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Paul Trueman and the Just Giving campaign for Helen Titchener.

We interview Paul Trueman about the Just Giving campaign for Helen Titchener. https://www.justgiving.com/helentitchenerPodcast guest this week is Paul Trueman, a 10 year listener, who was "switched on" to the real life abuse suffered by Helen Walmsley-Johnson writing in the New Statesman together with Helen Titchener's failure to get an afternoon out with Henry (which is lucky as no steam railways are running midweek at this time of year - so he would not have had a ride). Paul set up a "Rescue Helen" fund on Just Giving with the money raised going to Refuge. At the time of writing the fund is close to £50000 in just over a week.Lucy is enjoying Brian at present - particularly when Lilian extended her residence at Home Farm in front of Justin. Brian has not got a leg to stand on and Jenny is exerting her dominance over Brian! Is she abusing him? The entertainment factor was lifted by the return of Kate who has no control of her budget. Lucy admitted to being drugged up - on painkillers and diarolite; just as well as her buns have gone missing.Roifield revealed, at some length, that whilst he was quite taken by most types and modes of music he failed to extract any pleasure from the Metallica concert at the Superbowl (was the game any good?) and retreated to the bar.Jan from Cannes agrees with Kosmo and also highlighted Rob physically manhandling Helen for the first time. Witherspoon wants live streaming of the 100th episode recording. The recording levels mismatch for Henry is pointed - this used to be avoided in the Archers when "Shula" was able to voice the children. Since they commenced using real children they have never managed to get the levels rightly integrated. Currently it undermines belief and they need to rethink it.Yokel Bear turned up to tell us that what happened in Brighton was gambling - because Toby is a gambler pure and simple. Lucy believes that Child Maintenance in Hastings is probably after Toby for money for a child.Thanks to Millie for her round up of happening on the web related to the Archers. And there are some wonderful discussions on the website.By next week we hope YoKel Bear will be over his nerves and be used to talking to Lucy and will be standing in a sitting position in place of Roifield.KosmoOn this week’s episode we have calls from Julie Atkinson who wants Roif to sort things out with GoogleWitherspoon who thinks that Brian should not give in. Yokelbear who has an empty dance card andBlithe Spirit who likes hungover Jim.

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Duration:: 1h 40m
Broadcast on:: 10 Feb 2016
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He says they haven't got enough to do what he likes to keep them busy. Just letting you know, it's going to be 22 degrees. It also is 23. 23 degrees here today. Just letting you know. Huh? What's it like? After I wrote that thing about Derek, I went online on one of the news stations, news sites, and there was a picture of some nobend who had decided to go down to the coast in Cornwall and photograph the waves and had inevitably been washed out to see you. You pillock! Talking about pillows. Works and climb up Snowden in flip-flops in the bikini and have to be hair lifted off the top. Pillock, good Anglo-Saxon word. It is. My favourites. I was busy watching the Super Bowl with a whole bunch of Americans, you know, slightly befuddled by exactly what I was seeing on the TV, but the whole kind of event was very lovely. Anyway, whatever. There was an advert because you had to make a big deal about the adverts. Yeah. The Super Bowl. Helen Mirren came on and she talked about drink drivers, and she said, "Don't be a pillock." And those like... No, you didn't know what that was. Well, exactly. And they kind of looked around and said, "Oh, she's so cute. What does that mean?" And then, "That's an idiot." And then, "Oh, okay. Oh, we love Helen Mirren." You know, "She's the queen." And whatever. So, it's just very sweet. It's just great the way she did it. It's just, you know, it's just full of Britishisms, the whole thing, and just don't be a pillock and drink and drive. But anyway, just... I need to say thank you as well. I need to say thank you to all the nice people who wished me better after I said that I was under the weather yesterday, under the lavatory, I was actually. So, thank you very much. It's very sweet. Well, clinging on. But thank you very much. I feel quite a lot better today, and hopefully I will be back to normal completely tomorrow, but thank you. Thank you. You did get an outpouring of love, so to speak, didn't you? I did. Conson your outpouring. I was going to say it was nothing compared with my own outpouring, but yes. Oh, yes. On this week's episode, we have calls from Julie Atkinson, who wants me to sort things out with Google, with a spoon, with a spoon of things that Brian should not give in, Yokel Bear, who has an empty dance card, and Blo Spirit, who likes hungover, Jim, but first, before all of that stuff, before we do Paul Truman in his fundraising, it's Lucy V Freeman and a week in Ambridge. We began the week with Jim and Helen, engaging a vomiting competition at the ball. Well, that's sure to bring the punters in, especially with Kent and shouting encouragement through his megaphone. Jim was hungover after the inaugural cider club meeting and Christine threatening him with prune scones. Then we all had to suffer an exposition from Christine about green finches getting lesions in the throat caused by a parasite in the upper digestive tract, while Jim stared glumly at Peggy's tits. So poor old Jim drank the bird bath, then he went to gay grey balls and drank the pool. Roy and Krusty went on the blackberry line to celebrate his birthday. Krusty decided that what Roy needed for his party to really go with the swing was an anorexic and her psychotic toddler. Helen ran Krusty back saying there wasn't anything wrong, but the only place she could get any signal was underneath the compost bin with a tarpaulin over her head. "Happy birthday, Roy!" hunched up in a freezing cold steam train with his knees round his ears, eating curly ham sandwiches, while Krusty texted Helen the refuge action line. Josh has suddenly decided to become an egg tycoon, king of the eggs, prince of yolks. He suddenly went all BL bored, started talking to the fair brethren like Tony Soprano and told Toby to shove his £20 up his nose, which I imagine would be a fairly usual place to find Toby's £20 notes. Lillian has got her mojo back with the judicious application of gold and silver shoes and champagne. That is Lillian's idea of austerity. Kate has inherited Auntie Lillian's frankly appalling business sense and has wazzed all the money she got from Debbie up the wall and has run out of money to pay for the little extras for the therapy centre she was hoping for, like a roof. Adam and Big Bam Brian talked to the BL board about some boring grassy grassy milky milky stuff, and it all came out all right in the end, and they all went out for dinner and had beef welling to the lashings of ginger beer. Justin tarted about with Lillian. He said what he got out of his relationship with Lillian was a boat hole. Bit rude. And then he called Lillian Miss Four. Miss Four? Is that really something Justin would say? Kent and a Jolene adopted their usual rigorous recruitment policy to the bull kitchen and are employing a new chef largely because she once went to Belgium. Excellent. Good enough for me. And then we had a nauseating little chatet with Perky Ruth and Usha in the Bider Wild Tea Rooms about what appeared to be David and Ruth's sex life through the medium of cattle. It was all very confusing, and Ruth talked about Sam Sam the Dairy Man. It was all so baffling, Usha ended up saying, "Oh, you have done a lot of thinking, which made her sound like Moo from Willow the Whisp. Today I have been doing thinking." Obviously we are going to have to address the burning issue that has set the arches message boards alight, the village hall curtains. Never let it be said that the women of ambridge are not busy, independent feminist business women. So busy that they've had time to form a curtain committee. I thought at first it was going to be like the vagina monologues, but I think actually it's like cobra, but with pinch pleats. In my most successful achievement this week, I identified Jenny Darling's technique for diverting Brian from asking questions about the fact that Lillian and her red dress is never, ever going to leave, and that Kate's business has entirely predictably gone bums up. It is simple but effective. She just keeps pouring coffee into him. More coffee, Brian, more coffee, Brian. He's a man of a certain age, and the old bladder starts to make its presence felt, so he must be en route to have it out with Lillian or Kate, and then suddenly have to take an abrupt diversion into the lavatory. And so Lillian and Kate live to fight another day. Hoorah! The end. We've enjoyed that this week, Lucy V. Freeman. And you deserve all the plorts that come your way, regards your monologue. Now, there's somebody else who enjoyed it too. His name's Paul Truman. So, Mr. Paul Truman, why is my Twitter line? Why is every bit of Archer's social media full of your name at the moment? Because I had an idea about five or six days ago, and people seem to really like it. That's my excuse. Well, I think you can have to elaborate some. What was this fantastic idea? OK, so I've read, so I have been an Archer's assistant for probably about ten years, so a relatively recent blow-in by sort of Archer's standards. And I've been hooked on the storyline. And if I'm honest, I kind of treat it like I treat most things in the arches, which is sort of with a couple of jokes and, you know, love-hate thing, sometimes some weeks I think it, you know, hits a nail on the head and another weeks it doesn't. But I never really thought about it in terms of, if I'm honest, it's like a real world thing. I knew that obviously there were a complete bare lens out there, but I never quite appreciated how many or possibly the effects of them and how closely the Archer's screenwriters seem to have nailed it with their portrayal of Rob. And until I read an article on Tuesday, so only six days ago, by Helen warmly Brown, who tweets as the vintage ear, who he probably knows is very funny and just a great writer. She wrote an article saying, basically, this kind of really resonates to me because this happened to me and it happened to lots of women. And she kind of enlisted a couple of things they do in the show that Rob's done, or Helen's done, her behavior and his. And it just, I just really started thinking, wow, you know, I've been kind of watching this thing as a kind of an abstract bit of entertainment. But I noticed I was stupid, but I hadn't quite sunk in with me how much of a, how bang on they got it. Anyway, I listened, like that kind of, you know, I read the article and I tweeted her. I retweeted it, I think, and I said, I think this is a great bit of writing. And I thought no more of it until that night's episode, which was the one where she stages a kind of weird, great escape with her and Henry from the school where, for some reason, it's like her cry, isn't it for myself conscious? You know, she's got to get out. And she can't admit it to herself. And, you know, so she decides to steal Henry away from school and yada yada. And as I kind of watched Twitter afterwards and just the anguish and the kind of the tension that everyone's feeling and the whole thing, we don't want to listen, but we want to listen. And I just, I just had this idea, which was that, you know, if you, if you was really un-maked, like a lot of, you know, people joke, don't they, the archers fans, including archers fans, joking that we think it was real. I thought if she was real, you could, you could help her out. Wouldn't it be great if you could set up like a rescue fund and we could all go and get her? That's all, you know, you see, tweet lately, like after the archers saying, oh, I'm going to go and sod it, I'm going around to get her. And I thought, wouldn't it be great if we did that for, you know, we did that for real? And then I just thought you could have, you could have upset her page for her. But we could give all the money to her proper charity and that's linking, that actually links to this stuff because they're clearly hitting the nail on the head. And that was kind of my little light bulb moment. And I work in advertising and I kind of get paid to come up with ideas. So I sat there feeling very pleased with myself for a couple of minutes. I tweeted, Helen, who I don't, who I didn't previously know other than, you know, I think I probably laughed at some of her tweets and we possibly had the old tweet here and there, but I didn't know her. And I just tweeted, say, I just had this idea, what do you think? And she immediately said, she loved it and I said, well, what charity would you recommend? And straight to the way she just said refuge. So I went off and did it and it took about 10 minutes. I wrote some copy very quickly, which if I had realized how many people were going to read it and look at it, I would have possibly fasted around with for a bit longer. But it went up and I am done for about 10 seconds over what I was going to call it, Helen Art, your Helen Tichner. I went with Helen Tichner. And then sat back and thought, oh, this is fun. I'll let some people know. What was your original goal in terms of your target? What did you think you might write? Yeah, sure. So this is a bit of just giving all these pages. They always stymie you right at the start, don't they? Because they always say, how much are you going to raise? Genuinely, I was still more excited at that point by the idea than I was by the reality of it. And someone thought, well, wouldn't it be amazing if we raised a thousand pounds? That, you know, a grant by the end of the week, by the end of the Sunday Omnibus, if we'd raised a grant, that would be amazing. So I put that in thinking, worse that can happen. This raises, maybe I get a couple of hundred quid. Maybe I get nothing. Maybe I get a couple of hundred quid. But it's still a, you know, something worth doing. So I sat back, treated a few people, and I can't quite remember now. But within about 10 minutes, I started getting donations. And by the end of the evening, I had a grant. And I sort of sat there because I'd only started at about nine o'clock in the evening. By the time it was up, and I was telling anyone about it, it must have been about any about half eight, nine o'clock. Anyway, I had a grant that night. I went to bed with a grant. At about midnight, I was sat there watching my fago. Ping! Ping! And I started singing. You know, I was completely buzzing because it's not a thing, isn't it? You know what, you know what social media is like, and if you get something that sort of, it's like when you get a couple of retweets, you know, you feel good about yourself. And I thought, I thought, oh shit, what have I done? And I started drinking whiskey to try and calm down so he gets asleep. Because I was so kind of hyped on it. And anyway, I woke up in the morning and I said to my wife, who had had a really early night that night. We got two rows of these small kids. And she was completely knackered and I woke up and she didn't do nothing about it. And I said to her, um, I've got something to tell you. She looked at me, sort of, you know, terrified. And I was. I said, I seem to have raised 1,300 pounds for a charity overnight. And she kind of had jaw dropped open. And I mean, I've done some charity stuff in the past. And I did a bike ride for a friend's charity last year. And I, you know, I did all the stuff you're meant to do when you have a charity. And I got a thousand pounds at the end of like three months. And I was so pleased with that brand. It was a really good chunk of money to hand over to my friend. And I'd done that in four hours. And then I just kept upping the target and we just kept hitting the target. It was amazing. It's been an amazing sort of ride. What is the target right now? So it's Monday. What's the target today? So the target today is 50,000 pounds. Um, we're even saying out loud sounds completely ridiculous. I think some of that, well, what we've been talking has, has anything. Have we made any money? Um, I'm just having a look. Yeah. So we've made 30 quid while I've been talking. I feel 30 quid. Seriously. Um, it's, it's, it's slow and steady. And, um, I don't know about slow. I don't know about slow. All right. It was 2949 individual donations to get to 40, basically 44,000 pounds. You know, that. It's amazing. I basically spent the first few days in a complete blur. Wandering around the corridors that were just kind of trying to sneak as much time as I could on it. Muttering people are amazing a lot. Um, I've been bold over. I've had some, like some lovely sort of celeb Twitter support, but I mainly, you know, some really early people gotten really early and were just brilliant. Um, but mainly it's just been people power and Facebook as well. The Facebook pages, um, which I kind of dip into every now and again, but I'm more of a Twitter guy if I'm honest. But, um, the arches appreciation page are going to bow down to those guys. They are amazing. Are you, are you an arches appreciation page man? Um, I'm, I'm on all of the kind of various kind of arches pages and the, as I said to you at the start, you know, my, all of my social media timelines are full of this and, and fully all names. And, um, it is an absolute testament to the detail the script writers have put into this story. Um, you know, it's fantastically written. It's fantastically acted. It's amazingly acted, uh, by, you know, the protagonist and the antagonist. Uh, and that's, and that is, uh, testament to the reason why you, you know, you've raised this money. And then, you know, that kind of coincides, kind of collides with the fact that there is this amazing, giving community of people that are into this docu-drama. You know, people that, for whom the characters are kind of best friends, are companions that, you know, they go through their, go through their lives with. And a lot of people for years, um, Helen, Helen Archer Stroke Teaching has never been the most popular characters. No, not at all. But, you know, in lots of ways, she's been a very kind of tragic character. And, and, and also in, in many ways, a very modern kind of character in terms of her lack of self-worth and how she tries to control, uh, control the way that she feels, uh, through her lack of eating. And that, you know, and then, um, giving herself, uh, two relationships, which invariably have always been somewhat kind of disastrous. So because of that, a lot of listeners have taken, you know, not an instant dislike, but basically not liked her. Another kind of, uh, genius bit of kind of plotting in that, um, she's in this situation, which is incredibly real, the outpouring that even we've seen. So we have this post on our site. It's just free hon- honry, or it's just free henry, uh, where women are talking about their, uh, recounting their stories of growing up as, as henry, you know, having an overbearing stepfather who disregarded them, who was callous, uh, and had, you know, emotionally abused them and their mothers. And I must admit, before this whole storyline, I wasn't aware of the term gaslighting. It wasn't aware. And, you know, we have to take our hats off to, to the script writers for actually bringing this to such public prominence. And, you know, all these things kind of collide. So it means that some bloke, some bromi bloke in Devon, um, can have a bit, a bit of an afterthought. And then, you know, do what you've done. And then raise best part of 44 grand in, in less than a week. You know, it's, yeah. You're, you're dead. You're dead. Right. I've had loads of people say really, really lovely things. The kind of things you shouldn't ever say to someone who works in advertising, basically about the idea and how much they've, how brilliant they think it is. Really, they're going to make them answer. But what I've said to everyone is exactly what you've just said, which is that without the show and without this, without the community, it's, it's nothing. It's just a nice idea. You kind of need all of those bits to work together. And I think that we've just created, my friend said this morning, he said, you've basically created this perfect, you know, you were in the middle of this perfect storm moment. And he's dead right. It was just the right thing with the, with the kind of the, like you said, we've all sat there for the last year or two and kind of realized slowly that this thing is, that this thing is real and that they've totally nailed it in terms of the portrayal of it. And I have to, I mean, just, the just giving page has, every time I go on now, I see something that sort of puts a lump in my throat or brings a tear to my eyes. The comments on there are just amazing. Absolutely. But you're, you're a bit of a newbie when it comes to the arches. You've only been listening for 10 years. So you're still, you're still, you're still wet beyond the years. What's the sad story line that you can remember, Paul? Poor old AWOLK Kathy, we never hear from anymore. It was, it was the rape. It was that whole, that plot. Like I remember sitting, I actually remember sitting on my sofa. And when I lived in London and being sort of just, this show that I've kind of heard bits and pieces of in the car on the way back from work, just enough to know who, who a loose grasp of a few of them was. And it was the, it was when, when, I think it was when she was attacked. And I do remember sat there sort of completely gripped that. And so I don't know when that was, but some, some people will know about that. So that was the first time I remember really, it really hit me. And that was, that was just after Christmas play or something like that. They were rehearsing, weren't they? That's right. Yeah, it was a village wall thing, wasn't it? In fact, it was a village wall. Yeah. And I remember that, that happening in sort of arches years, I'm sort of still, still a toddler. We had this amazing moment on Saturday night, we went to the fish and chip shop with CO. The fish and chip, I say, restaurant in Bronton. This is why as if anyone, actually if you, if you are a Brummy, then you must have been down to Croyd at some point because Croyd is, Croyd is Pete Brummy in, in August. You can't move for a Brummy's in, you know, in August. We were having fish and chips and my friends walked in randomly and their parents had arrived from, who live abroad. And the first thing she said is she sat down to him was, have you seen the garden today? She said there's an article on the, on the arches. And this, this guy is fundraised for, for refuge. It's brilliant. I'm sure the name, don't you know Paul Dreamin? And Ben, my friend who was sat with her said, yeah, he's over there. So, that was bizarre people. Ben's mum who I'd never met, wondered over when we had a big hug and, and a bit of an arches. You know, you know, the way you meet someone who knows the arches and you have to chat with them and their, their partners or whatever, the people who aren't into it, their eyes glaze over and they get that sort of kill me now. Look, well, everyone else had that while we sat there and chatted about Kenton and, and all the rest of them. You getting arches, props and respect in the chippy? Exactly. It was brilliant. I mean, one of the things I've loved about doing actually is the fact that I've tried to keep it because it feels like a really lovely feel good kind of positive thing. I've kept the whole thing quite light. And I think there are moments where, you know, that doesn't, you know, that's not appropriate when you're kind of, I'm kind of, I screen grab quite a lot and tweet quite a lot of the comments on the just giving page because some of them are more powerful than anything I could ever write as a copywriter. Equally, I've loved just talking volocs about, you know, in just talking about the characters getting in touch and we had a piss up in the bull on Saturday night. And Kate's trying to get some of the money for her underfloor heating for the year. She was snap, snap chatting me, you know, because I figured that would be something that Kate would do. Toby Fair brother, you know, has been in touch. See if I can, if I can lend him a few quid for the, to pass your legs. So, yeah, it's been, it's been really good fun. I've loved every minute of it. And I've been just been blown away by, as you said earlier, the community that is around it is phenomenal and being able to sort of come up with this little idea that's just, just giving everyone a little twist on a way to think about it. It's been amazing. I feel really fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time. Well, listen, on behalf of every artist's listener that's been moved by this storyline, I'm glad that you kind of had your little moment of inspiration. And may you raise not only 50, 60, 70, let's get it up to 100,000 pounds. You've done it. It may be amazing. Absolutely. Absolutely. But just before you go, what is that URL? Just in case anybody's got some spare change in their personal wallet and they want to donate. Fantastic. Thank you very much. So if you, if you haven't yet, if you have, thank you so much. If you haven't yet, give me your, your, your, your free quid, your four quid, your five quid, your tenors, it will be amazing. And, and please go to justgiving.com/hellentichner. That's justgiving.com/hellentichner. And I will take your money and give it to refuge and we can make a real difference. So you, good listener, can go on to justgiving.com. You've got the URL and let's go and push this thing up. So we get more than 50k. Okay, but now it's a little bit of me and Lucy time. Last week. Yes. Other than what you are said in your monologue, Freeman. Is there anything else that you would like to comment on before we do call her in or us? Um, I am enjoying Brian at the moment. Many people have said that, but I am enjoying Brian because of, he's just. One of the many women that have enjoyed Brian. Yes. And, but he's just such blissful release after the story that shall not be named because he's kind of entirely, you know, the most stress that Brian has is one of his children might be asking him for some of his many, many, many millions of pounds and he's a bit reluctant to fork it over. And that's it really. It doesn't get more traumatic than that for Brian at the minute. So I quite love, I love the fact that he can't get shot of any of them out of the house. That Lillian and Jenny have just kind of joined forces and said, who, she is staying. Of course she's Brian. Do your silly. And Brian was like, what, at what point did anyone ask me? No, he's just, he's not. Yeah, exactly. And let's celebrate this over a glass of his. Yes. And then, and completely trapped him. So he couldn't say it because Justin was there. He couldn't put, and Lillian, he couldn't possibly say, hang on a cotton picking minute. What, you know, no, we're not having her living here, for God's sake. You know, she's got 27 million rental properties. Why doesn't she move into one of them? You know, it's just lovely that they kind of just completely trapped him. But, and you kind of think because Jennifer has so firmly got the moral high ground, he can never ever win, Brian. He just doesn't have a leg to, because every time he says, Jenny Darling, I really don't think she can just go, where is Rory? And then he goes, yes, don't find that. That's absolutely fine. You do what you want. You know, she's just got him over a barrel. It's hilarious. And it's so nice with the trauma of the other storyline. It's just to go to this cozy little plush world where it's all wine fridges and augers and, you know, who shall I bestow my largesse on this week? It's kind of a thing. It's very nice. I like it a lot. Me too. And I like the reappearance of Kate, where he's, you know, barreled round there. Kate, Kate, what the hell is going on? Yeah, it's it. You're completely right. And I know who said it before. It is funny, though, that considering, you know, they're all going, well, I haven't seen her for ages. She won't ask for anything. She lives on your land. Just go there, you know. Bloody hell. Half the time people are going to see people who aren't there rather than ringing them. And then when they actually live about 100 yards away, they ring them and say, oh, she's not answering, but no idea how to get in touch with them. You can see her out of your window for fuck's sake, for God's sake. Just go and, you know, go and knock on the door. But I did like it the fact that she was meditating when he went round there. And he's banging on the door, shouting. And she's, you ruined my, ruined my positivity dad or whatever it was. But at least she has to be leaving Phoebe alone at the moment. I thought that Kate might kick off about the oxford thing. Well, I don't want to be knocking at the plotting of all of these, but that's just bonkers that she hasn't got something to say about that. Whether it's positive or negative, you know, like, oh, you don't even become part of the kind of the elite, you know, or you've done so well, just whatever. She's got to have an opinion on it. Yeah, exactly. She's got an opinion on everything. I thought, yes. And we know what most of them are because she's told us. I think we need to come to Uncle God Kerry's rescue if we can. And just, there are some people I have noticed on the Twitter who still think that Rob is not the father of Ethan, that Rob is the father of Ethan and that he somehow faked that test. It is, I've actually talked to Kerry about this. It is fantastically difficult to fake one of those tests. It happens in front of the doctor. It's not, they don't send anything in. It happens right in front of you. The letter is sent to everybody in the world. You can't fake, you know, you can't. So if Jess has accepted that Rob is not the father of Ethan, I really think we have to and stop waiting for that storyline to rear up. I know everybody wants it to be, you know, it's completely understandable that everybody wants it. And God knows I want any reason we can't, any more reasons we can to hate him. But that's not the case. And also then the other thing that I noticed Kerry sort of had to respond to on the Twitter's again was in the scene in the hospital with, ah, hang on. This is next, it's Sunday, isn't it? Yes, it is. You're going to talk about the phone. Yes. Yes. And he's, yes. And exactly. You're going to say, but no, that was a. Okay. I can't mention that. Oh, it's reverse. Yes. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Lucy Freeman reversing. Yes. You're on fine form today. It's painkillers and dioral light. Drugs. The wonderful combination. Woohoo! I'm going to go cut wheeling down the stairs. Well, I'll just say hello. And then I'll just like, just watch you just like go. Because I don't need to say anything in this episode. Oh, I just thought of something else. Sorry. Go on. I went to the Audio Drama Awards the other day. Largly. I went to a Metallica concert, but you go first. Did you? Did they take ages to get off stage? I don't know. But you told me about your audio. It was drama first. It was very, very good. But guess who was one of the award givers? Tim. No. It was Hazel Woolley. Oh, really? And Badlands. Yeah. And everybody knows they're from the Slovene. Oh, yes, of course. Yes. Yep. Lots of sitcoms. You've christened that nickname for her. Well done. No, she was the Slovene. No, but in terms of the archers. Oh, I see. Yeah. Well, she came up on stage. And she's actually very glam and very, very nice. Clearly. She's not going to be as foul as she is in the series. And she came up on stage. And Lenny Henry was comparing. And he said, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. And best knows Hazel Woolley at the moment. She's currently known as being Hazel Woolley on the archers. And there was, there was like John Hurt in the audience. And John Hurt, Jew Whitfield. And, you know, all the comedy, John Finnemore and all these people from radio. And they went. Mmm. But he said best knows the Hazel Woolley. And she said, she had a very difficult childhood, actually. And everyone went. Ah! And Lenny Henry said, right. All right. Let's just move on. She's so hated. Anyway, she was very nice. Are the audio drama awards? Are they so white? Lenny Henry did bring that up several million times during the day and said, they weren't actually, they were incredibly diverse, something, again, that she commented on. And I bet he was talking about the Charlotte Rampling idiotic comment. The audio drama awards. Are they so straight? No. No, campus thing on two legs. No, no, no, no, no. Right. Good. Well, I'll tell you what was extremely white. Metallica. You know me. I'm pretty broad-minded when it comes to most things. And I'm definitely broad-minded when it comes to my appreciation of music. Right. But last week, I was given a ticket by my friend Eric, who's the principal of the Mission High School, to go and see Metallica with him and his pals. Now, he said, it's a free ticket from Metallica. And I looked at him and I thought, why would you think this is, you know, something which is going to be-- You didn't know I'm black, don't you? Oh, just anyway. Now, so here's the whole background to it. So the Super Bowl has come to town, and it's the 50th Super Bowl. And to say the Super Bowl over here is much bigger than the FA Cup. He's, you know, he's putting it mildly. So it's the FA Cup and the championship rolled into one. But then it rotates to different cities each year. So cities put on a real show, and it's the 50th. So there was Alicia Keys' free concert, Metallica free concert. There's his fan park in the middle of the downtown, just by the Embarcadero. It was fantastic. And you've got a real sense of a carnival atmosphere on the Saturday night because the Super Bowl's on the Sunday. So I go out and Eric says, just come out with me and my friends, we're going to have this drink and whatever. And then there's throngs and crowds of people and people in American football shirts and whatever. And a real sense of occasion. And I was just glad to be, you know, kind of out. Absolutely amazing. And then we go into the AT&T park, which is a baseball park. Of the San Francisco Giants, of where this thing is happening. Now, as I said, punk like it. I've always been a little bit of a fan of the Sex Pistols. Two-tone like it. Classical music, don't know enough about it. But you know what, I like what are here. Blues music like it. You name it, country in Western. But you know what, I can sit down and listen to those harmonies and melodies and go, this great craftsmanship and musicianship there. You name it, Lucy, musically. You know, East African swamp music, you know, I'm down with it. Heavy metal, can't fucking stand it, right? And I said to myself, well, these people have, you know, given me a free ticket and there's 40,000 people there, right? Luckily for me, Eric said, unfortunately, Roy Field, your ticket is not with the group of us. You're going to be sat by yourself. So you could leave after seven and a half minutes. You spot on Lucy, that's exactly what. So I sat to the first, I think they call it music, which is just unadulterated white noise as far as I could die at. But what I will say is the video show and the fact that these aging rockers were just prancing around on stage was somewhat impressive. But it went like this. And I said, well, that's just the first song. It was music, Lucy. I don't know what it was. And those people could, hell yeah, hell yeah. Lucy, so I listened to the first one. Well, that's just, I was just the first one. And I'm going to be able to listen. I've been tuning up. I said to myself, I'm going to be able to hear, the strands of American blues, which is, you know, where this music derived from it, at some point, I'm going to be able to discern its place in the musical firmament. Oh my God. Then the second one came on, it was like this. I went, okay. All right. So the third one came on. And I just said, right, I'm going to go and get myself a hotdog. Right. So I went, okay, this does take five. Because my ears were bleeding. My ears, literally just blood coming out of my ears. And I sat through five minutes of the fourth song. I think they called it. And I went, fuck this. Right. And I walked out and went back to the bar. I couldn't stand it. And then I got this text after half an hour for America saying, hey, good news. The seat next to me is free. Come over. Oh, I just kind of hacked to it. Who is this? I have this number in my phone. I had to ignore the text. And then another 45 minutes later, they'll come and look, what are you writing to the show, Roy Field? I was so British. I went, hmm, yes. Well, it was a show. The show happened. It was assorted. No. Oh, drinks, anybody. Oh, God, Lucy. I tell you, I tell you, tell you. Right. And everybody that was there was like, this is the music of our teenage years. This is our, you know, it takes us back to being in high school. Metallica. Metallica. And you just got a real sense of how these people are similar to us, but this is so bloody different. Because I have to explain to them that this is just, obviously, Metallica I've found in the UK. I'm not saying they don't, but it's not embedded in our culture, the way that it is over there. That music and just the... Well, it's much more mainstream there, isn't it? Absolutely. Because not saying it's, you know, heavy metal is a, you know, the clothes are different. Everything's different. Oh, listen, absolutely. And, you know, I had to go on some big, long, Royfield board, you know, treaties about, you know, the fact that the similar type of thing for us would maybe was kind of like dance music, which is a bit of a leveler. And it's like, you know, when you discovered, you know, house musical, whatever, you know, when you're in secondary school, or whatever the heck it is, and just, oh, Jesus, Lucy. I've never walked out of that. Free ticket, 40,000 people, I couldn't bear it. Couldn't bear it. But, you know, thank you, though, Eric. (LAUGHTER) I think that's super sales really well. If I don't think thanking the man, I just said, it's the worst evening of your life. (LAUGHTER) Thanks. Cooler in a retirement, is it? (LAUGHTER) I think so. Right. Is Eric, who wants to know that? (LAUGHTER) No. (BELL RINGING) (BELL RINGING) (BELL RINGING) (BELL RINGING) (BELL RINGING) (BELL RINGING) (BELL RINGING) Hello, Ambridge 3962. Hello, Lucy and Roy Field. And Dumpty Dumbers, and they're Dumpty Dogs everywhere. It is Jan from Cannes Calling, Mitch Muse on the Twitters. And I just have been listening to the most recent Dumpty Dum, which as usual is really great. Really enjoying it. And I couldn't help but call in to make a comment about Cosmo's call. I must admit, I agree with Cosmo. I think Justin Elliott is up to no good. I think he wants that land. And I think he wants to have an affair with Lillian. I hope I'm proved wrong, but I just have a feeling. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing, I think. And the other thing I wanted to comment on was Tuesday. I believe Tuesday morning. I'm positive. I heard a Dracula roughly push Helen into her chair. It was a breakfast scene in the morning as they were getting ready to go. Anyway, nice to chat with you all. Bye. Jan from Cannes. Jan from, whoops, my microphone's just collapsed. Jan from Cannes, I completely agree. He did push her down. Sorry, she's talking about when Helen, you know, when Helen, he was telling her to sit down and rest. This is Robin Helen, obviously. And she sort of said, oh, no, I'm fine. And then there was like, oh. And she said, oh, all right, or something. And I think he pushed her. There was this sort of little, oh. When she sat down, which made me think that he pushed her down. So I completely agree. Jan, yes, I heard it too. And I'm sure other people did. If we both did, other people would have done. I have a sneaking liking for Justin. But I don't know why. Well, there is because I quite found since Simon Williams, when I was growing up. I don't know. But do you like him? Yeah. Though he does write right here and now, and it's been said before, feel like a bit of a, you know, olive stroke. There's somebody else kind of mashed together clone. But yeah, right here and now he's providing a little bit of light relief. And unlike the fact that him and Lillian are becoming kind of like, you know, muckers. And I don't want him to be resolutely evil. I don't know what Cosmo said. Oh, no. Trust him. Trust him. He's got malevolent plans afoot. You know, it's the case. Oh, well, you know. Quite like him. Quite like him. Yeah. And what I like about him as well is that he is chasing Lillian. Lillian is not chasing him because she has got a bit of form for making herself look a bit of an arse. You kind of get the impression with Lillian and men that she sort of persuaded them into it. I mean, I think that's a bit harsh darling. But what work did she have done after Matt Scarpard? I can't remember. Was it just Botox she had? Yes. Yes, she did. It wasn't anything massive, like a lift, was it, where she had to put a paper on? Yes. Yeah. But it's just, you know, I remember her chasing that young bloke, the one that went off with Brenda Scott, wasn't it? And even with Matt, she kind of, you know, she sort of pushed that slightly more than he did. And, but this time she's kind of, she's, she seems to be hanging on to her sanity more or a self respect slightly more anyway. So I hope that if anything does happen with Justin, she will say, well, it's, I'm very glad that you're interested in me and if you'd like to get shot of your wife, then maybe we can talk about it, but not until then, which would be, you know, a very sensible way to do it. Otherwise she's just going to end up, you know, being the hanger on yet again, isn't she? Poor Lillian. And she's anything but poor. Can I just quickly just jump in? Because Jan from Cannes, Jan Mitchell is probably thinking, I sent Lucy some cinnabuns and it hasn't been mentioned. Jan, you asked me for Lucy's address just before Christmas, so you could send us some cinnabuns that have been lost in the post. I know Lucy didn't get them because Lucy said to me because I, when I asked her for her address a couple of weeks afterwards, she says, why do you, why do you want my address? Why do you want my address? And I went, oh, you'll see, you'll see, you'll see. And she's never got them, Jan. So really sorry, but it was a lovely thought. I thought my balance got lost in the post. Mm hmm. Yeah. You didn't tell me. Well, you ain't got them yet, have you? And like she said at the beginning of December, so they must be lost. Oh. There's a post, many wolf themselves, like rubbing his lips. So, rubbing the geography's lips right now as we speak. Yeah. But thank you, Jan, for the cows, a lovely thought. It's a lovely thought. But don't think that, you know, we were, yes. Mm hmm. But it could be Canada post. Why are we taking the blame for this? Yes. That's very English. No, it was us, probably. It's fine. But no, thank you very much. That's very, very kind. Yes. Oh, that's very annoying. Mm hmm. Maybe they'll arrive when I'm better because I can't eat anything. So, I'll have to wait until I'm better. Oh, please. Hard as bloody stones, though. I don't care. I might be starving by then. Alright. Hmm. Next call. Hi, Roy Field and Lucy. It's Julie from Pickering, a second time cholera. I was just listening to last week's "Dunty Dumb" episode. And it was really good to hear all the people at the end in San Francisco talking about the archers and what they think of plot predictions, et cetera. I was interested when the IT guy was on there. I'm sorry, I don't remember his name. And you asked him how we could celebrate in IT terms, the getting back together of Tom and Krusty, if indeed that did happen. And I was thinking how cool would it be to get Google to do a plot just style round-up of the week in a Google celebratory headline. You know, when they change the Google image and add things to it to celebrate a birthday or a famous person, I think we should get onto that. Leave it to you, Roy Field. Doodles. Julie Atkinson. Right. Okay. Rob Pickering. She wants you to... It's doing where? Pickering in Canada. No. Yorkshire. Oh, okay. Because there's one in Ontario. Oh, God, if it's Lancashire, I'm in massive trouble, aren't I? Anyway, she wants you to sort stuff out with Google and do a Google image. Maybe when the storyline that can't be named ends, we could celebrate with a Google picture. You know, they alter the picture depending on anything that we're celebrating. Yeah. So she said, "Can you just drop them a line, Royve?" and sort that out. Well, I can drop them a line like that, whether they will sort it out. And I got a sneaky, sneaky, sneaky feeling. And I've said this numerous times before. This storyline with Rob is never, ever going to be completely sorted out. Because he's too much of a good character. He's going to become, you know, he's going to become like Hazel Woolley. Yeah. He will flip back into the village to see his offspring, his heir, and will boo and hiss. And, you know, so he'll be run out of town, pitchforks and, you know, and torches ablaze. Yes. But don't think this is over over over, you know. So even when it's over, it won't be over. With a spoon. I'm sorry, just before you say with a spoon. And I know that Millie Bell does talk about this. But on our forum, Lucy B Freeman, have you seen that there will be a-- Oh, head reader. Oh, yes, just for Henry. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So if ever you wanted to see, written in black and white, that this story runs and runs for years, there's some, somewhat harrowing testimonies of people who've grown up with a Rob. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely brilliant piece that was. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling to salads and scrambled eggs. Massive. Greetings Lucy, Royfield, Millie Bell, and all dumpsy dimmers around the world. It's Witherspoon and Angus Haggis here, planning with Royfield's permission, our spring meetup in the Big Apple. We're both very excited about it. I too have the cold that many of you have, so please forgive the rough voice. I'm thinking a lot about Friday's episode, and also about Henrietta's post on the forum. If you haven't read it, please do so. As we've been talking about for months and months, emotional abuse and manipulation occur on a regular basis to many people. In both women and men are victims. What has made Tim Watson's portrayal of Rob so chilling is that he has so condensingly created a character, who the vast majority of the time seems to truly believe that what he is doing is in the best interest of Helen. Then occasionally a switch gets thrown, and we see that he knows he's acting only in his self-interest and to create a subservient Helen. A never before thought that he would actually try to turn Henri against his mother, but there it was. He is convinced, Helen, that she's been the cause of her increasing isolation, but at the same time she's fighting against that belief. Maybe Rob turning Henri against her was the one step too far. But how will all of this get unraveled? First Helen must tell all to someone she trusts, and that person needs to confirm that her doubts are based in reality. Only Kirsty will be able to do this. Others, including Pat, was become curiously subservient to Rob, and her own right will not. But how long will it take? And will Rob receive the punishment he so richly deserves? Not easy in real life, but hey, the script writers can repay us for taking us on this difficult journey. Briefly onto a lighter subject, Kate. I guess all someone had to do was to open her door. She must have been sitting on her floor and meditating for months now. As I have said before, I do hope that Brian and Jenny hold the line and don't give her any more money. We won't do any good for this 40-year-old woman child, and there's nothing like throwing good money after bad. So Angus and I are looking forward to the 100th, which we could be there in person. Maybe you could livestream it, or we could Skype in. We'll clear the patient's schedule. Talk to you next week. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling, toss salads and scrambled eggs. Massive. With a spoon, who says Brian should not give in? I mean, Lillian seems to have boundless patience with Kate. Whether or not she sees a bit of herself in Kate, I don't know. But Kate has basically buggled up a business, but she hasn't even started the business and she's already buggled up the business plan. I don't know if that's the part of a business where things go wrong first, the business plan stage. It just seems to be, how could she not have seen? She wants photovoltaic, whatever they are, roof-tile things. There are bloody fortune. She must have costed them in. Surely. Because that was part of the business plan, so how can they suddenly be more expensive than she thought? Which of you have not spent where? Well, a couple of things could have happened here. You say I want some nice tiles, and then you go along to the tile shop, then you see some nicer ones, and you go, oh, I'll just have them. And that's really what's happened here. And we know this, but Kate is not a business person. And this is a vocation for Kate. This is a lifestyle choice, and she's trying to make some kind of money out of it. And the fact of the matter is, you actually can. But to do that, you need to be somewhat kind of hard-headed. And you need to say to yourself things like, okay, so these tiles are whatever the hell they are. These are £3.50 per meter. Here are some... The photovoltaic ones are £394 pounds. Exactly. Ultimately, is there any quantifiable difference between me getting the cheaper ones or the ones which are eco-friendly and, you know, got from a sustainable source and a hip-cooled and groovy? And in the great scheme of things with the service that I'm going to provide, the answer is actually no. However, I feel like... The photovoltaic ones are solar ones, aren't they? I've no idea. I have no idea. I have no idea. That's why she wants them. Well, but... But then, you know, if that's an intrinsic part of the business, she should have surely costed that in. I don't know. Yeah. But it's not. But it's fundamentally looking at something as a business and watching the pennies as opposed to saying, "Well, I would like this and this would be great, you know, for me to have this." And she isn't a businesswoman. And if she truly teamed up with Lillian, i.e. Lillian held her hand through the whole process, they'll probably make a great go of it. Because in terms of delivering the service, the service of the alternative therapies, I think actually she'd be pretty good. Yeah. She'd be pretty good at that. But in terms of the infrastructure of the business around it, absolutely not. Yeah. You know, so... Nobody seems to be giving her money. I mean, they just keep giving her money, but nobody's actually giving her any concrete help or advice, are they? They're just, I mean, Lillian sort of looked through her business plan and said, "Yes, that seems fine." That's pretty good. Debbie's just chucked her a load of cash from wherever the hell she is. Hungry. But actually, the nuts and bolts of putting her business together and the building and the regulations and all that stuff, that's not something you can just do on your own, never having done it before, if you're an idiot. She had the food truck in the late night, it's all she's an expert. I love the fact that Peggy, and maybe this was actually this week, I really can't remember, but Peggy says, "Oh, she had that other business and I gave her some money in the food truck." I go, "Oh my God, yes, why back then?" When she was doing the festivals and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we've also talked about Robin, Helen, and Henry. It's really ramped up now to an unbearable degree. He's trying to turn Henry against Helen. All that nonsense about what do we call it when some Henry? What do we call it when somebody promises you something and it doesn't happen? It's called lying, and mummy is a liar, and then all this. I hate too many. It's just hideous. You know. And she's trying to keep Kirsty out of it to protect Kirsty, but you know, when you are the victim of somebody like him, you cannot, he seems so powerful, or the other person seems so powerful, you can't imagine anyone else not being frightened of them. So she's trying to protect a load of people from him who could actually help her. But you know, it's like other people meet the person that you're terrified of, and they think, "Well, this is just a, you know, he's just a bloke. He's a bit of a dick, but he's all right, or she's just an old lady. Why is that scary?" But, you know, if it's your relationship with them and their effect on your mental well-being that makes them truly, truly terrifying on a very primal level, and if there's people that you love around, you don't want them to get involved, because you really don't want them to suffer. You can't imagine anybody being able to have a relationship with them that isn't about fear, because yours is entirely about fear. It's an astute observation. Another observation I'll make is that child actor is absolutely dreadful. Henry the machine. Do you think he's like a Henry the Hoover with a voice box? Well, I don't know. I'm presuming that this is somebody who is much older than, you know, the actor is trying to portray. And I think a few episodes ago, I don't know whether it was you, but somebody said, or I read somewhere, that the actress Helen has never actually met the voice actor that's playing. Yeah, they played it and it's just recorded. Yeah, it's obviously not put together at the same time. It just doesn't actually really flow at all. And Henry, say, "Boney mind, this is a child of what, five?" Four, five, something like that. But it does feel wildly overacted. Oh, hey, wob! You know, everything is just over stressed, over stressed. And that scene for me where Rob was saying, you know, so what do we call people that keep secrets and etc. It just felt very uncomfortable for me, but from a technical point of view. Yeah, because even something, I don't know whether I'm being super, super picky here, but there's even something. Well, this is the place for you to be too picky loose. It's our podcast with discussion. We run the rooms over it. We pick the bones of the archer, be picky. Pick away. Picky pick. There's even something funny in the voice levels, in that sometimes he sounds closer to the microphone than everybody else. The tone, he doesn't sound like he's in the same room as them or clearly because he isn't. But they haven't, it doesn't seem to be almost sort of blended very well. So the levels are definitely wrong. And he sounds either too loud or too quiet or too close, if further closer to the mic than they are or whatever. There's something odd technically about it as well. Have you seen the movie The Room? No. I haven't seen it yet, but absolutely. Oh, about the woman that's trapped in the room with the child and she has to make the whole world out of the room. Yes, yeah. And then they eventually escape. I forget the name of the director, but a really illuminating interview which I heard on Simon Mayo and Mark Como's film review about a month ago where the director got together the mother, the actor who plays the mother, and then the child actor who's supposed to be playing a five-year-old but is actually eight. And obviously this is a film. So they had to get an eight-year-old that could pass for a five-year-old. And he was really clear and he said that one of the reasons why we couldn't get a five-year-old is because they, even though you're telling them that you need to act and you need to be smaller in effect, they're just so happy to be there and they'll be beaming and they'll be larger than life. So he said we needed to get an eight-year-old that looked like a five-year-old but had, you know, but was aware enough that they needed to be small, you know, on the screen. And it was absolutely fascinating in that he said that two months before filming, we put the two actors together, the mother and the son, and they just hung out. So, and everybody's remarked when you see that film of how the relationship between them is absolutely believable, that there's a real intimacy and a real closeness between the mother and the son. And it's one of the, you know, kind of standout features of that film. Now, I'm not saying that Sean O'Connor should have got the actress that plays Helen and then the actress that plays Henry together for months beforehand, but that intimacy is absolutely lost with this and whatever they're doing, and there's obviously really good reasons why they're dialing in the performance of Henry's voice, but it absolutely doesn't work. Even when you have a scene where Rob is really nakedly, nakedly showing what a fucking bastard he is to that child and twist in his mind, it felt very clunky. He was great, you know, Rob was great. You know, his voice tone changed and you've got a real sense of when Helen came into the room and said, "Oh, you know, Henry's, you know, he's very upset Helen, he's very brilliant, brilliant." But the sounds coming out of the actor who's supposed to be Henry are just so unconvincing, so unconvincing, but to be fair to the directors and to Mr O'Connor, we don't hear five-year-olds, six-year-olds on the arches. So maybe part of the reason why it's jarring is because-- Well, we don't hear Keira, do we? No, we don't hear the little kids. You know, you might hear an occasional, "I'll have a nice screen, please." But that's just about it. So maybe one of the reasons why this is slightly uncomfortable on the ears is because we're just not used to it. Yeah, we're just not used to it. Ahh, Yoko Bear. Yes. Yoko Bear is back. Then again, he was back last week, too. I was going to say, he's never gone. No, no, no, no, no. He's had a little period, but-- Because Yoko Bear used to be every week, and he's got a bit fallow. Oh, you see what I did there? Yes, but he's all caught up. Yes. He's been on the herbal day. Ah, OK. Hello, dumb stomachs, Yoko Bear, here, calling from Yoko shirt on a Saturday night, because unfortunately, my dance card isn't full tonight. I got a bit behind on the arches, but I've just had a bit of a marathon listening session today. First of all, I got really excited when Linda, talking about the stage curtains and getting some new ones, said, "It's not about money. It's about sacrifice." I was really excited because I thought, finally, the script writers are going to do it. They're going to do the ultimate, and they're going to do a Wickhaman plot line. They're going to have a sacrifice. Of course, it's obviously going to be tishing up. Strange, pagan, right. Wickhaman going up in flames. Joe Grundy dancing around in a loincloth wins with some strange chants. I personally think that would be, you know, to save that for an anniversary show. That's a good plot line. This is also why I'm not the script writer on the arches, I would imagine. Another thing is thinking about the fair brethren. Yeah, this whole Brighton thing. I mean, there's all kinds of things it could be, but yeah, you're talking about Toby here. It's gambling, isn't it? Yeah, he's just this guy's just an ultimate risk taker. He doesn't think of consequences. He just rushes into things, doesn't care about the risk. In fact, seems to kind of get off on the risk. So, you know, it's probably, I don't know, casinos, gambling, nasty people, after him, that kind of thing. Maybe he'll get bumped off. Yeah, so that was, that was good. It's not going to be a wicker man type sacrifice, sadly, yoke or bear. It's going to be more flippin' lent nonsense with Shula struggling to give up Twix, because if she doesn't get two fingers in her every day, she's a nightmare. I don't think, you know, Lucy, it's really rude. I don't think that Toby is about gambling. I think he's got a child and he's supposed to be paying maintenance and he isn't. I think it's a CSA. And he has to keep going tomorrow. Where's the CSA based? No, you wouldn't have to go to actually to the CSA to pay some money. The CSA is being disbanded, anyway. Well, whatever it is, whatever it is now, to pay up people. Yeah, I think that's what it is. I think he's got a child somewhere and he's supposed to be paying money and he isn't. And that's why he's saying that Rex says them. Are you paying them? And I think that's the child and the other. And do you think that his pops doesn't know about it? Yes. Okay. Yes, it was lovely to hear Lillian's cackle again. She did a proper big cackle this time, as well. And I think somebody said that they had got it as their ringtone. They managed to get it as a ringtone. Oh, God. Don't talk to me about ringtone. Oh, sorry. Oh, God, Lucy. Just reminded me. All right. I was supposed to do the scream. Wasn't I cursed? The scream is a ringtone about three weeks ago. Right. I'll do it today. That was about last year. Yeah. But Andrew Horn and a couple of people on the book on the Twitter said, "Oh, can you sort that out?" Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem Monday. That's about Monday, 2011 or something. Oh, God. No, it was Liz Anderson. That's who it was. Liz Anderson said that she'd she'd got Lillian's cackle as her ringtone. And I did love it. Who is it? It's Anderson. What do you mean, who is she? I know she's on the Twitter's. She seems a little bit glamorous. Whenever I see a picture, she looks like she looks slightly familiar. She is very together. That's what she is. And she looks like an actress, I think. Okay. So you've met her in the flesh, have you? I have. It's very nice. Okay. It's very funny. I also liked it when they're in the kit, when they're all in the kitchen drinking shampers to celebrate Lillian never ever leaving home farm. And when Justin's going, "Yeah, see you at the races then." I'm going, "Looking forward to the races, Justin." And Brian's going, "Races? What races?" Then he goes, "Not enough of the investment, investment. What investment?" He's just slight noises off of confusion, Brian. It's very good. Loving Brian at the moment. Yes. And that's all I have to say about that. So, Blind Spirit is next. Cool. Good. Hello, Dunty Dunplied Spirit calling. Well, it's a bit of a dark week in Enbridge, wasn't it, in many ways? Although, there were moments of light. I quite enjoyed Jim's hangover, but clearly he didn't. Having to sit there feeling absolutely grim and queasy whilst Christine was bashing on about bird-watching in Finch disease. It's one of the funniest things that's happened in the arches over the last few weeks, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, I have to say. What I enjoyed a bit less was Titchinob's conversation with Henry, which was vicious and aggressive and hostile and downright cruel. And to him pouring poison into Henry's ear and Helen's suffering as a result was thoroughly unpleasant. At that point, I would quite happily have punched his lights out and stuck a dagger in his nadges. As for the storyline that shall not be mentioned, I'm wondering if someone with psychological training, perhaps with a spoon or one of the other lovely listeners or call her in a risk can help me out with something, because I'm having a real problem trying to understand Titchinob's psychology. Now, on the one hand, he has a very strongly vested interest in maintaining Helen's health looking after her and protecting her well-being because she is effectively incubating his spawn. On the other hand, he is psychologically torturing her. Now, to me this situation seems so hugely paradoxical, I don't understand how the two are coming together. I cannot make sense of it. The only thing that I can possibly come up with, by way of explanation, is that the script writers and the editor have decided to make him so freaking evil that by the time his downfall has finally come, will be breaking out the bunting, cracking open the champagne and dancing in the street. That's the only reason that I can come up with, but someone who is trained and who is vested in these issues, who understands them, perhaps can clarify this for me. That would be really helpful. As for Kirsty, really pleased that the rift with Helen is being healed. Hopefully she will continue to push Helen out of denial, but I have a feeling that the collapse at the end of Friday's episode has actually already done that work for her. Helen has either reached Christ's point or she is about to create rich Christ's point, and she clearly cannot manage this situation any longer, regardless of how much she is personally trying to control it. Her innards are just rebelling massively, and I think she is going to cry out. I don't know who is going to get that call, but hopefully someone will get it soon. I don't honestly don't think it's going to be much longer before something absolutely breaks, and hopefully it won't be Helen, if only for the sake of her child and for the sake of Henry. Yes, hungover Jim, that was very good. He had that kind of lovely, very accurate mix of slight swirliness when he's talking about you're going to go and stare through a microscope, stare through a stand telescope at birds. He's obviously making it feel a bit queasy, and then it was sort of chuckling away, remembering Fuzzy Duck, and actually he said it was really good fun. But then the kind of the nausea was overwhelming again and then you go, "I think I have to sit down." It was lovely. You're clicking again. Stop bling. No, I'm just on Twitter. Get off it. You're talking to Liz Anderson. No, Helen Sykes, she says, "Which dumb, de-dumb day of the week man are you this week?" Roy Field. What does that mean? Right. Last week somebody said to me on the Twitter's, "My kids have said, 'Why are you with your Tuesday boyfriend, Roy Field?' Yes, and Helen Sykes says, "Yeah, I had to look at it for about ten days before I figured out what the hell she was talking about, but yes, I think I'm going to be Tuesday." Helen. Right. There you go. Picture this. You're halfway through a DIY car fix, tools scattered everywhere, and boom. You realize you're missing a part. It's okay, because you know whatever it is. It's on eBay. They've got everything. Breaks, headlights, cold air intakes, whatever you need. 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The thing is with these people is that they always think they're being very subtle and that no one can tell, but they're not very subtle. I think that Helen's collapse on Friday when she keeled over at the till. I think he's going to be Rob's cue to get her sectioned or something. Yes, because there was some mention of some psychiatric evaluation, wasn't there? There it was. So, yeah, that'll be that and then it'll be arguing over Henry and who's got the rights to Henry to look after him because he'll say that she's not capable of looking after Henry and... Ugh! Anyway. Nearly there, chaps will all be over soon. Hang on there. Bloody hell. And that's it. Oh! End of the call he calls. We've got no e-mailer in her, is this week, loose? We have not. Bloody hell. There we are, one mate. Oh. It's funny. First you've seen a buns go missing in the post. Then the e-mails are missing from our inbox. I know. Snail mail and e-mail failures galore this week. It's Rob. He's on my case. 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The one that I really want to draw your attention to, there's also a link on the Facebook page, which is the most harrowing story from someone who says, "Look, I was that Henry. This has happened to me." An incredibly brave and open discussion about this person's life. I think it's worth reading and gives a really clear, I guess, scaffold to what we're following from the point of Henry in our current story that can't be named. There's also a discussion about the fair brother history. There are some gorgeous reviews of Dumtee Dum from One Son. You have to read that. It's very funny. There's some information about getting to London for the hundredth recording. And some people discuss in the future, which is very, very active on the forum. I really recommend that you get over to there. There's also some discussion about the Helen Tischner Rescue Fund. You probably all know by now about this extraordinary phenomena where someone said, "Let's raise some money to help people who are going through domestic violence." Now, the last time I looked, they had raised 33,000 pounds. I think it was dollars, but it was actually pounds. And of course, we've done that before. Upstairs at the ball raised 500 pounds when this story first started. So all hell, everybody involved with that, this is an extraordinary effort. I know it's been picked up by newspapers. I'm not sure it's been picked up by TV, but congratulations to everybody involved. I'm really, really impressed. On the book of Face, we have been talking about Lillian. So there's some Richard Woodfield, said Jenny. There's something I need to ask you about Lillian. Brian, that reminds me, did you know that Fagash Lil is an anagram of Hag Flails? I don't know where that came from, Richard, but well done. Lesi Greaves says at least she's someone who gets enjoyment out of life. Sharon Robson says, "I'm part of the Lillian, Kackel Coven." Everybody seems to like, except for the smoking indoors who can go down so well. "How can you not love Lillian?" says Cara Little Wood Quarry. And Vicki Berries says, "Oh, thank you darling, Jin Jin." You know, it's funny, I've only recently started drinking gin and tonics. At the weekend, and I always think of Lillian. I don't even know her, but I always think of her. We also decided to give a shout out to Tim Watson, because his performance recently has just been fantastic, and we all know that there's a new page that started up for the actor. And I believe it's now up to 400 people supporting that page. Sue Gage says, "Absolutely gripping. "Here's hoping Helen will confide in someone soon. "I think Rob has unwittingly played into Kirsty's hands. "Now she's got more evidence." Mandy Millen says, "Kirsty will do something soon. "It was so obvious that Rob was checking who Helen had been texting "before he gave her the phone. "Forgot it upstairs again, silly thing. "And sending a fake reply to Kirsty, crying off at the last minute." Kim Ferguson said, "I was too busy worrying about the curtains to notice Rob. "Timebacks or pinch pleats, important decisions to be made." And finally, we've also been discussing, we've been looking at the Get Together, the recording that's coming up soon. And we did put up a link for the Dum T Dum. They're just on raise. So please get on to Facebook, or if you're already on the forum, go to the forum. If you're not, you're only on Facebook, please go on to Facebook. You'll find a link there for the forum. Both places are very, very active and I really recommend it. Also, I recently started following Kerry Davies on Twitter. I'm not so active on Twitter myself. And he is very funny and a thingsy repose about the artist are really worth following. So if you're not a fan, do become one. Roy Field and Lucy, please, no more praising of me. I very much love working in the background. Enjoy this community you know I do. Thank you. You made me blush and gym moments in the car when we were listening. Hooray! Thank you, Millie Bell. Lucy, it is time for you to give us your hashtag, the artist's tweets of the last seven days. Thank you very much, please. Now, it is becoming very difficult to chaps to find these at the moment. Can I just say, I love it when you say chaps. Do you? Yeah, I do. I like that kind of, that 1930s kind of, "Come on, row you sleeves up." You know, kind of vibe that you throw at it. And chaps is just red looking at that. I've deliberately said chaps quite a few times, so I said, "You know, very colourful and I ain't." Oh, I tell you, I'll do too. We're sounding into each other. There's me going, "Yeah, man, and you doing chaps, that's terrible." Yeah, when I'm down the gay disco, down at the Castro, I've got my chaps done. Woo-hoo! I said to somebody the other day, "I reckon," at which they just smiled and they started laughing. And I says, "What?" Like, "You don't say reckon in America." And they said, "That sounds so oldy-worldy and like Hicksville, like you're from the deep south of America." Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was absolutely floored. And they said, "You just, you know, only Hicks, who have straw coming out of their mouth, who married their cousins, say, "I reckon." And I was like, "Oh, really?" Yeah, yeah. Every day, you'll say something and then someone will just look at you and smile and just say, "You know, just other what is that?" Like, "Pillock." Yeah. Or they'll just, you know, it's just, you know, cultural, minefields galore when you use the English language in this foreign country, I tell you. But anyway, sorry. Tweet to the weak. Yes, chaps, it is getting very difficult to find these. These, uh, tweets, because all you're doing is tweeting about how much you hate Rob. We all know that. Tweet something funny for God's sake. Anyway, uh, this week's haul is okay, but then, then, you know, it's, it's getting harder and harder to find. I think, I think you're saying it's not okay. I think you're saying it's a bit cool. No, it is. No, no, no. This lot's good, but it took me bloody ages. Right. Yeah, but you're damning with the paint praise. If you were saying this week's haul is okay. Oh, dear. I ought to take that bit out then because that sounds a bit rude, don't we? Take it out. No, no. Call it as it is. Tell people to walk their game, Lucy. Don't be, don't be British about it. Tell people to put their backs into it. Try harder. Tweet harder. Say it. No. The archer's in short. Um, I don't know what this was about, but it just made me laugh because he's obviously a bit he or she is obviously, uh, looking for a cash machine. They just put, it's a bank of Peggy doing business today. I presume, maybe as either they were short of cash or the fair brothers were after something. Um, this is a very good thought. I like this a lot. Angry bird flies. Mm. Actually tweeted Kerry and said, can the auditors preparing the Barrow farm sale please find whatever Charlie was looking for and have Rob arrested? I'd forgotten all about that Charlie was actually looking for some anomaly in the accounting system, wasn't he? Mm. And that if they've got auditors in, they are the very people to find it. Who are? That would be great. And then maybe, maybe Rob would just be arrested and we won't have to go through any hell and nastiness. Yes, that's not going to happen, is it? Oh, Lillian Harry said, we've just been issued an amber alert here, but I'm not sure if it's for storm image and all the archers. Uh, little Kim said, this was after the horrible one, said, I need alcohol now. I missed the good old days when the worst thing in an episode was old Tom banging on about sausages. Wait a minute. I think we always feel like that. And Melanie Hick said, very good. She arrived a week. Yeah, I doubt it's very much that it's her. Oh. This is, this is little Kim as in the supermarket. Oh, little Kim. Oh, I was going to say, but yeah, little Kim's like, this is the archers. Who would have thought it? Um, this is Tweeter the Week though, this is. Oh. Good, good, good, good, good. Melanie Hick said, if Rob Titchiner was on mid-summer, uh, Melanie Hick said, if Rob Titchiner was on mid-summer murders, he'd be in a well by now. Wouldn't that be nice? I'm in a sodding well. Ah. The end. Oh, well done. Well done. Uh, should we talk about this live recording, Lacey? Yes. Let me, because I went to the venue with Derek, um, who wanted to show me his unfeasively large equipment again. I have seen it before, Derek. Um, it's, it's a bar and the bar is open. So you're not, it's not like you're going to be coming into a theatre and then the door is going to clang shut and you're going to be trapped until we finished. Um, the bars, they're not closing the bar for us. So although there's going to be 70 of us, or wherever many there are, um, there may be other people there. I doubt that quite strongly because it's a Monday night. Um, so don't worry if you're going to be late or anything like that. You can just sort of turn up. Um, not quite sure how we're going to manage noise levels, but we'll figure that out somehow. Uh, but I don't think they're doing food. So eat beforehand. Um, but yes, there's a bar right there. And there's like little booby things, which is quite pleasing. And Royph and I and, um, champerages will be Harriet. I've got to stop calling her champerages. Um, will be in a booth. And, um, the audience, uh, will be around earwigging and we'll play in people will rig. We're not going to do live calls because that would be a logistical nightmare. So people will, uh, ring in beforehand and we will play them, play the calls out through the speakers, uh, at the venue. So you can all hear the calls and then, uh, we'll talk about them like we normally do. Um, cool. I'm excited. I'm terrified. No, I'm excited. But that's the reason why we work well to go. It's called Ying and Yang. Yes. Uses a woman and I is a man and then uses all kind of territory. And I'm all excited. You know, together we use a proper cohesive whole. Hmm. Is that how you sit? Slightly worrying if that's how you see a male female relationship. It's terrified and excited. No, just you and I. Okay. Right. Now, um, end of the show time wrapping things up. Um, you can go onto our website, which is dumb to dumb.com. And you can add your own content to it as Mike Hatton does. Uh, and other people do as well. You can comment on the shows. You can message other listeners. Uh, and it's just a fun thing to do. Um, and you can go onto our forum. And I recommend, and I know Millie has, um, on her weekly roundup. But really do go on to just be on re because it is just, uh, it's a brilliant thread. And, uh, and that's the reason why dumb to dumb is there and the forum so that you can go and express yourself. So go and see other people expressing themselves and joining with the debate. And to realize how, um, storylines, uh, which we take as being some part, uh, fundamentally to be entertaining can actually affect real people. And shape their lives. Kind of going forward. It's very, very touching. Just be on re. Um, sharp news. Uh, I'm supposed to be going to see Laura from Marin County today. Now, I don't know how that's actually going to work out now, but I'm going to call her Lucy. Because I'm actually, I'm, I actually get on my plane tomorrow. So I'm going to call her, but, uh, but I need to maybe put the keys to the shop in the post or something like that. I was supposed to hand in them over, but, uh, we're going to sort of that Laura, Laura and I. Um, so the shop handover will happen soon. Now. Most exciting bit of the show. News, news, news of reviews. My stomach's really hurting now. All right. We're going to go. All right. Let's speed things up from the Super Bowl obsessed country that is United States. We have a review from Clara from California. Black and Blighty. We have reviews from Miss Christmas. Mismatlock. And Swimblit. Thank you for your reviews. Good listener. If you haven't done so already, please get yourself on to iTunes and write a say review. Oh, that shouldn't be there. Should it? Oh, the, the bill afterwards. Sorry. Let's take that for next time. Good listener. Why don't you join the above by writing us a review on iTunes and you will be mentioned on a future podcast. 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And finally you can find us on the book of Face where we are Dumptydum and we have 952 like our lurkers, remember folks who want to get to 1000 by our 100th show which is in 5 weeks time. Smashing. Right, as you're t-r-u-e-m-a-n, painful, do you just one thing before I go, sounds like Colombo, just one thing ma'am, um, what's this misfloor thing? I've no idea what you were talking about when you said that. Then Justin said, he said, you lucky, lucky, lucky, blighter Brian, you get to live with this lovely lady, and misfloor, he said, well that's obviously Lillian then isn't it? I know but who in their right mind says that? Least of all some sort of stuffy, nouveau riche, landed gentry, bloke, he's not nouveau riche though, is it? Matt was nouveau riche, Justin didn't know. Yeah, alright then. But, but I've never heard anyone say anything like that, whoever they were, it just seemed actually extraordinary, unless I misheard it, but someone else on the Twitter said, did he just say that? If he didn't, can someone ring in and tell me what he really did say, because it's been bothering me for a week now, and yes I know I need to get alive, but you know, still. You could just like, go back and listen to it on the Omnibus edition. I have! And I swear to God he still said misfloor. Alright, well, that missed your run and run, won't it? Bit like all the various loose plot ends to do with Rob Tichner. Yeah, no, someone will ring in and say, no you idiot, he said this and I'll go, ooh, what? Okay, well fine. Alright then, loose, well, I'd best off and edit this then. Okay. Is it very, very early there? It is 10 to 9 in the morning now. I'm surprised we spoke for as long as we did. I know. I'm just about to go, I'm going to jump out, because I've got to edit this and then jump on a plane, ooh, who's sitting in for me next week? Yes, I wondered if you'd even considered the fact that you were abandoning me yet again, but unfortunately, fortunately, I have Mr. Goke Elbert who will be standing in for you next week. Has he ever podcasted before? He hasn't. He's a podcasting virgin, but he's got his mic and he's very excited. Great. And I rang him and he went, ooh, this is weird. And I said, why? And he said, because you're talking back to me. So assuming he gets over that, we should be fine if he doesn't. If you're looking for flexible workouts, Peloton's got you covered. Summer runs or playoff season meditations, whatever your vibe, Peloton has thousands of classes built to push you. We know how life goes, new father, new routines, new locations. 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