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Duration:: 1h 25m
Broadcast on:: 08 May 2015
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This episode of Dumb D'Dar is sponsored by Licki You Like on The Fellowship Road. The chap's called hammered and he's so lovely, doesn't mind if you come in twice a day. Don't tell anyone. Thank you very much. G'day, this is called So Archibald. I'm the oldest sister of Gemma Archibald and the daughter of Millie Bell. And what makes it so interesting, so is you don't even listen to the arches? This is Dumb D'Dar is done on the show about the reality, Dr. Drummer, that is centered on Ambridge in Heart of the Midlands. I'm the Miss Marvel, that is Royal Field brand and with me, I'm the Miss Marvel, that is Lucy Freeman and the most important part of our team of Avengers is you. Now, today's rendition of Barric Green is brought to you by Lucy, what did I say last week about Calypso's Dumb D'Dar? You said we were playing it because no one else had given us any. And I said it was going to be the last time, didn't I? Yeah. Well, I lied. We've got it again. Can't we use Miss Alliance because we were going to use her and then it switched to all right then. Okay, why don't we have a bumper medley of Dumb D'Dars and have Calypso and Miss Alliance? Yeah. Yeah, there we go. There you go. Now, if Lucy, if people want to, which they clearly don't know exactly gagging to, are they? No, I think that novelty bolt has been shot, hasn't it? Yes. Sending a Dumb D'Dar. So what are we going to do? Well, if you've shot your novelty bolt, I don't know why, frankly. Well, let's put out one last plea, Lucy. Okay. If our listeners would like to win the accolade of Dumb D'Dar of the week, what should they do? We need some more D'Dar. So if you can sing, fart, Barric Green, or play a kazoo with an unusual part of your anatomy, give us a ring on 0203031305 and leave us a D'Dar. You can also get in touch via Speakpipe with your plot predictions or your suggestions for what Ginny Throck Wharton might have been doing with the Maypole. And we have an important announcement this week. The nation rejoices at the birth of a baby girl. Yes, Harriet at Shambry's had a baby girl on Friday. What? I said, yay. Oh, sorry. So many congratulations to her and two little Ruth Helen Gillillian, Jolene Linda Jennifer Phoebe, Kate Fallon, Carmichael. And if she's not, there's going to be trouble. Thanks also to Derek for the loan in the back bedroom. Derek's a bit out of sorts at the moment. It was National Naked Gardening Day on Friday and something unpleasant got stuck up his agapanthus. I can tell you what, right? I told somebody to go and have a look at the Dumb Dump Feed and they were in their workplace on Friday. Oh no, they didn't go on but that was supposed to be rebuke. Oh no, it was on Saturday, wasn't it? But they were at work. They got a rebuke because of you, Freeman. Sorry, I got carried away with my naked pictures. Didn't you just? So I think, Miss Freeman, we should rattle on with the show at great speed because we have a barrel load. No, a shed load, an aircraft hanger load of caller in a wrist, don't we? We do. And we have calls from Moineness and Goddess Diva who have views on our row last week. Did we have a row? It was a strident discussion. Yes. Yokele Bear, who thinks we're back on track. Paul Roome. Love me some Paul Roome, who is struggling to cope with Darby County. Hey, you know what, I did go for with the way that Devin Locke like with their collapse. But anyway, more on that. It's a blind spirit. I love blind spirit. Who thinks the theft of the Maypole was deliberate and we actually know what happened now, don't we? We do. Yes. We don't. But anyway, Cosmo is here with some financial news. So we'll have special financial news music. John, the first who's a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Jacqueline Bordeaux, who says that Alistair has gone weird. Vicki Gold, who's worried that she's missed the moment and with a spoon in his corner. Oh, you know what? Guess what? What? Did I tell you, I'm going to Canada in a couple of weeks. Hey. Yep, I'm going to go see my kids. Oh. Guess who is also going to be in Canada? Not with a spoon. Yep. No. We're going to be in Toronto at the same time. I'm so excited, so excited to finally meet the most important person on the show. I'm so jealous. By popular demand, he so outshines you and I. I know. This is actually with a spoon's corner with a bit of the archers, isn't it really? With a bit of royal delusive taps on. But anyway, with a spoon in his corner, our resident New York therapist, who compares mother and son relationships. But first, before we get to those juicy bits, Lucy, why don't you tell us about the last week in Ambridge? This week in Ambridge was sponsored by texting. For all the years I've been listening, no one in Ambridge even had a phone. They never rang each other. They used to drive around to each other's houses and say, "Who I just popped in on the off chance?" And if you wanted to tell someone something, you stood in silence next to someone else and you waited for a third party to swan up. Then they said, "Hello YouTube, you look serious?" And then you said, "Well, so and so it's just told me about this." Blah, blah, blah. But now they've suddenly rocketed into 1995 and they're all texting each other. David texted Jim, Helen texted Neil, Kent and texted Fallon, Tom texted Peggy. It was non-stop banging and bonging. Not Jolene though, she had her set on vibrate. Hootie Jill is working on the cake for Ed Nema. Everyone seems to have squished their names together now, like Brangelina. It's a low key cake for a traditional country wedding, two Greg's Eccles cake sandwiched with Nutella. Ed is having his suit altered by clarry love. "Looks like it was made for you," said Eddy. Now she's taken the extra leg off and removed the hump. Then he went on to say, "It's made you look two inches taller. What's it good at it, stilts?" Clarry love has got nothing to wear for the wedding, so Linda has detailed Fallon to help her find a dress. Something vintage, that means secondhand, smelling of someone else's deodorant, but more expensive than Oxfam. Linda was up the pole without a ribbon, which works quite well as a metaphor for Linda's general eccentricity, but in actual fact she'd mislaid the Maypole. Easy to do, it's only 15-foot long and covered in ribbons. I was going to suggest she checked Charlie's cords, but Ginny Throckmorton had it. Bloody Ginny, light fingers, Throgmorton, if it's not nailed down, she'll have it. It was nice to catch up with Joe and Eddy. Joe uttered those fateful words, "Looks like things are finally coming good for our Edward, which only ever means things are going to go unutterably publicly and lavishly wrong in the next three days." We met Rex Fairbrother, who pleasingly is the son of Geoffrey Fairbrother of '80s sitcom Heidi Hey. Bing-bong! It's very useful having Joe around when we meet new characters as he continually uses their full names in conversation. Well then Rex Fairbrother, another point of shy as we'd go down very nicely, Rex Fairbrother. Maybe Joe could follow the newer characters around the village for a bit for the benefit of the listener. Now with their new Pip Archer, have a chat with new Tom Archer. Rex and Toby Fairbrother wanted to farm geese and turkeys, which would become competition for the Grundes, but only if they were geese and turkeys that could read horoscopes or perform reflexology. "Over at the ball, Jolene and Kenton have hit the skids." Well, they've not so much hit the skids as hit them, slid off the end, lost their grip and the earth is now plummeting towards them at high speed. "Do you remember what the ball used to be like at lunch times?" said Kenton, over sound effects of some desultry chinking. Dead as the green burial ground, as I recall, but the way Kenton was talking, he made it sound like Vegas on New Year's Eve. So, of course, Kenton decided to cheer himself up with an opportunity to do his local radio DJ impression and shout bon on me for a megaphone. He groped around and discovered the Mayday festival. So we were lined up for an afternoon of cider, prancing about the button girls dressed as watering cans and everyone saying it's community that counts. He said he'd ordered a side of Morrismen. I normally order a side of fries. You've pushed but I'm clearly unimaginative. At home farm, Kate bought a new lamp. She is standing on her own two feet for once. "It's high time I got my own place bought from me, decorated and furnished by my father," she said, determinedly. There was a lot of chat about a herbal lay, which I thought was Kate after a month of Chardonnay, but turned out to be some wild grass crop. Peggy told Tony that she'd got bored, and before she knew what she'd done, she'd booked a captain of the solicitors and changed her will for the 48th time. The solicitors are writing it on an extra sketch now. Then she hauled out the toy car that Tony had always wanted. He can play with it when David gets his train set out. Honestly, what is wrong with these men? David then became Detective David, King of the Culverts. I reckon titching or bummed them up to minimise the risk of the cow's cubicle flooding. I rest him at once, Harrisman, to don't wait for proof. It's fine. Stop running around the green, shouting, "Dee-dah-dee-dah." Still, I never even knew cows had their own cubicles. That's quite sweet. Lots of little cubicles filled with cows on monitors on mobile, saying, "Clive, can we beat as a glitch in the spreadsheet?" And most startlingly of all, Tony has developed... What was that, Lucy? Tony has developed a compulsion for ginger nuts, he told his mother. A drastic change of lifestyle is not surely a good idea for a man in his fragile health, but you have our blessing, old chap. The end. I thought there were some quite meaningful pointers to the depth of relationships between the generations last week. I was touched beyond belief with Ed and Eddy. Oh, the best man thing. I was touched. I would genuinely, genuinely touch. And as somebody who's into a little bit of Formula One, Peggy and our Tony, and she got his Jack Brabham Formula One car, I was completely... And was it a Formula One car? Yes. And why didn't know? Jack Brabham, yeah, he was the Australian two-time Formula One champion in the early '60s. So that would have been absolutely spot on the time when, you know, Tony would have wanted that toy. I was absolutely... I thought it was a lovely touch, a lovely touch. But the extra sketch line in there, I don't know whether we can actually throw that in, because you're, you know, excluding our younger listeners there. We're not going to know that the sketch is Lucy, so you're going to have to explain what one of those is for anybody that wasn't around in at least the early '80s. Do you know what? The other day, this is, sorry, I'm digressing somewhat, but it's about kind of saying things that make perfect sense to you and then your children or the younger generation go, "Oh, what?" And you think, "Oh, no." I played, because I thought they'd find it funny. I was talking to the children about, we were talking about different dance styles, and I was talking to them about headbanging, and I played them, the clip on Wayne's world, of them all in the car, singing along to Queen, you know, where they're all nodding away. And the children sat through it completely stony-faced and looked a bit mystified, and it felt like I was laughing away like a nutter, and then I said, "What's the matter?" And they said, "What was that, what was that plastic square thing that he put in the car?" And I said, "That was a tape." And they said, "What's that?" And I said, "Oh, no! It's terrible." So the whole thing didn't make sense to them, because they couldn't work, they didn't realize that the plastic thing was somehow connected to the music that was playing in the car. So then we're just waiting for that bit to be explained, thinking, "What the hell?" Anyway, an etch a sketch was, "Oh, do I really have to?" Everyone knows what an etch a sketch was, but good to say. Googling it! Gem Bay Archibald has no idea what an etch a sketch is, and she's listening. Explain away. Yeah, would Gem Bay Archibald be in bed quite frankly. No, she's in the car on the way to school, doesn't she? It's a thing, it was a little square thing with knobs on, and you could dial the knobs right or left, and it drew pictures, I guess through some kind of iron filing malarkey. I'm not quite sure how that actually came out. How did the picture actually get on the screen? You're right, there's some kind of magnetic iron filing thing, and the lines wiped them away, didn't they? Yes. They pulled away the iron filings when you shook it. But then, inevitably, you forgot what it was and drew on it properly, and then were outraged when you shook it. I mean, there was bio marks all over it. Maybe that was just me, but I'm sure it wasn't. Did I tell you that a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago, my age was round at the flat, and I've got an old rotary phone, and I told her to go and ring somebody out now, a grandmother or something. She says, "How do I do that?" I went, "Just use the phone." It was just ridiculous. She goes, "Dad, how do I use this phone?" I didn't realize it's a rotary phone, she's never seen one before. Or you put your finger in, it'd be corresponding number, and pull it around. But when you say it, it sounds ludicrous. It sounds totally ludicrous. But I just can't believe it. Well, after I'd explained to the children about the tape thing, which sounded peculiar enough, they were fascinated. They said, "What did you have before that?" And I said, "Records?" And they said, "What were they?" And I said, "You know, if you say a black plastic with grooves on it, you know, a disc of black plastic, and you put it on a thing, and then needle went in the grooves, and somehow music came out." That sounds even more than that. They were staring at me as if I just, you know, landed on earth, and had just lived it. No, what did they say to me things like, "I've gone. We're doing the Borough War at school. Could you tell me about it?" What was it like when you were with it? Yes, we are getting older. We are getting older. You are not there, are you? You are. Yes, but we're not allowed to say you are. No, because I've got narcissistic tendencies, and one of them is the fact that I cannot be comfortable with the fact that I'm actually getting older. Can I miss you with a spoon? No. No, right. Now, smashing. Now we've got that out the way. Let's crack on with these cornering risks, because we have got a shed load. Hello, Ambridge 3962. Hello, Notre Dame. It's Diane here, one of some of Twitter's. I'm going to talk about last week's podcast, and Rob, and Helen. I've been trying all day to do this recording, and I've been finding it very difficult to get the words out without being going ballistic, so I'm going to try and keep calm. About you, you two, and little Contra Tomp last week about Helen and Rob, I'm team Lucy all the way on this, because I think we've got this expectation that this storyline is going to develop, and there is going to be a big Easter Easter-type explosion, whether it's Rob finally hitting Helen, or hitting Henry, or Helen actually getting in there first and doing an Easter-style iron against her head against Rob. I don't know if that's going to happen, but we're forgetting what is actually happening now. Yes, Rob might be picking up Henry from nursery, or reading him a bedtime story, but he's also destroying Helen's psyche. He is nagging her, he's gaslighting her, and he's controlling her. He's trying very, very hard to make sure that she becomes a house-fry, Frau, sorry, to satisfy his needs. That's all he's really interested in. So as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter about the positive stuff that can be seen. Helen is experiencing this stuff now. She knows there is something wrong. She is scared, it's been obvious for months, but she is scared of disappointing Rob. She's scared of losing him, but she is not meeting his expectations. So, you know, she's doing everything in her power, and the final struggle is going to be over work, because obviously work is a double-edged sword for Rob. Not only does it keep her out of the house and away from servicing him, but also she's with her family, which means that there is a danger that she will might actually start thinking for herself or speak to somebody about stuff. There's a lot of people on Twitter who go on about, "Oh, Helen's being so stupid. Why don't you just walk away and just sort of know how can you be so dumb?" And Lucy is right when you say, "Unless you have been in this situation, it is really difficult to fully appreciate it." 20 years ago, I was in this situation. In fact, the script writing is so good. It is almost like hearing some of the stuff that my ex used to say to me, "That man never hits me, never calls me any physical harm. However, the mental harm that he calls me lasted me for years. It took me a good couple of years after a nine-month relationship to actually to be able to trust the opposite sex again, to actually sort of believe that I had self-worth, to believe that somebody could find me attractive or anything like that because of the damage that man had done to me." So it is, it is really well written, but I don't think we should go through the assumption that, "Oh, it's all going to get a lot worse than there's going to be a major disaster." So what's happening now is an important thing is not bad. It is bad. It is really bad. And I want them to finish this storyline as soon as possible because it is becoming increasingly difficult to actually listen to it without getting more and more angry and frustrated. And I think that's all I've got to say on the matter. Keep up the good work. Love you both. Bye. Hello, Don Tidam. God Estee, we're here with an open letter to Roy Field, Cosmo and John III. "Dear all, I know you will think you're good guys and I tend to agree with you most of the time. I know you will think you're on Helen Archer's side and most of the time you are. I know you will think you are being the voice of reason. You aren't. What you're doing is enabling not just robs, but all male abuse and violence against women. Think that's a bit strong? Not at all. And here's why. Imagine that you're on a pub with some male friends, acquaintances, colleagues. It doesn't really matter who they are, just that they are men in your company. And you don't know that one or more of them is abusive to women. One in three women experience abuse in their lifetime. So this is not outside the realm's possibility. You make some comments about abuse and how it's a dreadful thing, but really, women are a bit oversensitive about it, aren't they? It isn't actually abuse if he's just a bit of a jerk, or if he is a good father to the boy, or he's just looking after her. You see these men who abuse women are smiling at your comments now because you've just validated them. You've excused their behavior and the women in their lives are now going to suffer for it because you have bought into the narrative that says women need a bit of control or they get a bit wild or are a bit delicate and knee looking after. Is that who you want to be? Do you want to be the man who makes an abuser feel comfortable and validated? I don't think you do. I really hope I'm right about that. I am right about that, right? Well, here's how you get past it. When women are telling you that you are wrong about a situation, listen, don't talk over her, don't patronise her, don't try to be the voice of reason. Not only do you do her a disfavor by not listening to her lived experience, but you are treating her as irrational and believe me, she will have had enough of that in her life. Have you ever been in a situation where something didn't quite feel right, where your gut was telling you to run, but your head was being overruled by clever words and manipulation and eroding of self-esteem? That is what the women in those relationships deal with all the time and when they try to break through, the abusers get worse and the women end up saying sorry. Also, the dog whistle that only women can hear? Not a thing. My timeline was filled with men who get it as strongly as the women where it comes to Robin Helen. You do not get to use your gender as a getout clause. Ditto the ledger of behaviours. Not a thing. Not in an actual healthy and grown-up equal relationship. So, accept that it isn't all about you being right or wrong, accept that you don't get a pass for validating abusers by saying they are abusers, where the power is already unbalanced in a relationship you are not providing balance, you're making an oppression worse, accept that not only Helen Archer but many women are in actual danger from their abusers. I say this to all of you in love and sisterhood and hope that you understand what I'm saying. God is Steve around. Alright, now, okay. Now, I feel quite strongly about this, I do because I very clearly said all the way through my little schveal last week that please don't misconstrue what I'm saying. I do not like Rob Titch now. Now, I'm going to refer everybody back to episode two, where I said this man is a shit. And in evidence, I lay before you all, is the fact that he said that Annabelle is now chairman of the board at BL. That is terrible. They've got a woman to do that. And Helen did not say a word. And I went, I do not like this man. So, I've had form for the last year of saying I do not like Rob Titch now. I know that me being a man, it means that some people will misconstrue any level of subtlety in terms of me talking about gaslighting, which have term I didn't know until about a year ago. But of course, emotional domestic abuse, I think we can all, if we all haven't experienced it, we all know at least when we hear it on a drama. And what I was trying to say last week, and I obviously didn't say clearly enough, is that from Helen's point of view, she is not privy to all the things that we are as the listeners. So, when some listeners are saying Helen, Helen, Helen, you stupid, stupid woman, you need to just get rid of this man. Of course, she should, but she's not privy to all of Rob's nastiness in the way that we are. And I obviously didn't make that clear enough, though I thought that I did and I kept on saying people do not misconstrue what I'm saying. Please, you know, in in evidence of that, I point you all to last week, we heard the telephone call to Jess, Helen didn't. Rob lied to her, he is controlling, he is evil, he is absolutely no good. And with that one to say, oh, it's really well-written as I say every week. But of course, it's really well-written as I say every week. And that is case in point, is that we know much more than Helen. So, I just, you know, I think what I, one of the things that I said last week, we seem to have set people off was that there are dog whistles. And I will stand by that, but then I'll back it up by using a very personal kind of anecdote in this. The dog whistles were for us men that we weren't, there were certain things that Rob said way back last summer, which we just thought, oh, well, he's just a bit of a blokesy bloke. I remember, way back when, in episode one, we talked about the fact that Helen, Helen had asked Rob, what did he want for Sunday dinner? And he said, none of these fancy stuff, I just want like a meat and two veg. He said, it's worth the effect of that. Now, that in and of itself is somewhat innocuous, but put in place with a whole load of other behaviours, you start to see a pattern. And there comes a point when it isn't just he's a bit of a bloke, he bloke, or he's, what whatever the expression is. This guy is somebody who he's trying to belittle Helen, and he's any is a misogynist, or, you know, a male, a mouse over his pig, whatever he's controlling. And, and I think it's quite legitimate to say that at some point, the women understood what was going on before men do, because men, for eons, we've been in this position in society whereby, you know, until quite recently, women were our chattels. Now, in terms of the dog whistle thing, and I appreciate that some people said that, oh, you've got to know, etc. But I think, no, sometimes some sections of society, some minorities, it's quite legitimate for them to be, let me put, let me put, it's quite legitimate for other people not to pick up on signals and signs, which they deem as being offensive. Now, last week, somebody said to me, broyfield, you're chippy. I took great umbrage. I didn't say anything, bro, what? Anyway, you're a chippy brummy. Now, for 99% of listeners listening to this, who happened to be white, that's totally innocuous comment. But to mid-miss city and to anybody who is black, that has a massive other connotation. And that means that you are, you have a chip on your shoulder because of your color. Now, when I went, you are, you went through a chippy brummy. That's an insult I could actually take on the chin and say that's fine. But that for me was a dog whistle. And with a group of maybe white friends, that wouldn't have been. So, I think when you told me that I had no, I couldn't understand why that would be a problem for you at all. But there you go. Yeah, there you go. Because I had to say too. So what would that have meant to you then? And then you explained. And it's, and I don't think that you are any the less the sensitive for me being somebody of color and the issues that people of color have because you didn't get that, that needed to be explained to you. And, and I think that the, you know, one of the many brilliant things about this storyline is that it's been a slow drift. You know, Rob just didn't turn up with a swish of his cloak and then with, you know, thunder and lightning behind him going, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, you know, and then, you know, say to Helen, you cannot leave the house, etc. There were these little tiny signs of which, if you are a woman who has been in an abusive and emotionally abusive or physically abusive relationship, you read first. It was a dog whistle for you first. Other people just were just listening to a drama. Rob didn't walk in to the archers being a baddie. He was the new hired hand, senior managerial hand, for Brian. And we were not to know that he was, that he, these psychologically massively flawed vigor and it's been a slow burn and it's been glorious for us as listeners to see that unfold. So, unfold, sorry. So, I repeat, go back to actually what I said. I was talking about the fact that Helen is this, I'm not going to say broken, but she's a very complex character who, for the last 15 years, when did she actually have her relationship with Greg 15 years ago? No, earlier than that, I mean, sorry, more recently than that. Well, anyway, so she has a relationship with a man much older than her and he was much more psychologically, much more obviously broken than, than Rob. Much older, he obviously had no friends, he was incredibly uncomfortable in his own skin, had his incredibly dysfunctional relationship with his two daughters who are over in France. His wife had practically run away to get away from him, hadn't she? That's the reason why she was in France. His daughters didn't even like him and she was literally his only link to normalcy, wasn't she? And he ends up killing himself. Now, why is it that Helen struggles to have relationships with people who we might see as being normal in the David Archimald, in the Kenton Archimald, right? You know, Rob has a whole load, it's not normal. Oh, come on. No, I don't even know what you've been. He's a regular guy, it's a regular guy. Helen can't do that. But it's Helen's search for, endless search for perfection, isn't it? This insane standard of things that she sets herself. She's got to find guys that she thinks only she understands. But it isn't just that, Helen, Helen is in her early 30s and Helen, in her early 30s, late 20s, thought, I am not going to find somebody I need to have IVF. At a very early age, you know, she's not in a mid to late 30s, tells you a lot about Helen. So for people to be saying Helen, Helen, Helen, you know, throw this man off, you of course, he should get rid of him. But she has, she is, you know, trying to latch on, hold on to somebody who, because she doesn't think that she's actually worthy of being in a relationship. She doesn't. This was, she'd done this about face, with a lot of her principles, you know, she doesn't want to work in the sharpen mode. She does, but she doesn't Rob says that you shouldn't and she's thinking about it exactly. This isn't Helen Archer, but she's prepared to compromise so many of her principles to be with somebody, because actually she doesn't think she's worthy. Yeah, a lot of people this week have been saying it's actually getting really, really hard to listen to. And people who, who said, I'm just looking down my notes, Blind Spirit said it was hard to listen to. I think John the 1st said, but it was as well. Yeah. Well, you know something's well written when it's just compelling, but uncomfortable listening. Oh, no, sorry. Yoko Beth as well said it was hard to listen to. And I completely, you know, and you've got, the thing is about this drama is that it is like a many-sided kind of dodecahedron or whatever the hell the heck it is. And that we're looking, we're all looking at the same thing, but we all have our own perspectives on it, you know, that I looked at the Roy and Lizzy storyline last year from a very different perspective than, than maybe half the other listeners did, because I've gone through something that they hadn't, you know, and ditto-moineness with this. And, you know, we all, you know, we can be looking at the same thing, want the same outcome for the characters, but legitimately come at it from a different perspective. It doesn't mean that my views or your views, you know, out from each other, though I will say, though I will say, just like contradiction to that point, that I do take what Yoko Beth said is that sometimes you just have to say, well, if it's an issue to do with women or an issue to do with being gay, so ditto, let's say we've been, let's say, black and understand that experience that sometimes you have to just respectfully take take a back seat, you know, and I take that completely on board, but still, I did not say that this man was not evil last week. I did not say that he wasn't trying to be controlling, and I completely disagreed with what John III said last week. I didn't agree with what he said at all, and I'm not even going to go down the Cosmo Road. Very few people go down the Cosmo, well, they do, but they don't come back. So we play Yoko Beth's call, and then everyone know what you're all about. Hello, Dunstum. It's Yoko Beth calling from the Wilds of Wiltshire here. I want to talk about Rob, first of all. I think this week really laid bare what Rob's all about. He is, in my opinion, definitely gaslighting Helen. There's absolutely no doubt. On that, I also want to just say a quick thing about the kind of debate that Roy Field and Lucy had last week. Yeah, it's really difficult. One thing that I've learnt is that I can never truly, as a man, I can never truly understand the experience of a woman, and what women go through. In the same way that I don't think a straight person can understand my experience as a gay person. Now, that doesn't mean that we can't stand in solidarity with each other, and be allies, and empathize, and help each other. But I think sometimes, the one thing that I have learned is listening to the people that experience this. So it's about listening to women. Women have been gaslighted, women have been this situation, or women who understand this situation. Because, you know, without putting too far a point on it, I speak from a position of privileges a man. Women have it much worse than the men in a lot of respects. And I don't really know whether this is going to be honest with you. I'm just kind of rambling, but it's something I just wanted to kind of get across. I kind of understood where Roy Field was coming from, but I think it's something that I think women have to have the last sound, to be honest with you, because they are only day, truly understand what this situation is like. But ending on a more positive note, I thought this week's archers was the best in weeks. Less silly plotlines. Couple of new characters. Yeah, well, we'll see where that goes. But it was all really kind of character driven about the dialogue. I love the whole bit about the May poll. Just yeah, it felt like it was back on form this week. And I think that's really great. And I want this to continue. Okay, I'm signing off. Bye. And he says, we're back on form again, character driven drama. Lovely bits with Lillian and Linda bickering about the booty core of Borsettshire and, you know, Linda said, I know he's put out of joint and all that sort of stuff. Lovely, lovely. Back on form again, he says. Now we have a blind spirit who thinks someone stole the May poll to stop the Morris dancers. Hello, Dante Dunne, blind spirit calling just caught up with the weekend Ambridge on the only bus on Sunday. There's an awful lot of talk about May polls this week, wasn't there? And I suspect that whoever actually re-appropriated the May poll, aka nicked it and shoved it somewhere where no one could find it, was in order to do Ambridge a favor and prevent it from actually having any Morris dancing. But what did Linda do? She went and found the damn thing, didn't she? So there will be Morris dancers in Ambridge on May Day. There's a new character Rex Fair brother, yet another voice from central casting, unfortunately. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm finding it quite difficult to try and work out who all the male voices are and some of the female voices as well. Presumably when Toby, his brother, the other character rocks up, he's going to sound exactly the same. It's just going to get even more confusing. I particularly liked the quote that Susan came up with the discord quote, which, as we know, was also re-appropriated by Margaret Thatcher, lovely connection there, lovely irony, really enjoyed that. But apart from that, also, still having the podcast, keep up the brilliant work, and I'll talk to you again soon. In my experience, I saw an off shotgun wouldn't stop a Morris dance. Once they've got all that stuff on, you cannot keep them down. Can I just say, if someone is very proud to call themselves English, right? Yeah. But when you go to like, you get a Brazil, they say those capoeira dancers. Yeah. Right. Have you seen them? They're quite, they're quite sexy. There's a lot of jiggling and bottoms and boob-boobies and all that. No, we're not talking about the same thing. The capoeira is where it's like martial arts and they pretend to go like kick each other and they kind of duck and they all do it to music and stuff. That sounds a lot more exciting than Morris dancing. That's my point. That's my point. You can go to the four corners of planet earth and you can see native forms of dance and every last one of them being miles fucking Morris dancing. People are waving around these little dish rags or whatever and skipping around a bloody big stick. How the hell did we have an empire? My friend from Bavaria was over last year and she watched this Morris dancing thing but we sort of came across back to the middle of London with a bit of a perplexed expression for about two minutes since then said, I think this is boring and also, I think they are being a bit stupid. And I thought, you're from Bavaria. Oh yeah, if they were very leather shorts, that would be all right, slapping themselves. Yes, absolutely fine. That would be, but no, just because I a lot are wearing funny colours and waving ribbons around and you know, hopping up and down. That's silly apparently. It does look pathetic. It really does. It really does. Do you know what? Let's play pool room. It's been a while, dumb to be dumb, but my recent energies have been taken up with the emotional roller coaster that comes of supporting Derby County and each week I've been playing catch up with the podcast that I'm still very much enjoying. Hey, I'm Ryan Reynolds. At Mint Mobile, we like to do the opposite of what Big Wireless does. They charge you a lot. We charge you a little. So naturally, when they announced they'd be raising their prices due to inflation, we decided to deflate our prices due to not hating you. That's right. We're cutting the price of Mint Unlimited from $30 a month to just $15 a month. 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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. After yesterday's end of season claps, I tuned into the arches to forget my footballing worries, only to be reminded of it all once again, with Adam referring to the great pairing of Cluff and Taylor, who of course have historic Darby connections. I have taken to my bed suffering from a relapse of football-related melancholia. Great work with the podcasts. Keep it up. And on my notes, all it says is "Paul Room supports Darby County." I don't know what that means. Right. Now. It was mentioned, wasn't it? Somebody talked about Nigel Cluff, but I thought he was Nottingham Forest. He was Darby County first, and Peter Taylor. Now, Brian Cluff is the patron saint. Everybody, well, outside of the Midlands, Brian Cluff is just associated with Nottingham Forest. But he cut his teeth, so to speak, actually at Darby County first, with Peter Taylor, his assistant manager. And he won a championship with Darby County. Now, that is the equivalent, now, of, let's say, I don't know, Burnley, you know, currently bottom of the apprenticeship, actually winning the apprenticeship. The early '70s were a crazy time in English football, where you had Darby County, well, early to mid '70s. You got Darby County and Nottingham Forest actually winning the championship. You had Leeds United, which were an absolute top team of the time as well. And after he did his stint at Darby County, he then goes to Nottingham Forest and stays at Forest for nearest damage 20 years, I don't know, about 18 years or so. And they win the Division II championship. They win the Division I championship, which is basically the premiership, and then become European champions, not once, but twice. So what's happened this year is that Darby County were leading the second tier of English football called the championship, which is really his Division II. For months and months and months, with Steve McLaren, the ex-England manager, they were beating teams for fun. And I think as early, as late as March, sorry, they were still top of the division, and they've spectacularly fallen away, Devon Lock-like, and they didn't even manage to make the playoffs in the end. And even on the last match of the season on Saturday, they were playing at home against Reading, I believe. Reading had nothing to play for. If they had just won that game or even drawn it, they would have got into the playoffs. They spectacularly lost 3-0. So Paul Rune is somewhat upset. And you know what I do to this Lucy? Are you still talking? Sorry, I went off and folded up some washing because all I could do was blah, blah, friendly as shit, blah, blah. Now you know how I feel when you do your monologues, right? I love heartily. It was funny because what is lovely about... It's going to be really quick. It's really quick, really quick. No, yes, fine. Yes, yes. All right. What's born were famous for? Beaches. And now they have a team in the premiers. Oh yes, Simon said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's unbelievable. They're like the smallest team ever in terms of resources, ground capacity, all sorts. They didn't even, they're not even just in the premiership because every now and then you get a small team will sneak in because they won the playoff final. They were only gone and won the championship. Top team in the second tier of English were born with United. I couldn't be so happy for them. Lovely bit of the world. You know, all those old codgers are going to have like many knighted fans and arstel fans, you know, knocking around Bournemouth, you know? No, it's a brie. They were lower the average age to 143. Exactly. No, it's a very romantic, lovely story. And football is the richer for it. Good. Are you feeling all right now? Yeah. Got that actually stuff. Greetings, Lucy Royfield and all Dunty Dimmers from around the world. With a spoon and Angus Haggis here, today coming to you from our apartment in New York City and not the couch in New Jersey. So you may hear some authentic Manhattan street noise in the background. Well, it seems that Royfield has gotten his wish and the pace of life in the average has slowed down a bit lately. But I'm sure that we'll still find lots of behavior to analyze this week. First, a follow-up to your spirited discussion last week about Rob. Maybe he doesn't quite meet the criteria for being a full-fledged misogynist, but Rob is what many used to call an MCP, Male Shovanis Pig. Did you know how he called Helen gloriously absent-minded and ditzy? Another of the many ways in which he reminds her of her second-class citizenship in their relationship. The telephone conversation he had with Jess was painfully fun, and I had hoped when she called him back that she was secretly tape recording the call and would get him to again say that he had slept with her last Valentine's Day. But no such luck. I had a brief moment of sympathy for Rob when he referred to his cold and distant mother, but he never has any compunction about lying at the drop of a hat, in this case to Helen about the phone call in his effort to create the perfectly conceived and controlled wife and family. I also like the juxtaposition between Rob's enmity toward his mother with a sweet scene between Tony and Peggy, during which they experienced a loving moment in their own parent-child relationship. I did chuckle when listening to Susan, Fallon, and Kate talk about Emma's wedding planning. In one way, Susan did get a dose of her own medicine in having to listen to Kate say all these inappropriate things in front of her. But if I were Fallon, I would have gone all Donald Trump on Kate and said, "You're fired." I think I've brought this up before, but is that a difference between Americans and Brits, or is it just the residents of Ambridge who never directly confront each other? Please ponder. One thought on the possibility of New Pip going away to explore the world. Maybe she'll come back as Old Pip and emerge from a shower saying that she had awakened from a strange dream in which she had rapidly aged and her voice had dropped by five octaves. Angus Hagga certainly hopes so, and he's reminding me that it's time for a walk. Our time is up. Talk to you next week. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling to salads and scrambled eggs. Mercy. Right, he's next. Cosmo in it. He has given us the financial news. Cue music. Hello, dumpy-dum. Cosmo here again. Packing from my trip to Canada has started. Indeed, by the time you publish this, I might even be there. Why if my opportunities will be limited so maybe email only if I can get in touch? Last week on the podcast, we spent some time discussing family relationships, and this week I've been up to London to see rules for living, which examines some fractured familial relationships, as well as providing some very smart entertainment. Stephen Mangan and the rest of the cast were in fine form, even if some of the action was a little contrived. I hope that others might get to see it. I've promised for a while to deal with the saga over Ed Land, which is now very comical, which is just as well. He took on the land originally because it was on the side of a hill, an unsuitable for the estate to put down to marble. Someone can assume that it slopes, and therefore is not the sort of more or less level land which the fair brothers are searching. Ed failed to pay the rent on time on Christmas day. He then received formal notice from the estate, at which point he would legally have been denied access to the land. Ed, with Eddy's guidance, consulted the Talent Farmers Association, and identified that he would have to cough up the missing rent and court fees to have the lease reinstated. To do this, he sold four of the cows, and then within a week did the sums and realised he'd have to sell the rest because it was no longer viable. This time scale was no doubt forced on the writers by the impending flood of which they were aware. Consequently, Ed and the estate would not have had time to go through the legal process to reinstate the lease. It can take a long time before he took the decision to give up the herd. Sue Ed had no need to do a deal with Charlie over the hedges, and he cannot pass on the lease to the fair brothers because the lease ended back in January and cannot have been reinstated. Never mind, with these little details which you've asked for over the listeners. And of course, now apparently the land is flat enough for the fair brothers, so presumably the local tectonic plates shifted again during the flood, which is why there's been water all around the areas in the wrong places for months. Two other financial matters before I head off to ride the trains in Canada. One, why is Mike not complaining about the loss of customers now he's delivering such inferior milk from another supplier? Partly original marketing which went on interminably was pushing the point about the quality of the product it was supplying. Surely the USP has been undivided, and as we all know from listening to the archers, getting the brand USP right and sticking to it is important. Secondly, why is Thillian moaning about having nothing to do? With Tiger having departed and changed his spots or something similar, and Anthea having also gone, there was no one to administer all of the properties, particularly that big meal conversion in Webster Bridge, which was going to make them rich. Given that Mac cleared the banking out, surely Lillian needs to manage the properties to maximize returns, increase rents, ensure that insurance is in place, gas and the other testings up to date, look at the ones worth selling, indeed perhaps hillside could be sold to the fairbudders and so on. She should be busier than the average 68 year old. On another topic, I've been watching her fly on the wall documentary about the BBC, in which Harle Lucy appears to have a starring part of TV producer. It seems odd she's never mentioned it on the podcast. Bye! And also he's right. He said, "How come if the land was too steep for the fur boughs at your land to want it? Or whatever they are, Charlie's lot. How come it's now not, it's now flat enough for the fair brother brothers? And also, what is Lillian doing and where the hell is Mac?" Fair brother brothers. The fair brother brothers, they're the fair brother brothers aren't they? They are, they're just so peculiarly to say it. They're fair brothers. But only in the archers would you have two characters whose only point of interest is a fan of their brothers. I'm calling them fair brother, you might as well just call them. It's not by accident that all these old families and cats are all coming back. And there's all this discussion in the pub, so to keep us listeners up to date, you know, "Oh, that'll be your, you know, you get, you know, so there's David, you know, saying to it." I love to wait. You know when Joe kept saying, "Alright, then Rex Fair brother, I will have another point, Rex Fair brother." Even David introduced him, someone said, "Oh hello, you're, you're, now I've forgotten your name and he's at Rex Fair brother, I'm all standing together. We've got it. We know who it is." God dear, that living in an old people's homes. Yes, where is Mike? We've not seen hide, not hair of him, have we, for ages? Are they moving, are they? They're not moving, what's going on? Nothing. I would say this is sloppy plotting. Ploppy spotting? Yes. Sloppy plotting. I've now had three quarters of my glass of beer, so I definitely cannot say, splotty plopping. Right, and one of the things I love this week, this isn't a call, but I just loved it, was one of the things I've realized that I absolutely adore about Linda is the fact that she always pronounces French words that are in, you know, used in the English language all the time. Common place French words with this outrageous French accent. So, last week, she said, "Briocher." Nobody says "Briocher." Not even French people say "Briocher." We'll have to get Jacqueline Berthou to ring in and tell us how you say it, and she said, "Yes, it's a little bit dutour," she said. And last week, there was something else, "Oh, Camaraderie." Yes, well, we have such Camaraderie in this village. It's just lovely, it's such a perfect character, roundedness to notice that. Not to notice that, you know, to notice it enough to write about. All them French people are over here at the moment. Are they? Yeah, London is something like the sixth biggest French-speaking city in Europe or something or another. It's something outrageous. And they're all in northwest London as well. Property prices in northwest London are going up because of the French. Massive, you say? French schools opening up, "Goulongeries are right, you know, British, yeah, they're all leaving, France and droves." Talking of bloody France, let's go to Jacqueline, who says, "We'll do a call now." Hi there, I've already filled in Lucy. It's Jacqueline Berthou from Sanguine in Brittany. I thought I'd bring in with a little prediction. I've been thinking about Alistair and Shuler. I don't think that Ducky Lucky and Shuler will get it together. Something all happened, a reminder of the mess it could make, of everything she has in her life, if she has a fling or drifts off with the doctor. And anyway, for me, it doesn't really sit with her card-carrying Christian role. Or maybe I've misunderstood that. Alistair is definitely being weird, but I find it hard to imagine he's gone back to the gambling. Oh, it makes me feel very, very odd about. I feel those storylines have been a bit lacking in fluidity recently. It's making me feel that something's going wrong somewhere. Maybe there's too many writers, maybe there's not enough communication between them. That is apart from the continued story of Robin Helen, which is getting a bit desperate, I think. Helen irritates me, but Rob makes my skin crawl. But we've heard in one episode, this last week, both sides of Rob and just goes to prove what an evil person he is. She says she can't see Shuler and Dr Dick getting it together, because she said something will happen. And then she will realise what a brick, no brick, I said. Alistair actually is and, you know, that they should stay together. So there'll be some near-death thing or hills help anti-cardboard when she has a heart attack or something like that. I just think she's going to get a bit of a slapdown. I just think Dick's a nice guy, Dr Dick, and she thinks I, you know, is divorced and she's going to make a half of a plane, he's going to go, don't be silly. Oh, cringy, cringy. That's what I reckon it's going to happen. Hello, don't you don't? It's Jon from Newcastle here, aka Jon the first, the first and the original, which is very nice. I do like that nickname. I think I'm going to try and use it all the time now. I've had quite a busy couple of weeks. I went down to London for a couple of nights with my partner Richard and we got engaged, which was very nice. Regular listeners will remember that I ordered Richard out of his own kitchen for laughing during the scene where Otto Gordon Tony. So I did feel very guilty about that at the time, but I think I've been forgiven because he did accept my proposal. Just as a bit of a side note, while we were down in London, we went to the theatre and managed to catch women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, starring Tamps and Greg, aka Debbie Oldridge. If you are in the London area over the next couple of weeks, I do recommend seeing this. Unfortunately, it's closing early, but I think there are a couple of weeks of the run left. So if you do get the opportunity, do go and see it because it's brilliant. It's just going to be a very quick call for me this week. I just want to add my two pence words to the debate that started over Rob last week, everybody's favourite villain. I think I signed with Lucy on this one. This is a really abusive relationship, and it's really starting to make me feel quite uncomfortable while I'm listening to it. I think it came to a head this week with the way he's been taunting and goading Jess, who is clearly very mixed up and very unhappy. Fair enough, she maybe shouldn't have done what she did, but I believe that in her mind she thought he could have been the father. I do believe that something happened. I don't think she's made that up, and I think there was an element of doubt in Rob's mind, and I think that's why he dragged his feet for taking the paternity test, because he knows that there was a possibility he could have been the father, and now he's not. I think he's just been horrible to her down the phone, but the thing is with this whole Rob and Helen situation, it's almost starting to ruin the show for me, because I listen to the show to be entertained and unwind, and just enjoy the experience. The scenes with Rob and Helen are now becoming quite unpleasant, and it's almost ruining the experience for me. I still love the podcast and loving you too, and I also love the open lecture a couple of weeks ago. I thought that was absolutely brilliant. I have a good couple of weeks, and I'll speak to you again soon. Bye for now. John I was engaged to Richard, not Dick, the one that he sent out of his own kitchen for laughing when the Nigel threw himself off through it. No, he laughed when Otto gored. Oh, that was it, that was it. Anyway, he's been to see women on the verge of when there was breakdown, and recommends that. Look, we're not running a theatre listing service, people. But yes, so that's all nice, and I can't remember the life of me, what the hell he said about the arches, but I don't care, because I like a nice wedding, and I'm very excited about it getting married, and I think Susan Rae should do the what's her thing, the what do you call it? Celebrant. Yes, the celebration, the bit, the celebrant bit, because she's qualified now, isn't she? Yeah, damn, damn close. Hello, Dunty Dun. This is Vicki Cole in Kenya. I've got a few little things to say. You were talking before about Shuler, the actress playing Shuler, Judy Bennett doing children's voices, and I'm sure that once I saw a cartoon of Dennis the menace featuring Shuler, I don't think she was Dennis, but one of the other boys, and it was very, very funny. I think you should definitely look at tea towels. I would buy tea towels in the shop, please, please have those. And then this week, my favourite bit this week was the conversation between Linda and Jennifer about the boudica of Bautachia. I was laughing out loud, that was so funny, and the most dramatic moment for me this week was the chilling conversation between Rob and Jess, and then when he was lying to Helen about what Jess had said that she was feeling remorse and that they'd had an amicable conversation. That was awful. I just, oh, I was shuddering. Helen, get a grip. Okay, I think that's all for now. Love your podcast. Last week's was very, very funny, and keep up the good work. Bye for now. Finally, we have Vicki Cole from Kenya, who said, after I said that Shuler used to play lots of small boys, play them, not play with them, play them on Radio 4 dramas. She said that she was watched Dennis the Manus on TV, and one of the characters was Shuler. He wasn't Dennis, but he was one of Dennis's gang. Oh, Walter the Softy. Oh, yes, she would be Walter the Softy, wouldn't she? And she would like tea towels in the shop, please. Oh, God. Right, this is what I'm going to do, right? Are you going to stop telling people that you're going to do the thing and then not do the thing? I promise. After I finished my action on addiction podcast, I will, I promise, get off my chakras and all that malarkey will be available in the shop. It will, I promise. Won't let you down. Oh, we've done all the Kallerina risk. We. Good. Right, so let us take five and let's come back on the other side. Let's do a touchy millet, and then you can tell us all about your hashtag #TheArchesTweetsOfTheWeek. Fancy getting your mouth around something warm? Something comforting you can really get a firm grip on. Why not buy a dumdie-dum mug from the shop at dumdie-dum.com. Goes down lovely. Hello, I'm Sarah, and I'm the cousin of San Mary Dee, and I'll be with you in two weeks' time to talk about the arches, who we love, who we loathe, and I've got plenty to say. Good day, everyone. It's Milly Bell here. Well, I'm a bit excited because I think I'm going to be going to San Francisco to catch up with a few friends that I've made on Facebook through the arches. So I never thought I'd do anything like that, so I'm very excited today. I'm just starting to do some research now. So if any of you live in San Francisco or they're about to do let me know, maybe we could meet up. We had a nice, a really nice week on our Facebook page, and a couple of things that I just wanted to draw your attention to. We were talking about the fact that the matching of Kate to Fallon, the Fallon's Flashing Business, was really funny, and we all know that it can only lead to disaster. So we wondered who else could be matched to work or play together in Ambridge just for fun. Diane Telford said, "Shuler and Alistair? Sorry, too far fetched." With a spoon, McCosh Wilson the 35th suggested Ian catering a private romantic dinner for Charlie and his date. Very naughty with a spoon. Andrew Horn said, "Linda and Lillian, the 2L's Llama network elective, Rupert Brann, who's always very naughty," said Lizzy and Roy. And Valu said it should be cancelling Kate and called Tantrums R Us. We also talked about the fact that the Fair Brothers had returned, and I'm afraid you just need to brace yourself for some dreadful accents now, because we asked, "Are there any suggestions of other families from the past they should bring back to Ambridge?" Peter Mavitt said, "Well, well, me old pal, me old beauty. I think the Gabrielle family, be right for a return, don't you think?" I'm sorry. Andrew Horn said, "I'd completely forgotten about Elizabeth's Fair Brother, Dallions, and agree that Gabrielle should return me old pals, me old beauties." And Guy Ladbrook said that it would be good if the perks returned. I absolutely loved the photograph with a spoon showing off their t-shirts. I love the fact that the dog's wearing a t-shirt. One other thing that caught my eye was from artist appreciation, and I'm not quite sure how I should say this, because it's obviously not their real name, but I'll do my best. Hard South Spearch says, "Tony's antique tractor killed John. Tony's pet bull, nearly killed Tony himself. Little Tony's toy car kill." And the only thing, other thing that I wanted to say about our page was I was just so touched when we broke the news that Harriet had had her little girl. How many people responded to that? We obviously have a lot of people on our page who are not necessarily active, but when we share something so special with you, you all jump on and you like the post or you make it comment. And I really want to thank you for that, because sometimes it can feel as though I'm just playing on the Facebook by myself, and there's just a few store works. But when I saw that, I thought, "We really are a community, aren't we?" So, good on you, everyone, and I'll speak to you next week. Hello. Thank you for that little missive from a down-under, Miss Bell, but Lucy, why don't you tell us about your hashtag #thearchestweets of the last seven days? Yes, Christine Adgo says, "Jenny Throgmorton is too exhausted to speak after dragging the mape hole into her double garage." People say, "My duble-on-ton was about." Sock Monster said, "Charlie Colvert, wasn't he in casualty?" Steve Brooks said, "A tea tent, do not get Carol involved. You don't want the entire village tripping around the green." And Tim Footman, who tweets as cultural snow, said, "Very, a bit of current affairs here," said, "I bet Rob was cheering for Mayweather." Oh, see what he did there? Tweet of the Week. This made me laugh a lot. It was a frustrated little tweet from King Bagcarrier, who said, "Are we going to get a whole episode about bird-watching? Are you happy now? The archers has too much drama in it nowadays people." Can I just feel your pain? We don't have enough of King Bagcarrier on the show. No, we don't. He's been a bit quiet, hasn't he? A bit quiet. Man's been struck mute for the last nine months. A touch of the free defries. He's all big for this Yorkshire-first stuff, have you noticed? What's the Yorkshire first? The Yorkshire Regional Party. Oh, no, I didn't know about that. Good God, there's only going to be me and you left everywhere else who would have gone off to get independence. I'd say that the People's Republic of Duntey Duntey would be fine. Well, we've got a mid-finance minister, haven't we? Cos there can be our finance minister. You can do foreign affairs. Sorry, that's not making the edits, is it? Why is that so funny? Oh, it's not. Oh, that was actually really good. That will make the edit. That will make the edit, so don't worry. I was going to say I could do home affairs, but I'm not sure. That's a good idea either. Who else we got? Who else we got? They can do something. Well, which of us is going to be prime minister? That's the question. I think should we just make... we could make like... Why am I seriously thinking about this? Okay, this is what we need people. We need you. God, Stever is a quality minister. Oh, she's just fine. Cosmo is foreign affairs. Very true. It's the tone he just louder and poorer. He's never in the flipping country. Tourism minister. Tourism minister, yeah. But okay, because we've just like ran out of ideas on this spectacularly fast, if you can figure out which one of the listeners should hold a post in the dumpty-dum... Jacqueline Bertou is our French ambassador. Oh, well done. Like that. Oh, Millie Bell's a governor general to Australia. Yeah, Paul Rimsport's minister. If he can keep optimistic about Derby County, he'll probably come back. I think Yoko Bear would be a good home secretary, actually. Really? Oh, you sound... you don't sound approving of that. He's from Swinden. Oh, yeah. He could just be Minister of Swinden. That's fine. Blind spirits, culture, I think. Lucy. Yeah. What did I just say? You said because we haven't got any ideas and could people please ring in, and now I've interrupted you and gone on and on and on. All right, so please. Dear listener, feel free to email, tweet, or send a semaphore, or whatever you want to us in the next seven days, with your suggestions of who should be a minister in our government, please, which I think will be somewhat timely because we'll have the general election to digest before I buy that. Yeah. Is the past participant of tweet, twat? I don't see why not. Okay. If you've twatted us. You're so naughty. I've got to stop drinking this. Right. So we're done. We are. Finished. Yeah, right. This has been good. This has gone at a clip. This is really good. I'm feeling quite positive that we might bring this show in at round about an hour. That's the holy grail. Holy grail. You've got no chance. We're on 54 minutes now. Yeah, Lucy. We spoke for seven minutes before we started. Yeah. And you broke the leg off your tripod, didn't you? Yes. Yeah. So we can do this. We can do this. We really can. Okay. Right. So. Shop news. Yeah. Shop news. Right. Let me get this quick. All right. So, shop news. Yes, folks. It's the second of the show where we tell you which Dumbledore has brought. What? Now, guess what, Lucy? What? Morris. Who? What's it like? I hate you, friends? Hengen Heng. Hengen. Yeah. Hengen. Morris Hengen from London has brought an organic men's t-shirt dark. Now, no doubt that was inspired by Glenn Fuller love's buffness in his t-shirt. We seem to have had a bit of a run, an organic dark t-shirts all of a sudden. We have. Because we had the buffets and the sexy sort of models. Mr. Fuller love. We salute you, sir. You're such a fine advert for our merch and for our wares. But also, we'd like to say thank you too. Mrs. Fuller. Mrs. Tolhurst. And Morris, who we've just thanked. For buying Nate investing in Dumbledore Mugs. An all manner of golf. Sorry, stuff. Reviews news news. Oh, God. All right. Yeah. Keep your reviews news news reviews. Oh, that's not good. When you hit a tumbleweed. I was going to say when the bike goes through. Can you hear the tumbleweed and the I choose reviews pages? It's like, oh, God. Look, we're so close to 200. Just get us to 200, please. Please do. Because otherwise he'll. It stops him ringing me up and saying, "What can we do to make them go more reviews?" So. When's the last time I actually rang you up and said that Lucy, if ever? A couple of weeks ago. You tend to come back to it when you're feeling despairing. And another thing. Anyway, you can also go to patreon.com, search for Dumpty Dum, and you can donate $2 a show, which is about £1.30. And Sam Mary Dee has on her budgeting spreadsheet debris. She's put us down as cultural activities. Yes. And then she put raises eyebrow, which makes me think she's not taking that terribly seriously. Oh, I've forgotten an email. Elizabeth Church, sorry. She was saying that speculation that the rent on keeper's cottage will increase, and the grundies will be homeless again. But no matter how much it is, it is improved. It's still a rather unlovely semi-detached cottage, and market rent won't be much more than they are already paying. Hazel could sell, but with interest rates low, will she make as much as she was? I think we have a competitor for Chancellor of the Exchequer. In Elizabeth Church. What's interest rates got to do with selling the property? That's so interest rates are only of any importance. If you're trying to raise a mortgage. But, and also, surely. No, no, no, no. You can't just gloss over on this. Am I missing something here? Yes. You generally ask. I'll just say yes. But surely... I've got more of a grasp on this subject than you. Yes, I know, but it's so boring, isn't it? We've had Darby County and football and Nigel Cluff, and now we're on interest rates. But, aren't properties in ambridge like Hens Teeth? Are you still cooking now? No, not at all. Not at all. Properties in ambridge, are they like Hens Teeth rare? No, there are properties in ambridge, but the problem with ambridge is it's a lack of a new house in stock. Hens, the younger characters have got no homes to go to and have to really leave the village. In every kind of rural setting in the UK, the youngsters have to toggle off to a bigger town, don't they? Yeah, like Penny has it. Yeah. Goes to the bright lights of the Penny has it. It's got two post boxes. Right, we'd like to thank Morgan Johnson, who's donated to the Royal Portrait of Bank of Dumpty Dum. And you can also donate to the said same bank by clicking on the donate button on Dumpty Dum. So, go on because you know you want to, because it's quite nice to donate. It's like, you know, but you know what, no, forget that. This week, if you're going to donate, donate to Nepal. It's a good Dumpty Dum, do that. Leave us a, leave us a Dumpty Dum and give the money to Nepal. That's what you should do. If you have donated money to Nepal, sings a Dumpty Dum. There you go. We don't need your money. Those, those people need it much more than we do. All right, now remember you can also send us a voicemail message on our site. Because that's the lifeblood of the show. Because you've out it. The show is bereft of you, the listener. So don't be make us all bereftful. So, go on, bereftful. Yes, that's a word I've invented. You've been it again. Yeah. But I knew that was a rubbishly made up word and it was deliberately said so. So, so we don't need to be grateful. Send us in a Dumpty Dum on O2L3. Don't forget to us. 0 3 1 3 1 0 5 from your phone. And that would be cool. Our inping us a regular email message, if you like, if you're going to Dumpty Dum. Or you can tweet moi on the tweeters where I'm at Royfield. Me at Lucy B3. Oh, shut up. We need sniggering. Yeah, so just listen. This, I'll tell you what this is. This is the sum total of a comprehensive education. There you go. Right. Oh, you can tweet us. I had a list of education. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you then you went on to uni and you did all of that stuff with your posh uni, pals and whatever. Or you can tweet us both on @dumptydum on the said self saying. Twitter, so please, please, please keep those reviews coming because you want to be top of the podcast. Well, we're not ever going to be top of the podcast charts that any reviews are we? No. We need to read as well as retiring that news of review section. We need to retire this bloody last line. But we might just trot it out anyway for the sake of tradition. Give it a run around the paddock. So please, please, please keep those reviews coming because we want to be top of the podcast charts before Rex and Toby Fair, brother, join the Bullingdon Club. Hey, hey, hey. And I've just finished my beer. That was very well timed. Well done us. Yes. All right. You got anything you want to say before we go? No. Are we going to tell people about our new sponsor answer next week? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Go on. Why don't you tell them? No, next week we're going to tell them. Oh, OK. We'll keep them in suspenders for a bit longer. And now I've got nothing more to say. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Please people, good people. Have a quick listen to my 1,001 conversations, first episode thing and me bobbly, which is on, which I've done for the charity action on addiction. And they have a residential refuge for women who are kicking the habit of drug and alcohol addiction. And I recorded conversations with them. So there's going to be a little snippet of it round about now after I've finished speaking. And then please listen to that podcast because they do some great work. Goodbye everybody. See you again in approximately seven days time for some more arches related chat. Well, probably 10% arches related chat. Oh, come on, just come on. It's easily, easily, I would say, 85% arches related chat. Do you think? Yes. Oh, come on. That Derby County and English football thing. How long does that take up? Three minutes. About two and a half days. Three minutes. See, that's the difference between you and I. Is I have a much wider wealth of experience that I can just throw at this podcast. You're so narrow. Yes. If it's not been written by Amy Blightnell, some other dead white English person, you know, it's not relevant and you're not interested. Yep. Yep. I've got to the edge now. I don't have to pretend anymore. I don't care. Me and Sandy Toxwig. Yep. That's it. Well, she's exceptional at producer role. She's not English, is she? That's very true. Clearly, I don't know what I'm talking about, so I'll be quiet. Who else? No, I can't think of anyone else. Ah, dear. All right, then. Okay, I hope you get on the right with all your editing. We'll do. Sure, I will. Goodbye Lucy. Bye. Bye-bye. 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