Hello and welcome to Tifo Talks, the fun time mini series, eight episodes. This is episode five. And this one, who are we joined by John?

Well, I'm not joined by anyone because I wasn't invited to this one. That's right. You were excluded from your own podcast.

That's right. And even more amusingly, I, not only am I on it, but JJ

Ball and Sebstafferblor are also on it. And you're in fact conspicuously the only person

not on it. It may be the case that the initial success of the podcast has made the rest of the

group jealous and they've kicked me off. That's right. And we've clamoured to join. And we've

clamoured to join with a very special guest today, and that special

guest is Humphrey Carr, who is a comedian, an actor, a writer, but also perhaps most noteworthy

for listeners of this podcast as the executive director of Wrexham AFC. Yes, that's right. Have you

enjoyed the series, John? I have not watched it. Okay, well, that's very much in your character, isn't it? But I can tell you that I have watched it. And whilst this isn't actually a conversation about the series, it is very, very good. So if you do want to watch it, I would encourage you to do so. We spoke to Humphrey about the idea of sort of living out a dream. At one stage, I ask him,

I say, as a child, you dream of being a footballer. As a young man, you dream of being a football

coach. And as a wise old man, when you realize that your physical life is behind you, the only

dream you're left, you allow yourself to continue having is maybe I

could run a football club. And while Salfrey Carr admits that he doesn't run Reksham,

he is in a position of seniority and has a very unusual level of insight for someone who,

prior to arriving, had zero experience working professionally in football. So we talk about that.

We talk about the state of play at Wrexham at the moment. We find out how Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds became interested in the Wrexham project in the first place. For anyone that doesn't know, I assume everyone knows. Everyone knows. I think everyone knows. But Ryan Reynolds, who is a Hollywood movie star and Rob McElhenney, who is a Hollywood TV star, have joined forces to buy non-league Rex and MFC.

And Humphrey is their sort of a budding friend, their man on the ground.

We should probably have begun with this bit, shouldn't we?

Maybe we should have done.

Oh, well.

But anyway, that's all for the intro.

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