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The Royal Marines is here,

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and then there's
the parading of the hounds.

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Parading of the sheep,
cattle, horses.

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Oh, right, and pigs, as well.
(LAUGHS)

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Yeah, so that's that. Yeah.

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TWEET

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RUFF-RUFF

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OINK

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MOO

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Could I explain
what the County Show is?

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Um, the County Show is...

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a social occasion for people
who live in the countryside.

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Um...they bring their best
farm animals to the show

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to compete with each other.

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Um...and it's generally
a big, big social occasion

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where people meet together and
they go and have a look and chat,

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and it's all good fun, really.

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We're very fond of the Bath and West

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cos they always make you welcome

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and here you get free straw for the
cattle and everybody is helpful.

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You get paid for the milk here
which you don't at some shows.

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And it's nice to meet your friends.

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I wouldn't say there's a great
social side to rabbits.

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Well, no, but you do meet a lot of -
You meet a lot of people.

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We're all friends because we're in
the same club. Yes.

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Yeah.

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Well, I've been involved
since I was three or four.

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My parents were both very horsey.

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I'm planning to go totty-hunting
a bit later.

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But, well, that's after I've jumped
my class,

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cos otherwise I'll run out of time
and get in trouble

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cos I haven't done my job properly.

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But plenty of time for everything.

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Things have changed a terrific
amount. Yeah, they really have.

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You know, things were a lot...

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..slower, and there wasn't the rush
and...

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..tear that there is today.
There wasn't, you know, and...

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Well, donkeys are so intelligent.
A lot of people don't think they are.

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But donkeys are so intelligent
it's unbelievable.

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They're almost as intelligent,
I would say, as a dog.

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We've got one donkey that came
from the middle of London,

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that got too much for his owner.

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We've got another donkey that came
from Ross-On-Wye.

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We've got another donkey that's came
in with another donkey

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and then we've got another donkey

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that came with a little donkey
that we've got.

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Anybody standing there, like you,

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hasn't the faintest idea
what we're talking about.

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It's all...

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It's all, um...

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What's the word?

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What's the word?
No.

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Other people wouldn't understand
what we're talking about, they wouldn't.

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To watch the eggs being judged,

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people say,
"How do you judge an egg?"

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But to some people
eggs are so important,

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to get them just right.

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Other people just eat them
at breakfast.

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Isn't it?
Mm.

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My main reason for being competitive

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is because I know the more I win,
the more girlfriends I'll have,

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and the more girlfriends I have,
probably the more I'll win,

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because the more support I'll get,

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just as I go in a big pressure
class.

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So, the idea is to keep winning

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and keep gaining lots of girlfriends
at these shows.

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'So, first prize goes to number 116
Bosedown Alpackers, Oxfordshire.'

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APPLAUSE

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The judge we've got today is from
Peru, Doctor Julio Soma,

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and he is one of the best-regarded
judges in the world,

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and he's come here specially
from Peru to judge today.

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Only, I think he's going to be here
till midnight at this rate, so...!

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You're all in a line and the judge
is walking up and down behind you

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and then walks up and down in front
of you

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and then he moves up and he pats,
or slaps, on the back

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the animal that's the winner,
and that animal moves forward.

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So, you're there and he moves
towards you -

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this is it, this is it!

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- then the bugger turns and goes up
the other way and then he comes back

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and it's terrific when he slaps
and the crowd applaud

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and it's a great, great feeling.

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Oh, yeah, it's like a drug.

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It's like you've had a large Scotch,
suddenly.

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Then you have a whole bottle and you
keep coming back for more.

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When you get more, you want more.

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You feel quite elated, and really
excited. Yeah, it's really good.

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I think you could say that,
show me...a good loser

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and I'll show you a loser.

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If you keep waterfowl,

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number one,
you're going to need a pond.

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Especially if you keep white ones.

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But if you haven't got a pond,

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and you've only got little dishes
and buckets,

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then everything's all mucked up.

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And then it's ten times more work.

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A little bit disappointing
in the results,

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because the best eggs for the show
were actually duck eggs

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and I did really well with my
chicken eggs and got lots of prizes

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but I've been beaten by duck eggs.

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So, it's a waterfowl against
chicken, which is disappointing.

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You're trying to maintain
a standard...

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..to get the ones which will go onto
the next stage of breeding.

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So, it's constant selection
towards perfection.

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Breed like rabbits? Forget it!
Hell no. No!

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All the pigs here, of course,
are pedigree.

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We can go back generations.

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A pig without a pedigree is...
just a pig.

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(CHOMPING)

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FEEDBACK HUM

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'And there's no problems with
the confirmation at any aspect,

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the animal is a well-conformed
animal.'

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You do occasionally
get people cheat.

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They use the same eggs
for more than one show.

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Use them for quite a few shows,
in some cases.

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But you normally get caught out
if you cheat.

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They hard-boil the eggs
so that they don't go off,

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and use the same eggs
again and again.

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Or um...
Buy them.

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Yeah, there may be people
that buy them, I don't know.

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I don't buy my eggs, personally,
I... No.

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No, not at all.
I've never, never shown eggs...

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Only when I was forced to, once.

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When you're checking out
the competition,

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you wait until they go back to their
trailers

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for their evening meal or whatever
and then you have a good look round!

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In the twilight hours.

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(LAUGHS)

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There are stories about cows
that have been milked out

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in the middle of the night and bulls
that have suddenly gone lame,

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and all this kind of caper!

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And blown up with wind,

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cos someone's put something
in their food or whatever.

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But, I mean, that's a kind of...
They're stories,

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and that happens very,
very infrequently.

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We've had one or two very slight
instances over the last five years.

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But in the old days, um...

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when there was um...

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I'm just giving an interview to a
gentleman doing a TV series, Pam.

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I'll give you a ring right back,
all right? OK.

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Um...sorry about that.

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PA: Thank you very much.

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I don't think it will ever die out.

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It may do, in time, but...

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Cos really, when you've got animals,

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little ones like to come and see it
all the time.

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They always want to see a pig
or a sheep, or...a rabbit.

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So, that's all
I'm going to tell 'ee, anyway.

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If you want to know any bloody more,

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you'll have to sort that out
yourselves!

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(STILL LAUGHING)

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