Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly's Graeme Hall on Yorkshire, dogs and working at Weetabix

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Sophie Mei Lan speaks to Graeme hall for the Mrs yorkshire podcast,

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00:00I love the fact that we've got into a conversation about Yorkshire puddings, by the way, and

00:05that you think that criticising some kind of Yorkshire pudding would be considered weird.

00:11And I think that the very idea of saying, I don't really like Yorkshire puddings is

00:15shocking.

00:16We're inclined to go, right, OK, so I've got home and the house is on fire.

00:25The family are all dead.

00:28My car's broken down.

00:32And then we go, OK, all right, all right, all right, do we put a kettle on?

00:35Yeah.

00:36Yeah, that's right.

00:37Yeah.

00:38Stick kettle on.

00:39And let's have a think about this.

00:40Let's let's not get too dramatic, you know, and and so I think that I don't think it's

00:48the accent, you know, but I think there you I think you are onto something.

00:51We don't like drama queens and kings.

00:54Yeah.

00:55I have to say.

00:56Right.

00:57We don't like all of that unnecessary drama.

00:58Oh, for goodness sake.

00:59Get a grip.

01:00Right.

01:01So when dogs are getting overexcited, if we reflect that, we get overexcited as well.

01:06Oh, you're packing it.

01:07No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:09It just goes horribly wrong.

01:10But if the dog's getting overexcited, well, I know, right, followed by a calm down and

01:16we go, oh, good boy.

01:17That's nice.

01:18Right.

01:19That works.

01:20And I think you're right.

01:21I think there is a bit of a Yorkshire trait there, which is let's you know, let's let's

01:25not panic.

01:26Let's let's not be overdramatic.

01:28Let's just look at what's going on and think about this clearly, you know, and then we

01:32might find a way out of this, you know.

01:34So, yeah, as you rightly say, yeah, it's a very Yorkshire thing to go stick the kettle

01:37on.

01:38But it's not it's not actually the hot water and the and the tea inside it.

01:43It's it's the take in a moment thing.

01:45And that really works.

01:46We don't.

01:47Yeah, it is.

01:48It's that mindfulness practice.

01:49We wouldn't call it as airy fairy.

01:51He said, in the whole wide world, there's only two kinds of tea.

01:56And I thought, hang on, that can't be right, because straight off, I think there's Darjeeling,

02:02there's China, there's Indian tea, there's loads of teas, right?

02:05And he went, no, only two kinds of teas.

02:07I went, what's the two kinds then?

02:09And he said, there's Yorkshire and there's rubbish.

02:12And to me, I just thought, you don't have to be talking about tea, really.

02:19But that's how a Yorkshire person's brain works, isn't it?

02:22There's Yorkshire and there's rubbish.

02:24And I think I think when you're a Yorkshireman living abroad, like I say, if you by the way,

02:32if you just tuned into this a bit late, abroad, I'm defining as anywhere south of Tonny.

02:36What got you to study Spanish as a linguist and then find yourself working for Weetabix

02:42down south?

02:43Yes.

02:44Are you a huge Weetabix fan or what was the journey to actually then becoming a doctor?

02:50Good question.

02:51Hilariously, I was quite a fan of Weetabix when I was at uni in Hull, because like a lot of us,

02:57I was just a bit, I was a bit lazy, really.

02:59So my diet mainly involved baked beans, toast and Weetabix.

03:05So when I got the job, you know, it came back after Easter of my final year and they're like,

03:10right, you know, oh, one of them, you know, somebody's got a job with, I don't know,

03:14some fancy accountancy firm somewhere and another one's a bank or something.

03:19And I'm like, I'm working for Weetabix.

03:21So I was a fan and it's, well, basically it's the only people who give me a job.

03:26That's the honest truth.

03:28But I worked in manufacturing and manufacturing is a very practical sort of thing.

03:32You just got to get stuff done, get stuff out the door.

03:34And that is not about the machines and the building and all the rest of it.

03:39It's about people.

03:40Yeah.

03:41Because it's people that make stuff.

03:43It's people that operate the machines, you know, and it's about teamwork.

03:48And so that taught me a lot.

03:50Along the way, I was a special constable for a while, seven years.

03:54And that's the voluntary police.

03:56So a bit like the retained firemen that you might know.

03:59They've got a proper job as well as.

04:01So I did that as well.

04:03And that taught me an awful lot about communicating with people.

04:06So there is actually a bit of a theme here, although it doesn't seem like it.

04:10So studying a foreign language, communication, in a way, see what I mean?

04:17Yeah.

04:18I'm seeing where it's going now.

04:19Running factories, getting people to work together and all the rest of it.

04:22Police, communication in some pretty stressy circumstances.

04:25I was talking to somebody recently who I know quite well.

04:31I said, I am in this weird and wonderful world where I'm bumping into.

04:36You know, I say to people things like, oh, Sam, I'm really busy tomorrow.

04:39I can't do it tomorrow morning.

04:40I'm on the Jeremy Vine show.

04:42And then you've got to bite your tongue.

04:44What do you sound like, for goodness sake?

04:46I don't take the dog everywhere these days.

04:48Because I don't think I'd never be able to walk through the streets.

04:52I get stopped everywhere.

04:53I get stopped anyway.

04:54But if I've got a cute dog with me, well, you know.

04:56The dog's the star, right?

04:58But yeah, on holiday, absolutely.

05:00So we'll quite often go to a cottage somewhere and take the dog.

05:07It's true, isn't it?

05:09Thankfully, we're right most of the time.

05:12And that's why we're so happy.

05:15That is brilliant.

05:17That's the next book you're going to have to do is the full-on guide to being a Yorkshireman.

05:25I should do that, shouldn't I?

05:27Yes, A Yorkshireman Abroad.

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