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Dum Tee Dum Episode 59 – Racism and Royalty
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- 1h 47m
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- 30 Jun 2015
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This podcast is a Royfield Brown production. Find others on iTunes. All right. Yeah, I know. Hello, I'm Sarah Smith, proud sponsor of Dumb T-Dumb. If you want to polish up your Albion, give your optics a wipe, or even mop up after your ferrets, Sarah Smith cloths are eco-friendly, usable and washable. And, you know, a bit posh. Sarah Smith, available from Sainsbury's for the posh-er washer. Proud sponsors of Dumb T-Dumb. (soft music) This podcast is dedicated to the memory of Alison Jones' father. Alison would like to highlight and promote the good work of the Alzheimer's Society. Search for them today and make a donation at www.altsimers.org.uk ( Didn't you think that the calls this week were absolutely cracking? Paul, Paul Rooms, cut-call, made me like, 'cause you know when you've been ill and you feel a bit sort of flat and gloomy? 'Cause you haven't- I'll never get flat and gloomy. 'Cause you haven't quite kind of put up with it. It's the Buddha in me. It's the Buddha light. Rubbish. Anyway, um, I don't want to try it. All right. It's really good. But I've seen you flat and gloomy, so I know that's a thing. No, you haven't. I have. You know when. But do you really want me to- [laughs] To go through when? For 30 seconds, right. My frown, I had my smiles turned upside down with 30 seconds. And you're never going to ever let me forget that, are you? But anyway, no, sorry, come on. So you were talking to me about Paul Room making you feel- No, but you know, you know when you've- Well, okay. The rest of us that are mortal sometimes feel a bit gloomy after they've been ill, Royfield, and, um, uh, and that was for you a little bit- I don't do that either. I know. And I was thinking, oh, I feel really rubbish. And I felt a bit depressed and everything. And then I listened to the calls this week, and they made me laugh out loud. They were so funny, and people are so lovely, and Paul Room's call made me piss myself laughing. And it really cheered me up. So I felt completely fine. I've got a lot of love for Paul Room. And, um, and he knows the reasons why, apart from the fact that we're- we're brothers from another mother. But I'm the whole thing of just feeling like the world is full of light and love, and that we are at the fulcrum, and they're the center of a whole network of lovely people. Um, I posted this on the book of Face this week. To all Dummy Dummies, thank you for your continued support, your general cheeriness, your cash, your calls, your emails, your- your meals that you've either cooked for me or brought for me. It's been an amazing year since Lucy and I started doing Dummy Dummy. We've had actors on the show, we've done an awards ceremony, we've even been in the papers, we've found new friends, and we've started a community of listeners that share our love of the actress and our sense of humor. It means so much to me that I could ask for donations for the new website on Friday and achieve the total just a few hours afterwards. Lucy, merely Harriet and I do the show for fun. But up until that time I had spent three days solid on the site. So your help meant that a vital part of the site could be completed very quickly. And I must admit, I'm a little bit of a softy. So at that moment when I got the $150, I was all a bit kind of touched. And it means so much to me and Lucy that you really support what we do. Yes, thank you, seconded. Yeah, it was very lovely and there's been a proper outpouring of loveliness on the Book of Face for us. And as I said, it really means an awful lot. So yeah, there you go. It's all nice, innit? Innit. And on that note, I think I should say this is stungid on the show about the reality of ducky drama that is sent to an ambush in the heart of the Midlands on the handful of confetti that is Roy Fulbright. I'm rice, I'm not confetti, I'm most Indian. Oh sorry, yes. With a few beans mixed in. Yeah, the rice and peas. And with me, I've been feasibly a large hat, that is. Lucy Freeman. And the most in part of our Grundy wedding is you. Oh, I was really touched by that, but let's talk about that later. Today's rendition of About Green is brought to you by Vicky Cole, who's been all over our business this week, aren't you, Vicky Cole? If you haven't been a donate and you've been dumbed at doming and then you've been calling in, Vicky Cole is probably in our beeswax this week. Excellent. Yeah. But Lucy. Yes. If anybody else other than Vicky Cole wants to get in on a little bit of dumbed-um action, how'd they do that? If you would like to sing us a dumpty-dum weep in the choir stalls or give away the bride second hand slightly shopsoiled, but one careful owner, keep it in the family, please get in touch via Speakpipe on the site or ring 0203 0313 105. Thanks to Harriet at Shambridge for her amazing voices and also we need to thank lovely Sarah Smith, who is sponsoring us, our first corporate sponsor, who are? She's a keen fan of the archers, keen fan of dumpty-dum. We love her and she makes excellent cleaning cloths, so buy all of them and mop stuff up. And also to Derek to learn the back bedroom, Derek is outraged about the Irish equal marriage law and he says what next will Charlie be going down on his knees in front of Adam? Well Murray Snell got down on his knees in front of me this week. Did he? Yeah but I'll tell you all about that later. I got my sword out and everything. This week and this momentous week, a week where we've had donations of plenty and marriage equality has come to the Emerald Dial. We have calls from Claire from Scotland via Canada who thinks the new voices will settle down. With a spoon who cried at the wedding, Murray Snell, who is our first royal listener, Paul Roome, who's becoming hysterical, Jojo sector heels who wants more of the Carter sex life. But that group carted the unstoppable sex machine. Yes I do. Carter's the unstoppable sex couple, that's what they are. Bly spirit who says Rob is a criminal, Vicki Cole, probably she's totally in our beeswax this week. Vicki Cole who wanted to know who Barry is in Cheers, who's a foreign spy. Oh no, no, no there's another hand. And Catherine Pageant who's worried about Claire's outfit. Now he's another one that's probably in our beeswax. She's all over the book of base. And the Twitters. Excellent. And and the PayPal donations. Very good. And I would say she won the Emergency Pudding Competition. Yeah she was the mouse trifle. Oh well no the map the saga of the mouth trifle has moved on. Oh crumbs, all right well I don't know shoot the vault too soon. I'm going to keep you powder dry and Lucy you can tell us what about that later. But first, why don't you tell us about the last seven days in Ambridge? So Jennifer is deep threat, but then Brian woke up. And Jennifer was actually interviewing a foreign sounding person called Stefan. It all got a bit famous five. He wanted to meet in a cafe. Oh what a horrid place said Jenny Darling to David. It looks like the type of place swarthy people come to and I don't like it. Have some more of this dinner beer. Anyway, deep throat and Inspector Gadget had a patronizing meeting with the funny foreigner in the Poor People's Cafe. And the funny foreigner said that he had seen Rob stuffing his culvert the filthy bugger. Inspector Gadget went trooping off Charlie Barber's spreadsheet to say, "A person whose name we can't give you saw another person whose name we can't give you doing something very very criminal and bad and what are you going to do about it?" "Nothing!" said Charlie Barber's spreadsheet. "What the hell am I supposed to do with Drivel like that?" But no, of course he didn't. Because this is the archers. So he took it all very seriously and said I will speak to all my workers about the person who cannot be named. Being spotted by the other person who cannot be named. And I will be very discreet. And then he called Tichinob in immediately and said, "Are you the person that cannot be named?" Tichinob immediately went into his usual, "I didn't do it. I wasn't there. I wasn't at work. I don't know what a cow is anyway. Who are you?" What kind of raving lunatic would do something that stupid asked Helen? The type of raving lunatic that you sadly find irresistibly attractive Helen. Jolly William couldn't meet up with Emma and the children for a picnic at the cricket match against Taxley. Because he was discussing bird-watching tactics with Robert or tic-tacs possibly. There was a lot of "Go on then, make friends! Go on! Go on!" Everyone said, "Right you are. A lot to each other. And the women fixed it all with cake, seemingly." The bird-watching was tedious in the extreme. The most exciting thing was Robert seeing a wheat ear. Or getting wheat in his ear. I'm not sure. I had passed out with boredom. Jimus enlisted Molly and Tilly Button into helping him. They rang him on his mobile, which is not easy for two silent characters. In fact, given their trappiest monk-like tendencies we should hear after referring to them as the mute buttons. And now we will move on to Pip, and her dedicated pursuit of both sheepdogs, Rex and Toby. She wants to move the fair brethren. I nicked that from B12 Simon, thanking you in two pairs. I reckon B12. Mostly, mostly. Who is it? That's what it means. Postcope, but mostly. I used to live on the Mosey Road. Oh, is it nice? And the local pub. Guess who paid it at the local pub? UB40. Well, UB40 were from Mosey in Borsley. Yeah, but that wouldn't be so notable because they're from the area. But Molly. No. Oh, is this? They did. Yeah, yeah. When they did their first album, when they didn't press and talk, that's played at the local pub. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, there you go. So, I just wanted to do that because I've had many, many a tweet saying when you're going to interrupt Lucy's monologues. Well, can you notice I haven't done it for weeks? And you know the real reason for that, don't you? If we record it six o'clock in the morning, I'm just, I'm just too tired. I'm just, I'm just not on it. Are you all working lively now? Yeah, no way. Bring it on. Anyway, she wants to move the Fair Brethren into pear tree farm. Nice and close to Brooklyn, so she can drop in frequently, naked, waving Vaseline and some bonyobiscuits. She said she'd nearly pinned Rex down early on Tuesday morning, but he managed to wriggle out of her grass, presumably. You see, that'll be the Vaseline. It was a cracking hen do. Oh, yes. One, no one. I'm joking. No one will ever forget. Emma said breathlessly to Fallon, "I've just had a brain wave. What if we turned my hen do into a sewing bee? There was a gasp from Fallon, which I presume was her pulling her arm back to punch Emma in the head until she'd stop making super suggestions." Emma invited two old school friends on an entirely fraudulent premise, and poor old Jodi and Sarah turned up, and from what I could tell, they worked away like mad things with Clary to make bunting while Fallon, Emma, Helen and Susan, got pissed in the other room and laughed at them. Susan confessed to having dropped her marks and Spencer's sensibles within the first 10 minutes of meeting Neil, and being up the clanger when she sashayed up the aisle with a concealing bouquet the size of a small allotment. And then the Grundy wedding itself. William went from refusing to be the best man, smile or wear a suit, to being the bestest best man in the whole wide world after a very vague talking tube by Nick. He turned up at the church, all fraternal bonhomie, and said, "What's more for old time's sake, Emma?" Which I thought was a bit much. I mean, there's sloppy seconds, and then there's sloppy seconds on your wedding day, and anyway, in a graveyard, but it turned out he just wanted to wander around with her, pointing out he logically that although the whole thing had been a pig in disaster, he hadn't regretted it. It was all a bit odd, but then for once, something nice happened to the Grundys. The wedding went well. No ferrets escaped, no one got thumped jilted or gored. By ambridged standards, it was a very tame do. I thought at first Clarrie wasn't there, as she was so quiet, and we hadn't heard her say, "Oh, aid word!" at all. And then she popped up in her basket and leather gators, which Fallon had found in a closing dam sale at the Amsterdam summers in Bochester. So here's to you and a happy marriage Emma Grundy Grundy. May you live in confusing family bliss for the rest of your life. Oh, what are you going to say at the end? Sorry, the end. Numbigo, the end. The end. I enjoyed that this one. Good. I didn't roughed off, not once. I was like wrapped on the edge of me squeaky chair. No, no, I really enjoyed it. Well done, let's see. So what did you think of the wedding? It was just nice. I think it felt like we've all been through such a lot one way or another. We needed it. We just needed a nice, happy, calm, uneventful thing, and that's what we got. 99.9% of weddings that I go to are always lovely. But whenever you switch on the radio or you watch a film of a wedding or a soap of a wedding, 99.9% of them are always disasters. Yeah. Which just isn't the way that life goes. And this was true to life, and it was touching, and I just thought, yeah, brilliant. Yeah. Loved it, loved it, loved it. And a couple of weeks ago, your boy Andrew Horn said, "Royfield, I want you to stand up, be upstanding and give a round of applause for the Linda and Mr. and Robert Snell's kind of like interaction." And I didn't do that. But I'm standing up for that. And I'm definitely standing up, and I want all of you done, you're done this. Whatever you're doing, stop whatever you're doing. If you're running, if you're driving your car, just pull over. If you listen to this in the car, pull over. If you're on the train, because many people say, "I listen to this once I'm commuting." Right. Just, yeah. Well, don't quite give that far. You know, people have fines because of things that I've said. But just stand up. Whatever you're doing, just stand up now. Lucy, stand up. Oh, well done. I heard the chair being pulled between me. And I'll just applaud, because that is absolutely lovely. And that's what we want. That's what we want. We don't want it all the time. I don't think I'm coming. No, I want happiness all the time. You're such a little Pollyanna, aren't you? Pollyanna Brown. Yeah, you are. No, no, no, no, no. There's enough shit that life throws at us without us wanting to invite the shit. Okay. Is that a Buddhist philosophy? Yeah, absolutely. Don't invite the shit. I can't remember the Buddha essay. I can't remember the Buddha essay. Don't invite the shit. Well, okay. It was underneath that tree for 49 days. Yeah. Basically, what he says is all life is pain. You know, it's going to happen. Don't invite it. Accept it when it, when it does, though. And then move on. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. The things that people get from this podcast. But you know what? It's not about us. We've got so many calls, Lucy V Freeman, that I reckon we should crack on with them and address them fourth with. Hello, Ambridge 3962. Hey, baby. I hear the blues are calling toss salads and scrambled eggs. Massive greetings to Lucy and Roy field and all the Dempsey dumplings from around the world on this beautiful wedding day of Ed and Emma with a spoon and Angus Haggis here as I'm back from Toronto. Roy felt sadly could not join us in Canada, but I had a lovely time and a couple of pints with quite brilliant Mary, not contrary. I hope we get to do it again in the future. First, we turn our attention to Rob, who is becoming more and more nefarious. Kudos to Lucy for accurately predicting the course of this story, but how will smoking guns, so to speak, be identified, or will Rob once again be able to slither out from under the load of crap he dumped in the covert? If his guilt is established, will he be run out of town on a rail twirling his mustache, while Helen cries in the corner, defending him to the bitter end? And if so, will Rob shout out to the average masses as he leaves? Just one more thing before I go, did you know that Charlie and Adam snogged into wet grass on New Year's Eve? Well, onto more cheery subjects. I am quite the sentimental one, love a happy ending, and cry during every episode of Called the Midwife, so I was pleased with Ed and Emma's wedding. The script writers pulled that one out of the hat. The reuniting of Ed and Will and Emma was arrived at the wrong way round, Will, with whom I've always sighted, was unfairly made out to be a bit of a jerk, but he came through in the end with flying colors. Much thanks, Nick, the unsung heroine. I also give great credit to Emma for maturing so much in the last couple of years. Coincidentally, the last song you heard of the festivities was Love is in the Air, which was the song played when a torrent of rose petals were let loose after handsome husband and I smashed the glass and everyone shouted "Mozletove" at our wedding. So well done, archers. I'm beginning to feel a little bit of a clamped, so it's time for Angus and me to sign off for this week. Speak to you soon. Okay, first of all, we're going to go to Weatherspoon, Weatherspoon's corner, blinky, blinky, blinky. I think you'll find his names with a spoon. Sorry, with a spoon. Weatherspoon is a chain of pubs. Isn't it kind of gone the way of the doe doe doe? You don't really see weather spoons anymore, do you? There's the moon under water and all that, the awful ones in them, Westwood. Anyway, they're all kind of like going the way of the doe doe doe, they're all kind of like dying out now there's weather spoons and whatever. Weatherspoon, not weatherspoon, uh, teared up a bit at the wedding he did, but then he said he teared up, he teared up at call the midwife. So quite frankly, Weatherspoon went artistically, you've not got a leg to stand on. Um, and he said he's always sided with William in the, in the Grundy Boy feud. Well, I, I actually switched sides on this, you know, I did a bit of a Winston Churchill, you know, crossing the aisle, so to speak. Um, when they were teenagers, I was definitely team, well, definitely, definitely. But as they got older, he just became a satomonious, whiny bastard. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And yeah. Okay. Ed was a little bit, went a little bit off the rails and stuff, but Will was just way too much. You know, oh, look at me. I'm working. I look at me. I'm a, it was like he'd never, he never got over the moral high ground. And he was just determined to keep that became like his badge of honor. I'm not like my brother. So that's all his character came and became about was everything that Ed did. He did the opposite just to sort of distinguish himself. Absolutely. And, um, so, yeah, I don't understand how it's just a more relaxed, more forgiving, more understanding, more, you know, Ed kind of, because Ed has been publicly a disaster, I always prefer people like that because they're much more forgiving. They're just, you know, they, they've been the, they've been the idiot. And so they're just much more forgiving a rather idiot. Do you think that's the reason why you have more fan mail than me? I don't have more fan mail than you. That's so not true, Lucy B. You've just said in your lettery thing, you said people who've cooked for you sent you food and everything else. Where does that even happen? Well, that's because you don't go off on, on missions around the world to find yourself and the meaning of life, which is what I did. I went to North America and went on a one-person odyssey and I like, you know, just like walked the land like cane. Do you remember that? Come on food back in the 70s when you just bought the land. That's what I did. I did find myself, but like everything else in my life, I decided I needed cleaning. So I just had to stay in and clean it. Well, I was doing cleaning of sorts, more of a spiritual cleaning. Yes. But, you know, but back in, do you remember this Mark O'Carradine who did, what was it called? What was that program called? Do you know the one I mean? David Captain? Yeah, they wanted his name, it's something carradine. The real 70s kind of TV star and he just walked from place to place and just had like adventures and just wanted to be left alone. But like bad things had always happened. They'd have to come who chopped them. Do you remember that? No. It might have been, yeah, it's probably slightly before your time. But he did, but his name was Kane and he was his, I just walked the earth and whatever and he was just looking for spiritually enlightenment and then he'd rack up and it was set in like the 1880s or something like that. You know, cowboy times and he'd turn up into this town and he'd say hello stranger and he'd go hello. I just want bed for the night and lodgings and whatever. Then there'd be some baddie and something terrible would happen. He'd have to confute chop them. He was all doing confute in the middle of the island. And then someone would come along and cook him an emergency pudding. Is this the link to you? What the hell is the link to you? The link is, is that you think you're leaving? No, no, no, no, no. I can't do confu. I can't do confu. I've just got this image of you doing confu. No, I can't do confu. I can't do any martial arts. It's really what I can. I can do, I can dance. I'm pretty good at dancing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't do dad dancing, even though I'm a father. I don't do that. People always comment, "Royfield, you drop a mean move." And I do, Lucy. But you see, if somebody comments, it's like, "If someone says to you, your makeup looks nice, that means you're wearing too much." If someone points out you're dancing and says, "No, no, listen, I'm not hiding my light underneath a bushroom when it comes to dancing." There's very few things I can do well, right? I can dance like a demon. All things considered, a man who's staring 50 straight in the face, but I don't dance like a 50-year-old. I don't dance like a father, and I'm just like, "Why do you modest about it?" I challenge any dumbly dumb listener to a dance-off right here, right now. On-skite. Well, coming back on to, you know, a dumbly dumb actress. No, no, I'll screw the arches, right? It's my podcast. I talk about, "We have a crack at 1-0." No, no, no. I'm coming back onto the arches, but with a spoon, because we are actually discussing these cool novels. We are. Okay. With a spoon, it's going to be in England soon, right? Lucy! Yes. There is some talk on the book of face between some callerenaurs about this, and I think it's kind of end of July. Now, if I'm in Wyoming at that point, or did you watch your revision? No. Okay. Me? Have we met? Of course I didn't watch your assaulting vision. Okay. If I am in London at that point, I think, Lucy, we should organize- We should have a dance-off with with a spoon. Well, no. But I think as part of the festivities- I might win that. I don't think Angus Hagg is going to be allowed in the country. He could be like Johnny Depp and smuggle him in. And then look what happened there. Yeah. So they'll do that with a spoon. But I think we should organize a summer dumpy dump extravaganza. Yay! And with a spoon, we can have pride of place. Yeah. And we'll grab people from the four corners of this United Kingdom, which won't be United- The four corners of West One. No. No. Because you'll come all the way from E-17, won't you? Yes. Mm. And we'll do something pretty big and momentous. So if you are a dummy dumber that likes to hang out and do cool things and watch me drop some shapes on the dance floor- And that will be behind picking them up. Good, you loins for a big do type thing. I can't bear with that good loin. That's my horn. The query wouldn't write so they said you'd dig that round the horn. Yes. All right. So we dealt with a spoon's call now. Can we move on? Hello, Demtitam. Catherine's got them via Canada here. I've been catching up on the podcast. I was listening with interest to Mary Knott Contreary's theory that musicality somehow affects how easily or otherwise you identify the new characters, one from another. As you know, I do sing and I certainly find I'm struggling less than I think some people are to tell these people exactly as a part. And I've heard from quite a few different places that it's hard to tell who said what, when, and who was in what scene. And we circulated, as a matter of point of interest, among the people on the message board I follow, a quiz that took all the actors' voices or the male voices of the characters in the archers. And it played you a line or two in Soundclips and made you identify who had said what. And what was Margaret Buffett, actually, was not only of the new characters from his identified, but also a lot of the long-standing characters like Alister and Tony and David, who we all thought we'd recognize at once. And the only character who was correctly identified by everybody was Brian. And I do think of all of them, and he has the most distinctive, most easily recognizable voice. He suffers least from, I think, what Lucy said Harriet had once called a tired man syndrome. The other thing is I do wonder if some of these newer characters haven't got sort of the actors equivalent to what a singer would say as a lack of artistry. Anyway, what I mean by that is you get a lot of new emerging singers who sing very well, audition very well, in terms of making the music sound like more than singing. They count necessarily, and it might be lovely to listen to, but it's a bit flat in terms of feeling and phrasing and shaping the phrases so that they sound exciting. And I partly wonder if some of the reason we're struggling to tell apart these new actors is that they haven't got the trick of sounding individual, making it individual, and interesting on radio for the listener so that in the meantime they've all got very good drama school, diction and delivery, but also sound reasonably similar because they've all got the same intonations. And until they do manage to make it individual, it's a bit difficult for people to tell them one from another. As I say, I'm not finding it too difficult, but on the other hand, I've always had very good hearing. I think to compensate for not having very good eyesight. And I don't know how much of a difference that's making. Wish you all the best, and loving the podcast as ever. Take care. But she says maybe the new characters haven't sort of settled in yet. She said singers have sort of shaping phases where they kind of, they can't initially bring light and shade to the voice because they haven't sort of bedded in yet. So maybe that's what will happen. I thought her call was very interesting in terms of the analysis of voices and exactly that. But I think there's a couple of processes going on here. And obviously there is this push to have actors who are in inverted commerce actors, which wasn't always the case on the archers. So the lady that places in Carter actually has a day job and she's some kind of academic as you work in a university. She's a psychotherapist. Oh, yeah. OK. So many of the actors are... And Will Grundy, I think, is Terry Malloy's son, isn't he? I have no idea. The actor that plays Will Grundy is my toughest son, I think. But that's why the new regime wanted to sort of bring in people that he felt actually had the acting credentials to. And I completely, not only on the one hand, understand that. But I think what does happen, and this happens in all kind of long-running dramas, is that there's a certain kind of alchemy between the actor and the listener and the writer to a degree. So there's no way about it that when Linda Snell was first introduced into the archers, she was a pain in the arts. And she was like the stone in your shoe. But over time, you became accustomed to her and the way that she spoke. And you kind of accepted it. And I think what's kind of happening here is they're throwing a whole load of new characters in, and there's going to be a natural kind of Darwinian kind of self-selection process. And you'll say this character is a bit indistinct, and he'll fall away. This one will become a fan favorite, and then they'll stay. And but taking that completely to one side, there is also the Julie Walters thing, and oh, crumbs, what's there, the lovely actress that's in W1A. Rebecca Front? No, she's not in W1A, is she? She was also in the royal family. Sue Johnston? No, no, no, no. Oh, sorry, Jessica Hines. And you know why this is really bad in Barracin? Because I actually know Jessica Hines, and I've spoken to her numerous occasions. Her daughter, she has a son and daughter that used to go to the local school here. So we've spoken quite a few times on her name to completely escape to me. But on a slightly more wider cultural societal tip, actors are because the acting profession is becoming much more middle-class. There's absolutely no two ways about it. Well, because it has to be, because no one else can afford it. Well, it's not even just that, but it's also the informal networks that any kind of industry kind of runs by. That if you can afford to, if you can afford to, I don't know, kind of intern if you can afford to sleep on someone's city whilst being in London for a year or three. The chances are you're doing that through some kind of informal network, because then just because it goes to reinforce formal networks. So you have the same types of people within that industry. And how many actors, how many successful actors outside of soaps, funnily enough, can we all name that have working class accents in the last 10, 15 years? You can't. You absolutely all struggle. And I just think that what's happening here in the arts is just really just a symptom of that. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. That's whether it's our politicians, whether it's our actors. I read a really interesting article. I forget, by which opinion, right, during the Guardian this week. And he talked about going to Bradford, and he said I went to Bradford for whatever reason. Recently, a beautiful Victorian station. He said it's absolutely magnificent red brick Victorian station. And how Bradford used to be the capital of the Wall Trade in the UK. And how, yeah, JB Priestley, you have Hot Me, famous Bradfordians. And he says within a generation and a half, if you look at anybody famous who's from Britain, they'll all be from London and the southeast. And it's absolutely the case, absolutely the case. And dare I say, me moving from the Chairs, from Birmingham, down to London, I followed the money too. But it's something which I've bang on at to our American cousins, in particular, when you look at the United States and the fact that if you want to go to finance in America, you'll go to New York. If you want to go to acting, you want to go to acting, you go to Los Angeles. If you want to be going to software, you'll go to San Francisco. You know, they have very diffuse centres of power. And most countries do. You know, Ditto Italy. If you want to go into fashion, you go to Milan. If you want to go into finance, you know, you might go to, I don't know where this is. No, you want to go into manufacturing, go to Turin. If you want to go into government, then you go to Rome's type of thing. In the UK, it's London is the answer for all of those things. And so it's not by accident that in our creative professions, in software development, in manufacture, we have the same types of people who kind of all know each other, you know, who all kind of sound the same look the same. And it's one of the reasons why I'm very much kind of pro devolution. Because I think there needs to be a top-down solution to the London weighting of the UK. And hopefully, the artists that Claire from Scotland's call. I died out Claire from Scotland. Can you remember what our call was about, to be honest? But Blides, Blides spirit kind of agrees with you in her call. She talks about the delivery and the accent of these young actors being very similar. And that they all have a hint of estuary English. She said there is an element of London to their tones, or an element of sort of metropolitanism. So, shall we have her call now? Oh, let's do that. Hello, Dumpty Dum, Blides spirit calling. Firstly, Lucy, I hope you're fully recovered from your illness last week. It all sounded a bit grim. Okay, so this week in Ambridge, blimey, Rob Badman, very, very bad man. Locking culverts. He's not going to get out of this one so easily, is he? Because this is not just a question of answering to Damara Capital or Charlie. This is environmental crime, which is very, very serious. And, apart from anything else, if Scruff is still missing and he's never found, then Rob will have murdered a dog. We can't have that. Guilty. So, yes. The unfortunate thing about this is that Helen is going to be a casualty of all these little landmines that Rob has kind of dropped all over the place. It's just a question now of seeing how and when they're going to go off. But, quite frankly, it's better that she discovers now, rather than later before she signs on the line. Once she's married to him, it's going to be an absolute nightmare. Anyway, so I just wanted to respond briefly to the discussion we've been having about actors sounding the same. Now, I'm not really having so much of a problem with the older actors. It's the newer ones, the new Tom, Charlie, the Fair Brothers. And I think Lucy's right, there is something about the current crop of actors that are coming out of drama school, the way that they're being coached, to sound exactly the same. And their delivery and their accent is very kind of RP, which is your basic standard English, with the edge taken off it. They sound a bit London. And if you watch any of the English soap operas, you will find this that quite a lot of the 20-something actors sound very similar, and indeed they actually look very similar as well. One way that you can listen for this in the archers is to compare the newer actors with the slightly older ones, and there is definitely a marked difference in the delivery. For example, Rob, who sounds very rarder. Now, the very first time that Rob came into the archers, my reaction was this man is not a cow farmer. He's an actor, A.C., T-O-R. He just sounds very, very actorish, whereas the newer ones have a more informal style of delivery, but unfortunately it is more generic. So that's kind of my reaction to that. I do have musical training, I've played guitar for a very long time, I've sung in choirs, I've played in orchestras, that kind of stuff, and I'd like to think my pitch is pretty good, but I am having a problem with these voices, and I actually do believe that they are remarkably similar. Still loving the podcast, keep up the fantastic work, and hopefully I'll speak to you again soon. Cheers now, bye. She also says, what Rob did, if Rob did it, bunged up the culvert. That's environmental crime. Good, anything that involved with crime with Rob means that we can bang him up, which would be excellent. And he also said, he probably murdered Scruff. I'm not sure about that, I'm not sure that would stand up in any formal court, but sod it, let's do yes, let's just say that anyway. Um, talking of culverts. Hi, Roy Field and Lucy and everyone, this is Vicky Cole in Kenya. I hope you're feeling better this week, Lucy. I just want to say thank you very much, Yoko Bear, for an excellent explanation of culverts. That was most illuminating. So this week in Ambridge, the mystery of the culvert deepens. I think Charlie sounded innocent, but who knows? It will be very interesting to see how that unfolds. And the big story of the week, the wedding. Oh, it was all so sweet and so lovely. Making the bunting at the hen night, and Clara's new dress, and Ed and Emma choking up in their vows, and Will's lovely best man speech after everything that's happened. And then the Bridge Farm honeymoon present. I mean, it was just lovely, really enjoyed it all. And I hope that it'll work out, and I hope that the truth between Will and Ed will last. But we shall see. I think that's it for now. Bye everyone, bye. Vicki Cole in Kenya, said she's very grateful to Yoko Bear for his illuminating talk on culverts. Good heavens. Wizard, what? I just realised there's no Yoko Bear this week. No. Good God. Hope he's all right. Yoko Bear, you all right? I know I say I don't like him much, because you're from that town who we shall not mention. Well, actually, I tell you what, Lucy. What? He's probably going to leave Swindon. I said it, I said the S word. He's probably going to leave. He's got a job. So why would that explain why he hasn't rung in? Well, no, he hasn't rung in, so I'm worried. But I'm just saying he's actually going to leave that town, who's, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a job, so he might actually move the Bristol. That was on the book of Face. There's so many things on Facebook that you're just missing out on Lucy's agreement, anyway. I don't care though, but I know. Yes, with the Colvert. Yoko Bear's very talk and the village hall. That was very interesting. Thank you, Yoko Bear. And she wants to know, who the hell is Barry? Yes, Barry of the banging Chris Packet. He suddenly appeared bang his Chris Packet left. We don't know who he is. But apparently he's a regular. I love the way that they talk about these regulars when we've been all been listening for sort of 400 years and never bloody heard of them. Anyway, Catherine Bajant. Emergency pudding, Catherine Bajant. Hello, dumpty dum. This is Catherine Bajant, a first time caller in a row. I'm an emergency pudding fan from last week, but I've only been listening to the podcast for a few weeks now, so please be gentle with me. I really wanted to give you a call about the big wedding of Ed Grundy and Emma Grundy Grundy, which I thought was very sweet. Did get slightly leaky eyes, which I didn't think I would. I nearly believed the best man thing by the end, but not quite. But I was bit concerned. There was a few unanswered questions for me. I was a bit worried where Alan was. And also where Alice and Christopher were, because surely Christopher is Emma's brother. So I don't know why he wasn't at the wedding. But to be honest, the most important thing that I was bothered about all the way through was Clara's outfit. We'd had that big setup with Fallon being tasked in the end to go and find a vintage outfit for her, which, to be honest, I think when people say vintage, they normally mean found in a charity shop. So I was extremely worried about what she'd unearthed. And I was waiting with quite a bit of anticipation to see what Clara would do, because she's quite a proud lady. I can't believe she'd be too thrilled about getting some stinky, horrible nylon number from some smelly charity shop somewhere. Maybe I'm doing Fallon a bit of a disservice, but anyway. But nothing, nothing at all. So I was a bit worried about what Clara actually did wear to the wedding. I hope she wasn't rocking up in her bra and pants or a grandiandes. That would have been a little bit of a shocker. I'm not particularly convinced that Caroline is the best judge of wedding fashion either. I think she's the type of woman that would head straight at maximum speed for country casuals or viola. I bet she's the kind of woman that ions accreased down the front of her jeans. So yeah, I was very concerned about that. It's an unanswered question, to be honest, it's been keeping me awake at night. Anyway, I'm very happy to have found your podcast. I love having Dumpty Dum here, because at least it stops me yelling out loud at the radio in a sad and lonely fashion. I know there's lots of other people all doing that at the same time as me now. So that's great. So thank you very much, I shall keep listening. She's a first-hand caller in her. She says, be gentle with her. She very much enjoyed the wedding of Ed and Emma grandi grandi. She said by the end of it, she'd almost started to believe the best man thing, but she makes a very interesting point. Where was Christopher and where was Alice? Hey, Christopher is Emma's brother, not a peep from him. Wouldn't he have been considered for best man as a friend of Ed? Alice, wedding designer, you know, the nuclear physicist disappeared. Wasn't there at all? Never mentioned. Never got involved, never helped. Never even turned up to the Hindu. Are you clipping your nails? No, good. There's a little torch here. You know the type. And you are fiddling with it. And I'm fiddling with it. Yes, stop fiddling. So I was, no, no, listen. I was deep actually in thought. I was actually really concentrating on the call, because the only thing I can put it down to, so I don't think it's negligence on the part of the righteous. He's just a budget cuts. You know, they couldn't fit all those actors in without paying them. It's as simple as that. But they could at least have mentioned them. Doesn't Alice look lovely or, you know, look at Christopher and his loincloth dangling off that crucifix, you know, something? You are right. There are ways it could have could have been. I mean, even Clarion, he got one sentence. And considering all that parlago with a dress around it. Yeah. And also what you, sorry, I'm getting all coffee and spluttery. You don't go and buy somebody a wedding outfit without them there. You give, if you're going to be that, you know, interferingly patronizing, you give them the vouchers and say off your pop. And you're not lovely. But you know, you don't control it to them. Del Clary, you're a bit poor and a bit sick. All right. So we're going to choose it for you. Yes. And you just turn up wearing it and you look lovely. Won't you? Yes. Lovely. You know, piss off. I've decided for myself. She'd probably much rather be dressed as a ferret. She's, I tell you what, Catherine Bates is damn right though. Absolutely. Caroline Stone would have gone hurt. I still caught the Caroline bone. I don't care. She would have hated straight for country casuals and violence. But yes, no. I thought that was unbelievably patronizing. It was treated Clary as if she was retarded. You think, look, she just hasn't got any money. It doesn't mean she's not capable of making good choices. Given the money, she would make good choices. If you want to give her the money, give her the sodding money. Anyway, right. Next. Now we have our first, can we have our trumpet voluntary? Our first time caller in error from the member of the royal family. Hello. This is Maurice Snell, first time in caller. But I've been listening to the podcast since episode one. You're asking for more John connections. So let me just get my family tree. And then I can tell you that my mother's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's father's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's mother's father's father's father's father. Or more simply, my 20 great grandfather is King John of England. Thus putting me in the estimated 25% of the British population directly descended from the Plantagenet royal family. But probably a much smaller proportion that have a detailed family tree to prove it. Thanks to various relatives with far more historical research skill than I do. So that's my John connection. And emergency puddings. Yes, definitely mash banana with cream. But you've got to also add honey and some lemon juice and then it's fantastic. So thanks for the excellent work. And keep it up. Bye for now. Oh yes. Wait a minute. It's not the only royal on this podcast though. Is he not? Who else then? I'm descended from my best remember. You made that up. No. You do know you're black don't you? You know what? The deep ignorance and racism you've just displayed there is breathtaking treatment. Was it a dog whistle? Sorry, take that out. No, no, that was not a dog whistle. You shouted that through a megaphone. But go on, go on. No, I'm going to say I'm logging to here. I'm not at all how you're related to my best. But Morris Snell. Good name. Are you related to Linda? He's related to Linda Snell and the royal family. What could possibly be better? He's a plantagenet. Apparently. And I love the fact that he's the first time cholera tells us he's a plantagenet and all he wants to talk about is emergency puddings. And then you have to have honey and lemon juice with the banana. Yes, don't he's related to a plantagenet and? King John. King John. So and there's something I can get how many million people in the UK are actually direct. He said 25% or something. Yeah, it's something outrageous. Now, many, many, many podcasts ago, I explained that from my mother's mother, I am a direct descendant from Duffus, who is in Macbeth. Who's sorry. Who is the son of Macbeth. Could you just say that? Descended from who? Duff, Duffus, right? Duffus. Every, yes. You're a Duffus, that's what you said. Yes, yes, you're not the first person to say that. I knew it. I knew you'd said it too quickly for me. I tried to just quickly. I know, I did. All right, so this is how it works, right? So Macbeth was a real king of Scotland in about the 960s. He was a real king and you are a Duffus. He had a son, okay? Muck Duff. All descendants of Macbeth have this wealth, not all. But the family name is Duffus, not Dufus, Duffus, all right? There is an area just outside of Inverness and there is a church and whatever and it's Duffus and blah, blah, blah. And that is the family seat. Now, the Duffus family, shut your cake hole and listen, learn something. I hope you've choked on whatever you're coughing on. Listen, people don't want to hear you laughing. They want to learn about my royal connections. Now, right, so the Duffus family. Make me laugh now, stop it. So the Duffus family moved to Jamaica in the 18th century, had some slaves and as is the way back then, I'd stay away with the slaves. Another branch of the Duffus family ran about. Let's talk about something that's not always top of mind but still really important, life insurance. Why? Because it offers financial protection for your loved ones and can help them pay for things like a mortgage, credit card debt, it can even help fund an education. And guess what? Life insurance is probably a lot more affordable than you think. In fact, most people think life insurance is three times more expensive than it is. So with state farm life insurance, you can protect your loved ones without breaking the bank. Not sure where to start? 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Not everyone gets B2B. But with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linkedin, the place to be, to be. At the 1840s, went to Jamaica. And you can go on the interwebs and type in "Duffers Family." "Duffers Family Wedding Kingston, Jamaica." And in about 1908, you will see this picture of Victorian kind of splendor. And before people start, that's the Edwardian age, but it looks Victorian. And they're all white. Okay, so... You're a white doofus. You're a white doofus. I hate you. I absolutely hate you. I think I've just done that part. So I am a direct descendant from Macbeth. From a doofus. All right, however, let's put this all in perspective. All right. Edward of a gentleman called Charlemagne. Yep. All right, who was he then? Have you heard of him? Was he a doofus? I'm sorry. I've lost him. All right. To the listeners out there on the podcast, Charlemagne, who is the first Holy Roman Emperor. He was crowned by the Pope in 800 AD. He was ruler over modern-day France, modern-day Germany, the low countries, northern Italy. And people thought Roman Empire has come back. He was crowned in Aachen in Germany. Every white European is a direct descendant of Charlemagne. So that puts everything slightly in perspective. So are you white? You're not making me a doofus. You're not a doofus. You're directed. Listen, you're bloody raw. You are imperial, even. Yay! There you go. Like bloody right. There you go. You know what? I've collected myself. My mascara is now... Do you grab my mascara on to do dumb people? It's round my kneecaps. You know it's not a video podcast, don't you? Can they not see me? I've been dressing up everywhere. I'm waving. No one. No, I had mascara on. Anyway, not for this. But now I haven't got any on because I've just cried laughing it all off. Ah, dear me. Yes. Yes. Right. Let's collect ourselves and let's continue on this podcast. Okay. Right. Who's next? Paul Rim. It's been a very moving week in Ambridge with something I thought I'd never hear that caused my tears to flow. Of course, I'm not referring to the Grundy Brothers Raprochmal as they were sobs and tears of anguish, not joy. Caused by an absolutely startling quad of right URs over the course of the week, that must be a record. When I first started listening out for right URs many years ago, they were as rare as a lesser spotted woodpecker. But now I heard as frequently as a pheasant flying up when startled by Jim and Robert at the sewage works. It wasn't the mere fact that this phrase was used four times this week by Ed and Joe on Sunday, Helen on Thursday in a brilliant comedy country yokell accent that I think was the effect of the flowing wine at the sewing bee and Tom on Friday. It was the way it was practically yodled by the various characters. I know these are only written into the script to rub my nose in it, but this is all a bit much. I listened to the episodes in my garden on my iPod while cutting the grass and I'm afraid I may have upset the neighbours with the involuntary screams and expletives that I let out each time it was said. It came to me that it was all building up to an amazing crescendo for that the author Ed and Emma instead of replying "I will" in response to the solemn wedding vowels would say "Right you are" to each other as an "ambridge alternative" unless this didn't make it into the wedding episode. But I have it in my head then saying this anyway and it made for a lovely service. He really made it. This is the second time I've become hysterical this week. Paul Rym said he's getting fanatical about right you ares. There were four of them over the course of the week. There were two at the wedding. He said he's now mowing his lawn and shouting. As he listens to the arches. There's one of them on Thunderbirds this week. What's there? It's catching. I think he's now adding right you ares in like he's doing piece work or something because he's fanatically counting them. And he was wondering whether or not Ed and Emma might say right you are instead of "I do" at the church. Do you take this woman? Right you are? Excellent. Yeah but thank you Paul you have you made my stomach. You made my maybe last so much my stomach hurt and so is Roy Field now. So that's very good. More of that. Oh dear. Jojo Sexy Heels has been to Hungary. That's why she has to brag in. Oh but there's a picture of her and a dummy dummy here. Excellent. Yeah I'm mad. Hi there dumpedy dummies. It's Jojo Sexy Heels here. Haven't called in for a couple of weeks. I've been on my travels and I've been to Hungary. Anyway I thought I'd better call in. I really enjoyed this week's Omnibus episode. Loved the stiltedness, the awkwardness between Will and Ed and the fact that they did actually make up even though Will was doing a little bit of the one-upmanship of I was there first. My favorite Susan. I just love the fact that somehow other the script writers managed to squeeze in the references to Susan and Neil's sex life. The fact that it was red hot before Emma came along was the reason why they got married and obviously it's still red hot now with the chili for supper. Love it, love it, love it. Keep it up script wide because we really need Susan to keep letting everybody know that her and Neil have the strongest marriage in Ambridge and I actually think they really probably do. Anyway, I'll call in again soon and speak to you all later. Okay, bye bye. And she was talking about Susan and Neil's sex life. The fact that... Hard to the unstoppable sex life. Yes, that, yeah, they, you know, the chili, Neil, I'm making a chili and, you know, the fact that she was up the clanger when she got married and, you know, they do, yeah, they do have it. They're a bit like, well, sort of like the snells in that their marriage is a mystery to each other, to everybody but each other really, you know. So it's quite, it's quite nice really how it all works. There was now, who was it? Who was it, who was the very famous... I need a cuddle Lucy. Why? I just want one. Well, I can't, can I? I'm in East London. Why? Because I said about their marriage being successful and the mystery to everyone else except them. And because you just belittled me. You belittled me. Oh, no. And so it was just, it wasn't the, it was just the word. The word that I can't say, because I'll start again. But, and the fact that you tried to say... Because I'm black. No, uh... Yeah, that's it. That's what you said. It was the word of your descendants. And the fact that you tried to skip over it quickly, because you knew I would pick it up. And that's what made me start. And then I couldn't stop. I've got a sneaky feeling that the fact that we call idiots doofuses in the English language is probably to do with King Dofus of Scotland, you know, McDuff. And the fact that he was probably bit of an ass. I really do. I think the two things are probably not unconnected. What was I going to say then? Yes, there was a quote. One politician said about another. This dreadful power couple. This was in the Victorian house. It was, it might have been Disraeli. I'm not sure. I know, and I can't think. And he said that they did the world a great service by marrying each other, this couple. Because then they just made two people miserable and not four. And I kind of, there's an element of that to Linda and Robert and Susan and Neil in that no one else would be able to put up with either of them. So they kind of, you know, it's all worked out quite nicely. Cosmo. I kind of, I know where you're going with that, where you use the wrong, wrong analogy there. Because actually Linda is a lovely person. And so is Robert. And so is Neil. Susan's the Harrodan. This decision was not nice. No, but Linda is a lovely person, but my God, she's hard work. I mean, would you, would you go on a four-hour car journey anywhere with Linda? Without wanting to push her out the window after about half an hour. Cos I don't think, that's my, that's my benchmark. Would I go on a long journey with someone? We've never been on a long journey, have we? Exactly. Good heavens. Have we been on a journey? We sound like Pop Idol. I've been on a journey. Cosmo. I'm back from Canada. My wife goes on holiday in four weeks, but I don't. For those interested and who have not been to Canada, you should go. Based on our experience, the sun shines nearly all the time. And the Rocky Mountaineer is fabulous. Top class food and hospitality just about everywhere. Avoid via rail at all costs. Even our southern railway is better at running trains and others saying something. I want to know when Jenny is opening her detective agency. First, the unresolved mystery of John Toboggan's murder by Carol. And now the effort expended by Rob in seeking to clear a culvert, which was obviously blocked by the builders. She should investigate some other things. For example, is Rex Gay? If not, why has he ignored Pips flirting? After all, if she goes much further, she might as well be laying down on the ground with a licks apart with duopologies to all PC people. Talking of gay men, why has Kate vanished instead of chasing Charlie if she likes drugs? Then perhaps Jenny can move on to find out how it is possible for a button girl to be a secret weapon. And perhaps she could look for the missing where a Cathy, Jamie, Lizzie, the frillies, feebles, Kate and Alison and Christopher, you know, her own family members. Should she be looking for Alistair's brain? And can she explain Captain Peacock's farm? The entire village knows there is no land available in Boston, South Boston, sure. Except it, we've suddenly found a new farm of 70 acres. Did the flood shrink the local farmers so a new one was created in the gaps? By the way, I might have left a false impression last week. The Robert and Linda scene, I agree, was fantastic. And absolutely put those characters together beautifully. It's just the whole burning story which I found very trying and it went on again for a whole day. Anyway, must go. I've got to start thinking about another holiday. Bye for now. So there we are, yes. He's quite right, as always good old Cosmo. But this new found friskiness in your voice Cosmo is disturbing because we want to know why. Um, and she has said similar thing about pips appalling, um, flirting. Horse paintings. Yeah, hi dudes. It's Allison just calling in for the first time in a while, um, to say this has been a great week on the archers. I know if, you know, if last week was an iffy week to just get into it, this one was great. It was great. It had everything. It had the cricket. It had a good old fashioned country wedding with interpersonal drama. It had a twitcher fight, which is my favorite thing ever. Just thinking of Jim and Robert stumbling through the undergrowth of punching each other. It had agricultural intrigue. It has slimy backhanded gets trying to drown other people. It has, it has shady foreign spies, which of course are near and dear to my heart as I am one. Um, it had the works. It was everything. My favorite thing was Jenny, Jenny and her latte. It's like, Jenny, you want to be a PI? You got to drink whiskey all day, every day. You know, you're not, you're not turning into Philip Marlow any time soon, I'm afraid. Um, my main thoughts now for today are about Pip. Pip and her flirting, which is rubbish. But that's cool. I have, I have many memories of being a young woman with too much confidence and just no game whatsoever. So that's fine. But Philippa, take it from me. A woman who is older than you are. Well, stay away from those boys. Those fair brother brothers stay away from them. They are not good news. First of all, they played rugby at Durham. And having known the rugby team in Durham for years, that's not good news. You want to stay away from those boys, those boys in there, they're Canterbury shell trousers and they're popped rugby collar shirts. Stay away from that. You don't want that. Besides, anybody who makes fun of you for wanting to vote is fucking lame. You don't need that. You want somebody who respects your, your urge to be a good citizen. Do what I did. Find a nice sensitive boy from the Midlands, a poet. You know, that's going to do, that's going to do you much better. All right, guys. I hope this is going to come in right under the wire. So I hope it comes in. Okay. But yeah, love the podcast. Always do. Keeps me company on the bus to and from work. It's great. All right. Over and out. Cheers. Bye now. The heavy-handed flirting, which she said is sort of the hallmark of the younger woman, who doesn't really know what she's doing. There's no element of subtlety to it. Well, you know the reason for that part, the reason for that is because we do all of our meeting of prospective partners online now. So the art of chatting someone up is something that's a relic of the 1990s and before. Really? Oh, listen. There's academic studies being written about it. And if it hasn't been, I'll just make that up. This should be. They really should. God, that's terrible, isn't it? No, it's all everybody's swiping left and swiping right. Jesus, so it's gone from old to a mistress eyebrow to like law. God, it's terrible. Well, it's all right for you because you're out of that game. You know, at least you'd be freeman. Yes. But for the poor bugger still in it, you know, things have rapidly changed, rapidly changed. And if you've got any level of kind of social skill in terms of all kind of confidence and whatever, you know, it's like as rare as hens teeth in terms of chatting to the opposite text. Line it. You know, I remember back in the day, we used to go to the powerhouse in Birmingham. My mate Darren Roper, he used to spend all week thinking of chat up lines. And he comes out, "I've got a new chat up line. I've got a new chat up line." You know, and we go, "Okay, try it out, try it out." And then, you know, he'd have to down a couple of points before he got the courage. He says, "I really like it." And he'd walk up there with his chat up line. There's no such thing as chat up lines anymore. You swipe left, you swipe right. You meet someone in a coffee shop. Blimey. So no wonder Paul Pip's heavy-handed. Because the thing is, you can't have her, well, I'd be much more realistic if she was on Tinder, or this new one called happen. I think it's called, of course, without any vowels in it, or something or another. And she's swiped left and swiped right. He says, "Oh, that looks like that Rex Fair brother. Let's just move to it. That's much more realistic." Blimey. I tell you, if you've got any people who are single under the age of 35, please email in, or tweet, or whatever the heck you do, or Facebook, and genuinely say if you've actually met a member of the opposite sex in a bar, who you didn't know, or you weren't set up to me. And I tell you, don't happen. I got chatted up by an Irish man in the pub a couple of weeks ago. Are you under 35? No. There you go. And he said, "I think you're very attractive in that." And then he said, "Have I done that right?" And I said, "No." And I said, "Technically, yes, but no." And that. I didn't know what and that was. Why are you in this bar by yourself? I wasn't, I wasn't. Sounds like you were looking, looking for action. That wasn't the thing. Oh, and emailerinerus. We've also had John the second. Yes. Who says, "There is a stage in life where watching a TV program is more about trying to remember what other programs such and such a character has been in, rather than watching what it is that they're not playing now." Yes, I sympathize. Yesterday, while watching, watching episode one of the game, there was a variation on this. I knew immediately what other part the person had played, even though I had never seen them on TV before. It was the voice that gave away David Archer, playing the home secretary. So that position in our cabinet should clearly go to him, he says. Bear in mind that we're very clearly said which listeners should be in the government. Yes. But yes, still. And he said... And he said... And he said... He goes to David Archer. Yeah, and he said, "I wonder if he's been in other TV programs, or is he just starting and will have to have another David if he's successful?" I'm presuming you're joking, John, as he's been an actor for... God, nearly 40 years now. And he started off... Well, his main one that he's most known for is by the sword divided, Civil War drama in the '80s. And he most recently has been in the thick of it, wasn't he? I was wondering, ran Marleybone the other day, and I've gone into Bentonk Street. Oh. Yes. And, uh, Roorie's Secret Aunt, Kyara, uh, has emailed us and said, "I'm sorry Kyara, you'd said this a while ago, so you're probably not still there, but anyway." I don't know how I managed to miss this message. She said, "I just wanted to drop a note to say a huge thank you for the podcast." Thank you, thank you. "I usually listen on my commute from Tumbridge Wells to the city, but currently listening to the most recent episode in the rainforest in Belize while on my honeymoon." Well, if she's still in Belize and she listens to this, which I've very much doubt, I hope she stood up and applauded. Yeah. I don't think you should be listening to our podcast on your honeymoon. I think there are other things you should probably be doing. Listen, she's probably her husband. A new husband is probably exhausted from all the exertions. And whilst he was gathering himself, gathering his strength, you're just putting a quick dumpty-dum. Raish yourself, love. Yes. Uh, and Ralph B, who was talking about mouth trifle, which you and Mrs. Bentos started, didn't you? Well, no, no. She started it. I just publicized. She started it on the book of Face. I then took it to the Twitters. He said, "I first heard of mouth trifle from Peter Bainham." Where is he now? On BBC Radio 1's 1993 comedy show Fist of Hunt, which then turned into Richard Herring, and Stuart Lee. The sketch was repeated in the BBC 2 TV version of the show in 1995. Ingredient slice of mighty white, half of a Mr. Kipling custard slice, tablespoon of jam, swig of sherry, method, chew up the mighty white, but don't swallow, do the same with the custard slice, add a tablespoon of jam to your mouth, then add the swig of sherry. Yeah. Sounds lush. So there we go. There were people who are still sending emergency-putting pictures. I know. Who's our auntie? Jan from Camp. No, that's our auntie. Yes. How can you forget? Auntie Jean! Yeah. Auntie Jean. I can't forget. You bloody forgot. You just asked me. No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I've seen if you were on the ball, Lucy. Auntie Jean sent something through on emergency trifles. You know, I think this one is going to run and run as they say. Good. Yes. I was just having a look at my phone then because I was trying to find a picture that, I think Jan from Camp sent one of a marshmallow sandwiched between- I think you'll find that was auntie Jean. Oh, was it? Oh, was that the one? Oh, sorry. I'm getting all my, all my, my lady's muddled up. Yes. That's it. End of calls. Was it end of calls? Yes, it was. End of calls. End of emails. A lot of people on the book of face said, "Well done for you for completing the podcast." Oh, yes. I meant to say thank you so, so much to everybody that messaged me and everything to say. I hope you're feeling better and all that. It was absolutely horrible that was. And to be honest, I found the script from last week, this morning, and it was like reading something I had never read before. It just, none of, I can't remember anything about it, apart from the fact that I felt diabolical. But thank you very much everybody for your very kind, sweet messages. I am much better now, especially after that enormous laugh that Roy Field has given me. And yes, I feel heaps better. So thank you very, very much for everybody. You're very kind. And I'm sorry it was a bit grim. Do you not think black people can be royalty? Yes, I wasn't laughing at the fact that you're the black Macbeth. I was laughing at the word. I'm not the Beth. Doofus. I'm not Macbeth. No. First off, if you rewind this, right, you'll find that you would disparage me when I said that I was just anything royalty and he says, "How is that possible because you're black?" Then what then creased you up doubly was the fact that my link to said saying royalty was a duffus. See, he set you off again. Come on, I can't start again. Honestly, it hurts now. But listen to it, it's a serious thing, though. My, my forebear who was the son of the slave owner. She was born as slave in 1830 or 1831. And I think it's 1832 when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. And on the, I'm getting wrong with the sense of the birth certificate. But anyway, he's down as a Creole and he's a duffus. But he says, you know, born like slave. He was the property of the owner. And he died in like the 1890s. And when he died, he had land and property. And we surmised that what happened was the slave owner acknowledged that he was his son, you know, that tacit admission. So actually gave him land and property because he was born as slave in 1838, 1831, one of the other. Then he died some 60 years later. And he had, like, he had, for a start up, he had a will. He could write. And he gave, he had shops, which he divided up between his children. Oh. Yeah. So, so there you go. So you mock and you laugh. But I do know a little bit about my family. And there you go. You'd be ploughing poo. Anyway, listen, let's take five. I think we should have one of those Sarah Smith adverts now. Yeah. You know what we should have had last week? What? You should have had one of those Sarah Smith wipes you to, to wipe the mess that you left in the toilet. Oh no. Oh no. But anyway, let's have five or as I normally then say, really about under 90 seconds and come back the other side. Fancy getting your mouth around something warm? Something comforting. You can really get a firm grip on. Why not buy a dumpty-dum mug from the shop at dumpty-dum.com. Those damn lovely. And my name is Kate. My name's Joe. My name's Nicola. My name is Suzanne Herkimi. My name is Mary Parkinson. I'm in Hope House as a client. I have had addiction issues. I'm a Hope House. Her mom's a comedian. Meeting, dissolution. Heroine Craig. And addiction. Reading track as a methadone. Oh my god. I'm here because it got really bad. Hope House started off as an 8-bit unit. It made a veil. And we're in all women units. I've read an article about a 8-place some months before. And when I read about it, what I read or what I took away from the article was that this was a place where women worked to help other women. Coming soon to iTunes, 1001 Conversations, a new podcast from Roy Field Brown. Do you have a national trust sticker on your car? Do you think you could be best friends with Kath Kitson? Do you spend hours wandering around the airport looking for an organic quinoa cafe because you refuse to go to Burger King? Then Sarah Smith Cloths offer you, available from Sainsbury's, for the posher, washer. Proud sponsors of dumpty-dum. Fantabulous. Let's have a little touch of Millie. And then we will whack over to Lucy V Freeman, speaking eruditely about a hashtag, the actress tweets of the last seven days. Good day, everyone. It's Millie Bell here. I'm just back from playing bass at a Gallipoli concert. And it was very well attended, but I think the average age was probably 85. We sang Happy Birthday to a lady who was 101 today. I have been looking at the Facebook pages, and it's been a really amusing week, and people have responded quite interestingly to the wedding. A lot of people found it too saccharine, and were not convinced by William's behaviour. Other people really liked the fact that William was so reasonable in the end. But Mike Blake in Upstairs at the Ball said, "Listening to Robert Snell, explaining why he needed a few thousand pounds worth of lens for his camera, reminded me of the time I bought a similar item for my camera. Anyway, the castration scar has healed nicely, and my wife's new earring has suit her so well." Terence Skinner wrote a poem in this style of chameres, and I can't do her accent, so I won't pretend. But it's a very clever poem. And he posted this in ambrojatics. "I wish I'd looked after me, boys, when they fought and made all of that noise. I should have been tougher when their squabbling got rougher, though I wish I'd looked after me, boys." "I wish I'd had help from their dad," is a good man, but a bit of a lad. "When I had my hands full, he was down at the ball, while I wish I'd had to help from their dad." "I wish that we still had the farm, as brothers, there'd be much more calm. We worked day after day, yet it was taken away, while I wish that we still had the farm." "I wish that they'd never met Emma, first will, and then Ed, and a tremor." Started shock after shock, which caused the family to rock. "Oh, I wish they'd never met Emma. I wish that my lads got along. Each thinks that the other is wrong. I'm heartbroken as their mother, that they can't stand each other. Oh, I wish that my lads got along." And Janet Titchin added another verse. "Oh, I wish that I'd married a man, who belonged to a cleverer plan. I'm marrying Lord twice to the same girl, not nice, and I'll just have to wear what I can." How gorgeous is that? Well done, everybody. Sharon Evans in Artis Appreciation said, and I warn you, this is fruity. Thank fuck, we didn't have to listen to the singing. Check it with me, I'm kind. Leon Duveen in Artis Appreciation asked, "When will the being nice potion next slipped into William's tea, Terrell?" Caroline Howarth in Artis Appreciation thinks Ed and Will have been watching too much Oprah. Derek Reed in Ambridge Addicts said, "Emma, I must get it right. Chance, I am I take the Edward. I am I take the Edward. I am I take the Edward." And finally to our site, we have been putting up a test website and I'm only saying this because it completely floored me. We asked you if you could help us with a few test things and Pete Barlow said, "Won't have time this weekend because of dwell flonking commitments, but we'll try as soon as I can." Just to let you know that my aim for this week is to try to use the phrase, dwell flonking in normal conversation. I do want to thank you when we asked you to help with the website, you all did that beautifully, you really are a lovely lot. And just a quick couple of predictions, we said, "Will anything go wrong at the wedding? You know, what's your predictions for each future?" Joe D. Bank said, "Like Lady Diana, Anna will get the names the wrong way around during the thousand up and become married to rule again." And Ruth Simpson said, "Susan will turn up an address made out of missing bunting and David's body will be found blocking the culvert of going to meet Rob. Helen will insist that Rob was really helping David to see into the culvert. And he slipped and Rob went for help as he now has hydrophobia since Pete kicked in the head by Christine during the flood. But had to stop off him, Penny has it to buy some galangal for a stir fry he was making for the homeless. He's really kind that way, most people don't see that side of him. And anyway, there was a queue, so it took him four hours by which time poor David had drowned. And the poor man must have been really struggling to get out himself because he had 14 culture wounds in his back. There must have been a broken bottle or something in the culvert and four Rob is traumatised. He's so good, you know. I think your delusional Ruth Simpson. Absolutely delusional. I'll leave it there for another week. I look forward to speaking to you in seven days. Ciao! Go on then, Luce. Okay, there was a lot of very funny tweets this week. People surpassed themselves. Judy, and this was about the wedding. I'll do the wedding once first. Judy Astley said, "I was half expecting Will to snog Emma in the graveyard and start the whole merry dance up again, just appointed." Owen Ford said, "This was pre-wedding everyone was doing predictions. I bet they will be a Barry crisp packet incident. Joe will have a heart attack, sparking off a mass brawl. We don't have very high opinion of the grumbies, do we, clearly?" Mrs. Trellis said, "It'll all end in tears, I tell you, after Emma has a threesome with Eddie and Joe completing a grunty fall house." Oh, yuck. Over the deep throat storyline, culvert gate, Olympians said, "Stephan will be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London before you can say hello you too." Tim, this was the bird watching. I don't know why I found this, I found this both funny and deeply disturbing. Tim Footman just tweeted quietly during this whole ridiculous bird watching thing. "You know Robert and Jim are naked from the waist down." That's birding, you're supposed to doffy, yeah. And, um, tweeted the week. Was Bernie Guy, who said, "Bird watching works well on the radio, doesn't it? I, for one, cannot wait for the Felpishin Mine, first of all." Yeah, that's very good, very good. "I'm going to take this time to quickly talk about something new, because really I'm filling, because I realised I forgot to do to see who's bought anything in the shop. So whilst I'm talking, I'm actually furiously clicking on buttons to see if anyone's bought anything, can you hear? All right, cool. "I don't think people care, really, whether anyone's bought anything or not." Oh no, but what you don't, what you seem to not to realise though, Lucy is. Whenever we reinforce a section by talking about people who have either contributed to that section written a review or bought something, more people than actually do it. It's like 101 psychology. Yeah, it's absolutely 101, it's so basic. So it's, but, and also what you do, you give a reward to the people that have done it, then somebody will say, "Hmm, I will get mentioned on this podcast if I just do this thing." Oh, okay. "I have done many a podcast and I have never have I so rewarded just by mentioning people that have written reviews, etc, etc have I have done in dumb, dumb, and I don't think it's by accident that this is the show which has the most amount of reviews, the most amount of listener interaction, etc, etc. So there is a method in my madness and we're all about a community." Yes. Right, now, one of our listeners did actually say, "I would like you to explain the reasons why you actually started doing dumb data." Was that a call? This is that I'm now off of. Yes, it was the lady in Kenya, Vicki Cole, because, yeah, dumb or black. All right, so no one bought anything anyway. Right, good. So much for filling. I need an above. So this is what I want to talk about just very quickly. Obviously, at the top of the show, I mentioned the fact that I got all of the emotion because I'd been working on the new website and I needed $150 US dollars to do to buy something specific for it, a bit of software, and I put out a very polite begging bowl and I said, "I am English, you know, and I don't like to ask money, but sometimes you have to, and I feel incredibly uncomfortable." And it's just the polite little requests and it could just give me $5 and that's $5. Each person had to be great. And I ended up about five hours later with people throwing in 20 quid, 10 quid, 5 quid, and it was just brilliant. Now, the reason for that is because we have this new sponsor, Sarah Smith, and that is smashing and great, but really what that has meant was that the old website wasn't really fit for purpose. So we need to put Sarah Smith logos everywhere in the old website, really just a placeholder just for the podcast. And one of the things we realized in the last year plus of doing these shows that we have a community of listeners. So somehow, we need to recognize that and again, we couldn't do it with the old website. So new website, Sarah Smith logos, and also I think you kind of did. It's actually really important that people see with a spoon, see goddess, devil, yokele, bear, Andrew, horn, poor room, etc. So now, you can listen. Well, not quite now because the website isn't quite live, but the end of this week. So let's say June the 1st, we're going to launch it on June the 1st, you'll be able to go to www.wdom.com and you'll be able to register and sign up where you can have your own page as a quarter in a row. Now, I know some of you aren't actually really quarter in a row, but you know what, that's what it's called. So you can be a quarter in a row and you can upload your picture and you'll be able to message and to rate the other quarter in a row. But also, what you're going to be able to do is to contribute and write things on the website. So you can maybe write a little bit about how you first started listening to the archers, who's your favorite character, etc. And other listeners will be able to comment on that. So that's kind of what we kind of have cooking up in the background of brand new website. We're going to be launched on June the 1st. There is a bit of a sneak preview if you can get it together to go to www.royfield.com/cline/leverman and there's no kinkiness there. That's where it actually sits and you can actually... No, there really isn't. I was very disappointed. I was zooming over there and it was very dull. And you can actually see what with a spoon looks like or pool room because they've already have their pages kind of up there. But I'm very excited about not only our new sponsorship but also about the new website that we're going to have. And as Andrew Horn said, a few months ago, he said that when Roy produced a say and the most important part of our show is you. He thought that was a little bit trite at first. And I always did set up www in mind for it to be a network of listeners. So the fact that people are so taken into their hearts and want to contribute, and it means an awful lot, but instead of just contributing to the actual show, you can actually do that to the website come June the 1st. So if you want to have a sneak preview, www.royfield.com/cline/leverman and go on there, or however, if you just want to wait till June the 1st, it's www.dumb.com. And then it will be unleashed. The beast will be unleashed and you can have lots of burning zero body looks like. You can message them and play along and it will be great smashing and super. Great! Now, there's a big long fill, which I didn't really need to do in the end because nobody bought anything. So that's shot news. So nobody bought anything this week, which is we know what? Every now and then, they might be a little twingey, you know, in my voice when I say that. But not this week because there's been an outpouring of www. So I've completely understand the fact that you didn't buy anything this week, it's totally fine. But this, but now, Lucy, it is your favourite section and mine. What is it? Reviews, news, news reviews. And we are so close to the big 200 folks. We're getting closer by the second. We have reviews, folks. We have our first reviews from Key Light 86. Maurice Snell. Mrs Bentos. And Kate Rosemary. They wrote reviews. And remember, oh, sorry. Remember, you can also be awarded the Order of John Archer by emailing us if your name is John, or you can prove that you have a real link to a gentleman who goes by the name of John. They don't have to be a Plantagenet. And you will be knighted John the sixth. This week, I got my soda and Maurice Snell has knelt before me to become John the fifth. You can also go to patreon.com if you fancy it. Search for Dumpty Dum and you can donate $2 a show to us, which is about £1.30. This week, we had a slew of veritable avalanche of new patrons. Doug Old Salty, see Doug formed? Have you called him that or has he called himself that? No, that's me calling him that because he's lovely. He's a proper stalwart in his support of this show and he brought me a burritos at Pancho Villiers on 16th Street in the Mission District. Love you, Doug. Thank you. Maurice Johnson. Morgan Johnson, you mean? Oh, oh God, yeah. Maurice Johnson. Sorry. Morgan Johnson. And do leery. Ra, have all joined the band of supporters of the show. If you want, you can donate by clicking on the donate button on the site. And boy, oh boy, oh boy. Did so many of you come to the aid of our new website. Paul and Jane Ruhm. Valerie Bayless. Joe Andrews. Polly J. Baha. Suzanne Hardy. Rupert Brun. Maurice Snell. Again, in our beeswax. Maurice. Ruth Simpson. Vicky Berry. Catherine Beigeon. Glenn Alderman. Jennifer Reber. Chris Morley. Victoria Cole. Jonathan Burns. Barbara Wiseman. Hara Hannah Barrett. Simon Rycraft. Douglas Fort. In our beeswax again, Doug. Alison Jones. And Sheila Snowden. Who is always in our beeswax. Again, just thank you, thank you, thank you for coming to our aid on Friday. Really, really, really appreciate it. Now, remember, you can also send us a voice message via iSight, or you can call us on O20313105. Once we've called that number recently, have they? I was going to say, they haven't known. No. Anyway, if your website apparatus has gone off the fritz, you can call that number and get through to us and you can still join in the dummy dumb fun. You can ping us an email if you like. If you go on to www.dumbdumb.com and hit contact us, so you can tweet me on the twitters where I'm at Roy Field which is about R-O-I for India, F-I-E-L-D. Me @ Lucy V Freeman. Or the both of us @dumbdumb. Or Sarah Smith @ Sarah_Smith. So, please, please, please, keep your reviews coming, folks, because you want to be top of the podcast charts before Emma returns to Will and becomes Emma Grundy Grundy Grundy. Ah, dear. That's nice, I like that. No, no, it was good, good show, even though it was, there was so many racist undertones there. I wouldn't even say the undertones, I'd say overtones, you know, that's, just that you should feel ashamed of yourself, Lucifer, you're in. I don't know what was racist, what did I do that was racist? You said, how can I be royalty if I was black? Oh, I told you what. I told you what? I told you what? Usually, that was the implication, that was the implication, but I'll tell you what though. Right, it's a serious point. Are you pro the monarchy? No. Are you not? Not particularly, no. I am, but purely from two angles. One, because I'm a history ball, and I actually just quite like the line of succession, just as a thing. The continuity of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just as a thing. Am I particularly enamoured with the Duke of Edinburgh? Absolutely not. Though, I have a sneaking kind of like for Harry, kind of quite like Prince Harry, yeah, from what I know, but whatever, right? But you know what? These new ones, which I've just knocked out in the last year or two, what are they called? Thingy and Thingy? Princess Thingy and Prince Thingy? Catherine and William. No, I'm just knocked them out in the last two years with the children. Oh, the babies? Princess Charlotte? Charlotte? Well, you know who I'm, George, George. Yeah, it's Charlotte and George. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you what, right? For the royal family to get really up and modern, they're going to have to knock about with some ethnics, aren't they? We've got to inject a little bit of fun into the royal family. Hmm? Didn't you hear me? No, you went all blah, blah, blah, blah. I said to get all modern, they're going to have to knock about with some ethnics. But we need to introduce a little bit of colour into the royal family. You know, we have a nice little, dare I say, coffee-coloured member of the royal family. You know, it can be sitting on the throne in like 60 years. That would be fanfucking-tastic. It would, wouldn't it? And that's what we need. Let's reflect real Britain. That's what I say. And I think if the monarchy has any purpose, it's to show and reflect actually truly what we are. And you know, when Prince Albert married old Vicki and the Hanoverians were super duper unpopular, right, they deliberately said we're going to model ourselves on being a middle-class family. The middle classes are the new class of Britain and they're rocking and running things. So the royal family, that's what they did. That's what the Danish royal family have done, haven't you? Well, all of the Scandinavians, you know, they all actually played down and say, we reflect who, you know, we are a reflection of society. We're not above it, you know, so they're all that, these individuals come as democratic royalties. And I could be wrong on this, but I don't think I am. But there's some Prince, some Danish princesses got married to some ethnic as well. And then, is it the, the Crown Prince, oh god, Crown Princess of Denmark is actually ardentinian and blah, blah, blah. They're really mixing it up. That's what we need over it. I'm all up for the House of Windsor, they just need to modernise. So, you know, I want to see Prince George, you know, going out, arriving, boggling, doing a dottie wine, Prince of Charlotte twerking and whatever, and just luck getting down with real people. That's what I want to see. I didn't understand the word of that last sentence. You're so home counties. And you just, you just affect this, because I didn't understand, you know. I know I didn't. I'm not affected. I mean, I am affected, but not on that occasion. I genuinely don't understand. I really don't want to see my royals dottie wine in and twerking. Now I don't miss it. It's just the, it's a dirty dance of Jamaican origin. Yes. Yeah. I really don't want to see that. So, you know, that's just, I was just saying that just for comic effect. But on a serious point, considering that our royals now have stopped for the last six-blood years of going abroad to get married. I.E. you know, Prince Philip, being of German Greek, whatever. They don't do that anymore. And Prince Charles married a minor member of the aristocracy. And then William has now gone down a peg or two by marrying somebody just solidly just middle class, you know, a middleton, whatever. Let's get some ethnic action in the royal family. That's what I say. I reckon Eugenie and Beatrice could be your answer. Oh, no, not them pair of horses. Oh, God. No. No, what we want is a nice multicultural person sat on the throne in 60 years. And then they're going to sniff of anything, you know, magisterial, are they? Because, you know, there's not a direct line of succession. We want George or Charlotte to get with a nice Patel, a sing, or somebody worth Indian extraction. Let's mix it up a bit. Come on, royal family. There you go. Anyway, that's all I've got to say on matters. And I think it's about time I enjoyed a bank holiday with me daughter. Yes. Okay. What are you going to do, Lucy? Work. Oh, okay. Well, where are you going with your daughter? Yes, Dave. We went to Holland Park and we just like hung out. And she saw girlhood, that French film. Oh, yeah. Did she like it? She did. And she says, that I've got loads to say on the matter. So straight after done, we're going to sit down and go for a walk. And you're going to tell me all about that. So, yeah, she was surprisingly into it by all accounts. And then I'm going to put the Skype call to my kiddly winks in Canada. And I thought you were going to get, are you not going to go there anymore? No, I am. It's Ella's birthday on June the 10th. So I'm going to be over there for then. So hopefully, miss contrary, I will be able to meet you then. Okay. Yeah. All right. But on that note, I'm definitely going out. So good by Lucy V. Freeman. It's been wondrous. Yes. And thank you so much for the laugh. That was very good. I liked it a lot. Bye-bye. You big doofus. Hi, it's Jack Timberto from J.B.E.R. to Add San Gwen in Northern France. Lovely sunny northern France. I've just listened to the omnibus from Sunday on my iPod whilst gardening. And I have to say, I think my neighbours must think I'm mad because I've just wept my whole way through it. It was most brilliant, emotional, everything we want the arches to be. Brilliant writing, brilliant. We didn't quite know what M was doing right until the last minute. Lovely, simple country wedding, just like it should be in the arches. Loved it. Brilliant podcast last week as well. You too. I enjoyed that as well because I listened to that just before. Now, I hope I'm not too late for this podcast this week. Have a good one. Bye. Forging ahead together drives Colorado's pioneering spirit. At Chevron, we donate funding and volunteer thousands of hours in support of the community's we call home. We also employ our neighbours to deliver the energy needed as the state's largest oil and natural gas producer. All to help improve lives in our shared backyard. That's energy and progress. Visit colorado.chefron.com This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. You chose to hit play on this podcast today. Smart choice. Make another smart choice with Auto Quote Explorer to compare rates from multiple car insurance companies all at once. Try it at progressive.com. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates. 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