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Dum Tee Dum Episode 54 – An open letter
Dum Tee Dum Episode 54 – An open letter
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- Duration:
- 1h 12m
- Broadcast on:
- 22 Apr 2015
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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. [MUSIC] And what makes it so interesting, so at least you don't even listen to the archers. [LAUGHTER] This is an open letter to Sean O'Connor, the editor of The Archers. Dear Mr. O'Connor, we'd like to call you Sean, but we get the impression you're the kind of man who likes status. [LAUGHTER] Lucy, you started this off all wrong. [LAUGHTER] But anyway, you go for it, girl. We're not claiming to speak for our 18,000 listeners here, but we are speaking as us, two lifelong fans of the archers who have put up with plot vagaries, actors changing and successful and unsuccessful characters appearing and disappearing. That's why we created Dumty Dum to celebrate our love of this eccentric and wonderful show. And we're prouder than we can say about podcast. It's created a community of witty, articulate, and passionate archers listeners who hold a staggering amount of information about the characters and love for their lives and for ambridge. These are dedicated listeners, Mr. O'Connor. Over the last couple of months, since you took over the helm of the archers, we've spoken to various actors on the program. Many of them listen to us and have either requested to come on the show, or we've asked them when they've happily agreed. And that's where it goes wrong, because the same thing happens every time. All of a sudden, we get an email from your assistant saying that they are suddenly unavailable. And we get an embarrassed DM from the actors themselves saying they're sorry, but they've been told not to come on. At first, we thought fair enough. Although the various people on the archers with whom we have very good relationships have pointed out to you that we are good eggs, that we have nothing but love for the show, and our only interest is in promoting it. You still seem to feel, though, that they would somehow be at risk for associating with us and our listeners. The same people that listen to the archers every week, no matter how dire it gets. So we emailed you ourselves reassuring you that we meant no harm and that your actors would be respected as wood plotlines, but you didn't even reply. And now the latest actor that was due to come on has sent us the inevitable apology to say they have been advised not to. This does not seem like a very respectful way to behave when you're someone at the helm of a radio for institution like the archers, who is reliant on listeners. In the last episode of the archers, David Archer gave his speech at the Barndance and talked about how determined he was to fight for the future of the community that we all depend on and love so much. Maybe it would be a good idea for you to listen to the community that you depend on every now and again, with all best wishes, Royfield and Lucy. More crumbs. Was that all right? Yeah, yeah, crumbs, yeah. It was a little bit more pointed than I would have had. Well, I'm fed up. Well, you know, I'm a little bit more diplomatic, but that's never got me anywhere. So you're probably right, just hitting between the eyes. So he's putting the actors in a really difficult position. And that's your fair. Well, let's see if your open letter to Mr. O has a desired effect and then all of a sudden the actors, the dam of actors will be just released and, well, don't have the hell I'm talking about. Let's just hope that he listens and he reflects and he reaches out of God. He can't reach out to us. Can we can't reach out? Right. Let's hope that he listens, he reflects, and he acts on what you said, because we do need him on the show every now and then. And I think, you know, I don't even think-- I know that they actually love coming on, because there aren't too many places. If you're an actor on the archer's, you can actually go on and talk about your work on the archer's. Yeah, yeah. You know, and we love them all. Even the ones we don't like, we like. Yeah. So, you know, so, right, on that note, let's just crack on. OK. And say, this is done with on the show about the real-to-done drama that I sent on an ambridge in the heart of the Midlands. I'm the doasty doe that is Roy for your brand, and with me, I have the uncordinated twitch in that is-- Lucy Freeman. And the most important part of our barn dance, folks, is you. Now, today's rendition of Barry Green is brought to you by the Anji Nuke Calypso Archibald all the way from the land out under, Lucy. Can you remind our listeners how then we're in the accolade of dumb d-dumber of the witness? It's an important accolade, isn't it? It's very important. So, give us a ring on 0-2-0-3-0-3-1-3-1-0-5 to sing us a dumpty-dum, or get in touch by a speakpike with your plot predictions or to reveal who you'd most like to have a ferry it with. Thank you to Harriet at Shambriches for her fantastic voices and Derek for learning the back of our drum. He's setting up his own business as he thinks there is a market for people who don't want artisan sausages. They just want old-fashioned, nasty sausages. He's been putting them in the veg boxes till Aunty Cardboard complained that he'd tossed his chip alata in her salad. Hey, that's really quite rude. [LAUGHS] That is an idiot quite rude. [LAUGHS] Oh, I'll tell you what, right? Just to keep up these slight political meanderings and musings before we get to the election, I found myself wandering into the Queens Park farmer's market yesterday. And the Tory candidate was there. A fair play to him is a handsome guy. He actually looks like he should be an American politician. He kind of has that kind of handsomeness that American politician. He has the beauty, he has the sparkly blue eyes, and I just wanted to punch him in some plexus, don't I? [LAUGHS] Now, he was very-- Balanced political comment. Well done, Roy. [LAUGHS] He was very smiley, very smiley, and very pleasant. But I just went, nah, sorry, but nah. And I walked away, and I was walking with my agent, and I actually thought, actually, what I should have done is gone back and engaged him in conversation and in debate. But he took it with good grace. He says, oh, you know, you win some, you lose some. I went, well, you know, I just walked off. But if I see him again-- because he did seem very smiley, very open-- and this is the time when those people have to listen, isn't it? Yeah. You know, after May, the win ever. He ain't going to be listening to anybody ever again. So, you know, so if I see you again, Mr. Tory candidate for Ham City and Kilburn, I actually will engage in conversation. That's if you listen to the-- to listen to the archers and listen to them, don't you know. Otherwise, I'm just throwing this ad to nobody really. But I will try and engage it right now. That's me and my pre-election round-up news. This week, we have calls from Andrew who explains what is going on inside Stevens. Felicity, who predicts Rob's future, God is Steve, who gives us a recipe on roasting Rob. That has different connotations as to depend on, you know, the context you have. Yeah, but I think, I think, in God of Steve's terms, it's all pretty much the same. Right, OK, good. Cosmo, who picks up pace and Jojo sets a heel so he's worried about hearing now. But before we get to all of that, best bit of the show, I can wander off, get myself a coffee, believe he's loosing for five minutes to tell you about the last week in Ambridge. Go, go, go. [MUSIC PLAYING] Ed has got his new tractor and is very excited. He showed Emma, who was less than impressed. "It supports me in all the right places and stops me getting stiff," said Ed, unlike Emma. Someone once said that the definition of lunacy is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. That definition also applies to being a Grundy. "Let's spunk a shed load of money. We haven't got on a huge bit of hardware with vast monthly repayments, encouraged by my father, who couldn't even afford to pay his own house insurance and who is currently living in a hotel while his father wears his name as underwear, and bank it all on me getting a load of work based on the fact that I've been given a week's work clearing drains." Oh, Ed. "It was Helen's birthday." And she celebrated by being shouted at by her psychotic boyfriend a day after accompanying him to the doctors for his DNA test. "Titching on major cup of tea, for which she was ex-statically grateful," and said, "I'm not going to be-- I'm not going to expect to be treated like this all day as if he'd just organised the mast bound of the Grundy guards outside the cottage. They went to the ball for dinner. Rob went off and ordered and apologised for being away. "Don't worry," said Helen, "I was chatting to Nick. Well, we're glad you're allowed to, Helen." Anyway, Tom is down with the pigs. I presume this is the rural version of being down with-- Oh, wait a minute. What? Well done. Yes, thank you. I hate the way you pulled that in. Tom is down with the pigs. I presume this is the rural version of being down with the kids. Lillian's home with a new face, James Tooka, as she said, to a little place in the West End for some cheap Botox. It was actually just a place. It was actually a place just off Shaftesbury Avenue called House of Xinhua dim sum and takeaway. And she got injected with the stuff that comes out of the crispy fried duck. It looks fine, but she does get people smacking the lips a bit thoughtful and looking round for the hoisin sauce when she gets warm. Meanwhile, over at the stables, things are hotting up or falling apart, whichever way you care to think of it. Alistair doesn't want to turn his phone off, as all Shula ever talks to him about is how cold or hot she is. "Should I take my card again, Alistair? Are you taking your coat? Shall I take my coat?" It's all right now, but you might be chilly later. Alistair builds as if he is in an even-tied home. "Put your cardigan on, yes!" The human barometer spent some time trying to interest Alistair in drooling over endless photographs of Danakin Skywalker in uniform. And then to put the tin out on it, persuaded him to come to the barn dance, which he grudgingly did with a face like a slap-dance. "Jolene will get you going," Shula said jovially. "I'm not sure jump leads in an adrenaline shock would get Alistair going, but full marks for trying." Alistair refused to dozy his do, or whatever it was he was supposed to be doing, and offered to take anti-cardboard home early as he wanted to get his head down, he said. "Well, if that's going on, no wonder Shula's looking further afield. She is looking," truth be told, "in the dubious direction of Dr. Richard Locke, or Dr. Dick, as we shall call him. Form a bachelor of this parish and ex-lover of both Usha and Shula. Maybe he likes women whose names are very nearly anagrams of each other. Shula seemed to have set up one of those psychological tricks that people play when they're trying to justify doing something they shouldn't. "I am going to get my marriage back on track by making my husband's souffle's and forcing him to come to a barn-dance. And if he doesn't like the souffle's and the barn-dances, then that will be a sign that I am perfectly within my rights to go around rogering all the ex-boyfriends I can fight." The fact is, A, souffle's are an absolute nightmare and should only even be thought about if the person that is going to eat them is sitting at the table knife and fork poised, not someone whose entire schedule could be changed at a whiff of mastitis. And B, the barn-dances require a huge amount of booze and energy to be remotely enjoyable, neither of which Alistair had. Anyway, Shula will not add a little thing like honesty and fair playstopper, so I fully expect her to be at the mercy of Dr Dick's probing Robert Glove very shortly. Pip asked two of the most unacademic people in the world, namely her parents, to read her dissertation. Then she pointed out rightly that she knew where the fridge was in her own kitchen. So that's good. It's those kind of brains that'll get her a first, no doubt about it. She did ask her father if he'd enjoyed his time in Holland, and he clearly couldn't remember anything about it, from which I surmised that he spent it as many people spent time in Holland, either giggling or feeling incredibly hungry. Jolene thoroughly enjoys a meaty banger. She informed us well, we know that love. Once she'd got up, she tasted Tom's sausages. She particularly liked the seaweed pigled onion and mister matey variety. She's going to buy some more, she says, which translates in Tom's head as I am going to be a millionaire within the next week. And finally, Usha and Shula got carted. Oh, silly me talking about the doctor that you were both shagging at the same time. I can't believe I did that, shall I do it again? Said Susan happily, as they both got more and more pleasingly uncomfortable. Good old Susan. Come to the village shop for your stamps, a few overpriced organic luxuries, some botulism ripple ice cream, and a quick knee in the groin. Support your local business. The end. Oh, well done. I enjoyed that this week. Now, you know what I've discovered this week. What? I've missed an episode, I didn't need the barn darts. Really? Didn't miss much. Ah, okay, well, he told me what happened. Pip got pissed. And then appeared not to be pissed because then had a heart heart with her dad. And she sort of said, "I'm a bit bored "and I want to do more things." And I'm, you know, I was all exciting about Hadley. (laughing) And now that's all gone down the pan. And there's so many things I want to do, dad. And Spencer was there with his new girlfriend and that's what made her get drunk. And Kenton never showed up. And Jolene sort of said, "Well, I can see why." And David said, "Yes, so can I." And naughty old Alistair sort of decided to take Auntie Christine home early 'cause he was very bored and she was very tired. And then Sheila kind of went, "Right, well, find someone else to dance with." And then went outside and rang Dr. Dick. And said, "Yeah." And said, "Was he up for meeting?" He doesn't, he's naughty, she'll laugh. Poor days. She is doing exactly that thing, though, isn't she? Of settings, it's doing that really, really unfair thing. Of settings, someone else's like Alistair is just plodding along, completely oblivious, feeling a bit miserable, life's a bit shit. Mm, she's having this massive crisis that she's not sharing with him. She's just waiting for him to put a foot wrong and then going, "Aha, you see? "It's all over, it's rubbish." Right, then, I'm completely justified in going back to ex-boyfriends and things. It's really unfair to set someone an ultimatum without actually telling them that's what you're doing, setting them up to fail and then using that as a justification to do what you're going to do anyway. Very, very mean and very shoe-laught. Well, something is going on with Alistair as well, isn't it? I don't think it is. I think he's just, yeah, I think he was, he was managing, trying to manage his business, he's trying to grow it, then the flood happened, knocked out all his equipment, so to speak, so he doesn't know what he's, you know, so he's sort of having to start again. He hasn't even got premises anymore and he's rushing around like a blue-ass fly, trying to find somewhere to actually operate his business from. And in the meantime, she was, you know, decided now is a great time to have a little wobble about the fact that her son's grown up. But, okay, so if we wind back the clock, in the last 18 months, Alistair has gone to a lot of conferences, hasn't it? Yeah, but he's a vet. They do that. Yeah, taken, you know, but surely what she's reacting to, kind of is the fact that he's knocked around, or at least he's not being present in their relationship. No, I don't, I think that, I think it's all to do with, with Danakin Skywalker. And I think that, I know what you mean that she's feeling neglected or the, or the fizzles gone out of it, or the fizzles gone out of it or whatever. But fizzle works. Fizzle, like some bit of street talk from, from, like, the fizzles. The shizzles gone out of their relationship. I think she's doing that classic thing, which people do in, well, there is a massive danger of people doing in relationships, which is she suddenly turned the spotlight back on their relationship with no notice. Frozen it in time and said, right, that is what our relationship is like. It's rubbish, right, I'm off. And, you know, she's not looking at it in the context of what is going on for him. You know, in the context of it over years, she's just suddenly decided, right, my son has gone, he's now a man. That makes, he's starting, that's making me realise that I've kind of fizzled, sort of, all my ambitions have not yet been realised. Right, come on, then let's go and do that. Oh, you don't seem to be very interested. So, isn't, okay, so. Is that no notice that she's about to thinking like this, that she's about to have come to this conclusion? And you're guessing that she's gonna come to that conclusion. But obviously we're looking at this through the prism of Shuler and Alistair and to a lesser degree, Dan, right, but isn't this just a fairly predictable symptom of, you know, the bird flying the nest where all of a sudden, two people who have been in a relationship for X amount of years and bringing up that child, then have to look around and, in effect, to reorder their lives because, you know, so I think you've been a little bit harsh on Alistair. I know no one likes that. She's not talking to him about it. She hasn't said this is how I'm feeling. She's just getting irritated. But she doesn't even really know that's the way that I'm feeling. But she said that that's how she was feeling. She talked to Dan about it. That's what I mean, she's having the heart, she's having the romantic heart to heart with her son. No, it wasn't romantic. Stop it with him. Nobody's the same as David and, erm, Jill. She had the talk with Jill that he should've had with Ruth. She's having the talk with Dannekin that she should be having with us. No, but it was to be fair today here, right? It was much more understandable. His reticence of being able to speak to his wife. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. It was understandable being that his wife has set her heart on this move and he just absolutely couldn't make it move. He went and tried to go up and realized it's much more understandable. I've always got the impression with Alistair that he's seen a second best. That he's second best. He's not really part of the family. You know what, I'll give you that. I'll give you that. Because if the, you know, Mark is held up as this kind of, you know, yeah, the hero. And Alistair's sort of a little bit second best and then he has his weakness with the gambling and stuff and, you know, it's sort of like he's not quite NQOC, yeah. As they say, you know, yeah. Well, anyway, the whole point that I've done, you know, is for the wonderful community of listeners that you talked about. So, at the start of the show, to have their say. So why don't we hit those phone lines? Hello, Ambridge 3962. Hello, Dom D'Dommers. It's Andrew Horn here. I have been resisting the temptation to comment on St. Stephen's and the liturgy. But Claire from Scotland has opened up this can of worms. So, first of all, to answer her question, the vigil on Good Friday is a traditional three-hour period of prayer and reflection to mark the time Jesus spent on the cross, sometimes preceded by a sung passion. And I believe that's, well, that is a traditional service. I think the Easter Eve vigil on Saturday night is a more recent tradition, certainly not around in the days when I was spending a lot of time in church as a cathedral chorister many moons ago. So, that's, hopefully, sorted that one out. There are some things concerning me, though, about the liturgical life in Ambridge. Maundy Thursday. Now, I'm not sure how many churches would have allowed a village meeting that night when, traditionally, the vicar would be stripping the altar and clearing out the sanctuary, so it is completely bare for Good Friday. But maybe Alan was off doing that in Pennehasset instead, and he certainly wasn't at that meeting. So, maybe that is the answer to that. But the one that really did that set me thinking about this was going all the way back to Palm Sunday and concerned for Alan's liturgy because, for some reason, we came in and we heard the end of his sermon, after which we went straight to the final hymn, and I've never come across a church where that would happen. So, that does worry me, has been preying on my mind. Anyway, on the wider note about the church in village life, I have some friends who live in villages and churches. It's more part of the social fabric, the sort of warping weft of the village life. So, I think that was the point you were making last week. And so, people do just go to church more than they would maybe in towns. However, there will be a gentle middle of the road, Church of England, Churchmanship at St. Stevens, neither too evangelical nor spiky high church. So, that's the end of my sermon. I hope I haven't bored you too much. I'd like to finish with a couple of other points. Two of them around sound. Heather Petz-Teeth, sorry, I just don't get it, doesn't bother me. And I'll try not to listen in, so it does bother me. No, don't hear that one at all. But what I do appreciate is the improved quality of the dumb-to-dumb recording since you've been doing your both ends, separate tracks, or whatever it is you're doing, much better, much more professional. And finally, from last night, I'm sending this Friday morning. So, from last night's episode and without wishing to trespass on Cosmo's economic patch, I tend to really should listen to Jolene, put all his credit cards, consolidate it on one debt, yes, then pay it off. But at least you'll be paying it off at a lower rate than credit cards. So, listen to Jolene, she is talking since. I've taken up far too much of your time, so I'm going to bugger off and do some work and speak to her soon. Bye. Andrew Horn. Thank you for explaining what the hell is going on at some Stevens with these endless services. So, I hope that's sorted out Claire from... He's giving his response to Claire from Scotland by Canada who was asking what on earth is going on and where is Easter gone. Is some theologian? No, he was a head-corister. Oh, yes. Yep. So yes, thank you very much for that. That's not our field, so that's very helpful to say. We're not... Would you ever require a boy or anything? No, never require a boy. Though, I did go to seven-day Adventist church once a month between the ages of, I don't know, what, six, maybe 12. And I don't mind him, he absolutely hated it. And every now and then... That was my mum's side of the family. And every now and then, my dad would get a prang and little methodist prang and say, "Get yourself down to the Methodist church down in Perry Bar." And I'd go there and much more convivial. But don't even start me on seven-day Adventist church services because you know they even happen on a Saturday. It's just, "Oh, dreadful." As a child, just dreadful, dreadful. You couldn't watch 'Tiz' was. You couldn't watch 'Swatchop'. And then you're in church for maybe about five hours all in all on a Saturday. You couldn't listen to football. Just five hours. Oh, don't... Lucy. Those seven-day Adventists. Right. Now, they are the closest kind of Christians set to due dates. I mean, that they don't eat pork, don't eat at shell food, etcetera, etcetera. Their dietary habits are Jewish. And then they have the same... They observed the Sabbath in exactly the same way. So sunset on a Friday through to sunset on a Saturday. And then my grandmother and grandfather were particularly zealot-like in following all of this. So they, in effect, the outside world ended. So TV came off at sunset. And they had the calendar of times of sunset. And you know, and that was a TV came off. Radio went off. And as a little kid in the seventies, you know, that made Starsky and Hutch was just like, gone. It's just horrid. So when my mum would say, right, you go over to your grandma and grandpa's, you know, this Friday, I just start crying. Just like, no mum. Go, stop it. Stop it. You know, and grandma and grandpa are absolutely lovely, lovely people. But it was just... You couldn't explain to an eight-year-old. You know, that, okay, Friday night, you know, Saturday morning, there is no swap shop, no teas was, no nothing. And then you're going to go to this dusty church and just sing these old hymns in this really kind of flat, tumeless way. Every hymn they sang, they sang to the same tune. It was a... There was no joy even with that. Oh, I love my grandma and grandpa dearly, and bless him. They both have been looking down on me. But like, oh, there's just... There's a real serious point, though, about the lack of the amount of slog you have to go through. So you went to church at about eleven, ten, ten till twelve, or ten till heart twelve, on Saturday. Then you broke for lunch. Then you went back to church at maybe about three o'clock to, let's say, till six. Now, then they wondered why the congregation was just full of small kids under the age of about thirteen, and then there's a massive gap, and then it was all full of old people. And the way the whole thing was structured, upon just the length, could not engage young people, so as soon as those kids left home, they didn't go back to church. Yeah. And everything about it was just like written in stone. There was no kind of flexibility. There was no joy in that church. There absolutely wasn't. You really got a sense going to the Methodist church that, you know, the vicar, the prud, the local vicar's the Methodist church. I can't remember what the heck they're called. But, you know, he would get up there and crack a few jokes. You actually felt that, you know, it was, it was, the service was tight for one of a better thing. But also, eat. How was the pace for a field background music? Oh, you know what? Yeah. Yeah. There's a good little twinkling of drum and bass in the background. There's a bunch of things along nicely. But no, he, you know, he rattled along, you know, cracked a few, cracked a few jokes when needed, you know, was solemn when needed, and you walked out there and you remembered stuff. Yeah. This six-hour slog where every song was sung in the same way of whatever. Like a dude. And also, they focused all on the Old Testament, and that could be the problem of the Old Testament. So, listen, don't start me, you'll see. I think it's too late to be honest. Don't start me. Don't start me. Don't start me. And another thing. Fire and brimstone. People being smited left, right and centre, you know, a vengeful Lord. Oh, just please. No. Come on. Just anyway. Anyway. Anyway. Mm. Andrew Horn says that he appreciates both our ends. Boyfield. So that's nice. What does he mean? The sound. Oh, yes. That's sounding better because you're recording it both ends. And Kenton, he says Kenton should listen to Jolene about consolidating deaths. Yes, Kenton should just basically listen to Jolene about everything and not try and have any thoughts himself. That would be good. Did you notice how shifty she got when she took? No one's had a facelift here. No one's had a facelift. Because she has, doesn't she? Do you remember? Yes. Ages again. That is the way she said it. It was so funny. Defending Lillian, but then being conscious that she wasn't defending her too much, otherwise it might give the camera away. Very good. Poor old Lillian. Just a quick aside. Yes. What's the youngest? It's the youngest person that you notice had a facelift. Had a bit of work. 40. 40. Mm-hmm. Neighbor of mine, 30, 30. That's a work. No. That's terrible. Yeah. Yeah. Went up to Newcastle. Oh. So. Knit took to Newcastle. Newcastle. Newcastle. Yeah. She'd booked somewhere in. It couldn't happen. She could get up to Newcastle and get it done in the afternoon. So she jumped on the train. What was it? A facelift? Or I lived or something? Yes. She told me. I was just too busy being horrified to read the text in the detail. And of course, she's absolutely gorgeous. Absolutely no need. But I suppose she would say, "Well, that actually is the reason 'cause I'm keeping it going." But I just, yeah. Yeah. Mm. I had to go on a press trip a couple of years ago to Sweden. And I was talking to an extremely prominent plastic surgeon. And as I get to the end of the story, you'll realize why I can't say his name. And they were very, very careful in the beginning 'cause it had all been media trained within an inch of their lives. Not to say anything contentious, but he'd had a bit to drink. And we were having a sort of off-the-record conversation at the end of the evening. And I said... But you're gonna put on the record by talking about... Yeah. But I'm not gonna say. Oh, okay. His name. He said... I was talking about repeat. I said the problem I have with it is that he said, "Look, if someone has got something that they want to improve that's actually having a detrimental effect on their, you know, the way they think of their self-esteem, then I don't see anything wrong with it." And I said, "Yeah, but for me, the problem is that people don't just have one procedure." It's then... It's very, very unusual for someone just to have one thing done. It's, you know, it starts a kind of a cycle. And he said, "Oh, well, you know how to..." He said, "I can tell you how you get repeat custom." He said, "It's very simple. You do the procedure on the woman or the man, and they look much better." And they come in for the post, the meeting afterwards. And you check everything and you say, "Well, are we really, really pleased? It's made a... It's a really positive effect. And we're really glad that you're pleased in everything." And they say, "Yes, I'm delighted. Doctor, thank you so much." And then he said, "As they've got their hand on the door handle as they're leaving," you say. "Yeah, and any time you want to come back and we can get that neck sorted out, that would be great." And he said, "Usually by the time they've closed the door, they're heading straight over to the receptionist to book in for them to have a neck procedure done." So it's just about making people feel insecure and actually telling them the bit that you've highlighted has just highlighted everything else that is wrong. So by improving one bit, you've just highlighted all the bits that aren't right. So then, you know, you go on and do more and more and more and more and more. What on the similar note? I once had a very good chat with a motivational speaker. And he's like, he's literally at the top of his game. So he knows Anthony Robbins and actually was his mentor. So people, yeah, yeah. So if people know of him, you can probably work out who this person was. 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Price and coverage match limited by state law, not available in all states. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing at me to this day. 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. You know, in the next hour, two hours, three hours over long it is. I'm going to give you the secrets of how to, you know, to change your mind, you know, see NLP stuff. But then these people have legions of followers and then they come to seminar after seminar after seminar and spend, you know, and then literally some people float all around the world to go through these talks. Yeah. And I said to him, I said, surely. This is a little bit of, and I didn't use the word can't, but just, you know, for the sake of this podcast, the next video in the conversation, I said, you know, this is, this is a hooksterism. You know, because you say, I'm going to tell you what we think within that one session. And he says, absolutely, he said absolutely. And he said, not that it's a can, but he says that I know the people who will come to that seminar and then will walk away with the tools. And he, you know, of actually how to change their lives and how to think in a different way and to be positive and to achieve their goals. And he says, it's only 5%. And he says, and I do get these people come time after time. And he says, but what they get out of it is the community of other people around them. And that feeling of elation within the actual session, he said that you don't listen. Actually, that's what I've said. They listened to what I've said. I've never seen them again. He said, I should see them once. And he said, actually said, entrepreneurs are actually very good. You see them once. And he said, they don't ask a whole load of questions. They're scribbling down notes. And he says, 5% of people, you never see them again. And he said, those other people have truly heard what I've said. So it's kind of the opposite through is what you're saying. He says, actually, I don't want repeat custom. And repeat custom means it's kind of failed, you know. But now, that's absolutely fascinating. He was just very honest. And he says, yes. Some people that fly or not go to Sydney to do a seminar and people fly in from the states, whatever. And he says, for them, it's just a great big jolly. And they don't listen to what I say. But anyway. But it's like Lillian. It's when religion was sort of not compulsory. But you know what I mean? It was when it was a part of everyday life in a way that it isn't now. We didn't have this sort of thing. We've now got desperately seeking something, people, who have turned their gaze in that would have been focused on, you know, the community or Christianity or whatever religion. It's now all about just endless introspection. Physical and, you know, mental. So with Kate, we've got the spiritual thing of, you know, I've got to, not even improve myself because there's no sense with Kate that she's actually sacrificing anything to get any sort of enlightenment. It's all about just, I just need to indulge myself more. And with Lillian, it's physical insecurity. And it is this, the self is the new religion, isn't it? It's just people. Well, I would say the new religion is the gap. And you talked about Maslow and it's, was it three? How many basic needs do we have? You know, like security. Yeah. The hierarchy of basic needs. Exactly. And the fact of matter is that for the first time in human existence, vast swathes of the population, those needs have actually been met. So we've actually got the time and the money to have Botox. Exactly. And to have psychological breakdowns and to have all the, you know, on the one hand, because you have all this time actually to think we've invented organized sport. Organized sport in effect is a new religion. And we have hobbies and pastimes in a way that eight generations ago, seven generations ago, nobody had. Because you needed to get through the slog of just surviving. And then, and so we're in this interesting and unique time in human existence whereby our basic needs actually have been met. So the dislocation is going from a time when it's a battle for survival to understanding that our basic needs have been met. And, and that's what we're going through now. The turbulence of the in between time, whether it's going to be a hundred years, 200 years, 300 years before we actually understand that we can be happy within and of ourselves. But it's, it's, if you put it in archer's terms, it's the grundies who, poor old Clary would probably love to have indulged herself in a lovely, midlife crisis and to have an affair or whatever. But she's actually too busy wondering how, doing two jobs and wondering how the hell she's going to, you know, where she's going to live. You know, but Shula has got the mental and financial freedom to be able to have a delightful little breakdown and, you know, I like that. I did like for a little breakdown. Well, it is, isn't it? Because no, no one's going to die. It's just I'm feeling a little bit as if I'm not having enough attention. But poor Clary never, ever gets any attention, but she is too worried about survival. That's her fundamental. No, no, no. That's exactly it. You know, in, you know, it's kind of first world problems, middle class problems, problems of affluent, et cetera, et cetera. But really, it's, your basic needs are met. So what fills in the gap? If I don't have to battle for, you know, survival on any meaningful level. I can worry about my forehead and how ridiculous they are. Exactly. Were you surprised? When, I love that bit when Jenny, it was a bit creepy, I have to say, when Jenny was kind of egging Brian on to tell Lillian how wonderful she looked. And she was saying, "Tell her, Brian, tell her Brian." And Brian was going, "Well, if you weren't my wife's sister, I'd be after you." And I was like, "You Brian, stop it!" But your pants back up and crying out loud. It was kind of just completely ham-fisted. But of course, Lillian thought it was fantastic. And she said, "You look 20 years younger." And she said, "You look, no, you look 50." And she said, "I think 20 years is a bit much..." And I thought, "She's not nearly 70 years. She..." Yeah, I just couldn't figure out whether she was saying, "Oh, no, you're over egging the pudding, Brian." Or whether she was saying, "Oh, no, I'm not quite that old yet. I couldn't quite work it out." But I never, I think of her as 50. No, she's older than that. She's older than 50. I put her in like late 50s, mid to late 50s. Oh, okay. But a quick look at the artist's website as soon tell us how she's supposed to be. Are you going to do that? No. Okay. Who's the next caller? Um, Phyllis Attie! Oh, I like her. Phyllis Attie plus I know. She's very kind. Hello, it's Phyllis Attie. Thank you very much, first of all, for lovely podcasts. I thoroughly enjoy listening to them. And I think it's something that really grows on you as you get more used to the style and things. So that's really nice. I don't understand why people don't understand the rock, particularly a story. Because surely the whole point is nothing to do with faking it. It's that he could be the father, and he knows he could be. He's not sure that he is, possibly because he knows that Jess has been sleeping around a bit, but he knows because he was there on valentones, like blah, blah, blah, blah. That he could possibly have his name written up in chalk on the board, as it were. So he is desperately hoping that Jess was sleeping around near enough to the event to more. You know what I mean. Anyway, I should have thought that out, actually, before I dictated it. Anyway, I think it will play out that Rob is found at this point, not to be the father, to lots of tubulation and happy ever after thoughts from Helen. And then we go on a bit further. And the relationship, you know, gets a bit more worrying. And then somehow it is revealed that Rob was actually with Jess on valentines night, even though procreation did not take place. Anyway, that's my thought for now. Keep up for good work, chaps, it's lovely. She said that she thinks that her plot prediction is that Jess has been sleeping around. Rob will be found out not to be the father, but as his relationship with Helen gets more worrying, and to be honest, I don't think he could get much more worrying, because it's horrible, he will be relieved that it will be revealed that he did spend the night with Jess, even though he didn't get her up the duff. Yes, which I think is quite likely. I think it's too cliché to have Rob revealed as the father. But even if he is, there's no way Helen's going to see that email. The letter, he would just hide it and say, "Yes, well, I was prude on the fire, darling. I was so relieved it was over." And she'll say, "Oh, good Rob." I hated that episode when he was shouting at her. It was really, really horrible. And then when he was trying to make Henry just breakfast, and Helen said, "Oh, I shouldn't have mentioned Queston." And he said, "No, you shouldn't." And I just thought, "Oh!" And she started saying, "Sorry." "No, sorry, I'm now preempting." God, as Steve is cool, so we'll go on to that, because as always, she has very good ideas for what we can do with Rob. Well, she has one idea, and she bangs that drum relentlessly. I'm not saying you don't deserve it, but it's a lot of good ideas. She has one idea, you see. But just to say, Felicity, you get a little thanks and if you've got one in the podcast, because you is most lovely and awesome. Right, now, who's next? Is it goddess Deaver? Yes. All right, go. Hello, you two. I've got a Steve over here, and unlike what everybody thought I was going to be on Twitter, I'm not screaming and shouting. I'm actually very, very calm. A little bit lisp of cilantro calm. As in, I really, really want to hurt Rob. But I want to do it in a slow, calm, and horrible manner. I've been having some thoughts about how I would like Rob to die. I'm thinking that I should slay him, roll him in glass, cover him in salt, dip him in vinegar, and then just start detaching bits from him and use his intestines to spell out she said sorry. You kind of know it was coming. Helen was starting to actually assert herself again, and we knew that she had to be put down. But the chills that went through me when this happened. So, yeah, she said sorry. I'm for that. Titching up, must die. OK, still over the podcast. Speak to later. Yes, as always, er, you're right. It's the, it's the, yeah, it's the apologizing. It's Helen saying, I'm sorry. I'm not psychic. I'm sorry. I haven't done what you wanted. Apologizing for existing. It's just awful to hear. I cannot wait for the storyline to be over. Really, really. I hate it so much because it's just too upsetting. Let's go on to it. It's a great bit of realistic grinding. And the very, you know, kind of slow descent. Yeah. You know, the man's not a nice guy. But up until at what point did he really, truly, truly step over the mark? You know, and that's the reason why this is brilliant. Little Miss Giggly. For me, it was little Miss Giggly. Which, in and of its sense, is that a hanging offence to call somebody little Miss Giggly. But when you put it up with all the other evidence, yeah, the man's a monster. Yeah. And that's the reason why it says so well done. Hello, Dunty Dun. Cosmo here again. In just over two weeks, I shall be off on holiday. In fact, I've just returned today from Birmingham, which, for our overseas listeners, is a allegedly Britain's second city in half of the Midlands. And it is, of course, where they record the arches. Whilst we dined well once and badly once, the poorer dining experience, I believe, was damaged by the music track that they were playing in the restaurant, which did not set a proper pace for the restaurant. And so, eating five small courses took about two and a half hours. So, despite previous adverse comments, I would accept Roy Highfield's comment on the situation. Clearly, the right pace needs to be set in all things. The good dining was a top curry, but I have no doubt that Royfield, with his local knowledge, would know somewhere even better. Last week, there were a lot of discussions on voices. The children are also used to do the children's voices on the arches, as well as in plays. It might be difficult for newer listeners, but there is some logic to the voices being a little out of sync because it is radiant, therefore, the best friends need to stay sounding themselves, as changing voices makes following the drama difficult. When Kenton was reintroduced, he sounded like Adam, and despite managerial promises, we now have Tom sounding like Charlie, and Dr Dick Death sounding like PC carpet burns. It was also extremely disconcerting when Pat came back from Wales, having lost her Welsh accent. Just touching on the arches, the reason the original Bridge Farm shop closed was not due to an ear above the sea to cope after Tom's death or falling sails. The traffic panners popped along to point out that the entrance to the farm at the gateway was an unsafe turn off the highway, and it could not be modified to allow safety standards to be achieved. This seems to have been completely forgotten by the current management. I just hope no one gets killed, as this would lead to a third health and safety investigation of Bridge Farm, which is clearly a very unsafe place. And I suppose as I have not been talking about financial or economic matters this week, I do not qualify for my own music, which will be a shame, never mind. I'll try and be in touch next week before I go. Bye! Thank you Cosmo. Enjoy your next holiday. I've lost track now of where the hell you are. But anyway, yes, you see, Roy feels right about the pace. Cosmo said that he ended up having a three hour meal because the music they were playing in the background was so slow whenever he's slowly. Um... Yes, next. And the next is Jojo Sexy Heels, who is worried about Ian. Hi there, damn two dummies. It's Jojo Sexy Heels here. Haven't called in for a couple of weeks, but I just couldn't resist after this week's barn dance. Loving the fact that Ian is back, bit sad, because usually when somebody's come back from the cold, dark depths of not being on the archers, it usually means that they're for the boot. Do hope that's not happening. I absolutely love Ian ever since he gave Ticinob that pop on the nose when we had the cycle race last year. He's been my absolute hero. Somewhere in the back of my mind throughout the episode with the barn dance, I could just visualize Ian as Simon Callow in Four Weddings in a Funeral, sort of spinning around with his kilt flying and, you know, whirling around. It just made me smile and smile. So, script writers, more of this sort of thing. I absolutely loved it. And to Row Eye Field and Lucy, it's now been a year. You've had 52 episodes. You've been going a year. I was there at the first episode. I'll be there till the day that you stop. Love it. Keep it up the great work. Love you guys. Bye-bye for now. I'm worried about it. And I'll tell you what I didn't see coming. I thought that Adam and Charlie, they kind of hidden this much better than obviously they had. They're obviously Ian's kind of picked up and whatever. And I didn't see that coming. Well, it's mentionitis, isn't it? He keeps popping up, cropping up in the conversation. He's drone. Yeah. And every time he says it in front of Ian, you kind of think, and you can, you know, mentionitis is always the absolute first sign, isn't it? That's just what you think. Oh, God, here we go. And Ian's not daft. And he's well aware that he lives in a different world in terms of employment to Adam, and that he doesn't have that sort of farming base in common with him. And I think that's why he's suddenly marching around fields, pretending to take an interest in what colour the flip in wheat is, just to sort of say, look, I'm here, I'm here, I'm interested, I'm interested. And, you know, it's, yeah, poor Ian. I hope he doesn't go, because I think he's a lovely character. I know you're not massively enamoured of him, are you? No, no, no, I like him. He's just said he's slightly too good to be true. And I think it's good. He did some rob, though. I mean, that's what Jojo's sexy was. Yeah, but that was a righteous thumping, wasn't it? Everyone forgive him that. Well, I don't care. The reason was it was just good. But this kind of slightly goes to back up what Witherspoon said. If it wasn't last week we speak before, and he says, well, you know, if we are going to have a gay couple, let's have them in it, it's a stable, long-lasting relationship. And, you know, it's one of the things that, you know, black people always say about portrayal of, you know, other equity, you know, ethnic minorities are on the media. It's a case of, please, can we just be in the, you know, if you're going to have a black couple, let's have them. Let's not be troubled. Yeah, let's not have them go through stereotypical, oh, what one of them's getting carted after prison, or did do me but let's have them, you know, because the signal that it displays portrays is a very important one. However, I think that Ian is slightly too good to be true, and always has been. Though, I don't dislike it. It's my bet noir. Isn't it Yoko bet that actually hates a mosey? Well, only because he fancies Charlie. So he's just trying to make it feel better by saying, oh, yes, and we had an email from a John who says, you were requesting feedback from John's from around the world. I am John in Ladprow, Bangkok. Best wishes, John in Ladprow, Bangkok. As previously discussed. So, Lucy. Yes. Are we doing John news now? Yeah, we'll do John news. All right, so. News of the John's, news of the John's. Well, so you kind of preempted me somewhat here, because remember last week we asked, are you a John? Oh, yes. Well, on Twitter, sorry. Well, on Twitter, Facebook and email, John's have been in contact. So we started a new order of listener. Yes, it's called the order of John Archer for all listeners of the podcast that have the same name as the dearly departed DJ farmer. Each John should now communicate with us by using their designated number. So old-school John's, that is John from Newcastle, is now John the first. John from Dorset will be forever known as John the second. This week we had messages from John in Ladprow, Bangkok, on whom we bestow the title, John the third. It is Twitter's John Jeffries, or John from Minneapolis, is John the fourth. Now, those wanting clarification on John Rawls headed over to Facebook. No, Calvin Saxton, middle names do not count. Jenny Allen wrote, "My son Johnny listens, though, not through choice, as he's only five and doesn't really appreciate it. Does that make the list? He's also from Bristol." No, he just got to Jenny. We really want committed John's who would take a bullet for the podcast, if needs be. And Andrew Nagel said, "I sleep with the John, does that work?" Well, I just hope he pays well madam. So there you go. There's John used. Say, "You are a John, and you listen to the podcast. Please get in contact with us." Now, no tricks. Don't be saying, "Don't, I don't see any email coming from a Samantha." And you say, "My name is John." So you can have, you know, you can be John the fifth or whatever. The email needs to come from John blah, blah, blah. You know, for you even to count. But there you go. There's a clarification. You need to be a John, no little names, no kids, and now back to archers related stuff. [laughter] Oh, I worry about us sometimes. I really do. [laughter] That's it. Yes, we've done the calls. Oh, all right. I'll tell you what then. We're doing this. So, click. Let's take five. Well, probably not going to be five. Probably end up being about 180 seconds. But, you know, you say five, don't you? Because to say, let's take 180 seconds. [laughter] Sounds a bit peculiar. But let's try it. Let's take 180 seconds and come back the other side with a little bit of milling. [laughter] 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? That was damn lovely. [tires screeching] G'day, everyone. It's Millie Bell here. I just want to have my two-peneth worth about the ferret story because I think I saw it slightly differently to everyone else. If I've got my dates right, the ferret story started on April the 1st. So, I just kind of had it in my head that it was a comedic interlude with a bit of a hat tip to the April Falls day. So, from that point of view, I really, really enjoyed it. And I kind of liked the fact that the screenwriters try to mess with our heads a little bit with things like that. So, yeah, I liked it. We would have been contacted through our Facebook page by Carol Key, who runs the David Archer Appreciation Group. She just wanted to say that they are all happy lammies now that Brookfield is unsold and our David saved Ambridge in the Flood with a great interview with Tim, by the way. She also says, "That is a woolly." We asked you a couple of questions this week. We asked you what background music should play when Lillian reveals her new look. We have some great answers. I liked Peter Mabuts. He suggested a hate expender. Robert Doyerjoy suggested, "I think it's Roberta Flax, the first time ever I saw your face." Della Hickey said, "Smooth communal." And Cat Brown said, "Brittney's boat toxic." But my absolute favourite was Justine Taylor, who suggested, "What's new pussycat?" I thought that was brilliant. I enjoyed that. We also asked you, bearing in mind the fact that recently, drones have been mentioned, what other technology could be introduced unto Ambridge and why? Guy Labrook suggested a cash machine for Kate and Kenton. I want one of those two. Diane Talford suggested, "Robot cows, nanobots, a ferried catcher." And finally, a hologram doctor so they don't have to drive too far to see one. Alison Jones said, "I think you'll need the self-driving car." Fiona Griffin suggested that Rob already has a tracking device on Helen, and cameras set up in the house. But my favourite answer was from Jacqueline Bertha, who said, "She thinks there should be an electronic ankle tag from Ian to Adam." I just wanted to read out something from another website and another Facebook page. I'm sorry. Just because I don't know why, but it really tipped with me. Simon Gling, on the artist's appreciation, grew. Just put up this post. It's just two sentences, but it just made me giggle and giggle every time I thought about it. It says, "Mr. Titchener, I can confirm that you are not the father of the child in question. However, there are 147 matches to other children on the database." Some of you have wicked, wicked minds. Anyway, that's my report for today, and I look forward to seeing you all next week. Who knows? Thank you, Miss Bell. Why don't we now, Lucy, have your hashtag TheArches tweets off the week? Yes! Bubbly Callard said, "I'd make sure I had something for the weekend with me if I were Dr. Richard Schuller's on fire." Chirps Estonia. Oh, of course, if she's on fire, definitely need a bit of protection, don't you? Chirps Estonia said, "I doubt Spencer recognised Pip, I don't." Pauline Wallin said, she had Schuller saying, "I'll find someone else to dance with." Enter Richard, ready to strip the willow, so to speak. Sarah Archer said, "I believe the tickets for the DNA results show are on sale in the village shop." And tweeted the week with some of John. Isn't that what I say? Yes, it hasn't got the message yet about which John is. John Porter, Pinerpite. You said, "Charlie to Adam, can I get you a drink or have you already got to send me on?" Well done. Bub, bub, bub. The end tweets of the week. Right, so that, I believe, means that we're just about at the end of the show, but we've got some stuff to get through before we actually call time on this. So, first off is shot news. Yes, folks, this is the section of the show where we tell you which dumb d-dumb has bought what. And this week, no one has brought anything, nada. So, why not buy something? So, I don't read, why not join them and go, "Oh, no one's bought anything." Or should make absolutely no sense. So, why don't you go over and buy something? It could be a t-shirt. It could be a teapot. It could be a throw. It could be a yoga mat. It could be just about anything that your heart desires go over there to our shop and find it. It's probably got a W&M logo on it and buy it. Cool. Now, we've done John News. Very exciting John News. So, now we need to go on to, oh, I've had a couple of lovely little messages this week. I just want to say hello to my fellow Cupcake revolutionary, Alison, also known as Nozilla_63, whose name did escape in the middle of last week's show when we talked about all things, cupcake-y, revolutionary and socialist. So, there you go. Alison, thank you for your little message. 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So, please, please, please, keep those reviews coming, because you won't be top of the podcast charts before Clary sets up at home in her signboard. The end. The end. I am worried about the grandies, you know. Are you? Well, we, for a while, they seem to be going through a fairly kind of, um... Ugh, sort of positive thing, weren't they? And now it's all going wrong again, and Ed's being a lass, and he's listening to Eddie and not Emma. Why would you listen to someone who's rampantly unsuccessful, instead of Emma, who is showing some sort of entrepreneurial nouse? Well, but you could look at Emma's hardly been the most successful adult so far in her life. You could make the same argument and say, "Why do you want to listen to her?" It's just that we as the listeners have this wider sense of a wider story arc, but she's going to become this thrusting, strong, you know, female businesswoman alongside my Fallon. Yeah. So... How is your Fallon? We haven't heard from her for a while. Um, well, we haven't heard from her, because, sure, no connoisseur, you couldn't come on the show. Mmm. Good. Well, no, no. Here's a... We just need to explain to him, Lucy. We just need to... Australia's fears that we are not a couple of fruit loops who are going to tie his actors up in knots, get them to reveal, you know, future story lines, et cetera. And as soon as we can meet Mr. Sean for that copper coffee at a place of your choosing, I'll be able to make you realize that I am a dimwit. You could never get anybody up in knots. And, you know, your actors are fine getting on our wondrous podcast. We do need to keep these people slightly on side, Lucy. Yeah. This is like a charm offensive, and your charm and I'm offensive. Exactly. Right. Haven't got anything else to talk about. No. I didn't think so either. Right. Short and sweet. I reckon this one's going to come in under an hour, which is, I think, exactly what we needed. Couldn't buy Lucy V. Freeman. Goodbye, Royfield. Be round. Er, I thought my name was Roy Ifield. Roy Ifield. Be round. Sorry. Okay. Cool. And you know what I'm going to do now. What? Go back and listen to the Barndart show, because I didn't know that would absolutely pass me by somehow. (laughs) But anyway. See you to loot listeners. See you all in seven days time. See you. Bye. Bye-bye. All right. Loose. I'm Austin. Okay. All right. Love today. Bye. Bye. You know what I mean. Anyway. (laughs) I should have thought that out, actually, before I dictated it. Yeah. Anyway. Keep up for good work, chaps. It's lovely. To remind you that 60% of sales on Amazon come from independent sellers, or Bob of Princeton popcorn. Howdy. We'll read 60% of this ad. Fire away, Bob. Small business owners like myself. Are growing their businesses faster on Amazon. By getting help with things like shipping. Shop small business on Amazon. Especially Princeton popcorn. Amazon. Every day better. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. 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Dum Tee Dum Episode 54 – An open letter
Dum Tee Dum Episode 54 – Just over an hour
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