Andy Wilman RETURNS: Clarkson's Farm Secrets & Top Gear Reunion? (E415)

**SPEAKER_1** (0:03)
The Genius The genius is him and Jeremy.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:07)
Top Gear, Clarkson's Farm.

**Andy Wilman** (0:11)
I'm a boomer.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:12)
I'm 63

**Andy Wilman** (0:14)
Top Gear, Jeremy. Changed the Stig now and again.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:17)
The Madagascar Special, everyone knows it didn't really work.

**Andy Wilman** (0:20)
Ooh, why don't we do a mid-air, Formula One tire change?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:29)
20 million, we're talking about shit ideas.

**Andy Wilman** (0:32)
It's a heavy series, so it is dramatic. I can't talk about the ending of Series 5
I ain't saying nothing. We're never going to do it.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:41)
Well, that's a first. Yeah, that is a first.

**Andy Wilman** (0:44)
That's Amazon. But that means that editors work is now four weeks instead of 12 or whatever.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:51)
They're also not knowing what hasn't made it to this point.

**Andy Wilman** (0:55)
A hundred percent. The magic is going right. TROPE, TROPE, TROPE.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:57)
You know the magics, yeah.

**Andy Wilman** (0:58)
I love that, you know. Urk.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:01)
There's the future. Welcome back. How are you feeling?

**Andy Wilman** (1:06)
Urk.
Because we just talked about AI before you said welcome back. Urk. I'm good, thank you.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:14)
You're not a fan of AI?

**Andy Wilman** (1:16)
No, I'm a boomer.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:18)
I'm 63

**Andy Wilman** (1:20)
You know the old stories. Oh, can you help me with this printer, et cetera, et cetera. That's me.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:25)
Do you know how many people enjoyed the last episode that we recorded together?

**Andy Wilman** (1:29)
No, because I stay clear.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:31)
Total numbers, 20 million.
Yeah, so we put out the main full unedited long conversation with you. That's already done one and a half million. And then we put out snippets and little clips of the best bits that we spoke about. That did about another five or six million. Social clips did another bunch of million.

**Andy Wilman** (1:59)
And now I've got to go, so that's a good number.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:03)
Yeah, so now what do we do?

**Andy Wilman** (2:04)
So we're all right?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:06)
So the reason why we've invited you back, and we've never done this with any other guest before, is when you get tens of millions of views of the first conversation, but more importantly, tens of thousands of questions that people want answered, well, there's only one way to please our audience and that's to put you back in the chair.

**Andy Wilman** (2:24)
Or get AI.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:25)
Or get AI to watch the episode and work out what the answer is.
So this is our first ever Community Base episode of High Performance. So should we get straight into it? You needed your coffee today, right?

**Andy Wilman** (2:39)
Yeah, we've got the farm coming out and I'm a bit whacked, so the coffee is much needed.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:46)
Look, we're going to talk about Clarkson's Farm. We want to talk about Top Gear Grand Tour. We actually put out a photo on socials today, said you're coming in, send us some questions. We're going to just run through those first of all. We're going to run through the questions that came in the last hour for people.
The first one comes from James McDonald, who got out in touch on Facebook and said, what's the best idea for any of your shows, whether it is Clarkson's Farm, Top Gear or The Grand Tour, that never made it to air, that you really wish people had the chance to see?

**Andy Wilman** (3:13)
Thanks, James, at this hour of the morning for the old, what's the never did? Yeah, there wasn't an idea I don't think we couldn't do. We had crap ideas, like remember those Carlsberg adverts, Carlsberg don't do, and we were like, right, Top Gear doesn't do petrol stations, what if we did one? So we spent a good morning with people like Richard Porter and so on going, right, we'll take over a petrol station and we'll make it the Top Gear petrol station. So it was going to be like anybody who bought diesel, there'd be just a huge townite going with like Jeremy at the till going, tight ward, like across the forecourt and so on. And then anybody, you know, people get in their car after they've paid and then don't move off.
What are they doing? Like, what are they doing? But so it was going to be like a massive, like pile driver thing that shoves their car.
And then inside, there'd be, because it becomes supermarkets as well, like people go, I just did my shopping and leave my car at pump four, you know, it was going to sell like Werther's originals and that was it. And then a till, you know, for petrol. And then after a while, we thought, no, this is just becoming an aircraft carrier for jokes. So this is shit, because it's like this is the worst thing you can do. It's like not have a point to what you're doing. So James, that never happened, but that was a good thing. We always tried to go to Iran.