WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.040 I'm interested. What did your school report say about you? 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:08.320 I don't think any of it was particularly good. How 3 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:13.960 do you say little bastard? Professionally? Those words whatever that 4 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:18.079 is was pretty much what was in my school report challenging. 5 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:27.879 You know, I'm bumped into my head so that she 6 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:29.960 was like my head of not year, what is it? 7 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.880 She was like my form tuotor, Yeah, she was my form. 8 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:34.119 I bumped into her. 9 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:38.240 She was also head of house. Yes at school Callum 10 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:40.439 went to yeah, Griffin or mate. 11 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:47.079 I bumped into her a long while afterwards, and notorious 12 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:52.679 for the behavior that I had. And also she was 13 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:57.600 an English teacher, so I didn't really apply myself particularly 14 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:01.280 at school. And then she ask me what I was 15 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:05.840 doing now? If I could bottle the I could paint 16 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:11.319 the picture. When I told her I was a professional journalist, 17 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.680 that was that was quite something that I was working 18 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.319 in London as a professional journalist. Since she was like, 19 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:22.680 oh you really so yeah. 20 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.000 I didn't know Razal had journalists. 21 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:28.239 George Sport what what is your I mean we had 22 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.920 house masters. What did your house master have you? In 23 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.000 his mind's eye? What did he think that the young 24 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:38.079 George Brown was going to be imprisoned. 25 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:46.480 I think probably he was not my biggest fan, if 26 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.480 I'm completely honest, and the feeling was mutual. We did 27 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.560 not get on at all well, and so my singular 28 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.760 lack of success so far in life would probably have 29 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:58.640 come as no surprise to him whatsoever. 30 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.959 Which is, well, what do they have you marked out 31 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:02.840 as at school? 32 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:04.599 Which the bit I got kicked out of? The bit 33 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:05.359 I didn't get kicked? 34 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:09.560 I think the first one is a marker of success. 35 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.039 I think I think the first, the second. 36 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:20.199 The second. I remember my physics teacher when I spectacularly 37 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:23.719 failed my A two level whatever they were called, because 38 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.280 it was like the second half of it, he just 39 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.120 said I was a massive disappointment to him. Five years 40 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:33.120 later I saw him selling light bulbs at a Eco 41 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:36.039 light bulbs at the sort of the village Fate. So 42 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:37.680 I don't know how that works. I don't know what 43 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:40.840 his marker of success was, but I'm sure we both 44 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:46.560 disappointed each other. So with with disappointment in mind, should 45 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.639 we try and work out what actually happened at the 46 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.439 game fair? Because I know we sort of we normally do, oh, 47 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:52.919 who's come to the game fair? And we do a 48 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.680 bit and then we never mentioned afterwards. I sort of 49 00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:58.280 lost track of where you all went at the game fair, 50 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.159 but I knows some something happen, so I think we 51 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:02.400 need to sort of an after. 52 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:05.599 Action report here, a blow by blow. 53 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:07.360 If that's what happened, that's what happened to. 54 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.479 Yeah, I had no blowing never mind that. Okay, the 55 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.159 highlights for me it was on the Friday. I think 56 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.280 that it was largely that, rather than just being perpetually 57 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.080 at the GWCT stand last year, is that Claire and 58 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.639 I were let off the leash and we just went 59 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:35.719 out as a sort of normal couple, wandering around and 60 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.479 taking it all in. And it was in its way 61 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.680 a delight. And you do realize that you get stopped 62 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:45.199 by loads of people and you can say, oh, I haven't 63 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:47.039 seeing your phrases. And I think that's the best thing 64 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.439 about the game thing, is that you do catch up 65 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:52.520 with people who you haven't seen for a year, but 66 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:54.319 they might have read your stuff or listened to what 67 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.319 we do on this dark podcast of ours and stuff 68 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.759 like that, and you realize, oh, that's actually were worth it. 69 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.960 And then on the we did some sort of proper 70 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:10.400 journalism stuff of interviewing people which was quite cool. And 71 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.960 then on the Saturday I realized, then the the Friday 72 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:17.839 is a delight but the Saturday is just a really 73 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.759 really busy thing. We went to some posh drinks parties 74 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.480 which we were actually invited to do. More on that 75 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.879 later and they were quite cool. I went to one 76 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:38.519 up actually at the Hall, which also Callum was invited to, 77 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.160 but we'd gone by then because we'd actually left Charlie 78 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.600 and his and his sidekick in a hot car because 79 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.279 we said you're not coming because we'd been previously. Yes, 80 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.000 we'd been to the Shuffle drinks party before that and 81 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.000 Charlie had tried to half inch the beers that were on. 82 00:04:58.120 --> 00:04:58.839 Yes, I saw that. 83 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.560 Yeah, he put me an bag. So we vetoed him 84 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:05.000 coming to the Fields drinks party up at the at 85 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:07.519 the Hall because that would have been a bit dangerous. 86 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:07.920 Spirit. 87 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.199 Yeah, if he had actually started nicking things off the 88 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.800 sort of Earl of Hartford, that probably would have been 89 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.439 sort of career over. So that was it. It was 90 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:22.360 largely one of delightful Friday, far too busy Saturday, and 91 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:24.680 we went to and do you know what, I didn't 92 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:28.959 buy anything inappropriate or silly that I got back and thought, 93 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:33.319 what the hell's this thing even do? In fact, the 94 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:39.639 only thing I think I did buy was an expensive sausage. 95 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.000 I heard you could buy such things. 96 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:48.240 I thought they were in It was a Herefordshire sort 97 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:52.399 of salami type thing. Because the guys there, they there 98 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.120 was down in the food area and they were a 99 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:57.120 bit quiet, and they clearly put all this effort into it, 100 00:05:57.360 --> 00:05:59.639 and they gave me loads of samples, and you know, 101 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:00.160 you feel. 102 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.240 You get not guilted into it, but you do feel 103 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:05.000 bad for something. 104 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:08.040 You think, yes, callum, I did you just thought you've 105 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.279 put a huge Amoun's effort in this, and love and 106 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:14.920 passion and skill. And also I'd spoken to George the 107 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.399 day before about that he was planning to make these sausages, 108 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.279 and I thought, I need an excuse not to have 109 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:24.480 one of his sausages that he's going to me. So 110 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:27.959 therefore I bought them off a professional rather than getting dysentery. 111 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.879 So I got offered one of these sausages. This was 112 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:33.120 a slightly warm one. 113 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.199 That's a different sassage. 114 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.920 You'll be George's just slightly warm sausage. 115 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.040 You'll be pleased to hear Richard that I managed to 116 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:47.240 resist buying the sausage machine, so everyone's safe another year. 117 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.319 We did have this image just as George go back 118 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:57.560 because he was flying solo, won't and we will find 119 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.399 out about what happens when George flies solo and laces 120 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:04.680 without adult supervision. And just this image of him buying 121 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.879 a sausage maker, every single thing that can sort of 122 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:13.439 turn meat into then sort of gristled up stuff. And 123 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.240 I just had this image of George covered in sausage 124 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:21.920 skins and gristle and minced up meat for the next 125 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:25.879 six weeks as he starts experimenting with all this stuff. 126 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.759 Do you ever try? Have you ever tried to make sausages? 127 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:31.199 Yes? 128 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:35.399 I tried. How difficult it is to go into that skin? Well, 129 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.560 the imagery of amateur sausage making, it's also how I 130 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:43.519 feel like I look in a white T shirt like 131 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.000 that kind of like so has badly packed it in. 132 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.439 Every time I see a woman in an ill fitting 133 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.279 white dress, all I think is amateur hour at the 134 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.639 sausage factory. 135 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:55.920 I like. 136 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.759 I like the idea that sausage factories have an amateur 137 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:00.639 urt when people can just turn and have a go. 138 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:04.120 Yeah, like an open mic map. 139 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:12.160 Yeah, g Q in sausage making. 140 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:15.000 So to tell the wider story of this, because sort 141 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:19.720 of Callum George and I and Amy silently, we have 142 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.560 sort of this inter networking of adventures where we almost 143 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.600 need to release a map like they used to do 144 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.360 with certain you know, certain books. You know you'd have 145 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:30.199 you turned to the middle for the map and you 146 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:32.200 can see where all these things are happening. We need 147 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:33.039 to do that for sort. 148 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:36.639 Of the middle of warrants, sort of military. 149 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.000 Yes, we used to do that in sharp novels. So 150 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.120 just imagine that in your head. With this, we're converging 151 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.639 on a camp site somewhere near Evesham, which wasn't going 152 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.639 well because it turns out that Google Maps did an 153 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.960 update that week and just sent everyone down stupid side roads. 154 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:54.720 And if you're listening to this and you think, yes, 155 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:57.200 my Google Maps was stupid that week, yeah, apparently it 156 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.200 was a thing where they just it just started randomly 157 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.279 sending people down stupid routes even though there were ten 158 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:06.360 minutes longer. And that's what we had all the way there, 159 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:07.159 and I think you did as well. 160 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:09.240 I did have exactly the same experience, and I found 161 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.679 myself thinking, I know, I'm near the end four because 162 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.159 I can see signposts to it, but I don't seem 163 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:16.440 to be able to get on it. 164 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:19.320 Got to the campsite, Georgie was already there, and I 165 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:21.720 want to paint a picture of you listeners. In the 166 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:25.039 corner of the campsite with caravans either side. There is 167 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.799 a five meter bell tent, one of those big canvas 168 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:32.120 campaign tents, with a mustached man sat in front of 169 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:36.159 it wearing a pink shearer's vest, shorts and flip flops, 170 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:40.559 which you know there's an image for that for patrons only. 171 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.720 But it was a strong way to start the weekend 172 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.399 and it sort of went downhill from there, really, didn't it. 173 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.639 I think it went uphill. Certainly I got smarter. 174 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:57.200 You did well. Also. You had to go and put 175 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.200 real clothes on when we went to the pub that night, 176 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:00.840 because we went to the pub at the campsite and 177 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:02.799 it was a bit shit, so we went off to 178 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.559 a better pub. Which are we going to give away 179 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:06.600 the location of this the. 180 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:08.679 Best pub, because I would like us to be able 181 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:12.240 to camp there next year instead of the campsite that 182 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.320 we were at. 183 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.440 So let's go for the descriptors then instead in the 184 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.279 village where most of the rules were thatched And what's 185 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.600 the thing you'll know this niggas. What's the thing with 186 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.320 the animals on the top. What are they called? 187 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.799 Do you know what? I don't know the precise name. 188 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:36.000 I think Chris Dodson told me that they were something 189 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.840 like icons. I think they were called that's the term 190 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:41.919 they use for them. 191 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:42.759 That would make sense. 192 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.879 But he has told me some of the bizarre things 193 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.720 that he's been asked by thatched house owners to put on, 194 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.360 one of which was a ballerina of all things. 195 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.440 Produce it in the notes, Amy has just said they 196 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:56.440 are called finials. 197 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.399 Apparently see some like hunting and cheer, so they probably 198 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:03.600 that's how they pronounce finials. 199 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:08.039 So just evening sun walking across the village square, there's 200 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:11.840 church bells going, there's thatch roofs everywhere. Walking up towards 201 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:15.960 the fifteenth century pub with Morris dancing happening in the 202 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.559 tithe barn next to it. We walked through the orchard 203 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.840 to the outdoor dining area. Open the menu and it says, well, 204 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.440 we make our own sider and we've won many awards 205 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:28.600 for our pies. Inside there was a folk music session happening, 206 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.519 and the staff could not have been nicer, I think, 207 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.519 the possibly the nicest human beings on earth. And we 208 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:40.679 went for supper with Avian and his wife, which was 209 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.679 I think I was happier that evening than I have 210 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:47.120 been all year, although for about two thirds of this 211 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.159 year so far I have been dying. 212 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.120 I was going to say, for a year when you 213 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:55.720 nearly lost your leg and the doctors turn around and 214 00:11:55.919 --> 00:12:00.440 say we might save the leg, is let's be perfect, honest. 215 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.559 Anything after that is. 216 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.639 Probably coming up Millhouse. 217 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:09.120 Yeah, exactly. So what was your highlights? George? 218 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.440 Of the of the game fare? 219 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.039 It was a flying sony. 220 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:14.879 It was a bit of a strange game fare for 221 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.440 me because in most of the other most of the 222 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.960 other years that I've been there, I have been tied 223 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.399 to a stand and I have never really been able 224 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:26.840 to explore properly. Last year I wasn't, but I literally 225 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:29.600 just did. I turned up for a podcast recording and 226 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.879 then naffed off again. Really, so this year, what were 227 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:36.720 my highlights? So for the Guns on Pegs podcast, I 228 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:40.759 interviewed Carlo Barretta, who is the next in line to 229 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:46.559 the Barretta business name. So his dad is running at 230 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:48.879 the show at the moment, and he was there representing 231 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.679 Bretta for the five hundred year anniversary of the company, 232 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.840 which is an astonishingly long time for anything to be 233 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:55.440 going on. 234 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:59.879 For it, am I Ryan saying it's the oldest family 235 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:02.440 owned company in Europe. 236 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:04.399 It would certainly be up there. There's not many companies 237 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.279 that have been going for that long, are there. So 238 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:10.679 that was really interesting and he was a consummate professional. 239 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:16.240 We then did our Gunspace podcast live show, which was 240 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.120 the one I've enjoyed the most out of all the 241 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:21.320 live shows we've done standing ramonely in the Game Fair Theater, 242 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:26.039 but actually I think And then on Saturday night I 243 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:32.360 attended the Bretta dinner up at the House, which was well. 244 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.960 The invitation said that it was formal evening dress, which 245 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.919 I interpreted as black tie, but it turned out that 246 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:46.639 very few other people had done so I would say 247 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.360 maybe ten percent of the people there were in black tie, 248 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:53.159 and I was one of that ten percent. But that 249 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.440 was all very fun and it was wonderful walking up 250 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:00.879 from the park where the showground is, up the steps 251 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:05.159 into the very formal garden with thee with the string 252 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.440 quartet playing and everybody having champagne and cocktail. You had 253 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.080 a bond film, it felt like it. Yes, I did 254 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:13.519 have a sort of mental soundtrack. 255 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:18.480 Don't think they had a host pipe band in that garden? 256 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:19.120 Did they know? 257 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:21.879 It was lush, wasn't it? 258 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:22.480 Do you know? 259 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.320 When we went into the Fields Drinks do there on 260 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:31.440 the Friday there was a I assumed that they holding 261 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.960 hands a gay couple in front of us, and from 262 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.279 the back one of these chaps looked exactly like Jeff Goldblum, 263 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.159 and they had as you walked up, various members of 264 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:46.120 the sort of household staff of Ragley Hall sort of 265 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:49.679 welcome you and sort of ushering you it because you 266 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:52.120 apparently you can't walk in a straight line without someone 267 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.200 pointing whether you've got to carry on walking in a 268 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.919 straight line to get to where your host is. And 269 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:00.200 I said to him, did you see that was Jeff Goldblum? 270 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.519 And he went was he? And I went, yeah, it's 271 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.919 definitely Jeff Goldblum and he goes, I didn't know he 272 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.600 was gay. I thought I have now just started a 273 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.399 ring with Jeff. Is to say of a crab joke 274 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:19.159 to a chap who works at Ragley or sorry, Jeff. 275 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:21.960 Yeah, if it was at Goodwood or something like that, 276 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:24.679 that would be more expected because there's all sorts of 277 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.360 random celebrities there hiding away in corners of the house. 278 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.799 A friend of mine was at a thing at Goodwood 279 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:34.879 at the revival and went went off somewhere into the 280 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:36.840 house to try and find a quiet room to fart 281 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:38.960 in because he just sort of stepped out of the corridor. 282 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.559 He stepped into this room and there's Keanu Reeves sat 283 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.320 on a sofa and he sort of he didn't know 284 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.279 whether to hold it in or just carry on or 285 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:47.960 just sort of sort of nod him back out. 286 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:53.879 Please please tell me you just crop dusted in and left. 287 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.279 He's a good He's a good man. Don't crop dusty. 288 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:00.840 Sorry, Nigel, I just had the story of when you 289 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:02.519 accidentally shouted on Keanu Roufs. 290 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:05.440 But actually I think all of that was all very fun. 291 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:07.879 But I thought that the most fun was actually Friday, 292 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.159 when we were just sort of biffing around the showground, 293 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:12.919 chatting to people and looking at stuff and completing our 294 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.960 bingo cardshit a. 295 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.440 Pink T shirt that said Hello Cows on it, so 296 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:20.080 the bingo card. I think we need to sort of 297 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.399 address that We didn't get into trouble with it, but 298 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.200 I put quite a few sort of shooting world celebrities 299 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.159 scattered across it that they didn't know about. And I've 300 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.480 had a lot of messages since from people saying what 301 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:36.080 is this fucking bingo card? And why is my name 302 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:40.039 on it? From people of varying degrees. We also started 303 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.399 giving them out to stallholders, and I know for a 304 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:46.519 fact that the bizarrely present and no one quite knows 305 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:50.879 why Restore Britain stand were given again a countryside bingo cards. 306 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:55.840 They were playing bingo, although it may have been one 307 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.720 of the forestry people who just sent me a photo 308 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:06.559 of that. Ah, but we sort of infected the show 309 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:09.960 and people were saying, what's this T shirt thing? And 310 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.960 I think Hamish from Gilly on the first day said, oh, 311 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:14.519 I've had a couple of your people here, and then 312 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.000 on by the end of Saturday he said I've had 313 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:19.000 a lot of your people here and I'm not and 314 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.720 it was sort of loaded with a lot of your people. 315 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:23.359 I don't know quite what he meant by. 316 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:28.400 We don't know, we don't we're not responsible for them. 317 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:33.759 I was particularly pleased with the not only the number 318 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:38.559 of T shirts I saw, but the cues outside Hugo 319 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:42.279 Campbell Hills Place the game GluN. 320 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:44.440 Yes, for the game. 321 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:49.599 Fair, there seems to be a distinct lack of people 322 00:17:50.119 --> 00:17:54.039 selling game I mean you observed it, George, didn't you 323 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.359 was that there was a reason for that? And why 324 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:57.960 did you think it was that? 325 00:17:57.960 --> 00:17:58.440 That was? 326 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:06.519 Well, this is conjecture and hearsay rather than concrete. But 327 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:10.640 I think that just the costs are incredibly high. I 328 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:17.920 think there's they take a feel and I think the 329 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:22.920 there's not actually that many game suppliers who are set 330 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.599 up to be able to do shows. And I think 331 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.359 what actually happens quite a lot is that people use 332 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:31.799 the game fare as a sort of stepping stone to 333 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:36.000 other things in their in their business. So if you 334 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.240 think of the likes of Kayak Brin and those sorts 335 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:42.960 of people, they will have done the game fair many 336 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:45.680 years ago. But it's sort of a way of making 337 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:47.880 a bit of a name for yourself and then moving 338 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.720 your business on so you don't have to give a 339 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:54.000 big chunk of your takings away to whoever happens to 340 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:54.880 be running the show. 341 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:01.359 Yeah, I think the costumes were crazy for a stand, 342 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:05.680 but I think for if you weren't selling cheesy chips 343 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.599 for ten quid and you're actually selling quality food, I 344 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:10.519 would have thought you'd done quite well. 345 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:14.240 Looking at the just the Hugo and the game gluttered 346 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:18.039 and what they did. He he went through seven hundred 347 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:23.119 and forty four pheasants and sixty partridges over three days. 348 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:24.480 We should explain. 349 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.359 Substantial amount of bird flesh. 350 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.559 We should explain what he was doing. So we had 351 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:33.480 a breakfast menu. Was a pluck muffin that was delicious. 352 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.920 I had one of those, it was fantastic. And then 353 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:41.279 he was doing the pheasant smash taco Swarmer thing. Yeah, 354 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:46.640 basically a like a wrap squashed up pheasants stuff in 355 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:49.720 it with some lettuce and a delicious sauce and lots 356 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:53.799 of pickles. It was amazing. I didn't get to eat one, 357 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:58.400 but yeah, everybody else said it was fantastic. So yeah, 358 00:19:58.480 --> 00:19:59.599 that's what Hugo was doing. 359 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:04.039 I'm very pleased that one of our loyal listeners and 360 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:09.799 patrons managed to maximize on his top quality product. That 361 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:13.720 was really good. What was the most stupid thing that 362 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:16.359 you saw for sale at the game fair today? 363 00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:17.759 But I have an answer for that. Hang on a 364 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:23.440 second I can show you. 365 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:24.079 Yes, physical evidence. 366 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:30.200 Oh wonderful, loyal listeners. George Brown is holding up? Have 367 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:31.400 you become a Viking? 368 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:32.680 Or what is that? Yeah? 369 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:36.839 It's a drinking horn. It's so big I can't get 370 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:37.839 it in the shop. 371 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:40.079 Wow. 372 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:43.200 Yes, should we get should we get the jokes out 373 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:44.799 of the way now? So he's got the horn? 374 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.119 The horn, Yeah, he's got and it's in his hand. 375 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.119 So so George has bought, actually bought one of the 376 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.440 more silly things. Richard, What did you see, stupid? 377 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:56.400 Richard? 378 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:57.079 What did you see? 379 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:57.200 That? 380 00:20:57.319 --> 00:20:57.440 Was? 381 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:02.799 You thought that? Who's going to buy that? I I 382 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:05.200 didn't buy much myself, actually because I was too busy 383 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:09.480 doing other things, mostly getting free drinks and breaking into places. 384 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:14.039 But I there was the usual stuff, and you sort 385 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:15.720 of think, you know, I have no idea, who's going 386 00:21:15.720 --> 00:21:17.759 to buy that? Who's going to spend seven hundred pounds 387 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.319 on a waterproof that is about half as good as 388 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:24.039 warn and cottswat outdoor and things like that. There was 389 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:26.359 one guy actually was trying to track him down and 390 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:28.599 I never did find him and it really bugged me. 391 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:34.640 Which was neurodiverse pyrography, which I don't I want to 392 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:38.359 know what's neurodiverse? Is it sort of autistic or ADHD 393 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:43.039 person or is it you know which, hello friend? Or 394 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.519 is it jittery pirography? I don't know, like what's what's 395 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:50.839 the neurodiverse bit about it? Because does Callum do neurodiverse 396 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:52.119 marketing and photography? 397 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:54.359 I will if it gets me a few. 398 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.279 I like to think that all of the pyrography is 399 00:21:57.319 --> 00:21:58.440 sort of half finished. 400 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:02.319 You started, it. 401 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:06.240