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Mike Loades

British writer and TV show host

Oct 3, 2026

42:37
How
42:40
are you, Mike? Actually, surprisingly good.
42:43
Surprisingly good.
42:45
It's been a long old day.
42:47
They couldn't have done the same distance that we've done today on foot.
42:50
I think people on foot, just keeping a steady pace, would probably be only four or five hours behind.
42:59
And obviously as they're coming around, they're gathering fresh people as they come, so not everybody's as foot-sore as the others.
46:25
they?
4:16
But the Salukis were VIP animals in Arab, specifically Bedouin, cultures.
4:23
With the Saluki, it was traditionally used by the Arabs to hunt gazelle in the desert.
4:32
And I went to Wadi Rum in Jordan, which is that magnificent, poetic, gorgeous desert that you may remember from the film Lawrence of Arabia.
4:41
It's such a magical, magical place.
4:44
And I was taken to meet some Bedouin, and they had a, this lovely Saluki.
4:48
And traditionally, the way it was done is you would ride out into the desert on your camel with your Saluki on your lap to preserve its stamina and megs, 'cause you may ride for days before you could come across any gazelle.
5:02
And you would carry a falcon.
7:57
They also act as retrievers, gathering the ducks that hunters were able to shoot, and also arrows that missed their mark.
42:37
How
42:39
are you, Mike? Actually, surprisingly good.
42:43
Surprisingly good, right? It's been a long old day.
42:47
They couldn't have done the same distance that we've done today on foot.
42:50
I think people on foot, just keeping a steady pace, would probably be only four or five hours behind.
42:58
And obviously as they're coming around, they're gathering fresh people as they come, so not everybody's got as much foot sore as the others.
43:06
You want to go to bed, don't you?
46:25
they?

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