Our guest this week is Chris, and he may just have the best job in the world. Chris designs, tests and inspects playgrounds... which means he basically gets to be a kid for a living. In this episode, he tells us about the craziest designs he's ever seen, some absolute death trap playing equipment, and about the time he got attacked by goats whilst inspecting a climbing frame. They also design Joe and Tom's dream playground... which is definitely not suitable for children. You'll see why.
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About Playground Designers: Being a big kid for a living - the best job in the world?

Joe Marler used to hate people, but then he met Tom Fordyce, and a load of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and a podcast was born that changed his mind forever. It might just change your life too.
 
Because everyone is interesting if you ask the right questions. And this is a show about all the weird and wonderful things people do.
 
Together, Joe and Tom meet astronauts, teachers, marine biologists, cheesemakers, prison guards and everyone in between. Along the way, they’ve learned things that have blown their minds, heard stories that have made them laugh until it hurts, and – well, felt a whole lot better about the world around them and the people that fill it.
 
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This is a classic episode from back when we had no listeners, and when Joe used to record the show from his car. Today's is a whole episode about police dogs and how great they are. Joe and Tom meet Will Vye who works with police dogs every day and has some incredible stories.
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Classic: About Police Dogs

Our guest this week is Daan, who is a free diver and a man with possibly the most calming voice in the world. He can also hold his breath underwater for over 6 minutes, which is unbelievable. Daan is here to tell us about his life as a freediver. He tells us all about the beauty of the oceans, the feeling you get from diving 100 meters under water, and why sharks are misunderstood. This episode will make you want to go to the sea immediately.
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About Freedivers: How to hold your breath under water for over six minutes

Joe, Tom and Producer Ryan are back together to discuss how we grow this shambles of a podcast. There is some pressing bin chat on the agenda, as the emails have been flooding regarding the various recycling colours... but is there a show growing solution? The team also discuss the idea of young people dressing up as Joe for world book day, an uncomfortable urinal encounter at Chatham Services, and producer Ryan gets himself in trouble with the neon sign situation.
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The Show Growing Committee: Joe Marler costumes, recycle bin drama and a neon sign betrayal

Want another podcast to listen to? Check out Mind Set Win from Red Bull, with special guest Siya Kolisi.
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Listen out for a new episode of Mind Set Win dropping every Tuesday and Thursday with high performance personas including Xavi Simons, Liam Lawson, Saya Sakakibara, Kristian Blummenfelt and many more, all sharing the psychological approaches that have made all the difference in their careers.
Host Lisa Ramuschkat is joined in Season 3 by Head of Mental Performance at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center, York-Peter Klöppel, to offer expert insight and some valuable tips and takeaways we can incorporate into our everyday routines to help develop our mental strength.
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Siya Kolisi: The mindset of a World Cup winning captain

This week we're putting on our Ant-Man suits and shrinking down super small with John, the Micro Engineer. He makes tiny things. Like seriously tiny. But why do we need things to be so small? He brings in his normal size bag of tiny tricks to show us how small micro really is and almost brings Joe to tears with the smallest Valencia ice lolly the world has (probably) ever seen.
But don't get on the wrong side of him. Because if he wanted to, he could probably take over the world with special super tiny spy gadgets?
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Send us your ideas for the show, and questions for Joe and Tom to joe@crowdnetwork.co.uk
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About Playground Designers: Being a big kid for a living - the best job in the world?

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