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Dum Tee Dum Episode 40 – New Year, same old stuff
Dum Tee Dum Episode 40 – New Year, same old stuff
New Year, same old stuff
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- Duration:
- 1h 15m
- Broadcast on:
- 06 Jan 2015
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This podcast is a Royfield Brown production. Find others on iTunes. Alright. Yeah, I know. This is the story of how one small island conquered the world. Jamaican potluck. Manfare star, the south of town, Usain Bolt is also out well. Here they come down the track, Usain Bolt! It's a story of music, sport, and style. How its rhythms, athletes, and language went global. This is how Jamaica conquered the world. Now available on iTunes, how Jamaica conquered the world. The podcast for people who didn't know it had. This program is sponsored by Mary Darby, who kindly donated to Dumpty Dum and would like to highlight the work of Vid Sam's on Frontier. This is Dumpty Dum and the chef at the reality donkey drama that is sent at an ambridge in Ireland, the Midlands. I'm your New Year's resolution, Royfield Brown, and with me I have New Year's Nightmare Lucy Freeman, and the last part of our New Year's celebrations is you. Today's rendition of Barrick Green was brought to you by Not Contrary All the Way Over in Toronto. Lucy. Yes. Can you mind our listeners how they can win the accolade of Dumpty Dum if they can be bothered to win this accolade? Yes. If your New Year's resolution is to shoot, shoot, shoot a kick-entre or jump on Jazza. Give us a call on 0203 0313105 or get in touch via Speakpipe on the site. Happy New Year to lovely Harriet at Chambridge who does abrelet voices and thanks to Derek Fletcher, who is still recovering from his New Year's festivities, he's sulking because he went first footing in the village on New Year's Eve with a lump of coal and people moaned because he pulled Adam's knob too hard and then he got certain everyone's knockers. He has to get in the queue for pulling Adam's knob, doesn't he Adam? Adam? Adam? Adam? Adam? There's a long queue for pulling Adam's knob right now. But anyway, more on that later. So call this week, come from Yokobear, and God is David who'd give us their round up of the year. First he substances who's got into the blind spirit, Midmi City who wants Phoebe to shut up, Jojo Sexyhills who wants a cup of carols tea, Sarah Brown's Phoebe who wants to set their cat amongst the sheep, Sam Dean who wants to stand up for Helen and bringing up the rear we have a call from Alison Seagantala who has musings on the immigration system of the UK. But first, before all that, Lucy, why don't you throw us in? Into the New Year. Now, I apologise for the chronology of this bit. I get very confused over Christmas and New Year, and especially in the Hinterland bit between the two, which is actually my favourite bit. So God knows which week I'm talking about at the moment, apologies for spoilers. But bear in mind, I no longer have my children's advent calendar to tell me what date it is so you'll just have to bear with me and hang in there. Christmas in Ambridge, a time for families to get together. The Aldriges got together in true Aldridge style with a lot of chat about their bowel movements, followed by a sprinkling of infidelity. Kate is back having washed away long-suffering Lucas like yesterday's henna tattoo and says she's now going to concentrate on making herself happy. Yes, Kate, because so much of your life so far has been spent in the service of others, hasn't it? You're basically Mother Teresa, only not so meanie-me, aren't you? So poor old Sipo and Nolly have been left at the Ministrations of the Madicarnay family, who even if they are satanists are going to be a better influence on them than Kate. Yee! Grundy's spent Christmas day, Shay, Ed and Emma. They all crammed in round the table, they were singing, and Georgie blessed everyone from his little Lego pulpit. Tony Lazarus Archer gave us a quick Christmas miracle by wheezing back into life in time to tell Peggy that he loved her. People love a person, a coma, as they can yack away to them endlessly without being interrupted and use it as a sort of confessional. So, Peggy was wittering on about how sorry she was she'd cut him out of her will of blah-blah, when he spluttered a bit and said, "I love you, Mum." He didn't have the energy to finish the sentence, which was, "I love you, Mum, but for God's sake shall I pump on and listen to the end of cereal?" And this is the first bit of fiss off ad for 38 bloody years. I'll tell you what, what did you write into the end of cereal? Well, it just sort of stopped, but it's because this is what you're always on about, you see? Because I want everything to be cut, I want them to say yes, he did not do it, let's have a re-child, blah-blah-blah, and the person who did is, blah-blah, and they said it was kind of like, "Yeah, well, we don't know, do we?" And I'm like, "That's..." Well, never mind just doing it properly, just skip to the end and give me a nice, tidy conclusion, that's all I want. I'm quite happy not to have a tidy conclusion, but I thought it was rather weak because she just didn't say, and this is what I believe happened. That's what I wanted from that. But she did the what-haggle, we shouldn't do this bit, because it's spoilers in case other people haven't heard it. Oh, cobblest of that, let's go for it. Okay, here we go, here we go, if you haven't got to the end of cereal, skip on for the next two, three minutes of this podcast, if you have, feel free just to continue listening, how's that? And by the way, Blackburn won the FA Cup, no. I think, yeah, she did say what we know, though, didn't she, at the end? She said this is what we know, which is as close, because she said all the way through, "I don't know, I keep changing my mind." Yeah, okay, one of the reasons why this podcast was such a phenomenon was the compelling narrative of what had happened, and you have this supposedly seemingly innocent person in jail who had no history of violence, and he was, you know, a grade-A student, and, you know, the high school homecoming king, et cetera, et cetera. A bit like Julian Assange, then, in that case. I'm very unlike that weirdo, but anyway, so, very, very clever, very highly motivated. Yeah, but Julian Assange has no personal charisma. Anybody that meets him doesn't actually like the guy, whereas, Adnan Saeed, everybody loved the guy, you know, so anyway, and what was wonderful about it, one of the many things were wonderful about it, was the back was in a four, was one minute you thought, well, of course he did. Then he thought, oh, gosh, he must have done it, and then he didn't do it, and then he spoken this very compelling, very personable way, so you completely sucked him. But she ended on a total whimper, and it wasn't the fact that did he do it, didn't he do it? She should have said, "I have weighed up the evidence, and this is one I believe." She didn't even say that, she just said, "Oh, hmm, I don't know, you don't know goodbye, it's over, I don't know." Or suffice to say, though, that for us that are in the podcasting world, you know, we're trailing along the slipstream of that, and the fact that the average person now is aware of what a podcast is, is a good thing, so we have to thank cereal for that. But anyway, we are talking about the archers. Yes, sorry, that's my fault for mentioning cereal, I knew it was a mistake. Come on, Lucy, let's get back on track. Sorry, yes, journey darling belted around the village, brimming with self-importance, pretending to be Robert Redford in all the president's men. It's a toss-up between the Wall Street Journal and CNN over who breaks the story of the man who wanted to build an extension. They wouldn't be to reveal my sources, but I wrote, she missed, but who is Deep Throat? Jolene, by all accounts, but what would be that? Ah, ah, ah, no, Deep Throat is obviously Charlie Barbara's spreadsheet. Hair, open, rippon, fuhrer, titchy knobs present to Helen, was a controlled trip out. If you are going to her for an enjoyable day, you will enjoy yourself in the health club, he said, you will buy a dress that does not show too much boobies, it will be mold, as nobody looks good in mold, and you will have your hair cut in the style of Bernie Eccleston. Why a minute? Why are you even watching Hello Hello? What's going on? This is what he started to remind me of, hair flick. About the hair, Febreze of Felpisham said she needed wispy bits to soften her jawline. That's called a beard. She needs to soften Rob's bloody jawline with a mallet, ideally, but hopefully, that is what 2015 will bring, and so to the new year, a time for new beginnings, resolutions and experimentation, and an investigation, a new range of fungicides, clover vanilla or neapolitan. Kate has become a vegan from the planet Viga, I am actually surprised that Kate was not vegan before, but of course she wasn't, as we haven't heard about it. Everything else Kate does is commented on by Kate in Great Death. She is the sort of person who does a DVD commentary on her own life, but apparently, can a pace vodka and champagne are perfectly accentable to vegans, which I did not know. Adam told Charlie the legs had to be completely upright for it to work, puts a hell of a strain on the hamstrings, but no doubt worth it in the end, chaps. And Roy decided to make a new beginning by ringing people who didn't want to speak to him and leaving hysterical messages on their answer phones. He rang his estranged wife and cried because she wasn't there, then he rang his estranged daughter and cried because she wasn't there, and then he rang his ex mistress and cried because she wasn't there, but 1145 he was reduced to trying to raise Marjorie Antropas from beyond the grave and hope to some talk to him. Roy was, and there is always one, the person at the company party that is way too enthusiastic at the start and then begins crying at 10.30 and shouting, "No one understands me!" while concerned people pat them on the back, then they lie on the floor in the fetal position covered in snot and weeping while everyone just steps over them to get to the loose. Can I, can I just just jump in and I've got to do a stand up and I, I thought the Roy calls were abs and they were brilliant. Have you seen the Twitter request? No. Please Roy Fills. Oh yes, yes, yes. All of his crying into a ringtone. And I, and I mustn't, I have forgotten to ringtone up the, the screen as well. It occurred to me when I saw that, that I have been asked to do that. So I am going to do that this week, so, but I just thought in terms of just breaking up the episode and just documenting Roy's descent and just, you know, the loneliness and the despair that this, this man was going through absolutely brilliant because, you know, we have almost forgotten about him. Yes, there's the little thing with him and Phoebe and then with, with Kate putting a, you know, size tens in, but, you know, we'd, we'd forgotten. And, and that was just brilliantly scripted, directed and delivered, well done. Yeah. Yeah. Um, as well as being in every scene, Carol Toboggan now seems to be in the wire. She's trying to get people hooked on her team, particularly Lizzie, who's exactly the sort of weak minded individual I would tap up as an addict, and next she'll be recruiting horrible Henry on her burner to be her corner boy and sort out reacts for her crew. Hootie Jill's already got a bit twitchy about moving away from her supplier, so she's ditched the printer plan. San Francisco isn't, isn't, isn't Baltimore, but I've been remarking on how lovely and how wonderful and everything is. There's only a shoot in one block away from me, right? Was it direct related to you, Missus? No, no, no. That's all right then. Was it you starting something? I asked. I, I, I, I was having a drink and I was saying, oh, it's so wonderful. It's so peaceful and I'm missing one police car. It's challenging. What are you talking about, man, there's a shoot in by an actor around the corner. Oh, really? Oh, God. Well, yeah. Anyway, crack on Lucy. Hootie Jill's already got a bit twitchy about moving away from her supplier, so she's ditched the printer plan and she ain't going nowhere. She's going to move into the Grundy's caravan, stop washing and get a dog on a bit of string. But the most exciting new start was an end to a storyline. Helen, who had broken away from Obergruppen for a tichy knob, was sprinting for the perimeter wire of Lower Loxley, her mauve-burger flapping in the wind, went down in the bushes, something stirred. Adam and Charlie probing each other's moisture levels at last. So now we know Adam's going on holiday with Ian to the US now, so if Helen lets the cat out in the bag, we'll have gone in the blink of an eye from 40 shades of gay to Miami Vice. But the most important thing for me over the Christmas New Year episodes was the biggest sign that the script writers listened in their turn to us, the listeners. Kate evangelised about her colonic irrigation. And why does this mean that they listen to us? Because every time Kate appears in a scene, people shout, "Oh Kate, why don't you just shove it up your arse? And now she has?" Up, up. Oh is that the end? That's the end. Oh that was awesome. Like to end on an arse. And you didn't realise what I did either. What did you do? I had an American affectation, I went, "That was awesome." So I say to everybody now, I go, "That's awesome." And there you go. I'm thinking, "What?" And I go, "That's awesome. I'm really fitting in. It's great over here. But no Lucy, well done. I'm going to give you one of these." Well done. Yeah. Yeah. Mmm. Alright. So is there anything we need to ponder on there before we move on to the phone calls? I'm slightly concerned about, I just wish somebody would find Jennifer a job. Whereas when she gets the bit between her teeth, she is off like the clappers, but she reminds me of a firework that someone's trapped in a jam jar. And it's gone off and it's doing it's not, but it's not getting anywhere. And all this energy is just bursting and it's going off in all the wrong directions. So she's so, you know, over excited about this flipping, you know, up newspaper, local newspaper article. If she could channel that energy into actually doing something useful for someone else rather than, you know, just wheel spinning all the time about a bonkers family and things that are only relevant to people that live within a hundred jobs of home farm. She would be a force to be reckoned with, but as it is, she's an idiot, I think. Half it and acts a bit harsh. She has been a support and an emotional support, the mother of... That's a very cry line, isn't it? Thank you for your support, I shall wear it all with. I think she has been a stalwart of bridge farm and... Bridge farm? Home farm? Sorry, of home farm. And she, what, that is her job. Her job has been to be Mrs Jennifer Aldridge and she plays it with a plot. And be cheated on and bring up her husband's illegitimate son and bring up, you know, Adam who's clearly got huge commitment issues, Debbie that never sees her. Has he? Or is he just a Randy Goat? The two are not mutually, you know... I'd say they are the same thing. Well, no, he's still with Ian, isn't he? Yeah, you can be a Randy Goat and not do anything about it because you've got somebody to be Randy with. Has he ever said, "I don't think I should be with Ian?" No, so... No, but he has said we live... When he was talking to Alice, he said, "Oh, we keep very..." No, to Helen or Alice, he said, but we keep very separate lives or something. We're our own people, Alice, he said. And that does back up what Kerry, the little bit of light that carried in Shino by saying that they leave completely different schedules, you know. The worst of all schedules, if you, you know, once a chef and once a farm, so to speak. Yes, yes, yes. But is he a Randy Goat? Yes. Does he have commitment issues? I don't see that the two things, you know, are necessarily in conflict with each other. That's all I'm saying. We live in complicated, interesting times, Lucy. It is possible to be committed to somebody, but occasionally feel that you have to get you kicked somewhere else, I have been told. But he's done it twice now, isn't he? Because of old was it? Polish chap? -Paval. -Paval. But I repeat, has he ever said, "Ugh, Ian, I need to get rid of him." No! I don't think anybody in a marriage goes, "Ugh, somebody I want to get rid of him." He's just seeing what he could get away with at the moment, apparently, quite a lot. Well, to be fair to Adam Macy, and when Adam was reintroduced to Ambridge, I was a big Adam fan. He came back all of a slight bit of a kind of eco worry. Wasn't he done all the great work in any area? And he was Mr. Carmen reassuring that he's got this kind of bitter side to him now. He's passive aggressive. He's angry all the time. But he's jealous of the dead being. I'm sure most of it comes through. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your spot on. First off, it was, you know, taking orders from my sister, taking orders from Brian, blah, blah, blah. You're not even my real dad. But to be fair to him in this situation, it's not as if he's pursued Charlie. This thing has been going on for quite some time, and a little bit of alcohol was thrown into the mix, and somebody stuck their tongue down somebody else's throat, you know. And so it wasn't as if he's, you know, the Pavel thing was much more of a, you know, a lusty thing. But even then, you know, he was kind of chased out, well, no kind of that. Pavel chased him down, didn't he? But this has been a much slower burn. So I wouldn't be that, you know, I wouldn't be that, that, that hard on the man in terms of this happening. But I just wanted to see how it's going to shake out Visible Helen, because obviously Helen is Ian's best pal. But, well, no, she isn't. She was. But then after he went off her, he had a word with her about Rob, because he can see what a git Rob is, and he smacked Rob, didn't he? Yes. Ian smacked Rob. And Helen's kind of stopped seeing him since then. So that will, we'll see how she handles that then. I cannot wait. And I did take to the book of Face and go, oh, you know, after waiting 12 months for any kind of bloody resolution on this album and Charlie think, I just thought that was a great way, you know, to deliver the final kiss and then they get discovered straight away. Yeah, I know they didn't even have any nice ropey bumpy before. I just trouble. It was like, once they're all over, I'm just asked that we'll skip the good bit and we'll just go straight to the utter disaster. Straight into discovery mode where, you know, and it's going to feel like there was an affair and it's been going on forever. And yeah, absolutely, that was, that was top draw, that top draw. Didn't see that coming. But anyway, why don't we here? Also, I thought that the hairdressing trip to the, the last thing you want when you're at the hairdressers is your boyfriend/fiasco/husband or whatever the head is there with you. Absolutely not. No, no, no, no, no. And that should have given her a warning sign from the beginning. They're sitting more, but you're going to tell me that you accompany all your lady friends to the hairdressers and do their nails while they sit and have their fringe trimmed, aren't you? Well, being as I'm in San Francisco, I'm thinking about, it's batting for the other sides. A lot of pretty boys around here. Is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I don't know about lady friends anymore. However, no, absolutely not. It is peculiar what man would go with your girlfriend/wife/partner to her hairdressers. You know, that is, that's a hallmark of am massively controlling. Yeah. And for the woman as well, you just don't want, because you look ridiculous. You're either sat there with tin foil on over your head looking like some sort of paranoid loon who's terrified of voices coming through the skirting board. Or you are, you know, stopping wet hair, flopping in your eyes, your mascara runs, you know, you've got a towel turban round your head like Mrs. Overall, you just look terrible. You don't, you just don't think glamorous about it until they've finished. That's the bit when you want someone to bowl up and say, you look marvelous darling. Listen, I couldn't agree more. The only thing I would say is that when you're stuck in the middle of a relationship, and I think there have been enough instances, and we've documented them before, where Rob has been nice. Okay, so you can just about construct Helen's thinking, which is a case of I've waited so long to have a man, a partner who loves me and gets me. Oh my goodness, he even wants to come to the hairdressers with me. Yeah, actually, coincidentally, that is what Samantha Dean says in her call. Ah, shall we neatly segue onto our calls in Lucy? Let's have a little segue. Ooh. Hello, ambridge 3962. Hello, lovely dumb to dumb people. It's Sam, my tweet is @Samariede. I don't sound like I normally do, I'm afraid, because I am recovering from my traditional Christmas chest infection, "Lurgie", which is joyous in every small way. Oh, and I meant to tell you what I do, aren't I? I'm an IT service delivery manager, which isn't going to be of any use to anyone ever in the history of the universe. I don't get any ideas about being useful there, Roy Field. Anyway, I've been thinking about the Robin Helen thing. Now, I know that the traditional stance on this is to be annoyed at Helen for being so weak, but actually, well, I have to declare an interest because I feel quite fond of Helen. Mostly because if it weren't for her, I would be the woman who was most incompetent in her relationships with men in the Western world. So, I'm grateful to her for that point of view. So, I'm feeling quite sorry for her, because can you imagine how little she must think of herself to be so desperate for that attention and for that seeming love from Rob, that she can't see that he is manipulating her in any way? I think that's really quite sad, and I wonder if Pat and Tony have got something to do with it, and I'm going to hate them for it regardless, even if they haven't, anyway, Happy New Year to you and to everyone who listens in. And I hope to see you both soon. Bye-bye. So, yes, Sam, and you sound absolutely terrible. I think you need to get a fisherman's friend down, you love. How little must you think of herself to be so desperate? That's true. And yes, I agree. This does, you would cast around to try and find somebody responsible for this level of self-hate. And I guess, I don't think many people are born with that level of anxiety, T-person anxiety. But I can't see really what Tony and Pat did to generate that, but I don't know where else it would have come from, unless she always felt overshadowed by the older brother that died. Maybe that's it. I know that does have a huge ramification for siblings, and family dynamic, but yes, it's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. I did. I wanted to be finished. I want Rob to. I'm turning into good as Steve. A die-titching of dies. Not that this podcast is psychology today. But what did it work? I need to turn it into it. I don't think that we can ascribe every kind of personality trait to nurture. I think some of it is nature, and some of us are just born socially more anxious than others, and a little bit more dependent on affirmation than others. You can kind of look back with hindsight and say John was the great blue-eyed, blonde-haired boy, and the sausage king was forever in his shadow. He came with a whole load of psychobabble, John's fault, and Helen has suffered because John was socially confident, and everybody loved him. But Helen, an absolutely fascinating, complex character, something I've said before, and one of the reasons why I just think that our docu-soap is leagues above many others is because the female characters are written with light and shade. And traditionally within soap operas, female characters were always strong. They were the heroes, the sheeros, etc. You're Hilder Ogden's, you're Ina Sharples, etc. But you have so many female characters written in this docu-soap, which actually are not likable. But it's just very subtly done. They aren't these paragens of virtue. They aren't women. We should all kind of aspire to be, etc. And even Jennifer Aldridge, you know, you could take her story one of two ways, that she's been this put-upon woman. But every now and then, she tells her that she's actually incredibly strong, you know, and I just love it. And I think just Helen, Helen Archer, absolutely nobody but nobody likes her as a character, but she's done nothing wrong. Helen Archer, she's not a villain, she's not a villain, and that is genius writing, absolutely genius writing. Hello you two, it's Jokobear here, and... Goddess Diva coming at you live from Bristol on Christmas Day. Yeah, Christmas Day, we're foaming in on Christmas Day. We have no life. So basically, we thought we'd call in and give you our review of the year through the medium of Shag, Mary, or Kill. So, let's get started. Goddess Diva, over the last year, in the archers, who would you Shag? Lillian, Lillian every time, she's just amazing. Now I know I can't have Tilly Button, cos that would just be wrong, definitely Lillian. Well, who would it be for me? I think it would be Dan, because just think about how buffy he is now. And he wouldn't be in too much trouble, cos he'd have to go away again, Dan to sand her. So, you know, I'd have my free of them and all that kind of stuff, so yeah, Dan again. And, and he could always clean your boots and do your ironing while he was there. And I am slovenly, so that would be really handy. So... Mark, who would you marry? I'm going to go for a controversial choice here. I would marry Charlie Parker spreadsheets. No! Yes! No! It'd be brilliant at the household budget, wouldn't it? It would really would, but still. I mean, it would probably be quite a loveless marriage, but at least I know the finances would be in order. And, you know, he's got a bit of ambition, isn't he? So, you know, you know, I could quite easily be a kept man. Yeah, that's very, very true. Yeah, so who would you marry? I would have said Kenton, because him and Jolene are just constantly at it. But I think I'm going to have to go for Fallon, if only to get her out the clutches of PC Harrison carpet burns. Oh, really? Absolutely. This one, he's not a lovely, he's a stalker, and she doesn't need to be having second thought. She needs to be making sure that she stays well away. Well, you heard it here, first folks. God, let's leave her, may need to point Royfield for out Fallon. Yeah, I'd say Royfield and his chicken legs. My Monday's on the goddess. OK, so the last one. Who would you kill? Easy! Titching off. Titching off must die. Titching off must always die. Titching off must die in horrible, slow, nasty ways. Am I allowed to pick Titching off as well? Yeah, absolutely. Go for it. Who would you kill, Mark? Well, I don't know. It's a toss-up, really. That's a toss-up. Yeah, it would be really a laugh. See, because I won't say Alice, but it feels a bit wrong saying that I'd kill Alice. I want Alice just to go away. We'll just shut the fuck up, basically. But I think I'd go with Titching off, basically, because, you know, it just gives me... Oh, just gives me the creeps. About two birds. One stone. Alice kills Titching off, and then she goes away to prison. Sorted. Excellent. Are you listening, Kerry Davis? I think that's a go-er. Bye-bye, Dante Dum. Hope you all have a lovely new year. Lots of love from me, goddess diva. And lots of love from me, Yokobear, have a fab new year. OK, bye. Bye-bye. Yokobear and goddess diva's round-up of the year. Yokobear would marry Charlie Bubba's spreadsheet. Goddess diva would marry Fallon to rescue her from carpet burns. And they'd both kill Titching off. Oops. What is your view? I haven't dared bring this up yet, because I thought it might upset you. But what is your view on the whole Fallon? Well, I thought it was very good of you to just completely leave that out in your monologue. Yes. I think because I'm penning a letter to Sean and to Kerry, you know, to say no. I just thought it was gratuitous, the smolching sounds, and these little speech that he gave to her afterwards. That sounds amazing. No, no, no. It just carried over from my locks. It was just nauseating. No, no. And, you know... It's just... It's just sexual sex. We don't want characters getting together and being happy. No. That's not what we want. As Kerry said, there's nothing interesting in that, is there? No. Right, so now that they've actually finally had a kiss, let's get rid of him. Let's get him bumped off. Poor fella. Oh, no, poor fella. Happy Christmas. It's dusty substances here, the wrong sort of listener. It's boxing day afternoon, and I've just heard blind spirit, and I utterly, utterly adored. It was marvellous. They were all so good. Really fantastic. And it was lovely hearing references to dead Ruth, wasn't it? He says, "Nortally." Anyway, back to the main program. I was right. Jill isn't going. And I think this is the first of several cracks in the scheme to sell Brooke Fielding August to Prada. And my prediction from the word go that they weren't going to do this is on track. And that's just such a shame, really, because we won't be losing Ruth. Who, those mentions of dead Ruth are even more poignant now. Anyway, secondly, now we've got another Brooke Fieldite child being given a car. Josh has got a car now. Now I can't believe I made the mistake of marrying an accountant. Our children have variously this year had theatre tokens, an external hard drive, and a small contribution to a saving up for our wedding fund. If only I'd married a farmer in Ambridge, they could have all been spending boxing day driving and in Citroën C3s by now. Obviously farming is more highly paid occupation than I anticipated, but there you go. The biggest story of the week is the return of Kate's bottom. I think she and her bottom are here to stay. So where is she going to go for her colonic irrigation? I think a quick squirt from a hose pipe at home farm isn't really going to do her chakras any good, is it? She's left Lucas, by the way. I'm sure of it. Nolly and Thingy have been abandoned and clearly spared any more exposure to Kate's bottom requirements, which probably is just for the best. So we'll have more developments on that side of things to follow in 2015, I suspect. Anyway, that's all from me. Happy New Year to everybody, and I shall speak to you soon. Bye! Dusty substances. She enjoyed Blight's spirit. I did too. And she very much enjoyed the references to Dead Ruth, which she was going to come true. And she was correct in her prediction that Jill was not going to Buddha. And she said, you know, she didn't realise that farmers were sitting on this much cash, but as they used to say in the song, I've never seen a farmer on a bike. Dusty, that is all I'm going to say. They're very good at telling you how little money they have got. And, uh... Oh, wait a minute. What? Do you reckon Dusty substances did something with any of her twankies this week, this, uh... She was struggling with her twankies last time we spoke. 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Real Noome users compensated to provide their story. In four weeks, a typical Noome user can expect to lose one to two pounds per week. Individual results may vary. To seeing and hearing from Roy Field on this side of the Atlantic very soon, I was really hoping I could be brief about my thoughts on this week's episodes, but... There's too much to say. Okay, I'll keep it brief. I don't know what Kate's come back for. I know what the story line says, but really, we don't need her. She's just downright out of order and cheeky. And as for Roy, I don't know what his game is. He wants to have his cake and eat it. He wants Haley and Abby, I guess. And Phoebe back in his life, but texting Elizabeth on Christmas Day. No need for that. As for Phoebe being stroppy, I'm all for expressing yourself and being honest with people and just getting those emotions out there. But how long is this stropping us going to last? It's quite spiteful and nasty. I'd rather she was just silent and froze him out than that she just spouts this bile from her mouth every time she has to confront him. Talking about freezing people out, I think my favorite scene of the whole week was when the arches women were in the kitchen after Christmas dinner reminiscing over the past and Ruth came in with dirty cubs. It just seemed really clear that the temperature fell by several degrees and they didn't want her around. It felt real. And it was really cleverly scripted and really well-acted. Oh, I know what it's like to walk into a room and feel that you're not wanting. And I get the feeling that's what happened to Ruth. It was really good. What wasn't really good was blind spirit. At least it wasn't as good as I'd hoped. I thought they were going to do it like amateurs, just having a go at doing something decent. I guess the only person that was hamming it up, like a proper amateur, was Susan. But then she turned out to be more of a Shakespearean mechanical than anything else. It wasn't that good, a production. There was a really good one. About three or four years ago with Roger Allen, if I remember correctly, and Stephanie Coles, as Madam Marclati, which was good. This one wasn't even funny. I really wanted the actress who plays Linda to do a great job. It was just so so. I wasn't. No, I wasn't that interested. I wasn't that impressed by it. And then my final thoughts are Jill's sudden realization that she can't go to Prudah. She's got a finger to learn about confronting the awful truth from Freddie. I think my favorite scene of the whole year was when Freddie gave Elizabeth a mouthful about her affair with Roy. They could have written something just a little, I don't know. I can't believe it's taken Jill that long to work out that she couldn't possibly leave Ambridge. And then how long before the rest of them realized that they can't possibly go either? A few weeks ago someone did say that theirs wouldn't be the only farm or the first farm that's got a great big motorway driven through it. And then finally the touching moments of the week and it wouldn't be Christmas without a miracle. Virgin births are clearly old hat, so we said we got Tony speaking and that was very, very sweet. And yes, I did shed a tear or two. Still think Peggy's an old bag. But Harar, Tony is back, but will he be back to fighting fitness? I don't think so. Anyway, those are my thoughts. And Happy New Year when it comes. Take care. Bye-bye. Miss Mid City says we don't need Kate. Go away. And Roy cannot have his cake and eat it. He can't ring his daughter and ring his wife and his ex-mistress and want them all to be kind to him because you cannot do what he did without pissing people off, basically. And I completely agree. I don't agree with you, Miss Mid City, about a blind spirit, because I thought it was jolly good. But I do, that was beautifully acted. When Ruth came in to the kitchen at Brookfield when they were having their Christmas dinner and talking about all the Christmases past, a Ruth came in. And honestly, it was like someone had just, had just done a really unwholesome fart. Everyone just kind of went silent and you could feel, you could feel the temperature drop and you could feel them turning away from her. It's incredible and it just shows what a tribal, what tribal beings we are, that you have somebody about to leave the tribe. It's like when you hand your notice in at work, there is a subtle turning away because all of a sudden you've rejected the tribe therefore the tribe rejects you and you can feel this distance suddenly between you and them. And yeah, it was absolutely brilliant acting. I've never been able to visualise a scene more clearly than I could see that, that kind of her feeling awkward, them feeling slightly aggressive, slightly defensive. It's just brilliant, absolutely perfect. Yes. Was a good scene. Well, you didn't hear it, did you? What did you make? Yes, I did. I thought you were baking it up then. No! It was a good scene. Anyway, let's go. I didn't have anything substantively to add to what you just said, because you just summed it up brilliantly. Hi, Dhamton Dhammers. Happy New Year to you all. This is JoJo Sexy Hills and in the spirit of openness within the Dhamton Dham community, JoJo Sexy Hills here and no, I don't own a shoe shop. I actually work in the NHS and my job is patient confidentiality and information security. So if you really need for that, Roy Field and Lucy, I'm Yiddell. Anyway, moving on to my thoughts for the New Year of 2015. I am just loving Carol and her tea making. It is just getting beyond a joke. She's now delivering her tea from person to person. I mean, I could understand her giving it to Jill, but now she's been over to Lower Locksley and delivered Lizzie. Some pick-me-up tea for the middle-aged woman. Well, that's a bit of a kick in the pants, isn't it, Lizzie? No longer the young, adventurous woman you're now a middle-aged woman in need of a pick-me-up. That's telling you. And then there's Carol making cocktails, which apparently are rather strong. I wonder if there's a bit of the herbal blue in there as well. I'm just loving where this is going. Happy New Year, everybody. And see you all. Hopefully the next archers, addicts get together whenever and wherever. Happy New Year. I do sexy heels. Do you remember she said she was an IT? She keeps people's identity secret or something. I think she's a spy for the NHS. Yes, that was cruel. I'll, uh, Carol Toboggan saying, which is a tea for a middle-aged woman in need of a pick-me-up. My God, if you weren't in need of a pick-me-up before you were described like that, you bloody well would be afterwards, wouldn't you? And she's enjoying Carol's tea and her cocktails. What do you think is going on with the whole Carol thing? All this tea and... I don't know. I'm letting it wash over me. But I think that if I'm forced to have an opinion on it, I think that what a couple of callers have said before is... One of them has got to be true in that she either gave old Toboggan a whole load of stuff and it killed him accidentally and he was sick anyway. And she said, you know, or it was some kind of dignity to her story. Like, other than that, I'm just passing up with this. It's all kind of happening and I go, yeah, whatever. [LAUGHTER] Oh, Tony, what do you think? Shut up. [LAUGHTER] I like the way that JoJo sexy heels was ringing the bell for the butler for tea at the end of the call. By the way, on that she just went, "DING!" [LAUGHTER] So she was just with us, bringing the scones. Good morning, Damdi Damdi. It is Sarah Brown here. I have just finished listening to the omnibus edition, really getting the spread of what's been going on in Ambridge for the last couple of weeks. And gosh, I did not enjoy it, really I did. I like the idea that they're all spending the money that they might not actually get from that bloke who's going to knock Brookfield down. I still don't think that's going to happen. I think that's just rubbish, really. I think it's a real teaser. I think it's good fun, though. It's going to set all sorts of cats amongst clocks of sheep or whatever things happen in countryside. I loved the ball. I thought that was very funny. I liked the idea that Johnny could sustain 22 ice cubes down the back of his neck. Good boy. He's going to be a star, that one. He's going to carry the arches forward into the future with that robust agricultural, rural, sturdiness that we've all come to love and expect, really, over the last 63 years. That's about it, really. I do think Move is an interesting colour. I just have this wonderful image of poor old Helen Dresters. One of the characters from the original Abigail's party production, perhaps in sort of Lacey Movey. Very poor hair styley type 70s frock. Rather a good look, maybe not. And Adam and Charlie snogging in the bushes, poor. That took a time, didn't it? Hey, but fancy being discovered. Nobody ever gets discovered. That's jolly good stuff. No, no, no. I'm really, I'm pleased. I think it's nice. I like it. And I love you too. Very much for being so amusing and being my co-listeners. And it really does feel, I'm not on my own. Thank you. All right. Speak to you soon. Bye. Sara Brown calling. Yes, the arches family is spending money. They haven't got yet. Kenton's giving money to Fallon and burial. This, the arches family are going to piss more people off by someone sitting on Twitter, actually. The arches family are going to piss more people off by staying than they were by going. Because everyone is spending the money. Yes. And when they don't go, what will the harvest be? We ask ourselves. Hello, lovely Lucy. Hello, lovely Royfield. It's Alison here who tweets as cheers, which you've done very well, I think, pronouncing, although it is difficult. It's less of the English trills and more of that broad, new-willing, quiet cheers. All right, Paul. Yeah. Cheers. That's how we do that. Anyway, two things. The first is a brief plot prediction, which has to do with Rob's really ramping up the creepiness to the next level here with pressuring Helen so hard to have a baby. Sort of out of the bloom? That's like Rob, you already have a baby. We all know you have a baby. You just don't want that baby. You want a different baby. But I think that we are going to have a deathbed scene with Tony, and Tony will beg Helen not to shackle herself biologically to this horrible person because Tony loves his daughter and he knows she doesn't want to hear this, but he just has to say it in case he doesn't make it the pathos, you know, and I think this will be what wakes Helen up to what's really been going on, which will be torn between her love for her father and her love for Rob, but in the end, you know, well, hopefully in the end, you know, the archers will prevail. So that's my plot prediction. The other is sort of totally nothing to do with the archers at all. We were in the States for Christmas and flying back. My husband got to go in the quick line when you have a British passport. You get to stand in the fast line and I got to stand in the line that moves at a snail's pace and flashes up all these things like we're making sure that illegal immigrants aren't coming into the country and we're going to put them in cattle cars and transport them by train out to Norfolk and make them sit there and think about what they did. But on screens above the queue, where these little films displaying things about Britain, which you might enjoy as a visitor, now there was no sound on these, but at the end, the credit said narrator Harriet Carmichael and I thought, well, how interesting, if I could actually hear this narration, perhaps this mini film of the royal wedding would be narrated by Linda Snell and how wonderful that would be. So I do encourage the home office and the border force people to install speakers, speakers so we can all hear the history of Stonehenge as recorded by Ruth Archer because that would really make my day the next time I have to fly into Heathrow. Love the podcast, as always, listen to it all the time, go in and out of work, it's great, it makes my day. So yeah, everybody be good, she is. And Alison Segan-Tala, who tells us that Harriet Carmichael voices the film that they play at immigration when you get stuck at passport control flight. You're allowed to moonlight away from Duntey Duntey. Well, I don't think so, not considering the vast amount we're paying her. It's only that because of support specificity, Harriet, we might want to look at the small print in our contract, but I don't completely understand why they pay a film with no sound on and then tell you who's voicing it. That rather seems to, I suppose if anything is going to sum up British administration, that would do it. We are going to give credit for the voiceover to a silent film. Yes, welcome to Britain. And that's the end of the calls. Alright, well, I'll tell you what then, why don't you pop out, put the cut line and then we'll have a commercial break. OK. Fancy getting your mouth around something warm, something comforting you can really get a firm grip on, why not buy a Duntey Dun mode from the shop at Dunteedum.com, goes down lovely. How was your copper? Lovely. And it's been toboggan to talk. I'm going to read the rest of the bloody script. Alright, shall we do your #TheArcherSuitsOfTheWeek? Yes. Or is it the #ArcherSuitsOfTheFortnite? Oh, God, don't. Of the festive period. Yes, the festive holiday season of Joyful Less, you know, the awful sounding young farmers party that Josh got horribly ill at. Dr Sally Huxterball, the doctor speaking, said, "Fakes, no, yay, God, this young farmer's event sounds like the night circle of hell." Yes, it did to me as well. "If we had any ham," said, "Josh was understandably excited about a date with his sister, #InSest." Barefoot Moa said, "I get the feeling Carole toboggan is supposed to be wise, only most of what she says is bollocks." Sarah Sea Grey replied, "Yes, but she has reduced daytime drinking, which in the absence of Lillian is welcome." And Ginger Beans, once again, who does some incredibly astute and very funny and rude tweets, said, he's tweeted the week, quote, "Getting drunkenly bummed by a man in a kilt behind the bins at a party, who said rudeback to his sister?" "I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, drunkenly bummed, did he make me cry with laughing?" "I've forgotten about the kilt." "I think we're almost done, but before we say that we're actually beat over, why don't we rush over down under and hear what Millie Bell has reported to be happening on Facebook?" Happy New Year to all of our listeners from Millie Bell here in Australia. I'm pleased to say that we have 573 people who like our page, so my New Year's resolution is to find 27 more like-minded people who can join in the fun, so if you know someone, please invite them. We've had some quite a bit of activity on the Facebook page, I know that all of us will be weeping with Royfield because Fallon is now, of course, taken, so Royfield's chances are pretty slim and there were some comments about some previous episodes when we all first started listening and what our big event was, but one of the questions we asked you for is what will be the news resolutions for our Enbridge residents? And there were a number of suggestions, Helen will resolve to be less willful and try harder to please her man, Said Ruth Simpson. I think she had the irony button on there, that Joanne Truth said, "Linda will take Robert into the lay-by to investigate the mysterious flashing car headlights and discover a new hobby." I think you're being a little cheeky there, Jo. Alison Butler said that Jennifer will limit her decorating budget to five figures and Brian will learn how to turn the cooker on. Jan Mitchell says, "Helen will resolve to find her spine and push it back where it belongs. Titchinon will resolve to go back to Jess and help her raise the baby he gave her and Linda will resolve to work on her sniff a little bit, some fine-tuning, perhaps. Fabulous felon, nope, I've got nothing." So a range of answers, but as ever, someone meshing Lillian always attracts my eye, Mark Evans says that Lillian's news resolution will be more gin darling. So in the spirit of more gin darling, I'm going to go and have some myself. Have a great week everyone. Now we are definitely almost over. So we are loving your pictures, folks, of you in your dummy-dumb pyjamas, drinking tea out of your dummy-dumb mugs, and what? And driving your dumpty-dumb cars. We don't know. I put that on. I thought you could now buy an Audi that's sponsored by us. An Audi RX, I thought we'd have. Lucy there's no such thing. We can't say stuff like that because somebody somewhere will try. We'll try. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. And let me play Lillian's and tell us that we're going to make capital gains tax on it. Well folks. Oh no, he texted us to you now. I forgot to say, sorry. He emails me now from his holidays. He's like postcards. Mm-hmm. They're all written in like drunken capitals, some of it, everything's randomly capitalised. Where is he now? Here, Cosmo here, here being Saigon. Mm-hmm. I think he's been chased by Interpol. I hope you will all be nice about Kate's husband, as he has lost his job. Good luck, Connie. Does Charlie deserve a sympathise if being pursued by Kate? Looking forward to 2015. Yes. I don't think he's going to be pursued by Kate very much longer, to be honest, unless Charlie plays for both teams. Oh. I don't think he does. That would be good. That would be brilliant. The brother and the sister. Oh, dear. Oh no, I'm all up for that storyline. I really am. Forget Carol and her tea. I'll give you that. Yeah, that'd be fantastic. Anyway, so go on to www.dumbdumb.com and go to shop, eating by stuff. But remember, remember, remember, we want to see the photographic evidence of you looking resplendent with your dumb, dumb merch. Did you see the lady in the pajamas drinking from the mug and reading Jennifer Archer's cookbook? That was like the most awesome picture ever. Try and top that. That was HATIC. Yeah, that was very, very cool. Now, if you want to start off the new year with a bit of organisation, you can go to patreon.com, which is P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com and search for "dumb to dumb" and you can give us a donation if you want, it's $2.00 a show, which is about $1.30 in real money, which will pay for the tea bags that Lucy goes through whilst she's writing the monologue. Now, remember, in his own year donation, you don't have to do it, but if you did it, you'd be most excellent and most awesome. Right. It's my favourite bit of the show, drum roll. It's what you've all been waiting for, reviews, news, news of reviews. But by my very tone, I think you've probably worked out folks that haven't been any now. Sorry. I know I should take this bit more. Yeah, you really should because when the show goes down the pan because no one's listening, I'll say, and you weren't helping matters, Lucy. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm contract. It is an important metric as to how many people listen to the show, as to how many reviews we have. And if we don't have any reviews, it means that we struggle to grow the listenership to this wonderful thing that we call "dumpty-dum". I've moaned on frequent podcasts about the lack of reviews. I will not do that today other than I am pointing my finger at all of you who haven't written a review. Easy, no. Mmm, my big stick has been waved in your direction. Now remember, you can also send us- Is that after you've lifted it off the footstool? Sorry. You're so rude. So rude. So rude. Remember, you can also send us a voicemail message via the site where you can call us on O203-03-13-105 from a regular phone to leave some message. You can also ping us a text message if you like, or you can find us on the Twitter's where we are @dumdum, or you can tweet me @royfield, which is our live India F-I-E-L-D. Or me @newcv-fremen. And I've just found the picture of the lady with the hat-trick mugshot as she called it, and it was Mary Lattisk. So thank you very much, Mary Lattisk, and Mary Lattisk has set the bar height for us to have to have your photograph taken in, but no sense but you get what I'm talking about. But don't be intimidated by it being that high. If you can't jump the bar that high and you will set it low for yourself. So please, please, please keep those reviews coming because you want to be taught by the podcast charts before Carol Toboggan starts handing out syringes. Hello, this is Sarah Brown again. This is a serious message really for Royfield about your brother's situation about staying in the UK and having all those dreadful dealings with the home office. I can't do anything for you. I so, so wish I could. I hope somebody does. I hope he gets to stay. I love to you, and I hope things resolve themselves as they should. Thank you. The way when I say the way I think they should, he should stay. He should be welcomed and loved and embraced by everyone. Thank you. Bye. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your kind offers of support for the situation with my brother, Mohammed. The situation is that he has been refused asylum is appeal has been lost. However, as he's been in the country for over six years, he can appeal against it. His solicitor is in the process of making his appeal now. So, let's all kind of cross our fingers and let's hope that his appeal will be successful. But it really touched me and obviously, Mohammed and my mother when we got messages of people saying, "Where can I write a petition? Is there a defense fund?" There is none of those things just yet. We believe we've got a really good case because as I said before, he's been in the country now for six years. He's gone through school. He's working. He has a supportive wider family, i.e. us, and fingers crossed. We can win it. But actually, thank you Sarah. Thank you everybody else that's kind of emailed and tweeted, but we will definitely keep you all informed. Did you get the message, did you see the tweet from Philippa Davies? I sent that to you, didn't I? Oh, yes I did. So thank you also for that Philippa. It just goes to show what a lovely kind of community of, not just of arches listeners that we have, just of people that we have that are part of this kind of general, kind of craziness and madness, and also that this is a vehicle for me just to blather on about yes, my love of the arches, but also other things that are happening in and around my life and ditto for Lucy, and just to have so many messages of support, you know, absolutely did touch me, and I did put up on Facebook, I can't remember if I tweeted it, but I did put up on Facebook, on Christmas day, I skyped homes, and Mohammed was there. Oh, I saw the picture of you and you and him and his, so yeah, him and your mum. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, they were snuggled up together and stuff and yeah, so thank you everybody again. And also, thank you for offers of support and action for the totally spontaneous grassroots movement, which has had no prompting from us at all to try and get us on. It's uncanny, isn't it, how a grassroots movement can just start all across the country simultaneously? Absolutely, absolutely. And the only thing that those people had in common was that they all listened to our podcast. All right, everybody, listen, it's been, I've quite enjoyed this one, Lucy. Do you not normally then? No, no, no, of course I do, but you know, I definitely, I'm still somewhat kind of chastened by people telling me that was horrible to you a couple of shows ago. So if you notice, I was completely on my best behaviour. You were, you were very good. Yeah, yeah, I think it actually took away the edge from, from my performance and you know, but, but still, if that's what people want, that's what they want, that's what they shall get. Oh, it's an exaggerated Macy that was passive aggressive. I have really got enough Adam, you know, and nothing at all to do with these like little Pavel slip up and then Charlie slip up, but just the whole, yeah, he slipped twice, but it went in the same place both times, that's what it was. Well, we don't know what he did. Oh, come on. There was no drunken bumming, was there, lower locks, that was just a kiss, that was just a kiss. Yes. Well, we don't know. For all we know, Charlie's quilt might have been up over his head, you don't know what, don't know what and then saw, do we? We don't, we don't, we don't know what Helen saw, but you know, it's good, don't, isn't it? It is good. That is the power of a radio drama. You don't know what she saw. See, now I'm not pissed off about the story line anymore. No, even. I'm excited and, you know, it's kind of like, oh, next one, next one, because, you know, and I'm bought, I don't care what happens to Roy anymore, I'm bored of that. And I can't believe in the summer, I spent a week worrying about Roy and Elizabeth and then Haley, and now I'm like, la, la, la, don't care. Anyway, Adam and Ian, what's that? No, no, no, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. I tell you what, right? We could be on for some male mental health issue storylines with Roy Tucker. Roy. Yeah. I'll be, you know, it's one of... I still think, I still think he's going to end up with Lizzie. Well... I don't think that she, she's just gone, la, la, la, la, la. No, no, no, no. Well, the way that this whole thing has been plotted at the moment, you don't know what the hell is coming next. So, you know, what your guess is as good as mine, however, absolutely make up as you go along. However, when men come out of relationships, whether these, whether these are emotional relationships, or just relationships to do with authority come out of the army, or any kind of institution, if they do not have something to go to pretty quickly, the amount of male health issues that then it spawns a legion, you know, the amount of, you know, Roy's not going to become homeless or anything like that, but, you know, homelessness, rates of homelessness of men that are recently divorced or separated is off the scale when men come out of the army, etc, etc, when they come out of a situation which is structured and going to something new, men can quite often go off the rails. So, this could well be a signpost of that. And again, it's one of the reasons why I think it was absolutely brilliant, the way that that was played, that he was reaching out for any form of love, support, affection, normality, normality, that's what he wants. He just wants something just to steal. What it's mirroring is Daryl, except because Daryl had a blue collar job, you know, he was skint and he was slightly more, you know, he had alcohol abuse problems and all that. Everybody was much snotier about him, but now we've got a lower middle class bloke who owns his own home and, you know, has a wife and two children and a working wife and responsible job and blah, blah, blah, blah, but the same thing is happening. He's falling to pieces in the same way. Now, listen, absolutely, and I think if we can have a proper study and investigation of that as opposed to, oh, then he resends up with Lizzie, you know, that would be brilliant, absolutely brilliant because what the archers have done this year is highlight the issue of gas lighting, something, you know, a term which I wasn't aware of and it was done in such a sensitive and realistic way that people can now very much understand that abuse doesn't need to be somebody necessarily shouting at you or hitting you, you know, there are much more subtle ways of abuse and I think one of the things that we don't address in society is male mental health issues and this could be a way for that issue to be highlighted and you're completely right about Darryl because... But I thought it was going to be with the Darryl storyline and then all of a sudden, nope, it's off, gone, he's disappeared, he's living in a caravan, oh no, he's gone, he's got work now, that's it, disappeared, the whole family's gone. You can't deal responsibly with a story, you can't raise those kind of issues and then just yack the plug out and say, oh, well, no, sorry, definitely not doing that story line anymore, that's not on. But I think Kerry told us did, didn't he, that this was... Oh, he said it's not a move. Well, no, he said it was the new broom, wasn't it? It was the new broom, surely coming in and thinking, you know what, I don't like the story line, so it was wrapped up so fast that it was actually, you know, it wasn't satisfying at all. I think the phrase is in decent taste. Absolutely, absolutely, but anyway, let's see what 2015 holds for Roy Tokker still don't like him, but I'm interested to see where the story line and where him as a character goes. Yay! Now, can we say goodbye? Yes! Good, bye. Goodbye. Oh, by the way, and just before, just before we go, before we go, because I'm just plugging my stuff, I am just by the end of the week, I will have a new podcast up, I think, called Ten American Presidents, and the first episode is about Nixon, and it's narrated. Some of the listeners will know of the work of Dan Carling, who is probably, no, probably about it, one of the foremost podcasters in the world, and he talks about the life of President Nixon, and I've cut it together, and it's Ten American Presidents, Search for it on iTunes, the first episode should be up by Thursday, Friday, I quite like it, and I'd be pleased to know what other people think of it, too. Lucy? Yes. Oh, good, yeah. All right. I didn't know when, I was leaving editing space. No, you'd nodded off. I hadn't, I hadn't. Should I chip in? And then I thought, no, because it doesn't do with these, but I'll just sit here nice and quiet. And how was War and Peace? It was nackering, but very good fun, yes, very good fun. Cool. And lots of you, dumpedy-dumb people, leapt on the hashtag, and talked about Root B-Ski, and things like that. And at one stage, the head of digital said, "Who are all these people talking about it? Who doesn't assume it's Ambridge?" And I had to put my hand up, so I'm sorry, I think there might be something to do with me, which made me feel like it was quite funny. I just made me feel like I had brought in the naughty boys into the back of the class, which was quite funny. Well done. Well done, you're me. I know. I am breaking the institution of the BBC from the inside out. Good for you. And listen, and on that note, we're going to break my Wi-Fi here. So I have to go. All right. All right. Thank you. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Do you ever think about switching insurance companies to see if you could save some cash? 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Dum Tee Dum Episode 40 – New Year, same old stuff
New Year, same old stuff
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