Beef And Dairy Network - Episode 51 - Live At The European Barn Doors And Gates Expo
Episode Date: September 22, 2019Dave Cribb, Mike Wozniak, Nadia Kamil and Mike Bubbins join us for this live episode, recorded at this year's European Barn Doors And Gates Expo. By Benjamin Partridge, Dave Cribb, Mike Wozniak, Nadia... Kamil and Mike Bubbins.
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                                         Hello, and welcome to the Beef and Dairy Network podcast, the number one podcast for those
                                         
                                         involved, or just interested, in the production of beef animals and dairy herds.
                                         
                                         This edition of the podcast is a very special one, as it's being recorded in front of a
                                         
                                         live audience at the annual European Barn Doors and Gates Expo, the world's largest
                                         
                                         sales expo for barn doors and gates.
                                         
                                         The expo is this year being organised by the european union and that guy who did fire festival and is sponsored by
                                         
    
                                         mitchell's europe if it's not mitchell's europe get back in the gondola the expo traces its roots
                                         
                                         back to a young door salesman peter warren who would go door to door trying to sell his wares
                                         
                                         sadly going door to door is a peculiarly bad way of selling doors,
                                         
                                         as everyone you meet has already got a door.
                                         
                                         And so the Expo was born.
                                         
                                         Our first guest is a friend of the show, a leading bovine arse-fet.
                                         
                                         He's been employed by the European Barn Door and Gate Expo
                                         
                                         as an official celebrity brand ambassador.
                                         
    
                                         Please welcome bovine arse-fet Bob Truscothick!
                                         
                                         Thank you. Thank you.
                                         
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         Thank you for coming. Hi, Bob.
                                         
                                         How are things going? How is being a celebrity
                                         
                                         brand ambassador? It's
                                         
                                         incredibly exciting. Yeah, it's absolutely
                                         
                                         lovely. It's a privilege, isn't it, really?
                                         
    
                                         What does being a celebrity brand
                                         
                                         ambassador mean in this context, really?
                                         
                                         To be honest, if it's a product you love, then it involves nothing at all.
                                         
                                         You just live as you've always lived.
                                         
                                         I mean, it's not my first rodeo.
                                         
                                         You know, I've promoted products in the past, as possibly you're aware.
                                         
                                         Hoof sandals.
                                         
                                         That was quite short-lived. There was a company, Mitchell's briefly made a sort of low-friction hand oil for vets in my specialty.
                                         
    
                                         Tab clear as well.
                                         
                                         There was a bit of controversy about the hand oil, though, because you famously like to go in dry, don't you?
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         But that takes years to be able to work out how to do.
                                         
                                         But that takes years to be able to work out how to do and to be able to sort of adapt the sort of lymphatic drainage of your arm
                                         
                                         so that you're constantly emitting a sort of slight sebum from your hand.
                                         
                                         So when I say going dry, it's not technically perfectly dry.
                                         
                                         I see.
                                         
    
                                         So it's more for beginners.
                                         
                                         And as a bovine arse vet, you're a good fit, I think, for this expo.
                                         
                                         As, of course, the anus is sort of the barn door of the cow, isn't it?
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         Yeah, that's very true.
                                         
                                         In fact, I mean, one of the first books you get on day one of veterinary school
                                         
                                         is called Die Schuhe und Tore der Kuh by Julia Fleischenfrau,
                                         
                                         which is the definitive text.
                                         
    
                                         Because it is like a barn door, really.
                                         
                                         Because, obviously, people think of it principally as an exit point for the arse. the definitive text because it is like a barn door really because obviously
                                         
                                         people think of it principally as an exit point
                                         
                                         for the arse
                                         
                                         but it's an entry point as well
                                         
                                         for many commensal organisms
                                         
                                         vets
                                         
                                         hobbyists
                                         
    
                                         curious ramblers
                                         
                                         yeah
                                         
                                         so it goes very much both ways
                                         
                                         and as you've been saying in Vet and Helicopter,
                                         
                                         it's amazing what you can find
                                         
                                         if you do let into your curiosity
                                         
                                         and put your hand up a cow's arse.
                                         
                                         Oh, it's an absolute treasure trove.
                                         
    
                                         I mean, obviously, you can literally find objects there.
                                         
                                         Pocket watch?
                                         
                                         Pocket watch, yeah.
                                         
                                         I mean, in the late 90s,
                                         
                                         there were a lot of ramblers
                                         
                                         who were doing kind of,
                                         
                                         inspired by Annika Rice,
                                         
                                         doing a lot of sort of treasure hunt type things
                                         
    
                                         and leaving clues and things in bovine rectums.
                                         
                                         And there are still some remnants of that sort of thing.
                                         
                                         It's more about what you find in yourself
                                         
                                         when you're up to your shoulder in a cow.
                                         
                                         Now, I believe as part of the Staffordshire Ambassadorship,
                                         
                                         you've actually been given the honour
                                         
                                         of being able to design your own signature
                                         
                                         Bob Trescothic edition barn door.
                                         
    
                                         Right, yes, yes.
                                         
                                         Is that for sale?
                                         
                                         Some teething problems with the sort of sales end of things.
                                         
                                         At the moment, it's really sort of commemorative.
                                         
                                         We have only built one, which has, you know, been a success visually,
                                         
                                         if you sort of stand well back from the actual barn itself.
                                         
                                         Yeah, well, there have been problems reported in the newspaper.
                                         
                                         There's a report saying that it's so secure
                                         
    
                                         that it creates a perfect vacuum inside the barn.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         So, I mean, it was modelled on,
                                         
                                         it brought together my passion and my specialty with barn doors.
                                         
                                         So, obviously, it was modelled on not just a cow's anus,
                                         
                                         but a heifer's anus, really,
                                         
                                         a noliparous cow
                                         
                                         unbirthed
                                         
    
                                         some of you may not be vets but obviously when a cow
                                         
                                         gives birth
                                         
                                         same as with a female
                                         
                                         woman
                                         
                                         then the anus
                                         
                                         is typically like a
                                         
                                         casserole at the end of that
                                         
                                         so we wanted the end of that.
                                         
    
                                         So we wanted the sort of visual aesthetics
                                         
                                         to be beautiful
                                         
                                         but then this functionality
                                         
                                         you want to...
                                         
                                         So hang on.
                                         
                                         The design you've gone for
                                         
                                         does it look like
                                         
                                         a post-birth
                                         
    
                                         No, no.
                                         
                                         It looks like the perfect
                                         
                                         Pre-casserole.
                                         
                                         Pre-casserole. Socasserole so it's a
                                         
                                         really lovely glossy sheen to it yeah uh functionally when you say casserole do you mean
                                         
                                         the food stuff or the sort of le crusé pan that you'd make it in i mean more if you think sort
                                         
                                         of linker's your hot pot um if it's been kicked over by an alpaca um yeah and obviously it dropped
                                         
                                         the the inner sphincter draws out the foul odors you know and the idea was the inner sphincter draws out the foul odours,
                                         
    
                                         and the idea was the outer sphincter would bring in...
                                         
                                         You're talking about the barn door now.
                                         
                                         The barn door, but then we actually, unfortunately,
                                         
                                         it was so strong that we created a sort of pressure lock
                                         
                                         in the inner sphincter's space,
                                         
                                         and that in turn then sort of sucked literally every bit of air out of there.
                                         
                                         But it's a very good way of storing wheat.
                                         
                                         But if you've got livestock in there,
                                         
    
                                         then, I mean, everything in that barn will be dead within moments.
                                         
                                         It's true that you're not being paid in money for the ambassadorship.
                                         
                                         You are being paid in doors.
                                         
                                         They've done out your whole house, I hear.
                                         
                                         Oh, it's an absolute treat.
                                         
                                         It's absolutely lovely.
                                         
                                         We actually... We did make a couple of mistakes because initially we just went for just saloon doors. They've done out your whole house, I hear. Oh, it's an absolute treat. Yeah. It's absolutely lovely.
                                         
                                         We actually, we did make a couple of mistakes because initially we just went for just saloon doors throughout.
                                         
    
                                         Internally as well?
                                         
                                         Yeah, internally and externally.
                                         
                                         The external doors, they were problematic,
                                         
                                         particularly the conservatory glass saloon door.
                                         
                                         They shattered several of those
                                         
                                         during the course of a single barbecue.
                                         
                                         Some very badly injured guests.
                                         
                                         The cellar door, which is just in the floor of our kitchen as well.
                                         
    
                                         They don't really work in the vertical.
                                         
                                         Yeah, very much needs to be, yeah.
                                         
                                         But we've replaced a couple of those saloon doors now,
                                         
                                         a couple of cattle grids.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it's absolutely joyous.
                                         
                                         Pop over sometime. Have a look.
                                         
                                         I will.
                                         
                                         How's the guy from Fyre Festival doing?
                                         
    
                                         He is okay, I think.
                                         
                                         I thought he was in prison.
                                         
                                         That's the thing that was surprising to me.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but I mean, this expo is all about second chances, isn't it?
                                         
                                         It's about barn doors and gates, principally.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but it's...
                                         
                                         But yeah, in the interest of giving him a second chance,
                                         
                                         so yeah, they allowed him to curate this year.
                                         
    
                                         So the US let him out of prison?
                                         
                                         They let him out of prison.
                                         
                                         He was supposed to come here.
                                         
                                         He has been hands-off so far.
                                         
                                         Because the photos on Instagram look like he's in the Caribbean
                                         
                                         with a load of models. Yes, that's right. That seems to on Instagram look like he's in the Caribbean with a load of models.
                                         
                                         Yes, that's right. That seems to be where...
                                         
                                         In what sense can he be said to be running this
                                         
    
                                         expo? He's a delegator
                                         
                                         with an easily
                                         
                                         forgeable signature.
                                         
                                         So everyone
                                         
                                         seems to be happy at the moment.
                                         
                                         Obviously, all the audience here have been in and around
                                         
                                         the expo. If you were here yesterday, you would
                                         
                                         have seen 3pm on the big stage.
                                         
    
                                         You were doing some veterinary work, a big demo for everyone to watch.
                                         
                                         Anyone see that?
                                         
                                         Yesterday, I watched you spay an eagle.
                                         
                                         Absolutely amazing stuff.
                                         
                                         Well, I just want to make sure that people know it's not all about cow's arses.
                                         
                                         For me, that I am a generalist, trained as a...
                                         
                                         Because you are a bovine arse, but that's your... That's my that's my specialty but i just you know it's about perceptions and i want to
                                         
                                         broaden out and in terms of the eagle yeah i mean i mean if anything's got you know if if a creature
                                         
    
                                         has got ovaries or or bollocks um i can pretty much work out roughly where they are and um
                                         
                                         and i can uh i can chop them off pretty much painlessly. Pretty sure eagles don't have either of those, so...
                                         
                                         But, you know, I'm a generalist,
                                         
                                         so, yes, I can hook a gecko up to a dialysis machine, sure.
                                         
                                         Treat a squid for hay fever.
                                         
                                         Sure.
                                         
                                         Because people think of you as a bovine arse-whip.
                                         
                                         Are you worried about being pigeonholed?
                                         
    
                                         Well, that's what I'm trying.
                                         
                                         Yesterday, we put some tits on a hippo.
                                         
                                         You know,
                                         
                                         it's not all functional.
                                         
                                         Some of it's kind of
                                         
                                         cosmetic as well.
                                         
                                         Yeah?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         How does it look?
                                         
                                         It looks a bit odd,
                                         
                                         I would say.
                                         
                                         But hippos
                                         
                                         are not particularly
                                         
                                         vain creatures,
                                         
                                         so I don't think
                                         
                                         the hippo minds.
                                         
    
                                         The other hippos
                                         
                                         have taken very badly
                                         
                                         against it.
                                         
                                         Where did you put the tits?
                                         
                                         Forehead.
                                         
                                         Thank you, Bob Jaskowicz.
                                         
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                                         Next, we welcome a singer-songwriter
                                         
    
                                         who has been commissioned by the European Barn Doors and Gates Expo
                                         
                                         to create a piece of music to mark this occasion.
                                         
                                         Samuel Renouf has worked with some of the best in the business
                                         
                                         and written songs to celebrate the British Hog Show
                                         
                                         and the Grain Silo Operators of America Centenary Ball.
                                         
                                         But I truly think that this is some of his best work.
                                         
                                         Performing his new song, Where Would We Be Without Doors,
                                         
                                         please welcome Samuel Renouf.
                                         
    
                                         APPLAUSE
                                         
                                         Where would we be without doors
                                         
                                         Just four walls, a roof and a floor
                                         
                                         No way in or out
                                         
                                         Without them about
                                         
                                         There is no in or out doors
                                         
                                         When one door closes, another one opens
                                         
                                         Because I got my barn doors fitted cheaply
                                         
    
                                         When one door closes, another one opens
                                         
                                         I wish I'd bought from a reputable seller
                                         
                                         Where would we be without doors?
                                         
                                         Just four walls, a roof and a floor
                                         
                                         No way in or out without them about
                                         
                                         There is no in or out doors
                                         
                                         When God closes a door, he opens a window
                                         
                                         Because he's gone for a shit. When God closes a
                                         
    
                                         door, he opens a window. I'd give it five minutes if I was you. Where would we be without doors?
                                         
                                         Just four walls, a roof, and a floor. No way in or out without them about
                                         
                                         there is no
                                         
                                         in or out
                                         
                                         doors
                                         
                                         in or out
                                         
                                         doors
                                         
                                         applause
                                         
    
                                         applause
                                         
                                         applause
                                         
                                         Now it's time to meet someone who's
                                         
                                         appeared on the show a number of times before.
                                         
                                         For most of his life, he ran his slaughterhouse
                                         
                                         until it was shut down by the Food Standards Agency.
                                         
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                                         Please welcome Eli Roberts!
                                         
    
                                         Eli Roberts!
                                         
                                         Hi, Eli.
                                         
                                         Hi.
                                         
                                         How are you doing?
                                         
                                         Why?
                                         
                                         Lots to catch up with you on.
                                         
                                         The last time we heard from you,
                                         
                                         the Korean government had shut down your 30,000-seater church of Eli Maga Church.
                                         
    
                                         40,000.
                                         
                                         40,000-seater church of Eli Maga Church? 40,000. 40,000-seater church of Eli Maga Church?
                                         
                                         Minimum.
                                         
                                         And your whereabouts were unknown?
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         Rightly enough.
                                         
                                         Maybe you could sort of tell us what's happened between then and now.
                                         
                                         I could, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Shall I?
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
                                         Well.
                                         
                                         After the church was
                                         
                                         dissolved,
                                         
                                         I went back to live
                                         
                                         in the Demildre zone.
                                         
                                         And you had previously lived there before, and you found great happiness
                                         
    
                                         there, I believe. I had, yeah.
                                         
                                         It made me hard sink, if I'm honest.
                                         
                                         I felt at home there, yeah.
                                         
                                         What was it about the DMZ that made you feel...
                                         
                                         Oh, just nice, innit?
                                         
                                         You know?
                                         
                                         I mean, I like fresh food.
                                         
                                         There was plenty of food there.
                                         
    
                                         Chuck a mine in there, eat a bird.
                                         
                                         You know? Nice.
                                         
                                         So you returned to the DMZ.
                                         
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         Was it everything you wanted?
                                         
                                         No, it crushed me, if I'm honest.
                                         
                                         I was a broken man.
                                         
                                         You weren't happy?
                                         
    
                                         I wasn't happy.
                                         
                                         It was like, I think in your mind,
                                         
                                         you paint a picture in your mind
                                         
                                         of what it's going to be like,
                                         
                                         and you have these thoughts,
                                         
                                         and you realise you can never rediscover that.
                                         
                                         I would say, you know when you're born?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Right?
                                         
                                         Now, I think we'd all agree that in the womb, we were happy.
                                         
                                         Do you think?
                                         
                                         Everything there for us.
                                         
                                         We could go to the toilet whenever we liked.
                                         
                                         We could eat whenever we liked, right?
                                         
                                         We could sleep whenever we liked.
                                         
                                         You could eat whatever you like in the womb?
                                         
    
                                         Within reason, yes.
                                         
                                         And then you're born, and that's nice.
                                         
                                         That's nice?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         How is it nice?
                                         
                                         Well, it's nice.
                                         
                                         You know, you change the scenery.
                                         
                                         I've been stuck in that fucking womb for nine months.
                                         
    
                                         And you come out and it's nice.
                                         
                                         You know, and you grow up and you do whatever.
                                         
                                         But, you know, you never want to go back to the womb.
                                         
                                         Because, I mean, just saying.
                                         
                                         I mean, you know, when he went back to the similarized zone,
                                         
                                         it was heartbreaking, if I'm honest.
                                         
                                         It wasn't the same?
                                         
                                         No, it was not the same. It was horrible.
                                         
    
                                         Why was it horrible? It sounds like
                                         
                                         it was the same as it was before. Because I'd done it all,
                                         
                                         and I'd seen those things, and I'd experienced it.
                                         
                                         And life is a journey, all right?
                                         
                                         It's not a full stop. It's at best
                                         
                                         a semicolon.
                                         
                                         Right? You pause now and again,
                                         
                                         and you move on. I'd done all. I'd blown up
                                         
    
                                         birds and eaten squirrels. Right?
                                         
                                         I'd been laughed at by North and you move on. I'd done all. I'd blown up birds. I'd eaten squirrels. I'd been laughed at by North
                                         
                                         and South Korean guards.
                                         
                                         I'd lived that life.
                                         
                                         No point going back. You can't
                                         
                                         recapture it.
                                         
                                         You're now back in the UK, so you've obviously
                                         
                                         left the DMC.
                                         
    
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         You just flew back? No, I walked back.
                                         
                                         I walked back.
                                         
                                         You walked from Korea to the UK?
                                         
                                         That's right.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         I did, actually, yeah.
                                         
                                         Why?
                                         
    
                                         I haven't got a passport.
                                         
                                         Also, we did on the flight in front.
                                         
                                         I mean, I haven't got a passport, so, you know, I lost my passport.
                                         
                                         Yeah, well, it was withdrawn, should we say.
                                         
                                         I mean, I'm not a monarchist, number one.
                                         
                                         I disagree with the monarchy.
                                         
                                         What does the passport have to do with the monarchy?
                                         
                                         Well, it's like a queen's passport.
                                         
    
                                         I didn't agree with the wording for a kick-off.
                                         
                                         And then I didn't like the very concept of not being free.
                                         
                                         You know, I could wander where I will.
                                         
                                         And thirdly, I beat a bloke to death with a shoe.
                                         
                                         Because they took my shoes off me on the way to Corfu once
                                         
                                         and I wanted to prove
                                         
                                         the ridiculousness of the situation.
                                         
                                         You can just as easily beat a man to death
                                         
    
                                         with that shoe
                                         
                                         as having an explosive in the heel of that shoe.
                                         
                                         So he's proven a point
                                         
                                         by taking my fucking passport off me for it.
                                         
                                         So you walked from Korea to the UK.
                                         
                                         That's a very potentially hazardous route. You're going through Siberia. I'm not weak, am I from Korea to the UK. That's a very
                                         
                                         potentially hazardous route. You're going through Siberia.
                                         
                                         I'm not weak, am I? That's the thing.
                                         
    
                                         I've been a weaker person. I mean, it's
                                         
                                         very much a journey like that. Sorts of wheat from
                                         
                                         the chaff. You know, I'm very much wheat.
                                         
                                         Right? So I went through
                                         
                                         Central Asia.
                                         
                                         I went via
                                         
                                         Syria as well. Right. Why?
                                         
                                         Well, I read about
                                         
    
                                         the journey on the road to Damascus
                                         
                                         I was inspired by that story in the Bible
                                         
                                         and I wanted to see what it was like
                                         
                                         on the actual road to Damascus
                                         
                                         and it was an eye opener
                                         
                                         I very much had a road to Damascus moment
                                         
                                         on the road to Damascus
                                         
                                         And what was that moment?
                                         
    
                                         What did it make you realize? Just had to
                                         
                                         go and spread the good word, like the gospel, according to Eli. It wasn't my place to stay in
                                         
                                         one area of the world. I very much had a global mission, you know, and I walked through Russia.
                                         
                                         I was raised in Russia, so for me it was like, you know, I was suckled by a she-wolf in the
                                         
                                         Siberian mountains. Old Old Russian Nicky there,
                                         
                                         bouncing me up and down on his knee.
                                         
                                         Lovely.
                                         
                                         And so, yeah, to walk through there
                                         
    
                                         was an absolute, it was a gift, really.
                                         
                                         Yeah?
                                         
                                         You know, lovely.
                                         
                                         You must have seen some amazing things
                                         
                                         on your travel.
                                         
                                         Not really.
                                         
                                         I'm very much about getting the job done.
                                         
                                         I just looked at the floor in front of me
                                         
    
                                         and kept walking, because you know,
                                         
                                         by the time you piss around
                                         
                                         and look at sights and that,
                                         
                                         you're falling behind.
                                         
                                         Before we came on, you were out there and you were
                                         
                                         vomiting copiously. Right.
                                         
                                         And you were saying, oh, I wish I hadn't gone that way.
                                         
                                         What did you mean by that? You're talking about my Chernobyl trip?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Great place. If you ever get a chance to go to Chernobyl,
                                         
                                         wonderful
                                         
                                         people out there.
                                         
                                         As a small child, I was a big
                                         
                                         fan of comic books, big fan of
                                         
                                         Incredible Hulk and
                                         
                                         Spider-Man and these people who
                                         
    
                                         have been bitten by radioactive spiders
                                         
                                         and subject to gamma
                                         
                                         radiation, right? Dr. David Banner.
                                         
                                         And I thought, what a fantastic
                                         
                                         chance. I didn't want
                                         
                                         to bypass the chance of walking through where the reactor had been.
                                         
                                         You know, I'd taken a couple of weeks in Chernobyl
                                         
                                         just to feel that power surging through me, that radioactive power.
                                         
    
                                         And I'm a changed man, I really am.
                                         
                                         I mean, I feel invigorated after that.
                                         
                                         And if you ever get a chance to sleep naked in the reactor core in Chernobyl,
                                         
                                         honest, I can recommend, it's fantastic.
                                         
                                         It is, it's very, very good. Has it affected you physically, do you think Honest, I can recommend. It's fantastic. It is.
                                         
                                         It's very good.
                                         
                                         Has it affected you physically,
                                         
                                         do you think?
                                         
    
                                         I think I'm stronger.
                                         
                                         I think I'm,
                                         
                                         on the downside,
                                         
                                         I'm less empathetic than I used to be.
                                         
                                         Well, you're back in Britain now.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I am.
                                         
                                         It's great you're here.
                                         
                                         You're establishing the church
                                         
    
                                         again in the UK. That's right. I mean, I've been hoping to establish. Yeah, I am. It's great you're here. You're establishing the church again in the UK.
                                         
                                         That's right.
                                         
                                         I mean, I've been hoping to establish,
                                         
                                         well, I think I will establish my church
                                         
                                         with the good book, of course,
                                         
                                         with the help of the good book.
                                         
                                         You've got a text?
                                         
                                         I've got a text, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         I've called it the,
                                         
                                         it's the Eli Roberts book of the book of Eli.
                                         
                                         One verse, one chapter,
                                         
                                         but it's about 400 pages long, right?
                                         
                                         But I think in there, encapsulated,
                                         
                                         is my sort of, my life is in's about 400 pages long, right? But I think in there, encapsulated, is my sort of...
                                         
                                         My life is in there for the kick-off, right?
                                         
                                         But also my attitude to life, right?
                                         
    
                                         And if you read that, there's no reason why you couldn't succeed.
                                         
                                         And you couldn't succeed in life.
                                         
                                         Okay, well, we've got an excerpt of your book.
                                         
                                         Oh, please read it.
                                         
                                         Of the audiobook version, and we're going to play it now.
                                         
                                         Are you happy for us to play it?
                                         
                                         Very happy, yes.
                                         
                                         Okay, wonderful.
                                         
    
                                         Well, here we go.
                                         
                                         This is a bit of your
                                         
                                         holy text.
                                         
                                         Before
                                         
                                         the slaughter
                                         
                                         everything was fine
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         all I had on my hands was time
                                         
    
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         Everything was fine
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         All I had on my hands was time
                                         
                                         Dear Mr and Mrs Roberts,
                                         
                                         this term, Eli has been a model student and a pleasure to teach.
                                         
                                         He's the politest, loveliest seven-year-old I've ever taught,
                                         
                                         and I hope you are proud of him.
                                         
    
                                         Yours, Mrs Sycamore.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter, everything was fine.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter, all I had on my hands was time.
                                         
                                         Dear Mr and Mrs Roberts, I'm writing to inform you that Eli has had another wonderful term.
                                         
                                         To reward him for his impeccable behaviour and hard work,
                                         
                                         term. To reward him for his impeccable behaviour and hard work,
                                         
                                         we would like to tell Eli that he
                                         
                                         may take the class pet,
                                         
    
                                         Boggles the guinea pig, home
                                         
                                         with him for the holidays.
                                         
                                         Please let us know if this is acceptable.
                                         
                                         Yours, Mrs. Sycamore.
                                         
                                         Before
                                         
                                         the slaughter,
                                         
                                         everything was fine.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
    
                                         All I had on my hands was time
                                         
                                         Dear Mr and Mrs Roberts,
                                         
                                         we are two weeks into the new term
                                         
                                         and every day Eli has claimed to have forgotten to bring in bargains.
                                         
                                         Please remind him to do so.
                                         
                                         Thank you, Mrs Ickamore.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter, everything was fine.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter, all I had on my hand was time.
                                         
    
                                         Dear Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, as I sit here in my classroom marking work,
                                         
                                         Eli is outside, staring at me through the window.
                                         
                                         And, well,
                                         
                                         he's just torn the head off a jackdaw
                                         
                                         and is wearing what is left
                                         
                                         of boggles as a hand puppet.
                                         
                                         Thank God
                                         
                                         it is the end of the school year.
                                         
    
                                         I hope during the school holidays you can do something
                                         
                                         to stop this behaviour.
                                         
                                         Oh, boggles, I'm so sorry. What did I do?
                                         
                                         For
                                         
                                         slaughter
                                         
                                         everything was fine.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter, all I had on my hands was time.
                                         
                                         Dear Mr and Mrs Roberts, I'm currently on holiday in Spain after a hard year.
                                         
    
                                         Look, I think Eli is here.
                                         
                                         He threw a searing hot paella at me earlier
                                         
                                         and he's currently eyeballing me from the surf
                                         
                                         wearing a jellyfish as a hat.
                                         
                                         Please, help!
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         Everything was fine
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter, all I had on my head was time.
                                         
    
                                         Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, he's now outside my hotel room.
                                         
                                         He's chanting boggles, boggles, and pushing crabs under the door.
                                         
                                         I don't know why I'm writing you a letter.
                                         
                                         This will take days to arrive.
                                         
                                         I just don't know what else to do.
                                         
                                         Eli, please stop!
                                         
                                         take days to arrive. I just don't know what else to do. Eli, please stop!
                                         
                                         Before
                                         
    
                                         the slaughter
                                         
                                         everything was fine.
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         all I had on
                                         
                                         my hand was time.
                                         
                                         Please! He's got
                                         
                                         through the door! Oh God, he's
                                         
                                         on my... He's dressed as
                                         
    
                                         boggles! He's a giant
                                         
                                         boggles. Oh Eli,
                                         
                                         what do you want from me?
                                         
                                         No!
                                         
                                         No!
                                         
                                         Before the
                                         
                                         slaughter,
                                         
                                         everything was fine.
                                         
    
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         All I had on my hands was time
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         Everything was fine
                                         
                                         Before the slaughter
                                         
                                         All I had on my hands was time.
                                         
                                         You've got a beautiful voice, Eli.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
    
                                         Now, when I texted you earlier
                                         
                                         to give you some information about this interview,
                                         
                                         you replied with the words,
                                         
                                         I look forward to the interview,
                                         
                                         to put the record straight,
                                         
                                         and to forcibly convert the audience to my church.
                                         
                                         Now, I don't know if you got my reply,
                                         
                                         but I just want to say that isn't appropriate.
                                         
    
                                         Well, I think you got my reply,
                                         
                                         which was I don't care what you think is appropriate. I think it is appropriate, so that's what I'm going to do it? Well, I think you got my reply, which was I don't care what you think is appropriate.
                                         
                                         I think it is appropriate, so that's what I'm going to do.
                                         
                                         Right, so what...
                                         
                                         Okay. What does the
                                         
                                         conversion... Well,
                                         
                                         I want to come to me of a free will.
                                         
                                         It's not like the Branch Davidian,
                                         
    
                                         but I mean, you've got two options. Join me,
                                         
                                         or I kill him.
                                         
                                         What kind of death can they look forward to
                                         
                                         if they decide not to convert? I think look forward to is the wrong
                                         
                                         word, but I mean,
                                         
                                         you can certainly expect, think about the church
                                         
                                         of Eli, we're not so much into life after
                                         
                                         death, very much into death
                                         
    
                                         after life.
                                         
                                         And I'll decide how, where
                                         
                                         and when. So,
                                         
                                         are you going to, what, how does the conversion work?
                                         
                                         Do you have to... I have to do a quick sermon,
                                         
                                         you know.
                                         
                                         I'm going to do a little sermon, if you don't mind.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
    
                                         Dearly beloved,
                                         
                                         welcome to the first
                                         
                                         meeting of the Church of Eli.
                                         
                                         St. Pancras chapter.
                                         
                                         I'd like to
                                         
                                         welcome you all.
                                         
                                         Book of Matthew says that
                                         
                                         let him who has ears to hear, hear. Book of Matthew says that let him who has ears to
                                         
    
                                         hear, hear.
                                         
                                         Book of Eli says, let him who
                                         
                                         has ears and doesn't hear
                                         
                                         have his ears cut off by Eli.
                                         
                                         Now, I want you to open your eyes to me.
                                         
                                         Open your eyes, not just
                                         
                                         in a metaphysical sense, but actually
                                         
                                         open your eyes. If you can't open your eyes
                                         
    
                                         I'll help you. I've got some caustic lye,
                                         
                                         some industrial
                                         
                                         strength bleach. I'm quite happy to pour that
                                         
                                         in the eyes for you, if it will help.
                                         
                                         Open your heart
                                         
                                         to me. Again,
                                         
                                         not just in a spiritual sense,
                                         
                                         actually open your heart to me. I've got
                                         
    
                                         a bone saw,
                                         
                                         which should make short work of the
                                         
                                         sternum.
                                         
                                         I've not got any scalpels on me as such, but I have got a torn up coke can.
                                         
                                         That should be sufficient to let me into your heart.
                                         
                                         And remember, there is no way to redemption but through me
                                         
                                         and specifically letting me go
                                         
                                         through you
                                         
    
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
    
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli
                                         
                                         Eli Eli Eli Eli Eli Eli I have had to cut the following audio.
                                         
                                         Those of you who may have been there will no doubt remember it for the rest of your lives.
                                         
                                         Which may not be that long, depending on how resilient you are to injuries.
                                         
                                         Anyway, back to the show.
                                         
                                         Okay, next we will sing the hymn that eli has taught us please everyone stand
                                         
    
                                         please sing along i submit myself to eli and to him I pledge my hope. I shall not desert him when he needs me, like
                                         
                                         his mega-church in Seoul. Oh, Eli, oh, Eli, oh, he'll set my head on fire. Oh, he'll set my head on fire
                                         
                                         Oh, he'll set my head on fire
                                         
                                         That was alright, but we need more in the second verse, please.
                                         
                                         I submit myself to Eli
                                         
                                         Unto him I pledge my house I will give him all my money and my cuddle, kids and spouse. Oh, he'll push me off the bridge.
                                         
                                         Oh, he'll push me off the bridge.
                                         
                                         That was good.
                                         
    
                                         Let's really give it some for the final verse.
                                         
                                         I submit myself to Eli,
                                         
                                         and to him I give my life
                                         
                                         I will do whatever he asks me
                                         
                                         Stab a pig with a red knife
                                         
                                         Oh, heavy life
                                         
                                         Oh, heavy life
                                         
                                         Oh, he'll kill me in my sleep Oh, he'll kill me in my sleep
                                         
    
                                         Thank you!
                                         
                                         Thank you!
                                         
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