Tom Pardoe

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1,027 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Dozen with Liam Tuffs · Confessions of a PARA: Tom Pardoe · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Oh, thank you.

I wonder why you asked me on.

And yeah, and that's when, you know, you start, the fear of judgment from other people start coming in and that develops at such a young age.

You're worried about what other people are going to think of you, especially in high school.

Do you know what I mean?

That's such a big stepping stone for young men where it's going to be a mixed school as well.

So you're not just worried about boys' opinions, worried about girls' opinions and yeah.

And yeah, into high school.

And no matter what, all along this time, I always wanted to join the, well, not the paras, the army itself.

I wanted to be a soldier and that had chopped and changed, by the way, because it wasn't always like the army, it was the Marines, then it was something else, then it was something else.

But I always wanted to be a service, let's say.

And I'm from, my family's patriotic, do you know what I mean?

And my granddad was in, my granddad's brother was in, my dad was in.

And I just, yeah, that was always something that seemed like an amazing achievement to me

Yeah, absolutely, yeah.

Thank you so much.

Well, this is the funny part.

I don't know about that.

I don't know about... Maybe, maybe.

See how much I let out once I started.

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