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Go. Hello everybody and welcome to this country, this week you threw me there. As you can hear his doll sit toes behind me, it is our wonderful power, hello, power. And we joined, oh, my dirk, he hasn't been around for a while, hello, dirk.
Hello guys, it's good to be back. Good to see you and Kim, it's a different location. You know, favorite dog in spot. It's one big dog in spot.
So I hear. And of course, Neil, you should introduce Doug as prize giving winner of the month. Oh, yes, prize winning. Yeah, people of the month, Doug.
Yes, well done. Congratulations. We'll be with you soon. Yes.
Just don't stand on it. Yes. Gotcha. Yeah, so how are we all?
Oh, just to let you know if anybody does join us, we'll let them in and introduce them as and when they come. Is everybody well? That's the first thing I want to know and make sure we're all fit and healthy. Yeah, doing good.
As you said, I've got one for a few weeks. It's works, but utterly insane. Has it been really busy? Because obviously we're in the pub trade, shall we say?
Yeah, we're going to pub for a living and for my sins. But yeah, no, it's been good. It's been not nicely whacked. It's good to be busy.
It's going better than it did last year with the first injury. So yeah, it's starting to feel normal again. I just want to pass someone a pint or indeed some shots over the bar. And then I think that'll be when we say things are normal again.
Yeah, go and go. It's just I've just missed my Wednesday nights. I bet your step counts are massive. Now, is there a way we go?
This is huge hella now. There we go. There we go. Bloody time to call this.
Sorry. Don't worry. Too busy barbecue in, I said. How nice did your barbecue look?
I know they're amazing, wouldn't they? Absolutely. They spent some serious money on that meat day for it. Was that what you did?
The six pork shots we had cost us back to this, which won't be bad. The other one of the other guys bought in that pork belly ribs and they cost us about $2,000. It's a little bit awkward. And then one of the other guys had a beef brisket ship ever from America.
Oh, wow. Nice. And it took 12 hours to cook, but by God, it was the best before they ever had in my life. I bet.
Well, T-shirts as well. Yeah. He's got eight quid. Yes, there must have been.
Wow. I don't think that's actually. Well, there you go. Yeah, indeed.
Indeed. So I don't know whether anybody's heard or seen, but Daisy is filming, which finders now? Yes, it's been started. He's in East Anglia somewhere filming away.
He's talking about the other day. We were literally talking about that. So yeah. Our days is away filming.
I'm excited. The wonderful tin key as well. I believe is it? Yeah.
Here's the other star of it. I think he wrote it as well. I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure he wrote it as well.
Right. It's Tim Key and someone. It's not Daisy who wrote it unless she had a hand in it. Nah.
Not that I'm aware of that she's had any part of the writing. It's going to be interesting. interesting isn't it it's gonna be I'm excited one day of filming didn't they before everything got locked down last year yeah yeah it's been it's been on the shelf for that long um I wonder whether they'll just refill that one day yeah because with days as days has lost a bit of weight and she now and she was pregnant with I've been last year I don't know yeah yeah yeah so she would have been so yeah I imagine they'll refill me considering one it was just one day I know with with back the Mitchell and Web Show and Channel 4 you know the one about where they might end up up yeah they've filmed almost all about there was like one scene that they hadn't done and then got it locked down so they had to wait spot six seven months just to get that one clip like oh no so close that would have been a great binge during lockdown I needed it yeah yeah yeah I don't mind having to have it not much yeah not much that anybody can do with that though is that that's the trouble is like they're just stuck because nobody can work I suppose they could have edited the rest of the stuff couldn't name just works around that one bit but yeah well we have got other news you've probably read somewhere perhaps but I will hand it over to Paff to let you him tell you yeah so firstly firstly before the big news which may not be big news but it's big news for us obviously Sunday we've got the BAFTA I've not quite seen where what time it starts so anyone seen what time it starts I'm assuming it's on TV I'm assuming it's always always like but it's like a couple of hours before after it starts isn't it because they have to like edit the boring bit so I'm sure it is I reckon it's nine o'clock like eight nine o'clock something like that because they're mid-wise on it isn't it right right right so I will post the link for that and anybody that wants to do the the predictions I've put the predictions in the in the Facebook chat if you want to send them back to me and and we'll give out a little prize to whoever wins Neil you may or may not be be there so well if I do it'll be might be gone nine o'clock yeah but get your predictions in as well okay if you aren't going to be able to make it send your predictions in because we can still one of the people is going to win it anyway so so yeah and we'll just um we'll watch it obviously no phones or any devices because that'll give away who's won because we want to watch it sort of as live as we can if possible alive alive alive alive though right going on to our announcement right um November 26th the live show will be our last podcast not just the last live show it's going to be our last podcast um we've decided that with the fact that we've strung out this country for three series yeah three series a special and a comic relief special into as we speak tonight a hundred and eighty two episodes we felt that the live show our last live show is the perfect time to sort of step away we're not saying that we won't ever do another this because if they come back there's no reason that we wouldn't do another show but we don't know at the moment whether it's ideal to do like episodes on the American one because we feel it's going to be a different kind of thing and that could almost be a completely separate podcast um yeah so I worked out today and it means there's going to be 27 more episodes um and and then we were the podcast will still be there we still are aiming to do these weekly um patreon togethers um but we just feel that that that doing the top trumps was a way of being able to sort of ring the sponge out even more and get another couple of drops out of it but we don't feel there's anything else that we can do with a show that is like you know has got 18 19 episodes in and it's going to end up I think it's not just hell of a book a couple of other people said that the superfan episodes are okay but if you're not interested in that particular person there's no real this country's nuss to it apart from doing the quiz and maybe asking how they find out about the show and then it goes off on tangents that's nothing to do with this country so we both sort of had a look at it and just both said that it's sort of we don't want to just do it for the sake I'll probably pretty much like dating charlie feel about doing the show they don't want to do it for the sake of doing it because in the end the people that we love that listen and the people that you know like yourselves that genuinely you know we've never pretended that we've got shit loads of people on patreon you know we've got I think it's 31 people that do the patreon and every single one of you whether it's a pain or a fiver or whatever it is you will never know what that means to us in the fact that it's because of you that we've been able to do it for four years because we we can't afford to pay for the you know pay for the the zoom or pay for hope the podcast hosting it's just it wouldn't be feasible in our day to day I mean you know we work to pay our bills and this is something that is extracurricular and you have to have a certain amount of money a month to be able to keep the lights on if you like and it's only because of you guys that it does that you know there isn't you know there isn't a magic money tree that you could shake if you want to take it into this country thing and the thing is we also both of us said that we wanted to make sure whoever popped up on zoom tonight that you guys are the first people to know because out of everybody or the hundreds of people that listen every week you're the guys that matter you're the guys that that mean the most to us and I think that's why we want to carry on doing this country this week because we can still just chat with you guys we can still we're still gonna do things like the you know the monthly giveaways and any extra little bits that we can we can do and every so often we may well do just like a one-off pod you know it's not wrong for good yeah the feeds not gonna disappear so the episodes are always gonna be up there if we if there's something that happens you know you know we've got we are gonna be so hopefully fingers crossed in a couple of weeks speaking to Jenny Bix who's the showrunner of the american show if we speak to her we may be able to get the speaker to Paul Fieg as a little special that may be you know well after November but you know I like things in nice tidy little packages and I think to have the live show as the last so we're not just saying goodbye to the show but we can sort of say goodbye to the podcast as a weekly thing I think it's just it's just a perfect thing and we wanted to let you guys know before anybody else we're gonna do a Facebook live a little bit later on but like I say you guys are the ones that matter because you're the guys that stuck with us through the fucking pandemic through everything through it from the very very start of being I know that dog obviously you've joined us sort of later so you know I'll work out how much you owe us from four years and I'll pop that in your little package for where I think it gets to you but yeah so we did you know what I'm like I get teary I'm not gonna get teary now I'm not gonna guarantee that I'm not gonna get teary at the live show because I've got a little bit I've already done for the end of the show and I was looking back on it yesterday I was crying then so this is gonna be a fucking nightmare but yeah but we just wanted to let you know and I don't know if Neil wants to add anything else to that there's not much more I can add it's just really as a thank you to the patreon folk it really kept us afloat and managed to do the things and experience people that we've spoken to through you guys and that's why we like I said is keep it going keep in touch with you and get you whatever we can news about daisy and things like that to you as fast as we can but yeah just a massive thank you a massive thank you it's been a huge part of our lives this one this podcast it has I'm sorry I actually think the thank you should be to you too and what you've managed to achieve over the four years what you brought us the the guests you've managed to get the live days you've put on yeah for keeping this country going for for a long for all of us it's yeah definitely a massive thank you to you and it's gonna be a huge loss to me personally anyway I'm gonna be in pieces on the evening you only won that's a no I suggest we all get really pissed I don't cry the next day no you know dangerous I'm gonna say all the words paves made up yeah yeah when I became a scrabble with paves made up words yeah you'll always win what we should do is we should all do the show get on a bus go all the way up the Sheffield and get pissed with them hey you're coming are you yeah yeah I bought my tickets before I even became a patron oh oh well we're all just gonna get pissed with you then don't that's it yeah I know I'm gonna take like two days off work after two of cover as well thanks so that's yeah do you add to what else it's like it's been so especially especially during the pandemic because there's a lot that you read about how people rather watch new things especially when you go for a time you binge watch your comfort series you re-watch it re-watch it and re-watch it and knowing that there's something else out there with yourselves and with like-minded people going on some following of the show in the form of the podcast like that is amazing and it's so special in mouth anyone who listens to it like this country won't be this country about the pod that's not what I feel that's really sweet really sweet yeah it was it was it wasn't an easy decision but we just thought there's nothing else we can do without just literally recycling I mean some people have said we've already done that but you know recycling everything again and it just wouldn't be the same you know the spark will have finally erased yeah just another thing for the um I think I can confirm it because I think I got the email today so the next going probably going up to November the monthly prize giveaways will be courtesy of Rob from poster e so he's now finished doing the series three um one so he's gonna be sending me a load of stuff that we're gonna that's gonna be the prizes like the monthly prize draw prizes for the next few months so yeah so um so um I hadn't spoke to him for ages because I've also got his like episode of Star Wars ones and I asked him where's episode nine and I looked on there and he had a few of this country series so he hadn't finished the whole set so he messaged me today so he just finished harvest um he's picking them up from the printers then he's gonna send us some stuff and some cards so whatever he sends us I'll dish it out and it'll be the next sort of six months of the stuff and then it's amazing it's just amazing I love his stuff like I love his stuff and we've had so much of his stuff that we've given away way before and I got I think maybe we might give away Charlie and Daisy's scarecrow that they signed um oh we might we might auction it off my auction yeah sorry that one is a one off that is that is literally a one off um but yeah so that's that's it I mean in my mind and the way I've always thought about when it comes to podcasts and when Neil used to come to the shed it's just it's just us two chatting away and if people are listening to it you don't for one minute think that it affects anybody because I'm such a we're such a small little thing you know I mean it helped me so much through lockdown with my mental health um through the good times and through the bad times because it gives you something to focus on it gives you something to think about and even if it is working out a little bit of artwork or trying to get old of a guest or anything like that it helps you just distract your mind a little bit um but you don't for one minute think and we've said this right from the start not just of this podcast but of what is it nine-year or eight years nine years nine years nine years of podcasting that the one thing that we haven't really ever managed to crack is feedback from the listeners you know we and and even i would admit like even with this podcast getting feedback um even for the top trumps has been a struggle but you guys and no disrespect but especially Kim and Helena every single week every single week and you will never know what that means to us i'm gonna get emotional now but you'll never know what that means to us honestly because it's like rain or shine whether anything's happening whether it's not even if you know you're gonna be late you turn up and and you know if and i say it gets disheartening because you think well obviously nobody's listening but then people got to listen to figures we know that people listening but then to hear like you saying Doug that for you the podcast goes hand in hand with the show it's the biggest compliment that you can you can give because the only reason we did this was to get people to find out about the show and the fact that we were lucky that we knew Daisy and Charlie and Paul and Jill and that we could you know we could use that as a way of being able to sort of break through a little bit because we've got stars of the show and stuff i mean now it's different because i think Daisy is now out of our orbit out of our range just that if you want to speak to them you've got i think i'll especially speak to her we've got to go through a fish or beans rather than rather than just chatting to Jill and saying Jill and saying Daisy will say oh she loved too i don't think she's got any no say anything no especially i'd be see she is never apparently yeah so it's a demand i do feel that like you know it's um we've been in a very very lucky position and i think that if anybody tried to do another this country podcast it wouldn't be as good it wouldn't be it wouldn't be the same as this one because they wouldn't have had the the um access to people access yeah but we've had it started out because of the privacy did before and living in the same time and having had that prior access to Paul and today's and stuff like how you started out with this pod and just how it's grown and you know it really was i guess just probably quite a local thing actually it's a science thing isn't it in your yeah you were just digging up someone from Simon Says there when talking about the work they were doing and it's just escalated and i think there's a whole community that's built up from this part and you know i was part of the dunk gang before that's how i joined the dunk gang and then i found out about the pods um and um i don't know if i had just been part of the dunk i mean i'm on loads of facebook groups would i meet other people i don't know how glad he wouldn't but you doing a live show got me to meet up with those you know is a dunk gang it's no i've got some it's you know some really good friends it's a really fucking family yeah because we're going to the live show and because of what that's about me and i you know i don't we we are quite good as a dunk gang about meeting up but would we have done that without the show bringing us you know the live show bringing us together yeah it's a beautiful thing to always be there can be honest to be honest i i i'm said to nearly either but i've started putting bits of the show together like bit of the slideshow and that and all through it all i kept thinking to myself wasn't about what i was putting up on the slides it was like it's gonna be lovely to be able to just like just everybody and hug them you know and just and and and it's it's almost like the show doesn't really it doesn't matter what we do i'm you know we could we could just sit up on the stage for an hour and just i don't know just just just chat not not put anything on it's when the show finishes and then we all get in the bar afterwards that's that's the bit i'm looking forward to yeah which which i don't want it to be because i want to put on a really good emotional but a funny show i really want to put on something that everyone's gonna love and have fun at and hopefully come away just just enjoying the night but it'd be like shindles list of musical trust you you've always got to bring it to that level i'm gonna do what you did and i think what you said doesn't necessarily matter what you do because it's just having all those like mining people in one place getting together and reminiscing and whatever that that's gonna bring the atmosphere that you need and you'll have that if you do if you just stand on the stage and silence for two hours or you'll have it if you do we use your bits and pieces that we all love but it's getting everyone together and stuff and just what that entails and that's what people love more than anything i think and i can assure you we really are working on some more people being there we've had some sort of casual confirmations yeah the trouble is with being six months away you don't know because they're all in the business of acting like they could be i mean like i'm actually in Toronto at the moment so you know i could be whisked away here they're fucking everywhere so but we'll yeah we will try best all i'll say for all of you is be prepared to have soggy shoulders that's all i'll say yeah he's improving range Kim's thinking about it and i think what's he gonna do to me because it's his because it's his his Kim all right i'm not i'm saying that i'm not in the front row yeah i'll be like gazor again at the World Cup yeah but there you go there you go that's it so obviously this show won't change we'll carry on doing this um but the podcast will sort of it will cease to be the rest of life it rests well until their 10 year anniversary comes out yeah until the 10 year anniversary and then we'll do that we'll make another 200 episodes in one episode we might do that they do for the like Star Wars minute we'll take each minute of the show and make one episode out of the minute that's what they do with Star Wars and other films they take one minute talk about that minute for like half an hour and do the whole film a minute at a time that really is stretching you could really like analyze in detail couldn't you like what's in the background and can you imagine that oh and the other thing for date not for days eat for Kerry and for big Mandy's top trumps we want to have as many of you lot what we're gonna do like a rain bribing for those for the two big cards we have someone that's gonna do um the vicar because they're all working so we're not gonna get the actual people so i think if we can get as many of you lot and then we can all talk about it or give our own scores um so we will work out a date for that it's probably going to be July time maybe August time for those ones but we've got holidays and stuff coming up as well so um oh shit yeah oh no that's right yeah that's right yeah just take the things in my head show me capture one that a knee's winning not that i you know like because everyone's there it was a huge ad in the next day or something like you could use that time because everyone's laughing i won't be there i cannot get out of work they will not give me a holiday so unfortunately i need to pay the bills but yeah and believe what you've got to let them down aren't you i wish i wasn't i'm gonna be the larry loner that's driving around the cotswolds all on his own well you're not a party i'll try and send you a message from north leech that would be fun um yeah i'm looking forward to that as well that that should be that should be hell of a day you're yeah well we'll talk about that when we're not recording but okay anything else anybody got anything they would like to say to say that is a good idea yeah Kim's just waiting for that other other card of flash their head like so that's just waiting good luck you stay safe with them you're definitely getting soggy shoulders with that gimmer yeah okay c-golden yeah right thank you very much pare thanks Neil thank you very much Doug thanks guys are we just low at the mood forever no thank you for that thank you for that thank you for that we don't have to listen to another episode about the scare proof thank you very much Eleanor dear guys you guys are absolutely stars we will see you next week you're gonna take about Kim i didn't say oh i'm sorry kim i'm sorry i'm sorry yeah i'm sorry put your oh i'm sorry that's one less fucking patreon people we got already that was the very you're always special in my heart thank you very much thank you very much thank you for all the support i didn't mean to miss you out you know so yeah well i'll leave somebody else that next week to make up for it okay so yes we'll see you next week fun games and jole full times ahead we'll see you very sick i don't know i was gonna say something else and i thought no better not so we'll see you next week for nominal