Speaker 1: Are you still covered in blood? Callum? Oh, he's eating toast.
Speaker 2: I'm eating my dinner because I literally, fresh from the
Speaker 2: cold face said hello to the missus and my little ones,
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah bye, I'm going upstairs to
Speaker 2: my hule to record this straight away. I haven't even
Speaker 2: taken my jacket off. I'm eating a toasty which replaced
Speaker 2: regular dinner. I'm covered in blood and the dog absolutely
Speaker 2: loves it. It's the best thing. It seems to have
Speaker 2: slided off now, but yeah, she's probably gone down to
Speaker 2: lick my bag clean.
Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Country Slide, where we have
Speaker 1: Calum as usual here in some sort of state of disarray. Callum,
Speaker 1: did you just nod on a podcast? No? No, And
Speaker 1: rather than having the haunted scarecrow that's imbued with a
Speaker 1: spirit of Serties, that is Richard Nigas, we have a
Speaker 1: special guest host this week. Would you like to say hello?
Speaker 3: Should I say it like negus? If I hold my
Speaker 3: nose and speak like this? Do you think do you
Speaker 3: think anyone knows a difference?
Speaker 2: I think I think they might.
Speaker 3: Was that not accurate?
Speaker 1: There's the lilt of a very exotic accent.
Speaker 3: I'm very exotic baby.
Speaker 1: Who are you and where are you from?
Speaker 3: I'm Nick Adamson from the Forest of Dean.
Speaker 1: So previous guest on Country Slide. You may remember Nick
Speaker 1: from the Positive Forestry episode which I wasn't on because
Speaker 1: I was being miserable. I was being miserable in the
Speaker 1: forest somewhere.
Speaker 3: I think that's what for.
Speaker 1: So you're a professional forester, but you're also from You
Speaker 1: are a forester from the.
Speaker 3: Forest contractor anam from the Forest of Dean. So yeah,
Speaker 3: proper forester.
Speaker 1: So the Forest of Dean is that in Wales you're.
Speaker 3: Just trying to annoy. It's not Wales. It's barely England.
Speaker 2: He's quite good.
Speaker 1: It's kind of in between, isn't it. It's like the
Speaker 1: bottom bottom right of Wales.
Speaker 2: Taint it is.
Speaker 3: It's all between Monmouth and the River Seven. It's like
Speaker 3: a republic, like an island, but with like no water
Speaker 3: all the way around, just trees and wild boar.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to the Forest of.
Speaker 2: Dean Callum, Yeah, Yeah, I've been. I've been to the
Speaker 2: wire fishing in the around that area, and I've been
Speaker 2: to the all the the pubs and whatnot. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: did not all the pubs, but some of the pubs
Speaker 2: that exist have been to them, but though they're quite seasonal,
Speaker 2: which is some of them only open for a few
Speaker 2: months of the year and what not. But yeah, I've done.
Speaker 2: I've done the Forest of Dean. I fished the river
Speaker 2: y never caught a bible, which was incredibly disappointing. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been to the area. All I remember is that
Speaker 2: the roads, like you wouldn't want a car that you'd
Speaker 2: like to keep for any length of time, Like I
Speaker 2: wouldn't buy a car from the Forest of Dean as
Speaker 2: the handbrake would have been tested quite a lot for
Speaker 2: any parking clutch, and and I would definitely be checking
Speaker 2: the underneath. There's like I remember at one point just
Speaker 2: scraping the entire bottom of the car just to get
Speaker 2: to the AIRB and B and that was like the
Speaker 2: only access road in And I was like, hm hmm, strange.
Speaker 1: So when you were in the Forest of Dean, did
Speaker 1: you acquire your fern ticket? Is that? Am I saying
Speaker 1: that correct?
Speaker 3: You are indeed saying that correct.
Speaker 1: What is a fern ticket? Can you explain it to
Speaker 1: the boys and girls at home? The fer and ticket
Speaker 1: is whilst keeping your job and things.
Speaker 3: I employed myself. I'll keep my job. It is a
Speaker 3: fer and ticket is if you haven't amorous young couple,
Speaker 3: they want to get a bit more amorous a young
Speaker 3: man or you know, two young ladies or two young men.
Speaker 3: We don't judge. It's modern times. You can go into
Speaker 3: the wood and you can acquire your fern ticket and
Speaker 3: I'll leave you to decide how that is acquired.
Speaker 2: Do you know what. My mind went straight to the
Speaker 2: gutter when you said that, and it was it was
Speaker 2: actually the correct thing to guess. So there we are. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is it something that's openly talked about everybody's proud of,
Speaker 1: just some sort of thing that is it something you're
Speaker 1: asked about when you're about sixteen or twenty one, just.
Speaker 3: Sort of when you first start going to pubs when
Speaker 3: you're like fifteen, the fronk ticket becomes a thing.
Speaker 1: Because I've got a bit of an obsession with the
Speaker 1: Forest of Dean because well, being from Cornwall, I feel
Speaker 1: like we have a sort of a kinship of being
Speaker 1: stuck out in the arts end of nowhere, in a
Speaker 1: very rural place with not much to do, and it's
Speaker 1: got very unique culture. So I do I like the
Speaker 1: Forest of Dean a lot, and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know why I've got this affinity with it because
Speaker 1: I've only I've only spent about three weeks there in
Speaker 1: my throughout the entirety of my life.
Speaker 3: It is definitely a unique place. I love it. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've lived in Scotland for about three and a half
Speaker 3: years and I well, I'd love being there, but I
Speaker 3: couldn't wait to get back. It's a whole minute. And
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people, like if you're from Cornwall,
Speaker 3: Essex orherever ours, I think homes are always home in it.
Speaker 3: But it is sort of I know everyone and I
Speaker 3: know everywhere. I probably know where Can scraped his car.
Speaker 2: There's multiple basses, all of them.
Speaker 1: So what's this business with the bears?
Speaker 3: The bears? I know we're going to talk about the bears.
Speaker 1: We have to talk about the bears if we did
Speaker 1: the Dean, and we need to explain.
Speaker 3: I think it's the thing that everybody knows about the
Speaker 3: Dean is like who killed the bear or it was
Speaker 3: Cinderford lads who killed the bear? It was us because
Speaker 3: I'm from Cinderford, and the story goes so it's like
Speaker 3: the eighteen eighties, I think it was. So it was
Speaker 3: a French circus came today and they had dancing bears,
Speaker 3: and the dancing bears attacked a child or something, and
Speaker 3: then they moved the circus up to Ruin Dean and
Speaker 3: these Cindford lads for the circus killed the bears, got
Speaker 3: arrested and then somehow lost in the strands of time.
Speaker 3: Everyone from Rudine got blamed for it. And then there's
Speaker 3: this supposed rivalry then, which I don't think anyone really
Speaker 3: cares to be a quite as you. But that's the story.
Speaker 1: So is it true that people used to run into
Speaker 1: the pub in Rudine and then shout who killed the bears?
Speaker 1: And then get chased down the street?
Speaker 3: Possibly before my time? I've never done it. I've lived
Speaker 3: in both places and I've never been chased.
Speaker 1: Have you chased people?
Speaker 3: Not for that reason?
Speaker 2: Good Artswer?
Speaker 3: You know this is public so it's not.
Speaker 2: That was my phone ticket?
Speaker 3: Give it back?
Speaker 1: We Uh, yeah, we've got some interesting pockets out there
Speaker 1: in the UK, haven't we. When you go out to
Speaker 1: some strange places, I mean Calum and I on every
Speaker 1: phone call pretty much end up exchange. He exchanges a
Speaker 1: little bit of law with me about the backstory of Callum.
Speaker 2: So yeah, usually left scratching your head for a little bit, okay.
Speaker 1: And every now and again there's something he says and
Speaker 1: I say, no, don't finish that story. You can finish
Speaker 1: it on the podcast. So now i'd like you to
Speaker 1: tell me why you got involved in basket weaving.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you like that one.
Speaker 1: It's not a normal story, Callum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it because I think the point that I
Speaker 2: was making is how how often we're we're people greet
Speaker 2: us with opportunities of plenty and instead of taking them,
Speaker 2: instead of taking them, we kind of put two fingers
Speaker 2: up to the man. It's just going no, no, and
Speaker 2: one touch occasion, a gentleman k into my college class
Speaker 2: and we'd not long been doing film studies and we'd
Speaker 2: watch The Wickerman. So this gentleman asked me if I
Speaker 2: would like to and if you haven't seen The Wickerman.
Speaker 2: It's an old film. It is it Cornwall somewhere Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 2: close enough, not geographically, I know that anyway. It's some
Speaker 2: backwards place. We haven't offended anyone since like for two weeks,
Speaker 2: so it's some backwards place. Could be Cornwall, could be Scotland.
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
Speaker 2: Anyway, they they take a person, put them into a
Speaker 2: giant Wickerman and then set them on fire in a
Speaker 2: sort of a sacrifice, and that's the weird, messed up
Speaker 2: premise of the film and Outsider and he gets he
Speaker 2: gets set on fire. So I decided this gentleman that
Speaker 2: came to us he wanted to rich our lives in college.
Speaker 2: So my suggestion he wanted extracurricular activities was wicker was
Speaker 2: wicker basket weaving. I said, I want to make and
Speaker 2: I want to make things out of wicker and he
Speaker 2: was like, what an excellent idea, callum, I will write
Speaker 2: that down, and he wrote that down. And there was
Speaker 2: also other things that was like after college people played
Speaker 2: football and stuff, and do you know, fast forward about
Speaker 2: six months and all the florestry students they all took
Speaker 2: up the wicker basket making, as did other people from
Speaker 2: outside of the college. So they're just regular people thought
Speaker 2: it was a fantastic activity, and all of the enrichment
Speaker 2: classes dropped off within the year, except for wicker basket making,
Speaker 2: which was a roaring success at Harlow College. All because
Speaker 2: I wanted to be a complete dick and suggest the
Speaker 2: idea that we've burned some in a wicker basket or
Speaker 2: wicker man. Yeah, that's the story.
Speaker 1: These are not normal stories, callum, and think of the
Speaker 1: legacy that you leave behind you across the nation as
Speaker 1: you go through. Because Hm, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: that you've matured, but I think you've just become more
Speaker 1: elaborate and more sophisticated in your shit housery.
Speaker 2: Shit housary was the word I was sort of had
Speaker 2: in my mind. But yeah, this ship housery has never stupped.
Speaker 2: It just just takes on different four gets refined.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even just like do you just do micro shit housery,
Speaker 2: like just say say this is this is a search
Speaker 2: term that we could definitely capitalize on because we possibly
Speaker 2: could be the first people to ever suggest micro shit
Speaker 2: housery as a as a term. But like I often
Speaker 2: replace our fresco and our dente, So I just swapped
Speaker 2: them out just just to piss people off. So if like,
Speaker 2: if we're going out to eat outside, I'll say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: come on, let's eat our dente, or I'll you know,
Speaker 2: you take some pasta and say that's perfect. It's just
Speaker 2: our Fresco and just micro shit housery brings such joy
Speaker 2: to my life every time, every time I do it,
Speaker 2: So yeah, embrace it.
Speaker 1: Like an intentional del boy from Only Fools and Horses,
Speaker 1: aren't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, just as long as you can see people
Speaker 2: with slight discomfort, that's that's energy giving to me, you know.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, following on from last week's discussion about
Speaker 1: special educational needs, do you think people sort of look
Speaker 1: at you and think, oh, bless Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm surprised there isn't like a sort of
Speaker 2: go fund me page just for me.
Speaker 1: When you go around the supermarket. Do they have the
Speaker 1: collection team that you can point to and go that's
Speaker 1: for me?
Speaker 2: That one I find on shoe days because I'm not
Speaker 2: wearing tweed as well. Not only do people.
Speaker 1: Backward because you're not wearing tweed, well.
Speaker 2: Well they always think I'm cold and also just a
Speaker 2: little bit like they oh, poor you. You just get like
Speaker 2: this this sympathetic tone, like they want to crazy with
Speaker 2: you in their arms and give you a little hug,
Speaker 2: maybe bring you inside and give you soup. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: like a you Okay, Oh, it must be a hard day,
Speaker 2: do you know what I pull that licking.
Speaker 3: And those get the image in my head. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't even remember Calm Richard. You might back in
Speaker 3: the seventies and eighties and used to get these like
Speaker 3: collection tins in off licenses. And I don't want to
Speaker 3: say the word because I'll get told off and thrown out.
Speaker 3: But that's the image I have in my head.
Speaker 1: It is it the word we used to use at school,
Speaker 1: all right, not in a Nigel, but anyway, every day.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of the penny going down through the thing,
Speaker 3: and it's a penny for color, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: And if you know which charity team we're referring to listeners,
Speaker 1: please write in to info that country.
Speaker 2: Do.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can get our email account frozen.
Speaker 1: This is the thing, though, there's an element of working
Speaker 1: in sort of land based industries, particularly when you're younger
Speaker 1: and you've been left alone with machinery in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere to do stuff. It normally takes about forty
Speaker 1: five minutes at least, but then something happens, doesn't it
Speaker 1: Normally like you get enough of the job done and
Speaker 1: then you start messing around or is that just me?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be just you.
Speaker 2: I think, well, I think Nick's actually got a serious
Speaker 2: job that he needs to do, and he's probably got
Speaker 2: quotas to feel. You just you just have a career
Speaker 2: where you just sort of your career is like a
Speaker 2: random career generators, like spinning a wheel and then which
Speaker 2: one would you which one would you play today? Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be a carpenter. Wow, I best get
Speaker 2: the gloves from the shed.
Speaker 1: It's just adhd, isn't it. But it's also you end
Speaker 1: up having. If you want to run your own business,
Speaker 1: you end up having to do about twenty different things anyway,
Speaker 1: become sort of slightly half asked and competent at all
Speaker 1: of them in order to survive, you know how much.
Speaker 3: Because I run my business with my mate. What we've
Speaker 3: done is I get the work, and he makes sure
Speaker 3: we can keep doing it. So I still get so
Speaker 3: he repairs everything because I'm not so hot of that,
Speaker 3: and I'm charming as anything, obviously, and so I get
Speaker 3: all the work, and I do all the secretary of
Speaker 3: stuff cause I love better and a skirt and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: So you're the Richard nigis to the You're to the
Speaker 2: Richard and gould Show and Gold. You never see Gordy
Speaker 2: dear No, because he's busy doing all the work.
Speaker 1: Are you the one that talks to the nice man
Speaker 1: from Strutton Parker who's wearing the he's wearing the very
Speaker 1: nice cords and got the.
Speaker 3: Clipbook and we negotiate prices and things like that, and
Speaker 3: then Mark knows why why did you do that?
Speaker 2: What I really like in my in my head is
Speaker 2: that that you're sitting there talking and then your business
Speaker 2: partner's over there just doing the really hard stuff, but
Speaker 2: just completely unable to communicate and just grunting while like
Speaker 2: chainsawing different bits, and you're just sort of looking looking
Speaker 2: prim and proper, while well, he gets the real stuff done.
Speaker 3: And you met me prim and proper.
Speaker 2: No, in my head, I should imagine, imagine. I like
Speaker 2: the way that you took that as quite a literal thing,
Speaker 2: and you didn't disagree with anything other than you weren't
Speaker 2: prim and proper.
Speaker 3: But the Mark would be drinking tea waiting for this
Speaker 3: to be sorted out. Which is the correct.
Speaker 1: Thing to do it is? I mean, you can never
Speaker 1: finish tea before the end of the.
Speaker 3: Day, should you. Your flash should be empty after dinner time.
Speaker 1: Really, I always save a bit the morning coffee is
Speaker 1: always there in the for the afternoon.
Speaker 2: What times dinner time?
Speaker 1: Halfway when you remember, Yeah, it depends how the day
Speaker 1: is going.
Speaker 3: Trouble is when you're planting. For all, I really like planting.
Speaker 3: I am very much in the minority. It is quite boring,
Speaker 3: so I can't have ear pods and listen to music
Speaker 3: or podcasts or something like that. So I'm pretty much
Speaker 3: away of the fairies for most of the day, in
Speaker 3: my own head with my own thoughts, which is a
Speaker 3: scary place to be. So I very often get to
Speaker 3: sort to clock and think hungry. I wonder what time
Speaker 3: it is?
Speaker 2: Oh ship, I think they call that a flow state
Speaker 2: in the Yeah. I think you just you just so,
Speaker 2: you don't listen to anything, You just raw dog planting stuff.
Speaker 2: How does what does that look like?
Speaker 1: Because that is alien?
Speaker 3: Is I just I've got I don't know. I just
Speaker 3: like being in my own head. There's lots of voices
Speaker 3: in there. It's brilliant. You can have you can have
Speaker 3: a massive commison, you can have quite a good conversation.
Speaker 3: It's it's like a town hall in my head. And
Speaker 3: there's lots of different people. There's lots of different opinions.
Speaker 3: I'm not always agreeing with each other. I love it.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know this is a safe
Speaker 2: space and you can tell.
Speaker 1: Us anything recorded or shared with like five thousand people
Speaker 1: or anything.
Speaker 3: And it's not safe as the Forestry WhatsApp chat though,
Speaker 3: which is the safest of same places.
Speaker 1: No, I mean patrons may remember Nick from half of
Speaker 1: the message notifications on your phone. Callum, can you ask
Speaker 1: me about my truck?
Speaker 2: I was literally just about to give you, give you
Speaker 2: the full thing. If I could turn the camera around
Speaker 2: to you could see it, says ask about truck.
Speaker 1: Yes, because I've touched on it in previous episodes. But
Speaker 1: now we need to explain the full sarga because also
Speaker 1: you two both sort of like vehicles, and you know,
Speaker 1: you are practical and like Richard Nigas who just goes
Speaker 1: to buy a thing and then drives it to places
Speaker 1: and anybody's broken gets a man in to fix it.
Speaker 1: I've had this truck for about fifteen years now, I
Speaker 1: do Zoo Trooper. It's on two hundred and thirty thousand
Speaker 1: miles old three point one diesel engine. So this before
Speaker 1: before ECUs, No computers in it. Everything's mechanical nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four plate as well, so it's thirty two years old
Speaker 1: and I've ever been half the life. Yeah, and when
Speaker 1: I bought it for four hundred pounds from a farmer,
Speaker 1: half of it was missing. Basically you can tell which
Speaker 1: bit I was working on in which year based on
Speaker 1: how good my welds are, because I learned to weld
Speaker 1: on this chassis and the bodywork. And just before Christmas,
Speaker 1: you know, we had to go in for the mot
Speaker 1: and I started poking at some of the mud and
Speaker 1: realized it was just mud. There was no there was
Speaker 1: no metal behind there where I thought there was, so
Speaker 1: it was just that. And then I thought, well, I'll
Speaker 1: do a bit of welding. And then every time I
Speaker 1: took off the mud that was covering the hole next
Speaker 1: to where I was working, I discovered another whole a
Speaker 1: bit further on. And I think I've shared some photos
Speaker 1: with you. It looked like lace basically in a few places.
Speaker 1: And I've been towing some quite heavy things like mini
Speaker 1: diggers and chippers and stuff with this, so it's been alarming.
Speaker 2: And this is things you've weld's mostly yourself.
Speaker 1: No, they were the original Japanese steel, so you know,
Speaker 1: blame the Japanese for this, I think, But.
Speaker 2: God, could we can offend Cornwall, Japan and Scotland. This
Speaker 2: could be the best episode yet.
Speaker 1: I mean ever since that that pasty based Hagis Sushi
Speaker 1: bar incident. God, that was that was difficult, wasn't it?
Speaker 1: That was terrible? I should try doing comedy one day.
Speaker 1: So welded on this. Yeah, I've put about thirty hours
Speaker 1: into this truck because I've had to re weld half
Speaker 1: the chassis. It's bloody solid Now it looks really good.
Speaker 1: Remay made a new Winch bumper for the front, for
Speaker 1: the back, fabricated everything. I've sent Calum some photos. It
Speaker 1: does actually look half decent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've you've got a patchwork quilt of a car
Speaker 2: and it does look all right.
Speaker 1: It does. It's a bit it's like the ship of
Speaker 1: theseus or triggers boom, depends on your reference. But it's
Speaker 1: all there and it's all legal and safe. So I
Speaker 1: booked it in for its mot local place, well the
Speaker 1: local chain, and I won't say which one, but it's
Speaker 1: the one that's about to go bust that begins with
Speaker 1: a and ends in ts or a Master. They're local
Speaker 1: one that I've been going through for years. They're just
Speaker 1: not operating now. So I had to get booked in
Speaker 1: a place called Real, right on the coast. Real is
Speaker 1: like our Colford. I suppose you could say Nick for Calum.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know, yes, interesting. But the went all
Speaker 1: the way up there, drove up half an hour away,
Speaker 1: drove all the way there get their first thing on
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, went to see dropped it off with the guys,
Speaker 1: and I thought, I'm going to hang around just to
Speaker 1: see how this goes, because I'm still nervous about whether
Speaker 1: it's going to get through the mot or whether it's
Speaker 1: just going to walk out and shelut at me. And
Speaker 1: the guy comes out and it's a It's a guy
Speaker 1: used to be the mot testerer at the other place.
Speaker 1: He's done the mot on it five times out of
Speaker 1: the last six years. Brilliant, he knows the car, he's
Speaker 1: familiar with it, he's familiar with me. Great, went through
Speaker 1: the mot absolutely fine, two advisories, pitted break discs, everything else.
Speaker 1: Very complimentary on the chassis and everything else. The factor
Speaker 1: drowned it in a lot of underbody sealant probably helped,
Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, Nice went through it all, chatted
Speaker 1: to the bloke, chatted to them about their redundancies, their
Speaker 1: future lives, their kids, everything, you know, long long conversation,
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy it's past mot brilliant, my pride
Speaker 1: and joy. He just says, oh, I'll back it out
Speaker 1: of the mot bay for you. Oh. Nice gets into it,
Speaker 1: reverses and reverses it straight back into a customer's car,
Speaker 1: nails down the side of this customer's car. There twenty
Speaker 1: four plate forward. I reckon. It's probably caused about eight
Speaker 1: to ten grands worth of damage on the car me
Speaker 1: having passed my Amot about six minutes previously. Fortunately, due
Speaker 1: to my very well made new rear bumper and winge bumper,
Speaker 1: my car is absolutely fine. It's just got a scuff
Speaker 1: on the bumper. But he's just he's nailed a trench
Speaker 1: down the side car.
Speaker 3: Listeners, because I've sitten the photo of the back of
Speaker 3: your try when you say bumper, they should visualize girder.
Speaker 1: It's five mili mile steel in places, yeah, all.
Speaker 3: Of the places.
Speaker 2: Ah, okay, it weighs more than calum And when we
Speaker 2: say ford are we are? We talking Fiesta. Are we
Speaker 2: talking Ranger?
Speaker 1: Something is something a bit more expensive? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: I think he may have written off a customer's car
Speaker 1: with my Winch bumper.
Speaker 2: And how does that work in insure?
Speaker 1: I have no idea because I wasn't driving. It was
Speaker 1: insured because I maintained the insurance and tax, and it
Speaker 1: was in mot because he just emotied it. I was
Speaker 1: holding the piece of paper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: So when he reversed into this guy's car, I watched
Speaker 1: it happen because I just, you know, I'm completely numb
Speaker 1: to everything at this point, and I just watched it
Speaker 1: happen and all right, okay, fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's not you problem, is it?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Happy days?
Speaker 1: He went in and told his boss. His boss came
Speaker 1: out and picked up his coffee mug and yeated it
Speaker 1: across the yard when he saw what happened. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I just turned to my said, can I go? Do
Speaker 1: I need to be here for this? Is this? Is
Speaker 1: this a me problem? Is it an ATS problem? You're
Speaker 1: going so.
Speaker 2: It'll all work out in the liquidation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing, is like their companies are still
Speaker 1: going to exist when they're claiming against it.
Speaker 3: I don'd very top of.
Speaker 1: No, but I was a witness to it. There's very
Speaker 1: little evidence of damage on my truck. I can highly
Speaker 1: recommend the Buzzworld DTM Direct Metal paint though as a
Speaker 1: armor all for mild steel.
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Speaker 2: But this is well, that was excellent.
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, you'd like that one. But keeping older
Speaker 1: stuff on the road is starting to make more sense,
Speaker 1: particularly with current issues, because the tax for most vehicles,
Speaker 1: I mean for some vehicles it's jumping up by about
Speaker 1: two I think in some cases it's going to be
Speaker 1: over six hundred quid for tax for certain old end eines,
Speaker 1: isn't it? And a larger engines because I'm based on
Speaker 1: emissions and I don't know what a diesel price is
Speaker 1: like with you guys at the moment.
Speaker 2: Well, I came back from Crufts the other day down
Speaker 2: the M six and obviously you know that I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's certain statistic people that work at the pricing structures
Speaker 2: of all these garages and there was like one eighty
Speaker 2: at the Shell garage near the M six for diesel.
Speaker 2: So it was insane. But what's some the scariest stuff
Speaker 2: is there's certain shortages that go on just because of
Speaker 2: things that happen that make prices of stuff absolutely wild.
Speaker 2: Do you know about the great hay shortage? Probably got
Speaker 2: a bit of hay around the forest Dean, Yes, But
Speaker 2: hay price right now is wild.
Speaker 1: Man inflicted with horses.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Honestly, at this point, it's just like we'll
Speaker 2: just wait for the grass to grow. And most people
Speaker 2: are just like, we're We've got some grass, so it's fine,
Speaker 2: But it would be good to give them hay. At
Speaker 2: the moment, we're just giving them a bit more fiber
Speaker 2: and stuff. But I just delved into the rabbit hole
Speaker 2: of trying to get it. Like, if you need hay,
Speaker 2: it will need to come from the continent or from
Speaker 2: Scotland if you live in the south. It was I
Speaker 2: think it was sixty five pounds of bale was last
Speaker 2: year's price. They want one hundred and eighty pounds of
Speaker 2: bale now if you want to buy just a regular
Speaker 2: sized bail of hay, and it will only come from
Speaker 2: Scotland or in the Constant because everybody in the hole
Speaker 2: of the Southeast and probably Midlands as well have all
Speaker 2: run out. It's mental.
Speaker 1: You don't want to know that I'm paying thirty quid
Speaker 1: for a big bail of haldge. Do you delivered?
Speaker 2: That is?
Speaker 1: That is sickening, because absolutely sickening. I am within the
Speaker 1: delivery radius of mister bails.
Speaker 2: Don't think I won't bring you some horses, because I
Speaker 2: will bring you horses.
Speaker 1: It's six six mile radius. He delivers. He brings it
Speaker 1: on the He brings two at a time, one in
Speaker 1: the grabs on the front of the tractor and the
Speaker 1: other one impaled on the back, and he'll drive three
Speaker 1: miles down the road and just sort of throw it
Speaker 1: out into the field and drive off again.
Speaker 2: As he thought about doing uber because he could probably
Speaker 2: still make a few quid if he if he did
Speaker 2: the fair that way.
Speaker 1: Last time I saw him, he was ranting about the
Speaker 1: mirrors on his tractor because they're quite expensive to replace,
Speaker 1: and the crows have been destroying them. Because the crows
Speaker 1: perch on the little arm for the mirror, they see
Speaker 1: themselves in the mirror and then they peck peck the
Speaker 1: mirror until it's matches.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a hot fuzz thing that might happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this I don't know was it? You haven't got
Speaker 1: horses every Nick.
Speaker 3: Don't have big pets. I've got a dog that's rapidly
Speaker 3: growing to the size of a donkey and looks like
Speaker 3: a donkey and acts like a donkey.
Speaker 2: Are you sure it's not? Did you buy it from
Speaker 2: a man in a pub?
Speaker 1: Eat a suspicious amount of carrots? Eat everything? So something
Speaker 1: just collapsed behind Callum. So for listeners at home, Callum
Speaker 1: every week there's some sort of detritus of his life
Speaker 1: somewhere in the background. Sometimes he tidies up, and then
Speaker 1: sometimes there's just things arrive in there and I'll spend
Speaker 1: all the episode trying to work out what the hell
Speaker 1: is behind him?
Speaker 2: Do you want to see what happened this week? This
Speaker 2: is Remember you said invite Nick on the ADHD will
Speaker 2: be turned down a bit.
Speaker 1: Now, why are you in a changing room?
Speaker 2: The whole thing that the whole thing got turned into
Speaker 2: a wardrobe.
Speaker 1: That's just a rail of clothing all the way down
Speaker 1: the length of the many shirts? How many clothes?
Speaker 3: Who needs that many shirts?
Speaker 2: Because I sometimes I have to be a smart boy,
Speaker 2: because I do actually work in places where I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to be covered in blood and stink.
Speaker 1: You know, you're allowed to wear the same shirt more
Speaker 1: than once though.
Speaker 2: What that's not thesex a listeners.
Speaker 3: They are most people as well.
Speaker 1: It's how many of Ben Sherman.
Speaker 2: Do you want to know?
Speaker 1: God?
Speaker 2: John? If true?
Speaker 1: Some of them?
Speaker 2: Some of them are top Man right, which which went
Speaker 2: into administration many years ago, and it was way before
Speaker 2: administration days as well. Some of them are I reckon
Speaker 2: some of them and knocking on easy fifteen years maybe twenty.
Speaker 3: Wow. I have many older shirts than.
Speaker 2: That, the good quality shirts. You know, those those those
Speaker 2: Bangladeshi kids, they really knew how to stitch back then
Speaker 2: and now and now the Primark Primar generation they just
Speaker 2: don't know how to that fast fashions just you know,
Speaker 2: it's not got the stain power it once had.
Speaker 3: About twenty years ago, I got I went to you
Speaker 3: know those like shops like the Real Deal or whatever
Speaker 3: they're called, just cheap tat, and I've got I've got
Speaker 3: a sheep shagger from there. I've still got it now
Speaker 3: and it's still the best coat I've ever had. It's
Speaker 3: really warm, it's waterproof, and it cost me a tenor
Speaker 3: I can't recommend it enough.
Speaker 2: It cost me a ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you describe a sheep shager.
Speaker 3: A sheep shagger? You know, it's like the play will
Speaker 3: eat cot sometimes with the hood. Sometimes you only see them.
Speaker 1: Do you mean like the Dickies ones.
Speaker 3: Many brands of ail. I think mine's a blue castle.
Speaker 2: I can't google that.
Speaker 3: Give me something, you know, like a plaid shirt but
Speaker 3: like with fury on the inside, like a coat urban areas,
Speaker 3: do you.
Speaker 2: It's very very forest You absolutely would see that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's like a lumberge, like classic lumberge at uniform,
Speaker 2: something like.
Speaker 3: The ball Fleets, but less ship.
Speaker 2: You would see them with a super dry logo in
Speaker 2: an urban environment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it was urban, it'd be Carhart, now, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: They've sort of appropriated actual work where.
Speaker 2: I like. I like that concept that you can appropriate
Speaker 2: the working man into a gentrified wardrobe capsule.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for the urban fashionistas to adopt the
Speaker 1: sort of general tradesman trousers that have these sort of
Speaker 1: integral pockets at the front, the extra flat pocket, well.
Speaker 2: Tactical where is a big thing. It was annoying that
Speaker 2: I started buying arctics, and then it become fashionable because
Speaker 2: like people wanted to buy it, and then you didn't
Speaker 2: know what was the fashion stuff and what was the
Speaker 2: actual good stuff. It become quite quite tricky.
Speaker 1: Given the nix in prime. I've moved slightly away from
Speaker 1: Hereford but not too far country for special forces where
Speaker 1: he is, and I know at least three people within
Speaker 1: the forest there who used to do interesting things and
Speaker 1: now run pubs and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's quite a future still a boat now you don't
Speaker 3: know them. You look at and think, oh, I know
Speaker 3: what you did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're always either looking at looking at a watch
Speaker 2: or looking at the door while they're.
Speaker 3: Still talking to the corner of the pub.
Speaker 2: You can tell with no.
Speaker 3: Back to the wall, they can see all the entrances.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's painfully accurate because that is the lived.
Speaker 2: I did a wedding somewhere around there with people that
Speaker 2: worked in those places.
Speaker 1: And specific description.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, at one point I can say this. At
Speaker 2: one point there was a picture of the man that
Speaker 2: I know in the just taken a dip in Saddam
Speaker 2: Hussein swimming pool about four days after being captured. So
Speaker 2: that was an interesting photo to see.
Speaker 1: How often do you bump into Richard Hammond's down your way?
Speaker 3: Ever seen him? He lives in Ross now I think,
Speaker 3: or near Ross. Yeah, he's moved from the forest, not
Speaker 3: very far.
Speaker 1: I think that he used to have a big house
Speaker 1: and now he doesn't. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Idea? Well?
Speaker 2: Was it big? Was it big in proportion to him?
Speaker 2: Or was it a.
Speaker 3: Position to comment? Because I think he's a.
Speaker 1: Have You don't work at his house?
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Speaker 1: We had a guy on when I used to do
Speaker 1: in Mountain stuff. He came on an event there and
Speaker 1: for some reason we end up talking about Ray Meers
Speaker 1: and he was saying that, you know, he reckons, he's
Speaker 1: a survival expert and all of that, but you know
Speaker 1: my cousin, he's a plumber, and he went to fix
Speaker 1: a boiler at his house. And if he's got a
Speaker 1: boiler there, how much of a survival expert can he be?
Speaker 1: And you know, just somebody said something that stayed with you.
Speaker 2: Well, it's sort of it's not wrong, it's just not
Speaker 2: a modern survival is he? Like? Urban urban survival is
Speaker 2: also a technique. You know this is true.
Speaker 1: We you survived so far despite the best efforts of
Speaker 1: what you've said to those people.
Speaker 2: Ah, there's a there's a certain Arguably the British country
Speaker 2: side is not that dangerous. The the urban, uh, the
Speaker 2: urban side of thing could often be very dangerous, and
Speaker 2: you do need to know how to navigate yourself in
Speaker 2: in such situations. Should should someone be shouting at pigeons
Speaker 2: in the street, you should probably cross the road or
Speaker 2: avoid that person. So there is a yeah, there is
Speaker 2: a survival part of that.
Speaker 1: Whereas it in a rural area, if somebody shouting at pigeons,
Speaker 1: it's probably Jeff Garrett with his great big tashe sorry,
Speaker 1: that was a reference for like seventeen people. I think,
Speaker 1: who know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I've never met Jeff. I'd quite like to meet him.
Speaker 2: He looks like a fun he looks like a fun character.
Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like he's either going to
Speaker 2: be one of two things. For one, he might just
Speaker 2: talk about pigeons a lot, and then I'll just my
Speaker 2: eyes will glaze over and I'll just die, or it
Speaker 2: would just be a nice It'll just be a nice geezer.
Speaker 2: And I think it's probably the latter.
Speaker 1: What's the strangest thing you found in a forest? Nick?
Speaker 3: That's what I asked me, an easy one. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just put it on to find strange in it,
Speaker 3: because what some peoples find strange strange normal. I'm going
Speaker 3: to dure the brain back a bit. Hang on, bodies
Speaker 3: are quite fun, not human bodies, but you often find.
Speaker 1: Like you have to clarify that qualify that I.
Speaker 3: Find I've found most of the mini but it was
Speaker 3: but it wasn't actually in which end, the chassy end,
Speaker 3: as in it was upside down about one hundred yards
Speaker 3: down a bank, and I thought, I know what you've done?
Speaker 3: And I did think, do you know what? That's an
Speaker 3: A series engine in there?
Speaker 1: And it is that?
Speaker 3: No, Nick, is not worth it. Just just gonna get
Speaker 3: some from somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Can we go back on bodies? What bodies are we
Speaker 2: finding in the woods? You can't really leave that there
Speaker 2: and be like, oh, not human bodies and they're not
Speaker 2: what speed do.
Speaker 3: You come across bones? You thought, well, it's not a
Speaker 3: sheep and it's probably not a deer, and I'm not
Speaker 3: entirely sure what it will. Just leave it there.
Speaker 2: Two per cobra. Panther. Oh there's always, there's.
Speaker 3: Always like I've definitely seen a panther on my way
Speaker 3: home from the pub at about three o'clock in the morning. Yes,
Speaker 3: you did.
Speaker 2: Do you know if there was ever a place that
Speaker 2: I thought there might be a panther and it was
Speaker 2: believable the foresteding, i'd kind of I'd get it. You know.
Speaker 2: It's when you see like jaguars in in by rivers
Speaker 2: that's not that far off? What that's not far off?
Speaker 2: What part of the river y looks like in places
Speaker 2: where it goes down and it's it's a very big valley,
Speaker 2: and then you've got all these forests around it.
Speaker 1: The same thing.
Speaker 2: Really, yeah, I mean it's it's almost the same. The
Speaker 2: people were just a bit friendly at Lease. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think it's the team is not actually as forestry as
Speaker 3: you think it is, because quite you know, there's three
Speaker 3: big towns for four big towns and there's quite a
Speaker 3: lot of villages and it's quite a small area, so
Speaker 3: there's not much in between, which is why we have
Speaker 3: such a problem with the board because there's so many
Speaker 3: of them, like two thousands or something like that. They well,
Speaker 3: they had to find foods, so they come into the
Speaker 3: into the towns. So I live on the edge of Cinderford,
Speaker 3: but close to the middle as well, and they would
Speaker 3: regularly come and try and get into my garden. They're
Speaker 3: fine at five o'clock in the morning when you go
Speaker 3: to I'm going to go to work.
Speaker 1: Now, ah ship, what's your strategy for dealing with a
Speaker 1: wild boar in your addressing gown Slipper, Run, get beat
Speaker 1: it to death whilst wearing a kimono like Joli unminded beat.
Speaker 3: It to death with a kimono. Is that's going to
Speaker 3: go into the let? It's a kind of uh country slide.
Speaker 3: Things we shouldn't have said and didn't mean I did.
Speaker 3: I jumped in my car and I got the horn
Speaker 3: going and flashed the lights at it into it, charged
Speaker 3: out the car based off it, and then it ran
Speaker 3: off and then all my neighbors woke up and wondered
Speaker 3: what the.
Speaker 2: Noise was are they are they quite dangerous?
Speaker 3: You wouldn't want to make one angry then if you
Speaker 3: ever seen one, can't They're like massive, like three hundred
Speaker 3: kilos of hairy anger.
Speaker 1: It's don't do it. I've lost.
Speaker 2: No, I can't. I can't. There's a mother in law
Speaker 2: a law joke had But you were just jailed straight
Speaker 2: over the top of that because we're a professional podcast.
Speaker 1: So far.
Speaker 2: Have I ever seen one? Only in footage on a
Speaker 2: firm or scope and that will be left exactly as
Speaker 2: it is, so now I haven't actually seen one in
Speaker 2: the flesh. There is there is quite a few, uh
Speaker 2: lak orion in in France. You do have quite a
Speaker 2: lot in the woods there. And also they say, I
Speaker 2: mean there probably are there. There are a lot, a
Speaker 2: lot of big hairy beasts around that area to be
Speaker 2: to be seen. Yeah, I know that they can be
Speaker 2: dangerous if you especially if you get in the way
Speaker 2: and they've got young and stuff like that, you can
Speaker 2: get you get in trouble. Yeah, So we we kept
Speaker 2: fishing and then made sure that we weren't in the
Speaker 2: way of any other ball and whatnot.
Speaker 1: What of our neighbors up here. It's quite a thing
Speaker 1: for Welsh sheep farmers and hill farmers. When you're in
Speaker 1: sort of your late teens or early twenties, you go
Speaker 1: off to New Zealand to go and do a spell
Speaker 1: of work over there. You sort of work shearing there
Speaker 1: or because you know, they're seasons of the opposite two hours,
Speaker 1: so you can do half the year there are half
Speaker 1: that year here. And one of the guys I was
Speaker 1: talking to is saying, oh, yeah, you had a great time.
Speaker 1: But he got obsessed with trying to get with one
Speaker 1: of get one of the wild balls there by dropping
Speaker 1: out of a tree onto it because they can hunt.
Speaker 1: They hunt with sort of dogs and knives and spears
Speaker 1: and guns and things there they do like driven boar
Speaker 1: hunts and chase them through the forest. And he got
Speaker 1: obsessed with this idea of lying in ambush in a
Speaker 1: tree with a knife and a spear so you could
Speaker 1: just drop down out of it on savage it. You're
Speaker 1: telling me this at a pub one night.
Speaker 2: I like the idea of like, did you ever play
Speaker 2: Clasher Clan? So they had the thing called the hog
Speaker 2: Riders where it used to jump over over walls. Two
Speaker 2: people have got that that's fine, but my man and
Speaker 2: my mate did do the advert for it, so you're
Speaker 2: familiar with hog Rudder. That was the That was the advert. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it's been a long day, Honestly, it's been a long day,
Speaker 2: and so the ideas the thing has not been turned down,
Speaker 2: it's only been turned up. And I feel that my
Speaker 2: brain is fragmented to a million pieces with YouTube. But anyway,
Speaker 2: if you're new to.
Speaker 1: Country Slide, maybe you can go back, go back to
Speaker 1: about twelve months before they were this was this is
Speaker 1: one for the fans.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, this is all. Then come back to
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like.
Speaker 2: I like the idea that he just sort of would
Speaker 2: jump on it and it would just go crazy and
Speaker 2: he'd just sort of ride it through the through the
Speaker 2: wood a short period before dying obviously.
Speaker 1: But you've got to survive the fall, not getting paled
Speaker 1: by your own weapons, and then fight the ball.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even like, I'm mid thirties now, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: even like to bet on my knees jumping from a tree.
Speaker 2: I sneezed in bed the other day. I nearly ended
Speaker 2: the world for me. It was so I don't fancy
Speaker 2: my chances, but perhaps someone with better hypermobility could do
Speaker 2: such a thing to.
Speaker 3: See how dangerous they are. We needs to have one
Speaker 3: of those, do you know. It's roboflail things, so it's
Speaker 3: like a radio controlled tour carrier. And it had a
Speaker 3: big flare on the front. You send no bomb for
Speaker 3: me when some other people make one.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're very very they're great fun to rent.
Speaker 3: They're great fun. We had one for a little while.
Speaker 3: I Might was out newsing it in a wood and
Speaker 3: he's sitting this boar. He's in it before she's in him,
Speaker 3: and he thought, oh, I just I'll get myself between
Speaker 3: her and the machine. That's the safest place to be.
Speaker 3: He hadn't realized was that she didn't give a shit
Speaker 3: about that machine. And she charged and so he kept moving.
Speaker 3: So he kept he kept going round the machine, and
Speaker 3: in the end he had to start running backwards. And
Speaker 3: as he's getting backwards, he looked behind him and there
Speaker 3: was there was a deer fence behind him. So he
Speaker 3: had nowhere to go. There's like hundreds of meters of
Speaker 3: deer fence behind him. But he's a boy. There was
Speaker 3: a strainer. So Mark is he's about the same ey
Speaker 3: as me, so He's not very tall, but he's stock.
Speaker 3: He mustly like a hook or a prop forward that
Speaker 3: side of thing. Anyway, he basically ran vertically up this
Speaker 3: post in a display of athleticism. I didn't think he
Speaker 3: was actually capable of and almost stood on top of
Speaker 3: it while she was there pulling the ground underneath him.
Speaker 3: And then she just sort of shook herself and ran
Speaker 3: off like she'd made the point. So I'm not sure
Speaker 3: i'd dropped down on the ball from the free.
Speaker 2: Literally face to face with a with an angry boar
Speaker 2: sounds it's terrifying.
Speaker 3: I've been chased a couple of times to open run fast,
Speaker 3: So is that the tactic? Like out and you don't die.
Speaker 3: I hope you're faster than the boar. I hope the
Speaker 3: boar gets bored before you run out of steam.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Calum and I are going to be down in
Speaker 1: the kind of vicinity within an hour? Review next week,
Speaker 1: next week, after next, isn't it?
Speaker 2: We're going to be what do we threaten to do?
Speaker 2: Take a picture outside their house and then leave? What
Speaker 2: was it?
Speaker 3: That's not my.
Speaker 2: Dress? As a boar and rabbage for his.
Speaker 3: You're not big enough to dress them? You have to
Speaker 3: both be in the same costume to make it even
Speaker 3: remotely the same size.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be the front.
Speaker 1: Ah got there ahead of me, so yeah, we could
Speaker 1: stop in for a swift visit to the Forest of Dean.
Speaker 1: That although it's on my way home, it's not at
Speaker 1: all on the way home between Bristol and.
Speaker 2: Thresol, so it's possibly local.
Speaker 1: It is local. It is across on the other side
Speaker 1: of the River seven and the bridge and all of that,
Speaker 1: so you do have to go quite a long way.
Speaker 1: You have to briefly go into Wales.
Speaker 3: You could go in Gloucester and see at the go
Speaker 3: top of the river.
Speaker 1: I don't like it around there though. It's too close
Speaker 1: to Chukes brief for me and I might get flooded.
Speaker 3: Just keep driving.
Speaker 1: Do you ever just nip out to that really nice
Speaker 1: services near Gloucester? The new one?
Speaker 3: No, I know, the one you mean. I can't think
Speaker 3: it's cool now, the.
Speaker 1: One that's basically a hobbit hole.
Speaker 3: It's a south version of that wedding by Carlisle that
Speaker 3: is named Briefly Escape Me TV. I wanted to say
Speaker 3: tenB I knew I wasn't right. The one that does
Speaker 3: nice pies it's like the safe version of that.
Speaker 1: You know that the podcast has reached its highest point
Speaker 1: when we're now reminiscing about what's your favorite service station?
Speaker 2: I vote anyone with Bridge is always always like a
Speaker 2: service station for Bridge, something about it, like magic.
Speaker 1: Because it's got its own air traffic control tower for
Speaker 1: no reason whatsoever. I think it's Fulton. Write in and
Speaker 1: tell us if I'm correct.
Speaker 2: Oh what a day.
Speaker 3: This is what.
Speaker 1: We didn't actually find out what you've been doing? Callum?
Speaker 1: You know who you were with?
Speaker 3: What are.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Whose blood is that.
Speaker 2: It is? I think this is the second time I've
Speaker 2: been covered in blood this week.
Speaker 1: It's not been yours either time. However, No, So.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the week was of course, so I was
Speaker 2: at the cult face of conservation deermanaging. I was photographing,
Speaker 2: but I also get stuck in on occasions. This occasion
Speaker 2: was one of those occasions, and I covered myself in
Speaker 2: blood because we shot a red which is a lot
Speaker 2: of admin in terms of dragging and skinning and all
Speaker 2: of that jazz. So yeah, that was last week, and
Speaker 2: then this week and shooting Times piece about how important
Speaker 2: it is to shoot the roads and did that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: do you know I'm going to put the picture in
Speaker 2: the group, but I carried it out on my rucksack.
Speaker 1: Photography.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like an American. I've also got a portrait session
Speaker 2: tomorrow in in central London with a client that manages
Speaker 2: a hedge fund, and it's.
Speaker 1: An actual hedge fund, not just pissing around with Hazel
Speaker 1: like Richard does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no stake in, no binding, like actual real money stuff.
Speaker 2: And I'm yeah, I'm doing that tomorrow. So I need
Speaker 2: to at some point wipe the blood off of all
Speaker 2: of my things so I can pretend to be a
Speaker 2: real human tomorrow, which is an interesting, interesting thing. Also,
Speaker 2: being covered in blood is bad because I don't currently
Speaker 2: have a washing machine because the kitchen has been ripped
Speaker 2: out something leaked ages ago and the insurance company is
Speaker 2: sorting it out, and my whole kitchen got ripped out
Speaker 2: and I don't have that was where the washing machine,
Speaker 2: So I don't have a washing machine. So for the
Speaker 2: past week I've just had blood soaked clothes with lots
Speaker 2: of people refusing to put them in their washing machine. Eventually,
Speaker 2: I believe somebody will crack and they'll be like, I'll
Speaker 2: take the blood soak clothes and I'll put them in
Speaker 2: the washing machine. Well, hopefully this is why you've got
Speaker 2: so many shirts.
Speaker 1: Isn't it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean it does help. I need to
Speaker 2: I need to look like a smart boy tomorrow. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah, I'm going to have to do that
Speaker 2: my kitchen.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So it's it's currently Tuesday. They we got told that
Speaker 2: somebody was coming to The whole thing has to be
Speaker 2: completely removed and they're going to rebuild it and put
Speaker 2: it back because they need to sort this damp issue
Speaker 2: from a leak that happened. The guy got an email,
Speaker 2: the builder. He got an email, and the email said,
Speaker 2: on Monday, come in with Tyler. Removed the kitchen. And
Speaker 2: that's that.
Speaker 1: It's Tyler, a profession or a name.
Speaker 2: Ah, this is where it gets interesting. So he happens
Speaker 2: to have a his niece that he works with is
Speaker 2: called Tyler. So they've removed the kitchen units and all
Speaker 2: the stuff, and the man comes and does that will
Speaker 2: Tyler is on a some kind of pneumatic drill thing,
Speaker 2: smashing all the tiles out of the floor. And it
Speaker 2: was only when he was halfway through that he read
Speaker 2: the email properly and realized that it was the following
Speaker 2: Monday that the Tyler and not his understudy Tyler, was
Speaker 2: to snatch up the floor. So there's floor tiles like,
Speaker 2: there's floor tiles the whole way to the back door
Speaker 2: that are like little shards of glass, And nobody was
Speaker 2: coming until yesterday. So I had a whole week of
Speaker 2: having to use a different door to get round the
Speaker 2: back just to let the dog for a week and
Speaker 2: essentially turned my whole kitchen into into like a danger
Speaker 2: zone because Tyler and Tyler got mixed up.
Speaker 1: How was this problem presented to you? Was it was it?
Speaker 1: Did he sort of have his hat his hat in
Speaker 1: his hands like an old Victorian?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a mix up, mate, You see what's
Speaker 2: just happened there? Well, I thought it said Tyler, and
Speaker 2: it was actually the Tyler. Thankfully, Roger the Tyler is
Speaker 2: a good guy, and Tyler the other person, didn't do
Speaker 2: that much damage, but it could have been a lot worse. Thankfully,
Speaker 2: he didn't smash any of the floorboards underneath or anything.
Speaker 2: But you've done a good job. You got half of
Speaker 2: them up.
Speaker 1: So you're an eternal optimist, aren't you.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think you have to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's some things are sent to test you,
Speaker 2: and there seems to be a lot of things at
Speaker 2: the moment that are working their forces. There'll be a
Speaker 2: stage in my life where something catastrophic will happen and
Speaker 2: I'll just be sitting there, just chill as anything, because
Speaker 2: you know, I've seen it all. You know, like those
Speaker 2: there are people that have seen horrendous things in war
Speaker 2: and then something something terrible presents itself in front of
Speaker 2: them and they just sort of slowly drag a cigarette
Speaker 2: and I'm like, yeah, it's nothing that that would be me.
Speaker 2: You're basically French now, then yeah, I need to start smoking.
Speaker 1: Can imagine you with a galois.
Speaker 2: More of a Rowley? Right?
Speaker 1: So, before we bring this incident of a show into land, Sorry, Nick,
Speaker 1: is there anything you'd like the public to think about,
Speaker 1: to know, or to just do after listening to this show?
Speaker 3: Well? Probably, I think that they're just going to have
Speaker 3: to reflect, aren't they, on what they've heard? And I
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know. I have no words quite honestly, for.
Speaker 1: You're all here, you're all witness to this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very rarely lost for words. This has done it.
Speaker 1: Shared trauma. I think It doesn't help by fact that
Speaker 1: whilst you're saying this, callum is picking his teeth with
Speaker 1: his business with his Lloyd's TSB business card.
Speaker 2: Number one bank for farmers is Lloyd's. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 2: Dear God.
Speaker 1: Right after show now please bye