WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.399 It's a bit like one of those Agatha Christie things, 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.240 isn't it? And then they're worth three? And now there 3 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:05.599 are two. 4 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:09.439 Now there are two, just the two of us. It's 5 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:10.199 a song about that. 6 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.679 If there isn't a song, then someone should write one. 7 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:22.399 I think there's quite a few Speir's classic to become 8 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:25.320 one that could be when we're you know, one of us, 9 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:28.719 I don't know, break something else and we have the 10 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:32.880 you know, it's just a silo podcast. Actually it's just 11 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.159 a monologue. Actually that's what you get when you come 12 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:38.920 around your house, isn't it. You're just to call it 13 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:44.880 was brother with Star Wars, Get off, my lord? 14 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:46.880 Do you know? 15 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.840 It's Actually I was just thinking what they missed a 16 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:54.479 trick when that film The Human Centerpede. They should have 17 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.520 used the spy Skills when Two Become One as the 18 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.560 soundtrack for that, to add a little bit of humor 19 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.120 to would be a great trailer, wouldn't it. 20 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:06.480 When to be a come one. 21 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.560 Somebody you need to search for this on YouTube. Somebody 22 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:16.400 has recut Missus Doubtfire has a horror film. So it's 23 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.359 it's just some creepy man putting on this woman's mask 24 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.680 and invading the houses of children. Brilliant, one of the 25 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.400 best editing editing things I've ever seen. 26 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.480 It's a bit like the girl who was a gender 27 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:36.959 studies student and she did a thesis on studying love 28 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:44.000 actually as a as examples of gross misogyny. And it 29 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.120 was genuinely quite a funny, tongue in cheek thing about 30 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.680 you know, just just how terrible all the male characters are, 31 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.719 and every single one has got all these various and 32 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:56.920 she did. It's a joke, and of course the Daily 33 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:57.920 Mail picked it up. 34 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:03.079 Woke ass. Yes, I thought it's quite good. 35 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:07.439 So anyway, I suppose we ought to explain to listeners 36 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:11.520 who perhaps were out of the loop last time. Unfortunately, 37 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.719 mister Pridho is not with us, and he won't be 38 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.360 for the next couple of weeks. Whilst his leg heels 39 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:22.479 because he came off second best after a fight with 40 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:27.960 an older ah that is a tree, not an old man, 41 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.280 although you know, possibly he could could have actually had 42 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:32.840 a fight with an old man and he's just trying 43 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.520 to sort of make it sound a bit butcher. 44 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.000 But I don't think shattering your leg is the sort 45 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.759 of injury an old man may may inflict. On you, well, 46 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:45.520 unless they were a horse. 47 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.120 An old horse, or I mean, I would have thought 48 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.360 a zimmer frame could probably inflict quite a nasty injury 49 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:54.639 if aimed at. 50 00:02:54.479 --> 00:03:00.919 The shine I used to rub pinchers. Only surface wounds 51 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.120 you get from that, get a bruising. You're fine. 52 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:08.919 Yes, we were just like, just like to remind listeners 53 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:13.280 that everything you hear on Country Slide is not necessarily real, 54 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:18.400 the artists work of fiction exactly. Yes, he didn't honestly 55 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:21.560 do that. So yes, I'm afraid there are only two 56 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.000 of us. And of course that does mean that because 57 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.360 you've got Callum and me. That means the sort of 58 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:32.439 the rudder, the keel that keeps us balanced is now. 59 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:33.360 Not with us. 60 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.000 So therefore we will probably veer off into rocky shores 61 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.400 and who knows where in. 62 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:45.520 Depth topics of no politics this week, No, we'll we'll 63 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:46.520 just keep it nice. 64 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:51.599 No anyway, back to them straights of horror moves. 65 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.199 Let's keep it like a Sunday drive. 66 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:54.280 Let's do that. 67 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:58.520 So anyway, it's look, it's what what have you been 68 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:01.240 up to of lake? Because obviously the last week all 69 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.879 you'd spent your spare time doing was sitting in an 70 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:07.759 accident and emergency waiting for your daughter to stop being 71 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:12.000 a fruit machine. So hopefully you're back to normal now. 72 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.960 And what have you been up to? Anything exciting? Yeah? 73 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:22.920 All back to normal. I've been doing lots of complaining 74 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.360 because my kitchen that got ripped out is currently being 75 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:31.879 built really slowly. And I tried to put a dishwasher 76 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:37.360 on last night and they had connected something which meant 77 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.959 you couldn't then turn the water on because they hadn't 78 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.120 checked any of that, So that's fun. I didn't put 79 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:47.759 a tap in because it looked too fiddly and it 80 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.079 was somebody else's job, so that was my job, right, 81 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:54.839 So just doing a lot of admin. And then finally 82 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:03.439 I have cleared about five separate long form video things. 83 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.680 I see what I did do which shooting people might enjoy. 84 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:13.759 I made a video for Seiss Optics that was on 85 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:18.600 stage at the or on the big stand thing at 86 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:20.319 the Stalking Show. 87 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:22.759 Did you go to the Stalking Show? 88 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.959 I did not. I went to Norfolk instead and spent 89 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:30.920 four days drinking, just quite kid. 90 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.680 So this film for Seis was it sort of crystal 91 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:37.920 clear but very expensive? 92 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:44.079 Something like that? A guy called Jim Riley who's Yes, 93 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:45.879 I know Jim Do you know Jim? 94 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.319 I do know Jimip Chippenham Park, Chippenham Park. Did my 95 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:52.120 DSc one there under him? 96 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:56.480 So that is it. That's is the Seiss Center of Excellence. 97 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:01.279 Fascinating. He's a he's ane of knowledge, that man. 98 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:07.480 Isy. I only really got to sort of boss him around. Really, 99 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:11.759 please walk around the woods with a gun, Please do this, 100 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.759 do that. So I just got to boss him around 101 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:21.680 and talk about the seeker cam, little little trail cameras 102 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.199 that you can strap to trees and they've got simcard 103 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.199 and Wi Fi and whatnot, and they can they can 104 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.240 tell you what deer and what animals are knocking around 105 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.639 and also pretty good for security as well. If you've 106 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.079 got a if you've got on a state or something 107 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.399 and you want to know who's coming down the path, 108 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:45.519 for what the local hoodleums are up to, then these 109 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:47.199 little seeker cam things are quite good. 110 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:47.920 Cool. 111 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:49.000 It's interesting. 112 00:06:49.839 --> 00:06:53.839 Perhaps it work with legally speaking to say, if you 113 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.879 went and I don't know, caught a miscreant up to 114 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.759 no good and you've got a child camera legitimately put 115 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:06.759 there too, you know, to look at wildlife or what 116 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:10.439 have you, if you've got this evidence, could you give 117 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:12.480 it to the police and say they go or is 118 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:14.160 it absolutely? 119 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:18.240 Yeah? No, No, it's not. I mean it's I mean, 120 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.480 I don't I'm not sure I'm qualified to talk about 121 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:27.360 legal side of things, but I do know that people 122 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.600 have used them and reported them to the police and 123 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.839 show and shown people that they're there, and that is 124 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:38.360 used as evidence, even if it's technically if it's classed 125 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:47.240 as like circumstantial. But yeah, I I assume that you can. 126 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:50.879 If they're in public places, you can film and photograph 127 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.759 everyone like people often think. I used to say my 128 00:07:54.879 --> 00:07:57.959 early career, I used to stay outside the courtroom and 129 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:00.360 wait for I used to get a description of what 130 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:04.399 somebody looked like, and then I used to photograph. It 131 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.439 was like a really shit game of guess who. They 132 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.439 say he looks like a post bloke with short hair, 133 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:17.240 he's really tanned, and he's probably wearing tweed, and I'm like, right, okay, 134 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:20.199 Colt got it. So then anyone who looks slightly past 135 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.759 wearing tweed, I'd photograph them coming into a courtroom and 136 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.839 then hopefully I would get you know, this person who's 137 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.040 been you know, embezzling money from a charity or whatever 138 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.919 they were doing of a nasty thing. So it's like paparazzi, 139 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:37.799 but like not a crooks chased in celembri. Yeah, vigilanty 140 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.000 justice paparazzi. 141 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:42.000 I think it'd been a lot easier found out find 142 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.759 out what they were going into court for. So let's 143 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:50.279 say it was I don't know, let's embezzling money. 144 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.039 You go, oh, are you fraud stuff? 145 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.559 And see which one turns around right, and if it's 146 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:58.759 the one that turns around together, he that's him. 147 00:08:58.799 --> 00:08:59.919 Click click click. 148 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.559 They do. They definitely didn't want to be photographed. Yes, 149 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.320 there's a picture of me on the front page of 150 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.000 the Metro when a guy called Marlon King, who was 151 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.840 a football player got sentenced and I dodged being punched. 152 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:27.279 One of the guys from ap got got his camera 153 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:30.960 thrown over a wall and I dodged a picture of 154 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.440 me on the Metro with my mouth open, like because 155 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:38.360 I'm dodging being punched, and I'm just like in the 156 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:43.679 background of this of this attack photo, which is quite funny. 157 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:47.360 Marlon King does sound like a sort of attacker's name 158 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:50.559 to me. I mean, I might be being biased here, 159 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:52.360 but that sounds like a violent man. 160 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.879 Someone called Marlon King, you know, someone who. 161 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:00.559 Would probably get you in a car park when he 162 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:01.519 weren't expecting it. 163 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.519 So the story was his wife told him she was 164 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:12.679 pregnant and then he decided to celebrate by touching other 165 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:16.519 women in a nightclub nice and when they recoiled in horror, 166 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.240 he punched her in the face and broke her nose. 167 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:25.879 So there was a sexual assault and assault charge. And 168 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:29.720 he was a Premiership football player. His contract got terminated 169 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:34.039 very quickly, so kind of ruined his entire career, which 170 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:34.600 is not nice. 171 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:36.720 No, well, he sounds like the sort of chap you 172 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:38.840 need to have a contract terminated. 173 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:41.440 I haven't been taking photographs of anybody. 174 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:46.360 The point of this was that even when people don't 175 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.360 want to be photographed in a private or public space, 176 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.159 they can be photographed, and they can be published, and 177 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:56.759 they can be used unless they're actually used in if 178 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:01.080 people will get anonymity, if they have like a case 179 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:04.440 of sexual assault or something like that, they can't be published. 180 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:08.399 They get full animity, so the victims won't be publicly 181 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:13.440 shared at all. But anyone that's accused of doing absolutely anything, 182 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:16.159 regardless if you've got a picture of them. It can 183 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:19.480 be published, so can it be used to prosecute No, 184 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.480 but it probably can be used in evidence to prove 185 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.919 that people were there and potentially up to no good. 186 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:28.600 So yeah, all right, we go. 187 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:32.679 Well, you know, I mean my life is so mundant 188 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:38.919 compared with yours because this week I've well largely been 189 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.200 I wrote the first chapter of my book because I've 190 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:47.840 got to write the new one now, and I have 191 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:49.879 given a couple of talks. I did one which is 192 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:56.639 very interesting actually, which is the Hadly Environmental Action Team, 193 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:03.000 which could sound slightly like a sort of heat heat exactly, 194 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.480 So is there a dog in heat. 195 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:08.120 Heat? 196 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.440 It's some the Hadley Environmental Action Team very interesting. So, 197 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:17.720 I mean, Hadley's a pretty little sad Suffolk town. 198 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.519 In my head, I've just got these people with like 199 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:22.559 the Heat Squad. 200 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:25.759 Do you want to feel the heat? It does? It 201 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.440 does slightly make you think that it's the Heat Squad. 202 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:28.879 You know. 203 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.080 It's sort of well, someone's going to get in chat 204 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.559 GPT now and write a very good prompt to sort 205 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:39.120 of get these Environmental Action Group as superheroes, as an 206 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:42.799 elite task force. And they're doing it just in front 207 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:43.600 of a village hall. 208 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:49.080 Yeah, yeah, as a I'll be honest, as an elite 209 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.399 sort of. 210 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:52.399 Hit squads, a heat squad. 211 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:55.960 They they're quite old actually, you know, they're all at 212 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:59.440 least as old as me. So possibly not the superheroes 213 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.200 you expected, but they are superheroes in their own way, 214 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:05.720 because these are the sorts of people who genuinely do 215 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.559 go and make sure the litter gets picked up from 216 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:14.360 the you know, the local environs around the lovely little 217 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:19.559 little market town of Hadley in South Suffolk, and you know, 218 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.679 there's thoroughly the good Eggs and they make sure that 219 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.320 their local green spaces are green and they do stuff 220 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.240 like that. And they asked me to go and give 221 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:32.279 a talk to them about Words from the Hedge and what. 222 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:33.960 I do for a day job. 223 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.559 And it's very interesting because you know, I go through 224 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:41.679 in quite great detail about the fact that I believe 225 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:48.559 that we can halt biodiversity decline, but we need to. 226 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:50.279 Get behind farming and whatnot. 227 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.200 And because we've got the local elections are starting up 228 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:55.960 and I have noticed that the bloody Green Party have 229 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.080 already been around slapping there. 230 00:13:58.159 --> 00:13:59.919 I thought you were going to say, you have no 231 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:04.639 t that the potholes have been filled. It's funnyles get filled. 232 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:08.000 Isn't it funny that? Yes? Exactly. 233 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:12.600 Yeah, all of a sudden is there's roads shut. I 234 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.159 mean because they're doing it all in a one around here, 235 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:17.639 that they're the sort of shut three roads at once, 236 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:20.600 which means you can't actually get anywhere. The diversion takes 237 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.320 you back on yourself and you realize after half an 238 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:25.200 hour's driving you're actually back home again. 239 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.080 Are you one of these people that has a deep 240 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.240 distrust for road closed? 241 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.320 Don't agree with them because they'll say roads shut, but 242 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.159 they don't tell you where. 243 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:34.639 It could be three miles away. 244 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.120 I just these days, I just risk it. I just 245 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.759 go down until until there's something that I think I 246 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:47.759 can't jump that down there, mate, down there. Most of 247 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:51.039 the time, I'd say it's an eighty percent success rate. 248 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.799 Yeah, yeah, it's because at half the time they've either 249 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:57.919 forgotten to pick the signs up or they've shut it 250 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:59.679 in preparation for three days time. 251 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:01.679 When going to go there, all like I say, there 252 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:02.720 is this bloody. 253 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:05.679 Great big three sixty digger and they have dug, you know, 254 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.600 a hole big enough to go and sink sort of 255 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:10.960 an articulated lorrean and then you do have to You 256 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.879 got two choices, you know, you either go back or 257 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.480 you go come on, Luke, let's jump it way you 258 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.879 have And then you know, obviously I haven't got Colonel 259 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:22.679 bogiehorn on my subaru. 260 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:27.279 I packed my Daisy Duke SUTs just in case that together, 261 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:31.320 you and your daisy dukes, I could have a denim 262 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:31.919 shirt on. 263 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:35.840 We could have the flag of Suffolk painted. 264 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:39.240 On the top of my of my subrew rather than 265 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.879 a Confederate flag, and then the horn rather than being 266 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.440 so attle, I think it would be nice if we 267 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:49.559 had a bit of Vaughan Williams coming out of the 268 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:54.200 lark ascending, you know, a lot less aggressive and with 269 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.919 the underlying message gentle the Confederacy more gentlemanly as we 270 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:01.679 then jump over the top and then break my axle 271 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:02.559 on my suber roup. 272 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:03.440 Yeah, brilliant. 273 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.120 So that's what we'll do next time, you and your 274 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.200 daisy dukes, me and me thinks shirt and we could 275 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.320 have to change our names though, because they were Bow 276 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.000 and Luke Duke, so we're gonna have to think of 277 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:18.799 Duke that I know. Unfortunate, that isn't it. We'll have 278 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.559 to go and think of some rhymes. 279 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:25.240 Calum so you can't really have a calum. 280 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:29.000 Yes, okay, so we will workshop it. Yeah, we'll work 281 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.320 shop it. We'll do this off air anyway, he sud. 282 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:34.039 Yeah. 283 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.759 The Heat Squad very interesting because I was talking about 284 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:40.039 how important it was, you know that we the work 285 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.679 I do, and about the various birds we are starting 286 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.759 to see comeback as a result, because now as a 287 00:16:47.759 --> 00:16:50.320 build up of work, and you know, I'm not the 288 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:52.600 only hedge layer working now in Suffolk. There are more 289 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.080 and more abouts and you're starting to see. And I 290 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.240 was talking about this and all of a sudden, some 291 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:01.039 bloody dullard from the Greens piped up. If we don't 292 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:05.039 have net zero, then there won't be any birds anyway, 293 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.880 because we'll all have died from heat or something. And 294 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.759 I went now and then I had to go and 295 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:13.880 sort of explain to them the fact that saying, well, 296 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:17.440 to be perfectly honest, I think what we really all 297 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:23.559 can play a part in is increasing biodiversity. What we 298 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:27.279 can't all do is is all your stuff with your 299 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.640 net zero hookem that I didn't quite say like that, 300 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.160 but it was quite interesting. So Heat Squad and there 301 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.279 are green party sort of things going up around Hadley. 302 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.200 Now I thought I might be booed off stage or something, 303 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:46.000 but actually I found that the Hadley Environmental Action Team were, 304 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:48.920 Oh god, thank god, someone's finally said that is, we'd 305 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.759 rather go and sort out biadversity decline first and foremost, 306 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.519 and you know, let's worry about the carbon later. 307 00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:56.359 And so it. 308 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.559 Seems to me that the voice of common sense is 309 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.640 ringing out loud and clear in Hadley. 310 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:10.079 Oh yeah, just the net zero thing, I just, I mean, 311 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.759 I get it, there's a there's an end game where 312 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.160 we have to not do that. 313 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:21.880 But yeah, I like, I like all these view of it. 314 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:22.480 He said. 315 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:25.079 Okay, he said, so we can go and spend all 316 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:29.240 these gazillions of pounds on getting to net zero and 317 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.640 then we look around us and say, hooray, we're net zero, 318 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:35.680 and then look around and everything's dead anyway. And that 319 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:39.039 does seem to be the thing is that I think 320 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:44.440 Richard Produce said, people are mixing up environmentalism and being 321 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.039 an environmentalist, which is I looking after your local environment, 322 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:53.440 with the mistaken idea that being an environmentalist means you're 323 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:57.119 actually worried about energy infrastructure I mean, that isn't quite 324 00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:58.799 so sexy, is it? When you think about it like that? 325 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.880 Is that you're, oh, yes, I really want to make 326 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:04.319 sure it's all renewable energy. Can you imagine getting really 327 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:12.400 excited and turned on by by energy sources. It's just crap, 328 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.240 isn't it. Let's instead go and think about managing hedges 329 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.960 and picking up litter and making stuff work better. 330 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:23.319 That would be I I like charts. Me love a 331 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:28.680 good chart, okay. And when you look at the progress 332 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.200 towards net zero and you see how well we've done 333 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:39.079 versus the influx of carbon pollution from China, it's quite 334 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:44.480 easy to say, potentially, what we have done is taken 335 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.920 all of our manufacturing and all of our dirty work 336 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.119 and just shipped it to a different part of the world. 337 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.359 Because I'm sitting in front of me now and I've 338 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.960 got a monitor that's no doubt made in China. God 339 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.119 knows where all the electronics that are in front of 340 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:02.799 me are made, and they're polluting the earth. But where 341 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.119 are they polluting the earth? China? Not here? 342 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:12.000 So it's it's rather imperialist, isn't it. If you think 343 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:15.480 about it, is that it's for a bunch of people 344 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.920 who probably will be one of the few lots who 345 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.599 actually think, oh, yes, let's let's go and pay reparations 346 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:27.799 payments for our filthy imperialist past I treat I think 347 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:33.240 it is an incredibly imperialist thing that we are offsetting 348 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:39.920 our pollution by basically saying, go on crack on, China, India, Brazil. 349 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.640 You can keep on polluting as much as you like, 350 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:48.799 but we're going to be smug here. And and we're fine. 351 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:51.960 We've done wonderfully, aren't we good. We're we're leading by example. 352 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:52.440 No, we're not. 353 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:59.920 We're just passing off the solution to other people to 354 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.079 have to take it. I watched on TV whilst we 355 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:05.480 were away because I've been in Southwold for the last. 356 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:07.839 Couple of days because it was my birthday treat. 357 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.240 I was went sat stay in a lovely place right 358 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:16.480 on the sand dunes. It was lovely and Charlie had 359 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:19.920 never watched The Crown, you know, the TV series about 360 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.160 and we got to the episode when in nineteenes nineteen 361 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:30.240 fifty two when there was the Great smog when Batsy 362 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:32.160 Power Station and one or two of the other big 363 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:39.119 coal fire power stations in London were jettisoning out all 364 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:46.160 the smog, all that sulfur laden coal smoke, and there 365 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:51.319 was like some very big low depression which meant to 366 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:54.640 fog hung over London, and London, as you know better 367 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:58.000 than most calum was on an old marsh. It was 368 00:21:58.119 --> 00:22:00.359 very low lying, you know, it's a boggy old thing, 369 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:05.640 and the things combined together and it had this smog created. 370 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:09.119 And that's where the Clean Air Act was then enacted 371 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:14.079 after this because it killed apparently twelve thousand people because 372 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:20.000 it was so filthy. And I think people forget that 373 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:24.759 we used to be a very dirty, dirty country. We were, 374 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:27.759 you know, we burned a lot of coalner and these 375 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:31.319 sulfurous fumes were doing. But I think what it's always 376 00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:35.000 strikes me as a bit daft is that when you 377 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:36.960 go and see people sort of saying we shouldn't be 378 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:39.680 burning wood, and we shouldn't be doing this, and we 379 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:44.720 shouldn't be doing that, people think we're still stuck in 380 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:48.599 nineteen fifty two. We have means of capturing most of 381 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.480 the bad gases from most of the things that we 382 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:56.680 might burn as fuel. So therefore it's like if we 383 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:00.319 had actually carried on using our infrastructure and some of 384 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:05.319 our natural resources. It's not that we're stuck in aspect. 385 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:08.720 We're not just stuck in time. This strikes me that 386 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:12.839 we've been burning wood as a fuel well for as 387 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:15.759 long as human beings have more or less been human beings, 388 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:20.599 and surely we've got a means now of lessening the 389 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:26.599 carstenergenic gases so we can catch them. I think it's 390 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:29.160 a great shame, and I'm sure all our forestry listeners 391 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:31.880 will be going yeah, but I do think that our 392 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:36.559 ability to burn wood has been sort of curtailed by 393 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:38.400 a bunch of people who probably wouldn't know how to 394 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:41.519 light a fire if you actually ask them to do it. 395 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:45.400 Guess what I'm doing tomorrow, callum, guess what I'm. 396 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.079 Doing lighting something on fire? 397 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:49.880 No, I'm not, hopefully not. No. 398 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:51.720 Actually, this is the one place you do not want 399 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:54.720 to light fire. Are going up on a thatched roof 400 00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:00.960 with Chris Dodson, the thatcher. Yes, and also I'm going 401 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:04.519