Rural Concerns - Treason, hoovers & more town planning

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

Chris and Sunil's latent megalomania manifests again itself this week - yes it's more town planning chat. (Producer James wrote this week's blurb). Some middle-aged radio chat leads to these cheeky boys auditioning for a prime time radio slot. Can you get fired from a job during the audition? It certainly seems so! And, yeah, some opinions on the current King Charles are expressed... To the tower!! Chris is taking his show on a tour of the UK! He’s heading to the Soho Theatre in London THIS WEEK (4th - 7th December)! Then it’s on to Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Leicester and Barnard Castle. Get your tickets, here! We’re doing the first ever live edition of Rural Concerns on Saturday 1st February 2025 at The Bill Murray in London. Around 75% of the tickets have already gone! That’s loads! Grab yours here! Drop us an email at [e-mail] if you have a Rural Concern you’d like discussed! The best way to support this educational podcast is through Patreon. For less than five quids you can get bonus episodes and access to our Discord community, The Creamery. Click here to start supporting Rural Concerns today! Our artwork is by Poppy Hillstead and our artwork is by Sam O’Leary. Rural Concerns is edited by Joseph Burrows and produced by Egg Mountain for A Lovely Time Productions.

Hello and welcome to Rural Concerns. We hope this podcast finds you well. I'm Sunil. I'm Chris. I'm producer James. And we're about to blow your fucking mind apart. Hit it. It doesn't really say what it's about though, does it though? Not at all.

Not at all. Sounds fun though, doesn't it? Welcome aboard. Let's go. It's go time. The boys are back. International Men's Day. Are we recording now?

Yeah. Yes, we're recording. We're back. I already did that. We're also back. Jason, we're back. The boys are back. International Men's Day. Are we recording now? Yeah. Yes, we're recording. We're back. I already did that. We're also back. James, we're back. The boys are back. Say International Men's Day.

It's International Men's Day special. James, who's your favourite man? Jeremy Clarkson. That's what he wants to say. Oh, no. All right, James. James, actually,

who is your favourite man? Jackie Robinson. Who? Jackie Robinson? Jackie Robinson. What, the baseball player? Yes. Broke the colour barrier in baseball.

Actually, a fair play. Who's your favourite man, Chris? Was it Dolph Lundgren? No, I really like... Who do I like? Who do I look up to as a man? Probably my dad. Oh, he's got you, James.

Yeah, he's got me. I know about his dad's personal life, so... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's... Do you know who I mean? No, he's a good lad. But who do I like from media and... Media and stuff like that.

Media. Spider-Man? Spider-Man. Shia... Shia Khan. Shia Khan? the tiger from... He's not even a man. He's a tiger.

Yeah, but he brings that energy, doesn't he? I do like his vibe. Stuff's getting done. Who's your favourite man, Sunil? Probably our king. Yes, finally. James, you're the only one not stood up. Only one not erect erect what do you think

of the king oh god Chris fuck's sake I forgot he was still I don't know I don't hear much about him you know what I'm obsessed with

about the king his fingers no don't care about his fingers what have you not seen him he's a man of an age who just eats butter

it's gonna happen that's me What? Have you not seen him? He's a man of an age who just eats butter. It's going to happen. That's me. The king's fingers, that's you if you have any, you're on a path to that with your nutty clouds. The king, basically, I think in the 80s or 90s, the king oversaw the building of a village. yeah pound pound poundbury or pondbury poundbury down south it's one of those places it's just so far away from where i live but i i'm really interested in i don't know how to describe it like dystopian town planning or i like utopian like this is someone trying to build

what he thinks like an idyllic yeah yeah yeah yeah English life should be like you know

so he's like built it and it's with his ethos that runs through the town he loves a bit of town planning he loves it architecture town planning

it's like I do as well there's a lot of similarities between the king and I I play I just play a lot i just do it on sim city or something like that whereas he's actually got the money well he's got a country he's got his own country he's got his own sim country imagine having your own country i've just gone to poundberry.co.uk what's it look like to you wide is it wide yeah and then there's a picture of like some locals and there's some butchers there.

Three butchers, diddly-dee. One's got lamb, one's got beef, one's got sausages. It sounds like a nursery rhyme. What are you

talking about? That's it. That's all, that's just the Poundbury website. It's just some butchers. And some old

women sat on benches. It was an urban extension of the Dorset County town of Dorchester, designed in accordance with the principles of architecture and urban planning as advocated by His Majesty King Charles II in his book, A Vision of Britain.

Been to Dorchester, it's got a Wagamama's and a Waitrose. Well, there's a business directory here. A hundred giggles. That's my Edinburgh show. I remember me and Sonal were in Edinburgh. We saw the Canadian on the poster, promised the audience a laugh a minute. And I remember Sonal saying,

that's not that good a turnaround. That's not enough laughs, man. That's one minute. That's 55 minutes, 55 laughs, with five laughs to get the audience in and out. Yeah, yeah. I think we're King Charles's village. He's built it to his own ideals because he sees something to be lacking

or wants to lead by example. Basically, I think what he's built is, you know, it's probably a village where everyone's really nice during the day, but then at night, Balaclava's on, battering visitors and stuff like that. You know, I think everyone in there, everyone in there has been, everyone in there has been cancelled by, on Twitter. Do you know what I mean? So it's a safe haven for the cancelled.

Come on, Chris. Chris, come on. Every now and again, they demand a sacrifice. Because King Charles understands the blood. I think it's not even slander. It's just treason. That's the next logical step for this podcast. Treason.

Me, we did 100 episodes, 100 episodes only, because I am hanged from Tower Bridge. Look, there's nothing I'm reading it now nothing wrong with this nothing wrong with this as long as you're passing through

the use of traditional materials and building form something like that it's just like can you just make it nice rather than like if you look at most

like new developments in London they've just built like huge towers with wind tunnels in the middle of them and a pizza express like that's not great

no no I know the giant skyscrapers that like refract the sun huge towers with wind tunnels in the middle of them and a pizza express. That's not great. No, and those giant skyscrapers that refract the sun and it sets fire and burns your phone. Oh, it melted that car, didn't it? Yeah, and all those birds just smashing into the glass. Yeah, just as God created us, and we created giant steel mechs in the sky that killed billions of birds. So there go, ergo, this is the natural order of things. This is as God intended.

Business directory. That's boring. Actually, I shouldn't have gone on that. Yeah, it wasn't as fun as I thought. After 100 giggles, it really went downhill. Action Coast Business Coaching. I want to go there. I want to go to Poundbury.

I want to go to Poundbury. I want to go to Port Marion in Wales. One just bit, like I'm a huge Prisoner fan. But just a place where the entire, I believe it's a level of like intellectual decadence that will never happen again do you know i mean if you look back to how people used to design towns and stuff like that back in the sort of victorian times things built with beauty part of the design like the street lamps and stuff like this would have they'd have an aesthetic quality to them yeah yeah they're like a state produced bit of kit now won't do

it's produced for bare bones cost it's producing the most like brutalist not but brutalist is like brutalism is like there's a beauty to it but but it's just shit now. Shit bollards, shit lights and stuff like that. Everything falling a bit at the time. And so like, I don't believe, I think the closest thing is like, like Milton Keynes would be a manufactured.

Yeah. So, but have you ever been to Milton Keynes? It's very surreal. It is weird, but apparently it's real. It is really well designed. Cause like they keep the,

the road and the bikes and the walking all separate and they're all very accessible. But it's weird because it's like tunnels and stuff. I'll tell you what it is with Milton Keynes. When I went there, it was because it's all built at the same time, the buildings, basically a modern high street is punctuated with buildings from different eras, which is, you know, like when you're reading a sentence and everything's in caps and it's actually harder to read because your eye scans past the letters. Whereas if you read a sentence

normal, your eye picks out the letters much quicker subconsciously. That's how I felt in Milton Keynes. It didn't have like a cathedral a church like older buildings to like create a varied landscape they were all buildings in the same area so i felt i felt like i was just turning around you know like looping and looping and looping trying to find something in the somewhere in the horizon to latch on to but it was all basically the same little shop with boots in it you know i think they did say when they built it they wanted to be the england's first all caps city yeah so there is a weird little old bit apparently in it that is there was an old town there and

there's this one bit that's really that's old and weird i think really yeah but i'll tell you there's lots of places like apparently there was a village that was requisitioned by the army weren't they in world war ii that they never got back like they bletchley park or they made that up there's one in wiltshire no it's dorset you can only go on certain days when the army aren't sort of practicing there but it's an old village and it was, yeah, they kicked everyone out because they wanted to practice D-Day stuff. And then, but then it sort of became, that was that, isn't it? It's just empty, yeah. I think the school's like a museum or something.

Have you ever been to like Glasgow as well? Yeah, that's New York street scenes as well, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's like, it was a precursor to New York, wasn't it? Am I right in thinking it was that way around? From what I understand, I think it was the guy, yeah. It was a precursor to New York, wasn't it? Am I right in thinking it was that way around? From what I understand, I think it was the guy, yeah, basically went to America and got more free reign, and that's why it's built in.

But Glasgow to me is a very exciting city to walk around, just because it's got that grid system that is very different over here. Because all of our stuff is just built around aeons of little horse-drawn tracks into it. You can't put a building up that obscures the priest view of the Towers of Swivens, you know, like this sort of stuff. It's like weird bylaws.

Do you know what I mean? Your wife texted me asking for a Hoover recommendation. Yeah, I know. And she sent me a screen grab of how many messages she had waiting off you. You literally sent her about 100. I sent her seven screenshots from the Witch app.

It was not mad, but did you tell her what Hoover to buy? I sent her the recommendations for cordless Ubers on cordless vacuum cleaners, let's be specific, on which. But I said, look, take it from me. I've been there, done that. I'd stick with a Henry. Yeah, but we've got this Henry.

It's all sort of fucked and old. It's what we got from my mother and father. And in our house, because there's so much like a constant, we're in a constant state of being in terms of DIY. Yeah. I routinely have brick dust to take up. Well, none of them's going to handle brick dust. Well, Henry does.

Henry sucks up. Henry will take up brick dust, mortar, bits of dead bar. Do you know what I mean? It's the vacuum cleaner that professional cleaners and builders use as well. Yeah. It's like, I want one of them. builders use as well. Yeah. This is, it's like, I want one of them.

I want one of those radio players that they get that, pasta is getting that covered in, covered in paint. Do you know what I mean? Those like rubber ones. That's not paint.

What is it? It is paint. There's like, you can get, I've seen them with radio players made by tool companies. Oh yeah. And it's like real chunky,

like it is a tool in itself, the radio player. It's quite, I'm quite impressed with that actually. Nice work. How often do you listen to the radio really? Apart from Radio 4, which has some great comedy on it.

Yes. I hear, I hear it does. My, me, we listen to, well the digital ones, we've got like hit pride radio,

like basically gay tunes, absolutely banging. The family, that's a stale word to the family. Six music, but I don't think that's not what it used to be. Do you know what I mean? That used to be like... That's literally the... That's what people said when it first started. This isn't as good as it used to be, six music.

Does that mean I'm getting older? That means it's your station. No one likes any... No one who listens to six musics likes any of the DJs on six music does that mean i'm getting older that means it's your station no one likes any and no one who listens to six musics likes any of the djs on six music i think i've aged elegantly into radio 2 okay what what era of music is radio 2 playing now it yeah it feels a bit new it's like and now a blast from the past conan i jo. Do you know what I mean? Like that. Yeah, that is 30 years old now. Sorry, are Radio 2 playing Cotton Eye Joe?

Is that on their playlist? I don't know. But they're playing stuff that I just like, yes. But I like the DJ. I like Sarah Cox. Do you know what I mean? I love Coxie. That's why you listen. You listen for Coxie. I love listening to radio presenters as someone who's in a performance

space, just because I think there's somewhat, I mean, I'm trying to do it now, but we do struggle. There is a lot of editing involved, but just the ability to talk completely unscripted to a plan, to a,

and some people do it, all of them can just talk constantly. It's very hard. Eye tests. What's your favorite letter texting i i actually used to do saturday morning radio for the asian network with um ishan akbar and nimad edra but ishan was the host really and he really put in a shift having to like what drag you to fucking lumps and like i'd zone out and suddenly i'd be on live radio and someone's saying what do you think about that and i'd be like i should be able to concentrate for two hours

but were you the comedy sidekick well we were all comedy aren't we that's the thing but we'd done a podcast together where we so we get on very well so we did the podcast together and then they asked us to do the radio show but it's a different beast it really is you've because you've got to you're live you've got to keep it snappy and you've got to keep it very relatable really can't say those things about the king no we were out if i was if this was if this was mainstream bbc one bbc radio two saturday afternoon hello this is the chris canchel show the king i love the king everybody's two idiots that are in my studio sonny and james do you Saturday afternoon. Hello, this is the Chris Cantrell Show. The King. I love The King. Here are these two idiots that are in my studio, Sunil and James.

Are you the main host? What are you? It's the Chris Cantrell Radio Show. Let's let Chris see if he can do one minute on his own. Welcome to BBC Radio 2. It's the Chris Cantrell Show. It's one o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Where are you driving to?

Tell me where you're driving to. I want to know. I'm with my co-hosts. No, not co-hosts. Junior assistants, James and Sonny. They're busy. They're pressing buttons. I don't know what they're doing.

Fucking hell, this is hard. Yeah. That's been 10 seconds. Has that been 10 seconds? 15. 15 seconds and you got fired. I thought that was a minute. I was just about to get on to how much I love the king

rather than taking the king off. Do you know what I mean? I'm a company man. I understand what's important. These jobs require a cool head under pressure. All right? And that wasn't it. That wasn't a demonstration of it.

I've got a friend who does technical stuff for theatre shows. So we're on the front of house, but they would be back of house, or not back of house, but running the tech, basically. So if you've got lighting cues, sound cues, there's somebody working it. And my friend was basically saying that basically it's like a certain type of temperament to be good at that job, which is when someone goes wrong, which is not what I have. When someone goes wrong in a technical sense, you stop. You do not start touching things and panicking. You stay still and you methodically work through your checklist.

And that under pressure, when when the lights have gone down or the sound on the microphone's cut out and stuff like that, a very hard thing to do. Whereas me, totally at ease in the live environment, treading the boards, you know? Totally mastering the dominion. Yeah. And that is the Chris Cantrell Radio Show. Dominion. Yeah.

And that is the Chris Cantrell radio show. Did you ever do any live performance when you were a kid? I did, I did like one school play where I got

big laughs and was like, this is the most amazing, happy sort of feeling I've ever felt in my life. Do you know what I mean?

I just was like, you know, so I just sort of knuckled down and worked in an office for 12 years. Do you know what I mean? Like this sort of knuckle down and work in an office for 12 years? Do you know what I mean? Like this sort of thing.

Yeah, we've been there. I think that's the biggest thing. Like obviously being a kid, being a kid is being a kid and you have to figure stuff out who you are and how you are. And I don't regret any of my life and when I did things really. Because when I sort of done comedy to sort of, I wasn't very confident. I really struggled to speak to people.

I was very anxious. I still am, really, but it has given me a power to take up a bit more space and to be, and to talk, like I talk and stuff like that, and not shy away from it. But the only thing is, like, with sort of my son, I do hope that if –

maybe he's a very confident boy who seems very self-assured of what he wants to do. Well, no, he doesn't. He doesn't want to do anything. He just wants to watch YouTube. But he's very confident in that he just wants to watch YouTube. But basically I hope to – the bit in my life where I sort of just drifted into working in an office.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I do hope. I hope that he doesn't. Please don't do comedy, son. Please don't do comedy. But basically, if he wants to do something that feels mad on paper, whether it's like he wants to be in a band or something like that, that sounds mad. But it, but it's not.

If we can break it down and he can work at it and we can figure out what bits to do. Basically, if I could get him to skip the bit where he's like, I guess I'll just work for Bradford and Binkler. They don't exist anymore. We don't have to buy you pubs. James, you did a drama degree, so you must have done some acting as a kid, stage work.

Oh yeah, it was Jesus. Jesus on a donkey one time, riding through the town. Straight in, you got the part of Jesus. That's your first part. No,

I think I worked my way up. Yeah, from shepherd to angel to, I was Joseph a couple of times. Now I did, I met, I had a, was in a play. What was it? Bugsy Malone., I did. I was in a play.

What was it? Bugsy Malone. And I had a funny bit in Bugsy Malone. And yeah, really remember that part. That was a lot of fun. What were you? Were you Knuckles? No, I was...

Tallulah? Fat Sam? All right. The one that gets gunged, like the first one that gets gunged. I can't remember. No, I can't remember either it was just good I really made the part

of my own unforgettable I fucking love they would not make that film now but I fucking love Boogsy Malone little kids running

around being gangsters because like little it's like kids playing adult roles they'd be very different I think you certainly wouldn't

have Jodie Foster playing a femme fatale at nine years old or whatever I think they'd skirt around that quite heavily but it's but it's a hell of a film the music's great dexter fletcher's in it pass oh yeah it's baby face yeah that's just a baby face pass i'm baby face you know like that it's a hell of a film maybe i was baby face anyway what about you sonil i i my only school acting was where um we did drama department production of red dwarf oh based on the scripts that i bought a book of yeah and i played holly the deadpan robot from backstage nice classic that's god if they were written i mean they shouldn't do let it not happen

anymore but if they were rebooting it you'd have to remove everything you would be the perfect choice for just a floating head just being bored as long as they can update it make it a bit modern holly vates it'd be dream job god yeah we used to love that and i yeah i remember i bought i used i had no interest in acting but i bought lots of books of scripts of the only comedy i could find which was red dwarf and the entire monty python scripts i got as well didn't really get it didn't really find it that funny maybe two or three in it that i was like that's really good but yeah yeah i haven't listened to a thing that was it come out like, like Markham and Wise were not,

they didn't really improve of, or didn't really rate Monty Python. Oh, right. Yeah. I listened to a little clip of him. It's so interesting. And it's actually so similar to a lot of conversations we were in today. It's like Eric Markham going,

yes, it's interesting, see, but you see, it wouldn't cut it in the clubs. I mean, like that. So it's just kind of a similar chat that you hear now from something a bit different chris there's a bit on this list here that i really want to hear about from you co you've joined a co-working space i've started going it like not all the time but like i say i'm in the pits of i'm in the minds of trying

to pull this radio for our series to you before we it. So it's just a lot of stuff. What is a rural co-working space like? It's not rural. It's me going into the big city. It's me driving into Carlisle,

but basically I'm in my house going, not mad, but, do you know what I mean? Just, you need to change

the scenery and you need the presence of being observed by people. Or maybe I do maybe normal people don't but you know like being basically you've been institutionalized haven't you no i'm in my house i'm wandering around i'm doing i'm doing all the stuff that i need to do so that nicola's not furious with me when she comes back do you know like trying to like trying to pick up

trousers and the floor and stuff like this and do all the washing up. But basically when there's a commitment to, I go into this co-working space a bit a few times in Carlisle and I paid 30 quid for a day to be there. One day? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's more expensive than here. Yeah, it's not. It's really nice.

It's just, it's a bit of a commitment. The only thing is I can't... That's a day pass. If you sign up to... Do you know how you pay so much a month? I can't do that because I think it's like for 200 quid a month, you can get like eight days a month. So obviously a summit like that won't become...

That's way more expensive than anywhere down here. What's in there? It's free drinks, right? Free drinks. It's very nicely done out. It's kind of not about... And I'm not awash with options for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Basically, I don't go all the time, but it's like once every two weeks. It's like a commitment to be somewhere else and to work in a city centre. And then this time I went and got an eye test and stuff like this. While you were meant to be somewhere else and to work in a city centre. And then this time I went and got an eye test and stuff like this. While you were meant to be working, paying 30 quid? Well, this is it. But also, how often am I in the big city?

Spec savers have been tracking me down like a rabid dog for months, saying, like, it's been ages since you've been. You could have gone blind. And I'm like, well, yeah, I can't see anything. So, yeah, I'll come. So I went in. I went in and went, there's no chance you do on the day of Wednesdays. And he went, yeah, I can see you at 11.

I went, I'll come back at 11 then. So I had that done. So it was a bit of a double whammy. Yeah, the co-working space is just like, I don't know how to describe the people there. They are lovely but it's a lot of people doing like self-employed people i don't know how to describe i'm going there to focus they're like i don't know they're very keen to have someone to chat to do you know

what i mean i don't know how to describe it more than that but they're like i think one guy's like advises people on uh you know like solar energy type stuff for green energy like so there's people doing lots of different stuff there's somebody who does animation there's a creative agency they're all these people sort of knocking around they're all super confident how do you find out what they're doing do they tell you or is there a directory of them or something i one guy i asked but then basically if you pay for this monthly, you know, if you like a regular fixture, they put your name up on this wall. Right.

For networking. In the stairwell, yeah, to advertise it. So I basically went on my dinner, I looked at a few of them and then just ran up through my phone just to sort of see what they're doing. So it was just interesting, but I'm there like, do you know, and when I'm in a public space like that, they're like, I don't know about you, but if it's like totally unprompted,

they're not familiar with me for my YouTube reels. Do you know what I mean? This sort of thing. I'd just be like, what do you do? I'm like, I'm better this, better that. Do you know what I mean? Just like keeping low key. What I'm not doing is saying, I'm actually a comedian.

Would you like me to run some material halfway? I'll tend to say I work in marketing that's very true in a lot of ways yeah true true true true but how many drinks did he have in the day and did it cover the 30 quid honestly there's a thing going on in there where everyone when they make

a cup of tea makes one for everyone on the floor oh nah so honestly I had two cups of tea, makes one for everyone on the floor. Oh, nah. So honestly, I had two cups of tea and I should have done it. I was too nervous to make a cup of tea for everyone and go talk to everyone because I'm there because I'm very stressed. Well, not stressed, but I'm just under caution at the minute and I've got a lot of work to do. And my head's not necessarily in a place to be like,

hello, I'm Chris, I know a bit and it's a bit of that so i'm just like i don't i'm just not you can't be paying 30 quid to go in for a day and spend half of that making tea for people exactly that's how i feel and then so i had a i went out and i had a greg's for lunch and had a coffee there and that was and i let greg's person met me a cup of tea and then i got out of there. Greg's Coffee, Sonal, yes. It's a very good coffee. Is it? Is it? Well, I tell you this, it's cheap.

You can't argue with a price point at Greg's. It's the only thing. It's a city centre. I understand that it's not, but we can feed a family. Our family are free. We can all have a little pasty and then he can have a donut

we can have a cup of tea each and stuff like this it's like five quid you just can't get that in a British town centre anymore no that's good

yeah James do you have anything to say about Greg's I really like the little hot chicken bites okay cool

so that's Carlisle Carlisle can I sign Carlisle off James how are you going gonna be i think we probably need to wrap it up maybe with an email email email email email okay our first email on today which is international men's day and thankfully it comes from mr realman hello mr real man hello mr real man or mr real man we don't know we don't know it's one

word real man realman okay realman that sounds about right okay well he says right he says dear lads love the podcast loads it's definitely one of the best ones the banter is like gold top milk thank you mr realman i'm writing with regards to producer james He's a good lad Who sounds massive I love everything he says This is good But in a recent episode He pronounced greasy with a Z And it was fucking horrible

Seriously is he an American teenager or something Gross If he does it again I'll stop listening Kind regards Dr Mr Realman Chris did you write this Chris are you a real man? All I'm saying is he's a doctor, so he's definitely...

A real man. A real man. So it's definitely... That's come from an external source. I would like to say thank you for taking the time to send that. But whoever wrote the letter... Chris, was it you? Answer it.

What a salient point they have hit upon. Oh, by the way, in the Patreon Discord as well... Don't talk to me about that. You don't need to know about that. Is there a league table of internet speed rankings amongst listeners? Yes. And am I at the bottom of it? Yes. It's quite a detailed one. I could actually

send you to the link separately to that. But why am I... How can I possibly be at the bottom? Because you've got the worst the bottom because you've got the worst internet because you've got the worst internet I can't improve that because it's the only street that doesn't

have fibre on it in this area well yeah but that's that's just what your internet speed test is you have bad internet I've got no problem with it I've never

had a problem with it what are you all doing with all these high speeds nothing well what are you doing with a bad speed

a lot loads zoom calls yeah alright fine it's just this is what it is it's embarrassing With a bad speed. A lot. Loads. Zoom. Zoom calls. Yeah. All right. Fine. It's just, this is what it is.

It's embarrassing, isn't it really? But there you go. You made the choice to live there. So. I don't know why I said greasy. I say greasy. I think it's,

isn't it? It rings a bell in my mind from something. The thing is, if you keep saying it, Chris will stop listening to this podcast. Ah. So he won't know how much I cut out of him. Well, if you keep saying it, Chris will stop listening to this podcast. Ah, so he won't know how much I cut out of him. Well, it's obviously not me, but I did notice when you said that the other week, and I did think

that it was a bad sort of sound. Greasy. But I remember I referenced that inside the WhatsApp group and your wife actually sort of backed me up on that one. Yeah, she did. And who backed me up on Greasy? Your wife.

Did she? What did she say? It was, you mentioned it, I believe, in an Instagram post. And she said she was fully on my side. You've got to stop taking personal beefs onto Instagram, Chris. I know, that's all. I mean, I don't have a great social media, but basically if someone says something that sort of upsets me personally,

I will use Twitter to anonymously directly talk to them about it without talking to them directly. It's not a good strategy, but it's that. But anyway, so I guess that situation, you've been told, and we respond to feedback on this podcast. What's so strange is that I know we've got other letters, but you've chosen to submit one of the ones you've just told and we respond to feedback on this podcast what's so strange is that i know we've got other letters but you've chosen to submit one of ones you've just made up yourself as the letter for this episode can i can i tell you can i tell you the truth like like i said my head's up my ass at the minute i have got i have got so i have got so many emails about bins and rubbish.

I've been contacted on Instagram. My mum sent us an email. I just can't get my head around it properly yet. Basically, we're going to need to do a separate episode that is going through everyone's bins. I'm going to keep saying greasy. Yeah, I know. I think it's like a, is, I'm going to keep saying greasy. Yeah, I know.

I think it's a, it's like a, is it partridge or something? Too greasy. No, I don't know. I don't, I'm not heard.

I mean, I've heard it, but not from partridge. If anyone knows what I'm thinking of, do let me know. Do let him know. Yeah. This has been,

I think a great audition for us to do a radio show on the actual BBC. Now, Sally with the now sally with the traffic sally with a trap sally how you doing how you doing love you all right she's not really there she's not there no but you can see how we she could be there i could i almost believed you we could make the transition to broadcast radio i believe i believe with a bit of editing why would we bother when we've got full freedom to say what we want? When we're making

cash overhand on the independent podcast circuit, saying exactly what we want to say. And then James cuts it out. Thank you for listening to Rural Concerns. If you have a rural concern, then guess what?

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is produced by egg mountain for lovely time production and as a reward for listening all the way to the end here is a piece of sage advice that i'm finding right now by flicking through the concise 48 laws of power law number 36 disdain things you cannot have ignoring them is the best revenge by acknowledging a petty problem, you give it existence and credibility. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him.

And a small mistake is often made worse and more visible when you try to fix it. It is sometimes best to leave things alone. If there is something you want but cannot have, show contempt for it. The less interest you reveal, the more superior you seem. Yeah, I hate Apple Plus.

It's silly. The thing is, I don't want this to turn into a recycling podcast, but it is. It's just, honestly, it's made me feel slightly anxious.

I'm going to stop recording now before you say about fucking yoghurt pots okay bong like that