Speaker 1: Who is the nomber number.
Speaker 2: He's going to jump in a minute because she knows
Speaker 2: what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Honestly, you see, you you live like in a different
Speaker 1: world to me, Callum.
Speaker 3: It's Callum's little world of urbanite thing that we just
Speaker 3: don't see.
Speaker 1: The internet, the internet that way to catch on. I
Speaker 1: keep telling you. I mean you literally just did the dance.
Speaker 3: No, no dance now are you talking about?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, that little dance I just did? Was
Speaker 1: that what the ladies do at the game fair when
Speaker 1: they're on the du Barri stand. See, if you get
Speaker 1: to the game fair early enough, not like you callum
Speaker 1: there at one pm. If you get to the game
Speaker 1: fair early for some reason, the do Barry people do
Speaker 1: a sort of like nineteen eighty style like walm up
Speaker 1: dance to get them into sales mode, I think. And
Speaker 1: so they basically you got this glamorous sort of ladies
Speaker 1: and these very handsome young men wearing you know, tweed
Speaker 1: mini skirts. That's the girls, and all the chaps are
Speaker 1: all dressed the same, and they do this sort of
Speaker 1: dance right where they're going this go out and sell,
Speaker 1: and then they go and stand in there washing up
Speaker 1: bowls of water. That's that's what happens on the Barry stand.
Speaker 1: And if you got there early, you know this calum
Speaker 1: is real great fun to watch.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's the entertainment I
Speaker 2: need in my life.
Speaker 3: That's the lynch pin of the rural economy, then, is it.
Speaker 3: That's that sort of thing that's just what's keeping us.
Speaker 1: Going standing around in washing up bowls full of water,
Speaker 1: flogging leather boots when Robert was invented by us at the.
Speaker 2: Drew Barrymore store.
Speaker 1: By true Barry Moore Do Barry I huh do you
Speaker 1: be Michael Barrymore? No?
Speaker 3: Are they the ones that are like leather wellies?
Speaker 1: That's right. Yes, they're very, very trendy, very expensive, although
Speaker 1: I did see less about this year of the Do
Speaker 1: Barry boots. But they're very basically yeah, exactly, you know,
Speaker 1: to be worn with a very short tweed mini skirt
Speaker 1: and and you wear yours with of course they do.
Speaker 1: You know many human.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, I saw a hell of a
Speaker 2: lot of and I didn't realize how popular they were because, uh,
Speaker 2: it's weird because the people I experienced in the countryside
Speaker 2: are actually people from the countryside and not people because
Speaker 2: playing people in the countryside, and there was a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of the Chatham loafer quite like them,
Speaker 2: though there was so many sold.
Speaker 1: Tasseled one or is that like a boat shoe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like a boat shoe, but they're a really
Speaker 2: good version of the boat shoe. But it is funny
Speaker 2: that that the the actual people that I know that
Speaker 2: do work in the countryside and the outdoors are dressed
Speaker 2: in outdoory clothing. And then there's the subset of you know,
Speaker 2: your miniskirts and your some some men were very well dressed.
Speaker 2: Who was actually attacked you on Instagram in his tweed
Speaker 2: waistcoat and thing. He looked incredible man.
Speaker 3: Of a man I think you'll find.
Speaker 1: Yes, Nigel Vardi is a fascinating guy. He comes some
Speaker 1: darbers shit and he's like a proper mountaineer. And twenty
Speaker 1: years ago he ascended or attempted to ascend some ridiculous
Speaker 1: peak in Alaska and McKinley. McKinley and his and the
Speaker 1: weather came in not known to them and it was
Speaker 1: sort of like a once in a sort of fifty
Speaker 1: year storm and he had the most beautiful Frostby. So
Speaker 1: he's lost most of his fingers, he's lost all of
Speaker 1: his toes, he lost a large portion of his nose,
Speaker 1: and there's a there's a really good I'm going to
Speaker 1: watch it this evening. There's a fantastic documentary that's been
Speaker 1: made about that called frost Bitten on Amazon Prime. So
Speaker 1: he was sort of he received some funding and some
Speaker 1: help and he pitched it and made this film because
Speaker 1: he's returned back to the mountain and met some of
Speaker 1: the people who rescued him and his climbing body off
Speaker 1: the off Mount McKinley, and he is top but he's
Speaker 1: always so well dressed. But the amazing thing about him,
Speaker 1: although he's only got sort of stumps of fingers, he
Speaker 1: still shoots avidly, but he's always beautifully turned out in
Speaker 1: a tweed suit. And then so he sort of does
Speaker 1: speaking public speaking and all that is an author and
Speaker 1: he's climbed humpting peaks. So basically, cow, you and I
Speaker 1: can shut up and we'll just let Richard and he
Speaker 1: talk about crampons and ice picks and bits falling off
Speaker 1: on a mountain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like that sounds like an adventurous podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm deliberately staying quiet now and to not correct
Speaker 3: anything you've just said. I can do it live with Nigel.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I see I don't know anything about this,
Speaker 1: because let's be honest, I'd come from Suffolk and I
Speaker 1: get VERTI go if I climb the stairs.
Speaker 3: So you know it's you're you've got a phobia of
Speaker 3: contour lines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't need them. I told you. It's a
Speaker 1: bit like the internet. Mountains never catch on, never catch on,
Speaker 1: just not needed, not needed. Got water towers to pump
Speaker 1: water up and down and the sea and that's fine. No.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to be driving over your way in
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks time. So once I get past
Speaker 3: I don't know the Coventry area, I'll basically be able
Speaker 3: to see the top of your house.
Speaker 1: Well, yes, exactly. No hills and you need to develop
Speaker 1: your gills. Mm hmm, well no hills, some gills yeah, Suffolk.
Speaker 3: Shirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these episodes the tourists no hills or gills. Yes,
Speaker 1: you see. Do you know have you been watching this?
Speaker 1: Callum is the Richard's been sending me through some brilliant
Speaker 1: country slide.
Speaker 3: T shirt ideas.
Speaker 1: They make me chuckle and I keep because I can't
Speaker 1: work AI like you was.
Speaker 2: The start of a pip claiming.
Speaker 3: Well he's just gone down that.
Speaker 1: You don't need to prove it to me to the
Speaker 1: claims advisor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this whole podcast is just an attempt to get
Speaker 3: Richard back into the workforce.
Speaker 1: That's right, exactly's a care in the community. This is
Speaker 1: two hours so you can get his job, see Richard,
Speaker 1: that's the side of things. I've been paid for this.
Speaker 1: Do you do a Patreon plug right now?
Speaker 3: It seems like yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: If if you want to make sure that Richard Negas
Speaker 2: is in work, you could sign up to the Patreon
Speaker 2: for just three pounds a month at country slide dot
Speaker 2: co uk slash support and you get extra bodies, and
Speaker 2: you get access to our WhatsApp group, which is like
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Speaker 1: You exactly, and the scars don't buy themselves anyway, So yeah, and.
Speaker 3: The WhatsApp group for those who've been hearing give out
Speaker 3: this for a few episodes. Now it's expanding out because
Speaker 3: most patrons have joined, and there's a few extra special
Speaker 3: people in there who are sort of friends of the
Speaker 3: show and they've been allowed access to But we've we've
Speaker 3: done it as a WhatsApp community, so everything's starting to
Speaker 3: be sent shuttled off into little topic groups. We've got
Speaker 3: a food and drink one, we've got a hunting and
Speaker 3: fishing one, we've got one about cars and vehicles, and
Speaker 3: people are sort of diving off into different chats because
Speaker 3: it's so such a diverse set of topics that we
Speaker 3: really have to break it all down. So it's now
Speaker 3: becoming like a little forum almost, but it's very.
Speaker 1: Active, is Richard, tell me what those what are those
Speaker 1: mushrooms that you have picked in the food and drink WhatsApp?
Speaker 1: What are those yellow mushrooms? And tell me about them
Speaker 1: what you do with them?
Speaker 3: So they are they are Canthellus cabarius or siberias. They
Speaker 3: are Chantrell's. So they are in growing in the ninety
Speaker 3: acre woodland that we've manage, the sort of the long
Speaker 3: thin one that's basically a gorge. And I've never seen
Speaker 3: a flush like that in this late in July, So
Speaker 3: what is it earlier late? It's quite late for these
Speaker 3: the normally sort of earlier in July, but never this
Speaker 3: much in one go. But on the way down there,
Speaker 3: because I was driving down there, to go and clear
Speaker 3: some trees off the track, and I'm bumped into a
Speaker 3: guy called Mike and we were chatting because there's always
Speaker 3: somebody scurrying around in the undergrowth when I go down
Speaker 3: the footpath and it's sort of I wanted to find
Speaker 3: out what it was up to. But it turns out
Speaker 3: he runs the North Wales Mushrooms Instagram account, so I
Speaker 3: urge you to go and have a look at that
Speaker 3: because he finds very niche the weirdest and most wonderful
Speaker 3: mushrooms all across North Wales. And so we spent half
Speaker 3: an hour chatting about mushrooms. And there's some quite rare
Speaker 3: ones in that woodland that we've got there, some spectacularly
Speaker 3: rare ones.
Speaker 2: In fact, what's the one of the what classifies as
Speaker 2: a rare mushroom?
Speaker 3: Not many of them around?
Speaker 1: Wow, thanks for that. So give me an example.
Speaker 3: It's a definition. So there's a sort of cyanic thing.
Speaker 3: There's basically one that doesn't quite glow in the dark,
Speaker 3: but it's very very lime green, almost blue. It's it's
Speaker 3: very weird color. It's almost metallic. You know, there's two
Speaker 3: tone or three tone paint jobs. You used to get
Speaker 3: on tvrs and things like that. Yeah, lescent, it looks
Speaker 3: like that, but it's all blues and greens, and it's
Speaker 3: a sort of it's a fruit to cose like.
Speaker 1: And I think, and what do you do with what
Speaker 1: do you do with those particular ones, those Chontorell's that
Speaker 1: you pick? How will you cook them?
Speaker 3: Like every good mushroom is cooked with garlic and butter
Speaker 3: and effectively just ends up tasting of garlic and butter,
Speaker 3: which is what most French cooking does with mushrooms is
Speaker 3: just put them in with garlic and butter until you
Speaker 3: can only taste garlic. But they are so Chamtorell's. They
Speaker 3: have something called primitive gills on the underside, so you
Speaker 3: have not al mustrooms have gills, but these do have
Speaker 3: little gill bits underneath. But they as you get down
Speaker 3: to the edge of the cap, they split into pears
Speaker 3: and they go all wrinkly. So it looks like your
Speaker 3: fingerprints when you've been in the bath for too long.
Speaker 3: So it looks exactly like that, except it's egg yolk yellow.
Speaker 1: Is there a mushroom that you would say that has
Speaker 1: a unique and delicious flavor over the normal sort of things?
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't sort of go and chuck garlic in.
Speaker 1: There is there one that you pick and go all
Speaker 1: they taste good.
Speaker 3: We were quite sep or puccini belitus edgeless. So we
Speaker 3: take those and cut them and slice them and dry them,
Speaker 3: and there they are very very special. They're actually better
Speaker 3: dried quite like wood ear or jelly jelly.
Speaker 1: Judea, which gives you the old passioned name that we
Speaker 1: didn't we.
Speaker 3: No, no, but it's still the Latin name. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: But what we do with those is we dehydrate them
Speaker 3: and they'll stay for years dehydrated. And then those are
Speaker 3: the ones you've had, which are rehydrated in rum and
Speaker 3: then dipped in liquid dark chocolate chocolate.
Speaker 1: They were young and they have that there's like no
Speaker 1: other chocolate you've had because there's a slight bite in
Speaker 1: the texture to you don't taste any mushroom at all.
Speaker 1: You't taste the rum and the chocolate where they're the
Speaker 1: best truffle we've ever had because they've got this sort
Speaker 1: of slight audente bite to them. It's almost like eating
Speaker 1: a slightly undercooked bit of rigotoyah, tasting.
Speaker 3: Delicious d Turkish delight, almost lovely. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 3: got imagine, callum, do you do anything with wild mushrooms
Speaker 3: in the autumn?
Speaker 2: No, I cooked a mushroom sauce tonight.
Speaker 3: Actually it was quite good.
Speaker 2: I don't do anything. We many have wild mushrooms that
Speaker 2: used to trade.
Speaker 1: Oh no, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, there isn't anywhere around here that I
Speaker 2: know of. And I'm also not clever enough to successfully
Speaker 2: pick mushrooms and work it all out. So I do
Speaker 2: need I do need the help in hand.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I did.
Speaker 2: I n a guy that used to trade mushrooms, and
Speaker 2: he said it was one of the worst businesses that
Speaker 2: he ever had because he'd get them and then they'd
Speaker 2: lose so much weight by within like twenty four hours,
Speaker 2: that is, twenty five pound of kilo was only worth
Speaker 2: fifty That is a thing.
Speaker 3: Were they wild mushrooms he was selling?
Speaker 2: Or yeah, he was selling quite a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 2: quite a lot of wild mushrooms. Because it was French
Speaker 2: and he still is French.
Speaker 3: Lose your frenchness after all?
Speaker 2: While actually is it's perpetual, perpetually French.
Speaker 1: There's a T shirt idea.
Speaker 3: Right then, dear listener, this is an insert recorded a
Speaker 3: few days later, because at some point during this recording
Speaker 3: Richard Suffolk Internet decided it didn't want to actually record,
Speaker 3: so we have had to cobble this episode together a
Speaker 3: little bit to account for that. So from memory, what
Speaker 3: he had just asked me but didn't make its way
Speaker 3: into the recording, was is it true that in France,
Speaker 3: if you go to a pharmacy with your basket of mushrooms,
Speaker 3: they'll tell you what species they are or if you
Speaker 3: can eat them. It's meant to be true. So it's
Speaker 3: one of those things. Yes, by law, if a pharmacist
Speaker 3: should be able to tell you identify mushrooms for you.
Speaker 3: The problem are there are about fourteen thousand species of
Speaker 3: non microscopic fungi you're likely to come across in northern Europe.
Speaker 3: So if you go into your pharmacy in beautiful France
Speaker 3: with a basket full of unidentified things, what they might
Speaker 3: do is pick out two or three that they are
Speaker 3: really obvious and they're very commonly eaten, and then just
Speaker 3: throw put the rest of the side and say, oh,
Speaker 3: they're all inedible or toxic. So they in theory they
Speaker 3: could what it actually turns out to be that you
Speaker 3: can take in the basket and they will tell you
Speaker 3: what commonly eaten ones can be found within that patch.
Speaker 3: But this is the thing with you know, they always
Speaker 3: people always say that the Europeans eats so many more
Speaker 3: mushrooms than we do. And you know, they're always eating mushrooms.
Speaker 3: They're always mushroom foraging. What they're doing is going back
Speaker 3: to the same spot again and again and again even generationally,
Speaker 3: to pick the same species again and again. So they're
Speaker 3: not they don't know the names of fourteen thousand species.
Speaker 3: They know where to find three species regularly. It's like
Speaker 3: so it's like going back to the same apple tree
Speaker 3: again and again to get apples and say, you're an
Speaker 3: expert in apples.
Speaker 1: So this there's this lake in France. This is your
Speaker 1: this is your wheelhouse. How do we end up in
Speaker 1: your wheelhouse? We're talking about your world.
Speaker 3: Bushroom.
Speaker 2: Boy, there was this place in France and the guy
Speaker 2: that run the lake, mister Gavie, used to go out
Speaker 2: every single morning and he'd do exactly as you said.
Speaker 2: He'd know where those mushrooms are and he's looking for
Speaker 2: the same thing. Although there was a curveball throne and
Speaker 2: thankfully he won't be listening to this. There was a
Speaker 2: curveball throne that my friend bought some es cargo snails,
Speaker 2: and he started cooking thees cargo snails, and mister Gavie
Speaker 2: asked where he where he got them, so he pointed
Speaker 2: to around the sort of low house that the toilet block.
Speaker 2: Pointed to the toilet block, he said, I found them
Speaker 2: over there. Next morning he wakes up, it's sort of
Speaker 2: six am. Mister Gave's poking around looking at the toilet block.
Speaker 2: And then the following morning, and then the following morning.
Speaker 2: It got to about day four five, and it was
Speaker 2: at such a point that he just couldn't bring himself
Speaker 2: to say, actually, I was only joking because four days
Speaker 2: on the bounce was quite the commitment. So he waited
Speaker 2: off and I think, no exaggeration. Early morning, sort of
Speaker 2: like summrise time. For about two weeks, poor old mister
Speaker 2: Gavree went out to the toilet block, took the ten
Speaker 2: minute walk and looked fores cargo snails that he could get.
Speaker 3: It didn't exist, imaginary snails. Do you go out and
Speaker 3: get wild mushrooms, Richard? It sounds like a very new
Speaker 3: thing to do.
Speaker 1: Well, there's about three that I can identify and I
Speaker 1: feel confident in and they are in caps, horse, mushrooms,
Speaker 1: and puff balls. So I'm quite happy with those three
Speaker 1: and I think I can wholeheartedly go and identify them.
Speaker 1: There are others, because you know, my friend Ross Guidan
Speaker 1: is a bit of a mushroom forager. The chat from
Speaker 1: Oakbank Woodland and he got fed up in the end
Speaker 1: of people sending him sort of blurred fogras saying is
Speaker 1: this all right to eat?
Speaker 3: Ross?
Speaker 1: And he said, I didn't want to be the man
Speaker 1: who said yes, that's fine, And then discovered that and
Speaker 1: I got a mushroom foraging book and I realized just
Speaker 1: how many looks so similar to the ones that they said, well,
Speaker 1: these are delicious, and then they're often confused with you know,
Speaker 1: certain death cap and I thought, Nat, you know what,
Speaker 1: do you know what, I'm not actually that close to
Speaker 1: the land that I'm going to go and run the risk.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not that hungry that I'll do I'll
Speaker 1: eat that or pick that that I've eaten, which I
Speaker 1: don't really know. I mean, I would probably if I
Speaker 1: came out for a joint with you and you're coming
Speaker 1: up to or down, should I say to see us
Speaker 1: and do and look at some of the fun guy
Speaker 1: at Wickan, and I probably might feel more confident because
Speaker 1: you would show me. And then I've sort of got
Speaker 1: quite a good photograph of memory for that plant is this,
Speaker 1: and that is that. Once I've seen it, once I go,
Speaker 1: I can idea that. But now I'd be too scared.
Speaker 1: I do eat most things that I shoot, and if
Speaker 1: I can't eat them, and so I don't shoot shoveler
Speaker 1: anymore because I think they just taste so disgusting. I think,
Speaker 1: why do I want to shoot a shoveler when I
Speaker 1: know I'm not going to eat it? There's no point
Speaker 1: in it. I squirrels. We had a conversation on the
Speaker 1: old the Country slide, what's happen about squirrels. I'll shoot
Speaker 1: squirrels because there's scum and they need to die. But
Speaker 1: I'm really not with going and skinning a flipping squirrel.
Speaker 1: I would just quite happily chuck it out and say, oh,
Speaker 1: buzzards eat that, and then you wouldn't eat it quite good.
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, that's that's a calum thing to do.
Speaker 2: Squirrel We had a squirrel Crockett, and we also did
Speaker 2: a squirrel. Squirrel pizza pizza.
Speaker 3: Thin.
Speaker 2: So the trick with a squirrel is to comfee it.
Speaker 2: So we basically just filled a tray up with oil,
Speaker 2: stuck that in the oven, and then comfeed the squirrel.
Speaker 2: And that was really good because the fat means it
Speaker 2: doesn't dry the meat out. But the trouble with the
Speaker 2: pizza is when you stick it in the pizza oven,
Speaker 2: it's insanely hot, like four hundred sea in the pizza rabon,
Speaker 2: so it pretty much ensures that it dries out really quick.
Speaker 2: So it's not great on a pizza, but it's fantastic
Speaker 2: in a crockett.
Speaker 3: So another thing to try works well with scull and
Speaker 3: rabbits and a few other things is to brine them. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: And when we do rabbits, we do them. I take
Speaker 3: the bucket of brian out into the field so they
Speaker 3: are gutted and skinned and then the thrown into the
Speaker 3: briane immediately so.
Speaker 1: Before the lactic acid sort of puts riga Martis sets in,
Speaker 1: you're putting them on the still, yeah, probably.
Speaker 3: And it gets rid of all the prappertiness of them
Speaker 3: and gets rid of the gaminess that you get with
Speaker 3: squirddles as well, although one squirrel that we did years
Speaker 3: ago Amy I think it was one of the first
Speaker 3: squirrels Amy had butchered to eat. And we got around
Speaker 3: the sort of skinning to the back end of it,
Speaker 3: and we found another air rifle pellet in the leg
Speaker 3: of the squirrel from someone else having a go at
Speaker 3: it different caliber that obviously healed over a tough little.
Speaker 1: Thing skinned munk jack before. And suddenly hear a pink
Speaker 1: on the floor of the shed and that's that. There's
Speaker 1: a two two air rifle pellet falls out of the
Speaker 1: poor old things. Yeah, I know, I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's because you see, the munk jack is so
Speaker 1: addicted now to going into village edge gardens and they've
Speaker 1: got big shrub in these large gardens and they know
Speaker 1: that's pretty safe. And I think these avid gardeners then
Speaker 1: suddenly see this thing eating there whatever, and then they
Speaker 1: give it a for some reason, they think that shooting
Speaker 1: a two two air rifle is perfectly fine as a
Speaker 1: munchchak it will only you know, shew it away. But
Speaker 1: of course the reality, poor old thing is then bimbling
Speaker 1: about with a two two air rifle pellet lodged halfway
Speaker 1: between its sort of skin and its flesh.
Speaker 2: I just realized we've just done something which was to
Speaker 2: condemn the entirety of squirrels that we should show and
Speaker 2: then didn't specify in any way, shape or form. Why
Speaker 2: that's that's quite bad. It's quite bad to do.
Speaker 3: So what, right, let's all say which color of squad
Speaker 3: were shooting?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 1: Wait? What? Never shot square in my life?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Well, okay, here, because I plant a lot of trees
Speaker 1: and I'm in the woods a lot, and they're not
Speaker 1: really actually that bad with hedges, I'll be perfect eyed.
Speaker 1: They don't do a lot of damage to hedges. But
Speaker 1: they most definitely are buckers in the woods. But also
Speaker 1: the sheer number of eggs that they take is remind
Speaker 1: I don't think gigs. Yeah, eggs absolute menaces. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: an omnivorous creature and and they are most definitely Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are men. This is the gray partridge. You'll see
Speaker 1: them sometimes, but sort of. You know, a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks back before the gray partries hatched, you will see
Speaker 1: them scampering along a hedge a long way from any
Speaker 1: nearest tree, and you think, well, why are you here.
Speaker 1: You know, there's so much to eat on that tree,
Speaker 1: which is five six hundred meters back there, And why
Speaker 1: are they traversing on there? Because they are hunting for eggs,
Speaker 1: and they're just as likely to come across a gray
Speaker 1: partridge nest as they are for a sort of linet
Speaker 1: yellow hammer low part of the hedge. That is fair
Speaker 1: game as far as a gray squirrel is concerned.
Speaker 3: I remember one of the Basque Squirrel Management Group things.
Speaker 3: They said something along the lines of if you have
Speaker 3: more than if you have at least five squirrels per hectare,
Speaker 3: you are going to get at least a twenty percent
Speaker 3: reduction in nesting success.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Small birds, Wow, they are ridiculously voracious because they can
Speaker 3: just get to everywhere. There's no small bird that's going
Speaker 3: to fight off a squirrel.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I heard a expert tree man say tree man with
Speaker 2: an end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was Groot from the Revengers, but I didn't want
Speaker 2: to name drop because you know, anyway, Groot told me.
Speaker 2: He told me that the squirrels were the biggest problem.
Speaker 2: I said, what's the biggest problem in here? Like protecting
Speaker 2: all these trees that are in this park and he said,
Speaker 2: it's one hundred percent squirrels. And he said, the worst
Speaker 2: thing about it is the fact that they these days
Speaker 2: they feed on the pheasant feeders, and they have twice
Speaker 2: as many babies as they did before. They they it
Speaker 2: doubles because their food is not scarce in any way,
Speaker 2: shape or form. So the population becomes out of control
Speaker 2: because they feed on the sort of pheasant feed most
Speaker 2: of the year, most of the for the shooting season.
Speaker 1: I think there's just generally food available all right over.
Speaker 1: I think that's a bit erroneous to go and say that,
Speaker 1: because if you look at I only feed now my
Speaker 1: bird feeders, I only feed very very small, tiny little seeds,
Speaker 1: sort of finch food, and the squirrels don't come. But
Speaker 1: my father has an ongoing battle because he feeds all
Speaker 1: sorts of things, peanuts and whatnot in his feeders. If
Speaker 1: you think I can't remember the exact figures, I did
Speaker 1: write an article once, but wild bird feeding was worth
Speaker 1: something like I can't know how many millions to the
Speaker 1: economy because of seeds and nuts sold in garden centers.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's there's more wild bird food available
Speaker 1: in the supermarket than there is cat and dog food,
Speaker 1: and you know, the squirrels going this is brilliant. Thanks
Speaker 1: very much, you've supplied me with all this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for us, it's the we've got a
Speaker 3: gray squirrel. We have a red squirrel reintroduction project just
Speaker 3: over the hill, and we are sort of linked by
Speaker 3: linear woodland to that, so we are on the coal
Speaker 3: zone to support that project, so we coull there, and
Speaker 3: we also we've got a lot of beech trees and
Speaker 3: they strip the bark and just completely strip everything off
Speaker 3: the beach tree. It's apparently it's often lack of mating
Speaker 3: opportunity or it's mating competition is the thing that makes
Speaker 3: them do it. So it's not it's we used to
Speaker 3: think it was there trying to get to the sugars
Speaker 3: or something, but it seems to be that it's mostly
Speaker 3: a mating competition. So because it happens at boundary areas.
Speaker 1: So therefore like stripping bark is like wanking for squirrels
Speaker 1: mine at all.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, it's more like when you
Speaker 3: take the label off a beer bottle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same thought.
Speaker 2: I was like, I was hoping that that was actually
Speaker 2: not just to be thing it was it was a
Speaker 2: ubiquitous thing that people always said.
Speaker 1: You ripped the beer, the labels off beer bottles where
Speaker 1: there's a lack of mating opportunities.
Speaker 2: That's what Surely it's an urban legend, but that that
Speaker 2: is a thing that has somehow been said not true.
Speaker 3: Sat at a beer table and one of your mates
Speaker 3: is ripping the label off th of Bex or something,
Speaker 3: and someone else says, that's a sexual frustration. That's what
Speaker 3: that means.
Speaker 1: Is that what that alanis Morrissea Morrissett. All I want
Speaker 1: to do is have some fun and Billy Billy's peeling
Speaker 1: the labels from his bottles above it's about his is
Speaker 1: about his sexual frustration. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Is that the ractual word?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because I mean it does make sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So at the Game Fair, people kept coming up
Speaker 3: to us and saying, this podcast. You just have no
Speaker 3: idea where it's going to go. Listener, I can tell
Speaker 3: you this is not intentional. This is happening in real time.
Speaker 3: I have no idea what Callum is going to say next,
Speaker 3: but I know it's unlikely to be something I can predict.
Speaker 1: I mean, I did not have mushrooms and squirrels on
Speaker 1: the ingo card or aecually frustrated squirrels and what's right's
Speaker 1: been up to? I have no idea she's she's actually
Speaker 1: way out of the list. She's she's been kept a
Speaker 1: bit so ever since she burst out crying and then
Speaker 1: they dragged her on, poor woman to go and smile inanely,
Speaker 1: you know, into people saying I'm okay, I'm okay. That
Speaker 1: she's literally been just kept under wraps. I think she's
Speaker 1: like a cupboard somewhere.
Speaker 3: What's the wife of the scientology bloke that people don't
Speaker 3: know if she's still alive or not. He's a bit
Speaker 3: like that. There's a guy who wus scientology. No, no,
Speaker 3: the guy runs scientology, and then his life hasn't been
Speaker 3: seen in public for years, and there's this whole theory
Speaker 3: about issue still alive.
Speaker 1: Frozen frozen, Yeah, yeah, So let's talk about the game
Speaker 1: fair a little bit, because we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: it properly in the after show because we've got some
Speaker 1: things to share.
Speaker 3: But what this was the first time you took the
Speaker 3: family to the game fair, wasn't it, Callum?
Speaker 2: Yes, and it was very difficult. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've ever taken a one and a half year old
Speaker 2: that just wants to run up to strange dogs and
Speaker 2: stroke them that they don't know if they're safe or not.
Speaker 2: But that was hard. But yes, we went Friday present cheeks,
Speaker 2: making friends and that was quite good. Got to mink
Speaker 2: some of you guys in the flesh, and then I
Speaker 2: took the family on the Sunday, which I think traditionally
Speaker 2: has been one of the quieter days, and it's not.
Speaker 1: It's a different crowd.
Speaker 2: The sort of people in the industry are Friday people,
Speaker 2: jolly ups are Saturday people. It's a bit of a
Speaker 2: mix of both jolly ups, and then on Sunday it's
Speaker 2: people looking for a bargain and people that didn't. There
Speaker 2: was quite a lot of people that were just like,
Speaker 2: let's hope everything's fifty percent off. And it was quite quiet, actually,
Speaker 2: and most people that are in the industry, that worked
Speaker 2: in the industry looked like they'd already been there five days,
Speaker 2: so their souls had left their bodies and they were
Speaker 2: just an empty vessel. The parking attendant, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: I woke him up as I entered the game fair.
Speaker 2: He was just delirious and sort of half asleep. Leave
Speaker 2: me alone, Leave me alone. I don't want to go
Speaker 2: to school today. Huh, park over there.
Speaker 1: Alike?
Speaker 2: Done?
Speaker 3: How about how about you Richard, because you sort of
Speaker 3: had this weird thing. You had like a piece of
Speaker 3: elastic tying you to the gw CT stand and you
Speaker 3: couldn't you couldn't go too far on the radius.
Speaker 1: Could you know he's on tag now it was on tag? Yes,
Speaker 1: I actually it's a bit of a go too far away.
Speaker 1: I actually blew up.
Speaker 2: We've actually got Perdix pro tag that he's a good reference,
Speaker 2: his ring friend ring fence to the gw CT stand
Speaker 2: and he gets he gets Goo electrocuted?
Speaker 1: Should he?
Speaker 3: There's the trail camera at the end of the row,
Speaker 3: and if AI detects that there's a legus leaving the area,
Speaker 3: then the dispatcher gamekeeper.
Speaker 1: That's right, would kill me. Hired help. I did stay
Speaker 1: a lot around the gw CT, I am what did
Speaker 1: I do? I basically I was selling books. So we
Speaker 1: managed to sell forty copies of Words from the Hedge,
Speaker 1: for which I think sixty percent went to the trust.
Speaker 1: So we managed to raise some decent money for the
Speaker 1: for the for the trust, which was my ambition because
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't get any royalties for that. They
Speaker 1: get all the all the line share, so that was
Speaker 1: all good. And I signed those met lots and lots
Speaker 1: of lovely people who said nice things. I did a
Speaker 1: talk in the car to Jonas, which I have to
Speaker 1: say was very funny because I struck it absolutely right.
Speaker 1: There are all these people, many far more famous than I,
Speaker 1: who were winging about. There's only seven people listening to them.
Speaker 1: Talk to Charlie Jacobe, and I was able to say, well,
Speaker 1: I had a full house, and I didn't add I
Speaker 1: had a full house because as soon as I started
Speaker 1: talking the rain the heavens openly, it started raining and
Speaker 1: everyone flocked in to anywhere and I had an absolute
Speaker 1: full house, in fact, standing room only in there listening
Speaker 1: to me. So it worked superbly and I just didn't
Speaker 1: turn out. They know, if they've listened to this, did
Speaker 1: anyone brave the rain? Just get away so I can
Speaker 1: stand the wet. I hate him, Hedges, I hate him.
Speaker 1: One of the interesting things I did find when I
Speaker 1: when I did get away to have a wander around
Speaker 1: was the number of people who tapped me on the
Speaker 1: shoulder and they said, I you've got a book coming out.
Speaker 1: And that was the moment it dawned on me that
Speaker 1: this podcast that US three do is actually is in
Speaker 1: a lot of people's ears, because they started regurgitating the
Speaker 1: gags which we either intentionally or largely inadvertently use and
Speaker 1: do as our sort of Fast Show esque punchlines, and
Speaker 1: they were saying them back to me. And I was
Speaker 1: minded of Paul white House saying, you know, do you
Speaker 1: mind it when people go and sort of do Scorch
Speaker 1: say shout Scorch you at him? And he said no,
Speaker 1: he said, because I realized that actually people are watching
Speaker 1: what I do. And I felt exactly the self same feeling,
Speaker 1: and it was nice, hustling cry yeah, exactly exactly. We
Speaker 1: ended up having to go to the Yetti stand, didn't we.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we spent far too much money at the
Speaker 3: Yetti stand, as always, because basically it's just stainless steel
Speaker 3: bottles with a label on it that for some reason
Speaker 3: cost thirty five pounds.
Speaker 2: I only bought a coffee, a coffee, a little mini
Speaker 2: coffee thing because I needed more of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what else we went? Oh yeah, we went
Speaker 3: at the end of Friday, all the way over to
Speaker 3: the fishing village, which was sort of this big experience
Speaker 3: of Callum because it's this running joke that he always
Speaker 3: goes to the game fair to work and take photos
Speaker 3: and never goes to the fishing village.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got Traditionally they put the village the fishing village,
Speaker 2: like I think it was. It was like one of
Speaker 2: the days before, it was like three o'clock and I
Speaker 2: asked I think it was asked you. I think I said,
Speaker 2: where's the fishing village? And you said it's over there.
Speaker 2: You go through this little thing, through this clearing, and
Speaker 2: that it's about forty minutes walk. And I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3: You know how I knew the Fishing village.
Speaker 1: Was there because you actually went there.
Speaker 3: No, because it's next to the lake.
Speaker 1: Ah. Yeah, do you know Charlie my son, My son,
Speaker 1: Charlie and his mate James, who came with us, they
Speaker 1: got around like who on a blanket? Was amazing. They
Speaker 1: were everywhere and they I think by the time the
Speaker 1: game fair was over, they knew every single storeholder. They'd
Speaker 1: be walking past, going all right, and they just kept
Speaker 1: coming back with with gizzets. And I'm not just talking
Speaker 1: about little leaflets and stuff. Now they come back with,
Speaker 1: oh god, did this deal with this bloke here? I
Speaker 1: tooked to him. I said to you're my dad, and
Speaker 1: they gave him this thing, right, So I think he's
Speaker 1: probably said, oh, yeah, he'll write review for you about
Speaker 1: this product or that one. So I'm waiting for my
Speaker 1: email to go and sort of explode with people saying
Speaker 1: when are you putting this into whatever magazine? And so
Speaker 1: he got this stuff. But they went out. They had
Speaker 1: two fishing lessons with that's Angling Trust. Yeah, they had
Speaker 1: two fishing lessons with the Angling Trust. And so they
Speaker 1: had to go one day with with a Roden reel
Speaker 1: and then another day with a with a roach pole.
Speaker 1: And Charlie caught i think three roach and a carp
Speaker 1: and his mate James, who is actually quite an adept
Speaker 1: carp angler his PB. He's a sort of good double
Speaker 1: figure fish and he's he's very sort of self fishing
Speaker 1: and goes off and spends nights out and stuff. He
Speaker 1: caught less than Charlie. So Charlie had bragging rights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always good. Yeah, that the Angler Trust. They
Speaker 2: are they are the good guys getting out there. I
Speaker 2: think you booked in a session for a junior and
Speaker 2: you got sort of It wasn't just like I'll have
Speaker 2: a go catch a fish. He actually spent like half
Speaker 2: hour an hour or something, and they really give you
Speaker 2: a taster of fishing. Yeah, what a great thing to do.
Speaker 3: So enough about the game, fair, let's go on to
Speaker 3: the real news of the episode. What's this about the
Speaker 3: big dead red deer on the A fourteen.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, honestly this so many people have told
Speaker 1: me about that. Well, basically, he was a massive stag.
Speaker 1: I mean he was big. I couldn't see his head.
Speaker 1: But if you know the A fourteen and the way
Speaker 1: into Various Edmonds, there is a place on the left
Speaker 1: hand side is before you get in to the second
Speaker 1: turn off into Various Emmons by Bury Bowl, you know,
Speaker 1: so right by the tenpin bowling alley above there there was.
Speaker 3: The sugar towers in front of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's to your in front of you and to
Speaker 1: your right just and there was this red stag that
Speaker 1: was there, and he would I would think, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: Monica the Glen would be having size MV against him
Speaker 1: as a whopper, and obviously they blow up a bit
Speaker 1: once I'm in laying. But how on earth? I mean,
Speaker 1: I would hate to see the vehicle that hit it,
Speaker 1: for a start, because I just think it if you
Speaker 1: hit one of those things, it's about the size of
Speaker 1: a of a Freezian ball. But secondly, what on earth
Speaker 1: was it doing there? I mean, you know, I know
Speaker 1: that munk jack now are going into much more sort
Speaker 1: of urban areas, suburban areas, but this is not far
Speaker 1: at all from the abbey gardens in barris em So
Speaker 1: you've got a red stag there. So I can only
Speaker 1: think that the poor old sod that deer pressure is
Speaker 1: now getting such poor old lad he was on there,
Speaker 1: and then I put that on our on our patron's
Speaker 1: WhatsApp group, and then there are a few people from
Speaker 1: this way. Oh I saw that. My mind, you'd have
Speaker 1: to be blind not to see it. Was that blood
Speaker 1: and big.
Speaker 3: It's like a hazard to shipping. Where are the new
Speaker 3: where are the nearest reds?
Speaker 1: You have? We have a lot of yeah we do.
Speaker 1: I mean, have you ever done any photo shoots with
Speaker 1: red deer stalking my way?
Speaker 3: Callum?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Done done a few actually, yeah, coloring the dose
Speaker 2: and they did so much damage as well, Yeah, challenge
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 1: But do you know what, they're a fascinating bunch. The
Speaker 1: the Suffolk and Norfolk red deer. There are sort of
Speaker 1: two distinct herds. There's one which sort of comes from
Speaker 1: Houston Big Wood, so that's where the Duke of Grafton lives.
Speaker 1: And there's a load there and they sort of cross
Speaker 1: back and forth between South and Norfolk and into Suffolk
Speaker 1: and then come down to me about my way. And
Speaker 1: then there's another herd which is closer to the coast
Speaker 1: at dune Itch and they reckon that most or some
Speaker 1: of the car the cart. It's stags, carted stags. And
Speaker 1: it's not just me who's heard that. And they Graham
Speaker 1: Downing often talks about it. Was that the Norwich Staghounds
Speaker 1: were a carted stag pack. In other words, they hunted
Speaker 1: a tame or a number of tame stags which they
Speaker 1: would then hummel them. So they would cut off the
Speaker 1: antlers and they lived like horses out in the paddock
Speaker 1: with them with the hunters, and then they would chuck
Speaker 1: them on a car on like a horse box and
Speaker 1: they would and the Norwich Staghouns were then go and
Speaker 1: chuck this old stag out they'd give him fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: minutes low to go and get away and wherever he went,
Speaker 1: and then the hounds would hunt him, and then eventually
Speaker 1: he would come to bay and then they would sort
Speaker 1: of shoe him back onto the horse box a bit
Speaker 1: stiff legged, and back he would go. And when they
Speaker 1: banned that, which I think was in the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 1: not so much because they thought it was cruel. It
Speaker 1: was more because it was complete may because he had
Speaker 1: this sort of semi tame red deer galumphing where he
Speaker 1: wanted to and chased by a pack of hounds with
Speaker 1: a load of sort of lunatics chasing on because of course,
Speaker 1: you know, you never knew where this stag was going
Speaker 1: to go. But they banned it. And I am told
Speaker 1: that the guy who had those he basically went off,
Speaker 1: you go, spanked him on the arse, and these great, big,
Speaker 1: hefty stags went off and they sired the sort of
Speaker 1: monstrous deer that we have now in in Suffolk and Norfolk,
Speaker 1: and they are vast. But one decided to go and
Speaker 1: be visit Saint Edmund's.
Speaker 3: Tomb, descendant of which is now inflating somewhere on the
Speaker 3: apt Yes exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Houston's like a old deer park, though, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I assume. Where where those ones come from?
Speaker 3: Wow, I know how they got a train.
Speaker 1: They have got some I think they've done some deer
Speaker 1: a test because there was.
Speaker 2: Yet another joke that no one will get.
Speaker 3: Go on, thank you?
Speaker 1: Do you remember those Do remember that woman who was
Speaker 1: American who came over here a few years she still American, yes,
Speaker 1: but do you remember that yank She was some sort
Speaker 1: of influencer and she was sort of vaguely attractive, and
Speaker 1: she went around doing all these sort of hunting things
Speaker 1: and it was daubing herself with blood. And then she
Speaker 1: went up to the highlands onto some islands somewhere, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she sort of said she was hunting wild sheep
Speaker 1: and they were basically this thing was actually something like
Speaker 1: a swaledale tup or something that she'd shot. Were this vast,
Speaker 1: great big stag that she shot. There was some debate
Speaker 1: over that because you could actually see if you looked
Speaker 1: at one photograph that she placed on her Instagram thing,
Speaker 1: that there was a tag that thing zeer And I
Speaker 1: think someone managed to go and work out the tag
Speaker 1: number and it had actually come from a deer farm
Speaker 1: or certainly a herd in a deer park somewhere down here,
Speaker 1: and so it's obviously taken up somewhere or other up north.
Speaker 1: And the duty room was was they were almost doing
Speaker 1: caged hunting like they do in America, you know, in Africa,
Speaker 1: with sort of tame old lions that they put into
Speaker 1: places where rich Yanks can go and shoot something and
Speaker 1: with a guarantee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the weird guarantee thing of this. They do
Speaker 3: it in the States as well. They have high fence hunting, right,
Speaker 3: but then there's this thing of tethered hunting.
Speaker 1: Tethered tethered good grief, So this thing is actually tethered
Speaker 1: to the ground and then you go and shoot it.
Speaker 3: Yes, good, oh god.
Speaker 2: Honestly, some people are just weird, disgusting, just gris.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you get your off to that?
Speaker 2: How do you just sit there and be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: here I have changed something up and then killed it
Speaker 2: and now it's the champ.
Speaker 3: I like this universal rule of would you still do
Speaker 3: that thing if people would never know you had done
Speaker 3: it or you couldn't put it on social media and
Speaker 3: you couldn't get any social points amongst your circle for
Speaker 3: having done it. And if you would stop doing it,
Speaker 3: then because you were only doing it to be seen
Speaker 3: to be doing this thing, then you're probably not my
Speaker 3: kind of person.
Speaker 1: Bire that.
Speaker 3: That was what was the dog on the floor. That
Speaker 3: was Amy's dog protesting against me not feeding him.
Speaker 1: The noise was incredible.
Speaker 2: I hope that comes out in the audio recording because
Speaker 2: I heard that quite clearly. It was a very disapproving growth.
Speaker 1: I thought Richard was either suddenly going to fly off
Speaker 1: in the Millennium falcon alongside hands solo, or I thought
Speaker 1: you want to get your dinner, mate, that's it. Well, no,
Speaker 1: so we're there for once again we've discovered that there
Speaker 1: are some bloody horrible people out there. But yes, so
Speaker 1: the A fourteen stag is now put to bed, or
Speaker 1: rather to the side of the road. He's thankfully and
Speaker 1: is moldering away somewhere.
Speaker 3: We've talked before about moving dead horses. It's pretty much
Speaker 3: the same for moving a rotten, dead red isn't. It's
Speaker 3: a that's a winch job.
Speaker 1: There was a series of documentaries where they basically went
Speaker 1: and did the working lines of very ordinary people. But
Speaker 1: when you think about it, these ordinary people doing ordinary
Speaker 1: jobs were actually fascinating. And this was about the twenty
Speaker 1: five and the people who work on the M twenty five.
Speaker 1: So they went and sort of sword it's like to
Speaker 1: go and work on one of the big service stations
Speaker 1: on the M twenty five and the people who do
Speaker 1: the vehicle recovery and a traffic cot. But they also
Speaker 1: had this guy who was a fascinating fella called the
Speaker 1: who was from the Dead Dog Squad. And basically there
Speaker 1: is a thing that when you get roadkill on the
Speaker 1: M twenty five is they have to then shut a
Speaker 1: lane off because if you got a stag that side,
Speaker 1: you know, if you kept driving into that, you're going
Speaker 1: to have a massive pile up. And they call them
Speaker 1: the Dead Dog Squad because obviously for the dead dog connotation.
Speaker 1: But they then had this bloke. It was very phlegmatic
Speaker 1: about it. You know, you have to be going picking
Speaker 1: up hideously mashed up and stinking and bloated badger carcasses
Speaker 1: and all sorts of things. But his hobby was ferreting
Speaker 1: and how he had managed to get permission to go
Speaker 1: and ferret the rabbits alongside the M twenty five. He
Speaker 1: was an absolute legend. Yeah, from the Dead Dog Squad.
Speaker 3: Dead Dog Squad again another T shirt. But can they
Speaker 3: only do dogs that they have to get someone else in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, ca, I tell you what, check my jurisdiction, mate,
Speaker 1: change the I've got the big doors open on my
Speaker 1: study here and it's like the M twenty five out
Speaker 1: there at the moment, because of course everyone's desperately trying
Speaker 1: to get harvest in because we've had a bit of
Speaker 1: rain and the wheat's going a bit black. So I
Speaker 1: think there's going to be some very tired lads and
Speaker 1: lasses driving tractors and comrades. What does it mean when
Speaker 1: the wheat goes black? Well, basically it ripened, so we
Speaker 1: had in that long period of good heat and some
Speaker 1: so the barley was fine. But then what happens is
Speaker 1: then gets rained on and what it starts to do
Speaker 1: is actually, whilst it's in the head of the wheat,
Speaker 1: it gets a bit mill dewy and starts which is
Speaker 1: the black, and it starts to actually sprout in the head.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's I mean that is suddenly Oh dear,
Speaker 1: that crop is not worthless, but it's worth a lot less.
Speaker 1: Than it was, and if you had milling wheat, I
Speaker 1: stuff are going to be for human consumption. It's no
Speaker 1: longer for human consumption because the weather has has dictated
Speaker 1: against it. So the guys, so.
Speaker 2: They couldn't have got it earlier because it.
Speaker 1: Started to know and also I don't think it quite
Speaker 1: got there. I don't think it quite ripened sufficiently. And
Speaker 1: then it's still warm, wet, and then it started doing
Speaker 1: this little germination thing and turning black and mildewy in.
Speaker 3: Then you've got all the economics of if even if
Speaker 3: it's still wet but is over okay quality, you've got
Speaker 3: to pay the drying charge, and there's not enough of
Speaker 3: a margin on it to cover the drying costs. And
Speaker 3: it's there's a lot of people doing wheat this year
Speaker 3: as well, it seems.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because oil seed rape was it was. People have
Speaker 1: got a bit frit of oil seed rape because you
Speaker 1: know that there is you can't spray or what used
Speaker 1: to sprout with so it goes eaten. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot wheat around. The sort of wheat prices are high,
Speaker 1: and of course wheat prices have dropped and yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's all I mean, who would be a farmer. It's
Speaker 1: also those things. You know, We've said it many a time.
Speaker 1: Their job is hard enough. If you're an arable farm
Speaker 1: you know your biggest enemy is the weather. You don't
Speaker 1: want a sudden another enemy of a government who is
Speaker 1: you know, ambivalent at best to you, to your work
Speaker 1: and the pitiful margins that you're making. But they've got
Speaker 1: that at the moment. And yeah, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a terrible harvest. I don't think anyone's
Speaker 1: shooting themselves. And one of the things I always finding
Speaker 1: this is quite amazing about arable farmers is they're very
Speaker 1: phlegmatic and understanding of the fact that they are at
Speaker 1: the vagaries of the weather. They're not all just you know, going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the weather's terrible, let's shoot themselves. I go, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's happened, you know, swings aroundabouts. It will level itself
Speaker 1: out next year.
Speaker 3: And I've seen a few of the sort of screenshots
Speaker 3: and messages, and there's an old video that does a
Speaker 3: rounds as well of people from the local village coming
Speaker 3: out to you whilst you're in the middle of the harvest,
Speaker 3: saying could you come back and do that tomorrow, yeah,
Speaker 3: or can you keep keep the noise down or the
Speaker 3: dust down as if as if it's a recreational thing
Speaker 3: they're choosing to do.
Speaker 2: I went salmon fishing in Scotland once, and the harvesting
Speaker 2: at you're little jokes that that don't lad you, just
Speaker 2: the little smirk you give it. There's there's people that
Speaker 2: are probably stopping your recording and and it down like
Speaker 2: it's a Times crossword, thinking what did.
Speaker 1: You say, salmon? What was that reference? Someone?
Speaker 2: But there's probably there's going to be a list at
Speaker 2: some point that get so obsessed with this they just
Speaker 2: write down all the obscure references by Richard Prideo and
Speaker 2: there will be a web page just for that.
Speaker 1: Yes, sorry salmon. Salmon fishing not in the Yemen. Told
Speaker 1: me what happened with that one? Tear fishing not in
Speaker 1: the Yemen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were. We were in this little body thing
Speaker 2: and they were harvested all night. I just thought it
Speaker 2: was the most fascinating thing to watch with all the
Speaker 2: lights on and looks so dramatic. I don't know how
Speaker 2: anyone could get the hunt with it. It was just well impressive.
Speaker 2: I suppose I'd be trying to sleep. But you know,
Speaker 2: just have another whiskey.
Speaker 3: You'll be right. You don't do drones, you.
Speaker 1: No, I have a drone.
Speaker 3: Man, You pay, you pay for a man, A gentleman. Gentlemen.
Speaker 3: I've done a fair amount of filming of harvest of
Speaker 3: one type or another, and it's you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's one tracking vehicle tracking thing.
Speaker 3: Is that that? Well, this is a few years ago,
Speaker 3: so your vehicle tracking thing on DGI drones didn't work
Speaker 3: that well then, So you just did it manually, which
Speaker 3: means you've got to to do an orbit of a
Speaker 3: of a combine as it's going up a hill. You've
Speaker 3: got to match the speed and work out your distance
Speaker 3: from it and keep the camera pointing at it and
Speaker 3: all moving at the same time. So I just have
Speaker 3: to turn my brain off and no one can talk
Speaker 3: to me whilst I'm doing it. But I get some footage.
Speaker 3: I'm going to drop it into the Patreon chat the
Speaker 3: clips of one of the things I did. But it's
Speaker 3: a lot of work to get it to do that.
Speaker 3: But it isn't really good.
Speaker 1: I got a drone guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well I am the drone. I am the drone.
Speaker 1: Fly your drone into the combine's header. Would you that
Speaker 1: be quite an expensive and messy en.
Speaker 3: I've seen people do it. I've flown between the tractor
Speaker 3: and the combine when they're filling up the grain car.
Speaker 3: I've done that a couple of times and tracking eye
Speaker 3: cab height with the combine. And there's one w because
Speaker 3: there's a guy here who brings his sheep dog into
Speaker 3: the cab with him. So the sheep dog is just
Speaker 3: looking at stuff all the time, looking at the rabbits
Speaker 3: and the things that are running out, and he's just
Speaker 3: fixated on this drone. It is that. I'm going to
Speaker 3: get that, to get that, to get that.
Speaker 1: It's not like Jeremy Squirrel's wonderful golden retriever who is
Speaker 1: the most beautiful and soft idiot, like all golden retrievers are,
Speaker 1: and she just sits in either the combine or the sprayer.
Speaker 1: And his sprayer is quite sort of old school and
Speaker 1: with a very small cab, and she's a very large dog.
Speaker 1: And it's very funny. So all you see when he's
Speaker 1: driving past it is Sprayer is his dog fai glass
Speaker 1: tongue stuck out like some sot of window licking idiot.
Speaker 1: Hi Jeremy, Hello, conder. His dog's name. It's like Maud
Speaker 1: or something like that is absolutely wonderful and that gets
Speaker 1: out and so much as say what he's a combine
Speaker 1: is she's with him everywhere he goes. It's great. It's
Speaker 1: window licking dog.
Speaker 3: Ah. Well, so we started with squirrels and we've ended
Speaker 3: with squirrels. Yeah, so I think it's a good time
Speaker 3: to finish the main show and head onto the after show.
Speaker 3: And for all of you people who only get the
Speaker 3: main show, yes, we have teased a lot of the
Speaker 3: after show stuff, but basically they're the ones that keep
Speaker 3: the lights on around here is all those lovely patrons
Speaker 3: who pay for things. So we're going to move on
Speaker 3: over to the after show now. Thank you to everyone
Speaker 3: who listens to the episode, and thank you to everyone
Speaker 3: who we met and spoke to at the game Fare
Speaker 3: and all the friends new and old that we saw there.
Speaker 3: Right now, Oh bye, one thing before we go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've just Amy's just prompted me.
Speaker 2: There's a thing.
Speaker 3: For the next few weeks. The main show is going
Speaker 3: to be pre recorded. I know they're all pre recorded,
Speaker 3: but they are four episodes that we recorded at the
Speaker 3: game Fare. So we've got a couple of interviews with
Speaker 3: CEOs of large organizations. We've got one of the guns
Speaker 3: on pegs people, but we're not talking about shooting, we're
Speaker 3: talking about other stuff. And then we've got two scientists
Speaker 3: talking about conservation and ecology. So those are all the
Speaker 3: interviews from the game there which will be going out
Speaker 3: one a week and not be in place of the
Speaker 3: main show. But it doesn't mean we'll be idle, because
Speaker 3: Callum and I are going to sit down and record
Speaker 3: some more episodes of The Mullet, our business spin off.
Speaker 3: Richard and I have got a side project talking about
Speaker 3: the news and stuff like that and the stuff that
Speaker 3: Calendar doesn't really care about. And there's a whole new
Speaker 3: exciting project which we haven't worked out yet, but that
Speaker 3: is going to be something, something a bit tastier. Let's
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that naked calendar, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It's a naked calendar. Right off to the after show
Speaker 3: by Bye Bye