WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:02.839 What sort of song would you like me to sing? 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:05.919 Callum, Do you know any R and B songs? 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:08.679 No? No, I'll be honest. 4 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:15.839 I don't Rugby and buggery. I thought R. 5 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:20.359 And B was like the Rolling Stones, but I discover. 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:21.640 It's rock and or roll. 7 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:24.519 Can you say the rolling Stones again, please with the audience, 8 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.320 Rolling stones, stones stones. 9 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:33.159 The ray in Spain falls mostly on the plane. 10 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.479 The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane. 11 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.359 I swear the more public speaking you're doing, the more 12 00:00:40.359 --> 00:00:43.119 and more you're sounding like Olivia Coleman pretending to be 13 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.079 the Queen Ah. 14 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:49.159 The water in the same room, the water in the 15 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:51.359 yorka don't taste like white al. 16 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.880 Well, Olivia. Olivia Coleman to find to find the accent 17 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.840 had to say to say yes, you have to say ears, yes. 18 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:04.519 Yes, oh I've had friends who speak like that. Do 19 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:11.640 you know Sam Carlyle's father, So, Kenneth is absolutely cut glass. 20 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.719 And I remember ones asking him about one of his 21 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:20.799 cabinet colleagues when he was in the John Major cabinet. 22 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:25.319 And he went, oh, yes, yes, he was much how 23 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.519 shall we put it, much more ambitious than me. I 24 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:32.799 was just delighted to be there and I thought, yeah, 25 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.519 that's probably true. Actually, is there just delighted to be there, 26 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:40.640 like so many of these the fashion walk that we 27 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:44.640 saw coming down Downing Street to be given or not 28 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:46.000 their position. 29 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:49.359 In the Burnham thing. Oh god, that was so funny. 30 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.680 It was They're obviously being dressed, haven't they by someone? 31 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.000 Yes, I'm going to sit this cabinet out. I think 32 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:56.519 I'm going to wait for the next one in about 33 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:57.239 six months time. 34 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:58.799 Six months. 35 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:03.239 That long line of churn is getting getting faster every time, 36 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:03.599 isn't it. 37 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:08.199 Yes, Yes, I mean it is for us in our 38 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.039 little country slide world. 39 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:13.039 Eventually we could just get governed by like a stand 40 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.840 up meeting, like a ten o'clock stand up meeting, all 41 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.400 in an office like what we're doing government stuff, and 42 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.879 then someone takes over. Maybe it would be like it'd 43 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.319 be like film sports journal. You will just have like 44 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.000 a guest prime minister every month and you can just 45 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.919 come in and shift to some policies around to just 46 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:31.719 have a crack at it. 47 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.680 Who is your prime minister? Is a prime minister at large? Yes, 48 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.159 it could be anybody you know this week who's prime minister? 49 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:44.479 And will go where's Prudo? A bit Predo's Prime minister 50 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.120 this week. 51 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.319 If you could have if you could have a couple 52 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.520 of people for like a month to be PM, who'd 53 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:56.520 be your first who'd be your top three? 54 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.120 Ian cog Hill because he would just wind up so 55 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:02.840 many people. 56 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:04.400 Solid choice, Yeah. 57 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:11.240 Yeah, I think Will Self the comedian and right ways, 58 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:15.039 not only a comedian, the comic writer, because he's just 59 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:19.199 so dour. And then I would definitely go for the 60 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:26.879 real sensible choice, Andrew Neil, the journalist and pragmatist, because 61 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.599 you get stuff done well exactly, you see, So I'd 62 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:32.280 get those two coming in. So cog Hill would just 63 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.840 go and annoy the wick off all the right people. 64 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.039 Anarchist, pragmatist, wild cards, that's kind of. 65 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.360 What right, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, who are you going 66 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:44.400 to have, Richard? Who's who's your PMS for the for 67 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:45.879 the trio of months? 68 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.319 I would I think first in we'd have Yuan who 69 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.680 does the dodgy plant hire down here in town, because 70 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.080 he's always got an opinion on everything, but he also 71 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:59.599 knows literally where all the bodies are buried. So I 72 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:01.319 just want to see, Well, if you give somebody with 73 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.680 complete local power, what they would do with the country. 74 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:06.439 You know, if they could run it like the Dodgy 75 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.759 plant higher place then where you've got the wood chipper 76 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:14.439 where the all the safety devices have been removed from 77 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:16.319 it because they just got in the way and slowed 78 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.600 everything down. So if you fall in that wood chipper, 79 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.079 you're going in. I want to see how a man 80 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.800 like that would run a defense budget. Who else? This 81 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.160 is the thing celebrities. There's not many you'd want now 82 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.399 because now we know what every celebrity thinks because they're 83 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:36.480 on social media. We found out they're all very dim witted, 84 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.160 apart from anyone we wants as a future guest, in 85 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.360 which case they're marvelous. I'd like to have Hugo Campbell 86 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:48.720 hill Ah yeah, oh yes, just I want to see 87 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.160 what pure creative ADHD could do for a country. Because 88 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.759 they're never allowed in at the proper they're not allowed 89 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.079 in front of cameras and things like that. But Hugo 90 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.160 does manage to be in front of a camera. So 91 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.199 Hugo for PM. We probably need a woman in there 92 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.759 at some point because you know we want to go yeah, 93 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.160 well that'd be our fourth female Prime minister. 94 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.040 Yes, yes, all Tories. 95 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:15.680 So we need a yes we need a conservative who 96 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:16.399 should we have? 97 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:18.279 Uh? 98 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:23.199 This is this is quite telling that I'm struggling to 99 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:26.120 think of a woman I should be I think should 100 00:05:26.120 --> 00:05:28.560 be in power. Can you come back to me on 101 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.879 this when I dig myself out of this hole. Let's 102 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:31.519 do callums? 103 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:33.439 Yes, go on, callum, who are you going to have? 104 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:40.079 I think on the on the woman's subject, the lady 105 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.639 that has what's what's it called Country Food Alliance Coentry 106 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:50.120 Food Trust, the Country Food Trust. Yes, she's just she 107 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.959 just gets things done and she's just a teensy bit 108 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.839 scary that that you just you just know not to 109 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.959 mess with her. So I'm going to I'm going to 110 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:06.000 say her as the as the lady to run things. Also, 111 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:12.160 any London taxi driver doesn't matter which one, because you'll 112 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:17.399 offered the opinion on anything around the government and they 113 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.879 will tell you what the problem with this country is, 114 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.000 whether you want to hear it or not, Like a 115 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.839 proper London taxi driver, not like Ahmed from Uber, like 116 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.360 the old school ones that you've all been in a taxi. 117 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.199 And the pre boris way. 118 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.959 Yeah one. 119 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:40.560 Those guys I've had. 120 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.079 Well, the moment someone says that there's no easy way. 121 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:45.000 There's a no good answer out of that, is there. 122 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.480 It's like saying, when did you stop beating your wife? 123 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:52.839 Yeah, you will always get there, You'll always get that. 124 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:57.879 Some of them are call random left wing as well, strangely, 125 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.759 which you find. Yes, it's an odd mix, but some 126 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.680 of them are quite hard right. But yeah, any London 127 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:05.839 taxi driver, just. 128 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:08.399 Any London taxi driving one. So it's someone in a 129 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:08.920 black cap. 130 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:14.240 And you said about ADHD creatives, and you've got me 131 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:18.079 thinking Marco Pierre White. I just think it would be 132 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.720 just great to let him loose on the. 133 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:22.360 Two chefs we've had then, if you include Hugo. 134 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.279 Yeah, I think I think that their creative energy is 135 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.439 it's just the perfect thing if they can give proper 136 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.839 attention to detail to just about anything. And Marco Pier 137 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.920 White basically completed cooking, so he just didn't need to 138 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:35.600 do it anymore. 139 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.879 I've thought of a woman that we can have as 140 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.959 as Prime Minister. I finally remembered what women are and 141 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.759 where they exist, because of course I only have eyes 142 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.720 for Amy now. Yes, she's the only woman that exists 143 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.879 in my life apart from my mother and the Weekly 144 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.639 as well. Uh, Megan Locke of the Game and Wildlife 145 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:02.519 con because we've never actually had a proper conservationist in 146 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.199 not in the last fifty years. 147 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:11.199 Now. I think she's a last conservationist we probably had 148 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:18.360 was Harold McMillan had said it's he Heat. 149 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.959 Yeah, anyone before Heath probably a better bet. He all 150 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.319 went downhill after Ted Heath. 151 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.519 Although that being said, you have to remember that Margaret 152 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:32.960 Thatcher was the person who first brought in any form 153 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.480 of environmental grants, Which is something I do like to 154 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:41.000 remind people when I particularly have an audience of clearly 155 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:44.559 sort of green leaning voters, is to go and sort 156 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:49.559 of just mention the fact that the first environmental schemes 157 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.159 in what was their math, only came about because Margaret, 158 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.840 actually being a chemist by training, actually listened to her 159 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:04.440 some of her her agriculture ministers who also happen to 160 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:07.799 own shoots and said, do you know, Margaret notices a 161 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:10.639 lot less birds song about? And she then looked into it, 162 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:15.600 and how presto, the first environmental land management schemes came 163 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.240 came about because of Maggie Thatcher, which is quite funny, 164 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:20.919 and it's also another thing which is always fun to 165 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:24.919 tell Lefties is that actually labor closed more pits than 166 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.879 the Conservatives did, and they get very cross about that, 167 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:33.759 the fact that they actually shut more minds than the Tories. 168 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:40.759 Speaking of chemicals and reduction in operations, the hot off 169 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.639 the presses as we're recording this. On Tuesday night, there's 170 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.240 the announcement from British Sugar that they are reducing their 171 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:53.240 operational footprint from four factories to three, ceasing beat processing 172 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.960 at Cantley at the end of February. Where's twenty twenty seven? 173 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:57.720 Where's Cantley. 174 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:03.679 Cantley is over on the Northolk coast, Nearish in the 175 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:08.120 Yarmouthysort Way. It's not good. In fact, it's a terrible thing. 176 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:12.879 And I know a few blokes are in my wild 177 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:16.039 Fowling Club who will be made redundant as a result 178 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.840 of their engineers at the plant. It will put more 179 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:25.799 pressure on the whole process of sugar beat harvesting because 180 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.679 a lot of the time British Sugar will tell you, 181 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.480 I mean, if you speak to a lot of the 182 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.440 guys who are actually producing sugar beat, they will tell 183 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:36.200 you that British Sugar are not actually that great to 184 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:40.399 work with. Because British sugar will tell you we want 185 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:44.679 it now, and you say, well, it's been raining for 186 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.399 the last four weeks and if I go on this field, 187 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:51.360 I'm going to completely ruin it for the next year. 188 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.840 And they go, sorry, what didn't you understand that we 189 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.159 want it now now? And if you reduce the number 190 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.480 of plants then that makes it even more last minute 191 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:06.279 dot com. So, I mean that sugar bee used to 192 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:09.559 be a really big earner in the East. It was 193 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:14.240 something that the paid more than anything else. Now it doesn't. 194 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:23.559 The sugar taxes have obviously impacted everything. There's more subsidy 195 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:29.399 for actually imported sugar cane sugar rather than than our own. 196 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:32.759 And I think the plant at Bury near you, yes 197 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.080 we both coun't it as well. I think it can 198 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.360 do beat or cane correct. So yeah, you're kind of screwed. 199 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.840 I mean it's it's Yeah, people will lose their jobs, 200 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:47.240 but it will just make farming that bit more difficult, 201 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:53.600 and what it'll probably do is go and inspire more 202 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:55.159 people to come out of sugar beet. 203 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:55.480 Now. 204 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.559 I know that there's a lot of downsoid's sides to 205 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.840 soil health, which may be a good thing, but I 206 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:05.279 often think that one of the great things about sugar 207 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:08.919 beet is it provides one of those winter cover crops 208 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.480 that actually pays the bills. And there are a lot 209 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:17.200 of little gray partridges about that owe their lives to 210 00:12:17.480 --> 00:12:20.240 having some sugar beet cover over their heads. And so 211 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:22.960 I think it would be a loss to it. And 212 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:27.480 I suppose it's yet another bift of a nail in 213 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.440 farmings what coffin? 214 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:32.639 What would they replace sugar beat with if they won't. 215 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:33.360 I don't know. 216 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.840 I suppose they have to do another root crop calum. 217 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.279 I suppose if you're putting it into a rotation. So 218 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:42.919 I mean, so if perhaps you put it in there 219 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:47.320 something like stubble turnips, and then you grazed sheep over. 220 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:48.480 It, it's a lot of sheep. 221 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:52.279 It's a lot of sheep, and it's we don't have 222 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:54.840 that profitable, not really. 223 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:58.440 Yeah, that hasn't been profitable since about seventeen seventy. 224 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:03.879 Although this is really bizarre. The price of a cull 225 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:09.440 you when I came up to Wales, and where did 226 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:11.919 I get this? When I was in Montgomery? Is that 227 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.440 it's so very Welsh? Is I sat down to have 228 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.759 breakfast in this lovely little cafe, which was also the 229 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:21.120 shop and the post office, and she was running trying 230 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:23.240 to do three different things, you know, all at the 231 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:27.159 same time. And she said, oh, you'll want to read this, 232 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.559 and she passed me the local sort of Montgomery and 233 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:35.960 wherever it is, Courier or something, and about four or 234 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:41.960 five pages are dedicated to the livestock prices and the 235 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:46.720 market returns from Montgomery, which or whatever the local livestock 236 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.399 market was. And I looked down through what the prices 237 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.600 the averages were returning, and one cull you was one 238 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:59.279 hundred and forty quid was the average price, which is 239 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.639 exactly the same price as a ton of wheat at 240 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.519 the moment, and you think, oh my god, the idea 241 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:10.000 that a ton of wheat is now only the same 242 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:13.799 as a cull you. I want a cull callum, if 243 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:17.720 you didn't know, is one which is basically no longer 244 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:21.360 going to have lambs anymore. She is destined for the 245 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:26.679 kebab shop. And yeah, one hundred and forty quinn, speaking 246 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:31.279 of wheat, you got yourself in trouble last week, did 247 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.080 oh yes, I did, yes. 248 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.399 Which which is a strange thing. We don't often get 249 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:37.759 complaints into the show. But we had a complaint last 250 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:42.039 week from a lady on Instagram saying that she wished 251 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:46.399 we'd spoken to her about her content before we went 252 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.279 into our informed rant about wheat prices and the amount 253 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.320 of damage that pigeons caused the problem is we weren't 254 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:56.559 referring to that lady and I have no idea who 255 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.720 that is, but I think she sort of or herself 256 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.399 within the the role you're describing and shooting eight hundred 257 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:05.440 pigeons or whatever it was. 258 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:11.240 I wonder how many people might think that that could 259 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.600 possibly be about the thing. Should we just start throwing 260 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.240 long accusations out. I saw a man at the game 261 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.200 fair with red trousers on, and I thought his actually 262 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:23.840 was terrible. 263 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.799 It raised a question I was talking. I was talking 264 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:33.759 about this with international man of Mystery and Occasional Odd 265 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.639 Hat Choices, George Brown, and we're trying to work out, 266 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.000 you know, what's the weight of cartridges? You would need 267 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:42.639 twelve gage to shoot eight hundred pigeons assuming a one 268 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:43.559 to one ratio. 269 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:48.960 Well, I mean that's a lot. I can remember dear 270 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:53.559 old Archie Coats saying that we're writing when he shot 271 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:57.039 his world record breaking number of four hundred and something 272 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:02.879 other he basically broke his old webley and he said 273 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:07.200 he had to send someone back for more cartridges because 274 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.639 he had only bought six hundred out with him and 275 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:11.759 he had to send back for more. And he said, 276 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:14.840 and he had these lovely old fashioned heavyweight springers and 277 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.240 he said, are my dog? Well it had shell shock. 278 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.720 So I mean it's a serious, a serious amount of cartries. 279 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.399 I mean, that was an amusing thing. It's a firstly, 280 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.399 someone saying that I wish you had checked out with 281 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:34.159 us first because of what we've done you their objection 282 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.399 to what I think it was because you see, she 283 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.639 was saying this particular person who I have to say, 284 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:43.279 it's very weird, the fact that we should have checked 285 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.480 with this individual. Thing is neither Richard nor I nor 286 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:49.679 you have a clue who this individual is. And we 287 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.360 only Jenny came to our attention by her complaining. 288 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:54.799 Yes. 289 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:57.039 But more to the point I think she was saying 290 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:00.279 because I don't think she understands. Perhaps the new on 291 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:06.720 Solvid is that she said that pigeons will cause damage 292 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:10.000 to stand in crops. She said, because they tread it down, 293 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.720 and you know they will then, which is very true, 294 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:16.200 knock the heads off. Knock the heads off and they 295 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:19.680 will flat it. Now, this is very true, particularly in 296 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:24.000 years when it rains. Now correct me if I'm wrong, 297 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:28.200 but nowhere in the British Aisles as it rained. It's 298 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:33.200 also fairly unlikely to be perfectly honest in most modern 299 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:38.440 wheat varieties because the straw length is incredibly short. 300 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:39.440 So therefore it's. 301 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:42.200 One of the things that good plant breeders of bread 302 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:44.480 out of straw, which is why we don't have thatching 303 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:51.119 straw anymore. But thirdly, the weird idea that she didn't 304 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.759 seem to get the hang of is that the comment 305 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:59.960 was about that wheat prices are so low. So therefore, 306 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.559 rather than ranting about because the fact we say is 307 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:04.680 a big ghost, to go and talk about how many 308 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.920 pigeons that you've shot and it doesn't really matter what we did. 309 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:10.359 The whole point of country slide is the fact we're 310 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.279 supposed to represent real rural life. So therefore, to indicate 311 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.319 that wheat is an undervalued product, which is why our 312 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.279 farming system is completely going down the toilet. And to 313 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.680 be perfectly honest, whoever this woman is, I don't really care, 314 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.640 because you don't understand about farming. So therefore I suggest 315 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:31.039 what you would be better off doing is just don't complain. 316 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:33.400 Don't complain all the time you want to complain to anybody. 317 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.599 Tell the global wheat markets to. 318 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:38.359 Pay a fair price to our farmers. Yeah, and if 319 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.160 you actually do, want to unblock me and reply to 320 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:45.000 the message future guest opportunity there, Yes you have, we'll 321 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:47.240 come and talk about come and talk about pest control. 322 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:51.799 And anyway, we got the Game Fair coming up, so 323 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:54.119 that we're recording this on Tuesday. Patrons get this on 324 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:55.640 Thursday and this is. 325 00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:58.880 In their ears as they drive up. 326 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:00.880 Yes, and then and for the rest of the world, 327 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:03.480 it's coming out at four pm on Friday. So you've 328 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.119 already missed the first day of the Game Fair. But 329 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.279 you have chance now to go on to go to 330 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:13.519 the links in the show notes. Here, there's a link 331 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.960 there that says bingo cards. So this is something we've 332 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:19.039 been talking about for a few weeks. It's something that 333 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.240 started as a joke a couple of years ago. Oh yes, 334 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:23.599 that's on the Game Fair bingo card. We'll actually realize 335 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:25.799 no one had done them. So you now have your 336 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:28.119 game Fare bingo cards and you go there and it's 337 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:31.359 just a little thing we've drawn up. You click on that, 338 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:33.839 you pay a quid per card and you get a 339 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:36.599 download and then you go around the game fair. They're 340 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.599 knocking things off, So it's everything from red trousers, mustard cords, 341 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:43.880 a dog in a pram I think is in there 342 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:48.720 and one of them hif helmet club, the fox call, yeah, 343 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.480 the fox called bastard man in a pair of de 344 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.599 Barris standing in a pond in a paddling pool. Too 345 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:57.759 much flesh on display? 346 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.440 What else is on? Oh, I'd tell you what the 347 00:20:01.480 --> 00:20:05.480 other one was. Was that thing about the flipping whirligig 348 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:08.960 the pigeon magnets going around constantly. 349 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:10.400 That's just still going. 350 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.279 Yeah, you go Campbell Hill. 351 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:19.039 You celebrities, yes, celebrity hedge layer, Richard Nigus. So you 352 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:21.519 can go along there and there's four different types. You 353 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:23.160 can choose one, two, three or four. You can buy 354 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:26.200 the bumper set which is a whole four pounds. But anyway, 355 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:28.920 everything after the card process of fee, which we can't control, 356 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:30.559 the rest of the money goes to the Game of 357 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:34.039 Wildlife Conservation Trust. They haven't actually said they're willing to 358 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:36.880 take our donation or be associated with this, but they're 359 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:38.839 getting the money either way, So do. 360 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:40.839 You know what I reckon? They'll be prepared to take 361 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.160 the donation. Have you seen some of the people who 362 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.079 donate to them, they're absolutely rotters. 363 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:46.920 Do you know. 364 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:49.759 I actually donate. 365 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:51.079 That's an invitrus. 366 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.119 I've donated twelve pounds per month to them. 367 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:59.880 They take a large donation in crypto. 368 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:05.119 And offload your dog with hats or whatever. These crypto 369 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:10.880 valuation of so other game fair news. Because we said 370 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.160 that we would meet outside, there'd be a sort of 371 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:16.240 a fans of the show meetup, which could be anywhere 372 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.319 from two people with a dog on a bit of 373 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:20.839 string all the way up to two thousand people who knows. 374 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:26.599 On Saturday morning outside Hugo Campbell Hill aka the Game 375 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:30.400 Glutton on his stand and I have his stand number 376 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:36.279 fresh off the presses stand T one five two six. 377 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:40.960 So he's right in the middle of the food vendors 378 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:43.680 bits there's a there's sort of a double row of 379 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:45.640 food vendors and they're all facing each other with like 380 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.920 a big jousting arena right at the top end of 381 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:51.519 the hill, and he's in the middle of that. So 382 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:54.920 go and find there the game Glutton and I think 383 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:57.720 we're meeting there at what time on Saturday at ten 384 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:01.839 am ten am or Saturday meeting just outside there. So 385 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.519 if you're not going on Saturday, so you're going on 386 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:09.160 Friday or Sunday. And this is if you're a public listener, 387 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:12.200 you've already missed the Friday one. I suggest that if 388 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.119 you want to go and meet some Country Slide fans, 389 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.359 just wander there for twelve pm on any of the 390 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.640 days Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. We can't guarantee that we'll 391 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:24.799 be there because we've got interviews and things to do. 392 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:27.839 But if you're at a loss and twelve pm is 393 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.240 a good time to be visiting the food area, go 394 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:34.799 there and just hang around for fifteen minutesside hugos if 395 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:36.839 nothing else, you'll see hugo. Yes, and there is a 396 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:38.279 code word look. 397 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:42.279 At look for the increasingly large number of T shirts 398 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:43.319 that are being sold. 399 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:45.319 Yes, we sold some T shirts, so we have their 400 00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:49.039 T shirts are for sale. They I'm not going to 401 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:50.960