DumTeeDum - A show about BBC Radio's 'The Archers'

DTD 94 - Resolutely Tupperware

This week Roifield is in wonderful San Francisco with a local version of Barwick Green. Both Lucy and Roifield retailed overheard stories to commence the levity this week. Lucy gets around on a Hoverboard apparently - she finds getting to the park difficult. She does do a very good impersonation of teenage boys.Inheritance of Brookfield was discussed. What worries me is that once she becomes Pip Holman and inherits running the farm (if not the owner) will the programme be renamed The Holmans? Or unlike Helen will she keep her own name and bank account?Yokel Bear is listening again - to the podcasts - but only to the real Archers ignoring that storyline! He reckons that The Archers is generally back on form.Callers have to name their dogs so that they can become official #Dumteedogs.Opinions on the Fairbrethern remain divided. Some could not care less; others are enjoying the "posh boys learn about farming story". Josh is just considered laughable. Shula was slated to marry Nigel but Lucy deems her resolutely tupperware and not acceptable to Julia - Nigel got Lizzie as a consolation prize.Sentence of the week: "Women make bad choices sometimes but they know about predator proofing."KosmoOn this week’s episode we have calls from New York Nigel who’s staying away from the roofYokelbear who’s re-engaged with AmbridgeAndrea Meling who doesn’t believe in JoshWitherspoon who wants to know why the phones at Bridge Farm don’t workEmily Thomas who wants to slap the farebrethren with a chainsawAllison Hartley who wants Tom and Kirsty to rejoin forcesGoddess Deeva who thinks what happens in Brighton should stay in BrightonandAndrew White who wants a word with Ian.

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Duration:: 1h 49m
Broadcast on:: 26 Jan 2016
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yes you missed out next time you're gonna jump I know next time just jump on a plane and come what's stopping you well Barrigan by a trip to the park seems to require as much organization as a world war I'm not sure just hopping on a plane it's going to be all that simple to be honest well I am deeply deeply envious well I kept a chair empty ceremoniously for you next to me it was empty and everybody looks at it with with revelry reverence reverence but here is a roll call of the attendees at yesterday's amazing meetup we had Doug salty seed dog point who came with about 30 arches related books to give away Jennifer Reba who came from Emma reveal Jennifer slave in who came from like three blocks away with a hubby Eric who's a principal of the mission high school Laura Jackson for Marin County Audrey Ann and her husband Mario who came from Alameda Robin winning and her hubby Jeff who has a stunning insight into more of Rob's evil doings and we had Alison Hartley and a wonderful guy Doug Gary and I tell you what Lucy what Alison Hartley has coined a new term for a new dummy dumb listener what's that dummy dogs I know I heard on her message she said about a dummy dog and I thought oh perfect because we've got old Angus Haggis haven't we and now we've got the guide dog Gary Oh yeah yeah of course you can of course you can but before we get to call arenas and all of that Malachi Lucy can you mind our listeners how that and when the accolade of dumb he dumber of the week yes if you'd like to sing us a dummy dumb give us a plot prediction or say goodbye to somebody for a fortnight then ring us on 0 2 0 3 0 3 1 3 1 0 5 or leave us a message on speak pipe thanks to lovely chambages for her amazing voices to Cosmo for his podcast roundups and to Sarah Smith for sponsoring us I talked to the supreme oh of Sarah Smith today oh yes and apparently the figures are going up as a direct correlation of of the sponsorship of dumped he dumped so hurrah and if anyone else has got anything that they'd like to hook up sponsorship wise with us then give us a message well I have something to add on that but I'll do that later because you doing your thing so you do your thing Lucy and thanks also to Derek for the loan of the back bedroom as always he's very annoyed today because he's had a letter about not payment of BBC license fee but as he mostly watches Miranda and Mrs Browns boys he genuinely thought the BBC was paying him I quite like Mrs Browns boys but first off apologies everybody if I sound even more Alan car like the normal because I've forgotten my podcasting microphone so that's the reason why I sound a little bit we computing on this week's episode secondly now Robin winning her hobby Jeff and dog point said also the same thing that they actually one would be willing to pay the license fee even though the citizens of the good old US of A because basically they listen to so much BBC output really and that sometimes they have to do round the round the houses somewhat illegal methods to download I play a shows because you can't do that outside of the UK and Robin even said that she's been on talk back or moan back or you know winch back or whatever the head gets called and and basically said this and it occurred to me the irony of the 13 states back in 1776 saying no taxation without representation and they broke with the crown and here we have American citizens wanting to pay a British tax that irony was not lost on me I'm telling you so BBC Mandarin's because we knew we know that you lurk and listen to this podcast and there are people all over the globe that want to throw money your direction so it might be something you might want to think about considering Netflix does the subscriptions all around well why can't the BBC yeah hmm just thought right now on this week's episode we have calls from New York Nigel there's another day see the mean Lucy they're all over the place yeah though he doesn't sound very New York does this Nigel no New York Nigel who staying away from the roof Yoke will bet who's re-engaged with Ambridge Andrea Melling who doesn't believe in Josh with a spoon who wants to know why the phones at Bridge Farm don't work Emily Thomas who wants to slap the fair brethren with a chainsaw Alison Hartley who wants Tom and Closie to rejoin forces God is diva who thinks what happens in Brighton should stay in Brighton and and Andrew White who wants a word with Ian but first before all of that it's the bit that show that everybody wants to listen to it Lucy V. Freeman's week in Ambridge we started the week with lovely Jimus and Jazza Harrah them all come and wise of the archers we had an entire scene of innuendo Jimus said Shuler apparently objects to pork on the sofa that surprises me she sees so little of Alistair you'd think she's settled for it anywhere then Shuler showed Jimus her curtains while Jolie was dealing with Roger the chef Charlie's long drawn out departure from Ambridge limped on for another week he's had more farewell appearances than Cher well goodbye Charlie I've certainly enjoyed our occasional chats said Brian but I don't want them to become any more frequent and I certainly don't want you as a son-in-law so goodbye old chap shook him warmly by the hands and pushed him in the cattle trough Brian did seem genuinely concerned that Charlie sounded as if he'd had the stuffing knocked out of him actually Charlie's depressed tones are due to a marked lack of stuffing but as Adam says with his weird pauses and strange volume control well unfortunately that's life isn't it just for a minute I thought that sounds out of suppressed emotion and then Charlie popped about of nowhere and helped Adam get his fence post up and said if you want me to stay I'll stay at which point I started throwing things at the radio and shouting just go will you Charlie for the love of God meanwhile at Brookers Matthew and Pip were off for a dirty weekend arranged by her mother which is faintly icky but you know never mind they were selling odd a cream and rubber gloves so David hurtled over there that's Ruth Valentine's day Prezi sorted out his arm is a king I don't know if those two things are connected we had a baffling interlude with Jo and Eddy while they talked about a wedding of someone we don't know that's going wrong the bride who we don't know well her aunt who we don't know is scared of moths it's like talking to my grandma you know that niece of that friend of RTK's I don't think you have a matter where she's died I tell you what why not tell us about some of the people we actually do know who've disappeared Alice and Christopher for instance this is like half listening to a conversation at a bus stop is that enough Jazza asked Fallon one last shake he said oh picky poor Jazza was filling up on bacon sandwiches as he's back to pebble dashing the lavatory at bridge farm courtesy of paps bowls of fiber metabolism and pack toy Tom was nice and robust with Rob how anyone resists punching Rob full in the face when he does that little chuckle after he's misunderstood something I you're doing something I don't like so I'm going to feign benign amusement until you do what I say Tom gets on my wick immensely but anyone that stands up to Rob earns my undying adoration so that's Tom and Tony on my love list what's Toby done in Brighton no one knows no one cares but it cost £500 he's been gone for ages but until someone tells what's going on then I am refusing to care the snells have been in ambridge for 30 years 30 years of sniffing and bossing and allergies they are celebrating not with a party around drinks at the ball or even sponsoring a bit of the village hall they are going to buy a wheelie shepherd's hut oh come on don't tell me you've never been tempted by a wheelie shepherd's hut XC have got loads they with this year's must have gift I've got three one am I stocking into under the tree Josh decided to take on pips mantle of chippy little shite who tells his parents about we had a lecture from him on crop rotation or grass or something I tuned out again all I hear is grassy grassy milky milky and that's all I need to know quite frankly Lillian is coyly flapping around Justin like one of the brides aunts moths attracted to a rather pompous flame oh Lillian not another one they test drove some horses and it was all jolly unconvincing with a lot of whoa and Lillian said he was beautifully balanced with a firm rear so she gave him his head then she got on the horse and Justin said Emilia was really trying me as not the only one I think Lillian is also winding Brian up refusing to go home to the Dow house basically it's because she'd miss Matt the house will be full of memories and anyway why would she buy her own gin when she can drink Brian's and we end with some words that have certainly stayed with me this week I think a lot of people found them quite moving the sort of thing you might put on Facebook over a picture of a sunset it was Toby fair brother actually who said it he's not normally a profound thinker and I think we do have to say congratulations and script writers for this I'll say it again here and don't be surprised if you find yourself coming back to it over the next few days Toby said women make bad choices sometimes but that's not to say they don't know about predator proofing the end oh that that's quite good this week Lucy I enjoyed that there were lots of things in there which kind of rung you know had residency residences what's the matter with me this week there were lots of things within your monologue which I could hang my coat on like yes like you mentioned at one point like he overhearing a conversation at a bus stop I had a rather amusing conversation with somebody this weekend who overheard a conversation in a denny's diner right and there were two people that obviously were on a on a first date oh and the gentleman turned around to the lady person and said right so things seem to be going quite well I want to take you to mine I'm just letting you know I'm wearing it an adult diaper and I want you to be mommy I'm just gonna go now to the bathroom and and by the way I don't quite approve of your outfit but I'll be back in a minute anyway he went off to the bathroom the woman got up obviously with this shot look on her face and was about to edge towards the door then doubled back sat down wait for him to return and said first off right don't you dare presume to tell me what you think of my outfit and if you if you want me to play mommy because you're in an adult diaper don't you think you should have told me that whilst we were talking online and she just got up and walked away and said and by the way you're paying for for dinner and drinks of which the two women just stood up and applauded my mouth literally dropped open by the way I'm wearing an adult diaper do you not do you not think that would of course point of this relationship you could drop in it's not a saying by the way I've got a cat I hope you got a large dick so I think I think deal isn't it if you've overheard something equally shocking or illuminating in a Denny's diner oh oh a robust up I think I tell you that oh god go on this was when I was in the cinema with my friend Dave in Sheffield and there were two old ladies behind us and they were talking and you know when the lights go down and then everyone starts to talk really really quickly because I just want to finish up their story before the film starts yeah well they used to it now they just bloody talk all the way through it and ring people but anyway and we were chatting and then we stopped with the lights went down and we just heard this lady leaned across her friend and said to the woman on the other side who was also in a three she said so anyway I couldn't find the lever so for the last six months I've been going everywhere backwards and then the film started I just stared at each other with this horror I cannot remember the life of me what we saw because we didn't want your word of it we just sat there thinking what the hell could she have been doing it sounds like that woman the mobility scooter maybe that's what it sounds like she had did you see that story over Christmas about the woman in something like porter down or somewhere in Northern Ireland or Carrick Fergus or something or there was terrorizing people in the in the marks and sparks in a mobility scooter all these but she was by the by the changing rooms and she was driving around saying oh you look shit in that no and she was completely drunk on chocolate liqueurs and he said it's a Christmas spirit don't you know but anyway anyway so last week Lucy before we we jump into listener calls any overall thoughts and impressions shall we have a little chat it I did I was genuinely thinking hmm just go Charlie this is insane you know and now he's going actually I never said I was going on Sunday I might go on Tuesday or Wednesday it's like a child you know I'm going up to bed because I'm in a mood I'm going to shut myself in my room off you go then I'm going I'm definitely going or when do you think I'm gonna go because I might not go then yeah I mean it's just torture for everybody it's torture for him it's torture for Adam Ian definitely no I mean he is actually bringing Charlie into the conversation now isn't he yes and and Adam's doing that thing of if I don't if I don't say the word out loud it's not real and nothing happened so he said I'm going to have I'm going to have lunch with I'm going to have lunch and I thought Ian he knows you've got a husband just say Ian and and and yet this kind of Ian saying about all the traffic from Barrow and he said so so I wondered if Charlie said when he was leaving and that looks good no I was focused him I don't know Charlie who yeah it's just very sad for Ian and you think just you know this is gonna give him an ulcer just say it just talked him about it and but then the lovely bit was don't watch the affair without me because I want to watch that with you yes oh that's nice mmm not nice it's horrible but I understood you I know you meant yeah I it's a bit of a shame that everything came to a head so to speak on Sunday and we can't really talk about Sunday's episode can we well I haven't heard it oh all right then that all the more reason for you not to mention it's episode because it would be it would come as a shock to me as well hmm now before I forget right I'm going to do a post on the website which is going to have the demarcations of donnedy-dom listener all right so it's officially there because I think from here on in people need to say for argument sake that hello I'm Yoko Bear I'm ringing from a Tim Pot Tinney town I know by the way I'm an Antribus yeah yeah so so people you have been warned it is coming and as of next week we will be strictly enforcing this as strictly is HMRC get tax out of Google in fact you'll get fined if you don't do it yes I like that more revenue in our coffers all right shall we have some calls now miss Freeman why not smashing hello ambridge 3962 who's first then Lucy New York Nigel oh yes I like the sound of him hello it's New York Nigel here a first time Paul Rinner and a year along Lorker here on the speaker pipe under the ocean from New York City I'm a priest in a French-speaking Episcopal Church in New York that's the part of the Anglican communion that's just been sanctioned because the archbishops worried about the gays I've been listening since Schuler played full release really badly on the Brookfield piano while Jill and Doris were all giving in the kitchen that was you know must have been around 1976 or something I'm not sure what special insight I can offer on any of the stories based on all of this but there we go just a little observation on the story that shall not be named I'm sorry to say that I think the story will go on for quite a bit longer you know we're enjoying a drama about an everyday story of country folk and it's not really like a fast-paced drama of city folk who are surrounded by social workers provided with handy walking clinics and what have you I know we want this verb to get spectacularly busted maybe by Charlie or by Ian or by dot clock or someone but that just doesn't seem to be happening it seems like the family is still the center of all the dramatic action and the place where all the stories get resolved and that's probably why Rob is ingratiating himself with with real skill with with Pat and Tony though it's interesting that he hasn't had much interaction with Tom maybe not so much with Tony I mean they have that big argument didn't they but Tony seems to have had the wind kicked out of him in the last little while even though we can stand up for himself and in years gone by I think in a way it's a bit more like real life with which what makes it so compelling he's such classic bully and just like in a lot of bully cases it won't really be over until Helen realize it's over she's the most important one in the story I think despite most of us wanting to have died during the 60th episode instead of Nigel she was such a dreary character but she's got more interesting in a way I'm more fond of her now than I used to be maybe it's because it's in comparison with the horror anyway it's just such a brilliant job on behalf of the script writers and the actors even though we've been following with increasing horror this story I think a first-time listener would still need to listen to a few episodes even now to get a percents of what's going on even given Rob's hideous outburst against Krusty last week anyway hope to call in again soon thanks to Roy Field and Lucy and Sue Andrew such a good job last week I'm off to make more lady labels and thinking of the deer departed have a pet and Jules now undisputed triumph over the cake and preserve paddle fields of book field and I for now and thanks to all the other call owners who've made my lurking so much fun thanks New York night Nigel he's a first-time caller in era is he a man of the cloth or something he is he's a priest French church and he's been listening since 1976 which I was about to say I think makes him a Doris but I'm not sure I should call a man of the cloth a Doris yes yes I agree that the story will the Helen and the story that shall not be named will go on for longer but at least it's not at least it doesn't seem to be in every flipping episode now it's kind of lightened up a bit and as Yoko Bear will discuss very shortly you can actually miss it with some judicious fast-forwarding and the inter he raises a very interesting point you know because I've been saying who's going to fix it is it going to be Kirsty is it going to be Kirsty and Tom together as someone else suggests is it going to be Kirsty and Fallon no one's actually said will Helen actually come to her senses and say what the hell are you doing I'm gonna put up with this anymore none of us have suggested that but is that because he's so powerful we've just assumed that he's in effect neutralised her as an opposition so she's just completely helpless now well no I think there's a little bit of a backbone there somewhere with Helen we have seen fleeting little glimpses of potentially something haven't we but it seems to me and there was lots of talk up talk up I don't know what the hell is up with me today there was lots of talk yesterday around the pie bar communal table it was be a week by the way they did a nice IPA and forget the name of the of the red beer but that was kind of scrum delicious too but anyway so we are all around big pizzas and beer where the consensus is is that this is going to be uses a way of getting Kirsty and Tom back together that's what everybody kind of record yeah yeah because Kirsty is always seen through him okay Rob Tom has not but you know he's really hurt the sausage mister this week as an eight yeah he's not at all bloody happy yeah and yes so let's let's hope that this is what happens limey yes yes there's building work carrying on here at a furious pace golly mm-hmm so New York Nigel mm he sounded lovely he did didn't he yeah yeah yeah and it is in a very snowy and Arctic New York at the moment what's the weather like where you are Lucy it is murky I think it's probably the word yeah murky not as cold as it was it's poked up a bit but it's still a bit we're just glute you know January London grey it's like walking into a wet cold sock when you go outside yeah well I'd like to say it's like it's California sunshine over here but it isn't well it's northern California so you know it can be almost London like almost you know it's never quite as as kind of dreary grey but some kind of grey days yesterday do you think people tuning to this podcast to hear whether whether the thoughts from no frankly no okay smashing well don't we should move on we should leave yes yes mm-hmm is wearing two smocks which makes him a smock jock don't show Colbert here phoning from a very cold day in Yoko Shire so cold in fact I had to put an extra smock on this morning but really what I was phone about was just tell you how I figured out how to kind of reengage with the arches after going through a little bit of a rough patch with it because of the storyline that shall not be named I'm no longer listening to the broadcast on the radio on the wireless I'm listening on the podcast now and what I'm doing is he's fast-forwarding through the bits of the plots relating to the plot line that shall not be named and it's kind of transform my listening without that plot line that shall not be named if you take that out the equation the arches is actually pretty damn good at the moment it's just some lovely little storylines going on I'm loving the fair brothers trying to get ahead in farming you know that the relationship Rex is obviously so much better without Toby and could probably make a go of it and Toby's like like this kind of spirit of chaos that's just introduced into everything I loved the bit recently where we had a moment of how's Eddie stolen some pigs it's great stuff and also the stuff with Phoebe going to University and Alex and all that kind of stuff so that's how I'm dealing with it I'm just studiously ignoring the other plot line so at the moment rather than listening to East arches or Holly arches or whatever kind of dramatic soaps are in these days I'm actually listening to the arches that I know and love I'm editing basically I'm editing what I'm listening to yes that's a very good plan I can't actually do that because I have to listen because of this but I do only listen to the those bits once everything else I listened to two or three times but I only listened to to those bits once because it's bad enough the first time I certainly don't want to listen to it twice and yes the fair he's really enjoying the fair brethren trying to get ahead in farming and it sounded quite forties how to get ahead in farming you can imagine like the potter's wheel da da da da lose it behind mm-hmm so the first thing you'll need is some geese watch that fence there let's ask this country winch if she can help us you know it is very posh boys posh boys do farming and which leads us on actually to Emily Thomas's call if we can hook these two together because she says whoa whoa whoa haven't I got something to comment on with the yoga bears cool all right I don't know how do you feel about the fair brethren mmm I'm I obviously everybody now quite likes Rex yes well largely because he's not Toby but Toby in and of himself okay he's an ass right and with all this bro talk right which I know is Emily Thomas is cool so I didn't say that I'm going to edit that bit out right but you know I am somewhat intrigued about Brighton but I'm thinking it's you know he ran up some big massive debt and it's some ne'er do wells down there and he's shoveling money to them that's what it is and I think it is it's been a real kind of you know we've gone on journeys you would say in terms of the the fair brethren then being indistinguishable at the start and then you know they do have distinct personalities you can now just about discern one from the other though Rex sounds like half the other men on the show yeah and I am somewhat intrigued I am somewhat intrigued you know they've got underneath my skin enough now that I'm like okay what is this Brighton storyline as we suspected whatever they do whatever they did with the geese wasn't a proper commercial operation because they're getting money from from dad that as you know which is you know she's what Jojo sexy he'll say which he did the maths it made no sense it was still on too small a scale etc and I am intrigued and I don't think we should completely write Rex off vis-a-vis pip just yet I'm kind of quite liking them and everybody says that Toby's a chocolate spoon he's not quite because remember through all of his bluster and everything will be all right on the night nurse when it comes to business he sold all those geese yeah he's a bit yeah he's a bit like Nigel Pargeter was and Kenton in that bloody hopeless sort of practically but when it comes to just shouting and charming people they can do that well no but Toby's charm is somewhat hit and miss isn't it right because in a business setting he thinks he has you know when he's when he's just out vlogging yeah you know the salesman yeah he creates that kind of sales kind of fever yeah and like the best kind of auctioneers kind of do it don't they where you know they whip you up into a state of frenzy and you can't wait but part with your money yeah yeah yeah sit there terrified that you're gonna blink or sneeze and accidentally buy a tea plantation or something yes exactly anyway now go on to Emily Thomas okay oh and by the way right what um Audrey Ann who came from Alameda with a hubby Mario she is a microbiologist don't you know oh yeah and then he does something big in IT right now they she said to me that what sold her on Dummy Dum and the sense of community was Emily Thomas's call after Friday the 13th of November after the Paris outrage she said when I heard that I thought this is a real community of people I loved Dummy and art people just wonderful yes no that was very very moving and I tried to get the BBC to actually cover that and they wouldn't but I tried hello Dummy Dum it's Emily the au pair from Paris now I've been stewing on this for quite a while what exactly is the point of the fair brothers I sort of understand the geese thing setting them up as competition with the grundies for the Christmas market but aside from that what exactly did they do I mean their fight over Pip was embarrassing and ultimately fruitless Matthew got together with her in under two weeks so she was obviously never that interested in them and now they just seem to be jumping from one job to another it's almost like they're the grundies except you know middle-class and with daddy backing them the whole way now the the big idea is to move into chickens why would David and Ruth give them a huge chunk of land for chickens when chickens has always been Josh's thing they were even reluctant to give Josh any room for chickens when he first suggested it and why is their dad funding them and what is the scandal in Brighton and why does Toby keep saying bro I mean nobody says bro look they just drive me completely up the wall and I don't understand why we're supposed to be invested in their storyline at all they just seem to pop up every now and then having a jolly old fight or doing some kind of odd job there isn't any kind of emotional attachment to them sorry I'm just getting very very cross with them I both think they need a good slap with a chainsaw good morning YouTube and all dumpty-dumas what is Steve here twenty past six on a Monday morning I have not had very much sleep at all was on night shift but I have to be up early to go and take my cats to the vet to have their stitches removed poor little buggers so she's ringing in to say is it just me who couldn't care less what happened in Brighton I I've thought about it and thought about it and there's nothing really that isn't deadly dull or pretty homophobic it's like oh what's the game up here going on about doing something with without hopes or is it that he's got a baby down there either way boring boring and plus it's Toby's father nobody cares it's it's just not really isn't he and it is one of those where the the script writers know there's no big deal about being gay because they've got Adam Ian Charlie and and they're treating it beautifully much like just any other love triangle which it is it's just any other love triangle so yeah couldn't really give a shit about Toby every old that go fair boner and what he did or didn't do in Brighton couldn't care less don't want to know this is even less interesting than Ruth B don't care um yes that's about it really I will say I am very very pleased at the calendar is going ahead and you are more than welcome for me playing to my strengths and getting people naked it's something I've come for a while yes who will be doing Emily Thomas well she wants to know what the point of them is I am presuming I think we just said it we yeah and the but then the point of it will be whatever's happened in Brighton won't it that will be the the story accelerant that actually gets us somewhere mmm sorry hang on William is mouthing something to it what can you take the hoverboard yes okay um yes I'm still they're still annoying me I know I know I know you you've sort of bonded with them but I haven't especially coming round to them Lucy but when when in that scene when Rex what are you clicking I keep hearing clunk clunk do you yeah you deleting something I was clicking on to Facebook it's a shanty oh cars birthday to date I was quickly going to write happy birthday right but you've you caught me in the act so to speak doing it all the way through it's been going clunk clunk clunk I wonder what they what it was I think I think a bit rich coming from you Lucy in the matter typing that you do was we rest of the script that I haven't sounding well done when I'm coming up to it and I haven't actually written it yet when Rex was helping Josh chop that tree down or do whatever the hell it was doing you know when when Toby appeared back from Brighton for the first five minutes of that scene I did not know who Rex was I thought it was Tom had come to help David mmm not this tree up and then I thought what was Tom doing why would he you know that's he's he got his own shit to do and then suddenly realized it was Rex and thought dear God I still haven't sorted them out I mean that's not it's a step no well it is somewhat it is somewhat and that's the reason why at some point you know somebody else comes along and says hello Rex hello Toby so so you actually you know who's who are you Rex and Toby there yes over the house of Rex Toby left at Toby being on the right Rex being on the left oh I tell you what Lucy you know I said it was a shanty old cars birthday today yeah right um so I just clicked on to her page there's only a picture verse to be Kylie Minogue oh yeah I've got serious I'm I supposed to know she is I mean no no no no no she's just some some kind of some person that I met in Latvia about five years ago who then I've just remained kind of you know friends in university comments with on Facebook oh yeah she's there with Kylie Minogue yeah I've just liked that picture to see you know okay right who's next good to know we have your undivided attention Roy I kept up with your stream of consciousness I was multitasking Andrea Melling oh well like Andrea hi this is Andrea Melling from Texas dog walker dog sitter and football referee none of which seem to be tall relevant to the archers but you never know I just bring you up after hearing Wednesday's episode featuring Josh and some thoughts occurred to me first having a son of that kind of age I just can't believe that a child at that age would spend their time researching obscure farm economics I think Josh is pretty weird and strange and probably doesn't have a lot of friends the second thing that I was thinking about was the inheritance issue thinking of the current arrangement where David gets it all unless he sells is that gonna happen again for example if pip sticks with the penniless Matthew rather who doesn't have a farm rather than Spencer who did have his own farm then won't Josh get nothing except a small share in the event of a sale and presumably the shares that David siblings already hold don't expire so he'll just get a lesser share after they've had their shares we know the farm can't support more than one family and Pip has first dib so is it wise for Josh to do agriculture at uni very low-paid job prospects if you don't have your own farm surely Ruth and David should be discussing this now so Josh doesn't make a decision he might later regret when you know he doesn't get Brookfield and he's left with poor milker jobs like Matthews I totally agree with my field as always about Ian I love him and I really feel for him the scene where he returned to check on Adam and tried to ask about Charlie indirectly was really heartbreaking and you know just he knows deep down but he doesn't want to face it which is something we're all familiar with definitely team Ian dog walker and football referee which is definitely the best combo we've had so far we need to know the name of her pooch so be a dummy dog okay we demanding aren't we we are very demanding mmm we want to know everything basically everything what it holds nothing amid no detail however slight it helps to create that sense of community that people love about this podcast yes so it cures our fantastic nousiness well she's off the scale that's a fair point really anyway Andrea said yes I thought it was a bit odd Andrea that Josh a teenage boy would spend his lunch hour looking up odd facts about grass grazing schemes and things he'd just go if he didn't like what he's perhaps doing he'd just go yeah well it's stupid just idiots not gonna work because it's like everything you do rubbish and wander off and so yeah I completely agree with you I thought that was highly unlikely and yes inheritance Royph mmm who gets what David cops the lot at the moment if Ruth if if Pip gets married and stays on the phone what happens in terms of people leaving is it divided between the three of them or does does one kind of if one gets married and stays on the farm do they do the same deal that they did again you ask him you're telling me I'm asking you I don't know we best ask Cosmo this is my understanding the farm is shared between David Kenton Lizzie and Shuler yeah David and Ruth actually manage it so in effect they have a like a controlling share okay and actually nothing can be done behind their back they're actually really running the thing if they decide to sell it while the other siblings are alive everybody then gets their stake but as far as I know because the farm isn't actually theirs solely there is there is no legal provision for Pip Josh and the other one whose name I just completely forget for the time being that's a bit Ben Ben there you go as I understand it but there's no way I'm putting that in the podcast because you know Cosmo probably burst that laugh and it's a you know but that's the way that I kind of understood it but I could be and I'm probably wrong no you should risk you should risk that that sounds highly reasonable hmm well anyway it's you know where there's a will as a relative and as soon as we get to this bit that's where that's that's it's kind of a huge plot driver isn't it who has what so you know that will it will all be revealed in huge boring laborious detail won't it at some point when when they reach that point where it's going to be a sort of an interesting thing in terms of plot development next oh who is next hello Tom to Tom this is Stephen Perkins I'm a first-time caller in a row I'm a journalist from London and I've been listening to this show the archers for about 10 12 years now and I've been listening to Tom to Tom for I think about two months really really loving it and there's some great stuff on the show so please keep up the good work I just wanted to get in touch with you guys and offer some of my thoughts on Rob Tichner which I'm sure he's has plenty of already but I think he's getting a little bit too confident now and I think his mask is slipping a little bit I'm thinking particularly if that conversation he has with Tom in the shop about the confusion with the non-organic beef that they were stocking and the way that he was saying things like oh well I didn't get the memo about that haha and that kind of snide passive aggressive comment that I think doesn't tend to go unnoticed for long I think he's made quite a lot of those people now and I think that's the sort of thing that people pick up and they don't necessarily talk about it to your face but I think that's a sort of thing people mentioned to other people so I'm wondering now if it won't be too long before people start to talk within the village there's been enough people now that Rob's had that kind of interaction with that people will start to talk amongst themselves make off-hand comments about the way he's spoken to them and the things that he said and the snide way he's spoken to them and I think that his reputation has this wonderful charming gallant night that he worked so hard to craft might start to crumble a little bit I hope so anyway I really I really want someone to realize wasn't awful awful shit he is that's it I think Steven Perkins who is a first-time caller in a rat and a journalist and I think works on inside soap magazine oh do you think we could be cover stars of that yes why not but we have to as with all those same magazines you have to look like you're strangling me or something and and we'll have to have those bubble things around us oh yes sort of bright pink and bright yellow and all that and I was in glamour magazine once you'll so mean you'll say me you're so absolutely mean but anyway I'm not going to tell you my story then let's pass on what does Stephen have to say no no no what did Stephen have to say for himself it was something I bet it was something to do with why what why women find me resistable or something wasn't it why is that because you think I'm the sexiest man in Jamaica no no there's nothing to do with that at all and you're shot no why small men make better lovers I don't know that they do by the way I'm just guessing what it might have been you know my you you are actually really quite mean Lucy you're very mean you're very mean and I don't think right okay I'll never make an NBA basketball team but a short goes you know very shorter as a mascot I'm going to direct the good listeners have done you dumb to send hate mail your wife you mean bit of podcast are you my oh my camp coffee hell by Roy Phil Brown considering I've never drunk any of the stuff everybody thinks it's me that drinks the camp coffee when it was you and your grandmother it's one to become an urban myth anyway yes Stephen Perkins yes sorry Stephen we have diverted from you I agree very good point about Robert the mask is slipping more and more people now are seeing because because he cannot keep the lid if he could control his narcissism so that it only he only wanted to exert power over Helen that would be fine but he can't he cannot rest until he's got power over everybody or is manipulating everybody so so far he's pissed off Fallon Kirsty Tom Charlie Adam and Ian and as Stephen so rightly says this does not go unnoticed for long people are very very sensitive no matter how clever you think you're being narcissists always think I'll just drop a hint and no one will realize and peep it just people's hackles go up in a second and a half and the narcissist is going well I was very subtle and they just can't be because they are incapable of being that kind of that light handed because they can't they just have to push it slightly too much to absolutely make sure that the person is buttoned down and will do what they want them to do so yes it's the up but it's the older people he seems to seduce Rob he seems to to to have convinced Pat he seems to have convinced Peggy Jennifer he even seems to have turned shoe around from her initial opposition to him I mean it's the younger people that aren't taken in by him well it's anyone who's had more than just a passing interaction with them with you actually you're right because no Pat you know yeah but anyway the plot hole which is Pat and Helen is exposing with the spoons core radius because this is that's just nonsense yeah but anyway did he say anything else this this journal did no no that was it you thought it about more to say for himself if you said really wouldn't you thought that's quite poorly do you know I'll take a violent dislike to the man no no no no no this doesn't violent dislike do they do a podcast in section on that inside soap magazine I think they should don't you you could be podcast pin-up of the week in this I'd say you could you could use the shots that they took up you in glamour in the leather kilt with your top off well for a start-off right your timeline is all skew if right because I was in that magazine in about 2003 right hmm did you know I've even leather kilt then no I had a regular it wasn't even leather you were there my kilt wasn't leather what's the matter with you I've created this this monster haven't you just talking about talking about creating monsters there was talk around the pie communal table yesterday about the hundredth episode yeah and one of the things and I can't remember who said this it might have been Audrey Anne but forgive me if it wasn't and she said one of the one of the things we could do is get people to take pictures of themselves in their setting listen to the hundredth episode and and for it to get people to maybe organize little do's so you know if you are in Cornwall and you know of another couple of dumpty-dummers also who aren't too far away you say come let's listen to it altogether you have a glass of red or you know something suitably alcoholic but if you are and if you have a problem with drinking well then you don't have something that's alcoholic because you don't mean chorus that type of behavior it's not mandatory that people drink have an alcoholic drink but that you just commune with other dumpty-dummers and then take a picture then then you post it to the book of face or to the twitters or to wherever and I thought that was a nice little suggestion but we're still looking for that overarching kind of this is what we're going to do yeah you're on about potentially a pub weren't you because that's what you're that's your solution to most things I just thought a one with a live studio audience would be good mm-hmm and have you spoken to Martin at all yes he said yes oh cool well if Martin says yes I think it's on right Derek is the man from Del Monte I knew you're gonna say that - hey baby I hear the blues are calling toss salads and scrambled eggs readings Lucy Roy Field and all dumpty-dummers around the world it's with the spoon and Angus Haggis here we were planning to go to a burn supper tonight but handsome husband is a bit under the weather so we'll just be hunkering down for the first snowstorm of the year enjoying a Saturday of listening to Radio 4 and living vicariously through jazz and gym celebration in a few days of the great Scottish poet this week it was good to be reintroduced to the various residents of average but overall I felt meh about the events of the last seven days first a word about the dark Lord we'll try to keep it brief why is Rob able to lock Helen in the proverbial closet and no one ever comes a knock-in so he tells Pat that she's under the weather has taken a bath and gone to bed early wouldn't Pat want to pick up the phone and call her pregnant daughter the next day and check in on her and why doesn't Tom check with his sister to see if she agrees with the policies that her husband espouses maybe Helen would find out that her husband is a manipulative lying bastard well not likely because the script writers want us to suspend the reality of human behavior to slow this storyline to a painful crawl other character notes Josh you come home from college to tell your parents that you know more about dairy farming than they do because you read an article on the internet gee kids today Charlie it's time to say goodbye Adam it's okay to say you're having lunch with your husband Ian you're developing a backbone and had the best line of the week so what will you say to hubby when you watch the affair together Rex why do you keep referring to whatever Toby did to whomever he did it to as quote going to Brighton again such a natural dialogue produced by the script writers and by the way I hate Toby and that's why I love the archers just to keep you were prized of my social life 75 gay doctors had a great time last week and in a few days I'm hosting another party 75 50 to 60 year old Prince Princetonians dancing to the hits of the 70s and 80s hoping to hear a lot of the new romantics plus a conference to go to show Angus and I will be taking the week off and we'll call you again in two weeks talk to you then yes with a spoon very good point why the bloody hell does nobody ever ring her but to be honest it goes into a long list of if if if Bt ever get to Ambridge the series is over quite frankly because so many things rely on people never ring it anybody else you know it's not like Justin and Charlie just it's not like Charlie and Ian and Adam Adam you know it's it's like well I'm that's just in Farrington said on the twitters so what they haven't got each other's numbers they have so you know it's not like we never never gonna see each other again people go round to to to tell each other things all the time when they could just ring them and you know the phone is only ever used to indicate emergency or subterfuge and considering how the rest of us practically live on the damn things I don't know how you know why Ambridge is immune but it probably makes it quite a nice place to live but anyway Alison Hartley first time caller in the route with her dumpedy dog Gary yes hi everyone this is Alison Hartley I am a first-time caller in her from Santa Rosa California with me is my faithful dumpedy dog Gary and we have had a lovely day in San Francisco at the dumpedy dumb meetup it was wonderful to meet so many lovely people and thank you right field for organizing it the reason that I'm calling today is mainly to vet my frustration that I know a lot of you share regarding the Rob and Helen storyline it just needs to end its tension and anxiety inducing and it's gone on for far too long I have a theory about how it might come to an end hopefully a final end for Rob as we have seen recently Tom has become much more assertive in his dealings with Rob we're starting to see him standing up to Rob a bit more and I for one could not be more pleased about that what I'm hoping will happen is that Tom will join forces with Kirsty in saving Helen from Rob and that in the process they may actually get back together I would love to see that happen and I'd love to know what all of your thoughts are on that thank you very much and I love the show have a great day she says Tom is going to rescue Helen from Rob with Kirsty and rekindle their nerve I am not sure Kirsty would ever want to touch Tom with an organic barge pole to be honest I can't imagine that she after that level of humiliation I can't imagine that she would ever be able to just get over that do you what was question what Tom would Kirsty ever get over the humiliation of being jilted at the altar yes and and here's the reason why and the the script writers have sign posted this because to his face she could crack a joke about it remember last week he walked in to perhaps in front of people I could cheerfully murder that doesn't mean anything no but that was show that was put there to signify the fact that yes very obviously there is this is going to be this ongoing tension between them but she's stealing enough that even though it hurts her and she's still bristling with that kind of pain number one she's gone back to Ambridge if she was that devastated you know you would you know you would not go anywhere near that town but she says if this has happened I can get through it she's gone back to the scene of you know ultimate you know humiliation she can confront Tom and be somewhat jokey about it through gritted teeth you know Kirsty's a ballsy woman and I say respect to her and she and she can and she will kind of get through this and it's gonna be her respect for her but I hope I hope my respect is kind of dependent on her not caving in and she won't cave in she won't she won't she won't cave in she will Tom has already realized that he's kind of screwed up there's a conversation which he had with Roy months and months and months ago and he said you know I made a complaint not to titter myself here it will happen though I hope it's not too incredibly long long and drawn out because it's not like there's any history of stories big incredibly long and drawn out but you know what us listeners we can't we want it both ways we are we want it to be true to life well anything she's true to life in a fortnight yeah and all wrapped up neatly because life is always like that mmm we're gonna hear a little bit more from Alison later by the way on the show yes I've forgotten to say at the top of the show that I talk a little snippets audio snippets of everybody that was at the do and and it's gonna be the end of the show so if you dear listener couldn't make the W don't meet up in San Francisco you can relive the experience at the end of the show very good mm-hmm we can live vicariously us us us England bound people can or UK bound people can what about the Canadians and the Canadians and what about the Australians shut your face and you won the Kenyans Portland we've got 15 listeners in China what about them they can all come as well mm-hmm he is team Charlie no he's his his his other half is team Charlie and Andrew is team Ian mm which are you Roy Field I've always been an Ian man always always and I think and this will be played out more in next week's don't be dumb offering that Ian has played a somewhat tanny game he's played a long game as me mm-hmm he hasn't got hysterical and rushed around dumping people he's kind of just sat and hope that they'd get through it mm-hmm and that might well have happened but you haven't listened to Sunday so you don't know damn it right okay you know I'm doing immediately after this don't you okay well I'm team Charlie really I feel yeah I kind of feel as if he's wait you want him to bust up this long standing ambridge relationship no I don't and I don't think he wants that I just think yes he does he said he said run away with me to Scotland I know but he's kind of found himself in ambridge yeah thought this through Lucy and and I just feel that he's been treated I'm actually whatever I whether I'm team I am not a team bloody um Adam that's who I am not I'm not necessarily team Charlie or team Ian but I am certainly not team Adam because I just think he's behaved absolutely disgracefully I think he's completely lost any integrity he ever had and he didn't have much and he still likes to swan around the village you know criticizing other people and I think he's behaved like a shit I agree with just about everything you said apart from him swan in around the village criticizing people who does he criticize Rob I know he should criticize come on but he's kind of no I agree that he should but and actually I think he's very tempered when it comes to Rob but he you know he's still I mean he shouldn't be he still likes to have a go at Brian you know for being unfaithful doesn't associate what Brian did to Jennifer at all with what he's doing to Ian well yes there is that inconsistency there but he has to he has to be the support for his mother doesn't he and he looks at the you know the anguish and the hurt that his mother went through so that's where he lives in the bottom of a marble run because that's what I listen as I said this is a building site you know all I can do is I is is apologize it's quite funny like noises off just I just it's like the temp Indiana Jones like this gigantic concrete ball is hurtling towards you that's what it sounds like even this rushing noise lime you got anything more to add on this are we at the end are we got any more emailer interests well goddess diva called in and but she that was kind of a fair brethren call about she does not care what happened in in Brighton so I think she can go with Emily Thomas okay because it's all sort of much of a muchness we did have some emailer interests Claire Doherty mmm I sadly stood up on Saturday I'm very sorry Claire I have already apologized besides apologize again Derek and I were supposed to go and see Claire to go and have a look around her brewery but I was feeling a bit rubbish and Derek was very tired after a busy day so we never made it so I'm sorry Claire but we're going to go another time when we're where is this brewery it is in East London it's called Beavertown which would make it the first time Derek had ever gone to Beavertown you're filthy you are you know we will be we will be coming to see you soon Claire anyway said I shall share with you now my arches trivia that I learned this week the actor who plays Matthew studied acting in Trinity when I was a student there we used to go to the same indie discos and he used to hook up with my friend Lucy bit of an Egypt but then again we were students at an indie disco so we were all egypt's I think that's probably a bit harsh Claire sure you weren't sure he was but sure you weren't and we have had an email from my mum oh see pub all right who says good morning Lucy since Ruth has returned she is always laughing I am finding it a bit irritating because do you think that the actresses fed up with people not liking her character and wanted to lighten it up PS 10 squirrels have come back to the bird feeder so I may take my water pistol out love my little insight into the home life of of the Freeman mama um I don't think that the actress gets any choice in what happens to her character very much but I think it's good isn't it kind of to kind of indicate this kind of this new jolly light haha it's kind of to indicate new start to everything's all right now blah blah blah yeah no it's absolutely supposed to signify that but I'll take slight issue with what you said before in terms of the actors don't have any say over the direction of a character that they play that is absolutely true but I think what is also true is that longstanding characters take on some of the natural characteristics of the actors that play them they're general kind of demeanor not if you you know if you're you know if you if you rack in for a year or two for six months also in the arches no but someone who is let's say maybe a little bit kind of earnest naturally I think the the script writers then kind of do over a period of time kind of write that subtly into that into that characters characteristics I think that absolutely does happen absolutely does happen and you see this so much with long long-standing soap so the the app that plays kenballo in coronation street is a little bit bookish in real life and you know et cetera it's feminist isn't she exactly and she she is a little bit earnest and she has her causes and et cetera et cetera so I think that those two things that you do start to kind of like you know meld and kind of coalesce so to speak are we are we done with stuff now are we are we actually oh no on that last all right yes when we were had dinner with with Nigel Pagerter mm-hmm and I think you found me I didn't grant seed but I don't know you had dinner with the rotting corpse like not for the first time he had he had dinner with the because initially when he joined the cast he the idea was that he would marry Shuler and he had dinner with the director at the time and said please I can't bear Shuler please don't let me marry Shuler and they said oh well right then you can have Elizabeth really yeah and he said those were the days where you could actually kind of interfere and lobby for the direction that you wanted you all your character to go in oh well there we go fab fab fab like he escaped I say well not really still fell off the bloody roof didn't he yes but if he married Shuler he wouldn't have been on the route he'd have been trampled to death by a mad horse no because she would have still moved into lower locks like cuz it's his country pile oh she'd never been able to put up with Julia Julia wouldn't have approved of her at all well you would have been thinking about it Julie would approve of Shuler much more than this cuz Lizzy was the wild child I was explaining to Jennifer Reiber that back in the 80s the night is that actually Lizzy was you know yeah but Shuler is so unutterably middle class like lower middle class and Elizabeth because somebody who's a bit out there has got more chance of whizzing up and down the social scale than somebody who's just resolutely Tupperware like Shuler is absolutely Tupperware well done that that's the she's practically got a bloody lid she is absolutely you know what that's gonna be the title of the show resolutely Tupperware well done right is it now okay all right now I have to mention this because this has been bubbling away for quite some time but Jacqueline Berto good listeners has organized a town twinning between a Dunby-Dumville and San Juan in Brittany in France now older arches listeners will know that Ambridge is between with Merriwell and Clary was the head of the twinning committee wasn't she and she used to pop over I don't know if this was kind of late 80s early 90s in my head that's kind of kind of when this was she's and like for about three or four years every summer there were French students that would kind of come over to Ambridge and then Clary would kind of go off to to Merriwell now Easter 2000 got freaked out when she went to Rochester was apparently perfectly happy to trundle back with some forwards across the channel but anyway yes it was unlikely storyline well I use the quite like it but anyway Easter 2016 and there's gonna be more details on this I'm gonna put this on the website this week and we're gonna start to really push this because Jacqueline has gone to a lot of effort and she did this some time ago and I said to her we would start to push and promote this in the new year but so this would start on Friday the 25th where the where your you will you'll sail on a Brittany ferry from Portsmouth and then you will come back on the Sunday there's gonna be loads more details next week I'm gonna put this up on the website the prices and this is with accommodation she's done so well with this you get accommodation and meals this is an absolute giveaway in a steel is approximately 105 quid it's 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Dumte Dum at the pie bar in the mission now I was there in September so wish I'd been there while you were all together I think that's the point I could see at the front of the picture you can certainly see Royfield there and Vicki Cole said I hope you sang a Dumte Dum to reply was we most certainly did we also asked the question about whether you prefer the return to traditional storylines and we wondered this because when I was looking across the Facebook pages there was a real division amongst fans some people are like wow this is boring I'd rather watch paint dry and other people thank goodness finally we get back to what this is all about so I thought we'd ask the question Kate Swift said I don't necessarily think it's a case of traditional storylines over new I think it's more about balance between them and having a depth and richness of character we all enjoy the good comedy moments but the arches isn't a comedy it's at its best when it's real the storyline we do not name is hard yet gripping because of the effort poured into it by everyone the disappointment comes when potentially good stories Kenton's mental health Adam's consistent infidelity etc are cast aside because the script writers are suddenly bored with them or they're not plotted effectively the racist stories have always been there Ruth and Sam Alan marrying Usher Adam coming out but they were allowed time and space to feel real and other things were allowed to happen around them Scott Holford says I live in Minnesota where there's no radio for broadcast and have only been addicted for a year welcome to the addiction Scott so it's impossible for me to compare the current storylines to that of several years ago that said it sounds like the script writers are doing a fine job balancing the traditional rural roots of the show with broader contemporary social issues good point actually Scott Joda Bank says I think the program has always been split between the dramatic soap storylines and the rural ones apart from the Rob Helen one dominating over all others which is a change I think the program is pretty much what it has been since I started listening circa 1990 91 I agree with you Joe I've been listening for a little bit longer than that and there's always been a storyline that irritates me and others that I love so for me having the current storyline that does irritate me is normal Sean Evans says I'm waiting for Rob to be finished with before I start listening again but really pleased to hear this moral balance it's sorely needed it's getting like East Enders on the farm so shame you're not listening Sean I think you would still enjoy it so please feel free to jump in and have a go soon Sarah was Rockwell says she's been listening for 25 years and enjoys a dramatic central storyline around which there is a mix of the more everyday stuff involving a wide range of characters and I guess that's the point isn't it that there's always something dramatic happening but the agricultural year continues there was so there was a range of opinions and I would like to finish up with with a spoon the 35th who says I think that I am most dumb to dumb as prefer a gentler kinder average but then we'd have less to talk about and do you know what with spoon is spot on so that's a bit of a roundup if you'd like to see all of the responses please go to our Facebook page and I will see you next week hello thank you Milly Lucy yep why don't you hit us with some hashtag the arts is treated talking about tweet to the week mm-hmm I think you should be in tweet of the week I know you're just too too modest how many retweets did that Rob tweet Rob chocolate get chucklepunch yeah it's only a work it's just because oh yes yeah only false modesty now it's only because well yeah come no it was just because the that that that mannerism has been designed to be the single most infuriating thing in the world ever hasn't it it's like an indicator it's everything that we hate about Rob summed up in one oh yeah so it's just a well timed I think rather than anything else anyway just in Farrington mmm mudkip stoat 23 said Charlie is worse at getting off stage than fucking Metallica Steve Doherty said goodbye Charlie will never forget you not while we have Tom March and father him he rush him a Twinkie said I don't know what the hell this conversation was about but it made me laugh Rob's tabard is probably made of fire tabard if tabard of fire wasn't an episode of Father Ted it should have been just one that point right so I was sat next to Laura Jackson who'd come all the way from Marin County and I was trying to convince her and identify succeeded that I should accompany her on a road trip around the good old United States she she said she's about to buy a camper van and I said why and she said could she can do a road trip around the United States and I said really interesting yet and I went well I'm not really I said I've never really been to the Deep South but I've been to New Orleans once but I didn't really travel around so how about I accompany her when she travels over the Potomac so she's really in the South so kind of Virginia marinade not quite coming forward are you no no you know what you got to seize the day you know Lucy you know you see an opportunity you've got to go for it and I says I will go with you all the way down to Florida with nude around Florida then we can cross over says when you get to Texas then I'll get to know that well she well I've probably known her for about three by then because it's literally one of the first things she said however she feels that she knows me and you because we're her friends she goes to sleep with us Laura it's not too late whatever you've signed up for you can just don't sign anything change your locks don't get the van just keep moving well I don't think I convinced her anyway and when I so I said to her so when exactly is this gonna happen and she every obstacle imaginable was put in the way she is well we need to be careful it's not too hot then he can't be hurricane season you know take it back you obviously know exactly what you're doing carry on she's very she's a very smart and canny woman and she will be doing that leg of a trip on her own not with me she made that abundantly clear did she invent a lethal virus that only affects people in campervans going around the south of America was every excuse underneath the sun as the reason why you know I probably wouldn't be you know of course I thought I'd love you to however excellent oh yeah next tweet is Cara good thought here I repeat emphatically that I want Kirsty and Fallon as stylish fun loving late night clubbing vintage wearing power lesbians I agree Cara I'm just not quite sure where Harrison fits in but fortunately tweeted the week answers that very neatly it's I think somebody who hasn't been on Twitter all that long judging by the amount of followers is Darwin underscore Percy now I don't quite know what this means it may be actually very very rude I'm not sure but it just made me laugh Darwin Percy said Fallon loves black pudding I now see PC burns differently does he mean that PC burns could be black and we haven't realized or what what you you were phoned by appendages I don't know how to take that but anyway it's it's end of showtime yes I think we need to draw a veil over this it's almost the end of the show but don't tune out now dear listener because we do have some great little takeaways from our San Francisco meet up so stay to the bitter end now shop news get your stuff we have a new head of product marketing and design at the shop this is listener Laura who was at the San Francisco meet-up who took to mowing is this the Laura that you tried to yes yes yes yes you climb into a camper van you insinuated yourself into her camper van he took to mown about the lack of Lillian labeled cocktail glasses tea towels and so on and she made made the stunning observation said Roy field if you actually had some tab arts you need seller shed load of them and I said look you've just talked your way into being the head of product marketing at the shop so I'm handing the keys of the shop to her right and she can just do that what she will because she is spot on and I need to know it just makes complete sense let's tell some tab arts yeah you don't sound convinced but I know that there's another lady that wanted baby stuff yes and they used to be baby stuff and then the baby stuff's gone walk about listen yes it's going to be sorted out it's going to be sorted out because then we've got to hurry up because she's about to have all right done she did love and she sped up with getting star trekking doctor who tops and she wants to balance one out and she wants a hello you to one bearing in mind that babies spend most of the first six months staring at a pair of boobs right Laura get on it I can now safely pass this on so look out for a new range of products soon okay 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I like Lillian a lot but jazz jazz there's a close second mm-hmm all right now I know like you're an absolute expert in the art and the island Alameda on the archers and everybody comes to you don't even throw your next door neighbors and whatever right so what is going to happen in the next six months? Well I think there's probably going to be something big with the Helen baby storyline maybe losing the baby I think you think the baby lab cloven hooves I think it's could ease the devil's score it's it's highly probable and I think that possibly Rob I mean sorry Tom and Kirstie we'll get back together and Roy and Haley. You're not romantic aren't you? No I just it kind of you see it in the works a bit there's been some hints. My name is Alison Hartley I live in Santa Rosa California which is about to 50 miles north of San Francisco and I've been listening to the archers for roughly six months. What got you into the archers? Some very nice and haranging friends actually from New Zealand they kept telling me oh you got to check this out mate you got to check this out and I was initially quite intimidated by the whole prospect of getting into something like the archers because the back story is so vast and I thought oh my god there's no way I'm ever gonna catch up meaningfully enough to really be able to then jump in and know what's going on and so I didn't for a while and then finally they just kept on me and I downloaded four weeks worth of Omnibus is back in I want to say July possibly August and I listened to it and from the first Omnibus I was absolutely hooked. I'm so glad that you came right for lots of reasons to the meter but you helped coin a new category of dumpty dumma haven't you? I have so what is this new class of dumpty dumma? I have coined the term dumpty dogs and that is because my guide dog Gary is here at the meetup with us and he's also very happy to be here as am I and so I propose that Gary and Angus Haggis and any of the other dogs who tune in should join the dumpty dogs club. You were just too slick behind the microphone here so have you got some media training? Informal yes I am a podcaster I co-host a blindness technology related podcast called the Tech Doctor podcast with my good friend Robert Carter in Texas and you can find out more and listen to a couple of episodes and hopefully subscribe by going to dr-carder.com that's dr-c-a-r-t-e-r.com and if you'd like to follow me on Twitter you can do so by following Apple Alley. Apple like the fruit alley a-l-l-i. You're too good. Too slick. Well done. I'm Robin. I'll Anthony Rosa on Twitter. I'm from Santa Rosa, California and I've been listening to The Archers for about seven or eight years. So you're still warming into it right? What's the first storyline that you remember? I remember David and Ruth trying to decide whether or not they should install an anaerobic digester. Did they make the right decision? I can't remember whether they did it or not. I remember that it was going to cost 35,000 pounds. Wow. And I remember Usha having some PTSD related to earlier racial attacks. That would have been Roy and his nonsense in the late 80s. Right but I don't remember that. What I remember was something that happened later that caused her to start freaking out again. I can't remember that though. I can't remember that but I forget most storylines and everybody knows that. So we talked about the past, what about the future? What do you want to happen next in The Archers? Well like everyone else I would like Rob to have a comeuppance. I would like it though to be a very thorough comeuppance in which he has to take responsibility for every single horrible thing he's done. Not just one thing here or one thing there. I want the whole thing. I want him to be taken apart limb by limb. But you're an American. All right. If you have to choose between a presidency of Donald Trump or Rob get his comeuppance you can only pick one which would it be? Well I have to save myself. So now if we could get Trump and Rob to take each other out, that would be a win win. That would be a win win. Perfect. Doug Font, live in Oakland when I'm not on a vote. Now you've been listening to The Archers for how long now Doug? Well I think we just figured it out. It was about 1998 when I first started listening although it might have been spotty before that because before then the only time I could listen was when I was in England. At some point was getting synopsis by email so I could keep up with what was going on even if I couldn't listen. Then when they started putting Radio 4 out on the internet then I could actually listen at home. Did you help invent the internet Doug? I did not help invent the internet. I worked for a company that made it nearly ubiquitous. Okay all right. I think you're being modest. I think you're being modest. Okay. But all I was a small guy in putting it out there. Okay. All right. So you had before kind of dumped you dumb there was another kind of group of people online that kind of helped them and all things kind of. There was a usenet group called uk.media.radio.archers and we had get-togethers. It was very active. We had get together. We had barbecues in Reading at the Millons Place and usually it was made or really made. And that's where Cosmo comes from isn't it? What? I don't know. Cosmo from Reading? He's a number I remember. Oh is he a number I remember? Oh I don't remember this. Oh so Cosmo's a newbie because you were old school. Oh definitely was old school. So talking about old school. Let's go on to future school. What is going to happen in the next six months in Ambridge? We're going to continue to be intrigued by what's happening with him. Rob. Uh-huh. He's just going to keep being there and being the being the bad guy because they've got to he's too good an actor and they've got too good a storyline. They're just going to keep it going. First question sir. What is your name and how long have you been pretending not to be listening to the arches? My name is Jeff Waterhouse and I've probably been pretending for a couple years now. Now you have a quite let's say I would say boring right? But important job. Absolutely very important. What do you do? I am a geologist. I'm making the world safer one benzene molecule at a time. Now why is that important when we look at what's happened in Ambridge in the last 12 months? Oh there's so many issues that bear directly on geology. Yes. The the whole bypass issue and going through the ground where there's springs and seepage to Rob's dastardly blocking of the storm drainage so that the whole town was flooded. Now was that flooding an active nature was in an active Rob? Well flooding will happen. Yes. But flooding of human structures is a man-made affair and so you cannot have one without the other. I think Rob bears responsibility for diverting the natural course of the water. You heard it here first folks. Rob is that evil that he killed free to fry? Absolutely. So he's a murderer? He is. That's yes. One of his multiple felony counts. We like that. All right. Hi I'm Laura Jackson and I have been listening to the archers since Alistair had his gambling problem which I think was about 2005. Well okay all right so we haven't seen much of Alistair recently right or heard much of Alistair recently but who do you think is also underserved by the writers? Who would you like to you know hear a little bit more from? Well I'm a big fan of Lilian so you know I've been pleased to hear that she's her presence has increased in the last few days and I think there's exciting things in store for Lilian in the next few months. So if we look forward to the next few months do you think Lilian and Justin Elliott are gonna get their groove on? That's what your Americans call it isn't it? Well I wouldn't say that. What would you call it? Okay so you're stuck for a suitable expression for sexual congress between two consents and adults but other than that in the next six months what would you like to happen in Ambridge? Well I would like to you know get back to hearing more from a lot of our favorite characters. Okay at the moment we're concentrated on a pretty small number of people so I'd like jazz-er I'd like Lilian. Be good to hear more of Kirsty. I think you might get your wish with Kirsty. I think Kirsty and Tom are gonna bust the rob thing wide over. They're the two to do it and maybe it will bring them back together again. So when are we going on our trip throughout the south of the of the states in your camper band? Well it would have to be at a time of year that is appropriate weather-wise. Okay. Not too hot, not too cold, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no floods. So I'll be consulting you know the weather forecast and I'll let you know. Sounds to me like you got out of that really. Well done. Thank you Laura. My name is Jennifer Reber and I have been listening to the archers for not quite two years. Okay right so you're you're a baby in arms. I am a baby in arms. You're a baby in arms. So if you had to sell the archers to somebody how would you do it? Bear in your mind right that we have we're currently the biggest movie of the last ten years is our Star Wars and of course the archers is better than that. Alright. So sell us the archers. I would say that the archers is on the surface one of those things that you don't think you're going to be interested in until you start listening to it and all of a sudden you realize that the characters are very complex and they have very interesting lives even though it's sometimes on the farm and you know it would be it's surprising how interesting talk of baking cake is. Now I know that you have some insider knowledge when it comes to the kind of the rule setting of the archers. So what is that? I grew up at a farm in the middle of America. Ohio to be specific so I was a farm girl. I grew up Milky Gows and turning butter. So were you Pip Archer in Ohio? I was not Pip Archer I was kind of the antithesis of Pip Archer. You like a drink are you Lillian? I'm much more Lillian. I'm much more Lillian and I knew that at an early age which is why I knew I would not stay in middle America. Alright so to finish up with what should happen in the in the next six months in Ambridge? What should happen? Well the Flora and produce show should happen. My name is Mario Culverubius. I'm a Californian. Uh-huh. And you've been paying chaperone for who exactly? Mrs. Adrian Culverubius. I've been told that you've been taken in the archers vicariously through your wife. Is that true, sir? That is correct. But now you've been infected with the fever and you're full on. Yes. Okay. Alright so who is your favourite character and why? Wow I have to be honest that's a very difficult question for me right now. Because you have more than one? No because to truly have a favourite character you really need to understand the characters and I'm just... Listen we're all just groping in the dark when it comes to this character. Even the script writers are groping in the dark when it comes to writing these characters sometime. So just take a... Who do you like? Okay. Okay. Based on that information I like Tom. Tom why? It's very passionate. We had a conversation inside right and my eyes started to glaze over when you told me about your passion for IT. Is it that kind of nerdy kind of thing that you kind of see in yourself with Tom? I don't know if I have that kind of direct relationship with Tom but... Do you like sausages? I do like sausages. You do? Alright. So there is a commonality there. Okay. Alright. But I do appreciate his passion. Please tell me you didn't guilt your wife at the altar. No. Okay so just your commonality stops the sausage. That's pretty ubiquitous. Most of the planet likes a sausage. It's true. Alright so I think that Tom is going to be the avenging angel in the next few months and is going to bust this rob thing wide out with Kirsty. I sure hope so. Yeah and then we'll get back together. That would be interesting. How could we celebrate that in IT terms? In IT terms? Uh-huh. Wow. I don't know how you would celebrate that in IT terms. That's a good question. Could we write the line of code? 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