The Near Death Experience That Changed How I Work Forever

Alex nearly got cooked alive on a recycling plant floor when an operator reached over his shoulder and switched a live circuit back on mid-job. Troy got pinned against a locomotive by a runaway bobcat. And that was before they got to the shaft inspection where a concrete door exploded at exactly the spot they were supposed to be standing. This episode is Crib Time Stories at its most unhinged — real near-death moments from real blokes who somehow lived to tell them.

In this episode:
- Alex's operator switches on a live circuit while his hands are on the cables — the lockout that wasn't
- Troy's runaway bobcat pins him against a locomotive and they try to cover the whole thing up
- The shaft inspection explosion: a 60-kilo concrete door blows off right where they were supposed to be standing — poured by Troy's girlfriend's mum
- Working in Africa where safety standards are a vibe not a policy, and two blokes get cleaned up by hundreds of metres of free-falling pipe
- Making your missus wait for the ring when you already know she's the one — why it makes you a bitch as a man
- The two-year rule for proposing and why dragging it out past that is just cowardice with extra steps
- Troy's blind taste test that settled the Coles vs Woolies mud cake debate once and for all
- The new segment: Life's Little Pleasures — including the art of calling hip hip at a birthday and why whoever does it first owns the room

Timestamps:
(00:09) Welcome back — Troy turns 29 and the Woolies vs Coles mud cake debate
(03:18) Blind taste test results: science bitch
(05:07) What losing 10 kilos in two months taught Alex about how hard it is to be overweight
(10:50) Hardcore Harry's Last One Standing update — Tim, Wizard of Run, and Maggie
(14:19) New segment: Life's Little Pleasures — making someone sit through Happy Birthday
(16:06) Calling hip hip at the end of Happy Birthday and why it makes you the dominant in the room
(18:31) Crib Time Stories: near-death experiences at work
(23:51) Alex's near-death: operator switches on a live circuit while his hands are still on the cables
(29:01) Troy's near-death: runaway bobcat, a locomotive, and a botched cover-up
(34:07) The shaft inspection explosion — concrete door blows off the exact spot they were about to stand
(44:21) Working in Africa: hundreds of metres of pipe falls on workers, trucks head-on in the dark
(51:00) What makes you a bitch as a man: making your missus wait for the ring
(53:05) The two-year rule — if you know, pull triggers
(59:15) Troy proposes to Emmanuelle with the ring burning a hole in his pocket for two weeks
(01:05:36) Reddit thread: blokes keeping a notes app of their partner's details — does it help or is it a red flag

Full episode out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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