📕 Part 1: Extreme activities

Have you ever tried any extreme activities?

I have actually. I've done bungee jumping several times, and I've been cage diving with great white sharks as well. It's brilliant. It's a real rush, actually, now that I think about it.

What did you think were exciting activities when you were a child?

Well, anything that let you take a little bit of risk, like going on a bike ride with just you and your friends, or going out for a walk completely unsupervised and without a curfew. That sounds like really mild compared to, compared to things like bungee jumping, but it's a lot, it's still something I thought was quite exciting when I was young.

Has anything exciting happened to you recently?

Oh, God, I don't really know... Oh, yes. I did lead climbing with my friend a few weeks back. That's a type of rope climbing where you take the rope with you, rather than have it prepared for you in advance. So if you fall, you can fall quite far, and actually, you could really hurt yourself. Other than that, honestly, I can't think of anything. I'm a very boring person with a very sheltered life, normally.

Would you like to try scuba diving or bungee jumping?

I've done both, actually. And while I wouldn't mind doing either again, they aren't at the top of my to-do list. I need to avoid death so I can finish the next round of renovations on my home.

You've just said I want to avoid death...

Yes?

Okay. Oh, dear listener, Rory wants to avoid death, so he can finish renovations in his apartment.

This is how exciting my life is now. That's all I do.

So I can't go mountain skiing because I need to stay alive to pay my rent and to do all these renovations. Amazing.

That's it. That's what my life has become now. Just a never-ending series of issues with this, with this house, which I love, I love you, house, but I just wish that it would be easier.

Oh, my God, so dear listener, extreme activities. We are not talking about nice cooking at home. You know, we talk about rock climbing, scuba diving, when you put this tank with oxygen and you dive into deep waters. Snowboarding, surfing, white water rafting. Rafting is when you go to a river with a small boat, and you kind of... Like this.

You've done that, I think, haven't you?

Yeah, but the river was calm, so it was quite nice. Yeah, bungee jumping is when you just jump.

And that's all. You just jump.

Yeah. Bungee jumping is when you have a rope, which is usually, well, you are tied with a special thing, and you just jump off a cliff. It's crazy.

Well, maybe not off a cliff, off a bridge.

Yeah, off a bridge. Yeah. So you can say that I've done. So what have you done? And even if you haven't done anything, dear listener, just kind of speak about some activities. Imagine that you are Jason Statham. You've done everything in life. And for some reason, Jason Statham speaks like this. I'm Jason Statham, I've done everything in life.

Has he been bungee jumping as well?

Well, Jason has done everything, from bungee jumping, no, he's done bungee jumping from a motorcycle without any rope. Jason doesn't need a rope.

What? Well, then that's not bungee jumping, that's just suicide.

No, no, no. There's a film, and he just, you know, like he has his motorcycle and it's in the mountains. And he just, you know, like he's driving his motorcycle at a very high speed, and then bam, he just jumps from a motorcycle onto the train. Oh...

That is crazy.

Yeah. What a rush. What a rush. Rory, if we say what a rush, what do we mean?

An adrenaline rush, which is the release of the hormone or the neurotransmitter which makes you have that rushing feeling when you're excited. I should say that's not what it's for, that's just the effect it has. I have no idea what it's for. It's probably to encourage you to be able to run away from things faster.

Yeah, so you can say that I've done mountain biking or sky diving or bungee jumping, rock climbing. It was brilliant. What a rush, I felt the adrenaline. Rory told us that... Like he said, I've been cage diving with great white sharks.

Is that perfect aspect?

Yeah, present perfect continuous. So I've been cage diving...

I don't know. I don't think so. I think that's present perfect and then plus like a gerund, like, cage diving as an activity.

Yeah, but it would have been if you said I've done cage diving, but you said I've been cage diving.

Ooh... Regardless, it's still pretty good grammar. So try and use that. I've been cage diving or I haven't been cage diving. It's still nice.

Yeah, so go to, you know, like best activities, or like 50 best adrenaline activities for thrill seekers.

How are there 50? What's number 50? Or rather, what's number one?

Number 50? Oh, okay, okay, number one, number one. Ice cross-cutting.

What?

So the activity on ice, and you're kind of like, you're driving your car, this little car on ice. Okay. Yeah, on the frozen lakes. And number 50? Okay, wait. Number 50 is speed skiing.

What???

Speed skiing.

I think some of these are just made up.

Speed skiers exceed 200 kilometres per hour on a regular basis. What??? 200 kilometers per hour?

That's crazy.

On your skis. Are you joking? Yeah, dear listener, this is insane. Okay? So you can go ahead, yeah, I've, I've done speed skiing. My idea is like, choose three super extreme activities and just say that you've done them. When you were a child, you thought that something was exciting. What was exciting? Well, anything that involved a little bit of risk. A little bit? Some risk. For example, a bike ride with your friends, or a walk completely unsupervised. So when children are unsupervised...

They have no adults to bother them.

For example, at night, in the forest... Has anything exciting happened to you? So here, like any exciting events, maybe, I don't know, you went to a concert, or you made, I don't know, an Italian dish, something exciting. Or maybe you did some extreme activities. Rory told us about this, lead climbing. Lead, yeah? Climbing. Yes. At least that's what my friend called it, um, like, maybe it has another name in different countries. But basically, you climb up, you can climb up some rocks, or, in this case, you can climb up a wall, and you attach your rope as you go.

Yeah, dear listener, but you can choose another activity, for example, escape room. Ooh... Escape room. You kind of, you have a team of your friends, and you solve a puzzle to get out of a room or a bunker, to get out of somewhere. And, you know, it's crazy because like, you're given an hour, and you should, you are in the room, everything is locked, and you should solve puzzles. You should find things, kind of be detectives and to get yourself out of the room. And when the time is running out, they have this, like, get out of the room, get out of the room. Oh, my God, I'm gonna stay here forever.

That's crazy, again.

Especially, if you are underground. And usually, like, escape rooms are below the ground, like, minus, like, one two levels, and you're kind of like, you have to survive a dangerous scenario, like a quest. You can say that I've done scuba diving, I've done bungee jumping, or I haven't done scuba diving, but I've done bungee jumping. Or you can lie, dear listener, you can say, huh, I've done them both. I wouldn't mind doing them again. I wouldn't mind? Like I'm okay if I do them again. And then you can say that scuba diving is at the top of my to-do list. So what is a to-do list?

A to-do list is just a list of things that you want to do.

Yeah. For example, like, I have a to-do list with 50 extreme activities I want to do.

And I have a to-do list of things I want to do today, like put the screen protector of my phone and prepare for a job interview. It's all very exciting.

Yeah. But like, as for me, I want to do bobsleigh riding. And...

Are you sure this is not your bucket list instead?

Ice climbing. Well, next weekend, you know, like ice climbing, just climb ice.

Are you going ice climbing next weekend? Seriously?

Absolutely, yes.

Oh, my God.

Because I'm an adrenaline junkie. Yeah. Or you can say that these activities are not at the top of my to-do list. You can say that they are on my bucket list. I have a bucket list with activities I want to do in my life. So you can say they are on my bucket list. And then the final sentence is my favourite. Rory, could you repeat that? What did you say about death?

What did I say about death? Oh, yeah, I need to avoid death so I can finish the renovations in my house.

Because extreme activities... Well, they are risky, dear listener, yeah? And people die, right? Because snowboarding, like mountain climbing, just simple hiking. Okay? People die. And Rory said like, okay, I need to stay alive, so no extreme activities for me, because I need to finish my renovations. It's very funny. It's true, though. It's true. Right, yeah, because, like, we have responsibilities in life. You may have children, so I need to stay alive, so I avoid all these extreme nonsense. Okay? So Jason Statham does all the extreme activities for me. So Jason, thank you very much for sponsoring our podcast! Just get in touch, you know. If you happen to listen, if you're listening, Jason, like we love you, okay? You're amazing.

Please sponsor the podcast and get us some attention.

Yeah. Yeah, just you can donate money to our podcast. Right, dear listener, thank you very much! Even if you are not an extreme person, you can just lie, just to use some nice words. Okay? Just Google top extreme activities and choose the strangest words with the strangest pictures. Okay? Cooking on top of an active volcano. Yeah. This is crazy. You know, all this lava, you know, and you're kind of, oh, yeah, let's fry some eggs. Yum, yum, yum.

I do not "lava" that idea...

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