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Troubled skies are forming over Toolbox Towers, Hamish has been struck down with a pox and is confined to his quarters with a box of tissues and a bottle of Calpol. What is Rollie to do? Fortunately Jake Chappell and Oliver Ross step in to save Rollie’s ass. They unpack the invisible backpack and welcome […]

The lads load up the invisible backpacks once again with friend of the show Dominic “Chinni” Copeland drummer of alternative-punk band Dead Wet Things. Chinni opens up to Rollie & Hamish about his struggles with his health anxiety over the past several months, and educates the lads on the helpfulness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Rollie & Hamish saddle up and head out once again with an invisible backpack check-in. Then they buy 2 tickets for an excursion to Virgin Island, as they talk about Channel 4 reality television show Virgin Island.

Rollie is a lone ranger this week as he rides the plains of Toolboxahassee. As he does he unloads the invisible backpack and ruminates on the events that unfolded at the Liverpool parade.

The lads ride out once again to unload the invisible backpacks and check in with each other. This week Hamish brings an important public safety announcement and Rollie & Hamish present The Toolbox guide to apologies. The do’s, the don’ts and the definitely don’ts!

Join Rollie & Hamish as they talk about loading up their actual backpacks for the epic walk they took with friend of The Toolbox Monday Lunchtime’s Jake Chappell. Setting out on a beautiful sunny day from Penshaw Monument, the boys followed The Way of Learning all the way to Durham Cathedral. Of course they unpack […]

Rollie & Hamish load up their saddlebags and ride out once again. Unloading the invisible backpacks, they talk about the mental benefits of having things to look forward to.

Rollie rides solo this week but never fear he brings with him his invisible backpack to unpack. He also weighs in on famous men saying and doing inappropriate things as well as a one off return of Papers Please, the news review just for you to get Rollie’s take on the government intervention in British […]

Rollie & Hamish unload the saddlebags once again as they welcome Greg & Jordan, two facilitators from the Sunderland Kayll Road branch of Andy’s Man Club to celebrate the branch’s first birthday. Andy’s Man Club offers peer to peer support for men struggling with their mental health with groups all over the UK meeting every […]

Rollie finds himself bereft without his rotten soldier, as Hamish is back visiting his family in Scotland. Rollie unsaddles the invisible backpack and then poses questions that come out of having watched the hit Netflix show Adolescence. What can be done? How do we reach these kids? Are we really free? Follow the show on […]