ep. Superb locker room chat with Helen regarding Tom's impeding lowlights with Soibhan and we've got sponsorship deals falling out of our arses this week! (We have no sponsors) Rob (I) describe the most rock and roll I've ever seen and also connected to that, I recently witnessed the least roc…
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Episode 42. "Basically Wearing My Hairdresser's Emotions"
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Hey there Dearest Listeners and potential Patron This week, I’m suspicious that Tom appears to have got himself into some for of regular hairdressing contract which of course, has terrifying echoes of the 'unwritten Hoover repair 'contracts he has become embroiled in, in recent months. Robot Hoovers also hit the headlines in this episode, with emot…
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Episode 41. "The Utter Minefield that is 'Public Speaking' "
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Hello there dearest listener and potential Patron This week we’re proudly (not) sponsored by Plumbers Mate. More importantly it’s Tom’s first lift back since his back went twang. Poor Rob had a torrid time by the side of the road on snake pass with a wholly avoidable bowel incident. Tom gets lost en route to a show and soothes Rob’s bruised psyche …
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