Trusty Hogs - EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

A fun bonus update episode for you all (formalised via business rhetoric and the word 'Emergency') where we run you through the new Studio space that we've been able to launch thanks to all your support! We obviously are still working out some kinks, but we're so proud and so so grateful for everything xxThank you so much for listening!Support us at https://www.patreon.com/TrustyHogs for exclusive bonus content, merch, and more!Trust us with your own problems and questions... [e-mail] give us a follow @TrustyHogs on all socialsBe sure to subscribe and rate us (unless you don’t like these little piggies - 5 Stars only!)Thank you to our Patreon supporters...EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Simon Moores / Guy Goodman / Mary Fox / Annie Tonner / Sarah Jarque-Deakin / Oliver Jago / Stewart KerrPRODUCERS: Richard Bicknell / Elle / Richard Bald / Neil Redmond / Victoria Hutchison / Emma Walton / Karen & David Bull / Harald van Dijk / Eddie Doyle / Tim & Dom / David Walker / Rachel R / Anthony Conway / Sadie Cashmore / Claire Owen-Jones / Jess & Nick / Zoë / Jo Holmes / Sarah & Molly / Alex Pugh / Josie W / Amy / Cordelia / Raia Fink / Rachel Page / Helen A / Tina Linsey / Sophie Chivers / Graham Marsh / Emily Gee / Amy O'Riordan / Abbie Worf / Kie Web / Matt Sims / Luke Bright / Leah / Kate Spencer / Mae Williams / Tristin / Liz Fort / Taz / Klo / Becky Fox / AmieWith Helen Bauer (Daddy Look at Me, Live at the Apollo) & Catherine Bohart (Roast Battle, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats)FOLLOW HELEN, CATHERINE & ANDREW...@HelenBaBauer@CatherineBohart@StandUpAndrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, and welcome to a very special business episode of Trustee Hogs. That's right. I'm Catherine Bowhart and this little one being quiet over there is Helen Bower. I'm allowed to talk on the business episode but Catherine has written a script that she sent to me about, was it midnight last night? Yeah, because I was like, she doesn't understand a single episode of succession. She's not going to understand if I'm I start saying what I need to say in this episode, which is essentially you, our dear listeners, are our stakeholders. And this, my darlings, is your EGM. Because we've had a lot happen and we've got a lot to report back.

Essentially. Essentially. You know who pays for your Disneyland trip. Yes. It's the hogs. Yeah. And we owe them some explanation of where their money goes. Oh, right.

To Goofy. To a room job from Goofy, God willing, next time. I looked like such a Disney loser last night. I'll tell you later. Okay, sorry. No business episode, I know. Please, can we focus in? Okay, so we basically wanted to tell all of you,

our loyal hogs, that our new studio has, is here. And we wanted to explain to how it's come about and how it's gone. And we've been such busy little piglets that essentially I wanted to let you know what we've been up to. And so that's what this episode is for. So it's a little extra treat on a Monday. I assume only like the most loyal hogs will listen to it. But so many of you, since we said we were in this situation, have joined our Patreon. Yes.

We're now over 800 patrons. I was scared to like, O'Neilly posted saying we're above 800 patrons and I thought as soon as I post it, we're going to dood down your hands. I know. No, they're not. She's an idiot. But we're so tremendously grateful to you, genuinely.

And so this is our little extra episode to explain what's been going on. So. Yeah, so how it works and like what actually happens around the behind the scenes of the podcast, basically. But let's talk first about the studio. So chronology is, we hear the news, our last studio, is closing down and we're like by a text from Andrew

what time was it like gig time wasn't it and also we didn't hear it's Andrew doesn't text it's closing down you have this many weeks Andrew's like it's closed yes oh yeah there's no warning to this situation it just happens we have to move to Peckham so then we are like holy shit

so Andrew bless his heart starts looking around all of London offices we can afford oh no we should say so we the Vauxhall studio that we were doing it the guys that were running it basically, from what we understand, got turfed out overnight and then they amazingly did find a new studio in Peckham immediately

for everyone to honour the bookings. The shed you were in with the taskmaster. Yes. You know, when we had the most famous guests we've ever had, we took them to the shed, you remember? There was no Lou, but we went. Yeah, and so being in Peckham was traumatising for me. I loved it.

I was like literally a 15-minute walk down the road. There's no Lou. There's no Lou. It doesn't matter for that easy. of journey. And so Andrew, bless his heart went and looked around London at office spaces that we could afford. The answer was an amenia.

But we found this little bunker. You found this little bunker, Andrew. And my God, we're so grateful to you. Are we underground here? I can't figure out when I walk in. You're the way you came downstairs. Yes, but like three steps, to be fair. Right? I think we're ground level. I do think if we

screamed someone would hear. Yeah, for sure. I think if it comes to that. If Andrew turns out to be like, what we don't expect, then... Oh, see, now I've got excited that if we are underground, this could be our end of days. Like, we could spend it in here. Just podcasting while the world burns. That would be quite cute, you know? I honestly think I wouldn't mind it.

We wouldn't have any listeners, but... I'd have to learn how to broadcast on, like, traditional radio waves. I reckon you could learn that in 10 minutes, Andrew. You are a genius. An actual genius. I agree. But also, we would have listeners because we would have heard it was a... like nightmare situation gone underground

and then everything would have turned out to be fine which brings me back to the story of our studio which is to say we find this place we sign a very long contract and we are thrilled because actually the beautiful thing is that this can't happen again nobody can take it out from under us

it's not to look the same as everybody else's podcast we get to podcast whenever we want we're not at the behest of the studio but we had signed on the dotted line started to order curtains tables mics cameras, mixers, soundproofing, shelving, all the things that you need.

Long meetings, long list making. Hours in here. Costing it up, mainly by Andrew, obviously. We even... I didn't know the costing, but Andrew did the order. Who was the one that figured up how much a month we spend going to coffee shops to buy coffees

because we can't make them the sats. That would be Andrew. That was my favourite part of the costing sheet. We do all this and then just as we're settled in we hear, great news guys. The Vauxhall Studios back open. What? Did you hear it?

from me. I thought I broke so I was at a party. I was at Neilo Rourke's birthday party and my friend was just like oh yeah we're recording our podcast tomorrow we're doing it at Vauxhall and I was like oh no oh my god babe no it's it's gone and she was like no it's back I was like I knew

fucking kidding me and then immediately went outside a message to you guys we got punished for basically being like the world's like we were like the hogs can't miss a week that we must set up our own studio God forbid people live a week without us and their ears what will they do we've really taken to heart people being like it's the

highlight of my week it really I think they're lying to us but we're like no don't you worry we've got you we need us we will order tablecloths post haste that was would you say out of everything coming into this podcast I'd say Andrew was in charge of the business and everything Catherine did aesthetics and I ordered the curtains and they're not long enough and that's okay I don't know what's happened with that But I mean, you can't see on camera that they're not long enough. No. I was hoping that neither of you had noticed.

They're like a meter from the ground now. It's like the second round of naked attraction. Yes! But we're seeing the wall. But no, to circle back though. I'm really, really glad we got a studio because this way nobody can take it from us. It can't close and we can do it when we need to do it as opposed to just like when we have it available.

But could they not just turf us out in six months time when I caught drunk ends. Okay. Helen, why you're being so negative? Okay, I'm just genuinely wondering. I think it is rolling. It's rolling. Yeah. I sing when I'm scared.

Okay, so essentially we got here and we needed curtains, tables, lights, shelving, sound blockers, art, desks, chairs, mixers, mics, lights. And we were gifted a coffee maker by the lovely Sunil Patel. I wouldn't say it was so much as gifted as me being like, it's going. Right. Okay, you stole. Maybe I framed it badly. You can't hear the coffee machine from Sunil Patel and I'll take it.

Thank you so much. We'll talk to him about it when he comes in. Yeah. Also, we were gifted when we told you, like, by a bunch of you, loads of you joined the Patreon. Annie Tonner sent us these beautiful dried flowers. Thank you, Annie, don't. And also, should we say, like, thank you, Annie, for addressing it to Catherine Boehart at Comedy Cuffle, because I get most of the gifts. And I think we all know it's important, because I've got so many birthdays and so many little things happening. But it was also so pleasing. You weren't here for this, Andrew. Me and Catherine were just like,

doing something. It's like last week and the guy from the reception came in and was like delivery for Catherine and it was clearly flowers and I was like oh here we fucking go and she was like no it's not my girlfriend it's not my girlfriend you can tell she was like it might be my girlfriend it might be but it's not it's not she wouldn't she would never she mustn't and then opened it up and I was like yes Annie John her that was an emotional roller coaster and then my trousers split which was fair oh my god you don't get to poke your butt hey how good are they are they stunning they're so

nice. Thank you, Annie. Also, we were gifted several things. First of all, we got sent these chocolates by Ollie. We are going to fight over who gets what. I do have a preference already. It says, hey, hoggies, which I love. Saw the oink chocolate, it says oink on it, and thought

of you, sending lots of love from Ollie, you absolute sweet. Oh my God, it actually says... Is it Ali or Ollie? I can't tell. I think it's Olly. Thank you to all alleys and Ollies. But I, no wait, we have to choose one for one. You can't just go in. I just say I want to see the oink.

Stop it. I know. I know. It's so cute. Oh my. I want this one. Oh, maybe I don't. Well, maybe I want to.

No, there's two oink chocolates that's fair. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't want either. I want this one. I want this one. Milk chocolate toffee and gingerbread. Why are you doing some chocolate having me?

Can I also do some thank you? We can split it in half. Oh, Andrew. Yeah, but you can have chocolate too, Andrew. Thank you. Maybe let's give it to Andrew until we, so we don't fight about it. I'll just put it in my bag to say it. It's too late for the fight.

It's too late for the fighting. We've also got a few people who, a lot of whom are patrons anyway, sent us additional donations. Yeah. Also, thank you to Mooch, who helped us some tech equipment. He's very, very lovely.

Yes, amazing, Much who, like, runs Vauxhall and is just, yeah, amazing and so generous. But here's a fun throwback. The software that we're recording on is the same software I used to stream Giglas on. So we used to stream Giglis, our online comedy show, during lockdown and it had this little bar where people could make donations and we put that out

there just being like hey if you don't want to commit to a patron um and if you could but you can send us like a one off donation that we really appreciate that um and claire owen jones becky fox l and tina lindsay have all sent us um some donations oh my god they're already patrons that's so sweet of angel angel pigies angel the people are too good for this world people are genuinely too good for this world We have a sign in the office that says, Oin KHQ. Yay! It's very cute.

Very cute. Also, so the other things that we were gifted, let me just check that I get all this right is. Also, L, who we were just talking about it, brought this to my gig, having driven hours to see me gig, one for each of us, one for M in there. I've taken mine out already because you're terrifying. Ouch, my heart.

There's their little, um, their little, um... Stop it, L, you fucking Disney bitch. What are you like? Tony's chocolate. Tony's eggs. Oh, this is the thing, I saw on your Instagram that you were like L and like Sadie and like some of our like really like loyal

listeners were there and I was like and they've clearly, oh and Ruth? And they brought those. Oh my God. And they brought these and I was like Oh, why does Catherine get a gift and not me? And then it's like actually worked out. Thank you guys so much.

I will, Andrew. There you go. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh, so she said. More specifically. I'm sorry, Andrew. She sent us this card. It says happy new and then cross down home and put studio.

Oh my God, it's the house from up. You don't get it. It's a Disney reference. I do get it. And more specifically, it's going on our wall. Yes. Oh my God, I love it. I love it so much.

And also we have things that you've sent us in. We've got the art over here. We've got genuinely art on the walls from our fans. We've got Francis's pictures. Oh my God, Francis Stanfield on Instagram. This is their amazing portrait of a list of our bar is actually Lily. Hi, Lily. How's it going?

Love you, Lily. Hi, Lily. Now, Lily, you're on our wall for the whole time. Now, we've also got these gifts that have been sent in. This one's for you and this one's for me. I think they're from the same person, but they were delivered. They had, because of how they were ordered. I think, yes, I think they're both from Kate Spencer.

Mine's from the raw mail. But yours was ordered from a website and yours was sent by a mail. Oh, my God. But she messaged me to tell me, she messaged me to tell me that they might be arriving separately just in case either Helen got jealous that you had a gifty or that you felt left out. I'm sorry, I've got the best gift of all time. What is it? Honestly, do yours first.

Mine's got to be better. We're so lucky. How do we get so lucky? Because we're angels. No, we're not. I don't know, but I just, I'm honestly. We're turns on six. We don't deserve it.

You know how in therapy people are like, you need to like, receive and accept love. And I'm like, I can't do it in so many ways, but with gifts, I'm like, I'll fucking take it. Oh my God. Okay. Is this, is this Kate? Is the name? She sent me a cook. point that says depression cooking, easy recipes for when you're depressed is full.

Breakfast for every meal of the day. Frozen food. This is phenomenal oatmeal. Grab and go mix and magic scrambles eggs. Depression perfect. You love eggs. This is phenomenal. The depression cooking manifest.

I'm obsessed with this mac and cheese. Yes. You've also got like a lovely handwritten letter. I'm not going to read it. I just saw P.S. in the name Helen. Can I show my gift now? Yeah, but hang on.

Should I read the message? I don't know, maybe it's like... I'm going to read it and then hope that it's fine. If not, we can cut it. Dear Catherine, I hope this resonates with you as much as it does with me. It does. I love food and cooking and recipe books, me too, but struggle sometimes to allow myself to just get the food in me

if it isn't perfect or if it isn't a balanced meal. Tell me about it. And sometimes brains are hard places. And it's hard to get perfect food on the plate or on the table. And then I get overwhelmed and end up. back on Uber Eats and there goes all my money. Kate, I found this book a beautiful reminder

that it doesn't have to be that way. Thanks for being part of a podcast that feels so good for my brain. Kate, she, her. P.S. Helen is also getting a gift. One is coming from my home and one from Etsy and I don't know what we'll have right first. You are both equally valued. Kate, do you want to be my mom?

That's so nice. I also feel like he knows us really well because look what I got. A princess Diana is a different outfit and I'm dying particularly because I've seen that their son name is Spencer and it's really sending me into a loop. That cup is everything.

So it's a large, I'd say sports direct size mug for UK listeners. But they have to get in her whole catalogue of outfits. And they've just got like a full selection of different outfits and they're all so cute. She looks amazing. Oh my God, I love it. It's an alcoabla. Oh my God.

Merci Bocou, everybody. Could you imagine how? having a hot chocky in this whilst watching the Spencer movie. Are you out of hot chock yet? Because I still have loads. Oh, actually, yeah. I would love a top up. That would be amazing.

And we could do our own personal. Have we done with the business episode? No, we're not talking about. You were like, we got all my gifts. I'm done. Can I point out one more thing in the room, please? Oh, also. Well, yeah, please.

Okay, so the material girl poster that we've had since like the very beginning of the podcast is done by a friend of us called Dave and his website is massive arm. It's so funny and so good. Awesome. And then this little tortoise, I don't think we ever spoke about her. She's based on... We spoke about smooth sides, of course.

But this is from... We, I, at the Rainforest Cafe, insisted on receiving a gifty from our payment from hogs. And I got that, I got a little tortoise. And we got this fight for me. Yes. For our Lego people. From the Germans, Hallush and Varslaws.

We got our Happy Hoggla Days. Happy Hoglete's card. Everything's in here, you guys. Oh, my God. But yeah, so the things that we still need to get are, we're going to get a sign for over there on the curtain. We're very excited about that. And if you have any more art or if you have anything like any,

if you're like a person who draws and you want to draw us, please, we'll put it in the studio. Of course we will. But mainly we need your money, honey. And we're very grateful for the money that you've been amazing. And I'll say, I, when Catherine and Andrew were like, oh, we'll do a shout out to see if anyone can support us and get in an office.

I was like, I really, I mean, you can ask. but I don't think anything's going to happen. And then, holy shit, I've never eaten so much crow. I was picking beecap my mouth all weekend. It was amazing because basically the rent here is higher, but it can't, like I say, it can't disappear from out from under us and we had to buy a lot of equipment. So we are very, very grateful to all of our new Patreon members.

Thank you to our producers. Thank you to our exec producers. Do you like our new place? Do we like our new place? I love it. I love it. Do you like it, Andrew? I am very, very fond of it.

Me too. We're also, like, so close to so many good food. places. Okay, no, Helen. Also, when we release this episode, we're going to basically put all the photos and videos we made along the way on our Trusty Hogs page. So we'll do that on the Monday as well. We'll drop all the little videos, reopening the flowers, us doing up the place, the pictures

we took of us when it was an empty shell. Video of me walking down Oxford Street with the ripped jeans. Yeah, we can do that. So if you're listening along, then you can go and see our page and you'll see our tiny space there. Compliments, please. We would like lots of compliments. Yes, please.

Other business, while we're at this EG. Go for it. Helen, you're going away for a few weeks. Not yet. We're going to do two episodes in our studio. I'm leaving for a month, but we are going to record two before I go. So you'll look at my Instagram and be like, wait, what's Helen doing in Australia looking like a mermaid on Bondi Beach and helping save lives with the lifeguard team? I'm not, we pre-recorded stuff. And also I would say that we are, by a virtue of popular demand, we have assumed the popular demand will be that Chloe Pets will be co-housing. Yes!

Because I love Chloe. So Chloe's coming back from Australia hosting the two episodes with me while you're away At my gig last night I was with your girlfriend obviously And I was like... No, this is probably for regular episodes Okay, but I just have to...

Okay, never mind. This is an EGM, we're talking business. Okay, what's EGM? Just explain it with me. Emergency General Meeting. Okay. Okay. What's the emergency? The emergency is that we got a new studio bitch

and they gave us money for it and they need to have to explain some what we're doing with it. Right, right. Other breaking news, we are coming to Latitude. If you're going to be at Lastitude on the Sunday, Trustee Hogs will be there. Yeah, I need to put that in my diary. Us in the mud.

Yes. Do we have any other live dates that are on sale, Andrew? Yes. Fourth. The 4th of June, correct. Which has literally like 10 tickets left. Holy book. Where is it?

It's at the Bedford in Ballum. There's 10 tickets left. They are 12 pound 50 or if you are a patron, you can get 10 pound tickets. It seems like a reason to join And there's more to come But that's all we've announced so far So that and latitude and Andrew I think we agreed as well

That the Trustee Hoggs live At the Bedford and Ballam We would be duetting at the end And if you're a patron It gets recorded and it will be on our Patreon And it will be bad I won't be watching it but you could watch it Because when they sing together it makes me angry

We've never sung together on stage Oh sorry when you sing separately We've never got up and performed properly You're going on tour? Where are you going to be? Where can people buy tickets more specifically? Oh, my tour's not announced yet, but thank you. Oh, is it not?

No. Well, you're going to Edinburgh. I am going to go to Edinburgh for two weeks. Please go on my website and sign up to my mailing list, Helenbauer.com. And I'm in Australia, so please come see me if you're in Sydney or Perth. And I've got something very exciting happening on the 13th of June and then the 13th of July.

So please look out for that. I haven't told you yet what it is, but you know what it is. but you know what it is. You were at the taping of it. Okay, I got it. Yeah. You were physically there. I waved to you

and the cameras were on me and you wave back going, Helen, do your job. And I was like, hi baby girl. You're doing amazing to me. I'm going to Edinburgh. Also, I'll be in Edinburgh

for the first eight days of Edinburgh. How have we done this? Because I really need a break. You can catch me, I catch, buy tickets at catherinebowhart.com. You can also sign up to my mailing list there. I rarely say to send a mailing list,

but if more people signed up, maybe I would. Also, I'm going to be at Soho Theatre doing my work in progress as well on the 22nd and 23rd of August so either end of August you can catch me in Edinburgh or Soho Theatre

while the show develops I think it's getting somewhere which is really nice I bet it is yeah I feel excited by it and the stuff I'm talking about feels very like of the now in my life which is exciting

and that will be turning into a tour show that will go on sale in September so I will announce that then too we so need to sit down and talk about what we're talking about on stage at the moment because, like, I need to really figure mine out. Oh, yeah, I'd love to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, I've got loads of ideas, but every single time I go on with a whole new set of ideas. I'd love to write with you. Let's do that. We also find each other funny, so that would be helpful. No, we do.

I don't know why I did that. That was so nasty. Andrew, please tell them whether they can go see you life. Thank you. Yes, I'm on standupandrew.com forward slash tickets has all of my dates. In particular, previews,

a couple at two north down in Kings Cross, one at the K-hole in Dulston, a few others across the country Salisbury, Bournemouth. There's one down in Richmond and Wimbledon because my cousin Penny. There is. There's already booked tickets to come see you. Came to me at a family wedding and was like so I booked and I was like oh right here we go

for me again like for Andrew. His clips are so funny. That's so sweet. Thank you. We love Penny. Thank you, Benny. Thank you, Benny. That's so cute. Well hey, that I think is all of our business and what you want to say is that truly your support is what's keeping us going.

Like I, and also I want to to say, well, we had this tiny chance in this extra episode that, like, we come, we travel here, we maybe takes us a half an hour, we record for two and a half hours for the episodes that you listen to. Andrew and M then go and edit and that takes them hours. They then make clips which takes them hours. They caption the clips. They put the clips out. We all are like obviously making sure that the clips are what we want them to be, but these guys core hours and hours of editing time into the show. It doesn't just happen sort of in an hour. Has to be uploaded into every streaming platform that you guys want on. Yeah.

And we, you know, we're really, really grateful for all the work that they do too. So we're just, this is just an episode to show you how the sausage gets made. Do you feel emotional right now? No, I just thought I'd do like a little bit of a sausage pudding because it's... Okay. Yeah, I feel emotional. Okay. Well, that's not really what an EGM is about.

Because we're supported. It's more business. Oh, yeah. But do you feel like cradled? I really do. The shareholders have been very kind to us this year. Thank you so much. I think it's just really good work for all of us.

Because, like, you know, not only are they doing everything for us, but we're accepting it and that's also important to remember thank you thank you thank you bye thank you so much meeting adjourned Thank you.