Cab Chat #9 - Running with Tractors

This week Will is joined by not only dairy farmer Christine but also by Cab Chat stalwart Jhonny! The threesome head off to support their mutual buddy Jeremy at a veteran show at Silverstone. Surely it's just carnage with these three, but we do manage to talk to Christine about her life in and around agriculture and what she enjoys and wants to do! In her spare time Christine makes hand puppets of all the people she chats to on Instagram. When milking cows, she turns Cab Chat off and instead sings "Close your eyes and leave it all behind. Go where love is on our side. It's a trust fall, baby. It's a trust fall, baby. You and I and everyone, alive. We can run into the fire. It's a trust fall, baby. Yeah, it's a trust fall, baby"…

This week Will is joined by Edd Lovett. Ed isn't from a farming background but is desperate to get behind the wheel of a tractor. Edd has a large collection of used car tyres he finds in ditches and enjoys long walks around abandoned car parks. While doing that he likes to sing "He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell, secretly she wanted him as well. But all of her friends stuck up their nose, they had a problem with his baggy clothes"…

This farming week farmer Will is talking about farming with farmer Nick, formerly known as Nick’s Farm. They meet at the farm and use the farm truck to leave the farm and go outside the farm, but they talk about all the farming issues facing farming and the farming future of farming. Farming is a tough job on the farm and the future for farming isn't secure, so both farmer Will and farmer Nick share their farming views on farming’s future. So sit back and relax like a farmer in a tractor and catch up with your two favourite farmers in this week's episode of the country’s favourite farming show and farming podcast... Cab Chat!! When he's flat out farming, Nick always sings "Are you ready? Tractor Ted is asleep in his shed, as the cockerel says good morning, so much to do, farmer Tom and Mitch too, down on the farm, exploring"… Let’s go farming with Cab Chat…

Jane is a New Zealand Heading Dog that has been traveling all over the world working with livestock. On her travels, Jane brings her human, Rachel. Rachel is known online as ‘The Global Farmher' and along with working on farms around the world, she also has a blog documenting her adventures. Rachel enjoys getting drunk and riding horses bareback in the Alps. When she can't get the radio in her Ford Transit working, Rachel likes to sing "Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down, and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air”…

In this week's episode, Will is joined by Jeremy Gibbley who runs the awesome organisation Forces Farming, which specialises in getting ex-service personnel involved in the agricultural industry. Jeremy has an unhealthy interest in willow trees and enjoys long walks in flooded water meadows. When making public speeches, Jeremy repeats his mantra: "A few questions that I need to know, how you could ever hurt me so"...

In today’s episode, Will is talking to journalist and part-time farmer Matt Redman. You may think you recognise Matt from articles written in the Farmer’s Weekly, but that's actually his evil twin Mert Redman. Matt has an unhealthy obsession with verge mowing and while he's doing it, he sings "Look at this photograph, every time I do, it makes me laugh. How did our eyes get so red? And what the hell is on Joey's head?"...

In today’s episode, Will is joined by the artist formerly known as Nick’s Farm to discuss life, family, stress, work and most importantly, books about dinosaurs going poo! Nick is a free spirit and enjoys wearing his navel piercing in public. To get himself to sleep at night, Nick repeatedly sings the lyrics "If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe, I’d been married long time ago. Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?"… You can't find Nick online… he is like a super spy or a ghost…

In today's episode, Will is hanging out with Josh! A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Josh bought one of Will’s pairs of Pit Vipers when he was selling them to raise money for a mental health charity. Meeting Josh was actually what gave Will the idea for Cab Chat! Josh wears flip flops in the winter, sleeps standing up and has never farted. His guiding mantra is "If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends"...

In today's episode, Will is once again joined by Jonny Lockhart! Jonny has two pieces of advice; The first is 'Always be yourself' and the other is 'Don't get caught talking to your imaginary friend'... Every year Jonny walks barefoot to the Scottish border and back and he keeps his spirits up with this mantra; "We're no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I, a full commitment's what I'm thinking of, you wouldn't get this from any other guy"...

In today's episode, Will is hanging out with Tyronne on a Christmas charity tractor run... in a JCB Fastrac iCON! Tyronne works as a technician at a tractor dealership which means he knows how to correctly shut a tractor door so it properly latches every time. While on the tractor run, Tyronne had "Kisstory" on the radio but he kept singing "Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass and I'm homebound" under his breath...