Reading Between The Guy-lines

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Welcome to season four of Casual Camping Podcast, the home for the best camping discussion both in and out of the field.
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Here are your hosts, Tim and Aid.
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Hello and welcome to another brilliant episode of Casual Camping Podcast.
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I'm Tim.
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I'm an Aid.
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Let's hope it is brilliant, Tim.
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Let's hope it is.
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I'm feeling good.
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Customers deserve it, not customers, listeners.
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Customers, customers.
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Yeah, by listening to this, you subscribe to prank caller, prank caller, Tim.
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Oh, that always makes me think of pulp fiction.
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Are you calling on a cell phone?
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How are you doing?
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I'm good.
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I am good.
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I am uh I am refreshed.
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I uh back from uh you know back from a a little a little holiday.
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Global travels.
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The two of us, to be honest, we are we are global travelers.
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And uh I'm also basking in the glow of the first episode being launched of season four and and lots of lovely feedback and everybody welcome welcoming us back into their dirty little ears.
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Well, I think it it was lovely.
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It's it's like meeting up with old friends, isn't it?
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And it's lovely to uh know that we can witter on for an hour and ten minutes, you know.
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We we know sometimes people have to take us in two sections, you know.
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You can't do it all at once, but we're grateful for you listening.
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Yeah, how do you how do you eat a whole Aid and Tim in two sittings?
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Oh I've never been able to do anything in two sittings, Tim.
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Get it down, yeah.
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Get it down, you might lose it if you don't eat it all at once.
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If you put it in the fridge for later, someone else is gonna have that.
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So well, um like uh we uh always say, uh, you know, do remember to not only subscribe but like and share.
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If you uh love the content, you know somebody that might love it too.
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We are on primarily Facebook and Instagram, and uh you'll also see some maybe longer videos of some of the stuff that we get up to over on our YouTube channel.
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And once again, like and share.
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We've got quite a few, uh we're over a thousand on there, Tim.
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Blum and eck, blum and eck.
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Yeah, that's so two two likes last week, two likes.
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You get so hung up on the on the socials numbers, and and I couldn't care less for the socials, to be honest.
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I'm more I'm all about podcast download numbers, and uh, and I'm I'm I'm glad that they're healthy, and I'm glad that we're all over the world and that we're on every platform that people can think of.
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And uh so so like us and subscribe and share to to to that for me and um and get you know get other people listening to us.
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That's uh yeah, that's get get you know get nominating us for an Emmy.
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Oh I'm not gonna let it go, Tim.
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I'm not gonna let it go.
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This is the year of the Emmy.
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So yes, how was Dubai anyway?
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Was incredible.
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It's um not like anywhere else I've been.
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Um it's incredibly clean, incredibly safe, um just a just a brilliant, brilliant place.
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Uh lovely and warm, not too warm because it's it's their winter.
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Uh so managed to get on the beach, sit around, not do a lot, which is really good.
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And uh bought uh bought some North Face stuff because North Face is cheaper in Dubai.
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Who would have thought that?
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So came back, came back with some North Face stuff.
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Lovely, lovely.
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Did you see the uh uh call box that they've just released?
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Yeah, I did when you sent it to me.
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Yeah, blum and heck.
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That's um that that would have gone very well with the bright yellow um Tesla cyber truck that drove past me at the same time.
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Oh can you imagine just bolting that down into the back of it?
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We do love a bit of matchy matchy, yeah.
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We do, we do.
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Yeah, no, it's um Dubai was was great, absolutely absolutely brilliant, really uh, really great place, and we'll definitely be going uh going back there.
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Uh you went to uh you went to Paris though.
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You went to culture.
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Come on television.
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Je m'appelle Pirate.
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Uh yes, absolutely.
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I love Paris.
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Go over on Eurostar and just spend five days walking around the streets, and it's quite a compact little uh city centre, so yeah.
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Uh saying that we did uh oh gosh, I think it was 49 miles walking in five days.
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Wow, that's some that's some going.
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That is some going.
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Yeah, I sort of feel uh quite good at that.
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Uh but yeah, nowhere seems too far, and even if you're in uh back streets and going somewhere, it all feels very much like Paris and a different city.
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So yeah.
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It sounds sounds weird, but you know, I I I love Paris as well.
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I've been a couple of times, and and you you arrive on the on the Eurostar train from London, and you you come out of Garde Nord, the uh the station, and it this will sound really, really thick, but it looks like Paris.
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You know, it's not it's not like you've you know, because a lot of cities throughout the world they're starting to look very generic and all look quite similar.
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Paris doesn't look like anywhere else.
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Paris looks like Paris, and all of Paris looks like Paris.
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It's um it's a beautiful city, absolutely beautiful city.
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Well, historians will know that that was the building plan uh in the early 1800s, uh, to condemn the slums as they were and build everything after one kind of plan.
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So yeah, all the ornissements look very similar.
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Murdered the uh French while I was over there too.
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I'm not very good at it.
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Thing is though, they they do love it if you give it a go.
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Um, what I learnt is um they'd really don't really like it if you give Arabic a go.
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Because you're probably getting it wrong because because you know, for one word they say about four, and and I I yeah, I I tried a couple of sayings, but I gave up in the end.
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They actually much prefer it if you just try and speak English.
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It's uh yeah, but the French look if you give it a go.
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I did give it a go, and somebody laughed at me and he was like, What was that?
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We don't sell pigs here.
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I do apologize, I sometimes get a little bit carried away.
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Le Grande Mademoiselle, all the fellas, oh yeah, yeah, or Le Grand Monsieur, sorry.
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And we don't discriminate.
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No, we can call everyone fat.
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Mainly because I am, um and me, and me.
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I'm Caroline carrying holiday weight.
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So uh so yes, uh it was just nice to be away.
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It felt it's felt a long time to get there.
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And while we have been taking a break, we've also been still doing our day job.
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So uh it was a holiday holiday, which was nice.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And and not planned at all that we were actually both away at the same time, but actually quite nice that we we we both kind of had a week off at the same time and just like yeah, it's nice getting pictures from you and uh uh me reciprocate.
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This is what we've done, and they did feel like two very different holidays, didn't they?
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Oh, totally, totally very different.
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You were very cultural.
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Um, very, very cultural.
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I mean, that that's me all over, Tim.
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Anybody will tell you, it's me all over.
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What?
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What cultural aid?
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Of course, yeah, I do.
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He was just uh extilling the virtues of uh uh power stations against Gwind Farms.
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Oh god, oh my god, yeah.
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No, I wasn't cultural at all.
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I was on a beach, I was uh shopping.
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I did go to a great sea life centre, they've got they've got a brilliant um uh aquarium there, it's like bigger than anything you could possibly imagine, but it was it was incredible, absolutely incredible.
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That's uh and I went to the top of the tallest building, so yeah, yeah, absolutely uh amazing.
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Did it feel that you were like a kilometre up?
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No, no, it didn't, because um, although everything's clean in in Dubai, the air's not particularly, so you couldn't see very far because the air's not particularly clean, because um because they're an oil-producing country, so they they haven't really got a lot of electric cars.
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So um because they don't need to.
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So there's no need to quite a bit of smog in the air, so you even when you're up really high, you can see down really clearly, but you can't see out very far, which um which was a little disappointing if I'm if I'm totally honest.
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When you get to the top of the tallest building, I I wanted to be able to see the curvature of the earth, and uh and I I I couldn't, I couldn't uh I could barely see the coast to be honest.
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It's uh well the um yeah, I I think that when I went to New York, uh I've been a couple of times and been up the the rock, the Rockefeller Center, and you can get out on the top.
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And after they built the new um building on the site of uh the Twin Towers, uh whatever that is called, it's uh like whatever it is, Twin Towers Mark II.
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It's just one of them.
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Um and you can't get out there, and it just felt oh, it didn't feel like I was I was just inside.
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So however high you go up, unless you can get out for me, it just uh Yeah, there's the there's an element of that because I've done the rock as well, I've been to the top of the rock, and that is really cool because you you're outside and it's really windy, and you kind of get a sense of being up high.
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And and actually, yeah, because you're you we were just inside.
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Um, you know, the the view was great.
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I just expected to see a lot further um than than I could, and um and that was that was a a bit of a shame, but um but yeah, you know, it's um still amazing to say, you know, it's uh it's currently the tallest building in the world.
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There are lots of other buildings being planned to to go a lot a lot taller, but for the time being I've been I've been up the tallest buildings.
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So something to tick off, something to tick off.
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Well, that's it, you know.
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Next time they build another one, maybe that's your thing.
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You just go to the tallest buildings.
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That's right, and camp.
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Uh yeah, well, that that'd be something to do.
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I've seen people that uh go around doing uh dragging uh ironing board up uh big mountains and stuff.
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That that could be your thing, Tim.
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Wait on, I'm just setting up my tent for a uh little picture, okay?
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Now I've got to go back down and get my cool box and my stacking system, my bed system and my stove.
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Oh god, yeah.
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Oh man.
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Did you watch that program on Netflix with um uh Alex Honnold who was climbing um is it type A 101?
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No, oh I've not seen it, I saw it advertised.
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Oh my god, I didn't watch it live because it was going to be one in the morning um our time, but um it were he did it live, although I think there was like a a 20-second delay or something like that in case something happened.
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Um, but I said even even though I I knew he'd done it and wasn't watching it live, it's still like you know, a heart in your throat kind of every time he's kind of going up and reaching out and climbing out and hanging upside down, and it was just like, oh my god, and and he was so high up, so high up.
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Yeah, yeah, he's uh got a lot of confidence in his own uh abilities.
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Absolutely.
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Um yeah, I saw a film a while ago called The Alpinist, and that was a he features in this, but it was about another guy who uh was just so good and doing so many things, but uh he was sponsored by people and he had to sort of uh they thought that that meant that he would document everything that he did, and he was like shut down all his cameras and stopped taking photos.
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And he went, No, the first time I do that, Klein, that's for me.
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You're not getting any of it.
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And yeah, I thought brilliant, yeah.
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Wow, wow, gosh, gosh.
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Well, we are we are being cultured today, aren't we?
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We're we're trying to be trying to be cultured today because we're doing um we're doing books.
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It's it's books, people.
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Yeah, welcome to Tim and Aid's book club.
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Okay, in that husky voice, you make it sound like we're doing like some kind of adult magazines.
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Tim, my first book, yeah.
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Yes, you heard me.
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Cabin porn.
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Oh my god.
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It's all like little little shack pictures of shacks and things in lonely places, and uh I think it's it's one of the books that has made me the camper I am, I think.
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Uh, it's how I kind of set up my tent.
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There's some beautiful little homes, there's some really raggedy homes, little shacks, uh, not many tents.
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I'd like somebody to do uh a uh tent porn for you know go around filming people in uh uh Japan because they do it brilliantly, of all their little setups and stuff.
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Maybe there's uh somebody out there.
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I would buy it, people.
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I would buy it.
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We well, maybe we need to do that, Ed.
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Maybe we need to do that.
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Maybe maybe at the end of this we should have a little list of books we're going to write.
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Oh, okay.
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And uh casual camping podcast um library of books that we'll we'll do.
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But um yeah, so who is it saying it on a uh podcast that copyrights it so nobody else can do it?
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No, sadly.
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Uh saying it on a podcast means someone else will take the idea and run with it and do it really quickly.
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So who um who who writes that?
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Um Zach Klein, Stephen Leckhart, and Noah Hallina.
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That's easy for you to say.
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Well, I've I didn't go to school to him, as you know, so yeah, and it's by Beaver Brook.
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It's a penguin book as well.
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Okay, it's a penguin beaver brook.
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Something like that.
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They don't sell jewellery and for our overseas listeners, beaver brooks is a jewellery store.
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I bet they have one on the Antarctic.
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I bet they know Beaver Brooks.
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What?
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Our final continent, Tim.
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Oh, I know, I know, but uh what's beaver brooks gonna do with Antarctica?
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Not much.
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I was I was striving for comedy gold but failed.
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Sorry, sorry.
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Yeah, you um I was writing down tent porn at the same time.
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Sorry.
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Sorry.
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I am a simple man, I can do one thing and one thing only at a time.
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Uh honestly, you could have it done into seasons around the world.
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Oh my god, it'd be uh excellent.
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Let's let's come on to books we want to write at the end.
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Okay, then books we want to write at the end.
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You're uh you're you're excited.
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Um, so that's that's a really cool book.
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That's like a coffee table book, isn't it?
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It it really is full of images, full of lots of beautiful images of cabins here, there, and everywhere.
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And I and I think it's uh where camping comes in for me is that you know there's a lot of these places that are by a river, that are in some woodland, that are and it's you know, unless you own those things or you can't necessarily go there, where you can do and set your own up with camping.
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So it's inspired me to find the beautiful spots.
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You know, do you ever, when you get on a campsite, clock like you know, if it's empty, right?
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Where's the best pitch?
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Where's the best pitch that's just further away from the toilets but not too far?
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That isn't going to get somebody camped right next to you.
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Can you get a corner, which means that you don't have people on either side?
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You know, all those kind of things.
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So yeah, I know what you mean.
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I know what you mean.
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It's um so that book's helped you with with stuff like that.
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Uh it massively has.
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I I think it's um yeah, it's just being out there.
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It's being out there in nature and finding those quiet spots, even on uh campsites that might be busy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Cool.
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Well, I um I mean I don't know how we're doing this.
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Are we going back and forth or are we just gonna go through Yeah, yeah, just go back and forth.
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You do one, Tim.
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Okay, okay.
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Well, I've got one in my hand, but I've also got one that I it it's kind of the two that are linked together, really.
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So Book in My Hand is called Um The The Stars, the Snow, The Fire.
00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:33.279
25 Years in the Alaska Wilderness, and it's a memoir by John Haynes, and it is such a beautiful book.
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It's not a big book, as you can see.
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It's it's only got where are we?
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Uh la la la la la.
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Let's get to the back.
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162 pages is all it is.
00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:45.839
It's not a big book.
00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:50.640
Um, but it it it is what it what it says on on the tin, basically.
00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:58.559
It's it's John Haynes, 25 years in the Alaskan Wilderness, and it's just bits that he wrote down while he was doing that, stories.
00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:23.680
He was living in a cabin, stuff that he got up to, stuff that he saw, stories of other people that were out there, and it's it's such a fantastic book, and I would absolutely recommend anybody to um to read this book, and it'll take you two minutes to read it because it's so it's so tiny um compared to a lot of other books, but it's um it's all about wilderness, it's all about that outdoor space, it's all about being on your own.
00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:32.000
A lot of it is is entirely on his own, and um, and I read this oh donkeys years ago now, many, many years ago.
00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:33.680
I don't even know when it was published.
00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:42.559
It was published in uh uh 77 originally.
00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.519
Um, this is my copy from 2000.
00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.319
Um, so it's it's uh it's a pretty old book.
00:20:48.480 --> 00:21:59.759
It's um uh and the one I've got is published by Grey Wolf Press, but it's it's just a beautiful book about somebody uh wanting to escape the rat race and wanting to be out in the wilderness, and that's that's kind of a theme of stuff that I've read for years because when we were at school in Canada, uh we at school didn't go to school in Canada, you didn't go to school in Canada, but I went to school in Canada, and we read and it's gonna um My Side of the Mountain, which is a great story about this kid who um there's problems at home, and he runs away to uh where he he thinks his family have got some a farm out in the in the wilderness, and he and he thinks he's kind of found it, but he's not really found it, and he ends up finding a hollowed-out tree, and actually he lives out there and survives out there for for you know a whole winter, and he has a um uh a golden eagle that he finds a a chick of a golden eagle and he rears that and he goes hunting with that, and he and it's just this amazing kids' adventure that you know is impossible and it wouldn't happen, and blah blah blah.
00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:09.759
But it completely, when I was like nine years old, just switched the light on in me of like you could go out into the wilderness and you can do all this stuff.
00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:17.920
And uh and then full circle, the uh the John Haynes book is like, yeah, that's that is actually possible.
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You can go and do this.
00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:25.279
And um, and I found the John Haynes book by reading another book, because often you do, don't you?
00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:38.880
And I was reading um Into the Wild by John Krakauer um about Chris McCandless and how he hashed in his life essentially to live a different way and eventually went into the Alaskan wilderness and um sadly didn't survive.
00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:47.039
But actually, he he he made one mistake um or a couple of mistakes that that resulted in him not making it out again.
00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:51.039
But actually, he was surviving to an extent out there.
00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:56.640
Um and the John Haynes book was kind of quoted several times within uh John Krakow's book.
00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:06.640
So I um I thought I'm gonna find that one and read that one, and it was it's a great book, but the two of those are great books together, really Into the Wild and Um The Stars, the Snow, the Fire.
00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:08.960
Oh, brilliant.
00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:12.160
Yeah, I I think well, you touched on a few books there.
00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:13.119
You're getting greedy.
00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:14.160
Sorry.
00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.319
Somebody's been to Dubai.
00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:26.480
Oh my god.
00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:35.359
Oh yeah, um, so these are sort of these are sort of books that inspire me to wanting to be outdoorsy.
00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:40.480
Um I've then got other books that are you know manuals and things like that.
00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:46.640
But these are kind of my my inspiration books of of wanting to be outdoorsy, wanting to to have adventures.
00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:47.759
Sorry, carry on.
00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:58.079
No, I uh you know, very, very similar um things really that you know you want to get out there and have that peace.
00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.400
So it's why we're doing a podcast, Tim.
00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:02.640
Talk to people about getting out there.
00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:10.880
Um, so I'm going to put in a couple of books um that I've had over the years and I can't find them at the minute.
00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:17.680
I know I've got them somewhere, but I'm just going to talk to you about uh my little gem books.
00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:24.559
So I've got a knot one and I've got a trees one, and I do have a foraging one somewhere.
00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:25.119
Cool.
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:32.480
Um and those uh generally are in my little boxes with my knives.
00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:46.480
They're things that I look at when I'm around a campfire, when I'm got you know a few minutes, time on my hands, you know, where you put your phone down and you don't pick it up for a while.
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:53.839
It's just those things where in between making fire and making food and opening beer, obviously.
00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:58.720
But they're things that help me spot, you know.
00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:25.920
I I can remember when I was five being able to name trees because they they teach you uh kindergarten or primary school or where whatever it is, what it wherever you are, and as I've got older, I can maybe spot you know uh 10 or 15 kind of trees, and I'd probably get some of them wrong as as versions.
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.240
So yeah, I like those so that I know I can spot things.
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Um, I know they do things like mushrooms.
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I'm a little bit nervous of picking mushrooms uh in the wild because there's always fake ones.
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:45.359
Oh, that one's this, but there's one that looks incredibly like it that'll kill you stone dead.
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So do be careful out there.
00:25:50.240 --> 00:26:02.880
Um, and the knots one, it just you know, um I'm forever kind of sharpening knives, wanting things to do with my hands, making feather sticks, making knots.
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:11.119
Yeah, I think knots are like a language, you've got to keep doing them uh because you otherwise you just forget.
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:13.680
I've got one or two knots that I do constantly.
00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:15.440
I wish I knew more knots.
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:22.240
Um and when I watch videos on YouTube or hear to people talk about it, I was like, oh right, yeah, remember that.
00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.680
And it's like a good joke.
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.240
I can never remember it or deliver it wrong.
00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:26.720
Yeah.
00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:39.119
Um I loved it when you um uh when I was when I was ill and one of the one of the times I was in hospital and you uh you brought the knots book in with some little little pieces of paracord.
00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:49.200
And actually, it was great just just spending time when I couldn't do anything else, and I was stuck in bed, literally just tying different knots and going through that book.
00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.039
It was great, absolutely brilliant.
00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.119
I um met the nurses thought, hey hope, we we're gonna have an escape.
00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:58.960
Get him in a little gulag.
00:27:04.640 --> 00:27:08.160
I wasn't knotting the sheets to escape out the outer window.
00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.359
Sounding like you know, it did sound like that.
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.200
I've just gone into Star Wars there.
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.680
I think it was um Indiana Jones.
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:24.240
Was it?
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:25.279
Oh, that was it.
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:28.000
Yeah, that's perfectly acceptable.
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:52.960
Um, and to carry on with the knots, uh, for my most recent birthday, uh I got some very nice things, but I got the Marlin Spike Sailor, uh, a book of all the various sailor knots and ropes and everything that they used to do and how you how you make them.
00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.279
So that looks great.
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:56.559
Yeah, it really is.
00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:58.480
Oh that looks great.
00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:04.720
We'll have to take photos of all of these and put them on our show socials this this um this week so people can have a look at them.
00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:12.079
And we'll try um, if I remember, I'll put all the details as well into the show notes so people can have a list of the books that we've talked about.
00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.480
Yeah, but um no, that's great.
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.920
I've only got one gem.
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:18.319
Yeah, so Collins Gem, isn't it?
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:24.880
Collins, the publisher, they do a little book and they there are a whole range of them, and they're called the Gem series.
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:35.920
And I've got the um uh John Lofty Wiseman SAS survival guide, the ultimate guide to surviving anywhere in a handy pocket packet edition.
00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:37.599
Yeah, brilliant.
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:42.160
Which is, I have to say, it's full colour, it's absolutely brilliant.
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:57.359
It's a ridiculous amount of pages long, 384 pages long, um, and it covers everything from knots to um some plant recognition, edible plants, foraging, shelter building, all sorts of stuff.
00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:10.000
In such a tiny little book, these little gem guides are apt, they really pack a punch, they put a lot of stuff into them, and uh for for such a tiny little little size, and that was only seven pounds, seven quid.
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.920
Well picked that, and we met the man, we met the man two years ago.
00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:29.839
Uh, he's an absolute legend, he was sort of proper, hilariously funny, um, and just very deadpan, which you get with people that have been in those kind of situations, I guess.
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:38.960
It's um very um self-aware and and self-confident, but not in a not in a a sort of boom bastic kind of way.
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.680
It's just a calm self-confidence.
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:44.240
Um but yeah, nice, nice guy.
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:45.359
I didn't get it signed.
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:55.680
If um if I see him this year, because we are going back to the Bushcraft show this year, um, if he is there, I must get that signed, really, because um he's getting on a bit.
00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:01.279
Yeah, I think I think they really want you to buy the books there to get them signed.
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:03.599
Here's 50.
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:04.880
Could you just pop your signature?
00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:12.799
You're like those people that follow uh celebrities and stand outside the hotels going, would you just sign this for me daughter?
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:22.240
Yeah, probably yeah, they probably do want me to buy something, but I'm not, I'm gonna take that.
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:23.200
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:29.680
Well, um another similar one, which I think is off the bat because that was the first one.
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.640
He, you know, he did that after he finished serving.
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:39.519
Um was uh one that I have the worst case scenario uh survival book.
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:45.119
So it's and it's written like what happens if an alligator's coming for you?
00:30:46.240 --> 00:31:00.400
Run diagonally because they're fast with in a straight line, and it's just various things like that how to escape a house fire, and it's just scenario-based.
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:01.680
That's quite funny.
00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:02.480
That's quite funny.
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:04.480
That's very funny, a very good book.
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:10.480
I have got the um uh the Ray Mears kind of version of survival books.
00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:10.720
Yeah.
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:12.880
But it's um it's quite light.
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:16.720
Uh I I have to say it's there's there's not a vast amount of detail in it.
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:28.640
It's um it's made it into the uh the Barter Barn collection bucket at the moment, so it's it's going in the uh it's going, it's it's it'll be at the Barter Barn at the Bushcraft show if anybody wants to barter us for it.
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:36.319
It's a it's a decent book, it's about an inch and an inch and a half thick, but um the uh the Lofty Wiseman one is um can't be beaten, really.
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:37.279
Can't be beaten.
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:42.960
Well, I think they're they're all versions of and they all bring something to it, but there's stuff out there.
00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:48.319
If that's your boat, there's some real good stuff that'll keep you busy with next time you're camping.
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:49.759
Yeah, absolutely.
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:57.759
Also, the my next one, and I might have talked about this previously, is Micro Adventures.
00:31:58.079 --> 00:32:01.359
Oh, yes, so you you've definitely spoken to me about it.
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:26.720
Right, Micro Adventures by Alistair Humphreys, and the whole book is about how do you fit in adventures in your day-to-day life or you know, a day off, or and it it's very much uh around the themes of right, okay, you've got 16 hours before before you're back at work.
00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:28.160
What are you gonna do?
00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:44.880
So, you know, one of them is as soon as you leave work, you know, you go and find the highest point in your county, whether that's walking or whatever, um, you know, and uh, you know, take a bivy back, just camp down for the night.
00:32:45.039 --> 00:33:03.119
Well, and I think it's a really interesting thing of you know, differences between you know finding architectural stuff or significant historical things, or even going for a wild swim and how to do it and where to do it, and really challenges you to just get out there.
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:11.200
Um, I've pulled over it and yeah, there's enter a race, credit card adventure.
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.319
Ooh, gosh, that sounds an expensive one.
00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:16.480
Yeah, but I like it.
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:18.480
Uh Roman roaming.
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:24.960
Um yeah, how to find a friend's location, uh, five to nine micro adventure.
00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:26.799
Cool, cool.
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:35.440
No, that's that that is really cool because actually we're all outdoorsy people and we all like doing doing you know, having adventures, you know.
00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:36.880
That's what camping's all about, isn't it?
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:38.640
And getting out out into the countryside.
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.720
Even if you're just sitting around the fire, it feels like an adventure because you're outside.
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:50.480
You know, if you can build little micro adventures into your everyday stuff, well, you're you know, you you you're uh Ranolph Fines right there, aren't you?
00:33:50.720 --> 00:34:00.960
Yeah, you know, you're you don't need to go get frostbitten and and whatever, but even in the back, there's a mobile microadventure kitchen, things that you you need.
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:09.280
So Trangia stove, various other stuff, Kelly Kettle, you know, coffee pots, just loads of things in there.
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:17.440
I think it's a really, really uh brilliant book, and loads of good pictures as well as quite a lot of describing.
00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:33.119
Uh, and it's even like if you're in the middle of a city, um you know, I think there's one, uh, a Glasgow Night Out, and it's actually an adventure to get out of the city in the quickest, easiest way to get to a higher point to look back on the city.
00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:33.920
That's cool.
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:39.280
Most people do want to try and get out of Glasgow in the quickest and easiest way.
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:42.559
No offense, Glasgow.
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:48.320
No, you've had you've you've you've it's a lovely city, you've got some uh nice things there.
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.880
It's a beautiful city.
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:54.000
Yeah, I've I've been through it a few times, I've never actually stopped.
00:34:54.079 --> 00:35:07.519
So um I did see uh I think uh an online thing, and it was like, oh, Glasgow looks so beautiful and historic, but why does the uh accent sound like they're chewing on a bone?
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:18.800
Apologies to anybody from Glasgow, we say it with love.
00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:23.280
Um and a little bit of comedy maybe.
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.239
Yeah.
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:27.039
You know, you know.
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:30.559
Oh god.
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:47.599
I um I've got a couple of I mean talking talking of sort of adventure books and and how to books and um and like the the the the the Lofty Wiseman book, the um I've got two m two more really.
00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:51.519
Two more that are are reasonably, reasonably similar.
00:35:51.760 --> 00:36:12.159
Um I I find a lot of people go for, and I don't I don't have this book, um because I I don't feel I need it because I've got I've got another one that I think is better, but a lot of people go for the um the Dave Canterbury Bushcraft uh 101 set, which is you know lots of pictures of how to build a shelter and this, that, and the other.
00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:20.800
But for years I've I've had the um the Richard Graves um Bushcraft books, which there are 10 bushcraft books that he did together.
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:25.440
Um you can actually, there's still a link online, and if I can find it again for you, I'll put it in the show notes.
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:28.159
You can actually download a PDF of this for nothing.
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:33.199
Um and it's but it it's not particularly user-friendly then because it's just a PDF.
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:39.679
But you can get all 10 books in one volume, and um, and it's it's such a great, such a great book.
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:44.159
It's um it's literally how to do absolutely everything.
00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:48.079
And each each book is where are we at the front?
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.639
So book one, book one to ten.
00:36:50.880 --> 00:37:03.920
So book one is ropes and cords, then you've got huts and thatching, then you've got campcraft, food and water, fire making, knots and lashings, tracks and lures, snares and traps, traveling gear, and time and direction.
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:07.599
So it kind of covers absolutely every mortal thing in there.
00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:21.440
And it's such a great book, and it predates all the other ones, and it's um, but the knowledge is still the knowledge, it's the same, same skills, and um, and it's it's a brilliant, brilliant book, and I um I do absolutely love it.
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:30.960
Um, I also have in the same vein, I've got Ray Mears outdoor survival book, a very young-looking Ray Mears on the front cover there.
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:34.400
Wow, yes, he was nobody's uncle back then, was he?
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:36.239
He was nobody's uncle.
00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:49.679
Um, I did buy this when we met him, and I felt I needed I didn't need a book, but I thought I'd better buy a book because we're meeting him.
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:57.280
So when we mess him at his book signing, so I have got it signed to uh to uh to me uh from from Ray Mears.
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:02.320
But it's again it's very it's Did you ask him to say, could you could you put from Uncle Ray?
00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:18.639
No, I didn't, because he's actually a very serious and quite endearing man, and I think he's a very serious calmly just just walked away.
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:33.840
But it it's actually a really good book, and it does compliment the other books because it's um the illustrations I think in this are significantly better and a bit more detailed, so it's easier to follow um some of the stuff that he puts in there.
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.280
But it it is it is a great book, it is an absolutely brilliant book.
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.960
So I kind of have three of the how to do stuff outdoors um books.
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:47.039
Doesn't mean I'm any better at any of this stuff, I just have the books.
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:55.760
Uh yeah, and well, you know, they're they're great gifts for anybody thinking of those people that like the outdoors.
00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:03.440
So uh my Raymir's book uh I got British Woodland, How to Explore the Secret World of Our Trees.
00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:07.519
And I love trees, I love being under a canopy, I love it.
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.880
Um you'll have been under a canopy too, as well, Ed.
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:25.920
And if you look for our listeners, that said from Uncle Ray Mears, from Uncle was in pencil in a different handwriting thing.
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:28.239
Was that you, Ed?
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:33.199
It might have been just five minutes before.
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.960
I've just ruined the value of that.
00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:43.519
Oh man, that's funny.
00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:55.440
Next time you we get some stickers, we've got to put from uncle and then do like every time we go into a water stunch, just pop them on every Ray Mears.
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:01.440
From Uncle Ramirez.
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:08.480
I don't know why I'm obsessed, but I am you are obsessed, you are obsessed.
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:09.119
Yeah, dear.
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:10.400
Oh dear, that is funny.
00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:11.280
That is very funny.
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:38.559
Well, my final book, and I do have many more, but um yeah, my final book is one of my uh newest, uh, and I found it to be a lovely size to take away, so it goes in my camping kit, uh, and it's recipes for rogues by friend of the show, Tom from Off the Beaten Pot.
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:42.719
And I have to say, I absolutely love it.
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:58.320
The pictures are of his grandma and granddad, who were 19 I don't know, the year maybe 30s or something, 40s when they uh uh were doing rock climbing.
00:40:58.400 --> 00:41:39.119
So yeah, they really kind of bossed it out of the park and he used that to pepper through the book, as well as not just recipes for things to cook and update the uh cooking that you do when you're out there instead of just burgers and beans or whatever it is, to try and be a little bit more adventurous, but also tips and tricks uh when you're doing that, uh stuff that you might want to take, stuff that should be in your sort of kitchen uh uh kit, uh, as well as conversions for liquid and dry, and yeah, just it's a really good little kind of pocket book, which I love.
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:41.440
And I I would say shout out to anybody.
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:42.960
It's uh it's a brilliant book.
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:52.079
It is a great little um little book, is that really beautifully put together and um and well you know well done, well done to Tom for putting that together.
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.199
It's not easy getting a book out and um and getting it out there, so um, so well done that.
00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:58.400
Well done that man.
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:06.559
It's um he is a a a one-man powerhouse in trying to get some camp camping food um improved for all of us, isn't he?
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:08.960
And he's he's doing it.
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:14.239
I saw him cook uh at one of the shows that we went to last year, and he did lasagna.
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:21.920
And I didn't taste it because there wasn't enough folks there, but it smelt like one of the best lasagnas ever.
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.119
And everybody else that did taste it said it was cracking.
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.639
Lasagna in the field, in the field, yeah.
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:30.639
He knocked it up in half an hour.
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:33.039
Wow, wow, is that in the book?
00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:35.920
Uh no, it's not.
00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:37.840
It's dead to me.
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.400
It might be, it might be, it might be.
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:56.880
Smoky macaroni.
00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:58.880
Sounds great.
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:00.079
Sounds absolutely great.
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:03.760
There's just loads of stuff in there, loads of stuff.
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:09.599
Um Kissadala's uh Smoky Breakfast Rap.
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:10.800
Yeah, thank God.
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:13.760
Yeah, I didn't think the Wiz Lizanya in there, but yeah.
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:15.360
No, cool, cool.
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:23.280
I've got a couple of cookbooks um that I uh that I I need to put my microphone down to be able to talk about these.
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:24.880
So I've got a couple of cookbooks.
00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:28.960
Um one is from you, was uh was a I think it was a birthday present.
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:32.320
Uh birthday or Christmas present, I can't remember which now, it's a number of years ago.
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:35.039
It's um Niklas Estedt.
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:44.480
Ested somebody somebody Scandinavian, and it's Food from the Fire, the Scandinavian flavours of open fire cooking.
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:54.559
And it's an awesome book about cooking, as it says, cooking over the open fire, whether that be fish, meat, or or breads or or anything else.
00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:59.760
It um talks a lot about different woods and the temperatures and things that you get from different woods.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.320
And the smoke that you get from different woods.
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:09.280
So what you should be cooking on, and then and then goes through tons of really, really quite simple recipes.
00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:14.719
Although the food looks incredible, it's quite simple recipes of you then cooking over the open fire.
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:19.280
Talks a lot about skillets and and cast iron and how you look after that as well.
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:21.280
Absolutely incredible book.
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:23.679
Not just saying that because uh you bought it for me.
00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:32.000
No, but the the when I was a a younger camper, um I was quite uh during the war.
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:44.480
During the war um, I was quite scared of or didn't realise the you know, I just thought, well, why would you have a cast iron pot?
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:47.280
You know, you're not going to carry that in everywhere and stuff.
00:44:47.519 --> 00:45:00.159
But more more I've been sort of a car camper and uh going over to cast iron and steel cookware that just do a little bit more.
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:13.280
The weight of a cast iron lid on a pot creates almost like a pressure cooker, uh, and it's great and uh you know a heck of a lot more healthy than uh the nonstick uh versions.
00:45:13.599 --> 00:45:21.920
Yeah, no, I um I love my uh my cast iron pot and shout out to um to friend of the show, Richard Marples, for for gifting me that.
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:28.239
It's um it's it's an awesome piece of kit, and uh it uh it loves to cook a leg of lamb.
00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:31.199
It bloody loves to cook a leg of lamb.
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:31.920
Does that pan?
00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:36.320
I just found um pancake bowls in this book.
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:37.440
Yeah.
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:38.559
Pancake bowls.
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:39.840
Pancake balls.
00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:41.360
No, it's cool.
00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:51.199
My other cooking book is um is my Wilderness Chef by Ray Mears, which again is not signed by Ray because I I didn't feel like I could take, I already had this.
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.320
I didn't feel I could take it to him and say, I brought this, could I?
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:59.199
Although other people were, but um so I I probably should have just been cheeky enough.
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:04.800
But it's um it's uh it's another it's Wilderness Chef, the ultimate guide to cooking outdoors with Ray Mears.
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:10.559
And um, and it does have bits of foraging and things like that, but it's it's just lots and lots of recipes.
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:14.239
He covers very in a lot of detail about what you should be taking out with you.
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.079
So what's your camp kitchen look like?
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:19.920
What does your what does your larder box and things like that look like?
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:26.719
What are those core ingredients that you then might forage to add other things to or go fishing and things like that?
00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:34.320
And um, you know, but if you've got like your core stuff, then actually you can then turn most things into a really tasty, you know, quite lovely meal.
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:43.360
Yeah, and it's uh and it's it's a really great book with some really great recipes, and um I haven't used it as much as I probably should.
00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:54.800
Um so this might be the year that I have to um, you know, last year was was very much about I wanted to up my cum my cooking, um not only my cooking setup, but my cooking ability.
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:58.960
And um, and I think I think both of us we knocked that out of the park last year.
00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:00.079
We did really, really well.
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:09.039
This year I really I really want to do some proper recipes and um and uh and and you know inspired by by off the beaten pot Tom.
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:15.280
You know, do some proper cooking out in the field and um so yeah, no, that's um that's mine.
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:18.559
I have got a foraging book as well, but you talked about foraging books already.
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:54.480
It's um mine's just um edible wild plants for beginners, and I I love it because it's um it's a full colour whole page picture of what the plant is, and then a description of what the plant looks like, um, and then distinguishing features, what the flavour of it is, where you're gonna find it, what season you'll find it in, and specifically what are the edible bits of that, because not all plants are, you know, not the whole plant is gonna be edible, and it does that for every single plant, so it's a whole picture of what it looks like, and then the descriptions.
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:56.000
And I really like that.
00:47:56.159 --> 00:48:00.880
It's um I haven't done a lot of foraging, I'm a little bit nervous of it, to be honest.
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:10.159
Um, maybe we'll give that a go this year, and maybe we'll do a bit of foraging and see if we can do some um some camp cooking with a bit of foraged foraged food.
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:14.559
Tim, the only foraging I want to be doing is stealing from our neighbours.
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:19.760
Have you seen they've got that beer that we really like?
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:23.920
Oh, you are you foraging in in their cool box?
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:25.039
Yes.
00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:30.320
Uh I uh yeah, I like it.
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.159
Um I'm nervous of it.
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.679
And um the yeah, the bits and pieces.
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:45.519
I've got uh an in-law that keeps on trying to get us to eat uh nettles and stuff, and I was like, yeah, I'm I'm I don't like it.
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:47.599
Anything that stings me, I don't want.
00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:50.719
Yeah, we did um we did eat nettles, though, didn't we?
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:52.320
Ray Mears cooked us some nettles.
00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:54.239
He um he cooked us up.
00:48:54.320 --> 00:49:08.719
We we had the uh we were very lucky to be in a very small group of people that he um he actually cooked some some bushcraft food for and um and and he did actually he did actually do that and they don't sting when you're eating them, and and actually it did it did taste all right.
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:17.599
He he'd made like a like a mashed potato, didn't he, with nettles in it, and um yeah and it was he did he did some gruel in other things and that wasn't particularly nice.
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:21.280
He was like no you could survive on it if you needed to, but yeah.
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:24.960
Yeah, yeah, you needed some curry powder or something, yeah.
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:28.000
It needed it needed like a KFC in it.
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:42.639
It needed a a sprinkling of Uber Eats for me, but the nettle mashed potato was alright, yes it was.
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:44.320
Uh well, good.
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:46.320
So there's a smattering of books there.
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:52.639
If anybody prior to their camping season, yours and my camping season is still in full swing, Tim.
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:53.679
It's not stopped, has it?
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:54.800
Yeah, no, it's never stopped.
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:56.400
You've been again.
00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:57.920
I have.
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:02.159
Uh there is uh a video gone up as we record today.
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:14.639
Um uh, but earlier in the week, once you guys listen to it, uh up on YouTube with my new Airbeam tent, a full and quite boring video, if I do say so myself.
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:16.960
I couldn't couldn't quite crop it down.
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:23.119
I cropped a bit down, but uh it's like cropping it down, and it's my first time putting the awning up.
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:24.719
Have you have you done the boring voice?
00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:30.480
Have you done well, and then I pumped it up to this pressure and it was marvellous.
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:35.920
And I thought, well, I'll pump it up a little bit more and I did another bit of pressure.
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:49.599
No, thankfully, but uh yeah, just listen to something else while you watch the video of me uh figuring out how I put the awning up on the tent that went up in two minutes and forty seconds.
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:50.800
Well done, well done.
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:59.599
Two minutes and forty, and that wasn't even a rush, that was um a little bit of talking, yeah, it's probably quicker than that.
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:04.639
So, but yeah, it was um yeah, I I'm loving that tent.
00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:06.000
I'm loving that tent.
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:06.639
Well done.
00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:19.360
Uh so yeah, that video has gone up, and I think um before we go off to a a minute mindfulness, we uh should talk about uh next week's show, Tim.
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:33.280
Uh so next week's show, Ed, is uh it's gonna be recorded live in the field, and it's um it's gonna we're gonna be at the caravan and camping show at the NEC.
00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:37.920
Which for me was our it was a best show.
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:39.599
There was just so much there.
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:44.719
There was less on the camping than the one that's about a month later.
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.920
Uh there's more camping on that one, but just the motorhomes, the camper vans.
00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:52.559
Are we gonna try and uh camp overnight?
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:54.880
Do we like to stealth camp temp?
00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:56.480
How would they know?
00:51:56.639 --> 00:51:57.440
How would they know?
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:01.599
They can't check all of those RVs, they can't possibly check them all.
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:05.519
No, it is it's it's the best show that the public can get to.
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:12.559
You know, we we're we're lucky enough that we we're we're getting to a few other shows that the public isn't open to this year, which we're super excited about.
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:19.519
But um, of the ones that that the public can get to here in the UK, it's the biggest and it is by far the best.
00:52:19.679 --> 00:52:25.360
And whatever you are looking for when it comes to the outdoors world, it will absolutely be there.
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.840
And um, and it's it's always got an awful lot of show-only prices.
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:47.519
So if you are looking for you know a decent purchase, so if you're looking to spend a reasonable amount of money on, say, a new tent or even a new camper van or something of that ilk or a solar system, something like that, it's absolutely worth going because you will get a show only price that you won't be able to get anywhere else.
00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:50.719
So it's definitely, definitely worth worth going.
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.920
It's on on the Tuesday to the Saturday.
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:54.800
Sunday.
00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:58.000
Sunday, sorry, Tuesday to the Sunday, I apologize.
00:52:58.159 --> 00:52:59.599
So lots of opportunity.
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:06.400
We're gonna be there on the Tuesday, and um, and so if anybody is there on happens to be there on the Tuesday, come and find us.
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:09.199
We'll be wandering around looking stupid with a microphone.
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:11.599
Um, stop us, say hello.
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:20.960
And uh the episode will go out on the Friday, so then there's still there'll still be time for people to have listened to that episode here in the UK and um and be able to go at the weekend.
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:26.880
It's um if you are abroad, Birmingham Birmingham's got Birmingham International Airport, it's right there on site.
00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:28.800
You could walk from the airport.
00:53:29.039 --> 00:53:36.800
There's a traveler to you, don't even have to walk, just literally come to the UK, come to the show, you get on the plane later and go home.
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:38.559
You know, you you won't, you know.
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:42.320
Why don't you come to the show, buy an RV, drive home?
00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:45.440
Brilliant.
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:49.039
That sounds like that sounds like an adventure to you.
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:51.760
Yes, not a micro adventure, not at that point.
00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:54.000
You know, not at that price, yeah.
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:55.840
Leave the credit cards at home.
00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:56.400
Yes.
00:53:56.559 --> 00:53:59.599
Um, shall we shall we go over to a mediocre five?
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:05.360
No, let's go, let's go to a minute mindfulness and then we'll come back to this week's mediocre five-star review.
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:07.280
We'll keep you hanging for them.
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:08.239
Yes.
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.760
Welcome to the casual camping minute mindfulness.
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:19.840
Let the sounds of nature take you back to the camping field.
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:31.840
For those of you that are not camping at the minute, we hope that inspired you to get out in the field as soon as you can do.
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:41.840
I know in various other parts of the world it's maybe not as wet and miserable as it is here in the UK, but it's not stopping us, so it shouldn't stop you.
00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:47.599
No, and I know last week's first episode of the season inspired some of our listeners, particularly Kenny.
00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:50.079
Kenny went out there and got camping after listening.
00:55:50.159 --> 00:55:54.639
So well done, Kenny, for for following the instructions of getting your ass out in the field.
00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:56.159
We are saluting you, sir.
00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:57.679
We are saluting you.
00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:02.159
It's um so I've got I've got a I've got a five-star mediocre review.
00:56:03.280 --> 00:56:03.679
Yes.
00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:08.559
Uh, so this is um uh uh where are we?
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:09.280
Where are we?
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:16.239
This is this is uh hey guys, uh this is a five mediocre five-star review.
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:20.960
Been listening to you guys for a couple of years on YouTube, always been very entertaining.
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:27.039
My normal channel is Andy's Adventures, and you've inspired me to have a bit of a go here down under.
00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:32.079
The camping styles are so different between back home in England and here in Australia.
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:34.960
Um, listening to you kind of takes me back.
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:38.719
Enjoy the break and looking forward to when you're back on the air.
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:39.760
Cheers, Andy.
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:41.760
He did post that while we were off.
00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:46.159
Um, he did send another message recently to remind me that he'd sent that.
00:56:48.079 --> 00:56:52.880
If we forget, you you know you maybe have to ask us two or three times.
00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:58.559
Um, well, we're we're nostalgia as well as sort of inspiring.
00:56:58.800 --> 00:56:59.360
Gosh.
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:00.079
Wow.
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:00.719
Yeah.
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:04.719
Um thanks, thanks, Andy, for for uh taking the time.
00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:10.159
You too can feature in this section if you send us your mediocre five-star review.
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:16.000
You can send it either um uh as a as a direct message through our social media.
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:21.440
There's a link in the show notes, literally underneath the uh what you're listening to at the moment.
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:25.280
Um please do include your name in that because your name doesn't come through.
00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:31.599
Um, or um just just get in touch with us, send us a direct message in any other any way you can.
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:33.440
We will we'll read it out.
00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:43.039
I'm really pleased that um our witterings and uh talking about the things that we love has inspired somebody to get out there.
00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:45.920
Yeah, that's all that's all it's for, really.
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:50.880
We're really just doing this to inspire each other to get our lazy asses out in the field more, and it works.
00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:53.599
So if we can inspire other other people to do that as well.
00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:55.519
Well, you know what, that's a bonus, isn't it?
00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:56.880
To win-win.
00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:58.239
It is, it is.
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:01.519
We um I'm gonna do another little teaser at the moment.
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:04.079
So we're we're it's Tuesday today, isn't it?
00:58:04.159 --> 00:58:05.280
What day is what's the date?
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:06.719
Tuesday the 10th.
00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:12.320
So in two days' time, we're interviewing somebody reasonably special, aren't we, Aid?
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:16.400
Which I'm not gonna say who that is at the moment, but we're we're quite excited.
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:20.000
You've had to change your tenor men pad a couple of times, haven't you?
00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:23.280
You've had a little we come out, haven't you?
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:26.800
Oh god.
00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:45.840
Uh yes, uh, somebody I've been a long time uh watcher of their videos, and yeah, it'll uh yeah, we we're hoping that it'll come off and our calendars uh align.
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:56.559
So yeah, watch this space for uh me to prop a fanboy about uh somebody uh someone who's from the small screen.
00:58:56.800 --> 00:58:59.519
Yeah, who's who's really really quite special.
00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:05.039
So um, and that's a that's a real teaser for what we've got planned for this season.
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:07.519
So we we've got some great interviews coming up.
00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:13.440
You know, we're we're still gonna have the same banter, we're still gonna have the same adventures, we're getting ourselves out in the field.
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:18.400
We've got some silly stuff to talk about, but we've we've got some really cool people coming on the show as well.
00:59:18.559 --> 00:59:21.360
So um stick with us for season four, everybody.
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:22.960
It's only gonna get better.
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:24.880
Woo! You know it.
00:59:24.960 --> 00:59:26.400
You heard it here first.
00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:29.199
Thank you, and good night.