WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.040 Got to review this. 2 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:03.919 Oh, Rob McFarland's is the River Alive? 3 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.360 Yeah, the new Robert McFarland got to review that for 4 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.839 the Critic, which would be a very interesting read. And 5 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:14.640 once the embargo is lifted on it, which is on 6 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.280 April the twenty sixth, we had to talk about it 7 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:20.960 because I thought what might be quite a good idea 8 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:23.960 is that we ought to go and read more. So 9 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.679 therefore books that you have read or have just read 10 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.079 that we ought to occasionally going to talk about that because 11 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.600 you know, we are all literarty types. And and then 12 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:35.920 you know, why do we go and have almost a 13 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.119 book club? But not a book club? Too bad? 14 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.799 If it was a book club of Robert McFarlane books, though, 15 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:44.920 we wouldn't get anywhere. Because I love his writing. I 16 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:46.079 wish I could understand it. 17 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.719 Have you ever found if you just pretend to be 18 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:54.240 the character of whoever's writing it, suddenly you can understand it. 19 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.880 Does that work for natural history? If I pretend to 20 00:00:58.920 --> 00:00:59.479 be a grebe? 21 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:04.719 Can I ask how do you fight? 22 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:05.040 Like? 23 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.280 Do you have like a a reading hour? Is there 24 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:11.760 a specific time that you read? 25 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:12.040 Well? 26 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:16.200 How do you fit that in? Because quite honestly, at 27 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:19.040 the moment. It is not a habit I can keep 28 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:20.799 up in any way, shape or for no. 29 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.400 I am with you on that personally, well sat on 30 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.400 the loo, and before I go to sleep, I'm a 31 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:31.319 terrible I've got a very low light reading lamp, so 32 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:34.840 I don't keep Claire awake, and I read before I 33 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:37.959 go to sleep. And then, because I'm now middle aged, 34 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.680 I then wake up at about half pass three and 35 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:45.000 I have to go for a week too much information, 36 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:47.040 and then I come back and I can't go back 37 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.319 to sleep again immediately, So then I probably read for 38 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:51.480 another hour until about half ass four and then doze off, 39 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:53.120 and then the alarm clock goes off at six, and 40 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.599 up I get again, So I get about two three 41 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:59.599 hours of reading in it. We're really weird times of 42 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:04.519 the day. So yeah, what do you do? Richard? 43 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:04.840 One? 44 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:06.280 As I trying to catch up with that, because I 45 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:07.719 misheard him, I thought you said, have you got a 46 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:08.400 reading owl? 47 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.520 That would be I mean that would be pretty good, Callum, 48 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.360 does look like the head week. 49 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:20.360 So I've got two readings. I do fiction just before bed? 50 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:22.719 Are you talking again? Calum? 51 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:23.400 Sorry? 52 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:25.599 I was just going to share a little story. 53 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:27.639 You can have your story in a minute. Oh no, 54 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:28.560 have your story now then? 55 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.719 Fine, No one can specifically about ours. 56 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.759 We had a sub editor at at work and I 57 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.159 decided to buy her a present, which was an owl 58 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.719 that one owl says who and the other says whom 59 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:45.960 with a question mark, and she really liked that. 60 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:48.400 So what have we done this week? 61 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:52.599 Well, you go first, to go first, okay, So why 62 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:59.639 you've been Okay, usual stuff. I went off and planted hedges, planting, planted, planting, 63 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:03.319 lots of hedges. But today I went to that there London, 64 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.479 and I had a meeting with my publisher because I 65 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:10.479 don't know if you know, but I've got a book 66 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:11.719 coming out on the first. 67 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:15.560 It's got a book coming out, Yeah, it's. 68 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:20.199 About hedges, and who's publishing it unbound? Yes, and it's 69 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.639 called Words from the Hedge and I think it's going 70 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:26.080 to be huge. Anyway, I had this publisher's meeting with 71 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:30.680 the lovely Rena, who is the head of communications, the 72 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.280 lovely Flow, who is the poor individual who actually had 73 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:40.240 to edit the thing, and Patrick Galbraith, who is the 74 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:44.000 sort of editor commissioning editor who did it. And so 75 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.680 we had a chat about all the various events which 76 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.400 we are going to go to with the book and 77 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.680 some of the press stuff. So now all the hard 78 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.159 bit and by me is done. And now my wife 79 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.319 Claire has organized this huge tour which we're going to do, 80 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.280 of which the good news is that the Country Slide 81 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:06.280 Pod is going to get involved in some of these events, 82 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.879 going off to things where we can go and sort 83 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.879 of talk our stuff and hopefully that might inspire people 84 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.399 to go and hopefully buy my book, so that would 85 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:19.720 be quite fun. And then I went out for lunch. 86 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:21.439 How close are you coming up to me? 87 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:27.480 Cheltenham? Cheltenham Science Festival? Where else am I going? Sort 88 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.160 of your way? Exeter? That's a bit quite a long 89 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.279 way south against the Exeter Comedy Festival, Exter Literary Festival. 90 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:37.720 Where else am I going? 91 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:38.199 Uh? 92 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:43.759 The game Fare? That's quite sort of west. Most of 93 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:49.639 them seem to be rather east southeast now all the 94 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:56.079 way down to Kent. But there's nothing actually specifically in 95 00:04:56.120 --> 00:05:01.680 Wales yet, But who knows it. It's funny when with books, 96 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.040 I mean, is my first book I've ever published, and 97 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:08.319 it is that the whole marketing thing is very weird, 98 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:12.360 very weird. I don't understand how it works, but you know, 99 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.160 I just go where I'm told, really talk about it 100 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:16.079 and hedges. 101 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:19.600 I'll just wait for it to be on Instagram reel 102 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.959 and now I'll just give it after twenty five seconds. 103 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:26.639 Now what you can do is you wait till it 104 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:29.959 comes out on audio, and then you can think, are 105 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:34.720 wonderful all those chapters with me just talking at nauseam? 106 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:39.959 I think that genuinely, I think that your book would 107 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.120 be really, really good as an audiobook, because it's not. 108 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.240 Certain books really don't lend themselves very well to being 109 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.439 audio books, but certain ones really do. But I find 110 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.160 it really like I've been editing for like two days 111 00:05:56.199 --> 00:06:01.680 straight and I've had nothing but podcast and audio books 112 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:05.279 because I just I go into auto pilots so I 113 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:08.639 can listen and take in information, but obviously I can't 114 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:12.319 read while I'm trying to airbrush people's wrinkles out of 115 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:18.399 there from under their eyes. So yeah, I rate the 116 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:20.360 audio books the only time I get to do it. 117 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.399 And you know what I've had, I've started doing when 118 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:26.319 I go on a dog walk and there's nothing much 119 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:33.040 to do, I launch a conversation with chat GPT on 120 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:38.720 my phone and you can do like a full conversational 121 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:44.120 piece with it. So I've had a full education on 122 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:50.600 trying to learn wine. So today I explored what the 123 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:56.040 different Italian great varieties had to offer. Also, it helps 124 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:58.639 with the pronunciations because I see lots of wine names 125 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.480 and I'm like, what is this an? 126 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:07.680 Yes, yeah, I've been to Multipli. It's very nice place. 127 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.639 Any road listen. So we now know what you've done. 128 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:13.480 Is that is that Callum has done chat GBT and 129 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.399 I've been to London and swander around doing literary stuff, 130 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:22.399 having lunch in swanky South Kensington restaurants at my friend 131 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:29.040 James Chiverini's with fascinating lady and a gentleman briefly today 132 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:33.319 who are quite high profile, I suppose, and I'm not 133 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.240 going to tell you exactly who that they were, but 134 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:39.959 they were. They were huge, fun, very entertaining and very 135 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.639 cutting edge. And I was sat in this restaurant and 136 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.639 I could see most of the crew from the Daily 137 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.639 Mail sat on a long table and because of the 138 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:57.160 person that I was was sat with was quite high profile. 139 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.959 You could see them all even though they were drunk 140 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:04.920 his lords and onto their seventeenth bottle of wine, you 141 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.879 could see them going, who's that bloke? Who's with that 142 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.879 famous geezer and his wife and they were sort of 143 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:14.759 waving the waiter over and I can I'm not a 144 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.720 lip reader, but like I say, who's see. It was 145 00:08:17.800 --> 00:08:20.480 quite good. Yeah, I was talking about you today. Yeah. 146 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.360 So I was talking to somebody from the Royal Countryside 147 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:25.319 Fund and we were talking to them about a project 148 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.079 we're trying to get funded here and we're saying, you know, 149 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:30.360 we want to do hedge laying and coppicing in part 150 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:33.919 of that. And the guy said, immediately right, you'll have 151 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.399 to have the king gup. The King parents mad on 152 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:40.519 hedgelaying knows all about the styles, knows all about hedgelaying. 153 00:08:40.799 --> 00:08:41.480 It's a big deal. 154 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:46.799 He's he is the president of the National Hedge Layers Society. 155 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.879 He has a lot of his hedges laid. Obviously he's 156 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.200 placing in the Cots Horse and he's got they've started 157 00:08:54.279 --> 00:09:00.399 laying hedges two at Sandringham arm he has think it's 158 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.919 telling tales out of school. But he slightly infuriated his 159 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:08.279 partridge keepers because he wants to put trees in the 160 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:12.200 hedgerows are Sandringham and of course the worst thing, the 161 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.600 last thing you want for gray partridge conservation are trees 162 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:20.279 in your hedgerows because a gray partridge loves a hedge, 163 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:23.759 but he hates a tree because he knows that death 164 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:29.080 perchaes above in that tree. So yeah, so therefore they 165 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.320 don't really want that. So the predator purchase are what 166 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.600 we call trees. I mean, absolutely superb. Put them all 167 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:38.559 at the end in a little spinny or a cop 168 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:42.000 sort of type affair at the end of a hedge. Fantastic, 169 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:46.320 but not along the length of the hedge. But you know, 170 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.360 he's the king. He gets to do his own shizzle 171 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.000 and why not. But I don't think it's a very 172 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.960 good idea personally. If you want great partridges. 173 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:57.679 Well you can't say that that's treason. 174 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:03.919 Treeson I guarded loyally guarded his mother back in the day, 175 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.480 sat on a horse. In actual fact, I was mortared 176 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:10.159 once on Queen's lifeguard. I would then they weren't actually 177 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:12.120 aiming for me. They were aiming for John Major, they 178 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:15.480 being the IRA. But it was quite fun as a 179 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:19.000 sat a little horse called Lancelot, and the IRA decided 180 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:23.080 that they wanted to mortar ten Downing Street. The bass 181 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.480 plate was about half we was in the back of 182 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:27.639 a transit van. It was about half the way down 183 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:34.039 from horse Guards, heading towards Fowler Square, and they'd cut 184 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:38.240 out the roof of this transit rafah and they lobbed 185 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:42.279 these things over there and they landed in the garden 186 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:46.080 of because people don't know, it's quite a sizable garden 187 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:49.120 at the back of ten Downing Street, and they landed 188 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.240 in there. But these things washed over my head and 189 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:54.960 my little horse Lancelot that I was sat on on 190 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.799 guard on at the time sort of went bloody hell. 191 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.279 He wasn't very steady under fire. He dropped to his 192 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.000 knees and rolled over and I just managed to extract 193 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:06.320 myself from underneath. And some pillock of a rayal military 194 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.320 policeman from the SIB, which is their sort of version 195 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.679 of the CID, said what did you do at the time? 196 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.440 And I was a fairly young trooper and I was saying, well, 197 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:19.440 I was upside down because my horse fell over. He goes, 198 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:21.480 what could you have done to stop it? And my 199 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.000 and the guard commander is a court force called Fletcher, 200 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:27.279 and he was a right tough He ended up going 201 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:29.519 into the Foreign Legion in the end, and he said, 202 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:31.519 what do you think he was King dinner do with 203 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:34.159 it smacking out of the air with his king sword 204 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.799 and this military policeman sort of I think I won't 205 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.159 argue with you, and yes, all right, fair point. You 206 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:41.679 know what I'm I supposed to do. I'm wearing something 207 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:44.679 that went out fashion and Queen Victoria's reign. But anyway, 208 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:47.600 that's my I can't even remember how we even got here, 209 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.120 but we got here, and you now know it's just one. 210 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:55.440 It's just one tumbling thing after another. I mean sometimes 211 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.960 it's like throwing a load of bingo balls into a river. 212 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.600 This podcast sort start off with an order you chuck 213 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.200 them all in and then just stuff comes out. 214 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:05.919 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. 215 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:10.480 Plastic pollution in rivers. There you are, what about you? Yeah? 216 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:12.679 It is your bit now, so you are now going 217 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:16.679 to talk to us about conservation and Milton Keynes? How 218 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.720 many bitcoin between here and the moon and this spaniel 219 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:21.799 that you met last week? 220 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.720 Due to Trump tariffs? Bitcoins not reaching the moon just yet? 221 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:26.240 Is it not? 222 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:30.120 Beat as Day? Did a beat as Day? It's good 223 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:35.000 fun as fun as beat as days are missing sausage 224 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:40.200 roll Sam out of the lineup a beats Day? Very disappointed? No, 225 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.440 sausage rolls on the last day. 226 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:44.879 That did you miss Sam or did you miss sausage rolls? 227 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:47.240 Both in equal measure? 228 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.360 All right, as where's a hierarchy of needs on that. 229 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:55.000 Some say he's actually part man, part sausage roll Others 230 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.080 say it's more of a sixty forty split. 231 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.360 But has he has he changed since we gave him 232 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:02.840 a knighthood? You know? Is he now a bit more aloof? 233 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.080 Is that why though I'm not luring myself to come 234 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.399 on a beat's day, I've got a knighthood. I'm not 235 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.840 hanging around with all these scum he sort of. 236 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.960 Let's be honest, He's probably got invites. 237 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.960 For the rest of the season after that. 238 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:19.799 I think this is the case. Anyone who gets mentioned 239 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:24.799 on this podcast now is both blessed and damned because 240 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:27.159 wherever they go, they said, you mentioned whether. 241 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:31.840 Or if we don't like them, then Kim and the 242 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:34.159 rest of Korea make sure they get taken. 243 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.440 Out number one in career again. 244 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:36.360 I think. 245 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:36.519 So. 246 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.519 Do you know what? I went looking for the Korean 247 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.120 embassy today because I had someone told me that apparently 248 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.960 the North Korean Embassy is actually in a suburb somewhere 249 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.159 in a semi detached behind a private hedge. So I thought, well, 250 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:53.519 I'm for japes and a laugh. I will go and 251 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:00.840 look for the yes for some Korean banter. So I walked, obviously, 252 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.360 to walk to Old Portico. You've got to go past 253 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.799 so many of the embassies. You go past the French embassy, 254 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:07.480 and I thought, I'm not going to go and have 255 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.840 the French one. That's got no comedy value at all. 256 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.960 Then I came to the Panamanian embassy and I thought, oh, 257 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.759 this will be fun. So there weren't that many people 258 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.240 walking along there, so I got my phone out and 259 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.000 turned it onto reverse. So I was going to do 260 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:25.000 a little thing, and suddenly this man came out and 261 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.039 he said, you can't film here, mate, And I went, 262 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:28.639 you know what, I'm just doing this for a podcast. 263 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.279 You can't film me. I went oh, And so I thought, well, 264 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.039 I'm not getting in trouble with the Panamanians. You know what. 265 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.559 Look what happened to McMillan over the Panama Canal. There 266 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:41.279 was all sorts of hassle. So I walked on and 267 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.960 I thought, that piece of comedy gold is now at 268 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:44.360 an end. 269 00:14:44.600 --> 00:14:49.039 Anyway, if you were in a public place, well, don't 270 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:50.960 get all I want to get all photographery about you. 271 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:54.799 But technically I don't think he's got any rights to 272 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:58.440 tell you. But then maybe yeah, if you're in a 273 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.759 public place, public right away, he's got. 274 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.679 Film members, he's Otherwise Google street View wouldn't exist. 275 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:07.799 No, No, I mean I have to say that there 276 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:11.919 is one place up in I think it's an outskirts 277 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.480 of Newcastle that they just put this thing on a 278 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.080 WhatsApp group and said the Google vans coming around and 279 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.039 just every other snapshot as you go along on this 280 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.039 street view thing, just Jordie's sat there with their penises 281 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.759 exposed because they just stood there in the windows or 282 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.000 garden gates of that. 283 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.639 Every time I've been to Newcastle, that would lead me 284 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:36.559 to believe that you could have just done that on 285 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:38.759 any random day and filmed in a direction and you 286 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:41.279 would have seen somebody in a state of undress. 287 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:44.799 They have got a great sense of humor, and yeah, 288 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:48.960 they are the funniest. So anyway, we now onto have 289 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:51.120 you said what you've done other than oh no, you 290 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:52.600 did some other exciting things, isn't you. 291 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.919 I was also in London. I had a couple of 292 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:58.559 days in London, which is quite nice. 293 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.440 Went round. 294 00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:01.600 I went to Fallow restaurant. 295 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:03.480 Oh like them. 296 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.399 They've got an exceptional YouTube channel and if you want 297 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:12.480 to learn to cook like I don't know, fancy sauces 298 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:16.120 and stuff, the Fallow YouTube channel is probably the best 299 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.919 resource because it's actual chef. 300 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:22.360 Stuff and works as well. It's done from a very 301 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:23.480 practical point of view. 302 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:27.679 Yeah, there's there's not much messing. It's straight in. This 303 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:31.960 is exactly this how you make it taste amazing And 304 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.559 I've turned a lot of those recipes and stuff in 305 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:42.279 there with Partridges, Pheasants all that jazz made amazing sources 306 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.000 and pimped up a lot of game meet using that. 307 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:48.960 So when I got the opportunity to go to the restaurant, 308 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.480 I was blown away and I just was, yeah, it 309 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:53.080 was really good. 310 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:55.600 Are working there or are you just passing around? 311 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:56.240 No? 312 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.720 Just drinking and eating and having a laugh. 313 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:00.279 And it was. 314 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:04.839 I'd go as far to say it's the best meal 315 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:06.680 I've had in London. 316 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:08.400 That good. 317 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:14.200 Oh god, Yeah, it's really worth going Fallow. Saint James's 318 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:20.759 wholeheartedly recommend. I had a beef rib that. I mean, 319 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:24.079 it didn't look like much at all, but it was 320 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:29.240 smoky and incredibly beefy and probably one of the finest 321 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:32.279 pieces of meat I've ever tasted in my life. It 322 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:41.599 was just so unbelievably good. So highly recommend that place if. 323 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:40.799 You get a chance. 324 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.920 But I also went to the Harold's Food Market during 325 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:48.759 that time and they're selling lots of game meat down 326 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.880 there as well, which was really interesting. Partridges you can 327 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:55.599 buy a wood pigeon, you can buy mallards everything down there. 328 00:17:57.079 --> 00:17:59.759 I think that's the best selection of game meat I've 329 00:17:59.799 --> 00:18:04.720 seen anywhere. I think even my local butchers hasn't got 330 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:06.680 quite as much as that in the in the window, 331 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:08.079 and they show a fair bit. 332 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.759 Fortland's had a good pile last year as well. I 333 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:13.960 don't know if they have if they kept up with it, 334 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.960 but they sort of. Everyone seemed to go over to 335 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.839 a decent supply of game. But it is nice. It's 336 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.400 weird you have to go right into the middle of 337 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.880 London to see it, whereas a lot of provincial towns 338 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:26.079 you you struggle to find game of that regularity in 339 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:28.640 that that's equality. 340 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:30.880 Yeah, yes, the same with Borough Market. Borough Market is 341 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.279 a wash with every single conceivable but a game you 342 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:37.079 want to have their you know, you think where I 343 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:42.759 went for lunch today, I had a venison shank, and 344 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:45.960 then when lap along two doors down is open, that's 345 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.920 nothing but game. So it's actually, bizarrely is that the 346 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:53.519 Capital is best served whether it be for butchers or 347 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:57.319 for restaurants, that's where you get wild meat, that's it. 348 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.119 Whereas hick where it's actually shot and processed, and then 349 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.279 it's a bit seemed to exist, but it was ever Thus, 350 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.079 I think, you know, there used to be special trains 351 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:11.119 used to go from great Yarmor filled with game and 352 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:14.000 wild fowl into the Capital. So I suppose we're actually 353 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.160 only repeating the pattern that's always been. 354 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:18.000 That funny. 355 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:20.440 You're burying the lead a little bit here, callum as well, 356 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:24.000 because have you been moonlighting on any other productions. 357 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:30.079 My final thing was I was invited thanks to thanks 358 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.680 to your good reputations and the fact that you two 359 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:38.200 had already done it onto the Guns on Pegs Podcasts. 360 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:43.880 Had a very extensive, long conversation with the chaps on there, 361 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.599 and it was it was really good. It was a 362 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:51.960 really good time. Actually, it was really fun. I listened 363 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:56.480 back and I was trying not to be too controversial, but. 364 00:19:58.559 --> 00:19:58.880 Hmm. 365 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:02.279 Obviously I didn't try that hard. 366 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:05.519 I think they did very well. They let you talk 367 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.920 and they asked you a question. They pulled the ripcord 368 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:10.480 and they let you talk. And I think that narrative 369 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:16.200 of the let's talk to Callum the fascinated observer and 370 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.319 you showed your fascination and some of the questions that 371 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.400 you asked of it. You know, why is that normal? 372 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:22.720 You know? 373 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:25.839 I think particularly about the clothing was very interesting. 374 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:28.279 Yeah, shuffle, shofflegate. 375 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.000 Yes, shogate. Yeah. And I think there was a lot 376 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.839 of it's worth while listening to the Guns on Pegs 377 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.599 podcast anyway, because obviously we are not a shooting podcast people, 378 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:39.799 but they are. 379 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.759 I did have to get that across several times because 380 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:46.039 I just going to make sure and probably there's there's 381 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:50.920 I So a point I do want to make is 382 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.480 they also ask excellent follow up questions to lead me 383 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:56.079 into stuff. 384 00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:58.680 When I sort of follow up questions, they ask Callum. 385 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:05.960 Ramble onto non sequiturs, which unbelievably I have a tendency 386 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.640 to do. And so some of my favorite podcast co 387 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:14.000 hosts also have a tendency to ramble into non secutars 388 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:15.640 on a regular basis. 389 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.759 So yes, I've never done anything like that. 390 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.279 I've never had Tuesday, Build Build Pump. 391 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:25.960 So yes, it was a really good podcast. I thoroughly 392 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:31.039 enjoyed it. I should imagine there's probably some people listening 393 00:21:31.279 --> 00:21:34.880 that have come across from there, which I'd like to 394 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:36.200 say welcome. 395 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.160 They've left already, don't worry, they probably have as. 396 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.759 You talk about a load of Bill hooks, hey, and 397 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:48.640 then yeah, just you know, there is actually some good 398 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:55.119 content on this podcast episodes including tree Man, Harry Hoblin, 399 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:59.000 Harry Hoblin, Demand the Legend. It's actually a really good 400 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.759 episode and not just as ambling like this any any 401 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:02.680