Rural Concerns - Patreon peek | High Kulture

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

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This is high culture. I know. It's recording now. It's recording now, so I'm going to do it. Hello. Welcome to... James. Oh yeah, you can do that.

You can't be crunching away on a bit of toast while we start recording. I can mute myself. You haven't though. No, afterwards. For the people that count. Shouldn't have said anything. Okay, James has hit this recording with a lot of energy that I can't put my finger on, but I don't like it. It's scary. Hello and welcome to High Culture. This is a spin-off

podcast from Rural Concerns, the world's best podcast in which we free university educated thinkers discuss culture such as books, such as films, an album we haven't got there yet, but we might do one day, you know, um, clothes, we could talk about clothes, you know, basically it's, it's, it's, it's generic. We could talk about tailoring, I bet. Do you know what I mean? I've knowledge of tailoring. James knows all about tailoring.

Me and Sunil are getting into suits as well. You keep saying it, but I'm never seeing it. No, and I've just realized I'm wearing exactly the same green t-shirt that goes out on every single Instagram we have. It's because whatever brand it is. I've noticed it's super dry. I've noticed it's super dry. I feel very comfortable in it. Pure dad wear.

Pure dad wear feels great. But this is just an example of high culture. This is a way from the world of rural affairs. This is just a place where we can drop the pretense and just relax and be ourselves and discuss the matters of the day. This is probably going out in the main feed as well, so some of the people that probably wouldn't have experienced a high culture episode before because they're normally trapped behind a paywall. This is public. This is going to be public.

Stop your F's and your Jeff's. That doesn't stop us on the main podcast. Oh yeah, okay. Stop slandering Jeff? Stop your F's and your Jeff's. That doesn't stop us on the main podcast. Stop Slandering Jeff? Yeah, that's fine. I think the basic thing is that normally we do episodes of High Culture, we do a weekly bonus episode every Friday, every other week it's an episode of High Culture. As we're plugging a gap while people are on holidays, we're like, let's give these guys

a taste of the good stuff. So the crucial thing there is this needs to be good. You can't just be one of those, I think the last one in these we did, Sun is Asleep. Mason- No, because I didn't, I haven't seen any of the films you're talking about. Toby- Well, that's all right. That's kind of good because that means that we have, if two of us are cinema film and one person advent, they have to kind of explain that. So that person is the everyman.

Yeah, but then what am I saying? Oh, is it good Phil? Is it scary? Is it good? Yeah, like an everyman. You need to be every single man. Yeah. What have I been watching?

Yeah. Race Across the World, BBC iPlayer. Nice. And what's that? I've not seen that. What's it about? It's teams of two. They, they're in a race from, through through China and India. Throughout it, they have to

try and hit certain checkpoints. They have to try and earn money by working in jobs in the area as well in order to pay for their travel and accommodation. Why is that funny? Mason- There's two questions. One, and I open to podcasters. another question. I was just imagining that you would get by via the oldest profession in the world, giving handies to local businessmen to get pennies. Mason- No, well they have to film it, so you can't have a handy on the iPlayer, can you? I've never seen a handy on telly. I suppose you're not allowed to show that. Will Barron If you guys, if you've written to handies, please- Jason Vale

Let us know if you've seen a handy on a telly screen. Will Barron Maybe you've heard one on BBC Sounds. Jason Vale Maybe you have. Will Barron Could you tell us what program the handy is on and if possible timestamp it for us? Jason Vale Thank you. I also have been watching Abandoned Railways from Above. Gregg- Nice. Now this is more my wheelhouse. Mason- Exactly. And that is Abandoned Railways. Gregg- Yeah, go on. From what angle are you seeing them? Mason- It's basically one of the cheapest

programmes I've ever seen. They've got a drone and a voiceover and it's just exploring the history of abandoned train lines and talking about the history of that. And that to me is entertainment. You won't find that on YouTube. I think you absolutely definitely would find that on YouTube. Channel 4, that one. Is that Channel 4? Shout out Channel 4. Nice one.

Yeah, I'm all for stuff like that. Abandoned railways from any angle. I love, I'm obsessed with the idea of secret places. I love desolate places. I love desolate places. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, did you guys watch that ghost video then? I forgot. James was scared by it. Yeah. If anyone's looking for a good ghost video, scared by it. If anyone's looking for a good ghost video, go on YouTube and look for Otter's Ghost Riverbank. Yeah, it's not the ghost of an otter. It was someone was set up a camera to do some otter watching and on the sides by a tree, some sort of peculiar movement. I'm skeptical.

I took a picture of a, I saw a devil in a picture that I took. And then when I looked at it a few more times, it was a cat just lit in the light, you know? I took a picture of a friend of mine the other day and he looked like a cunt. Oh, you see? Was that on the puffing walk? Is in my living room. Okay. Yeah.

This is why angles are important. Have you looked again? I have. He said probably the AI and the camera ruined his face. Right, okay. This is why angles are important to men of an age, you know. Best from above, unless you're bald. Before we sort of plough on, can I have a book recommendation?

I don't know if it's a recommendation. I've just started reading a new book. He's holding the Holy Bible. I'm holding the King James II Holy Bible. Guys, you need to check this out. There is a verse for everything. Do you know what I mean? You're addicted to gambling.

You're bored of your friends. Do you know what I mean? There's a paragraph in there for everything and some Psalms at the end that are sort of like songs that are shit. No, I tell you, it's called, because I've come off of, I read the big book, Our Show of Night by Mariana Enriquez, which is nuts and brilliant. One of the best things I've read for a while. Took all that out of my attention starved brain because it was a 730 something page novel. So I was like, I'm going to take some different now. So I've taken a thin book.

Look how thin that is. But it is immediately, I'm like one, I'm into the first story. It is a mad cunt book. Is it short stories? Short stories that are loosely connected. It's about, I don loosely connected. I don't know, but it's about basically a book called The King in Yellow, I think. Can you tell us the name of the book? Yeah, it's a book called The King in Yellow. And apparently it's a book within a book. The book's called The King in Yellow, but within the book there's a book or a play

called The King in Yellow. Basically everyone whose lives it touches ends up mad or dead. And the story's like loosely connected. So instantly I'm like, what have I done? The first story is set in like an early 1900s alternate version of American history. Do you know? And the first page is like- Is it where Hitler's gonna win the second world war? They've just set up like a suicide booth sort of thing. It's got like a suicide chamber on the street. It is immediately like, what have I got myself into? But you boys love a bit of horror and weird stuff. Yes, yes I do.

Yes, and I was talking about someone on the Instagram was talking about how we were not bullying you, but you know, like we're trying to get you to watch, bring her back one of the scariest films. I'm not standing by that at all. I don't think so. I don't think I'm going to be able to watch that film. I'm too scared of it. But just the King in Yellow, Chris. Yes, sir. Do you know what TV show that is supposed to have inspired? I think I do. I think it's the greatest TV show. I know what it is, I'm guessing. True Detective Series 1.

True Detective Series 1! True Detective Series 1. I knew it. You knew it? That first series of True Detective is absolutely brilliant. Oh, it's ever so good, isn't it? It's already good. Are't it ever so good? Are any of the others good? I know the second one was a mess.

Second one was disappointing. The second one disappeared completely off a cliff because the writer became the writer director. Right. He was a guy who wears a cowboy hat. And I read a book that he did before True Detective, and that was good. But I think he took total creative control of series two. It's dog shit. Series three, was series three Michelle Alley? I heard that was good. Michelle Alley, yeah. And that one was good. Basically, I think if it had gone series one,

series three, the reputation would have been untarnished. There's a fourth. Untarnished. Fourth was made by different people and I sort of liked it, but also had complex feelings. I wasn't fully sure. There was some stuff in it that was just totally mad. I quite liked it. Like zombies and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Who was there? No, not actually. That's a bit where the guy come back from the dead, speaking as a spirit. Is it? What? It's like Twin Peaks style, is it? More so. I don't know what that was about. Jodie Foster, no, Mamma Mia. Jodie Foster, not in Twin Peaks or Mamma Mia. Jodie Foster.

Jodie Foster's in series four of Two Detective. Oh, I see. Oh, no, right. That makes sense. But this isn't what we're here to talk about today. Or have you got something to know? Well, we've got anything more about the King in yellow. Would you recommend so far? So far, it's basically, I'm enjoying it, but it's one of these ones because it's basically about a hundred years old. So it's taking me a little bit of time to click into that. Oh, the book's that old?

Yeah, it's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time. It's a little bit of a long time.

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Right. Well, as in it's like 19... What a terrifying book. I looked it up and basically... What's the ISBN? ISBN 9781840226447. So... As for the listeners...

It is 130 years old. 130 years old 130 years old book and i tell you what i read a thing about the guy robert w chambers he wrote it apparently like i think it was lovecraft um you know like the other bit the other great cosmic horror writer of the era. And racist. And racist, let's not forget. Let's not forget quite how racist he was. But apparently, so Lovecraft slammed this guy. This guy apparently wrote this mad book that was lauded and people were scared of it and stuff.

But then after this, he wrote this one big, mad cosmic horror book. And then the rest of his career was banging out like low end romantic fiction, which led Lovecraft to slag him off basically and be like, what a waste of an amazing talent. So like touched by divinity, perhaps. Mason- Yes. Okay. Sounds a bit like Steward Lee. I can tell you one more thing before we talk about the other thing. There's a computer game called, I think about this a lot, it's not really connected, but it's a computer game called Blood Born by, we'll do a separate- You cannot stop talking about Blood Born.

Mm-hmm. Blood Born is by the guy that does Dark Souls. His surname is- You love Dark Souls as well. His surname is Miyazaki. It's the other the other Miyazaki, I thought I had a pop on you before because I thought I only knew about one. Will Genius, genius, genius, but basically, in Bloodborne, when you go through the game, when you discover the story, the wider story of what's happening in this weird dead world, it gives your character greater insight. But with the more insight the character gets about the world that's around them, the more it degrades them mentally. Because it's like a cosmic horror thing, you know what I mean?

When it gets a full grasp of this like world of old ancient, uh, blood gods and stuff, like his human brain can't handle it. And that I think about that idea quite, quite a lot. When I write the intros and outros for this podcast. So James, what have you been to do this week? Um, I went to the cinema, Chris, all by myself, all by myself. Very good.

Nothing wrong with that. There are other people in the cinema. Good. But I was I bought my own ticket on my own and I went to see a new film called Superman. What's that about then? It's about this guy. So there's this guy.

He's super. No, it's by James Gunn, who directed the Guardians of the Galaxy films for Marvel. Is it Superman like from the beginning, like when he landed? Well, that's the interesting thing that this Superman basically, you've seen it as well, Chris, haven't you? Yeah. It kicks off in the middle of action. There's like a couple of little title cards

at the beginning just to kind of let you know where things are going on. Yeah. And then boom, your interaction. And I'd say, I don't think the action lets up. Even in, there's maybe one talking scene where there's no other action going on, but even there's one sort of quite big talkie scene.

And in the background, there's a load of action. I think it's a rip roaring ride. And I'm really, really like it. Oh, that's good. I'm going with. I would say is I went into it with. Can you wait up? Yeah.

Military grade helicopter buzzing around my head. What have you done, man? It's been around your head. It's like a Chinook or something about the sounds of it. Is that how you say that? Chinook. I thought it was Chinook. It's a, well, obviously civilian versus military pronunciation.

Okay. But they're always training around us. That's part of the thing. Apparently during lambing season and stuff, they're meant to stay away from the farms and stuff. And then there you go. So obviously going into this film, some reviews leaked early, which were basically these, this is shit, two star sort of washout of a film. Never mind. I guess that's the superhero genre dead. So I went in and booked the tickets in advance. You know, legitimate publications. Listening to reviews of films. They're rubbish. No one cares about reviews.

Well, but do keep listening to this. Oh, listen to this, yeah, because we're actually giving a rounded review. We're not like, oh, look how this fits into the context of the art form. But my mate was saying- Did the main lad batter someone properly or not? But my mate was saying like, the print journalism is at the point where like, like if you're working for a broad sheet, you know, it's like your shift is like 80 quid and 80 quid is like a working day. And if you get like a front page on the Guardian, it's 110, your reward is 110 pounds. Do you

know what I mean? And you're like, oh, it's just, so basically our view is as valid as lie-bob-cheating journalists, because they don't earn enough money for us to take them seriously, because they're not, it's not a viable career, it's just populated by people who can afford to live off nothing. And as we know, nepotism is a disease that is really in human condition. I think it was Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian, who's quite a renowned film critic. Yeah, I think they're different from news journalists. They're a separate career path. Well, let me tell you this. I was watching, I was braced to be having a bad time.

To be like, oh, that's such a, you know, I was waiting for the bit where I was like, this is going to be bad. Yeah. So I just sat poised, but then halfway in, I was like, I'm just loving this. I'm loving every single second of it. And then I was just going to release the anxiety. And from that point, I was just like, this is great. Yeah. This is brilliant. And

I think people, the criticisms that I've seen of it, are like, it's complicated. I think he's doing something slightly ballsy of dropping this Superman in the middle of a story. But as me and James have talked about before, you have kind of no other options because we've seen so many reincarnations of this origin story. So putting them in a busy world where it's... And people saying, yeah, it's difficult to follow. I think it is difficult to follow if you are thick. I was watching it be like, who's struggling with this? I hadn't heard the difficult to follow thing. I remember thinking quite near to the end, I was thinking quite pleased with myself that this was a film that I wasn't getting confused at.

Because a lot of the time I am quite thick with films. But I think with those films, they try and so much happens. There's so many twists and turns. It's not that clear always why we're watching a certain scene. I think I watched... There was a superhero film, not a superhero, I mean with Florence Pugh and David Harbour. I can't remember what it was called. Was that Thunderbolts? Yeah, that's it. Yeah. And I was like, halfway through it, I was like, I don't really... Too much has happened, I don't really care anymore. Yeah. But overall, I, halfway through, I was like, I don't really, too much has happened.

I don't really care anymore. But overall I came away thinking that was good. And I don't know why. I think my mate was saying this with, my mate took his lad when he was very young to watch like the new Star Wars films, you know, like the, oh, like when they rebooted them, I can't, I can't remember. So basically, oh, it was Duel of the Fates, you know, those, so what's Duel of the Fates? Is that episode four, seven, one? No, do you mean the music? No, Duel of the Fates, the fight, whichever film has the fight with Darth Maul in it. Right. Yes. So the prequels. So that's episode one of the prequels.

That's it. So it was episode one. Phantom Menace. My mate took a son and a mate and he was like going, I was like, what did he think? And my mate said he was bored. He said, I looked over to him and it like, obviously so very famously very, like it's very much laughter, but so much in that film is about the intricacies of trade contracts and intergalactic versions. Boring, boring stuff. And basically he was saying that he looked over

at them in the dark and could see in their illuminated faces with all the trade chat just how bored they were. But he said, but the film, they left being like, this is wicked because it obviously ends with this like, jewel of the fates, Darth Maul, double tw- so like he left being like, yeah! Like that totally jazzed them up, but he was like, for 80% of that film they were so bored. So I think films have a good thing of just like tricking minds. And like I said, I took my own son, he didn't really want to see it. And I think he did enjoy it, but I don't think he enjoyed it quite as much as I did necessarily because I'm like, Oh, do you remember this bit? Do you remember this bit? And he's like,

all right, dad, chill out. I don't remember my dad ever being excited by a film. No, a dad from a different generation. Yeah. They're very much like not watching that. That's not real. No. Yeah. That's all my dad's like cartoons. I watch any old stuff. Do you know what I mean? It's a true story. I was in the war. Yeah. Which studio? Which war was your dad in? It wasn't, but he- Auckland's. They've seen too, they been through a Cuban missile crisis, you know?

That's true. They're not taking Superman seriously, are they? No, Superman's 80 years old. I didn't say he didn't. Came out before the second world war even. That's interesting actually. But when Superman came out, he couldn't fly, he could just jump loads. That's a very good point, Sunil. And he used to beat up bad landlords.

RILEY Did he? ALICE Yeah. He was kind of like a Man of the People type thing. RILEY Bring him back. ALICE Bring that Superman back. RILEY Why doesn't he deal with smaller crimes? ALICE I don't know, you've suddenly got very loud. You've suddenly gotten very loud. RILEY I've done nothing wrong. ALICE No, it's not wrong. Sunil's a victim.

ALICE I'm a victim and I've done nothing wrong. I've done nothing wrong. Sunil's a victim. You've done nothing. I'm a victim and I've done nothing wrong. It's not whether it's wrong or not. But all of a sudden you've gotten very loud. Oh, because I maybe move forward like that. How about now? Yeah. Classic Sunil detached.

Aloof. Hello. Insightful. I watched The Amateur with Rami Malek. Oh, that's what I thought was Accountant 2. No, that's Accountant 2. Yeah, that's what I got it confused with. The Amateur 1.

Yeah, The Amateur 1, where what it is, his wife dies. Terrorist attack. He's an IT guy. So he says to his bosses in the IT place, which I think is the CIA, he says, do not kill the people that killed my wife, train me up so I can kill them. And they're like, what are you on about? And he's like, come on, just let me have a go. And they send him away for a week's training. And they're like the termitomial army.

He's got a little bunk bed and everything. And they're like, go on, then use this gun. And he's dog shit at guns. But what he is good at is bombs. Let's see how this plays out. Anyway, I lost track of it at that point. Don't really know what was happening. It ends up on a boat at the end. Okay. I, yeah, I fit this. This sounds good. I, you could be all over Superman. Do you want a little chew on? Yeah, no, that'd be fine.

Cause I'll be in the cinema. I can't be like cooking and playing on my phone or anything. That's good. Yeah. Who are you going with to see Superman? I'm going with them Uber dorks who love Marvel films. This is not a Marvel film. So I'm just trying to help you.

I'm just trying to help you. I'm just trying to help you. We're trying to protect you from looking like a bit of a dickhead actually. I do understand. What is it then, if it's not Marvel? It's DC. It's the first film in the new DCU. There is also a TV series that's set in this new version of the DCU, but annoyingly we're not able to access it in any way legally in

this country, the UK. Oh, right. Well, as you well know, I'm part of the DC universe. Am I? I think I am. No, you're not. Can we stop saying that as well? Sorry, I don't know. James, I don't want to be. I don't know. We got through the edit last time with, again, us sounding like idiots. We're getting pop. I don't know what's happening.

People are having pops at us for getting Star Trek wrong. I don't understand. I don't understand what I'm saying wrong. I'm like one of those old people that still uses the N word. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what's happening. To be fair to Sunil, he is in the DCU. He's not. He's got a DCU.

He's officially, I looked at a big wall chart on James Gunn's wall on Instagram. Right. And it says a spin-off of that doctor from Toxic Avenger, who can't really do an American accent. In 2029. Chris's wife taught me an American accent. No, she didn't. She's professionally distanced herself. She can't, do you know what I mean? She can't work with, she's good at her job. She's, she does some things that she took on as

some crime is taken on a job that was unwinnable. That's it. Toxic Avenger is not in DC or Marvel. It's something separate. I have no idea what's happening here. Alright. Okay. Normally I'd lash out and call you both nerds, but I don't know what's happening. I'm trying to distance myself from the level to which James is a nerd on this.

I just like to know about things. Yeah, I like to know about things as well. But I like to know about railways from above. Yes. It's better than train lines from below. This is you two all over. I'm the only one that takes pride in not knowing things. You take pride in that, Chris. Well, you two always like, I know everything about like dishwashers. I know everything about comic books. A few weeks ago, you're supposed to drink water. What do I know? That's true.

He didn't. I thought water was in food, so I didn't need to drink it. And then my blood came out like tar. So they're like squeezing your blood out when you try to get toothpaste out of a bowl. They had to shake him up like a ketchup bottle and hit him on the bum for the blood to come out. That's what they said. I don't know anything, but everyone thinks I know something because I don't know. I wear glasses.

We all wear glasses, son. Working man with Jason Statham. Oh no, these films. That's good. What it is, he works in construction. Someone pushed him too far? Bit of funny business at the construction works. I think some sort of kidnapping. Turns out he's like a very highly trained spy, so he gets involved. ALICE So what is it, is he like he retired? And he didn't have a very good pension, so he got into

construction. MULLER I think it's one of those films you don't really need to follow closely, but if you have it on in the background, it gives your home a real vibe. ALICE Yeah. MULLER What is it? Send an email. I sent Sunil an example of some of the music that I listen to while I work, which was from the intense movie soundtrack category. And I said to him, this is why the emails and messages from me sound as intense as they do. Because I'm listening to like the soundtrack for the film Arrival or something like that.

You know, like the June 2 soundtracks. It's quite, you will get time to time, quite epic messages from... Would you recommend that soundtrack? Yes. The June 2, I'll tell you the soundtrack that I'm working to at the minute. We are talking on music for once. We are, but again, it's film adjacent music. I'm listening to two soundtracks a lot at the minute while I work. One is, it's called Music to Refine To, and it's a remix of the Severance suite of music with like, by like with dance music. And the one I'm listening to a lot to write emails to and to think is The Order, which is the soundtrack. It's by

Jed Curzell and it's a film, there's this film called The Order with Jude Law. Have you seen it, Sunil? Sunil Mishra No. Jason Vale It's on Amazon. You would really like it, I think. It's about Jude Law's like this pissed old cop. Like sort of down on his ass. He was in the middle of nowhere, but, he was in the middle of nowhere. But when he moves to the middle of nowhere, he basically moves on top of a white supremacist neo-Nazi cell.

Oh, that's right on my street. Yeah. Is that like when you've got ants? It's like when you've got ants. So it's basically him versus this, I think Nichols Holtz in it as well, who's also in Superman. He is also in Superman. He is good in Superman. That guy. He's good.

There's a bit where he does, uh, there was a bit where he just does a full English accent for a bit in the middle and that's like, okay, just a big speech. And I was just like, in the, um, that film as well. She's all right. It's hard to do it for, I mean, so no, it's hard to be next to them. They are. All right. Fine. It's hard to do it for, I mean, Son of God, as we all know, it's hard to do it on the fly. They are. All right, fine.

To be fair to Pio, she's doing it for an hour and a half and you were doing it for under 70 seconds of screen time. But that was a behind the scenes. That shouldn't have gone out as a trailer. That was a BTS thing I did for a laugh with a guy doing BTS stuff. And now it's the backbone of the marketing strategy. They've got such good positive reviews. They've re-edited the film all around it, like with Suicide Squad.

They've changed the thrust of the film. Who plays Superman, please? David Corrin Sweat. And is it CGI or is it a man? He's a real man, but he can't actually fly. They do the flying. I think the effects in it look great. I think they do look amazing. They look physical and real and the action is directed well and feels impactful in a way that a lot of superhero stuff just feels like, I don't know, a lot of the superhero stuff has

drifted into this cheap cut down version of doing it. So everything feels like, yeah, that video game cut scenes from the early 2000s, doesn't it? I don't know what like, I was saying to my wife, like, why does, why does like Jurassic Park from 1993 look better than a film from 2025. Practical effects. Mason- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew that. I watched that. Al- Mixed with CGI. Mason- The CGI in Jurassic Park now looks shy, but the practical effects of like the T-Rexes still just look banging. Mason- We do all need to see the new Jurassic Park as we talked about in the last episode.

Al- Yeah, I'll see that. I've heard there's some good stuff in it, but on the whole, it's fine. Aside from film, I would like to recommend the new Clips album, Let God Sort Them Out. An absolute banger all the way through. I haven't had a Clips album for years. Good to see them back together with Pharrell, producing. Thank you. Oh yeah. I've just followed that. Yeah, follow you. Oh yeah. Yeah. I've just, I've just, yep. Just followed that. Yeah.

Follow that. Follow that. There we go. It will probably add to your general emailing vibe if you add it to that playlist. Imagine that, getting an email off me on clips. Yeah. But this is the energy you need to be like, son, are we going to do this? Yeah.

I messaged my friend, Samuel, over there, who did the music for the show and said to him, Sam, can you help me write a rap song? He said, Chris, I've been waiting for you to send this message. And do you know what the rap songs for? No, go on. Royal concerns live on the 22nd of November. We are never told anything about this show. And suddenly you are told at the point where you need to memorize a rap song. Chris McAllister 60 seconds before the show. Jason Vale 60 seconds after the tech has failed and we've

got to do the show. Jason Vale Are we going to do a rap battle? Chris McAllister I think it would make one of us cry if we did that. Jason Vale Yeah, me definitely. Chris McAllister A lot of comedians now. Do you know what's coming in comedy now for the new ones coming up? Oh, like little guitars, little guitars and funny songs. I was going to say roast battles.

Oh, yeah. That's been around for years. They get and they, they suck each other off and they'd say really personal stuff. Um, I don't want to do that. Oh, that's what I'm saying. Just let, let, um, let sleeping dogs lie. They're just happy to write them intros. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like to do it where you've got no right for reply, where I control both what I say

and what you say. Is that a good place to put a pin in this? I mean, yeah, we did talk, we did suppose we did mention Superman. It's wicked. That's a summary. That's it. In summary, yeah, we did talk, we did suppose we did mention Superman. It's wicked. That's a summary. That's it. In summary, go see it and listen to the other things and abandon Railways from Above and Race Across the World. Race Across the World. Any particular series? Of what? Race Across the World. I've watched them all. I'm watching the last one at the moment. Where's a good place to start for a newbie? At the beginning or somewhere?

Beginning. Seems like episode one. Yeah, why not? The longest, it's the furthest you can go via land, isn't it, from London or via not plane? Sometimes it's different. It was different continents each time, but I can't remember what the first one was exactly. Well, this one, they went all the way to Hong Kong, didn't they?

That's it. In the first one. I think I watched some of the first one. Oh, spoiler. Well, I mean, they went all the way to Hong Kong, didn't they? That's it. Is that where they end? I think I watched some of the first one. Oh, spoiler. Well, I mean, it's obvious. Just to go back to that. They went to India. They went from China to India. OK.

If there is any opportunity for you two to do race across the world, please take it. race across the world, please take it. I would. Mason- I'm desperately trying to get onto Antiques, or the Antiques road trip. Al- Yeah. Mason- But they're just not having me. Al- As an expert? Mason- No, as a contestant. I tried to get on it last year when Donna Preston was looking for someone to do it with her and then they decided not to go for either of us. Al- What do you have to do? I don't, is there a rules?

That you get in a little car, like an old classic, you go down to an auction's, like an auction room, or like at one of those antiques fair halls with like different vendors, you buy a bit of old tat and then you take it to the auction or you do another road trip somewhere else, buy a bit more tat, then you drive to an auction and you see who makes the most money from your bit of tat. Mason- Yeah, that sounds great. I think you'd be really good at this as well, because you have a good sense of time and taste. Mason- That's very kind. Mason- Yeah. I'm not, do you know what I mean? We're enemies a lot at a time, but I'm not going to say that you're not good. Do you know what I mean?

Mason- I'm a worthy adversary. Mason- A worthy adversary. Very much Moe Arte to my Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes. That's nice. That's nice. Thank you for listening to this episode of High Culture. This is just a peek of what's locked behind the pair wall vault. You might listen to this and think, you know what? I'll leave it. That's fair enough. That's your

prerogative. But if you enjoyed this, then just know there's literally hours and hours of this borax. Also, I think as of today, we're going to be workshopping a rap song over the next four months. So stay tuned for that. I can't rap at all. James, sometimes you've got to embrace destiny. Just out loud poetry, isn't it? I don't like poems.

Oh God. I think that's, you don't like poems, but when I saw you do stand-up comedy, I saw some of the best spoken word I've ever seen in my life. James, do you hear what he just said? James. Yeah, I think he, I think he was having a pop. Pretty sure. I'm just going to have a think about it.