The Brits are Bonkers for Conkers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kaiser Chiefs, Kansas City Chiefs. No, I don't know where
they're from. I've never heard of them. They're from England. Okay,
there you go. They're from Leads, England. Ah Leads, good
old Leads.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Apparently something that you do in England is the World
Conquer Championships.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
What.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't know how one gets into Conquers. But this
is a British and Irish game where you use the
seeds of the horsed test nut trees and each have
a conquer threaded like this hard seed, and they thread
it into a piece of string and they strike each
other as conquers until one of them breaks. An eighty

(00:44):
two year old man by the name of David Jenkins,
known as King Conquer, won the World Conquer Championships. That's
the first victory for him since he started competing since
nineteen seventy seven, by the way. But now he's being
fully investigated because they say they found a metal a
metal conquer in his pocket, and now they're trying to

(01:07):
figure out did he use this metal conquer in the
competition to win or was this just something he was
wearing on himself for good luck. He's been competing in
Conquers since again I'm repeating, nineteen seventy seven, and finally
won for the first time here in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
What do you think is anything sacred anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Apparently the investigation isn't over, although they have said they
find it to be unlikely that he used the metal
conker in actual competition, making his you know, victory legitimate.
They're still waiting on official word here. But I don't know, Matt.
This has yet another very strange thing. I'm glad that
the British should not give us to waste our time

(01:46):
with highly suspicious yeh. Why would he be carrying that
around anyway? And he's reach They have videos of him
reaching into his pocket multiple times. That's rough. Why you know,
why would you be carrying that around for good luck?
You know that's illegal. People are going to try to
say that you cheated.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
By the way.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I look up the World Conquer Championships. This is some
of the weirdest stuff I've ever seen. It's two people
holding a nut on a string and just like whacking
the other nut with it. That sounded bad. I just
can we strike that from the record. Yeah, I can dumpy.
You want me to battle, and now let's go. Everybody's
homework assignment for the next fifteen minutes. Find the World

(02:23):
Conquer Championships and watch some of this stuff. Three twenty
four is the time you find the World Conquer Championships
over there, met.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I was seeing that. That's that's something else.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Where's the skill here? You're taking a nut on a
string and whacking another nut with it until that nut breaks.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's a good reminder of how boring life used to be.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Because these guys, a lot of them are dressed up
like the old timey guys. I mean apparently Conquers that
you know it was a kids game in America. We
took kids games like I don't know, baseball and made
them professional games. Apparently in England Conker World Championships that
people playing Conquers go, look at this. I'm not making

(03:06):
this up. You just do it until the nut breaks.
I don't understand it, but I also would never invest
the time to understand it.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So what say you?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
If you had a metal conquer, I would give you
quite an advantage in this sport. I feel like I
would think so because your conquer would never break and
it seems like it would be heavy enough to break
anybody else's conquer. But if you just find the right conquer,
like in the wild, like this nut that just is perfect.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
It's just perfect. So this is a it's a kind
of nut called a conquer, kind of well, I don't
even know or is the conquer like you conker somebody?
You know?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Conquer is applied to the seed in the tree itself.
These horse chestnut trees that like, you know how some
trees have acorns, some trees drop all nuts. Well, the
horse chestnut tree drops what they call conkers and for
some reason, yeah, horse chestnuts. You can find the horse
chestnut tree. Oh, they have to two. The cousin is

(04:06):
the buckeye tree. So have you ever seen a buck
eye like a buckeye nut? That's what this is. It's
like it's like a British cousin to the buck eye,
you know, like Brutus the buck eye from the Ohio
State University. Yeah, like his head right like resembles a
buck eye.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
That's what this is. Okay, gotcha?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
So maybe should we start should we start a should
we start a league?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Does leads have a college called the Leeds University? Horse Chestnuts.
That does sound like a very British name. I feel
like that's a team that wears fancy trousers when they compete.
The leads the Leeds University horse Chestnuts. That's funny, that's

(04:54):
really funny.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, so horse Chestnuts in British, Buckeye in America. Should
we just create the Buckeye World Championships and just put
Buckeyes on a string somehow and then just like whack
each other's buckeyes until one of them breaks, and then
whoever wins wins.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I think the kids these days are playing Fortnite three
twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
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